“No Replies”: 52 Things Gen Z Does That Older People Do Not Understand

Gen Zers track each other. I worked in the restaurant industry for 20 years, and what I’ve noticed about the younger Gen Zers that really freaks me out is that not only did their families track where they are through their cell phones, they also know where every member of their family is at all times. Their friends and significant others too. they all share locations with one another, as if it’s normal to have constant access to one another. It’s exhausting just to watch. My young friend, who is a hard worker, and a smart young man, told me that he could turn his location off, to go do things he wanted to do, but he knew that his parents would give him a hard time about it, and maybe even take money out of his bank account, that they have full access to! This man is 20 years old, is buying a house, has worked for years for all his money, and his family has access to his accounts, his location, and him at all times, and it’s not an isolated thing amongst them. It boggles my mind.

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They would rather ignore your text.
“Hey we still doing that thing today?”
If they know they are gonna flake they just don’t reply. And now I’m over here, having to wait on your response to replan my day. It’s inconsiderate. Just communicate.

I’ve been told by many Gen-Z that it’s cringe to double text someone or to be the last one to send a text. You always want the other person to text you last, so you can ignore them and feel cool.

Deadpan stare at someone in a job where they interact with customers. I.e. As a barista just staring at the person to place an order without saying *hi what would you like*. It’s weird because I’m used to waiting for them to greet you as a sign that they’re finished with their other task (the previous persons order) and ready to take my order so as to not be rude.

They text

in short bursts

so that you get

ten messages

for one simple question

I got six texts from my daughter yesterday. All she wanted was to let me know the time to pick her up. .

I'm a college professor, and a bunch of my Gen Z students are friends or even roommates... but when they enter our seminar room, they don't greet or talk to each other at all-- just sit down and stare at their phones until class starts. *Then*, once the structured part begins, they'll have a discussion.

I work in a restaurant, and a startling amount of older high school kids are incapable of ordering from their servers and have to still whisper their order to a parent. Many can't even figure out how to read a menu. It's very unsettling considering some are only one or two years away from college and won't have mom or dad there to tell someone what they want on their sandwich.

Get together with friends just to all sit their looking at their phones.

Using AI instead of thinking for themselves.

Call millenial cringe but dress like how we did in the 90s and 2000s 😆.

The Gen Z Stare:

Instead of dealing with uncomfortable or difficult situations they choose to dissociate and stare at the other person in an attempt to get out of whatever the thing is.

That’s a really weird one.

Some have described it as trumping social norms or something but truly it’s a lack of social skills and coping mechs to do that sort of thing in public.

e: someone responded “the most millennial thing I’ve ever heard” and then deleted it. Kinda proves the point above doesn’t it? Say it with your chest homie.

Spend $27 for a 10 inch pizza via uber eats.

You hate on millennials but play our music in the clubs…the clubs they attend but don’t dance at.

Yep, standing around a sensory overload factory sober while literally listening to “Move” by Ludacris.

😭 “Why don’t they move?!??

Ghosting people, it’s so infuriating and they do it all the time, very bad communication skills online and in person.

As a millennial with a gen Z stepdaughter: wearing band shirts of bands they don't actually listen to. This one drives me up the wall.

They are obsessed about gender and sexuality but no one is getting laid.

Get easily preventable diseases at stupidly high rates. Thanks, Anti-vaxxers!

It seems like they force themselves into a position where they don’t get to enjoy anything earnestly, for being of being called cringe. I think that’s so sad.

Like come on babies, go live your lives! You don’t get a second shot stop wasting your time acting cool, you aren’t cool and you are just depriving yourselves of joy.

An alarming percentage of Gen Z males voted conservative/MAGA.

I don’t understand if they’re doing it for the lulz or they genuinely believe in those ideals, but it’s confusing either way.

As a millennial with a lot of Gen Z coworkers, I don’t get the memes. In our work group chat they’ll post reaction gifs and deep fried memes that are completely incomprehensible to me. I don’t understand what is being said or implied by them at all, but they seem to understand one another.

A friend of mine works at a restaurant and they keep getting one star reviews because the GenZ servers and hosts just stare blankly at the customers when they walk in. .