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The generation gap is also an empathy gap
Boomers grew up in a fundamentally different world, so they have a hard time understanding why we’re struggling.
Welp, folks. The Boomers are at it again. As soon as a new social media platform takes off, it’s only a matter of time before some old cranks come along and ruin it. It happened with Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Now it’s TikTok’s turn. I’m too old for TikTok, but I was glad that Gen Z has—or I should say had—a place that was just for them, where they can goof off and lip sync the Cuphead Rap or whatever. It’s really one of the safest and most wholesome things teenagers could be doing.
Parents: If you don’t want your kids joining gangs, going to bracelet parties or doing various “challenges” that involve eating Tide Pods or setting themselves on fire, maybe just leave TikTok alone, okay? Go make some Minion memes or type-scream in all caps at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter.
TikTok is not for you.
I knew the end was nigh when I was scrolling through Twitter and saw the TikTok stamp on a video of some angry guy with wraparound shades ranting in the driver’s seat of his SUV. Angry Car Guy is a particularly obnoxious species of Boomer usually found on Youtube, scaremongering about the antifa apocalypse or…
