Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 15, 2021 20:58:12 GMT -5
Seems the Millennials vs Gen Z wars have kicked in (now that this generation is now the new so called it generation when most Millennials are going to be 30 or older in the coming years.
I find this really dumb, and I don't pay any attention to Tiktok, which I don't get the craze.
‘Wear skinny jeans or die’: inside the Gen Z, Millennials culture war
The Dumb Internet Feud Between Gen Z and Millennials, Explained by a Gen-ZerSide parts, laughing emojis and skinny jeans are the source of the latest highly pointless intergenerational debate
I find this really dumb, and I don't pay any attention to Tiktok, which I don't get the craze.
‘Wear skinny jeans or die’: inside the Gen Z, Millennials culture war
Never did I think I’d look back at the unflattering fashion choices I made in my 20s in the late nineties and consider myself to have sailed through unscathed. (I once had an accidental mullet and used to wear a handkerchief as a top.)
But taking one look at the latest generation war – Generation Z’ers roasting Millennials, in millions of TikToks, for being old, and uncool – it’s hard as a Generation X’er not to feel grateful that the way I presented myself to the world wasn’t also dragged, mercilessly, on social media in real time.
“It’s all fun and games until you get a FUPA,” said Canadian mother Catherine Belknap, in a viral TikTok addressed to “the people who came out of our vageen” and referring to the acronym for “fat upper pubic area” that is often the result of childbirth and ageing and which, she jokes, gets firmly in the way of the more rigid (and less stretchy) jeans that Gen Z’ers (now aged between six and 24) are championing.
Another woman, Becky Vieira, clapped back on Instagram, writing that having “faced infertility, PPD and suicidal thoughts… It’s cute that you think I have time or f*cks to give about what you think of my hair and jeans.”
That the trend should hit some Millennials hard, says Clare Southerton, a Postdoctoral Research, and an expert on TikTok, is no surprise.
“We all have to get to this point where we’re suddenly forced to see ourselves as old, like Millennials are feeling so much right now,” says Southerton, pointing out that the oldest Millennials – a generation broadly understood to have been born between 1981 and 1996 – are turning 40 this year.
But taking one look at the latest generation war – Generation Z’ers roasting Millennials, in millions of TikToks, for being old, and uncool – it’s hard as a Generation X’er not to feel grateful that the way I presented myself to the world wasn’t also dragged, mercilessly, on social media in real time.
“It’s all fun and games until you get a FUPA,” said Canadian mother Catherine Belknap, in a viral TikTok addressed to “the people who came out of our vageen” and referring to the acronym for “fat upper pubic area” that is often the result of childbirth and ageing and which, she jokes, gets firmly in the way of the more rigid (and less stretchy) jeans that Gen Z’ers (now aged between six and 24) are championing.
Another woman, Becky Vieira, clapped back on Instagram, writing that having “faced infertility, PPD and suicidal thoughts… It’s cute that you think I have time or f*cks to give about what you think of my hair and jeans.”
That the trend should hit some Millennials hard, says Clare Southerton, a Postdoctoral Research, and an expert on TikTok, is no surprise.
“We all have to get to this point where we’re suddenly forced to see ourselves as old, like Millennials are feeling so much right now,” says Southerton, pointing out that the oldest Millennials – a generation broadly understood to have been born between 1981 and 1996 – are turning 40 this year.
The Dumb Internet Feud Between Gen Z and Millennials, Explained by a Gen-ZerSide parts, laughing emojis and skinny jeans are the source of the latest highly pointless intergenerational debate
The Dumb Internet Feud Between Gen Z and Millennials, Explained by a Gen-Zer Side parts, laughing emojis and skinny jeans are the source of the latest highly pointless intergenerational debate
What happened to teaming up against boomers?
In case you’re one of the lucky few who has not yet been exposed to the extremely pointless internet discourse surrounding Gen Z and Millennials, allow me to ruin your day and explain.
For the past couple of weeks, Gen-Zers, mainly on TikTok, have been “canceling” Millennials. Not necessarily for anything deeply problematic, but more so for the older generation’s sartorial choices, hairstyles and emoji usage. Gen Z has so far deemed skinny jeans, side parts and the laughing emoji uncool in a slew of TikToks, some featuring users burning their skinny jeans and banning the emoji from their feeds entirely, much to the chagrin of Millennials. Now news outlets and publications have declared a “war” between the two generations.
To take it a step back even further, if you don’t have a teenager, you might not know ‘90s fashion is currently like all the rage right now. While I’m not sure who started this, I am going to attribute the reemergence of the trends back to supermodel Bella Hadid and her ability to sport low-rise jeans because of her washboard abs. Models and celebrities have been sporting skinny sunglasses and those damn Prada nylon shoulder bags — other artifacts of the ‘90s and early aughts — in recent years, and now Gen Z, a generation by and large not yet cognizant of those trends the first time they came around, is discovering and embracing the bygone era and its arguably regrettable fashion choices. Butterfly tops and straight-leg jeans are in; skinny jeans are literally being burned at the stake.
Despite the uproar from Millennials, this isn’t exactly shocking. Fashion, as we know, is cyclical and this happens almost every year, and yet every time we have the same “Oh no, the kids are bringing this back!” discourse. Similarly, the middle part can be regarded as a relic of the ‘90s, and could be a reason why Gen-Zers were encouraging others to ditch their side parts in a now-viral TikTok trend, creating even more commotion from the older generation, who are apparently very protective of their side parts.
What happened to teaming up against boomers?
In case you’re one of the lucky few who has not yet been exposed to the extremely pointless internet discourse surrounding Gen Z and Millennials, allow me to ruin your day and explain.
For the past couple of weeks, Gen-Zers, mainly on TikTok, have been “canceling” Millennials. Not necessarily for anything deeply problematic, but more so for the older generation’s sartorial choices, hairstyles and emoji usage. Gen Z has so far deemed skinny jeans, side parts and the laughing emoji uncool in a slew of TikToks, some featuring users burning their skinny jeans and banning the emoji from their feeds entirely, much to the chagrin of Millennials. Now news outlets and publications have declared a “war” between the two generations.
To take it a step back even further, if you don’t have a teenager, you might not know ‘90s fashion is currently like all the rage right now. While I’m not sure who started this, I am going to attribute the reemergence of the trends back to supermodel Bella Hadid and her ability to sport low-rise jeans because of her washboard abs. Models and celebrities have been sporting skinny sunglasses and those damn Prada nylon shoulder bags — other artifacts of the ‘90s and early aughts — in recent years, and now Gen Z, a generation by and large not yet cognizant of those trends the first time they came around, is discovering and embracing the bygone era and its arguably regrettable fashion choices. Butterfly tops and straight-leg jeans are in; skinny jeans are literally being burned at the stake.
Despite the uproar from Millennials, this isn’t exactly shocking. Fashion, as we know, is cyclical and this happens almost every year, and yet every time we have the same “Oh no, the kids are bringing this back!” discourse. Similarly, the middle part can be regarded as a relic of the ‘90s, and could be a reason why Gen-Zers were encouraging others to ditch their side parts in a now-viral TikTok trend, creating even more commotion from the older generation, who are apparently very protective of their side parts.