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To your first point, most Black millennials either made up 99% slang used today (with some residuals from the previous gens, gotta give credit), i.e. "goofy ahh" is how you'd sound if you said goofy ass out loud irl, with certain accents sometimes skipping over the "s" sound (personally I say the whole joint but it's personal preference)

So really it's just AAVE being stolen, watered down and regurgitated so all the white suburban kids can sound cool. And they just chalk it up to "online speak", like nah you're appropriating a whole dialect, and that's why you sound so goofy.

As a millenial looking in, I think point 2 is due to the fact that you guys have even less wealth as a whole. You can't afford to do anything besides be on your cellphone and play videogames.

I and many other millenials were lucky enough to be able to go to concerts, clubs, travel, ski, etc. if we came from median income families in the west and went to college. Your gen, whether through the fruits of your own labor or from the support of your standard white/blue collar parents, cannot really afford that.

We were able to blow $200 on a weekend for fun once in a while, but I don't think most of your gen can do that anymore. Also the same activities are much more expensive these days so it's more like $350 I imagine.

For point 3, I feel like Gen X helicopter parents are to blame... seen so many of my relatives spoiling and micromanaging their kids into young adulthood and i'm like wtf? I felt like I was basically raising myself at 14 as a middle millenial

Maybe, but people have also said this about the new generation since forever.

I don't know if she was hyperbolizing, but my Ancient Greek professor told us about how in ancient Greece people complained about a new generation lazily writing and reading everything instead of memorizing it. This would be the downfall of memory, performance, and all civilization, so on and so forth.

There is a good post somewhere with articles going back hundreds of years of people complaining that the new generation just 'doesn't want to work anymore' and how 'no one knows the value of whatever'. It's honestly always happened. My advice to you as your elder Generation Y'er: Try not to internalize it, Generation Z and Alpha. It's not you. It's them approaching their death.

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I feel like there are more poignant things to notice about gen z and gen a like how they're increasingly conservative, kind of like how gen x were more conservative than boomers

Gen Z/Gen Alpha weirdness isn't really any weirder than previous generations

None of this behaviours was developed in a vacuum, these are all qualitative changes result from the development of society.

I don't know every single cause for these changes but i do know that people being addicted to social media comes from the lack of attention from parents and the surrounding community.

One of the biggest things Zs get mocked for is lingo:

Okay, I'll cop to this one, but that's because these little hee-haws, huly-hoops, and other et cetera won't stop lifting AAVE and bastardizing it even worse than millennial 4channers do.

I remember when people were saying that texting and abbreviations like LOL were the end of books and language as we know it.

A lot of this is just old people looking to blame the woes of society on a group they are definitively not part of. Can't be because of capitalism that people are living with their parents, if that were the case then maybe old people would have to accept some blame.

danged kids reacting to material conditions! back in my day we were motivated by pure ideology and that's the way we liked it!

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