gen z aren't millennials
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
If I'm a boomer, they are millennials, case closed. Now get off my lawn!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
ha at “ok edgelord”
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
i would find being called "karen" by a gen zer deeply funny so i'm in favor of it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
im related to two boomer karen’s, this nameshamegame is obviously lame, get back in your lane shitstains.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
for this Gen-Z-er, the name is permanently linked to the spoken-word bridge of "Steal My Sunshine"
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
or no wait i'm a millennial, i forgot again
Apostrphe
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
I know we been saying ok boomer but y’all can’t let Gen X get away with dumb shit either. They probably still hate gay people, are the generation where Karen’s exist, the ones who got mad about the Starbucks Xmas cup, and buy dumb shit like Hot Wheels edition Camaros lmao— Edwin Mezantino (@mezzizle) November 6, 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
I was going to point to Tunic (Song For Karen) as exhibit A in Gen X's embrace of Karens, only to learn that Kim Gordon is very much a Boomer.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Except the song is for Karen Carpenter.
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
http://static-cms.legacy.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero_detail/public/karen-carpenter-getty-hero_0.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
lol, suzy beat me to it
Lol, I'm aware of that
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
karen carpenter: famous to boomers, known to xers, unknown to millennials, mark of shame to zers
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Fight this generation
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
ok imaginary generation
― maffew12, Friday, 15 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
it's funny how all these descriptions are basically describing the same type of upper middle class white person at different ages hmmm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
haha yeah this isn't a generational thing, it's a demographic thing
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
age is a demographic
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
age groups are demographics would be what i was meaning there
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
ok it's a non-age-specific demographic thing
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
lots of defensive boomers light in itt
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
ok zoomer
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 November 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
it's naht a zoomah
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Lol, this whole Karen thing comes down to young people being unable to differentiate anyone over the age of 40 or describe them as anything other than old.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
whatever KAREN
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Go to the pub, TH.
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Friday, November 15, 2019 10:45 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i wish i was this young
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
suzy i have been shanghaied into.... requirements which from which i hope to soon disentangle myself, don’t judge me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
standard retort to a youngin trying to use "lol u old" as an insult: Some day you'll be old like me, but there'll never be a day where I'm as dumb as you.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I just want to state that I find the idea of allegedly woke young people calling me "Karen" so painfully on-brand with the baseline myopia and racism of humanity that I can't really do much more than sigh
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
lotsa ageism in this conversation maligning the old for being their age isn't any more acceptable than maligning the young
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
look if you're gonna call me Karen, i'm gonna call you Caleb
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Ok Brayden
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
like that's rudei would never say that
this infighting is getting me down tbh
but I don't think it's "for being their age"; the generational signifier is shorthand for an objectionable perspective/attitude
― jaymc, Friday, 15 November 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
deeply racist against a certain sino-tibetan language-speaking group resident near the thailand-myanmar border
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 November 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
a broad generational smear is an ageist smear by nature isn't it?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
no offense but i'm not taking any of this at all seriously fwiw, that's the genx way
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
i was reading something in the ft a while back and it mentioned that intergenerational inequality (of the type "when my parents were my age they had x and y and i have a and b, i'll never have x and y") is actually felt more keenly by young people than contemporary inequality. i will never snipe at younger generations for their resentment of me, in 30 years time people will be thinking "fuck you you entitled millennial" and they will be right, because their lot will be even worse, and my generation has been almost as complacent as the ones that came before
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
honestly, young people have many more years of life ahead of them than I do, so, there's that. If they want to resent the fact that I (and my generation) had way less student loan debt than they do, they are welcome to it, but I can resent the fact that fewer of their peers are dying or dead.
― sarahell, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah sure but if they want to do so by calling me the name of the woman calling the cops on me, I reserve the right to throw some ‘bows
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
On December 7th, 2017, the subreddit /r/FuckYouKaren[1] was created, and has over 57,000 subscribers as of December 27th, 2018. The subreddit is devoted to mocking the character in jokes that characterize "Karen" as annoying.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen#fn1
― soref, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
as in they secretly want to fuck Karen or ...?
― sarahell, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
lol a bunch of middle schoolers called me Karen repeatedly the other week. I stopped them from destroying school property and risking their safety by jumping off our shipping container onto our equipment which they were breaking. SUCH a buzzkill.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
"That's school property and you can't be here. I'm gonna need you guys to get down from there and go home now."
"Okay, KAREN. Fine, KAREN. Whatever you say, KAREN."
I should have taken a pic and showed it to every principal in the district.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
lol
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
it is, of course, not a coincidence that the symbol of ease and evil that everyone is okay using as a whipping post just happens to be a woman and the hate-it-because-i-can't-be-it unattainable alpha character is a guy named chad
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
There's a grim appeal to "well if you're gonna call me Karen, I'm gonna be the Karen-est Karen who ever Karen-ed" that I don't know I'd be able to successfully resist.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link