Everything is Ending (Again)

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Across
  1. 4. Type of "slump" associated with the neon-lit 1980s
  2. 5. A smiling pile of waste that supposedly murdered conversation
  3. 6. Haircut style featured in three-minute television movies
  4. 7. 2020s social media that will be considered "classic" in 2050
  5. 8. Movement by a wiggling man that signaled a 1950s collapse
  6. 10. Comparison of modern youth to a glass ornament in a hurricane
  7. 11. Digital characters that youth buy hats for
  8. 13. Frequency that mothers sighed about in the fifties
  9. 15. Bread filmed by youth in their afternoons
  10. 18. 1960s dream of a mobile living space
  11. 19. 1990s attitude that offended the older generation
  12. 21. Pattern paired with pomatum in the era of the pelvic tilt
  13. 26. Something 2000s youth were accused of being unable to read
  14. 27. Current attention spans are reportedly shorter than one
  15. 29. Flowers the 1960s youth were compared to for being "too soft"
  16. 31. The facial expression 1950s youth practiced instead of division
  17. 33. What 1950s teenagers looked like in leather jacket "sausages"
  18. 35. 1980s accessory bought with parents' hard-earned cash
  19. 37. Word for inactivity that became a high art form in the 90s
  20. 39. Burning cabinet smell associated with the 1960s youth
  21. 40. Something current youth care about more than oil changes
  22. 41. Where grandfathers were busy being miserable
  23. 44. Lipstick shade sought by women in 1984
  24. 46. Musical instrument swapped for the traditional work ethic
  25. 47. Type of couch associated with 1990s cereal-staring youth
  26. 48. 1990s music sounded like this appliance having a panic attack
Down
  1. 1. To "___ quit" rather than climb the corporate ladder
  2. 2. Digit that evolved specialized clicking skills in the 2000s
  3. 3. Complaint that children are dancing for invisible audiences
  4. 9. Color-blind bolt that seemingly dressed the eighties youth
  5. 12. The great irony of graying hair
  6. 14. First name of the author Mindell
  7. 15. Infinite action associated with the current digital catastrophe
  8. 16. What eighties youth supposedly wanted to turn the earth into
  9. 17. Part of a snare drum that turned 1950s spines to jelly
  10. 20. Type of dog 2050 elders will complain to
  11. 21. What 1960s kids spoke of while adults tried to have a quiet war
  12. 22. How a person over fifty always views the future
  13. 23. What actually hurts when people blame the music
  14. 24. Material used for vests that replaced leather jackets
  15. 25. Fabric that signaled the arrival of the nineties era
  16. 28. What elders see in the youth of their own fading relevance
  17. 30. Temple of plastic and air conditioning in the eighties
  18. 32. Once-pure device that future elders will miss
  19. 34. Synthesized sounds of a dying robot in eighties tapes
  20. 36. Sentient plant that 1960s parents wondered if they had raised
  21. 38. Future complaint about youth in the year 2050
  22. 42. 1950s grease used to lubricate a scalp like a locomotive
  23. 43. Machines that 1980s music video stars jumped in front of
  24. 45. Awards given for coming in eighth place