I’m 19, N I N E T E E N, me and my friends were hanging out and a friend of mine teased me and said “YOLO”. Without skipping a beat, a kid playing nearby came to us and said,” No one uses that anymore.” Gurl, my heart sank.
Gen alpha is the only actual subset of people drastically effected by the pandemic and will continue to be. They lost key developmental year and still are as nothing has been fully restored since especially education wise. I think this will make them so much less aligned to older s gens in the future.
as a older alpha, (or perhaps gen z) I’ve actually been on the internet for years, but I hate gen alphas humour so badly and I feel ashamed of my own generation.
Gen Alpha worries me because they're truly the first generation to born holding smartphones. You can't convince me that's anything but bad for their brains. I'm 24 and boomers and gen X said we were born with phones in our hands but it wasn't really like that. Yes, a lot of us had phones, but I don't remember most of us starting to *really* get into them until highschool.
Agreed! Gen Alpha get devices way younger than Gen Z ever did. I worry it will get younger and younger (kids getting phones even younger). And focus on looks and whatnot, way younger than it was for Gen Z
@@petruzzi6268 Gen Alpha isn't even old enough to get married and most Gen Z are still too young and those who are mostly aren't married. Not sure what you're trying to say here?
As a gen z I got my first device at like 6 years old- so I've grown up with technology mostly. Before 6 I usually watched TV so I was pretty much raised on technology.
Every generation is bothered by the generation before them and Gen Alpha is gonna be no different. Get ready to explain what real music of your time was like to Gen Alpha lol
I constantly get sad that I’m not born in the 80’s - 90’s, I’m an early 2000’s kid, but now I realize not much gen alphas know my favorite childhood cartoons, and I’m like “they’ll really never know..” (won’t say the exact year but just know it’s in the early 2000’s before 2005 which is mid and then late 2000’s)
I’m getting this information from when I tried to show my toddler cousin my favorite powerpuff girls episode which I think aired in 1998? And he began crying saying he didn’t want to watch it because it was ugly then proceeded to watch his 2023 cartoons 🥲
I’m a Gen X lady who accidentally stumbled on this. Watching this at my age makes me smile. You get to your forties and you realize how short your time in the sun really is. My kids are gen Z and my students and nieces and nephews are gen alpha. At this point I’m over not being the target audience anymore and find the panic of being replaced amusing as the target audience. Welcome to our world! We love and are happy to have you in the over 30 crowd!
Same! Not Gen X but a cusper born in '89 (everyone's gonna gasp in horror). I love being 34 because I really don't care who thinks I'm old anymore. Like you said, times ticking and it's about enjoying what little life we have left lmao. But in all honesty, if I even live to be 68 I'll get to live my whole life time all over again which makes me feel like I still have time to live life how I want to 💖
Gen Z's got a few more years before they join the over 30 crowd. I'm one of the youngest Millennials ( born in '93 and right on the edge of what folks consider the Millennial/Gen Z cusp) and turning 30 in less than a month.
@@Hannah_BectonYeah exactly. I just turned 29. I'm a late '94 millenial with '67-'70 gen X parents, and my younger teen cousins are gen Z (born from gen X and millenial parents). For some reason far too many people mix up gen X with boomers... BIG difference between my parents and grandparents born in the forties! Also big difference between my peers born in the late eighties and early nineties, and teens born in the late '00s. To me it feels like generational lines are getting smaller over time... We have gen Alpha already and next year gen Beta will be born! Must be due to technology advancing so quickly.
The term “era” I feel like is already to me kinda of cringy and outdated, it’s interesting to see how quickly slang and trends are cycled through because of the internet and how for us (gen z) we are already stuck in some of our ways
I am older millennial, i am so proud of younger folks approaching 30 like YALL MADE IT THAT'S AWESOME! Embrace the aging, you're all beautiful and aging is amazing. I love aging and especially once i fully disconnected from social media I've loved myself even more.
I'm 14 (which makes me gen z), and I had a long phase of "ugh I hate Gen Z I prefer older generations", since I grew up without internet access and I only first went on a computer when I was 9. I discovered that we are just the modern equivalent of boomers, we changed so much in the world and in society, and we definitely changed the internet. Heck, we were the internet ! But Gen Alpha is actually scaring me because they actually believe in the irony of our humour, plus they were born with the internet. My cousin is Gen Alpha (8 years old), and as long as I can remember, she is on Roblox. She has a skibidi toilet phase right now, and I think it is very concerning. I consider myself disrespectful towards adults, but she is on another level ; she'd call her father bro, scream at her parents, and she'd lock herself in her room saying she's in her vampire slay phase. I really do hope trends take a better turn, so Gen Alpha won't be roaming around like monkeys (jk). Anyway, from 2024 onwards, everyone who'd be born would be "Gen Beta", so yah.
Im in a similar boat as you I was poor so I never really got into internet stuff until I was 13 or 14. Right now I am 19.5 years old and kids your age and especially kids younger are far more disrespectful and get away with much more. Granted the difference between what the greatest and lowest outcomes has never been greater. Kids who act like that aren’t doing themselves any favors.
I feel like it was kinda the same for the millennials too. It’s like the media seems to idolize the high school “fantasy” years…like where are all the college shows? High school was hard but college is a whole other obstacle 😩
THIS is v much needed bc i feel like all of us just randomly woke up one day and we’re 21+ and ik that’s how aging works but like ???? why do so many of us still feel like 20 something teenagers 🫠😭
@@coffeeandcats8332it was definitely a similar situation for millennials. Like Pretty Little Liars was still in high school when we were in college. Then they had millennials stuck in the hipster obnoxious young worker era for years. We went from high school to workforce 🤷🏾♀️ To be honest I don't think media truly catered to Gen Z. They just threw to Gen Z what they gave to millennial because they thought we were similar and we are but there is still a distinction between the vibes of the two generations. They honestly failed at grasping what Gen Z is truly about.
That was millennials a few years ago tbh. Like it was weird being in my 20s and all of the media talked about millennials like we were all in high school still.
As a Millenial, I'm weirdly excited for Gen Z to join us on this side of adulthood. Part of it is a little bit of that cultural older sibling/younger sibling rivalry...but mostly I'm excited that we're going to continue gaining leverage against older generations that are way behind on things like climate change, capitalism and other major existential threats. Also, don't sleep on your 30's, they're actually kinda great. It's like being in your 20's but more grounded in yourself, if that makes sense? A lot of us are nostalgic for moments in our 20's but wouldn't actually switch places if we could. I don't wanna come off like "you kids will understand when you get older," but I promise, there's still stuff to look forward to.
As an older Gen Alpha, I find it scary that younger kids are already hooked onto devices and the internet. I got online at about age . . . 6? Which I find pretty young, but I go to school, and I see 2nd graders already with the new phones and air pods. I hope that we grow out of technology in some form, because I really don't want to be a friggin space travel agent or be drawing up dots on a canvas and that be art lol. (I'm aware I'm a month late leave me be lol)
6!? i didn't go online until i was 10! and that was 2010 kids spaces, so lots of baby MMOs and kids wii games. and i didnt have a social media presence until 13, when my middle school friends played LINE and had a tumblr blog. same about the tech tho. i remember japan had those flip phones with physical buttons, but they also had free internet access. we really need transition phones for kids, over throwing an ipad at them early.
I went online at 4 whenever Halo Reach came out. For me the Internet was something just there, (mainly to watch Halo Machinima/mega bloks videos), I always had my toys and friends to play with outside, but as we all got older, mainly around middle school, that's when I started seeing a huge online obsession with people. Luckily for me I was able to grow up playing outside back when every kid played outside.
I see gen aplha like our collective unhinged little siblings and I think it's a shame that all of the attention is going to be shifting from gen z now, because I feel like the studios have just started understanding how to make (kind of) content for us, and it feels like I didn't have enough time to enjoy it lmao
I agree. I'm interested in seeing the cultural zeitgeist and how big corps response to the market is, and is unfortunate that all of these industries didn't took advantage of .... Was is the pandemic???
Honestly as a younger Millennial I felt the same way about Gen Z. Even down to us not getting content that really gets us; because at the time the Boomers and Gen X were making a lot of “our” content, with the exception of RUclips. It felt like as soon as we were finally getting shows and films that spoke to the millennial social identity(probably because it was made by millennials), here came the Gen Z marketing. But honestly, not mad about it. Every generation deserves their time to shine! There’s also probably an analysis in there about idolizing youth and how it goes by too fast but that’s for another day.
fwiw, as a millenial I felt the same way until I realized that millenial media got better in our 30s because we got more power behind the scenes. you guys are already so good at creating your own media, so I wouldn't be surprised if it took less time for you guys to have better representative storylines from major studios and their competitors.
The oldest gen Z i believe is 26. My sister was born in 97 (she’s 26) and millennials ended in 96. She doesn’t identify with Gen Z whatsoever - so I feel like 28 is pushing it. I think people born from 2000 on are more gen Z centric, and I would honestly consider 97-99 zennials. They still had somewhat of a more “millennial-esque” childhood. And honestly, as a millennial, I love how everything has worked out for y’all. We got royally fcked by our boomer (or even worse, gen x) parents, and the advancements in technology really made it to where you all could grow and truly make a living and a path for yourselves in novel ways. There are some annoying aspects (as with any generation tbh) but I really love everything gen Z has accomplished and normalized.
I'm 27, born in 96 and everything I've read says gen z goes to 1996, meaning I'm gen z. However usually I use the phrase "zillenial" since I'm on the cusp and I can identify with both millennial and gen z in different ways, I don't rly feel like I fit completely into either group. There's such a vast difference from young gen z & older gen z bc of how technology entered society
Also born in 97, highly agree with the 97-99 Zillenial take. Feel like when I was in high school the internet didn't control our lives, just supplemented it.
I'm a millennial and I enjoy seeing how the younger generations go about things. Super happy that y'all are able to express yourselves much more than my generation could. I'm happy to witness myself getting older and seeing how y'all change the landscape with what y'all do! Keep on keeping on 😄🙌🏽
I'm 23, and my brother is 15. He's technically a Gen Z, but I feel like we're on completely different sides of the internet when it comes to humor and interest. I think the closer you are to the next generation's age, the more blurred the line becomes.
yeah it's not just a solid line between gen z and gen alpha. about half of my classmates are in gen z and some of the alphas give off more gen z vibes than the gen zs, but this works for like anyone born in like 2007 to 2013 or around that
@@haileygiabiconi8830 My brother and I share a similar sense of humor too. However, when it comes to internet trends, music preferences, TV shows, and interests in popular culture, the age gape is so significant that it sometimes makes us feel like we're not part of the same generation.
Those are called generational cuspers, as someone on the last end of the Millennial generation I rarely see a difference with the oldest Zoomers, but many older Millennials seem like Gen X to me.
I’ve never talked about sexuality with my gen alpha siblings but last summer my sister saw a rainbow popsicle box and said “look they made it for you” then giggled and walked away.
@@marajones1828uh, that’s a gen z thing too. I’m 18, when I was a kid i had full internet access. Are you forgetting the weird undertake things our generation did?
I'm Gen Z (24) and my child is Gen Alpha. Even at a young age I've noticed her and her friends are so confident. If they're not happy with something you'll know about it and I love that for them. But I do worry a lot about the online space. Even though I plan to keep her away from social media until she's 16-18, I know she may make secret accounts or be influenced by friends and I cant control that. (Also she loves that skippidy toilet thing and it makes me feel so old trying to watch it with her) My parenting style is definitely more gentle than my parents (gen x) were, but I go by the rule "make your own choices but I won't rescue you from the consequence" Overall there's a lot of fear but also hope. Also society is crumbling so its really hard to plan for a future that might not even exist.
@@fryefriedas a 2010 gen alpha (nice splatoon pfp🐀👍), I think it's basically a combination of all other generations humor, like making an ungodly machine out of your older brothers hand me down toys/tech
I had to ask everyone who was younger than me what "Skiidbidi Toilet" is. I'm 18 and this really was an eye-opener. I am no longer of the youngest generation on the internet. Edit: I did not think my most liked comment would be about Skibidi Toilet. Thank you everyone!
I'm 17 and for the past couple years I've been starting to feel this more and more. We used to be the Youngins of the Internet and we were up to date on all the Internet trends. Now, I feel like an old man trying to talk to these younger kids, such as when I try and interact with my younger siblings or my girlfriends younger siblings. I feel so behind on the Internet trends. Something just feels so off Abt it all.
As one of the older gen Alpha i am truly embarrassed like, watching my younger cousins and peers laughing at that skibidi toilet meme is truly concerning, i never got my first access to the internet till i was 11, even my parents wouldn’t let me get an ipad or watch on my moms phone . Seeing kids as young as 6 on RUclips is so frickin scary😭
Hello fellow older gen alpha I agree the amount of skibidi songs that ring in my ears are endless, ive got to brothers both gen alpha and the things they watch are odd
Gen alpha is under 13. They're literally children. Childrens' humour is silly and fun there's nothing wrong with it or anything to be embarassed about (tho I haven't seen the meme fully). If it's harmless it's no big deal. Gen Z had PLENTY of cringe content and humour online and they were teenagers. And it's not like older generations haven't had cringe, silly jokes. It's really no big deal. Better than kids adulting and trying to act grown.
@@Mialikesthings I’ve worked with quiet a few and I’m a relatively quiet person at work. They tended to to always file a complaint about someone rather than confronting the person. This happened in 3 different industries. I know that’s not all but many from my experience have been that way.
@@st3rrii the internet apparently stole ur fucking soul too like wtf do you mean "feeling bad for people is really immature". also how do you get to decide whats mature and not? ur probably 9 years old
I’m a young gen Z and my sister is gen alpha, what I’m very glad about is how she’s 9, no phone, loves fnaf, used to watch Gacha and Barbie. She really hates Skibidi toilet.
As a older Gen Z (26 ), hopefully, we finally get content geared towards us as adults now that gen alpha is coming of age. Half of us are in our late 20s we need post-college content.
Nah we need college content too 😭 most shows are focused on highschool, half of us are also still in college/just started college! If you want an adult show tho you should try Abbott Elementary
@@uniquenewyork3325 I'm not a teacher but it's a good show. It's not a show that's geared towards the content I'm seeking as I'm nearing my 30s. Abbott is for the BuzzFeed folks Grown-ish doesn't exist? Sex lives of college girls?!?
@@letmeins8304 95' - 97' early , is actually a cusp generation. We're in between millennials and Gen Z. Nobody needs to relax. It's just a fun conversation and not to be taken too seriously. The oldest Gen Z is 27-28 give or take. The things I remember are more closely aligned with millennials. I say I'm Gen Z because technically I am but I'm definitely in between generations. There's something somebody younger than me can't recall that I can being that I was still born in the 90s.
It will, the internet will make it so that gen alpha's culture start leaking through into the mainstream way before they reach adulthood. Just like it was for gen z who were already influencing the culture in the early 2010s
I thought the same thing, but another interesting point is that teenagers have spending power. A good portion of teenagers get jobs but have no obligations like housing or meals to take care of which leaves us with a very unique spending power (unless ofc we re-enter the industrial revolution and bring back child labor lol). And while it isn't everything, it also brings up the question of How long can someone stay in the lime light without spending ability? I think it's pretty close and that it'll be hard to tell until something actually happens
That is the point lol, that’s why they are already setting a gen beta when we haven’t even had one generation even go through a proper life experience cycle, it’s all just marketing to try and commodify a generation’s experience, it’s all meant to make it easier to sell sht to newer generations.
My sister is actually Gen Alpha born in 2013 and had her first tablet at the age of 2 which is insane so basically her whole life she has relied on a device and honestly it really saddens me. I do not mean any of this in a boomer way since I'm Gen Z (17 so somewhat on the younger side) but I've seen how much it has stunted her growth, especially with COVID and everything having to be online her mental maturity is behind from where someone her age should be. I mean the girl couldn't read till she was 7 and at 9 barely learned her 2 times tables like 3 weeks ago and truly it's all because she's constantly glued to her screen and if we even try to take it away she has a full-on breakdown like we just took away her firstborn child. I'm really worried for these kids as my sister is on the older side of Gen Alpha and is already this bad I just hope parents start to realize the danger technology and social media can cause to a young child's growth since this generation has so much potential to make great changes in the world.
I'm a Millenial and have a daughter who is in the Alpha generation. I completely agree with your comment on more gentle parenting. Helping her be her own person from day one is something that blows my boomer mothers mind!! Reading "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did" by Philippa Perry is a huge influence for so many of us raising Generation Alpha.
@@XIZ127 ^^^ agree. sometimes when millennial parents say "helping [my child] be their own person" it actually means "teaching my child to act like a monster toward others by only considering their own needs at all times". 70% of gen alpha kids that I've seen have been unbelievably poorly behaved, spastic with zero attention span, lacking in basic life skills, and rude toward everyone unless sitting mindlessly in front of a screen.
Im glad as a gen z kid, I got to grow up in the early stages of the internet where everything was not glitz & glamour but original and authentic. "Oh, what a time to be alive" It's a real shame how majority of content these days is picture perfect, but with the beauty standards its no surprise why the new generation of kids online have that "look older than my age" appearance. I despise TikTok and it's normalisation of mindless scrolling for hours, beauty standards and over sexualisation.
i'm a young gen z-er (i was born in 2010) i always hated being younger than everybody and still do. its like everyone is always better because they're older and it sucks. i skipped a grade last year and because of my birthday i was in a way a year behind because i was born in august. i'm taking 9th grade english, science, and math but it just isnt enough. i feel like i'm so close to being not a little kid but i'm just not there and its so annoying. every time something to do with age happens i'm either too young or too old. i feel inferior because of my age even though i'm only like a year ish off from everyone else.
That sounds really hard. One of my friends skipped a year and because I met her after that I honestly forgot most of the time. I just thought of her as being in the same year as me. I was young for my year and it’s not fun. When it’s time to be responsible you’re always expected to keep up but when it’s time for people to have a say on something you’re too young. And that’s kind of how people treat teens in general too which is miserable. One of my friends was old for our year and I think that was annoying too, like sometimes they felt behind and they were expected to be mature but they were never actually taken seriously for being older. The good news is that eventually it all just balances out 🤷🏼♀️ It’s kind of weird that something that mattered so much can just not matter that much anymore but it happens eventually. The older you become the less a year is as a percent of your life and it’s not as significant developmentally either, like an 18 and a 19 year old are still noticeably different, but a 27 and a 28 yr old are very similar
As a millennial, we all said the same stuff you did at the end of this video. That we would stay up to date and on top of stuff due to technology. Honestly, some of us did, some of us didn't. It'll be the same for y'all. Don't worry, it isn't as scary as you think. If there is one thing we can count on, one shared experience we will all have, it's the passage of time and getting older. Don't try too hard to stay young and relevant, be genuine and like what you like. That is timeless.
Yeah I’m in my mid 20’s and really don’t understand the current technology. It’s weird going from someone that was known as techy to already being at the point of passing my phone to my baby sisters to figure stuff out 🤦🏻♀️
i remember myself and so many fellow millennials being like "yeah, we'll be cool with gen z and get on" and... yeah... we see how that went. it especially didn't help that the media was ready to yell MILLENNIAL/GEN Z WAR at the slightest provocation.
Yeah why did media companies care so much about our denim preferences. Maybe they love creating division, maybe they were in desperate need of click bait and the 20 yr trend cycle was all there was. And like let’s be real most of gen z fashion is stuff we saw you guys wear when you were the big kids and old gen z were like 6 and we thought you were really cool 😂 My aesthetic is mostly stuff the big kids I thought were cool wore in the 2000s. I’m not even kidding, I don’t get why you all traded that look in, you were iconic! If my one vote counts I think you guys are mostly cool, you’ve made me look forward to my 30s so much!!! And we really have been workplace buddies, like it’s the millenials who are always looking out for me in this hellscape 🥹
As a 16 year old gen z it feels kinda weird that you're just entering this phase when you can be heard and taken seriously on the internet and people already start saying that your generation is soon going to be replaced by gen alpha.
As a young millenial, I am hyped for Gen Z to hit their 30's! I think a lot of people in my generation want to support the younger gens cause we were just constantly shit on by older gens. It will naturally get more difficult to stay relevant, it's also just how it goes. And while I do think your point about Z & Alpha being close could be correct, I used to think that about Millenials and Z (due to the older gens always saying the younger ones were the problem despite them being the adults in the room, but I digress). I think there will be more of divide as time passes as Alpha is going to want their independence and they are going to make a divide simply because they are all together in school and you dear Z will be out slaying the world. Plus all the sudden they'll be doing and saying things that you just won't get, cause you have to go to work and pretend to be professional so you can live in this hellscape. What I really hope is that Z and Millenials grow closer together so that we can actually enact change once the arthritic grip of power dies off.
I played a roblox game last week with my friends with skibidi toilet in it (we are all 20 💀) and it was funny with us falling off some rail tracks and trolling others lmao
Yeah, idk why some Gen Z are now reacting to it like it's some weird new "gen alpha" thing, when it's exactly like what Gen Z crappost humor has been for a few years now. Seems to me more like it's just a section of Gen Z who were never really into Gmod/SFM stuff and crappost stuff that other Gen Z kids were into for years now coming across it for the first time and labeling it as a "new gen alpha thing" simply because they're not familiar with it. When in reality it's just that, because Gen Z was one of the first generations to be so largely on the internet, the generation is just naturally split into so many different groups with completely different interests and types of humor because of the sheer power of the modern internet that the generation as a whole simply isn't that universally cohesive anymore. Skibidi Toilet doesn't seem like some new thing to me, it's exactly like other stuff I've watched and laughed at for years now, only thing that's maybe new-ish is that episodes are short-form. Or maybe it's just the Boomer-Zoomers that are closer to Millennials in age that are behind this reaction and they're already out of touch with some of the younger parts of their own generation lol.
What I'm the most excited for (as part of the Gen Z), is to see what Gen Z will be like when they will take over work places knowing how unserious we can be lmao (Just imagine your judge saying "dawg you're going to jail 💀💀")
i like being gen z, being there in the early stages of the internet. i feel like we were the last generation to really not have as heavy access to the internet growing up
Gen Alpha is growing up with social media and the internet meanwhile we grew up with Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, I think Gen Alpha is gonna have it rough 😂
As someone with siblings who are like all the ages (3, 5, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20) I see all the stages of humor and I am most scared of my 11 year old brother. They are coming.
no siblings in gen alpha (sister is like cusping right there in 2010 tho she isn’t rlly leaning to either side so ig she is???) but ALL my younger cousins are very much gen alpha and i seriously cannot stand them for more than a couple hours at most im sorry i’m just so sick of those toilets 😭
bro i have met so many kids and they all have the same humour like even my 3 yo cousin understands gen alpha and gen z jokes its terrifying and my other cousin literally makes humorous tiktoks and hes like 5 yo
@renoir3183 I googled it and it said gen alpha is 2012+?? So 2010 and 2011 are gen z too. I mean it does make sense cuz my 13 y o cousin has "gen z" humour. But my 10 y o watches those weird ahh vids😭😭
As a Gen-X it’s been so interesting watching all of this. (we’re the ignored generation - the one that had to take both typing AND computer classes, and the first generation the educational system started failing) We’ve always had kind of a truce with Gen-Z. While the millennials and boomers fought it out, we (X’ers) have taken courage in seeing you guys NGAF about the stuff we had to - like gender roles, deciding college isn’t worth it, and creating content without any gatekeepers. My kids are Gen-Z and seriously the coolest people I know. But Gen Alpha scares the $*!t out of me! Hopefully it’s because they’re so young still, and maybe they’ll grow into awesome adults for the world of my retirement years. If not, you guys may have to duke it out millennial vs boomer style just to keep humanity going. When you do - Gen-X will be there silently supporting, since we’re fine not being seen.
hi, gen alpha here- lowkey thought i was gen z until this vid, i had NO idea 2010 was a new generation- and im scared out of my mind. i cannot be the only one who finds the prospect of AI and increasingly smart technology absolutely terrifying? like- it was bad enough with alexas listening in with private conversations, now i have to worry about AI getting out of hand? hoping for a bright future … by the way, gen z folks, i still find your memes funny;)
this was interesting to watch because i was born in 2009 so a lot of people say that I'm "basically gen alpha" lmao. i used to tease my mom saying that she was "basically a millenial" and i understand why she was so offended now. both me and my mom are the youngest siblings, so while we are both right at the cut-off, we grew up the same way our older siblings did. my brother is twenty, so what you'd think of as a typical gen z, and i use the same slang, memes, and grew up the same way. i'm sure my mom felt the same way with her older siblings. so its just a weird phenomenon that i thought i'd comment.
And I'm "basically gen Z" only difference is I'm the oldest kid with a bunch on Gen Z siblings, friends and also class mates since I had to redo a year in 4th grade 💀
Dude same!! I'm also from 2009, sorta the edge for Gen Z yk? And my brother is on other side of the spectrum, he's on the edge of Gen Z to millenials. He was born in 2000 too, so the gaps between our thinking and "humour" is insane. He always got so offended whenever I called him a millennial, and now I understand why lol. And then he always makes fun of Gen Z..
The weird thing about Skibidi toilet being considered a "Gen Alpha" thing is that it HAD to have been made by someone who is Gen Z (also my generation). We grew up on Garry's Mod and Source Film maker videos which what Skibidi toilet is clearly inspired/created by.
As a gen z that is currently in their final yr of high school, I’m actually curious what gen alpha would bring to the internet after us. I also don’t think we should really shame them like how the previous generations were to us imo but that’s just me💁♂️
Gen Alpha literally shames their own parents and teachers, I mean obviously don't fight fire with fire but a lot of these kids need some serious tough love
As a millennial, Aging isn't scary guys. I'm 30 and some Gen Z co-Workers think I'm 19 to 20. Water and a good diet will keep you looking youthful all the way into your 50's. You'd probably be surprised at how many millennials still look like we're still in our 20's 😂 would be nice.
Personally, as a Gen Z-er who works with children in Gen Alpha, I'm both excited to see where they go in terms of making positive impacts in the world. But I'm also a little nervous on how codependent kids can be to technology. I know that sounds really 'boomer-ish', but with my kiddos I feel like they're just glued to the screen and their behaviour is also impacted negatively with this also. But I absolutely cannot wait to see how Gen Alpha turns out!
If I ever have kids (would be Gen Beta), I'm definitely give them a low-tech upbringing. I'm extremely grateful to my parents for doing so to my siblings and I (we are all Gen Z). I am coming into adulthood with an intact attention span, good social skills, a healthy relationship with technology, and an acclimation to long-term gratification. This is thanks to a slow-paced childhood spent outside, away from screens, with other kids my age. I really worry about future generations being even more damaged by social media/technology than Gen Z already is. My fellow Gen Zers already are dysfunctional as it is from all this.
There is a way to moderate their usage. If you’re stuck, speak with a child psychologist that can help you sort that out based on your child’s needs. There is a great book on this called _Niños Desconectados_ that is about this very issue. It’s also important moderate your own usage! The book was originally in English but I had picked up the Spanish version in a library 😅
don't worry about it, it's a valid concern for sure. i'm very dependent on technology alread (trying to break that.. keyword trying), but i've seen some kids my age and it's worrying - an older gen alpha
I'm 28, so kinda Gen-Z, kinda Millennial. It's really interesting being in-between two generations because you don't fully identify with either, but rather a mix of both of them. I have a niece who's 14, so also in the middle. I am curious to see her experience as she grows up in between Alpha and Gen-Z. I can already see her not identifying fully with Alpha or Gen-Z but in some ways she does. I love watching the generations grow up and truly believe people are too hard on every generation that's younger than them. Like cmon, give the younger Gen a break, they're not even adults yet and we were all weird when we were finding ourselves. I am sure they will grow to be intelligent humans, both emotionally and intellectually, and help advance our world forward.
In a way, gen alpha right now are kinda like boomers trying to copy gen z humour. They dont understand that we use all these terms like "lit, bussin, bet, no cap, slay, in my x era" ironically and just use them in the wrong contexts unironically. Its actually really amusing to see
Idk the mill feels more main character then us listening to my family's talking about teen life before 9/11 and social media. being known for rasing their self and their siblings (there are gen z kids that fit that description but not as much as mill kids did ) i mean our generation is known for social media, feelings, inclusiveness. I mean we dont even have our own style yet like 90s 80s 70s etc did unfortunately 😔
As a millennial, I CAN"T WAIT for Gen Z to be in the workforce. We need more people (& future generations) concerned about the planet and actual existential issues.
@@-haclong2366 Umm, wait. Are you a gen z or me or both? Or like should I say most gen z people I know are either currently working a job, or worked one in the past (including me). Going to school doesn't mean you don't work a job and also lots of people I know just did high-school and maybe fax. But hey, that might just be my own experience right?
@@-haclong2366I’m gen z been working since I was 15. First day of college is literally tomorrow and I’ll still be working part time (at 21). Not everybody has that privilege to wait until they’re 30.
My children are Gen Alpha. They still have no access to the internet (they are still very young, 8 and 5). I will delay giving them a smartphone as long as I can. As an older millennial, I am part of the last generation of kids who still grew up with no internet, when adsl became available in most homes I was already in my teen years. I am really concerned about children being chronically online from childhood, when they still have no mental maturity to really analyze and understand information they come across. And there is some weird s*** on social media (yes TikTok looking at you ).
as an older gen A, I am losing faith in our generation because I see kids on tiktok and youtube posting without parent consent and mostly inapropriate videos. When I was 3, literally the age of 3, I got my first phone. I have no idea why my mom gave me one at a very very young age, but even I am less addicted compared to these kids posting cringey, pick me, videos to be "very famous" on a 17+ platform without consent, and I feel like this is a very wrong way of teaching kids about the world. At this point we have to introduce kids to the internet at age 14! Seeing 6-year-olds on tiktok showing so much skin and doing dances is unacceptable. It is not "cute" to blast your child on the internet for views! Do sports not interest anyone anymore? I know I'm on the internet as well, but I don't want to get used to it 24/7. I personally blame the parents for influencing the kids, We are now having Gen Z parents that could ruin some kids out there. So please, PLEASE don't let this be acceptable!!! PS Commenting on a video is better then blasting yourself infront of pedos without parental consent.
I mean im horrible at sports but I like watching the other kids play them and I play rudimentary games. Also i got a tablet around 5 how did you get it at 3? Also good thing because the younger gen a's seem to be raised with parental control now so thats good. my cousins love complained they can't watch horror stuff and all that but theyll probably appreciate it eventually.
I’m one of the first gen alphas, and I am nervous for our development. Most of us are heavily influenced online, and it feels like nobody really has a personal style or personality. I try to spread difference throughout people i meet, so that we could possibly have a diversity between each other. I just hope this generation grows up a bit and we can lead the world for the better. Edit: I looked up the years in which the generations are born, and apparently I was born in the last couple years of gen Z
Every generation learns from the previous ones. Y'all are still kids but I believe you guys will end up being better than us if you learn from us. Gen z is like the test run for the internet we are the first ones born into it and had little parental control because no one knew anything. If you learn by our mistakes I believe you can survive the internet and end up amazing. It's a new alphabet, a new era! Also please put an end to cancel culture lol
Things will not get better so easily. These generation category labels are stupid. The modern music is crap, the modern movies is crap, modern books are degenerative, even the foods are unhealthy. Just look at the toilet meme thing, it's degenerative. And that's not even the hard part, global politics, you think eveyone will grow up like you? No. Kids your age somewhere else right now are living in active war zones and or starving to death. Whatever country you are in, there is a country out there that hates you. And don't be ignorant to believe that you are the good one who will solve all the issues, politics is shit, and it only ever gets violent. Tip: distance yourself from internet culture and trends.
@@aroach7461 be positive. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. We can help the kids who aren't in good situations in their countries/lives. Other countries may not like my country, but there's others who like it. Distancing yourself from the internet and trends is a great way to be your own person, but it's okay to like them. I'm not going to be the one "savior", but if I and a bunch of people change a lot of little things, the world will be better. I can't control politics, because I can't vote, but not everything ends in war. If you really want to make things better, stop complaining and being negative, and go out and do something kind.
I think we can all agree Gen Z humor was top-notch. Like you said, we ARE the internet. Gen A onwards has no idea how much they're missing when it comes to the stuff us Gen Z'ers grew up with.
Fr tho kids shows when I was a young child were the SHIT! Dinosaur train was the perfect mix of humor, charming and relatable characters, and education that made me laugh, and started my history of fascination with dinosaurs.
31 year old millenial here raising a Gen alpha kiddo 👋🏻 I’ve come to terms with being old and cheugy and whatever other words the kids use these days. I think we’re in good hands with Gen Z - y’all are going to take us places and I can’t wait to support you. I think the Gen Alpha kids can be a bit more unhinged because of the permissive parenting a lot of millennials end up using… each generation is going to accidentally screw up their kids one way or another 🙈 Even with whatever shortcomings these younger generations have, they’re out weighed by how informed you can choose to be. Gen Z and A aren’t going to put up with shit from corporations or the government and I’m looking forward to seeing how it all gets shook up. Proud of you. With love, A cringe millennial mom
I'm a 22 year old Gen Z and I am not scared of aging! I am patiently looking forward to my thirties hoping it will be a time of stability and security... I feel like a child still and have no idea what's going on!!! Why do people think young twenty year olds are fully mature adults 😭
Jokes on you! I'm a 30 year old millennial w/ a PhD, a full-time job, a mortgage, and I still feel like a child and have no idea what's going on 😢I literally called my mom today bc I wasn't sure how to wash wool or how to do my taxes
im just a few months shy of 13 and i definitely agree, although i think being born after the 2000s has definitely interfered with my ability to connect with my older gen z peers x(! humor wise and mostly culturally we’re the exact same, but i never experienced childhood in the 2ks firsthand and any further influence has been from my siblings. ive always been very conflicted on whether im gen z or alpha bc the internet gives you a lot of mixed information and although i behave the exact same as every gen z ive met i dont have the same life experience which is where that disconnect happens for me
I’m 10 (born in 2013) and I’ve tried so hard to be mature that my humor is more gen z 💀 obviously I don’t feel gen z… because I’m 10, but bro. I could pass for a 12 year old
Honestly, as a Millennial parent to 3 gen alphas, my biggest concern right now is keeping them OFF the internet enough. Trying real hard not to raise "ipad kids" who cannot function without multiple screens or are learning slurs+sexually inappropriate stuff at the age of 8 on roblox...but devices are everywhere and integrated into everything so I can definitely see how that is going to affect this generation like none before it
I hate being gen alpha because seeing little kids on youtube shorts feeds ruins my youtube browsing experience because they are everywhere.. It scares the crap out of me, they keep playing with their poppy playtime figurines, and i wouldnt care if it wasn't on my feed 😭😭 I know i'm 13 and shouldn't act any older than them but, it really does scare the crap out of me...
@@RandyMarshIsKewl just scroll rlly quick when you see a either a low quality wall, a low quality chunky small hand or diagonal text in yt shorts font and click the don’t recommend button, your feed should be fine
I think what a lot of people forget is that most generations are raised with the culture of the previous generation(s) and that gives them common links. Every Millenial, myself included, will never shut up about the 90's. But 90's culture is Gen X culture. Not to mention that geographical region and personal taste will always play a part in how well versed you are in a generational culture, including what's deemed as your own. That's for me to say: don't sweat about it, love what you love and if you want to keep up with the trends, you will.
Lol 90’s culture is Gen Z culture too. I was born in 2002 but I still had all of the “just 90’s kid thingz🤪” things too. It’s only rich people that burn through that cycle fast
I’m a late millennial. My childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s. I was 14 in 2006, got the chance to grow up outside and without a cellphone all through out high school, although most of my peers had cellphones. So I get what you’re saying. I feel like I relate a lot to Gen Z , and a bit less with my older millennial counter parts which are in their early 40s. I just turned 30
I just turned 17 on Saturday, and I visited my siblings as a present. Their mother's roommate has three children, the oldest of whom is about 9. I shit you not, he could not mentally process or comprehend the sentence, "I don't play Roblox." It's like I never answered him and he just thought I'd beat the obby for him if he kept asking for me to do it.
I am Gen Z, and I remember witnessing the end of the late 2000s style. Nickelodeon changed it's logo, Justin Bieber and One Direction became popular and then went, and in 2013, I was watching Pivot animations. For me, the early 2010s were a curious time, especially in respect to how everything looked. There was a certain charm in how Frutiger Metro and Vectorheart appeared on posters and packaging. Nowadays, that stuff is gone and replaced with simple shapes, and I really want to make these designs.
@Sandrinarhonda They don't compare because the goal is very different compared to what was popular when I grew up. Simplicity and minimalism seem to be much more preferable nowadays, even when it's the Patreon logo.
i didnt realize how out of touch i was with the newest generation until my brother (11) explained skibidi toilet to me. the fact that ijbol is coming back is scaring me too. im only 18 why do i feel 40
I don't think that we will really keep up with technology... As a 26 year old gen z I see myself slowly but surely becoming less interested in it 💀. I'm in my adult era for sure 😕
I'm GenX (Dec '73) and I'm witnessing a shift whereas for the first time in history, technology is advancing faster than we can keep up with, yet Gen Alpha (and GenZ) sort of instinctually know how to navigate through it all while I struggle just to keep up with what's already out there. Same applies to music. It's reached the point for me where I can't tell if it's a new hit song I'm hearing or just a commercial advertisement.. I literally can't tell. But I hear quite a few bands/artists mimicking the music of the 80's and that makes me smile 🙂
As someone who bridges the gap cause I’m 13 so I get a taste of both generations and I will say that gen alpha is miles different then even late gen Z I think this is because the internet is moving faster and faster and things that are popular even in the mid 2010s are completely unknown to most of gen alpha and that makes me feel WAY older than I am for some reason
I know that I’m a rare case with my parents being boomers and me being gen z. My dad was born in 1954 and my mom 1955. The world they prepared me for simply does not exist anymore, I had a very hard time growing up because of it, and a rougher time than my peers, for one being that I had to support myself on every field completely on my own. To them it makes sense, but with the economy and Covid thrown in the mix, as well as how much the world has changed in the time they were my age, they basically threw me to the wolves.
Wow this is me too! Especially having a boomer father, technology was always something I sorta had to take the forefront in. I remember when he didn’t let us get subscribe to RUclips channels because he through we had to pay money, or download games because he thought they would automatically bring viruses.
I love my parents but since both of them were born in 1969, in a different country, and barely know English. It’s been sorta hard since they can’t help me with much.
Me being a gen z in my last years of highschool learning that as a generation we're getting older is wild. That does make me feel kinda old but i wonder how its going to play out with this new generation
i’m the youngest gen z (born in 2009) and my brother is the oldest gen alpha (born in 2011). it’s really cool to see the differences between the way we use the internet!
I have several Gen Alpha in my life and they are difffffffferent chile lmao. I had a funny experience with my younger cousin in a restaurant bathroom where she thought the soap dispenser was broken because it wasn’t automatic. I hadn’t thought about it before that day, but they legit live in a digital world.
I'm one of the oldest gen alpha 9 days off and I personally never had one of those experiences but for sure gonna see that in the future of this gen and so on
Yeah as a gen alpha I agree lol, i think i did that once too..😭 (ofc i realized after like 2 seconds) Although i am on the older side of alpha, and i can tell the younger kids are definitely engulfed in digital stuff, more than gen z actually, So yeah i agree and i honestly wonder what that means for us
@vikxyzluv”I’d rather welcome them” who says they gonna welcome u? If Gen Z is unhinged, u think gen alpha will be nice to us? They’ll be roasting gen Z in a couple of years for simply existing 😭
I'm an old gen alpha (march 2010) and have been bullied for it. I skipped a grade and am now going to 9th grade, and my friends and other classmates say things like: 'imagine not being gen z' and 'you don't have an opinion because you're gen alpha'. It's actually really annoying, knowing that some of them are born in november/december of 2009.
Take it from a Millennial who said the same thing about gen z/millennial relationships - the media will do its damnedest to make it happen. Because if we're fighting among each other, we're not focusing on all the shit that's happening around us.
As someone right on the line between gen z and gen alpha, i’m curious how us 2008-2012 babies turn out with the influence of 2 very similar generations as apposed to the people between milenials and gen z.
I am 26, and I never really considered myself Gen-Z. My brother is 5 years younger than me, and the way he grew up was VEEERY different from the way I grew up, even though we're both technically "Gen-Z". For example, I didn't have smartphones until my late teenage years, and yet my brother has had a smartphone since when he was a little kid. When it comes to playing games, I mostly read paper magazines or, occasionally, some internet articles, and bought CDs and, later, DVDs, or downloaded them from separate sites on the internet, while my brother mostly watched letsplays and bought games on Steam... On the other hand, we both mostly play videogames and watch random videos on RUclips and use VK to communicate (a Russian version of "Facebook"), while younger people just watch TikTok non-stop. What's the point of the "generations" anyway? It's all bullshit, honestly, each person has their own upbringing, their own views...
I think every generation thought they would be able to keep up with the latest trends and technology. Until they weren't. It happens to all of us eventually. Some of us later than others but it still happens regardless.
As a Gen Z, the fact that oldest members of Gen Alpha are coming of age makes me feel a lot older than I actually am. I’M 22 I SHOULDN’T BE FEELING LIKE THIS
22 is the age everyone starts feeling it, you realize that people that werent even BORN when you were in middle school, are walking talking formed human beings. It gives you perspective of how short life is. To a kid, youre the same as a 40 or 30 year old. It all blends together and speeds up. Welcome to adulthood :)
Oh gosh, the growth phase from 20-25 is wild, because you're figuring out the world and yourself all at once. And then you hit a whole new one between 25-30 (28 now) and suddenly you're so aware of yourself and you start to emotionally develop SO much. Each year is like you're a whole new person, finding new facets of who you are and who you want to be. My 30yo friend warned me when I was 25 about it, and she wasn't wrong about it at all.
millennial here : if you stay committed to being a part of the world as it changes, meaning, you try to keep up with things and consume content that relates to understanding the experiences of those younger than yourself, then you won't get left behind. But as you get older it becomes harder to do because of your growing commitments and responsibilities -- you're gonna cringe at people in your cohort someday, and that's okay, because not everyone has the energy to keep up with the times. My message to Gen Z is this: your 30s are so SO much better than your 20s because you aren't the target demographic anymore and you get to decide who you want to be and what you want to do, with way less outside commentary. Embrace the change and enjoy it.
This is all so interesting to watch as the oldest gen z/youngest millennial. The tables are turning faster and faster as younger and younger kids are raised on the internet. Gen Z parents are introducing their gen A and soon gen B babies into the mix, its going to be wild
Gen alpha is literally in the age group of my little siblings. It’s disturbing how parents are letting children so young be on the internet. I’ve tried having that talk with mine but “as long as they’re quiet”…
My cousin is 10 and very VERY regularly on RUclips shorts and it honestly scares me how much they could see without knowing how harmful it is and then they will repeat it or bring it up or something and end up harming others and themself and they aren’t being sheltered enough in my opinion and it scares me
They’re such fussy eaters aswell. My sister is Gen alpha and I’m Gen Z. I’ve noticed that kids her age only like to eat crap like crisps, fries and other junk. Luckily she isn’t addicted to the internet as she likes playing with toys.
As the youngest millennial, my petty side is low-key laughing at older gen Z finally understanding how we were feeling when you guys were becoming _that girl_ . Welcome to feeling old. The trade-off for that is gaining wisdom and feeling the most secure you've ever been because you'll know yourself a lot better than these youngins.
lol, right? As a an almost 34 year old millennial, I want to be like "welcome to the club of feeling old!" 😂 But yes, getting older and really growing into adulthood does definitely have its upsides as well :) And I think a lot of us millenialls and older gen z are committed to working with young people to make the world better and more sustainable to live in, since we were *all* screwed over by the mistakes of previous generations and late stage capitalism!
My petty was ready too. 🤣 I knew Gen Z was going to come around eventually and see how they did us dirty. They have more in common with younger millennials than they give us credit for.
While me aging isn’t a big issue for me, I’m indeed very concerned about the future of every generation (especially Alpha) past Gen Z in terms of humor, technology reliability, and how they would behave around outside of the Internet.
Considering how much we as gen z has changed, I'm excited and kinda nervous about what gen alpha will be doing. Edit: and yes I am cooking while watching this video. Thank you for pointing it out lol
Me too. I have nephews and the content they are growing up watching is kinda..... they will be chaotic. if we are anxious they're going to be wild... I mean the only thing that's making my nephew learn to read and write is the will to search his own games on Roblox
My sister is gen alpha and certainly in 6th grade acording to the stories of her classmates they seem similar to gen z but if their parents was on crack while pregnant with them 💀
I’m a millennial with Gen Alpha children, and they are not allowed on the Internet. I don’t want them to see all of the horrible things I’ve seen in the past (pain Olympics, 2 girls 1 cup, 1 guy 1 glass jar) or current horrible things like Alt Right rhetoric, Jordan Peterson, and Andrew Tate. I just want them to truly get to be children because I didn’t really get to be a child. I grew up taking care of my Gen Z siblings and was basically a third parent in my household. I’m not excited for Gen Alpha to be on the Internet at all. I’ve been trying to teach them things through being in nature, reading books, going to the library, and interacting with the real world. I read books like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, growing up, and am hoping to counteract our future being even more dystopian by trying to raise my children, instead of letting the Internet raise them for me.
I'm alpha gen (9 days off from being a gen z) and I wish my parents implemented more of these rules, since they are boomers you'd expect them to. I currently have a Chromebook, and I feel like a desktop set up for some reason is different and since google is like what chrome is known for I browse the internet a lot. Not as much the short media content although I can get exposed to it now and then. I've been to those parts of the internet like Jordan Peterson, (not as much Andrew Tate because I'm not a guy) and Ben Shapiro although I'm lucky I didn't get to go into pain Olympics I have gotten addicted to certain explicit websites and pornography ever since I was 5 and then 9. My advice to you: I am not telling you how to raise your child since I am a child myself but from my experience watching my fellow peers grow up, please delay it until they get to high school as much as this stuff is brain rot your gonna want them to get some contact with the internet in high school I'm getting closer to high school and there absolutely going to nag you about getting a phone or some device to actively be on it. If you don't teach them how to stand there ground about social media and being ok not to have the internet they are most likely going to be rebellious take this with a grain of salt.
Wow as a gen z person, I agree with this! Theres a lot of adultish humor such as sex, drugs, and murder everywhere on the internet that these kiddos are being exposed to at a very young age. I don't even wanna think about that kind of impact it'll have on their psychology. Shoving kids in front of the wild internet is a bad idea and I'm happy you realized that. I was raised on books and nature as well and I'm thankful for it because I really love those things now :)
As a somewhat traumatized Gen-Zer, i would say i partly agree with you. Being uncontrollably exposed to internet in, okay, teenage years, did me bad. As a kid i, gratefully, had no big&cool phone, but only as a teenager. I was (and still is) kind of stupid, thinking I'm cool and "cold" in a way that I don't react to harsh stuff that much, so i was subscribed to those communities where they show the uncensored stuff from accidents, murders, etc. I saw this and got used to these images in my fourteens. But that's not the worst. The worst was the fact, that comment were open. You could see different people there, they could send different links there, and once i saw the like like "test for how long could you make it watching the absolute worst stuff" and it was suicides, murders, the last one i remember great - the mafia-ish people were cutting man's head off. While he was still alive. I don't think it affected me that much back then, but now i face the consequences. Also seeing a little kitten being tortured to death by a teenager affected me really bad later on, having a crisis of rethinking my humanity AND having my own sweet cat. I just started to cry when i recalled that video, sitting next to my cat. I'm NOT cold and stuff and wish I've never seen those videos. I wish my mom took more care about what I'm being exposed to on the internet. I know i wouldn't be cool about it, but now i wish she did. So my point is your kids will still want to be like their kindergartenmates, schoolmates, so they can't be without phones, internet and stuff at all, we live in the internet era. But a healthy control is the key i think. Not reading their messages with their friends, because privacy is still a thing and your kid deserves it, but a healthy check on are there any dangerous people that may follow them on social media or be on their dms, do they follow potentially mentally-traumatizing communities (like i did), etc. But they deserve to not feel like they're not like other kids in a wrong way, because they will rebel in this case
as a gen alpha i respect you, since ive seen some fucked up shit in my time of being on the internet (necrophiliac p/rn, pedophile stuff, and also a bunch of gore and kinky shit) i respect you sm because you are so amazing for making sure your kids don't see the stuff on the internet, thank you for keeping some of my generation decently innocent, i applaud you.
As a Gen Z, it feels weird that there’s a younger generation on the internet. I’m on the younger side of Gen Z, so it’s weird to see people who aren’t that much younger than me who have a whole different meme culture. It actually reminds me of this kid I recently babysat who insisted that we play Roblox the entire time, instead of playing board games like I did when I had babysitters as a kid. It’s so strange how a lot of Gen Alphas seem to rely on broader games like Roblox to get long-term entertainment, whereas I grew up with Plants vs Zombies, Angry Birds, and Skylanders, which would phase in and out of popularity.
I’m 19, N I N E T E E N, me and my friends were hanging out and a friend of mine teased me and said “YOLO”. Without skipping a beat, a kid playing nearby came to us and said,” No one uses that anymore.” Gurl, my heart sank.
LMAO no way
not us entering our millennial era
Nooo😂
I'm the same age and this has me CACKLING
PLEASE 😭
Gen Z has been through enough historical events, we will see how much Gen Alpha has to go through lol
i hope not as much bc we gon go thru it too
Gen alpha is the only actual subset of people drastically effected by the pandemic and will continue to be. They lost key developmental year and still are as nothing has been fully restored since especially education wise. I think this will make them so much less aligned to older s gens in the future.
We need a crossover
gen z is not dead. you have to go through even more shit (written by a millennial)
@@user-yf7nn9ut2bas children specifically lets see how gen alpha has it
Watching my younger cousins slowly gaining conscious and hearing their gens humor is so humbling
k urt. cobain pf
as a older alpha, (or perhaps gen z) I’ve actually been on the internet for years, but I hate gen alphas humour so badly and I feel ashamed of my own generation.
@@BlackHoleQueenIf you were born from 1996 - 2012, you are Gen Z.
@@demonking3673 okay then- I’m gen z
@@demonking3673 I just was like “DONT TRUST ANYONE.” because some people were saying that gen z ends in 2010
Time flies too fast. It felt like I was 12 yesterday and I'm 18 now 😭. Crazy to think there's a whole new generation on the rise.
I was 12, hmm let me check here... 12 YEARS AGO!!!
@@SpeedyBlur2000 Good for you, I guess? Maybe just don't say that much since you need to be at least 13 to be on here 😁.
@@Fr4nk4000 He just said that he was 24 years old, wdym?
@@RoastyRoachy12+12=12 Grow up and learn mathematics 💅💅💅💅
@@SPplayer. aw, okay.. 😞
Gen Alpha worries me because they're truly the first generation to born holding smartphones. You can't convince me that's anything but bad for their brains. I'm 24 and boomers and gen X said we were born with phones in our hands but it wasn't really like that. Yes, a lot of us had phones, but I don't remember most of us starting to *really* get into them until highschool.
Agreed! Gen Alpha get devices way younger than Gen Z ever did. I worry it will get younger and younger (kids getting phones even younger). And focus on looks and whatnot, way younger than it was for Gen Z
@@petruzzi6268 Gen Alpha isn't even old enough to get married and most Gen Z are still too young and those who are mostly aren't married. Not sure what you're trying to say here?
@@goosewithagibus I just meant I've seen Gen alpha focusing on beauty, way too young *because* of access to the internet
@@petruzzi6268 oh yeah I getchu
As a gen z I got my first device at like 6 years old- so I've grown up with technology mostly. Before 6 I usually watched TV so I was pretty much raised on technology.
Every generation is bothered by the generation before them and Gen Alpha is gonna be no different. Get ready to explain what real music of your time was like to Gen Alpha lol
I think as gen z we'll be defending bops from 2005-2010
I constantly get sad that I’m not born in the 80’s - 90’s, I’m an early 2000’s kid, but now I realize not much gen alphas know my favorite childhood cartoons, and I’m like “they’ll really never know..” (won’t say the exact year but just know it’s in the early 2000’s before 2005 which is mid and then late 2000’s)
I’m getting this information from when I tried to show my toddler cousin my favorite powerpuff girls episode which I think aired in 1998? And he began crying saying he didn’t want to watch it because it was ugly then proceeded to watch his 2023 cartoons 🥲
@@Lilii1839 ow! My childhood heart! 😭
@@kayleee4065 Please do!
Having to listen to my brother hysterically laugh while singing skibidi toilet is concerning
just dont let cocomelon happen
Yeah I don’t get skibidi toilet why r all my friends so OBSESSED with it?!
It’s time to run.
@Quackers_UnitedOfficial That’s because you are.
:)
well just imagine you are your parents, seeing you laughing at trollface in 2010
I’m a Gen X lady who accidentally stumbled on this. Watching this at my age makes me smile. You get to your forties and you realize how short your time in the sun really is. My kids are gen Z and my students and nieces and nephews are gen alpha. At this point I’m over not being the target audience anymore and find the panic of being replaced amusing as the target audience. Welcome to our world! We love and are happy to have you in the over 30 crowd!
Now if only Gen X were good at parenting.
Same! Not Gen X but a cusper born in '89 (everyone's gonna gasp in horror). I love being 34 because I really don't care who thinks I'm old anymore. Like you said, times ticking and it's about enjoying what little life we have left lmao. But in all honesty, if I even live to be 68 I'll get to live my whole life time all over again which makes me feel like I still have time to live life how I want to 💖
Gen Z's got a few more years before they join the over 30 crowd. I'm one of the youngest Millennials ( born in '93 and right on the edge of what folks consider the Millennial/Gen Z cusp) and turning 30 in less than a month.
THIS @@demonking3673
@@Hannah_BectonYeah exactly.
I just turned 29. I'm a late '94 millenial with '67-'70 gen X parents, and my younger teen cousins are gen Z (born from gen X and millenial parents). For some reason far too many people mix up gen X with boomers... BIG difference between my parents and grandparents born in the forties! Also big difference between my peers born in the late eighties and early nineties, and teens born in the late '00s.
To me it feels like generational lines are getting smaller over time... We have gen Alpha already and next year gen Beta will be born! Must be due to technology advancing so quickly.
I am not ready for gen Z’s millenniel era 😭😭
You mean gen z's gen z era?
The term “era” I feel like is already to me kinda of cringy and outdated, it’s interesting to see how quickly slang and trends are cycled through because of the internet and how for us (gen z) we are already stuck in some of our ways
I guarantee that Stranger Things is our Friends
You'll be fine. The beauty of getting older is you care about this less and less. Signed a Millennial 😂
All aboard the Choochoocheugyyyyy train!!!! 🚂🚂
id love to see a video about gen z and aging i feel like were way more scared of aging than other generations
I am older millennial, i am so proud of younger folks approaching 30 like YALL MADE IT THAT'S AWESOME! Embrace the aging, you're all beautiful and aging is amazing. I love aging and especially once i fully disconnected from social media I've loved myself even more.
wait dude how old are the oldest gen z?
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottodOldest Gen Z are currently 28-30 years old
@@thatsunfortunate2771 then that means im gen alpha......wow.......this whole time i thought i was gen z
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod What? Idk I just said that to freak you out
I'm 14 (which makes me gen z), and I had a long phase of "ugh I hate Gen Z I prefer older generations", since I grew up without internet access and I only first went on a computer when I was 9. I discovered that we are just the modern equivalent of boomers, we changed so much in the world and in society, and we definitely changed the internet. Heck, we were the internet ! But Gen Alpha is actually scaring me because they actually believe in the irony of our humour, plus they were born with the internet. My cousin is Gen Alpha (8 years old), and as long as I can remember, she is on Roblox. She has a skibidi toilet phase right now, and I think it is very concerning. I consider myself disrespectful towards adults, but she is on another level ; she'd call her father bro, scream at her parents, and she'd lock herself in her room saying she's in her vampire slay phase. I really do hope trends take a better turn, so Gen Alpha won't be roaming around like monkeys (jk). Anyway, from 2024 onwards, everyone who'd be born would be "Gen Beta", so yah.
cant wait to call them beta males lmao
Like most of gen alphas parents ur aunt and uncle shouldn’t have kids that’s straight up neglect
Im in a similar boat as you I was poor so I never really got into internet stuff until I was 13 or 14. Right now I am 19.5 years old and kids your age and especially kids younger are far more disrespectful and get away with much more. Granted the difference between what the greatest and lowest outcomes has never been greater. Kids who act like that aren’t doing themselves any favors.
I somehow died a little in the inside, but almost died from laughing when i read “vampire slay phase”.
@@thecreatorofpc7929same lmao
As a gen z preschool teacher, can confirm I have like 3 Olivia's in my class and all the kids are obsessed with skibidi toilet
I go to a k-12 school and the most common names in the 6th grade this year were Williams, Logans and Olivias
i would love a video talkin about aging as gen z, especially considering how so much of our representation is still set in high school
I feel like it was kinda the same for the millennials too. It’s like the media seems to idolize the high school “fantasy” years…like where are all the college shows? High school was hard but college is a whole other obstacle 😩
THIS is v much needed bc i feel like all of us just randomly woke up one day and we’re 21+ and ik that’s how aging works but like ???? why do so many of us still feel like 20 something teenagers 🫠😭
@@coffeeandcats8332it was definitely a similar situation for millennials. Like Pretty Little Liars was still in high school when we were in college. Then they had millennials stuck in the hipster obnoxious young worker era for years. We went from high school to workforce 🤷🏾♀️ To be honest I don't think media truly catered to Gen Z. They just threw to Gen Z what they gave to millennial because they thought we were similar and we are but there is still a distinction between the vibes of the two generations. They honestly failed at grasping what Gen Z is truly about.
That was millennials a few years ago tbh. Like it was weird being in my 20s and all of the media talked about millennials like we were all in high school still.
The oldest of Gen Alpha are 10 now. Gen z is 1997 to 2012. 11 year olds are the youngest of Gen Z. Your generation is younger then you then you think.
As a Millenial, I'm weirdly excited for Gen Z to join us on this side of adulthood. Part of it is a little bit of that cultural older sibling/younger sibling rivalry...but mostly I'm excited that we're going to continue gaining leverage against older generations that are way behind on things like climate change, capitalism and other major existential threats.
Also, don't sleep on your 30's, they're actually kinda great. It's like being in your 20's but more grounded in yourself, if that makes sense? A lot of us are nostalgic for moments in our 20's but wouldn't actually switch places if we could. I don't wanna come off like "you kids will understand when you get older," but I promise, there's still stuff to look forward to.
bruh most of us just enterd our 20s what you mean 30s are approching dont rush it 😭
Sad that the other person didn’t understand your comment. Thank you for the insight ❤️ It’s honestly hella comforting
💜💜💜
I'm 26 and I felt my frontal lobe fully form it was wild haha
I’m glad to hear that, especially how everyone older only talks about the “good old days” and how life is miserable after childhood
as a 2004 gen z, im concerned for the next generation 😭😭
As an older Gen Alpha, I find it scary that younger kids are already hooked onto devices and the internet. I got online at about age . . . 6? Which I find pretty young, but I go to school, and I see 2nd graders already with the new phones and air pods. I hope that we grow out of technology in some form, because I really don't want to be a friggin space travel agent or be drawing up dots on a canvas and that be art lol.
(I'm aware I'm a month late leave me be lol)
6!? i didn't go online until i was 10! and that was 2010 kids spaces, so lots of baby MMOs and kids wii games. and i didnt have a social media presence until 13, when my middle school friends played LINE and had a tumblr blog.
same about the tech tho. i remember japan had those flip phones with physical buttons, but they also had free internet access. we really need transition phones for kids, over throwing an ipad at them early.
I went online at 4 whenever Halo Reach came out. For me the Internet was something just there, (mainly to watch Halo Machinima/mega bloks videos), I always had my toys and friends to play with outside, but as we all got older, mainly around middle school, that's when I started seeing a huge online obsession with people. Luckily for me I was able to grow up playing outside back when every kid played outside.
Im only 13 im gen alpha too. I totally agree with you. But I have only had a device for ONE year.
I got a phone like in 5th grade
Reading a Gen alpha writing a comprehensible text makes me feel old
Not me entering my millenial slay phase, like gen alpha would say
A lot of the slang was basic AAVE that’s multigenerational in the Black community. They tried it lmao
Right. Most of those were around when I was a kid in the 90s.
that or queer slang
@@Zero_Is_Stopping_Time exactly!
You could tell who wrote that article. ⚪
@@Zero_Is_Stopping_Time Which is mostly AAVE in America, right?
I see gen aplha like our collective unhinged little siblings and I think it's a shame that all of the attention is going to be shifting from gen z now, because I feel like the studios have just started understanding how to make (kind of) content for us, and it feels like I didn't have enough time to enjoy it lmao
thisss!!! im here for the gen alphas but we need a few more years
I agree. I'm interested in seeing the cultural zeitgeist and how big corps response to the market is, and is unfortunate that all of these industries didn't took advantage of .... Was is the pandemic???
Honestly as a younger Millennial I felt the same way about Gen Z. Even down to us not getting content that really gets us; because at the time the Boomers and Gen X were making a lot of “our” content, with the exception of RUclips. It felt like as soon as we were finally getting shows and films that spoke to the millennial social identity(probably because it was made by millennials), here came the Gen Z marketing. But honestly, not mad about it. Every generation deserves their time to shine! There’s also probably an analysis in there about idolizing youth and how it goes by too fast but that’s for another day.
The oldest Gen alpha is like 10ish* so we still got some time!
fwiw, as a millenial I felt the same way until I realized that millenial media got better in our 30s because we got more power behind the scenes. you guys are already so good at creating your own media, so I wouldn't be surprised if it took less time for you guys to have better representative storylines from major studios and their competitors.
The oldest gen Z i believe is 26. My sister was born in 97 (she’s 26) and millennials ended in 96. She doesn’t identify with Gen Z whatsoever - so I feel like 28 is pushing it. I think people born from 2000 on are more gen Z centric, and I would honestly consider 97-99 zennials. They still had somewhat of a more “millennial-esque” childhood. And honestly, as a millennial, I love how everything has worked out for y’all. We got royally fcked by our boomer (or even worse, gen x) parents, and the advancements in technology really made it to where you all could grow and truly make a living and a path for yourselves in novel ways. There are some annoying aspects (as with any generation tbh) but I really love everything gen Z has accomplished and normalized.
I also have a gen alpha sister and let me tell you, they are most definitely DIFFERENT 😂
I'm 27, born in 96 and everything I've read says gen z goes to 1996, meaning I'm gen z. However usually I use the phrase "zillenial" since I'm on the cusp and I can identify with both millennial and gen z in different ways, I don't rly feel like I fit completely into either group. There's such a vast difference from young gen z & older gen z bc of how technology entered society
yea I'm 25. Never really fully related to the millennials, never fully relate to Gen Z. The 97 to 99 people are doing our own thing
@@octavioavila6548ya just a mix of both genz so ya don’t relate to either one specially but have characters of both
Also born in 97, highly agree with the 97-99 Zillenial take. Feel like when I was in high school the internet didn't control our lives, just supplemented it.
I'm a millennial and I enjoy seeing how the younger generations go about things. Super happy that y'all are able to express yourselves much more than my generation could. I'm happy to witness myself getting older and seeing how y'all change the landscape with what y'all do!
Keep on keeping on 😄🙌🏽
I'm 23, and my brother is 15. He's technically a Gen Z, but I feel like we're on completely different sides of the internet when it comes to humor and interest. I think the closer you are to the next generation's age, the more blurred the line becomes.
Interesting! I'm also 23 and my niece is 13 and I feel like we share the same sense of humor
yeah it's not just a solid line between gen z and gen alpha. about half of my classmates are in gen z and some of the alphas give off more gen z vibes than the gen zs, but this works for like anyone born in like 2007 to 2013 or around that
@@haileygiabiconi8830 My brother and I share a similar sense of humor too. However, when it comes to internet trends, music preferences, TV shows, and interests in popular culture, the age gape is so significant that it sometimes makes us feel like we're not part of the same generation.
Those are called generational cuspers, as someone on the last end of the Millennial generation I rarely see a difference with the oldest Zoomers, but many older Millennials seem like Gen X to me.
i’m 13, so i don’t really know for sure if i’m alpha or Z. i understand and engage in gen z humor more than alpha, though.
I’ve never talked about sexuality with my gen alpha siblings but last summer my sister saw a rainbow popsicle box and said “look they made it for you” then giggled and walked away.
@@marajones1828uh, that’s a gen z thing too. I’m 18, when I was a kid i had full internet access. Are you forgetting the weird undertake things our generation did?
Lol, she knows.
Gen alpha kids are really dirty minded lol… edit: all I read was “popsicle” I just realized this wasn’t about that.. 💀
@@SH4RP_CH3SEEaint no way 💀
@@pik2786 I’m slow asf please forgive me 💀💀💀
I'm Gen Z (24) and my child is Gen Alpha. Even at a young age I've noticed her and her friends are so confident. If they're not happy with something you'll know about it and I love that for them. But I do worry a lot about the online space. Even though I plan to keep her away from social media until she's 16-18, I know she may make secret accounts or be influenced by friends and I cant control that. (Also she loves that skippidy toilet thing and it makes me feel so old trying to watch it with her)
My parenting style is definitely more gentle than my parents (gen x) were, but I go by the rule "make your own choices but I won't rescue you from the consequence" Overall there's a lot of fear but also hope. Also society is crumbling so its really hard to plan for a future that might not even exist.
As an 18 year old, we are in the era where despite still being young, I feel old.
I feel middle aged as a 29 year old 😢
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finally! now us in gen z will have a generation to blame for all the world’s problems 😂
literally 😂
And as a millennial, I'm here to watch 🍿🤩
Yes! 😆
Fr lollll 😂😂😂😂
Oh I just also blamed millenials
As a 16 year-old Gen Z, I keep thinking that Gen Alpha slang is just newer Gen Z slang that was produced from the pandemic. 😭
@fryefried I'm a 2010 liner and I'm so confused if we're late gen z or gen alpha 😭😭
@@slaytallica2010 is Late Gen Z.
@@slaytallicagen z is 1997-2011
@@OriginBubble7but gen alpha is 2010-2024
@@fryefriedas a 2010 gen alpha (nice splatoon pfp🐀👍), I think it's basically a combination of all other generations humor, like making an ungodly machine out of your older brothers hand me down toys/tech
I had to ask everyone who was younger than me what "Skiidbidi Toilet" is. I'm 18 and this really was an eye-opener. I am no longer of the youngest generation on the internet.
Edit: I did not think my most liked comment would be about Skibidi Toilet. Thank you everyone!
I’m 18 still don’t know what that is and I don’t wanna know😭
I'm 17 and for the past couple years I've been starting to feel this more and more. We used to be the Youngins of the Internet and we were up to date on all the Internet trends. Now, I feel like an old man trying to talk to these younger kids, such as when I try and interact with my younger siblings or my girlfriends younger siblings. I feel so behind on the Internet trends. Something just feels so off Abt it all.
Im 38 and I watch it. People have been making those Garry's Mod (GMod) videos almost as long as RUclips has been around.
@@expotemkin ok but we are talking about Skibidi toilet specifically. And yes, good for you.
@@bethanyboarder7751 Theres far worse ones than Skibidi Toilet.
As one of the older gen Alpha i am truly embarrassed like, watching my younger cousins and peers laughing at that skibidi toilet meme is truly concerning, i never got my first access to the internet till i was 11, even my parents wouldn’t let me get an ipad or watch on my moms phone . Seeing kids as young as 6 on RUclips is so frickin scary😭
Why are you embarrassed its not your fault
Hello fellow older gen alpha
I agree the amount of skibidi songs that ring in my ears are endless, ive got to brothers both gen alpha and the things they watch are odd
What even is skibidi toilet? I literally never heard of that until like last week and I'm nervous to check it out for myself lol
Do I dare ask what a 'skibidi toilet' is??? Is it something to do with a bidet?
Gen alpha is under 13. They're literally children. Childrens' humour is silly and fun there's nothing wrong with it or anything to be embarassed about (tho I haven't seen the meme fully). If it's harmless it's no big deal. Gen Z had PLENTY of cringe content and humour online and they were teenagers. And it's not like older generations haven't had cringe, silly jokes. It's really no big deal. Better than kids adulting and trying to act grown.
After working in an elementary school for two years I can confirm gen alpha is indeed unhinged and I love it
They tell it like it is and aren’t as sensitive as gen z.
@@DeLaTr0llwhy are all your comments about hoe sensitive gen z is?
@@Mialikesthings I’ve worked with quiet a few and I’m a relatively quiet person at work. They tended to to always file a complaint about someone rather than confronting the person. This happened in 3 different industries. I know that’s not all but many from my experience have been that way.
@@DeLaTr0ll Gen Z isn't really sensitive. They are cut throat and brutally honest, and stand by what they believe in.
@@amphithere some, just like some millennials are entitled cry babies. Some boomers are greedy jerks that need to retire.
It’s lowkey disturbing that children this young would be exposed to the internet of this day
Kinda feel bad for them
Yeah it’s not going well so far (coming from a gen alpha)
if you reply to this comment you listen to whimper audios 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️
@@st3rrii the internet apparently stole ur fucking soul too like wtf do you mean "feeling bad for people is really immature". also how do you get to decide whats mature and not? ur probably 9 years old
@@st3rrii "feeling bad for people is immature" what??
whats wrong with the internet lmao
Your apology for insulting older generations was so Gen Z and cute. We Gen Xers didn't even notice if you insulted us.
I’m a young gen Z and my sister is gen alpha, what I’m very glad about is how she’s 9, no phone, loves fnaf, used to watch Gacha and Barbie. She really hates
Skibidi toilet.
As a older Gen Z (26 ), hopefully, we finally get content geared towards us as adults now that gen alpha is coming of age. Half of us are in our late 20s we need post-college content.
Nah we need college content too 😭 most shows are focused on highschool, half of us are also still in college/just started college! If you want an adult show tho you should try Abbott Elementary
@@uniquenewyork3325 I'm not a teacher but it's a good show. It's not a show that's geared towards the content I'm seeking as I'm nearing my 30s. Abbott is for the BuzzFeed folks
Grown-ish doesn't exist? Sex lives of college girls?!?
@@uniquenewyork3325Sex Lives of College Girls is also good
You're literally the OLDEST Gen Z. You aren't in your late 20's yet. Gen Z begins in 1997. Relax.
@@letmeins8304 95' - 97' early , is actually a cusp generation. We're in between millennials and Gen Z. Nobody needs to relax. It's just a fun conversation and not to be taken too seriously.
The oldest Gen Z is 27-28 give or take. The things I remember are more closely aligned with millennials. I say I'm Gen Z because technically I am but I'm definitely in between generations.
There's something somebody younger than me can't recall that I can being that I was still born in the 90s.
With more generations being born as digital natives, I wonder if this will the shorten the cycle to which a generation is 'in the limelight'
It will, the internet will make it so that gen alpha's culture start leaking through into the mainstream way before they reach adulthood. Just like it was for gen z who were already influencing the culture in the early 2010s
That is a great point! I've wondered that myself.
Millenials spend a total of 4 years in the limelight, Zoomers already spend more of their years than we ever did.
I thought the same thing, but another interesting point is that teenagers have spending power. A good portion of teenagers get jobs but have no obligations like housing or meals to take care of which leaves us with a very unique spending power (unless ofc we re-enter the industrial revolution and bring back child labor lol). And while it isn't everything, it also brings up the question of How long can someone stay in the lime light without spending ability? I think it's pretty close and that it'll be hard to tell until something actually happens
That is the point lol, that’s why they are already setting a gen beta when we haven’t even had one generation even go through a proper life experience cycle, it’s all just marketing to try and commodify a generation’s experience, it’s all meant to make it easier to sell sht to newer generations.
My sister is actually Gen Alpha born in 2013 and had her first tablet at the age of 2 which is insane so basically her whole life she has relied on a device and honestly it really saddens me. I do not mean any of this in a boomer way since I'm Gen Z (17 so somewhat on the younger side) but I've seen how much it has stunted her growth, especially with COVID and everything having to be online her mental maturity is behind from where someone her age should be. I mean the girl couldn't read till she was 7 and at 9 barely learned her 2 times tables like 3 weeks ago and truly it's all because she's constantly glued to her screen and if we even try to take it away she has a full-on breakdown like we just took away her firstborn child. I'm really worried for these kids as my sister is on the older side of Gen Alpha and is already this bad I just hope parents start to realize the danger technology and social media can cause to a young child's growth since this generation has so much potential to make great changes in the world.
I'm a Millenial and have a daughter who is in the Alpha generation. I completely agree with your comment on more gentle parenting. Helping her be her own person from day one is something that blows my boomer mothers mind!! Reading "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did" by Philippa Perry is a huge influence for so many of us raising Generation Alpha.
Please don’t turn your kid into and iPad wielding gremlin.
@@XIZ127 ^^^ agree. sometimes when millennial parents say "helping [my child] be their own person" it actually means "teaching my child to act like a monster toward others by only considering their own needs at all times". 70% of gen alpha kids that I've seen have been unbelievably poorly behaved, spastic with zero attention span, lacking in basic life skills, and rude toward everyone unless sitting mindlessly in front of a screen.
Im glad as a gen z kid, I got to grow up in the early stages of the internet where everything was not glitz & glamour but original and authentic. "Oh, what a time to be alive" It's a real shame how majority of content these days is picture perfect, but with the beauty standards its no surprise why the new generation of kids online have that "look older than my age" appearance. I despise TikTok and it's normalisation of mindless scrolling for hours, beauty standards and over sexualisation.
i'm a young gen z-er (i was born in 2010) i always hated being younger than everybody and still do. its like everyone is always better because they're older and it sucks. i skipped a grade last year and because of my birthday i was in a way a year behind because i was born in august. i'm taking 9th grade english, science, and math but it just isnt enough. i feel like i'm so close to being not a little kid but i'm just not there and its so annoying. every time something to do with age happens i'm either too young or too old. i feel inferior because of my age even though i'm only like a year ish off from everyone else.
That sounds really hard. One of my friends skipped a year and because I met her after that I honestly forgot most of the time. I just thought of her as being in the same year as me. I was young for my year and it’s not fun. When it’s time to be responsible you’re always expected to keep up but when it’s time for people to have a say on something you’re too young. And that’s kind of how people treat teens in general too which is miserable. One of my friends was old for our year and I think that was annoying too, like sometimes they felt behind and they were expected to be mature but they were never actually taken seriously for being older. The good news is that eventually it all just balances out 🤷🏼♀️ It’s kind of weird that something that mattered so much can just not matter that much anymore but it happens eventually. The older you become the less a year is as a percent of your life and it’s not as significant developmentally either, like an 18 and a 19 year old are still noticeably different, but a 27 and a 28 yr old are very similar
I'm in 8th grade, and I was born in July 2010. how is that a year behind? I'm curious@@-jools-789
@@-jools-789Just give it 4 years little man/woman, soon you'll figure out everthing in highschool doesn't matter
Amen brother. Exactly how I feel. Us genz teens are gonna be wild adults.
As a millennial, we all said the same stuff you did at the end of this video. That we would stay up to date and on top of stuff due to technology. Honestly, some of us did, some of us didn't. It'll be the same for y'all. Don't worry, it isn't as scary as you think. If there is one thing we can count on, one shared experience we will all have, it's the passage of time and getting older. Don't try too hard to stay young and relevant, be genuine and like what you like. That is timeless.
Yeah I’m in my mid 20’s and really don’t understand the current technology. It’s weird going from someone that was known as techy to already being at the point of passing my phone to my baby sisters to figure stuff out 🤦🏻♀️
i remember myself and so many fellow millennials being like "yeah, we'll be cool with gen z and get on" and... yeah... we see how that went. it especially didn't help that the media was ready to yell MILLENNIAL/GEN Z WAR at the slightest provocation.
Yeah why did media companies care so much about our denim preferences. Maybe they love creating division, maybe they were in desperate need of click bait and the 20 yr trend cycle was all there was. And like let’s be real most of gen z fashion is stuff we saw you guys wear when you were the big kids and old gen z were like 6 and we thought you were really cool 😂 My aesthetic is mostly stuff the big kids I thought were cool wore in the 2000s. I’m not even kidding, I don’t get why you all traded that look in, you were iconic! If my one vote counts I think you guys are mostly cool, you’ve made me look forward to my 30s so much!!! And we really have been workplace buddies, like it’s the millenials who are always looking out for me in this hellscape 🥹
As a 16 year old gen z it feels kinda weird that you're just entering this phase when you can be heard and taken seriously on the internet and people already start saying that your generation is soon going to be replaced by gen alpha.
As a young millenial, I am hyped for Gen Z to hit their 30's! I think a lot of people in my generation want to support the younger gens cause we were just constantly shit on by older gens. It will naturally get more difficult to stay relevant, it's also just how it goes. And while I do think your point about Z & Alpha being close could be correct, I used to think that about Millenials and Z (due to the older gens always saying the younger ones were the problem despite them being the adults in the room, but I digress). I think there will be more of divide as time passes as Alpha is going to want their independence and they are going to make a divide simply because they are all together in school and you dear Z will be out slaying the world. Plus all the sudden they'll be doing and saying things that you just won't get, cause you have to go to work and pretend to be professional so you can live in this hellscape. What I really hope is that Z and Millenials grow closer together so that we can actually enact change once the arthritic grip of power dies off.
I'm a gen-zer and I respect milennials so much, you guys set the stage for us to thrive
I respect z's so much!
Gen Alpha scares me…imagine being born after COVID lol
I mean... Covid is basically not a topic anymore. I doubt it will play a big role in late Gen Alphas lives.
Most of gen alpha was born pre Covid
Only like 2 year olds were born after Covid
@tay-d1zftrue lol
@@nixxdraYeah but I’m saying most of them will have no recollection of it
Skibidi Toilet seems like one of those random meme videos that would go viral on RUclips back in like 2011.
In a weird way I kinda get it.
It really does. I feel like 2005-2010 RUclips was super cringe and I'm a Millennial.
I played a roblox game last week with my friends with skibidi toilet in it (we are all 20 💀) and it was funny with us falling off some rail tracks and trolling others lmao
your comment gives wholesome vibes!
@@Jabari-vm6jqit's a future retro RUclips poop aided by gmod.
Yeah, idk why some Gen Z are now reacting to it like it's some weird new "gen alpha" thing, when it's exactly like what Gen Z crappost humor has been for a few years now. Seems to me more like it's just a section of Gen Z who were never really into Gmod/SFM stuff and crappost stuff that other Gen Z kids were into for years now coming across it for the first time and labeling it as a "new gen alpha thing" simply because they're not familiar with it. When in reality it's just that, because Gen Z was one of the first generations to be so largely on the internet, the generation is just naturally split into so many different groups with completely different interests and types of humor because of the sheer power of the modern internet that the generation as a whole simply isn't that universally cohesive anymore. Skibidi Toilet doesn't seem like some new thing to me, it's exactly like other stuff I've watched and laughed at for years now, only thing that's maybe new-ish is that episodes are short-form.
Or maybe it's just the Boomer-Zoomers that are closer to Millennials in age that are behind this reaction and they're already out of touch with some of the younger parts of their own generation lol.
What I'm the most excited for (as part of the Gen Z), is to see what Gen Z will be like when they will take over work places knowing how unserious we can be lmao (Just imagine your judge saying "dawg you're going to jail 💀💀")
i like being gen z, being there in the early stages of the internet. i feel like we were the last generation to really not have as heavy access to the internet growing up
Gen Alpha is making me realize that being Gen Z isn’t that bad.
Gen Alpha is growing up with social media and the internet meanwhile we grew up with Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, I think Gen Alpha is gonna have it rough 😂
id if im gen z or gen alphacause i do t know shit about the early 2000s i mostly grew up in the late 2000s early 2010s
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod what year were you born in
@@vchalasani5046 04
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod you're gen z.
As someone with siblings who are like all the ages (3, 5, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20) I see all the stages of humor and I am most scared of my 11 year old brother. They are coming.
Damn that's alot of siblings
no siblings in gen alpha (sister is like cusping right there in 2010 tho she isn’t rlly leaning to either side so ig she is???) but ALL my younger cousins are very much gen alpha and i seriously cannot stand them for more than a couple hours at most im sorry i’m just so sick of those toilets 😭
bro i have met so many kids and they all have the same humour like even my 3 yo cousin understands gen alpha and gen z jokes its terrifying and my other cousin literally makes humorous tiktoks and hes like 5 yo
@renoir3183 I googled it and it said gen alpha is 2012+??
So 2010 and 2011 are gen z too.
I mean it does make sense cuz my 13 y o cousin has "gen z" humour. But my 10 y o watches those weird ahh vids😭😭
BUY YOUR PARENTS SOME CONDOMS GOTDAMN 😮
As a Gen-X it’s been so interesting watching all of this. (we’re the ignored generation - the one that had to take both typing AND computer classes, and the first generation the educational system started failing)
We’ve always had kind of a truce with Gen-Z. While the millennials and boomers fought it out, we (X’ers) have taken courage in seeing you guys NGAF about the stuff we had to - like gender roles, deciding college isn’t worth it, and creating content without any gatekeepers.
My kids are Gen-Z and seriously the coolest people I know. But Gen Alpha scares the $*!t out of me! Hopefully it’s because they’re so young still, and maybe they’ll grow into awesome adults for the world of my retirement years.
If not, you guys may have to duke it out millennial vs boomer style just to keep humanity going.
When you do - Gen-X will be there silently supporting, since we’re fine not being seen.
hi, gen alpha here- lowkey thought i was gen z until this vid, i had NO idea 2010 was a new generation- and im scared out of my mind. i cannot be the only one who finds the prospect of AI and increasingly smart technology absolutely terrifying? like- it was bad enough with alexas listening in with private conversations, now i have to worry about AI getting out of hand? hoping for a bright future …
by the way, gen z folks, i still find your memes funny;)
this was interesting to watch because i was born in 2009 so a lot of people say that I'm "basically gen alpha" lmao. i used to tease my mom saying that she was "basically a millenial" and i understand why she was so offended now. both me and my mom are the youngest siblings, so while we are both right at the cut-off, we grew up the same way our older siblings did. my brother is twenty, so what you'd think of as a typical gen z, and i use the same slang, memes, and grew up the same way. i'm sure my mom felt the same way with her older siblings. so its just a weird phenomenon that i thought i'd comment.
And I'm "basically gen Z" only difference is I'm the oldest kid with a bunch on Gen Z siblings, friends and also class mates since I had to redo a year in 4th grade 💀
Isn’t below 2012 considered gen Z?
Dude same!! I'm also from 2009, sorta the edge for Gen Z yk? And my brother is on other side of the spectrum, he's on the edge of Gen Z to millenials. He was born in 2000 too, so the gaps between our thinking and "humour" is insane. He always got so offended whenever I called him a millennial, and now I understand why lol. And then he always makes fun of Gen Z..
😂girl in my mind, I see a 4yo typing. Like, this whole response looks like an elaborate joke. It’s crazy to think someone born in 2009 is on here.
@@TckleBxx haha thats funny im actually 14 😂
The weird thing about Skibidi toilet being considered a "Gen Alpha" thing is that it HAD to have been made by someone who is Gen Z (also my generation). We grew up on Garry's Mod and Source Film maker videos which what Skibidi toilet is clearly inspired/created by.
It's giving my the vibe of those old TF2 SFM videos from like 2010 and it's uncanny to see the meme cycle in real time
the creator is called dafuqboom or some shit
That's what I was thinking
yeah and the alphabet lore it had my niece in a chokehold
The Skibidi toilet makes no sense at all. It's SO WEIRD! I am right on the border of GEN Z and GEN ALPHA.
As a gen z that is currently in their final yr of high school, I’m actually curious what gen alpha would bring to the internet after us. I also don’t think we should really shame them like how the previous generations were to us imo but that’s just me💁♂️
Gen Alpha literally shames their own parents and teachers, I mean obviously don't fight fire with fire but a lot of these kids need some serious tough love
as a millenial i say: HA!
As a millennial, Aging isn't scary guys. I'm 30 and some Gen Z co-Workers think I'm 19 to 20. Water and a good diet will keep you looking youthful all the way into your 50's. You'd probably be surprised at how many millennials still look like we're still in our 20's 😂 would be nice.
same 30 here, i get often mistaken for 23, i'm not boasting about it.. but most millennials for a reason look very younger than their age. :)
same we all are out here looking young af but have levels of stress that should be aging us. 🤣
@@subconsciousclarity1702 haha eat well and workout!!
@@subconsciousclarity1702 Right? The stress factor is real 😂
Yeah but like I don’t wanna age still😭 I’m 15 abt to be 16 in like 3 months and it just hit me I’m abt to be closer to 20 than 10 IM NOT READY🤺🤺🤺🤺
Personally, as a Gen Z-er who works with children in Gen Alpha, I'm both excited to see where they go in terms of making positive impacts in the world. But I'm also a little nervous on how codependent kids can be to technology. I know that sounds really 'boomer-ish', but with my kiddos I feel like they're just glued to the screen and their behaviour is also impacted negatively with this also. But I absolutely cannot wait to see how Gen Alpha turns out!
nah youre right
If I ever have kids (would be Gen Beta), I'm definitely give them a low-tech upbringing. I'm extremely grateful to my parents for doing so to my siblings and I (we are all Gen Z). I am coming into adulthood with an intact attention span, good social skills, a healthy relationship with technology, and an acclimation to long-term gratification. This is thanks to a slow-paced childhood spent outside, away from screens, with other kids my age.
I really worry about future generations being even more damaged by social media/technology than Gen Z already is. My fellow Gen Zers already are dysfunctional as it is from all this.
There is a way to moderate their usage. If you’re stuck, speak with a child psychologist that can help you sort that out based on your child’s needs. There is a great book on this called _Niños Desconectados_ that is about this very issue. It’s also important moderate your own usage! The book was originally in English but I had picked up the Spanish version in a library 😅
don't worry about it, it's a valid concern for sure. i'm very dependent on technology alread (trying to break that.. keyword trying), but i've seen some kids my age and it's worrying
- an older gen alpha
I'm gen Alpha, and I usually use my phone when I'm bored or need references to draw, I usually play wih my dog all-day ngl
I'm 28, so kinda Gen-Z, kinda Millennial. It's really interesting being in-between two generations because you don't fully identify with either, but rather a mix of both of them. I have a niece who's 14, so also in the middle. I am curious to see her experience as she grows up in between Alpha and Gen-Z. I can already see her not identifying fully with Alpha or Gen-Z but in some ways she does. I love watching the generations grow up and truly believe people are too hard on every generation that's younger than them. Like cmon, give the younger Gen a break, they're not even adults yet and we were all weird when we were finding ourselves. I am sure they will grow to be intelligent humans, both emotionally and intellectually, and help advance our world forward.
Genzennial maybe?
You’re super positive. That’s a great quality.
In a way, gen alpha right now are kinda like boomers trying to copy gen z humour. They dont understand that we use all these terms like "lit, bussin, bet, no cap, slay, in my x era" ironically and just use them in the wrong contexts unironically. Its actually really amusing to see
i feel like millenials are the only ones who understands us gen z lol
im a 13 year old and i gotta ask, who the fuck uses these unironically?
@@victordarkreapewr444I second this bc I've never heard an example of uniroincally
idc what y’all say, Gen Z will forever be the main character… (i’m joking y’all don’t come for me 💀)
no one is coming for you girl
No, you're right
Idk the mill feels more main character then us listening to my family's talking about teen life before 9/11 and social media. being known for rasing their self and their siblings (there are gen z kids that fit that description but not as much as mill kids did ) i mean our generation is known for social media, feelings, inclusiveness. I mean we dont even have our own style yet like 90s 80s 70s etc did unfortunately 😔
we do have a style it's 50% gay and 50% homeless
how could we come for you when ur literally correct, we don’t make the rules🫡
As a millennial, I CAN"T WAIT for Gen Z to be in the workforce. We need more people (& future generations) concerned about the planet and actual existential issues.
As a Gen Z person almost in the workforce that’s really all I care about lol
Most of Gen Z is already in the workforce.
@@ninjakiwigames5418nope, most Zoomers will spend time in university until their 30's and get their Ph.D.'s.
@@-haclong2366 Umm, wait. Are you a gen z or me or both? Or like should I say most gen z people I know are either currently working a job, or worked one in the past (including me). Going to school doesn't mean you don't work a job and also lots of people I know just did high-school and maybe fax. But hey, that might just be my own experience right?
@@-haclong2366I’m gen z been working since I was 15. First day of college is literally tomorrow and I’ll still be working part time (at 21). Not everybody has that privilege to wait until they’re 30.
I can imagine in the future at work somebody humming "sticking up your gyatt for the rizzler" in an office space.
My children are Gen Alpha. They still have no access to the internet (they are still very young, 8 and 5). I will delay giving them a smartphone as long as I can. As an older millennial, I am part of the last generation of kids who still grew up with no internet, when adsl became available in most homes I was already in my teen years. I am really concerned about children being chronically online from childhood, when they still have no mental maturity to really analyze and understand information they come across. And there is some weird s*** on social media (yes TikTok looking at you ).
as an older gen A, I am losing faith in our generation because I see kids on tiktok and youtube posting without parent consent and mostly inapropriate videos. When I was 3, literally the age of 3, I got my first phone. I have no idea why my mom gave me one at a very very young age, but even I am less addicted compared to these kids posting cringey, pick me, videos to be "very famous" on a 17+ platform without consent, and I feel like this is a very wrong way of teaching kids about the world. At this point we have to introduce kids to the internet at age 14! Seeing 6-year-olds on tiktok showing so much skin and doing dances is unacceptable. It is not "cute" to blast your child on the internet for views! Do sports not interest anyone anymore? I know I'm on the internet as well, but I don't want to get used to it 24/7. I personally blame the parents for influencing the kids, We are now having Gen Z parents that could ruin some kids out there. So please, PLEASE don't let this be acceptable!!! PS Commenting on a video is better then blasting yourself infront of pedos without parental consent.
I mean im horrible at sports but I like watching the other kids play them and I play rudimentary games. Also i got a tablet around 5 how did you get it at 3? Also good thing because the younger gen a's seem to be raised with parental control now so thats good. my cousins love complained they can't watch horror stuff and all that but theyll probably appreciate it eventually.
@@Catmom1017gen A starts at 2012 I thought?
@@Catmom1017u are and so am i search it up
The youngest gen z is 11 years old
You are Gen Z.
I’m one of the first gen alphas, and I am nervous for our development. Most of us are heavily influenced online, and it feels like nobody really has a personal style or personality. I try to spread difference throughout people i meet, so that we could possibly have a diversity between each other. I just hope this generation grows up a bit and we can lead the world for the better.
Edit: I looked up the years in which the generations are born, and apparently I was born in the last couple years of gen Z
Every generation learns from the previous ones. Y'all are still kids but I believe you guys will end up being better than us if you learn from us. Gen z is like the test run for the internet we are the first ones born into it and had little parental control because no one knew anything. If you learn by our mistakes I believe you can survive the internet and end up amazing. It's a new alphabet, a new era! Also please put an end to cancel culture lol
@@EthanIsNotMyNamemaybe the internet isn’t such a good thing
R/thathappened
Things will not get better so easily.
These generation category labels are stupid. The modern music is crap, the modern movies is crap, modern books are degenerative, even the foods are unhealthy.
Just look at the toilet meme thing, it's degenerative.
And that's not even the hard part, global politics, you think eveyone will grow up like you? No. Kids your age somewhere else right now are living in active war zones and or starving to death. Whatever country you are in, there is a country out there that hates you. And don't be ignorant to believe that you are the good one who will solve all the issues, politics is shit, and it only ever gets violent.
Tip: distance yourself from internet culture and trends.
@@aroach7461 be positive. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. We can help the kids who aren't in good situations in their countries/lives. Other countries may not like my country, but there's others who like it. Distancing yourself from the internet and trends is a great way to be your own person, but it's okay to like them. I'm not going to be the one "savior", but if I and a bunch of people change a lot of little things, the world will be better. I can't control politics, because I can't vote, but not everything ends in war. If you really want to make things better, stop complaining and being negative, and go out and do something kind.
I think we can all agree Gen Z humor was top-notch. Like you said, we ARE the internet. Gen A onwards has no idea how much they're missing when it comes to the stuff us Gen Z'ers grew up with.
We are so iconic
@@jenbraga9372 The content you watched was iconic, not you.
We were born in the wrong generation. Please help Gen Alpha
Fr tho kids shows when I was a young child were the SHIT! Dinosaur train was the perfect mix of humor, charming and relatable characters, and education that made me laugh, and started my history of fascination with dinosaurs.
@@spitfirebird I REMEMBER DINOSAUR TRAIN FROM PBS KIDS THAT SHI WAS LIVING IN MY HEAD RENT FREE
31 year old millenial here raising a Gen alpha kiddo 👋🏻 I’ve come to terms with being old and cheugy and whatever other words the kids use these days. I think we’re in good hands with Gen Z - y’all are going to take us places and I can’t wait to support you. I think the Gen Alpha kids can be a bit more unhinged because of the permissive parenting a lot of millennials end up using… each generation is going to accidentally screw up their kids one way or another 🙈 Even with whatever shortcomings these younger generations have, they’re out weighed by how informed you can choose to be. Gen Z and A aren’t going to put up with shit from corporations or the government and I’m looking forward to seeing how it all gets shook up. Proud of you. With love, A cringe millennial mom
Thank you random millennial mum on the internet, please make sure your child is well behaved :3
@@ganpsao Oh you betcha. It’s hard work but this kiddo is going to be one of the good ones 👌🏻
I'm a 22 year old Gen Z and I am not scared of aging! I am patiently looking forward to my thirties hoping it will be a time of stability and security... I feel like a child still and have no idea what's going on!!! Why do people think young twenty year olds are fully mature adults 😭
Jokes on you! I'm a 30 year old millennial w/ a PhD, a full-time job, a mortgage, and I still feel like a child and have no idea what's going on 😢I literally called my mom today bc I wasn't sure how to wash wool or how to do my taxes
2001?
@@mohamedaminehadji6415wash wool????
@@cryingsushigato woolen sweater I meant
Me too
as a gen alpha im 12 and my humor and stuff is identical to gez, i feel like later gen alpha is when its starting to change drastically
same. i’m 13 and i grew up on what late gen z grew up on. i feel way more gen z than gen alpha.
im just a few months shy of 13 and i definitely agree, although i think being born after the 2000s has definitely interfered with my ability to connect with my older gen z peers x(! humor wise and mostly culturally we’re the exact same, but i never experienced childhood in the 2ks firsthand and any further influence has been from my siblings. ive always been very conflicted on whether im gen z or alpha bc the internet gives you a lot of mixed information and although i behave the exact same as every gen z ive met i dont have the same life experience which is where that disconnect happens for me
Yes, I feel the same way being born in 2010 is very different from being born in 2017 since it’s literally comparing 13yr olds to 5yr olds 😂
@@3starsburningbright frrrr
I’m 10 (born in 2013) and I’ve tried so hard to be mature that my humor is more gen z 💀 obviously I don’t feel gen z… because I’m 10, but bro. I could pass for a 12 year old
The youngest Gen Z will have a bit more in common with Gen Alpha, the oldest Gen Z will have a bit more in common with Millennials.
Honestly, as a Millennial parent to 3 gen alphas, my biggest concern right now is keeping them OFF the internet enough. Trying real hard not to raise "ipad kids" who cannot function without multiple screens or are learning slurs+sexually inappropriate stuff at the age of 8 on roblox...but devices are everywhere and integrated into everything so I can definitely see how that is going to affect this generation like none before it
Watching the next generation grow up on the internet even more cringy and weird than us Genz kids makes me smile :)
I hate being gen alpha because seeing little kids on youtube shorts feeds ruins my youtube browsing experience because they are everywhere.. It scares the crap out of me, they keep
playing with their poppy playtime figurines, and i wouldnt care if it wasn't on my feed 😭😭
I know i'm 13 and shouldn't act any older than them but, it really does scare the crap out of me...
@@RandyMarshIsKewlthen scroll 💀
@@bauhausliker0 I do, but it keeps coming back... My feed is messed up
@@RandyMarshIsKewl just scroll rlly quick when you see a either a low quality wall, a low quality chunky small hand or diagonal text in yt shorts font and click the don’t recommend button, your feed should be fine
@@bauhausliker0 Thanks, i hope it works
I think what a lot of people forget is that most generations are raised with the culture of the previous generation(s) and that gives them common links. Every Millenial, myself included, will never shut up about the 90's. But 90's culture is Gen X culture. Not to mention that geographical region and personal taste will always play a part in how well versed you are in a generational culture, including what's deemed as your own. That's for me to say: don't sweat about it, love what you love and if you want to keep up with the trends, you will.
Lol 90’s culture is Gen Z culture too. I was born in 2002 but I still had all of the “just 90’s kid thingz🤪” things too. It’s only rich people that burn through that cycle fast
I’m a late millennial. My childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s. I was 14 in 2006, got the chance to grow up outside and without a cellphone all through out high school, although most of my peers had cellphones. So I get what you’re saying. I feel like I relate a lot to
Gen Z , and a bit less with my older millennial counter parts which are in their early 40s. I just turned 30
I just turned 17 on Saturday, and I visited my siblings as a present. Their mother's roommate has three children, the oldest of whom is about 9. I shit you not, he could not mentally process or comprehend the sentence, "I don't play Roblox." It's like I never answered him and he just thought I'd beat the obby for him if he kept asking for me to do it.
I am Gen Z, and I remember witnessing the end of the late 2000s style. Nickelodeon changed it's logo, Justin Bieber and One Direction became popular and then went, and in 2013, I was watching Pivot animations. For me, the early 2010s were a curious time, especially in respect to how everything looked. There was a certain charm in how Frutiger Metro and Vectorheart appeared on posters and packaging. Nowadays, that stuff is gone and replaced with simple shapes, and I really want to make these designs.
Exactly the new stuff just doesn’t compared .
@Sandrinarhonda They don't compare because the goal is very different compared to what was popular when I grew up. Simplicity and minimalism seem to be much more preferable nowadays, even when it's the Patreon logo.
@@gilbertozo the paetron logo is cute looks like a blob .
@Sandrinarhonda Kinda reminds me of that Boy and his Blob game on the Wii...
The early 2010s were a whole vibe 😭 can't ever get that back. 2010 - 2014 were awesome
i didnt realize how out of touch i was with the newest generation until my brother (11) explained skibidi toilet to me. the fact that ijbol is coming back is scaring me too. im only 18 why do i feel 40
Same I just turned 18 today
What the heck is ijbol?
gen alpha here and I do not know what any of those memes are 💀
your brother is definitely the oldest skibidi toilet fan
Wtf is ijbol???
I don't think that we will really keep up with technology... As a 26 year old gen z I see myself slowly but surely becoming less interested in it 💀. I'm in my adult era for sure 😕
Sorry I couldn't hear you over watering my plants, washing my dishes and paying my bills 💀
@@DocKrazy😂
Me too, so over all the new trends, games and tiktok niche things 😞 but I bet tons of young Gen z will want to stay in the know
Me too
Short form content irritates me now and I prefer not being on my phone 24/7
I'm GenX (Dec '73) and I'm witnessing a shift whereas for the first time in history, technology is advancing faster than we can keep up with, yet Gen Alpha (and GenZ) sort of instinctually know how to navigate through it all while I struggle just to keep up with what's already out there. Same applies to music. It's reached the point for me where I can't tell if it's a new hit song I'm hearing or just a commercial advertisement.. I literally can't tell. But I hear quite a few bands/artists mimicking the music of the 80's and that makes me smile 🙂
As someone who bridges the gap cause I’m 13 so I get a taste of both generations and I will say that gen alpha is miles different then even late gen Z
I think this is because the internet is moving faster and faster and things that are popular even in the mid 2010s are completely unknown to most of gen alpha and that makes me feel WAY older than I am for some reason
I know that I’m a rare case with my parents being boomers and me being gen z. My dad was born in 1954 and my mom 1955. The world they prepared me for simply does not exist anymore, I had a very hard time growing up because of it, and a rougher time than my peers, for one being that I had to support myself on every field completely on my own.
To them it makes sense, but with the economy and Covid thrown in the mix, as well as how much the world has changed in the time they were my age, they basically threw me to the wolves.
Also a Gen Z with Boomers parents 🤚 had later access to technology, etc.
@@petruzzi6268 oh same!
Wow this is me too! Especially having a boomer father, technology was always something I sorta had to take the forefront in. I remember when he didn’t let us get subscribe to RUclips channels because he through we had to pay money, or download games because he thought they would automatically bring viruses.
This but my parents were born in Gen X.
I love my parents but since both of them were born in 1969, in a different country, and barely know English. It’s been sorta hard since they can’t help me with much.
Me being a gen z in my last years of highschool learning that as a generation we're getting older is wild. That does make me feel kinda old but i wonder how its going to play out with this new generation
As a gen a, I am completely weirded out by some phrases like 'gyat' and 'skibidi' and 'rizzler' I just don't understand
i’m the youngest gen z (born in 2009) and my brother is the oldest gen alpha (born in 2011). it’s really cool to see the differences between the way we use the internet!
I have several Gen Alpha in my life and they are difffffffferent chile lmao. I had a funny experience with my younger cousin in a restaurant bathroom where she thought the soap dispenser was broken because it wasn’t automatic. I hadn’t thought about it before that day, but they legit live in a digital world.
I'm one of the oldest gen alpha 9 days off and I personally never had one of those experiences but for sure gonna see that in the future of this gen and so on
Yeah as a gen alpha I agree lol, i think i did that once too..😭 (ofc i realized after like 2 seconds) Although i am on the older side of alpha, and i can tell the younger kids are definitely engulfed in digital stuff, more than gen z actually, So yeah i agree and i honestly wonder what that means for us
My little cousin once asked me why my AirPods had cords 💀
@@sylvie_on 😂😂😂😂😂
I just hope we do not end up hating on gen alpha for no reason...Like for simply existing.
@vikxyzluv”I’d rather welcome them” who says they gonna welcome u? If Gen Z is unhinged, u think gen alpha will be nice to us? They’ll be roasting gen Z in a couple of years for simply existing 😭
I'm an old gen alpha (march 2010) and have been bullied for it. I skipped a grade and am now going to 9th grade, and my friends and other classmates say things like: 'imagine not being gen z' and 'you don't have an opinion because you're gen alpha'. It's actually really annoying, knowing that some of them are born in november/december of 2009.
@@Sarah-xr9kn wow, that's crazy 💀
@@Sarah-xr9knok gen alpha 😂
Take it from a Millennial who said the same thing about gen z/millennial relationships - the media will do its damnedest to make it happen. Because if we're fighting among each other, we're not focusing on all the shit that's happening around us.
As someone right on the line between gen z and gen alpha, i’m curious how us 2008-2012 babies turn out with the influence of 2 very similar generations as apposed to the people between milenials and gen z.
You’re just Gen Z
I am 26, and I never really considered myself Gen-Z. My brother is 5 years younger than me, and the way he grew up was VEEERY different from the way I grew up, even though we're both technically "Gen-Z".
For example, I didn't have smartphones until my late teenage years, and yet my brother has had a smartphone since when he was a little kid. When it comes to playing games, I mostly read paper magazines or, occasionally, some internet articles, and bought CDs and, later, DVDs, or downloaded them from separate sites on the internet, while my brother mostly watched letsplays and bought games on Steam...
On the other hand, we both mostly play videogames and watch random videos on RUclips and use VK to communicate (a Russian version of "Facebook"), while younger people just watch TikTok non-stop.
What's the point of the "generations" anyway? It's all bullshit, honestly, each person has their own upbringing, their own views...
I think every generation thought they would be able to keep up with the latest trends and technology. Until they weren't. It happens to all of us eventually. Some of us later than others but it still happens regardless.
As a Gen Z, the fact that oldest members of Gen Alpha are coming of age makes me feel a lot older than I actually am.
I’M 22 I SHOULDN’T BE FEELING LIKE THIS
22 is the age everyone starts feeling it, you realize that people that werent even BORN when you were in middle school, are walking talking formed human beings. It gives you perspective of how short life is. To a kid, youre the same as a 40 or 30 year old. It all blends together and speeds up. Welcome to adulthood :)
Same, it's horrible
@@newb4038 Hell, now, you are not a kid any more. That is cool! Do you want to stay a kid all the time? Now, you can play the grown up games.
@@yvonnehorde1097 the grown up games are paying bills and rent. and go to 9-5 work everyday
Oh gosh, the growth phase from 20-25 is wild, because you're figuring out the world and yourself all at once. And then you hit a whole new one between 25-30 (28 now) and suddenly you're so aware of yourself and you start to emotionally develop SO much. Each year is like you're a whole new person, finding new facets of who you are and who you want to be. My 30yo friend warned me when I was 25 about it, and she wasn't wrong about it at all.
millennial here : if you stay committed to being a part of the world as it changes, meaning, you try to keep up with things and consume content that relates to understanding the experiences of those younger than yourself, then you won't get left behind. But as you get older it becomes harder to do because of your growing commitments and responsibilities -- you're gonna cringe at people in your cohort someday, and that's okay, because not everyone has the energy to keep up with the times.
My message to Gen Z is this: your 30s are so SO much better than your 20s because you aren't the target demographic anymore and you get to decide who you want to be and what you want to do, with way less outside commentary. Embrace the change and enjoy it.
This is all so interesting to watch as the oldest gen z/youngest millennial. The tables are turning faster and faster as younger and younger kids are raised on the internet. Gen Z parents are introducing their gen A and soon gen B babies into the mix, its going to be wild
"if omega is not after beta, that's gonna be really embarrassing for me..."
Omega literally being the LAST letter of the Greek alphabet.
BYEE
After Beta it's actually Gamma (born 2040-2054) ok I now actually feel old lmao
Just imagine when Delta comes along
i dont think you got the joke
last generation?
ipad babies are downgrading to smaller tablets (phones) 💔
Lmao
so scary
as someone that is a late gen z, I'm horrified for and of gen alphas.
I’m 2009, one of the youngest gen z, and the fact I’ll be going to school with gen alpha next year scares me
Gen alpha is literally in the age group of my little siblings. It’s disturbing how parents are letting children so young be on the internet. I’ve tried having that talk with mine but “as long as they’re quiet”…
sad times we live in
Ur parents are so neglectful and uncaring! Those kids are gonna b stunted and traumatized soon if they arent already
My cousin is 10 and very VERY regularly on RUclips shorts and it honestly scares me how much they could see without knowing how harmful it is and then they will repeat it or bring it up or something and end up harming others and themself and they aren’t being sheltered enough in my opinion and it scares me
bro shut up i like my phone
They’re such fussy eaters aswell. My sister is Gen alpha and I’m Gen Z. I’ve noticed that kids her age only like to eat crap like crisps, fries and other junk. Luckily she isn’t addicted to the internet as she likes playing with toys.
As the youngest millennial, my petty side is low-key laughing at older gen Z finally understanding how we were feeling when you guys were becoming _that girl_ . Welcome to feeling old. The trade-off for that is gaining wisdom and feeling the most secure you've ever been because you'll know yourself a lot better than these youngins.
💯😂
Millennials are always mad and bitter about something tho 😢
lol, right? As a an almost 34 year old millennial, I want to be like "welcome to the club of feeling old!" 😂
But yes, getting older and really growing into adulthood does definitely have its upsides as well :) And I think a lot of us millenialls and older gen z are committed to working with young people to make the world better and more sustainable to live in, since we were *all* screwed over by the mistakes of previous generations and late stage capitalism!
My petty was ready too. 🤣 I knew Gen Z was going to come around eventually and see how they did us dirty. They have more in common with younger millennials than they give us credit for.
@@stephaniel2850 lmfao but like, I'm a 16 year old so idk how feeling like an adult is yet. I'm still a child tbh.
While me aging isn’t a big issue for me, I’m indeed very concerned about the future of every generation (especially Alpha) past Gen Z in terms of humor, technology reliability, and how they would behave around outside of the Internet.
as someone who's just BARELY gen z (born may 2009), i did not expect to feel old at 14
Considering how much we as gen z has changed, I'm excited and kinda nervous about what gen alpha will be doing. Edit: and yes I am cooking while watching this video. Thank you for pointing it out lol
Me too. I have nephews and the content they are growing up watching is kinda..... they will be chaotic. if we are anxious they're going to be wild... I mean the only thing that's making my nephew learn to read and write is the will to search his own games on Roblox
My sister is gen alpha and certainly in 6th grade acording to the stories of her classmates they seem similar to gen z but if their parents was on crack while pregnant with them 💀
@@susanepriscila5238 LMAO
@@jejeamaris8186 oh !
@@susanepriscila5238 i mean 60% of my reading skills come from games so i guess its good in some way
I’m a millennial with Gen Alpha children, and they are not allowed on the Internet. I don’t want them to see all of the horrible things I’ve seen in the past (pain Olympics, 2 girls 1 cup, 1 guy 1 glass jar) or current horrible things like Alt Right rhetoric, Jordan Peterson, and Andrew Tate. I just want them to truly get to be children because I didn’t really get to be a child. I grew up taking care of my Gen Z siblings and was basically a third parent in my household. I’m not excited for Gen Alpha to be on the Internet at all. I’ve been trying to teach them things through being in nature, reading books, going to the library, and interacting with the real world. I read books like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, growing up, and am hoping to counteract our future being even more dystopian by trying to raise my children, instead of letting the Internet raise them for me.
I'm alpha gen (9 days off from being a gen z) and I wish my parents implemented more of these rules, since they are boomers you'd expect them to. I currently have a Chromebook, and I feel like a desktop set up for some reason is different and since google is like what chrome is known for I browse the internet a lot. Not as much the short media content although I can get exposed to it now and then. I've been to those parts of the internet like Jordan Peterson, (not as much Andrew Tate because I'm not a guy) and Ben Shapiro although I'm lucky I didn't get to go into pain Olympics I have gotten addicted to certain explicit websites and pornography ever since I was 5 and then 9. My advice to you: I am not telling you how to raise your child since I am a child myself but from my experience watching my fellow peers grow up, please delay it until they get to high school as much as this stuff is brain rot your gonna want them to get some contact with the internet in high school I'm getting closer to high school and there absolutely going to nag you about getting a phone or some device to actively be on it. If you don't teach them how to stand there ground about social media and being ok not to have the internet they are most likely going to be rebellious take this with a grain of salt.
Wow as a gen z person, I agree with this! Theres a lot of adultish humor such as sex, drugs, and murder everywhere on the internet that these kiddos are being exposed to at a very young age. I don't even wanna think about that kind of impact it'll have on their psychology. Shoving kids in front of the wild internet is a bad idea and I'm happy you realized that. I was raised on books and nature as well and I'm thankful for it because I really love those things now :)
As a somewhat traumatized Gen-Zer, i would say i partly agree with you. Being uncontrollably exposed to internet in, okay, teenage years, did me bad. As a kid i, gratefully, had no big&cool phone, but only as a teenager. I was (and still is) kind of stupid, thinking I'm cool and "cold" in a way that I don't react to harsh stuff that much, so i was subscribed to those communities where they show the uncensored stuff from accidents, murders, etc. I saw this and got used to these images in my fourteens. But that's not the worst. The worst was the fact, that comment were open. You could see different people there, they could send different links there, and once i saw the like like "test for how long could you make it watching the absolute worst stuff" and it was suicides, murders, the last one i remember great - the mafia-ish people were cutting man's head off. While he was still alive. I don't think it affected me that much back then, but now i face the consequences. Also seeing a little kitten being tortured to death by a teenager affected me really bad later on, having a crisis of rethinking my humanity AND having my own sweet cat. I just started to cry when i recalled that video, sitting next to my cat.
I'm NOT cold and stuff and wish I've never seen those videos. I wish my mom took more care about what I'm being exposed to on the internet. I know i wouldn't be cool about it, but now i wish she did.
So my point is your kids will still want to be like their kindergartenmates, schoolmates, so they can't be without phones, internet and stuff at all, we live in the internet era. But a healthy control is the key i think. Not reading their messages with their friends, because privacy is still a thing and your kid deserves it, but a healthy check on are there any dangerous people that may follow them on social media or be on their dms, do they follow potentially mentally-traumatizing communities (like i did), etc. But they deserve to not feel like they're not like other kids in a wrong way, because they will rebel in this case
as a gen alpha i respect you, since ive seen some fucked up shit in my time of being on the internet (necrophiliac p/rn, pedophile stuff, and also a bunch of gore and kinky shit) i respect you sm because you are so amazing for making sure your kids don't see the stuff on the internet, thank you for keeping some of my generation decently innocent, i applaud you.
its impossible to keep them from finding that stuff by themselves the same way we did they gon be aightt
Hope u make more vids like this, u seem overwhelmed at your first glance into it.
As a Gen Z, it feels weird that there’s a younger generation on the internet. I’m on the younger side of Gen Z, so it’s weird to see people who aren’t that much younger than me who have a whole different meme culture. It actually reminds me of this kid I recently babysat who insisted that we play Roblox the entire time, instead of playing board games like I did when I had babysitters as a kid. It’s so strange how a lot of Gen Alphas seem to rely on broader games like Roblox to get long-term entertainment, whereas I grew up with Plants vs Zombies, Angry Birds, and Skylanders, which would phase in and out of popularity.