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It's changed over time but "the based god" was a mentally unstable, very public Internet personality who was too self absorbed to notice or care if anyone took him seriously/thought his bit was satire. That level of self confidence in spite of overwhelming unpopularity eventually circled back on itself, unlocking an ironic approval from more and more people until sentiment reversed. At which point, unsurprisingly, the based god did not acknowledge, and is probably still active to this day. It became synonymous with having a strong, unpopular conviction and became associated with folks who are obsessed with moving the overton window. This is approximately when the entire thing became an NPC catchphrase, and therefore, entirely cringe.
So true! In fact, I’m going to leave this comment just to assert my individuality, thus proving that I’m a real human being! Anyways, I really don’t really care about your opinion (based).
the one interesting thing about gen z is numerous philosophical ideas such as teenagers finding autonomy and individuality and not going with the crowd can be simplified through memes like the based to cringe spectrum. on god, no cap, so real.
@@Tullecei think the other one is more free. When one embraces the cringe, he might actively do things just for the cringe. While the one who feels no cringe lives entirely free from cringe, as if it never existed...
I suppose it's a to be expected coping mechanism to growing up in a world that keeps telling you it's falling apart and all the good things are in the past, whilst also having grown up with participation trophies instead of 'can-do' attitudes... (as a millennial myself I don't think my generation is any better, we were just a bit luckier in having better music)
The way these videos and their analyses contain and expose so much truth of our time but are protrayed in this ironic and seemingly unserious-like manner truly represents the ideas and characteristics of our age
Yeah, he is presenting these points in an ironic and detached way, a clear sign of being afraid of standing behind his own points and searching for online validation, which doesn't make him much better than Gen-z, but at least he's self aware and has funny things to say
@@pii1251Gen Z uses posts, memes, and static words and gestures. this man puts himself out there despite his discomfort, and we don't even know much about him other than the fact he tries to actually educate you on real shit, on god bro, so real.
@@pii1251 What the f*** is this armchair psychology? I can see you are searching for a meaning in a satirical interview format made by a guy that does this for the funny awkwardness. What you interpret is just in your head, take your meds. This "comedy character" is actually nothing new. Lots of comedians have done similar characters before but... to know that I guess you need to be a little older I guess. Then you'd also stop making those cringe bs assumptions.
And yet Frankie still ran. You have to admire his adherence to his principles, not allowing the apathetic to determine the pace at which he moves through life.
Gen Z-ers do care deep inside as they are very fragile inside their carapace of irony and memes, so they seemed fine but in fact went home to cry in bed whilst listening to some sad music
ZeItGeIsT Use your own words, English speaker. You have no need to butcher foreign words. A panino (o!) is just a sandwich, a rucksack is just a backpack, and pierogi is plural.
@@Halo_Legend You used the moniker "English speaker" as a derogatory label in this comment, yet your chosen name on youtube is in English. We will use your words as we chose, then they will be become our words, hence the evolution of language.
Someone else already said it, but you need to cover millennials. I don't know what to do with myself now that there aren't constant articles about the industries we're ruining and all the participation trophies we got.
We're still in the headlines. Now the headlines are just about how gen z finds us cringe, even though they're doing so because we're living more authentically and without trying to please everyone. It's like how when you were a child, you thought your parents were a bit cringe because their humor was dorky and their clothing style was outdated. But now as an adult we realize that they were actually living more truly to their authentic selves, which makes them way more based than we were for trying to please everyone and be cool. Being awkwardly authentic is probably the most based thing someone can do in life, but gen z hasn't realized that yet.
@@derek96720 Yeah, I have definitely become more awkward and authentic as I’ve aged. I feel like I was a lot cooler when I was younger, more fearless even, because life hadn’t given me all it’s hard knocks yet…but now I honestly just can’t be bothered to be anyone but my own extremely awkward self. I also think that humanity is becoming more and more awkward, in general, as we spend ever more time online, on our devices, and away from actually interacting with other human beings in person.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 For me, I stopped caring about being cool because whenever I was "cool" it only ever led me towards egotistical assholes I wouldn't have otherwise liked to be around. When you focus on being cool it's almost natural you end up being around people who think they're the coolest person in the room. Now I actively focus on things I enjoy which are decidedly uncool and have become very skeptical about things which are considered "cool" because of this. Maybe it's a minor trauma because I became disenchanted with many things I loved previously when I realised a lot of the people doing them were like this. I think in the crux of it, striving for coolness often inter-personally achieves the opposite and that as we get older we realise it, and become as a counter, focused on our genuine selves. I think this causes those people who are still chasing after being 'cool' (often Gen Z now) probably either feel threatened by it or consider us cornballs because what they idealise is opposite. I do hope in the future we reshape what it means to be cool to something that doesn't really tend to the kind of neuroticism that I mentioned previously, and I think it is going in that direction slowly.
Based, no cap. The way he runs away at the end reminds me of my friend from 5th grade, Jerry, who ran home like this everyday after he got off the bus. I always wished I had that much motivation to get home, or to get anywhere, really.. 😅
Bold to call the person that literally "spawned" you into reality an NPC. 😂 Tell them you brought them into this server and you can take them out of it.
3:05 LMFAO these girls going from slightly confused, to listening intently, to completely averting eye contact just screams to me that they do EXACTLY what hes describing 😭😭😭
I'm a millennial and we were so filled with hope and that Obama era idea of change that it was pretty painful to have those hopes dashed. Gen z doesn't seem so much cynical (that's more gen x) as they do wary. They learned not to have that optimism and be more realistic about things.
If you just look at the comments and see how many people presumably agree and confirm the validity of these notions but handle it with such ironic and sarcastic indiffernce and apathy is so... yeah interesting, because it reveals the mentalitys that shape and run our age
Most are of them are older people. Some comments actually critique what’s wrong with us, and I appreciate the advice they give because I generally like learning. And I believe most of the comments are gen z themselves too.
@@idkanymore2183 You're probably right, and I think some of the stuff they say is true. However at times it devolves into insults and generalisations that aren't quite accurate.
Greetings from Canada. We really enjoy what you are doing ! Keep it up, because you definitely have a future and I don't think it will be long before you have a TV show !. Please look at Rick Mercer . Incredibly off the cuff talented and you are too . A very Happy New Year to you
I kinda feel like GenZ is all about being careful about what you say, educated in all the ways of how not to offend others with words but not really the best in action and behavior. Also a lot of hypocrisy and judgement on the low , but somehow the outer appearance is still wrapped together with a couple of pretty politically correct words justifying the course of action
I’m not a Gen z Im tail end millennial (1994) but I admit I’ve been guilty of quite of few of these things especially in my early 20s…like what we call “humble bragging”…
This is art. Now please like this comment, for I am the main character and not cringe. And I will most definitely thank you with my whole heart, not just from pleasurable satisfaction.
@@JohnDoe-bt9qp your name fits with the negativity, and negativity attracts negativity! have fun being an ass online "johndoe", you wouldn't be saying that if your account wasn't anonymous, or the fact that it's clearly an alt account, go make a normal account and do better things with your free time
Gen Z are the masters of putting on a show while actually caring about nothing really. And I don't blame them, with the world going to shit, how can you actually care about anything?
Honestly I’m not even sure this is so true anymore. Now we’re at the “I love the world and want to be ‘truly’ self-aware unlike those fake nihilistic npc’s” phase that STILL keeps us from understanding that we’ll never have the capacity to be truly self aware
This dichotomy has existed in previous generations in various forms also The difference is, now everywhere has the same dichotomous forms as the USA, whereas in the past language and geographic boundaries yet to be broken by technology meant that each new generation in each culture/country had its own take on attempting to distinguish themselves from the previous generation.
I have a theory. In a world where we can constantly see human beings make mistakes, say or do cringey things, or ruin their own lives and having it being eternally covered everywhere in a massive world of conversation, that being social media, it breeds fear. When we constantly scroll into the comment sections of a post about another human acting at their lowest, or making a mistake, (whether they're aware of being recorded or not) it's absolutely piercing, cruelly insulting and or heavily shaming. Again, this is all online, and mixed with our need for dopamine, and natural tendency to watch garbage, spend a lot of time where? Online. So in that time, we slowly begin to internalize that how people bash online must be how EVERYONE acts in real life. So I, as a imperfect human being, anxiously cannot feel it's EVER okay to be wrong or make a mistake. "I must never let my guard down around my loved ones, or ask a stranger for help, because social media has shown me that the 'real' world is nothing more than condescendingly unforgiving and endlessly judgmental." So therefore, we pretend. we act like our favorited Main Character without the undesirable traits or room for growth that is needed, and focus only on the image of being...good, perfect, well known and liked. Social media's the ultimate tool of curating a fake persona, and we all use it, so why would actually I do the personal work to change if I can just show that I have? we're chameleons, isolated in our brains and trying to survive all while being afraid of each other.
I was at the head of gen z and thought we were pretty wack, but man I cant imagine how annoying it must be to be or be around younger zoomers. My favorite ones, or only ones I bother with, are those who are kind of autist about some hobby or craft. Too into something to be annoying about politics or sexual identity lol. I once made the mistake of answering a question "wrong" in front of a zoomer and she made it a whole thing and I just wanted to resume eating my pizza and chilling. I didnt think it was that bad til I kept hearing people on dates around campus talk about politics. Super pretty zoomer girl telling a schmuck "you know you should do something to help because you're white" and him just guzzling down french fries and nodding lmao It was a minority of girls I made friends with that werent sugar babies or running an OF. Everyone speaks in memes and references its so lame
Ugh sounds like my experience with the younger zoomers. I don't focus my hate on a gender but i've noticed on average the girls are more likely to fit that stereotype you mentioned. In general I just see someone who looks too zoomer-ish and i go "yeah i'll just avoid that" I'm a 2002 zoomer but always got surrounded by older people so maybe that's why? I do tend to roll better with millenial media than zoomer media but i do enjoy the autistic memes.
@shadowmaster452 and BRO what the heck is up with the extremely awkward silence in uni? No one answers, no one mingles, it's like everyone is only normal online and the way they interface with the world is through an online lense. What a drag.
btw Just a correction, there's no such thing as "kind of autistic" since autism is indeed a spectrum. (not a linear spectrum, a circular one to be exact). So you have to be on the spectrum to be considered autistic. Sorry if this was annoying :)
