Gen-X here. I would like to know who in our generation decided to let their kids (Gen-Z) raid their closet. Yesterday alone I saw multiple teen girls wearing 90's era mommy pants and two, TWO, girls wearing MC Hammer parachute pants!!!! Neither of these was ever cool!

Millennials. If our kids give you grief, just remember that they thought it was a good idea to bring back parachute pants.

I keep having to explain to my 9-year-old that I'm not a boomer 🤔

Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.

Why would I care what teenagers think?

Haha losers I can get into a bar. Go drink your warm keystone while hiding from your parents. Make sure you make curfew.

Did we ever want to be cool to teenagers?

There's a trend of elder millennials shitting on Gen Z because Gen Z is doing what all kids and young people do: rebel against their elders. And it's the most cringe thing I've ever seen. Eddy Burbank had a video on it a while ago and holy crap. Just stop, y'all. The poster in the pic has the right idea.

gen z here. I genuinely think most millennials are cool asf. y'all took the brunt of the hate from older generations for us. I just hope we can pay it back somehow in the long run

My neighbor's 13 year old thinks I'm cool as shit because i make them loads of baked goodies. Cakes, cookies, granola, cupcakes, or whatever I'm baking for my weekly challenges.

Of the list of things I'm struggling with as I'm getting older, this is pretty fuckin low on the list.

Like, I understand the adults in my life as a teenager and why they didn't really give a shit about what I thought about certain things. I was young and stupid and didn't know shit about shit.

The teens are correct, I am not cool. To quote Abe Simpson, "I used to be with It, but then they changed what It was. Now what I'm with isn't It, and what is It is weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."

Now I think I'm slightly younger than Abe was in that scene, but I'm not yet at a place where teenagers are "weird and scary" to me. Juvenoia hasn't set in yet. I'm definitely out of touch, like I don't know what bands the kids are listening to these days, slang is starting to leave me behind. But I think I feel okay with the kids these days growing up in their own decade, which a lot of adults seem to struggle with. I'm going to try to hang onto that.

As for their opinion of me? Yeah sure. I'm a 36 year old homeowner that spent my free time last week cutting back my azaleas and canning a year's supply of homemade jelly. I have a shelf where I keep my carpet cleaning supplies. Any teenager who thinks I'm not cool is pretty much correct. And I'm fine with that.

My kids' friends all think I'm cool, and they're Gen Z. Which is weird because I've never been cool.

Get off of my generation X lawn.

Just remind yourself that teens bet other teens to do really really stupid and often inane/dangerous things. We were all there. (And sure, not all teens) but a lot have need to be still watched by an adult so they don’t kill themselvs attempting what most adults do. Getting to the point, it isn’t worth any self esteem damage if they call you basic.

I think it's easier to not really care about what is or isn't cool to teens.