Is Gen Z COOKED?
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This is a topic I think about a lot... perspective, intention, self-awareness... things may seem bleak but no matter what age you were born in, there are always options... and those days we remember with such fondness, probably didn't feel like that in the moment... time has a funny way of distorting the way we see things. Thanks for watching :)
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10am in 2006 and it’s quiet? Nah my moms yelling at me for sleeping till 10 and not doing chores immediately
90s slowjams and/or gospel is blaring and the vacuum is running. It’s 10 Am and jokes on me - Im already late starting the chores.
Good times
2006 and dial-up? Bro is living in 1998.
Tell her to behave 😮
Brother that's nothing, try being forced to get up at 5:30 to catch a 6:00 train for school halfway across town
Sounds like a mom problem. My mom loved it when her three boys were asleep
The mourning dove coo is a staple piece in most lives, you haven't lived until you've been up all night and hear this bird as the sun comes up
Oh the old days of 4 day benders. 😂
What time is it?!? *Coo coo* oh shit 😮
Until you hear the sound of an airsoft gun shootin that bird... i grew up with 5 brothers
We even have it in Los Angeles. I'm truly baffled by the idea that somehow that bird only existed from millennials when they were children. Weird.
I hear many types of birds in the early morning, that's how I know it's 4:30-5 A.M.
I’ll never forget my art teacher told me in high school, there is creativity in boredom. He always urged us to sit with ourselves, no tv, no phones (music was ok), and create. I was born in 1995 for reference. I will never forget what he said, and it was always resonate with me. Often times I just want to put on a background tv show or drama, but I remember his advice and it’s pretty true.
I was also born in 1995 😊
Very true. As an adult I find the best way to follow through on a creative project is to severely limit access to entertainment
1993 here. My parents let me watch an hour of tv every day, and no more. I read so many books and drew so much growing up (I'm now making a living as an artist). Boredom really does breed creativity. Having limitations/constraints on your art does as well, I find (ie. not having access to tons of art supplies).
Anyways, my bf and I want to get married and have kids at some point, and I get a little worried sometimes thinking about how I can protect them (at least until their teenage years) from technology. Just so they can develop skills/interests that they can then use for the rest of their life, like reading, writing, drawing, playing a musical instrument, having a love of nature, exploring outside, etc. I think: if I restrict their tech access, will they just go over to their friends' houses all the time to play video games? I actually love video games personally, I just think it needs to be in moderation (and kids are incapable of moderation lol).
Dr. K (HealthyGamerGG) gives this advice too. He says that your mental state will become better and you’ll be able to enjoy yourself more once you become good at being bored.
Yo I’m a 95 baby to and thanks for that nugget of knowledge ima apply that more in my life 🤘🏼
As a gen z ('03), getting out of the "doomer" mindset is so unbelievably hard. Constant negativity surrounding jobs, politics, creativity, etc. Is everywhere and promoted. There is some weird comfort in staying in the negativity because you feel as though you are "opening your eyes" at first. But the longer you stay in it, it becomes a sinkhole. (I do have clinical depression that is unrelated before this becoming a major issue, so this may not be universal) I cannot imagine a future for myself in a career, a family, or being genuinely happy. It gives you such a hopeless outlook on life that I feel other generations did not have to the same degree that we do now because of tech. Trying to crawl out of this by spending some time doing hand crafts in silence and going out for birthdays with coworkers
I was in a similar spot, but now I haven't been on twitter for 3 years, instagram for 5 years, never been on tiktok and never scrolled youtube shorts. It's genuinely impressive how much of a difference it makes when you're not constantly bombarded with shit you probably didn't want to watch until the algorithm fed it to you.
The big difference between content like that and regular youtube is that on youtube you actually choose what you want to watch. If you don't want to see negative shit you just don't click on the video and instead click on something that'll make you laugh and even improve your day
I hope you find that happieness and contentment buddy. Believe a little bit longer ❤
Happiness isn't something that just happens to you, you have to actively work to be happy. Especially if you have a chemical imbalance in your brain, like depression. Just like a happy relationship doesn't just happen like in the movies, you actually have to work together and make compromises, to have a long lasting and happy relationship. I think seeing all this fake crap, like movies, people making up fake stuff on their social media, even the supposed "authorities and leaders" just make up bull crap so you will vote for them or do what they want, is warping people's minds. Is making so many lazy, and sad, and jealous, because they think from seeing all this fake crap, that there is something wrong with them because "things aren't just falling into place", like it is for everyone else. Like it does on tv/the internet ect. It's because to be genuinely happy and fulfilled you have to work at it.
@jojeanajaxon i'm definitely trying. Keeping the people i love in mind while i push through
@@okaydannithank u for this comment- I can relate- doing my best to stay positive and keep my mental as healthy as I can- u got this my friend 💪✌️❤️
I do miss the days when I didn’t have my phone glued to my hand…ironically I feel the “smart” phone has actually led to the dumbing down of some people.
You're absolutely correct.
The phone thinks for them, so they don't have to. It hurts my soul.
I tell my kids they live in the age of instant gratification.
So turn it off. It's not that hard😏
"SOME"?!
Me too. I hate the fact I’m addicted to mine. It just serves so many functions and allows me to obsessively check sports news! 😫
No, but why is Leon's bird impression spot f***ing on!?!
no.... what?
Its not.
I was waiting for the Family Guy cut away where Peter was obsessed with the Bird is the Word record.
A missed opportunity, I think. It was what I immediately thought of when he paused the video to riff on The Bird.
@@PhoenixRising883 A missed opportunity indeed.
Fr though 😂😂😂
I’m on the older end of Gen Z (born 1999)… what the tiktok guy is explaining sounds just like CHILDHOOD!! That was my childhood! I got my first cellphone when I was 9, it was a flip phone like all phones were at the time and also had a family computer that my sister and I could use whenever we wanted (the phone and Internet weren’t connected)
But I still lived the life he describes simply because I WAS A CHILD!! Even with a phone, it was rarely used.. even with internet, I still had a full childhood outside and playing with friends.
This guy is trying so so hard to be deep and saying we live in a whole “new worse world” when in reality he is doing what EVERY ADULT of EVERY GENERATION EVER is doing and that is MISSING THEIR CHILDHOOD
fr the way he described a millennial childhood exactly how my childhood was as an older gem Z (2000). millennials are obsessed with trying to prove that their childhood was better and that our generation hasn’t experienced anything they did
Straight up lol, I still even have LAN parties with buds sometimes because being with your buds in person is totally different than being in discord and talking.😂
I was born in 1998 I'm an older Gen zer and experienced the same thing too as a kid 😂
@@esque7091that's funny I'm 1998 he's 1999 and ur 2000 🤣
I got my first cell phone at 22 in 2001. It was a Nokia brick phone. The battery lasted years! I got my first laptop that same year. I have never enjoyed video games since Nintendo tbh. I miss TGIF on TV every Friday night and Saturday morning cartoons. 90's nostalgia is real!
Born in 75'. I miss all this. Having your own phone line, your jam box and dreams of the future and what to wear to school on Monday. Simple life. Truly missed! ❤
Amen! Fellow GenX here, 1971 ⬅️😮
Born in 75 as well!! Man I miss those days. Spending the summer walking around town, meeting up with friends and hanging out at burger king, the mall, or the forest preserve. Having to be home in order to get s phone call. Not knowing who it was when it rang because caller id wasn’t around. Having to be quiet when recording songs off the radio (onto a cassette tape). Damn good times. I’d go back and do it all over again, even if I couldn’t change a thing. (I was a brat at age 13 but got out of that phase within a year) miss you Momma ❤
Born a couple years later and I agree. The air even seemed fresher. Oh yeah, that was before they sprayed crap over us almost daily. The kids today are lost without their phones. We figured it out when in need. It builds character and faith.
@@skipper523 I see young teens still hanging out at places but everyone looks like a damn thug hiding behind black hoodies. can anyone explain to me when this became the thing?
Teen hiding their faces like they are going to go rob a bang?
Is it just where i live why are kids not showing their faces or wear something with color?
you had your own phone line as a kid? I was born in '96 and I wasn't allowed my own phone until I was 17-18 and paid for my own phone and plan.
This is why I love Leon. Whether it's this or brain worms he always dives into the terrible in the world and leaves us with a hopeful message. Thanks Leon
Thanks for being here 🙏🏼
I think a lot of people have a more positive view of the past because the past is set and that is comforting. The future is scary and unknown which people do not like to think about or deal with.
Maybe because in the past we didn't have majority of the young ppl claiming multiple mental illnesses as they do today. It is extremely odd.
Kinda, except the country is experiencing troubles at a precedented rate we just didnt have going on at the time. It was fewer and farther in between "worldy events", now it seems theres bad news at every turn.
It seems to fit. And there's plenty of written material from history filled with dire concerns about the "current, spoiled" generation, except this future was hundreds of years ago. Hindsight is always 20/20 and when you're younger, you'll generally find yourself yearning for that point in time and nostalgia isn't a new concept--as you said, the past is set and that is comforting.
The difference was is the lack of rules. Before you could play on train tracks and nobody cared. Now if you let a 16yo cross the street by themselves a busybody calls CPS.
I am an early gen z (99) and honestly I look back in fondness of the times before smart phones caught on big. I think it's mostly the later gen zs that grew up with smart phones. Smart phones didn't really become a thing until I was in middle school. Or at least I wasn't around them if they were, and the ones that did exist weren't that advanced yet. But before like 2011-2012, this was my experience. No bullshit distractions all the time, you could actually connect with people on a personal level. It all changed around 7th or 8th grade for me. But I relate to the late millennials more than gen z to be honest. Even though I technically am gen z, I feel like the early gen zs are overlooked because we don't really fit in with the later gen zs. Idk, it just is strange to me how much of a difference a few years makes. I don't really know what I'm getting at, but I feel like a lot of people my age would relate
Also from 99, i relate to the younger gen z when it comes to "growing on the internet struggles", the mental issues and all of that.
But then i relate WAYYY more in terms of cultures to the older generations. I dont get offended easily, i dont like modern clothing styles, modern mainstream music, and more "traditional" values if you will.
If we could mix more of the traditional stuff with the power internet, to me that would be perfect
Go back to the summers in the 70's & 80's, those are the good days that have been lost.
GenX in the HOUSE!!!!
Y’all were able to drink and drive back then right??
We weren't supposed to no, you hardly ever heard of deaths by DUI's. But we also had cars made out of metal not plastic. 😂
As someone born in 1988 and grew up in the 90s, I can honestly say I wouldn’t change that for the world. It was a gift that at the time I never realized I would cherish when I grew up.
Same
'81 for me. Those truly were great times. 😁
I'm 36 but spent my childhood in South Africa. That may as well have been the 70s during the embargo. By 06 I was living in East Podunk, Maine. I definitely owned my own car, had a job, a cell phone, and DSL in 2006...spent the summer raging with the Bois waiting for the first semester of college to start...sounds like this guy was a loser...
i was born 1999 (i saw the change around me i'd say between 2001 - 2008 is things majorly changed)
but i still don't think people are more unhappy though i think its more the fact we are all connected now (we notice more stuff that we didn't before abit like when you see a car you like then start seeing that car everywhere for the next 3 weeks) also the people that can't handle bad/sad news seeing news all the time on their phones but have no self control (so instead of being able to avoid it like in the past / only watching it in the evenings on the TV after work they see it and think the worlds gonna end everyday)
You have a much more mature and self aware view of it. Folks said the same thing about smart phones, that previous generations said about books, radio, tv, video games, and on and on. Time marches on, and we either adapt or die.
My daughter is 17 and I feel so bad for her generation. She never goes outside. Granted, when I was 17 I was getting into a lot of trouble and was a bit of a punk but I had a blast and I am so grateful that I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I feel like we are in some weird parallel universe now. Aside from the technology, the people here are fucking weird lol
Same. There were definitely negative and bad things that I went through in the 90s but for the most part, I wouldn't change a thing. There was a fundamental connection that people seemed to have and even kids seemed more mature due to it.
Around here being punk meant you were fighting skins on a regular basis.
Said the tech guru 😂, jkin, love your content.
Agreed!
I'm 18. I grew up in the suburbs of LA, riding my bike, skateboarding, and playing soccer. But I also played a lot of video games. Let me tell you this: The games and things you can do on modern technology stimulate your brain far more than doing stuff outside. I'm grateful I grew up with technology because I was blessed with an environment that facilitated my affinity for learning. Without technology, I wouldn't have had the good role models on youtube that taught me how to be open-minded and tolerant. So yes some kids in this generation grow up with a lot of technology and it can be bad, but you're only seeing the worst of the worst. The iPad kids, the Fortnite kids. But that doesn't represent all of Gen Z.
When you're a kid on summer break, you have no responsibilites and the knowledge that for 90 days you have unlimited free time. You didn't have a job, kids, bills etc. Also, you had experienced so little there were so many new experiences to be had. The world didn't change. We had to grow up.
Except I rarely see kids outside in the summer time any more.
But I don't think it's led to kids being less happy. And they still socialize, just in a new way. I remember some days not being allowed outside (thunderstorms, after the streetlights came on etc) I would get on the PC and we had chat rooms and Counter Strike. It's just more prevalent now.@@ChiTownGuerrilla
As a 45 year old Gen X, I 100% can relate to this. Every generation previous to current can relate to this. Yeah, go back far enough and video games, phones, TVs didn’t exist. None of that had interrupted the way we grew up. It was about touching grass and enjoying friends in person. Playing video games at Johnny’s house because Johnny was the first on the block to have parents that could afford a NES.
I’m a mid millennial and jeeeeezus, I can’t imagine growing up in the world today. The pressures from social media, lack of social skills and in person peer socializing is terrifying. It sounds morose, but if I was a teenager now, I’d have offed myself already. I was close to it as a teen in the early to mid 2000’s and that sucked ass in itself.
Being an awkward teen, knowing everyone has a phone that can record me at anytime and post it on the internet, would terrify me. And the bullying...at least back then you could avoid them but now they can post about you online, text you and your friends, spread rumors easily, etc. Total nightmare.
Morose indeed.
Im happy you're still here
2020 was the downfall of everything. COVID destroyed our social lives, we were isolated in our homes and we turned to social media to get some form of human interaction from people our age. It sucks having to build everything back up.
Crazy how quick things changed. I was 14 in 08. It was the introduction of camera phones. I can't even imagine being a teenager with all this social media influence, would be horrible
I feel so bad for my 6 year old, I see how unsocial everyone is, how negative most people are, and how addicted to phones everyone is. Breaks my heart and I wish we could go back
I work at a daycare and my 5 year olds still play with each other, toys, dance to music, love arts and crafts, no cell phones or iPads. You can still have that for your child if you create that environment
@@pineapplepie52 it's also up to the other parents, and I can't force them to have the same values and rules as I do. My daughters best friend in school, her mother has zero interest in hanging out with other parents, doesn't like being social. My kiddo is always asking to see her, can't because the other mother doesn't feel like interacting.
My daughter rarely uses her tablet, doesn't play much video games. But that doesn't mean other children are that way.
Sounds like American problems.. Enjoy your societal collapse.
Then why did u bring kids into this chaotic world???
@@kelleyhawk6595 uumm. You're kidding, right?
The funny thing is, growing up as a 2000's kid i got to experience this as well. I can still hear that blasted bird sometimes up here in canada. Brings me back to when my grandpa was still kicking.
dude starts painting a nostalgia scene. brings a tear or three to my eye. *insert leon with the bird calls* 🫨 lmfaoooo
i think the real beauty of happiness is when you accept the fact the world was always full of unhappiness (we are here for a good time, not for a long time)
(ps: the bird is cause you got up for school at 6/7am you was early to hear them now you wakeup 8:30 and dash around for 9am work)
I'd rather be waking up at 9 or 10 at least. I grew up in the 80's and 90's and they weren't some Golden Age. It just seems like it because I was a kid and had lots of fun and everything was new. We had boomers back then complaining about the new generation and it was nonsense. The older generation wasn't very bright if you ask me. Now Gen X is the new boomer? GAY!
There was never unhappiness at this level with young people. It is so bizarre.
@@sydneysomer9958 oh there was the only difference now is you share it on the internet and when your depressed you search depressed things or algorithmically watch depressing things to make more come up (so your more exposed to unhappiness during your sad moments but its no difference to when you talk about something and then keep seeing it for like a week for example you notice a car you like then keep seeing that car for weeks anytime you drive (the car was always there you just notice it more now aka unhappiness has always been the same the internet just makes you notice it more so we are exposed to it more but its not exposed us to be anymore unhappy then we already was anyway)
@@BaileyMagikz then maybe the young folks can stop discussing it incessantly like it's a badge of honor. You see it in all these body cam videos. It's the first thing they say trying to escape trouble, oh I have PTSD, I have anxiety issues, I am depressed. The Psych field has not done any favors to our society as teenagers are being diagnosed at an alarming rate.
@@BaileyMagikzno, stop. The internet and instant gratification along with the ‘selfishness’ of social media has absolutely warped people’s brains. We have actual brain chemistry that is effected by all types of things. Fear, addictions, pleasure. Etc. this is no different.
Your logic is like saying ‘there was always war before the nuclear bomb, the bomb didn’t MAKE war!’. Well yeah, sure, but the bomb sure as hell made war a LOT worse.
That’s how it is with the internet and our technological age. It’s the nuclear bomb.
1:44 Leon with these bird imitations has me laughing so hard I've got a pain in my side 😂
Millennial here, class of 2004! The Best & last years to grow up ever !
Gen Xer here. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine the other day while driving. He mentioned how technology ruined everything as we knew it as he talked to his wife through the hands free phone option, picked what music he wanted on his phone, and had the GPS tell him where to go!!
This! This! 😂 This is so true! I bet if you took away the phone of 99.9% of people saying "mobile phones and social media have ruined things" they would go mad within 24 hours 😂 (Gen X too)
Internet that tied up the phone lines in 2006? Maybe 1996. 2000 was the days of Napster. Broadband had been around for years by 2006. Dial up was already a relic of the past well before 2006 with T1, DSL, broadband, etc.
It was phasing out, not a relic of the past.
We got DSL in like, 2005. We were poor, and in a small town, so we were a bit behind the curve.
Not everyone got internet at the same time. It wasn't only until recently that everyone could aford to be online. Same with the fiber optic upgrades that were rolled out in phases, and only highly populated areas got it first.
I had dial up in 2006, we finally got a computer that year. I had a joke of a cell phone that same year.
Maybe you're from a VERY developed country. Im from a developed country, internet phone lines were very much popular in 2006, not a relic.
Also funny you mention napster, Lars Ulrich got hated for going against them and then everyone realized he was right haha
That quiet would be interrupted by your mother telling you to stop being so lazy, get up, and clean your room it get dragged out to go visit the elderly grandparents who were miserable trolls, not the fun grandparents on the other side lol
I’m so old I can remember when dating was a thing, now it’s called a hookup.
lmao i can relate that, sitting at my grandparent house and my uncle keep bullying us for no reason.
@@Notfiveo0ah yes. Nobody days anymore (sarcasm)
I hold the same opinion. I feel like most people would rather live right now than in the 80s or 90s even if they miss the nostalgia of that time. You always remember the good memories and forget the inconveniences and the lack of comfort.
I'm from Gen X, we had zero supervision. I can't tell how many times I almost died. Doing stupid things. I love my pc and my phone because of all the info I can learn. My daughter is Gen Z and I get all the going outside thing. But she was able to survive Covid, by connecting with her friends online. I don't know how my generation would have done, not being able to go out with friends. She and i love playing video games together.
What I hate about modern social media is that everything is drowning in nostalgia aesthetics. There’s 2000’s nostalgia, 90’s nostalgia, 80’s nostalgia, 70’s nostalgia, tweens nowadays even getting nostalgic for 20 freaking 14 - and this is all because everybody, no matter how old they are, hates the present. Nothing memorable is being produced in the present moment that is actually identifiable with the present moment.
Agree but also disagree... I think is up to you how you see the world... Try to change your perspective and try many things that you haven't before... There are many new technologies and things created pretty often, but a lot of people are just trapped in social media instead of living lives themselves... I could be wrong but that's what I think...
Nostalgia isn’t up to you to decide lol. Plus you’re weird for thinking it absolutely has to be tied to a popular product or theme. You’re a sheep in todays civilization and you don’t even know it.
Nostalgia can be triggered by anything. Even if there’s nothing ‘memorable’ being produced… someone could be spending time with family while a shitty show plays in the background. That show will trigger good feelings and nostalgia if the overall time spent was a good experience.
That's the same mentality as the person in the TikTok. There are so many memorable things being produced right now. As a gamer, I am all too familiar with the doomer mentality that is so pervasive now thanks to countless dime-a-dozen video essays beating the dead horse of "modern gaming is dead" or creatively bankrupt, soulless, etc. But that's so far from being true.
Just wait another 10 years?
Until you jump 10 years then you become nostalgic for today. It's so stupid everyone isn't able to comprehend that they have always hated the present. You hated your life in the 90s. You wished you were an adult every day. It's all fake, times weren't better in the past. You weren't happier in the past. It's ridiculous. It's your inability to truly remember the past and how you disliked it just as much
joy can always be found around you, if you're consciously looking for it. happiness is a choice and sometimes you have to fight extra hard for it. but when you're fixated on the past and the depression you may feel, it will only make your problems worsen. challenge your thinking instead. growing up/growing old is a privilege and can be an incredible journey if you allow it to be.
chris is a shyster and coincidentally *a self-help guru*. textbook case of "create a problem, sell the solution".
This is a really well put comment. Thank you.
Happiness is a choice is a cope and delusion. Just like love is a choice is delusion. Falling in love is not a choice, the only choice that was made was being in the vicinity of the one you fell in love with which may not have even been a choice you were all in on.
But I digress,
Happiness happens to you as does falling in love. Happiness is not sustainable. That is why my ex will never be happy and always be left wanting. It is tragic. Being content however is sustainable for vast amounts of time.
True happiness isn't a choice. But choosing to focus on the good/happy things that happen and not just the bad, that is a choice.
Amen!
Honestly i always think about the differences to when i grew up in the 90s, early 2000s when yeah some people had phones but its wasnt the way we interacted with the world. People seem so scared to chat in public or get upset when a task is on their shoulders/cant be done quuckly
I think it’s reflecting on a time we were younger and had way less responsibility.
I had this one friend where we were so in sync we used to naturally just meet up everyday. Don't know how but everyday our paths just crossed and we ended up hanging out together
That's called a classmate😂
@@kevinclinger5987 lmaooooo
Or they was stalking you to be friends been there 🤣
I do miss it, I never appreciated the peace as a kid back then. Now it's all I want.
It’s not hard to have it now there’s nothing stopping you.
@@SirReginald.easy to say from a blanket standpoint. But you don’t know the individuals circumstances. It generally isn’t possible to just cut yourself off from the world suddenly if you have roots like a career, family and friends/relationships in it.
The world was never better. You just weren’t aware how dark it was yet
This guys doing “I’m 14 and this is deep” like 20 years later than he should be.
Boomers do this all the time (rosey retrospection), now some Millennials are starting to do the same thing. Leon is spot on!
No he’s not because each generation has become progressively worse. As a millennial myself I can say we WERE worse than our prior generation but we also were the catalyst that caused such terrible generations after. At least in terms of behavior. The economy has been doomed to fail for a few generations now. But that’s another topic.
@@TheSCPStudioWe weren't worse they just didn't have phones an the ability to document it. People maybe on average may have been even more trashy depending on the areas. 😂 Believe me I can hear stories about the past and it's like wow nothing changes really just our awareness to it is all. Also there's this thing that gen z is numb to stuff but then is also soft is wild to me. Like can't we make up our minds anymore lol
Yep. Boomers vs Millennials. The only smart thing either of them decided to agree on. Stay away from Gen X. We tend to play a little rough.
Oh my gosh, that was the bird!!!!🤣😂
You nailed it perfectly!
I do miss the carefree days when my friends and I were becoming adults, where hanging out was a given and not a scheduled event, but life goes on. I dunno if it was better, but it's torture yearning to go back instead of simply treasuring the memories made.
I was born in 98. So that makes me a gen z. But I do very much miss the old times. My boys and I used to go around our city all day, going from pool to pool and meeting with other friends. We had 0 time to sit down and play xbox or playstation. We were too busy doing stuff together. And I know times have changed when every time I pass by what used to be our pool, there’s no one there. Not a single soul! When we were in middle school and high school, that pool was packed all day every day. Didn’t matter if it was cold. Times were better back then in my opinion. I’m doing everything I can to have my daughters have that same childhood. All day on a tablet isn’t fun. All day outside with friends is 💯
I lived in a house in the middle of nowhere in a town with no other kids around in summer 2006, only time I would wake up to something pleasant is when I stayed with my grandparents and my grandma would be cooking in the kitchen with Telemundo blaring from her tiny little mounted TV.
What a beautiful memory. I have similar ones.
*"Killimanjaro!"*
I was born in '96, turning 28 this year and having my first kid. I CHERISH the daily outside shenanigans i would get into when i was child, constantly climbing trees, playing with other kids in my neighborhood, riding bikes, going to the blockbuster or local vhs rental to pick the movies we'd watch that night or over the weekend. Waiting for the ice cream man, playing tag, hide and seek, jump rope, etc. I want this childhood DESPERATELY for my child but i feel it is unattainable because every other child around him will grow up with an iPad glued to their face. I want him to play outside but will there be others to play with or would i be isolating him from his generation? It makes me deeply saddened for the kids growing up these days. I truly believe something needs to drastically change with the way we are completely addicted to technology. I know its been said a million times by othwrs, but i just cant stand it.
It’s the summer of 2006, I’m freshly 18. It’s 10 am and I’m groggily waking up from my last nights drunken stupor. I went to bed around 4am. Spent all night partyin and swimming in the river in our ‘secret spot’ I have a Verizon LG Chocolate cell phone in my hand that has ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ as the ring tone that I recorded off the cd. I missed the mornin calls of that early bird while I was drooling on my pillow completely incapacitated from the previous night. But this guy is totally givin me nostalgia lol ugh I miss it so much. The kids these days will never know what it’s like to really feel free. As much as I use technology, I truly believes it stifles us mentally as human beings.
I'm from '99 and my first phone was the purple LG Cookie
@@liselotterienties I remember the cookie 😂 I never had it but I do remember it
2006, graduation year... yeah, I had a flip phone. That just broke the emersion.
As did the not being able to use the internet. We were rocking Adelphia highspeed in my home. Don't give me crap about their embezzlement. They provided quality service!!
I was just saying I was 14 in the south not even a city and our Internet was not that bad. Also I'm not sure but not a year later for sure my friend and a smart phone that was actually good like watch him playing RUclips videos at decent quality for the time. I'm not sure about 2006 for phones as I was ADD. I do however remember internet being more than just fine by this point. He's thinking like 2000 I'll give him that dial up was so horrible 😭
Same. That was also my grad year. I had a flip phone and a laptop and the house's internet had been cable for 5 years.
I’m a millennial and I can say my childhood was really fun, but hitting 12… whole new ballgame since. But there are things I realize my children don’t have access to that I did… certain birds singing, lightening bug catching, just being able to run around and play without worrying so much… there’s a lot
This is so stupid. You can do and enjoy all of those things still.
It's like that song nostalgia by Chance the Rapper. He explained how most kids grew up in the 90's and 2000's. I'm so grateful for being born in 98. The sky was bluer back then
I'm so glad you added the last bit to this. It's absolutely an effort to see people, make plans, going outside. You can still have the things. The older you get the more responsibilities you have but you can choose how to balance that. You get to make decisions that you may not have been able to make back then. It may not be as easy, but then again not everyone had an easy and free childhood either. It's all choices and circumstance.
I'm a 2000s guy, and have you ever seen me at a texas roadhouse?
I am a pretty happy broke guy, just saying before i watch this.
As a millenial, I was straight-up miserable until about 2010. Gen Z is really having the 'grass is greener' delusion delivered to them on demand.
Tf you mean
Delusion? Life was objectively better in the past. I would argue your average medieval Englishmen was far happier and more fulfilled than any random Gen zer today. Technology has only made our lives worse.
@@cold6959, this OP is definitely "sus"...
There is absolutely no way a medieval peasant had a better quality of life than a Gen Zer. Happier maybe as I do believe in Plato’s Cave pretty firmly, but definitely not a better quality of life.
@@themodernfrontiersmen that's objectively false. the average medieval Englishman lived until he was 31-32 years old and wore the same pair of underpants for his entire life. he bathed twice per year, couldn't read, and had no real rights to anything because he was likely a serf in a system that saw him as currency and could reposess his land at any time for any reason. mortality during and before childbirth, for mother and baby, was somewhere between 30% and 60%. illnesses wiped people out in droves because there was no sanitation or hygiene practice.
things are better now by leaps and bounds. we have the tools to be happier, we just aren't using them properly. technology isn't the enemy, but it's been abused.
I’m so glad I grew up in the early 2000’s , I was born in ‘98 so while I’m sad I missed the 90’s , I’m blessed to have been able to be the last group of kids who didn’t grow up with smart phones, I do truly believe social media and access to the internet in any place has ruined everything
I was born 99’ and I still had some great memories without a phone. Used to be outside playing all the time. I do miss those days
2006 internet took up the phone line? Nope. I had a cell phone, internet, video games, and was a junior in high school. I wasn’t bored when I woke up. I couldn’t wait to game and never go anywhere. His description is more 99-00.
Curious as to where you are from as I still had to go to my local library for internet use.
@@101spacemonkey I was in South Florida and had Internet, cell phone, personal blog (that momentarily received a lot of traffic and a spot on the main page as I was documenting Hurricane Charley with video updates) and a MySpace account. Twitter was launched in 2006. The Internet was not the unattainable, desolate wasteland as portrayed in this video.
ETA: My sister had a blog in 2002 or 2003 (with dial up home internet) where she threatened President Bush and got a visit from the Secret Service. They really do show up in black vehicles wearing nondescript black suits.
All this to say that it wasn't uncommon for a lot of people to have had home internet access in 2006.
@@101spacemonkey I grew up in Tennessee.
@@PhoenixRising883 not where I'm from but I'm not in the US. There are areas near me that still don't have internet even though it is much more common and most have it but there are kids I teach who don't have it in their homes. I personally have to use a mobile dongle for internet in my home as it isn't provided at high speed in my area via fibre or similar
@@101spacemonkey My parents live in a rural area in Kentucky and they do not have Internet access aside from their cell phones. Even with a cell phone, there is only one company that provides service. So I understand there are still parts of the world (and the US) that don't have Internet access. It's just not nearly as common to hear about, especially now.
Hes gotta point. I got so excited when my buddy asked to video chat instead of txt... thats sad lol physical human interaction is necessary for our mental health. That C-19 really made ppl forget
Get out of your house?
Even back in high school. (I graduated in 2014) my friends and I went outside ALL THE TIME. walked downtown Chicago or just took a walk in general when we were bored. I feel bad for these kids because they don’t know that yearning to go play with the neighbor kids
the more i think about it, the more it seems as though the rosy retrospection comes from childhood/preteen years. sounds like growing up is the hard part. and while i get that kids nowadays will sadly never experience that specific memory that the tiktoker was talking about (really comes down to the family around the kids though), they might look back at yknow, hanging out on discord or playing online games with a friend as a positive memory, as the online world could be an escape for them. it has its pros and its cons, but i have hope for the future (not too much though bc the internet can honestly be the worst place to be).
wonderful video :)
That title is so true. We were the last generation to grow up without the internet and social media. The generations after us are numb. Dead inside. It’s tragic.
I feel so grateful for that 😊
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Lmao, every generation has been saying that shit
OK boomer. I'm not saying that you're a literal boomer, but you sound just like one. Kids are smarter today and people who are higher intelligence tend to be withdrawn and antisocial
@@zelaird8526 yes, of course they have. Dumbing down the population has been in the works for many decades now. But since social media and higher tech started becoming every day necessities, It’s really gone down fast.
We felt joy? I don't remember it...
This is why my dark humor joke book is so thick.
Right I enjoyed myself more as adult than I ever did as a child lol
You can live in the past wishing you made different decisions or you can be current and make the best of whatever situation you're in right now
This is a really really good take on the state of affairs and as long as any parents are teaching kids moderation then it is still possible to have a bright future, some kids are already burnt out on it and hoping for more natural days so maybe we can return to a better balance! Especially when we all talk about it like this!
That FUCKING bird!!
What?!? We supposed to feel joy?!
Born in 77, and grew up in a mountain town, with a single store that was smaller than most peoples garages. I could only dream for the technology we have today, with the means to connect with likeminded artists, readers, and gamers. While I hold some nostalgia for the time, I don’t miss having to live through it. Not even a little bit. I don’t feel bad for today’s generation. They’re doing exactly what they want to do, which is exactly what every generation does. My generations parents were on our cases constantly, about playing video games and TV, and their parents were on them about what they listened to on the radio. This isn’t new territory. I can hear the birds just fine while drinking my tea and reading the news online, from my iPad. In fact, I can even open an app to identify which birds they are, read about their migration habits, and then buy their preferred seed from Amazon, to feed them.
It's all about being present in the moment and the phone takes you out of it. At the same time I'm never bored and boredom actually sucks
Very eloquent here. I always tell my students, "If an app or service is free, that means you're the product"
Ahhh yes, its the summer of 2006 and Im lying..... on the sand of area J on Ft Bragg, NC doing flutter kicks in 90% humidity after returning from my first combat deployment..... Hmmm, the nostalgia just isnt hitting me the way I thought it would....
I TRULY DO miss them good ole days. I miss paying rent, electric and water with just one weeks worth of pay. I miss having the pay checks from the 3 weeks out of the month to choose to save, or vacation with. Can we somehow go back to that?
Every time i watch videos with that song and that bird, with mentions of nostalgia i actually get depressed and i want to go back to those times when i was truly a kid and was as happy as one can be, i'm 17 so i'm not that old but it truly used to be amazing to be a kid, in the summer we would play tag in my village till like 10 PM with flashlights so you wouldn't know if it's the seeker or just someone else
2006 and only dial-up line? That sounds more like 1996. 😋
Exactly. Broadband was pretty popular way before 2006.
Depends on where you lived I guess.
This definitely sounds more like the 90s than 2006
The time is wrong for sure. I had a Nextel in college in 06. I understand the point but it’s a few years off.
yo Leon why you drinking out the straw so aggressively @ 3:34 😂
I looked into the water bottle and apparently it sucks… and the straw doesn’t work well. 😂😂😂
I was born Jan 1982. The oldest of four. Next was my little sister born 1986, a brother born in 1990 and another brother born in 1993.
We grew up playing outside for hours. Riding our bikes (never locking them up) running through the sprinkler in the yard in summer and ice skating on the local pond every winter.
We maybe got one to two half hr TV shows over the weekend but mostly we only wanted to have sleepovers instead, and make up ghost story's to scare ourselves silly. Lol
I remember my mom owning one of the first cellular telephones. This enormous rectangle with a at least a 6 inch antenna spouting off the top and the service- spotty at best.
The first cell phone I owed was summer of 2002. A blue Nokia. Basically for calling and texting. The first real "smart" phone I owned I think was 2010. A Blackberry tho i really only used it for GPS.
. Then the year following, at the end of 2011, I finally owned a Samsung. I believe it was a 3 or 4. Either way, that was when I started using RUclips and Google. Eventually utilizing apps as well. So for the first 10 years of using cell phones I really only used them for texting and calling, listening to the radio and setting alarms. But from then on, I used my cell a lot.
I will say however, when it comes to computers- I do prefer PCs. A good old fashioned stationary tower. I do own a lap top but I use my PC 90% more.
There is no arguing that the online world has definitely become woven into our lives and we have become dependent on it in many ways.
I CAN remember meeting with friends as a child and a teen and Noone had cell phones. We were WITH eachother when we were together. I nvr see that now. Even with family, there is always a few who have their phones, at the very least in their hands. Though I have to admit I am one of them. 😅
I joined the army in 2006 my man hahahaha
Millensquad where you at!?
My past is full of chidhood abuse and trauma and things i relive everyday even when i dont want to. My present is full of love, a fiance, two children full of love, and so many other things. If i find myself down or thinking of the past, i switch my brain to the present and try to be full of gratitude. My kids dont have ipads, we go outside to our property everyday and enjoy eachothers company. Its easy to think the past is better, but those things aren’t completely lost, and neither is human connection. You just have to keep it alive in your own home and own lives and instill those things into your own values, and then teach your children the same. ❤️
Hey Leon, I agree with you about the rosy picture effect influencing people's memories, you can see it even by reading ancient poets e philosophers it has always existed.
But in my personal experience, I'm a 25 Italian living in Tuscany, my neighborhood e my city were extremely more alive until 2015/2018 in those years i noticed how everyone is no more used to smile while interact, neighborhoods are much more quiet than i rember, around you can see little kids with parents but you see less and less teenagers doing dumb things just for spending time together as my friends and I did.
This message doesn't want to say everything is worse now, but there has definitely been a change in the society I grew up in, with this said I whis you well. Love from Italy 🇮🇹
Bro smoke weed once and thought he discovered something wild.
Gen X here. If we showed up at your house you were getting drunk while doing various activities. That lasted till about '95 when music died.
edit: before anyone else goes on a 6 day rant...this was a troll comment.
✊🏾Gen X Baby
sounds like you stopped seeking out good music. it's out there.
Sure. But it's made by kids sitting on their beds drinking weird kinds of tea. When did musicians stop getting drunk and high anyway? @@MissElleHerself
Woot woot Gen X!
Bye bye American Pie
I feel the nostalgia but it’s vicariously. My parents were very strict and I couldn’t play halo/violent games, have a console, or have any sort of cell phone or go places in older siblings cars. I wish I could have had these experiences but I was always being watched.
Damn lush- your looking great - huge props my guy! I need to find that focus
Unpopular opinion, Millennials are HOT!
You're welcome 😉
The crazy thing is one day we'll be nostalgic for these days, enjoy them all while they last
The thing I find funny is that people act like anyone born after 1999 is suddenly WAAAY different lol. I was born in 2005 and I could relate directly to every single nostalgic moment he brought up, I played skylanders and black ops zombies with the boys during sleepovers when none of us had phones, I’ve woken up when the sun was just rising and the birds could be heard through a cracked window and I had nothing to check or scroll on, I have been ambushed by my friends on bikes and went out to explore the neighborhood and play football till dinner. I have gotten up early to watch the newest Cartoon Network episode while eating cereal. None of this is a uniquely pre 2000 experience rather a human experience we all share.
Thank you for talking about this, self awareness is incredibly important through life.
80's dudes don't like millmennials cause there cut from a different cloth...just spitting FACT'S
Who are you talking about when you say 80s dudes?
Maybe people who were adults in the 80s feel this way, but millennial generation started in 81 so hopefully you don’t mean dudes who grew up in the 80s 😅
I’m sorry but GEN X was the LAST truly in person generation!!! Millennials had cell phones by age 10 - and texting was a way of life in high school for them!!! We, Gen X’ers had to use a phone with a cord attached to the wall! Those of us with “really cool” parents got to have a phone in our room!Call waiting and 3 way calling were amazing new inventions!! We went to the mall, the skating rink, rode bikes/quads/dirt bikes- and cruised Main Street, hit the drive in, and had parties at the local river/lake/swimming hole when we were older! THOSE were the days!!!
I can certainly relate as I have some disabilities and have very few "friends" as most of my circles have passed away etc. It is very hard to make new connections these days as most people are, well, a bit self centered. I even dream dreams of another life with past friends and loved ones to help fill my loneliness void! Yes, I yearn for the good old days. My kids rarely text and never actually call. They have their own lives. I have no partner so I'm looking at a bleak future for me as I grow older and broker.
I feel joy all the time and I see beauty everyday. I'm Gen Z. Also 2006 was a terrible year for most of humanity. I hate this western approach to the world that the 50s to 00s were perfect to many people. It wasn't even close.
I'm 32 and this was beautiful. you sir, explained this perfectly ! big tank you for eye opening words ! 👏😊
Best video yet. You’re so right. It’s up to us as individuals to not be sucked into the void.
Its so subjective. Like i enjoyed the 90s and 00s. But having to go to someones house to find out if they were busy or not only to have to walk back when theyre stuck doing homework. Not being able to keep in touch with family members in other countries that easily. And hey, maybe the way we use tech is the problem, not the tech itself lol
But thats just how i see it i guess. Im happy with life now, im still outgoing but i dont shame people for staying in all yhe time cause people like to live individually sometimes. I dunno.
But also, Love ya Lushboy.
Couldn't agree more Leon. I'm 35 and a millennial. I graduated in 2006.. the year before the iPhone came out. These kids will never know about the Nokia snake game!
i feel this im 18 now i didn't get a phone till i was 15 and I went outside was forced to by my mother and know when I look at my younger brother I feel bad bc he wont experience any of the random things that happen when your on the side of the road trying to get cars to honk with your friends bc your grandfather showed you the universal sign for truckers to blow there horn, things like that I will never forget and cherish!!!
Def one of ur best videos Leon loved it!!!
We also live in the part of life where things are crazy raising kids. So the good old days without responsibility will always look rosy until we grow up and the raising of the kids is rosy.
So eloquently put like always.
I love u Leon
I'm geriatric. At 42, I have to ring a bell and ask the nurse to comment on Leon's content. That said, I didn't expect this video to get so deep! Awesomely done.
Edit: 2006? 1992 yo, that decade from turning 10 until you're 20ish? That's the best era for all of us.
Yea I think he was 10 years ahead of himself
@@LeonLush Agreed
Dodie Clark said it the best. “Am I the only one wishing life away. Never caught up in the moment busy begging the past to stay. Memories painted with much brighter ink.”
I can remember the party line on the landline telephone 🎉. Good times but greater days ahead 💜
6:25 🎶 my friends are in my head 🎶
I know when I listen to music that I listened to at the height of my teenage years there's a particularly potent nostalgic twinge that I feel making me tear up every time. It wasn't a particularly rosey or happy time for me, I mean it was fine but I've had better days in my 20's but the music at that tumultuously developmental era just hits different, it's angstier, grungier, happier, sadder, angrier, whatever the emotion the music is trying to convey is just more intense and hits deeper.
Right when you said “flash forward to the present” an ad for the omen started 😅 it was good timing. Lol