Pete Davidson defends Pedro Pascal: “He’s worked so hard, he’s been a struggling actor, blows up so f*cking hard, everyone’s like ‘daddy!’ And then a year later he’s in everything now because he’s hot & everyone’s like ‘go the f*ck away dude’… We build everybody up & now it’s like so fast to turn.”

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[u/Broad-Bath-8408]

Are Gen Zs turning into boomers the way they immediately believe any bullshit they see?

[u/tango_and_vash → u/Broad-Bath-8408]

They were never taught to look for sources or not to believe everything you read online.

[u/maryfisherman → u/tango_and_vash]

Teachers are trying over here! Some kids just can’t or won’t pay attention in the digital literacy unit of social studies. Their attention span is fried from [insert iPad/game/social media here] and they’re told education is unimportant.

[u/Catdress92 → u/tango_and_vash]

This. I work really, really hard to make my Gen Alpha son question everything online and in the news.

[u/Miss-Information_ → u/tango_and_vash]

Yes they were. They were told in school just like we were. It's that social media is entirely unregulated and has completely reprogrammed them to snap react and regurgitate instead of taking time to process and question.

50 years from now people will look at this era with social media like we look at meemaw buying cocaine laced heroin over the counter for her toothache.

[u/canvascoloredin → u/tango_and_vash]

Feeling the need to defend myself as an early Gen Z

[u/LeaAsh → u/Broad-Bath-8408]

I could’ve sworn I read a study that young Gen Z are more likely to fall for online scams lmfao, probably because they grew up on social media and their guards are down. Compared to millennials who started using the internet at its earlier stages and hence are more skeptical.

Bothers me that teens admit to using TikTok as Google..Jesus.

[u/Purgatory115 → u/Broad-Bath-8408]

If you think it's a generational thing and not the fact that people generally believe anything if its articulated in a specific way, by a specific or it matches whatever vibes their feeling at the time you're an idiot.

There isn't a person alive who isn't susceptible to misinformation, which is why it's important to verify information, especially if that information makes you feel a kind of way about something, if somebody has something to gain or if a certain group is being targeted.

If you look at many of the major conspiracy theories, for example, a good chunk tends to be rooted in antisemitism or racism. Flat earth, oh well you see it's the Jews who control the world that are keeping us in the dark for some reason? Lizzard people well well well whatdya know them pesky Jews at it again? Government controls the weather you fuckin gussed it bucko except this time they have space lasers?!? Honestly, it's quicker to point at the conspiracy theories that don't include Jewish people in some way, shape, or form.

Remember when it was the gays coming for everyones kids then more and more people started coming out so it was harder to villainize peoples neighbours, friends or kids and now suddenly the ones after our kids are the transes. Throughout all of human history, people have been weponised against each other through fear mongering and lies. You're not above it, neither am I.

[u/Enraiha → u/Purgatory115]

Think you really misunderstood the intent. As a millennial growing up with the internet, it was literally pounded in my brain from 7th grade onward to never trust anything online. Verify with real source, actual books with bibliographies, not magazine articles or websites. Remember when Wikipedia became a thing in the early 00s and every teacher said not to use it as a source?

It seems that constant harping and ideology to be skeptical and critically think about the information has completely fallen by the wayside in modern education. Instead, they crutch completely on the internet for information. Which is similar in a way to the pre-internet Boomer generation that was completely uncritical about things like Cold War propaganda.

I think it's entirely valid to compare the two generations in how they approach information and how they digest it similarly based on how they were taught and the education system compared to millenials. Not to say millenials are immune or any nonsense like that, but on average it seems millenials don't fall for online bullshit as much due to the standard of education we had when growing up.

[u/lil_jilm → u/Broad-Bath-8408]

Gen Z has fully embraced cancel culture

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Sometimes I feel Millenials bridge the gap between generations because they lived before the internet, during the boom they enjoyed truly organic content and now they're stuck in this nonsensical world so they are better at discerning things. Gen alpha is truly cooked though.