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OK this is my list. But first, I need to say that this isn’t a condemnation of those into such thing. They just don’t vibe with me.
- Cannot get into ASMR. I’ve tried. Often its women 20 years younger than me, rubbing their fingernails on hairbrushes. The intentional sounds they make with their lips and fingers are things that would make me want to change seats on a bus.
- Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I’m just fully lazy to take photos of stuff. This is a real issue when I’m single and I need to start putting photos on dating sites, as all pics of me in my phone are me squeezing carrots in my nostrils and similarly goofy things.
- My students’ taste in anime. I try to be all cool and show off my cool taste in anime, maybe drop a Azumanga Daioh clip. It’s all ancient history for 17 year olds.
- Photo and videos done in portrait mode. I guess I don’t watch videos on the go. See #2
Things that the kids these days do better:
- Usually better opinions on current events than people my age
- I wish that cosplay existed when I was a teen. The default when I was younger was drugs.
If anyone insults the kids, I will visit you at your home and do an 
This is what’s said about every young generation. I don’t mean to rain on your parade or anything, but young people being more progressive than previous generations has been a staple of the US since at least the 1950s. Boomers were at one point considered radicals who threatened to overthrow all of society. It’s what got said about Gen X too and Millennials.
Progressive young people tend to either acclimate or die off, but we still gotta have hope. I really hope younger folk can get it together and decide on a better future.
On the other hand, a lot of my millennial friends from high school didn’t really give a shit about politics back then. Now, nearly all of them are leftist. And if not, progressive lib at the least. Maybe that’s just 20 years of me feeding them a steady stream of propaganda, but I think especially Bernie and all the shit that came after has pushed folks in my circle left.
AFAIK this has mostly always been way overhyped. Like hippies and flower children and the counter culture had a massive cultural impact, but their actual numbers relative to the population were tiny. Likewise, seeing how many Gen X turned out to be boomer chuds, I finally just last year realized why all the good music in the 90s was on radio channels called “Alternative”. The Millenials are turning out to be a lot more right wing than anyone thought, too.
Oh yeah I know. Honestly I think the image some people try to present of gen z as an entirely revolutionary generation because some people shitpost about guillotines is kinda embarrassing