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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I thought at first this was just describing how each generation is but its a bit more abstract than that: these are the kinds of memes they make.

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 47 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Boomers are how their better than you

Gen X is dad jokes

Millennials is life sux

Gen z is absurdist like HONSE

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

GenX checking in, I have this image stored on my phone and just throw it at people for no good reason because it pleases me.

I don't know what it means. I don't think it means anything. Fits my worldview nicely.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

what is gen alpha on

what are the cool hip kids memeing

I won’t get it but tell me like I would. Make me feel young again

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

67 is still around. Skibidi toilet is just about dead. Not sure if there's much else.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

My 9 year old nephews told me months ago that 6-7 was already lame.

Which makes sense. If a kids' meme is at a point where adults know enough about it, it's probably already passé. That's just how this stuff works.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

Things are still Ohio though, right?/millennial

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

It's not at its peak, but it is still alive. Perhaps not at their school though.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We never seem to skip the bit where a gen Xer points out genX erasure.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fuck The Boomers for... well, all of it.

[–] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

monty python were boomer humor. there's not a lot of air between "honse" and "the fish slapping dance"

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

That was British humor specifically.

See Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett for more. Even Rowan Atkinson.

Okay, I guess they were all boomers, but still!

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is it not? What is it then? I don't think it's loss.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 days ago

My comment explains what it is after explaining what it is not, in a single sentence.