Why are Millennials Cringe?

[@ileutur6863]

I hate how millennials are supposedly the generation that's against boomer work ethics, but I see so many of them happily embracing soulless corporate culture. All of my worst coworkers have been "quirky" millennials from middle management and made up jobs like "analyst" and "consultant".

[@redlight3932]

Analist and cuntsoltants

[@normanclatcher]

The new Yuppies are the Millennials in polo shirts.

[@postcollapse1170]

Sponge bob is the millennial mascot. A corporate man through and through. If millennials were your worst coworkers, be glad you didn't get a genX boss in any sort of office enviorment.

[@humansfromearth]

You’re next, and then alpha. It’s a conveyor belt ;)

[@MrKillswitch88]

Those are just the run of the mill sociopaths, psychopaths, and narcs that are the ruin of every generation. "Normal" people don't buy into corporate culture at least not for the long run as such get in the way of having social and family lives never mind cause significant mental health issues. Other outlier groups suffer even more for which going hikikomori shouldn't come as a surprise.

[@wojtek_32]

Millennials saw the death of future, zoomers were born in its corpse. I don't even want to imagine what gen alpha is up to.

[@MemeAnalysis]

Multimillion dollar earnings from Skibidi Toilet in Roblox fan games

[@wojtek_32]

Also the point about a larger, unifying culture reminded me of a picture of Times Square all watching the Seinfeld finale.

[@jeremykoleske7853]

They have to rebuild

[@trateler5709]

We are the maggots and the amoeba that must break it down to nourish the tree.

[@ghoulbuster1]

Gen alpha will grown up in the ashes.

[@GetThePizza]

I think the millennial's refusal to live in reality ties deeply into your video regarding bright colors. "Everything is grey and rotten and hard in real life, in my fantasy world everything is vibrant and extremely expressive and there's always a happy ending at the end!" It's like a reverse plato's cave, you see too much and when you escape the world is lackluster.

[@dually81]

My phone is on grayscale right now due to that video. It really does make a difference muting the colors and relieving yourself of yet another form of modern stimulation.

[@WonderWaffells57]

Reminds me of LinkedIn, the ultimately artificial social media hellscape. It’s the zenith of histrionic, performative, virtueless, corporate hog wash that really embodies the yuppy millennial crowd- of which I guess I am being born in 96. It’s the conglomeration of the corporate workspace and social media. Utter hell.

[@saintdolanchirosius3704]

​@@WonderWaffells57just thinking about "our office 🏢 will make your creativity and innovation, skyrocket 🚀 "

[@TimSlee1]

It's funny because millennials always choose gray/neutral color palettes when they do interior decorating.

[@pathkeepers]

Adulting is so hard

[@MemeAnalysis]

I did a thing, but then I eateds it

[@TheGreenKnight500]

God, I hate the term "adulting" and what it says about the person using it.

[@Issacnewton00]

@@MemeAnalysiswat are eat how

[@yayayayya4731]

​​@@TheGreenKnight500"I'm a big boy,and bigboys know that meaning and purpose isn't part of being a big boy"

[@TheVerinen2]

@@MemeAnalysis But is adultering hard?

[@jessesherer9792]

Mom's gen x, dad's a boomer, grandma is "greatest" generation, sister is millennial/zoomer cusp, and half brother is alpha. Cringe runs in the family.

[@swety2962]

ropemaxx

[@mannyamber4005]

ropemaxx

[@buzhidao5065]

Cringe is eternal

[@simonedeiana2696]

That's literally what a family is bro, people born at different times...

[@ghoulbuster1]

Born in the cringe, molded by it.l

[@kys6557]

I love this guy! He’s simultaneously giving me new insights and confirming my undeveloped insights

[@Sahr-wq5fy]

This

[@CynicalScorpio]

Sometimes he'll be standing in front of a beautiful sunset, other times he'll be next to a Walmart dumpster. You never know with MemeAnalysis!

[@charlesgill1854]

There is beauty and meaning everywhere

[@ojk14325b]

Crazy guy, you just can't take him anywhere!

[@Verek92]

won't see him at an actual job but the walmart reference is classic!

[@stevens1041]

I didn't expect you to talk about Japan and Japanese media. I lived in Tokyo for a while and found it to be the most spiritually draining, and bleak place that I've ever been in. The bright and sunny colors of anime with all their protagonists and all that nonsense was in retrospect a bunch of window-dressing for a hyper competitive society where people hide away not just how they feel, but any feelings at all.

[@williamwestmoreland4069]

Which is what makes it the perfect medium for the current moment, as that spiritually empty ennui progressively spreads everywhere

[@off6848]

In any culture or nation life is where the artisans and trades are. Corporate Japan looks like hell but being a fisherman in Okinawa is probably dope. Tons of history, techniques and ways of keeping ancient tradition alive.

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

@@off6848 This right here. I really need to do more reading. But what I've heard from people who are more educated on Oswald Spengler he talked about civilizations as they were living organisms. And that civilizations have four cycles of life corresponding to the four seasons which would be Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Spring and Summer is where culture ascends and the focal point is on the countryside over the cities. But in Autumn time you start getting this huge shift towards the cities being looked as more important, but than you switch to the countrysides. Winter is where you have the culture being dead, cities are viewed more highly than the countryside, and lots of times Caesars rise up and sometimes carve up empires to try to rebuild the old glory. In a way they do, but while they may have more territory and power the life and vibrancy of the old culture is lacking. Anyways, I don't have a time machine where I could personally witness these effects on old civilizations like Rome, Egypt, etc. But, I totally can see how this is happening here in the West, and also in places such as Japan. Sorry, it's a bit of a novel. But I hope it was informative.

[@off6848]

@@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar yeah Oswald Spangler was based no doubt

[@nullset2]

That's what they want you to do in North America, hide away your feelings and churn.

[@tp4bunghole108]

The thing about constantly referencing other things and a lack of creativity is something that i’ve noticed a lot, and it’s something that i’ve tried to stay away from. I’ve always found it weird that so many people who enjoy being creative are perfectly comfortable with letting others do the ‘heavy lifting’ making the actual new art, whilst they will just stick with fan art and crappy OCs. it’s the same with these endless youtube channels who will make analysis and top 10 videos, giving thanks to someone doing the exact same thing who inspired them, it’s weird how far removed they are from creating something actually personal. I’m still just a teen, so I have a chance to step away from all that and make something a bit more personal.

[@nm-je7sm]

Millennials and gen z are in different places in their lives right now. Gen z are in their teens - mid 20's while millennials are in their late 20's - 40's. Seems plausible to me that millennials are all collectively having their midlife crisis, and now with the advent of the internet this is the first time we get to see something like that play out in real time. Millennials had plenty of protest/counter-culture music when they were teenagers. Post 9/11 00's culture was nothing if not counter culture, when most millennials were in their late 10's/20's. And unsurprisingly, that's exactly where gen z is right now in terms of age demographics. In the 00's and early 10's, millennials thought boomers and gen x were cringe just like gen z thinks millennials are cringe 10 years later. We'll have to wait and see, but for now at least a lot of this just seems cyclical.

[@DuncanL7979]

This is the correct analysis.

[@seraphinpanlion9101]

i (im 20) feel like gen x is still somewhat safe, maybe its just in my social circle but i feel like we all have lots of respect and admiration for our parents, even if they do have their cringe sides and we do not want to become fully like them either. I feel much less close to boomers and millennials

[@TheFumblesOG]

Since when is late 20s-30s the time for a "midlife crisis"? Midlife crisis has always been characterized by the greying 45-50 year old getting an expensive car to make up for his declining social market value. Hence the term "midlife crisis" because, you know, they have reached the middle of their life.

[@DuncanL7979]

@@TheFumblesOG since when do people live to 100? Midlife is long before 50.

[@sammko4534]

​@@TheFumblesOG I'd say mid 20s to 30s is not a mid life crisis, but rather a post-youth or post-adolescent crisis. Where you are still pretty young, but no longer really seen as a kid.

[@luiz_lola]

I am not a millennial, I am gen z. But I remember when the word "Cringe" made it to Brazil around 2020 to 2021, being mostly used by gen z people. In my region of Brazil barely anyone speaks English so they were in contact with the word for the first time and the first impression of millennials was that this was just a word to describe them as being old and corny.

[@VFACodex]

@whocared3337 Br aqui também! :D

[@off6848]

I think it started here in america around 2013-2014 I remember the cringe compilations from 2016 were when everyone started using it so that makes sense only about 4 years behind.

[@viniciusfernandes3462]

​@@VFACodexAgora somos 4 😅

[@alecperdeau650]

I love how you did this entire thing using millennial upspeak.

[@dylangerescapeplan]

Framing the video around Astrology is some good meta-irony

[@drsnk6854]

Last year somebody died at the ski hill I worked for. Not in an accident, but because the man in question was in his 80s and had a heart attack on a run, skiing with the boys. It was an emotional day. But his friends all had teary smiles because they all knew he went out doing what he truly loved. I pray we all find that thing, the thing that we could do all our lives with great joy wishing we'd saved more time for it. Something we could give our lives for, because lemme tell yeah, I'm not so keen on dying of an aneurism while playing Call of Duty

[@TheGreenKnight500]

I'm a millennial with boomer parents. It set me apart from other millennials. A lot of the millennials born to younger parents seemed to be pretty psychopathic.

[@H.J.Fleischmann]

I see we are in the same club.

[@tourist1313]

Yup elder millennial with boomer parents here as well.

[@TheGreenKnight500]

@@H.J.Fleischmann this may be a bit reductionist, but I think the fact that I was only 2 generations removed from the WWII generation was a pretty important factor. I understood how to take things seriously from a young age. My parents had kids somewhat later in life and never got divorced. We were also always late adopters to technology. I didn't have consistent internet access until high school and didn't own a smartphone until after college. I look at millennials with younger parents and they seem so far removed from any actual hardship or sacrifices that they really don't know how to think about anything outside of their own immediate pleasure. Their parents would, upon hearing about their psycho behavior in school, actually encouraged it or say that everyone is lying about how their kid is acting.

[@cyclos12]

Same, I am glad of it, my dad broke the cycle of abuse in his line

[@TheGreenKnight500]

@@cyclos12 I can thank my dad in a similar way. While his father wasn't exactly abusive, he was a bit of an asshole. My father never hit us. He would get angry when we screwed around, but he never struck us. Good on him for that. He taught us when to joke around and when to be serious. Very much whimsymaxxing with discipline.

[@killgriffinnow]

Everyone is cringe. Millennials are cringe. Gen Z is cringe with their “yeeting” and their “poggers”. Gen Alpha is cringe, with their “gyatts” and their “skibidi toilets”. This is why I now spend my time reading texts no more recent than 5 AD. (Frankly, you could make an argument that the “cringe generations” began with the invention of agriculture, but I consider myself a fairly naive, open-minded progressive in this regard).

[@MemeAnalysis]

And yet, My Little Pony

[@killgriffinnow]

@@MemeAnalysis My Little Pony is an exception to the rule. My Little Pony is god.

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

Both very good points lol I know, I know. I have a bojack horseman reference as my pfp. What does that say about me?

[@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish]

@@mr.peanutbutter6969 It says that you have an unhealthy fascination with mental issues, whereas I have a gondola dressed as a Rebel Hoth trooper from Star Wars.

[@Zetact_]

It's kinda interesting how the cringe slang went from "I'm going to talk like I'm ten years old" to "I'm going to talk like I'm five years old" to "I'm going to incoherently babble like a baby."

[@humansfromearth]

Gen-z got their culture from doom-y millennial hipsters. Saw it firsthand, how their niche ideas became your generations’ way of thinking. I don’t think that’s a bad thing either

[@offensivearch]

You don't think it is still niche?

[@humansfromearth]

Not in Gen-z. At this point the ideas culminate into an archetype within the Gen-z demographic, and every generation has their own version of this phenomenon too. We're all just brains at the end of the day lol

[@CynthiaLouis-l9s]

I’ve been following you since 2019 and it’s feeling more and more like church

[@zakadams762]

even as a child I was confused, it cringed me out when kids would repeat media with more fervor that sunday school classes. I remember trying to explain it to my parents and I couldn't understand why people would be so limited in expression

[@KainiaKaria]

Who remembers the tamagotchi. Neon Genesis Evangelion is the story of the millennial.

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

No defining millennial music? What about the "indie rock" aesthetic which marked the return of the self made "rock band" in contrast to the "boy band" of the 90`s? I am thinking of Deathcab for Cutie, Bloc Party, etc... Oh, and what about Emo, Punk´s wimpy and self absorbed little cousin? Also, no one is going to talk about how the millennial fixation with Japan (videogames, anime) morphed into the Gen Z fixation with Korea (K-Pop, skincare, fashion?)

[@WWCC35]

That one was Particularly funny to me. Millennials had a real discernible subculture with emo. As far as I can tell, gen-z has no subculture at all and appears to be the most conformist generation yet, somthing he accussed millenials of being.

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

@@WWCC35 I know and somewhat agree. Not to mention how their sense of fashion is modeled after "early millennial " (90s) motifs. The "parted in the middle hairstyle" (Think of Backstreet Boys) reappeared with Gen Z after it had been displaced by the 00´s " Indie-Emo Side fringe."

[@WWCC35]

@@enzocompanbadillo5365 Exactly. I went back to university to do my PhD a few years ago and thought that I had stepped into 1994. Everyone looked like they were trying to imitate the early 90s.

[@slapstick4976]

@@WWCC35 Genz here and it seems like everything wrong with millenials is worse in genz. Probably worse in Gen alpha despite tiny amount of "millionaire middle schoolers" or whatever he was talking about

[@peachyb.4521]

Omglol lighten up, learn to play guitar, get a party van down by th3 river.

[@Firmus777]

Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with.

[@gmjammin4367]

Millennial comment.

[@reposetion]

Just opened it but my guess would be that they grew up in the early days of the internet where nuance and subtly really wasn’t the norm in terms of humor. Not to mention the generations before them were so humorless that they really weren’t competing with much. They’re also much more infantile due compared to their parents hence “adulting” and all that.

[@jsmarch9022]

fr, I'm elder gen z so I grew up with the millenial internet and I remember how much I hated it. I always opened the comment sections thinking that surely someone else would feel the same way but I was always alone in my hatred for the childish humor and cutesy slang. Honestly tiktok was a breath of fresh air, people are finally waking up to the reality that sometimes criticism is necessary.

[@jackthegrin3000]

As a schizo-xennial marriedpilled doomer with his real name and 15yo selfie pfp boomerstylo, I enjoyed this content.

[@CreeperthanPasta]

It's over....

[@hotgarb5803]

We have the World's top decryptionists working on deciphering whatever the FUCK this comment is trying to say, will update you when they finish.

[@HarambaeXelonmuskfans]

Everyday I grow closer and closer to just wanting to leave all these internet words and meanings behind. I’m so tired of seeing this.

[@slapstick4976]

@@CreeperthanPasta if only you knew how bad things really are

[@evan7391]

@@HarambaeXelonmuskfans same brother.

[@Arceus5555]

I disagree particularly with one point, and that's with the concern that millennials don't have defining "music," where I feel like there are several unique sonic motifs that were born from this generation. You can reject that it's representative of a broader reach than previous generations, but to the internet-using late 00s early 10s millennial, the radio was already practically archaic. Modern music snob culture comes from the millennial who set the forefront for the expectations of broad internet criticism, and even though many of the expectations of that culture have since passed, we can still never seemingly forego these Fantanoisms. I can think of perhaps hundreds of millennial artists and bands who have permanently affected music forever during their debuts in the peak eras of millennial culture. Just off the top of my head: Beach House, MGMT, Mitski, Death Grips, Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Car Seat Headrest, Crystal Castles, Odd Future (specifically for the sake of Tyler the Creator, Frank Ocean, and Earl Sweatshirt), Future (the guy), Lana Del Rey, Mac DeMarco, Danny Brown, Childish Gambino, SOPHIE, Drake, FKA Twigs, The XX, James Blake, Mac Miller, JPEGMAFIA, Daniel Lopatin, Bon Iver, and King Gizzard represent a fraction of the musicians who were millennials and produced music; popular, influential music at that, which we still hear today, for millennials. Of course, I feel you were right on point assessing things like the modern pop culture internet vapidity, as well as the refusal to take on the mantle of rebellion that the grunge era proposed before post-grunge watered it down. Regardless, brilliant vid

[@servidig483]

Gen Z gonna be so cringe to gen Alpha, they're so not chronically in VR

[@Flumpadorus]

As a millennial with working class boomer parents instead of gen x, I don't feel very nostalgic for my childhood or the pieces of media from my childhood. When you have a childhood of struggle and abuse, i neither feel nostalgia for the past nor hope for the future.

[@robinx5851]

Honestly it was so entertaining watching Chris show some more personality in this video, even if some or most of it is meant ironically. I can tell you've had fun recording this one.

[@_dreamscape]

We’re the millennials that are Awake, my friend

[@corruptedmilk2481]

we should be raising kids with Sun Ra not pokemon

[@Dannytheman444]

Sun Ra has a pagan luciferian vibe but I get you

[@corruptedmilk2481]

@@Dannytheman444 Sun Ra is Astroblack!

[@TheTb2364]

Unironically that was my experience. While I wasn't sheltered from digital media, my parents allowed me free computer access very late into my childhood. I legit learned about Egyptian and Greek myths first before playing or watching pokemon.

[@corruptedmilk2481]

@@TheTb2364 that's cool tho' I'm talkin' about the jazzman

[@bone6495]

Could you do a video like this on zoomers? I wonder what the star chart was for like when we were born.

[@offensivearch]

"I wonder what the star chart was for like when we were born." Jesus you gave me cancer.

[@SundreeOFFICIAL]

@@offensivearch why are you here?

[@bone6495]

@@offensivearch Im just curious and you sound like a millennial.

[@seanmatto2258]

I’m pretty sure it’s Sagittarius in Pluto.

[@owenamenta1]

I don't really feel like you are saying anything substantial here about millennials. I also don't see how you see the newest generation as any less culturally bankrupt when they too are more addicted to media than ever before. Even worse the mecda they are addicted too is made often by millennials and or is some form of schizophrenic content on tiktok. I truly don't think they are making anything worth while but that remaims to be seen. I would argue that millennials retreat so much into pokemon etc because no good art is being made that they can stand to consume so they go back to what they once liked. Also the acceleration of capitalism has left many feeling atomized and like they have less time than ever so they retreat to creature comforts like childhood media. I don't doubt that this new generation might do the same once they have a pointless job they must maintain to barely afford their rent. But the media they retreat to? What will. It be, influencers, tiktoks, roblox? Is this better for some reason? Also what middle schoolers are millionaires? And if they are, are they making truly good art, or is it more slop that is easily digestible in short format video?

[@cannibalisticvegan8461]

1. He did point out millennial watched the active disrepare of our modern institutions, many in the face of such fear retreated to a more infantile (cringey) point when things were oke. 2001 sep 11th was what I think truly separates genz and millennial. Those that grew up through 911 lost all faith in institution while those born with no memory only the story of 911 grew up in constant controversy and crisis that was being reported and more frequently talked about. 2. I agree it does remain to be seen, I've seen some very talented artists my age and pretty A-tier photographers going into college and a good number of people joining trades, but we will see. 3. I would make the argument that there is always good and bad art being produced and I would argue that because we have seen our current living generations, Boomers-Z, be peddled so much consumerism it is very easy to fall into the comfortable and safe. And it also depends on what subjectively constitutes as good art. Just for example I think a person like David firth makes good art and somewhat thought provoking, he is I'm fact a millennial which will reinforce your point and I agree, gen z does consume millennial made media, but he is just 1 of several I could think of right now that are both millennial and don't seem to be stuck in that infantile media consumerism. 4. I simply just agree, although I think we're all lacking more than childhood media or that safe feeling again. Growing up we need larger adult communities and some healthy form of interaction away from social media. 5. A good number of us are in college and already out renting, it isn't easy and I won't make the argument gen z is at the same level of struggle as millennial but that is because so many of us recently hit our 20s and were for the most part in college living with our parents or sharing rent with a roommate. Your point still stands since it is too early to tell if gen z will regress into nostalgia comfort or try and mature through life and appreciating what was simply in the past. 6. Hes referring to those silly child stars, they might grow up great or rotten but we see it all the time, it is a matter of personality. Examples would be Leonardo DiCaprio and Macaulay Culkin. Edit. More accurate and gen z examples are like Jojo siwaa and that poor unfortunate girl that I believe was murdered, I forget her name apologies.

[@m00zs23]

I agree. Z commentary on millennials is always pretty hollow. It's kinda interesting seeing how they view millennial culture but they fundamentally misunderstand it. They're worse than the boomers in this regard.

[@m00zs23]

Also, boomers, x, the silents.... Literally all are just as attached to the music, etc, of their youth. I see no evidence that millennials are really any different from them 🤷🏻‍♀️ media culture has been a big part of American nostalgia for generations. Look at the comments on any classic rock, 90s music, etc and you'll see comments from people remembering the old days. It just happens that millennial culture was partially online...

[@-obamium5320]

A lot of millennials Ive met are Adult-Children. Most of them don’t have a personality trait which is why so many do this thing where they have memes that are collages compiling media, stuff like “this so me core” “my childhood” “what my year was like”

[@alvinoallen245]

As a younger millennial i feel Chris in regards to anime but i have my serious reservations. Yuyu Hakusho, Berserk, Gantz, offered me insight as a teenager on how to fight nihilism, find meaning around me, and reassert the values i hold dear. And at the time, that messaging was hard to find and much needed

[@discojoe4865]

Dood cartoons.

[@sorenjunkers3834]

its not that deep he is just criticizing people wo are weebs, so people wo "consoom" anime culture and build their identity around it. if you found meaning in your anime then thats okay but most anime is just a commercial product without any artistic vision like pokemon and so on. and since there is so little good anime compared to film, let alone literature people who have "anime consumption" as a hobby do indulge in bottom of the barrel junk most of the time even if it is just a matter of "nothing good to watch" and it rots their brains away.

[@nikcile4034]

@@sorenjunkers3834 anime unquestionably contrains a shit load of artistic value its just not something you value wich is fine

[@sorenjunkers3834]

@@nikcile4034 what are you talking about? Most of it is mass produced advertisement for some manga or ln

[@hello-rq8kf]

berserk is fucking mid. DOOD GRIMDARK

[@Tehgamerstation]

Remember nine eleven?

[@verygoodfreelancer]

strange to think gen x “punk culture” was something authentic and real, and not something equally as manufactured and artificial as pokémon lol

[@ileutur6863]

Because it was real. You think all those dingy basement clubs were full over nothing? The fakeness came later, with the money hungry record labels looking foe profit

[@ghoulbuster1]

Clueless

[@ltxr9973]

This video isn't half as dumb as its title. The pluto thing being in the preview is what made me watch it anyway, nobody ever thinks of that

[@sub.sa.3058]

That might be why Gen alpha (Millenials kids) might do the opposite thing and go the gigachad route instead. Every child rebels against the older generations, it's always been and it will always be, as long as we're alive

[@AndrewB21]

That's an incredibly modern thing, the rebellion. Prior to the extreme modern era (post-war really), it really wasn't something most children did.

[@offensivearch]

@@AndrewB21 Every single "rebellion" has failed. The context is false so the act is impotent. There was never anything to rebel against.

[@AndrewB21]

@@offensivearch every single rebellion has been subverted, rerouted, and sold back to the generation who is rebelling. The rebellions are real, and are (albeit unknowingly) against the upside-down nature of modernity. With past generations, the system has been able to absorb these by commodifying them and selling them back to the youth, but it's facing the end of that in the next 10 or so years.

[@off6848]

@@AndrewB21 Yes it did lol French Revolution was way more of a turning point than punk its just that it happened later in peoples lives it was adult rebellion and I think thats the key we speed run life too much kids should be kids and rebellion although natural should come by way of sober minded adults who really have a point to make

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

​@@AndrewB21​ Post WW2 society is the US acting like theyre the world police and things are starting to fall apart into multipolarity while cultural rot in the US and it's anglo-sphere/European appendages continue to attophy. The repeated failed "Rebellions" are a symptom of the atrophy or serious societal rot where a lack of cohesion and a decline in identity snowball into chaos. Just my 2 Cents.

[@BRAINROTcomps]

Bro this is just why redditers are cringe

[@lectivalzahard8533]

in contrast gen-z is full of cringe culture, and this video illustrates that perfectly, lots of people are so scared of being cringe, of being really cultured, really based, and most importantly so scared of being a cringy millenial, that they do nothing, or do stuff so sanitized, so vanilla, so boring, so innofensive that is almost tasteless. its good that there is more awareness of a lot of stuff, but i dont really see gen-z as revolutionary, if anything the soft control, of people who could film you on tik-tok at any time or your own self-conciousness of what will happen if you are cringe, makes it so that yes, you are not cringe most of the time, but you also have to be always based, or else....

[@TheVerinen2]

Well, it was the millenials who started to produce tasteless, sanitized (woke) art.

[@maipumood]

​@@TheVerinen2He is not talking about "woke" or "cancelling" culture. He is talking about the fear of being vulnerable that the youths have today. They have to be the coolest people ever or nothing else.

[@maipumood]

I also noticed this. Totally agree. I'd rather be cringe than being in constant fear of being cringe.

[@PureColumbianCocainum1949]

I'm a part of Gen Z and i think tiktok is cringe but i find it funny when millenials use it against us like they didn't sit in their rooms making vine videos lmao.

[@Kaiju_Lord]

Young adults in their 20s and 30s are fucking obnoxious now. They all act like being an adult is the most difficult thing in the world. They use the word "adulting" unironically in-context of them complaining about how horrible it is to be an adult. Life's tough. But being an adult isn't that hard

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Millennials are a unique generation, we experienced both a pre and post internet world, a analog and digital world, optimism And negativity, it’s just a generation that’s experienced two things simultaneously, a lot was expected of us and ultimately we never achieved our potential, hence why we never adapted to failing institutions, the reason why the 90s & 00s are so beloved is because it was the only good decades we got to live in, we peaked then and we simply stayed there

[@TimSlee1]

Boomers had hippies, millennial's have hipsters, two sides of the same coin.

[@gothmaze]

Yes, exactly!

[@seanmatto2258]

Someone gets it.

[@f3chris]

Your latest movies have such great production value, love these backdrops and use of light/space/sound

[@chickendudehtx]

Me and my friends were making fun of this while it was happening, but we were the losers and freaks?! Lifters rise the frick up…

[@normanclatcher]

We All Lift Together

[@nudgeunit]

In the 90's, we kind of implicitly understood that anyone who was 16 or older and still collecting children toys or had a room full of dolls/plushies had something wrong with them.

[@Telia1]

I truly find gen z to be the most lost and cringe, personally i didnt have a phone or the internet until college

[@greensmurf221]

As a millennial - I absolutely dislike most of my peers. Old children.

[@00Boogie]

Remember that Boomer meme about using cursive and manual transmission to take over? There's a lot of smugness on the part of older generations about their neglect of parental duties. If it wasn't taught in school and the young people weren't self taught, they just aren't going to know because their parents wouldn't teach them. I think that plays a role in feeling cheated and the prolonged adolescence. As a generation, millennials are cringe and need to grow up, but were set up to fail.

[@Swell_Vibrations]

Millennials didn’t have Gen X parents tho. Gen X gave birth to zoomers. The oldest gen X are like 56 years old rn and the oldest zoomers are in their mid 20s now. Millennial parents are decidedly boomer.

[@zachaddington5264]

Both my parents are Gen x mom was born in 69 and dad 73

[@emiliacoppola4972]

I disagree with you saying "older generations always thought what they liked as kids sucked", gen x boomers and older people will listen to the same bands and watch the same tv shows for decades. Your grandma probably still likes watching thre same tv shows she did when she was younger My mom for example is 60 and still watches "murder, She wrote" every day, my grandma still watches black and white movies when they're on tv..

[@thatsunfortunate2771]

I love MA but for him to imply millennials don't have our own music is crazy, especially when he's suggesting we somehow failed for not continuing grunge. Like none of our big name artists blew their brains out so we get no credit whatsoever?

[@sendingevac]

Damn I was almost offended by the weeb comment, and then I remembered how anime conventions look like a clown show.

[@RiddledinRizz]

The fonzie 9/11 meme is incredible btw. Also never really thought about "buying" into media and holding onto childish hobbies but it makes a bunch of sense.

[@MinecraftMan902]

speaking poetically is a skill i’ve devoted much time and effort to. it’s good to hear someone else ringing the bells and calling others to the pursuit of a life lived beautifully.

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

I think most millennials were gooning at the end of the century (i.e., millennial fever) only for their utopian vision to collapse by its discontents. The point about weirdos being attracted to the internet is spot on. Most learned Usenet users had already reported an air of “weirdness” among newcomers to the internet.

[@lordplebius483]

The thing about zodiac believers is that you have to believe that if you want to find a room of people who are all essentially the same personality. It won't be the household. It isn't at a convention. It's actually the nursery at a hospital. I just don't buy it. I think we ought look elsewhere.

[@Skeleton_Dork]

I think in terms of musical/art movements the Millennials can be attributed the cringy emo culture. Yeah no wonder they ended up how they did

[@vista435]

MemeAnalysis when these astrological analysis started happening? this was great, spot on really.

[@moderbro5608]

This is only for westerners tho , going to the Middle East is literally like moving to the past. I was born in Iran in 1999 but I have the same upbringing as people in the 1980s Germany (I moved to Germany a couple of years ago and had conversations with older Germans that made me realize this) I’m sure no one my age, born in „the west“ , remembers using floppy discs or Walkman or Atari etc etc as a teenager

[@sneed472]

not actually sure what generation I am. the goalposts always seem to move depending on who is talking about them.

[@connorobrien3576]

Videos like these (and the thoughts filling their comments) are so weird because they’re based in nothing other than conjecture and feelings from an infinitely limited personal experience. They’re never based on any kind of empirical data and make the most wild broad assumptions.

[@broncoxy]

I just wanted to say, I might not always agree with all of your opinions and theories or be able to instantly follow some of your concepts, but I am absolutely sure you'd be a killer companion to talk to on a long hike or at a campfire

[@manoelguidialvares6903]

NGL it's rare for a video to make me feel bad. Great job!

[@ce8539]

All i do is trade, lift and watch anime. Chillen

[@Alexscofi]

This topic has so much potential. I was genuinely interested at first but the nihilistic "anything that people enjoy is bullshit" is so overwhelming that basically any actually point just becomes lost in this guy's whining...

[@lucasmonteremal1996]

he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.

[@schuylerleithulfr788]

A truth, I know. Your name will be remembered forever as a modern day philosopher and voice of reason.

[@Dannytheman444]

Thank you meme analysis. Like five videos on this topic were useless before this

[@hermitcrap7255]

Calling things cringe is cringe

[@aidancore1432]

I'm gen z with gen x parents. I had a very grunge/punk background. I think zoomers with gen x parents are preserving the grunge swag. Zoomers are keeping the hardcore scene alive.

[@MemeAnalysis]

Certainly been my experience, rare fact, I had a punk band.

[@luckyluke5614]

Im not going to ask for songs but at the very least tell me the name

[@jarjarabraham7079]

Certainly wasn't expecting this post+pandemic Hardcore revival, even if the Zoom Zooms found the scene via Tick Tock it's still cool.

[@Weltgeist97]

Reminds me how most of my conversations with millennials revolves around SpongeBob references, or just conversations about tv and nothing else

[@seymourpant]

If it’s a girl making you say the astrology stuff, just dump her

[@MemeAnalysis]

You will never reach God, watch my first video from 2019 and see my astrological tarot, moron

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

Lego Star Wars

[@seymourpant]

@@MemeAnalysis you need philosophy in your life to achieve wisdom and enlightenment, not astrology

[@seymourpant]

@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238 it’s a great game

[@MemeAnalysis]

@@seymourpantyou don’t read either, I do.

[@AgentOnline]

I would love to hear how you reconcile your thoughts about the internet and making a career on KZbin. I agree with nearly all of your assertions in these videos about the insidious and subtle mind warp the internet is laying down on all of us and frankly would like to do something about it. However, any time I think about making any kind of content online to educate, I am immediately hit with a feeling that I am now contributing to the endless pump of noise on here. I think what you and others are doing is really important, but at the same time I know that many people will watch this, agree with your thoughts, and then continue consuming videos endlessly. Chronically online. Forever supporting Google and Zuckerberg by contributing to their platforms. I know this because I have been this way! Sometimes I get to the point where I think it best to leave the internet all together for the most part. I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question but I would appreciate your thoughts as always, as well as anyone else who has considered these ideas. Thank you for all your work good sir.

[@whatsinameme5258]

This is a topic that crosses my mind from time to time. I'm right on the Millennial/Zoomer threshold. I grew up watching Pokemon, but I have no nostalgia for it whatsoever. I have distinct memories of watching it before school, yet I couldn't care less about it. However I do quite enjoy Star Wars, and some even more childish things like Spongebob (seasons 1-3 only of course) so I do wonder if I am any better than the "consoomers" with their shelves full of pop figures. But I think that Star Wars (Pre-Disney) and early Spongebob do have cultural significance beyond mere memberberries. I think the thing that bothers me about the consoomerism of millennials is the complete lack of discrimination in what they consoom. I lost in interest in Star Wars after the Sequel trilogy, but I have friends that still watch EVERY new Star Wars show, and they send me memes because they assume I must watch these shows too, since I love Star Wars. I just can't relate to fan dedication of this kind. Red Letter Media nailed it with the "consoom product, get excited for next product" meme. However, I also find that Red Letter Media are just the other side of the same coin. That Gen X idea of watching things ironically and making fun of them. That gets a bit tiresome as well. The people who love eveything and those that hate everything are both truly cringe. There are artistic works worth upholding as valuable. We should not praise everything, nor snarkily mock everything in existence. Thats my 2 cents.

[@everettlopez9127]

you’re overlooking something significant by dismissing hyperpop. dumbest girl alive and starlight are secret manifestos imo and laura les maybe has farseeing abilities

[@miketacos9034]

Millennials followed the rules: go to college, go into debt, and even in their media, all the references and reboots and fandoms were them staying in the box prepared for them by their elders.

[@jacobjonesofmagna]

No, I didn't mean to click the video, I went to click the channel so I could unsubscribe from these nothing analyses!

[@anthonyioane4438]

All right big boy ooh ties up his shoe laces oooh 😂

[@Alex-dt7jd]

There's something about this early time of a decade that lets out the most creative and cognizant energy flow from all people. I think this Gen Alpha epoch is inspiring unrivalled creativity that comes from uncertainty; an inspiring yet frightful sight to many. Great video as always :)

[@pathkeepers]

Alpha is supposed to be the next great artist generation, according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

[@roboticle117]

Most of these people probably dont have older siblings either, having an older sibling makes such a difference.

[@geminisneverlie]

Appreciate you shedding light on this from an Astro perspective. I have a scorpio moon within a degree of pluto. I feel a big part of my purpose is to hold space to process the pain of letting go of these outdated structures we can no longer rely on, so we can develop the inner strength and wisdom moving forward. It’s a challenge for sure. So many of us are lost. We’re definitely like the middle child that never got enough attention and still tryna find validation pleasing mommy and daddy. We wanna let go but we don’t know who or what to trust so we stay getting treated poorly even tho we should have all the power at this point. A lot of healing needs to be done just learning to trust and form healthy intimate relationships without any pretenses. The fact that Drake and Future (both scorpios btw) are the biggest millennial icons and all they do is promote toxic relationships should be a huge red flag.

[@offensivearch]

I wonder what good has "having a music" has done for any generation. I've stopped listening to music for some time now and my mind is clearer than it has ever been. How many of these rebels (ie Gen X) have followed through on their threats of rebellion? It was nothing more then LARPing, of feeling like you are doing something or going somewhere. Boomers had their summer of love and then became soulless and infantile corpos, playing with their vehicles and boats like a child plays with their toys. Gen X had their thing and ended up right back into the mill. Emotions and feeling good, feels good. At the end of the day, a true rebellion needs boots on the ground (figuratively). It needs clarity, plans, and actions. Not music, not drugs, and not more emotional bullshit. We make fun of people with anime and toys in their room or house, and of course it is a funny look. But, I also see the infantilism of making fun of those people. Such people seem to require someone "beneath them" to mock. Are you really doing any different? Most of what I've seen is people bullshitting themselves. The people who tend to mock and belittle others tend to just be better at bullshitting themselves. Thinking you are doing something because of your "conscious" or "nihilistic" music. At least a weeb has a self-honesty in what he is doing.

[@maipumood]

100% agree. I was really into goth and the alternative scene in the 2010s, now I have a white collar job, but I love it! 😂 Subcultures and music are fun, but it's not really that important. Anyone that believes it doesn't understand how the world works

[@ClubdelaRetencionSeminal]

Interesting but this kind of behaviour doesnt apply for all the world, you see...in third world countries, this kind of cultural embracemente goes very low

[@DEMiURGE455]

The millennials are stuck in the past. Stuck in their childhood nostalgia.

[@junqalope]

The sun is setting. I see what you did there.

[@nathanreimann4187]

It's cringe to believe what the algorithm told you to believe. Nothing is more cringe than this, sorry.

[@nr8813]

As a millennial who was around for rage comics and then the eventual evolution to what memes are now I could flex that but what am I really flexing? That I was an introverted shut in that was chronically online for the majority of my teens and 20's? Wow so cool. I also hate pretty much all popular culture (not to be contrarian, it just seems so childish all the stuff millennials consume) all the capeshit, the funko pops, pokemon, I feel like the majority of my generation didn't grow up. This is why I love this channel, always cool locations for videos, he doesn't do his bedroom up and put those cheap neon lights on the wall and a shelf full of doo dads and pop culture figurines. I don't sense as much animus between Gen Z and Gen Y as there is between Gen Y and boomers, when I was a teenager I worked with a boomer and he would constantly ask "why do they call you guys Gen Y? Because you're always asking why!" Then go on to tell me everything that was wrong with my generation, which was mega cringe.

[@boristsonev1499]

State of reference, as you said, reminds me of the parasitic personality concept. Does not the same happen when instead of taking the responsibility of being an individual, you become a constant reference of pop-culture. Much in the same way one would put on one of the "oomer" personalities.

[@m.shohaty2891]

I feel like millennial cringe is caused by not knowing our roles in society whilst being aware of our lack of knowledge in our roles in society

[@pantsonfire2216]

I knew my generation was trash since I was a child and refused to blindly accept what our corporate overlords had planned for us. Most millennials give up on life since their teenage years which is why they’ll gobble up any sort of garbage given to them. As bad as the state of affairs are some of us are holding out. Gaining knowledge and preserving it for future generations to come. If anything we have to learn to enjoy the cards we dealt and make something beautiful with our lives.

[@insidethefoilbag]

Haha classic video. Yeah those early/mid 2000s internet-isms! "so... this happened", "this! so much this!".. Everything was super ironic.. I felt my soul being sucked out through my anus. In the 90s we just listened to the Smiths and got on with it! Glad some of Gen Z has a clue

[@spiderbat8061]

So this meme analysis video happened. Good video, I soy faced so hard. Its almost like meme analysis has an infinity gauntlet of wisdom. He should open a meme analysiswarts for people to learn his wisdom.

[@intellectualfilms4883]

I love how you say they abandoned it - like it was a conscious thing.

[@MemeAnalysis]

Nearly nothing is done consciously, especially nothing that matters.

[@kapteinkaos6081]

I think that you should talk about the Chud meme, I guess that you don't want to because it's political, which is understandable but it's quite sad given how important the meme has gotten with it's ties to the incel community, imageboards, right wing memes, classical art and philosophers like Nietzesche and Evola. Also it's quite a powerful meme since it was originally created to make fun of a community which ended up adopting it as their symbol instead

[@blake-r7t]

we must keep it away from being spoken of so it’s influence may fester with the masses unnoticed

[@AlexeyShort]

Ahhh. Gen z is always about to shame someone for something despite the fact the world around em built by previous generations. It is time to grown up and stop to talk about cringe and keck

[@hello-rq8kf]

literally the exact same thing could be said about millenials, boomers, etc. you're a midwit

[@ghoulbuster1]

ur cringe

[@LarryXLR]

We're cringe because we're officially in our middle child era. It's like Gen X except we don't make all those cringe OUR GENERATION IDGAF memes.

[@reyson01]

My man's calling clinging on to media of their youth cringe, while letting (dwarf) planets that are 2 billion+ miles away dictate his life. Pluto only got discovered 100 years ago (by astronomists), were all the astrologist predictions before its discovery just wrong then?

[@weirdo911aw]

"We are made of stardust" - Carl Sagan

[@nikcile4034]

well actualy they didnt include it in theyre charts now we do honestly im not too into it myself i just know a bit about if from family

[@MemeAnalysis]

The Heavens hold more than your dull screen. You lack the wit to see it.

[@yungeyez8734]

Insane upload right after I got home from my first ever 6-day workweek in a corporate job amongst 30yo cringey colleagues (I probably articulated less than 1 sentence a day on average).

[@water594]

Na this channel has millennial cringe energy. But I feel like you take that energy and channel it for an interesting purpose.

[@MemeAnalysis]

Memes are bad, yes. Though I’m Z, which is why I can analyze it.

[@samfilmkid]

It's called getting older. Look forward to it.