X-Men Director Shares Casting Update While Addressing Recent Rumors: "We're Talking About Some Things"

@WruceBayne - wants to update and address rumors “were talking about things”

@Kiba - The X-Men you grew up with were all young at one point in time

@Kiba - Who raised Gen Z? I find it funny how you boomers love to bitch and moan about every next generation, and yet never take responsibility for the bad job you did as parents. You old hags have destroyed everything you touch. Let me let you on a fun fact buddy. Every single generation, and I truly mean every single one, complained about the next generation. If you look into it far enough, people were complaining about the "Greatest Generation" in the early 1900s. Silent and Boomers shat on Gen X. Everyone shat on the millennials. Millennials are shitting on Gen Z and Alpha. Z and Alpha will be shitting on Beta and the cycle will continue. I'm so tired of this talking point.

@Kiba - Most of my peers (Gen-X) won't take any responsibility for how our kids have turned out.

@Kiba - Just more incoherent nonsensical babble that's easily debunked. This bullshit rant boils down to "I found some real educational concerns, mixed them with internet stereotypes and memes, added made-up IQ numbers, and then blamed an entire generation for my lack of happiness"

"And I always get a laugh out of people like you who immediately default to, "Okay, boomer," the moment they encounter an opinion they don't like. It's the intellectual equivalent of flipping over the chessboard because you're losing. For the record, I'm not a boomer. But thanks for proving my point about reducing everyone to neat little categories in typical Gen Z fashion. I'm guessing you're Gen Z, which tracks. Your generation seems to have mastered the art of viewing the world through a one-dimensional lens where everyone is either a victim, a villain, or a label. Ironically, Gen X raised Gen Z not Boomers."

The [frick]ing irony of this lmao. If Gen Z views everyone through labels as you say, why is your entire rant about a label of people? I find it funny how you're stereotyping people by age, then immediately launches into a massive stereotype about an entire generation. If "Okay, boomer" is bad because it reduces millions of people to a label, then "Gen Z is a generation of victims, villains, and labels" is equally bad. But I don't expect your hypocritical ass to get that. Yes, I'm Gen Z and I know it pisses you off knowing that you had a head start with multiple benefits yet you're still struggling more than me in your dogshit economy that boomers/gen x created. I get the jealousy, but you don't gotta make it so obvious.

"Every generation complains about the next, but Gen Z is the first generation to grow up with the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket and somehow use it to argue with strangers about things a five-second search could settle. That's a remarkable achievement when you think about it."

This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's a human thing moron. If anything, it's shown that you old hags are more likely to spread/fall for misinformation and ai. Boomers and Gen X are on facebook right now arguing with AI-generated Minion memes and nutjob conspiracy posts every day. Boomers argue online. Gen X argue online. Millennials argue online. Gen Z argues online. Gen Alpha argue online. If information availability automatically created wisdom as you say, the internet would have ended political arguments by 1998. You see how dumb you sound?

"Declining test scores, literacy concerns, and educational performance are all well-documented trends with Gen Z. The information is readily available."

Another low iq argument. Educational declines are not unique to Gen Z. There's also nuance and context that you conveniently ignore. Gen Z and Alpha sat in the house for months in 2020 because of the lockdowns. The pandemic and lockdowns greatly affected Gen Z's educational and social mobility. Anyone with a brain knows this. They're also the first generation to grow up with social media, so obviously you'd have to factor that in as a distraction as well. Don't even get me started on the completely outdated and underfunded education system of the US.

"Yes. Each generation complains about the next generation but each generation gets dumber by 20 points. But Gen Z being the generation that came to be during a massive tech boom and growing up in too comfortable of an environment are about 40 points dumber than Millennials. They eat Tide Pods for god sake."

Not only is this another low iq retard argument but it's just complete nonsense babble. There is literally no evidence that each generation gets dumber by 20 IQ points. That's not even how IQ works you [frick]ing retard. In fact, literally everything says the exact opposite. IQ has raised within each generation. Most boomers do not even know what the hell climate change is or how math works. Gen X and Boomers are the most illiterate group in the country. Gen Z are 40 points dumber than Millennials? But wait, I thought it lowered 20 points every generation? So is it 20 or 40? Your dumbass can't even keep up with your nonsense. By your logic, the average IQ for Gen Z should be in the 10s. The tide pod part of this makes me think you're a troll but I'll bite anyways. Dozens are dumbass tiktok teenagers ate tide pods so I guess that makes the entire generation dumb. This is what happens when you're chronically online and you're disconnected from reality. "A tiny fraction of little kids (Most of the tide pod trend doers were under the age of 10 by the way. I'm sure you did dumb shit at 10) did stupid shit to go viral so I guess that means all of Gen Z and Alpha are dumb!" Judging an entire generation by a tiny fraction of idiots and children will never not be funny. I guess I should judge boomers for being absolute dumbasses for falling for the most obvious of scams. I should also judge Millennials for choking (and dying in some cases) on cinnamon for internet clout.

"History will not be kind to Gen Z."

More easily debunked nonsense. They thought BOOKS (Yes actual novels) would ruin kids in the 1600s-1700s. Did that happen? Obviously not. In the 1940's comics were seen as a waste of time at best and degenerate at worst. They thought comics would ruin kids. Did that happen? No. They thought tv would ruin kids. Did that happen? No. They thought rock/metal/rap would ruin kids. Did that happen? No. They thought video games would ruin kids. Did that happen? No. Now it's the internet and social media. The fearmongering will always go on because of miserable old people such as yourself. Instead of teaching the new generation and mentoring them, you sick [frick]s deride them and then get jealous when they eventually surpass you. Every generation thinks the next generation is the worst. Then time passes and the cycle continues. It's so lazy and played out.

The biggest flaw in this retarded rant is that it looks over my very first sentence. Who raised Gen Z. You said Gen X and Millennials right? Well who raised Gen X and Millennials? Boomers did. You know what else Boomers and Gen X have done? Destroyed this country, more than any Gen Z moron could ever hope to do. You talk about declining test scores and education. Who's running those schools? Who created the addictive social media algorithms? Who's currently running the government? Who destroyed the economy that was handed to them by the Silent Generation? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't 14 to 29 year olds. Most of the institutions shaping Gen Z were built and run by older generations. YOU are to blame. History will not be kind to boomers and Gen X.

@FireGunn - Gotta give you credit for an insightful and well-written (scathing insults aside) rebuttal! There’s a brain behind your incessant anti-Gunn ranting. I respect that 👍

@Kiba - i never had faith when i learned this will be YA casted.

@Feralwookiee - this. Bros spent a lot of time and words on a comic book movie posting page…and not about comics, books, or movies.

@vectorsigma - Another low iq anti gen z tard huh?

@vectorsigma - Tell me where I'm wrong

https://historythings.com/1920s-manners-rising-generation-vs-today/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://daily.jstor.org/worried-about-teens-today-so-were-adults-in-the-1920s/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-10/the-long-american-tradition-of-complaining-about-lazy-workers?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://studylib.net/doc/7624571/e.-block-day-nov.-20-21--youth-in-the-1920s-reading?utm_source=chatgpt.com

@Kiba - well written and compelling points

“At this rate, Gen Alpha is going to inherit all the same problems, only with shorter attention spans and even more confidence” - again, well stated.

The only wrinkle I would add is that there is also immense anxiety and depression stuff in Gen Z that they imagine defines them and results in large swaths of Gen Z avoiding human interaction.

It’s like a combo of thinking they know everything because of the phones in their pockets and then what they imagine they know is essentially nihilism. So they are incorrect on two big whoppers.

That’s what I see at least. This is the result of cumulative failures of generations going back to before even the greatest generation connected to a materialist worldview that has been strangling Western academia for over a century now and has organically worked its way into everyday life of our youth now

@SpiderParker - Agreed. Generalizations are never the right way to go, but neither is blaming the system for everything in ourselves and our lives. It's such a wimpy way to face reality.

@SpiderParker - Jesus dude, I just knew your ass would comment under my post. You're so obsessed with me that you'd rather take the side of pseudoscientific nonsense instead of arguing the real facts. If it were anyone else arguing for Gen Z, you'd take their side. That is, unless you're another miserable ass Millennial, Gen X'er, or Boomer.

His point is automatically disqualifying and not worth engaging when he's spouting complete unscientific ageist boomer hack nonsense. I already gave the reasons why test scores, education, and a multitude of other things to measure IQ have decreased in Gen Z. It's not hard and difficult to see why. Gen Z is the only generation that had an entire year (Or close to it at least) away from actual learning and schooling. We were [frick]ing learning on our computers ffs. Gen Z is THE first generation to grow up with social media. Things like Tiktok erase the attention span of EVERYONE, not just Gen Z.

"Even though @Kiba incorrectly said that each generation's IQ drops by 20 while Gen Z dropped by 40, his point still stands. IQ"

No it doesn't. If the numbers are wrong, the “point” is not magically proven. That is not how evidence works. The entire claim rests on a massive iq collapse, and the burden is to prove that collapse with actual data and sources, not fake claims and magical numbers pulled out of your ass. We learn this in elementary school.

"IQ actually went up by 10 points each generation thanks to the Flynn Effect until Gen Z."

Ok, now I see you aren't arguing in good faith. The Flynn effect isn't even CLOSE to 10 points each generation. Once again, that's not even how iq works. It was typically 3 points a decade.

"Even with all the technology and information, or because of it, the IQ is going down per year since Gen Z."

Some countries (mostly third world by the way) have gone down sure. Can you explain why now? Is it just because Gen Z is innately dumber and inferior than their parents? Surely that can't be it yes? Unless you want to out yourself as an ageist prick like the rest of your generation.

"You can't blame this on the institutions and education."

More nonsense. Number 1, I didn't blame it solely on institutions and education. I blamed it on a multitude of things and factors. Institutions and education are simply a major reason for why Gen Z/Alpha is the way they are. IQ is not fixed. It is explicitly tied to education and your environment. But what if we applied your logic to a different type of people? Let's say... American Blacks. Their IQ doesn't reflect the same scores as their white, asian, and hispanic neighbors. Why is that? Is it just natural? Are blacks naturally dumb? Or are their differing reasons and factors for why it is the way it is. If so, apply this same logic with Gen Z/Alpha. Systems, institutions, and your environment shape who you are. I thought that was pretty obvious.

"Even if you are correct about those things, it still doesn't change the fact that innate fluid intelligence, the kind that can't be taught or trained through education, is going down in newer generations who have a much shorter attention span to even use the technology and information available to them for anything."

This isn't true in the slightest. https://medium.com/@eduardarnau12/gen-z-doesnt-have-a-short-attention-span-45974240188a

"I mean look at yourself, Kiba stated incorrectly but he made a correct point and instead of trying to understand his point or even verify, you went the route of "So is it 20 or 40?" and blamed the system."

There's nothing to verify. It's so obviously bullshit that I don't need to verify. It's so anti gen z biased that there's nothing to understand. It'd be like me verifying someone saying "The world is flat because you can't see the curves." But putting you to the test, have you verified and tried to understand what I'M saying? It's funny how I'm literally the ONLY person here giving out actual sources and REAL, verified numbers for my claims.

"The system wasn't good for anyone, some benefited from it and some got scorned by it."

Verifiably untrue. Gen Z carries the highest amount of debt of any generation. We've grown up in an increasingly shitty economy that has done nothing for us. Boomers and Gen X'ers got handed the best economy possible by the Silent Generation. You could get a home and a car on a McDonalds salary 70 years ago. You can't even get that making 100k a year in some areas anymore. Don't even get me started on today's job market, which is completely hostile to Gen Z.

"But how can you blame the system for your own shorter attention span and lack of curiosity to deep dive and use the information available?"

57% of Gen Z adults are enrolled in college and are set to become the most college educated generation. Gen Z is the least likely generation to drop out of highschool. If that's a lack of curiosity, what do you call all the boomers who dropped out of highschool? https://www.pearsonaccelerated.com/blog/gen-z-more-likely-to-go-to-college.html The shorter attention span stuff is a myth. It's not attached to just Gen Z but to everyone because everyone uses social media/tiktok in 2026. https://medium.com/@eduardarnau12/gen-z-doesnt-have-a-short-attention-span-45974240188a

"By the way, it's kind of ironic that the only time you didn't ask to "Reboot the MCU and DCU" is when someone called out the childish nature of the Gen Z."

My mind wasn't focused on the MCU or DCU when making this post. Of course you'd resort to ad hominems though instead of actually attacking my arguments head on.

Here's the best part that all of you are forgetting though. IQ does not measure raw brain power. IQ is essentially how much you can remember the things they were taught and apply it. Having a high IQ can get you good test scores but that doesn't measure how good you manage your finances, other skills, socialization, and other stuff. The only thing IQ scores is pattern recognition. But of course, this doesn't fit your argument so you conveniently ignore that.

@Fogs - "Agreed. Generalizations are never the right way to go, but neither is blaming the system for everything in ourselves and our lives. It's such a wimpy way to face reality."

This is a strawman. No one ever said that. I said the system has a hand in our lives, which it does. If you live in an underfunded corrupt third world shit hole for example, chances are your IQ will be sub 80. The system doesn't determine everything, but they absolutely influence probabilities. Recognizing that isn't "wimpy", it's simply reality. What is the reality in your opinion? Are you claiming that Gen Z/Alpha are inherently dumb people? If so, can you back that up and prove it with sources?

I find it funny how the "personal responsibility" generations can't take responsibility that they've continuously destroyed this country. As I said before, Gen Z isn't running this country (and the world) to hell.

@Fogs - Yeah, I mean there are problems, of course, which could be fixed if people spent their time doing their due diligence when looking at issues. It's actually a problem with human psychology and the confirmation bias is high thanks to the modern worldview. Most just want their POV to be the correct one and only see whatever gives credence to it and stop right there without trying to see both sides of the coin.

It takes a lot less mental energy and effort to say "see, I'm right" than to re-educate themselves before talking. Instead, some just consider their opinions and worldview as their personal identity.

Which is why currently, even though I know the alternative is far worse, democracy is such a big issue. What do you do when most people don't think deeply succumbing to their ego and bias while making important decisions that affect the world?

@Fogs - Fair enough

@FireGunn - thanks. I do see your point that it is not useful to nail single generations and end the discussion there. Seems like you agree that the devil is in the ideas that have borne fruit.

I think there was a modern iteration of an Exorcist sequel where the main girl was asserting that what appeared to be demonic possession was actually just chemicals misfiring in the brain. I can’t imagine a more dull and hellish vision of reality than that. Talk about gutting cinema of all ideas worth telling stories about. A total loss of inspiration and MAGIC.

I see nothing but an uncharmed life that atheists have invented in the madness of their own reason 🥲😂

@FireGunn - TLDR: If you noticed or not, I never gave my opinion on the topic in my first comment. It was purely statistics and reported facts. I just corrected what both of you got wrong as per the data. It's a given that environments like social media shape IQ, but the reports have been talking about both "raw" brain power and societal influence based IQ, both of which have been in decline since the around 2000s.


When I see a person like you who claims to have done "due diligence" but proves in a single comment just how little attention to detail you actually have, it makes me think the reports have some serious truth to them. Although, I do think it's attributed to most people's own ego and bias from relying on social media rather than just being a generational issue.


BTW, I suggest you read the previous comment carefully, no one wants to be wrong but maybe if you look past your ego, you might realize that the disorganized and inconsistent nature of your arguments is a perfect case study for exactly what we are talking about. Whether it's nutritional, generational, educational, psychological or social, the attention span deficit is real.

@SpiderParker - "Whether it's nutritional, generational, educational, psychological or social, the attention span deficit is real."

I've watched 8 hour YouTube video essays front to back in one sitting, don't use tiktok (or any social media for that matter to be honest), and regularly watch long movies/shows. Don't even get me started on my job. You don't know me dude lmao

@FireGunn - That's the thing though, it's not bullshit or unverified claims. It's what multiple scientifically backed reports in the last two decades have shown. There are literally books written on this topic. Kiba incorrectly claimed that it was happening before Gen Z on a smaller scale, when in fact, the decline specifically started with Gen Z. I gave you a quick FYI and corrected your misplaced blame on the system, but you got defensive about it.

People who were dependent on technology for videos and games during their preschool years didn't properly develop their attention span, which was only further fractured by social media in later years. This is exactly why governments around the world are currently placing bans on social media and smartphones in schools for younger age groups, explicitly citing developmental and cognitive risks as the reason. You are trying to make it into a myth when the world is actively fighting against it.

You do realize that the world is concerned about the future generation? If you want to keep going on this defensive path and look the other way towards verifiable facts and truth (even if some parents were wise enough to take preventive measures early on before official government actions), I honestly don't want to waste any more breath on you. You can go on pretending there's no truth behind it and act exactly the same without any prevention, and just hope your kid turns out well just to win an argument.