 Are these old people memes funny? Is there any truth to them or are they just outdated? Yeah, these are going viral right now on Facebook amongst the boomers and these memes are against the Zoomers Gen Z versus the old people. Let's talk about whether we think these are true, whether they're false. Give our rating on them. Make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications, Andrew. I guarantee if you're watching this video right now, you've probably never seen these memes before. I came across a trove of them. Obviously, I found the ones that I could actually put on here. Andrew, let's go into number one. Someone was like, man, these Gen Z kids, this is what they call actual coffee. Yeah, look at this pumpkin spice chai mocha macamucalito, man. Disgusting. So many calories, useless, superfluous, soft, just like this soft Gen Z generation is. Compared to our generation, there was just drinking straight black coffee or espresso with water. I'm so sick of it. I like my sea salt caramel sweet cream on top of my oat milk latte. I'm with the dirty matcha shot. I like it. I do like them, but I also like my black coffee too. Yeah, I would say this. I like multi-layered, superfluous drinks, but I would say this meme, it does make a point, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems like every year, Starbucks or every boba shop, the next drink they have is going to have like seven more layers on it. Gosh darn it. These drinks are just getting less and less productive. I give this meme, I rate it high like a four out of five. It's pretty funny. Dude, I might have to give this one a five out of five because it just made a solid point. Although, I guess to go against this meme, I like this crazy drinks. But it also can't apply to Asian boba drinks too. But honestly, we'll get to it later, Andrew. I think they're actually trying to say a lot larger message about the younger generation in general. Of course. Moving on, Andrew. Meme number two from the Boomers. We've got this one that's like, I don't have enough money to pay my student loans to pay my student loans or buy a house. This kid's got like a Karl Marx bucket hat on. He's got the plugs. He got the cow septum piercing. Obviously, they drew him in sort of a non-complimentary way. Andrew, this guy's buying doordash, booze, weed, body art, streaming, only fans, Funko pops, all types of crazy, useless things. But he's complaining about prices and inflation or whatever. Yeah, you see? That's why. Because you guys are spending all your money all the wrong ways. I know this meme was made by a boomer or a Gen X because they called alcohol booze. If you're still calling it booze, you're old. Honestly, it might have been made by like a 45, 55 year old guy that was looking at the consumption pattern of either his kids or his nephews and nieces. No, legit. I think that the consumption patterns are correct. I think people are consuming more and more than they ever have. I also think there's more things to consume. I think there's more subscriptions that you can be a part of. But here's my one advice, guys. Just make it worth it. Just utilize it. Do not waste money on these things if you're actually using it and you're getting utility out of it. What it is? Yeah, I don't know if you're buying assets. That's why I would prefer something that I know has like hard asset value that fluctuates. That is more like stocks. Obviously, sneakers. And we know rare sneakers fluctuate more like stocks. Somebody tell me a Funko pops is like that because I'm not a big on those. I'm going to go ahead and give this one honestly a four out of five. It was pretty. It was pretty solid. There's some accuracy to it. What's going on? This one's like jobs in the past. Blacksmith, Porter, Carpenter, Royal Guard. Now you're just like a YouTuber, streamer, psychopath, suicide bomber. You can't even describe your job in three words nowadays. I'm a S-A-E-S based fintech sales analyst. What happened to real jobs like I catch fish. All right. So the first Mer meme did make me laugh. I got on the laughing scale. I got to give it like, I thought it was pretty funny five out of five because it included YouTuber and we're YouTubers. However, this whole like discussion and argument about, oh man, what about the jobs? Why can't all the jobs just be blue collar jobs? I'm like, wait, so you want us to like delete all the technology we ever made? Like the jobs before being like before the previous generation, they were even more blue collar than before. Yeah. What? You want to be a coal miner? Should we all be coal miners because that's real work? Like, you know what I'm saying? I get it that yes, if you're trying to make a point that the next generation is a bunch of sissies or we're soft bodies and we like our sweet jobs and we get that joke, but I'm just saying like, we're not going back in time. Back in my day, people used to fall off a building, building buildings. Nowadays, they're just getting the arthritis and dry eyes from looking at the screens all day. The wake. And I think that that is an overarching perspective. Obviously that the boomers have about the zoomers moving on to boomer technology. Andrew, someone's like, I would like to put a teenager in this room and tell him at a half past, find the game on AM and turn on channel 27. Call me when you're done. Watch and laugh because they would not be able to figure out this TV. You know, look at this, the glory days, 1963 technology. Um, you know, there was one about driving stick and writing cursive. It would cripple an entire generation. I used to eat mud when I was three now to own all these iPad, iPad. I'm mad. Um, what do you think? No, I think this is just a response to somebody being like, Grandpa, you don't know how to use your iPhone. And then the grandpa was like, what are you? Slide it. Oh, where'd my window go? You know where everybody's just like, man, go back to those knobs and dials and wires and stuff. I'm like, again, technology, we're not going backwards. I know mentally, I think we can criticize each other. If the mental did not change as fast as the technology did. I get that, but all this stuff. Ultimately, I give it a one out of five. But do you think Andrew with the iPads and stuff like that, people have gotten smarter or people have not? I think technology has moved way faster than our brains have developed. I know a lot of people say that nowadays. I do agree. I don't think, and I don't know if the average person is way smarter or better at discerning what is fake and misinformation. I got a hot take. I think the mid people stayed mid. The dumb people got dumber and the smart people got smarter. Yeah, maybe it's more stratified. Moving on to the next boomer meme section. We've got ones about Wi-Fi. Of course, these are, these are great. The withy as they like to call it in France. Andrew, we're talking about dear parents. If you want to find out where your son daughter is in the house, simply just turn off the Wi-Fi and just watch them start going, mom, mom, reset the router. I definitely, and this other meme about we do not have Wi-Fi. Just talk to each other like it was 1995. I think it's true. I think that we do need to make a concerted effort to interact with each other in person more. I think the conversations are better. We always said that a lot of the hard conversations we have on this channel need to happen amongst friends in person. The comment section will not solve it. So do not base your life and your emotions on the comment section. Please, you can laugh at comments. They're funny or interesting, but do not base your life on it. And it's very difficult to communicate tone over comments as well. Yeah, what about, what do you think about this one? There's like, if you can afford a $60,000 electric car, then you can afford to pay your student loan payments. And obviously, most of these memes are made by somebody that's over 50, but I actually think millennials might agree with this as well because millennials, people that were like 30 and up, they for sure had to pay all their loans. And now they're looking at people potential loan forgiveness for people under 25. And they're like, dude, what? So you guys can just go to college and not have to pay for it? What the heck? Yeah. Well, I guess this generation lucked out. Yeah. I would say, Andrew, it kind of goes back to the DoorDash example. The ability for somebody to like lease a $60,000 car and have student loans, I don't think that ability existed 10, 20, 30 years ago. And nowadays because of the credit system and maybe looser regulations here and there. So who's to blame, Andrew? The opportunities are there. But by the way, like you said, I think it's an extreme example. What do you think about the Greta Thunberg memes? Oh, man. Yeah, obviously this is just making a judgment on like Dr. Judith Curry. She's actually a climatologist. She did all this work, but she never gets her voice. She never gets interviewed. Yeah. Because she's old. What's wrong with Judith Curry, man? She's just saying the earth moving, how it's moving. Mother nature's going to do what it does. Now we got Greta Thunberg telling me I can't even use my gas stove because it's killing all the birds in Madagascar. I hate Greta Thunberg. Well, they're also talking about like the left side media bias and all of this. No, I mean, first of all, whether or not the earth is heating up because of this and that, I mean, we just probably need to litter less. I mean, I think that's pretty common sense. You know, we could do a little bit better on that aspect. But yeah, it's a media bias because Greta Thunberg, I mean, really, what qualifications does she have other than being like this charismatic young, we must stop climate change? Yeah, to be honest, I mean, the truth is like sometimes in the middle, right? I think there's a lot of things that contribute to it, the natural cycles, but as well as manmade cycles. And it just depends on extent. I just don't like how polarized it is, but you know, that's how the meme life is and everything that's boomer versus zoomer. Moving on, this meme was actually made by a millennial, I believe somebody who's like in their 30s, they were like, you know, this generation of kids will never know this pain. It really was outside 24-7. No, it's true, man. Do you think it's true, Andrew? Are the kids just, you know, protected by the rubber mats and the polyurethane nowadays? They're not out there scraping up their legs, developing all types of, you know, tolerances in their blood streams to be strong, getting the white blood cells. I think there's definitely less skid knees. I remember walking home, we had all these scars on the body, scars on the hands and the wrist from playing basketball and dunking on the short rims. No, I definitely think kids are getting out there less, but I do think kids are staying active in a way a lot more too, but like more in controlled environments, like maybe like gyms more, or they're like doing certain, I don't know, organized activities more versus just roaming the streets. But what do you think, that nowadays they're just living this machiato lifestyle with 12 layers, it's so soft and fancy and fluffy, making them weak? Yeah, but I also think like the way we grew up riding on the back of the bike pegs. Jump up the sand lot, the hoop dreams lifestyle. Down a hill where you could have potentially got hit by cars. I think that kind of stuff is just like, the world is just getting different, so like the people, the kids who are getting raised now are being raised and trained for a new world that maybe we don't even fully understand, you know? Moving on, Andrew, this one was like, we need to let children be whatever they want to be. What if they want to be conservative? Um, yeah, this is certainly a perspective from the older generation, right? I mean, I'm going to give it a 2.5 out of 5 just because it pointed out something that was interesting. By the way, not saying I agree with this. I thought it was a simple meme. I give it a 4 out of 5. I thought it was funny. I thought it made its point very quickly. Right. This is a Chinese kid on Christmas getting the same toy he made five hours ago. Dude, that's funny, man. That Asian kid's face, man. Who made this meme? Were they Asian or not? Yeah, I need to know. But yeah, actually it was, you know, I can have a sense of humor about myself, guys. It was funny, ultimately. If it makes you chuckle, it's funny, okay? Moving on to someone saying, Mom, what's a conspiracy theorist? Somebody who figures out the truth before most people dare. And obviously this drawing is from, I want to say like maybe 1942 or something like that. Yeah, 50s for sure, 60s. I would say, man, honestly, not all conspiracy theories are true, man. Like there's some truth in maybe some of them because there's more than what meets the eyes. There's more than what we're told for sure. But ultimately, guys, a lot of these conspiracy theories don't even like concern you. Dude, a lot of the biggest conspiracy theories, in my opinion, are just like things that people have just been conditioned to accept. I mean, you know what's funny is that a lot of people who go against organized religion, they're like big conspiracy theorists, but then conspiracy theories become their religion. So I'm like, I don't know. You just start believing in some stuff that's like, you in another sense doesn't have a lot of evidence either. You know what I mean? So it's just like everybody's just trying to find something that consumes their brain. Moving on, somebody was like, I'd like a burger. Is vegan okay? Is monopoly money okay? This was clearly made by somebody who was like 62 years old from, you know, from an old school zone. I mean, obviously they're calling the beyond beef and the impossible burger like fake meat in the same way monopoly money was made. Guys, have you had some good vegan burgers? They're pretty good. Shout out to Plant Burger, man. They're pretty good now. I mean, I'm going to go ahead and give this one a two out of five, even though it kind of made me laugh like almost in a reverse way. Somebody said, Andrew, spend some time with your elders. Not everything's found on Google. Okay, man. Look, you only got one book in your brain. Look at this old guy with his cane. He got 15 books in his brain. No, I will agree that talking to smart and successful elderly people is always interesting and you'll always get a new perspective. You will learn some things. Now, I do think not all old people should give you advice on everything, but maybe the things that they are more experienced than you at. Yeah, let's say an unsuccessful old person. Ask him about the weather. Ask him about sports. Somebody who was actually successful and did a bunch of things in their life. Maybe ask him about deeper, more complicated things, you know, and definitely do not ask all old people about race relations. Well, you're already, yeah. Yeah, you already know. Moving on. Rich dad, poor dad meme, Andrew. Yeah, I would say that this one's actually more of like almost like a millennial, maybe 40 year old Gen X meme about like just owning your own business. I would say actually the Gen Z version of this is a whole nother little crypto kid with like, you know, dressing crazy wearing street wear. And what do you think about this moms now versus moms then one versus like, say that again and I'll wash out your soap. Your mouth was so Billy versus like that Billy. Can you just not say that word? It's inappropriate. More appeasement from the modern mom and more old school. Tough love from the old school mom. Is it true? Is it false? What is it? Hold on. This bottom one is pretty funny. I packed your bento box with almond butter on whole grain kale chips and organic smoothie. Take a brown bag with a bologna sandwich on the Wonder Bread. Grab a Twinkie in a Hawaiian punch too. That's pretty funny because I mean, if you're going to compare like a blue collar mom from like 1982 Midwest to like a Bay Area mom in like 2020. Yeah, I guess I could see where this is coming from, but it's a little bit like, yeah, I mean, there was bad kids back then too, to be honest. I still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Is this not true? I actually like the lunchables. Yeah. I still buy those sometimes. However, I will say I do use almond butter in my peanut butter jelly sandwich. I would say this man, it's like to me is pros and cons like the younger generation. Maybe they are living in more macchiato, kale, organic, quinoa lifestyle, but they're definitely less problematic in other ways than the kids from the 80s or 70s were problematic. You know, so it's just pros and cons. You're just like trading off different pros and cons from different generations. Yeah, I do think as the pendulum swings very far in this direction, there will be a little bit of a pullback and a little bit of a balance more. And there's always been a spectrum, but it's just about where the bulk distribution is on the plot chart. Real quick, I want to address this like Greek meme one, 22 year old in 320 BC. I've conquered half the world and I'm ready to choose my wives. 22 year old in 2022. If she leaves me on scene, I'll get depressed. It's funny, but guys, back then people used to live until the age of 40 and it was very like nobody had anything. There was no technology and nothing and women had no rights back then. You're not a man if you are not embracing the stoicness of Marcus Aurelius and the gladiators. So this does tie into the last meme. We live in a strange time where all the nerds watch billion dollar Disney movies and the jocks read obscure philosophic texts from ancient and medieval area. This would be a pop culture, Marvel geek versus more, I guess probably what in modern day would be viewed as the Jordan Peterson sphere. I think that the whole conversation about men learning the traditional men qualities, I don't think that's bad as long as it's kept in a modern way. I think you should read both. Obviously those texts are still around and still relevant, especially in the western world and in the modern world. But yeah, I mean, I don't know man, technology is changing. Basically memes are extreme. So obviously being extreme all the way this side towards the Marvel geek guy or being like hyper extreme to the other side where you're just thinking everything's like back to Aristotle and Plato. It's all going to seem like a little bit outdated in modern day application because modern society is a mix of those things. Anyway guys, let's get into our final takeaways, Andrew. This is just true that the boomers just like their world that they grew up in more than the Zoomer world. Yeah, I think that the boomers feel like and the Gen X feel like that they're not being appreciated and everybody's crapping on them and their lifestyle and all their beliefs saying, oh, you're closed minded. You're outdated. You're whack. You're ignorant races. Yeah, you guys set it up for us. You guys bought all the real estate, blah, blah, blah, blah or whatever. I don't even know what the arguments are. Polluted the earth, et cetera. Yeah, but I think every generation has its gripes about every other generation but given the tools of media, now everybody can create and talk about and voice their displeasure with the other generation. Yeah, with these sort of weird graphic memes. Moving on, Andrew, I don't think they feel appreciated. Like you said, I think that it's not only like this is just not only a generation I didn't grow up with, but they ain't showing no love. Yeah, I mean, I think in the comments down below, you guys let us know what you think about these memes. Do you agree with them? Do you think they're funny? Do they have a point? Which one of these memes do you agree with most? And what can we do about this whole generational divide between the people where it's just like, man, every day. The Zoomers and the Boomers, right? Every day on Facebook has its own echo chamber where the Boomers and Gen X people are going at the Gen Z and then the Gen Z is going to be on TikTok. It's almost like a TikTok comments versus like Yahoo comments. Yeah, that's why you just need to have conversations in person, man. That's what I'm saying. Dude, I would like to see more in person discourse from like high profile representative members. Let's do it. All right, guys, everybody, let us know in the comments down below. Please hit that like button. We are the Hot Pop Boys from Sirius to Frivolous with Talking About It All. Thank you so much for watching. And yes, we may do a video where we cover the Gen Z memes about the Boomers. The Zoomers, this and the Boomers. Until next time, we out. Peace.