Lucky me, I've never been 'with it'.

I'm at the point where what is 'it' is weird to me, but it isn't scary yet.

What amazes me is how much stuff I was "with" is still relevant to kids these days. I'm amazed at the staying power of Source Filmmaker for example.

At this rate, generation wasteland.

Inform them about their mother while you are at it

Imagine the Zerg Rush vs Protoss Carrier battles in those nursing home LAN parties!

Gen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.

9/7 with rice

Ok, Boomer. Tl;dr. Skibidi ohio.

Race, gender and whatever are "people that are not like me". Jokes about old people are jokes about myself, because I (hopefully) will get old myself one day.

I don't quite understand why it's okay to pigeonhole people based on their age.

I don't think that's what's happening here. It's just a millennial imagining an exaggerated future of what she'll be like as an elderly person, using too much of her current slang.

You can in fact tell someone's age with reasonable accuracy based on the slang they use. It's not "pigeonholing" to acknowledge a generation's quirky slang.

I think we do this because of the school system, fast moving trends and technologies, and lastly marketing campaigns.

The school system does a good job keeping everyone separated by age. So different classes will often have different trends and might compete against each other. Then once out of school, people still have this framing.

There are also real differences in how I experienced childhood versus other people when they were kids, with internet and cellphones not being prevalent like today. Also certain events like 9/11 and Columbine caused a lot of national conversations. It felt unique to my experience and so I want to share and contrast that with others. We all have a shared human experience, and it's interesting to find commonalities and differences in that. Which is probably why OP posted - the shared human experience of getting old and what we might look like.

And last, I think a lot of the simplistic, controversial stuff just comes from advertisers trying to make people feel insecure so they can sell them something.

Day takin me bucket

*Brent.

I think it's from an insta/Twitter account named WeRateDogs, but I could be wrong.