As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I’m trippin or there actually is one.

  • Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    That’s so lame 😔 you mean my years of reading books, playing original Pokemon games on java phone, reading Barefoot Gen manga and loving Down the Waterfront were wasted because I came to exist at a time when my entire generation is from Ohio?

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Ha, that’s a mood; I have a theory about how the millennial/gen Z practical cut off is especially socioeconomically dependent — as you describe, it’s possible to resonate with millennial motifs way more depending on where you grew up. I think you effectively demonstrate how limited generational categories can be, especially if we treat them like hard boundaries between groups

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        5 months ago

        Yeah exactly, you absorb what you grow around in and learn from that. There’s no guarantee that just because you were born in a generation that you would behave according to the mainstream stereotypes of that generation