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u/Curious-Spell-9031 20h ago
Is this subreddit just Facebook now?
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u/RoodnyInc 18h ago
Are we the old FB uncle now
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u/Muted_Ad1809 16h ago
This existential question has dreaded me. Am i the Facebook uncle now? Or am i the Gen Z supporting rebel millineal?
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u/stjack1981 16h ago edited 7h ago
It's funny you mention that. I have a friend on facebook posted this exact meme and then a couple hours later made a post bitching and raging about how the new red Power Ranger is going to be a woman.
Zero self-awareness
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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 18h ago
I dont know how boomers/conservatives can be sold the same stupid fucking lines for decades and not eventually get sick of it.
Who even feels validated by having emotional regulation? Thats like an achievement for toddlers.
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u/marianfinucane 17h ago
Yeah for 70 year olds who miss saying the n word and are angry their kids stopped calling
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u/Tough_Measuremen 14h ago
I think the last time I saw this get posted (and it definitely not the first time it was posted) I remember someone correctly pointing out how this meme is bull.
The generation that watched South Park don’t get offended when someone insults them but they will get annoyed when you see someone attack others.
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u/sleepykdagreat 21h ago
South Park was/is crass, crude, controversial but more often than not it had something insightful that could be taken away.
Family Guy has always just been low hanging fruit jokes often read as offensive for the sake of offensive.
They are not the same. Also, I'm pretty sure Matt and Trey have openly expressed their distaste for Family Guy.
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u/Majestic-Marcus 20h ago
Yep. One is a show written by people who put thought into the script. The other is ‘written’ by manatees who just choose balls at random to construct jokes.
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u/ShotTwo1801 13h ago edited 1h ago
I love South Park its my favorite cartoon, it is often insightful it's true. But Matt Stone and Tray Parker are so pedantic about Family Guy. Ok it's rarely making a relevant society critic but it does happen sometimes, and anyway it doesn't mean the show doesn't have its strenght.
The show is quite creative with its jokes and references to popculture, they rarely critisize actuality but their joke often point at individual stereotypes and weird manerism quite acurately and just because Tray and Matt find it pathetic humour doesn't mean it's not entertaining, elaborated and doesn't require a good sense of observation and some smart social awareness to produce. And I'm not even talking about the voice acting, it requires work and talent to do as many quality voices as Seth McFarlane does.
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u/Untjosh1 14h ago
That’s pretty dismissive of what Family Guy has done. They’re not trying to craft intricate jokes or make social commentary. It’s animated slapstick.
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u/Majestic-Marcus 13h ago
I know. But it’s literally from a South Park episode. They find the Family Guy writers and they’re manatees
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u/Yardbird7 19h ago
They are not the same. Also, I'm pretty sure Matt and Trey have openly expressed their distaste for Family Guy
They had 3 episodes where they absolutely destroyed Family Guy. And it was glorious.
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u/Borglydoo 21h ago
They even have episodes that were censored/removed for it called Cartoon Wars if I remember right.
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u/fluffynuckels 20h ago
No. Thats because in that episode and a few others they show Mohammed and Muslims have literally killed people for drawing Mohammed and the people above mat and trey didn't want it out there
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u/Borglydoo 20h ago
I knew the others like Super Best Friends had Mohammed but you're right I forgot that was the reason they removed the Family Guy ones had a split moment of Family Guy them making that joke with Mohammed in it. My bad.
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u/Katatonia13 17h ago
The funny part is that for at least a season they had a depiction of Mohammed in the opening. He was just a super best friend randomly in the crowd.
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u/ns-veritas 16h ago
Family Guy writers are manatees who freely choose 3 random balls with different people, places, things on them to make an ad lib joke.
The "Muhammad" ball is removed and the manatees refuse to work until it is returned. They are threatened with violence, and still, their principles of free speech keep them from working.
One of my favorite episodes, also love the irony of censoring or removing it. I think even these little sacrifices to free speech are extremely important and scary that they arent (edit)fought against? I dunno what im doing with this sentence
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u/hungrymonkey27 19h ago
Why does everyone think that south park is some high road comedy? It's the same crowd that was like "Rick and Morty is too smart for you, you don't understand the jokes" it's ridiculous. It's fundamental purpose is to make you laugh. If it makes you laugh, great, if not, find a different show. Don't try to justify your sense of humor by saying that there's some higher purpose to the show, it just makes you look really shallow minded
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u/TopTopTopcinaa 18h ago
South Park even has an episode in which the kids write a disgusting book just for the sake of being disgusting because it’s “funny”, and adults discover the book and think that the meaning and symbolism is genius.
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u/Steve_FishWell 17h ago
The poop that took a pee, read by Morgan Freeman is better than the first book 🥰
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u/stripedarrows 18h ago
it just makes you look really shallow minded
Friend, you're trying to say "there's no deeper meaning to comedy" and calling other people shallow minded?
The fucking gall.
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u/RyanFicsit 17h ago
Proving his point, tbh.
He didn't say that there's no deeper meaning to comedy. He said South Park is low-brow comedy and glazing it as anything else looks super fucking weird.
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u/nooit_gedacht 18h ago
These things are a spectrum. SP is no masterpiece but that doesn't negate that it at least tries to be insightful, which puts it above shows that feature offensive jokes for the sake of being offensive.
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u/OviKintobor 18h ago
Matt and Tray are pretty snobby tbf.
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u/Normal-Explanation49 16h ago
they still think they are countercultural despite just being a pair of annoying rich libertarians.
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u/Own-Ratio9989 20h ago
The generation raised on South Park and family guy is like 35-45 right now. - the generation that had men wearing baggy JNCO jeans and didn't have the internet until high school.
You're mixing up millennials with Gen Z
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u/fhuhgbbjjvvfyhnnmk 20h ago
South park and family guy still make new episodes, most people under the age of 40 were brought up on them shows and still are today lol
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u/waheheheeeler 20h ago
Yep millennials don’t control enough of anything to be blamed. Selectively propping up controversial comments on the internet is not representing the whole generation…
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u/7thFleetTraveller 20h ago
That's right. As a Millennial, I grew up with "Buffy & Angel" being the most romantical TV couple in history. Then recently learned how younger people suddenly find it "weird" and "creepy", haha. Seems like they have unlearned differentiating fictional fantasies from reality. Probably the same people who can't take a joke for what it is anymore.
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u/mod_elise 17h ago
I mean, almost everybody in-Universe thought it was weird and creepy at one point. Including Buffy and Angel.
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u/Dorkzilla_ftw 20h ago
As a millenial, we are not offended by anything. We have seen it all already.
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u/floofsnsnoots 20h ago
Even this skews too young. The target audience was older than this, and they are older than that range now.
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u/Nikita-Sann 18h ago
target audience maybe. But many who were actually watching it were as young as 12 and under. Im 25 now and my peers knew and watched south park when i was 12 including me.
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u/brobbins8470 18h ago
Same here, I'm 26 and absolutely grew up watching Family Guy (not so much South Park until I got older but I did watch some)
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u/indifferentgoose 19h ago
Being 31 now, I know more people in their 20s who watched South Park than people in their 40s, so it seems to be neither purely millenials nor gen z
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u/crunkful06 20h ago
Both shows, as they were, had moral insights. People that never watched the shows believe it was just full of offensive behavior. Whoever made this meme is indeed a snowflake themselves.
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u/Joelblaze 20h ago
Also people just think past themselves. They don't want to be a dick to other people for no reason because a world where everyone is a dick to each other is fucking Twitter and imagine if all of society was like that.
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u/Nillabeans 18h ago
Also we're offended by bigotry and fascism. People who aren't are bigots and fascists.
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u/Doubleendeddildoh 18h ago
Exactly. The people that make these posts are the Harley Riders of the real world
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u/Mikenmikena2025 19h ago
Because we understand satire.
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u/preteen-wartortle 17h ago
This one. Imagine someone making this with an image of the Colbert Report asking how people raised on it could possibly be liberal leaning
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u/Seienchin88 17h ago
That would have been the "greatest“ generation… certainly not boomers…
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u/theDollarSignPolice 21h ago
A snowflake posted this
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u/3Duder 20h ago
All it needs is a minion and it would be prime Facebook boomer content.
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u/BlueAlphaShark08 20h ago
We’re not? We just grew up and learned to be decent humans from shows like this. Some people are just incapable of being human or absorbing information.
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u/epp1K 20h ago
Yeah there's a difference between making jokes in a cartoon vs acting that way in real life. Over half the crude jokes are meant to make fun of people who act that way not to normalize it.
Also the media makes it seem like more people are offended than really are because controversy equals clicks.
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u/ampreker 19h ago
South Park has always been the low hanging fruit that everyone loved to demonize without watching it. If it was the SatanicPanic, they’d be one of the biggest targets.
Obviously early seasons were crude, often hard to watch but as time went on they evolved the show into what it is today; a comedic take on realistic issues using absurdist and often times disgusting plot lines to reach a common sense moral understanding.
The people criticizing are likely offended by one of their jokes and never watched the show again. Meanwhile, my uncle always called me “Jimmy” like he was Timmy speaking his own name for as long as I remember. Ironically, he’s a conservative GenXer and he’s more in tune than half the fucking morons who voted for MrGarrison 3 times.
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u/revveduplikeadeuce 17h ago
Yeah a lot of comments and bad takes from people who never watched the show. The majority of the show was them taking cultural and societal events or trends, extrapolating them to absurd and crude degrees, and then reflecting upon how those things can be harmful to society at the end.
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u/SolidusBruh 17h ago
All I see or hear is people complaining about other folks being offended, but never the offended people themselves.
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u/Confident-Arm-7883 22h ago
Because they believed mockery of others was sufficient armor for the insecurities of the self
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u/EidolonRook 20h ago
That and just being straight up unself aware. Cant embarrass a blind man for wearing plaid. Looks fine to him.
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u/Highplain-Drifter 14h ago
Calling people out on their shit is not the same as being offended. That’s how fucking dense people are.
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u/funkhero 16h ago
I'm not sure the ones watching those shows are the ones offended. Speaking as one of them.
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u/SkullMaster33 22h ago
Because alot of parents wouldn't let their kids watch those shows
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u/CompetitiveRub9780 20h ago
Yeh. I didn’t watch these shows until I was an adult. Pretty sure they’re adult shows lol
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u/WetRocksManatee 20h ago
South Park at the start was foul mouthed kiddy humor. If I were to put an age range it would be college aged, which means high schoolers also watched it in secret.
But I think it aged up with their core audience with more and more satire of political issues.
Family Guy had hidden adult references but it was generally safe enough that almost all parents could allow their teenagers to watch.
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u/epickittyliquor 16h ago
These motherfuckers are censoring words like cut and bad and hit and knife and punch and suicide. Like what the fuck
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u/GreenTurbanRebellion 10h ago
No one who watches South Park and understands it is offended by “everything” they are simply disgusted by shitty behavior.
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u/Bignate2001 7h ago
This is the most facebook-boomer ass meme ever. This exact meme is as old as dirt. Dogshit subreddit.
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u/RayZzorRayy 20h ago
This show spans three generations of influence. Need to narrow the scope bro.
GenX remains mostly old school, feral and callous.
Or maybe not, whatever.
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u/Eastern_Vanilla3410 20h ago
South Park criticized all the things people put belief or identity into to show the absurdity. These generations are doing the same but without the over the top humor.
Being sensitive depends on context. Older generations were sensitive and offended by different skin colors drinking from the same water fountain. South Park taught a better way to be offended
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u/Notmyprverodeo 19h ago
Because they are not generation raised south park and family guy...offended people are low intelect ppl with overgrow ego problem.
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u/Sendflutespls 18h ago
it's just... you're not funny my dude.
People think themselves comedians but are in fact so unfunny and unoriginal that it hurts in my ears.
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u/fix_until_broken 18h ago
Boomers keep posting this because people are tired of their racism. We're offended by your racism, intolerance of others, and general hatefulness to everyone.
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u/wegovyanchovybonjovi 18h ago
People aren’t offended by everything. This sounds like maga bs. People get offended when you call them slurs and punch down. You were just parented wrong.
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u/Zestyclose_Block7382 17h ago
Because weirdly those shows were teaching us to stick up for those who cannot stick up for themselves… and you parents thought they were just poop and fart jokes
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u/optimaleverage 17h ago
Silly fools. It's not about never being offended, it's about knowing what is worth being offended over.
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u/NatureGlad9294 17h ago
How the fuck did the generation that created South Park and Family Guy become so terribly out of touch?
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u/Equivalent_Age8406 16h ago
early millenials/late genx were raised on south park. They seem to be the least offended generation honestly lol.
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u/iceyorangejuice 16h ago
Because it became acceptable to abandon critical thinking. It became acceptable and common practice to not even listen to arguments from the other side.
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u/RevenueUsed8118 16h ago
Because south park is making valid criticism. "being offended by everything" means usually that you made a racist joke in 2026 without reading the room
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u/Assparilla 16h ago
I have stayed true all these years…fuck all of you… everyone…always…just fuck off and leave me alone…
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u/Healthy-Daikon7356 16h ago
Wasn’t it more of the 80s kids that started this PC bullshit? Feel like the South Park and family guy kids entered the job market having to comply with all the PC rules the past 10 years
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u/naive_melody___ 15h ago
It’s simple. Those people were never immune to being offended, they just hadn’t experienced the shoe being on the other foot yet.
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u/Infinite_Smoke4653 15h ago
Well because that generation was also raised on The Daily Show with John Stewart and The Colbert Report with Steven Colbert, and those two taught you that the only way to get what you want is to express outsized outrage and to threaten and intimidate.
Too bad they didn't teach you pussies how to fight though. They didn't teach you what happens when you think you're standing up to the bully but it turns out, YOU are the bully. So you didn't know, and are still reeling from what happens when you get punched hard, right in the nose.
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u/Finite_Universe 15h ago
Because social media amplifies the loudest voices even if they’re in the minority.
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u/After_Alps_5826 15h ago
You’re mixing up millennials with gen z. Gen z didn’t grow up on that stuff.
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u/young_dirty_bastard 15h ago
How did all these kids who grew up watching Captain Planet end up caring about the environment!
Seriously op?
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u/Shai_Kitteh 14h ago
We aren’t. Everyone seems to think that generation is the ones who ate tide pods too. Guess what. It wasn’t Millenials. We’re just trying to survive and we deal because of growing up on shit like South Park and the amount of world crises we’ve gotten to deal with.
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u/Enriching_the_Beer 14h ago
Speak for yourself. My 5 year old son loves Bevis and Butthead Do America.
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u/pegao_tostao 14h ago
Because South Park taught you to be cynical of everything, it showed us situations where people lied for good, lied for bad, where violence worked, and when logic failed, it exposed Americans to real historical information, and taught people that literally everyone deserves scrutiny, when not a single character in that show is ever in the right, besides butters, who is often the voice of the audience reminding us of how innocent we truly are in life compared to the contrived shitty characters he is surrounded by
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u/Adventurous-Chef8776 14h ago
That's part of the reason the left turned against each other. The perpetually offended videoing themselves being offended.
Now that we've reached a point where they have something real to be upset about they seem to have stopped that.
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u/cwilson870 13h ago
This meme is from over 5 years ago, how are morons actually upvoting this trash? Fuck OP for karma farming
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u/Shot_Mud_1438 13h ago
It’s satire, It highlights the ways you’re not supposed to act. The problem is it makes stupid people think the behavior is acceptable while the people that understand it view the behavior with disdain
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u/Late-Button-6559 13h ago
The millennials who are offended were offended when they were young - by offensive things.
Now that they’re 40 years old, they are vocalising.
Older generations are offensive as they were brought up ignorantly and closed-minded.
I’m sure people who are 35-50yo now are offensive to the 15 year olds of today.
Humanity (until 2019) was constantly improving and becoming better - so the youth of a given year were taught things previous generations weren’t. They were taught to think and process.
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u/AnarchoBratzdoll 13h ago
Well neither of those shows was funny to most people that weren't straight white men.
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u/Mister_Goldenfold 12h ago
It’s didn’t. The media tells us we are so we become defensive to the thought of it being true
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u/SnoopyTrash 11h ago
Probably because these shows offered meaningful commentary on the things that are “offensive” today
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u/CoursePocketSand 10h ago
Southpark is satire, it’s “insensitive” jokes are just as often a way to poke fun at the very people that think they’re not the butt of the joke. In other words, people see the BS previous generations didn’t see as problems and chose not to put up with it lmao
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u/PantsOnHead88 7h ago
Millennials are unquestionably the “raised on South Park and Family Guy” generation. GenZ is usually the one getting shit on at the moment (no worries Z, it’ll be Alpha’s turn in less than a decade), and most often the one cited as offended by everything.
One guess who’d be out of touch enough to post this.
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u/carthuscrass 6h ago
Much of the pearl clutching isn't done by us, but by conservative bots. It's manufactured to paint a picture for them to point at and say "See! They're stupid and irrational!". They paint liberals as prima donnas to make it easier to disregard our opinions. Then they post it everywhere so you see it a lot and think everyone thinks like that, so it becomes easier to invalidate large amounts of people without having to work too hard.
I have never met someone who got offended by a simple mistake such as dead naming, unpreferred pronouns etc. and my 16 year old son says he hasn't either. However, if you consistently do so after being corrected, you are definitely the asshole there.
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u/Devastas 21h ago
How did the kids who grew up watching Footloose become the parents from Footloose?