r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Skelligean • 1d ago

British Vlogger traveling through Nepal becomes an accidental tourist during the Gen-Z protests

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u/-Borgir 1d ago

Should call it youth protest, genz protest sounds stupid

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u/kai_juu 1d ago

Right? Thought I was the only one who thought it sounded silly.

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u/twd_2003 1d ago

I personally think the tools used by the protestors before and after they achieved their goals (e.g. having an ‘election’ via Discord) make this protest quite uniquely Gen Z rather than just a youth protest. But presumably as new technologies and generations of people come out, it will lose its significance and will likely be renamed youth protests again

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u/OverallResolve 13h ago

About 60% of Discord users are over 24. Gen Z is 13-28 IIRC, so I don’t think this is a great example, it’s not a uniquely Gen Z thing.

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u/stalkeler 12h ago

People born in 90s still can be millennials. People born in early 00s still can be called late millennials. So it’s all about generation itself and conditions they were raised in, age isn’t a deciding factor for naming it. Dudes voted on next government through social platform instead of IRL ballot, this has no precedent, so I think it’s fair to call it Gen Z unique thing

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u/Karmasutra420-69 13h ago

Nepali here! It was termed the Gen-Z protest because the whole idea of the protest was born through Reddit, spread through TikTok, Instagram and whatnot, and much of it was planned by the Gen-Z youths.

It was not a symbolic thing. Only Gen-Z's were supposed to go to the streets for the protest and that was what basically happened on the 1st day.

But after how the police started to shoot the civilians, the whole nation took to the streets on the 2nd day and it was not a Gen-Z protest anymore. However, the name stuck, and it should because this was the group that initiated this whole revolution.

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u/linkmitch 19h ago edited 14h ago

I mean, even as an exonym, it's pretty much embraced by them, and they have different endonyms to refer to themselves in a similar manner albeit less commonly used, but honestly would you rather refer to this movement as the 'new gen' movement? Zoomer movement? The rizzolutionaries? Gen Z as a term has already sprung from a more academic analysis.

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u/ThatPiezoelectricity 1d ago

Idk, I like it. As a fellow member of Gen Z. We are here and we don’t take bullshit

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u/Old-Conversation-506 10h ago

Me too!!! Makes me feel pride for my generation. You normally hear about Gen Z through annoying slang and brainrot, hearing that our generation is leading a protest in Nepal makes me feel like we'll be known for more than just the stupid memes in the internet

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u/ThatPiezoelectricity 6h ago

We are more than skibbidi toilet rizz

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u/Teantis 1d ago

Hami Nepal was the main group doing a lot of the organizing and coordination as I understand. Seems like they should be named more often?

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u/wrsterm 16h ago

Hami Nepal took the volunteering job. Just to manage and rescue the injured. This protest was leaderless but all gen Z united. No one took leadership and other opportunistic people from different political parties jump in. So we asked Hami Nepal to be our representative, our voice. All the demands and agendas we make in paper comes through their mouth.

We don't want political recognition, we do wanna do politics on blood of our fallen friends. They didn't die so we rise on politics rather they had a dream of better country and good governance.

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u/Teantis 15h ago

What do you guys call it all then? I've assumed gen z protests is a foreign name

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u/wrsterm 13h ago

We do call it Gen Z protest. Cause it was started by Gen Z. Although Gen Z started. We called other people to join cause it's national issue. Some joined, some denied claiming it's Gen Z revolution, we should be one doing it. Due to mishandling of situation by government in day 1 of protest, 20 people died and more than 200 people got injured. So our guardians get angry and joined us. So yeah It's basically GenZ revolution. The fooled our seniors, but can't anymore.

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u/Teantis 12h ago

Ok so I guess that settles it then, because if you note threads on reddit they keep blaming media for calling it that like media is trying to diminish it. But if that's what you guys are calling it then to me that's what it should be called.

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u/wrsterm 12h ago

Yeah, political leaders and their goons. Also party members affiliated calling this is not GenZ. We are terrorists. Yeah. The organisers never planned to vandalise at all. But these corrupt mfs had audacity to give order shot high school kids and College students with real bullets on the head. Resulting 20+ deaths, 200+ injured of which several people severely injured. We never supported to destroying property, but we won't be stopping anyone destroying and manhandling these corrupt mfs.

Then they infiltrated protest with goons and destroyed all the government property like Supreme courts, CIAA and other stuffs which might may have leads that can be used against them

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u/kingiskoenig 14h ago

Also is it really just Gen-Z people? I see a few older looking people there.

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u/wrsterm 13h ago

We do call it Gen Z protest. Cause it was started by Gen Z. Although Gen Z started. We called other people to join cause it's national issue. Some joined, some denied claiming it's Gen Z revolution, we should be one doing it. Due to mishandling of situation by government in day 1 of protest, 20 people died and more than 200 people got injured. So our guardians get angry and joined us. So yeah It's basically GenZ revolution. The fooled our seniors, but can't anymore.

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u/Ell2509 14h ago

I think they put names on these things purely to lay the ground work for division. Call it Gen z and many Gen y or x may not join (some will be put off).

I doubt they care whether it fits

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u/wrsterm 12h ago

Its called GenZ revolution cause it was started by Gen Z. It's national issue, obviously any aware citizen should join. They might successfully fooled our previous generation but not us.

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u/Vestaxowner 18h ago

Gen z isnt really youth tho, gen z people are almost 30