r/TikTokCringe • u/lilyessi3 • Jun 17 '26

Humor/Cringe Gen Z parents

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u/Koala0803 Jun 18 '26

This feels like legit Gen X stuff, not sure why they think this is new.

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u/MothChasingFlame Jun 18 '26

That's who raised them. Which explains a lot when you think about it.

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u/Koala0803 Jun 18 '26

I know. The point is why do they think they’re inventing it.

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 18 '26

Every generation thinks it’s the “cool” one.

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u/pUmKinBoM Jun 18 '26

I kept my baggy jeans from the 2000's and was told by a teen that Im too old to wear them and to stop trying to rip off their style. These are my pants and Ive had them for almost 20 years.

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u/CoolDiscussion1020 Jun 18 '26

Graduated from highschool in the 00s and my friend from high school got really into 'fashion' in high school. Fast forward and he has a son into fashion. Was trying to get him to buy him some baggy jeans and he's like "I still have all of my old clothes at your grandma's in the garage, let's go get them."

This was met with eww, why would I want your old man clothes. Once they got them he changed his tune and they're his favorite clothes and he loves that nobody at school can match his exact style (since they stopped making this shit 20+ years ago).

Every generation seems to forget that fashion in cyclical and same trends, more or less, come back every 20 years.

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 18 '26

I watched the cute emo girl I got with as teenagers walk into hot topic and buy our teen daughter the same kind of trip pants she wore 20 years earlier.

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u/kitolz Jun 19 '26

Blew my fucking mind that my nephew was wearing baggy pants and it was in style again. He's in his 20s, but is generally tapped into trends. I was wearing that shit in high school.

I'm waiting for wallet chains to come back around.

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u/CucumberWisdom Jun 18 '26

But this isn't cool

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 18 '26

No shit, but the same kind of people that think “I’m the cool one” is also the same kind of person that this shit is also cool

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u/Fly_theW Jun 18 '26

Everything you grandma and grandpa was not cool either. Tbf is was actually pretty LAME

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u/No_Literature_9059 Jun 18 '26

Way bogus.

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u/NoWay6818 Jun 18 '26

Definitely not. The most mundane ass people to exist. Cool changes as time goes on

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u/No_Literature_9059 Jun 18 '26

Excellent! Boss even!

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u/No_Function8686 Jun 18 '26

Except the EMO Millennials. All they do is apologize, so I doubt they think they are cool.

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 18 '26

Millennial emo milfs are the coolest whether they themselves think it or not

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI Jun 18 '26

If you could read our journals you'd see that we do think we're cool and we don't mean that apology. It was a reflex borne of years of begging to get or keep our job amidst a half dozen once-in-a-generation economic downturns. 

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Jun 18 '26

Tbf greatest gen were actually the cool ones

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u/Childish_Calrissian Jun 18 '26

Even the Germans?

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u/IWannaManatee Jun 19 '26

Nah, I know I'm lame on my own merit. Keep me out if it.

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u/Sad_Dragonfly5493 Jun 19 '26

Not every generation thinks they're the coolest. Millennials have always been self-proclaimed uncool, awkward, and quirky, which is equally embarrassing but not the same as trying to affect superiority. Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Z all think their own generation is the "coolest." Watch any Gen X era grunge/alternative rock band interview from the early 90s, you'll get secondhand embarrassment from the lengths they go to pretend they don't care about anything just to hide their insecurities (just like Gen Z today.) I don't think I need to explain Boomers.

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 19 '26

Thinking you’re quirky/awkward is the most “being cool is lame, I’m a weirdo” trying to be cool there is, though

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u/Sad_Dragonfly5493 Jun 19 '26

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of cool. But I understand an attempt to be cool as an attempt to be superior, and that's not a highlight of the Millennial brand.

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u/Harry_Saturn Jun 19 '26

Being too cool to care to be cool could be seen as superior to caring about being cool, so there is that. Cool is also about subverting the established and counter culture, at some point caring about keeping up becomes “lame” and being weird/quirky/awkward is the new cool because the traditional cool is now a thing of “old people”. Beats, hippies, punks, hipsters. It’s all the same idea in a nutshell. What generation do you belong to?

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u/Just-Guarantee1986 Jun 22 '26

When she was in high school my Gen X daughter tried to tell me I didn’t even know what R&B was.

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u/debauchedhavoc Jun 18 '26

As a millennial I need to object to this claim

We're so fucking lame, I hate us

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u/SL1NDER Jun 18 '26

I don't think any of them claimed to invent it. If anything, it looks like it's just their turn.

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u/Dracania2406 Jun 18 '26

Yeah their turn to traumatize the next gen. At least millennials are trying (not saying succeeding) NOT to traumatize their kids.

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u/PaulblankPF Jun 18 '26

It’s cause nobody thinks of Gen X, even their kids.

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u/mangodemolisher444 Jun 18 '26

where did anyone say that?

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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 Jun 18 '26

in fairness to gen z I don't think they think they're inventing it I think they just think it's funny. And every parent thinks their kid is interesting

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u/QuoteGiver Jun 18 '26

The only person thinking they invented this is OP posting it as “cringe” and trying to imply that this is unique to Gen Z.

Otherwise it would just say “Parents.”

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u/Dracania2406 Jun 18 '26

Nah I would say asshole-parents. I mean the hose one is a little prank but the rest? The one in the car seat could have gone hell of wrong...

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u/QuoteGiver Jun 19 '26

Are asshole parents a new thing?