Older People Are Sharing The Gen Z Trends That Are "Disgusting And Senseless" To Anyone With A Fully-Developed Brain, And As A 20-Something, I'm Offended

I'm a arrogant Gen Z'er, but I besides person capable millennials and Gen X'ers successful my beingness to cognize that galore of the trends my procreation loves tin beryllium a spot ridiculous. And I'm each for respecting your elders, adjacent if you disagree with their opinions.

So recently, we asked the older adults of the BuzzFeed Community to stock the Gen Z and Gen Alpha trends that are "honestly beauteous dumb" — things we'll astir apt look backmost connected and wonderment what the hellhole we were thinking. And ohio boy, they didn't clasp back! Here's what they said:

1. "Wearing homogenous apparel successful beige, blue, and black. Check retired '90s and aboriginal 2000s trends — determination was mode much color, funky accessories, and patterns. You had teens and young adults dressing successful sportswear, punk outfits, 'preppy' ensembles, goth looks, grunge… Everything each looks the aforesaid now, and radical privation to perpetually look Instagram-worthy and airbrushed."

—Anonymous

2. "The '70s porn stash connected each young guy. Just halt it. Unless you're Sean Connery oregon Magnum PI, you look similar an idiot. You're going to look backmost astatine those photos and videos 1 time and cringe, conscionable the mode each feline successful the '70s did."

—Anonymous, 54, South Carolina

3. "I'm bushed of listening to radical perpetually kick astir not having wealth and however everything is truthful expensive, but past I spot everyone online showing disconnected their caller Labubus and Funkos, wearing fake lash extensions, fake nails, oregon costly slides. Like, if you person wealth to discarded connected worthless TikTok trends, past you're not broke."

—missmissymaria143

4. "Using TikTok for everything. Why? Just why? My friend's nephew got stuck successful a snowstorm with his friends due to the fact that the car ran retired of gas, and they went connected TikTok, wherever immoderate feline said to urinate successful the state tank. They each whipped retired their junk and proceeded to bash this stupidity, past learned the hard mode that societal media has not got each the answers. Oh! And different thing, halt referring to america arsenic boomers; we were already ignored by them arsenic children, and Gen X doesn’t admit inactive being ignored by young nitwits."

—Anonymous, 50, Canada

5. "Not checking their email/calendar/messages for work. I spot you connected your telephone astatine work, a lot. Can you delight not marque maine babysit you due to the fact that you can't beryllium bothered to cognize erstwhile you person a meeting? Or respond to a task idiosyncratic sent an update petition for 2 days ago? The integer connection spread is bizarre."

—Anonymous, 38, US

6. "Hammer jeans and teeny harvest tops. It's the worst of the '90s with denim — don't spell chasing 30-year-old waterfalls, please. That besides applies to the mullet. Why?! The '80s were the WORST decennary successful manner EVER. It was horrifying! What’s next, rat tails and enarthrosis pads? Neon? Trust your elders connected this, for once. Please don't. You're lone humiliating yourselves and entertaining us."

—bluecat476

7. "Going into astronomical indebtedness to get a degree, portion letting ChatGPT bash your work. I mean, I conjecture everyone successful the past 70 years lone clasp 2% of everything they 'learned' astatine university. But it's truthful obvious, much than ever, that the strategy needs to change."

—Anonymous, 35, Michigan

8. "The excessive magnitude of tattoos. Your assemblage absorbs the toxins and damages your organs, particularly the liver. It's the caller smoking. It takes a fewer years to origin damage."

—Anonymous

9. "My boomer gripe is erstwhile they conscionable accidental 'it's giving.' It's giving what? Finish the damn sentence!"

—certified_drapetomaniac

10. "Oversharing connected societal media. Every station doesn't request a idiosyncratic communicative astir you; nary 1 cares. This request for outer validation from Gen Z successful peculiar is obnoxious AF to me. Validate yourselves. Unless you're doing serious, life-changing work, I truly don't care, and you don't request everything to beryllium truthful curated. Gen Z seems excessively hopeless to acceptable successful with each other, oregon immoderate niche radical that 'fits them.' It each seems similar a large individuality crisis, with the changeless request for labelling everything and getting support from others. They walk truthful overmuch clip online comparing their lives, they don't truly unrecorded their lives. It's each astir however they look online. That isn't existent life, people. Just log off. I promise, you'll survive."

—Anonymous, 41, Minnesota

12. "The ubiquity of headphones successful nationalist is simply a plague and I volition dice connected this elevation arsenic galore times arsenic I request to."

—melc40e454224

13. "Texting radical who are close successful beforehand of you. It makes radical consciousness similar you're talking astir them, and is the equivalent of mean girls whispering to each different and past laughing arsenic they constituent astatine you. Very gross. Very rude. Use your words oregon prevention it for aboriginal erstwhile you’re not astir others. It’s called interpersonal communication. Try it sometime. The satellite survived for thousands of years without the exertion we person today. And arsenic an older millennial who remembers what it was similar earlier each the tech I person to accidental our connection skills arsenic a nine person gone done the toilet, and Gen Z are immoderate of the worst perpetrators."

—Anonymous, 41, Minnesota

14. "What astir each those cashiers that accidental to you 'Have a bully one!' arsenic you're walking away? A bully 1 WHAT? Is it not either time oregon night? All 3 words are lone 1 syllable; wherefore not usage the close word?"

—Anonymous, 66, New York.

15. "Entitlement successful the workplace. I enactment successful civilian engineering, and these kids deliberation they merit a medal conscionable for showing up. They cognize thing and bash not privation to larn anything, but inactive deliberation they should marque much than the seasoned seasoned with experience."

—Anonymous, 39, missouri

16. "I hatred erstwhile they accidental 'roast my XYZ' (resume/travel itinerary, etc.) erstwhile they truly conscionable privation tips for betterment and not to beryllium made amusive of."

—jealousknight124

17. "They deliberation they made up everything they copied from 1996. 'Do you similar this metallic snappy bracelet thingy I came up with? I utilized an aged measuring portion to marque it!' oregon saying 'lowkey.' Kids, we've been saying this since the '90s."

—Anonymous, 44

18. "Saying 'new to me' alternatively of 'used.' Of people it's caller to you, but you're excessively pretentious to conscionable accidental 'I conscionable bought a 'used' something.' Ugh."

—Anonymous, 65, Seattle

19. "Why does Gen Z picture everything arsenic 'perfect'? Order a sandwich? Perfect. Pay for it? Perfect. Say you’ll hold for it? Perfect."

—icycake878

20. "Groups of girls each wearing crop-tops with baggy jeans, and their hairsbreadth divided down the mediate and pulled to the beforehand connected some sides. They each look the same, and that hairstyle looks ridiculous from behind."

—Anonymous, 37

21. "They look precise uncurious astir the generations that person travel earlier them. Instead of learning from their mistakes and wins, they conscionable privation to condemn each of them for not doing things the aforesaid mode they privation to bash them. Take an accidental to learn, for cryin' retired loud. That deficiency of curiosity is going to wounded each of america eventually."

—Anonymous, 51, Chicago

22. "That happening wherever radical volition video abbreviated clips to nonstop their person backmost and distant connected Snapchat, alternatively of conscionable calling with their camera connected and conversing."

—Anonymous, 50, Australia

23. "That weird accent each the Gen Z influencers look to have. It’s similar they're trying to dependable Valley, Canadian, and British each astatine once."

—certified_drapetomaniac

24. "Wearing pants (or not wearing pants) that are 50 sizes excessively big, and their full butt is sticking out. Also, precise large talking successful nationalist places."

—Anonymous, 67

25. "'I love/like that for you.' It feels passive aggressive, nary substance who is saying it."

—Anonymous, 38 from Oregon

26. "People blaming state prices connected politicians. Politicians person thing to bash with it. It's elemental economical concepts of proviso and demand. The much radical that request state with the aforesaid magnitude of supply, state prices spell up. As agelong arsenic we proceed to person the bulk of radical utilizing gas-powered vehicles, state prices volition enactment high. But if you greatly summation the proviso and request of alternate substance sources, state prices volition person to driblet to vie with alternatives."

—Anonymous, 37, Michigan

27. "Wearing a set garment conscionable due to the fact that they similar the design. If you don't really perceive to that set and can't sanction astatine slightest 10 of their songs, past you shouldn't beryllium wearing it."

—Anonymous

28. "Not pronouncing 't' successful the mediate of a word. 'Important' becomes 'imporant.'"

—Anonymous

29. "Recording radical with their telephone to settee disputes that they are liable for."

—Anonymous, 51, Vancouver

30. And finally: "Crew chopped socks. The tan lines look ridiculous."

—Anonymous, California

What's a Gen Z inclination you can't stand? Millennials and Gen X'ers, we wanna perceive from you! Tell america successful this speedy form, oregon successful the comments below.