No, not at all. If anything, the flashy, glitchy BS seems pretty anti-brutalist. Brutalism is about functionality, pure and simple. It doesn’t have decorative elements. It’s not cool,except in temperature. It doesn’t have to be ugly, but the beauty of brutalism is minimalist, at best.
Label is being re-appropriated, IMO doesn't make a lot of sense when it goes against core tenets. But alot of GenZ aesthetic are fun, but their naming hardly makes sense, or doesn't even try to with the iconography/typography being used. It's mostly vibes or labelling for the sake of categorization. See Frutiger Aero.
Whatever. It's fine as long as they don't get upset when we ignore their clearly misguided labeling and hand them a dictionary to look up "brutalism".
I think my definition is better and much more inline with what most users want and how open web standards actually work
Pure HTML sites with no JavaScript are to archaic and web technologies have improved significantly.
A better standard of comparison is current HN mobile and desktop apps, or other popular websites that use large frameworks and obscure their functionality to end users
Beyond this, I made a HN reader for the way I personally browse HN with absolute minimal lines of code and maximal cross platform utility so I can use this on desktop, mobile, my iPad, etc.
I really don’t care that much about adhering to pedantic definitions of brutalism and a lot more about making something that I like using
Gen Z have done this to a few things. Another notable example is redefining breakcore from “extreme technical noisy breakbeats” to “atmospheric ambient drum and bass”