Why Is Millennial Humor So Weird? 👀

[@gigigrass6050]

i think this is more of gen z humor, though there is a lot of overlap. i think millenial humor is more existential, while gen z is just random, but both play a lot into surrealism.

[@kirakira6981]

definitely

[@darianstarfrog]

Bingo! Zennials.. it was us that showed the way for millennials. . Glad to be of service! ;)

[@lisaconnor3075]

I think it's ironic there's not one original idea in this video. I hope these people will one day finally grow up and realize they're not really that special. Older people who are keeping quiet are indulging this narcissism. They've given up on being authoritative adults.

[@mediafrucot3885]

hum, i beg to differ, Gen Z are too young to have produced anything relevant, maybe except a few memes. The majority of the examples shown here are made by people between 25 and 40ish, that's millenials (if this concept of generations has any relevance whatsoever)

[@theshamanite]

@@darianstarfrog Makes more sense than 2020, I like it

[@welwitschia]

The rebirth of Dada. We don't write manifestos, we just shitpost. Fun video! Happy to say the algorithm randomly decided to show me your videos, so here's me hoping it'll show it to tons more people and your channel exploding :) Also, quick little bit of advice. You might have noticed it already, but in case not, be mindful of how necklaces/mic play with each other. There was a minor (but annoying) clicking on the sound that took me a bit to figure out where it was coming from--it was the necklace touching the mic.

[@davidtormsen8004]

Tbf a lot of Dada manifestos were just shitposting with the media available at the time

[@doubtful_seer]

I’ve been saying this for years. I wish people studied art history more, it would give them so much context into how society reacts to and copes with world events.

[@eyegrinder94]

My two cents: Half of it is context. It's a giant in-joke that's been going so long that the setup is long forgotten and irrelevant, and there is no punch line. It's become so meta and buried under cascading layers of irony that "getting" the joke to its fullest depth is impossible without having witnessed it from the start. This is why, for example, "E" appears to just be a random for the sake of randomness, but the truth is that "E" exists as a reaction to other things, which are themselves reactions, and so it goes. You are seeing punch lines, but the setup for the joke is the context from which it was born. This is compounded by the fact that when everyone involved already knows the setup, there is no reason to include it in the "joke". The other half is the fact that we as a generation have had far, far greater access and exposure to not only humour, but media as a whole. As a result many of us have just been exposed to so much "regular" humour that it's stopped being funny. And when sophisticated humour has stopped being funny the only logical response is to return to monke and go back to low brow, but this time ironically, until that's become the norm and is now genuinely funny, and then the process repeats itself until what you're left with is a multi-layered ironic absurdist statement of absolute toilet humour which to the outside has become totally unrecognizable and indecipherable.

[@r1iiina]

most underrated comment here

[@claytoncourtney1309]

Thank you. Great explanation. In the end though, for me, they laugh at the same thing so often. A persons head morphs into another random person's head.. hilarious. It is done again with two different random people and again hilarious. What bothers me the most is the "watching a film ironically". I understand the concept but when I see millennial's react to things that I found funny at their age they usually laugh at things that were not funny nor intended to be. It is like they do not have any idea of how to look at anything else other than their way. If you show any reaction other than laughing with them they just say "OK boomer" as if it is impossible for them to not understand something. I understand it is not for me, I just wish I could know the joke so i can honestly determine if i think its funny or not. Your explanation basically tells me that I never will and maybe that will help me.

[@parjai97]

@@claytoncourtney1309 the "OK boomer" comes from the previous generation belittling the new one too much. Think of the Karen stereotype and such. There is no understanding. There is only irrationality. Hence the popularity of: REJECT MODERNITY, RETURN TO MONKE. No, I did not misspell monkey. May I suggest watching a bit of TomSka to understand a little bit better this kind of humour? It's kind of a bridge between older types and modern humour. Alternatively, Drue Langlois has modern comedy with structure.

[@LoveAndSnapple]

Great take.

[@thapoint09]

"As a result many of us have just been exposed to so much 'regular' humour that it's stopped being funny." Ironically this is starting to happen in reverse for me. What you said about it becoming the norm has already happened, but it hasn't become genuinely funny, IMO. It was seldom ever "ironically" funny to me in the first place. If fuckin' "dababy" or whatever tiktok meme is trending right now is the replacement for "regular humor" I wanna go back.

[@teradul2480]

Art and history lessons presented on a eloquent and aesthetic package? GIMME MOAR.

[@chowderwhillis9448]

Reminds me of Philosophy Tube mixed with MemeAnalysis

[@PiterLauchy]

Spongebob and the internet are responsible for 95% of my humour. Also, I'm pretty sure these absurd memes are a natural evolution of the "lol randum XD" humour many Millennials (myself included) loved in their teens. Unexpectedly ending a sentence with "purple monkey dishwasher" is a good example of that. Add layers of post-irony and the cynicism that comes with age and you get what we have today. I'm excited to see where Gen Z and the following generations will take it.

[@ana-isabel]

Oooh, good point on the "random" humor we've been crafting since the MySpace days. Would love to see whether the new gen takes this a step back or launches things to further absurdity (hoping for the latter lol). And haha same, the internet and its memes have pretty much molded my sense of humor. 😂

[@thayse_thay]

You are every where...

[@PiterLauchy]

@@thayse_thay Haha, that's the first time I've gotten that :)

[@Nerd2Ninja]

@@ana-isabel MySpace? Pffft boomer

[@IcidLink]

Are you sure they will have time for Humor the World will be Fucked and it will end like in those Dystopian Story’s where People Kill each other for Canned Food

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

I do believe millennial humor has a lot of surrealism, but I think millennial humor was probably heavily shaped by humor from 1995-2010 as well. The later developments (2015-present) are much more Gen Z. But there is something of a continuity there. Also...Homestar runner and Invader Zim...just putting those out there. I absolutely love the research and commentary though! Keep it up.

[@matthewgallant3622]

Try Ren & Stimpy from 1992. I was 6 years old watching Ren eat shrooms and hallucinate in a cave. Then we had Adult Swim in the early 2000s. That’s all you need to know.

[@lalajonline]

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[@ana-isabel]

This is super sweet of you - thank youuu! 💕 Super happy you enjoyed the vid and that I was able to bring new insights to the table. Glad my editing came off engaging too haha! Thanks for making my day - hope my future vids continue to entertain! :)

[@flubber8795]

As a member of gen-z I think you should realize a lot of those recent memes are not millennial memes but are gen-z just wanted to make sure there was no confusion

[@jemeredith]

yeah, early Gen Z is 23-4 yo old by now...

[@Pehmokettu]

It is often impossible to tell if the original maker of the meme is millennial or Gen Z.

[@mydogeatspuke]

As a very old millennial, yes. None of this is funny at all. It's not even weird or random. I'm sure there are plenty of teens who find it hilarious though.

[@AngelicSquid]

Millennials is the generation that started this brand of humor and it has evolved into both generations (Millennials and GenZ) are part of it together.

[@vorpalblades]

@@AngelicSquid the Pythons were first, and did it better.

[@AngelicSquid]

A lot of people are saying this is GenZ humor and not Millennial but its actually both. I get GenZ humor is a lot of this too but Millenials are the first ones to really have this odd humor. And GenZ adopted a lot of it and added their twists to it. But its called Millennial humor because Millenials were the one who started it. It was mostly made by people born in the mid/later 80s-90s which most of that age group are Millenials. GenZ is a wild and hilarious generation but I feel that they and Millenials are very close in a lot ways. Im a Millenial myself and half of my siblings are technically GenZ. We all relate to eachother still.

[@artisticagi]

Yup favs and well said

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Yep

[@scottwatrous]

I agree, but GenZ diddin't grow up with, say, Sealab 2021 and ATHF, instead growing up with basically KZbin and then Vine and so-on. I feel like this has tuned their flavor of internet meme humor heavily towards that short-form video content format, and the sorts of winding meme culture that spirals out from that, more than millennials ever did. I place stuff like Eric Andre and Adult Swim as straight up hard Millenial, with Gen Z basically appreciating it but it's not THEIR thing. In general seems our Millenial humor arsenal tended towards long form expressions and more simple memes I suppose. Like many OG millenial memes will still relate back to the previous generations to some degree, my parents will get why my shit is funny just as my younger sister will, but they won't get her shit nearly as much. I think we had to wait until the audience and culture more fully incorporated Gen Z before there was a diverse and large enough pool of receptive participants for the heavier and more fried tiers of memedom could truly flourish. We still relate to Gen Z. But the generation that comes after them, I fear for what we'll be unable to grip.

[@safdarmahmood5497]

@@scottwatrous bruh youtube literally started in 2005, when millennials were mostly teenagers

[@wokk9543]

amogus is genz humor

[@jdb7578]

If you like surreal comedy, I would definitely recommend Monty Python's Flying Circus. Shit's 50 years old, but holds up incredibly well.

[@chowderwhillis9448]

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[@truegreen7]

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[@Deoxys911]

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[@kstiemsma]

Deoxys911 yup I think algorithm must've picked up, been binging these as they're all great

[@jemiu9525]

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[@mickdipiano8768]

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[@flamingo_with_Hat]

Simp

[@rigs9801]

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[@kevmay21]

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[@ana-isabel]

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[@___xyz___]

I think one of the most important reasons why internet comedy looks the way it looks today is because of the innate human need to challenge the establishment of our forebearers. In school we are given little context as to the absurd socioeconomic situation the world is already in, that is ultimately going to determine the outcome of our lives in the grand scheme of things. And we are asked to take certain ideas at face value. Rapid technological advancements and the transparency of the internet provided the lacking context, and gave the individual the ultimate freedom of expression (at the price of our ignorance, and thus innocence). Learning about the nature of who we are, many people realise how we are insufficient to tackle the most basic issues of our existences, while others embrace how they differ from the principal models they're presented with in fairytales. In addition, cyricism is also inherently human. We are both susceptible to marvel at and despise people who know more than us and people who know too little, being incomprehensibly different to ourselves. The hypersocial platform of the internet overexposes us to this condition, trapping us between emotions of contempt and wonder. In general, it's a potent dangerous mixture of emotions. The most important reason why this is peaking right now is the former, advancements in technology. The internet has grown so much since the turn of the millennium. Search algorithms are extremely efficient, and there is no absence of resources to give us information (good or bad) about the things we wanna know. It's very good. But the technology prioritises certain qualities, like efficiency, over others. Computer interfaces are also quickly becoming an uncanny valley way to interact with life. Thus, we are tampering with the human psyche. People were never meant to process the world in this way, and we are trying to optimise digital systems with humans as disposable data. This incongruity is much of the reason why some people sink into absurdity. The emotional impact of the frustrations of broken technology is what gives outlet for absurdist art.

[@gabbyb9418]

I love this comment so much I only have 1 bone to pick, I certainly do not despise people smarter or more educated than me (although I see it in my peers but I legitimately do not understand it on any level). Honestly if you can explain it to me I'd be grateful because despising people who are bettering themselves & society is just very counter intuitive to the long term health of a society & culture. Idk how people can be THAT short-sighted. But I tend to not be able to stop myself from despising the willfully ignorant, especially when they preach their nonsense & suck more people in. The only people I despise more are the ones who take advantage of peoples vulnerabilities. IE: Healthcare for profit is evil & very wrong imo. But the people who support it who don't know how bad it is, I still do not like them & wish they would change their narrative to fit reality, but its the people who are intentionally bad. Who intentionally hurt. Even if its "just business", I think they're psychos. Not healthcare related but Trump & everyone who works for him of their own volition, Jeff Bezos, & the Zucc came to mind when I just thought of "evil businessmen who id fancy to feast upon one day"

[@stormoftara]

I think part of the humor is how memes build off each other. We watch it transform into a nonsensical mess, but we still know the origin. And seeing what it is now is funny in comparison. Like the whole unpredictable nature of our humor you mentioned.

[@5-Volt]

Exactly, but knowing the origin gives some context. So it's not just complete random nonsense. It's more like an inside joke where the setup is already understood and only the punchline is presented.

[@joeavery5756]

You dimwits don't even know what meme actually means.

[@Louchiano]

we trying to find a balance between what we were taught, what we have experienced, and what we want. and if you dont find something that makes you laugh or feel something, then you are going to fell alone. because you’re sense of humor isn’t always what your immediate circle of friends or family go for, so you find your own thing.

[@kanalithviper4744]

“To all you guys who made it here, I love you... platonically” Damn... came to watch an interesting video and somehow got friendzoned.

[@archlilim]

People saying "millennials aren't unique!!" "millennials didn't invent this humor!!" she literally talks about dadaism lol

[@strawberrymouse2000]

this feels more gen z to me tbh a lot of ppl tend to think gen z are all 11 yr olds but the oldest gen z right now are 23-22 yrs old

[@strawberrymouse2000]

yea millennials could find this type of humor funny but its mostly gen z humor

[@lilguyonhiswaytothemall]

Yeah I'm one of the older gen z(22), and can honestly say all millennials I know who are over 25 don't get basic memes like the E meme. There could be some exception but the fucking weird memes seem to be much more of a thing for people below 25.

[@PropagandaDS]

"What are you doing, Step-Ladder?"

[@jordanmomani9322]

I should not have laughed so hard at this 😂

[@NimhLabs]

... which Ace Attorney game is this Ladder/Step-Ladder conversation from?

[@PropagandaDS]

@@NimhLabs not sure, saw it on a subreddit

[@PropagandaDS]

Plz translate

[@morganhymancomedy]

Thanks for this video! I’m 38, so I’m at the top end of what is considered ‘millenial’. I find that a lot of younger millennials and Generation Z don’t understand how to put pop culture in the proper context and you’ve done that really well here. Thanks again!

[@veganboytoy3581]

I thought my airpods were finally breaking on me but it was just your chain omg 😭😭

[@auxoutable]

In the 90's UK, there was a show broadcast late at night called "Jam" and it's one of the most surreal and darkest comedies out there. It's written by Chris Morris and originally, was aired as a radio show, this time called "Blue Jam". This show left a serious mark on my teenage brain and wanted to show my mother what I had found. She wasn't that impressed but after seeing the "Gush" sketch, stood up and shouted at me for being a wierdo. It's not for everyone I suppose.

[@chrishenniker5944]

I love Jam, especially the Bored Phone Sex Doc, Symptomless Coma, Injure For Friends, The Gush, Sex For Houses sketches.

[@black-nails]

I love how memes are evolving so fast that I already see the change happening. There is more bold text memes now, facebook memes and "dad jokes". I guess people got a little bit tired of nihilism and went brought back some vintage memes mixed with childlish softcore & mental illness :')

[@andarted]

I think the most important factor is the internet/social media. Before the internet a joke needed weeks or months from from idea to recipient. Undermining expectations needed weeks or months for each iteration. Now between an idea and the moment someone sees the meme-ficated may lie less than 1h away from each other. And there are no gatekeeper. So jokes that wouldn't pass any gatekeeper get released.

[@daisuke_thrasher7032]

People who think gen z humor started in 2017 didn't grow up on 2012 KZbin poops

[@thapoint09]

I don't really consider that era of YTP Gen Z humor. I had something more but I'm drawing a blank.

[@lilguyonhiswaytothemall]

@@thapoint09 most YTP were made by 12 year old, I say this a 12 year old who made YTPs.

[@ronan7695]

@@lilguyonhiswaytothemall yeah but YTPs started in 2006/7 with Zelda CDI, Mario Hotel, Mama Luigi, George the Volcano etc. Late 2000s was the peak of Millennial culture (its when they were considered “the youth”). You’re right, though, that 2011/12 onwards was a mixture. I feel like Gen X was the last ‘normal’ generation, with Millennials being the first to adopt this weird internet humor. Gen Z came along and made it even weirder…

[@ScionStorm1]

I'm still haunted by Ugandan Knuckles.

[@word42069]

braddah you know da wae

[@_kalia]

One of my favourite parts of modern meme culture has to be the undying Loss. It's an amazing example of the bizarre lengths a meme can go to, being distilled so far that it can now exist solely in the structure of another meme. No content dedicated to it, just the mere *layout* of another meme can set up they second layer of joke. I think my favourite example is a 4-panel car salesman meme that at the end drops the reference to make you realise it was actually a Loss meme the whole time.

[@Lioness4cyn]

Being an elder millennial has been a wild trip seeing how internet humor has evolved. I don’t think people my age got Tim and Eric. Most of this humor now belongs to Gen Z, but it was inevitable for it to get weirder in the latter part of Information Age. Thinks for explaining what I could not about why I laugh at the absurd.

[@matthewgallant3622]

I’m an elder millennial also. You had to have watched Ren & Stimpy in the 90s. THAT was weird.

[@simonpelletier8047]

O M G this necklace sound!!! Nice video tho!

[@michaeldanielpaisleyhender399]

Research, script writing, makeup & wardrobe, acting, editing. These videos are done REALLY WELL across the board. Kudos to your team. 👏🏼

[@Katskii]

As a teacher who is a millennial, I would say this surrealist humour is much more representative of my students than my generation. Instead of finding this humour "escapist" I find it disconcerting and unsettling. I can't speak for all millennials, but I personally crave wittiness, and humour intended to shock via randomness just feels... lazy? (even though maybe it's carefully thought out?) I feel like early memes and the vine era were the last time I felt connected to internet humour. Maybe because millennial content creators spend so much more time on the internet keeping up with this humour, they feel it still belongs to them? I also would argue that there are a few generations that sought to overturn the values of their parents/grandparents. But I did really enjoy learning about the ties back to dadaism and surrealism; that makes a lot of sense, especially in light of what's going on in the world. I am excited to watch further content from you!

[@nephatrine]

I'm on the older side of millennials, but do identify with this sort of random meme/internet humor since a lot of things I grew up with like ATHF, Tom Green, weird flash video memes, etc. were often exactly that sort of humor and "we" early internet users really made it a thing in the first place. I also spend a great deal of time on the internet even though I'm not a content creator, so that may be a factor as well. Of course wittier, more clever humor is usually more satisfying. Having to even state that as a preference sounds a little pretentious, though I'm sure you did not intend to. It's like saying you prefer fine dining to snack food - it's not like they're intended to be direct substitutions for one another.

[@girllionness5944]

How old are you? I'm a tail-end millennial (born 1994) and I kinda witnessed the whole meme humor develop from those fuuuuu and forever alone memes in the late 2000s/early 2010s to what we have now and while I've found that meme humor definitely ages quickly (old memes are def not funny to me anymore) I always found memes funny and find them funny to this day (not all of them, but a lot of them). Maybe it's different for older milennials?

[@Katskii]

@@nephatrine oh interesting comparison to snack food and fine dining. Though in this case, I don't find the snack food tasty because I don't understand it? I didn't do a great job of clarifying that I just don't see the thought that goes into some of the more random internet humour, but I assume it must there. I liked that the video explained the stages between how a certain meme evolves quickly over time, because that makes the distorted later stages make more sense. I think maybe because I don't see the process, the later resulting memes miss the mark for me!

[@Katskii]

@@girllionness5944 I was born in 1989, so I witnessed that early era of memes when I was in university. I think once I left uni and started teaching, I just missed the bridge to what we have now! I would agree, the early memes don't really hold up in regards to current appetites for humour. I feel like I'm in humour limbo!

[@geetee5505]

Now that I am gone, who will baptize my precious monkeys?

[@Artechiza]

orang

[@IngeniousIgneous]

great content! just .... the overlapping metal chains close to the mic had me thinking my headphones were popping to death

[@greenghoul157]

"Weed eater" "That doesn't make sense" "It's funny because it's unexpected"

[@NimhLabs]

"It doesn't have to make sense... it just has to be provocative"

[@MrDeni23n]

@@NimhLabs So not random, but elaborately random.

[@DoorsInTheLabyrinth]

1) thinking about things too much never ruins the experience 2) glad to see Python mentioned in the comments, and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy is another great example of surreal humor. I think the distinction between a lot of meme-surrealism and "better" surrealism is the emotional content. The Rick & Morty and Bojack examples you used are great; the situations are weird and rely on accepting the randomness, but there's a core that hits you on a deeper level, even more than you could explain. I'm a fan of the music of Nurse With Wound for that same reason; it's wacky and random and heartbreaking. I once went to the Menil collection in Houston, and saw Rene Magritte's "The Glass Key" and I broke down in tears. And I think some of that weight can exist in meme humor, but it seems as an older person (gen x if we want to be generation reductive) a lot of it misses that and is funny but sort of hollow, if that makes sense. Not sure, I'm willing to accept that things might just not be for me, and that's okay too. But if thinking too much about the joke/movie/poem/song/etc ruins it, then maybe it wasn't that good to begin with.

[@TheTayloredMason]

Okay, so a couple things. First, I love how much time, research, and writing you put into your videos. Like all of them. Second, it's fascinating how much our whole everything has been influenced by these movements from throughout history. I mean, it totally makes sense - our generation seems like an amalgamation of all that've come before, and because we newly have access to all the information from forever we have taken that which has vibed best and brought it back - but it is still really cool to have it presented in such a way as this. Third, your style is consistently on point and I congratulate you on your aesthetic. Fourth, that milk do be looking delish and I blame the champagne flute.

[@naturalistmind]

as a depressed person i find it interesting that an art movement borne out of the atrocities of world war 2 is resurgent in 2010-20

[@RyanMichero]

World War 1

[@jacksonisonline2049]

i how high quality your videos are! i’m excited to see your channel grow in the future!

[@H34D5H07]

I like how much research and actual work you put in this. You do the research on websites I dont like and no longer need to :)

[@jonloc8535]

This was so well done. Also, Aunty Donna is a prime example of this bizarre absurdist millennial humor. Everything is a drum.

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Its a good example of how intertwined gen z and millenial humor is too. Aunty Donna's is made by millenials but a lot of gen z really like it

[@LavenderChill]

Hey you’re channel is growing fast! I just subscribed, watched a few videos and now you’re up a couple thousand! Congrats!

[@bekaeast7346]

to clarify this isnt millenial, its zillenial. (youngest millenials that honestly shouldnt be called millenial, and technically old gen z but we all like being gen z too much) this really odd humor only came about strong this past decade. anyone in their twenties rn are zillenials. also gen x had more wild humor then a lot of millenials

[@avantgardeho_6464]

yea thanks for clarification I think ppl forget that millennials started 1981/1982 and are 38/39 but don’t discuss the cuspers enough being a cusper is like the middle child and who isnt seen but can tell you’ve read generational theory!

[@aphr0d]

Gen x was responsible for our amazing childhood cartoons. No one gives em enough credit

[@word42069]

well yes but also no. You see, the thing is I’m a millennial (94) but i could arguably be a Zillennial.. but I don’t actually have much in common with a majority of gen z… so if you’re going to make that point you have to clearly delineate zillenials from gen z humor. I think the cutoff is whether you remember 9/11, CD players, VHS, cassette tapes, aim, dial up, when texting became popular, sites like myspace, when youtube & facebook first began, and the original gameboy. Growing up with the internet as it evolved to what it is today (not really having as a child) is very different from it always being their your entire life and i would venture to guess has some impact on how a person approaches it and this their humor.

[@thehyperobsesr]

The Wallace and Gromit Crack meme is one of the best memes ever and I loved seeing it in the background of this video 😂

[@ana-isabel]

Ah, a person of culture 😌😌😌

[@marthrecharged]

Reading the top comments I reassure that your content is pretty well made, I almost never-ever actually set reminder of my most loved channels, but your content just amazed me. Keep the good work!

[@moanlu9429]

"I love you" :) "platonically" :(

[@geeshta]

My favourite humor is stuff that were once popular, then when mocked and satiratized into oblivion and when even that becomes old, that's when I start to enjoy it. Stuff like megalovania, amongus, calling oneself a "gamer" etc. But not in the wave of people mocking it or enjoying it ironically, but even one step behind them. When most people actually consider it "cringe".

[@mercurypluto4213]

I’m so glad I found this right now because yesterday I laughed for ten minutes at the word mustache spelled with an n Mustanche Thanks for explaining this, great video!

[@geeshta]

Slight misspellings are one of the most hilarious things ever

[@Seriouskai]

My personal guess, escapism. The less logic the less it reminds us of real life, and real life sucks.

[@daverizz]

That was good. Makes me want to watch more Rick and Morty. Also, one of Eric Andre's biggest original influences was GG Allin. It might be funny to dive into Eric Andre deeper, and get your take on GG Allin and his insanity. The interview of Eric Andre with Nardwuar is classic.

[@bigbrownhouse6999]

I was NOT ready for that opening montage

[@omar_padilla]

Lol very well said I just found your channel and I'm feeling it, there's not many people who i can or am willing to sit and listen to for half an hour but I like your style. Great video one of my favorites.

[@oo8962]

As someone who isn't American, therefore didn't know any of the shows in this video, my humor almost exclusively consist of animal memes (like that crab crab crab food frighten meme or halo raccoon meme), random youtube videos like luke correia, jeaney collects or sam o nella, any dark souls Y O U D I E D meme, and random youtube shorts i found somewhere.

[@D.M.S.]

A lot of the writers of todays comedy grew up with the old seasons of the Simpsons. It all feels like the natural evolution of this kind of humour

[@15writergirl]

You always seem to articulate things that i have been thinking about but have been unable to put into words. Your very talented!

[@freakthecentipede2743]

Three years after this video came out and it's still spot-on. Smiling friends came out, and made the idea of using humor to cope with an absurd and chaotic world is more obvious than ever

[@sylviastone628]

That opening was the most glorious meme showcase I have ever seen in my life, thank you for your mad meme skillz

[@tharii314]

My favourite comedians are as follows, Parker Meek Animorphs Piratebill (Lost) Anyone who make YTPs on Vsauce, Peppa Pig, Stevie T, Michael Rosen and such.

[@sulaymansyed6345]

Just finished my university exams only to dive into memeology 2 days later

[@noahitman985]

This is the 4th video of yours that I’ve seen and I am really enjoying your channel. Thank you for making videos!

[@Wynters387]

I remember noticing it back in early to mid 2000 years with SeaLab and even Invader Zim were all about overly random things for humor... through in the snark humor and meta humor and merge it all together. Just got done watching the first episode of the new Saved by the Bell and it's full of millennial cheesy meta humor. The acting harkening back to overly bad 90s after school special acting

[@delmerlopez6408]

We need a 3 hour deep dive in-depth analysis of the millennial Humor, this was not enough. I need more.

[@issahumps]

Shrek memes jumped the shark when kanye West used the line "pockets on Shrek" on katy perry's E.T. remix 🤣

[@Marlokan]

I love the Chris Gethard Show. It recently went off the air, but I think of it like sad wholesome Eric Andre.

[@ALJJInkGames]

"I love you.. platonically" *The story of my life*

[@Soth_red]

An interesting to add would be the "tribalism" that comes with this humor, as it keeps evolving , in order to be uncomprehensible to the non-initiated. That's why many people consider a meme dead once it is referenced on TV, it means everyone will get it. A good exemple would be the minimalistic "loss" meme, to an outsider it just looks like a random shape made of lines , but if you have the knowledge about a shit-ton of things (the original comics, the parodie, the "is this loss" trend ...)you get the joke.

[@MikeTaffet]

I, too, drink milk from a champagne glass

[@happydf5028]

I just became aware of the sound of your necklaces tapping on the mic's clip. great video btw

[@douglasphillips5870]

I think an important element is the lack of gatekeeping today. Anyone with an idea can self publish. In the old days you had absurdist media, Max Headroom, Buckaroo Banzai, there was actual Cronenburg, but they were made through the filter of production companies who had control of what reached the public, and how it was made.

[@RealBradMiller]

I would watch Space Ghost and have no idea what was going on. Ever.

[@tim_hoffman]

Tom Green basically pioneered everything that is modern adult swim, eric andre, Tim and Eric, Newgrounds flash animations, etc.

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

Traditional Japanese prints of the crying ladies and the cat made me bust out laughing. Magic's still there. Kinda want those prints now.

[@Psiberzerker]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/laGrm2ewn9uMjK8 My favorite Abserdist comedian is Steven Wright. (Oh, yeah, and solidly in Generation X) A large part is his delivery, but my favorite absurdist comedienne is Saffy Herndon. So, I suspect it's not a generation thing. "You can't have everything, where would you put it?" Incidentally, it doesn't get much more "Boomer" than Deiter Meier, and Boris Blank.

[@Asha2820]

Interesting subject, excellent analysis. But one small comment: clip on mics and metal necklaces do not mix. Put your mic on a stand or take the chains off.

[@jessiemayfield6749]

Several times the film slowed down and I thought I was hallucinating but now I’m just going to pretend it was on purpose

[@SHGogo-df5jr]

As a 19-year-old, internet humor seems normal and even more funny to me than traditional comedy, yet I fail to put it into words to outsiders without sounding stupid.

[@sarahgraves6759]

Yeah, I mean... Most of it is Gen z creation, not millennial... But millennial humor started this stuff back on new grounds and the early internet (4chan) besides... There are overlaps in our humor. They grew up with what we started, appreciated it, continued it, and we appreciate what they've done, sometimes. Doesn't always land, but sometimes, it really does. Either way the style makes sense.

[@fallenfriend2860]

Just discovered your channel. Really enjoy your content. Keep it up!

[@habituscraeftig]

When I think of Millennial humor, I think also of the AMV Hell series - blisteringly short, often nonsensical mashups of anime and pop culture audio references.

[@mannyglover]

That was the greatest meme montage ever

[@bettsdn]

I once tried to explain the roots of millennial humor and viral challenge memes as Dadaism and Surrealism influenced by our generations shared trauma of global economic depression and constant war. I got trashed. Lol. Too bad your video didn’t exist then. You explain it far better.

[@karieltheone]

Side note, this applies mostly to american society, and millennial Internet culture.

[@oliviapenelopehope4497]

I was born in 1996. I’m a nihilistic Christian. I might be trans. I don’t feel like I fit in anywhere. I was homeschooled. I don’t have any hope for the future. I’m an artist. I was born left-handed and taught to be right-handed. I’m confused and lost. I can’t afford to live anywhere, and I’m sick of living. And none of it matters. It’s all noise, useless details, and a waste of time. I appreciate the look into millennial humor. It was an enjoyable reminder that we’re all doomed and most of us think that’s funny. And yes, I’m writing this on December 25. Supposedly the happiest day of the year. Every holiday just reminds me that I’m one year closer to death. Another year wasted in search of folly. I’m gonna stop. This can’t be healthy for my mind. Good luck, if you believe in such things.

[@mrjakeness2]

Necklace on the mic drove me nuts!

[@missbebop7941]

Wuu, it makes sense now~ I'm really enjoyed the video, thanks for upload~

[@alwaysapirateroninace443]

Ahaha, thank for the information!

[@DESTRAKON]

Im glad someones calling this out

[@larquefausse3623]

I can't relate to this kind of humour, but then again, I'm old enough to remember when they called us "Gen-Y" before the millennial label was adopted. I remember absurdist humour being a thing back then, however it was more about absurd characters that were still grounded in a reality that has understandable rules like Invader Zim or even a show like Sealab 2021. In more recent years, surrealism became really popular in this type of comedy. Suddenly, I realized that I'm too old to find this entertaining. They weren't even recognizable as comedy shows to me. Just something that people did when they had the spotlight on them. Just too weird in my opinion.

[@jacoboshner621]

Mic on the necklace Scratches away my sanity She knows when I break

[@tidbit6468]

You have 8 syllables in the middle line. Lester would be disappointed in you.

[@kassandrakid9440]

How is this information not important? This is literally about the history And future of comedy. That is a very important subject. Nice video :-)

[@BDChupacabra]

ive been binge watching your channel all day lol I love these videos

[@ana-isabel]

Glad you like them! Welcome aboard :)

[@AkumasFate]

Loving your videos! Just discovered them and they've been really enjoyable!

[@EvElYnFoReSiS]

Read the comments; They give you more critique and exploration of this video then any other one I've seen. I would like to thank to community of all ages for correcting and dissecting this video

[@Gmackematix]

Look at much ancient mythology, & folk stories, Aristophenes, the Roman novel 'A True Story' , snails in illuminated manuscripts, the works of Hieronymous Bosch and Archimboldo through to Alice in Wonderland. Weird random shit didn't start with Dadaism and Surrealism. It's always been with us.

[@skylarsmith384]

I love it when we cadavre exquis each other’s memes for no reason 😂

[@BluePhx17]

Great video, I could never quite pin down why millenial humor is as strange and unique as is it. Very insightful, I look forward to more of your videos.

[@jerrylangford2991]

I have seen more people do less research on more serious subjects. I applaud you.

[@gregsoccult]

I feel as though the dadaist/surrealistic comedy of today is a successor of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[@purify4now]

This was awesome! Good work!

[@moonpriest8016]

Millennials made memes. Gen z made it popular and even fucking better! Like millennials made vines and those memes with the cringey white bold writing however Gen z took that shit and added crack to it. Gen z and millennial humour is superior.