It's called woking from home. You log into Teams through your phone whilst shopping and try to pretend like interest rates aren't going to make your nothing-job redundant.
Nobody is financially capable of being an adult anymore. I work as an electrical engineer, and it will take me 3 times longer to buy and pay off a house as my parents when neither of my parents want to college or have serious professional careers.
I'm mostly a real adult, I think? I own a house, have retirement savings, can cook, clean, do laundry, etc... but I have a pretty immature sense of humor and still like to play video games.
I used to answer unknown number calls Frankie, but after the 2013 telemarketer explosion I just became desensitized to assume that all unknown numbers are scams
As a raging millennial, this cultural observation is pretty accurate. But, never forget that we millennials invented internet culture and by extention, ultimately, the very idea of based and cringe. We are your internet elders and we're tired and sleepy! Can you kids keep it down! What was i talking about? Oh thats right, 911!
Eh, most of it is just sweeping boomer stereotypes from the same Avocado Toast articles weve seen a thousand times, he's just layering it with psychology speak to make it sound official and real.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 100%, i was agreeing with the fact that late Millennials/early Zennials started this whole internet culture that the neo-pop-punk, indie-sample-rap, lofi-chillwave-listening Gen Z thinks they came up with. i’ll acknowledge their taste in appreciating Y2K aesthetic but you’re right a lot of Gen Z went neo-boomer, alt-right, or are insufferably more ultra-PC than the worst of the Millennial libtards. the only good Gen Z content is keeping irreverent meme humor alive and evolving it for new platforms. otherwise we have caused our own demise by creating the spaces for zoomers to dance, scamfluence, and practice AAVE on god no cap. yeah, urbandictionary was us too. please have some respect for the game some of you outpacing us on the lame shit
Millennials "invented internet culture" like you invented hip-hop or smartphones. Those things may have emerged while you were alive but they were invented by boomers who were productive while you were still wetting your pants.
We completely fumbled our internet privileges. Things were great back in the forum days, but we all should have retired from the internet a decade ago. I mean it. It’s bedtime.
I like how zoomers won't even let us have this. The fact that we just havn't done anything is also a problem somehow, just because they need someone to blame for why they refuse to work jobs.
"Millennials try to mould their personality into friendly Good Vibes only Instagram caption to bandage over the spiritual wound of not being able to afford a mortgage" Frankie destroyed the millennials around the globe.
@@bluegiant13 Nah, never plunged the world into an over extended car crash and it'll be another 3-4 decades before GenX finally relinquishes the control they pry from the boomers cold dead corpses
@@Aster_Riskat least they aren’t performative like millennials or genZ. The people I know who talk the loudest about social or cultural “issues” couldn’t care less.
@@HiGlowieThey just don't give a shit at all. That's not admirable. I'll take performative any day over that, because at least bullshit optics have a chance to make some kind of change.
@@HiGlowie lol yes you are, you're all a bunch of whiny fucks who make GenZ look tame The definition of a generation who's mad that they aren't getting more attention
My kids are millennials and have been loved and smothered like I never was as a generation x. But both my kids have moved out and have good jobs. I’m so proud of them
the "you can be anything and everything you want" can actually still create rampant imposter syndrome and need for external validation even if your parents are not helicopter parents
As an elder zoomer whose generational status and identity relies on the social definitions by academics that have changed over time, this video was just barely unrelatable
@@GothicGali In america I've heard more consistently in the last few years that 1997 onward is gen z (I was born in 97). If you're old enough to remember even a sliver of the 90s you're a millennial ig
@@justme4037 The main problem for non-native speakers is the accent. It's definitely not the speed of his speech. He really does not speak fast at all, that's just objectively not the case - quite the opposite, actually. I can say this with confidence because I'm also German, but I've listened to a lot of spoken English in different accents, and I have zero problems understanding him. Also, I don't know which German word you were trying to convey, but I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to use "gibberish" here.
I just learned that my self torment regarding my inability to reach the idealized version of my self is not a normal shared humam experience. And stems from my upbringing fooling me into thinking i could have done anything i wanted to...now how to weaponise this mental health issue...
yea i suppose it's easier to laugh at yourselves when philosoraptor memes and mugs with quirky jokes about drinking rosé are considered peak comedic expression
the lady at 3:54 started off morally offended and then slowly became utterly emotionally defeated until all she could do at the end was fake laugh uncomfortably which is also peak millennial behaviour
As someone who sits between Millennial and Gen Z (depending on who you ask), but being a Millennial really. I can confirm , both videos are absolutely bang on Just discovered this channel today, quality stuff😂
@@MetalHeartsOfSteel I was born in 97. Plenty of people say it’s before, plenty say after, even more say it depends on when in 97 you’re born (and there is no agreed upon month here). So I lay in this limbo.
It's generational in general but applies to western culture which Poland is a proud member since 90s.. if you went Tajikistan, Nepal or Iran you wouldn't need to worry about all this 😂
@@KoooomA and it's the last one that does. Zoomers onwards are a globalist generation and their culture is shared world wide. The proliferation of the internet is to thank
Every time I hear a description of millennial characteristics I get confused, it never matches any millennial that I know in real life. I feel like the “Millennial” tag is really a media creation
You run like Forrest Gump before he got the braces taken off, otherwise great vid man, there's so many more ideas for this structure, keep on being creative, love it.
@@shaunw9270Isn’t it a meme that Gen Xers’ parents had to have a 10 o’clock news PSA to remind them where their kids were at night? And that kidnappings during the 80s were happening like every other day? Idk I’m Millennial tbh.
@@beeticket Memes maybe. Not the truth. We were allowed a lot of freedom but our parents always (mostly) knew where we were. In our teens if we got in trouble with the Police, we were shitting ourselves about what our Dad's punishment would be after the Police station.
These are great. 😄 As an old school Gen X Mom, my '97 & '00 kids got a very unique upbringing w/input from the Greatest Gen & Baby Boomers while limiting the social trends of the time. Able to hold convos w/adults since they could talk, spent half the day outside, recite cartoon monologues, prefer quiet reflection to social media, & work w/their hands & to pay their rent. ❤ Are there anymore of you out there..?
I was born in 85. Dad was 1950 mom was 1960. I got the "you're an idiot do better moron" parenting treatment. Now my parents wonder why I never tried to apply myself and have struggled financially my entire adult life. I don't blame them for my choices, only that their parenting failure informed how I made choices. I was raised more like a genX than anything else.
What I really love is how I have like no filter. I'll call you out for being stupid or whatever. Then my parents will get upset with me. I am now realizing that it's because I act like they did in private, in public. They would shit talk me and my siblings at home and put on a mask for the pubic. "Why are you such an asshole?" "You" LOL. They don't like what they see in the mirror I present.
I'm impressed he found so many millennials without walking into an office space.
It's called woking from home. You log into Teams through your phone whilst shopping and try to pretend like interest rates aren't going to make your nothing-job redundant.
They all work remote now.
?
I can't deny I work remotely. Everyday I get to my workplace from where I'll remotely connect to provide helpdesk assistence.
"They have no idea how to be a real adult". I felt that.
You shouldn't, there's no such thing as a real adult, it was a myth invented in the 50's by the wasps
Like most bad things
We look at the adult boomers and we cringe, but at the cost of having no other role models for being real adults.
Same 😂
Nobody is financially capable of being an adult anymore. I work as an electrical engineer, and it will take me 3 times longer to buy and pay off a house as my parents when neither of my parents want to college or have serious professional careers.
I'm mostly a real adult, I think? I own a house, have retirement savings, can cook, clean, do laundry, etc... but I have a pretty immature sense of humor and still like to play video games.
How do you always find these right words to describe people? You are reading everybody like they are back of the shampoo
Guy is a debate champion, but grown up.
@@Eet_MiaWe hate it, but are forced to use it.
Because he's English. They're smart
Hes just done a year of sociology
It's definitely all prewritten he's not making stuff up as soon as he finds someone. Come on now.
Did NOT need this today, Frankie! Found this extremely helpful though. Thank God it's wine O'clock.
Look! He did it! He did the thing! Ironic-cringe!
@@HelpfulTedYou did the detached observation thing! Lol
@@alexanderfloyd5099
You're right! We're all fucked.
Hard read
I guess we just have to spend our days in silence in order to avoid being cringe. @@HelpfulTed
Brilliant format -- not quite an interview, not quite a documentary but just a pinch of both. Original and unique. Top-shelf comedy right here
This cuts so deep, I'm scared to share it in my work's group chat with my fellow-millennial coworkers.
Bussy
At least you have millennial coworkers. Imagine being the only millennial in between 7 soon-to-retire boomers.
This video is going straight into the chat, haha
That will be the closest thing you'll do in terms of social justice.
@@Ed0Carnbyyour coworkers are all over 59?
I used to answer unknown number calls Frankie, but after the 2013 telemarketer explosion I just became desensitized to assume that all unknown numbers are scams
As a raging millennial, this cultural observation is pretty accurate. But, never forget that we millennials invented internet culture and by extention, ultimately, the very idea of based and cringe. We are your internet elders and we're tired and sleepy! Can you kids keep it down! What was i talking about? Oh thats right, 911!
facts
Eh, most of it is just sweeping boomer stereotypes from the same Avocado Toast articles weve seen a thousand times, he's just layering it with psychology speak to make it sound official and real.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 100%, i was agreeing with the fact that late Millennials/early Zennials started this whole internet culture that the neo-pop-punk, indie-sample-rap, lofi-chillwave-listening Gen Z thinks they came up with. i’ll acknowledge their taste in appreciating Y2K aesthetic but you’re right a lot of Gen Z went neo-boomer, alt-right, or are insufferably more ultra-PC than the worst of the Millennial libtards. the only good Gen Z content is keeping irreverent meme humor alive and evolving it for new platforms. otherwise we have caused our own demise by creating the spaces for zoomers to dance, scamfluence, and practice AAVE on god no cap. yeah, urbandictionary was us too. please have some respect for the game some of you outpacing us on the lame shit
Millennials "invented internet culture" like you invented hip-hop or smartphones. Those things may have emerged while you were alive but they were invented by boomers who were productive while you were still wetting your pants.
We completely fumbled our internet privileges. Things were great back in the forum days, but we all should have retired from the internet a decade ago. I mean it. It’s bedtime.
honestly this was the most chill "social group" so far
Ur forgetting about the pajama huns
Cringe
why because they dont do anything? At least boomers make a good villain.
That's because we're paralyzed by indecision and hemmed in by the fear of the future without enough savings.
I like how zoomers won't even let us have this. The fact that we just havn't done anything is also a problem somehow, just because they need someone to blame for why they refuse to work jobs.
"Millennials try to mould their personality into friendly Good Vibes only Instagram caption to bandage over the spiritual wound of not being able to afford a mortgage"
Frankie destroyed the millennials around the globe.
I'm a millennial, I have no good vibes, and I pay a mortgage. Try harder.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoatyou must be the elderly millennial then
@@odala8245 more likely help from parents
😂😂😂😂
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat You are the exception that proves the rule.
It sucks to realize that the space I left open for my Based Trophy will always be empty
First half had me feeling personally attacked, and the second half made me feel like a boomer at heart.
Yep, looks like it is becoming our turn to become the boomers *sigh*
@@bluegiant13well we can be better ones
@@bluegiant13 Nah, never plunged the world into an over extended car crash and it'll be another 3-4 decades before GenX finally relinquishes the control they pry from the boomers cold dead corpses
@@bluegiant13hahahahaha imagene beig not 12 looser
When he said we are too chained to our hotdesks to challenge the powers that be, I felt that on a spiritual level
"A persistent need for validation, regardless of level of accomplishment" 😂
They didn't even manage to outsource running after you.
Running is actually, loik, a microaggression???
@@peterlarkin762 millenials didn't invent microaggressions tabloid media did and repeated it over and over again until people started repeating it
Please do Gen-X now. No one talks about us, and I think it's high time we copped some s**t, to give Millennials and Boomers a break for a sec.
Ive noticed how everyone always just lists zoomers, millennials and boomers and totally skip gen x 😂
This sounds like something a millennial would say.
@@riina___ That's part of what it means to be Gen X, lol.
It's important to contextualise what "cringe/ironic cringe" was responding to *nod nod*
Who?
Came here to make fun of Frankie's face.
Finished the video with existential dread as a millennial unable to contradict most of what he said.
Just calm down, drink a pumpkin spice latte, and everything will be alright.
@@HelpfulTed "Pumpkin spice" is ground up acorn paste
As a millennial, I feel both seen and uncomfortable.
Also, facts: beige and grey is my favorite aesthetic.
Those colors are universal
beige, forest green and bordeaux all the way
at some point i started liking those colours, too. Happend around 30. Is that universal?
You squared the circle of the dialectic here
It’s like a national geographic documentary series on people
Gen X keeping stealthy. If you act like you don't want to be seen people will ignore you about as much as when you act like you do want to be seen.
This is the exact plan, shh
Gen x complains about being ignored after ducking out of every cultural conversation.
@@Aster_Riskat least they aren’t performative like millennials or genZ.
The people I know who talk the loudest about social or cultural “issues” couldn’t care less.
@@HiGlowieThey just don't give a shit at all. That's not admirable. I'll take performative any day over that, because at least bullshit optics have a chance to make some kind of change.
@@HiGlowie lol yes you are, you're all a bunch of whiny fucks who make GenZ look tame
The definition of a generation who's mad that they aren't getting more attention
No self-respecting millennials curate spotify playlists. We treasure our piles of mp3s.
Goddamn right
dont lie
Or an iTunes library that either stayed the same or expanded over the years.
Perhaps using TH-cam 2 Mp3 converter, who knows 😳
@@keepgoing7533TH-cam to MP3 converter is the reason I “own” about 3/4 of my music.
i am 30 years old as of this summer i definitely don't have mp3's. i have wav files. does that make me zillenial.
As a true slytherin, I literally can't with this video. I can't wait for wine o'clock so I don't feel bad about not knowing how to adult.
real
If millennials focussed more on how to adult rather their Harry Potter house, they’d be able to buy their own real house…born ‘88 and don’t fit in.
My kids are millennials and have been loved and smothered like I never was as a generation x. But both my kids have moved out and have good jobs. I’m so proud of them
They sound amazing
the "you can be anything and everything you want" can actually still create rampant imposter syndrome and need for external validation even if your parents are not helicopter parents
Dude as a millennial myself, this is spot on.
As a millennial I feel seen and ultimately that is all any of us really want.
😂
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As an elder zoomer whose generational status and identity relies on the social definitions by academics that have changed over time, this video was just barely unrelatable
How old are you? No one can decide if I’m a young millennial or elder zoomer. Born Dec 1995, currently 27
@@GothicGali In america I've heard more consistently in the last few years that 1997 onward is gen z (I was born in 97). If you're old enough to remember even a sliver of the 90s you're a millennial ig
same, April '97 here and it's a toss-up as to whether this or his Gen Z video hit me more accurately overall
I'm '97 too but not from the states, I believe we are the youngest millennials and the oldest zoomers. What a place to be lol
3:33
This man is an observational genius. So beautifully spoken!
Legit had to rewind every segment because I was laughing too hard. Too relatable
I'm not clever enough to understand what this guy says, but he says it with such conviction it's great to watch haha
same hahah, all I hear is "milleniun cringe" and that's just funny 😅
this is pretty scary most his language was pretty basic
@@justme4037 Ich habe alles verstanden, du Unwissender!
@@JohnDoe-bt9qp Kudos to you five head. Do you want a price for that or something? :D
@@justme4037 The main problem for non-native speakers is the accent. It's definitely not the speed of his speech. He really does not speak fast at all, that's just objectively not the case - quite the opposite, actually. I can say this with confidence because I'm also German, but I've listened to a lot of spoken English in different accents, and I have zero problems understanding him.
Also, I don't know which German word you were trying to convey, but I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to use "gibberish" here.
Omg I can't even fam high-key savage at me adulting so I'm low-key shook at how extra you are slay queen I stan not salty kill me
The importance of being seen as earnest.
Like, yowzah!!!
this is painfully accurate
“Dystopian co-working space” and “manufactured professionalism” is hilarious
I like the Extended TH-cam Director's Cut. :-)
I like that most the people were in on the joke and it didnt go iver their head. My favourite video yet
I asked for this. Thanks.
The interviewees usually chase him at the end of the video, but millennials are old now and their knees hurt so they let him run off on his own.
Knees and back, keens and back :C
I just learned that my self torment regarding my inability to reach the idealized version of my self is not a normal shared humam experience. And stems from my upbringing fooling me into thinking i could have done anything i wanted to...now how to weaponise this mental health issue...
Wait, this one is about me. Oh god, so this is how it feels...
Wait, my parents were not supportive
"shackled to their hot desk" - brilliant!
Your little run at the end slays me. Very accurate summation of my generation my friend!
This is one of the hardest hitting ones for me
Good observations frankie
We laughed at ourselves more than Gen Z.
*laughs in hopeless millennial*
yea i suppose it's easier to laugh at yourselves when philosoraptor memes and mugs with quirky jokes about drinking rosé are considered peak comedic expression
@@treyshaffer We've been getting our memes & mugs in different places.
@@sofiabravo1994I have to assume you're a bot with over 400 subscribers & no content.
@@treyshaffer It's better than having no sense of humor and being allergic to fun.
i took a break from adulting to watch this video. It's epic and I feel seen.
Masterpiece, laddy
I’m such a slytherin 😂😂
The irony of the phrase "shackled to their hot-desk" 😂
I'll be quoting this one.
Fee Fi Faux Fur, I smell the blood of an Irish(millennial)man
'The occupational hazards of learned helplessness' genius :D
Who says deep cutting philosophy can't keep you in good shape
How do you know all this, so much knowledge about so many generations and niches, incredible.
I mean, this stuff is just brilliantly written and delivered!
I finally feel seen and attacked by one of these videos. Namaste.
Thanks, that was cool. Now I see why these videos work.
the lady at 3:54 started off morally offended and then slowly became utterly emotionally defeated until all she could do at the end was fake laugh uncomfortably which is also peak millennial behaviour
Ooh ooh! Do me! Do me! Gen X!
It’s time we’re called out for just keeping our heads down in the intergenerational wars.
the most accurate Gen X cultural observation would be to just skip the video on Gen X
As someone who sits between Millennial and Gen Z (depending on who you ask), but being a Millennial really.
I can confirm , both videos are absolutely bang on
Just discovered this channel today, quality stuff😂
if you are born before 97
@@MetalHeartsOfSteel I was born in 97. Plenty of people say it’s before, plenty say after, even more say it depends on when in 97 you’re born (and there is no agreed upon month here).
So I lay in this limbo.
How is this possible, that this is Irish, I am Polish and this works through all the borders borders (yes, I'm 33)
Being 33 is such a slay
It's generational in general but applies to western culture which Poland is a proud member since 90s.. if you went Tajikistan, Nepal or Iran you wouldn't need to worry about all this 😂
I hope that you meant 990s, we've been a part of the "west" since 966 AD, despite some retarded neighbours negating this fact ;)@@KoooomA
@@KoooomA and it's the last one that does. Zoomers onwards are a globalist generation and their culture is shared world wide. The proliferation of the internet is to thank
Ah yes Nepal where people are dirt poor. Ahhh Nepal. Good stuff.@@KoooomA
Absolutely brilliant, truly radical, keep up the good work
You’ve killed this one Frankie
As a gen x I felt left out as we haven’t copped it yet but then I realised I don’t give a shit.
Every time I hear a description of millennial characteristics I get confused, it never matches any millennial that I know in real life. I feel like the “Millennial” tag is really a media creation
Most precise docu ever done on Gen Y
I assume this is a chronological series. Looking forward to X and Boomer episodes
Good luck finding any x-ers. Their whole thing is that they don’t exist.
Gen-X will be skipped over like they always are. You're a ghost, like Danny Phantom, or some shit.
@@HelpfulTed shit man, i could be a boomer, gee whiz Wally
@@clumsiii 😂 “Gee whiz, Wally”. That’ll go over some heads.
Cat memes and imposter syndrome. That's pretty accurate for me.
There are Millennials and then there are MILLENNIALS.
These are all so good, they dont get enough attention
Frankie is my sense of humour
You’re a born sociologist, I admire you.
This is your best one yet. Amazing.
You run like Forrest Gump before he got the braces taken off, otherwise great vid man, there's so many more ideas for this structure, keep on being creative, love it.
He runs like a cartoon villain or I get Dick dastardly vibes 😅😂
@@drewskih4005not penguin? 🐧
@@taciterudite9224 pingu ?
There is no way to run with a backpack on that doesn’t look cringe, so it’s best to make it at least look like it’s intended to be ironic cringe.
touche@@thehousecat93
I just stumbled upon your gen z video and really like your content! Great work. Am already looking forward to upcoming uploads.
Isn't Frankie himself a milanial?
I thought my kind were exempt from these. I feel so seen now.
I'm a Gen X Englishman. Love your videos.. feel free to take the piss out of my generation. Funnier than anyone elses videos I've seen in years 😂
In true fashion Gen X has been completely forgotten and left to run around feral
@@beeticket Feral ? Uh , no .
@@shaunw9270Isn’t it a meme that Gen Xers’ parents had to have a 10 o’clock news PSA to remind them where their kids were at night? And that kidnappings during the 80s were happening like every other day? Idk I’m Millennial tbh.
@@beeticket Memes maybe. Not the truth. We were allowed a lot of freedom but our parents always (mostly) knew where we were. In our teens if we got in trouble with the Police, we were shitting ourselves about what our Dad's punishment would be after the Police station.
@@shaunw9270 I see. Maybe this is also partly an American vs. British cultural divide.
An Absolute Brutal Legend This Guy
This video overlooks the fact that Britain recently saw the biggest strike wave since perhaps the 1930s, driven by millenial workers
We strike because we are lazy. Thats the difference.
Finally someone is able to distill what we have noticed about these poor parenting results.
Appreciated the Urban Outfitters comment and someone wearing Iets Frans later.
These are great. 😄 As an old school Gen X Mom, my '97 & '00 kids got a very unique upbringing w/input from the Greatest Gen & Baby Boomers while limiting the social trends of the time.
Able to hold convos w/adults since they could talk, spent half the day outside, recite cartoon monologues, prefer quiet reflection to social media, & work w/their hands & to pay their rent. ❤
Are there anymore of you out there..?
97&00 would make them Gen Z tho
i do be acting cringe to try and differentiate myself XD
Millenials are such good sports.
man i love you, do keep going
I was born in 85. Dad was 1950 mom was 1960. I got the "you're an idiot do better moron" parenting treatment. Now my parents wonder why I never tried to apply myself and have struggled financially my entire adult life. I don't blame them for my choices, only that their parenting failure informed how I made choices.
I was raised more like a genX than anything else.
85 is more gen x than millennials.. millennials really start at 87 or 88
@@chadwellington2524 It's like 82-97. I know what you mean though.
What I really love is how I have like no filter. I'll call you out for being stupid or whatever. Then my parents will get upset with me. I am now realizing that it's because I act like they did in private, in public. They would shit talk me and my siblings at home and put on a mask for the pubic.
"Why are you such an asshole?"
"You" LOL. They don't like what they see in the mirror I present.
@@chadwellington2524I'm generation X ... We are 1965 - 1980 .
@@BaronFeydRautha no way 1982 and 1997 are the same era.. they grew up completely different
COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR! God bless you repping Oregon's own across the pond. Gurt Boyle RIP
Once he starts going... it's just mezmerizing... I couldn't stop watching him droning on about our horrendous existence on this fucked up planet :D
We're Gen X! Do us! Do us! Oh, well, whatever, Nevermind.
thank you for validating me
Sorry i was busy digging through the mountain of awards I never got for participating, could you repeat that?
Just curious, do any groups get praise? Or just all burnt to a crisp
No cohort is exempt from criticism
The "Greatest Generation" that fought WWII is the only generation I haven't heard someone slag off.
@@BiggyJimboyeah I can't think of one tbh
He would be afraid to analyze the Jews impartially. 🔯🌞
As a typical millennial, I approve this message.
Millennials laugh at themselves more just judging by this video
Not me being a slytherin with a beige wardrobe 🥴
You are genius son 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
I am not ironically cringe i am just socially inept and then other millennials think i am being ironic and that has been a good shield for me
lol the ironic cringe bit had me cracking up- I think it’s because we grew up in the “hipster” era
Damn this hit hard
I appreciate you showing some older millennials!