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A few years ago I regularly took the same morning bus to work. There was this maybe 16-17 year old kid who sat on the back and would listen obnoxious rap at full volume on his phone, while hogging the whole seat row with his stuff.

I had my headphones on but the hideous rap blared so loud I couldn't hear anything else. In my country we rarely interfere with other people's business, everyone was just sitting tight looking pissed off.

After few minutes I stood up, walked to the kid and told him to either turn that shit off, use headphones like everyone else or I'd throw his phone out at the next stop. He looked at me for a moment completely dumbfounded but turned the noise off and left the bus at the next stop.

He never took the same bus again.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

euthanized

You write " forced to listen to accordion covers of operas played at a volume so it competes against the TVs playing the HeadOn commercial in Portuguese backwards in a loop" funny, but I get it.

I had a hero bus driver pull the bus over and give one of those kids a single warning. Told him if he plays the music loud again he'd be walking.

I'm gonna add people that use speakerphone in public to that last. Just today I witnessed a dude at a Starbucks speaking loudly because he had his phone sitting on the table in front of him. Nothing in his hands, just wanted to disturb everyone, apparently...

No tiktok with sound in public is on another level than any other example

And sus tech companies doing everything they can to get kids on and addicted

you cocomelon'd grandpa

Too bad you couldn't intentionally play videos that were about pronouns just for him.

Best analogy you could make to explain swiping to the next video, thank you.

You would have a hard time changing to a different song every 3 seconds.

This is the part i don’t get about tiktok and instagram. You don’t even watch that shit and it looks like some sort of brain washing.

neglectful Gen X parents

You...you actually remembered we exist!

Not really about generations, it's more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.

Agreed, but listening to anything in a public setting without headphones is a shitty thing to do. It was when I was a kid with a Gameboy or Walkman, and it still is now with tiktok.

I remember kids in my class randomly shouting “Waffles!” or “this is a spork!” Because lol so random xd

Kids so obsessed with invader zim that they acted like him in real life

Also l33t sp33k being cool for a minute and “the narwhal bacons at midnight”at the peak of Reddit popularity

The whole gangam style craze. I went to a wedding held in a barn and everyone did the gangam style

People saying “epic fail” all the time

This is just what I can remember off the top of my head, but I think you get the point. None of us are without blame, we are all cringe. Let the kids be cringe too, it’s part of growing up

Being annoyed by someone blaring their phone’s volume in public isn’t an age thing. It always has been, and always will be fucking obnoxious.

And I say that as someone who’s literally in Gen Z.

Jokes on you. I was never cool.

I tease my husband when he is on Facebook because my God it sounds exactly like when the kids are scrolling TikTok. Don't know how he can stand it. But he doesn't do that out in the world.

I blame the phone designers removing the headphone jack. We now have a generation of people who grew up without it,always using the speaker, max volume out loud is just how they exist, it's the new normal.