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  • I'm not sure if the OP is trying to expose this article as an idiotic thing or not, but I can't take this nothingness of an article seriously.

    I'm 40 and I'm sure that I "gave" this supposed "stare" to both older and younger people several times this month alone. And we're barely past midway through it.

    Yes, it is smug and rude and most of the times uncalled for. But I don't remember a time when this wasn't around. I've given this look and received it since I'm able to remember existing. It's not a generational feature, it's not even a cultural one, as I've met people from all ages and places that do this my whole life.

    And it's not that the young are more rude, is that everyone is more rude now.

    We all know that social exchanges took a turn for the worst since algorithmic social media really started to take off circa 2010, and it only got worse when everyone got locked with it as their only form of social exchange during covid lockdowns. This is not a GenZ problem, nor a U.S. problem, this is a problem for most people in most places now.

    Blaming this on the young when they had no saying in establishing this mess and when they were obviously never in charge of any decisions that led us here is the typical nonsense to expect from the most idiotic reasoning of the establishment and legacy media.

    "Oh, you know who we should blame for the shitty world we have? The people who were never in charge of anything and never had any saying in a single thing whatsoever. That's who!!"

    I've witnessed this nonsense too many times my entire life and I don't know how people fall for something so easy to recognize as inconceivable. And not with just the youth. It's always stupid to assign blame to the people with the least available agency in the room, or in the world.

    And I hope you all catch it and stop it everytime someone is trying this nonsense in front of you.

    This article deserves the very "stare" that is trying to attribute to GenZ. If they do indeed do it more than others, articles like this only re-enforce that they should keep doing it. Because it very much earns that reaction.