millennials vs gen z

the millennial vs gen z discourse is so unproductive sometimes
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[@WURLDSTAR]

had to lobotomize a portion of this video for copyright reasons :( here’s the link to the video i was talking about if you want the full context of what i was talking about it but i don’t think it’s necessary (i only reference it for a few sentences anyway): www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRT9LtT3/

[@Chuuyas_Petrus1989]

"Lobotomize" got me sobbing

[@charliepaguay6441]

YOU SLAYED LOVE YOUR HAIRRRR AND YOUR CONTENT

[@romulussay8269]

this one millennial on tiktok said that gen z is the worst generation but then she posted a video of her kid watching skibidi toilet

[@WURLDSTAR]

like…. mama that ain’t us !!!! LMAO

[@stevonwhite8933]

As an elder Gen Z, it’s just straight up hypocrisy. So much of what us elders relate to, is the exact same as baby millennials and every other generation before and after. Everything some Millennials say about Gen Z, is the exact ridicule Gen X gave them, and Boomers have Gen X, and so on…

[@c0deinebrxt]

@@stevonwhite8933gen x is the coolest generation and I love watching them rub it in the face of millennials. It really does humble them because they know it’s true😂 gen x created all the 90s and early 2000s stuff they claim as their own

[@chloelmfaoo]

that is actually so embarrassing for her LMFAOO

[@pieceofshoot]

i dont want to kow what that is

[@zolizard]

gen alpha arent cringe because theyre gen alpha, theyre cringe because theyre kids 😭😭 every kid is cringe, man

[@itscc2004]

Everyone is cringe! Cringe is important for development imho

[@BreadSourdoughBaguette]

So real for that my cousin growls at people and I love cringy stuff it’s something everyone can go through

[@rottingstarz]

Honestly a lot of "cringy" stuff is so harmless

[@Chaotic_Mink]

Does anyone else see like 10-12 years olds saying their age online on KZbin shorts and tiktok? Ngl it's kinda worrying. and other accounts wanted to be moots with them. They might have been a child aswell, but it's still pretty worrying in my opinion.

[@BreadSourdoughBaguette]

@@Chaotic_Mink kids tell their age soo easily on roblox u just ask and they say straight away it’s very concerning

[@kingofmoof]

I HATE cross generational beef cuz WHATS THE POINT

[@Jadeeee2323]

Literally!!! I'm an elder gen z, so i relate to both millenial and gen z things and I'm just like WHY ARE WE FIGHTING😭😭😭😭 loool

[@raincloud.1]

LITERALLYY

[@stevonwhite8933]

@@Jadeeee2323 Literally me😭

[@madewhole-ev4uy]

Superiority and nostalgia 🤷‍♀️. Old (whatever they grew up with) = best/better

[@wherethequietbeingsgo]

@@Jadeeee2323 I totally agree

[@wazzupyuwu]

one thing that's always kind of pissed me off about the millenial/gen z beef is that i feel like there's an unaddressed aspect of classism to it, if that makes sense? like, the whole thing about "ohhh, gen z never had to grow up with vhs tapes, or flip phones, or old shows, or bah blah blah" when i, as someone who was and still is poor, was surrounded by ALL of those things. its like there's an automatic assumption that all kids nowadays spoiled from birth with endless modern technology, meanwhile i'm a legal adult and i've never had a cell phone because i can't afford it. i didn't get a blu-ray player until 2021, and used one of those dvd + vhs combo players up till then. my household still has a home phone, and we still used a giant box tv from the 90s until just a few years ago. like... it just feels icky to me in a way that's very familiarly classist.

[@WURLDSTAR]

i meant to touch on this a bit but yes!!! assuming that everyone consistently kept up with technology is such a weird assumption

[@itscc2004]

I remember watching/listening to VHS and DVDs all the time! My grandma still has a record player with a VHS player connected to it and still has the same TV they always did as well as a landline! Every time we go over to her house, we STILL play with my dad’s old toys (we have a game called Crash & Burn, kinda hard to explain but we essentially load up one of the toy cars with characters (yes they ll have names and backstories) and someone records at the bottom in slow motion to see how the crash happened. The goal was to get a bigger crash than the last. Idk, we played it a lot as kids and still sometimes do just for nostalgia) We had a DVD player and I would always watch Frog & Toad, Curious George, and my personal favorite, Coraline. We didn’t get a car with a built in dvd player until I was older, and even then I was still watching the same reruns of SpongeBob and Regular Show! I also had a flip phone when I was younger as one of my first ever phones. It was a sliding keyboard one and I loved it! I also very much remember all of the shows, especially Rugrats, Icarly, Victorious, and ll of those! My older brother and I LOVED ATLAB! I also ADORED and still do adore Teen Titans and loved reading comics and playing with my LPS! For them to say we didn’t grow up with those things is delusional, I grew up with a lot of what they had and I loved playing Brick Breaker on my mom and dad’s Black Berry as well as Bejewled! I don’t know, I just feel like it is a classism thing as well because they make it seem like a competition on who was more poor or grew up with more of what they did. I’m an older Gen Z saying this.

[@BB-TheCandleFairy]

This! Oh my god, this drives me crazy…I grew up in a “lower middle class” as my dad always referred to, and we were always a decade late on technology but we could buy dvds from Walmart or a thrift of the latest popular cartoons, and that’s the ONLY thing we were up to date on I remember playing around and texting on my mom’s flip phone, using vhs tapes and winding them back, and the giant (yet tiny) tvs that could probably crush a man to death

[@glitzerplastikchichi]

Exactly. Just because you're from the same generation doesn't mean you had the same childhood and the same things were natural to you.

[@itscc2004]

@@BB-TheCandleFairy dude I had one of those humongous box TVs that basically took up the whole room, I have great memories of playing the Wii on it, specifically Guitar Hero

[@kay-ls6ec]

one time a millennial posted a cd and said “gen z would be so confused if you asked them to burn this” like sir i was doing that shit at 9 years old.

[@ClairDeLume]

HAHA yeah, i literally burned a cd a couple months ago. honestly millennials and genz are the exact same its humorous

[@kay-ls6ec]

@@ClairDeLume i used to go crazy with youtube to mp3 😭

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

I feel like some millennials seriously overestimate the time difference between gen z and them.

[@inkbusters2338]

@@kay-ls6ec NO LITERALLY

[@XxL1ZZ13LUN4CYxX]

I'm a member of gen z and I actually plan to start collecting CDs soon. I also want to build a collection of old phones.

[@user-kn9bp3ss9d]

I love how Millennials don’t even realize that they are talking about GEN ALPHA, NOT GEN Z

[@itscc2004]

AND THAT THEY’RE THE PARENTS OF GEN ALPHA

[@victorlannister5606]

lol that what their parents did to them! Boomer and Gen X blamed them for everything!!! And usually they weren’t talking about millennials they were talking about Gen z!

[@RudolphManor]

And Millennials are the parents of Gen Z children too. 💯

[@nyquilanswagdelrama1182]

im gen z and im 23 💀💀

[@nachgeben]

@@nyquilanswagdelrama1182 Yep. And there are Millennials who are still in their 20s. All of this is stupid.

[@theacemetalhead]

i’m a GenZ born in 2003. I turn 21 this year. I grew up on VHS tapes, DVDs, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, and PBS kids. I didn’t get my own phone until I went into high school. these millennials need to get a grip on reality and sit down. we’re not children. the kids they’re thinking of are Gen Alpha….. the kids they’re raising.😮😮

[@Hopeless_Midnight]

Totally!! I was born 2005 and still grew up watching my grandmas VHS tapes and she even had a rotary phone, still does. My family had PS2's and the original Xbox for years, we also had one of those heavy box TV's. I remember having one of the SpongeBob TV's when I was super young

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Yall know what's up lol. Born 2000. PBS kids was only on when my siblings and me were out sick. Is that still a thing? I don't remember seeing it after we got satellite TV

[@RepubsWannaMarryKids]

​@@skinni_the_P00hBearI believe they are still kicking as they are a public broadcaster, their KZbin is still releasing content.

[@MusikGirl23]

@@skinni_the_P00hBearyep, PBS kids is still a thing. Even run into Sunday mornings when I haven’t changed the station over on the tv to something else after watching a Frontline or Nova episode…

[@user-xx6ud8iq7g]

I’m a millennial (40 this year). My daughter is a gen z, a couple of months older than you. I teach gen alpha. Who are these complaining confused millennials?

[@paige4098]

most of the time this discourse just feels like gen z trolling millennials and millennials falling for it

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

I love seeing millennials make whole entire songs to prove their hatred for gen z and then gen z just responding to them in the most unserious way possible.

[@sabinesixsixsix]

Which is crazy cus millennials literally invented internet trolling…

[@BB-TheCandleFairy]

mhm Gen Z trolls Millennials fall for it Then their kids (Gen Alpha) adopt the trolling as an actual term or something like that and then they use it regularly as a slang term

[@nicholassullivan1239]

Probably more right than not on this. Trolling has ALWAYS been a thing, but we didn't call it that and it was less common. You tended 5o take people more seriously and at face value. Strangers were neutral at best. You certainly didn't have the option to fuck w some rando 4 states away. The internet +smartphones changed EVERYTHING and oftentimes it's not been a net positive.

[@bewchie7431]

no THIS😭 the millennial jokes are so unserious and funny to make but millennials take it as if we’re genuinely making fun of their existence

[@tj6800]

yeah that first millenial woman just making fun of aave and saying it makes us come across as dumb and stupid made me so uncomfortable 💀💀

[@Astr0_Man]

she wasnt even usin half of the phrases correctly either 💀

[@giannarenee8591]

okay the hair is EATING

[@WURLDSTAR]

thank you!!!

[@TeeHeeTwinkleToes]

I wanna eat it 😤

[@zach4281]

@@TeeHeeTwinkleToesbro cool it on the school bus exhaust

[@XXAnimeLover-AceXX]

@@WURLDSTARyour eyes are also eating

[@MrItachi345]

I remember when a gen z was trolling on tiktok about cancelling eminem and the millennials thought the entire generation was seriously doing it

[@JamieLeeCoitus]

That rap that one lady did was absolutely horrendous😭

[@Vesperad0]

Not to mention cancelling isn't real, if it was half the people "cancelled" wouldn't be prominent or have jobs, and Eminem isn't important enough to be cancelled, IMHO. He's just a white man who raps, nothing groundbreaking or whatever.

[@k0mm4nd3r_k3n]

That was the Gen Xers??

[@Stonefacemoai]

I feel like this is starting to repeat again with gen z now trashing on gen alpha. The more things change the more they stay the same

[@idioticthebus]

I think it’s because Gen alpha is actually making them concerned. They can’t read, they are obsessed with iPads and have no manners.

[@wren_.]

honestly, I don’t get the hate for gen Alpha, I kind of pity them

[@Stonefacemoai]

@@wren_. same

[@Spacingout3000]

This is honestly so true, also I don’t know when people are gonna realize 2009-2011 kids AREN’T alpha. Their just the very end of gen z, (kinda like xennials) It’s actually 2012-2022,

[@stxrstruck6755]

If anything i pity gen Alpha, they have to deal with worse conditions in terms of growing up.

[@ughugh3767]

Older generations shitting on the younger generation has always been around. There were old stone/marble tablets from like Ancient Greece that basically said “don’t the children know that writing on parchment is futile, trees are going to run out” or a more recent one from the late 1800s “all these kids with staying inside and playing chess.”

[@Vesperad0]

Pretty sure there was some complaint about children reading books and not going outside. As if reading books was the devil itself...which if I'm right, I'm pretty sure some people saw it that way. Always was a bit of classism and ableism, wasn't it? So weird

[@Leo-bi5uv]

The beef is so stupid I feel the same about people who are genuinely mad at kids for liking skibity toilet like we used to watch dumb sfm videos at that age too I just think the cycle is repeating

[@CoolAnagram]

I'm younger genz or older gen alpha (fifteen.) lf we can survive Elsa gate and millennials could survive the early days of the Internet gen alpha can live through whatever skibity toilet is.

[@doggwater]

I used to laugh my ass off to stuff like salad fingers and a duck walking up to a lemonade stand so I have no ground to stand on in making fun of others

[@call_me_karizma1693]

As a 17 year old almost 18 who grew up with the traumatic KZbin MLP stuff I have no right to call gen Alpha weird for watching this stuff... 😅💀

[@Lil1kv]

​@@call_me_karizma1693 oh my god. How did we live through stuff like pony.mov and cupcakes

[@ballerinaonamusicbox]

“things that will send gen z into a coma” and its a flip phone and a map

[@Vesperad0]

"things that will send millennials into a downward spiral" realizing the hippy aesthetic as well as plenty of other things they liked were straight up appropriation. That, or that generations are different and it's totally okay.

[@VVacinoVV]

Older adults were giggling about rotary phones at work the other day and I looked at them and was like "I'm 25 my grandma literally had one. Like??"

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

My auntie had one at her house for the longest time lol. I love old things, even as a kid. I'd mess around with it when went over there, trying to figure out how it was supposed to work 😂. It's aesthetically pleasing though, so if they can make a digital version, best believe I'm gonna snatch one up 💀💀

[@trueblueclue]

​@@skinni_the_P00hBearthere used to be some digital ones sold back then. It had the rotary phone style but with digital buttons. Maybe you can go online and see if somebody is selling their old one.

[@Accyber]

Being a zillenial is like being the middle child and watching your older and younger siblings argue over the stupidest shit

[@doggwater]

And at the end of the day, none of us asked to be born so can we just chill out please

[@dylansmith6078]

Im born in 97 and it is the most un wanted feeling 4 years ago millennials are like no that is the gen z year and before that gen x is like no that the millennial year, it been changed a few time on weither 97 is the first genz or last millennial. I experienced everything even cassettes like what even was that you needing a pencil to listen to music wyf

[@darealberrygarcia]

@Accyber There is no zillenial,,, just like everything else, you zoomers steal and claim it for your own. There is only 1 micro generation, and that is Xenials born at the end of Gen X and the beginning of Gen Y because of all tech creations like computers & and the internet.

[@demongirlfriend]

i really really don't think the generational discourse is productive in any context, with one exception. i think the fact that gen alpha is being spoon-fed bigotry, racism, misogyny, transphobia, and religious fearmongering more than any other generation before them is really, really fucking scary. i'm smack in the middle of gen z (18 rn) and i spent my young childhood watching DVDs of Tom and Jerry episode rips on my parents' tiny-ass CRT, these kids are getting those same formative memories from every kind of grifter you could possibly imagine. i don't hate them, i'm scared of the people they're going to grow up to become.

[@CapnNapalm]

it’s actually not new. As I went through middle and high school, that’s when the original alt-right pipeline was going down. Incels as we know them now are a lot of millennials and gen z. Even the influencers aren’t new, but they have caught on a lot recently

[@kspoo10_]

I hope it just teaches them to be really careful about misinformation -- like how the generations after Baby Boomers are better at detecting online & phone scams because we've been around them more. I really hope...

[@DogVill-inc]

this shit really is like rich ppl arguments. if u grew up low income/not in rich us areas gen z still had almost all of 90’s shit. like yes I had a game cube, vhs’s, flip phones well into 2010’s, why?? cause I was poor as shit in a Caribbean country and fuck me if I could afford a new iPhone at 12 while I had to duct tape my shoes together for school 💀

[@hails1136]

24:44 some of that "gen z slang" is just aave... this is not the serve you think it is girl edit: nvm you said the same thing lmao

[@wiiqii6346]

My face soured, and I curled up into a ball😭

[@pawpkitty]

Gen Z slang is fun. I don't see anything wrong with it lol. We've been inventing slang for thousands of years.

[@kaesijoo444]

@@pawpkittytbh there is no such thing as “gen z slang.” it’s literally all african american vernacular english. i say this as someone who’s both black and gen z. 😭

[@EvieWivey]

@@kaesijoo444yeah it’s just been overused by tiktok mostly, and then people don’t realize it’s roots anymore😢

[@-bugbite]

@@kaesijoo444not all of it but most of it cause some of it is just bringing back old expressions as jokes or something

[@drowsy7921]

When I was in grade 11 somebody at my dad's workplace asked me what my major in university was 💀

[@WURLDSTAR]

this has happened to me too LMAO

[@drowsy7921]

@@WURLDSTAR that's crazy omg

[@MusikGirl23]

I have the opposite problem. I was handed a children’s menu on my 33rd birthday this past summer…I have a young looking face and am 4’8…

[@EvieWivey]

@@MusikGirl23what😭😭

[@MusikGirl23]

@@EvieWivey I know right? The poor waiter, probably his first true job, he felt mortified and kept apologizing

[@anon10133]

im gen z myself (younger half even) I notice a lot of gen z making tiktok posts like "these newgens dont know FNAF unlike gen z!!" or other media, and its like millennials accusing gen z not knowing what a magazine is all over again lmao

[@call_me_karizma1693]

I don't really see this much I mostly see gen Z constantly talking about things the fnaf and poppy playtime being to inappropriate for gen Alpha more then anything and how parents should stop them from watching it

[@Vesperad0]

As if fnaf is anything really revolutionary lmao, no offense I like it a lot but it's not God's asscheek imprints on the earth.

[@anon10133]

@@Vesperad0 never said it was, im saying its popular enough where if you go on the internet you have at least heard of it

[@anon10133]

@@call_me_karizma1693 depends what side of the internet you on, i see a lot of "gen alpha dont know this thing!! unlike gen z!!" tiktoks on my fyp

[@-rianna]

omg the teenager posts were such a comfort for angsty emo 13 year old me!!! I'm an '03 baby, and I wasn't even allowed instagram until I turned 15, so I used to go to Pinterest, manually look up teenager posts, and spend like the next 3 hours just scrolling through them and validating my existence. Man, I miss being a teenager even though I wouldn't relive those years if someone paid me.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

The emo phase was a rite of passage lol. Former emo kid (2012-2015) 😂.

[@RepubsWannaMarryKids]

....wow that.... that is pretty crazy.. I was allowed in chatrooms age 6, just was told not to give out personal info. Chatrooms were the absolute best tbh, discord before discord.

[@-rianna]

@@RepubsWannaMarryKids SIX???? that is insane😭 what year were you born, if you don't mind me asking? lol

[@TiredCapybara]

This generational beef is so funny especially when it comes from younger millennials. As somebody's who's the oldest of Gen z, it's wild to see them talk about us like we're children when much of Gen z would have literally gone to the same schools as them or even been in the same grade. It's so arbitrary and they have this strange superiority complex over it for no reason. It's pointless at best. I was born in 1997, I have a millennial cousin born in 1996. Our experience differences are basically non existent.

[@EsotericThoughts93]

December 97 here and same

[@Nonyah123]

technically you would both be zillennials, people born a year apart have the same experiences

[@Sideshowbrooke]

Omg yes. I was born in 1999 and workers born in 1994 will ask me if I know what a VCR is…

[@Nonyah123]

@@Sideshowbrooke this is absolutely insane to me, my brother is born 94 and I'm 2002 and we have all the same experiences. How dumb are some people! That's a 5 year difference lol

[@belstar1128]

i used to think gen z was people born post 2000

[@Thoseminividsthathaveado-bw9zt]

I kinda feel like those teenager posts r like the past version of whisper posts on pinterest

[@aquifercandy]

YOUR HAIR OMGGGG I LOVE IT GIRL

[@WURLDSTAR]

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[@clemclemclemclemcl]

i love ur hair omg

[@WURLDSTAR]

thank you!!!!

[@Cries_In_Vampire]

I remember when I was a teen having a woman mansplain what a rotary phone was. I was like ma’am. We literally have one in our kitchen. And not just that but I collect used ones from antique shops…. I didn’t get an iPhone until I was in my LATE teens. Before that it was literally just flip phones. Idk, some of the discourse seems kind of classist to me because we also couldn’t afford a flat screen tv until I was much older.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Yeah we used to have those box tvs that would sit on the floor or inside a cabinet lol. I think in 2008 we got a flat screen, and a computer that was touch screen (the only computer in the house before this was my dad's OLD ass windows 98 Gateway lol, which still worked with KZbin and all that info around 2012). My sister and me had a small box TV in our room until we left for college in 2018😅. I don't even remember when flat screens became the norm, but when I'm watching Friends or Seinfeld or something and they talk about the "newest" flat screen, they're way different from the almost paper thin ones we have now. I love seeing tech evolve over time!

[@kojoefante]

How can a woman mansplain?

[@eve5226]

It really sucks seeing fellow Gen Z talk shit about Gen Alpha. I feel like we're way too hard on them and very hypocritical, and I can't imagine how kids of Gen Alpha feel when everyone is constantly saying that they're doomed, stupid, unintelligent, etc.

[@WURLDSTAR]

yeah, they’re all still kids and we should let them be themselves without criticizing them for it

[@PiegiXD_2319]

If someone told me I was doomed that would not make me want to go outside honestly I would just rot in my room forever

[@Cries_In_Vampire]

I hate when someone is getting in on the discourse and saying they’re a millennial but they’re literally gen z lol. gen z dates: 1997-2012

[@BB-TheCandleFairy]

As a Gen Z my beef with Millennials goes like this- You shouldn’t be worried about the fact that I LITERALLY SHARED MOST OF YOUR TECHNOLOGY AND SHOWS WITH YOU You should be worried that your kid has been watching skidibi toilet on a ten hour loop Now don’t get me wrong! There’s nothing wrong with a kid enjoying Skidibi Toilet, I enjoyed a lotta weird stuff when I was a kid too The PROBLEM IS that your kid has been watching the loop FOR TEN HOURS and hasn’t done their homework, is five years behind the learning curve, has absolutely no concept of respect, cannot keep an attention span longer than an episode of Bluey (love bluey) and are completely entitled Literally just take the iPads away and put on the comfort shows you grew up with! It’s that easy to fix the attention span issue, (most of) the entitlement, and it’ll help them learn at a younger age! I have met plenty of smart and sweet Gen Alpha kids, but unfortunately, as you have seen but the numerous videos from teachers, that is not the status quo at the moment. I pity Gen A, I don’t hate them, I’m a little annoyed as a whole about how they behave, but all their issues don’t make me hate them It makes me hate their Millennial parents. I have seen Gen Z kids in the Gen Alpha group raised better And now don’t get me wrong, like I said I have seen good Gen Alpha kids, and their parents were millennials But like I already stated, they unfortunately are a minority within their generation

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Lord have mercy... my youngest brother LOVES skibidi toilet😂. His parents aren't millenials though, our dad is a boomer I think (60s), and his mom is in her 40s. He tried explaining the concept to me and I was trying to grasp it but it's kinda creepy looking 😂. After covid though, I am worried about Gen Alpha's attention spans and social development though. It kind of threw them off track. Like he'll sit in front of the TV watching tiktoks for HOURS, with a blank face. If I turn it off or take the remote so he can have a break he'll lose his shit (in a joking way more than malicious). When my siblings and me (older Gen Z) started slipping back in the day, our dad would take the remote for weeks/ months, or only allow us to watch educational shows (History Channel/Travel Network/Discovery Channel) which sucked at first but looking back I kinda fw it 😂. I don't really get on tiktok so when I hear a new slang word or something, I ask my youngest brother to translate, I think it's good for him, to be able to teach me something so I'll sit thru a ten minute explanation of what "rizz" means💀💀 But yeah the kids are NOT alright. These babies grew up during the covid apocalypse, calling them lazy and disrespectful or whatever else doesn't help fix the issue. These older adults need to address why this is the case, and try to resolve it before they get too far along in development. It's too late for Gen Z, they messed us up, we gotta figure this mess out on our own at this point lol. I don't wanna see Gen Alpha get thru high school and not know how to read or sit thru a 50 minute class and be unable to focus or comprehend what they're being taught.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

I will say though: Gen Alpha having access to so much information and technology can be a good thing, despite the attention span and social issues. I'll use a word that's wayy over their reading level, like something I didn't learn until middle or high school, and they'll have already learned it. I asked my little brother what a contingency plan was and he gave me the rundown QUICK😂. And they're incredibly emotionally aware. I was having a panic attack one night, like a bad one. And my little brother (I think he was 6 or 7), sat next to me and told me to just take deep breaths, in and out. He even showed me how to do it like I didn't know. Like WHERE did he learn that?? Like the old folks say, it's them phones🤣 These kids aren't dumb, they're development is just thrown off a little.

[@stardust6870]

You do know one generation doesn't have parents from only one generation, especially when it's as large as Gen Alpha? Younger Gen Xers and older Gen Zers are also parents of Gen Alpha. And many Millennials don't even have kids, it's the most childfree generation the world had so far.

[@Nonyah123]

@@stardust6870 Literally, people are hating on the wrong ones when PLENTY Gen Z people already have kids, and Gen X are still having kids. gen Z's are dang near 30 themselves at this point. Millennials are traumatized, they BARELY have children. Also blaming millennials when in truth it's the insanely addictive society that we now live in where this type of material is inescapable is the real problem. Millennials are not worse parents, society has completely devolved. Hating Millennials when you're about to enter the exact same situation as them is crazy. And this is why most millennials aren't having children, don't want to be blamed for the state of the world

[@mattymcfabb]

These people being genuinely offended by Gen z trolling us is so embarrassing to watch. Dear Gen Z and Gen alpha. Y’all are a gift. i know you are my homies.

[@mahoumjj]

💞

[@Ella_Edits1234]

I’m one of the youngest gen z and have a friend who has a flip phone right now, they really think they’re so much older than us

[@srose1088]

Sometimes I cannot relate to fellow millennials online who reminisce the tech of their childhood because alot of it was not affordable for me. Like I remember seeing ads for it? lol

[@XxL1ZZ13LUN4CYxX]

I have a very weird relationship to this discourse as somebody who is a member of generation Z but is also a scene kid who is obsessed with the 2000s. In a lot of ways, I live like I'm in the past and therefore can't always relate to the other members of my generation. For example, I still use a digital camera and the only social media site I use consistently is this site called SpaceHey, which is essentially a modern day MySpace clone. If it was convenient for me to do so, I would also give up my phone for a flip phone. I still love Nyan Cat, Domo, mustaches, scene fashion and music, the old internet, and saying "lolz." Whenever my fellow gen-zers make fun of some of the aforementioned things, I just feel kind of sad.

[@MiyaMeniceX3]

You are a walking time capsule /pos

[@pieceofshoot]

real

[@ericgymfan]

the gen z aging thing is so funny because I'm 23 and go to the gym and sometimes I see someone young and I'm like "is this someone my age that I can make friends with or is this a 16 year old". I'm sorry for that one guy that looks old but the way he made that video and his tone really isn't helping him appear any younger 😭

[@Vesperad0]

Probs the trauma low-key. Can't exactly grow up in a world where you can easily see genocides and murders and black market stuff and be 20 without depression wrinkles We just look like the world. Tired and melting honestly

[@kojoefante]

Huh?

[@tormentorox1]

I was born in 96 so I was too young for MySpace but old enough for Facebook, Snapchat, Vine, etc. The only things culturally that separates my 22 year old sister and my 27 year old self is how much we’re on Tik Tok respectively. We both grew up watching TV, scrolling KZbin, and playing Wizard 101. This discourse is so dumb 😪

[@iloveapplejuiice]

This beef always confused tf out of me bc my siblings are gen Z and so are half my friends.. the younger millennials and older gen Z are like the same age… like bro c’mon. Also, if you over 30 and still roasting gen z teens on the internet PLS 😭 we’re not even the new gen x, we’re the new boomers.

[@11MissingPhoenix]

16:48 "a carpet for five please" lowkey made me giggle 😭🙏🏾

[@pank3245]

I'm an early Gen Z (2002) dating a late millennial (1996) I broke the cycle.

[@victorzansavio]

Im also from 2002. My first phone was a flip one. I had VHS in my home for the most part of my childhood and didnt had acess to internet until I was 8 or 9. Its almost the same shit as someone who grew up in the 90's. Sorry for my bad english, I am from Brazil.

[@weegle_peegle]

UR SO GORGEOUS OML

[@WURLDSTAR]

thank youuuuu! ❤️❤️

[@TrashedCasper]

I was born in 1999, and I experienced all this “millennial” stuff from my older sister. My mom n sister had a MySpace, but I was too young to get one

[@emilysledge5754]

I’m a 5th grade teacher. Born in 2000. I love teaching Gen Alpha. They’re very funny and curious and skilled at using technology. But I definitely have noticed a gap. My current 5th graders missed out on their most of 1st & 2nd grade years. There is a big gap between my highest performing students and my lowest. I don’t think that them being “iPad kids” has too much to do with them being “behind” in school. I don’t even know if we can generalize that kids in grade school are all struggling. It’s a huge mix. I’ve only been teaching 2 years. I expect to see some change as the kids get older and I have 5th grade students who weren’t even in school during the pandemic. But I think in general, some kids do well in school, some kids do poorly, and that’s the same for every generation. I think that’ll be the label we give Gen Alpha though; a label regarding their “lack of education” and “short attention spans.” Just how Millennials were criticized by Gen X and Boomers for being “lazy” and wanting “hand outs.” We’re calling Gen Alpha dumb for no reason. They’re just kids right now. They’re still learning. They have plenty of time to grow ❤

[@emilysledge5754]

I meant to say they missed out on their 1st & 2nd grade years because of the pandemic oops

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It’s because of the fact that the pandemic put these kids behind. These kids were all sent home, with parents who do not have experience in knowing how to teach. My mom has noticed kids struggling in her classes too. She thinks it’s because of the pandemic, since they weren’t speaking Spanish for a few years as much as they would if they were in school.(she’s a Spanish teacher’@@emilysledge5754

[@AloeRenegade]

I hate how Genz wants a free Palestine but Millennials want to free Palestine, like we should just free Palestine yknow.

[@ToyedTaiyaki]

Can u explain? 😭 lil confused

[@slam.p]

i don’t understand, whats the difference?

[@AloeRenegade]

@@ToyedTaiyaki Not to be like a Millennial but waaaaaaaayyyyy before like eons before your time we had this thing called television and there was a thing called a show one featured late 90s early 2000s sensation Xzibit who theorized tesseract (that thing from the mcu) thinking but basically if We free Palestine we could Free Palestine while Freeing Palestine. does that make more sense?

[@AloeRenegade]

@@slam.p i will do this all day because it important for y'all to understand Millennials free Palestine like this : 😃 but Genz frees Palestine like this: 💀 whats funny is genx frees Palestine like this: read Angela Davis and Boomers free Palestine like this: Hi im Angela Davis it's all very nuanced

[@izzz222]

I’ll have what you’re smoking

[@AddictiveSin]

Born 96 so I'm on that fence... You are so right that it hurts. My parents got screwed but they didn't try to fix anything and don't get why there being no housing available is a PROBLEM. You are SO funny. Time stamps would be cool, certain things like iPhones and instagram fly so far over my head my eyes glaze over... My problem but time stamps would help me stay fully invested. Great video!!

[@kateamara8808]

To that girl who complained about getting a weird look from her email... GIRL GET A NEW EMAIL. Gmail is literally free and takes 4 seconds to create a new account. It's 2024 and if you still have your email from when you were a child you need to grow up.

[@GaryMcSnail]

I also don't blame Gen Alpha for wanting to be KZbinrs because, depending on who they're watching, it can look really easy to get rich and famous. And with more people struggling financially than ever, I wouldn't be surprised if some Gen Alpha kids are looking for methods to get "easy" money because they see how stressed their parents are. They may either want to help or ensure they're not in the same position in adulthood

[@biggucciprincess]

problems that disappear when you turn off the phone

[@TheMadLeprechaun]

Generation X likes to take credit for things they didn't create, for example a lot of Gen Xers on the net like to claim that they invented the Internet.

[@alexisdogbo7958]

lol, millennials do feel way older to me, because I’m like a teenager, but making that a whole generational thing is dumb as hell

[@starzies]

7:13 im crying because my first phones were my mom's old nokia and blackberry 😭😭

[@dysfunc121]

The only time I ever heard the term "millennial" growing up was in the media, nobody around me considered themselves a part of these "generations" as defined by the media at the time, with the introduction and explosion of social media it seems this has changed.

[@LaceEditing]

What younger gen z doesn't seem to remember is that skinny jeans were never in fashion to begin with. When I was in school in the 2000's, skinny jeans were considered the weird thing that feminine emo kids wore and that's it

[@AzSureno]

lol that’s a damn lie , everyone I went to school with had skinny jeans and had scene /emo themes and also listen to a lot of post hardcore and metal/deathcore music . Also it’s how I met my wife lol 😂

[@LaceEditing]

@@AzSureno That was me too, but I hate to inform you that this just meant our friend groups were the losers lol

[@MusikGirl23]

@@AzSurenoI know, same, skinny jeans up in my school in Canada were a huge thing, but I felt my body was wrong for them, so I only wore bootcut (plus my mom didn’t believe in skinny jeans…she always had me in pants and shirts a size too big). Now I have a mix of skinny and bootcut…turns out folks including myself feel I look pretty good with a skinny jean cut provided they’re the right size.

[@clairemacphee4273]

one thing that i think is missing from the skinny jean discourse is the fact that it's pretty much impossible to manufacture good quality skinny jeans that are actually comfortable. most have spandex in the fabric which degrades over time. good quality jeans are 100% cotton and will last a looooong time but it is hard to make a tight fitting pair and have the wearer be able to sit down while wearing them. i think the popularity of wider leg styles might have a lot to do with the popularity of vintage/quality clothing and concern over fast fashion's environmental impact. of course you can buy shitty quality wide leg or bootcut jeans too but it is easier to find quality cotton versions of those styles

[@z_lila]

I'm 2009 but my brothers are 2007 and 2001... the 2007 brother and I had the exact same childhood as the 2001 brother, and we used the same tech as he did... I'm assuming that if a Gen A kid had a brother or sister who was, say, 2005, they'd have almost the same experience as me

[@_Achilles24]

I’m on the later half of gen z, (I’m still in high school), I feel like I could offer an interesting perspective on this. My first phone was my moms old iPhone 5 that I got when I 9 and my younger brothers first phones were iPhone 13, and while I was a little salty about it, I still have an older model than them, bc shit is made worse today it’s more financially stable? To buy ur kid the newest iPhone than buy them an older phone that won’t last and will cost more on the cell phone plan each month. Also most of my cousins were born in the 90’s so I grew up with vhs tapes and toys from the early 2000’s.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

I was a 2005 baby, had a crappy xbox 360. Would read magazines my friends gave me, because the adults didn't think I could read properly when I was ahead of almost everyone in my grades. I had a DS lite, which was so expensive to get. Home phones were there, I had a tiny dinky iPod when they were cheap. Had a clunky TV to watch stuff on, and watched my first anime on that thing. I had VHS tapes until my bastard "father" sold them, when they were from my noona

[@Certifiedfrogluvr]

I’m 25 so I’m older Gen Z and it’s so insane when I hear people who are like 6 years older than me tell me that I had a completely different childhood from them. The youngest millennial is literally 3 years older than me like 😭 it’s not that deep

[@Bonserak23]

I think it's because tech and trends changes like every 3 or 4 years now instead of like every 8.

[@LucidKay9114]

@@Bonserak23Yeah and some people grow up poor

[@samiracle13]

wurld ur look in this video is fire!!!!

[@RudolphManor]

I'm 34 turning 35 in June, it's all generational. Lol! 😂 I love when generations poke fun at each other. Salute To Everyone From The Different Generations. 💯

[@MusikGirl23]

I love the show Battle of the Generations, which has a participant in each general from Z to Boomers compete against each other with trivia. Kind of fun

[@RudolphManor]

​@@MusikGirl23 I just looked it up and it looks like a good show and I never heard of it before until now. 💯

[@MusikGirl23]

@@RudolphManor cool, enjoy! If you watch it.

[@RudolphManor]

​@@MusikGirl23 Right On. 💯

[@astrobabeyyy]

i had like a 10 year subscription to national geographic magazines. i stopped buying them because they stopped putting animal jam codes in them 💀💀

[@BIBBLESWIFEY2]

Not to be an instagram commenter, but wurld the CURLY HAIR, EYELINER?!? JSKSJSJSJKSJSJS REMINDED ONGE AGAIN IM BI

[@t4squared]

Depending on when a millennial or gen z person was born, there is definitely a difference in experiences. There is a 20 year age gap between someone born in 1985 vs 2005. And honestly younger millennials have more in common with older gen z, than they do with older millennials. For instance, older millennials have almost entire memory of the 1990s and some memory of the 1980s. Younger millennials barely remember the 90s, but have significant memory of the 2000s, just like gen z, because that was when their childhood happened. Older millennials were already either beginning high school or college in the early 2000s. Gen z is a post internet generation like gen alpha, but millennials are the last of the pre internet generation. And trust me there is a difference, it might not be major, but it’s noticeable.

[@ecoRfan]

Second half millennial here. I have limited memories from the 90s going back as far as about 1994. I probably have more in common with 2002 babies than 1982 but much of that is from adverse circumstances setting my life back.

[@hii_avaa]

UR HAIR!!!!! GOD UR SO PRETTY WURLD

[@hii_avaa]

and the glasses are cute asf they suit your face!!

[@JamieLeeCoitus]

If I could describe millennials with one word as a Gen Z individual, it would be..delusional. And that one guy is right, it is like making fun of your older sibling lmao🧍‍♀️

[@Fisheey]

I saw a video where some millennials were watching "gen z tiktoks". Y'know the ones with all the suicide jokes and stuff. And they paused one of the videos and went "Genz doesn't know struggle". I'm sorry???!

[@lindleyboyd4965]

I was born on the cusp of Gen z (2008) but I had a Nes and a Super Nintendo and a vhs player, but my first phone around 2016-2017 I got my first phone (around 8-9 could’ve gotten the year wrong) but I got the iPhone 6s and my mom had the 6s plus

[@moonieland]

It's literally like watching my eldest brother and youngest sister fight. It's so petty and ridiculous. Y'all are grown people, knock it off.

[@Franzifii]

God I hate the war about the jeans! I want to wear my skinny jeans in peace 😭

[@EHAmos]

I was born in 1991, as the youngest of 8 kids. I was raised on Gen X hand me downs, while living in the 90s kid era, and was homeschooled until 2001 so I didn't socialize much until then, and did not go to college until a few years ago and I'm about to graduate at 32. I have no idea which generation is what anymore or where I fit in lol

[@ecoRfan]

I was born late 1991. So basically a “model year 1992”. Lot of adverse things out of my control set my life back, so at this point I’m more in line with first half zoomers than any millennials. I also look much younger than I am which only adds to the mystery.

[@hyacinthreverie]

i’m (late-ish) gen z and i grew up with quite a few of the same things my late millennial/very early gen z cousin did 😭 maybe it’s because my mom was a former preschool teacher, or because of my cousin who my mom had watched over a lot idk!!

[@Varahipatel-1]

I think the difference is the age difference between the first millennials and the last gen z’s. And that does affect certain aspects BUT our experiences are/will be the same because of the way things are going rn.

[@bwc-chvd]

In 2 years it’s gon be Gen z vs Gen alpha lol

[@bwatbit]

Like I make fun of Gen alpha occasionally but not as bad as millennials make fun of Gen z

[@sugarcubeswirly]

i always thought alpha started at 2012

[@WURLDSTAR]

i’ve heard it both ways

[@Sweet-Tartt]

Im a older gen alpha (2010) and I think that Covid kinda ruined my school life. I had very good grades and understood everything, but when covid hit i just laid on my phone and ignored the teachers because i cant really learn through a screen,i need to learn in person. Now i have HORRIBLE grades but im trying to get them up before the end of the school year because i dont wanna do summer school again 😭 Also I kind of hate it when people (8th graders) say that we (7th graders) watch skibidi toilet and stuff like that, some of us say it ironically sooo...

[@rosahettinga7248]

Yeah I can very much so relate. I'm young gen-z (2007) and have had a really tough time with school too since the corona crisis. It was litteraly impossible to find motivation to do anything during corona time lessons. I don't think that gen-alpha is doomed to fail in school, I just think that all of us who where in ower earlyer school years during corona time are now having it really though. The adults don't really understand because they haven't lived it and that is really frustrating.

[@randomname7269]

You're gen z. It's 97-12

[@sadcena7204]

I know it's off topic but I wanted to say you look really nice in this video. I also want to give a shout out to your glasses choice since it hard to get glasses that complent someones face shape so well.

[@BreadSourdoughBaguette]

9:04 WHAT IT’S NOT COOL TO SAY YOLO ANYMORE OR TACOCAT?!?! I use the word yolo everyday because of that seatbelt vine I saw years ago 😢😭 But thanks again for your videos! I always love hearing your thoughts on current situations it’s like one of the only long videos I like, I always treat it as a podcast 😂

[@AlmostMilk.]

I feel like half of the making fun of Millennials is the way that siblings make fun of eachother

[@axezeeplushie2497]

I actually loved this video, there was not a second I wasn’t enjoying myself! You’re great and im glad i found you!

[@katc2040]

Flip phones still exist, theres no reason why kids shouldnt use them.

[@RepubsWannaMarryKids]

Yeah, and old people seem to use them a lot, too.

[@MusikGirl23]

I agree. I feel that if a kid does need a phone, it should be a flip phone with minimal to no internet access, but ability to communicate with parents/guardians. Call me ‘old’ but at 33, I’m very glad that most of my teenage hood was without social media. I still cringe if I look back on Facebook statuses from when I was 18 or 19…of course, this also has to do a bit with undiagnosed bipolar 2 disorder. Can totally see the hypomanic and depressive episodes…

[@Hope-eg4qn]

i will say, i’m gen z and i work as a beauty advisor at ulta. convincing gen alpha kids to not buy drunk elephant products(or similar products) because of all the actives and peptides that’s NOT GOOD for 8 year olds(in a lot of cases it can cause rapid aging.) gen alpha probs wont be much different from us as far as looks or even trends but goddamn. stop harassing me at work abt it. (yes my job is a beauty advisor and to sell more products, but im not letting an 8yo walk out of there with retinol. i have integrity.)

[@kuroon7553]

Do you know why people argue about gen z aging like milk and millennials not aging? Because people expect 30yos to look like mummies. I'm a millennial, from 1994. Just turned 30 this past January. The amount of people thst tell me I don't look 30 is huge, but they don't tell me that because my skincare routine is amazing. No, they tell me that because they expected to see me absolutely destroyed as a 30yo. That's a thing the media fed us from generations before mine. People act as if 30 is the end of the time. That midnight will ring on your bday day and you'll turn into a decrepit mummy, like a Cinderella from hell effect. But that's not it. Even more nowadays that things such as skincare and cosmetic procedures are more accessible. But that's the reason why my generation is so terrified of turning 30 and so scared of being perceived as older. I look 30, because I am 30. I don't "look good for 30" or something like that. What I don't look is the 30 people scared others to think were the norm. I think its natural to get annoyed by the next or the previous generation. We get annoyed with Gen Xers to this day because of howt hey talk about the 80's 😂 Also, I particularly love watching Gen Zers discover things from the 90's/early 00's. It's so awesome to watch you guys find out things that are so natural to me as an older person. I think it's nice to share. And, to end this bible I just wrote, the gen alpha students problem is a huge thing. I'm a teacher and it's bad. But it's not a gen alpha thing, we are seeing these problems with college students too. It's a "post-pand3mic" problem and not a generational one. The pand3mic REALLY f'ed up people's mind and ability to learn. (Sorry for the mistakes, english is not my native language)

[@o26kaichu20]

Lemme tell you: the cycle GONE continue. BC I felt like for a while my gen was hypin up Gen Z. I thought we were gone get along! I was HYPE!! Then I swear it was like one day one of us got hella pressed that some teenagers didn't like side parts anymore (and like why do we caaaaarrrreeee) and it was all out war in the most embarrassing way possible. If I had to guess, these people were just not emotionally prepared to start taking what they perceived to be "criticism" from people younger than them after already having been brutally attacked by the older gens. But like that's... life? Younger people do eventually stop feeling like their elders are cool. Gen Z established its own identity & started asserting itself as the young adult generation at that time and these people just broke, I guess. And if I had to take a second guess, I would bet the people who felt most slighted by this did not feel like they got to spend their time as a young adult the way they really wanted to. So, being reminded that we're older now? Yeah I get it it sucks, but embarrassing yourself by trying to clap back at (at times) literal children is not a good look, sis. Like at ALL. And like there are answers to the question "why is no one comfortable looking their age" - it's the same reason we're seeing kids at younger and younger ages pick up make up and shit like that. But the form it's taking is not at all a productive way to have a "conversation" & it makes it adversarial when the reality is it affects all of us. There's honestly a ton of crossover when it comes to this conversation and like... several insecurities and major conversations that we're having in general. (And you did an amazing job of staying on subject cause honey... you see this comment. Couldn't be me.) So frankly if there's any takeaway that I hope I can leave y'all with it's that even if this cycle feels inevitable, it's worth it to try to do better. I was one of those people who didn't want to do to Gen Z what was done to me. And you know, I'm not perfect in that regard. I've felt that sting, I've tried to look cool to my brother in vain, I've fallen into the trap of wanting people to guess my age (in person thank god - this is the closest to proof u will EVER find). But it's still worth it to try. We got more in common than we give ourselves credit for. Bonus fact btw: your birthday is the same year as my lil bro's. Rad!

[@soymilkman]

Why has what generation you happen to be born in turned into the next zodiac? The reality is people are way more influenced by the direct environment they grew up in rather than what year they were born. You'll find far more correlation among what income bracket an individual grows up in and their behavior than age. Not to mention all other factors that influence behavioral development, such as religion, nationality, culture, family dynamics, etc. it's never simple, because people aren't simple. I'm sick of painting people with wide strokes and viewing the world in black and white binaries

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

Of course that matters. But the generations are that way, because it’s not just about your income, it’s about the state of the world. Which impacts how people grow up. That’s what it’s really about when they were starting to split up the generations more than anything. That’s why the names of the generations in the beginning, are used to be directly related to what the generation has a hole would’ve gone through, regardless of economic standing - example the silent generation, was called the silent generation, because they were expected to be seen and not heard. Baby boomers are called that, because after the war everybody came home and had babies, and people actually were finally making good money. People could actually have a good life with their children off of one income. It’s just a way to help explain things. Problem is when people weaponize it.

[@soymilkman]

@@xdani_thethinkingneko yeah I agree. Generations just show general tendencies of an age group, nothing more nothing less. The issue comes in when people essentialize and stereotype others based off things they have literally no control over

[@unordinary_artist]

I’m living laughing loving the hair. And this conversation is so important because as the kid of a millennial mom and a Gen X dad I feel like gen z gets screwed by both. Have a great day

[@LmaoMoni]

The way I screamed when you just unapproved said “9/11”

[@thefatherinthecave943]

12:56 this is simply untrue. Huge vine-stars, like king bach and the watermelonee guy tried to UNIONIZE and the shareholders pulled their support of the app, killing it in less than 2 months.

[@DessiWessi_VR]

My favorite planet posted 🔥🔥

[@1cornicon679]

omg when i was 7 and found my very first "i can haz" meme, literally earth shattering

[@MikeCore]

My DSi came with a dumb brain teaser game bc I said I was an adult and apparently saying you were a kid or an adult changed what free game u got 😭

[@00thebatman]

I always thought the discourse of people not knowing about things they didn’t grow up with is wild. Like i was born in the 90s and I know what a phonograph is

[@strangec.d.7849]

The irony of me watching this on a flip phone rn at 15yrs lol

[@user-weeidon]

the vhs or other technology item argument is such a joke. Not everybody grew up in a technically advanced country. I'm an 05 and from Bangladesh and we still have a vhs player with old wedding videos

[@kyattogallery]

I was born in 1999 so I’m technically GenZ and my brother was 1995 and I guess technically Millennial. I find it weird because like a lot of the “millennial” stuff is the stuff I had growing up because a lot of my tech was hand-me-downs from my brother and older cousins. For example, I didn’t get a touch screen phone until high school. 🤣

[@ecoRfan]

I had a lot of hand me downs from extended family. I didn’t get a cell phone until the summer before starting high school in 2006. It was a flip phone.

[@shilohthehedgehog]

omg ur hair is so pretty I scrolled past this video so many times without realizing it was you 😭

[@WURLDSTAR]

thank you!!! i’m a shapeshifter

[@FefleWinter]

My problem with Gen apha having smartphones isn't the fact that it's a smartphone. It's that fact they have a smartphone at such a young age which cause them to have a lack of imagination.

[@juliasutton8634]

wait do you remember when you'd get made fun of for taking a selfie in public? and the selfie song that happened omg. but now there's this weird overlap where some people are shaming kids for wanting to do what their fav creators do

[@lovelypecs]

WURLD you look gorgeous as always!! 😻😻