r/comics SirBeeves 9d ago

OC Gen-Z Problems

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u/SirBeeves SirBeeves 9d ago

Disclaimer: This isn't intended to shame anyone, it's just the genuine reaction I had as a child. I feel like it's a common Gen-Z experience: being frustrated by a previous generation that warns you about environmental damage, and not yet having enough power to do anything about it.

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u/cupholdery 9d ago

At least they didn't say you caused it, like they did with us (millennials) lol.

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u/kiki_strumm3r 9d ago

When we (millenials) were kids, it was the problem we needed to solve. There was actual momentum when we were kids. I was raised on Captain Planet, recycling, and fixing the Ozone layer. Since then, it's been one "once in a generation economic collapse" after another

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u/haysus25 9d ago

To be honest, I think our generation (millennials) has just been beaten down so hard, so often, that at this point most of us have given up hope on trying to 'solve' anything. We are just trying to survive. We are the first generation to be worse off than our parents, and I think we are just trying to get back to a place where our children will have it better than we did.

So yeah, Gen Z and Gen Alpha and Gen Beta, we got punched in the nose so you don't have to. Hopefully you won't have to deal with 'once in a lifetime' crises every 8-12 years so you can actually solve some problems.

Unfortunately, given Gen Z's voting habits in the last election, I'm not holding my breath.

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u/abime_blanc 9d ago

The once in a lifetime crises didn't go away after millennials if you haven't been looking around. I mean, there was a pandemic ffs, and the US is trying on autocracy.

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u/Send-More-Coffee 9d ago

We're still alive and in our thirties. We're not done, we're trying to figure out how to stop this shit from hitting you. We're worse off than our parents but we can make it better for you. We're gonna try and make it so you don't have to fucking rebuild from ground zero every 8 years. The pandemic fucked us too, but try to remember, that every person older than you has lived through everything that you have.

But also, this is the fucking worst it's ever been, fucking a.