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The tendrils of capitalism are tightening on literally everything to the point that the next generations adult lives will be radically different (for the worse) and somehow it's their fault.

The author literally cites just like 4 TikTok accounts and that’s all her evidence. One person on TikTok said “Gen Alpha is just so weird” and takes that as some truism (which, by the way, we had plenty of skibidi toilet type weird shit that grown ups didn’t understand when I was a kid). It’s like those articles that say “People are getting mad about XYZ”, and the article just says “It appears that a lot of people are upset about XYZ” and then it just gives 5 screen shots from random twitter users with 200 followers as “evidence”.

Lazy journalism at its finest. Didn’t know getting a job with the paper in the second largest market in the US was that easy.

Yes, yes Gen Alpha is already doomed, we know.

They're doomed because millennials waste all their money on avocado toast and Tide pods (which they eat).

2008? What happened then?

edit: I looked at the article, and it seriously demonizes literal small children and blames it on millennials.

Today’s average L.A. Unified fourth-grader spent half of kindergarten and the entirety of first grade at home, learning the foundations of reading on a Chromebook. By the time that same student returned to the classroom as a second-grader in August of 2021, they had effectively reached the end of formal phonics instruction.

that sounds like a major legitimate problem. should we organize any kind of societal response to remediate this problem?

no, we should quote anonymous complaints from reddit and move on.

The last six months have seen the rise of the newest Gen Alpha stereotype: the Sephora tween. These serum-obsessed 12-year-olds have been filmed plundering beauty stores — spoiling samples, terrorizing grown-up shoppers and hoarding expensive products formulated for mature skin. [emphasis mine]

okay here it is. they always bury the lede. danged kids are buying up my danged face cream!

I got no hate for the new generation and new slang will always sound odd to the older generation. That being said, my nephew used 'skibidi' as a verb recently and it did cause some psychic damage.

Millennials are eternally doomed to be the "kids these days" of every conversation.

Really sticking out their gyatt for the rizzler on this one.

I will karate chop anyone I see putting down younger people knowing damn well how we were treated as "Millennials." First of all this shit is all made up second of all if younger people are struggling isn't that just a call to action rather than something to ridicule them for? SHUT THE FUCK UP

Like holy shit how dare you blame millennials for the mess boomers and gen X (and most importantly, capitalism) left us all with.

I can't even afford kids. No excuse for the terror.

lmao they still fucking hate Millenials so much. I wonder if it’s some kind of unconscious guilt thing. I mean Millenials have been basically the most inoffensive generation ever, all they’ve tried to do is advocate for milquetoast socialism and the idea that things should just be a bit nicer for everyone and they have got unrelenting hate for it from day one

And who raised the millenials?

Ok, Boomer.

I noticed that a lot of reactionary boomers are recruiting Zoomers to trash Millennials and literal babies. Age discourse has gotten so ridiculous.

Boomer

Listen up

Just from reading the title, I assumed they were lamenting the fact that social murder and climate catastrophe (a facet of the former) would ensure that gen alpha suffers brutally in life, but no, these media dropkicks are still whinging about "MUH MILLENIUELS!!!111!!1"

gen z and millennials need to form an alliance against the fucking xers and boomers, fuck those people they're basically the same generation, and Zs/Ms are pretty similar in values and material conditions ourselves

xennials choose ur side carefully this is war

To fall into generational discourse, which is propagated by the bourgeoisie to support the interests of the ruling class. This is a twelfth type of liberalism.