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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 theyre better than you
Gen X is dad jokes
Millennials is life sux
Gen z is absurdist like HONSE
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??
Mr. Ed.
Hay
Bojack Horseman
~~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
So much character growth in this post
Mostly fact-checking. I will absolutely still throw out wrong facts and find out minutes later that they're wrong.
Pippi Longstocking's horse
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.
It's not at its peak, but it is still alive. Perhaps not at their school though.
Wonder if it differs by coast
Things are still Ohio though, right?/millennial
GenX checking in, I have this image stored on my phone and just throw it at people for no good reason because it pleases me.
I don't know what it means. I don't think it means anything. Fits my worldview nicely.
HONSE
monty python were boomer humor. there's not a lot of air between "honse" and "the fish slapping dance"
You SAY that, but I don't see anyone trading manuscripts on FTP sites like it's 1995.
That was British humor specifically.
See Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett for more. Even Rowan Atkinson.
Okay, I guess they were all boomers, but still!
I like how this just skips x
We never seem to skip the bit where a gen Xer points out genX erasure.
Fuck The Boomers for... well, all of it.
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.
Ah thank you