I've seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I'm not in education.
Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.
>kid in a movie written by adults: "I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature"
>kid I made up in my own mind: "hurr durr I'm illiterate"
Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the "kids in the 2020s" is the problem
Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
This stuff has got to be actual kids self-mythologising rather than adults not remembering how dumb they were as kids, shirley?
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
This generational hatred will never end.
Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.
Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.
Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That's exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.
Only minorly on that front. I'm right on the youngest end of the millenials, and I was 15 when it first surfaced. It took only a couple years for Cartoon Network to pick it up, so it definitely captured an audience, though it may have been a mix of zoomers and the latest millennials. But it certainly doesn't detract from my point, and it can definitely be substituted for stuff like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers.
It makes a generation feel special if they are convinced that they are enduring something extraordinary. Every single generation has had plenty to complain about but the loudest will be the current generation of course.
Gen X here and my boomer friends in US educational circles normally pointed out the Socrates quote but they stopped doing that a few years ago. Social media has devastated the ability of young Americans to think critically according to most.
I have to imagine it's because Socrates also believed that writing and reading information harmed our thinking. He thought that memory was the most important, and expected oral recollections of all his teachings.
...which definitely sounds like more criticism of youth đ
Pretty sure annoying orange was a gen Z thing, as I, a gen Z kid was addicted to annoying orange at 7 or so. I hated Fred though his voice was so damn annoying. I like his current channel though, felt crazy when I saw him as an adult and not screaming. Now he's doing shitty vacation trips đđ
UK kids in the early 2000s also had "Dick and Dom in da Bungalow". Basically two comedians doing funny shit to entertain kids for hours every Saturday morning. They had a game called "Bogies" which was just about the two of them going to a calm place like a library or a restaurant and seeing who could muster the courage to shout "bogies" the loudest. Honestly, it's pretty funny, but it justly caused a lot of outrage as well as kids were emulating it all over.
Example: https://youtu.be/vt_farHgMfM
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
That is kids in the late 2000's/early 2010's, not the 1990's
Itâs hard to find any fault in you for that. Iâm so sorry you had to go through that situation, but Iâm glad youâre still here with us. You are stronger than most.
Not the '90s
Isn't the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant's whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids⢠are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it's nothing but "standard" surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
That's entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.
Yeah, when I bit the bullet and watched it to see what the fuzz is about I was very surprised how competent it is.
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
You're right, but both can be true at the same time - if your acceptable level of risk is zero then playing outside is too dangerous
Don't forget the satanic panic of the 80's!
The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That's what happened.
old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking
Didn't seem to help the boomers any.
Lack of old-fashioned parenting
Parents trying to influence their children positively now compete with billion-dollar-corporations and enemy nation states that have a direct feed line into their kid's mind.
And if you don't allow your kids a phone they'll be socially isolated.
And if you don't allow your kids a phone they'll be socially isolated.
That is a crock of shit and an excuse used by lazy parents.
It's not nearly as hard as it sounds, kids will adapt readily to parental involvement in their lives, and good parents share digital activities with their kids like playing online games together as well as taking them out to enjoy real life. I know a couple dads who play games with their kids every night, their older kids are close to the parents, they go out and do adventures all the time.
The problem is that many parents are also locked into the feeds from billion-dollar corporations and enemy nations.
Most people would want to break this cycle if they had half a brain and had the mental language skills to reason through their life issues and goals, but almost a quarter of adults in the US are functionally illiterate.
How can we possibly expect parents to provide guidance and hands-on understanding of what's going on in their kid's world when they can barely read anything more complicated than a shopping list or text? Not that many teens are better off, the same issue impacts many young people who may need special education to become more literate but face too much social pressure to even admit they're having a hard time with learning and reading.
There are a lot of problems with the modern family unit that could be solved much more easily and with fewer resources than most of our other societal issues, with active work and conscious effort to make guidelines in a family for better outcomes, but that's also the environment where it's just as easy to scroll and forget your problems.
c/badlinguistics
Based Ohio. That's what happened.
Anon wants people off his lawn.
Plato in 300: kids today!!!!!!!!!! đĄ
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
Skibidi Toilet is just Madness Combat with toilets and TVs instead of blood.
They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don't.
Fuck it, I'll take all the "riz", "no cap", "frfr" bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.
"Cool," still cool after 90 years.
You mean you aren't into wazaaaaaap, piglatin, roflmao, the R word, cool beans, home skillet, etc?
It is funny how the wheel of slang makes the prior generation uncomfortable for some reason. Time waits for no one.
Thatâs on fleek
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That's one fly comment my man
Forsooth
Perchance.
Fo shizzle
Bet
Wat. Kids in the 2020s would be reciting facts from watching hours of Wild Kratts.
Pretty sure that both kids' characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
Like most kids in movies.
Otherwise, no one would watch movies with kids.
Like most characters in movies, even.
You grew old, thats what happened.
the hell? skibidi toilet ain't rizz?
You put unlimited slop devices in front of everyone 2 years and older instead of books.
You getting old is what happened.
All kids suck. Boo
Everyone under 25 should be killed. I hear you.
But thats just an arbitrary date
Everyone over 25 should also be killed so its fair. Only people that have been born exactly 25 years ago may be safe
This is 100% accurate. Those gigglemug youth before the 2020s were too pigeon-livered to be dimber-damber.
Yeah, nah. At least where I live, the 90s kid would be saying (in Portuguese) "à tio! Teu cu que vou pagar mico lendo aquela bagaça!". Or roughly "Hey boomer fr fr I'm not reading that skibidi, it's cringe shit".
Look man, if Grants book didn't have awesome dino illustrations, I'm calling this kids bluff. Even I had a dino book at that age (bit older than this...kid...man? This movies old) I still only looked at the pictures
It's called the interwebs I think
