As a zoomer, I noticed something looking back about my understanding of culture, that it came almost exclusively from parody and reference to culture and not the culture itself. Shows like family guy, south park and the Simpsons all lean heavily on references to media that they assumed their gen-x and sometimes millennial audience would understand, but they had no idea that the zoomer consoooooooomer was totally unaware of these media. I have had the experience many times of seeing an old movie and saying "Oh, that's what they were referencing". It's very weird, in retrospective. Perhaps it is this condition that drives the desire for authenticity, and lack of snark that we drowned in as a result of our gen-x parents. I have often theorized that this is behind the love of anime and Japanese culture. There is the impression that they do not suffer from this snark, post modern malaise and constant sarcasm that is baked into the into our very institutions at this point. I have no idea if this is true about the Japanese, probably not, but Anime certainly gives this highly emotive and ernest vibe that is a refreshing sojourn from our own culture, but likely the grass simply seems greener. Also I agree, zoomers are very radical, in radically diverse ways. It is very difficult to socialize with people my own age because everyone is some different kind of radical. I like the greatest/ silent generation the best, but they're almost all dead.
I think every generation in the last century has had that experience. I grew up watching Looney Toons but didn't get a lot of the references until I was an adult. Heck, I didn't know what "I wish my brother George was here" meant until I was able to google it.
@@RampantDaydream The difference with the Zoomers is what's sometimes called 'Post-irony'. Where you are acting like you are being ironic, but you are actually sincere. I think the destruction of irony and the return to sincerity is what the Zoomers as a generation of artists need to achieve.
I agree 100% so much of my cultural knowledge is through simpsons and parodied etc. It was only later on when I read these things for myself I actually got what they were parodying.
Lol as a Zoomer myself AA is bang on the mark with his analysis. I definitely think that the Zoomers extreme desire to be unique mixed with a lack of any strong convictions has lead almost every zoomer being identical in every possible way (political beliefs, dress, humor etc.). Add that to the fact that over stimulation has made them all depressed and sedentary, with extremely poor mental health. Lol for those who believe that Gen Z will save the West dont get your hopes up.
If they’re this bad, imagine how bad the next generation will be. And then imagine three generations hence. It’s a never ending fall into the abyss. Each generation stupider and more useless than the last. Yet, thinking this is “progress”.
Zoomer here. I slight addition I would have to this is that our fragmented culture is due to the fact that the average zoomer goes and finds community in places online. We have much less connection with our local community, because we arent forced to exclusively mix with people locally. I didnt get on great in high school, and so i found friends online instead. Were I born into an earlier generation, id have had to have put up with what I had locally. Because of this, the way we spend our time is vastly different to our average classmate at school or college. My parents and grandparents often tell me how they knew all the other kids on their street as kids and that they did a lot together, because they didnt have much other choice about who they spent time with as kids. These days kids have a much broader selection of who they get to spend their time with.
Online friends aren't the same as real live friends. There's a weightiness to meatspace that forces you to prove your loyalty on a daily basis. Online people can say, do, or portray themselves as anything. Meatspace is Truth, and friendship is calling up someone you're not related to at 10 pm and asking them for a ride home from the gas station because your car broke down while you were there.
As a gen x I find it difficult to imagine the world of gen z. The internet and hundreds of TV channels has always been there for them. They have always been able to choose what they want to see. This however limits their knowledge. They can and have in the most part skipped over the important parts of history because it is boring. I grew up with vinyl records. It was a commitment to put an album on the turntable as it was a real effort to change tracks, so you listened to the entire album. You got the full meaning. Now, they just listen to snippets of tracks and only play the ones they like. This I feel is a good metaphor for how gen z see modern life.
@@strategicviewpoint6672 Unironically, I miss arcades. Yes, they were dark and noisy, but that was the time when I could play all sort of games from light gun to Mortal Kombat to Metal Slug. Yes, I am aware that modern computers are better than arcades at every objective standard, but it's like when Picard wished that he wanted to be back on the Stargazer.
As a millennial I have exactly zero problem connecting with either you or the zoomers. Born before the internet was public, and growing while it became so I have memories of both worlds growing up.
You are absolutely correct in noting the playfulness and creativity of the Zoomer. I think this generation will be far more entrepreneurial than the Millennial, who came of age during a time where the boundaries of what was permissible and possible were comparatively rigid. While Millennials were encouraged to live for the weekend, go to university and progress with a degree to do uninspiring work, Zoomers have a much broader outlook - albeit, a fragmented one. I think there is a chance to begin to repair the damage of past generations if only Zoomers resist extending adolescence in perpetuity and, instead, embrace the idea of nuclear family. This will become the centre that they are lacking.
A couple videos ago: "Gen Xers psychologize everything and diagnose everyone"... this video "Zoomers use this as a defense mechanism"... Your Gen X is showing AA.
@@williamjones6971 Extinction event would unironically allow for the rebuilding of civilization. Though personally, I would look into space research and try to escape this hellhole of a planet.
@@respublica4373 As I said, near extinction. And for that very reason. I don't think this wreck can be salvaged with millions of effecively zombie NPCs. Barring miracles.
Me: child of two boomers and raised believing I was a millennial but was actually a zoomer. Also me: Why is everyone ok with giving up all of their privacy? And why won't people shut up? Personally, I dislike most people I interact with, especially my age. It's all too superficial for me and I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots - I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have enough sense to not talk out of my arse.
Most people who are below 30 nowadays have very primitive goals and aspirations. Hedonistic stimulus searching and subsequent dopamine addiction as well as various personality disorders and other problems are omnipresent. If you talk to them, you think you are talking to cows with (potentially) higher computation power. I'm exactly on the zoomer millennial divide and I must say most of my social circle consists of people who grew up with older siblings, remember the late 90s and early 2000s and yearn for more authenticity, like the remnants of that which where still present, when the Internet was a source of information rather than socialisation and entertainment. This isn't good, it's not as bad as those herd animals that they despite or pity but it's fundamentally lacking from a mental health perspective. I'm afraid we'll have to build a new cultural foundation, we'll have to invent new social technologies and reestablish or synthesise those that have proven themselves in the past but were lost primarily during the 20th and 21st century. Most importantly we have to create arts and narratives again that are deeply inspiring and that won't be an easy task.
@@fredericktarr8266 It is done too much, putting meta on words, but I do think it is right in this sense. I mean much of what most generations enjoy is at least partially organic. However Zoomer culture seems to be entirely constructed of just parroting a pre-existing thing. What seems to determine how funny or important the cultural artifact is would be the social status of the one producing it. Jokes are clips of something else. Remixes and remakes are where it is at. Even in literature. Finding new fantasy or Sci-fi IPs is becoming a search for an oasis in the dunes. Everything is drawn from metadata compiled by previous generations. Can I repurpose a post? If Boomer culture is culture by Fiat, and Xer culture is culture by Null engagement, and Millennial culture is culture by Mimesis (feels over reals bro), then Zoomer culture is culture by necromancy. So to now coin a phrase I would not call it Metamodernism because that is doomed to be renamed when it is no longer modern. I would call it metaexegsical (lit self-referenced by explanation), example a joke is funny because person deemed funny tells it.
Exactly. Zoomers (and to a degree, younger Millennials) whether consciously or not, have taken our ironic culture to its extreme end and we’ve entered an age of post-irony. The line between irony and sincerity is blurred, which is all over the memes that come out of 4chan and the comedy of Sam Hyde
Zoomers have killed irony for me. They say something stupid, ironically and sound like a gen-x being insincere but they ARE sincere. This means my brain cannot process any meaning from the sentence as the gen x module shorts out the Zoomer module.
ruclips.net/video/nsuSveDAlpI/видео.html&ab_channel=Jreg - This video explains it quite well. I have become convinced, that as much as I love irony, post-irony and whatnot. It needs to be killed, it is a civilizational rot, we need to return back to sincerity.
@@wizzydq1 I cant answer whether Zoomers do or not but as a Zoomer myself I have watched black adder and many other programs with Rowan Atkinson and I have found them to be very funny.
I totally get the feeling of trying to find truth in a world marked by the idea that there isn't one. I'm trying to find it right now with which to make a life from.
Im a millenial and when I tell my gen X family members I have never used social media they go all soyface. "WHAAAAT, you dont use social media??????' Social media has retroactively destroyed every generation. It has also destroyed my friendships because they always wanted to keep in touch online, while I preferred to meet in person. Gen Z never had a chance.
I don't think Gen Z can have even one "Road to Damacus" experience, much less several. Most of Gen Z has so little knowledge of history or religion that they have never even heard of the term "Road to Damacus."
Femboys are not based. But we definitely know more about the Roman Empire than AA does. He thinks the Huns were fucking Germans and denies the Roman Empire existed. For Christ's sake...
@@respublica4373 same, k think actually alot of Zoomer here wanted to see it to prove their worth to you all by T-posing our superior ways over you all. Creativity 1 Everyone else 0
As a Zoomer, I agree with your understanding of the Zoomers availability of culture. I have spent most of my life, and still have to quite intently, tried to broaden my understanding of wider topics, while the things I like and am around regularly become fluency. You are slightly wrong about the cringe though. Right about its characterisation, but there is a almost half-half split between the cringy teen-world faction and an intellectual faction. Intellectuals have been given an opportunity in our generation to be marketted and accepted as "brutish strength" has been entirely destroyed as a virtue by previous generations. This means that a large portion see the other faction of deliquence and cringy viral behaviour as rather backwards. Also there are some, maybe the majority, who straddle the line. Who think like intellectuals but still indulge in meme culture, fashionable media and the usual brainwashing. #NotAllZoomers ... but definitely a lot of them.
@@Zorro9129 The political Zoomers are all over the place. Everyone can feel there's a deep rot in the Western civilization, which is why there are no centrists among the politically aware zoomers, you either go far-right or you go far-left.
@@Zorro9129 As far as I can tell, they're pretty much all accelerationists (whether on the left or on the right) which I consider to be a puerile political position and very much not based.
That in of itself is an act of extremism (even if it is correct) that defined this generation. Whatever the legacy of gen Z in the future, it will at least be interesting.
When it comes to irony, Gen z they are following the logical pattern of what happens to post-modern deconstructionist irony once it destroys all notion of culture. The only thing I would add is that this isn't a cope.
I think what is missing in a lot of this discussion, is the fact that a culture is not a derivative of the individuals within a generation, but is a derivative of the programming a group is fed as children. As a millennial, I recall a great deal of spy shows, super power shows, shows with substance demonstrating resourcefulness, strategy, and focus (avatar the last airbender, code lyoko, teen titans, and all written by preceding generations with an understanding of how the subconscious works). Zoomers were fed chaos from the very beginning - I can think of many shows reflecting this, and their presence online reflects this feeding perfectly - while millennials crave meaning and connection, Zoomers appear, at least from what they present, to only understand a level of disconnected chaos - but still searching for that connection. It’s like they get in their own way - and truly getting them to sit down and think about it in a level headed way is the most challenging aspect.
I miss the days when the Hulk Hogan was feuding with Macho Man over Miss Elizabeth watching both do weekly promos coked out of their heads being supremely entertaining.
Yeah. If you listen to the zoomers and the younger people, they've basically gone through a complete world replacement. Everything is the most advanced form of what's been getting plastered onto society over the years.
Yes, Gen X watched the TV and films of past generations going back to the 1940's and later. We are educated on past generations. I was recently reminded of The Defiant Ones (1948) in relation to the racial tensions and Myra Breckinridge (1970) in relation to Trans awarness.
Born in 2002. I think I found it funny in the wrong way, but I think at least for the ones born 2000-2003, living in a pre 9/11 world being a child in the 2008 banking crash and coming to age in the Covid times will make us screwed
Its honestly very strange how liberterianism gone from fairly common ideology for milleniels and gen x to something fringe for my generation. Zoomers are usually either leftie or alt right.
The tragedy of the artist generations is that they are born too late to genuinely be part of the old truth regime, but too early to be part of the old one. They deconstruct one but leave the creation of a new truth regime to the prophet generation that follows them. They however can never really buy into it fully, because they proceed it.
In this series what started off as an interesting, thoughtful look at counter culture after #6 it became a superficial bashing of generational stereotypes. Thank you for making them but I think you might have over played it in the last few. Cheers.
There's so many exceptions in the comments, I don't see the point. Apart from the greatest generation I think what comes after is best discussed as influences not specific age groups because generations became diverse, different age at parenthood, different shaped families etc.
The previous generations razed the monoculture to the ground, dug out the foundation and put a pond in the hole. The zoomers have absolutely nothing to build on, so zoomer culture is like duckfeed floating on the pond, aimless, pointless, and destined to be eaten by whatever comes next
It takes a village to raise a child. Zoomers have been raised by the village more than any other generation starting with daycare. There are still more similarities in experience between generations than differences. Having a dog, playing a team sport, being bullied, experiencing a global existential threat. Mecanno, Lego, Minecraft.
@@Zorro9129 It is true that he seems like a Leftist type. But from some of the things he said, I think he might genuinely, unironically simple consider the current system broken and will support anything that promises to be better.
I would really love to know what it was like growing up as a young guy in the typical British older culture before all the phones and stuff. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
P.S. I am a man born during the later time period referred to as Generation X. I was surprised to hear you mention traditional Catholicism. I returned to the Old Mass 16 years ago and never looked back. When the teachings you receive about man and his history are viewed through the eyes of the Church then life comes into focus. The apostolic secession linked with the patriarchs of the old testament through Jesus Christ is the most solid footing and clearest guide for all man. So according to your analysis, that makes me a Gen Xer who has found truth. That not only puts me in the middle of the Square but in the center of the Cube. 😉
This is the first video in the series that doesn't leave me disappointed in humanity --- these are just kids being kids. The previous generations were childish, but were too self-important to act it. They missed all the fun in favor of an unappealing faux-maturity. This video reminds me most of my own youth (as an older millenial). Not sure how much of this is down to AA's presentation, but perhaps a good sign for the Zeds.
Zoomers will have more cultural center than previous generations but it will be global rather than national or regional. Over time they will build up a layered appreciation of their world through natural understqnding how culture is built from references upon older references over time.
I don't know if the lack of access to a "center media" is necessarily a good thing. Honestly, most "center media" I see nowadays is just boring. Most relevant experiences are behind "targeted" media. "Center media" was always boring, we just didn't realize because we had no alternative. You are right, that with the media of the future, more and more people are going to live in "bubbles" of culture. I don't think there's necessarily a problem with this, as long as you're not trying to "force" different bubbles to coexist with one-size-fits-all rules. I think the result of those "bubbles" is just going to be more and more demand for decentralization on politics.
Agreed. “Center media” today is lowest common denominator mass-marketed trash heavily laden with propaganda. Decentralized media gives people opportunities to learn things, develop skills, or participate in media creation themselves. Centralized media still exists, it’d just that many people are starting to reject it. I spent plenty of time watching network television as a kid and stopped about a decade ago, and I’ve never looked back.
The thing is that those bubbles are only going to radicalize with time, and lord help us all when they come into contact. A generation of radicals is the generation that ushers in civil war.
Gen z will be fine. They're just highly social and uninhibited. That is a good thing imo. Teach them their heritage before you put a phone in their hand. They are going to be doing everything on-line whether we like it or not.
@@Howleye they were greeks who assimilate latins into their nation, then stole pretty much every bit of culture from the greeks as they took over areas that were a part of greek empires and colonies. the main language of the roman empire was greek, and even when julius caesar crossed the rubicon, he said it "the die is cast", in greek. the only real contribution the romans gave to the world was the hamburger and telling people that buggery caused earthquakes (probably to stop them from doing it so much).
Regarding the multiple 'Road to Damascus' conversions: Every generation is more leftist by default then the one that came before (Cthulhu swims). Also, you typically become more right-wing the older you get. Whereas oder people only had to realize that the neoliberal consensus had failed to then become conservatives, the younger you are the farther you have to go in my opinion. I was born in 1990. My default setting was center-left (even in Europe, we were defined as being against the Bush conservatives and hated the religious right that wanted to take away Video games.) I had to speedrun my political development from default lefty, to classical liberal (just in time for the New Arheists), to libertarian (2016 taught us that both sides are bad, remember?), to Nrx. I can't even tell if the "it's just a phase" people were right to be honest. Now imagine what a Zoomer would have to go through. Open communism is normalized, neocons are back in the mainstream to compete with the New New Right or whatever, true fascism is back on the table, you can't throw a stone without hitting an enlightened centrist and no one talks about the history of politics. We all have to reverse-engineer the political development of the last 2000 years piecemeal it feels like.
As i zoomer distnacing himself from other zoomers, i aprove. and distancing from other zoomers, is what most zoomers will do in my view, just to prove they arent a failure, like the milenials
1) Anyone remember the 56k flex modem - the one that went 'bong bong' in the middle of connection handshake? 2) 'Japanese cartoons'. Best entertainment. 3) Daria appears exactly where I do on the graph - up until the TDS/BDS lot crept out of the woodwork in 2016. 4) You are unique! Just like everyone else!
Generation Z is truly fascinating and also tragic to look at. The first generation to truly dedicate most of their time in the digital world, yet still never really fitting in anywhere as if existing outside of time in some way. A product of whatever environment they find themselves in. They are capable of living the way their parents and grandparents have had in the past, and understanding how to live in that time, yet at the same time they can completely change their way of life and what is on their mind, and how they act in a heartbeat. Memories start to become confused with figments of the imagination, as they exist between the words, the photos, and the familiar smells and senses. They cannot be quantified digitally. Which is the environment they reside in. Some still try to remember however they can. But they will still find themselves among this fragmented, swirling mass of 'content' that is always at their fingertips, yet difficult to arrange. What is interesting to note here, it seems that the generation of the parents they are raised by can have a massive effect on their development. One born and raised by Generation X or Baby Boomer parents will not be the same as one raised by Millennials. Yet the children of Generation Z, the first wave that has now reached adulthood, still share much in common with everyone born within the late 90s to the mid 2000s, no matter how different they might also seem. If there's one word I'd probably have to use to quantify Generation Z at this stage, it would be 'chaotic'. All sorts of chaos.
@@bellphorusnknight A warring states period on a global scale. Leading to decades of conflict between many warlords, nations, states and stateless. A war of ideologies and religions, until one, universal empire arises and unites them all. Or slow descent into decay and decadence, under a global government. Many crafty human groups escape this hellhole into the final frontier. Soon, Earth itself is forgotten and the many Human nations across the starts forge their own cultures, histories and legacies. Both of those options are based, now let's make one of them come true.
I'm hovering between gen Z and Millennial and I frankly have a hard time with both. I guess that's ironic to say considering that the millennial dilemma is identity and wanting to be unique and special.
And remember last video when I did millennials most of Take That, Britney Spears etc were Gen X, and most boomer music was by silent gen. this the way it rolled
@@AcademicAgent True, it is more that their audience is skewed towards millenials. They formed 7 years ago so the youngest millenials would have been about 17. They are not the definitive Zoomer entertainment, Tik Tok definitely is.
@@AcademicAgent If we are going by Strauss and Howe. Does that make me a Millennial, AA? Tell me, I need to know. I need to fit into a neatly constructed identity box, or else I am doomed.
I was born right at the end of 1994. It's weird because I don't really remember a time before the internet, but I do remember dial-up. I don't really identify with millennials, with their super-serious wokeness, and I do find zoomer humour to be mostly cringe although some of the ironic stuff is pretty funny. I grew up with ironic facebook meme pages, back when people actually used Facebook, I was the admin of one in highschool. Now my 17-year-old brother is the admin of an ironic Instagram page with 10k followers. Half his posts are 5-second clips that make literally no sense. I tend to identify slightly more with zoomers, but I suspect whatever you'd classify me as would be some weird inter-period between the two cultures
I'm only 25 but even I remember the social pressure in my primary school years against "showing off". Even at 7-9 kids recognise the smell of desparation to be liked. The zoomers lack this in its entirety.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
It’s hilarious, honestly. A generation that gives two shits about things they don’t like and labels them “cringe” when literally everything they do and say is cringe.
I’m either the youngest millennial or the oldest of gen z, depending upon how you count. I remember the time before iPods. I almost used tik Tom, until I realized it was made by communist bandits.
At the risk that you're not exercising Gen X snark, I will actually try to answer this question honestly. In the 90s, we didn't have the technology to have high-speed cable for video streaming. What we did have was landlines, where instead of cellphone towers that send and receive wifi signals, we had phone cables that connected to the service provider. These cables could only handle 56K bits of data. Seeing as how we're in a world of Gigs and Terabytes, 56K isn't anything. The result was using the internet was very slow and if your mom wanted to use the phone, your connection to the internet would suddenly cut. The term "dial-up" comes from using the house phone to dial to the internet.
@@dragonknightleader1 I'm gen Z. The idea of internet being connect to phone lines is inconceivable to me. I remember at school seeing a floppy disk and laughing at it as "ancient technology".
@@bengale9977 You are correct in saying that. Dial-up internet was ancient technology. It objectively sucked too for the reasons I stated earlier. Which is why cable internet was invented; so that we could see porn better.
In basic media terms, it took longer to download/display a photo than it does to download a feature length movie now. Mostly everything was text based - and even on the internet, you had to read pretty much everything. That was the golden age of email, chat forums, and im, as this was pre-meme times. There were no networked servers, there weren't even LAN parties yet, since LAN was yet to be distributed.
If I had to describe Gen X as a Zoomer, the phrase "prestige without performance" comes to mind, you're all happy to sit on the side-lines and mock all generations before and after you, and talk yourselves up as this enlightened group that could have done so much if it weren't for the Boomers, but when it comes to actually doing anything you're nowhere to be seen. Where are the Gen X politicians? Where are the Gen X media figures and influencers? Gen X seems to have given up the fight before it began with their pessimistic "nothing matters, no change can really be made" attitude, hell even Zoomers have figures like Nick Fuentes trying to fight the good fight and we are still a long way off coming into our own as a generation. I scroll through these comments saying "I have no hope for the future", "The West has fallen", "Generation Z are no one", and I just cant help thinking what is the point of you? What is the point in having this same shit outlook that caused Gen X to fail? This isn't directed at you btw AA, aside from a couple of cringe takes this was a pretty good assessment of Zoomers, keep up the good work and spreading awareness of the cathedral.
ELON MUSK, JEFF BEZOS, BEYONCE AND A PLETHORA OF OTHER MEDIA AND CORPORATE GIANTS ARE GEN Xers so what are you talking about?? The philosophy with words yet no substance is what get's me.
I dont see much different between zoomer internet humour and the all your base cheezburger internet humour of yesteryear except for the addition of pure narcissism.
Well the 12 year olds making youtube poops back in 2010 were zoomers, or the zoomers were the audience of the millennials making them, so thats the origin of the humour. More just a product of internet culture. One difference I would point out is I think that the pure absurdity is a result of political correctness. Things like Unforgotten Realms and NigaHiga from back then would be cancelled today even tho everyone watched them. So now zoomer humour is either completely clean like the tik tok truck thing, or as offensive as possible like 4chan humour. Zoomers are polarized even down to their humour.
@@nashthrashington9749 i havent seen much offensive zoomer humour tbh, but then i do try to avoid it as much as possible. What you said actually got me thinking of all that old newgrounds stuff and rathergood type sites. Making that stuff took a lot of effort. I used to make ytp back in the day and can attest lot of work went into them even when they looked like garbage. The tiktok stuff is much more immediate but also low effort. I dont even mean that in a negative way, just that all the software required is there in the app or the camera of their phones, no need to learn fancy video editing or flash animating, its just made in a few seconds on the fly. So maybe zoomer content is "old internet culture" minus the effort, plus political correctness, plus immediacy. Or something like that... I still think narcissism plays a big role. Gone is the anon attitude of days past, now its all "look at my face!"
Typical zoomer probably knows an awful lot about something specific. For example, The history of the Roman Empire, and how the Byzantines were really Roman and everything else is wrong. But absolutely nothing about the broader culture.
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Every tiktok video I see is like a tiny brain aneurysm. It hurts.
I'm 38 and some of those videos were honestly pretty funny. Having said that your point is well taken.
Ask me if I'm a truck
@@TheDrunkMunk Are you a truck?
@@aethelwulfwarlord1475 All of social media, really, although TikTok is the least creative of all the platforms.
YOU THINK EVEN AS A ZOOMER IT MAKES ME WANT TO SMASH MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL
As a zoomer, I noticed something looking back about my understanding of culture, that it came almost exclusively from parody and reference to culture and not the culture itself. Shows like family guy, south park and the Simpsons all lean heavily on references to media that they assumed their gen-x and sometimes millennial audience would understand, but they had no idea that the zoomer consoooooooomer was totally unaware of these media. I have had the experience many times of seeing an old movie and saying "Oh, that's what they were referencing". It's very weird, in retrospective. Perhaps it is this condition that drives the desire for authenticity, and lack of snark that we drowned in as a result of our gen-x parents. I have often theorized that this is behind the love of anime and Japanese culture. There is the impression that they do not suffer from this snark, post modern malaise and constant sarcasm that is baked into the into our very institutions at this point. I have no idea if this is true about the Japanese, probably not, but Anime certainly gives this highly emotive and ernest vibe that is a refreshing sojourn from our own culture, but likely the grass simply seems greener. Also I agree, zoomers are very radical, in radically diverse ways. It is very difficult to socialize with people my own age because everyone is some different kind of radical. I like the greatest/ silent generation the best, but they're almost all dead.
Ban Anime now. Kill those who watch it.
Otherwise, I agree.
RUclips poops.
I think every generation in the last century has had that experience. I grew up watching Looney Toons but didn't get a lot of the references until I was an adult. Heck, I didn't know what "I wish my brother George was here" meant until I was able to google it.
@@RampantDaydream The difference with the Zoomers is what's sometimes called 'Post-irony'. Where you are acting like you are being ironic, but you are actually sincere. I think the destruction of irony and the return to sincerity is what the Zoomers as a generation of artists need to achieve.
I agree 100% so much of my cultural knowledge is through simpsons and parodied etc. It was only later on when I read these things for myself I actually got what they were parodying.
Lol as a Zoomer myself AA is bang on the mark with his analysis. I definitely think that the Zoomers extreme desire to be unique mixed with a lack of any strong convictions has lead almost every zoomer being identical in every possible way (political beliefs, dress, humor etc.). Add that to the fact that over stimulation has made them all depressed and sedentary, with extremely poor mental health. Lol for those who believe that Gen Z will save the West dont get your hopes up.
I think zoomers are just pozzed. Look how common it is for them to race mix and they have a culture to identify to. Pijjer and thug culture
If they’re this bad, imagine how bad the next generation will be.
And then imagine three generations hence.
It’s a never ending fall into the abyss. Each generation stupider and more useless than the last. Yet, thinking this is “progress”.
us zoomers will be the ones getting drafted in ww3
@@ezzy2254 world wars are old hat. This is war on an entirely different level.
Gen Z will be the generation to parent the ones who bring about real and significant change. That is a lot of power.
"Who are generation-Z"
*Nobody. They're literally nobody. The lights are dimmed and nobody is home.*
Zoomer here. I slight addition I would have to this is that our fragmented culture is due to the fact that the average zoomer goes and finds community in places online. We have much less connection with our local community, because we arent forced to exclusively mix with people locally.
I didnt get on great in high school, and so i found friends online instead. Were I born into an earlier generation, id have had to have put up with what I had locally. Because of this, the way we spend our time is vastly different to our average classmate at school or college. My parents and grandparents often tell me how they knew all the other kids on their street as kids and that they did a lot together, because they didnt have much other choice about who they spent time with as kids. These days kids have a much broader selection of who they get to spend their time with.
Yeah, Z doesn't have a culture, it has hundred (if not thousands) of subcultures. The only unifying thread is a disunity.
True
@@Nukestarmaster i'd say millions.
Online friends aren't the same as real live friends. There's a weightiness to meatspace that forces you to prove your loyalty on a daily basis. Online people can say, do, or portray themselves as anything. Meatspace is Truth, and friendship is calling up someone you're not related to at 10 pm and asking them for a ride home from the gas station because your car broke down while you were there.
That little montage ressured my pride on the fact that I do not, never have and never will have anything to do with tiktok
Agree
: ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I feel kinda the same but at the same time I think
pride? about something irrelevant as that?
As a gen x I find it difficult to imagine the world of gen z. The internet and hundreds of TV channels has always been there for them. They have always been able to choose what they want to see. This however limits their knowledge. They can and have in the most part skipped over the important parts of history because it is boring. I grew up with vinyl records. It was a commitment to put an album on the turntable as it was a real effort to change tracks, so you listened to the entire album. You got the full meaning. Now, they just listen to snippets of tracks and only play the ones they like.
This I feel is a good metaphor for how gen z see modern life.
@@strategicviewpoint6672 Unironically, I miss arcades. Yes, they were dark and noisy, but that was the time when I could play all sort of games from light gun to Mortal Kombat to Metal Slug. Yes, I am aware that modern computers are better than arcades at every objective standard, but it's like when Picard wished that he wanted to be back on the Stargazer.
@@strategicviewpoint6672 It feels like I miss those.. but I wasn't actually there
As a millennial I have exactly zero problem connecting with either you or the zoomers. Born before the internet was public, and growing while it became so I have memories of both worlds growing up.
You are absolutely correct in noting the playfulness and creativity of the Zoomer.
I think this generation will be far more entrepreneurial than the Millennial, who came of age during a time where the boundaries of what was permissible and possible were comparatively rigid. While Millennials were encouraged to live for the weekend, go to university and progress with a degree to do uninspiring work, Zoomers have a much broader outlook - albeit, a fragmented one. I think there is a chance to begin to repair the damage of past generations if only Zoomers resist extending adolescence in perpetuity and, instead, embrace the idea of nuclear family. This will become the centre that they are lacking.
A couple videos ago: "Gen Xers psychologize everything and diagnose everyone"... this video "Zoomers use this as a defense mechanism"... Your Gen X is showing AA.
The West has fallen.
A phoenix shall rise from the Ashes!
Nah we are in the last ditch. I would welcome a near extinction event right now just to burn the trash.
@@williamjones6971 Extinction event would unironically allow for the rebuilding of civilization. Though personally, I would look into space research and try to escape this hellhole of a planet.
@@respublica4373 As I said, near extinction. And for that very reason. I don't think this wreck can be salvaged with millions of effecively zombie NPCs. Barring miracles.
@@respublica4373 yeah, like the fucking communists will let you. Giving up is for currs. Curr
Me: child of two boomers and raised believing I was a millennial but was actually a zoomer.
Also me: Why is everyone ok with giving up all of their privacy? And why won't people shut up?
Personally, I dislike most people I interact with, especially my age. It's all too superficial for me and I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots - I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have enough sense to not talk out of my arse.
Most people who are below 30 nowadays have very primitive goals and aspirations. Hedonistic stimulus searching and subsequent dopamine addiction as well as various personality disorders and other problems are omnipresent. If you talk to them, you think you are talking to cows with (potentially) higher computation power.
I'm exactly on the zoomer millennial divide and I must say most of my social circle consists of people who grew up with older siblings, remember the late 90s and early 2000s and yearn for more authenticity, like the remnants of that which where still present, when the Internet was a source of information rather than socialisation and entertainment.
This isn't good, it's not as bad as those herd animals that they despite or pity but it's fundamentally lacking from a mental health perspective.
I'm afraid we'll have to build a new cultural foundation, we'll have to invent new social technologies and reestablish or synthesise those that have proven themselves in the past but were lost primarily during the 20th and 21st century.
Most importantly we have to create arts and narratives again that are deeply inspiring and that won't be an easy task.
I think anyone who knows anything hates everyone in their generation. If you dont hate everyone you aren't doing life right
@@joebloggs479 Assuming AA is right, wouldn't that make you Gen X? Solid cynicism.
@@conatus1306 No, rock solid realism
I think the zoomer mindset falls under what is called metamodernism.
worst yet, if zedheads are truly likened unto the following WWII generation were, they’ll most likely give buttbirth to compound-reboomers
What is metamodernism?
@@N0die .Could you please repeat that, but this time in English
@@fredericktarr8266 It is done too much, putting meta on words, but I do think it is right in this sense. I mean much of what most generations enjoy is at least partially organic. However Zoomer culture seems to be entirely constructed of just parroting a pre-existing thing. What seems to determine how funny or important the cultural artifact is would be the social status of the one producing it.
Jokes are clips of something else. Remixes and remakes are where it is at. Even in literature. Finding new fantasy or Sci-fi IPs is becoming a search for an oasis in the dunes. Everything is drawn from metadata compiled by previous generations.
Can I repurpose a post? If Boomer culture is culture by Fiat, and Xer culture is culture by Null engagement, and Millennial culture is culture by Mimesis (feels over reals bro), then Zoomer culture is culture by necromancy. So to now coin a phrase I would not call it Metamodernism because that is doomed to be renamed when it is no longer modern. I would call it metaexegsical (lit self-referenced by explanation), example a joke is funny because person deemed funny tells it.
Exactly. Zoomers (and to a degree, younger Millennials) whether consciously or not, have taken our ironic culture to its extreme end and we’ve entered an age of post-irony. The line between irony and sincerity is blurred, which is all over the memes that come out of 4chan and the comedy of Sam Hyde
Zoomers have killed irony for me. They say something stupid, ironically and sound like a gen-x being insincere but they ARE sincere. This means my brain cannot process any meaning from the sentence as the gen x module shorts out the Zoomer module.
ruclips.net/video/nsuSveDAlpI/видео.html&ab_channel=Jreg - This video explains it quite well.
I have become convinced, that as much as I love irony, post-irony and whatnot. It needs to be killed, it is a civilizational rot, we need to return back to sincerity.
Thats unironically funny
@@kanejeeper1727 i mean do they watch blackadder and think Rowan Atkinson loves Hugh Laurie?
@@wizzydq1 I cant answer whether Zoomers do or not but as a Zoomer myself I have watched black adder and many other programs with Rowan Atkinson and I have found them to be very funny.
lol
I totally get the feeling of trying to find truth in a world marked by the idea that there isn't one. I'm trying to find it right now with which to make a life from.
Why am I nostalgic over that dial-up tone?
The tone is pure, the tone is consistent
Because you miss the reward that come from delayed gratification
@@Zorro9129 Oh those happened, but those places were the exception and could be readily avoided.
What?? Sounds to me like an interrogation technique!
Reminds me of Thanksgiving
Tidepods are the path to true enlightenment.
Im a millenial and when I tell my gen X family members I have never used social media they go all soyface. "WHAAAAT, you dont use social media??????' Social media has retroactively destroyed every generation. It has also destroyed my friendships because they always wanted to keep in touch online, while I preferred to meet in person. Gen Z never had a chance.
3:14 that “multiple roads to Damascus” moment is painfully true
I don't think Gen Z can have even one "Road to Damacus" experience, much less several. Most of Gen Z has so little knowledge of history or religion that they have never even heard of the term "Road to Damacus."
The Zoomer: Can tell you everything about the Roman Empire and how it translate into Femboys being based.
Femboys are not based. But we definitely know more about the Roman Empire than AA does. He thinks the Huns were fucking Germans and denies the Roman Empire existed. For Christ's sake...
enlighten me
Dovahatty?
@@themac2238 Germs....
@@sebastianprimomija8375 where a valentinan 1 when you need him
AA: Deconstructs Boomers, Xers & Millennials
Zoomer: “Wow these generations sure are stupid lol 😂”
AA: Deconstructs Zoomers
Zoomer: *surprised Pikachu face*
I literally asked for this.
@@respublica4373 same, k think actually alot of Zoomer here wanted to see it to prove their worth to you all by T-posing our superior ways over you all.
Creativity 1
Everyone else 0
AA: Realizes you can't deconstruct something that has been the product of deconstruction
@@RoyalProtectorate wouldn't it in practice re-assembly
@@edmgclone More like re-assembly without the original instructions. So anything that they produce from it is practically useless.
Multiple Road to Damascus experiences is spot on 😂😂 that is triggering!
As a Zoomer, I agree with your understanding of the Zoomers availability of culture. I have spent most of my life, and still have to quite intently, tried to broaden my understanding of wider topics, while the things I like and am around regularly become fluency.
You are slightly wrong about the cringe though. Right about its characterisation, but there is a almost half-half split between the cringy teen-world faction and an intellectual faction.
Intellectuals have been given an opportunity in our generation to be marketted and accepted as "brutish strength" has been entirely destroyed as a virtue by previous generations. This means that a large portion see the other faction of deliquence and cringy viral behaviour as rather backwards.
Also there are some, maybe the majority, who straddle the line. Who think like intellectuals but still indulge in meme culture, fashionable media and the usual brainwashing.
#NotAllZoomers ... but definitely a lot of them.
A generation of radical half wits and radical intellectuals to lead them… I guess it’s civil war time lads.
Remember when we thought Zoomers were going to be based?
Most of any generation will not be based. All that matters is if a sufficient number of 'elites' will be based.
@@Zorro9129 The political Zoomers are all over the place. Everyone can feel there's a deep rot in the Western civilization, which is why there are no centrists among the politically aware zoomers, you either go far-right or you go far-left.
@@Zorro9129 As far as I can tell, they're pretty much all accelerationists (whether on the left or on the right) which I consider to be a puerile political position and very much not based.
@@fredericktarr8266 Exactly!
@@jay_13875 Eh, no. Accelerationism is not that prevalent, they're just a lot louder.
As a zoomer I have deleted all social media, one shouldn’t spend so much time watching what others are doing
That in of itself is an act of extremism (even if it is correct) that defined this generation. Whatever the legacy of gen Z in the future, it will at least be interesting.
A lot of us are kinda jaded
The memes are how we cope
At least we can share a laugh while slowly sinking
When it comes to irony, Gen z they are following the logical pattern of what happens to post-modern deconstructionist irony once it destroys all notion of culture.
The only thing I would add is that this isn't a cope.
Loving this series
I think what is missing in a lot of this discussion, is the fact that a culture is not a derivative of the individuals within a generation, but is a derivative of the programming a group is fed as children. As a millennial, I recall a great deal of spy shows, super power shows, shows with substance demonstrating resourcefulness, strategy, and focus (avatar the last airbender, code lyoko, teen titans, and all written by preceding generations with an understanding of how the subconscious works). Zoomers were fed chaos from the very beginning - I can think of many shows reflecting this, and their presence online reflects this feeding perfectly - while millennials crave meaning and connection, Zoomers appear, at least from what they present, to only understand a level of disconnected chaos - but still searching for that connection. It’s like they get in their own way - and truly getting them to sit down and think about it in a level headed way is the most challenging aspect.
i just watched and came to the conclusion we are stuffed
i don't know, the new generation will doom the world has been a very popular narrative at least since the ancient Greece and probably much longer
I miss the days when the Hulk Hogan was feuding with Macho Man over Miss Elizabeth watching both do weekly promos coked out of their heads being supremely entertaining.
Oh yes, forgot Miss Elizabeth
You keep knocking it out of the park. Great stuff, AA.
That BBC voice introducing John Mills in the film Dunkirk sent a wave a nostalgia through me.
Looking at some of the derrières they like to sport these days the truck reference makes a little more sense !
I think of “culture” as having a generational element. A lot of this looks like narcissistic faddism.
Good Point
And you'd be right
Yeah. If you listen to the zoomers and the younger people, they've basically gone through a complete world replacement. Everything is the most advanced form of what's been getting plastered onto society over the years.
Please explain what you mean, I do not understand.
@@venmis137 their whole world is social engineering. It has nothing to do with anything prior to last Thursday.
Yes, Gen X watched the TV and films of past generations going back to the 1940's and later. We are educated on past generations. I was recently reminded of The Defiant Ones (1948) in relation to the racial tensions and Myra Breckinridge (1970) in relation to Trans awarness.
Born in 2002. I think I found it funny in the wrong way, but I think at least for the ones born 2000-2003, living in a pre 9/11 world being a child in the 2008 banking crash and coming to age in the Covid times will make us screwed
Me too, also, watching millenials wreck society in the 2010’s wrecked us as well.
@ARTOFMUSIC Indeed, nothing damaged us more than what the boomers made our world into
Pssst, hey kid, ever hear of Ron Paul?
Just after the crash when I started looking into Austrian School of economics. First man to make me really interested in elections abroad.
@Jesus Christ Unwitting accelerationists, I'm not cleaning this one up
Its honestly very strange how liberterianism gone from fairly common ideology for milleniels and gen x to something fringe for my generation.
Zoomers are usually either leftie or alt right.
@@pharos670 Schools pushing binary thinking a good while.
The tragedy of the artist generations is that they are born too late to genuinely be part of the old truth regime, but too early to be part of the old one. They deconstruct one but leave the creation of a new truth regime to the prophet generation that follows them. They however can never really buy into it fully, because they proceed it.
In this series what started off as an interesting, thoughtful look at counter culture after #6 it became a superficial bashing of generational stereotypes. Thank you for making them but I think you might have over played it in the last few. Cheers.
There's so many exceptions in the comments, I don't see the point. Apart from the greatest generation I think what comes after is best discussed as influences not specific age groups because generations became diverse, different age at parenthood, different shaped families etc.
The previous generations razed the monoculture to the ground, dug out the foundation and put a pond in the hole. The zoomers have absolutely nothing to build on, so zoomer culture is like duckfeed floating on the pond, aimless, pointless, and destined to be eaten by whatever comes next
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?
Tony Soprano was asking this question in the 90's. I think Mr. Cooper is further away than ever.
The bad news, Zoomers know nothing.
The good news, Zoomers know nothing.
It takes a village to raise a child. Zoomers have been raised by the village more than any other generation starting with daycare. There are still more similarities in experience between generations than differences. Having a dog, playing a team sport, being bullied, experiencing a global existential threat. Mecanno, Lego, Minecraft.
I think the issue is that it's not a village, it's a series of unconnected strangers with radically different views, goals and ideologies
The global village that Marshall McLuhan talks about. He predicted the internet in a way.
3:39 immeadtely think in JREG
A man of culture I see
AA should watch Jreg. I would love to see his analysis.
@@Zorro9129 It is true that he seems like a Leftist type. But from some of the things he said, I think he might genuinely, unironically simple consider the current system broken and will support anything that promises to be better.
I would really love to know what it was like growing up as a young guy in the typical British older culture before all the phones and stuff. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The catholic thing felt like a call out lol
no wonder Generation Z is also known as Generation Ziclone
I always thought that was a reference to them being more conservative
P.S. I am a man born during the later time period referred to as Generation X. I was surprised to hear you mention traditional Catholicism. I returned to the Old Mass 16 years ago and never looked back. When the teachings you receive about man and his history are viewed through the eyes of the Church then life comes into focus. The apostolic secession linked with the patriarchs of the old testament through Jesus Christ is the most solid footing and clearest guide for all man. So according to your analysis, that makes me a Gen Xer who has found truth. That not only puts me in the middle of the Square but in the center of the Cube. 😉
This is the first video in the series that doesn't leave me disappointed in humanity --- these are just kids being kids. The previous generations were childish, but were too self-important to act it. They missed all the fun in favor of an unappealing faux-maturity. This video reminds me most of my own youth (as an older millenial).
Not sure how much of this is down to AA's presentation, but perhaps a good sign for the Zeds.
Ah yes! The song and dance number of AOL. Alas, I have but one like to give.
Have you read "The Fourth Turning" ? It's an interesting read and goes deeper into generations.
Never thought I would see the sidemen on AAs channel.
I would kill for an exploration into the Lost Generation from AA if this is the standard with which he looks at modern generations
Zoomers will have more cultural center than previous generations but it will be global rather than national or regional. Over time they will build up a layered appreciation of their world through natural understqnding how culture is built from references upon older references over time.
Or the traditionalist who is more nationalistic than the old though it is more found in eastern europe.
As a Zoomer, I can assure everyone that we are not all brain dead tiktards.
That being said, most of us are brain dead tiktards.
sick dawg u killin the game
Mary Whitehouse was right.
Oh believe me. Mary Whitehouse didn't have this in mind.
I don't know if the lack of access to a "center media" is necessarily a good thing.
Honestly, most "center media" I see nowadays is just boring. Most relevant experiences are behind "targeted" media.
"Center media" was always boring, we just didn't realize because we had no alternative.
You are right, that with the media of the future, more and more people are going to live in "bubbles" of culture. I don't think there's necessarily a problem with this, as long as you're not trying to "force" different bubbles to coexist with one-size-fits-all rules. I think the result of those "bubbles" is just going to be more and more demand for decentralization on politics.
Agreed. “Center media” today is lowest common denominator mass-marketed trash heavily laden with propaganda. Decentralized media gives people opportunities to learn things, develop skills, or participate in media creation themselves. Centralized media still exists, it’d just that many people are starting to reject it. I spent plenty of time watching network television as a kid and stopped about a decade ago, and I’ve never looked back.
The thing is that those bubbles are only going to radicalize with time, and lord help us all when they come into contact. A generation of radicals is the generation that ushers in civil war.
Gen z will be fine. They're just highly social and uninhibited. That is a good thing imo. Teach them their heritage before you put a phone in their hand. They are going to be doing everything on-line whether we like it or not.
where the Byzantines romans or Zoomers ?
The Romans were Roman.
@@respublica4373
the romans claimed to be descendants of the trojans, who were greek.
czechm8.
@@mistahsusan2650 The Greek and Roman civilizations really are just one giant civilization. Just look at the fucking Pantheons.
@@mistahsusan2650 They claimed that, even wrote a fan fiction novel about it, but they were not
@@Howleye
they were greeks who assimilate latins into their nation, then stole pretty much every bit of culture from the greeks as they took over areas that were a part of greek empires and colonies.
the main language of the roman empire was greek, and even when julius caesar crossed the rubicon, he said it "the die is cast", in greek.
the only real contribution the romans gave to the world was the hamburger and telling people that buggery caused earthquakes (probably to stop them from doing it so much).
Regarding the multiple 'Road to Damascus' conversions:
Every generation is more leftist by default then the one that came before (Cthulhu swims).
Also, you typically become more right-wing the older you get.
Whereas oder people only had to realize that the neoliberal consensus had failed to then become conservatives, the younger you are the farther you have to go in my opinion.
I was born in 1990. My default setting was center-left (even in Europe, we were defined as being against the Bush conservatives and hated the religious right that wanted to take away Video games.)
I had to speedrun my political development from default lefty, to classical liberal (just in time for the New Arheists), to libertarian (2016 taught us that both sides are bad, remember?), to Nrx.
I can't even tell if the "it's just a phase" people were right to be honest.
Now imagine what a Zoomer would have to go through. Open communism is normalized, neocons are back in the mainstream to compete with the New New Right or whatever, true fascism is back on the table, you can't throw a stone without hitting an enlightened centrist and no one talks about the history of politics.
We all have to reverse-engineer the political development of the last 2000 years piecemeal it feels like.
As i zoomer distnacing himself from other zoomers, i aprove. and distancing from other zoomers, is what most zoomers will do in my view, just to prove they arent a failure, like the milenials
how are millennials failures?
@@god563616 just look at your average HR department and you will have your answer.
Knowing something specific is the cultural equivalent for the division of labour.
Well? Are they a truck or not!?
Zoomed are characterised by hypersarcasm and hypersurrealism driven the culturally accelerarionist force that is the Internet from my experience
1) Anyone remember the 56k flex modem - the one that went 'bong bong' in the middle of connection handshake?
2) 'Japanese cartoons'. Best entertainment.
3) Daria appears exactly where I do on the graph - up until the TDS/BDS lot crept out of the woodwork in 2016.
4) You are unique! Just like everyone else!
I think all dial-up modems did that, I remember my 28.8 doing it and being disappointed that my 56k didn't do it as ostentatiously
Oh no. Why did you have to do me like that...
Gen Z is the ultimate aggregation of fool romantics, in reaction to the cynicism of Gen X parents
While I can say is thank you for marking this video
Cringe.
Cope. Based. Red pilled.
@@hurtchain5844 the Byzantines were Roman! 😡😡😡😡
@@nickreid7737 They were.
Generation Z is truly fascinating and also tragic to look at. The first generation to truly dedicate most of their time in the digital world, yet still never really fitting in anywhere as if existing outside of time in some way. A product of whatever environment they find themselves in.
They are capable of living the way their parents and grandparents have had in the past, and understanding how to live in that time, yet at the same time they can completely change their way of life and what is on their mind, and how they act in a heartbeat.
Memories start to become confused with figments of the imagination, as they exist between the words, the photos, and the familiar smells and senses. They cannot be quantified digitally. Which is the environment they reside in. Some still try to remember however they can. But they will still find themselves among this fragmented, swirling mass of 'content' that is always at their fingertips, yet difficult to arrange.
What is interesting to note here, it seems that the generation of the parents they are raised by can have a massive effect on their development. One born and raised by Generation X or Baby Boomer parents will not be the same as one raised by Millennials. Yet the children of Generation Z, the first wave that has now reached adulthood, still share much in common with everyone born within the late 90s to the mid 2000s, no matter how different they might also seem.
If there's one word I'd probably have to use to quantify Generation Z at this stage, it would be 'chaotic'. All sorts of chaos.
A brewing pot from which a new world can arise perhaps?
@@respublica4373 the great reset, neo nationalism, or some hodge podge of regionalism like preferring Europeans over german, French, and etc
@@bellphorusnknight A warring states period on a global scale. Leading to decades of conflict between many warlords, nations, states and stateless. A war of ideologies and religions, until one, universal empire arises and unites them all.
Or slow descent into decay and decadence, under a global government. Many crafty human groups escape this hellhole into the final frontier. Soon, Earth itself is forgotten and the many Human nations across the starts forge their own cultures, histories and legacies.
Both of those options are based, now let's make one of them come true.
@@respublica4373 Oh, the humanity. We all wonder what will it become..
Delivery here was Bowdenesque
I'm hovering between gen Z and Millennial and I frankly have a hard time with both. I guess that's ironic to say considering that the millennial dilemma is identity and wanting to be unique and special.
All of the Sidemen are Millennials
And remember last video when I did millennials most of Take That, Britney Spears etc were Gen X, and most boomer music was by silent gen. this the way it rolled
@@RampantDaydream no, 82 is the cut off according to Strauss and Howe. She is the oldest gen x
@@AcademicAgent True, it is more that their audience is skewed towards millenials. They formed 7 years ago so the youngest millenials would have been about 17. They are not the definitive Zoomer entertainment, Tik Tok definitely is.
@@AcademicAgent If we are going by Strauss and Howe. Does that make me a Millennial, AA? Tell me, I need to know. I need to fit into a neatly constructed identity box, or else I am doomed.
In Sweden we had 2 channels, unless you had a parabolic antenna; and then when nineteen-ninety came around we had 3.
*Gen Z is the background noise you hear when you point a radio telescope to an empty void in space* 🤷🏻♀️ 🔭 🌌
I was born right at the end of 1994. It's weird because I don't really remember a time before the internet, but I do remember dial-up. I don't really identify with millennials, with their super-serious wokeness, and I do find zoomer humour to be mostly cringe although some of the ironic stuff is pretty funny. I grew up with ironic facebook meme pages, back when people actually used Facebook, I was the admin of one in highschool. Now my 17-year-old brother is the admin of an ironic Instagram page with 10k followers. Half his posts are 5-second clips that make literally no sense. I tend to identify slightly more with zoomers, but I suspect whatever you'd classify me as would be some weird inter-period between the two cultures
Will you be doing a video on the Silent Generation soon?
I'm only 25 but even I remember the social pressure in my primary school years against "showing off". Even at 7-9 kids recognise the smell of desparation to be liked. The zoomers lack this in its entirety.
I was born in 2003 and this was spot on.
So zoomers are called zoomers because they zoom from one extreme to another
Not a bad way of thinking about it
1 Corinthians 11:31-32 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
4:20 Isn't that just teenagers generally?
AA you make some great points however I think the question you should really be asking is if I am a truck
Those clips make me cringe.
"Are you a truck" 😩
@@automatedimagination Bruh that clip was super cringe.
It’s hilarious, honestly. A generation that gives two shits about things they don’t like and labels them “cringe” when literally everything they do and say is cringe.
That was 33.6kbps connection sequence iirc, 56k has an extra handshake
I’m either the youngest millennial or the oldest of gen z, depending upon how you count. I remember the time before iPods. I almost used tik Tom, until I realized it was made by communist bandits.
I still don't really understand what dial-up internet was.
At the risk that you're not exercising Gen X snark, I will actually try to answer this question honestly.
In the 90s, we didn't have the technology to have high-speed cable for video streaming. What we did have was landlines, where instead of cellphone towers that send and receive wifi signals, we had phone cables that connected to the service provider. These cables could only handle 56K bits of data. Seeing as how we're in a world of Gigs and Terabytes, 56K isn't anything. The result was using the internet was very slow and if your mom wanted to use the phone, your connection to the internet would suddenly cut. The term "dial-up" comes from using the house phone to dial to the internet.
@@dragonknightleader1 I'm gen Z. The idea of internet being connect to phone lines is inconceivable to me. I remember at school seeing a floppy disk and laughing at it as "ancient technology".
@@bengale9977 You are correct in saying that. Dial-up internet was ancient technology. It objectively sucked too for the reasons I stated earlier. Which is why cable internet was invented; so that we could see porn better.
In basic media terms, it took longer to download/display a photo than it does to download a feature length movie now. Mostly everything was text based - and even on the internet, you had to read pretty much everything. That was the golden age of email, chat forums, and im, as this was pre-meme times. There were no networked servers, there weren't even LAN parties yet, since LAN was yet to be distributed.
The good thing about being a young, working-class, northern lad is that you would just get twatted for doing stupid and embarrassing shit like TikTok.
Omg AA are we finished?
Am I a truck?
@@AcademicAgent what about the Doomers and the Bloomers?
@@theemeraldblonde218 Those are just subsets of Zoomers
Surprisingly less negative than I expected. I was expecting a rightful savaging of the zoomers but what I got feels low key optimistic.
My zoomer cousins are a bunch of tulips. Their parents have screwed up nicely...
If I had to describe Gen X as a Zoomer, the phrase "prestige without performance" comes to mind, you're all happy to sit on the side-lines and mock all generations before and after you, and talk yourselves up as this enlightened group that could have done so much if it weren't for the Boomers, but when it comes to actually doing anything you're nowhere to be seen. Where are the Gen X politicians? Where are the Gen X media figures and influencers? Gen X seems to have given up the fight before it began with their pessimistic "nothing matters, no change can really be made" attitude, hell even Zoomers have figures like Nick Fuentes trying to fight the good fight and we are still a long way off coming into our own as a generation. I scroll through these comments saying "I have no hope for the future", "The West has fallen", "Generation Z are no one", and I just cant help thinking what is the point of you? What is the point in having this same shit outlook that caused Gen X to fail? This isn't directed at you btw AA, aside from a couple of cringe takes this was a pretty good assessment of Zoomers, keep up the good work and spreading awareness of the cathedral.
ELON MUSK, JEFF BEZOS, BEYONCE AND A PLETHORA OF OTHER MEDIA AND CORPORATE GIANTS ARE GEN Xers so what are you talking about??
The philosophy with words yet no substance is what get's me.
That dial-up sound gives me traumatic flashbacks.
I dont see much different between zoomer internet humour and the all your base cheezburger internet humour of yesteryear except for the addition of pure narcissism.
Well the 12 year olds making youtube poops back in 2010 were zoomers, or the zoomers were the audience of the millennials making them, so thats the origin of the humour. More just a product of internet culture. One difference I would point out is I think that the pure absurdity is a result of political correctness. Things like Unforgotten Realms and NigaHiga from back then would be cancelled today even tho everyone watched them. So now zoomer humour is either completely clean like the tik tok truck thing, or as offensive as possible like 4chan humour. Zoomers are polarized even down to their humour.
@@nashthrashington9749 i havent seen much offensive zoomer humour tbh, but then i do try to avoid it as much as possible. What you said actually got me thinking of all that old newgrounds stuff and rathergood type sites. Making that stuff took a lot of effort. I used to make ytp back in the day and can attest lot of work went into them even when they looked like garbage. The tiktok stuff is much more immediate but also low effort. I dont even mean that in a negative way, just that all the software required is there in the app or the camera of their phones, no need to learn fancy video editing or flash animating, its just made in a few seconds on the fly. So maybe zoomer content is "old internet culture" minus the effort, plus political correctness, plus immediacy. Or something like that... I still think narcissism plays a big role. Gone is the anon attitude of days past, now its all "look at my face!"
Only if you’re using TikTok as your standard of humor. I’ve noticed memes become a lot more sophisticated over the 2010’s.
Am I a Zoomer or not. AA?
Typical zoomer probably knows an awful lot about something specific. For example, The history of the Roman Empire, and how the Byzantines were really Roman and everything else is wrong. But absolutely nothing about the broader culture.
@@respublica4373 That can also describe autists from any generation because of there inward tendencies lend to obssessive info-gathering.
@@automatedimagination That may yet mean I am a Millennial! Just a Millennial who actually has autism. Heroic will may yet still be mine!
@@respublica4373 Does it matter? Both Gen are awful.
@@the11382 Zoomers are just Millennials 2: Electric Boogaloo
The first time I heard the word "cringe" was the 1990 movie Ghost