Alright so I was born in August 2000 so.... don't know which I am am I a millennial or the thing after it and somehow my boomer single parent, raise me to have common sense and I'm not on tiktok or anything that I don't know popular? or something? I don't f-ing know what to call it okay.... I truly don't know what going on. But I love funky frog bait, so I'm here .

“ the anger has turned into fear” -funkyfrog

Funky frog bait for president ❤

@@AKHV9708yes

I am a millennial, but even im cringing and so confused. this feels like they are trying to relate to the youngster like the buscemi meme

TIMELESS!!! The desperation is too strong

Nah, it's a generational issue. I'm a millennial and my sister is Gen Z (12 year difference) and even though I do not post anything on TikTok and am altogether a person who avoids the limelight, she still finds me incredibly cringey, and I find her cringey as well.

​@@lotanowo For sure there are generational differences, my nephew makes fun of a lot of things I do and grew up with. But as a whole we both find this type of content extremely cringey. Everyone goes through cringey phases in life, but most of us "grow up". A lot of these clips are harmless, but easy to make fun of. Not arguing, just saying it's probably more a mix of both.

@@lotanowo I'm gen z (2005) and I'm NOTHING like the other weirdos

yall people encourage that shit too😒

😂

That one was physically painful to watch.

​@@Bl1ndG1rland mentally

Never in my life have I experienced so much shock

As someone who is 27 - Nope, no, never. Please do not associate me with....That

Same!

i used to be rlly loud and im clumsy cuz of adhd and due to people tihnking it was me being quirky they harrassed me even tho i genuinely just have adhd. So both sides are in the wrong here and hating on adults for being childish in some cases can be ableist. I now have rlyl bad social anxiety and feel like im not allowed to be myself anymore or talk

The "quirky" and "I'm not like other girls" era is so cringe. As soon as those fake glasses and mustache on everything came out, it was all over.

You actually saw people act like this? I'm near your age, and never ran into people like this in school or elsewhere.

​@@KT-oi6kb ntm the not like other girls trend made everyone start hating on girls that were actually masculine, because my personality is masculine and I had always loved video games yet whenever I expressed that, someone would call me a cringe not like other girl when I was just being myself.

True. I was thinking anime characters but same concept.

@@ville__ didn't ask you either buddy

Finished the video, I don't think I've ever seen you break 'final bit character' as I've taken to calling it.

Spooky Spooky hair-cut 🤪👻🤪👻

Most of them would have Disney plus

hi loey! you shouldn't have to apologize this is just childish

@@Javajunkiexx6shut your trap millie!

OMG ILY

LOEY???

Honestly! Same I'm raising 3 kids who even has time for this?

Same here 🖐🏼

I DO THAT SAME THING. Or I’ll say out loud “shut up” to banish the second hand embarrassment

millennial humor is to look over a railing and wondering if the drop would be long enough.

Millennial humor is staring listlessly into the camera as your Boomer mother starts tearing your younger gen z sister a new asshole for coughing too loudly and longing for the end.

Millennial humor: Coworker: "What do we do when x happens?" Me: "Oh, Dave, that's later. Maybe we'll be dead by then." Dave: *sigh* "That'd be really nice."

Millennial humor is dressing as the inflation for halloween.

​@@danicasoper6545that 30 Rock reference

I remember that clip of Ellen making a girl FOLD A MAP, as if it's a universal "old people thing"? While I handled maps a bunch of times, I know that I would probably struggle with folding it - not because of a "lack of expierience", but because it's an annoying and frustrating task. It's the same with a lot of old (or even new) technology. It's especially funny with people using flip phones as examples of archaic tech, as if modern phones don't try to mimick them? It's laughable.

@@thecolourfulpill YES and also why is there this obsession with using old tech?

There are cusp generations, where you have one foot in both worlds, I'm an elder Millennial.....a Xennial, raised by boomers who are on the cusp of Gen X. I feel I can identify more closely with Gen X than the Millenials that came later on. I hate all of you. Let's just put it that way.

@@bipride1763 Listen to something on vinyl, you'll understand.

I think most of the jokes are about how you guys can’t do things, like tell time, read, drive a car… stuff like that.

What’s funny is, this was still humor when I, a 16 year old, was in school. Not much changed throughout those years and it’s funny to see people claiming otherwise. When I was younger, I also liked big mustaches and saying XD.. it’s confusing and my head hurts 😭

as a gen z that’s how i was in middle school lmao

@@ville__yo whyd you just copy and paste their comment bru

⁠@@ville__ What's funny is, this was still humor when I, a 16 year old, was in school. Not much changed throughout those years and it's funny to see people claiming otherwise. When I was younger, I also liked big mustaches and saying XD.. it's confusing and my head hurts 😭

@@ville__ YOUR AVATAR SAYS "GRAPE" BUT WITHOUT THE "G"? And your content is all about assaulting women. No wonder women stay away from you, good for them! Really fucking funny to see everyone tearing you a new asshole in your comments though, baby boy. At least I'm not the only one that hates misogynist incel trash.

A-FUCKEN-MEN

Word

RIGHTT

Cringe doesn’t exist. Harmless fun is harmless fun and it’s only when something becomes truly harmful that it should be looked at with scrutiny.

Why dunk on some lady happy about cream cheese when Elon is right there?

THANKYOU FOR SAYING THIS!!! YOU ARE SO RIGHT!

my step mom actually acts like that in person shes a couple years away from being a millennial but still...

@@sleepybaby8218 i mean if that’s the case she’s an exception and i respect that

@@hotgrrrl4206 it's the worst thing but I don't dare to ruin her fun 😭

funny, normally cringe comes from being extremely genuine

Glad I’m not the only one who knows exactly what they were like.

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yeah i remember a few. They were insufferable then and they're insufferable now.

Like the girls that said “erhmagerrrd” and “rawr” and it was a whole personality trait.

MySpace vibes. Just less skunk striped hair and eyeliner.

@@ville__Be quiet

​@@ville__bot lmao also who asked

@@ville__no they didn’t, bot. Delete yourself.

​@@ville__ lol bot

I learnt at school, that one of the reason we got seperated it's because of how many babies were made (baby boomers) and not how cringe we are. generation gap is also referred to being out of touch with the rest of the world (like the video in which old hags guess american house prices). we all fully agree with your core opinion, unfortunatelly it's not about how cringy we humans are - it's about social construct the government made and accidentally made.

Because they’re all teenagers…. Yet if you treat genz as only teenagers, then it’s “you know we’re not all teenagers, right?” *Apparently, no one understands sarcasm. Not surprising.

@@Ruviebgirl what is your argument 😭

@@cyberiaarts Being genz does not automatically mean teenager. Plenty are adults, yet every time one of these discussions come up or genz is criticized for something, “you’re arguing with 14 year olds” is always the easy response to cut down any argument. At the same time, millennials are also accused of treating gen zers like they’re all children. There’s no winning.

As a 37 year old millennial I 100% agree. It’s so cringe.

Let me just say... it was not a Millennial thing. But right now, it is. 🫡

Most mature gen alpha 👏👏

You're not apart of this conversation lil bro

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so true haha, just accept that Tiktok is something that is for gen Z and Limewire was our milennial thing or something :P

the last sentence cut me like a knife

It is so strange. The world won't even be habitable for either generation to reach old age, but sure, go off on people making cringe content they make money from.

​@@TheMankrikscow we'll just ignore the previous iterations of tiktok. Vines not LimeWire, two very different things. Perhaps the creators and advertisers should have done a better job of stipulating they had created an app designed for a specific generation? It is incredible when people gatekeep things like apps.

The worst thing about these cringy millennials is that they are doing this at 30+ years old.

Nope little Z. Thats not how it works.

@@Bl00dyMaryit is tho

not a thing, on the whatever year you’re born is your generation

@Bl00dyMary Zillwnials exist because of the ambiguity of generations dumbass. It was 1995 then 2000

Get me out of this hell

i was checking her account and she has elher danos syndrome so

​@@perksofbeingadeadpoethow is that relevant? Edit to say: I have been educated on EDS, thank you to the people who helped me have a different perspective on the situation!

@@perksofbeingadeadpoetI’m sorry but do you mind explaining that? I don’t know what that is and I would like to understand

@@spookysailorscout It's a disabilty that affects your balance and handstrength, i.e.; not being able to hold things and sometimes bumping into things. It's uncontrollable, and what she described is pretty standard for the people with EDS.

@@spookysailorscoutdepending on what type you have (there are many) it can mess with your nerves and muscles, resulting in things like spasms. As someone who also suffers from EDS, My hand sometimes spasms and twitches while my fingers loosen, and that usually results in something being thrown (not very far, and it looks more like I'm just clumsy, but for other people the movement can be a lot more violent and thus things go further). Typically it's something small like my phone, so if it does go in the direction of another person it's usually not serious, but there was one time it happened with a coke in McDonald's and it landed directly on a small child stood next to me at the pickup area. Point is some types of EDS can result in the throwing issue, so that's why the other person mentioned it. The girl is definitely playing it up on her profile though for the sake of the video.

Yeah it feels like a coping mechanism tbh

That was my thought as well. I'm a millennial and because of how much things have changed in such a short time, how fast it felt we grew up, and how difficult it is to actually be an adult, I often still feel stuck or stunted. I've been leaning more towards the "adult" side of things lately (I'm very excited about my new fridge for instance) but I also still get way too excited about little things that are nostalgic (like finding a copy for an old care bears movie I used to love as a kid at 5 below). Yes, those videos were cringey because they're over the top, but I'm also aware that I do some cringey over the top stuff as well (yes, I was a theater kid as well, so may be connected to that too lol).

@Eet_Mia lol fair. I didn't mean the nostalgia itself was cringe. I don't squeal, but I do find myself making strange, but excited noises. It's usually not something I give any thought to it just happens. Most of the people in the video seem very aware of what they're doing though which I think is what makes iglt *more* cringe.

gen z went through the same thing

It's definitely a flavor of regression, you're probably right.

I mean, sure, but who are we to say a very clumsy person can't turn their source of embarrassment into a joke. I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard a crash followed by "something fell!" when my very clumsy husband has fumbled something.

Thank you😂!!! My 'clumsiness' is a symptom of my autism that no one ever really took seriously. I've sprained my wrist and ankle, broken my left wrist n thumb and have unknown cuts and bruises every day. It sucked being made fun of for it, now it's a trendy cute thing

HAPPY ALSO MAKES ME UNHAPPY 😭 that one and blurred lines- big no no for me

​@@Narangarath I mean yeah, but constantly doing it on purpose for humor instead of just laughing at it when it happens naturally feels a bit weird? Idk, im a naturally clumsy person myself and i like to laugh at my fuck ups, but i cringe seeing people go overboard with it because it's "quirky"

I have dyapraxia which is what they're mimicking to look "cute." Sure sometimes it's funny but most of the time it's embarrassing and frustrating. I have trouble holding my phone without dropping it. I've broken it the first day I got it SEVERAL TIMES before I started buying overpriced otter boxes in store and phones got tougher. Actually having dyspraxia isn't fun. I can laugh at the time I accidently hit my dad in the face with pasta because my hand involuntarily let go as I was lifting it up, but that doesn't make up for the expensive, pain, and embarrassment it also causes.

I was born in 2002, so I’m also stuck in the middle. I don’t get the slang and I also don’t like Starbucks. What a cruel fate this is.

Have fun with that bestie

Hehe, ye

I'm a 2000s baby so I'm in the same boat. I'm also a weirdo who's not really on any social media (besides youtube) so a lot of both gen z and millenial stuff goes over my head Edit: Upon watching this I'm also realizing I have completely lost the ability to tell if content on the internet is serious or satire

I’m also in that weird gap, but my younger sister is firmly a gen z. Every word I say around her is embarrassing. My work also employs quite a few teens. Every day I feel more and more “hello fellow kids” when I’m talking to them. It’s mortifying. They get younger every year, yet I age seemingly at light speed

Not sold on this, I'm a Millennial and the people who were like this in 2008 are still like this in 2024

Gen Z here and I still cringe at people with anime obsession.

weird person*. it’s not just females that get bullied hun. Shut up

​@@vainetuxxsame

@@vainetuxxwhat do you consider "obsession?" and how is an "anime obsession" different from being obsessed with any other form of media or a certain genre of media i.e., Marvel movies?

I also came to say this. Not one single person I interact with act like this.

Almost 37 here. 👋 I would literally disown my friends if they acted this way. Same goes for if they tried to start making TikTok’s or being “influencers”. My kids (14 & 16) don’t even do TT trends or dances. However my oldest rags me abt millennial core all the time even tho I don’t actually act like that nor would I ever. 😂

​@@rileynataliesame!! 39 and these are the type of people that make me physically ill. The look at me energy just sickens me. My kids act like every move I make is humiliating but I would gladly permanently remove myself from public if I ever behaved like any one of these people.

legit, if you want milenial humour it's in vines compilations, not on milinial influencer's tiktok account. These make me cringe so hard, but nothing cracks me up more than "two dudes chilling in a hot tub..."

I’m 29 and haven’t seen anyone my age IRL act like this.

EXACTLY

The whole generation thing is a weird concept to begin with when people take it so litteral, but.... people named a generation alpha.... alright, i officially decline this while "grouping people by their age" trend, it says alot about the people partaking in this mess

Yeah exactly this

​@@afghdkfekjk1509the only reason its called alpha is because its the first letter of the greek alphabet, since we already got to Z 😂

yeah and the idea gen z has that all millenials talk like this shows how terminally online they are

She was PROFOUNDLY annoying, lol!

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Gen Z needs to recognize they're bringing back a lot of bad stuff. This isn't me being a hater, this is me being genuinely concerned. Studies are already coming out that they're more susceptible to pseudo science, cult influence/BITE model grifts, all that stuff. And with all of that unfortunately comes a plethora of other issues. Gen Z is doing great things, let me emphasize that, like some of the discourse they're creating is phenomenal. But the "acoustic" shit, the blindly believing in clearly wackadoo science....it genuinely worries me. We almost began to clear all that nonsense out, and now it's just coming back.

Can someone tell me what the acoustic thing is about??? Why are there so many people saying that??

At my school people openly say the r slur and the f slur. I had to get used to it because I was taken aback hearing people saying it like it’s normal??? So weird.

⁠@@whattoputthereit was originally a joke made by autistic people, replacing autistic with acoustic or artistic. it was a way for us to make silly little jokes. unfortunately allistics (non autistics, this includes neurodivergent non autistics, ESPECIALLY them) got ahold of the joke and now use it derogatorily, calling autistic people “it”. they turned a harmless joke into a sanist offensive “joke”. sanist/ism = the discrimination against people with mental health issues. ableism is actually a term for physically disabled people only, fun fact! they’re not interchangeable terms

@@whattoputthere it started as an autistic community in joke from a facebook post or smth like that where "autistic" was misspelled as "acoustic" and a lot of autistic people thought it was funny and used it for their fav characters or ocs or pets affectionately as a relatable thing (albeit sometimes a bit problematically) but it was really soon overtaken by people who are not autistic and they began using it negatively and like a replacement for the r slur. now thats pretty much all it means.

Ditto…

Exactly what I was thinking.

For real. It's more a case of Tiktok isn't real life and people will do anything for likes/views even if it means embarassing themselves. Like, I can be a cringy weirdo, but not in public lol

Yup. There are ppl like this in every generation, unfortunately. This is definitely not "millennial humor". This is annoying to everyone.

It's a particular brand of "dorky" humor that people didn't think was funny even when I was in high school.

Yesss!!

I doubt that all of gen z will drop it, but at least we can make it irrelevant. So gen alpha can finaly drop it or the one after, make it smaller and smaller each time until it's gone

@@sambored9387 yeah! calling kids dumb or something cus they watch stupid content is not helping, most of us watched MLG compilations or something simmilar at one point, which is basically the same, flashing colors non-stop loud sounds and such.

@@ville__ I asked

Thank you

For real. I’m Gen Z. If I have beef with millennials, it’s only because they don’t acknowledge us also suffering under capitalism. Especially if you are disabled (as I am). Like…why you fighting me?? I literally can’t even work and pose no threat. Fight the people fucking up the world.

I hate seeing millenials dunk on gen z. Like yeah, ok, kids can be frustrating to deal with as an adult. I get it. But maybe just maybe don't...be like this. It makes me smh cuz like, did we collectively forget how it felt to be dunked on by boomers growing up? Are we really going to perpetuate that cycle? Come on.

Lol my math teacher said kids these days when he's literally apart of the problem. He also doesn't do shit about bullying but he called me selfish and rude.

For real. How are kids gonna behave or learn anything when the adults around them are often heartless just because of age and teen stereotypes? Like my old HS, just a few years ago, literally did nada about bullying, often ignored legal disability accommodations, and even sabotaged SA case evidence. (I'm not even kidding. This was the "America to Me" documentary school.) Kids are seeing the world burn at the hands of adults who could care less about them or their futures (ruling class), and are then regarded in their personal lives by dictatorial rules that serve little to no purpose but to "keep things how they are" by adults also suffering and not getting much help, so of COURSE they act out and are hopeless! Everyone is feeling miserable and instead of trying to fix it, people shut down ideas and make others miserable, especially aimed at kids. @@mexicancandytastegood2716

Also, the algorithm might pitch us the one we're mad about (ie our own "generation" getting clowned on) on purpose. I see way more videos shitting on millenials than gen z, and I'm a millenial. They're tryna make me boom, and I refuse.

Fr our group is just stuck in the middle so confused watching this horrible tennis match go back and forth 😂

i remember a baseball game i went to with my family where my dad said he had a "big surprise" and pulled out his work-issued new blackberry- it was so exciting for my little self and for my brothers...like holy shit, our dad got the most fancy phone on the market at the time !! i was 5 yrs old. i'm 17 now, almost 18. it's so wild that people have this idea that we don't have any clue about old technology- my first phone was a flip phone and i have over 50 CDs i use often. my brothers used to fight over who rewinded the VHS at my grandpa's lol

@@ashwoods2334 dO yOu eVen kNow whaT a flOppy dIsK iS?

i feel like many older gen z or just poor gen z people in general have grown up with vhs, flip phones, home phones, cds, blocky tvs, and lots of 90s things. a lot of them were even old enough to remember the few years before smartphones were beginning to be a thing in the common household. this is why i can't stand the whole "generation talk" because it just seems like a grab at feeling better than one or the other.

@@specializedchemicals6669here in Belgium the American trends were a thing quite a lot later. I remember my parents having flip phone Motorolas. The first smartphones my parents got, the first iPad. I’m in a very weird in between ground as well. I literally taught someone who was 3 years younger than me and I just didn’t understand him anymore…

Yeah when se was just throwing the cups it was whatever, cringe uwu humor. But then she discussed throwing them AT people and injuring them because they gave her the wrong cup. Lady, that's assault now, not quirky uwu.

She has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a mobility condition that limits her proprioception skills. The target audience was other disabled people who need accommodations like plastic drinking cups so they don't hurt themselves or others. Was it maybe poorly done? Sure.

@@mamazeta906that’s actually really important context…. yeah still annoying delivery and hyperbolic but actually makes sense what she’s talking about

@@mamazeta906 that... Actually changes everything lol

Yeah, I feel like if that's a real problem she'd probably have to look for a neurologist or psychiatrist, not go on the net aby it

First of all, Jim Carrey is not cringe he's one of the best actors alive, stfu.

everyone's different.

Jimcarreyitis

This is well said and I think the best point here. I see it in "boomer humor" vs #Millenialhumor and at the heart a lot of the generational memes or colloquialisms are born in similar ways and have similar meanings. My favorite right now is "Me when" has turned into "POV you are...". Every generation has their own version but it's all generational coping.

I love Jim Carrey he’s my fav actor and I’m 15 rn but I WILL NEVER act like that

I really hope gen z can bridge the gap and like tease rather than bully, although hopefully gen alpha arent just vicious assholes based on how the “millennial man babies” (not all millennials, just the ones on tik tok rubbing it in gen zs faces that theyre purposefully sabotaging the next generation to get back at us for making fun of skinny jeans) but maybe were too dead inside to be affected, and that will be our strong suit in the end. Or it just continues LMAO

Literally I thought I was the only one

100% agree! at the intersection of the two I still remember all the shit millennials got (ruining the economy, destroying marriage, not buying overpriced houses, don't like golf enough, you know, important issues like that) and was like "I'm so glad we can break this trend of shitting on upcoming generations" and then the latest division started and I was like, "uh, guys? I thought we agreed this was shitty and completely unhelpful in every way"

For me it's like...that's it. I'm getting old and dying and I won't get to a point in history where people aren't complaining about millennials just because we chose to wake up that morning.

I'm an elderly millennial and I have no idea what's going on

This is real asf 💀 I'm a millennial and it felt like the same way my parents talked about millenials

@@ailyilyx I'm seeing it with the way some Gen Z's talk about Gen Alpha, too. Saw someone unironically say "at least the shitposting we watched was good" and I was like do y'all not hear yourselves? 😭

@@waffleauflauf4213yeah 😭 every one is bullying us gen alpha for a couple kids who have specific interests 😢

​@@haruu_123 aa im gen z and i love gen alpha :) my brother is gen alpha and hes the funniest

Yes very intense to age and realize some of us think the younger generation isn’t as good as us…sir……SIRRR.

timestamp?

​@@jadetheslime3140 6:40

granted, we live in the age of easily-accessible internet, but wtf?! there’s kids that are that young that have seen porn and are trying to imitate it to boot? what in the fresh fuck are the parents doing, or rather, failing to do?!

ridicule =/= consequences for your actions

I literally did not realize it was possible for kids to have accents based on the TV they watch. I always remember being mystified why my friend with two British parents sounded American, because for the first five years of their life they were mostly exposed to that accent. I thought it was inevitable that no matter the parentage and no matter what they heard at home, kids always have the accent of the region they're raised in. This is mind-boggling social science to me.

Also I think I remember reading somewhere that it provably stunted children's writing skills because touch screens don't allow for children to build the same hand strength as play activities for children in the past.

It's so crazy that some people mock literal children?? It's not their fault, it's the fault of the people who raised them. And well, they're talking about generation, but whose generation is raising them... Some people have to understand that generation is just a social construct WE created and there is stupid people at every age. You really can't blame a CHILD for doing what they can with the little that they learned. And well, let's be serious, if you have a problem with 5 years old, I don't think they're the weird ones...😬

I'm literally too young to work and i agree with everything else. So tired of this shit.

good choice of avatar

True. And they love attention so they obviously would gravitate toward the “film yourself for the masses” app whether it’s tiktok or insta.

​@@ville__keep yourself safe

@NotVille_ I know who you are

Exactly, there are people like this in every generation, and people who are embarrassed by it in every gen lol. They are not representatives for the majority of any generation

Yeah I'm a gen z person and had a friend about two years younger than me act like the woman with the cream cheese. I still liked her and thought she was funny though bc she didn't over do anything. And she was also normal most of the time

We’re all cringe in some ways, and at some times. You don’t need to apologize for anything.

Don't apologize, embrace your "cringe". It's fun. People are literally just making you feel bad for having a good time, and that's a them problem.

the moral of the story is be cringe and be free!!! but dont spread generational hate because of it. no need to apologize for that stuff :3

Gen Z is blamed for a lot of things Gen Alpha does. Not saying Gen Z is perfect, but yeah

Well those cringy songs like “sticking out your gyat for the rizzler” weren’t meant to be taken seriously and were only jokes that’s why we like them

Oof this hits hard

yeh i agree, that and the fact that a lot of straight women still believe they have to do things to please men because of how they were raised and men are proven to be attracted to very young women so aging is seen as you becoming less desirable in the eyes of society AND romantic partners

this !!!!!!

​@@jjk4754Men are disgusting then just forget men become lesbian

Yes! Also feel like a lot of “generational hate” is just jealousy/bitterness towards the younger generation because of how we view aging as a society

As it should be. All Funky videos are... Funky.

Frr

Fr

Real (real)

Same

the danger of watching too much disney and anime

I’m 17 and I go to college so you might actually have some 06s mixed in as well. (Like very veryyyyyy few) I promise you we aren’t any different than the 19-20 yr olds, we can drive, we have jobs etc😂 I actually have a few friends in that age group that are also in the same class😭 I mean I was like 4 in 2010 so I started to remember things during that time (the 2010s were amazing tho fr, not sure if that’s cause that was basically my childhood or something lmao)

Seriously, why must all the most obnoxious people get the most attention? I feel like it breeds even more obnoxiousness 🥲

My immediate thought was “Omg they are NOT a college professor they’re like two years older than I am 🙄” so um…that was a jump scare for my mortality

I definitely know I have at least a couple 17 year old students! I find they frequently are more mature than their older peers haha @@Ariel-lol

I really vibe with this comment. I'm a 97 baby but I grew up with siblings 7 and 6 years older than me, and I got all their hand-me-downs. Doesn't help that we were kinda poor when I was a kid, so the 80s, 90s, and 2000s ended up lasting a bit longer than average I think. As a result, I don't really feel like a Gen Z person? I spent so many years being grouped with the rest of the avocado toast generation that it's a tad confusing to now be told I'm actually a part of an entirely different group?

very true

us middle children are ~zillenials~

I was born in 99 and some millennial aged people act like I didn’t grow up with dial up internet and vhs tapes. Then gen z freaks out like I’m not only 1-11 years older than them. I had a friend born in 2000 keep asking me what grade I was in when she was in X grade and she kept getting flabbergasted that I’m only ONE year older than her “but born in the 90s?!?” Lmao

@@ChocolateRougeyes~

​@@ChocolateRougeOoo I like that 😂

I saw this vid on instagram and everyone was commenting “spooky spooky toothbrush”. I low-key feel bad for them ngl.

@@eggmon420yeah I thinks it’s a little cringe but they seem genuinely happy lol. And if these videos are making em happy then let them yknow?

Eh, I don’t mind this. In the scope of things it’s harmless, if a bit weird but so what? There are some horrible realities out there. Things that have genuinely frightened me to the core

​@@nothanks5440i agree with this, they make me cringe so bad but they seem happy. Unfortunately last year they got doxxed and run off the platform, last I heard

Because it was so spooky

Same, I didn’t necessarily grow up with VHS tapes but I have watched them and know what they are and it makes me so frustrated when millennials treat us. I had a teacher who was absolutely flabbergasted that we knew what a VHS tape was and took it in a way that made all of us feel stupid. Like our generation was right behind yours geez

both generations grew up with the same media, movies/shows always had reruns on tv and games get cheaper as time passes, plus there were ports too on Virtual Console. both generations aren’t really that different in general, and if you want to really get deeper into it; Gen X essentially planted the seeds of our modern world (internet, digital infrastructure, fandom culture, etc)

Honey, you HAD a phone. Most millennials didn’t have an actual phone until they were adults. It was absolutely not common for children to be given cell phones and if you brought one to school it would likely be confiscated until the end of the YEAR. Your experience is very different than that of millennials. Furthermore, I’m not sure why you bring up emotional abuse as if you’re the first generation to have trauma.

​@@BoringTroublemaker I don't know how you meant this comment to come off but this kinda feels weirdly gatekeepy and serious considering the topic

@@alim.9801 what, exactly, am I gatekeeping? The experience of not having a phone? My point is, each generation had its own experiences, that’s why they are their own generation. Gen z trying act like they had the same experiences as millennials _but harder_ is absurd and objectively false.

But it was when we had culture

I miss the era of rawr XD sometimes

Former scene kid can unfortunately confirm 😂

Lol Rawr XD never ended

Sooo true loll XDDDD

this made me cackle lmao i guess some kids weren't terminally online like we were smh

I mean, in fairness, that is often exactly why some people go thru Peter Pan syndrome. Some ppl can get caught in a cycle of childish behavior if they feel, even subconsciously, that they were made to grow up too fast.

Thank god I’ve never seen any of those videos. I didn’t want to be scarred for life.

Lmaoo. I was raised on 2000s internet with no parental supervision. I am not okay!

Lmfao same

as an also young member of gen z I was not given a phone until 4 months ago never watched the brainrot (Jack stauber is amazing)

Ditto. I have all the respect in the world for the challenges that seemed so new to use as we came of age, but were baked into our culture by the time Gen Z had - no wonder it’s a generation that’s been defined by depression and a helpless sense of apathy, I can’t imagine. Just being old enough to remember before 9/11 and have a sense of self (I was 11yo) makes a huge difference in how fast the world moved in some of my most important developmental phases, and my bestie and I often talk about us being the last generation that remembers what it was like to live without the internet affecting our lives. That stuff makes a massive difference when you’re younger than 10, and it’s obvious that it’s has a huge impact on parenting in a mostly negative way, too. I have friends that are parents and I’m not sure that I will be one, but I’ve also been reflecting on the idea that millennials may be the first generation to be able to really push away the social pressure to have children. Sometimes I think that people like me, who love and appreciate children and take it very seriously, are the ones who would be more qualified parents, but the people who take it for granted are often a significant portion of the parents in our generation. All of these factors and more amount to the fact that growing up is hard, and that neglect and other problems advance over the years as we develop technologies that are supposed to be relief and support, but end up doing the whole job. I can’t say I’ve got the solution, but just talking about it like this video is very productive and perspective changing for anyone who didn’t understand- and I’m hoping it brings about more conversation and attention to foster positive change and compassionate cooperation.

I think younger millenials like 90 - 96 babies sand older gen z share a lot in common. Older millennials ..... idk and I feel like young gen z are really just iPad babies lite

​@dianeyoung8130 The development of technology and social media really did something. I was born in early 2000's so in a way perfect timing to see technology and social media grow and become what is known today. But the Gen Z born during the prime of social media... I can't relate to them. I can't relate to the Gen Z that are still high/elementary school. When I compare my childhood and teenagehood to theirs, it's so different.... My childhood is more similar to generalmillennial. The moment technology was born and developed. Going through these phases before entering their prime. Leading to social media. It's so weird

@@dianeyoung8130the iPad babies are gen alpha I’m gen z (2006) and never touched any type of tablet until age probably age 7 I feel like gen z was the last gen to grow up without constant technology at our hands I mean I remember schools switching from all paper to chromebooks and I did and still do hate it

@@dianeyoung8130btw I think the oldest gen alpha are 12 or 11

I agree; I always felt bad for Gen Z because I knew if things were crashing down in my generation (housing market, stock crash, 9/11, war), it was just going to get more dystopian for them. Social media was only just rising while I was in high school, and now gen z gets cyber bullied and faced a pandemic during crucial years. As my gen z cousin would say , "Millenials were promised the world and had the rug pulled out from under them so they deserve to feel bitter. My generation always knew we never had a chance."

This, the generation wars is just as dumb as the gender wars. There's way too much important shit going on to focus on trivial us vs them bullshit.

​@@FableCircusYou nailed it. We dealt with a lot of shit and crushed dreams, but at least we even had things to dream about.

GOD you don't know how good this is to hear!! I'm in my early 20s, on the tail end of gen Z, and I hate knowing that a lot of millennials automatically look down on me when we're not that different in the grand scheme of things!! It's sad how quickly people forget what it's like to be young and to struggle in these ways. It may be the fucked up kid in me, but it baffles me how quickly people stop caring about how children experience the world and how they feel. The genocide in Gaza has been hurting my heart so much to watch, and it hurts even more to know that my generation is being villainized for wanting senseless violence to end. It makes me feel crazy to close TikTok or Insta and see people supporting such vile acts. Covid peak was hard, I turned 18 in 2020 and graduated in 21. School was just a nightmare for me, too. How can my pain be swept aside without a care in the world when my generation is next to make change, to pick up the pebbled from the broken pieces that were shattered further?

Literally, in some cases! I'm 1994, my brother is 1997.

I also love funky a lot and I am glad u found them !

As a 1992 millennial as well I could not agree more. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who behaves like this.

X2

Same.

I’m a 1992 millennial too, and mind you I like to joke that I’m not a real adult, that adulting is hard, and a big part of reparenting myself is letting out the child in me sometimes. Yet, I’ve never acted, and don’t know any millennial around my age, who acts like the ones shown here. I was actually pretty shocked lol. I’m all for people having harmless fun and doing whatever makes them happy, even if it’s cringe, but those TikToks were still hard to watch lol. Like the KZfaqr mentioned, it’s more about them being a certain niche of people than about them being millennials.

I think the millennials who act like that are usually desperate for attention and/or watched too much Shane Dawson growing up 🙃

Just because these people are millennials does not mean millennials like this content. I assume most viewers on tiktok are 12 and younger, tbh.

Same!

‘95 millennial here and neither can I. I don’t agree it is a millennial issue - I think it’s a cry for attention and need to feel/look younger🤦🏻‍♀️

84' so old millenial and absolutely cannot relate whatsoever to it

Yes I born in 90 and this stuff has always been so cringe to me

I still do Naruto run. If you want to fight aerodynamics then be it, but I’m gonna be that streamlined ninja when I need be on time to my appointment

From the millennial side of things, the Naruto run was what we called the Inuyasha run at the time because it’s like exactly the same thing but from an older anime and that’s something that always made me laugh because even me in high school in 2004-2005 would run like that through the hallways But before Naruto was even popularized in America 😂😂😂😂 My actual live kids do the run that I STILL call the inuyasha run 😂

nah none of this have a real problem with it. I'm pretty sure op's thing is just to point out how cringe things are, but they themselves point out how cringe THEY can be too. so it's not really in bad faith or in any harm :o

My dad’s generation shot each other with bb guns in a river LOL

Oh Lord, you just reminded me of the planking fad when I was in highschool. Now that was millennial stupidity.

I hadn’t heard about Melissa McCarthy influencing it before but it really does make sense. Like a lot of these have that vibe. Because I honestly don’t know , does the actor act like this or has she had a part that acted like this? I at least feel like there are facial expressions in these videos that remind me of her

Not me I hate them both. But especially Jim Carey. So over the top its annoying

It’s a very small percentage that are like this. This is a behavior and mental issue. I’m surprise no one seems to know any psychology in these comments. Kinda sad how our gen z turned out.

@@Amberlyn520 lmfao I’m literally a cognitive scientist pursuing a forensic psychology degree, it’s just a joke my sibling in christ

Jim Carrey has made me laugh so many times I think he deserves a pass!