I’m 16, and life is very… very repetitive especially during school hours. I wake up, I take a shower, I go to school, I work all day, I go home, I go to sleep, repeat.
I'm 27 and since your age i was thinking about that. Dont get upset boy, but be prepared for a life very repetitive, unless you win the lottery or break free... Nowadays its pretty common be grinded in every kind of work/job, related to repetitive actions. PD: having a hobbie helps a lot, more if you get some proffit, or having goals or interest in something to keep you distracted in your free time, but nothing related to estudies/jobs haha
As an older Gen Zer, I’m 25, and I’ve gone through college and graduate school, studied math and then business, and id say there’s an overwhelming sense of cynicism and pessimism about our future, along with a desire for things to fundamentally change among my peers. We aren’t particularly satisfied with the state of our government, nor our economic structure. I think many of us question what used to be viewed as fundamental truths in our society, believing that there is something better out there that is possible. We aren’t sure what this may be, but we know we’d like to have a greater voice in how our society is run. Seeing 80 something year olds who aren’t going to be around the future make all the decisions is frustrating, as we will be the ones who face the consequences. I also notice a desire for life to be “slower”, where one isn’t caught up in overwhelming barrage of media entertainment given to us by the internet or corporate entities, nor are we expected constantly be “on our grind” and make work our life. This general dissatisfaction with the current state of the world, combined with a pessimistic outlook for the future has definitely contributed to this cynicism, since it’s difficult to believe there’s something on the horizon. But I have also noticed an almost defiant hopefulness amongst my generation, believing that we can still make the world better, and create a better society for all, even though we may not know exactly how to get there or what it may look like. “One day I will return to your side” as Disco Elysium puts it. My viewpoint is definitely biased, but this simply what I’ve noticed about myself and my friends. Hope it’s insightful somehow.
Also 25, I agree totally. There's a huge sense of disconnection in a lot of ways between our generation and society at large, or even with each other, given the lack of physical social connection.
I’m 18 turning 19 next week and agree with just about everybody in the comments. Life feels very monotonous and scary, especially because of a large chunk of my teenage years being in a pandemic. I feel really unprepared for everything and honestly it’s so so hard to stay optimistic. I am horrified at the thought of having to move out after I graduate college next year, every wage offered to me is unlivable, and living in Seattle is just about as expensive as it gets here in Washington. Long story short I fight my own brain every day to be grateful for what I have and enjoy my existence, since yknow I will never be this young again. I hope to accomplish things that I can be proud of in life, and have a painfully normal family with my partner. The concept of having my own place to live someday seems unreachable, so that’s why it’s my main goal in life to show that I can.
I'm 38 and I could've wrote that, I feel the same way. I'm saddened that someone so young feels so scared. It shouldn't be this way, you should be full of optimism at your age. I hope your generation can improve things in this late stage capitalist hellscape.
A fellow washingtonian! Sorry you gotta live in seattle. i haven't been since the first crime surge. Im halfway through high school, and honestly, if i get kicked out of the house at some point, i might be forced to relocate to a homeless shelter cause of the insane prices of houses, especially where i am in tacoma. I know its "early to be worried about it" but considering the fact it wont be that long and the economy doesnt seem to be going any other way its a real threat and on top of the fact that im having some kind of emotion suppressing brain problem that my parents just refuse to get looked at because screens are somehow always the problem i dont see myself being capable of living a day to day job without jumping off mount rainier
honestly same I finished high school last year and am turning 19 in about half a year, I don't plan on going to collage but I feel unprepared for starting any sort of job because I never got the chance with the pandemic plus diagnosed depression since I was a kid. Also I live in Olympia definitely better than Seattle lol
It's weird to be young nowadays. I feel like, because of the internet, young people are experiencing or hearing about the things you only used to find out about as you transitioned into being an adult a lot earlier. I'm 23 and I think anyone born between 1997-2003 had this weird inbetween phase where they experienced having a childhood without everyday technology (excluding maybe a family desktop or something similar) and then were sentient enough to experience and navigate the beginnings of smartphones and social media. The prevalence of online socialising is, I feel, the single most impactful change to humanity in the last 30 years. Having known and experienced what it was like to exist as a child before all of this and then grow up as a teenager with these things at my fingertips feels so so odd. I find, due to the availability of everything, I feel like I have no clear semblance of uniqueness to me whatsoever. I know and have seen at least once, aspects of myself somewhere else online. Anything I thought that might have been special or unique or interesting about myself has been one upped by countless other people who have the same aspects within their lives. I feel like this is part of the reason why there has been such a surge within our generation for identity politics etc. We have all become so aware of the RANGE of people that exist on this planet that it becomes so important to solidify our own experiences in order not to feel lost within it all. It's hard to hear on a GLOBAL scale about war and poverty and corruption and greed and all of these horrible nasty things that the human race enacts on itself and the planet around us. I feel like it drives a lot of younger people into having little faith in any long standing establishment or in the opposite way having too much faith in radically driven new establishments on either side of the scale. We want things to change or at least come away from all of the bad things we constantly hear about. And so we work 2 jobs and try to unionise and go to therapy and talk about wages and ourselves and human connection. We drink expensive coffees and can't afford petrol or vegan diets and we feel guilty about it even though we know that were being lied to about the environment being at fault of the individual. We send constant texts and memes to our friends so as to feel involved in the hive mind and we remind eachother to eat and hydrate and appreciate nature 'while it's still around'. While being involved in this hive mind we try to respect each other for who we are, as we hear about racially charged attacks and terrorism. And we share how sad we feel on our Instagram story's one slide on from our morning fit check. It's beautiful but sad. Which life has always been good at, but always seems to find news ways to show it.
What it's like to be young is a very abstract question with alot of varying answers, however the majority of us younger gen Z's (14-19s) are very depressed as we get berrated for information we haven't yet been taught; watching our small insignificant space rock become more and more inhabitable; wars being broken out left, right and center. Now it doesn't mean everything is bad but at this point in history alot of us are confused and scared as we begin to grow into the adult world. It's all so confusing, stressing and worrying as the prices of rent increase, mortgages become more and more of a dream then a reality. Gaming can only help us for so long; along with sports. It's a tool we use to cope more then enjoy at this point. I just hope for a peaceful and happy future where every day it seems less and less dystopian as wars will cease, there will be no need for stressing, life will be great but not a facade. I just want to look outside and see a happy world, not one where it's covered in evil and fear. All we want is a safe space to grow up into rather then one which becomes more hostile.
I'm afraid this isn't exclusive to you, your the second generation in this boat. It doesn't get better...just go with the flow. All the things you think will be your problems, probably won't be. The major issue your gen will be facing is housing depending on where you live.
Reading all your guys’ comments i keep noticing two huge things, those being the fact that life feels extremely dull and repetitive and the fact that Covid really fucked us all up. I identify alot with the music I listen to and an album that kinda speaks to that feeling of repetition and boredom is Porcupine Tree’s album Fear of a Blank Planet. It’s a very interesting and unique album. If i had to explain it, it sounds like a modern day Pink Floyd mixed with Rush and metal. For me, music is one of the biggest parts of my life and it really will help you through shitty times.
I'm 14 and always feel like I have to change myself to fit in. Kids my age are either obsessed with putting others down to bring themselves up, or TikTok. I have fairly bad ADHD and social anxiety (mainly just horrible anxiety in general) so being social with calmer people is hard. I always feel alone but can never feel comfortable talking to someone. They are scary. They act as if the world is their play thing. As if mine and others feelings dont matter. I know this was long, but seeing the other comments wanted me to comment as well. And I hope all of you get better if you are having a bad time.
I can relate. I have grown up in the southwest and can say just how little people care in my state. It's all about them and not once in my 28 years could I make a friend here in this country. All my friends aren't American. Not like every American sucks, but never got the chance to meet one that gives a damn about putting effort into relationships. No value is put into caring about humanity here, nor outside this country really and for anyone different or disabled. Like us, having ADHD/ADD, we're not able to understand how people work easily. It takes some effort to find the people you can connect to. But it's well worth it along with improving yourself for yourself. You're worth liking yourself and being there for yourself to help be there for others. At 14, I wished I had friends so badly, I was ill and finally out of school because of it. I was essentially isolated but I learned a lot about myself and learned about life by reading and video games. At 24 I finally made the closest relationships I've ever had. I'm nearly 29 and I have a best friend I miss being around who I love so much. I have friends who I have known 5 years, that's a huge milestone. And made some new friends through one of my closest friends. It was some luck and effort and working my butt off to make sure I kept these relationships. And these people worked to keep their relationship with me too. I hope you can find those people, to understand yourself to better connect with yourself and others. Be safe. Stay hydrated and eat well. Feb 25, 2024
I think it's turned out that this access and this ability to find everything all at once has been far more of a double-edged sword than any of us could have expected. I think people in my generation, I'm 22, are lost in the sense that the direction feels unclear and there are so many other things that can fill the time that are easier to access and easier to do. People have no place to push themselves or accomplish things, don't know what they can accomplish, and have an infinite supply of things to distract them from those accomplishments.
I'm 14 currently, almost 15 and I'd say...living these days as a 'teenager' at least in my view, is difficult these days. I know it's not as difficult as it has been in the past but it's difficult for me and my friends/peers. These days everything is so influenced by social media & it's so hard to escape it. When I was 12 I snuck around a lot on the internet and always talked with strangers who I trusted so easily and my mother would always find out but I was so easily encouraged by what I saw online and it changed my behavior completely, I've gotten over it since then but it was a really tough time, especially for my mother who had to worry about my safety due to my careless actions online. I do virtual school so I don't have to worry about everything that happens in school and it's a breather for sure, I hated going to school in person. I think society tends to look down on my generation because of what is shown on the internet and yes, sure that's a big part of our generation but there's a different side to and I wish more people would understand that and shine a light on the more positive side of Gen Z. It's messy a lot but everything is, there's always going to be positives and negatives and up's and down's. Anyways, take care everyone, Gen Z or not ! Stay strong and you got this, keep fighting
Online school ruins social life. Also strangers on the internet won’t ever do anything harmful to people so it doesn’t really matter if you trust strangers on the internet easily, it’s not like they are going to go to your house and murder you. The biggest problems with gen z is screen addiction and the mental health crisis that is currently happening.
Im 22, im stressed as all hell haha. Honestly, Its mostly the looming knowledge that I will probably never be able to buy a house the way my grandparents were, yet i have to listen to them harp about what hard work is, how my generation never works, how lazy we are, etc. Even with my full time job, 40 hours a week, I am still seen as lazy. I dunno, just adds on to all the financial stress. I can handle financial stress, what I dont like is being told that this financial stress is normal, as if we arent in a big economical dip in the US currently. But, at the same time, I do really like my generation. Us and millenials. Im really happy to be young now, in a world where people are much more aware socially. I guess we get called sensitive for that, i mean I dont disagree that some people are WAY too expecting of like trolls on the internet but, for the most part a lot of it is just us trying to be aware of how other people feel. But back to the like, inequality stuff. Misinformation is terrifying. Finding out things that arent true that our politicians are pushing, CENSORSHIP, which I thought republicans were heavily against that is now being completely supported by them, I dunno. Its just stressful. This is pretty much just word vomit at this point, bottom line is that its stressful as hell. People keep saying my generation is soulless and selfish, all i see is people struggling to be themselves because of things like cringe policing culture, shit like that, that is also pushed by older adults. Its no wonder generation alpha is getting "dumber", they literally cringe police eachother into unintelligence.
The first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you for the positive impact on my life and the relaxing videos. Recently, my 28 Year old sister who was very sad several times watched your videos when she was about to harm herself and I helped her a lot. The algorithm showed her your videos and that is the reason she is still alive. Thank you so much for helping her. Let me introduce myself first. I am a 23 Year old Man from Germany. I am autistic and I have aspergers Syndrome. I enjoy having ASMR in the background when reading, playing video games or learning. According to Wikipedia, being born in 2000 makes me a person of GEN Z. I have been watching you for a long time. I do not know how long exactly but I think for 7+ years? I enjoy your both profound and relaxing videos and I think your voice is one of the best of all the ASMR Videos on RUclips. I think that you are a smart man who can teach me a lot. I do now know If my answer is good because I live different that most people. Due to Autism/Asperger I see the world vastly different than most people I know. But maybe this is what you are looking for? Please let me answer a bit later. I will watch the video when I have time for it. I want to properly think about it and write a good answer after watching the video. I watched the first 17 minutes. Please have a great day and take care of yourself. I was planning on doing it now and I had a few minutes to watch a bit but have to stop watching now. I do not mean to insult but my sister is at bad health. I do full-time care for her right now. She is very similar to Jinx from Arcane which is one of her favorite shows. She has also has depression and does not eat on her own. I am telling you this so that you know that I have to do other things right now and I hope you are not mad at me. She allowed me to tell you about her. She hopes that It will help other people.
@@ypila Thank you so much. My sister wishes the best for you and asks if you would like to talk to her.Have a great day and dont forget to care for your health.
So glad your sister is doing better now. And she has a really good brother to help her on her journey. i too suffer with depression and anxiety, so i know the struggles some days are really hard. it makes it easier knowing we are not alone and have someone we can turn to to talk when we need to. you both take care of yourselves.
I’m 16 and I’m living the same day everyday. Of course I have that little break where I go and play drums in a band for a crowd of people and get paid, but when I’m not doing that or with my girlfriend, I’m living the same day over and over. I’m just so tired, literally and metaphorically all the time and every day is a struggle
as a 16 year old, it honestly just feels very irreal. maybe it’s just me but i find myself just disassociating most of the time, especially after the pandemic. the pandemic was a huge deal for all our lives but some of us were ending a big part of our lives and starting a new one just like that. developing depression and social anxiety was just a huge part in how we act as people and i feel like it’s changed so much in how people act towards each other. living in this state, with inflation and climate change i just don’t see the future i want actually happening. my dream to live with friends and wanting a world where i don’t have to worry about dying in my school feels so unrealistic. I know that it might seem a bit dramatic thinking that i could die at my own school but knowing how many things happening in this world it just doesn’t seem completely impossible. just being a teenager, it feels like we can’t really do anything. adults don’t see us as reasonable people, we’re seen as too childish and immature. we have no say in how we want the world. i just hope that the life that many of us want doesn’t become so unreachable.
21 year old here and I must say from what I’ve seen and heard in modern media, it is so much harder to be financially independent in 2023. I currently live with my father and am barely able to make ends meet sometimes when it comes to paying my individual bills (phone bill, car bill, etc.) All these experience has taught me is I gotta work hard to break free of this mindset!!
My way of thinking is that nobody does anything bad for no reason. There are always reasons people are the way they are, and the current issue is that we allow the current system to incentivize uncaring and cruel actions. Integrity doesn’t put food on the table, and until it does then not much will change. It takes a special person to be above it, and special people are rare. And yet, time and time again people amaze me and prove how amazing they are. I guess what I’m saying is that people aren’t inherently bad, they’re just led astray far too often.
Just like walter white ig. 90% of people or whatever will break bad (no pun) if they are pushed to their limits. I hope that no one in the comments or well anywhere has to experience "breaking bad" (as in giving up being kind, turn to a life of crime/evil)
i’m 15 turning 16, life’s very repetitive to be honest, lots of work, school, gym. I feel like for people my age i think about deeper things a lot more than other. I really appreciate the worlds natural beauty, and i love nature. I think there’s way too much media and comparison in our lives (the killer of joy) and so i’m glad i grew up not around technology. But honestly with the repetitiveness, having a hobby (cars for me) has helped a lot, wrenching on them and messing with them with friends has helped me have a lot more fun than i would without it.
I am 26, and started watch your videos since 2018( maybe) when I was a college student. My life changes a lot these days, but your videos always be there. It really helps me a lot. Huge thanks, you human expert.
Being a teenager is rough. Especially now. So much peer pressure, big expectations, new technology, and work on top of work. When I was small, I had promised myself I'd never do anything bad or illegal. Now here I am doing quite the opposite of that. The pressure that school and employers put on teens now is unbelievable. And learning how to drive, just learning how to get life together in general! It's tough.
I'm 29, born in 94 and I don't feel anything anymore. Life has kind of taken the joy and happiness of my youth but I try not to dwell on it. I know they say it gets better and I'm here and hoping it does
I’m 17 and it’s kinda of a struggle to talk to people these days because we rely so much on technology to help us and I think that’s why some people are in home school that have social anxiety. Me personally I don’t have a problem talking with people as long as I find the right people for me to relate to and not the trouble makers. I just feel like today’s society needs help because I’ve looked at the depression rates and the suicidal rates and they’re at an all time high. In my opinion ever since COVID happened people are just feed up with life and the responsibility’s they have to look after. I know I don’t know much but I take advice from my parents whenever I’m having a bad day. I’m glad they’ve been taking good care of me for 17 years and my two sisters for almost 14 years. If you can accomplish something in life than that will always be the greatest feeling ever.
They aren’t fed up with life they are just soft nowadays. Back in the day as soon as men turned 18 and they were sent to war. They would’ve loved to live in your time
Hey, Uncle E I know you don't care about accolades or recognition, but I just wanted to say thank you for being there for me when I was lonely in my teens. I moved from my parents at 16 years old and was kind of scared to sleep in complete silence at night. So I would put your videos on and just listen. That helped me a lot. Wanted to write this for a long time, but never got to. I'm 20 now and still watching. Have a good day, Rift. I hope you will see this
What it’s like to be young in today’s world. As an older zoomer, growing up during the internet’s takeover of society felt like speed running different eras of humanity. When I was a young kid, the internet was commonly used but there was still a major distinction between it and real life. Back then, internet speeds were still too slow and mobile devices were too expensive for the average person to spend a lot of time on the internet. This led to the internet being a cool new thing to learn stuff and the beginning of internet humor. Back then, people’s opinion wasn’t entirely based on what they hear on the internet. It was mostly fun facts and basic memes. During my teenage years, the internet fully took over society. Social media developed at a breakneck pace, going from a place to share pics/thoughts to a platform that can radicalize almost anyone depending on what they see. At this point it still wasn’t a massive problem. People who based their worldview on what they see on social media were still generally looked down upon. This is also the time when the corporatization really came into full swing. It quickly shifted from homemade content (remember when we didn’t use the word content to describe everything?) to professionally made videos, promotions, pages, etc. I’m my opinion, this is the time when the golden age of the internet died. It went from a neat thing to use every now and then to something that almost everyone in society is always connected to and base their personality off of (watch Serial Experiments Lain). I am in my 20s now and while technology has progressed, I believe we are in a much worse place socially. The modern internet and algorithms create echo chambers by design. I make an active effort to avoid being in echo chambers and it still constantly happens. I deleted most of my social media last year because it was terrible for my mind. Looking back on it, social media is basically poison for your brain, even when used sparingly. What we like, who we don’t like is overwhelmingly controlled by a small amount of corporations. It feels like we passed the peak of symbiosis of society and the internet, and it’s quickly getting worse. Even if you disconnect yourself, odds are that at least 90% of the people you know will still be in the situation. In short, it feels like I was born when right when the golden age of humanity is ending. If things don’t change, humanity is doomed to hate each other based on what companies/internet decide. This is why Gen Z is so detached from the current affairs of society, we have already passed the point of no return. -A monke
21 yrs. I think that life is fascinating. The world is so intricate, there are so many things to learn. Even through the evil that lurks, I think that life is what we make of it. The unknown also excites me. I hope that others resonate, I wish for a positive future
As a 14 year old, being a teenager in todays society is harsh, and very difficult to live in. Many kids nowadays bully you or make fun of you because of silly things. Like, you have fuzzy hair because you took a shower the previous night and it dried, or you have a different music taste, or maybe you look poor. People are cruel nowadays. We have to worry about school shootings, wars, and many other things. Other then the bad factors, it can be decent. We have lots of ways to entertain our selves, many games have been created. We have lots of advancements in technology. I’m not a writer but this topic is very important to talk about. Many parents/adults don’t understand mental health, lgbtq and many other things. We have to worry about inequality and being mistreated and told to go to hell just because we look different or identify as a different gender. This is the cruel truth of being a Gen Z teenager in todays society.
I’m currently 14. First I wake up 6:45ish, then I go to school for seven hours. 1st period science, 2nd period gym/Spanish, 3rd period 8th grade math, 4th period English, 5th period U.S. studies, and 6th period communications/band. Then I go home do whatever for a while and go to sleep. This may sound repetitive. But I have a deep love for jazz, I play alto sax, Bari sax, and drum set. And the main thing is my family and friends they are so nice and support me.
I think being my age (22) it has its ups and downs .. i could rant about how bad things are but I’ll do one good instead .. I think it’s amazing how easily accessible the history is, with all the architecture, scriptures and preservatives is astonishingly unbelievable and beautiful
Honestly as a 17 year old, its definitely intresting. On one side we have the monotonous repeative highschool grind, however I believe what really plauges us is simply a lack of things to look forward too. I mean turning 18 we, maybe, go to college, pay taxes, and if we are lucky retire at sixty five and enjoy the rest of our lives free to wish we were young enough to use that freedom for what we wanted. This boringness and dullness though has taught me the importance of family to carry me through the monotony and grey, regardless of the future I can look forward to coming home to see my brother and my dog before spending time with friends I can trust. The thing most people gain though instead of contentness with the people around you is financial ambition, breaking that sad boring monotomy, while I support those looking too; personally I am focused on making it from day to day.
I would say not all of us had it easy. I'm 23 and been watching since 2014. When I was a teen you were my go to after a long day of school. Some of us had the chance to have everything they needed for success and other didn't. I would say life is not more easy but we have different social and economical challenge that are different from what they were when you were our age. I personally went through poverty throught out my childhood. Getting hand me downs from older siblings and family members. Has a young adult during my twenties I live through homelessness and getting kick out my house. I'm finally financially independent but still helping my parents with rents and food. They were not the best parents, they did try their best and i believe so and has their child I feel a responsibility to help them has much has I can. Finding a place where to live, work, school and food has all become so expensive that spending time for myself doing thing I enjoy has become extremely hard.
I’m 19 turning 20 in December and life is stuck for a moment for me I’m on house arrest for 14 months so I’m limited to what I can do all I can say is be grateful for your freedom and the little things in life like going on walks,fishing,going to families houses cuz I cannot leave for a weekly pass unless it’s to the store to get supplies like food and such. Life is beautiful no matter if you have nothing or have it all just be happy with yourself for being able to experience life and the things and people in it good or bad it’s all a experience to be happy to be able to live through :)
As nice as it is to have access to so much stimuli as a gen z’r it gets to a point where we’re just way too overstimulated and we take for granted living day-to-day. I can only speak for myself, but I’m mostly just killing time instead of utilizing it for productivity. It’s just too easy for people like myself nowadays to stay indoors because video games and RUclips just offer so much more enjoyment than anything else going on outside in the real world right now. I actually quit my job a couple weeks ago because I felt so burnt-out and I’m too overwhelmed with anxiety and inhibition to talk to anyone about it. I don’t consider myself lazy, but I have worked long enough to know that hard work is never rewarded - it’s only taken advantage of. So I just remain by my pc mostly and emulate ps1 games if I’m not sleeping. I’d say there’s a real loneliness epidemic with gen z, in my opinion. And a lot of it does boil down to our inability to handle these issues meaningfully without the help of constant stimulus. We just think a bit differently than previous generations since we grew up during an era of constantly updating and evolving info. And we’re too scared and addicted to technology to change our habits meaningfully. Tech companies know this more than anyone and would rather create algorithms that target you with content/ads which take advantage of any underlying mental-illness you may have rather than offer resources to get treatment. To sum it up, I like playing final fantasy games with my beefed up super-computer, but I’m not sure the concern of climate change, gender/racial inequality, and rising poverty rate makes up for the high gaming performance.
I didn’t realise I needed this. These comments are like gold to me. What it shows to me is that something really needs to change. And I think we are really on the brink of true change.
I’ve got to say since getting a phone and being a teenager (I’m 17) with ADHD, is thst my mental health has definitely taken a toll. My parents are in there early 40s and they were raised in the era where there parents raised them to work hard and get it done and if the work is bad, just suck it up and seems hard to relate to anyone. It also seems hard to relate to anyone my age because of social media. You see all your friends taking trips and having fun, going to cool places while ur stuck at home or not invited too. Another thing about social media is just the social disconnection you get from swiping all day. It’s hard to know who to support or who not anymore, like you said.Also sucks because I’m bullied. Also seems weird bc all my friends are going to colleges or have gone already and then I’m stuck here with nothing to do and it sucks to just be so uncertain about what your doing, 5-10 years down the road
First half of my 20s. It feels like even as society improves, we learn more and become more compassionate, we’re not catching up to the negative aspects quickly enough. I don’t blame those feeling apathy and despair; I’m constantly struggling to pull myself out of those. I feel like I’m making progress though. We can’t give up now, we just can’t.
I'm 23 and from the US. I am almost completely disenchanted with the people of the world- even the most beautiful traditions and methods of connection are being used to push each other around and keep people down in the mud. 😔 The planet is dying and I can't do anything about it if I'm busy paying off $65,000 in medical debt because my county has a culture that prioritizes profits over people. 😒 I have the capacity to look back on what we know of every empire in known history, and all I see is a bunch of people making the same mistakes over and over again- even today. And when you point it out, they call you a psycho Commie, woke leftist mind virus bullshit, a young immature kid who doesn't understand anything. It's hard to say "maybe we should be organizing our cities around public transportation systems rather than individual automobile dependence" and all of a sudden you're a communist intentionally trying to strip everyone of their rights. 🙄 It's hard to have to pay a monthly subscription to be fed hopeful messages when there isn't a single place on this earth where rain water is safe to drink. There's a deafening silence between the headlines, because everything today is seen as either life-or-death or inconsequential. Everything is a personal attack, but entirely inhuman, inhumane, impersonal. We have the capacity for all the knowledge of the world, but the label of "truth" goes to the highest bidder. What's worse is that with technology developing faster than we can possibly create safeguards and true accountability, by the time we catch up it will have bred a whole new set of critical issues. Fucking most of GenZ is depressed and anxious and traumatized, because all we know is a broken world that was specifically build to collapse before we could explore it- and the ones who did it are 70-105 and demand respect simply because they're older. It's a goddamn train wreck waiting to happen. We're approaching the end of the track, and I want off this awful ride Fuck it, let's bring out the guillotines. Maybe then we can start fixing stuff in a way that matters
As a 19 year old life has been a rollercoaster , i think personally there was way more discipline for people and children before than today , I'm somewhat in the middle with this , theres good people but theres bad people, theres good things and bad things and so on , as you've said with wars its horrible, and as of my mental health its messed up its worse now after covid when there was isolation and whatnot
I’m 17 and I think it’s cool about how far we’ve come technology wise and just advancement wise. People from like 100 years ago would be so surprised by how far we’ve come. On the other hand, it feels really jarring having so many things going on all at once. At least for me, I feel like my attention span has gotten worse and it’s hard to focus on things. It’s hard to have normally conversations with people because they’re always on their phones. It’s hard to read a book because I get distracted and look on my phone. So in general, there’s pros and cons to everything. This is just another thing.
Just turned 20, never went to college and got a tech sales job straight after school. Started the pandemic feeling like a teenager at 17 and came out at 19 with a job and responsibilities. Never quite adjusted. Constantly feel out of my depth, stressed (I got put on antidepressants during covid) overwhelmed and stuck in a repetitive cycle where I’m waking up doing the same thing over and over. Excellent pay but I couldn’t care less and don’t feel like an adult despite being treated like one. Miss being young and wish I thought less. Can’t compare it to anything else being born in 2003 but I’m assuming this isn’t unique to my generation (apart for the tech maybe)
I’m 18 and in my first year of college, and the best way I’d describe the world from a gen z perspective is that we live in a world of paradoxical potential. There’s the potential for both great good and great evil though the leaps and bounds in technological and scientific progress we’ve made. Socialization has never been as advanced or in depth as it’s ever been, with people from across the world being able to forge friendships and bond when they couldn’t before. But like I mentioned, it’s paradoxical potential. While there has certainly been good done with these advancements, terrible acts have also been committed by those who use these advancements for their own purposes. It’s difficult for a lot of people to be optimistic these days because it seems like the negative side of the potential is winning out, but negativity is also louder than positivity, so who knows, maybe things will be alright…
I'm 23. Life has been difficult recently but it's gotten a little easier, there's been a lot of loss and trauma over the last three years or so. There's an occasional feeling of being stunted from the pandemic, like I'm still 19-turning-20 because of how long my isolation lasted; the fact that I'm finally almost done with my Bachelor's and one of my professors is my age seems to emphasise this more. My mental health has steadily gotten both worse and better in different aspects. This world in general has made me a pessimistic optimist: expect the worst, but hope for and work towards the best. People can be surprising, and a lot of them seem fake, but deep down it seems that people overall want what's best for the world in general as well as themselves; they're selfish and hedonistic, but that's not necessarily bad in moderation. As a whole generation, we've come to realise that the history we are taught in school is not heeded by the people that govern our societies and how much of a problem that is for our survival and the survival of our planet; we aren't content to watch the world burn around us and just dance in the fire, we actively want to try and mitigate the harm that fire causes.
24, lost my father at 12, lived with an abusive alchohlic step father, watched as a lot of family friends and loved ones, I've know since I i was a child die as I grew into an adult, I lost my left testicle at 19. I eventually just leaned to only care when I need to. As long as my familes okay, i don't care what gose around me.
Hey Uncle, I am 23 yes old and turning 24 in January. 4 yes college experience and just quit my first job out of college after being there for a year and I’m completely lost… Don’t want you to think I’m complaining because my life is beyond blessed, but figuring out where I belong in this massive world of ours is one of the most daunting things that I feel wildly unprepared for. Life is good and I’m a happy person, but trying to navigate a world/culture that ultimately just wants to chew me up and then spit me back out is uninspiring. Overall, I think we are doomed here on earth, but I know that this life doesn’t really matter and that I will live on up in heaven eternally. That’s one of the main things that keeps me going nowadays! Love ya Unc
I tend to be in the middle ground for most situations and questions, but also the answer solely depends. Life is a mixture of beautiful, terrifying, confusing, relaxing, interesting, boring and etc, with life giving you so much to see yet sometimes can feel so little as well. Overall, it depends in my opinion due to the differences in everyone, the different situations, values, traditions, skills, advancements, topics, beliefs, hobbies, interest and so much more in this world, whether it is positive or negative.
Millennial here. I’m glad to have a look into the Gen Z life and thoughts. I was born in 92 and we had some tech growing up but not always. The dawn of the internet was a magical time. Gen Z and millennials always seem to be going at it but what I’m seeing in the comments is we should really be doing better as older generations. Sure life sucked for us this whole time but the poor Gen Zs are so exposed to crap and everything today. It’s polished, saturated, engrained, twisted, etc. I’m happy to be a millennial. Gen Z, life truly sucks. No one and nothing prepares you for the truth. Everyone thinks childhood was better. It was for all of us. But I feel like your generation has a lot more to battle than we did. Just keep pushing for better and with each generation, help change the world. I know you guys can do it!
Hey ephemeral, I’m 22 turning 23 in December. I can’t speak for all people my age and younger but only draw from my own experiences thus far in my life. So what I can tell you is that life is very monotonous and feels like ur stuck in a loop and the only thing that changes is your age. I’m 100% certain that my generation are not the only ones who feel this way as life feeling repetitive is a trait any age, race or sexuality experiences. What I can tell you from what I have experienced myself and seen in others my age and younger is that the youth and young adults of today have a big problem with hopelessness. Meaning it’s damn near impossible to move out as a young adult today, it’s harder to get jobs, inflation (while it affects us all weighs heavy on youngsters as they need money NOW) and we all tend to view life in a way of “it’s too hard so why bother.” IN MY OPINON, the youths seem more concerned about cancelling people or starting drama or instantly disliking people because the masses say so and have a general lack of free thought. Nothing is exciting anymore. There is hardly any positive news as opposed to negative. But it’s all okay cos u can always yell at people because they don’t want to change the rhetoric they grew up with and have to ask for peoples pronouns before engaging in a dialogue with them.
having been born some sixty something years ago, education was being dismantled then.... its beyond on life support now. my kid was a milennial unendingly berated by the media which has never really stopped. its because the dinosaurs are =that= afraid of you. they are honestly that afraid of you, or if you form coalitions with the 'boomers' they are teaching you to hate... if those three extremely radical political groups team up, which is their greatest fear, the dinosaurs are hopelessly outnumbered despite their dark money. its a terrible time to be young - and i personally apologize. i was permanently so deeply radicalised just by nixon and jonestown.... so i can only imagine how it feels to grow up today. its very hard, just do the best you can, the old ways are hopefully dead now as they should be - and if we all team up we can still make a difference politically. please take care. its tragic what has been done to the people who will inherit this planet. (and the planet) but i hope they will get theirs, its why they are so afraid.. im sorry
for me it feels like when I was born and being a kid everything was more smooth. going from 2017 onwards for me at least has been downhill, when covid hit my life flipped for the worse. I just turned 18 still in my parents house hoping to go to college and meet my buds. that definitely did not happen. I was stuck on a miserable loop that demanded salvation. I went to some dark places during that time. only since 2022 has it slowly started going back up but I know it will never be like that of pre 2017.
I’m 12 almost 13 and life is basically the same every day. I do the same thing every day and over the weekend I just sit at home all day and watch RUclips or play games. During weekdays I wake up, get ready, go to school, sit there and work for about 7 hours, go home, do more work (homework) or sit on RUclips, have dinner, and go to bed. Then repeat that process every day for 5 days a week
I just turned 18 and I have these moments often where I think to myself “Wow, I actually have to do stuff that I never fathomed 3-5 years ago.” I don’t know what’s gonna happen to me past high school and I feel rightfully anxious.
Genetics messed me up pretty good, the anxieties of both my parents combined to make a anxious and most likely autistic kid. It’s a lot of keeping my head down and surviving one day to the next. I want to get in the medical field but housing debt and pay all make me terrified. I’m also in TKD and as much as it’s helped me it’s also one of many responsibilities. In too young to be put on effective anxiety medication but we’re thinking about pushing it anyway just so I can survive high school. I’m an artist and it’s one of the ways I deal with the hand I’ve been dealt.
I am 24 years old born in 1999, from Lima, Perú, and I don’t know if I like this world. Neither I know if I’m happy to be alive exactly, mainly because this is so meaningless and nobody ever asked to be born. I moved from Peru to Mexico, because of the political situation. The government in my country is turning communist. Also, I moved because I am able to love here as people respect the LGBT community and to finish my university carreer in communications, which is very useful for my channel and almost anything I do (stated in pandemic, also could travel and spread wings thanks to RUclips). I think the best way to live life is transmuting negative emotions into art, personally, I love producing either ASMR and music, not only for me, but also for my friends. Life is a little better in company, but the knowledge you get from solitude will always be what I appreciate the most.
I recently turned 18, and what I see most prevalently in my generation is a sense of frustration. We, myself included, feel like the various institutions and principles we were told to believe in have been twisted and corrupted beyond recognition and we see a world that is at the brink of catastrophe. We have to sit by and wait as leaders who won’t be around in 10-20 years make decisions that we will suffer the consequences of. It’s a world that it feels like we have been forced to piece back together as we actively watch those in charge continue to shred what’s left into smaller pieces for their own temporary gain. However, I also see my generation as one that wants to make change. Despite what tragedies that may lay ahead, I have also felt a sense of hope for what could be achieved in the future. We want the world to change, the frustration comes from the fact that we simply do not have the power to change much let. Unfortunately that hopefulness is plagued by its own issues that caused many to give up on a better future. Our generation is the most mentally ill in human history and it isn’t hard to see why. Humans are social creatures, and for all the great things that come with the internet and modern technology, it has been horrible on our social lives. I have always felt lonely to some degree for all of my teenage years (including right now). I feel disconnected and wish I could be apart of something bigger, but I lack the social skills and battery to actually achieve that. Meanwhile I also have to balance school, work, college applications, scholarships, extracurriculars, and hopefully be left with enough free time to do what I actually enjoy. It just isn’t a sustainable lifestyle it you actually want people to feel like your life is worth living. I know not all of my generation feels like that, but it is a substantial portion.
I’m 21. Actually been a fan of your channel since I was in Middle School. I remember watching that Satan video you did the day it came out lol, hard to think about how it’s been so long and how much things have changed since then. Such a different world now. I miss those simpler times.
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19 yr old Australian here. Life’s confusing. Moving out of home to university and learning to live by myself, learning how to do this small things I never knew, with no one telling or teaching you how to do anything. Video games are really the only consistent thing in my life right now, meeting knew people has never been so scary. Works rough alongside a shit economy here, work long hours for little money makes it hard to balance everything. I’ve pick up new hobbies, band photography gives me great opportunities to meet and grow as a person.
I love reading these comments and just realizing how different peoples lives are, it just shows how one can forget how different people are from themselves. Hope everyone has a great day❤
I’d like to answer your question by telling you about someone I really admired. His name was Toby and man, this dude was seriously cool. To put it into perspective, I only met Toby once, he was a fifth grader at the time, and I was just a year younger than him. My dad knew his father through work and that’s how we met. He was a good kid, with a kind heart. Anyway, fast forward to my freshman year of high school and my mum sat me down and told me some shocking news. Unfortunately, Toby had passed away in a boating accident. There were further details, but to be honest, I didn’t want to know them. It baffled me how someone so full of life could suddenly be taken like that. Someone who left such a strong impression on me after only meeting him once. I struggled to process this at first, part of me wished we could trade places, but after a while I realised, Toby would want all of us to stand up, brush ourselves off, and keep on going, laughing, and just having a good time. I’m 20 now, and even though I only knew him as a 5th grader, I will never forget the lessons Toby taught me. Even though the world is pretty messed up, I think we should all look at it through Toby’s eyes, with a fun-loving curiosity and a wild sense of adventure. I can tell ya, he sure would appreciate it. And Kai, if by some crazy chance you’re reading this, hang in there mate, I’m sorry for your loss. Your brother was a good man. And I promise you, the world can never forget him.
I’m an 18 year old, first nations person, and queer Gen-Z. I graduated high school in 2022 and am currently working in a school as an IT intern. My days typically follow a routine. I wake up in the morning, shower, get dressed and ready, walk to work, work until lunchtime, walk home for my break, eat lunch and play a video game, go back to work, work until 4pm, go home, talk to friends and hang out online, clean, start getting ready for bed, sleep, and then repeat. I see where I am personally with both myself and others better than it was in the past. My mental health and relationships were never at a stable place until a few months ago. My childhood wasn’t great due to the way I was treated for having autism which greatly affected my relationship with myself, my family, and my friends. I often felt alone and left out growing up, especially during the quarantine during the mid-end of my high school years. The way things are in the world right now has caused me a lot of anxiety within the past few years due to the rage people seem to have towards people like me which has worsened my mental health but I’ve been learning to cope a lot better with it all by simply focusing on the better things in my life. I don’t typically label which side of politics i’m on but you could definitely say that I’m a “left winger.” I care about people, animals, and the world. I’m heavily against laws, bills, and parties that push for the oppression of minorities. I believe that everyone should have a choice in what to do with their bodies despite the beliefs of others. Basically, my beliefs are that people should be allowed to be who they are as long as they aren’t causing harm to others or not allowing another to be themselves as well. I also believe in the separation of religion from politics. Someone’s faith or religion shouldn’t dictate others. I grew up in the christian faith but no longer identify with that label. In terms of religion, I do believe that there is a god-like being out in the world, or maybe all these gods all exist at the same time. I don’t worship any god in particular but live my life in a way that I believe is morally acceptable so that when I die and there is an afterlife I may be allowed in. I don’t pray but will if someone else wants me to join them. l’m going to end here as I’m getting too tired to form my words properly and there’s way too many things I want to say to fit here, but I hope that this could be insightful to you. I love your content, Uncle E. Keep being a cool guy.
I'm 13, (A year younger than when Gen Z ends) but I still wanted to talk about what it's like being my age. I have a hard time at school because most girls are going through a mean phase right now, and I've had to regain my confidence back because of how much it dropped when I first started middle school. I feel like the world is slowly getting more and more sadder. Buildings are more grey, school looks like prison (literally), but technology is the only way I can get my dopamine, but even some parts of the internet is bad too. I've been told many times to kill myself on roblox and discord. Religion is hard to talk about because where I'm from, Christianity is the norm and anything else is considered "wrong." School (still) closes their eyes around bullying, racism, ect. The internet has a lot of (excuse me for my language) fucked up stuff easily accessible. I'm not going to name anything, but I've seen many, many things online that I think have changed me. Back then, as you said, knowledge and answers were limited, but now, things are too accessible. Normal citizens can now figure out how to make a bomb, little kids telling people to kill/cut themselves, very dark things. Sometimes I wish I hadn't seen some of the things that I did happen to see as a younger kid so I could enjoy life a little more and focus on the deeper things later in life.
I'm 20 my birthday was actually last Tuesday. Life is strange, every day I feel like I notice something that doesn't match up with my view of the world, I notice hatred within myself and love within my enemies. I worry that the amorphic quality of my perspective will never solidify into a concrete understanding of the universe, but I hope that it at least becomes less gaseous. Death is something I'm grappling with right now, grieving friends. And the fact that I can never know what comes after is daunting to my curiosity. Why understand when you can't understand the one thing you want to understand. Your channel is very nice, thanks for good nows.
I'm in my mid 20s. The world very much feels like the "if you boil a frog" analogy: If you slowly bring up the temperature of the water in the pot that the frog is in, it won't notice it's being boiled alive. I feel like there's just been a gradual increase of how severe the bad stuff has gotten (going from COVID lockdown to the current wars going on) to the point we're almost acclimated to how bad everything is. Probably to the point where we're hitting the (in one case literally) boiling point, so to speak. It's hard to stay positive some days just because everything kinda sucks. Prices for things are too high to live alone, nothing feels like it's worth it anymore, etc. The days have gone by and blurred together at a point where I feel like I'm on autopilot, and have been for years now. I think that's a factor of having to "grow up early" in my early-mid teens. I have aspirations to do bigger things, but the system feels so rigged that i lost the hope to even try. It sucks but at the same time i just have to keep trudging forward because... It's all i got.
I'm 19, and life has its ups and downs. It's never going to be a state of constant happiness, i know, at least for me. I see a lot of people commenting that its hard to be a teenager nowdays, it is, but I think it always has been.
Life Context: 21 / born and raised in U.S.A. / K-12 education in private religious institution / Current college student. Answers to your questions below based on personal life experience thus far. 1:51 Q: Do you think the world is an amazing or wonderful place with all the advancements and creativity we have? A: Based on the specific examples you provided (ex. art, science, technology) Yes. However, I am not blind to the fact that every advancement mankind has made typically results in a step backwards for another stakeholder involved in the advancement. Its called an advancement because its moving forward from our perspective as humans... Not any other party involved. 5:20 Q: Thoughts on war/inequality/disinformation/politics? (War) A: I grew up outside of major wars or at least was not old enough to understand major conflicts in the early 2000s. From a selfish POV, I should not be invested in them or brought into them. One thing I keep in mind is that these conflicts are still occurring today but are based on historical events that predate myself and all Gen Z by centuries. Future generations just carry on the conflict because its what they are taught. Its time for the world to recognize this and ask why we are truly fighting. (Inequality) A: It exists and has been talked about much more throughout the past decade. Its important to talk about and honor diversity. Its also important to balance the rights of each individual no matter how they associate. Rights of one should not go over another. But quite frankly I see things as equal at this point in time when comparing myself to anyone. I do not care who I am, and I do not care who you are, because at the end of the day we breathe the same air and leave this earth through death. Personally I am doing nothing to restrict people of their rights, but I know some are. (Disinformation) A: Its annoying that you cant trust many things now. Everyone wants their 10 seconds of fame or whatever. They are willing to ruin someone or something to get it which should show you how cruel we can be as humans. (Politics) A: Its just another way to divide us. I literally have nothing else to say other than its stupid. I often wonder what would happen if politicians worked together more? 7:12 Q: What do you think about your "fellow human beings"? A: There are great genuine people out there but certain aspects of society teach us to be fake to get what we want. Every time I meet someone new I have no reason to be fake to them. I don't want to send someone the wrong signals, if anything that can be hurtful to someone trying to be genuine. I'd say I stand neutral in this topic, I cant trust everyone. However, Those I do find to be real, have my back. Those that don't I'll cut out of my life because its a waste of time. 8:00 Q: What is mental health like with access to all this information? A: Personally technology and information systems do not extremely impact my mental health. It doesn't make me sad or happy when I hear/see bad or good news. I think constant access to information has hardened me and made me not care too much about what I consume online. Sure I'll get a quick chuckle from social media, but then I'll just move on with my day. I'm not going to get depressed if I see something bad goes down online or a post I make just doesn't do well or receives hate. I'm just living life, its not that deep. I don't want to disrespect those that struggle with it but never let events outside of your power drag you down. I get its easier said than done. If anyone finds themselves struggling with mental health due to media/online activity, delete it. Its not worth your time thinking about. Reach out to your loved ones and get their input. Surround yourself by the people you know are genuine and seek support from them. I think that covers my basic input for you Uncle E, these topics can be packed with tons of talking points. Thank you for being curious about Gen Z, I look forward to seeing what others in my generation say and congratulations if you made it this far. 😅
im a 28yr old aussie guy, so riiight on the dividing line of GenZ and millenial. to keep it brief, I think we are living in exciting times, and thats as good as it is bad. A world of wonder and potential, but its resting atop our heads. its...crushing...sometimes. terrible things, and terrible people are everywhere. and i just want to be left alone to enjoy my life, but that doesn't seem an option for some reason. So yea. its a life.
every generation has some life altering/defining moment; a 'canon' event. It is interesting to see how it effects everyone differently too. As a Xennial, it has been interesting to see how life has changed so much in 43 years.
As someone who lives outside of the US ( I live in Serbia) i feel like my Gen has it the easiest. The gen before mine had a huge civil war where they had to kill there before brothers now enemies. I feel like society is safer and more stable. I feel like more and more of the older Gen Z (17-27) are becoming more and more bored with moderate politics and are shifting more far left and far left. There are a lot different opinions and views you get bombarded with. We are more numb then ever and also more sensitive than ever. Some of us Nihilist/Existentialists while the other half are SJW. Its very versatile which i consider a good thing . We live on the internet. Our lives are repetitive so our creativity goes out through the internet. We are all "artist" in a way, we have the biggest canvas of all time. Any opinion we have , we can immediately say it. With 0 to no rules which is a positive. Overall very interesting time to be a teen. Can't wait to tell my kids how was it like "BACK IN MY DAY" lol.
I'm gen Z at 23. I guess for me it's just a lot to describe how I feel about the world we live in I don't have the time or the capacity to fully express the ways that I feel because I think it's mostly confused. Not confused as in I haven't thought about it, confused about everything because I have, and it not only feels like everyone else hasn't actually thought about who they are, why we are here or what they believe in it's just factual that they haven't. I'm very moderate politically and people think that makes me a fence sitter but I'm not I have extremely strong and passionate convictions they just go both ways. Both political sides like to demonize each other and say they are trying to cause division and spreading false information yet they both do it. Back in the day it seems like people could communicate normally even if they had disagreements. But these days it is very rare to find someone that is not actively hostile to you for your beliefs. And when you aren't extreme to either side you receive the same vitriol but from everyone. We are exploited by corporations and the government, forced to make barely liveable wages, the healthcare system isn't interested on losing out on money by actually treating the mentally ill., Almost every week in my small town some kid dies from a fentanyl or meth overdose and on top of that we are told that it is somehow our fault we were born in a system they created. But even when people of my generation give a shit enough to do anything to fight the system they just join one of the two teams and unwittingly contribute to it. I used to think I was lost, now I feel that everyone else is and I will be forever alone because of it. Government and corporate controlled traditional and social media has pavloved the whole country into submission and nobody sees it. I escape to your strange dystopia of the eru because even when I have to fight an Eldritch being it is less confusing and terrifying than this dystopia. As a 23 year old fem presenting male blue collar bisexual construction worker who lives in rural farm country. I am alone because not because I am confused about who I am but because everyone else is because conforming is absolutely so necessary for survival in our culture that that its easier for most people to just meet the status quo. And it's not even surprising it's just the way of humans. I'm holding out hope that there is somewhere a place that isn't like this and I just haven't found it yet. But even if I did I wouldn't have the means to ever get out of the sticks,. There is no light at the end of the tunnel, the only reason I keep going is that maybe one day I'll have the chance to teach people how to learn to love the tunnel and make it better for everyone. But I know realistically that won't happen. I'll keep surviving just in case tho. I love your channel man been watching since age 13 as part of my resisting religious indoctrination arc. I hope you are doing well. ❤
25, from Europe, I agree with you. Every little political or social difference seems to be met with total hostility. Corporations and governments have us in a chokehold and nothing is getting better, even wages. The system we were born into has done nothing but hurt us. Everyone feels lost and hopeless. I'm 'cis' but this kinda stuff is universal. At least our generation is more open minded about people living and presenting however they want, because ultimately everyone is suffering under the system.
I love life. It hurts, it's a horrible test that grinds you down horrifically, all for you to get up, stronger, smarter, more determined, so you can see the world in it's fullest glory. Life hurts sometimes, but most of the time, it's peaceful and lovely. I'm 15 by the way.
22 years old as of this year on October 1st, graduated lived through covid etc etc life is so bleak and the future is very uncertain that’s just putting it bluntly from my end of the spectrum I just hope things go better for me and my family
Turned 24 just last month. The pandemic stole much of the college experience from me. Sense of normalcy ended when we shifted to online learning 3 years ago, then with the blink of an eye I graduated, a few days later I get accepted into a job I applied for and assumed office a day after my birthday. Everything went by so fast I’m now on my first month at work and honestly questioning my competency especially because I’m working for the government and most of my superiors have been in service for over 8 years now (Gen X).
same experience, 10 years younger. im 14 and basically all of middle school, a decently important part in my maturity was interrupted by covid. i only spent half of my middle school time in person. i dont think it helped me mature, im just a big toddler. i have no social experience at all and no other teens i know do either. we're all confused.
Yup. My freshmen-sophomore year was taken by covid, and by junior year I was NOT ready for any sort of internships, I was so lost. And i literally just went to film school. Which in theory, should be easy. I just wasnt prepared to be separated from all my equipment and then expected to take the same course plan as other college students pre covid. I dropped out by the end of first semester junior year. I have a full time job now, but i am SO disappointed in the way my college experience went. And the lack of empathy that comes from people that didnt experience covid through such important years of their lives. I WISH i was in high school when covid happened. if I was one year younger it wouldve hit my senior year, honestly i think i wouldve loved that lmao
@@user-vq9rk6eb4d yeah since covid happened during 6th grade for me its still hard for me to go to school 😭 covid landed me in a child crisis center that year too so i missed a full semester or maybe year of arguably the most crucial time of my education. so im just permanently stupid i guess
@@weirdmanheim i WISH i was in grade school when it happened 😭 Its stressful now but dont worry too much!! Middle school is not as crucial as it seems when youre in it. Im sure youll do great. When youre my age you wont even remember middle school if that makes you feel any better. Just dont let yourself fall into the rabbit hole of not helping yourself if you start feeling helpless. andLots of things you learn in grade school are obscure and youll end up never using them once your out of school (not to encourage you not to pay attention though, youll still have to do well on tests! which off topic but imo memorized tests are such bs. youll never do anything like that in the real world lol you will pretty much always at least have your phone on you to look things up lol). Best of luck!
@@weirdmanheim also, youre not permanently stupid. the way grade school is framed is just so unfortunate because you have to learn and be good at subjects that you just may not be good with, and it doesnt really account for kids that may be more creatively inclined. But once you get to college (or trade school) you get to pick your major which basically means you get to choose what you want to focus on, its more doable than grade school, at least it was for me. Being uninterested in a subject really effects the way you learn unfortunately. But hey, I graduated high school with a 2.3 gpa and i still have a stable full time job, dont stress too much. Youre young, go treat yourself!
15 year old here.. i gotta say my life is just like a broken record right now, almost every day it’s repetitive wake up, eat go to school, study, shower, eat dinner, then sleep.. then pretty much repeat then on the weekends is really the only time it doesn’t feel like it’s on repeat. I don’t know ever since i’ve started high school it’s been a lot. but i’m pushing through trying to live a good life
Being 20 almost 21 what bothers me the most right now is that it seems like theres just an overload on information right now. We've been so desensitized its hard for us to care anymore and I dont have any real hope for things getting better on a societal level it feels like things are getting worse everyday. It still makes me angry even though I know I cant do anything about it. Im not particularly depressed about it though. Being as young as I am I'm happy for the opportunities and privilages that I have and I'm going to focus on living in the moment and doing what makes me happy. I dont feel rushed to progress in life so I'm just taking things slow with college and relationships still trying to figure out what I "want to be when I grow up" or what that even means lol.
I’m 17 and from Northern Ireland, meaning I’d be considered what they call a “ceasefire baby” since I was born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed that “ended” the Northern Irish troubles. (I grew up catholic, in a catholic school in a catholic community just for perspective. I don’t think I was ever a believer in what they taught) It’s strange, things here are so different than they used to be, but there’s still so many problems. I think it’s easier for older generations who experienced the horrors of the absolute worst side of the fighting to feel like right now things are wonderful and peaceful, but slowly I feel it’s getting back to the levels the violence used to be. Cross community fighting is still so prominent, Northern Ireland has so many social injustices and unsolved deaths and disappearances that need to be looked into further, but aren’t given the time of day. A boy I knew through school friends of mine named Noah passed away in June of 2020, under extremely strange circumstances that were so out of character for him and didn’t seem right at all. The police closed the case after finding his body (this has occurred multiple times with suspicious cases in NI) and the closure his family and friends needed was never found. I was about 14 when this happened and I think it was the first time I ever really looked around at the people in charge and the justice system and decided this just couldn’t be correct. A 14 year old boy, same age as me when he died under extremely strange circumstances and they searched no further. Really was a turning point for me in the way I thought about the “improved” country I was living in. But then again, things could be so much worse. I guess I might just linger too much on the wrongs of people in authority than the rights. I think that growing up in this state of the world has been strange, just like so many other generations we’re told nearly every year about a new “world ending problem” but it feels different now. It’s put on blast and everyone talks about it all the time and people have lost hope throughout the years. Pessimism seems to have taken the lead in terms of peoples view of things now. I will say, being young currently is not all bad, most of it is actually pretty good. I’m at school for film at the moment, and especially in Ireland it couldn’t be a better time for me to be a film student. There’s so many opportunities for me right in the country I live in, which my immigrant mother didn’t have in the poor Romani community she grew up in in Spain. I’m grateful I’m so encouraged to pursue my dreams, realistic or not. I’m grateful my family accepts me and what I want to do, I’m grateful my tutors are so passionate and understanding about my work. There’s many things I’d want to change, but at the minute all I can do is speak about them. In my own way I can display how I feel about things, whether they make a change or not.
I'm 21, and I often feel very overwhelmed and doomed thinking about the future. I had to drop out of college during my first year due to severe mental health issues, and haven't gone back due to fear of something like that happening again. Any job I get doesn't guarantee great money, and I often feel like I'm going to live at my parents house forever. I want to move out but rent prices are through the roof and between the cost of rent, feeding myself, getting to/from work and having a social life, it just feels very unattainable. Staying positive and looking on the bright side is easy to preach, but with the state of the world right now things just feel very bleak.
hi uncle E. im a 19 year old college freshman studying anthropology. i graduated high school this summer. i grew up with two lesbian mothers in the Deep South, mississippi & louisiana. i see so much beauty in the world & in humans. i went to an art school for creative writing where i learned a lot about the craft. so much of my work focuses on the natural landscape and culture of the Deep South. of course, there are awful things that happen too. ive actually been into politics since i was in elementary school, having grown up with a mother that was always watching MSNBC. ive been studying marxism since i was 15, so i find myself leaning very left on the spectrum. im happy i had the internet during that time. i had my circle of fellow marxist teens on the internet where we discuss things & share resources. but also the internet is not all that great. i feel like a lot of people my age are shallow, self-centered, unnecessarily mean, & have awfully short attention spans. i blame all of these things on my generation’s crippling social media addiction. not trying to throw the zoomers under the bus. that’s just from what ive observed. being young is fun & there’s a lot of room for exploration. im glad to be young during this time because if i lived in a different era i might not have had all these opportunities to explore. also im a lesbian living in the south so i don’t think i could have been very open about that in another era. thank you for this video uncle E!
I was born in 2007 and life is I guess easy. I wake up take a shower go to school come home and immediately go to soccer come home eat dinner then go to sleep and repeat. It’s very boring and I never have time to go out and do anything interesting and fun. My parents are not wealthy but they do make enough to stable a household so we don’t get to go on very many trips, the pandemic has destroyed my work ethic and I never really feel like doing anything when I know I can do better. It sucks.
I’m 16, life is strange, and I’m always worried about the future. I mean I’ve lived my life seeing things crumbling around me. But at the same time, there’s hope for amazing things. I mean we have all this knowledge at our fingertips, but few people really use it, and so much of it is misinformation. But you can learn so much. I hate being treated so differently for being younger. Adults never treat you with respect or like you have any good ideas, even though we do. The disparity of mature and immature teens is great. It’s shocking actually. Some like myself know so much from what we’ve had in life so far, but some somehow don’t, some make very bad decisions or view things through the wrong lens. Idk if it’s always been like that but it is right now. We gotta grow up fast today. Most teens (the ones that are forced to grow up by hardship, and don’t turn bad because of it) are probably as mature as adults in the 70’s now. But you either use hardship to learn and become better, or you don’t. Leading you to not improve, which unfortunately you see in a lot of the young and teens today. A lot of em didn’t learn about themselves and developed over COVID. Stunting them. Marking them scared and immature. Unequipped to handle adulthood. Life is fast now. You feel small. I turned to a life of the mind, because just noticing the sheer amount of problems is terrible. I mean you can see them any day, people are mean now, so easily offended, greedy, apathetic. And the world is so messed up. There’s no fresh air, it’s one thing after another. Things are changing fast and we will have to adapt, the world is becoming a dystopia. But we learn from these mistakes of others, from hardship can spring growth, if you know how. And I just hope more of us develop those skills before it’s too late. It’s not all bad though, when you know how to tell fact from fiction you can learn anything you want for free, you just gotta know where to luck. And I mean anything.
i was born in 2004, im 19 atm. i graduated in 2022 and honestly since then its been horrible. ive lived in the working (poor) class my entire life, ive been trying to find a job for moths but i cant look far as i cant drive and i or my mom has money to buy transportation for me. inflation is ruining my living situation and honestly i do not see hope in finding stability in my life. i missed out on doing the things i loved in school because i had to move from place to place and ended up going to a worse school than i originally started in. recently ive been having no motivation to live because of how stuck i am on life and how worse living day to day has become with the guilt i face everyday but the advancements are amazing, im glad to be born in the 2000s but i would give anything just to live in the middle class, at least
25 year old gen z here, I still had to go into work every day because my job was deemed "essential" (I'm an electrician, at the time an apprentice in a government building doing maintenance) and I've been feeling way better since i quit my job :)
Born in '03, so im still new to this goofy world. Everyday i feel older than i should, having relatives younger than me runnin about spouting off whatever new slang came about. "Gyat, rizz, sus, ect". Its alright, i cant pretend we didnt have our own goofy sayings (swag, yolo, rotflol). I do wish social media wasnt so relevant. The world is burning and we still choose to cry about "person said mean thing on internet". One of my parents works as a teacher, and shares her experiences with her students, and these have me worried. Its almost like more parents have opted to have their child raised by the internet (tiktok, instagram, whatever other apps there are) and it fuckin shows. The new batch of high schoolers, middle schoolers, hell, even elementary schoolers are increasingly feral. Idk man, im worried, about things i shouldnt need to worry about, things ive been told im too young to be worried about. Honestly, i feel like most of my recent years could be labelled as "man, these thoughts kinda suck." I wish that i had spent my pre college years learning about this that interested me rather than drowning in sports and acedemics, seeing as im now a burned out husk of a 20 year old. Maybe its a fault of the education system, maybe a fault of my parents, shit, maybe its my own damn fault. If you read this, and youre finishing up your high school career, heed my words: take a break. Youre free now, you're not being told who to be or what to do anymore. Anyways stay safe have fun dont do drugs.
I wake up i eat breakfast, i iron my shirt, i have a shower, i get ready, i go to school, i get home, i play my game, i eat dinner, i play games, i go to bed. Repeat
Hey ER I am a 21 year old American gen z kid… I grew up with my mom but when I would visit my dad (he is old so he’s wise 72 now) he would always tell me to try and learn by observing instead of having to deal with the problems from a first person perspective so I always saw things with an open mind and I am well aware of the beauty’s and disasters going on in our world and I’ve learned to be grateful for my situation because I’ve had a decent upbringing. My life consists of making music and following my passion as a rebel I had strict parents and now that I’m older I’m very vocal about it being my life and this is my own story. I work hard for what I dream and wish to spread my music to those who are going through a tough time because for me the purpose of life is to listen to music. Music is one of the last things a human being forgets if they ever come down with Alzheimer’s or Dementia and I want my music to be able to heal others and leave a big impact on others. To summarize I’m aware of my surroundings and I always thank the universe for the decent life I have had and want to return the favor through music so wish me luck 🤘 Edit: spelling
best of luck! mickey hart drummer of the grateful dead (which you may know) works now with some of the top physicists, astronomers and medical ppl in the world, after visiting his grandmother who had alzheimers, playing her a song and seeing the immediate effect it had..... its his goal now to create music expressly for use in medicine.... he also 'sonifies' the sounds made by stars, planets, and other things that vibrate but make no sound we can now hear.... music def heals it healed me (with a lot of pharmaceutical mdma thrown in - nothing like the garbage now, it came straight from the pharmacy back then) music is a wonderful healer of so many things. thats a really great dream you were fortunate to have a non insane family im jealous
Well i'm an older gen Z (25 about to turn 26) and most of the time i feel like i'm not really in control of my actions. Some days are good some bad like everybody but i always feel like no matter what i do there is always the pressure of society and modern world that judges everything we do and everything we don't. I don't really know how to explain it but sometimes everything feels so fake like i'm living in a movie. I also stopped watching the news and gave up on everything political because all of it is always negative and i'm trying to focus on myself more because the last 3 years messed up my mental health and i need to get better.
I am in my teens and live in New Zealand. I suffer from depression (self diagnosed, not clinical) I have a very different outlook on life to most people my age. I really enjoy being outside and only really play video games/watch youtube to past time. I would be outside all the time and I love mountain biking. I try to escape the internet, but it is quite hard. All my friends want me to get tiktok, but I don't need addictions in my life. I have been trying to find a job for a long time, but no one seems to want to hire young people anymore because of the way that gen Z is viewed by others. This also didn't help my mental health. Right now it is in the decline, but just being able to watch Uncle E does helps me clear my mind.
I’m 20 years old and an active viewer of this channel and I think we (gen z) have it easier than all the other generations since our society is now so dependent on technology. but I think because of the rise of technology we have a lot higher expectations than previous generations (most will fall short) so a lot of us have lower self esteem than previous generations. I’m still figuring things out but that’s just what I think
As a 16 year old I’ve grown up in an unusual manner. I can say for certain that humanity at its peak is amazing and unlike anything else. The things we are capable of making when putting in true passion, determination and humanity are truly marvellous, however we (especially my generation) are dragged down by all the horrible things in the world. We’ve grown up in a world more connected than ever, and whilst it means our contact with different people and cultures is easier than ever, and I’ve had some of my best experiences with people online. However hatred, lies and toxicity also spreads easier than ever. And not just that but it’s easier to consume negativity more than ever. Day by day it gets easier to just go online and soak in the negativity and finding a true balance for it is really hard. I’ll keep this rant short and end with saying that I believe humanity is dragging itself down, however it is capable of such wonderful and amazing things and despite everything I’m hopeful for my future.
I’m 19, born 2004. Life is very uncertain, I know I probably won’t ever own a home, I find the thought of moving out so difficult because it’s hard to earn enough to do so. I don’t feel like I was ever taught the skills to be able to live alone either. But that isn’t what makes it uncertain, it’s that the future does not seem liveable. We have grown up hearing about and seeing the world falling apart and not enough people of the older generation care to try and stop it so it’s on us but the majority of us can’t make enough to live alone much less save the world. I think the world and everyone in it is lovely, I’d love to live into the future own my own home adopt children but I’m scared that I’ll never get the chance, that tomorrow I might get bombed or tomorrow the economy might collapse and perhaps never recover. Food keeps getting more expensive, and I worry about when it becomes too much to afford what will happen? I have friends who can hardly afford rent and food. What happens if I suddenly get kicked out? I don’t think I can afford to live on my own and my parents never make me feel particularly safe at home. Growing up as the internet became more available I’ve been on it since I can remember. I don’t blame it for my problems in life but it allowed me to isolate myself from the real world long enough to feel uncomfortable in it and around people.
i commented about something similar on your last video, but im fourteen right now and things are just... repetitive, in day to day life. wake up, breakfast, car, school, bus, sleep. theres so much anxiety and stress on me. i dont feel particularly safe. as i pull up this video i saw breaking news of another shooting. i think our generation has a lot of fear instilled in us. anyone in school in the last 20 or so years can attest to not feeling very safe. last week someone got detained for having a gun, usualt things. so many kids , even myself turning to drug use like weed and nicotine- not because everyone does it but because it promises a break from everything. a lot of teens' crucial maturing points were interrupted by covid and now that im a teenager i dont see myself as big and responsible, im kind of just a big kid. school expects us to be perfect and put in so mych effort though its so toxic to be there. so many students struggle with suicide and depression theres signs up for suicide hotlines around the school. i think we're all scared and stressed and confused. we live life, hang out with friends, go to football games and prom, but we're always hurting.
Soo, im 41, feeling really old now looking at all these comments!! Im from the Netherlands and have always felt like being a world citizen. As i spoke english when i was 12 and most of whats going on in europe and the US is part of our culture (music, television, religions, politics, languages). However i do feel a shift that has been going on but i have been part of it all this time! I was right at it so to say.. or so thats how i feel like.
turning 20 soon and it's horrific. i hear stories of how older family members bought houses, i look at prices and im filled with a sense of dread that feels insurmountable. the cost of living has gone up so much im worried for our future. i do think the world can be nice sometimes but life seems so unfair and that's just how it's supposed to be? why do i have to put up with that? why would i want to put up with that? it seems so hopeless and at times so wonderful, enough to keep looking for wonderful things just to be disappointed by the amount of horrible things again. my skin color works against me, my gender works against me. my mental state has been impacted by the previously stated. i feel like i lack the skills needed to make it in this world that's so cruel and the only thing keeping me in one piece is my gf and her support. i guess to summarize: the world is cruel and life seems pointless but love is a wonderfully strong thing and the more i try to find love in things around me the better things seem. (until i get threatened by ww3 for the 30th time)
Im Genz, Im going to be 21 in just over a week. I think everyone falls in that in between where they see the failures of society but also the good of it. Personally however, I see all the harm that we create and still I love people. I've struggled to put this into words for years, why i love humanity so much, but ive finally realized I love people because we feed sugar water to exhausted bees. There are reasons why we help other humans, and it can extend back to wanting the human race to continue existing. But theres no reason to make sugar water for bees. One bee doesnt make a big difference, and yet... its just really beautiful. (Sorry for any typos, its 3 am)
i remember a few years ago during some of the first really terrible floods... i cant remember where. i watched people soaking wet, on their belly on the concrete reaching under an overpass to rescue a small colony of bats that lived there. it was an urban area and these people cared for the small bat colony. i will never forget them laying in the freezing rain soaking wet handing each other precious handfuls of tiny, tiny wet bats who were about to drown as the waters rose above the bridge. i was truly moved by that and its something ive never forgotten. there are so many such scenes and i wish they were more commonplace. i wish people would exercise their capacity for kindness a little more.
As a dude born in 2005 in NY, life is alright. Cant complain. It can sometimes be a struggle to handle a job, school, and staying in shape. I think the world is a place full of wonder where you can find it, but also a lot of struggles for different people. I think society as a whole is pretty crumby as a whole, i feel like most people are only concered for themselves, thats why i try my best to be as nice as possible to the people i meet, because you never really know what people are going through. Some people are fake but i do my best to avoid those people. I spend alot of time alone, which isnt always fun, but i do like it sometimes. Anyways i guess what im trying to say is life is overall good, mixed with a little bad, but im doing my best to improve it
Side note, I try to steer away from tiktok and all the new trends. I hate how boring everyone is in my school is because nobody has a personality anymore everyone follows the same people listens to the same songs and acts the same way. It’s like being in a class with a bunch of clones and the worst part is if you don’t follows these same people and act the same way you will not be socially accepted by everyone else so you become a loner just by being yourself.
I'm 22, right at the beginning of Gen Z. It's evident that each person's journey is distinctly unique. In my case, I often find myself at the fringes of convention. I am drawn to practice Zen philosophy, all the while contemplating the cosmos through the lens of a pantheistic nihilistic perspective. The idea of merely functioning as a small component within the societal apparatus holds little appeal for me. I derive contentment from a nomadic lifestyle, be it couch-surfing or embracing homelessness, as long as I am savoring the essence of existence. Sadly, the cost of formal education remains a considerable barrier. In a perfect world, education would be accessible to all, and I would wholeheartedly embrace a lifelong journey of learning, for the allure of acquiring new knowledge has an everlasting fascination.
One thing about being a teen in this time is the amount of things I wish I could do, but wasn’t born at the time of that particular thing. I feel as though I should’ve been born in the 90s instead I was born in the mid 00s. Another thing is I don’t love social media. I have major social anxiety (not diagnosed) I can’t talk to anyone either then my friend groups. And I wish I can be more talkative and more open. These days people make fun of you for your successes, I’ve started working out a year and a half ago. And people in my school are saying I take steroids, and they turn my effort and work into a negative thing. I have many more examples and experiences of this but this is the most recent. I lost my old friends cause of my anxiety, I physically couldn’t talk to them, I can have fun around people however I don’t speak. I was in gym today having fun with people I usually don’t hang out with, I don’t talk to them, but I still had fun. My mental health isn’t great cause of my anxiety sadly. But yeah, I’m glad you read this, bye!
Bro not to be rude but almost everyone in the comment section is going "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness."
From my perspective as a 23 y/o born in 2000, I find it hard to take people seriously because of how many distractions there are. In the past things happened naturally for people. Thoughts and actions were influenced by your community, peers, or your own. People didn't have their attention prone to being constantly diverted by different types of media. Now people from all generations can get distracted by a thousand different things. The culture that we have now takes full advantage of this and is capitalizes on the thought processes of millions. In my neighborhood growing up, I started to see fewer and fewer people going outside and interacting, covid made it even worse. It seems people are becoming so accustomed to their devices and the distractions they provide that we are forgetting about what makes us ourselves.
My parents are in their 60s and im only 18 so i get these questions alot from them they dont understand alot of the new gen type stuff but ive also learned alot from their time too
I’m a 19 year old girl college student from Latin America (therefore I’d like to mention beforehand, English isn’t my first language so I’d like to apologize for any grammar mistakes I might make.) Honestly, life nowadays feels very monotonous, it might be different for everybody else, of course, but for me, since quarantine happened, I didn’t get to live my youth to its full potential, and even before that, I used to hold a pretty normal life, I’ve struggled with low self-esteem, social anxiety and depression, but it all got worse during quarantine and ever since then life has felt monotonous. Of course there are days where I’m grateful I’m alive, but somehow there’s nothing I could look forward to as nowadays I feel like the world is just getting worse, and worse. I feel somehow trapped, or like doomed to just stay where I am and never actually do or accomplish any of the things I’d like. It feels scary, specially knowing I’ll turn 20 next year, it seems like such a big number and I can’t even fathom just what comes next. I feel like as a society we have grown a lot and Gen Z are much more open minded, but the world in general is just worsening and it worries me to death. I struggle and I question myself what exactly was I made for and why am I here, if I’m ever gonna find love as I grew up thinking no one would love me, I question whether if the world will even be able to hold itself for when I turn 25, or even 20. There are so so many things I feel as a Gen Z, specially since I’m a person that feels everything very deeply, but I can say for sure, that I’ve noticed most of us feel lost, misunderstood and somehow like we “don’t belong.” It’s a very pessimistic view, but at least that’s how my friends and I have been feeling, it’s almost like we just exist to survive because sooner or later the world will just destroy itself. Don’t get me wrong tho, I do get happy, and excited, but it’s all just because of temporary things that I know won’t last forever.
There is so so much I’d like to add, but I fear that if I keep writing, I’ll never stop. But I do wanted to say, a lot of us also feel like we sort of got frozen at the age quarantine started. Im not sure how to say it correctly but basically, when quarantine hit I had just turned 16, and ever since then I felt like even though years went by, Im still 16. I don’t feel my age, and let alone I can feel I’ll enter my 20’s next year. There has been lots of changing in the world and society, some for the good and some for the bad, but to be really honest with you, a lot of us have no hope for what’s to come, and reading the comments it breaks my heart knowing there are so many people who feel the same way. It’s honestly heartbreaking. I used to be a little kid with dreams and ambitions but now Im just scared and lost. And I honestly don’t know how the world will get any better. If you were to peek into my brain, all you’d probably see is me trying to distract myself, I tend to daydream way too much and it’s all just a way to cope and comfort myself cause it all seems so much better in my head.
For the people… I don’t really know what to say other than disappointment. I do have to say that a lot of us Gen Z are more open minded and are willing to speak up more about our issues and problems and stand up for what we believe, but somehow it is just us, and so many people would categorize it as us being “snowflakes.” I feel like we are more aware of how important mental health is and how we shouldn’t let people step on us, but then again, not everyone is like that. I see people and I don’t know… I just feel disappointed, the people that are in control just wants to take advantage of us and they only care about themselves and money, while some people are just rude and mean for no reason, like they’ll just hate you or bother you for doing something that doesn’t even affect them, some are just so close minded and misogynistic… awh man, it’s rare to find a good genuine individual nowadays, not that Im perfect in any way but some people are just far from good in every way
I do gotta mention, my mental health isn’t particularly “good.” I’ve been struggling with depression, anxiety and social anxiety since quarantine happened and knowing what’s going on in the world currently, makes me feel hopeless and helpless, and it just makes it all worse. I do have friends in college and they make me feel happier and my social anxiety isn’t as bad, but it’s hard being a college student and pretending that I wanna do the things I have to do, knowing that it might all be pointless. Growing up with access to the internet messed up my brain pretty badly tho, I knew things I shouldn’t way too young and nowadays I suffer the consequences of it. I’ve been a very mature and self conscious person since a very young age and I don’t know whether it’s a good thing or not, but I can certainly say that my mental state isn’t stable. I went to therapy for months but it wasn’t of much help since I’ve always been very mature and self conscious…
and thank you so much for asking, I don’t think any of us have had someone that has ever asked us about these things and honestly I think some of us genuinely need it that. Im sure everyone here truly appreciates everything you said deeply, and I do hope from the bottom of my heart that your son has a different view of the world, a much more positive view of it. I hope the world gets better for him to live in and I hope you and your wife get to see him living in a world that’s world living, or at least I hope you can give him that world.
and by the way laughed at the “my wife and son have a son” thing you said, I had to pause and laugh out loud cause that was genuinely hilarious LMAO. Also P.S, Im so sorry for spamming your comment section, I truly didn’t intend to but I guess your questions actually made me think to myself and reflect a lot, so thank you for that and Im sorry again ahaha
I’m 16, and life is very… very repetitive especially during school hours. I wake up, I take a shower, I go to school, I work all day, I go home, I go to sleep, repeat.
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I'm living this nightmare every evening, however any event or big thing is memorable
That cycle doesn't change much unless you hit it big or get rich.
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I'm 27 and since your age i was thinking about that. Dont get upset boy, but be prepared for a life very repetitive, unless you win the lottery or break free... Nowadays its pretty common be grinded in every kind of work/job, related to repetitive actions.
PD: having a hobbie helps a lot, more if you get some proffit, or having goals or interest in something to keep you distracted in your free time, but nothing related to estudies/jobs haha
@@Karma-ji6udhave u hit it big or have gotten rich
As an older Gen Zer, I’m 25, and I’ve gone through college and graduate school, studied math and then business, and id say there’s an overwhelming sense of cynicism and pessimism about our future, along with a desire for things to fundamentally change among my peers. We aren’t particularly satisfied with the state of our government, nor our economic structure. I think many of us question what used to be viewed as fundamental truths in our society, believing that there is something better out there that is possible. We aren’t sure what this may be, but we know we’d like to have a greater voice in how our society is run. Seeing 80 something year olds who aren’t going to be around the future make all the decisions is frustrating, as we will be the ones who face the consequences. I also notice a desire for life to be “slower”, where one isn’t caught up in overwhelming barrage of media entertainment given to us by the internet or corporate entities, nor are we expected constantly be “on our grind” and make work our life. This general dissatisfaction with the current state of the world, combined with a pessimistic outlook for the future has definitely contributed to this cynicism, since it’s difficult to believe there’s something on the horizon. But I have also noticed an almost defiant hopefulness amongst my generation, believing that we can still make the world better, and create a better society for all, even though we may not know exactly how to get there or what it may look like. “One day I will return to your side” as Disco Elysium puts it. My viewpoint is definitely biased, but this simply what I’ve noticed about myself and my friends. Hope it’s insightful somehow.
Also 25, I agree totally. There's a huge sense of disconnection in a lot of ways between our generation and society at large, or even with each other, given the lack of physical social connection.
Thanks for putting into words how I think a lot of the gen z adults feel.
Just turned 26 not two weeks ago, and you've spelled out how I feel to a T.
This is a very apt description, Ill be 21 soon and this is very much the way I see things
well said, all my friends and I feel this exact way (I'm recently 21 btw)
I’m 18 turning 19 next week and agree with just about everybody in the comments. Life feels very monotonous and scary, especially because of a large chunk of my teenage years being in a pandemic.
I feel really unprepared for everything and honestly it’s so so hard to stay optimistic. I am horrified at the thought of having to move out after I graduate college next year, every wage offered to me is unlivable, and living in Seattle is just about as expensive as it gets here in Washington.
Long story short I fight my own brain every day to be grateful for what I have and enjoy my existence, since yknow I will never be this young again. I hope to accomplish things that I can be proud of in life, and have a painfully normal family with my partner. The concept of having my own place to live someday seems unreachable, so that’s why it’s my main goal in life to show that I can.
I'm 38 and I could've wrote that, I feel the same way. I'm saddened that someone so young feels so scared. It shouldn't be this way, you should be full of optimism at your age. I hope your generation can improve things in this late stage capitalist hellscape.
A fellow washingtonian! Sorry you gotta live in seattle. i haven't been since the first crime surge. Im halfway through high school, and honestly, if i get kicked out of the house at some point, i might be forced to relocate to a homeless shelter cause of the insane prices of houses, especially where i am in tacoma. I know its "early to be worried about it" but considering the fact it wont be that long and the economy doesnt seem to be going any other way its a real threat and on top of the fact that im having some kind of emotion suppressing brain problem that my parents just refuse to get looked at because screens are somehow always the problem i dont see myself being capable of living a day to day job without jumping off mount rainier
honestly same I finished high school last year and am turning 19 in about half a year, I don't plan on going to collage but I feel unprepared for starting any sort of job because I never got the chance with the pandemic plus diagnosed depression since I was a kid. Also I live in Olympia definitely better than Seattle lol
Happy birthday
I think I'm late but happy birthday! Hope you can achieve the goals you made, good luck.
It's weird to be young nowadays. I feel like, because of the internet, young people are experiencing or hearing about the things you only used to find out about as you transitioned into being an adult a lot earlier.
I'm 23 and I think anyone born between 1997-2003 had this weird inbetween phase where they experienced having a childhood without everyday technology (excluding maybe a family desktop or something similar) and then were sentient enough to experience and navigate the beginnings of smartphones and social media.
The prevalence of online socialising is, I feel, the single most impactful change to humanity in the last 30 years. Having known and experienced what it was like to exist as a child before all of this and then grow up as a teenager with these things at my fingertips feels so so odd.
I find, due to the availability of everything, I feel like I have no clear semblance of uniqueness to me whatsoever. I know and have seen at least once, aspects of myself somewhere else online. Anything I thought that might have been special or unique or interesting about myself has been one upped by countless other people who have the same aspects within their lives.
I feel like this is part of the reason why there has been such a surge within our generation for identity politics etc. We have all become so aware of the RANGE of people that exist on this planet that it becomes so important to solidify our own experiences in order not to feel lost within it all.
It's hard to hear on a GLOBAL scale about war and poverty and corruption and greed and all of these horrible nasty things that the human race enacts on itself and the planet around us. I feel like it drives a lot of younger people into having little faith in any long standing establishment or in the opposite way having too much faith in radically driven new establishments on either side of the scale. We want things to change or at least come away from all of the bad things we constantly hear about.
And so we work 2 jobs and try to unionise and go to therapy and talk about wages and ourselves and human connection. We drink expensive coffees and can't afford petrol or vegan diets and we feel guilty about it even though we know that were being lied to about the environment being at fault of the individual. We send constant texts and memes to our friends so as to feel involved in the hive mind and we remind eachother to eat and hydrate and appreciate nature 'while it's still around'. While being involved in this hive mind we try to respect each other for who we are, as we hear about racially charged attacks and terrorism. And we share how sad we feel on our Instagram story's one slide on from our morning fit check.
It's beautiful but sad. Which life has always been good at, but always seems to find news ways to show it.
This sums things up so well
Good post, especially how people either go down the route of hopelessness or radicalism
Very well put, I’ve been feeling similar things myself
What it's like to be young is a very abstract question with alot of varying answers, however the majority of us younger gen Z's (14-19s) are very depressed as we get berrated for information we haven't yet been taught; watching our small insignificant space rock become more and more inhabitable; wars being broken out left, right and center. Now it doesn't mean everything is bad but at this point in history alot of us are confused and scared as we begin to grow into the adult world. It's all so confusing, stressing and worrying as the prices of rent increase, mortgages become more and more of a dream then a reality. Gaming can only help us for so long; along with sports. It's a tool we use to cope more then enjoy at this point.
I just hope for a peaceful and happy future where every day it seems less and less dystopian as wars will cease, there will be no need for stressing, life will be great but not a facade. I just want to look outside and see a happy world, not one where it's covered in evil and fear. All we want is a safe space to grow up into rather then one which becomes more hostile.
Couldn't have described it better, truly a god tier comment
Well said. I agree
As an older Gen Z(born in 2000) and about to graduate college, you've captured my thoughts impeccably
I'm afraid this isn't exclusive to you, your the second generation in this boat. It doesn't get better...just go with the flow.
All the things you think will be your problems, probably won't be. The major issue your gen will be facing is housing depending on where you live.
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Reading all your guys’ comments i keep noticing two huge things, those being the fact that life feels extremely dull and repetitive and the fact that Covid really fucked us all up. I identify alot with the music I listen to and an album that kinda speaks to that feeling of repetition and boredom is Porcupine Tree’s album Fear of a Blank Planet. It’s a very interesting and unique album. If i had to explain it, it sounds like a modern day Pink Floyd mixed with Rush and metal. For me, music is one of the biggest parts of my life and it really will help you through shitty times.
I just discovered that album earlier and started listening to it cause it auto played after dream theater lol. Really cool stuff
Yeah, wow, thanks for the recommendation, shit kinda hits really close to home
I was just listening to one of their other albums "Signify"
Pink Floyd mixed with Rush? I gotta check it out
@@AxeIRad yup and the second track on fear of a blank planet has alex lifeson doing a guitar solo
I'm 14 and always feel like I have to change myself to fit in. Kids my age are either obsessed with putting others down to bring themselves up, or TikTok. I have fairly bad ADHD and social anxiety (mainly just horrible anxiety in general) so being social with calmer people is hard. I always feel alone but can never feel comfortable talking to someone. They are scary. They act as if the world is their play thing. As if mine and others feelings dont matter. I know this was long, but seeing the other comments wanted me to comment as well. And I hope all of you get better if you are having a bad time.
I can relate. I have grown up in the southwest and can say just how little people care in my state.
It's all about them and not once in my 28 years could I make a friend here in this country. All my friends aren't American.
Not like every American sucks, but never got the chance to meet one that gives a damn about putting effort into relationships.
No value is put into caring about humanity here, nor outside this country really and for anyone different or disabled. Like us, having ADHD/ADD, we're not able to understand how people work easily.
It takes some effort to find the people you can connect to. But it's well worth it along with improving yourself for yourself. You're worth liking yourself and being there for yourself to help be there for others.
At 14, I wished I had friends so badly, I was ill and finally out of school because of it. I was essentially isolated but I learned a lot about myself and learned about life by reading and video games.
At 24 I finally made the closest relationships I've ever had.
I'm nearly 29 and I have a best friend I miss being around who I love so much. I have friends who I have known 5 years, that's a huge milestone. And made some new friends through one of my closest friends.
It was some luck and effort and working my butt off to make sure I kept these relationships. And these people worked to keep their relationship with me too.
I hope you can find those people, to understand yourself to better connect with yourself and others. Be safe. Stay hydrated and eat well.
Feb 25, 2024
I think it's turned out that this access and this ability to find everything all at once has been far more of a double-edged sword than any of us could have expected. I think people in my generation, I'm 22, are lost in the sense that the direction feels unclear and there are so many other things that can fill the time that are easier to access and easier to do. People have no place to push themselves or accomplish things, don't know what they can accomplish, and have an infinite supply of things to distract them from those accomplishments.
I'm 14 currently, almost 15 and I'd say...living these days as a 'teenager' at least in my view, is difficult these days. I know it's not as difficult as it has been in the past but it's difficult for me and my friends/peers. These days everything is so influenced by social media & it's so hard to escape it. When I was 12 I snuck around a lot on the internet and always talked with strangers who I trusted so easily and my mother would always find out but I was so easily encouraged by what I saw online and it changed my behavior completely, I've gotten over it since then but it was a really tough time, especially for my mother who had to worry about my safety due to my careless actions online. I do virtual school so I don't have to worry about everything that happens in school and it's a breather for sure, I hated going to school in person. I think society tends to look down on my generation because of what is shown on the internet and yes, sure that's a big part of our generation but there's a different side to and I wish more people would understand that and shine a light on the more positive side of Gen Z. It's messy a lot but everything is, there's always going to be positives and negatives and up's and down's. Anyways, take care everyone, Gen Z or not ! Stay strong and you got this, keep fighting
Online school ruins social life. Also strangers on the internet won’t ever do anything harmful to people so it doesn’t really matter if you trust strangers on the internet easily, it’s not like they are going to go to your house and murder you. The biggest problems with gen z is screen addiction and the mental health crisis that is currently happening.
Im 22, im stressed as all hell haha. Honestly, Its mostly the looming knowledge that I will probably never be able to buy a house the way my grandparents were, yet i have to listen to them harp about what hard work is, how my generation never works, how lazy we are, etc. Even with my full time job, 40 hours a week, I am still seen as lazy. I dunno, just adds on to all the financial stress. I can handle financial stress, what I dont like is being told that this financial stress is normal, as if we arent in a big economical dip in the US currently. But, at the same time, I do really like my generation. Us and millenials. Im really happy to be young now, in a world where people are much more aware socially. I guess we get called sensitive for that, i mean I dont disagree that some people are WAY too expecting of like trolls on the internet but, for the most part a lot of it is just us trying to be aware of how other people feel. But back to the like, inequality stuff. Misinformation is terrifying. Finding out things that arent true that our politicians are pushing, CENSORSHIP, which I thought republicans were heavily against that is now being completely supported by them, I dunno. Its just stressful. This is pretty much just word vomit at this point, bottom line is that its stressful as hell. People keep saying my generation is soulless and selfish, all i see is people struggling to be themselves because of things like cringe policing culture, shit like that, that is also pushed by older adults. Its no wonder generation alpha is getting "dumber", they literally cringe police eachother into unintelligence.
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The first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you for the positive impact on my life and the relaxing videos. Recently, my 28 Year old sister who was very sad several times watched your videos when she was about to harm herself and I helped her a lot. The algorithm showed her your videos and that is the reason she is still alive. Thank you so much for helping her.
Let me introduce myself first.
I am a 23 Year old Man from Germany. I am autistic and I have aspergers Syndrome.
I enjoy having ASMR in the background when reading, playing video games or learning.
According to Wikipedia, being born in 2000 makes me a person of GEN Z.
I have been watching you for a long time. I do not know how long exactly but I think for 7+ years?
I enjoy your both profound and relaxing videos and I think your voice is one of the best of all the ASMR Videos on RUclips. I think that you are a smart man who can teach me a lot.
I do now know If my answer is good because I live different that most people.
Due to Autism/Asperger I see the world vastly different than most people I know.
But maybe this is what you are looking for?
Please let me answer a bit later. I will watch the video when I have time for it.
I want to properly think about it and write a good answer after watching the video.
I watched the first 17 minutes. Please have a great day and take care of yourself.
I was planning on doing it now and I had a few minutes to watch a bit but have to stop watching now.
I do not mean to insult but my sister is at bad health.
I do full-time care for her right now.
She is very similar to Jinx from Arcane which is one of her favorite shows.
She has also has depression and does not eat on her own.
I am telling you this so that you know that I have to do other things right now and I hope you are not mad at me. She allowed me to tell you about her. She hopes that It will help other people.
this is so lovely ❤ warmed my heart - send your sister wishes of well being from me.
@@ypila Thank you so much. My sister wishes the best for you and asks if you would like to talk to her.Have a great day and dont forget to care for your health.
you sound like an amazing sibling, i’m sure your sister is very happy she has you :)
So glad your sister is doing better now. And she has a really good brother to help her on her journey. i too suffer with depression and anxiety, so i know the struggles some days are really hard. it makes it easier knowing we are not alone and have someone we can turn to to talk when we need to. you both take care of yourselves.
@@nobleninja94Thank you, my loved ones are the most important in my life. But I think any person would help their family if they can help.
I’m 16 and I’m living the same day everyday. Of course I have that little break where I go and play drums in a band for a crowd of people and get paid, but when I’m not doing that or with my girlfriend, I’m living the same day over and over. I’m just so tired, literally and metaphorically all the time and every day is a struggle
as a 16 year old, it honestly just feels very irreal. maybe it’s just me but i find myself just disassociating most of the time, especially after the pandemic. the pandemic was a huge deal for all our lives but some of us were ending a big part of our lives and starting a new one just like that. developing depression and social anxiety was just a huge part in how we act as people and i feel like it’s changed so much in how people act towards each other.
living in this state, with inflation and climate change i just don’t see the future i want actually happening. my dream to live with friends and wanting a world where i don’t have to worry about dying in my school feels so unrealistic. I know that it might seem a bit dramatic thinking that i could die at my own school but knowing how many things happening in this world it just doesn’t seem completely impossible. just being a teenager, it feels like we can’t really do anything. adults don’t see us as reasonable people, we’re seen as too childish and immature. we have no say in how we want the world. i just hope that the life that many of us want doesn’t become so unreachable.
21 year old here and I must say from what I’ve seen and heard in modern media, it is so much harder to be financially independent in 2023. I currently live with my father and am barely able to make ends meet sometimes when it comes to paying my individual bills (phone bill, car bill, etc.) All these experience has taught me is I gotta work hard to break free of this mindset!!
My way of thinking is that nobody does anything bad for no reason. There are always reasons people are the way they are, and the current issue is that we allow the current system to incentivize uncaring and cruel actions. Integrity doesn’t put food on the table, and until it does then not much will change. It takes a special person to be above it, and special people are rare. And yet, time and time again people amaze me and prove how amazing they are. I guess what I’m saying is that people aren’t inherently bad, they’re just led astray far too often.
Just like walter white ig. 90% of people or whatever will break bad (no pun) if they are pushed to their limits. I hope that no one in the comments or well anywhere has to experience "breaking bad" (as in giving up being kind, turn to a life of crime/evil)
i’m 15 turning 16, life’s very repetitive to be honest, lots of work, school, gym. I feel like for people my age i think about deeper things a lot more than other. I really appreciate the worlds natural beauty, and i love nature. I think there’s way too much media and comparison in our lives (the killer of joy) and so i’m glad i grew up not around technology. But honestly with the repetitiveness, having a hobby (cars for me) has helped a lot, wrenching on them and messing with them with friends has helped me have a lot more fun than i would without it.
I am 26, and started watch your videos since 2018( maybe) when I was a college student. My life changes a lot these days, but your videos always be there. It really helps me a lot. Huge thanks, you human expert.
Being a teenager is rough. Especially now. So much peer pressure, big expectations, new technology, and work on top of work. When I was small, I had promised myself I'd never do anything bad or illegal. Now here I am doing quite the opposite of that. The pressure that school and employers put on teens now is unbelievable. And learning how to drive, just learning how to get life together in general! It's tough.
You're hilarious 😂
why u laughing @@RR-lv3tp
I'm 29, born in 94 and I don't feel anything anymore. Life has kind of taken the joy and happiness of my youth but I try not to dwell on it. I know they say it gets better and I'm here and hoping it does
I’m 17 and it’s kinda of a struggle to talk to people these days because we rely so much on technology to help us and I think that’s why some people are in home school that have social anxiety. Me personally I don’t have a problem talking with people as long as I find the right people for me to relate to and not the trouble makers. I just feel like today’s society needs help because I’ve looked at the depression rates and the suicidal rates and they’re at an all time high. In my opinion ever since COVID happened people are just feed up with life and the responsibility’s they have to look after. I know I don’t know much but I take advice from my parents whenever I’m having a bad day. I’m glad they’ve been taking good care of me for 17 years and my two sisters for almost 14 years. If you can accomplish something in life than that will always be the greatest feeling ever.
They aren’t fed up with life they are just soft nowadays. Back in the day as soon as men turned 18 and they were sent to war. They would’ve loved to live in your time
Hey, Uncle E
I know you don't care about accolades or recognition, but I just wanted to say thank you for being there for me when I was lonely in my teens. I moved from my parents at 16 years old and was kind of scared to sleep in complete silence at night. So I would put your videos on and just listen. That helped me a lot.
Wanted to write this for a long time, but never got to. I'm 20 now and still watching.
Have a good day, Rift. I hope you will see this
What it’s like to be young in today’s world. As an older zoomer, growing up during the internet’s takeover of society felt like speed running different eras of humanity. When I was a young kid, the internet was commonly used but there was still a major distinction between it and real life. Back then, internet speeds were still too slow and mobile devices were too expensive for the average person to spend a lot of time on the internet. This led to the internet being a cool new thing to learn stuff and the beginning of internet humor. Back then, people’s opinion wasn’t entirely based on what they hear on the internet. It was mostly fun facts and basic memes.
During my teenage years, the internet fully took over society. Social media developed at a breakneck pace, going from a place to share pics/thoughts to a platform that can radicalize almost anyone depending on what they see. At this point it still wasn’t a massive problem. People who based their worldview on what they see on social media were still generally looked down upon. This is also the time when the corporatization really came into full swing. It quickly shifted from homemade content (remember when we didn’t use the word content to describe everything?) to professionally made videos, promotions, pages, etc. I’m my opinion, this is the time when the golden age of the internet died. It went from a neat thing to use every now and then to something that almost everyone in society is always connected to and base their personality off of (watch Serial Experiments Lain).
I am in my 20s now and while technology has progressed, I believe we are in a much worse place socially. The modern internet and algorithms create echo chambers by design. I make an active effort to avoid being in echo chambers and it still constantly happens. I deleted most of my social media last year because it was terrible for my mind. Looking back on it, social media is basically poison for your brain, even when used sparingly.
What we like, who we don’t like is overwhelmingly controlled by a small amount of corporations. It feels like we passed the peak of symbiosis of society and the internet, and it’s quickly getting worse. Even if you disconnect yourself, odds are that at least 90% of the people you know will still be in the situation.
In short, it feels like I was born when right when the golden age of humanity is ending. If things don’t change, humanity is doomed to hate each other based on what companies/internet decide. This is why Gen Z is so detached from the current affairs of society, we have already passed the point of no return.
-A monke
21 yrs. I think that life is fascinating. The world is so intricate, there are so many things to learn. Even through the evil that lurks, I think that life is what we make of it. The unknown also excites me. I hope that others resonate, I wish for a positive future
As a 14 year old, being a teenager in todays society is harsh, and very difficult to live in. Many kids nowadays bully you or make fun of you because of silly things. Like, you have fuzzy hair because you took a shower the previous night and it dried, or you have a different music taste, or maybe you look poor. People are cruel nowadays. We have to worry about school shootings, wars, and many other things. Other then the bad factors, it can be decent. We have lots of ways to entertain our selves, many games have been created. We have lots of advancements in technology. I’m not a writer but this topic is very important to talk about. Many parents/adults don’t understand mental health, lgbtq and many other things. We have to worry about inequality and being mistreated and told to go to hell just because we look different or identify as a different gender. This is the cruel truth of being a Gen Z teenager in todays society.
I’m currently 14. First I wake up 6:45ish, then I go to school for seven hours. 1st period science, 2nd period gym/Spanish, 3rd period 8th grade math, 4th period English, 5th period U.S. studies, and 6th period communications/band. Then I go home do whatever for a while and go to sleep. This may sound repetitive. But I have a deep love for jazz, I play alto sax, Bari sax, and drum set. And the main thing is my family and friends they are so nice and support me.
I think being my age (22) it has its ups and downs .. i could rant about how bad things are but I’ll do one good instead .. I think it’s amazing how easily accessible the history is, with all the architecture, scriptures and preservatives is astonishingly unbelievable and beautiful
Honestly as a 17 year old, its definitely intresting. On one side we have the monotonous repeative highschool grind, however I believe what really plauges us is simply a lack of things to look forward too. I mean turning 18 we, maybe, go to college, pay taxes, and if we are lucky retire at sixty five and enjoy the rest of our lives free to wish we were young enough to use that freedom for what we wanted.
This boringness and dullness though has taught me the importance of family to carry me through the monotony and grey, regardless of the future I can look forward to coming home to see my brother and my dog before spending time with friends I can trust.
The thing most people gain though instead of contentness with the people around you is financial ambition, breaking that sad boring monotomy, while I support those looking too; personally I am focused on making it from day to day.
I would say not all of us had it easy. I'm 23 and been watching since 2014. When I was a teen you were my go to after a long day of school. Some of us had the chance to have everything they needed for success and other didn't. I would say life is not more easy but we have different social and economical challenge that are different from what they were when you were our age. I personally went through poverty throught out my childhood. Getting hand me downs from older siblings and family members. Has a young adult during my twenties I live through homelessness and getting kick out my house. I'm finally financially independent but still helping my parents with rents and food. They were not the best parents, they did try their best and i believe so and has their child I feel a responsibility to help them has much has I can. Finding a place where to live, work, school and food has all become so expensive that spending time for myself doing thing I enjoy has become extremely hard.
I’m 19 turning 20 in December and life is stuck for a moment for me I’m on house arrest for 14 months so I’m limited to what I can do all I can say is be grateful for your freedom and the little things in life like going on walks,fishing,going to families houses cuz I cannot leave for a weekly pass unless it’s to the store to get supplies like food and such. Life is beautiful no matter if you have nothing or have it all just be happy with yourself for being able to experience life and the things and people in it good or bad it’s all a experience to be happy to be able to live through :)
As nice as it is to have access to so much stimuli as a gen z’r it gets to a point where we’re just way too overstimulated and we take for granted living day-to-day. I can only speak for myself, but I’m mostly just killing time instead of utilizing it for productivity. It’s just too easy for people like myself nowadays to stay indoors because video games and RUclips just offer so much more enjoyment than anything else going on outside in the real world right now. I actually quit my job a couple weeks ago because I felt so burnt-out and I’m too overwhelmed with anxiety and inhibition to talk to anyone about it. I don’t consider myself lazy, but I have worked long enough to know that hard work is never rewarded - it’s only taken advantage of. So I just remain by my pc mostly and emulate ps1 games if I’m not sleeping.
I’d say there’s a real loneliness epidemic with gen z, in my opinion. And a lot of it does boil down to our inability to handle these issues meaningfully without the help of constant stimulus. We just think a bit differently than previous generations since we grew up during an era of constantly updating and evolving info. And we’re too scared and addicted to technology to change our habits meaningfully. Tech companies know this more than anyone and would rather create algorithms that target you with content/ads which take advantage of any underlying mental-illness you may have rather than offer resources to get treatment.
To sum it up, I like playing final fantasy games with my beefed up super-computer, but I’m not sure the concern of climate change, gender/racial inequality, and rising poverty rate makes up for the high gaming performance.
I didn’t realise I needed this. These comments are like gold to me. What it shows to me is that something really needs to change. And I think we are really on the brink of true change.
I’ve got to say since getting a phone and being a teenager (I’m 17) with ADHD, is thst my mental health has definitely taken a toll. My parents are in there early 40s and they were raised in the era where there parents raised them to work hard and get it done and if the work is bad, just suck it up and seems hard to relate to anyone. It also seems hard to relate to anyone my age because of social media. You see all your friends taking trips and having fun, going to cool places while ur stuck at home or not invited too. Another thing about social media is just the social disconnection you get from swiping all day. It’s hard to know who to support or who not anymore, like you said.Also sucks because I’m bullied. Also seems weird bc all my friends are going to colleges or have gone already and then I’m stuck here with nothing to do and it sucks to just be so uncertain about what your doing, 5-10 years down the road
First half of my 20s. It feels like even as society improves, we learn more and become more compassionate, we’re not catching up to the negative aspects quickly enough.
I don’t blame those feeling apathy and despair; I’m constantly struggling to pull myself out of those. I feel like I’m making progress though. We can’t give up now, we just can’t.
I'm 23 and from the US. I am almost completely disenchanted with the people of the world- even the most beautiful traditions and methods of connection are being used to push each other around and keep people down in the mud. 😔 The planet is dying and I can't do anything about it if I'm busy paying off $65,000 in medical debt because my county has a culture that prioritizes profits over people. 😒 I have the capacity to look back on what we know of every empire in known history, and all I see is a bunch of people making the same mistakes over and over again- even today. And when you point it out, they call you a psycho Commie, woke leftist mind virus bullshit, a young immature kid who doesn't understand anything.
It's hard to say "maybe we should be organizing our cities around public transportation systems rather than individual automobile dependence" and all of a sudden you're a communist intentionally trying to strip everyone of their rights. 🙄 It's hard to have to pay a monthly subscription to be fed hopeful messages when there isn't a single place on this earth where rain water is safe to drink.
There's a deafening silence between the headlines, because everything today is seen as either life-or-death or inconsequential. Everything is a personal attack, but entirely inhuman, inhumane, impersonal.
We have the capacity for all the knowledge of the world, but the label of "truth" goes to the highest bidder. What's worse is that with technology developing faster than we can possibly create safeguards and true accountability, by the time we catch up it will have bred a whole new set of critical issues. Fucking most of GenZ is depressed and anxious and traumatized, because all we know is a broken world that was specifically build to collapse before we could explore it- and the ones who did it are 70-105 and demand respect simply because they're older. It's a goddamn train wreck waiting to happen. We're approaching the end of the track, and I want off this awful ride
Fuck it, let's bring out the guillotines. Maybe then we can start fixing stuff in a way that matters
As a 19 year old life has been a rollercoaster , i think personally there was way more discipline for people and children before than today , I'm somewhat in the middle with this , theres good people but theres bad people, theres good things and bad things and so on , as you've said with wars its horrible, and as of my mental health its messed up its worse now after covid when there was isolation and whatnot
I’m 17 and I think it’s cool about how far we’ve come technology wise and just advancement wise. People from like 100 years ago would be so surprised by how far we’ve come. On the other hand, it feels really jarring having so many things going on all at once. At least for me, I feel like my attention span has gotten worse and it’s hard to focus on things. It’s hard to have normally conversations with people because they’re always on their phones. It’s hard to read a book because I get distracted and look on my phone. So in general, there’s pros and cons to everything. This is just another thing.
Just turned 20, never went to college and got a tech sales job straight after school.
Started the pandemic feeling like a teenager at 17 and came out at 19 with a job and responsibilities. Never quite adjusted.
Constantly feel out of my depth, stressed (I got put on antidepressants during covid) overwhelmed and stuck in a repetitive cycle where I’m waking up doing the same thing over and over.
Excellent pay but I couldn’t care less and don’t feel like an adult despite being treated like one. Miss being young and wish I thought less.
Can’t compare it to anything else being born in 2003 but I’m assuming this isn’t unique to my generation (apart for the tech maybe)
I’m 18 and in my first year of college, and the best way I’d describe the world from a gen z perspective is that we live in a world of paradoxical potential. There’s the potential for both great good and great evil though the leaps and bounds in technological and scientific progress we’ve made. Socialization has never been as advanced or in depth as it’s ever been, with people from across the world being able to forge friendships and bond when they couldn’t before.
But like I mentioned, it’s paradoxical potential. While there has certainly been good done with these advancements, terrible acts have also been committed by those who use these advancements for their own purposes.
It’s difficult for a lot of people to be optimistic these days because it seems like the negative side of the potential is winning out, but negativity is also louder than positivity, so who knows, maybe things will be alright…
I'm 23. Life has been difficult recently but it's gotten a little easier, there's been a lot of loss and trauma over the last three years or so. There's an occasional feeling of being stunted from the pandemic, like I'm still 19-turning-20 because of how long my isolation lasted; the fact that I'm finally almost done with my Bachelor's and one of my professors is my age seems to emphasise this more. My mental health has steadily gotten both worse and better in different aspects. This world in general has made me a pessimistic optimist: expect the worst, but hope for and work towards the best. People can be surprising, and a lot of them seem fake, but deep down it seems that people overall want what's best for the world in general as well as themselves; they're selfish and hedonistic, but that's not necessarily bad in moderation. As a whole generation, we've come to realise that the history we are taught in school is not heeded by the people that govern our societies and how much of a problem that is for our survival and the survival of our planet; we aren't content to watch the world burn around us and just dance in the fire, we actively want to try and mitigate the harm that fire causes.
24, lost my father at 12, lived with an abusive alchohlic step father, watched as a lot of family friends and loved ones, I've know since I i was a child die as I grew into an adult, I lost my left testicle at 19. I eventually just leaned to only care when I need to. As long as my familes okay, i don't care what gose around me.
My vision of the world is, theres lots of bad compared to good, but you take the good from the bad and keep going on with your life.
Hey Uncle, I am 23 yes old and turning 24 in January. 4 yes college experience and just quit my first job out of college after being there for a year and I’m completely lost… Don’t want you to think I’m complaining because my life is beyond blessed, but figuring out where I belong in this massive world of ours is one of the most daunting things that I feel wildly unprepared for. Life is good and I’m a happy person, but trying to navigate a world/culture that ultimately just wants to chew me up and then spit me back out is uninspiring. Overall, I think we are doomed here on earth, but I know that this life doesn’t really matter and that I will live on up in heaven eternally. That’s one of the main things that keeps me going nowadays! Love ya Unc
I tend to be in the middle ground for most situations and questions, but also the answer solely depends. Life is a mixture of beautiful, terrifying, confusing, relaxing, interesting, boring and etc, with life giving you so much to see yet sometimes can feel so little as well. Overall, it depends in my opinion due to the differences in everyone, the different situations, values, traditions, skills, advancements, topics, beliefs, hobbies, interest and so much more in this world, whether it is positive or negative.
Millennial here. I’m glad to have a look into the Gen Z life and thoughts. I was born in 92 and we had some tech growing up but not always. The dawn of the internet was a magical time. Gen Z and millennials always seem to be going at it but what I’m seeing in the comments is we should really be doing better as older generations. Sure life sucked for us this whole time but the poor Gen Zs are so exposed to crap and everything today. It’s polished, saturated, engrained, twisted, etc.
I’m happy to be a millennial. Gen Z, life truly sucks. No one and nothing prepares you for the truth. Everyone thinks childhood was better. It was for all of us.
But I feel like your generation has a lot more to battle than we did. Just keep pushing for better and with each generation, help change the world. I know you guys can do it!
Hey ephemeral, I’m 22 turning 23 in December. I can’t speak for all people my age and younger but only draw from my own experiences thus far in my life.
So what I can tell you is that life is very monotonous and feels like ur stuck in a loop and the only thing that changes is your age. I’m 100% certain that my generation are not the only ones who feel this way as life feeling repetitive is a trait any age, race or sexuality experiences. What I can tell you from what I have experienced myself and seen in others my age and younger is that the youth and young adults of today have a big problem with hopelessness.
Meaning it’s damn near impossible to move out as a young adult today, it’s harder to get jobs, inflation (while it affects us all weighs heavy on youngsters as they need money NOW) and we all tend to view life in a way of “it’s too hard so why bother.”
IN MY OPINON, the youths seem more concerned about cancelling people or starting drama or instantly disliking people because the masses say so and have a general lack of free thought. Nothing is exciting anymore. There is hardly any positive news as opposed to negative. But it’s all okay cos u can always yell at people because they don’t want to change the rhetoric they grew up with and have to ask for peoples pronouns before engaging in a dialogue with them.
having been born some sixty something years ago, education was being dismantled then.... its beyond on life support now. my kid was a milennial unendingly berated by the media which has never really stopped. its because the dinosaurs are =that= afraid of you. they are honestly that afraid of you, or if you form coalitions with the 'boomers' they are teaching you to hate... if those three extremely radical political groups team up, which is their greatest fear, the dinosaurs are hopelessly outnumbered despite their dark money. its a terrible time to be young - and i personally apologize. i was permanently so deeply radicalised just by nixon and jonestown.... so i can only imagine how it feels to grow up today. its very hard, just do the best you can, the old ways are hopefully dead now as they should be - and if we all team up we can still make a difference politically. please take care. its tragic what has been done to the people who will inherit this planet. (and the planet) but i hope they will get theirs, its why they are so afraid.. im sorry
As a fellow 22 year old, 100% agree
well said
for me it feels like when I was born and being a kid everything was more smooth. going from 2017 onwards for me at least has been downhill, when covid hit my life flipped for the worse. I just turned 18 still in my parents house hoping to go to college and meet my buds. that definitely did not happen. I was stuck on a miserable loop that demanded salvation. I went to some dark places during that time. only since 2022 has it slowly started going back up but I know it will never be like that of pre 2017.
I’m 12 almost 13 and life is basically the same every day. I do the same thing every day and over the weekend I just sit at home all day and watch RUclips or play games. During weekdays I wake up, get ready, go to school, sit there and work for about 7 hours, go home, do more work (homework) or sit on RUclips, have dinner, and go to bed. Then repeat that process every day for 5 days a week
I just turned 18 and I have these moments often where I think to myself “Wow, I actually have to do stuff that I never fathomed 3-5 years ago.” I don’t know what’s gonna happen to me past high school and I feel rightfully anxious.
Genetics messed me up pretty good, the anxieties of both my parents combined to make a anxious and most likely autistic kid. It’s a lot of keeping my head down and surviving one day to the next. I want to get in the medical field but housing debt and pay all make me terrified. I’m also in TKD and as much as it’s helped me it’s also one of many responsibilities.
In too young to be put on effective anxiety medication but we’re thinking about pushing it anyway just so I can survive high school. I’m an artist and it’s one of the ways I deal with the hand I’ve been dealt.
I am 24 years old born in 1999, from Lima, Perú, and I don’t know if I like this world. Neither I know if I’m happy to be alive exactly, mainly because this is so meaningless and nobody ever asked to be born.
I moved from Peru to Mexico, because of the political situation. The government in my country is turning communist. Also, I moved because I am able to love here as people respect the LGBT community and to finish my university carreer in communications, which is very useful for my channel and almost anything I do (stated in pandemic, also could travel and spread wings thanks to RUclips).
I think the best way to live life is transmuting negative emotions into art, personally, I love producing either ASMR and music, not only for me, but also for my friends.
Life is a little better in company, but the knowledge you get from solitude will always be what I appreciate the most.
I recently turned 18, and what I see most prevalently in my generation is a sense of frustration. We, myself included, feel like the various institutions and principles we were told to believe in have been twisted and corrupted beyond recognition and we see a world that is at the brink of catastrophe. We have to sit by and wait as leaders who won’t be around in 10-20 years make decisions that we will suffer the consequences of. It’s a world that it feels like we have been forced to piece back together as we actively watch those in charge continue to shred what’s left into smaller pieces for their own temporary gain. However, I also see my generation as one that wants to make change. Despite what tragedies that may lay ahead, I have also felt a sense of hope for what could be achieved in the future. We want the world to change, the frustration comes from the fact that we simply do not have the power to change much let. Unfortunately that hopefulness is plagued by its own issues that caused many to give up on a better future. Our generation is the most mentally ill in human history and it isn’t hard to see why. Humans are social creatures, and for all the great things that come with the internet and modern technology, it has been horrible on our social lives. I have always felt lonely to some degree for all of my teenage years (including right now). I feel disconnected and wish I could be apart of something bigger, but I lack the social skills and battery to actually achieve that. Meanwhile I also have to balance school, work, college applications, scholarships, extracurriculars, and hopefully be left with enough free time to do what I actually enjoy. It just isn’t a sustainable lifestyle it you actually want people to feel like your life is worth living. I know not all of my generation feels like that, but it is a substantial portion.
I’m 21. Actually been a fan of your channel since I was in Middle School. I remember watching that Satan video you did the day it came out lol, hard to think about how it’s been so long and how much things have changed since then. Such a different world now. I miss those simpler times.
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19 yr old Australian here. Life’s confusing. Moving out of home to university and learning to live by myself, learning how to do this small things I never knew, with no one telling or teaching you how to do anything. Video games are really the only consistent thing in my life right now, meeting knew people has never been so scary. Works rough alongside a shit economy here, work long hours for little money makes it hard to balance everything. I’ve pick up new hobbies, band photography gives me great opportunities to meet and grow as a person.
I love reading these comments and just realizing how different peoples lives are, it just shows how one can forget how different people are from themselves. Hope everyone has a great day❤
I’d like to answer your question by telling you about someone I really admired. His name was Toby and man, this dude was seriously cool.
To put it into perspective, I only met Toby once, he was a fifth grader at the time, and I was just a year younger than him. My dad knew his father through work and that’s how we met.
He was a good kid, with a kind heart. Anyway, fast forward to my freshman year of high school and my mum sat me down and told me some shocking news.
Unfortunately, Toby had passed away in a boating accident. There were further details, but to be honest, I didn’t want to know them. It baffled me how someone so full of life could suddenly be taken like that. Someone who left such a strong impression on me after only meeting him once.
I struggled to process this at first, part of me wished we could trade places, but after a while I realised, Toby would want all of us to stand up, brush ourselves off, and keep on going, laughing, and just having a good time.
I’m 20 now, and even though I only knew him as a 5th grader, I will never forget the lessons Toby taught me. Even though the world is pretty messed up, I think we should all look at it through Toby’s eyes, with a fun-loving curiosity and a wild sense of adventure.
I can tell ya, he sure would appreciate it. And Kai, if by some crazy chance you’re reading this, hang in there mate, I’m sorry for your loss. Your brother was a good man. And I promise you, the world can never forget him.
I’m an 18 year old, first nations person, and queer Gen-Z. I graduated high school in 2022 and am currently working in a school as an IT intern.
My days typically follow a routine. I wake up in the morning, shower, get dressed and ready, walk to work, work until lunchtime, walk home for my break, eat lunch and play a video game, go back to work, work until 4pm, go home, talk to friends and hang out online, clean, start getting ready for bed, sleep, and then repeat.
I see where I am personally with both myself and others better than it was in the past. My mental health and relationships were never at a stable place until a few months ago. My childhood wasn’t great due to the way I was treated for having autism which greatly affected my relationship with myself, my family, and my friends. I often felt alone and left out growing up, especially during the quarantine during the mid-end of my high school years. The way things are in the world right now has caused me a lot of anxiety within the past few years due to the rage people seem to have towards people like me which has worsened my mental health but I’ve been learning to cope a lot better with it all by simply focusing on the better things in my life.
I don’t typically label which side of politics i’m on but you could definitely say that I’m a “left winger.” I care about people, animals, and the world. I’m heavily against laws, bills, and parties that push for the oppression of minorities. I believe that everyone should have a choice in what to do with their bodies despite the beliefs of others. Basically, my beliefs are that people should be allowed to be who they are as long as they aren’t causing harm to others or not allowing another to be themselves as well. I also believe in the separation of religion from politics. Someone’s faith or religion shouldn’t dictate others.
I grew up in the christian faith but no longer identify with that label. In terms of religion, I do believe that there is a god-like being out in the world, or maybe all these gods all exist at the same time. I don’t worship any god in particular but live my life in a way that I believe is morally acceptable so that when I die and there is an afterlife I may be allowed in. I don’t pray but will if someone else wants me to join them.
l’m going to end here as I’m getting too tired to form my words properly and there’s way too many things I want to say to fit here, but I hope that this could be insightful to you.
I love your content, Uncle E. Keep being a cool guy.
I'm 13, (A year younger than when Gen Z ends) but I still wanted to talk about what it's like being my age. I have a hard time at school because most girls are going through a mean phase right now, and I've had to regain my confidence back because of how much it dropped when I first started middle school. I feel like the world is slowly getting more and more sadder. Buildings are more grey, school looks like prison (literally), but technology is the only way I can get my dopamine, but even some parts of the internet is bad too. I've been told many times to kill myself on roblox and discord. Religion is hard to talk about because where I'm from, Christianity is the norm and anything else is considered "wrong." School (still) closes their eyes around bullying, racism, ect. The internet has a lot of (excuse me for my language) fucked up stuff easily accessible. I'm not going to name anything, but I've seen many, many things online that I think have changed me. Back then, as you said, knowledge and answers were limited, but now, things are too accessible. Normal citizens can now figure out how to make a bomb, little kids telling people to kill/cut themselves, very dark things. Sometimes I wish I hadn't seen some of the things that I did happen to see as a younger kid so I could enjoy life a little more and focus on the deeper things later in life.
I'm 20 my birthday was actually last Tuesday. Life is strange, every day I feel like I notice something that doesn't match up with my view of the world, I notice hatred within myself and love within my enemies. I worry that the amorphic quality of my perspective will never solidify into a concrete understanding of the universe, but I hope that it at least becomes less gaseous. Death is something I'm grappling with right now, grieving friends. And the fact that I can never know what comes after is daunting to my curiosity. Why understand when you can't understand the one thing you want to understand. Your channel is very nice, thanks for good nows.
I'm in my mid 20s. The world very much feels like the "if you boil a frog" analogy: If you slowly bring up the temperature of the water in the pot that the frog is in, it won't notice it's being boiled alive.
I feel like there's just been a gradual increase of how severe the bad stuff has gotten (going from COVID lockdown to the current wars going on) to the point we're almost acclimated to how bad everything is. Probably to the point where we're hitting the (in one case literally) boiling point, so to speak.
It's hard to stay positive some days just because everything kinda sucks. Prices for things are too high to live alone, nothing feels like it's worth it anymore, etc. The days have gone by and blurred together at a point where I feel like I'm on autopilot, and have been for years now. I think that's a factor of having to "grow up early" in my early-mid teens.
I have aspirations to do bigger things, but the system feels so rigged that i lost the hope to even try. It sucks but at the same time i just have to keep trudging forward because... It's all i got.
I'm 19, and life has its ups and downs. It's never going to be a state of constant happiness, i know, at least for me. I see a lot of people commenting that its hard to be a teenager nowdays, it is, but I think it always has been.
Life Context: 21 / born and raised in U.S.A. / K-12 education in private religious institution / Current college student. Answers to your questions below based on personal life experience thus far.
1:51 Q: Do you think the world is an amazing or wonderful place with all the advancements and creativity we have?
A: Based on the specific examples you provided (ex. art, science, technology) Yes. However, I am not blind to the fact that every advancement mankind has made typically results in a step backwards for another stakeholder involved in the advancement. Its called an advancement because its moving forward from our perspective as humans... Not any other party involved.
5:20 Q: Thoughts on war/inequality/disinformation/politics?
(War) A: I grew up outside of major wars or at least was not old enough to understand major conflicts in the early 2000s. From a selfish POV, I should not be invested in them or brought into them. One thing I keep in mind is that these conflicts are still occurring today but are based on historical events that predate myself and all Gen Z by centuries. Future generations just carry on the conflict because its what they are taught. Its time for the world to recognize this and ask why we are truly fighting.
(Inequality) A: It exists and has been talked about much more throughout the past decade. Its important to talk about and honor diversity. Its also important to balance the rights of each individual no matter how they associate. Rights of one should not go over another. But quite frankly I see things as equal at this point in time when comparing myself to anyone. I do not care who I am, and I do not care who you are, because at the end of the day we breathe the same air and leave this earth through death. Personally I am doing nothing to restrict people of their rights, but I know some are.
(Disinformation) A: Its annoying that you cant trust many things now. Everyone wants their 10 seconds of fame or whatever. They are willing to ruin someone or something to get it which should show you how cruel we can be as humans.
(Politics) A: Its just another way to divide us. I literally have nothing else to say other than its stupid. I often wonder what would happen if politicians worked together more?
7:12 Q: What do you think about your "fellow human beings"?
A: There are great genuine people out there but certain aspects of society teach us to be fake to get what we want. Every time I meet someone new I have no reason to be fake to them. I don't want to send someone the wrong signals, if anything that can be hurtful to someone trying to be genuine. I'd say I stand neutral in this topic, I cant trust everyone. However, Those I do find to be real, have my back. Those that don't I'll cut out of my life because its a waste of time.
8:00 Q: What is mental health like with access to all this information?
A: Personally technology and information systems do not extremely impact my mental health. It doesn't make me sad or happy when I hear/see bad or good news. I think constant access to information has hardened me and made me not care too much about what I consume online. Sure I'll get a quick chuckle from social media, but then I'll just move on with my day. I'm not going to get depressed if I see something bad goes down online or a post I make just doesn't do well or receives hate. I'm just living life, its not that deep. I don't want to disrespect those that struggle with it but never let events outside of your power drag you down. I get its easier said than done. If anyone finds themselves struggling with mental health due to media/online activity, delete it. Its not worth your time thinking about. Reach out to your loved ones and get their input. Surround yourself by the people you know are genuine and seek support from them.
I think that covers my basic input for you Uncle E, these topics can be packed with tons of talking points. Thank you for being curious about Gen Z, I look forward to seeing what others in my generation say and congratulations if you made it this far. 😅
im a 28yr old aussie guy, so riiight on the dividing line of GenZ and millenial. to keep it brief, I think we are living in exciting times, and thats as good as it is bad. A world of wonder and potential, but its resting atop our heads. its...crushing...sometimes. terrible things, and terrible people are everywhere. and i just want to be left alone to enjoy my life, but that doesn't seem an option for some reason.
So yea. its a life.
every generation has some life altering/defining moment; a 'canon' event. It is interesting to see how it effects everyone differently too. As a Xennial, it has been interesting to see how life has changed so much in 43 years.
As someone who lives outside of the US ( I live in Serbia) i feel like my Gen has it the easiest. The gen before mine had a huge civil war where they had to kill there before brothers now enemies. I feel like society is safer and more stable. I feel like more and more of the older Gen Z (17-27) are becoming more and more bored with moderate politics and are shifting more far left and far left.
There are a lot different opinions and views you get bombarded with. We are more numb then ever and also more sensitive than ever. Some of us Nihilist/Existentialists while the other half are SJW. Its very versatile which i consider a good thing . We live on the internet. Our lives are repetitive so our creativity goes out through the internet. We are all "artist" in a way, we have the biggest canvas of all time. Any opinion we have , we can immediately say it. With 0 to no rules which is a positive. Overall very interesting time to be a teen. Can't wait to tell my kids how was it like "BACK IN MY DAY" lol.
Interesting to hear a non-western opinion. Thanks for sharing
I'm gen Z at 23. I guess for me it's just a lot to describe how I feel about the world we live in I don't have the time or the capacity to fully express the ways that I feel because I think it's mostly confused. Not confused as in I haven't thought about it, confused about everything because I have, and it not only feels like everyone else hasn't actually thought about who they are, why we are here or what they believe in it's just factual that they haven't. I'm very moderate politically and people think that makes me a fence sitter but I'm not I have extremely strong and passionate convictions they just go both ways. Both political sides like to demonize each other and say they are trying to cause division and spreading false information yet they both do it.
Back in the day it seems like people could communicate normally even if they had disagreements. But these days it is very rare to find someone that is not actively hostile to you for your beliefs. And when you aren't extreme to either side you receive the same vitriol but from everyone. We are exploited by corporations and the government, forced to make barely liveable wages, the healthcare system isn't interested on losing out on money by actually treating the mentally ill., Almost every week in my small town some kid dies from a fentanyl or meth overdose and on top of that we are told that it is somehow our fault we were born in a system they created. But even when people of my generation give a shit enough to do anything to fight the system they just join one of the two teams and unwittingly contribute to it.
I used to think I was lost, now I feel that everyone else is and I will be forever alone because of it. Government and corporate controlled traditional and social media has pavloved the whole country into submission and nobody sees it. I escape to your strange dystopia of the eru because even when I have to fight an Eldritch being it is less confusing and terrifying than this dystopia.
As a 23 year old fem presenting male blue collar bisexual construction worker who lives in rural farm country. I am alone because not because I am confused about who I am but because everyone else is because conforming is absolutely so necessary for survival in our culture that that its easier for most people to just meet the status quo. And it's not even surprising it's just the way of humans. I'm holding out hope that there is somewhere a place that isn't like this and I just haven't found it yet. But even if I did I wouldn't have the means to ever get out of the sticks,.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel, the only reason I keep going is that maybe one day I'll have the chance to teach people how to learn to love the tunnel and make it better for everyone. But I know realistically that won't happen. I'll keep surviving just in case tho.
I love your channel man been watching since age 13 as part of my resisting religious indoctrination arc. I hope you are doing well. ❤
25, from Europe, I agree with you. Every little political or social difference seems to be met with total hostility. Corporations and governments have us in a chokehold and nothing is getting better, even wages. The system we were born into has done nothing but hurt us. Everyone feels lost and hopeless. I'm 'cis' but this kinda stuff is universal. At least our generation is more open minded about people living and presenting however they want, because ultimately everyone is suffering under the system.
I love life. It hurts, it's a horrible test that grinds you down horrifically, all for you to get up, stronger, smarter, more determined, so you can see the world in it's fullest glory.
Life hurts sometimes, but most of the time, it's peaceful and lovely. I'm 15 by the way.
22 years old as of this year on October 1st, graduated lived through covid etc etc life is so bleak and the future is very uncertain that’s just putting it bluntly from my end of the spectrum I just hope things go better for me and my family
Turned 24 just last month. The pandemic stole much of the college experience from me. Sense of normalcy ended when we shifted to online learning 3 years ago, then with the blink of an eye I graduated, a few days later I get accepted into a job I applied for and assumed office a day after my birthday. Everything went by so fast I’m now on my first month at work and honestly questioning my competency especially because I’m working for the government and most of my superiors have been in service for over 8 years now (Gen X).
same experience, 10 years younger. im 14 and basically all of middle school, a decently important part in my maturity was interrupted by covid. i only spent half of my middle school time in person. i dont think it helped me mature, im just a big toddler. i have no social experience at all and no other teens i know do either. we're all confused.
Yup. My freshmen-sophomore year was taken by covid, and by junior year I was NOT ready for any sort of internships, I was so lost. And i literally just went to film school. Which in theory, should be easy. I just wasnt prepared to be separated from all my equipment and then expected to take the same course plan as other college students pre covid. I dropped out by the end of first semester junior year. I have a full time job now, but i am SO disappointed in the way my college experience went. And the lack of empathy that comes from people that didnt experience covid through such important years of their lives. I WISH i was in high school when covid happened. if I was one year younger it wouldve hit my senior year, honestly i think i wouldve loved that lmao
@@user-vq9rk6eb4d yeah since covid happened during 6th grade for me its still hard for me to go to school 😭 covid landed me in a child crisis center that year too so i missed a full semester or maybe year of arguably the most crucial time of my education. so im just permanently stupid i guess
@@weirdmanheim i WISH i was in grade school when it happened 😭 Its stressful now but dont worry too much!! Middle school is not as crucial as it seems when youre in it. Im sure youll do great. When youre my age you wont even remember middle school if that makes you feel any better. Just dont let yourself fall into the rabbit hole of not helping yourself if you start feeling helpless. andLots of things you learn in grade school are obscure and youll end up never using them once your out of school (not to encourage you not to pay attention though, youll still have to do well on tests! which off topic but imo memorized tests are such bs. youll never do anything like that in the real world lol you will pretty much always at least have your phone on you to look things up lol). Best of luck!
@@weirdmanheim also, youre not permanently stupid. the way grade school is framed is just so unfortunate because you have to learn and be good at subjects that you just may not be good with, and it doesnt really account for kids that may be more creatively inclined. But once you get to college (or trade school) you get to pick your major which basically means you get to choose what you want to focus on, its more doable than grade school, at least it was for me. Being uninterested in a subject really effects the way you learn unfortunately. But hey, I graduated high school with a 2.3 gpa and i still have a stable full time job, dont stress too much. Youre young, go treat yourself!
15 year old here.. i gotta say my life is just like a broken record right now, almost every day it’s repetitive wake up, eat go to school, study, shower, eat dinner, then sleep.. then pretty much repeat then on the weekends is really the only time it doesn’t feel like it’s on repeat. I don’t know ever since i’ve started high school it’s been a lot. but i’m pushing through trying to live a good life
Being 20 almost 21 what bothers me the most right now is that it seems like theres just an overload on information right now. We've been so desensitized its hard for us to care anymore and I dont have any real hope for things getting better on a societal level it feels like things are getting worse everyday. It still makes me angry even though I know I cant do anything about it. Im not particularly depressed about it though. Being as young as I am I'm happy for the opportunities and privilages that I have and I'm going to focus on living in the moment and doing what makes me happy. I dont feel rushed to progress in life so I'm just taking things slow with college and relationships still trying to figure out what I "want to be when I grow up" or what that even means lol.
I’m 17 and from Northern Ireland, meaning I’d be considered what they call a “ceasefire baby” since I was born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed that “ended” the Northern Irish troubles. (I grew up catholic, in a catholic school in a catholic community just for perspective. I don’t think I was ever a believer in what they taught) It’s strange, things here are so different than they used to be, but there’s still so many problems. I think it’s easier for older generations who experienced the horrors of the absolute worst side of the fighting to feel like right now things are wonderful and peaceful, but slowly I feel it’s getting back to the levels the violence used to be. Cross community fighting is still so prominent, Northern Ireland has so many social injustices and unsolved deaths and disappearances that need to be looked into further, but aren’t given the time of day. A boy I knew through school friends of mine named Noah passed away in June of 2020, under extremely strange circumstances that were so out of character for him and didn’t seem right at all. The police closed the case after finding his body (this has occurred multiple times with suspicious cases in NI) and the closure his family and friends needed was never found. I was about 14 when this happened and I think it was the first time I ever really looked around at the people in charge and the justice system and decided this just couldn’t be correct. A 14 year old boy, same age as me when he died under extremely strange circumstances and they searched no further. Really was a turning point for me in the way I thought about the “improved” country I was living in. But then again, things could be so much worse. I guess I might just linger too much on the wrongs of people in authority than the rights. I think that growing up in this state of the world has been strange, just like so many other generations we’re told nearly every year about a new “world ending problem” but it feels different now. It’s put on blast and everyone talks about it all the time and people have lost hope throughout the years. Pessimism seems to have taken the lead in terms of peoples view of things now. I will say, being young currently is not all bad, most of it is actually pretty good. I’m at school for film at the moment, and especially in Ireland it couldn’t be a better time for me to be a film student. There’s so many opportunities for me right in the country I live in, which my immigrant mother didn’t have in the poor Romani community she grew up in in Spain. I’m grateful I’m so encouraged to pursue my dreams, realistic or not. I’m grateful my family accepts me and what I want to do, I’m grateful my tutors are so passionate and understanding about my work. There’s many things I’d want to change, but at the minute all I can do is speak about them. In my own way I can display how I feel about things, whether they make a change or not.
I'm 21, and I often feel very overwhelmed and doomed thinking about the future. I had to drop out of college during my first year due to severe mental health issues, and haven't gone back due to fear of something like that happening again. Any job I get doesn't guarantee great money, and I often feel like I'm going to live at my parents house forever. I want to move out but rent prices are through the roof and between the cost of rent, feeding myself, getting to/from work and having a social life, it just feels very unattainable. Staying positive and looking on the bright side is easy to preach, but with the state of the world right now things just feel very bleak.
hi uncle E. im a 19 year old college freshman studying anthropology. i graduated high school this summer. i grew up with two lesbian mothers in the Deep South, mississippi & louisiana. i see so much beauty in the world & in humans. i went to an art school for creative writing where i learned a lot about the craft. so much of my work focuses on the natural landscape and culture of the Deep South. of course, there are awful things that happen too. ive actually been into politics since i was in elementary school, having grown up with a mother that was always watching MSNBC. ive been studying marxism since i was 15, so i find myself leaning very left on the spectrum. im happy i had the internet during that time. i had my circle of fellow marxist teens on the internet where we discuss things & share resources. but also the internet is not all that great. i feel like a lot of people my age are shallow, self-centered, unnecessarily mean, & have awfully short attention spans. i blame all of these things on my generation’s crippling social media addiction. not trying to throw the zoomers under the bus. that’s just from what ive observed. being young is fun & there’s a lot of room for exploration. im glad to be young during this time because if i lived in a different era i might not have had all these opportunities to explore. also im a lesbian living in the south so i don’t think i could have been very open about that in another era. thank you for this video uncle E!
I was born in 2007 and life is I guess easy. I wake up take a shower go to school come home and immediately go to soccer come home eat dinner then go to sleep and repeat. It’s very boring and I never have time to go out and do anything interesting and fun. My parents are not wealthy but they do make enough to stable a household so we don’t get to go on very many trips, the pandemic has destroyed my work ethic and I never really feel like doing anything when I know I can do better. It sucks.
I’m 16, life is strange, and I’m always worried about the future. I mean I’ve lived my life seeing things crumbling around me. But at the same time, there’s hope for amazing things. I mean we have all this knowledge at our fingertips, but few people really use it, and so much of it is misinformation. But you can learn so much.
I hate being treated so differently for being younger. Adults never treat you with respect or like you have any good ideas, even though we do.
The disparity of mature and immature teens is great. It’s shocking actually. Some like myself know so much from what we’ve had in life so far, but some somehow don’t, some make very bad decisions or view things through the wrong lens. Idk if it’s always been like that but it is right now.
We gotta grow up fast today. Most teens (the ones that are forced to grow up by hardship, and don’t turn bad because of it) are probably as mature as adults in the 70’s now. But you either use hardship to learn and become better, or you don’t. Leading you to not improve, which unfortunately you see in a lot of the young and teens today. A lot of em didn’t learn about themselves and developed over COVID. Stunting them. Marking them scared and immature. Unequipped to handle adulthood.
Life is fast now. You feel small. I turned to a life of the mind, because just noticing the sheer amount of problems is terrible. I mean you can see them any day, people are mean now, so easily offended, greedy, apathetic. And the world is so messed up. There’s no fresh air, it’s one thing after another.
Things are changing fast and we will have to adapt, the world is becoming a dystopia. But we learn from these mistakes of others, from hardship can spring growth, if you know how. And I just hope more of us develop those skills before it’s too late.
It’s not all bad though, when you know how to tell fact from fiction you can learn anything you want for free, you just gotta know where to luck. And I mean anything.
i was born in 2004, im 19 atm. i graduated in 2022 and honestly since then its been horrible. ive lived in the working (poor) class my entire life, ive been trying to find a job for moths but i cant look far as i cant drive and i or my mom has money to buy transportation for me. inflation is ruining my living situation and honestly i do not see hope in finding stability in my life. i missed out on doing the things i loved in school because i had to move from place to place and ended up going to a worse school than i originally started in. recently ive been having no motivation to live because of how stuck i am on life and how worse living day to day has become with the guilt i face everyday but the advancements are amazing, im glad to be born in the 2000s but i would give anything just to live in the middle class, at least
25 year old gen z here, I still had to go into work every day because my job was deemed "essential" (I'm an electrician, at the time an apprentice in a government building doing maintenance) and I've been feeling way better since i quit my job :)
Born in '03, so im still new to this goofy world. Everyday i feel older than i should, having relatives younger than me runnin about spouting off whatever new slang came about. "Gyat, rizz, sus, ect". Its alright, i cant pretend we didnt have our own goofy sayings (swag, yolo, rotflol). I do wish social media wasnt so relevant. The world is burning and we still choose to cry about "person said mean thing on internet". One of my parents works as a teacher, and shares her experiences with her students, and these have me worried. Its almost like more parents have opted to have their child raised by the internet (tiktok, instagram, whatever other apps there are) and it fuckin shows. The new batch of high schoolers, middle schoolers, hell, even elementary schoolers are increasingly feral. Idk man, im worried, about things i shouldnt need to worry about, things ive been told im too young to be worried about. Honestly, i feel like most of my recent years could be labelled as "man, these thoughts kinda suck." I wish that i had spent my pre college years learning about this that interested me rather than drowning in sports and acedemics, seeing as im now a burned out husk of a 20 year old. Maybe its a fault of the education system, maybe a fault of my parents, shit, maybe its my own damn fault. If you read this, and youre finishing up your high school career, heed my words: take a break. Youre free now, you're not being told who to be or what to do anymore. Anyways stay safe have fun dont do drugs.
I wake up i eat breakfast, i iron my shirt, i have a shower, i get ready, i go to school, i get home, i play my game, i eat dinner, i play games, i go to bed. Repeat
Hey ER I am a 21 year old American gen z kid… I grew up with my mom but when I would visit my dad (he is old so he’s wise 72 now) he would always tell me to try and learn by observing instead of having to deal with the problems from a first person perspective so I always saw things with an open mind and I am well aware of the beauty’s and disasters going on in our world and I’ve learned to be grateful for my situation because I’ve had a decent upbringing. My life consists of making music and following my passion as a rebel I had strict parents and now that I’m older I’m very vocal about it being my life and this is my own story. I work hard for what I dream and wish to spread my music to those who are going through a tough time because for me the purpose of life is to listen to music. Music is one of the last things a human being forgets if they ever come down with Alzheimer’s or Dementia and I want my music to be able to heal others and leave a big impact on others. To summarize I’m aware of my surroundings and I always thank the universe for the decent life I have had and want to return the favor through music so wish me luck 🤘
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best of luck! mickey hart drummer of the grateful dead (which you may know) works now with some of the top physicists, astronomers and medical ppl in the world, after visiting his grandmother who had alzheimers, playing her a song and seeing the immediate effect it had..... its his goal now to create music expressly for use in medicine.... he also 'sonifies' the sounds made by stars, planets, and other things that vibrate but make no sound we can now hear.... music def heals it healed me (with a lot of pharmaceutical mdma thrown in - nothing like the garbage now, it came straight from the pharmacy back then) music is a wonderful healer of so many things. thats a really great dream you were fortunate to have a non insane family im jealous
Well i'm an older gen Z (25 about to turn 26) and most of the time i feel like i'm not really in control of my actions. Some days are good some bad like everybody but i always feel like no matter what i do there is always the pressure of society and modern world that judges everything we do and everything we don't. I don't really know how to explain it but sometimes everything feels so fake like i'm living in a movie. I also stopped watching the news and gave up on everything political because all of it is always negative and i'm trying to focus on myself more because the last 3 years messed up my mental health and i need to get better.
I love the energy you bring to your videos. Keep going and never stop surprising us with your talent.❤️
I am in my teens and live in New Zealand. I suffer from depression (self diagnosed, not clinical) I have a very different outlook on life to most people my age. I really enjoy being outside and only really play video games/watch youtube to past time. I would be outside all the time and I love mountain biking. I try to escape the internet, but it is quite hard. All my friends want me to get tiktok, but I don't need addictions in my life. I have been trying to find a job for a long time, but no one seems to want to hire young people anymore because of the way that gen Z is viewed by others. This also didn't help my mental health. Right now it is in the decline, but just being able to watch Uncle E does helps me clear my mind.
I’m 20 years old and an active viewer of this channel and I think we (gen z) have it easier than all the other generations since our society is now so dependent on technology. but I think because of the rise of technology we have a lot higher expectations than previous generations (most will fall short) so a lot of us have lower self esteem than previous generations. I’m still figuring things out but that’s just what I think
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As a 16 year old I’ve grown up in an unusual manner. I can say for certain that humanity at its peak is amazing and unlike anything else. The things we are capable of making when putting in true passion, determination and humanity are truly marvellous, however we (especially my generation) are dragged down by all the horrible things in the world. We’ve grown up in a world more connected than ever, and whilst it means our contact with different people and cultures is easier than ever, and I’ve had some of my best experiences with people online. However hatred, lies and toxicity also spreads easier than ever. And not just that but it’s easier to consume negativity more than ever. Day by day it gets easier to just go online and soak in the negativity and finding a true balance for it is really hard. I’ll keep this rant short and end with saying that I believe humanity is dragging itself down, however it is capable of such wonderful and amazing things and despite everything I’m hopeful for my future.
I’m 19, born 2004.
Life is very uncertain, I know I probably won’t ever own a home, I find the thought of moving out so difficult because it’s hard to earn enough to do so. I don’t feel like I was ever taught the skills to be able to live alone either.
But that isn’t what makes it uncertain, it’s that the future does not seem liveable. We have grown up hearing about and seeing the world falling apart and not enough people of the older generation care to try and stop it so it’s on us but the majority of us can’t make enough to live alone much less save the world.
I think the world and everyone in it is lovely, I’d love to live into the future own my own home adopt children but I’m scared that I’ll never get the chance, that tomorrow I might get bombed or tomorrow the economy might collapse and perhaps never recover. Food keeps getting more expensive, and I worry about when it becomes too much to afford what will happen? I have friends who can hardly afford rent and food. What happens if I suddenly get kicked out? I don’t think I can afford to live on my own and my parents never make me feel particularly safe at home.
Growing up as the internet became more available I’ve been on it since I can remember. I don’t blame it for my problems in life but it allowed me to isolate myself from the real world long enough to feel uncomfortable in it and around people.
i commented about something similar on your last video, but im fourteen right now and things are just... repetitive, in day to day life. wake up, breakfast, car, school, bus, sleep. theres so much anxiety and stress on me. i dont feel particularly safe. as i pull up this video i saw breaking news of another shooting. i think our generation has a lot of fear instilled in us. anyone in school in the last 20 or so years can attest to not feeling very safe. last week someone got detained for having a gun, usualt things. so many kids , even myself turning to drug use like weed and nicotine- not because everyone does it but because it promises a break from everything. a lot of teens' crucial maturing points were interrupted by covid and now that im a teenager i dont see myself as big and responsible, im kind of just a big kid. school expects us to be perfect and put in so mych effort though its so toxic to be there. so many students struggle with suicide and depression theres signs up for suicide hotlines around the school. i think we're all scared and stressed and confused. we live life, hang out with friends, go to football games and prom, but we're always hurting.
I'm also 14 I'm homeschooled but everything just seems repetitive and tiring for no reason at all
Soo, im 41, feeling really old now looking at all these comments!! Im from the Netherlands and have always felt like being a world citizen. As i spoke english when i was 12 and most of whats going on in europe and the US is part of our culture (music, television, religions, politics, languages). However i do feel a shift that has been going on but i have been part of it all this time! I was right at it so to say.. or so thats how i feel like.
turning 20 soon and it's horrific. i hear stories of how older family members bought houses, i look at prices and im filled with a sense of dread that feels insurmountable. the cost of living has gone up so much im worried for our future. i do think the world can be nice sometimes but life seems so unfair and that's just how it's supposed to be? why do i have to put up with that? why would i want to put up with that? it seems so hopeless and at times so wonderful, enough to keep looking for wonderful things just to be disappointed by the amount of horrible things again. my skin color works against me, my gender works against me. my mental state has been impacted by the previously stated. i feel like i lack the skills needed to make it in this world that's so cruel and the only thing keeping me in one piece is my gf and her support.
i guess to summarize: the world is cruel and life seems pointless but love is a wonderfully strong thing and the more i try to find love in things around me the better things seem. (until i get threatened by ww3 for the 30th time)
Im Genz, Im going to be 21 in just over a week. I think everyone falls in that in between where they see the failures of society but also the good of it. Personally however, I see all the harm that we create and still I love people. I've struggled to put this into words for years, why i love humanity so much, but ive finally realized I love people because we feed sugar water to exhausted bees. There are reasons why we help other humans, and it can extend back to wanting the human race to continue existing. But theres no reason to make sugar water for bees. One bee doesnt make a big difference, and yet... its just really beautiful.
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i remember a few years ago during some of the first really terrible floods... i cant remember where. i watched people soaking wet, on their belly on the concrete reaching under an overpass to rescue a small colony of bats that lived there. it was an urban area and these people cared for the small bat colony. i will never forget them laying in the freezing rain soaking wet handing each other precious handfuls of tiny, tiny wet bats who were about to drown as the waters rose above the bridge. i was truly moved by that and its something ive never forgotten. there are so many such scenes and i wish they were more commonplace. i wish people would exercise their capacity for kindness a little more.
As a dude born in 2005 in NY, life is alright. Cant complain. It can sometimes be a struggle to handle a job, school, and staying in shape. I think the world is a place full of wonder where you can find it, but also a lot of struggles for different people. I think society as a whole is pretty crumby as a whole, i feel like most people are only concered for themselves, thats why i try my best to be as nice as possible to the people i meet, because you never really know what people are going through. Some people are fake but i do my best to avoid those people. I spend alot of time alone, which isnt always fun, but i do like it sometimes. Anyways i guess what im trying to say is life is overall good, mixed with a little bad, but im doing my best to improve it
Side note, I try to steer away from tiktok and all the new trends. I hate how boring everyone is in my school is because nobody has a personality anymore everyone follows the same people listens to the same songs and acts the same way. It’s like being in a class with a bunch of clones and the worst part is if you don’t follows these same people and act the same way you will not be socially accepted by everyone else so you become a loner just by being yourself.
I'm 22, right at the beginning of Gen Z. It's evident that each person's journey is distinctly unique. In my case, I often find myself at the fringes of convention. I am drawn to practice Zen philosophy, all the while contemplating the cosmos through the lens of a pantheistic nihilistic perspective. The idea of merely functioning as a small component within the societal apparatus holds little appeal for me. I derive contentment from a nomadic lifestyle, be it couch-surfing or embracing homelessness, as long as I am savoring the essence of existence. Sadly, the cost of formal education remains a considerable barrier. In a perfect world, education would be accessible to all, and I would wholeheartedly embrace a lifelong journey of learning, for the allure of acquiring new knowledge has an everlasting fascination.
One thing about being a teen in this time is the amount of things I wish I could do, but wasn’t born at the time of that particular thing. I feel as though I should’ve been born in the 90s instead I was born in the mid 00s.
Another thing is I don’t love social media. I have major social anxiety (not diagnosed) I can’t talk to anyone either then my friend groups. And I wish I can be more talkative and more open.
These days people make fun of you for your successes, I’ve started working out a year and a half ago. And people in my school are saying I take steroids, and they turn my effort and work into a negative thing. I have many more examples and experiences of this but this is the most recent.
I lost my old friends cause of my anxiety, I physically couldn’t talk to them, I can have fun around people however I don’t speak.
I was in gym today having fun with people I usually don’t hang out with, I don’t talk to them, but I still had fun. My mental health isn’t great cause of my anxiety sadly. But yeah, I’m glad you read this, bye!
i relate to losing friends because i couldn't physically talk to them, its hard. poud of u tho
Bro not to be rude but almost everyone in the comment section is going
"My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness."
From my perspective as a 23 y/o born in 2000, I find it hard to take people seriously because of how many distractions there are.
In the past things happened naturally for people. Thoughts and actions were influenced by your community, peers, or your own. People didn't have their attention prone to being constantly diverted by different types of media.
Now people from all generations can get distracted by a thousand different things. The culture that we have now takes full advantage of this and is capitalizes on the thought processes of millions.
In my neighborhood growing up, I started to see fewer and fewer people going outside and interacting, covid made it even worse. It seems people are becoming so accustomed to their devices and the distractions they provide that we are forgetting about what makes us ourselves.
My parents are in their 60s and im only 18 so i get these questions alot from them they dont understand alot of the new gen type stuff but ive also learned alot from their time too
I’m a 19 year old girl college student from Latin America (therefore I’d like to mention beforehand, English isn’t my first language so I’d like to apologize for any grammar mistakes I might make.) Honestly, life nowadays feels very monotonous, it might be different for everybody else, of course, but for me, since quarantine happened, I didn’t get to live my youth to its full potential, and even before that, I used to hold a pretty normal life, I’ve struggled with low self-esteem, social anxiety and depression, but it all got worse during quarantine and ever since then life has felt monotonous.
Of course there are days where I’m grateful I’m alive, but somehow there’s nothing I could look forward to as nowadays I feel like the world is just getting worse, and worse. I feel somehow trapped, or like doomed to just stay where I am and never actually do or accomplish any of the things I’d like. It feels scary, specially knowing I’ll turn 20 next year, it seems like such a big number and I can’t even fathom just what comes next. I feel like as a society we have grown a lot and Gen Z are much more open minded, but the world in general is just worsening and it worries me to death. I struggle and I question myself what exactly was I made for and why am I here, if I’m ever gonna find love as I grew up thinking no one would love me, I question whether if the world will even be able to hold itself for when I turn 25, or even 20.
There are so so many things I feel as a Gen Z, specially since I’m a person that feels everything very deeply, but I can say for sure, that I’ve noticed most of us feel lost, misunderstood and somehow like we “don’t belong.” It’s a very pessimistic view, but at least that’s how my friends and I have been feeling, it’s almost like we just exist to survive because sooner or later the world will just destroy itself.
Don’t get me wrong tho, I do get happy, and excited, but it’s all just because of temporary things that I know won’t last forever.
There is so so much I’d like to add, but I fear that if I keep writing, I’ll never stop. But I do wanted to say, a lot of us also feel like we sort of got frozen at the age quarantine started. Im not sure how to say it correctly but basically, when quarantine hit I had just turned 16, and ever since then I felt like even though years went by, Im still 16. I don’t feel my age, and let alone I can feel I’ll enter my 20’s next year.
There has been lots of changing in the world and society, some for the good and some for the bad, but to be really honest with you, a lot of us have no hope for what’s to come, and reading the comments it breaks my heart knowing there are so many people who feel the same way. It’s honestly heartbreaking.
I used to be a little kid with dreams and ambitions but now Im just scared and lost. And I honestly don’t know how the world will get any better. If you were to peek into my brain, all you’d probably see is me trying to distract myself, I tend to daydream way too much and it’s all just a way to cope and comfort myself cause it all seems so much better in my head.
For the people… I don’t really know what to say other than disappointment. I do have to say that a lot of us Gen Z are more open minded and are willing to speak up more about our issues and problems and stand up for what we believe, but somehow it is just us, and so many people would categorize it as us being “snowflakes.” I feel like we are more aware of how important mental health is and how we shouldn’t let people step on us, but then again, not everyone is like that. I see people and I don’t know… I just feel disappointed, the people that are in control just wants to take advantage of us and they only care about themselves and money, while some people are just rude and mean for no reason, like they’ll just hate you or bother you for doing something that doesn’t even affect them, some are just so close minded and misogynistic… awh man, it’s rare to find a good genuine individual nowadays, not that Im perfect in any way but some people are just far from good in every way
I do gotta mention, my mental health isn’t particularly “good.” I’ve been struggling with depression, anxiety and social anxiety since quarantine happened and knowing what’s going on in the world currently, makes me feel hopeless and helpless, and it just makes it all worse. I do have friends in college and they make me feel happier and my social anxiety isn’t as bad, but it’s hard being a college student and pretending that I wanna do the things I have to do, knowing that it might all be pointless. Growing up with access to the internet messed up my brain pretty badly tho, I knew things I shouldn’t way too young and nowadays I suffer the consequences of it. I’ve been a very mature and self conscious person since a very young age and I don’t know whether it’s a good thing or not, but I can certainly say that my mental state isn’t stable. I went to therapy for months but it wasn’t of much help since I’ve always been very mature and self conscious…
and thank you so much for asking, I don’t think any of us have had someone that has ever asked us about these things and honestly I think some of us genuinely need it that. Im sure everyone here truly appreciates everything you said deeply, and I do hope from the bottom of my heart that your son has a different view of the world, a much more positive view of it. I hope the world gets better for him to live in and I hope you and your wife get to see him living in a world that’s world living, or at least I hope you can give him that world.
and by the way laughed at the “my wife and son have a son” thing you said, I had to pause and laugh out loud cause that was genuinely hilarious LMAO.
Also P.S, Im so sorry for spamming your comment section, I truly didn’t intend to but I guess your questions actually made me think to myself and reflect a lot, so thank you for that and Im sorry again ahaha