Everyone is a Millennial Now

I don’t think young people are aware of this, but in American history, there used to be generational cultural differences. Young people had music, slang, and esoteric cultural memes that were unique, that older people were not aware of.

This is no longer the case. Because of the internet, and the fact that everyone is on the same platforms, younger generations, including gen Z (these people are like 30 now, by the way) and the generation younger than them, which I believe is called “gen Q,” have cultural and social cues that are just watered down versions of millennialisms.

Everything I see from younger people on the internet is just progressively sanitized versions of stuff I saw on /b/ in 2004. It’s sickening.

Sometimes there is new slang, but it’s not clear where it originates from, and everyone of all age groups starts using it at the same time. Paul Skallas, who I believe is the core philosopher of the 21st century, has said that we are trapped in 2004.

Robot says:

Paul Skallas is a writer and commentator known for his theory that culture became “stuck” around 2004, a concept he popularized through social media.He posits that this period marked a significant shift where the monoculture fractured, leading to a lack of overarching cultural narratives and preventing substantive changes in pop culture. According to Skallas, this stagnation is evident in the entertainment industry, where content often feels recycled, with sequels, remakes, and nostalgic themes dominating the landscape.He has suggested that the mid-2000s, particularly around 2004 or 2006, was a pivotal moment when the cultural landscape shifted toward a state of repetition and diminished innovation. While he acknowledges the decentralization of media and the rise of the internet as potential contributing factors, he admits the exact cause remains unclear.

The cause is sort of unclear, but it is also obvious that it is the internet. We are all in the same space now.

As a millennial, I was a member of the last generation to grow up with a culture that was not internet based. At least as a younger teenager. By the time I was 20, it was all the internet. But before that, there was a difference in culture among young people. I remember my father trying to use youth slang, which is normal enough, and using it in the wrong way. That is now impossible. Everyone on the internet is in the same monoculture.

There is some element of this that isn’t bad. Historically, like as in, a long time ago, people lived the same lives as their grandparents. And their great great great grandparents. This was before the Industrial Revolution. After the Industrial Revolution, you had major technological advancements that caused cultural changes every generation, which left grandparents feeling very alienated by all the alien shit their grandkids were into. It is obviously better to have a consistency of culture.

Well, it’s good to have a consistency of culture if it is medieval culture. If it is 2004 bland and nihilistic horseshit hedonism, it is really not that great to have it as a stagnant culture.

It is assumed that young people added things like “take the L” or “posting the W” to the slang. But when I see that, I think “what is this boomer tripe? What a stupid phrase.” Further, there is no evidence that young people made these phrases. They used it on TikTok and whatever, but no one knows who comes up with these things, and people of all ages, including boomers, will pick up on these language additions and use them.

If there is a change, it is that young people are less edgy and less hip. They are worse than even millennials (who I think are worse than boomers), because there is no room for creativity on the internet, and so all young people do is recycle millennial material and make it gayer and more retarded.

I have no idea what the implications of this are, and unlike I usually do, I am not going to draw some kind of insight or meaningful conclusion about the nature of this phenomenon. I think it probably means nothing good or bad can happen, nothing new at all can happen, youth energy doesn’t really exist in the way it previously did. I don’t think going to punk rock shows and taking acid and jumping around and having sex in the bathroom was a good thing. And maybe it wasn’t that much different than what boomers were doing, just with worse music. But there was a break with the previous generation, which meant that there was at least potential room for something new that was good to emerge. I think it is now impossible for anything new and good to emerge from the youth.

The youth are now against Israel, of course, but so is everyone who isn’t old.

These Gallup numbers don’t separate the age groups meaningfully.

The 35-54 age group is much too wide. Of the 23% of that group that have a positive view of Bibi, I would think the overwhelming majority of the supporters would be between 45 and 54, whereas 35-44 would have the same opinion as 18-34.

There would be some differences in generations, because the younger the generation, the less white it is. So it will be different on some things, when measured by age alone. I don’t know or care what is going on with immigrants or black people. I assume they are against Israel, when it comes to this particular topic, and that’s fine, but in general, their opinions do not matter to me.

One thing I don’t know is how the browning of America will affect culture. I assume it will not be good. But also, I think younger whites, particularly men, are feeling under attack, which will lead to you know, whatever.

I understand this article is not good or important. But I think the basic observations are important, and possibly something that people are not really noticing. But we are stagnant. There is nothing new coming from the youth. Everything is just being recycled and made shittier in the process.

It is boring and disgusting.

To be clear, I do not think the decay is a result of technology, but simply enabled by it. The fact that everyone is on the same level and in the same space together could mean that young people would be bringing older people forward in a positive direction, but instead the opposite is happening, with terms like “take the L” being used by men in their forties, despite the fact that they suck, while teenagers listen to early 00s indie rock, despite the fact that it sucks. Everything just spirals towards the lowest common denominator, with all of the worst traits of millennials being promoted, and millennials adopting the worst traits of the younger generations. Millennials did not have “woke” as youths. We could say “faggot” and “nigger” without people throwing a fit. But then, in their thirties, millennials became the hardest core fighters for wokeism, apparently feeling it was the hip young trend?

Now, teenagers listen to Joe Rogan and get convinced that Peter Thiel, the guy running the AI targeting system for the Israelis, giving lectures on the Antichrist, is somehow not concerning and may in fact be totally normal. Meanwhile, every male of every age is chronically masturbating and no one has connected this to the testosterone plunge, and the last thing on anyone’s mind is ███████ and ███████ ████.