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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

>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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Based Ohio. That's what happened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

the hell? skibidi toilet ain't rizz?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Skibidi Toilet is just Madness Combat with toilets and TVs instead of blood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Anon wants people off his lawn.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Look man, if Grants book didn't have awesome dino illustrations, I'm calling this kids bluff. Even I had a dino book at that age (bit older than this...kid...man? This movies old) I still only looked at the pictures

[–] [email protected] 62 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

This generational hatred will never end.

Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Pretty sure annoying orange was a gen Z thing, as I, a gen Z kid was addicted to annoying orange at 7 or so. I hated Fred though his voice was so damn annoying. I like his current channel though, felt crazy when I saw him as an adult and not screaming. Now he's doing shitty vacation trips 😀👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

UK kids in the early 2000s also had "Dick and Dom in da Bungalow". Basically two comedians doing funny shit to entertain kids for hours every Saturday morning. They had a game called "Bogies" which was just about the two of them going to a calm place like a library or a restaurant and seeing who could muster the courage to shout "bogies" the loudest. Honestly, it's pretty funny, but it justly caused a lot of outrage as well as kids were emulating it all over.

Example: https://youtu.be/vt_farHgMfM

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Gen X here and my boomer friends in US educational circles normally pointed out the Socrates quote but they stopped doing that a few years ago. Social media has devastated the ability of young Americans to think critically according to most.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I have to imagine it's because Socrates also believed that writing and reading information harmed our thinking. He thought that memory was the most important, and expected oral recollections of all his teachings.

...which definitely sounds like more criticism of youth 😂

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That's exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Only minorly on that front. I'm right on the youngest end of the millenials, and I was 15 when it first surfaced. It took only a couple years for Cartoon Network to pick it up, so it definitely captured an audience, though it may have been a mix of zoomers and the latest millennials. But it certainly doesn't detract from my point, and it can definitely be substituted for stuff like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the 'generation' would be 13 years old.

I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

It makes a generation feel special if they are convinced that they are enduring something extraordinary. Every single generation has had plenty to complain about but the loudest will be the current generation of course.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

Plato in 300: kids today!!!!!!!!!! 😡

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