I can’t imagine growing up in these times people trying to constantly brainwash you telling you boys can be girls and girls can be boys that’s enough right there to ruin generations of kids.
I hate people who downplay what people have gone through. Every generation has had its rough patches. We shouldn’t have to compete who went through worse.
In full agreement, Especially since there are those actively working behind the scenes to create issues for each generation. Incrementally enough to pit us all against each other in order to dismantle the family. It's about power, control, and money.
I mean there is worse alot of people especially in this comment section are very sensitive and think they have it hard. Generations in WW2 etc had it much worse
@trashcan6751 And some have lived more like older ages. Trying to share wisdom. Few have hauled their own water to heat it for baths and dishes, make their own clothes. Each generation has had its struggles and all of us struggle to sone degree. It's not about who has it worse. There are those in background varying to divide us on every issue and level possible to their advantage. Done stagetically each generation to get them against each other and destroy family. Many live in luxury without realizing and take for granted to much time to participate in nonsense. The further we go from growing our own food and learning how to do these things the more dependant we are and we forget more and more each generation.
as a gen z person, i think thats the single handedly biggest issue we are going through, is alot of our parents compare their struggles over ours. Ive seen many many parents now whos children srent very happy because their parents are also miserable, so it just chain reacts down the line, making pur ability to handle all the extra bs around us harder. No hate to anyone btw, my message is basically that we shouldn't be comparing our pains, because that in itself is just causing even greater pain for the younger generations, and i dont want that to spiral even further than its already went
Two things: Don't compare suffering, it's not some kind of contest. Don't gatekeep suffering. Whether previous generations had it worse or not is irrelevant
I was just gonna comment "We are at war" gimme a break I live in finland we share a 1400km border with russia and their capital city is close to that said border. Try that for stress.
It’s not about the present, it’s about the future. And the future is looking pretty grim. I’m thankful to live in America as opposed to a worn-torn country, but the way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re approaching WW3. Plus, it’s just a lot to see anyone be mass bombed and know it’s a product of your government. We can protest, but who knows if we’ll be heard.
I heard a young girl in the bathroom at my work the other day singing a song about having anxiety and it made me so sad, but for some reason something clicked for me in that moment. Kids are so overstimulated by screens and media I’m not at all surprised that they have crazy chemical imbalances! I see kids being pushed around in strollers with phones and tablets in their hands. These kids are given personal laptops by their schools to do all their work on. We aren’t made to be interacting with technology constantly. And we wonder why we can’t get them to concentrate for two seconds in class? We did this to ourselves
My family was just discussing this. The age of instant gratification and constant stimulation must lead to some type of chemical imbalance in the mind and it's screwing everyone up.
We’re talking serious problems here. Like really bad, this is a thing and it won’t stop till it all collapses. It’s a good thing tho. It’ll be like a flood. I’m in the bathtub right now where are y’all at?🛁
This is why I never really blamed the kids. Kids are very impressionable and if the parents make it seem okay and right to do then the child will likely believe the same. This is why I think children shouldn’t have any devices until maybe high school at the very least.
Remember when all the pediatric doctors were telling us to limit screen time for our kids? Yeah. We were enrolling our kids in school in VA and they had to have physicals. Doctor did the whole "limit screen time" speech and I laughed and told her the school issues each student a Chromebook. Also funny (in a "damn that's sad" way): my daughter had to wait for her Chromebook cuz we moved mid semester. She's in honors algebra and the teacher says not to worry about doing the work until she gets her Chromebook. Daughter is bored so she does the assignment longhand. Writes it all out. Teacher is shocked she knows how to do that as NONE OF HER STUDENTS could. They simply imput the numbers into the equation and hit the button. Public schools are in trouble, folks. (We moved from MT to VA and I was shocked that the quality of education was better in our little school than one of the highest rated High Schools in Richmond)
Gen Z here, 22, living alone. Rent started at $1000, over the last few years has moved to nearly $1500. Havent moved, 1 bedroom apartment, expensive go up with no pay increase, and no reflection of why its going up. just going up. Gen Z has been handed a shit show and there's no explanation about it. we just deal with it, or like some their parents deal with it for them.
Gen Z here. Read Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. And please, stop buying crap you didn't need. You don't need things to prove that you're good enough. You just need to be sensible, responsible and loving yourself. And try to learn how to cook, ofc, remember safety measures and be grateful that we are alive.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFanAlready have read it twice now. I don't ever go shopping but for food, most of my stuff is used. been using the same used $200 phone for 5 years now. I was a manager in a restaurant for a year so I know how to cook. Sadly doing all the above doesn't make things 100%. Out of my very small friend group, I'm the biggest cheap scate. I haven't gotten new shoes even since 16, though they don't have holes or anything. Even have an extra part time job. Life is just expensive, and keeps going up. Pay on the other hand doesn't reflect at all for rising prices.
I think... Ugh nevermind I don't know what to say. They want this to happen. Everybody put in a tight situation will vote for any slimebag. They want to break everyone's brain.
Millennial here. Gen Z is super stressed. Also stressful. I had a red beard and a smattering of gray in my hair until I started teaching Gen Z. A couple years in the classroom with them, and now people ask if I want the senior discount!
While this is true. It doesn't explain why this is happening on a mass scale. A lot of millennials looked younger than a lot of Gen Z. I'm 30 and still look 18. I get told that all the time when I get IDed. I started doing hard drugs at 13 and only quit about 6 months ago. It was mainly opiates and cocaine, but still that should've noticeably aged me and didn't. Make me think there's more at play here. No idea what exactly, but it is strange.
@@WeekndWarriorrr It can possibly be either unknown affects of microplastics we're just seeing or the effects of less and less nutrients in the soils. The mineral content in vegetation has significantly dropped (about 35%) since 1995. Add that with an already inflammatory diet that most young people already consume (fast food, microwaved bunk like instant noodles) and you get cells breaking down faster than they can regenerate.
I think the full beard and flannel shirt are adding to people thinking you are older than you are. I know when I shave off my beard I look a lot younger.
I'd actually argue it's the heavy drug and alcohol abuse, too much empty sex since a very young age and various cosmetic procedures among many other things rather than fabricated stress. As a Millennial who grew up in a war torn country through the late 90s and early 00s I fail to see how wars and genocide that are going on actually affect most American and/or Western teens that seem to be complaining about this. If anything the incredibly comfortable lives without actual problems most of them have lead to increasingly stupid and self-destructive behavior patterns and getting too invested and overly stressed by things that have nothing to do with them. Not climate change, as some might argue while sipping a 17$ starbucks cup that they'll throw or leave somewhere while complaining how tired they are and how bad their circles under their eyes are after not sleeping for no other reason than being up all night on the internet or partying.
I'm glad someone is saying this. I belong to a country that's "third world" as well thanks to all the wars and displacement of people. Life here is definitely a challenge and we still look our age.
Also, not to mention the stress of literally not being able to afford anything at all and the fact that I, and many others, are lonely because dating is miserable and exhausting with people being too far gone on either side.
You say that as if stores charge high prices for your generation and it’s free for everyone else. Biden sucks, but even he isn’t that bad. When people are hyperbolic like that, it makes him a sympathetic figure. That’s how Trump won: because Democrats did the same to him.
I agree with you. However millennials and Gen Z are in the same boat. Neither generation will experience the prosperity and home ownership rates that our parents and grandparents had. I graduated HS in '08 and entered adulthood amid the great recession, the housing crisis and a world in which interest rates were rapidly being set against the proletariat class. The way things are going each successive generation is going to enter the real world with a steeper hill to climb than the generations preceding it unless many things change for the better.. and fast.
@@mackenziej8980 Gen Z was the least affected by that. It hit the elderly the hardest. There was zero reason for Gen Z to be stressed about that. My biggest complaint about that generation is they whine about things as if it’s only happening to their generation and no one else and they whine about having to do things that every generation before them did. They’re so self centered in general. Not in a selfish way, but they act like no one aside from them exists and they are the center of the universe.
Facts. When I turned 40 last year, people I've spent years working with AND WHO KNEW I RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY were shocked to realize I wasn't in my late 20s early 30s. Blows my mind.
Same. Had to show my ID up to 30 to prove I'm allowed to purchase tobacco and alcohol, that's over now but I'm still not believed my true age or that I cover a growing amount of white hair😂
I retired from the Marine Corps in 2015. I went back to Camp Pendleton and the young bucks thought I was some Col / C.O. Or something🤣 I took my friends Marines out to PT…..when there were run drops from a retiree run……they got old school treatment. Civvie ladies think I’m 32/34 years old….hey, that’s all good, they need some “PT” too and I’m not married…..👍🏻. I’m turning 45, got six pack abs and an easy life
People always thought I was in my 30s when I was in my 40s. It caught up when I hit my 50s and I pretty much look 50. Enjoy the youthful look while you can because age does hit sooner or later (unless you use fillers and plastic surgery).
Brett reacting to Jordan really made my day because in my personal opinion, they have some similar qualities and ideas on stuff. She should do more reactions to Jordan. That’d make my day even more❤
I'm gen X. The younger generations definitely have it worse than we did. They got things to contend with that didn't even exist when we were young. We were one of the last generation to have a strong sense of self, most of us knew who and what we are. Nodays the younger generations are constantly bombarded with things that make them doubt who and what they are. What the world is attempting to do to us and our youth is apaulling. Imagine being young and trying to grow into who u are all while being influenced by those that don't even know who tf they are. I have much compassion for our youth, and it's about time we stop knocking em and lead by examples of action in how we carry ourselves and the way we interact with one another.
Thanks for saying this. I agree. That’s the biggest problem with the younger generations (I’m Gen Z) we have no sense of self, but we think we do😢. I’m realizing that that is the most valuable thing you can have in this world. Not money not fame… Having a strong connection to who you are is priceless. I’m working on it so I don’t feel so lost and anxious all the time.
That's the neat part ~ you don't. Your generation, the generation of my parents, weren't taught the 'whys' of life by their parents, why things are moral or immoral, why things matter. When my Mother tried to ask questions, like why seeing a psychic is bad (Catholic), she was treated as a nuisance, for example. The effect was your generation cherry picked what you liked from what you were given, as you were not taught the value of any of it. Yet you did not know the value of what each of you discarded, and my generation being left with what was cherry picked for us rejected the partial truths we were offered, but in many cases not even given. (I.e., parents foregoing their duties in educating their children, 'they'll decide for themselves when they are older', etc.) Of course, generalizations. My Mother pursued her Faith and a relationship with our Lord, always going to Holy Mass every week, and she gave that to me sparing nothing. And I am grateful every day for it. Deo grátias. I am 27 and despite my Father having chosen not to be apart of my life, to my benefit, I am slowly learning what it really means to be a man, and thus my nature as a sacrificial provider. Each of us can help make this world a little better to live in, and I for one want to help reclaim societal identity by reclaiming my own, and pursuing holiness. Too often I am selfish with my Lord, Who has done so much for me and moved me to tears so many times, so great have I felt His love, forgiveness, compassion. He really has been my Father throughout my life, even when I had strayed so far from Him.
Younger millennials is just literally gen z my eldest brother looks 17 people often mistake him still at school with me he’s not he already got 2 children😂
There are a lot of GenZ nowadays insult someone for being Old, they look down on them Literally they look more like a 50yo Suburban dad, or Single Mom, than the guy they insult clearly we shouldn't use Age as a Measure, but use your Face as an identification, ask random people about your age. if you look like 50yo, then you're 50yo, you're old, cranky and narrow minded, regardless of your age. you're the one that draw the first blood insulting someone.
Yes. The Great Generation, or whatever they are called certainly had it. And stress that directly impacted their lives, whether they read the news or not. (Saying this as a millennial who didn't learn how to handle stuff well either.)
Yeah but not every generation is dragging their own dead weight barely surviving on a day to day basis, older people will always be the most entitled and braindead people on this dumpsterfire of a planet.
Well no other generation was constantly exposed to whole world problems and adding that now you can't survive with full time job. Working extra ruins mental and physical health, then healthcare is expensive and the cycle continues.
@@princessmimithepug6719 26 is certainly old enough to have a kid. Just because it's normalized to be a child into your 30s, doesn't mean it's, well, normal.
My mom told me something when i was young, it became something of a mantra in our house, "life is only as many pressures as you place upon it." This isnt always 100% true, but its good advice to help keep check on your anxieties about things beyon your realm of control
@@Ihatenumbersinname Millennials for a time thought it was a flex that they looked young for their age til they noticed their kids look older than them from the neck up…in real time. Now they’re being criticized for the lack of stress lines due to the variety of implications (most notably the accusation that the whole Gen Y dodged the process of growing up til now)
@@notproductiveproductions3504It’s still a flex to look younger than your age. It’ll always be a flex. And most of Gen Z was born from Gen X, not Millennials. Just like Gen X didn’t give birth to most Millennials; Boomers did.
@@IhatenumbersinnameGo look up Peter Pan and Peter Parker. Peter Pan is a boy (Millennials, the generation that never ages) and Peter Parker is a man (Gen Z, the generation that ages beyond their years).
@@vanityparadiseofficial Eh, it wasn't as much if a problem but I remember old people watching the news and yelling at the screen much the same way they do today.
I grew up in the 80s and the news radio was always on in the house. Then news on the TV around 5p with local, then national+international. Then the newspapers and news mags all laying around.
I think it also has something to do with how the younger generation for some reason feels a need to grow up faster. Like we got 13 year olds tryna be 25
People don't like kids You are shamed for acting your age Kids are the example of being the worst anything with a few exception to things like "child like innocence" and even that is spat at in another angle to the point if you some how are happy and content with life despite the horrors you're a child to everyone and no one takes you seriously.
I mean we’ve certainly lost tween third places. We don’t have things like Justice, the content on social media is either geared towards small children or adults, and especially when it comes to influencers it’s either hyper s*xualized content trying to sell things or out of touch extreme ideologies. I mourn for a lot of these kids
How can we not feel pressured to grow up quickly when everyone around us pushes us into it? Kids don't even have an opportunity to be kids anymore. They're either being groomed or ignored, and it's sadly a rarity to see an emotionally stable family nowadays. I just hope that this generation coming up can survive this and push through to be better on the other side.
@@scottypittman1 even good families can't solve the desperate push outside the home. Only reserve it. I was lucky enough to be like "Oh I know I am mature, but please remember I am only a teenager" But even with that you feel the pressure
Does anyone else find him annoying and creepy? Maybe just me but I can't stand watching him. Just the way he says "come here" and talks in that passive-agressive whispering tone. Maybe I'm just used to bad people talking like that...
@@brandonmireles3249 i grew up during nineties, we had a lot more then. The politicians sold you all down the river. I take the train across the US, it's looking fucked.
@@brandonmireles3249 I think that your saying that because your mindset is not to be a victim. I respect that, I have also outperformed my peers in every way. You have the correct attitude to be successful. I'm talking to you about something larger than self help, or having a business mindset. You probably listen to Jordan Peterson, as do I. I appreciate what he says, not everything can be solved by having a proper mindset. We had a lot more in back in the day, our cities didint look like a dumpster. All those old well paying jobs are gone. Health insurance was 20 bucks a month for a family. A typical family in the burbs had 2 new cars and other toys, with time off. Those days are over.
@@brandonmireles3249 when people ask me "which dystopia is more likely, 1984 or Brave New World?" My answer is "It depends on where you're in the social pecking order. As you get higher, it becomes a Brave New World. Those who end up at the bottom will find themselves in 1984."
Previous generations have obviously gone through extreme stress too, but I think it’s at the forefront of everyone’s minds in this day and age. Everyone is on their phones or online all the time, with a constant stream of horrible news and activity around you. It’s all you see unless you are intentionally avoiding it. There’s always been bad people and awful events, but when you have a streamlined view into every atrocity committed day by day, it starts to wear on you.
Idk when I look at pictures of people in the 50s and 60s they look really mature too. I remember watching something about musicians that all died on their 27th birthdays and they all looked so much older.
@@AprilReigns18 I think part of that is that nearly everyone smoked back then. Ages the skin. That, and the fashions of the time made people look older.
Exactly. People need to put their phones down at least 3 hours a day and take a walk/ run/ read an actual book/ journal/ jump rope/ just breathe. There will always be stress in life. How we handle it is really the key.
Ditto. When we get new employees in my department they run a betting pool to guess how old I am. Only one dude has ever gotten close and he was still off by 5 years.
I have the same thing I'm going to be 30 and my coworkers have no idea and they think I'm like 21 cos they are 25 to 27 but they look way older. It's gonna blow their minds when I tell them on my birthday cos I look younger then them I'm also short and nerdy looking.😂
Lol a new intern at work befriended me thinking I’m her age. Then after a few weeks of chatting, her friend asked me from how long I’ve been working. I said “10 years” and they all exchanged looks lol
@@MagicToenail You can't socialize online. It is like talking with chatgpt. You could be bot, alien, 12 year old or child rapist and I wouldn't know. I don't trust you and I don't even know are you human.
Though gen x imo is the best generation living today, I dont think you guys really went thru much. The country was fairly simple at the time if you weren't living in the ghetto. However, I will say you guys were the last bunch to make good music. My generation makes nothing but trash.
@@samsonslmpson1986just pure delusion my man what are you talking about stuff like crimes and standards of living was way worse back than look up real stats not your fairy tail I have it so hard bs
@@samsonslmpson1986 Gen X did see stuff. They grew up the later years of the Vietnam War, serial killers were prominent in the news, the 70s economic recession with the oil crisis, the Cold War was in both a period of détante and worrying about of nuclear annihilation, they grew up when the punk movement began, and a lot of Gen X carried the torch in the 80s and 90s. Gen X had the apathetic, irreverent, and ambivolent attitude towards the world for a reason.
Millennials never had to deal with half the planet going to war. Hasn’t been like that since the silent gen. Millennials also had a significantly better life
@MagicToenail Kiddo, same crap, different decade. Only thing that's worse now is more racism, gender confusion and political polarity. But yeah, there were plenty of wars going on in the 90s and 2000s as well not to mention the economic downturns.
millenials werent introduced to screens since a young age, now more than half of gen z has been on technology and whatnot their entire lives, alnog with the arrival of tik tok ,short form content and everything murdering their attention span. everything now just feels company based and promotional, literally everything feels like its made to make the most money, algorithms are scary, sometimes they are so good at predicting what you want they even reccomend things you were thinking about without having said a thing, there are tons and tons of personal data stolen from you Its not even sold to other companies, this data just makes you stay on the shorts longer and longer by reccomending you the perfect ones so that it becomes the most addicting possible, fucking up your dopamine receptors. And together with all of this there are a shitton of wars going on the economy is crumbling the technology is advancing so fast no one can keep up and no one even seems to realize it and realize all of them will lose their jobs, its like the industrial revolution all over, and the ones that do realize it have no one to talk about it with anyone causing extreme loneliness. The entirety of society is fucked up, and its probably too far gone to be saved everyone is just brainwashed by this and personally sometimes i just feel like im going insane, we are set to the standard of being a "good citzen" since we are put into school and live a boring life, everything feels so meaningless and it feels like all hope is lost. (srry for bad grammar im not native english)@@MagicToenail
All the problems gen z have are in their head. War lol, you say war as if you were in one. Climate change, is a crock of bs. And cell phone addiction is an addiction.
Aging is related to how you react to events in life. Learn stoicism. Aging is also defined as the aggressive pursuit of comfort. Pursue discomfort or hormesis.
The thing people forget when talking about generations is while things DO have a different impact on you when you're different ages, this doesn't ONLY affect the young more (the old are affected more, too), but also, that people OF ALL AGES who are still alive are going to the same things. I think it more depends on the person and how they take things and what they make of things. That's true no matter the generation.
Us millennials think being independent adults is hard (it is), it’s even harder for the younger adults. Every year that goes by it’s harder to earn enough to make a living. Imagine trying to start a life outside of your parents home for the first time the way things are right NOW. Not only is living more expensive, but people aren’t as close as they used to be, and a lot of younger people really don’t have the village support older generations had.
That’s why you work really hard and become valuable to the company you work for, then demand that they increase your wage by a lot more within at least a month. If they don’t, leave, and chew out all the old fuckers, tell them they don’t value hard work, tell them their generation is weak and filled with liars and hypocrites, and go elsewhere. On top of that you’ll need side hustles and you’ll need to work on your own terms, create scaleable businesses, etc. On top of that start working out and start learning to fight and you’ll make it
The money from inflation is already printed and big corporations are gonna be the first to get it, billions, if not trillions of dollars all going to the rich men who own big corporations and want to use you for profit while you slowly accept shittier lifestyles and less pay as they grow richer. Your business needs to get in the way of that. You don’t make money in this world, you TAKE money.
@@bobbyhill4118or what they'll do is have your payment for a set grade based on your age and slowly increase your wage but then tax it even more. Not only that but being really good at your job invites the possibilities that no they won't increase your wage, why? Because you're so good at this specific hub that they should just permanently keep you at that beginner position instead of giving you promotions. It's a very common practice, the hard working labourer stays a labourer and a laid back hippy gets a promotion
Work for the USPS, you'll be retired by your mid-late 40's. Particularly if you bust your a** every holiday season. The shock is that you have to work a lot harder than you think.
@@MotorcycleEnjoyer01 scared to be manly? How much do soldiers get paid again, last I heard not as much as someone working in a convenience store or fast food place
@@mikewilliams9069 Lies from the government. Try getting an entry level job with just a Bachelors' Degree, you'll get a 1/150 response rate, the rest will ghost you.
Edit: I was born in 94 so I’m a baby millennial, my original response was to this video, I didn’t mean to make it a contest but did, we’re all going through the same shit, just in different ways. Were all struggling. Millennials have gone through all that and have been going through everything currently too, I think we were hit the hardest because now we are in our late 20s early 30s and we have kids now and major responsibilities and still have to deal with all this bullshit
Yeah most of us don't have kids because we've realized that's not in our cards. I live okay NOW but unlike most people I lived my life without fun until i had money and now I'm too scared to spend money because I know life is only going to get worse 😂
Late twenties? Early thirties? Try damn near 40 lol. Some of us are already over 40. Having full blown midlife crises. And knee arthritis. It hurts just getting out of bed. Enjoy your precious youth. It’s gone quicker than you realize.
Absolutely true. Millenials have it harder than GenZ. We are carrying our trauma while now taking in the newer current events like the pandemic, Biden and new wars.
Okay, it's difficult to relate, let alone have empathy for someone who is middle aged with a stable relationship, job and so on. Let alone make it a contest about who has experienced more tragedies in their life vs teens and young adults a time when they had the least concern for societal collapse.
Millennial here I am 40 and aging quite gracefully people say I look 32-33 I haven’t done hard drugs and don’t drink much try to get the correct amount of water every day. I don’t have social media that’s probably the clincher right there
Spot on my friend. I'd argue it's the drug and alcohol abuse, too much empty sex and various cosmetic surgeries rather than fabricated stress. As a millennial who grew up in a war torn country I fail to realize how wars and genocides affect American teenagers. If anything too much comfort and no actual problems has caused people to get too invested and overly stressed by things that don't actually affect them.
Older millennial here. We're dealing with a lot of shit, plus mortgage, and being the first generation that obviously had it worse than their parents overall. Problem is, every problem is getting even bigger for the ones coming after us. I always think about how hard it's going to be for my younger coworkers, and specially, how it's going to be for my niece, which is around his secondth birthday.
I'm gen X. Actuaully we were the 1st gen to have it worse than our parents (the boomers). The boomers were the gen that were well looked after by the state.
Problems aren't getting bigger. We live in the most peaceful and prosperous time in history. The rate of home ownership is higher than it was 70 years ago. There aren't more problems, they're just amplified. You didn't hear about every robbery, every rape or every murder even 30 years ago. Now they're blasted on social media. There aren't more train de-railments than there were two years ago, but the one big one got clicks. So now every train de-railment gets blasted on social media. It's the same for everything else. If you don't constantly look for it, you don't notice it. That means it isn't happening more often. If crime was as high as the media wants you to think it was everywhere, you'd have experienced it by now. Most likely, you haven't, because violent crime rates are *still* down from 30 years ago even with the increase during the WuFlu
thank you, gosh I see too many comments stating their struggles as if the problems of today aren’t getting even worse, it’s disheartening the lack of empathy I’m receiving as an 18 year old young adult walking into an economy where everyone around me is absolutely hopeless (my positively only stems from me being more determined amongst all else) It’s as if our issues, even the ones a lot of people don’t agree with like gender, identity, race; a slew of issues coming from those things alone, and we’re just called “weird,” I have empathy to those who feel the NEED to even go through things like that It’s as if our generation has been taught suffering in so many different areas is normal, it’s normalized, and that we’re all just a bunch of messed up weirdos with no hope for the future. But no.. no, the damn majority of the population; our parents, our teachers will bat an eye to us and label us as problems, as if we didn’t live in a cold world already. All in all, it’s a breath of fresh seeing someone who decided to take a look at the new generations and understand that we have a whole new and scary world of struggle ahead. I can appreciate the fact that it is at least noticed, even if it is likely to only get worse.
@@nienbloon I'm afraid some of the popular issues today were brought to the front as a way to promote individuality and exacerbate differences over what's common in most of us. And in the process, class issues got shaded over, and workers forgot yo unite against those on top. If I've learnt something during my life til now, I'd say stay safe, avoid debt as much as possible, and strenghten bonds with those around you.
You make no sense bruh the economy keeps hitting records highs tech is good it's actually crazy everything keeps getting better but people just be tripping and whining 😂
It depends on the individual. Some individuals have more youthful features and facial structure, while those of others may be more mature-looking. This has always been the case, so I’m not sure as to why people are acting as if this is a new concept. Perhaps it is because people are doing their makeup or growing facial hair to appear as a more mature-looking individual, but that was always been the case as well. The only reasonable claim is that we are more exposed to mature-looking individuals on social media, as that is what the algorithms push, thus, our brains associate that look with being normal as opposed to the faces of those around us, even though the natural mature look is more likely to be the minority. To that one millennial commenter; the Iraq war was formally declared to end in 2011 and the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. Additionally, a portion of Gen Z was alive during 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and hurricane Sandy. Even if an individual was young, they still experienced the implications of these events.
Don’t forget school shootings, I know I was never too worried but had friends who were terrified something would happen especially in a state that had a lot of them unfortunately
@@sevironside4073 ~ Yep! When I was in highschool , we got a threat one morning, and I frantically texted all of the people I knew, even if it was just from a class project, telling them not to go to school. Apparently, the school knew of the threats the previous week, yet decided not to inform the students. It was absurd.
@@alyssarose2818 it’s definitely had an effect on a lot of us. When I was in college in Europe the university had a bomb threat called in during finals week. All of the Europeans were confused when none of the Americans took it seriously. We explained to them it was pretty common and more than likely the person who called it in didn’t want to do his finals
That beard is what makes him look old. He chose to look that way. The bearded hipster look, which you might still see among some millennials, is now fairly ingrained among the Gen Zers that can pull it off. I guess it's just really popular to have that "grounded" and more earthy look. I mean, advertising used to be geared so much towards a clean shave in the 90s. Now, it's all about beard maintenance, leaving clean shaving for those that can't have one.
It's also because he has a wrinkly forehead. I'm 34 and have that same forehead with the deep lines (got it from my dadda) so I have a full fringe (or "bangs") and I get mistaken for my 15yo sons sister as the rest of my complexion is good and I have no grey hair or crows feet.
A beard is a sign of manhood. And it’s really one of the few things that separates us from women. There’s spiritual meaning behind growing a beard too but here in the West that’s not a huge focal point.
Not to mention the whole 2020 & 2021 stuff. That really set us back, luckily I finished school years before 2020. But my little sister and her friends really got screwed over with the online schooling. Even me, i feel like Im missing 2 years of mt life, and everything has gone by sooo quick since then. My parents married and had a family at 23-24. My age now, and I feel sooo behind, even though I'm really not. Im 24 and never went to a bar or parties or anything, cause everything was all closed or got bankrupt since 2020-2021. Now im in my mid 20s and dont care about thay stuff, but still, it feels like I missed out on all the "young 20s stuff" the previous generations had. Its like I skipped the young adult period and went straight to adult.
At 24, there's still time for bars and clubs, lol. I would say clubs and raves are the thing you wanna do before you hit 30. Bars are around for any age. In fact, once you get over 30, going to sophisticated bars, speakeasies, wineries, and craft breweries, is a much more satisfying experience than clubbing. Speakeasies are very laid back, like a college bar. But definitely do the club thing before you're 30. Its very fun, especially out with friends, dancing to the latest music.
Funny thing is I’m 24 here too and I’ve not done any of that. Though only thinking about things like that will make you feel even older for missing out stuff, even though it’s not late and it’s not end of the world imo. But I would suggest just doing it and get to doing whatever you want to do in life already honestly. Life is about living how you want so it doesn’t hurt to take a risk and try sometime. I keep having the same missing out feelings because my parents also married when they were 18-20 so I keep thinking about having someone and marriage but in my case I’m just working on myself right now.
I had the mental age of 20 at 12 and at 20,my mental energy is dead. It's not my fault, there is just too much to know, keep up with and do. Both relevant and irrelevant😅
There is an extreme gap in mental maturity most of gen z has a faster developing mental age due to new parenting techniques and the world going to shit on them, A few days ago some kids at my school had cocaine and got arrested, we are an extremely mature and immature generation divided between hopelessness and selfishness
Nah I think we're aging faster mentally. I mean we kinda have to, it's not easy to stay a carefree optimistic kid when everywhere you look things are being destroyed and there's nothing you can do about it.
Plandemic was stupid but thank god that moronic time is all behind, only thing it affected really was outside travel, and going to restaurants and bars
@@parusyte i dont know about other countries but in finland it wasnt really that bad, fuel was cheap and lot of mask psychosis in public transit and in the news, people couldnt really go abroad so they instead went to national parks and wilderness areas. Nobody really just was the whole 2020-2022 just inside in a quarantine. Just before ukraine war they talked a lot about vaccines and etc crap but just when the war started in ukraine that shit went away like a fart in the wind. Kinda put things in a new perspective.
@@thesurvivalist8488 ohh I was referring to the mental health consequences of those quarantine years and how some of those effects still carry on to this day, cuz the actual experience of living through the lockdown precautions wasn’t so bad for me since I had a gf at the time. I didn’t like the masks but I personally never found it to be too much of a hassle
The lost generation, the greatest generation, and the silent generation had it worst. Sickness, disease, the First World War, the roaring 20s, the Great Depression, World War Two, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, the start of the Cold War, the Vietnam war, and the end of the Cold War. My grandma (54) told me that in her school she would have things called fallout shelters just in case the Soviet Union (or what is now Russia) would drop a nuclear bomb or weapon on the United States. I live in Jackson, Mississippi, and like 180 miles away from my house is an air base called Barksdale Air Force Base, in Shreveport, Louisiana. During the Cold War the United States needed a strategic bomber that could run missions for extended periods of time, so, they made the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Which is stationed at Barksdale. Plus, depending on where you were in the Second World War, you had to worry about whether an axis country (Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) would attack the allied powers (United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, France, and China) at any given moment. Just like Japan did when they bombed Pearl Harbor. I know every generation has its pros and cons but the 3 generations listed above had it worst in my opinion.
All I'm hearing is that Gen Z is even more susceptible to eating up the governments garbage about how the world is ending. They just used to have less effective fear tactics.
Which is fair, if people are mentally manipulating you- it is fair to have stress There's things that are silently ruining people and often times it can be a monster of it's own. For example- loneliness is seen as a stupid thing to be broken about. Though if you care for a baby without the social aspect they will just die according to a study forever ago to figure out what the human's first language was.
@@olivebre4170 maybe, but one would be disallusioned to think that life has ever been easy, for anyone, ever. New generation, new issues. That is how it goes.
@@ipoopd right, which is where the backlash comes from because the old generation wants to play it like Gen Z has no issues. I'm all up for the reasoning that it doesn't matter- man I agree we need to stop talking about generations and just realize that every individual has their own plate. Not chill with people acting like things aren't just in general rough and entirely to easy not to see the other's struggle. That is how we got the gender war
He’s been living an unhealthy lifestyle but of course, people will refused to take responsibility. No one who lives a healthy lifestyle is gonna look way older than they actually are unless they have some rare medical condition.
I am not legally allowed to move out but I sure as hell look like it. When I was 13 people thought I could drive (I can just not on the roads) and not like *in old lady voice* “Oh look how much you have grown!” Like “Oh hey what car do you drive?” or “Have you gotten tickets?” I was 13! Not 16 💀🤣😭
Attitude/outlook when faced with stress will also greatly affect how impactful that stress will actually be. Thinking positively ages you slower both from a physical standpoint, and an internal standpoint (as in, optimists live longer than pessimists). Course, I say this as an “ignore the stress/realistic” type. 😂
She finally reacted to Jordan!! ❤ 😂 I love this crossing of the youtube multi verse SO MUCH!! I would happily watch you react to more of his videos Brett! Jordan is the best!
Millennials not only had 9-11, bullying was an even bigger problem, our parents were boomers who believed in tough love rather than soft parenting, we had ebola and mad cow disease, everyone thought they were a gangsta rapper, so there were tons of fights in school, mental illness was never talked about or even considered, etc. Then we STILL had to go through everything Gen Z is going through with Covid, political division, phone addiction, etc. Let's just say that all generations go through huge problems. Let's stop the competition and love each other.
The difference is that we (millennials) had to figure things out in the moment rather than see things in the distance with even time to stress. We are the sink or swim generation that just had to learn "f it, lets just get this over with" and didn't have time to stress. Also we're aging slower because nicotine and the sun also age people pretty harshly. The majority of us spend all our time inside because we're broke so the sun is out, and we were the first generation to not really care for cigarettes, and vaping wasn't "cool" for us so most of us missed that too so nicotine aging is out.
@@skecchi3201And blue light. Even if you're stuck inside, blue light will age you as fast as the sun without the benefits. Gen Z raised on that shite.
@@Thawhid no it wasn't literally at all. The first economic collapse happened in 2008, jobs weren't easy to come by and wages were incredibly stagnant until trump came into office.
It’s so true we do look younger. gen z isn’t used to stress. Most of the past stuff happened when they weren’t even born yet or really young. This is the first time they have had to deal with real ongoing stress I feel for them it’s stressful but we millennials have been going through all kinds of wars and domestic attacks and recessions so we just know how to cope a bit better. This has literally been happening our whole lives 🙃🙃🙃
Completely agree. Also, gen z needs to laugh more. The few that work in my office are constantly stressing over things like their shoes not being the right color of blue (or something this silly). Like, relax, laugh lol
@@celestialfox9282do you blame us for not being cheerful all the time? This world is so screwed up. I’m not saying I don’t ever laugh. But when I think about how crazy everything is, it gets to me sometimes 💀
I was often told I sound pretty young. Someone guessed my age to be younger than 30. (I handled Veteran calls for VA benefits). I was over 60 at the time, and actually a Vietnam war Veteran. Here’s to stress, or lack of it. Stress is your problem. It’s not a requirement to react negatively to stressful situations.
As someone in Gen Z, I've also been through ALL of those things that the Millenial was bragging about- Gen Z aren't all high schoolers. I'm 26 and my hair is graying, especially on my face. We're not okay LOL
we're growing up in this, trying* to buy a house, go to school, get a job, and live well in the environment that both you people and the those before you have created for us. :D hope this helps!
@@shart6275"Both you..." This is an ignorant response, to be certain. Log out and go outside. The thing that is aging these people faster is being on the internet 24/7. They're afraid of their own shadow. I don't include you in this group because maybe you're aging just fine. Just like maybe the OP didn't contribute in any meaningful way to the boogyman you're convinced exists.
Millennials didn't make society what it is @@shart6275 as a later millennial We're mostly still the underlings, just a bit ahead of gen Z. My bosses tend to be gen X, but even most of them still answer to boomers. Circle of life.
i'm literally 37 and when i went to college for my 2nd degree they still think i'm 20 years old. when i told the teacher i have 2 children a 4 year old and a 2 year old, it blew their minds. then i showed them photos and videos and my driver's license.
That is true and my little brother smokes vapes and drinks and he looks so much older than me but I have a few strains of grey hair but it’s genetics for me. We get our grey hairs early 🫤
@@NiciO.G I googled it and it says less than 30%. Sure, 3-7% is also less than 30 but im sure they would have phrased it differently if that was the case.
@@88balloonsonthewall70 30% is standard if you don’t do things to activate epigenetic’s and use ALL of your DNA, 3-7% is a high performer and 0% is a Master …
You got you gen Z! Don't detach just need some of the right guidance from the right people! We all got this as a 31 year old I sew so much potential in all of your generation such beautiful minds ❤❤
Life is hard. It always will be no matter what generation you’re from. It’s hard to be broke and it’s hard to generate wealth. It’s hard to be in shape and it’s hard to be fat. Choose the hard that works for you. You have some good wisdom there. Keep at it.
Every generation has gone through stuff. I'm Gen X and have a list too. We went through the Cold War with the threat of nuclear war between the former Soviet Union and US, saw the Challenger explosion live on TV at school, the Mt. St. Helen eruption in Washington state in 1980 (about the same type of eruption as Vesuvius that buried Pompeii & Herculaneum in Italy in 79 AD, 9-11 (this hit closer to home because I live in NY state...we were all effected, etc. I admit the last few years of fighting against hate from the far Left, censorship, and trying to keep democracy alive has been the most stressful thing I've dealt with in recent years, though. Christian hate is on the rise with mass shootings, but all we hear about is antisemitism and Islamophobia (a problem too). But I'm not hearing about mass shootings in synagogues and mosques. Just threats and hateful graffiti. ALL religions are under attack & they are trying to divide us.
It’s only stressful if you pay attention to them. A lot of things that are stressful to people nowadays don’t have anything to do with them on a personal level. Pick and choose what to stress on and you’ll be fine. There are too many things in life to stress on, so don’t make the mistake of stressing on all of them at once.
Exactly. And, if you are stressed, use it to your advantage like I do. I just deep clean when I’m stressed. Putting the stress to work instead of dwelling on it has definitely helped me.
I think this is an important thing to do. With access to so much bad news and crisis around the world people are addicted to paying attention and worrying about everything
Thing is, I look at all the old people around me & see how ignorant & apathetic they are to modern problems & I actively do not want to become like them. I can’t just “ignore” things that are literally reshaping the world I live in every day just because they’re gonna stress me out. Personally, I think if you’re not taking the time to learn about the world & care about the strangers living in it alongside you, you’re doing something wrong. Empathy is not your enemy.
Man, I wanted to like that guy so bad. But the "come here" and zoom in thing makes me feel like my personal space is being invaded and I couldn't do it anymore. 😅 Sir, I can hear you from here! Just make your good points without drawing me in for a sucker punch.
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I wouldn’t have believed he was Gen Z if I were to see him on the street.
Everytime it's a jump scare😂
I can’t imagine growing up in these times people trying to constantly brainwash you telling you boys can be girls and girls can be boys that’s enough right there to ruin generations of kids.
Same lol I thought he was 40 💀
Ikr! I am shook.😂
I still don’t believe him 🤨 no way he’s below 35.
Brett reacting to Jordan is literally what everyone has been waiting for lol, now all we need is a collab
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I call it efficiency that is one less video I have to catch up on in my subscribed list lol
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Yes pls
Facts 🤌💯🥳🤗🙏🏾💚💚💚✊🏾🫂🕊🐦⬛🎉
Brett reacting to Jordan is just the best thing ever
Yes. My two favorite content creators in one short. Heaven has arrived-
I was thinking the exact same thing
Yep 100%
I know they’re basically just my favorites
Same lol
I hate people who downplay what people have gone through. Every generation has had its rough patches. We shouldn’t have to compete who went through worse.
In full agreement, Especially since there are those actively working behind the scenes to create issues for each generation. Incrementally enough to pit us all against each other in order to dismantle the family.
It's about power, control, and money.
I mean there is worse alot of people especially in this comment section are very sensitive and think they have it hard. Generations in WW2 etc had it much worse
@trashcan6751 And some have lived more like older ages. Trying to share wisdom. Few have hauled their own water to heat it for baths and dishes, make their own clothes. Each generation has had its struggles and all of us struggle to sone degree.
It's not about who has it worse.
There are those in background varying to divide us on every issue and level possible to their advantage. Done stagetically each generation to get them against each other and destroy family.
Many live in luxury without realizing and take for granted to much time to participate in nonsense. The further we go from growing our own food and learning how to do these things the more dependant we are and we forget more and more each generation.
as a gen z person, i think thats the single handedly biggest issue we are going through, is alot of our parents compare their struggles over ours. Ive seen many many parents now whos children srent very happy because their parents are also miserable, so it just chain reacts down the line, making pur ability to handle all the extra bs around us harder.
No hate to anyone btw, my message is basically that we shouldn't be comparing our pains, because that in itself is just causing even greater pain for the younger generations, and i dont want that to spiral even further than its already went
Two things: Don't compare suffering, it's not some kind of contest.
Don't gatekeep suffering. Whether previous generations had it worse or not is irrelevant
Jordan is 26. And yet, he looks wise beyond his years.
He not a gen z then 😂
He’s very handsome. Age looks good on him.
@@Ziggyhere5726 years ago was 1998. Yes he is.
@@Ziggyhere57he's the first year of Gen Z if he was born in 97... So he's one of the oldest zoomers
@@Ziggyhere57yes he is gen z
“I’m still the child.” I felt that so hard. ‘98 baby and definitely still want to sit at the kids table.
96 baby here. It doesn’t change 😂
I hear ya. I sat at the kiddie table until I was 30 and I was good with that. I actually kind of miss it now...
97 baby, with 2 babies 💀
97, adulting fucking sucks
‘98 baby and God has been good and blessed with 3
For unknown reason Brett reacting to Jordan made me really happy 😭
Jordan would hate her.
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@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Sounds like a personal feeling projected onto Jordan.
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@@ogeo.8966No, it's common sense.
"We are at war, it's stressful" - American watching drone strikes on TV, eating popcorn stressfully.
I was just gonna comment "We are at war" gimme a break I live in finland we share a 1400km border with russia and their capital city is close to that said border. Try that for stress.
@@Ps1ClassicGameplaygood job joining Nato! Really put you off the hook 😂
@@homeistheearth or at the front lines, not easy to say 🤔
@@Ps1ClassicGameplayDon’t worry Russia will dominate us. Even though there is a huge chance it being nuclear war 😅🙏
It’s not about the present, it’s about the future. And the future is looking pretty grim. I’m thankful to live in America as opposed to a worn-torn country, but the way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re approaching WW3. Plus, it’s just a lot to see anyone be mass bombed and know it’s a product of your government. We can protest, but who knows if we’ll be heard.
I can't believe he's only 26 years old. 😂
Is he younger than me????
Insanity.
The dude is 24?! He looks 40!!!!
Jordan is 26 years old
He just looks old. My 24 year old nephew looks like hes 15 so it varies. The guy has bad genetics nothing to do with being gen Z yall dumb.
OMG. he looks 30s at least!
I heard a young girl in the bathroom at my work the other day singing a song about having anxiety and it made me so sad, but for some reason something clicked for me in that moment. Kids are so overstimulated by screens and media I’m not at all surprised that they have crazy chemical imbalances! I see kids being pushed around in strollers with phones and tablets in their hands. These kids are given personal laptops by their schools to do all their work on. We aren’t made to be interacting with technology constantly. And we wonder why we can’t get them to concentrate for two seconds in class? We did this to ourselves
My family was just discussing this. The age of instant gratification and constant stimulation must lead to some type of chemical imbalance in the mind and it's screwing everyone up.
@@rharvier there is a reason mental illness is running so rampant. Sometimes correlation DOES equal causation but no one wants to admit it
We’re talking serious problems here. Like really bad, this is a thing and it won’t stop till it all collapses. It’s a good thing tho. It’ll be like a flood. I’m in the bathtub right now where are y’all at?🛁
This is why I never really blamed the kids. Kids are very impressionable and if the parents make it seem okay and right to do then the child will likely believe the same. This is why I think children shouldn’t have any devices until maybe high school at the very least.
Remember when all the pediatric doctors were telling us to limit screen time for our kids? Yeah.
We were enrolling our kids in school in VA and they had to have physicals. Doctor did the whole "limit screen time" speech and I laughed and told her the school issues each student a Chromebook.
Also funny (in a "damn that's sad" way): my daughter had to wait for her Chromebook cuz we moved mid semester. She's in honors algebra and the teacher says not to worry about doing the work until she gets her Chromebook. Daughter is bored so she does the assignment longhand. Writes it all out.
Teacher is shocked she knows how to do that as NONE OF HER STUDENTS could. They simply imput the numbers into the equation and hit the button.
Public schools are in trouble, folks.
(We moved from MT to VA and I was shocked that the quality of education was better in our little school than one of the highest rated High Schools in Richmond)
Brett reacting to jordan is all we ever needed
Gen Z here, 22, living alone. Rent started at $1000, over the last few years has moved to nearly $1500. Havent moved, 1 bedroom apartment, expensive go up with no pay increase, and no reflection of why its going up. just going up. Gen Z has been handed a shit show and there's no explanation about it. we just deal with it, or like some their parents deal with it for them.
Gen Z here. Read Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. And please, stop buying crap you didn't need. You don't need things to prove that you're good enough. You just need to be sensible, responsible and loving yourself. And try to learn how to cook, ofc, remember safety measures and be grateful that we are alive.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFanAlready have read it twice now. I don't ever go shopping but for food, most of my stuff is used. been using the same used $200 phone for 5 years now. I was a manager in a restaurant for a year so I know how to cook. Sadly doing all the above doesn't make things 100%.
Out of my very small friend group, I'm the biggest cheap scate. I haven't gotten new shoes even since 16, though they don't have holes or anything.
Even have an extra part time job. Life is just expensive, and keeps going up. Pay on the other hand doesn't reflect at all for rising prices.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFan Read "Art of War" its a much more engaging book.
I sympathize, really, but where I live that 1br apt is almost $3,000.
I think... Ugh nevermind I don't know what to say. They want this to happen. Everybody put in a tight situation will vote for any slimebag. They want to break everyone's brain.
I'm a 26 year old and some lady at Lowe's thought I was in my forties 🤦🏻
I mean you were at Lowes
Probably because you look like your pushing 40
Cause ur a loser and don’t take care of yourself
well i'm 22 yrs old and ppl assume i'm 40
Anything 26 and older is equal to 40 plus jk 😂
I follow Jordan and I thought he was like 35 😯
I’m 34 and look younger than him, at least i think so 🤔
Yeah, I at least feel younger than he looks
@@andrewboyd6517 wow you really do look young! Like 22 not a day older 😮
Same
How old is he really then?
Millennial here. Gen Z is super stressed. Also stressful. I had a red beard and a smattering of gray in my hair until I started teaching Gen Z. A couple years in the classroom with them, and now people ask if I want the senior discount!
Drugs, alcohol, smoking and sleeping around also adds to the aging acceleration. The stars that burn the brightest, also fade the quickest.
While this is true. It doesn't explain why this is happening on a mass scale. A lot of millennials looked younger than a lot of Gen Z. I'm 30 and still look 18. I get told that all the time when I get IDed. I started doing hard drugs at 13 and only quit about 6 months ago. It was mainly opiates and cocaine, but still that should've noticeably aged me and didn't. Make me think there's more at play here. No idea what exactly, but it is strange.
@@WeekndWarriorrr It can possibly be either unknown affects of microplastics we're just seeing or the effects of less and less nutrients in the soils. The mineral content in vegetation has significantly dropped (about 35%) since 1995. Add that with an already inflammatory diet that most young people already consume (fast food, microwaved bunk like instant noodles) and you get cells breaking down faster than they can regenerate.
I think the full beard and flannel shirt are adding to people thinking you are older than you are. I know when I shave off my beard I look a lot younger.
Right. If he shaved an wire something different he would look totally different
Yeah and the condescending tone he uses when he talks isn’t very typical of someone in their early twenties.
Holy cow I’ve seen some of his videos before I ALWAYS THOUGHT HE WAS A MILLENNIAL
I look younger than him, and I'm X.
@@Xeacons ~ I hate to break it to you, but objectively, you look older than him 😅😅
@@Xeaconsyou really don't
i had people ask if my mom is my wife
Likewise. I’d always assumed that he was either late 20s or early 30s.
Jordan is here toooooo?????
My man, from those old spider videos to bretts channel now, what a time
Same she is reacting to everyone now
Hell yeah! Love when there’s a short of someone involving someone else totally unrelated but I’m a follower and fan of both.
@@RivetHead999 same i followed jordan when he told people about the dominoes coupon codes. and Bret for the news
Why ppl remember Katrina but not Ian which just happened 2 years ago and was worse
I'd actually argue it's the heavy drug and alcohol abuse, too much empty sex since a very young age and various cosmetic procedures among many other things rather than fabricated stress. As a Millennial who grew up in a war torn country through the late 90s and early 00s I fail to see how wars and genocide that are going on actually affect most American and/or Western teens that seem to be complaining about this.
If anything the incredibly comfortable lives without actual problems most of them have lead to increasingly stupid and self-destructive behavior patterns and getting too invested and overly stressed by things that have nothing to do with them.
Not climate change, as some might argue while sipping a 17$ starbucks cup that they'll throw or leave somewhere while complaining how tired they are and how bad their circles under their eyes are after not sleeping for no other reason than being up all night on the internet or partying.
I'm an American gen z and you are completely correct. All Americans have become very whiney
I'm glad someone is saying this. I belong to a country that's "third world" as well thanks to all the wars and displacement of people. Life here is definitely a challenge and we still look our age.
Also, not to mention the stress of literally not being able to afford anything at all and the fact that I, and many others, are lonely because dating is miserable and exhausting with people being too far gone on either side.
You say that as if stores charge high prices for your generation and it’s free for everyone else. Biden sucks, but even he isn’t that bad. When people are hyperbolic like that, it makes him a sympathetic figure. That’s how Trump won: because Democrats did the same to him.
I think that's what they meant be "inflation".
I agree with you. However millennials and Gen Z are in the same boat. Neither generation will experience the prosperity and home ownership rates that our parents and grandparents had. I graduated HS in '08 and entered adulthood amid the great recession, the housing crisis and a world in which interest rates were rapidly being set against the proletariat class. The way things are going each successive generation is going to enter the real world with a steeper hill to climb than the generations preceding it unless many things change for the better.. and fast.
And the pandemic.
@@mackenziej8980 Gen Z was the least affected by that. It hit the elderly the hardest. There was zero reason for Gen Z to be stressed about that. My biggest complaint about that generation is they whine about things as if it’s only happening to their generation and no one else and they whine about having to do things that every generation before them did. They’re so self centered in general. Not in a selfish way, but they act like no one aside from them exists and they are the center of the universe.
Facts. When I turned 40 last year, people I've spent years working with AND WHO KNEW I RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY were shocked to realize I wasn't in my late 20s early 30s. Blows my mind.
Same. Had to show my ID up to 30 to prove I'm allowed to purchase tobacco and alcohol, that's over now but I'm still not believed my true age or that I cover a growing amount of white hair😂
I retired from the Marine Corps in 2015. I went back to Camp Pendleton and the young bucks thought I was some Col / C.O. Or something🤣
I took my friends Marines out to PT…..when there were run drops from a retiree run……they got old school treatment. Civvie ladies think I’m 32/34 years old….hey, that’s all good, they need some “PT” too and I’m not married…..👍🏻. I’m turning 45, got six pack abs and an easy life
@@MountaintravelerEddienobody asked
People always thought I was in my 30s when I was in my 40s. It caught up when I hit my 50s and I pretty much look 50. Enjoy the youthful look while you can because age does hit sooner or later (unless you use fillers and plastic surgery).
I'm 30 and this brother makes me look like I'm 18 😂
Same! 😀
Same 😂
im 26 and i hope that i look at least 22-24 but idk lol
same here
I'm 37 and he makes me look 20... which someone guessed me to be last week 😂
Born in 78 and i still feel like a kid sometimes. Never grow old ! Enjoy life.
Brett reacting to Jordan really made my day because in my personal opinion, they have some similar qualities and ideas on stuff. She should do more reactions to Jordan. That’d make my day even more❤
I'm gen X. The younger generations definitely have it worse than we did. They got things to contend with that didn't even exist when we were young. We were one of the last generation to have a strong sense of self, most of us knew who and what we are. Nodays the younger generations are constantly bombarded with things that make them doubt who and what they are. What the world is attempting to do to us and our youth is apaulling. Imagine being young and trying to grow into who u are all while being influenced by those that don't even know who tf they are. I have much compassion for our youth, and it's about time we stop knocking em and lead by examples of action in how we carry ourselves and the way we interact with one another.
Thanks for saying this. I agree. That’s the biggest problem with the younger generations (I’m Gen Z) we have no sense of self, but we think we do😢. I’m realizing that that is the most valuable thing you can have in this world. Not money not fame… Having a strong connection to who you are is priceless. I’m working on it so I don’t feel so lost and anxious all the time.
Absolutely right!
I'm 53 and feel genuinely sorry for gen Z!
Good luck because you're gonna need it
As a millennial thank you 😭
That's the neat part ~ you don't.
Your generation, the generation of my parents, weren't taught the 'whys' of life by their parents, why things are moral or immoral, why things matter. When my Mother tried to ask questions, like why seeing a psychic is bad (Catholic), she was treated as a nuisance, for example.
The effect was your generation cherry picked what you liked from what you were given, as you were not taught the value of any of it. Yet you did not know the value of what each of you discarded, and my generation being left with what was cherry picked for us rejected the partial truths we were offered, but in many cases not even given. (I.e., parents foregoing their duties in educating their children, 'they'll decide for themselves when they are older', etc.)
Of course, generalizations. My Mother pursued her Faith and a relationship with our Lord, always going to Holy Mass every week, and she gave that to me sparing nothing. And I am grateful every day for it. Deo grátias.
I am 27 and despite my Father having chosen not to be apart of my life, to my benefit, I am slowly learning what it really means to be a man, and thus my nature as a sacrificial provider.
Each of us can help make this world a little better to live in, and I for one want to help reclaim societal identity by reclaiming my own, and pursuing holiness. Too often I am selfish with my Lord, Who has done so much for me and moved me to tears so many times, so great have I felt His love, forgiveness, compassion. He really has been my Father throughout my life, even when I had strayed so far from Him.
I'm a Millennial, but lean towards Gen X.
Couldve sworn this dude was 40
Part of that is the beard though.
I swore he said he was 34 at one point
He also used a filter @@Ntmoffi
Its cuz of the beard
I just had a birthday and everyone at work was shocked when me and my mom said I was 23 and I'm the YOUNGEST in the family😭
I am 42 and the coworker at my new job got his mind blown when he found out, thought that I barely passed 30.
"I'm still the child" 😭
😂😂
Millennials honestly look so young it’s crazy!!!!
The younger milennials. Older milennials look more like gen x.
Younger millennials is just literally gen z my eldest brother looks 17 people often mistake him still at school with me he’s not he already got 2 children😂
There are a lot of GenZ nowadays insult someone for being Old, they look down on them
Literally they look more like a 50yo Suburban dad, or Single Mom, than the guy they insult
clearly we shouldn't use Age as a Measure, but use your Face as an identification, ask random people about your age.
if you look like 50yo, then you're 50yo, you're old, cranky and narrow minded, regardless of your age.
you're the one that draw the first blood insulting someone.
it's the botox, babe....
@@squidwardfourthwifetrue lol my brother is like twice my age yet still looks 18 like what the fu 😭
Every generation had stress. We just stopped teaching kids how to deal with it
Yes. The Great Generation, or whatever they are called certainly had it. And stress that directly impacted their lives, whether they read the news or not. (Saying this as a millennial who didn't learn how to handle stuff well either.)
Yeah but not every generation is dragging their own dead weight barely surviving on a day to day basis, older people will always be the most entitled and braindead people on this dumpsterfire of a planet.
Well no other generation was constantly exposed to whole world problems and adding that now you can't survive with full time job. Working extra ruins mental and physical health, then healthcare is expensive and the cycle continues.
@@PrinceoftheVioletFlame No they didn't. They had neighborhoods. Gossip has always existed. Anonymity is what's novel.
The BS back then is simply not comparable to the BS today. Boomers need to stop coping with their overall failure and accept they had it way easier
I hope my realization that nothing actually matters and that time will just keep marching on will preserve me better than most 😌
That guy looks 45. I'm 36 and people think I'm hardly past my mid 20s
Same. ❤
No surprise... The whole well being lifestyle, skin care routines, meditation etc were a millennial thing and it still is 😅
He's 26! it's shocking. I love his content though he's hilarious 😂
Bro, how is this guy only 5 years older than me
@@princessmimithepug6719 26 is certainly old enough to have a kid. Just because it's normalized to be a child into your 30s, doesn't mean it's, well, normal.
My mom told me something when i was young, it became something of a mantra in our house, "life is only as many pressures as you place upon it." This isnt always 100% true, but its good advice to help keep check on your anxieties about things beyon your realm of control
Gen Y: the Peter Pan generation
Gen Z: the Peter Parker generation
I don't get it
@@Ihatenumbersinname Millennials for a time thought it was a flex that they looked young for their age til they noticed their kids look older than them from the neck up…in real time. Now they’re being criticized for the lack of stress lines due to the variety of implications (most notably the accusation that the whole Gen Y dodged the process of growing up til now)
@@notproductiveproductions3504It’s still a flex to look younger than your age. It’ll always be a flex. And most of Gen Z was born from Gen X, not Millennials. Just like Gen X didn’t give birth to most Millennials; Boomers did.
@@IhatenumbersinnameGo look up Peter Pan and Peter Parker. Peter Pan is a boy (Millennials, the generation that never ages) and Peter Parker is a man (Gen Z, the generation that ages beyond their years).
@@Demi1369 I’m talking about how the iPad kids look older than their parents. That’s not a flex. That’s a sign of age trauma
I love Jordan’s videos he’s so relatable and down to earth
Makes a video just like this too
Millenials didnt watch the news until the internet, As a kid i couldnt wait for the news to finish so i could watch the simpsons
Not gonna lie, but it's true! Lol Back then, the news such as politics didn't interfere in our daily lives until late 2000s.
@@vanityparadiseofficial Eh, it wasn't as much if a problem but I remember old people watching the news and yelling at the screen much the same way they do today.
We totally did watch news shows, it's just that the ones we watched were open about being comedy talk shows.
Yoooo the same
I grew up in the 80s and the news radio was always on in the house. Then news on the TV around 5p with local, then national+international. Then the newspapers and news mags all laying around.
I'm in my 30's and everyone still thinks I'm in my 20's
In my 20s people thought I was in my 30s. Now that I'm in my 30s people assume I'm in my 30s.😂
But that's because I went bald in my 20s. Lol
Same. I'm 36 and I still have people who ask if I'm 21 yet.
@crystalsnow1138 when I was in my 20's, everyone thought I was a teenager lol
@@CajunPersuasionthat's okay when you are 40 you will look 30 it will be all good lol.
@@crystalsnow1138 At my shop customers think I'm 13 when I'm 21.
I used to hate it but I've learned to love people thinking I'm younger.
I think it also has something to do with how the younger generation for some reason feels a need to grow up faster. Like we got 13 year olds tryna be 25
People don't like kids
You are shamed for acting your age
Kids are the example of being the worst anything with a few exception to things like "child like innocence" and even that is spat at in another angle to the point if you some how are happy and content with life despite the horrors you're a child to everyone and no one takes you seriously.
I mean we’ve certainly lost tween third places. We don’t have things like Justice, the content on social media is either geared towards small children or adults, and especially when it comes to influencers it’s either hyper s*xualized content trying to sell things or out of touch extreme ideologies. I mourn for a lot of these kids
And yet we have a lot of adults playing candy crush on their phones.
How can we not feel pressured to grow up quickly when everyone around us pushes us into it? Kids don't even have an opportunity to be kids anymore. They're either being groomed or ignored, and it's sadly a rarity to see an emotionally stable family nowadays. I just hope that this generation coming up can survive this and push through to be better on the other side.
@@scottypittman1 even good families can't solve the desperate push outside the home. Only reserve it. I was lucky enough to be like "Oh I know I am mature, but please remember I am only a teenager"
But even with that you feel the pressure
Jordan is hilarious 😂😂😂
I love Jordan. He is my daily dose of existential crisis and fast food facts.
Same bro🥲
Same omg I was so happy to see him featured here😂
Is he actually gen z?
real
Does anyone else find him annoying and creepy? Maybe just me but I can't stand watching him. Just the way he says "come here" and talks in that passive-agressive whispering tone. Maybe I'm just used to bad people talking like that...
Im a millennial, fought in Iraq, I feel bad for gen z there getting screwed over. All the generations need to unite.
We have it pretty good, I don’t know why people are saying we are going through crazy stuff.
@@brandonmireles3249 i grew up during nineties, we had a lot more then. The politicians sold you all down the river. I take the train across the US, it's looking fucked.
@@brandonmireles3249 I think that your saying that because your mindset is not to be a victim. I respect that, I have also outperformed my peers in every way. You have the correct attitude to be successful. I'm talking to you about something larger than self help, or having a business mindset. You probably listen to Jordan Peterson, as do I. I appreciate what he says, not everything can be solved by having a proper mindset. We had a lot more in back in the day, our cities didint look like a dumpster. All those old well paying jobs are gone. Health insurance was 20 bucks a month for a family. A typical family in the burbs had 2 new cars and other toys, with time off. Those days are over.
@@brandonmireles3249 when people ask me "which dystopia is more likely, 1984 or Brave New World?" My answer is "It depends on where you're in the social pecking order. As you get higher, it becomes a Brave New World. Those who end up at the bottom will find themselves in 1984."
You're right. We need to all stick together as humans and try and uplift one another instead of tearing others down.
Previous generations have obviously gone through extreme stress too, but I think it’s at the forefront of everyone’s minds in this day and age. Everyone is on their phones or online all the time, with a constant stream of horrible news and activity around you. It’s all you see unless you are intentionally avoiding it.
There’s always been bad people and awful events, but when you have a streamlined view into every atrocity committed day by day, it starts to wear on you.
Idk when I look at pictures of people in the 50s and 60s they look really mature too. I remember watching something about musicians that all died on their 27th birthdays and they all looked so much older.
@@AprilReigns18 I think part of that is that nearly everyone smoked back then. Ages the skin. That, and the fashions of the time made people look older.
@@kev3dMaybe that’s why younger people seem older. Smoking & vaping.
@@intuitive_duckGive up today!
Exactly. People need to put their phones down at least 3 hours a day and take a walk/ run/ read an actual book/ journal/ jump rope/ just breathe. There will always be stress in life. How we handle it is really the key.
When I tell people I’m turning 30 they don’t believe me. I look 20😭😭😭😭
He's not wrong. When I told the kids at work that I'm 41 they freaked out. Some of them look 35 when they're only 25 🤣🤣
Ditto. When we get new employees in my department they run a betting pool to guess how old I am. Only one dude has ever gotten close and he was still off by 5 years.
I have the same thing I'm going to be 30 and my coworkers have no idea and they think I'm like 21 cos they are 25 to 27 but they look way older.
It's gonna blow their minds when I tell them on my birthday cos I look younger then them I'm also short and nerdy looking.😂
Lol a new intern at work befriended me thinking I’m her age. Then after a few weeks of chatting, her friend asked me from how long I’ve been working. I said “10 years” and they all exchanged looks lol
I’ve been really insecure about getting cold and then the other day two people said they thought I was in my early 20s and I’m 37 lol
😅
Same thing happens to me. I tell them that I am old enough to be their mom and they freak out! 😂
Dont forget the 2 years of lockdown during a time where we should’ve been outside with friends socializing
That is probably real reason, especially for extroverts
By definition, can still socialize online
@@MagicToenail You can't socialize online. It is like talking with chatgpt. You could be bot, alien, 12 year old or child rapist and I wouldn't know. I don't trust you and I don't even know are you human.
Fucking lost my strong friendship😭
@@MagicToenailnot the same as in person
The crossover I truly never expected.
He look mature in a good way too , hairline still good and good beard genes , grown ass men dont look child
Im a gen x, and were still going!! Shits always been difficult and stressful. Relax for tonight everyone. We can all get better, but it takes time.
Exactly the world always has some bullshit going on, we oughta read a history book
Though gen x imo is the best generation living today, I dont think you guys really went thru much. The country was fairly simple at the time if you weren't living in the ghetto. However, I will say you guys were the last bunch to make good music. My generation makes nothing but trash.
@@samsonslmpson1986 We definitely had some great music.
@@samsonslmpson1986just pure delusion my man what are you talking about stuff like crimes and standards of living was way worse back than look up real stats not your fairy tail I have it so hard bs
@@samsonslmpson1986 Gen X did see stuff. They grew up the later years of the Vietnam War, serial killers were prominent in the news, the 70s economic recession with the oil crisis, the Cold War was in both a period of détante and worrying about of nuclear annihilation, they grew up when the punk movement began, and a lot of Gen X carried the torch in the 80s and 90s. Gen X had the apathetic, irreverent, and ambivolent attitude towards the world for a reason.
Brett has officially discovered the President of the Fast Food Secrets Club
Every generation goes through their own struggles. No exceptions
Millennials never had to deal with half the planet going to war. Hasn’t been like that since the silent gen. Millennials also had a significantly better life
@MagicToenail
Kiddo, same crap, different decade. Only thing that's worse now is more racism, gender confusion and political polarity. But yeah, there were plenty of wars going on in the 90s and 2000s as well not to mention the economic downturns.
@@MagicToenailfr fr
millenials werent introduced to screens since a young age, now more than half of gen z has been on technology and whatnot their entire lives, alnog with the arrival of tik tok ,short form content and everything murdering their attention span.
everything now just feels company based and promotional, literally everything feels like its made to make the most money, algorithms are scary, sometimes they are so good at predicting what you want they even reccomend things you were thinking about without having said a thing, there are tons and tons of personal data stolen from you
Its not even sold to other companies, this data just makes you stay on the shorts longer and longer by reccomending you the perfect ones so that it becomes the most addicting possible, fucking up your dopamine receptors.
And together with all of this there are a shitton of wars going on the economy is crumbling the technology is advancing so fast no one can keep up and no one even seems to realize it and realize all of them will lose their jobs, its like the industrial revolution all over, and the ones that do realize it have no one to talk about it with anyone causing extreme loneliness.
The entirety of society is fucked up, and its probably too far gone to be saved everyone is just brainwashed by this and personally sometimes i just feel like im going insane, we are set to the standard of being a "good citzen" since we are put into school and live a boring life, everything feels so meaningless and it feels like all hope is lost.
(srry for bad grammar im not native english)@@MagicToenail
All the problems gen z have are in their head. War lol, you say war as if you were in one. Climate change, is a crock of bs. And cell phone addiction is an addiction.
Aging is related to how you react to events in life. Learn stoicism. Aging is also defined as the aggressive pursuit of comfort. Pursue discomfort or hormesis.
He sounded like he was about to cry😂😂
he always sounds like he’s about to cry
poor guy
Lmao😂 Jordan always sounds like he's gonna cry 😂
That man really rizzed both of us with that “come here"😊
Cringe
Lol 😅
@@ThatInternetGuy420 ur mom
Wdym?
@@TheFunnyDictator the way he said “come.here" Made me quiver a little bit 🫵
He’s 26 now.
He looks like 45 😭
That poor bastard
Yeah he looks older than me!
I thought he was older than me and I’m a millennial 😂
@@centeringcube😂😂 you made my day.
ahhh the 3 wars? are you being trained to Duck and Cover? WE WERE
The thing people forget when talking about generations is while things DO have a different impact on you when you're different ages, this doesn't ONLY affect the young more (the old are affected more, too), but also, that people OF ALL AGES who are still alive are going to the same things.
I think it more depends on the person and how they take things and what they make of things. That's true no matter the generation.
Us millennials think being independent adults is hard (it is), it’s even harder for the younger adults. Every year that goes by it’s harder to earn enough to make a living. Imagine trying to start a life outside of your parents home for the first time the way things are right NOW. Not only is living more expensive, but people aren’t as close as they used to be, and a lot of younger people really don’t have the village support older generations had.
That’s why you work really hard and become valuable to the company you work for, then demand that they increase your wage by a lot more within at least a month. If they don’t, leave, and chew out all the old fuckers, tell them they don’t value hard work, tell them their generation is weak and filled with liars and hypocrites, and go elsewhere. On top of that you’ll need side hustles and you’ll need to work on your own terms, create scaleable businesses, etc. On top of that start working out and start learning to fight and you’ll make it
The money from inflation is already printed and big corporations are gonna be the first to get it, billions, if not trillions of dollars all going to the rich men who own big corporations and want to use you for profit while you slowly accept shittier lifestyles and less pay as they grow richer. Your business needs to get in the way of that. You don’t make money in this world, you TAKE money.
@@bobbyhill4118or what they'll do is have your payment for a set grade based on your age and slowly increase your wage but then tax it even more. Not only that but being really good at your job invites the possibilities that no they won't increase your wage, why? Because you're so good at this specific hub that they should just permanently keep you at that beginner position instead of giving you promotions. It's a very common practice, the hard working labourer stays a labourer and a laid back hippy gets a promotion
Work for the USPS, you'll be retired by your mid-late 40's. Particularly if you bust your a** every holiday season. The shock is that you have to work a lot harder than you think.
@@MotorcycleEnjoyer01 scared to be manly? How much do soldiers get paid again, last I heard not as much as someone working in a convenience store or fast food place
My son is 23. Job market is trash. The stress of finding a serious job is wearing on him.
What stress?! The unemployment rate is 3.4%
@@mikewilliams9069 Lies from the government. Try getting an entry level job with just a Bachelors' Degree, you'll get a 1/150 response rate, the rest will ghost you.
wrong. you never saw hard time like in the early 2000's. It's never been easier to get a entry level job@@bush2239
not true@@bush2239
@@bush2239I wouldn’t put it past the government and that’s sad.
Being in your 20s is hella stressful, it gets better. Ive gotten younger looking in my thirties.
Edit: I was born in 94 so I’m a baby millennial, my original response was to this video, I didn’t mean to make it a contest but did, we’re all going through the same shit, just in different ways. Were all struggling.
Millennials have gone through all that and have been going through everything currently too, I think we were hit the hardest because now we are in our late 20s early 30s and we have kids now and major responsibilities and still have to deal with all this bullshit
Yeah most of us don't have kids because we've realized that's not in our cards. I live okay NOW but unlike most people I lived my life without fun until i had money and now I'm too scared to spend money because I know life is only going to get worse 😂
Late twenties? Early thirties? Try damn near 40 lol. Some of us are already over 40. Having full blown midlife crises. And knee arthritis. It hurts just getting out of bed. Enjoy your precious youth. It’s gone quicker than you realize.
Why don’t we stop playing the misery game and just agree that times suck for EVERYONE right now?
Absolutely true. Millenials have it harder than GenZ. We are carrying our trauma while now taking in the newer current events like the pandemic, Biden and new wars.
Okay, it's difficult to relate, let alone have empathy for someone who is middle aged with a stable relationship, job and so on. Let alone make it a contest about who has experienced more tragedies in their life vs teens and young adults a time when they had the least concern for societal collapse.
Millennial here I am 40 and aging quite gracefully people say I look 32-33 I haven’t done hard drugs and don’t drink much try to get the correct amount of water every day. I don’t have social media that’s probably the clincher right there
You do have social media. You used social media to say that
@@MagicToenail
Yeah of course I’m referring to the ones where real people that know me in actual life.
@MedicinalMagic It's OK; I don't count youtube as real social media either lol.
It's not the clincher social media ain't that deep
Spot on my friend. I'd argue it's the drug and alcohol abuse, too much empty sex and various cosmetic surgeries rather than fabricated stress. As a millennial who grew up in a war torn country I fail to realize how wars and genocides affect American teenagers. If anything too much comfort and no actual problems has caused people to get too invested and overly stressed by things that don't actually affect them.
As Brett started reading the reply, all I had on my mind was "We didn't start the Fire"
Not sure if that's referring to the newer version of the song..or the older one
The 21st century version is shaping up nicely
we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it🤷🏼♀️
The only stress here is how demanding women are now for us men and how hard it is to have a loyal and not toxic relationship
Older millennial here. We're dealing with a lot of shit, plus mortgage, and being the first generation that obviously had it worse than their parents overall.
Problem is, every problem is getting even bigger for the ones coming after us.
I always think about how hard it's going to be for my younger coworkers, and specially, how it's going to be for my niece, which is around his secondth birthday.
I'm gen X. Actuaully we were the 1st gen to have it worse than our parents (the boomers). The boomers were the gen that were well looked after by the state.
Problems aren't getting bigger. We live in the most peaceful and prosperous time in history. The rate of home ownership is higher than it was 70 years ago.
There aren't more problems, they're just amplified. You didn't hear about every robbery, every rape or every murder even 30 years ago. Now they're blasted on social media. There aren't more train de-railments than there were two years ago, but the one big one got clicks. So now every train de-railment gets blasted on social media. It's the same for everything else. If you don't constantly look for it, you don't notice it. That means it isn't happening more often. If crime was as high as the media wants you to think it was everywhere, you'd have experienced it by now. Most likely, you haven't, because violent crime rates are *still* down from 30 years ago even with the increase during the WuFlu
thank you, gosh
I see too many comments stating their struggles as if the problems of today aren’t getting even worse, it’s disheartening the lack of empathy I’m receiving as an 18 year old young adult walking into an economy where everyone around me is absolutely hopeless (my positively only stems from me being more determined amongst all else)
It’s as if our issues, even the ones a lot of people don’t agree with like gender, identity, race; a slew of issues coming from those things alone, and we’re just called “weird,” I have empathy to those who feel the NEED to even go through things like that
It’s as if our generation has been taught suffering in so many different areas is normal, it’s normalized, and that we’re all just a bunch of messed up weirdos with no hope for the future.
But no.. no, the damn majority of the population; our parents, our teachers will bat an eye to us and label us as problems, as if we didn’t live in a cold world already.
All in all, it’s a breath of fresh seeing someone who decided to take a look at the new generations and understand that we have a whole new and scary world of struggle ahead. I can appreciate the fact that it is at least noticed, even if it is likely to only get worse.
@@nienbloon I'm afraid some of the popular issues today were brought to the front as a way to promote individuality and exacerbate differences over what's common in most of us. And in the process, class issues got shaded over, and workers forgot yo unite against those on top.
If I've learnt something during my life til now, I'd say stay safe, avoid debt as much as possible, and strenghten bonds with those around you.
You make no sense bruh the economy keeps hitting records highs tech is good it's actually crazy everything keeps getting better but people just be tripping and whining 😂
It depends on the individual. Some individuals have more youthful features and facial structure, while those of others may be more mature-looking. This has always been the case, so I’m not sure as to why people are acting as if this is a new concept. Perhaps it is because people are doing their makeup or growing facial hair to appear as a more mature-looking individual, but that was always been the case as well. The only reasonable claim is that we are more exposed to mature-looking individuals on social media, as that is what the algorithms push, thus, our brains associate that look with being normal as opposed to the faces of those around us, even though the natural mature look is more likely to be the minority.
To that one millennial commenter; the Iraq war was formally declared to end in 2011 and the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. Additionally, a portion of Gen Z was alive during 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and hurricane Sandy. Even if an individual was young, they still experienced the implications of these events.
Don’t forget school shootings, I know I was never too worried but had friends who were terrified something would happen especially in a state that had a lot of them unfortunately
@@sevironside4073 ~ Yep! When I was in highschool , we got a threat one morning, and I frantically texted all of the people I knew, even if it was just from a class project, telling them not to go to school. Apparently, the school knew of the threats the previous week, yet decided not to inform the students. It was absurd.
@@alyssarose2818 it’s definitely had an effect on a lot of us. When I was in college in Europe the university had a bomb threat called in during finals week. All of the Europeans were confused when none of the Americans took it seriously. We explained to them it was pretty common and more than likely the person who called it in didn’t want to do his finals
That beard is what makes him look old. He chose to look that way. The bearded hipster look, which you might still see among some millennials, is now fairly ingrained among the Gen Zers that can pull it off. I guess it's just really popular to have that "grounded" and more earthy look. I mean, advertising used to be geared so much towards a clean shave in the 90s. Now, it's all about beard maintenance, leaving clean shaving for those that can't have one.
It's also because he has a wrinkly forehead. I'm 34 and have that same forehead with the deep lines (got it from my dadda) so I have a full fringe (or "bangs") and I get mistaken for my 15yo sons sister as the rest of my complexion is good and I have no grey hair or crows feet.
Receding hairline and gray hairs…
A beard is a sign of manhood. And it’s really one of the few things that separates us from women. There’s spiritual meaning behind growing a beard too but here in the West that’s not a huge focal point.
His forehead lines are primarily what make him look so much older lol. If those weren’t so pronounced we wouldn’t look 20 years older.
Jordan got Brett with that "come here" 😅
Not to mention the whole 2020 & 2021 stuff. That really set us back, luckily I finished school years before 2020. But my little sister and her friends really got screwed over with the online schooling.
Even me, i feel like Im missing 2 years of mt life, and everything has gone by sooo quick since then. My parents married and had a family at 23-24. My age now, and I feel sooo behind, even though I'm really not.
Im 24 and never went to a bar or parties or anything, cause everything was all closed or got bankrupt since 2020-2021. Now im in my mid 20s and dont care about thay stuff, but still, it feels like I missed out on all the "young 20s stuff" the previous generations had.
Its like I skipped the young adult period and went straight to adult.
At 24, there's still time for bars and clubs, lol.
I would say clubs and raves are the thing you wanna do before you hit 30.
Bars are around for any age.
In fact, once you get over 30, going to sophisticated bars, speakeasies, wineries, and craft breweries, is a much more satisfying experience than clubbing. Speakeasies are very laid back, like a college bar.
But definitely do the club thing before you're 30. Its very fun, especially out with friends, dancing to the latest music.
Did older people not go through this too?
Funny thing is I’m 24 here too and I’ve not done any of that. Though only thinking about things like that will make you feel even older for missing out stuff, even though it’s not late and it’s not end of the world imo. But I would suggest just doing it and get to doing whatever you want to do in life already honestly. Life is about living how you want so it doesn’t hurt to take a risk and try sometime. I keep having the same missing out feelings because my parents also married when they were 18-20 so I keep thinking about having someone and marriage but in my case I’m just working on myself right now.
Not going to clubs means you missed young adulthood?😭 Your tripping bruh
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Gen Z seem to be physically aging twice as fast as previous generations, but mentally they are aging twice as slow
I had the mental age of 20 at 12 and at 20,my mental energy is dead. It's not my fault, there is just too much to know, keep up with and do. Both relevant and irrelevant😅
There is an extreme gap in mental maturity most of gen z has a faster developing mental age due to new parenting techniques and the world going to shit on them, A few days ago some kids at my school had cocaine and got arrested, we are an extremely mature and immature generation divided between hopelessness and selfishness
Something like that
@@Nugget-1987 I mean I think the suicide rate in Gen Z/Alpha speaks for itself about how high some of our mental ages are 😅
Nah I think we're aging faster mentally. I mean we kinda have to, it's not easy to stay a carefree optimistic kid when everywhere you look things are being destroyed and there's nothing you can do about it.
We should really maintain hope for the future and keep the power in our hands. That’s the best way forward
One thing not listed: Assuming the worst possible outcome or motive for everything. THAT will stress you to no end.
Yeah everyone can benefit from not sweating the small stuff
When I shaved my beard off people think I’m barely 30 when I’m actually about to hit 50. It’s not a generational thing… you get out what you put in.
Exactly! People making fun of Gen Z just show how immature they are.
I’m 22 and can confirm that social media has definitely fucked us up real bad, alongside those quarantine years
Plandemic was stupid but thank god that moronic time is all behind, only thing it affected really was outside travel, and going to restaurants and bars
@@thesurvivalist8488 you're speaking for yourself then, cuz it wasn't that simple for everyone
@@parusyte i dont know about other countries but in finland it wasnt really that bad, fuel was cheap and lot of mask psychosis in public transit and in the news, people couldnt really go abroad so they instead went to national parks and wilderness areas. Nobody really just was the whole 2020-2022 just inside in a quarantine. Just before ukraine war they talked a lot about vaccines and etc crap but just when the war started in ukraine that shit went away like a fart in the wind. Kinda put things in a new perspective.
@@thesurvivalist8488 ohh I was referring to the mental health consequences of those quarantine years and how some of those effects still carry on to this day, cuz the actual experience of living through the lockdown precautions wasn’t so bad for me since I had a gf at the time. I didn’t like the masks but I personally never found it to be too much of a hassle
Yea it messed up my Junior and Senior years of highschool
The lost generation, the greatest generation, and the silent generation had it worst. Sickness, disease, the First World War, the roaring 20s, the Great Depression, World War Two, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, the start of the Cold War, the Vietnam war, and the end of the Cold War. My grandma (54) told me that in her school she would have things called fallout shelters just in case the Soviet Union (or what is now Russia) would drop a nuclear bomb or weapon on the United States. I live in Jackson, Mississippi, and like 180 miles away from my house is an air base called Barksdale Air Force Base, in Shreveport, Louisiana. During the Cold War the United States needed a strategic bomber that could run missions for extended periods of time, so, they made the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Which is stationed at Barksdale. Plus, depending on where you were in the Second World War, you had to worry about whether an axis country (Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) would attack the allied powers (United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, France, and China) at any given moment. Just like Japan did when they bombed Pearl Harbor. I know every generation has its pros and cons but the 3 generations listed above had it worst in my opinion.
People will stress over crap they cant change and i dont understand it at all. Live your life and ignore the bs.
All I'm hearing is that Gen Z is even more susceptible to eating up the governments garbage about how the world is ending. They just used to have less effective fear tactics.
Which is fair, if people are mentally manipulating you- it is fair to have stress
There's things that are silently ruining people and often times it can be a monster of it's own. For example- loneliness is seen as a stupid thing to be broken about. Though if you care for a baby without the social aspect they will just die according to a study forever ago to figure out what the human's first language was.
@@olivebre4170 maybe, but one would be disallusioned to think that life has ever been easy, for anyone, ever. New generation, new issues. That is how it goes.
@@ipoopd right, which is where the backlash comes from because the old generation wants to play it like Gen Z has no issues. I'm all up for the reasoning that it doesn't matter- man I agree we need to stop talking about generations and just realize that every individual has their own plate. Not chill with people acting like things aren't just in general rough and entirely to easy not to see the other's struggle. That is how we got the gender war
Easier to believe the world is getting worse when the country has been getting continually worse our entire lives
I watch that man a ton, when he said he was also gen z I was legitimately shocked.
He’s been living an unhealthy lifestyle but of course, people will refused to take responsibility. No one who lives a healthy lifestyle is gonna look way older than they actually are unless they have some rare medical condition.
I am not legally allowed to move out but I sure as hell look like it. When I was 13 people thought I could drive (I can just not on the roads) and not like *in old lady voice* “Oh look how much you have grown!” Like “Oh hey what car do you drive?” or “Have you gotten tickets?” I was 13! Not 16 💀🤣😭
The crossover I didn't know I needed
Attitude/outlook when faced with stress will also greatly affect how impactful that stress will actually be. Thinking positively ages you slower both from a physical standpoint, and an internal standpoint (as in, optimists live longer than pessimists). Course, I say this as an “ignore the stress/realistic” type. 😂
I'm 60 and look 45.
Have zero stress because don't give a F#ck about anything anymore and have no kids to worry about.
wow congrats spike178, im sure you are 60
@@JhonIkkiOfficialbuddy his user name doesn’t prove how old he is lmao
She finally reacted to Jordan!! ❤ 😂 I love this crossing of the youtube multi verse SO MUCH!! I would happily watch you react to more of his videos Brett! Jordan is the best!
The older generations are also going through everything the younger generations are going through.
Now that's an actual defense
“Climate change is real, but only for our generation”-Gen Z🤡🤡🤡
Millennials not only had 9-11, bullying was an even bigger problem, our parents were boomers who believed in tough love rather than soft parenting, we had ebola and mad cow disease, everyone thought they were a gangsta rapper, so there were tons of fights in school, mental illness was never talked about or even considered, etc.
Then we STILL had to go through everything Gen Z is going through with Covid, political division, phone addiction, etc.
Let's just say that all generations go through huge problems. Let's stop the competition and love each other.
Millennials are also children of GenX. If their parents are Boomers, they were old parents
The difference is that we (millennials) had to figure things out in the moment rather than see things in the distance with even time to stress. We are the sink or swim generation that just had to learn "f it, lets just get this over with" and didn't have time to stress.
Also we're aging slower because nicotine and the sun also age people pretty harshly. The majority of us spend all our time inside because we're broke so the sun is out, and we were the first generation to not really care for cigarettes, and vaping wasn't "cool" for us so most of us missed that too so nicotine aging is out.
@@skecchi3201And blue light. Even if you're stuck inside, blue light will age you as fast as the sun without the benefits. Gen Z raised on that shite.
Back then employment and the economy was fairer which makes a huge difference
@@Thawhid no it wasn't literally at all. The first economic collapse happened in 2008, jobs weren't easy to come by and wages were incredibly stagnant until trump came into office.
You are so unique and natural beauty no nail colour
It’s so true we do look younger. gen z isn’t used to stress. Most of the past stuff happened when they weren’t even born yet or really young. This is the first time they have had to deal with real ongoing stress I feel for them it’s stressful but we millennials have been going through all kinds of wars and domestic attacks and recessions so we just know how to cope a bit better. This has literally been happening our whole lives 🙃🙃🙃
Dang, you’re absolutely right!
Completely agree. Also, gen z needs to laugh more. The few that work in my office are constantly stressing over things like their shoes not being the right color of blue (or something this silly). Like, relax, laugh lol
One of the comments was that Gen Z has gone through genocides and I'm just like when tf was that? 😆
@@celestialfox9282do you blame us for not being cheerful all the time? This world is so screwed up. I’m not saying I don’t ever laugh. But when I think about how crazy everything is, it gets to me sometimes 💀
@@knxcholx you just proved my point lol
I was often told I sound pretty young. Someone guessed my age to be younger than 30. (I handled Veteran calls for VA benefits). I was over 60 at the time, and actually a Vietnam war Veteran. Here’s to stress, or lack of it. Stress is your problem. It’s not a requirement to react negatively to stressful situations.
Exactly!
We need a whole series of Brett reacting to Jordan!!! That would be epic!
As someone in Gen Z, I've also been through ALL of those things that the Millenial was bragging about- Gen Z aren't all high schoolers. I'm 26 and my hair is graying, especially on my face. We're not okay LOL
Uh... folks. The millennials and Gen x are going through the same things you are. We're still here.
we're growing up in this, trying* to buy a house, go to school, get a job, and live well in the environment that both you people and the those before you have created for us. :D hope this helps!
@@shart6275not really.
@@shart6275"Both you..."
This is an ignorant response, to be certain. Log out and go outside. The thing that is aging these people faster is being on the internet 24/7. They're afraid of their own shadow. I don't include you in this group because maybe you're aging just fine. Just like maybe the OP didn't contribute in any meaningful way to the boogyman you're convinced exists.
Millennials didn't make society what it is @@shart6275 as a later millennial
We're mostly still the underlings, just a bit ahead of gen Z.
My bosses tend to be gen X, but even most of them still answer to boomers.
Circle of life.
@@joecoolmccallyou have to have the IQ of a rock if you genuinely believe what you just said.
You know what's funny? I'm a 30 year old millennial and people still think I'm in high school.
Same.
i'm literally 37 and when i went to college for my 2nd degree they still think i'm 20 years old. when i told the teacher i have 2 children a 4 year old and a 2 year old, it blew their minds. then i showed them photos and videos and my driver's license.
My dad looked like he was in his 50s when 70 and my maternal grandfather was full white in his mid 20s. Genetics play a role in how we age.
That is true and my little brother smokes vapes and drinks and he looks so much older than me but I have a few strains of grey hair but it’s genetics for me. We get our grey hairs early 🫤
Genetics only play 3-7% in how you age google it now epigenetic’s a whole another fascinating thing .
@@NiciO.G I googled it and it says less than 30%. Sure, 3-7% is also less than 30 but im sure they would have phrased it differently if that was the case.
@@88balloonsonthewall70 want a link?
@@88balloonsonthewall70 30% is standard if you don’t do things to activate epigenetic’s and use ALL of your DNA, 3-7% is a high performer and 0% is a Master …
You got you gen Z! Don't detach just need some of the right guidance from the right people! We all got this as a 31 year old I sew so much potential in all of your generation such beautiful minds ❤❤
Something ive come to realize as a gen z, is that stress is a choice. Once you realize that life is so much easier!
True. Almost all of the GZ stressors listed are self-imposed.
Absolutely. I gave up early, I get carded everywhere, I'm 37. Just went back to work on my Masters, and these 19 year olds look 30.
Sure. Keep leeching off the bank of mom and dad and see where that gets you
@@masterball999gaming4 what does that have to do with it?
Life is hard. It always will be no matter what generation you’re from. It’s hard to be broke and it’s hard to generate wealth. It’s hard to be in shape and it’s hard to be fat. Choose the hard that works for you.
You have some good wisdom there. Keep at it.
Every generation has gone through stuff. I'm Gen X and have a list too. We went through the Cold War with the threat of nuclear war between the former Soviet Union and US, saw the Challenger explosion live on TV at school, the Mt. St. Helen eruption in Washington state in 1980 (about the same type of eruption as Vesuvius that buried Pompeii & Herculaneum in Italy in 79 AD, 9-11 (this hit closer to home because I live in NY state...we were all effected, etc. I admit the last few years of fighting against hate from the far Left, censorship, and trying to keep democracy alive has been the most stressful thing I've dealt with in recent years, though. Christian hate is on the rise with mass shootings, but all we hear about is antisemitism and Islamophobia (a problem too). But I'm not hearing about mass shootings in synagogues and mosques. Just threats and hateful graffiti. ALL religions are under attack & they are trying to divide us.
It’s only stressful if you pay attention to them. A lot of things that are stressful to people nowadays don’t have anything to do with them on a personal level. Pick and choose what to stress on and you’ll be fine. There are too many things in life to stress on, so don’t make the mistake of stressing on all of them at once.
Exactly. And, if you are stressed, use it to your advantage like I do. I just deep clean when I’m stressed. Putting the stress to work instead of dwelling on it has definitely helped me.
I think this is an important thing to do. With access to so much bad news and crisis around the world people are addicted to paying attention and worrying about everything
Thing is, I look at all the old people around me & see how ignorant & apathetic they are to modern problems & I actively do not want to become like them. I can’t just “ignore” things that are literally reshaping the world I live in every day just because they’re gonna stress me out. Personally, I think if you’re not taking the time to learn about the world & care about the strangers living in it alongside you, you’re doing something wrong. Empathy is not your enemy.
@@THIRTYNINEXYes, this.
Sticking your head in the sand is what got us into this mess in the first place, the apathetic are the easiest to control
I’m not gen z but we still go through what you’re going through because we are still alive you know 😅
Jordan!! my 2 favorite creators in one vid
SAME I had the same thought
Man, I wanted to like that guy so bad. But the "come here" and zoom in thing makes me feel like my personal space is being invaded and I couldn't do it anymore. 😅 Sir, I can hear you from here! Just make your good points without drawing me in for a sucker punch.