Gen-Z: Too Soft For... Rom-Coms? - A Dose of Buckley

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What will the 2020s be known for? Well, if social media is any indication, we may be seeing a new rise of Puritans! Buckley looks at the negative reactions to a brand new Sydney Sweeney rom-com being Rated R, as well as the frequent and ongoing complaints about... "love" scenes and, umm... "undressed individuals" in film and TV (hey, we don't want to make the kids uncomfortable, now do we!?) Is it possible that the generation with the most unfiltered access to the most depraved parts of the Internet are NOT desensitized, but instead growing up prudes?

[@BeeOstrowsky]

Mark my words: Deadpool and his sex partner(s) will break the fourth wall to enthusiastically consent to the audience watching them in Deadpool 3.

[@ddjsoyenby]

"don't worry we consent.........also if you're mad good we want that nerds"

[@InkAndPoet]

Actually, I think he just wouldn't care.

[@Scrinwaipwr]

​@@InkAndPoet if he did it, he'd be sarcastic or patronising about it.

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Deadpool: "I also consent to you watching me and Wolverine bang. Not that it's going to happen, but... fingers crossed!"

[@trs5127]

Or they could go the horrible route and make Deadpool three not R-rated

[@stlchucko]

I worked at a movie theater in 1997. I lost track of how many 13-14 year old girls I caught sneaking into Jerry Maguire.

[@dylanshorrorchannel1378]

What were the audicenes like for Titanic and scream 2?

[@SPc3w]

Quite baffling that Sydney Sweeney is the main target of all this, since Euphoria is rated TV-MA. So it's OK if a teen drama series is rated 17+, but romcoms should not be? 🤔

[@ADoseofBuckley]

It does seem odd that they're all upset about a girl who, as far as I know hasn't appeared in anything meant for kids in years, being in another R/MA rated thing. White Lotus, Euphoria, The Voyeurs... I guess she did something called "Night Teeth" that was only TV-14, but yeah, anyone who's specifically aware of her and following her career shouldn't be surprised by this.

[@imjustsam1745]

@@ADoseofBuckley another creator described the modern feminist movement as being anti success. She's exceptionally beautiful, that is something to destroy for a lot of young women. I spent the last two years moonlighting as a yoga teacher in a college town, from the young woman I met in doing so I believe he is correct.

[@holdencaulfield2417]

​@@imjustsam1745 That's just incredibly stupid analysis.😂

[@Jacen436987]

@@imjustsam1745 yup. zoomers hate success. even their own but especially everyone else's

[@shawklan27]

Makes no sense at all

[@matthewdrummond1340]

"I can't believe I'm forced to watch movies with sex scenes." *Because they're totally being strapped down and forced to watch with their eyes forced open like the main character from A Clockwork Orange."*

[@sammy1552]

I used to believe people aren't THAT stupid when it comes to paying attention to the ratings board. But after this, I never should've underestimated how idiotic people can be.

[@matthewdrummond1340]

@@sammy1552 right???

[@Albeit_Jordan]

4:22 "I miss vanilla movies" that 2022 clooney and roberts netflix romcom 'ticket to paradise' was so unbelievably vanilla I'm pretty certain it was genuinely written by AI

[@mason4966]

Exactly what I suspected it was going to be like.

[@theghost00]

6:33 If watching nudity with the BOYFRIEND is awkward, then why the hell are they in a relationship in the first place? 😂

[@L1am21]

Worried he might get ideas obviously 😂

[@sicdemon7177]

Buckley's outburst at 8:08 "what are you taking about? What are you fцскїиg talking about" had me dying. He's normally composed but that right there was true emotion.

[@daviddebroux4708]

That there was truly sexual.

[@insertnamehere478]

An impeccable snippet of sound.

[@silversamm]

Yeah very weird take there LOL... like 90% of what happens in movies, esp romcoms is private happenings. It's technically still voyeurism if you sneak up to someone's windows and watch them bake a cake or something.

[@SecrecyKillled]

I'm the type of person who doesn't care for sex scenes, I will mute it because I can't stand the kissing lip noises...but to ban them from everything just because I personally don't like them would be ridiculous. I hate the chronically online entitlement of 'I hate it, so nobody else can enjoy it' mentality.

[@Iamonepercent]

I'm well into my millennial years and ill never understand sex scenes. I don't think I've ever watched a movie with a sex scene and thought, "this was an integral part of the plot." I have no care for banning them or anything of that nature, it just doesn't do anything.

[@Thobeian]

Honestly the people who say that the most are the lost out of touch with other people around them. This existed before internet though. T It's just now those people have an easy place to post all of their rancid opinions about how everybody should live the way they do, because they live a "purer" life without vices or flaws (according to the greatest judge of character, themselves). "Terminally Online " to me translates to "socially awkward shut-in with a Twitter account"

[@nicolec8884]

I feel the same way about horror movies. I'm not sure why people get excited over those types of movies.( I can tolerate revenge horror movies even though it's still messed up)

[@shawklan27]

​@@Iamonepercent sex scenes are in everything and I'm sick of it

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

Well said. Personal preference and even criticism of film and television are all valid. It's just that the criticism should be about how the scene is irrelevant or uninteresting, not how it unintentionally offends you.

[@midnight3018]

I feel like a point you made back on your trigger warnings video is at least somewhat relevant here: it's one thing to have an issue with something (for whatever reason), but that doesn't automatically mean that the entertainment industry is obligated to cater to you. I'm generally neutral to depictions of sex (and romance media in general.) I don't get anything out of them, but I'm not disgusted by them either. Romance and sex are just a part of life for a good number of people, so I don't think it's that crazy of a concept to depict those things in finer detail in a movie specifically about those things. Those movies just aren't really for me and so I'll move on.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Basically my thoughts. I generally think it’s not very needed, especially in stories where it doesn’t serve the plot, but if it did, and that was the point, I’d be fine with it. Doesn’t really matter to me.

[@Bonlaws]

Agreed, I tend to dislike sex scenes and fanservice in shows and personally wouldn't watch stuff where its extremely present, but if people door make media that has it, I don't care, plenty of other shows and movies out there to watch.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

@@tylerhackner9731 yep - lots of that R rating in the 90s was just to give mediocre movies a cheap exploitation/shock kick.

[@samuel-xg3ce]

As a member of gen z this seems to me to be a vocal minority. Peers that I interact with are more worried about the actors being comfortable doing those kinds of scenes and the involvement of intimacy coordinators to ensure that. We aren’t worried about getting rid of them entirely.

[@ddjsoyenby]

that's fine as a grumpy old man myself i know these damn kid idiots don't speak for all of you.

[@Zarugoza5969]

Yeah, especially when Gen Z is also the generation would listen to things like Cupcakke because most of us have a "haha sex funny" mindset.

[@prospect689]

then I'll just say be the voice of reason to keep sanity real

[@ShindaSekaiSensen]

This is so funny to hear because the 4th season of You, Penn Badgley actually said he was uncomfortable doing sex scenes so they wrote around them and kept them out, and people on Twitter were angry at him for it LOL I think Twitter just doesn't know what it wants other than to fight

[@midnight3018]

I think it's just a case of "you can't please everyone." No matter what you do, *some* group or another of people will fuss at you. And it's the internet, so that group of people can easily find you.

[@themanyouwanttobe]

I have a theory that the catalyst for the "prudification" of youth culture was the adpocalypse. You had a wild west of content creators suddenly forced into a very narrow "ad friendly" box. Go PG or go broke. This wasn't like movies where there was a selection of age ratings to choose from (or sneak into); everything had to be suitable for small children on KZbin or it wouldn't make money. There's no question that online content creators are more influential on youth culture today than any other form of media so when their idols are sexless and censored, of course that's going to pass on to the values of the audience.

[@UBvtuber]

And shock websites aren't really a thing on the clearnet anymore, the biggest one Liveleak shut down a few years ago. Not to say that all Gen Z are babies, but for the most part, they haven't really been exposed to really messed up stuff like many Millenials have online.

[@rhysjonsmusic]

That maybe part of it but id also wager part of it is due to how much Intersectionality and gender theory is artificially injected into their media nowadays.

[@SteeZy644]

@@UBvtuberreddit serves this niche pretty well and ppl still mention Blue Waffle and 2g1c so its not completely gone. If anything shock sites have bled into the mainstream culture bc 9/11 jokes have never been more popular

[@UBvtuber]

@@SteeZy644 9/11 jokes have been around for a long time bruh, and that's not even close to shock sites and sites that list a ton of racist / dark jokes (yes, I looked that up back in the day and it was just listed off like any other joke lol).

[@mc98smusicmoviereviews93]

@@UBvtuber Well, I mean I could direct you to a few death and gore-oriented websites that are still up and running, but I don't want to be outed as an edgelord freak.

[@VileMisanthrope]

Small part of the problem, probably, is that Gen Z kids don't like watching older movies. I know and work with tons of kids born after the start of the 2000s and can't count how many of them straight up say they refuse to watch movies made before the 2000s, or even before the mid-2000s. So because of that there's a good chance a lot of them don't know how many well known rom-coms were rated R. What's also really sad is initially it seemed like the more generations came about and got older, the more sex positive we were becoming. Gen Z is starting to backpedal that. What the hell?

[@redgreen2453]

“Well, thanks to the internet, I’m finally bored of sex” -Phillip J. Fry (Sr) (the voice of a generation (Gen Z))

[@mainsmain]

Weezer - Tired of Sex

[@psychodeviant8903]

Oh fuck, this video has just opened my eyes. Have I been viewing Buckley's videos without his consent all these years? Buckley, buddy, I need to know. Please give me a sign, blink twice or pull on your ear or something if I have your consent to watch your videos.

[@simmingsammi]

What ever happened to being sex positive?

[@JTeam45]

There should be more Rated R movies. Is Gen-Z is so disillusioned that they think characters are sentient? They really should be ashamed.

[@Waspinator1998]

I saw Bones and All with my girlfriend when it came out. We thought it was just "okay," but not particularly shocking, all things considered. Seeing all of these Twitter takes makes me wonder how these bozos would react to intimate romance/sex _and_ gratuitous cannibalism.

[@ddjsoyenby]

same.

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

I have a feeling they didn’t watch Natural Born Killers and other big 90s movies. And those were mainstream AF

[@Jacen436987]

@@JohnDoe-vc5qb i mean, these are the same morons that appropriated the word edgy and made it seem like it should be something to be ridiculed. nothing is allowed to be dark, serious or bad ass or it's "edgy". zoomers are scared of taking anything seriously.

[@zenketski]

All you have to do is roll through the comments section of any slightly edgy scene or bit from any TV show or movie to realize that people's brains have just rotted out of their skulls.

[@AVdE10000]

4:32 that's what I predicted to be the big issue until it popped up right there. Being 14/15 and sneaking into an R rated movie with your friends? That makes you feel badass. Being 14/15 and watching 2 people go at it while your parents sit next to you? Makes you feel Hella awkward. And with cinemas not really being a thing anymore for the latest generation, well, I kinda get where they're coming from.

[@MicrowaveMeShow]

The one person reminds me of the priest in an Italian movie I once saw who made sure every kissing scene in every movie was censored before being shown, he called kissing in movies an example of "pornography". The kids today would probably call him "based Italian priest" or something. Weird how the cycle works, 1920s-1930s had surprisingly edgy stuff in movies (I mean, that's when infamous Un Chien Andalou came out), then the Hays Code arrives, things remain overly conservative until the 1960s, where things become far more liberal and sexual, then in the 1980s we had the "social values" conservatives who wanted to censor everything that wasn't "wholesome" and "educational" (you're my age, so you likely remember that), then in the 1990s there was a pushback against it as they became little more than punchlines for jokes. Then the 2000s and 2010s literally everything was available for consumption. Still is, but it seems they're swinging as far the other direction as possible and they're going to make the Victorian Era look like wild by comparison. They'd be shocked if they read Chaucer and found out the stuff that was popular in the 1300s/very early 1400s (there was even a rhyming pun between "quaint" and a four letter word that starts with "c").

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

Haha. My parents always complain about American shows censoring nudity and profanity. It's the exact opposite feeling of feeling awkward while a nude scene is going on.

[@Chaos89P]

Puritanism never fully left this country.

[@CriticalEatsJapan]

I mean quite often it is just lazy writing...

[@Queen_Nyxie]

That sudden, aggressive "What are you talking about?!" absolutely sent me. Had me a good 5 minute laugh off that one.

[@ADoseofBuckley]

Thank you, I really went for it and I'm glad people enjoyed it.

[@L1am21]

Reminded me of homer Simpson in the poouchie episode talking to the itchy and scratchy nerds.

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

I don't mind sex scenes in movies, but what I do mind are "missionary under a blanket" scenes. If you have to add a sex scene, at least make it erotic.

[@orlock20]

I get the sex is boring in movies, TV and even books part because there is a big difference between doing and watching. Sexy songs can be more romantic because the characters and viewers are sharing the same experience. Few directors put romantic music in a romance scene. They put the worst mood music they can find there.

[@AngryGrape1337]

Especially when they have that weird L-shaped blanket on there, the one that covers the woman’s breasts but shows the guy’s chest.

[@KetsubanSolo]

​@orlock20 I like when there's no music because it adds to the raw emotion. But yeah it sucks when one is happening and some Top 20's song starts playing.

[@iainronald4217]

Huh, suddenly I'm transported back to high school when all of the parents in the school district protested sex-ed so much that sex-ed instructors were afraid for their safety to enter the building; And, to give us the bare minimum information, the school chaplain (an elderly nun) had us write our sex, menstruation, masturbation, and other questions on paper, crumple them up, throw them in a trucker cap and answer as many as possible in under an hour. I know us millennials kind of became the new free-love generation, I also know that new generations rebel, but Gen-Z didn't have to pivot back to what we were fighting against, lol.

[@FruitSmax]

don't quote me on this but i think this mentality from gen z is the result of sex becoming more of a commodity than an act of real romance, especially with onlyfans being stuck in the limelight for pretty much all of 2020 (when gen z became even more chronically online) and hookup culture still being the norm for anyone younger than 30

[@Joshtapus]

Okay but honestly, if you watch something like 50 shades or 365 days and took out the sex scenes it would like a 20 minute movie

[@runawayspodiac2945]

Knocked it out of the park in this one ol’ Buck (the iDubbz joke totally caught me unprepared), thanks for the weekly laughs

[@lilowhitney8614]

The voyeurism tweets *could* raise an interesting point... if they weren't focused on the sex aspect of it. In a way, all stories are a form of voyeurism since we get to see the life of "people" (characters) while they don't "know" that someone is "watching" them. It's a bit like the ideas The Truman Show explored. Idk, could be an interesting topic for a philosophical essay.

[@Beta12328]

Wouldn't this apply to every story ever?

[@sunchips18]

@@Beta12328 “In a way, all stories…” Do you even need to ask?

[@Chaos89P]

This comment could lead to an existential crisis if you think way too hard about it. Like "Is someone watching me behind a screen right now?"

[@SnuggleKingHS]

If it's not OK to watch people on TV without consent, what other boundaries are there to cross without permission? Should viewers close their ears, if characters are whispering to each other? What about showing people in movies go to the bathroom? Oh no, goodbye famous scene from Leathal Weapon. Idea of characters on TV having some kind of rights is just absurd. Actors do. And they did consent to film in this. Btw, about young adults not having sex - I think it's a part not being ready to grow up. For a few years now I haven't talked to person, finishing high school, who wanted to move out from their parents, get a job and try this adult life. While when I was in school, people couldn't wait to get this over this and go on. Adult life's stock is plummeting. People happy to be kids for life. Live with your parents, watch tiktok, get a easy job to provide yourself with some pocket money for lattes and craft beer.

[@michelle_pgh]

Gen Z has forgotten how to have fun.

[@Na-mi3dx]

To be fair, their parents didn’t want them to have any 😂

[@tylerhackner9731]

@@Na-mi3dx some of them probably had Gen X Facebook-addled parents and that probably clouded their kids thinking. They forgot all the wild shit they did in the 80s and 90s, and turned their kids into Helen Lovejoys

[@TheDeadlyBlueWolf]

@@Na-mi3dx That's what happens when you let the internet rise your kids.

[@nicolec8884]

Their is nothing fun about sex.

[@mshara1]

No, this is a DUMB take. (a) The average Gen-Z is in between 12 - 22. Half haven't gone through puberty. (b) They've had access to hard-core video pornography from the start, whereas Millenials had nudie picture on dial-up internet.

[@JurassicReptile]

I was born in 1999 and I have just love some good 80s slasher films. I do think a lot of these kids are just massive prudes who don’t even want the option of not seeing an R Rated film

[@candideggplant1575]

It is about having it both ways. Radical feminism says a woman can dress however they want, which I don't care much for, if you want to wear yoga pants or a bikini, I don't care, being ultra sex positive but somehow very coy and repressed about movies and characters? Absolutely insane.

[@eslwgpg1226]

If a rated R romcom is traumatizing for these people, I’d LOVE to see their reactions to something like “Two Girls, One Cup”

[@jackcariello3713]

Oooh good one

[@stebhharn4676]

I really wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole 😮😊😂

[@Shalashaska13]

Their souls will immediately leave their bodies out of sheer disgust

[@LissaChelle9002]

I literally shut down after watching that...that thing. I still remember it.

[@jordanmcgrory2171]

I do prefer my romcoms cute rather than sexy. As a genre it just works better when it's about the light-hearted play of a new relationship, rather than the cold hard facts of trying to find someone to fuck.

[@melinoel616]

I remember my mom and I watching Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the theater on my 18th birthday, where I first saw an explicit 🍇 scene on film. It wasn’t a pleasant scene (obviously), but it wasn’t traumatizing or horrible. Man, Twitter is a cesspool of whiners. 😩 While I hate badly written and acted sex scenes (and there is a LOT of it in American film/TV), getting rid of sex scenes isn’t the answer. Actually putting the damn effort in to make the scene relevant, plot-significant, well-executed, and well written is what’s necessary. Otherwise, I’ll continue to rely on fanfiction for good sex scenes, since American media can’t be arsed to be even half as interesting. 🤷‍♀️🤷🤷‍♂️

[@wishunter9000]

At 7:58, that’s the most intense I’ve ever heard you get in almost a full decade of watching you Buck 😅

[@TheFangirlOtaku]

Funny how this is all focused on one girl and not all the other depravity out there. It's the new generation of Helen Lovejoys!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Meh. I’m Gen z (born in 02) and plenty of us were exposed to porn and sexual content online. I’m thinking a lot of this is from younger teens on TikTok who’ve never seen stuff like sausage party

[@mc98smusicmoviereviews93]

@@tylerhackner9731 Would those younger teens be Generation Alpha now?

[@mdmyer]

If you don't want to see a movie, no one is forcing you to watch it.

[@Fenderbenne]

Unironically you changed my thought process getting deeper into this one. The scene isnt the problem, its the thoughts and personal perspective we put into it.

[@Herpusderpus]

Gratuitous sex scenes can be annoying if they come out of nowhere in a genre where they don’t usually appear, but that is rare in my experience. If you’re watching a romcom, it comes with the territory. Prudes annoy the shit out of me way more than gratuitous sex scenes. It’s the human body, it’s really no big deal. These shits will impose their prudish BS on their kids (the few Gen Z-ers who even have kids, that is) and then we’ll have the next phase of the cycle where sex is the only thing the generation thinks about because their parents were so sheltering. Whatever happened to happy medium? It only annoys me because I’ve met kids from sheltered homes and they’re almost always so fucked up. They turn out to be sex addicts, or they repress their urges and end up becoming a sexual predator.

[@Chaos89P]

The happy medium has yet to occur here in the States.

[@creekandseminole]

There more sex scenes in TV shows than movies these days unless you're watching some independent film that just has nudity

[@wespapes2054]

I imagine how these people reacted to Sausage Party. Cartoon food porking, the theater I was in was dying laughing.

[@kenzieuchiha1191]

Chances are these people weren't old enough to even watch Sausage Party when it came out.

[@tylerhackner9731]

I was 15 when it came out I loved it

[@mdmyer]

I wasn't offended by it, but I didn't find it funny at all. I think I lasted about 5 minutes before I got bored and shut it off.

[@kenzieuchiha1191]

@@mdmyer Yeah, crude humor can only carry a movie so far before the audience gets bored of it.

[@TheDeadlyBlueWolf]

@@kenzieuchiha1191 Good for them, thought it was alright.

[@disliked1390]

Sydney Sweeney is the kind of woman where the first few times i saw her i was like what's all the fuss about her. The other day I saw a picture of her on Twitter and like it clicked. She is absurdly good looking.

[@BounciestSky152]

I am a part of gen z. Some of us never grow up. This is what happens to kids when you isolate kids from the real world, overprotection is real and may very well determine your success in life.

[@KrowleyPineapples777]

"No one would ever find cartoons sexual right?...RIGHT??" Me a 2d girl and boy enthusiast: "Haha... *WRONG.* "

[@MKOFT3N]

I have a feeling that a lot of the only fans content and free available porn online has somehow made sex more taboo for people, rather than less. I feel that now people see the way sex is portrayed into this society and feel disgusted. It is no longer just between two people who are in love (sometimes not even just two people). I think as well that with a lot of these movements calling all men rapists it drives a wedge between men and women. Men avoid women out of fear of being labelled a rapist or a creep, and women avoid men because they believe that every man they meet is planning to do something horrific to them. The standard in western society is that the man approches the woman for any sort of romantic endeavour, however that gets harder every year. I am part of gen z and when I was single I avoided talking to women in bars and clubs as much as possible. It wasn't a conscious effort but I guess I had an image in my subconscious of how I could come across.

[@erif1179]

They're not getting laid. It's as simple as that. If you have a normal relationship with sex, you can easily tell who hasn't got any tail by the angry/absurd takes they have on women, relationships, children, homosexuals and sexual content in general. The men never got laid in high school, (a thousand possible reasons why) let alone had a meaningful friendship with a woman so they hate women now. Really I think they get too old to say women have cooties so they have to call them whores or something. The girls got convinced by someone in bad faith to not date anyone, and they were deprived of the opportunity to learn what good and shitty men look like. Entire swaths of young people have the sexual maturity of a preschooler and they'll be playing catch-up for years to come.

[@HighscoreLaboratory]

I'm a gen z (born in 2000) and I still have that same problem. I always avod women and get anxious around ones I don't know because of all the movements that has been happening. I really don't want to get labeled as a creep. I fear being labeled as such because it could potentially not only ruin my image but my job and life.

[@Bertrumes_Shiney_Factory]

Some people need to grow up. You're not forced to watch what you don't like. You can walk away

[@williamchamberlain2263]

3:57 just shows how prudish the US rating system is overall - your sex ed should let you know what an orgasm is by age 14 or so, so just _describing_ one shouldn't carry the same rating as _showing_ sex.

[@thorstenbartel2345]

Hell yeah that was a volley of awesome jokes

[@soltar7777]

Totally see all your points, but I also agree with a lot of the tweets from gen z as well. I really do think sex scenes are dumb and rarely add anything to the film. they mainly just make the viewers uncomfortable, especially if you are watching with family and friends. For instance, I am currently watching the show Homeland with my family and the amount of sex scenes is exhausting. it doesn't add to the plot and just makes everyone instinctively pull out their phones to avoid watching it. When compared with action or dramatic dialogue sequences, sex scenes just fall flat. I would much rather the scenes just quickly show them finishing their bang sesh and move on without all the squelching noises and nudity.

[@hiddenmosaic]

LMAO i havent watched the video but imagine thinking Rom Coms are too disturbing when we have access to some of the most depraved and disgusting content via the internet

[@themanyouwanttobe]

I would honestly love to see the Twitter meltdown if 2G1C came out today.

[@hiddenmosaic]

@@themanyouwanttobe Yeah me too. Or if something new that is much more tame came out and everyone treated it like 2G1C

[@connorhierlihy1828]

I feel like you’re kinda misunderstanding some of the tweets

[@TheNexDude]

Part of me thinks it's a children thing but at the same time we see how aggressive people are getting with being censor-happy for children. I was born in 94 and i remember being uncomfortable with sex at a younger age but that's completely normal. Of course as i got older i got the "talk" and became more aware of seeing questionable or explicit content in media without feeling awkward. Another part of this obviously is that this generation is growing up being subjected to these things earlier and earliest thanks to having access to the internet. Going back to my censor happy point what might end up happening if these kids grow up with heavily censored media it will ruin their perception later on in life.

[@robyn5467]

Honestly I'm just tired of seeing unnecessary sex scenes that add NOTHING to the plot of a movie. Like, I'm totally ok with violence and swearing and whatever else in R rated movies but if I want to watch a sex scene, I'll just watch regular porn, not a movie.

[@cxx23]

Not gen z, but to be fair a lot of shows/movies use sex and sex appeal in general as a band-aid for a shit story.

[@SenorPinataMan]

Beautiful Idubbbz joke

[@fizgig2016]

Well, one thing I know - I never heard of incels until about 5 years ago so imo, the kids aren't all right.

[@brbjuke45]

Oooh boy those people who have a problem with America tv should never watch Spanish soap operas.

[@trixxart777]

Even as someone who isn't the biggest fan of sex scenes why the hell would you need concent from a fiction character to watch them it's not fucking real.

[@trixxart777]

Even if they were the actors it's not illegal to see public porn of adults that's why only fans exists

[@Draber2b]

And the actors already did technically consent. By agreeing to have a video taken of you + agreeing to have it published and seen by everyone, you've just consented. If one of the actors said they don't want the scene to be published and demand for it to get cut out. That's not consenting.

[@trixxart777]

@D. Drab also it's not even like Sydney isn't against being sexual in this very video it mentions that it makes her feel more confident

[@surferzapper20]

The problem for Gen Z is likely burnout from the golden age of edgelord comedy. In the 2000s, the dominant forms of comedy were crude jokes and "unrated" versions of already "edgy" comedies; then in the 2010s, "prestige" television was basically "how many graphic scenes and over the top examples of forced swearing can we cram into this show to push the envelope?" The very idea of two film characters having sex is effectively tied to the idea of pandering with "come watch this movie/show to see this actor/actress naked in an unnecessarily explicit scene that everyone will be talking about more than the plot itself."

[@Koronue238]

Do you think these are the same people who think a woman is being litterally raped if a guy looks their direction?

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

Am I crazy or were a ton of rom-coms R-rated? Plus we don’t even know why it got the rating. But tbh I’m more sad that Glen Powell has to go back to making movies like that 😂

[@SteeZy644]

Knocked Up, Bridesmaids, 50 SHADES, all R. Idk where this is coming from

[@hossamselim1360]

I mean people will look for anything to be angry about.

[@LissaChelle9002]

Holy shit. It's like these terminally insane goobers WANT to bring back the Hays Code.

[@JaredGriffiths2000]

I'm a Gen Z-er and I don't get offended stuff like this.

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

People are weak. You have people complaining about Tears of The Kingdom being hard and “Zelda games shouldn’t be hard”

[@GLASSB182]

Hear me out... But maybe this is evolution's way of countering with overpopulation? Yes, sounds absurd and very insensitive, I know, but read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" (sect. "the meaning of progress and of adaption") and he mentions how mutations happen simultaneously in species "almost conveniently" to save itself. The environment will influence these changes and outcomes; not a change/mutation (or hormonal mood) springing up randomly and happening to be more beneficial in the environment.

[@oddlem]

I'm on the older scale of gen z (even tho it's an arbitrary and made up concept, but I do relate more to people who also identify as gen z than millennials) I never knew this was a gen z thing, I'm notorious about complaining about sex scenes lmao. BUT I will never understand people that whine about it on twitter like, do you think you're gonna change the producers minds...? I'm put off by sex scenes but that's my problem, why try to make it someone elses' problem?

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

Everyday I feel like I'm an old man reminiscing about the better years, even though I'm just a millennial.

[@patrickshaw411]

This is a weird and also one I have no real opinion on. There are movies with we sex and there are movies without sex. Watch what you want. The idea of watching Euphoria is uncomfortable to me, and Game of Thrones was pushing the envelope, but I’m not out there complaining.

[@aaronclift]

You know, with Hollywood trying to appeal more to the Chinese market, they might start listening to the more prudish voices calling for less nudity and sexual content.

[@OM-xv3iy]

Also "no black people in the trailer" rule.

[@MotherKojiro]

On one hand, I understand pushing back on the idea that sex is the most important thing in life and the only thing worth living for that we've arrived at today - the whole problem that led to incels becoming so desperate as to make the incel movement in the first place - but totally banning sex scenes is absurd. Yes, there are some that are gratuitous, but screaming that all sex scenes need to be banned in everything is keeping it that important; it's the total opposite of what you're going for. On top of that, we have enough people in power telling is what to think and how to live; we don't need to just start banning things left and right, if they aren't harmful. Don't like it? Don't watch it; that's exactly what content warnings are for, and you aren't going to "accidentally" see a boob with your parents or friends or whatever when every episode begins with a rating and strangely specific depictions of what you're going to run into; I've even seen a few that warn of, "tobacco use".

[@MrFARTSANDWICH]

They're only complaining about low rise jeans coming back in style because 85% females are overweight and can't pull that off. that's why the high rise jeans are so popular covers that belly.

[@jamesharding322]

Meanwhile we live in an age now where just about *everything* can be interpreted as sexual innuendo for laughs

[@OBluePrint]

It's the generation that grew up after Bush2 stacked the MPAA ratings board with godbotherers. Everyone should watch This Movie Is Not Yet Rated.

[@calvinboucher5741]

These people basically invented catholic guilt but woke. Don’t get me wrong it’s good to be socially conscious but forcing your own hangups on other people isn’t helpful and it’s really easy to just not say anything and not engage with content that makes you uncomfortable it’s honestly so embarrassing to behold.

[@Shiro_Amada]

Remember the Moral Decency act was self imposed by Hollywood. It wasn't until Hitchock made Psycho that we finally got to show a flushing toilet and uncovered navel on film.

[@annabaker8137]

I always figured it was because, like westerns, romantic comedies are dead. There hasn't been a good rom-com in over 10 years.

[@JustSomePunx1312]

Agree Sometimes, some sex scenes don't make sense in some movies

[@rafetizer]

Does that one commentor realize that sex scenes existed in movies DECADES before the internet made porn ubiquitous?

[@michaelfjmusic]

I'm going to disagree with you here. I don't think sex scenes should be banned, but I think it would be great if directors never used them unless it was beneficial to the plot. The only exceptions I've ever seen were in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul; in the former, the scenes were used to show whether or not Walt and Skyler's relationship was going well, and in the latter, there was the painfully bad scene used to show how dull and mundane Kim's relationship was with her new partner. I have absolutely no problem when sex scenes are used as a narrative tool like that, but it seems to be the exception rather than the rule. In the other 99% of cases, I'd prefer to not have to watch a sex scene with my parents which is completely useless to the plot of the story. If it has serious drawbacks to my enjoyment of a movie/show with little to no benefit, it shouldn't be in there.

[@Serenity_Dude_X]

I've been noticing this as well, but why have they started become prude?

[@greensgreens]

But where are those good old fashioned values on which we used to rely? Lucky, there's a twitter reply guy...

[@lindadelorme5117]

"What are you talking about? What are you fucking talking about?" Best moment.

[@maenad1231]

Trust me it has nothing to do with them not getting sex, it has to do with their personalities. May be a Millennial but there’s no way adult individuals of generation z are more restricted in their sociosexuality or generally have less life time sexual partners than I did at their age/do now

[@TheDeadlyBlueWolf]

I promise you most these prudes were virtue signaling for like farming.

[@miz4535]

"May be a Millennial but there’s no way adult individuals of generation z are more restricted in their sociosexuality or generally have less life time sexual partners than I did at their age/do now " they are though...

[@nevermindgaming6848]

Nah nothing to do be with a millienal it has more to do with gen z thinking being a sexual counts as being gay but really you didnt grow up or hate sex

[@anonymouscommentor411]

​@@nevermindgaming6848Gen z here, I have no clue what you mean nor do I know anybody else who are like this.

[@rorybessell8280]

​@@miz4535 I'd actually be fascinated to know what factors play into it. For example, I didn't have sex for over a year a couple of years ago so would have had to put that as my answer, but now I'm having sex pretty regularly and I also know a few others in similar situations. Personally, I'd put it down to generally weakened social skills where people are just too afraid to go out and find someone

[@TheTyisawesome]

That modern day When Harry met Sally plot sounds hilarious lol. Good stuff man!

[@PsychologyStud]

Actually, that voyeurism opinion DOES have some merit. You are watching people be intimate, so it is as though you are being a voyeur. Here is the hypocrisy, though: unless you are watching something that constantly breaks the 4th wall, you are ALWAYS being a voyeur. It does not matter if they are being intimate or not. Why is it okay to spy on people everywhere else, but then be offended and feel guilty when you spy on them in the bedroom?

[@loki_cx]

"wow, someone made one product out of MANY that doesnt cater specifically to me. im so upset, because all products should cater to me"

[@drayle71]

Hearing all this made me laugh but also think of a show that was on the sy-fy channel can't remember what it was called and not bothering to look up all the shows they used to show to find it. But it was basically supernatural beings living in are modern world and the main character was a succubus and so it was literally filled with sex and sex scenes honestly i wish i could show that tv show to some of these prudes and see their minds melt.

[@chelseahuddle557]

I believe you are referring to Trippin' the Rift! ^ ^ Great show lol

[@drayle71]

@@chelseahuddle557 no it was something live action and it was modern day fantasy not in space

[@evilmerv4645]

Was it Being Human?

[@danielg.w5733]

Lost Girl right?

[@drayle71]

@@danielg.w5733 thats the one thx

[@BeavisOfArabia]

Surprised it's Gen Zers and not other muslims like meself. Not that I'm complaining of course.

[@nakoruruwantspepsi1556]

This is another example of people being unable to detach reality from fiction. I can get some of sex stuff. I dont watch alot of "mature" shows becasue it feels like sex and violence is there for shock value over actual story progression or thematic meaning. But I feel a ROM com is the exact place a sex scene or raunchy humor would fit.

[@BigPanda096]

I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at something Buckley has said in my life, than I did at 8:08 The way he says it, his vocalization is just so damn perfect oh my god. I've replayed that part at least 5 times now, just absolutely howling and wrenching my sides from laughing so hard. It's not even just the tone of voice it's the situation itself. It is just so insane, Buckley fucking nailed it.

[@KetsubanSolo]

I think a big part of it is the film industry in general. Big studios are thinking "If we have R-Rated movies, we can't have kids in here and we'll lose money... but they can still technically go into PG-13 movies!" So now it's harder to find R movies because studios believe they aren't profitable enough (even though both Deadpool AND Joker proved that's clearly not the case)

[@OfficialAshArcher]

People getting this upset over everything these days instead of, you know, just not watching it, is just numbing now. One can only hope that they are just a very loud minority that won’t spoil shit for the rest of us. They need to harden up.

[@meddlerfilms2585]

I think it's a combination of us being bombarded with sex on all sides combined with the fact that we're all burned out on failed relationships that we'd just like to see something else for a change when we go to the movies.

[@AHungryHunky]

And the fact that the movies are mostly superhero movies doesn't diminish that, it adds to it. I can go to the movies and watch soft core porn or feel like a manchild watching comic characters beat each other. What a time for cinema.

[@superbowsersilva]

5:04 wow gen z hate sex scenes? They probably hate it because they didn’t take sex Ed class and they don’t know what sex looks like in the first place😂😂😂.

[@kieranczyzniejewski2178]

6:00 Let's be honest, this number is likely quite a bit higher. Alot of guys might not want to admit to being sexless or virgins. Also the lockdowns from COVID, the economic stress the lockdowns brought, and the larger focus on working from home have all likely inflated the number of sexless people. This obviously effects men much, much more than it does women.

[@GVGINU]

With this type of logic, I am a war criminal for having massacred so many digital people in video games and having watched more than enough violent films and horror movies.

[@kikicogger2284]

So the “anti-shippers” [basically people believing that fan fiction should be mostly PG] of 2010s tumblr have grown up and moved to Twitter. I honestly wonder how much of this distaste for “adult activities” in media has been the result of the “advertising friendly” movement on the internet. Gen Z adults were born between 1997- 2005. The movement to make the internet “advertiser friendly” started AT LEAST 6 years ago, when most of the current Gen Z adults were teenagers. So they never knew an internet that wasn’t catered to family content. So they find adult content distasteful because it’s not what they’re used to and they associate it with exploitation as the only sites where being ad-friendly wasn’t cared about is mainly porn sites.

[@florinivan6907]

So another thing that the corporations ruined.