As an elder millennial, I don't want cultural capital or cache. I just want to do what I like, enjoy my space, and be left alone. Gen Z can have the spotlight we didn't ask for. Go nuts.
Jen I think we have more in common with genx then because I myself and from 81 and I do not feel and never have felt like I'm weak or wanted the spotlight I just want a cabin a garden and a wood stove and a couple arcers.. But I can't even seem to get that in this trash world
Totally. My end goal at this point is to have a location where I can stay comfortable while I fade off into obscurity. Also, high speed internet as I'm not that crazy....
Yup. Millennial here, we didn't want to have all our milestones during generational crises. All my friends and I want is to just have a normal life that no one cares about. No side hustle, no having a steady job that pays ok and still worry about money.
same, us elder millennials really should be classified as gen x I want nothing to do with "changing the world" (which is just a euphemism for power), I will take care of my family
Elder millennials were in high school and middle school when the Columbine school shooting happened. That kind of massacre was UNHEARD-OF then. I was 15 at the time. On my second day of college at age 18 I woke up to news of 9/11 and the entire world shifted from everything we grew up knowing. At age 23 the housing market collapsed and the world plunged into recession. I lost my job and could find nothing but part-time work for YEARS. I still have not recovered from that and it was almost a decade before I could make more than $15/hour. Now in my late 30's we are entering the 3rd year of a global pandemic the likes of which have not been seen in over a century. Millennialls did not cause any of these problems. I read articles where boomers rail against millennials demanding more flexible work schedules, remote work and better conditions. They say we are entitled and should stop complaining and pay our dues like they had to. All this while boomer politicians funded by corporations have been working FOR DECADES to erode workers rights and protect corporate profits under the false flag of "job creation." Now there are too many low-paying jobs and not enough people willing to work for nothing while CEO's become billionaires. Give me a break, boomer. All of this was YOUR legacy to the younger generations. Excuse me if I don't want it. That does not make me entitled.
Boomers deserve to have to be inconvenienced by having to wait longer in bars and restaurants because "nobody wants to work" i.e. nobody wants to put up with their shitty, entitled attitudes anymore.
Middle Millennial here. (1989.) To me, a huge reason so many Millennials are unhappy is that we were raised to believe that everything hinges around work. We were all taught that it was supposed to be the most fulfilling, most stimulating, most important part of your life. Anything you're good at, or that you enjoy, you're supposed to turn into work. (See: Side Hustles, monetized RUclips channels, etc. ) We're not supposed to have hobbies. Other generations were taught that work is work, and most work isn't soul satisfying. That's what hobbies and outside interests are for. Soul satisfying jobs don't generally pay the bills, but they never really did. I don't think anyone's grandfather enjoyed selling vacuums door to door. They enjoyed building model ships, or gardening, or volunteering, or whatever. We have to stop expecting work to be the most fulfilling part of life, and choose work that isn't miserable, and allows us to find fulfillment elsewhere. There is so much value in doing things just because they're valuable to you. *Don't turn your passion into a frustrating side hustle because someone told you to open a fucking Etsy store.* You don't have to make money at something for it to be meaningful and important. If you want to make art, don't take the $12 an hour job that tangentially includes making art in some capacity, where you have to work sixty hours a week. Take the desk job, where you put in eight hours, and leave. Go home and paint. Work doesn't have to be your passion, and it's not a mark of failure that you couldn't turn your passion into gainful employment. (Moreover, you'll be shocked by how much less money you need to spend if you can actually enjoy yourself.)
I completely agree. It’s really messed with our heads because this whole concept started in the 80’s with the yuppies, who happened to be baby boomers. The concept of making a bunch of money at an exciting job turned into a requirement for a good life. It didn’t help that as 90’s kids we grew up in the 3rd best decade, economically speaking, of the 20th century. Many of us saw women who were able to stay home and take care of their kids and not go broke. We were told this is what we should expect.
@@mastersnet18 I feel like the ideas of work culture we were raised with are even more toxic than the Yuppie ethos. Yuppies didn't expect work to be special or meaningful. They just expected to work hard, and climb the corporate ladder even if the work itself wasn't stimulating. There was no expectation of self-actualization through work. If Susan loved gardening, she wouldn't have been constantly harassed about why she was working an office job instead of opening up a florist shop. If you really want to fuck up a kid for life, feed them the "everyone has that one thing that makes you special" line. It's really disappointing for Zach when he grows up and isn't first chair at Carnegie hall, after being told that violin is his gift. He's going to feel pretty fucking useless when he can't even make it as a music teacher because every grade in every town had a Zach, who was told violin was what made him special. He would have been better off if his parents encouraged him to play just because he enjoyed it, and found it soul nourishing. If it turns into a job, great. If not, that's fine too. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to monetize it. I can't tell you how many people I know who *hate* the things they used to be passionate about because they were bullied into turning those passions into side hustles. You want to really hate travel? Start making travel vlogs about every trip. You're going to spend the whole trip shooting video, and you're going to have to constantly travel even when you want to spend your week off at home, because algorithms like consistency. Taking a job that you're not passionate about isn't admitting defeat, you don't have to be exceptional to be happy, and it's okay to do things just because you love them.
100% agree i like money as much as the next person but i realized, early on luckily, that " doing what you're passionate about " will, most likely, lead you too not be passionate about your hobby/ interest anymore. Side hustles are fine if you know that it's only temporary/ just for money
Older millennial here ('82), and I was taught if you were good at something and you enjoyed it, you should pursue it as a career. Remember the saying "love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life"? I heeded that advice and went to college and studied what I was "good at and passionate about". Well, the academic, overanalytical, and formulaic way it was taught in University--coupled with the fact that (much like work) I was "forced" to do it for class--made me wind up _hating_ it and I dropped out of school. So I lost the only thing that I loved and which I had devoted _thousands_ of hours to as a teenager. I've never recovered from that, and I've never had a hobby I truly enjoy as much since. Essentially, the only thing I ever truly loved was destroyed by academia.
@@Bunny-ch2ul Thank you for this and to the comments below. I do just that but I have family and friends saying all that shit about why I didn't pursue a career doing what I was passionate about, and how I would be much happier. I didn't do it because I didn't want it to feel like a burden but to do it just because I love it, but sometimes it hits home and I feel like a loser and a coward, because to be honest, desk work is shitty half of the time; but I get my money and I have my free time to enjoy "my passion", so I guess it's not so bad 😉
Boomers: “Millennials believe if they work hard they can have what the want.” Millennials: “And who told us that?” Boomers: “You got too many Participation trophies!” Millennials: “And who gave them to us?”
weird we millennials are seen as lazy though but then hard work is pointless though and we all for the most part graduated with degrees and yet cant find better jobs and are'nt always treated well by bosses or coworkers were expected to jump for them and compromise yet its never good enough for them they still give employees a hard time
At the age of 36, I really appreciate this take. When people talk about "Millenials", I wonder which ones? Older Millenials (Xennials) like myself are VERY different from the younger ones. I do get sick and tired of us being blamed for everything when much of it has been out of our control. I don't get the dig about participation trophies (that no millennial asked for), or the fact that we are "lazy, entitled, and still live with our parents". Many millenials like myself DID graduate when the recession started, so how are you going to work with no jobs available? How are you suppose to pay rent with no job and massive student loan debt? I'm fortunate that my parents helped me with college costs, but the vast majority were not that lucky. It does annoy many like me that the generation that seems to shit on us the most (Boomers) are also the reason we are in this mess. There is a lot of grief over how we were raised "spoiled and entitled", yet Boomers seem to forget that THEY were the ones that raised us (for the most part). Still, I do enjoy having conversations like these with my own parents, who are Baby Boomers. They can see that it isn't all on us. Are some millennials lazy, spoiled, and entitled? Of course. There are people like that in every generation. While our generations have come up in very different circumstances (ie. my parents had to deal with racial segregation), we enjoy learning about each other and we do find common ground.
Participation trophies are not original to Millennial, and more a US phenomenon. Also, nobody blamed me ever or my cohort for anything novel, so no idea where this is coming from.
Ive never heard this millennials blamed for everything position? Whose blaming us? I thought the world is in consensus that Boomers and Gen X's paved the way for the current climate. A generation cant be blamed for its own circumstances they predate our arrival to a position of consequence.
Millennials are the Prince Charles of the generations. By the time they take the throne, it'll be too late to really do anything and will have to pass the baton almost as soon as they got it.
OMG that’s literally our biggest generational curse. We didn’t know how to be adults until suddenly BAM we were labeled as old. Never actually had the chance to be adults, it’s like we skipped that part of our lives.
When I was in middle school Columbine happened and suddenly school wasn't safe anymore. In fact the adults were now scared of us. When I was in high school 9/11 happened and the entire country wasn't safe anymore. I watch the towers fall while in social studies class learning about how America is an inspiration to everyone. I graduated high school when the Iraq war began and some guys I graduated with went in the army and right into the war. It was also around this time that I realized the government will actively lie to you for their own profit. I graduated college in 2008, just in time to not be able to get a job. I was told all my life how important a career and financial independence was to be an adult and then it was like adulthood was closed off to us. All while we were being told how spoiled and entitled we were. Everything we were promised turned out to be a lie.
Yes to all of this. And then when I turned 30, and I was FINALLY just starting to get my life together, the pandemic hit and suddenly the entire WORLD wasn’t safe anymore. We had nowhere left to run. And everyone hated us simply for the time we were born. It’s a lonely and sad life being a millennial. 💔
I was also in jr. high during Columbine and sat and watched 9/11 LIVE during study hall (and the rest of the day). I remember my elementary school teacher telling us that there had been a bombing in OK when we got back from either Specials or Recess (where we were coming back from is a bit fuzzy but I know we came from somewhere because we all came in and our teacher told us to all sit down quietly because he had something really important he had to say and we all did it immediately due to the look on his face) but that was before there were TVs in classrooms so he heard it from the teachers lounge and let us know bc they weren't sure if they were going to send us home since we lived in a metro area and a lot of our parents worked in a city and at first they were thinking of evacuating federal buildings. I remember getting home and my dad's office had let them leave and I told him the second I got off the bus and he said he knew and that's why he was home and had the TV on and I actually got to see it happen (replayed). I remember watching the Rodney King riots. I remember the OJ case very well and talking about heavily with my classmates at the lunch table along with the car chase...these are moments that I remember so well, maybe some moments when my grandchildren or grandnieces/nephews will ask me "where I was when..." or "what I remember" like we did when we had and asked our parents "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" I also remember my sister teasing me because I kept calling the Soviet Union the "Soviet Reunion"; We watched crayons get made on Mr. Rogers and by time Barney was on T.V. we were in school and maybe our younger siblings watched it because they were still in pre-school. My first game console was the NES and even though I was little, my sister taught me how to aim the gun just right to hit the ducks--later on I would become Platinum in Link's Crossbow Training (I owe it to her and that game); Battletoads became our original "Smash Brothers" when we realized our characters could beat each other up. When the SNES came out, I was the first kid on the street to beat the game and had to go over to each other the other kids' houses and show them how to beat Bowser. Our family "road trips" consisted of an etch-a-sketch, coloring books and crayons, a gameboy split between 3 kids (useless once it got dark) and a cooler between the seats with cups, ice, and Coke (bottled water wasn't really a thing yet and no one in my family drank pop except for Coke/Diet Coke), we played "car games" and talked/joked around like a family and angry dialogue btw parents in the front seat over reading the map is forever remembered by me and my siblings, we didn't even have MapQuest yet (Mom still can't read a map and Dad refuses to use a GPS)
@@whenfatkillsfat803 I can't imagine going to school with cell phones/iPhones...when we were teens, our peers could bully us with rumors, now peers have proof/evidence due to iPhones and with just a few swipes, the whole school can know
As a Gen z person I do like millennials. They normalised so much and made a more empathetic society. Of course not all but they started a lot of important conversations and try to end a lot of cultural and generational curses. I also feel like they are more friendly to gent zs than boomers were to them.
You're our kid siblings and even if we don't always get it right, I think most of us just hope and wish that you all could have/could have had an easier entry into adulthood than we did. It sucks & has sucked for us, and in a lot of ways it sucks even worse for you all. It feels like we're watching what happened to us continue to happen, but in an even bleaker way because of the simultaneous constant connection and isolation of living so much of our lives online. sigh. I've still got my fingers crossed that shit changes for your generation and that millennials can catch a fucking break, too. 💜
Aww thanks for the appreciation. I've seen some Gen Zs on TikTok making fun of us so it's nice to know some of you out there have some appreciation. I feel like we have more in common with you guys than any other generation.
Gather around youngsters. As THE eldest millennial (born in 81’), I can tell you that adulting is hard af, NO ONE has the answers, and we all are making it up as we go. No matter what your age is, being a human is difficult.
Being born in ‘82, the thing that most annoys me is being labeled as a millennial while the attributes assigned to me reflect the most recent generations.
I was at bar and talking to a younger millennial and they realized in just a few short years they were not going to be young and it scared the crap out of him.
I was born in 1993, so I’m not an Elder Millennial, but I really wish the Millennial and Gen Z generations stopped trying to one up each other in terms of how much harder life is for them. Both of our generations are all dealing with the consequences and selfishness of the Boomers. We are all dealing with circumstances outside of our control. We need compassion and understanding for one another.
@@gabigabigabi123 In addition to their political policies of deregulation screwing both gen z and millennials over, they refuse to see that the American Dream and the middle class is gone and say we need to put down the avocado toast if we want to buy a house because they still think that a bartender can support a family of 4 and go on vacation and save for retirement because that was true in pre-Reagan America. More than any generation, they're most in need of a software update, and they'll die out before that happens. And what bothers me is that older people are still the ones who vote and who are listened to politically; most people who show up to city council meetings are retired old folks who have the time and instead of understanding that the world has changed a lot since they were in the workforce, they still vote for horribly deregulating policies because they don't want to pay taxes in their final years and leave young people to pick up the tab. They're the equivalent of someone who throws a lit cigarette out as they're leaving a park.
The "Millennials" remind me of my own generation - Gen X.We, too, graduated at a time in which jobs were scare, inflation was rampant, and financial security seemed a pipe dream, assured that Social Security would be a distant memory and we'd never be able to retire. We, too, were characterized as "lost" - the latchkey kids of working moms and/or divorced parents who basically raised ourselves, and were thus self-centered, and self-reliant as well as indifferent and grasping. We were born before the internet existed, still used computers at school and work when tech was in its infancy, and a lot of us discovered the social media double-edged sword soon enough that we personally escaped becoming dependent on it, even as the world around us did. I'm old enough (57) to remember when you applied for jobs *In Person*, and didn't have to wonder if you were being "ghosted" (i.e. ignored) by a company's HR or if Indeed or other job "application" filter programs ever sent your application in to the company in the first place. We, too, put off marriage and raising families (and having fewer kids when we did) for economic reasons, and have the highest debt burden of any American generation. I guess the point of this is that the economy runs in cycles, and we (Millennials and Gen Xers) happened to come to adulthood at the low point of each cycle. Barring the U.S. falling into fascism, this is likely to continue. We weren't lucky, but sometimes you can make your own luck. We've done and *will* do our best to make lemonade out of the lemons we've been handed, and work to make things better for our children if we can.
@@BluetheRaccoon I disagree. We have definitely already fallen into oligarchy, but that is not the same as fascism. There are certain segments of our population, however, who are trying their damnedest to get us there. Resist.
If there’s anything new, it’s the constant media declarations and handwringing about the current hardships. I hate this “lost” generation stuff over economics. The lost generation of the 20th century applies to young European men dying and being maimed by the millions in a bloody, intractable war. Hardly comparable.
To anyone born in the early 2000s, I wish you all the best of luck and more. You get 3 years to be an adult, then you get a lifetime labeled as geriatric. Live a good life. Be good to yourself, and each other.
I know. This is stupid, and the take ought to be ashamed of themselves. The take has done videos on Boomers and Gen X, and they have NEVER referred to the people born in the early part of that generation as "elderly, geriatric, senior," etc. But early Millennials are all of a sudden geriatric. The oldest Millennial is in their early 40. Aging, but nowhere near "geriatric." I am convinced this channel hates Millennials.
They're still telling us Gen X-ers that we need to "wait our turn." Like, we're retirement age ourselves, now, Grandpa, go play more golf and let us create a viable world for the rest of us.
If I had to point to one major social issue negatively impacting the world, it's the way Boomers have largely broken the social contract with upcoming generations. There used to be an acknowledged point at which the older generations retired and transitioned power to the next generations, but Boomers have largely refused to transition the power. They don't even seem to be mentoring younger generations in the same way. They just refuse to pass the torch and it's hurting everyone because it means we're stuck with all of their antiquated beliefs and values even as younger generations would like to make changes (in the same way the Boomers once got to do).
The boomers are the real MeMeMe generation that ruined everything for the rest of us. They cannot let go of anything and refuse to give others a chance.
At this point in my life, what you said is 100% true. My parents were deadbeats and divorced. Both died from self-inflicted illnesses. Alcoholism and obesity. So they left me. I'm an Iraq war veteran, and you know how we're doing. My life is ruined and I'm only 36. Yet fucking boomers tell me " oh your still a kid you'll be fine." Goddamm man can you just try to sympathize with us? Just a little?
1987 here. Crappy jobs all my life. Never financially stable. Boomers bullying me at home, at school, at job. Roommate until COVID, lost job and back to parents house. No friends, no boyfriend, little emotion about the future.
I don't mean to speak for anyone else out there. Having said that, as a millenial i'm so tired of having to keep struggling to get more degrees, more certifications and more languages to get nothing in return but empty speaches of "family at the office" and coupons or bonuses instead of actual raises. I wanted to focus on art, philosophy and making the world a better place and I still do what i can, probably always will, but trying to get a freaking house before i'm 95 and trying not to get a severance package for a fifth time from a corporation takes A LOT of my energy. I don't think things are going to get better in terms of economics for my generation, i honestly think it's too late for us but we can try to guide Gen Z through the mess that boomers left us and that Gen X failed to recognized and change. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a pesimist at all, but we have been getting hit with wave after wave of crap since the 2000's worlwide and it's going to take a long time for stuff to get better. So thank you for recognizing that, even with the crappy hand we got, we still push to make things better.
Spot on. I too do my best to keep my head up and it's heartbreaking to even imagine what some who just aren't strong enough or have other burdens and didn't or won't make it to even worry about it anymore, let alone recover.
@@jasonlara1943 i have a degree in Art history and management, a post graduated course in project management, I'm a transformational coach, i speak 4 languages and have been working for 15 years in some of the largest corporations in the world, i think that should be enough... having said that, it's never too late to learn something new
I think most of Gen X noticed (Millennial here), but they didn't have anywhere near the voting power than Boomers have. Boomers were the largest generation in history. They greatly outnumbered Xers. It's a big reason why the financial laws changed so much as they aged to always benefit them.
I think the systemic problem of setting unrealistic expectations on future generations due deprivation in previous generations is also to blame. Not every generation is made for a high-pressure society.
I'm 40 and I'm doing just okay. Could be a heck of a lot better though. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never own a home unless an older relative leaves it to me in their will, and I never wanted kids anyway so that's a non-issue for me. But I still live paycheck to paycheck and have almost nothing in savings, just like how it was in my early 20's, and I wonder what sort of future I'll have for sure. All I can really do is take life one day at a time and do my best to adapt to the circumstances.
I can totally relate. I'm 31, divorced already, putting myself through college, 1 class at a time. All I ever wanted was a college degree, but I wonder what it's gonna do for me when I eventually get it, if I ever get it.
@@pinksakura27 I have one (art school) and it doesn't get me anywhere. lol I am doing art full time but I'm self-employed freelance, not really using that fancy piece of paper for it.
I mean if it aint people in the previous and next gen talking shit about us for just existing, its something borderline depressing about how we’re doomed.
I was born in 1993 so I’m in a weird middle where I did grow up with 90s stuff but it was up till kindergarten. So most of my preteen and teen years was in the 2000s.
I was born in '83. I was able to go to college before student loans went insane, thus were able to pay them off (cancel them shits anyways). Single, no children, a cheapish condo I was only able to afford because I bought it in '10, a job with a salary over 80K, cc debt under $10K, a paid off car (bought in '07) and one whole bitcoin. And I wouldn't be surprised if I was doing better than most other millennials.
I have a similar story. But I’m an immigrant married with children. I was always a little early before a collapse or houses skyrocketing. I’ve been an early adopter and a late bloomer ( early into social media/crypto and late to having a cellphone at 27). I’m in no way balling but when I look around my life is a rare one. Even my neighbours are boomers and their kids had to move back. And they all make great money.
I'm a younger millennial (26) and just feel powerless and hopeless. I don't expect much and am still disappointed. It's hard not to feel jaded about everything going on around the world.
I feel you Brittny, but I promise you, it will get better when you hit your 30s. All of the things that you couldn't figure out was holding you back, you will be able to understand it more. I felt the same way at 26. Now, in my 30s, it's still hard, but I can cope and I understand myself better than I ever did before. Let go of a lot of toxic elements in my life and sought some professional assistance. It's all good girl. You got this.
I'm among the oldest of elder millenials (b. 1980) and I feel that I was lucky enough to just barely escape the worst of the downturn while still being significantly impacted. I graduated a few years before the recession and was able to work a couple of years at a job before I was let go in 2009. This gave me some experience to work with in finding a job, but not enough for what the employers were looking for. I limped along for awhile with temp jobs before I was able to find something permanent, although I was overqualified for the job. I still have that job to this day. I could make more money somewhere else, but the benefits and flexibility are good and the job market of 2009 scarred me so much that I dread the process of looking for a job. Meanwhile, my husband (who is a few years older than I am and has the same degree) kept his job in the rececession and makes a lot more than I do now. People a few years younger than me, though? They had zero job experience going into it and fared much worse. Our experiences at the start of our careers significantly impact how much money we will ultimately make and our outlook going forward. So, yes, while elder millenials have recovered to an extent, the scars of the recession will remain with us for life.
Anything on us young millennials? I was born in 1996 and often i just feel detached from all the generational squabbling of old millennials and gen z. Even remember cassette/VHS tapes and school shootings/climate change issues being every few years, not days.
I feel like much of the sentiment of this video applies to us aswell but be curious to see what shows films are used to represent us I cant really think of many examples tbh
Yeah the whole "gen z vs. millennial" stuff is so stupid. Who decided that 1997 started a new generation? Like we GREW up with with those people and we were ALL called millennials until like 2018.
As a gen z I’ve always been fascinated by my millennial siblings and their friends. I feel like they went through so much and without them my generation would be less empathetic
Most of my friends same age as me (1995/1996) we are all mainly still living with our parents only because its nearly impossible to study and work at the same time. I moved states because the housing market was ridiculous. And if you want to get a proper job after studying they need about a year of experience and yet how are you meant to get that if no one gives you the opportunity? Anyway, money isn't everything. I am just going to work as much as I can while enjoying life and not stress too much. Its no use stressing over the state of the world. I've carried the burden of living up to society's standards of going to university keeping up with the workload, drowning in loans and if you don't make it you've failed life. Study isn't for me, I never liked school because of the terrible schools I went to. So I'm not going to feel that way any more. I haven't failed life like the teachers said we would and I'm happy not feeling anxious and drowning in study. The workload uni gives my friends is honestly ridiculous.
I sometimes think the older generation gets off on our misfortune at times. To them the more stagnant we appear to be, the more they get to revel in the “good ol days” and not feel threatened of being replaced or reminded that their time is about to be up. For instance, my mom will tell me of her desires for me but in the same breath question if that very same thing is what I need to do. For example, Her: You should buy a house bc you are wasting money on renting Me: Hey I’m going to go look at houses Her: well is that something you should be focused on right now?
I just turned 30 last month. I don't feel so nihilistic as I did in my earlier 20s. I'm just going with the flow now. I focus on what I can control and let the chips fall wherever.
Dear "The Take", you forgot the climate change anxiety.😭
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As a millennial who just entered the 30s, I feel like I'll be OK at the end. And no, no one entitled me to think that everything was out there for me to take. I always had it the hard way, and I think that made me quite resilient.
@@mitcharendt2253 Which is also bullshit. I know loads of people who's parents are lifetime renters, unemployed, or who sold their houses to support their own parents. It's a myth, you know? These videos tend to be talking about the 0.1% of millennials.
As another millennial who has entered the 30s, I agree with this. Sure, things were tough and exhausting, but we have shown that we can adapt and survive
I'm 28, born and raised in Brazil. When I was a kid, the economy was stabilizing, the world looks promissing, I grew up very optimistic. When I just finished school and started college, my country became politicaly and economicaly unstable and things just get worst - like VERY WORST - to this day (except for the rich lol). No jobs (or underpaid), political polarization, increase in extreme poverty and hunger, violence, inflation, pandemic with a denialist psychopath president was the cherry on top. Even the basic things became luxury. So I just enter the adulthood in a broken country and a broken world. I can't avoid being sad and hopeless.
Yeah. As a 1982 baby, never thought the boomers would push to make facsim in America a strong possibility while generation zombie stumbles along trying to be RUclips stars. Phucked from the day we became adults.... we're resilient. That's true. ... and we're going to need it. The worst is yet to come
Being elder millennial has been depressing lmao. I’m surprised no mention of 9/11, the war, veterans and ptsd. The country went from being a lot more lax to on alert, rightly so. For a little bit there tho everyone came together, like we were all on the same team as cheesy as that sounds. Also, GenX likes to say they were the last generation to have lived with playing outside until dark and not having cellphones and stuff. We didn’t either. We had to entertain ourselves. I got my first cell at 19 and it was only for talking. No internet or texting. I just hope the kids below us know that we would never treat them as badly as boomers have us. Literally everyone I know is in therapy hahaha
Yea and when Gen Z talk about cell phones they always mean smartphones! I have to say a dumb phone when I’m talking to younger people about cell phones. Got my first one at 16, almost 17, and my first smartphone at 24.
It’s like I have to constantly keep a chart describing generations for ACTUAL millennials (and mostly boomers) to stop using the word ‘Millennial’ in a derogatory context.
Older Millenial here, 1985. Maybe it is just a symptom of my being an OM or maybe even because i feel more like Gen X, BUT.... I don't remember this recession in 2008 that you speak of. I got married to my first husband that year and I was pregnant for most of the year. My eldest son was born in March of the next year. Sure, we didn't have TV, but we didn't CARE about having TV. We only had one minimum wage job between us with food stamps, so maybe that is another reason I didn't see it. We were already poor. 🤷♀️
I do not understand the generational theory in general, seems like modernist metanarrative seeking to me. People are affected by their immediate environment much much more so than whatever "mass culture movements" affecting them, often marginally
Boomers told us all we would need is to work hard like our parents. Yet we’ve done just that, carved out careers but get screwed over in the workplace with stagnant salaries, boomer ceos who won’t retire - and are also now dealing with Gen Zers coming up, who consider themselves Senior after about 1 year of work experience. Our boomer parents had paid off houses, 2 kids, a pet, family holidays and multiple cars - on one damn wage! We are now dual income households, corporate slaves, designated to a life of mortgage debt or exorbitant rents, even with decent white collar jobs. Never getting ahead of the curve.
Yep, pretty much this. I'll be 30 in four months, so a younger millennial. I've been trapped in retail for 7 years now, have worked two jobs for 5, and have never had a job that doesn't have "assistant" in the title. (Never had a good head for figures, which sadly you need for all the high-paying science and computing jobs.) I don't want a family so raising kids isn't an issue at least (although it's interesting to hear that this is becoming common for my generation), but I do wonder whether I'll ever earn enough to afford my own place or retire. I'm also an only child, so I've got the worry of supporting my parents (now in their 60s) down the line as they age. And that's on top of the wars, economic crisis, pandemic, environmental collapse... all topped off with the guilt of knowing I shouldn't complain because hey, World Wars were worse.
As an elder Millennial we were blamed for anything and everything by those who raised us from ending napkins to not buying a house fast enough while the whole system seemed set up against us as we stepped into the adult world. I'm glad to see the next gen doing better and I hope it continues. We aren't lost. We are here still waiting searching and wanting for better.
10:24 If child care is going to be unaffordable and exploitative, then what’s the point in having children? Also, a lot of people haven’t aspired to be equals in a relationship.
As an older millennial, completely relate to not even identifying as a "millennial" in the first place. Was nearing high school graduation when the turn of the century occurred, and it really had no major impact on my life. Just felt like any other New Year, with no major events, like the much feared and overblown Y2K. Didn’t even hear the term "millennial" till much later, always just considered myself a part of Gen Y, and I still do.
What's often overlooked in terms of various crisis that economically affected elder mellenials (2008 recession, covid), is also that they by in large made up the majority of those who fought during the longest period of sustained combat operations in US history. Between 2004 and 2012 myself, a family member, or a close friend was deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan and in the end were left with nothing to show for it other than the trite "thank you for your service." That kind of experience will definitely leave you feeling adrift in society as you approach middle age.
The millennial generation as a whole got shafted repeatedly. There are some differences between older and younger millennials, but regardless we belong to the same generation that is really in a position to make real changes. We are the first true global generation especially going into the late 90s and early 2000s. We lived in many different countries and many had access to internet and cable. We were introduced to different genres of music and an insight into different culture and we bult a respect for others.
i’m gen z and my parents are older millennials and it really is a blessing. my boyfriends parent’s are boomers and my best friends parent’s are gen x and when i compare my parents to theirs, i feel very lucky. they’re socially/politically aware, caring, hardworking and resilient. they might lack emotional availability, but they’re good eggs and they genuinely want me to do better than them. i don’t see that as much in boomer and gen x parents.
I'm so sick of generational "hot takes". analyzing a group of people by their age has become so... useless. overused. Brazilian millennials have much more in common with Brazilian boomers than we have with American millennials, for one. me and my friends don't relate to this at all. none of us got participation trophies.
I was born in 77 but took some time off college and didn’t get my degree til 2005 so I relate to this. Got laid off my finance job in 2009 and wound up on a forklift for 5 years. Been in entry level jobs since graduating. And perpetually looking for a new job.
You realize y'all just brushed over the Gen Xers? Didn't talk about them as a distinct group that have held any sway, but just lumped them in with the Boomers?
Isn't this just how aging works? Every new generation of kids is called selfish and lazy. Until they become adults where they now have the privilege to call the new generation that. This is just. The passage of time.
Can we also recognize the influence of 9/11 and Obama's presidency? 9/11 was the first major trauma we experienced as part of American society (which also happened to be the worst in the nation's history) and ended up being the pawns of its wars. Those who graduated in 2001/2002 (the Elder Millennials) were the first to enlist and our generation continued to enlist and serve. I feel like Boomers completely forget that we fought their war. Then we get Obama elected on hope and promise only to see our political idealism obliterated by political "pragmatism," conservative backlash, and the Trump Administration.
I always had that lingering feeling that something was lost in the cards my generation were dealt. Probably why I have absolute zero nostalgia. I really really needed todays you tube.
Sometimes I think, as a millennial that grew up with a low middle class/poor/uneducated/teen single mom, that I actually ended up being luckier in the long run. A lot of my peers whose parents could afford things like cell phones, computers, vacations etc I think had a very rude awakening once they got into their mid 20s and were already drowning in debt. I never took debt because all I ever heard growing up was about how we’d never get out of it and could barely afford to eat and I knew that if I wanted post secondary that I’d have to pay every penny myself. I got lucky because I didn’t go to college - instead, I stumbled across my calling later on and was able to properly capitalize upon it, debt free. I think we were fed the wrong info of what we were supposed to do with our lives. We were trained that happiness should be the last thing on our minds and then forced into a world that gives us no time to find out how to attain happiness even if we wanted to, so it’s no wonder so many are depressed. I’m sorry for all of my generation who were told the wrong ways to go about life. It’s not too late to find happiness though. It’s out there. It’s just lurking in ways you’ve gotta think way outside the box to see sometimes. I think it’s about time we started to reprioritize happiness without feeling guilt tripped about it by society. It’s no way to go through life just drowning in debt and unhappiness.
Man, this hit home. As a millennial who will be 35 this year (2023), watching this made me realize what a limbo age one's 30s are and how that's rarely talked about. We're still young enough to hear, "You've got your whole life ahead of you! You can change the world, and the responsibility to do so is on your shoulders." And yet, if by our 30s, if we still haven't reached societal expectations of "getting a real job" or "settling down", we're accused by older generations of trying to cling on to our youth and expecting to be handed our Starbucks and avocado toast. It's weird, confining, and belittling.
Elder Millenial here. I am haven't gone anywhere, I am just busy raising three children and working full time, and still paying off student loans. 40 this year!
As an elder millennial myself, born in (1986) my peers and I consider our self-more of a (Xennial, 1978 to 1983 and some say to 1985) We have nothing in common with younger millennials, but we are more in common with people being born in the early 1980s, which includes (while growing up) common interest in TV shows, music, movies, culture, fashion, politics and so on. If you are a older millennial, born around the early to mid 1980s, look up the generation (Xennial)
9/11 happened my junior year in high school, remember watching it live on CNN that day. Everyone remembers the "great recession" in 09 with the housing market collapse, but few people seem to remember there was a major economic slowdown in 2005. This happened right around the time I was in the back half of my bachelor's degree and because the fed raised the interest rates my Pell grant and other govt money to go to college didn't cover classes anymore so i had to drop out and try to find a job in a significantly down turn projected economy. I'm 38 now with not a lot of prospects, my parents died in their 70's within the last 10 years. The baby boomers have lived too long and held onto power too long, they are choking us all to death.
I just turned 30 last month. The only thing I'm kinda mad about is the housing market - other than that, I'm doing fine! Not having kids probably helps in not feeling too bad about myself and the future of society more generally.
What is certainly true is that we are generation with less adquisitive power. Elders could buy houses, cars, etc, etc... Nowadays it's harder to accomplish
Very enlightening. There is a bit of an unwarranted sympathy but I am glad to know that this sense of failure and aimlessness isn't a "me" problem only. It gives me comfort to know that as an elder millenial I can blame some of my personal failures on the different financial crisis and the gens before and after.
I'm an elder millennial. It's been weird. One of the things I'm realizing is that my life can't work like my parents'. It's interesting watching the younger generations coming into their own. I'm like wow, those kids are all grown up now and they're so awesome. Make life the best you can, peeps.
As time moves on and we experience exponential progress more rapidly, I think generations will begin to compress together with fewer differences between them. People are still hanging on to the old ways of major generational identities and divides. Consider what will happen as we age slower and perhaps end aging all together!
My daughter is 45, a Social Worker who worked for Domestic Violence and CPS she had gotten everywhere she wanted and has helped so many woman, and children, im so very proud of her and gave her life in 1976 when other women were having abortions i knew i could never do that, My daughter is the best person that could have happened to me. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤❤❤ 😊🎉
I was the typical millenial. 38yo, drowning in debt, and with no way out in sight. Then, during the pandemic, I discovered Dave Ramsey! I got fired up, started working as much OT as I could, got as many side hustles as I could get. The result is that come November I'll be debt free! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! And with no debt payments I did the math and I'll be able to save for a 20% downpayment on a $300K house in 18 months! Dave may be a Christian and I an Atheist but you can never cast doubt on the wisdom of the ancients!!!
We're tired. That's all. So many of Gen Z will never have a real adolescence. They've had to grow up so fast and it's a shame. Even though we were blamed for every economic downtern under the sun at least we got to shrug it off a bit. Gen Zers are going straight from high school to the job market because their parents can't afford to pay their own bills. Every kid I have worked with over the past 4 years is working to help their families stay afloat.
I'm Brazilian, and I never realized I left school (graduated in high school) in 2009!!!! Now all the rest makes sense 😂 I'll be 30 this year. I'm not in the elder millennial category, but still...
Search Party is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. I'm a tail-end GenX (like the very last) and I feel for Millenials. Thanks for the content!
Proud Gen Y (1992). I'm 30 years old right now and life has certainly thrown me a curve ball. Sad to say that it took a damn pandemic to climb, but 3 years later here I am working on my doctrine, supervising a PCR site, and working as a corrections officer. It's hard to believe that before everything went to shit that I could ever be so busy, and yet now here I am busting my ass and hopefully ready to achieve one of the basic goals of the American dream, buying a house. My generation has been called lazy, dumb, entitled, worthless, and immature since the moment most of us hit middle school. One would think that those generations that have come before would've learned not to judge, but to nurture those who will be the next to take on the world. I know they too did not have it easy, they had to adapt to change as my generation has been doing and the next generations that have come after us. Every generation has a moment that defines them, and every generation has something that they have contributed that hopefully will benefit others in the future. My generation has inherited quite a big task, but I am sure we will get through it like our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. They were not perfect either, but they sure did their best with what was given to them when their time had come.
'82 elder millennial here! I "saved the world" by anonymously shitposting for the last 20 years. I was anonymous, I was legion, I did not forget, I did not forgive, what did they expect? I will never give you up and I will never let you down. 🍀💚🐸💚🍀
Elder millennial here: The 2008 recession was bad but I feel like we never fully recovered from the 2001 recession. Especially if you grew up in a small town like me.
My husband and I job hunted a few months ago because our 2008-honed recession senses were tingling. Last week, my new company announced a hiring freeze.
I am friends with lots of Milennials, and I agree with most of the sentiments expressed in this video, but as a Gen Xer, I will never not be annoyed at the erasure of my generation. We’re not nearly as big as the boomer gen, but we do exist. We were forgotten as latchkey kids in the 80s and now we’re almost totally ignored by media. Overall though, we do have it pretty good-we are much better off than younger generations, but our kids are definitely never leaving home.
I would say as an elder Millennial the Gen X generation was the first generation to face economic decline and not be better than their parents. The Millennials were the second generation and Gen Z will be the third generation to face economic decline. It just gets worse every generation. I still remember when I graduated in '05 from college that in the south you could live in a 1-bedroom apartment just for 600 a month. Now for a 1 bedroom the price is around 1200-1400 but the wages for entry level jobs haven't changed but factor in higher student loan costs for Gen Z and their situation is worse than Millennials.
Whoa!!! 😮 This video is soooo necessary. Much of our youth optimism was gone after so much tribulation (2008 recession, covid-19, stagnant wages). What little optimism was left in us was used by dishonest people hungry for quick cash grabs. So we do tend towards nihilism. ------------ I am not that good at technology. And my mom used to yell at me saying: “you’re a millenial! Ain’t your generation all tech savvy? You should be billionaire; why aren’t you!?”
This video is true I was born in 1982 I relate more with the Gen X generation. Then I relate with the younger millennials. And I was shocked I was shocked when I looked up what generation I was because I always felt I was Gen x
We had to fight the boomers wars which were all a lie for nearly two decades. This lead to a big awakening for millennials and lead to us discovering that most everything we were told and taught was based on lies. I’m 40 and an elder millennial or xennial depending on who you ask. When it’s our generations turn I hope we learn something and don’t send our children to die for greed, corruption, and power.
I think the "traditional" path still works. Get a partner, marry them (or shack up whatever), work, buy house, have kids. I think the problem is cities. If you live in smaller cities or even towns - the "dream" is still achievable. It's just that the "dream" sort of shifted from a family to this incredible career. And there just isn't enough incredible careers out there. Sometimes...you just get a "job" and get most of your fulfilment from your family. Except families are not desirable anymore - which is so strange to me.
You realize that due to cost of living, in cities, suburbs, and rural areas, is way higher than it used to be, right? People need to care about their careers because that's how they can provide for their family. The housing market is wild right now. Take a look at zillow - the "dream" is way less achievable than it was pre pandemic.
Wish I would have taken that path instead I did years of college (plenty of degrees with the loans to prove it)… and now single with no spouse or kids😔
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Millennials are The New Classic Generation our life experince after 2008 was a horror show but they will be change and it will be for the better
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As an elder millennial, I don't want cultural capital or cache. I just want to do what I like, enjoy my space, and be left alone. Gen Z can have the spotlight we didn't ask for. Go nuts.
Jen I think we have more in common with genx then because I myself and from 81 and I do not feel and never have felt like I'm weak or wanted the spotlight I just want a cabin a garden and a wood stove and a couple arcers.. But I can't even seem to get that in this trash world
Totally. My end goal at this point is to have a location where I can stay comfortable while I fade off into obscurity. Also, high speed internet as I'm not that crazy....
Yup. Millennial here, we didn't want to have all our milestones during generational crises. All my friends and I want is to just have a normal life that no one cares about. No side hustle, no having a steady job that pays ok and still worry about money.
Yes this!!!!
same, us elder millennials really should be classified as gen x
I want nothing to do with "changing the world" (which is just a euphemism for power), I will take care of my family
Elder millennials were in high school and middle school when the Columbine school shooting happened. That kind of massacre was UNHEARD-OF then. I was 15 at the time. On my second day of college at age 18 I woke up to news of 9/11 and the entire world shifted from everything we grew up knowing. At age 23 the housing market collapsed and the world plunged into recession. I lost my job and could find nothing but part-time work for YEARS. I still have not recovered from that and it was almost a decade before I could make more than $15/hour. Now in my late 30's we are entering the 3rd year of a global pandemic the likes of which have not been seen in over a century. Millennialls did not cause any of these problems.
I read articles where boomers rail against millennials demanding more flexible work schedules, remote work and better conditions. They say we are entitled and should stop complaining and pay our dues like they had to. All this while boomer politicians funded by corporations have been working FOR DECADES to erode workers rights and protect corporate profits under the false flag of "job creation." Now there are too many low-paying jobs and not enough people willing to work for nothing while CEO's become billionaires. Give me a break, boomer. All of this was YOUR legacy to the younger generations. Excuse me if I don't want it. That does not make me entitled.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Boomers deserve to have to be inconvenienced by having to wait longer in bars and restaurants because "nobody wants to work" i.e. nobody wants to put up with their shitty, entitled attitudes anymore.
yeah so why do the dumb boomers keep ruining our lives at every turning point for us..
This
I was only 2 yrs out of HS when that happened 😢
I feel like the accusation of narcissism against Millenials was just projection from their truly narcissistic Baby Boomer elders.
Spot on.
Facts!! Also the accusation of entitlement. No generation is more entitled than boomers
This. ALL OF THIS.
Millennials narcissists? Uh, our generation did not spawn the likes of Addison Rae and the D'Amelio brats. They are Zoomers. Your beef is with them.
You are saying what I've been thinking ever since I heard about the stereotypes.
Middle Millennial here. (1989.) To me, a huge reason so many Millennials are unhappy is that we were raised to believe that everything hinges around work. We were all taught that it was supposed to be the most fulfilling, most stimulating, most important part of your life. Anything you're good at, or that you enjoy, you're supposed to turn into work. (See: Side Hustles, monetized RUclips channels, etc. ) We're not supposed to have hobbies. Other generations were taught that work is work, and most work isn't soul satisfying. That's what hobbies and outside interests are for. Soul satisfying jobs don't generally pay the bills, but they never really did. I don't think anyone's grandfather enjoyed selling vacuums door to door. They enjoyed building model ships, or gardening, or volunteering, or whatever. We have to stop expecting work to be the most fulfilling part of life, and choose work that isn't miserable, and allows us to find fulfillment elsewhere. There is so much value in doing things just because they're valuable to you. *Don't turn your passion into a frustrating side hustle because someone told you to open a fucking Etsy store.* You don't have to make money at something for it to be meaningful and important.
If you want to make art, don't take the $12 an hour job that tangentially includes making art in some capacity, where you have to work sixty hours a week. Take the desk job, where you put in eight hours, and leave. Go home and paint. Work doesn't have to be your passion, and it's not a mark of failure that you couldn't turn your passion into gainful employment. (Moreover, you'll be shocked by how much less money you need to spend if you can actually enjoy yourself.)
I completely agree. It’s really messed with our heads because this whole concept started in the 80’s with the yuppies, who happened to be baby boomers. The concept of making a bunch of money at an exciting job turned into a requirement for a good life. It didn’t help that as 90’s kids we grew up in the 3rd best decade, economically speaking, of the 20th century. Many of us saw women who were able to stay home and take care of their kids and not go broke. We were told this is what we should expect.
@@mastersnet18 I feel like the ideas of work culture we were raised with are even more toxic than the Yuppie ethos. Yuppies didn't expect work to be special or meaningful. They just expected to work hard, and climb the corporate ladder even if the work itself wasn't stimulating. There was no expectation of self-actualization through work. If Susan loved gardening, she wouldn't have been constantly harassed about why she was working an office job instead of opening up a florist shop.
If you really want to fuck up a kid for life, feed them the "everyone has that one thing that makes you special" line. It's really disappointing for Zach when he grows up and isn't first chair at Carnegie hall, after being told that violin is his gift. He's going to feel pretty fucking useless when he can't even make it as a music teacher because every grade in every town had a Zach, who was told violin was what made him special. He would have been better off if his parents encouraged him to play just because he enjoyed it, and found it soul nourishing. If it turns into a job, great. If not, that's fine too. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to monetize it.
I can't tell you how many people I know who *hate* the things they used to be passionate about because they were bullied into turning those passions into side hustles. You want to really hate travel? Start making travel vlogs about every trip. You're going to spend the whole trip shooting video, and you're going to have to constantly travel even when you want to spend your week off at home, because algorithms like consistency.
Taking a job that you're not passionate about isn't admitting defeat, you don't have to be exceptional to be happy, and it's okay to do things just because you love them.
100% agree i like money as much as the next person but i realized, early on luckily, that " doing what you're passionate about " will, most likely, lead you too not be passionate about your hobby/ interest anymore. Side hustles are fine if you know that it's only temporary/ just for money
Older millennial here ('82), and I was taught if you were good at something and you enjoyed it, you should pursue it as a career. Remember the saying "love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life"? I heeded that advice and went to college and studied what I was "good at and passionate about". Well, the academic, overanalytical, and formulaic way it was taught in University--coupled with the fact that (much like work) I was "forced" to do it for class--made me wind up _hating_ it and I dropped out of school. So I lost the only thing that I loved and which I had devoted _thousands_ of hours to as a teenager. I've never recovered from that, and I've never had a hobby I truly enjoy as much since. Essentially, the only thing I ever truly loved was destroyed by academia.
@@Bunny-ch2ul Thank you for this and to the comments below. I do just that but I have family and friends saying all that shit about why I didn't pursue a career doing what I was passionate about, and how I would be much happier. I didn't do it because I didn't want it to feel like a burden but to do it just because I love it, but sometimes it hits home and I feel like a loser and a coward, because to be honest, desk work is shitty half of the time; but I get my money and I have my free time to enjoy "my passion", so I guess it's not so bad 😉
Boomers: “Millennials believe if they work hard they can have what the want.”
Millennials: “And who told us that?”
Boomers: “You got too many Participation trophies!”
Millennials: “And who gave them to
us?”
sad thing is it's not enough to work hard; some things are about luck or timing, who you know etc. some ppl are born into wealth
@@oooh19 Agree. Working hard gets you nothing these days!
too much lead in the tap water and gas when boomers were growing up
@@eddie9691 many boomers smoked but it's like well back then society didnt know better. norms change
weird we millennials are seen as lazy though but then hard work is pointless though and we all for the most part graduated with degrees and yet cant find better jobs and are'nt always treated well by bosses or coworkers were expected to jump for them and compromise yet its never good enough for them they still give employees a hard time
At the age of 36, I really appreciate this take. When people talk about "Millenials", I wonder which ones? Older Millenials (Xennials) like myself are VERY different from the younger ones. I do get sick and tired of us being blamed for everything when much of it has been out of our control. I don't get the dig about participation trophies (that no millennial asked for), or the fact that we are "lazy, entitled, and still live with our parents". Many millenials like myself DID graduate when the recession started, so how are you going to work with no jobs available? How are you suppose to pay rent with no job and massive student loan debt? I'm fortunate that my parents helped me with college costs, but the vast majority were not that lucky.
It does annoy many like me that the generation that seems to shit on us the most (Boomers) are also the reason we are in this mess. There is a lot of grief over how we were raised "spoiled and entitled", yet Boomers seem to forget that THEY were the ones that raised us (for the most part). Still, I do enjoy having conversations like these with my own parents, who are Baby Boomers. They can see that it isn't all on us. Are some millennials lazy, spoiled, and entitled? Of course. There are people like that in every generation. While our generations have come up in very different circumstances (ie. my parents had to deal with racial segregation), we enjoy learning about each other and we do find common ground.
Xenniels starts in 1983 you’re full millennial
There seems to be quite a range from the youngest Generation Z to oldest Millennials since I'm Get Z and my parents are Millennials
Participation trophies are not original to Millennial, and more a US phenomenon. Also, nobody blamed me ever or my cohort for anything novel, so no idea where this is coming from.
@Halloween All Year Round Your country sounds like mine in some ways.
Ive never heard this millennials blamed for everything position? Whose blaming us? I thought the world is in consensus that Boomers and Gen X's paved the way for the current climate. A generation cant be blamed for its own circumstances they predate our arrival to a position of consequence.
Millennials are the Prince Charles of the generations. By the time they take the throne, it'll be too late to really do anything and will have to pass the baton almost as soon as they got it.
Omg This is the best comment I’ve ever seen
Ooohh this is good. Though to be fair gen x didn't really get the baton either. Just boomers just tightly controlling everything and everyone.
Lmao 🤣 omg you're right...
WOW! This is a very underrated comment! This needs a LOT more likes!
OMG that’s literally our biggest generational curse. We didn’t know how to be adults until suddenly BAM we were labeled as old. Never actually had the chance to be adults, it’s like we skipped that part of our lives.
When I was in middle school Columbine happened and suddenly school wasn't safe anymore. In fact the adults were now scared of us. When I was in high school 9/11 happened and the entire country wasn't safe anymore. I watch the towers fall while in social studies class learning about how America is an inspiration to everyone. I graduated high school when the Iraq war began and some guys I graduated with went in the army and right into the war. It was also around this time that I realized the government will actively lie to you for their own profit. I graduated college in 2008, just in time to not be able to get a job. I was told all my life how important a career and financial independence was to be an adult and then it was like adulthood was closed off to us. All while we were being told how spoiled and entitled we were. Everything we were promised turned out to be a lie.
That’s why I say - f it,
I’m getting avocado toast.
Yes to all of this. And then when I turned 30, and I was FINALLY just starting to get my life together, the pandemic hit and suddenly the entire WORLD wasn’t safe anymore. We had nowhere left to run. And everyone hated us simply for the time we were born. It’s a lonely and sad life being a millennial. 💔
I was also in jr. high during Columbine and sat and watched 9/11 LIVE during study hall (and the rest of the day). I remember my elementary school teacher telling us that there had been a bombing in OK when we got back from either Specials or Recess (where we were coming back from is a bit fuzzy but I know we came from somewhere because we all came in and our teacher told us to all sit down quietly because he had something really important he had to say and we all did it immediately due to the look on his face) but that was before there were TVs in classrooms so he heard it from the teachers lounge and let us know bc they weren't sure if they were going to send us home since we lived in a metro area and a lot of our parents worked in a city and at first they were thinking of evacuating federal buildings. I remember getting home and my dad's office had let them leave and I told him the second I got off the bus and he said he knew and that's why he was home and had the TV on and I actually got to see it happen (replayed). I remember watching the Rodney King riots. I remember the OJ case very well and talking about heavily with my classmates at the lunch table along with the car chase...these are moments that I remember so well, maybe some moments when my grandchildren or grandnieces/nephews will ask me "where I was when..." or "what I remember" like we did when we had and asked our parents "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" I also remember my sister teasing me because I kept calling the Soviet Union the "Soviet Reunion"; We watched crayons get made on Mr. Rogers and by time Barney was on T.V. we were in school and maybe our younger siblings watched it because they were still in pre-school. My first game console was the NES and even though I was little, my sister taught me how to aim the gun just right to hit the ducks--later on I would become Platinum in Link's Crossbow Training (I owe it to her and that game); Battletoads became our original "Smash Brothers" when we realized our characters could beat each other up. When the SNES came out, I was the first kid on the street to beat the game and had to go over to each other the other kids' houses and show them how to beat Bowser. Our family "road trips" consisted of an etch-a-sketch, coloring books and crayons, a gameboy split between 3 kids (useless once it got dark) and a cooler between the seats with cups, ice, and Coke (bottled water wasn't really a thing yet and no one in my family drank pop except for Coke/Diet Coke), we played "car games" and talked/joked around like a family and angry dialogue btw parents in the front seat over reading the map is forever remembered by me and my siblings, we didn't even have MapQuest yet (Mom still can't read a map and Dad refuses to use a GPS)
I'm glad 99 was my senior year since that's when it all began. Can't imagine going to school now with these shootings.
@@whenfatkillsfat803 I can't imagine going to school with cell phones/iPhones...when we were teens, our peers could bully us with rumors, now peers have proof/evidence due to iPhones and with just a few swipes, the whole school can know
As a Gen z person I do like millennials. They normalised so much and made a more empathetic society. Of course not all but they started a lot of important conversations and try to end a lot of cultural and generational curses. I also feel like they are more friendly to gent zs than boomers were to them.
You're our kid siblings and even if we don't always get it right, I think most of us just hope and wish that you all could have/could have had an easier entry into adulthood than we did. It sucks & has sucked for us, and in a lot of ways it sucks even worse for you all. It feels like we're watching what happened to us continue to happen, but in an even bleaker way because of the simultaneous constant connection and isolation of living so much of our lives online. sigh. I've still got my fingers crossed that shit changes for your generation and that millennials can catch a fucking break, too. 💜
You're welcome xD You'll never know the amount of toxic waste we had to buffer for the current conversations to even be possible
We try to show kindness and encouragement since boomers crapped on us
Thanks
Aww thanks for the appreciation. I've seen some Gen Zs on TikTok making fun of us so it's nice to know some of you out there have some appreciation. I feel like we have more in common with you guys than any other generation.
Gather around youngsters. As THE eldest millennial (born in 81’), I can tell you that adulting is hard af, NO ONE has the answers, and we all are making it up as we go. No matter what your age is, being a human is difficult.
I noticed that too as a younger millennial. Most people have no idea what they are doing or what's going on. Fake it till you make it
Being born in ‘82, the thing that most annoys me is being labeled as a millennial while the attributes assigned to me reflect the most recent generations.
I was at bar and talking to a younger millennial and they realized in just a few short years they were not going to be young and it scared the crap out of him.
kind of weird since our society is controlled by humans.. or are we really the pets of aliens making our life difficult?
It's easy if you take it slowly - rent not own, no kids, sports, healthy food and habits. '82
I was born in 1993, so I’m not an Elder Millennial, but I really wish the Millennial and Gen Z generations stopped trying to one up each other in terms of how much harder life is for them. Both of our generations are all dealing with the consequences and selfishness of the Boomers. We are all dealing with circumstances outside of our control. We need compassion and understanding for one another.
why do millenials hate boomers? genuinely asking
@@gabigabigabi123 their policies have screwed us over.
99% of Millennials have more in common with 99% of Gen-Zers than they have with the other 1% of either generation.
@@malleyne2004 We Gen-Xers were hating Boomers while you Millennials were busy watching Barney.
@@gabigabigabi123 In addition to their political policies of deregulation screwing both gen z and millennials over, they refuse to see that the American Dream and the middle class is gone and say we need to put down the avocado toast if we want to buy a house because they still think that a bartender can support a family of 4 and go on vacation and save for retirement because that was true in pre-Reagan America. More than any generation, they're most in need of a software update, and they'll die out before that happens.
And what bothers me is that older people are still the ones who vote and who are listened to politically; most people who show up to city council meetings are retired old folks who have the time and instead of understanding that the world has changed a lot since they were in the workforce, they still vote for horribly deregulating policies because they don't want to pay taxes in their final years and leave young people to pick up the tab. They're the equivalent of someone who throws a lit cigarette out as they're leaving a park.
The "Millennials" remind me of my own generation - Gen X.We, too, graduated at a time in which jobs were scare, inflation was rampant, and financial security seemed a pipe dream, assured that Social Security would be a distant memory and we'd never be able to retire. We, too, were characterized as "lost" - the latchkey kids of working moms and/or divorced parents who basically raised ourselves, and were thus self-centered, and self-reliant as well as indifferent and grasping. We were born before the internet existed, still used computers at school and work when tech was in its infancy, and a lot of us discovered the social media double-edged sword soon enough that we personally escaped becoming dependent on it, even as the world around us did. I'm old enough (57) to remember when you applied for jobs *In Person*, and didn't have to wonder if you were being "ghosted" (i.e. ignored) by a company's HR or if Indeed or other job "application" filter programs ever sent your application in to the company in the first place. We, too, put off marriage and raising families (and having fewer kids when we did) for economic reasons, and have the highest debt burden of any American generation. I guess the point of this is that the economy runs in cycles, and we (Millennials and Gen Xers) happened to come to adulthood at the low point of each cycle. Barring the U.S. falling into fascism, this is likely to continue. We weren't lucky, but sometimes you can make your own luck. We've done and *will* do our best to make lemonade out of the lemons we've been handed, and work to make things better for our children if we can.
"falling into fascism" happened a long time ago, dear. And the lemons have dried on the branches.
@@BluetheRaccoon I disagree. We have definitely already fallen into oligarchy, but that is not the same as fascism. There are certain segments of our population, however, who are trying their damnedest to get us there. Resist.
@@reneeladouceur Yep. And now we're appreciated as having good work-life balance. Go figure 😂
You are right about the cycles (im an economist).
If there’s anything new, it’s the constant media declarations and handwringing about the current hardships. I hate this “lost” generation stuff over economics. The lost generation of the 20th century applies to young European men dying and being maimed by the millions in a bloody, intractable war. Hardly comparable.
To anyone born in the early 2000s, I wish you all the best of luck and more. You get 3 years to be an adult, then you get a lifetime labeled as geriatric.
Live a good life.
Be good to yourself, and each other.
I know. This is stupid, and the take ought to be ashamed of themselves. The take has done videos on Boomers and Gen X, and they have NEVER referred to the people born in the early part of that generation as "elderly, geriatric, senior," etc. But early Millennials are all of a sudden geriatric. The oldest Millennial is in their early 40. Aging, but nowhere near "geriatric." I am convinced this channel hates Millennials.
Every generation since the boomers seems like a lost generation
They're still telling us Gen X-ers that we need to "wait our turn." Like, we're retirement age ourselves, now, Grandpa, go play more golf and let us create a viable world for the rest of us.
If I had to point to one major social issue negatively impacting the world, it's the way Boomers have largely broken the social contract with upcoming generations. There used to be an acknowledged point at which the older generations retired and transitioned power to the next generations, but Boomers have largely refused to transition the power. They don't even seem to be mentoring younger generations in the same way. They just refuse to pass the torch and it's hurting everyone because it means we're stuck with all of their antiquated beliefs and values even as younger generations would like to make changes (in the same way the Boomers once got to do).
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The boomers are the real MeMeMe generation that ruined everything for the rest of us. They cannot let go of anything and refuse to give others a chance.
The Boomers *%cked all of us over . 3 gens destroyed.
"Will millennials be okay?"
No. No we fucking won't be, dear lord, somebody either save us or kill us, we'll take either at this point.
I like this comment the best.
This is the comment that needs to be pinned.
hah, you're not wrong
At this point in my life, what you said is 100% true. My parents were deadbeats and divorced. Both died from self-inflicted illnesses. Alcoholism and obesity. So they left me. I'm an Iraq war veteran, and you know how we're doing. My life is ruined and I'm only 36. Yet fucking boomers tell me " oh your still a kid you'll be fine." Goddamm man can you just try to sympathize with us? Just a little?
I am more optimistic. You shouldn't give up there
1987 here. Crappy jobs all my life. Never financially stable. Boomers bullying me at home, at school, at job. Roommate until COVID, lost job and back to parents house. No friends, no boyfriend, little emotion about the future.
I don't mean to speak for anyone else out there. Having said that, as a millenial i'm so tired of having to keep struggling to get more degrees, more certifications and more languages to get nothing in return but empty speaches of "family at the office" and coupons or bonuses instead of actual raises.
I wanted to focus on art, philosophy and making the world a better place and I still do what i can, probably always will, but trying to get a freaking house before i'm 95 and trying not to get a severance package for a fifth time from a corporation takes A LOT of my energy.
I don't think things are going to get better in terms of economics for my generation, i honestly think it's too late for us but we can try to guide Gen Z through the mess that boomers left us and that Gen X failed to recognized and change.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a pesimist at all, but we have been getting hit with wave after wave of crap since the 2000's worlwide and it's going to take a long time for stuff to get better. So thank you for recognizing that, even with the crappy hand we got, we still push to make things better.
well prices keep increasing so much recently. like i went somewhere recently and they wanted $5 for a single cookie! really!
Spot on. I too do my best to keep my head up and it's heartbreaking to even imagine what some who just aren't strong enough or have other burdens and didn't or won't make it to even worry about it anymore, let alone recover.
maybe you should have learned a trade and joined a union. pay raises befits retirement bets the hell out of having degrees with no job.
@@jasonlara1943 i have a degree in Art history and management, a post graduated course in project management, I'm a transformational coach, i speak 4 languages and have been working for 15 years in some of the largest corporations in the world, i think that should be enough... having said that, it's never too late to learn something new
I think most of Gen X noticed (Millennial here), but they didn't have anywhere near the voting power than Boomers have. Boomers were the largest generation in history. They greatly outnumbered Xers. It's a big reason why the financial laws changed so much as they aged to always benefit them.
I think the systemic problem of setting unrealistic expectations on future generations due deprivation in previous generations is also to blame. Not every generation is made for a high-pressure society.
I’m a 35 y/o black male millennial from NC and I feel this country overlooked us
I disagree. They mostly disrespected us.
Virtual hug! And solidarity always.
I'm 40 and I'm doing just okay. Could be a heck of a lot better though. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never own a home unless an older relative leaves it to me in their will, and I never wanted kids anyway so that's a non-issue for me. But I still live paycheck to paycheck and have almost nothing in savings, just like how it was in my early 20's, and I wonder what sort of future I'll have for sure. All I can really do is take life one day at a time and do my best to adapt to the circumstances.
I can totally relate. I'm 31, divorced already, putting myself through college, 1 class at a time. All I ever wanted was a college degree, but I wonder what it's gonna do for me when I eventually get it, if I ever get it.
@@pinksakura27 I have one (art school) and it doesn't get me anywhere. lol I am doing art full time but I'm self-employed freelance, not really using that fancy piece of paper for it.
Thats me and my husband too, we are all in same boat unless we have rich parents.
Ditto. Not having anything gives a sense of relief and freedom though :) Stability is for previous generations.
I've never even owned a pet due to renting etc. - total detachment rules! :o)
I mean if it aint people in the previous and next gen talking shit about us for just existing, its something borderline depressing about how we’re doomed.
I was born in 1993 so I’m in a weird middle where I did grow up with 90s stuff but it was up till kindergarten. So most of my preteen and teen years was in the 2000s.
Same with me but I was born in October 1991. I was 8 during the millennium.
Same! ‘91 baby. My bf relates too since he was born in ‘93 too
Born in November 1993! Feel the same way too
Agreed. Born 6/16/94.
Born in 1990. Right there at the Turn of the Century. I was 10 by the end of the decade.
I was born in '83. I was able to go to college before student loans went insane, thus were able to pay them off (cancel them shits anyways). Single, no children, a cheapish condo I was only able to afford because I bought it in '10, a job with a salary over 80K, cc debt under $10K, a paid off car (bought in '07) and one whole bitcoin.
And I wouldn't be surprised if I was doing better than most other millennials.
You are lol. Congrats my dude! ^.^
You’re definitely doing a LOT better than most older millennials
You are 😭😭😭😭
I have a similar story. But I’m an immigrant married with children. I was always a little early before a collapse or houses skyrocketing. I’ve been an early adopter and a late bloomer ( early into social media/crypto and late to having a cellphone at 27). I’m in no way balling but when I look around my life is a rare one. Even my neighbours are boomers and their kids had to move back. And they all make great money.
We need the correspondent Younger Millennial video too lol.
At times I feel we’re as obscured from the conversation as Gen X’ers.
As a younger millennial, job is not even my major concern because talking about nukes would be so much more epic.
I've never seen a better representation of my generation. This was so depressive to hear. Thank you
I'm a younger millennial (26) and just feel powerless and hopeless. I don't expect much and am still disappointed. It's hard not to feel jaded about everything going on around the world.
I feel you Brittny, but I promise you, it will get better when you hit your 30s. All of the things that you couldn't figure out was holding you back, you will be able to understand it more. I felt the same way at 26. Now, in my 30s, it's still hard, but I can cope and I understand myself better than I ever did before. Let go of a lot of toxic elements in my life and sought some professional assistance. It's all good girl. You got this.
I'm among the oldest of elder millenials (b. 1980) and I feel that I was lucky enough to just barely escape the worst of the downturn while still being significantly impacted. I graduated a few years before the recession and was able to work a couple of years at a job before I was let go in 2009. This gave me some experience to work with in finding a job, but not enough for what the employers were looking for. I limped along for awhile with temp jobs before I was able to find something permanent, although I was overqualified for the job. I still have that job to this day. I could make more money somewhere else, but the benefits and flexibility are good and the job market of 2009 scarred me so much that I dread the process of looking for a job. Meanwhile, my husband (who is a few years older than I am and has the same degree) kept his job in the rececession and makes a lot more than I do now. People a few years younger than me, though? They had zero job experience going into it and fared much worse. Our experiences at the start of our careers significantly impact how much money we will ultimately make and our outlook going forward. So, yes, while elder millenials have recovered to an extent, the scars of the recession will remain with us for life.
Anything on us young millennials? I was born in 1996 and often i just feel detached from all the generational squabbling of old millennials and gen z. Even remember cassette/VHS tapes and school shootings/climate change issues being every few years, not days.
Yup! Climate Change is something that gives me more anxiety than others.😪
I feel like much of the sentiment of this video applies to us aswell but be curious to see what shows films are used to represent us I cant really think of many examples tbh
yea it's sooooo sad how children cant even feel safe going to school!
Yeah the whole "gen z vs. millennial" stuff is so stupid. Who decided that 1997 started a new generation? Like we GREW up with with those people and we were ALL called millennials until like 2018.
@@fuosdi64 1 of my friends complained that Gen Z made skinny jeans "out" but when we millennials were growing up, flares and bootcuts were popular.
As a gen z I’ve always been fascinated by my millennial siblings and their friends. I feel like they went through so much and without them my generation would be less empathetic
You mean that?
Thank you! Me Born in 81. Gay and from effin Puerto Rico. lol shoot me now, we used to have electricity.
Most of my friends same age as me (1995/1996) we are all mainly still living with our parents only because its nearly impossible to study and work at the same time. I moved states because the housing market was ridiculous.
And if you want to get a proper job after studying they need about a year of experience and yet how are you meant to get that if no one gives you the opportunity?
Anyway, money isn't everything. I am just going to work as much as I can while enjoying life and not stress too much. Its no use stressing over the state of the world. I've carried the burden of living up to society's standards of going to university keeping up with the workload, drowning in loans and if you don't make it you've failed life.
Study isn't for me, I never liked school because of the terrible schools I went to. So I'm not going to feel that way any more. I haven't failed life like the teachers said we would and I'm happy not feeling anxious and drowning in study. The workload uni gives my friends is honestly ridiculous.
I sometimes think the older generation gets off on our misfortune at times. To them the more stagnant we appear to be, the more they get to revel in the “good ol days” and not feel threatened of being replaced or reminded that their time is about to be up. For instance, my mom will tell me of her desires for me but in the same breath question if that very same thing is what I need to do. For example,
Her: You should buy a house bc you are wasting money on renting
Me: Hey I’m going to go look at houses
Her: well is that something you should be focused on right now?
Wow omg yes i totally relate my parents are the same way its like they are jealous or something
I just turned 30 last month. I don't feel so nihilistic as I did in my earlier 20s. I'm just going with the flow now. I focus on what I can control and let the chips fall wherever.
yes, agree
I’m 42 making me that little pocket group of 77-83 that can be put as Gen X or Millennial. We literally get the worst of both generations.
Dear "The Take", you forgot the climate change anxiety.😭
As a millennial who just entered the 30s, I feel like I'll be OK at the end. And no, no one entitled me to think that everything was out there for me to take. I always had it the hard way, and I think that made me quite resilient.
Yes! Same here. Just turned 30 and I feel the same way, it'll be difficult, but definitely feel like when things are said and done, I'll be alright.
I hate the way people act like everyone bloody told us we'd be 'handed everything'.
@@kp361 I think it comes from an assumption of inter generational wealth at the least. A wrong idea that keeps hurting us.
@@mitcharendt2253 Which is also bullshit. I know loads of people who's parents are lifetime renters, unemployed, or who sold their houses to support their own parents. It's a myth, you know? These videos tend to be talking about the 0.1% of millennials.
As another millennial who has entered the 30s, I agree with this. Sure, things were tough and exhausting, but we have shown that we can adapt and survive
I'm a elder millennial and I've watched how things have changed
I'm 28, born and raised in Brazil. When I was a kid, the economy was stabilizing, the world looks promissing, I grew up very optimistic. When I just finished school and started college, my country became politicaly and economicaly unstable and things just get worst - like VERY WORST - to this day (except for the rich lol). No jobs (or underpaid), political polarization, increase in extreme poverty and hunger, violence, inflation, pandemic with a denialist psychopath president was the cherry on top. Even the basic things became luxury.
So I just enter the adulthood in a broken country and a broken world. I can't avoid being sad and hopeless.
Yeah. As a 1982 baby, never thought the boomers would push to make facsim in America a strong possibility while generation zombie stumbles along trying to be RUclips stars. Phucked from the day we became adults.... we're resilient. That's true.
... and we're going to need it. The worst is yet to come
Being elder millennial has been depressing lmao. I’m surprised no mention of 9/11, the war, veterans and ptsd. The country went from being a lot more lax to on alert, rightly so. For a little bit there tho everyone came together, like we were all on the same team as cheesy as that sounds. Also, GenX likes to say they were the last generation to have lived with playing outside until dark and not having cellphones and stuff. We didn’t either. We had to entertain ourselves. I got my first cell at 19 and it was only for talking. No internet or texting. I just hope the kids below us know that we would never treat them as badly as boomers have us. Literally everyone I know is in therapy hahaha
Yea and when Gen Z talk about cell phones they always mean smartphones! I have to say a dumb phone when I’m talking to younger people about cell phones. Got my first one at 16, almost 17, and my first smartphone at 24.
I'm a mid 80s baby, I remember when we were called Gen Y
It’s like I have to constantly keep a chart describing generations for ACTUAL millennials (and mostly boomers) to stop using the word ‘Millennial’ in a derogatory context.
Older Millenial here, 1985. Maybe it is just a symptom of my being an OM or maybe even because i feel more like Gen X, BUT.... I don't remember this recession in 2008 that you speak of. I got married to my first husband that year and I was pregnant for most of the year. My eldest son was born in March of the next year. Sure, we didn't have TV, but we didn't CARE about having TV. We only had one minimum wage job between us with food stamps, so maybe that is another reason I didn't see it. We were already poor. 🤷♀️
I do not understand the generational theory in general, seems like modernist metanarrative seeking to me. People are affected by their immediate environment much much more so than whatever "mass culture movements" affecting them, often marginally
I also hate how divisive it is i hate how millenial is a negative connotation of a spoiled rude generation that refused to grow up
Boomers told us all we would need is to work hard like our parents. Yet we’ve done just that, carved out careers but get screwed over in the workplace with stagnant salaries, boomer ceos who won’t retire - and are also now dealing with Gen Zers coming up, who consider themselves Senior after about 1 year of work experience.
Our boomer parents had paid off houses, 2 kids, a pet, family holidays and multiple cars - on one damn wage!
We are now dual income households, corporate slaves, designated to a life of mortgage debt or exorbitant rents, even with decent white collar jobs. Never getting ahead of the curve.
elder millennial here- I am autistic and have physical disability, and no- we will not be okay.
"Millennials are narcissistic and entitled..."
Oh please, that's Boomer projection.
Yep, pretty much this.
I'll be 30 in four months, so a younger millennial. I've been trapped in retail for 7 years now, have worked two jobs for 5, and have never had a job that doesn't have "assistant" in the title. (Never had a good head for figures, which sadly you need for all the high-paying science and computing jobs.)
I don't want a family so raising kids isn't an issue at least (although it's interesting to hear that this is becoming common for my generation), but I do wonder whether I'll ever earn enough to afford my own place or retire.
I'm also an only child, so I've got the worry of supporting my parents (now in their 60s) down the line as they age.
And that's on top of the wars, economic crisis, pandemic, environmental collapse... all topped off with the guilt of knowing I shouldn't complain because hey, World Wars were worse.
Xennial…. The NERVE of calling us geriatric
Cheer up emo kid
As an elder Millennial we were blamed for anything and everything by those who raised us from ending napkins to not buying a house fast enough while the whole system seemed set up against us as we stepped into the adult world. I'm glad to see the next gen doing better and I hope it continues. We aren't lost. We are here still waiting searching and wanting for better.
We were blamed for ending Applebees.
@@GenerationNextNextNext oh! Didnt know we did that.
have we ending the bloomin onion? As an Aussie I wouldn't mind that one.
10:24 If child care is going to be unaffordable and exploitative, then what’s the point in having children? Also, a lot of people haven’t aspired to be equals in a relationship.
No Gen X...who don't even exist but we created Google
As an older millennial, completely relate to not even identifying as a "millennial" in the first place. Was nearing high school graduation when the turn of the century occurred, and it really had no major impact on my life. Just felt like any other New Year, with no major events, like the much feared and overblown Y2K. Didn’t even hear the term "millennial" till much later, always just considered myself a part of Gen Y, and I still do.
What's often overlooked in terms of various crisis that economically affected elder mellenials (2008 recession, covid), is also that they by in large made up the majority of those who fought during the longest period of sustained combat operations in US history. Between 2004 and 2012 myself, a family member, or a close friend was deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan and in the end were left with nothing to show for it other than the trite "thank you for your service." That kind of experience will definitely leave you feeling adrift in society as you approach middle age.
The millennial generation as a whole got shafted repeatedly. There are some differences between older and younger millennials, but regardless we belong to the same generation that is really in a position to make real changes. We are the first true global generation especially going into the late 90s and early 2000s. We lived in many different countries and many had access to internet and cable. We were introduced to different genres of music and an insight into different culture and we bult a respect for others.
i’m gen z and my parents are older millennials and it really is a blessing. my boyfriends parent’s are boomers and my best friends parent’s are gen x and when i compare my parents to theirs, i feel very lucky.
they’re socially/politically aware, caring, hardworking and resilient. they might lack emotional availability, but they’re good eggs and they genuinely want me to do better than them. i don’t see that as much in boomer and gen x parents.
Us millennials might be broke & miserable but we got each other 😭💯
As someone born in 1977, I sympathize and empathize with elder millennials a lot because I’ve had almost all the same generational experiences.
I'm so sick of generational "hot takes". analyzing a group of people by their age has become so... useless. overused. Brazilian millennials have much more in common with Brazilian boomers than we have with American millennials, for one. me and my friends don't relate to this at all. none of us got participation trophies.
I was born in 77 but took some time off college and didn’t get my degree til 2005 so I relate to this. Got laid off my finance job in 2009 and wound up on a forklift for 5 years. Been in entry level jobs since graduating. And perpetually looking for a new job.
Si glad to finally hear you talk about You're the Worst!! It's One of My favorite shows ever. Please make a vídeo on it!!
You realize y'all just brushed over the Gen Xers? Didn't talk about them as a distinct group that have held any sway, but just lumped them in with the Boomers?
Isn't this just how aging works? Every new generation of kids is called selfish and lazy. Until they become adults where they now have the privilege to call the new generation that. This is just. The passage of time.
Can we also recognize the influence of 9/11 and Obama's presidency? 9/11 was the first major trauma we experienced as part of American society (which also happened to be the worst in the nation's history) and ended up being the pawns of its wars. Those who graduated in 2001/2002 (the Elder Millennials) were the first to enlist and our generation continued to enlist and serve. I feel like Boomers completely forget that we fought their war. Then we get Obama elected on hope and promise only to see our political idealism obliterated by political "pragmatism," conservative backlash, and the Trump Administration.
Very surprised 9/11 wasn’t mentioned in this video.
I always had that lingering feeling that something was lost in the cards my generation were dealt. Probably why I have absolute zero nostalgia. I really really needed todays you tube.
Sometimes I think, as a millennial that grew up with a low middle class/poor/uneducated/teen single mom, that I actually ended up being luckier in the long run. A lot of my peers whose parents could afford things like cell phones, computers, vacations etc I think had a very rude awakening once they got into their mid 20s and were already drowning in debt. I never took debt because all I ever heard growing up was about how we’d never get out of it and could barely afford to eat and I knew that if I wanted post secondary that I’d have to pay every penny myself. I got lucky because I didn’t go to college - instead, I stumbled across my calling later on and was able to properly capitalize upon it, debt free. I think we were fed the wrong info of what we were supposed to do with our lives. We were trained that happiness should be the last thing on our minds and then forced into a world that gives us no time to find out how to attain happiness even if we wanted to, so it’s no wonder so many are depressed. I’m sorry for all of my generation who were told the wrong ways to go about life. It’s not too late to find happiness though. It’s out there. It’s just lurking in ways you’ve gotta think way outside the box to see sometimes. I think it’s about time we started to reprioritize happiness without feeling guilt tripped about it by society. It’s no way to go through life just drowning in debt and unhappiness.
I just wish I could have savings and own a house without sacrificing everything and living to work.
As an older Gen Zer (born 97'), I can actually relate to this a lot. It's like being the middle child of generations.
Man, this hit home. As a millennial who will be 35 this year (2023), watching this made me realize what a limbo age one's 30s are and how that's rarely talked about. We're still young enough to hear, "You've got your whole life ahead of you! You can change the world, and the responsibility to do so is on your shoulders." And yet, if by our 30s, if we still haven't reached societal expectations of "getting a real job" or "settling down", we're accused by older generations of trying to cling on to our youth and expecting to be handed our Starbucks and avocado toast. It's weird, confining, and belittling.
Elder Millenial here. I am haven't gone anywhere, I am just busy raising three children and working full time, and still paying off student loans. 40 this year!
As an elder millennial myself, born in (1986) my peers and I consider our self-more of a (Xennial, 1978 to 1983 and some say to 1985) We have nothing in common with younger millennials, but we are more in common with people being born in the early 1980s, which includes (while growing up) common interest in TV shows, music, movies, culture, fashion, politics and so on. If you are a older millennial, born around the early to mid 1980s, look up the generation (Xennial)
9/11 happened my junior year in high school, remember watching it live on CNN that day.
Everyone remembers the "great recession" in 09 with the housing market collapse, but few people seem to remember there was a major economic slowdown in 2005. This happened right around the time I was in the back half of my bachelor's degree and because the fed raised the interest rates my Pell grant and other govt money to go to college didn't cover classes anymore so i had to drop out and try to find a job in a significantly down turn projected economy.
I'm 38 now with not a lot of prospects, my parents died in their 70's within the last 10 years. The baby boomers have lived too long and held onto power too long, they are choking us all to death.
I just turned 30 last month. The only thing I'm kinda mad about is the housing market - other than that, I'm doing fine! Not having kids probably helps in not feeling too bad about myself and the future of society more generally.
Outlier. But not everyone is doing fine. Good for you!
What is certainly true is that we are generation with less adquisitive power. Elders could buy houses, cars, etc, etc... Nowadays it's harder to accomplish
Very enlightening. There is a bit of an unwarranted sympathy but I am glad to know that this sense of failure and aimlessness isn't a "me" problem only. It gives me comfort to know that as an elder millenial I can blame some of my personal failures on the different financial crisis and the gens before and after.
I'm an elder millennial. It's been weird. One of the things I'm realizing is that my life can't work like my parents'. It's interesting watching the younger generations coming into their own. I'm like wow, those kids are all grown up now and they're so awesome. Make life the best you can, peeps.
People need to normalize aging and embrace it like 🎉 🥳
-I’m level 35, and I can’t wait to be a hot bitch capable of anything at 40, 50, and so on 💅🏽
PERIODT!!!
"I can’t wait to be a hot bitch capable of anything at 40, 50, and so on".....Man, Kevin Samuels would have torn you apart. lol
Thank you for your positivity!
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As time moves on and we experience exponential progress more rapidly, I think generations will begin to compress together with fewer differences between them. People are still hanging on to the old ways of major generational identities and divides. Consider what will happen as we age slower and perhaps end aging all together!
My daughter is 45, a Social Worker who worked for Domestic Violence and CPS she had gotten everywhere she wanted and has helped so many woman, and children, im so very proud of her and gave her life in 1976 when other women were having abortions i knew i could never do that, My daughter is the best person that could have happened to me. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤❤❤ 😊🎉
Well THAT was depressing
I was the typical millenial. 38yo, drowning in debt, and with no way out in sight. Then, during the pandemic, I discovered Dave Ramsey! I got fired up, started working as much OT as I could, got as many side hustles as I could get. The result is that come November I'll be debt free! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! And with no debt payments I did the math and I'll be able to save for a 20% downpayment on a $300K house in 18 months! Dave may be a Christian and I an Atheist but you can never cast doubt on the wisdom of the ancients!!!
We're tired. That's all. So many of Gen Z will never have a real adolescence. They've had to grow up so fast and it's a shame. Even though we were blamed for every economic downtern under the sun at least we got to shrug it off a bit. Gen Zers are going straight from high school to the job market because their parents can't afford to pay their own bills. Every kid I have worked with over the past 4 years is working to help their families stay afloat.
I'm Brazilian, and I never realized I left school (graduated in high school) in 2009!!!! Now all the rest makes sense 😂 I'll be 30 this year. I'm not in the elder millennial category, but still...
Search Party is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. I'm a tail-end GenX (like the very last) and I feel for Millenials. Thanks for the content!
Also the Millennial Generation are becoming grandparents now. 💯
Proud Gen Y (1992). I'm 30 years old right now and life has certainly thrown me a curve ball. Sad to say that it took a damn pandemic to climb, but 3 years later here I am working on my doctrine, supervising a PCR site, and working as a corrections officer. It's hard to believe that before everything went to shit that I could ever be so busy, and yet now here I am busting my ass and hopefully ready to achieve one of the basic goals of the American dream, buying a house. My generation has been called lazy, dumb, entitled, worthless, and immature since the moment most of us hit middle school. One would think that those generations that have come before would've learned not to judge, but to nurture those who will be the next to take on the world. I know they too did not have it easy, they had to adapt to change as my generation has been doing and the next generations that have come after us. Every generation has a moment that defines them, and every generation has something that they have contributed that hopefully will benefit others in the future. My generation has inherited quite a big task, but I am sure we will get through it like our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. They were not perfect either, but they sure did their best with what was given to them when their time had come.
'82 elder millennial here! I "saved the world" by anonymously shitposting for the last 20 years. I was anonymous, I was legion, I did not forget, I did not forgive, what did they expect? I will never give you up and I will never let you down.
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Elder millennial here: The 2008 recession was bad but I feel like we never fully recovered from the 2001 recession. Especially if you grew up in a small town like me.
Long story short: People before us literally threw nuclear waste in the ocean and ask us "why are you mad?".
As a Millennial I feel sorry for Gen Z. Another Boomer recession is about to hit and they have no idea how badly they're about to get screwed.
My husband and I job hunted a few months ago because our 2008-honed recession senses were tingling. Last week, my new company announced a hiring freeze.
I am friends with lots of Milennials, and I agree with most of the sentiments expressed in this video, but as a Gen Xer, I will never not be annoyed at the erasure of my generation. We’re not nearly as big as the boomer gen, but we do exist. We were forgotten as latchkey kids in the 80s and now we’re almost totally ignored by media. Overall though, we do have it pretty good-we are much better off than younger generations, but our kids are definitely never leaving home.
I would say as an elder Millennial the Gen X generation was the first generation to face economic decline and not be better than their parents. The Millennials were the second generation and Gen Z will be the third generation to face economic decline. It just gets worse every generation. I still remember when I graduated in '05 from college that in the south you could live in a 1-bedroom apartment just for 600 a month. Now for a 1 bedroom the price is around 1200-1400 but the wages for entry level jobs haven't changed but factor in higher student loan costs for Gen Z and their situation is worse than Millennials.
Not only is there an unstable economy globally, but the gig economy is severely unregulated and many marginalised communities are underpaid.
Typical Gen-X erasure. The youngest Boomers are 58 yrs old. Ben Stiller, one of the examples you used is Gen-X.
Whoa!!! 😮
This video is soooo necessary. Much of our youth optimism was gone after so much tribulation (2008 recession, covid-19, stagnant wages).
What little optimism was left in us was used by dishonest people hungry for quick cash grabs.
So we do tend towards nihilism.
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I am not that good at technology. And my mom used to yell at me saying: “you’re a millenial! Ain’t your generation all tech savvy? You should be billionaire; why aren’t you!?”
I'm such an elder millennial that I've never even heard of the TV show 'Search Party'. Which streaming app is it on?
This video is true I was born in 1982 I relate more with the Gen X generation. Then I relate with the younger millennials. And I was shocked I was shocked when I looked up what generation I was because I always felt I was Gen x
We had to fight the boomers wars which were all a lie for nearly two decades. This lead to a big awakening for millennials and lead to us discovering that most everything we were told and taught was based on lies. I’m 40 and an elder millennial or xennial depending on who you ask. When it’s our generations turn I hope we learn something and don’t send our children to die for greed, corruption, and power.
I think the "traditional" path still works. Get a partner, marry them (or shack up whatever), work, buy house, have kids. I think the problem is cities. If you live in smaller cities or even towns - the "dream" is still achievable. It's just that the "dream" sort of shifted from a family to this incredible career. And there just isn't enough incredible careers out there. Sometimes...you just get a "job" and get most of your fulfilment from your family. Except families are not desirable anymore - which is so strange to me.
You realize that due to cost of living, in cities, suburbs, and rural areas, is way higher than it used to be, right? People need to care about their careers because that's how they can provide for their family. The housing market is wild right now. Take a look at zillow - the "dream" is way less achievable than it was pre pandemic.
Wish I would have taken that path instead I did years of college (plenty of degrees with the loans to prove it)… and now single with no spouse or kids😔
35 years old, I am not going to be ok.