Gen X: The Generation That Never Existed

ha at “ok edgelord”

i would find being called "karen" by a gen zer deeply funny so i'm in favor of it

im related to two boomer karen’s, this nameshamegame is obviously lame, get back in your lane shitstains.

for this Gen-Z-er, the name is permanently linked to the spoken-word bridge of "Steal My Sunshine"

or no wait i'm a millennial, i forgot again

Apostrphe

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

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.

Except the song is for Karen Carpenter.

http://static-cms.legacy.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero_detail/public/karen-carpenter-getty-hero_0.jpg

lol, suzy beat me to it

Lol, I'm aware of that

karen carpenter: famous to boomers, known to xers, unknown to millennials, mark of shame to zers

Fight this generation

ok imaginary generation

it's funny how all these descriptions are basically describing the same type of upper middle class white person at different ages hmmm

haha yeah this isn't a generational thing, it's a demographic thing

age is a demographic

age groups are demographics would be what i was meaning there

ok it's a non-age-specific demographic thing

lots of defensive boomers light in itt

ok zoomer

it's naht a zoomah

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.

whatever KAREN

Go to the pub, TH.

ok zoomer

― pomenitul, Friday, November 15, 2019 10:45 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i wish i was this young

suzy i have been shanghaied into.... requirements which from which i hope to soon disentangle myself, don’t judge me

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.

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

lotsa ageism in this conversation
maligning the old for being their age isn't any more acceptable than maligning the young

look if you're gonna call me Karen, i'm gonna call you Caleb

Ok Brayden

like that's rude
i 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

deeply racist against a certain sino-tibetan language-speaking group resident near the thailand-myanmar border

a broad generational smear is an ageist smear by nature isn't it?

no offense but i'm not taking any of this at all seriously fwiw, that's the genx way

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

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.

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

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

as in they secretly want to fuck Karen or ...?

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.

"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.

lol

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

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.

orbit it’s situations like that which are how you know you’re a grownup iirc. there is no way you can win. i was carrying an umbrella a couple of years ago, because it was raining, and a high schooler walked by me and smirked “nice umbrella” and immediately died laughing with his friend.

it was not a my little pony umbrella case you were wondering

i keep that one for special occasions