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This was easy but have no idea what a boomerang is but I don’t use Instagram. I never owned an ipod but they are easy to use.
No idea what a boomerang is either, but I assumed the joke was the instinct to only post to close friends.
I pressed Your Story and it worked just as well.
The iPod was throwing me until they blew me away by actually making it so I have to spin my finger on the pad. If I hadn’t been on mobile idk if I ever would’ve got past thinking “Did he fucking feature with someone? I don’t fucking listen to Sufjan Stevens…”
yeah, they should’ve picked a more common artist. i thought it was a trick about knowing the lead singer of a band at first.
I would say they picked a pretty millennial specific artist.
Really? I have no idea who that artist is. Is it someone I’ve just forgotten about from when we were younger?
I think the issue is that it’s not also millenial-universal. If only some millenials know it, the rest of us is left out.
I can still operate the iPod though, so I don’t need to know who it is to look for and select.
Just because I still like the postal service doesn’t make me old. Ok the fact that I could’ve been referring to the band or the government agency and still been accurate might mean I’m old
As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.
It’s kinda weird being close to X in age and so far away culturally.
If you can’t T9 we can’t accept you.
Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.
EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.
Do you also respond to Amazon reviews “that hasn’t happened to me”?
Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.
EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.
Yeah, maybe the m CAPTCHA developers only wanted to share nostalgic memories of Google search results without ads. EDIT : let me fact check before I’ve written a lot of nonsense. Yes, seems fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
Skibidi toilet is actually one of the first gen alpha memes, not gen z.
Oh damn, I’m starting on the Boomer habit of complaining about Zoomer culture when it’s actually Alpha culture.
It feels like yesterday, Boomers were complaining about how annoying millennial kids were, when we were actually adults in our 20s/30s at the time. I’m just realizing that was over a decade ago, and now I’m doing the same thing to Zoomers. Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.
Poor Gen Xers still don’t exist.
As a Millennial, I’m now too old to tell the difference.
My genX ass was trying skibidi on its own cause most of the rest of the text is usually auto-suggested while typing in the search terms.
Ha! It took me a minute too to realize that having to google WTF a skibidi toilet is was the Millennial test, not being expected to know it.
Finally, a sterotype of “millennial” that recognizes we kinda be old now!
Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google,
More of a Simple Simon Says… really
You must be. It literally tells you what to do. Of course, I assumed proper grammar and got it wrong the first time.
Now I wanna see if I fail other generational Captchas!
23yo zoomer here. Like everyone else, I was stuck on the Michael Cera one for a while, but it was because I never heard of the guy and even after googling I didn’t realise he was in one of the other photos.
Gosh texting on the Nokia felt so normal and equally a nice reminder on how nice the mobile keyboards we have now are.
I’ve never heard of a boomerang, the comments here filled me in but I’m not an Instagram user.
The iPod was fucking magical by the way, always wanted one as a kid growing up, even begging my parents just for the nano but they didn’t see the value in that compared to the cheap knockoff MP4 players. I still want one nowadays but they’re all stupid expensive.
I just picked the guy in more than one picture, haha.
The iPod was fucking brutal. I kind remembered the spinny scroll thing, but I still don’t really get anything else. I am supposed to be older than you.
*American captcha
(Or westerner captcha, cuz I have no idea)
American, with that celebrity at the beginning
The names for each generation are American based definitions, after all
How TF does it expect me to identify a person? I’m bad at identifying people I didn’t even know who it was. Had to keep trying random combinations. Rest were easy enough though. For the texting one, I kept trying the options button before realising I had to press verify.
I was a little lost until the iPod and the t9 showed up, then it was almost scary how normal it all felt. I didn’t even realize I still remembered t9 but I didn’t even have to think.
T9 is the predictive word one. That Nokia used the original single-letter-at-a-time method, and it got me when I guessed that it was T9 (which was around for much longer than the single-letter method).
Yes, you’re right, my mistake!
I mean, it was 15-20 years ago, so not like it’s exactly recent memory!
That’s basically my whole li-- Huh.
Non millennial here for the rest of ya https://youtu.be/J---aiyznGQ
This needs at least one flash game to be accurate
Navigate to Strong Bad’s e-mail [Verify]
This is art and I love it lol
I got to step 3 and it said Post the Boomerang? What the hell does that mean?
Exactly, a millennial has now clue about the newfangled kids stuff. Just hit “close friends”
I guess sending something BACK, so I got the “your story” button. Don’t even know which app that was supposed to be.
Boomerang was an old feature on Instagram where it would just take a video and then loop it backwards when it reached the end. It was a really stupid phenomenon that nobody really used, hence the reason the got rid of it.
A boomerang is a short video that runs forwards, then backwards, then repeats. The post was already a boomerang, so you just needed to click share.
Yeah, a lot of these were lessened because the task was easy without any knowledge. I like the iPod one because the UX would be unfamiliar to someone who didn’t use it. But things like “Type {phrase} into the search box” are really just a lame way to make a reference.
I’m a zoomer, this was actually kinda hard. Especially the iPod and the select some guy ones. Would definitely keep me away from millennial only sites unless I REALLY wanted in. Nowadays I get annoyed at sites that even still use a captcha, cloudflare at least got rid of the kind where people fail at.
I’m a zoomer and honestly I had no problems with it. I only failed the Michael Cera one because I didn’t notice one of the images had a secret hidden Michael Cera
It’s a terrible introduction. Should’ve been half-and-half Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg.
If this was a real Captcha, it’d be timed too. They probably track individual clicks, even, although I haven’t actually checked.
As a millennial who doesn’t keep up with celebrities and Insta, I had problems with those two
T9 a little, but that’s because I expected it to predict my text, as in typing 43556 for “hello” instead of 4433555 … 666
Am I the only person in my generation who never learned to type on a number pad? It wasn’t the only thing I didn’t recognize from the “test”, but it stuck out to me.
How did you text?
I am a younger millenial and didnt have a cell phone until they got smart but most of the people I knew in highschool had blackberries or their knockoffs which had full keyboards. I still passed the capatcha though.
Briefly: I didn’t.
More substantively: I never owned a cell phone growing up, even though I was at the right age when they became a common thing for teenagers to have. It wasn’t a money thing, nor household rule, as my sisters got phones when they were in high school. The biggest reason was probably just how I communicate. I wasn’t big into IM services either, and I preferred email or face-to-face, or a (landline) phone call if it was an urgent matter.
Then there was also my adolescent brain thinking I was making a bold counter-culture statement by steadfastly resisting the march of technology. In reality, I was probably just being a pain in the neck for my friends and family, and I probably unnecessarily endangered myself at least once.
I did finally, begrudgingly, get an old hand-me-down flip-phone in my final year of university, but that was out of necessity, and I used it to make maybe only a dozen calls the 2.5 years I had it before getting a smart device.
To bring it full circle: I did try sending a text message with that flip-phone exactly once, at the insistence of my family. That message was predictably a garbled mess, and to this day my sisters still wonder how I managed to get a number to appear in the middle of the “word”.
I have a number of other somewhat amusing stories about people’s reactions to my lack of a cellphone, but this post is long enough already.
What’s odd is I instantly recognized how to type on that type of phone, but I’m from roughly gen Z.
