Reddit user u/TreatAlternative6908 asked “What’s Something Gen Z Isn’t Ready To Hear?”
Here are 15 of the top answers.
What did they miss? Are these unreasonable?
1.
“Every generation going back to the boomers had the ‘You kids today have it so easy’ speech regurgitated to them a thousand times over. You will hear it and say it.”
2.
“Do not kill yourself a la hustle culture. Once you’ve damaged your mental and or physical health, it’s very hard to get back to where you were.”
3.
“Changing your profile picture isn’t spreading awareness, and it isn’t activism.”
4.
“The choices you make today matter. You are not invincible.”
5.
“Just like Harry Potter/Disney/anime/lolcomic bacon culture millennials, you too will one day be an embarrassment in the eyes of teens and anyone else who isn’t chronically online. Quit seeking the most moral and respectable of interests — just be fucking cringe!”
6.
“I like TikTok as a platform, but the dances y’all do will age horribly.”
7.
“Toxic positivity isn’t positive. ‘Good vibes only ✌.’ But my dog just died and I’m worried about — ‘GOOD VIBES ONLY ✌️.’ NO!”
8.
“The internet isn’t always a great place to get your world view from. Seriously — I’ve noticed this especially with teens in the west and how they react to news (most recently American teens) and it’s usually internet hysterics that whip them into an almost delusional frenzy. It’s terrible for your mental health, and it’s seriously lacking in perspective.”
9.
“Saving for your future is important. Opening a Roth IRA and starting to contribute to it early is a great way to secure your financial future.”
10.
“Hey, Gen Z, you know all those shitty trends and horrible ‘pranks’ and the cancel culture you follow along with? Yeah, that’s gonna stick around FOREVER. Unlike our predecessors, our mistakes can’t just be left in the past because they’re on the internet.”
11.
“Middle class is over and doing better than your parents financially is kind of unlikely.”
12.
“All your good music is a remix of a better, older song.”
13.
“Not every inconvenience that happens to you is ‘trauma.’ It’s minimizing real trauma. Gen Z over uses the word.”
14.
“Dealing with confrontation and discomfort is a necessary life skill. Not everyone who challenges you and makes you ‘uncomfortable’ through mere argument or disagreement is a bully. If you want to succeed in business or life in general, you will need to handle difficult situations.”
15.
“You don’t know nearly as much as you think you do. When you look back at yourself 10 years from now, you’ll realize this too. It happens to everyone.”
h/t: BuzzFeed