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People mocking Gen Z 67 trend forget their own cringey teen trends

This is a collage-style satirical meme mocking generational hypocrisy around internet trends. The top text presents a quote from an older person complaining that the popular Gen Z '67' trend is cringe and questioning the behavior of modern children. Below this quote, two images show popular youth trends from the 2010s that the same generation participated in when they were younger: first, a viral photo of over 30 teens T-posing inside a public bathroom, second, a photo of a teen performing the once-popular 'dab' pose. The final bottom panel uses a screenshot of Homer Simpson from The Simpsons lying in bed smoking a cigar, with overlaid text reading 'Everyone is cringe except me!', highlighting the smug, hypocritical attitude of people who dismiss new trends while ignoring that their own teen trends were also considered silly or cringey by older generations at the time.
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"67 is cringe bro, what is with kids nowadays?"
also them years ago:
T-POSING IN THE BATHROOM WITH 30 PEOPLE
Everyone is cringe except me!

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Satirical joke mocking people who criticize new youth trends while forgetting their own past cringey trends

Overview

This is a collage-style satirical meme mocking generational hypocrisy around internet trends. The top text presents a quote from an older person complaining that the popular Gen Z '67' trend is cringe and questioning the behavior of modern children. Below this quote, two images show popular youth trends from the 2010s that the same generation participated in when they were younger: first, a viral photo of over 30 teens T-posing inside a public bathroom, second, a photo of a teen performing the once-popular 'dab' pose. The final bottom panel uses a screenshot of Homer Simpson from The Simpsons lying in bed smoking a cigar, with overlaid text reading 'Everyone is cringe except me!', highlighting the smug, hypocritical attitude of people who dismiss new trends while ignoring that their own teen trends were also considered silly or cringey by older generations at the time.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original submitted title 'I don't do trends, so me good!'. It is a remix combining multiple pre-existing popular internet meme assets: the 2010s viral T-pose bathroom photo, the dab pose trend photo, and the edited Homer Simpson 'everyone is stupid except me' reaction template, edited into a comparison format to make a point about generational hypocrisy.

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