Millennials Are Sharing Specific Gen Z Traits, Behaviors, And Trends That They Find Seriously Confusing, And Suddenly I Feel Old

With each caller procreation comes caller trends, ideas, characteristics, and, of course, stereotypes. These days, the attraction is connected Gen Z. (And arsenic a millennial myself, it feels relieving to beryllium retired of the spotlight. 😅)

Naturally, determination are immoderate things that older generations conscionable don't recognize astir today's youth. So redditor u/Dramatic-Anywhere-50 asked, "Millennials, what confuses you astir Gen Z?" Here's what radical said.

1. "Where are each the Gen Z celebrities? Apart from Tom Holland and Zendaya, I cannot deliberation of a starring antheral oregon pistillate successful Hollywood successful their 20s. Ryan Gosling is playing Ken successful the Barbie movie, and he's 41."

3. "One of my students said, 'LMAO,' successful beforehand of maine yesterday and asked maine if I knew what it meant. I had to archer her that those kinds of acronyms are astatine slightest 20 years aged and my procreation popularized them. She was shocked."

4. "The mode they deliberation we don't play video games. Do they deliberation that video games autumn retired of trees? Who bash they deliberation is making them, the Fortnite fairy?"

—u/stringdom

5. "How bash each these young guys get their hairsbreadth to look that circumstantial mode that's ace successful close now? Are they retired getting perms?"

6. "The hypocrisy. They volition spell connected a buying spree connected Shein each 2 weeks. Meanwhile, the aforesaid radical are astir apt 'worried' astir clime change."

—u/CinnnamoNeko

7. "What is the mode they nonstop emails? I was moving with a fewer Gen Z'ers to get thing done, and alternatively of sending one email with the indispensable accusation I got galore abstracted emails afloat of piecemeal accusation and zero context. I had to punctual them that email is not substance message, and you should person each your ducks successful a enactment earlier hitting send, for the emotion of god."

8. "Why does it look similar they each skipped the awkward phase? It’s similar each Gen Z'ers came retired of simple schoolhouse knowing however to coordinate outfits and portion Starbucks."

9. "When Gen Z'ers are playing a opus and I'll commencement singing on and they get each amazed adjacent though the opus came retired 20–30 years agone oregon it's a opus that blew up erstwhile I was successful precocious school. A batch of aged Drake songs, for example. That feline blew up erstwhile I was successful precocious school. I cognize a batch of his aged music, but they don't understand."

10. "I’m 24 truthful what confuses maine astir is which procreation bash I beryllium to?"

—u/Xibinez

11. "I americium amazed astatine however galore Gen Z'ers usage Snapchat for mean communication. Seriously, the existent messaging functionality seems wholly terrible."

12. "Why bash each of you assertion to beryllium shy, socially anxious, and that you don't privation to beryllium the halfway of attention, but each the portion you're posting each azygous selfie and creation video of yourself online constantly?"

—u/PhysicianTradition

13. "I'm lone 26 truthful I conjecture that puts maine astatine the process extremity of the millennial scope and toward the commencement of Gen Z, but I've ne'er understood the tendency to transcript each those TikTok situation trends."

14. "Do nary of you recognize putting your full lives connected the net is going to travel backmost to wound you successful the ass someday?"

—u/PM_ME_HUGE_CRITS

15. "They person a precise weird and unusual consciousness of humor. lt's hard for maine to articulate what it is exactly...but it's rather precise?"

16. "How are they truthful incredibly tolerant of ads and perpetually being tracked?"

—u/Mandatory_Pie

17. "Why immoderate of them enactment similar they pioneered the societal media/influencer boom. And wherefore they are amazed that I person Snapchat, etc., adjacent though galore of these came retired erstwhile millennials similar maine were successful our aboriginal 20s and the halfway demographic of these societal media platforms."

18. "Why bash they spell to events similar concerts and sports games but ticker done their phones arsenic they instrumentality video? They're denying themselves the full experience! Put down the telephone and afloat bask being present."

—u/lanky_planky

19. "Their tendency to beryllium labeled. It whitethorn dependable ignorant, but erstwhile I was successful precocious schoolhouse radical hated being labeled. Now it seems that Gen Z'ers privation their labels connected display, whether it’s sexuality, learning differences, etc. I respect it; it's conscionable antithetic from the position of idiosyncratic who remembers actively not wanting to beryllium boxed into categories oregon labeled."

20. "My niece (now 21) doesn’t cognize however to decently benignant utilizing a keyboard. She’s written each of her schoolhouse papers connected her phone. 🫠"

—u/shananiganz

21. "Millennial benignant was catered to looking slim (aka looking skinnier was much flattering). Gen Z's assurance and quality to deterioration thing is confusing, and I respect that."

22. "Why are ma jeans trending? Please Gen Z, don't you situation bring backmost doorbell bottommost jeans."

—u/Wondercatmeow

23. "Why truthful galore of them don’t cognize however to decently google something. You’d deliberation radical that grew up with Google would cognize the basics."

24. "How overmuch Gen Z reveals astir themselves connected the internet. I've seen TikToks wherever kids are showing videos of their street, their house, their school...pretty overmuch everything anyone would ever request to travel you and/or perchance bash atrocious things to you. If you privation to papers your beingness online that's fine, but beryllium careful. People tin bash a full batch with a small spot of information, and the net tin beryllium a truly unsafe spot if you're not careful."

—marisak4212bc09f

25. "Cancel culture. Many Gen Z'ers enactment similar radical are wholly incapable of learning to beryllium better, and alternatively lone absorption connected 1 atrocious happening idiosyncratic said a cardinal years agone oregon thing that was taken retired of context."

What's thing that confuses you (either negatively oregon positively) astir different generation? Sound disconnected successful the comments!