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Gen Z culture is not wanting to self diagnose in case you invalidate someone with a properly diagnosed mental disorder, but knowing that there is something very wrong with your mind.

Gen Z culture is feeling like your about to cry from the stress of school and responding to yourself “nope can’t cry don’t got the time for an emotional breakdown”

Gen Z culture is not wanting to self diagnose in case you invalidate someone with a properly diagnosed mental disorder, but knowing that there is something very wrong with your mind.

OMG, me with kids in my class

*kids muttering*

*kid suddenly jumps up, walks away, and then turns dramatically*

“HOW THE F U C K DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO KURT COBAIN IS?!?!”

We played kahoot in some of our lessons today and here are some of the names:

Hugh Jass

Barrymcockiner

Phil Mcrack

The Tsars

ih8artschool

Mo Lester

JFK

The CIA killed JFK

Jenna Tolls

Franz Ferdinand

Stalin

OUR money

Caecilius

Quintus

Modestus🤡

Mike oxlong

Lee Harvey Oswa

BJ vs JC

Break a leg

I finally got my yearbook for the 2018-2019 year so here are some of the top senior quotes from that (I apologize in advance for my android camera quality)

Being Gen Z on the internet means posting something condemning the social-political landscape of today’s world and yet another war then scrolling down two posts to a see a Shrek pregnancy meme and sending it to a friend all within 1 minute of each other

Imagine being scared of something as a kid only to realize how stupid it was like what even was the ghost in the radiator video??

The best thing about being from gen z is when one kid starts quoting a vine and then the rest join in kinda like a cult and the adults around them look terrified and confused

ive said this like 4 or 5 times irl, maybe twice online, and it's been recieved VERY positively so far, everytime; so i assume it's a good rule of thumb on how to tell if youre a millenial or gen z

also i admit, this rule of thumb MIGHT(?) be American only?? bc it relies, via implicatipn, on some of the nationalistic/patriotic propaganda. idk how heavy those sentiments are for one's own home-country when said home-country is not a territory within the USA. so if such applies to you, great! well. not "great"-great, bc it actually sucks to experience that as your overall enviroment. but like. you get to join in too. that's what i mean lol

anyway. people who were born at the fringes of baby-millenial/elder-gen-z-er/zillenial/whatever, here's my pitch to you on "what side are you on":

if you grew up, feeling like you were decieved on how [the world/your home-country/the economy/etc] works?? like you feel like kid you had so many hopes be dashed as things "became unveiled" as it were?? millenial

versus: if you grew up seeing [the world/your home-country/the economy/etc] works with a reluctant or despairing "ahh... so this is how things are", not feeling lied to at all, but rather just like you are old enough to be observant of "the truth" and that younger-you was just unaware?? gen z

if you're somehow both (which is a response i have not heard irl or online yet when i broached this, but is one i statistically know could happen), you're either a 50/50 "zillenial" or you pick the majority-experience you most identify with. so, if you want to say you grew up 75% "ahh... so this is how things are" and 25% feeling decieved by the adults/culture around you?? you can do a joke about "i am a gen z sun-sign with a millenial moon" zodiac oooorrr just say you're a gen z in that example. whatever. there's no rules lmao

which means, yeah, you can be a 2000-millenial with a 1996-gen-z best friend, sure. hell, it means people you share/d classrooms with are also probably a mixed bag of gen-z-ers and millenials. my big brother is a millenial (he is not in the fringes) and my littlest sister is a gen z member (also not in the fringes), and id consider myself (a '97 baby 🤡) a member of gen z. meanwhile, my little sister (the who IS with me on being in the fringes) is debating it still and most of these days is leaning millenial(? could be subject to change). whatever. it happens

bc baby-millenials and elder-gen-z-ers are both at the blurry (fringes) area and sometimes people were parented differently, some towns in some states had odd climates, sometimes people processed things differently, it's okay if we don't make a ton of sense

it's just those two items tend to be kind of the core of a millenial or gen-z-er (from the USA), so that's how i personally vote the shift be made. very choose-your-own adventure but with a dash of some ✨️guidance✨️ so youre not lost in the woods, so to speak, like, you now know where north is (or what i say north is, bc again, idk how "universal" this is outside of the USA) but whatever lol

just wanted to share in case it continues to be a helpful lil guide for people to decide how they feel

Kinda hate what lockdown and TikTok did to people. And I don’t mean to come off as one of those people who are like “blah blah phones are the root of all your problems!! Ride a bike” but like our generation is so hyper aware of how they are perceived bc of the obsession with cringe culture. Even if you say “cringe is free” or whatever you’re still aware of how you’re being perceived and it creates this weird paradox where you’re trying to convince yourself and others you’ve stopped caring but we all still do. And I’m not saying that this has never existed before now but it’s just that it’s become so much more prevalent. it ties into the whole obsession with labels, why do we need to label every aspect of ourselves?? Labels exist to put you in a box, why are we curating our entire lives to fit a label?

It’s caused people to not be able to think for themselves anymore, they’re just kinda running with what the masses are saying without even doing their own research and then repeating what they’ve heard without actually knowing what they’re talking about. Making so many people loose they’re critical thinking skills, which then just creates so much hostility because people will see one small POSSIBLE fault and run with it without looking at x,y and z that actually contradicts their point.

There’s probably so much more that can be said on this but these specific things are what really stuck out to me. It’s genuinely been bugging me for years now.

You know what is insulting

Im on snapchat watching all the stories on gun violence. I tap right after I read most powerful signs at the protests. When I click I get an add that says “To my generation” I click to skip it, but then I think no, how are they going to change advertising to generation Z 

“To my generation, try amazon teen,” they then go into how you can use your parents prime fine whatever. Its what they say next, they don’t tell me what I can get, they don’t tell how it is better for me to use like they do in every other commercial. They tell us “I use it and it’s lit”. IT’S LIT. What no one uses that any more anyways. There is nothing more insulting to be able to organize protest and yet they still advertise with “lit”. Advertisers if you need to advertise to teens now fine I get it, but heres some advise look at us again and look what we are doing. Then when you see it change how you do it.

PETER PARKER IS GEN Z

Don’t take him from us, we have so little

i can’t wait to see the fucked up generation we’ll become. how is Covid going to effect students in the coming years? for me and the class of 2022, ik we will suffer. not only have we dealt with mass shootings, watching our classmates die because lawmakers don’t take gun laws seriously now we are watching our classmates die from disease that could’ve been lessened if the government had taken it seriously. additionally, how will spending kids formative years social distancing, quarantined, amd majorly online, especially after hearing how dangerous and awful the internet is all our life, impact this generation.

and how will hearing of tgis climate crisis that our lawmakers deny, and knowing that our world will become unrecognizable and could possibly end in our lifetime, impact us? it’s unfair. everything is unfair. me and fellow students deserve better. i weep for both my generation and any coming after us.

I've been hearing a lot of "gen alpha can't read cause they're iPad kids."

But like are we asking them what they *can* do?

Or how *they're* feeling even?

I distinctly remember adults when I was a kid saying we'd all be "brain dead" because of tv or texting or the Internet or some shit. And we couldn't defend ourselves cause we were literally children.

It's like this every time.

And every time each generation has to prove they're worthy of adulthood.

And this gen isn't even all in middle school yet and y'all are calling them failures right in front of their faces. It's not ganna help. If anything it'll make this much much worse.

I'm a Gen Z (well I'm in the transitional area between millennial and Z but most millennials tell me I'm gen z so fine.) I have gen alpha kids. And a lot of them (classmates and the like) are anxious asf about the world.

I wonder if they're putting up a tough front to keep the only control they have in the world as children.

Or living free before they have to become the overworked adults they see in their lives.

Or ya know death by school shootings if they're in America.

Or idk die from a once in a century plague cause their parents won't let them get vaccinated.

Or maybe it's something we could never describe or understand since we're not in that position.

Honestly every commentator I've seen on this topic hasn't asked a child how they literally feel. Like you don't have to put them on camera obviously (maybe don't actually for their safety) but like just ask? Or find ways to ask, kids can be shy about their true feelings sometimes. Especially if we keep pretending like we know them.

Teachers are over worked, parents are over worked. But haven't they always been? (Maybe we should actually do something about that? Like a lot have already been saying, but like actually do it? Maybe baby sit your friend's kid or go to the grocery store with them to help chaperone them? And try and do it for them for free, I get it if you can't but those who can should. I'm also not saying your should steal baby supplies, I'd never say that, I'd also never say to just steal food and hand them out, or to steal teaching and school supplies and just give em away or anything of course not! And I wish I could put the proper tone marks on this but for legal purposes I am being sarcastic.)

And doesn't each generation come with more problems or perceived problems because that's life? We're always going to find something wrong with the younger generation, we're constantly evolving and we're constantly looking for ways how.

Last thing.

What is intelligence?

Is it *really* being able to read?

Is it *really* scoring high on tests for studies?

Didn't we *just* talk about how standardised tests are wild and are often not very good at displaying what kids can actually do? Or are often hard to grade because of lack of staffing? Something something Pearson? Something something my history text book was older than me something something "Bill Clinton the president everyone is looking forward to!" Written on the back page Something something coming home to see late night TV making jokes about his shitty behaviour but making it more about the person who was literally harmed by this and making fun of her well into the 2000s..... (Oh has our education system and environment for kids always been kinda shitty? No way almost like it's a never ending battle.)

Have we truly figured out if the kids are alright?

Have they ever been?

Do we even know what that fucking means????

literally.

Gen Z culture is wanting to join protests, and change the world but you can't because of over protected parents that go through your phone twice a day

The Kids Aren't Alright

* ~ I'm sorry for making this ~ *

Doomers & Fatalism

Regardless of your age, you need a reason to move forward. You need hope. Yet, it's hard to find hope for teens and young adults.

Not a year goes by without an update on the planet's decline (at our hand), wealth is only feeling more unstable and unequally distributed, a pandemic destroyed any hope of sociability for some, and social media does more harm than good when it "connects" people.

There's no true community, nothing to take pride in, there's hardly motivation for ambition or wealth. Hell, we grow up being told we'll be a generation of renters, because it's a statistical improbability than any of us will EVER afford a home without working 3 jobs into our grave.

I can't speak for America, but I know my government haven't made any real effort to prevent renter's from taking that news and slowly inflating rent costs each month.

I'm a part of the generation that is thought to deal with the broadest range of mental health concerns; however, I'm also part of the generation that's most likely to be told to "deal with it," or "grow up," by the people perpetuating our suffering, or the peers that fell victim to toxic hustle culture— enabling the shitty circumstances.

When you start adulthood with so many problems that directly impact your life, most of which come at no fault of your own, you'd hope for help in addressing those matters, but it never comes.

We're told we're lazy, we don't try hard enough, and we've got it easy (which is a demonstrable lie). How is it any surprise we became hopeless doomers? At some point you just get the idea that we were destined to fail.

Threats of War

Now we're told to be ready for World War 3 and I'm struggling to understand why. What values am I defending? Why should I die for a country that doesn't care about me?

Sure, Ukraine and Palestine are in shitty situations, but saying that doesn't require me to do anything. Though they demonstrate something: the government will risk our lives for money, and turn a blind eye to genocide if it suits them.

All that matters is that we're made to feel like our interests align. They don't represent us. They represent themselves.

Don't get me wrong, I don't support either conflict, and I sympathise with the aforementioned nations; however, I am not willing to die for them— I don't think you are. So is it even fair for us to bother complaining? It's not like diplomacy has done a thing so far.

Whether we're roped into a war or not, it doesn't feel like we'd have a choice.

Hobbies and Corporations

Normally I'd propose finding an outlet for everything. I'm not sure that's ideal anymore. Commonplace hobbies like gaming, sports, martial arts, reading, and art, they require 3 things: time, motivation, and effort.

Thanks to hustle culture, holding 3 jobs, running a drop shipping business, and abandoning any meaningful social life is considered just enough and reasonable. That doesn't leave time for personal hobbies, entertainment, or time to actually live. A life like that is no life at all. You're an animal operating on the exclusive goal of survival. You're alive, but you're not living.

Among those of us too physically or mentally scarred to work like our peers, we compassionately took to pen and paper, or software and devices, writing stories, drawing and animating worlds, or making music.

I fear that pocket of joy is getting smaller. AI image generation has already impacted artists, AI voice recreations are already being used in place of some voice actors, and we've all seen the AI voice covers for songs— claiming "you don't need to learn to sing." It didn't take long for me to see "generative AI" being proposed as a source for track samples and stems in music production.

Considering such things, it's hard to motivate yourself to put your work out there. You struggle to justify spending time creating anything, and you're probably not ready to put the effort into producing enough algorithm optimised works per day. After all, no one will see it. No one cares.

That's how it feels.

Social Media

Maybe we still have digital spaces? Really. Are cespools like Twitter spaces you can enjoy? Even Tumblr is quite detached, with small accounts struggling to get so much as a couple likes— nevermind a reblog, and god forbid you get a comment or DM.

That's minor though, it's the relationships that bother me. The ability to lock someone out of your life, within 5 seconds, for the slightest of perceived infractions. You're sensitive and a snowflake if you need boundaries, and you're "rude" and "mean" when you're pushed too far for not establishing them.

You can join a fandom or community and run into those issues, but do you really need more trouble? Ive hung around with furries since I was 13 or 14. It wasn't a furry that SA'd me, and I've never been groomed. But as a child online, I was labelled as a dog fucking groomer (at 15), because I was in a furry community discord server. I don't like to think about how that made the young adult owner of the server feel.

Social media is good for "satirical trolls," who take pleasure in hurting as many people as they can, and then claiming it's OK because they're joking, and you should've known. Is it really worth the effort for anyone else? You know, us "normal people," not bogged down by million strong fanbases, actively managing parasocial relationships and morally questionable stalking.

Closing Statements

I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this post. I guess I'm just another girl crying on the internet when I should save it for the therapy I can't actually afford.

I want to be hopeful, to feel like there's something attainable to desire, or even just things to look forward to. It's been a long time since I woke up and felt there was a good reason to be awake or even alive.

Thanks,

- The Girl That Doesn't Exist

Ya we do

i’m so proud of our generation but so horrified that we even have to do this