Okay first of all obligatory “generational labels are bullshit” disclaimer.
But I just noticed a lot of humour made by millennials as adults is very “cutesy” and “dad joke”.
If anyone grew up in the 90s or 2000s, you know that we were the total opposite as kids. Seriously it wasn’t long ago where the hight of our humour was homophobia and jokes about SA. We were the fucking horrible edgelord generation.
How did we go from being kids that would beat each other up for even looking at the colour pink, to the heckin’ wholesome cat video generation?
Honestly I know we make fun of ourselves for the “HECKING POGGER PUPPERINO” shit, but honestly, it’s a step up from the edgelord shit we grew up with.
This is, of course, ignoring that a lot of us didn’t grow out of it and became your Ben Shapiro’s and your Steven Crowders (I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard)
Never really was an edge lord but, I just feel being able to be emotionally expressive as a man is best for my peace of mind. I feel comfortable and I can only imagine the sort of internal suffering previous generations had, being deprived of their full range of emotions due to restrictions placed upon them by gender roles. The thing that annoys me is that large swaths of society have yet to be accepting of this.
The worst are the ones that are all like “things were better when we were edgy and said slurs and hated each other!” Like hell no they weren’t everyone was hyper aggressive and it was exhausting
Yeah, it was exhausting. I even tried it a bit at one point and said to myself “this is stupid, half-assed, and exhausting; why are you doing this?” I’m not raising my blood pressure for that.
I went along with a lot of it because it felt like what I was “supposed to do” but it really just made me miserable and I suspect the same was true for a lot of others.