An intergenerational war has broken out with Gen Z mercilessly mocking millennials as embarrassing and out of touch. Chloë Hamilton reports
Millennials are used to criticism from older generations. Scolded for frittering their money on flat whites and short-haul flights. Seen as self-absorbed for their obsession with Instagram. But now they are facing criticism from a new corner – Gen Z.
But what is behind this intergenerational mocking? Lucy Hough asks the journalist Chloë Hamilton whether it is simply the length of millennials’ socks and their use of emojis that generation Z find ridiculous – or could it be a clash born out of the difficult set of circumstances that have shaped the two generations? Lucy and Chloë speak to the comedian Will Owen and the writer Emma Loffhagen to find out.
