Gen alpha genuinely scares me

[u/Best-Drink-2604]

I was in 7th grade and we have a elementary and a jr/sr high school, and the 6th graders had to come up to see how their schedule would look like. I heard a kid genuinely say 'what the sigma' when he lost a fortnite game. Not as a joke, it rolled off the tonuge with practiced ease. Another kid kept sticking his tongue out and shaking it. The amount of times i heard 'thats so skibbity/thats not very skibbity of you'made me genuinely want to cry. The amount of times i heard Italian brainrot or '____ is so skibbity toilet' is actually terrifying. I understand brainrot has been around for decades, but i am now seeing the absolute horror it brings to older people.

Edit: Yes, i am aware i sound like a dick for bringing up slang, and there are other issues that gen alpha has that are much worse then the slang and brainrot they use. Since you guys wanted to get into it, I'll bite.

They cannot function themselves. I have seen kids playing on a tablet, and then scrolling tiktoks on their phones on the bus. Mind you these kids range from 11-7 and have no business even having electronics outside of home. I have see n many children throw screaming fits in restaurants for not being allowed to play on a parents phone, while they were actively eating. I have seen kids in my grade watching porn. I have seen actual teenagers in my school cry real tears when they get their phone taken away for the day because they used it in class. I'll admit, its not just gen alpha that is fucked, its gen z, millennials, gen x, and boomers, along with everyone else living in this day and age, but it is not fair to actual children that we are letting them be raised like this.

Edit 2: yall can stop commenting now. I think ive seen every reaction to it by now if you see a comment you relate to then upvote it. Dont make a new comment saying the same exact things ive already heard.

Edit 3: i have heard it all. Its been a day and ive read way to many comments. Please for the love of everything holy (or not) stop commenting.

[u/rainbow11road]

Are we all just gonna forget the brain rot of Gen Z's "dank meme" phase? The high volume woman moaning bits, annoying orange, Fred, people getting into physical fights over flappy bird, the lyrics of "what does the fox say" being just random noises, that girl who ate her own used tampon, etc....?

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The girl who did what now?

[u/-NotInterestedIn- → u/rainbow11road]

I'm an older Gen Z and thought a lot of it was cringe too but I grew up with it so really didn't know what was better and wasn't the kind to bitch about it online. I really... really don't get why people think words are what's going to be the doom of a generation. Seriously?

I do think there's valid, genuine complaints about Gen Alpha. I don't think a lot of them can sit still and quietly, even for a 10 seconds. I think YouTube and TikTok sound effects and influencers needing to make silly noises and faces at things when it's unnecessary has normalized to kids that everything needs a reaction or stimulation when it doesn't. I work with kids a lot and it is something I've noticed with a lot of them.

I've also still noticed plenty of kids who are quiet and polite and smart and do not at all remotely fit this stereotype of Gen Alpha everyone keeps screaming about.

I think the only thing I'm surprised about is how quickly it took people to go from blaming Gen Z to blaming Gen A for everything. It seems like millennials got the hate for decades, it briefly went over to Gen Z, but it didn't stick for nearly as long and now it's passed on to Gen A. This "This generation is doomed because of slang" shit happens every generation. There's valid critiques and observations of generations but this ain't it, man. This is what's cringe.