Millennials are older than Gen Z. Why would a Gen Z'er be sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper? Gen Z would be born between 1997 and 2012, these people basically grew up online.
The joke may have merit, all generations have their lingo but it does seem to have gotten extra meme-ish as of late, but the labels are all wrong. Millennials are the old ones, the meme language speaker should be labeled as Z (which came after millennials) or Alpha (came after Z, born 2010-2025.)
The new gen just has the ability to disseminate slang faster with all the online tools. Back in my day, words only entered slang status when a celebrity used it in the media.
Yeah my millennial girlfriend does not talk like that nor do her friends. That's more juvenile speech and millennials are creeping into late stage adulting at this point and past that nonsense.
Not exactly, I think @PugJesus (brilliant username and pic BTW) means that "a spicy X" can mean a lot of different things dependent on what word "X" is