I don’t see any generational clues in the comic. Nor is going outside “terrible”. The presence of the butterfly suggests the environment in this area is “normal” and the indoor kids are the oddity.
The generational portion is implied due to the pressures that make indoor kids a common occurrence are only getting stronger as time goes on. So the fact that the mother is shocked at her kids reaction also implies a generational point of the observation
I don’t see any generational clues in the comic. Nor is going outside “terrible”. The presence of the butterfly suggests the environment in this area is “normal” and the indoor kids are the oddity.
The generational portion is implied due to the pressures that make indoor kids a common occurrence are only getting stronger as time goes on. So the fact that the mother is shocked at her kids reaction also implies a generational point of the observation