Gen z isn’t the ones ruining stories in Hollywood. They are barely old enough to be interns. The execs doing this are millennials trying to make things that they think will please gen z. Then actually just making stuff that no one really likes.
In the 60s they didnt even mention gay people, then once they did they made them evil or the butt pf a joke. So yes positive representation is important to us.
@@TacticalGamingFool *Positive* representation. There's been tons of that since the sixties, which were half a century ago. Unfortunately, too much of the representation is negative and toxic, and we keep seeing more and more of that.
@matthewatwood8641 ok, it sounded like you and op couldve been talking about the lgbtqa+ brainwashing people to be gay. We were talking about gay representation but trans representation still has a long way to go
If you thought gen z had it rough, I’m worried about gen alpha. They have our hardships and then some. The moment a society gives up on the future is the moment that it begins to collapse.
@@TheLegitAlpha Alphas will be fine. My Gen Z teens keep insisting my 11 year old is an Alpha. He plans to invent immortality. He definitely hasn't given up on the future.
I can’t blame them for hating their own music- the music industry is completely controlled by evil people who decide what music is “popular”. Back when music was good, hits rose organically by folks requesting songs on independently owned radio stations.
@@Skavation right- there used to be some relationship between a hit and a good song. Pull up the top hits of 1977 and there are a ton of good songs on the list. Do the same for 2022 and it’s all garbage. Now we are on our own trying to find real musicians and good songwriting.
Ya gotta consider the ease of Music streaming vs what we had, too. I came from a nonmusical family. My music "lessons" in school consisted of pitting records on & singing along (1970s). I was limited to the radio which played modern rock, easy listening, & country. NPR play classical once a week. I first came upon a "classic rock" station in my 20s & fell on love with it. I consciously wanted to learn, so I joined one of those CD clubs & bought different genres bases on song I heard in a commercial or a comment an actor would say in a sitcom. Because of streaming, a mom can easily play soothing love songs of the 70s for their preschoolers. (This is why John Denver is so popular with young people). Parents can have family dance parties to 50s beebop or Motown any weekend night. Teens learn that Frank Sinatra calming when they are stressed. In short, gen Z loves the old stuff, because it is easy for them to be introduced to it.
Worst generation? More like the most miserable generation. As a Gen X:er, I seriously think that I'm happy not being young now. George Bernard Shaw once wrote that “Youth is the most precious thing in life; it is too bad it has to be wasted on young folks.”
@@suezcontours6653 American Zoomers complain about everything being X-istic and Y-phobic online. They're absolutely miserable, I can't imagine being outraged about problems that don't involve me and that the people I'm getting offended for have no problem with.
@@marktrain9498no one is allowed to that. Not since the boomers, people gave into tyrannical nanny government decades ago for short term goodies and now the rest of society has been obliterated
Gen Z is probably just tired of being inundated with sex in the culture, but there's not much talk of love or family. They realized casual sex is a waste of time, so they don't bother.
Country music has a lot of love songs. Pop hasn't had a love song in its tip 20 for 20ish years. Interestingly, boys seem to be big country fans & the girls like pop.
It's almost like men and women are being intentionally pushed apart. Men are lonely because they're told they're terrible people for existing and women are told they're girl bosses who are awesome and don't nerd anyone else.
@@bjornskivids not as simple as that. Generally speaking, the middle & upper class childhood was scheduled. They had lots of activities, very little free time. There is good AND bad in that. Teens, now, have a very high summer job participation. Whereas 15 years ago, a first job may have been as old as 21. In my kids' circle, they start working, emasse, at 14.
It's very weird. You work late, study during the day, do everything alone and all this knowing that you will never have a house or a stable life, but they still call you lazy. I mean, "passive ones"? we are the politicized ones! Yes, we complain, because we have a lot to complain about. You might say your life was more difficult, but honestly, I doubt it.
It is usually easier to shit on younger generations than to see the fault in their problems in your own teachings you gave them. Because then you would need to admit, that you most likely suck as well.
I feel a bit like that too But from my end I was too busy fighting off my family telling me I'm worthless because I don't have a 6 figure salary and a mega mansion with 2 kids and a husband
@Vale10952 we let the left run roughshod through the culture and the universities. The dominant culture that these kids saw in school and on TV taught them these values. This happened because we weren't brave enough to stand up to the madness.
Front end of gen z here; born in 1998. A lot of the things you see in films these days are from millennial writers. But at the same time gen z is at war with itself, we really don't have a unifying culture anymore and I think it's cause we grew up with the internet.
I've heard the term "Millennial writing" when referring to that cringy "meta" humour that all movies seem to have nowadays. Where they can't have a serious scene for too long without adding some stupid unfunny joke to "release tension" from the scene. It's like directors and writers are too scared to take themselves and their stories seriously. And I hate it soooo much.
To be fair (I am pushing 50 for context), when I was in high school my favorite music was Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and I felt like i missed out on the 60’s. I had these weird fantasies of being drafted into the Vietnam war.
At least you didn't get drafted into the Vietnam War, or hopefully, any other war after that. It ain't a pretty sight to see when there's so much bloodshed.
Gen Z is not the worst generation, they're just the worst-off generation. They were born into a world they did not ask for, but a world we forced upon them. We gave them a cause without a cause, and now they're lost and misguided, but they are the last people we should be blaming. We have only ourselves to blame.
Born to a world they not asked for? Who can ever choose what time they are born? Who asked to be born for example in 1890s to die in a trench in 1914? Who asked to be born to witness horrors of nazism or communism? Just because the western world is past it's prime prosperity doesn't mean this isn't like top 3 generation you can be born in in whole history of humanity. I was born 1998 btw
As a kid, I remember adults talking about how young people were too grown for their age and how we shouldn't be having sex. Now, people are mad about the fact that young people aren't having sex. This is why Gen Z needs to just live their life and not worry about what other people have to say about them. These people are always moving the goalpost.
Different problems exist at different times. It can be too cold to survive without external coverings in one season while it can be too hot to wear them in another.
No it's a sad reality your teachers cared more to indoctrinate you than truly teach you. Grade inflation & mismanagement of funds is what you inherited.
I hate the way activism behaves currently, instead of winning and spreading through logic/reason/debate, it's done through what's tantamount to bullying.
I work at a university and we have a group of Gen Z masters-level students who rotate through our office. I also used to volunteer with my collegiate sorority as an advisor to their undergrads. They're good kids, but they definitely need mentoring and guidance. We work really hard to create an environment where they can both learn and try new things but are also held accountable to deadlines, learn how to write and communicate professionally, etc. They are really great kids, but it's always rough starting out with a new group and, honestly, not everyone at my job makes it long-term with our program, but those who do really give me hope for the future.
@@christopherkelley1664 LOL, that's probably true but right now the only people that seem to be having kids are the ones that should not be having them. The people that I know that are educated and career oriented don't want any kids.
I'll be 62 in few months,in my youth I had fear of a radioactive Armageddon. Little did I know the destruction of western civilization would come from the barbarians at the gate ( Gen Z & Gen alpha )
Sort of. Gender Ideology was instilled in millenials by old boomers in the universities. Boomers are the core of the extreme left. Millenials popularized it by spreading it like a virus in the cultural zeitgeist.
I work in the Nightlife Industry, for almost 20 years now. I've seen the change in the culture, and the way people interact with each other in the real world since the debut of social media.... It isn't good.
I remember being at a club in Brighton around 2008 which was suddenly swamped by freshers who swarmed in, posed for selfies and seemed oblivious to everyone else around them. I think this was an early example of people wanting to be seen to be somewhere while not actually "being" anywhere. Fully understanding the irony of writing this on the comments of youtube but I think humanity could really do with turning off the internet for a while, we really could do with a reset.
@@remuslazar2033 They don't. That's the point. Face to face interaction has all but disappeared. Either you meet people through SM and pictures or you end up alone.
There are other reasons to not want sex scenes in movies than you suggested. 35 years old, and I want less sex in movies/TV/games. Like, maybe gen z is waking up and realizes the damage on-screen nudity does to them.
I think any generalization of this type is moronic. I helped raise a Gen Z kid into a fine young man whose skilled work rewards him with responsibility and excellent pay. Every generation has its share of a few winners, some losers, and a multitude of mediocrities.
Agreed. But keep in mind, "Every generation blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door" Mike+The Mechanics The living Years
Even before that, I'm 19 and my friends keep talking about how every next generation is worse than the one before. I am of a different mindset, i believe in the goodness of people and since i want to become a teacher the kids i teach will be brainrotten skibidi toilets only if we let them.
And I'm sure your generation was called "the worst" too. And the generation before you, and everyone else. Gen Z is already mad about Gen Alpha for goodness sake. Its just a cycle. We need to just accept that as things change in society, large groups of people born during that change are going to be different from those who aren't :/
90% of my employees are Gen Z and they're great. They are a generation of extremes I find and need a special kind of encouragment and managing. I think they suffer with a LOT of anxiety and I dont blame them. If you give them meaning in their work/life they thrive. Just my early Millenial (82') perspective.
Why do we sort people into categories, it’s so meaningless. Every “generation” is constantly changing and adapting to the current society, meaning they’re also equally playing a role in its problems. Besides, do you think a person born at the end of one generation is going to be any different from someone born at the beginning of another? Lastly, it’s ignorant to call teens/young adults, who haven’t even found their place in this world, “the worst” for just being themselves as if it isn’t the parents fault they behave the way they do. The flaws in today’s youth reflects the failure of those who raised them.
Remembering what generational disputes looked like in the past, I, as a millennial, can only conclude that we and our descendants will call each next generation the worst. And I don't say this jokingly or sarcastically.
Yup every gen calls the next the worst. I think millennials are the best (I am gen-x-er) I never liked my generation, boring af. I wished I was born in 2024 🙂
@@Tarquin2718 I was especially aware of this when zoomers started making fun of the emo culture of the late 00s and millennials were very upset about this, not expecting that at some point they themselves might find themselves among the “mocking old men”.
Social media ruined gen z. Im a millennial (31) and the internet itself from 2005-2012 was amazing.. when FB became popular taking over everything in 2010 along with insta, game was over. The mega corporations have absolutely slaughtered the fun we all used to have on the internet when you actually visited *sites* … not just social media and amazon. Which is basically what most people use constantly… YT 06-13 was amazing too.. when it (along with everything else) became corporate, everything went downhill. Gen z missed the greatest days on the internet and having willingly became slaves to a few companies. It’s actually not their fault. The fact we all are having the same problems they are is testament to the fact that the goddman boomers still seem to run everything…
Mate shut up, the golden age of the internet was our childhood - pre teen - teenage years. Wtf are you talking about? Pre 2015? Yeah.. i said 2006-2012.. gen z were what? Literal kids.. I was 15 in 2005.. when you actually knew what to do on the emerging high speed internet of the time… so listen mate, I’m talking a gap of 5-10 years of difference here, which at that time period, major changes were happening.. I remember using dial up when I was 10. Everything I said still stands you twat.
@@popsicIes Yes because a 7 year old in 2008 was experiencing the "golden age of the internet"? What a load of crap. Anyone born after like 1998 (which is even pushing it) didn't get a real experience with using the internet when it actually peaked.
I just realised I only got onto the internet in 2017. But how has the rest of the world been online. No wifi , or only the rich could afford it. i could only email on yahoo back then. No knowledge of youtube also until 2015, but I could not watch it as no data !!!!! I thought I was not fortunate, turning out that it was for the better
Oh bitch pls y'all millennials had the fucking TV 😂. TALKING ABOUT " soical media" y'all even had PC's and shit stop shitting on every generation. I swear y'all old mfs are anoiying. Older generations.shit on the younger ones it's always been like that since ancient times
There's a deep strain of nihilism running through a loot of Zoomers I meet. I feel bad since things are never as bad as they seem to think they are, because they're still too young to have context.
Nihilism and death permeates in the language of zoomers too, for instance phrases like "Its over" "doomscrolling" "brainrot" "bedrotting" "We're cooked."
@@sebastianprimomija8375 I think that's just classic internet hyperbole, I've also seen some over the top phrases like "we're so back" or "the size of this W".
Western civilization lost religion and never replaced it with anything. Many people (not all, but many) need something bigger than themselves to believe in. That's why there are so many people who get into activism and act like religious zealots.
It's generally a Rite of Passage to say, "Back in my day, things were better." I was born in 1983, I missed the internet as it was in the late 90s, early 2000s, basically before the disease of social media became a common stay. Music was better. Movies were certainly better. (Honestly, go watch the first Jurassic Park in comparison to the latest and tell me what you think?) I used to think all this was subjective, and maybe it is, but outside of a few exceptions creativity in Media these days has been on a steady decline.
there is two positive things i can tell you. 1- none of that is normal, the wordl, and in fact teh united states of america in particular, have been under attack, the so - called swamp, much bigger than anyone could expect. 2-With Trump, whether you believe it now or not, they have been taken out, even if it doesn't look like it. the actual goal is to wake people up, slowly. hold fast, fren
@@remuslazar2033 the companies marketing to gen Z have way more power than individuals. It's interesting that despite Tik Tok being such a huge Gen Z platform, it seems like a large amount of Gen Z wants to ban it because they recognize there is an issue
I noticed a trend with zoomers taking some memes from the 2000s and early to mid 2010s (probably the peak of self-aware irony in internet culture) seriously and at face value, maybe it's a related phenomenon.
@@inendlesspain4724 - that’s a good example of it, yep. Showing my age here but if shows like _Married with Children, The Simpsons_ and even _The Ren and Stimpy Show_ (the original run of it), incorporated self-aware lameness as examples of what _wasn’t_ cool, somewhere after 2010 kids started just aggressively embracing the lame and the ugly as ‘counterculture’ (actually, _South Park_ did a brilliant episode with ‘Elementary School Musical’ where the writers of it finally acknowledged that while they’re ostensibly Gen Xers expressing themselves through the four main characters, times have moved on and become ‘uber lame’, so the four kids are actively bemused by what’s considered ‘cool’ by the other kids around them and thus made to feel social isolation) . . .
Harry Styles is 30 he shouldn’t be the poster child for Gen Z. Timothée Chalamet is 28. They’re both Younger Millennials. If you want you can describe them as Zillennial-Millennials since they’re Cuspers but were born before 1997 like me Olivia Rodrigo (age 21), Billie Eilish (age 22.5), Lil Nas X (age 25), Amandla Stenberg (25.5) & Kylie Jenner (age 26.5) are actual a zoomers
Good observations all 'round. Though to be fair, this tendency amongst young people to want to dictate the world, not from a point of knowledge, but rather from a point of naive and emotional "I-know-better", seems to be universal for all and every generation. More or less pronounced, of course.
I said in a different comment that while that's true, at least older people in the past knew better than to let young people have a say in matters way more important, large scale and nuanced than what they're capable of understanding or know anything about from personal experiences, unless they do something to earn their consideration. Gen Z is what happends when you ignore that ancient wisdom.
@@inendlesspain4724exactly. The real problem is taking what they say they want into consideration. Wiser, older people are supposed to know the difference between what people say they want, and what they really want.
@@inendlesspain4724 Perhaps some of the problems come from the previous generation not really growing up at all? Or at least a large enough group of them display arrested development thus they lack the necessary maturity to curtail this current generations excesses.
I still think boomers when they were young are very similar to zoomers. Right down to the activism to consumerism pipeline. Maybe zoomers will sell out and become the boomers of the future. Genx and millennials were pretty close in their mentality i feel.
I am Gen Z (18) and I wholeheartedly agree. However, personally, I feel like I'm in the wrong generation as I have many contradictions to what many in my generation believe. I am generally more conservative, but definitely a bit more liberal in my views when it comes to social issues. My main rule is don't be an asshole. What I find stranger is that I deviate completely from my family politically. I guess that is what happens when you go off to do your own research instead of looking at the mainstream media.
There is no being born in the wrong generation. You are your own person with your own experiences and have developed into who you are now. Unfortunately people will look at an entire generation and judge people based on when they were born.
Same. I am a social liberal in the european sense and see intersectional feminism as a social time bomb as climate change is a time bomb for our environment
It certainly is. I completely ignore modern music and listen instrumental music. Also 80s music. Lots of that. This is coming from a gen z guy who isn't completely ruined.
False, listen to my music RIGHT NOW, that's my latest video, watch it and then tell me with a straight face that's corporate slop. The truth is older people are out of touch, I can't fault em for it but it's true, everything you see is stereotyped pre-programmed slop curated by algorithms in a Seattle server room.
I'm so fucking glad to have grown up as pretty much the last generation that wasn't dominated by internet and cell phomes. I got a childhood that was free from having to deal with the digital world, and I don't envy the kids who've had to. But at some point, people have to fake responsibility for themselves and the way the feel. That is, Gen Z people coukd be happier if they stopped worrying so much about social media, and this isn't just speculation, this is a well-established psychological fact. And they should quit, but they don't and seemingly can't. If they were happy then I'd say they shoukd do whatever they want, but insofar as my anecdotal evidence is trustworthy, it seems as if nearky all Gen Z people say they're unhappy, all have lives affected by anxiety, and all say that being online is detrimental to their mental health. Obviously, these problems are both multifaceted and personal, but a simple, broadly effective change that most unhappy people could make to immediately improve their metal health would be to spend less time on line, and especially less time on social media. Go out, take walk, speak in-person to strangers, play a game of golf, toss the frisbee around, BBQ with friends, chuck rocks into a creek just to see the splash, visit the cousin you spent your summers with as a kid, pet dogs, pet cats, try to get laid and don't take it personally if you don't but enjoy it if you do, get drunk but not shit-faced visit a local tourist site, attend a concert, see a ballgame, and generally be a human for a while. A human who is only concerned with the world in one's immediate vicinity as perceived at that moment by one's senses. This isn't all Gen Z needs to do, but I'm certain it would help.
It's not so simple as just quitting. If you've been trained your whole life to use the Internet and social media, your brain is pretty much addicted to it through dopamine release.
Social media is a cancer! As baby boomer I don't even have a facebook account. RU-vid & Gmail is all I need or want. My smart phone is simply a communication tool its not my life.
@@andrelockridge9109 Same hear, I give this challenge to the 'entitled', with the exception of the freezer switch everything off. Then reflect on the reliance you have on technology and others, they can't do it. Gen Z are toxic and I have no time for snowflakes and entitled people or bloody pronouns. A colleague was in tears because her computer drive was corrupt, I could see her increasing distress as she realised her photographs of past souls were lost, I said I would have a go but I was not confident in success. I dismantled the drive and and after several hours recovered all her memories. She never trusted tech after that. Enjoy your freedom Andrelockridge
not having sex isnt the problem its not dating or having any romance . they also fell no empathy and treat each other without any basic respect or kindness. they have made modern humanity intolerable
Sex is a natural byproduct of social interaction between teenagers and young adults of the opposite sex. Get within proximity of each other and nature will do the rest. But Gen Z pod people are isolated, so there is no opportunity for relationships to blossom. Whenever natural urges arise, which would traditionally compel young people out of the house to find each other, they are semi-satiated by some artificial digital interaction (like pornography for boys and social media for girls.)
To be fair, I would also feel no empathy or respect towards the average gen-Z'er. So we have that in common. Unrealistic societal expectations, financial disincentives & financial insecurity, and the defensive distrust caused by (4th wave feminism stuff). Relationships aren't relationships now they're social and legal liabilities.
its incredible how we've been groomed to see the opposite sex as an 'other' to be careful around unless we want to go to jail for r*ping them (making eye contact)
Some of thier quips are hilarious tho They're lack of respectfulness and super left ideology? Not so much Don't know if its just because they're a bunch of 20 year olds or because it's because of this They are HEAVILY sheltered from my POV
I disagree with the expression of androgyny part. The arguments presented are imo more subjective than objective. Sex appeal is secondary and individualism primary in the priorities of GenZ-ers. We just wanna express ourselves and we just stopped judging people on their looks. We don't want to perpetuate the same harmful behaviors older generations show towards us and everyone around them. Elitism sucks and the divide between upper and lower class sucks too. We don't care anymore we just want to be happy and free.
Truth. Im GenX, I raised some of these people. I stayed married to their dad. I stayed home, worked from home, and didn't send them to a bunch of " activities." I paid close attention to their public schools. My children are normal compared to most of their peers.
I’m a Gen Z teenager. I consider myself completely normal. I work a standard, minimum wage, fast food job to help provide for my family and girlfriend, whom I intend to marry in three years. I don’t believe I was born in the wrong generation, I just have an affinity for the late 1950’s. I dress like a Greaser and act like one too, but that was just who I am. I thought about it deeply once and I truly see no better time to be a Greaser. Greasers were always meant to be rebellious, but modern day, the only rebellion one may have is a rebellion of normality. Everyone else is trying to act different, but the simplicity of being normal has been lost. I’m a conservative traditionalist, I prefer a more classical style of life. I don’t use any social media besides RU-vid. I live a very joyous life and pray that God may bless me and my future wife with many children. Thanks if you decided to read this.
@@dictatoribenevolo8394I’m from America, the greatest country in the world. And I know God exists because otherwise, man would lack purpose and free will. Without God, we simply cease to exist
The biggest problem people keep making discussing DEI in movies is to immediately to go to what's in front of the camera, swaps, etc. That's not it. The biggest problem is when they hire senior positions (Senior writers, directors, producers, etc) that have no experience BEHIND the camera. That's what does the damage, it's just as not as obvious. Inexperienced people in the writer's room pushing awful ideas is the absolute engine that destroys these films, not the casting.
I feel the greatest damage done to Gen Z is the collectivization of them. They need to embrace individualism. As a "Generation", they're fucked. So they should look first to themselves, what they can *do* .
I'd counter that the collectivization of Gen Z isn't necessarily a completely bad thing. However, it's not 100% good either. Complete individuality and complete collectivism are bad for society. We need people in our lives that we can depend on, and having things in common that we can relate to is important. However, we also shouldn't be interdependent on each other and should be able to do things on our own. Somewhere in the middle is a happy medium that allows us to have good relationships, and allows us to do things for ourselves.
Sir, where on earth would you get that idea? Gen Z is more atomized and individualized than ever. The entire thrust of the current gender stuff is about emphasizing the uniqueness of people’s individual gender identities!
I know this is a bit of a 'catch-all' these days, and doesnt reflect everything talked about in the video, but I do believe a lot of this boils down to social media. I was born in 1980, and consider myself fortunate for that, as I got to spend my most formative years without an internet...the world was HUGE when I was a kid, the only people I had to worry about or consider were the people in my town or in my school...life was far from perfect, but better than what I see a lot of youth living today. The internet has made the world incredibly small, where now every kid can see what every other kid is doing, and compare themselves to them. Add to that the desire to be known, to be famous, an influencer, and that so much on the internet is fake, not to mention the fear of ridicule or scorn from others on the internet for doing/being what you actually want to be, stopping people from actually doing/being the person they want to be...its no wonder so many have mental health problems trying to live up to an unrealistic standard or expectation. To quote Dave Chappelle, 'twitter is not a real place', and he's right, the real world is the real world, not what you see on your phone. Turn it off and go enjoy reality.
GenX here. They called us apathetic and slackers. We produced some of the biggest technology leaps in history. Leave the kids alone. They will do great.
I think of my grandfather's generation, and this is just the white American male version: Their fathers (if they survived) fought in WW1. They were born in the Great Depression. In Jr. High, Europe and Asia were on the brink of war, and was all over the news. Then, once they graduated high school...off to WW2.
I'm constantly hearing what the problem is (and I agree it is a problem), but I rarely hear anyone offer potential solutions. If Gen Z is so bad off, how can the other generations try to help them out?
The problem is technology. And its difficult to solve, because its so attractive to humans on a visceral level. There is nothing inherently wrong with Gen Z. They are a product of the environment they were raised in. If we want them to act differently, then we have to be willing to change that environment. But most people are not willing to do that. We like to bitch about how social media, online dating, pornography and smart phones are eroding our society. Most people agree that is the case, to one degree or another. But is anyone seriously talking about eliminating these things? Nope. Since society at large will not be abandoning these technologies, and they will probably keep getting worse, my advice to Gen Z is simply to drop out. Cut the cord. Scary as it may be, there is still real life out there, behind the veil of the internet. But you can't see it until you unplug. Throw a party where all of the attendants are required to check their phones at the door, and they don't get them back till the end of the night. Make it a cool, retro, experimental thing. Like an "80s party" or something. It will be awckward at first, but then good things will start to happen. And then try doing other things with no phone. Camping. Dating. Working. Traveling. You know, life. The draw of technology and media on youth is nothing new. When I was a kid in the 80s it was cable television and video games. If left to our own devices, we would watch MTV and play Nintendo all day long. But then our Boomer parents would storm into the room and yell at us to go outside! At first it was boring, but soon enough we would find some other kids, who were also exiled from their houses, and before we knew it we were having adventures that were way better than being inside. But you need that initial stimulus to get you going. So I will be the old man and tell you: "Put down that damn phone and get outta the house!"
@@LostSox that won't solve "4th wave feminism" - people will still not want to risk the liability of having a relationship, and will still lack the financial security to in most cases too. Social media has done alot for freedom of speech and freedom of press, stop blaming the medium of expression and start blaming the expression - that's like blaming the invention of the printing press for (panting mustache man)
Music hasn't been that good since 1980, in my opinion and completely_flopped after 1991, by Freddie Mercuries_death. Seriously, for people who say that modern music is still great, I don't want to spend days of my life finding something "decent" when I can get something quickly and better with music from 1967-1979 than get something I see as an_inferior product.
@@VX_XI "Music hasn't been that good since 1980" Thats a very strong statement. I, and the author of the video were speaking of popular music of today (top 100 most popular/listened songs), not all of it. To say that all music is bad now would need you to first listen to every peace of music that comes out to properly say that. People/Bands like - Snarky Puppy, Louis Cole, Jacob Collier, Domi & JD Beck keep revolutionizing music, just because the most popular artists do music for tiktok and easy views/listens doesnt mean that everyone does that.
If prior generations are anything to go by, they may rebel against everything gen Z stood for, which may not necessarily be a good thing depending on the extremes to which they take it.
Based on what I've heard from teachers, Gen A is even more emotional, immature, disrespectful, entitled, etc. The future is grim for western civilization.
I'm at the point in the video where you say that gen z feels like they were born in the wrong generation. I have an idea about that because one thing I've noticed as a millennial going to uni with gen z is that there isn't anything truly representing them because the people who make media mostly grew up in a non-internet based age and grew with it's rise. Even some younger millennials seem to have this issue, which is why I think tiktok is so popular amongst them. None of us know what it's like to ONLY know the internet and how life works with the internet. When all of your problems get solved in a second, you don't need problem solving skills, this the thing that horrifies me most. But I think it actually horrifies some of them as well.
Apparently not being attracted to trans women is transphobia.. I can’t help who I am and am not attracted to.. so I guess I’m transphobic, fat phobic, and gay phobic. 🤷🏻♂️
Not really ,nobody said if you aren't attracted to trans/fat people that it makes you transphobic/fatphobic or homophobic. You just can't call someone,for example, disgusting for it,You have your prefrences and thats fine,just try not to be a dick about it and shame people around for not being your type in the dating world.
That's something I don't like about my generation (Gen z) Too sensitive. Don't worry about *"those"* Gen Z. I may be a young Gen Z, but even I see that as bs.
7:18...boy, you hit the nail on the head. The bugaboo times got everyone so used to watching only at home that those who do show up to the theaters still act like they are at home. No etiquette, no possible care for those around them.
I’m not sure we can attribute all of that to Gen- Z. I mean sure, we can look at the data and see they’re having less sex and aren’t as creative, but I bet more than anything that the remakes are primarily Millennials doing. And I see a lot of people blaming Gen Z being shitty on the internet. It’s not just that. Many parents took “gentle” parenting way too far and Gen Z never got to experience any risk or consequences. Hell, I have had to ward off other parents at the park who want to help my kids climb because “it’s scary for them to be up that high!” Kids aren’t allowed to be outside alone. Their parents never taught them to do laundry or cook or to deal with the consequences when they forgot to bring something to school. The internet is a pretty small part of the big picture.
The part I don’t understand is how sexuality is both the most important defining characteristic of one’s life and personality, while simultaneously more and more refuse to even partake in the act
Saw a real headline that asked: "Where are the black people in Shogun?" Until the author who writes such headlines is reflexively fired for idiocy, this will not improve.
A lot of the stuff that you're blaming Gen Z for wasn't even created by Gen Z. The "woke" movies that you hate so much weren't created by Gen Z. Trans ideology also didn't start with Gen Z.
Liked the video but you talk about Gen Z as if they are responsible for everything. As a 43 year old I could do what everybody else is doing in comments. "Back in our day music was better blah blah". Blaming these kids for the misfortune they are living in would be easy. But are they the ones in control? How much real power do they have? Is there nobody behind those activists? Are ideologues (gender studies professors etc.) behind them Gen Z? How many record companies are owned by Gen Z? Yet we blame their music. How much power do they have in media? Are those who invested in that LOTR ripoff show from your video Gen Z? Who keeps pouring money into similar garbage movies, shows etc. even though they know it will fail? How much wealth do Gen Z people have? Are those doctors who mutilate those kids and fill their bodies with hormones Gen Z? We can go on.
I really enjoy the content you and the Critical Drinker produce. Your videos are well though out and are presented in a concise and intelligent manner. I always felt that modern music was somehow off but never really could put my finger on it. After watching this video I now have a better understanding what's going on. Music can be such an awesome component of are lives., why would you want it to be so banal? I'll never understand that...
My generation, yay. At least I came into form in the earlier stages of it, but, I mean what do you want be to say about Gen Z at this point? We've been duped into submissive identity politics, radicalization, and refusal of familial and social values that have been standard for the last 30,000 years. The Internet and real life have collided into a mish-mash of dystopian hell, where there is no distinction between each. But I have a sort of optimism that a reversal of sorts will occur at some point down the line. Maybe not in my lifetime, but as history shows it does happen. For now, I'm gonna keep living my life and being content with it.
I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for gen z and everyone that comes after. Imagine growing up with the knowledge that you will never own anything, you will work like a slave in a polluted toxic hellscape and there's no hope.
The up and coming generation always gets described like this. When older people point fingers at others and not themselves, the cycle just continues. Millennials shouldn't continue the blame game.
0:22 We Gen-Xers did it first. There were outliers from previous generations who did that, but we made it a generational artform. And they called us "slackers" for it. But they tried to make us do an unlimited amount of work for a very limited amount of pay, and were reluctant to allow us to afford even the most basic one-bedroom apartments (they won't even let us afford studio apartments nowadays, but that's not specific to one generation), yet they called us "losers" for being stuck in that rut even though they put us there by keeping wages low and rent costs high. 3:23 Mick's bi. Ever see 'Freejack'? 12:28 "Assigned at birth." What about physicality that develops in utero? 13:02 That one guy kinda looks like The Amazing Atheist. 17:55 I'm a Gen-Xer with a professional education, but I've never been allowed to make more than $11.35 an hour, not even when I was working in the sterile lab of an orthopedics plant. I believe that a fatalistic outlook is absolutely justified. It sucks, but at least it's realistic. The sooner in life an individual comes to realize that they're a "donkey" who'll never be allowed to eat the proverbial "carrot," the better.
I coined that term myself last year. But, knowing I'm hardly original- I was waiting for someone to use it first. Good. I'm not the only one that sees it
As a gen z guy, I can say it sucks. The music sucks, so I listen to instrumental and 80s. The movies suck too, so I watch 70s-90s movies. As of for my generation's activism, I think the fact it's full of activists is the problem outright. Not only is my generation far too liberal and closed off, but it's more antisocial because of it. Your political affiliation dictates who are your friends, and who are your enemies. Most importantly, the romantic and sexual issues of my generation runs very deep. I'm 24 years old and have NEVER in my entire life EVER gone on a *SINGLE* date. My parents got married at 24 years old, yet I'm that same age and have never gone on a date. Why? Simple. As Patrick Star said: "We have technology". Phones and computers have made in person meetings unreasonable. Why talk to someone directly when you can shoot them a text? Why go through the fear of rejection when you can ask out that gal you like through text? I dropped out of college because nobody wanted to talk to me. There were groups of friends who came from their highschool and won't talk to anybody else, and then there were the shy ones who refuse to take their eyes away from their phones. Sadly, there are also those who refuse to make eye contact even if they are not on their phone. However, the romantic issue is actually quite severe. I have done research and found that Gen Z men are the loneliest on the stats. Simply put, we gen z men aren't dating. To expand on that, the women are drifting left, while the men are drifting right. Neither side want anything to do with someone of opposing beliefs, and rightly so. Liberals are nuts. A lot of women don't even want a man to be a gentleman. They don't want guys to hold the door for them. On the other side, men are scared of even approaching women. A lot of it has to do with a small minority of women who think they are superior. Those in that group will make lies, false accusations to ruin his life, or just use him for personal gain. Men don't want to date an undesirable. So, in short, we are shy, highly divided people who are deeply troubled. We are also antisocial. Hope that answers some of it. Thanks for reading my "essay".
Aside from some alternative bands yes today's music sucks and it's been like that for a while. Music from 60's to the early 00's is what I prefer. And as a Gen X'er I am discovering treasures in movies that were made in black and white. The writing and acting rates highly.
As a Gen z, I don't think we're the worst generation, think a lot of us are heavily misguided, don't know how to interact with people, and a lot of us are pretty lazy, however a lot of this isn't our fault, outside of the lazy part, I also think some of the things you listed isn't exactly wrong, for example us having less sex isn't wrong when Generations prior we're having too much of it, especially with Gen X and their High rates of teen pregnancies, I also don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to push male and female platonic relationships, it's a pretty common thing, and it shouldn't be portrayed as a bad thing. I also think the most of the activism about the sort of issues, comes from Millennials and not gen Z.
There is a lot goodnight Gen Z, it's just not popular to say so. But, I'm an encouragement, so here goes... * more teens are in the work force than in years & years. Milleninials were raised to believe volunteering in their teens was all they needed to prepare for adulthood. Many Milliniels first job was after college!!! Or a college internship. * fast food restaurants have been using teens as shift workers. This implies responsibility to me! I know a woman who works at McDonald's. She is 45. Her shift manager is 16!!! **Gen Z is very money conscious. You know to be concerned about debt.. **gen z is going into Trades at a much higher rate. **those who go to college, do so with cost in mind. Milliniels just went to their dream school regardless of debt. Small liberal Arts colleges are suffering because gen z doesn't want to pay the price.
@@kathyp1563 think the reason why gen Z isn't paying for it, is because we've seen how it worked out with Millennials, and they are still in debt to this day.
I actually really respect that Taylor Swift makes a point to be seen with her guitar. The image really solidly says “I AM A MUSICIAN.” And young people are forced to consider if they, too, should maybe pick up an instrument if they want to be famous.
As a person belonging to Gen X, I still vividly remember how we were considered the worst generation ever, accused of being hedonistic, selfish and without any goals in life aside from partying...
