i dont know, probably. it seems like the generational conflict on tiktok is mostly just making up stuff about other generations. but it turns out that human nature is actually not capitalism, it’s cringeism.
My dad and his brothers developed proto memes as boomers growing up in the 60s and 70s, many based on the really low rent Hannah Barabarra cartoons, Looney Tunes and The Muppet Show. They all pretended Top Cat was the greatest cartoon ever made, all household cats were given Sylvester style voices with some difference and unrelated to pop culture if anyone asks where someone went the go to answer is ‘they’re on the roof eating oranges’
Boomers absolutely had absurdist humor. Consider the enduring popularity of Monty Python, along with other counterculture comedy like Firesign Theater. Consider also Discordianism and The Church of The Subgenius (though the latter is more of a Gen X thing).
Oh, MAD Magazine is another good example. Boomers love MAD.
Yeah I think Gen Z was just going through their “lol so randum! I can haz cheeseburger?” phase and is probably growing out of it as they enter the work force where what little hopes and dreams they have left is crushed for good.
imagine thinking millennials didn’t have absurdist humor when they were teenagers. im sure boomers did too but they didnt have newgrounds.
Isn’t the lolrandom thing something millennial are made fun of for?
i dont know, probably. it seems like the generational conflict on tiktok is mostly just making up stuff about other generations. but it turns out that human nature is actually not capitalism, it’s cringeism.
My dad and his brothers developed proto memes as boomers growing up in the 60s and 70s, many based on the really low rent Hannah Barabarra cartoons, Looney Tunes and The Muppet Show. They all pretended Top Cat was the greatest cartoon ever made, all household cats were given Sylvester style voices with some difference and unrelated to pop culture if anyone asks where someone went the go to answer is ‘they’re on the roof eating oranges’
Class of 2009 is basically a more PC version of classical millenial humor.
Never heard of it
Boomers absolutely had absurdist humor. Consider the enduring popularity of Monty Python, along with other counterculture comedy like Firesign Theater. Consider also Discordianism and The Church of The Subgenius (though the latter is more of a Gen X thing).
Oh, MAD Magazine is another good example. Boomers love MAD.
Yeah I think Gen Z was just going through their “lol so randum! I can haz cheeseburger?” phase and is probably growing out of it as they enter the work force where what little hopes and dreams they have left is crushed for good.
I am gen z and nearing 30, a lot of gen z are adults and have been for a while.
Anyone who thinks absurdist humor is generational is a goober.
Here’s some absurdist boomer humor:
And the entirety of modern Heathcliff is absurdist Millennial humor.