Honestly I think that the boomers hated the "okay boomer" trend so much that they made up this gen z vs millennial war to get the focus off of them haha
Boomer/GenX cusp here: nope. Wishful thinking. What’s more plausible: a Boomer who’s savvy enough to understand and manipulate TikTok, or someone from a younger generation trolling for the lolz? Probably the GenXers- it’s always the quiet ones. Most Boomers only heard about the “okay Boomer” meme from newspapers and TV. If you’re a Boomer who can grok TikTok, you didn’t take “okay Boomer” seriously. The precursor to this, “the 30-year-old boomer” meme threw me for a loop for a while, however 😂💀:’D
@@oflifeandstuff half my friend group despises "😁😂" and the other half uses it on the daily 😁. We are VERY genz though. I think "😂😁" is having a comeback.
I love that they took the mustache question literally as in having a physical mustache, not as in the weird obsession with mustache memes, references, and finger tattoos 😭
i wonder how the people with the mustache finger tattoos are doing now.. i’m glad i wasn’t old enough to get that tattoo, and had a mustache-themed bday party instead LMAO OOP
@@roxypicasso66 luckily for them it's probably worn off by now 🤣. Finger tattoos are notoriously hard to maintain because the skin is close to bones in an area that's used a lot more than other parts of our bodies, so the friction from that, and the fingers rubbing together makes them fade fast - there's also the fact that handwashing produces a lot of friction on the hands and fingers... all of this means the skin on our fingers regenerates up to 10x faster than the rest of our bodies! Especially the bottom half of the fingers - if you look carefully you can see a sort of "line" in the middle of the side of your fingers where the type of skin changes between the top and bottom, and that underside skin wears away and regenerates the fastest 🤓
I’m older Gen Z, born 1997, so I’m bracing myself to be made fun of from both angles. Growing up I did everything millennials did to fit in with the cool older kids, now that I’m 23 I’m just trying to fit in with the cool 16 year olds lmao. Editing this to point out that it was a joke, can y’all stop being so rude in my replies like wtf lol
I’m gen X and raised by “silent gen” (yes that’s what they call the gen before boomers) parent, they had me late in life and I’m a parent of a millennial. My life was interesting because my mom was ahead of her time, she chose not to have bunch of kids, she chose not to depend on a man, she chose to raise me to be independent and self sufficient. Our boomer family members would criticize my mother for her “life style” and she didn’t give 2 fcks, when my daughter came out as lesbian she was very supportive, she was an awesome mom, I lost her in August. But I’m so thankful to had been raised by a woman like her
@@SierraGal Don’t take it personally, the generation overall has caused a lot of problems, but there are plenty of progressive, ethical baby boomers out there. It’s just that there happen to be so many more that fought against human rights and seem to enjoy yelling at us when we’re just trying to bag their groceries.
Well they did screw shit up... thankfully even as a millennial I'm lucky cause my parents are GenX. The majority of the blame is on the boomers in power. Individuals are always to be judged on their own actions.
The memory of "don't talk to strangers on the internet because they can get your address and come kidnap you" shot me back to 2004 so hard I have whiplash
Remember those old school chat sites like aol messenger, chat maze etc where you would be able to talk to random people online . Lol I miss those days. 😩
I still get that from my mom only she goes as far as to tell me not to even have social media because they'll track me and kill me Edit: im 20 and know internet safety even if I dont practice it😅
I had boomer coworkers who refused to get rid of the typewriters and made me use them to manually type labels and document headings in the office because the computers might go down. So I was like do you ride a horse to work just because your car might break down.
OMG the boomer coworkers who insist on using two spaces after every sentence. *It's not a typewriter, people! The characters no longer all take up the same amount of space!* I'm the petty person who does find and replace for two spaces every time I edit their documents. And if they notice and get mad they're always too lazy to change it back. Boomers.
I was going to comment the same exact thing!!! Excuse me, Ben? Cristine was SPOT ON! One does not simply tell Cristine that she doesn't know what memes are.
@@vigneshnehru9822 I was born 2000 November, but with two older sisters I grew up with all the stuff they did. I don’t relate very much to gen z, I relate more to Millenial, so I’d say if you relate more to millenial call yourself a zillenial!
I'm 25, still living at home and ita so weird seeing people I graduated with having kids and getting married.. I swear we just graduated the other day 😂
I turned 35 this year and I still feel weird when I see ppl i graduated with having kids. It’s like wait no we aren’t old enough lol I think it must be normal for the mental aging to slow after the age of 20 because I still feel like I’m 21.
Who remembers tongue tattoos from fruit roll ups??? And the joy when you actually got it right?? Like having to find that sweet spot where you’re tongue isn’t too wet so that the image just came out a big blur 😂😂😂
I am a 96 baby and idk I feel like people born between 94-99 don't really fit into either category. I was alive for 9/11, but I was 5. I remember the GFC, but I was 12. I grew up in high school with early social media, and was around 15 when smart phones became more accessible. Like there are big things that most millenials can say they remember or significantly impacted them that I have no real memory of, and the technology and online communities that seems to be a cornerstone fo Gen Z is something I also grew up with but it's NOWHERE near the same.
I’m ‘96, but my parents are older boomers and my sister is a Millennial so I identify as a millennial. I say if you remember 9/11, you’re millennial lol
@@snnease I mean I don't remember 9/11 but I'm Australian and my memory is shit anyway. So 9/11 just did not impact me in the same way it might have impacted a 5 year old American/Canadian kid or an 11 year old Australian kid, or even a 5 year old Australian kid with better memory than me.
@@claire9508 valid! I’m American and remember being In kindergarten and getting sent home early and having my parents make us watch the news on the living room and it just being very somber. I was just saying if you even vaguely remember, not necessarily impacted
as a gen z digital artist there is a LARGE fear of losing work, not saving, or having software crash and shit. And having to walk Into class and explain to my bommer professor what it means to have photoshop crash..... they just think we're making it up lol.....
I was LOOKING for this comment lol. I use Mac and Adobe for work every day, and I'm lucky if any Adobe programs auto-saves ANYTHING. Photoshop and InDesign, I feel like if they auto-save every 30 minutes, it's a miracle... With my job and intense project timelines, I'd prefer if Adobe auto-saved every 2 minutes!
The tweet about mugs called me out. As I sit here, a 26-year-old woman, getting a modicum of joy out of using my Wednesday Addams mug on a Wednesday, staring at my hanging mug collection...
speaking of air travel pre-9/11 remember being able to like...meet the pilot? like full on walk up to the cockpit and the doors are open and just chill with the pilot for a sec before the flight? wild.
I remember going up to see the cockpit during flight, too, sometimes, when young. And then after 9-11 a lot of awkward cramming of security lines into places that used to be restaurants or public observation lounges, in airports that had never been designed to have separate areas.
I flew to Disney World March ‘01 and I just turned 3. My family didn’t fly until 2010 (Post 9/11 fears oof) and it’s wild that I flew on a plane months before 9/11 but didn’t remember it but I only remember beefed up TSA (and yes I had to get a TSA pat down in the airport once as a minor for no reason)
I was listening to this with headphones while getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office and I unexpectedly laughed so loud when ya'll said "Yeet the fetus" that they thought I was choking 🤣
Hahahah I also busted out laughing while washing the dishes but yours is so awkward and hilarious. "You were....laughing?" "Uhhhh yeah...yeet the fetus, yaknow?"
My dad's a Boomer, my mom is Gen X, I'm a Millennial and by Brother is a Gen Z.... we get along and make fun of each other all the time...but proof that we can all live in harmony 😂
similar for me except my dad is a couple years too old to be a boomer, my half-sister and mom are gen x, and my brother and i are both smack dab between gen z and millenial
Same as my family!! My mom and dad are 18 years apart. Then I have 3 brothers. I’m the only “millennial”. Don’t act like one but I’m technically one so what ya gonna do lol
I'm gen z?! I feel like millennial because i remember life without internet and also because in latinoamerica everything came later than in northamerica 😂
My partner says the same. He was born in Post Soviet Russia in 97 but basically grew up like a millennial till he moved to north America at the age of 18.
This is more of a north american view. But as a latina in the US, sometimes the millennial stereotypes is very much the white millennial experience. Most of friends and family didn’t get the newest technology right away. Different family values and barriers.
@@riotchick1030 it's true the view of a Latin generation of 2000 about internet is using '' La Encarta'' i went to the internet cafe until i have 6 or 8 years latin generation is very different than Northamerican
I’m a millennial born in 1994. When I was a teen, I was super into chatting with people online. I rarely chatted with people I knew in real life. I guess being just 6 years behind is a huge difference than Cristine’s experience.
Very true. There was some sense of stranger danger but still went online to chat with people, and ofcourse was always private about my information. Did see a lot of male private genitalia. What was that all about?? The whole chat roulette, Habbo Hotel, MySpace, Facebook, etc etc etc At one point there was really an explosion of such websites
i feel like there’s two different kinds of gen z, those who grew up playing outside and those who got an ipad at age 3. i feel so lucky i didn’t get a phone till i was 12 because all of my young cousins who grew up with ipads are socially and emotionally stunted
I don’t think that’s necessarily a fair distinction. Growing up with those technology likely is not the reason they are stunted in these areas. And there are plenty of us older gen Z who were emotionally/socially stunted for various reasons too
I was the last one in my school to get a smartphone, lol. I defenitly dont feel like Gen Z, I would be more of a Milenial. I was born 1999, but grew up completly different ( in Kyrgistan and Kazakhstan on a field, planting crops and butchering animals).
24:55 as a millennial, i think i was disillusioned on what my 20s would look like because i only had the people i know in real life as a frame of reference. but as millennials now, we are fairly open talking about our life experiences online regarding our college experience, dropping out, job search, unemployment, dating, marriage and family (in their 20s), and that has prepped the gen Z with a wealth of knowledge, whether they would want to follow what we've done or do something different.
I'm a millennial too. I grew up with the very stereotypical I'm moving out when I'm 18 etc. And my parents never tried to talk to me about it, as result (of that and other stuff) I ended up in a situation where I had to move back home less than a year after moving out, at 22. But it forced my family to actually have a conversation about the importance of getting holiday jobs and having a plan to actually move out. Because of that, My sister at 18 has an agreement with my parents that she will live at home board/rent free or well below market until she is 24 so she can buy a house.
I swear, time is such an illusion. I'm 18, and I remember some of the exact same things Cristine and Ben do from my OWN childhood. How is that possible???!
This trend was already saturated when it started, for me. It was always that shallow girls who said things like "omg you're gay please be my friend i want a gay friend" and etc
I've finished this video while working from home for my $40,000 a year job that I got an unnecessary master's degree for, and now I'm going to turn on Grey's Anatomy in the background. It's the most millennial I've felt today.
Yep I feel this only ... my husband makes $100k a year at a job that has nothing to do with his master degree. Matter of fact there are gen z being hired on at his company that the company is training and paying for it. Thinking of all the money wasted on at it degree is sickening but it’s a pretty piece of paper hanging on our wall. Blue collar work... maybe the boomers knew something after all.
I'm watching this at 1.45 am while trying to write my final essay to university in the middle of a global pandemic knowing pretty well that I'm probably not going to get my degree because I need to do an internship and no one is hiring right now because the world is ending and my president is an asshole. It's the most Gen Z I've felt today.
Honestly though, as a parent of Gen Zer’s, as a Gen Xer myself, I am pretty damn proud to have birthed, raised and molded very open minded future adults. That’s Gen Xer’s biggest contribution to all of this ♥️
I seriously thank you as a Gen Zer. My mom is a Gen X and she raised me to be open minded and have my own thoughts and opinions. Without her I'd probably be more close minded, as I am the type of person who wouldn't change an opinion quickly
I was home sick on 9/11 and remember that I was in the bathroom and my mom started screaming. I panicked thinking she was going to force me to go to school while I was actively being sick- and she just pointed to the TV and I watched it live for hours. It was a lot for an 11 year old.
I've lived in NYC my whole life, and it was really difficult to process. My mom picked up my brother and I from school immediately since it was a large school and a big target for any other attack. I remember we went up to our roof and saw the towers burning in the skyline. We couldn't open our a/c for weeks because of the smell. My brother and I started having nightmares, and our pediatrician recommended that we get a pet so we adopted a little kitten the next week, who was a part of our family for 13 loving years. What an absolute nightmare for so many people
@@Olivina330 I was in high school in mid-town Manhattan and it was a struggle for my older sister to get me since we lived in Queens. They weren't letting cars in and my dad wasn't able to just leave his car that he used to drive up to the Queens Borough Bridge. We had to run back to the bridge and across it, took an hour to locate my dad, and it was unsually warm that day that I ended up with an awful migraine. I watched the news while lying in bed where they showed the horror of the people stuck and even jumping from those buildings. I threw up later that day and was scared to sleep alone and too ashamed to sleep with my parents at that age, so I went to sleep with my sister, who had just signed up for the Marine Corp (adding to my fears). We actually got a Husky puppy the very next day completely on a whim. Very surprising for my parents. I was traumatized about it for a while too and appreciate that some of my teachers were there to talk about it with us as a whole class in an honest and open way. I'll never forgive my math teacher who acted like nothing was wrong, trying to teach class even though we couldn't hear a thing over the unbelievable amount of sirens from fire trucks and ambulances going by, creating unease with no explanation till my next teacher told us what was going on.
I’m 99 zoomer and I’m in the weird transitional set of years where I can’t relate to either group and often get mis categorized by both gen z and millennials. In terms of jobs and education I literally just finished my uni degree and just thinking about trying to find a job... *sigh*
Sameee, November 99. Still at uni lol, most of my friends are older and it feels like we didn’t have the same childhood. And when I talk to younger people’s I feel old and out of touch
I have the weirdest cowlick in the middle of my hair- I can’t part it in the middle without one side being totally flat and the other side being gigantic 😂
I'm born 1999 and I feel like there is such a huge gap between me and my friends who are around 21-24 years old and the 14 year old high school kids. I often just don't get them and the new trends while we are the same generation :')
You think that’s bad, I’m 26 and some millennials are 40 this year lol. It’s just how generations work, the 15 year gap isn’t going to encompass everyone.
@@shumbles im 27 this year and same lol i dont relate to the millenials and i dont relate to the late gen Zers either. The joys of being the youngest millennials but still too old to be Gen Z
don't worry, I have the same situation and I just turned 18, or maybe that's just how I feel with Western trends, because people here in my 3rd world asian country follow a mix of millenial/gen z trends than just sticking to one (mainly because a lot of people here are slow asf when it comes to trends/fads, like... really slow lmao)
So true! I was also born in the late 90’s. We grey area people are lucky to get the best of both worlds! See a millennial joke about corporate/adult life? We understand it! Generation Z discussions surrounding gender fluidity? We support it! Someone’s makes fun of generation Z? “I’m an elder generation Z; I don’t do that!” Someone ridicules millennials? “Pshh, millennials, am I right, fellow kids?” Easy peasy
Hello, can we talk about how some of these broad characteristics that define a generation are almost always like from the US or some “first world” country. I mean I am from a a “third world”country or “developing “ country so technology comes a bit later and the categories get all shifty. And I know they make this invisible limits just as a reference and not the ultimate definition or whatever. But I just always feel the need to call out this characteristics as being biased. I don’t even know if my point is coming across but I hope it is 🙈
Cristine looks so much like Avril Lavigne in this episode with her hair down and parted in the middle. And the t-shirt 👕 as well. Giving me the sk8ter boy vibes 🎶
The subject "The most entitled generation" hit me so hard...little story: my father was mad at my 19yo sister for not being able to find a job without a Bachelor's degree(I'm from Romania, school system is a little different here) and when he tried to hire her somewhere he was in complete shock that the candidate must have finished highschool and have a degree in order to be hired. Back in the day you could be hired without a Bachelor's degree, now you can't even mop the floor without one...great podcast, was a pleasure to listen to ♡
honestly even with a bachelor degree you can't do a lot like, it's still hard to find jobs even outside of what you planned and set out to do. My mom is a math teacher (she wanted to be a math teacher) but for the longest time she was taught computer science because she couldn't find a spot in the school system (I'm Romanian too btw) so pretty much is hard to find a job no matter your qualifications
As a Gen-Z, I remember in grade school that they rolled out the TV so everyone could watch Obama be announced as the new president Side note: I live in Canada lol
First Black President! I'm Canadian too and I remember everyone at the time finally thought America was getting its shit together. I think he was more popular here than in the US for a long time after the election.
The only time american politics were mentioned in my school (I live in northern europe) was when Trump became the president and the teacher had to explain how he won if the majority voted against him lol
It's interesting hearing Cristine recount her memories from 9/11 as a Canadian. I live about 4 hours from NYC and was in Kindergarten at the time. I remember the sheer panic of everyone rushing to pick their kids up from school and the teachers trying not to show us they were crying.
I'm Canadian also, and I was about 7 or 8 when 9/11 happened. I don't even remember that much from that day really. Our teachers tried not to show us anything or tell us anything. I don't know if that was the same for the older grades but I distinctly remember not really knowing what was going on.
@@lemontree666333 I was in highschool grade 9 English specifically ... Our class went to the library to turn on TV whole school gathered around to watch it on various sources. It was insane, we were further away in Northern Ontario but I knew people who had family working in and around the trade center.
I'm Australian, and I remember waking up in mum telling me to come and watch the TV. We all just stood around watching the news in shock. When I went to school we didn't do any work, but just watch the news on the TV. The teacher's were coming into each other's classrooms and discussing it and completely ignoring us. I'll never forget that day even though I don't think I fully understood the situation and the impact it would have.
I was in kindergarten as well. I was in Michigan by Selfridge Air base. I remember the teachers all whispering to each other and I could hear the jets being started. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Turns out they were scrambling fighter jets to do patrol over Detroit to make sure there wasn’t another attack. The memory of my teacher wiping at the running mascara down her face while we were huddled in a dark classroom will forever be burned into my mind.
@@lemontree666333 I was a similar age. Didn’t know anything until the end of the day. Pick up was frantic, then I sat in front of the tv watching the reruns of the footage from the moment I got in, to the moment I went to bed. Sitting on the floor, my jaw hanging in disbelief. I’m sure I ate dinner and used the bathroom, but I don’t remember that.
SORRY buuut as a 22yr old born in 98 I have absolutely nothing in common with these 16 year olds. Also Gen Z "trends" have all been done by other generation, nothing new even if they think they're new.
It's funny how trends change. I grew up parting my hair in the middle, but I distinctly remember in like 2011 a friend telling me that if you part your hair to the side then youd look more mature and I never looked back 😂
this literally happened to me but in 2014 (im a younger gen z)- i remember one of my frnds telling me that time that if i part my hair frm the side i look more like my mum n more 'adult-like' but ive always hated sideparts so i didnt change 💀
Im a gen z, I ended ended up parting to the side at 19, mom(hairstylist for 20+years) says it makes hair fuller and adds volume if you part in an "unusual" spot
Even in New Zealand, with 9/11 mum woke me up earlier for school and had the news on. The teacher we had that day brought a small TV in from home. But as an 11 year old in an isolated little country on the other side of the planet, the scale of it didn't sink in until I was in high school.
I remember that I felt so bad not to be a "90's kid" due to be born in 2000. It was soo cool the be a 90's kid and so childish and uncool to be born after the 90s.
totally! i'm born in '01 and have a lot of older friends and it's so funny to tell them that i was born not even in 2000 but in '01 😂 they can't believe that we're already 20/21 now
Born in 1993. I think that I grew up when the internet was VERY happy and funny. The cyber bullying and hate on the internet now is far more serious and life impacting for young folks. I was just watching the numa numa guy over and over.
That's interesting, actually! Bc I was born in 2000 and I feel the same way. Like, I feel like I'm always thinking about how much happier the internet, along with most aspects of culture such as music, was when I was a kid than it is now. Like, don't get me wrong, people were always mean, but it was a different kind of mean than what's presented right now. Back then, it was funny cat videos and people making sketches bc they liked it, not to get paid (although that was a perk that was began in the early 2010s). Cringe culture is the main culprit, imo. It sorta ruined a whole generation of kids, who are now scared that they'll become the new laughingstock of the whole internet bc of their interests. I'm glad kids are taking a stand against it now, for the most part. Bring back a happy internet!
i feel the same way! (I was born in 2002) my childhood wasn't spent by seeing the truly horrible comments people write behind their anonymous profiles. That's why I think kids shouldn't have social media. It can be very good but also terrible for growing kids
You must not have fallen victim to all the fucked up videos that got shared around as “challenges” between buddies to watch their reactions. That seems quintessential millennial internet experience.
boomer: ugh, look at these millennial on the beach for their spring break millennial: that's not us, we're working, we WISH we can have a spring break boomer: then who's on the beach? gen z: that's some of us. the rest of us are indoors with our online friends
As a Gen Xer this was really interesting to listen to. I feel like on social media that we are the generation that gets lost in the cracks. You rarely hear anything about Gen X. It’s all Boomers, Millenials, and Gen Z. It’s crazy to think about now but the internet was just becoming a thing when I was in college. There was no social media, no cell phones, no emojis. We just had Kurt Cobain and Winona Ryder!
Born and raised in NYC. On 9/11, I was in first grade. I remember a lot of the teachers panicked and turned all the lights off and shut all the windows (to keep the smoke and ask from coming in). My parents were at work but my neighbor, who had two kids in the same school as me, picked me up early then we went to get my brother. She had to threaten the VP to let her take him because his school was locked down since it was closer to the water (you could see Manhattan from some of the classrooms). When we got to my block, I remember thinking it was snowing a little bit. Later I realized it was soot and ash. It took my father three days to get home. I don’t think I went to school for almost two weeks afterwards.
I was a sophomore in a mid-town Manhattan high school but lived in Queens. My dad got as far as the 59st bridge in his car and my older sister went across the bridge and to my school to get me. My dad had to yell and argue over the phone about how they needed to let me go with her because he can't get there himself. They then gave her the wrong information about my class period and classroom so she had to run round the whole building thinking I was cutting class. She was pissed when she found me and we then had to make our way back. That day was a mess and I was so scared about having to cross the bridge because there was knowledge of other planes attacking and that bridge full of people could have been an excellent target for more attacks.
I'm from the forgotten generation, Gen X. We went through the same with the Millennials, but didn't have social media, like today. Fruit roll-ups were a 80's snack, but Fruit by the Foot was a 90's snack.
this is where I'm stuck. I and most people I know were born between 1997-1999, we are in a weird spot. We are technically gen Z but we remember the fat back television being rolled into the classroom, we had that overhead lamp thing instead of a smartboard, we ran home to check our IM's and Myspace. we remembered when Facebook was exclusively for college students. We didn't grow up using iPads and iPhones, we played outside, we used disposable cameras, we played on the landline phone. The coolest phone to have was the sidekick and the Motorola razor. I feel we are on the cusp lol.
being born in 2001, we have a nearly identical experience (minus myspace, i wasn't allowed). I remember being taught how to use a floppy disk in elementary school, idk why they taught us that, but i also remember upgrading to a usb drive like WOW!!!
If I'm not mistaken, this is where the Zoomer label comes in. Like, us who were born 97-01 (I'mma extend that a little lol) are Gen Z, we remember all that stuff and had even somewhat of a weird hybrid childhood where our childhoods looked like what you described but our mid/late teenage years had tablets and smartphones. And Zoomers are whoever's in highschool right now and they grew up with the internet we associate with our teenage years.
2001 is included in this experience as well! There's a lot of the "millnnial experience" that I went through that I don't think a lot of people realize the huge overlap??
i'm a gen z, and STILL feel pressure to have kids in the future (I'm 20 now lol) Seems like i have a line to follow, finish college at 23-24, getting married at 25 having kids at 27, just leave me be and have my doctorate
From the thumbnail I completely thought Cristine had dyed her hair but that must just be because of the middle part. It looks so much darker than I'm used to
I'm the same age as Cristine and Ben, born the same year, and I really like what Gen Z is coming up with. Youth culture is always like this, building off the last generation while rejecting as much of it as possible.
I'm 2 years before them I think one of the biggest differences is we look at boomers in blame them for the active actions they took or did not take that we're seeing dramatic serious fallout from namely climate change for one, and they like it or not blaming them for that. With Gen z i noticed a lot of them beating us for things we grew up tolerating or or taught to tolerate. Specifically things like casual racism and a whole slew of it this sexist actions and rhetoric. I why is it interesting influencer who was born in the late 90s who had never seen family matters before and when they watched it they were horrified by how blatantly sexist and creepy Steve urkel was and for most millennials these things never register as sexist even now really when we're so much more aware of them. So it's sort of like a degree we get blamed for things that we tolerated that now are absolutely on the road to being canceled or at least heavily questioned. I would argue that it's not the same as the things the boomers actually actively did, if for no other reason then most of them I've noticed especially losing power don't really want to admit their wrongdoing whereas millennials are able to acknowledge that a lot of this stuff is really effed up in hindsight although it's still difficult because a lot of it all messed up it has a strong hinge of nostalgia for us. NFL just another thing we get yelled at a lot for but frankly every generation has a nostalgic kick at some point, they will too eventually. We're at least learning and willing to acknowledge and change what we're willing to accept or tolerate in our overall cultural zeitgeist
I totally forgot it's Simply Podlogical day 🤦🏼♀️ I have been awake for 38 hours straight because insomnia is a jerk and the pharmacy is out of stock of my nightly medication (Marinol) so my brain is mush. So excited to watch this episode, I was on Tiktok recently and couldn't get over the generation battle. Happy Simply Pod Taco Tuesday 🌮💅
Idk if this will bring you any comfort. I’m 30yo and my boyfriend is 22. The way we see the internet is completely different and he applies such a different logic to discussions and somehow translates the intent of people depending on the platform, and it doesn’t seem to be something he actively learned. Truly feels like it is ingrained in him because he was raised by/with the internet. I’m saying we adapt, we don’t have much control over it and they will have much more info and experience on this matters than we ever will. Still, the world itself is a scary place, so i feel for you
eeh like yes there are possible dangers on the internet, just like everywhere but if you ingrain good morals, so they can't go down some alt-right pipeline as well as tell them the basics, you know don't give out your address there isn't that much to fear on the internet for the regular user.
@@vilteb4701 yes and no. Every kid matures differently and personality impacts choices. Also what age are you talking? Cause some kids in elementary school have cell phones now. We can't trust 9yr olds to really understand that risk fully.
I'm literally inbetween, and have a lot of younger and older friends so yeah idk, I love you both Gen Z and Millennials, there's a lot of cool people in these groups and I love how they stand up for themselves.
I would really appreciate it if we didn't need "trends" on pants. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on what's fashionable/comfortable, and there should just be a variety available. Like if all the stores start selling only low rise pants, I literally won't be able to find clothes that fit me right anymore. Body diversity required diversity in fashion. I don't wish that any style of clothes would "die", but perhaps that style isn't the only thing offered for purchase?
I'm gen z but like a 20 year old gen z, and I started using emojis more ironically (e.g. 😂😭🥺🥰) but now I can't stop using them, and when I don't use them texting seems so formal 🥴
Yes I’m still mind blown seeing someone born in the year 2000 or 2001 being 20, or 21 ! Full grown adults , of someone born in 2003 is 18 ! That shit makes me think holy shit I’m old ! And I’m still not technically considered old but I damn sure feel it !
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Honestly I think that the boomers hated the "okay boomer" trend so much that they made up this gen z vs millennial war to get the focus off of them haha
I think you're onto something 😆😆
Same lol
Boomer/GenX cusp here: nope. Wishful thinking. What’s more plausible: a Boomer who’s savvy enough to understand and manipulate TikTok, or someone from a younger generation trolling for the lolz? Probably the GenXers- it’s always the quiet ones. Most Boomers only heard about the “okay Boomer” meme from newspapers and TV. If you’re a Boomer who can grok TikTok, you didn’t take “okay Boomer” seriously. The precursor to this, “the 30-year-old boomer” meme threw me for a loop for a while, however 😂💀:’D
@@ziggystardog ok boomer
Sounds about right
I just have to say, that the most millennial thing about this is that you took a buzzfeed quiz to find out where you fell 😂😭 hahaha
Ahh but you used the millennial emoji 😅
says the person using 😂
😂😭😂 lol
"On The Tiktok" "I can't dance" yep they do not know Tiktok lol
@@oflifeandstuff half my friend group despises "😁😂" and the other half uses it on the daily 😁. We are VERY genz though. I think "😂😁" is having a comeback.
The term "zoomers" always makes me feel like they're rolling in on heelies, flippantly drinking a smoothie
Haha yes!!
That's exactly how I want to be remembered tho 😂😂😂
well as a “zoomer” i can say that i am doing exactly that
I have to think of Zoom calls and work 😁
Then millennials claim skateboards & cranberry juice lol
I love that they took the mustache question literally as in having a physical mustache, not as in the weird obsession with mustache memes, references, and finger tattoos 😭
haha I was thinking the same thing 😅 I was wondering if anyone else caught that
the repeated pattern was on everrrything!! and I hated it xD
i wonder how the people with the mustache finger tattoos are doing now.. i’m glad i wasn’t old enough to get that tattoo, and had a mustache-themed bday party instead LMAO OOP
@@roxypicasso66 luckily for them it's probably worn off by now 🤣.
Finger tattoos are notoriously hard to maintain because the skin is close to bones in an area that's used a lot more than other parts of our bodies, so the friction from that, and the fingers rubbing together makes them fade fast - there's also the fact that handwashing produces a lot of friction on the hands and fingers... all of this means the skin on our fingers regenerates up to 10x faster than the rest of our bodies! Especially the bottom half of the fingers - if you look carefully you can see a sort of "line" in the middle of the side of your fingers where the type of skin changes between the top and bottom, and that underside skin wears away and regenerates the fastest 🤓
I’m older Gen Z, born 1997, so I’m bracing myself to be made fun of from both angles. Growing up I did everything millennials did to fit in with the cool older kids, now that I’m 23 I’m just trying to fit in with the cool 16 year olds lmao.
Editing this to point out that it was a joke, can y’all stop being so rude in my replies like wtf lol
This is so relatable! I was born at the end of 1995 and I feel like I don't fit in with either generation right now lol
My god same!!!!
Same! I was born in 1998.
My feelings exactly 😂 literally said “no one does bangers like tpain anymore” yesterday while I wore hair clips to hold down my middle part
Honestly yes, one day I did the "Sheesh" and immediately had an imposter syndrome
I’m gen X and raised by “silent gen” (yes that’s what they call the gen before boomers) parent, they had me late in life and I’m a parent of a millennial. My life was interesting because my mom was ahead of her time, she chose not to have bunch of kids, she chose not to depend on a man, she chose to raise me to be independent and self sufficient. Our boomer family members would criticize my mother for her “life style” and she didn’t give 2 fcks, when my daughter came out as lesbian she was very supportive, she was an awesome mom, I lost her in August. But I’m so thankful to had been raised by a woman like her
So sorry for your loss but happy for you to have had such a wonderful parent (and grandparent for your kiddo!) 💗
Sorry for your loss but she sounded amazing, the world could do with more mums like her ❤
She sounds like she was a bad*ss, I'm so sorry for her loss
My condolences. She sounds super awesome and like and inspiration and amazing role model.
I love how Ben just can't stop himself from coming back to the topic of why boomers suck
Is that what he was really saying?? Guess that lets me know how he feels about me.
@@SierraGal Don’t take it personally, the generation overall has caused a lot of problems, but there are plenty of progressive, ethical baby boomers out there. It’s just that there happen to be so many more that fought against human rights and seem to enjoy yelling at us when we’re just trying to bag their groceries.
Well they did screw shit up... thankfully even as a millennial I'm lucky cause my parents are GenX. The majority of the blame is on the boomers in power. Individuals are always to be judged on their own actions.
@@SierraGal If you're a politician, yes.
What an icon.
I can’t believe Ben didn’t know the “one does not simply” meme haha
Right?? That was a classic meme
@@rosebudje28 especially after giving Cristine so much grief about lotr on that recent episode 😅
😂
Then proceeds to tell Cristine she doesn’t know what a meme is 🤦🏼♀️
@@shaimarie8590 the worst 😂
The memory of "don't talk to strangers on the internet because they can get your address and come kidnap you" shot me back to 2004 so hard I have whiplash
Remember those old school chat sites like aol messenger, chat maze etc where you would be able to talk to random people online . Lol I miss those days. 😩
Sometimes I think back on all the sketchy shit I did on the internet in 2003-2004 and wonder how I didn’t get kidnapped lol.
I still get that from my mom only she goes as far as to tell me not to even have social media because they'll track me and kill me
Edit: im 20 and know internet safety even if I dont practice it😅
Cristine not knowing what a finsta is even though she has SimplyNotLogical had me dying
That’s not finsta
does cristine watch Dorian's channel? I didnt know about it until the video of him talking about it
honestly the sad thing is BUZZFEED ASKING THAT TO YOUNG PEOPLE? like, WHAT THE FUCK?
We wouldn’t know about a finsta
@@AM-kn5ch Well yes that's not a finsta but its a place for her to put bonus and blooper content which is how most people treat those accounts
Okay but is nobody gonna talk about how good Cristine looks with the middle part?!
literally it looks so good
I just made a comment about it! I'm not used to seeing her with a middle part but it looks so good on her!
She looks sooooo good I came to comment this
I mean she looks good but that's just bc it's her? The part is not that good.
@@Labinzel no because it suits her 😅
"Millennial women love their mugs" I feel so attacked right now, you leave my mugs alone!
I love my mugs because that’s how I prove I’ve been places, I find a gift shop and get a mug 😅
I had boomer coworkers who refused to get rid of the typewriters and made me use them to manually type labels and document headings in the office because the computers might go down. So I was like do you ride a horse to work just because your car might break down.
OMG the boomer coworkers who insist on using two spaces after every sentence. *It's not a typewriter, people! The characters no longer all take up the same amount of space!*
I'm the petty person who does find and replace for two spaces every time I edit their documents. And if they notice and get mad they're always too lazy to change it back. Boomers.
Cristine giving us her best Alanis Morrisette. 😍
Gen Z like - who?
Yes love the black hair on her. OMG SHE FINALLY COLORED HER HAIR AGAIN!!
I’m Gen Z but I STILL listen to jagged little pill like that album is PERFECT
@@amac0190 actually tho, who is she?
@@vigneshnehru9822 she's a singer, if you look her up the chances are pretty good you've heard a couple of her songs
When Cristine actually knows what a 2000s meme is and Ben doesn't but somehow convinces Cristine she's the one who's wrong--feels bad bro
Yeh he's done this a few times on the podcast. Not cool / gaslighting moments :(
maybe hes convinced and she doesnt care so it just plays out like that I mean Ben had no bad intent is what im trying to say
@@mitzara25 oh yeah for sure didn't mean to imply bad intent on his part! doesn't mean it doesn't feel bad bro lololol
I was going to comment the same exact thing!!! Excuse me, Ben? Cristine was SPOT ON! One does not simply tell Cristine that she doesn't know what memes are.
@@beejhudson946 it’s not that serious
The zillenials trying to figure out what side they're on: 👁👄👁
The zillenial trying to comment on every post of 95-99 for them to join the Facebook group
Same - 1997 here and I’m conflicted LOL
I'm born in 2K December, Am I a zillenial or Gen-z?
@@vigneshnehru9822 gen z
@@vigneshnehru9822 I was born 2000 November, but with two older sisters I grew up with all the stuff they did. I don’t relate very much to gen z, I relate more to Millenial, so I’d say if you relate more to millenial call yourself a zillenial!
Me, a Gen Z while typing an assignment: I'll save this word doc after every sentence cause my laptop might crash anytime. 😂
LMFAO USE GOOGLE DOCS ITS EASIER
Same 😂
I felt this in my soul haha or double saving right before u close the document
Im on the cusp and Im so used to saving, even if my video games are autosave I still save manually 😳
I'm 25, still living at home and ita so weird seeing people I graduated with having kids and getting married.. I swear we just graduated the other day 😂
I turned 35 this year and I still feel weird when I see ppl i graduated with having kids. It’s like wait no we aren’t old enough lol I think it must be normal for the mental aging to slow after the age of 20 because I still feel like I’m 21.
I'm 22 and one of my old classmates is engaged, I'm not ready haha
Yo same boat here 🙋🏻♀️ 25 and still living at home right now lol
Same
One of my friends got married while I was in year 12, and I was just like what am I doing with my life 😂
Hey Ben, don’t say bestie. I’d rather be a simp any day
Simply Simps unite!
Supersimps gang!
Who remembers tongue tattoos from fruit roll ups??? And the joy when you actually got it right?? Like having to find that sweet spot where you’re tongue isn’t too wet so that the image just came out a big blur 😂😂😂
memory U N L O C K E D
literally just unlocked memories i forgot i had
cringing at how dumb we were asking friends if it worked and just having a gooey green blob on our tongue
Does anyone remember kinda drooling while doing it lol
Wooow, throwback!!
CRISTINES HAIR LOOKS SO GOOD. MY JAW DROPPED.
I am a 96 baby and idk I feel like people born between 94-99 don't really fit into either category. I was alive for 9/11, but I was 5. I remember the GFC, but I was 12. I grew up in high school with early social media, and was around 15 when smart phones became more accessible. Like there are big things that most millenials can say they remember or significantly impacted them that I have no real memory of, and the technology and online communities that seems to be a cornerstone fo Gen Z is something I also grew up with but it's NOWHERE near the same.
I knowwww I am a 97 and I can totally relate.
I’m ‘96, but my parents are older boomers and my sister is a Millennial so I identify as a millennial. I say if you remember 9/11, you’re millennial lol
@@snnease I mean I don't remember 9/11 but I'm Australian and my memory is shit anyway. So 9/11 just did not impact me in the same way it might have impacted a 5 year old American/Canadian kid or an 11 year old Australian kid, or even a 5 year old Australian kid with better memory than me.
@@claire9508 valid! I’m American and remember being In kindergarten and getting sent home early and having my parents make us watch the news on the living room and it just being very somber. I was just saying if you even vaguely remember, not necessarily impacted
@@snnease oh yeah nah I totally get ya, don't worry!
as a gen z digital artist there is a LARGE fear of losing work, not saving, or having software crash and shit. And having to walk Into class and explain to my bommer professor what it means to have photoshop crash..... they just think we're making it up lol.....
I was LOOKING for this comment lol. I use Mac and Adobe for work every day, and I'm lucky if any Adobe programs auto-saves ANYTHING. Photoshop and InDesign, I feel like if they auto-save every 30 minutes, it's a miracle... With my job and intense project timelines, I'd prefer if Adobe auto-saved every 2 minutes!
Save your work! Every little step! 🙏
The tweet about mugs called me out. As I sit here, a 26-year-old woman, getting a modicum of joy out of using my Wednesday Addams mug on a Wednesday, staring at my hanging mug collection...
Yes! This is brilliant.
wait what year were you born cuz the oldest gen z are 1995
@@tikkon 2021-26=1994.
speaking of air travel pre-9/11 remember being able to like...meet the pilot? like full on walk up to the cockpit and the doors are open and just chill with the pilot for a sec before the flight? wild.
Or meeting someone at the gate? They would just let anyone go anywhere!
That's wild. I am 20 ( born in 2001) and I literally can't imagine air travel without high security 🤯
I remember going up to see the cockpit during flight, too, sometimes, when young. And then after 9-11 a lot of awkward cramming of security lines into places that used to be restaurants or public observation lounges, in airports that had never been designed to have separate areas.
I flew to Disney World March ‘01 and I just turned 3. My family didn’t fly until 2010 (Post 9/11 fears oof) and it’s wild that I flew on a plane months before 9/11 but didn’t remember it but I only remember beefed up TSA (and yes I had to get a TSA pat down in the airport once as a minor for no reason)
If we (millenials and Gen Z) would not seperate but unite, we could actually save this planet.. ❤️😘
Agree 100%. We align on most social/political issues but are fighting over hair parts 😆😆
I agree so much
I agree!!! - a Gen Z person
YES! Let's work together and get shit done. #GenX
Yass mommy, SOLIDARITY, WE NEED TO BE COMERADES
Can we all appreciate cristine luscious hair 🤯🤩. I just cant stop looking at the shine.
I click it because of it 🤯
It's the lighting babes ✨️
It's interesting how Gen X always gets forgotten in the generation wars lol.
I was gonna comment the same! Lol
We’re busy right now working, raising children, and caring for aging parents.
we don´t care, we just take our popcorn or wine and see the others fight.
That's because we're the chillest. 😁
Yes!!! I always think this! So sly.
I was listening to this with headphones while getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office and I unexpectedly laughed so loud when ya'll said "Yeet the fetus" that they thought I was choking 🤣
Omg, I hope cristine sees this😂
Dang I never thought of watching youtube while at the dentist, maybe I should try it!
Hahahah I also busted out laughing while washing the dishes but yours is so awkward and hilarious.
"You were....laughing?"
"Uhhhh yeah...yeet the fetus, yaknow?"
Me: a gen z who uses google docs religiously
Also me: control save every new sentence
My dad's a Boomer, my mom is Gen X, I'm a Millennial and by Brother is a Gen Z.... we get along and make fun of each other all the time...but proof that we can all live in harmony 😂
similar for me except my dad is a couple years too old to be a boomer, my half-sister and mom are gen x, and my brother and i are both smack dab between gen z and millenial
Same!! 😂
Until the fire nation attacks
Same as my family!! My mom and dad are 18 years apart. Then I have 3 brothers. I’m the only “millennial”. Don’t act like one but I’m technically one so what ya gonna do lol
@💕Pastel Commenter💕 Ye I’m a gen z over here, my sis is “gen alpha?” Or something
I'm gen z?! I feel like millennial because i remember life without internet and also because in latinoamerica everything came later than in northamerica 😂
i am on cusp of millenial/gen Z as year 95.. i remember when the phones for kids started being a thing, or when we got our first computer
My partner says the same. He was born in Post Soviet Russia in 97 but basically grew up like a millennial till he moved to north America at the age of 18.
It's heavily US-centric. Doesn't really work for them; even worse for the rest of us.
This is more of a north american view. But as a latina in the US, sometimes the millennial stereotypes is very much the white millennial experience.
Most of friends and family didn’t get the newest technology right away. Different family values and barriers.
@@riotchick1030 it's true the view of a Latin generation of 2000 about internet is using '' La Encarta'' i went to the internet cafe until i have 6 or 8 years latin generation is very different than Northamerican
I’m a millennial born in 1994. When I was a teen, I was super into chatting with people online. I rarely chatted with people I knew in real life. I guess being just 6 years behind is a huge difference than Cristine’s experience.
Very true. There was some sense of stranger danger but still went online to chat with people, and ofcourse was always private about my information. Did see a lot of male private genitalia. What was that all about?? The whole chat roulette, Habbo Hotel, MySpace, Facebook, etc etc etc At one point there was really an explosion of such websites
i feel like there’s two different kinds of gen z, those who grew up playing outside and those who got an ipad at age 3. i feel so lucky i didn’t get a phone till i was 12 because all of my young cousins who grew up with ipads are socially and emotionally stunted
I don’t think that’s necessarily a fair distinction. Growing up with those technology likely is not the reason they are stunted in these areas. And there are plenty of us older gen Z who were emotionally/socially stunted for various reasons too
I grew up playing outside! And i don't have tiktok, lolol.
I was the last one in my school to get a smartphone, lol. I defenitly dont feel like Gen Z, I would be more of a Milenial. I was born 1999, but grew up completly different ( in Kyrgistan and Kazakhstan on a field, planting crops and butchering animals).
Being a zillenial is really a struggle, gen z'ers don't want us and millennials don't want us either lol
Omg I didn't know we had a term for this. I feel this so much 😂
I, as a gen z-er, will take you lol
@@random23287 me too, 😂
Who am iiiii
same
Anyone else actually really like the idea of Christine doing a video of nail art from books?
24:55 as a millennial, i think i was disillusioned on what my 20s would look like because i only had the people i know in real life as a frame of reference. but as millennials now, we are fairly open talking about our life experiences online regarding our college experience, dropping out, job search, unemployment, dating, marriage and family (in their 20s), and that has prepped the gen Z with a wealth of knowledge, whether they would want to follow what we've done or do something different.
I'm a millennial too. I grew up with the very stereotypical I'm moving out when I'm 18 etc. And my parents never tried to talk to me about it, as result (of that and other stuff) I ended up in a situation where I had to move back home less than a year after moving out, at 22. But it forced my family to actually have a conversation about the importance of getting holiday jobs and having a plan to actually move out. Because of that, My sister at 18 has an agreement with my parents that she will live at home board/rent free or well below market until she is 24 so she can buy a house.
Can we talk about how pretty Cristines hair is it looks amazing all the time middle part, cinnamon bun, braid, ponytail. Her hair is so beautiful.
Its looks black. I was wondering if she dyed her hair. Like I remember her hair being brown
@@lorenacruz5144 I think there was a video or she posted on snap/ig that she said when she irons or blow dries her hair it turns dark.
I swear, time is such an illusion. I'm 18, and I remember some of the exact same things Cristine and Ben do from my OWN childhood. How is that possible???!
Bruh same. Im like reading responses of people born in 1997 and relating- like yeah Ik the dial up sound, yeah I was born in 2002, so what? 😂
@@Blue_Ink_Crochet Exactly!!! Wild!!
Ok but I remember when everyone was super into mustaches. Tattoos, stickers, socks. Everything had mustaches on them.
i dont even know around which years was that n even if i was born or not but why do i feel like i relate-
meanwhile here I am seeing so many people still in that trend in 2021, maybe it's a western thing that people get over trends/fads really fast?
oof, that was when i was in like 6th grade, so i must've been like 12, so probably around 2013-14
And owls 😂 mustaches and owls
This trend was already saturated when it started, for me. It was always that shallow girls who said things like "omg you're gay please be my friend i want a gay friend" and etc
This is why simply had a middle part on her story
The roll in TV is such a tell for our generation 😂😂
I'm 2002 and my school had those 😂
@@lunareee9620 Samee! 😂
Not sure if someone else has already commented this or not, but the Troll movie Ben was talking about is called "The Little Troll Prince". 😊
Thank you! Literally scrolling through the comments to find someone's answer to the mystery.
m.ruclips.net/video/C_cvy2SOs4E/видео.html
Millenials grew up with celebrities, zoomers grew up with influencers
but harry styles
But Billie Eilish...and other singers 🧍🏻♀️
@@Zzz76788 y- yeah-
cuz celebrities don't exist now?
Hm. I'm a '95 millenial in a 3rd world country but I watched 2009 RUclips and more influenced by them
We talk about the mustaches all the time but no one talks about the cherries 🍒 they were EVERYWHERE in 2006
"Still wearing your clothes from high school, good for you" Ben! The sass! 💀
I've finished this video while working from home for my $40,000 a year job that I got an unnecessary master's degree for, and now I'm going to turn on Grey's Anatomy in the background. It's the most millennial I've felt today.
Same to everything except it’s a bachelor’s degree and $31k for me 🤡
Yep I feel this only ... my husband makes $100k a year at a job that has nothing to do with his master degree. Matter of fact there are gen z being hired on at his company that the company is training and paying for it. Thinking of all the money wasted on at it degree is sickening but it’s a pretty piece of paper hanging on our wall. Blue collar work... maybe the boomers knew something after all.
I'm watching this at 1.45 am while trying to write my final essay to university in the middle of a global pandemic knowing pretty well that I'm probably not going to get my degree because I need to do an internship and no one is hiring right now because the world is ending and my president is an asshole. It's the most Gen Z I've felt today.
Honestly though, as a parent of Gen Zer’s, as a Gen Xer myself, I am pretty damn proud to have birthed, raised and molded very open minded future adults. That’s Gen Xer’s biggest contribution to all of this ♥️
I seriously thank you as a Gen Zer. My mom is a Gen X and she raised me to be open minded and have my own thoughts and opinions. Without her I'd probably be more close minded, as I am the type of person who wouldn't change an opinion quickly
NativeNYerChicHK So what are you trying to say? That millennials are the opposite or something?
Yeah Gen z the birth generation of cancel culture... some are open minded but certainly not all
@@skyisthelimit1898
"I like pancakes"
"Oh so you hate waffles?"
As a Gen-Z human, I'm bracing myself for this😂
Bruh sammeeee
I’m scared as a millennial
Same lol
@@random23287 Drink some water!!
@@user-hello2 Lolll, thanks
I was home sick on 9/11 and remember that I was in the bathroom and my mom started screaming.
I panicked thinking she was going to force me to go to school while I was actively being sick- and she just pointed to the TV and I watched it live for hours. It was a lot for an 11 year old.
I've lived in NYC my whole life, and it was really difficult to process. My mom picked up my brother and I from school immediately since it was a large school and a big target for any other attack. I remember we went up to our roof and saw the towers burning in the skyline. We couldn't open our a/c for weeks because of the smell. My brother and I started having nightmares, and our pediatrician recommended that we get a pet so we adopted a little kitten the next week, who was a part of our family for 13 loving years. What an absolute nightmare for so many people
@@Olivina330 I was in high school in mid-town Manhattan and it was a struggle for my older sister to get me since we lived in Queens. They weren't letting cars in and my dad wasn't able to just leave his car that he used to drive up to the Queens Borough Bridge. We had to run back to the bridge and across it, took an hour to locate my dad, and it was unsually warm that day that I ended up with an awful migraine. I watched the news while lying in bed where they showed the horror of the people stuck and even jumping from those buildings. I threw up later that day and was scared to sleep alone and too ashamed to sleep with my parents at that age, so I went to sleep with my sister, who had just signed up for the Marine Corp (adding to my fears). We actually got a Husky puppy the very next day completely on a whim. Very surprising for my parents. I was traumatized about it for a while too and appreciate that some of my teachers were there to talk about it with us as a whole class in an honest and open way. I'll never forgive my math teacher who acted like nothing was wrong, trying to teach class even though we couldn't hear a thing over the unbelievable amount of sirens from fire trucks and ambulances going by, creating unease with no explanation till my next teacher told us what was going on.
Cristine *gives an example of a literal meme.*
Ben "I don't think you know what a meme is."
I’m 99 zoomer and I’m in the weird transitional set of years where I can’t relate to either group and often get mis categorized by both gen z and millennials. In terms of jobs and education I literally just finished my uni degree and just thinking about trying to find a job... *sigh*
Sameee, November 99. Still at uni lol, most of my friends are older and it feels like we didn’t have the same childhood. And when I talk to younger people’s I feel old and out of touch
Same here!
I was born in November 2001 and I have two siblings that are 6 and 8 years older. It’s a weird place to be lol
I think 97-99 is roughly the "Zennial" period, but honestly generations really don't work in a digital age, but were bad and vague anyway.
Sammmmeee also November '99. This gen z vs millennial thing is so dumb.
I have the weirdest cowlick in the middle of my hair- I can’t part it in the middle without one side being totally flat and the other side being gigantic 😂
LMFAOO MY TWO SIDES ARE DIFFERENT TOO
Same
taking a buzfeed quiz to see if they’re “zillenials” is arguably the most millennial thing ever 😭 - a gen zer
100%
The last thing I ever thought would come out of Cristines mouth is : The dream smp 👁👄👁
time?
@@mia7153 56:20 Like right at the end
Omg same I was like * pog face*
She keeps up with the times i guess
"Do you know the words coming out of your mouth right now?" 😂
I'm born 1999 and I feel like there is such a huge gap between me and my friends who are around 21-24 years old and the 14 year old high school kids. I often just don't get them and the new trends while we are the same generation :')
You think that’s bad, I’m 26 and some millennials are 40 this year lol. It’s just how generations work, the 15 year gap isn’t going to encompass everyone.
@@shumbles im 27 this year and same lol i dont relate to the millenials and i dont relate to the late gen Zers either. The joys of being the youngest millennials but still too old to be Gen Z
don't worry, I have the same situation and I just turned 18, or maybe that's just how I feel with Western trends, because people here in my 3rd world asian country follow a mix of millenial/gen z trends than just sticking to one (mainly because a lot of people here are slow asf when it comes to trends/fads, like... really slow lmao)
So true! I was also born in the late 90’s. We grey area people are lucky to get the best of both worlds! See a millennial joke about corporate/adult life? We understand it! Generation Z discussions surrounding gender fluidity? We support it! Someone’s makes fun of generation Z? “I’m an elder generation Z; I don’t do that!” Someone ridicules millennials? “Pshh, millennials, am I right, fellow kids?” Easy peasy
I would say that's more of an age thing than generation thing
Hello, can we talk about how some of these broad characteristics that define a generation are almost always like from the US or some “first world” country. I mean I am from a a “third world”country or “developing “ country so technology comes a bit later and the categories get all shifty. And I know they make this invisible limits just as a reference and not the ultimate definition or whatever. But I just always feel the need to call out this characteristics as being biased. I don’t even know if my point is coming across but I hope it is 🙈
Cristine looks so much like Avril Lavigne in this episode with her hair down and parted in the middle. And the t-shirt 👕 as well. Giving me the sk8ter boy vibes 🎶
right?! cristine in this pod is giving me SUCH '04 vibes i am living
She's only missing a random men's tie that's way too big for her.
She looks so good
"Hello fellow kids" you can tell Ben goes on Reddit, lol
The subject "The most entitled generation" hit me so hard...little story: my father was mad at my 19yo sister for not being able to find a job without a Bachelor's degree(I'm from Romania, school system is a little different here) and when he tried to hire her somewhere he was in complete shock that the candidate must have finished highschool and have a degree in order to be hired. Back in the day you could be hired without a Bachelor's degree, now you can't even mop the floor without one...great podcast, was a pleasure to listen to ♡
honestly even with a bachelor degree you can't do a lot like, it's still hard to find jobs even outside of what you planned and set out to do. My mom is a math teacher (she wanted to be a math teacher) but for the longest time she was taught computer science because she couldn't find a spot in the school system (I'm Romanian too btw) so pretty much is hard to find a job no matter your qualifications
As a Gen-Z, I remember in grade school that they rolled out the TV so everyone could watch Obama be announced as the new president
Side note: I live in Canada lol
First Black President! I'm Canadian too and I remember everyone at the time finally thought America was getting its shit together. I think he was more popular here than in the US for a long time after the election.
The only time american politics were mentioned in my school (I live in northern europe) was when Trump became the president and the teacher had to explain how he won if the majority voted against him lol
born in 2000 and this is like my most vivid elementary school memory
I was four when he won so I feel so young
It's interesting hearing Cristine recount her memories from 9/11 as a Canadian. I live about 4 hours from NYC and was in Kindergarten at the time. I remember the sheer panic of everyone rushing to pick their kids up from school and the teachers trying not to show us they were crying.
I'm Canadian also, and I was about 7 or 8 when 9/11 happened. I don't even remember that much from that day really. Our teachers tried not to show us anything or tell us anything. I don't know if that was the same for the older grades but I distinctly remember not really knowing what was going on.
@@lemontree666333 I was in highschool grade 9 English specifically ... Our class went to the library to turn on TV whole school gathered around to watch it on various sources. It was insane, we were further away in Northern Ontario but I knew people who had family working in and around the trade center.
I'm Australian, and I remember waking up in mum telling me to come and watch the TV. We all just stood around watching the news in shock. When I went to school we didn't do any work, but just watch the news on the TV. The teacher's were coming into each other's classrooms and discussing it and completely ignoring us. I'll never forget that day even though I don't think I fully understood the situation and the impact it would have.
I was in kindergarten as well. I was in Michigan by Selfridge Air base. I remember the teachers all whispering to each other and I could hear the jets being started. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Turns out they were scrambling fighter jets to do patrol over Detroit to make sure there wasn’t another attack. The memory of my teacher wiping at the running mascara down her face while we were huddled in a dark classroom will forever be burned into my mind.
@@lemontree666333 I was a similar age. Didn’t know anything until the end of the day. Pick up was frantic, then I sat in front of the tv watching the reruns of the footage from the moment I got in, to the moment I went to bed. Sitting on the floor, my jaw hanging in disbelief.
I’m sure I ate dinner and used the bathroom, but I don’t remember that.
I'm a "Gen-Z girl" who loves her mug collection
But okay can we talk about how Cristines hair looks so good with middle part! ☺️☺️
SORRY buuut as a 22yr old born in 98 I have absolutely nothing in common with these 16 year olds. Also Gen Z "trends" have all been done by other generation, nothing new even if they think they're new.
Not gonna lie Cristine’s hair looks great with a middle part too.
She looks witchy 🦇
@@foreverNwonder in a great way ofc🦇🧹
It's funny how trends change. I grew up parting my hair in the middle, but I distinctly remember in like 2011 a friend telling me that if you part your hair to the side then youd look more mature and I never looked back 😂
Also the skinny bang pieces 😂
this literally happened to me but in 2014 (im a younger gen z)- i remember one of my frnds telling me that time that if i part my hair frm the side i look more like my mum n more 'adult-like' but ive always hated sideparts so i didnt change 💀
Im a gen z, I ended ended up parting to the side at 19, mom(hairstylist for 20+years) says it makes hair fuller and adds volume if you part in an "unusual" spot
Even in New Zealand, with 9/11 mum woke me up earlier for school and had the news on. The teacher we had that day brought a small TV in from home. But as an 11 year old in an isolated little country on the other side of the planet, the scale of it didn't sink in until I was in high school.
Anyone here to look at Cristine's nails for sneak peak at a new polish collection!?
Yes, the mint, lavender, and red creme that was on her story!!!
🙋♀️
Maybe...😳😳😂😂
I also look at Ben's too...
I remember that I felt so bad not to be a "90's kid" due to be born in 2000. It was soo cool the be a 90's kid and so childish and uncool to be born after the 90s.
totally! i'm born in '01 and have a lot of older friends and it's so funny to tell them that i was born not even in 2000 but in '01 😂 they can't believe that we're already 20/21 now
Think of it this way. Being born in the year 2000 means it’ll be much easier for you to remember your age as you get older!
wtf the whole "waking up in the middle of the night to George Lopez" thing hit so close to home
I think with laughing emojis it’s more like this
Millennials: 😂
Gen Z: 😭🖐
Gen X: 🎵 🍷 🤘🏻
@@thepickledpixie9052 I think of 🙃 when I think og gen x, not because they use it, but because that's how they feel 💀
gen z also uses "💀"
💀💀💀
@@thepickledpixie9052 i have Gen X parents n i dont know what they use cuz they never laugh in text-
however my boomer grandma uses「😀😃😄😁」 _these_-
Born in 1993. I think that I grew up when the internet was VERY happy and funny. The cyber bullying and hate on the internet now is far more serious and life impacting for young folks.
I was just watching the numa numa guy over and over.
Numa Numa guy was the BEST video on the internet then
That's interesting, actually! Bc I was born in 2000 and I feel the same way. Like, I feel like I'm always thinking about how much happier the internet, along with most aspects of culture such as music, was when I was a kid than it is now. Like, don't get me wrong, people were always mean, but it was a different kind of mean than what's presented right now. Back then, it was funny cat videos and people making sketches bc they liked it, not to get paid (although that was a perk that was began in the early 2010s). Cringe culture is the main culprit, imo. It sorta ruined a whole generation of kids, who are now scared that they'll become the new laughingstock of the whole internet bc of their interests. I'm glad kids are taking a stand against it now, for the most part. Bring back a happy internet!
YES!!
i feel the same way! (I was born in 2002)
my childhood wasn't spent by seeing the truly horrible comments people write behind their anonymous profiles. That's why I think kids shouldn't have social media. It can be very good but also terrible for growing kids
You must not have fallen victim to all the fucked up videos that got shared around as “challenges” between buddies to watch their reactions. That seems quintessential millennial internet experience.
Ok I've got an idea, how about all the generations hate on gen Alphas, I can not stand those ten-year-olds 💀
boomer: ugh, look at these millennial on the beach for their spring break
millennial: that's not us, we're working, we WISH we can have a spring break
boomer: then who's on the beach?
gen z: that's some of us. the rest of us are indoors with our online friends
Can we talk about Cristines hair for a moment? She looks so amazing!
Right!! I came down here for this comment. Literally clicked when I saw the thumbnail 🔥
Yesss Christine looks like Avril LMAO
Did she dye it back? Looks amazing
Love the middle part
was looking for a comment about her hair. she looks so gorgeous! love her and this change :)
As a Gen Xer this was really interesting to listen to. I feel like on social media that we are the generation that gets lost in the cracks. You rarely hear anything about Gen X. It’s all Boomers, Millenials, and Gen Z. It’s crazy to think about now but the internet was just becoming a thing when I was in college. There was no social media, no cell phones, no emojis. We just had Kurt Cobain and Winona Ryder!
Born and raised in NYC. On 9/11, I was in first grade. I remember a lot of the teachers panicked and turned all the lights off and shut all the windows (to keep the smoke and ask from coming in). My parents were at work but my neighbor, who had two kids in the same school as me, picked me up early then we went to get my brother. She had to threaten the VP to let her take him because his school was locked down since it was closer to the water (you could see Manhattan from some of the classrooms). When we got to my block, I remember thinking it was snowing a little bit. Later I realized it was soot and ash. It took my father three days to get home. I don’t think I went to school for almost two weeks afterwards.
I was a sophomore in a mid-town Manhattan high school but lived in Queens. My dad got as far as the 59st bridge in his car and my older sister went across the bridge and to my school to get me. My dad had to yell and argue over the phone about how they needed to let me go with her because he can't get there himself. They then gave her the wrong information about my class period and classroom so she had to run round the whole building thinking I was cutting class. She was pissed when she found me and we then had to make our way back. That day was a mess and I was so scared about having to cross the bridge because there was knowledge of other planes attacking and that bridge full of people could have been an excellent target for more attacks.
If your face isn't perfectly symmetrical a middle part will make it worse so I'm staying with the side part 😅
Same....and can i also speak up for the girls with cow-licks in one side of their fringe ...gotta hide that curly none sense lol
@@redhairgrneyes Yes the cowlicks ! We just have to work with what we got lol.
Same! I have one side of my head shaved so center part is not coming back....ever.
Thank you! My nose is crooked so it’s just shouting for people to look at me trying to be symmetrical when I’m clearly not
My face and hairline are super asymmetrical--Side-part solidarity!
i was born in 2003, i kinda miss the days when i write all of my friend's phone number in a notebook and phone call them everyday😫😫
I'm from the forgotten generation, Gen X. We went through the same with the Millennials, but didn't have social media, like today. Fruit roll-ups were a 80's snack, but Fruit by the Foot was a 90's snack.
We went gloomy with Grunge.
@Chrissy 123 Don't forget that middle hair part on women was popular in the 70's.
Same
HEYYYYYYY!!! Gen X here. Sending lots of love to you and to the younger peeps! Boomers can kiss my ***
Gen X is here all "Oh well, whatever, nevermind" because we're still waiting for the Boomers to die off and give us a chance.
New drinking game: take a shot every time Ben says “The baby boomers are the worst generation” 😂 Jokes ❤️
And every time Cristine says she’s 32 years old 🤣
@@lilypan6803 XD
where is the lie tho hahahha
“The Little Troll Prince”!!! I will also never forget this movie!
This movie has some surprisingly big names in it. And seems like something a super Christian granny would have at her house for the kids.
this is where I'm stuck. I and most people I know were born between 1997-1999, we are in a weird spot. We are technically gen Z but we remember the fat back television being rolled into the classroom, we had that overhead lamp thing instead of a smartboard, we ran home to check our IM's and Myspace. we remembered when Facebook was exclusively for college students. We didn't grow up using iPads and iPhones, we played outside, we used disposable cameras, we played on the landline phone. The coolest phone to have was the sidekick and the Motorola razor. I feel we are on the cusp lol.
being born in 2001, we have a nearly identical experience (minus myspace, i wasn't allowed). I remember being taught how to use a floppy disk in elementary school, idk why they taught us that, but i also remember upgrading to a usb drive like WOW!!!
If I'm not mistaken, this is where the Zoomer label comes in. Like, us who were born 97-01 (I'mma extend that a little lol) are Gen Z, we remember all that stuff and had even somewhat of a weird hybrid childhood where our childhoods looked like what you described but our mid/late teenage years had tablets and smartphones. And Zoomers are whoever's in highschool right now and they grew up with the internet we associate with our teenage years.
2001 is included in this experience as well! There's a lot of the "millnnial experience" that I went through that I don't think a lot of people realize the huge overlap??
I remember wanting to own my cousins razer and bejeweling it with the diamonds from my jeans pants like she did 😊
I’m a 98 baby and I feel the same! Also I still use a landline because my neighborhood doesn’t have cell phone service lol😂
i'm a gen z, and STILL feel pressure to have kids in the future (I'm 20 now lol) Seems like i have a line to follow, finish college at 23-24, getting married at 25 having kids at 27, just leave me be and have my doctorate
From the thumbnail I completely thought Cristine had dyed her hair but that must just be because of the middle part. It looks so much darker than I'm used to
I think she must have colored her hair???
She definitely did something, it looks even healthier and shinier than usual
I'm the same age as Cristine and Ben, born the same year, and I really like what Gen Z is coming up with.
Youth culture is always like this, building off the last generation while rejecting as much of it as possible.
I'm 2 years before them I think one of the biggest differences is we look at boomers in blame them for the active actions they took or did not take that we're seeing dramatic serious fallout from namely climate change for one, and they like it or not blaming them for that. With Gen z i noticed a lot of them beating us for things we grew up tolerating or or taught to tolerate. Specifically things like casual racism and a whole slew of it this sexist actions and rhetoric. I why is it interesting influencer who was born in the late 90s who had never seen family matters before and when they watched it they were horrified by how blatantly sexist and creepy Steve urkel was and for most millennials these things never register as sexist even now really when we're so much more aware of them. So it's sort of like a degree we get blamed for things that we tolerated that now are absolutely on the road to being canceled or at least heavily questioned. I would argue that it's not the same as the things the boomers actually actively did, if for no other reason then most of them I've noticed especially losing power don't really want to admit their wrongdoing whereas millennials are able to acknowledge that a lot of this stuff is really effed up in hindsight although it's still difficult because a lot of it all messed up it has a strong hinge of nostalgia for us. NFL just another thing we get yelled at a lot for but frankly every generation has a nostalgic kick at some point, they will too eventually. We're at least learning and willing to acknowledge and change what we're willing to accept or tolerate in our overall cultural zeitgeist
i love that 🥺
@@cheerfulsatanistWow, you explained it so well👏
lmao ur my mums age
@@seanceknowles2911 ty
Ayyo early simps raise up!!!
Ayooooo
I totally forgot it's Simply Podlogical day 🤦🏼♀️ I have been awake for 38 hours straight because insomnia is a jerk and the pharmacy is out of stock of my nightly medication (Marinol) so my brain is mush. So excited to watch this episode, I was on Tiktok recently and couldn't get over the generation battle. Happy Simply Pod Taco Tuesday 🌮💅
Where are you that marinol is nightly medication?! (I’m a RN!)
I’m terrified about how I’m gonna keep my kids safe on the internet because it’s such an important part of life but also so unregulated
Idk if this will bring you any comfort. I’m 30yo and my boyfriend is 22. The way we see the internet is completely different and he applies such a different logic to discussions and somehow translates the intent of people depending on the platform, and it doesn’t seem to be something he actively learned. Truly feels like it is ingrained in him because he was raised by/with the internet. I’m saying we adapt, we don’t have much control over it and they will have much more info and experience on this matters than we ever will. Still, the world itself is a scary place, so i feel for you
Lmao I'm 23 and the internet fuuuuucked me up as a kid
eeh like yes there are possible dangers on the internet, just like everywhere but if you ingrain good morals, so they can't go down some alt-right pipeline as well as tell them the basics, you know don't give out your address there isn't that much to fear on the internet for the regular user.
It's scary and growing up watching "to catch a P" freaks me out more.
@@vilteb4701 yes and no. Every kid matures differently and personality impacts choices. Also what age are you talking? Cause some kids in elementary school have cell phones now. We can't trust 9yr olds to really understand that risk fully.
I'm literally inbetween, and have a lot of younger and older friends so yeah idk, I love you both Gen Z and Millennials, there's a lot of cool people in these groups and I love how they stand up for themselves.
"YOU CAN'T JUST ENTREPRENEUR YOUR WAY INTO OPERATING PEOPLE"
The guys from Hostel: EXCUSE US?!
I’m in high school and I’ve absolutely felt the loss of hours of work from not saving
I’m 16 and I didn’t even know ctrl S was a thing 😭 I’ve lost documents in the past but I learned you just.. click the save button lol
*I'm 32 I'm not done* Thank you for that, Cristine!
Before I watch any of this video, as a Gen-Z human I would like to say that we don’t care what anyone’s wears! The media does :)
Honestly as long as high waisted pants finally die I'm happy. I think insta causes more of the fashion "wars" than traditional media.
I would really appreciate it if we didn't need "trends" on pants. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on what's fashionable/comfortable, and there should just be a variety available. Like if all the stores start selling only low rise pants, I literally won't be able to find clothes that fit me right anymore. Body diversity required diversity in fashion. I don't wish that any style of clothes would "die", but perhaps that style isn't the only thing offered for purchase?
@@arynphillips5888 👏👏👏
I remember having Titanic as VHS, and it was so long it was actually two tapes and halfway through it stopped and you had to put in the second tape.
As a gen Z, everyone I know uses the crying laughting emoji. I have never seen anything else with my friends/classmates etc.
ya but lately it’s kinda less
more acronyms like lol or lmao instead
sounds like ur a local 💀
I'm gen z but like a 20 year old gen z, and I started using emojis more ironically (e.g. 😂😭🥺🥰) but now I can't stop using them, and when I don't use them texting seems so formal 🥴
@@marigolds.5233 LMFAOO YES IT SEEMS SO WEIRDLY FORMAL W/O USING EM LIKE THAT-
~younger gen z
Me: technical Gen Z
My mug collection looking at me: 😂
Yes I’m still mind blown seeing someone born in the year 2000 or 2001 being 20, or 21 ! Full grown adults , of someone born in 2003 is 18 ! That shit makes me think holy shit I’m old ! And I’m still not technically considered old but I damn sure feel it !
Was born in 2002, turning 20 this year.. sorry!