{"id":715444,"date":"2026-06-20T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715444\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:05:10","slug":"what-is-gen-z-afraid-of-luke-babler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715444\/","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":715445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,153,259,206,1767],"class_list":["post-715444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gen-z","tag-mental-health","tag-movies","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}