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Welcome to what millennials have experienced for a couple decades: Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations want based on litt

Welcome to what millennials have experienced for a couple decades: Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations want based on little more than a stereotype or maybe the feedback from one young person they spoke to once.

jorvi 5y ago
But he didn’t ask just one person, he checked with multiple. Obviously that is still too small a sample size, but who says he isn’t on to something?
api 5y ago
That's not new. Gen-Xers got the same thing. Boomers got the same thing. Lazy stereotyping wasn't invented yesterday. I don't think this blog post means to stereotype all of gen-Z though. I think they're just using it as a foil to talk about the counter-trend to early-21st-century minimalism. That was in turn a counter-trend to late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities.
- deltarholamda 5y ago
  >Gen-Xers got the same thing GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. GenX UI, at least on the Web, was TABLE layouts with spacer GIFs dictated to us by Boomers who wanted brochures. Our crowning design achievement still lives on in WiFi router Web management tools and phpBB. Yo, anybody going to the Phish concert? I need a ride.
  - mostlysimilar 5y ago
    In my opinion phpBB remains a more usable interface than many modern software applications, especially the web. Dense with information, tools that empower the user to sort, search, and filter. Ability to express yourself via avatars and signatures, multiple color schemes and interface options.
    - deltarholamda 5y ago
      You're wrong because Twapper has a market cap of 65 billion dollars. People love reading things by scrolling down, and then up. And then scrolling down again, pawing at their pocket-sized supercomputers like monkeys before the Monolith.
  - beders 5y ago
    Tears for Fears is touring again and I'm planning to catch Steve Hackett as well. Still being talked into seeing a-ha and Duran Duran. Go Gen-X!
  - jmkr 5y ago
    Yes, the rescheduled MSG New Years Phish run, then summer tour.
  - CPLX 5y ago
    > GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. There weren't enough of us. Also we were apathetic to everything. At least that's what I was told I wasn't really paying attention.
    - mr_toad 5y ago
      With no power comes no responsibility.
- letitbeirie 5y ago
  > late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities. My first thought seeing the Gen-Z version was "why don't they show a flashing marquee banner, an email with flapping wings, and play some MIDI music while they're at it?"
_lqaf 5y ago
Millennials are spoiled by the attention. The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. And when the 20-somethings start bitching about you. > Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations This is frequently called 'society'. Keep breathing long enough, you'll find yourself on the other side of that behavior.
- dleslie 5y ago
  We millennials are turning forty, for the first time, this year! I'm waiting with eager anticipation to hear what wrongs our whole generation is uniquely responsible for.
  - mbg721 5y ago
    We're responsible for all the ills caused by things the Gen-Xers were apathetic about.
    - jspash 5y ago
      We Gen-Xers we’re apathetic due to witnessing the blatant greed of the Yuppies and we wanted none of that kind of thing.
- CPLX 5y ago
  > The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. As a member of the Gen X community I am completely fine with this. Oh well, whatever, never mind us.
- tehbeard 5y ago
  > But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. laughs, then starts weeping in perpetual renter Honestly, I've seen more camaraderie between millennial & genZ than adversity. Both of us got the luck to be born to "interesting times".

jorvi 5y ago

But he didn’t ask just one person, he checked with multiple. Obviously that is still too small a sample size, but who says he isn’t on to something?

api 5y ago

That's not new. Gen-Xers got the same thing. Boomers got the same thing. Lazy stereotyping wasn't invented yesterday. I don't think this blog post means to stereotype all of gen-Z though. I think they're just using it as a foil to talk about the counter-trend to early-21st-century minimalism. That was in turn a counter-trend to late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities.

deltarholamda 5y ago
>Gen-Xers got the same thing GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. GenX UI, at least on the Web, was TABLE layouts with spacer GIFs dictated to us by Boomers who wanted brochures. Our crowning design achievement still lives on in WiFi router Web management tools and phpBB. Yo, anybody going to the Phish concert? I need a ride.
- mostlysimilar 5y ago
  In my opinion phpBB remains a more usable interface than many modern software applications, especially the web. Dense with information, tools that empower the user to sort, search, and filter. Ability to express yourself via avatars and signatures, multiple color schemes and interface options.
  - deltarholamda 5y ago
    You're wrong because Twapper has a market cap of 65 billion dollars. People love reading things by scrolling down, and then up. And then scrolling down again, pawing at their pocket-sized supercomputers like monkeys before the Monolith.
- beders 5y ago
  Tears for Fears is touring again and I'm planning to catch Steve Hackett as well. Still being talked into seeing a-ha and Duran Duran. Go Gen-X!
- jmkr 5y ago
  Yes, the rescheduled MSG New Years Phish run, then summer tour.
- CPLX 5y ago
  > GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. There weren't enough of us. Also we were apathetic to everything. At least that's what I was told I wasn't really paying attention.
  - mr_toad 5y ago
    With no power comes no responsibility.
letitbeirie 5y ago
> late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities. My first thought seeing the Gen-Z version was "why don't they show a flashing marquee banner, an email with flapping wings, and play some MIDI music while they're at it?"

_lqaf 5y ago

Millennials are spoiled by the attention. The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. And when the 20-somethings start bitching about you. > Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations This is frequently called 'society'. Keep breathing long enough, you'll find yourself on the other side of that behavior.

dleslie 5y ago
We millennials are turning forty, for the first time, this year! I'm waiting with eager anticipation to hear what wrongs our whole generation is uniquely responsible for.
- mbg721 5y ago
  We're responsible for all the ills caused by things the Gen-Xers were apathetic about.
  - jspash 5y ago
    We Gen-Xers we’re apathetic due to witnessing the blatant greed of the Yuppies and we wanted none of that kind of thing.
CPLX 5y ago
> The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. As a member of the Gen X community I am completely fine with this. Oh well, whatever, never mind us.
tehbeard 5y ago
> But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. laughs, then starts weeping in perpetual renter Honestly, I've seen more camaraderie between millennial & genZ than adversity. Both of us got the luck to be born to "interesting times".