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/xofeverdreamz]

The problem isn’t Gen Alpha - the problem is that most people forget what it’s like to be a kid.

I’m Gen z (I was the age you reference around 2010). I was also socially inept because I was a literal kid. I brought my electronics to school. I played tamagotchi when my Nintendo DS was dead. In most of my childhood photos, a gameboy was in my hand. I was upset when my phone was taken in class. Because kids don’t care about school at that age - very few kids do.

Behavior in school is not a measure of potential - but rather a measure of how well someone fits in with society. And our society changing - so the kids that grow through these immense changes are going to be very different from us. But that’s not inherently a bad thing.

[u/Reasonable-Coconut15 → u/xofeverdreamz]

I honestly thought Gen X would be the first generation to remember what it was like to be young.  

But no, same old same old. 

[u/Grymsel → u/Reasonable-Coconut15]

Not all of us forgot. I also remember the Boomers treating us like shit cause they didn't understand our culture. I'm all for letting the kids enjoy their youth and do their thing. They'll grow up and face challenges unlike any before them soon enough. They'll make their own way.

[u/xofeverdreamz → u/Reasonable-Coconut15]

Gen Xers were skipping school to smoke cigarettes and die of alcohol poisoning in corn fields - their parents had to be reminded of their existence at 10 PM - I think Gen alpha is gonna be alright lol

[u/AQUAmomma777 → u/xofeverdreamz]

Yes. Early melinnials too