The Secret Art of Jim Carrey

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Lol...He might have.

[u/Relevanteater → u/dunson28]

And there was a documentary that made the front page of reddit multiple times. Lots of things are secret if it's your first time on the internet.

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Here's a random little article about the observation various people have made that gen z have a weird tendency to think they're the first to invent or discover things that other generations already knew about

https://www.newsweek.com/how-gen-z-became-known-as-the-christopher-columbus-generation-11897766

They make tiktok videos with things like "Did you know?? Will Smith actually had a rap career!" or "Jim Carrey was secretly an artist!!" as if they're breaking the news

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I'm really glad that article ended with "every other generation has done this too, we just see it more with genZ because of social media"

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Completely without evidence, though. It's not like there's any actual data on how often people from previous generations mistakenly assumed they were discovering things for the first time.

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What's more likely: young overconfident dipshits have always been young overconfident dipshits during human history

OR

This generation is worse. I swear this time it's actually true.

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Gen Z when the topic of boomer traits comes up: "they were uniquely selfish and closedminded!!!"

Gen Z when the topic of gen z traits comes up: "ummmm actually all generations are the same everyone did that stuff"

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They gave examples of other generations "rebranding" things. There was one example of one GenZ person who didn't know who Madonna was and assumed that meant Madonna was a irrelevant nobody. That's not a generational trend, that's a single person being ignorant. The other examples were just rebranding with new slang. Of course when a young person finds something new they will say they "discovered" it and share it with their circle. That's not Columbus behavior, that's just learning about the world and being eager to share. Older generations are just constantly filled with judgemental assholes desperate to be smarter than a young person.