Ranting About Millennials

[@grim9x8]

i still feel that gen z is incredibly different than millennials especially the breed that live in discords.

[@Zanador]

I agree, and I really agree with Digi's cutoff of '97 because I was born in '96 and I have friends a year younger than me that I think are significantly different enough to be the new generation.

[@Camel.Yellow]

you called?

[@kueller917]

I'm glad I've seen someone else point out that shift in 2008/9. I remember it being really surprising. Like overnight all of a sudden everyone was online and it ceased to be this place mostly run by outcasts or outcasted interests.

[@Jiggleslinky]

kueller I think we have Facebook to thank for that.

[@Porcelyne]

I feel like the generation after us will be angry we haven't used it to our full potential. I feel like the conversation will go "You had infinite knowledge at your fingertips but all you used it for was memes." Btw, was born in 2000.

[@lounowell4171]

You don't have to be a part of that "we" :P

[@BananononJakuzure]

@CommandoDude Feels a like a lot of things we could say that to, really. like electric cars in shit, solar power, reusables, etc.

[@kueller917]

There's the tech side but I think politically I already see something like that. Millennials have been rather nihilistic towards the world after events of the 00s whereas the following seem to get more angry and willing for action. I could see that gen really being the more active version of what the millennial gen was known to bring, also technologically.

[@MrCactuar13]

There's no such thing as someone "too old" for technology, only people who refuse to learn to use it. Even today you have young people "bad with tech" and it's all a matter of of them practically refusing to learn whether out of laziness or some preconceived inconvenience. I've met my fair share of cool old dudes who have fully embraced tech, and the thing they all had in common was an open mind and the will to learn. There will always be people holding us back and it'll be people who stubbornly hold onto these mental roadblocks that prevent us from advancing.

[@CodyAlmeida]

I agree, but I think you need to get out more. On a daily basis I firsthand experience elderly shun away technology. Even when vaguely presented to them as an option they react like cavemen when they first saw fire, fucking terrified like it's some cursed power. Those people will stop existing when they are dead. Generations of people like that telling millennials they'll, "grow up." Pretty sure when People like ourselves are 60 I'm at least going to still be 360 no scope dabbin' on fools. The point more broadly is that their will finally be a true collective hivemind instead of these 2 hemispheres we've had for 30 years. No more people that straight don't fucking get it, and too many people to even allow you not to if you tried. Those kinds of people have pissed away what resources this planet has and all us young folk are out here waiting for old people to stop laundering money while telling us to kill eachother when we just want to send dank memes now. Look at how so much internet culture is built around optimization and efficiency and tell me how the rest of our generation isn't actively trying for the most part to do the same with the world?

[@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei]

while that's true, I do think as time moves forward, that will become less and less possible. Like there's always going to be people who absolutely put their foot down, but even now, in first world countries, almost every transaction can be done online and there's often fees for not doing so. Therefore less and less people will be willing to take the hit to deny technological advance. for example, if you really absolutely don't want to use a phone in modern society, I guess you don't have to, but it's going to be pretty hard to get a job, pay your bills, transfer money, contact your landlord if something breaks, ect... Eventually most people will feel it's not worth it not to use/understand the system

[@pichum4st3r]

Tenshi6Tantou6Rei I’m 25 and starting to curse at technology. Things such as how video game companies are using DRM and ridding of physical games. Eventually no one is going to own games at least in the mainstream. Cars is another thing. No one is going to own cars in the future either. Cars are getting too complex even for professional mechanics. There is a plethora of non serviceable parts on cars nowadays. Instead of the possibility of owners fixing their cars themselves they have to go to the dealer or at least a mechanic with dealer level scanners and such. The future of vehicles is probably going to be subscription based self driving cars. An automated car from Uber or something will arrive at your house to take you where you need to go.

[@papadragon8208]

im 40, so I have seen the spread of computers, internet & cell phones and then smart phones. I was using a Mac SE? I think, gods it was so long ago when I was eight or nine?. I was a bit too rural growing up to ever get deep into the computer geek side of things. Though I am well aware of the changes its brought and the changes it is and can bring. I think the majority of people in power do have an understanding of the current tech. I also think they rely heavily on the younger generations to implement it for them. To them though its more how can I use this to control and profit off of everyone else. Something the tech companies and service providers seem to be pushing for more and more.

[@thelifedragon2156]

i think you're right about all that, but even though most gen Xers and boomers understand tech at this point, that doesn't mean they understand the culture around it. my dad (age mid 50s) has been using computers and his smart phone for even longer then me (age 26) but despite that, he still doesn't understand how i could spend so much time on the internet. he gets how i use it, he doesn't get WHY i use it. as hes really only used it for work or very light info gathering, where as i used it as my main source of entertainment and socializing even sense i was 14. i think its important to make the distinction between understanding what doomers (millennials) do, and Why they do it, and untill everyone understand the internet culture, we are gonna have a hard time with making polices that dont fuck up that said culture

[@HxH2011DRA]

I don't even think your time scale is wide enough. Sure internet cultural is developing but fundamentally we don't use the unlimited knowledge at our disposal much differently because being ABLE to access information and being able to learn and utilize that information are to very different things. It's not like the printing press where people went from not being able to read to being able to. The big changes will come once we start the serious cyborgization and till then we'll really just have more of the same but faster, materially speaking.

[@DoomTone11]

While Andrew Yang isn't quite a Millennial, Pete Buttigieg is, and he's running for president at 37, which is a little nuts.

[@vanillaannihilation5871]

Its funny because in Mexico (and I guess in other second world countries, as I understand) the social media explosion happened at the same time, but the gap is closer between that and the start of the internet as forums for example.

[@campfortson4387]

Its similar for any place that isnt america, canada, western europe, or japan

[@TheZebbga]

I am from a generation where the internet was always there but it wasn't always good or even worth using for everyday life. It has specific purposes and not everyone had it.

[@CecilyRenns]

loooool i so want a rant about Andrew Yang

[@crystyxn]

check the PCP episode that just came out lol

[@CecilyRenns]

ah thanks. i didnt see Digi in it, but i know Ben's pretty into Yang which is interesting (since he's all anti-corporation and all) so ill give it a listen

[@oshinoedan5666]

so the reason I don't like lain is cause I was born in 98?

[@clacla2593]

I was born in 2001 and when I grew up it was not really such a big thing yet... I think it’s especially different for people born in 2005/6 or sthg (coz it développed so fast)

[@otakubullfrog1665]

Where I grew up, a lot of people were already using dial-up internet in the 1990s. If you picked someone at random from one of my classes, they would more likely than not have an AOL screen name or something. I think the reason that you see 2009 as a dividing point is that a lot of people switched from cell phones to smart phones around then, making them permanently online wherever they happened to be. Nobody really uses the phrase "going online" anymore, but that used to be something people did.

[@jiado6893]

It's not just citizens of third-world countries that can inform us about the non-interconnected experience. Just look at the lack of development in the Rust Belt.

[@Pokelova]

I feel you on being the first one of your peers on the internet. I was quoting memes like a sperg before it was cool.

[@oshinoedan5666]

Lets secure that bag

[@dannykazari]

Pretty great rant

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

I'm on the tail end of the millennial generation. I'm 23 (born in '96) and my parents were boomers. Mom was born in '64 and I think my late dad was born in '61. My older brother is also a milennial though I think he prefers to be called an Xer. He's 32 (born in '86) currently. I was also on the internet before 10 though it was mostly just KZbin. I think I just listened to music with KZbin back then. Some of the older kids I hung out with also used KZbin for the same purpose + cat videos +anime episodes. Before I was on the internet I used the computer to play disk games like Oregon Trail or Math Blasters. I remember the weird alien sound the internet used to make in its early stages. I think it was dial up internet.

[@Voltanaut]

I was born July 23rd 1995. I feel like an older Gen Z-er.

[@korkad_]

If you can't meme, you can't dream 95 gang represent

[@NatWarrior1]

1995 is kind of late for a millennial. That's like just barely one, almost someone in generation Z

[@Voltanaut]

@@NatWarrior1 Yeah, I've had this debate with friends of mine. I have a friend from 1992 who thinks I am not a millenial, but I have a mate from 1997 who thinks I am. Then again, Digi here thinks Yank is a late millenial for being in his late 30s (although Yang is actually 44). I think this whole millenial thing is up to perspective. Generations have never been a clear concept.

[@angryyordle4640]

If you can't meme, you can't dream millennials are basically everybody born between 1980 and 2000 so no, you're a younger millennial.

[@korkad_]

陈嘉鸿 with my youth of dial up, floppy discs and cd roms im definitely in the inbetween. I viciously despise zoomer culture though

[@PabbyPabbles]

I can play a shooting game or I can play a building game. Z-ers can play Fortnite proficiently. I guess before the Internet people generally kept within a few years difference of their own age, but now we are regularly in contact with people much younget than us. Shit like the Numa Numa Dance literally being the equivalent of how I see 60's movies to the people next to me started to make me feel old at 25

[@TheCreepypro]

great rant my dude I actually feel good about being a millennial now

[@MultiArtartart]

I'm also 27👌

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

If only your voice matched your beard

[@JanizMakudomaru]

I'm glad it doesn't. He'd be another generic youtuber white dude that sports a beard, wears glasses, except no tattoos if he did and that's fucked for Digibro.

[@mynamesean80]

Think Pete Buttigieg (37) and not Andrew Yang(44), and you’ve got your millennial president example

[@zucchini3D]

What worries me about later generations is how normalized AI / machine learning algorithms are going to become in their societies. I know it has technically had a long history (not a programmer, dunno the details) but now there's sooo much talk about it because the tech and possibilities are rapidly accelerating. Gonna be a little worried once that topic becomes blasé or oversaturated, and we're just supposed to kind of accept / ignore the fact entirely. I'm all for embracing the borg but I don't want that to become something of an unconscious act.

[@kunturkusilla1933]

My belifs are that tecnology its pretty gud, but when we have a social media that reshape us like machines too have standars at the level that we have people being called NPC couse they are practically the same. Sorry for my english iam from Perú

[@LimeyLassen]

I see it like an outdated immune system. New generations won't be as gullible as we are.

[@eff-fume]

I just got 23 and I already feel out of touch with some technologies that already are going to see public soon. It is kind of fascinating. I am born '96 and I don't even think we had internet until ... 2004 or so? I think early 20s people are closer in mindset and upringing to mid-to-late teens than late 20s onwards, which they will never want to admit lol

[@adrenochromejoe7448]

He is one

[@HxH2011DRA]

LMFAO ZOOMERS HAHAHAHA IT'S LIKE BOOMERS XD whoever came up with that has all my respect

[@oknoelle777]

is digibro yang gang?

[@OverDoseVapes]

gen x arent boomers...we know how to install windows. I just put in double pane windows in my summer home for instance.

[@Theyungcity23]

6:26 Zoomers

[@dragunov815]

Ouch.

[@Wyvborn]

Zoomers gonna zoom

[@fafafooey4126]

Andrew yang winning the election lol.... And hes literally gen X lol

[@numberproof7228]

You say near the end that millenials dont have the agism that older people do. In the UK that is the complete opposite, there are people who genuinely hate old people and think old people dont have a right to vote because older people voted for brexit and shit like that. I'm a british zoomer, and the way I see it, millenials may utilise the internet better than boomers but they're gonna completely fuck everything else. As much as they dont understand the internet and it is annoying, I have way more respect for boomers than for most millenials.

[@bakubaka4482]

Yang Gang.

[@GokutheBlack]

millenials rise up

[@zwimmy]

YANG GANG

[@angryyordle4640]

I was born in 97 and while the internet did exist in my childhood it was borderline useless and I basically didn't use it. The big breakthrough was when Google was founded and we finally had a good searching machine.