Zero Side Effects is now available on Moment House -- watch there for 12 more days, then you will get a download link, so you can own the special!: www.moment.co/christophertituszerosideeffects/christophertituszerosideeffects-christopher-titus-or-zero-side-effects
I'm a 37 year old, combat veteran, millennial. I'm tired of living through all these "once in a life time events". I just wants some peace, quiet and stability. I swear I've fast forwarded to a 60 year old salty man. I need a beer, motrin and some melatonin. Wake me when shit isn't going sideways anymore.
Thank you for your service to our country. My children aren't much younger than you. I was an adult from OK city bombing through to Trump's presidency. And it traumatizing for myself never mind trying to explain the craziness to my children and now grandchildren. So again I thank you.
@Geovanni After Nam I said the same thing about Watergate. I knew it was as bad as it gets. Silly me, I had it easy. I'll hold you a porch rocker and some Jack, you've earned it.
I know you don't want to hear thank you for your service. That's not why we did what we did anyway. We don't want glory or attention. We don't need appreciation from strangers. Hell, we weren't even defending 'our country' ten thousand miles away... we were just doing what we were told and watching out for our buddies. I can't tell you that peace and stability is in our future. But time for rest will come... We just won't be awake to enjoy it.
As a middle-millennial (‘88), this is exactly why a lot of millennials I know will passionately defend Gen Z when older generations try to bash them. We were so sick of getting blamed for killing various industries because we can’t afford anything that as soon the blame started shifting to younger people we got even more pissed. We we depressed during the Bush admin because we knew things were bad, we’ll be damned if anyone is going after Gen Z on our watch when everything is so sooo much worse.
My personal favorite was millenials are killing the casual dining industry (Applebee's, Fridays chili's etc) like none of us go there coz most of us have worked there...
I just stuck with hating the Boomers myself. Turned out to be ahead of the curve on that one. I WILL still make fun of Millennials for being little Narc's when they were kids. Saw a movie on TV, found out it was PG-13 and then ratted on themselves to their parents, you can't NOT make fun of that.
Damn, as someone born in '96 all of this really hits home. Dad lost his job in the early 2000s, no health care for anyone in our home, older siblings joined the Navy instead of college, I did neither and went straight to work, and I've already have had a gun pointed to my face before. There was only one thing that didn't match up, WHERE ARE ALL THESE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES THAT I NEVER GOT! Public schools, in the inner city, can't afford prizes for every kid.
I am a Baby Boomer, and I have never mocked a younger person for being younger. I have always been aware that, Vietnam War or not, my generation grew up in a golden time. Anyone with a brain could see that life in America got harder starting in the early 1980's (at the latest), and with only brief exceptions, it has only gotten even harder ever since. (Except for those born into wealth or brilliance. I mean for most people.)
Participation trophies are for extra curriculars like sports and shit. I also was an urban kid, got zero trophies for just being physically present for something. I might (might) have got a pennant for band. I did get a trophy for first place place in the cub-car rally once. But I tied with some other fucker and they only had one. So I had to wait a month before I got it.
@@GR46404 Only because government started becoming too big...to it's exponential form it is today. Far too many vote red or blue, rather than character. Brainwashed.
@@pgaloom Nope. The problem is, the wealthy people and corporations of America bought the Republican Party and set up a very effective hate/propaganda media (Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, Fox News, OAN, etc.) They used this marketing success to run the country for their benefit, and their benefit only. It started during or before the Reagan years.
@@lars573 Yeah, at my K-8 school, the most they did was give paper awards for attendance(which was to keep kids wanting to go to class). But, during my 6th grade MPS funding got cut. So, they cut art, music, and PE, and then wonder why kids don't want to be in school. There was no sports, no clubs, no tutoring, so there was never any extracurriculars for awards to be given. I heard after I went into high school they managed to get PE and art back on a less regular basis.
Best tweet I’ve ever seen said something along the lines of “Why do millennials complain so much? Idk maybe because we watched thousands of people die on live tv in elementary school and shit literally never got better.”
Honestly great to see at least one comedian updating their material to reflect our actual reality instead of nonsense about "entitlement" and "avocado toast" that represented a vanishingly small subset of only upper-middle-class millennials 15 years ago. Thanks.
I enjoy his comedy but this is not factual. Some of the things he’s saying didn’t happen during gen z or millennial lifetimes or if they did they were probably not even in preschool yet. Just saying. (FYI I was corrected on the shuttle thing. I misinterpreted because he said then there was another one. I was thinking the ones in the 80s. Not deleting post though because I’ll take my hits on the message and not slither)
@@mitch8020 I'm a millennial (in the right age bracket to have been seeing all those whiny "stop buying avocado toast and killing the golf course industry" articles, even if I wasn't in the right social class to have ever seen an avocado toast in my life) and I remember every event he mentions. Fifth grade during columbine, seventh grade on 9/11 (I watched the second plane hit the towers on live TV). I remember the Columbia explosion. Graduated from high school just in time for the 2008 financial crisis, almost all of my friends moved away to where there were still jobs and I've seen them in real life only occasionally since then. The list goes on. Gen Z probably doesn't remember a lot of it, no. Most of them (except for the oldest ones) don't remember a world before the PATRIOT act and its associated privacy violations, the normalization of torture under Bush, etc. To say nothing of spending their entire lives watching the world completely drop the ball on global warming/climate change even after everyone was aware of it. Just because they missed some of the earlier ones doesn't mean they haven't also been growing up through hell just like the rest of us, it just doesn't mean they don't get to remember the decade of relative peace (at least in North America) that was the 1990s. I remember before all the things he mentions, when our biggest concerns were things like pollution, recycling, and the hole in the ozone layer. I was going to mention the genocide in Kosovo (which was the first "really awful thing happening somewhere in the world" that I kept hearing about as a kid), but that occurred at basically around the same time as Columbine.
@@mitch8020 Again, he was talking about the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating, killing everyone on board, which happened in 2003. That's why he mentions it between 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis (and why this one is the space shuttle exploding "again" - he wouldn't have seen the previous one but he would have known this was the second time it happened. I know I did.) I wasn't alive for the *Challenger* disaster, but there are millennials older than me (the ones who had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in grade school, instead of Power Rangers and Pokemon) who would have been alive and old enough to remember it (Challenger exploded the year before TMNT started airing). The age ranges for this particular bit don't really line up with the oldest millennials who had their childhood in the 80s, though. I've got no beef with any previous generations, aside from the specific people who couldn't stop whining about how Millennials were ruining everything by not being able to afford fancy things after the economy was destroyed and we had no money (and truckloads of college debt on top). My parents are blue-collar baby boomers who don't fit the stereotype for their generation either. As for you guys in Gen X, as far as I understand you grew up under the understanding that the world might end in nuclear hellfire pretty much any day. We've all been through shit, some people just forget about it after they got older and more comfortable (like those among the aforementioned boomers who *do* fit the "screw you, got mine" stereotype for that generation).
The trophies were to shut our unhinged parents up. “My kid did the best out there! It isn’t their fault the rest of the team are a bunch of losers!” ((Here’s a preemptive trophy))…
I was parent to my young kids during the participation trophy era. I was so pissed about that being a thing. For the record, I don't down talk at millenials, gen z etc. if there's a generational failing, the fault lies with the parents and mentors. Not the captive audience.
I was born in '79 (Gen-X) and grew up in the 80's too. I've often had conversations with my "Conservative" Father-in-law about this stuff. I did the same thing Titus did in this video. I listed ALL of the crap we've been through since we were born, and I added a few things cause I'm a little older (like the massive college debt they advised us to take on despite there not being enough jobs to accommodate the massive amount of new graduates *sigh*), but the point is the same. It's been going bad for a long time, and they've had every opportunity to fix it for the last 40-50 years, and they just hunkered down and said, "I think we'll just ride this out until we're dead", instead of finding solutions. We were raised to be kind to people. To always see the best in people, regardless of circumstance, to help people if you can. But now that we're grown, we see things for what they are, and where the problems lie, and we present solutions sourced from the entire world (like Healthcare for all, or proper gun regulations, consumer protection from price gouging, etc etc). For this, the Boomers brand us "Socialist" and begin to hurl insults and call us traitors, and refuse to hear any of it. Drives me insane. We turned out like they hoped we would, and they don't like it. But alas, it seems the Boomer generation has some trouble accepting the blame for the giant turd sandwich they served us and told us to take a bite... Like that line in Cold Mountain, "They created the weather and stand in the rain saying, holy sh!t it's raining!".
As someone who was born in '79 myself (Nov 29th) I literally grew up in the 80's, so I agree with everything you've said. I remember being in school during the OKC Bombing, and being horrified that another human could do that. If you had told me it was only going to get worse I would've told you that you were nuts, that there would be no way people would stand for that. Turns out _I_ would've been nuts, as stand for it we did and continue to do.
@@ChakatStripedfur we also promote it by doing absolutely nothing to stop it from happening while at the same time making it easier to get ahold of legal guns to do worse. It really is an odd thing to be able to both do nothing at all AND make things worse at the same time, seems impossible but here we are.
Haven't watched this special yet so as a millennial I was expecting to be told "grow up or grow thicker skin", I definitely wasn't expecting this apology that grammatically was NOT an apology, but I can read between the lines😅😅😅
As a millennial: sincerely THANK YOU. Some of us are legit privileged and entitled, but really, a lot of us are just disillusioned, *deeply* concerned, and doing our best. 😅😂🤣😭😑
@@curious1053 Let's be honest though, EVERY generation has deeply privileged and entitled members. I know plenty of horribly entitled boomers and xers.
Old lady millennial here and yeah, I constantly tell my husband, when our generation finally does snap, everyone is fucked…cuz we’ve all just about had it.
As a millennial born in 1985, thank you. With all these “once in a lifetime”events happening at such a young age, I really wonder what my generation will be like when we actually are old. In 50 years, will my generation just be over everything while collecting everything we couldn’t get when we were kids?
I doubt it. As a fellow millennial from '92 I think it's accomplishment every new year we see. And if society, our planet, and us come to see our 50-60s? We're all going to be working, still struggling over all, and unless dead relatives graced you with property. Still paying rent if you're lucky enough to not die from the stress. Or the newest cataclysmic weather event bound to end us all. Weeeeee. Golden years.
My fat ass is a decade older than you. The shit I collect that I couldn't get as a kid are toys. The things y'all are gonna collect that you couldn't get as a kid are education, safety, and peace. Honestly, as a tail-end Gen-Xer, y'all not only deserve a little of that shit, you can actually make it happen. …in spite of my generation having been dead inside since we were 10 and realized our parents cared more about money than us.
I was born 85 also and I must say we are definitely traumatized me especially being from Chicago growing up in one of the most violent periods in Chicago history
I’m about to turn 33 years old and have lost more friends to gun violence on our soil than I have to the war on terror. I’ve picked myself up by my bootstraps more times than I can count all while living through more “once in a lifetime” events than I care to count. Millennials have carved out positive moments for our lives our entire existence. All I wanna do is work a little, have some peace and quiet, see some of the world, relax and watch the news and be bored for once! I don’t think that’s asking for so much.
A Russian at the collapse of the soviet union said 'we're tired of living through an "historic moment", we just want to wear blue jeans and drink coca-cola' That always stuck with me.
As a millennial born in 1995, thank you. It's nice to see someone try to understand our struggles. I work two full-time jobs to try and survive. You made me laugh so hard, I cried!
as a boomer .. I had 3 jobs trying to make my way through school payments .. without bitching about a previous generation not paying my way .. so no .. just deal with life .. like most of us did .. eeeeeeehhhh
I was born in 82 and I'm sitting over here crying from laughing. We were the generation that went from Monopoly to Mario Brothers to "College is your future!" to "College LOANS are your future!" and "Everyone coughs, it's okay, the air pollution will get better!" to "Everyone coughs, WE'RE GONNA DIE!" (and watched friends do just that). Bless you for saying what we've been saying for years.
My oldest son wanted to be an astronaut and as we live in Central Florida can see it go up. His classroom was outside when the Challenger blew up and when he come home that day he told me he did not want to be an astronaut anymore. He was 9 at the time it blew up.
I was 10, and I didn't see it happen, but we spent a good portion of the next few days talking about people selling debris and body parts online. Our teacher was involved in the discussion. It's so surreal looking back on it.
Sometimes, hearing "hey, I get it" like this is refreshing. At least someone looked at our upbringing and went "If participation trophies mean you won't murder the world, by all means!" 🤣🤣
I am so glad Titus found a way to be funny about this. The entire concept of the participation trophy was forced on millennials, and at the end of the day, professional athletes TOTALLY get participation trophies called salaries. Football would be really different if the losing team didn't get paid that week. It amazes me that the phrase is still somehow a shorthand for the things millennials do, when it's clearly something boomers do. A lot of them wear Woodstock like a participation trophy, and they didn't even participate. For as long as there have been gameshows there have been, "consolation prizes," given to the losers. At a track meet I once got an ORANGE ribbon that said, "6th PLACE," and I can definitively tell you that a ribbon like that doesn't feel like a consolation prize. It felt like a physical reminder of how slow I am. It hurt. It was as if they had used all the child psychology developed over the previous hundred years to figure out a way to give people lifelong self confidence issues. Do the older generations not realize what Gen Z is doing on TikTok? They aren't narcissistic (most influencers are, but that's pretty much always been true) they are forming a protective mask that lets them dance like idiots in public. It's a way to make sure they have the strength they need so they can do what has to be done when the time comes, and the time IS coming. They spent enough time learning about the ways brains and minds can be fucked up, that they have accurate names for things that the previous generations had to deal with but never knew how to discuss. AND there are entirely new issues. If you've never had an army of South Korean social media accounts randomly flood you with requests for you to kill yourself, and photos of your front door... It's a lot. You gotta be ready to tell the crowd that they are nothing to you. You need to be able to put on a fictional confidence and grandiosity so the crowd gets bored and moves on to another target. And you gotta be ready for someone to take it too far and break into your home. You gotta be flexible and quick. Unpredictable. Gen Z is in the process of perfecting a form of self defense that is basically the digital equivalent of the Drunken Master, and it's remarkably effective.
I'm confused as to what you think Gen z is preparing for exactly, and how they are preparing for it online? I'm a little older, so this tik tok stuff isn't something native to me, ik it's a social media platform, but what are the Gen z kids doing on it to "prepare" for the thing you anticipate happening?
@@davidx.1504 It's like how 50's housewives were expected to raise kids and take care of the house and look beautiful with a smile: You're not actually happy all the time, it's just socially unacceptable not to be, and can be used as a shield to boot.
@@davidx.1504 man, we're preparing for the euphemistic "end of the world." political tensions are rising, hate-motivated actions on local and federal levels are way up, and there's about 7 years until we reach a "point of no return" where a world-scale climate disaster is guaranteed. I hear a lot of arguments from older people, stuff like "we had to worry about nukes getting dropped on the school" "we had to worry about war" and I understand that, but that's political science. that's extrapolation on what COULD happen. now we're talking about climate science, the time-frame for action is strict and it is set in stone. that's what we're preparing for. action is needed.
Not to mention- Millennials & Gen Z haven’t been giving themselves “participation trophies” or “helicopter parents”. Those were the choices of Boomers & Gen X. (Also, I’m Gen X & we got some “participation trophies”, too & I’m advocating for that parenting style, but after that list of horrors, it should be clearer that the “helicopter parents” came about for a reason. Titus didn’t even mention “Climate Change” & it’s kids: “increased extreme weather patterns” or “water shortages”. 🥵
Don't worry about climate change. A bunch of old people (who won't have to deal with the consequences) on the "Supreme" Court said everything will be fine if we just let the coal burn free. 🔥
I've never understood why people cared about "participation trophies". My kids' coaches never came out and said anything about everyone being winners. We knew when we lost games. The trophies were a way of saying "hey... we're proud of you and the effort you put in. And even though you lost, we hope you'll come back and try even harder next year". Even semj professional athletes, Olympians, etc that don't win, get stuff to incentivize them to participate and do better. People respond better to positive reinforcement.
@@NiamhCullen Boomers literally invented participation trophies, though, and Gen X was the first generation to get them. Of course, they started in the Special Olympics, and the reason boomers & Gen X mock the concept so much is because of the years-old association with disabled people... and those generations hate the disabled so much that they cut funding for the VA & all resources used by people with disabilities, and started mocking kids by using "retarded" as a slur..
I appreciate a lot of this, but with one little gripe; it's the same problem I've had with every single joke/complaint about participation trophies. NONE OF US ASKED FOR THEM 🤣 Geez, I practically have trauma from the overwhelming paradox of trying to logic-out "Man, kids these days and their 'participation trophies'..." -says a member of the same generation that started handing them out.
Parents that couldn't stand the fact that their precious little angel didn't win anything. So they forced it on all of us. We know they were meaningless. Useless monuments to mediocrity that were forced on us. I'm part of the tail end of gen X and they did it to us too.
I was born in 2001. To me, a participation trophy always felt like solid proof that you lost. You lost, now you either have to throw away a trophy or display how much of a loser you are.
Yep, was going to say that too. Millennials never asked for the participation trophies. They never wanted them. They also didn't want the helicopter parents controlling everything they did and not letting them have any freedom. Those were things inflicted upon Millennials, not something they demanded and were looking for.
I was born in 87'. I was 11, turning 12 when Columbine happened. I was 13, turning 14, in my first week of HS when 9/11 happened. I grew up an hour from New York City. I know people who lost a parent, uncle, aunt, older siblings or cousins, and my best friend's dad was a first responder who we didn't hear from for over a week. Terrified he was dead. (He's okay, and lucky. Didn't end up sick) Got detention in 10th grade because a few dozen of us wanted to go join the anti-afgan war protest in the city. Also CONSTANTLY got in trouble for refusing to stand for the pledge because I knew the invasion wasn't about freedom, it was oil. My mom was chronically unemployed in the early 2000s, and so most of HS was just generally fucking stressful. I rolled out of college JUST IN TIME for the 2008 economic collapse. Took me 6 years to finally get a job in my field and start making not $8/hr.. my credit is fuuuucked. I was in my mid 20s, wrapping Xmas gifts with my ex partner when the news of Sandy Hook broke. It's just been one "once in a life time event" after another since I was 11. I'm tired 😩 And people wonder why I don't want to have kids? 🤣
Same here for so many of those. Born in 86. Watched 9/11 happen live on the news in my 9th grade computer class, got out of the Navy in 2008 right at the collapse, couldn't find a job for a few years and had to live with my parents who gave me no end of shit for not being able to find one, absolutely despised the first couple I did get before landing my current one of 8 years now, live in Orlando and my commute took me past Pulse every day including the day of the shooting, Not to mention we made it through Y2K, 2012 and every damn major event since the turn of the millennium. Worse we're old enough to remember how great it was back in the 90's, having one of the best decades for being a kid only for everything to go to shit right afterwards.
Yep, less and less millennials having kids, cause we've had to live through some of the worst events in American history all while we're being screwed by the system that our parents ruined so we couldn't benefit the same ways they did.
We shouldn't give the trophies to the people who caused or helped cause the issues that others have to deal with, so not everybody deserves the trophies. Not to mention the people who profited off those tragedies.
@@KumaChrisVT Literally everyone whose ever gotten a participation trophy from their insecure ass parents who couldn't handle the idea that their kid might not be Good at something isn't even old enough to hold political office in most of the US. I don't think the people who were being given these trophies ever really had a chance to Be a problem.
I never understand why people need to trash on their own kids and still have zero reflection on the fact that they raised them. Just be proud of your kids and the next generation. All this does is divide us and make them bitter towards us. The kids in school right now are the ones that have to clean up our mess of a world. Lets give them the tools to do it.
@@ryanweible9090 Blame them for what though? Kids are just being kids. the only difference between a Gen X/Millenial and the next generations is that all our stupid shit was done without camera phones and social media... but we all did the same crap, and much more because of anonymity. So did our parents at one point too. The other stuff they blame them for, such as the current state of things, they had no influence on anyways. It's ridiculous.
My kid just told me he took out the garbage and when I checked he just left it outside the dumpster next to the pile if recycling he spilled all over the ground. He said it was "gonna take too long" to clean up and was an "accident". I told him that it is going to take as long as it takes and it needs to be done right or it becomes a worse problem for everyone. He was pissed and wined the whole time, but it got done. Kids need helicopters sometimes, just a breeze in the right direction, not puppetmastering so much.
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates
I remember when I was 12, Neverlution dropped. There was a one-off joke about modern kids getting participation trophies. I remember it bc it was the first time I thought something along the lines of "We didn't ask for them, your generation forced us to take them." Very funny to see that realization boomerang hitting Titus now too
My mom passed when I was really young. I've fought and survived abusive relationships by my own parents. And now instead of being able to enjoy the freedoms I grew up with and potentially consider starting a family...I"m being told I'm morally reprehensible just because I'm a female, that despite my education and lived experiences, I am too morally defunct to be relied on to be left to my own devices. You have any idea how damaging it is to overcome one circumstance of abuse just to thrust into another one? The rage is real, and there is no trust.
One of the few times I saw my moms husband care about me he was watching the news and started crying. He was part of the silent generation. He started telling me that he's sorry for the world. That his generation and my moms (boomer II) fucked this place up and have made it a place he couldn't have survived in as a young adult. He beat the shit out of me, blew smoke in my face till I puked and made me eat the throw up, he broke my nose for a C on my report card, him and my mom would leave for weeks at a time leaving me and my sister to fend for ourselves (I was like 4 when that started). I didn't know how to handle that conversation and walked out of the room. After talking about it to a friend of mine he was able to put it into a specific perspective that scared the shit out of me. If someone that treated me the way he did felt compassion over the way society for my generation was going, its already so far gone that there's no hope of making it good enough for everyone to live a decent life based on what were told to expect. Just glad I learned to dodge when the shit hits the fan.
29 year old millennial here, 3 years away from gen Z, quite frankly I'm surprised I'm able to smile at all. It took a lot to pull myself from depression and hopelessness. The country isn't getting better either. Doing my best to live life while everything crumbles.
@@therealivydawg fr, I consider myself incredibly lucky to be able to live alone in my own apartment and I still live in fear of going back to how things were before I could so that.
i still feel for them for the not seeing their friends during the pandemic. i didnt see my best friend for a little over a week because he got sick in the 4th grade and i was RAGED. imagine not being able to hang for a full year or you might kill grandma? i cannot even imagine what he kids are going to turn out like. and its just that, the fact that they have to dodge school shootings and the world is getting microwaved so that old guys can get returns on their shell oil investments...i dont blame young people for being pissed.
I'm glad some comedian addressed this. It gets exhausting to see a group I fall under get constantly bashed and generalized, overlooking what things brought us to this place.
I agree it's easy for boomers and gen x to shift blame for the fall of America on to millennials & Gen z because they don't wanna take responsibility for the mess America's in I guess it hurts them too much....so if that's the case then who are the real SNOWFLAKES because it ain't us
This is deeply appreciated; thank you, and it's cool, bro. Because I know you from your TV show, where I saw a dysfunctional and traumatized family care for each other. And that shit helped me out because I instinctively knew it was genuine.
As a borderline Zilennial who has received at least one participation trophy, I took no joy from it. From the moment I was handed the damn thing, I was fully aware that it had no real meaning. Its only function was to remind me that there was a real trophy out there that I had not received. Later on I came to the conclusion that the real trophy was equally meaningless, so I didn't feel as bad about underachieving. Kinda fucked up my sense of progression in a lot of disciplines.
I ignored the purpose of participation trophies. I played soccer for fun. I was probably competitive back then, but I definitely liked the fun. I agree that even the real trophies suck. Why are they all always plastic? How is that to be held with worth, 1st place or not? Well anyways my mom had me keep all the trophies and when I moved out I tossed em them. Fellow zillennial
As someone who has been going through a streak of finding new material from comedians I watched when I was like 13 and realizing they all do the same cringy "sorry to trigger u, snowflake" comedy, This was a pleasant and welcome surprise. Can't wait to watch the rest of the special.
As a Gen 'X'er who used the internet for the first time when I was 19, I can't imagine what it must be like dealing with cyber bullying and social media pressure and status. I can say things like "Back in the day we had to go to the library" all I want, but at the end of the day, we had it kind of easy. It wasn't better times, but it was definitely simpler times back then
Yea you are right I cant imagine what would be like if every single little mistake I did was on social media forever, I remember a kid who got caught eating his macaroni art in first grade and then his Mom on her mommy blog, talks about it basically saying yea I dont think he is too bright. And then years later in Highschool some ahole finds it and repost it everywhere to make fun of him.
@@gou0630 In grade 11, during final exams, they had hundreds of students at once in the gym doing their exams and I got high on some bad weed the night before and I was deathly sick the morning of exams. I went in all clammy and pail, shaking and begging to do my exam at a later date, but the teacher was like "tough it out. Sit down". Anyway, I projectile vomited on my crush, sitting next to me, in front of 300 students and then all over myself before crying and running to the bathroom...this was before cell phones were a thing...THANK THE GODS
I'm an early Millennial and I didn't use the internet until my age-15 year. Even pre-internet, I still had to deal with bullying. I can't imagine what being a victim of cyberbullying while being in school is like, though.
Same boat here. I used the internet for the first time when I went to college, fall of '95, and it was a wild place then but nothing like the non-stop pressure cooker kids and young adults have to live with now. I couldn't imagine being in school, being bullied, and not even being able to escape by going home. Not to say it's okay, but I can understand why some kids decide to pick up a gun.
@@marcus813 So you must be a really early millemnial Like born in 80-81 if you didn't use the internet until you were 15 because by the time I grduated from HS in 1995 the internet had become mandatory in schools nationwide.
I'm an older millennial (1981) who went to high school when Columbine happened, then enlisted in the Army before 9/11. Deployed 4 times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. I've definitely spent the last 6 years asking that very question in a very loud and frustrated tone. My wife and I love your shows, and hope to go see you live the next time you're near Indianapolis. Love is Evol is our favorite.
I never served, but I was a freshman in college when I watched the towers go down on Television. My college was 25% ROTC and as an engineer I can remember so many college classmates going to spend a year between Junior and Senior year in Afghanistan or Iraq. Not all of them came back. This country and our parents have failed us all, but you veterans most of all.
It's amazing how a few years difference makes among millennials... Before, in, or after HS and 9/11... early jobs in the recession... Student debt becoming a guarantee instead of a guaranteed job... Reservist being deployed... What a ride...
I remember going into a recruitment office in 1999 and getting refused because I have asthma. In 2001 they called me back asking me if I would be willing to waive my medical exemption, and offered me a cash bonus if I would sign-up. I figured that if I wasn't good enough for a peacetime military, probably not a great idea to go into a shooting war.
As a Gen Z man, it's precious to me how we're called the generation of "me", when all we want is a future for our future kids, y'know, something YOU OBVIOUSLY CARE ABOUT, BOOMERS?!
I'm not going to lie... if I were a Gen Z'er, no way in hell would I have kids. I mean, I already don't, but that's because my family's a cesspool genetically speaking. But a kid now is scary business.
@@mage1439 I am a gen Zer, and the ONLY reason I'm considering having kids is that I know that stupid people will have kids if we don't, and given the direction of pressure on educators, I question how well our kids will be told about the world.
@@Mitchthemysteryman That's always the other side of things. Stupid people think nothing of having 6-7 kids, even now, while more and more smart couples have one if any. So for you to choose to have kids, I can only salute your guts.
I, a 36-year old millennial, have seen this already in real-time, with my friend's small children having to grow up & develop in a post-pandemic world. Their youngest is struggling with behavioral issues, especially when around other children, which is a direct result of not being exposed to other kids while in their early-formative years. Their eldest (8-years old) has already shown early signs of severe clinical depression & anxiety. I've also heard many similar stories from other parents. These kids will not know of a world that isn't infectious, or isolating in ways previous generations never knew. They will not know of a world where your every movement isn't in some way tracked, with that data being sold to whomever. They will not know of a un-globalized world, society & culture free from the pervasiveness of consumption & capitalism. The older generations get so preoccupied with proving they built the perfect world, without taking an honest appraisal of what that actually means. Ironically, they were the generation that told us to "mind our own business" & "keep our hands to ourselves", when they have done everything but. I used to think it was merely a waiting game, but that was nearly-20 years ago. The truth is, the hammer is going to be striking very soon, some might say it already has, and who it comes down upon depends on every one of us to realize what's actually important. Some things should be allowed to rot in the deepest grave we can dig.
I was ready for some eye rolling and got an apology instead! Thank you for finally understanding our plight. Now could the country just stop going out of control?? It's like we went zero to sixty and the country no longer makes sense
Thank the left who removed God from schools, removed American and Christian values and are always working to destroy the family. One thing the shooters have in common is coming from broken homes. None of them were in Church on Sunday with their community and shooting up their school on Monday. Great job lefties.
Really?! Try living your teenage years wondering when you will receive the letter that is your invitation to join your friends in the tropical paradise known as Vietnam to make new friends called Victor Charley. Or be gunned down by your next door neighbor--who joined the Natioal Guard to avoid the tropical paradise known as, Vietnam--3:54 at Columbia State, Jacksonville State or Kent State because you were protesting the invitation to join your other friends in that jungle paradise. Or maybe you would like one of those 39000 crosses they gave to boys sent home in boxes from Pyong Yang from 1950-53 or one of those boxes from Luzon, the Coral Sea, Normandy...from December 7, 1941 to August 6, 1945............ Shall I go on? The most to die in a school mass murder was in the late 1920s when 79 were killed by an explosion, or you could've woke up with me that early Sunday morning in the fall of 1958 to the sounds of dynamite blowing up the HS--1 of 3--in Anderson Co TN, County seat, Clinton, because 3 white men didn't like the fact that Eisenhower forced integration. (Let me tell you, Civil rights was a fun time) they blew up my mom's place of employment. Or you could've got up at 4am with my dad on that W TN farm milked your dad's cow then walked to the farm where you were promised to work 16hrs/day, 6 days/wk for a whole $1.50/96 hrs that your dad collected at the end of the week. Do that at the age of 12 like he did during the depression in 1933 because his dad lost their farm because of medical bills for his mom...well, maybe you get it. I don't know. Life has gotten harder and each generation does less and less. We didn't have ZOLOFT to make it easier. We had cotton to pick, corn to cultivate, beans to chop. Hundreds of thousands of men died between the years 1861-65 and 1941-45. Tens of thousands died between the years 1950-53 and 1964-1975. A little over 8000 died from 2001- 2021. I like Titus and he told it like it is, but don't you go thinking you had it bad. And pretty soon your kids will watch AI do everything as they sit there playing on their phones.
@@ronaldharding3927 every generation has a problem and a set of circumstances it has to overcome. Yes I'm a millennial but my Dad was older when I was born, he was a child of the Great Depression, a secondary school student during WWii and he served his country in the Korean War. So I learned from him and I listened to his stories. So when I say the struggle is real and I'm afraid for my country its because I learned the best of this country from someone who lived it. I see everything he believed in and worked for being stripped away.
@@lizgreer6888 look, l worked for a $1.25/hr, $50/ wk at my first job. I was 12 yrs old. I've worked at 3 jobs at a time to get my undergrad and graduate degrees. I receive more in SS now than I have ever made at any one job except for 3 years of my life. It's really easy to complain, but my dad had it harder any day of his short life than I did any year of my 70 yrs. It's done nothing but get easier over my life. Daddy got $21/mo to risk his life jumping out of a DC7. My older son makes more than he did in a year in the ARMY in 2 days on the weekend in active naval reserves. My younger son makes more in a year as a second class Petty Officer than my dad would've made in twenty. Point being it ain't any harder. For me it's been much easier. There wasn't but one man in the world before the late 1960s who was a billionaire, J Rockefeller, and now there's a new one every minute it seems. So, the moral is we all complain about how bad we have it, but we don't even know what bad is.
I was born on 99 so I literally don't know what a post 911 world is. My parents constantly told me the world was going to end and revelations was just around the corner so I always felt there was no point to do anything when I was born in the end times. I was raised to believe there was nothing I could do and that the end of the world was some kind of good fate. I never formed or maintained relationships and developed depression at an early age, because every time I wanted to do something id hear my parents voices in my head and see all the shit going on in the world and conclude logically that there was no point. I always find it confusing how boomers are always extremely happy and proud of how they failed to raise their children and gave them only fear as an inheritance, I mean fuck we wont even get social security they're literally leaving us a dying planet and blaming us for it. If you can step back and see all that and not laugh your ass off then you're a better man than me.
Are your parents maybe Jehovah's Witnesses? Because I grew up around (and still deal with) people who are convinced the world is going to end any day now. It's depressing.
The 90's were a lot like old people imagine the 1950's were when you look at all the data on that decade (America was the only super power, we won the cold war, china wasn't powerful yet, crime dropped to historic lows, incomes went up for just about every demographic, the internet started being used by the masses, massive investment in new Schools and education) No time is ever "perfect" but things were relatively pretty "sweet". I'm in my mid 30's and saw around 2009 that fate gave us older millennials an awesome childhood in exchange for a difficult adulthood and probably elder years.
And he didnt even touch upon the worst part of it all, climate change. I gotta tell you its really motivating being told by those generations older than you that you have to work towards your future, when they personally made sure that this future will at best contain about 10 years where the world might not be completely on fire.
Considering just how many wildfires lit up recently , sadly this is pretty literal. Though maybe the rising seas can extinguish all the forest fires! Right? Right?! Still fucked but would we rather all burn alive or drown in our sleep?
Yup. Old enough to realize what was happening on 9/11. Graduated high school in 2008. Couldn’t afford college during a recession. Terrible job market. Never going to be able to own a house. Missed that sweet spot after us when teenagers were making thousands as influencers and app developers, and also that sweet spot before us where traditional entry level jobs and affordable houses still existed. Told to be unpaid interns. Told to go into lifelong debt for a degree. Too young to vote on climate change, but old enough to feel the effects. Going to have to pick up the bill for failing infrastructure. Then a pandemic that stunted our possible progress, and now very likely a second recession. Let us have our emotional support dogs lol
@@damdamfino with all due respect, what do you mean by MY SHIT???!!! I’m on your side here, man. Please don’t try to lay the blame all on me. I’m part of the same struggle that’s going up against the corporate overlord that runs this world who are grinding us down slowly to the grave. I understand all the frustrations, but all due respect you can’t just lay ALL the blame to older generations. Don’t get me wrong, Boomers and the Corporate Elite(politicians,corporations,the wealthy,selfish older people) are the primary cause of all our suffering. Because there really aren’t ALL these enemies that younger people are RAILING against, it’s basically one. The ones on top who control everything. However I don’t want to give you the impression that I’m against the younger generation, simpley over generalizing here. And if you mean no serious offense then I apologize.
As an older millennial (84), Columbine and 9/11 were the separator between childhood and adulthood for us. It's an understatement to say our adulthood has been a literal series of unfortunate events, one right after the other, and it's hard to have hope for a future that seems like it's dwindling fast. I was a freshman in high school when Columbine happened, a time when school shootings were rare -my high school got our first bomb threat in the same week; as for 9/11, I was in my senior year in first period when we saw the 2nd tower get hit live. 9 months later many of my classmates were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. I was fortunate to graduate college and get a job just before the recession hit, and between the rise of fascism, climate change, covid, icepocalypse, inflation, and my rights being stripped away on a daily basis, I'm over it. I still laugh at my boomer mom when she suggests I could afford a house on my educator's salary if I "just worked a little harder", not realizing that most of the homes in my area now start out at 350k. I can't speak for other millennials, but I just want to travel, afford a house, keep my job long enough to retire and hope like hell Social Security still exists by the time I'm eligible (assuming I'm even eligible at all by then). And honestly, the participation trophy was never about us - those were for the upset Gen X and boomer parents worried we couldn't recognize how "special" their precious child is, no matter how mediocre or terrible they actually were. We didn't want some stupid trophy, we just wanted pizza.
'85 but timing largely lined up the same, I went to a local university where kids were coming back missing limbs but getting what they could from the GI bill. I grew up in a crappy area so gunshots were normal, more than once saw the cops chase someone through my high school for truancy or illegal substances (and a machete once), but somehow even in the messed up area I was in never had a mass casualty event. Also got locked in the walk in refrigerator during a lock down one time, which was interesting. Anyway, I doubt SS will still exist, assuming the age isn't bumped into the 80s or 90s by the time I'm old enough, assuming the world still exists when I'm old enough, and already being lucky enough to have a career but knowing I started at such a low rung I have actually received a delta salary adjustment to bring my pay up closer to a new hire's rate after being there for almost a decade (again, thankful for the job, and the raise, but wtf), seems I will only ever be trying to catch up rather than actually make progress, and I'm not sure how that doesn't break people right out the gate
As an elder-millennial (81), I had hope, genuine hope about the future. Over the years since the dot-com burst and 9/11, I do not smile anymore. Everything I have worked towards was either made redundant or the milestone for acheivement moved so far away that I would have to work another century to get. So I did what Americans still are restricted from doing, I moved abroad and became an immigrant. Worked in dirty corrupt 3rd world countries for money and sold my dignity to climb up the ladder of globalization networking and academic recognition. Finally I have a stable low-income salary (30k/yr) in a Scandinavian nation trying to deal with my PTSD of both being an ethnic minority and American citizen.
I'm Gen Z, and I remember the teachers and faculty sitting us all down during 1st grade in the library reading room, which had a projector. They showed us footage of 9/11, and then told us it was our job to stop terrorism and save the world when we grow up...WE WERE 6. (Also just A LOT of casual racism and nationalistic American stuff in those statements and how they wanted us to "save" the world.) And, this was the age group that was born just after 9/11. Add on top of that active shooter drills, climate crisis news (which many adults seem to think will "work out" despite doing nothing or blaming consumers), combined with Trump era politics, late-stage capitalism, realizing the US is Imperialist and ruining the middle-east and southern hemisphere for money and materials while also squandering its own people, COVID for fucks sake, and then ALL OF THE social shit like queer-phobia, sexism, ableism. So glad I have therapy...and this skit was good. And, to all adults out there--I hope you have a nice day and listen to the younger folks too. We are not trying to be pessimistic, but realistic, and we just wanna not die. Like...that's it. Not dying and basic human rights. That's all we really want and right now that's apparently too much. I hope we can all work together and change that for the good of humanity.
In the 60's and early 70's the biggest threat in my school was a switch blade, and the likelihood of being drafted. Titus makes a point about what kids have experience these days. God help them, no wonder the suicide rate for kids is off the charts.
Shit, not just suicide rates, my generations have basically given up and said screw having kids because we don't want to deal with bringing life into this hellhole we call society.
@@jish55 exactly I come from a small town so we have teens and young adults having accidental pregnancies but after like 25 it’s surprising how few kids are being born they are just struggling to much with just the one
Yep you're right I started school in 1966 graduated in 1978 from high school and there was no threats at all in school and I lived through all the civil Rights stuff and the busing of students to schools all over the county and never once ever worried about somebody shooting a school up or any other place for that matter I couldn't imagine the stress of having to get up to go to school and wondering if you're going to get shot or not are blown up not to mention look what they're living through with all the drugs in this country now
39 here. Was 18 when the towers fell. Got laid off my first decent job in 09 due to the recession. And from 2010-2018 all I hear is that I was part of the worse generation ever while making 10-15 bucks an hour. Being high risk open hear survey survivor as a kid made living through the pandemic pretty rough and isolating. Then in 2022 found out I cannot afford a house. Now I am watching my savings crash. That's right gen X, give me that fucking trophy already! Seriously, y'all forget the noise and enjoy your own existence...you only get one!
I'm about to turn 41 soon. I was a 20-year-old college junior when the Twin Towers fell. I watched both of them fall on CBS' live feed while then-President George W. Bush was in the southern part of my TV market/DMA. I'm proud of graduating from college, but I hate that it happened during the recession.
You're 39, you ARE gen-X culturally. Being born in 82, you have more in common with people born in 75 than you do with people born in 86 who had cell phones in high school. They call like 80-85 "Xennials", but really you're just Gen X. Boomers were 45-67 or so, Gen X is like 68 to 85 culturally. 86 is really where the millennial cutoff should start because of teenage access to cell phones and high speed internet was a massive cultural game changer.
@@jadedandbitter Not really. "Xennials" have all the relations with tech like other millennial, the only distinction being that they are more aware of 1980s cultural phenomenon. Like remembering seeing the A-team or Knight Rider back in the day. Definitely millennial, but with quite a bit of bleed from Gen X. Gen X did not get exposed to the mainstream internet until they were getting out of their twenties, and mainly through work. We were still in our teens, and got into the things that that era had (IRC chat, usenet, what have you) We saw and enjoyed Friends, but the people in Friends were definitely older than us. We were still figuring out school and college, while they were being weird in high-end NY rental units. They were 24ct Gen X. We were younger then them. We were older model Millennials. To you central cohort Millennials, they would be out right geriatric.
@@UmarWazir as you're pointing out, the cultural touchstones are pretty much the same for someone born in 83 vs 75 or so. We watched many of the same cartoons thanks to DiC and Hanna Barbera, watched the same 80's shows, listened to the same music. An 83 kid listened to Nevermind as much as any Gen X'er if not more. Also email, ICQ, and AIM aren't culturally significant, since they still required you to take up a phone line to use them. You may as well talk on the phone, and thats what I remember doing much more because it was quicker to just call somebody than to turn on the PC, wait for the modem to squawk and connect, etc. So mostly communication was still done inconveniently on a land line, just like every Gen Xer prior. As for age, there's a two decade difference between someone born in 43 and 63 but both are Boomers, so... Were boomers not boomers if they watched Happy Days as a teen vs a thirty something? There is no such thing as an Xennial, really. There's just Gen X and Millennials, but that cutoff happens around 85, 86.
@@jadedandbitter You have your points, but I always felt that rather than smartphones, it was the advent of Win95 and the mainstreaming of computing which was the milestone.. Those who were working are still uncomfortable with it, and those that were still in school at the time really got stuck in. The fact remains that the 1980 to 1985 cohort do not really fit with GenX regarding relation to current predominant communication methods. We fit with our decade younger siblings, even though we are wayyyy better at fixing computers than they are. Being distinguished at Xennials merely reflect first hand exposure to some 80s cultural touchstones, barely remembering the fall of the Berlin wall.
I used to agree with my overprotective conservative family until they allowed me to leave the nest without an argument... 2 days before the quarantine hit and I realized everything my grandparents raised me on no longer worked today. I didn't have a slow steady realization period. It was immediate tonal whiplash. Then my grandparents wouldn't let me move back in and just stuck me with my newfound bankrupt debt that only took a year of identity theft to accumulate. It's "my fault" for spending $5 on McDonalds once a month, apparently, not the fact that I went to college with 9 years of tech support experience, only to suddenly start being fired during training from every job that isn't fast food. There's got to be a point where you stop blaming us, guys. At least this comedian finally gets it. Contracts/rent are traps of poverty, mental "help" is wallet draining in disguise, and everyone lies. I wouldn't be so upset if the people in power could lie WELL. But no, their swiss cheese narratives are automatically believed simply because they have status and power. Your evidence doesn't matter. They'll just flaunt their "Educated Qualifications." Congrats on spending half a million debt-dollars on books you could have found online for free, Dr. Joe. Everyone's a statistic to you.
This bit was performed on my birthday about a year ago. I turned 25 and he said " if you were born in 96 you lived through the worst 25 years of American history" haha... Oh I still feel like he's talking about me. I've been on Zoloft and Lexapro. I WAS born in 96, and am now 26, and I like what he added to this bit. Keep it real, Titus!
No your not. Most of you are like we need more money. I'm not doing extra unless I get pay more. Oh I'm just going to work until I get a paycheck or two to buy what I want then quit.
@@onadorries3731 That's because we have student loans. Higher education for basic pay. How is that fair. And older generations own more the the world wealth. We're getting paid less for being more educated and we give more output.
As one of these former kids, it would take pages to explain. We're starting to break the cycle of bad habits from generations before and told we're doing it wrong. And then getting blamed for our parents and grandparents mistakes. The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
I am just as guilty for doing the same. We allowed the media to distort and characterize these generations. The fact is they are conscious well informed who just wanted some normal sense of life and a future that did not involve some dystopian narrative.
Worst part is gen x didn’t even want anything special. We just wanted to live the same way our parents lived. Comfortable. Lofty goals come after we know that were safe and nothing bad going to happen. Nope, were not safe and a once in a lifetime event happens atleast once a month Gen z on the other hands can be summoned up by two words for both what makes them good and will drag them down. Social media. Social media has made them smarter and start playing the game earlier but its also a cancer that will kill or drive one crazy if not properly controlled and nobody knows how to do that. We pushed the kids into the deep end and are now watching them try to learn how to swim. No assistance just thoughts and prairs
Born in '90, it hurts to realize just how true this segment is, and it kills me to see everyone in my age group with the same deep down aching pain of knowing just how raw the deal we were handed is. I'm 32 but goddamn do I feel twice that age. I wake up most mornings and my first thought is "Really? This shit? Again?" I dread turning on the news because it's not about some gaffe a politician made, it's not about a CEO indicted for embezzling, it's not about literally ANYONE being held fucking accountable FOR ANYTHING. No, the news we see is how the globe is seeing record breaking temperatures, even though last year set the new record, and the year before that was the new record, and the year before that, etc. We're watching in excruciating detail, minute by minute, cops executing unarmed people in the streets for basically no reason. Then the next day we watch cops do nothing, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING, while children scream and die 40 feet away. We get to witness our parents get hollowed out like fucking jack-o-lanterns and filled with a steady drip feed of hate and fear until we don't even recognize who they are anymore. We all got to see just how much those around us actually gave a shit about their neighbor, in the most raw unfiltered litmus test of totally consequence free selflessness, by wearing a simple fucking mask. And we got to watch in real-time people we might have even called friends or looked up to absolutely lose their fucking minds over being asked to endure one small inconvenience to possibly protect a stranger. Millennials and Gen X... We're tired. I am so. Fucking. Tired. I don't want a front row seat to the fall of Rome anymore. I want to get off this ride. I just want to go home.
Yeah... the getting hollowed out like fucking jack-o-lanterns and filled with a steady drip feed of hate and fear until we don't even recognize who they are anymore... that one hit a little close to home right there, although I've even seen fellow Millennials of mine... people I went to school with... all fall down the same path as well because they don't question that they were led astray. I can't even recognize these people that I used to hang out with and had some of my fondest memories from high school with... those people might as well be dead.
But you are home. Christofascists have built literal hell on this earth in belief of the great rapture that their god will save them and damn everyone else. Neoliberals literally are engineering the downfall of Rome by allowing the rich to walk all over us and buy our politicians. The rest of us get crumbs, bread at best. Not a dime towards the pillars of our institutions that once supported all of us. They will be left to crumble in the heat death of our planet.
I can’t agree more. I remember someone ( gen x or boomer) telling me in high school that they were the best four years of my life. I thought of the shooter drills in school, the precautions needed in case you were robbed, the climate collapse, destabilizing of society, and countless monumental events allready happening. I legitimately looked them in the eye and deadpan stated: might as well die now then. Good things have happened- but every hour of peace, quiet, or rest is claimed knowing that things are falling apart around you, that you don’t know if you will have a world to give your kids, they bring about all the things we had growing up that we will NEVErR be able to give our own children- positive experiences, the peace and tranquility to just play outside, to run on grass, to meet friends and be able to play with the next door neighbors kids, that just simply…. Seem out of reach. Having a house, some corner of the world to call our own and be able to enjoy life- seems almost impossible. As you said: every day I wake up more exhausted. Every day the thought passes- “still worth trying, right?” And each day a little less sure of that.
While some is true, it’s a stretch to say how right he is. You weren’t alive when the shuttles went down just for one example. He’s funny and I enjoy the humor, but also have to be real.
Having been in the active duty component of the Army from 2013-2017 in fort Hood, I wondered why we had an active shooter in April of 2014. Then I became the unit armorer and I understood why. That "so far" statement still resonates with me, because I still want to see some people stay quiet... permanently.
I was born in '94 at the tail end of the millennials. It's been horrible. My issue with people his age chastising us for receiving participation trophies as kids is... WE DIDN'T INVENT THEM! His generation(boomers) and Gen X did, then they gave them to us and act like we're the assholes. At 3 or 4 years old I got my first one for soccer and threw it away because I knew it was a trophy for losing and I wasn't gonna celebrate that because I am very competitive and stubborn as a person. Literally since I was barely even a person. 😂 It's only recently Titus has realized that "you kids have it so easy" is not an accurate statement.
Beth (the mom) "your generation has never experienced trauma!" Summer (the daughter) "bitch, my generation eats trauma for breakfast..." -Rick & Morty on Adult Swim
I've never had a problem with participation trophies. Went because I look at the contracts of major sports stars that are on teams that lose every year and go you criticize kids for getting these things that can lift their spirits and actually make them feel good about themselves and those guys get millions of dollars a year and lose every single week. Yeah... It was one of the things I liked about the XFL back in it's first incarnation you got paid, but you got paid even more if you won the game. How much did Connor McGregor make from his loss to Mayweather? More than any UFC victory he had. I'll take giving a kid something that I'm done cases actually make them feel better and give them passion because it's been on major sports for years.
Well Titus, I, a ‘98 born Post-Millennial who is now 24, would love to enjoy my participation trophies. Unfortunately, my parents are showing them to friends and family while taking credit for my achievements and the other half are locked behind a monthly 17.99 subscription fee😀. I love your comedy bro, please never stop💯
Born in '94 and finally got to see you in person in VA beach back in February and this bit honestly made me laugh the hardest cause the truth was deafening and needed. As always thank you Titus
Yeah I never understood boomers picking on the children they created. They were the grandparents handing out the trophies these kids didn't do this s*** we did. As parents we should be ashamed of ourselves we are the worst generation ever
@@jollyrodger5319 There's no need for shame, to err is human. What matters is facing our mistakes and learning from them, which your generation could do tomorrow, if only.
Remember the books that came out in the late 80's/early 90's "50 simple things you can do to save the earth"? Gen X had films on the dangers of pollution and its effects on the planet way back in '81/82'. We did try. There weren't enough of us and we didn't fight hard enough. Even worse, A sizable chunk of us decided to try and play the boomer's game better than them and became even bigger pricks while clawing after whatever was left. As an Xer, that finds a lot in common with Millennials and Gen Z, I'm sorry we didn't do better.
@@Halloween111 The Chinese say that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; and the second best time is now. You still have a couple of decades on this Earth at least, and I think that you'd agree that the boomers have proven you can have an effect even into your senior years.
I was born in 1994, when the Millennial generation was coming to it's end. Through my childhood, I've gone through my parents moving out of their first and only house in order to move to the city in hopes of my dad getting a better job with better pay. He got the job, but the recession and being screwed over by the people who got our house made that paybump essentially meaningless. To this day, he's still struggling with paying off debt, and has had to start divorcing my mom not because he doesn't want her in his life anymore, but because it's the only way the government won't try to force him to pay more money than what he makes for her to have a home where someone can look after her, due to her disabilities. I haven't been able to find an income to leave home, and worse still, needed to use the majority of my student loans to help pay for my family's groceries, and assist in moving to new apartments because the last landlords didn't want to keep us, despite us paying rent on time. I've had to come to terms with the fact that with my autism, anxiety and depression is so bad that my brain literally can't handle most 9-5 jobs without me having daily breakdowns at work. But people on the internet say that if I don't work, I'm lazy and leeching off others. And on top of it, free therapy in my area has such a giant waiting list that they're only taking suicidal patients, and they don't have anyone to cater to patients who are autistic, so even if I tried applying, I could be denied just for that. I'd end it with a "this is why I drink" joke, but I'm literally too poor to buy/get addicted to booze.
I swear, every time I look at the news I just get filled with this unbridled rage. I want to shake some people until their peanut brains fall out of their skull. There's so much money and power at the top but they won't lift a god damn finger to solve anything except paying for their 60th mega mansion. At the bottom fools are making ridiculous political choices and everyone is trying to drag us back to some sick Christian theocracy. I sometimes feel like some people's organs run off will power alone because surely there is no functioning brain up there.
@@wordforger And 9/11... and Afghanistan... and Iraq... and the 2008 recession... and the 2016 election... and the pandemic... and the eroding of civil liberties...
It's funny, though, as a Millenial, for years the older AND younger generation mocked us for complaining about the world. Then Gen-Z grew up and was like 'oooooh! THIS is what they're complaining about. Shit. We're doomed'
I love most of Gen. Z. I think they have the same nihilism a lot of us born in the early 80’s had from the jump and a lot of younger millennials have developed over time. I think we all want to fix things, despite our why-fucking-botherness. There are people form every generation who get it and get each other. Kids always need to actually get in to thick of it before they realize how fucked things are. Anyway. We’re older…we need to support them when we can and for fuck sake…we need to encourage them to go in to politics, not just vote.
Millenials went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then their GenZ kids followed them. Millenials have seen two recessions, crashes, a pandemic, and the start of our rights being rolled back severely.
Yep. We were born near the end of the Cold War and have watched in horror as it came back with a vengeance. And then they wonder why we aren't having kids.
@@BluetheRaccoon Xennial vet here, too. Got two almost 20 year olds. If they enlist, I'm reenlisting so I can smoke the dog isht out of them for making the same mistake I did, even after they grew up watching what my choice did to me.
I was born in 1969, and I actually when things were "normal," so to speak, before social media and the deep political divide and school shootings. I have to wonder which is worse -- my experience of remembering when things were better and wishing we could go back to that, or Millennials and GenZ who didn't know that and only know a world in which you constantly have to duck and cover. I kind of envy Millennials and GenZ because they roll with the punches better. They don't waste time longing for the good old days when things weren't this crazy. I'm glad I had the childhood I did, but I think it makes me less equipped to handle the insanity of today. Millennials and GenZ deserve some kind of military honors for survival skills.
At the same time, y'all still had to fight for civil and human rights back then. We're still fighting the same social battles today. There's good and bad things from every generation. There are circumstances that are vastly different, but there are also trials and tribulations that are wildly similar, almost identical in structure. We all did our part and we've all suffered, but we are also shaped differently by different social climates and economic periods. Simultaneously, we are affected by the exact same unresolved issues in every facet of the human condition. There was a time when women couldn't have credit cards or bank accounts in their names, and that doesn't necessarily sound like a fair trade-off to the world today. Injustice is injustice. I always said I'd love to travel back in time, but the truth is, as a woman, i realized wouldn't actually want to spend any meaningful amount of time in any period in the past at all.
Eh, Millenials--early and mid--had a hefty chunk of the 90s that looked pretty bright. Of course, that just made it worse when the 2000s hit like a Mack truck. We were ill-prepared for the crappy world we got dropped into as adults and had to figure out how to 'adult' with little help or guidance. Gen Z has it slightly better. Not because the world's any better--far from it--but because they knew what they were getting into from day one. The 'entitlement' Millenials get accused of is simply a desire to have the things they were promised as children instead of the crap sandwich they were handed. Neither they nor Gen Z have patience with 'tradition' when said 'traditions' are the reason said sandwich is crap. They grew up with the vast pool of knowledge of the entirety of human civilization at their fingertips, and learned how to research and pool resources to solve problems from a young age. So it's EXTREMELY frustrating that the people running the show can't do the same.
@@wordforger Well yeah, the Internet happened. The 90's were only "bright" because we were completely ignorant. It wasn't until the rise of social media where you're just getting All the information from everything that everyone realized how much of the 90's optimism was out of complete ignorance.
Another jeweled classic by Titus.... "So far", at least. Great ending line. I apologize to my son's who are actually 2 generations behind me as a late blooming parent. I told them, "Ya, baby boomers as a group have really fucked up here, looking back. But at least we didn't start any crypto-currencies, or did we? ". Add that in to the next rendition of the material, Chris.
I've always loved your humor Chris!! Thank you for finally understanding and making comedy of the Millennial perspective! I will always laugh at your jokes! Born in 1996 and I am SO TIRED. :D My family and I were homeless in Louisiana during hurricane Katrina to top it off! Angry Pursuit of Happiness was my favourite special but now I'm getting ready to watch and enjoy this one. 😂
I know he’s somewhat joking but I do kinda feel gratified seeing someone from the older generation being like “yeah okay you guys sorta need what you have”
I was born in the 80s but I'm technically a millennial and I feel like none of the millennial jokes ever apply to me or people my age. On top of growing up in a poor and abusive household, the one time we scraped up enough to drive 10 hours to universal studios, guess what happened? Nothing too crazy, just planes flying into buildings lol. I remember thinking, "yea. Thats about right". Just walking through Dr Seuss land and finally thinking "wait. Why is everyone running for the exits?" Right before someone screamed "they bombed new york!" As he ran away clutching his child.
'84 here, we're part of first cohort Millennials. We often get grouped with the last cohort Gen X and called X-ennials because we have similar formative experiences.
I've always been a huge fan of Titus. One of the few comedians who can mock something relentlessly, but in a lighthearted way without being mean or cruel.
Im so glad he is still doing comedy because not only did I LOVE his show on Fox but love it when he does his stand up🤣.It's been so Crazy the past few years I even bought a plague survivor pendant,You don't go through hell without picking up a souvenir it's like Disney world but everything is on fire .At this point everyone needs to get a participation trophy because like it or not... you're in for the ride.🤣.
You might not have stopped them, but if nothing else, you spoke up. Without anyone so much as getting snarky about what most boomers were doing to the world, future generations might have been raised completely in the dark, so indoctrinated that they wouldn't have even realized that anything was wrong.
I came across a millennial who admitted he wasn't a fan of participation trophies. He knew that the only reason why he was given one as a child was because some Karen screamed her head off about her precious child being excluded. It felt more like a consolation prize to him than something he earned.
That’s exactly what they were for. “My kid was the best one out there! It’s not their fault the rest of the team sucks!” Nothing makes you feel like more of a loser than getting a trophy made for losers. We were kids, not morons.
My wife is a millennial, she is without a doubt, THE most amazing human I have ever known. If we are to have any hope for the future, it'll be because of millennials and gen z'ers! Cause us boomers/gen x'rs surely screwed things up.
@@hhiippiittyy but you guys made a habit of bashing millennials and gen z still. Also 25 years before the older millennials made it to the vote is a very long time to not get shit done and say it's not your fault
@@betawolfhd It hasn't been my experience that gen x got in the habit of bashing millennials and gen z, but I can't speak to your experience. Secondly, regarding voting power, as a small cohort sandwiched between the boomers and millenials, gen x never really had the capacity to influence politics. Politicians and advertisers, like much of society, went from targeting boomer issues to (pretending to) targeting millenials issues. I think there is a divide in gen x, not being populous enough to effect policy and markets, where the older gen xers are basically boomers, and the younger ones are basically millenials, in their respective group mentalities and experiences.
It's good to see you finally got the point. Welcome to our side of things, my friend! I've loved your comedy and followed it avidly nearly my entire life.
Thank you, Titus. I'm going to save this clip and watch it every da*n time someone from an older generation proudly declares themselves uneducated, computer illiterate, and unconcerned with the future and then demands that I fix their 14-year-old flip phone whilst telling me they'd hire me as their part-time secretary for ten bucks an hour. My dad, who dropped out of college during his first semester, actually told me I could've tried harder. He said this via video chat WHILE I was working full time and earning a 4.0 in an accelerated master's program during a global pandemic. This set is a salve to my ravaged soul. I think I'm going to go fish out that old T-ball trophy and place it on my shelf as a reminder of the halcyon days when effort yielded tangible results.
The best part about participation trophies is that it instilled an intense and paralyzing fear in the Millennials and Gen Z that resulted in a good portion of finding it incapable to do or learn anything new with an ounce of understanding that it will take time for us to learn and grow and become good at a skill or talent or trade. We're so afraid of failure we would rather just not try.
As a millenial who has loved Titus since growing up with screwed up people in the early 2000s, I love this so much. Titus you helped me feel seen and understood when I was 17, and now at almost 40. And you have helped me laugh about it all every step of the fucking way.
I took my wife and mom to see you in Bakersfield a few weeks ago and it was an absolute blast. It's the second show I've gotten to see you live and it was totally worth it. I've been a fan since your TV show and you always deliver. Thank you so much for all the laughs
i lost hope in the world roughly around the great recession. i'd been told there was no value to me unless i went to college, but my parents lost their jobs, almost lost the house, and then i was supposed to be okay taking on 80k in debt as a 17 year old that hadn't even been taught how the fuck to do my taxes.
3:40 real talk. Saw a headline the other day on r/deathbymilenial where they said "the only thing millennials are killing are themselves" and it kind of hit me in the gut.
I'm a millennial and this was a nice shift in tone. It always felt so weird to see the world blame me for what the generations before me did and I swore I would never pass that down to those after. I'm actually proud of Gen Z most of the time cuz it feels like they surpassed us in a lot of ways and just hope they get the chance to make changes a lot of us never were able to.
As 39 year old elder millennial who's freshman year of HS was when Columbine happened. Joined the national guard and went to war in 05 and returned to Hurricane Katrina, got a job, bought a house post recession, my millennial wife being stuck with a bachelors at Starbucks because every employer wants to hire her as an unpaid intern....this bit nailed it. And I laughed. 👏 Bravo
"I survived and didn't kill anybody else, so far." Pretty sure I repeat this to myself every night as I drift away for a few brief hours before the eyes are open again.
I was homeschooled in 2001. I will never forget that day in 2001 when Mom turned on the TV, and told my sister and I to come into the living room. I remember watching the second plane hit the tower. Mom was in the next room, on the phone. I remember Dad coming home, and telling us in a hollow tone that a few of his friends had been IN that tower when it fell.
Entered high school the year after Columbine. Turned 18 right before 9/11. Finished college right as the economy tanked. Bought a home right as the pandemic hit. I never gave a shit about the trophy my parents Gen wanted us to have so they could feel accomplished.
It's always been, something intense happens "you're still safe, grow up." Pandemic happens "you wont be affected, relax" looses 9 friends and 2 family members. 9....11.... on a freaking field trip in nyc the day of and watch it all happen in front of you... "heres a shrink, take these pills you'll be alright!" FUCK NO WE ARE NOT!... I'm tired, I'm broken, I'm exhausted and all I'm told to do is, "keep pushing, you'll be fine..." and no doctors in network to help me through the trauma... oh well I guess...
As the mom of a millennial, I couldn’t agree more. The awful crap our kids have had to go thru is so sad. But it helps to try to make light of it when we can. I get tired of the negative millennial, gen a jokes. These young people have a lot to deal with.
'95 baby raised with an ex-AF father and an accountant mother that made sure to instill in me how much the 2008 housing crisis was not a recession but a cataclysmic event with repercussions that we are still paying for now. Hope may not have been in the cards dealt, but you are goddamn right the disability played out lmao.
I saw Titus live in Austin back in 2011. He's still got it. I also love how he's remembered his material from 11 years ago and able to reflect on it and still have me in stitches.
I've been a fan of his for about 20 years now and he reminds me in many ways of the great George Carlin. This man should run for a national political office so he can make fools of the other politicians on the Capital floor up in theirs faces.
@@tehnemox Thanks Man. I was lucky enough to see George Carlin live in the early 80's. In "94" He spoke to a bunch of us back stage for about a half hour and it was amazing how honest and down to earth of a man he was.
Always remember that the thing about participation trophies is NO ONE ASKED FOR THEM. People with participation trophies were HANDED handed something they didn't want by an adult authority figure who told them it was theirs, and that they should keep it because it was special, and then all the other adults laughed at them just for having it.
Zero Side Effects is now available on Moment House -- watch there for 12 more days, then you will get a download link, so you can own the special!: www.moment.co/christophertituszerosideeffects/christophertituszerosideeffects-christopher-titus-or-zero-side-effects
That’s society for ya.
I'm a 37 year old, combat veteran, millennial. I'm tired of living through all these "once in a life time events". I just wants some peace, quiet and stability. I swear I've fast forwarded to a 60 year old salty man. I need a beer, motrin and some melatonin. Wake me when shit isn't going sideways anymore.
Thank you for your service to our country. My children aren't much younger than you. I was an adult from OK city bombing through to Trump's presidency. And it traumatizing for myself never mind trying to explain the craziness to my children and now grandchildren. So again I thank you.
and you want the neighborhood kids to stay of your damn lawn 😆😆😆
@Geovanni
After Nam I said the same thing about Watergate. I knew it was as bad as it gets. Silly me, I had it easy. I'll hold you a porch rocker and some Jack, you've earned it.
Holy shit are you me? Lol dude same.
I know you don't want to hear thank you for your service. That's not why we did what we did anyway. We don't want glory or attention. We don't need appreciation from strangers. Hell, we weren't even defending 'our country' ten thousand miles away... we were just doing what we were told and watching out for our buddies. I can't tell you that peace and stability is in our future. But time for rest will come... We just won't be awake to enjoy it.
As a middle-millennial (‘88), this is exactly why a lot of millennials I know will passionately defend Gen Z when older generations try to bash them.
We were so sick of getting blamed for killing various industries because we can’t afford anything that as soon the blame started shifting to younger people we got even more pissed.
We we depressed during the Bush admin because we knew things were bad, we’ll be damned if anyone is going after Gen Z on our watch when everything is so sooo much worse.
My personal favorite was millenials are killing the casual dining industry (Applebee's, Fridays chili's etc) like none of us go there coz most of us have worked there...
@@scottymacdewder5229 or are too fucking broke to eat out
Right, and gen alpha?!?
Is that because they will have to start civilization from scratch?
I just stuck with hating the Boomers myself. Turned out to be ahead of the curve on that one.
I WILL still make fun of Millennials for being little Narc's when they were kids. Saw a movie on TV, found out it was PG-13 and then ratted on themselves to their parents, you can't NOT make fun of that.
@@scottymacdewder5229 I wish I had a fraction of this power that some people seem to think millennials have...
Damn, as someone born in '96 all of this really hits home. Dad lost his job in the early 2000s, no health care for anyone in our home, older siblings joined the Navy instead of college, I did neither and went straight to work, and I've already have had a gun pointed to my face before. There was only one thing that didn't match up, WHERE ARE ALL THESE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES THAT I NEVER GOT! Public schools, in the inner city, can't afford prizes for every kid.
I am a Baby Boomer, and I have never mocked a younger person for being younger. I have always been aware that, Vietnam War or not, my generation grew up in a golden time. Anyone with a brain could see that life in America got harder starting in the early 1980's (at the latest), and with only brief exceptions, it has only gotten even harder ever since. (Except for those born into wealth or brilliance. I mean for most people.)
Participation trophies are for extra curriculars like sports and shit. I also was an urban kid, got zero trophies for just being physically present for something. I might (might) have got a pennant for band. I did get a trophy for first place place in the cub-car rally once. But I tied with some other fucker and they only had one. So I had to wait a month before I got it.
@@GR46404 Only because government started becoming too big...to it's exponential form it is today. Far too many vote red or blue, rather than character. Brainwashed.
@@pgaloom Nope. The problem is, the wealthy people and corporations of America bought the Republican Party and set up a very effective hate/propaganda media (Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, Fox News, OAN, etc.) They used this marketing success to run the country for their benefit, and their benefit only. It started during or before the Reagan years.
@@lars573 Yeah, at my K-8 school, the most they did was give paper awards for attendance(which was to keep kids wanting to go to class). But, during my 6th grade MPS funding got cut. So, they cut art, music, and PE, and then wonder why kids don't want to be in school. There was no sports, no clubs, no tutoring, so there was never any extracurriculars for awards to be given. I heard after I went into high school they managed to get PE and art back on a less regular basis.
Best tweet I’ve ever seen said something along the lines of “Why do millennials complain so much? Idk maybe because we watched thousands of people die on live tv in elementary school and shit literally never got better.”
Lmfao truth
@The Cranky Old Fork Ok Boomer.
@The Cranky Old Fork You mean like those cops in Texas who sat there and did nothing while kids were dying?
So you admit to being a couch potato?
No. I just don’t feel the need to defend myself or my generation to a troll in a RUclips comment thread.
Honestly great to see at least one comedian updating their material to reflect our actual reality instead of nonsense about "entitlement" and "avocado toast" that represented a vanishingly small subset of only upper-middle-class millennials 15 years ago. Thanks.
Titus has always been great. Relatable, and he's never been afraid at looking at things and trying to understand them and calling them out.
Avocado toast is one of the worst foods ever... I never understood that craze.
I enjoy his comedy but this is not factual. Some of the things he’s saying didn’t happen during gen z or millennial lifetimes or if they did they were probably not even in preschool yet. Just saying. (FYI I was corrected on the shuttle thing. I misinterpreted because he said then there was another one. I was thinking the ones in the 80s. Not deleting post though because I’ll take my hits on the message and not slither)
@@mitch8020 I'm a millennial (in the right age bracket to have been seeing all those whiny "stop buying avocado toast and killing the golf course industry" articles, even if I wasn't in the right social class to have ever seen an avocado toast in my life) and I remember every event he mentions. Fifth grade during columbine, seventh grade on 9/11 (I watched the second plane hit the towers on live TV). I remember the Columbia explosion. Graduated from high school just in time for the 2008 financial crisis, almost all of my friends moved away to where there were still jobs and I've seen them in real life only occasionally since then. The list goes on.
Gen Z probably doesn't remember a lot of it, no. Most of them (except for the oldest ones) don't remember a world before the PATRIOT act and its associated privacy violations, the normalization of torture under Bush, etc. To say nothing of spending their entire lives watching the world completely drop the ball on global warming/climate change even after everyone was aware of it. Just because they missed some of the earlier ones doesn't mean they haven't also been growing up through hell just like the rest of us, it just doesn't mean they don't get to remember the decade of relative peace (at least in North America) that was the 1990s. I remember before all the things he mentions, when our biggest concerns were things like pollution, recycling, and the hole in the ozone layer. I was going to mention the genocide in Kosovo (which was the first "really awful thing happening somewhere in the world" that I kept hearing about as a kid), but that occurred at basically around the same time as Columbine.
@@mitch8020 Again, he was talking about the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating, killing everyone on board, which happened in 2003. That's why he mentions it between 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis (and why this one is the space shuttle exploding "again" - he wouldn't have seen the previous one but he would have known this was the second time it happened. I know I did.)
I wasn't alive for the *Challenger* disaster, but there are millennials older than me (the ones who had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in grade school, instead of Power Rangers and Pokemon) who would have been alive and old enough to remember it (Challenger exploded the year before TMNT started airing). The age ranges for this particular bit don't really line up with the oldest millennials who had their childhood in the 80s, though.
I've got no beef with any previous generations, aside from the specific people who couldn't stop whining about how Millennials were ruining everything by not being able to afford fancy things after the economy was destroyed and we had no money (and truckloads of college debt on top). My parents are blue-collar baby boomers who don't fit the stereotype for their generation either. As for you guys in Gen X, as far as I understand you grew up under the understanding that the world might end in nuclear hellfire pretty much any day. We've all been through shit, some people just forget about it after they got older and more comfortable (like those among the aforementioned boomers who *do* fit the "screw you, got mine" stereotype for that generation).
I never understood boomers/gen x making fun of us or calling us weak. Like, you guys raised us. You gave us the participation trophy lol
The trophies were to shut our unhinged parents up. “My kid did the best out there! It isn’t their fault the rest of the team are a bunch of losers!” ((Here’s a preemptive trophy))…
@@jesscastro4183 lol, exactly.
I was parent to my young kids during the participation trophy era. I was so pissed about that being a thing. For the record, I don't down talk at millenials, gen z etc. if there's a generational failing, the fault lies with the parents and mentors. Not the captive audience.
We sure as sh*t didn't helicopter ourselves
I’m a boomer and my fellow boomers sound like they are the get off my lawn dude…
I was born in '79 (Gen-X) and grew up in the 80's too. I've often had conversations with my "Conservative" Father-in-law about this stuff. I did the same thing Titus did in this video. I listed ALL of the crap we've been through since we were born, and I added a few things cause I'm a little older (like the massive college debt they advised us to take on despite there not being enough jobs to accommodate the massive amount of new graduates *sigh*), but the point is the same.
It's been going bad for a long time, and they've had every opportunity to fix it for the last 40-50 years, and they just hunkered down and said, "I think we'll just ride this out until we're dead", instead of finding solutions.
We were raised to be kind to people. To always see the best in people, regardless of circumstance, to help people if you can. But now that we're grown, we see things for what they are, and where the problems lie, and we present solutions sourced from the entire world (like Healthcare for all, or proper gun regulations, consumer protection from price gouging, etc etc). For this, the Boomers brand us "Socialist" and begin to hurl insults and call us traitors, and refuse to hear any of it. Drives me insane.
We turned out like they hoped we would, and they don't like it.
But alas, it seems the Boomer generation has some trouble accepting the blame for the giant turd sandwich they served us and told us to take a bite...
Like that line in Cold Mountain, "They created the weather and stand in the rain saying, holy sh!t it's raining!".
Facts!
Yep the Boomer's climbed the ladder that was left for them and pulled it up behind them. But it's our fault.
As someone who was born in '79 myself (Nov 29th) I literally grew up in the 80's, so I agree with everything you've said. I remember being in school during the OKC Bombing, and being horrified that another human could do that. If you had told me it was only going to get worse I would've told you that you were nuts, that there would be no way people would stand for that. Turns out _I_ would've been nuts, as stand for it we did and continue to do.
@@ChakatStripedfur we also promote it by doing absolutely nothing to stop it from happening while at the same time making it easier to get ahold of legal guns to do worse. It really is an odd thing to be able to both do nothing at all AND make things worse at the same time, seems impossible but here we are.
I'm the same age, and you're spittin out pure truth!
Haven't watched this special yet so as a millennial I was expecting to be told "grow up or grow thicker skin", I definitely wasn't expecting this apology that grammatically was NOT an apology, but I can read between the lines😅😅😅
That was a pretty good apology.
Remember. Us Boomers had to put up with all that,.. And You Guys Too 😂😳😏🖖
Thank you for your... participation. 😁
Same
- Hey, is that a South Park ref, or is that really your name?
He once got whitey to apologize for racism. It was also half a threat, but it’s the thought that counts.
As a millennial: sincerely THANK YOU. Some of us are legit privileged and entitled, but really, a lot of us are just disillusioned, *deeply* concerned, and doing our best.
😅😂🤣😭😑
Thank you for acknowledging that there are legit privileged and entitled millennials out there.
@@curious1053 Let's be honest though, EVERY generation has deeply privileged and entitled members. I know plenty of horribly entitled boomers and xers.
You are gorgeous
I do absolutely agree with you
As an old millenial, the delivery of that "..so far." sums up my sentiments from primary school onwards.
It reminds me of the meme, "Welp, I'm glad 2016 is over...can't get any worse than that..." And every year it seems to go to shit over the last one.
@@jamjox9922 Too true that, my friend.
"2017 was the worst year ev.."
Every consecutive year: "Hold my beer, meth, baby, and divorce papers."
2016 is basically human Ragnarok.
Old lady millennial here and yeah, I constantly tell my husband, when our generation finally does snap, everyone is fucked…cuz we’ve all just about had it.
As a millennial born in 1985, thank you. With all these “once in a lifetime”events happening at such a young age, I really wonder what my generation will be like when we actually are old. In 50 years, will my generation just be over everything while collecting everything we couldn’t get when we were kids?
So you think that mankind is going to survive the next 50 years? Seriously?!?
I doubt it. As a fellow millennial from '92 I think it's accomplishment every new year we see.
And if society, our planet, and us come to see our 50-60s?
We're all going to be working, still struggling over all, and unless dead relatives graced you with property. Still paying rent if you're lucky enough to not die from the stress. Or the newest cataclysmic weather event bound to end us all.
Weeeeee. Golden years.
My fat ass is a decade older than you. The shit I collect that I couldn't get as a kid are toys. The things y'all are gonna collect that you couldn't get as a kid are education, safety, and peace. Honestly, as a tail-end Gen-Xer, y'all not only deserve a little of that shit, you can actually make it happen. …in spite of my generation having been dead inside since we were 10 and realized our parents cared more about money than us.
Good news... the human race will be gone in 50 years.
I was born 85 also and I must say we are definitely traumatized me especially being from Chicago growing up in one of the most violent periods in Chicago history
I’m about to turn 33 years old and have lost more friends to gun violence on our soil than I have to the war on terror. I’ve picked myself up by my bootstraps more times than I can count all while living through more “once in a lifetime” events than I care to count. Millennials have carved out positive moments for our lives our entire existence.
All I wanna do is work a little, have some peace and quiet, see some of the world, relax and watch the news and be bored for once! I don’t think that’s asking for so much.
A Russian at the collapse of the soviet union said 'we're tired of living through an "historic moment", we just want to wear blue jeans and drink coca-cola' That always stuck with me.
I'm 37 and grew up in 5 cities in 3 states. Half the people I grew up with didn't make it to 30.
Same dude. I'm 32. I just want some peace and quiet.
@@InternetMameluq q to look y to l to look up l UTI op l p lol e it
How dare you ask for the world. The audacity hmph
As a millennial born in 1995, thank you. It's nice to see someone try to understand our struggles. I work two full-time jobs to try and survive. You made me laugh so hard, I cried!
as a boomer .. I had 3 jobs trying to make my way through school payments .. without bitching about a previous generation not paying my way .. so no .. just deal with life .. like most of us did .. eeeeeeehhhh
@@brianburgess3231 where did I bitch about the previous gens npt paying my way?
I actually can't believe he apologized to our generation figured it was going to be a grow thicker skin and just do it life goes on
I supposed at least one well-known existing stand-up comedian had to do it. It’s great, but it’s an accident.
I was born in 82 and I'm sitting over here crying from laughing. We were the generation that went from Monopoly to Mario Brothers to "College is your future!" to "College LOANS are your future!" and "Everyone coughs, it's okay, the air pollution will get better!" to "Everyone coughs, WE'RE GONNA DIE!" (and watched friends do just that). Bless you for saying what we've been saying for years.
My oldest son wanted to be an astronaut and as we live in Central Florida can see it go up. His classroom was outside when the Challenger blew up and when he come home that day he told me he did not want to be an astronaut anymore. He was 9 at the time it blew up.
I got to watch it blow up live on TV. I was 8.
Was watching it on TV when I was in 3rd grade....felt like a part of me died that day.
😔😧
I was 10, and I didn't see it happen, but we spent a good portion of the next few days talking about people selling debris and body parts online. Our teacher was involved in the discussion. It's so surreal looking back on it.
They rolled a TV into my kindergarten classroom so we could watch it live.
Sometimes, hearing "hey, I get it" like this is refreshing. At least someone looked at our upbringing and went "If participation trophies mean you won't murder the world, by all means!" 🤣🤣
We hear you.😘
I am so glad Titus found a way to be funny about this.
The entire concept of the participation trophy was forced on millennials, and at the end of the day, professional athletes TOTALLY get participation trophies called salaries. Football would be really different if the losing team didn't get paid that week. It amazes me that the phrase is still somehow a shorthand for the things millennials do, when it's clearly something boomers do. A lot of them wear Woodstock like a participation trophy, and they didn't even participate.
For as long as there have been gameshows there have been, "consolation prizes," given to the losers.
At a track meet I once got an ORANGE ribbon that said, "6th PLACE," and I can definitively tell you that a ribbon like that doesn't feel like a consolation prize. It felt like a physical reminder of how slow I am. It hurt. It was as if they had used all the child psychology developed over the previous hundred years to figure out a way to give people lifelong self confidence issues.
Do the older generations not realize what Gen Z is doing on TikTok? They aren't narcissistic (most influencers are, but that's pretty much always been true) they are forming a protective mask that lets them dance like idiots in public. It's a way to make sure they have the strength they need so they can do what has to be done when the time comes, and the time IS coming. They spent enough time learning about the ways brains and minds can be fucked up, that they have accurate names for things that the previous generations had to deal with but never knew how to discuss.
AND there are entirely new issues. If you've never had an army of South Korean social media accounts randomly flood you with requests for you to kill yourself, and photos of your front door... It's a lot. You gotta be ready to tell the crowd that they are nothing to you. You need to be able to put on a fictional confidence and grandiosity so the crowd gets bored and moves on to another target. And you gotta be ready for someone to take it too far and break into your home. You gotta be flexible and quick. Unpredictable.
Gen Z is in the process of perfecting a form of self defense that is basically the digital equivalent of the Drunken Master, and it's remarkably effective.
I'm confused as to what you think Gen z is preparing for exactly, and how they are preparing for it online? I'm a little older, so this tik tok stuff isn't something native to me, ik it's a social media platform, but what are the Gen z kids doing on it to "prepare" for the thing you anticipate happening?
@@davidx.1504 It's like how 50's housewives were expected to raise kids and take care of the house and look beautiful with a smile: You're not actually happy all the time, it's just socially unacceptable not to be, and can be used as a shield to boot.
🏆stop you're whining and take the trophy...Oh I figured it out!
dude you just said a whole lotta nuthin'
@@davidx.1504 man, we're preparing for the euphemistic "end of the world." political tensions are rising, hate-motivated actions on local and federal levels are way up, and there's about 7 years until we reach a "point of no return" where a world-scale climate disaster is guaranteed. I hear a lot of arguments from older people, stuff like "we had to worry about nukes getting dropped on the school" "we had to worry about war" and I understand that, but that's political science. that's extrapolation on what COULD happen. now we're talking about climate science, the time-frame for action is strict and it is set in stone. that's what we're preparing for. action is needed.
Not to mention- Millennials & Gen Z haven’t been giving themselves “participation trophies” or “helicopter parents”. Those were the choices of Boomers & Gen X. (Also, I’m Gen X & we got some “participation trophies”, too & I’m advocating for that parenting style, but after that list of horrors, it should be clearer that the “helicopter parents” came about for a reason. Titus didn’t even mention “Climate Change” & it’s kids: “increased extreme weather patterns” or “water shortages”. 🥵
Don't worry about climate change. A bunch of old people (who won't have to deal with the consequences) on the "Supreme" Court said everything will be fine if we just let the coal burn free. 🔥
I've never understood why people cared about "participation trophies". My kids' coaches never came out and said anything about everyone being winners. We knew when we lost games. The trophies were a way of saying "hey... we're proud of you and the effort you put in. And even though you lost, we hope you'll come back and try even harder next year".
Even semj professional athletes, Olympians, etc that don't win, get stuff to incentivize them to participate and do better. People respond better to positive reinforcement.
.. and the list goes on. One correction, 40K? The state school I work for is 22K a year and good luck finishing in 4 years.
I'm 51 and Gen X. I never got participation trophies. We had to work our asses off for our trophies. We had to win.
@@NiamhCullen Boomers literally invented participation trophies, though, and Gen X was the first generation to get them.
Of course, they started in the Special Olympics, and the reason boomers & Gen X mock the concept so much is because of the years-old association with disabled people... and those generations hate the disabled so much that they cut funding for the VA & all resources used by people with disabilities, and started mocking kids by using "retarded" as a slur..
I appreciate a lot of this, but with one little gripe; it's the same problem I've had with every single joke/complaint about participation trophies. NONE OF US ASKED FOR THEM 🤣
Geez, I practically have trauma from the overwhelming paradox of trying to logic-out "Man, kids these days and their 'participation trophies'..." -says a member of the same generation that started handing them out.
Well typed. Very, VERY well typed.
Parents that couldn't stand the fact that their precious little angel didn't win anything. So they forced it on all of us. We know they were meaningless. Useless monuments to mediocrity that were forced on us. I'm part of the tail end of gen X and they did it to us too.
@@thomasfrazer8934 40 years old here, and I was just at the beginning of that. Made me sick then and makes me sick now.
I was born in 2001. To me, a participation trophy always felt like solid proof that you lost.
You lost, now you either have to throw away a trophy or display how much of a loser you are.
Yep, was going to say that too. Millennials never asked for the participation trophies. They never wanted them. They also didn't want the helicopter parents controlling everything they did and not letting them have any freedom. Those were things inflicted upon Millennials, not something they demanded and were looking for.
I was born in 87'.
I was 11, turning 12 when Columbine happened.
I was 13, turning 14, in my first week of HS when 9/11 happened. I grew up an hour from New York City. I know people who lost a parent, uncle, aunt, older siblings or cousins, and my best friend's dad was a first responder who we didn't hear from for over a week. Terrified he was dead. (He's okay, and lucky. Didn't end up sick)
Got detention in 10th grade because a few dozen of us wanted to go join the anti-afgan war protest in the city. Also CONSTANTLY got in trouble for refusing to stand for the pledge because I knew the invasion wasn't about freedom, it was oil.
My mom was chronically unemployed in the early 2000s, and so most of HS was just generally fucking stressful.
I rolled out of college JUST IN TIME for the 2008 economic collapse. Took me 6 years to finally get a job in my field and start making not $8/hr.. my credit is fuuuucked.
I was in my mid 20s, wrapping Xmas gifts with my ex partner when the news of Sandy Hook broke.
It's just been one "once in a life time event" after another since I was 11. I'm tired 😩
And people wonder why I don't want to have kids? 🤣
Same here for so many of those. Born in 86. Watched 9/11 happen live on the news in my 9th grade computer class, got out of the Navy in 2008 right at the collapse, couldn't find a job for a few years and had to live with my parents who gave me no end of shit for not being able to find one, absolutely despised the first couple I did get before landing my current one of 8 years now, live in Orlando and my commute took me past Pulse every day including the day of the shooting, Not to mention we made it through Y2K, 2012 and every damn major event since the turn of the millennium. Worse we're old enough to remember how great it was back in the 90's, having one of the best decades for being a kid only for everything to go to shit right afterwards.
Yep, less and less millennials having kids, cause we've had to live through some of the worst events in American history all while we're being screwed by the system that our parents ruined so we couldn't benefit the same ways they did.
Honestly, I think everyone deserves a fuckin trophy for getting through everything since 2016, this planet got fucking WEIRD MAN!!
Oh my God yes, this... really this!!!! 👆
Well, buckle up, 'cause it's getting weirder, and definitely enough to earn a few more trophies.
We shouldn't give the trophies to the people who caused or helped cause the issues that others have to deal with, so not everybody deserves the trophies. Not to mention the people who profited off those tragedies.
@@lauraholzler1417 a
@@KumaChrisVT Literally everyone whose ever gotten a participation trophy from their insecure ass parents who couldn't handle the idea that their kid might not be Good at something isn't even old enough to hold political office in most of the US.
I don't think the people who were being given these trophies ever really had a chance to Be a problem.
As a millennial I genuinely appreciate the Acknowledgement of our situation.
I never understand why people need to trash on their own kids and still have zero reflection on the fact that they raised them.
Just be proud of your kids and the next generation. All this does is divide us and make them bitter towards us. The kids in school right now are the ones that have to clean up our mess of a world. Lets give them the tools to do it.
Love this! Thank you.
the only other option is to blame themselves, and you know they aint doing that.
@@ryanweible9090 Blame them for what though? Kids are just being kids. the only difference between a Gen X/Millenial and the next generations is that all our stupid shit was done without camera phones and social media... but we all did the same crap, and much more because of anonymity. So did our parents at one point too.
The other stuff they blame them for, such as the current state of things, they had no influence on anyways. It's ridiculous.
My kid just told me he took out the garbage and when I checked he just left it outside the dumpster next to the pile if recycling he spilled all over the ground. He said it was "gonna take too long" to clean up and was an "accident". I told him that it is going to take as long as it takes and it needs to be done right or it becomes a worse problem for everyone. He was pissed and wined the whole time, but it got done. Kids need helicopters sometimes, just a breeze in the right direction, not puppetmastering so much.
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates
I remember when I was 12, Neverlution dropped. There was a one-off joke about modern kids getting participation trophies. I remember it bc it was the first time I thought something along the lines of "We didn't ask for them, your generation forced us to take them." Very funny to see that realization boomerang hitting Titus now too
Forced us to take them, then put them on display so we had to look at them every day.
My mom passed when I was really young. I've fought and survived abusive relationships by my own parents. And now instead of being able to enjoy the freedoms I grew up with and potentially consider starting a family...I"m being told I'm morally reprehensible just because I'm a female, that despite my education and lived experiences, I am too morally defunct to be relied on to be left to my own devices. You have any idea how damaging it is to overcome one circumstance of abuse just to thrust into another one? The rage is real, and there is no trust.
One of the few times I saw my moms husband care about me he was watching the news and started crying. He was part of the silent generation. He started telling me that he's sorry for the world. That his generation and my moms (boomer II) fucked this place up and have made it a place he couldn't have survived in as a young adult. He beat the shit out of me, blew smoke in my face till I puked and made me eat the throw up, he broke my nose for a C on my report card, him and my mom would leave for weeks at a time leaving me and my sister to fend for ourselves (I was like 4 when that started). I didn't know how to handle that conversation and walked out of the room. After talking about it to a friend of mine he was able to put it into a specific perspective that scared the shit out of me. If someone that treated me the way he did felt compassion over the way society for my generation was going, its already so far gone that there's no hope of making it good enough for everyone to live a decent life based on what were told to expect. Just glad I learned to dodge when the shit hits the fan.
Wtf. Wtf. Holy shit
29 year old millennial here, 3 years away from gen Z, quite frankly I'm surprised I'm able to smile at all. It took a lot to pull myself from depression and hopelessness. The country isn't getting better either. Doing my best to live life while everything crumbles.
This literally made me cry!!!! I have three millennial children, and they have been through SOOOOOOO much!!!!!
We really didn't have a chance.
@@therealivydawg fr, I consider myself incredibly lucky to be able to live alone in my own apartment and I still live in fear of going back to how things were before I could so that.
cry and laugh right?
i still feel for them for the not seeing their friends during the pandemic. i didnt see my best friend for a little over a week because he got sick in the 4th grade and i was RAGED. imagine not being able to hang for a full year or you might kill grandma? i cannot even imagine what he kids are going to turn out like. and its just that, the fact that they have to dodge school shootings and the world is getting microwaved so that old guys can get returns on their shell oil investments...i dont blame young people for being pissed.
Wish you were my mom who understands 😔......
I'm glad some comedian addressed this. It gets exhausting to see a group I fall under get constantly bashed and generalized, overlooking what things brought us to this place.
I agree it's easy for boomers and gen x to shift blame for the fall of America on to millennials & Gen z because they don't wanna take responsibility for the mess America's in I guess it hurts them too much....so if that's the case then who are the real SNOWFLAKES because it ain't us
This is deeply appreciated; thank you, and it's cool, bro. Because I know you from your TV show, where I saw a dysfunctional and traumatized family care for each other. And that shit helped me out because I instinctively knew it was genuine.
As a borderline Zilennial who has received at least one participation trophy, I took no joy from it. From the moment I was handed the damn thing, I was fully aware that it had no real meaning. Its only function was to remind me that there was a real trophy out there that I had not received. Later on I came to the conclusion that the real trophy was equally meaningless, so I didn't feel as bad about underachieving. Kinda fucked up my sense of progression in a lot of disciplines.
I ignored the purpose of participation trophies. I played soccer for fun. I was probably competitive back then, but I definitely liked the fun. I agree that even the real trophies suck. Why are they all always plastic? How is that to be held with worth, 1st place or not? Well anyways my mom had me keep all the trophies and when I moved out I tossed em them.
Fellow zillennial
Honestly, those trophies were for our parents more than us. I don't know a single child they ever wanted one.
As someone who has been going through a streak of finding new material from comedians I watched when I was like 13 and realizing they all do the same cringy "sorry to trigger u, snowflake" comedy, This was a pleasant and welcome surprise. Can't wait to watch the rest of the special.
As a Gen 'X'er who used the internet for the first time when I was 19, I can't imagine what it must be like dealing with cyber bullying and social media pressure and status. I can say things like "Back in the day we had to go to the library" all I want, but at the end of the day, we had it kind of easy. It wasn't better times, but it was definitely simpler times back then
Yea you are right I cant imagine what would be like if every single little mistake I did was on social media forever, I remember a kid who got caught eating his macaroni art in first grade and then his Mom on her mommy blog, talks about it basically saying yea I dont think he is too bright. And then years later in Highschool some ahole finds it and repost it everywhere to make fun of him.
@@gou0630 In grade 11, during final exams, they had hundreds of students at once in the gym doing their exams and I got high on some bad weed the night before and I was deathly sick the morning of exams. I went in all clammy and pail, shaking and begging to do my exam at a later date, but the teacher was like "tough it out. Sit down". Anyway, I projectile vomited on my crush, sitting next to me, in front of 300 students and then all over myself before crying and running to the bathroom...this was before cell phones were a thing...THANK THE GODS
I'm an early Millennial and I didn't use the internet until my age-15 year. Even pre-internet, I still had to deal with bullying. I can't imagine what being a victim of cyberbullying while being in school is like, though.
Same boat here. I used the internet for the first time when I went to college, fall of '95, and it was a wild place then but nothing like the non-stop pressure cooker kids and young adults have to live with now. I couldn't imagine being in school, being bullied, and not even being able to escape by going home. Not to say it's okay, but I can understand why some kids decide to pick up a gun.
@@marcus813 So you must be a really early millemnial Like born in 80-81 if you didn't use the internet until you were 15 because by the time I grduated from HS in 1995 the internet had become mandatory in schools nationwide.
I'm an older millennial (1981) who went to high school when Columbine happened, then enlisted in the Army before 9/11. Deployed 4 times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. I've definitely spent the last 6 years asking that very question in a very loud and frustrated tone.
My wife and I love your shows, and hope to go see you live the next time you're near Indianapolis. Love is Evol is our favorite.
I never served, but I was a freshman in college when I watched the towers go down on Television. My college was 25% ROTC and as an engineer I can remember so many college classmates going to spend a year between Junior and Senior year in Afghanistan or Iraq. Not all of them came back. This country and our parents have failed us all, but you veterans most of all.
It's amazing how a few years difference makes among millennials... Before, in, or after HS and 9/11... early jobs in the recession...
Student debt becoming a guarantee instead of a guaranteed job...
Reservist being deployed...
What a ride...
I remember going into a recruitment office in 1999 and getting refused because I have asthma. In 2001 they called me back asking me if I would be willing to waive my medical exemption, and offered me a cash bonus if I would sign-up. I figured that if I wasn't good enough for a peacetime military, probably not a great idea to go into a shooting war.
As a Gen Z man, it's precious to me how we're called the generation of "me", when all we want is a future for our future kids, y'know, something YOU OBVIOUSLY CARE ABOUT, BOOMERS?!
As a Millennial man... we got the EXACT SAME SHIT from the Boomers.
The “me generation” is a label everyone gets. Boomers were even called that in 70s
I'm not going to lie... if I were a Gen Z'er, no way in hell would I have kids. I mean, I already don't, but that's because my family's a cesspool genetically speaking. But a kid now is scary business.
@@mage1439 I am a gen Zer, and the ONLY reason I'm considering having kids is that I know that stupid people will have kids if we don't, and given the direction of pressure on educators, I question how well our kids will be told about the world.
@@Mitchthemysteryman That's always the other side of things. Stupid people think nothing of having 6-7 kids, even now, while more and more smart couples have one if any. So for you to choose to have kids, I can only salute your guts.
I, a 36-year old millennial, have seen this already in real-time, with my friend's small children having to grow up & develop in a post-pandemic world. Their youngest is struggling with behavioral issues, especially when around other children, which is a direct result of not being exposed to other kids while in their early-formative years. Their eldest (8-years old) has already shown early signs of severe clinical depression & anxiety. I've also heard many similar stories from other parents.
These kids will not know of a world that isn't infectious, or isolating in ways previous generations never knew. They will not know of a world where your every movement isn't in some way tracked, with that data being sold to whomever. They will not know of a un-globalized world, society & culture free from the pervasiveness of consumption & capitalism.
The older generations get so preoccupied with proving they built the perfect world, without taking an honest appraisal of what that actually means. Ironically, they were the generation that told us to "mind our own business" & "keep our hands to ourselves", when they have done everything but. I used to think it was merely a waiting game, but that was nearly-20 years ago. The truth is, the hammer is going to be striking very soon, some might say it already has, and who it comes down upon depends on every one of us to realize what's actually important.
Some things should be allowed to rot in the deepest grave we can dig.
You know who the hammer will not come down on? The people with money and power... everyone else: too bad for you is what they say.
I was ready for some eye rolling and got an apology instead! Thank you for finally understanding our plight. Now could the country just stop going out of control?? It's like we went zero to sixty and the country no longer makes sense
Thank the left who removed God from schools, removed American and Christian values and are always working to destroy the family. One thing the shooters have in common is coming from broken homes. None of them were in Church on Sunday with their community and shooting up their school on Monday. Great job lefties.
Really?! Try living your teenage years wondering when you will receive the letter that is your invitation to join your friends in the tropical paradise known as Vietnam to make new friends called Victor Charley. Or be gunned down by your next door neighbor--who joined the Natioal Guard to avoid the tropical paradise known as, Vietnam--3:54 at Columbia State, Jacksonville State or Kent State because you were protesting the invitation to join your other friends in that jungle paradise. Or maybe you would like one of those 39000 crosses they gave to boys sent home in boxes from Pyong Yang from 1950-53 or one of those boxes from Luzon, the Coral Sea, Normandy...from December 7, 1941 to August 6, 1945............
Shall I go on? The most to die in a school mass murder was in the late 1920s when 79 were killed by an explosion, or you could've woke up with me that early Sunday morning in the fall of 1958 to the sounds of dynamite blowing up the HS--1 of 3--in Anderson Co TN, County seat, Clinton, because 3 white men didn't like the fact that Eisenhower forced integration. (Let me tell you, Civil rights was a fun time) they blew up my mom's place of employment.
Or you could've got up at 4am with my dad on that W TN farm milked your dad's cow then walked to the farm where you were promised to work 16hrs/day, 6 days/wk for a whole $1.50/96 hrs that your dad collected at the end of the week. Do that at the age of 12 like he did during the depression in 1933 because his dad lost their farm because of medical bills for his mom...well, maybe you get it. I don't know. Life has gotten harder and each generation does less and less. We didn't have ZOLOFT to make it easier. We had cotton to pick, corn to cultivate, beans to chop. Hundreds of thousands of men died between the years 1861-65 and 1941-45. Tens of thousands died between the years 1950-53 and 1964-1975. A little over 8000 died from 2001- 2021. I like Titus and he told it like it is, but don't you go thinking you had it bad. And pretty soon your kids will watch AI do everything as they sit there playing on their phones.
@@ronaldharding3927 every generation has a problem and a set of circumstances it has to overcome. Yes I'm a millennial but my Dad was older when I was born, he was a child of the Great Depression, a secondary school student during WWii and he served his country in the Korean War. So I learned from him and I listened to his stories. So when I say the struggle is real and I'm afraid for my country its because I learned the best of this country from someone who lived it. I see everything he believed in and worked for being stripped away.
@@lizgreer6888 look, l worked for a $1.25/hr, $50/ wk at my first job. I was 12 yrs old. I've worked at 3 jobs at a time to get my undergrad and graduate degrees. I receive more in SS now than I have ever made at any one job except for 3 years of my life. It's really easy to complain, but my dad had it harder any day of his short life than I did any year of my 70 yrs. It's done nothing but get easier over my life. Daddy got $21/mo to risk his life jumping out of a DC7. My older son makes more than he did in a year in the ARMY in 2 days on the weekend in active naval reserves. My younger son makes more in a year as a second class Petty Officer than my dad would've made in twenty. Point being it ain't any harder. For me it's been much easier. There wasn't but one man in the world before the late 1960s who was a billionaire, J Rockefeller, and now there's a new one every minute it seems. So, the moral is we all complain about how bad we have it, but we don't even know what bad is.
I was born on 99 so I literally don't know what a post 911 world is. My parents constantly told me the world was going to end and revelations was just around the corner so I always felt there was no point to do anything when I was born in the end times. I was raised to believe there was nothing I could do and that the end of the world was some kind of good fate. I never formed or maintained relationships and developed depression at an early age, because every time I wanted to do something id hear my parents voices in my head and see all the shit going on in the world and conclude logically that there was no point. I always find it confusing how boomers are always extremely happy and proud of how they failed to raise their children and gave them only fear as an inheritance, I mean fuck we wont even get social security they're literally leaving us a dying planet and blaming us for it. If you can step back and see all that and not laugh your ass off then you're a better man than me.
I cry cause I forgot how to laugh
I was born in -91 you didn't miss much just bunch of news about The middle east.
Are your parents maybe Jehovah's Witnesses? Because I grew up around (and still deal with) people who are convinced the world is going to end any day now. It's depressing.
The 90's were a lot like old people imagine the 1950's were when you look at all the data on that decade (America was the only super power, we won the cold war, china wasn't powerful yet, crime dropped to historic lows, incomes went up for just about every demographic, the internet started being used by the masses, massive investment in new Schools and education)
No time is ever "perfect" but things were relatively pretty "sweet". I'm in my mid 30's and saw around 2009 that fate gave us older millennials an awesome childhood in exchange for a difficult adulthood and probably elder years.
And he didnt even touch upon the worst part of it all, climate change.
I gotta tell you its really motivating being told by those generations older than you that you have to work towards your future, when they personally made sure that this future will at best contain about 10 years where the world might not be completely on fire.
Don't worry, well all die of dehydration in 7
Considering just how many wildfires lit up recently , sadly this is pretty literal. Though maybe the rising seas can extinguish all the forest fires! Right? Right?! Still fucked but would we rather all burn alive or drown in our sleep?
Yup. Old enough to realize what was happening on 9/11. Graduated high school in 2008. Couldn’t afford college during a recession. Terrible job market. Never going to be able to own a house. Missed that sweet spot after us when teenagers were making thousands as influencers and app developers, and also that sweet spot before us where traditional entry level jobs and affordable houses still existed. Told to be unpaid interns. Told to go into lifelong debt for a degree. Too young to vote on climate change, but old enough to feel the effects. Going to have to pick up the bill for failing infrastructure. Then a pandemic that stunted our possible progress, and now very likely a second recession. Let us have our emotional support dogs lol
I think recession will be putting it lightly. This will be a global event. It will change the world order.
I want a dog😥
Extremely valid points!!!! But please try not to be offended by EVERYTHING WHEN YOU DON’T USUALLY NEED TO BE!!!!!!
@@jimmybonez8928 honestly, living through all that has disillusioned us. It’s not so much being offended, as it is “we’re sick of your shit.”
@@damdamfino with all due respect, what do you mean by MY SHIT???!!! I’m on your side here, man. Please don’t try to lay the blame all on me. I’m part of the same struggle that’s going up against the corporate overlord that runs this world who are grinding us down slowly to the grave. I understand all the frustrations, but all due respect you can’t just lay ALL the blame to older generations. Don’t get me wrong, Boomers and the Corporate Elite(politicians,corporations,the wealthy,selfish older people) are the primary cause of all our suffering. Because there really aren’t ALL these enemies that younger people are RAILING against, it’s basically one. The ones on top who control everything. However I don’t want to give you the impression that I’m against the younger generation, simpley over generalizing here. And if you mean no serious offense then I apologize.
As an older millennial (84), Columbine and 9/11 were the separator between childhood and adulthood for us. It's an understatement to say our adulthood has been a literal series of unfortunate events, one right after the other, and it's hard to have hope for a future that seems like it's dwindling fast. I was a freshman in high school when Columbine happened, a time when school shootings were rare -my high school got our first bomb threat in the same week; as for 9/11, I was in my senior year in first period when we saw the 2nd tower get hit live. 9 months later many of my classmates were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. I was fortunate to graduate college and get a job just before the recession hit, and between the rise of fascism, climate change, covid, icepocalypse, inflation, and my rights being stripped away on a daily basis, I'm over it. I still laugh at my boomer mom when she suggests I could afford a house on my educator's salary if I "just worked a little harder", not realizing that most of the homes in my area now start out at 350k. I can't speak for other millennials, but I just want to travel, afford a house, keep my job long enough to retire and hope like hell Social Security still exists by the time I'm eligible (assuming I'm even eligible at all by then).
And honestly, the participation trophy was never about us - those were for the upset Gen X and boomer parents worried we couldn't recognize how "special" their precious child is, no matter how mediocre or terrible they actually were. We didn't want some stupid trophy, we just wanted pizza.
'85 but timing largely lined up the same, I went to a local university where kids were coming back missing limbs but getting what they could from the GI bill. I grew up in a crappy area so gunshots were normal, more than once saw the cops chase someone through my high school for truancy or illegal substances (and a machete once), but somehow even in the messed up area I was in never had a mass casualty event. Also got locked in the walk in refrigerator during a lock down one time, which was interesting.
Anyway, I doubt SS will still exist, assuming the age isn't bumped into the 80s or 90s by the time I'm old enough, assuming the world still exists when I'm old enough, and already being lucky enough to have a career but knowing I started at such a low rung I have actually received a delta salary adjustment to bring my pay up closer to a new hire's rate after being there for almost a decade (again, thankful for the job, and the raise, but wtf), seems I will only ever be trying to catch up rather than actually make progress, and I'm not sure how that doesn't break people right out the gate
As an elder-millennial (81), I had hope, genuine hope about the future. Over the years since the dot-com burst and 9/11, I do not smile anymore. Everything I have worked towards was either made redundant or the milestone for acheivement moved so far away that I would have to work another century to get. So I did what Americans still are restricted from doing, I moved abroad and became an immigrant. Worked in dirty corrupt 3rd world countries for money and sold my dignity to climb up the ladder of globalization networking and academic recognition. Finally I have a stable low-income salary (30k/yr) in a Scandinavian nation trying to deal with my PTSD of both being an ethnic minority and American citizen.
I'm Gen Z, and I remember the teachers and faculty sitting us all down during 1st grade in the library reading room, which had a projector. They showed us footage of 9/11, and then told us it was our job to stop terrorism and save the world when we grow up...WE WERE 6. (Also just A LOT of casual racism and nationalistic American stuff in those statements and how they wanted us to "save" the world.) And, this was the age group that was born just after 9/11.
Add on top of that active shooter drills, climate crisis news (which many adults seem to think will "work out" despite doing nothing or blaming consumers), combined with Trump era politics, late-stage capitalism, realizing the US is Imperialist and ruining the middle-east and southern hemisphere for money and materials while also squandering its own people, COVID for fucks sake, and then ALL OF THE social shit like queer-phobia, sexism, ableism.
So glad I have therapy...and this skit was good.
And, to all adults out there--I hope you have a nice day and listen to the younger folks too. We are not trying to be pessimistic, but realistic, and we just wanna not die. Like...that's it. Not dying and basic human rights. That's all we really want and right now that's apparently too much. I hope we can all work together and change that for the good of humanity.
In the 60's and early 70's the biggest threat in my school was a switch blade, and the likelihood of being drafted.
Titus makes a point about what kids have experience these days. God help them, no wonder the suicide rate for kids is off the charts.
And he didn't even touch on the backslide in the rights that our grandparents and parents fought for, that they all seem so willing to just let go.
@@TheLastSane1 Amen!
Shit, not just suicide rates, my generations have basically given up and said screw having kids because we don't want to deal with bringing life into this hellhole we call society.
@@jish55 exactly I come from a small town so we have teens and young adults having accidental pregnancies but after like 25 it’s surprising how few kids are being born they are just struggling to much with just the one
Yep you're right I started school in 1966 graduated in 1978 from high school and there was no threats at all in school and I lived through all the civil Rights stuff and the busing of students to schools all over the county and never once ever worried about somebody shooting a school up or any other place for that matter I couldn't imagine the stress of having to get up to go to school and wondering if you're going to get shot or not are blown up not to mention look what they're living through with all the drugs in this country now
39 here. Was 18 when the towers fell. Got laid off my first decent job in 09 due to the recession. And from 2010-2018 all I hear is that I was part of the worse generation ever while making 10-15 bucks an hour. Being high risk open hear survey survivor as a kid made living through the pandemic pretty rough and isolating. Then in 2022 found out I cannot afford a house. Now I am watching my savings crash. That's right gen X, give me that fucking trophy already! Seriously, y'all forget the noise and enjoy your own existence...you only get one!
I'm about to turn 41 soon. I was a 20-year-old college junior when the Twin Towers fell. I watched both of them fall on CBS' live feed while then-President George W. Bush was in the southern part of my TV market/DMA. I'm proud of graduating from college, but I hate that it happened during the recession.
You're 39, you ARE gen-X culturally. Being born in 82, you have more in common with people born in 75 than you do with people born in 86 who had cell phones in high school. They call like 80-85 "Xennials", but really you're just Gen X. Boomers were 45-67 or so, Gen X is like 68 to 85 culturally. 86 is really where the millennial cutoff should start because of teenage access to cell phones and high speed internet was a massive cultural game changer.
@@jadedandbitter Not really. "Xennials" have all the relations with tech like other millennial, the only distinction being that they are more aware of 1980s cultural phenomenon. Like remembering seeing the A-team or Knight Rider back in the day. Definitely millennial, but with quite a bit of bleed from Gen X. Gen X did not get exposed to the mainstream internet until they were getting out of their twenties, and mainly through work. We were still in our teens, and got into the things that that era had (IRC chat, usenet, what have you)
We saw and enjoyed Friends, but the people in Friends were definitely older than us. We were still figuring out school and college, while they were being weird in high-end NY rental units. They were 24ct Gen X. We were younger then them. We were older model Millennials. To you central cohort Millennials, they would be out right geriatric.
@@UmarWazir as you're pointing out, the cultural touchstones are pretty much the same for someone born in 83 vs 75 or so. We watched many of the same cartoons thanks to DiC and Hanna Barbera, watched the same 80's shows, listened to the same music. An 83 kid listened to Nevermind as much as any Gen X'er if not more.
Also email, ICQ, and AIM aren't culturally significant, since they still required you to take up a phone line to use them. You may as well talk on the phone, and thats what I remember doing much more because it was quicker to just call somebody than to turn on the PC, wait for the modem to squawk and connect, etc. So mostly communication was still done inconveniently on a land line, just like every Gen Xer prior.
As for age, there's a two decade difference between someone born in 43 and 63 but both are Boomers, so... Were boomers not boomers if they watched Happy Days as a teen vs a thirty something?
There is no such thing as an Xennial, really. There's just Gen X and Millennials, but that cutoff happens around 85, 86.
@@jadedandbitter You have your points, but I always felt that rather than smartphones, it was the advent of Win95 and the mainstreaming of computing which was the milestone.. Those who were working are still uncomfortable with it, and those that were still in school at the time really got stuck in.
The fact remains that the 1980 to 1985 cohort do not really fit with GenX regarding relation to current predominant communication methods. We fit with our decade younger siblings, even though we are wayyyy better at fixing computers than they are.
Being distinguished at Xennials merely reflect first hand exposure to some 80s cultural touchstones, barely remembering the fall of the Berlin wall.
Nice 😂 I'm 36 I survived and didn't kill anybody else 😂
I was just thinking that same thing about my son!!! 😂
Participation trophies finally being seen for their value😅😅
...yet 😜
same 36 next month
@@ionfalcom1 😀happy early birthday
I used to agree with my overprotective conservative family until they allowed me to leave the nest without an argument... 2 days before the quarantine hit and I realized everything my grandparents raised me on no longer worked today. I didn't have a slow steady realization period. It was immediate tonal whiplash.
Then my grandparents wouldn't let me move back in and just stuck me with my newfound bankrupt debt that only took a year of identity theft to accumulate. It's "my fault" for spending $5 on McDonalds once a month, apparently, not the fact that I went to college with 9 years of tech support experience, only to suddenly start being fired during training from every job that isn't fast food. There's got to be a point where you stop blaming us, guys. At least this comedian finally gets it. Contracts/rent are traps of poverty, mental "help" is wallet draining in disguise, and everyone lies.
I wouldn't be so upset if the people in power could lie WELL. But no, their swiss cheese narratives are automatically believed simply because they have status and power. Your evidence doesn't matter. They'll just flaunt their "Educated Qualifications." Congrats on spending half a million debt-dollars on books you could have found online for free, Dr. Joe. Everyone's a statistic to you.
This bit was performed on my birthday about a year ago. I turned 25 and he said " if you were born in 96 you lived through the worst 25 years of American history" haha... Oh
I still feel like he's talking about me. I've been on Zoloft and Lexapro. I WAS born in 96, and am now 26, and I like what he added to this bit.
Keep it real, Titus!
Millenials are the hardest working, most educated and most patient out of all the generations. We DO deserve more.
LMAO...you really believe that???
No your not. Most of you are like we need more money. I'm not doing extra unless I get pay more. Oh I'm just going to work until I get a paycheck or two to buy what I want then quit.
@@onadorries3731 That's because we have student loans. Higher education for basic pay. How is that fair. And older generations own more the the world wealth. We're getting paid less for being more educated and we give more output.
Doing more work and paying for more education doesn’t make us smarter; in fact that is by definition being an idiot.
As one of these former kids, it would take pages to explain. We're starting to break the cycle of bad habits from generations before and told we're doing it wrong. And then getting blamed for our parents and grandparents mistakes.
The old world is dying.
The new world struggles to be born.
Now is the time of monsters.
Well put. It's now generational survival of the fittest across the globe.
I am just as guilty for doing the same. We allowed the media to distort and characterize these generations. The fact is they are conscious well informed who just wanted some normal sense of life and a future that did not involve some dystopian narrative.
Worst part is gen x didn’t even want anything special. We just wanted to live the same way our parents lived. Comfortable. Lofty goals come after we know that were safe and nothing bad going to happen. Nope, were not safe and a once in a lifetime event happens atleast once a month
Gen z on the other hands can be summoned up by two words for both what makes them good and will drag them down. Social media. Social media has made them smarter and start playing the game earlier but its also a cancer that will kill or drive one crazy if not properly controlled and nobody knows how to do that. We pushed the kids into the deep end and are now watching them try to learn how to swim. No assistance just thoughts and prairs
Born in '90, it hurts to realize just how true this segment is, and it kills me to see everyone in my age group with the same deep down aching pain of knowing just how raw the deal we were handed is.
I'm 32 but goddamn do I feel twice that age. I wake up most mornings and my first thought is "Really? This shit? Again?" I dread turning on the news because it's not about some gaffe a politician made, it's not about a CEO indicted for embezzling, it's not about literally ANYONE being held fucking accountable FOR ANYTHING.
No, the news we see is how the globe is seeing record breaking temperatures, even though last year set the new record, and the year before that was the new record, and the year before that, etc.
We're watching in excruciating detail, minute by minute, cops executing unarmed people in the streets for basically no reason. Then the next day we watch cops do nothing, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING, while children scream and die 40 feet away.
We get to witness our parents get hollowed out like fucking jack-o-lanterns and filled with a steady drip feed of hate and fear until we don't even recognize who they are anymore.
We all got to see just how much those around us actually gave a shit about their neighbor, in the most raw unfiltered litmus test of totally consequence free selflessness, by wearing a simple fucking mask. And we got to watch in real-time people we might have even called friends or looked up to absolutely lose their fucking minds over being asked to endure one small inconvenience to possibly protect a stranger.
Millennials and Gen X... We're tired. I am so. Fucking. Tired. I don't want a front row seat to the fall of Rome anymore. I want to get off this ride. I just want to go home.
Yeah... the getting hollowed out like fucking jack-o-lanterns and filled with a steady drip feed of hate and fear until we don't even recognize who they are anymore... that one hit a little close to home right there, although I've even seen fellow Millennials of mine... people I went to school with... all fall down the same path as well because they don't question that they were led astray. I can't even recognize these people that I used to hang out with and had some of my fondest memories from high school with... those people might as well be dead.
But you are home. Christofascists have built literal hell on this earth in belief of the great rapture that their god will save them and damn everyone else.
Neoliberals literally are engineering the downfall of Rome by allowing the rich to walk all over us and buy our politicians. The rest of us get crumbs, bread at best. Not a dime towards the pillars of our institutions that once supported all of us. They will be left to crumble in the heat death of our planet.
I can’t agree more. I remember someone ( gen x or boomer) telling me in high school that they were the best four years of my life. I thought of the shooter drills in school, the precautions needed in case you were robbed, the climate collapse, destabilizing of society, and countless monumental events allready happening.
I legitimately looked them in the eye and deadpan stated: might as well die now then. Good things have happened- but every hour of peace, quiet, or rest is claimed knowing that things are falling apart around you, that you don’t know if you will have a world to give your kids, they bring about all the things we had growing up that we will NEVErR be able to give our own children- positive experiences, the peace and tranquility to just play outside, to run on grass, to meet friends and be able to play with the next door neighbors kids, that just simply…. Seem out of reach. Having a house, some corner of the world to call our own and be able to enjoy life- seems almost impossible.
As you said: every day I wake up more exhausted. Every day the thought passes- “still worth trying, right?” And each day a little less sure of that.
Jesus ... what a fucking mood. Millennial? Oh, you mean one-with-crippl ing-depression. Yayy.
While some is true, it’s a stretch to say how right he is. You weren’t alive when the shuttles went down just for one example. He’s funny and I enjoy the humor, but also have to be real.
Having been in the active duty component of the Army from 2013-2017 in fort Hood, I wondered why we had an active shooter in April of 2014. Then I became the unit armorer and I understood why. That "so far" statement still resonates with me, because I still want to see some people stay quiet... permanently.
I was born in '94 at the tail end of the millennials. It's been horrible. My issue with people his age chastising us for receiving participation trophies as kids is... WE DIDN'T INVENT THEM! His generation(boomers) and Gen X did, then they gave them to us and act like we're the assholes. At 3 or 4 years old I got my first one for soccer and threw it away because I knew it was a trophy for losing and I wasn't gonna celebrate that because I am very competitive and stubborn as a person. Literally since I was barely even a person. 😂 It's only recently Titus has realized that "you kids have it so easy" is not an accurate statement.
Beth (the mom) "your generation has never experienced trauma!"
Summer (the daughter) "bitch, my generation eats trauma for breakfast..."
-Rick & Morty on Adult Swim
I've never had a problem with participation trophies. Went because I look at the contracts of major sports stars that are on teams that lose every year and go you criticize kids for getting these things that can lift their spirits and actually make them feel good about themselves and those guys get millions of dollars a year and lose every single week. Yeah... It was one of the things I liked about the XFL back in it's first incarnation you got paid, but you got paid even more if you won the game. How much did Connor McGregor make from his loss to Mayweather? More than any UFC victory he had. I'll take giving a kid something that I'm done cases actually make them feel better and give them passion because it's been on major sports for years.
I'm a terminal cancer surviving, ginger son of an HIV/AIDS victim, but I'm a millennial so it's all roses?
@@scottymacdewder5229 holy shit. That's rough, buddy...
@@stephenmoore1541 I'm also debt free and retired at 40 on a passive income, so me and life are square.
Well Titus, I, a ‘98 born Post-Millennial who is now 24, would love to enjoy my participation trophies. Unfortunately, my parents are showing them to friends and family while taking credit for my achievements and the other half are locked behind a monthly 17.99 subscription fee😀.
I love your comedy bro, please never stop💯
Home run!
Born in '94 and finally got to see you in person in VA beach back in February and this bit honestly made me laugh the hardest cause the truth was deafening and needed. As always thank you Titus
As a Gen X, this actually makes me rethink my stances on Millenials and Gen Z.
Sorry to everyone that the whole world is f**ked!
Yeah I never understood boomers picking on the children they created. They were the grandparents handing out the trophies these kids didn't do this s*** we did. As parents we should be ashamed of ourselves we are the worst generation ever
"Sorry to everyone that the whole world is f**ked!"
It's ok, if things keep going the way they are we'll all die at the same time anyway.
@@jollyrodger5319 There's no need for shame, to err is human. What matters is facing our mistakes and learning from them, which your generation could do tomorrow, if only.
Remember the books that came out in the late 80's/early 90's "50 simple things you can do to save the earth"? Gen X had films on the dangers of pollution and its effects on the planet way back in '81/82'. We did try. There weren't enough of us and we didn't fight hard enough. Even worse, A sizable chunk of us decided to try and play the boomer's game better than them and became even bigger pricks while clawing after whatever was left. As an Xer, that finds a lot in common with Millennials and Gen Z, I'm sorry we didn't do better.
@@Halloween111 The Chinese say that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; and the second best time is now. You still have a couple of decades on this Earth at least, and I think that you'd agree that the boomers have proven you can have an effect even into your senior years.
I'm 23 now and this has been scarylie relatable, it's been a hell of a ride since 1999 xD great job everyone for making it here
I was born in 1994, when the Millennial generation was coming to it's end. Through my childhood, I've gone through my parents moving out of their first and only house in order to move to the city in hopes of my dad getting a better job with better pay. He got the job, but the recession and being screwed over by the people who got our house made that paybump essentially meaningless. To this day, he's still struggling with paying off debt, and has had to start divorcing my mom not because he doesn't want her in his life anymore, but because it's the only way the government won't try to force him to pay more money than what he makes for her to have a home where someone can look after her, due to her disabilities. I haven't been able to find an income to leave home, and worse still, needed to use the majority of my student loans to help pay for my family's groceries, and assist in moving to new apartments because the last landlords didn't want to keep us, despite us paying rent on time. I've had to come to terms with the fact that with my autism, anxiety and depression is so bad that my brain literally can't handle most 9-5 jobs without me having daily breakdowns at work. But people on the internet say that if I don't work, I'm lazy and leeching off others. And on top of it, free therapy in my area has such a giant waiting list that they're only taking suicidal patients, and they don't have anyone to cater to patients who are autistic, so even if I tried applying, I could be denied just for that.
I'd end it with a "this is why I drink" joke, but I'm literally too poor to buy/get addicted to booze.
Born in 83. We also saw:
93 - Branch Davidian
95 - OKC bombing
98 - Clinton scandal
Being a millennial/Gen Z is it’s own form of PTSD.
89- California earthquake
93 - World Trade Center bombing
93 - OJ Simon trial, the blood soaked crime scene
97- Heavens Gate cult suicides
Yippee.
Don't forget the 2000 election. That was a doozy.
I swear, every time I look at the news I just get filled with this unbridled rage. I want to shake some people until their peanut brains fall out of their skull. There's so much money and power at the top but they won't lift a god damn finger to solve anything except paying for their 60th mega mansion.
At the bottom fools are making ridiculous political choices and everyone is trying to drag us back to some sick Christian theocracy.
I sometimes feel like some people's organs run off will power alone because surely there is no functioning brain up there.
@@wordforger And 9/11... and Afghanistan... and Iraq... and the 2008 recession... and the 2016 election... and the pandemic... and the eroding of civil liberties...
And yet to come total economic collapse and reset. A new world order. And a water and food shortage
It's funny, though, as a Millenial, for years the older AND younger generation mocked us for complaining about the world. Then Gen-Z grew up and was like 'oooooh! THIS is what they're complaining about. Shit. We're doomed'
I love most of Gen. Z. I think they have the same nihilism a lot of us born in the early 80’s had from the jump and a lot of younger millennials have developed over time. I think we all want to fix things, despite our why-fucking-botherness.
There are people form every generation who get it and get each other. Kids always need to actually get in to thick of it before they realize how fucked things are.
Anyway. We’re older…we need to support them when we can and for fuck sake…we need to encourage them to go in to politics, not just vote.
Millenials went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then their GenZ kids followed them. Millenials have seen two recessions, crashes, a pandemic, and the start of our rights being rolled back severely.
Yep. We were born near the end of the Cold War and have watched in horror as it came back with a vengeance. And then they wonder why we aren't having kids.
@@wordforger Nah... this ain't the Cold War coming back; this is a domestic situation.
Veteran here, and I'll be damned if my Gen Z kid enlists. I compromised my integrity for nothing, and won't ever encourage that.
@@BluetheRaccoon Xennial vet here, too. Got two almost 20 year olds. If they enlist, I'm reenlisting so I can smoke the dog isht out of them for making the same mistake I did, even after they grew up watching what my choice did to me.
Don’t forget their new addiction to shooting up schools while blaming the gun laws.
I was born in 1969, and I actually when things were "normal," so to speak, before social media and the deep political divide and school shootings. I have to wonder which is worse -- my experience of remembering when things were better and wishing we could go back to that, or Millennials and GenZ who didn't know that and only know a world in which you constantly have to duck and cover. I kind of envy Millennials and GenZ because they roll with the punches better. They don't waste time longing for the good old days when things weren't this crazy. I'm glad I had the childhood I did, but I think it makes me less equipped to handle the insanity of today. Millennials and GenZ deserve some kind of military honors for survival skills.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
At the same time, y'all still had to fight for civil and human rights back then. We're still fighting the same social battles today. There's good and bad things from every generation. There are circumstances that are vastly different, but there are also trials and tribulations that are wildly similar, almost identical in structure. We all did our part and we've all suffered, but we are also shaped differently by different social climates and economic periods. Simultaneously, we are affected by the exact same unresolved issues in every facet of the human condition.
There was a time when women couldn't have credit cards or bank accounts in their names, and that doesn't necessarily sound like a fair trade-off to the world today. Injustice is injustice. I always said I'd love to travel back in time, but the truth is, as a woman, i realized wouldn't actually want to spend any meaningful amount of time in any period in the past at all.
Eh, Millenials--early and mid--had a hefty chunk of the 90s that looked pretty bright. Of course, that just made it worse when the 2000s hit like a Mack truck. We were ill-prepared for the crappy world we got dropped into as adults and had to figure out how to 'adult' with little help or guidance. Gen Z has it slightly better. Not because the world's any better--far from it--but because they knew what they were getting into from day one.
The 'entitlement' Millenials get accused of is simply a desire to have the things they were promised as children instead of the crap sandwich they were handed. Neither they nor Gen Z have patience with 'tradition' when said 'traditions' are the reason said sandwich is crap. They grew up with the vast pool of knowledge of the entirety of human civilization at their fingertips, and learned how to research and pool resources to solve problems from a young age. So it's EXTREMELY frustrating that the people running the show can't do the same.
@@wordforger Pretty damned accurate.
@@wordforger Well yeah, the Internet happened.
The 90's were only "bright" because we were completely ignorant. It wasn't until the rise of social media where you're just getting All the information from everything that everyone realized how much of the 90's optimism was out of complete ignorance.
born in 90 and got to watch your sitcome growing up. It honestly helped me deal with my dysfunctional family.
Glad you are still doing comedy.
Born in '83. Millennial. And.... yes. Just... YES. THANK YOU for seeing us, Mr. Titus!!!🤣🤣🤣
Another jeweled classic by Titus.... "So far", at least. Great ending line. I apologize to my son's who are actually 2 generations behind me as a late blooming parent. I told them, "Ya, baby boomers as a group have really fucked up here, looking back. But at least we didn't start any crypto-currencies, or did we? ". Add that in to the next rendition of the material, Chris.
I've always loved your humor Chris!! Thank you for finally understanding and making comedy of the Millennial perspective! I will always laugh at your jokes! Born in 1996 and I am SO TIRED. :D My family and I were homeless in Louisiana during hurricane Katrina to top it off!
Angry Pursuit of Happiness was my favourite special but now I'm getting ready to watch and enjoy this one. 😂
I know he’s somewhat joking but I do kinda feel gratified seeing someone from the older generation being like “yeah okay you guys sorta need what you have”
I was born in the 80s but I'm technically a millennial and I feel like none of the millennial jokes ever apply to me or people my age. On top of growing up in a poor and abusive household, the one time we scraped up enough to drive 10 hours to universal studios, guess what happened? Nothing too crazy, just planes flying into buildings lol. I remember thinking, "yea. Thats about right". Just walking through Dr Seuss land and finally thinking "wait. Why is everyone running for the exits?" Right before someone screamed "they bombed new york!" As he ran away clutching his child.
'84 here, we're part of first cohort Millennials. We often get grouped with the last cohort Gen X and called X-ennials because we have similar formative experiences.
Elder Millennial I believe it's called. 😉
Born in ‘82 and was raised by the Silent Generation. Not a single joke makes sense to me either.
"where were you on 9/11?"
"Universal studios, it was fucking chaos! But the lines suddenly got really short, so that was cool."
@@LordBLB i like elder millennial, never heard of that one.
Born in 81.
Perfect!
I literally had goosebumps... lol
I've always been a huge fan of Titus. One of the few comedians who can mock something relentlessly, but in a lighthearted way without being mean or cruel.
Im so glad he is still doing comedy because not only did I LOVE his show on Fox but love it when he does his stand up🤣.It's been so Crazy the past few years I even bought a plague survivor pendant,You don't go through hell without picking up a souvenir it's like Disney world but everything is on fire .At this point everyone needs to get a participation trophy because like it or not... you're in for the ride.🤣.
I can take my leave whenever I'd like
Thanks for finally getting it man.
As a GenXer all I can say is ....WE tried. We remember the good times, and tried to wake the Boomers up...but they never listened to us.
Nobody listens to us. We’re the forgotten gen.😕
You might not have stopped them, but if nothing else, you spoke up. Without anyone so much as getting snarky about what most boomers were doing to the world, future generations might have been raised completely in the dark, so indoctrinated that they wouldn't have even realized that anything was wrong.
@@annferguson3113 you weren’t forgotten, millennials always looked up to you, you just didn’t notice!
Yup. F***ing boomers. :(
My kids and all their friends are millennials and gen Z. I feel ready to choke anytime someone claims their generations are entitled
I came across a millennial who admitted he wasn't a fan of participation trophies. He knew that the only reason why he was given one as a child was because some Karen screamed her head off about her precious child being excluded. It felt more like a consolation prize to him than something he earned.
That’s exactly what they were for. “My kid was the best one out there! It’s not their fault the rest of the team sucks!”
Nothing makes you feel like more of a loser than getting a trophy made for losers.
We were kids, not morons.
none of us wanted the trophies, our parents demanded it
My wife is a millennial, she is without a doubt, THE most amazing human I have ever known. If we are to have any hope for the future, it'll be because of millennials and gen z'ers! Cause us boomers/gen x'rs surely screwed things up.
Gen X is largely blameless.
Not enough power.
@@hhiippiittyy Yep.
@@hhiippiittyy but you guys made a habit of bashing millennials and gen z still. Also 25 years before the older millennials made it to the vote is a very long time to not get shit done and say it's not your fault
@@betawolfhd
It hasn't been my experience that gen x got in the habit of bashing millennials and gen z, but I can't speak to your experience.
Secondly, regarding voting power, as a small cohort sandwiched between the boomers and millenials, gen x never really had the capacity to influence politics. Politicians and advertisers, like much of society, went from targeting boomer issues to (pretending to) targeting millenials issues.
I think there is a divide in gen x, not being populous enough to effect policy and markets, where the older gen xers are basically boomers, and the younger ones are basically millenials, in their respective group mentalities and experiences.
It's good to see you finally got the point. Welcome to our side of things, my friend! I've loved your comedy and followed it avidly nearly my entire life.
Thank you, Titus. I'm going to save this clip and watch it every da*n time someone from an older generation proudly declares themselves uneducated, computer illiterate, and unconcerned with the future and then demands that I fix their 14-year-old flip phone whilst telling me they'd hire me as their part-time secretary for ten bucks an hour. My dad, who dropped out of college during his first semester, actually told me I could've tried harder. He said this via video chat WHILE I was working full time and earning a 4.0 in an accelerated master's program during a global pandemic. This set is a salve to my ravaged soul. I think I'm going to go fish out that old T-ball trophy and place it on my shelf as a reminder of the halcyon days when effort yielded tangible results.
As a person who was born in 1992, thank you so much for this. These past couple of decades have been an absolute rollercoaster.
The best part about participation trophies is that it instilled an intense and paralyzing fear in the Millennials and Gen Z that resulted in a good portion of finding it incapable to do or learn anything new with an ounce of understanding that it will take time for us to learn and grow and become good at a skill or talent or trade. We're so afraid of failure we would rather just not try.
As a millenial who has loved Titus since growing up with screwed up people in the early 2000s, I love this so much. Titus you helped me feel seen and understood when I was 17, and now at almost 40. And you have helped me laugh about it all every step of the fucking way.
I took my wife and mom to see you in Bakersfield a few weeks ago and it was an absolute blast. It's the second show I've gotten to see you live and it was totally worth it. I've been a fan since your TV show and you always deliver. Thank you so much for all the laughs
i lost hope in the world roughly around the great recession. i'd been told there was no value to me unless i went to college, but my parents lost their jobs, almost lost the house, and then i was supposed to be okay taking on 80k in debt as a 17 year old that hadn't even been taught how the fuck to do my taxes.
3:40 real talk. Saw a headline the other day on r/deathbymilenial where they said "the only thing millennials are killing are themselves" and it kind of hit me in the gut.
I'm a millennial and this was a nice shift in tone. It always felt so weird to see the world blame me for what the generations before me did and I swore I would never pass that down to those after. I'm actually proud of Gen Z most of the time cuz it feels like they surpassed us in a lot of ways and just hope they get the chance to make changes a lot of us never were able to.
One of the best punchlines this year 🙌🤣
As 39 year old elder millennial who's freshman year of HS was when Columbine happened. Joined the national guard and went to war in 05 and returned to Hurricane Katrina, got a job, bought a house post recession, my millennial wife being stuck with a bachelors at Starbucks because every employer wants to hire her as an unpaid intern....this bit nailed it. And I laughed.
👏 Bravo
"I survived and didn't kill anybody else, so far." Pretty sure I repeat this to myself every night as I drift away for a few brief hours before the eyes are open again.
Same.
I was homeschooled in 2001. I will never forget that day in 2001 when Mom turned on the TV, and told my sister and I to come into the living room. I remember watching the second plane hit the tower. Mom was in the next room, on the phone. I remember Dad coming home, and telling us in a hollow tone that a few of his friends had been IN that tower when it fell.
Seeing comedians like you and Macfarlane grow is amazing. Thank you
Entered high school the year after Columbine. Turned 18 right before 9/11. Finished college right as the economy tanked. Bought a home right as the pandemic hit.
I never gave a shit about the trophy my parents Gen wanted us to have so they could feel accomplished.
It's always been, something intense happens "you're still safe, grow up." Pandemic happens "you wont be affected, relax" looses 9 friends and 2 family members. 9....11.... on a freaking field trip in nyc the day of and watch it all happen in front of you... "heres a shrink, take these pills you'll be alright!" FUCK NO WE ARE NOT!... I'm tired, I'm broken, I'm exhausted and all I'm told to do is, "keep pushing, you'll be fine..." and no doctors in network to help me through the trauma... oh well I guess...
Born in 95, medicated since I was 8, had grey hairs since I was 22. Let me have my avocado toast...
As the mom of a millennial, I couldn’t agree more. The awful crap our kids have had to go thru is so sad. But it helps to try to make light of it when we can. I get tired of the negative millennial, gen a jokes. These young people have a lot to deal with.
'95 baby raised with an ex-AF father and an accountant mother that made sure to instill in me how much the 2008 housing crisis was not a recession but a cataclysmic event with repercussions that we are still paying for now. Hope may not have been in the cards dealt, but you are goddamn right the disability played out lmao.
I saw Titus live in Austin back in 2011. He's still got it. I also love how he's remembered his material from 11 years ago and able to reflect on it and still have me in stitches.
I've been a fan of his for about 20 years now and he reminds me in many ways of the great George Carlin. This man should run for a national political office so he can make fools of the other politicians on the Capital floor up in theirs faces.
That is one of the greatest praises I can think of, to be compared to Carlin.
@@tehnemox Thanks Man. I was lucky enough to see George Carlin live in the early 80's. In "94" He spoke to a bunch of us back stage for about a half hour and it was amazing how honest and down to earth of a man he was.
Always remember that the thing about participation trophies is NO ONE ASKED FOR THEM. People with participation trophies were HANDED handed something they didn't want by an adult authority figure who told them it was theirs, and that they should keep it because it was special, and then all the other adults laughed at them just for having it.