Why is Gen Z Humor So Weird?

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Couple of small changes since I’ve learned new info since this video was made! (Btw I was born in 2001) Gen Z seems to be somewhat loosely defined as 1996-2010, 1997-2012, or 1997-2015. There may also be an inter generation between millennials and Gen Z The point is, you’re defined by whatever you’re closest to! Also beans is often a euphemism for drugs… apparently! And the “Gen Z born with an iPad” analogy was meant to more to illustrate being born with the modern internet, like having access to Google and KZbin as a young person. Maybe YOU didn’t, I don’t know your life. Anyways, thanks for letting me know, if you were born after 2015, I am mostly positive that you are Gen Alpha!

[@robblequoffle8456]

This is what I say: Baby boomers: 1946-1964 Gen X: 1965-1979 Gen Y/Millennial: 1980-1994 Gen Z: 1995-2009 Gen Alpha: 2010-2024

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

@@robblequoffle8456 gen beta not yet around 2024-? I am a gen z I will wait for kids after marriage.

[@lolguyhandsome4954]

Those 69 likes... Couldn't get my attention away..

[@lolguyhandsome4954]

But seriously, I was born in 1995 !

[@jacobtablet]

Its actually 8

[@wrinkleintime4257]

Being 25 years old and teaching middle school is such a wild ride lol. Their sense of humour both eludes me and makes sense …

[@ismypcworking95]

i hate to break it to you my guy, but you're gen z too

[@ismypcworking95]

@Critique Everything 1996-now is genz my guy, look it up

[@martinledermann1862]

@Critique Everything Let's just agree that he's just borderline ;)

[@farismustafa5389]

@@ismypcworking95 there is gen alpha after 2010

[@DeannaSusanHealy]

why is your profile picture a tardis when your username is wrinkleintime42

[@evergreen4103]

The only thing I think you missed is how memes are often used as sort of massive inside jokes where it only makes sense if you are already aware of the multiple memes contributing to the punchline. Many layers of irony and niche references just compound into more incomprehensible and absurd variations (absurd = funny). I really do think every gen z has experienced a meme that is totally incomprehensible even to their peers but is absolutely hilarious to them and few others living in that specific microculture of the internet.

[@alterrush5930]

in short, you have to have been on reddit for at least a month to get it

[@WW-fn7rt]

@@alterrush5930 No, it's a lot more personable. When you have close friends that share the same wild humor as you. Then the connection means that much more. Coming from someone whose seen both gen z and millennial humor. I enjoy both types of humor, but Gen Z humor does overblow some jokes by bass boosting it. Which I personally find aggravating.

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

@@WW-fn7rt I don't mind the distortion/bass boosting if it's subtle. It's just that annoying, ear-drum shattering nonsense that you were talking about that I can't stand.

[@okthisisepic6273]

spot on

[@ohgon4355]

Is this loss?

[@ghost_trap10]

I’m gen z and i still don’t understand my humor

[@epiphanyjervisbattilega3158]

lol yea, my mom asked me to explain my humor and i was like "the whole thing is that its chaotic, it isn't clever or anything and purposely doesn't make any sense". She didn't get it.

[@13Riflez]

Becuase the when y fje

[@Luxkyang]

Me too 😅

[@13Riflez]

@Ian Salyer a k N

[@mrman8663]

It is what it is

[@davetoms1]

My favorite explanation was that Gen Z are overwhelmed by how absurd everything is. So they simply embrace the absurd. No punchline needed. They create something like a meme to create more absurdity. The existence of their creation is itself the joke. Its existence is funny even if the thing itself is not. And I like that.

[@2DarkHorizon]

When you watch so many funny youtube and tiktok videos it is hard to find things funny anymore. That it comes to the point of being absurd to get an emotional response it is kinda sad. Though this sub-cultural maybe small or big noone has done analysis how many people have such attitudes and consume meme media frequently. I think it is a smaller group than people imagine. I think most people are still struggling with life offline to spend hours watching and consuming such media.

[@sin3358]

I mean, every century has a certain philosophy that dominates within societies, and I've noticed that absurdism, existentialism and nihilism are the dominant ones for gen z. By any means, not all of gen z have the same humour. I come from a conservative country and majority of people here don't speak English so they haven't been raised with the memes and humour I was raised with, do while I embrace absurdity, others here don't and think I'm nuts for doing so. I've also noticed that my sense of humour is a part of my logic. I'm an atheist (and that number is growing a lot within gen z) and I question a lot of things. I don't, however, believe that this humour is that big of a change in everyday life, you only see it on social media. Most of them are made by specific witty people who already are considered to be weirdos and are now embracing that side of themselves without an issue. I've seen some very veryyyy poorly made memes and jokes trying to pretend to be as absurd as possible. Just because we see this type of humour online, it doesn't mean all of us have the balls to use it in everyday life. I've only seen that happen in certain American states. Come visit Europe and any other continent, we're more reserved

[@musicalmischief9135]

In other words, my life is a joke

[@delilahl5934]

MTV did it first when it first started so theres that....I couldnt imagine growing up in an age where nothing a huge population of people do or say is unique or will really make a difference or matter. Millennials saved the world in y2k.fixed the ozone layer.made some of the most modern iconic content.broke all the records.made a new info/tech/industrial boom all while having zero money and never seeing a good economy (owning land credit or being paid a living wage let alone a wage at all)and witnessing more national/worldwide historical events/ wars/pandemics than any generations-let alone multiple generations had ever seen..... millennials....they are a tired bunch of 30 year olds.

[@Mich6961]

So basically reality is stranger than fiction

[@louismakesmusic]

Explaining a joke kills it. This is the exception to the rule.

[@MisterSweetProductions]

I tried to just explain dead jokes for this exact reason haha

[@boo.hates.spiders]

@@MisterSweetProductions Honestly still laughed at a bunch of the bad ones and found it pretty well put together.

[@belosneshkaaaa]

at least he doesn't do it like behind the meme

[@novaeir7602]

Nah, explaining a joke can make it funnier for me, but I'm neurodivergent so maybe that's why idk

[@MisterSweetProductions]

@@novaeir7602 I'm the same way! It helps me appreciate the humor more!

[@Ludvix]

this is something Mark Zuckerberg would watch

[@youngtre1372]

you're going to make me spill my beans all over the place

[@JorgeGastaldi]

He would, if he had Internet.

[@LocalIndianGuy]

Hi Ludvix. Want some cooked beans? They’re fresh (BTW I took them from Young Tre, he’s above me)

[@wolfvoort834]

Quark F*ckerberg

[@cassandraa]

Yes

[@smashyboi6887]

As a Gen Z member myself, I feel that we don’t legitimately think our humor is top notch, if anything it is only for the memes that we enjoy it so much. Other than that, I have no clue whatsoever

[@stereoheart.sachii]

Yes. It doesn't talk about anything of substance either

[@sreejas3503]

Gen z humour is not humour. It's brain cancer.

[@milascave2]

@@sreejas3503 Yea. Kids today wouldn't know funny if it kicked them in the keister. Now, back in my day, we had vaudeville and such. Now THAT was funny!

[@Fatimamirza308]

@@sreejas3503 amogus

[@satirics7701]

@@milascave2 damn, aren't you a bundle of joy

[@pauljohnson3851]

"You say peacock, and no one bats an eye. You say poop cock, and everyone loses their minds." So powerful 😔✊

[@ayanoaman3179]

did you really have to make me spit watermelon on my keyboard

[@griffithwes0074]

@@ayanoaman3179 yes.

[@HypnosisBear]

LMFAO I'm dying of laughter no cap 🤣🤣🤣

[@txni.mp4865]

Wtf.

[@HeckOffCommie]

Not as powerful as “India is leading the pack, no really, us Jews are number two, but number four is Germany, so everybody watch your backs.” 😝

[@muffinlamp]

holy shit, he actually did it. he managed to explain gen z humor

[@0_Jinsei]

to this hour i wonder how are these funny, yet i take a look at one and recognize i'm one of these failures myself

[@TroIIingThemSoftly]

@Nick H You're a year late bruh

[@jwalster9412]

Finally I can make a meme SKONKS!

[@johnathanhodskins5820]

For now

[@FIVExTIGERS]

I thought us millennials were fucked, good to see the human race is actually getting worse, we’re so fucked as a species. 🤣.

[@jirehjirehjirehjireh]

I think the existential dread part is the most important. All news and information online is presented as extremely important, cause it’s all fighting for 10sec of your attention span. When everything “matters” then nothing does. What’s an important factor or worth remembering stops having any differentiation from the rest of the 24/7 info dump. Thus all information just falls into the void of meaninglessness. That’s why both everything and nothing is funny, cause whats humor anymore?

[@jasonblalock4429]

I'm among the oldest Millennials and I totally relate. I've spent my life seeing this becoming a bigger and bigger problem. I find myself just 'shutting down' way too often because of information overload. Everything is presented as OMG MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER GOTTA CLICK GOTTA CARE GOTTA PROTEST GOTTA CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON. I can barely imagine what it would be like to be born into this sheer chaos and be expected to make any sense of it.

[@vincentlaw1415]

so it's basically the end stadium of ramped nihilism, got it. It's so self pitying and kinda pathetic to be honest.

[@rpgcraftsman520]

"When everyone is super, no one will be." - Syndrome, _The Incredibles_ "When everything matters, nothing does." - Jireh, comment section of Mister Sweet's "Why is Gen Z Humor So Weird?" Both of these statements are true and poignant...and honestly, it's starting to scare me how fast we're heading towards those cliffs, among many, many others. Don't ask me how we're going off scores of cliffs at the same time. Shit stopped making sense back around 2017.

[@luketroftgruben788]

It's nihilism. What matters anyway. Cure is to find values that actually matter beyond the scope of what many people think matters. It will be interesting if religion will start to be adopted more to fill in that void young people are feeling now as they start to crave meaning.

[@AnimeRage8]

@@rpgcraftsman520 agreed i graduated then from hs and had a real ambition and now everything is either cringe or ironic, nothing actually feels real. I stuck through my undergraduates but man, I am afraid of the world now and my lifes been exactly the same since 2019 when I finished college 2 yrs.

[@Thirtyfivepercentferal]

"You would breathe out of your nose slightly and that was enough for them"... The most true statement in this video.

[@pathologicaldoubt]

What a depressing existence

[@Atlas-pn6jv]

@@pathologicaldoubt yup. Millennials don't feel like that have much to live for considering they grew up being told they could reach for the stars, only to be shot down by those same people when they tried. Quoth the Boomers: "Quit acting like you're so special." "Then why did you tell me I was special, mom?!" Beans.

[@Thirtyfivepercentferal]

@@pathologicaldoubt lol.

[@mooremusic4394]

@@pathologicaldoubt i don't know, I would enjoy laughing at everything, laughing is fun

[@flutterwind7686]

I think this to still be the case

[@Nelmel2007]

I love how our humor is being researched it’s amazing

[@thevirtunaut1856]

Humor has always been researched. Understanding what makes things funny can be powerful. Sorry, this honestly wasn't meant as an attempt to say Gen Z's don't matter. What I said is just true. haha

[@tommyrobinson9862]

@@thevirtunaut1856 Yeah but they are also quite full of themselves aswell... so yeah

[@Cronofear]

So they can sell you shit in a box by making le funny video.

[@TheGravygun]

Too bad it wasn't funny

[@tiarazhang9580]

the xue hua piao piao joke was so funny for me as someone who was born in china. it was hilarious watching a bunch of white kids in my class yelling butchered Chinese across the oval

[@mrsxber1916]

💀💀

[@ra6153]

It’s the same as about 10 years ago when the Tunak tunak song became a meme, and bunch of white millennials would quote that and much earlier like 15 years ago Punjabi MC songs became a meme too. Same concept but different execution.

[@BarryAllenFlash]

i heard in china that the boys in school make fun of americans, and in our classrooms they would make fun of chinese/japenese

[@BarryAllenFlash]

i didnt even get the extent of your comment until i seen that xue hua piao joke. thats funny ash

[@mothxii5598]

@@BarryAllenFlash Everyone makes fun of americans

[@Cloverien]

Thank you I am 71 years old and I’ve been trying to relate to my grandkids with humor! This has explained so much! Ok Iphone stop typing the message.

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@Ian Salyer Filthy Frank made a video about you 😂

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@Ian Salyer no, people like you is the legendary: "I _WAS BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION_ "

[@loslingos1232]

@Ian Salyer Traitor

[@salleh0648]

​@Ian Salyer Me too

[@Aldi__130]

Oh its realy weird and random grandma/pa

[@mandamn5791]

Future historians getting to Gen Z comedy and b like “How tf was this comedy?”

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

Because of MONKE FLIP OOOOOOOUUUIOOOOOOH O O O HHJ OOOOOOH

[@yellowdude9425]

*starts laughing at a tree*

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

@cowsandcows imagine a monkey falling being considerated an artistic critic to our society, that would be really funny

[@antinatalistrevolutionary8656]

Explaining Gen Z humor is like explaining a Lovecraftian Horror it's unexplainable and indescribable

[@cursedgrogu7538]

Imagine we become so immature, future kids get tired of us and become really mature then when they get old future future kids get so bored they become immature and it goes on like that...

[@lildooma]

Born un 2002; I cracked a laugh so many times watching this. Our humor really does get weird

[@huffepuf3066]

Yeah, lol

[@KeyboardMoment]

I love how the older generations are legitimately researching and deciphering our god forsaken awful humor.

[@awesomeguyness]

Trying to figure out how to market to you.

[@kushclarkkent6669]

@@awesomeguyness Exactly lol

[@manwhoismissingtwotoenails4811]

@@awesomeguyness wAIt dONt sKIP. WhOSe tHE impOSTeR???

[@SheonEver]

We're just trying to figure out what we're seeing on the interwebs. :D

[@commentresurrection1841]

How to market and take advantage and boy is it easy with this generation. You guys will literally buy anything "just because". Thank you for my wealth!

[@Tan12]

So basically, our humor=absurdism+irony+contrarianism+referential humor+an undercurrent of existential dread. Sounds about right for the times.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

The devil manufactures the image of each generation. He fills your childhood with degeneracy and tried to get you to ignore or deny God through your entire journey growing up. He wants you to live YOLO with an evolutionary mindset because it's much easier to control people with fear, and it's much easier to steal their joy when they think they came from a pond of ooze that randomly came into existence millions or billions of years after a random bang lol. He also fills our heads with humanism like "ye shall be as gods" using tech or other means. The docu on Netlix about He-Man and how they marketed him to kids to take away the influence of parents and give kids the power is very revealing. All of media is owned by him and his minions, they put their pyramid symbolism, one eye symbolism, cube symbolism, etc... etc.. ON EVERYTHING. The only people who have eyes to see it and hear it are those who know the Lord Jesus Christ. You are by default, made to knee jerk negatively whenever someone mentions faith or Jesus... you are in effect, the brainwashed, while believing Christians are... this entire economic collapse is to bring about the rise of the beast system. Nobody will buy or sell without his mark and what is happening today, is conditioning you for that. GOOD NEW! Christ died for our sins, we don't have to go down with this ship... and look around people... it's sinking FAST. 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

[@yaronimus1]

Sounds right for humor in other times

[@icouldbeanyone.9345]

You forgot random words.

[@SuchitaBhattacharya]

my humor is a vegetable falling out of a pan...

[@darkenergy7291]

@Tanrahk12 basically :3 The first, third and fourth things in that list (absurdism, contrarianism, referential humor) are byproducts of consuming too much memes I'd say :3 and as a fellow Gen Z person, we both know the last point (existential dread) and the second point (irony) are very much a Gen Z thing as other generations don't really care about the climate, among other things, as they will not live to see all the bad outcomes anyway. Can confirm the dread is real :3

[@manicmath3557]

Meme culture is the weirdest and most fascinating thing to observe.

[@DrMuffin1080]

I’ve been saying to my friend to years Memeology should be a college elective

[@manicmath3557]

@@Juls-Theo haha yessss

[@manicmath3557]

@@DrMuffin1080 prob a subfield of psychology. Lol

[@split_bug6760]

@@DrMuffin1080 Memetics is the study of shared ideas and is where the name came from, don't know any more than that

[@ArtamisBot]

Humans are one of the weirdest and most fascinating things to observe.

[@movement6514]

I love how Gen Z took Morbius and saw it for what it was. I'm seeing a dozen Morbius on Nintendo DS memes, and they all nail the cash grab franchise thingy so well. Give these kids some love, they are much smarter than some of the millenials of my generation at their young age.

[@kolossis8283]

We managed to bomb a multi billion dollar company by using sarcastic memes. And I can't believe either how out of touch in reality these old people in movie industries are

[@angel.985]

So basically... Boomers Humor: man vs man Millenials Humor: man vs himself Gen Z Humor: man vs reality

[@savagetruthercritic8646]

That's pretty astute I think. Gen X humor seems to be man vs appropriate behavior.

[@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85]

@pure kashmiri trust me when I say the millennials and boomers were far worse lol and still are, they didn't even have some human rights in their days. We just have more access to knowledge and of news around the world of what's going on now. So settle down 💀

[@umnothanks9504]

@pure kashmiri are you high or sum- “girls wear crop tops” bro don’t look if it bothers you that much

[@muhammadeisa1459]

@@umnothanks9504 pretty sure he's trying to get a reaction out of you by being a troll. Don't indulge him.

[@anactualfingbottleofranch747]

@pure kashmiri hehe caps lock

[@megamansoupreme7122]

I think the humor broke entirely... I watched this, as a Gen Z, to figure out how the hell our brains work... I still don't entirely get it, but it seems like counterculture, irony, and shock factor are our most potent sources... But why does a 144p rat spinning faster than entirely necessary send me down the stairs tho?

[@varunbendre]

the rat will be off to college next year and that's one of his coping mechanisms

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

Because it's funny

[@Deadstew]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 no its not...

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

@@Deadstew You are not!

[@Deadstew]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 def 9 years old

[@TalesGrimm]

Now that you've explained it, our whole comedic culture is unfunny and we will never laugh again. Thanks.

[@ant.rammstein4346]

Big cat

[@ant.rammstein4346]

Bread

[@ZenCorvus]

That's alright. All of this is some inside garbage and is beyond actual humor. Go use this humor in front of a crowd and silence. As the video says, mental illness is super high with this generation. And to think its the easiest time to live.

[@ant.rammstein4346]

Sus discussion H

[@Kaktanternak]

If it's not funny just laugh because you're ironicly enjoying it. You can always justify your sense of humor to others that way, but most importantly - to yourself!

[@Christina-CA-808]

This has been a valuable lesson for me. I barely understand my younger friends or their ways of humor and this just made so many things make sense to me.... still doesn't make me feel like anything they say is funnier sensical, but def makes the confusion I feel less hazy

[@puppyzpawz]

me and the boys laughing about BLOCK for an hour before suddenly breaking down about how fragile our existence is in this hypothetical situation of me and the boys

[@lunardoesthings]

AyEEeE LmAo hAhA

[@doggerlander]

that comment is a gen z joke in itself

[@mjotaku1856]

That BLOCK made me laugh ngl

[@_b_e_a_n_s_]

it do be like that ;)

[@CringyFandoms]

Hey! That song is the only polish I know

[@sugarcombfilms3467]

Considering Gen Z has been actively bullying a media corporation for making a dog shit movie, but their sense of humor is so skewed that the corporation actually took it as praise and re-released the movie only to bomb again really shows how much humor has changed.

[@politecat4236]

What movie?

[@Noobnormality]

I don't think the movie was "rereleased".

[@politecat4236]

@@Noobnormality WHAT MOVIE???

[@wrugtwuj2]

@@Noobnormality No it wasn't

[@thewiseowl8804]

What movie?

[@nutellaking734]

I have never been so offended by something that is 100% true

[@FirstNameLastName-ig2im]

why would you be offended. your age demographic shouldn't be an identity.

[@nutellaking734]

@@FirstNameLastName-ig2im i was trying to quote the „i have never been offended by something i 100% agree with“ meme - i am not offended, i laughted my ass off watching this😂

[@MisterSweetProductions]

I got the reference, it was funny 👍

[@99Gara99]

We live in an age of explaining joke and then laughing, otherwise we would have noone to laugh with

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

@@FirstNameLastName-ig2im Everything's an identity these days. That's part of the problem of course.

[@cardiabardia439]

10:10 "There's nothing that Gen Z loves more than changing or hating things"😂😂😂😂😂 No truer words!!

[@shadowchasernql]

Except one: F=ma

[@reedcriswell6654]

I am a Boomer father of a Gen-Z son. This didn't make a damn bit of sense to me, but I feel a little better. Thanks.

[@Furiends]

Imagine 100 different cliques at a high school competing for all the same attention Mean Girls style.

[@TravisTLK]

@@Furiends Sounds like absolute hell.

[@michaelpinkerton460]

Bet you don’t even breed rare fish

[@Furiends]

@Skynet I find this to be "boomer" rage. What Gen Z is more than past generations is they're all exposed to the world for ridicule. I was watching porn when I was 11 years old. I'm not Gen Z. It's easy from afar to judge "degeneracy" and now more than ever its easy to do. Need I remind you that Boomers salivated over an underage pop singer all through the 1990s? My opinion is that things have gotten better. It's much harder to pimp sex workers since they can create their own onlyfans. I do think the overall obsession with attention can be poisonous and cause a lot of stress but honestly this is the stupid world Boomers created. We're in late stage capitalism where you must stand out or die.

[@anesu846]

Best of luck to you and your boy

[@nerdiwolverine]

I remember once I was showing my mom gen z memes and she was so confused by every one of them. She searched all over the internet for a meaning behind these memes and I eventually had to tell her that the fact that they made no sense is what made them funny and she wouldn't accept that as an answer for the memes

[@NEKONEKOMAO]

I feel your mom's pain 🤣 Im pretty sure we are in the same boat

[@felixcuddle855]

@@NEKONEKOMAO YOU AGAIN?5

[@陈kopo]

ngl that's me even as someone who is part of gen z

[@ludumelit7051]

@@陈kopo HAHAHAHA that's me as well, I can relate!

[@procrastinathor4594]

And that is exactly why they are legit funny

[@calvingoodall2065]

I think another force causing Gen-Z memes to become incomprehensible is the desire for exclusive humor. If a corporation's media department can figure out your meme, they can run it.

[@rexnemorensis8154]

Yeah exactly, we're all sick of others with an agenda crashing the party. In a world where people are constantly exposed to advertising, we just want to enjoy a private giggle.

[@SpikeyBagel]

yeah, if a corporation touches something, it's like they smoked a cigarette on your couch. it might have only happened once, but the stench is gonna stick around, and you can smell it from a ling ways off

[@furinick]

Nowadays templates are frowned upon by any decent shitposter, i used to frequent r/dankmemes 3 years ago, for a while it was a pretty cool place but after the big chungus and ugandan knuckle thing it was filled with karma whores, kids, people that needed more love feom their parents or worse a combination of all, those people just found any template and started pumping out similar jokes that were in previous places, stuff like fortnite bad and breathtaking. But go to a place like discord and you'll find in smalled channels the ideal meme environment, where the one or two shitposters of the server decide what does and doesn't survive, then those small servers share thus creating a survival pf the fittest type of situation where a united hivemind decide doesn't decide but instead some random dudes that stare at that stuff all day, some even make stuff thenselves and it ends up viral

[@wakkaseta8351]

Ironically, they're so desperate to be special snowflakes their memes end up looking like something a bot or algorithm churned out.

[@paquito-lc2pl]

there are exceptions just like kfc, they figured out not how to use a meme, but how to make shitpost (at least in the Spanish twiter account).

[@fusion325]

BLESS YOU FOR CREDITING THE BACKGROUND MUSIC, you're a life saver

[@cstorey987]

Don’t forget the major cultural shift and craziness we grew up with. I think the reason our humors so out there is because the walls are closing in.

[@weinteruptth.1479]

unfortunately I still dont recycle

[@YourPalKindred]

the walls are closing in and we have nowhere left to go to. we are told to just smile so we laugh at our own agony this is the edgiest i have been since i was 14

[@samw1red805]

Craziness must be watching fall of the towers 9/11 and then maybe climate change plus SoMe. Those before had WW2 and nuclear doom. Should be the happiest generation in the history of mankind, yet is not - baffling, really

[@manbabymonke]

@@samw1red805 we still have nuclear doom, but it’s the premium edition.

[@cstorey987]

@@samw1red805 idk what world you are living on but on Earth I’m a little concerned about china, politics, and having a senile old man as president...

[@ahobimo732]

I always liked rage faces - not necessarily because they were funny, but because they expressed certain, very specific emotions incredibly well.

[@Conbonzx]

and we have mfw. tfw tfwnogf

[@Stryfe52]

Tyfes

[@idcaf]

Which is basically why we have tiktok now... Expressing certain emotions in an exaggerated form.

[@ImTheWarlock64]

@@idcaf what emotion can you express making the same dance that all the other 689 billion of people are doing in tik tok

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Tik tok just made a new video without dance, it is very cool!

[@karliehatcher]

"you would breathe out of your nose slightly and that's enough for them" is a level of humor I wish to achieve in my lifetime

[@hiimdanii]

youre white+ratio+date me?

[@RoronoaEmi]

@@hiimdanii This is the comment I was looking for. I laughed so hard when he said that. 😂

[@AlxndrHQ]

😂

[@obada.]

behold wide Puting walking

[@salt.n.pepper_ketchup.n.mu4638]

Goid job. You have achieved it, so you may now rest in peace.

[@kulvib4601]

Thanks, this video IS gen Z humour. I laughed all the why through it, especially when the video title "beans" came up.

[@Nixlplix]

So logically, whatever generation comes after Z should be normal humor again because that's the only logical direction to go from counter culture.

[@negirno]

I sure hope so.

[@eliteteamkiller319]

I doubt it. The next generation you speak of is being raised by Millennials.

[@silverhost9782]

@@eliteteamkiller319 The future seems bleak then

[@professormancaptain4210]

The next generation will be raised by phones more than we'd even already assume

[@eliteteamkiller319]

@@professormancaptain4210 Or maybe by then we'll move to integrated head gear with augmented reality (like smart glasses).

[@aaargh15]

apparently, it's not obsolete, this video showed up in everyone's recommendations a year after its release, so... good job, this commentary is still actual, and also very informative

[@sirgrotto8714]

How old are you 35 or some or something

[@tanizaki]

@@sirgrotto8714 I’m 45 and it’s spot on. I feel bad for you all and your numb lives.

[@ganibattlebeard]

lol agreed its still accurate

[@Cyba_IT]

Nah, this is old af. Nothing is funny any more

[@ganibattlebeard]

@@Cyba_IT not true, reddit, tiktok, content creation, etc, still very active. Try reflecting on the earlier phases of gen z meme culture like 2015-18, now it is 2019-2021 with the pandemic it is slow but just you wait the meme culture is transforming

[@MagicYoda]

the fact this video only being 2 years old and definitely feels aged already, meme wise, is so funny

[@aquilamflammeus5569]

Most of it is still relevant. At least the motivations behind the changes have remained constant.

[@MagicYoda]

@@aquilamflammeus5569 yeah that's why I said "meme wise" 👍

[@LeafDaGoat]

but there's an entire new era of humor which comes from channels like kraccbacc (spelt that wrong :p) arcade assasin and similar channels, those humor is like way different than the humor mentioned in this video

[@aquilamflammeus5569]

@@LeafDaGoat It's not a new era it's the same absurdity taken to new heights.

[@stilscarlott]

@@LeafDaGoat it's called shitposting if you don't know it already, all those channels take popular reddit memes and post it in an endless cycle on YT. And they've been similar since late 2020

[@Registered_Simp]

Well, two years later and this video is still relevant. You pretty much nailed the framework

[@janesullivan692]

Boomer: I hate my wife Millenials: I hate my life: Zoomers: Beesechurger Edit: gen x humor: I WILL SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER

[@floorbeardthepirate1141]

You killed me with the beeschurgur

[@BrgArt]

@@floorbeardthepirate1141 Same Beesburgir

[@sownheard]

Borgir

[@MrShanester117]

Millennials had that same irreverent sense of humor. It’s really dumb to think that’s a new thing

[@HermanWillems]

Seriously though, As a Millenial. I feel like i almost gave up... but Gen Z? They literally gave up and don't even put up a fight. hahahahaha ha :( ha :(

[@therealaim-9xmissile]

I feel like our humor is a representation of the information overload we experience on nearly a daily basis

[@altobonifacio8936]

I think that too, but also how, because of that, we are always craving for something new no matter how strange it can be, because something that used to be funny 2 weeks ago becomes instantly obsolete. And sum this situation with a generation infested with mental illness and BUWOMNNMNMMMMMMMMMWOWOWNWOWNWOWMWOENWOWNNNNnnnnn

[@ajnode]

As a millenial according to this video, can I just thank you guys for inventing irony? Thank you guys so much. You must be very smart and intelligent to have invented irony.

[@hexkwondo]

I think you explained it perfectly

[@jorgegwydirrangel3377]

@@ajnode Yes I don't know what you all would have done without us, probably still repeatedly saying "I'm broke" a million times until somebody pity laughs

[@casualhavoc]

​@@ajnode You are very welcome. I can only imagine how grateful you must feel, knowing that our Beezechurgers and Deep fried Amogus memes prevented the collapse of human society. We actually developed the intelligence to do this by sticking our heads in the microwave with the same settings that you use to charge your Iphone in there.

[@n3whous3]

I'm 35 and I find gen Z humor overly laughable. It is because I like totally weird and absurd humor, which is actually dating back not just to gen z, but there were already absurd humor stuff back in the ol'days.

[@XXTominhoXX]

chill

[@kellustzall3057]

yeah chill millennial, you don’t have to prove anything. we know your humor is as relatable as green dinosaur.

[@mikeschmidt4800]

That's funny, I'm 36 and I don't have a fucking clue why my son laughs at the shit he does.

[@downwithbureaucracy8175]

KZbin Poops in 2009 were that 👏

[@RatPfink66]

I'm 55 and have always enjoyed irony and surrealism. To the extent Z humor employs these (Meme Man is one example), I can dig it. I might not lol but i find it highly fun.

[@ruthlessasmr6662]

*Damn Doki soundtrack* Did you have to come swinging at us gen z that hard?

[@mdioxd9200]

I'm a Gen Z and even I dont understand why im laughing so much at *E* Edit: wow I didn't expect that comment to blow up LMAO

[@Nekiplex]

‎ *e*

[@jskylar5958]

When *E* be like: 😳😳😳😳😳😂😂😂😂

[@ooogabooogaa]

E

[@geosb05]

Ë

[@Avturbocor]

When the E is sus lol 😳

[@codediporpal]

I'm in my 50s and I've never thought it was weird. Absurdity has always been a core part of humor, and gen z has just taken it to a whole new level.

[@idontwannabeanonymous4725]

@LIBERALS RULE Yeah, agree with all of that dude. What this generation called "culture" is kinda annoying for me, even if I'm part of Gen Z. Except for homophobic things, I think it's better to live as homosexuals these days rather than in the past.

[@deadass849]

@LIBERALS RULE wow you are the worst bait i've ever seen

[@davinleonardkusno4909]

@LIBERALS RULE ok furry boomer

[@bobopa5624]

Agreed. These layered, referential Gen Z jokes obviously make no sense to me in my 30s, but the aggressive absurdity reminds me a lot of my humor as a teen. We would laugh ourselves breathless over anything we thought was "like, sooooo random" and inside jokes were a major social currency. Same energy; we just didn't have memes yet.

[@It_is_Okay_to_be_Sad]

@LIBERALS RULE Eww...

[@toganium4175]

Gen z humor is essentially just being as stupid as possible, so I find it to be very relatable.

[@TheLastMillennials]

Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized.Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff. If you want more facts check my playlists If you want more facts check my playlists on my channel. I have a video on my gen z playlist called Gen Z and why we matter watch that video and get back to me

[@MeelisMatt]

i think people have lost intelligence allot and this is not moment for me to shine and say i'm someone smart - i'm not. i explain what i mean. in 90s when internet wasn't used so much to replace thinking people had to really use their head. nowadays if someone has a quesiton they google it. so essentially if you ask someone something they use less their head but external search engine what may as well give info that is warped and messes with their view on world. i think the overflood of information form commercials and media has changed thinking. so summarise it's like in the matrix agent smith said 1999 world is peak of their civilisation when machines started thinking for humans it's not anymore human civilisation.

[@connect04r86]

@@MeelisMatt Civilization btw bozo

[@mengoinggodsway9024]

@@MeelisMatt Nailed it. People do not critically think anymore, they look to outside sources because they are lazy, or they see them as "authoritative", when anyone can set up something. Pair that with most authoritative media from both sides of any argument being subverted, and few being impartial or fact based, and you have a bunch of young adults, teenagers and children who only believe what they are told by a small group of society. People who do engage in deeper thought either repeat something that would have been considered surface level a few decades ago, or they are shunned because they make people who love meaningless entertainment feel uncomfortable.

[@jimmycon2001]

@@TheLastMillennials What about minecraft?

[@lukescastle]

This hole video is honestly hilarious. A deep dive into the _psychology_ of _our humor._ I love this video and how you really take a subject like this and make it like a medical school essay.

[@Jimmy94411]

Your inability to spell is so Gen Z.

[@saltyowl3229]

The fact that he did the “comically large spoon my friends” at the end as like a joke intentionally trying to be as out of touch sounding as possible by misusing a joke that is has already been popular twice was funny in its own right. But adding in the sense of intimacy with “my friends” and the sheer randomness of considering the phrase without the context of the meme was enough to legitimately make me laugh. Like “haha” out loud type laugh. I hate that it managed that

[@thiggs9652]

What

[@brofst]

@@thiggs9652 spoon funny

[@tomislavhoman4338]

Is it funny or not?

[@Flop_Studios]

@@tomislavhoman4338 yes!

[@KaraokeDeepCuts]

I love when things manage to make me laugh

[@darkscienceyt]

Thank you for explaining this. The inability the comprehend gen Z humor has been taxing

[@MisterSweetProductions]

I’m happy to help!

[@marialindell9874]

199L

[@TheDuncskunk]

Name checks out.

[@madmix64]

I don’t understand it ether but I laugh, perhaps that’s why it’s funny

[@floorbeardthepirate1141]

We don't even comprehend it, we just laugh...

[@jallet7629]

I knew my humor was bad, but when i audibely laughed at a black screen with the word "beans" on it I just gave up

[@AdnanAmir69]

U just saying "beans" makes me laugh 😂

[@ieatelders7692]

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[@CocoForBird]

I laughed at your comment

[@zchaosemperor81]

B E A N BOTTOM TEXT

[@zoeken5086]

NO CAUSE SO DID I. I DIDN'T EXPECT IT AT ALL

[@yofwill]

As for somebody who is born in 1993, I thank you for this video. I no longer have headaches when I hear those ghastly/mean spirited memes. I am more accepting of them, yet teach those that are willing to listen, that there are limits/lines that should not be crossed.

[@CaptainLog]

In short, young people have always enjoyed existential absurdity.

[@iCraft54Games]

Well said 👏👁

[@thoticcusprime9309]

Not really

[@Itiswhatitisitiswhatitiswhatit]

Pretty much, but now that you've said it it's completely irrelevant and no longer funny

[@bemnet329]

no

[@zladut]

Well yes but actually no. I think that's true to an extent, but gen Z is the first generation to have had access to the internet to such a degree at such a young age, so while millenials like myself probably did make a lot of absurdist humor (I still do, but that's beside the point), the internet has amplified that many times over for Gen Z (and arguably younger millenials).

[@itscriispy]

the thing is most of us don't like our own sense of humor, but still laugh at a waffle falling over with the sound of a reverbed fart anyway

[@xoriven]

just reading this made me chuckle, cuz i imagined it in my head

[@notblake8617]

it pains me that i am aware of the exact video you are referencing

[@kokonutmilkshake703]

This hit a little too close to home

[@juliusdepravedprince7104]

I think it's less most of us don't like it but that we're encouraged to not like it by people who don't understand it, which makes us hate our own humor even if there isn't anything actually wrong with it

[@mihakabercic4457]

just you bro

[@RedNucleus42]

Im an elder millenial, so a decent amount of gen z humor makes me feel old and cranky, but the depression memes are where we bond I think “I see you.”

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Yeyeyeye that’s where millennials and Gen z vibe the most I think

[@dude9318]

Thats sad actually .But some Gen z stuff are funny .I mean im 18 and i dont find al those random stuff funny well not always

[@DracoTheBlack]

As the first and second generation to be worse off than their parents we get to enjoy the downhill ride together.

[@leexyz6398]

i scraped into being a millennial right in 1982. i cant stand these little shits. I remember dial up! I had to use the library to research essays!

[@MisterSweetProductions]

@@leexyz6398 Lib… library? Ehh???

[@jacquelyndaniel7135]

I’m gen z, this explains our humor so well, I didn’t think it was possible to explain our humor lol but you did it perfectly 👏🏻

[@beans6232]

I died when there was just a black screen with “beans” on it 💀

[@mel.inaaaa]

SAME LMAOAOSSJ

[@mogeko123yf]

Same

[@nawfalzaki668]

"Me and the boys at 3 AM looking for *BEANS* "

[@darkmomokocore3919]

ben

[@justseffstuff3308]

yo same wtf the internet has genuinely broken me

[@thomasparker5393]

I think there's also an obsession with strong stimuli (loud screams, deep fried, colorful memes and audio, extreme facial expressions, extreme language, non-sensical jokes) because Gen Z have been hooked on the dopamine farm of the internet so only the most extreme content garners a reaction, but we're also aware of how stupid this is and the irony of the situation just makes it funnier.

[@sin3358]

Tbh... I think that highly depends on where ur from. Being loud and obnoxious like that is really bothersome in my country. I absolutely embrace the gen z humour, it has shaped my life to a drastic point and it'll always stay within my heart, and I have to agree with your point of view regarding the dopamine intake, but this type of humour is only funny because it's within our heads, and social medias are anonymous and you can pretend to be anything you want in there, so whatever you post can be pretty fake. When I meet people irl who behave the way you say, I am extremely annoyed. I absolutely find it nuts to have the audacity to be noisy in public and make others uncomfortable. I am the wittiest and weirdest person in my family and everyone I meet says I'm bloody unique and different, but in public I try my best to not make others feel annoyed by my presence since it's not my right to do that. I've noticed in some American states that these types of behaviors are normal, especially what I've seen and heard happens in New York, but where I live, if you try any of that stuff, you're a rude twat who needs to discipline themselves

[@ieatelders7692]

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[@celestialextraterrestrial305]

I absolutely agree! I’m 24 but I grew up in a millennial culture.

[@maomaomaimaimao]

You guys actually do research on gen z humour?

[@jibarabicha4853]

Late 80’s millennial here raising a young Gen Z and your description is spot on with what my kid finds hysterical… a lot of it is cooky and manic to be honest. Make it make sense !!

[@guillaumesauter]

As a gen Z, I am ashamed at the fact that I laughed at every single example shown used to illustrate our nonsensical humor, as well as cringed at the missusage of said humor in the outro. You, sir, clearly knew what you were doing and know your shit. Good job.

[@icouldbeanyone.9345]

You don't know of the Dokter.

[@droptherapy2085]

@@israelosilva I can't tell if this is obvious bait or you're just a sad human being

[@adamstephenson9011]

Geriatric millennial here, still laughed

[@Forcoy]

Why are you ashamed?

[@guillaumesauter]

@@Forcoy My entire humour has essentially been broken down as something absolutely nonsensical, where the presenter didn't laugh once. It made me feel a bit dumb, hence the feeling "shame". This feeling, however, isn't a bad feeling. I used the term "ashamed" the same way that you would say that you want to kill yourself for looking for your phone by using your phone's flashlight, or by saying orgasm instead of organism

[@huntercool2232]

If they think our humor is weird, just til they find out about Gen Alpha’s definition of humor. *S K I B I D I T O I L E T*

[@cheeseboyt8672]

Nah, ours is still weirder. They are literally just kids, that’s why they find it funny. We have zero excuse to like our comedy, but we do. Also, stop bullying a generation literally full of 5 year olds.

[@weirdcontentthisom1242]

tbh i kinda feel bad for this guy because he puts so much effort in his vids and only a couple thousand people watch. I think he deserves more

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Most of my other ones get about 100 views so this is actually nuts!

[@cartoondragon8946]

Yes

[@captininsanoo00]

Lets help this man find the beans

[@dvdpro3726]

well this comment aged like milk

[@AIC_onyt]

@@MisterSweetProductions B E A N S

[@florianpierredumont4775]

French journalist Bruno Patino wrote that < We came from a society where kids were raised by their parents, to a society where they are raised by their peers > . Because of being lost with all that new tech, and because of our society changing very fast in less than 40 years, parents have less and less things and knowledge to pass to their children, and the children learn by themselves or thanks to their friends, so the transmission is lost, and every generation, starting with the Millenials, became more and more different from the last, creating a gap larger than previous times.

[@boojackhorseman]

i think they try to dunno how all these modern time wasters make us any different... imo lots of millenials struggle to like anything bc of insecurities

[@sin3358]

Yep yep. Many parents are so out of touch with their children's lives rn that it's pretty sad. It's impossible to connect as a family with this whole generation gap. The worst part is that everything changes so rapidly during these years that there's no way in hell our parents would manage to catch up

[@rgonzalo511]

@Rachel Voss Nope. As a millenial who started to come of age in the early 2010's. I can tell you 2010 and 2020 might as well be two diffrent planets. The entire culture of the internet is vastly diffrent.

[@biomechanikaxx4722]

That's why the society's fastest deterioration in history started with gen Z.

[@tally9542]

In a lot of cases, parents are now learning from their kids. We've had to teach ourselves what being an adult means.

[@MiotaLee]

If you only caught the tail end of the "E" meme, it might seem like utter nonsense... an it is.. but it's the build-up of the ridiculousness that made it funny. It's like only seeing the final drawing on gartic phone and not getting why the ones that created it are coughing up their lunges laughing.

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Oh no, believe me, I was well involved in the E meme! I was around also when the B emoji was thrown into words randomly haha (also gartic phone is unbelievably fun)

[@zera2314]

I mean, yes, and this is exactly why Gen Z humour is poorly delivered. It's buried in layers of irony, nuance, inside humour, and has a tough time translating or becoming relatable outside the generational vacuum it resides in due to the internet being far too vast for its own good now. The only Gen Z'ers keeping up with every single meme now besides the ones that become hyper-popular are the ones with their eyes and fingers glued to devices for more than 8 hours a day, hence why some later-Millenials are still able to keep up with Gen Z's memes if they spend all day gaming / surfing the web, etc.

[@Rainbow.Quartz]

Long story short Its supposed to be stupid, its funny because its completely random

[@Rainbow.Quartz]

@@zera2314 also the fact I miss when memes made sense- like the last meme that was genuinely funny was like big Chungus or shit like that

[@cralo2569]

no i hated the E meme it felt forced, unlike amongus and big chungus

[@lunarplexus4442]

I've seen the rise of "ironic humor" through the years and hadn't thought about the rejection aspect. Baring your thoughts makes you vulnerable to criticism, something that doesn't happen when you only pretend to like something, or say you like something because it's awful. With internet access becoming ubiquitous, you have a potential critic hiding everywhere. It doesn't help that many don't know or care how hurtful they can be (or even go out of their way to be as hurtful as possible). Which means that ironic humor acts as a way of defending yourself from possible attacks from anyone.

[@neverclosetoperfect]

I feel like its important to mention that a lot of Gen Z humor also relies on niche relatability. Because of our ability to connect with everyone, we can find groups of people online with similar niche interests and interact with them the way prior generations couldn't. Because of that you can add multiple layers of humor to something and nobody else aside from you and this group of people scattered around the world would get why it's funny. Like inside jokes.

[@captainavery2091]

Precisely, the vast amount of subreddits and discord servers that specialize in very specific interests or topics has only sped up the process you just described. Millions of inside joke memes floating around the internet which makes Zoomer humor even that much harder to decode by people not born in the generation.

[@johnlocke8642]

@@kenshinhimura9387 He never said Gen Z was the first, obv the internet existed before Zoomers, But the internet was not the force it is now until the mid to late 2000s when it truly began infecting daily life on a completely absurd level. To compare the two is asinine.

[@Rastor0]

Yeah, the defining difference is that for Millenials there was internet sure, but not social media apps until they were out of their teen years, or it was early social media that wasn't constantly present in your pocket like today. For Zoomers they have been connected to the internet and in social apps since even their early formative years, they never knew a time without it.

[@johnlocke8642]

@@Rastor0 spot on

[@streamylc]

Lol you guys are gonna have mid life crises in your 30s to the degrees of which society has never before seen.... just sayin If this video is correct on numerous points, odds are you guys are gonna eat eachother alive.... it'll make hostility on twitter (currently) look like a kindergarten fight. Batten down the hatches, lol.

[@ceo_europeanshow]

i love how there is an actual guide for this, i mean even gen Z could be sometimes confused themselves, especially when they've missed out or didnt catch up

[@MisterSweetProductions]

As a gen zer, I mostly made this video to send to older folks who have a hard time understanding me lol

[@DeMiTriDreams]

I grew up thinking I was a millennial. But I was born in 95 so I guess I count as gen z even though I understand millineal humor better

[@yomanxy]

@@DeMiTriDreams It is moreso which group you are more similar to, as opposed to your exact age, that determines generation

[@MagnateXL]

@@DeMiTriDreams being raised during that time can make u a millenial depending the conditions you lived in, there is a common gap around your age

[@mad_duelist]

It’s mostly because of how fast the memes go by now. You might miss one meme that could stem off into many others so you would have no context as to the origin as it is buried in many, many layers. (From my experience)

[@toonman361]

I'm a 61 yer old teacher of 16-18 year olds. What I find so intriguing is the speed of which some things such as a video game (like Fortnight or Among Us) is outrageously popular one year but barely mentioned the next. I really never know what to expect.

[@shansingh4675]

Because of the unending stream and ease of finding content, the moment something begins to get stale and enter the mainstream, something new and exciting is found. It is becoming very difficult to share common experiences with others as there are so many things to spend your time on; therefore, when something captures the attention of everyone, it can only unify so many different people with different interests before they retreat back to their niche. But the important thing to note is people don't stop engaging in what is now stale, among us still has many active players, fortnite is bigger than ever, but the moment something loses its "wow" factor it becomes accepted as part of the norm and it no longer makes sense to use it as a part of a cultural subversion or rebellion. The whole point is that you never know what to expect because the moment something becomes formulaic or predictable there is no point further developing the humor, and the next trend is already out there for you to find.

[@MagnateXL]

well, those trends were driven, offline tv brought among us to everyone, squeezed during 3 months and there was nothing left, thats how games works, fall guys lasted like 2 weeks and died

[@anitabraykeer777]

Trends expire much more rapidly with the younger generations as explained in the video because of oversaturation. Imagine hearing a song you love once or twice on the radio, if it ever comes on again you'd still love hearing it because you've only heard it a few times. Now for Gen Z imagine hearing that same song hundreds if not thousands of times but remixed, warped, mentioned on media outlets, danced to by news hosts, referenced on Facebook by older generations all in the span of a few weeks. Now very few care for that song anymore because they've been suffocated by it so quickly. With the older generations trends would last longer because while it was still somewhat saturated to a degree because of television and radio you could still get away from it by turning those things off which meant everything had a longer shelf life. The younger generations are online everyday for multiple hours getting almost constant exposure to these trends, no wonder everything has a much shorter lifespan.

[@thefrostbite]

I'm 37 and I feel the same way, David

[@daviddamico8291]

@@shansingh4675 Thanks. I saw this coming as movies took over reading. Shared books are way less common these days.

[@minecraft-shower425]

I am extremely impressed with the amount of ifunny references, or at least watermarks

[@siryak]

I started laughing hysterically at Hagrid in the water. Maybe Gen Z humor is broken.

[@lets_see_777]

people: one humor please genz: *screeching* humor broke people: aight under the table, have an ice day genz: *eats ice under the table menacingly*

[@F4ulpilz]

I'd love to like your comment but you got 69 likes and we're not supposed to do that

[@nativenewyorker3144]

@@lets_see_777 🧍🏾‍♀️I really hope wasn’t aiming for a joke

[@lets_see_777]

@@nativenewyorker3144 i was aiming for absurdity of it all

[@LazyNVersions]

It is broken

[@autumnishhhhh]

the key to all Gen z humor is self awareness. you just can't say anything SERIOUSLY for it to be funny. there has to be a major sense of self awareness that the person making the joke is in on it

[@furinick]

I think there's more than just self awareness, a lot of millenial memes are about self awareness, but lack something when compared to zoomer humour My theory is that it must be a bit abstract, but make just enough sense for it to be relatable, for example in the beans one, everyone has gone to have a snack at a weird late time of the night, so including friends in this very weird adventure where you already feel like some hungry demon is rather unexpected, the image reinforces the feeling of that odd 2 am feeling of you and the world being off-putting

[@randompotato26]

@@furinick I think i like your explanation of the beans at 2 am meme then the original video. Though I find it more relatable in the sense where weird shit starts happening at 2am with the boys, and if its beans its beans.

[@HeavyMetal-jy4vj]

@@furinick Yeah people say Gen Z humor is unrelatable but its almost always relatable actually, its just putting a relatable thing into an absurd concept which puts your mind into a unexpected situation like being a demon or something, oh but you now relate to this demon and oh laugh I must be a night demon looking for beans. Its actually never 100% random but you need to think about it or study into it sometimes if you are older person not on the internet 24/7.

[@NoName-md6fd]

Okay so let me get this straight : From a Millenial point of view, Gen Z humor is exactly what was on Newgrounds 20 years ago, except it's on a 15 second format and everybody can be a content creator. As a result, every culture and sub culture gets crammed into the mix. Since the images and videos are released at an increasingly high speed, Gen Z managed to disturb the space time continuum of a thousand years of humor evolution into about 2 days and that's why nobody understands it. Also my spoon is too big.

[@Perririri]

If you add the milk before the cereal, its size is actually right!

[@LatteLazarus]

@@Perririri yes

[@Miners666]

I am a banana.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I didn't need that "From a Millenial point of view,..." part, I was well aware. The simple answer is the world normalizing horror now, its seen everyday, the other reason is the internet has already shared every idea of almost most topics. Each has a bar line such as car designs are at 62% Background sceneries are around 40% as in into the trillions with 60 percent more past trillions to go Humour jokes have hit a impossible 87% almost made every job available to be heard...at least the bad ones more so than good, most have multiversed off of the same joke translated 600,000 times across multiple regions. Every concept is being copied as we speak or has already been had, most influencers are outcast children who were once the unpopular group, and media is received by individuals both insane and smart...who are so manipulated they talk confidently and harass others who don't agree to their insane ideologies.

[@bhoxified8932]

Great comment

[@demonikidoff4613]

I am a genZ guy and all you said in this video is totally true and totally concerns me as a member of this generation

[@TheMasterFro]

I think JrEg's explanation of "meta-irony" makes sense when trying to conceptualize GenZ humor. Previous generations used irony to deliver a message with actual meaning through contrast which creates the humor. GenZ on the other hand uses irony to simply state that something exists. There is no message or greater meaning, the joke is the ambiguity and the meaninglessness of it all. It's unclear whether or not the creator of a meme is being literal in what they say and so we take nothing at face value and just laugh at the absurdity.

[@sirsillybilly]

This isn’t new humour. It was popularised by Monty Python. Called ‘Absurdist’. Monty Python had a body of work that was popular yet it seems that popularism isn’t the goal which means there isn’t anything to celebrate. Truly Absurd. A culture that produces nothing yet celebrates its nihilism. Pathos exonerated not unseen in the end days of Rome suckled by too much wealth and hedonism

[@henatatorplays]

@@sirsillybilly i think that it's distinct from the absurdist style of humor in that the messaging is so muddled. In monty python, the joke is that there's ultimately no point. With a lot of gen z humor, there is something being explicitly stated, but you can't tell beneath the ironic layers whether or not the meme believes itself

[@Ven-zg3fj]

the fact that Jreg has unironcally become the go-to explanation for gen z humor is comedy in itself to me

[@randompotato26]

@@Ven-zg3fj literally this lmao :crying_emoji:

[@jasonports8517]

Yes, Rome fell because of meta-irony.

[@cara-seyun]

If I had a nickel for every time a video about Gen Z mentioning heightened depression rates, I’d be able to pay off the national debt

[@ieatelders7692]

sample text

[@TallSexyHumble]

@Ross With No Sauce ASKED?

[@marvinstorm9153]

It's boring. Yeah

[@Pizzafan622]

@@ieatelders7692 how do i type

[@bqube8901]

@@Pizzafan622awawa and da badabada and there u go

[@sforsheriff]

Everyone is frightened of GenZ humor, I’m more frightened as to how this man found and compiled this all this data to make absolute perfect sense, with talent like this, man could just find the meaning to life for us all.

[@tsurugi5]

who would be frigtened of genz? just a bunch of insecure, terminally online, fatherless teens swathing themselves in ten layers of irony before splitting their manhoods and joining the 52% LOL

[@QuinnyOnMain]

clearly you don't onw an air fryer

[@thefrostbite]

It's really not that deep

[@jb8408]

Frightened of GenZ humor? No, it’s just sad watching these young people who are perpetually lost, anxious, and hysterical try to enjoy humor.

[@nata5212]

@@jb8408 “try” I mean, as far as I can tell I’ve been enjoying it, friend. While I’m sad that others cannot enjoy it such that I do, that does not make my enjoyment any lesser than theirs.

[@Swcher]

Gen Z humor is random because we are all in so much of a insane but somehow "stable" mindset that something unexpected causes our brains to try to cope with stress even when there isn't any by laughing as laughing is a way some people naturally cope with grief.

[@ciclon5682]

we have a "stable insanity" because we just expect the world to be weird from the get go due to our exposure to the internet. millenials had issues with this due to being born during the internet,s growth. Now cursed 4chan shit its "i guess thats how people are"

[@trisenator]

@@ciclon5682 mmmm nah

[@jude4400]

i think it has to do with how we were all brought up, and a lot with social media. a lot of us had social media from a young age so we all developed a similar sense of humor. some of us grew up with hurricane katrina, and wildfires, covid(duh), and other stuff, but it was comforting to know that other kids went through it too and it was comforting enough that it was something we could relate to and joke about

[@vwomp]

@@jude4400 more like *hurricane t o r t i l l a*

[@lonttugamer2939]

The beauty of a modern mind. The ability to accept even the most obscure, stupid, insane shit and still be seamingly normal people from the outside, all while laughing to shit like BEANS.

[@ZRob23523]

As a member of gen Z, I can say that this video is still relevant. Just lost my shit to a lego civil war video with the nfl theme played over it.

[@jimbo1297]

Link?

[@catto3504]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5-mYnWalMihea8 Found this a weeks ago and lost my shit as well, a classic

[@admrotob]

Indeed that video is amazing.

[@AJX-2]

This is why we stand

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

@@catto3504 It's.....cute. Kinda' funny. More ironic than anything.

[@zackzallie8735]

If Joker uses Gen Z humor in his diary, he would be a successful comedian.

[@kennethguthrie7196]

Doubtable.

[@hamster5390]

just stands on stage and says bababoey for 15 minutes

[@mrmenko]

It would look more like a ploy directed by suits to make Joker "more relatable to the kids"

[@punkisinthedetails1470]

Is that not which his name implies

[@jojojo9240]

No one's laughing now!

[@4chinny]

I was a teenager in the 90s and this video could have been describing our humor then (minus the internet and speedy propagation). I don't think youth humor is changing so much, it's the tools for sharing that affect its evolution.

[@winterine4827]

10:28 as we can see, King Bach has presented a rather large spoon to his friend. The humor in this video stems from the fact that King Bach would like to eat ice cream but his friend retorts at him, saying he can only have a spoon full, nothing more. Bach then suddenly changes his expression and body language and reveals that he is indeed in possession of a spoon. And not just any spoon, it is a massive stainless steel spoon. This is funny because you would never expect someone to just be casually in possession of a massive spoon to eat ice cream with. It is completely unorthodox and uncalled for. This is why the video is so humorous and was put on the 2012 Epic Vine compilation playlist on KZbin.

[@panitaeo]

His spoon is too big.

[@PenclMusc]

One simple reason *b e e g s p u n*

[@brickdup0073]

That came out in '12 fuck im old

[@jasonblalock4429]

@@panitaeo I am a banana.

[@turnerd20]

anybody else read that in text to speech voice?

[@calasunilyarun7906]

So gen Z essentially are non conformists conforming to non conformity. That hasn't been done before. That was a good synopsis, well done and bravo.

[@jeb419]

I'd say they're conformists attempting to avoid the inevitable conformity and monotony of their existence.

[@oimate6357]

@@jeb419 man I just wanna be happy I don’t even know what conforming is

[@lua6586]

i literally can't relate to anything in this video. none of my friends would be able to either. weird generalizations

[@ooSLEEPWALKERoo]

pretty much every young generation always has been conforming to non conformity

[@spankyspork5808]

​@@lua6586 The same thing happened to millennials, we were generalized to be rich and spoiled when we barely have any money and grew up during a recession and the most expensive and longest war in history

[@MrFancyGamer]

the having access to unprecedented amounts of information causing existential dread is extremely accurate, all those science videos got me so anxious it’s worrisome

[@thecarrot1409]

As they want you to . Science leaves out an important factor which is that God created the universe and the earth and everything inbetween , He started the Big Bang , nothing exploded creating intricate dna which formed humans by itself from nothing ? God created this and he sent his son Jesus Christ to reveal this to us . Look into it , the devil walks around seeking whom he may devour .

[@tachobrenner]

@@thecarrot1409 Knowledge is a little scary sometimes, but it's not that bad. "They" don't really want to scare people, they just want to inform them about stuff. Often there's something relevant to it.

[@Rinoalessa]

@@thecarrot1409 out

[@Rinoalessa]

It's scary at the at the first time, like fighting a final boss in a game, but you will get used to it. After some time you even get really good at it if you dare. You will manage life even better, because you know the truth of how things actually work and are not scared of it.

[@luigirinaldi87]

@@thecarrot1409 bruh

[@Synergy0_0]

years later, and this is the most accurate guide I've seen to date, well done.

[@mynamefrank6567]

gen Z humor is like covid, widely spread and constantly evolving

[@pointless.videos1]

sadly there's no cure for our humor

[@uberubermensch]

And stupid to catch it.

[@pointless.videos1]

@Basedkov same

[@johnwrath3612]

And exceptionally lethal because legions of idiots keep spreading it

[@hewster9874]

Vaccinated people spread it..read about: same viral charge!

[@kirkgraham9968]

This video analyzed and researched modern humor to the point that it was educational and simultaneously meta to the point of becoming absolutely hysterical

[@ArtamisBot]

Yeah... I think that's what's so great about it...

[@user-wj9si6wu8n]

I swear I died

[@ratty5]

Meta. Need to go look that up again. Away to the urban dictionary ✨✨✨🤾‍♀️

[@JarrenHunt]

Yup. That’s the idea. CHIEF. Neil Breen is a hell of an inclusion here though. We all understand why that’s funny.

[@matthewkilner]

Deep. Is it funny to say that things are deep again yet?

[@RubbelisPro]

I don't think people realize how far gen z has transcended comedy as an artform, it's gotten to the point where a rat spinning to free bird at 240p can damage the lungs of multiple gen z'ers.

[@marco-pe3om]

does a video like that exist ????

[@TromboneConductor767]

I don’t think that’s transcendent. More like diluted comedy as an art form.

[@nacrid2314]

@@TromboneConductor767 i mean its not like we cant enjoy normal jokes also so i dont think its deluded

[@TromboneConductor767]

@@nacrid2314 Fair enough but this is what you see all over the internet. And just for the sake of clarity, I don’t mean deluded as in delusional, I mean diluted like when you water down alcohol for example.

[@RubbelisPro]

@@TromboneConductor767 I think you're right, I didn't mean transcendent in that it's better or worse, simply that it's moved past what might've been traditionally funny 10 years ago. Not everyone gets it, but not everyone found Seinfeld funny either. I think so many of us are so dead inside that anti-comedy is the new meta.

[@modernmusicofthedarkages296]

One of the best meme compilations out there! Never laughed that much in my life

[@moondustcompliments5329]

knowing that my generations humour is basically: insane levels of irony and only liking things no-one else has ever seen, makes me feel better for being constantly confused

[@mypowerlevelisover9000]

Fun fact : *if you don't laugh at it then it's not funny*

[@EQOAnostalgia]

The devil manufactures the image of each generation. He fills your childhood with degeneracy and tried to get you to ignore or deny God through your entire journey growing up. He wants you to live YOLO with an evolutionary mindset because it's much easier to control people with fear, and it's much easier to steal their joy when they think they came from a pond of ooze that randomly came into existence millions or billions of years after a random bang lol. He also fills our heads with humanism like "ye shall be as gods" using tech or other means. The docu on Netlix about He-Man and how they marketed him to kids to take away the influence of parents and give kids the power is very revealing. All of media is owned by him and his minions, they put their pyramid symbolism, one eye symbolism, cube symbolism, etc... etc.. ON EVERYTHING. The only people who have eyes to see it and hear it are those who know the Lord Jesus Christ. You are by default, made to knee jerk negatively whenever someone mentions faith or Jesus... you are in effect, the brainwashed, while believing Christians are... this entire economic collapse is to bring about the rise of the beast system. Nobody will buy or sell without his mark and what is happening today, is conditioning you for that. GOOD NEW! Christ died for our sins, we don't have to go down with this ship... and look around people... it's sinking FAST. 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

[@justcallmekai1554]

@@EQOAnostalgia ..What?

[@hal7741]

@@EQOAnostalgia nice fanfiction, peterxj’sus forever

[@buddurmics2729]

@@EQOAnostalgia I think the Jesus Christ you have a relationship with is different from the one I have a relationship with. (Thanks for the chuckle though)

[@spicytaco5975]

we have reached a point in life where we're laughing at spinning computerised cows that have a song about drugs playing in the background. wtf

[@cartoondragon8946]

I laugh at bread falling

[@Arif_Raziq]

Im starting to think we are going to be broken now and dont take this as a joke im serious

[@stalker2084]

I laughed at a person breathing

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

koksu dremch gram or whatever the fuck it says

[@ffoska]

spinning toilet with gay sex in the title is better IMO

[@BILLYLTD1408]

"Comically large spoon, my friends" made me laugh. Case in point.

[@yz3116]

spooned to see you go

[@hiimdanii]

i prefer my spoons small and wet

[@tonynussbaum]

I was born in 1984. Call me immature, but I find Gen Z humor hilarious. I died when the word "beans" just randomly appeared on the screen. 5:55

[@MisterSweetProductions]

I love it too! I may be 17 years younger than you, but I’m still old enough to buy alcohol… and guns… and uh… vote

[@shadowchasernql]

beans arefunny?

[@AndromedaChace]

​@@shadowchasernqlbeans are funny. 4th meal beans are funnier

[@Lilly-bo1mi]

Literally 1984.

[@Arrayonex]

At that part of the video, I was just surprised to hear the music Casin.

[@aphermion]

"Some would say it wasn't incredibly funny, but you'd breathe out of your nose slightly and that was enough for them" Born 1994, this cracked me up so bad. (I breathed out of my nose slightly.)

[@shinjite06]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (dead silence)

[@iqbalumran9883]

@@shinjite06 you alive my dude

[@ec8107]

I'm a Gen X parent of a Z. This helps put my son's weirdness into context. They've sort of taken hipster into the surreal.

[@siriuspope3552]

Consider: Most of us Zers have had to practice active shooter drills since 2nd grade, or even before that. That is, we have had to consider, in total seriousness, that there might actually be someone coming to murder us, since the age of about 5-8. Not a bad guy from the cartoons on TV, not the big bad wolf from a storybook. An actual person with a large gun, coming to cause us and our friends unspeakable pain, for no reason that actually involves us. There's no GOOD way to cope with that knowledge. Existentially morbid absurdist humor may not be the best coping mechanism to avoid the horror of knowing that every day you go to school you might not come back alive.... but it's *a* mechanism. Conceptually it's similar to the development of dadaist art style post-WW1. There was so much death and destruction and chaos and horror, people had to cope somehow and so they made "nonsense art" to reflect the fact that nothing made sense to them anymore... which matches terrifyingly well with the "nonsense humor" we Gen Zers find ourselves with today.

[@TampaxVortex.666]

@@siriuspope3552 There is always a reason behind a shooter, especially if it's one of your peers, and it's because your other peers bullied that person into a corner, and they are now feeling the need to seek revenge because they feel as if no one cares about them. They're no different than you as a human feeling like society is against you, they've just been dealt a worse hand of cards coming up in life, and shunned by society and their peers for not fitting into the norm. Maybe you specifically don't bully someone, but I'm sure if the time ever came to an actual event, you'd know who it was and why they did it. So never think "for no reason." because there always is one, even if you don't care to acknowledge it.

[@Trsand111]

@@siriuspope3552dood chill :)

[@travistucker7317]

@@siriuspope3552 beats sticking your head under a desk waiting on the nukes to fall, i guess

[@nebulisnoobis102]

@@siriuspope3552 pizza

[@nicolostassi8656]

I love this kind of humor and yet i wasn’t able to explain people why, this video does it perfectly

[@MisterSweetProductions]

Thank you!!

[@tylerhorn3712]

I kindof get it. It's like making fun of someone for doing something stupid. That's a lot like jackass was back in the day. But, everyone does the same joke. So they all get told what to do via the internet (see buy apple phones), and become their own "type" of people through following the crowd.

[@davidabest7195]

I just don't think zoomers created it. All of the millennial humor/memes he referenced were considered boomer trash even by us as they were popular. Most of our memes and humor was wildly offensive and edgy. But the popular millennial trends are ignored bc they are not considered fashionable nowdays and instead we get blamed for the advice animal cancer that boomers and normies helped popularize. Core millennial humor was tim and eric mixed with million dollar extreme and CKY. A lot of violence and jokes about hurting yourself or other people. Basically 4chan was the pinnacle of millennial humor. It's frustrating to see my generation get blamed for cancer when we were rabidly attacking the very people who used to repost that crap.

[@tylerhorn3712]

@@davidabest7195 Millennials were blamed with a lot of stuff. The older ones are what your speaking of. It went gen X, millennial, gen Z. Gen X had fred durst and lots of over the top rap stuff, mixed with a bit of stupidity humor. Millennials had one foot in physical reality, the other in internet tech. Gen Z is fully internet encorporated and has learned to speak via the internet. I Helped to raise one for a bit. She would speak in internet wording and think its normal. For example in internet text one might say: "the world is proven to be round PERIOD". She thought of it as a power word. She would say things like "we need to go to wendys period" followed by doing a happy dance, thinking that the word "period" justifies an argument. They are a group that follows the crowd to be "unique". If they don't conform to the internet trend they are left in the dust.

[@tylerhorn3712]

@@davidabest7195 Allright man, keep editing it.... it's on Public display if we chat, but you can make it invisible. We're talking about the boomers now. They arent not copy / paste like zoomers do. It's more of a local thing and individual cultures develop instead of gen Z yelling "period" because of their online freinds do or generation alpha yelling "yeet" and being dead to the world unless your putting mario maker on the TV. I want to hear what you have to say. Delete after 30min if you don't want the world to see.

[@englishmuffin7]

Irony. It's just Irony and dark humor because that's a lot of our coping mechanisms, but also because it's fun to laugh at the thought of things going horribly wrong

[@NotUp2Much]

Lol no. People have used the phrase "coping mechanism" so much to the point that it's lost all meaning. It's used more as an excuse to get away with terrible shit. "Oh I'm sorry that I do weird shit and act like a spastic. It's just my coping™ mechanism™"

[@fozzybear3010]

Finally, KZbin advertising quality content.

[@Kidry2_]

Yes

[@pyeltd.5457]

it's a load of shit

[@quadeevans6484]

I found this gem in a sea of trump ads and thank god

[@MisterSweetProductions]

@@pyeltd.5457 ok

[@D1Gokutard]

@@MisterSweetProductions I love u

[@stevenhirlston4399]

I'm gen x, my kids are zoomers, and their jokes make no sense to me. That's sort of how it's supposed to be. They call it a generation gap for a reason. My parents (the "silent generation") didn't understand my jokes or cultural references even before the internet became widespread. Each generation has their own touchstones that are closed to their parents. My mom and dad couldn't see any value in hip-hop or grunge. To me, they were amazing revolutions in music and culture. To my parents, it was just noise, pure garbage. I see weird zoomer jokes, and I can't see their value. They aren't funny to me. Does that mean they don't have value? No, they do have value, but that value is closed to me, because my time to be young and cool is over. I can live with that.

[@Petrol_Sniffa]

Our touchstones are immediate knowledge of constant tragedies happening in the world and coping with our depression and our feeling of nobody caring by trying to stand out by posting stupid memes.

[@Crvknight]

@@Petrol_Sniffa Which is funny in and of itself because we all know inherently that there's so much noise in the world that we'll never stand out, so we joke about trying to be noticed while acutely and crushingly aware of the fact that we'll only ever matter to a sparse handful of people.

[@Crvknight]

And *they're* who we share the memes for

[@lmn6440]

such a gen x perspective. it's all cool man and normal man, whatever i dont even really care.

[@Petrol_Sniffa]

@@Crvknight Do you write sonic fanfiction? Why are you the embodiment of "trying to meet the minimum word requirement on an essay" acting like you use these words normally lol. "crushingly aware"

[@2bored4life]

This would explain why a show like Rick and Morty is so popular as a comedy when in reality its very depressing.

[@swagking2674]

nah he turned himself into a pickle dude, funniest shit i’ve ever seen..

[@kenlieck7756]

@@swagking2674 A friend of mine turned into a pickle & I promise you it was more depressing than funny. The doctors say he'll be a vegetable for the rest of his life!* *(Shit. Well, that outed me as not being a Gen Z-er, I guess...)

[@prafonity]

@@kenlieck7756 yeah that joke was pretty cringe

[@Star_Rattler]

@@kenlieck7756 this joke made you sound over 50

[@YokiDokiPanic]

@@kenlieck7756 I'm 30 and I think you're old, lmao

[@sunnypodbelsek6697]

Nice analysis! Cool to see it broken down. I don’t know if I feel like there’s nothing I like more than hating things though-