I’ve seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I’m not in education.
Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.
Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
This stuff has got to be actual kids self-mythologising rather than adults not remembering how dumb they were as kids, shirley?
He’s just point out the comp of best vs. worst vs worst vs. worst like it should be to make a real point.
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
>kid in a movie written by adults: “I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature”
>kid I made up in my own mind: “hurr durr I’m illiterate”
Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the “kids in the 2020s” is the problem
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
That is true though.
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That is kids in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s, not the 1990’s
Yeah, I’m sitting here like “memes? Motherfucker most people didn’t have internet in '94”. The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.
No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn’t even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.
I am not saying social media hasn’t had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn’t the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.
Our copy of doom had a handwritten label
Legit.
It’s hard to find any fault in you for that. I’m so sorry you had to go through that situation, but I’m glad you’re still here with us. You are stronger than most.
Not the '90s
Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it’s nothing but “standard” surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
That’s entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.
Yeah, when I bit the bullet and watched it to see what the fuzz is about I was very surprised how competent it is.
Isn’t the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant’s whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
“back in my day we read books, not like those young whippersnappers nowadays”
The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That’s what happened.
old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking
Didn’t seem to help the boomers any.
c/badlinguistics
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
This. It doesn’t help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
And best hope you’re not a minority when they come knocking.
You’re right, but both can be true at the same time - if your acceptable level of risk is zero then playing outside is too dangerous
Don’t forget the satanic panic of the 80’s!
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
Plato in 300: kids today!!! 😡
Pretty sure that both kids’ characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
Like most kids in movies.
Otherwise, no one would watch movies with kids.
Like most characters in movies, even.
Skibidi Toilet is just Madness Combat with toilets and TVs instead of blood.
Kids in the 2010s: We are standing up to demand an end to the pollution so that we can have a future
Meanwhile, their Grandmas in the 2010s: Kids these days are too woke, they never play outside. I hate that Greasy Thunberg or whatever she calls herself, so preachy. No-one walks anywhere any more it’s so sad. This Facebook user I love posts AI pictures of kittens and says immigrants are eating our pets and universities are run by Muslim terrorists. I saw some kids outside the other day and was terrified so we’re getting the city to close the park and get rid of the bus shelters. All music sounds the same these days like it’s made in a factory, not like the real music we had - kids these days don’t even know what Motown is.
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