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Columbine changed everything. I think the effect is most sharply felt if you're a xennial, but I wasn't old enough to experience a pre-Columbine high school experience. There are plenty of millennial high schoolers who walked through metal detectors. I see the difference between millennials and zoomers as more of a quantitative difference than a qualitative one. The stuff about pigs pretending to be school shooters to "prep" students is a more recent development and a huge wtf for me.
Yes, that's true. I think social media bullying already existed when I was in high school, but owning to us not having social media as kids, we didn't really incorporate our online persona as part of our concept as self to the extend of zoomers. In other words, we differentiated between cyberspace and meatspace and we can "walk away" from our online troubles.
It's interesting to compare zoomers here with my gen x coworkers who are old enough to be their parents. The funniest story was some gen xer who tried to start a conversation by asking whether I watched a bunch of zoomer cartoons and after seeing my blank expression, he then started asking if I watched a bunch of gen xer cartoons that I'm even more clueless about lol. He went from asking about Steven Universe to asking about the Star Trek Animated Series, two cartoon series separated by 4 decades. And the real funny thing is that the midpoint between the two would be shit that I actually watched as a kid, so cartoons like Animaniacs or Darkwing Duck. It was a really trippy experience to be asked about cartoons that you're simultaneously too old and young when they came out.