>>2602627Millennial boomer here. (Week 1 4chan opening 2003, Gaia Online before that, before that just random phpBB forums, before that Usenet, so a lot of experience with online communities).
Issue with Zoomers is they grew up largely online, during the peak of woke which made them all super thin skinned little fucking groupthink narcs who go running to the mods anytime they see a nono thought (look at the state of leftypol and its beyond shit tier eggshells tier moderation today), A lot of the woke shit they gobbled down was largely just out of context Tumblr bullshit they interpreted in the worst and most insufferable way which became a large part of Zoomer culture (example: Millennials complaining about grooming gangs where 25-30 year olds would hang out at high school for their 16 year old girlfriends became "if you are 27 and have a 24 year old girlfriend you're a paedophile"), Covid absolutely fucked zoomers entrance into the real world and socialization, they spent much of their University years in lockdown and doing everything remote leading to more focus on online trends rather than real world ones, being terminally online and terminally Tumblr brained and hyper-politicization led to youth subcultures being replaced with online political activism. This is why Zoomers are also the most culturally sterile generation of the modern age, there are no meaningful Zoomer genres, no meaningful zoomer artists, no meaningful zoomer scenes, no meaningful zoomer music etc because it all got replaced with dogshit political takes and LARPing.
Also just for me, they are the single most annoying generation online (though it might be alphas as well), they are pathologically snarky and bad faith, they can't take any fucking criticism, they can't stand people having different opinions than them, they project like crazy and have no fucking critical thinking skills, the terrible socialization and lack of experience in the real world is way more than it was with us Millennials. I had friends straight out of highschool into Government and Corporate careers (College/Uni was less of a thing in the early 2000s), Zoomers are in their mid to late 20s and still act and talk like they are fucking teenagers in high school and have no understanding how normal people actually think or act. They're doing teenage LARPing of being an adult rather than being an adult. This
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