My 70+ year old father does this too… When he does it means that your question is too stupid/annoying to answer lol

That image description :)

A member of Generation Z performing the stare

I teach Zs, but this doesn’t seem like a thing. Granted, I share much of their disdain for how shitty 2025 is, so the “response to performative positivity” probably wouldn’t apply. If anything, they seem to enjoy my dark humor while teaching more than the older folks in the department, lol.

I’ve never encountered this in real life, and the few Gen Z I do interact with seem normal to me.

Seems like more contrived generational drama. Can we just stop generalizing generations, please? As a millennial, I’m so sick of it.