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    5 months ago

    Don’t know how to post the boomerang, but passed everything else (I think) as a 20 year old gen z

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      I still don’t know what a boomerang is or was, but I guess I clicked the right button, so I didn’t miss any of them.

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        A boomerang is a clip that plays and rewinds in a loop, like it’s flying to the end of the clip and returning like a boomerang.

        I don’t even use Instagram myself, why do I know this

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          I know this because of my younger cousin, I had no idea how to post one but it seems like either of the bottom two buttons will work

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        I’ve never posted to instagram as a millennial. I think that by the time something that wasn’t Facebook came around we learned that posting photos of ourselves online maybe wasn’t smart

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      American, with that celebrity at the beginning

      The names for each generation are American based definitions, after all

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    Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.

    EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.

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      Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.

      EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.

      Yeah, maybe the m CAPTCHA developers only wanted to share nostalgic memories of Google search results without ads. EDIT : let me fact check before I’ve written a lot of nonsense. Yes, seems fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

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      You must be. It literally tells you what to do. Of course, I assumed proper grammar and got it wrong the first time.

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      Ha! It took me a minute too to realize that having to google WTF a skibidi toilet is was the Millennial test, not being expected to know it.

      Finally, a sterotype of “millennial” that recognizes we kinda be old now!

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        Oh damn, I’m starting on the Boomer habit of complaining about Zoomer culture when it’s actually Alpha culture.

        It feels like yesterday, Boomers were complaining about how annoying millennial kids were, when we were actually adults in our 20s/30s at the time. I’m just realizing that was over a decade ago, and now I’m doing the same thing to Zoomers. Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.

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      Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google,

      More of a Simple Simon Says… really

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      My genX ass was trying skibidi on its own cause most of the rest of the text is usually auto-suggested while typing in the search terms.

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    The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did. This could be a Gen X experience or a cash-poor Millennial experience. If it hadn’t been for the hint I would not have got past that part.

    I also didn’t have that particular Nokia so it took me a moment to figure out which button deleted mistakes. Mistakenly thinking that the CAPTCHA designers might not have implemented that part of the interface didn’t help.

    Had to guess on the boomerang. I’ve seen boomerangs but didn’t know that’s what they’re called nor have I ever posted one. Again, this could be an “I don’t post on that platform” or an “I only post pictures and haven’t used that feature” experience. I definitely have an account on at least one platform that hosts them though.

    I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.

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      Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn’t know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There’s a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that’s what millennials were into.

      The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.

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    This was easy but have no idea what a boomerang is but I don’t use Instagram. I never owned an ipod but they are easy to use.

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      The iPod was throwing me until they blew me away by actually making it so I have to spin my finger on the pad. If I hadn’t been on mobile idk if I ever would’ve got past thinking “Did he fucking feature with someone? I don’t fucking listen to Sufjan Stevens…”

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    As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.

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    How TF does it expect me to identify a person? I’m bad at identifying people I didn’t even know who it was. Had to keep trying random combinations. Rest were easy enough though. For the texting one, I kept trying the options button before realising I had to press verify.

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    23yo zoomer here. Like everyone else, I was stuck on the Michael Cera one for a while, but it was because I never heard of the guy and even after googling I didn’t realise he was in one of the other photos.

    Gosh texting on the Nokia felt so normal and equally a nice reminder on how nice the mobile keyboards we have now are.

    I’ve never heard of a boomerang, the comments here filled me in but I’m not an Instagram user.

    The iPod was fucking magical by the way, always wanted one as a kid growing up, even begging my parents just for the nano but they didn’t see the value in that compared to the cheap knockoff MP4 players. I still want one nowadays but they’re all stupid expensive.

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      I just picked the guy in more than one picture, haha.

      The iPod was fucking brutal. I kinda remembered the spinny scroll thing, but I still don’t really get anything else. I am supposed to be older than you.

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    Am I the only person in my generation who never learned to type on a number pad? It wasn’t the only thing I didn’t recognize from the “test”, but it stuck out to me.

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      Easy Gen X pass. I actually think Gen X would be able to pass all generational captchas. We’re the first “microchip” generation and have generally kept up and lived through most of the tech fads and changes.

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        Half of you are like this, the other are Boomer-like in their tech abilities

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        Same, but only because I didn’t expect the website to support the real interaction modality

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    I had absolutely no trouble until a slight delay on the iPod but had to give up a little later as my elder millennial ass forgot how to type on an old school Nokia 😄

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      Exactly, a millennial has now clue about the newfangled kids stuff. Just hit “close friends”

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      I guess sending something BACK, so I hit the “your story” button. Don’t even know which app that was supposed to be.

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      A boomerang is a short video that runs forwards, then backwards, then repeats. The post was already a boomerang, so you just needed to click share.

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        Yeah, a lot of these were lessened because the task was easy without any knowledge. I like the iPod one because the UX would be unfamiliar to someone who didn’t use it. But things like “Type {phrase} into the search box” are really just a lame way to make a reference.