Anon observes a zoomer

People who listen to music on speaker in public should be euthanized.
- A few years ago I regularly took the same morning bus to work. There was this maybe 16-17 year old kid who sat on the back and would listen obnoxious rap at full volume on his phone, while hogging the whole seat row with his stuff.
  I had my headphones on but the hideous rap blared so loud I couldn't hear anything else. In my country we rarely interfere with other people's business, everyone was just sitting tight looking pissed off.
  After few minutes I stood up, walked to the kid and told him to either turn that shit off, use headphones like everyone else or I'd throw his phone out at the next stop. He looked at me for a moment completely dumbfounded but turned the noise off and left the bus at the next stop.
  He never took the same bus again.
  
  You were everyone's hero that day.
  
  What is obnoxious rap? How does it differ from regular rap?
  
  And the bus driver clapped.
  
  And the whole bus stood up and clapped! An old lady came up and gave you a hug and a $100 bill too
- Be the change you want to see in the world.
  
  Carry bleach filled syringes onto the metro?
- euthanized
  You write " forced to listen to accordion covers of operas played at a volume so it competes against the TVs playing the HeadOn commercial in Portuguese backwards in a loop" funny, but I get it.
  
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- I had a hero bus driver pull the bus over and give one of those kids a single warning. Told him if he plays the music loud again he'd be walking.
- I'm gonna add people that use speakerphone in public to that last. Just today I witnessed a dude at a Starbucks speaking loudly because he had his phone sitting on the table in front of him. Nothing in his hands, just wanted to disturb everyone, apparently...
- And let's be real, it's never someone playing Billy Joel or Stevie Ray Vaughn. It's always the worst drill rap you've ever heard.
  
  What difference does it make what they're playing? This is a stupid distinction to make.
- listening to music on speaker in some public places is illegal in some countries
- So this was it. This was what took to turn me pro-euthanasia.
- Broccoli hair people are filled with anti-human juice

Meh. People watch stuff on public transportation, airplanes, or wherever without headphones. It’s maddening. I don’t care what the content is. They’re just being assholes.
The flipping thru media? Shit, look at the age of some of the people creating the “content” (I use that word loosely, the vapid and shallow garbage that consumes the majority of bandwidth is devoid of anything worthy of being called content). There’s a huge span of ages, from millennials to tweens generating the noise. Everyone shouting as loud as they can for views. Heck, even if you’re a conservative ass boomer there’s content for you, how does anyone think all these bullshit Q and pizza parlor pedo shit gets spread around.
Anyway, point being…it’s not the generation being an asshole watching the stuff loudly in public space, there’s plenty of assholes doing it. Just the kind of media they’re blasting is different by age.
- IDK, I remember kids blasting boom boxes in the 90s, and others would listen to headphones around their neck with the cans turned out so others can hear their music. It's not new, people just suck.

Sus parenting.
- And sus tech companies doing everything they can to get kids on and addicted
  
  And completely corrupt and bought politicians doing less than nothing about it.
  
  But the parents didn't have to supply their kids with the devices in the first place. Gen X parents are getting their revenge on society for being perennially ignored.

Counterpoint:
I got on the bus today, and there was this grumpy old guy complaining loudly to the lady in front of him about pronouns.
She was clearly trying to ignore him by pretending to read a book.
He looked up at me and scowled, but he stopped talking.
So I sat down next to him and opened TikTok.
He couldn't help but be nosy and was staring at my phone, so I picked the most obnoxious videos.
Each time he would show interest, I would flip to the next one.
I'm sure it was annoying, but at least he shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.
- you cocomelon'd grandpa
- Too bad you couldn't intentionally play videos that were about pronouns just for him.
  
  You can on YouTube.

they all have this haircut too
- Damn why is that so on point.
  
  Because they all fight over who's hair is the broccoliest
  
  It's a warning sign like a rooster.
- 🥦
- Isn't that that guy from Twilight?

Bro never channel surfed the 90s away
- Best analogy you could make to explain swiping to the next video, thank you.

Too young to see a boombox on the bus?
- You would have a hard time changing to a different song every 3 seconds.
  This is the part i don’t get about tiktok and instagram. You don’t even watch that shit and it looks like some sort of brain washing.
  
  Yeah the rewiring of patience is startling. Like sometimes I'll look over a friend's shoulder at something that sounds like it's going to be interesting, only to see them flick it away before anything has even happened. Like what was your queue that this video wasn't worth your 20 seconds? Maybe they should have waved their arms or said something shocking to grab your attention?
  I know it's old fashioned of me, but it's so weird to have this (and I mean no offense) schizophrenic stream of av content whipping by, with ads, extremism, and product placement interleaved with micro journalism, education, and genuine attempts at communication.
  There's something about the infinite scrolling format which makes us fickle. It removes the act of choosing--
  Sorry I don't know what this rant is about. I'm preaching to the choir here. I'm just nervous because my wife is having surgery today. Anyway thanks for the distraction, back to worrying lol
  
  It is brainwashing. It's absolutely brainwashing.
- A boombox is not a toy.
  
  A wise man once said:
  a boombox can change the world.

A mixture of American society being dumbed down by social media and defunded school districts, neglectful Gen X parents that shoved a device in their hands at 5yo and walked away, and a feeling of detachment from a reality that is becoming more and more bleak as time progresses.
- neglectful Gen X parents
  You...you actually remembered we exist!

Don't be cap cuz you ain't bussin' the way he bussin'.
- Fr fr 💀💀💀
- The fuck does don't be cap mean?
  
  Cap is a reference to the façade that you can put over your teeth to make them look nice. Cap means fake, insincere; no cap means authentic, real, honest.
  Your free trial of my transgenerational banter course, Boomer2Zoomer, has expired.

All right everyone it's time for an old person check!
If you identify with this meme you might be old!
it's important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe. It's a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they're younger.
- Not really about generations, it's more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.
  
  Agreed. Every generation is chock full of idiots, just basic math. Two generations ago this would have been an idiot blasting his boombox on the bus.
  
  But this post explicitly defines the situation in terms of their generation not their attitude, separating the two changes the context and my response was to the context.
  
  My neighbours are ALWAYS listening to really loud Drum and Bass
  
  If it's not about generations then why is a specific generation mentioned in the post, title, and pretty much half of the comments?
  Also, natural landscape? This is on a bus
  This post is an excuse to get mad at a stereotype of young people.
  
  I am 18 any almost all my friends consume this type of media at a rapid pace. This is not really an -old people hate youngsters thing, what these consumers are dou g is simply not okay (specifically the unreasonably loud tiktoks, without headphones obv)
  
  Exactly. At the end of the day, a haircut, or fashion, or what you like to do on the bus is super unimportant. Manners and common decency are timeless. Too bad that parents aren't really teaching those values as frequently these days.
- Agreed, but listening to anything in a public setting without headphones is a shitty thing to do. It was when I was a kid with a Gameboy or Walkman, and it still is now with tiktok.
  
  No question
- I remember kids in my class randomly shouting “Waffles!” or “this is a spork!” Because lol so random xd
  Kids so obsessed with invader zim that they acted like him in real life
  Also l33t sp33k being cool for a minute and “the narwhal bacons at midnight”at the peak of Reddit popularity
  The whole gangam style craze. I went to a wedding held in a barn and everyone did the gangam style
  People saying “epic fail” all the time
  This is just what I can remember off the top of my head, but I think you get the point. None of us are without blame, we are all cringe. Let the kids be cringe too, it’s part of growing up
  
  Remember when everything had to have a moustache, crocs were all the rage, and the whole Scene fashion? I miss that era. Simpler times.
- Being annoyed by someone blaring their phone’s volume in public isn’t an age thing. It always has been, and always will be fucking obnoxious.
  And I say that as someone who’s literally in Gen Z.
  
  It is when you define it as being because they're gen z, my issue was with saying it was because of their generation.
- Jokes on you. I was never cool.
  
  Jokes on you, I think you're cool
- Every time I see somebody complaining about how (younger) people consume media today, I'm reminded of a video I saw of somebody talking about the so-called "ADHD Epidemic" and this one comic in it of a kid sitting at a desk in school and staring at a flashing billboard out the window while the teacher was yelling at him to pay attention. His response was, "To what?"
  Gen X and Millenials are a product of that environment and it's gotten worse since the rise of social media. Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world of a million points of stimulus attempting to hog their dopamine receptors all at once. Is it any wonder that they can't focus on any one thing for more than 3 seconds?
  All of our attention spans for generations now have been stolen by advertisers looking to make money off of it. The younger generations deserve our kindness for what's been done to them. Or else we're no better than those older than us were when we were young.
  
  I'm a millenial (born 1981), and I remember my father (a boomer) complaining about MTV in the 90s and 00s, and how "confusing" it was. He couldn't fathom how the young people could pay attention to what was being told on the account of how fast and abrupt the cutting was.
  Fast forwards to today, and the MTV-style is everywhere: YouTube, TikTok, Reels etc is directly traced back to the fast paced MTV style of cutting.
  Question is. How fast can we go!?
- But this time is different!
- I've said it quite a few times now so listen up.
  This hypothetical person in the green text is in the wrong. However my issue is that it is painted as an issue with the generation rather than just plain human decency. This could be an issue with anyone. It's deliberately used to paint the generation in a negative light and is an attempt at pretty tribalism that has been tried with every generation.
  This tactic has been used to separate generations and create tribalism especially politically for years and I do not condone it.
- If an older generation thinks a younger one is cringe, why would the younger one care?
  
  Probably not but I still think it's important to be kind and not prejudice because of the generation.
  This person in the green text is in the wrong but not because they're a zoomer
- No, we got beat if we didn't benefit and follow the rules of community. Now we have selfish "communists" disrupting society with gibberish because they chose tiktok over education.
  
  If anything, communists are less likely to blare music / scroll tiktok on speaker in public.

Influencers? Ad presenters!
- Influence you to buy stuff

"Why do drug addicts take drugs?"

I see more boomers blasting their phones than any other demographic
- I tease my husband when he is on Facebook because my God it sounds exactly like when the kids are scrolling TikTok. Don't know how he can stand it. But he doesn't do that out in the world.
- I blame the phone designers removing the headphone jack. We now have a generation of people who grew up without it,always using the speaker, max volume out loud is just how they exist, it's the new normal.

My wife (a millennial) does this all the time at home. Part of me thinks it's her way of getting me to leave the living room so she can fart.
- if your wife isn't farting on you are you really in love?
- So I've been clearing rooms backwards it seems

Unfortunately I think this is real.
3 seconds to decide whether to invest 10 seconds or more into watching any given clip
2friends' Big Booty Mix on full blast

As a zoomer I still find that stuff strange. Although to all the people saying social media is bad, lemmy is also social media and can be just as bad for you. Go outside, touch grass or something. Better than shitting on some kid who was neglected by his parents and given a phone as a replacement.

Yeah this generation kinda screw up, social media is real bad.

I swear, the next time I’m in the situation where someone is blaring their music in public I’m going to go out of my way to jam out with them and appreciate it.
- whenever it happens to me it's always either:
  country pop with a hint of jingoism
  blown out audio from a YouTube video with a lot of screaming
  I don't even hear rap or hip hop that much anymore, those were the good old days.

new rule for millennials and gen x - if you can complete the phrase "RonCo Showtime Rotisserie - Just set it, and ________" then you don't get to make fun of tiktok

I've been scrolling through this c/ and I've gotten this far down, I'm basically doing the same. I think I'll stop now.

It really looks like that's what they do. My brother (13 yo) stays on the same posts for a long time, let's them loop for 6 times and then scrolls... And yeah, they tend to okay that stuff really loud for some reason

Zoomer genocide when
- The broccoli brigade are self harming faster than a government could get them.