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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the same thing happened to millennials. they got blamed for being stupid teenagers when they were in their mid twenties. it seems it takes about a generation for the old folks to catch up what's the new word for the youths nowadays, by then it's often barely accurate anymore

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The generational concept is also a bit weird, like if huge waves of children would be born every 10 years lol

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Well, there was after WWII. And a smaller wave when boomers came of age. Though boomers have been trying to shoehorn us into generational boxes ever since.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

yeah it's a bit weird agreed. i think it attempts to describe more a culture of the youth of a certain decade rather than the people on their own? idk