You probably hear it every single day. "Those damn Gen Z and their [insert thing here]".
I always love a leisurely stroll through the internet. You've got all of those message boards and image boards and social medias and video sharing platforms and whatever. But you know what I don't love? I don't love my generation taking and accepting the blame for the failures and shortcomings of millennials. But projection is their way, and you would be hard pressed to find a millennial who admits that their generation spawned any problems at all.
Let's stop and take TikTok as a prime example. I've never used TikTok, I make an active effort to avoid it. From my perspective; It looks like a bunch of unstable clout chasing millennials and their generation alpha copycats. So how the fuck actually did we get lumped into this mess? The news, of course. News media portrays all current internet activity and trend setting as the fault of Gen Z. Then, to add insult to injury, they claim that the advancements and ideals of Gen Z are actually their own Millennial viewport and that we are just following along with that.
The sad reality is that the basement dwellers never left the basement mentality, even if they actually left the basement. While millennials are busy destroying the state of politics and technology, the rest of us are left to foot the blame. Their isolationist bubbles never pop, leaving them in the position of Narcissus. They fully believe that they are responsible for the only truly good outcomes in the world, and that everybody else is a failure.
Take for instance: Choices in clothing. Millennials love to blame Gen Z for the polar shift in fashion. Peacocking is all the norm as if it were the 70s again. But how exactly is that our fault? We weren't the ones popularizing leggings and brightly colored sweatpants. We weren't the ones popularizing multi-colored hair. We weren't the ones turning every trinket into trivial jewlery that we then would emotionally bond to for no reason whatsoever. The majority of my generation wears black and grey. I remember in high school talking to my friends about how ridiculous millennials looked. Even those of us who did dress with more flash usually restricted that flash to "dark mode" just so that we weren't hard to look at.
What about dumb internet challenges? It wasn't Gen Z who popularized the dangerous act of eating a tide pod. It was a combined effort between KnowYourMeme millennials and The Onion, and it goes back to 2012. To that effect, it was Millennials who took to the trend so heavily. Gen Z made jokes, sure. But that's because those lunatics made it so easy to laugh at them. Just like they always do. Imagine your entire age group behaving like a circus act. It goes back even further when you consider old millennial dumbassery like Bananas and Sprite or the Cinnamon challenge. Sure, why do something intelligently entertaining when you could just put yourself in actual danger instead? Imbeciles.
Or perhaps take a look at the overall state of the internet itself. Your typical reddit neckbeard moderators? Millennial. Your typical tyrannical discord moderator? Millennial. That guy on twitter who called you a racist for eating bread made of bleached flour? Likely millennial. They sure do love to complain and correct everybody else. That's just a bonus feature of being societally inept narcissists. You couldn't possibly be right because they believe that intellect is a generational issue, and that their generation possesses the highest INT stat in human history. I can't tell you how many times some idiot millennial told me I was wrong because their IQ was an impossibly high and imperceivable number. They're so in tune with that belief that they diagnose themselves with dumb shit like OCD, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Autism, and so on. Its usually so far away from reality. Most of the time they just want drugs because real life is too overwhelming.
I'm 24 years old. I've been beaten to broken bones, burned with a myriad of things, cold enough to freeze to death, hungry enough to starve to death, and sick enough to die multiple times. But you'd never catch me calling it trauma like some millennial snowflake. If they knew what real trauma was, the dumb trivial shit wouldn't even matter. That's why they piss me off so much. Nothing is worse than some middle-class millennial neck beard telling me that I don't know how hard their life is. The most privileged generation, also the bitchiest. They just can't be proud of overcoming any level of adversity, because they're laser-focused on that adversity for years after its gone. That's what a privilleged life with too much free time will do to you. If you have the time to think of some shit that happened 10 years ago regularly, you clearly aren't doing enough with your life.
Moral of the story: Millennials suck. Only millennials. I've never seen a worse generation of humans.