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Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)

(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)

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[–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I gotta say, I was kind of expecting to get some pushback from people who had their own favourite skaters who turned out to have a billion YouTube views or something, but I wasn’t expecting this number of replies to be people butthurt over some imagined attack on their own identity

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I feel like Lemmy has taken drugs recently, because I am seeing more and more absolute bonkers responses like that user's to silly, apolitical posts like this one, and it's bumming me out.

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