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"Millennial lingo" by Shen Comic (file.coffee)

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[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 269 points 6 months ago

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

[-] prayer@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago

It's millennials trying to fit in with Gen Z to prove to themselves they're not old.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 148 points 6 months ago

And the Gen Z is... reading a newspaper? Nah fam, I don't think that's what's going on.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

You think millennials read newspapers? We are the first digital native generation. In fact, we saw the internet growing up while we grew up ourselves

[-] bratosch@lemm.ee 33 points 6 months ago

Remember the internet before Facebook and Instagram? Good times. It was all Flash Games and p... Uhm, videos

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

I still know my ICQ number. Back when all instant messagers had open protocols and you could use one open source client for all of them.

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[-] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 78 points 6 months ago

I know i'm old, i just found a new hobby: messing woth the younger generation by messing with their slang.

You know, like how grandpa called every pokeman pikachu...but on purpose.

[-] noli@programming.dev 78 points 6 months ago

Grandpa knew what he was doing when he called all the pokemen pikachu

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

pokemen

I... I think I'm having a panic attack.

[-] not_a_dog@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Right? Everyone knows the correct plural form of "pokemon" is "pokemons".

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Nah, it's 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.

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[-] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

I mess with my zoomer children all the time: bruh, no cap, on god, sus/sussy, my guy.

They mostly roll their eyes, but I do enjoy it.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago

My favorite is on cap, no god.

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[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago

We used to make fun of comic books for making up slang that hilariously no one would ever use, then gen z came along.

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[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 209 points 6 months ago

I have updated the comic for fairness.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lmao Fuck an a that's radical man.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 49 points 6 months ago

Did you mean "Fuckin' A" ?

Bone apple teeth moment

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Bone apple teeth

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[-] Saltblue@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

I thought it was overly exaggerated but then I saw the generation before me, blame my generation for the problems of the world and the "decadence of society " and then I saw my generation blame the next for those exact same things. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Idk, from my perspective gen Z, Millenials, and gen X are all united in hating boomers.

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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

There's an old song popular long before any of us were born called "what's wrong with kids today?" about the generation we now call "the greatest".

Iirc there's an old Egyptian poem about how "the kids are no good".

Before there was TV and video games, they used to blame social ills on the kids "reading, instead of living".

Old heads gon' shit on the youngins, it's in our blood

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[-] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 192 points 6 months ago

GenZ is sitting quietly reading a printed newspaper and only speaks in a universally recognizable lexicon with no cohort specific affectations?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago

Only as performance art

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

Uh that performance is cultural appropriation

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[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 123 points 6 months ago

I feel like this comic is mislabeled. Gen z should be boomer, or Gen Z should be saying something to a millennial, but not millennial to Gen z.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 74 points 6 months ago

No cap.

He should be rizzin that W in Ohio, boomer 💀💀

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago

What he said.

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[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

It's the newspaper that is off-putting

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

For me the joke just doesn't work reversed. The younger generation grows up hearing the older generations slang, so even if the younger generation doesn't use that slang they know it. Older generations don't tend to keep up with younger generations slang so, at least to me, the joke really only works with the older not understanding the younger.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 94 points 6 months ago

My favorite part about generations is how the cut off changes with every source I look at. Like, technically I'm a millennial, but I was born in '81 which is only sometimes part of the millennial age range and never part of the gen x age range. It's almost as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real.

[-] SoapyYogurt82@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago

Y'know, it's almost exactly as if generations are entirely fabricated and not real. Good point, friend-o.

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[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago

Typical Xillenial comment.

[-] III@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

The line between generations isn't a date, it is collective experience. For example, the split between Gen X and Millennials is digital technology. And whether one's experience more closely aligns to either generation is entirely down to the individual - and thus, not a rigid date.

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[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 85 points 6 months ago

The oldest millenials are in their 40s. Who is drawing these things?

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago

Boomers, or millennials with boomer energy. Really anyone that wants to shit on "the youth"

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

As a "Millennial" in the 40s, myself and others my similar age don't ever seem to fit into the millennial category well. The start should be in the mid 1980's not the beginning. Gen x seems more fitting for the early 80s. But the generation thing is kind of silly anyway.

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[-] anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social 75 points 6 months ago

Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 6 months ago

Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago

Eh I don’t mind if they do that?

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 65 points 6 months ago

How is this millennial lingo?

[-] Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 50 points 6 months ago

Proper millennial lingo:

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[-] extant@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago

As a millennial I have no idea what that person is saying.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

On God. Fr fr, no cap on the rizz with a lizz until I jizz. Yeet!

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[-] Pratai@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m a Gen Z with a millennial girlfriend, and she doesn’t talk anything like that. In fact- I have never heard anyone talk like that.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

So is this intentionally mislabeled? Only the youngest millennials would be like 5% that bad, while gen z would actually be like that at times.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Reddit millennials are like this. The rest of us are relatively normal… except for the despondency and chronic depression

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[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago

He should have mentioned the other room looks like the "this is fine" meme. Rookie mistake smh

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[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

Whats funny is that as soon as I read big spicy boi i knew exactly what it was. High key vibed with that tbh. Big relate. Mans got me dead.

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