This. This hits the mark. Only difference is that the heroes overcome something and find purpose. Meanwhile I can't even break out from under my crippling debt and my dead end job.
I would love to see the new millennial heroes fighting business monopolies, unaffordable homes, and environmental catastrophes (aka capitalism) rather than just finding a good job lol
I've got a Red/Blue observation to make. Boomers waiting to have kids till the 1980s is a coastal thing. In the "heartland", Boomers were having Gen X kids throughout the 70s. My mom was born in 1950, and became pregnant with me at 20 (my dad was 23, having just left the Navy after serving in the Gulf of Tonkin). She was from Florida, he was from Kansas. (We're not talking about rubes, though. My dad worked as a radar tracking technician for the Apollo program, and retired a senior manager at an aerospace firm. My mom was a committed homemaker.) Notably, although a midline Gen Xer, I developed a very Millennial attitude after attempting suicide in college in the early 90s (very grunge of me). Much like Katy (Akwafina), I'm smart, but I'm terrified of getting trapped doing something I'm good at, but find boring. I have a 135 IQ, entered college as an engineer, left as a journalist, and ditched that 20 years ago to work as a substitute high school teacher. I love the variety and low expectations of my job, and I got VERY lucky finding a long-term, cheap housing situation that makes this lifestyle comfortable rather than marginal. ... I'll stop now, before I piss off the REAL Millennials further.
Dang, I’m realizing my disillusionment with life in my recent past wasn’t just me being depressed or anxious, it was a cultural movement. It makes me feel both not as alone as I thought I was and a bit worried that all of my unproductive thoughts about the matter are actually true.
The new generation of Marvel heroes are hesitant because they have lived through a world where the villian won. - Wanda rejected reality because she lost the only people that ever loved her - Peter Parker didn't want to be an Avenger for fear of not living up to Tony's legacy - Shang-Chi lived a dull life because he wanted to reject his talents that were brought up by a traumatic upbringing Ultimately, they learn to stop dwelling in the past and try to find a positive meaning in trying to help others
Exactly. This is just good drama. These characters are used to being sidekicks. It’d be out of character for them to act any differently than they are. I can see the argument for shang chi though ONLY bc he’s not as involved in the mcu yet
@@lokopytana you guys say this for anything you dont watch. The fact that there are videos and comment sections that can clearly deduce logical arguments on character development (sometimes over multiple movies and shows) proves there’s substance in the writing. I’ll agree it’s not the greatest, but not bad. Definitely not very bad.
I'm a 27 year old who's working in a call center, living in his parents house downstairs. I have some savings but not enough to change my life significantly. Man I feel a bit attacked by this.
I am here for this, shipping you guys! I know it's just a bit of witty banter, but this "geriatric millennial" (can we please get a better name for this?) will be pulling for you two, and all the youngsters in our cohort, to beat the odds and find meaning in this messed up world.
As a grocery store worker, every time I heard about "dead end jobs" or seeking out a passion to find something more "valuable"... everybody needs food. Most are too lazy to be farmers or ranchers. I am a cog in a wheel that moves a gear that helps keep this giant machine called society moving. I have no shame in that.
@@erinh7650 oh so true. But if I embrace that nihilism too long, the ground beneath me quakes, falling to either side as a great elder god rises behind me to show me how insignificant I really am.
I'm celebrating my 31st birthday today.. I spent front half of my 20s in odd jobs after dropping out of college (twice). I'm now in a position I hoped to be in at 21. Thanks for speaking out the zeitgeist of my generation.
The line where Katy talks about how she "gets bored and moves on" is TEXTBOOK ADHD behaviour. Whether or not this is also emblematic of burnt out millennials, the line was clearly designed to add depth to her character in a recognizable way. Katy also displays a lot of other ADHD and ASD traits, such as speaking quickly and densely about things she's passionate about, impatience, and hyperfocus on confounding details.
12:48 “it’s hard to see any previous captain America having beef with America” I guess we’re just going to pretend the entire plot of Winter Soldier and Civil War didn’t happen.
I think Millennial's make better heroes because they're driven by more than just an ideal. Or way of life, they're driven to do, create and be a part of a better world they can forge with their own hands. So they'll end up being much more nuanced because they have something to fight for other than just simply being "the good guys" I'm looking forward to this.
I partially agree with you. Millennials make better characters for all those reasons you laid out, but heroes have to be "the good guys". That's why Millennials (like me) usually like the villains from the stories, cause the villain has room to be nuanced. A hero that is nuanced ends up being an anti-hero.
I don't know though. The thing is nobody can make the world better by themselves. It requires working together with others, finding common ground and making compromises. And the mentality of extreme individualism makes this not an easy proposition.
"She clings to her idealic suberban childhood despite knowing it was ultimately hollow because its unlikely shell ever obtain such stability again" hit me like a truck
For anyone who had parents who tried to force their beliefs and insecurities onto you I leave with this quote. "It’s time for you to look inward and start asking yourself the big queston: who are you and what do you want?"
"It's hard to imagine Iron Man or Thor ever being bogged down by financial difficulties." Yeah, because those 2 had EXTREMELY RICH PARENTS! I wonder what their secret to financial security might have been? 🤔
To be fair, Asgard, and the literal mountains of gold it had, is gone so I really don't know what Thor's living situation is. I imagine he's sleeping on someone's couch somewhere
@@Jalbert0028 True, but his father did put a great deal of pressure on him and added to his trauma after he lost his mother, so his father may be rich, but Shang-Chi is still healthier in a "dead end job" away from his father than he would be if he had stayed with and accepted his father's role for him, which would have made him just as corrupt. He was right to run away, and at no point does he seem to think the consequences, such as the lack of financial stability, weren't worth it.
@@RicardoPetinga exactly! I think it's important to acknowledge that Shang Chi was pretty happy with his life. He had his best friend and had a life that brought him peace. I don't like how we demonize "dead end jobs," because some of the happiest people I've ever met have had jobs that could be considered dead end. But they have friends and family and hobbies and aren't miserable! Constantly being dissatisfied and wanting more and better isn't a great outlook, but somehow it's become accepted as the best way for a young person to live.
@@heidi3963 what people call "dead end jobs" are more often than not essential jobs, while most of the higher paying ones, with some exceptions like physicians, are bullshit jobs that not only are unnecessary, can actually be detrimental to the well being of society. Even in the movie there's a good example of that with Wen Wu's occupation. Sure, he's incredibly wealthy, but at what cost for the rest of society? And one can make the argument that he employs a lot of people, but can that really be an excuse if most of what they do is harmful? And one can try to draw a line and say that there are laws that make his and their "jobs" illegal, but then aren't many legal jobs just as harmful, but still considered legal and even aspirational because they serve the interests of an extremely wealthy class who have the power to interfere in legislation? The whole notion that everyone should strive to be "on top", or as close as possible, neglects the pyramidal structure of society that requires that a vast majority be kept in the bottom and leads to a dog-eat-dog competitive mentality that causes most of our social ills. And the worst part is that even ultra-capitalist corporations like Disney can commodify and repackage anti-capitalist sentiment into their movies' messages to be consumed as entertainment, but of course always present it in a toothless reformist way, like all problems created by capitalism can be solved within a capitalist system if exceptional individuals just try hard enough. Which should be obvious that they can't, and even within the fiction it's explicit that they can't because the problems persist, but they become secondary in the face of individual villainous threats. Because, again, our capitalist culture conditions us into an individualist mindset. And, of course, that also misleads us to believe that it's the fault of people in "dead end jobs" for not trying hard enough, or not being "good" enough, from a capitalist perspective. The one Marvel show that tried to somewhat realistically tackle systemic and structural problems more explicitly still ended up presenting a half-assed band-aid as the "solution". Sorry, got carried away with the subject!
So basically, Spider-Man Far From Home might also be a commentary on the destructive power of having a social media driven life when all of a sudden you become a world phenomenon and everything about you is laid out for others to comment and judge on. I think this analysis is pretty much on point
I must say that the comments for this video are just... I don't know... Probably the best ever in terms of how honest we all are about our situation and of how we feel heard in this analysis. I want to send a lot of love to everyone here and I hope we will all live to experience times of joy, fulfillment and growth, because we damn well deserve it
That attitude of entitlement is precisely one of the big issues with the millenial way of thinking or perhaps with the western's post modern mindset in general. We need to realize that important things come with a cost that our generation is often not willing to pay, but we still demand them. Nothing on that wonderful list comes for free or on an easy way. But joy, fulfillment and growth are to be achieved out of hard work, passion and dedication. Individuals lacking those determinant factors will hardly ever get satifactory outcomes in any aspect of life.
Wow. I really liked this analysis. I hadn't even considered the parallels between the phase 4 of the MCU and the current millennial situation. Nice one.
15:03 "finding a world of purpose and meaning... a life using your passion.. that feels valuable.. making the world a better place" that's exactly what put stress on millennials and burnt them out in the first place. Trying to find that defining moment for us to the "start living" is paradox.
I think its a roll of the dice depending on what your passion is. There was once a guy who's a carpenter because carpentry was his passion. That and guitars. One day his friend asked him to repair a guitar. He did. And then word got around he repairs guitars. Eventually he started customizing guitars and now he's very well off with his own business customizing guitars. And he never went to college. I had a similar experience. I love tinkering with PCs. Messed with one since they still ran on PCI dial up modems you plug to the mother board. No professional training whatsoever. Now I repair PCs. Its not glamorous job but its stable and I still do what I like. Not sure if its making world a better place but its nice to get thanked when you help someone out get their family pics back from a PC that won't boot.
Alienation as Marx described it. We are all alienated from our jobs either because we are making money pushing paper and being far removed from productive forces or any prior aspirations, or we are working retail and service jobs or warehouse work, what little real productive labor is left that hasn't been outsourced is being gradual eliminated and jobs like coal are under threat from desperately needed environmental action. "We have started out from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property; the separation of labour, capital, and land, and likewise of wages, profit, and capital; the division of labour; competition; the conception of exchange value, etc. From political economy itself, using its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity, and moreover the most wretched commodity of all; that the misery of the worker is in inverse proportion to the power and volume of his production; that the necessary consequence of competition is the accumulation of capital in a few hands and hence the restoration of monopoly in a more terrible form; and that, finally, the distinction between capitalist and landlord, between agricultural worker and industrial worker, disappears and the whole of society must split into the two classes of property owners and propertyless workers." -Estranged Labor by Karl Marx, 1844 We are reduced to being treated as commodities ourselves more than Marx even imagined, what with "free" services where the userbase becomes the product to be mined for data to sell to advertisers.
Sounds nice but everyone who hears that should remember that going out and making mistakes, embarrassing yourself, or chance of physical harm is no reason not to follow ur dreams because to do that u have to go thru these things. Find comfort in the discomfort!
It seems like they're building up to a Dark Avengers storyline, and that could be interesting given this reading. It could be a fight between a team of heroes who've sold out to a corrupt organization in order to find stability versus a team of heroes struggling to fight for what they think is right in a world that doesn't care about right and wrong as long as people get paid.
I don't know if they make better heroes but they make better MCU characters. Someone once said the DC has gods who pretend to be human while Marvel has humans who have the power of gods. These new characters seem more relatable than Stark or Rogers.
Idk stark and rogers mean something very pivotal for the world of marvel. With out cap you dont have the moral compass the world needs and without tony you dont have the action to make change. Between the 2 of them lots of heros followed them believing in there ideals. They wernt perfect but they are kinda the reason so many pick up the mantle of hero.
Marvel's heroes have always been very angsty, self-doubting and insecure. Look at Peter Parker or Ben Grimm. Now, we just have a different overlay to put on their motivations.
It seems that every recession we go through is the "worst since the great depression." It all depends on which statistic you point to or whose spin you believe.
Only reason to buy a home nowadays is to raise kids. "But owning is cheaper than renting!" Yeah lol, no. Between mortgage payments, maintenance, repairs, property taxes, utilities, and more, I'll take renting any day of the week. "But it's a good investment!" Again, nope, it's not. Houses appreciate, sure, but inflation accounts for a good chunk of a home's increase in value over time. That, and a house is a massive liability since it's constantly taking money out of your pocket. A house is only an asset when you sell it and put that money in the bank. The whole "home ownership is the American dream" bullshit is a dream people are being shaken out of.
It's hard to not have a defeatist attitude towards life when all around I see nothing but corruption, death of the planet and the dreams that my parents had impossible for me to fulfill. With nothing to do in life but my meaningless task all while I consume pointless media to distract myself of the slow decay of time. But that's what it means to be the absurd hero. To be happy living in futility
@@GrygoriiTyshchenko for the most part, I mean I do go to sleep wishing thanos was real and would snap me from existence and I awake each morning wishing I did not wake at all. But I get up and plod along with life and despite the words I write here in my every day life I strive to be a beacon of light in my friends and families lives, the majority of my friends have diagnosed depression and I will be damned before I add to their woes
You could also make a case for Dysfunctional Families, from Black Widow to The Eternals, in every Marvel Phase 4 property. Even Loki breaks up with his family (him/herself).
Damn. This hit hard, and I can totally appreciate the argument. In my position, I was going to be a pastor in the Methodist Church. I had been working towards this goal since 2007, before I even finished undergrad. Went straight to seminary after graduating early. With my first appointment, I was sent to a place with no real direction, nor any guidance from my superiors. Fell flat on my face. I was then moved to two small churches in the middle of literally nowhere, with the nearest Walmart being 45 miles away. I floundered for three years but at the end I had thought I was making progress, and was going to finally be approved for ordination, or official and lifelong employment by the church. They denied me. I was gutted. I applied for PhD, got accepted, and am on living in my sister in law's guest house, while working as an overnight auditor for a hotel in CA. Quite literally, LIVING IT UP IN THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA. I feel for Katy, floundering and hoping to find purpose. I feel for Shang-Chi, trained for one thing his entire life only for it to blow up in his face. I feel for the trauma Wanda felt. I feel for Sam's disillusionment. I feel it all. And I know I'm not alone, looking at these comments.
Yeah so I didn't need that reminder. Riding that 4 year cusp between millennial and gen z, being just old enough to understand I was going into high school screwed but young enough to not plan for it has been the defining characteristic of my mid twenties
Yeah same here on a different generation, late Gen X (80). 3yrs away from millennial with my younger brother a very early (83) millennial & being able to see how shielded the information was from my formidable years of 90's (10 to 20) & closing out the century from the 99 into the 2000's (I'll see myself out if anyone gets the reference). I've actively seen the transition from the culture then to now & can see where the disdain can come from. I've seen tech fall (home phones) & some rise (beepers & pagers, fax machines) and fall. Others rise (cell phones, computers, social media) & become prominent. Only to freak the fuck out because the adaptation of millennials & Gen Z (where my young kids are firmly placed) are here with or without assistance from Baby Boomers to super early Gen X. It's a fascinating & terrifying time for me. Being overlooked, yet having that weird amount of knowledge to learn from both Baby Boomers & Millennials while successful Gen X are splitting opinions between BB' & Mill's. Yeah I had that moment wondering where 20's went to & now compensating by finding knowledge that was not available to poverty level while watching the same level of people not search for the same information I clamored for. Stay in their & hunt the good stuff is the best I can tell you. Looking at both Generations around me it's going to be a scary/exciting future ahead.
Yup 23 yo here. We live in Greece (basically we are fucked much more than you guys at usa) fresh out of college, unemployed, back to live with my parents, without friends or a relationship in sight. Depression is that you again? Oh you never left and this is the mid-20s crisis? Also social anxiety has joined the chat due to Covid19? Oh ok. Great. Just fantastic.
Boomer: You are just an entitled slacker that doesn't have the drive and determination to accomplish anything which is why you'll still be working at McDonald's in your 40's and why your longest relationship lasted only a month because you're a failure at love as well.
A lot of honesty around here. I couldn't find real work past minimum wage until a year ago, and I'm 35. Even then, I'm barely above it. College did nothing for me but suck up money I could have put toward a house. My girlfriend turned fiance felt the same crushing depression they speak of here. We broke up after 10 years together, so now I'm single during COVID. Here's what makes it bearable for me every day. I have a roof, I can pay my bills, I can eat, and I have hobbies. It's really not much compared to what previous generations had, but it's more than many get. I've even started to feel better having gotten rid of facebook and Netflix. Part of what previous generations could enjoy was a simpler life. Minimize your time online and go for a walk in the park, read a damn book, listen to an audiobook, pick up a practical hobby, and just remember everyone is having a rough day. A kind word means a lot. Sappy, sure, but I had a lady truck driver nearly break into tears over me simply being patient with her in her new carrier. I hope this works for others, as it has me.
I think that Sam has acknowledged that issue for a while especially when that loan rejection had a lot to do his skin color as well as mirroring the millenial experience
@@badluck5647 I kinda vaguely remember that but why are you so defensive💀 it wouldn't be that surprising considering how captain America is inherently political, black or wbite
@@boreddude3898 Making this about race, when it isn't, dismisses the relatable American experience of the system seemingly preferring the interests of big business over the little guy. Also, it is a problematic world view to see every interaction between a white character and a black character as being about race.
@@badluck5647 there are multiple ways in which race does affect this topic, but again my point is captain America, regardless of his race, has always been political and so it makes sense he of all characters would tackle this issue. I dont know why thats a problem for you, and even at that we've got bucky to tackle other political issues like mens mental health and also ptsd. I just dont see why you'd be upset as even if cap was only taking on purely racial issues theres other characters for you
As a millennial that watched all of these movies and didn't really enjoy them as much as the last Marvel generation, I was surprised so see how relatable this video was for me. It felt like someone recorded my therapist`s sessions and used them for a wisecrack episode. So, Yes. To all of it. xD Thanks for making this.
I (19, Non Binary) love superhero movies as much as the next guy but I used to find it so hard to connect with the matcho-cool-US-loving protagonists that were everywhere. sand reason I never really connected with Cowboy or Spy movies. think these new characters are actually reflecting my life a lot more and are posing character points like "I feel worthless in a meaningless world" rather than phase 1&2s "I love America and wanna kiss some dames"
I was raised by boomer parents and gen x sisters but i'm a milenial. And as this video says i was educated just to do stuff and My parents ensure to scar me at a very young age "if You have Bad notes You won't get a good job, You need to do extra time, if You don't go to bed early how do You expect to wake up early to work?" And so on. I actually lived with depression for long periods of time during My early adult life when i realized that those days that i was grounded for a Bad note or all extra activities in the afternoon that My parents signed me in that were supposed for My own good and would help me later somehow in reality worth shit. In those kind of moments i tend to think if the parents of milenials as a whole ever asked themselves what do their kids really wanted.
I think this is a better thought process then Marvel being very woke. This highlights that Marvel is evolving and identify with the people at the top of that generation and moving forward with them.
Please, please define "woke" for me. Every goddamn time I ask someone it really just sums it up to "change" and "something you don't like" Define it. Pray tell. I want to know how stupid you are
12:48 not to be that guy but Steve did drop the captain America moniker in the comics twice. That ain’t got nothing to do with nothing but, I just thought people should know lol.
They’re talking about within the context of the MCU, although you could argue that Steve does find himself questioning the system after Winter Soldier and well into Civil War. Steve is unique in that as a member of the greatest generation, surviving both the Great Depression AND WWII, he can identify with millennial burnout and cynicism, as he missed the period of optimism and economic recovery that followed the war and defined the subsequent decades of progress and wealth that shaped our parents. He knows only the struggle, and it’s all the world has offered him since he came back.
I, the Watcher, ponder many of *delusional* possibilities, have asked myself: "What If billionaire companies care more about their consumers than just their money? Helping us filling the gasp of a miserable life?"
Well put. It's still a trip to realize how my experience was only unusual in that it began circa 1914 instead of 2001 or 2008. Those were shocks, for sure, but by then I was already very aware of my mortality and that no supernatural force would protect my innocence from predators or that said predators were actually the real powers shaping my world. Personally, I still have some hope that a millennial-led world could be a really remarkable and much more loving and just place, if only because we refuse to accept that anyone else has to suffer the lies and abuse we have, unlike our parents who mostly got Stockholm syndrome for capital, violence, and ego.
Bruh. I graduated STEM (computer science) 6 months ago and am unemployed. I've been applying to do that, but maybe I'm better qualified to park cars... Idk might still need 3-15 years *professional* experience and a proven portfolio of AAA work though...
Joke's on you, while you were out getting the required education you could've been getting the experience you needed for the job you didn't know how to do yet! Catch 22? Never saw that movie.
Comics Spider-Man has the same kind of dynamic, that was what made him great. It's missed on the new film versions sadly. It's a youth thing, not a millennial thing lol
other than the background covid 19 shitshow, don't forget about the climate crisis that we also inherited from our older generations. though overall i think the general direction of the MCU is good. Sure there's the whole relatability of being fucked in today's world, but the more mental health is being addressed in the writing the better. almost like a side effect, this pushes the characters in the movies and shows to be more human and focusing more on the emotional aspect of being alive.
Slacktivism at its best: Marvel/Disney tries to act profound while everyone should know, it's essentially there to empty the pockets of millenials and the chinese middle class, by selling content, not movies, just f'ing content, I lost track of the abhorrent amount of mediocre movies that MCU blew into the world apart from the neat ones that will still age like Avatar...
@@tann_man Yeah, the continent of Australia literally becoming inferno and it snowing in Texas is completely normal 😁, fucking climate change alarmist propaganda😂
@@odiousfox355 LMAO. You're not serious are you?? Those are anecdotes. Not even good ones at that. A truly masterclass performance of myopic "thinking." The propagandized will fight tooth and nail to deny the degree of their delusions. Read the reports for yourself instead of parroting weak talking points.
I’m 23 but I feel it. My parents taught me Alittle different. I know a lot of people my age saw there parents whole life’s change after the 2008 crash. And after that they hammered into my mind you need to work super hard work more then the next get get lucky and it still might not be enough to succeed. It’s depressing but very true
I spent all of my inheritance money from all of my grandparents and my folks took out a second mortgage to get a masters degree in psychology. I did not spend a penny of it socially, nor did I have TV or even a car. I got out of college and my first job was checking microsoft manuals for errors before my boss brought me in to work on quizzes and feedback assessments since I had history making surveys. Six years later, I'm a contractor who jumps from big business to big business making training, living with my still-working parents and girlfriend, and while I managed to help my folks pay off the second mortgage, we're still 6 digits away from owning our house. Even now, food is our biggest expenditure. I'm happy with where I am, but I know I live at the whims of the billionaires and politicians, and I know that we'll be homeless within months if I don't keep my head down, my hands moving, and my pennies pinched.
I definitely feel the difference in how marvel felt presnap but I thought it was because of snap half of everyone away was just traumatic. Framed in this view, this shit is was more sad😂 Aw fuuug, yall don tapped unto my depression again.
This is probably the best, or most easily digestible, interpretation of our situation that I’ve heard yet. I’m at least comforted that we’ll come out stronger than most because of how much we’ve had to adapt and what we’ve had to go through, all on our own.
WISECRACK, please consider looking into the narrative elements that EVANGELION and SHANG CHI share. I noticed a trend where the stories main plot points overlapped.
I'm barely even a millennial (25 yrs old) and I'm already burnt the fuck out as far as aspirations and goals are concerned. Between the ongoing housing crisis, stagnating wages and debt staring me in the face, I'm kinda just going with the flow until things either magically blow over or I get lucky and find something that I actually want to do for the next 30-50 years of my life. The more I try to rush myself to find success and wealth, the faster my candle burns. I haven't given up as much as I've accepted that there a lot of glass ceilings to break through if I'm going to find prosperity in the near future.
One of my favorite lines from the movie comes from a character I don't think even had a name, but they said something along the lines of "If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing." Meaning and purpose aren't gonna be given to us by the world as it is right now. Aim for something, and keep going despite setbacks.
Relateable...I once saw an finfluencer on twitter bragging about his multi income streams from side hustles as well as his main job...I looked at him and thought to myself how did we reduce to this when our grandparents generation was able to raise a family of 5 kids and 1 stay home wife with only one income from one job. And how now we need many incomes from many jobs just to survive...
@@mihneaiordan1813 game design, but i had to take several other courses to literally get to the fkin starting line of learning to code. Eventually i got tired an said “fk that” droped out an getting rdy to search for a full time job while working on my art and learning UE4
As a gen z. I still gonna fight everyday for my dreams, I still happy I live in america even though I’m not American, the circumstances I been through and will go through shall not awe me to a point where I shall break and stop chasing it. I’ll keep going and losing if I must.
I would argue that the previous heroes needed therapy but had been taught not to seek it. Tony is shown to have massive PTSD and gets no help. And I have a hard time believing that Steve could wake up after 70 years, everyone he knows is dead, and not have issues. Thinking oneself too good for therapy doesn't mean you don't need it.
I think it makes sense for Marvel to appeal/be relatable to Millenials. I don't have any data on it but from I notice in my surroundings millenials are the main audience of the MCU
First time viewing content from this channel and this video hit so hard that you earned an instant sub! Damn, as a 35 year old that gave up passion and learned to code so I could try to have some upward mobility, this just really resonated with me and made sense why I have been enjoying phase 4 so much. The characters are so relatable and represent my generations struggles. Thanks for making this!
I think the idea of Shang Chi not achieving something, was not so much that he didnt know what to do, but more that he didnt want to achieve, and get noticed by his Dad. In that example he was simply staying under the radar.
Childhood innocence ended with 9/11, career ruined by the Great Depression, rug pulled by covid right when we thought things were "normal." Pretty difficult to not be jaded, but hey we are still here.
And in the medium and long term we got a guaranteed fucking from climate change. This century doesn't inspire any confidence in the immediate future because we've been fucked six ways from sunday. My only hope is in a further future past the point where humanity has fucked itself over and finally gets that it's actually possible function in harmony on this earth without acting like an immense cancerous growth.
the number one thing that seems to be going away is ownership. if you don't own it you don't care about it. example from my perspective i don't just "work at a grocery store"; "i have a produce department at a grocery store". i care about it, i want it to do better, i want customers to give me compliments on how it looks, it is MINE. so many people today don't feel ownership of anything, and it is because they don't own anything. one reason why many people are comfortable throwing trash out their car window in a parking lot is because they don't have to clean up the lot where they live, they don't own it. if they did they might have some compassion towards the people who own that parking lot.
Whenever I feel this angst of being a failiure, I always remember that, unfortunately, there's someone in a worse situation...there's always someone in a worse situation and circumstance...
That graphic about millennials missing out on building generational wealth, well, it reminds me of how African Americans and (other minorities) were continuously out of building generational wealth since the Civil War to now.
This take doesn't make the newer movies better or really justify their quality, but it gives a really interesting perspective to watch the movies with and get a deeper appreciation for it
I'm taking a gap year before going to university to become a doctor. I don't want to be a doctor. I have no clue what I want to do. I've tried to find something but idk
The thing that is annoying about this Millennial characterization is of course being successful and directionless is in itself a privilege, existence is a privilege. This characterization is like a rich person talking about how much it sucks being rich, and making a movie about how this guy gets out of bed in the morning. I don't see how this is " heroic ".
@@bulletproofwhale5869 morality or being human just comes down to, doing no harm, justice for all, equality for all. It’s not binary, and a lot of grey exists in morality.
The entire Winter Soilder is one massive beef Cap had with post 9/11 America, same with Civil War.There was plenty of cynicism in Marvel wayy before the Blip.
I’m certainly excited for the future of the MCU, the complexity of the characters is really gorgeous. This was a great video, very cathartic, and just really appreciated.
When I get really really down these days, no manner of comfort food or vice can relieve me anymore. Literally the only thing that very genuinely brings me the sincerest sigh of relief is the vivid fantasy of putting a bullet through my head and finally *finally* knowing peace. Literally all I can do is try and sleep through those episodes til the depression has dialed back enough to resume simply "just" feeling tired and checked out. Yeah. Burnout. Sure.
Loved this breakdown. In response to "are millennials better super heroes?" I wouldn't say better or worse, just different, and definitely super heroes that are more reflective of/relatable in the times they are being presented.
Shang Chi though is Gen Z not a millenial, the movie takes place in like 2024/2025 he's like 24 years old. This means he was born somewhere between 1999-2000. Which Gen Z starts at around 1997.
Ya as an asian dude who has had lots of familial pressures to be the best, I get the burn out. I just got lucky and found what I love doing while still using my education.
