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I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

I have encountered the opposite problem, where people older than me get all uppity about how my generation (gen z) doesn’t know cursive, doesn’t know what a VCR is, etc. Gen Z is roughly defined, depending on the country, as people being born between 1997 and 2012. While older technology from the early 2000s and before may be foreign to the younger half of gen z, the older half of us literally grew up with that shit. Like I remember getting VCRs from our local library and playing cassette tapes and CDs in the car.

I think a big factor in why older generations assume Gen Z is unfamiliar with tech that’s from around 20 years old or even older is probably due to a delightful mixture of COVID and lockdowns generally fucking with people’s sense of time. I know that it fucks with me and people my age immensely. Lockdowns hit in March of 2020 for me while I was finishing grade 11, and within the next year or two I’m going to be applying to master’s programs. My sibling was in grade 9 when the pandemic hit which pretty much nuked the majority of her high school experience, after April 30th of this year she can work as a certified nurse’s assistant and be able to legally drink in every province and territory in our country.

Also, my section of Gen Z is very into y2k and vintage stuff generally. There’s a reason why major artists like Taylor Swift are releasing records and CDs, there’s a demand for it. I got a record player for Christmas and this weekend I’m taking my partner to a record store for a belated Christmas gift. My almost 19 year old sister got a record for her birthday and another one for Christmas.

Gen Z, like every generation that has become before and after us, is not a monolith, quit treating us like we are. Besides, if y’all keep talking smack about us to our faces or behind our backs, don’t come crawling to us because your computer doesn’t work properly and you can’t be bothered to call IT.