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Which generation would ask "Is this loss"?
Millennials.
Who's that Harold guy? Is he a friend of yours?
This is the strangest political compass I've seen.
While that has some truth to it, I wonder if it is based on some intrinsic properties of the respective generations, or rather just on their current age and stage in life.
E.g. GenX has been the dominant parent generation for the past 20 or so years. Naturally they are doing dad jokes.
While GenZ is young, experimental, and rebelling against the perceived conventions.
But I clearly remember a time when Millenials were as avant-garde as GenZ is now.
And my Millenial wife has been on the track to slowly convert to the slightly stupid but harmless GenX-type of humor for some time now.
So maybe within a few years your meme will be almost the same, with the only difference that the generation captions have each moved one place, with GenAlpha superseding GenZ in the lower right corner...
I'm a millenial and my jokes have always been stupud but harmless. This is not a very good metric
GenX also passed school without google so that works too.
Naa, we'll be bitching about AI instead when it's our turn! ;-)
I do agree partially to your line of thinking. When I as a young millenial was the age of today's young to middle gen Z (~late teens to early twenties) peak humor were ten hour long loops of Nyan Cat, Epic Sax Guy/Gandalf or Cantina Band with a side of Cheezburger Cat memes. Weird shit from a 30-something year old perspective.
My siblings and I are telling Dad Jokes to my niece at every opportunity and I can imagine those are your dominant form of humor when you have your own kids taking over your whole life.
However, there is another component to it, displayed by an oversimplified, slightly sarcastic analysis:
Boomer humor: I hate my wife.
Millenial humor: I hate my life.
GenZ humor: E
Of course, GenX is forgotten in this but from my experience, there is some credence to and a reason behind this.
Over time, relationships not lasting forever, divorces and marrying later in life has become more accepted socially, so elder folks might more often be stuck in unhappy relationship than younger people.
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder, were less exposed to news and mostly had an overall more hopeful and positive expectations for life where Millennials grew up with the emergence of social media, more information available generally, being more exposed to crisis news and an increasing awareness about climate change and other threats to society.
This is not universal, there obviously was the Cold War and the looming nuclear destruction and this is mostly a western, often privileged white perspective, but still an influence on pop culture, memes, satire and humor.
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder,
Assuming Gen X to be from 1960 to 1980, and that the post-war boom ends with the 1973 first oil crisis, I don't really see how Xers would have lived through it.
Their first years fell into relative wealth due to an economic boom in the 50s and 60s.
I guess it is a superposition of both.
Current stage in life setting the general tone/direction (edgy young, sense-searching youth, family-focused middle age, backwards-directed old).
And the time of upbringing determines the content to focus on and the specific type of execution (e.g. when reaching the "old" group some time soon, I will probably bitch about completely other things than current boomers and my memes will be more high-quality due to better skills, but I won't be doing TikToks...)
I'm millennial and I love both Gen X and Z humour. Millennial humour just makes me depressed. Boomer humour makes me uncomfortable
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.
Boomers are how their better than you
Gen X is dad jokes
Millennials is life sux
Gen z is absurdist like HONSE
~~Juan's been around since before gen z could speak. That one's millenial humor that gen z adopted and extrapolated.~~
Looks like it popped up in 2015, so not as old as I remember. ~~Still can be argued that it's too old to be gen z meme.~~ the meme juan was 2020, though, and originally posted to Instagram, so it's genz
Every time I see this I think about what a nice antenna that is.
That is indeed a nice antenna. But why horse need antenna? What horse watch??
News. They juan to stay informed.
Mr. Ed.
Hay
Pippi Longstocking's horse
I like how this just skips x
We never seem to skip the bit where a gen Xer points out genX erasure.
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
67 is still around. Skibidi toilet is just about dead. Not sure if there's much else.
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.
monty python were boomer humor. there's not a lot of air between "honse" and "the fish slapping dance"
That was British humor specifically.
See Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett for more. Even Rowan Atkinson.
Okay, I guess they were all boomers, but still!
Monty Python is timeless humour.
You SAY that, but I don't see anyone trading manuscripts on FTP sites like it's 1995.
Is it not? What is it then? I don't think it's loss.
My comment explains what it is after explaining what it is not, in a single sentence.
Prince. listening to it now
Can someone explain Gen Z? I don't understand
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This predates most of gen z's existence
The "Gen Z" humor is like modern art. The banana taped to wall kind of art.
Horizontally Rotating Rat
Halo 3 rat
Juan, but green and small