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1. Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 11:59:25 JST Kenny Blankenship
   Curious if the millennials on the Fedi agree with this take
   • FestiveNova :confederateflag: :nv:🎄 (lordmordred@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 12:19:07 JST FestiveNova :confederateflag: :nv:🎄

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     @DW2 I don't even know if I'm a millennial or just a proto zoomer but I don't relate to this unfunny word salad that people call "comedy" in this modern era.
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   • SooopyAnon (spoopyanon@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 12:37:29 JST SooopyAnon

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     @DW2 They blew a lot of smoke up our ass about the future being so wonderful and bright. Then 2k hit, 9/11 happened and everything after has just been decline and struggle.
     Any great authors that might have been turned into YT celebs or whatever. I remember millenial chicks wanted to be Forbidden and Tila Taquila from Myspace and that was the start of e-thot culture.
     
     I never got why so many Millenials wanted to suck off Obama. I guess most thought they were raging against the Bush era establishment by electing some half nig who could speak well.
     
     I can def agree with becoming more cynical. The "waiting for someone to save them" fits all generations though. That's what voting is. Hoping someone will come along and save the day so the comfort of the societal womb is maintained.
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   • Rapist Goku (rapistgoku@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 12:47:18 JST Rapist Goku

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     @DW2 Overall, it's kind of accurate. The nihilism and cynicism came in from our Gen X elders I suspect. Seeing the systems that benefitted both of generation's parents fail and betray us repeatedly only exacerbated this. Knowing the boomers took a safe homogeneous society for granted doesn't help with the bitterness about losing it either. There's a sadness of that loss in Millenials withdrawing - they remember the end of the fun and the world before that in the 80s, 90s, even the 00s a bit.
     Gen X only did a bit better at escaping the collapse and they seem like even more of a silent generation save for having a more centralized culture and thus cultural figureheads in stuff like grunge music. Where are they now though? They turned inwardly too.
     I think there's major divergences in experiences when the poster talks about 9/11, Obama, Occupy, the Tea Party and Bernie. I hope some of us have been gradually checking out of the system over the years and not becoming full on reddit consoomers.
     This guy also isn't mentioning that there's not a huge brain-trust or signs of competence or this trend changing with the zoomer broccolihead faggots either.
     Where is the great Gen Z or Gen X authors? They aren't churning out Thomas Pynchons either.
     It could just be a huge multi-generational historic cultural gap in history that begins after boomers maybe. Especially with the way they have influenced the course of things for 60 years now and seem hellbent on ending things like generational wealth with their demise.
     TL:DR I wish my generation would step up and be remembered as the one that burned it all down at this point honestly.
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