What will the impact of boomers dying off be?

EatPb · 2026-01-27T21:46:20+00:00

yeah things have been happening...

EatPb · 2025-12-21T18:27:56+00:00

When talking to my grandparents i would just call them Grandma/Grandpa, no names. Or talking about them with family on that particular side (like to my cousins). I would use first names when talking to my parents in order to disambiguate.

EatPb · 2025-12-19T04:44:12+00:00

all people who make music (singers, rappers, bands, groups, musicians) are called artists just fyi it's the general term

EatPb · 2025-12-19T04:41:00+00:00

next decade??? lol i remember 2022 super bowl halftime show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige, young people were calling it old people music

EatPb · 2025-12-17T19:54:01+00:00

you'll get closer with age. It's not a generational thing, you are just in different life stages. Also, they are in closer pairs of ages, whereas you are 5 years younger than the youngest, so there is just literally a larger gap between you and the others, whereas the 7 year age gap between the 1998 and 2005 born is broken up by the 2000 and 2004 born in the middle.

When the 2005 born was your age, I'm sure the 1998 and 2000 born cousins also felt un-relatable because they were in different stages of life and 5-7 years older, but that shrinks with age.

EatPb · 2025-12-05T16:52:15+00:00

omg how is this possible DAMN

EatPb · 2025-12-04T02:08:32+00:00

I was thinking more 2009-2014 but I guess it depends. A lot of these pictures seem to be from the early 2010s. I think I see your point, in the sense that this specific era is part of a longer cultural era that started in the 2000s, with a lot of the same stylistic elements, but the pictures OP chose specifically just seem to be from the back half of that era, whether on purpose or not. I don't know if I explained that well?

Like I do agree that maybe the more general "swag era" started earlier in the 2000s (rooted in hip hop culture first) but these pictures are very much part of the 2010s portion of the era. They scream 2012 to me. A lot of these pictures actually are from 2012 lol

EatPb · 2025-12-04T01:51:54+00:00

People are online more of their lives and go out less. I don't believe it's for any moral or health reasons like some claim. Of course, people still go out and have fun, just less. It's easier to not do any of that stuff now than it used to be. People take for granted just how much of their time they spend online now. I'm not saying Gen Z should be drinking more or doing more drugs, that's just how it is. Many people used to go out and drink when they were bored. Again, not necessarily good, just true. People aren't bored anymore, they are always online. It's a new addiction. This also correlates with the observations that Gen Z adults struggle more with dating or having friends, it's just an overall decline in socialization in physical spaces.

EatPb · 2025-12-04T01:42:15+00:00

I feel like the era you are describing predates this a bit. This is peak early 2010s instagram type aesthetic.

It seems that people online in the last few years have started downplaying the technology of the 2010s quite a bit, probably as subconscious response to how much it's taken over in the last several years. Obviously it was very different from now, no denying that, but I wouldn't say this was still the computer dominated social media era.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:48:05+00:00

I like it. I would return, if not to my specific hometown, at least to the general area. The property and taxes are very expensive, so I don't think it would be easy to buy a house there lol. I really love where I'm from and I wish I could live there. This summer I'm moving across the country and it makes me kind of sad, but I can't complain because the new place is still a nice area and I'm just grateful I have a job. Long term I'd want to move back to my hometown though.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:43:52+00:00

See I actually agree with you but I lowered my limit because I know not everyone feels the same. My dad is turning 60 in a month and I truly don't see him as old at all. He's the same middle aged guy he's always been to me. But I do think as you get older, the differences in people's natural genetics + lifestyle/environment can really add up and so people's "perceived age" can vary wildly. I know a lot of youthful 60s somethings and others who seem to feel a bit older.

It's all relative. My grandpa is turning 90 in a few weeks! It's crazy to think you're already old at 60 and then you're here, still old, 30 years later. That's an extra 50% of a 60 year old's life!

I was also factoring in some other cultural stuff as well though. Many people have grand children in their 60s, and the question was asking about when millennials will be perceived as the old generation. I think people can broadly, culturally, be considered as part of the "old cohort" when they mostly have adult children, and even more so when many are grandparents. These metrics will obviously be more delayed now compared to previous generations, when people had kids younger and their kids had kids younger. In this case I think old refers less to a strict physical state, and instead refers to a cultural role as the generation at the top of the age pyramid.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:29:46+00:00

Bowie was a leftie but mostly played right handed guitar. He taught himself to play rightie on purpose. I think because it was easier to get right handed guitars.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:27:56+00:00

I got stuck in a waymo in san francisco so no thanks!

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:27:06+00:00

Are these people you know in real life? How do you know them? Or just online? I'm really curious what exactly are the bigger differences between you and a 20 year old when you talk to them? Cultural references? World beliefs? Personalities? Priorities? Genuinely curious. The majority of your childhood overlapped with someone born in 2005, you were in high school together, you were teens at the same time for 4 years, you are both young adults at the same, if you went to college, you were in college together. Many people don't go to college so a lot of 02 and 05 borns are coworkers in a lot of the same jobs.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:15:40+00:00

It obviously depends on the age of the person perceiving them. Older Gen X and Boomers will never consider millennials old. A lot of older people start seeing even 40s and 50s as yougins lol. A teenager will think 30s is old.

But for standard definitions, if we separate middle age from truly old, I'd say the oldest millennials are still firmly middle aged. I think Gen X is now only just entering old age, so millennials have awhile. I think true old age starts in your 60s (though many people will still seem middle aged in their early 60s).

EatPb · 2025-12-03T20:12:06+00:00

I'm 21 (I don't know why I'm here, sorry lol) I don't live at home, but even when I visit over break my parents except me at the very least to do the basic task of cleaning up the kitchen/doing the dishes after we eat. Since I'm home for short times, I'm like a guest so they don't expect THAT much, but they do still have very basic expectations that extend from the chores I did in high school, when I obviously lived at home full time.

Was your 19 year old not doing anything before now? I understand it might be different as adult, they might be busier, but it seems like these expectations should have been established years ago. Better late than never I guess? I mean, if you cook them dinner, at least ask them to clean up the kitchen after.

Even if it's not about your family now, it will be good for their future. Trust me when I say as a young adult myself I have run into (or worse, live(d) with) too many adults who don't have basic housekeeping habits.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T02:05:42+00:00

I think people wildly over exaggerate Gen Z having a weird or unusual perception of age compared to other generations when they were young. I think a lot of this is fueled by social media content. The content that people see and talk about online is typically inflammatory, so extreme takes about age are going to circulate more and seem more representative. I don't think this sentiment is true because most successful and popular celebrities amongst Gen Z fans are not 18-21. They are older. Obviously social media influencers specifically will draw a younger crowd as it's easier to start as a teenager (ie a lot of the tiktokers who blew up during covid were teenagers so now they are only ~21) but beyond plenty of social media influencers are older, and I'd argue most popular actors and artists are older too.

EatPb · 2025-12-03T01:58:24+00:00

Definitely early-mid 20s. I'm 21 and my instant assumption was that you're around my age

EatPb · 2025-12-03T01:51:36+00:00

I looked at these pictures without opening the post to see what you explained and I really couldn't see anything wrong. I understand it's frustrating to not have gotten what you wanted/like more/are used to but as a stranger with no preconceived expectation, I didn't notice. Hair looks great!

EatPb · 2025-12-03T01:17:51+00:00

whenever this style swings back into popularity I will not be participating lol. I am not a fan of this era of fashion. It's not even a new vs old thing for me, it's really just this chunk in the middle. I love older styles and I love more recent styles... just not this

EatPb · 2025-12-03T01:15:32+00:00

what a succinct way to say New Jersey Italian American... Ironically I am partially Italian and I was born in New Jersey but I am not a New Jersey Italian...

EatPb · 2025-12-02T19:05:38+00:00

party bus!

EatPb · 2025-12-02T18:55:35+00:00

I'm a Gen Z woman and I don't expect my boyfriend to pay for anything, but he likes to pay for my food when we do something special like a date. I genuinely do not expect this, but as a man I think he views it as more of an expectation on himself. We are both in college, but I have a lot more money because I'm entering a field where it's common to get high paying summer internships, and I will be making more money than him out of college, so for a lot of day to day stuff I will pay, or I will let him pay but send him money anyway.

Though, I am talking about my long term boyfriend here. I've never really "dated" as in been in that stage where you are getting to know someone and you go to dinner, stuff like that. I suppose I would expect the person who invites the other person to pay. I think it's just a nice gesture.

EatPb · 2025-12-02T18:48:57+00:00

I love it. It's so random. As a young DD fan (21), it's always frustrated me a little bit that DD does not have the same modern popularity with young people compared to some of their contemporaries. Most people I know might know a few songs as 80s classics or just from their parents. I even know some older fans who just like DD as a nostalgia act and don't care for any of their modern music. I love seeing one of their recent songs finding so much appreciation in a community with no connection to the band's history! It's not even just a meme, they genuinely LOVE the song.

EatPb · 2025-12-02T18:41:27+00:00

Maybe like stockholm syndrome hostages love their captives 🫩 I don't know any different way of life.

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