Ikr time flew by, it feels like it was just a year ago that people were talking about how ridiculous the millenial and gen z beef is....Oh wait it was a year ago.
I feel like the internet is mostly to blame, little kids definitely shouldn’t be on tiktok or social media of any kind.. Not only can it affect their minds but it’s dangerous.. I remember seeing TODDLERS WITH PACIFIERS making TikToks, it’s disturbing 🤢
The fact that this happens with every generation is so annoying. Every generation has beef with the generation before and after like let’s grow up guys.
I thought we were going to be different but no 😭 we are like any other pathetic generation that makes fun of the younger generation 😭 beefing with ten year olds
What do you expect when adults start beefing with literal fucking children. We are so desperate to retain our youth that we get salty over younger people moving into what was once our spaces. It's sad.
The worst thing modern social media did was force teenagers and adults into the same spaces. Teens should be able to giggle about how cringe adults are in private and adults shouldn’t have to be forced to remember teenagers exist.
I totally blame the parents for letting their kids ruin Sephora, but also... maybe Sephora should stop targeting children for makeup and skincare they don't need and then getting mad that they haven't childproofed their stores.
Targeting aside, it’s a parent’s responsibility to be aware of what products their child is consuming (or attempting to) and take appropriate action. Not everyone will take the same action and not every child will be interested in consuming a given product.
Literal children thinking they need skincare is so sad to me. You want to protect your skin, kids? WEAR SUNSCREEN. Parents? Put sunscreen on your kids! They'll hate you for it but thank you later.
You definitely need more than sunscreen after hitting puberty. That is when you start skincare, but you dont start using anti aging/wrinkling stuff like retinol until mid to late 20's when your face actually starts aging like that. Skin care is a broad spectrum, its important to introduce it to your kids at the appropriate age and also explain the uses of these creams, because at this point they are just throwing away money. I'm not sure if theres much science behind using these creams so early on, but I'm going to assume since its never been recommended to teens or very young adults, using things like retinol wouldn't make much of a difference and is likely just a waste of money@@shinyumbreon696 Basic skin scare should be started at puberty, this would be face wash and a moisturizer, maybe a mask every now and then. Early 20's antioxidant seriums along with regular skincare routine Late 20's anti aging ingredients like retinol. You just have to use skin care appropriately for your age
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!" -Grandpa Simpson, 1996
Yeah I moved to a new place and I literally hear it all day long. I was like "what annoying bird is that I hear all the time." I didn't grow up with them so it's wild that the bird that annoys me all day is a nostalgic thing.
@@ReareaGirloh wow! Thats crazy because even though I had my childhood in another country, this bird could be heard in the morning when I would wake up. So I have nothing but sweet nostalgic memories whenever I hear it.
Anytime I start to complain about something kids do I ask myself, "do I sound like a 1920s grandpa calling jazz music evil?" and then I usually settle down
It's sad that there isnt even Child Friendly websites anymore (Like girlgogames, club penguin, moshi monsters etc.) You can't even hang out at parks anymore. Having nowhere else to go, kids come into adult/teen spaces (social media) and pick up on trends/try and copy ADULTS (like what they wear, makeup ect.) So when ppl call them Cringe, it urges them on to try to fit in MORE 😮💨😮💨
There's still cool math games and math playground so I wouldn't get to worried. Those are still up and running and perfectly kid appropriate. I also think those Toca boca games a pretty alright for kids too
Why can't they hang out at parks? I'm from Russia, there are plenty parks here and I see kids there all the time. Is it different in other places? I don't get why they don't hang out outside anymore
@@MsHermyGranger I think that the US is notoriously not very friendly for pedestrians and it is difficult for kids to hang out at the park, library, and malls compared to a decade ago. I think many young children would love to hang out at a park or mall, but it's likely very difficult for them to get there on their own.
Behold! Aristotle bitching about the youth of Athens: "They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else." It cracks me up - people have been doing this as far back as ANCIENT GREECE, and honestly probably longer
To be fair, I relate to that nostalgia sentiment (not the "early 2000s bird" though that's crazy lol), but that's more because I spent a lot of time outside when I was a kid (not really voluntarily, my parents were just forcing us) so that sound is really implanted deep in my brain. And now, I live in a big city instead of the little town where I grew up, I have a job, I spend most of my free time watching tv shows, playing videogames or doing chores/cooking. So that sound, to me, is more of a reminder of simpler times where I didn't have any real responsibilities, where I could just spend hours doing nothing for days on end and my life wouldn't crumble because of it. So yeah, I definitely relate to the nostalgic sentiment, but maybe not quite in the same way as these people. And I also understand where it's coming from and it's not because "they're extinct since 2020" (though from what I just looked up, the population seems to be decreasing a bit).
As a millennial, I’ll just say I’m a vegetarian. GET IT FELLOW MILLENNIALS. Let’s get nostalgic for a band that was trash at the time with one great song. I don’t want to beef with the young or old, I’m only going to beef with my own generation.
The fact that someone said “the early 2000s bird” makes me think that this fixation on generational differences, classification, and gatekeeping is just accelerating 😵💫
As someone that wants to learn biology, hearing them call the bird that made me physically cringe and feel kinda angry and sad for the bird. Poor birdie has a name that everyone forgot.
Yeah that cracked me up, like bruh that bird didn’t go instinct, you just grew up, lost some of your childlike sense of wonder (as everyone does), and got used to the sound 😅
The gender thing is partly to blame as well. Or a side effect of it. That being the fixation on labels and sub sections/categories. They are doing it in music and literally everything. Everything has to have a label and a sub category and a sub category under that and another sub category within that one.
@@raven_moonshine39 I don't see the cottagecore imo. cottagecore is usually supposed to look a bit vintage, but the tight sleeves on this make it look too modern. as for coquette...idk coquette could be anything pink and cute
@@monbub What both have in common is lace and vaguely vintage and it's basically a peasant top ala the early 2000s with lace details. So, really it would depend on what you pair them with. Pair the brown one with a peasant skirt and a bandana in the hair, maybe add a vest: cottagecore. Pair the pink one with a white pleated skirt, gold jewelry or pearls or both, and bows: coquette.
I'm a millenial, and I'm French, but honestly it's like... it makes sense for the pink one to be coquette and the other one more fitting for cottage core. I can't explain but like even in French and as a non-aesthetic term, "coquette" just feels a bit pink??? Like of course a coquette could wear any colour but pink would def be more coquette-ish because it's considered a girly colour nowadays and it makes sense??? This child is right!
as a fellow gen z, i quit tiktok and a variety of other social media some three months ago because i was doom scrolling and anxious all the time, and it’s genuinely improved my quality of life so much. i wouldn’t even say my screen time is overall reduced as i’ll still fill it with other media like streamers or tv or video games or hey, here on youtube, so it really speaks volumes to the type of content i was consuming on social media specifically.
i also quit tik tok and i don't regret it, but what i find so shocking is the fact that everyone acts so appalled when i tell them i don't have it, and will try and convince me to download it again!
I'm millennial, I used to call Gen X and Boomers cringe. Gen z then called me cringe. Gen Alpha is calling Gen z cringe. Now ive just realised that everyone is cringe.
See but I definitely remember hearing Vine references and stuff as a gen-z elementary schooler. I get the sentiment but this isn't a new phenomena by any means
At my house I have a mourning dove's nest and they have babies every spring and summer, so I hear them literally all the time, day and night. Not a nostalgic sound for me hahaha
The nostalgia for morning doves is crazy cause I legit hear them all the time. Idk if everyone moved or just doesn’t listen to the outdoors. It’s so irritating
They’re literally still here they haven’t gone extinct I just heard on this morning that’s a myth 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and I don’t know where the stereotype of kids don’t go out side anymore came from cause I’ll be first to debunk the the myth that kids don’t play outside anymore cause they in fact do. Kids still play outside in fact the only people that I see play outside are kids older people are the ones that aren’t going outside anymore not kids 😭😭😭😭
@@oluwasanmiorekunrin8882 Ik I said mourning doves are still around, and you’re right it’s probs more 20 year olds saying they aren’t. Maybe cause they don’t wake up as early as we did for school but I got one on my balcony rn and it’s 8am
I think what happened is the pandemic and lockdowns happened RIGHT when some of these people were becoming teenagers so to them "outside sounds = childhood".
As a younger millenial its interesting to me that all the "millenial cringe" things are specifically from the mid 2010s vine/tumblr era. Not stuff like Chuck Norris jokes or "wassssuppp!"
As a peak millennial (1990) watching this at my grandmas (1936) I think it’s funny that my grandma cannot comprehend even 5% of this video. Progress is wild.
@@vinnycastro7101 Yea I guess technically that would be peak but I wouldn't really consider myself a "young millennial". Although I will say that I see a big difference between myself and some of my older cousins that were born in the early 80s.
As a millenial idk what the big deal is about skibidi toilet. "omg this is so weird and incomprehensible!!!!!!!" Literally it's no different than shit you could find in a GMod video from like 15 years ago like ??????
I'm gen alpha (11) and I don't watch skibidi toilet but based off of the screenshots I guess it is not different from the older Gmod videos. they're basically the same.
i'm a gen z and we had these weird comedy videos when i was in middle school/high school like potato knishes and very odd/dorky gaming edits idk what's so different about this one honestly
There are mourning doves that live in my backyard. They made a nest and had a baby in my marigolds last year. Just wanted to share that because it still makes me happy. I can hear their coos right now
Gen X is not generally mocking other generations (with a few loud weird exceptions, and they seem to be the older end of Gen X), but you nailed it on what we were considered "bad" for. In fourth grade my school bus driver saw I had a D&D book, stopped the bus on the side of the road and called the police who picked me up. The police were cool, and probably slightly confused. Later my parents picked me up from the police station and tried to explain to me that some adults are not very understanding of the world. The book was the AD&D Player's Manual, I think, which my parents bought me for Christmas. The one with the wizard with the red hood on the front, which is really not super aggressive art or anything.
@BeatricesLibraryYep. To be fair, the news was full of stories about the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons, and there were parents groups similar to the groups against drunk driving. There was even a movie starring a young Tom Hanks about the dangers of roleplaying.
I worked as a server for years and now am a therapist. The amount of variety I see in people across all generations has cemented the fact that online culture is not a true reflection of people in real life. Yes there are correlations, but an individual’s opinion on ANYTHING can be influenced by their personal experiences. We find consistencies in studies to try to help those who belong to a specific group, but getting to know the individual through conversation and time I believe is respectful in my practice. Not everyone has the time to do that though and if it can be monetized, it will be pushed.
I try to get a similar message across to people I know in person, especially my friends. It's a bit draining hearing them complain about "kids these days" while we're only in our early 20s. I've met many people older than me who don't fit the stereotypes attached to their age and younger people who also don't fit into the generational "box". Like people are individuals not statistics, we should treat them as such. But we know how the internet like to operates lol
Totally. The generational thing doesn't really work for me, because I'm not American. I grew up in a very small country with its own media and culture and etc and now as an adult live in the western world. That American millennial/ Gen z/ Gen alpha experience is definitely not universal. Online, being a millennial means like Disney movies, Harry potter, nickelodeon, Ashley tisdale... Idk, but all things that I didn't really grow up with lol
This comment should gotten more likes, cause it’s factual. But... it’s not trendy to have critical thinking. Not sure it’ll ever will based upon real life.
@@kyramoonrise9064 ofc it's not, because it's much more tendier to spout negative stereotypes and rigid black-and-white statements of an entire group and just follow the herd. It's never been trendy to question and challenge the status quo.
It does absolutely break my heart that this amalgamation of occurrences from businesses closing due to covid, to how games have evolved led to tweens not having a space to be independent while still having a safety net like what third spaces provided.
I think a bigger problem than social media in total is the algorithm-ification of social media. In the early days of Myspace/Facebook, you'd only see things from your circle of peers and groups you specifically chose to see. Early social media was in a way an extension of the third places; you'd meet people IRL and friend them on FB so you could see what they were up to at other times. Now, everyone of all ages is getting shown random stuff geared to people of all ages completely disconnected from their real-world experiences. I used to be a huge techno-optimist, a fan of the possibilities of the internet, and have been trying to figure out where it's all gone wrong and I'm starting to think a big part is the depersonalization of social media. I think having the internet in your pocket at all times is also part of the problem, but that seems a little less connected to the issue at hand.
@@asset4802i turn to social media because my parents never let me go anywhere without them, even though I am closer to being 18 than I am to being a tween. It sucks hanging out with my friends and not being able to laugh at jokes they make because my mom thinks they are inappropriate, so I basically have no social life because of my parents. At least online my parents aren't completely watching over me at all times
I recently read a book that was written in the late eighteenth century, and in that book the narrator was complaining about the entitled youths. Some things never change, and complaining about the younger generation is one of them!
THANK YOU for pointing out the '2000s bird'...I constantly come across those 'childhood nostalgia' videos and it's just grass and trees and mourning doves. it kinda makes me sad that gen z is so stuck inside they never hear the birds.
I honestly feel like gen Z shitting on gen alpha is just young adults with their frontal cortex developed realizing how embarrassing we were as children and projecting onto gen alpha
Yea it's all subjective and mean nothing. We should all just let everyone do anything they want, because, really, literally nothing matters is any way, shape, or form
It’s kinda weird that there’s a feedback loop with the gen alpha brainrot humour, cus gen z will make memes about brainrot and then gen alpha will see them but miss the irony, find it funny and just feed into it
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's a little bewildered of the nostalgia over a bird that STILL exists. I'd understand if it had maybe gone extinct or something, but I hear this little guy singing literally every day by my house, especially as it's warming up now lmao. I know it's probably the nostalgia for when they were a kid/younger and playing outside all the time, but the people saying they haven't heard one in so long; 1) It was just winter not to long ago for some of us. They were probably migrated somewhere else or hibernating and/or 2) they don't live in the area where this bird is native. If you're missing being outside as a kid and enjoying the outdoors, and being able to hear this bird as you do so maybe start going outside more. I go outside every chance I can, walking around big forested national parks. Get out of the city and go into nature for a little.
I'm a birder and actively follow migration patterns and population stats. The mourning dove is DEFINITELY NOT endangered. Just open your windows! Also they don't migrate but they call the most during warm months!
@@side_walker_shocker thanks for the tidbit of knowledge! That's an awesome hobby. I've been hearing them cooing again lately and it's such a nice sound, reminds me of warm summer days
6:25 listen girl i am very into chuck e cheese's animatronics / lore and the one video i watch not related to that in a hour has to have this jumpscare im gonna cry
I just asked my son to spell it and he totally got lost in the sauce after res then he tried to tell me in French the t is silent so that's why he didn't say it... child. He's so smart and dumb at the same time.
oh my god the mourning dove thing i swear "where did they go, they're all extinct now" they are literally least concern on the conservation scale and widespread across the US. just go outside. i hear them all the time, and see em all the time lmao
im not sure where you live, but i lived in oregon until 2023 and from 2015-2023 i didnt hear them AT ALL, they disappeared from the area at least, i genuinely hadnt heard one in so long that i thought they didnt exist anymore it wasnt til i moved to the southwest that i finally heard one again for the first time..
@ sephora moms: I'm triggered. just tell your kid no. That's it. just say no. "no, we're not buying that crap." that's all you have to do. Grown adults are TERRIFIED of offending their 8 year olds.
all the kids in my class try to start beef with me like "oh haha your ao ugly" ok. "haha your so weird grow up" im more mature than you are "haha your so stupid" dude i have atraight A's "haha nobody likes you" good nobody deserves me anyways "ew you draw too much" good i like drawing like they constantly try to prod at my emotions and i just dont care ._.
Been happening for years. In the early 2000s it was 70s nostalgia. The 2010s wanted to go back to the 80s, now in the 2020s everyone is nostalgic for the 1990s. Just wait a decade and people will be talking about the 30th anniversary of the cinematic masterpiece Shrek 2. Or a decade after that when we're all reminiscing about the pandemic through rose tinted glasses
As a crusty 30 something beyond his cultural relevance … I don’t remember thinking about Gen Z this much when I was literally 20 years old. That’s the real sign of us all being super online. There wasn’t Millennial v Zoomer discourse in 2010 to 2015. People born after 1997 had to actually get out of high school before I was really seeing “Those Millennials are so cringe for still talking about their Hogwarts House at 33” jokes. Gen Alpha is in freaking middle school and there is already a generational clash with Gen Z. Is Gen Alpha going to be battling Gen Beta or whatever we decide to call them before they are even out of Elementary School? WTF?
Honestly I'm the same age as you, well I'm 28 which makes me a millennial. But you're right nobody gave a crap about these stupid labels UNTIL recently. I hate it. Someone born a year after me have called me old just because I'm "not Gen z". People are so stupid now
@@fuosdi6410 years ago, I specifically remember Zoomers kind of being written off in terms of “They aren’t in the work force yet so nobody is writing think pieces about them.” That is how I thought it would be with Gen Alpha too. But Gen Alpha middle schoolers can still have an online presence that Zoomers can notice & react to even though they are too young to even have a job at the mall, because they were born in 2011. I absolutely did not absorb this level of Generation Wars discourse when I was in middle school. I had to become an actual adult for AVACADO TOAST to begin. Generational labels were being put on 2007 kids for making “the cake is a lie” jokes
This is exactly what I was thinking during this whole video. I didn't even acknowledge or think about the generation behind me until I was like a full grown adult, and realized "oh, you're not like... old yet. oh well just give it a few years you'll catch up or whatever" it's wild to me how much people care about this fake generation nonsense. I don't even think about generations, I just think in terms of "people who are currently my age" "people who are currently teenagers" "people who are currently children" in 20 years there will still be teenagers and children. and they will still be doing stupid shit because they're teenagers and children, not because of whatever "generation" they're in
@@uhpkkim I think it will matter that Gen Alpha went through Covid super young are the first generation to be born entirely post smart phone and post social media. That is going to make them different from Zoomers & Millennials. But they are just ****ing kids. Back in the day, we were just ****ing kids too.
The generational battle comes from a lack of sense of community. Younger generations don't have spaces or activities that allows them to create real bonds with peers outside of the internet and social media, so they turn to something like your birth year to feel a part of something. And when you create community part of it is beefing with others. Millennials, and some older gen z, had subcultures. The same age group of people separated by music, clothing, and styles. Nowadays culture is very homogenized, so they beef with other groups that aren't part of their group, ei other gens.
Most people don't realize that before "boomers" which are named for a baby boom after the end of WW2, most weren't named or were named by boomers. Then, because their children didn't want to suck the corporate nipple we were deemed generation X: brand less and not productive to society. After which came gen Y, or afterwards named Millennials by....you guessed it Baby Boomers. Divide and conquer....and who is running this country?!?!
my dad got called a hippie by grown ass adults because he had long hair in the 70s. oldheads have always beefed with the kids of the day because they lowkey resent their teenage self they see reflected in the modern youth and they resent that theyre ageing. a sense of community *would* be helpful; inter-generational community building is as useful as feeling in community with your own cohort.
Your friendly’s reference was so specific yet so accurate. And it brought back memories I forgot existed lol. As someone who grew up in the north and now lives in the south I miss friendlys. The nostalgia of it is chef’s kiss
@@kelsey5093 If you ignore the channels which try to copy Western trends (e.g. I recently saw a group of guys copying The Sidemen), I would say Bulgarian social media is very creative and culturally specific. A lot of the humour can't be translated well in other languages, and sometimes even requires specific knowledge of events and how things generally work within the country.
@@rumenkanchev No offence but I don’t believe that. I’d say that there’s probably great Bulgarian content just as you described but that’s probably just the Bulgarian content you interact with. It’s always the same: if you want a certain music genre in a specific language - you’ll find it, if you want a specific “social media genre” in a specific language - you’ll find it. Sure there are differences but I’d say they’re not that big nowadays on the internet ^^ Though I’m not Bulgarian so I’ve never seen Bulgarian videos ^^ but I’m not from the us either
@@raifparker3990 sure I’m the expert ^^ -it’s just always the same Ofc there are some general differences but overall you’ll see most content in any language
right?? no third places, playgrounds either non existent or dirty and dangerous. what are kids supposed to do outside? shoplift and smoke cigarettes in the sewer, like the good ol' days?
@@BlueRoseFaery My sister is Gen X and she once told me a story about "going outside to play" was her and her friend as teenagers huffing turpentine in the hay loft of an abandoned barn. If that's what Gen X was up to maybe that's why we don't hear from them anymore lol.
I'm pretty sure the only reason the morning dove carries so much nostalgia is because a lot of nostalgia reels/tiktoks used that sound making it seem like it was some extinct childhood bird associated with old malls and playgrounds and such meanwhile dat burb just chillin
gen alpha starts at 2013 but we're still bullying middle schoolers as if they aren't gen z, anyone born around 2010 to 2012 are catching shit from both sides rn
Im literally barely making it as gen z as a 2009er lmao. Haha but yeah I don’t feel the same as them as our grade easily slides in with the older ones with the majority not wearing makeup and following gen z trends.
I’m a Gen X raising an 11 year old Alpha daughter. You have described a lot of her friends with the crazy skin care junk. Fortunately we are raising her not to be an idiot and she thinks they’re dumb.
I hate generation discourse because it makes me feel like time is a flat circle but also this video made me wanna live to 100 bc hearing the mourning dove get called the "early 2000s bird" made me laugh harder than anything else. I petition for The Youth to notice a "2010s woah" in pop music next!
Mid 2000s hipster fashion/music was cool again for a second, with the whole “indie sleaze” moment. (Side note: no one ever said indie sleaze while it was happening.) It’s going to be about 10 seconds before The Lumineers and Edward Sharpe get a second wind and we start getting choruses of woahs.
tbh i think people just stopped noticing mourning dove calls as much because they like got jobs and lives??? these birds are literally everywhere, you don't miss the birds, you miss having time to listen to them
Why am I actually laughing at “sticking out your gyat for the rizzler?” it’s just so stupid and silly in an innocent way it’s unironically funny. I’m 35….
I had to find out what the lyrics meant What does stick your gyat out for the Rizzler mean? In this context, "gyatt" is used to mean "ass" only. "Rizz" comes from "charisma". As in charm, seductive ability, or game. "Rizzler" is one who has rizz. "Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler" means "Sticking out your ass for the one who has romantic charisma."
STICKING OUT YOUR GYATT FOR NERIZZLER SO BAU BAU YOU'RE SO BIBOO TAX I JUST WANNA BE YOUR SHIORI I just couldn't help myself. For context, this is the full lyrics to a parody of "Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler." It was made by Koseki Bijou (nicknamed Biboo), an English vtuber (virtual TH-camr) from the vtuber agency Hololive. For some reason she decided to make this silly parody about herself and her genmates in Hololive Advent
As a borderline Gen X/Millennial, I can safely say life is just the measurement of time between one ragebait and another, the internet just made it easier to define who to be mad at today.
Skibidi toilet is unironically really good once you get a few videos in. It becomes a really compelling sci fi arms race with impressively good non verbal storytelling, camera work and framing, and design.
7:34 thank you!!!! I find so many comments being like "oh go play with your cocomelon toys" to 12 year olds! i feel like a polaroid camera or something similar is much more appropriate for that age group and not just saying a 12 year old and a 4 year old like the same things!!
@@kirrb-dot-exe We have a bird feeder that they love, minus the two cardinals that try to bully them away. We need more kids in woodshop building tree houses for the birdies!
14:27 tbh this does remind me of when I visited South Korea for the first time and after a few days of not noticing any pigeons convinced my friend there weren’t any birds in Seoul.
Watching this just made me want to stop using the internet so much more than anything. None of this culture applies to anyone who isn’t also chronically online, I’d never be able to talk to my family or friends my own age about it lmao
This. 100% I'm a gen z 19 and I deleted my socials to focus on working two jobs and building a good future for myself. Once you're off the internet you realize how the world is interly separate from the online world. Nothing is new, I can't wait to see how the next gen is gonna be. They are born next year 2025. It's all the boomers fault for all out problems 😪 😕
@@heatherlamb7363 Credit to you! I was in a rural village so a lot of my interactions were online. A week within turning 18, I moved to Wales and made up for lost time, detaching from a lot of the internet stuff, instead socialising and working in person. Best move I ever made. Life seems to move at 5x the pace that way, so Godspeed to you !
13:29 this could be because of the internet making lot of shit go by quicker and general brain rot but this could also be because like a good majority of TikTok are teenagers or young adults
the mall talk is always funny to me cuz malls in my canadian city are perfectly fine lmao? it keeps being updated with fun things and there's always looots of people
There’s a mated pair of mourning doves that lives in my yard and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t genuinely make me nostalgic for my childhood when they start chatting
It’s sad because there are not many stores left directed to kids anymore.. this forces kids to instead look up to their idols and older people in their life and shop at stores they like such as Sephora
Same and I’m Gen Z they even said that all Gen alpha kids are in middle school reading at a third grade level 😭😭😭 so I mean some of us are kinda dumb to (Gen Z) 😭😭😂
Same, I’m a Gen Z lady and I’m an excellent speller but restaurant is a difficult word to spell. But unlike a lot of these Gen Alpha kids, I KNOW how to SPELL everything.
I think the mourning dove stuff is not that the doves ever left, but that we got too busy to listen to the birds. So since we never integrated later encounters into our memory, we just assumed they left.
@@Beautiful_Twisted_Fantasy Bro I'm literally 11 and I agree with you. How is skibidi toilet funnier than gummy bear? gummy bear is a stupid concept but it was done perfectly.
@@prod3keroif you're literally 11 you don't remember the pain of having that song in your ears on repeat for 8 hours straight The late 00s were a scary time
I think it's not fair to compare those, gummy bear wasn't made to be funny, it's a song first and a joke second. I think it'd be better to compare skibidi toilet to like, the lemonade stand duck or peanut butter jelly time, in which case skibidi toilet still wins for sure
Something that's really difficult to think about though is gen alpha IS growing up really fast. Puberty has shifted, starting earlier than it did for gen z, putting their teen/tween phases earlier. Im a dance teacher and some of my kids are posting relationship videos, talking about how good/bad they are at sex, posting about drinking AT TEN YEARS OLD (which i have discussed with parent's. They can hate me but I'd rather die than knowingly let them be unsafe). One of my twelve year olds went through a breakup and theyre terrified theyll never be able to love the same. I dont so much care for the discourse about kids being "cringe" because theyre KIDS, but i am worried and sad for them for how fast theyre trying to grow up Edit: I've been a dance teacher for 10 years now and have worked with kids from near identical demographics. I KNOW there will be case to case differences, but the area I'm in has barely changed. The behaviors in the, again, CHILDREN have drastically changed, though. Some of the kids I first taught are still with us, and they've noticed too. I know poverty has a correlational relationship in all of this because it's been studied over and over, but this is a direct comparison between kids from the same demographic. I'm so sorry some of you guys had to grow up faster than you should've needed to. I did too. But this is a whole different world now. My concern doesn't change just because it's happened before.
I knew a lot of kids that would drink when I was 10. Kids used to sneak beers and pens into middle school. A 12 year old being dramatic about a 1 month long relationship is the most 12 year old thing to ever happen. None of this is really new.
Like Santa5939 said, we start seeing these things more when we become teachers because now we're not only seeing the kids we hang around with, but all of them; tens of them at a time. But these behaviors have been around forever. Also: kudos for talking to the parents about the drinking. That's exactly the kind of responsibility one should have. Best wishes with your dancing classes. 💙
I'm an 41. I'm technically a Millennial but I consider myself a Gen Xer that went to therapy. I have a couple mourning doves outside my place. But I love my starlings. They seem to recognize me and say hello when I get into my car. I'm so glad that I didn't grow up with tiktok. It seems so exhausting to constantly be on the trends. When I grew up we had fads that lasted long enough to have knockoffs. Couldn't afford real LA gear light up shoes? don't worry, Payless has knockoffs. Hypercolor? Montgomery Wards has you covered with their no name labels. Need some Levi 501s? Well you can go to Venture where they sell irregular made Levis that have a misaligned stich on the inseam that no one will see for 1/4th the cost. And then you always have hand-me-downs from the older kid in your parent's friend circle. Got so many cool clothes that way.
I'm on the young end of Millennial (within a couple of years of the Gen Z cutoff, so I'm in that awkward cultural transitional phase) and totally agree with you. I never downloaded TikTok because keeping up with such a fast-moving trend cycle sounded exhausting. There isn't even enough time to get a grip on the current trend before everyone has moved on to the next one.
If people can identify as animals you can be gen x. Honestly I'm 45 and you're 41 so it would be silly for me to say " you wouldn't understand the world I grew up in" or whatever the hell gatekeepers say.
@@matthewjones2513 yeah I really think generations should be defined by what was popular in middle school or something not when you were born. I went to school with gen xers for almost the entire time.
I’m 44 and kind of in-between gen x and millennial. No label feels like it actually fits to be honest. I see these stereotypes and I’m like “huh, I had a large group of friends and none of us did any of this when we were younger.” 🤷♂️
That thing about the mourning dove call is so true though, I'm literally the generation that's supposed to be nostalgic for it and even i think its completely ridiculous, people act like they went extinct😭
6:21 On the topic of malls, one of the most surprising but mild "culture shock" (if you can even call it that) as an American who moved to BC, Canada, is that malls/mall culture is very alive and well here (at least in metro Vancouver). We go all the time and they are always busy. There's a decent to large sized one in practically every city surrounding Van. While the mall in my (not at all small) hometown in Colorado looked much like the photo you used. It has been sad and empty for years.
I will say, I'm in Texas and the two malls in my area are actually doing pretty good. They weren't a few years back, but I've definitely noticed an upswing in the crowds. When I went like a month ago there was even a convention going on making it packed. Granted, the oppressive heat most likely has something to do with it.
Same in Toronto. I wonder if the weather has something to do with it; Canadian cities are usually either too wet or too cold for a huge chunk of the year to hang outside, and travelling to a more consistently warm place requires crossing a border.
Actually the marker of Gen Alpha is they are totally involved in the new age of the internet, and that’s been integrated into their lives from the start. I was born on Y2K and I didn’t have daily internet access until about 10/11
That one tiktok at 11:43 with her slowly approaching the camera singing stickin out yo gyat for the rizzler made me laugh so hard and I don't understand why
nobodys lying though, i dont think they live everywhere in the US anymore in the pacific northwest i heard them every morning until like the end of august 2015 and then i never heard one again until i moved to the southwest (which was june 2023)
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Didn't know we were already in the next season of my favourite show, "Everyone Younger Than Me Is Stupid And Everyone Older Than Me Is Cringe"
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At least you can take solace in the fact that they too will have their "shit I'm getting old now" moment where they exist between youth and eldership.
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@@kylegonewildat least we have something in common!!
Ikr time flew by, it feels like it was just a year ago that people were talking about how ridiculous the millenial and gen z beef is....Oh wait it was a year ago.
I feel like insulting small children for being "cringe" MIGHT be the reason why they're attempting to act "older" with sephora and all of that.
I feel like the internet is mostly to blame, little kids definitely shouldn’t be on tiktok or social media of any kind.. Not only can it affect their minds but it’s dangerous.. I remember seeing TODDLERS WITH PACIFIERS making TikToks, it’s disturbing 🤢
Teens will always call kids cringe. I think it's their job now.
@@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl its been an age old tradition
Lol I don't agree with shaming kids for being cringe, we were ALL cringe.
The only difference between us and Gen Alpha is that the "cringe" is more public the internet.
The fact that this happens with every generation is so annoying. Every generation has beef with the generation before and after like let’s grow up guys.
I think the main problem is that we are growing up
I thought we were going to be different but no 😭 we are like any other pathetic generation that makes fun of the younger generation 😭 beefing with ten year olds
And every time the older generations is like "Ok but we have a good reason now, its not like when my grandpa made fun of me its totally different".
What do you expect when adults start beefing with literal fucking children. We are so desperate to retain our youth that we get salty over younger people moving into what was once our spaces. It's sad.
Lol only a Zoomer would say something so cringe.
The worst thing modern social media did was force teenagers and adults into the same spaces. Teens should be able to giggle about how cringe adults are in private and adults shouldn’t have to be forced to remember teenagers exist.
Facts. But can't have separation but the creeps will find their way in.
I was gonna disagree but then I noticed you're completely right
Wow. How have I never had this thought. You're so right.
similar to when Facebook went from college students only to everyone.
I love this take lol
I totally blame the parents for letting their kids ruin Sephora, but also... maybe Sephora should stop targeting children for makeup and skincare they don't need and then getting mad that they haven't childproofed their stores.
I don’t see that happening. Why would giant corporation only sell makeup to mom when they can sell to the whole family?
i fear the brands are targeting young kids not sephora
Targeting aside, it’s a parent’s responsibility to be aware of what products their child is consuming (or attempting to) and take appropriate action. Not everyone will take the same action and not every child will be interested in consuming a given product.
Literal children thinking they need skincare is so sad to me. You want to protect your skin, kids? WEAR SUNSCREEN. Parents? Put sunscreen on your kids! They'll hate you for it but thank you later.
You definitely need more than sunscreen after hitting puberty. That is when you start skincare, but you dont start using anti aging/wrinkling stuff like retinol until mid to late 20's when your face actually starts aging like that. Skin care is a broad spectrum, its important to introduce it to your kids at the appropriate age and also explain the uses of these creams, because at this point they are just throwing away money. I'm not sure if theres much science behind using these creams so early on, but I'm going to assume since its never been recommended to teens or very young adults, using things like retinol wouldn't make much of a difference and is likely just a waste of money@@shinyumbreon696
Basic skin scare should be started at puberty, this would be face wash and a moisturizer, maybe a mask every now and then.
Early 20's antioxidant seriums along with regular skincare routine
Late 20's anti aging ingredients like retinol.
You just have to use skin care appropriately for your age
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!" -Grandpa Simpson, 1996
Someone told me this quote for the first time when I was 16 and now I'm 26 and I been hearing it that whole 10 years 🥲
@bingonight1504 I'm 25 and we're still the young adult generation, so we control what 'it' is, just not for much longer 😩
@@laurenzak98 it'll happen to us!!!
lmfao I just thought it was a candid observation of life and the "grandpa simpson 1996" just made this circle of life feel complete
@@laurenzak98 but we do get to be in politics now so hey thats good :)
For anyone curious, the Mourning Dove is very much not extinct, but in fact one of the most abundant bird species in North America
Yeah I moved to a new place and I literally hear it all day long. I was like "what annoying bird is that I hear all the time." I didn't grow up with them so it's wild that the bird that annoys me all day is a nostalgic thing.
@@ReareaGirloh wow! Thats crazy because even though I had my childhood in another country, this bird could be heard in the morning when I would wake up. So I have nothing but sweet nostalgic memories whenever I hear it.
Let's all mourncore the Mourning Dove like we mourned emo
I'm from germany and I hear this bird call a lot
I literally hear this bird almost every day what are they on about “extinct” lol
Anytime I start to complain about something kids do I ask myself, "do I sound like a 1920s grandpa calling jazz music evil?" and then I usually settle down
It's sad that there isnt even Child Friendly websites anymore (Like girlgogames, club penguin, moshi monsters etc.) You can't even hang out at parks anymore. Having nowhere else to go, kids come into adult/teen spaces (social media) and pick up on trends/try and copy ADULTS (like what they wear, makeup ect.) So when ppl call them Cringe, it urges them on to try to fit in MORE 😮💨😮💨
At least coolmathgames still exists
RIP Neopets
There's still cool math games and math playground so I wouldn't get to worried. Those are still up and running and perfectly kid appropriate. I also think those Toca boca games a pretty alright for kids too
Why can't they hang out at parks? I'm from Russia, there are plenty parks here and I see kids there all the time. Is it different in other places? I don't get why they don't hang out outside anymore
@@MsHermyGranger I think that the US is notoriously not very friendly for pedestrians and it is difficult for kids to hang out at the park, library, and malls compared to a decade ago. I think many young children would love to hang out at a park or mall, but it's likely very difficult for them to get there on their own.
Behold! Aristotle bitching about the youth of Athens:
"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."
It cracks me up - people have been doing this as far back as ANCIENT GREECE, and honestly probably longer
There's an Assyrian tablet about that so it's been happening from the very beggining of civilization
@@pomaranczowaszarlotka Pretty sure some version of "kids these days" is painted on a cave wall somewhere.
@@pomaranczowaszarlotka That's a myth iirc
At least bro was poetic about it
he had a point though.
“The early 2000s bird” is crazy considering the mourning dove is like one of the most abundant birds in the US lmao
fr I hear that bird almost everyday in the morning or afternoon
hearing them say that almost gave me a headache 😭
To be fair, I relate to that nostalgia sentiment (not the "early 2000s bird" though that's crazy lol), but that's more because I spent a lot of time outside when I was a kid (not really voluntarily, my parents were just forcing us) so that sound is really implanted deep in my brain. And now, I live in a big city instead of the little town where I grew up, I have a job, I spend most of my free time watching tv shows, playing videogames or doing chores/cooking. So that sound, to me, is more of a reminder of simpler times where I didn't have any real responsibilities, where I could just spend hours doing nothing for days on end and my life wouldn't crumble because of it.
So yeah, I definitely relate to the nostalgic sentiment, but maybe not quite in the same way as these people. And I also understand where it's coming from and it's not because "they're extinct since 2020" (though from what I just looked up, the population seems to be decreasing a bit).
And the sound isn't even that unique. I'm in central Europe and the pigeons make the exact same sound lmao
Morning doves are pigeons 😂🤣
As an older Gen Z, the only beef I have with Alpha is how our schooling and parenting system has failed them
Cry about it Gen z lazy ass
not all gen alpha is failing like my entire class is goddamn smart
@@stockbro467 didnt know a 5 year old could get on youtube
@@anondimwitare you stupid?
@@anondimwitGen alpha are also 14 and 13
i don't wanna be beefing with kids. or adults. or old people. i don't wanna beef with anyone. i'm leaving for the mountains
As a millennial, I’ll just say I’m a vegetarian. GET IT FELLOW MILLENNIALS. Let’s get nostalgic for a band that was trash at the time with one great song.
I don’t want to beef with the young or old, I’m only going to beef with my own generation.
I’m gonna send myself to heaven cause of people cyber bullying my entire generation
@@Nutella456:/
HELL YEA BROTHER
and i love you for that. bring me with you plz
The fact that someone said “the early 2000s bird” makes me think that this fixation on generational differences, classification, and gatekeeping is just accelerating 😵💫
As someone that wants to learn biology, hearing them call the bird that made me physically cringe and feel kinda angry and sad for the bird. Poor birdie has a name that everyone forgot.
Yeah that cracked me up, like bruh that bird didn’t go instinct, you just grew up, lost some of your childlike sense of wonder (as everyone does), and got used to the sound 😅
The gender thing is partly to blame as well. Or a side effect of it. That being the fixation on labels and sub sections/categories. They are doing it in music and literally everything. Everything has to have a label and a sub category and a sub category under that and another sub category within that one.
that extinct bird that only existed between the year 2000 and 2004
"thats coquette" "thats cottagecore" "they're the same shirt" killed me
And yet, at the same time, once I got past the fact that they were the same shirt, I actually understood what she meant and she is not wrong lol
@@raven_moonshine39 I don't see the cottagecore imo. cottagecore is usually supposed to look a bit vintage, but the tight sleeves on this make it look too modern. as for coquette...idk coquette could be anything pink and cute
@@monbub What both have in common is lace and vaguely vintage and it's basically a peasant top ala the early 2000s with lace details. So, really it would depend on what you pair them with. Pair the brown one with a peasant skirt and a bandana in the hair, maybe add a vest: cottagecore. Pair the pink one with a white pleated skirt, gold jewelry or pearls or both, and bows: coquette.
@@raven_moonshine39 pair either one with baggy camo pants and you get "cool outsider teen girl" from the Disney channel in 2010
I'm a millenial, and I'm French, but honestly it's like... it makes sense for the pink one to be coquette and the other one more fitting for cottage core. I can't explain but like even in French and as a non-aesthetic term, "coquette" just feels a bit pink??? Like of course a coquette could wear any colour but pink would def be more coquette-ish because it's considered a girly colour nowadays and it makes sense??? This child is right!
as a fellow gen z, i quit tiktok and a variety of other social media some three months ago because i was doom scrolling and anxious all the time, and it’s genuinely improved my quality of life so much. i wouldn’t even say my screen time is overall reduced as i’ll still fill it with other media like streamers or tv or video games or hey, here on youtube, so it really speaks volumes to the type of content i was consuming on social media specifically.
I have done the same and I can totally relate to it. :)
i also quit tik tok and i don't regret it, but what i find so shocking is the fact that everyone acts so appalled when i tell them i don't have it, and will try and convince me to download it again!
I did the same for 2 years Idk what’s trending and idc I wear what I want I see what I like I get it trendy or not
I also just quit TikTok.
Nobody cares btw
I'm millennial, I used to call Gen X and Boomers cringe. Gen z then called me cringe. Gen Alpha is calling Gen z cringe.
Now ive just realised that everyone is cringe.
This is true. Best to own it.
Gen Z take's the cake, over 50+million videos on Tiktok of them faking illnesses has to be a generational L.
we all get old one day lol
@@Isaac-ul8yzunless we die before we get old enough
@@_azurejakeDude I've been saying this forever, each generation is leagues more cringe than the last and gen-z will not be immune
It is so strange teaching elementary school art and hearing literal second graders say things like “POV I’m doing art” “skibidi” “rizz”
that's kinda sad to me tbh. they can't even do art without relating it to the internet. it shows how strong of a grip the internet has on them.
Same here, I'm a teacher aide and I hear kids as young as 5 referencing stuff like skibidi toilet and the Grimace Shake
See but I definitely remember hearing Vine references and stuff as a gen-z elementary schooler. I get the sentiment but this isn't a new phenomena by any means
I think my humor is broken because why did "POV im doing art" kind of make me laugh.
@@evilmikuplushie4603 me too but it's not my fault it's fucking hilarious because why point that out when your whole lfe is from your POV
"the early 2000's bird" i am turning to dust. i work outside and i hear them every day (also redwing black birds) and it's comforting.
hell yeah, where i’m from in the midwest you’re never more than 10 feet away from a redwing black bird, they’re awesome
At my house I have a mourning dove's nest and they have babies every spring and summer, so I hear them literally all the time, day and night. Not a nostalgic sound for me hahaha
Can someone kindly explain the deal with the bird? What's the impact of the bird?
Am I old?!
For real like just go outside 🤣
there are 4 doves in my backyard right now 😂
The nostalgia for morning doves is crazy cause I legit hear them all the time. Idk if everyone moved or just doesn’t listen to the outdoors. It’s so irritating
They’re literally still here they haven’t gone extinct I just heard on this morning that’s a myth 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and I don’t know where the stereotype of kids don’t go out side anymore came from cause I’ll be first to debunk the the myth that kids don’t play outside anymore cause they in fact do. Kids still play outside in fact the only people that I see play outside are kids older people are the ones that aren’t going outside anymore not kids 😭😭😭😭
@@oluwasanmiorekunrin8882 Ik I said mourning doves are still around, and you’re right it’s probs more 20 year olds saying they aren’t. Maybe cause they don’t wake up as early as we did for school but I got one on my balcony rn and it’s 8am
@@oluwasanmiorekunrin8882 They’re acting like mourning doves have gone the way of the passenger pigeon.
I think what happened is the pandemic and lockdowns happened RIGHT when some of these people were becoming teenagers so to them "outside sounds = childhood".
As a younger millenial its interesting to me that all the "millenial cringe" things are specifically from the mid 2010s vine/tumblr era. Not stuff like Chuck Norris jokes or "wassssuppp!"
“Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!”
You're the man now, dog!
As a millennial...we deserve to be cringe-shamed for Lolcats & "I can haz cheeseburger" 🙈
Yeah I can’t really tell why. As a older Gen Z
WASUUUUUUUUUP
As a peak millennial (1990) watching this at my grandmas (1936) I think it’s funny that my grandma cannot comprehend even 5% of this video. Progress is wild.
Isn't peak millennial someone born in the middle of the generation?
@@vinnycastro7101Which would be around 1989-1991. Congrats on finding out what years Millennials were born! 🎉
@@vinnycastro7101 that is the middle???
@@Swaxol I think it's 87-89'
@@vinnycastro7101 Yea I guess technically that would be peak but I wouldn't really consider myself a "young millennial". Although I will say that I see a big difference between myself and some of my older cousins that were born in the early 80s.
THe mourning dove thing is less about "I remember" and more about "GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE"
I’m 42 and in the 90’s we’d made the “morning dove” sound with our hands.
"the early 2000s bird" is WILD i literally have a mourning dove nesting outside my bedroom window
As a millenial idk what the big deal is about skibidi toilet. "omg this is so weird and incomprehensible!!!!!!!" Literally it's no different than shit you could find in a GMod video from like 15 years ago like ??????
I'm gen alpha (11) and I don't watch skibidi toilet but based off of the screenshots I guess it is not different from the older Gmod videos. they're basically the same.
could actually just be from a GMod Idiot Box video I missed
Cyclic shitposting?
i'm a gen z and we had these weird comedy videos when i was in middle school/high school like potato knishes and very odd/dorky gaming edits idk what's so different about this one honestly
its exactly like those videos because it uses the same engine and 3d models
There are mourning doves that live in my backyard. They made a nest and had a baby in my marigolds last year. Just wanted to share that because it still makes me happy. I can hear their coos right now
This is really nice and made me smile, thank you! ♥
My type of person 🕊️ 😊
I like how the one person thought the jeans are what made the look "old money" and not the tied around, over priced, sweater.
THIS ITS THE SWEATER NOTHING ELSE
A thneed! Everyone needs a thneed 😌
Gen X is not generally mocking other generations (with a few loud weird exceptions, and they seem to be the older end of Gen X), but you nailed it on what we were considered "bad" for. In fourth grade my school bus driver saw I had a D&D book, stopped the bus on the side of the road and called the police who picked me up. The police were cool, and probably slightly confused. Later my parents picked me up from the police station and tried to explain to me that some adults are not very understanding of the world. The book was the AD&D Player's Manual, I think, which my parents bought me for Christmas. The one with the wizard with the red hood on the front, which is really not super aggressive art or anything.
Mages wearing red must perfectly toe the line between Satanic Panic and the Red Scare I guess
@BeatricesLibraryYep. To be fair, the news was full of stories about the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons, and there were parents groups similar to the groups against drunk driving. There was even a movie starring a young Tom Hanks about the dangers of roleplaying.
I bet when Gen Alpha is older they’ll be fighting with the younger generation too
It’s such an old grudge that Socrates wrote about it!
It’s guaranteed
I feel like that was the point of the video
@@tehbeernerd this generational war thing is happening every generation, not surprised socrates wrote about it
I feel like you missed the whole intent of the video when you say you have to 'bet.'
I worked as a server for years and now am a therapist. The amount of variety I see in people across all generations has cemented the fact that online culture is not a true reflection of people in real life. Yes there are correlations, but an individual’s opinion on ANYTHING can be influenced by their personal experiences. We find consistencies in studies to try to help those who belong to a specific group, but getting to know the individual through conversation and time I believe is respectful in my practice.
Not everyone has the time to do that though and if it can be monetized, it will be pushed.
I try to get a similar message across to people I know in person, especially my friends. It's a bit draining hearing them complain about "kids these days" while we're only in our early 20s. I've met many people older than me who don't fit the stereotypes attached to their age and younger people who also don't fit into the generational "box". Like people are individuals not statistics, we should treat them as such. But we know how the internet like to operates lol
Totally. The generational thing doesn't really work for me, because I'm not American. I grew up in a very small country with its own media and culture and etc and now as an adult live in the western world. That American millennial/ Gen z/ Gen alpha experience is definitely not universal. Online, being a millennial means like Disney movies, Harry potter, nickelodeon, Ashley tisdale... Idk, but all things that I didn't really grow up with lol
This comment should gotten more likes, cause it’s factual. But... it’s not trendy to have critical thinking. Not sure it’ll ever will based upon real life.
@@kyramoonrise9064 ofc it's not, because it's much more tendier to spout negative stereotypes and rigid black-and-white statements of an entire group and just follow the herd. It's never been trendy to question and challenge the status quo.
It does absolutely break my heart that this amalgamation of occurrences from businesses closing due to covid, to how games have evolved led to tweens not having a space to be independent while still having a safety net like what third spaces provided.
Yeah, when you put it that way, it's no wonder they turn to social media
I think a bigger problem than social media in total is the algorithm-ification of social media. In the early days of Myspace/Facebook, you'd only see things from your circle of peers and groups you specifically chose to see. Early social media was in a way an extension of the third places; you'd meet people IRL and friend them on FB so you could see what they were up to at other times. Now, everyone of all ages is getting shown random stuff geared to people of all ages completely disconnected from their real-world experiences.
I used to be a huge techno-optimist, a fan of the possibilities of the internet, and have been trying to figure out where it's all gone wrong and I'm starting to think a big part is the depersonalization of social media. I think having the internet in your pocket at all times is also part of the problem, but that seems a little less connected to the issue at hand.
@@asset4802i turn to social media because my parents never let me go anywhere without them, even though I am closer to being 18 than I am to being a tween. It sucks hanging out with my friends and not being able to laugh at jokes they make because my mom thinks they are inappropriate, so I basically have no social life because of my parents. At least online my parents aren't completely watching over me at all times
Libraries still exist
@@KellyBergamini you can’t really hang out at libraries. Any more than like three people are going to get shooed away for being disruptive.
The mourning dove being extinct shit is so crazy to me 💀💀 we have a whole ass flock in our neighborhood
All these names for aesthetics used to just be key words to look up outfits and shit on Pinterest
Wait that makes so much sense- how did I not realize that??
I thought that's what it was BRUH
Wdym used to, it still is
@@______________url yeah, it was more widely known as keywords for Pinterest, but now it isn’t treated like that all time
fr that's all they are and should be. but people aspire to live like an aesthetic, which is impossible.
I recently read a book that was written in the late eighteenth century, and in that book the narrator was complaining about the entitled youths. Some things never change, and complaining about the younger generation is one of them!
It's the rules
what book was it?
THANK YOU for pointing out the '2000s bird'...I constantly come across those 'childhood nostalgia' videos and it's just grass and trees and mourning doves. it kinda makes me sad that gen z is so stuck inside they never hear the birds.
I honestly feel like gen Z shitting on gen alpha is just young adults with their frontal cortex developed realizing how embarrassing we were as children and projecting onto gen alpha
We are all bags of meat floating in cosmic soup, it’s so weird to see “things have changed and I will make fun of it” every few years
Lexi spotted in the wild! 💜
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It's not weird at all, we are intelligent so our evolution of social constructs accelerates
Oh hi lexi
Yea it's all subjective and mean nothing. We should all just let everyone do anything they want, because, really, literally nothing matters is any way, shape, or form
Gen alpha: you are grandma
Genz: im literally 15yrs old
as a 2009 born, i 100% agree with you
@@jasonbefast get your prehistoric ahh out of here unc💀
wdym 2009 ppl are 15 youre not real
@@grammy_hnng whatever you say unc 😭💀🙏
I'm 21. 😔 time is flying way too fast.
(2003)
"the early 00s bird" is a crazy sentence, bro I still hear morning doves EVERYDAY 💀
It’s kinda weird that there’s a feedback loop with the gen alpha brainrot humour, cus gen z will make memes about brainrot and then gen alpha will see them but miss the irony, find it funny and just feed into it
Exactly it should be gen z brain rot
Dfuqboom is from Millennia
@@jacktheripper2408 proof?
@@Warriortep makes tf2 sfm animations i think. Its the same sfm we see from 2000s and now its coming back again
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's a little bewildered of the nostalgia over a bird that STILL exists. I'd understand if it had maybe gone extinct or something, but I hear this little guy singing literally every day by my house, especially as it's warming up now lmao.
I know it's probably the nostalgia for when they were a kid/younger and playing outside all the time, but the people saying they haven't heard one in so long;
1) It was just winter not to long ago for some of us. They were probably migrated somewhere else or hibernating
and/or
2) they don't live in the area where this bird is native.
If you're missing being outside as a kid and enjoying the outdoors, and being able to hear this bird as you do so maybe start going outside more. I go outside every chance I can, walking around big forested national parks. Get out of the city and go into nature for a little.
I'm a birder and actively follow migration patterns and population stats. The mourning dove is DEFINITELY NOT endangered. Just open your windows! Also they don't migrate but they call the most during warm months!
@@side_walker_shocker thanks for the tidbit of knowledge! That's an awesome hobby. I've been hearing them cooing again lately and it's such a nice sound, reminds me of warm summer days
@@leadpencil-223 it's such an amazing sound ❤️ and they're such funny birds!
BTW if you ID a bird by sound, you're already a birder!
Weirdly, I see morning doves in my back yard all of the time and I NEVER hear them. So I don't know what that's about
@@theelodown34 Maybe they have stage fright
there is a mourning dove LITERALLY MAKING NOISE AS I TYPE they havent gone anywhere lol
I mean due to climate change and human expansion their populations have gotten smaller over time so it makes sense less people have heard them.
@@456MrPeople I think it's mostly adults moving into cities/larger towns where the mourning doves aren't as common compared to suburbs
that's a pigeon
@@MartianPink YOURE A PIGEON!!!
I was just gonna say there are so many mourning doves at my house
The fact that there are 10 year olds buying stuff from Sephora in the first place is ridiculous
When I was a kid the only disgusting cocktails we mixed were charcoal saltpeter and sulfur🤪
I'm an 11 year old idk what sephora is
@@prod3kero well believe it or not you are a 3 dimensional human being who is more than some stereotype
@@AdachiTrevelyan006 I know humans are 3d but what is sephora? is that like some store like Dior
@@prod3kero yes
6:25 listen girl i am very into chuck e cheese's animatronics / lore and the one video i watch not related to that in a hour has to have this jumpscare im gonna cry
9:37 the rebuttal just being "spell restaurant" actually took me out
I just asked my son to spell it and he totally got lost in the sauce after res then he tried to tell me in French the t is silent so that's why he didn't say it... child. He's so smart and dumb at the same time.
@@cinnamonsparrowdesignsthe last t really is silent, he is not wrong and it's amazing 😭
Restaurant
Okay good, I can spell it
Just checking
‘Fashion illiterate’ i audibly shouted ‘bro’ because that is the coldest shirt i’ve ever seen
oh my god the mourning dove thing i swear "where did they go, they're all extinct now" they are literally least concern on the conservation scale and widespread across the US. just go outside. i hear them all the time, and see em all the time lmao
im not sure where you live, but i lived in oregon until 2023 and from 2015-2023 i didnt hear them AT ALL, they disappeared from the area at least, i genuinely hadnt heard one in so long that i thought they didnt exist anymore
it wasnt til i moved to the southwest that i finally heard one again for the first time..
@@buddytheratmore7540that's interesting. do you think they might have migrated? maybe due to pollution or a lack of food
@@buddytheratmore7540 i think you live in kind of the tail end of their breeding range, so they might be seasonal for you
@ sephora moms: I'm triggered. just tell your kid no. That's it. just say no. "no, we're not buying that crap." that's all you have to do. Grown adults are TERRIFIED of offending their 8 year olds.
all the kids in my class try to start beef with me
like "oh haha your ao ugly"
ok.
"haha your so weird grow up"
im more mature than you are
"haha your so stupid"
dude i have atraight A's
"haha nobody likes you"
good nobody deserves me anyways
"ew you draw too much"
good i like drawing
like they constantly try to prod at my emotions
and i just dont care ._.
Things really started to go downhill when corporate america realized the infinite money glitch that is nostalgia
Late 1980s. A movie, "The Big Chill", was the start of it in earnest.
Been happening for years. In the early 2000s it was 70s nostalgia. The 2010s wanted to go back to the 80s, now in the 2020s everyone is nostalgic for the 1990s. Just wait a decade and people will be talking about the 30th anniversary of the cinematic masterpiece Shrek 2. Or a decade after that when we're all reminiscing about the pandemic through rose tinted glasses
As a crusty 30 something beyond his cultural relevance … I don’t remember thinking about Gen Z this much when I was literally 20 years old. That’s the real sign of us all being super online. There wasn’t Millennial v Zoomer discourse in 2010 to 2015. People born after 1997 had to actually get out of high school before I was really seeing “Those Millennials are so cringe for still talking about their Hogwarts House at 33” jokes. Gen Alpha is in freaking middle school and there is already a generational clash with Gen Z. Is Gen Alpha going to be battling Gen Beta or whatever we decide to call them before they are even out of Elementary School? WTF?
Honestly I'm the same age as you, well I'm 28 which makes me a millennial. But you're right nobody gave a crap about these stupid labels UNTIL recently. I hate it. Someone born a year after me have called me old just because I'm "not Gen z". People are so stupid now
@@fuosdi6410 years ago, I specifically remember Zoomers kind of being written off in terms of “They aren’t in the work force yet so nobody is writing think pieces about them.” That is how I thought it would be with Gen Alpha too.
But Gen Alpha middle schoolers can still have an online presence that Zoomers can notice & react to even though they are too young to even have a job at the mall, because they were born in 2011.
I absolutely did not absorb this level of Generation Wars discourse when I was in middle school. I had to become an actual adult for AVACADO TOAST to begin. Generational labels were being put on 2007 kids for making “the cake is a lie” jokes
I'm glad I'm not going crazy, I didn't see any of this happen until relatively recently either.
This is exactly what I was thinking during this whole video. I didn't even acknowledge or think about the generation behind me until I was like a full grown adult, and realized "oh, you're not like... old yet. oh well just give it a few years you'll catch up or whatever" it's wild to me how much people care about this fake generation nonsense. I don't even think about generations, I just think in terms of "people who are currently my age" "people who are currently teenagers" "people who are currently children" in 20 years there will still be teenagers and children. and they will still be doing stupid shit because they're teenagers and children, not because of whatever "generation" they're in
@@uhpkkim I think it will matter that Gen Alpha went through Covid super young are the first generation to be born entirely post smart phone and post social media. That is going to make them different from Zoomers & Millennials.
But they are just ****ing kids. Back in the day, we were just ****ing kids too.
The generational battle comes from a lack of sense of community. Younger generations don't have spaces or activities that allows them to create real bonds with peers outside of the internet and social media, so they turn to something like your birth year to feel a part of something. And when you create community part of it is beefing with others. Millennials, and some older gen z, had subcultures. The same age group of people separated by music, clothing, and styles. Nowadays culture is very homogenized, so they beef with other groups that aren't part of their group, ei other gens.
Most people don't realize that before "boomers" which are named for a baby boom after the end of WW2, most weren't named or were named by boomers. Then, because their children didn't want to suck the corporate nipple we were deemed generation X: brand less and not productive to society. After which came gen Y, or afterwards named Millennials by....you guessed it Baby Boomers. Divide and conquer....and who is running this country?!?!
100%
my dad got called a hippie by grown ass adults because he had long hair in the 70s. oldheads have always beefed with the kids of the day because they lowkey resent their teenage self they see reflected in the modern youth and they resent that theyre ageing. a sense of community *would* be helpful; inter-generational community building is as useful as feeling in community with your own cohort.
Dude.. this is it 2/13/2030 it’s decided omfg
@@Vexxa_ Did they use hippie as an insult? Lol
Your friendly’s reference was so specific yet so accurate. And it brought back memories I forgot existed lol. As someone who grew up in the north and now lives in the south I miss friendlys. The nostalgia of it is chef’s kiss
As a Bulgarian man this is the most American content I consume online and I love it, keep it up
now i simply must know, what is Bulgarian social media like compared to American?
@@kelsey5093 If you ignore the channels which try to copy Western trends (e.g. I recently saw a group of guys copying The Sidemen), I would say Bulgarian social media is very creative and culturally specific. A lot of the humour can't be translated well in other languages, and sometimes even requires specific knowledge of events and how things generally work within the country.
@@rumenkanchev
No offence but I don’t believe that.
I’d say that there’s probably great Bulgarian content just as you described but that’s probably just the Bulgarian content you interact with.
It’s always the same: if you want a certain music genre in a specific language - you’ll find it, if you want a specific “social media genre” in a specific language - you’ll find it.
Sure there are differences but I’d say they’re not that big nowadays on the internet ^^
Though I’m not Bulgarian so I’ve never seen Bulgarian videos ^^ but I’m not from the us either
Bro really trying to be the expert on Bulgarian content when he has never seen it and is not even from the country 💀 @@Snowsda
@@raifparker3990 sure I’m the expert ^^ -it’s just always the same
Ofc there are some general differences but overall you’ll see most content in any language
"Why don't kids go outside anymore?"
The outside they built: polluted car infested wasteland
Trash parents raising kids in some polluted city
right?? no third places, playgrounds either non existent or dirty and dangerous. what are kids supposed to do outside? shoplift and smoke cigarettes in the sewer, like the good ol' days?
@alicefullofice if this is sarcasm its phenomenal. Smoking cigs in the sewer sounds so gross.
@@alicefullofice It wasn't exactly a sewer but my friends and I totally hung out in the drainage culvert pipe thing sometimes. We were the weird kids
@@BlueRoseFaery My sister is Gen X and she once told me a story about "going outside to play" was her and her friend as teenagers huffing turpentine in the hay loft of an abandoned barn. If that's what Gen X was up to maybe that's why we don't hear from them anymore lol.
I'm pretty sure the only reason the morning dove carries so much nostalgia is because a lot of nostalgia reels/tiktoks used that sound making it seem like it was some extinct childhood bird associated with old malls and playgrounds and such meanwhile dat burb just chillin
gen alpha starts at 2013 but we're still bullying middle schoolers as if they aren't gen z, anyone born around 2010 to 2012 are catching shit from both sides rn
Welcome to the generational shift. The people in the middle get caught in the crossfire. Same thing happened for those born '95-'99ish
Im literally barely making it as gen z as a 2009er lmao.
Haha but yeah I don’t feel the same as them as our grade easily slides in with the older ones with the majority not wearing makeup and following gen z trends.
I'd like to consider myself as Gen Z as a person born in 2011 but it's so over the place that idek what to do
I’m a Gen X raising an 11 year old Alpha daughter. You have described a lot of her friends with the crazy skin care junk. Fortunately we are raising her not to be an idiot and she thinks they’re dumb.
Good luck
I tip my hat to you!
I hate generation discourse because it makes me feel like time is a flat circle but also this video made me wanna live to 100 bc hearing the mourning dove get called the "early 2000s bird" made me laugh harder than anything else. I petition for The Youth to notice a "2010s woah" in pop music next!
Mid 2000s hipster fashion/music was cool again for a second, with the whole “indie sleaze” moment. (Side note: no one ever said indie sleaze while it was happening.)
It’s going to be about 10 seconds before The Lumineers and Edward Sharpe get a second wind and we start getting choruses of woahs.
tbh i think people just stopped noticing mourning dove calls as much because they like got jobs and lives??? these birds are literally everywhere, you don't miss the birds, you miss having time to listen to them
Why am I actually laughing at “sticking out your gyat for the rizzler?” it’s just so stupid and silly in an innocent way it’s unironically funny. I’m 35….
I'm in my mid 40's and I literally have no idea what I means.
its just funny don't be a hater just because its new
I had to find out what the lyrics meant
What does stick your gyat out for the Rizzler mean?
In this context, "gyatt" is used to mean "ass" only. "Rizz" comes from "charisma". As in charm, seductive ability, or game. "Rizzler" is one who has rizz. "Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler" means "Sticking out your ass for the one who has romantic charisma."
STICKING OUT YOUR GYATT FOR NERIZZLER
SO BAU BAU
YOU'RE SO BIBOO TAX
I JUST WANNA BE YOUR SHIORI
I just couldn't help myself. For context, this is the full lyrics to a parody of "Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler." It was made by Koseki Bijou (nicknamed Biboo), an English vtuber (virtual TH-camr) from the vtuber agency Hololive. For some reason she decided to make this silly parody about herself and her genmates in Hololive Advent
@@belstar1128 how am I being a hater? I said it’s unironically funny.
whenever i see something about how mourning doves are 2000s birds i laugh so hard like y'all are gatekeeping birds now
Climate change gate kept tho time is cruel
As a borderline Gen X/Millennial, I can safely say life is just the measurement of time between one ragebait and another, the internet just made it easier to define who to be mad at today.
I love that Gen X is like hiding in the shadows eating popcorn and watching all the other generations fight.
Skibidi toilet is unironically really good once you get a few videos in. It becomes a really compelling sci fi arms race with impressively good non verbal storytelling, camera work and framing, and design.
7:34 thank you!!!! I find so many comments being like "oh go play with your cocomelon toys" to 12 year olds! i feel like a polaroid camera or something similar is much more appropriate for that age group and not just saying a 12 year old and a 4 year old like the same things!!
Definitely! 14 year old Gen Alpha here who is starting high school, so don't treat me like a toddler!
You’re welcome
They're so overstimulated from TikTok that they don't even hear the call of a Morning Dove around them anymore
Tangent, but i think it’s called mourning dove. I love those guys, they sound so cool!
@@kirrb-dot-exe We have a bird feeder that they love, minus the two cardinals that try to bully them away. We need more kids in woodshop building tree houses for the birdies!
You mean the Mourning Dove?
@@kirrb-dot-exeit is yeah!
Ah, a "gen alpha bad" comment under a video that is about how stupid this generational beef if. The irony...
14:27 tbh this does remind me of when I visited South Korea for the first time and after a few days of not noticing any pigeons convinced my friend there weren’t any birds in Seoul.
Watching this just made me want to stop using the internet so much more than anything. None of this culture applies to anyone who isn’t also chronically online, I’d never be able to talk to my family or friends my own age about it lmao
This. 100% I'm a gen z 19 and I deleted my socials to focus on working two jobs and building a good future for myself. Once you're off the internet you realize how the world is interly separate from the online world. Nothing is new, I can't wait to see how the next gen is gonna be. They are born next year 2025. It's all the boomers fault for all out problems 😪 😕
@@heatherlamb7363 Credit to you! I was in a rural village so a lot of my interactions were online. A week within turning 18, I moved to Wales and made up for lost time, detaching from a lot of the internet stuff, instead socialising and working in person. Best move I ever made. Life seems to move at 5x the pace that way, so Godspeed to you !
13:29 this could be because of the internet making lot of shit go by quicker and general brain rot but this could also be because like a good majority of TikTok are teenagers or young adults
I love when Gabi Belle yaps about something absolutely random.
the mall talk is always funny to me cuz malls in my canadian city are perfectly fine lmao? it keeps being updated with fun things and there's always looots of people
This video made me feel particularly old. You owe me a TV dinner, at least, for putting me through this 😢
I'm a Gen X, so, yea.
@@mr.blonde5344same [old man yelling at cloud]
An original soul calibur 2 t-shirt is a hell of a flex.
Ooh good spot, I hadn’t noticed that
that’s what i’m sayinngg 😭
Funniest part is Gen X being ignored completely, they even ignore themselves
Gen X is just spectating.
Gen X is the middle child
the X stands for "crossing" and that's why they blend in. and they have hank green, which is an easy win in every situation
Am gen X can confirm. This shit is all just hilarious
Gen x is becoming the new boomers though and they’re beefing with everyone younger. Millennials are the new Gen x
13:59 I live in australia so we don't have those here, yet I still feel nostalgic for the sound because of old modded minecraft LOL
Tride?
There’s a mated pair of mourning doves that lives in my yard and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t genuinely make me nostalgic for my childhood when they start chatting
14:58 I hear mourning doves outside my house everyday, I think it’s just group think like go outside
It’s sad because there are not many stores left directed to kids anymore.. this forces kids to instead look up to their idols and older people in their life and shop at stores they like such as Sephora
For real we need to bring back stores like limited too which were targeted at tweens, not kids or fully teens. This like doesn't exist anymore.
Why do people think they’re dropping a bombshell when they say 7 year olds can’t spell restaurant. Like ok, could you when you were their age?
I mean yes BUT 7 year olds need better education it’s not their fault😋
10:53 GenX here....we have always been ignored. Please keep ignoring us. We do not wish to be perceived.
You briefly mentioned Third Spaces in this video, and I think that's a really good idea for a future video!
Fellow youtuber Elliot Sang recently did a video about third spaces
@@elizabethyow1165 I'll check that out right now!
Pointless generational yapping battle part 100000
I'm here for it
To be fair to Gen Alpha, I'm almost 30 and I can't consistently spell restaurant off the top of my head either
Same and I’m Gen Z they even said that all Gen alpha kids are in middle school reading at a third grade level 😭😭😭 so I mean some of us are kinda dumb to (Gen Z) 😭😭😂
Its a very easy word
@@oluwasanmiorekunrin8882 too*
Same, I’m a Gen Z lady and I’m an excellent speller but restaurant is a difficult word to spell. But unlike a lot of these Gen Alpha kids, I KNOW how to SPELL everything.
@@niabelizaire3596Born in 2011 and I know how to read, write and spell. I don't know any Gen Alphas who are over 6-7 years old that can't read
I think the mourning dove stuff is not that the doves ever left, but that we got too busy to listen to the birds. So since we never integrated later encounters into our memory, we just assumed they left.
14:09 BRO EARLY 2000’s BIRD?? I SEE THEM EVERY DAY TF YOU MEAN 😭😭😭😂
In spring in Mexico you can still hear them all the time until night
the roomie call out is crazy
8:43
I haven't heard the clean version in months. All I can remember now is "Sticking out your gyatt for nerizzler"
3:23 "why do you let them define words" something you could only have a problem with if you're an incredibly controlling person
Skibidi toilet is funnier than gummy bear could ever be in a thousand years I could go my entire life without remembering that bear again
What r u talking about bro, you clearly didn't look for the gummy bear album in stores on November 13th
@@Beautiful_Twisted_Fantasy Bro I'm literally 11 and I agree with you. How is skibidi toilet funnier than gummy bear? gummy bear is a stupid concept but it was done perfectly.
@@prod3keroif you're literally 11 you don't remember the pain of having that song in your ears on repeat for 8 hours straight
The late 00s were a scary time
@@WatashiMachineFullCycle Even if I wasn't 11, I'd still prefer Gummy bear
I think it's not fair to compare those, gummy bear wasn't made to be funny, it's a song first and a joke second. I think it'd be better to compare skibidi toilet to like, the lemonade stand duck or peanut butter jelly time, in which case skibidi toilet still wins for sure
Something that's really difficult to think about though is gen alpha IS growing up really fast. Puberty has shifted, starting earlier than it did for gen z, putting their teen/tween phases earlier. Im a dance teacher and some of my kids are posting relationship videos, talking about how good/bad they are at sex, posting about drinking AT TEN YEARS OLD (which i have discussed with parent's. They can hate me but I'd rather die than knowingly let them be unsafe). One of my twelve year olds went through a breakup and theyre terrified theyll never be able to love the same. I dont so much care for the discourse about kids being "cringe" because theyre KIDS, but i am worried and sad for them for how fast theyre trying to grow up
Edit: I've been a dance teacher for 10 years now and have worked with kids from near identical demographics. I KNOW there will be case to case differences, but the area I'm in has barely changed. The behaviors in the, again, CHILDREN have drastically changed, though. Some of the kids I first taught are still with us, and they've noticed too. I know poverty has a correlational relationship in all of this because it's been studied over and over, but this is a direct comparison between kids from the same demographic. I'm so sorry some of you guys had to grow up faster than you should've needed to. I did too. But this is a whole different world now. My concern doesn't change just because it's happened before.
All of these factors have ruined them in the classrooms. Grade averages are wayyy down.
I see that too. 9 year olds are rushing into puberty like they're late and it's equally sad and disturbing
I knew a lot of kids that would drink when I was 10. Kids used to sneak beers and pens into middle school. A 12 year old being dramatic about a 1 month long relationship is the most 12 year old thing to ever happen. None of this is really new.
Cap
Like Santa5939 said, we start seeing these things more when we become teachers because now we're not only seeing the kids we hang around with, but all of them; tens of them at a time. But these behaviors have been around forever. Also: kudos for talking to the parents about the drinking. That's exactly the kind of responsibility one should have. Best wishes with your dancing classes. 💙
MOURNING DOVES HAVE NOT GONE EXTINCT LMFAOOO WHAT WAS THAT ONE WOMAN YAPPING ABOUT WHJDJEJRKE
I'm an 41. I'm technically a Millennial but I consider myself a Gen Xer that went to therapy. I have a couple mourning doves outside my place. But I love my starlings. They seem to recognize me and say hello when I get into my car. I'm so glad that I didn't grow up with tiktok. It seems so exhausting to constantly be on the trends. When I grew up we had fads that lasted long enough to have knockoffs. Couldn't afford real LA gear light up shoes? don't worry, Payless has knockoffs. Hypercolor? Montgomery Wards has you covered with their no name labels. Need some Levi 501s? Well you can go to Venture where they sell irregular made Levis that have a misaligned stich on the inseam that no one will see for 1/4th the cost.
And then you always have hand-me-downs from the older kid in your parent's friend circle. Got so many cool clothes that way.
I'm on the young end of Millennial (within a couple of years of the Gen Z cutoff, so I'm in that awkward cultural transitional phase) and totally agree with you. I never downloaded TikTok because keeping up with such a fast-moving trend cycle sounded exhausting. There isn't even enough time to get a grip on the current trend before everyone has moved on to the next one.
If people can identify as animals you can be gen x. Honestly I'm 45 and you're 41 so it would be silly for me to say " you wouldn't understand the world I grew up in" or whatever the hell gatekeepers say.
@@matthewjones2513 yeah I really think generations should be defined by what was popular in middle school or something not when you were born. I went to school with gen xers for almost the entire time.
I’m 44 and kind of in-between gen x and millennial. No label feels like it actually fits to be honest. I see these stereotypes and I’m like “huh, I had a large group of friends and none of us did any of this when we were younger.” 🤷♂️
@@matthewjones2513 I’m 44. We just don’t belong any group. Haha
That thing about the mourning dove call is so true though, I'm literally the generation that's supposed to be nostalgic for it and even i think its completely ridiculous, people act like they went extinct😭
I hear it every day, and it gets to be so annoying I have to close my window sometimes! Mourning doves aren’t even close to extinct lol
only 1880's kids will remember the passenger pigeon 😔
Only the 67.000.000s BCE kids will remember the pteranodon screeches 😔
they're literally one of the most abundant birds on the continent according to pretty much every recent bird survey lmao
6:21 On the topic of malls, one of the most surprising but mild "culture shock" (if you can even call it that) as an American who moved to BC, Canada, is that malls/mall culture is very alive and well here (at least in metro Vancouver). We go all the time and they are always busy. There's a decent to large sized one in practically every city surrounding Van. While the mall in my (not at all small) hometown in Colorado looked much like the photo you used. It has been sad and empty for years.
I will say, I'm in Texas and the two malls in my area are actually doing pretty good. They weren't a few years back, but I've definitely noticed an upswing in the crowds. When I went like a month ago there was even a convention going on making it packed. Granted, the oppressive heat most likely has something to do with it.
Same in Toronto. I wonder if the weather has something to do with it; Canadian cities are usually either too wet or too cold for a huge chunk of the year to hang outside, and travelling to a more consistently warm place requires crossing a border.
“I can’t remember the last time I heard a mourning dove” my friend please go outside and find a tree, I’m sure there’s one chilling in there
Millennials grew up with technology and the internet.
Gen-Z grew up on the internet.
Gen-Alpha is growing up on just 2 websites: TH-cam and Tiktok.
I do not have problem with generations, i only have problem with their mega tremendous every increasing population. I believe in live and let live.
I feel like this is true
That's mainly like late gen alpha. My friend is 12 and when he was like 4 he grew up on his dads PS2
Actually the marker of Gen Alpha is they are totally involved in the new age of the internet, and that’s been integrated into their lives from the start. I was born on Y2K and I didn’t have daily internet access until about 10/11
As someone who made websites for fun when I was a child, this is truth, but so fucking SAD.
That one tiktok at 11:43 with her slowly approaching the camera singing stickin out yo gyat for the rizzler made me laugh so hard and I don't understand why
No but actually lmao
14:15 “Haven’t heard it in years” girly I hear that bird every morning stop lying 💀
nobodys lying though, i dont think they live everywhere in the US anymore
in the pacific northwest i heard them every morning until like the end of august 2015
and then i never heard one again until i moved to the southwest (which was june 2023)
@@buddytheratmore7540 oh ok, sorry
I don’t see snails anymore
@@sleeparalala me neither. I see their shells though
@@buddytheratmore7540 they have never lived everywhere in the us, they travel to different places for migrational purposes and nesting purposes
“todays kids will never know the impact” it’s a bird call 😭