Juan's been around since before gen z could speak. That one's millenial humor that gen z adopted and extrapolated.
Looks like it popped up in 2015, so not as old as I remember. Still can be argued that it's too old to be gen z meme. the meme juan was 2020, though, and originally posted to Instagram, so it's genz
While that has some truth to it, I wonder if it is based on some intrinsic properties of the respective generations, or rather just on their current age and stage in life.
E.g. GenX has been the dominant parent generation for the past 20 or so years. Naturally they are doing dad jokes.
While GenZ is young, experimental, and rebelling against the perceived conventions.
But I clearly remember a time when Millenials were as avant-garde as GenZ is now.
And my Millenial wife has been on the track to slowly convert to the slightly stupid but harmless GenX-type of humor for some time now.
So maybe within a few years your meme will be almost the same, with the only difference that the generation captions have each moved one place, with GenAlpha superseding GenZ in the lower right corner...
I do agree partially to your line of thinking. When I as a young millenial was the age of today's young to middle gen Z (~late teens to early twenties) peak humor were ten hour long loops of Nyan Cat, Epic Sax Guy/Gandalf or Cantina Band with a side of Cheezburger Cat memes. Weird shit from a 30-something year old perspective.
My siblings and I are telling Dad Jokes to my niece at every opportunity and I can imagine those are your dominant form of humor when you have your own kids taking over your whole life.
However, there is another component to it, displayed by an oversimplified, slightly sarcastic analysis:
Boomer humor: I hate my wife.
Millenial humor: I hate my life.
GenZ humor: E
Of course, GenX is forgotten in this but from my experience, there is some credence to and a reason behind this.
Over time, relationships not lasting forever, divorces and marrying later in life has become more accepted socially, so elder folks might more often be stuck in unhappy relationship than younger people.
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder, were less exposed to news and mostly had an overall more hopeful and positive expectations for life where Millennials grew up with the emergence of social media, more information available generally, being more exposed to crisis news and an increasing awareness about climate change and other threats to society.
This is not universal, there obviously was the Cold War and the looming nuclear destruction and this is mostly a western, often privileged white perspective, but still an influence on pop culture, memes, satire and humor.
Current stage in life setting the general tone/direction (edgy young, sense-searching youth, family-focused middle age, backwards-directed old).
And the time of upbringing determines the content to focus on and the specific type of execution (e.g. when reaching the "old" group some time soon, I will probably bitch about completely other things than current boomers and my memes will be more high-quality due to better skills, but I won't be doing TikToks...)
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder,
Assuming Gen X to be from 1960 to 1980, and that the post-war boom ends with the 1973 first oil crisis, I don't really see how Xers would have lived through it.
I've seen the term Zillennial thrown about as a sorta mirror to Xillenial. Really the generation measurement is always going to have this flaw for example generation Jones or whatever is going on with younger Gen Z and elder Gen Alpha. Really this flaw is going to continue until social and technological advancements slow down from the absolutely breakneck speed they've been going at for the last 150 years. I do have to wonder if we are seeing that slowdown or if we are seeing the modern equivalent of the 1930s where Europe was building up to WW2 and the US was giving the Slavs a run for their money in the depressing literature department.
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I thought at first this was just describing how each generation is but its a bit more abstract than that: these are the kinds of memes they make.
Boomers are how theyre better than you
Gen X is dad jokes
Millennials is life sux
Gen z is absurdist like HONSE
Every time I see this I think about what a nice antenna that is.
That is indeed a nice antenna. But why horse need antenna? What horse watch??
Mr. Ed.
Hay
Bojack Horseman
Juan's been around since before gen z could speak. That one's millenial humor that gen z adopted and extrapolated.Looks like it popped up in 2015, so not as old as I remember.
Still can be argued that it's too old to be gen z meme.the meme juan was 2020, though, and originally posted to Instagram, so it's genzSo much character growth in this post
Mostly fact-checking. I will absolutely still throw out wrong facts and find out minutes later that they're wrong.
Pippi Longstocking's horse
what is gen alpha on
what are the cool hip kids memeing
I won’t get it but tell me like I would. Make me feel young again
67 is still around. Skibidi toilet is just about dead. Not sure if there's much else.
My 9 year old nephews told me months ago that 6-7 was already lame.
Which makes sense. If a kids' meme is at a point where adults know enough about it, it's probably already passé. That's just how this stuff works.
It's not at its peak, but it is still alive. Perhaps not at their school though.
Wonder if it differs by coast
Things are still Ohio though, right?/millennial
GenX checking in, I have this image stored on my phone and just throw it at people for no good reason because it pleases me.
I don't know what it means. I don't think it means anything. Fits my worldview nicely.
HONSE
monty python were boomer humor. there's not a lot of air between "honse" and "the fish slapping dance"
You SAY that, but I don't see anyone trading manuscripts on FTP sites like it's 1995.
That was British humor specifically.
See Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett for more. Even Rowan Atkinson.
Okay, I guess they were all boomers, but still!
I like how this just skips x
We never seem to skip the bit where a gen Xer points out genX erasure.
Fuck The Boomers for... well, all of it.
Is it not? What is it then? I don't think it's loss.
My comment explains what it is after explaining what it is not, in a single sentence.
Ah thank you
While that has some truth to it, I wonder if it is based on some intrinsic properties of the respective generations, or rather just on their current age and stage in life.
E.g. GenX has been the dominant parent generation for the past 20 or so years. Naturally they are doing dad jokes.
While GenZ is young, experimental, and rebelling against the perceived conventions.
But I clearly remember a time when Millenials were as avant-garde as GenZ is now.
And my Millenial wife has been on the track to slowly convert to the slightly stupid but harmless GenX-type of humor for some time now.
So maybe within a few years your meme will be almost the same, with the only difference that the generation captions have each moved one place, with GenAlpha superseding GenZ in the lower right corner...
GenX also passed school without google so that works too.
Naa, we'll be bitching about AI instead when it's our turn! ;-)
I do agree partially to your line of thinking. When I as a young millenial was the age of today's young to middle gen Z (~late teens to early twenties) peak humor were ten hour long loops of Nyan Cat, Epic Sax Guy/Gandalf or Cantina Band with a side of Cheezburger Cat memes. Weird shit from a 30-something year old perspective.
My siblings and I are telling Dad Jokes to my niece at every opportunity and I can imagine those are your dominant form of humor when you have your own kids taking over your whole life.
However, there is another component to it, displayed by an oversimplified, slightly sarcastic analysis:
Of course, GenX is forgotten in this but from my experience, there is some credence to and a reason behind this.
Over time, relationships not lasting forever, divorces and marrying later in life has become more accepted socially, so elder folks might more often be stuck in unhappy relationship than younger people.
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder, were less exposed to news and mostly had an overall more hopeful and positive expectations for life where Millennials grew up with the emergence of social media, more information available generally, being more exposed to crisis news and an increasing awareness about climate change and other threats to society.
This is not universal, there obviously was the Cold War and the looming nuclear destruction and this is mostly a western, often privileged white perspective, but still an influence on pop culture, memes, satire and humor.
I guess it is a superposition of both.
Current stage in life setting the general tone/direction (edgy young, sense-searching youth, family-focused middle age, backwards-directed old).
And the time of upbringing determines the content to focus on and the specific type of execution (e.g. when reaching the "old" group some time soon, I will probably bitch about completely other things than current boomers and my memes will be more high-quality due to better skills, but I won't be doing TikToks...)
Assuming Gen X to be from 1960 to 1980, and that the post-war boom ends with the 1973 first oil crisis, I don't really see how Xers would have lived through it.
Their first years fell into relative wealth due to an economic boom in the 50s and 60s.
I'm a millenial and my jokes have always been stupud but harmless. This is not a very good metric
Yeah its a good theory but it shatters when looked on its practical side
Well, according to OPs meme, you are all nihilistic doomerists ;-)
No, believe me, my GenX humor is much more stupider!
I'm millennial and I love both Gen X and Z humour. Millennial humour just makes me depressed. Boomer humour makes me uncomfortable
This is the strangest political compass I've seen.
It's Loss.
Although maybe the political compass was Loss all along.
I initially considered loss, but the character count for each is wrong.
Gen alpha: 🚽
6️⃣7️⃣
As in skibidi?
dob dob dob yes yes
The Elsagate generation
Which generation would ask "Is this loss"?
Millennials.
Also us elder Gen Z. But we have a lot of millennial overlap so...
Can't we just fuse together into gen Millenial Z? I mean, we do have some significant DBZ overlap to thank for this naming convention.
I've seen the term Zillennial thrown about as a sorta mirror to Xillenial. Really the generation measurement is always going to have this flaw for example generation Jones or whatever is going on with younger Gen Z and elder Gen Alpha. Really this flaw is going to continue until social and technological advancements slow down from the absolutely breakneck speed they've been going at for the last 150 years. I do have to wonder if we are seeing that slowdown or if we are seeing the modern equivalent of the 1930s where Europe was building up to WW2 and the US was giving the Slavs a run for their money in the depressing literature department.
Millenals*
Asdfmovie pioneered half our humour.
Pianos!
Who's that Harold guy? Is he a friend of yours?
Can someone explain Gen Z? I don't understand
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^^… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
love and waffles,
t3h PeNgU1N oF d00mThis predates most of gen z's existence
Yeah, but you can draw a straight line from penguin of doom to Harold.
Horizontally Rotating Rat
The "Gen Z" humor is like modern art. The banana taped to wall kind of art.
It's absurd anti-humor which is fine, but that's been around for a long time.
Juan, but green and small
Prince. listening to it now