/lit/ - Literature

>>21828179
I just find it hard to believe that a generation full of folks who can't shut the fuck up about the Attitude Era and the "REAL" MTV and how EDGY it all was suddenly became the most puritanical people around. And if it's not puritanical bullshit, it's the lamest shit imaginable: inoffensive, milquetoast, stock, by the numbers. How do you have a generation of people idolizing the decade when literally ALL franchises were at their PEAK in terms of creativity only to end up churning out such swill?

>>21321364
>I hate using generational labels in general

I hate using 'em too, but it's pretty sad that millennials spent over a decade whining about boomers shitting on them only to parrot the exact same arguments to use as a cudgel on the zoomers—and when you point out how millennials were just as cringy and dorky as zoomers can be today, they tell you oh, that's different. Excuse after excuse. Remember the Saints Row reboot? The devs literally said it was a MILLENNIAL power fantasy and yet everyone blamed zoomers. So many millennials love to act like their shit don't stink, yet it's always a millennial whining about how "problematic" or "degenerate" something is, and if you dare to tell 'em to knock that faggotry off and get a life, suddenly you're every kind of -ist in the book. Like, dude, Stacy won’t give me the coochie—oh my God, I’m so blackpilled, man! Muh peepee no get the succ! Millennials claim to be the first generation to have the Internet? Wrong. That was Gen X. Millennials were there for the grand opening day of AOL and Newgrounds, and within a single decade, basically killed ‘em off in favor of sterile shitloads of fuck like Twitter and Reddit. Saints Row reboot devs explictly state it's a MILLENNIAL power fantasy? Nah, man, it's the zoomers who ruined yet another franchise. So many millennials are a bunch of disgustingly cynical fauxnatic pretend zealots who decide that such a cause is the perfect excuse to act like the biggest and most obnoxious and offensive scumbags they can think of in order to get social media asspats for stunning and brave radicalism, to act out masturbatory LARP revolutionary fantasies. They mindlessly latch on to whatever is in vogue, mindlessly run it into the ground by forcing it to conform to the ever changing ever more obnoxious and insufferable and insincencere groupthink politics that are fashionable wherever they are trying to grift. mindlessly lash out and try to demonise and silence anyone who speaks out in any way against them, and then once it has become a burnt out husk they will mindlessly drop it and move onto the next big thing. This is true for everything from politics to pop culture to science to media to academia. They will do this for any petty amount of money, fame, or power, or even just to satisfy either some mental illness or some petty grudge on their part. My only hopes is that by the time I grow to be in my seventies and eighties, I won't be dementia addled enough to be unable to laugh my ass off at all them. Take every Incel, Doomer, Dangerhair, Basedboy, e-Thot, Troon, any other stereotypical trope the millenial generation got dealt with, and just picture how they'll all be in the next fifty to sixty years from now. And the saddest shit is that we'll all have to cry and pretend that it's oh so sad they're all offing themselves one after the other as if they didn't make the conscious choice to waste their lives "pretending to be retarded" or whatever.