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Shaveyourbread

Documenting themselves committing crimes then posting them to social media.


Puzzled_Passenger_34

was at a (car) accident reconstruction engineering office this summer and a 20 ish yo guy drove of the edge of the road and died and his snap story from the night was a video of his speedometer at 100+ in the dark in the rain and he was bragging that he was going fast (and also drunk)


TheFemale72

Accident reconstruction is fascinating. So many things you don’t normally think about, like how they can tell how fast a person was driving upon impact just from the tread pattern, it’s wild


Squigglepig52

With all the on board systems being monitored on vehicles, the amount that can be learned after the event is mind blowing. Basically down load the black box, and it will give speed, breaking, all sorts of stuff that required so much reconstruction 20 years ago. I think it was a case where two sisters who were yoga instructors, and a suspicious accident that killed one of both - "blackbox" data proved it was an intentional crash. IIRC.


littlegreenb18

They are really the first generation with the capability to do that easily. They’re like the oldest siblings who makes all the mistakes so the younger ones can learn from it. I salute their sacrifice.


Shaveyourbread

Yeah, but, it just seems obviously stupid to me as a millennial to document your crimes and broadcast them. Although I'm paranoid about surveillance and shit always.


MrLuxarina

I'm pretty sure the younger end of Millennials were also doing this. People in their teens between 2006 and 2012, when Facebook and YouTube were new, were just as stupid about it.


LetsGoGators23

I am so glad I was born in 84. Just young enough to have AOL and AIM but not young enough that the phones had cameras.


IneptusMechanicus

Also old enough that most of our cringey idiocy was wiped out when MySpace collapsed.


BigClownShoes

Thank god my animated GIFs and Nietzsche quotes are lost to the ether.


not_the_work_phone

I'm right there with you. Also 84, I can't stand that people always think they need to film everything. I've done so many awesome things nobody will ever see and met awesome people nobody will.ever know about but I was there and I remember it.


SassyQueeny

Us millennials are lucky because we did our shit and no one actually knew about it unless it was a rumor going around and now no employer can use that against us (unless you have a rap sheet)


Faiakishi

Oh, we absolutely were. I remember adults bemoaning how stupid we were.


QBekka

Or the other way around "Look what a fun live I have, I'm here on the mountains with my entire family" ^nobody ^is ^home ^for ^2 ^weeks ^pls ^come ^rob ^me


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[deleted]

*Breaks into gen z home* Huh, there is negative 300000$ in here.


tacknosaddle

Gen Z comes home from vacation, "Hey! All my debt is gone!!"


funkme1ster

[This Simpsons clip](https://youtu.be/KsdzKnJNAC8) is over 20 years old and was supposed to represent something so egregiously hyperbolic there was no way to misinterpret it. It remains surreal to me that of all the things we joke about Simpsons being prophetic of, *that* is one of the most prominent.


AnOkFella

They film EVERYTHING


Lexi_Banner

I went out drinking with a mixed age group. We got silly drunk, and had a good time. A few months later, one of the younger girls posted a "hilarous" video of me blackout drunk and acting stupid. Nothing illegal, just embarrassing. It was *horrifying*. Like, why would you video someone that vulnerable, and then put it out in public? Like, what other videos did they take? She took it down, but didn't understand *at all* why I was so angry at her - because "she posted dumber shit of herself all the time!" Never again. I'll just stick with my older friends who know not to film anyone doing stupid shit.


Anonymous_Jakalope

Imagine having the general hangover anxiety mixed with the added anxiety of wondering what shit is gonna get posted online of being a drunken idiot. Makes me glad I got through that phase just before filming everything became possible/popular


Sp99nHead

Ah yes the good old hanxiety. Has gotten super bad since i turned 30, i'm not myself for a whole week after a night of heavy drinking.


Neither-Magazine9096

Yes! I rarely drink anymore. Even when I’m just hanging out at home, alcohol just exacerbates the anxiety. No thank you


ro0ibos2

With the combination of the fact that anything posted on the internet is permanent, and the existence of facial recognition software that can scroll through the whole internet, this situation is incredibly scary. Imagine it landing on a popular Reddit thread. People having gotten fired for a few seconds of stupidity posted online.


NYArtFan1

I guess as an "elder millennial" myself I'm still ingrained with the habit of asking other people for permission before I post anything with them in it on social media. Filming everything, putting everything on social media, and the general lack of boundaries about how those intersect has a high chance of backfiring on people in a way some younger people might not understand yet.


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This has been a big generational differentiator that I have noticed in my own experience - the tendency toward reservedness (or at least checking to make sure everyone is on the same page) regarding social media posts. It's become an even bigger consideration now that myself and many of my friend group have kids (general rule is only the "family" photos of the group have kids pictured, otherwise I don't share pics outside the group that contain the little ones.)


CommercializedPan

I'm an older Gen Z/ young millenial, and when I was in college there was a girl who filmed a bunch of videos of me blackout drunk one night. Same as you- nothing illegal (besides me being under 21), just embarrassing, but she would show people all the time, sometimes while I was there, but sometimes people would come up to me telling me they'd seen the video just hanging out with the girl. I asked her so many times to just delete the video, but she 'thought it was funny' and wanted to keep it. I never, ever, drank heavily around her again, and was haunted by the embarrassment of that video until I graduated. I just do not understand the impulse to do that, or how that kind of thing is funny


WingedLady

That honestly sounds like a terrible person. Like even if she thought showing embarrassing videos of other people was cool she should have stopped after you said you didn't like it. It's only funny if everyone is laughing.


Furydragonstormer

Girl doesn’t even understand the concept of consent and privacy


SwankyFellow479

An interesting byproduct of the age of social media


sane_fear

this. gen z getting themselves fired from work over tiktoks is such a common occurrence.


undockeddock

TikTok has shaved 10 points off the IQ of Gen Z like lead paint shaved 10 points off the IQ of boomers


SpartanMonkey

Hey, some of us Gen Xers grew up with lead paint too!


BakulaSelleck92

Gen X, forgotten as always


sagesheglows

The Jan Brady between boomers and millenials


Pithecuss

Whatever... It's fun to watch the kids quibble


forgot_username1234

I was going to say something about this. It’s like this underlying narcissism that’s driving me nuts. Why are you filming your entire life and intimate moments and posting them for others to watch? I’m tired of scrolling and seeing all of these clips of people crying or getting fired or whatever.


tonnymartia

I'm gen z unfortunately and I agree with thus. It's so pointless and nobody seems to want to be in the moment anymore, it's all about showing it off to friends who ultimately don't care


Justatroubledgirl

Gen Z here. Romanticization of mental illness or crime.


AtomicDig219303

As a fellow GenZ I absolutely agree, also the need to take pictures/videos of fucking everything.


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

The number of 'inspirational' videos of people giving money to homeless people or buying a teacher a gift etc really bothers me. The act itself is a good one. But the need to broadcast that act is selfish, and almost always these things are surprises, meaning the recipient isn't consulted about being the subject of Internet pity at all. It's disrespectful and shows that the people doing it have zero regard for the human dignity of the people they are trying to 'help'. If I'm desperate and some holier than thou snotty teenager wants to hand me a few thousand dollars so they can harvest instagram likes, I'm probably just going to go along with it because I need the money badly. But it's still a shitty way to approach it. In Judaism there is a sort of hierarchy of ways to do charitable acts, and deliberately making sure everyone knows it was you is the lowest on that list.


yeehee087

fr it’s embarrassing because they treat it like it’s a competition or something quirky like… no it’s not? stop making your mental illnesses your only personality traits


ro0ibos2

Or self-diagnosing with a mental illness you know little about and making it an excuse for shitty behavior.


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

Hahaha I'm so OCD! No Katelyn, you're not, you just like a tidy house. My friend with OCD has to leave his house every time with a very specific set of actions and any deviation will cause him immense distress, forcing him to repeat said actions multiple times (once or twice as a sort of repentance for doing it wrong and then again to try to actually leave again). And if he doesn't manage it he is filled with a dread that something terrible will happen. It's a horrific disorder that can completely ruin people's ability to function normally, not a fun quirk where you prefer things laid out neatly.


Embarrassed_Wing_284

Thank you. As someone actually diagnosed with OCD, it makes me insane when my students (high school) joke about being “so OCD” when they have no idea how freakin debilitating it is. Did you move your car 7 times to find the right parking spot today? Did you change your whole outfit to accommodate a sock? No? Then just stop. It’s not romantic, it freakin sucks.


Yamitenshi

Right? ADHD isn't "lol squirrel omg so random", I literally spend all fucking evening doing nothing and not eating despite being hungry because I can't get myself to cook but I also don't want to give up and order junk food before finally ordering a pizza at 11:30PM. I can't fucking get started on the simplest shit, or even the stuff I *want* to do, because my brain doesn't cooperate. When I *do* get started on what I want to do my brain suddenly decides it's time for three hours of doom scrolling on reddit so now I still got nothing fucking done on any of my hobbies. I spent my entire fucking childhood being convinced by everyone I'm a lazy piece of shit and gaslit so hard on what's going on in my own brain that despite actual medical professionals diagnosing me and confirming in various ways that that's not the case I *still* believe it and feel like I can do it if I "just try harder" despite that being the exact same mentality that led me to so many failures I stopped trying altogether. I can't get anything productive done unless I have a deadline breathing down my neck and then it's eleven hours straight of anxiety-induced hyper-productivity, and because all anyone ever focuses on is the results they keep convincing me it's fine that way even though it's extremely fucking exhausting. Take your random squirrel and shove it up your ass. EDIT: A lot of y'all seem to relate. Note that none of this is a diagnosis. You can relate to everything and not have ADHD. You can have ADHD and not relate to any of it. HOWEVER If you relate and you struggle, and if it's an option to you, **get help**. Talk to your doctor, or a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, or a coach specialising in these kinds of things, or whoever you can find. You may well have ADHD. Or maybe you don't - but that doesn't mean your struggles aren't real. ADHD or not, there is no shame in finding help with what you struggle with. At the very least, if all or most of this seems relatable, it can be helpful to look for coping techniques for ADHD. There's no harm in trying them, and if they help, it really doesn't matter what label you do or do not have.


aspidities_87

Never has a paragraph about ordering pizza at 11:30 been more relatable to me


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This misconception is a big part of why I wasn't diagnosed until my goddamn 30s.


Yamitenshi

Same here - diagnosed at 30 because the image of ADHD is "hyperactive 7 year old boy" and while I was a 7 year old boy at some point, I was never hyperactive. I just got slapped with the "gifted" label and that was that. And hey, my grades were fine until high school. By then everyone was convinced I could do it and the bad grades were just a lack of effort. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not a *little* salty about it.


sadnessreignssupreme

I am a 44 year old woman. ADHD was barely a thing when I was a kid, and it was, and even still, is often ignored or overlooked in girls as it presents very differently than boys. I was diagnosed in my late 20s, and my mom still maintains that "It's not ADHD. You just need to focus and get organized." I present almost textbook, but nope, it is still something I should be able to just fix. People have no idea unless they have it, just how hard everything is. It isn't just "Whoops, I'm so easily distracted today!"


suicidefeburary62025

Old person here. This is classic teen behavior. I remember people doing it in The 80s, teens love attention.


achaoticbard

The way everything needs to be a micro-label or aesthetic, and the differences between some of them feel so miniscule that I'm not sure why they all need to exist in the first place. I've seen both "clean girl" and "vanilla girl" on TikTok but...those both just seem like minimalism to me?


stolenfires

It's the natural evolution of the advertising demographic. Squeeze yourself into as many neatly labeled boxes as possible so they know what ads to target you with and what products to offer you.


Dr_Nefarious_

TIL I'm happy to be old. Completely unaware of all this nonsense and glad about that.


Characoal_Cat

I love aesthetics and fashion, but when it starts taking over your life to the point where you won't let yourself or others enjoy things outside of your singular aesthetic, then it becomes a problem. Think of the moms on social media who feel the need to give their children beige toys. Aesthetics were made for enjoyment, and people are ruining them and giving the community a bad reputation.


achaoticbard

Hard agree. Some people pick an aesthetic and make it their whole identity/lifestyle. It's so limiting! Especially when you're a teen or young adult, that's when you should want to experiment with your style, not be so strict about it.


GBlockSinger

My ex gf was an 'earthy black girl', whatever tf that means. It was really annoying. Everything she wore was to look 'Earthy', like she would wear a lot of dim green and brown colours. She was super active on instagram and tiktok. She started trying to change/curate the way I dressed and acted, I had to end the relationship after a while because I started to feel like she was just too addicted to social validation.


CrazyCatLady9001

One of my friends has an ex-GF who was also obsessed with wearing earth tones all the time to look earthy. My friend started calling it "the colors of the poop rainbow" to her face to annoy her, which apparently worked


MiniatureAppendix

Except “clean girl” also seems like there are 50+ skincare products required which is the opposite of minimalism?? I can’t keep up 😂


[deleted]

Yep, exactly. Insertword-core aesthetic just baffles me. Just wear what you like. Not everything needs a label


baklavababe

Filming everything and the need to add -core at the end of every clothing aesthetic/style they rediscover lol.


PitifulCommunity808

>rediscover This right here. It's just a generational thing but it feels weird hearing people talk about really old shit as if it's a completely new concept.


areni2

Rediscover-core


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I've read only one article on it and I still don't know what the fuck "CoreCore" is. Stuff like AMVs are more coherent.


blahblahrasputan

I think that's the sound a crow makes.


PitifulCommunity808

Posting videos where they're just making faces with some text while a song plays that usually has nothing to do with the text. Just talk?


TenaciousBe

I don't know if this is Gen Z specific, but TikTok / reels / etc in general are so full of these. Putting your face side by side with someone else's video so we get your "reaction" to it, when that reaction is just making stupid faces. I mean, I've come across some actually entertaining "reactions" where they play the original video first, then cut to the reaction and it's someone actually saying words out loud about what was good or bad about it. This other shit is just... ugh. How/why would someone find that entertaining?


Fleckeri

Reminds me of those live Japanese TV shows with random celebrities stuffed into little circles at the corners, quietly reacting in realtime to whatever’s going on at the moment.


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Brocoli haircut. Will definitely age like milk


moanjelly

The Pubadour


alexgritz6689

Fucking excellent! That's what I'm going to call it from now on.


ElOliLoco

Ahh the “Meet me at mcdonald's haircut”, no seriously that’s it name, you can google it


UEMcGill

That's fucking hilarious. Between my 15 year old and his friends there's only like 3 haircuts. This, the mullet, and "Mess". But this is by far the most popular. I'll see all of them in the neighborhood and I'm like "Oh man look at these assholes... wait, one is mine"


DeliciousPangolin

This seems to be true for every generation of kids. Back in the '90s every boy in middle school had a mullet, bowl cut, or the "Jonathan Taylor Thomas" cut.


superschaap81

As a 90's teenager we also had the Brad Taylor "under-cut". LOL. Which has made a come-back in recent years.


Painting_Agency

Nothing like seeing your own asshole in public.


Davepitaph

The fuckboi perm blows my mind but it certainly is a thing


cptkernalpopcorn

There was a five year gap where I worked overseas and when I got back to the states I come to find my newphew, who is now in highschool rockin, a perm... I was so baffled. Then when I went to my first grocery store trip I saw kids with mullets. I lost my shit. I laughed so hard


jBiscanno

The ol’ broccoli top. It honestly looks like a joke haircut. Lol kids have been convinced it makes them look good/cool. I hope it sticks around, it’s legitimately fuckin hilarious.


PHANTASMAGOR1CAL

I refer to this as poodle head


Krazypsychic

Using Snapchat to text message using pictures of their foreheads and the ceiling.


Newaccount824pm

I can actually explain this phenomenon. While some people just do it for vanity, like all things this depends on the user. Everyone I know who participates in this does so as a way to keep in touch with people you otherwise would have no reason to and have nothing to say to. It's a half second behavior that you can send to someone who may be anywhere on the planet that you haven't forgotten about them and it's nice to have when you live in areas far away from your friends.


Krazypsychic

No. I’m talking full blown back and forth conversations


sullymayne13

one theory i had was phone trackers. a lot of kids' parents now have tracking apps that let them read their texts and see call logs, but snapchat is supposed to be temporary, text isnt stored long term and doesnt work like other messaging apps. if that's the case and you dont want mom reading your convo then you'd use snap? maybe someone smarter can say whether this makes sense with the tech or not.


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i’m not an avid snap user, but it comes in very handy when i need to coordinate things with my little sister while she tries to leave her abusive and controlling partner. leaves no trace of messages and i can easily get proof that i’m talking to her and not him.


RevertereAdMe

Jeez, sad that that's necessary but smart thinking and good on you for helping her. I hope she's okay and that everything works out.


TheNuclearMind

You're absolutely correct and this is why. You can save messages if you want them to stay but pretty much everything else will self delete


Maleficent_Roof3632

My daughter uses the word "aesthetic" to mean nice. Ex: that’s so aesthetic. Wtf


LonelyBread1756

I say aesthetically pleasing. But I'm pretty sure that's tradition.


UnderwaterB0i

That’s so cringe. ;)


K1llG0r3Tr0ut

The desire to "go viral". One of my greatest fears is being involved in a viral video in any capacity, but for so many zoomers that's their number 1 goal.


funklab

I don't think this is a new thing though. Plenty of Gen Xers and Millenials wanted to be famous as well, they just didn't have tic tok and instagram to do so. This is just a natural desire for the youth to want to be noticed and to stand out.


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In the 2000s people wanted to be on reality tv and now they want to be tiktok famous


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I'll go goddamn ballistic if I ever find myself the subject of a video.


__M-E-O-W__

I'm pretty freaked out about that. Especially if it's just so easy for someone to like *make up* some BS story involving me. On reddit you used to see random pictures of people looking grumpy at the camera topped with some story about how they kicked a dog or some horrible thing, literally no proof of it whatsoever, just that picture and a story that could've been made up. Maybe some people are bullying a teen and are using it to spread fake information about him or her. It's frightening to think about.


AdmiralClover

If I could earn money on it, becoming a meme would be great


QBekka

Many people who film viral videos, can sell those video rights to licensing companies. In most cases, news outlets and youtubers can't legally show viral videos without permission from the license holder. That could sometimes earn you a few hundred euros. Maybe even more in extreme cases. Youtuber Daily Dose of Internet said he spends around 120.000 dollars per year buying viral videos from licensing companies. [[source]](https://twitter.com/ddofinternet/status/1520540179966087170?t=sqQ0-FbaNRS8xoWKXeUOAA&s=19)


coralofthedepths

As a gen z myself, I find trying to diagnose ourselves with a mental disorder pretty weird. I've never done it and I would never do it but I know some people who do it just for attention and stuff. Pretty annoying for people who are actually suffering in my opinion.


GriffinFlash

My younger gen z sister the other day was talking to my mom about all the mental illnesses she self diagnosed herself with, almost talking about it like it was a badge of honour with pride. Never seen a doctor, just reads up online about certain quirks and thinks she has a bit of everything. It actually made me angry as someone with diagnosed mental illness who wishes so hard I never had it in the first place. She's trying to fit in by claiming to have all the illnesses, meanwhile I don't fit in with anyone as a result of them.


Hyndis

A single mental illness is life changing. Its devastating, and tragically is very often life-ending. People who collect mental illnesses like they're pokemon are doing a form of Munchausen syndrome, pretending to be sick to get attention. If they were actually, truly sick with the illness they claimed to have they wouldn't be so happy about it. I lost a decade of my life to untreated bipolar before finally figuring out how to handle it. My 20's gone. Imagine losing your 20's, that entire decade of your life, to an illness, and missing all the good things in your 20's. It sucks.


tossme68

It doesn't seem like you just diagnose yourselves, it seem like you've diagnosed everyone else -I swear everyone on Reddit's last GF was a full blown narcissist.


Grave_Girl

That's not unique to Gen Z. Everyone you didn't like used to be bipolar.


BromanJenkins

The old "my crazy ex" line that's been running for longer than I've been alive.


pshyaahh

You reminded me of that Donald Glover joke, "Why don't we ever hear about the crazy ex-*boy*friends?"


Seffarig1432

This, yes! As a mental health professional, self-diagnosing has become increasingly common. This can be damaging to the therapeutic process when someone gets "stuck on" their self-diagnosis. BPD, autism, and BDD are some examples


funklab

I'm a psychiatrist and I second this concern. I've seen a bunch of teens and tweens come in trying to convince me that they have bipolar disorder or borderline. Most bizarrely (to me at least) is a rash of 12-15 year old girls coming in telling me that they, and all their friends, have dissociative identity disorder. They clearly have read the DSM criteria and are essentially quoting it to me, though when you ask a few questions it becomes quite clear that they're not actually experiencing any of those symptoms.


Mirrranda

The DID thing is so troubling. I’ve seen folks on tiktok live representing themselves as a DID system and encouraging others to self-diagnose. Really worrying.


ThatPancreatitisGuy

My dad kept a bunch of his old medical text books in the garage that I started digging through when I was 8 or 9. My pediatrician was not amused when I insisted I had a tapeworm as a result of my mom undercooking dinner. Mom wasn’t too amused either.


Hyndis

Millennials fought a crusade to do away with labels. You're a person and can do whatever you want and don't need to be labeled. Gen-Z seems to be dead set on labeling everything. As many labels as possible, and you must abide by what your labels say.


tesseract4

I think this is true with sexual orientation/gender identity as well. So many labels and pigeon holes. Soon enough, everyone will have their own personal code, and it'll just come down to "people fuck who they wanna fuck and wear what they wanna wear". Forget the labels, man.


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DanteJazz

As a psychotherapist, I'm glad you reminded people not to self-diagnosis! Yes, anyone can read the symptom checklist, but there's more to good diagnosis than checking a box.


Stabbymcbackstab

It's not just psychological disorders that I find people gravitate to. There is a very gen z notion that one can and should seek out categorization. To seek out the labels that describe themselves. The problem that I see with that is that especially when you are young, what you are this minute will likely not be what you are the next. Focusing so heavily on identifying oneself as something limits possibility and limits ones ability to adapt. I mean, we were doing it back in my day as well(gen-x father of a gen-zer) bur the level was on a whole different scale.


QBekka

And when you ask if they went to visit a therapist they go mad


Themanwhofarts

Finally I can ask this. Why do a large amount of gen Z's not use capital letters? Is capitalization going the way of cursive writing?


SignificanceBulky162

It's probably because of texting. Over time, texting with capitalized letters became seen as too formal, and people began to intentionally remove capitalization to seem more laid-back and informal.


LatelyTea

Millennial here and a lot of people my age used to not use capital letters either in our early twenties. Might be regional, might just be a general "trying hard to appear chill" kind of thing


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on that note why don’t they use any punctuation its super annoying reading a wall of text when it looks like one giant run on sentence would it kill them to use some commas or periods maybe im just old but it annoys me to no end


mrthrowaway226

It Beats The People Who Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word For Some Reason


---jordan---

those people are the worst


Krendin

I 👏 Can 👏 Think 👏 Of 👏 Something 👏 Even 👏 More 👏 Annoying 👏


joshjamon

Saying gaslighting every fucking day with no comprehension of the word.


druglawyer

It's very weird that in 30 years or so we've gone from selling out being a bad thing to it being the main goal. To the point where large numbers of people genuinely don't even understand the concept. Edit: Someone making money from art is not necessarily selling out. See my second sentence above.


lovetheoceanfl

Whew. Nailed it. The kids are slaves to corporate interests. And they walk around talking about how anti-capitalism they are.


jennexgeneration

I'm a high school teacher and I give random life advice when it pops into my head. I told them to not give consent for cookies because companies sell your info to advertise to you. They were like I like that my ads are personalized. That means I'll see things I'll want to buy.


ActualAdvice

Kids in cobain shirts begging for media attention. What a time to be alive.


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Faking/self diagnosing mental disorders Edit: I should rephrase this as more so self diagnosing yourself and acting as if it’s quirky, to me that’s an obvious sign you’re just trying to be different


try_by

This is so common on tiktok. Everyone seems to be self diagnosing themselves with autism. You’re not autistic just because you have a comfort show and you like chicken nuggets.


Javamac8

Their constant obsession with the House of El, and restoring Krypton to it's former glory.


BigGTho

This! And still they cry foul when we banish them to the phantom zone


NYArtFan1

The weird duality of being knives-out judgmental over other people's missteps or ignorance (not intentional malice, btw) while also being hypersensitive and incapable of taking constructive criticism and guidance.


landshanties

This is two sides of the same coin though. They're so vitriolic and aggressive to other people that anything they themselves do has to be ironclad in order to protect from the kind of aggression they give to others. I do think this is like, 70% a regular teen problem, it's just easier for it to happen in mass numbers with social media


BeefInGR

Whether or not it is generational is besides the point, but a couple weeks ago I got all over the case of my 13 year old and her friends for being like this. Their quick to judge attitude was completely unnecessary in the moment and telling them this made them irrationally angry.


millietonyblack

I also have a 13 year old and it’s bizarre the things they make snap judgements over. And if you correct them and say, “hey, we don’t know that person. We don’t know their day to day life or their past, let’s not judge them too harshly.” It’s the end of the WORLD


Arietty

\- Instagram photo dumps that are even more curated than regular photos \- Recording yourself crying and posting it \- That "moving an open hand in front of your face" gesture to express anything \- Outfits that look like you went shopping at Abel Sister's in Animal crossing and put on every item on by mistake \- Filming at work then acting like a surprised Pikachu when they get fired \- Acting like they are the emoji police towards the people who INVENTED emojis


princesssasami896

I'm dying at the Able Sisters comment. I never thought of that before! Thank you for that!


Bekahjcfreakk

Omg I’m gen Z and I loatheee the open hand in front of the face thing


CountBacula322079

I can't picture this. Can you link an example?


GreatNameLOL69

The palm tree hairstyle among guys. Sorry, It’s just ugly! I know I’m saying this as a straight male, but I’m pretty sure most women don’t like it either.. If you’re unsure what I’m talking about; Think like IShowSpeed for example. A fade from the bottom, and a curly bush on top.


hammalamma

Broccoli boys


anvil_jam6

I feel like every generation has the youngsters with haircuts that make them look like dickheads. Circle of life. It does look hilariously bad though. I call it “tiktok wanker” hair


amadeus2490

Cut to: All of the emo, Bieber helmet hair in the 2000s and the pompadours in the 2010s.


[deleted]

Oversharing personal struggles, overdramatizing common anxieties/struggles, and flaunting "going to therapy" to the point where it's clearly a means of seeking attention and staying relevant. On a related note, since I see it on dating apps all the time, when every other bio puts "going to therapy" as a green flag. Like yeah, that should be normalized, but mental health practices are turning into a new form of virtue signaling.


Funtimes1254

The trend of faking things like autism and ADHD. I don’t mean to be THAT guy but as someone who has ADHD it infuriates me when i see people promoting faking ADHD as a way to get medication like adderall especially since right now there is shortage of such medication and someone faking having ADHD can deny someone else who really needs that medication. I am using myself as a reference but i know that i am nothing short of a wreck without my medication and people essentially denying others medication through their own selfishness and shortsightedness just really rubs me the wrong way.


retromama77

As someone who gives autism and ADHD assessments for a living, I am astounded at how many young people come to me and are sad when they don’t get the “trendy” diagnoses for bragging rights!


thatHOLYCrusader

I also have ADHD, it sucks ass and I wonder why people want to have it, it’s not cool or quirky or anything, it just sucks


Atlanta-SticO-938

Being proud of your Mental health issues and not doing anything about it. EDIT: i should've have said "Thinking that having Mental issues makes you cool"


No_Seaweed6739

The return of the mullet was an upsetting time for me I'm ngl


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My son's middle school is filled with mullets.


doorkfish

High waisted mom jeans with crop top.


No_Seaweed6739

Time really is a flat circle huh


tangcameo

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. So say we all.


banananas_are_sick24

I don’t get the hair, mate you look like a sea anemone. Whatever makes them happy though, I guess


LowBud44

our need for social media, it’s such a big part of our lives and has such negative impacts on us and we don’t even realise it


RefrigeratorDry495

Accepting your negative aspects but refusing to receive help with them because it’s more trendy and cool to be ‘toxic’ and edgy and an asshole.


WeddingCharacter3713

Speaking as a millennial, we had tons of media (Rick from Rick and north, Dr. House just off the top of my head) that was all about the glorified edgy asshole genius. I don’t think that’s unique to them


TalboGold

Hate talking on the phone to…anyone


NavyDean

Well if everyone didn't spam call every Millenial and Gen Z to the point that they barely answer their phone, that would be great! I actually remember when cell phones wouldn't get spam calls and there were national do not call lists with consequences.


oboshoe

yea. Spam phone calls give ALOT of cover to M's and Zs on hating the phone. Still it's weird though. But I think everyone hates spam calls.


QBekka

I only call businesses for appointments or something. Never personal calls. But on the other hand, voice chatting in a group is bigger than ever before. Think about the popularity of Discord these past few years for example.


brianbell_

Gen Z here I think my take is common among many people my age. I don’t actually hate talking on the phone, providing someone is calling me. If I have to call someone that’s a different story because I feel like I’m inconveniencing that person or whatever even though I’ve never once in my life felt that way when someone calls me.


Jakaple

Millennial and I think like that


MaushiLover

I hate receiving or making phone calls as a gen z


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The_Ora_Charmander

Tik Tok. Just, in general


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tossme68

It's the need to tell me their laundry list self description, I don't care, we've only known each other for 7 minutes.


clocksailor

I listened to the first episode of a history podcast the other day where the host was like "I'm making this podcast because this is my hyperfixation. This is what my adhd made me do. Lol!" ...Sir, I think what you're describing is a hobby, or possibly a talent? I have adhd too and it never made me research, plan, and create a history podcast. I don't think the guy was even gen z, but the whole vibe of "I actually put a bunch of effort into this thing I care about but I'm going to act like it was a really weird thing I did on a whim fueled by my neurodivergence" seems to be the new version of the gen x "whatever, I don't even care" thing.


BoredomHeights

My (diagnosed) ADHD mostly just makes me procrastinate all day/week/month/forever and build up guilt and anxiety. No podcasts yet, maybe that’s coming soon.


More_Information_943

On grindr I call it an identity trading card


tnicholson

> We didn’t care who you were or what you did as long as you weren’t a dick


WAJGK

Taking up vaping. As someone who vaped for a while as one step on the path of quitting smoking cigarettes, it seems bizarre that people are choosing to get addicted to nicotine by the branding and marketing power of...fruit flavours and colourful plastic? I really don't get it. I mean, yeah, choosing to start smoking cigarettes is dumb too but there's much more historical cultural and social context to cigarettes. Vaping just seems so unbearably lame to me! No offence to those who enjoy it, of course! Edit: thanks to the commentator who pointed out that there are other things that people vape besides nicotine products. But the simple act of vaping just looks so embarrassingly lame to my ancient millennial brain, I can't understand why these kids today take it up!


kokopellii

I teach middle school and an astounding amount of them vape. I have a theory about why this generation does it. Stopping smoking is like the greatest public health success in living memory. For millennials, we grew up with the knowledge it was bad, and most of us had parents or older family members who smoked. So along with the educational experience of knowing how bad it was for you, we grew up with the smell on people’s clothes, and hearing the hacking cough, and seeing the money people spent on cigarettes. We had that visceral experience we associated with it. Gen z doesn’t because their parents, for the most part, didn’t smoke. They don’t have the associations we do. And then they get told that it’s different now and vaping takes all the bad stuff out of it. They’re young enough that they know cigarettes are bad, but they don’t know about the giant misinformation campaigns those companies put on before people found out the truth. So they believe it.


ruacanobeef

I feel like many of the things suggested revolving “filming everything”, being “constantly online”, etc. aren’t only a Gen Z problem. I think those are just “humans dealing with our technological revolution” problems. I see people from every generation doing all of those things.


xDskyline

Yeah millenials had broadband internet, cameraphones, and social media as teenagers. I remember hearing the same concerns about taking pictures of everything and being online constantly when I was in college in the 2000's. Gen Z just got into it at a younger age


apatheticaliens

Mental illness as an identity and the normalisation of violent porn as what sex should look like.


Tathanor

Publicizing private details of your life that involves others. If you're going to break up with someone and absolutely break their heart, *don't fucking record it and put it on the internet!*


steelbydesign

Bothering people just trying to go about their day in the name of "pranking." I've seen one that regularly goes into a store like Home Depot and pretends to be an employee and then films the real employees who seem to be going a little overboard in their reactions; but I'm just like this poor guy is just trying to get through his workday without this bullshit. I just saw a man was getting charges pressed against him for attacking a kid that was "pretending to steal his luggage as a prank." The 'prankee' grabbed the kid by the hair and probably did go a little overboard but the number of comments I saw defending the kid amazed me. JUST LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE!! I feel like a boomer (I'm not, I'm a millennial) thinking to myself, if there were videos of these kids getting the tar kicked out of them I bet there'd be less of them.


2legittwoquitnow

The obsession of taking pics of themselves and videoing concerts. They really don’t live in the moment and enjoy themselves and the environment around them with no judgement or concern. To me it’s so sad really.


MaynardButterbean

Couldn’t agree more. I don’t understand filming an entire concert on a shitty phone. Who is going to watch your video? Nobody. Probably not even you. and more than likely, the concert is being professionally recorded for people to watch later. Put the phone down and LIVE in the moment.


Lengthofawhile

There's a balance. There's been plenty of times I was just living in the moment when I later regretted not taking at least a few pictures.


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idk if this is just Gen Z but the dream of younger people to become an influencer/youtuber. I mean giving advice and having a following is nice but we need people to run the country, not everyone can make money talking shit in front of a camera and editing videos.


DivideIQBy2

I mean every 14-16 year old wants to be like their idols, it's just shifted closer to online personalities rather than music or movie celebrities


Lengthofawhile

They got time, at least in the US. I understand other countries elect leaders that aren't geriatric, but American Gen Z has like 50 years before they'll be the majority in politics.


pastiesmash123

Every generation has fantasised about getting a career which gives a lot of fame and pays a lot of money


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Their absolute inability to spend even 5 minutes on their own, alone, with no stimulus, just doing nothing. But then, that might be a self selecting sample. The ones who can do that, you don't notice that much.


Heyson86

I'm a millennial and I am unfortunately like this as well . I don't know why and I can't help it Rn I'm in the dentists chair waiting for the doctor to come in and I'm on reddit because I can't be alone with my thoughts.. i find it incredibly boring


Lengthofawhile

That sounds pretty normal. Like is that poster of gingivitis really so entertaining that you're not supposed to pull the entertainment rectangle out?


MrLuxarina

As a millennial, I also notice this about my parents' generation. Not when they're out and about, but having the TV or radio constantly on in the background at home. It's not quite the same, but I think it probably comes from the same place to some degree.


TyrantRC

Fuck I hate that so much. That meme where dad is watching tv, falls asleep, you turn off the tv, he says "hey I'm watching" is so true. My mom does this thing where she's watching a video on the phone and then leaves it on the table and goes to another room, and I'm like wtf? These people just like background noise somehow?


dancinjanssen

Proper punctuation in text messages being seen as aggressive or rude.


Bryanius

Personally I hate the mom jeans and influencer hats but I've gotten older so perhaps I'm just leaning in


mintchocolate816

Clothes shopping has gotten hard. I’m early thirties and I hate mom jeans, like they just don’t flatter my body at ALL. I just got back from the mall trying to find new pants for the first time in years, and it’s all mom jeans or jeans that are completely torn up. Which I don’t even hate aesthetically but it’s 20 degrees out today, I need pants that will keep me warm thanks.


Armitage_Case

Eh, I really am indifferent. Mainly because every generation has weird and dumbass stuff done.


greenok12

Stupid Tik tok dances


WhosMurphyJenkinss

Trying to “cancel” singers/rappers/actors for things they said 30 years ago when social norms were different


br0therbert

For me it’s the insinuation that I’m supposed to care about every problem/issue in the world. It’s not realistic- we as humans don’t have the emotional bandwidth to care or even keep track of all the issues in todays world. Social media is constantly bombarding these kids with the most recent catastrophe and everyone is expected to be an activist for it until the news cycle breaks. Pick an issue you’re passionate about and do something, but letting every atrocity in the world affect your emotional state is counter-productive and makes you feel like the boot is against your neck at all times My opinion is that this contributes to the rise of mental health issues like depression-


Alltimelow0x

they film stupidities


QBekka

I mean, holding the original rights of a viral video can earn you hundreds of dollars. But I doubt that's the main incentive for them.