Okay first of all obligatory “generational labels are bullshit” disclaimer.
But I just noticed a lot of humour made by millennials as adults is very “cutesy” and “dad joke”.
If anyone grew up in the 90s or 2000s, you know that we were the total opposite as kids. Seriously it wasn’t long ago where the hight of our humour was homophobia and jokes about SA. We were the fucking horrible edgelord generation.
How did we go from being kids that would beat each other up for even looking at the colour pink, to the heckin’ wholesome cat video generation?
Honestly I know we make fun of ourselves for the “HECKING POGGER PUPPERINO” shit, but honestly, it’s a step up from the edgelord shit we grew up with.
This is, of course, ignoring that a lot of us didn’t grow out of it and became your Ben Shapiro’s and your Steven Crowders (I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard)
I’m surprised any of us got of out that mentality, the deck was stacked against it with how horrible pop culture was in the early 2000s with nu-metal, WWE, South Park, the general post-9/11 bloodthirst including stuff like racist Flash animations on Newgrounds and Stickdeath, etc.
I’m equally unsurprised by how many didn’t grow out of it and turned into ”you could make this today because everyone’s so easily offended” boomer types.