Are you exhibiting ‘millennial cringe’? Gen Z are coming for you
Millennials, know your limits! Or at least that’s what Gen Z want you to do. With the phrase ‘millennial cringe’, Gen Z have ultimately conjured a spell to get us gone from social media. Stop embarrassing yourselves, people with middle-aged concerns like children and mortgages and... going to work. Wearing jeans that are too tight at the ankles. Showing your ankles because you refuse to stop wearing trainer socks. Breathing. That sort of thing.
Taking a short peep at the battleground, the mocking videos make stressful viewing. There are satires — ageless Gen Z-ers pretending to be maybe five years older than they really are with intense irony, eye-rolls and a lot of weird noise making that doesn’t correspond to any millennial I’ve ever met. Then there are the stitches, where Gen Z-ers lampoon anyone who dares to fight back with insane edits and always overlaid with a throbbing, panic-attack-inducing soundtrack (‘QKThr’ in case you fancy some Requiem for a Dream-style purge vomiting).
