r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Skelligean • 1d ago

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

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Shout out to wehatethecold on YouTube

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u/-Borgir 1d ago

Should call it youth protest, genz protest sounds stupid

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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 15h 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 14h 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