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In reply to the discussion: Any Millennials on DU? [View all]Celerity
(54,357 posts)subjects. I have pushed back on it for the 5 years I have been on DU. I Some if it was simply blatant trashing of us (I say us as I am now 26yo, a 'last 3 months of the Millennial birth years' born Zillennial cusper). I have had many in my age cohort (18-32) who I introduced DU to refuse to stay and contribute here due to it. It often came from Boomers, but certainly was not limited to them.
Ironically I now see the younger (mostly 2001/2002 and later born) Gen Zers acting like the worst of the Boomers (in terms of attacking Millennials, especially the older Millennials) on other, non DU (of course) social media sites, especially TikTok, Snapchat, and Reddit, etc. This all really kicked off in the past 5 years or so. The Reddit 'gens' forums can just be a true cesspool of this shit.
To go full 'age horseshoe theory' on it, I have, at times, even seen Boomers play tagalong to the ratpacking Gen Zers when they play Millennial kickabout. In fact, some Boomers have been exposed as cosplaying/catfishing as Gen Zers just to have a crack. Saw that multiple times on Reddit especially.