How to Speak 'Generation Z' | Justin Shaifer | TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcademy 

"Lol" used to mean "laughing out loud", now it means "this message is not meant to be passive agressive or rude, I just don't have the social skills to articulate my message in such a manor"

It’s crazy how people call Gen Z a “failed generation”. Most of us haven’t even been alive long enough to fail yet😂

No gen z uses Facebook unless you need an account to sign into some website and even then no one uses their account

actually, the most qualified people to understand Gen Z is Gen Z. we’re people too. ask us questions. we don’t need a middleman

Just say "oof" "yeet" "F" "same" "mood" and boom, you're one of us.

You know what's weird. I'm a gen z and most of the people I see addicted to social media are actually millennials (not that I think millennials are bad I think a generation is too broad to really dictate someone's work ethic). Gen z may use tech a lot but stats say we actually prefer to talk face to face with the people we care about.

Ok, so I'm assuming that "quiz game" was Kahoot. That kid didnt "hack" the game either. He just used a bot website and entered the code. It probably took him 5 minutes to figure it out.

if i hear one more person go "did you know computers used to be the size of a room"

Honestly Gen Zer’s watch RU-vid more than Netflix Edit: I just wanted to thank you guys for all of the likes

What they don’t realise is how much we’re open to learn about online, of course they assume we’re playing games lmao

Gen z kid: bored at home Parents: get off your phone Gen z kids: ok, can i go to my friends house Parents: *no*

"The average teenager consumes 9 hours of media per day" Me during quarintine: ...Sure. Let's say that.

My Generation Z life has gotten to the point where I hear a bird tweet and I just go "same" cause ya know. . *Same*

why are 1999/2000 kids who are 18/19 already and also part of gen z always forgotten? why are gen zers literally looked at as small kids

Boomers: Millenials are ruining the world. Millenials: Gen Z is ruining the world. Gen Z: Oof, shots fired that's some hot tea. *yeets away*

I honestly thought he was going to tell the audience the meanings of words/phrases like “oof,” “Weird flex but ok,” or “it do be like that sometimes”

did he just call smashing a kahoot lobby "hacking" it is a google extension

say “mood” and “same” to anything that is depressing

I fixed the title: millennial poorly explains gen z culture to baby boomers and gen x.

I've seen people way older than this guy that understands us better.

Shout out to all my fellow gen Z’s watching this

Off topic but dude rock that periodic table tie damn

Imagine being jumped by a bunch of Gen Z boys and one of them say "F Yeet Oof Get this Bread" *GOOGLE TRANSLATE:* Knock him out and leave him in the dumpster

We need "How to speak to Gen Y" cause the teachers in my school are literally like "Does anyone know how to activate the light machine?"

most of us who were born in gen z are capable teenagers who aren’t clueless so i think we’re the most qualified for understanding gen z. we know about the technology that was used before apple products, we’re not all the seven year olds he used as an example

Haha yes part of my “9 hour media consumption per day” is watching Ted ed videos like this. So if you’re wondering what we do with all that time, this is it

Don't summarize us, we ain't one year old. Let us talk for ourselves.

you know we are teens right... we aren't 6

9 hours? Those are rookie numbers! You gotta get those numbers up!

9 hours on media per day? Try 32.

When everyone forgets that 1998 to 2003 are also considered Gen-z

“9 hours of media a day” for a teacher i’m surprised u don’t realize thats fake. You know how much work students can get.

Anyone else hate the term iGen? It’s like, there’s always the misconception that it’s always about the internet and it’s simply not true. We’re just the generation that’s had access to it from birth.

am i the only one mad about the time span of genZ. As someone born around the 2000s, i do NOT identify with children born after 2007 or so. They're completely different and should be addressed as such.

Man, just talk to us like intelligent human beings. Be prepared for words to be used in a way you may not have heard them, but most of the Gen Z people I know (myself included) are perfectly happy to explain the way we use slang. The biggest thing that blocks communication with us is belittling us and thinking that because we use words, grammar, and punctuation “incorrectly” means that we’re dumber, when really we just have a different way of viewing communication.

gen z humor is "i wanna die" and everyone saying "mood" "me" and "same" and i love it

Answer: memes

If you want to help us I'd recommend starting with America's education system. It feels like we aren't learning anything that we'll ever use and what we will need to use isn't being taught to us.

Imagine thinking that you speak for an entire generation that ur not even part of... Don't ask ur millennial niece ask an actual gen z-er

Bro that 6 year old is from Generation Alpha, not Gen Z . we older.

My mom told me I spend all day doing nothing. Ok, so if by nothing she means learning about art products, techniques and how to make money with it, creating my own language, see the mistakes I make in life and drawing, learning about science and psicology, and making sure my little brother doesn't kill himself with the fridge or something... Well, yes, I'm doing nothing.

we're just a bunch of nihilists, y'all got too much faith in us.

People forget that half of gen z grew up before smartphones

I can’t speak for the whole world, but no gen z kid in the Scandinavian countries uses facebook unless you need it for an app or something

Great presentation, he made some excellent points. As a 16 year old guy, every time someone talks about gen z, it's always about being addicted to video games or always on social media. But they never actually include us into their conversation. We're very capable of talking to adults and having an actual discussion. We're not only on xbox or social media, we also learn through this what they won't or can't teach us in class due to time or something else. A bunch of us are watching Ted talks like this one. Have a presentation where you have a couple millennials, gen z, and gen x together. Don't grab the first volunteers from gen z, the ones that raise their hand first for something like this in class are usually the weird kids or the wayyy too into school kids and probably won't properly represent us well

I would actually pay attention in class if I had him as a teacher

when teachers think they can borrow worksheets/hw from the internet and not expect most of students to find out the answers on yahoo or quizlet

As a member of generation z it’s just a mix of regular conversation and screaming in anguish

No gen Z has Facebook

*big moOd. spill the tea skinny legend. wig? snached. let's get that bread* **mia khalifa plays in the backround**

y'all know the quiz game was kahoot

ok but hacking your teacher's game in class is a power move

We're they play kahoot ?

Only 9 hours what a tree hugger

I’m kind of playing into the gen z stereotype, but I genuinely think old people grow less smart as they get older They honestly are not smart enough to foresee the money that’s present in technology. My dad is a millennial, and when he said that he was going to invest in AI rather than oil, his parents kicked him out. Note: 8 years later he’s paying their debts and medical expenses

My dad: Watches this video and talked to me* My dad after talking: “man it hurts to be this hip.”😎😎😎

I feel like some people forget that people ages 17-23 are also gen z... like there are adults that are in gen z and don’t act like the stereotypical gen z. Why are we forgotten 😩

Oh, I think that quiz game was kahoot. It’s incredibly easy to flood it with bots. They had to stop doing it at my school because every time we played the game, a few people would do that

i have learned more things on "social media" than i have learned in school

You could have a normal conversation with us but usually you boomers are too intimidated.

Quiz game? *cough cough KAHOOT* ding dong fortnite is wrong

You already know this is gonna be off when the twitter logo is representing generation Z

They act like we’re complicated like wtf!?

Lol all this shows is how little millennials understand gen z. Even worse, they think they understand when they don't at all.

Nah, my dude. We’re all that I guess, but make some joke about being a mistake and most of us will laugh. I tend to get frustrated and say, “ I want to hug a moving train.” That’ll get a couple of ‘Mood’ ‘Same’ and laughs out of my peers. Hah. . . But yeah dude, keep believing in us. Feels nice.

I can only talk to my friends through the internet. They all live in completely different states than I do, except for one who l lives near LA, and a few of them live in Canada! I'm home-schooled, as I am thirteen, and I take online courses through an online school, adding on to the time I spend online everyday. However, I still find the time to read, and learn new things outside of school. In fact I'm currently learning Russian, Spanish, studying many different diseases, sicknesses, different medical terminology, Police codes, and more all online. I've been told many times that I should go outside and play more with the friends I have, but as I said before none of them live in my town. Not to mention I'm told that I need to get up, and learn something. I can't even begin to tell you how absolutely annoying it is to not even have the chance to explain what I'm doing, or how even if I do I'm told it's too hard for me because I'm young. It's constantly a matter of either "You can't do it." and "I don't care." I get no encouragement to do such things my people other than my family, which is technically my friends. In fact, I'm quite sure they're the ones who pushed me to learn such things. I don't mean to flex, I promise. I just simply want to tell people that Gen Z isn't all about memes, although I will admit I have nearly 2,000 in stock, we can learn complex things just as well as anyone else can. We aren't just browsing the internet for pointless reasons, we have goals and dreams just like you. The bottom line is, just because I'm on my phone doesn't mean that I'm playing games. I have many different things to learn on my own, and it doesn't help when you pull me down for my efforts. I appreciate help, but it's heartbreaking to hear you tell me I can't do it just because I'm young.

It seems Gen Z is extremely tech smart, and “street smart” from the internet; they know everything you think they don’t. They are very wise for their ages when you get them one on one, and have a conversation with them. They also don’t care or follow the rules of old systems, so it’s hard to be their teachers unless you get on their own level. As a Millennial/Gen X cusp (1982) I have a lot of faith in these new kids sometimes known as “crystal children”, they do not see color, and don’t put up with inequality, so it means great things for humanity; IF they can learn to speak right and turn off the slang at inappropriate times in order to get their insightful messages out. ✨

“Aren’t eating cereal because it’s too much work” you don’t know how relatable this is

Oof yeetus the fetus and can I get a hiya!

honey they don't know what silicone valley is because they're used to hearing it as silicon valley

My social teacher in grade 8 had an Instagram page where he posted photography(he was also a photography teacher) that was relevant to our classes everyday. He'd have us analyse the picture and make observations to start the class and get us into that days topic. He was my, and many others', favourite teacher, though I think that may also be due to the fact that instead of treating us as students or lower than himself, he treated us like actual people, which, for some reason, a lot of teachers don't do. He also didn't try to put on some facade to make himself seem overly official and like someone who should be respected. He had fun in class, being honest, while still teaching us the curriculum in an interesting and engaging way, and, through that, everybody actually had a lot more respect for him than if he had put up some facade. Also, in our literacy class(basically, depending on your reading level and comprehension, you were split into different classrooms for one period to work on different things), he took the group with the highest literacy level, so we didn't actually work on literacy. Instead, he tasked us to get into small groups and for the semester our task was to create the plan for a business with a triple bottom line. Most groups, including mine, went through the process of designing a product and a campaign and working out what we would need to go through with it, but some groups actually made a real business.

This video just made me so mad. I'm 20 years old, you can have an actual conversation with me. I'm sure many younger Gen Z people feel the same way. If we can understand you, then it can work both ways. Gen Z isn't a language that needs to be deciphered, and you as a millennial doesn't make you some magic rosetta stone that can translate between the young and the old. We are all alive and willing to talk to each other, but because so many Gen Z people are still so young (7 years old and they're already being judged), please try to talk to the older people of this generation before forming opinions. 12-year-olds in middle school are going to change so much in a few years. And of course we spend so much time on screens, our parents don't let us go outside without supervision and so much of school and homework is digital.

*Well this is 13 minutes and 40 seconds of my 9 hour daily media consumption*

How about just asking us?

I am apart of Generation Z. For me, I feel more motivated to learn while reading online, rather than in a text book, because I'm more familiar with being on a phone or laptop. The school system hasn't changed in over 100 years, while everything around us is.

I think the teens today r even if they say they aren’t r scared for the future- money, college, work, family, earth,etc., have a realistic mindset and r depressed

You wanna a Sprite Cranberry?

I learn more online than in my required classes at school. And it's what I'm interested instead of state mandate "CommonCore"

how to speak and understand gen z: step 1: grow up in a world where you constantly see horrible things and realize there is no hope for the future and then decide to just vibe in the chaos.

4:08 *"Watching* your favourite *podcaster"*

“oof” Yeet away

I love this guy. I would love to attend a workshop on science and technology if he's the one conducting it! He is so right about engaging with gen Z and using social media as a platform to boost your career! These are the real life skills that we should be taught.

Ummm literally everyone of my friends and we are gen z knows what Silicon Valley is and we live in Illinois

I've filled a kahoot game with 500 bots in one of my classes and the teacher thought it was hilarious and found out I did it so he asked how and I told him. He was one of my favorite teachers I had that year, really cool and nice guy.

Gotta love Kahoot bots

Just use memes

aS a 17 yEar OlD i FeeL leFt oUt fOr beIng In beTweEn gEneRations, or o wow they all think we are like that, *oof* . Basically most of the comments.

What my mom sees: me staring at screen rotting my life away What I’m really doing: rotting my life away but it’s lit 😎😎😎

My wig has been snatched.

a 6 yr old would not be a part of gen z. gen z years ended in 2009. Unless his bro is now 8 or 9 and that quote was from like 2015 idk

I know all the jokes, Lol: laugh out loud Omg: oh my god Wtf: why the face

He got kahoot. Botted. Haha

Yeet yeet skeet skeet

Every time he said silicon it sounds like he is saying silicone

Yo my boomer teacher doesn’t understand my gen z bois. We’re just there to get the bread but she won’t vibe with us. Always judges us smh she needs to yeet herself out the window, RIP

"we are the most qualified at understanding gen z" no WE are the most qualified. if you want to understand us, literally just ask. We aren't infants and we are capable of explaining things to you.

"Or good old fashioned Neflix n chill.... if you aren't Gen z or a Millenial, you won't know what that means" XD JESUS MAN, I LAUGHED SO HARD I DROPPED MY COFFEE!

i love how mostly none of us have faith in ourselves and we’re just like “mood”

9 hours are rookie numbers. More like 12- 40 hours a day is more like it

"awkward middle child" Every generation feels like the awkward middle child when the next generation kicks into gear... and that usually happens around the time that you see you are no longer the youngster, the kiddo, you stop understanding the language the lingo and the reason why the younger kids do the things they do and you start to criticize them the way your parents criticize you! That's when it hits you like a ton of bricks! You are no longer the latest generation, you are the awkward middle child!