Cringe Millennials: Part 1 with

[@jacobsharpeiscool]

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[@breadanbuttwr]

Nuh uh ☝️

[@tortured_ape]

This is the type of game you guys would cover, but I wouldn't expect you to endorse it

[@chloe-pd9nr]

i love love & pies i’m not joking i’ve had it downloaded for like 2 years it’s great

[@ack_ack_jack]

OK but sir, did you see in you sponsored part your one pupil was very dilated and the other was not? Go see the Dr my dude

[@shaynemercury2651]

Reiterating the worry about your eyes dilation. I'm sure if it was serious you'd already have it figured out but can't hurt to make sure!

[@howdyitsren]

i grew up old enough to participate in millennial cringe, but young enough to blame it on being 12.

[@90Nicke]

Same

[@holymessengerofbibble3363]

Exactly, I may have had a mood-changing mustache necklace, but in my defence, I was 9.

[@normalguy246]

so true

[@kittystanby4686]

Maybe thank god you don’t have as hard of a life as a millennial.

[@shiannafoxx]

YES

[@sufficientcraze1442]

I didn’t vocally come out as bi to my family but I DID go into the living room to announce that I will now identify as a pastel goth scene queen

[@sufficientcraze1442]

I also had a shirt that my sister made that said “I’m so random” with Ralph from the simpsons

[@liablau]

@@sufficientcraze1442 Jail 😭

[@kittyqueentengu5327]

based and pastelpilled. i can’t possibly judge bc I’m the same except goth lolita

[@redtoneredtone6592]

​@@kittyqueentengu5327excuse me your fuckint goth WHAT!?

[@rosegold-]

HELP I SHOULDVE DONE THAT

[@bluejai4212]

I completely forgot Jacob had hair once. Honestly, the bald look works for him so well.

[@Bewbslol]

Just thinking this he pulls it off so well

[@4bidn1]

Gives me hope for when my hairline reaches that "bruh let it the fk go" level tbh

[@spectrophobic]

@@4bidn1 Walter white moment

[@Tiffany__B]

as a millennial, i must say Sir, you just won the internet ☝️

[@Matty__niice]

Epic

[@bugliker4437]

"Why thank you kind stranger"

[@mistresslegato]

*tips hat* "M'lady."

[@karynstudiosloane-ceramics436]

Here, take my coins!

[@bassetts1899]

Winning!

[@neverseenlou]

i can’t believe you got the boys on during their magic+minecraft induced feud

[@Nwdoendmwk]

Notice how he had to keep them separate, hope their friendship can recover someday 😔

[@Mike_Spike2000]

Nah for real, I just watched both videos 🤯

[@kadenl18]

wait what feud? maybe im not up to date lol

[@HydraVenus]

​@@kadenl18kurtis' magic trick video and danny's speedrunning minecraft video. kurtis got good at magic to show off to danny, and danny was hurt because kurtis was practically making fun of his skill.. so danny speedran minecraft to get back at kurtis and show that he, a bad minecraft player, could do what kurtis couldnt-- beat the ender dragon.

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

@@HydraVenus You forgot to mention that Danny didn't do what Kurtis couldn't. He committed fraud for his act of revenge

[@blakeybzz]

Good to see Jacob supporting smaller creators like Kurtis and Danny

[@ep9158]

how kind of him

[@candww]

is this a joke

[@Jay-rc5ix]

​@@candwwyes

[@PrincessCraftycorn]

epic lols, you just won the internets and can has a cheeseburger

[@ecmr.]

@@PrincessCraftycorn 😨

[@ruboidgaming967]

It's concerning how easily Jacob and Kurtis can be so painfully cringey.

[@finx3]

i can also and its from genuine experience so😭

[@bones_man327]

Canadian

[@Jane-oz7pp]

It's because being cringe intentionally was the Millennial equivalent to the Zoomer irony poisoning

[@brutalbunny]

kurtis' cringe british millenial made me flinch and flee into the comments

[@breadanbuttwr]

Too much millennial?

[@sonar1776]

As someone from early gen z, I think one aspect of this I haven’t seen talked about enough is how it definitely spread to kids lol. Like I have vivid memories of being surrounded by the stereotypical cringe millennial sort of stuff in elementary school. Because that’s what was cool at the time and young kids want to be cool like the older kids and well. I did have some cheesy mustache and bacon related items at age 7 lmao

[@valentinecore]

SAME everything they talked about in this vid i have memories of from childhood. my therapist as a kid had an "i can has cheezburger" meme book in her waiting room id read every time i went

[@inacatt]

My bestie at the time was a lol random mustache tomboy and looking back on it.. I was probably really cringe, too. I think more in the "wannabe goth/emo" way. Ah, 6th grade was a very strange time in my life.

[@caterpee]

same!! i distinctly remember doing this photo shoot (for some reason) with my sister and we had fake mustaches and stuff. i also remember nyan cat and istg my friends and I made extensive lore abt it... idk if this was a real thing but nyan cat's nemesis was waffle cat

[@0iv3]

dabbing was such a huge thing in my elementary school

[@emmasdilemma1394]

I had mustache and neon zebra stripe duct tape for crafts 😭

[@daddifaith]

as an “elder” member of gen z, i have definitely found myself succumbing to millennial cringe humor at times. i was there for top text bottom text memes and doggos and mustaches but i’m also young enough that my entire college experience was taken away by [redacted virus]

[@ACE360x]

I get ya, 2000s kid and I reckon late millennials and early gen z will have a lot more overlap due to the Internet

[@orinblank2056]

@@ACE360x That's because generation gaps are entirely made up, and everybody has a different experience with it. I was born in 2000, but didn't have a tv or any kind of technology until I was around 12 or so, whereas there were millennials who had grown up with computers from childhood, even if they were a decade older than me. It's all very vague and totally unscientific

[@noodlesoup9989]

You lost me at “elder”

[@KS-vf3ru]

I call my self a zillenial. Born too late to be a complete millennial and too early to be a complete gen z. I feel kind of like a more informed millennial. I can still understand zoomer stuff but I was there for a lot of millennial stuff. It’s funny, my family used to make millennial jokes at me to mess with me but then they started calling me a zoomer as soon as that was the new generation to make fun of.

[@elle_rose_xx]

I feel this aha I was born in 2000 so I engaged in tonnes of the trends in the 2010s - I felt this cringe😭😂

[@rubsomebacononit9843]

The fact that Kurtis pulled out the perfect British name for himself immediately makes me think he’s thought of this before.

[@BasicGeometry]

In 2014, my boyfriend and I went to a Halloween party as hipsters and no one could tell it was a costume because we were just actual hipsters in denial

[@noah1017]

I had almost that same experience

[@Matty__niice]

Thank you for being open.

[@samuel.thornton]

In 2012 I dressed up for Halloween as an old man, but I was so actively wearing old man clothes anyway I basically just tied my hair white and made sure to wear my non-prescription glasses.

[@matthewcron8842]

@@samuel.thorntonFeel like the prescription glasses would’ve added to it, if anything.

[@epis8613]

I lived in a hipster mecca at the time. Everyone hated hipsters even though almost everyone obviously was a hipster. Denying being a hipster is fundamental to being a hipster.

[@yilangji]

im 1998 and nothing can describe the weird limbo of growing up surrounded by all of these trends and not being able to look like a scene kid because mom said no

[@m00nrac00n]

True. As a '99 Kid we were like the "NPC Default Booger Child" while the Scene Kids and Hipsters were the Main Characters.

[@bigsmellbad1187]

He did not have to go so hard on himself being cringe back in the day, he literally had cancer. That was the cancer speaking

[@mightymeatymech]

😭😭💀💀 i don't even know what to respond to this almfsofdsjfahuisa

[@meggy3635]

WGAT

[@thepersonnooneknows]

Bro 💀

[@millys.]

This is the first video im watching of him and im literally so confused rn

[@serenitynow85]

Being so cringe gave him cancer

[@annieg202]

I remember when people used to overuse terms like "eargasm" or "mouthgasm". I still wake up in cold sweats because of those days...

[@giannaf874]

It's criminal that you did not include that picture of Kurtis that looks like harry styles in this video bc that was top tier millennial fashion

[@sageyboye]

HELPPP

[@onenightofsinn]

please i can not 😭

[@ameliehuijghe4022]

FR I WAS WAITING FOR IT THE WHOLE INTERVIEW 😭

[@earthavi]

I was cleaning out my dad's house last week and found a number of millennial cringe mementos, including a wide rubber bracelet that said "ERMAHGERD" and a journal whose cover was "Keep Calm & Carry On" with a Harry Potter silhouette on it. so needless to say I am struggling but it was cathartic to cringe with y'all and I look forward to all the future cringing collabs 👍🫡 Edit: to be clear these were my things, not my dad’s lol

[@imakerbadcontentrbad8664]

I'm stressing out over whether you mean that the cringe mementos were yours or your dad's, cause the idea of someone close to my age having a kid that's old enough they watch commentary channels is making me feel ancient

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@imakerbadcontentrbad8664 Technically millennials starts in the 80s, so it's actually not impossible for them to have kids in age to watch commentary channels... Damn, we really are old, uh?

[@earthavi]

@@imakerbadcontentrbad8664 lmao no no unfortunately these were my things 😅

[@EllawoodBlues]

Mildly upset it didn't say "Keep Calm and Harry On"

[@inacatt]

My parents are Gen X/Millenial cuspers and uh.. hate to break it to y'all, but the 80s were 40 years ago.. I'm an older Gen Z and I'm 21, going on 22. Sorry to make y'all feel old. 😅

[@jongkittae]

shoutout to hollister, abercromie, & american eagle for making 13yo me feel "fat" because their sizing was completely fucked and also didn't go above "large" 💀✨️

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

You can't "feel" fat, you either are or you aren't. There is nothing inherently wrong with being fat, so don't go implying that it's wrong. I get what you're trying to say about their lack of inclusive clothing options, but you're also inadvertently body-shaming fat people. You meant to say "for making me feel insecure about my body".

[@liky7244]

@@nomoretwitterhandlesHey!! while i COMPLETELY agree with both of you, i think your explanation was kinda aggressive and might take away from how valid this is, people are allowed to hate how they look, thats on them. But i also think that taking away the stigma from "fat" as a word is also extremely important. I also might have completely have misinterpreted the tone

[@halatiny6537]

@@nomoretwitterhandleslay off? Fat is subjective

[@daisie4505]

​@@nomoretwitterhandles I think thats why theres quotations around "fat"

[@block4562]

​@@nomoretwitterhandleschill

[@stu_pot1631]

It's actually really cool to me that Danny seems to like the scene style, it definitely makes me feel a little more confident in my choice to enter that space

[@wrathuu]

Same

[@99Mateoo]

Same, I love the scene style !!

[@kittyqueentengu5327]

scene kids are so cool

[@stephaniesesh]

samesies

[@strawberriemilq]

same!! im an emo but i take quite a bit of inspo from scene fashion so it made me happy :3

[@HoneyCat_Comb]

Love and pies is one of the most millennial sponsers you couldve gotten

[@nagrajmejakjestemidiot]

like fr it made me laugh

[@theletters9623]

being in the part of gen z that was on social media a little too early. I thought I was a millennial for years bc my 11 year old ass saw all the things about millennials not being able to afford houses and I went "I also cannot afford a house"

[@yoursbluely6890]

the reason jacob couldnt get danny and kurtis on at the same time is because of their current heated minecraft feud

[@jojol.2630]

I still listen to a lot of the music I did in the 2000s and 2010s, and there are still some aspects of millennial fashion I like, and a lot of the humor I found funny back then i still find funny. I think my thing is I really hate the idea of cringe. I’ve had severe depression my whole life and so little actually made me feel joy, I cling to it as hard as I can. I don’t want to pretend to hate things I like and like things I don’t care for for the sake of not being cringe, and I don’t want that for anyone else. A lot of stuff poking fun at millennial nostalgia feels like “lol look at how stupid we were for enjoying things we should’ve just sat down and shut up and not enjoyed anything.”

[@dailymdesdemona]

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Thank you for saying it more eloquently than I could have.

[@UGLY-MONEY17]

I actually completely agree with this. Being worried about peoples opinions on your own interests is a waste of time.

[@TwixtheFox]

Agreed. As a furry who's been in the fandom for a long time and a "Zillenial" (hate that word, but its a good way to describe being born in the transition period of Millennial to Gen Z, generational lines aren't so clean imo) I was born in 97 and grew up on the internet, so I was there for everyrhing from the start. Got into the furry fandom really early too. The idea of cringe has always been around, it just didn't really get a name and became more of a well rounded thing near 2016 era cringe culture. Even as an early furry, 2016-2018 were easily the worst years to be considered cringe in the internet. You would be harassed anywhere and everywhere if you were easily identified as something labeled cringe. I think a lot of the internet is just sorta recovering from the prominence of cringe culture. A lot of kids and younger gen Z were sucked into that at an early age and were harmed by it imo. I think it's changing finally because they realized they weren't allowed to like things or be themselves in fear of being labeled cringe. A lot of younger gen z had to bloom late and find things they enjoy and actually partake in it happily only recently because of cringe culture. I think that's why we've seen an explosion of Furries, fandom in general, and generally things that used to be labeled cringe being done. Because young gen z finally are getting out of that idea and people are finally realizing cringe culture was harmful, and now have to do soul searching and actively partake in things they always wanted to but were repressed and scared to. I was never into cringe culture, definitely a victim to the harm it brought, and I think a lot of the people on the receiving end of it are very sensitive and detest the idea of cringe in general. We were treated like the worst of society for being our authentic and best selves. And young gen z were held back from that development for many years due to cringe culture. I'm really glad the internet is finally moving away from it, but man it really bothers me when I see someone who never had to experience the receiving end of cringe culture be so critical of furries on small things that every fandom or group of people have problems with. Especially people new to the fandom coming in to the fandom and being the "self hating ironic" type really irks me because the identity was so important to us on the receiving end of cringe culture. It was the only place we could go and find people like us and not be treated like the worst of humanity for enjoying things we like. Cringe culture was really harmful for everyone, but especially harmful for those who defied it. I sorta think normalizing people apologizing to communities and fandoms they harmed if they partook in cringe culture might help us move past it even quicker and help heal both sides of the victims of cringe culture. It helps validate that it was wrong to those who it held back and they were sucked into a hateful reductive mindset, and can move on and enjoy things like they should have been doing all along, and it also validates those on the receiving end that they weren't some awful weird embarrassing gross person for enjoying things. I dunno, that's just me. I would feel guilty if I partook in cringe culture personally, but I understand younger gen z were sucked into a bad ideology and it wasn't really entirely their fault and fear of being bullied was the main drive of it. Sorry for the essay, I just get passionate about cringe culture, furries, and fandom in general. We should normalize talking about how it harmed us imo. Btw this isn't just me trying to be a victim, sorry if it comes off that way. I'm part of many minority groups so that makes me even more sensitive to cringe culture because it harmed many minority communities as well. Plus I was put on cringe reddit boards and was even the topic of a decently popular post. Anyhow, we should normalize talking about the harm of cringe culture of both receiving and partaking parties, and apologies to the people, communities and fandoms harmed. I think it would do a lot of good in healing those hurt by it and help everyone move on. I hope y'all all have a good day, keep being yourself and enjoying things you like. Keep being you and don't let others bring your best self down :3

[@brutalbunny]

sincere reply from a zoomer (2000) is that no one is more cringe than anyone else. boomers had prosperity gospel and ronald reagan, xers had I dont know fucking morissey or whatever, millenials have epic taco mustache and zoomers have "everyone i used to watch turned out to be a child predator"

[@WTMR-FM]

truely we zoomers have malicious tidings

[@LyzergideDaydreaming]

Ok but seriously what is with all the content creators from our collective childhood being weird as fuck

[@basketman2517]

Ehh, I don’t think that Gen Z had an unusual amount of predators that they looked up to as a child. Probably a normal amount of predators. There were probably just as many famous predators in older generations. The difference between now and then is that with the internet and chat logs, it’s very easy catch predators. In the past, many predators were able to stay under the radar. A lot of people who were looked up to were probably predators, and some have probably never been caught to this day. This is why I might be a fan of somebody, but I will never idolize anyone, because you never know.

[@faithgreen9115]

In gen Z we have “baby cat he so eepy” which is the new “epic pupper, so much cute!”. Since someone pointed that out to me I’ve never been the same

[@HeyItsNovalee]

@@faithgreen9115thanks you’ve ruined my life

[@crypt_creature]

i fell victim to the mustache craze in like 2014-2015 but i got away with it because i was in middle school during that era.

[@aksarbengothic]

1999, I’m in that awkward space where I was a little kid wanting to be like my “cool” older millennial cousins but now I’m just an elder gen z with millennial tendencies

[@ensommeille5315]

2001 and same 😭 I had an "I'd love to stay and chat, but I really [moustache]" tshirt, loved rage comics and lolcats, and don't understand TikTok in the slightest. I don't relate to other people in my generation and I really don't say that in a "not like other girls" kinda way; if anything it's embarrassing cuz I may as well be a straight up boomer to younger gen z while to actual millennials I may as well be like. 7 years old at most 💀

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

​@@ensommeille5315 Dawg I am literally the same way, you don't come off as a "not like other girls" person lol. It's so hard for me to relate to people in my generation when I grew up poor lol. I feel like that's something a lot of privileged Millennials don't understand when they say "only 90s kids will remember this!", because I grew up with some shit that was so old and niche that they wouldn't have even known what it was. I didn't get internet until I was 11, so I was basically a 90s kid until then (except for the fact that I was born in 2000...). A lot of kids who are born in underprivileged families (and by that I mean "ain't got money for a damn phone") watch and wear the things their parents had growing up. Some of those kids go thrifting, in which case their wardrobe is definitely going to be dated. It's unfair to separate generations by some trivial concept like "90s kids", when we ALL experience life at a different frequency. I'm who I am because of how I grew up and what I learned about this new wide world. Others already knew about the world when they were young, and yet it often feels like they understand less about our world than I do. Some peak early, some keep growing.

[@schnitzelmegapixel]

meeeeee lol

[@dshcbbyvwbyevbuyeb]

2003 and same :(

[@isabelleoh-criner6697]

also ‘99 here, we’re called zillennials 😌

[@wrathuu]

as a scene kid in 2023, im glad to hear danny still likes the style

[@kittyqueentengu5327]

you’re so cool for that btw i love the scene look

[@stephaniesesh]

samesies

[@itsluke7]

Kurtis’ answer to the prompt should have been “So, this exists” in reference to a common item he’s never seen before

[@sunnytheo]

I was born in 94 as well and it was so bad for me because I was homeschooled and raised by very strict parents so I didn’t have my cringe years till like three years after everyone else so not only was I cringe I was LATE to it 💀

[@sara.rae08]

I'm in the same boat as you to an extent. Born a year before, but was too poor to have consistent access to the internet at home (sometimes my mom would pay for it, and other times not) and fashion at the time. I never had the chance to be cringy but I did see a lot of kids in school partake.

[@td3824]

Now that was EPIC! This video definitely just won the internet today

[@Docpasta]

😂

[@navayti]

Well played my good sirs!

[@T.Ozantsi]

The first 10 seconds of this videos truly TRULY sucked my soul straight out of my body

[@m_a_k_e_n_n_a]

us early-mid 90's millennials really got the worst of it because we were at our most awkward teen years when the internet was at its cringiest

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I feel it's worse for the newer generation that has basically infinite Internet access at a very young age, way before you develop any sense of cringe. We were all cringe together because Internet was new. They have to live in a post cringe Internet era.

[@harly_]

kurtis' vine account is the perfect type of millenial humour that appeals to gen z as well 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@hollydawn07]

THE MUSTACHE GLASSES IM CRYING. I thank god daily that I was born *just barely* too early to really be a cringe millennial bc we didn’t have cell phones or digital cameras readily available in my preteen/teen years.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Not being born with cell phone is a millennial experience though? I didn't have one for a long while (well, I did, but when you can't go in Internet more than 20 hours a month, there's limited time for cringe behavior)

[@avr7120]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 i got my first phone with a touchscreen at like 10 but it wasnt a smartphone, everytime i accidently touched the web icon i had a heart attack thinking my parents were gonna be charged hundreds of euros 💀 i also wrote two word sms cause i was scared of running out of them. im gen z tho

[@hollydawn07]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 I’m 10 years older than Kurtis and Danny, I’m *technically* a millennial but I’m in that age range where the internet didn’t boom until I was an adult. It’s the weird generation between millennials and gen x that some people call “xennials”. We literally didn’t use call phones until our adult years lol.

[@peachallergy5820]

i was born in 2005 so i have no explanation for why i loved moustache jokes and the whole “quirky” thing So much like… picture a 10 yr old walking past u in a matching moustache pun outfit wearing neon green lense-less glasses and talking ab how awkward awesome sauce small bean they are 🧍

[@katmorrison6078]

As a fellow 1994 kid this opened a time capsule in my brain. In my senior photo I’m wearing white skinny jeans and a white button up with a black skinny tie and converse. The only thing that stopped me from owning hipster glasses was that I couldn’t afford to get prescription ones for my horrible eyes.

[@ayo32]

Idk them white skinny jeans still poppin in atlanta, even from gen z people

[@owl.drinks.tequila]

nah true hipster never wore actual glasses with lenses

[@hleebeg]

The "rawr" at each other because it means I love you in dinosaur was a thing guys. A genuine, actual thing 😳

[@kayla5452]

I was also born in 94 and I laughed so hard at this video!! My favorite millennial cringe thing was posting like super pointed, passive-aggressive Facebook posts that are absolutely clearly about a specific person but you don’t name them… do people still do that? Like the drama you could start when someone thought your post was about them 🤣

[@paigeblair-bx4qr]

yes and there’s a name for it now LMAO “subbing”

[@lena222jack]

i'm an 04 but skipped a grade up in high school . one of my friends who was a senior my freshman year (and sold us refilled mint juul pods too ofc ) still posts those. multiple of them actually. it's endearing to me, feels like going through my best friend's older cousins facebook status's

[@意地悪ちゃん]

we do it on our instagram stories, so at least it’s only temporarily visible now lol

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

You mean sub-posting? Yeah, lots of people still do that now, but it usually leads to brainless dweebs trying to cancel everyone in sight lol. (Actually, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure nobody sub-posts anymore, I think they just @ people like it's nothing, since they're so obsessed with clout...)

[@ayo32]

People still do that on instagram notes or close friends stories (sometimes public 😂😂)

[@mazeltovcocktail2.0]

I'm at the elder end of the Millennial span but I have to say I absolutely do not miss the "LAWL RANDOM I HAD A POTATO 4 U BUTT I EATED IT" humor where every word was a different color followed by 300 different low res glitter gifs

[@harm0ny_]

Something about 13:30 really reminds me of Bojack Horseman. There’s a part of that show that acknowledges the tendency for celebrities to stay in the mindset of when they peaked. One character describes the main character Bojack as getting famous in his twenties and being stuck in his twenties as a result.

[@ilovejessepinkman99]

same deal with mr. peanutbutter

[@spoonspork]

as a gen z kid, i bought into the cringe millennial culture hook line and sinker. my fav thing i did was sell tape with little drawn on mustaches on them for a quarter with my friend in my apt lobby. as much as millennial cringe is fun to make fun of, don’t beat yourself up about the joy you felt when you were younger, feeing happy and having fun can be hard now adays so just enjoy what you enjoy

[@sxhizornsmn]

I genuinely thought that nick jonas one was him doing a parody and I was like "damn, he's literally hitting it with every single cliche millennial line you could think of haha, nice one", and then jacob says he was serious?! bro

[@JennaEmbers]

Millennials were born during such a strange time. We had one foot in the time before the internet and one foot in the time after. Although most of us appreciate this new frontier, there is still that bittersweet longing for that "simpler time". But none of us want to be like our parents and say, "Well back in my day....!" So instead we just try our best to embrace this new chapter, and it’s evident that we never quite fit.

[@ShesquatchPiney]

I'm borned 88, so elder millennial, and I always say I'm old enough that it was still weird to grow up online when I was a kid. Now, it's how everyone grows up. This cringe we are experiencing is very normal generational jabs when people get older. I just wanna catch a break man, the boomers and zoomers hate us, can't we just calm tf down?

[@momothebug]

when Jacob said "ny-an cat" i started crying and pissing and shitting my pants and im not sure ill ever recover

[@apotatoperson.]

i have some toilet paper and a new pair of pants for you

[@AboutAGirIlllll]

the worst feeling is when you say a ironic millennial remark and someone doesn’t understand that it was supposed to be ironic

[@sarahbischoff2375]

This video is like being punched in the gut over and over. Good work

[@alisaishere]

I'm an elder millennial (part of the coveted xennials group), and I can't cringe at any of this. It was my life. We made some mistakes. But we weren't raised with the internet, so we didn't know better. Remember life before youtube and wikipedia? I do. It was wild back then.

[@LoserErinMac]

I remember getting that first AOL disc in the mail.

[@alisaishere]

@@LoserErinMac My family would do the discs frequently and didn't sign up for actual paid internet until they realized how much school work depended on it. My parents still had dial up while I was in college and only one dorm building on campus had wifi. So I'm just impressed that we were able to do so much with the internet back then. I love my shitty memes.

[@UhaveN0idea]

my high school had a meme club and a quidditch team. the theater kids & tumblr stars were easily the most popular ones. a millennial cringe fever dream if you will

[@rmb6037]

this is peak early gen Z, not millennial

[@UhaveN0idea]

@@rmb6037 probably late millennials too considering the ppl who made the clubs & teams were born in the early / mid 90s

[@mealwurm]

Not a millenial but was absolutely a scene kid and its so healing to hear people say they wished they had the balls to be a scene kid 😭

[@ShesquatchPiney]

I was scene whenever I wasn't at my parents fuckin house lol

[@AmyAberrant]

I had too much balls about being a scene kid 😭

[@kiarafowler2744]

kurtis is TOO good at the cringy millennial impression

[@ada.3880]

BRO I WAS LITERALLY OPENING THE LOVE AND PIES GAME AS YOU BEGAN YOUR AD. BEEN PLAYING TS FOR LIKE A YEAR - HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. im so glad they sponsored you. its the kind of mobile game that deserves all recognition

[@HotStrange]

Finally some nuggets. I haven’t eaten since the last video, so thank you for saving my life ❤️

[@RichardBaran]

As a "elder Millennial" at 37. I approve! And I'm only 3 minutes in. After watching it all, there's a decent difference between elders and you youngins. Pretty amusing

[@lilacblade]

why is it bad to be cringe 😭 i’ve always been called cringe or what not and i never understood why bc i’m just myself !

[@hallcurrin]

honestly nothing we’re all a little cringe let’s be fr 😭 it’s kinda fun

[@oastics]

be authentic! i feel nothing is actually wrong with being ‘cringe’. embrace it tbh

[@cwahlb1]

it is not bad at all ♥️ i think jacob had a really good point in saying that ppls adverse reactions to “cringe behavior” is their own embarrassment to things they wouldnt feel comfortable doing or saying around other ppl. ive noticed a lot ppl cringe at someone expressing genuine emotion like joy or happiness at something that excites them. but tbh, my happiest memories from middle and high school are me and my friends being “cringey”.

[@didik3327]

i am cringe but i am free!!

[@AaronHendu]

Cringe is fun...people scared to be cringe are usually boring and not even close to their authentic self...cause everyone is cringe.

[@Boggythefroggy]

As someone born in ‘95, I was obsessed with moustaches and those plaid triangle square scarfs all the hipsters were wearing. I also enjoyed cat memes and ridiculous cat shirts, so much so that I was known for them in my lab I worked in during uni. I had one with cats in burritos and tacos floating in space…it hurts man. Though I wanted to say some gen Z and millennials are getting into scene and emo fashion from back when I was in high school, and it’s especially heart warming to see millennials who now have a better grasp on style and more resources are finally able to dress like how they wanted to in high school.

[@AmyAberrant]

Those scarfs remind me of skins! Especially those posh twats Spencer and Josh 😅

[@annalivingtv]

Jacob I GASPED aloud at ur cringe millennial past lmao those were intense

[@alexx5064]

it’s hard to both let people do what makes them happy as long as they’re not hurting anyone and also judging them so cruelly youtube would shut your channel down

[@xiaoaishiteru]

First things first your outfit is so good even down to the earring and overalls strap on opposite sides. Also that intro caused my immense psychic damage and i cant wait to see the rest

[@KingOfSparkles]

As a zoomer who didn’t have many friends (and still doesn’t) growing up, I was on the internet so much that a lot of the memes I consumed were mostly millennial humour. No wonder my current friends think my humour is cringe-

[@k8terdoesthings368]

Ironically using slay isn’t just a millennial thing. I can’t tell you how many times a day I say “omg that’s so slay bestie” in the most valley girl way my soul can channel. Help. Please. I think I’m stuck.

[@quiverwingquack]

"Do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes" is literally the title of my tumblr blog, so kurtis is spot on

[@judedoodle]

Gen z was definitely affected by the millennials, I have pictures of me as an 8 year old in a 4th of July american flag mustache shirt 💀

[@AwesomeSauceXP]

I'm a millenial, and we were definitely cringy often. Gen Z is having their own cringe as we speak they're just blind to it. Rage comics have turned into fifty million versions of sad wojak and yes chad. Toptext/Bottomtext memes have transformed into relatable memes. Buzzfeed speak has become AI voice and saying APPARENTLY in front of every goddamn video you make, or every streamer saying "Let's Go" until it is meaningless

[@emmettvictor]

I will say that as a disabled millennial born in ‘95 I do still use the term “adulting” unironically. That’s probably cringe but I find it such a useful term for describing high executive functioning tasks that I often need assistance with (paying bills, meal planning and prep, house keeping). For me it’s basically the everyday tasks that are required of adults to get through daily life - the responsibilities that I didn’t have before getting older

[@TheRetroFanatic]

Yes! I still use it all the time but it’s dead serious. Adulting is fucking hard sometimes.

[@rooty]

I called it adulting until I realised it's normal shit and I just have adhd

[@katiekuchen9694]

@@rootysame

[@emmettvictor]

@@rooty I think it being normal shit is my entire point lol. I’m disabled which impedes me from being able to do the normal, day to day stuff that’s required when you age out of your parents taking care of it. A lot of the stuff I need assistance with is quite mundane

[@laurenmueller2207]

1998 here! Took part in begging my parents for Aeropostale, Holister, and Abercrombie and Fitch, glasses with no lenses, constant digital camera usage, strange prints on shirts and tight scarves, seeing kids with those Osiris shoes, had a Cheetah Girls Mix It Stick instead of an iPod, secretly reading twilight when my parents thought I was sleeping!!! Truly a culture

[@eveporter570]

collab of the century

[@avery8243]

i was born in 2006 yet i had unrestricted internet access starting around 4 years old. i also had somehow gotten swept up into the hipster mustache trend as well as things like domo and the harlem shake which is very millennial. i just think it’s really interesting that i was millennial cringe as someone who isn’t even older gen z.

[@didik3327]

omg same (06) and i got into a lot of the millennial stuff for some reason? like those fucking mustache rabbit things that you could collect and i had a pinterest board those godawful outfits

[@boatygod1063]

I'm also 06 and although I did not have unrestricted internet access I still found myself swept into the pastel goth, Asian swag, galaxy print, and Nyan cat frenzy

[@amyrose8912]

05 here and same. My siblings were all significantly older than me and one of them was in high school during PEAK millennial culture. I for sure had a couple pairs of shutter shades, a pair of mustache glasses, and duct tape wallets lol

[@MountainMamaMel]

I have pictures of my 88 year old Great Aunt doing the awkward turtle and they warm my heart. 🥰

[@garbagesalt]

9:34 "in the 50s" and then using like a late 70s / early 80s style flower graphic

[@hazybubblegum]

For me, it’s dropping the Simpsons quotes. I will say “everything is coming up Milhouse” to this day when things go well.

[@Lookatthesevideos]

You bring up a good point about shutter shades. The future could have been bright OR dark. The shutter shades were deeper than we thought....and they were right.

[@sabrieanne5216]

I want someone to talk about how some Gen Z fully adopt and embody the millennial cringe humor.

[@rubybarron4885]

I was born in 2002 so I associate millennial things with what we thought was really cool in elementary school. It’s always so strange to hear about those things in the context of high school lol

[@LittleBeams]

I'm 29 and I feel like I've never related more to a video.. thank you for this beautiful creation.

[@BestillaDjajSupremacy]

“I was a late bloomer” Danny… we think you still didn’t bloom yet

[@fredskull1618]

As a 90’s kid millennial, your vid was a whirlwind of millennial nostalgia. From discussing shutter shades to digital culture shifts, the 'millennial cringe' was thick and syrupy. A hearty look back, with a promise of more cringe in the future, it’s all part of the millennial charm!

[@victoria3301]

I'm going to say two things for all my late 90s kids out there: 1. Super WhoLock tumblr. You were there, you partook, you cannot deny. 2. The Game. Edited to say I love coming back to this comment and seeing all the enraged replies. You are all welcome 😁

[@liablau]

MEAN

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I wasn't on Tumblr because no one was here to tempt me with pictures of dinosaurs. I also didn't have a Skyblog or livejournal, as hard as it is to believe. That being said, I lost, thank you

[@sofeia1]

STOP MAKING ME LOSE THE GAME

[@didik3327]

FUCK!! the game is still a thing for gen z!!

[@cur1ouscatf1sh]

Aw, screw you too man 😂

[@lilidavis7398]

i was born in 2000 but being in middle school during that era was just as bad… my old email signature was “everyday i’m shufflin”

[@joselyn8604]

as a middle schooler in the millennial hipster/swag era i wanted to be yall so bad😭

[@celesteblack1803]

Millennials were the first ones to get on Facebook, and our pictures and status updates and poking were cringy and went unchecked. Then a couple years later the boomers found Facebook and ruined it :(

[@playlistsforbordem]

1996, so I'm able to write off most of it as being a stupid pre-teen / teen. In 7th grade my best friend and i would have "ninja tuesdays" where we dressed in all black and naruto ran the halls. I identified as emo and wanted more than anything to do the scene/emo hair. I do get nostalgic about it sometimes, especially seeing little emos out in the wild. Went back to my hometown during it's yearly fair and saw a small group of them standing in a dark corner outside high school all sharing a single cigarette. It was adorable. I just know they thought they were being so cool. I also was and still am heavily on tumblr so there's very little cringe that phases me. It will never be as deranged as onecest.

[@NotALittleMouse]

its weird as a genz kid growing up with early internet access because millenials were the ones giving content on the internet so i had that kinda humour as well 😭

[@banillaveans]

I’m emo/scene and it makes me really happy that Danny does not think I’m cringe probably 😭

[@nickspeelman9174]

"Millenial cringe" is just called being a young adult. Ten years from now plenty of Gen Z stuff will be seen as cringey - except that word won't be used anymore because it will, itself, have become cringe. Young adulthood is about exploring your identity and testing boundaries. You end up doing a lot of shit that's super embarrassing in hindsight during that process.

[@Alexandra-rb7ju]

When I was a kid in the 90's I legit had a teacher that called the students she hated "retarded". Yup. That was a thing back then.

[@joeyparker7991]

Love that Kurtis and Danny both dabbed completely unprompted

[@lillianlillian]

that’s first picture,,,i actually gasped…. as a cusper, i know the exact aesthetic you were going for and whew the war flashbacks

[@non-corporealentity67]

i think the (i’m assuming) incorrect question photos are so funny because it shows “are all millennials bad people” and kurtis just goes “yeah” 😭

[@gummywummyy]

so amazing to find out danny likes the scene look since i'm scene

[@Nwdoendmwk]

I could have gone my whole life without seeing that Nick Jonas TikTok, thanks Jacob 😐

[@idowhatiwantimpunkrock]

As a older gen z, this is delightful to watch, because I was old enough to watch millennials do this shit (and think they were cool) but didn’t participate in it and can share the cringe/nostalgia with you

[@jbone877]

Everyone is cringe, all the time. It's simply a question of whether or not one is capable of sufficient reflection to be able to see it, in retrospect. Generally speaking, the people who think they were not cringe, are the most cringe

[@All4theGraham]

As a millennial there is nothing people love more than having a May 4 bday, it’s like their fave bday ever

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

It's weird that millennial is still used to refer to anybody that's not a boomer, even though millennials are over now. Times have flown past and there's already a new generation. I was born in 2002 and I'm an adult but still labeled a millennial by people XD

[@hieronymus1432]

The "he's right behind me" and other millennial movie dialogue can be attributed pretty wholly to Joss Whedon.

[@mrlagoonslawyer]

THATS WHAT IT WAS. I’m a kinda mid scale gen z but was RAISED on joss whedon and that is 100% the dialect

[@masekiibo]

As a gen z kid who was raised on the internet, i feel like a lot of millennials forget that internet memes dont just like dissapear? Like i grew up on nyan cat, epic galaxy mustaches, plaid shirt and all that internet millennial shit lmaoo Also i think its cool how a section of alternative gen z kids try to replicate the early 2000s/2010s scene kid and emo look

[@catabat49654]

My folks got me a tee shirt for Christmas a few years ago that says “Coffee: Because Adulting is Hard” because I used to say “adulting” a shit ton in high school and college (basically the entire 2010s). I wear the shirt like a scarlet letter 😅

[@bobbyshores]

My favorite is all the millennials that hate on Gen z and say how they’re ruining everything and they’re phone obsessed considering that’s exactly what people said about millennials lol

[@caitlinlhotellier1231]

I'm 1999 and I feel so in the middle. I 100% did awkward turtle all the time 😭 I also had musatche items. I wore colourful skinny jeans. I was 12 with the scene hair

[@ben-tb6bx]

why did kurtis let planking die let's bring it back a third time im not even joking