Are you a millennial or a boomer trying to understand the younger generation? It can be tough—Gen Z is a distinct, tech-savvy age group with its own unique set of likes, dislikes, and habits. From how they interact on social media to the types of jobs they want, there are many differences compared to millennials. In this blog post, we’ll take an in-depth look at the generation gap between Gen Z and Millennials so you can better understand.
1. Hot sweatshirts in summer
One user shared a post, “I’m Gen x and I want to know why Gen Z wears these hot hoodies in the summer.”
Another replied: “I’m insecure about my body, so I cover up at all costs.”
A third user added: “Being insecure about my body and appearance is one of my only regrets. Youth is a beautiful time, emptiness. Confidence is beautiful AND ageless. I was also insecure. I felt fat and ugly compared to my peers. I don’t remember ever wearing anything smaller than a 13, but I was actually athletic. I worked out and rode horses all the time and I was curvy! What I thought was beauty in my girlfriends was actually skillful makeup and hairspray. I compare myself to my peers when I shouldn’t be comparing myself to anyone. Here are some tips…..pretend you are a time traveler and have managed to turn back the clock to 2022. You can start right now to build the best version of your future self. Stop comparing yourself to others and see the untapped potential you have.”
2. They got the awkward phase
One Redditor posted, “Why does everyone seem to skip the hard phase? It’s like they came out of elementary school knowing how to coordinate clothes and drink Starbucks.”
Another added, “Personally, I think it’s mostly younger Gen Z, the ones coming out of elementary school after the rise of TikTok. I’m in Gen Z and we don’t look anything like high schoolers now.”
One Gen Z user responded, “Because to learn about style before, you had to have your parents buy you magazines or your own money to buy the magazines and then you also needed the money to buy the clothes and transportation to the mall centre. Now style videos are easy to find and clothes can be delivered to the home, and I think parents are less judgmental about what their kids wear.”
3. Where are the Gen Z celebrities?
One user posted, “Where are all the Gen Z celebrities? Other than Tom Holland and Zendaya, I can’t think of a leading man or woman in Hollywood in their 20s. Ryan Gosling plays Ken in the Barbie movie and he’s 41 years old.”
Another responded: “A lot of older celebrities are getting roles that actors never got their age. It was a really big deal. The number of actors doing action films or other typically young roles in their late 40s and 50s is amazing.”
4. Beautiful hair
One user shared, “How do all these young guys get their hair to look like this? This is super right now. Are they going out to get perms?’ One confirmed, “A recent visit to the haircut and a chat with the hairdresser confirmed this. Perms are popular right now, apparently.”
Another user asked: “It’s so weird. I’m 30 and the class clown in my seventh grade class got a perm to be funny. Who would have thought that 18 years later, it would be nice.”
A third added, “Decades ago, I was working with drywall. My hair was longer and had a nice curl. A man one day asked me why I spent so much time doing my hair in the morning, and he thought I had a perm…. I couldn’t stop laughing. I was like dude I just got up… and came to work.”
5. Unusual humor
One user posted, “Boomer humor: ‘I hate my wife.’ Gen X Humor: “I hate everybody.” Millennial Humor: “I hate my life.” Gen Z humor: “lemn”.
Another added, “Gen Z humor: ‘waltuh.’
One user added, “They have a really weird and weird sense of humor… like it’s hard to articulate what it is. it’s just… but is it accurate enough?’
Another replied, “It’s chaotic and can’t be explained. Every time I see zoomed stuff I feel like an old man who knows about typewriters being taught StarCraft.”
6. Internal slang words
One Redditor posted: “I see a lot of dark absurdist humor as folklore. It’s hard to describe.”
One advised, “My Gen Z kid tells me, to get his humor you have to go with it, because one thing will be mentioned over and over and over until it’s unrecognizable to anyone who wasn’t there to begin with. , but if you know, you know. You know what I mean; Disclaimer: That’s just how I understood it. Interpreting what he says can be difficult at times…
“Edit 3 days later: Dude! I found the perfect example. You know the meme where the woman yells at the cat on the table while her boyfriend tries to pull her away? The cat is Mudge. But, I saw a sticker on a car today. It was just Smudge’s head from the meme. I pointed this out to my son and we both burst out laughing. my husband asked [what] it was so funny, and we both said, “It’s a smudge!” My husband didn’t get it. The funniest, greatest thing was seeing the cat where we didn’t expect it.”
7. Brainstorming video games are a Gen Z hobby
One user shared: “Why do some of them act like they were a pioneer of the social media boom/influencer or look at me surprised because I have Snapchat etc even though a lot of it came out when millennials like me were in their early twenties of the 20th and [we are] core demographics’.
Another replied, “After adding Gen Zers [are] surprised to meet a 30+ year old in a video game. Like, we were literally playing video games before you were born.”
Another user commented, “”Wow, you’re over 30 and know what video games are?” Do you kids think video games fall from trees? Who do you think is making them, the Fortnite fairy?”
“Um, I work with ‘the young’ and I get this all the time. ‘Do you even know what anime/sonic/insert generic throwback band is??? Like [honey] I am doing you???” one commenter replied.
8. Vintage Is New Again
One user posted: “This is hilarious. I have a niece who is in high school and her friends and others think they have it all figured out. They look at me strangely when I talk about apps or clothing trends or talk about a certain song they’re listening to. What always makes me laugh is when they play a song and I start singing along, and everyone is surprised… Like a lot of old Drake songs. This guy blew up when I was in high school. I know a lot of his old music, but they don’t understand.
“A lot of kids are wearing Kappa tracksuits where I am. This is what I wore in 7th and 8th grade,” added another, “ironically, it seems like a mistake young and old alike make is thinking 20 years ago was the 80s, not 2002.”
One commenter agreed, “I can confirm, my niece and I are 10 years apart and we both think 20 years ago was 1980.”
9. Laughs at “Xennial”
One user shared, “Laughing at ‘Xennial’.
Another user added, “We stopped using that term when zooms became annoying. now we’re just “big millennials.”
A third added: “As much as my 1978 self wants to claim Gen X (and I’ll die on that hill), I have more in common with the older millennials than the older Xers.”
10. Ad-tolerant and continuous monitoring
One Redditor shared, “How incredibly ad tolerant they are and constantly being watched.”
“To be fair, though, the amount of advertising we’ve consumed through commercials in the cable straw age probably tips the scales. It’s just been a solid decade of ad reduction when streaming first got big,” another replied.
One commenter responded, “That’s a fair point. I hadn’t thought of it that way. Although I would still say that, unlike ads back then, ads today track you and are much more annoying because there are attempts to block services until you watch their ads.”
Source: Reddit.
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