“It’s kind of brain rot coded. I feel like it’s giving like low-key like insecure…” is a statement that will definitely show up on a gen alpha’s “ Gen Z cringe iceberg“ video in five years
@caitlingill as though gen Z didnt have chungus, raining tacos, and ifunny memes as kids. Being so terrified of being cringe or too enthusiastic is uncool and unconfident.
The cutesy corporate office ladies aren’t millenial, they’re eternal and will grow from every generation. I remeber my mom would complain about people at work and she called those ladies the “scarfy girls” cause they always had a new one those sheer accent scarves on every day lol.
@@subway830 yeah I run a 80s/90s history blog and I did an entry about going back to school with seventeen magazine. Scans of the magazine, my commentary, etc. Buzz Feed steals all my images and some of my commentary.
I think the thing to remember with millenials interacting with Gen Z is that we basically had the internet and memes to ourselves for 15 years straight. Then younger people show up online and suddenly we're the ones who are cringe. I don't think that's happened with internet culture (which is basically the majority of contemporary culture) before, so it's an interesting transition. I am *fascinated* by how facebook has gone from being the place for teenagers and students to being the place for concerned parents and grandparents.
Idk about having the internet to yourselves because yall bullied me for being a child in youtube comments in 2007 like a lot of us were really young on the internet.
@@laurenddddddd But what do you think we were doing in the early 2000s and late 90s though? There were also precocious kids online way too young back then, but it's only been in the last 5 years or so that we've got to a point where there is an entire generation younger than millenials online with the online culture now revolving around their slang, their jokes, their memes, their pop culture references and their life experience. Like one 12 year old in youtube comments isn't massively impactful, amost everyone from that age group showing up online at once is like an asteroid hitting. There are *some* gen alphas online right now, but it's gonna be another 5 years or so before they take over internet culture and shove gen Z to the side.
As a millennial dog handler, you are correct. I’m doing my best to try to get people to be more normal and remember that their dog can be their “baby” but it’s a dog and needs RULES!
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.” - Abe Simpson
You should do an iceberg on the outcast group that came between Millennials and Gen Z. I was born in 1997 and haven’t ever felt old enough to relate fully to the Disney adult dog mom coffee drinking corporate girlie…but I also still don’t have a TikTok, have so much nostalgia for the early 2000s, and always just want the younger girls at work to like me like a big sister 😂
No worries, Tyler. One other thing about being a millennial is understanding that young people will always make fun of people older than they are. It's just the natural order. I hope we will be the generation that breaks the cycle of overreacting to people being young.
It is confusing to me tho, no one I knew made fun of Gen X ever. They were always really nice and fun and we all seemed to get along. Gen Z being very salty was a shock to me. I didn’t think we raised them to be like that.
@@tammystilettothat’s because everyone forgot Gen x even existed. Remember when that news station forgot them entirely in some type of generational stat chart? It’s like older gen x were considered boomers and younger gen x were millennials
Depressed elder millennial here. I'm watching this while working my corporate job from home, whilst wistfully reminiscing about working in the office and reminding myself that I hated it there. And yes, my dogs are my psychological life bouys and I refuse to apologize for it.
Today i saw a post from someone who said that when her husband died, a friend signed a condolence card from her, her husband, her kids and her DOG. My first thought was that it was probably a millenial
I honestly think we picked this up from older gens. I personally don't do this, but as a kid, my boomer aunt and Gen Jones (boomer/gen X cusp) mom would sign cards to me with the names of our pets and little cartoon paw prints. I think "dog mom" culture is definitely a part of that, but I feel like it's dog moms who remembered the adults in their lives doing that for them as a kid and thinking it was adorable as an adult. Thus, kid memories meld with dog mom brain, and we get adults doing this for other adults. 💀
You’re tripping, millennials do not send cards. Millennials are like 30 years old my guy, they were using snapchat in high school. Signing a card with a pets name is classic older Gen X/boomer, endearing, cringe quirkiness. When husbands are dying and cards are being sent, I doubt we’re talking like 30 years old here
Nothing about Friends? I'm a millennial who loved it as a kid (cos it was on every weeknight for 15 years in NZ) but now when other millennials talk about it and quote it and act like it's the funniest shit ever it's so cringe. Not as prevalent but also Big Bang theory, HIMYM, Modern family. Yikes
As a kid? Friends was high school but mostly college years for me. We planned our social life around it at the time but I don't know anyone that quotes it. Millennials really are two sub generations...
god yes Friends. I’m a millennial and it still makes me cringe when I see Friends collabs because it was such a huge thing in my cringy tween/early teen years. I never got into it but I’d go over to my friends’ houses and the TVs would be playing Friends in the background. No one really watching, just a loop of Friends and the Simpsons every waking hour.
Genuinely as a millennial I felt the millennial cringe was in fact cringe… until I just realized life is too terrible to waste time trying to be cool. So I became what I once cringed at lmao.
Just bc yall remember 9/11 doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of you!! And we also grew up with a ton of bullshit. People a couple years younger than me had to deal with covid while still in school!
we were the ones trying to defend our 2010's jeans. you do not know horror until you've had low rise jeans that at the bottom drag around wet mud around your ankles. and when you sit down your lower back is freezing. high rise skinny jeans all the way. protect my ankles and back from the nasty cold.
If it makes you feel any better, as a Zillennial, I never met anyone who didn't make fun of Buzzfeed articles and quizzes in Buzzfeed's hayday. I think the hate-reading of their articles made them popular (that and they did link to good recipes, I'm not going to lie). You should do Vice next.
As a millenial I feel so personally victimized by this video. Calling image macros "really old school memes" just killed me inside. Like those were the new memes we all complained about which "ruined the internet". Actually old school memes are like long cat and nyan cat. A lot of cats involved. And early video memes like misheard lyrics and stuff like they're taking the hobbits to isengard. Ironically I think a lot of the older millenials are the image macro crowd. Younger millennials were online from really young age and as internet became mainstream older millennials also joined and made their much less terminally online and easier to approach meme culture, which of course every terminally online person thought was cringe and ruining the internet.
Born in 1998- corporate girlie here. Luckily my office is in the middle of absolutely nowhere so I can still get away with wearing sweatshirts on days I’m feeling lazy. I cannot relate to the girlies who get up at 5 am everyday to coordinate an outfit and do full glam before their hour long commute, but I respect them bc they scare me
I’m on the youngest end of millennials and the depression memes were my peak young adult experience. Like in college it was extremely fine and normal to casually mention wanting to unalive yourself to a stranger lmao. It was weird time
@@tylerbenderractually yes, the internet has helped us start talking about mental health immensely I'd say and our generation were the "trial run" of everything internet.
I'm a millenial on the younger side and I don't relate to much of this, but I do enjoy watching a Harry Potter movie every once and a while, I don't see a problem in that. But I don't understand how you could still be a hardcore Potterhead buying the merch you know full well who it supports or arguing over the book lore.
I'm loving these iceberg videos. As a Swiftie, I think Tay is millennial core and that a lot of people who don't understand her, don't understand millennial internet culture.
Millennials are the first generation to both grow up and “age out” of the internet. The next generation will go through the whole “uh oh I feel old” phase and the “uh oh I’m not the young generation anymore” phase. And so will the next one. And the next. And so on. Each generation is cringe in their own beautiful way.
As a millennial, I'd rather be cringe than toxic, even though I don't relate to half of this iceberg. I love you, Gen Z - you stood on our shoulders and made everything so much funnier.
Woah woah woah, hold on there buddy. It was Gen X who started the "don't talk to me before I've had my coffee" thing, they even bought mugs and t-shirts with coffee related slogans in the 80s and 90s, while millenials still hadn't graduated beyond their juiceboxes. Don't you try to pin this shit on us XD
Yeah, but you know the rules of the internet. We have to pretend gen x is incapable of cringe and take every cringy trend started by them and blame millennials for it (also goes for the beige and minimalist mom aesthetic that started in the 2010s, posting their children's private info online, "free range" parenting, or the obsession with giving their kids weird names). To be fair, millennials also get blamed for cringy gen z trends too. Your generation is basically the scapegoat of the generations. 😭 I'm so sorry.
@@mynameisreallycool1 I mean it's cool tbh. I mean yeah we get mocked from all sides, but we were still born just about young enough to have a chance of buying a house someday and to grow up with hope that the world was going to do something about climate change, etc. I'll take the mockery as more than a fair trade for having at least had a chance to feel what hope was. My only gripe is that boomers have never suffered anywhere near as much as they deserve lol
I’m 29 and there was a lot I couldn’t relate to here but next on my recommended after this is “pickle expert guesses cheap vs expensive pickles” and if that isn’t millennial coded idk what is.
I'll never get over "cringe" being used by the generation that invented tiktok dancing and turned every boy into a real-life extra from "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping"
Just to explain the last TikTok: Harry Potter is an orphan, and his parents’ names were Lilly and James. They passed away when he was an infant, and he was adopted by Lilly’s sister (Petunia Dursley). The Dursleys were infamously abusive towards him, but there is this one deleted scene (can’t remember if it’s in the book or not), which showcased Petunia crying over Lilly with Harry saying something along the lines of "you didn’t just lose your mother, I lost as sister too that day". I think a younger Harry (think like 4 years old) would’ve gotten the cry, but an older Harry would’ve been punt kicked across the room.
Right in the middle of millenials. I actually really love being a millenial cause i wasn't cool when i was a kid or as a teen...now the gen z are just like 'she's old it's not her fault.' but yeh gen z have always been really sweet to me...especially in the work place. Im a nurse and we need more nurses so i gentle parent the gen z'ers more than i gentle parent my own kids
@@aarasko People form a web of sorts of polyamorous relationships in a polycule. They may have partners separate to their relationships or some may dating each other, but the polycule is the unit that groups their relationships together. Apparently, it's Millennial coded to do this lol
This is definitely born in the 1990s Millennial core, but I think the older of us are more cynical and less on the cutesy end and more on the "is it artisan?" end of things. We're the reason every restaurant/store was called Something & Something and drink 3rd wave pour over coffee.
Not me sipping an espresso martini out of my “I drink and I know things” pint glass while working remotely watching this… we’ll I don’t want to go back to the office so maybe that knocks off a cringe point
I knew it wasn’t a Superman S, but I didn’t realize it was the stussy S. Wow, we really do learn something new every day. That S was so cool to write all over everything in elementary school
I was born in 97 so my generation is technically Gen Z but I would consider myself more millennial as I grew up with older siblings who gave me their stuff. I always welcome the millenial cringe and the Gen Z cringe. Nothing brings me more joy than this content.
Same here, but opposite direction. I always related way harder to gen z, bc both of my siblings are younger. It’s funny to bask in both sides of embarrassment.
The only stereotypical millennial thing I’m guilty of is the side part. Im not a trends kind of a gal. I will say, we HEAVILY criticize boomers because of how they decimated the economy in multiple ways and then blame us. It became so annoying to see a new article every single week titled something like “how millennials are ruining the diamond/wedding industry/eating out at restaurants/movie theaters/bars/etc.” or “if millennials stopped ordering Starbucks/avocado toast they be able to buy a house!”
Okay as a millennial myself, the true cringiest thing from my generation is those weird exaggerated facial expressions and voice like homegirl at 4:49. The first person I remember doing it is Liza Koshy and she’s a cusper so maybe older Gen Z gotta hold that L too. It makes me shudder with cringe every time.
I beg of you look into the drama in the Harry potter fandom its wild. People are going nuts over the dumbest thing imaginable and they are out for blood
It is mind boggling to me how you are both one of the foremost cultural critics of our day AND have the shiniest and best "influencer" hair I've ever seen. The level of virtuosity in different arenas is staggering.
being born in 1996 is interesting because we are in both worlds.... i identify more with millenials a lot of the time because i had an older brother and got his hand-me-downs, hung out with his friends, all my friends had older siblings etc. there are times i relate more to gen z culture, but but gen z grew up with a level of social media / having a smartphone from a very young age that people in my micro-generation (1995-1999 aka the cusp) did not experience (i have made up this theory lol)
I'm pretty on the line between millennial and Gen Z and I just think the differences are crazy overblown. References like GoT might be a millennial thing but let's also not act like if Gen Z had been around when GoT came out that they wouldn't have reacted in the same way. I do think it's cute when millennial and/or Gen Z coworkers attempt to come for me about being on "the other side" in some way, like girl we all got the same job here and most of us have terrible fashion sense entirely unrelated to our generation - chill tf out
I dated a soldier on leave and he always said “I hate my life I wish I was dead” and then he was KIA in Afghanistan a year later. He manifested his death!
Keith from Buzzfeed recently released a bunch of videos where he tries food at Disney World sooo I guess he is the epitome of us millennials. Yes that’s my dog in my profile picture. We included him in our engagement photos 😂
As a millennial, I look around at all the generations and think, "cringe." Humanity is cringe. And it's hilarious. I'd say some of this is definitely true for myself and I revel in it. Although, I just have to throw it out there for my own pleasure, that I cannot, nor could I ever stand Harry Potter. And I have to firmly agree on the Halloween parties. I have been to and thrown many bomb @$$ Halloween celebrations, oh... and totally in a "Polycule"... but we call it ethically non-monogamous. Is my millennial showing??
I needed depression memes to get me through psych ward admissions. And now I’m an RN working in a psych ward. I feel as though I’ve come full circle! 😂 Not me having my reaction to the mildest of inconveniences being “Well, this is my 13th reason”… 😂
During the era of me having to physically work in an office there was always a time where people petition to bring their dogs in and I never understood it.
I was generally under the impression that I was on the youngest end of millennial, but after not knowing what polycule even was, that calls that into question lol
Am I even a Millennial? I've never seen any of this outside of the internet. I believe you when you say you've seen it, I'm just...I'm so confused. And fascinated.
Im in the weird years where I can relate to both sides of this divide I was born in 96, not sure if I’m gen z or millennial, the year is different depending on who’s defining the generations I do like being on the border because both gens are insane in their own ways and I’m here for it all
As a millennial who experiences both anaphylaxis and asthma attacks around dogs, I find it especially frustrating when people bring their dogs everywhere, particularly if they cannot control them and allow their dog to jump on me. 3:33
my top millennial themes were an obsession with cats, skinny jeans (ofc), myspace, tumblr, neopets, tea, flats (the shoes) in either black or a hideously bright and busy print, scene and emo, blockbuster, that weird tumblr “grrrl power!” period of feminism that was all about sex positivity and manspreading and other things I can’t even summarise. That was pre 20s. I’m 30 now and in the past 10 years it’s been more like growing plants, drinking coffee, using twitter, sourdough and defiantly clinging to avocado toast, debt and rejecting flared pants. kinda miss the pre 20s era but guess that’s just nostalgia lol. def feels like the themes have been less fun tho.
people like that cringey coffee chick that spends “$500” at “starbies” and says crap like “me-thinks” and “anywhoodle” is the reason bullying was invented in the first place and is the reason it needs to come back… worse than nails on a chalkboard i swear 🤮
This video just makes me want to go sip a hefeweizen while reading Dinosaur Comics and listening to some obscure band with a stupidly long name like Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
I’m a 17 year old swift (also a Lana fan, we do exist) and I can’t even deny that we’re millennial coded😭 (also there is SO much drama in the Harry Potter/marauders fandom you would not be disappointed lol)
As a millenial who loved HP hardcore, you could not pay me enough to watch/read it anymore. As a queer mum with a trans kid, JK and her whole franchise can go jump. That said, I do love a good gif 🤣
Millennial ('84) but dont particularly identify with any of this except that i love coffee and don't understand TikTok, but that could because I've always been a little uncool (#homeschooled---oh hey, you forgot to include hashtagging in this!) Best part was how you started out all critical with each point but almost immediately admitted to liking them. 😂
The only thing I have on this list is the Disney land trips. I had a poor childhood and got to watch all my friends have after school activities and vacations so. I’ll die on this hill lol.
“It’s kind of brain rot coded. I feel like it’s giving like low-key like insecure…” is a statement that will definitely show up on a gen alpha’s “ Gen Z cringe iceberg“ video in five years
Gen alpha are way more brainrotted than gen z
@@caitlingillit’s a generation a year difference
@@caitlingillThat is what every generation claims about the former.
@caitlingill as though gen Z didnt have chungus, raining tacos, and ifunny memes as kids. Being so terrified of being cringe or too enthusiastic is uncool and unconfident.
@@kawaiidere1023 To be cringe is to be free. I’m gen z and I unironically still laugh at Among Us memes 💀
The cutesy corporate office ladies aren’t millenial, they’re eternal and will grow from every generation. I remeber my mom would complain about people at work and she called those ladies the “scarfy girls” cause they always had a new one those sheer accent scarves on every day lol.
nowadays is just the "office sirens" loll
OMG my mom called them “scarf girls” too!
lol the scarves that did absolutely nothing
I like the name cutesy corperate! But yeah I agree with you the office sirens have always existed and always will. 😊
@@lauramdixon no way!!! That’s really funny and I’m going to tell my mom lol
Buzzfeed stole a blog entry of mine years ago and I’m still mad
WHAT
@@subway830 yeah I run a 80s/90s history blog and I did an entry about going back to school with seventeen magazine. Scans of the magazine, my commentary, etc. Buzz Feed steals all my images and some of my commentary.
I'm mad for you too
What’s the name of your blog?
@@mst3kanita DANG did you sue??
I think the thing to remember with millenials interacting with Gen Z is that we basically had the internet and memes to ourselves for 15 years straight. Then younger people show up online and suddenly we're the ones who are cringe. I don't think that's happened with internet culture (which is basically the majority of contemporary culture) before, so it's an interesting transition. I am *fascinated* by how facebook has gone from being the place for teenagers and students to being the place for concerned parents and grandparents.
Idk about having the internet to yourselves because yall bullied me for being a child in youtube comments in 2007 like a lot of us were really young on the internet.
@@laurenddddddd But what do you think we were doing in the early 2000s and late 90s though? There were also precocious kids online way too young back then, but it's only been in the last 5 years or so that we've got to a point where there is an entire generation younger than millenials online with the online culture now revolving around their slang, their jokes, their memes, their pop culture references and their life experience. Like one 12 year old in youtube comments isn't massively impactful, amost everyone from that age group showing up online at once is like an asteroid hitting.
There are *some* gen alphas online right now, but it's gonna be another 5 years or so before they take over internet culture and shove gen Z to the side.
As a millennial dog handler, you are correct. I’m doing my best to try to get people to be more normal and remember that their dog can be their “baby” but it’s a dog and needs RULES!
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.” - Abe Simpson
Bracing myself to watch this as a millennial that is self aware 😭
😂😂 I’m glad not alone in this 😅
Same ...the struggle is real ^_^
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Openly admitting you’re a self aware millennial is cringe.
@@Ketaminogue well, we are millennials…. lol cringe behavior is in our blood lol
You’re killing it with the expanding of your niche! You’re on a streak of straight fire 🔥
Thank you 🙏🏼 hope you guys are enjoying the new content
You should do an iceberg on the outcast group that came between Millennials and Gen Z. I was born in 1997 and haven’t ever felt old enough to relate fully to the Disney adult dog mom coffee drinking corporate girlie…but I also still don’t have a TikTok, have so much nostalgia for the early 2000s, and always just want the younger girls at work to like me like a big sister 😂
Im sitting pretty here too, and very confused heh
Yes 💕!1998 here and I feel very similar.
'98 Zillennial here, you are SPOT ON
same. I’m ’99 and believe our “generation” is referred to being on the cusp between millennials and gen z.
'94 zillennial reporting for solidarity.
ross is literally still recovering from the 2015 90s nickelodeon merch apocalypse it’s like 90% of what’s in that store
No worries, Tyler. One other thing about being a millennial is understanding that young people will always make fun of people older than they are. It's just the natural order. I hope we will be the generation that breaks the cycle of overreacting to people being young.
It is confusing to me tho, no one I knew made fun of Gen X ever. They were always really nice and fun and we all seemed to get along. Gen Z being very salty was a shock to me. I didn’t think we raised them to be like that.
@@tammystilettothat’s because everyone forgot Gen x even existed. Remember when that news station forgot them entirely in some type of generational stat chart? It’s like older gen x were considered boomers and younger gen x were millennials
Depressed elder millennial here. I'm watching this while working my corporate job from home, whilst wistfully reminiscing about working in the office and reminding myself that I hated it there. And yes, my dogs are my psychological life bouys and I refuse to apologize for it.
“Psychological life buoys” can relate
Today i saw a post from someone who said that when her husband died, a friend signed a condolence card from her, her husband, her kids and her DOG. My first thought was that it was probably a millenial
I honestly think we picked this up from older gens. I personally don't do this, but as a kid, my boomer aunt and Gen Jones (boomer/gen X cusp) mom would sign cards to me with the names of our pets and little cartoon paw prints. I think "dog mom" culture is definitely a part of that, but I feel like it's dog moms who remembered the adults in their lives doing that for them as a kid and thinking it was adorable as an adult. Thus, kid memories meld with dog mom brain, and we get adults doing this for other adults. 💀
My gen x bio dad was the eptiome of cringe dog dad over any other millenial or genz i know (im older genz)
Yeah my boomer aunts & silent generation grandma does the pawprint thing in cards. I do think some millennials got the idea from them.
You’re tripping, millennials do not send cards. Millennials are like 30 years old my guy, they were using snapchat in high school. Signing a card with a pets name is classic older Gen X/boomer, endearing, cringe quirkiness.
When husbands are dying and cards are being sent, I doubt we’re talking like 30 years old here
Aren’t the oldest millennials 40?
Nothing about Friends? I'm a millennial who loved it as a kid (cos it was on every weeknight for 15 years in NZ) but now when other millennials talk about it and quote it and act like it's the funniest shit ever it's so cringe.
Not as prevalent but also Big Bang theory, HIMYM, Modern family. Yikes
As a kid? Friends was high school but mostly college years for me. We planned our social life around it at the time but I don't know anyone that quotes it. Millennials really are two sub generations...
god yes Friends. I’m a millennial and it still makes me cringe when I see Friends collabs because it was such a huge thing in my cringy tween/early teen years. I never got into it but I’d go over to my friends’ houses and the TVs would be playing Friends in the background. No one really watching, just a loop of Friends and the Simpsons every waking hour.
As a right in the middle Millennial we grew up with too much bullshit. Let us be cringe and weird
We were lied to so much lol too. This is how we process so we don't have meltdowns lol
Genuinely as a millennial I felt the millennial cringe was in fact cringe… until I just realized life is too terrible to waste time trying to be cool. So I became what I once cringed at lmao.
no one is saying you can’t lol
For real. Growing up w/ 9/11, 2 wars, and 2 major recessions. We can be a lil cringe as a treat.
Just bc yall remember 9/11 doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of you!! And we also grew up with a ton of bullshit. People a couple years younger than me had to deal with covid while still in school!
It wasn’t millennials who brought back all the worst bits of 90’s fashion though, that was Gen Z and Alpha. 😂
we were the ones trying to defend our 2010's jeans. you do not know horror until you've had low rise jeans that at the bottom drag around wet mud around your ankles. and when you sit down your lower back is freezing. high rise skinny jeans all the way. protect my ankles and back from the nasty cold.
If it makes you feel any better, as a Zillennial, I never met anyone who didn't make fun of Buzzfeed articles and quizzes in Buzzfeed's hayday. I think the hate-reading of their articles made them popular (that and they did link to good recipes, I'm not going to lie). You should do Vice next.
I knew plenty of people who were into Buzzfeed 🥲 ‘93 millennial for context.
@@pinkesthibiscus I guess we moved in different circles haha
96 Zillennial and it always was pure vitriol for Buzzfeed
As a millenial I feel so personally victimized by this video. Calling image macros "really old school memes" just killed me inside. Like those were the new memes we all complained about which "ruined the internet". Actually old school memes are like long cat and nyan cat. A lot of cats involved. And early video memes like misheard lyrics and stuff like they're taking the hobbits to isengard. Ironically I think a lot of the older millenials are the image macro crowd. Younger millennials were online from really young age and as internet became mainstream older millennials also joined and made their much less terminally online and easier to approach meme culture, which of course every terminally online person thought was cringe and ruining the internet.
This is also very millennial to read
@@skatingwoodenguitars I know! I feel like an old man yelling at sky.
girlie its not that deep
you didnt have to say youre a millenial i can tell
@@sapphicsky I know? Obviously I'm not being serious here?
This video just made me realise how much Game of Thrones took up of the Pop Culture space in the 2010’s and we will never get that back.
I'm glad it's gone tbh
Born in 1998- corporate girlie here. Luckily my office is in the middle of absolutely nowhere so I can still get away with wearing sweatshirts on days I’m feeling lazy. I cannot relate to the girlies who get up at 5 am everyday to coordinate an outfit and do full glam before their hour long commute, but I respect them bc they scare me
I’m on the youngest end of millennials and the depression memes were my peak young adult experience. Like in college it was extremely fine and normal to casually mention wanting to unalive yourself to a stranger lmao. It was weird time
Ya know… I guess that’s how people started talking about mental health???
@@tylerbenderractually yes, the internet has helped us start talking about mental health immensely I'd say and our generation were the "trial run" of everything internet.
I'm a millenial on the younger side and I don't relate to much of this, but I do enjoy watching a Harry Potter movie every once and a while, I don't see a problem in that. But I don't understand how you could still be a hardcore Potterhead buying the merch you know full well who it supports or arguing over the book lore.
I'm loving these iceberg videos. As a Swiftie, I think Tay is millennial core and that a lot of people who don't understand her, don't understand millennial internet culture.
Millennials are the first generation to both grow up and “age out” of the internet. The next generation will go through the whole “uh oh I feel old” phase and the “uh oh I’m not the young generation anymore” phase. And so will the next one. And the next. And so on. Each generation is cringe in their own beautiful way.
As a millennial, I'd rather be cringe than toxic, even though I don't relate to half of this iceberg. I love you, Gen Z - you stood on our shoulders and made everything so much funnier.
You can pry my GIFs from my cold dead hands at my Harry Potter themed funeral. Kthanksbye.
not the “kthnxbye” 😭😭😭
I love sending GIFs and saying “I’m so excited I had to pull out the millennial move”
Woah woah woah, hold on there buddy. It was Gen X who started the "don't talk to me before I've had my coffee" thing, they even bought mugs and t-shirts with coffee related slogans in the 80s and 90s, while millenials still hadn't graduated beyond their juiceboxes. Don't you try to pin this shit on us XD
Yeah, but you know the rules of the internet. We have to pretend gen x is incapable of cringe and take every cringy trend started by them and blame millennials for it (also goes for the beige and minimalist mom aesthetic that started in the 2010s, posting their children's private info online, "free range" parenting, or the obsession with giving their kids weird names).
To be fair, millennials also get blamed for cringy gen z trends too. Your generation is basically the scapegoat of the generations. 😭 I'm so sorry.
@@mynameisreallycool1 I mean it's cool tbh. I mean yeah we get mocked from all sides, but we were still born just about young enough to have a chance of buying a house someday and to grow up with hope that the world was going to do something about climate change, etc. I'll take the mockery as more than a fair trade for having at least had a chance to feel what hope was.
My only gripe is that boomers have never suffered anywhere near as much as they deserve lol
This is so skibidi alpha sigma
Buzzfeed quizzes got nothing on Quizilla 😂😂😂
I’m 29 and there was a lot I couldn’t relate to here but next on my recommended after this is “pickle expert guesses cheap vs expensive pickles” and if that isn’t millennial coded idk what is.
As the oldest of all millennials, I am mostly clean from all of these issues. Except the GIFs.
GIFs are and will always be amazing.
I'll never get over "cringe" being used by the generation that invented tiktok dancing and turned every boy into a real-life extra from "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping"
Just to explain the last TikTok:
Harry Potter is an orphan, and his parents’ names were Lilly and James.
They passed away when he was an infant, and he was adopted by Lilly’s sister (Petunia Dursley).
The Dursleys were infamously abusive towards him, but there is this one deleted scene (can’t remember if it’s in the book or not), which showcased Petunia crying over Lilly with Harry saying something along the lines of "you didn’t just lose your mother, I lost as sister too that day".
I think a younger Harry (think like 4 years old) would’ve gotten the cry, but an older Harry would’ve been punt kicked across the room.
Right in the middle of millenials. I actually really love being a millenial cause i wasn't cool when i was a kid or as a teen...now the gen z are just like 'she's old it's not her fault.' but yeh gen z have always been really sweet to me...especially in the work place. Im a nurse and we need more nurses so i gentle parent the gen z'ers more than i gentle parent my own kids
You can't just leave us on polycule 😭
I had to
im very confused on what she meant? /gen
@@aarasko People form a web of sorts of polyamorous relationships in a polycule. They may have partners separate to their relationships or some may dating each other, but the polycule is the unit that groups their relationships together. Apparently, it's Millennial coded to do this lol
@ I’m aware of what a polycule is and how it works. I just don’t know why it’s millennial coded to do this. Can’t people of all ages be poly?
@@aarasko I've honestly seen people of all ages do a lot of the things she talks about in this video lol
As an elder millennial I was ready to be mad at this, usually we get blamed for all of GenX's crimes. But where are the lies?
This is definitely born in the 1990s Millennial core, but I think the older of us are more cynical and less on the cutesy end and more on the "is it artisan?" end of things. We're the reason every restaurant/store was called Something & Something and drink 3rd wave pour over coffee.
As an elder millennial who still has a food (cooking-focused) blog for more than 15 years, I loathe the word foodie the way you hate doggo/fur baby.
“Okay Everette Lilac Rose” lmaoooooooooooooo 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Not me sipping an espresso martini out of my “I drink and I know things” pint glass while working remotely watching this… we’ll I don’t want to go back to the office so maybe that knocks off a cringe point
YES to you opening the reels your mom sends and reacting to them 😂😂
Okay okay okay. It’s not the Superman “S”, it’s the Stussy “S”. I am an elder millennial and I will die on this hill…..
I knew it wasn’t a Superman S, but I didn’t realize it was the stussy S. Wow, we really do learn something new every day. That S was so cool to write all over everything in elementary school
I was born in 97 so my generation is technically Gen Z but I would consider myself more millennial as I grew up with older siblings who gave me their stuff. I always welcome the millenial cringe and the Gen Z cringe. Nothing brings me more joy than this content.
Same here, but opposite direction. I always related way harder to gen z, bc both of my siblings are younger. It’s funny to bask in both sides of embarrassment.
The only stereotypical millennial thing I’m guilty of is the side part. Im not a trends kind of a gal. I will say, we HEAVILY criticize boomers because of how they decimated the economy in multiple ways and then blame us. It became so annoying to see a new article every single week titled something like “how millennials are ruining the diamond/wedding industry/eating out at restaurants/movie theaters/bars/etc.” or “if millennials stopped ordering Starbucks/avocado toast they be able to buy a house!”
And now there's articles about how Gen Z or Gen Alpha are doing this. rolls eyes...History repeats itself
I thought it'd be fun to follow along and do a little bingo sheet of what I fit into but all I got were GIFS and Depression Memes.
The coffee TikTok was so accurate I was tweaking
Okay as a millennial myself, the true cringiest thing from my generation is those weird exaggerated facial expressions and voice like homegirl at 4:49. The first person I remember doing it is Liza Koshy and she’s a cusper so maybe older Gen Z gotta hold that L too. It makes me shudder with cringe every time.
I beg of you look into the drama in the Harry potter fandom its wild. People are going nuts over the dumbest thing imaginable and they are out for blood
It is mind boggling to me how you are both one of the foremost cultural critics of our day AND have the shiniest and best "influencer" hair I've ever seen. The level of virtuosity in different arenas is staggering.
This was the most wholesome positive vibes iceberg video of yours yet!
Yes! Love that at the bottom it didn’t get sad
being born in 1996 is interesting because we are in both worlds.... i identify more with millenials a lot of the time because i had an older brother and got his hand-me-downs, hung out with his friends, all my friends had older siblings etc. there are times i relate more to gen z culture, but but gen z grew up with a level of social media / having a smartphone from a very young age that people in my micro-generation (1995-1999 aka the cusp) did not experience (i have made up this theory lol)
CORRECTION: Gentle partenting was invented BY A GEN Xer, Sarah Ockwell-Smith
I live in the in between of millennial and gen Z that comes with being born in 1996. I honestly don’t really want to claim either generation. lol.
i think 94-97 kids just live in their own little world
I was born in 1999 and relate to not feeling a apart of gen z but also not a millennial
I'm pretty on the line between millennial and Gen Z and I just think the differences are crazy overblown. References like GoT might be a millennial thing but let's also not act like if Gen Z had been around when GoT came out that they wouldn't have reacted in the same way.
I do think it's cute when millennial and/or Gen Z coworkers attempt to come for me about being on "the other side" in some way, like girl we all got the same job here and most of us have terrible fashion sense entirely unrelated to our generation - chill tf out
Girl, gen z starts turning 30 in 2 years and 3 weeks....
Every video of a millennial freaking out about coffee that I've ever seen is actually just a zoomer doing a "parody".
Yeah, I've never seen or heard a millennial talk about coffee like that. Maybe I just don't know the right ones?
Thanks for the little escape from this american hellscape i find myself in
Ofc queen v needed
You are calling me out sooooo hard. Thanks for loving us regardless🤣
YES NEW VIDEO THANK THE UA-cam GODS. also Tyler if this isn't too niche can i please beg you for a glee video i need a glee iceberg so bad
GLEE ICEBERG OMG ID DIEEEE
Yessss I love your iceberg videos!!!
Omg I love making them
@tylerbenderr most icebergs get boring after a bit, but you could literally set up the camera and yap for an hour and I'd watch
I dated a soldier on leave and he always said “I hate my life I wish I was dead” and then he was KIA in Afghanistan a year later. He manifested his death!
Keith from Buzzfeed recently released a bunch of videos where he tries food at Disney World sooo I guess he is the epitome of us millennials.
Yes that’s my dog in my profile picture. We included him in our engagement photos 😂
IMA MILLENNIAL SISTER! lol
Tap in queen
I got tell queen
21:37 one time I said I didn’t like Harry Potter in target and the millennials died right there on the spot
15:03 the trauma I have from the amount of game of thrones memes. I’m a zilennial and the amount of nostalgia in this video is crazy 😭
"11 ways Buzzfeed ruined absolutely EVERYTHING!"
the intro was so good that for a split second i forgot it was satire and i was really alarmed
As a millennial, I look around at all the generations and think, "cringe." Humanity is cringe. And it's hilarious. I'd say some of this is definitely true for myself and I revel in it. Although, I just have to throw it out there for my own pleasure, that I cannot, nor could I ever stand Harry Potter. And I have to firmly agree on the Halloween parties. I have been to and thrown many bomb @$$ Halloween celebrations, oh... and totally in a "Polycule"... but we call it ethically non-monogamous. Is my millennial showing??
12:23 this is so true though. I switched from self-deprecating jokes to self aggrandizing jokes and my self confidence skyrocketed
I needed depression memes to get me through psych ward admissions. And now I’m an RN working in a psych ward. I feel as though I’ve come full circle! 😂
Not me having my reaction to the mildest of inconveniences being “Well, this is my 13th reason”… 😂
During the era of me having to physically work in an office there was always a time where people petition to bring their dogs in and I never understood it.
I was generally under the impression that I was on the youngest end of millennial, but after not knowing what polycule even was, that calls that into question lol
👵 here we go 😭
Yeah, ya got me. I can take the L formerly known as epic fail.
Am I even a Millennial? I've never seen any of this outside of the internet. I believe you when you say you've seen it, I'm just...I'm so confused. And fascinated.
At the beginning of the video I felt very attacked but at the end I was sipping my tea like yeah thank god that's not me.
Im in the weird years where I can relate to both sides of this divide
I was born in 96, not sure if I’m gen z or millennial, the year is different depending on who’s defining the generations
I do like being on the border because both gens are insane in their own ways and I’m here for it all
As a millennial who experiences both anaphylaxis and asthma attacks around dogs, I find it especially frustrating when people bring their dogs everywhere, particularly if they cannot control them and allow their dog to jump on me.
3:33
I'm a Millenial, and all of us (that I know) are fighting to NOT go back in to the office.
To be cringe is to be free
my top millennial themes were an obsession with cats, skinny jeans (ofc), myspace, tumblr, neopets, tea, flats (the shoes) in either black or a hideously bright and busy print, scene and emo, blockbuster, that weird tumblr “grrrl power!” period of feminism that was all about sex positivity and manspreading and other things I can’t even summarise.
That was pre 20s. I’m 30 now and in the past 10 years it’s been more like growing plants, drinking coffee, using twitter, sourdough and defiantly clinging to avocado toast, debt and rejecting flared pants. kinda miss the pre 20s era but guess that’s just nostalgia lol. def feels like the themes have been less fun tho.
and the side part!!! i managed to let go for a few years but i’m back at it, sue me 💔
How do wine moms stay skinny? I don’t understand it. I stopped drinking and lost 30 pounds without trying. The alcohol was keeping me fat.
Lot of the wine moms I knew had eating disorders
This is very “old man yells at cloud” core.
As a millennial this took me out it’s so accurate! I was literally part of that Facebook group lol
you’re my favorite creator! I fear im a stan
people like that cringey coffee chick that spends “$500” at “starbies” and says crap like “me-thinks” and “anywhoodle” is the reason bullying was invented in the first place and is the reason it needs to come back… worse than nails on a chalkboard i swear 🤮
When did bullying ever go away?
Tyler bender iceberg video>>>>
Me before the video: “I hope I don’t do these things unironically as a millennial.” *thinking about the cross sign gif*
0:39 FUCK
Then realising this form of comment is probably also millennial. Lol
This video just makes me want to go sip a hefeweizen while reading Dinosaur Comics and listening to some obscure band with a stupidly long name like Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
7:20 “spongebob smoking a blunt” IM SCREAMING
The retro hipster obsessions was the cottage core of millenials. Longing for simpler times, of nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced
You cannot forgot EDM like avicii and Martin Garrix 🙌 wHaT dOes tHe FoX SAy
Or Psy
I’m a 17 year old swift (also a Lana fan, we do exist) and I can’t even deny that we’re millennial coded😭 (also there is SO much drama in the Harry Potter/marauders fandom you would not be disappointed lol)
As a Millenial I can tell you, this is incredibly accurate 😂I was crying laughing at this
21:01 it’s bc interacting with other swifties ages you like ten years/takes ten years off your life
Tyler!!! What about the Gen X Iceberg??? You can do it for us oldies that ❤you! 😊
As a millenial who loved HP hardcore, you could not pay me enough to watch/read it anymore. As a queer mum with a trans kid, JK and her whole franchise can go jump. That said, I do love a good gif 🤣
Agreed, I think of reading them as a tween fondly, but JK is so vile now.
I need you to do a Percy Jackson iceberg pleaseeee
Millennial ('84) but dont particularly identify with any of this except that i love coffee and don't understand TikTok, but that could because I've always been a little uncool (#homeschooled---oh hey, you forgot to include hashtagging in this!)
Best part was how you started out all critical with each point but almost immediately admitted to liking them. 😂
pretty sure you're gen x. go cry to depeche mode.
Polycule followed by nothing is amazing
The only thing I have on this list is the Disney land trips. I had a poor childhood and got to watch all my friends have after school activities and vacations so. I’ll die on this hill lol.