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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 76 points 4 days ago (33 children)

I think Zoomers need a generational divide in their generation, tbh. In my experience, older Zoomers are intelligent, capable, motivated, and largely leftist. For some unknown reason though, younger Zoomers are ignorant, prudish, too easily contented, and weirdly conservative. I have yet to understand what happened to cause the divide, and I can't point to any stats or evidence to support this belief, but anecdotally I have noticed this trend within my own life and spheres of influence.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

COVID happened. Splitting you right down the line as boz Skaggs says

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm sure this had profound impact, but frankly we all lived through it so I find it hard to accept as the sole or majority-dominant reason alone, personally.

[–] monarch@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I was never a "main friend" in any of the groups I interacted with. I hung out with a lot of people on a very shallow level. When covid hit I stopped talking to all of them. it was nearly a year of me only seeing my parents and sibling because a family member is immunocompromised. I still struggle to make real connections after that and I was at the end of highschool. If that had hit in middleschool when I was still taking "cool" seeming peoples sord as gossiple I have known idea what it would have done to me.

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