Welcome to what millennials have experienced for a couple decades: Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations want based on little more than a stereotype or maybe the feedback from one young person they spoke to once.
But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. And when the 20-somethings start bitching about you.
> Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations
This is frequently called 'society'. Keep breathing long enough, you'll find yourself on the other side of that behavior.
I'm waiting with eager anticipation to hear what wrongs our whole generation is uniquely responsible for.
As a member of the Gen X community I am completely fine with this. Oh well, whatever, never mind us.
laughs, then starts weeping in perpetual renter
Honestly, I've seen more camaraderie between millennial & genZ than adversity. Both of us got the luck to be born to "interesting times".
I don't think this blog post means to stereotype all of gen-Z though. I think they're just using it as a foil to talk about the counter-trend to early-21st-century minimalism. That was in turn a counter-trend to late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities.
GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something.
GenX UI, at least on the Web, was TABLE layouts with spacer GIFs dictated to us by Boomers who wanted brochures. Our crowning design achievement still lives on in WiFi router Web management tools and phpBB.
Yo, anybody going to the Phish concert? I need a ride.
Still being talked into seeing a-ha and Duran Duran. Go Gen-X!
There weren't enough of us. Also we were apathetic to everything. At least that's what I was told I wasn't really paying attention.
My first thought seeing the Gen-Z version was "why don't they show a flashing marquee banner, an email with flapping wings, and play some MIDI music while they're at it?"