Gen Z Is Calling Gen X The "Karen Generation"

LOL!

LMAO @ Gen Z actually believing the marketing behind the campaign that told them that their voice actually matters

Whatever. None of this matters.

Awww...baby wants attention! Precious!

......

They couldn’t be wronger.

LOL. I want some popcorn for this one.

Let me speak to their manager.

First they came for the Boomers... then they came for the Gen Xers, and the 50-year-old DLEGs lost their shit.

Proof that no matter how hard you try to be your kids' cool BFF, they will still turn against you

This new annoying generation of brats is actually already making me miss the vapid insolence of Millennials.

Gen X fraus do love speaking to managers, so this is not entirely undeserved. There are some male Karens too.

It is xenophobic, racist, classist, and misogynistic to assume that all Gen Xers are American white middle-class frauen.

What is a Karen?

r14 This woman

OK boomer at OP.

May I suggest the term "The Upstairs Generation" since all those Z'ers are still living in our basements.

Thanks r15. It's stupid though gen x isn't really like that. I think all the other generations hate the fact that we always point out uncomfortable truths to them and don't put up with their phony bullshit.

For once, Gen Z does something I like! After years of listening to Gen X gloat about being stuck in the middle of two fighting generations they hate, now they're the ones experiencing that dynamic. And all of this before Gen Z is even in the workplace. I have a feeling millennials are going to be able to sit back, relax, and occupy that middle spot as these bitches fight.

How did they all agree upon "Karen" as the name of the bitchy woman who always wants to speak to a manager? I've know a couple of cool Karen's in my life and I don't personally get the connection between that name and this trope. Cheryl on the other hand...

Gen X racist and homophobic? Quite the opposite.

Also Gen X parents are always gloating about how great their whiny annoying Teenagers are while ragging on us. It's sheer Schadenfreude watching this play out.

I'm at the tail end of Gen X, and I agree. Most of my peer group got old and went full on libertarian (republican with extra steps). Gen X made FarmersOnly.com. That alone is enough to make everyone hate them.

Gen X, just like they have forever, don't like to accept blame for anything. It's always someone else. Most of the "Millenials ruined everything" articles were written by Gen X dudes, yet they are the same ones to jump on the OK Boomer bandwagon.

I hate my generation.

OK, Punk, at R16.

"They’re usually racist, homophobic, and transphobic, don’t believe in vaccines or climate change, and are mostly also the parents of Gen Z children."

Hi let's make things up and throw it up on BuzzFeed! Yay Journalimism!

[quote] Also Gen X parents are always gloating about how great their whiny annoying Teenagers are while ragging on us.

Who is "us"? We have no idea what your particular generation is. Multiple generations post on this board.

Karen is a boomer name, not a Gen X name. Also: only a retard could care about this "Karen" business and this intergenerational warfare. It's 100% Twitter-generated garbage.

[quote]They’re usually racist, homophobic, and transphobic, don’t believe in vaccines or climate change, and are mostly also the parents of Gen Z children.

More callout culture hijinks from Millennials/Gen Z. It's to be expected, really, it's all they know how to do. They certainly don't know how to work, or pay attention.

Gen X has basically been an innocent bystander in this generational shit. We spent a lot of our adult lives just trying to stay above water in a horrible economy, we didn't have much time for anything else.

A shit ton of those Federal Judges getting confirmed by Trump and Republicans are Gen X, R21.

A lot of the school shooters are Gen Z, r30.

Some old gen xers are really vile. I don’t find them particularly racist but they just have a stank attitude and they’re know it alls.

There's people you don't like in the world, r32?! Heaven forfend!@

Daily dose of American division trolls.

Hug your grandmother and fight the propaganda.

They have quite some nerve complaining about X parents on the devices that their X parents are probably paying for.

[quote]and they’re know it alls.

Thank goodness Gen Z aren't though. They're just, you know, children who spend most of their time telling everyone, all the time, "life: you're doing it wrong" despite having been born five minutes ago.

I hate that bitch Karen

Karen isn't a generational thing.

The younger Milennials and half of Gen-Y/iGen (the other half are gender non-conforming wokesters) are obsessed with Jordan B. Peterson and co. I don’t think Gen X are, by and large.

I am not impressed by these Z kids. Talk about know it all.

r34 it's not propaganda. This is some real shit that happening right now. Go live in Amish country if you're so fucking delicate.

[quote] Millennials.

Leave us out of this mess for once. We just want to drink at the bar in peace and have some Happy Hour specials after a shitty day at work.

I'm declaring Gen Z to be called the "Greta Generation".

Artisinally curated, R42?

R44 Hell yes. We worked hard for this MF'ing IPA and are tired of getting lumped in with these children who have never worked a day in their life.

"They're usually racist" and "don’t believe in vaccines or climate change."

That's the kind of passive listicle journalism I've come to expect from Buzzfeed.

As an X-er, I'm so proud of finally being noticed! Bring the hate, my younglings!

I have a feeling Gen Z will be much more disliked than the Mills.

Gen X had it so good in the 90s. They were so fucking ironic because life was so good pre-9/11 and the worst thing was their depression.

R43 I love it. Every wiseass remark from Gen Z should be met with:

OK, Greta.

The legal twink ones need to just shut up and present hole. That's all they're good for yet.

[quote]The legal twink ones need to just shut up and present hole.

If it's clean ...

And I think the 'Karens' coined the phrase "That's so gay!" to shame their kids back into the closet. Almost no one under 40 can say the word 'gay' without stuttering.

This guy says, "I still felt icky using the word gay about myself (“I’m … not straight” is what I said".

[quote]It's sheer Schadenfreude watching this play out.

It's not 'playing out' anywhere except among the usual pack of keyboard warriors. People really, really need to quit mistaking Buzzfeed, Twitter et al for the real world.

OK, Stinkyfeet.

Everybody gets a participation trophy!

I see Gen Z is punching above their weight these days.

Wake me up when they're all old enough to even watch an R-rated movie.

Perfect gif, R57.

I blame the parents for unleasing this smug hellspawn upon the earth.

What's "Karen" mean? Who is she?

Karen Pence, Rose.

I'm Gen X (OK, "Xennial"), born in '79, and I've always hated my generation, but not because of the Karens, but because of the deadbeats. Most creatively dead generation maybe in history. In high school, I was surrounded by unmotivated cool kids in fucking plaid, they hated anyone who made an effort or cared about anything. The "why give a fuck?" generation. Trying is for losers, bro.

That said, you know the OP was hoping for the same angry diatribes the Boomers get into when their generation is attacked. Attack Gen X? We'll mostly just shrug, for reasons I've already described.

I see many Gen Z kids as severely damaged. Lots of rage with those ones and I mean beyond these memes. When we were their age I don't remember kids so obsessed with this type of stuff. I am from another country however so I don't know what things are like in America.

[bold]LOCK 'EM UP!

And to think that this all could have been avoided.

I wish I had parents to hate.

Garbage thread. Stop promoting foreign talking points. Not every American has to hate each other.

Hug your parents.

Most of my friends all my life have been older than me. People with life experience are just more interesting.

Ha, this is so hypocritical. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black with regard to labeling and stereotyping. Generalizing entire generations into one box and calling that okay while at same time criticizing for the exact same thing, okay, yeah, I’m definitely going to respect that line of thinking... I think pretty much people don't care or respect what Gen Z thinks because, well for one, they’re totally willing to completely dis their parents publically, probably using the $1k iPhone mom and dad bought from there, from their bedrooms because they’re still living at home—meanwhile complaining about the cost of everything despite the fact they are driving force behind inflation with their complete lack of reality (because their faces have been buried online basically since birth) and total misconceptions about how money works. Pretty much no one wants to listen to endless entitled opinions from a kid wearing a reprint Nirvana shirt and Doc Martin's trying to call out the very generation they're trying to be. I guess if you ignore a toddler long enough, they’ll just get louder. Why don't y'all head on down to H&M and buy yourself a few more Friends and MTV tees and walk around like ya discovered something impressive. Completely laughable and, well, just dumb. Congratulations, Gen Z just superseded the millennials in being the most annoying generation on the planet—maybe ya’ll should migrate over to the Middle East and live there for awhile—get yourselves a dose of 3rd world living. Oh, but wait, that would interfere with your perpetual boredom. So yeah, whatever....

I love my friend Karen

Do all Gen Z shave their genitals bald? It truly is the strangest thing to want to look prepubescent.

That didn't start with Zs, r73.

[quote]I've know a couple of cool Karen's in my life and I don't personally get the connection between that name and this trope.

Everyone knows her name should be Susan!

The Millenial version of the annoying frau is “the JODI.”

Seriously, you gave all these 30- something, fatassed, lower-middle-class cunts named “Jodi” who have never worked a day in their lives and just shit out kids.

Yet they know everything about everything.

I'm early-ish Gen X; b. 1967. Off the top of my head, I would have guessed that LISA is the most common Gen-X girl's name. It seemed like I knew a ton of LISAs, growing up -- in elementary school, middle school, high school & college.

I just flipped through my senior yearbook. The most common names in my graduating class were: Sara/Sarah (4), Kimberly (4), Linda (4), and Andrea (4). (pronounced 3 different ways)

Next tier: Elizabeth/Liz (3), Susan (3), Laura/Laurie (3), and Julie (3). (Have you heard? She's a bitch!)

There was only one girl named Karen in my class. She was very nice, got along with everyone.

I'm a later Gen X and would have thought the most common name was Jennifer.

I'm later Gen X as well and there were many Jennifers in my school.

I don't know any X'ers named "Karen". Plenty of Boomers though.

I’m mid gen X, and we had a lot of Karens, Amys, Jennifers, and Heathers.

What R54 said

The Buzzfeed article is a piece of crap as journalism--she talked to one woman in Norway who claimed that Gen Xers were all "anti-vaxxers" and made other over the top comments that make me think she was just having fun with some uptight older journo.

And yes, Xers are the parents of Zees, at least with the upper middle classes. (For the bottom 80% there's a good chance the parents of a 15 year old are my age, e.g., older millennials.) So there's going to be some friction.

But blowing minor trends out of proportion is Buzzfeed's stock in trade, something they learned from the Boomer New York magazine

Born '79, just guessing I'd say Jennifer was the most common girl name as a kid. Andrea and variations of Julia were common also.

R71 OK, Karen.

[quote] Born '79, just guessing I'd say Jennifer was the most common girl name as a kid. Andrea and variations of Julia were common also.

I was born in 75. I don’t recall attending school with any Karens. I recall one Julia and maybe one or two Andreas. Christy, Amy, Jennifer, Anne and Kimberly were all very popular. I’m a southerner.

Born in 77'.

I feel lost in the middle of all of these generations...

I quite like millennials on a personal level, but in a work situation these fuckers are lazy human GARBAGE.

However, I enjoy their company on a personal level quite more than guys in their 40's...

I don't know. Who cares. I feel like I am in a celestial speedup anyway. The years are flying by and soon I will be 50, then 60, then DEAD.

None of the labels matter anymore. Its all so FAST.

The accusations (racist, anti-vax, climate deniers) are bizarre, as I've never of heard of the current late-30s-to-mid-50s caricatured as those things.

If I may stick up for my generation, we started leaving college in a bad job market (late 80s to early 90s), as the high from Reagan's spending was wearing off and the stock market was starting to be shaky. This was before the good years under Clinton, starting in the mid 90s. We were the first generation to really experience an America that clearly couldn't offer us the mobility that our parents and grandparents had had and come to expect. I think we got a little spoiled under Clinton, when these ingrates started being born, but we didn't turn into bigots and anti-science zealots en masse.

I really wish Buzzfeed would collapse.

r86 I am exactly the same age as you and I feel the same way. Time seems to be going by so FAST. Another year is almost over. How did I become middle-aged so quickly? I still feel like my twenties were five minutes ago. It's kind of scary how time seems to just speed by.

none of this is born out by reality

There is actual data for what names were popular in which year. Karen peaked at the #3 name in 1965, sometimes considered the first Gen X year.

Vivian the #244 name in 1965?

Outrageous.

Gen X’ers need to admit that the mid to late 90s were some GREAT years.

lmao. How rude.

Rudest thing ever.

Gen Xers love speaking to managers.

They also did not vaccine their annoying little children for whatever reason.

Kirsten Gillibrand is so damn Gen X Karen personified, they should change Karen to Kirsten. Her face is just waiting to unleash upon the manager!!

Change Karen to Heather.

Like millennial fraus will not become Karens?

Karen is paying for Gen Z's outrageous tuition, so they should STFU.

R100 Millennial fraus are not Karens, they will be Meghans.

Better than being the Greta Generation.

They're so great, even though they can't spell it (but gold star for trying).

The "Can I Speak to the Manager" is more about an attitude, than an age.

I would say it's more reflective of delusional entitlement of females post-feminism.

Gen Z have so MUCH time on their hands to invent silly names, as they shuttle between their parents' house and their unpaid internship. These are the generation who won't ever be able to afford property.

After hearing all the crap they talked about us.

lo fucking l.

Generation Brat

Greta Thunberg generation. They like to wag fingers in your face but offer no solution.

OK, snowflake.

God, this is just going to get stupider, isn't it?

Yes R110

It takes a special level of talent to make Millennials seem easygoing.

Congratulations, Gen Z.

Gen Z's defining characteristics:

Sexually timid. Subjected to easy access porn from an early age, many of them quickly became intimidated by sex, as they feel they can't live up to the bodies on their screens. This leads to them embracing soupy labels like asexuality to get out of sex altogether.

Playful with language. They are more literate than millennials and have smartened up their English by writing and reading social media posts from about age ten. They read ALL the time. Millennials would be plugged into music; Gen Zers are reading.

This and their dire future in unpaid internships or Mac jobs leads to a lot of reclamation or invention of language. Saying 'Ok Boomer' or 'Ok Karen' is their equivalent of the grafitti of the 20th century. They adore port manteau (or 'smush' words, as they call them) such as Brexit.

There are tons of Karens on DL.

Does Karen’s pussy stink too ?

BuzzFeed still exists? How quaint.

Like Janeane Garafola's mouth R114!

Karen Army

Absolutely ridiculous R15. That's a really poor representation for Gen X. They need to put some effort into it.

LMAO

It's there, R116. Pretty much just for providing dumb quizzes and selling millennials crap they don't need and can't afford, though.

Does Gen X's pussy stink?

Saw that yesterday and it's just another article meant to rile people up so BuzzFeed News can get clicks.

For a while last year BuzzFeed News seemed poised to be a real, legitimate news source, but now they've gone all HuffPo fluff article clickbait. Disappointing.

[quote]I'm at the tail end of Gen X, and I agree. Most of my peer group got old and went full on libertarian (republican with extra steps)

Every American generation, especially the white males of the generation, will get more conservative as they age. It's been shown time and again. How many Greatest Generation vets who fought against fascists and Nazis were basically fascists themselves by the time they were in their 70s? Lots of them! It seems to be a natural part of the cultural evolution of the American Regular Joe.

[quote]Does Gen X's pussy stink?

Hell to the fucking yes! Like Courtney Love's rotten taint!!!

There are probably more Gen Xers that worked against discrimination and for civil rights than Gen Zers since they're barely reaching adulthood now. That generational stereotyping seems pretty stupid, and a nice way to get riled up for no reason.

[quote]I was born in 75. I don’t recall attending school with any Karens.

Interesting, but now that I think about it you're right. Graduated in 1990, just checked my online yearbooks and we had no Karens. I know we had parents who were Karens. If it was popular in the 1960s then really it's the so-called Generation Jones or young Boomers who are Karens, if we take the label literally.

In that ok boomer thread we had recently it was pretty clear that a lot of Zoomers have absolutely no concept of age. Someone linked to a Tumblr post where this Zoomer was talking about a Gen X guy she waited on who she described as early 30s and who was making Henny Youngman jokes because Youngman was "popular back then." Early 30s is Millennial and Henny Youngman hadn't been popular since he appeared as a nostalgic throwback on "Laugh-In" before Gen X could walk!

For Gen Z, just acknowledging reality make you "phobic", so fuck them and the emperor's new clothes.

I was at a concert on Saturday night and had the misfortune to have two gen zs in the seats in front of me. Through the entire concert it was glowing rectangles in my face. Zero attention span, constantly checking texts and Instagram.

Small wonder that Karen behaves as she does. Bitch a little for me, Karen!

[quote]I'm at the tail end of Gen X, and I agree. Most of my peer group got old and went full on libertarian (republican with extra steps)

See, that’s the thing. Karens AREN'T Libertarians which is why that's a misnomer.

OK, Zoomer.

My company has hired the first batch of Gen Z workers and they are quite awful. Needy and problematic like I've never seen before.

Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind .

R129 I was at a concert recently and some Gen Z fuckers decided it was okay to get in our way and have a conversation about kung fu (no lie) while the headliner was playing. We moved between songs and noticed the dumbasses were still having the same conversation after the lights came up and people were filing out. They complain about not having money, but waste the experience for a $60 concert ticket with a convo they could have in the car.

Most likely, it was their parents money, R134. Not their own. Its so much easier to waste money that you had no hand in earning. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♂️

Gen Z females lack finesse.

How dare you R136.

Born in 1974, West Coast U.S. There were Karens, but not as many as there were Jennifers. Btw, there were no Karyns either. Wasn't it nice when we all used to agree on how to SPELL a name?

Anyway, I believe in vaccines and climate change, but I don't have children (I had a rescue dog for a year though; his name is Henry and he's the cutest; I found him a home with other dogs, which he needed).

I acknowledge my white privilege, refer to myself as cis-gendered on occasion and listen to Lizzo, but the standards keep going up, so I'm probably still transphobic and racist. I'm a single gay, so I'm probably (internally) homophobic as well.

I don't know many Gen Zers. But, they seem alright. I think it's funny that the person the article quotes at the beginning has a Gen-X name (Julia).

Also, Gretchen, stop trying to make Karen happen. It's not going to happen!

Another example of why young people need to get off social media.

I know a woman named Karyn Kerin.

Most Karens I know were born in the late forties to mid fifties.

Who’s the most famous Karen??

I’d have to say Carpenter. So, a dead Boomer.

[quote]"They’re usually racist, homophobic, and transphobic, don’t believe in vaccines or climate change, and are mostly also the parents of Gen Z children."

But, of course, not their own specific parents.

How stupid do you have to be to announce to the world that you were raised by idiots. What, were their spawn somehow spontaneous able to overcome their upbringing unlike every other generation of humans to have ever lived since Homo sapiens walked upright?

Karen was a really popular name in the UK in the 1980s, as was Sharon and Tracy.

Wow they're really cutting the budget at Buzzfeed aren't they?

Lame retort.

Another Karen.

I like this meme.

I give the Zoomers credit for listening to us about how lame and enabling their parents are! They sure point fingers a lot but they really have not been a part of any real solution anybody has ever seen. They are a big part of the problem in fact.