Gen Z Reacting To Slipknot Is Hard To Watch... 

I don’t doubt it, honestly. I think we realized very quick that this was just rage click bait. Haha

@@TankTheTech Honestly, a few years back, Doja Cat did that metal version of Say So, Poppy won Best Metal Performance for Blood Money, and we started seeing artists like Mothica. Pop has accepted metal. Kids haven't accepted music.

Thank you for reminding me of reality and restoring my faith that the world is not all normies.

@@Breaker197 no problem. The kids today are okay.

They're not outliers. The React people curate their reactions a lot, cut alot of things and sometimes edit crucial things. It's as fake as a pair of boobs in California

THAT KID IN PARTICULAR MAKES ME FEEL UNFATHOMABLE ANGER

Don't worry, these aren't even people. They're Californians.

@@manictiger Hey! I'm from California... 😕 Lol.

When that kid said “this isn’t even music” I wanted to punch him right in his stupid fucking face

What these dumb shit think is music is trash talentless hack bs

"They've turned Gen Z gay!"

😂😂😂😂😂

@@Selig07 no all Genz has bad taste in was born in 07

@@nikolaiwassillie5372 Obviously I don't mean all of them. Just amazes me how damn near everything I see with Gen Z, at least half of them are gay or at the very least, flamboyant as hell.

Alex Jones is a joke in case no one understands

That's so badass wtf

Slipknot? Americans think they are scary? Metalheads? Sorry guys, check Europe. Have you seen/listened Cradle of Filth?

@@slawomir5356bro what

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tbh same

Yall act like ur the only gen z to listen to slipknot and korn😭

@@copaxan if you think about it most gen z dont know who slipknot korn and other metal bands are 😭

@@viiinn. insane take

there's no need bud. every generation has chucklefucks.

Check out Gideon, they’re the band that acted as the stepping stone to into heavier metal. If you like all of those bands, you’ll like it even heavier (try “2 Deep” or “champions”)

wait until you get into Tool my friend \m/

Ah yes, a bean of culture i see.

Whooo! There is hope for the younger generations yet!

mines cannibal corpse and slipknot

@@_X_98 i grew up listening to mostly Metallica (my parents are big fans) and my big brother literally built up my Playlist 🤣 ( black sabbath, korn , ozzy Osborne, Slipknot and recently Lorna Shore ect.) i really like those kind of music and i find it sad that not so many girls my age listens to the same type of songs as me. They just find me weird and its probably why i dont got so many friends 🤣

@@Mary.Ate.The.Little.Lamb. finding someone weird because of the music taste is probably the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard

@@_X_98 that's what it is today 🥲🥲

@@Mary.Ate.The.Little.Lamb. who cares Ain’t gonna stop me from listening to a7x in the gym

🤘4 life

Hah, KoRn was my fav band when I was your age, one of my fav songs at that time was “Hollow Life” 🤘

@@saltyark7564 love the whole untouchables album

You give me hope

@@the_man_you_have_searched_for It's the least I can do lol

Hehe. You are so right.

Can't wait for "Gen Z Reacts To Gorgoroth"

@@jacksonwilson6637 'Gen Z reacts to Goregrind' would get me watching

No joke, I just told my wife the other day that I wouldn't even consider Slipknot that heavy compared to the other metal bands I listen to nowadays. Haha

Not a big slipknot fan myself as it's way too tame for my taste.

Rode through your state and I can agree people definitely listen to country there. Nothing but fields and turbines 🤣

Pride of the 515

I've been living in Iowa since 2005 and I've come to the realization that there are 3 things this state is known for: farms, meth, & F#@%ING METAL!!!!

@@darthmalluss7672 100% pure accuracy lmfao

I used to listen to country, between 1998-2002... then 9-11 happened and so many country artists after showed their true political colors, then turned me off of it. Made me realize why gen-X generally hated country.

The second hand embarrassment is killing me 💀

It's like saying "I like ice cream, but cold ice cream is a little bit too much for me"

I’m guessing that he thinks “heavy metal” refers to metal music which is heavy compared to other metal music. I.e. extreme metal (black, death, deathcore, etc). (Lets be honest, to a person who pretty much never listens to metal, Slipknot probably appear to be borderline death metal). It’s a pretty logical assumption, really. It just so happens that in the case of the music genre, the entire genre is called “heavy metal”. And “metal” is simply an abbreviation for “heavy metal”

It's soo scary and angry..... 😢😢😢 GROW TF UP LIL HOMIES

@@AmonAmarthFan609 Wasn't he the one that said he liked Limp Bizkit? He probably likes nu-metal like POD or Papa Roach; really, what was really considered remnants of the late grunge rock, so refering to those bands as belonging in the metal genre seems like he's just confused as to what was considered more mainstream metal outfits of the time, like Deftones or Korn, who leaned just as heavily into vocal melodies as they did the chunky, chaotic guitar riffs.

And Post Malone likes Infant Annihilator which closes this beautiful circle :D

@@Sunrunner663 yeah Post is a big metalhead. I'd like to see him do a metal album.

He is busy platina mágia the gathering ön livestream nowadays

i’m gen z i grew up on things like snoop dogg kanye tupac and biggie with my dad and my mom mcr afi sex pistols basically hip hop emo and punk and i went and found metal by myself (while nu metal being my personal favorite) my parents definitely influenced my music taste and the music has genuinely helped me through so much. I wouldn’t be where i am or who i am if i hadn’t discovered these genres and bands like slipknot and korn have been some of the most influential bands to me throughout my life.

@@devislittlesister3135 slipknot and korn are not even good metal where would you be once you discover real metal?

Same

Yes

Yeah pretty much

Same

I AM 8 HAHAHHA

the day my now 17 yo and 9 yo decided that SOAD and Slipknot etc were cool made my heart grow 5 sizes! Now that's all I hear in the house Psychosocial from one room blasting and Chop Suey from another!

In the series of Things never happened. Which episode is this?

I salute you sir on this wonderful life achievement! My son is 3 and I have been slowly introducing some metal songs, some are too 'scary' as he says but some he likes, but just gotta keep at it.

I've been into rock and heavy metal since I was a baby. This video was hard hard to watch. Oh god...

he aint wrong now if he ain't heard megadeath show him

i can legit say slipknot, linkin park, and disturbed were my major therapy music under 18 and why i survived my teens. (others too ofc, but those were the ones i got the most from then) now id add in soundgarden/audioslave and greenday(particularly the first album, the lyrics are so funny its just hard not to smile no matter how depressed i am). It really is just that for a LOT of people. Therapy in the form of music. It can be so comforting knowing you are not the only one suffering through this shit we call life. In some ways im glad these kids dont get slipknot, it means they likely are happy and have never had a major issue in their entire life. Its rare to find someone who loves metal but grew up "normal".

Also extreme metal has been around since the early 80’s. Extreme I mean screaming music. Grindcore and death metal started in like 82/83. So kids now of days are pussies. I grew up on metal.

because those people arent real people, i mean come on. the react channel pick out the most NPC ass humans

Is my therapy and I'm gen z

Because everything has be nice soft pink purple and gay and you need to pick a new gender dont forget about that

I feel like the generation who can respect and appreciate music the best is gen z. Idk tho cause I love listening to different music genres.

@@CepellinGluglu IMO, the younger generations always respect the music of the older generations. Think about how many times you've heard, "Dude, today's music is crap. Back in my day we listened to..." My dad's dad loved old-school outlaw country like Hank Sr., who my dad picked-up when listening to Elvis and The Beach Boys, while he and my mom both started rocking-out to bands like The Who, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc., all the way through the 80's. Then my dad turned me onto Clapton, SRV, and ZZ Top, while my mom got me into NIN and Tool....which led me to ask: who's the heaviest band out there? Some dudes on a BBS turned me onto Napalm Deth and Cannibal Corpse, and all Hell broke from there. lmfao I've expanded my tastes far beyond those scopes ever since, of course; loving jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, rock, metal, hip-hop, rap, classical. I've got everything from Burn the Priest to Moon Hooch to Tchaikovsky, and even some Hank, Sr., too! (fuck the rest of the Hanks, they suck) I think it's generational; I try to be polite and optimistic as possible, and despite loving some modern music I learn about every day, it's a bit surreal to realize we'll never see another mainstream Guitar God again. Relics of the past, unfortunately. :(

when i got to college I had burned cds of heavier bands that I listened too. Only time I was ever asked why I listened to cut myself music.

​@@charlieschuder9976we can challenge the system of nerds manufacturing music rather than people playing it. We already are with noah kahan and Benson boone

It also doesn't help that all the reactions are fake. Some of the people on old kids react videos stated that they liked certain things and were basically forced to say they hated it. Just for a mediocre video

🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘

Same

I’m a part of Gen Z, but they don’t represent me

Same here

🤘🏼💀🤘🏼

as a 2006 kid, I push my fingers into my eyes

2005 kid metal is a staple in most of/and my lives, and then there's the others who have pop as their staple but yk we all got our preferences

agreed, as another 02 kid. although, i am a metalhead and listen to pretty hardcore death metal during the day

​@@snoozebbkf3389 i got that reference:)

The criteria has to be within the genre. I find numetal bands like slipknot cringe with the testosterone antics. Pantera is borderline but ok because of the artificial harmonics. Beyond that, just give me metal with a story and texture, not hatred and insecurity.

"You probably haven't heard of this very mainstream band" 💀 Kids these days.

"i listen to a band called Metallica, you've probably never heard of them they're so underground"

Disturbed? What a 🍎 🍌 🍉

My son, have your heard the gospel of our lord and savior Nile? How about Cuntcrusher by infant annihilator? No? Cmon down, I fit gangs of that shit. I'll teach ya the heavy ways.

@@jarrodhall3686 did you even watch the video? quit being insensitive

Slipknot is terrible. I used to be obsessed with them in high school when I had the self titled album. Then Iowa came out, and I hated it! Even self titled is super cringe now.

But your parents generation wasn't soft and offended by everything

I promise they chose the few weirdest Gen Z who haven't heard of them. In my highschool, EVERYONE at least knew Slipknot. Most people liked them. Don't get your hopes too far down, the worst of Gen Z gets noticed cause the rest of us could not care less about social media and the rest of it

im gonna be the only gen z with a slipknot and slayer tattoo

@@die2no well,technically,they were,anything anti-religious and whatnot

That's interesting because I remember learning that the guy s who run the channel, the Fine Bros, come from a heavy metal loving family.

@@sweiland75 I think the Fine Bros. have stepped back from production these days (correct me if wrong). However even back in the earlier days, I think their own interests/passion/love would probably have been set aside for comments that would get the most attention/clicks

@@brentos-the-mentos they stepped back years ago after a scandal involving blackface... And reports of horrible shit that went on at the company. The channel is a shell of itself. It's ridiculous the whole saga about that channel is just sad.. Went from one of my favourite wastes of time to a channel I stopped watching because it was clearly narrated and cringeworthy.

@@sweiland75 yeah. They had their Dad and others react to Slipknot at one stage. Rammstein also if I remember correctly.

100% it's definitely made to have them say things that'd get reactions from metal fans and they succeeded, metalheads all over the place commenting how bad tiktok generation is, how they don't appreciate screaming or not understand metal, etc. they achieved what they wanted, got their reactions from metal community and clicks and views with it😅

They get a lot of kids through middle and high school because of how metal music helps calm anger faster than other genres of music. Yes, that is a true fact. There have been studies showing on average, listening to metal/rock music when angry lets people calm down faster than listening to calm/relaxing classical music.

​@@nephalos666 I'm 41 and it's still the same 😂😂😂

Slipknot, A7X, and SOAD we’re my therapy bands in high school.

❤

​@@nephalos666 Listening to Hip-Hop must have a different affect on Gen Z then.

I found out the hard way that the growl vocals takes a lot of practice cause I got fucking tanked at one of my favorite bars to go to in my area on karaoke night and I tried to do the black metal vocals for immortal's one by one. What happened next was I gave up not even halfway through the song and my throat being severely sore for a few days.

Funnily enough, metal is the most complex of all music genres, instrument wise.

@pascalpodszus8091 absolutely I agree with you. Musically fantastic, I just not so good with that kind of singing, although I recognise the art in it

@@kaelynshea5533 i am shouting, screaming and growling for about 15 years now, and i feel confident in my skill for like 2-3 years now. It takes huge amounts of practice to get good at it, so don't push yourself too hard, it will click at some point 👌

They probably like kanye so that should tell you everything about their grasp of music 😆

I made it 8 minutes in before the soy was too much. These aren't Gen Z. They're Californians. Their blood is made of Atrazine. I have Gen Z friends and none of them sound like this.

Same! I really want to play drums as well, because of Joey, and as well as Jay. Joey is such a big inspiration for me :)

Same here

Bruh Here too I love This genre 😍

I was about to say the same thing, thank you! It's crazy some people don't think metal is music. It's awesome!

What, a musician in a killer band?

Good luck with that.. seriously I mean that. I hope he gets exposed to some decent music via yourself or by himself. If social media didn't exist he would probably be alright 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@cwrichardson3 WHAT? You mean slipknot actually hired someone that could play an instrument, and keep time? That's new and different.

I tried my hardest played all my favorite bands all the time when he was growing up, got him into drums, guitar etc. inevitably he chose his own taste and its definitely not metal lol

Same, only I’m trying to get my daughter back into metal. From early on in her life, til about 7 years old, she loved the metalcore & Deathcore I listened to. She’s almost 12 now and I actually think she’s done a complete 180 and listens female rappers which is the Bane of my existence lol.

as a fellow 14 yr old GZer, what is your favorite (metal) band? My personal favorite is Sabaton. edit: also metal sub genre? (power metal for me)

@@iamthrawn damn, second 14 year old I know that likes sabaton, lol. I like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, MegadetH and recently I've learnt to love slipknot again. I'm also into Ghost but they're kinda in a gray area of genres. Mainy MH and JP tho

Power metal? Same, I like me some thrash, too

@@Xvarwerz_bg YO! Great minds think alike. Iron maiden is quite good as well

@@iamthrawn haha, true. Let me tell you, after turning to 8th grade I realized quite a lot of teens listen to Metal in Bulgaria. Half my classmates atleast listen to Mettalica or Maiden. It's a little scary for metalheads right now because we have this artist called DIMOFF. He's like the new craze in Bulgaria, just search him up if you wanna give up on life lol

tf you was born in 2009, I feel old now.

HAHA WE OLD@@blacktemplar2377

@@blacktemplar2377You’re not old though. Neither am I. And I’m 33. We’re still young. If we were old, we would be in our 60’s and older.

just dont ever eat a limp biscuit like the kid at 4:18 and youll grow up just fine

Same Slipknot is literally one of my favorite bands

Good on ya, love it when parents get their children and into Rock that's how I got into it my father raised me on it

How much does she weigh?

@@dimitriwoiciechowski6561 😆😂 haha she's maybe 90 pounds soaking wet with boots on.

@@devynlich00 it was the same with my dad

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.... !!! Put the youth on to the real!!!

They saved me as well

I call it relaxing music. Or noise meditation. Also "Wait and Bleed" is so beautiful and melodic .. I don't know what those people think :) You remember all those Anime collages they did on youtube ?

same friendo

Same, I was a butcher apprentice with a really broken home listening Left Behind on my way to school. Slipknot gave me the endurance to go on

We're a tougher breed. We were promised lies, gaslit by unqualified quacks, and given a falling empire and we dealt with it with metal and skill-building. I think Gen Z is the first truly regressive generation, backed by actual statistical IQ data (so, it's not just our subjective perception; it's measurable). They can't handle any sort of hardship, they can't even handle when you accidentally misgender them. Nearly none of them can lift a 30lb. ammo can. Gen Z splits into a few groups: 1. The people that think it's not a falling empire (delusionaly unprepared) 2. The people that know it's a falling empire and have accepted it, (infinitely demoralized) 3. The people that know it's a falling empire and will be taking over pieces of it (as much as they are likely my enemy, I respect the energy, even if I don't respect it not being directed at the people who caused the collapse They are weak, substandard, easy to manipulate, easy to destroy, and something is coming to test that. C19 was a joke and this wimpy civilization couldn't even handle that. Wait until a real one hits.

You can't convince me this Gen Z "reaction" video isn't scripted

and they chooses the (no offense) gayest ones they can find so its ever further than metal heads

@@cooperallford1641 You're not a true metalhead if you're not homophobic and misogynistic

that's the closest we are ever gonna get to see their real faces on MTV 😂😂

BLESS you ma'am 🙏 you are a fantastic mother 🤘 we need more badass moms like you

Yes!

I do the same and I'm so proud of my son and his friends, they listen to a lot of music and appreciate it!! I know all the songs too and we share and learn a lot of each other!!

Oh my god finally a parent who understands what we like

if thats true you`re a role model for all mothers out there!

For real,I feel like he's actually enjoying it more and not making fun of the music right away

Same. My dad calls me Kidz Bop because my music preference is all over the place. I can go from listening to Korn to Louis Armstrong to Notorious BIG

Ayyye thats exactly my taste... soul, jazz, psycedelic rock, prog metal, old school hiphop.... thats my stuff!!!!

as a 16 yo, u raised him well in a society that doesnt know good music anymore

@@microwavedpopcorn431 yo same gotta love them

I am thankful that such variety is the norm now. One of the dynamics that stands out to me is the animosity between the disco-heads and rockers of the 80s. It sounds like it was a very limiting way to consume music.

Metal heads are one big family 👍💯❤️ You can find 3 or more generations of people in a single concert.

This is really true. I was new to a job, learning stuff I knew nothing about. One of the guys that had been there a while had "Metal" and "Head" tattooed on his forearms. So, I went up to him and started talkin' about music, not work stuff. We got along great after that, and I learned plenty from him.

Me born in ‘04 out of school for two years and save most of Slipknot’s, KOЯN, and many others saved. Love metal as a whole, power metal, melodic death like Nekrogoblikon, Nu-Metal, and a significant amount of other genres.

Your generation sounds like my mom did in 1996. So congrats..... Gen Z are basically "Boomers". No wonder Boomers and Gen Z don't get along. You're the same.

@@ADayAtDusk Puscifer too all MJK.

a perfect circle.. nice❤

⁠​⁠@@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequenceevery generation has problems with each other. The Gen Z kids will end up being most like Gen Y the same way Gen Y took a lot of things from Gen X even though those two generations fight constantly.

so do i brother

Apology accepted. Your generation has really poor taste in shitty music. Metal forever dude

@@andrewday5800 year, slipknot is my favorite band along with Metallica and slayer and mudvayne, been listening to metal for years and their is really a select people that lisen to it.

@@andrewday5800 Metal forever, this is the way good sir.

Same, born 05 here too. I love sabaton and metallica

I think it depends who's making that statement. In this case you have a very pretentious person hearing something they don't like and, in their way, screaming to whoever will listen "this isn't music". It would very different coming from someone who was prepared to enjoy something that isn't on their radar. I think this person saw slipknot, thought they weren't cool and blurted out the most disrespectful thing you can say to any band.

yes, i hate it when ppl say that, like ik someone who almost committed suicide and music like this helped him getting him through that hard time

these are just kids that probably dont listen to music much, what could you expect?

Gen z can’t handle a lot of things

@@Phillipgraves869 ?

🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘

give him a fist bump for me

what a legend, i hope he branches out even more!

If it makes you feel better, when I was a teenager listening to metal, I didn't feel like I fit into my generation at all either, and got shit for listening to metal. Every generation is basically the same, it's just the youngest ones that get the spotlight and shit thrown at it.

@@TankTheTech Exactly. In school or university, metal heads were the minority. And that was 20 years ago.

Same alternative/nu metal helped me through the pandemic. I was listening to bands like A Perfect Circle,SOAD, and Tool. Btw I came from a r&b / pop/ rap background before the pandemic.

relatable

We gen z metal heads have to seek each other out

He didn’t tragically die. He overdosed on drugs like the idiot that he was in real life. “Oh no! My life is so hard! I’m making millions of dollars but wait maybe if I combine Xanax, fentanyl and morphine together with alcohol I might feel better !!!! Woweeeeeee!!!”

was that the concert where Machinegun kelly verbally attacked them on stage because fans left there concert to go to slipknot

That's wild considering the history between fred durst and corey taylor. I wonder if we ca look forward to nickelback opening for slipknot? 😂

All the way until I was like 12 it was straight k-love, WWJD, Toby Mac, ect for me. Same story as you with myself. Parents didn’t like me listening to slipknot then realized that their songs had deeper meanings. It helps that my dad was a matalica fanboy in his collage years. Either way funny thing is now I listen to phinehas, miss may I, as I lay dying, FFAK, and such so I’ve in a way come back to the Christian music scene lmao

Just pray about it lmao PRAY ABOUT IT, YOU BETTER PRAY ABOUT IT, ope now youre going to hell, the place where fire exists outside of earth and oxygen lmao isn't it crazy how they literally are a death cult

Their the worst of both worlds they have the boomers mentality of anything new sucks and modern vernacular and tone of Gen z

Bro…. It hurt. It hurt 😅

i like metal (maybe not slipknot, didn't really listen to them) and i sometimes kinda speak like that lmao

how come i cant see the 2 replies? youtube is so censorious....

@@metaslavegaming9075 I agree. My reply is gone lol I don't think I said anything edgy

They picked the most sheltered gay libs they could find for this

same. I've been listening to metal since i was born because my dad is a metalhead. I hate my generation.

Dude same fuck gen z i hate it

Same, my parents played Mudvayne to put me to sleep when I was a kid lol

why would you apologize for someone not like some music genre? I mean the majority of the world doesent know slipknot or doesnt like heavy metal, it has nothing to do with gen z...

That’s the spirit of the 90’s - you had your little silos of subculture, but anyone could also listen to anything else. Listening to music was like an expedition to unknown worlds, you never knew what you’d find.

@@trevormoffat4054sad most of my generation doesn’t get this. I listen to EVERYTHING (minus K-Pop I guess), current rap, old rap, all rock, most metal. But I’ll listen to anything that’s put on. Saw Disturbed live last week and haven’t felt the same since! Metal is just different to me, I love it. Disturbed, A7X, 5FDP, and Slipknot are my favorites. They’re just insane, no other way to put it. Incredible, raw talent.

I'm the same way. I can range from stuff like Rick Astley/The Temptations type of music all the way up to stuff like Slipknot or Lamb of God. It always throws people off when they hear a drastic change from something like Queen to Lamb of God 😂

Gen Z here, the video Tank is reacting to or all videos that love shit on us are always cherry picked, obviously metal isn’t for everyone but that extends beyond generations. This is anecdotal, but I’ve seen a huge uprising of metal fans specifically Slipknot (me included), and a huge resurgence of drill (a more violent/real form of gangster rap) rappers like chief keef or king von; to add on to that, fine bros has been exposed to encourage reactions and almost never have any genuine reactions, their videos are scripted

@@clarski7356 Agreed man, when I was still in the Military there were many gen z members. While there were many generational differences, there were also many similarities. Most of the reason we didn't hang out was just due to the sheer age difference, it'd be weird.

Same

Same, I’m 13

Me too! I started listening to them when I was 8 and I'm 12 now

I'm 15 I lessen to kpop now and still rock and metal but I've been lessened to more violent than this have y'all seen some of there live concert and they were able to make it look like they someone s cut head off like dude I was 7 I hate these people that one kid makes me want to commit A homaside suicide

Sorry for miss spelling

I am glad these freaks don’t like it.

🫡 you taught her well

The entirety of Iowa is glorious

Snuff just hits way different not gonna lie

Well now I know how to get rid of gen z. And I’ll enjoy it too

snuff makes me feel like im ascending to the heavens

Same here. Born ‘03 and LOVE that type of music. Damn shame how there’s many our age who don’t have similar tastes :/

@@GabrielMcDowell fr man 😔 thats why we gotta make em learn

bro i see you. i teach guitar and can verify a lot of kids your age and younger still like stuff like this. i dont personally. but picking like 3 super similar looking kids reactions to sum up all of gen Z is dumb

GenZ where I live we have local metal and rock, psychadelic rock, alt, nu, whatever bands that are all GenZ members and pull in larger GenZ crowds many times. You just gotta look and you'll see. There's plenty.

@@aidan6536 Oh I know they are there im just merely pointing out the fact that the majority of the older fans are, well.. older lol.