The current state of generational attitudes towards the Zoomers

[LonePirate]

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Dylan Wilbanks, Social Distancing Human Grumpy Cat @dylanw

Boomers: You lousy Zoomers can’t do anything
Millennials: You’re just TikTok and even more crushing financial dislocation
Gen X: Show em what you got, kids
Zoomers: (weaponize K-Pop stans to destroy a Trump rally)
Gen X: I love my kids

No offense intended towards my fellow Boomer and Millennial DUers. Just a Gen Xer showing some appreciation to the Zoomers.

[exboyfil]

1. I'm a boomer with zoomer kids

Love them. My greatest joy is taking long walks with them.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. I missed the memo on the name of this group

these are people born when?

[ansible]

3. Boomers, old people born before the 1980s

Millennial, old people born from 1980s to 90s, still remember 9/11
Zoomers, born from 2000s onwards, no memories at all of 9/11 and have never known what the world was like before the internet

NOTE: Zoomers think that everyone born before the 2000s are boomers, even millennials are boomers to them.

[brer cat]

7. You combined two generations

which makes my daughter the same generation as me. Boomers ended in 1964; 1965-1979 is Generation X.

[xmas74]

9. I think it was intentional.

Maybe it's alluding to the CBS News graph that forgot to list Gen X.

[CountAllVotes]

4. Smart group of kids!

Go smart group of kids!

We love you!!!

[peggysue2]

5. Gotta give it up to the kids on this one!

That was a massive, beautiful piece of trolling. You made a lot of Boomers smile their asses off. Kudos!

[elias7]

6. I am so F***ing sick of stereotypes and labels

It’s like a corollary to the “there’s two types of people in the world” commentators. This need knows no generational bounds.

In every generation, you have the whole broad bell curvy swath of any duality you want to consider - doers and non-doers, financially dependent and financially independent, cheerleaders and haters, right and left, tech savvy and not-so-savvy.

Why can’t we leave the gross oversimplification sand pigeon-holing to the simple minded who need to think in such terms? Defining and confining someone by the generation they were born in is just as absurd as defining people by gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Of course, if you’re into the whole demographic thing, in which case, I feel sorry for your need to categorize.

Consider a deeply red state such as Kentucky which went 67% to 33% for Trump, 1 out of 3 voters you’ll meet voted Dem.

[xmas74]

8. I'm an Xer with a Zoomer kid.

She cracks me up sometimes.