There seems to be a trend on the internet of pointing out how incomprehensible the humour of the youth of today is.
I’m sure this has been going on forever, with young people decrying how square their parents are and the older generation just wishing their kids would get a damned haircut. It’s true that for me, I cringe at boomer humour, find gen x and millennial stuff funny, but don’t understand a lot of gen z or zoomer jokes.
Here are some examples:
Well, I’m not breaking any new ground with this post, but it’s the preamble to my main point, which is this meme:
My parents were both of “the greatest generation” although I’ve never before heard it described as such, and my dad used to love that “Kilroy was here” meme. (What did they call memes in those days?) When he used to forward on mail to me when I was at university, he would often draw that picture on the back. And, if he was feeling generous and naughty enough, he would peel open the envelope, put a ten dollar note in it, and then stick it back down so that it looked like it had never been opened, so that he didn’t have to pay postage. Sneaky but greatly appreciated by me in my lonely first year away from home. I spent that year in the YMCA in Christchurch, because all the university hostels were full by the time I discovered them. That’s another story entirely, but anyway it was lovely to be reminded of my dad out of the blue like this. What a guy, and oh how I wish statins were in general usage just a decade earlier!