Why Young People Are More Depressed Than Ever Before
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When the next generation comes along: Back in my day you had to post something on instagram to get dopamine! Now you can just get it pumped in your brain!!!!
#neuralink
ok miller
a3wad i21am 😂 That’s a good one
Read this in a bioethics class lol
We used to have to get vaccines, you guys just digitally delete your diseases
-One of the main reasons for me is school.-
Savage Cabbage how many times have you copied this comment xd
Savage Cabbage that's not a good way to look at it. Don't get me wrong, I hate the stress factor, waking up so early w little sleep has literally changed my life & health, the environment of my school and the people I associate with, it all sucks. And it's the main reason I'm unhappy. But imagine where you would be without it. It's a challenge for sure but it definitely prepares you for life after graduating. Although you might not apply all the material in classes like math and science, you are learning so much beyond just the facts even if it doesn't seem that way. I'm taking extremely tough classes and most days I come home and study until I pass out on my desk. And I hate hate hate it but in a way it's forced me to push myself and learn how to manage my time and energy efficiently
RussianNeo for me is bullying
your profile pic explains it
emo and sensitive
RussianNeo Well of course it is. You're constantly stuck by horny apes that would rather drive a person to kill themselves, then let themselves look less powerful. It's just the whole animalistic weird ass plan for us bat shit crazy animals to get somebody to fuck and eventually have kids with.
Most people can't look above that behavior and actually act like the sentient creatures we are. We have at least some free will, we just need to evaluate our actions and understand why we do what we do. It's the only way to prevent such issues.
School has also gotten more complicated. I showed this to the 'Baby Boomer' generation, my grandparents and Generation X, my dad. They both said that it's much more complex then they used to have, and it requires more. This can also put stress on a lot of millennials to this day.
I have no idea where how it goes with private schools in general in your country, but where i live, people who finished private schools are laughed at becouse they finished a school that was paid by their parents therefore almost impossible to fail.
i t s y a g i r l m y z ur just lazy
Thoughty2: Millennials are impatient
Me: hah, surly not me
Wifi: stops working and video starts loading
Me: getting impatient and writing a comment
Also me: realizing...
I thought that "impacient" was typographical error but you repeated it. LOL.
@@MB-en3ij lol that wasn’t a typographical error, that was a brain error
I seem to be addicted as well, as I'm always on my phone. But I'm never posting anything, I'm just looking at memes...
Memes and games
Who takes selfies lol
i barely ever use my phone
i am instead addicted to browsing youtube and playing games on my computer, 24/7, no life except for school.
@@lividpringles7198 not everyone is lucky enough to get a pc ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
@@cybersentient4758 it's not even mine, as an under 18 individual who is leeching off of his parents, business as usual. that being said, im very well aware of that fact. as a mildly spoiled angsty teen, it can be really easy to take things for granted. everyone is dealt a different set of cards, and some people can be born into riches, or poverty, or middle class. probability is a fickle thing, and the way everyone can live their life is different for each person.
@@lividpringles7198 nah man I was jus saying
And btw what are you binging on the tube
generation why
Tony Gunk LMAO
I’m not depressed because of my phone, I don’t care about likes or anything, I just want friends and a girlfriend but I’m not good at socializing so I’m lonely.I’ll try to get friends and a girlfriend after quarantine tho so while I’m depressed I’m still hopeful and a little excited about the future and stay strong because life will get better trust me.
Me too
Same bro
Why do you need a girlfriend?
@@knowyourteeth1292 I feel the same way as him, it's a completely different feeling having a girlfriend compared to just normal friends.
I'm looking for friends and a girlfriend, have been for a while, there is nobody that is interested in going out and doing anything anymore. It truly sucks
@@garyyoung5080 well i always wanted a girlfriend and still kinda do, but it gets easier when u just stop thinking about it, time will tell eventually
80% use their phones on the toilet? I thought for sure that was 100% of everyone not just millennials
80% uses their phones then other 20% reads shampoo bottles
@@joesr31 80% use their phones, the other 20% use a tablet.
No not me
Damn i wasted my life by only scatting .....
wait ew
Why does anybody want to be a celebrity I'd rather be rich and relivly unknown and live my life in peace.
I wouldn't even want to be rich. I would like to just be doing well.. like 100k a year. Enough that I could indulge every once in a while but not big enough to get any attention.
me too just a happy life with a happy family
same! what's with all these people wanting paparazzi? If I'm gonna be famous, it's for what I love to do. I don't even need to be famous, Just give me a New York Times Bestseller once and I would be happy
once you are rich, you'll crave for those fame you so ignorantly think you don't want.
Easy non-stress job + wealth. Or just the wealth. Tis the dream
why don't people ever address the fact that the education system is broken?
Yeah. I know what I want to do and I know everything I need to know. I am 13 and am interested in making music. I have a program to make music but the school isn't teaching me how to use it, people on the internet are. How do I sing? How do I rap? How do I do screamo without busting my vocal chords? All of these things are things I learn myself, the school doesn't teach me shit on how to do this. Even in choir for school, I didn't learn how to sing. The most I learned from choir is to open my mouth and that I have a high voice making me a tenor 1. School is shit when you are focused on something that can make you money, because once you find your passion school starts bringing you down. I wanna stay home and make music, not stay at school and spend 7 hours where the only fun part are the friends you make. I don't even have many friends at school. Almost everyone at my school are fucking retards and share no interests that I do. Before I moved to where I am now, there was a large group for nerds, athletic people, outcasts, just every side of the spectrum. Here, everyone is so similar and thinks that vaping is cool and not bad for you. I hate it here and I might become a drug addict because of the type of people around. Just know though, if I do EVER take drugs like weed or cocaine, I will try to overdose as soon as I can.
@@ivanvenne yeah i had the same problem in highschool, i wanted to learn to programm and litterally 0 subjects were related to it. Now i am studying application development. and i am soooooo much more motivated then before. Its especially hard for people like me who suffer from ADD and other things on the spectrum.
People want us to take stupid pills that make you numb but it held me back for so long i am so much more happier without them.
That and parents but It's Your life.
Why are young people depressed ? There is too much technology in the form of mobile phones and computers, people are bombarded by information, it's Information overload, much of it trivial information too, mobile phones, tablets, laptops etc etc, social media. Peoples brains are not switching off, their brains are over stimulated and its making them exhausted and anxious.
Young people in general, kids, arent doing the things they were in the 80s. like climbing trees, making huts, staying out all day with their friends, instead that are anxious as they look for 'likes' on social media and play computer games, ok so not all kids, but many are so it seems. People are bored too because they have seen it all online instead of going out there and making their own experiences.and memories, they become jaded at a young age and are depreived from teh real life experiences of being young, like bike riding and stuff people did in the past
Barking Frog from kekistan I agree with this . They should take a lot of this stupid shit they teach out of school and teach kids useful shit like trades and life skills . Real life shit .
Don’t forget about the rising percentage of fatherless children. It really impacts the children’s mental health
Male and female identities have been in flux over these generations. In the 40s, society expected men to be able to endure war, so empathy skills were not part of a common picture of masculinity. The baby boomer boys were brought up not to cry or express emotions. They were directed to work hard and given the opportunities to see rewards for this - buying a house, good pensions, retirement from 60, enough money to pay for a family. Women still expected to give up work when they got married and focus on the home and family in the 70s. Children did not have rights until the late 90s.
Things have changed completely for everyone. In some ways for the best. In some ways not so good.
To be healthy you need both a mother and a father. That's my take. Or if you have two moms or something one of them needs to act as a father figure of sorts. But women don't know how to behave like men, just as men don't know how to behave like women.
and more likely than not, make them join the furry empire
It's that goddamn dream mcyt
Because they are Toxic players and their dad went to get some milk.
Hmm... Generation X... Generation Y... The last generation must be Generation Z... But then we run out of letters...
The Apocalypse is coming
BurningBlade474 Haha, I see what you did there xd No, the fallowing generation will be Sun and the next - Moon. Then we'll start to use colours and minerals :P
BurningBlade474 It will probably start again E.G. AA-AZ then BA-BZ and this can go to triple letters? Makes sense
BurningBlade474
Generation X2 Generation Y2 etc..
BurningBlade474 after generation z comes generation å
BurningBlade474 no the next one will be generation now then i then know then my then ABCs then next etc.
I never upload pictures or anything about myself. I use my mobile phone simply because I'm addicted to memes.
Pizdec ahhahahahahahahha omfg that is actually 99999% accurate
ah, i see you're a man of culture as well
Hoàng Trần Minh are you also a Vietnamese memer?
yes same here
im so addicted to memes i dont care about updating statuses or anything like that
and none of my friends ever take out our phone even once when we are hanging out
Pizdec saem
When the outside world is getting uglier by the day, people start looking inward.
No we don't
fuck you, not everyone is a fucking introvert
I do. And i I'm tired of pretending I'm not 🤡
We are depressed because Club Penguin shut down...
Krizi 187 likes 😲
Krizi yeah I know😔
RIP Club Penguin. We will all miss you.
Krizi No
My pet drowned in my tears because of this.
They say this generation is a failure, but forget who raised it...
Mr. Agario they the cause to our ill effect
Such honesty
They're just gonna die in ~10 years lol
Mr. Agario Why is your name agario?
And shall we blame who raised them as well?
“Millenials are the most depressed generation”
Gen Z: “holy my beer”
Holy beer!!! Yes 😂🤪
@@sherbetbomb3276 yeah to help drown out the depression
As a member of Gen Z, I can confirm that I like my beer holy.
@red leader's fav dude yes thats true children cant be depressed they can kill themself but they are not depressed
@red leader's fav dude kids can be depressed
Millennials cant afford tô bê adults só they are stuck in thier teens forever
So your saying they always eat depression meal instead of happy meal
Yes so true, I can relate totally! 😢
>Mobile phones are bad for you
>watching on a mobile phone
froggo doggo yup
What is true is true,i would like to see what would happen if internet went down for a day
Oh well
Roby No last name needed most of the world would breakdown. Many powerplants, water stations, and almost all factories RELY on the internet to function.
Roby No last name needed
It is not possible for the Internet to go down. Maybe in one City because some main cable got damaged or anything but its impossible for the whole internet to go down except you drop a million nukes around the world and every server gets destroyed.
Am I the only person who only uses my phone for RUclips videos and nothing else
NOPE YOU ARE NOT!
SHИICK no you're not
SHИICK no your not the only one
SHИICK I don't even go on Facebook because it became politic-book a long time ago. I don't miss it and I literally just use my phone for RUclips. People text all the time while I ignore texts so I can read on my phone.
What a fucking waste of a phone
Millenials depressed: ...
Gen Z: hold my pills
😂😂😂
Very true
@@UraniumStorm let me put it simply over population means more competition, less value of college degree since everyone has it. Every job requires a college degree and less payment to not even sustain a small family or sometimes even themselves
@@MysticalStd That's a fallacy. The more people you have the more you need of those to be of certain professions, not all of which actually require a college degree, but many which do (whether by the market or by law). When you have a greater demand of individuals with college degrees (esp. certain ones), those degrees are more valuable. But that's by no means the only thing that dictates their value. College degrees can be _'worthless'_ for other reasons, too. But, you know what's also a fallacy? That you have to have a college degree to do well. We need trade schools. Unfortunately, kids today don't wanna do anything like that. They just want to sit at home on their phone or video games (when they're not at the club or getting into stuff they shouldn't be getting into) and complain about everything that's wrong in their lives, while blaming any and every one but themselves, and feeling that everyone else owes them something, that being whatever they feel 'entitled' to, which is basically whatever they want.
@@51MontyPython sorry can't hear you sitting in home smoking pot , doing marijuana and watch tv. Plus I have like 50 party to attain tonight. Talk to you later
I think basically this generation is
depressing because everything comes down to COMPETITION.. who has the best job, car, body, looks, boyfriend /girlfriend ,phone etc.. and the list goes on! Instead of focusing on their own journey... they let the media affect them and and puts pressure on them.
As you get older you don't care about what anyone else thinks.
Nah, competition has always been around. You have to remember that what we are really competing for is a mate. All of those things you list that we compete with are all about attracting the best mate (or mates) possible. This competition has been around since caveman times. Don't worry though--there is hope! The older you get, the less you will care about much of this competition.
I'd argue that it was at least partially a LACK of competition, specifically when it didn't really matter. The "everybody is a winner" thing that started sometime in the mid 90's.
When I was a kid, if you or your team won a sporting event, got a trophy or medal, then you went out for pizza and maybe ice cream, and if you didn't win, NO TROPHY. Also, probably no pizza, though you might sneak some ice cream as comfort food. Winning or losing these things had zero impact on your standard of living or your chances of getting a job, you're a kid. And even though you lost the race/baseball game/or who can swallow more goldfish on Saturday, you got a B+ (which used to be 94%-95%) on the test in Geography on Tuesday, so it's not like you're worthless.
When you grow up, though, it's ingrained in you that you might win if you do better than the other person (at work or where ever) or you might lose if you do worse, both are possible and more importantly fair. But even though Johnson got the promotion and you didn't, he's still going bald, so HAH! Plus, you can go get yourself some pizza and ice cream if you really want it, you're an adult.
@@daverussell457 Just remembered an Erma Bombeck quote (paraphrased, I may have misremembered the exact wording):
"When I was very young, I used to worry all the time what other people thought about me. When I got older, I stopped caring what other people thought about me. Now that I'm older than that, I realize no one was actually thinking about me in the first place."
Comparison is the thief of joy, Wise Man say.
Losing at kahoot
G Industries 😭😭😭 Why is this true?
When I lose in kahoot I also kashoot
Luckily I always win.
G Industries most depressing thing
4th place ;(
im loving the stock footage of a women using her phone upside down at 8:46
I laughed my ass off, but the reason that was done is because there's a Samsung logo on the back and holding it upside down easily removes it.
She set her phone display to Auto Rotate mode. 😜
Goumang Misao stfu man
+Goumang Misao, The Galaxy Note 2 doesn't rotate the screen 180 decrees.
Thobiex **Degrees** if it was 'decrees', that means she had 180 orders of the most high commanding her to hold that phone upside down. 😂
"When you're out having dinner with friends, how many times do you check your phone?"
^ *HAH* ! Joke's on you! Nobody ever has dinner with me!
............. :'(
+1 :D
awwww :(
I recently HAD to upgrade my old "flip-phone" to a durable (VERY durable) "Smart-Phone". It spends its days in my shoulder bag, and has run out of juice many times simply 'cause of my inattention. Fumbling with it 100x a day? It'll be very lucky to receive any attention 100 times a MONTH.
relateable
i check it zero times, i dont take my phone to dinner, i only use it to call my parents to pick me up, or use google maps to find out where the fuck i am...
The most advanced version of "it's that damn cell phone"
I mean, he does kinda go into other things at the end.
the me me me generation
the me me m generation
the me me generation
the meme generation
More like the I Cut Me generation.
edgy :D
pleasekillme yasss
pleasekillme the pepe generation
Petition to rename our generation the meme generation.
8:43 is anyone going to mention the fact that she's using her phone upside down!?
Came to comments to see if somebody else saw it😂
XD
lol good eye catch
Bruh
Like this coment to the top pls lolololol
Older Generations complaining about millennials but they forgot to look at who raised a lot of them.
Daniel Van Then they are quick to blame us for everything.
right..? left?
you realize I'm talking about generation x raising many of Generation Y aka millennials?
Tolyngee Of course, always got to blame the generations below you for everything.
These people were essentially raised by the internet.
My father always said: "If you want to know somebody, you just need to get to know his parents"
As in, if somebody is a failure in life, looser, stupid, or incompetent, it's still his fault, but the parents still hold most of the blame...
This is how I feel... Parents had a great deal on creating it but now it's just my problem, not theirs...
@@jellyfishi_ couldn't agree more
@@jellyfishi_ Well, in my case they achieved that I don't wanna be (and won't be) a parent. :))
That right there takes away self responsibility and that my friend is a bad thing
@@jellyfishi_ Every atheist: Wont wait for god lmao
I always hated getting participation awards. To my mind as a child, they kind of solidified that I had failed. It felt like a "loser branding."
I can definitely see where you're coming from.
I always liked them because they made me feel like I was part of the team.
Also Ice Cream and Cookies afterwards was a nice award too. :P
I guess I enjoyed participation award more because my school and sport's team didn't always give them out to everyone. Sometimes I didn't get one. :0
I know how you feel.
That's why i just don't bother with those sport outings. You might be wondering how i survived school to which then i say... T'is a public school in the Philippines. I think they just gave up trying to discipline the students. Then again, i noticed that a lot of my teachers really liked me... am i that charismatic? now there's something to observe, DZ.
I agree. The award I got when on a team was the comraderie, the self worth that felt wonderful because I was part of a team. My not getting an award or metal drove me to try harder. I kind of feel like part of the issue we have in society is the loss of people wanting to be better people.
I as well didn't like participation trophies, because I wanted to fucking win, not exist.
@@kristinfrostlazerbeams Yeah, while I wasn't exactly "friends" with my teammates, most of what I remember appreciating was hanging out in the locker room, practice/scrimmage, on the bus. It just felt cool to be part of a team.
People do not understand depression.
"I'm so sad and angry. I'm depressed"
That's not how it feels. It feels like you've experienced everything, and you have become utterly empty inside. It's not caring about anyone or anything, but at the same time caring too much about other people's feelings so you would never hurt them intentionally. It's hearing people laugh behind you and believing it's because they're laughing at you, but you also know it's not that. It's getting annoyed because you're always so damn empty and anxious. There's nothing that triggers these thoughts, you just have them all the time and there's nothing you can do to get rid of it. Medication only makes it worse and therapists keep telling you the same thing but that doesn't help. It's savouring every fucking moment where you're feeling something positive and never taking it for granted but having it taken away from you too fast.
*thats what depression feels like to me*
this seems awfully specific....
stop caring what other people think, assume they don't care either. move on build yourself, do things that build up endorphins. watch the movie 300 then be Spartan. take the advice saved and changed your life right there.
So you're telling me I'm depressed huh... :/
Illuminati Telal Giving stupid advice like that is what makes people who suffer from depression kill themselves, and you idiots don't even realize how dangerous what you say is. It makes people go from doubting whether anyone understands how they feel to KNOWING that nobody knows how they feel...which is the worst feeling ever, knowing that whatever you do, it will be bad.
D-Slice So by this logic I must be depressed. :(
Me:
that one guy who doesn't use social media sits all alone at school
We cam become great bros
Don’t worry, I’m also not really a fan of social media.
Then you are not alone !😏
Me2 man
But you're using social media right now, what the derp.
“the biggest problem that’s ruining the lives of young people, mobile phones”
me who’s watching this on a phone: hehe i’m in danger
Same here
Laptop. Then again, I'm a "Boomer".
me, on a pc: i guess im good.
Hahahaha same
Not phones social media, it breaks our self confidence and raises our standards and expectation wayyyy to high and then when we go back to reality we see that pretty much nothing in the world is going to reach our expectarions ans standards and you won't reach someone elses either.
For so long i thought he was saying "42 here" in the intro
For the millionth time.....he IS saying 42.
@@dr.jamesolack8504 nah, he's saying 32
@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World.
Good one!
Shush, he is
Millenials: *most depressed generation*
Gen Z: Hold my beer
First off, they're not
Second off, that sounds like some mindless person staring at their phone
Just goes to show that you're wrong
I see an intelligence increase amongst Gen Z and even the 25 and under age group happening. Of course, every generation is laden with a supply of idiots and they are no different. They have a lot of crap to mire through left by the preceding generations but in their young developing minds they see the full blown narcissism for what it is and are questioning it. This should give us all hope. The problem I see though, is many of them are becoming depressed because of it, which is understandable but I believe in time this will pass. They feel the negative effects that surround the millennials just as much.
One good thing about the incredibly stupid is they serve as an example, a warning and an inspiration to improve upon. I think Zer's will impress as time goes on. I also think a chunk of millennials will follow suit because a good portion of them are highly critical and questioning of the slowly eroding boomer norm that is now and know it's only a matter of time before the ball drops squarely in their court, along with Z. Everything is in a transitional state right now and will continue to be. We just have to be cautious of what we're transitioning into. That's what real progress looks like and it's not restricted to a political ideology or anything else, it's inspired by the human spirit. Gen Z is realizing that individuality transcends stupid labels and political views.
-T-X-M- i think a lot of wrong expectations and hopes that are implanted in millenial can also be found in generation z. So it should be similar.
Quick question, generation Z is the newest generation right? Is it between 1999 and somewhere in the 2000s?
The world is in a weird place right now.
I thought i was the only one thinking it is
I want to go back in the 90s.
Not really. We are just addressing all kinds of hate and ignorance that we should have addressed a long ass time ago.
Saintly Halo me too
I'm in a weird place right now
“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
-- Fight Club
I think it’s quite different from reality. You could be any of those things, but other generations thought they’d be them if they worked hard and smart enough.
Millenials and Gen z thought they would just deserve it
@@schroederscurrentevents3844 As a Gen Z its more of a disenfranchisement with reality. I agree that there clearly is some entitlement, with the ideas of justice, equality and fairness. Millennials and Gen Z are told that everyone is equal, that your special, that no one is above another, that failure is simply the result of not working hard enough, while simply participating is awarded.
Social Media disenfranchised Gen Z and Millennials. It showed our generations, the failure of past generations, the ignorance of select groups (anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers), and that climate change and consumerism built by the previous generations is going to kill us all in 60 years or so.
The idea that we are all fame seekers, was probably created by census taken from the hubs of social media, and validation hunting. Those who frequent those sites being the type who are looking to get known.
Every generation seems to think the next is entitled, considering how fast society is changing and is "improving", it seems reasonable, the world is more accessible , travel is easier than ever, and answers at our finger tips. Don't forget who raised every next generation.
The worlds changing, the wealth gaps are widening, and its treated as if its the same gap, that it needs the same amount of success to jump the gap.
I'm wondering what's the plan to fix any of this?
That was a great movie
L.O.R.W.G.
@@ambiguousduck2333 Just let it all burn.
I am very addicted to escapism, because the planet is at breaking point in a number of ways, there's no future, there's no hope, even you wont accept it.
Look at both good and bad, if you only look at the bad things it is all you will see.
Well you are very wrong
Ow, the edge
Millennials: "We are the most depressed generation."
Zoomers: "Hold my Fanta."
*GRAB YOUR FUCKING SAFE SPACES BEFORE TRUMP GRABS YOUR FUCKING PUSSY! **#TRUMP2020*
@@Time_to_Believe_in_Yourself Hey we aren't all 12-year-olds...
It was a joke Jules...
fortnight controller
Zoomers that's the funniest gen z name I have heard yet
Generation Y am I still alive!?
Stormy2k why we are still here? just to suffer?
Mahmoud Abudeif When u try your best but don't succed...
Mahmoud Abudeif I can feel my leg..
Sleri ᴛᴍ and my arm..even my fingers
generation y am I alive
Our generation, the millennials, is quite shitty. However those baby boomers are not out of any blame either. They were born in a time in which everything was easier, simpler, economy was developing, industries were booming, no fortune costing education bullshit was necessary to get a good job, the cost of living was a LOT lower, and much more. So they took it, they took it all, enjoyed it used and abused while it lasted. And left their bill for us to pay.
yup, we have a big ass bill to pay.
Learn the real history
Heater Pie Care to explain? How can you possibly deny everything I said?
William Cricket *no reply* lol
I can pick up any phone or go to any computer and find ANY information about ANYTHING in the world at ANY TIME. People like Thoughty2 have lucrative careers making 15 minute videos. most of whom are not anywhere near as talented as Thought2, and they're raking in millions. I can make a living from home, in my pajamas if I choose, selling things online; I can buy and sell stocks, be a broker and never even meet a customer face to face. I can order food from almost any restaurant and some teenager will deliver it for free in 30 minutes or less. My refrigerator will tell me when it's time to buy milk. My watch has more computing power than the entire Apollo 11 project. It is unfortunate that education in The US has become a racket, but there is way more opportunity for Gen X and Millennials than there ever was in any other generation. Life now may be more complicated, but Baby Boomers most certainly did not have it EASY.
Thoughty2 talks about the things that were scared snowflakes will get mad at. God bless this man.
He talks about things that the "snowflakes" are also talking about...
Those who criticise our generation are quick to forget who raised it.
The Real PyroManiac you're generation is fucked up because my generation didn't deserve to be parents. I look at how most of my friend's raise their kids and I want to vomit. I'm 37 unmarried and have no children because the females of my generation were brainwashed by pop culture to be drunken sluts bags with no responsibility or liability for their actions and 0 idea for the order of life school job marriage kids. Their's was pregnant by 20 if that late no job and the father the same way. We fucked up it's not just technology.
The4cp be gay.
BengMegma lol no.
I didn't raise your generation tg.
They think what they do is right anyways.. They can't understand.
Who else is too self-conscious to take selfies or post statuses or exist online? 🙋♀️
fuck self-consciousness i just dont give a shit about people and social media (and im 24!)
me,i don't want anyone to see what I really look like
ME. It's media anxiety that maybe is a factor with s. a. d.
Posting a selfie or a status in facebook
AaAAAAAAAA shameful.
Billy K Has has.
i mostly post fun pics or videos i see from friend but during school fb stays off for long sometimes my friends r like where r you cuz ive been ofline for more then a month
Can't wait for Generation Sun & Moon
I see what you did there XD
Generation L & G & B & T & Q +
Lol
I gave out a mighty lul
You mean emos and weebs?
I'm a so called 'boomer' and I love your channel. You're a good critical thinker and not tied to this BS generational stereotyping. Good work man, keep it up. And just to contradict you, I'm one of those boomers that grew up in the wake of the Beatles, Timothy Leary, LSD and all that went with that, so my 'work ethic' is zero. I've made a career of doing as little work as possible. Life's too short to waste it making someone else rich.
Funny, I grew up being told that I needed a college degree to get a good job. I spent yeas in college and got out only to discover no one was hiring. So many companies advertise jobs because they're required to by law. But you'll never get that job even if you nail the interview and the resume. That job has already been given to someone else in the company. I'd LOVE to find a job where I can work for 20 years, but that's an impossibility. No one wants that kind of loyalty anymore. Heck, there's places I've been fired from because it's cheaper to hire overseas. Cheap. Cheap. Cheap. Faster. Faster. Faster. You can't just do a job anymore, you need to do 5 jobs within your job in order to keep it. It's exhausting. I'm not sure where this guy is getting his shit from but even when I was in the military, there was a giant shift in 2003 where military jobs were merged and suddenly you needed to multitask 3 other jobs including your specialization. No one wants a master, they want a multi tool that they can work to the bone for 5 years for peanuts then discard. There is no "work hard and you can do it!" We get, "Work hard and you MAY get to keep your heat on this month". THAT is why this generation is depressed. We were brought up and fed giant spoonfuls of lies that worked for our parent's generation but do not work at all in today's world. We're now so deep into debt because that good old promise of "pay now, get it back later" for college turned out to not only be a lie, but has now made us unemployable.
this is very true in the case of fast food or register jobs or ever changing jobs like oil field , but become your own store manager or try focusing on a field like a Doctor or Software Development or even a Enterprise Architect , these fields will reward your hard work. stop trying to do my dirty work for me so to speak and do it for yourself and you'll find that you will go up and not be shut down by the big bad boss!
That happened to my niece too, she spent four years getting one of those "Starbucks Degrees!"
are we pretty much saying the same thing? lol!
What was your degree?
@@drockier8437 Excuse me my friend but if you dont see that economy isnt anywhere near what it used to be in the 70s, 80s and 90s you are in denial.
Not everyone can be a boss, someone has to be an employee.
And life for employees now is hell.
You need a degree just to be a plumber and fix shit pipes.
In most countries, in the 70s all you needed was the will to work, and they d pay you a fortune.
what the hell
depression from not getting any likes
that's the saddest thing i've ever heard
I think part of the reason it seems crazy is because we think of "depression" as some HUGE thing that happens to people because of HUGE reasons but in reality, it's just a small chemical change in your brain that has a big impact.
Trophonix very true. that's why many of the kids that say that they are depressed say they don't want to talk about it. most of the time, the reason ain't shit and they know it
i hit like so you can get some of that sweet dopamine
He even said, that whether you acknowledge it or not, there's that addiction of social media. It's probably more relevant to a personal "let-down" when you witness less likes than you expected, than an actual clinical depression.
Very true!
In 1983 after graduating college you had a job in your selected field, in 2018 you graduate college with four degrees and a PHD and you work flipping burgers at McDonald’s, maybe that’s why half the population is depressed
Daniel Bryant fucking preach!!!!!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is the first time I hear this
Ian McKenna i applied for McDonalds and i had to write a fucking essay on why i wanted to be there. Im 16, poor and have an expensive hobby, let me flip burgers and take peoples money for it.
Ian McKenna exactly
Pick the wrong degree and you get to flip burgers. Flip burgers on the side *while* you get a useful degree and you'll do alright. The only thing truly inaccessible for the majority then is a house. The real estate market had been fucked for a while now though.
I dont make very many friends and I've never had a girlfriend. But I'm happy. It's because ive never touched social media in my life, ive never had the urge to. I resent social media entirely and always thought of it as poison to the brain.
I'm depressed because Thoughty2 doesn't wear his suit anymore
Clayton C same
I'm depressed because he plays the same background music in all his videos. No disrespect thoughty but please change it up
#BringBackTheSuit
Clayton C don't you remember he treats his channel like a job? It's casual Friday.
Moby Dick yr weird
My mum says I'm special... I think she just means I'm stupid
HerbyFox yes
HerbyFox yes, yes it does
Parents are programmed to only see the best of their childern.
Is your real name, 'Ed'? If so, you're in trouble... ;)
HerbyFox Na dude, you're "speshal" :D
Narcissistic???
I get a panic attack if i look someone in the eyes lol
I don't even talk to people in public
Technically, there's a secondary form of Narcissism that's classified with the obsession to be the absolute WORST person ever. They deny all compliments and are just as selfish and immoral as the other narcissists are. They have no sense of empathy and would rather focus on how terrible they are.
It should be noted that I am talking about the actual personality disorder (not the typical "selfish person"), so these symptoms are basically irreversible.
I'm in a state of depression where I post dank memes on instagram
Joel Jones you sound like my brother 😂😂😉😄
Joel Jones *High fives*
Joel Jones like me
Joel Jones same lmao
Actually, same.
The reason I'm depressed is because-
*PUBERTY*
what
*_PUBERTY_*
What no, the reas-
*_P U B E R T Y_*
Ok fine the reason I'm depressed is because of puberty.
Hibot3000 it sucks
I imagine your hormones are messing with you, just wait a year or two.
no that is the reason
Thanks man
Dont blame ye
Oh yes, we're depressed because of our phones.. And there definitely aren't any other reasons.
What he's saying is that the technology has conditioned our minds to expect instant gratification instead of putting enough work in it to get what you want. It applies to building relationships, getting promoted, building a business, and so on.
There are other, additional reasons, but this is one. Another is work load, teachers for example, they have to do a lot more than ''just teach'' which is skill on its own, but some schools, especially elementary schools have become a day care too. Next to teaching to a class of 30 students, which is not easy at all, they sometimes have to give students morale standards because the parents often have no time. Why do you think that any teachers have a burnout within a few years of graduating?
Like I said is that technology is just one of the many reasons why youth is depressed
TheFlyingTurtle I dont know what country you live in, where teachers bully you, but here in my country, I am doing a study to become a teacher and we are taught on the cognitive process of learning, From the Behaviorsm of the Black Skinner Box to the Cognitive Load Theory of Sweller.
All combined we are taught how students learn, how we can optimize their learning process. It basically impossible for a teacher to teach 30 students equally. However, we are also taught 9 key elements to becoming a teacher. Including pedagogical skills, making a safe learning space, and the skills to properly reinforce desired behaviour.
Trust me, not all teachers are the gems here, I've seen a lot of teachers from the X generation to complain about students, but most teachers who originates from the Y generation are like me.
Gaming Otaku watch the full video before complaining, you are a part of the problem
It's the latest layer of shit on top of the reasons why people get depressed. For example, the generation before introduced kindergardens (mass-production of daily maternal abandonment for everyone), which is another major layer of shit that created depressed people (generally unhappier people, even if some are not totally depressed).
I can’t wait till my generation is 30 and people will start accepting our existence
Edit: 🍿Enjoying the debate in the replies
But until then, this comment doesn’t exist.
@Justin Alias Yes indeed
@@bikerscoutproductions1040 Are You a Gen Z er bcs I'm
@Antonis Kapa Yes. gen z gang!
@@bikerscoutproductions1040 Let's Count how many Gen Z ers will connent
I'm a millennial but I don't use social media unless I have to, I generally hate taking selfies (unless it's with friends), and I tend to leave my phone at home unless I'm expecting a call or my ipod isn't charged. I graduated high school during the recession when job hunting was a freaking NIGHTMARE and was expected to compete with people way more qualified, experienced, and educated than I was. I fought tooth and nail for whatever odd job would help put me through school, don't tell me about how "privileged" and "lazy" millennials are, at least not all of us are like that. We basically got screwed over by past generations and have to deal with problems our parents never had (finding a job is still way harder than it was in the 80's/90's) so if millennials are depressed and out of work, maybe that's why. This was an interesting video overall, but I feel you relied too much on stereotypes and generalizations.
Don't even care about my friend's Instagram selfies. They told me to get an Instagram account so i can follow and like them. Till this day I never even touch Instagram. I don't even care if my Instagram got hack or something. Words can't describe how little i care about social media, selfies and likes. I prefer entertainment. Not social media for fuck boi and what ever shit my classmates are into this day. I rather not let my classmates enslave me to become one of them.
FlexViper I have an Instagram account. I probably post less than one time a year, go online maybe once a week. I'll follow friends but I immediately unfollow when anyone posts a picture of them self. And yeah I also have a Facebook account, that one I actually never use. I got my first job as soon as it was legal for me to work (age 15), and my grandparents were only talking about how "when they were younger, they actually had to work for a job! Kids now get extremely high pay for an entry level job!". Yeah, minimum wage is $10 now, don't they realize that's because the cost of living has skyrocketed? But of course, it's because we're just too lazy and entitled.
Generalizations are useful for understanding trends. You don't follow the trend. Congrats. But that doesn't mean the video is wrong.
Lisa Zoria same I am kinda like that I need to get off my phone it's 2 in the morning for me and I was supposed to go to bed an hour ago
WOKE
8:42 she's holding her phone upside down LOL
Dominic Brett I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW IT
This is the future
Lol future generations be holding phones like...
I was just gonna type that!
Ali A. Fake Ali A You play no Call Of Duty
I’m 53 years of age and seriously enjoy your videos. My generation also had to face new technologies and challenges, as did my parents and grandparents. You are well spoken and I like that you aren’t ignoring the pressures we are all under, no matter our beliefs. We all can enjoy contributing to our society with our individual abilities. Kudos on your channel’s success! Well done and please keep up the great work.
Nice bunch of words boomer
@@alexjulius69 what the fuck
@@dolnet769 No idea, must've felt edgy at that moment
Yes and in the case of the jet airplane you basically destroyed the American Republic with it. Our rich people today live in a strange alternate topology where Tokyo, Moscow & Paris are closer than Akron, Ohio, and their loyalty is no longer to America but to the cosmic jet airplane sky kingdom of Wokeatopia.
@@alexjulius69 This guy is a Gen X and was in his late 40s when this video came out.
With great power, comes great responsibility.
Limit your time on your phone and stay off social media.
Ok boomer
Did anybody else noticed that the woman at 8:43 is typing on her phone upside-down? Clear sign of depression :P
Supa Flexx I did
Supa Flexx 😂😂😂😂😂
I dove into this comment section to see if anyone else noticed and this did not disappoint me
Phew, thought I was crazy for a second.
feeling depressed? have a Pepsi
TristanThePest Nationwide is on your side
Kappa Chino Technically, yes. you can be addicted to pepsi, so when you consume it you release dopamines.
dont tell kendall
Muffin Dog nah, I drink pure dopamine
Kappa Chino #sorrykendal
Jasper Knight we are the most depressed generation ever
Im so glad that i haven't touched any social media that's rating me
Please dont, dont start with it please
I still live with my parents..
I'm 11
Yeah and fnding a house that is decent and safe isn't fun either trust me. Paying $350,000
Fortunately, you're NOT a dirty millennial. You're a Gen Z, and I'm pretty sure most of us live with our parents at the moment.
Me too.
dang, same,
i also live with my parents
im 14 doh
*_P L A S T I C F A N T A S T I C_*
We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
amen
Nulibrium Love the movie.
Sadly enough, wars and catastrophes give us a reason to make the world a better place. Right now, we're running out of reasons and thus happiness and satisfaction.
Nulibrium ww3 is on the way don't worry and when it is I'll be getting a draft letter were all just poking each other with sticks until one of the groups strikes first who that is is hard to say sadly I don't think this species will last at the rate were going at always killing each other stealing massacring all for what? some power the right to feel above another person and you basically have to pay to survive nowadays can't live in a house can't buy food can't have a family unless you pay up some cash to the powerful people this race is killing each other and the planet at the same time pollution is opening up the ozone melting ice caps that will overflow and destroy I wish it could just stop why can't we all work together like a species is suppose to
:(
Nulibrium ah... y'all are falling for the broken window fallacy. Although war does usually show for an economic peak, it almost always causes a depression to follow. War does not solve problems. Although people band together to shift from a consumer economy to a militia one, all of that work could have been put into making consumer goods in a non war time. (Just learned about this in my Econ class lol)
Generation Why
Buck0618 WHY MEEE ,;-;-;-;
Exactly my thoughts. Generation Why are we eating detergent
Buck0618 ...are we still here ?
Generation why we hate school lol
Guys! I have just made the greatest omelette in my life!
And you need to criticize others to hide your own insecurities.
PS
this ain't my pf & I ain't fat.
ScheepersGames you deserve All the likes 👏👍👍👍👍👍
EVERYONE give this man likes! Help him end millineal depression with likes before it's too late! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Sonny H
Lmao
That's awesome man. I went to ihop recently and felt regret thinking I could make a better omelette myself for half the price with organic ingredients.
Generation Y u so depressed?
CHICKEN IMMA EAT YOU
Because they come out into the real working world expecting to get everything handed to them. In reality they just get their own asses handed to themselves..
Ok that was good
SkyOfIce 🤦🏼♂️
TealFlame1 LMAO
I'm depressed bc my brazzers account got suspended.
same
FreedomMonkeyz395 snuff porn
AyToNiic stop watching porn
vv Mako v nahh nigga, whats the point of like then
vv Mako vv never
I just started college and I have been depressed for 3 years, are you saying that depression is the second reason of death among college students?... F
Rip
RUclips : let's put this 3yr old video to everyone recommendations!
*4
I’m a year behind the rest of you, better late than never I guess.
Why does the age of the video matter?
@@kldix4731 because they’re just now promoting it
4 year old 🤣
I did speech about this in college, explaining how social media makes people depressed because of how people are constantly comparing themselves to others who live a 'perfect' life on social media. Ironically, the class took it as having a "negative mind-set on life" and that I was the one depressed.. It was baffling.
Fillisel health care should be free for everyone though
Fillisel not the mobile phone itself because it is a useful tool, its the social media
Kenneth Navarro shoulda backed that up with statistics maybe...
This should be fun to watch. Are you giving out popcorn by the way?
Kenneth Navarro Ever read a Brave New World? Something like that
Dear Time Magazine, You made a typo on one of your covers. it should be the MEME GENERATION.
Randy Marsh I believe you made a mistake it should say THE AUTISTIC
I hope the next generation gets this name
KEK
Are millennials even that young now? They're pushing 40 years old.
81-96 so some are still in their 20s.
Depressed... reason?
" THE DAMN SCHOOLS. "
Here's why.
my grandparents -taught with " black board and chalk piece."
my parents-taught with a " black board and chalk piece."
ME-taught with a "green board and chalk piece.-.- "
it wasn't me who fell behind, it was the damn schools!
my mind wants things at a faster rate. I learn more from a 10 min video than a stupid 1 hr lecture under the same context.
You can't expect a bullet train to run on an ordinary track and complain about its performance.
IIcheckmateII stfu
Ethan Keller GTFO
Here is why people get depressed:
My morning routine
-wake up (6 am)
-make homework
-have breakfast
-make homework
-go to school
After school:
-get home
-drink water
-make homework
-have dinner
-make homework
-sleep (11 pm)
Tracks aren't different per train do
Ian witten "my morning routine". Describes his whole day😂
Im a Millenial and my parents are boomers... They spend more time on smartphones and social media than me
That really sucks
How do you class a boomer? Im 35 I wasn't born because of the baby boom after the 2nd war but im not a millennial. Gen y? Gen x? Im par of the lost generation 🤣 or is it :, D **notalgic**
my parents are always on tv
Guess that's an exception? Depends on what you classify a boomer. And I wouldn't be suprised to learn that you actually spend more time on the internet than you believe you do.
Boomers are those born right after WW2. 45 to 50's. My parents are and my oldest siblings are Gen X and I'm Gen Y. I have a lot of the hallmarks I've had to push past. Honestly though, I HATE my phone...I see it as a tool. I put it down when I get home from work and ignore it. I hate being bothered lol.
54% of 16 year-olds want to become a celebrity?!?!!? At 16 I still wanted to be an astronaut :(
Also, if this video is less than 2 years old how are the 16 year olds he mentions millennials? Unless he’s being up an old study because the youngest millennials would have still been in their 20s at the time this was made....someone is not matching correctly
When I was a teen, I wanted to be an author. Or an artist. Not super famous or a celebrity. I just wanted middle class, not too much, not too little.
I’m 16 and I want to die
@@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 I felt that
@@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 same.
I am a final year baby boomer. 1964. I work with some young people who fit the gen Y category. Some of them are brats, but most quickly learn they have to work hard to get by and end up being amazing workers. Lol. I did know this one young guy who was perplexed as to why only managers could apply for a particular position at my workplace. And he was going to apply for the position. After all of us laughed at the idea, he applied. Then he was confused as to why a 19 year old kid with no life experience or leadership training was flat out rejected for the position. After all his older brother was put into a management position straight out of school. His brother works for a very small company only employing about 5 people. Unlike the company I work for that employs thirty thousand+ employees across the country. But I figure, well done for at least trying. But he quickly learnt that participation awards aren't given to people at workplaces.
You are completly unique!
Just like everyone else.........
No one for a billion (really an infinite amount of) years will live in the same space and time as you do, carrying your name, doing what you do in the order that you do things. That in itself makes you completely unique no matter how much of a stereotype you may seem to be or actually are.
it's a world of paradoxes innit? (fuck cats in boxes btw)
Yarbloco Your comment is legitimatly f*cking amazing
fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Books Lift My Screen Wrong, in 10 quintillion years (assuming that the universe will not be destroyed) any possibility with a chance above 0, will happen. But who knows if humans will survive long enough.
Glad my parents didn't give me an iphone when I was nine years old
When I was 9, iPhones didn't even exist. I didn't have a cellphone at the age of 9, though.
Jaden Fox I see 5 and 6 year olds with phones on my bus (Mostly iPhones)... I see that and cringe at the fact that their parents are so irresponsible. Unless they block everything on their phones except some games, they can get on almost anything, although I'm most worried about how much money it'll cost when your 1st grader drops their iPhones -_-
I'm 14 and I dont even have a smartphone just a nokia from way back and no we could totally afford it Im the only one on the family who doesnt have an iphone and we're 5. Why dont I have an iphone? because I'd rather have a 3ds than an iphone who needs iphone when you can access the internet with your computer. btw my computer is only a hp mini 110 iphone is still more expensive
michael rivera ayyyyy were the same mate
except i have a cheap draining ds lite and a hp mini 110 colored pink ;-;
You know? I'm glad (for you) too.
I'm also glad my phone is an old bakelite screwed to the kitchen wall. I have a flip-phone around here somewhere (haven't seen it in about a year now) but I only ever have it working when I'm on the road long-haul (more than a day's drive)...
I'm glad this P.oS. I'm on only cost me twenty bucks ($20 U.S.)... I'm glad it wasn't functional when I found it (paid for it anyways, b/c I had parts) and I had to make it work again. I'm glad because I took that little journey into techie' work for something else.
I'm also glad there are still stupid people who don't bother learning to fix anything. They just trade it off cheap or throw it away (free to me) so I can swap and strip and trade my way into practically anything I want as I decide to look for it. :o)
I don't care about online attention I care about dank memes
where do you find your dank memes?
Various low quality instagram pages primarily
Isaiah Seno same
Isaiah Seno same
Isaiah Seno same
At 27, my depression is mostly money related. To sum it up, I work to afford my meds, that allow me to work. I live with family cause I can't afford anything else. I can't take the risk of moving, cause if I can't get my meds I barley function. Have tried looking for places that offer insurance, but no luck. It feels meaningless trying most days. Also feels like I let everyone down, because I did not become an engineer like my grandfather. I have nothing to show for 12 years of work, other than chronic pain. Hard to believe there's people out there my age, who have started families and own homes.
I think another reason us youths have more mental health issues is because we feel more stressed. Not necessarily because he have more stressful lives than our parents or grandparents, but because when they got it they were told to just deal with it and soldier through it and when we get it we're told we should get help for it, which leaves us even more stressed.
Plus everything is easier now. Want some food? You can buy a whole meal for three bucks, throw it in the microwave and be eating inside five minutes. Need to find out how to do something? Google it, and in five seconds you'll have your answer. We have easier lives for the most part, so we get bored easier, which leads to more checking Facebook or whatever, which leads to stress and depression when we don't get our 'fix.'
I don't even remember when I didn't have google maps to tell me where to go. I thought I was generation X :(
OG Aley which was about a buck 50 in our currency, inflation my bro.
OG Aley 30 cents was also a lot harder to earn thougj
nah, we just got use to having everything spoon fed to us.
Tripping Pug I agree, my cousin is still in school and the teachers help with everything and say all the solutions while for me the teachers only say what we're going to learn for the day and we had to learn from scratch
nah i grew up super poor without tech and i still want to die everyday lmao
Are you alright...?
Im sure you have a prupose on this earth just like everyone else ... you wernt just born to breathe and eat ... Theres something out there waiting for you to conquer it .. dont give up , go for it !
haha lmaoooo
Same, we never had cable.
I dunno how i'm classed as a millenial I thought that was just people from the 90's and despite my privileges I don't feel entitled, pr want to be famous though I can agree I want to do something with meaning that I enjoy, but I decided i'd use games development as a foundation to make a technology/sciences company as I have the knowhow and have been planning for 6 years,
and I don't expect it to be easy I have to get to the top of the ladder in the games industry to have the qualifications to run one, I'll be 36 at least before I start my own company!
Incredibly badly researched video. Just one reason to explain something as complex as epidemic depressions?
I often deliberately ignore my phone, when I'm eating for example. I mainly use my phone as a phone, I use very few apps & I am not on any social media (garbage). My friends will squirm when my phone rings and I don't answer. They ask "are you getting that?" and I say "No, you're here, they aren't and I refuse to let them barge in my life when they feel like it".
I don't know if phones and social media are the true cause of depression in millennials and Gen Z's - I've met plenty including myself who have gone through depression who don't use facebook,/Instagram/Twitter/etc. Regularly. And in my case, sure I use RUclips a lot and play a lot of video games, but I'd argue that binging on these things is a result of the depression, not the cause.
In analyzing my depression and my own life, it really seems to be more of a product of expectations than anything else. Back in the 50's -70's it was completely okay for someone to work in a factory, get married, have kids, retire, and pass on. That was considered a good and valuable life. Nowadays, we're instilled with the idea that we can and should change the world, and not doing so is a waste of our time here on Earth. By the school system, by our parents, by the media, and by our religious leaders and other mentors, time and time again we're told to maximize our talents, to take advantage of every opportunity, to get straight A's and get into the most prestigious college, and on and on and on.
Unfortunately, depression tends to be the result of frustration from unmet expectations. So it's really no wonder so many of us are depressed. We're all expected to get good grades, to get a wonderful job, to make a difference in the world, to take advantage of every opportunity, to maximize our talents - how is any normal person supposed to do all of that?
We're all depressed because we're all told at a young age that we can make a difference and be extremely successful, and when we inevitably see that we are not making a difference and are not extremely successful, we do not live up to our own expectations put in our minds from childhood, and feel as if even trying is pointless and we might as well just give up.
100% agreed.
I believe most millenials are taught they are special and more than just a part of a bigger community, but in reality we are just a part of something bigger that ourselves. The people who change the world are made examples for the billion others and the bar is just too high. That amount of success is reached naturally by the individual's own means, not by others telling them to do so.
100% agree
Not only that but it was way easier to get a job back then. A lot harder today and a house,car costs a fortune it was a cheaper back then
The solution is to not care in the slightest what everyone expects of you. The solution of course comes with other problems but I find it to be a valuable strategy lol.
Can't agree more ,that expectations had me depressing for real
Getting reeaaal tired of people scapegoating my generation, as if we haven't had huge problems to deal with.
* A Bachelor's degree is now the minimum expectation for any job with a livable wage, and will cost us triple what your education cost you. Total student loan debt is higher than it's ever been.
* Real wages haven't grown significantly in decades, while the price of living skyrockets.
* We had to enter the job market in the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
* There is a very real possibility that unrestricted exploitation of the environment will cause irreparable climate damage during our lifetime. Ultimately, the responsibility is going to fall on us (and our wallets) to fix this.
* Jobs are disappearing as more basic tasks become automated, with no clear replacement for them.
* Generally terrible/incompetent government on the national level. Disastrous wars, bad foreign policy, lack of clear leadership/direction, lack of bipartisan cooperation, corruption, increased social strife on many levels that hasn't been this bad in some time... and so on.
I might never have a house because I'll be in debt til I'm 60, and I might have to fight a global resource war when the Midwest turns into a desert, but yeah, it's totally my twitter likes that's making me depressed /s.
There is little point in listing the many problems that our generation has to face. The previous 2 generations evidently don't give a shit and would rather blame our cell phones instead.
Did you people even bother to watch this video?
don't buy an iPhone and you'll have enough money for food for a month if you spend wisely
corgidog yup I don't want a phone I don't understand my generation it's weird especially the gender stuff
and dont get me started on how much skate shoes cost every time they get wrecked
i dont get why the older generation like to jugde the younger ones so much, i just came back from a 12 hour shift and im 16 and my parents still call me lazy...
alexander ji rip
alexanderi ji you're not being judged, your just parents want what's best for you. you will thank them for it when you're older, trust me.
bmarkelj80 that is so unbelievably wrong. You're literally saying "you will thank your parents for calling you lazy when you were trying your best." Honestly, I don't ever think I'd thank anyone for making my best effort feel inadequate, regardless of who they are or what their motives were
Old person: Back in my day, I remember when bricks were created! Everybody wanted them!
i would thank them for it if they wouldn't hit me for being "lazy" after working a 26 hr shift without any of my medication.
I'm a boomer and had millenials and gen xer's as employees. Give me a millenial any time.
Everything that makes us feel better is addictive...
Addiction, weak and lacking self discipline.
@@gavinreid5387 ok boomer
@@trutwhut6550 Generation X .
@@trutwhut6550 you seem to be Generation Z. Snowflake Generation.
@@gavinreid5387 lol you to bud
I feel like as a generation we are so greatly misrepresented and I think this is because there is a clear and harsh divide within our generation. yes there are people like this obsessed with their phones and other dumb shit that doesn't matter but in my opinion those are mostly the people in the lower end of the intellectual spectrum. there are so many smart people who care about the world and whats going on inside of it. in my opinion we are the most depressed because we are the most informed. we aren't kept in the dark like every other generation before us. technology has allowed us to force our way into the light. we have realistic perceptions of the world around us and yeah we're fucking depressed because the world is shitty and corrupt and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
Sometimes it feels like I am surrounded by complete idiots.
zachary odell It often feels like at least 90% of the people around me are complete idiots.
Ryan Richards True...
Rachel Marie PREACH true I'm depressed cause family,stress,school,and knowing my country is fucked
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in fact I tore out my phones battery so I could use it for something else that's more important then typing
So the youth is depressed but doesn't have depression i've had depression ever sense i was a kid but in all honesty i do have stress but there are ways you can get rid of stress.
not all of us believe our parents when they try to tell us we're special... Some of us actually feel even worse about ourselves when our parents tell us that because we feel like their always lieing to us... sometimes (almost all the time) we feel like we wanna die no matter how many likes or nice comments we get because people irl always put us down so we NEVER believe ANYONE when they actually try to compliment us..... but what ur saying actually makes scence...
wow...
Switch off the internet . I know that’s absolutely crazy, but I guarantee people will be happier in the long run . And yes I see the irony .
reminds me of that terrible remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. the message that at first we won't know what to do with ourselves, but will eventually find a way to live our lives again.
he says mobile phone are bad, looks down whispers ¨im watching this on a mobile phone¨.
on the bed
I'm a millennial, and due to my social anxiety I would prefer the attention to not be on ME ME ME.
Caleb Tesfaye Yet you comment to be agreed on
+straunus, i doubt he thought 100+ people would agree, plus social anxiety doesn't really effect people when communicating online.
RUclips's Ok Actually, it does, it just depends. If you are talking to people you normally see in real life or are going to meet up with, you are going to be nervous. But as you said, "I doubt he thought he would get 100+ likes" I guess that's true.
Millenials at least in America spent our entire lives being told this country is an amazing place where you can work hard and make your dreams come true, and then we graduated into the Great Recession. When we turn around and tell the generation that raised us "Hey this isn't the world you told us we lived in. This is horse shit, it needs to change" we are call self-entitled ingrates.
Couple that with the "lucky ones" who enter college straight out of high school, watch the problems in our world from the outside from the comfort of their dorm room and proceed to blame straight white men for everything. Nobody will ever take my generation seriously and we're fucked 6 ways from Sunday. No shit I'm depressed.
facts
Fuck that shit, were born into a dying fucked up world ima just make sure I get mine but y’all can do what y’all want just stay out my way
The rhetoric sounds a lot like that of Gen X (my generation) after the crash of 87.
College is a huge scam the new generation is getting their whole life scamed
Thumbs up, but the self-entitlement reproach is not for that, though. It's for the impatience for recognition and the demanding rewards before the effort or achievements. It's for the SJW attitude, that their opinion is more important than anyone elses. It's for the expectation that the world should cater to every whim you may have... If you're not falling in any of those categories, then nobody is calling you self-entitled =)
Meanwhile me:
"Cries in GenZ"
Meanwhile me:
"Laughs in Gen Alpha"
Because gen Z and millennials are always being looked down upon and no one is bad-mouthing gen alphas