Based?

Mr. Blue Sky said
That would actually be awesome.. fwiw i dont think ‘based’ is necessarily a Gen Z thing.. i think it’s more of a lunatic fringe thing, the same ilk who talk about being ‘red pilled’ or being ‘blue pilled’.. also, i think ‘based’ in their lexicon sort of means the opposite of ‘woke’.. and woke, as we all know , used to be a positive thing- meaning awake and aware of history, and of what is going on around you .. but it has been co-opted by the same aforementioned lunatic fringe to mean something negative.. they ruin everything they touch .

The Venn diagram of who you're describing and Gen Z boys is basically a single circle. Which is weirdly something I feel like isn't getting discussed enough. But as someone who works with dozens of them a day, they are decidedly less progressive than more recent generations. I read an article the other day about how they're undoing decades of work to make the "r word"( "mentally challenged") a socially impermissable word and it has seen a huge resurgence in pejorative usage because of them.

Girls are a whole different story.