Why is GenZ cancelling the millennials for their hairstyles, skinny jeans and use of emojis? Find out...
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00:00I think 90s kids are the coolest kids.
00:02You're not special for growing up in the 90s.
00:11This is a war now. This is a war.
00:13Tell me more.
00:30A lot of us have, you know, grown up watching Harry Potter or reading Harry Potter or watching
00:45Sins.
00:46Growing up I loved Harry Potter but then just the way J.K. Rowling used to come up with
00:52anything after the series was over just to be included.
00:56Oh, like Dumbledore is gay then why wasn't it mentioned in the books?
01:00And then she came out with some transphobic comments and then it's very hard to separate
01:06the writing from J.K. Rowling because she does try to bring Harry Potter back into everything.
01:12Friends was like really cool.
01:14It still is actually.
01:15So, you know, I think that it's a very timeless sort of a series.
01:18It still is very young and cool and, you know, people still watch it, you know.
01:21And I don't enjoy Friends.
01:24They romanticized a lot of toxicity.
01:27Friends was not aware of the toxicity that they were promoting.
01:32And it's very hard to look past that because Joey was misogynistic.
01:38Ross was like emotionally abusive at least.
01:43And yeah, I just don't enjoy it.
01:47I think whatever you see while growing up sort of stays a lot with you.
01:59I think it's a great thing to get attached to.
02:01Everybody remembers their childhood.
02:03You're not special for growing up in the 90s.
02:06I think it's always nice to go back to things that, you know,
02:09you were so probably readily available when you were growing up.
02:12Even now when somebody gives me a packet of, you know, like Fatafat or something,
02:17I don't even know if Gen Z knows about Fatafat.
02:20But even now somebody gives me one, I'm like, yes!
02:23And it's fine that a nine-year-old kid has a cool phone today.
02:27If phones were there in the 90s, you would be bragging about that.
02:30But you're not special for growing up with a real childhood
02:33where you went out to play on the playground.
02:43If you eat like a heavy meal in skinny jeans, you have to unbutton your jeans.
02:47But with wide leg jeans, you're just chilling.
02:49You can eat what you want.
02:51Now, I think even if I go out shopping,
02:54I generally prefer baggy jeans.
02:56They're definitely more comfortable.
02:58Fashion is going to come and go.
03:00And I don't want to be like, oh yeah, I hate skinny jeans.
03:03And 10 years from now, skinny jeans comes back.
03:05And I think they're really cool.
03:06But I've said those things about skinny jeans.
03:09I just care what looks good on me.
03:13I know the whole side part is considered millennial.
03:19I part my hair in a middle parting.
03:21I've always experimented with like,
03:24I think this is my thing now.
03:25I think this looks good, so I make it.
03:28I know the whole side part is considered that, oh, you're old.
03:31But for me personally, it was a thing on TikTok
03:37where people thought that every Republican
03:39actually had a side part.
03:41So that's how that became a thing.
03:43Phases, I think everybody has phases, you know.
03:44I don't have a problem with side parts.
03:46I don't have a problem with skinny jeans.
03:48I don't think it's a Gen Z millennial thing.
03:50I think it's a very personal sort of thing.
04:12It feels a little cringe.
04:14I felt so old when I got to know this.
04:17Somebody told me that people don't use that emoji anymore
04:20and it's not cool anymore.
04:22I use it a lot now.
04:25I want to know the replacement to that emoji.
04:27The laughing crying emoji was the first,
04:30like everybody used to use that.
04:33And then everyone was like,
04:34like the young kids were like,
04:36no, you just use the straight up crying emoji.
04:39I feel super old when somebody tells me
04:41that what is this emoji and why is it being used?
04:45Because that is the exact emotion that I have at that time.
04:49I'm laughing so much that my tears are coming out.
04:52That's the point of that emoji.
04:54I use the laughing crying emoji
04:56for something I genuinely find funny.
04:58I use the crying emoji for like self-deprecating humor.
05:09It's just growing up, right?
05:22It's just being an adult.
05:23Like why can't we say being an adult?
05:25I feel a lot of people are, including me,
05:28I think I'm also a bit in denial,
05:30that we have grown up so much.
05:33I feel a little overused sometimes.
05:36I'll be honest.
05:38It's okay.
05:39It's just a part of growing up.
05:41Do you know why the barrier exists?
05:43I am basically at the cusp of Millennial and Gen Z, like 97.
05:48And whichever group is acting embarrassing at that point,
05:51I just disassociate from the group.
05:53So I think that's a very generation thing,
05:56that one generation would definitely be different,
05:59probably more evolved,
06:00probably smarter than the previous generation.
06:05They will also become our age someday.
06:12Everything is good about Millennials.
06:13I think 90s kids are the coolest kids.
06:16They've really evolved.
06:17They've seen so many things
06:18and they are really nice and very happy.
06:21Millennials have kind of found a way to
06:26romanticize their lives in a way where,
06:28you know, they'd be like,
06:29oh, pizza and a glass of wine at the end of the day.
06:32Love it, love it.
06:33They're very positive in their own thing.
06:37So I think that's pretty cool.
06:43I think they don't really care about what people think or do,
06:47or even probably how they look.
06:50I think that way they've sort of really become body positive,
06:56if I can use that word.
07:00They basically like to be in their own skin.
07:01I feel like Gen Z is genuinely so funny.
07:04Millennials are a little bit more optimistic about life.
07:08Like they grew up with hope
07:09and Gen Z is just like the economy is too far gone
07:13for us to really do anything.
07:14So let us just do whatever we can
07:17and have a sense of humor about it.