But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 20 points 9 months ago

OK, EUmer

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.

Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.

[–] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's media-friendly astrology

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Haha, perfect!

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

In the case of this post, I'd say it's more a fact that the early seasons of The Simpsons are 20-30 years old rather than different generations have different perspectives. Gen alpha will not be exposed to those seasons unless it's by someone older.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough