The Millennial Meltdown

I forgot that was even a w o r d

Valid.

good job

@choi chanhees left eyelid based

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saying i’m “adulting” is only funny when i’m doing something so unhealthy or easy that its blatantly ironic

The term got so over used. The idea that no one really feels like an adult, rather, someone being asked to cosplay an adult life style, is pretty relevant. And that is what adulting meant originally.

@Jay The Human imagine if in 5 years people make videos that sum this era with the lamest things/people they can find. I’m just saying it’s not a huge difference.

@Jay The Human I’m not outta touch tho? I’m just saying gen z isn’t that different, it’s just a continuation of what already happened. It’s not like someone born in 2000 is completely different than someone born in 1993. It’s easy to dunk on millennials if the only people you’re looking at are complete normies tho. Nothing exists in a vacuum, youngster.

but we're not pissy abt it smh

@felix yep

Haha, sucks to be us lol

Every generation thinks they'll change the world and then proceed to become the same thing that came before them

but also, an explanation for this fight AND flight mentality in us is that our social anxiety combined with just being courteous is why we have a rough time asking workers who are just trying to do their jobs for something. its a fear of inconvenience. on the other hand we dont give two shits about inconveniencing rich old white men, sexual pr3dators, racists, homophobes, etc.

Agree, that's usually how I feel, being someone born around that time frame.

@CNgotham It definitely depends on if you had older siblings or not. I have a lot of nostalgia for MAD magazines from my friends older brother, and I'm the reason my younger siblings know 2000s pop classics.
'Dude' was definitely something that carried over to both, though!

i was born in late 99 and neither generation wants me it's fuckin wild

I blame everything on mass-production and offshoring that really effed with millenials. Plus on the tech side: ppl like Steve Jobs and later Mark Zukerberg who started off with a 60s counter culture, "free, decentralized" internet ideals but then sold out for money

@JERKSIMULATOR I don't even have a Facebook or Instagram

He’s literally just that, and thats why I follow him

can confirm this not a single person i know has said chuegy

@jamie 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

@DEFxRECON DW, I’m 13 and have NO clue what ‘cheugy’ is

Im gen z but I will die before I give up my skinny jeans, they make me look like a sexy deer when I wear them with my platform boots (I'm an adult, it's not weird for me to call myself sexy)

💀

soulless tomato? more line soulsus tomato

Marvel movies are marketed to millennials, incredible.

this is far too true for my liking

God, I hear that phrase “Ayo?” from Smi77y (a Canadian gaming PLclipr, pretty solid content) and Grizzy (another gaming PLclipr).

@niqua m suspecious
Suspense (THROBBING suspense)
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Yep. FeelsBadMan.

Yeah famous youtuber life checkpoints arent the same as the current average 30yo checkpoints

I always thought minion memes were for anyone above 50 who has gotten to the point of just being jaded to the point of annoyance to others

Millennial really just means 'anyone older than me' or 'anyone younger than me' depending on your persuasion

@sonorasgirl ur the only millenial i tolerate

@Seal I think the counter to that is that Gen Z has grown up pretty much exclusively in a time when social media was a dominant force. I've seen a lot of videos breaking down some of the impacts of that reality (which are many) and one common thread is that Gen Z has aged/matured faster than previous generations. It's sort of the argument that "kids weren't able to just be kids" as long as in prior generations. It's the source of the meme about "me when I was 13 vs. 13 year olds now" as an example. I think in general that kids today start wearing make-up younger, start dating younger, etc.
There are positives and negatives to maturing younger and I think you can certainly argue against the conclusion, but it's interesting to consider the idea that people in the middle of the millennial generation and the middle of Gen Z are potentially closer in maturity than their ages would suggest. Creepy people abuse that notion as well, but I think it explains some of the weirdly strong reaction to perceived "bullying" by people much younger.
All of this from the perspective of a 1994 baby, like Kurtis.
Ninja Edit: I didn't consider this as I was writing my comment, but it might also stem from the fact that many inter-generational interactions happen through faceless media (comment sections like this one, etc) so it's harder to look at the person you're arguing with and say, "What am I doing? This is a literal child."

@Sunshine Ramirez yeah but then again gen z has… well the modern day… things are kinda fucked

The oldest gen z is in their mid twenties my dude, 1996 was 26 years ago.

Seriously. I’m in my 30s, if a teen makes fun of me I don’t care. They’re young, it’s what they’re supposed to do 🤷🏽‍♀️. And most gen z is super kind anyway - I think this is mostly bs.

@Altus Show Sooo… i did a thing…😳😜

Uh....awkward.

a millennial would say “yeap”

wow, this is awkward...

Speed run CD

It's not just millennials though. The whole wojack phenomena, Dean Norris's face, and then all kinds of other stuff is incorporated into Gen Z humor, it's just more abstract and there's so many layers that you would have to be cripplingly chronically online to understand all of this shit -- which you should strive not to be.

definitely an influence from the office, jim energy for sure

Starting to realize how this cringe stuff develops. Like the newer generation just doesnt have the context for the joke.
Lets take 'adulting' which was originally 'I wish there was an adulting class where we learned about taxes and 401ks but thank god I know the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
Which lol this still applies today.

god, i remember a batchmate of mine saying "do you even MLG bro?" unironically, pretending to be a millenial, and you can bet my a$s that I laughed for five minutes straight

"u mad bro? u so mad"

I'm from the 1800s and eat crayons

Awe, as an oldest coffee obsessed millennial, that’s been my exact experience and it’s sweet. Maybe it’s cause I’m the oldest of four, but I’ve always found the teasing affectionate and it doesn’t bug me. I’ll go back to my French press, coffee pot, and home espresso machine now…

I work in childcare- can confirm Gen Alpha eats crayons

Gen Alpha are probably going to be just mostly online daters on Roblox that will take a bit more to mentally mature than Gen Z.

My classmate's younger sibling (3yr btw) do the exact same things as us 💀💀 if we shout a person's name he will also do that 💀💀 (also he watches alongside his (other/the classmate i mentioned) older siblings/ his parents -- a tv drama, he will also dramatize it according to his parents i heard over from my own momm 💀)

Millenials brought in the modern fashion honestly looool

@Solus by the 2010s, low rise jeans were already abolished. it was the era of high waisted skinny jeans.

SAME

dude idc if I'm "gen z" or whatever, I literally do that everyday lmao

Aw hell nah, I can smell the low rise pants, tie dye t shirts and uggs boots from here and it's making me nauseaus

@njdotson it’s so weird to completely understand this

Reading this comment section shows we have fallen into the grips of sociologists who love dividing people by generations and categories.

Gen Z: cringe chain fest says my adult friends. Millennials are way better in my opinion though. My millennial adult friends hate Gen Z….The other is giving death threats towards Gen Z, Want to shoot them or knife them and has problem with authorities. The other one belittle Gen Z about their very low IQ or verbal abuse them for fun. I guess both are immature adults 🤣 They’re like 30+ Imagine, bullying teenagers as a adult…..

@njdotson help I understood this im done 💀🤜

perfect example=the british people meme on tiktok

@Anita Brake Heer Well said!! I'm sure gen z's will be feeling similarly in ten years or so about the next generation

Pretty sure this is just human nature rather than being a millennial thing, it just happens to be documented online. A lot of people can't handle the idea that everything they loved and were familiar with is now just history or considered ''retro'' and so you get stuck in this ''hole'' where you're holding onto who you once were but you're in the body of someone in their 30s and older. Really it's like a fear of getting older mixed with the inability to accept that who you were and what you were into is no longer mainstream or popular and is considered outdated. I think some millennials just can't deal with that which is why they get self-conscious or defensive because their identities are being challenged by the younger generations, it's not easy to accept that you're just not relevant anymore within the realm of youth culture when once upon a time the limelight was on you and your peers and you were defining the youth culture without even realising it.
I know it'll happen with gen z too in like 10 years when everything they love and enjoy now is considered outdated by the next gen and I'm calling it now, you'll probably get the same stupid feuds between aging gen zers and the young alphas.
Really it's just a universal fear of feeling old and no longer being relevant.

That's from the typical teenager vs thirties and above, Gen Y went through the same thing.
But Gen Z is definitely more self-conscious and less obsessive than Gen Y when they were teenagers, so hopefully Gen Z won't do the same to the upcoming Gen A.

link an article about this
it’s not that I don’t believe you, but I wanna read this myself

Blame that on middle upper class millenials, most of us dont even have houses to ruin

We painted antique furniture turqouise

@Some Tag Guy "the name's bames. james bames." "nice to meet-- what" "dames gond is having a stronke. call the bondulance"

You freind my won have just the internet

@Dave Cass go rest I beg 😟😟

I’m dying

Friend internet won you

why can't they like harry potter...

🤣🤣

Wasnt that the joke from the beginning. The most cheugy thing being the word cheugy itself?

same i didn’t even know what it meant until recently

@Victoria T but a lot of internet slang is just AAVE and ppl speak that irl too

I'm around Gen Z people all the time and Kurtis' video is literally the first time I've heard it said outloud. Pretty sure it's a thing that some older generation made up and have convinced themselves that it's what gen Z says, when they in fact do not actually use it

10000% agree...and then you get the people vehemently condemning us saying we are a damned generation, going to ruin the world, and worthless...like damn, 25-11 year olds fully just made pointless by a fully grown adult mother- nice

@disaballin true, but still cringe nonetheless

@Rachel Kat I think of the age differences not even being that much apart in a lot of the examples so much. We are all adults in our 20s now (for what is called the oldest of Gen Z, which includes me 22 year old me). It will forever matter less and less

@Keith Torrence what?

@disaballin The people that do it in their 30's did it when they were 14 too, unfortunately, so get ready for that

All of them need to be disowned

As a younger millenial who is literally 3 years away from being gen z and 15 years away from older millenials, this entire ordeal is quite surreal too.

we still love you old man

@Dylan Kennedy I'm 22 man live with it lmao

No. Im too young to deal with this shit, you were alive in the 2010s calm down and stop making me feel old Im not even 30

i was born in 2003 and i had a hat with red flannel print on in.... like i tried to 2/1 being "cool", i really dont know

According to my friend, black millennial culture was being devastatingly in love with Sesshōmaru and Sailor Jupiter

I'm a non American millenial and same

Im a white millennial who cant relate to any of this 🤷🏻‍♀️ I never followed what was "cool".. so maybe thats why? Or maybe I am a different type of millennial?

@Yanick lmao here's a small perspective into gen z kids in a third world asian country: we late asf to trends all the time, so we relate more to "millenials" over actual "american gen z" trends. I can assure you, the "unicorn/mermaid" trend literally just took off two years ago, most of my colleagues laugh at those cringey "anime memes" unironically, I've seen tons of young adults/college students forgetting the memo that galaxy print and mustaches are out of trend, and most of the gen z kids feel "hip" but don't even know what "sus" means. Not to say that there isn't anything wrong with it, but it's f*cking funny to me how everything that's "cringe" to the average American teenager is also the same thing that's stILL oddly relevant where I live (ofc mixing a few actual "gen z" styles, most trends here are late asf)
My guess is that it's because we base our trends off other countries, but since most of us either can't afford them (what's "cheap" in the US, especially fast fashion, is expensive here), or don't have access to good internet connection, we just get updated a lot slower.

@Jewish LoveHammer facts

@Liah Uribe from every one who's ever worked retail

Gen z: I hate everyone (dearly: from a gen z working retail)

@Worst Username In the World my point being it's not special to have mental illness but back before gen z and millennials it was seen as not normal to have mental health issues and needed help the fact you can say I get it we are all fucked up shows how well the jokes have worked to push us to a better place if you where born 40 years ago you would have to hide that shit and if you got help you better hope no one at work or your friends find out you go to therapy

Can't wait for gen alpha to wage war on us ngl

@Ice Wolf I mean isn't tictok mainly zoomers so aren't we already getting mocked.

@Ice Wolf Was it y'all who created those POV tiktoks orrr..??

read that as ‘crispy’ and was baffled

Woww i cannot believe people born around the same time would have had similar lives 😱😱

Me, born in 98 and is technically Gen z and my partner, born in 95 and is technically a millennial: YES

Also younger gen x and older millennials…my step mom and I are both technically millennials but we have a 10 year age difference and some stuff we just don’t relate on

Yes it’s true. My sister is older than me for 4 years and she’s a millennial and I’m a gen z but we pretty much had the same childhood, whereas our teenage years our adulthood? Not so much.

1998 here - can i please say that we kinda did depending on who we were raised by as well? 🤧😩😂

i squealed when he said this 😂

@Northern green eyes *makes fun of religion vigorously*

Technically though the religion are not based off the book, but rather the other way around, the book is a compilation of the religion. But yeah, good joke 🤣

@SFjuhis PST r/wooosh

@Northern green eyes oopsie woopsie 🫣🥺 is jebus mad 😭😍

@Timothy Hansen christianity isn't the only religion that follows a book lol, judaism and islam too

Son unos Memex.Monster de los mejores ❤️
Mañas no se la.

@smug mari same 😭

I completely forgot about Christianity when he made that joke and I thought he was alluding to snapewives. It's literally a religion based on the Harry Potter books

@Ana Ionescu yess!!!

the EOS diys

The emoji/galaxy pants

@Alexicon Dan and Phil are still icons, legends, the moment, but I'm glad the internet calmed tf down about their relationship status

I remember all of that. I also remember being in tumblr during all this so they had people who were into that becoming the target of rage by “fandom” tumblr dubbing them the “hipster bloggers”. tbh I don’t even remember seeing any genuine arguments between those “two sides”. But I did see some neutral art about it. It makes me feel weird talking about “sides of tumblr” again. now you look over and they have all those -core things.

Lol gen z humor is just doing what 4 Chan did in 07. But you guys are less self aware and actually think your humor is objectively good lol

@sappychap thank you for teaching me a new word (gerontocracy)

@ladydontekno Yeah, I actually thought I was a millennial because of the word and I was born in 2000 which was literally the new millennium so I guess opposite as in I thought I was apart of the previous one. But yeah I don't think my mom compares as much to the max age from my experience of talking to people of varying ages. Also, because of the being close to the next generation apparently, my uncle who is 4 years older is a millennial according to the generations stuff. Apparently. He is more financially stable than my mother is though despite being a millennial instead of Gen X.

You're so right.
I'm 26-27 and I still feel like I'm 10 years old because I live with my stepmom and dad still - back when I was a kid I wanted to be an adult because I thought the future would be better than that, but then two decades of zits later and I find out that because I'm disabled I can't get a job because the highest I can get paid on social security is $1,310 dollars due to some stupid fraud law in place and if I date my boyfriend is basically my second dad - because able-bodied adults decided we were too much of a burden on a gerontocratic society that sells life insurance over Sock 'em Boppers now.

I'm literally 28 and still live with my parents and I want to kms

@Dinosaur Man I’m the same age as your mom and I always thought Gen X were people slightly older than me (people who were in college/their early 20s when I was in high school). Imagine my surprise when I found out that I was Gen X!

@Viva el Rock & Eddy! Also it just seems like you’re embarrassed of being considered gen z which is weird 💀 There are cringy & embarrassing people in every generation. millenials can be annoying & insufferable as well but it all boils down to what you feel more identified with in a general sense. People born in 1996 are considered the first gen z so obviously we’ll have commonalities with both previous & current generations but I grew up around millennials & another older gen z (b. 1998) & can’t relate much to millennials, however, that doesn’t mean you’ll feel the same. It’s whatever at the end of the day. Whether you’re millennial or gen z, we’ll all be considered old, dated, cringy, etc. some day. Who cares?!

@Viva el Rock & Eddy! ??? It’s not about wether we’re close to being 30 or not, it’s about a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously. That means we mostly experience the same world events & identify with certain trends, experience pop culture & society a certain way at around a certain age or life stage. I’ve seen Gen Z be considered from 1995, 1996 or even 1997 so it’s not entirely clear or definitive however based on relatability, common lived experiences, pop culture & collective memories, people born from the mid 90’s & onwards could be considered a different generation entirely. Also, even if not everybody will agree, astrologically speaking, generational planets are an easy way to distinguish or categorize generation. In this case anyone with their Pluto being in the sign of Sagittarius is considered Gen Z & that accounts for most people born in 1995 to 2009 roughly which makes sense.

Ive never heard people say that about 96 97 and 98 lol who fucking cares

@Dylan Kennedy Source? The majority of sources have 1997 as the beginning of Gen Z while 1995 and 1996 are seen as the last of the Millenials. These include the Pew Research Center, the Brookings Institute, many college professors, the Federal Library of Congress in Washington DC, Times magazine, etc. Look it all up on Wikipedia

@Ashley Nah, I'm born in 1996 and the majority of my friends and childhood classmates that I've talked to consider ourselves as late Millenials. You have to realize that anyone born 1994-1999 are closer to being 30 years of age than 20. We are not kiddies anymore my dude. Accept your label because the scientists who give out the generation labels are not going to change their minds. Even the Federal Library of Congress in Washington DC has 1996 as the last year of Millenials whether you like it or not.

I laughed at butter knife.

@Charlotte Tigchelaar that's my kind of humour lmao

@Ariya Tabassum Abdullah Dont lump me in with you

gen z humor now is literally identical to millenial humor when we were that age- it’s straight up just “random XD” re-packaged.

Annnd it was stolen from tumblr. Like 40% of that site lmao

I'm 21 with memories of watching PPGZ x RRBZ videos, MMD videos of FNaF, Creepypasta, and Hetalia, and listening to songs from L33tStr33t Boys. I have nostalgic cringe, millennials are just cringy in general sometimes

@CursedFroggy Nothing is gone on the internet

I think this is where we merge a bit. I think a lot of nostalgia cringe for millenials was also so for Gen Z because it changed with how Internet culture changed. I'm 20 and consider a lot of Vines, that weird mustache culture, that "Keep Calm" trend, etc. as the things that I thought were funny/for cool kids back then that I cringe at. As Internet culture advanced, we branched off from each other, but that beginning was kind of consolidated.
(With the exception of the younger of Gen Z, of course.)

@K C I rather have that then all those dumb challenges like the tide pod challenge.

@K C don't worry we already started to make fun of this