The Millennial CAPTCHA
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The Millennial CAPTCHA
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/the-millennial-captcha/
This is really well done:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/the-millennial-captcha/
This is really well done:
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.
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.
Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.
Not as hard as you think. Stopping is not the problem. Stopping and still having fun is.
Yeah, I was guessing my way through most of this, and while I've seen the thing I didn't know what it's called.
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
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!
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.
You must be. It literally tells you what to do. Of course, I assumed proper grammar and got it wrong the first time.
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
Easy Gen X pass. I actually think Gen X would be able to pass all generational captchas. We're the first "microchip" generation and have generally kept up and lived through most of the tech fads and changes.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Don't know how to post the boomerang, but passed everything else (I think) as a 20 year old gen z
I still don't know what a boomerang is or was, but I guess I clicked the right button, so I didn't miss any of them.
A boomerang is a clip that plays and rewinds in a loop, like it's flying to the end of the clip and returning like a boomerang.
I don't even use Instagram myself, why do I know this
I know this because of my younger cousin, I had no idea how to post one but it seems like either of the bottom two buttons will work
I am a younger millennial, and I've literally never heard of a boomerang in this context in my life.
I think the point of that one is that millennials post to their friends, not to their stories.
I’ve never posted to instagram as a millennial. I think that by the time something that wasn’t Facebook came around we learned that posting photos of ourselves online maybe wasn’t smart
As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.
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
I'm a millennial and didn't know who that is. But I don't know any actors so unsurprising. I did end up just figuring out which face was the most popular and selecting that.
But the rest were fairly easy. I still don't know what a Skibidi toilet is though.
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
American, with that celebrity at the beginning
The names for each generation are American based definitions, after all
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 guess sending something BACK, so I hit 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.
I had absolutely no trouble until a slight delay on the iPod but had to give up a little later as my elder millennial ass forgot how to type on an old school Nokia 😄
Yeah, I was already in my late teens when I got my first phone, so I have no doubt you benefitted from learning young compared to me lol
It actually doesn't, so you have to tap multiple times to get the later letter on the key. That tripped me up for a second or two
The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did. This could be a Gen X experience or a cash-poor Millennial experience. If it hadn't been for the hint I would not have got past that part.
I also didn't have that particular Nokia so it took me a moment to figure out which button deleted mistakes. Mistakenly thinking that the CAPTCHA designers might not have implemented that part of the interface didn't help.
Had to guess on the boomerang. I've seen boomerangs but didn't know that's what they're called nor have I ever posted one. Again, this could be an "I don't post on that platform" or an "I only post pictures and haven't used that feature" experience. I definitely have an account on at least one platform that hosts them though.
I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.
Had to guess on the boomerang. I've seen boomerangs but didn't know that's what they're called nor have I ever posted one.
I've never heard of a "boomerang" that wasn't referring to the Australian tool/toy. I totally guessed on that one too. I don't post videos to any social media platform, so I was totally out of the loop on that one.
Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn't know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There's a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that's what millennials were into.
The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.
Different Strokes might well be more of a Gen-X thing. I remember it being on TV (in England) when I was a kid and remember recognising Gary Coleman when he showed up in the '80s Buck Rogers TV series, but I was very young at the time. Pre-school age definitely.
Also, the younger cast of Scrubs are Gen-Xers and they definitely threw in a few references to it.
But let's not forget that years-later re-runs were and still are a thing, even on the handful of channels that most people had back then, so there are bound to be some people younger than Gen-X who also grew up with those shows as their parents enjoyed them the second time around.
I remember reruns on Nick at Night into the early 00s. The theme song and Gary Coleman were pretty iconic but different strokes isn’t a millenneal experience
The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did.
I didn't get that far even. <insert /me facepalm>
I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.
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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 kinda remembered the spinny scroll thing, but I still don't really get anything else. I am supposed to be older than you.
I don't understand the Michael Cera one. I got passed it but I'm still convinced there are only 3 pictures with him in it. That picture quality is atrocious.
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.
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.
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.
What's odd is I instantly recognized how to type on that type of phone, but I'm from roughly gen Z.
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
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.