I know obviously some age gap relationships are concerning but that’s not what I’m talking about. I feel like Gen Z acts like they should never have to interact with anyone that isn’t their age. I keep seeing this TikTok trend about having a much older coworker. And I’m like.. this is nothing new? We’ve all experienced this. My favorite co worker at my first job was 50. This has always been a universal experience and they act like they’re the first to experience this. I’m 27 now and my husband is 34. I was finished with college, lived on my own and had a career when we met. We were in the same places in life and our little age gap has never been an issue. The only people who have acted weird about it is younger Gen Z. Just curious if anyone else has noticed this about them why this is

Origin & Reference

Game: Purble Place (the bakery minigame, Comfy Cakes)

Platform: Windows Vista & Windows 7 built-in game suite

Context: The image shows a real-life recreation of the iconic heart-shaped layered cake order from the Comfy Cakes factory mini-game

Lately I've been amazed at what a true relic of the past that live cable television has become.

I work in a field where I am consistently partnered with somebody in their early 20s. I'm an EMT, so it's just me and that person one and one for an entire shift. Whereas I'm about to turn 40, and this was a career change for myself. I get along with them fine and it's not like there's some inability to communicate.

That said, I'm a 90s kid at heart and was raised on the communal experience of watching live cable television. Just knowing that these television networks are providing it, everybody else is watching along, it was just such an integral part of any season or time of year. Obviously television has lost much of its relevance over the last decade. But my appreciation for it and desire to still have it be a part of certain times of the year is something that I have maintained throughout adulthood.

However, it's amazing to me how live cable television pretty much doesn't exist to anybody under the age of 22/23 nowadays. Offhand references to certain networks or tv shows just completely don't even register with them. There isn't the slightest modicum of understanding of what I'm referring to. That isn't to say they aren't aware of past media. Just that the medium of live cable television simply doesn't even exist for them. Which is very interesting to me. Because just a few years ago I don't think this was quite the case. For example, I could reference a movie I watched on AMC or Freeform during October, and even though they might not know exactly what I'm referring to, there was at least the acknowledgement and understanding that it exists. Whereas now, it truly seems like it doesn't even exist to this new cohort of early 20-somethings.

And I'm finding this to be quite a dividing line between the past and the present.

When TV came out in the 50s, the older people would've been the lost and missionary gens who were from the 19th century, the GIs would've been the adults, the silent Gen would be young adults and teens and the boomers would've been the kids. There would have been radio and newspapers before this, but in the decades afterwards the greatest Gen became the elders, then the silent Gen and now the oldest boomers are 80. Now that marketing towards old people is marketed towards boomers and silents with boomers taking an increasing share of this, how has the way its marketed to them changed from a decade ago, or two or three decades ago or before?

I believe that the harm that Perez Hilton had infected on the 2000s era of celebrity tabloid culture so much that millennials decided to reject the toxicity that Perez was championing on.

I was wondering if we will see a shift from cars to more public transit in the next fifty years. Older generations have rallied against public transit for many reasons, but it seems to be an option more young people are interested in. Do you think car-centric culture is fading?

Like if someone isn’t happy with the current generation they’re put in and feels like they were born to be a different generation that’s better suited for them? Because sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in my generation.

Which president before Carter would probably like Obama as president or be cool with it since some would be very shocked and proud especially for their time

Every 2nd reel, meme, AI generated slop I see the now is how gen x are the best, the ones who grew up with drinking in parks, listening to music on Walkmans etc like half of us millenials didn't do anything like that.

What i see usually in the comments is then just arguments with gen zs and millennials comparing them to boomers or just saying its genuinely quite weird how they've made being gen x their personality.

Are they really this annoying?

From the teen pregnancy crisis of the late 80s and early 90s, to each year of the 2000s (when they were most likely to be new parents) having more than 4 million births, to 20% of Gen Alpha having at least one Gen X parent.

No other generation seemed to have such a large span of child bearing years. I even know a few who had their first child within the past few years. One the otter end of the spectrum I’ve met 1984 borns with Gen X parents.

Seeing as how Gen X was much smaller than boomers this accomplishment is
impressive.

Now it could be just where but the Gen X seemed to either have one child or more than 3.

Even at peak career age under the same market rules today, they still outpace us across the board, completely without exception.

It was only a matter of time.

Boomers are gone from the workforce for the most part. Oldest boomer is 80 after all. So now that they're on the golf courses of Florida, the yuuutes new a new Emanuel Goldstein for their 2 minutes of hate.

GenX has assumed that role.

In 10 years it will be Millenials.

The person saying this might as well say the following instead because that’s all it means:

I am too immature and ignorant to actually even attempt to reply with logic and evidence to disprove what you are saying.

I can’t come up with a single coherent fact to negate what is being said.

I don’t want to face reality because it’s so hard. I would rather be a victim and blame everyone else as to why I can’t have everything I expect right now.

I don’t have to do anything different than what I’m doing.

I don’t want to take responsibility for my life. But I still expect all the things.

You just don’t uNDerStAnD!

I think this makes me sound so clever. I’m really telling that old person off.

I just find this so humorous that people feel so clever when saying this. It’s hilarious.

I’m not even a boomer. I’m Gen X so I really don’t care if this is how people choose to live. Keep whining and see where that gets you.

Every single generation has had difficulties previous generations didn’t. And they have also had many benefits previous generations never even dreamed of.

So instead of whining ok, boomer, go figure out how to make it work. Whatever life is, it’s up to you to make it work.

There are people buying houses every single day. There are people getting hired every single day. There are people working jobs they don’t want while looking and training for the ones they do. There are people starting businesses every single day. There are people finding a way to make things work. Right now. In this economy. In this reality. Every single day.

Is it easy? Probably not for most people. And that could be said for any generation that has ever existed. And if it were truly easier in some previous generation so the fuck what. Does that mean the current generation should be given something because of it.

I’ll never understand it. Whine and complain. Shut down anyone who might have lived longer than you and learned from it and therefore might actually have something to say that you could benefit from. But that would require personal responsibility that so many people simply don’t want to take. And yet at the same time expect all the things to come anyway.

If you want something, work for it.

How can this be taken any other way than solid advice as to how reality works?

Does that mean you are guaranteed to get whatever that something is? No, because that’s just life. There are no guarantees. Is there any better way of getting a life you want that is actually based on reality and not some utopian fantasy?

Do some people get things handed to them. Of course. In every generation this is true. Do some work hard and not get what they expected. Of course. In every generation this is true. Does bad luck, health crisis, disasters, and every damn thing else play into this? Of course it does, just as it has every other generation.

Does that mean just give up? And then complain because your life isn’t giving you all you deserve?

So go ahead and say ok, boomer. Or talk about my privilege. Or my inability to understand life is hard.

Or that life now is different than when I was younger. Like, no shit, Sherlock.

Who is more out of touch with reality? Those that whine and complain and blame and still expect things or those that actually spend that energy working toward what they want? No matter what the reality of life actually is at any given time.

मी जेव्हा 10 वर्षाचा असेल तेव्हा मी आमच्या शहरातील कॉलेज मध्ये म्हणजे त्या तिथे असणाऱ्या ग्राउंड वर खेळायला जात असू तेव्हा ते कॉलेज जरा असे उघडेच होते भिंत असे काही नव्हते तारा असायच्या पण त्या वाकल्या असायच्या त्यामुळे तिथे खेळायला छान होते. आणि मुख्य म्हणजे मोठी मुले तिथे सायंकाळून खेळायची तेव्हा तिथे त्या मैदानावर गवत नसायचे. पण आम्ही खेळताना तिथे एक गोष्ट मी तर प्रामुख्याने बघायचो की ते कॉलेज मधील मुले किती बिनधास्त बसलेत गप्पा मारत आहेत. तिकडे लेक्चर चालू आहे पण हे इकडे असणाऱ्या बाकड्यावर झाडांखाली बसलेत निवांत गप्पा मारत आहेत. कुठे तर मुली आणि मुल एकमेकांशी बोलतानी दिसायची. पण मला आता पण त्या लोकांचा तेव्हांच ड्रेस सेन्स आठवतो mostly पोर bellbottom pants वापरायचे पण त्याला काही शिस्त नसायची कोणी युनिफॉर्म घालायचे नाही हातात एक वही घेऊन किंवा ते सपना two in one register असायचे बस एवढाच काय ते आणि हिप्पी कट वाले पोर वाटायचे की कॉलेज life best आहे. पण मी जेव्हा 11वी 12वी मध्ये आलो तेव्हा असे कपडे आणि टपोरी पोरं कॉलेज मध्ये येणे बंद झाले सिनियर म्हणजे MSc MA Ani mcom वाले पण पोरं शिस्तीत यायचे. ते पण लेक्चर करायचे नाही पण त्यांना कधी कॉलेज च्या आवारात नुसत्याच चकत्या कुटताना नाही पहिले. पण त्यांना थोडी शिस्त आली होती ते copy sobat घेऊन बसायचे पेपर ला पण arrogant नसायचे पकडलं की बाहेर यायचे. आणि जेव्हा मी graduation ani postgraduation त्याच कॉलेज मध्ये केलं तेव्हा आम्ही तर assignement हे सगळ करायचो आणि copy n करता पास होईचो मनाने पेपर खरडायचं एवढाच आम्हाला माहीत. पण आता मी आज मी त्याच कॉलेज मध्ये गेलो होतो आता चक्क मूल shirt in करून College सुटे पर्यंत म्हणजे 4 पर्यंत lecture करत आहेत. सायन्स चे por अप्रोन घालून प्रॅक्टिकल करत होती आणि हद्द तेव्हा झाली की डिग्री च्या पोरांना न्यायला त्याचे वडील आले होते. पोर एकदम शांत जात होती कॉलेज सुटल्यावर. कस बदललं सगळ हेच तेच कॉलेज होते तेव्हा जरा काही झालं की पोलिस ची गाडी यायची पोर पिंजऱ्यात भरायला. ही आता जे कॉलेज मध्ये शिकत आहेत ना सगळे यार तुम्ही लोक खूप प्रामाणिक पण शिकत आहात

I’m 37, and looking back, I now consider my wild college years to be the real end of my childhood. When did childhood officially end for you? Was it a specific age, your first real job, or a shift in how you viewed the world?

Blockbusters opened in the 80s, grew in the 90s and peaked in the 2000s. Specifically more or less around 2004/05. When streaming services e.g. Netflix came than 2005 onwards the decline started but that still meant many blockbusters still sure existed. Almost all of them except for a dozen or so were left by about 2012ish. Hence, do any of you being the last physically plausible generation to have had consciousness remember visiting Blockbusters and if so what were your memories like there?

Is it boomers ?

because in the 1970s , electrionic( kraftwerk, Tangerine dream, gary numan) and soul /Jazz /disco/funk musicians( Stevie Wonder, Donna summer, Sun Ra , Herbie Hancock, parliament and george clinton)were using moog synthesizers

Gen X

In the 1990s and 1980s , nine inch nails, new order ( blue monday) outkast and dr dre were using moog synthesizers for their music

I

In the 2010, Kanye west producers were using moog synthesizers for his Yeezus album along with digital synthesizers

I believe millennial musicians and gen z musicians are more into digital synthesizers