100 Facts About Millennials
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Millennials are a generation that has been blamed for the death of the American shopping mall and the rise of social media. What myths are there about millennials, and what true conclusions can we draw about this much-criticized generation (sometimes known as Gen Y)? In this episode of The List Show, Erin (@erincmccarthy) shares 100 facts about millennials.
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The reason why millenials prefer physical books, because we want to be able to feel something.
I like to collect something I can show to other people. It's hard to show off your digital collection of PS4 games. Also, having physical media, to me, shows that it's something important to me.
Physical books can't be taken back by the service, and they don't become obsolete and inaccessible when new programs and formats come out!
Idk about others, but I want my eyes to get a break from sceens for once. I feel like I'm only moving my eyes from phone (personal, social) to laptop (work) and to tv (entertain/relax) and that's my day - wtf :( I still have a kindle tho
Prefer physical books on THE SAME PRICE. Lmao paying for an ebook at all just pirate it lol
"Hey Millenials, take that vacation"
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Late boomer-Gen X here and while I didn't raise kids, I had nieces and nephews come through the 80s and 90s. Millennials, you don't hear this enough from people my age but you guys are AMAZING! I swear you were the first bunch who, in second grade were sent home with backpacks full of homework and it never stopped. I worked at a spinal clinic and by the time you were 10 years old, you had the spines of a 60 year old just because of the backpack! You all have degrees because now, when you're trying to find jobs, if you don't have at least a bachelor's, they won't consider your application. People with incredible gift and aptitudes who don't go to univ. are meant to feel worthless because they dropped out/had to go right into the workforce so here comes your stress and anxiety at a young age. Get the marks that will get you into college/scholarships because when you get out of college, you can get a job as a cashier at Denny's for 10 years...then by then your degree is obsolete. Not only is there REAL bad things going on out here but so many TV shows are about competitions and people swearing at each other. They can't even have a baking show without someone 'winning' and online forums that are meant for socialising are doing the same. In the meantime, you're raising kids, dealing with aging parents and crotchety boomers shouting at you because their 50% off coupon expired last year and you can't take it. Most of my managers are now millennial and they think I'm a hoot as they show me all the things my phone can do. I think they're amazing because they're SHOWING me everything I can do with my phone, including putting cat ears on my pastor's picture with Snapchat. Your patience for us is astounding and I'm sorry more of us don't listen to you. Now...about this vacation and time off...take it. The business won't fall down without you and if it does...it's not your fault. Take the time off, even if it's just to sit and look at the walls. Take the time off to breathe because in about 10 years, you're going to be my caretaker in a home somewhere or my taxi/bus driver or my optician and I may, by then being trying your patience and I want you well-rested. Be gentle with yourself, make good choices, God bless.
I like your response.
So ironic that they say they want to stand out by getting a tattoo. I actually stand out among my peers by NOT having any tattoos at all.
Facts
IKR? Tattoos are like the mark of the millennial. Every millennial I know got their tattoo right after getting their middle school participation award. Millennials feel like the "fitting in" generation. Everyone pretend to do something unique, all together now...
"Millennials believe so too." I mean, yeah. If you're told you're selfish all your life, maybe you start to believe it.
That's sort of like being racist. Same thing.
The delay for marriage is also attributed to seeing their hippy-generation parents get divorced and not wanting to put their potential children through it as well.
That also explains the preference for a job we love that pays less - we've seen our parents go to jobs they hate, and don't want to do that if we can help it!
it is amazingly foolish to think that just because you weren't married, the dissolution of a long-term relationship will somehow impact a child less
Lack of responsibility and fear of commitment.
I get that. I refused to get a divorce b/c my aunt and uncle got a divorce and the pain made me sick. I did not want to put my kids and family members through that. Life is hard, stick it out and you learn so much and grow so much and learn to love that person more. Unless they are a total jerk and are abusive - that would be a deal breaker.....
...in an un-related survey, close to 100% of millennials admitted to artificially skewing surveys about millennials.
Yes... PRINT all the way!!! Tired of reading on a screen.
I bet you could corner the market if you found a way to print this video. I vote for flip-book.
If I read an eBook it has to be on the kindke paper white. Not a back lit screen.
Hi, millennial here.
Weddings cost like $10,000, and I make like $20,000 a year. I have been with the woman I cally wife for five years and the only reason we aren't married is because we can't afford the wedding I feel like my wife deserves.
Just a data point that might imply why millennials aren't getting married.
Well, go to a justice of the peace. No one NEEDS a huge wedding. It's a waste of money, but being married with a commitment to each other until death do you part through the good, bad and ugly as well as the good times is worth it. Church is a worth while investment too.
the fact that im watching this 2 years on and covid is still a thing is very depressing. stupid pandemic
Elder Millennials 1981-1988
Younger Millennials 1989-1996
Should be different generations haha
1982-1999 millennials
forever And forever wrong, 1997 to 2012 are Gen Z
@@Misaelito1991 no. 1980-1999 millennials US and Uk
'81 here. I've heard us called the Oregon trail generation. I agreed with about 65% of this video. Maybe a little more... i dunno Ive been drinking hard seltzers all night. Millennial, I'll admit.. but definitely eldest millennial. And still rocking a flip phone. Show respect.
Same sh*t different smell. LOL!
Parenting advice from 1800s: all colors are gender neutral and both girl and boy babies/toddlers wore dresses/baby gowns (see Roosevelt baby photos). It wasn't until the 1900's that blue became a boy color and pink became a girl color.
23:36 Erin shares a quick message re: the novel coronavirus and MF video. Hope everyone is staying safe and calm, and taking common-sense precautions to limit the impact, especially on vulnerable populations. Be well!
The US government, holding with its 18-year generation policy, defines the millennial generation as people born between 1982 and 2000.
Definitely Self Isolating. Hopefully thats another thing Mellenials will be known for. Responding to a pandemic by doing the right thing.
It kinda pisses me off that the people not taking this seriously are the most at-risk where as those the least at risk shut everything tf down...
People should be going to prison for that BS since it seems all of the older people get their info from a single source who kept downplaying it
@ no, I'd rather not take everyone's right to live away... that's kinda the point considering "our generation" arent the ones at the most risk...
And last time I checked cancer isnt contagious... what would shutting anything down for that do, exactly?
Oh, but i forgot that your generation likes to misrepresent facts into their own twisted view and then pin the blame in everyone else when it all goes tits-up all to cling onto "the good ole days" despite the world already racing past them and leaving them to deal with their own irrelevance by chasing cars and finding the next conspiracy...
@@Fetidaf here's some truth and facts, you must have been absent when they handed out things.😂😁ua-cam.com/video/htP5zAtUwI8/v-deo.html
@ I watched the first 2 minutes and so far all I've seen is... surprise surprise: misrepresentation of facts.
First off let's start with "the virus wait until there 10 people" no, it doesnt. That's to limit the spread so if 1 of those 10 did have it it only spreads to those 10
"Its killed with soap and water" no, it's not and nobody claims that. Soap and water remove them from your hands, where they're washed down the sink. This is why surgeons wash their hands with their hand raised and the water running down their elbows.
"If masks work we should go back to work, if not then why are we forced to wear them"-false dichotomy, they neither work completely nor dont work at all... the virus is spread from person to person mainly through water droplets when you cough, sneeze, talk etc and the mask does a good job at catching most of them, but it doesnt catch all of them... we're supposed to wear them in public to reduce the chances of spreading it if you're asymptomatic, we cant go back to work because they're not 100% effective.
Then there was some BS about it sticking to only grocery bags and jumping plexiglass which... if I have to tell you how stupid of a statement that is then you're already way too far gone.
So yea, keep chasing those cars... you might catch one someday... doesnt make you or your ideas any more relevant although I would like to thank you for proving my point
@ We certainly don't subscribe widely to the sort of "fact, truth, or logic" that blames an entire generation for being born into a capitalist system where they have to work for wages to live(wage slaves) and are not paid well.
We're DOING our BEST
I will always remember a conversation I was having with someone about the generations. I am millennial and they are gen Z. They ask me how I felt about my generation being blamed for everything and I told them that I(we millinals) are use to it. They were surprised at how I just accepted the blaming. But, I will always remember their expression when I said I am glad the older generation blame us for everything because it keeps their focus off their generation (gen Z) and they won't see them coming. That we millinals are use to it because we grew up with that abuse and we want gen Z to be free of it for as long as possible. I think my conversation struck a nerve because the next time I saw him. He was trying to figure out ways to make the world a better place for everyone. Apparently, according to him, my conversation with him change his life goals and focus. I still don't get it because I simply spoke what I view to be true of the world. We are not even that close friend wise. I guess knowing the generation ahead of his is trying to protect his generation to the best of our abilities meant the world to him. I still don't get, but I am glad he found something worth fight for.
Teenagers and early twenties now are labeled as millenials in every negative context, even though some of us are pushing 40 (hand raised). It's really just become a blanket insult for anyone younger than you.. I like your interpretation though. If they think this is all us, Z is gonna hit them out of nowhere. As an elder of the generation I'll suffer some derision to give the next gen a head start before they're labeled as "ruining everything".
@@christopherreinig8757 My thoughts exactly.
Most of the stuff that’s been “killed” are frivolous things we can’t always afford.
Not anything you really need tbh.
As a Millennial living in Washington state, I approve this message.
Did anyone else notice the awesome film collection she has?
we need an in depth look like this for us Gen Xers
And gen z
@@sominboy2757 you'll have to wait for GenZ. You're just coming into adulthood now
There is a video of it that was released recently.
I wasn't absolutely sure anybody still used a land line, and I'm a boomer!
John Stevenson my parents have bad reception at their home so they keep the land line around.
@@EbyKat Understandable. I live in an area like that.
it's very sad to hear about the high levels of lonliness.... but (and this is going to sound horrible) i see so many fb posts about how good it is to cancel plans and stay home alone... you can't have both
Sometimes they cancel plans just to screw with people.
Most of this stuff is caused because we are broke! Stuff cost way more now, we can't buy a car for 2 cokes, and a house for 11 raspberries like our parents.
Interesting note about #78 and "weak ties" - that sounds a lot like a village mentality.
Like, I don't have to know what color your dream guest bathroom hand towels will be, but knowing that we have a mutual friend is fairly important
Xenial fits me well. I was born in '86, but I didn't have a cell-phone until my senior year, didn't get on Myspace until my Freshman year of college, and I was working at 16, so I was working for 5 years before the recession hit. Also, song lyrics as messenger status was also a thing my friends and I did. >>
Twosocks42 I'm the opposite, I was born over a decade earlier than you, but have been using computers since kindergarten and thanks to PLATO and Mosaic I've been online doing chat, message boards, IM/texting, touchscreens, MMORPG, etc since the mid to late 70s! I've been right there with these new techs as they've evolved, having a cell phone and smart phone sooner than much younger people.
There was a commercial that used the term "Generation D - the generation that grew up digital" and I've always thought I'm the very first edge of that generation. It describes me a *lot* better that "Gen X" ever has! I like the Xenials concept but the cutoff isn't nearly as sharp as implied here. :-)
'81 here. Had a cellphone in h.s. because mom made me get a job at 15 and I could afford it (but once I moved out of mommy's house didn't have one again until '07). First landline answering machine lyrics were from spiderwebs by no doubt, and for fucking real, I hate ebooks. I like my paper books. If they offered a combo where I buy the book and they give me a digital copy like they did with dvds, I'd be all about it. But given the choice, swiping isn't as satisfying as turning the page. Pretty sure I'm the xenial archetype.
"Many of the millennials were just getting out of college"
People born in 1993-1996- "Uhhh o.o"
As a woman born pre-baby boomer, just after the start of World War II, I don't know what you call us. I have seen so many changes throughout my life it's been amazing. I was basically a war baby, as was my husband born in wartime London England. He calls himself a Bliltz kid. My dad joined the Navy, his dad was in the Home Guard, as he was too old to be in the regular army, a cadre of men who rescued people and cleared up after the nights bombing. It's why his dad became a smoker, to help cover the smell of the bodies.
Silent Generation was before Baby Boomers, approx 1926-1944. That said, if you were born in the early 1940s, I'd just stick with "Wartime Baby" or "Blitz Kid," as that sounds awesome! 😀
Rosella A Alm-Ahearn the “silent generation”...
I'm a millennial, & I actually like dress codes at work. If someone comes to work dressed too casually, I see that someone who doesn't take their job seriously
For me it very much depends on the job. I wouldn't want a cubicle worker dressed like a surfer, but I also wouldn't want a summer camp counselor dressed for tea with the queen. Read the room and dress accordingly, that's my philosophy.
Or their respect level
What the hell do millenials have against canada? Its one of those countries that you usually like for no reason like scotland
@ 4:50 I think the rate of bachelor's degrees reflects more on how much boomers (parents of millennials) value a university education than millennials.
My day was born in 1944 and I'm a millennial.
No wonder we both get stressed out all the time.
my sister and I are Millennials in which my sister was born in 1991 and I was born a year later!
“Many millennials are still supported by their parents.”
Like Prince William
his parents are dead
Kent Peterson Prince Charles is dead?
fenhen to be fair he does sort of occupy the grey area between alive and dead
People have been living with their parents for many, many generations, it's *not* a new thing!
@@KentPetersonmoney When did that happen?
I can't travel if I can't afford to travel in the first place with crippling student loans.
Shouldn't have taken the loans.
@@9HighFlyer9 yeah, what is it with this student loan whine?? BOOMERS had to take them out, and many other generations AND paid them back! So, WTF IS it that these mucks all of a sudden can't pay them back....like working at what you went to college for and paying it the f back??! What ? Want a ' bail out '?? jeesus
@@Melinda8162 I don't know. My youngest brother is solidly in the millennial generation. He lived at home, worked a full time job, took a full load of classes and graduated with a double major in four years. Oh with zero debt plus a decent bank account. He's only slightly smarter than average. So I figure the rest of them should have been able to pull off something similar.
I got the govt to pay for most of mine. They all just don't seem to realize you can work and go to school.
@@9HighFlyer9 Well, that's great. BUT, he is an 'exception', to his credit, of course. I just know so many not like that, wanting to take no responsibility for anything.
You must have had excellent parents, that instilled values in their kids!
You didn’t learn sentence structure - ask for a discount.
19:47 so thats why old town road was number 1 for 4 months.
OMG you have a Book It button!!! I lost mine years ago!
In my opinion, it's cruel for your own parents to be charging you rent. (I mean, I do come from a Latin American family, so there's that)
Seriously, if you live with them past the age of 23 and you are only working 1 job, go get that 2nd & 3rd job if you can't pay your way on 1. That seriously is what we did - who wants to live with their parents forever. If you are not working 2-3 jobs and you are still living at home, your parents need to up your rent. Get your butt to work and get out on your own. It's how you grow up and accept responsibility for yourself. It is what every kid needs to do unless they have some physical or mental incapability. Living with your parents without a serious goal to move out is ludicrous.
Claudia Winkleman appreciates your haircut.
You have an awesome movie collection!
A+ video!
Very helpful.
Oh shit! I'm a millennial trapped in a Gen-X body!
"take that vacation" I can't even afford to.
You can take a day off and do something for yourself that you would enjoy as a treat you don't always do. The problem seems to be the thought that a vacation has to be a cruise, or a trip across the pond. No a vacation used to mean tent camping. A day at the lake or the community pool, a trip to grandma's. You can afford that. Anyone can afford that. Take yourself to that movie you want to see in the afternoon when it's cheaper and you can get a small popcorn. Keep life simple and you are good. TV, Social Media and the Internet distorts life and creates all kinds of dis-satisfaction.
@@user-np5dt2vf8r True, I can skip eating!
Great Arrow Films,Scream Factory and Vinger Syndrome blu-ray collection at the end.😊
I count among the Last of The Millennials (96)...child of Gen X.
The US government, holding with its 18-year generation policy, defines the millennial generation as people born between 1982 and 2000.
No last millennial is 99 or 00
Gen Y is fact 1981 - 1996
forever And forever way too far
@@dustinthomas8747 1981-1999 18 year generation policy
Bravo, I'm Gen X, and it was a great walk through the "new kids on the block" - It would be neat to see an updated version, chances are post pandemic made for some interesting data. And, sadly Millennials won't know the joy of dial up internet and "you've got mail"
There is an updated version that was released recently on Generation X.
The number one thing I know is that they’re absolutely ignorant of any pop-culture before 1995. There’s even a few of them that never heard of the Beatles. That should be something they should be ashamed of
WOO! I just missed being a Zenial! So happy!!
I don't remember doing any of these surveys LOL 🤔
phone next to bed because it's also my alarm? Right, let's go with that, that's the real reason /s
Omg! The robocop double dvd plus on the right part 2 AND 3!!! That's a true movie love xenial!
This Philadelphia xennial is a-ok with the daily Gritty costume.
Literally state at my phone all day
I have a question for your list show. Why were Americans tricked into thinking Link Wray was breaking new ground by playing a song (rumble), made up of only one chord?
And we are the first gen to make a big deal of our mental health! We don’t demonize hour mental health!
I like this 'Tim' person.
It's easy to get a PDF, it's hard to get a physical book 😁
I hope you do an episode on baby boomers.
I second that.
I've never seen any of these surveys.
Parenting advice from the 1800's: division of labour.
I'm a Zennial? (1984) oh that's why I never felt like I really fit the Millennial Mold... I didn't get a cell phone until 2004. I have only read one book in the last 4 years (a history of the Celts) If I read I would chose digital though because I think books are great dust collectors... I've been divorced twice, have crippling anxiety, try to live minimalistic, have no money, and knitting is my main hobby... edited twice because I am a perfectionist too
I'm a Gen-X married to a Gen-Y ('75 and '81). The Gen-X generation was the BEST time to grow up in! :D
Word
Well I'm technically a zennial then. Even though I was born in '86. I didn't even get a cell phone until 2004 or 2005. We grew in a very small town in the country so a landline phone was all we had as kids. While I prefer physical books, I love the convenience of having an ebook reader on my phone. (or multiple readers in my case.)
are cats a hobby? I’m currently cuddling with my cat
I do that too!
I have no friends
I am dead inside
Griddy is my spirit animal
(8:30) So what you're saying is that, a country with a vastly larger population (in this case, 4× greater) will have a higher absolute number of millennials? A natural occurring group that is simply based on age, and appears as 20-25% of a country's population? Who would have thought!
I agree that millennials aren't today's high school and college students. The youngest millennials are already 24 while the oldest will turn 40 next year. As a non-millennial myself (I'm a Gen X), one thing that makes me wonder is whats the big deal of that age cohort that makes them being targeted by marketers and researchers. I've been surrounded by millennials all my life from my own family members to co-workers but I don't really see them as anything different from us apart from them growing up as children in the 90s and 00s.
I wouldn't even say born in 81. More like 85.
my theory on going with print over digital is same as many people still buying physical movies and games - if the internet goes boom, or that digital-front shuts down... WE STILL HAVE THE THING!!
Also when you get tired of it, can loan it to others or even sell second-hand, because as previous facts brought up, we all _broke_
The way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me that much if the Internet shuts down in the next decade. -nothing to do with physical viruses, maybe something to do with cyber-viruses.
I was born smack in the middle of the millennial age range and ~2/3 of this stuff is still ???
I'm an elder millennial according to most bullshit definitions, you know as the video said, the ever changing, and has changed a dozen times since I was in school. I'm literally a millionaire when it comes to net worth, not actual cash. My mother literally tries to give me money on a near monthly basis or tries to pay my bills. I work a part time job, but I own a house, own a car, and having a substantial investment and retirement fund. My mother, who was very much a working class boomer, constantly thinks I am poor/broke because I don't work 40 hours a week.
Many of the kids born in the mid 80s were in the work force by the time the 2008 crash happen, a crap ton of us bought stocks during that crash, or made use of the extremely low interest rates. Heck I'd even argue that I am the age in which kids finally got taught nearly useful things in school. Like what a stock was, what a retirement savings were, the basics of what taxes were, [not how to do them of course,] we got taught what a mental health issue was and what depression was. I think boomers and Xers were plenty depressed, they just didn't have the words to express it. I work with mostly Gen X and boomers, and fuck are they a depressed age group.
Brine shrimp in a big tank. Brine shrimp power. 🍤
Don't feel bad about Applebee's though.
Of course, a million dollars as a millennial has aged, won't be worth so much. It surely won't be like a millionaire used to be.
Now we know why Boomer memes are all “wife bad”
I think comparing Gen Y to Boomers primarily in studies can be pretty misleading because in many cases the Boomers, not the Gen Yers, are the likely statistical oddity. As a hiring manager, we often see Gen Y much more related to Boomers than to Gen X or Gen Z. While Gen Y might feel that they need to train Boomers on the use of technology, Gen X feels this way about Gen Y and Boomers both.
Ditched land lines? Gen X broadly never had land lines. That Gen Y went BACK to land lines before ditching them for cell phones, that's more in line with using paper books and libraries; and texting. Throwbacks to the Boomer generation. Gen X was the generation that did without land lines. VoIP was replacing land lines for Gen Xers by 2001; but cell phones started doing this in the mid-1990s. Gen Y grew up in a world where the land line was already an antique technology (at least in the US.)
Yeah, I didn't have a phone of my own until I moved out at 20
HOPE FOR MORE face about millennials. Thanks bud.
I am NOT PUSHING 40! :-P
Millenials love Big Macs and going to the Mall,in Brazil.
I love you Erin !!!! :)
I had no idea Scion was a Toyota.
Okay, while I understand why football (soccer? sorry, i took French and my papa is Kenyan born so you're wrong lol) is popular because you literally just need a ball, as a Girl Scout the local minor league baseball team had free nights for scouts friends and family. Like. Assumed 2 parents and a sibling per scout and asked for girl and leader head count to calculate how many free tickets you got access to as a troop. Baseball season was anarchy in Girl Scout culture here.
There are some who call me Tim..
Spare the rod spoil the child, Pay as you go and you will never owe
Gen z here and I can day that I got in trouble at school for not handing in homework on time because it wasn't to my standard, they didn't care if I was happy with it they just wanted the work
The gap between myself being born in 81 and a kid born when I was in 10th grade is so huge especially with the rapid growth in technology. I have more in common with the first of gen x. Especially when it comes to social manners, initiative and anticipation in the work place. And no I never got nor would want a participation ribbon.
I'm either boomer or gen-x. But I've had the net for most of my life. And ebooks yes because I once had so many books it was getting difficult to move to a new location. Therefore ebooks to the rescue. And yes I've marched on D.C. too.
Finally got rid of the other guy. LOL
Makes me proud of our gen
That moment when you find out you're a millennial, even though you were born in the sixties
The video quality from your apartment is good. The noticeable difference is in audio quality.
For sure. Ordered a microphone today when it became 100% clear that getting back to the studio was out of the question. Hopefully it should get the audio quality to a workable level (if not quite what we can achieve w/ our studio equipment).
Can we get one list on micro generations? Us Xennials want a list
I'm one of the first genY's born Jan 81, I just clocked 40. I think that makes me a zennial.
Prefer print but have both for convenience when traveling.
On call 24/7 for work in emergency services.
I'm single by choice (16yrs now). Statistically marriage is the #1 cause of divorce.
Had 2 kids before 22 (their 18&22 now).
Minimalist home, I live in a van, and more minimal and is be homeless lol.
Hobby is traditional Japanese jujitsu (since 10yo), I also teach, but my club is not for profit.
My entire back is inked.
Can't stand friends.
Can count my friends on one hand.
Absolutely love driving.
I haven't owned a TV in 12yrs.
I don't drink alcohol at all.
So that's a bit of info on a zennial from the other side of the globe in Australia.
Those numbers are from north America, and not all Millennials are from that continent. Shock I know!
You’ve gotta do Gen Z next!
Us 90s babys have seen some stuff.
101. You [child] going to be one.
You should try a hydro flosser like waterpik or H20 Flosser. Works better than string flossing and you can add mouthwash.
ASL 4 Life I was thinking exactly this when she mentioned that. I am terrible at flossing normally but this works well for me.
true about the driving. my daughter is 25 and we had to make her learn to drive. now that she has had her license for 7 yrs she still barely drives, except to church.
At least she goes to church.
@@scottyj6226 What's so good about going to church?
Nothing more than a waste of time where someone tries to guilt you into giving them money.