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Stop asking Gen Z for anything. Fuck me, I don't even know what a Gen Z is. Sounds like a CPU for all I care. A cheap one too. Instagram is dying ? No, I am

Stop asking Gen Z for anything. Fuck me, I don't even know what a Gen Z is. Sounds like a CPU for all I care. A cheap one too. Instagram is dying ? No, I am dying. Lend a helping hand. Buy me an ice-cream. People are cognitive screwed from all this socalled social network bullshit that turns friends, family and idols into a circus of self-proclaimed everything. Kylie Jenner ? Really ? I can almost taste the sugary feeling in the mouth of teenagers when they fall over the same line of self-staging freaks. Turn it off. Buy a small library. Read. Pack a suitcase. Buy a train ticket. See the world. Concentrate. Please.

WantonQuantum 4y ago
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- thefz 4y ago
  On the other hand, comments like this make me instantaneously consider less of the commenter. Besides, you are all using "boomer" wrong.
inductive_magic 4y ago
People ask the young generation because they are the biggest indicator as to where things are heading. Consider how many people will read your answer. How much attention of HN-audience-type-people did you just send down the drain for the righteous feeling of ranting off-topic?
- l33tbro 4y ago
  > the young generation ... are the biggest indicator as to where things are heading. They sure can be. But young people around me in the early 2000s were into rap-metal, buying ringtones, and using ICQ or IM. These obviously were not great indicators of what would happen in the near future.
  - thefz 4y ago
    Hey, ICQ was great.
  - satyrnein 4y ago
    Those were great indicators! Rap-metal was the weird transition between rock/metal being ascendent in the 90s to the complete takeover by hip hop. Ringtones were people paying money to customize their mobile experience, they were early apps and appstore. ICQ and IM were telling us that text based instant messaging was take a lot of share from email and phone calls both. Of course, this is easy in retrospect, I couldn't have forecast it correctly at the time!
jesterson 4y ago
What's the purpose of your comment, may I ask? Tried to read few times but still couldn't grasp the idea, sorry
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  I took the point to be that it's all worthless. Instagram is dying? Nothing of value will be lost. Asking Gen Z about something? Nothing of value will be procured. Tiktok vs. Reels? Nothing of value are being compared.
  - danielovichdk 4y ago
    Thank you!
Dalewyn 4y ago
I do wonder sometimes if social media is the games and rock music of our generation. Mind you, there's lots of legitimate criticism to throw at social media and I wouldn't mind the whole apparatus burning down either, but it's also the one thing a lot of people born in the late 20th century agree to hate on.
- agumonkey 4y ago
  I find it hard to perceive anything beside the most shallow human reflexes on social medias. It's cheap idols from far away. Even a mediocre singer has to take the stage and keep a crowd for a little while.
- coffeeblack 4y ago
  Maybe it’s the radio and cinema of our generation. Both were used in their time to get totalitarian governments into power and many millions died.
yupper32 4y ago
Pretty much every generation makes the same mistake you're making right now by writing off whatever the younger generation is focusing their time on. You can find quotes from 1000 years ago with the same exact sentiment as your comment. Every single time they were wrong.
- blfr 4y ago
  Were they wrong? Most civilizations enjoyed a period of growth and innovation followed buy a longer period of stagnation and decay. Historically, most complaints about the next generation were right.
- thefz 4y ago
  I really think that a video of a girl dancing, her clothes changing every time she claps her hands, made for a platform that prizes sucking out teens's attention for the chance of showing them an ad and collecting data on them, will be written off in a few years. Besides, everything is safe until it is not and research is increasingly pointing towards the toxicity of social media on the young mind. Even doctors smoke a certain brand, remember?
  - maccard 4y ago
    Plenty of video games, movies, TV shows, graphic novels, books, plays, songs, have little to no staying power, entertainment value or cultural relevance of any kind. Does the fact that ET the video game was produced, or Bram Stoker apparently wrote a book so bad were still dunking on it 100 years later invalidate either of their mediums? Does the fact that twerking exists and is labelled invalidate the cultural impaxt of dancing?
- mattigames 4y ago
  Yeah, scrolling photos of big butts, breasts and yachts plus a lot of ads it's really pushing forward society as a whole, is hard to believe the staggering similarity of when books became mainstream and old people worried the young would become dumber given they wouldn't have to memorize.
thefz 4y ago
When I was a teenager we had to make up our own reality. There were distinct gangs. The metal listeners, the rap listeners, the disco people, and so on. We were forced to, for stimuli were scarce. One new record could be passed along dozens of people eager for the new. Now speak to any teenager, they are all the same. Bees of a single hive mind.
- maccard 4y ago
  > Now speak to any teenager, they are all the same. Bees of a single hive mind. I don't know what teenagers you're speaking to but at least my nieces and nephews are certainly not the same. If anything, what's changed is its now acceptable to be part of more of these groups than it was before.
kome 4y ago
100% agree
satyrnein 4y ago
Eh, previous generations were watching America's Funniest Home Videos and celebrity gossip on TV for 5 hours a day. It wasn't any better.
dentemple 4y ago
Delivering content to specific audiences is literally some of our jobs on here. This article may not be relevant for you, but it's certainly relevant to a not-insignificant portion of the HN audience. There's no reason to be insulting.

WantonQuantum 4y ago

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thefz 4y ago
On the other hand, comments like this make me instantaneously consider less of the commenter. Besides, you are all using "boomer" wrong.

inductive_magic 4y ago

People ask the young generation because they are the biggest indicator as to where things are heading. Consider how many people will read your answer. How much attention of HN-audience-type-people did you just send down the drain for the righteous feeling of ranting off-topic?

l33tbro 4y ago
> the young generation ... are the biggest indicator as to where things are heading. They sure can be. But young people around me in the early 2000s were into rap-metal, buying ringtones, and using ICQ or IM. These obviously were not great indicators of what would happen in the near future.
- thefz 4y ago
  Hey, ICQ was great.
- satyrnein 4y ago
  Those were great indicators! Rap-metal was the weird transition between rock/metal being ascendent in the 90s to the complete takeover by hip hop. Ringtones were people paying money to customize their mobile experience, they were early apps and appstore. ICQ and IM were telling us that text based instant messaging was take a lot of share from email and phone calls both. Of course, this is easy in retrospect, I couldn't have forecast it correctly at the time!

jesterson 4y ago

What's the purpose of your comment, may I ask? Tried to read few times but still couldn't grasp the idea, sorry

Dalewyn 4y ago
I took the point to be that it's all worthless. Instagram is dying? Nothing of value will be lost. Asking Gen Z about something? Nothing of value will be procured. Tiktok vs. Reels? Nothing of value are being compared.
- danielovichdk 4y ago
  Thank you!

Dalewyn 4y ago

I do wonder sometimes if social media is the games and rock music of our generation. Mind you, there's lots of legitimate criticism to throw at social media and I wouldn't mind the whole apparatus burning down either, but it's also the one thing a lot of people born in the late 20th century agree to hate on.

agumonkey 4y ago
I find it hard to perceive anything beside the most shallow human reflexes on social medias. It's cheap idols from far away. Even a mediocre singer has to take the stage and keep a crowd for a little while.
coffeeblack 4y ago
Maybe it’s the radio and cinema of our generation. Both were used in their time to get totalitarian governments into power and many millions died.

yupper32 4y ago

Pretty much every generation makes the same mistake you're making right now by writing off whatever the younger generation is focusing their time on. You can find quotes from 1000 years ago with the same exact sentiment as your comment. Every single time they were wrong.

blfr 4y ago
Were they wrong? Most civilizations enjoyed a period of growth and innovation followed buy a longer period of stagnation and decay. Historically, most complaints about the next generation were right.
thefz 4y ago
I really think that a video of a girl dancing, her clothes changing every time she claps her hands, made for a platform that prizes sucking out teens's attention for the chance of showing them an ad and collecting data on them, will be written off in a few years. Besides, everything is safe until it is not and research is increasingly pointing towards the toxicity of social media on the young mind. Even doctors smoke a certain brand, remember?
- maccard 4y ago
  Plenty of video games, movies, TV shows, graphic novels, books, plays, songs, have little to no staying power, entertainment value or cultural relevance of any kind. Does the fact that ET the video game was produced, or Bram Stoker apparently wrote a book so bad were still dunking on it 100 years later invalidate either of their mediums? Does the fact that twerking exists and is labelled invalidate the cultural impaxt of dancing?
mattigames 4y ago
Yeah, scrolling photos of big butts, breasts and yachts plus a lot of ads it's really pushing forward society as a whole, is hard to believe the staggering similarity of when books became mainstream and old people worried the young would become dumber given they wouldn't have to memorize.

thefz 4y ago

When I was a teenager we had to make up our own reality. There were distinct gangs. The metal listeners, the rap listeners, the disco people, and so on. We were forced to, for stimuli were scarce. One new record could be passed along dozens of people eager for the new. Now speak to any teenager, they are all the same. Bees of a single hive mind.

maccard 4y ago
> Now speak to any teenager, they are all the same. Bees of a single hive mind. I don't know what teenagers you're speaking to but at least my nieces and nephews are certainly not the same. If anything, what's changed is its now acceptable to be part of more of these groups than it was before.

kome 4y ago

100% agree

satyrnein 4y ago

Eh, previous generations were watching America's Funniest Home Videos and celebrity gossip on TV for 5 hours a day. It wasn't any better.

dentemple 4y ago

Delivering content to specific audiences is literally some of our jobs on here. This article may not be relevant for you, but it's certainly relevant to a not-insignificant portion of the HN audience. There's no reason to be insulting.