1995 baby here so idk if I’m technically Gen Z or a Millennial, but I recently had to move back in with my mother when I lost my job and the massive shame I feel for it was hilariously juxtaposed by when my friend heard about it and said “you’re living with your mom again? Lucky bastard, wish I could move back in with my parents.”
I'm 24 and just graduated college. I went to college 15 minutes away and communed, then transfered to a college with a 2 year program for my profession. Now that I'm done I'm planning to continue living at home for another 2 years to keep pinching pennies until my student loans are paid off and I have accumulated enough work experience and saving to be able to finally & officially "move out".
@@kiptaylor3567 I literally had a conversation with my mom about this yesterday about how it’s normal for my generation (1995) to stay home until we pay off our student loans. Where as my mom’s generation (1955) didn’t leave home till they were married. It’s pretty interesting how things are similar, but different cuz we’re all staying home, the reason why has changed.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 except people got married at an age of 19 and the men were already full swing into their careers back then. Being at home until you’re 27 for loans you took is not the same.
Feels weird to be Gen-Z and still remember all the "old" tech those only a couple years younger than me don't. I remember always watching movies at home on VHS for the first 6 years of my life, my parents still using flip-phones, there being a box tv from the 90s still being in the living room. Heck I have early fond memories of Blockbuster when the middle schoolers I know grew up on Netflix and a tablet. Probably was my actually boomer parents (born in the very late 50s early 60s) just being slow to adopt new technology but it gives me a weird perspective on technology. EDIT: man this blew up, if only this channel wasn’t run by a lunatic on drugs.
I also remember that old tech. Not because of my parents being too old to move on, but because we were too middle class to replace our tech often. We had a huge box TV that’s language setting was stuck in Chinese and nobody could fix. I remember knocking that thing down and it almost fell on my brother and cousin. If it did they’d certainly have payed a visit to the ER LMAO
I still remember when Netflix would send dvds to you or before social media took off, and how kids would play outside or go to a friends house to play the Wii or search the web. Now everything is online. It’s weird but I kinda of miss that time
@@zeahoughtaling7912 Same. I miss being a kid when the most important thing to me was whether or not the neighborhood kids could come out to play today or if a new Adventure Time episode was on tv.
my parents were born around the same time, and im about to be 19. i still have a few hundred cd's between myself and my parents' collections. we got redbox movies a bunch when i was younger, and visited the local blockbuster before that. I remember watching the same VHS recording of charlie brown christmas every year until we finally got rid of the old CRT and upgraded to some newer tech. So it's kinda crazy to me when i see people not remembering all this stuff as its all a part of my childhood. While I'm more of a tech nerd (so I care a lot more about this older stuff than most) people only a few years younger than me never had these kinds of experiences.
It's true that gen z hate themselves. The sad part is that their elders cannot possibly comprehend what it's like to live devoid of intimate relationships and meaningful work. >No money >No free time >No kids >No families >No purpose other than to consume cheap products
Yep, gen z here and shit sucks. Between massive drug problems amongst us leading to having massive amounts of overdoses and mental health problems, and other social issues and pressures causing lots of suicides. I have always been described as having the highest work ethic of anyone in my peers yet I was unable to even drive until I was 20. Between my dad not allowing me to drive until I was 18 and covid lockdown starting on my 18th birthday (yes literally). Making it impossible to even get a DMV appointment for almost 11 months even for a learner where I lived. This meant it was impossible for me to have any half decent job all through highschool, no car, or ability to play any sports that involved travel for practice etc... this made it damn near impossible for me to have any relationships or friends. I was the #1 student in every program I had interest in, yet couldn't apply anything learned in the real world. Things have started to turn around though, finally got my driver's license 2 ish months ago and threw everything I owned except my computer into a bag and moved out to go work at a job I've wanted for a while. Still gotta get my own place as I'm crashing on a couch. But meaningful friendships and relationships still aren't even in sight.
I have been protesting how things have been done for a long time. I understand you, you aren't the only one like that. I might have one thing you don't, I have seen a better world, I have hope. As money goes down, so does the ability to police people. The less people drive, they more they walk together. There will be a lot of repair of infrastructure to be done once things get in order. Doing it as a community will bring purpose.
@@Extremekhan24 as a millineal, I've always been concerned on how much consumption of internet that society has been given. I constantly see kid's being given devices at such an early age and expect thing's to be the same.
Growing up as a Gen Z is hard. I’m a senior in high school 17 about to turn 18 in a couple of months and throughout my life I’ve noticed a steady shift in how everyone at my school viewed the world. Most people in middle school and my early years of high school were pretty welcoming. It wasn’t hard to find a friend group and at the very start of the technological shift we didn’t really have too much addiction to social media. Kids mostly didn’t care about their ego they were just living and trying to set up a good future. Now we don’t even care about the future because we assume everything is screwed from the start. We just go to school to complain about school and head home anxious and stressed tuning into tik tok to waste away for hours as a distraction from life itself. It’s honestly sad to see how cynical everyone has become. Nobody around my age even enjoys living. One of my classmates last year committed suicide. It used to be actively addressed in schools and people actually would care about this person in a different age, but 3 days after the news hit there were people mocking his passing, people making jokes about their own disorders saying they were going to be next, and people even saying they saw it coming and told no one. It’s heartbreaking how self absorbed we’ve become.
I'm REALLY, really sorry you've had to go through just....everything you just said. When I was in high school kids did the same thing when someone committed suicide. Were sad about if for a day, then a few days later make jokes about it etc. I think part of that reaction is just them dealing with the horror because they don't know any other emotional way to process it. Again, I'm REALLY sorry. You're a good human and if you're able or willing, I hope you can maybe reach out a friendly to hand to people who maybe look like they're having a bad day. You might end up saving a life or 10--and making friends and a difference. I know it can be daunting to do that if you have social anxiety or are extremely introverted though. You really do deserve better. Thank you for existing--you're needed.
I’m also a junior in high school and one thing I learned is that there is a big difference between larger schools and smaller ones I’m in a very small public school and I have seen the smartest people that where forced to be smart by parents etc. become very depressed at this age because they Learned that the one thing that really makes them as they are is not who they think they are. Then they become a average student with a worse social life that will probably not help them along the way. It just feels like everyone says that there is no future and the the world is going down the drain but we also need to hear the good to give us a better reason to move on and work harder.
Well I wouldn't say you have no hope. Rather you need to find what will work for you in the time being. You need to forget what prior generations had to use and use something that fits with today. Obviously houses are out of reach and rent is way to expensive. An RV would be a good cheap option for getting out of your parents house. The park cost are usually competitive and you can sometimes find people who are fine with you parking it on their land for a small fee. Buying anything new right now probably ain't the best options on the table. Forget trends also because it ain't worth the money in the long run. Learns skills that will help you in career options and living through life. Learning mechanical skills will help you fix your car and you won't need to pay someone else to do that. If you can. Grow your own food. It will benefit you over time.
Most kids these days hate school because they're afraid of it getting shot up. I'm 15, nearly 16, and have plans for the nearest exit in each room I'm taught in aswell as like how to barricade.
@@BingleDOop villains are created as victims, people who have been harmed and abused by the evils of human behavior, who then change their ethics/behavior as a defensive reaction to being harmed by others race to the bottom 😔
@@BingleDOop huh?? what a dumb response. if you hate on men they'll leave your society and it will collapse. ask how us army feels when they are having major issues recruiting....
@Deadpoppin Not ourselfs but we hate our generation. Compare that to the generation fighting ww2. Of all western countries. They be rolling in their graves for the west. I do hate my generation, we dont share any values or ideas.
I think its more well known than a new thing. In the 70s there was a sentiment of young people that they should harm themself to death because humans where bad. But they did not have social networks back then to broadcast it
This really resonates with me. I was born in 99. I have a STEM degree and a good job. In a time table sense I am outperforming my parents, yet I have less than they do, can’t get a girlfriend, and work 12 hour days for an 8 hour wage.
if you're looking for a serious relationship and not just casual dating I think it's possible to find a relationship. Hard, but possible. A lot of dating advice given to men is counterproductive
@@DacLMK thats no a real problem, in my country people start in university from 17 to 23yo and doesn't change anything, I just start my career with 21 after failing in the election when I was 19 and I have make several things to prepare my self and don't be so stress about a future labor life
Thank you for highlighting how dire the circumstances are right now for the upcoming generation instead of just calling them weird, lazy, and entitled.
Calling someone lazy is inherently lazy. If someone is lazy, there is a reason for it and it would be lazy to not inquire or seek to understand why the person is being lazy and what it would take for them to not be lazy anymore.
As a millennial teacher who teaches Gen Z kids, this is spot on, especially the part about nihilism. About 20% of my students routinely fail at just about every subject. And I don’t mean just fail, I mean have an average of
if a kid spends alot of time on the internet with all the useless sht on there and aren't pushed enough from an early age to do real life things and gain real confidence and self esteem, it's not surprising that they become super neurotic and hopeless, which obviously leads to many depression/self pity/self hatred cycles and addictive behavior. I was born in 2000 and I'm trying to get out of it, I halted my progress towards getting a computer science degree during the pandemic and now I'm trying to finish it and get an internship. I have potential but I definitely needed some more exposure to things as a kid/teen. My parents understandably made the mistake of protecting me too much and not pushing me into more uncomfortable situations/experiences. It's still mostly my fault . I remember the time before the internet I was just watching movies and tv shows constantly when I wasn't doing academic stuff. I would go out with friends from time to time but it wasn't frequent. And I wish I didn't avoid sports so much, if you apply yourself fully in them they can teach you so much about life and yourself. As a kid whenever I was in a sport (after my parents forced me) I was completely miserable because I had the wrong mindset about all of it. So I didn't stick with anything long term. Once the ipads and iphones took over in the 2010's I got a strong internet addiction and found more excuses to stay inside all the time. A kid needs to be constantly outside and interacting with people in a meaningful way, and also be surrounded by role models. It's too easy for them to just lock themselves in their room nowadays and do nothing fulfilling for years. Then when you're an adult life suddenly hits you like a brick, and feeling of inadequacy in so many areas is overwhelming. And the feeling of not knowing yourself or what you're capable of is the worst of all.
@@zainm5919 I related to your post so much, I had an internet addiction in my early teens that lingers to this day, and also had been sheltered a bit. I always wish I interacted with more people in those years, and had taken more risks.
I hate trying to talk to young people and hearing "I don't care" or "It doesn't matter" ... and the inability to enjoy things on the outside like national parks or beautiful botanical gardens or anything really that doesn't involve digital & technology... its sad, and all the young girls going out on their parents dime but just staring at their phones or gossiping about boys
@@zainm5919 so relatable, I think everyone in our generation feels the same way. If I may disagree with you slightly though I think people put too much emphasis on internet addiction. Consuming too much content isn’t the source of our issues but rather a symptom of a larger problem. I really like the analogy of the native Americans and how they had no social customs to deal with alcoholism. Just like how our parents didn’t know what to do about internet addiction. But addiction is way more complicated than that, several of my loved ones are alcoholics and everytime they’ve had an episode it’s not because alcohol itself is so tempting but rather it’s because something awful is happening in their lives and alcoholism is how they escape. The native Americans had their entire way of life destroyed, if your people are facing genocide then yea you might as well sit around and get wasted all day. You brought up role models and I think that’s a good point, both of my parents have bachelors degrees and yet we barely survived the past recessions. This sounds kinda cringe but as a kid I always found it depressing how much they struggled to maintain our middle class lives, making sacrifices like constantly missing school events so they could stay late at work, just for them to get laid off anyways. That’s happened to all my friends too. Meanwhile all the people on social media flaunting their wealth are talentless hacks. Idk if it’s just the era we live in but zoomers are fully aware of the fact that hard work just doesn’t get you anything. Might as well give up and scroll through TH-cam and TikTok. When it comes to school though I think it’s an issue of common core. Gen z is the most media literate generation and I think we can recognize that what we’re studying in K-12 is just meaningless content, the same as our social media feeds. If you blame zoomers as being lazy you don’t understand the problem, you also shouldn’t tell yourself this was somehow your fault. It seems there are no more opportunities left, there’s no future to look forward to anymore, so gen z behavior actually makes a lot of sense. It’s not good and we need to find a way to solve it but we’ll never come to a solution unless we recognize that giving up is a rational response.
Could this also be a sign that the education system is not designed to give them a reason to learn? It is not so much an education system as it is an indoctrination system that does not teach emotional intelligence or critical thinking. It hardly covers why anything is the way it is and whether or not these things have to be the way they are or not.
Being at the oldest level of Gen Z I feel like I had it pretty good growing up amd I was able to notice the ideological shift in real time. Its been an odd experience lmao
I second this, watching it in real time is very….. eye opening. Almost more eye opening is watching everyone change with the times as I refuse to do so
I am 2004 year born, and I am ukrainian. I haven't seen actions going, but honestly the war changed me and gave me meaning and sense of life. I have a feel that people don't value what they just don't have to fight for.
Same, I was born in 1999, My infancy was spent climbing trees, playing football with my friends, ps2 and just hanging out with them. Also I remember that back then you could call your friend Gay for almost no reason, today you will be called homophobic
@@alphagamer9505 I am born in 1999 too and back then childhood was very good. Social Media only peaked when i was 12 years and the internet was still evolving and not that much prevelant in my childhood. Also Facebook was the only social media i joined back then because everyone was joining back then and after some months i found Facebook very shallow so i became inactive and later deleted it. Without Social media ppl were more active in my opinion and way more happier. I think our mind is nowadays living in two realities, one of them being social media and the other being the natural real world. Community was stronger back then and i think community is a big factor in happiness!
As a millennial, I went through a lot of bad experiences that I hope Generation Z will avoid. Moving to the big city was a mistake; rents are too high and wages are too low. I ended up living in overcrowded, unsafe housing, paying every penny into rent, unable to go out, live or do anything because there was no money after paying the rent. It was awful. (And no, education doesn't help enough. I have two degrees, both from good universities). Corporate jobs are not worth the stress, the long hours and the abysmal behaviour by management. Relationships are a catastrophe, and online dating is a minefield. Make sure the person you date is 1) holding a valid passport 2) not married 3) has a job, otherwise you're going to be experiencing a lot of problems. Don't make a disaster of your life, or you'll end up like me: age 35, living with my parents, no wife or children, and attempting to retrain into a totally different career path because my original career ended in burnout and failure. Generation Z, if you're reading this, make the right life decisions: find out what you love doing, and figure out how to sell that back to society as a service. That's where a satisfying job comes from. And, good luck. I honesty hope life goes better for your guys than it did for me over the past 12 years. As for me, the solution: I became a teacher, I love my students and my time now goes into trying to help the future generation as best I can.
Generation Y/Millennials the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Generation Z/Zoomers the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
@@veiserexab1428 You forgot "no job economy, no grocery stores, no activities, bad schools, bad police force, bad roads, drug and alcohol addicted youth, and boredom"
@@The_Real_Frisbee They do have grocery but in a smaller scale, yes schools are bad or at least mediocre, drugs and alcohols are also present in city like the crackheads and addicts on LA Skid row, NYC, Florida, you name it And it's not really boring if know what you're going to do
As a fellow midwestern zoomer, this is spot on. I try to stay off of social media and to only consume intellectual stuff on TH-cam, and the nihilism and pain I have avoided because of it is astounding. Thanks for making this!
Hey, im like you, but in the future. I suggest trying not to spend too much time a day on intellectual TH-cam content- it really can start to wear you down lol. Remember to watch a puppy video inbetween or something to give your brain a break💖
As an older millennial, Globalism wrecked the middle class. I remember dads with good paying manufacturing jobs with benefits who had stay at home wives and 3 kids and went on vacation. We the millennials were sold the lie that shipping those jobs over seas and having everyone go to college would make things better.
Problem is that it seems to be a trend in countries without nearly as much immigrant labor as well. People these days really do just want to pay us less to do more.
as someone who did a smidge of research on globalism trying to defend it, i instead found all the reasons why globalism is completely wrecking havoc for a lot of ppl, which was very *f u n*
@@rubyy.7374 The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
We're a weird generation. We're either nihilistic, oblivious, narcissistic, or mentally unstable. We take a post online as a phrase said out loud, we just seem to be so wrapped in escapism.
"We take a post online as a phrase said out loud". Yeah, this is definitely something that started when Facebook and Twitter got huge. Before then, the internet was a big joke that everyone was in on, not something to be taken seriously. Your real life and virtual life were separate things.
I was surprised you didn’t mention the massive unprecedented social experiment on every young person in the first world from 2020-2021. Everyone spent a whole year or more in online school isolated from their peers. As an ‘04 baby, I’d say that the pandemic’s social isolation was by far the most negative experience of my life, and that’s coming from someone who was on crutches for the last 5 months from shattering my ankle.
That is going to be a defining generation split for the youngest kids. As a teacher I am seeing the lack of socialization for that long being a big problem with my students this year.
That in itself deserves a separate 20-30 minute video on its own. Perhaps Whatifalthist should do a part 2 of this video that details what you commented on with regards to COVID's impact on our generation. Both right now and the potential ramifications globally, not just here in the First World.
I didn't really experienced that degree of isolation during the pandemic, still worked like before, still saw my friends regularly. Hell the lockdown was just one month over here where I live.
In the Nihilism section around 21:07 "when you remove the ability to believe in something from young peoples lives, they remove the ability to believe in something greater than their own suffering " is a pretty profound thing say. You can hear the ring of truth in it. I grew up in the 1980s and I work with a bunch of younger people. I've seen over time how incredibly awkward and hesitant everyone has become. I kinda understand what the younger people are going thru. I'm gen x and see this but baby boomers are super disconnected from this. They don't understand this at all. It makes me feel really upset about the state of things today.
Its infuriating because they caused it but never mind like really no jobs no affordable school no wages since I've been alive like it's strange all those old men caused all this and it's my fault for not eating shit enough still in 2023 eat more shit grin when eating it they say your weak date lower quit this do this drive this smile eat some more shit give me all your wages for a box eat more shit .....
I played a game of Valorant today, a kid gets on the mic and instantly starts flaming me, calling me slurs saying we lost because of the character I picked. He continues for three rounds really throwing out some horrendous shit. I mute him and move on. Clearly he is still flaming because the rest of my team continues to shit on him. After 20 minutes, I hear my teammates defend me again and I tell them "Don't worry man he's just raised by an iPad, kid didn't have a dad" (you should have heard what he was saying). For a solid 5 minutes my teammate said something that got him to completely open up and I unmute him. His tone has completely changed and he is answering questions about hit life. He is 16, from Detroit and works at McDonalds. His Dad left his mom when he was one - he had seen him once and said he was just a bum who lived off of his new wife's money. It was an insane heart to heart that I had never heard, and the kid began to admit that he shouldn't have been so toxic. He actually starting talking about the future and although things had been hard, he was working and felt confident that he could survive and thrive. It was really crazy and I hope it wasn't the greatest actor of all time but I felt this connection with a kid that I had been there 5 years before, feeling the same way but with much different circumstances.
That's hope for the future because people for one do have a right to snap, to hurt, to express. My generation (millennials) ironically made that shit into a Taboo where boys doing such ar "toxic and fragile". You two were able to understand each other which is all we can do in life.
I actually have been from this kids perspective. I was playing league of legends, years back, was facing a riven and getting utterly stomped. And I did what every league player does, start shit talking your opponent because you are insecure about your own skill. After a while of back and forth just getting more and more heated he said something that broke through to me "all I wanna do is play my favorite champ but I always leads to me getting nothing but hate and vitriol for just playing the game how I want to" Suddenly I dropped everything. I apologized, and we spent the rest of the game and about an hour in the post lobby just talking about life. By the end we both though eachother were genuinely cool despite all the hateful words that had been said, ended up friending them afterwards. Honestly anyone that is spitting vitriol and poison just needs someone that can take it enough to get to what they really want to say. Hell the big thing I realized was the words I was using to describe what I hated most in people were the exact words I never wanted to hear anyone say about me because it was the things I felt deep down. I'm in such a different place now I can't even think of the types of insults I used to lobby because I just don't think like that anymore. I used to be a pathetic dude that had a video game addiction and would literally look at time as this thing I wanted to pass me by, I just wanted to close my eyes and be to the part of my life where I was successful and finally doing all the things I wanted to do. Now I view time as this nearly infinite thing, we have all the time in the world yet we squander it in meaningless BS because the prospect of being alone with our thoughts and having to critically think about things is so alien that it actively drives many insane.
Being Gen Z and having just turned 18 yesterday, I feel this video on such an emotional level. Most videos that talk about Gen Z either say that we're the most conservative generation (due to the '08 crash) or that we're the most progressive generation, but neither of those are true. This video is, I think, the most accurate representation of my generation. And, even though initially I thought the divide between Gen Z and Gen Alpha was weird, I can now understand it. I was born in 2004, but my two cousins were born in 2010 and 2014, and I feel that there's such a cultural gap between us. While both them and I grew up with the Internet, and I have always used the Internet, our experiences with it are completely different. I can still remember the pre-2016 Internet, while they never experienced it. I also remember when smartphones weren't commonplace, the iPhone and stuff like it was such a cool and new thing for me... Though of course I won't remember it as vividly as some of the older people in here, as I still was a kid when the iPhone came out. I'm really thankful for having been born in 2004 and not later, as at least I never got to experience the horrible social justice monster in my childhood. One thing I really agree with the video is the pervasive nihilism in my generation. It seems like nothing has meaning anymore, that everyone's depressed, and I hate that. I've made it my mission to try to be more optimistic, to thing of the good things in life, however small they might be; to have a positive outlook on life. But it seems I'm mostly alone in this.
I agree that there are clear differenes in kids born later. I was born '02 and for me the spread of smartphones and digital integration came at an age where I can clearly remember life before it. Later kids have never lived without it. Simple things like five-year-olds playing Fortnite on a mobile phones I think make a great difference.
‘03 baby here. Having graduated from highschool last year, I’ve experienced or seen firsthand most of the things mentioned in this video. While it’s true that the system is pretty fucked and most of us are ill equipped to face it, every generation has had it’s trials and tribulations. It’s just that we’re the first generation in almost 100 years that will probably have to face more traditional threats and issues, compounded by modern technology and social norms.
Can relate, I’ve become the de facto therapist for a lot of people I know IRL. If you care to or want to know why… Listen to what people say, while trying to remain unbiased, and acknowledging your bias/viewpoint. Try to help people find value in life beyond money, sex, or image. Maintain a conversation, not just platitudes, thoughtless encouragements/positivity, or cliched one liners. A willingness to help anyone with anything at anytime. Consistence in character (be honest, accept people for what they say, and make sure people know the advice is just an opinion they don’t have to listen to). As previously stated this is opinion, but I don’t suggest people do this kind of stuff unless you realize what you’re getting into, I’ve kept or directly stopped two or more people from committing suicide or other self destructive stuff (that I know of), I tend to be in situations a lot of introverted/anxious people hate getting into, and I’ve taken a few hits that could’ve been avoided (mostly socially and physically). The following bit you should listen to though, especially if you’ve for some reason read this far, have a nice day!
As a member of gen z, I had to miss nearly a whole year of school due to the pandemic. My mother, who has suffered through starvation and and lack of money, has said the pandemic is the worst time of her life. We have to live through all of this stupid shit that only makes us only more cynical and lonely than previous generations. I can’t stand the idea that we will never be successful and we will have to just grow up to be another cog in the machine. EDIT: Thanks for the support and encouragement everyone!
People need to stop being afraid of a D/Ä/M/N C/Ö/L/D I have to write it like that otherwise Google will delete the comment, just to show how distopian the times we live in
I’m a 51 yr old man w a 21 yr old daughter. I just wanted to say that this video is just so..so..*chefs kiss* It’s very very well done! Everything you touched on in this video is something I’ve been trying to convey to others my age who always say “Gen Z is soooo lazy and entitled” and I have to disagree to a point. So…thank you for spending so much time on putting this video together..you’ve explained it WAY better then I EVER could. I look forward to watching many more of your videos in the future.
I’m a younger gen-z, I think what make me really stressed is the constant reminder of needing to fight or speak up or change something. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to protesting and challenging unfair rules and injustice, it’s just it gets really tiring when teachers and others are constantly reminding you of all the injustice in the world while you can’t even get your mental health and school work in check. “You have to be an allie or you’re also a part of the problem” my teacher once told the class, when we were trying to have a discussion on the war in Ukraine my teacher kept trying to make the conversation about racism and less about actually what was going on. You have to question everything and government mandated education is telling you to rebel against the government. Maybe this is just me and call me lazy all you want, but to me it’s really stressful
Nah you're right don't be like these people if you see 100 people going one way it's better to go the other. Don't let there problems control you and stay focused on your goals and the bigger picture
@@ltchip2593 let's be honest it's better to be classified as a homophobic then justify these peoples lies and abominations but I get where your coming from bro
@@Xlicty How do you know its dominance based? What does that actually mean? It's important to remember homophobia is a human thing, most animals fuck for pleasure and are not concerned with sexuality. Also no ... you're objection wouldn't have been homohobic, it would have been a question.
I thought you were older, you are very fluent and can express your ideas very concisely, you should be proud of the TH-cam channel you've created. As a Mexican a Gen Z myself, I definitely see a lot of Nihilism and negativity from my friends towards the future, but not in a depressing way, more like making fun of our inevitable doom. One key factor here is the amount of power the cartel keeps getting across the country and how it's getting more and more integrated with the government. There's this strong feeling that justice in Mexico is almost nonexistent and only those with money or those willing to break the law will be the only ones that will be successful. I feel the next 2-4 years will be crucial for Mexico's future because of some political events that are coming up.
Care to tell us more about the problems in Mexico? As an American with parents who came from Mexico, I would like to know. My mom's hometown was actually controlled by gangsters for a while. They even set up a curfew. They outmanned and outgunned the local police, who were helpless to do anything. They had informants in the military as well, so whenever the army would try to drive them out of the area, they would be alerted before the operation, and flee for safety. Then when the armed forces left, they would return. I believe that this only ended when the people of the town banded together to expel them once and for all.
I'm some kind of immigrant who moves around because of reasons, I think I'm completely consumed by Nihilism and believes that the world naturally trends towards evil and we are just waiting for the next reset to occur because it takes a lot of deaths for it to revert. I think to cure the current problem we would need a select 60% of the population to be dead.
young ppl are capable of growing up really quick under the right circumstances problem is society actively tries to prevent most ppl from growing up these days
@@gerardoguzman2707 Yes, this is a pretty common situation, specially in key states like Michoacán and Guerrero where many cartels have important territory. There's not much more to tell, as what you comment is pretty accurate. I am no expert as all that I'm saying here is based on what I see as a Mexican myself and what I read in different news sources, but I feel there's no easy way out at this point. Many people say the best solution would be to legalize drugs so the cartel won't have any income, but we are 10 years too late for that. The cartel has grown too powerful, and the government is obviously with them, though it varies from state to state as different state governments are allied with different cartel groups. This is a very complex situation that will keep evolving with the years, but this is the best answer I can give you at the moment based on what I can see.
I know you analyze this from an American perspective but Gen-Z is quite interesting in Eastern Europe as well. I'm a millennial born after the fall of the Iron Courtain. I grew up at the same time as my country made the transition from communism to capitalism. Because communism kept people forcefully "equal", the millennials of Eastern Europe had more or less a similar head start in life. This doesn't hold true for the people born around the end of the 90's though. They started life in families of varying levels of wealth and success and had the opportunity to use the internet earlier in life. The zoomers here are either very smart and very capable or complete morons. I don't think there has ever been such a large intra-generational skill and wealth gap. Once they reach their 40s in about 15-20 years, the social inequality between zoomers is going to be brutal.
i'm a romanian zoomer (2003). i must add that eastern europe and romania in particular from my observations is facing the biggest brain drain in human history. All the smart kids i grew up with including myself dream of greener pastures in the west where our skills won't be underpaid like they are here, and all the not-so-bright kids dream of picking strawberries in spain and coming back as rich men. I really expect total social collapse due to our aging population (social security becoming worthless) and i don't know how the EU will play into this.
@@Sunrah Brain drain is a massive issue for alot of countries. I am from Aus and if we just invested in training our own people we wouldn't need to drain countries like yours. It's frustrating for everyone because it eats into opportunities for people to become skilled here as well. Not saying you guys don't have the worse end of the stick though.
@@Sunrah Bosnian gen Z ('04) here, absolute same issue as Romania. Nationalist tensions as a consequence of the war with Serbia 30 years ago, which also massively affected our economy, so much so that we are literally still recovering, but we're unable to develop even a smidge of the economic power we had in Yugoslavia. Primitivism stemming from the majority of our population being boomers (and then zoomers... our population age chart looks like a dumbbell) coupled with this drives young people away to other countries. Feeling like we can't grow ideologically nor economically in our motherland, we pursue other countries, primarily Germany. Sometimes I feel like there's 10 people left here.
Gen Z starts in the 21th century. You're looking at false definitions on Google. Gen Z 2000-2015 or 2001-2016 Z alpha 2015-2018 or 2016-2019 Gen Z ends in the late 2010s not 2012 that's completely false. USA TODAY - Pandemics like COVID-19 can be generation-defining events, but experts say it's too early to create a label for those coming after Gen Z. Gen Z is still the newest generation. Zoomers internet kids. 2010s born's are still gen z. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Someone born in 2001-2002 are developing into adults surrounded by both the help, expertise and pressures of social media, the internet and advanced technology. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. Real millennial definition. Generation Y/Millennials, the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
I'm gen Z. It's hard to socialize with people. It always has been difficult. High schools are basically a day-care for kids that want to be on there phones all day. Kids don't trust each other easily. It's hard to date because we see the divorce rates of our parents generations and if it's not our dream boy or dream girl, then forget dating, but when we actually do find our dream boy or dream girl, we ultimately end up having a hard time socializing because we weren't taught to socialize. Our economy has been awful since COVID. I'm glad we haven't had to be drafted into any pointless wars so far and I'm glad that we do have certain technologies to make life easier. We at least have food stamps to help us if we're not doing well financially. (I know thats divisive) At least we didn't grow up having to struggle to survive like my great grandparents or great aunts and uncles who grew up rural.
great point on dating, we are always looking for “the one”. But wont settle for anything less and as a result, it could be the perfect person. But you havent experimented enough with others to properly have a relationship.
The difference between gen z and our grandparents who fought in WW2 at a similar age is that while they fought in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and many of them didn't come back, the society that they were part of, even if damaged by war, was a lot more welcoming and a lot more fulfilling to live, friends, family and the community was very vibrant and full of life in that generation. My grandfather in his early 20s was drafted for the war and fought against the Soviet Bolsheviks. He was eventually captured during a mission and spent many years in Russia in working camps, usually without appropriate warm clothing. So he stared death in the face, and suffered for many years as a slave in the freezing cold, but he still had hope that he could one day return to his home, which he did. My generation isn't suffering from war, but the society that kept our grandparents' spirits up during struggle no longer exists, the community, friendships and vibrant culture no longer exists for us. So even if our grandparents suffered more, we ourselves have little to live for.
Back then you could work a fast food job and actually own a house and raise a family. What way of life do us Zoomers have to fight for in foreign conflicts? Oil?
generation Z.. had to look up the stuff, for use in my country i found this for gens on the workfloor now : Babyboomers: geboren tussen 1941-1955. Generatie X: geboren tussen 1956-1970. De Xennial: geboren tussen 1971-1985. Generatie Y: geboren tussen 1986 - 2000. Generatie Z: geboren vanaf 2001 - 2015. gen Z, there was a late millenium bug there in 2018 at my work back then :-) the software for personel, did not allow a '00 entry for year of brith :-D so it was imposseble to enter a new emplyee of just 18 in the system i wonder how widespread such small problems were ;-).
@@magmapixel8627 if I understand correctly, the main reason low payed jobs also get you fewer and fewer hours work, is cause of not having to allow union representation?? fuck, that is only one more sympton that shows you need union representation HARD !! in western europe, social security put down a minimum, if working wage, lessened with cost of getting to work , like cost to upkeep a car for a lot badly located jobs, (here good located jobs means also easely accessable by some form of public transport, car ownership in cities had been declining since 2000 i think ;-) ) why would you bother? then you are better off on a minimun social security pay check, to only have enough to survive, and combine that with voluntairy work that give you much more meaningfull social connection as most work situation today allow for! also, it's illegal here to state 'tipps' are in any way a normal part of a wage.. tipps are : you feel well helped and friendly threathed, and want to express that. waiters get at least a minimun wage here, that also means, higher paid if you work pas 22h (10pm for anglosaksens who don't use 24h time in writing ;-) ) but i see, encouraging sign in amercia, i hope it comes quick enough, cause currently the social security systems is being build off from all corners slowly year by year... hollowed out... But difference really showed with amozone coming to europe! when european workors striked, they made contact to usa workers comparing there situation, seeing that in the usa they ad even worse working conditions ! so maybe you'll learn to strike again too against working condition that smell more like a modern serf status then ay real freedom in choice were your work... back under rosevelt, it was the usa who had the best social security! it was the whole cold war period that made you guys extremely oversuspicious of everything social security, cause it would 'smell like cominism' ... while it's in many ways the oppositie, affordable education allows real possibility to work yourself up. Social security allows being a bit more selective in new job, in stead of having to take the first thing you can, just to be able to survive.. it has to be paid of course, by higher taxes, especially for those who earn more, but one thing even the big earners get in return is a lot more social stability.
"The first generation on our records that hate themselves more than they are hated by their elders" Hit the nail on the freakin head there mate. Edit: What has this thread come to
I hate the sewer trash that is every generation. I hate mine the most because they still have hope. Let’s see how that hope holds as the climate wars kick off
Lol at kids these days thinking they are "edgy" and "cool." If anything, the baby boomers back in the 60s and 70s were the most shocking transition from the sensibility of their parents in the 50s. The biggest counterculture movement in modern history.
Speaking strictly as an American, I have felt all my life that the supposed mediating institutions were flawed and untrustworthy. So much of our lives is commoditized that any given exchange feels like a hidden attempt to swindle or coerce me into some kind of money-making scheme at my expense. Religion, politics, every meaningful arena of discourse is subverted by a hunger for money that has only gotten worse. I feel like the only honest person in a country ruled by con artists. I know that can't literally be true, but actual normal people are so disincentivized to be themselves that I cannot trust ANYONE.
It's hard to gain trust these days, there is so much information that you sometimes cannot tell apart from the true and the false. I always had that feeling that everything is there to manipulate the individual. Everyone seems greedy because of that hustle mindset. Nonetheless, there are still honest people in this world, except that these people are so far apart that they rarely meet.
I’m scared because I used to have such big dreams and ambitions. I used to be so highly motivated it was scary. I was a 4.0 student and was involved in many clubs and extracurriculars. I had such an internal drive to succeed and willingness to do whatever it took. Everyone around me was certain I would make it and viewed me as “most likely to succeed”. I’m scared though because it’s all left me now. All my motivation and drive, all of it seems pointless and useless. I found myself getting lazier and not wanting to do what I used to because it all seems so pointless. It seemed like even if I succeeded, it wouldn’t be worth it, like the pain and suffering I spent doing it wouldn’t be enough. I don’t know what to do about this. I’m not even quite sure how to explain it or put it into words. I feel unmotivated and anxious. I’m anxious about my future and about what’s happening to the world and what it means for me. This all started in the end of 2021 for me. Maybe it was COVID, as it ruined the tightly knit schedule I had built for myself. Maybe it was the political tension. Maybe it was lack of structure in my life. Maybe it was online schooling (which I think was a major cause). I am getting a quite a bit better now that I’m using my electronics less (I got a flip phone and I’m writing this on my laptop) but I’m still not even half as motivated as I once was. I am trying to find that part of me again and it’s scary not knowing where it went or why. I hope I continue to get better as I continue to stay off and away of the online media’s. Only time will tell though. For all of you going through the same thing, you’re not alone. You’re not a failure and nothing is wrong with you. It’s going to be okay.
Pretty much the exact same story for me! I have been getting better though week by week and it seems to only get easier, but damn is it hard to get started and even easier to lose it. Wishing you the best!
Being gen z who grew up in a somewhat isolated rural America, it’s odd seeing how most of my peers are stuck in such constant loops with mental health and social media, yet I was exposed to none of that until my late teens. Such a large culture shock and I never thought I’d experience it in my own country.
College has been an eye-opener for me. A lot of my peers at my school come from urban backgrounds where was I grew up in hicktown. It’s been hard to make meaningful relationships there because it seems like everyone else is just so cynical and uninterested in having meaningful relationships. And the ones who are also come from rural backgrounds. Unfortunately your friends are often where you find them so it’s often hard for me to get together with the ones I connect with most.
I’m a Gen-Xer and have felt guilty for finding late-Millennial and Gen-Z colleagues cold, insincere, and even reflexively mean but i don’t think i appreciated the existential crises they’ve grown up experiencing and how it affects their psyches. If we (X) had warmer & more organic friendships, it’s because we had lots of factors working in our favor. These are really tipping-point crises that need to be addressed because to allow every successive young American generation suffer worse on average is unconscionable.
As a gen z who lived in rural america also, I didn't recieve my first phone until I was 18 when I could buy one myself. This had otherworldly effects on me compared to my peers. Now the city life honestly terrifies me more than anything else, so I live with my mom since my dad passed away six months ago in my little pocket of pastures. Life is simple out here! Collect chicken eggs, milk the goats, play with the animals, and try to protect the homestead from wild dogs and cars. What I love most is looking up at the sky at night! You can see all the stars in the sky and galaxies. When I went to the city for the first time(because my boyfriend is from there), I was astonished by the night. It was so dark! I mean there were street lights but no stars and barely could see the moon. Everyone in the city look like their on drugs. They have sores on the face and stagger when they walk. I couldn't believe this was how the majority of people live. It is bizarre. Just like when city folk come where I live they are profoundly agast by what I do. Most children who have visited don't know that chickens are animals that make chicken nuggets or that milk comes from udders!
@@coopersweeney1336 same man, I used social media but I never let it consume me. Having lived in a big urban city it’s very hard to meet like minded people who aren’t constantly worrying what somebody else thinks of them. It also makes it hard to tell people when good news happens to you. It’s like people are stuck in their heads more than ever and their envy is through the absolute roof, like they have no compassion and don’t see themselves in anybody else.
@@x77punk77x I think the boomers are gonna start dying in mass once the 21st Century Crisis goes full swing. Once they die, their children will finally receive the inheritance that is rightfully there’s.
That speech at the end about not giving up with the cards stacked against you hits really close to home for me. I've been feeling lost in my life recently and that bit was really inspiring, keep up the great videos!
I definitely feel like my soul got sucked out of me by this generation. I remember my mom telling me that I used to be so energetic and happy as a kid. I don’t even remember having those kinds of memories. As a 20 year old I’m still trying to find things I want to do and want to be. I feel lost. Hopefully I see the light at the end.
As someone that is a bit older the 20s is the worst period of your life.. People tell you all the time to take advantage of your youth and all that, to find your path and how "happy" youth is supposed to be.. But all that is very hard.. and without having a path it all feels meaningless.. I hated life (badly) all of my 20s.. The turningpoint for me was 30.. then things started to get gradually better and at now 35+ life has never been better.. I think you could find this in many studies as well.. That life get better after 30-35.. So just don't give up... It will suck but hopefully there will be good moments..
At age 20, most of us don't have any ambition or goals rather than earn money. For most people, ambitions and real goals comes only after late 20s. Our brain is only developing even during early 20s. Just be patient it will come one day. I'm a millennial in late 20s. I have only started pursuing my real goals and hobbies until very recently.
Idk if this is trend anyone else has noticed but as a young 20 year old male with some male friends I’ve noticed massive massive personality shifts in most if it all of them Guys who were smart and sociable became anxious and depressed Guys who were funny and goofy became cocky and self absorbed Fun loving, life loving guys became contracted and scared I don’t know what’s happened? It could be Covid it could be Genz problems it could be life I’ve dealt with my fair share of anxiety and bad self esteem but I have seemed to wave off the personality shift? Idk anyone else have thoughts
You’re not going to like this answer…. But the rise of instant/soft porn on apps like TikTok are directly linked to lowered testosterone and depression. There’s also an emasculation agenda through the news and apps like TikTok that promotes clown 🤡 world. The rise in LGBTQ is linked with lowered testosterone and shame around masculinity. As more men turn gay and feminine, it has in turn created a ripple affect. Another thing that’s brand new, is the “me too” movement with the amount of men being accused of rape and sexual assault. This was NOT a common phenomenon at all. When I was in school, men NEVER felt afraid of putting their arms around a girl and thinking they will be sued or accused of unwanted behavior. It wasn’t something that ever crossed anyones mind. Another thing, I’m older than you as I’m 27 and the first year of a millennial. Back in my day, when I was in middle school and high school, everyone said faggot. Everyone. If you did anything gay, you were a faggot. Now, nobody says faggot because the world will come at you with pitchforks and torches. The rise of political correctness and fear of homophobia makes men become weak and attempt to display their masculinity in more passive aggressive ways. From someone who is older, this is what I have seen before my own eyes. Sorry if this response offends you, but it’s true…
Gen Z is essentially a breaking point in generations between those repeating the same mistakes/emulating millennials and those who seek to avoid that at all cost, taking influence from Gen X and Boomers. On a sidenote, I really dislike the notion of "gen alpha" considering there are practically no noticeable differences between our generations nor large technological leaps.
I've always felt the main problem with gen z is how little socialization we get compared to previous generations. The silent generation and before would walk to local stores and meeting places, boomers upto millenials would go to the mall or the park. But genx doesnt have malls, theres no where we can walk because of too many cars on the road, not many community centers, we dont really go to church, and nobody goes to parks anymore for a number of reasons. Because of this our only real social interaction is online, it's why we spend so much time on our phones, but they're no real replacement for actually meeting and doing things.
In the English speaking countries, people spent much more time outdoors prior to about 1995. As someone born in 1985, I can vouch for how often kids and teenagers would spend time outdoors playing sports, biking around, going to arcades and malls, etc.
Alot of the malls are still open, but most of the stores are gone where I am, and most people i know just order online instead of going. And more shops and malls close every day.
Seriously. This has been bugging me since my childhood. I had this idealistic image in my head of meeting my future husband at a park or an art gallery…turns out I met him on a dating app! It worked out for me, but I worry for so many others my age and younger.
@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd Got any sources for that? I know people can be addicted to stuff like online games, but you seem to imply that's a normal thing, which I haven't heard of. Nor have I heard that the majority of Gen z is addicted. Taht's gonna need some evidence.
Gen Z's borders are a little more controversial. You can typically define Gen Z by their memory of a pre-9/11 world. _Most_ Gen Z cannot remember less security, less cameras, less counter-terrorism, etc, most cannot even remember 9/11 itself. The area between 1994 and 1997 is an overlap of Millennials and Zs, while not wholly reliant on 9/11's memory to declare either side, it is a good starting question. "Do you remember 9/11?" Most Gen Zs will say no, most Millennials will say Yes, or Kinda, or anything like that. As for the late end, Alphas are still growing up so we don't have a good placement for them yet, but 2012 is far too early. The big divide between Zs and Alphas is mostly about technology. Where Zs grew up with an analogue world turning digital/smart, Alphas already lived there. Zs are familiar with DVD players, flip/slide phones, MP3 players, static on box TVs, standard definition (4:3), no internet anywhere except computers, pay phones, etc., but were all young enough to see these things disappear and be replaced usually before adulthood. Meanwhile Alphas grew up with this replacement technology already existing. Zs are a very small generation, and you can really put the end date for them around 2008, which is around when smart and HD technology began taking off. 2008 is notably also when the financial crash happened, which helps associate the end date with a crisis.
when you said "2012 is far too early" I was inclined to disagree because I thought you were going to put the date around 2015 or something, but yes, 2008 seems like the natural year to put the finish line on, considering that the financial crash changed the world a lot. 2008 was also when social media culture was beginning to be formed as we know it today. to be honest though, I would even put the line around 2004 or 05 because that's when all the social medias were being launched
@@Nobody-pv9jt Well specific events can't cause generation changes. It's not like a baby born 1 day before an event is different to a baby born 2 days after. Events take a couple years to take effect, and yeah, social media having an effect in 2004 is a good idea, but obviously they wouldn't have changed people being born for a few more years.
@@EvilParagon4 yeah thats true. my logic was that people born before the launch of all the social media platforms would be able to remember a world without them but you're right, social media wouldn't have any effect on a toddler's life, it would take time to affect someone.
I think 2008-2010 should be the reasonable cutoff, for the tech reasons you mentioned but in addition that covers kids who lived through the pandemic in middle school/high school years. I think it'll be interesting to see what Gen Alpha turns out like with the pandemic hitting them in their elementary school lives
You forgot only one thing about gen Z, we are always looking for that memory of a pre 9/11 world, we are always seeking it, from stories the others tell us to our own interpretations, we will always seek this other times of freedom, values and less degeneracy and futility in society, gen Z is always seeking the times we never lived, the freer times that older people tell us, for me gen Z represents this seek in a way, but its very likely that we will never find it for us again because the world has changed, we might be able to produce this good times for our kids though
I'm 33 and I feel old and out of touch. If you're a teen or early 20s take time to really think about the road you have ahead of you. It's a world no one in human history could have imagined and forget about understanding. My only advice would be to really think about what kind of person life would be good to you and then coming up with a plan to get it. Write it down and try to execute. Failure is fine just retune and retry
23 and thank you for the advice. I am well aware that Millennials were fed a lie by corprate boomers. Gen Z saw that and said “hell nah, I’m gonna do my own thing”, then start a business of their own through freelancing. That’s the path that nearly half of Gen Z is persuing, myself included. Millennials were fed a lie and Gen Z have an existence famine (unable to barely live with what feels like minimum wage, even at “well paying” jobs).
You talk about no one being able to imagine the world being like this. Yet there were multiple people arguing it would turn out like this decades ago. The problem wasn't that no one knew it would turn out like this. The problem was no one listened to those that warned about it. 1984 for example written by George Orwell was a warning and he was killed for it by the same people implementing the plan. Everything going on now a days is a plan being implemented, a very old plan by a very specific group of people. George Orwell simply was friends with those people and knew about the plan. The problem is the people behind big tech knew the technology would affect the population the way it did. Much of the new tech was actually engineered to cause this affect. There were studies and experiments to ensure it would turn out like this. Funded by the super rich that want us all lonely and miserable.
There is no more being what you want to be. The consequences are fatal now. There is no more cushioning when you fall, and money is not made easily to re-coup. The best advice is to find something you can do, and can tolerate. Get in where you can fit in. I have experienced failure after failure and its only sunk me deeper each time, with nothing learned, and nothing gained. We naturally want hope, but do not out that hope in society. The desire for hope comes from God, but its not meant for the material
My doctor said i suffer from that so yeh its true, few of the other people i know my age around 25 are basically the same with varying degrees of fucked.
as the oldest of gen z (25), i applaud those who had to graduate highschool during the pandemic. it makes me really sad to imagine that if i graduated just 5 years later, i wouldn’t have had a normal senior year filled with all the fun activities and a normal ceremony to celebrate. im so sorry 🥺
Well that’s me. I lost the last 5 months of my last year. So I missed the very best parts. I mean I dodged the finals exams like a boss, but I was confined to my room for the next year and a half. To add salt to injury, this is the second graduation ceremony I lost. I am originally from the Southern Hemisphere, so I was meant to finish one year before, I got pushed back half a year so I would be able to finish the programme on my new school. So while I was midway my last year, all my friends back home were celebrating their graduation without me. Honestly it was a dumpster fire of a year.
I graduated in 04. I hated school so much I skipped my ceremony. But at least there was a ceremony to skip. The reaction to the beer bug was *way* overblown. Younger peoples have my sympathy.
When I was a senior in highschool (2021), my school did a survey that states about half of the seniors were failing or were going to fail. So my school allowed for extremely late work to be turned in for full points.
I was pretty depressed through this whole year, but it’s honestly become the most important year of my life. Being constantly depressed means not learning anything new or exciting. Constantly working means to not give yourself a break. It’s about balancing your activity while trying to build yourself up. There’s a clip from the Boondocks that perfectly describes this “you do what you can.” Doing what you can is more than enough at the moment, because then you can do more and rest and repeat. On different things, taking your time. It will take awhile for us to build ourselves up for the world.
He's really good at expressing it like J said. His videos are very appealing, but also deeply meaningful. I really like this guy, I hope he keeps on doing his thing.
I find it quite stark, the rise in post-irony amongst Gen Z, since it's very clearly a means of coping with a world that brings anxiety and also a means of expressing difficult feelings while shielding the individual from risk. I think it's, on one hand, a positive development since it shows that Gen Z are very conscientious thinkers and I think minds that are capable of balancing a worldly nuance are well suited to tackle a potentially difficult future. Yet at the same time, it's slightly alarming that, to take one example, a character like Patrick Bateman seems to have become almost a generational mascot. Especially since, upon rewatching American Psycho, I realise, homicidal tendencies aside, Bateman's struggles, his anxieties, even his oppressive environment and culture are analogous to the circumstances Gen Z find themselves in. And whether intentional or not, I thus can't see his veneration as a cry for help. I guess my fear is just whether those with power will heed it, if they even hear it.
Yeah that's really funny actually. I'm in a bunch of meme groups with of people, mostly in gen z. And over the past year there's been a MASSIVE increase in Patrick Bateman memes. Even me, who has never seen American Psycho actually though the memes were so good and relatable that I went on to watch the movie. I thought it was great. Not sure if it's good or bad, but I relate to the character of Patrick Bateman more than people probably would have thought healthy when the movie came out.
I think a lot of us (gen Z) are very OCD for lack of a better term, I'm not diagnosed, but I have come to the conclusion that a lot of my rage comes from my extremely high standards for how other people behave and do things, unless I make a mistake, in which case it's everyone/everything else's fault. I hope I'm not projecting this onto the rest of my generation too much, but for me I think my terrible anger comes from a strange sort of OCD/perfectionism/defeatism if perfection cannot be achieved immediately. Also my dad emotionally abused me really bad whether or not he meant to or why he did it, he really fucked my head up, but I gotta just keep on keeping on, thanks for reading my cringe blogpost.
I will say this one hit home for me. At school I see people who have given up and just don't care anymore and think that we are doomed to fail and this is in a small rural school. Most people in high school have already given up and will have no drive to fix their situation and improve their live both physically and mentally and would rather just exist in a state of misery than improve their lives in a meaningful way.
I agree with this a lot. I've live most my life in a fairly good sized town and the feeling of everything is going to end is still vary strong here sadly. But I will say there is a corner culture that's formed thats kind of rejected a lot of what we we're told when we were younger, well at lest with my friends. I say there's three groups of people in the generation. 1 the people who have only lived online don't understand how life outside of it works. 2 the people who hate the world and want everyone to know mostly cuz they only watch the news or on places like Twitter. Or 3 hate what the world had become doesn't spend that much time online doing meningitis trash and spend time in reality, so their not so doomer about the world. Still this is only my observation so take it with a grain of salt.
Being lazy is good when you are young or a young adult, in a system were hard work pays off in dimes it is normal to see dissatisfaction on the average folk towards its future and their possible success.
@@sammong5670 I'm between 1 and 3 you get sucked in and you push out, it's a constant cycle between missery and normal life, my only fear is that in one of these moments where I get sucked in I will not have the strenght or will to push out.
All that would have been different if the younger generation had been taught that the solution to every problem lies within, not with seeking out “experts” and government to solve every problem for you. Sometimes I think children are being educated into learned helplessness these days. That not be by accident either.
As someone who was born in 2004, I was able to get a good sense of how fast technology was changing. I remember Blu-ray was the shit back in my elementary days, and phones like the ones we have now were almost unheard of. Technology has gotten so advanced within the last 10 years, it's amazing but a curse. Nobody knows how to properly advance with the times and as a result the whole world is playing the catchup game, with Gen Z in the lead. We live in a completely different world than we did 20 years ago, and nobody who grew up before the 90s well ever understand Gen Z, which is the problem.
It's because the boomers lived off their ancestors while marketing themselves as revolutionaries, and attributing their success and their prosperity to their own actions. The people of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s got to benefit from all the hard work and dedication of thousands of years of hard, brutal existences only to throw it away being revolutionaries and not understanding why the generations of the next millennium can't just follow the blueprint they did to succeed.
The problem is the people behind big tech knew the technology would affect the population the way it did. Much of the new tech was actually engineered to cause this affect. There were studies and experiments to ensure it would turn out like this. Funded by the super rich that want us all lonely and miserable.
a 2003 guy here, and I relate with you totally on this. Social gatherings back in those days felt more real and being an iPad kid was unheard of, as the people around looked having fun and enjoying themselves truly. Now, they just have stares of death with a fake smile :)
Born in 2000, enjoy your videos and the way they are presented even if I don't agree with all the takes. The amount of knowledge I've gained from here is immense and nothing beats going on this place at 3AM because I can't sleep. All I can say is, I felt this video. I am extremely motivated to better my own life and do something great, to find out what the purpose of existing here is for me, and yet at the same time I'm also a lazy fuck. Life's full of contradictions right? Thanks for makin the vid bruh, it really does help us out a lot, cheers!
My grandmother said "chunk small" if you're feeling unmotivated, try to just do something, anything! You'll realize the momentum you build up will allow you to do things you thought would be impossible, good luck to you all and blessings for this generation please! I'm trying to work on being kinder and less critical of other people, I hope I can manage to stop being so hurtful to others all the time. This sort of shit gets passed down and somebody's gotta blow the whistle and stop it.
I insist you find Mr. Fuentes, or John Doyle as helpful influences. Every other is corporate, and harbor that perverse problem that created the incompetent leadership we have today.
Much like everyone else, being the first of Gen Z, like ‘99-‘03, we all had ‘normal’ childhoods with a little bit of technology, but around middle school is when shit hit the fan and everyone got phones more or less, but I distinctly remember just learning to read pretty late cause of my dyslexia, and seeing a casualty report for Afghanistan, being able to read it and understand it, but not know what any of it meant except ‘US Dead’ and a number
Bro I was an '05 baby and I kinda feel the same it's like 7th grade everything went to shit because that's when the technology became more important than the people around you and all of a sudden everybody feels isolated y'know
@@TheLastMillennials dog regardless of if I misplaced a name, I still experienced what I described as did the kids who were born in about the same years, and I said that we did get the internet, it was always there but I distinctly remember none of us really used it like how kids now use it
@@cutiedopo17 politely sir or ma’am, see what I said about two posts above, as when I was kid albeit it was the not the same, I would it argue it was significantly more comparable to anyone born after 2007 or 2008. Honestly, the generational conflicts have become much more short, I’d also argue it’s not even generational anymore, it’s simply by how old you are in comparison to ‘modern’ 21st century, versus the early 2000’s.
I am 62 and spend almost every day working with teenagers. I believe that our biggest problem today is the endless string of voices telling people of all ages that things suck and people unlike you are evil - with this primarily coming from people of my generation, and especially from those with political agendas. This is exacerbated by institutions that enable people to self-segregate and never interact with people who are different. The message I try to pass along whenever I can is that there has never been a better time to be alive. And the thing I detest is when I hear older people who are f___ed up in a dozen ways telling young people that they have problems when the younger people are merely experimenting with new ways - often, technology-enabled - of living life differently.
It's the best time to be alive for the older generations who were settled into their payed off houses before the Great Recession. Young people saddle themselves with debt trying to achieve the life of their parents and struggle to make ends meet as wages continue to stagnate.
Im 14, i think i agree. Partisan institutions teach every part of the age pyramid (teenagers to elders) that the other side is legal and dehumanize them to a scary point. A political example would go like this: put a trans person in front of a transphobic conservative in a room to converse. I guarantee after 5 minutes any preconceived notions or hate for the other side will dissipate. We dont know how to have healthy discussions and define people based on political ideology and whatever our institution of choice tells us because its easier than actually confronting the other side, a prepackaged opinion on the other side. Though this probably isnt the biggest issue we face.
@@Darth_Insidious Keep telling yourself that; it's wrong and that's why your view and attitude stink. You are buying the bullshit that everyone else is selling. Do tell us about the Great Recession. Assuming you are the oldest Gen Z, you were ten. I'd bet it was really tough on you trying to figure out which Nintendo game you were going to play when you got home from school. All those people in their NOT paid-off houses got slammed when their houses were suddenly worth half what they were just months before. They now owed more on their house than it was worth. They couldn't sell their house or move unless they wanted to STILL be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars and have nothing. So, yeah, everything was just a cakewalk. You are told you are supposed to be miserable and envious and you do as you are told. Every generation has its own pile of shit it must eat and all you can do is eat it and move on. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Sorry that was less than as eloquent as I would normally write. But, you totally heard nothing that the person you replied to just said and the whining is insufferable. PS - Wages have not stagnated; you bought that, too. People just spend more money on stuff that they did not have in previous eras. Cable, streaming, Internet, 60"+ OLED TV, multiple computers, multiple gaming consoles with subscription services, the newest $1200 iPhone every year, the service that goes with that phone, avocado toast, you name it. The people of which you are so envious had none of that: three TV stations that all went off-air at midnight that they watched on a single black-and-white 20" TV, one corded home phone that everyone used, one car, a 1300-sf house with Formica cabinets, made their own lunch and coffee that they took to the office in a brown bag and a thermos. Expenses and niceties have exceeded wage growth, that is the problem.
As a Gen Z, I am very pissed how we all grew up with adults telling us how awesome the world is and if you work hard you will get it great things. What a crock of bull. Telling us life will be awesome when it has failed us is just cruel. There is a lot about life that is awesome. But overall, it's a miserable existence. Just be honest. I dont even many political nonsense. I mean stuff like careers, financial, friendships, love, etc. Just basic parts of life that we dont get at all.
Honestly Gen Z is more of two distinct groups, those born before 2004 and those born after 2004 due mainly to how memory develops. The 08 crash was incredibly influential on the life of your average American and the first group can remember the world before the crash while the second group can't. Because of this, various aspects of how these two groups interact with the world are honestly as different from each other as they are with Millennials and Gen Alpha. *Obvious disclaimer, the younger Gen Z group is still entirely made up of children; this is mostly based on anecdotal evidence seeing how the two different groups interact with the world at the same ages. Edit: everything I said for the crash also applies to social media.
I can attest. Born in 2000, just early enough to see the world rapidly change in the first years where I was generally conscious, but too early to comprehend and react appropriately. For younger zoomers, though, this is all they've got. The status quo is now, and it is kind of a hell.
I was born in 06, don’t remember the crash. Learning about the time before the crash, even the part when I was alive is like learning about any recent history (90s, 80s).
As an elder millennial, this is so completely full of brilliant honesty. Thank you for this refreshing breath of reminder that we’re not okay but maybe we’ll be okay someday.
Generation Y/Millennials the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Generation Z/Zoomers the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
I remember when kids were allowed to have innocence and their own spaces. The internet's worst effect has been putting sheltered kids and disaffected adults together.
The Internet also shows the true nature of Political Corruption, Police Brutality and why Secular Humanism is the best John Oliver should be given a DOZEN Nobel Prizes!
I'm 27 and I've definitely suffered by being raised on video games and TV. For most of my life, it was my only friend and I was too immature to realise its effects. Now, I've opened my mind a bit and I've come to appreciate being out in nature and going on adventures. It really helps to cure social anxiety and I hope we can decondition younger generations off social media.
You killed this one Rudyard. Pretty much hit every problem plaguing our generation on the head. The worlds pretty scary rn and it seems like it’s not gonna get any better for us but I’m confident our generation will be marked along with the greatest.
I mean, I think it'll be an average generation all things considered. We are increasingly aware and active in many of the greatest issues facing society aside from the social justice movement, but we aren't getting much done. I'm pretty certain that the generation after us will be in a far better place, due to the momentum that we will have built up, to really make things better.
@@lucasharvey8990 The oldest Zoomers are in their mid 20's, I think it's a little premature to be cynical. History does not move at a constant pace; decades happen in centuries, and centuries happen in decades.
I was born in '85 I remember when the internet happened it was going to be the future the bright light to carry us forward. After every square inch of the world had been explored the internet was a new frontier to explore. By 2012-2013 I started to see short form social media (twitter, and Facebook) for what they would become and bowed out. I cant imagine kids today stuck in the endless scroll of envy, fear, and outrage.
@@calypso I think the one of the worst advances that technology give to the modern era, and advance to more entertaining but because we all loose the real one and then it become a solution but with the price of social, health problems for a complete generation
My wife and I are fellow millennials and also feel like we were the last generation to get off relatively easy. It's still been harder than it was for our parents, but we at least got to live in a time before social media.
As a member of Gen Z who was born in 1997, this is perhaps the deepest Whatifalthist video I've watched in my years of being a subscriber to this channel. Also, how the hell is Rudyard 20 years old and not being a good student in school throughout?! I thought he was a year younger than me and I've learned way more from this channel than in any of my political science courses in college. This guy and channel is an absolute rare gem of intelligence in a world that's becoming more like in the movie "Idiocracy" by the day. To the point where I genuinely believe that if Whatifalthist had the same amount of viewers and subscribers as the most popular TH-camrs such as MrBeast, the world would be a hell of a lot smarter. Please continue the good work Rudyard! We need your intellect and perspectives more than ever.
I can hardly relate to the economic pressure ( my parents focused heavily on the dangers of Debit) despite being under the low income line. I’ve watched the stress of the debt on family and friends and I believe that contributes to the economic stagnation we are witnessing.
Born in 2001 here. This man has overcame his conditioning we were all given in school and is making the most out of his intellect. It makes sense he wasn't a good student in school, it's all just programming of who can be the most obedient and follow orders the most.
I feel like he is someone who correctly talks “about better mileage”, in a world of “kill the bastards”. And we’re all really tired of the Reaganite view of “kill the bastards”.
This is probably one of the most accurate videos I’ve seen in a long time, maybe even ever. You really hit the nail on the head. Also thank you for being unbiased and for saying things others wouldn’t dare say due to the fear of being “cancelled”. I can’t thank you enough for this video!
Honestly, this is one of the best youtube channels I have come across so far, the amount of depth each video has is really amazing. As a side note, I think its interesting that demographics are such an important part (If not, the most important part) of geopolitics as a whole, and how almost every issue or geopolitical situation is linked back to demographics. I realized that after watching the video, looking at demographics from a generational standpoint can really magnify patterns and cycles relating to demographics/geopolitics. Thank you for posting such great content, keep up the good work.
It also makes you think about the value of stable demographics and cultural chaos that ensues when that stops happening. People need a common framework to interpret the world and despite it being derided - it does feel like social cohesion is easily disrupted over generational timelines.
@@Dak1549 The easiest explanation for it all is really just basic human (and general) biology. We're pre-programmed to hang around "our group" and accept its views, as it allows for higher levels of cooperation, thus higher levels of survival. Now that society is pushing away from that, into one conglomerate, you can see how things are going wrong. We have all of these labels while trying to say "all people are equal". If all is equal, why does all require a label?
@@Dak1549 This is also a large reason why we see so much radicalization and such large echo chambers. Humans are simply unfit to meld together like we're doing now, and it will have major consequences as time moves forth. A lot of history can be explained on this basic premise alone.
In the era when I grew up, we had a culture called "latch key kids" which was basically when kids in grade school had to come home to an empty house because both parents were working at the time school was let out. We learned of the Reds and how they would rather wipe out the world than let people live "free" and so had the omnipresent thought that at any moment the world will end. We were also still learning how to deal with differences and cultures, and how different our world was from our parents. We went from trusting the neighborhood to locking your doors within a generation because of still being developed theory of fearmongering. GIrls were still be educated to stay at home when that type of society was obviously on the way out just by our presence as "latch key Kids" and boys were constantly told they needed to be the bread winner in a time where both parents incomes were needed just to afford the cost of living. Gen-X became almost zombified because we were told one thing but the evidence showed a different thing. on top of that with the fear of the constant world ending destruction why should we do anything that would benefit anyone or event ourselves when it can all come crashing down. We are not baby boomers, and we are not Millenials, we are just trying to move on. I hope I made sense.
It's honestly sad when that is the kind of thing most young people would love to have, most kids I know weren't allowed to leave the house intil they were 13, in one of the safest neighbourhoods in my city. it's also probably a contributing factor as to why a lot of kids dont drive, dont want jobs and dont bother trying. They expect their parents to do it for them because that was how they were raised.
@@justvibin1087 it's honestly weird to see all the parents waiting at the bus stops or in their cars nearby to make sure their kids get picked up. I remember, in the 80's you would get teased and harassed for that happening only once, not every single time.
@@blakejohnson3864 I’m Gen-X, it was absolutely propaganda heavy, as it was the culmination of the (1st) Cold War. All of that continues into the culture of present day as video games like Fallout. That said, the current society is even more propaganda heavy, but now it is competing propagandas (right/left, conservative/liberal, climate change/consumerism, capitalism/socialism, fascism/social justice…). We had one “enemy” to hate, and our society at the time was pretty uniformly aligned that way. In some ways, that made it easier. As my kids (early 20s) try to figure out what they want to do with their lives, I find it hard to have solid advice for them.
@@justvibin1087 Yeah, as a millennial I was roaming the neighborhood since I was like 5-6 in the 90s. Kids now missed out on being active and social because their gen X parents were scared shitless because of he boomer brained world.
I just graduated from college, and the first time I heard Jordan Peterson’s quote “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people” when I started college was incredibly useful in my studies. So many people, including myself, get entrapped by ideology and big ideas, but they get in the way when it comes to studying, grades and classes. That quote made me rethink how I was thinking about the world and how I was absorbing information, and crucially - my study habits So I tried by damnedest to walk into class every day like Socrates, “I know that I know nothing”. It gave me the appreciation that, even though various teachers and professors were mediocre, I don’t have anywhere near the wisdom they did just because I’m young.
The most popular form of political discourse online is drawing caricatures of your opponents, and idealisations of your co-ideologues, maybe it's related.
Not too burst your bubble but Jordan Peterson is one of those people who rides on the fact that he looks and sounds like a wise professor and just says generically “smart” things (switching words in a normal sentence leads people to find their own meaning in it and makes him sound profound). When in fact he is a politician who hasn’t taken a strong clear stance in decades without backtracking or attempting to gaslight interviewers. “People dont have ideas, ideas have people” isn’t really profound at all. Its factually incorrect, ideas are generated by people they don’t just magically pick a human every so often. I’m happy for you if him saying that made a meaningful impact on your life but people should be aware at the kind of techniques and tactics people use to sound profound and wise because its how cults and brainwashing begin.
@@cahan557 kind of weird of a cult leader to say “hey, don’t follow cults. Ideologies can also act like cults because they prevent you from thinking critically”
I am Gen Z and I have left social media as I feel it was poisoning my brain. I’d much rather focus on things that actually matter rather than finding new and exciting ways to get offended.
As someone that is about 19, I have quite a few issues with my generation. I know it sounds like I'm saying that I "was born in the wrong generation", but its almost to the point where I struggle really hard to talk to anyone my age. I can talk to older people and for some reason, autistic people much better. Your video explained very well what my issues are, and I hope something good comes out of our failures.
I feel you, I too struggle to identify myself with my ‘peers” with whom i don’t think I share all that much. Whereas I too talk to people who are rather old with ease.
I am 19 rn, and when I was in high school was I could talk to anyone except for the people who were my age. I was fine with the people 2 years younger or older than me, but my age ±1 year was a struggle
I hear that! I’m a millennial (96) but, I’ve struggled to get along with people my own age unless they themselves are more mature for their age too. Most of my friends are in their late 20’s to mid 30’s and I find it much easier to communicate and socialise with people in their 40’s upwards than anyone younger than me
Personally I feel just disconnected with people my age. I was born in 2001, the world a decade ago feels like a different place than today. I get things change but the world I remember as child feels like it never existed. Despite how bad things have gotten though I still remain a bit optimistic. As the saying goes hard times makes strong men. Hopefully we as a generation can find our way out of this mess.
2003, not far off. I look at pictures of my younger self, about 7 or 10 years old, I looked so happy, I socialized alot. I remember going outside and biking around the neighborhood with this blond kid and ginger kid, great summer memories of adventure, going to the woods and stuff. But life changed when I was about 13 years old. In the photos and videos, I wasn’t smiling more. I can’t go outside anymore, I stayed in and played video games, I played it for hours and the blue light damaged my eyes and I had to get glasses. By the time 2020 hit, my life was... fucked. Before that I’d been severely bullied, diagnosed with ptsd due to the immense bully, depression as a result of all my friends leaving during the pandemic, anxiety, loneliness and all these things I’m struggling with. Fortunately my parents are trying their best to help me, but man, I just wish life was much more simpler. I technically don’t have any friends anymore, I’m worried about my finance, I’m extremely anxious about my future and I live life feeling souless, non-driven and dis-passionately. My political views have been all over the place. First was heavy left, then heavy right, then finally balanced. I’m tired of politics. I do believe the light at the end of the tunnel... but I don’t feel it
Sometimes the social changes combined with local weather changes make me feel this so hard. I have a childhood I feel alienated from yet tied solely to
Trust me it's not just you. But this has been the case throughout all of history but more the past few decades. Technology is moving at such a rapid pace that society cannot learn and adjust to it fast enough
I have always been separate from the rest of my age group. This is a part of why I ended up an underdeveloped and incomplete being. Still, my early childhood seems like a different reality entirely.
My sister is Gen Z, and younger than you (15). When I think back to the first 15 years of my life as a millennial, being 15 years older than her, it was a fundamentally different world. The mood of the social milieu was completely different. I wasn't politically aware until Bush & Blair, 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Global events that transpired in my teens, happened in my sister's infancy. She wouldn't remember them. She was born, and within a year the global financial crisis hit, then Obama was elected. Then Occupy Wall Street came and went, as did the Arab Spring. By 2011 I had a gut feeling that something had changed, something seemed weird and off-kilter. In retrospect my hunch is that the global financial elite freaked at the sight of pitchforks with OWS and manipulated their media apparatus to ramp up a divisive culture war which keeps us plebs fighting among one another. It's difficult to separate my own change in personal outlook with broader trends, but it does seem the social optimism of my childhood has gone. How can Gen Z surpass growing up in a society where the mood is positively apocalyptic? We went from 9/11 seeming to be a gross anomaly, to the Mayor of London declaring terrorism to be part and parcel to living in big cities. We've gone through a pandemic. Cold War rhetoric is back and seems substantiated by Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine. I'm half the age of our dad. When I think of what a marked change has occurred just in my lifetime, I can't help but think what more must have occurred in his generation's lifetime, yet they don't seem to ever talk about it. Yes they knew the Cold War, the Troubles, Thatcher & Reagan etc, but it's like they got hooked on the optimism of the late 80s and 90s and took this notion of continuous progress for granted, that things could only get better.
I was born in 1995 and I have this sort of vague memory of the old world. Late 90s primary colour jackets and helicopter hats. A general sense of optimism. Excitement about y2k, “the future is nearly here!” No computer in the house in my earliest memories. A naive but honest sense of “we are one, everyone’s equal, the world can only get better” My sister who was born in 2000 has no concept of any of that
@@BD-yl5mh I'm a zoomer. It's strange to think that there was a time where society was collectively happy and content. I suppose back then though the average person didn't know the attitude of society.
@@bernardoohigginsvevo2974 As goofy as this sounds, if you want to get the vibe of the late 1990s; look up the music video for "Steal My Sunshine" by Len. There was a general feeling that things were going great and the future was bright. The Cold War and constant threat of nuclear apocalypse was over, the economy was doing well, technology was advancing, violent crime was at its lowest point since the 1960s, the internet allowed people from across the world to socialize with each other, and things were generally fun. Was it perfect? No. There was bullshit like there always is and always will be. But there was a definitely a feeling that things were better, they were still getting better, and they would always be better. Everything just felt optimistic for the most part.
I honestly love how this channel is able to make predictions for the future and stuff without getting into pessimism like so many other predictions I've seen
Technically you Boomers were the first to be brainwashed by sexual revolution, race-communism, media censorship and lies, military industrial complex Cold War atom bomb fear psyops, unwinnable wars, CIA drug experimentation and trafficking for secret war financing, etc. So, you're still to blame for creating Millennials, but also someone else made you brainwashed as well. GenZ is the collapse generation. Maybe the next will be the rebuilders, if the elites haven't destroyed fertility and re/population rates.
As a 19 year old who doesn't know what path to take, my biggest fear is falling into the section of society that "didn't make it": No hopes, dreams, wives & kids, or meaningful relationships. It may be foolish of me, but I still have hopes of having a nice job(Preferably blue-collar), getting married, and starting a family. However, with the current situation we find ourselves in being less than desirable, I find myself seeing that goal as increasingly unachievable without taking measures that I'm not sure I want to take. I've hobbies that I really enjoy(Writing, making art, etc.) but I'm not sure if I want to monetize these things, seeing as they're very personal to me, especially if it's to only just barely get along in life. I know I'm young, and I'm going to keep trying to find ways to make my hopes a reality, no matter how difficult it may get. I won't give up.
I'm turning 22 and I'm still like this lol. I guess I'll just stick to computer science even tho I hate it. especially in this economy. I'll try to do something artistic and actually fun on the side, but my time management needs to be improved
Assuming that your being real. Your 19 for crying out loud why are you thinking like your in your 30s. Is it because fools like rudyard told you so. I’ve believed in thier opinions once but now I’m trying to break away from them. Get out of this doomer mindset you still got time no need to think about getting a relationship this young. Ditch the bs people are more social because they went outside mentally because people who spent outside more doesn’t equate happiness. Use the resources you have and don’t believe in the bs.
I'm 20 and I'm in a similar situation, well maybe not that similar. I'm applying to a university in my country in one month, I have A LOT of interests like, languages, science, physics, media, computer science, history, math, and I think that if I chose one of those I wouldn't regret, all of the mentioned are really meaningful to me but I couldn't just decide which one to pick, so I struggle for a long time Trying to figure it out, I considered all the pros and cons and finally I decided that I'm going to major in computer science, now I'm not really sure whether I'll be able to follow my plan, the future seems to be rough and more and more competitive, I'm afraid of not achieving what I want, I'm just putting all my trust in doing what I love because I've always heard that that's what matter, I hope I'm not doing a bad desicion, wish me luck
I’m a college student and dating has been a bit of a struggle for me, and I’m someone who easily gets along with people and am well liked by those who know me. I feel like the issue is that people just don’t even try, and if they do it’s just for these hookups that don’t even mean anything. I come from a small town where it was very easy for me to stay in touch with everyone and have a lot of really good relationships there, so going from that kind of hit me harder especially with so many college kids coming from urban backgrounds. It’s just all about finding the right people
I turned back to Christianity. I noticed a huge difference in my mood and mental well being. I realized nihilism was just a negative mindset that was a self feeding loop of indulgence in self pity and self hatred.
I am agnostic, but I have noticed that religious people, both christians and muslims, are in general more grounded and mentally stable. Since every culture always had a religion, I think its a mental necessity for humans to have some higher truth to aspire to.
I'm going to the place of worship I was raised with. Back to basics. I'm at a point in my life where I need to have hope and seek help. I need a reason to live, because I've been so depressed lately. I crave social interaction, and i don't get it at work, so this is my answer. Spiritual health is definitely a necessity, doesn't matter what your religion is, you ought to have one to be healthy, I agree
I literally don't remember anything past Year 8 or 9 in highschool, the rest was just being forced to learn things I was never interested in. On paper people can get '15 years of education' but only the first 6 or 7 years of basic primary school actually matter. Now a Uni dropout and learning a trade, I can say the way society is currently setup is not at all setting up young people for a successful life ahead. It really is true that if you don't think about what you want in life you're either going to be led down a miserable path of emotionless corporate drudgery or any other sterile meaningless career you don't actually want for yourself.
Generation Y/Millennials the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Generation Z/Zoomers the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
On the younger end of Gen Z, I see so many people around my age so self absorbed in such meaningless things, like their follower count on dumpster fires like TikTok. I just wish that there were more people who have real goals in life and that they want or believe that they can make a change in this world. The depression in those around my age is truly because of their addictions to social media and the people they meet. Our generation could have been so much better if were more social outside of social media platforms and had meaningful experiences. I would find this applicable to online dating as well. Instead of meeting online, I would suggest going outside and meeting people in the real world. In a nutshell, we need to stop consuming corporate garbage.
What possible real goals are there to meet? Buying a house? Impossible. Finding love? Good luck. Kids? Gen-Z can barely take care of ourselves. Trying to start a company? Pft all our drive got sucked out and there is no money. There are no goals to strive for in life. Nothing will truely make it worthwhile. Im just here cause Im curious how our lives will go. But existence in many ways is worthless. Nothing is waiting for us on the other side. Just find the small things the help block the pain every once in a while.
Wow I did not know you were so young, even though I think we disagree politically a lot, your videos are so well researched and show a wisdom beyond your years.
Younger millennial (Aged 28), this video still hits home for me, considering I'm only a few years older than the older Gen Z's. We all live in the weirdest era, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Let's all live our best lives and keep encouraging one another.
Every generation can relate because it’s always the same rallying cry but every generation wants to be different so they rebrand it. Every generation has it better for the same reasons: technology (but they take that for granted and often come off as entitled) Every generation has it worst for the same reasons: technology (which they will 100% bitch and complain about the reasons why).
Millennial, 30, I agree. I kind of watched it all from the outside. My friends had phones before I did. When I still had a flip phone, they had smartphones. I never had a myspace, I was very late to facebook and put in a false name. I still remember the first time I asked someone "what's wrong" and heard them say "Nobody liked my photo" and I remember how surreal it all felt. I've felt empty for years, and like nobody around me realises how pointless it all is. I love that Whatifalthist calls it "opium" of likes
Being born in 96, I grew up using cassettes, VHS, and CD's. My first cell phone was a flip phone with an extendable antenna and no camera. But we had smart phones by the time I was in highschool. I feel like those of us born from 95-99 feel a bit lost and between generations. Hard to relate to those just after and before me.
Exactly! I was born 95. I feel part of the old just as much as the new. We literally got to see the shift in the world as it was taking place. Shidd is insanely weird
I think for those on the boarders of 'generations' it has more to do with your parents and how you were raised. Like @Swish I'm a boarder line Gen X/Millennial according to the calendar but because my parents were very early Boomers I had a solidly Gen X experience growing up. (latchkey and everything) My kids are around the same age as @Eve but I think they are solidly Gen Z, just without the helicopter parenting, cause I'm Gen X and ain't got patience for that.
@@evancourtney7746 My latchkey compadre! Been long since I played a round of "Make it Home Alive or End Up on a Milk Carton." Runaway Train, never coming back :p
The idea of me, a Gen Z, being suddenly promoted not one year later in favor of Gen Alpha being "the new dumb kids on the block" is puzzling yet saddening, especially with all of the memes slandering them.
Hi, gen z out here, from France. I'm currently 16 year old and battling against a terrible pessimism that just won't leave me alone. Seeing this video reminded me (weirdly I must say) that I have a right to hope for the future. People of my gen can be successful and I needed to hear that. You are an inspiration to my future, thank you for this video.
As a 20yo gen zer from germany i mainly have three advices for how to go somewhere nice in your life: - Do not move out from your parents' house, the housing market is f*cked and you're in the perfect age to live with responsibility and in a family, so as to train for heading your own one - don't go to uni unless it's part of dual studies and you have a job already lined up right after that. It's just not worth the waste of time, especially when you can't study for free, and the job market is only really benefitting the best and those who have contacts, so just establish a possibility to be sure you have a future with that - actually live, do things and be nice to everyone for no reason at all. People will like you and you can make potential friends at every corner, some of them might become best friends, introduce you to nice stuff or activities and make you learn something about life Just refuse to be part of that scuffed modern age and be successful by returning to older practices and thus having something to actually do all those things for, because that's definitely the number one problem of young people today. I hope i could help you and i'd love to hear your opinion about that advice
Yeah when he calls himself a professional historian, he’s committing fraud. He’s not a professional historian, he’s an amateur historian and a professional content creator.
@@daelinblack6681 no, professional historian implies one has at least a bachelors degree and actively conducts peer-reviewed research, not make up shit on the internet
@@basedanddadpilled959 you know what I like your inclusion of the fact that his income stems from his media production skills. Ladies and gentlemen, you got me
@@basedanddadpilled959 I have a bachelor’s degree in history, and I approve this channel. Besides, peer-review has been an Establishment-normative echo chamber for generations. That’s why alt-media even exists.
As a fellow zoomer, I agree that society is at a weird turning point with the economy and this new technological revolution. Something that is a perfect example of society changing is college/university. I have never liked school, however, I have a deal with my parents where I can live at home with no rent if im in school, but if I drop out, then I'll be kicked to the curb. I spent a semester after highschool (last semester) looking for any job that could pay enough for me to live in a crappy studio, and I couldn't find one, and funnily enough, the people I know that have degrees can't find em either. The generation that raised us still believes in the pipeline of college to job to house to family, and that line no longer exists. Just look at the millennials as proof. They have degrees but can't have families or homes. I mentioned my deal with my fam because I know quite a few other young adults in similar situations, and all of us don't like college and have other interests, but are unable to pursue those interests because of college. Basically we're stuck paying for school because we can't afford to not pay for school. Tis a really interesting phenomenon. Also a video about current zoomer social groups could be interesting. Most zoomers I know have no friends after covid lock downs, and all the men I know are single and too anxiety ridden to talk to women. A video talking about how a society of friendless and partner less people will turn out could be fun (unless that vid already exists)
Holy fuck you hit the nail on the head on this one. As to why so many men are too anxiety ridden to talk to women, idk man nowadays if you just walk up to a girl to try to strike a conversation, you'll be seen as a creep. Literally I seen a guy on reddit, asking if "amitheasshole" subreddit, ask if he was in the wrong, for simply correcting a girls form while she was working out at the gym because he was afraid she might injure herself. The girls instantly called that guy a creep for talking to him for trying to correct her form. So he asks if he's the asshole, and more than half the comments on reddit are calling him a creep. Yes I know Reddit is far from reality. However those situations are more common then you think. "What's the worse that can happen? Just ask her out! Worst she can say is no right?" Then the girl proceeds to tell everyone how the guy at school asked her out and it spreads like wildfire rumors in highschool/middleschool. Or the girl screenshots the convo of the guy attempting to make an attempt. Or simply, the guy is completely ignored as invisible. A lot of people don't want to open up their hearts to the potential of a relationship, because most their adolescence they were rejected and hurt. Also the dating apps haven't helped at all with the shallowness of just everything. And it seems like everyone is so attached to their ego and accomplishments, they will automatically judge whether to respect you or not within the first 10 seconds of meeting you, by just asking what University you are going to and what you are studying.
> Most zoomers I know have no friends after covid lock downs, and all the men I know are single and too anxiety ridden to talk to women. A video talking about how a society of friendless and partner less people will turn out could be fun (unless that vid already exists). Speaking from personal experience, I still have friends it's just that I barely hang out with them and in terms of relationships I really have completely given up on it, this might be more personal than general but it seems like the effort to talk to women is not worth it to me anymore, I see no reason to pursue a relationship as I have too many problems in my life to deal with and my willpower to fix them is slowly dwindling
Sounds rough, man. I relate to you in that I also hate school but unlike you, my parents won't immediately kick me out after I'm done with school. Both my mom and dad will let me live with them for a long time so long as I do a bunch of chores around the house and don't get into any serious trouble. They do differ on some things tho. My mom will let me live with her for as long as I want, whilst my dad will only let me live with him until at the earliest 25 and at the latest 30. My mom will let me live without a job until 25 (at that point she'll aggressively push me towards getting one) and will let me live rent free until 30 (after I turn 30 and still don't have a job, she'll consider kicking me out. If I do have a job however, I can stay with her as long as I want). Dad will let me live rent free until I'm 21 and will force me to pay him (with or without a job) if I still want to live under the same roof as him. I find both of these to be very generous offers and I feel both lucky and privileged to have them. My plan after I graduate school is to spend my Summer break like usual and then start looking for some random minimal wage job when my brother starts his next year of school. Once I get a job I'm hoping to work at it for 2 (maybe 3) whole years and make an attempt to improve my art and writing skills. If I can't do that, off to trade school I go (I refuse to pay for college. Both parents know this and support my decision, especially dad since he was cheated by the system). After I get either an art/writing or trade career going, I'm going to try and move to a studio and hopefully move to a small house in the future (will most likely go down the trade root and keep drawing/writing as a hobby if we're to be realistic. Maybe I could do a trade and drawing/writing on the side?) There's some other things I want to get better at as well such as exercise, but those things are secondary. I don't got many friends but the ones I do have I talk to on a daily basis and have very close ties to. I am hoping to have a family in my late 20's or early 30's in the future but due to the modern dating market it doesn't seem as feasible anymore. At this point, if I have the money to do this in the future, I might just pay someone to become a surrogate for my future children (I personally want my future kids to be blood related so that's why I didn't say anything about adopting). These are some hard times will live in right now, I've heard a couple people go as far as to say we may even be living in the 2nd gilded age. At this point WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War doesn't really surprise me anymore. I'm just hoping that some of the current problems will potentially be fixed in the future. I personally consider this age to be the "Doomer Age."
the only jobs available here are either needing years of worked experience or are shitty care positions that demand a ridiculously optimistic personality, shitty hours and tend to be a good hours drive away for pay you can't even afford to rent a flat with. It's fucking infuriating hearing the idiots in Scottish Parliament bragging about increasing jobs, when the jobs created are all unstable, fuck all pay, crap contract part time ones. What a feat SNP! You got a young adult enough money to be in debt just living his daily life until the season for the part time ends as the weather gets colder. What an achievement!
The generation before us lived in a world of colour and watched tv in black and white, nowadays we see beautiful colours on social media while our days become greyer every year
I am a 64 year old man, steeped in “college is the answer” and corporate cubicle culture, HOWEVER, I believe this young man is a genius and we Gen Whatever would be wise to listen to him.
Your the boomer generation also we the gen Z are FUCKED. Y’all screwed up hiring with all the HR crap and the “apply for a job online by making an account” shit You’ve done. Do you think young people want an Apple bees account, a wendys account and a dunkin account for a job?
@@StarCityFAME He has the type of thinking I subscribe to, and it's a type of unbiased thinking I was taught in school, but others seem to neglect it seems. Radicalism is bad and it's a tentacled beast the will rip everything to shreds and then consume itself when it runs out of food. Being a centrist is damned because how dare you not take a side, the old "You're either with me, or you're my enemy."
My take: We are maturing still. We are in contact with an unholy amount of information, ideologies and dogmas, confronted with history and it's many versions, thinking about the world we want to build and faced with the possibility that we may not have enough time to realise those dreams. What I'm seeing in my country (Mexico) is that my generation is less likely to partake in left or right politics since we've grown up listening promises and not seeing any good results from just that bipolar perspective, so we analize situations in their own context, reject political parties and try to listen to the other side instead, being both empathetic and rational if you will. We are more aware that dishonest propaganda can generate polarization, which is the worst kind of problem to have when dialogue and conversations are needed to reach feasible solutions. We took out certain values and traditions out of our culture that no longer work in this new historical context (read racism, xenophobia, misogynism, machismo, and such) but we have failed to find suitable replacements to identify ourselves with as a People. Even so, I see a lot of effort from my generation to create new traditions and cultural expressions that allow us to unite and see each other as compatriots from the inside in order to better interact with the outside and I've noticed a tendency to deconstruct our own "woke" and progressive ideals in order to mature them and reach actual solutions instead of just creating more problems and falling for propaganda that is using progressive principals only on a surface level. I still have hope. We can be better, we just need to keep growing up.
De que parte de Mexico eres? Viendo el video al menos desde mi experiencia creo que las relaciones sociales no están tan rotas en Mexico como parecen estar en USA. Aunque tenemos aun mas problemas en encontrar buenos trabajos y un camino en la vida, la sociedad no esta polarizada, lejos de discutir se ve como un tema incomodo el hablar sobre cierta problemática social y se tiende a aceptar sin muchos problemas el punto de vista dominante, en mis clases que tocan temas de geopolítica y problemas sociales pocas veces hay gente capaz o interesada en hablar sobre estos y simplemente se evade la discusión. No se si la apatía sea mejor que el radicalismo.
This sounds like what's happening in my country. Most of the youth hates politics and they are weary of all the promises made for years. There is still hope.
This sounds like what's happening in my country. Most of the youth hates politics and they are weary of all the promises made for years. There is still hope.
As a Gen Z Kid, I never understood how the rest of my generation could act like this. I never believed in or felt nihilism, I’m religious but not strict af about it, I’m pretty social and wasn’t raised by a tablet, in fact I still remember VHS tapes and seeing the DVD symbol from the early 2000’s on older movies. For years the first and only computer and television we had were the box ones from the 90’s and early 2000’s, and I sorta miss those at times. This video is spot on and made me understand my own generation which I very commonly mock for some of their traits. I remember even being able to go up to a small market store and having a conversation with the cashier. It’s sad to see my generation let go of any morals or fun times just for an extra 100 likes on social media. I also never understood the politicization of everything and just questioned why everyone always felt, fake, or indoctrinated. I’m glad I’m not with the 2 groups first mentioned at the end because I simply don’t want to be radical, it’s not worth forcing anything on to people. Thank you so much for helping me understand this stuff better
Y'know, after watching this I've noticed that maybe I'm not doing as bad as the rest of my generation. I've tried to work against the addictive nature of social media in my daily life, tried to stay hopeful despite the insane odds against me, and kept my moral values such as truth, justice, kindness, and so on close at hand. It hasn't always been great, hell not even a year ago I was checked into a mental facility for trying to off myself, but even through all of that I have tried with all of my will and determination to keep going, even when it seems impossible I kept on. And hey, I'm graduating this week, working towards getting a certification for Computer Information Systems, and I have a decent enough social network of friends and family. Heh, how about that. Maybe it ain't so bad after all.
I was trying hard to be as good despite me being so negative but helping people in real life and in video games like a team player brings some good mindset at least temporarily.
Greek male, born in 1995. Working class family. Was talented athletically as a kid. Went to a private highschool via scholarship, always a great student, got my university degree in accounting and finance. Had confidence which translated in a couple healthy relationships with girls. Nowadays I work in a multinational retail company, I still play my sport semi-professionally, used to be a pro athlete. All things point towards me having an okay life. I'm suffering from depression. I had an honest and loving family, worked my ass off, had healthy relationships with my sexual partners, was lucky to have the same five friends my whole life. Yet I can't smile. At all. I went through so much undeserved shit in my 27 year old life all of which can be attributed to the collapsing society I live in. It fucking sucks to be alive nowadays. At least I like history, keep up the good work mate!
Stay strong man, I have so many times felt like I wish I'd never been born, but it's always worth it when I finally am able to smile again and be glad I'm here to participate in this incredible struggle. We're fighting in a spiritual/mental war and it's no fucking joke. I wish you the best possible in terms of finding your smile again! I noticed no matter what I always wanted and would finally achieve, I never have been able to get comfortable. You gotta just realize that's the way it's gonna be, and it's what keeps us moving forward, but when the pressure becomes too much, just meditate like a monk. That's my advice at least.
Διακόπτης είναι φίλε. Απλά. Δεν έχεις κανένα πρόβλημα. Τι να πω εγώ που βρέθηκα από τα σαλόνια στα σκουπίδια ψάχνωντας για φαί. ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΚΟΝΤΑ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ ΝΕΑ ΧΡΥΣΗ ΕΠΟΧΗ! Πες με τρελό στα @@ μου
True, it also implies the interesting thing with our generation having to do online schools, hence “zoom”er. I find it nice to not just be called a letter.
@@largeegg6505 See that's a common misconception, and I remember when zoom started becoming popular seeing someone say "oh no, people are gonna think zoomer is referring to zoom!" The zoomer thing started back when the OK boomer memes were popular from 2019 to early 2020, and after a while millennials and other older age groups made memes in response saying OK zoomer. TLDR; its boomer but with a z for gen z
@@TheMindofRa yup, and talk about a less cool name than our older brothers and sisters of “Gen X” !!! Just typing and saying Gen X aloud you got to add the exclamation marks and do it in a cheesy over the top movie trailer voice.
I’m 21 years old and getting a good grip on life not where I wanted to be educationally but I feel like I was born in the right generation. The amount of people our age excelling is only going to skyrocket especially because we were young enough to grow up and be able to develop with so much information at our fingertips unlike any other generation known to history. I feel old because I’m not satisfied with how I used my years when I was younger but optimistic because there’s still so much time ahead of us. Those who choose to devote their times in their 20s to develop and perfect their skills while many are partying will come out on top I can’t wait to hear about these pros my age.
How are you planning on achieving your goals in the future (or like what you would change in your younger years I suppose)? I'm 17 and am kinda stuck on what to do. I have so many options of what I think I want to do, but they're so different to each other I can't really think of how to blend them in. I know there are some changes I can work on right now, like including more hobbies and volunteer opportunities, but for the future itself I don't really have any mentors on this kinda thing. I apologize if it came off as ranty, but I would very much appreciate any tips you could give! :)
@eligreg99 Don’t let college be the authority who tells you that “you need their help.” College is more than happy to sell you unrelated coursework at astronomical prices and dump you the moment you cease to provide a revenue stream. Trading tens of thousands for a degree that cannot replace experience only makes sense to thoroughly brainwashed people, which is what the school system is for: “preparation for the next step,” ie, a trafficking pipeline. Only assume debt that makes sense; debt is labor indenture, they don’t have to work hard to get you to sell them your soul. Prioritize keeping your soul imo.
@@shabushabu5319 i agree. your point is valid. What I simply meant here... with my comment, was to highlight the fact that the credentials of the videos creator ... it was his point to say that if anyone was to call his background into question, the lack of a college diploma would not make his point meaningless. He is saying his expertise is nontraditional yet complete.. from effort of educating himself. That is what made me feel that i respected his credentials as historian and how he nailed the current situation correctly.
@@shabushabu5319 there are different trades that can be perfect for every man, college is just ideological subversion at this point in time and leads to extremely low wages for very high debt.
@@Dylan-lw1xc it’s because the supply of degree’d people has increased tremendously therefore diluting the value of it. I agree trades are still important and influences shouldn’t demonize them
A explanation of Gen Z from Gen Z- We used to hate millennials more, but now we hate ourselves for some reason. Edit- We also became more...what some would call becoming fatherless around the late 2010s. I'm looking at you twitter.
You've been taught this way. I've been out of the country for 14 years, spending my entire adult life in Eastern Europe and I got to see from a good distance, detached from the situation, how every prediction I've made in 2008 about how the youth would be brainwashed in the future to hate themselves and their country came true. It's appalling and very sad. The demoralization that young people are put upon also explains the higher suicide rate, higher rate of drug consumption, higher rate of "transitioning" (i.e., mental health), etc. etc. It's not a good look for the west. While I'm happy I'm raising kids in the East, it's sad to see what I've left behind, and playing NO part in helping things by leaving makes me feel guilty.
@The Computer Man I gotta say, I've never seen the "I hate myself" part of Gen Z till the late 2010s, and especially 2020s, although that's probably because I was just a little kid. Also, Granted there are a bunch of problems with Gen Z, that's not the entirety of Gen Z, and on top of that the easts look of "Get beaten up and jailed for simply being gay" is a bad look.
Why everyone would hate millennials?! They invented memes, reveled against the boomers, they were the first to popularice videogames, establish irony and trolling culture (you guys are the cancel bois)... Edit: seriously, if you were too weird they would just bully you into toughness, now is ok to be weak, cringe and not belonging, while the true rebels go to twitter instead of rebel in the real world. In my time getting a gf while being a nerd was the apex of rebellion, now... well... you know.
Fantastic video. I'm 25 and been in and out of different jobs and education opportunities and I've seen pretty much everything you mention during these experiences. I have friends who are down bad, suffering through mental illness and addictions, and friends who are overachievers in work and education, but relatively making far less than their parents would have decades ago for the same work, and still struggling to make ends meet. I see all of the social issues you mention too, regarding the extremist political ideologies, lack of critical thinking, and spread of intolerance. I often feel like I can't share my real thoughts on this except with my partner and close family, but still try to speak up when I need to. This is a really wild time in history but like many periods before I'm sure we'll get through it, I just try to help and support others where I can and remind them it will get better 💕 Thank you for making this video.
You sound a lot like my best friend, who's not too dissimilar in views to myself (goes without saying). I feel like people our age can really choose between a) being nihilistic and cynical and watch or partake in the burning of our world, or b) being nihilistic and cynical but making the ride exciting, as comfortable as possible, and being there to share in everything (good and bad) with those we love, or even with strangers. Not putting words in your mouth, just adding - I personally went through wanting to be a pure stoic, to epicurean, to downright pessimist, but now I'm just thinking "fuck it, steal some ideas from everyone and live life being good to people without sinking myself, deal with problems as they come, revel in happiness as it comes"
I was once an overachiever in elementary school until I became aware that all that work and dedication did not matter and I burnt myself out, which along with the constant name-calling, teasing, etc basically made me crash into a depression that I have luckily gotten out of. However, it stunted my social interactions and made me more reserved than I already was. I am now just chugging along waiting for an opportunity to arise and take it. It was a hard and painful lesson to learn, but I came out as a stronger person than before after overcoming that. To anyone reading this, never give up. Eventually, even in the worst of situations, it will get better if you put in the effort.
I'm a 2002 kid at uni right now and this video is a perfect explanation of my generation. a thought I've often had myself is that no one in my generation is striving for success, we're all just running away from failure.
I'd say that the issues with Zoomers stem from the fact they're the first generation to grow up surrounded by the Internet, and this has had many mental health effects that we still are struggling to understand since the Internet in every home is still a relatively recent innovation.
the first generation to have internet as a common thing in the U.S would be millenials as in the internet became mainstream in the 90's theirin disproving gen z was the first to grow up around the internet.
Yes and the amount of innovation is so fast that were literally born to adapt super fast well our parents struggle to keep up. Now we are more accepting of out cultures compared to homogeneous societies.
As what me and my friends call ourselves, I’m a Gen Zalpha (Z+Alpha) since I was born in early 2006. I remember watching movies that I thought were amazing considering the effects and animation when I was young and only a few years later I’d see movies completely different with effects even better. I’m only 16 closely approaching 17 and I feel like what I remember growing up with (like discs and various other things that aren’t even used anymore) isn’t remembered by many others. Me and my friends sometimes wonder, why did it all go so fast, so many things became redundant (eg discs were taken over by streaming) and it makes me realise how fast advancement has occurred in the last few years. I feel like anyone 12 and under won’t remember using DVD Players and will remember logging onto Netflix or Disney+ and getting anything they liked from that. TV is basically left unused by young people now because between your TV or logging into a streaming site, people choose the site. It makes you realise how fast everything has changed, and is still changing.
How do kids end up missing a necessary volume of connections despite being herded into classrooms of kids their own age for 20 years? Hint, most of these problems begin with our crappy school system.
@@aimloading646 shit you not, even at breaks and lunch, they would actively tell off kids for being too loud or playing games together in social areas MADE for them to socialise. You either sit and have a nice casual proper conversation for am hour as a young teen or get constantly shouted at for having fun with people. I live near my old primary school and my aunt works there. They have a football pitch, tons of toys and an entire play park for the kids to use. The last time it was used in that manner? About 2015 latest. Because every little thing became a safety issue the kids get no fun. The next generation are missing out. Barely slid by before these changes happened and a mix or modern technology and a rise in absurd social based ideology has lead to the overprotection and repression of the young. I don't see kids out on the streets anywhere near what me and my pals were as a kid, and i understand fully why. Modern technology killed social interaction along with government regulation and Public sector schooling. In person social interaction is leaps and bounds better for your mental health, and as such we've seen a drastic increase in mental illness. We have evolved behond our humanity and became hollowed shells of the social creatures we used to be. Today's socialising as a young adult is very rarely anything outwith alcohol or a meal before work, college or uni.
Well, I was bullied in school. And I was an outsider because I didn't play violent video games or use social media because my parents forbid them from me. Most kids only ever conversated on video games and internet memes in school with each other. While they were in the classroom they didnt seem to be in this reality, but rather more in the digital world.
Born in 98. Only found out I was a "gen z" instead of a "millenial" two years ago, during the pandemic (there wasn't a consensus about which year gen z started). I don't identify with my generation at all, but I was certainly influenced by the depressive trends of it, no matter how much I hate it or try to reject it. I still consider myself being born in a "gen y/z" transitional period, because life and ideals I grew up with were somehow very different than to kids born a few years later, even considering my younger siblings. Not that it matters though, what matters is I'm a financially, intellectually and psychologically broke human being and for almost 10 years have been in this vicious cycle of depression and defeatism because I couldn't/can't get past the very traumas and defeats I have suffered in my life, which destroyed my education and my dreams. I'm trying to recover now, but it's hard getting a job in Brazil right now after a decade of economic crisis (plus my own personal crisis) and as said before I have yet to fully overcome my defeatist mindset/habits.
I've seen the term "zillennial" thrown around for people born around that time. I'm an older fellow South American and just want to say that things will get much better and easier over time for you, esp since so many of the negative thoughts and patterns you talk about now will eventually affect you a lot less and you will manage to look at some of those bad experience from a more neutral perspective, as if they had happened to someone else, which will make dealing with them much easier. Just be more patient and keep cultivating your mind, my friend.
As a member of Gen-Z born in 2000, our generation is downright scary. The devastating effects will only compound as each year goes by. We are so misled.
I was raised with both my parents in the same house since birth until I moved out. Almost everyone else I know has gone through a divorce growing up and had to be the bargaining chip for someone else. The fact that what used to be a relative normal expectation is now an outlier is a major contributing factor to the disintegration of social norms.
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You're 20 right now... And your oldest video was 7 years ago....
So you were 13 when you started making these videos? 🤯🤯🤯
FFS Rudyard, when are you ever going to return to alternate history?
@@lordofefrafa4396 Hear, hear!
Adding this to my playlist "Doomer/Doomers. The problem with boomers"!
2000s: Lol, you live with your parents? Cringe.
2020s: You live with your parents? Damn, you lucky.
1995 baby here so idk if I’m technically Gen Z or a Millennial, but I recently had to move back in with my mother when I lost my job and the massive shame I feel for it was hilariously juxtaposed by when my friend heard about it and said “you’re living with your mom again? Lucky bastard, wish I could move back in with my parents.”
@@whattheshit4936 same, 1995 here. We are literally playing Monopoly when 8 existing players have already done 20 rounds babyyyyy
I'm 24 and just graduated college. I went to college 15 minutes away and communed, then transfered to a college with a 2 year program for my profession. Now that I'm done I'm planning to continue living at home for another 2 years to keep pinching pennies until my student loans are paid off and I have accumulated enough work experience and saving to be able to finally & officially "move out".
@@kiptaylor3567 I literally had a conversation with my mom about this yesterday about how it’s normal for my generation (1995) to stay home until we pay off our student loans. Where as my mom’s generation (1955) didn’t leave home till they were married. It’s pretty interesting how things are similar, but different cuz we’re all staying home, the reason why has changed.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 except people got married at an age of 19 and the men were already full swing into their careers back then. Being at home until you’re 27 for loans you took is not the same.
Feels weird to be Gen-Z and still remember all the "old" tech those only a couple years younger than me don't. I remember always watching movies at home on VHS for the first 6 years of my life, my parents still using flip-phones, there being a box tv from the 90s still being in the living room. Heck I have early fond memories of Blockbuster when the middle schoolers I know grew up on Netflix and a tablet. Probably was my actually boomer parents (born in the very late 50s early 60s) just being slow to adopt new technology but it gives me a weird perspective on technology. EDIT: man this blew up, if only this channel wasn’t run by a lunatic on drugs.
Same but poverty.
I also remember that old tech. Not because of my parents being too old to move on, but because we were too middle class to replace our tech often. We had a huge box TV that’s language setting was stuck in Chinese and nobody could fix. I remember knocking that thing down and it almost fell on my brother and cousin. If it did they’d certainly have payed a visit to the ER LMAO
I still remember when Netflix would send dvds to you or before social media took off, and how kids would play outside or go to a friends house to play the Wii or search the web. Now everything is online. It’s weird but I kinda of miss that time
@@zeahoughtaling7912 Same. I miss being a kid when the most important thing to me was whether or not the neighborhood kids could come out to play today or if a new Adventure Time episode was on tv.
my parents were born around the same time, and im about to be 19. i still have a few hundred cd's between myself and my parents' collections. we got redbox movies a bunch when i was younger, and visited the local blockbuster before that. I remember watching the same VHS recording of charlie brown christmas every year until we finally got rid of the old CRT and upgraded to some newer tech.
So it's kinda crazy to me when i see people not remembering all this stuff as its all a part of my childhood. While I'm more of a tech nerd (so I care a lot more about this older stuff than most) people only a few years younger than me never had these kinds of experiences.
It's true that gen z hate themselves. The sad part is that their elders cannot possibly comprehend what it's like to live devoid of intimate relationships and meaningful work.
>No money
>No free time
>No kids
>No families
>No purpose other than to consume cheap products
Yep, gen z here and shit sucks.
Between massive drug problems amongst us leading to having massive amounts of overdoses and mental health problems, and other social issues and pressures causing lots of suicides.
I have always been described as having the highest work ethic of anyone in my peers yet I was unable to even drive until I was 20. Between my dad not allowing me to drive until I was 18 and covid lockdown starting on my 18th birthday (yes literally). Making it impossible to even get a DMV appointment for almost 11 months even for a learner where I lived.
This meant it was impossible for me to have any half decent job all through highschool, no car, or ability to play any sports that involved travel for practice etc... this made it damn near impossible for me to have any relationships or friends.
I was the #1 student in every program I had interest in, yet couldn't apply anything learned in the real world.
Things have started to turn around though, finally got my driver's license 2 ish months ago and threw everything I owned except my computer into a bag and moved out to go work at a job I've wanted for a while. Still gotta get my own place as I'm crashing on a couch. But meaningful friendships and relationships still aren't even in sight.
I have been protesting how things have been done for a long time. I understand you, you aren't the only one like that. I might have one thing you don't, I have seen a better world, I have hope. As money goes down, so does the ability to police people. The less people drive, they more they walk together. There will be a lot of repair of infrastructure to be done once things get in order. Doing it as a community will bring purpose.
@@Extremekhan24 as a millineal, I've always been concerned on how much consumption of internet that society has been given. I constantly see kid's being given devices at such an early age and expect thing's to be the same.
Honestly I just hit my generation because of the stupid shit thy do
No social life?🥺
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Growing up as a Gen Z is hard. I’m a senior in high school 17 about to turn 18 in a couple of months and throughout my life I’ve noticed a steady shift in how everyone at my school viewed the world. Most people in middle school and my early years of high school were pretty welcoming. It wasn’t hard to find a friend group and at the very start of the technological shift we didn’t really have too much addiction to social media. Kids mostly didn’t care about their ego they were just living and trying to set up a good future. Now we don’t even care about the future because we assume everything is screwed from the start. We just go to school to complain about school and head home anxious and stressed tuning into tik tok to waste away for hours as a distraction from life itself. It’s honestly sad to see how cynical everyone has become. Nobody around my age even enjoys living. One of my classmates last year committed suicide. It used to be actively addressed in schools and people actually would care about this person in a different age, but 3 days after the news hit there were people mocking his passing, people making jokes about their own disorders saying they were going to be next, and people even saying they saw it coming and told no one. It’s heartbreaking how self absorbed we’ve become.
I'm REALLY, really sorry you've had to go through just....everything you just said. When I was in high school kids did the same thing when someone committed suicide. Were sad about if for a day, then a few days later make jokes about it etc. I think part of that reaction is just them dealing with the horror because they don't know any other emotional way to process it.
Again, I'm REALLY sorry. You're a good human and if you're able or willing, I hope you can maybe reach out a friendly to hand to people who maybe look like they're having a bad day. You might end up saving a life or 10--and making friends and a difference. I know it can be daunting to do that if you have social anxiety or are extremely introverted though.
You really do deserve better. Thank you for existing--you're needed.
I’m also a junior in high school and one thing I learned is that there is a big difference between larger schools and smaller ones
I’m in a very small public school and I have seen the smartest people that where forced to be smart by parents etc. become very depressed at this age because they Learned that the one thing that really makes them as they are is not who they think they are. Then they become a average student with a worse social life that will probably not help them along the way.
It just feels like everyone says that there is no future and the the world is going down the drain but we also need to hear the good to give us a better reason to move on and work harder.
this is so true!!! 8th grade and freshman year were great then covid and tiktok happened now everyone’s depressed and doesn’t talk 😢
Well I wouldn't say you have no hope.
Rather you need to find what will work for you in the time being.
You need to forget what prior generations had to use and use something that fits with today.
Obviously houses are out of reach and rent is way to expensive.
An RV would be a good cheap option for getting out of your parents house.
The park cost are usually competitive and you can sometimes find people who are fine with you parking it on their land for a small fee.
Buying anything new right now probably ain't the best options on the table.
Forget trends also because it ain't worth the money in the long run.
Learns skills that will help you in career options and living through life.
Learning mechanical skills will help you fix your car and you won't need to pay someone else to do that.
If you can. Grow your own food. It will benefit you over time.
Most kids these days hate school because they're afraid of it getting shot up. I'm 15, nearly 16, and have plans for the nearest exit in each room I'm taught in aswell as like how to barricade.
"If the young men aren't given a place in the village they'll burn it down to feel its warmth" Damn, that's powerful.
Powerful but also sociopathic..
@@BingleDOop Not giving them a place is far more sociopathic.
@@BingleDOop villains are created as victims, people who have been harmed and abused by the evils of human behavior, who then change their ethics/behavior as a defensive reaction to being harmed by others
race to the bottom 😔
@@BingleDOop huh?? what a dumb response. if you hate on men they'll leave your society and it will collapse. ask how us army feels when they are having major issues recruiting....
@@TAURELLIAN yep many villains (but not all) usually start becoming one by asking themselves ''have you had enough''
"The generation that hates themselves more than there elders"
I never related and described myself more precisely
True...
@Deadpoppin Not ourselfs but we hate our generation. Compare that to the generation fighting ww2. Of all western countries. They be rolling in their graves for the west. I do hate my generation, we dont share any values or ideas.
@Deadpoppin impostor
I think its more well known than a new thing. In the 70s there was a sentiment of young people that they should harm themself to death because humans where bad. But they did not have social networks back then to broadcast it
@mercury_stuck_in_1984 people who say based *barf*
This really resonates with me. I was born in 99. I have a STEM degree and a good job. In a time table sense I am outperforming my parents, yet I have less than they do, can’t get a girlfriend, and work 12 hour days for an 8 hour wage.
if you're looking for a serious relationship and not just casual dating I think it's possible to find a relationship. Hard, but possible. A lot of dating advice given to men is counterproductive
tinder and social media has destroyed any chance zoomers have of getting a healthy relationship
Born in 99 too, still in Uni.
@@VestigeFinder you’re so wrong. It just makes it very difficult
@@DacLMK thats no a real problem, in my country people start in university from 17 to 23yo and doesn't change anything, I just start my career with 21 after failing in the election when I was 19 and I have make several things to prepare my self and don't be so stress about a future labor life
Thank you for highlighting how dire the circumstances are right now for the upcoming generation instead of just calling them weird, lazy, and entitled.
Calling someone lazy is inherently lazy. If someone is lazy, there is a reason for it and it would be lazy to not inquire or seek to understand why the person is being lazy and what it would take for them to not be lazy anymore.
@@evilds3261 Interesting I like the way you think.
Well he’s 22 like me and in this with the rest of us Z’s, so I’d say it’s warranted
@@evilds3261Wouldn't this rule out the possibility of laziness existing at all apart from in oneself?
@@cornelswinfen8025 That is a possibility.
As a millennial teacher who teaches Gen Z kids, this is spot on, especially the part about nihilism. About 20% of my students routinely fail at just about every subject. And I don’t mean just fail, I mean have an average of
if a kid spends alot of time on the internet with all the useless sht on there and aren't pushed enough from an early age to do real life things and gain real confidence and self esteem, it's not surprising that they become super neurotic and hopeless, which obviously leads to many depression/self pity/self hatred cycles and addictive behavior. I was born in 2000 and I'm trying to get out of it, I halted my progress towards getting a computer science degree during the pandemic and now I'm trying to finish it and get an internship. I have potential but I definitely needed some more exposure to things as a kid/teen. My parents understandably made the mistake of protecting me too much and not pushing me into more uncomfortable situations/experiences. It's still mostly my fault . I remember the time before the internet I was just watching movies and tv shows constantly when I wasn't doing academic stuff. I would go out with friends from time to time but it wasn't frequent. And I wish I didn't avoid sports so much, if you apply yourself fully in them they can teach you so much about life and yourself. As a kid whenever I was in a sport (after my parents forced me) I was completely miserable because I had the wrong mindset about all of it. So I didn't stick with anything long term. Once the ipads and iphones took over in the 2010's I got a strong internet addiction and found more excuses to stay inside all the time.
A kid needs to be constantly outside and interacting with people in a meaningful way, and also be surrounded by role models. It's too easy for them to just lock themselves in their room nowadays and do nothing fulfilling for years. Then when you're an adult life suddenly hits you like a brick, and feeling of inadequacy in so many areas is overwhelming. And the feeling of not knowing yourself or what you're capable of is the worst of all.
@@zainm5919 I related to your post so much, I had an internet addiction in my early teens that lingers to this day, and also had been sheltered a bit. I always wish I interacted with more people in those years, and had taken more risks.
I hate trying to talk to young people and hearing "I don't care" or "It doesn't matter" ... and the inability to enjoy things on the outside like national parks or beautiful botanical gardens or anything really that doesn't involve digital & technology... its sad, and all the young girls going out on their parents dime but just staring at their phones or gossiping about boys
@@zainm5919 so relatable, I think everyone in our generation feels the same way. If I may disagree with you slightly though I think people put too much emphasis on internet addiction. Consuming too much content isn’t the source of our issues but rather a symptom of a larger problem. I really like the analogy of the native Americans and how they had no social customs to deal with alcoholism. Just like how our parents didn’t know what to do about internet addiction. But addiction is way more complicated than that, several of my loved ones are alcoholics and everytime they’ve had an episode it’s not because alcohol itself is so tempting but rather it’s because something awful is happening in their lives and alcoholism is how they escape. The native Americans had their entire way of life destroyed, if your people are facing genocide then yea you might as well sit around and get wasted all day. You brought up role models and I think that’s a good point, both of my parents have bachelors degrees and yet we barely survived the past recessions. This sounds kinda cringe but as a kid I always found it depressing how much they struggled to maintain our middle class lives, making sacrifices like constantly missing school events so they could stay late at work, just for them to get laid off anyways. That’s happened to all my friends too. Meanwhile all the people on social media flaunting their wealth are talentless hacks. Idk if it’s just the era we live in but zoomers are fully aware of the fact that hard work just doesn’t get you anything. Might as well give up and scroll through TH-cam and TikTok.
When it comes to school though I think it’s an issue of common core. Gen z is the most media literate generation and I think we can recognize that what we’re studying in K-12 is just meaningless content, the same as our social media feeds. If you blame zoomers as being lazy you don’t understand the problem, you also shouldn’t tell yourself this was somehow your fault. It seems there are no more opportunities left, there’s no future to look forward to anymore, so gen z behavior actually makes a lot of sense. It’s not good and we need to find a way to solve it but we’ll never come to a solution unless we recognize that giving up is a rational response.
Could this also be a sign that the education system is not designed to give them a reason to learn? It is not so much an education system as it is an indoctrination system that does not teach emotional intelligence or critical thinking. It hardly covers why anything is the way it is and whether or not these things have to be the way they are or not.
Being at the oldest level of Gen Z I feel like I had it pretty good growing up amd I was able to notice the ideological shift in real time. Its been an odd experience lmao
Social conditioning
I second this, watching it in real time is very….. eye opening. Almost more eye opening is watching everyone change with the times as I refuse to do so
I am 2004 year born, and I am ukrainian. I haven't seen actions going, but honestly the war changed me and gave me meaning and sense of life. I have a feel that people don't value what they just don't have to fight for.
Same, I was born in 1999,
My infancy was spent climbing trees, playing football with my friends, ps2 and just hanging out with them.
Also I remember that back then you could call your friend Gay for almost no reason, today you will be called homophobic
@@alphagamer9505 I am born in 1999 too and back then childhood was very good. Social Media only peaked when i was 12 years and the internet was still evolving and not that much prevelant in my childhood.
Also Facebook was the only social media i joined back then because everyone was joining back then and after some months i found Facebook very shallow so i became inactive and later deleted it.
Without Social media ppl were more active in my opinion and way more happier.
I think our mind is nowadays living in two realities, one of them being social media and the other being the natural real world.
Community was stronger back then and i think community is a big factor in happiness!
As a millennial, I went through a lot of bad experiences that I hope Generation Z will avoid. Moving to the big city was a mistake; rents are too high and wages are too low. I ended up living in overcrowded, unsafe housing, paying every penny into rent, unable to go out, live or do anything because there was no money after paying the rent. It was awful. (And no, education doesn't help enough. I have two degrees, both from good universities). Corporate jobs are not worth the stress, the long hours and the abysmal behaviour by management. Relationships are a catastrophe, and online dating is a minefield. Make sure the person you date is 1) holding a valid passport 2) not married 3) has a job, otherwise you're going to be experiencing a lot of problems. Don't make a disaster of your life, or you'll end up like me: age 35, living with my parents, no wife or children, and attempting to retrain into a totally different career path because my original career ended in burnout and failure. Generation Z, if you're reading this, make the right life decisions: find out what you love doing, and figure out how to sell that back to society as a service. That's where a satisfying job comes from. And, good luck. I honesty hope life goes better for your guys than it did for me over the past 12 years. As for me, the solution: I became a teacher, I love my students and my time now goes into trying to help the future generation as best I can.
Generation Y/Millennials
the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers.
Generation Z/Zoomers
the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
That's why I live in country side, no expensive rents, a bit quiet, and no neighbors complaining at you such as by playing music
@@veiserexab1428 You forgot "no job economy, no grocery stores, no activities, bad schools, bad police force, bad roads, drug and alcohol addicted youth, and boredom"
@@The_Real_Frisbee They do have grocery but in a smaller scale, yes schools are bad or at least mediocre, drugs and alcohols are also present in city like the crackheads and addicts on LA Skid row, NYC, Florida, you name it And it's not really boring if know what you're going to do
Tysm for sharing this
As a fellow midwestern zoomer, this is spot on. I try to stay off of social media and to only consume intellectual stuff on TH-cam, and the nihilism and pain I have avoided because of it is astounding. Thanks for making this!
Couldnt agree with you more!
Hey, im like you, but in the future. I suggest trying not to spend too much time a day on intellectual TH-cam content- it really can start to wear you down lol. Remember to watch a puppy video inbetween or something to give your brain a break💖
Honestly you might not think that's a big deal, but it's so important for your intellectual maturity, it's going to pay huge dividends
He lumped in goths and school shooters...I would take this video with a pinch of salt.
deleting social media is a god send
As an older millennial, Globalism wrecked the middle class. I remember dads with good paying manufacturing jobs with benefits who had stay at home wives and 3 kids and went on vacation. We the millennials were sold the lie that shipping those jobs over seas and having everyone go to college would make things better.
Problem is that it seems to be a trend in countries without nearly as much immigrant labor as well. People these days really do just want to pay us less to do more.
as someone who did a smidge of research on globalism trying to defend it, i instead found all the reasons why globalism is completely wrecking havoc for a lot of ppl, which was very *f u n*
@@rubyy.7374 The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
As a gen x born and raised in north of uk, I can relate to much of your comment
@@rubyy.7374 He wasn't talking about immigrants.
We're a weird generation.
We're either nihilistic, oblivious, narcissistic, or mentally unstable. We take a post online as a phrase said out loud, we just seem to be so wrapped in escapism.
"We take a post online as a phrase said out loud". Yeah, this is definitely something that started when Facebook and Twitter got huge. Before then, the internet was a big joke that everyone was in on, not something to be taken seriously. Your real life and virtual life were separate things.
I have the impression that other geenrations tend to be nihilistic to a similar amount
@@louisglatt1038 which ones….
by this point, it isn't really escapism.
Its copeism
Is all of the above a possible choice?
I was surprised you didn’t mention the massive unprecedented social experiment on every young person in the first world from 2020-2021. Everyone spent a whole year or more in online school isolated from their peers. As an ‘04 baby, I’d say that the pandemic’s social isolation was by far the most negative experience of my life, and that’s coming from someone who was on crutches for the last 5 months from shattering my ankle.
That is going to be a defining generation split for the youngest kids. As a teacher I am seeing the lack of socialization for that long being a big problem with my students this year.
That in itself deserves a separate 20-30 minute video on its own. Perhaps Whatifalthist should do a part 2 of this video that details what you commented on with regards to COVID's impact on our generation. Both right now and the potential ramifications globally, not just here in the First World.
That was pretty cool ngl
I was happy I didn’t have to go socializing just not something I need I’m happy with my 3 friends and my family even if I’m on my pc 8hrs a day
I didn't really experienced that degree of isolation during the pandemic, still worked like before, still saw my friends regularly. Hell the lockdown was just one month over here where I live.
In the Nihilism section around 21:07 "when you remove the ability to believe in something from young peoples lives, they remove the ability to believe in something greater than their own suffering " is a pretty profound thing say. You can hear the ring of truth in it. I grew up in the 1980s and I work with a bunch of younger people. I've seen over time how incredibly awkward and hesitant everyone has become. I kinda understand what the younger people are going thru. I'm gen x and see this but baby boomers are super disconnected from this. They don't understand this at all. It makes me feel really upset about the state of things today.
Its infuriating because they caused it but never mind like really no jobs no affordable school no wages since I've been alive like it's strange all those old men caused all this and it's my fault for not eating shit enough still in 2023 eat more shit grin when eating it they say your weak date lower quit this do this drive this smile eat some more shit give me all your wages for a box eat more shit .....
I played a game of Valorant today, a kid gets on the mic and instantly starts flaming me, calling me slurs saying we lost because of the character I picked. He continues for three rounds really throwing out some horrendous shit. I mute him and move on.
Clearly he is still flaming because the rest of my team continues to shit on him.
After 20 minutes, I hear my teammates defend me again and I tell them "Don't worry man he's just raised by an iPad, kid didn't have a dad" (you should have heard what he was saying).
For a solid 5 minutes my teammate said something that got him to completely open up and I unmute him. His tone has completely changed and he is answering questions about hit life. He is 16, from Detroit and works at McDonalds. His Dad left his mom when he was one - he had seen him once and said he was just a bum who lived off of his new wife's money. It was an insane heart to heart that I had never heard, and the kid began to admit that he shouldn't have been so toxic. He actually starting talking about the future and although things had been hard, he was working and felt confident that he could survive and thrive. It was really crazy and I hope it wasn't the greatest actor of all time but I felt this connection with a kid that I had been there 5 years before, feeling the same way but with much different circumstances.
That's an awesome story
That's hope for the future because people for one do have a right to snap, to hurt, to express. My generation (millennials) ironically made that shit into a Taboo where boys doing such ar "toxic and fragile". You two were able to understand each other which is all we can do in life.
Fatherless Moment 😔
I actually have been from this kids perspective. I was playing league of legends, years back, was facing a riven and getting utterly stomped. And I did what every league player does, start shit talking your opponent because you are insecure about your own skill. After a while of back and forth just getting more and more heated he said something that broke through to me "all I wanna do is play my favorite champ but I always leads to me getting nothing but hate and vitriol for just playing the game how I want to"
Suddenly I dropped everything. I apologized, and we spent the rest of the game and about an hour in the post lobby just talking about life. By the end we both though eachother were genuinely cool despite all the hateful words that had been said, ended up friending them afterwards.
Honestly anyone that is spitting vitriol and poison just needs someone that can take it enough to get to what they really want to say. Hell the big thing I realized was the words I was using to describe what I hated most in people were the exact words I never wanted to hear anyone say about me because it was the things I felt deep down. I'm in such a different place now I can't even think of the types of insults I used to lobby because I just don't think like that anymore. I used to be a pathetic dude that had a video game addiction and would literally look at time as this thing I wanted to pass me by, I just wanted to close my eyes and be to the part of my life where I was successful and finally doing all the things I wanted to do. Now I view time as this nearly infinite thing, we have all the time in the world yet we squander it in meaningless BS because the prospect of being alone with our thoughts and having to critically think about things is so alien that it actively drives many insane.
Bruh moment
Being Gen Z and having just turned 18 yesterday, I feel this video on such an emotional level. Most videos that talk about Gen Z either say that we're the most conservative generation (due to the '08 crash) or that we're the most progressive generation, but neither of those are true. This video is, I think, the most accurate representation of my generation.
And, even though initially I thought the divide between Gen Z and Gen Alpha was weird, I can now understand it. I was born in 2004, but my two cousins were born in 2010 and 2014, and I feel that there's such a cultural gap between us. While both them and I grew up with the Internet, and I have always used the Internet, our experiences with it are completely different. I can still remember the pre-2016 Internet, while they never experienced it. I also remember when smartphones weren't commonplace, the iPhone and stuff like it was such a cool and new thing for me... Though of course I won't remember it as vividly as some of the older people in here, as I still was a kid when the iPhone came out. I'm really thankful for having been born in 2004 and not later, as at least I never got to experience the horrible social justice monster in my childhood.
One thing I really agree with the video is the pervasive nihilism in my generation. It seems like nothing has meaning anymore, that everyone's depressed, and I hate that. I've made it my mission to try to be more optimistic, to thing of the good things in life, however small they might be; to have a positive outlook on life. But it seems I'm mostly alone in this.
I agree that there are clear differenes in kids born later. I was born '02 and for me the spread of smartphones and digital integration came at an age where I can clearly remember life before it. Later kids have never lived without it. Simple things like five-year-olds playing Fortnite on a mobile phones I think make a great difference.
‘03 baby here. Having graduated from highschool last year, I’ve experienced or seen firsthand most of the things mentioned in this video. While it’s true that the system is pretty fucked and most of us are ill equipped to face it, every generation has had it’s trials and tribulations. It’s just that we’re the first generation in almost 100 years that will probably have to face more traditional threats and issues, compounded by modern technology and social norms.
Happe belated birthday man
04 baby.
Our modern world is retarded, anti human and unchristain. It's suffocating.
I think I'll just leave society and start a town like the Amish
Can relate, I’ve become the de facto therapist for a lot of people I know IRL.
If you care to or want to know why… Listen to what people say, while trying to remain unbiased, and acknowledging your bias/viewpoint. Try to help people find value in life beyond money, sex, or image. Maintain a conversation, not just platitudes, thoughtless encouragements/positivity, or cliched one liners. A willingness to help anyone with anything at anytime. Consistence in character (be honest, accept people for what they say, and make sure people know the advice is just an opinion they don’t have to listen to). As previously stated this is opinion, but I don’t suggest people do this kind of stuff unless you realize what you’re getting into, I’ve kept or directly stopped two or more people from committing suicide or other self destructive stuff (that I know of), I tend to be in situations a lot of introverted/anxious people hate getting into, and I’ve taken a few hits that could’ve been avoided (mostly socially and physically).
The following bit you should listen to though, especially if you’ve for some reason read this far, have a nice day!
As a member of gen z, I had to miss nearly a whole year of school due to the pandemic. My mother, who has suffered through starvation and and lack of money, has said the pandemic is the worst time of her life. We have to live through all of this stupid shit that only makes us only more cynical and lonely than previous generations. I can’t stand the idea that we will never be successful and we will have to just grow up to be another cog in the machine.
EDIT: Thanks for the support and encouragement everyone!
I feel the same way, but we don't have to. I don't know exactly what to do, but we can always do our best.
I luckily graduated before the bs but I worked through it
People need to stop being afraid of a D/Ä/M/N C/Ö/L/D
I have to write it like that otherwise Google will delete the comment, just to show how distopian the times we live in
@@calypso what do you mean?
@@alejandraayala8815 C/Ö/V/Í/D is nothing more than a B/Ä/D case of C/Ö/L/D, if you are younger than 60 your odds of surviving are 97%
I’m a 51 yr old man w a 21 yr old daughter. I just wanted to say that this video is just so..so..*chefs kiss*
It’s very very well done!
Everything you touched on in this video is something I’ve been trying to convey to others my age who always say “Gen Z is soooo lazy and entitled” and I have to disagree to a point.
So…thank you for spending so much time on putting this video together..you’ve explained it WAY better then I EVER could.
I look forward to watching many more of your videos in the future.
Tell your daughter I said heyyyy
Please don’t ever say “chefs kiss”
nothing sums up an emotion faster than "chef's kiss" @@glitchinthematrix555
Thank you for learning about your daughter’s generation. Not every kid is lucky enough to have a parent who tries to understand their life.
I’m a younger gen-z, I think what make me really stressed is the constant reminder of needing to fight or speak up or change something. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to protesting and challenging unfair rules and injustice, it’s just it gets really tiring when teachers and others are constantly reminding you of all the injustice in the world while you can’t even get your mental health and school work in check. “You have to be an allie or you’re also a part of the problem” my teacher once told the class, when we were trying to have a discussion on the war in Ukraine my teacher kept trying to make the conversation about racism and less about actually what was going on. You have to question everything and government mandated education is telling you to rebel against the government. Maybe this is just me and call me lazy all you want, but to me it’s really stressful
Nah you're right don't be like these people if you see 100 people going one way it's better to go the other. Don't let there problems control you and stay focused on your goals and the bigger picture
@@ltchip2593 let's be honest it's better to be classified as a homophobic then justify these peoples lies and abominations but I get where your coming from bro
@@ltchip2593 th-cam.com/video/dbZRvjOmO4k/w-d-xo.html I hope this helps mate
Its the same thing in my class I'm 13 by the way
@@Xlicty How do you know its dominance based? What does that actually mean? It's important to remember homophobia is a human thing, most animals fuck for pleasure and are not concerned with sexuality. Also no ... you're objection wouldn't have been homohobic, it would have been a question.
I thought you were older, you are very fluent and can express your ideas very concisely, you should be proud of the TH-cam channel you've created. As a Mexican a Gen Z myself, I definitely see a lot of Nihilism and negativity from my friends towards the future, but not in a depressing way, more like making fun of our inevitable doom. One key factor here is the amount of power the cartel keeps getting across the country and how it's getting more and more integrated with the government. There's this strong feeling that justice in Mexico is almost nonexistent and only those with money or those willing to break the law will be the only ones that will be successful. I feel the next 2-4 years will be crucial for Mexico's future because of some political events that are coming up.
Care to tell us more about the problems in Mexico? As an American with parents who came from Mexico, I would like to know. My mom's hometown was actually controlled by gangsters for a while. They even set up a curfew. They outmanned and outgunned the local police, who were helpless to do anything. They had informants in the military as well, so whenever the army would try to drive them out of the area, they would be alerted before the operation, and flee for safety. Then when the armed forces left, they would return. I believe that this only ended when the people of the town banded together to expel them once and for all.
I feel the same way in America except the creeping corruption is not based on money.
I'm some kind of immigrant who moves around because of reasons, I think I'm completely consumed by Nihilism and believes that the world naturally trends towards evil and we are just waiting for the next reset to occur because it takes a lot of deaths for it to revert. I think to cure the current problem we would need a select 60% of the population to be dead.
young ppl are capable of growing up really quick under the right circumstances
problem is society actively tries to prevent most ppl from growing up these days
@@gerardoguzman2707 Yes, this is a pretty common situation, specially in key states like Michoacán and Guerrero where many cartels have important territory. There's not much more to tell, as what you comment is pretty accurate. I am no expert as all that I'm saying here is based on what I see as a Mexican myself and what I read in different news sources, but I feel there's no easy way out at this point. Many people say the best solution would be to legalize drugs so the cartel won't have any income, but we are 10 years too late for that. The cartel has grown too powerful, and the government is obviously with them, though it varies from state to state as different state governments are allied with different cartel groups. This is a very complex situation that will keep evolving with the years, but this is the best answer I can give you at the moment based on what I can see.
I know you analyze this from an American perspective but Gen-Z is quite interesting in Eastern Europe as well. I'm a millennial born after the fall of the Iron Courtain. I grew up at the same time as my country made the transition from communism to capitalism. Because communism kept people forcefully "equal", the millennials of Eastern Europe had more or less a similar head start in life. This doesn't hold true for the people born around the end of the 90's though. They started life in families of varying levels of wealth and success and had the opportunity to use the internet earlier in life.
The zoomers here are either very smart and very capable or complete morons. I don't think there has ever been such a large intra-generational skill and wealth gap. Once they reach their 40s in about 15-20 years, the social inequality between zoomers is going to be brutal.
i'm a romanian zoomer (2003). i must add that eastern europe and romania in particular from my observations is facing the biggest brain drain in human history. All the smart kids i grew up with including myself dream of greener pastures in the west where our skills won't be underpaid like they are here, and all the not-so-bright kids dream of picking strawberries in spain and coming back as rich men. I really expect total social collapse due to our aging population (social security becoming worthless) and i don't know how the EU will play into this.
@@Sunrah Brain drain is a massive issue for alot of countries. I am from Aus and if we just invested in training our own people we wouldn't need to drain countries like yours. It's frustrating for everyone because it eats into opportunities for people to become skilled here as well. Not saying you guys don't have the worse end of the stick though.
@@Sunrah Bosnian gen Z ('04) here, absolute same issue as Romania. Nationalist tensions as a consequence of the war with Serbia 30 years ago, which also massively affected our economy, so much so that we are literally still recovering, but we're unable to develop even a smidge of the economic power we had in Yugoslavia. Primitivism stemming from the majority of our population being boomers (and then zoomers... our population age chart looks like a dumbbell) coupled with this drives young people away to other countries. Feeling like we can't grow ideologically nor economically in our motherland, we pursue other countries, primarily Germany. Sometimes I feel like there's 10 people left here.
Gen Z starts in the 21th century. You're looking at false definitions on Google. Gen Z 2000-2015 or 2001-2016 Z alpha 2015-2018 or 2016-2019 Gen Z ends in the late 2010s not 2012 that's completely false. USA TODAY - Pandemics like COVID-19 can be generation-defining events, but experts say it's too early to create a label for those coming after Gen Z. Gen Z is still the newest generation. Zoomers internet kids. 2010s born's are still gen z. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Someone born in 2001-2002 are developing into adults surrounded by both the help, expertise and pressures of social media, the internet and advanced technology. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. Real millennial definition. Generation Y/Millennials, the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers. Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized. Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff.
I'm gen Z. It's hard to socialize with people. It always has been difficult. High schools are basically a day-care for kids that want to be on there phones all day. Kids don't trust each other easily. It's hard to date because we see the divorce rates of our parents generations and if it's not our dream boy or dream girl, then forget dating, but when we actually do find our dream boy or dream girl, we ultimately end up having a hard time socializing because we weren't taught to socialize. Our economy has been awful since COVID. I'm glad we haven't had to be drafted into any pointless wars so far and I'm glad that we do have certain technologies to make life easier. We at least have food stamps to help us if we're not doing well financially. (I know thats divisive) At least we didn't grow up having to struggle to survive like my great grandparents or great aunts and uncles who grew up rural.
great point on dating, we are always looking for “the one”. But wont settle for anything less and as a result, it could be the perfect person. But you havent experimented enough with others to properly have a relationship.
I almost want WWIII to happen so that a lot of us could die with some honor...
^^ conscription incoming.
There's no such thing as "the one". Relationships are hard work so don't waste your time feeling bad about it if it's not for you
@@GalladeTheWarrior I think relationships make us become "the one" but people lost the sense of seeing potential
The difference between gen z and our grandparents who fought in WW2 at a similar age is that while they fought in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and many of them didn't come back, the society that they were part of, even if damaged by war, was a lot more welcoming and a lot more fulfilling to live, friends, family and the community was very vibrant and full of life in that generation. My grandfather in his early 20s was drafted for the war and fought against the Soviet Bolsheviks. He was eventually captured during a mission and spent many years in Russia in working camps, usually without appropriate warm clothing. So he stared death in the face, and suffered for many years as a slave in the freezing cold, but he still had hope that he could one day return to his home, which he did. My generation isn't suffering from war, but the society that kept our grandparents' spirits up during struggle no longer exists, the community, friendships and vibrant culture no longer exists for us. So even if our grandparents suffered more, we ourselves have little to live for.
Grandpa was a hero. Eastern front sounded like Hell on Earth
old people are often the nicest people you’ll ever meet
Back then you could work a fast food job and actually own a house and raise a family. What way of life do us Zoomers have to fight for in foreign conflicts? Oil?
generation Z..
had to look up the stuff, for use in my country i found this for gens on the workfloor now :
Babyboomers: geboren tussen 1941-1955.
Generatie X: geboren tussen 1956-1970.
De Xennial: geboren tussen 1971-1985.
Generatie Y: geboren tussen 1986 - 2000.
Generatie Z: geboren vanaf 2001 - 2015.
gen Z, there was a late millenium bug there in 2018 at my work back then :-)
the software for personel, did not allow a '00 entry for year of brith :-D
so it was imposseble to enter a new emplyee of just 18 in the system
i wonder how widespread such small problems were ;-).
@@magmapixel8627 if I understand correctly, the main reason low payed jobs also get you fewer and fewer hours work, is cause of not having to allow union representation??
fuck, that is only one more sympton that shows you need union representation HARD !!
in western europe, social security put down a minimum, if working wage, lessened with cost of getting to work , like cost to upkeep a car for a lot badly located jobs,
(here good located jobs means also easely accessable by some form of public transport, car ownership in cities had been declining since 2000 i think ;-) )
why would you bother? then you are better off on a minimun social security pay check, to only have enough to survive, and combine that with voluntairy work that give you much more meaningfull social connection as most work situation today allow for!
also, it's illegal here to state 'tipps' are in any way a normal part of a wage..
tipps are : you feel well helped and friendly threathed, and want to express that.
waiters get at least a minimun wage here, that also means, higher paid if you work pas 22h (10pm for anglosaksens who don't use 24h time in writing ;-) )
but i see, encouraging sign in amercia, i hope it comes quick enough, cause currently the social security systems is being build off from all corners slowly year by year... hollowed out... But difference really showed with amozone coming to europe! when european workors striked, they made contact to usa workers comparing there situation, seeing that in the usa they ad even worse working conditions ! so maybe you'll learn to strike again too against working condition that smell more like a modern serf status then ay real freedom in choice were your work...
back under rosevelt, it was the usa who had the best social security!
it was the whole cold war period that made you guys extremely oversuspicious of everything social security, cause it would 'smell like cominism' ...
while it's in many ways the oppositie, affordable education allows real possibility to work yourself up. Social security allows being a bit more selective in new job, in stead of having to take the first thing you can, just to be able to survive..
it has to be paid of course, by higher taxes, especially for those who earn more, but one thing even the big earners get in return is a lot more social stability.
"The first generation on our records that hate themselves more than they are hated by their elders"
Hit the nail on the freakin head there mate.
Edit: What has this thread come to
I hate the sewer trash that is every generation. I hate mine the most because they still have hope. Let’s see how that hope holds as the climate wars kick off
@@bulkierwriter2772 begone
@@bulkierwriter2772 virgin nihilist
Lol at kids these days thinking they are "edgy" and "cool." If anything, the baby boomers back in the 60s and 70s were the most shocking transition from the sensibility of their parents in the 50s. The biggest counterculture movement in modern history.
@@bulkierwriter2772 i think you need this video m.th-cam.com/video/TBYDgJ9Wf0E/w-d-xo.html
Speaking strictly as an American, I have felt all my life that the supposed mediating institutions were flawed and untrustworthy. So much of our lives is commoditized that any given exchange feels like a hidden attempt to swindle or coerce me into some kind of money-making scheme at my expense. Religion, politics, every meaningful arena of discourse is subverted by a hunger for money that has only gotten worse.
I feel like the only honest person in a country ruled by con artists. I know that can't literally be true, but actual normal people are so disincentivized to be themselves that I cannot trust ANYONE.
I’m here in Toronto ontario having the same thoughts. We’re not alone although it feels that way often. Stay strong me friend ✊
I wonder what Prussian exile with an epic beard warned us about this in a 4 volume economic treatise like 170 years ago
I feel 100% the same.
@@-_8809 When I lived in Canada my thoughts were "this is basically the same as the US."
It's unsurprising to see it adopting the same issues.
It's hard to gain trust these days, there is so much information that you sometimes cannot tell apart from the true and the false. I always had that feeling that everything is there to manipulate the individual. Everyone seems greedy because of that hustle mindset. Nonetheless, there are still honest people in this world, except that these people are so far apart that they rarely meet.
I’m scared because I used to have such big dreams and ambitions. I used to be so highly motivated it was scary. I was a 4.0 student and was involved in many clubs and extracurriculars. I had such an internal drive to succeed and willingness to do whatever it took. Everyone around me was certain I would make it and viewed me as “most likely to succeed”. I’m scared though because it’s all left me now. All my motivation and drive, all of it seems pointless and useless. I found myself getting lazier and not wanting to do what I used to because it all seems so pointless. It seemed like even if I succeeded, it wouldn’t be worth it, like the pain and suffering I spent doing it wouldn’t be enough. I don’t know what to do about this. I’m not even quite sure how to explain it or put it into words. I feel unmotivated and anxious. I’m anxious about my future and about what’s happening to the world and what it means for me. This all started in the end of 2021 for me. Maybe it was COVID, as it ruined the tightly knit schedule I had built for myself. Maybe it was the political tension. Maybe it was lack of structure in my life. Maybe it was online schooling (which I think was a major cause).
I am getting a quite a bit better now that I’m using my electronics less (I got a flip phone and I’m writing this on my laptop) but I’m still not even half as motivated as I once was. I am trying to find that part of me again and it’s scary not knowing where it went or why.
I hope I continue to get better as I continue to stay off and away of the online media’s. Only time will tell though.
For all of you going through the same thing, you’re not alone. You’re not a failure and nothing is wrong with you. It’s going to be okay.
Reminder global conflicts dont affect you
Pretty much the exact same story for me! I have been getting better though week by week and it seems to only get easier, but damn is it hard to get started and even easier to lose it.
Wishing you the best!
Hey I'm going through the exact same thing! We can get through this! Always aim for the better!
Are you looking for work?
@@wtfimcryingnah, I think covid and the Ukraine-Russia War severely affected the cost of living for me.
Being gen z who grew up in a somewhat isolated rural America, it’s odd seeing how most of my peers are stuck in such constant loops with mental health and social media, yet I was exposed to none of that until my late teens. Such a large culture shock and I never thought I’d experience it in my own country.
College has been an eye-opener for me. A lot of my peers at my school come from urban backgrounds where was I grew up in hicktown. It’s been hard to make meaningful relationships there because it seems like everyone else is just so cynical and uninterested in having meaningful relationships. And the ones who are also come from rural backgrounds. Unfortunately your friends are often where you find them so it’s often hard for me to get together with the ones I connect with most.
I’m a Gen-Xer and have felt guilty for finding late-Millennial and Gen-Z colleagues cold, insincere, and even reflexively mean but i don’t think i appreciated the existential crises they’ve grown up experiencing and how it affects their psyches.
If we (X) had warmer & more organic friendships, it’s because we had lots of factors working in our favor.
These are really tipping-point crises that need to be addressed because to allow every successive young American generation suffer worse on average is unconscionable.
As a gen z who lived in rural america also, I didn't recieve my first phone until I was 18 when I could buy one myself. This had otherworldly effects on me compared to my peers. Now the city life honestly terrifies me more than anything else, so I live with my mom since my dad passed away six months ago in my little pocket of pastures. Life is simple out here! Collect chicken eggs, milk the goats, play with the animals, and try to protect the homestead from wild dogs and cars. What I love most is looking up at the sky at night! You can see all the stars in the sky and galaxies. When I went to the city for the first time(because my boyfriend is from there), I was astonished by the night. It was so dark! I mean there were street lights but no stars and barely could see the moon. Everyone in the city look like their on drugs. They have sores on the face and stagger when they walk. I couldn't believe this was how the majority of people live. It is bizarre. Just like when city folk come where I live they are profoundly agast by what I do. Most children who have visited don't know that chickens are animals that make chicken nuggets or that milk comes from udders!
@@coopersweeney1336 same man, I used social media but I never let it consume me. Having lived in a big urban city it’s very hard to meet like minded people who aren’t constantly worrying what somebody else thinks of them.
It also makes it hard to tell people when good news happens to you. It’s like people are stuck in their heads more than ever and their envy is through the absolute roof, like they have no compassion and don’t see themselves in anybody else.
@@x77punk77x I think the boomers are gonna start dying in mass once the 21st Century Crisis goes full swing.
Once they die, their children will finally receive the inheritance that is rightfully there’s.
That speech at the end about not giving up with the cards stacked against you hits really close to home for me. I've been feeling lost in my life recently and that bit was really inspiring, keep up the great videos!
You can do it✌️
Same, I was getting sort of sad when he mentioned all these problems but the uplifting speech at the end give me hope.
You got this! Don't give up on me!
I am entering the medical field. So. I wonder how healthcare jobs fit into this
same
I definitely feel like my soul got sucked out of me by this generation. I remember my mom telling me that I used to be so energetic and happy as a kid. I don’t even remember having those kinds of memories.
As a 20 year old I’m still trying to find things I want to do and want to be. I feel lost. Hopefully I see the light at the end.
Yea I have no ambition or dreams either
As someone that is a bit older the 20s is the worst period of your life.. People tell you all the time to take advantage of your youth and all that, to find your path and how "happy" youth is supposed to be.. But all that is very hard.. and without having a path it all feels meaningless.. I hated life (badly) all of my 20s.. The turningpoint for me was 30.. then things started to get gradually better and at now 35+ life has never been better.. I think you could find this in many studies as well.. That life get better after 30-35.. So just don't give up... It will suck but hopefully there will be good moments..
At age 20, most of us don't have any ambition or goals rather than earn money.
For most people, ambitions and real goals comes only after late 20s. Our brain is only developing even during early 20s.
Just be patient it will come one day.
I'm a millennial in late 20s. I have only started pursuing my real goals and hobbies until very recently.
Take some LSD. I'm not even joking, you'll find yourself real quick
@@dinil5566 So you were just chasing money in your 20s?
Idk if this is trend anyone else has noticed but as a young 20 year old male with some male friends I’ve noticed massive massive personality shifts in most if it all of them
Guys who were smart and sociable became anxious and depressed
Guys who were funny and goofy became cocky and self absorbed
Fun loving, life loving guys became contracted and scared
I don’t know what’s happened? It could be Covid it could be Genz problems it could be life
I’ve dealt with my fair share of anxiety and bad self esteem but I have seemed to wave off the personality shift? Idk anyone else have thoughts
You’re not going to like this answer…. But the rise of instant/soft porn on apps like TikTok are directly linked to lowered testosterone and depression. There’s also an emasculation agenda through the news and apps like TikTok that promotes clown 🤡 world. The rise in LGBTQ is linked with lowered testosterone and shame around masculinity. As more men turn gay and feminine, it has in turn created a ripple affect. Another thing that’s brand new, is the “me too” movement with the amount of men being accused of rape and sexual assault. This was NOT a common phenomenon at all. When I was in school, men NEVER felt afraid of putting their arms around a girl and thinking they will be sued or accused of unwanted behavior. It wasn’t something that ever crossed anyones mind.
Another thing, I’m older than you as I’m 27 and the first year of a millennial. Back in my day, when I was in middle school and high school, everyone said faggot. Everyone. If you did anything gay, you were a faggot. Now, nobody says faggot because the world will come at you with pitchforks and torches. The rise of political correctness and fear of homophobia makes men become weak and attempt to display their masculinity in more passive aggressive ways. From someone who is older, this is what I have seen before my own eyes. Sorry if this response offends you, but it’s true…
@@shadowfax333 “The world is made up of too many girls wondering if they are pretty and too many boys too shy to tell them.”
Precisely. It’s like the world has taken on a colour contrast. Most people aren’t willing to be themselves at all.
@@crimsonskissplenty of boys tell average girls they are pretty on social media. Lead to average girls thinking they are 10s
@@SK-kh2rs plenty of girls dating average ass dudes thinking they’re special when really they’re just the only ones who ask them out
Gen Z is essentially a breaking point in generations between those repeating the same mistakes/emulating millennials and those who seek to avoid that at all cost, taking influence from Gen X and Boomers.
On a sidenote, I really dislike the notion of "gen alpha" considering there are practically no noticeable differences between our generations nor large technological leaps.
The envelopment in tech my friend at least gen z had some time away from the phones...
The difference between a gen z and gen alpha is practically a cultural boundary
@@theelogician8633 Yeah I still remeber flip phones and Leap Frogs. Damn makes me feel old.
@@wilsonanderson1415 what?
@@wilsonanderson1415 for real lmao. Even my upbringing ('04) was way different than kids in the '05/'06 group.
I've always felt the main problem with gen z is how little socialization we get compared to previous generations. The silent generation and before would walk to local stores and meeting places, boomers upto millenials would go to the mall or the park. But genx doesnt have malls, theres no where we can walk because of too many cars on the road, not many community centers, we dont really go to church, and nobody goes to parks anymore for a number of reasons. Because of this our only real social interaction is online, it's why we spend so much time on our phones, but they're no real replacement for actually meeting and doing things.
In the English speaking countries, people spent much more time outdoors prior to about 1995. As someone born in 1985, I can vouch for how often kids and teenagers would spend time outdoors playing sports, biking around, going to arcades and malls, etc.
Technology is the opium of the masses (today anyways)
Alot of the malls are still open, but most of the stores are gone where I am, and most people i know just order online instead of going. And more shops and malls close every day.
Seriously. This has been bugging me since my childhood. I had this idealistic image in my head of meeting my future husband at a park or an art gallery…turns out I met him on a dating app! It worked out for me, but I worry for so many others my age and younger.
@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd Got any sources for that? I know people can be addicted to stuff like online games, but you seem to imply that's a normal thing, which I haven't heard of. Nor have I heard that the majority of Gen z is addicted. Taht's gonna need some evidence.
Gen Z's borders are a little more controversial.
You can typically define Gen Z by their memory of a pre-9/11 world. _Most_ Gen Z cannot remember less security, less cameras, less counter-terrorism, etc, most cannot even remember 9/11 itself.
The area between 1994 and 1997 is an overlap of Millennials and Zs, while not wholly reliant on 9/11's memory to declare either side, it is a good starting question. "Do you remember 9/11?" Most Gen Zs will say no, most Millennials will say Yes, or Kinda, or anything like that.
As for the late end, Alphas are still growing up so we don't have a good placement for them yet, but 2012 is far too early. The big divide between Zs and Alphas is mostly about technology. Where Zs grew up with an analogue world turning digital/smart, Alphas already lived there. Zs are familiar with DVD players, flip/slide phones, MP3 players, static on box TVs, standard definition (4:3), no internet anywhere except computers, pay phones, etc., but were all young enough to see these things disappear and be replaced usually before adulthood.
Meanwhile Alphas grew up with this replacement technology already existing. Zs are a very small generation, and you can really put the end date for them around 2008, which is around when smart and HD technology began taking off. 2008 is notably also when the financial crash happened, which helps associate the end date with a crisis.
when you said "2012 is far too early" I was inclined to disagree because I thought you were going to put the date around 2015 or something, but yes, 2008 seems like the natural year to put the finish line on, considering that the financial crash changed the world a lot. 2008 was also when social media culture was beginning to be formed as we know it today. to be honest though, I would even put the line around 2004 or 05 because that's when all the social medias were being launched
@@Nobody-pv9jt Well specific events can't cause generation changes. It's not like a baby born 1 day before an event is different to a baby born 2 days after. Events take a couple years to take effect, and yeah, social media having an effect in 2004 is a good idea, but obviously they wouldn't have changed people being born for a few more years.
@@EvilParagon4 yeah thats true. my logic was that people born before the launch of all the social media platforms would be able to remember a world without them but you're right, social media wouldn't have any effect on a toddler's life, it would take time to affect someone.
I think 2008-2010 should be the reasonable cutoff, for the tech reasons you mentioned but in addition that covers kids who lived through the pandemic in middle school/high school years. I think it'll be interesting to see what Gen Alpha turns out like with the pandemic hitting them in their elementary school lives
You forgot only one thing about gen Z, we are always looking for that memory of a pre 9/11 world, we are always seeking it, from stories the others tell us to our own interpretations, we will always seek this other times of freedom, values and less degeneracy and futility in society, gen Z is always seeking the times we never lived, the freer times that older people tell us, for me gen Z represents this seek in a way, but its very likely that we will never find it for us again because the world has changed, we might be able to produce this good times for our kids though
I'm 33 and I feel old and out of touch. If you're a teen or early 20s take time to really think about the road you have ahead of you. It's a world no one in human history could have imagined and forget about understanding.
My only advice would be to really think about what kind of person life would be good to you and then coming up with a plan to get it. Write it down and try to execute. Failure is fine just retune and retry
23 and thank you for the advice. I am well aware that Millennials were fed a lie by corprate boomers. Gen Z saw that and said “hell nah, I’m gonna do my own thing”, then start a business of their own through freelancing. That’s the path that nearly half of Gen Z is persuing, myself included.
Millennials were fed a lie and Gen Z have an existence famine (unable to barely live with what feels like minimum wage, even at “well paying” jobs).
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
You talk about no one being able to imagine the world being like this. Yet there were multiple people arguing it would turn out like this decades ago. The problem wasn't that no one knew it would turn out like this. The problem was no one listened to those that warned about it.
1984 for example written by George Orwell was a warning and he was killed for it by the same people implementing the plan. Everything going on now a days is a plan being implemented, a very old plan by a very specific group of people. George Orwell simply was friends with those people and knew about the plan.
The problem is the people behind big tech knew the technology would affect the population the way it did. Much of the new tech was actually engineered to cause this affect. There were studies and experiments to ensure it would turn out like this. Funded by the super rich that want us all lonely and miserable.
There is no more being what you want to be. The consequences are fatal now. There is no more cushioning when you fall, and money is not made easily to re-coup.
The best advice is to find something you can do, and can tolerate. Get in where you can fit in. I have experienced failure after failure and its only sunk me deeper each time, with nothing learned, and nothing gained.
We naturally want hope, but do not out that hope in society. The desire for hope comes from God, but its not meant for the material
@@DoIoannToKnow What happened? How did you fail?
Gen Z can be both described and explained by the psychological term "learned impotence" (sometimes referred to as "learned helplessness).
Learned helplessness is very wide spread in our generation.
That explains a lot
Oh no. There's a term for it. Of course there is.
My doctor said i suffer from that so yeh its true, few of the other people i know my age around 25 are basically the same with varying degrees of fucked.
No, not learned. It was forced on us.
as the oldest of gen z (25), i applaud those who had to graduate highschool during the pandemic. it makes me really sad to imagine that if i graduated just 5 years later, i wouldn’t have had a normal senior year filled with all the fun activities and a normal ceremony to celebrate. im so sorry 🥺
I graduated in 2019 talk about dodging a bullet
Well that’s me. I lost the last 5 months of my last year. So I missed the very best parts. I mean I dodged the finals exams like a boss, but I was confined to my room for the next year and a half.
To add salt to injury, this is the second graduation ceremony I lost. I am originally from the Southern Hemisphere, so I was meant to finish one year before, I got pushed back half a year so I would be able to finish the programme on my new school. So while I was midway my last year, all my friends back home were celebrating their graduation without me. Honestly it was a dumpster fire of a year.
I graduated in 04. I hated school so much I skipped my ceremony. But at least there was a ceremony to skip. The reaction to the beer bug was *way* overblown. Younger peoples have my sympathy.
Literally the pandemic HS kids had it easy. All they got were A’s and they didn’t have to work for them. Doing ANY work got you a high grade
When I was a senior in highschool (2021), my school did a survey that states about half of the seniors were failing or were going to fail. So my school allowed for extremely late work to be turned in for full points.
As a zoomer I legitimately feel like I grew up in a completely alien world from those from the older generations.
I feel that
You kinda did
I didn't realize it until I because friends with millennials
I was born in 1985, prior to the late 90's when somebody called your home's landline phone you didn't even know who was calling.
the older generations took everything from us soon it will our time to take it all back
I was pretty depressed through this whole year, but it’s honestly become the most important year of my life. Being constantly depressed means not learning anything new or exciting. Constantly working means to not give yourself a break. It’s about balancing your activity while trying to build yourself up.
There’s a clip from the Boondocks that perfectly describes this “you do what you can.”
Doing what you can is more than enough at the moment, because then you can do more and rest and repeat. On different things, taking your time. It will take awhile for us to build ourselves up for the world.
Whatifalthist has to be one of the only TH-camrs who truly understands our generation
I think lots of people understand the generation. But its hard to put it into words that make sense. Only a few can do that. So in that case I agree.
He's really good at expressing it like J said. His videos are very appealing, but also deeply meaningful. I really like this guy, I hope he keeps on doing his thing.
I find it quite stark, the rise in post-irony amongst Gen Z, since it's very clearly a means of coping with a world that brings anxiety and also a means of expressing difficult feelings while shielding the individual from risk.
I think it's, on one hand, a positive development since it shows that Gen Z are very conscientious thinkers and I think minds that are capable of balancing a worldly nuance are well suited to tackle a potentially difficult future. Yet at the same time, it's slightly alarming that, to take one example, a character like Patrick Bateman seems to have become almost a generational mascot. Especially since, upon rewatching American Psycho, I realise, homicidal tendencies aside, Bateman's struggles, his anxieties, even his oppressive environment and culture are analogous to the circumstances Gen Z find themselves in. And whether intentional or not, I thus can't see his veneration as a cry for help.
I guess my fear is just whether those with power will heed it, if they even hear it.
Those in power are already mind addled by the internet. Unfortunately it falls to us to carry on.
If it won’t bring them profit, it’s unlikely
Yeah that's really funny actually. I'm in a bunch of meme groups with of people, mostly in gen z. And over the past year there's been a MASSIVE increase in Patrick Bateman memes.
Even me, who has never seen American Psycho actually though the memes were so good and relatable that I went on to watch the movie. I thought it was great. Not sure if it's good or bad, but I relate to the character of Patrick Bateman more than people probably would have thought healthy when the movie came out.
I think a lot of us (gen Z) are very OCD for lack of a better term, I'm not diagnosed, but I have come to the conclusion that a lot of my rage comes from my extremely high standards for how other people behave and do things, unless I make a mistake, in which case it's everyone/everything else's fault. I hope I'm not projecting this onto the rest of my generation too much, but for me I think my terrible anger comes from a strange sort of OCD/perfectionism/defeatism if perfection cannot be achieved immediately. Also my dad emotionally abused me really bad whether or not he meant to or why he did it, he really fucked my head up, but I gotta just keep on keeping on, thanks for reading my cringe blogpost.
I wouldn't agree that post-irony shows development of conscientious thinking. Most of post-ironic jokes are just absurd for the sake of absurd.
I will say this one hit home for me. At school I see people who have given up and just don't care anymore and think that we are doomed to fail and this is in a small rural school. Most people in high school have already given up and will have no drive to fix their situation and improve their live both physically and mentally and would rather just exist in a state of misery than improve their lives in a meaningful way.
I agree with this a lot. I've live most my life in a fairly good sized town and the feeling of everything is going to end is still vary strong here sadly. But I will say there is a corner culture that's formed thats kind of rejected a lot of what we we're told when we were younger, well at lest with my friends. I say there's three groups of people in the generation. 1 the people who have only lived online don't understand how life outside of it works. 2 the people who hate the world and want everyone to know mostly cuz they only watch the news or on places like Twitter. Or 3 hate what the world had become doesn't spend that much time online doing meningitis trash and spend time in reality, so their not so doomer about the world. Still this is only my observation so take it with a grain of salt.
Being lazy is good when you are young or a young adult, in a system were hard work pays off in dimes it is normal to see dissatisfaction on the average folk towards its future and their possible success.
@@sammong5670 I'm between 1 and 3 you get sucked in and you push out, it's a constant cycle between missery and normal life, my only fear is that in one of these moments where I get sucked in I will not have the strenght or will to push out.
Both my older and younger sisters are gen z and they have more ambition than me.
All that would have been different if the younger generation had been taught that the solution to every problem lies within, not with seeking out “experts” and government to solve every problem for you. Sometimes I think children are being educated into learned helplessness these days. That not be by accident either.
As someone who was born in 2004, I was able to get a good sense of how fast technology was changing. I remember Blu-ray was the shit back in my elementary days, and phones like the ones we have now were almost unheard of. Technology has gotten so advanced within the last 10 years, it's amazing but a curse. Nobody knows how to properly advance with the times and as a result the whole world is playing the catchup game, with Gen Z in the lead. We live in a completely different world than we did 20 years ago, and nobody who grew up before the 90s well ever understand Gen Z, which is the problem.
It's because the boomers lived off their ancestors while marketing themselves as revolutionaries, and attributing their success and their prosperity to their own actions. The people of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s got to benefit from all the hard work and dedication of thousands of years of hard, brutal existences only to throw it away being revolutionaries and not understanding why the generations of the next millennium can't just follow the blueprint they did to succeed.
The problem is the people behind big tech knew the technology would affect the population the way it did. Much of the new tech was actually engineered to cause this affect. There were studies and experiments to ensure it would turn out like this. Funded by the super rich that want us all lonely and miserable.
2000s born myself, feel you. I remember how my family use to have a brick style house phone and now everyone in the family has a mobile.
a 2003 guy here, and I relate with you totally on this. Social gatherings back in those days felt more real and being an iPad kid was unheard of, as the people around looked having fun and enjoying themselves truly. Now, they just have stares of death with a fake smile :)
Born in 2000, enjoy your videos and the way they are presented even if I don't agree with all the takes. The amount of knowledge I've gained from here is immense and nothing beats going on this place at 3AM because I can't sleep. All I can say is, I felt this video. I am extremely motivated to better my own life and do something great, to find out what the purpose of existing here is for me, and yet at the same time I'm also a lazy fuck. Life's full of contradictions right? Thanks for makin the vid bruh, it really does help us out a lot, cheers!
Couldn’t agree more
Likewise, as someone who is also born in 2000, I do agree.
follow men like andrew Tate etc, the raw masculinity will lead you to a better life. Also rediscover religion in anyway you can
My grandmother said "chunk small" if you're feeling unmotivated, try to just do something, anything! You'll realize the momentum you build up will allow you to do things you thought would be impossible, good luck to you all and blessings for this generation please! I'm trying to work on being kinder and less critical of other people, I hope I can manage to stop being so hurtful to others all the time. This sort of shit gets passed down and somebody's gotta blow the whistle and stop it.
I insist you find Mr. Fuentes, or John Doyle as helpful influences. Every other is corporate, and harbor that perverse problem that created the incompetent leadership we have today.
Much like everyone else, being the first of Gen Z, like ‘99-‘03, we all had ‘normal’ childhoods with a little bit of technology, but around middle school is when shit hit the fan and everyone got phones more or less, but I distinctly remember just learning to read pretty late cause of my dyslexia, and seeing a casualty report for Afghanistan, being able to read it and understand it, but not know what any of it meant except ‘US Dead’ and a number
Bro I was an '05 baby and I kinda feel the same it's like 7th grade everything went to shit because that's when the technology became more important than the people around you and all of a sudden everybody feels isolated y'know
@@TheLastMillennials dog regardless of if I misplaced a name, I still experienced what I described as did the kids who were born in about the same years, and I said that we did get the internet, it was always there but I distinctly remember none of us really used it like how kids now use it
@@mitchellwright5478 ignore him and report him for spam. He went around posting the same reply on every comment.
gen Z was 1995
@@cutiedopo17 politely sir or ma’am, see what I said about two posts above, as when I was kid albeit it was the not the same, I would it argue it was significantly more comparable to anyone born after 2007 or 2008. Honestly, the generational conflicts have become much more short, I’d also argue it’s not even generational anymore, it’s simply by how old you are in comparison to ‘modern’ 21st century, versus the early 2000’s.
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
I'll keep on failing but i'll eventually get up, have a nice day, look upon my failure and have total respect for the path I went on.
Nice adage but how can you be a good man without knowing what a good man is?
@@aboriginalalex It's probably more instictive than you think or not then try getting a feel
I am 62 and spend almost every day working with teenagers. I believe that our biggest problem today is the endless string of voices telling people of all ages that things suck and people unlike you are evil - with this primarily coming from people of my generation, and especially from those with political agendas. This is exacerbated by institutions that enable people to self-segregate and never interact with people who are different. The message I try to pass along whenever I can is that there has never been a better time to be alive. And the thing I detest is when I hear older people who are f___ed up in a dozen ways telling young people that they have problems when the younger people are merely experimenting with new ways - often, technology-enabled - of living life differently.
It's the best time to be alive for the older generations who were settled into their payed off houses before the Great Recession. Young people saddle themselves with debt trying to achieve the life of their parents and struggle to make ends meet as wages continue to stagnate.
Im 14, i think i agree. Partisan institutions teach every part of the age pyramid (teenagers to elders) that the other side is legal and dehumanize them to a scary point. A political example would go like this: put a trans person in front of a transphobic conservative in a room to converse. I guarantee after 5 minutes any preconceived notions or hate for the other side will dissipate. We dont know how to have healthy discussions and define people based on political ideology and whatever our institution of choice tells us because its easier than actually confronting the other side, a prepackaged opinion on the other side. Though this probably isnt the biggest issue we face.
@@Darth_Insidious Keep telling yourself that; it's wrong and that's why your view and attitude stink. You are buying the bullshit that everyone else is selling.
Do tell us about the Great Recession. Assuming you are the oldest Gen Z, you were ten. I'd bet it was really tough on you trying to figure out which Nintendo game you were going to play when you got home from school. All those people in their NOT paid-off houses got slammed when their houses were suddenly worth half what they were just months before. They now owed more on their house than it was worth. They couldn't sell their house or move unless they wanted to STILL be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars and have nothing.
So, yeah, everything was just a cakewalk. You are told you are supposed to be miserable and envious and you do as you are told. Every generation has its own pile of shit it must eat and all you can do is eat it and move on. Quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Sorry that was less than as eloquent as I would normally write. But, you totally heard nothing that the person you replied to just said and the whining is insufferable.
PS - Wages have not stagnated; you bought that, too. People just spend more money on stuff that they did not have in previous eras. Cable, streaming, Internet, 60"+ OLED TV, multiple computers, multiple gaming consoles with subscription services, the newest $1200 iPhone every year, the service that goes with that phone, avocado toast, you name it. The people of which you are so envious had none of that: three TV stations that all went off-air at midnight that they watched on a single black-and-white 20" TV, one corded home phone that everyone used, one car, a 1300-sf house with Formica cabinets, made their own lunch and coffee that they took to the office in a brown bag and a thermos. Expenses and niceties have exceeded wage growth, that is the problem.
As a Gen Z, I am very pissed how we all grew up with adults telling us how awesome the world is and if you work hard you will get it great things. What a crock of bull. Telling us life will be awesome when it has failed us is just cruel. There is a lot about life that is awesome. But overall, it's a miserable existence. Just be honest. I dont even many political nonsense. I mean stuff like careers, financial, friendships, love, etc. Just basic parts of life that we dont get at all.
Very good world to old foolks that settled down lol, try to buy a house as a gen z
Honestly Gen Z is more of two distinct groups, those born before 2004 and those born after 2004 due mainly to how memory develops. The 08 crash was incredibly influential on the life of your average American and the first group can remember the world before the crash while the second group can't. Because of this, various aspects of how these two groups interact with the world are honestly as different from each other as they are with Millennials and Gen Alpha. *Obvious disclaimer, the younger Gen Z group is still entirely made up of children; this is mostly based on anecdotal evidence seeing how the two different groups interact with the world at the same ages.
Edit: everything I said for the crash also applies to social media.
I can attest. Born in 2000, just early enough to see the world rapidly change in the first years where I was generally conscious, but too early to comprehend and react appropriately.
For younger zoomers, though, this is all they've got. The status quo is now, and it is kind of a hell.
@@miniondaechir born in 2001 and I agree a hell of indifference. Where yesterday is the same as today and the same as tomorrow.
born 2003 and i honestly cannot remember the world before the crash or notice any meanigful difference before or after but mabey thats just me
Born in 05' and I can attest I cannot recall the crash, if at all
I was born in 06, don’t remember the crash. Learning about the time before the crash, even the part when I was alive is like learning about any recent history (90s, 80s).
As an elder millennial, this is so completely full of brilliant honesty. Thank you for this refreshing breath of reminder that we’re not okay but maybe we’ll be okay someday.
Generation Y/Millennials
the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers.
Generation Z/Zoomers
the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
“maybe, someday” how hopeful
I remember when kids were allowed to have innocence and their own spaces. The internet's worst effect has been putting sheltered kids and disaffected adults together.
The Internet also shows the true nature of Political Corruption, Police Brutality and why Secular Humanism is the best
John Oliver should be given a DOZEN Nobel Prizes!
I'm 27 and I've definitely suffered by being raised on video games and TV. For most of my life, it was my only friend and I was too immature to realise its effects. Now, I've opened my mind a bit and I've come to appreciate being out in nature and going on adventures. It really helps to cure social anxiety and I hope we can decondition younger generations off social media.
You killed this one Rudyard. Pretty much hit every problem plaguing our generation on the head. The worlds pretty scary rn and it seems like it’s not gonna get any better for us but I’m confident our generation will be marked along with the greatest.
The struggle is what helps us evolve.
I mean, I think it'll be an average generation all things considered. We are increasingly aware and active in many of the greatest issues facing society aside from the social justice movement, but we aren't getting much done. I'm pretty certain that the generation after us will be in a far better place, due to the momentum that we will have built up, to really make things better.
@@lucasharvey8990 The oldest Zoomers are in their mid 20's, I think it's a little premature to be cynical. History does not move at a constant pace; decades happen in centuries, and centuries happen in decades.
That sounds like narcissisim.
@@nathanseper8738 Not necessarily. The most development happens in good economies.
I was born in '85 I remember when the internet happened it was going to be the future the bright light to carry us forward. After every square inch of the world had been explored the internet was a new frontier to explore. By 2012-2013 I started to see short form social media (twitter, and Facebook) for what they would become and bowed out. I cant imagine kids today stuck in the endless scroll of envy, fear, and outrage.
Social media was a terrible mistake
@@calypso I think the one of the worst advances that technology give to the modern era, and advance to more entertaining but because we all loose the real one and then it become a solution but with the price of social, health problems for a complete generation
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My wife and I are fellow millennials and also feel like we were the last generation to get off relatively easy. It's still been harder than it was for our parents, but we at least got to live in a time before social media.
As a member of Gen Z who was born in 1997, this is perhaps the deepest Whatifalthist video I've watched in my years of being a subscriber to this channel. Also, how the hell is Rudyard 20 years old and not being a good student in school throughout?! I thought he was a year younger than me and I've learned way more from this channel than in any of my political science courses in college. This guy and channel is an absolute rare gem of intelligence in a world that's becoming more like in the movie "Idiocracy" by the day. To the point where I genuinely believe that if Whatifalthist had the same amount of viewers and subscribers as the most popular TH-camrs such as MrBeast, the world would be a hell of a lot smarter. Please continue the good work Rudyard! We need your intellect and perspectives more than ever.
Fellow gen z here just turned 25 👨🏾🦳 this channel really helps me not feel crazy amidst all the crazy shit I see amongst our generation
As Scuffy the Janitor on Futurama once said “Second”.
I can hardly relate to the economic pressure ( my parents focused heavily on the dangers of Debit) despite being under the low income line. I’ve watched the stress of the debt on family and friends and I believe that contributes to the economic stagnation we are witnessing.
Born in 2001 here. This man has overcame his conditioning we were all given in school and is making the most out of his intellect. It makes sense he wasn't a good student in school, it's all just programming of who can be the most obedient and follow orders the most.
I feel like he is someone who correctly talks “about better mileage”, in a world of “kill the bastards”. And we’re all really tired of the Reaganite view of “kill the bastards”.
This is probably one of the most accurate videos I’ve seen in a long time, maybe even ever. You really hit the nail on the head. Also thank you for being unbiased and for saying things others wouldn’t dare say due to the fear of being “cancelled”. I can’t thank you enough for this video!
Honestly, this is one of the best youtube channels I have come across so far, the amount of depth each video has is really amazing. As a side note, I think its interesting that demographics are such an important part (If not, the most important part) of geopolitics as a whole, and how almost every issue or geopolitical situation is linked back to demographics. I realized that after watching the video, looking at demographics from a generational standpoint can really magnify patterns and cycles relating to demographics/geopolitics. Thank you for posting such great content, keep up the good work.
It also makes you think about the value of stable demographics and cultural chaos that ensues when that stops happening. People need a common framework to interpret the world and despite it being derided - it does feel like social cohesion is easily disrupted over generational timelines.
@@Dak1549 The easiest explanation for it all is really just basic human (and general) biology. We're pre-programmed to hang around "our group" and accept its views, as it allows for higher levels of cooperation, thus higher levels of survival. Now that society is pushing away from that, into one conglomerate, you can see how things are going wrong. We have all of these labels while trying to say "all people are equal". If all is equal, why does all require a label?
@@Dak1549 This is also a large reason why we see so much radicalization and such large echo chambers. Humans are simply unfit to meld together like we're doing now, and it will have major consequences as time moves forth. A lot of history can be explained on this basic premise alone.
Theres an old saying thats always been true.
Demographics is Destiny.
In the era when I grew up, we had a culture called "latch key kids" which was basically when kids in grade school had to come home to an empty house because both parents were working at the time school was let out. We learned of the Reds and how they would rather wipe out the world than let people live "free" and so had the omnipresent thought that at any moment the world will end.
We were also still learning how to deal with differences and cultures, and how different our world was from our parents. We went from trusting the neighborhood to locking your doors within a generation because of still being developed theory of fearmongering. GIrls were still be educated to stay at home when that type of society was obviously on the way out just by our presence as "latch key Kids" and boys were constantly told they needed to be the bread winner in a time where both parents incomes were needed just to afford the cost of living.
Gen-X became almost zombified because we were told one thing but the evidence showed a different thing. on top of that with the fear of the constant world ending destruction why should we do anything that would benefit anyone or event ourselves when it can all come crashing down. We are not baby boomers, and we are not Millenials, we are just trying to move on.
I hope I made sense.
It's honestly sad when that is the kind of thing most young people would love to have, most kids I know weren't allowed to leave the house intil they were 13, in one of the safest neighbourhoods in my city. it's also probably a contributing factor as to why a lot of kids dont drive, dont want jobs and dont bother trying. They expect their parents to do it for them because that was how they were raised.
@@blakejohnson3864 the propaganda hasn't stopped, it just changed who the enemy was.
@@justvibin1087 it's honestly weird to see all the parents waiting at the bus stops or in their cars nearby to make sure their kids get picked up. I remember, in the 80's you would get teased and harassed for that happening only once, not every single time.
@@blakejohnson3864 I’m Gen-X, it was absolutely propaganda heavy, as it was the culmination of the (1st) Cold War. All of that continues into the culture of present day as video games like Fallout. That said, the current society is even more propaganda heavy, but now it is competing propagandas (right/left, conservative/liberal, climate change/consumerism, capitalism/socialism, fascism/social justice…). We had one “enemy” to hate, and our society at the time was pretty uniformly aligned that way. In some ways, that made it easier. As my kids (early 20s) try to figure out what they want to do with their lives, I find it hard to have solid advice for them.
@@justvibin1087 Yeah, as a millennial I was roaming the neighborhood since I was like 5-6 in the 90s. Kids now missed out on being active and social because their gen X parents were scared shitless because of he boomer brained world.
I just graduated from college, and the first time I heard Jordan Peterson’s quote “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people” when I started college was incredibly useful in my studies.
So many people, including myself, get entrapped by ideology and big ideas, but they get in the way when it comes to studying, grades and classes.
That quote made me rethink how I was thinking about the world and how I was absorbing information, and crucially - my study habits
So I tried by damnedest to walk into class every day like Socrates, “I know that I know nothing”.
It gave me the appreciation that, even though various teachers and professors were mediocre, I don’t have anywhere near the wisdom they did just because I’m young.
The most popular form of political discourse online is drawing caricatures of your opponents, and idealisations of your co-ideologues, maybe it's related.
@@ingold1470 Very possible.
Regular honest argument’s been forgotten in place of power games and ad hominems
"Chickens don't have eggs, eggs have chickens."
Not too burst your bubble but Jordan Peterson is one of those people who rides on the fact that he looks and sounds like a wise professor and just says generically “smart” things (switching words in a normal sentence leads people to find their own meaning in it and makes him sound profound). When in fact he is a politician who hasn’t taken a strong clear stance in decades without backtracking or attempting to gaslight interviewers.
“People dont have ideas, ideas have people” isn’t really profound at all. Its factually incorrect, ideas are generated by people they don’t just magically pick a human every so often. I’m happy for you if him saying that made a meaningful impact on your life but people should be aware at the kind of techniques and tactics people use to sound profound and wise because its how cults and brainwashing begin.
@@cahan557 kind of weird of a cult leader to say “hey, don’t follow cults. Ideologies can also act like cults because they prevent you from thinking critically”
I am Gen Z and I have left social media as I feel it was poisoning my brain. I’d much rather focus on things that actually matter rather than finding new and exciting ways to get offended.
As someone that is about 19, I have quite a few issues with my generation. I know it sounds like I'm saying that I "was born in the wrong generation", but its almost to the point where I struggle really hard to talk to anyone my age. I can talk to older people and for some reason, autistic people much better. Your video explained very well what my issues are, and I hope something good comes out of our failures.
I feel you, I too struggle to identify myself with my ‘peers” with whom i don’t think I share all that much. Whereas I too talk to people who are rather old with ease.
Same exact thing 4 me
You might be autistic yourself or somehow neurodivergent. I have autism and naturally I have an easier time with autistic people.
I am 19 rn, and when I was in high school was I could talk to anyone except for the people who were my age. I was fine with the people 2 years younger or older than me, but my age ±1 year was a struggle
I hear that! I’m a millennial (96) but, I’ve struggled to get along with people my own age unless they themselves are more mature for their age too. Most of my friends are in their late 20’s to mid 30’s and I find it much easier to communicate and socialise with people in their 40’s upwards than anyone younger than me
Personally I feel just disconnected with people my age. I was born in 2001, the world a decade ago feels like a different place than today. I get things change but the world I remember as child feels like it never existed. Despite how bad things have gotten though I still remain a bit optimistic. As the saying goes hard times makes strong men. Hopefully we as a generation can find our way out of this mess.
2003, not far off.
I look at pictures of my younger self, about 7 or 10 years old, I looked so happy, I socialized alot. I remember going outside and biking around the neighborhood with this blond kid and ginger kid, great summer memories of adventure, going to the woods and stuff.
But life changed when I was about 13 years old. In the photos and videos, I wasn’t smiling more. I can’t go outside anymore, I stayed in and played video games, I played it for hours and the blue light damaged my eyes and I had to get glasses.
By the time 2020 hit, my life was... fucked. Before that I’d been severely bullied, diagnosed with ptsd due to the immense bully, depression as a result of all my friends leaving during the pandemic, anxiety, loneliness and all these things I’m struggling with.
Fortunately my parents are trying their best to help me, but man, I just wish life was much more simpler. I technically don’t have any friends anymore, I’m worried about my finance, I’m extremely anxious about my future and I live life feeling souless, non-driven and dis-passionately.
My political views have been all over the place. First was heavy left, then heavy right, then finally balanced. I’m tired of politics.
I do believe the light at the end of the tunnel... but I don’t feel it
Sometimes the social changes combined with local weather changes make me feel this so hard. I have a childhood I feel alienated from yet tied solely to
@@kyle4563 2000's brazilian here, same.
Trust me it's not just you. But this has been the case throughout all of history but more the past few decades. Technology is moving at such a rapid pace that society cannot learn and adjust to it fast enough
I have always been separate from the rest of my age group. This is a part of why I ended up an underdeveloped and incomplete being. Still, my early childhood seems like a different reality entirely.
My sister is Gen Z, and younger than you (15). When I think back to the first 15 years of my life as a millennial, being 15 years older than her, it was a fundamentally different world. The mood of the social milieu was completely different. I wasn't politically aware until Bush & Blair, 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Global events that transpired in my teens, happened in my sister's infancy. She wouldn't remember them. She was born, and within a year the global financial crisis hit, then Obama was elected. Then Occupy Wall Street came and went, as did the Arab Spring. By 2011 I had a gut feeling that something had changed, something seemed weird and off-kilter. In retrospect my hunch is that the global financial elite freaked at the sight of pitchforks with OWS and manipulated their media apparatus to ramp up a divisive culture war which keeps us plebs fighting among one another.
It's difficult to separate my own change in personal outlook with broader trends, but it does seem the social optimism of my childhood has gone. How can Gen Z surpass growing up in a society where the mood is positively apocalyptic? We went from 9/11 seeming to be a gross anomaly, to the Mayor of London declaring terrorism to be part and parcel to living in big cities. We've gone through a pandemic. Cold War rhetoric is back and seems substantiated by Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine.
I'm half the age of our dad. When I think of what a marked change has occurred just in my lifetime, I can't help but think what more must have occurred in his generation's lifetime, yet they don't seem to ever talk about it. Yes they knew the Cold War, the Troubles, Thatcher & Reagan etc, but it's like they got hooked on the optimism of the late 80s and 90s and took this notion of continuous progress for granted, that things could only get better.
I was born in 1995 and I have this sort of vague memory of the old world. Late 90s primary colour jackets and helicopter hats. A general sense of optimism. Excitement about y2k, “the future is nearly here!” No computer in the house in my earliest memories. A naive but honest sense of “we are one, everyone’s equal, the world can only get better”
My sister who was born in 2000 has no concept of any of that
@@BD-yl5mh I'm a zoomer. It's strange to think that there was a time where society was collectively happy and content. I suppose back then though the average person didn't know the attitude of society.
@@bernardoohigginsvevo2974 it never was, but there were bubbles in the west where that was naively believed
@@BD-yl5mh Yeah that's kind of what I meant. Obivously the 90s sucked pretty much everywhere else in the world except for the West.
@@bernardoohigginsvevo2974
As goofy as this sounds, if you want to get the vibe of the late 1990s; look up the music video for "Steal My Sunshine" by Len.
There was a general feeling that things were going great and the future was bright. The Cold War and constant threat of nuclear apocalypse was over, the economy was doing well, technology was advancing, violent crime was at its lowest point since the 1960s, the internet allowed people from across the world to socialize with each other, and things were generally fun.
Was it perfect? No. There was bullshit like there always is and always will be. But there was a definitely a feeling that things were better, they were still getting better, and they would always be better. Everything just felt optimistic for the most part.
I honestly love how this channel is able to make predictions for the future and stuff without getting into pessimism like so many other predictions I've seen
Whatifalthist the type of guy to expose his friend for a geopolitical video
Jk though nice video
Fancy seeing you here Mr Beaver
yooo its brain4breakfast the sequel
@@OfficialUKGov brain for breakfast part two electric boogaloo
Boomer here, fantastic video, and I don't blame GenZ for feeling screwed. It's truly depressing, so I admire your optimism at the end, there!
Okay
Yet you guys don't even really care most of the time.
Technically you Boomers were the first to be brainwashed by sexual revolution, race-communism, media censorship and lies, military industrial complex Cold War atom bomb fear psyops, unwinnable wars, CIA drug experimentation and trafficking for secret war financing, etc.
So, you're still to blame for creating Millennials, but also someone else made you brainwashed as well.
GenZ is the collapse generation.
Maybe the next will be the rebuilders, if the elites haven't destroyed fertility and re/population rates.
To quote George Carlin, "They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
@@lodragan finally, met more gigachad George Carlin enjoyers
As a 19 year old who doesn't know what path to take, my biggest fear is falling into the section of society that "didn't make it": No hopes, dreams, wives & kids, or meaningful relationships. It may be foolish of me, but I still have hopes of having a nice job(Preferably blue-collar), getting married, and starting a family. However, with the current situation we find ourselves in being less than desirable, I find myself seeing that goal as increasingly unachievable without taking measures that I'm not sure I want to take. I've hobbies that I really enjoy(Writing, making art, etc.) but I'm not sure if I want to monetize these things, seeing as they're very personal to me, especially if it's to only just barely get along in life. I know I'm young, and I'm going to keep trying to find ways to make my hopes a reality, no matter how difficult it may get.
I won't give up.
I'm turning 22 and I'm still like this lol. I guess I'll just stick to computer science even tho I hate it. especially in this economy. I'll try to do something artistic and actually fun on the side, but my time management needs to be improved
Assuming that your being real. Your 19 for crying out loud why are you thinking like your in your 30s. Is it because fools like rudyard told you so. I’ve believed in thier opinions once but now I’m trying to break away from them. Get out of this doomer mindset you still got time no need to think about getting a relationship this young. Ditch the bs people are more social because they went outside mentally because people who spent outside more doesn’t equate happiness. Use the resources you have and don’t believe in the bs.
I'm 20 and I'm in a similar situation, well maybe not that similar.
I'm applying to a university in my country in one month, I have A LOT of interests like, languages, science, physics, media, computer science, history, math, and I think that if I chose one of those I wouldn't regret, all of the mentioned are really meaningful to me but I couldn't just decide which one to pick, so I struggle for a long time Trying to figure it out, I considered all the pros and cons and finally I decided that I'm going to major in computer science, now I'm not really sure whether I'll be able to follow my plan, the future seems to be rough and more and more competitive, I'm afraid of not achieving what I want, I'm just putting all my trust in doing what I love because I've always heard that that's what matter, I hope I'm not doing a bad desicion, wish me luck
I’m a college student and dating has been a bit of a struggle for me, and I’m someone who easily gets along with people and am well liked by those who know me. I feel like the issue is that people just don’t even try, and if they do it’s just for these hookups that don’t even mean anything. I come from a small town where it was very easy for me to stay in touch with everyone and have a lot of really good relationships there, so going from that kind of hit me harder especially with so many college kids coming from urban backgrounds. It’s just all about finding the right people
I turned back to Christianity. I noticed a huge difference in my mood and mental well being. I realized nihilism was just a negative mindset that was a self feeding loop of indulgence in self pity and self hatred.
God bless you 🙏
God bless!!
I am agnostic, but I have noticed that religious people, both christians and muslims, are in general more grounded and mentally stable. Since every culture always had a religion, I think its a mental necessity for humans to have some higher truth to aspire to.
I'm going to the place of worship I was raised with. Back to basics. I'm at a point in my life where I need to have hope and seek help. I need a reason to live, because I've been so depressed lately. I crave social interaction, and i don't get it at work, so this is my answer. Spiritual health is definitely a necessity, doesn't matter what your religion is, you ought to have one to be healthy, I agree
same ^^
I literally don't remember anything past Year 8 or 9 in highschool, the rest was just being forced to learn things I was never interested in. On paper people can get '15 years of education' but only the first 6 or 7 years of basic primary school actually matter. Now a Uni dropout and learning a trade, I can say the way society is currently setup is not at all setting up young people for a successful life ahead.
It really is true that if you don't think about what you want in life you're either going to be led down a miserable path of emotionless corporate drudgery or any other sterile meaningless career you don't actually want for yourself.
Those without foresight or lack long term planning will suffer. Society doesn't forgive.
My 20-year-old son recommended this video to me, and I am so glad he did. I think you are spot on. Thank you!
Generation Y/Millennials
the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. 83.1 million people or more than a quarter of the U.S. population, can be considered Millennials by most definitions. The younger millennials were arguably the last generation to have an internet-free childhood. The generation's size exceeds that of the 75.4 million baby boomers.
Generation Z/Zoomers
the generation born in the 2000s and 2010s, comprising primarily the children of the Gen X'ers and typically been raised with screens, smartphones and are the most tech savvy, very much influenced by vloggers and internet celebs.
On the younger end of Gen Z, I see so many people around my age so self absorbed in such meaningless things, like their follower count on dumpster fires like TikTok. I just wish that there were more people who have real goals in life and that they want or believe that they can make a change in this world. The depression in those around my age is truly because of their addictions to social media and the people they meet. Our generation could have been so much better if were more social outside of social media platforms and had meaningful experiences. I would find this applicable to online dating as well. Instead of meeting online, I would suggest going outside and meeting people in the real world. In a nutshell, we need to stop consuming corporate garbage.
What possible real goals are there to meet?
Buying a house? Impossible.
Finding love? Good luck.
Kids? Gen-Z can barely take care of ourselves.
Trying to start a company? Pft all our drive got sucked out and there is no money.
There are no goals to strive for in life. Nothing will truely make it worthwhile. Im just here cause Im curious how our lives will go. But existence in many ways is worthless. Nothing is waiting for us on the other side. Just find the small things the help block the pain every once in a while.
Wow I did not know you were so young, even though I think we disagree politically a lot, your videos are so well researched and show a wisdom beyond your years.
Same here I consider myself a social democrat and I sometimes think he’s a bit to rightists but there isn’t much else I disagree with
I would never have guessed Rudyard was only twenty so born only in 2001 or 2002. He is wise beyond his years.
@@obi-wankenobimasterjediand5091 I think he is way to far to the left for me most of the time.
Conservatives are always the best educated👍
@@MrHellknightimp which considering he is still on the right would mean your significantly further on on that spectrum.
Younger millennial (Aged 28), this video still hits home for me, considering I'm only a few years older than the older Gen Z's.
We all live in the weirdest era, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Let's all live our best lives and keep encouraging one another.
Every generation can relate because it’s always the same rallying cry but every generation wants to be different so they rebrand it.
Every generation has it better for the same reasons: technology (but they take that for granted and often come off as entitled)
Every generation has it worst for the same reasons: technology (which they will 100% bitch and complain about the reasons why).
As A 26 year old. I relate
Millennial, 30, I agree.
I kind of watched it all from the outside. My friends had phones before I did. When I still had a flip phone, they had smartphones. I never had a myspace, I was very late to facebook and put in a false name. I still remember the first time I asked someone "what's wrong" and heard them say "Nobody liked my photo" and I remember how surreal it all felt.
I've felt empty for years, and like nobody around me realises how pointless it all is. I love that Whatifalthist calls it "opium" of likes
Same here
@@mariavc7421 True. I play RPG to cope. If you guys want to play just hook me up.
Being born in 96, I grew up using cassettes, VHS, and CD's. My first cell phone was a flip phone with an extendable antenna and no camera. But we had smart phones by the time I was in highschool. I feel like those of us born from 95-99 feel a bit lost and between generations. Hard to relate to those just after and before me.
Exactly! I was born 95. I feel part of the old just as much as the new. We literally got to see the shift in the world as it was taking place. Shidd is insanely weird
Same here, but I was born between Gen X and millennial. I'm in that weird mixed generation.
Born in 2000 but I can definitely agree and relate
I think for those on the boarders of 'generations' it has more to do with your parents and how you were raised. Like @Swish I'm a boarder line Gen X/Millennial according to the calendar but because my parents were very early Boomers I had a solidly Gen X experience growing up. (latchkey and everything) My kids are around the same age as @Eve but I think they are solidly Gen Z, just without the helicopter parenting, cause I'm Gen X and ain't got patience for that.
@@evancourtney7746 My latchkey compadre! Been long since I played a round of "Make it Home Alive or End Up on a Milk Carton." Runaway Train, never coming back :p
I wanna know why "generations" are only like 8 years apart now, instead of 25ish
The idea of me, a Gen Z, being suddenly promoted not one year later in favor of Gen Alpha being "the new dumb kids on the block" is puzzling yet saddening, especially with all of the memes slandering them.
Hi, gen z out here, from France. I'm currently 16 year old and battling against a terrible pessimism that just won't leave me alone. Seeing this video reminded me (weirdly I must say) that I have a right to hope for the future. People of my gen can be successful and I needed to hear that. You are an inspiration to my future, thank you for this video.
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As a 20yo gen zer from germany i mainly have three advices for how to go somewhere nice in your life:
- Do not move out from your parents' house, the housing market is f*cked and you're in the perfect age to live with responsibility and in a family, so as to train for heading your own one
- don't go to uni unless it's part of dual studies and you have a job already lined up right after that. It's just not worth the waste of time, especially when you can't study for free, and the job market is only really benefitting the best and those who have contacts, so just establish a possibility to be sure you have a future with that
- actually live, do things and be nice to everyone for no reason at all. People will like you and you can make potential friends at every corner, some of them might become best friends, introduce you to nice stuff or activities and make you learn something about life
Just refuse to be part of that scuffed modern age and be successful by returning to older practices and thus having something to actually do all those things for, because that's definitely the number one problem of young people today. I hope i could help you and i'd love to hear your opinion about that advice
For people questioning why he called himself a "professional" it's because it's his paid occupation rather than just a hobby
I mean.. isn't that what it means?
Yeah when he calls himself a professional historian, he’s committing fraud. He’s not a professional historian, he’s an amateur historian and a professional content creator.
@@daelinblack6681 no, professional historian implies one has at least a bachelors degree and actively conducts peer-reviewed research, not make up shit on the internet
@@basedanddadpilled959 you know what I like your inclusion of the fact that his income stems from his media production skills. Ladies and gentlemen, you got me
@@basedanddadpilled959 I have a bachelor’s degree in history, and I approve this channel. Besides, peer-review has been an Establishment-normative echo chamber for generations. That’s why alt-media even exists.
As a fellow zoomer, I agree that society is at a weird turning point with the economy and this new technological revolution. Something that is a perfect example of society changing is college/university. I have never liked school, however, I have a deal with my parents where I can live at home with no rent if im in school, but if I drop out, then I'll be kicked to the curb. I spent a semester after highschool (last semester) looking for any job that could pay enough for me to live in a crappy studio, and I couldn't find one, and funnily enough, the people I know that have degrees can't find em either. The generation that raised us still believes in the pipeline of college to job to house to family, and that line no longer exists. Just look at the millennials as proof. They have degrees but can't have families or homes. I mentioned my deal with my fam because I know quite a few other young adults in similar situations, and all of us don't like college and have other interests, but are unable to pursue those interests because of college. Basically we're stuck paying for school because we can't afford to not pay for school. Tis a really interesting phenomenon.
Also a video about current zoomer social groups could be interesting. Most zoomers I know have no friends after covid lock downs, and all the men I know are single and too anxiety ridden to talk to women. A video talking about how a society of friendless and partner less people will turn out could be fun (unless that vid already exists)
man they'd kick you to curb?!? that seems a little fucked up
Holy fuck you hit the nail on the head on this one. As to why so many men are too anxiety ridden to talk to women, idk man nowadays if you just walk up to a girl to try to strike a conversation, you'll be seen as a creep. Literally I seen a guy on reddit, asking if "amitheasshole" subreddit, ask if he was in the wrong, for simply correcting a girls form while she was working out at the gym because he was afraid she might injure herself. The girls instantly called that guy a creep for talking to him for trying to correct her form. So he asks if he's the asshole, and more than half the comments on reddit are calling him a creep.
Yes I know Reddit is far from reality. However those situations are more common then you think. "What's the worse that can happen? Just ask her out! Worst she can say is no right?" Then the girl proceeds to tell everyone how the guy at school asked her out and it spreads like wildfire rumors in highschool/middleschool. Or the girl screenshots the convo of the guy attempting to make an attempt. Or simply, the guy is completely ignored as invisible.
A lot of people don't want to open up their hearts to the potential of a relationship, because most their adolescence they were rejected and hurt.
Also the dating apps haven't helped at all with the shallowness of just everything. And it seems like everyone is so attached to their ego and accomplishments, they will automatically judge whether to respect you or not within the first 10 seconds of meeting you, by just asking what University you are going to and what you are studying.
> Most zoomers I know have no friends after covid lock downs, and all the men I know are single and too anxiety ridden to talk to women. A video talking about how a society of friendless and partner less people will turn out could be fun (unless that vid already exists).
Speaking from personal experience, I still have friends it's just that I barely hang out with them and in terms of relationships I really have completely given up on it, this might be more personal than general but it seems like the effort to talk to women is not worth it to me anymore, I see no reason to pursue a relationship as I have too many problems in my life to deal with and my willpower to fix them is slowly dwindling
Sounds rough, man. I relate to you in that I also hate school but unlike you, my parents won't immediately kick me out after I'm done with school. Both my mom and dad will let me live with them for a long time so long as I do a bunch of chores around the house and don't get into any serious trouble. They do differ on some things tho.
My mom will let me live with her for as long as I want, whilst my dad will only let me live with him until at the earliest 25 and at the latest 30. My mom will let me live without a job until 25 (at that point she'll aggressively push me towards getting one) and will let me live rent free until 30 (after I turn 30 and still don't have a job, she'll consider kicking me out. If I do have a job however, I can stay with her as long as I want). Dad will let me live rent free until I'm 21 and will force me to pay him (with or without a job) if I still want to live under the same roof as him. I find both of these to be very generous offers and I feel both lucky and privileged to have them.
My plan after I graduate school is to spend my Summer break like usual and then start looking for some random minimal wage job when my brother starts his next year of school. Once I get a job I'm hoping to work at it for 2 (maybe 3) whole years and make an attempt to improve my art and writing skills. If I can't do that, off to trade school I go (I refuse to pay for college. Both parents know this and support my decision, especially dad since he was cheated by the system). After I get either an art/writing or trade career going, I'm going to try and move to a studio and hopefully move to a small house in the future (will most likely go down the trade root and keep drawing/writing as a hobby if we're to be realistic. Maybe I could do a trade and drawing/writing on the side?) There's some other things I want to get better at as well such as exercise, but those things are secondary.
I don't got many friends but the ones I do have I talk to on a daily basis and have very close ties to. I am hoping to have a family in my late 20's or early 30's in the future but due to the modern dating market it doesn't seem as feasible anymore. At this point, if I have the money to do this in the future, I might just pay someone to become a surrogate for my future children (I personally want my future kids to be blood related so that's why I didn't say anything about adopting).
These are some hard times will live in right now, I've heard a couple people go as far as to say we may even be living in the 2nd gilded age. At this point WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War doesn't really surprise me anymore. I'm just hoping that some of the current problems will potentially be fixed in the future. I personally consider this age to be the "Doomer Age."
the only jobs available here are either needing years of worked experience or are shitty care positions that demand a ridiculously optimistic personality, shitty hours and tend to be a good hours drive away for pay you can't even afford to rent a flat with. It's fucking infuriating hearing the idiots in Scottish Parliament bragging about increasing jobs, when the jobs created are all unstable, fuck all pay, crap contract part time ones. What a feat SNP! You got a young adult enough money to be in debt just living his daily life until the season for the part time ends as the weather gets colder. What an achievement!
The generation before us lived in a world of colour and watched tv in black and white, nowadays we see beautiful colours on social media while our days become greyer every year
The realization that Whatifalthist is only 20 years old legitimately gave me hope for the future generations.
Abandon hope.
@@bulkierwriter2772 I refuse
@@DM-mi4je Events will force you to
@@bulkierwriter2772 They Cannot for I decide if Hope is lost no one of thing else.
@@DM-mi4je Sure. I’m just waiting for the climate to scare and arouse the apes.
I am a 64 year old man, steeped in “college is the answer” and corporate cubicle culture, HOWEVER, I believe this young man is a genius and we Gen Whatever would be wise to listen to him.
I agree, at 62 myself. I've got a lot of respect for this young fellow and have watched a lot of his videos to date.
Your the boomer generation also we the gen Z are FUCKED. Y’all screwed up hiring with all the HR crap and the “apply for a job online by making an account” shit You’ve done. Do you think young people want an Apple bees account, a wendys account and a dunkin account for a job?
@@StarCityFAME He has the type of thinking I subscribe to, and it's a type of unbiased thinking I was taught in school, but others seem to neglect it seems. Radicalism is bad and it's a tentacled beast the will rip everything to shreds and then consume itself when it runs out of food. Being a centrist is damned because how dare you not take a side, the old "You're either with me, or you're my enemy."
My take: We are maturing still. We are in contact with an unholy amount of information, ideologies and dogmas, confronted with history and it's many versions, thinking about the world we want to build and faced with the possibility that we may not have enough time to realise those dreams. What I'm seeing in my country (Mexico) is that my generation is less likely to partake in left or right politics since we've grown up listening promises and not seeing any good results from just that bipolar perspective, so we analize situations in their own context, reject political parties and try to listen to the other side instead, being both empathetic and rational if you will. We are more aware that dishonest propaganda can generate polarization, which is the worst kind of problem to have when dialogue and conversations are needed to reach feasible solutions. We took out certain values and traditions out of our culture that no longer work in this new historical context (read racism, xenophobia, misogynism, machismo, and such) but we have failed to find suitable replacements to identify ourselves with as a People. Even so, I see a lot of effort from my generation to create new traditions and cultural expressions that allow us to unite and see each other as compatriots from the inside in order to better interact with the outside and I've noticed a tendency to deconstruct our own "woke" and progressive ideals in order to mature them and reach actual solutions instead of just creating more problems and falling for propaganda that is using progressive principals only on a surface level.
I still have hope. We can be better, we just need to keep growing up.
This is basically Hegellian idealism, which has its merit.
I fucking agree with that first statement "We are in contact with an unholy amount of information"
great quote
De que parte de Mexico eres?
Viendo el video al menos desde mi experiencia creo que las relaciones sociales no están tan rotas en Mexico como parecen estar en USA.
Aunque tenemos aun mas problemas en encontrar buenos trabajos y un camino en la vida, la sociedad no esta polarizada, lejos de discutir se ve como un tema incomodo el hablar sobre cierta problemática social y se tiende a aceptar sin muchos problemas el punto de vista dominante, en mis clases que tocan temas de geopolítica y problemas sociales pocas veces hay gente capaz o interesada en hablar sobre estos y simplemente se evade la discusión. No se si la apatía sea mejor que el radicalismo.
This sounds like what's happening in my country. Most of the youth hates politics and they are weary of all the promises made for years. There is still hope.
This sounds like what's happening in my country. Most of the youth hates politics and they are weary of all the promises made for years. There is still hope.
As a Gen Z Kid, I never understood how the rest of my generation could act like this. I never believed in or felt nihilism, I’m religious but not strict af about it, I’m pretty social and wasn’t raised by a tablet, in fact I still remember VHS tapes and seeing the DVD symbol from the early 2000’s on older movies. For years the first and only computer and television we had were the box ones from the 90’s and early 2000’s, and I sorta miss those at times. This video is spot on and made me understand my own generation which I very commonly mock for some of their traits. I remember even being able to go up to a small market store and having a conversation with the cashier. It’s sad to see my generation let go of any morals or fun times just for an extra 100 likes on social media. I also never understood the politicization of everything and just questioned why everyone always felt, fake, or indoctrinated. I’m glad I’m not with the 2 groups first mentioned at the end because I simply don’t want to be radical, it’s not worth forcing anything on to people. Thank you so much for helping me understand this stuff better
Gen Z here also. It pisses me off when i see videos of our generation acting like this, because people think that all of us act like this.
Simple, we dont have hope so there Is no point on living
@@IDKwhattowrite3 there is always hope.
@@lukeschwartz4396 same here, I think its because a lot of these peoples exposure to gen z is just really extreme stuff you see online.
@@General_Cheese6 hope is like the american dream, you gotta be sleep to belive it
Y'know, after watching this I've noticed that maybe I'm not doing as bad as the rest of my generation. I've tried to work against the addictive nature of social media in my daily life, tried to stay hopeful despite the insane odds against me, and kept my moral values such as truth, justice, kindness, and so on close at hand.
It hasn't always been great, hell not even a year ago I was checked into a mental facility for trying to off myself, but even through all of that I have tried with all of my will and determination to keep going, even when it seems impossible I kept on. And hey, I'm graduating this week, working towards getting a certification for Computer Information Systems, and I have a decent enough social network of friends and family.
Heh, how about that. Maybe it ain't so bad after all.
I was trying hard to be as good despite me being so negative but helping people in real life and in video games like a team player brings some good mindset at least temporarily.
Do ur your way my g, I recommend a song by frank Sinatra, my way. A good listen to motivate you when ya down
me I and myself
Happy to read this and congratss☺️🎉 Let's keep it up we can!!
Yeap. By God’s grace, I’m glad for you that you were able to see past the worst parts and keep going💪🏽. Stay Blessed🙏🏽
Greek male, born in 1995. Working class family. Was talented athletically as a kid. Went to a private highschool via scholarship, always a great student, got my university degree in accounting and finance. Had confidence which translated in a couple healthy relationships with girls. Nowadays I work in a multinational retail company, I still play my sport semi-professionally, used to be a pro athlete.
All things point towards me having an okay life.
I'm suffering from depression. I had an honest and loving family, worked my ass off, had healthy relationships with my sexual partners, was lucky to have the same five friends my whole life.
Yet I can't smile. At all.
I went through so much undeserved shit in my 27 year old life all of which can be attributed to the collapsing society I live in.
It fucking sucks to be alive nowadays.
At least I like history, keep up the good work mate!
Try a jiu jitsu class
Stay strong man, I have so many times felt like I wish I'd never been born, but it's always worth it when I finally am able to smile again and be glad I'm here to participate in this incredible struggle. We're fighting in a spiritual/mental war and it's no fucking joke. I wish you the best possible in terms of finding your smile again! I noticed no matter what I always wanted and would finally achieve, I never have been able to get comfortable. You gotta just realize that's the way it's gonna be, and it's what keeps us moving forward, but when the pressure becomes too much, just meditate like a monk. That's my advice at least.
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Τι να πω εγώ που βρέθηκα από τα σαλόνια στα σκουπίδια ψάχνωντας για φαί.
ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΚΟΝΤΑ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ ΝΕΑ ΧΡΥΣΗ ΕΠΟΧΗ!
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What's your story brother, what happened when you turned 27?
"Zoomer" is better. Gen Z is just derivative and boring, millennials were called Gen Z too for a while
True, it also implies the interesting thing with our generation having to do online schools, hence “zoom”er. I find it nice to not just be called a letter.
@@largeegg6505 That term has been around since before Zoom became popular.
we were called Gen-Y... before we became millennials
@@largeegg6505 See that's a common misconception, and I remember when zoom started becoming popular seeing someone say "oh no, people are gonna think zoomer is referring to zoom!" The zoomer thing started back when the OK boomer memes were popular from 2019 to early 2020, and after a while millennials and other older age groups made memes in response saying OK zoomer.
TLDR; its boomer but with a z for gen z
@@TheMindofRa yup, and talk about a less cool name than our older brothers and sisters of “Gen X” !!! Just typing and saying Gen X aloud you got to add the exclamation marks and do it in a cheesy over the top movie trailer voice.
I’m 21 years old and getting a good grip on life not where I wanted to be educationally but I feel like I was born in the right generation. The amount of people our age excelling is only going to skyrocket especially because we were young enough to grow up and be able to develop with so much information at our fingertips unlike any other generation known to history. I feel old because I’m not satisfied with how I used my years when I was younger but optimistic because there’s still so much time ahead of us. Those who choose to devote their times in their 20s to develop and perfect their skills while many are partying will come out on top I can’t wait to hear about these pros my age.
How are you planning on achieving your goals in the future (or like what you would change in your younger years I suppose)? I'm 17 and am kinda stuck on what to do. I have so many options of what I think I want to do, but they're so different to each other I can't really think of how to blend them in. I know there are some changes I can work on right now, like including more hobbies and volunteer opportunities, but for the future itself I don't really have any mentors on this kinda thing. I apologize if it came off as ranty, but I would very much appreciate any tips you could give! :)
@@maddie9117Don’t go to college unless you’re sure what you want to do.
All good and dandy until your field gets outsourced to india or any 3rd world shithole
Ohoho, aren’t we sure of everything?
@eligreg99 Don’t let college be the authority who tells you that “you need their help.” College is more than happy to sell you unrelated coursework at astronomical prices and dump you the moment you cease to provide a revenue stream. Trading tens of thousands for a degree that cannot replace experience only makes sense to thoroughly brainwashed people, which is what the school system is for: “preparation for the next step,” ie, a trafficking pipeline. Only assume debt that makes sense; debt is labor indenture, they don’t have to work hard to get you to sell them your soul. Prioritize keeping your soul imo.
College is a scam. I respect your credentials as historian and admire your due diligence in fact finding. bravo
Idk, some of us need college (even if we don't want it) because we cant go into trades
@@shabushabu5319 i agree. your point is valid. What I simply meant here... with my comment, was to highlight the fact that the credentials of the videos creator ... it was his point to say that if anyone was to call his background into question, the lack of a college diploma would not make his point meaningless. He is saying his expertise is nontraditional yet complete.. from effort of educating himself. That is what made me feel that i respected his credentials as historian and how he nailed the current situation correctly.
@@shabushabu5319 there are different trades that can be perfect for every man, college is just ideological subversion at this point in time and leads to extremely low wages for very high debt.
@@Dylan-lw1xc it’s because the supply of degree’d people has increased tremendously therefore diluting the value of it. I agree trades are still important and influences shouldn’t demonize them
@@shabushabu5319 baby gub daycare mode is except it’s 150,000 dollars. Lol.
A explanation of Gen Z from Gen Z- We used to hate millennials more, but now we hate ourselves for some reason.
Edit- We also became more...what some would call becoming fatherless around the late 2010s. I'm looking at you twitter.
You've been taught this way. I've been out of the country for 14 years, spending my entire adult life in Eastern Europe and I got to see from a good distance, detached from the situation, how every prediction I've made in 2008 about how the youth would be brainwashed in the future to hate themselves and their country came true. It's appalling and very sad.
The demoralization that young people are put upon also explains the higher suicide rate, higher rate of drug consumption, higher rate of "transitioning" (i.e., mental health), etc. etc. It's not a good look for the west. While I'm happy I'm raising kids in the East, it's sad to see what I've left behind, and playing NO part in helping things by leaving makes me feel guilty.
@The Computer Man I gotta say, I've never seen the "I hate myself" part of Gen Z till the late 2010s, and especially 2020s, although that's probably because I was just a little kid. Also, Granted there are a bunch of problems with Gen Z, that's not the entirety of Gen Z, and on top of that the easts look of "Get beaten up and jailed for simply being gay" is a bad look.
Why everyone would hate millennials?! They invented memes, reveled against the boomers, they were the first to popularice videogames, establish irony and trolling culture (you guys are the cancel bois)...
Edit: seriously, if you were too weird they would just bully you into toughness, now is ok to be weak, cringe and not belonging, while the true rebels go to twitter instead of rebel in the real world. In my time getting a gf while being a nerd was the apex of rebellion, now... well... you know.
Video Games were made in the early 1970s, Millennials started to exist in the early 80s.
@@RansomMoney58 but millennials made it popular Eg - Sega,Nintendo were all popular back then.
Fantastic video. I'm 25 and been in and out of different jobs and education opportunities and I've seen pretty much everything you mention during these experiences. I have friends who are down bad, suffering through mental illness and addictions, and friends who are overachievers in work and education, but relatively making far less than their parents would have decades ago for the same work, and still struggling to make ends meet. I see all of the social issues you mention too, regarding the extremist political ideologies, lack of critical thinking, and spread of intolerance. I often feel like I can't share my real thoughts on this except with my partner and close family, but still try to speak up when I need to. This is a really wild time in history but like many periods before I'm sure we'll get through it, I just try to help and support others where I can and remind them it will get better 💕 Thank you for making this video.
You sound a lot like my best friend, who's not too dissimilar in views to myself (goes without saying). I feel like people our age can really choose between a) being nihilistic and cynical and watch or partake in the burning of our world, or b) being nihilistic and cynical but making the ride exciting, as comfortable as possible, and being there to share in everything (good and bad) with those we love, or even with strangers. Not putting words in your mouth, just adding - I personally went through wanting to be a pure stoic, to epicurean, to downright pessimist, but now I'm just thinking "fuck it, steal some ideas from everyone and live life being good to people without sinking myself, deal with problems as they come, revel in happiness as it comes"
a "professional" historian without even one college degree? interesting...
I was once an overachiever in elementary school until I became aware that all that work and dedication did not matter and I burnt myself out, which along with the constant name-calling, teasing, etc basically made me crash into a depression that I have luckily gotten out of. However, it stunted my social interactions and made me more reserved than I already was. I am now just chugging along waiting for an opportunity to arise and take it. It was a hard and painful lesson to learn, but I came out as a stronger person than before after overcoming that. To anyone reading this, never give up. Eventually, even in the worst of situations, it will get better if you put in the effort.
The namecalling and teasing really gets to you after a while
@@9inchnails yep
I'm a 2002 kid at uni right now and this video is a perfect explanation of my generation. a thought I've often had myself is that no one in my generation is striving for success, we're all just running away from failure.
Yup that is pretty much my motto. Just don't be homeless again and I'll be ok
I'd say that the issues with Zoomers stem from the fact they're the first generation to grow up surrounded by the Internet, and this has had many mental health effects that we still are struggling to understand since the Internet in every home is still a relatively recent innovation.
the first generation to have internet as a common thing in the U.S would be millenials as in the internet became mainstream in the 90's theirin disproving gen z was the first to grow up around the internet.
Yes and the amount of innovation is so fast that were literally born to adapt super fast well our parents struggle to keep up. Now we are more accepting of out cultures compared to homogeneous societies.
I'm still not 100% convinced that the invention of the internet was worth it.
Bro Gen Z is basically being exposed to hardcore porn and beheading videos in 2008-2012
@@krugersavage6347 That's a horrific observation: access to knowledge also gives us a window into some really horrible spectacles.
As what me and my friends call ourselves, I’m a Gen Zalpha (Z+Alpha) since I was born in early 2006. I remember watching movies that I thought were amazing considering the effects and animation when I was young and only a few years later I’d see movies completely different with effects even better. I’m only 16 closely approaching 17 and I feel like what I remember growing up with (like discs and various other things that aren’t even used anymore) isn’t remembered by many others. Me and my friends sometimes wonder, why did it all go so fast, so many things became redundant (eg discs were taken over by streaming) and it makes me realise how fast advancement has occurred in the last few years. I feel like anyone 12 and under won’t remember using DVD Players and will remember logging onto Netflix or Disney+ and getting anything they liked from that. TV is basically left unused by young people now because between your TV or logging into a streaming site, people choose the site. It makes you realise how fast everything has changed, and is still changing.
How do kids end up missing a necessary volume of connections despite being herded into classrooms of kids their own age for 20 years? Hint, most of these problems begin with our crappy school system.
They weren't interacting with each other for 90% of that time. They were being told to sit still, be quiet, and listen to the adults.
@@aimloading646 shit you not, even at breaks and lunch, they would actively tell off kids for being too loud or playing games together in social areas MADE for them to socialise. You either sit and have a nice casual proper conversation for am hour as a young teen or get constantly shouted at for having fun with people. I live near my old primary school and my aunt works there. They have a football pitch, tons of toys and an entire play park for the kids to use. The last time it was used in that manner? About 2015 latest. Because every little thing became a safety issue the kids get no fun. The next generation are missing out. Barely slid by before these changes happened and a mix or modern technology and a rise in absurd social based ideology has lead to the overprotection and repression of the young. I don't see kids out on the streets anywhere near what me and my pals were as a kid, and i understand fully why. Modern technology killed social interaction along with government regulation and Public sector schooling. In person social interaction is leaps and bounds better for your mental health, and as such we've seen a drastic increase in mental illness. We have evolved behond our humanity and became hollowed shells of the social creatures we used to be. Today's socialising as a young adult is very rarely anything outwith alcohol or a meal before work, college or uni.
Well, I was bullied in school. And I was an outsider because I didn't play violent video games or use social media because my parents forbid them from me. Most kids only ever conversated on video games and internet memes in school with each other. While they were in the classroom they didnt seem to be in this reality, but rather more in the digital world.
Born in 98. Only found out I was a "gen z" instead of a "millenial" two years ago, during the pandemic (there wasn't a consensus about which year gen z started). I don't identify with my generation at all, but I was certainly influenced by the depressive trends of it, no matter how much I hate it or try to reject it. I still consider myself being born in a "gen y/z" transitional period, because life and ideals I grew up with were somehow very different than to kids born a few years later, even considering my younger siblings. Not that it matters though, what matters is I'm a financially, intellectually and psychologically broke human being and for almost 10 years have been in this vicious cycle of depression and defeatism because I couldn't/can't get past the very traumas and defeats I have suffered in my life, which destroyed my education and my dreams. I'm trying to recover now, but it's hard getting a job in Brazil right now after a decade of economic crisis (plus my own personal crisis) and as said before I have yet to fully overcome my defeatist mindset/habits.
Hey man don't give up.
Keep going, I believe in you
born in 00, same problems as you somewhat. But being in brazil is definitely tougher than me. we're still young bro, there's still hope
I've seen the term "zillennial" thrown around for people born around that time. I'm an older fellow South American and just want to say that things will get much better and easier over time for you, esp since so many of the negative thoughts and patterns you talk about now will eventually affect you a lot less and you will manage to look at some of those bad experience from a more neutral perspective, as if they had happened to someone else, which will make dealing with them much easier. Just be more patient and keep cultivating your mind, my friend.
As a 97 baby, I feel your pain intimately
As a member of Gen-Z born in 2000, our generation is downright scary. The devastating effects will only compound as each year goes by. We are so misled.
I was raised with both my parents in the same house since birth until I moved out. Almost everyone else I know has gone through a divorce growing up and had to be the bargaining chip for someone else. The fact that what used to be a relative normal expectation is now an outlier is a major contributing factor to the disintegration of social norms.