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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.
Skibidi toilet is actually one of the first gen alpha memes, not gen z.
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.
As a Millennial, I'm now too old to tell the difference.
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
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.
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!
This needs at least one flash game to be accurate
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I passed it first try as a zoomer
Same.
I had the most trouble with the iPod.
Same, but only because I didn't expect the website to support the real interaction modality
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.
Half of you are like this, the other are Boomer-like in their tech abilities
Yes unfortunately some were hit too many times with the stupid stick as a form of child rearing. The rest of us learnt to code BASIC to pass the time as latchkey kids.
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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.
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..."
yeah, they should've picked a more common artist. i thought it was a trick about knowing the lead singer of a band at first.
I was a little lost until the iPod and the t9 showed up, then it was almost scary how normal it all felt. I didn't even realize I still remembered t9 but I didn't even have to think.
T9 is the predictive word one. That Nokia used the original single-letter-at-a-time method, and it got me when I guessed that it was T9 (which was around for much longer than the single-letter method).
Don't know how to post the boomerang, but passed everything else (I think) as a 20 year old gen z
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.
I'm a zoomer, this was actually kinda hard. Especially the iPod and the select some guy ones. Would definitely keep me away from millennial only sites unless I REALLY wanted in. Nowadays I get annoyed at sites that even still use a captcha, cloudflare at least got rid of the kind where people fail at.
I'm a zoomer and honestly I had no problems with it. I only failed the Michael Cera one because I didn't notice one of the images had a secret hidden Michael Cera
It's a terrible introduction. Should've been half-and-half Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg.
As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.
It's kinda weird being close to X in age and so far away culturally.
If you can’t T9 we can’t accept you.
I got to step 3 and it said Post the Boomerang? What the hell does that mean?
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.
I guess sending something BACK, so I hit the "your story" button. Don't even know which app that was supposed to be.
Boomerang was an old feature on Instagram where it would just take a video and then loop it backwards when it reached the end. It was a really stupid phenomenon that nobody really used, hence the reason the got rid of it.
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 😄
Yea, I'm sorry but what's this iPod thing... can't I get an MP3 CD player?
Or, even better, an off-brand Discman 😄
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.
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.
Different Strokes might well be more of a Gen-X thing. I remember it being on TV (in England) when I was a kid and remember recognising Gary Coleman when he showed up in the '80s Buck Rogers TV series, but I was very young at the time. Pre-school age definitely.
Also, the younger cast of Scrubs are Gen-Xers and they definitely threw in a few references to it.
But let's not forget that years-later re-runs were and still are a thing, even on the handful of channels that most people had back then, so there are bound to be some people younger than Gen-X who also grew up with those shows as their parents enjoyed them the second time around.
This is art and I love it lol
Now I wanna see if I fail other generational Captchas!
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.
I don't understand the Michael Cera one. I got passed it but I'm still convinced there are only 3 pictures with him in it. That picture quality is atrocious.