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Thinking about how Gen Zās woke politics/moral superiority complex have combined with our satirization epidemic and now you have to preface REASONABLE THINGS with ānot to be to be that friend thatās too woke butā¦ā so as to not get caught in any crossfire whatsoever.
Gen Z was raised on aesthetics and now wokeness and radicalism is just aesthetics instead of action and discomfort. I think we burnt ourselves out on 2020 woke policing and people have felt relief in recent years while realizing that you donāt have to be a perfect angel or so online discoursey all the time. But ITS GONE TOO FAR
Much of Gen Z are sardonic self infantilized meanies with a Moral Superiority Complex and unwilling to take any risks because itās all about self curation and presentation
Maybe Iām doing it now too with this post. But tbh we could really benefit from some social justice warrior shit rn. I need Real Men are Feminists shirts again
SAY WOKE SHIT. POLICE YOURSELF AND YOUR FRIENDS. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL
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irony and a lack of sincerity seems to be a big part of how a lot of gen z seems to operate. you have to be nonchalant, you can't be too excited about something because that's cringe, but when someone makes an account being cringe ironically that's funny, and this commitment to the bit is very important- this leads us to meta-irony. and I can't hate much, I've been known to laugh at these things too
the cynicism is, at least in the perspective of an american zoomer, due to the state of things in the country/planet. at my high school, we were encouraged to go to college in STEM fields because that's more financially stable but now people with those degrees can't find employment, and that's happening with every degree. entry level jobs are requiring experience- like buddy, you are the experience. and when you're working minimum wage after college outside of your field with student loan debt, you're watching the housing crisis and knowing you'll be a renter forever. and you're also watching the climate crisis and trying to enjoy the planet before you're swept up by a tornado or get dust pneumonia or get hit by a hurricane. and you're watching our current administration take us into authoritarianism and some people are even happy that they have a dictator now. scary and uncertain times lead to the level of cynicism that we have finally reached and I worry for the generations following ours, especially seeing how the alt-right has been exploiting the growing cynicism in our generation
Mar 21, 2025
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the social internet (and rapid, inescapable commercialization thereof) makes it so that you are what you consume, not what you do, not where you go, not who you spend your time with. before if you bought the clothes or the gear without doing it or without being in community, you were a poser. if you monetized or commercialized that interest and put those incentives over expression and connection, you were a sellout. but that doesnāt exist anymore ā democratization and anti-gatekeeping as both ideas and ends of an algorithm to maximize surface area for consumption have made it so that there isnāt a distinct authority on what you can attach to your identity or how you express yourself
but if the extent of our agency in a democratized landscape is to only to consume more instead of producing or connecting, or to produce only to commodify ourselves for money or internet points, then maybe itās a different kind of ābeing influenced by social trends rather than authentic interestā than going to a skate park, or an open mic, or a restaurant, or whatever because we heard about it somewhere and wanted to check it out, and de-centering the internet from what we see on it and how we engage with it is a way to make that healthier or more generative for ourselves, and can create beauty without immediately thinking about how to fit into a box along lines drawn by advertisers
Jan 15, 2025
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1- why is attractiveness politics at an all time high? punishing people for being 'ugly', undressed and unmakeup-ed. feel like this is common af amongst all the young people regardless of gender (this is def not a girls only issue). also. since when did being sexless mean you were evil and a soulfully rotten person?
2- ED culture is back in full swing and i don't even need to really explainnnn why it's so bad...we know its bad! but we lowkey don't care.
3- I can't even imagine growing up Indian these days. I know these kids have it way worse than when I was a child- which I didn't even know was possible. Maybe my tiktok algorithm is just trying to fearmonger me but idk...i'm seeing some crazy levels of hatred abuse and bullying...
4- why is everyone so cool with this uptick in freakdrug culture...like its an objective truth that you shouldn't recreationally do GHB (at all) or ketamine and coke every single day. you guys are getting dumb, weird, addicted and therefore irritable and suckish.
5- people are just..getting meaner in the name of coolness and cuntiness...
Mar 31, 2025
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Guyssse please donāt cancel me for this. That would be my 9/11
Apr 2, 2025
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And if they are then Tbh. Thatās their business not mine
Mar 29, 2025
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Just use it. Give away those stickers. Curl you hair with a sock. Cook with those canned beans. Make it work! Get a little creative and get comfortable with imperfection and impermanence
Mar 26, 2025