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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 73 points 5 days ago (33 children)

I think Zoomers need a generational divide in their generation, tbh. In my experience, older Zoomers are intelligent, capable, motivated, and largely leftist. For some unknown reason though, younger Zoomers are ignorant, prudish, too easily contented, and weirdly conservative. I have yet to understand what happened to cause the divide, and I can't point to any stats or evidence to support this belief, but anecdotally I have noticed this trend within my own life and spheres of influence.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Nah tik tok is plagueing everybody but maybe the younger kids just grew up with it even more

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe the younger ones still elastic brains were just too vulnerable

E: Usenet, irc, forums etc were like an early training ground hardening us against the purveyors of bullshit. When bullshit became the business of billionaire corporations online we were ready for it. They never had a chance...

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Usenet, irc, forums etc were like an early training ground hardening us against the purveyors of bullshit. When bullshit became the business of billionaire corporations online we were ready for it. They never had a chance…

I think there is a lot to this. One of the big divides I've noticed is that these younger zoomers seems to conflate what is socially acceptable with what is advertiser-friendly, and I have to assume a lot of that comes from growing up in these heavily corporate-controlled spaces in comparison to the "wild west" of the internet that raised us.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 10 points 5 days ago

Millennials overall are pretty bullshit proof. They didn’t call us the why generation for nothing.

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