How Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt deconstructs the Millennial myth | Tom Nicholas

[@Tom_Nicholas]

Thanks for watching! Would be particularly interested in any thoughts on this one as really keen to get the tone and format of these video essays right so that they're vaguely entertaining rather than just information-filled!

[@Tom_Nicholas]

Also, if anyone wants to check out that intro video, you can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4TKn6yBh6eYY8k

[@Tom_Nicholas]

That's a really interesting idea actually, a kind of historiography of feminism. I'll give some thought to this and see what I can come up with!

[@humairakarim9107]

Tom Nicholas okay thank you for your response ♡

[@slyanna3688]

that shirt is almost breaking hahaah

[@spankytag]

I personally enjoy your informative tone which aligns with the complex issues tackled in the vid. If you want to lighten the tone, throw in a joke or two or if you want to add a little character, maybe throw in your personal interpretation. Maybe check out the channel Folding Ideas for tone/video structure ideas.

[@octavia88]

Delaying "growing up" sometimes is a matter of survival. Yet millennials are constantly shamed for not being independent, for not moving out etc. As if it was a choice...

[@cptsteele91]

It is very tempting to tell boomers and gen x folks to hurry up and either retire or die so you can actually take their "sage advice" isn't it

[@donovan5656]

@@cptsteele91 Yeah, they're reacting to the economy just as we are. They're not giving up their jobs. They know social security wont be enough for them.

[@amiraameera8302]

Me moving out was only because the nicest apartment building in the hood closest to my parents' suburb-in-the-city neighborhood had an opening.

[@dantodd3737]

People understand difficult situations. It's not the millennials who have REAL hurdles/obstacles to overcome that older generations shame, it's the millennials who are perfectly capable of overcoming those hurdles/obstacles, but don't, or worse, won't even try.

[@ElectricChaplain]

@@dantodd3737 No, some boomers definitely shame millennials who can't overcome "real" obstacles too, and lack the empathy to understand why a person can't overcome a problem that seems to them easy. Even your use of the phrase "real problem" indicates that you have some idea in your mind about what is or is not a difficult problem based on your past experience, which may not match with someone else's experience. I won't even go into how some boomers (and millennials sure) have a very myopic and selfish view of the world where anyone that's not them basically isn't human. NIMBY people. I don't know, there's nuance here and individual situations may vary.

[@trillionbones89]

Many cultural things that changed with Millenials (moving out later, etc.) are more economic reflections being reflected by the culture, not a shift due to culture.

[@xx___x]

Seriously, it's about older generations start to realize this and take accountability for this. All around the world, not just in USA, this generation does not have AT ALL the same opportunities and possibilities that our parents did. We face way worse economic situations and challenges. Our parents were able to buy houses, for example, at rates that were way lower compared to their wages compared to us to the point they could afford to have stay at home moms. Now couples cannot even afford a to have a child, let alone buy their own home, while the two of them work.

[@lilmissmonsterrr]

@Turquoise Cheetah that's a very good point to add to the conversation. And I can't help but suspect that the reason Gen X were helicopter parents was because of the onslaught of media attention on serial killers, kidnappings, etc. I remember my mother blasting oprah, 20/20, etc. on the TV listening to and gasping at crazy stories about kids who were taken and people who were held hostage. I think all of that likely contributed to the parental fears and over protection. And in turn it sowed fear aka anxiety into us, their children. I have the same issues you mentioned. I'll soon be thirty and I have struggled a lot in life with not having confidence in myself and my abilities, a lot of second guessing myself and anxiety about various possibilities. There's a definite lack of independence and fear of making the same financial mistakes my parents did. I think that probably also contributed to the tiny house movement - a bunch of us millenials trying to avoid debt and materialism.

[@amiraameera8302]

@Turquoise Cheetah @AssaultedPeanutt yes! As millennials raised by Boomers (my parents and in-laws were born in the 50s and my husband and me in 89 & 90) I can say there was an air of that anxiety in both our houses, but I think the general difference in opinion between Boomers and Gen Xers about what keeps kids safe made the difference. I was allowed to leave the block with the other older girls and had to be back with them before dark so I'd never be alone, but I'd learn to navigate my neighborhood. When the older girls moved, we got a big dog that required walks so I became known as "the girl with the dog". Meanwhile, my husband was a latchkey kid on Chicago public transit. We're still just as job insecure at 30 and 31 with our 2 special needs kids in our rented house with no savings to speak of and college debt to the ceiling after years of being told college is how you get the good jobs for my degree for teaching dance that I don't use much as a self-employed, contract-based bookkeeper and his 2 semesters before leaving to start working security. The parallel as I see it is in the reasons for the responses. There are crazies out there so either learn to run your ass off, or come find mom & dad, no middle ground. No wonder we're all hedging our bets with kids, houses, cars, and credit. That shit looks risky and I'll either have to go to my parents for help, or I'm on my own.

[@lilmissmonsterrr]

@@amiraameera8302 yea, so true. All the financial insecurity and fear of being a slave to debt like our parents may definitely be what caused millenials to create the tiny house movement and the minimalism lifestyle trend. Also, a remarkable amount of my peers in school had divorced parents so maybe that contributed to the millenial outlook on marriage. My parents never divorced but they should have. I grew up in a very unstable house. My father was obsessed with work and his social life, and was a substance abuser. I believe my mother had borderline personality disorder or something similar which was hell to be parented by, I would not recommend it lol. And all they did when they were together was rage like you wouldn't believe, most of the time it was about money. As a child I saw that the focus of my household wasn't family, or anything meaningful, it was money. When I was first married we were trying to find housing and jobs during the great recession so again, money haunted my life like a dark cloud. Once the great recessions started to wind down my husband found a decent paying job breaking his back but we had to move out of state to take it. We managed to save up some money and later started lookwfor a house. We couldn't find anything that wouldn't take a lot of work within out price range, and we weren't looking for a big house. I remember thinking it really strange that there were no starter homes that weren't in the ghetto and run down. How is that possible? Why are the house overly big or overpriced? What about us young people just starting out? Did anyone think of us? Lol. This was right before tiny houses got really popular but we came across the idea and felt it was the only way. When we told my husband's parents about the idea they treated us like we were dumb and told us it's not a good idea. That was hard because they were actually really good with their money, but they didn't understand how different the climate had become since they were young. To this day they still think they had it harder when they were young because wages were lower. 🙄 Don't get me started on that haha. We didn't build a tiny house exactly though, we knew it needed to be on a foundation and big enough to have value. So we built a 700 sq ft house five or six years ago and we've lived in it ever since. The kicker is that it's now paid off and we were able to add on another small room when we could afford it so now it's around 900 Sq ft. We're not in debt at all for anything we own. For a decade we drove old but paid for cars, even enduring super hot commutes without a/c for *years*. Last year we were able to buy a nice vehicle for the first time. Nice to us is a five year old, gently used Kia soul haha. We LOVE it. Another really important thing to mention is that we never had children. The trauma I experienced as a kid and the issues it caused in my brain development and needs, plus the climate I was seeing around me were the biggest contributors to that decision among other things. The amount of pressure society put on us to go against our guts on that though was unreal. It took about ten years for people to give up 😂. I definitely know that we wouldn't be where we are financially if we'd had kids. I would've wanted to be a hands on parent, I would have wanted my child to experience a childhood that didn't revolve around money and to have parents who were available to them. It's been over 12 years since we were married and I don't regret my decision not to have kids. I feel like that decision gave me the opportunity to learn to stabilize myself and to fix a lot of issues that came from my childhood. I feel like I've had time to really reflect on myself and observe the world around me, as well as to learn and do things that fulfill me as an individual person. I don't think people who have children and work all the time have the time and mental clarity to really be aware and think about things. So I'm really glad I've had that, I think it's very important, maybe now more than ever. Anyway, I've yammered on enough. My point is that all my big decisions were different than what most people around me would've done and I really believe that's why I'm doing alright. I knew I didn't want to live like my parents did and I saw that the people around me were miserably caught up in a grind. People have mid-life crises, I believe, because they wake up one day and suddenly fully and deeply realize that they've worked their life away and/or gave their identity up to parent for twenty years (to children who have grown up and moved on to their own lives and don't have much time for them). They feel empty because they lost themselves in the chaos and never had the time to feed their own souls, to self reflect and make inner revelations that stabilized their identities. That's such a shocking and painful thing to run into. I didn't want that for myself. So I think now in our generation, the millenials have learnt a lot from our parents' mistakes and that's why we're not as work and money oriented. That's why we love concepts like the tiny house movement, off the grid living, minimalism, etc. That'd why we seem lazy and lax. Every generation has such problems with the next. Somehow they don't realize that every lifestyle or cultural change in the following generation is a reaction to the world that the previous generations shaped or portrayed. Whether it be the condition of the economy, the focus and atmosphere of our childhood homes, or even how media shapes our perspective of the world around us and what to expect in life - we live in response to our perspective of the world. And who shapes our perspective of the world? Something to think about, anyway.

[@alex-iz5jv]

@@xx___x in many cultures around the world kids move out of their parents house once they get married not just the second they legally can

[@sjbrooksy45]

I'm an odd millennial. Married young, have 4 kids a house and 2 cars. Getting married young, with no education caused my family to live in poverty, but I used the time I spent working in retail while on food stamps to get a degree in computer science and get a good paying career. Yet I don't expect people to pull themselves up by their boot straps. I owe any success to the friends and family that supported me through hard times, and am still struggling with mountains of debt. I'm thankful what I have, but I realized long ago that the American dream is cutoff for most society and it is doubtful you'll achieve it working to make someone else rich.

[@mikkykyluc5804]

I've also been using programming to improve my economic position(used to be on disability benefits for a decade), it really is such a life-saving line of work for many. I highly respect that you see that it's not only down to your own actions by the way! I mean sure learning these skills is challenging and takes determination, but personally speaking I also just came across the right people/things at the right time.

[@happinesstan]

It's not called the American DREAM for nothing.

[@DogFosterDads]

You are not living the american dream if you are carrying debt at your age, especially if it was for education purposes to find employment.

[@Tiptup300]

How's things going on the debt?

[@karliebellatrixyoung6359]

Let's also note that when Boomers and Gen Xers critique Millennials for not engaging in the same strategies that they once did, it is overwhelmingly because we are living in the world that they created. Boomers who are disappointed in their children for not buying a house in their mid twenties are the same people who have sought to keep wage growth stagnant while expecting housing asset values to double every decade. Reconciling this would require that they think cogently about their role in the economy and their expectations of the world around them, and indeed to be self critical, so they avoid it like the plague. Indeed, it's obviously and deeply hypocritical that the "40 is the new 25" generation still expects their children to be married with children and a home by 25.

[@zeineb8870]

Also, not everyone actually wants this type of lifestyle ( house, kids etc). I am 19 (, so I am gen Z) and i am actually childfree by choice and buying a house isn't my ultimate goal, in fact, since I love traveling around the world, if I ever buy a house it will be to rent it. Edit: Moreover buying a house + family+ dog in the garden is an American vision of stability that was promoted heavily in the 50s with "the american way of life" . As a non american , I do not have the same cultural influences. In my country for instance, people can remain in the family house until they get married and that is a totally normal thing to do. We only move out of the family house for work/ studies/ marriage ( or life with a partner)

[@hollandscottthomas]

I'm 36, live with my partner and have zero plans for kids and because i can work from home in my industry am not even especially badly affected by the economy (yet). We don't live an expensive lifestyle at all, but we're comfortable. Even with what I would consider an extreme advantage in my circumstance: no fucking way can I afford to buy a house. No fucking way can I foresee any time in the future where that will be an option.

[@zeineb8870]

@@hollandscottthomas I don't see the need to buy a house personally. It is like tying yourself to some place

[@hollandscottthomas]

Zeineb ♥ Agreed!

[@zeineb8870]

@@hollandscottthomas where do you live?

[@zayag3543]

The only thing that bothers me about this is characterizing delaying life goals as tactics. We can't afford houses, we can't afford children. There's nothing tactical about it. The choice to do these things is out of reach for much of my generation. This stems from a lack of choice not a from a weighing of pros and cons. How can one even begin to contemplate these goals when the option itself is off the table for many of us.

[@tessarae9127]

Yeah, it’s like either have a kid when you’re a teenager and literally can’t comprehend just how huge of a responsibility it really is, or become aware of the responsibility and be ethically obligated to not have kids 💭 I mean if even if someone has the resources human overpopulation is a growing issue, pun intended

[@JanaeSmith]

I think that's why he differentiates b/n "tactics" and "strategy"... I was confused by that at first too. But I think it's similar to the difference b/n "immigrant" and "emigrant."

[@seasidescott]

He's saying that it is seen by dominant culture as a tactic and judged in those terms even though the reality may be quite different.

[@atropa6053]

I think its less morally deprived to kill a child than to bring one into oligarcho-capitalist slavery at this point.

[@ssbbms]

Isnt precisely this that is said on the video, though? At first I thought the whole "strategy and tactic" thingy was kinda weird... but as they explain shortly after, its just a term that also mean what you are describing. But my all means, feel free to correct me if im wrong.

[@RBEmpathy]

"Millennials, who are digital natives..." Me, an Alaskan Native straight out the woods: Well, part of that statement is true.

[@eypu999]

Must be a fine life lol

[@Pigimyshrewed]

Yep! Alaskan’s (myself included) grow up 5-20 years technologically and culturally behind!

[@eypu999]

Imuya Dooley why?

[@Cibershadow2]

@@eypu999 I think it may have to do with much of Alaska being wilderness cut off from civilisation

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

Australians: well I wouldn't say native

[@octavia88]

I want to add that I've seen millennials try to buy houses anyway despite their job insecurity, I've seen some have children... They cannot do so without relying on their families, particularly in my country (Italy). Often the property house is simply their parent's house or the inheritance house. I've seen them try to pursue the strategy instead of surviving with tactics and they have to deal with issues and struggle, no matter what they decided. It's not easy not having securities in life, whatever you decide to do. Settling down with all those adversities is not easier or more rewarding than having to postpone everything later...

[@MaestroBlight]

Tom, as one Gen X-er I applaud how members of newer generations such as yourself, have become the most articulate and scholarly of KZbinrs. Clear the, folks like y'all prove the benefit of technology that has served as a catalyst for knowledge in this Age of Information. What I find most fascinating about this video is level of intellect and maturity and critical thinking displayed in the truly scholarly presentation of a compelling observation (backed by research)

[@stahppls2293]

Sure but these generational discourses are very American. People outside the US are still branded with these generational descriptors when they experience very different social, cultural, economic and political experiences

[@dinodino5602]

+

[@breanna6600]

Very American and honestly very white

[@rebekahsquires2073]

So true and culture isn’t even the same all over the United States it varies a lot from state to state and laws do as well the United States is more like 50 countries than one in most ways.

[@rebekahsquires2073]

Yes so true and even in the United States 80s babies had a way different experience growing up and different events shaping their lives. My sister is 14 years younger than me and grew up completely different than me. I feel like I am in culture shock in my own country. 😞 I guess now I understand how my parents maybe felt and definitely my grandparents.

[@heidiankers108]

Love how accessible you make everything, to me, a barefoot student, of no school.

[@JohannaDeutschman]

All of those older individuals who are critical of millennials are somewhat following the age-old strategy of condemning the youth for their...Youth. Though some of their critiques are based in fact with examples like delayed/prolonged adolescence or pursuing family oriented goals later in life; these choices were led by the generations prior to them. These critical, older people fail to recognize that anything they dislike about the current youth can likely be tied to their own youthful choices. Millennials ended up adapting to the word that was handed to them which was full of technological innovation and economic turmoil. Crazy to think they enjoy utilizing technology and living responsibly. Anyways, your video is extremely insightful, well scripted, and wonderfully edited! It probably explains half of why I adore and resonate with Unbreakable as much as I do. (Also: Participation trophies were handed out by gen-x and baby boomers so who is really at fault here...?)

[@amiraameera8302]

Been waiting on this point for *ever*

[@annnee6818]

I'm an elder millennial and thoroughly grossed out by this age old trope. Every generation thinks they're the first ones to discover that their youth is just the worst and the world is gonna end because of them when the old Greeks already penned bitchy pamphlets against theirs (repeat at nauseam for the rest of time). Gen Xers seem to now have evolved into boomers without the excuse of being boomers. I can only date younger now because people my age just seem ancient to me.

[@oliviawilliams6204]

@@annnee6818 Yeah there's evidence that's as old as the world. Heck Plato complained about the youth of his time

[@annnee6818]

@@oliviawilliams6204 Exactly! So I really don't understand why people buy their own bullshit "now, this time society is REALLY gonna end because the youth is so awful" 🙄

[@dildonius]

I'm starting to think more and more that a big part of the issue is that the Boomers were the first generation to really have a "Youth Movement" where teens and young adults told the old authoritarians to stuff it and spearheaded the advancements of the popular culture. With the hippie movement and the drug scene and classic rock and later metal etc. Then Gen X proceeded to do the same with Punk & Grunge & House music and all the other stuff. And Millennials & Zoomers do the same. For the Boomer and Gen X generations, everything revolved around the fact that they were young and radical. But now they are old and decidedly not radical. And getting increasingly old and conventional. And unlike previous generations who were not so wrapped up in their own radical youth, they absolutely CAN NOT HANDLE THIS. The mere EXISTENCE of Millenials and now Zoomers is irrefutable proof that they are no longer young or on the cutting edge and soon they will be outta here. And they seem incapacitated of coming to terms with this and instead choose to resent us and viciously attack and demean us at every turn, out of sheer toxic jealousy. We are what they no longer are and we are the only thing they ever want to be. Young and on the up. They absolutely cannot handle the fact that their time is up, they feel entitled to youth, pop culture, and the world (naturally, being as how baby boomers are quite possibly the most entitled and self-absorbed generation ever). And since they no longer have youth and can never have it again and since its becoming incapacitated obvious that they no longer have control of pop culture and are quickly losing control of the world, rather than help lift up the next generation to be the best caretakers they can be, passing on all they know, they lash out out of resentment and seem hellbent on a scorched earth campaign. To them, it seems, if they're gonna have to go, they're burning it all down first and taking us all with them. If the most spoiled and entitled generation can't have youth and the world, then NOBODY CAN. Its the only explanation I can think of for the absurd behavior of these pathetic, constantly whining, entitled dickheads...

[@Ana.Sarmiento]

Hi Tom, I’m a speaker specialized in Millennials at work and found your video very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to express your generation’s opinion in a well documented manner. I think every generation has its own assets and none of what you are experiencing is spontaneous generation. The world you grew up is just different from ours but we are sort of myopic and can’t see it. Well done and keep creating awareness 🙌

[@glltyt]

As a millennial who grew up in isolation: this video made me think about things I wasn't prepared for at all but really needed to consider in regards to my development speed in contrast to other people my age. Thank you.

[@amiraameera8302]

Millennial: anyone who isn't a Boomer or Gen X that remembers how freaked out other people were about Y2K, even if they didn't quite understand it themselves at the time.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

remember when they shoved the environment down our throats to sell us toys but it worked enough for us to be like "wait what about the environment" and they were just like "but 9/11"

[@toddharig8142]

Fun fact: The Y2k Bug was actually real.

[@sukritrajesh5723]

SO TRUE!

[@gypsyspears]

If the UK/USA markets had regulation on security of tenure and rent rates being tied to inflation, as many places in Europe do, you would not be stuck in the housing ladder dream (and the economic boom-bust cycles that go with it)

[@rodrigodelacruz4811]

What i admire with your videos is your application of various theoretical framework which is so useful for me as i am taking my masters. Had difficulty in its usage as well as crafting it in an academic tone. You are doing a great wotk 😀

[@TheOneAndOnlyCrawl]

When i was a kid, one day my father took me to the bank and opened my first account. I was told if I put money in the bank, similarly to a farmer sowing his fields, I could later reap the benefits. And back in the day, after having 50€ in the bank for a year I suddenly had 50,75. It sounded great. Any money I don't currently need will help me later. Now I have a lot more money in the bank and I get a fraction of those 75 cents and they don't even cover one rate of the monthly fees. It's just one of those examples of being told how the world works only to find out that you were given a promise that has been broken by the previous generations. Same goes for if you work hard, you get rewarded and all the other things that were true in the past but don't hold up to todays standards.

[@LittleHerdaz]

I found this video so relevant to my situation now. I spent a lot of my mid to late 20's worrying about meeting those life goals and it all blew up in my face, and left me in huge debt. Now 5 years later I'm going to have finally cleared it but it feels like while I have aged I'm still at that same point from 10 years ago 😅😅

[@tessthetimeless]

Thank you so much for making this video! I'm a young millenial living with boomer parents and the divide between our generational norms and approach to life makes it so hard to communicate these sorts of variables in society that influence millenials to choose to move at such different pace than previous gens, and to have them truly believe it's a choice rather than a lazy response to responsibility. I think we just don't quite relate to the idea of willingly filling up our plates with all sorts of responsibilities and 'milestones' as soon as possible when the nature of such expected things come from traditions that relate to the industrial style of living that did not include digital social dynamics. In my experience, it seems as though people from the boomer generation generally define social contribution and identity by a person's level of productivity, work performance ability, and participation in family traditions. Their understanding of their place in society and individual life purpose revolves around what & how much they are physically [doing] everyday with their time to advance their status and to socially identify themselves by. They define individual success by the rate of output (work) and amount of earnings a person is capable of achieving and accumulating over time. On the other hand millenials seem to define a person's social contribution and identity by what ideas they share and believe in, what they spend their time consuming or creating, and how they present & conduct themselves on social media. Millenials do care about earning income and gaining experience, but they seem to place less value on achieveing lifetime mastery of a career as the boomers do, and more value on expanding their knowledge and exploring diverse social/work experiences and using various means of production and communication -- it seems as though millenials are more focused on connecting to the greater human collective, conceptualizing abstract ideas & making them tangible to others through art, and being part of the effort to resolve larger social issues, and being a conscious netizen. They tend to be more indifferent to traditional norms or to the pace at which they move from here to there. They understand people based on what they spend their time [thinking] about or [expressing] interest in, and although they value earning an income, they tend to identify much more loosely with physical achievements than boomers tend to, prefering social recognition for intellectual property, artistic talents, social networks, hobbies, and online conduct. I went on a bit of a tangent but yeah I definitely feel that we need so much more understanding between generations because we are all very different and the digital age has created such a bigger divide between the younger and older gens that it is turning us against each other rather than towards each other. We should figure out a way to bridge the gap better and honour our different perspectives rather than scrutinizing each other. We can each teach each other a lot if we choose to accept that there is no true right or wrong way to go about life. I wish we could all find a way to unite while also respecting all personal paths of life regardless of preferential differences.

[@HxH2011DRA]

RIP people like me who are 1 year off from technically being a millennial

[@Tom_Nicholas]

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[@johannsebastianbach3411]

Rip also for the people who were raised by gen-x parents and who adopted gen-x ways, and are alienated from their own age group, so all of their friends are older people who are friends of family and parents :(

[@beaugearing38]

thanks hunter x hunter 2011

[@amiraameera8302]

@@johannsebastianbach3411 I feel seen right now... IJS

[@EliseHanson216]

Whenever someone’s in “the squishy transitional years,” as I call them, I round down to the generation younger than them as that’s when they became capable of abstract thought. So my husband born in 1980 is an elder millennial because he wasn’t capable of abstract thought until about 1983.

[@supermassiveblackink]

I absolutely loved this analysis. I found it very insightful. Tone is good and length is good for taking on two separate shows. Keep up the good work :D

[@Tom_Nicholas]

Ah cheers, always nice to have some reassurance I'm on the right track!

[@nightoftheworld]

21:33 aka _twisted injunctions_ Calls to lead a rational life of hard work and sacrifice exist alongside calls to just do it be happy now YOLO fluidity. Zizek speaks about this in the case of South Korea suicide rates among the youth-he says on one hand they are told the point of life is to enjoy it, on the other they are enjoined to become workaholics.. that cultural discontinuity pushes society toward mental illness.

[@heymike7037]

My Boomer parents are always saying we should buy a house in their neighbourhood and I keep having to remind them that while they were able to afford a $35,000 house on their street in the early 1980's those houses are now worth over a million dollars and we're simply not remotely able to afford anything near to that. They were able to have one adult working full time with the other being a stay-at-home parent AND they had enough money to buy a house, a car, AND a cottage on lake. We can barely afford a house and car with two full-time and relatively good jobs! They also keep complaining about how much time I spend on the internet and stuff but then turn around an ask me to fix their wifi and phones...

[@dizzlex2]

This is the first video of yours I've seen. I want to see more. Let me catch up.

[@Setsunako6587]

Definitely a "net positive for the world," mate! The tone was good, but I did have to raise the speed of the video a bit. Worked out perfectly, and I'm glad I watched to the end. If your natural cadence of speech is slow, don't change it for me, lol. Maybe it's because I'm a Gemini and we have things to do today 😅👍🏽

[@chrisfarmer6893]

Does anyone else find some of these takes a little dated? Especially the whole "digital natives" thing. Now that like 50% of Facebook is your Boomer relatives sharing Blue Lives Matter memes 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[@dildonius]

Boomers can barely operate technology properly enough to access Facebook. Which is why it's practically the only site they ever use and even then very poorly.

[@aitor.online]

i mean the fact that facebook is become boomer hellhole is only confirmation that digital natives is a real thing, if boomers and genx werent so shit at understanding social media and the internet there wouldnt be a distinction between boomer socmed and normal socmed

[@ZariDV]

Boomers may use social media but they don't use it well, they don't fully understand the power it has or the dangers of misusing it. My mom is gen x and to this day she still snaps pictures of her family and random people to make posts online not considering things like consent and how pictures stay online forever or how these things get stolen and used maliciously in memes that could actually hurt others. She doesn't consider that tagging people in inappropriate things now link them to it online and that could get back to their employers. There is a kind of obliviousness to the way they use it like it's all harmless and they take offence to the idea that there are boundaries to respect with social media. We grew up with these things and made our mistakes and learned in an organic way how to deal with this stuff but they just jump into it like it's a game and don't always consider others when doing it. And it turns off younger generations so much that every time older folks try to join newer trendier platforms, the younger ones just migrate to something new because they just keep ruining the experience.

[@eypu999]

Blue lives what ?

[@15inches77]

@@ZariDV to be honest if you go on instagram or tiktok you see the same things done by kids to 20 something's. and younger generations have never wanted to be in the same "area" as their parents.

[@Flashpoint86]

I’m a millennial (b 1986) who is old enough to remember life before the internet. I also had parents that were organized enough to teach me how things worked before there was an internet. (I know how to write a business letter, cover letter and bibliography by hand) I moved to Japan right after I left college and still haven’t moved back to the U.S. ten years later. Every interaction I have with a millennial back home is like an episode of Kimmy Schmidt.

[@daniellehunt380]

I'm a millennial who moved to Australia in 2012. The cultures of America and Australia are similar enough that I usually don't feel the gap -- until I start to interact with people from back home again. Then I'm immediately made aware of a rift in understanding between myself and my peers. It makes me feel at the same time old and out of touch and young and naive. It's a feeling that I'm only beginning to contend with and understand. I think there's also a constant undercurrent amongst immigrants of feeling somewhat out of place, so as we continue to drift further away from the cultural present, maybe we notice it less.

[@katiest.vincent4283]

I am four years younger then you and am also able to write everything you listed, but I learned it in school. My family has also been utilizing my cover letter writing skills for years and they are all boomers and gen-xers. In fact I can say without a doubt I have never meant a millenial who can not do the things you've listed. I have yet to have met a gen-y above a certain age who can not do those things either. Even if they couldn't which is more a shot at their school system then anything else most of them are adept enough to realize that they can google it. The internet is a tool like anything else, and one that gives us a valuable resource to any information we can could ever possibly want. The boomer attitude that it is somehow less valuable then the way they have learn't skills is more of a trademark of their refusal to adapt then it is a problemn with millenials.

[@rebekahsquires2073]

Same here 😕

[@rebekahsquires2073]

Yeah I was born in 83 and went into the military straight out of high school. I lived in Japan for 3 years. I was married and had kids when I was 20. Now I am divorced and moved back to Montana I feel like Kimmy Schmidt like all the time. My little sister is 14 years younger and the cultural differences are major but then she also has a different dad and grew up in a higher social class than me and my older brother....

[@BTsMusicChannel]

i am glad you acknowledge that there is something called Gen X (my generation) -- we usually go unmentioned. That said, Gen X got pigeon-holed too, but we didn't have KZbin to strike back. Here is a quote from my PhD dissertation (in the field of musicology): In articles such as David Gross and Sophronia Scott’s “Proceeding with Caution” (Time, 1990), “twenty-somethings” are described as lazy, goalless, immature, whiny, and over-sensitive. Gen Xers are portrayed as reluctant to “grow up” by assimilating into the American mainstream corporate hierarchy. As if completely oblivious to the alternative underground and the semiotics of “retro,” the authors comment: "Down deep, what frustrates today’s young people-and those who observe them-is their failure to create an original youth culture...What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past...The music of the ‘60s and ‘70s is still viewed, sometimes resentfully, as classic. So today’s artists are busy trying to gain acceptance by reworking the past...Why hasn’t the twentysomething generation picked up the creative gauntlet? One reason is that the generation believes the artistic climate that existed when the Beatles and the Who were writing is no longer viable. Art, they feel, is not created for the sake of a statement these days. It’s written for money."19 Such loaded commentary is based upon a narcissistic assumption that somehow the older hippie-era counterculture is superior to that of Gen X, which merely apes the former’s “classic” style without saying anything new.

[@donovan5656]

In relation to Millennials and the economy discussion, there's a really good YA sci fi called the Summer Prince ,where basically, because people lived for so long in this one city, the youth essentially became second class citizens because there were no jobs for them to do. All the advanced jobs were already manned by older folks, and all the basic jobs were done by AI/robots.

[@headoverheels88]

**immediately adds this to reading list** Seriously, I worry about exactly this with politics. I'm genuinely terrified Millennials won't get our fair shake in politics. I think that's why so many of us got excited with newer members of congress (AOC, Ilhan Omar, etc).

[@grandsaucier3263]

Great work Tom! I watched a few of your videos in the last weeks, for getting some context for a paper I'm writing about Foucault and the spatial turn. And right now just stumbled over this, while searching for "kimmy schmidt" - and what shoud I say, totally amazing seeing you deconstructing one of my favorite shows with theories and concepts I'm actually working with just recently! For some constructiv critic, I would suggest: 1) If it's cost you no problems with the copyrights, use a little more material from the show to examplify. 2) Maybe consider to break such a vast analysis in parts, what would be helpfull for 3) introduce those theories and tools a litte more: I mean, I don't miss something in particular, but it really feels like you cut have made a serie with three 13min Videos with the material you had. I will definitely going to watch all of your videos soon and now you introduced it to me, probably Master of none. Thank you for making that content!

[@Cisssana]

Very very intersting indeed! I represent generation X but not from the West, I lived all my life in Ukraine, the USSR, that is. Almost 29 years ago we have experienced a cataclysm of a major sort - we went out from a bunker, so to say, and everything was new and different. It makes perfect sense for me))))) I am 54 but I tend to behave as a Millenial.

[@JTheTeach]

That shirt is hanging on for life Tom. Thanks for the vid.

[@johannsebastianbach3411]

Tom, i have discovered your channel a few weeks back, and this far haven’t seen a video that was not well researched. I think you are doing a great service to everyone who wants to educate themselves on societal matters. However, for this reason, it pains me to see that your subscriber count is really low. I would love to see you do some collabs with bigger breadtube channels and personalities. Thank you, J.S. Bach

[@blump5080]

Omg hey bach, love ur stuff man xx

[@isidoreaerys8745]

The True Definition of a Millenial is anyone young enough to adopt the internet as a lifestyle, but old enough to remember snail mail, and showing up to friend’s houses unexpectedly to talk. All the events listed in the video were drops in the bucket compared to AOL. A Millenial is someone who entered the world with unrestricted access to the sum total of Human Knowledge in their pocket. Yet entered a world of generally ignorant, stubborn (rich) people whose minds were too set in their ways to put that newly available information into action, a world of obstinate devotion to the status quo. Millennials are Vain because we know we are infinitely wiser than our superiors. And we are special because we are the ONLY group of humans who will ever get to experience the historical world. AND the global cyber society. Gen Z are plugged in from birth, and will live just like the countless future generations of man-machine cyborgs. Their minds acclimated to the enormity of information and data. If Monumentous benevolent changes don’t occur throughout all of society as the life finally drains from the boomer’s stranglehold on economic and political power, then a tremendous failure has occurred and a once in a Species opportunity has been lost.

[@Hartwik]

Early Gen Z weren't plugged from birth. Its Gen Alpha who have been born connected from birth and that even depends on the economic level.

[@morgankayex]

r/iamverysmart

[@harrisd1983]

Isidore the first definition you gave of Millennial is the definition of Xennial (someone born between the original Star Wars trilogy). Gen Z are the first digital natives, but the generation after are ones who are plugged in a birth since they don't know a world without smartphones, tablets, etc.

[@alphabettical1]

@@Hartwik also, poor and even middle class gen Z haven't been plugged in from birth. I am on the older end of Gen Z, being 22, and am familiar with things I shouldn't be by this definition - dial-up internet, landline phones, looking things up in encyclopedias, cassette tapes and VHS tapes. But my younger sister, born in 2006, is also not 'plugged in from birth' because we were not rich. She watched her VHS's too. There's a class element to it in my experience. Edit: I wrote this before reaching the point in the video where he addresses money, however, I still believe our parent's time with money (2008 for Gen Z was Obama but was also the recession) is often overlooked

[@qoyote]

Man, I wish I felt like a man-machine cyborg, that'd be awesome.

[@BriAngel476]

as a part of gen z (22) i consider myself very lucky and privileged compared to many of my friends and peers. which.. says a lot about gen z, the fact that i feel lucky to be living in a 1 bedroom apartment with my boyfriend who never worries about not having rent or food money, yet not having enough money to build much in terms of savings. thats *fortunate* for someone my age. making enough to live, but not enough to build savings.

[@eottoe2001]

Just a note, some of my Irish relatives delayed marriage until they could afford a house and farm I was told. So the kids now aren't doing something so far different.

[@marymolloy562]

My Irish uncle got married at 43 and ended up having 10 children. Lived to see them all grow up too.

[@animefurry3508]

I need to download and keep this video on hand 24/7, for every time ever my parents or others in similar kinds of positions to me, decide they have any opinion on why I'm not where they were at said age. It's exhausting.

[@srinagarubanpathujan7086]

What an informative and insightful video. It has given me a new lens through which to see the practices of Millenials such as myself in a different light. I am 25, and just about to start a 'real' job. I have felt that I am a failure for not having figured my life out because someone at my age is expected to have figured their life out. I understand now that I am not inherently failed, rather only deviated from the social norms set out by the previous generation. I know I should not become complacent, but the change of perspective has given me a great sense of relief.

[@CosmicBos]

Excellent work sir, your tone and pace and spot on, and choosing to talk about two shows rather then just the one was a great choice, although maybe you should change the title to reflect 'Master of None' as well. I also rather enjoyed your Bojack one too :) You have a new sub in me

[@bluetulips7894]

Great analysis. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is hilarious and touches on a WIDE range of issues, including Millenials. But what makes this show amazing is that while there's plenty of dark satire concerning stereotypes and misjudgments against Millenials, there's still plenty of fair, balanced jabs at our generation's particular absurdities and shortcomings. I was born 1987, first computer with dial up when I was 16, first cell phone at 19, so I think of myself as a "middle child" Millenial and feel like I can appreciate that side more than some shows that appeal more to "late" millenials.

[@florianpierredumont4775]

I am a Millenial. I was born during the Gulf War, I was 11 when the WTC towers fall, and 18 when the économic crisis began.

[@donovan5656]

We're the same age :)

[@mrkmkr99]

As a member of gen X who was not college educated, and therefore relegated to the kinds of employment that "privileged" how much labor you could perform in an hour, I can tell you that many of the stumbling blocks to financial independence being described here were also widespread during the period in which my generation was coming of age. I lived paycheck to paycheck for decades. My budget was down to the dollar and relied on a regular practice of popping round to visit parents and grandparents at times coinciding with meals. Myself, and many like me, were what was called the "working poor". We were unable to get credit, a necessary step in establishing credit, and so far from purchasing a home that it was simply never considered. I was 37 before pulling off that little miracle. The house was very dilapidated and in need of massive repairs...but I was inordinately proud of it. Largely because I never thought it would happen. I was not personally acquainted with anyone who was doing substantially better. It's just how it was. We wanted what is now called work/life balance, and were invited to quit if we didn't like the terms of employment. Several companies were reported to the Labor Department for strong-arming people into clocking out to finish their quota of work for the day. There were news stories at the time of professionals who were afraid to utilize their vacation benefit because they feared they would be fired upon return to work. This kind of thing actually happened. I'm happy to see that you've made some strides in this area. It's long overdue and your collective intolerance just forced the issue! Bravo! I don't say this to minimize any aspect of what's happening now, but maybe you feel a little less screwed if someone admits starting out in life has been a financial minefield for decades. And where you start matters. But I will say you do seem to be creating change, and I have to say I'm impressed!

[@Lambda_Ovine]

Boomers: Poor, Millenialls and zoomers, so dependent in their technology. They are not ready for the real harsh world, they have no real skills. Also Boomers: Hey, young man, can you help me access my email? I don't remember my password. Why is it not letting me set my password as my name? Why's my iphon's screen is so dark when I go outside? How do I get my apple in my samsung? My microsoft is not working.

[@Social_Pugatory]

A shot for every time he says “millennial” so eloquently

[@Tom_Nicholas]

Very pleased I managed to sound vaguely eloquent.

[@Elix10]

passed out at 3 minutes into the video

[@ChickadeeBoi]

I loved Kimmy Schmidt. Plus the assumption we grew up totally with tech forgets many of us were born before 95. So the internet wasn't even widely availble till we had began school already, and that internet was painfully slow. I remember being 5 in 98 and watching a relative spend 48hrs to download 5 (FIVE) songs. And that god awful dial up sound? Hell I was running a computer so old it was on Windows 98 in 2005 and we had to replace it totally in order to even swap for Hi speed in 08. I didn't get a phone till age 15, and that had no ability to take photos or play music. Even the game was Snake or BrikBreaker. Many of us had to assimilate into the digital era while also attempting to find a place in the real world as teens.

[@moonlight4665]

As is well documented throughout history dunking on new, younger generations has been going on for literally thousands of years

[@UnicornPezz]

Very interesting video! Loved your view on this show

[@Tom_Nicholas]

Thanks Julia! Really enjoyed making this one!

[@angelac.4013]

This was very insightful. Especially the concept of delayed adolescence and how society views tactics vs strategies.

[@theo-so1tr]

Just discovered you on KZbin, really glad I did. Really admire how articulate you are, and your clear knack for explaining nuanced and often fraught topics of conversation in a clear and even-handed way. Keep it up!

[@palmo9823]

I'm 30 and definitely not a proper adult 🤪

[@octavia88]

Yeah, I also thought that at 30 you were supposed to be one, now I'm not really sure about it 😂 I still think in "when I'll grow up I want to be.."

[@cristaltucker513]

Being a proper adult is overrated.

[@donovan5656]

Ditto. Though, to be fair, Covid didnt help by throwing me right back into my mom's house.

[@Demonreached]

I like how you enunciate each word. It is like how Mr. Rogers used to speak, except for adults.

[@seasidescott]

As a GenXer (the first to have a cool name by the way) we knew early on that the future was screwed. Reagan aborted on any social cohesion, a building of the future, he basically said screw it buy another VCR with your kids' college money. Anything to stimulate the economy. Bumper stickers that said "I'm spending my children's inheritance" was all the vogue. Prior to that, in the late '70s, we were learning the metric system, sustainable agriculture and energy, cars had by law to get 50 mpg by 1990, SALT treaty in effect so a non-militarist future, etc, etc. Then Reagan and Reaganism that said we deserve all the good stuff and armageddon is coming anyway so let's party and stop feeling guilty. Credit cards were unregulated and savings were wiped out. Taxes were slashed and schools became internment camps. We kids got the message everyone for themselves and screw the future as Reagan took down the solar cells from the White House before moving in.

[@qualiaty]

I'm becoming a big fan of your work. Thank you for your efforts, I feel all the better about my reactions to the stresses in life, as a millennial, thanks to your thoughtful essays.

[@Bisquick]

I totally took analyzing the conceit of this (amazing/hilarious) show through any sort of critical theory lens for granted until watching this for some reason. Great job Tom, I'm "binging" your videos right now because of my millenial alienation and digital nativeness ha...(seriously though...)

[@chattychatotchannel]

I found the catching up with growing up after missing out super relatable as someone who lost their adolescence to being in hospital

[@sohigh10]

Very thorough and well supported analysis 👌🏻

[@EliseHanson216]

I liked the tone of this video! You’re a good host!

[@Vospader21]

Congratulations sir, the algorithm has chosen you!

[@Mausr]

Great dive on this topic, excellent insights

[@elleb751]

1st time listener, loved it. Definitely going to check out your other videos!

[@travisbickle3835]

You are pretty good at finding names to your series.

[@jonnestomphorst9254]

Cant wait for the rest pf the series

[@oliverwhite712]

I love this concept of strategy v tactic. It's something that gave me ulcers everytime I logged into instagram to see so many people enforcing on each other whatever norms they felt they had to present to the outside world. I really have no idea how conscious the previous generation were of... anything. They lived their lives thinking that the system works and that their system should not be changed because, as of 1990, it won forever against all other alternatives. My understanding of the world is that they cannot be blamed for making this world though, even though they could make the effort to understand that the material basis of the lives they were permitted to lead is a thing of the past for most of us. They were not told how the contradictions of wage repression on aggregate and lowering people's purchasing power on the one hand, and the inflation of house prices on the other hand would lead to people being completely priced out of participating in the game they're playing. It's caused some unbearable political tension because it is sort of not their fault that they were represented with a restricted view of reality and the material means in which it made sense to take part in it and that they then did believe it and played it and now have a stake in this game. Yet, here we are, fundamentally pitted against them and having to work to change these rules and come up with a different plan, even as they wish to see their house prices rise forever even into retirement.

[@Drawoon]

Pffft, you talk about how society views millenials, but you don't even quote aristotle.

[@ariheino327]

Rotten kids with their notepads... Back in my day we *memorised* things!

[@Setsunako6587]

🤣

[@TheTurkey79]

I'm a Xennial, Gen X/Millennial cusper :)

[@boredofmindgames4662]

What year is that lol

[@rebekahsquires2073]

Haha right honestly I am more like the generation X than a millennial because I am an 80s baby I was born in 83. I can’t relate to “millennials” at all.

[@LexiLadonna]

I’m just so glad I was in rotc when I was in college. I graduated in 2007 and had a guaranteed job in the military for the next 5 years. A lot of people I know weren’t so lucky and I’m so much better off than them, they are in their 30s and home ownership is just a dream for them :(

[@krysisstorm2703]

I am a vintage millennial and I totally find this video completely entertaining and interesting.

[@chuckem77]

Hey. Sorry I'm coming to it so late. I really do love a video essay. Well done.

[@evettechampion5214]

After all of these big life events (pandemic, global recession, an ever-growing wealth gap, political upheaval, and of course, the war in Ukraine and a potential WW3 on the horizon), I'd like to see your take on this topic. Much of what you're saying in this video holds true today, but I think ten fold. Millennials and Gen Z are expected to live in a world that is, for all intents and purposes, not in our favor. Wages have stagnated to the point where the average worker needs to work several jobs to keep a roof over their head. The cost of living far exceeds our income and the very thought of retiring is a far fetched dream for most.

[@damdamfino]

I feel like my small group of millennials (early half of the 90s) were fucked in between times. Too young to get a good education/job in before the economic collapse. Too old to take advantage of the new economy online with influencers, apps, video games, Adsense, etc. We kinda got lost in the world events happening around us during our important years.

[@frenchpilote]

Hi, Tom! Could you share your way (secret?) of gathering and analizing information? What's your approuch to topics, problems and where do you find the sources? I really love your way of getting to core, finding the very point and follow the logic. Thanks for all your cool reviews!

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

Yeh see that Prensky piece is wrong. Older Millennials absolutely did not grow up with digital technology at hand. Not at all. Most of us didn't have the internet at home, many of us didn't even have computers in the UK. In 1996-98 we got the internet at school. Nobody had a mobile phone until maybe 2000/01 and even then it was one of those nokia ones with a green screen (no smart phone or images). It was literally just for communication. So up until about 30, we didn't have smart phones. That's a very long time to exist without being addicted to technology or having the internet with you wherever you go. I would like for the younger ones to not define Millennials. We should be labelled differently.

[@pastorrickymusic]

Interested topic. Thanks for sharing

[@johnthompson7548]

I’m gen x and bought my first house at 39 married at 43

[@Iamjustherek]

Imagine living through a once in a lifetime economic crash (2008) and a once in a lifetime pandemic before even getting to 30 🙃

[@rini6]

I feel like I am a “digital native” despite being an old gen Xer. I don’t know how I lived before smart phones. I constantly refer to it for any issues. It fits my impatient ADD brain. Thanks for this video. I enjoy the brain food. 😃

[@ReplicatorFifth]

ok 3 videos in after the algorithm recommended this channel. time to subscribe :D

[@disappointedidealist1989]

I relate to Kimmy, in that I was raised in Indiana, and oh we deserve every stereotype for that state. That being said, in the United State, I struggled with things I was told by the generation before, being given non-pragmatic advice. "Do what you love and everything will fall into place" which is why I'm a seminary dropout Atheist at this point. I wasted an expensive four year degree based on the idealistic suggestions of adults around me. What bothers me about the Milennial archetype is that we did not develop in a bubble. We expected the ease with which our Gen X and Boomer parents entered the workforce and to have their same purchasing power in a society that serves large, corporate employers instead of the worker or the consumer. I work in IT, I own a house, I'm doing fine now. To me, this feels like luck, especially in a family where our narrative is "your grandpa paid for medical school by working as a migrant harvester in the summers".

[@sakura_mw]

This is a really interesting video - subscribed! 😆

[@DanniBiersack]

As a gen z, discussions about millennials are always interesting to me. I think the typical values surrounding settling down, owning property (in the UK and probably still the US but I'm not american), having kids are still there. One of my friends wants to own her own property, get married, have kids (she's got a baby name list, too), another one of my friends doesnt want kids but he still wants to buy a house and settle down w/ a husband. i myself have no desire for kids or marriage or owning property.

[@mannyespinola]

Well articulated, good show!

[@johnmccreery7550]

Beautiful job. I will share this on Facebook.

[@frankwitte1022]

Love your content ... What strikes me about this video is how the reference point of "the generations before the Millennials" is, in my view, actually not the plural it claims to be. The reference point are the Boomers and their life-strategies. I even see it in the comments here when commenters speak of "Boomers and GenX" only to subsequently highlight 'typically' Boomer realities. Let me just highlight one example, most Millennials see themselves as "the first generation to cope with being only able to achieve lower standards of living than the generations before them", or as the first generation to experience the divergence between wage growth and property-price rises thus leading to an inability to follow Boomer strategies. In reality however this divergence has been occurring since the early 80's, not just since 2008, and GenX is experiencing it as well. GenX and Millennials share the fate that they are currently both effectively working to prop up Boomer pension-funds rather than their own. The main difference between the stereotypical GenX'er and the stereotypical Millennial is in my mind not that their socio-economic and tech-cultural experiences are so wildly different, because they aren't. However it is the choice of the "Boomer reference point" that to a degree separates them, as in GenX that reference point is generally much more likely to have been explicitly rejected. In many ways stereotypical Millennials and stereotypical Boomers have a common aspirational language, whilst stereotypical GenX doesn't share either that language or those aspirations with the two others and ... in X'er fashion ... has also not aspired to replace them with anything similar other than: "Whatever!"

[@tamarwin]

just discovered your channel, really good work! :)

[@matteusoishi6545]

What I dont like is that a lot of otger countries think that their generations are exactly the same as the USA

[@rebekahsquires2073]

Yeah that’s true. Also 80s babies in the United States didn’t grow up in the same atmosphere and culture as the millennial description. I was born in 83 and my sister was born 14 years after me and the difference is major.

[@JamesLewis2]

A minor point is that even now, people older than the Boomers are alive; the current US President is from the predecessor Silent Generation, and the oldest living person is from the predecessor GI Generation (very US-centric term).

[@maleficisdarktraumacore3159]

From the titles that try to be rebellious to a lot of old people who criticize them, it is already part of the millennial problem: they are not unproductive but they waste a lot of time in things that do not represent anything and leave them before the next trending topic or in their case, answer Ok Boomer to everyone. They are the compendium of several generations of the most revolutionary in history and they are dedicated to treating them like idiots and that they are inventing everything anew, they are not arrogant but they respond to arrogance on the same level without the need for it.

[@LeninMcDonalds]

This was really insightful. Could you share done suggested reading in addition to the ones you mentioned. Have a lot of financial woes that I'm trying to frame with the right kind of mindset as a Fresh off the boat immigrant in this crisis.

[@gonzogil123]

So, the idea is one of generalized childhood, and being Reagan-responsible, and all this no? Kinda? That is part of its structuring argumentation. It seems.

[@Absoluteendtertainmentvlog]

A great channel I love your works good contents

[@samanthabailey02]

Great essay

[@javv1193]

It would be interesting if you made a video on gen z since weve also witnessed alot of political turmoil and events throughout our childhood

[@oathboundsecrets]

Please make a video about Gen X because I feel like we are invisible.

[@el6807]

people older than millennials: "It's okay, you don't have to have it all figured out" also people older than millennials: "so why haven't you bought a house, gotten a promotion, married and have kids yet?"

[@wendyleeconnelly2939]

I'm GenX, but I found this pretty relatable. I will have to look into the Unbreakable Kimmie a little more. The idea of being raised in a bunker is also relatable... I wasn't, but due to some circumstances my upbringing was pretty isolated, and I was very aware of a survivalist movement in the 80s due to the Cold War... my family wasn't in that community, though some doomsday cult ideas ran strong so I was very aware of it. Also otherwise just quite isolated.

[@eduardabrandao6665]

amazing video!

[@snowpunk116]

My mom (a boomer) just sent me (a millenial) Simon Sinek's millenial talk. I'm considering responding with a link to this video

[@danjones13]

I like you said the 3 living generations. I guess we are killing off the silent or forgot generation and gen z.

[@paesitopaez4302]

To be fair, Kimmy Schmidt spent 15 YEARS in an underground bunker. Those four years of social media and technology exposure we get to see wouldn't shape her in the same way a whole childhood/young adulthood surrounded by these things would.