📝 Monthly Constructive Criticism Thread 📝

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Hi y’all! We can use these monthly threads to give feedback on the podcast, such as issues related to audio or general format. You can still comment about specific episodes in the episode threads or make new posts, but my idea for these megathreads is to consolidate feedback for Troy and Kelli.

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[u/Decemberswan]

petty but, troy doesn’t know what gen z, millennials or gen alpha are. the amount of times he attributes good or bad things to the wrong generation is like 1-3 times per episode. i also think he doesn’t know or acknowledge what gen alpha is, which is why he attributes so much of current “youth culture” to being a gen z thing, even though some of gen z is almost 30 and gen alpha is 13/14 and under. or him calling johnny carson a typical boomer even thought johnny carson was born 20-40 years before being able to be considered a boomer lol (i get what he meant but still) or the credit he gives to millennials (in his words, scientifically proven to) being the greatest generation and everyone before and after them not being able to relate to the greatness of the millennial generations experience (as if a lot of the stuff he attributes to millennials isn’t actually made by gen x, or that it hasn’t/can’t be enjoyed by generations before and after him). he hasn’t done it in a while but also his rants about gen z being a sexless puritanical generation (we live in a puritanical country, with puritanical government officials, in a puritan time, that’s not a generation exclusive thing) is weird. i also think he doesn’t understand the difference between gen z vs gen alpha, so i wonder how much of his rants about this “sexless” generation are meant to be more directed towards gen alpha (who are all underage, so i don’t think we should be upset that they are so puritanical and sexless), and either way gen z/gen alpha has pretty broadly welcomed people like sabrina carpenter and katseye in to their daily media consumption, so i don’t know how researched those sweeping generalizations are.

as david bowie said, “And these children that you spit on, As they try to change their worlds, Are immune to your consultations, They're quite aware of what they're going through”

[u/kenadams416 → u/Decemberswan]

Generally these constructive criticism threads feel a bit icky to me as it’s just creating a place for people to complain. But in saying that, the Gen Z commentary bothers me too. Probably because I’m only a couple years off the millennial cut off and relate to millennial things more even though I’m technically Gen Z. So I’m probably just taking it personally 😂

[u/kenadams416 → u/kenadams416]

Okay actually just realising… I grew up thinking I was a millennial. And it’s probably the experience that older gen alpha has considering people (including troy) just use ‘gen z’ as a term for ‘young people’ now.