{"id":502525,"date":"2026-06-20T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:00:13","slug":"what-is-gen-z-afraid-of-luke-babler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502525\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Gen Z Afraid of?\u00a0 &#8211; Luke Babler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with kids these days?\u201d Two freshman directors, 26-year-old Curry Barker of Obsession and 21-year-old Kane Parsons of Backrooms, seem to have figured it out. And the box office is rewarding them for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond their notable youth (Parsons received a lucrative A24 deal at 17 years old, and he has only been able to legally drink since Thursday), another fascinating aberration in these two Gen Z directors\u2019 stories is just how well their films have performed in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with kids these days?\u201d Two freshman directors, 26-year-old Curry Barker of Obsession and 21-year-old Kane Parsons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,4197,85,46,522,397,545],"class_list":["post-502525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gen-z","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-movies","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}