Zoomer Meets a Fax Machine

I run a medical office, and one test we give to every applicant is to send a fax to another fax machine on the network. Boomers laugh "is that a joke?" Gen X says "Uh... why?" Grumble grumble* and sends it. Millennials sit there and fuck around for 20 minutes and send faxes to everyone on their contacts list, the governor, their mothers, all of the patients and each doctor, and then and then extra copy to ANOTHER fax machine on site "to show it worked". Thanks. But Zoomers? Put a zoomer in front of a fax machine and it's like the black fucking box from 2001 comes down and they touch all the sides, screeching, becoming more feral as they inspect it, looking for a touchscreen, asking if it connects "to an app", before saying "is this a prank", and trying to film the staff for "wasting their time". The Zoomer clutches its phone like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, and in a drunken stupor, stumbles out of the building into the harsh light of the world, knowing that it is run by evil old people using dark magic to send documents wirelessly. The Zoomer imagines these documents zooming over their heads. ZOOM. ZOOM. ZOOM. It's like a heartbeat they are now aware of. Screeching, they zoom zoom to their doom. A few hours later, their mother receives a fax notifying them of their failed interview. The zoomer is only allowed to tip 2 streamers this week now.

A long 4chan-style copypasta contrasts Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Zoomers encountering a fax machine. The punchline portrays a Zoomer as feral and technologically helpless around old technology, treating the fax machine like a mysterious magical device and then failing the interview. It is used as an absurd generational reaction meme about stereotypes, office technology, and exaggerated distrust of unfamiliar machines.

• @gentoomemes / 5254 2023-07-10