oldest zoomers are now approaching 30 and they have basically nothing to show for it. This "back rooms" movie is going to go down as their signal accomplishment and its basically a meme. it is however mentally off in a very characteristically zoomer way. They will find themselves rapidly overshadowed by Gen Alpha who are simply more confident, sociable. nominative determinism, maybe.
I blame Covid which very deeply fucked zoomer brains. they didn't have a fair chance :(
Date: July 20th, 2026 1:32 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
It seems like generational attitudes often shift back and forth this way, proving the value of what's rejected.
Millennials should have bought in less. But Zoomer nihilism isn't great either. If that "GET OUT OR WE'LL FUCK YOU UP" was backed by action maybe they'd be more impactful.
Date: July 20th, 2026 1:43 PM Author: galvanic sapphire theater stage famous landscape painting
I think you’re on to something. By this time, the millennial vintage had business magnates (Facebook/Zuckrberg), legendary athletes (Michael Phelps), generational music talents (Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey), hell even Film writers/directors (Seth Rogen).
What do Zoomers have? Anything? Too consumed with anxiety and technological suppression to do anything other than smirk queerly?
Date: July 20th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: sexy marvelous roommate
cr. people forget just what massive faggots millennials were during the peak era of millennial faggotry. it was a generation that completely submitted to fat nasty faggot women. the concept of "simping" is a direct reaction to millennials.
Date: July 20th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Aphrodisiac shaky school
Their historical antecedent is the Silent Generation, which failed to produce a single POTUS. The next 30 years will be Alpha v. Millennials, same as it was Boomers v. Greatest.
The hate for Zoomers is even in their name - it's derisive. Millennials represented hope for the future and Alpha is, well, Alpha.
Date: July 20th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: bossy nibblets
This OP is retarded. Gen Z’s moment sort of started in 2020, though that was an artificial state-actor/fake societal collapse induced warning shot more than anything. The real shift hadn’t really taken hold until Gaza. These periods always last at least 5 years as they kick off a durable set of structural shifts, but that process is clearly still ongoing in the current moment. I’d expect the culmination of the Gen Z moment to be the 2028 election. By then AI will have settled into a much more stable place in the culture and the economy and the extent the culture processes it and manages to generate a new set of oppositions around it will be what defines the 2030s and sets up Alpha’s response in the 2040s.
Date: July 20th, 2026 2:32 PM Author: Contagious Place Of Business
it's just a general downward trend over the decades
boomers > genx > millennials > zoomers. we are increasingly becoming a monoculture producing fewer (lasting/significant, not raw quantity) cultural artifacts. this isn't some new trend, although it did hasten significantly as the internet + screens proliferated
basically mass media exploded and the idea of "Gens" was invented along with the concept that they are Significant. Strauss and Howe were fuckin retards and their retardation only gets amplied as Gen Theory becomes increasingly irrelevant
Date: July 21st, 2026 11:15 AM Author: gold potus wrinkle
I just don't understand how the boomers are still so authoritatively in charge. I've been reading about their impending retirement since I was in college. No movement whatsoever outside of fields like "airline pilot" that have mandatory retirement ages in the early/mid 60s (how the fuck the FAA hasn't been pressured to raise that is beyond me).