This Funny But True Web Comic Has A Lot To Say About Teens Then Vs. Now

by N/A, 8 years ago | 2 min read

Dan Hopper and Robert Brown, two hilarious folks over at College Humor, have combined their comedy and drawing skills to create a wonderfully cutting (and satirical) webcomic known as Teens: Then vs. Now that shows the outrageous differences between the youth of now and the youth of old. While it does sufficiently mock millennials, it more gets at the ridiculous "my generation was way better" attitude of those who came before. And I love the comic for that. It's refreshing.

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"Teens: Then vs. Now" takes a pretty outrageous approach to showing the generation gap.

The comic finds its humor in the outrageousness of extremes.

In the left panel, you can practically hear the flutes playing and birds chirping. In the right panel, not so much.

Like, EXTREME extremes.

It's like this is what the most disconnected baby boomers believe to be true about millennials. And that is, of course, the whole point–what's more ridiculous than the way we do things is the way we're portrayed in the media and thought of by our elders.

The point is, basically, that all generations are totally screwed and each generation has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Gen-Xers suck, and so do we. Dan Hopper and Robert Brown just found a much more graceful and hilarious way of showing it.

But of course the social commentary doesn't completely overshadow the humor.

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It's like the authors just took all of the generational stereotypes and conflated them into one hilarious comic.

And I couldn't be happier about it.

This pretty much sums up the mood of the whole thing.

So keep on piling on the millennial hate, because it's not like any generation before us had their own struggles. Right, Gen Xers?