The Millennial Meltdown
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This week: we take a deep dive into the mind of a stereotypical millennial and find out why we act the way we act. Enjoy!
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as a gen z kid i would like to input that i have never actually heard someone use the word "cheugy" in real life except for the time when my mom asked me if people said it. i'm convinced tiktok made it up for clout
I’ve only heard the one girl who’s super mean and judgy about peoples clothes actually use it 😅 she’s always like “hey those shoes? Yeah, sorry, they’re cheugy. Not cool. Don’t wear those” like okay but if I like it and it’s flattering to me I’m going to anyway??
Kind of a dumb word tbh. But I'm sure that's what every successor generation says about the newer one.
cheugy actually just sounds gross as a word lol. I hope people dont use it, it just isnt an appealing word for my ears. Sounds like it would be some sort of bodily fluid.
@@visnau1126 mmm yeah baby, luegy that cheugy all over me.
bc there’s a difference between internet culture and how people behave in real life. if you’ve ever heard someone talk irl the way ppl talk on twitter (like the slang) it sounds weird and out of place. that goes for generations as well. gen z kids might follow tiktok trends irl but that doesn’t mean they’ll behave the way they do online (although some do and from what i know it’s considered cringey; like for example using the word cheugy to describe your friends outfit or something like that)
full grown adults starting fights with kids is what makes millennials even more embarrassing
espcially on roblox for some reason 😭😭 ive (15) had a fight w a 38 yr old on da hood
@@averoni9510 help what 😭😭 that’s just sad af
@@3m967 no cs i had a fight w a 26 yr old on adopt me like 3 weeks ago 😭😭
@@averoni9510 ON ADOPT ME? HELP WHAT… why is a grown ass person playing adopt me in general 😭
@@averoni9510 both have fully developed frontal lobes, and still act like this 💀
The problem is boomers think ‘millennials’ are teenagers of today’s time. The youngest of us are already 30.
The fuck are you on about? Millennials are 1981 to 1996. Please don’t lump me in with the tide pod eaters 😂.
right🤔🤔🤔
Youngest are 27 I think since it goes to 1996. I was born in 95 and I'm 28
@@abrielle13 26 actually since some were born December of 1996
Legit I have heard older millennials complain about how lazy the “millennial” generation is. XD
The thing is: for me, as a Gen Z-er, I dressed like this in like 7th grade, so it blows my mind that ADULTS wore this clothing I now consider my bad middle-school phase (tumblr and all)
Right?? I remember when the mustache aesthetic was all over Justice in like 4th grade
YEP😂
I forgot what it’s called, but it’s unironic comformity & mainstream clothing
as the metaphor goes
History repeats itself
such as mullets coming back into trend rn
a lot of stuff comes back eventually, OR never died in the first place
I was borderline Gen Z / Millennial & me being into Bloo’s Clues had everyone turning their necks around me
like yo.. Fred was always sick af to watch
this!!!
Millennials and Gen Z are the loterally the same.
In fact, Millennials and Gen Z are borrowing from Gen X.
I like to describe Gen Z humor as a game of telephone. It gets passed around by so many people so rapidly that in three days, if you were not there when it began, it becomes absolutely incomprehensible to anyone else.
Gen z language example: U smell like a susi baki fr tho like ur unbased and not very poggy. L + ratio + u fell off
the age of esoteric
@@njdotson I don't get it 😭😭😭😭
Osteoporosis 😋👍
@@njdotson and in between every word there's an OOHHH MY GOOD and a minion fart sound and bruh sound effect number two and also vine boom and the Gordon Ramsay sound effect
“She really wrote this, recorded it, posted it and thought it was a serve”
It *was* a serve. She served herself up to get eaten alive lmao
You my friend have just won the internet
@@sgftrackie13 enough
12:10 uhmmm😇what🧿did👾I💂🏻♀️Just👛walk🩳into🧳
Internet the won just have friend my you
yasssss internet
i'm a gen z (16 right now) and i'm sick of seeing so many millennials online be like "oh kids and teens these days will never grow up with kingdom hearts and 2000s anime and a DS and blah blah blah" like i have an older brother who introduced me to that stuff at a pretty young age, what do you mean the newer generations can't or won't grow up with this stuff???
RIGHT I got to do all of those and im 18. I got to play with a fucking atari. Just cause you were born in a period doesnt mean all we have to use is the modern devices and shit
acting like you can't go on ebay and buy a ds 😭😭
im 36 and get so stoked when I hear teenagers excited about something from then i was their age so its not all of us lol
no LITERALLY i’m 21 and i learned how to read off of kh and specifically pokemon stadium 1 so when people are like “oh you’re too young to remember the BEST media” i’m like tf you talking about
im 17 and when i have kids i will make sure they have the oppo😢rtunity to use a wii and ds. they’re important
People older than me lose it when I tell them I watched old Disney movies on VHS lmao. They think they're the only people who've had them and gain a weird superiority complex because of it💀
Im still in high school (im late gen z) and i remember my family still had a vhs player, and before we upgraded to a decent flatscreen tv we had to play our wii on a shitty old crt lol
I’m 18 and same.
it gives the same vibes of those "only 90s kids will remember this" memes when like, i was born in 2004 and i remembered most of them lmao
@@spoingelerboibOh my God me three I lived with my grandmother in my earlier years and we would watch our vhs films together all the time. The wii was a bit later with my parents
Depends on what age millinial you are. Vhs was retired in 2007 or 2008. I was 17 or 18. It seems like a world away but someone born in 96 or 97 which is the older generation Z would have been like a freshman in high-school. So even some younger gen z would have had them but one thing we had (81-91) was the opportunity to drive ourselves and choose from thousands of movie rental stores and pick up our favorite movies as opposed to the younger millinial or older gen Z having their parents buying them the newest clamshell Disney movie. Most movie rental stores went out of business when I was in college.
I once saw someone say that millennials reacted so negatively to not being young and cool anymore because by the time other generations were aging out of their youth, they had financial security and careers and stuff like that. Gen X didn't care that they got uncool bc they had houses and retirement savings
I feel like this is also behind the phenomenon of many Millennials going the other way entirely and declaring themselves “old” and “decrepit” the second they hit 30 - since we live in a gerontocracy where most of the property and power is being hoarded by senior citizens, there’s a desperation to get old and join that class as soon as possible
I think there's some legitimacy to that
That's such an accurate take
Yeah for 10+ years I felt like I was still 16 cause not much had changed, I didn't have a job and lived with my mom.
So yeah it is hard to think you're an adult when you're the 1st generation to have negative economic mobility and if you're a US minority it's even worse as it was never good to begin with yet somehow your great grandparents still owned a house :/
@@DoctorBiobrain cope
I’m Gen Z but I remember the millennial tumblr aesthetic, it’s burned into my brain, I remember the ombré hair, the zoella style, the sunglasses and moustaches shirts, the aesthetically pleasing Starbucks pictures, the hats, the weird obsession with ‘sweater weather’… good times
Dan and Phil were figureheads of this age
@@alexicon7034 icons fr
the galaxy leggings…
Same.
@@alexicon7034 middle school memories
Genuinely surprised you didn't bring up "adulting" and how it's still alive and well for too many people. I'm 37 and that was cringe the moment it appeared
??
the best description of a millennial i’ve ever heard was “they want you to relate to everything they do but also nothing they do so they can fight you about it”
I think I’m a millenial
Millennial wedding: their dog is the ring bearer, they’ll reference their hogwarts houses in their vows, then when they post the pics afterwards they’ll caption it “so… we did a thing”
This is so accurate 💀
😭😭😭😭
“So… we did a thing” is too accurate 😂😂
This is so accurate it’s painful
that awkward moment when
I genuinely believe most of the youngest millennials and the oldest Gen z basically had the same childhood.
For sure. We had the best of the best and we raised with mainstreaming technology just as they did, due to that we had many things in common from just a understanding point. Also we had the good shows that weren’t just shovel ware for your spazz of a kid and game companies/companies in general that weren’t just their to make a quick buck like the new generation have today.
Perfectly put.
tbh that’s probably why there’s a lot of discourse over when the millennial era ended/gen z started. there’s tons of overlap, esp if you have siblings. i’m not even a younger millennial (born in 89), but my sisters born in 96 and even 2000 have similar childhood experiences to mine idk
We’re cuspers so that makes sense 🤷🏽♂️
@@ArtsyHumanbean this is so funny to me bc my sister was born in november of 96 and identifies as a millennial
I do have to say, millennials make the best elementary school teachers.
One of my teachers in elementary school was a raging millennial and disney adult, and my whole class loved her. It was terrifying, looking back at it.
For tho my elementary school is FILLED with Disney adults
Something I think Gen Z and Millennials need to remember is that we're fighting the same battle. These things we bicker over online are magnified in our minds by social media. You can't fight the power while you're fighting each other.
Yeah in my eyes at least we have waaaay more in common than we don't. I kind of view it as Boomers and Gen X where they ended up being buddy buddy at the end of the day despite constantly bickering. Not that I think its a good thing but at least Gen X is a nice bridge for Millennial and Boomer peace talks. Stress on the just "talks" part though lmao
If I ever start singing "I'm so proud to be a GenZ...", just kill me
That shit hurt to watch. I like Kurtis' description of "just a little bit wrong". The actual lyrics were kinda fun, in a dad joke way. Would have been better if she just did spoken word or something. But the song, the hand over heart, the bad filter and camera, oh dear God. Stop it, fellow millennials. We're not cool and it's okay. Take a page out of Gen X's book: sit back, relax, stfu and leave people alone. Occasionally scream at Gen Z to get off our lawn, but that's it lol
At least it will rhyme.
Me too please
fr
As a gen Z i am not proud i would rather disassociate from everybody
I was watching this video in the kitchen contemplating Kurtis’s millennial-ness and then my dad walked by, looked over my shoulder, and went “woah that dude is straight out of the 70s”
Kurtis looks like someone who time traveled from the 1980’s
It’s the mullet isn’t it… lmao
@@starbee2262 the mullet & mustache combo
@@lilteletubby 😍
My mom did the exact same thing
I'm an older millennial, and I can honestly say the early 2000s did not feel real. I blinked and suddenly it was 2015.
I feel like my internal calendar stopped in 2014 but it's nearing 10 years since then.
Young millennial here, 2015 is when time stopped for me. From then on the years seem so vague.
As a genzer, I had a hipster phase as a kid. It was moustaches and fault in our stars themed outfits for me😭😭
Remember: Gen Z vs Millennials mostly exists primarily to sell us stuff. I fell victim to this myself when I had a little panic about my ripped skinny jeans being "cheugy" and I found myself purchasing a pair of baggy jeans with the knees cut out. Wear what you want, listen to what you want, know you are never immune to advertising.
I never thought about it that way, for me it made me realise how many different types of jeans there were because I refused to buy jeans for a while because skinny jeans never suited me
I'm not tryna disagree with you or smth just sharing my thoughts
I think Millennials are made fun of because we are aging and the new generation is now the cool kids, it will happen to them aswell in around 10 years. So chill.
i never understood that because as a gen z 21 year old i distinctly remember everyone back in middle and high school preferring skinny jeans as the ultimate jean type
but i guess its because it was back in the 2010s when those are all the rage for most of the decade
THIS! Having ADHD I have had to become way more self aware of advertising or even peer pressure because of being prone to making split-second decisions without thinking. Really now I think it's something everyone should be aware of because you don't realize how much you're actually being sold until you're consciously taking it into consideration.
At the end of the day no one really cares what type of jeans you wear or where your hair is parted, just wear what makes you most comfortable and live your life!
ruclips.net/video/IFk9I34AeqQ/видео.html
Finally it's here
i'd pay for a "dressing like a 2010's millenial" video tbh
😏👌
Bro please
oh yes please, I love flashbacks.
isn't that just every video kurtis makes lol
yup
Kurtis i just realized you have the PERFECT hair, mustache, and face to dress up like one of those exercise tape people with the really bright workout clothes and you could have the boom box on your shoulder 😂😂😂😂
im going for a walk after this
how was ur walk?
@@alien_pigeon9467 decent
@@CommonLogicgo for a walk again its healthy
crazy that kurtis didn’t talk about how the generation after this one’ll be called generation beta. that’s so fucking sad dude
W H A T
Yeah, babies born 2024 or2025 (i think) and later will be betas, if I remember correctly. If I have kids they will probably be in that generation hehe..
@@malmfao cause it’s alphabetical originally but sometimes develops new names. for example: baby boomers are generation W but are called baby boomers because of the baby boom, gen x is just gen x and didn’t get a new name, gen Y is millennials bc they were born right before the new millennium, gen z are just gen z for now or some call us zoomers, etc. so obviously since that’s the end of the alphabet it needs to start over again at A and B eventually. and the automatic names for A and B are Alpha and Beta.
(also i believe the one before boomers is the silent generation which would technically be gen v)
Just another (ironic) reason to add to the list of why I don't want kids LMFAO 💀
The thing about her generations is, the parents and the kids are usually a generation apart.
Baby Boomers are parents to Millennials. Gen Xers are parents to Gen Z. Millennials are parents to Gen Alpha.
Meaning that Gen Z’s kids are gonna be the Betas 😭
(This is just average, so if you have a kid young or old, the generations won’t line up like that)
The millennial joke that can most quickly bring me to the edge of committing a violent crime is when a grown-assed person refers to their day-to-day tasks in life as _"adulting"_
Honestly, I use that term on Pinterest to find things I should already know like budgeting and dealing with car issues lol
ngl as a gen z recent adult i used to think millenial adults who talked abt omg im so bad at adulting were so cringe but like now i get it
and that's the one i mind the least
@@borednerd5767 likee yes...it is hard but why do they describe it as...adulting
@@zahreendocrat9438 idk, that seems pretty difficult
Then again I have a mental disorder that makes it difficult so maybe it’s diff for normal ppl lol
As a libra I don’t appreciate you telling me when my parents fucked 😭😭
i've never realized how fucking chronically online you have to be to understand our genz humor like that video seems completely normal to me LMAO
as a spore born in 96, I’m in a weird transition between millennials and gen z, and all it’s done is make me realize that generations are fake and nothing is real.
I think us kids born in 96 should have our own generation. Being born in late November of 96, I feel like I really got the tail end of the generation. Don't really relate to most millennial to be honest.
Queenshroom, you nailed it. Honestly, the sooner everyone realizes this, the better off we’ll be. Its all for capitalism anyways, gen z treasure from boomer trash, millennial “cheungy” style (only learned the expression today really) is whatever the next gen after Z will consider high fashion revamped. It’s all a cycle.
94 and I feel the same way. I relate a lot to gen z but also millennials
Our year of odd transitioning generation stretches to I would say 92-98. Its being born just old enough to explore the internet uncensored is what put our hairs on our chest and our meme game God tier
Same I was born 97 and I can’t believe I’m Gen Z. Generations are a made up concept anyway
What bothered me about the whole gen z vs millennial war was that millennials are the older generation, they’re supposed to be the mature ones. Instead they decide to argue with literal children
Did they though . . .
@@meregaming1770 yes they did lol
@@meregaming1770 Did you not listen to that woman of Tik Tok attempt to freestyle because, apparently, Gen Z was trying to cancel Eminem?
I can't fully agree with that, but hearing a grown woman rebel against youths on tiktok with a song about her style choices like she's on Glee felt weird. maybe i don't get nuances of situation, maybe she gets piled up by group of ciberbulling youths, but on a first glance power dynamic looks way off for her to be standing up for her minimal style differences agains some hight schoolers, as if they are her authority figures who have any say over what she wears. why does she even care what gen z think of her looks in the first place
Gen z is not all children. they also need to grow tf up
WHERES MY EXTRA GREETING😡😡😡😡
Thank you for this video, Kurtis. I was feeling sick and as soon as that girl started singing, I projectile vomited so hard I felt better after.
😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
The gen Z version of millennials going "Erm, that just happened" is someone saying something that references sex in any way and someone else responding "Ayo???? Kinda sus bro"
😭😭😭😭 I never realized that, you're right
ayo??? sus 🤨📸📸
@@wysteria. precisely
you just unlocked a memory I almost completely forgot about
Sus....Lol is a bit ridiculous. I'm like wtf is this? Say the full word.
The millennials that participated in that “feud” with genz are top tier cringe and need to be disowned.
as would anyone who draws battle lines over "generations"
as a gen z, young people who get into those fights are also annoying
@@kianaamarnani5232 tbf (also gen z) its less cringe bc the gen z ppl doing that are like. 14, and not in their 30s yk
vouch
@@mister-gender some gen z people are like 25 what do you mean lol
The trend im so glad to see go is the "le tired" or "le sad" and the troll face
17:10 the thing is, none of that video ACTUALLY references something else, it’s just random shit that makes no sense and therefore is funny, and I think that’s why it’s intimidating to millennials
That video is pure distilled confusion, therefore pure distilled comedy
That's not true, it's referencing a lot of other memes. It's got that "hi my name is" creepypasta audio, the "aaauuugh" noise that Kurtis himself uses frequently, the Fortnite guy's face which is in tons of memes, and others. These references are a big part of the humor and that's often why if you show someone who's 40+ one of these memes, they have no idea why you'd think it's funny. Meme culture is like one huge, fast-moving inside joke, where you have to have "been there" to get it
@@bonehed1Yeah its 100% inevitable to be left in the dust sooner rather than later regardless of generation. Get off the train for like 5 minutes and you'll just stay confused forever
it's not intimidating lmao, that word choice already reveals a weird mindset that i think sorta exemplifies the crux of the issue. i feel like a lot of tension for millenials comes from younger generations genuinely thinking they're funnier or "better" than us for whatever reason BECAUSE they think their humor is just SO random and chaotic (which is exactly what we thought too lmao), when in reality it ABSOLUTELY builds off of references from before it and really isn't original or surprising at all. and that thought process is not a new trend or anything- a lot of people back in the early days of the internet treated meme culture familiarity like social status in a way. it still happens to this day, and sure it's a fucking weird thing to think, but it's just another way for insecure ppl to find superiority over others, so it likely will never stop. we did it to the generations before us, younger generations are doing it to us now, it will happen to all of you guys when the next generation grows up and starts shitting on you, etc etc. but acting like millenials "should've known better" or "seen how terribly cringe they were!!!!" feels especially short-sighted because that's just....the natural development of shit. jokes develeop from older jokes, build off each other, jokes of the past start getting old and seeming dated....that's how humor works. the memes of today and the humor of the younger generations wouldn't exist if it wasn't for jokes and memes of the older generations, ESPECIALLY millenial humor. i really don't get how that's hard to see, the parallels are so clear.
but again, this is just what kids do. they always think they're the hottest and newest thing to happen to the world, we did it too when we were the newest generation. it's just, baby boomers, our parents, people we inhereted the world from, they all hated us, thought we were lazy and useless, while actively trying to keep us in that bubble. so we were hoping younger generations would get us more, but THEY hate us too, and for reasons just as fucking dumb. like bro we can't win. we were raised to celebrate being kids and actively coddled, while being shit on for BEING coddled, and were moved through media and content super fucking fast, all while growing up during the massive social shift from irl shit to online shit, and then just thrown into a broken social/economic hellscape as heavily under-prepared adults expected to function as if we understood everything and knew how to navigate it all. but that just made us all depressed and miss our younger times, so we might act like kids still sometimes because it gives us comfort. a lot of us still feel just like big kids but now we've got taxes to worry about, and making rent, and retirement and career paths, etc. being shit on by every generation around us for stupid comfort things we do like saying "derp" or calling dogs "doggo" or having our silly "dated" memes and interests just fucking sucks, meanwhile we watch kids today exist behind like 15 layers of irony to the point where they seem to simply demanifest and it's like, yeah that's funny, but....how is that "better" than what our humor was? it's kind of sad. like....let's not shit on each other, we were all given a dying world to live in, let's just try to support each other and make it easier. let me have my stupid memes and outfits and interests and i'll let u have ur subway surfers in the background of each of ur daily routines so you don't disassociate into the stratsophere lol. we ALL hate life it ain't a new thing, let's just hate it together okay? thanks for coming to my ted talk
"Imagine if somebody started a whole religion based off a book. That would be insane"
Quote of the year
Lmaoo
yeah he really won the internet amirite fellow kids
@@cheyennepetersen3417 errmmm… awkwarrd…
I had to rewind that part when he said it
I mean..that happen in the past👀
As a Gen Z'er, I've always generally felt that we've had a mutual sense of understanding with Millennials. We can kind of just look at the state of the world and then look at each other and go "yep," without having to explain ourselves.
We mostly do. I say this as a cusper: There's a weird disconnect between early millennials and late Gen Z, and those are the only ones who are actually preoccupied with this stuff.
Yeah, anyone who is going to have to spend their adulthood living through the climate crisis should be considered an ally, no matter what fuckin’ memes they like
@@sappychap7839 as long as they're not incels and awful people like that it's totally fine
Same
Well said, you early CGI secret-sith-lord monstrosity, you ;)
"..imagine if somebody started a whole religion based off a book!"
My new favourite line
And to think, 10 years ago millenials were sharing that "break the cycle, love our gen z siblings" chain post on Facebook and Tumblr
Lol
Yeah... they got old and bitter so fast 😬
@@tripalongbrasil to be fair I’m pretty sure 80% of millennials are laughing at this too
Being born from 1999-2002 means you watch Millennial vs Zoomer discourse like its your parents bringing your name into the divorce arguments during dinner
Being born in 2000 I enjoy alot of the 90s entertainment but I wouldn't understand their tech much. Also idk if dude got popular in the 90s or not but I use that word alot. Dude and bruh.
no, literally
But they be so embarrassing it’s hard to defend them 😭😭
@JERKSIMULATOR I don't even have a Facebook or Instagram
I blame everything on mass-production and offshoring that really effed with millenials. Plus on the tech side: ppl like Steve Jobs and later Mark Zukerberg who started off with a 60s counter culture, "free, decentralized" internet ideals but then sold out for money
For gen Z it’s definitely the fishnets and massive hoop earrings with the slick back ponytails that made you look bald… horrendous 😀
The biggest difference is that Gen-Z does cringe stuff too, but most of the time you can tell they are in on the joke.
When I was in high school people walked around with bright yellow shirts that said $WAG and also that shirt of Stewie Griffin wearing the aviators. But it was done so completely unironically. 🤮🤮🤮
There is plenty of unironic gen z cringe. PLENTY.
@@lotus_flower2001 me for example
Kids are gonna wear and do cringy things, it’s not a millennial thing. I’m sorry once you’re older you’ll look back and cringe at yourself, you can’t avoid it by telling yourself you were self aware.
@@payladebrett yeah :D do what makes you happy. If you don’t look back and cringe at your self even a year ago, you aren’t changing much, yk?
i broke up with my high school boyfriend bc he unironically said derp
as you should
I feel like that’s warranted. How do you come back from that? You don’t
completely understandable
Woah, weird. I forgot that was a thing.
@ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛɴᴇʏ ᴡʜɪᴛᴍᴏʀᴇ Oh goddd... that was awful! "Rawr means I Love You in dinosaur" Bleh.
i cannot count the amount of millennials that are so shocked to find out that i, an 18 year old, had movies on tapes when i was a kid and know how to work a tape recorder. some people don’t have enough money to move with the times, Carly
i like to tell people that my family had a console tv until i was in 6th grade (i'm also 18)
like dude. not everyone was constantly getting the newest technology lmao, no one in my family has ever owned an iphone
THIS omg. the amount of millennials who do not believe that i, also currently 18:
- watched VHS tapes as a child
- used a portable CD player before i had a phone
- went to blockbuster regularly
- have used a landline before
- had a clock radio in my bedroom
- brought my gameboy to school on our “technology days” (which was, by the way, my mom’s when she was younger. don’t know why its so hard to believe that my mother kept a good gaming device and gave it to her daughter??)
i'm fourteen and i used to use vhs tapes to watch power rangers, i listened to christmas music on cassette tapes, i know how to read a clock (it will take me a minute though,) i can use a rotary phone and write cursive and all that shit. i grew up with old people technology. oh no.
im 14 and have tapes a floppy disc and MOUNTAINS of dvds
No but I’m 14 and watched tapes as a kid
Honestly millennial humor is the humor I use when I’m feeling socially awkward and uncomfortable in a situation
“You sir have just won the internet”
The other 50 people that won the internet: 16:26
as a zoomer i can't imagine how cringy our generation will look like in the future.
It’s a 50/50, it’s either gonna be cringe or going to be admired since the next generation doesn’t look any better then what we are.
You called yourself a zoomer so we’re already doomed
ruclips.net/video/IFk9I34AeqQ/видео.html
Finally it's here
As a millennial... about as cringy as we are now. There are a LOT of similarities between Millennials and Zoomers, honestly.
All people have cringy moments in all ages and generations, you just didn’t see it back than because older generations didn’t have the internet to document it like millennials and gen Z do.
i think it is necessary to point out that there was actually a cult in the early 2000s where people worshipped severus snape and edited themselves into pictures with him. they believed that snape took control of their husbands - especially in bed - and their HUSBANDS WERE OKAY WITH THIS. THIS WAS A THING THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
how dare you remind me about snapewives
💀
HUH 😨
Strange Æons has a wonderful video on snape wives
Whoa 😯
I was victimized by gen x and millennials as a teenager when they angrily called me a millennial. I am not a millennial as I am firmly in the gen z category. Good times.
I just recently found this channel (it came up in my suggested) & I absolutely love it 😂 The memes, the points, the jokes, the delivery,… EVERYTHING is *chefs kiss* Also your hair is amazing! Early 2000s fashion is EVERYTHING ! I love that it’s in fashion again … the juicy tracksuits, y2k Dior, Chanel and LV. The flared jeans and y2k tops. I’m loving it! I’ve always loved that style and don’t even start me on the y2k cyber punk style 😍
I worked at TJMaxx for 3 years and after living under the reign of the Rae Dunn chokehold all our customers were in, I’m so glad it’s finally getting the slander it deserves
I never knew the name of the font on all her products and it’s been eating me up because I was so sick of seeing it.
Now we are saturated with whatever that overused “bridesmaid font” is, and phrases like “Rosé All Day.”
i currently work there now and seeing it in this video made me flashback violently LMAO
@@Nico-zm9ve is it still a big deal?
@@karac9473 unfortunately
I don't understand the appeal of it, blank white with a boring handwritten-looking font.
being Gen Z born in the early 2000s and having the exact same experience as Millenials growing up (bacon everything, mustache bff necklaces, "narwhals lol so random", sparkly ties and fedoras) is the weirdest shit ever
Yo same I grew up with a lot of that stuff like early Smosh, new grounds animations, bacon everything, ect
I remember when the mustache trend first started lmao
@@lpsgoofyladie9948 I used to have mustache glasses and mustache BFF necklaces that were mood changing LMAO
SAME!! Like I grew up with a lot of millennial stuff but I feel like I act/relate to Gen Z more. It’s odd
@@heavyy_eyess OMG I REMEMBER THOSE BFF NECKLACES 😂😂😂 me and mine had one. I still have it somewhere at my moms house 😂
Dude, I’m outside right now!!!
i feel so bad for gen alpha imagine growing up during the peak of internet times
me too
i remember being like 10/11 wanting so badly to dress like a “grunge” tumblr girl. that style was unmatched
Same 😭😭
I feel bad that this is me, I’m gen z and dress grunge, but at least I took some things from the older gen I grew up with and I’m not entirely screwed 😂
Honestly that style is still kind of around. I'm genz but I still see people in my age bracket rocking the style. It's just not exactly saught after anymore.
Granted with my generation no style is really sought after. With the massive proliferation of the internet and the ability to see pretty much anything we are all on average pretty stylistically open, there isn't really as much of a standard "in style" anymore as opposed to an "in personality."
It's kinda funny how some of those 90s flavors have come back. Heck, I think I've even seen bellbottoms here and there.
I think, as the other commenter suggested, that some of these showings in clothes lately are more of an expression of individual self rather than following group trends, thanks to the sometimes paradoxical outcomes of internet social interaction.
same, i look back at pictures of me then and i cringe so hard.
"We're getting to the age where we're starting to become home owners."
Actually we're getting to the age where we start realizing "Wow. I'll never be able to afford a property in my life."
Yeah famous youtuber life checkpoints arent the same as the current average 30yo checkpoints
Yep. FeelsBadMan.
nervosheit That's why we need a revolution
Aside from the market being terrible it's even difficult to find a place to rent either an apartment or house. The owners of these places are most likely Baby Boomers who lived in that era where it was easy and cheap to build a place and rent it out, it was easy to find a high paying job because work was so readily available, industry was booming. I believe that generation is still living in that time period. Even then they are probably assuming the generation above us are the ones looking from home. That maybe true but it's us millennials are younger who are searching for a place to live and we can't afford it. Their response "well we just find someone who can."
This Kurtis guy is dense af.
I’m only a min and forty secs in to this trash heap of a video, and he’s calling boomers racists (can he possibly be anymore cringe??), and gen X are soley known for HGTV?? I’m gen X, and I had to look up what HGTV even is. I haven’t watched tv in 12 years now, and my boyfriend isn’t that far off behind me. The internet blew up with us - why _WOULDN’T_ a massive chunk of us cut off television and watch stuff from the Internet instead?? What a goof this kid is.
I’m out.
the only item with text on it I own is a bowl that says "soup" on it. I bought it exclusively for eating anything other than soup in it
I was born in ‘94 and the way that you described your childhood was so spot on. I had the jellyfish jelly episode on my video now.
Why do so many millennials care so much about what literal teenagers think about them?
I sympathize with them nfs,they was Kids in the recession and post 9/11 I feel like most of them feel young in the head yk? I could be buggin tho
Seriously. I’m in my 30s, if a teen makes fun of me I don’t care. They’re young, it’s what they’re supposed to do 🤷🏽♀️. And most gen z is super kind anyway - I think this is mostly bs.
The oldest gen z is in their mid twenties my dude, 1996 was 26 years ago.
@@sunshineramirez7766 yeah but then again gen z has… well the modern day… things are kinda fucked
@@seal8900 I think the counter to that is that Gen Z has grown up pretty much exclusively in a time when social media was a dominant force. I've seen a lot of videos breaking down some of the impacts of that reality (which are many) and one common thread is that Gen Z has aged/matured faster than previous generations. It's sort of the argument that "kids weren't able to just be kids" as long as in prior generations. It's the source of the meme about "me when I was 13 vs. 13 year olds now" as an example. I think in general that kids today start wearing make-up younger, start dating younger, etc.
There are positives and negatives to maturing younger and I think you can certainly argue against the conclusion, but it's interesting to consider the idea that people in the middle of the millennial generation and the middle of Gen Z are potentially closer in maturity than their ages would suggest. Creepy people abuse that notion as well, but I think it explains some of the weirdly strong reaction to perceived "bullying" by people much younger.
All of this from the perspective of a 1994 baby, like Kurtis.
Ninja Edit: I didn't consider this as I was writing my comment, but it might also stem from the fact that many inter-generational interactions happen through faceless media (comment sections like this one, etc) so it's harder to look at the person you're arguing with and say, "What am I doing? This is a literal child."
I can't lie, growing up with an easily accessible internet as Gen Z was pretty scarring.
very
@@tartaruskronks8638 extremely
yup I watched some horrific stuff around 2014
Sometimes a bad memory is a blessing
mlp youtube
I can't tell you how much joy that bit of you catching that tomato brought to me. I literally went :D
prayed to this one ‼️
it’s okay for older generations to be ‘cringy’ to the younger ones, that’s just how it works. a young teen’s opinion does not matter that much if you’re fully grown lol
Yeah young underdeveloped people know what they're talking about
that's true but people rlly do care, waay more than they should. i've seen tons and tons of angry millenialls specifically on tiktok being like "you guys don't know what you're talking about >:((". for some reason, they really like making songs about it
It matters more to millennials because we use the same social media as young people so we hear it more than any other generation ever did.
@@elijahharmel8450 I think that's just a bit of a catchall on the internet. The Millenials on TikTok are a specific breed and don't represent all of us.
shouldn't*
for some reason some ppl take this shit so seriously lmao
EMBRACE THE CRINGE
As gen z, I sort of see millenials as an "older sibling" generation.
Same
What years are gen z born in ?
Same lol, they're like the cool uncles and aunts who aren't old enough to be your parents which makes it less weird and are young enough to still kinda relate to us in certain ways.
@@majamorsing6636 Gen Z is born from 1997 to 2010, I think.
That’s cute because us millennials fucking love you
WHERES OUR EXTRA GREETING KURTBOY
My 10 year old cousin dresses like a millennial and it is genuinely the funniest shit 💀
Hahaha my daughter does 😩😭😭
How does someone dress like a millennial 💀
@@xquenda275 if you saw him you’d know 😭
@@xquenda275 said by someone who was clearly
Not around during those times hahaha cuz it’s deff a whole look 🤣🤣 my daughter got it down to a science Lmao
@@Amber-YAHUAHdaughter777 i guess i clearly wasn't
Gen Z makes me cringe sometimes too. We’re the type to say “we’re the turning point” or “we’ll start the revolution” and then cut to us being afraid to order at a restaurant.
something you have in common with us millennials
cause we’re all like 15 😭🤦🏽♀️
@@bbrriaaanna Bruh I'm gen z and I'm 25. I just feel like I'm floating somewhere in the middle, very confused tho.
yeah but we make fun of ourselves for it too lmao
@@LR-tr5cn well i’m sure the op was talking ab the people on tiktok because i’ve seen tons of comments like: “we’re the revolution” & “we’re the most powerful generation”, etc… and would u look at that surprise… it’s mostly people between the ages of 11-17 😭. plus it was an exaggeration. kids say cringy stuff , whatever is cringe to you.
my teacher told me im a horrible person, im gonna go to jail, and become a murderer bc i said the show friends is overrated🥰😍😍 millennials gotta be stopped tbh..
omg
friends is overrated don’t let them silence you!!!
Honestly I thin kthat's just like any generation wine mom type mentality. Its why I constantly stop myself if I find myself falling into that mental trap. Like no I don't need to die on this hill the kids are fine I'm just being a dumbass
i mean i disagree but she had no need to say that, dang.
Friends is a good show but there are better options out there
dude this part is so good 18:00 the detail is great especially the username of the guy im assuming being the persons birth year
the mustache + mullet combo has never looked stronger
pov verifieds only reply is a bot moment
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Kurtis… why do you do this to yourself?
He’s one of the only people in this planet that can pull it off 😂😂 in my opinion I guess 😅
1,000% agree
I think the fact that a person has little to no context about Gen Z memes is what makes them so funny. They're bizarre, chaotic, and hardly make any sense, and I love that about them. They're like a fever dream.
very accurate. i am not on tiktok or most social medias tbh, and the gen z humor tiktok kurtis showed is absolutely incomprehensible to me. i have no clue what any of it means but it still makes me laugh every time i watch this video
Thanks I put a lot of work into them
nah that’s so funny cause we all just like automatically do these things like recognizing what’s funny n shit
Sponge bob ruined all your fuckin brains 😂 tbh weird flex
chaotic memes been a thing since before gen z but it used to be very niche. like deepfriedmemes subreddit. but gen z has embraced it as normal humor which is cool
I had to pause the video at you mimicking the bouncy, dancing anime people... I don't think I can go on.
You just did it SO well, is there something you want to tell us?
2:39 as a “proud” member of generation “alpha” I’m glad we’ve been at least mentioned. We are like the middle child of the generations…All we are currently known for is our cringy ass slang😭😭
Sayin ur age online can be dangerous, bro. But I'm happy the new generation like Kurtis too!
@@ueyeyeyeyeye ohh yeah I just realized I exposed myself whoops… thanks for the advice tho!! I often give this advice as well, so thanks!!! 🍊
Tik Tok boys/girls will be the gen Z equivalent to Tumblr girls/boys in the near future. We will look back at the terrible dances and the middle part hair, and cringe so hard at our lack of self awareness that we won't be able to sleep at night, just like millennials do. MARK MY WORDS
Yo the tumblr kids are coming back
You don't need to wait to look back to see the cringe, it is already obvious
We already cringe at the fashion choices of tik tok users
(I don’t use tik tok but I’m part of the same generation)
Honestly those who make jokes about tiktokers and go as far as too harasss children are far more cringe than the tiktokers themselves. They're just making content they like. And I can name a million youtubers worse than tiktokers rn.
naaaah tumblr kids were cooler than tiktok kids now. coming from a gen z lol
kurtis is the only straight millenial i've seen making fun of both straights and millenials and we love to see it
@Кurtis Соппеr 🅥 oh my god?!? Kurtis😱😱⁉️⁉️
for some reason i always thought kurtis was gay lmao
@@zannaxz no bc same, he has such bi vibes lmao
Pretty much all millennial commentary youtubers are that way. Jarvis and Jordan, danny, drew, Noel and cody..
This sentence could have ended after the first "millennial" and it would still be accurate
I didn't have access to my own device until I was 12, and I am grateful for that, I got my entertainment from books, art, and catching bugs outside. The moment I got my own device I was completely hooked, and I was never the same again.
this is me 100% Bought a dumb phone 2 months ago and i haven't been this happy in years
The dog bark at 10:02 was a masterwork of entertainment
When Kurtis said "we're not the cool young generation anymore and that's okay. We gotta let go"
I didn't feel that. Because I was NEVER cool.
relatable
not saying you're cool is kind of cool in a way.
Yeah we where never the cool generation I only just found out about this generation stuff now that we are the generation on its way out lol
maybe that's why it was so easy for me to accept that i'm not cool anymore... i was never cool
Yeah.I'm genx z and I don't feel cool either. I don't think most of us do. Maybe kurtis was a popular kid in highschool
I saw a tiktok with this and it honestly makes a lot of sense
Boomer humor: I hate my wife
Millennial humor: I hate my life
Gen z humor: Butter knife
@@vashsunglasses I don't know a single person in my gen who's had a reliable one of those for years (although I appreciate that that used to be a thing we had). Changes to workplace agreements/contracts/law generally have hit everyone of employable age 😞
i'm a gen z and i laughed at "butter knife" our humor is fucked pls
Pls I'm gen z n i laughed at butter knife lmao😂 but tbh ours is best hehe🌝
its even funnier cus "butter knife" made me LOL a lil bit
knutter bife
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
I wish I could go back to the late 2010s and smack some fashion sense into myself. Before 2015, my mom was buying my clothes, so I was just gonna look ugly regardless. But 2016-2017 was like a drunken shopping trip at Walmart
"Could you imagine if someone started a religion based off a book, it'd be insane"
It's jokes like these that make you my favorite youtuber.
yeah wew real cutting edge stuff there
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yea that was a really original joke
@@cashnelson2306 In context it's hilarious
oh my god i didnt even get that at first
The story with Rae Dunn is a bit sad. She originally had made these with the idea of things that are imperfect are wonderful and wholesome. When she sold her brand all of her creativity was taken and it became like all the other shit. She has said that it makes her sad with how out of hand it got and how people are with her brand (like the shoppers). She continues to do pottery for herself, family, and friends, but is upset with what had become of it all due to large corporations doing corporation things.
@@______________url That's the point lmao. What her brand really represented got skewed when she sold it. It doesnt look creative anymore
thats so sad
That's messed up man, corporate is so annoying sometimes :(
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@@melly5416 great response. Very nice 👌🏼
I Feel Old When I Can Remember Laser Disc...THE FATHER OF DVDS AND THE GRANDFATHER OF BLU-RAY. LOL! 😂 AND I'M ONLY 34. 💯
You sir have just won the internet today
kurtis lives like a 2010 millenial for a week: literally nothing changes except he puts on a flannel
And eats nothing but bacon
I wonder if he was more or less racist against white folks in 2010 compared to this crap video.
He looks nothing like a millennial. Dude is straight out of the 1970s.
@@lotus_flower2001 pretty millenial style. Remember how much 70s nostalgia there was in the 90s, 2ks.
Dazed and confused, that 70s show, almost famous, bootcut jeans and tinted lenses.
i rly don’t get why some millennials let themselves get beat up over this. why would u care what high schoolers think once ur out of high school? it doesn’t matter lol. i just need to make sure i remember that when gen z is older and generation alpha starts shitting on us
it got compounded with everyone shoved into each other's social circles online during lock downs. thats when this shit exploded. Its ridiculous all of it.
maybe I sound like a millennial now but I refuse to take shit from a generation named alpha
19-24 year olds are roughly the biggest influencers of popular culture and trends, and millennials just got pushed out of that age group in the last few years. It's a change for them
I’m on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z, so here’s my reason: Millennials have been getting shit on by Boomers and even Gen X all our/their lives, so for kids to come around and pick on us/them is like when your little sibling dogpiles on you while your parents and older siblings are giving you shit about how much you suck. Not to mention that Millennials were the first ones to grow up with internet in late adolescence AND weather so many global issues that still affect the world today. Millennials also laid their bodies down so Gen Z could make the final big push against Boomer bullshit. Without them sacrificing their mental health and being the unfortunate ground beef to clog up the thresher, Gen Z wouldn’t have enough precedent to actually push for big change. I don’t know, kids think that because they can talk a few mean words into a box, that they’re hot shit. They act like they’re so much more woke and progressive when they’re just as vapid and self centered as everyone else.
@Talyn has time It seems like they're less progressive. Go see if you can find the surveys on generations and sexism. Apparently gen z is more sexist than millennials. More likely to agree with statements like "Leadership doesn't suit women" or that women should prioritize their families at home and shit like that.
So it seems like it's just getting worse.
I'm watching your videos like a marathon whilst doing my school work
Your explanation of the millennial experience in the beginning… sounds just like mine but I’m 2001. The middles lol. We watched y’all go through this shit lmao. You guys literally influenced my guys so much!!
As the older sibling to a Gen Alpha kid, Generation Alpha kids are absolutely freaking terrifying.
Edit: yall stop yelling at me. I only said they were terrifying because the few Gen Alphas I know are incredibly mean.
They’re like 11.
My cousin is Gen alpha she's 6 and I'm 18 but I'm absolutely scared of her.
their just normal kids tho? I dont see whats to be scared about. unless ur statement was a joke then my bad
@@melody3629 yes you’re correct, it was a joke, well done
@@sup7499 thank you, but wheres the trophy
I don't know why, but I've always found the "... I hardly know her" jokes so damn funny and I just love how Kurtis smashes them out in every video. I'm a millennial guy and that is peak humor for me.
i dont get it
It's because for some reason you never see them coming, he's really good at spacing them just far enough apart to hit you with another one by surprise.
I made one of those jokes the other day and I was so proud of myself
Humor? I hardly know her!
Sorcerer? I hardly even know her!
gen z humor is (jokingly, as FRIENDS) making fun of each other and joking about dying young
Thanks for using the aaron gordon slam dunk contest clip. One of the best dunks ever
“imagine if someone started a religion based off a book” it took me a minute 💀
fr lol
......it's Harry Potter, isnt it?
@@gudinesangelicau bible 🤣
@@blueberrywaffleliterally a majority of religions lmfao
@@gudinesangelicaudo NOT look up Snapewives
i’m being absolutely blown away by how much history i missed despite living through it
Ikr. I’m turning 28 next month and I was watching this like, “where was I when all of this was happening?” Then again, I’m usually never aware of trends in the first place. It feels weird to imagine that people exist who put stock in what’s considered popular at the moment or feel embarrassed for doing/saying/wearing things that are considered outdated. I’m not at all convinced I’m above people who DO care; I just can’t relate to the experience at all, and I would rather keep it that way, since I already judge myself way too heavily for everything else, lmfao
ONE TOPIC WOOO
@EmMy Ikr? People who obsess over things being ‘cringe’ just come off as really insecure tbh. Unapologetic authenticity is where it’s at. It’s way more fun to enjoy whatever you enjoy w/o being afraid of people judging you for it 💕
one topicy wopicy
holy shit is that one topic from the hit new game youtube
the tomato bit honestly made me laugh really hard bc i genuinely was not expecting that punchline and even though i'm only 2 minutes in i think that's the funniest editing bit i've seen on youtube in months.
Welcome to Kurtistown friend
this is the video of all time
I hate when people say "I did a thing." You're always doing things.. just say what you did!
And it’s almost always an engagement 🙄
I accidentally the whole thing
It’s too much explanation and I feel stupid trying to think of captions for anything. 😭
I say that in real life when I fuck up real bad and need to give a warning before saying what it is so you're prepared for the worst
@@Tamdietz THIS like bro what would you like me to say???
i feel like theres this weird thing where if an older zoomer isn’t as current w online culture then they feel more millennial, whereas younger millennials who DO keep up w online culture still feel pretty millennial. just an interesting thing i noticed
I agree, there are some weeks where I'm so busy with work I don't keep up with the internet, then I feel like I fell behind in tiktok jokes and stuff? It makes me feel millenial-ish, but i was born in '99
You worded this perfectly. I’ve explained it to people this way before as well. It’s an interesting phenomenon lol
I was born in 99 but younger gen z confused me understand millennials more than gen z
The pop culture of both generations is heavily internet based. I've found that the way I relate to people is more based on when we started going online than our actual age
no fr, i guess im classified as “older gen z” and i don’t keep up with what’s current the way my friends do. im always behind on trends and im ok with that, but it is a little alienating sometimes. also as someone who is autistic, gen z humor can be difficult to keep up with bc of all the layers of irony (which i love, but just don’t always understand)
so bc of that i sometimes feel part millennial or something. i was also friends with a lot of millennials when i was in high school so maybe that’s part of it