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Also big fan of when you see someone reference the literal worst content imaginable from the 2010s and the comments are full of zoomers saying "bro this was my CHILDHOOD"
No, bro. This was 5 years ago. If this was your childhood, you're still a child.
No, most of Gen Z already feels like old people. Capitalist enshittification literally aged us at lightning speed.
If you were the target audience for Paw Patrol or Poppy Playtime or Youtube Kids shit you're like at most 15. Literally a child. Capitalist enshittification and trauma don't make you an adult, this is the difference between maturing and aging. Your telomeres are shorter, you're not more mentally and emotionally mature because of it.
Paw Patrol or Poppy Playtime or whatever, sure, but early 2010’s stuff could have someone who was 11 watch them and now be 20. We are in 2024 now.
Yeah oldest gen z are in their mid 20s now
Oh joy. The oldest zoomers are having quarter life crises.
And the best part is with climate change it might actually be a mid life crisis
yeah good. i dont wanna be old
I don't get why people think that's a quarter life crisis, how many people live to 100? Average life expectancy is like 71. 35-year-olds are middle-aged. A quarter life crisis would happen in high school.
25 is a common time to have a crisis like that so its just a name people use to describe it I guess.
Watching cartoons doesn't bear on your emotional maturity. Cartoons are fun. Lots of them have a lot more to say than adult fiction. The running theory for a long time is that since cigar smoking men in suites with penthouse offices dismiss cartoons as toy commercials for children the writers have room to play they wouldn't get with "serious" television and that's why a show would sometimes shift from showing off the latest plastic junk to a moment of profound existential philosophy and back and when you're eight you just roll with that.
Sure, watching cartoons does not bear on your maturity. Being 15 years old absolutely does. Exactly 0 15-year-olds are as mature as the should be doing taxes or dating adults or forcing me to read their universally bad opinions online.
How are people misunderstanding me so badly? My point is very specifically that it's absurd to see posters acting like they have wizened and far off nostalgia for particularly terrible content made very recently for very small children. Kids have always wanted to act like they're all grown up, that's natural. But it should get a huge eyeroll when a child tries to act like their reminiscing about awful YouTube content from 2018 should have the same gravity as an elderly person reminiscing about iconic warner brothers cartoons they watched in the 1940s.
I watched cartoons as a kid and I still enjoy cartoons. I am not somehow anti-cartoon. I am anti-children-posting-bad-takes-online
FNAF was a thing when I was in 6th-7th grade. I’m 24 now lol
Stop making me feel old
didn't FNAF come out in 2014? If you're 24 now then you were 14 in 2014
6th or 7th grade is 13-14 year olds.
not in the US
Wait, I'm in the US. You start at 5 and by the time you're in 7th grade you're on your 8th year. That's 13
7th grade is 11-13 year olds. The youngest kids are 11 at the start of 7th grade, and the oldest kids are 13 in the second half of 7th grade. Everyone will be 12 years old at some point in 7th grade
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 is 7th grade
So I guess maybe technically 8th grade? I don’t know lol is been a long time
I mean "content from the 2010s" could mean a lot of things. Like someone who says "FNAF was my childhood" could be a 22 year old who played it as a 12 year old in 2014
Hell even something from 5 years ago could be a lot of people's childhood, an 18 year old remembers 2019 as a 13 year old