I'm impressed he found so many millennials without walking into an office space.

@ivermektin6874

6 ай бұрын

It's called woking from home. You log into Teams through your phone whilst shopping and try to pretend like interest rates aren't going to make your nothing-job redundant.

@MbisonBalrog

Ай бұрын

They all work remote now.

@jhosright_Motscoud

Ай бұрын

?

@Scarletraven87

Ай бұрын

I can't deny I work remotely. Everyday I get to my workplace from where I'll remotely connect to provide helpdesk assistence.

How do you always find these right words to describe people? You are reading everybody like they are back of the shampoo

@malamstafakhoshnaw6992

7 ай бұрын

Guy is a debate champion, but grown up.

@Aster_Risk

7 ай бұрын

​@@Eet_MiaWe hate it, but are forced to use it.

@samholdsworth420

7 ай бұрын

Because he's English. They're smart

@TheLiam85

7 ай бұрын

Hes just done a year of sociology

@WalkingPaceWP

7 ай бұрын

It's definitely all prewritten he's not making stuff up as soon as he finds someone. Come on now.

"They have no idea how to be a real adult". I felt that.

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

You shouldn't, there's no such thing as a real adult, it was a myth invented in the 50's by the wasps Like most bad things

@thegrunbeld6876

7 ай бұрын

We look at the adult boomers and we cringe, but at the cost of having no other role models for being real adults.

@thebodyclock1

7 ай бұрын

Same 😂

@O_Canada

7 ай бұрын

Nobody is financially capable of being an adult anymore. I work as an electrical engineer, and it will take me 3 times longer to buy and pay off a house as my parents when neither of my parents want to college or have serious professional careers.

@thaddeusk

6 ай бұрын

I'm mostly a real adult, I think? I own a house, have retirement savings, can cook, clean, do laundry, etc... but I have a pretty immature sense of humor and still like to play video games.

Did NOT need this today, Frankie! Found this extremely helpful though. Thank God it's wine O'clock.

@HelpfulTed

7 ай бұрын

Look! He did it! He did the thing! Ironic-cringe!

@alexanderfloyd5099

7 ай бұрын

@@HelpfulTedYou did the detached observation thing! Lol

@HelpfulTed

7 ай бұрын

@@alexanderfloyd5099 You're right! We're all fucked.

@smashyrashy

7 ай бұрын

Hard read

@mechaslav8520

7 ай бұрын

I guess we just have to spend our days in silence in order to avoid being cringe. @@HelpfulTed

This cuts so deep, I'm scared to share it in my work's group chat with my fellow-millennial coworkers.

@USBEN.

7 ай бұрын

Bussy

@Ed0Carnby

7 ай бұрын

At least you have millennial coworkers. Imagine being the only millennial in between 7 soon-to-retire boomers.

@grizz7271

7 ай бұрын

This video is going straight into the chat, haha

@waleedalam7927

7 ай бұрын

That will be the closest thing you'll do in terms of social justice.

@danm8004

6 ай бұрын

​​@@Ed0Carnbyyour coworkers are all over 59?

honestly this was the most chill "social group" so far

@Zeddie72826

7 ай бұрын

Ur forgetting about the pajama huns

@jakemorrison8507

7 ай бұрын

Cringe

@flightlesslord2688

7 ай бұрын

why because they dont do anything? At least boomers make a good villain.

@Vic82toire

6 ай бұрын

That's because we're paralyzed by indecision and hemmed in by the fear of the future without enough savings.

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat

6 ай бұрын

I like how zoomers won't even let us have this. The fact that we just havn't done anything is also a problem somehow, just because they need someone to blame for why they refuse to work jobs.

I used to answer unknown number calls Frankie, but after the 2013 telemarketer explosion I just became desensitized to assume that all unknown numbers are scams

First half had me feeling personally attacked, and the second half made me feel like a boomer at heart.

@bluegiant13

7 ай бұрын

Yep, looks like it is becoming our turn to become the boomers *sigh*

@pissedoffbucketguy9115

7 ай бұрын

​@@bluegiant13well we can be better ones

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

@@bluegiant13 Nah, never plunged the world into an over extended car crash and it'll be another 3-4 decades before GenX finally relinquishes the control they pry from the boomers cold dead corpses

@Walleyedwosaik

7 ай бұрын

@@bluegiant13hahahahaha imagene beig not 12 looser

@dbz9393

7 ай бұрын

When he said we are too chained to our hotdesks to challenge the powers that be, I felt that on a spiritual level

"Millennials try to mould their personality into friendly Good Vibes only Instagram caption to bandage over the spiritual wound of not being able to afford a mortgage" Frankie destroyed the millennials around the globe.

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat

6 ай бұрын

I'm a millennial, I have no good vibes, and I pay a mortgage. Try harder.

@odala8245

6 ай бұрын

​@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoatyou must be the elderly millennial then

@Dirpitz

6 ай бұрын

@@odala8245 more likely help from parents

@thebagelsproductions

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@summercoat

5 ай бұрын

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat You are the exception that proves the rule.

It sucks to realize that the space I left open for my Based Trophy will always be empty

They didn't even manage to outsource running after you.

@peterlarkin762

7 ай бұрын

Running is actually, loik, a microaggression???

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

@@peterlarkin762 millenials didn't invent microaggressions tabloid media did and repeated it over and over again until people started repeating it

As a raging millennial, this cultural observation is pretty accurate. But, never forget that we millennials invented internet culture and by extention, ultimately, the very idea of based and cringe. We are your internet elders and we're tired and sleepy! Can you kids keep it down! What was i talking about? Oh thats right, 911!

@whodis5438

6 ай бұрын

facts

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat

6 ай бұрын

Eh, most of it is just sweeping boomer stereotypes from the same Avocado Toast articles weve seen a thousand times, he's just layering it with psychology speak to make it sound official and real.

@whodis5438

6 ай бұрын

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 100%, i was agreeing with the fact that late Millennials/early Zennials started this whole internet culture that the neo-pop-punk, indie-sample-rap, lofi-chillwave-listening Gen Z thinks they came up with. i’ll acknowledge their taste in appreciating Y2K aesthetic but you’re right a lot of Gen Z went neo-boomer, alt-right, or are insufferably more ultra-PC than the worst of the Millennial libtards. the only good Gen Z content is keeping irreverent meme humor alive and evolving it for new platforms. otherwise we have caused our own demise by creating the spaces for zoomers to dance, scamfluence, and practice AAVE on god no cap. yeah, urbandictionary was us too. please have some respect for the game some of you outpacing us on the lame shit

@thePronto

Ай бұрын

Millennials "invented internet culture" like you invented hip-hop or smartphones. Those things may have emerged while you were alive but they were invented by boomers who were productive while you were still wetting your pants.

@no1hypocrite

Ай бұрын

We completely fumbled our internet privileges. Things were great back in the forum days, but we all should have retired from the internet a decade ago. I mean it. It’s bedtime.

As a millennial, I feel both seen and uncomfortable. Also, facts: beige and grey is my favorite aesthetic.

@USBEN.

7 ай бұрын

Those colors are universal

@Battlehammer333

7 ай бұрын

beige, forest green and bordeaux all the way

@TheGrapplingMonkey

6 ай бұрын

at some point i started liking those colours, too. Happend around 30. Is that universal?

Came here to make fun of Frankie's face. Finished the video with existential dread as a millennial unable to contradict most of what he said.

@HelpfulTed

7 ай бұрын

Just calm down, drink a pumpkin spice latte, and everything will be alright.

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

@@HelpfulTed "Pumpkin spice" is ground up acorn paste

You squared the circle of the dialectic here

It’s like a national geographic documentary series on people

Gen X keeping stealthy. If you act like you don't want to be seen people will ignore you about as much as when you act like you do want to be seen.

@Karl0sis

7 ай бұрын

This is the exact plan, shh

@Aster_Risk

7 ай бұрын

Gen x complains about being ignored after ducking out of every cultural conversation.

@HiGlowie

7 ай бұрын

@@Aster_Riskat least they aren’t performative like millennials or genZ. The people I know who talk the loudest about social or cultural “issues” couldn’t care less.

@Aster_Risk

7 ай бұрын

​@@HiGlowieThey just don't give a shit at all. That's not admirable. I'll take performative any day over that, because at least bullshit optics have a chance to make some kind of change.

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

@@HiGlowie lol yes you are, you're all a bunch of whiny fucks who make GenZ look tame The definition of a generation who's mad that they aren't getting more attention

As a true slytherin, I literally can't with this video. I can't wait for wine o'clock so I don't feel bad about not knowing how to adult.

@meditationsfortheanxiousmind

6 ай бұрын

real

@GG-mx9fj

6 ай бұрын

If millennials focussed more on how to adult rather their Harry Potter house, they’d be able to buy their own real house…born ‘88 and don’t fit in.

Please do Gen-X now. No one talks about us, and I think it's high time we copped some s**t, to give Millennials and Boomers a break for a sec.

@riina___

7 ай бұрын

Ive noticed how everyone always just lists zoomers, millennials and boomers and totally skip gen x 😂

@jeil5676

7 ай бұрын

This sounds like something a millennial would say.

@GreenGretel

7 ай бұрын

@@riina___ That's part of what it means to be Gen X, lol.

@urituba6993

7 ай бұрын

It's important to contextualise what "cringe/ironic cringe" was responding to *nod nod*

@gregothy9190

7 ай бұрын

Who?

My kids are millennials and have been loved and smothered like I never was as a generation x. But both my kids have moved out and have good jobs. I’m so proud of them

@Icanbacktrailers

4 ай бұрын

They sound amazing

No self-respecting millennials curate spotify playlists. We treasure our piles of mp3s.

@JTD472

7 ай бұрын

Goddamn right

@cloudsombrero

7 ай бұрын

dont lie

@keepgoing7533

7 ай бұрын

Or an iTunes library that either stayed the same or expanded over the years. Perhaps using KZread 2 Mp3 converter, who knows 😳

@hisdudeness09

7 ай бұрын

@@keepgoing7533KZread to MP3 converter is the reason I “own” about 3/4 of my music.

@seroquelchamber

7 ай бұрын

i am 30 years old as of this summer i definitely don't have mp3's. i have wav files. does that make me zillenial.

As a millennial I feel seen and ultimately that is all any of us really want.

@anniem2777

6 ай бұрын

😂

@ro55reel5

6 ай бұрын

(should be) top comment 🏆

This man is an observational genius. So beautifully spoken!

As an elder zoomer whose generational status and identity relies on the social definitions by academics that have changed over time, this video was just barely unrelatable

@GothicGali

7 ай бұрын

How old are you? No one can decide if I’m a young millennial or elder zoomer. Born Dec 1995, currently 27

@halodeer

7 ай бұрын

@@GothicGali In america I've heard more consistently in the last few years that 1997 onward is gen z (I was born in 97). If you're old enough to remember even a sliver of the 90s you're a millennial ig

@cm.design

7 ай бұрын

same, April '97 here and it's a toss-up as to whether this or his Gen Z video hit me more accurately overall

@red.a.v212

7 ай бұрын

I'm '97 too but not from the states, I believe we are the youngest millennials and the oldest zoomers. What a place to be lol

@Jammoud

7 ай бұрын

3:33

As a millenial , i approve of this message - spot on 😂

Dude as a millennial myself, this is spot on.

Ooh ooh! Do me! Do me! Gen X! It’s time we’re called out for just keeping our heads down in the intergenerational wars.

Legit had to rewind every segment because I was laughing too hard. Too relatable

Wait, this one is about me. Oh god, so this is how it feels...

the "you can be anything and everything you want" can actually still create rampant imposter syndrome and need for external validation even if your parents are not helicopter parents

I like that most the people were in on the joke and it didnt go iver their head. My favourite video yet

I'm not clever enough to understand what this guy says, but he says it with such conviction it's great to watch haha

@lukashenrique4295

7 ай бұрын

same hahah, all I hear is "milleniun cringe" and that's just funny 😅

@user-py7uh3wj9d

7 ай бұрын

this is pretty scary most his language was pretty basic

@JohnDoe-bt9qp

7 ай бұрын

@@justme4037 Ich habe alles verstanden, du Unwissender!

@justme4037

7 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe-bt9qp Kudos to you five head. Do you want a price for that or something? :D

@grmpf

7 ай бұрын

@@justme4037 The main problem for non-native speakers is the accent. It's definitely not the speed of his speech. He really does not speak fast at all, that's just objectively not the case - quite the opposite, actually. I can say this with confidence because I'm also German, but I've listened to a lot of spoken English in different accents, and I have zero problems understanding him. Also, I don't know which German word you were trying to convey, but I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to use "gibberish" here.

We laughed at ourselves more than Gen Z.

@sofiabravo1994

6 ай бұрын

*laughs in hopeless millennial*

@treyshaffer

6 ай бұрын

yea i suppose it's easier to laugh at yourselves when philosoraptor memes and mugs with quirky jokes about drinking rosé are considered peak comedic expression

@garyhynes

6 ай бұрын

@@treyshaffer We've been getting our memes & mugs in different places.

@garyhynes

6 ай бұрын

@@sofiabravo1994I have to assume you're a bot with over 400 subscribers & no content.

@Vic82toire

6 ай бұрын

@@treyshaffer It's better than having no sense of humor and being allergic to fun.

As a gen x I felt left out as we haven’t copped it yet but then I realised I don’t give a shit.

I’m such a slytherin 😂😂

I like the Extended KZread Director's Cut. :-)

As someone who sits between Millennial and Gen Z (depending on who you ask), but being a Millennial really. I can confirm , both videos are absolutely bang on Just discovered this channel today, quality stuff😂

@MetalHeartsOfSteel

6 ай бұрын

if you are born before 97

@jazzingpanda3190

6 ай бұрын

@@MetalHeartsOfSteel I was born in 97. Plenty of people say it’s before, plenty say after, even more say it depends on when in 97 you’re born (and there is no agreed upon month here). So I lay in this limbo.

the lady at 3:54 started off morally offended and then slowly became utterly emotionally defeated until all she could do at the end was fake laugh uncomfortably which is also peak millennial behaviour

I mean, this stuff is just brilliantly written and delivered!

Fee Fi Faux Fur, I smell the blood of an Irish(millennial)man

How is this possible, that this is Irish, I am Polish and this works through all the borders borders (yes, I'm 33)

@beeticket

7 ай бұрын

Being 33 is such a slay

@KoooomA

7 ай бұрын

It's generational in general but applies to western culture which Poland is a proud member since 90s.. if you went Tajikistan, Nepal or Iran you wouldn't need to worry about all this 😂

@budus2

7 ай бұрын

I hope that you meant 990s, we've been a part of the "west" since 966 AD, despite some retarded neighbours negating this fact ;)@@KoooomA

@victorkreig6089

7 ай бұрын

@@KoooomA and it's the last one that does. Zoomers onwards are a globalist generation and their culture is shared world wide. The proliferation of the internet is to thank

@OlaNordmannYouTube

7 ай бұрын

Ah yes Nepal where people are dirt poor. Ahhh Nepal. Good stuff.@@KoooomA

"shackled to their hot desk" - brilliant!

I was born in 85. Dad was 1950 mom was 1960. I got the "you're an idiot do better moron" parenting treatment. Now my parents wonder why I never tried to apply myself and have struggled financially my entire adult life. I don't blame them for my choices, only that their parenting failure informed how I made choices. I was raised more like a genX than anything else.

@chadwellington2524

7 ай бұрын

85 is more gen x than millennials.. millennials really start at 87 or 88

@BaronFeydRautha

7 ай бұрын

@@chadwellington2524 It's like 82-97. I know what you mean though.

@BaronFeydRautha

7 ай бұрын

What I really love is how I have like no filter. I'll call you out for being stupid or whatever. Then my parents will get upset with me. I am now realizing that it's because I act like they did in private, in public. They would shit talk me and my siblings at home and put on a mask for the pubic. "Why are you such an asshole?" "You" LOL. They don't like what they see in the mirror I present.

@shaunw9270

7 ай бұрын

​@@chadwellington2524I'm generation X ... We are 1965 - 1980 .

@chadwellington2524

7 ай бұрын

@@BaronFeydRautha no way 1982 and 1997 are the same era.. they grew up completely different

How do you know all this, so much knowledge about so many generations and niches, incredible.

Omg I can't even fam high-key savage at me adulting so I'm low-key shook at how extra you are slay queen I stan not salty kill me

This is your best one yet. Amazing.

I just stumbled upon your gen z video and really like your content! Great work. Am already looking forward to upcoming uploads.

I just learned that my self torment regarding my inability to reach the idealized version of my self is not a normal shared humam experience. And stems from my upbringing fooling me into thinking i could have done anything i wanted to...now how to weaponise this mental health issue...

Who says deep cutting philosophy can't keep you in good shape

The interviewees usually chase him at the end of the video, but millennials are old now and their knees hurt so they let him run off on his own.

@juanm.q5121

7 ай бұрын

Knees and back, keens and back :C

The importance of being seen as earnest. Like, yowzah!!!

"A persistent need for validation, regardless of level of accomplishment" 😂

Sorry i was busy digging through the mountain of awards I never got for participating, could you repeat that?

I finally feel seen and attacked by one of these videos. Namaste.

An Absolute Brutal Legend This Guy

this is painfully accurate

I assume this is a chronological series. Looking forward to X and Boomer episodes

@thehousecat93

7 ай бұрын

Good luck finding any x-ers. Their whole thing is that they don’t exist.

@HelpfulTed

7 ай бұрын

Gen-X will be skipped over like they always are. You're a ghost, like Danny Phantom, or some shit.

@clumsiii

7 ай бұрын

@@HelpfulTed shit man, i could be a boomer, gee whiz Wally

@lifenotbills

5 ай бұрын

@@clumsiii 😂 “Gee whiz, Wally”. That’ll go over some heads.

Thanks, that was cool. Now I see why these videos work.

This is one of the hardest hitting ones for me Good observations frankie

You run like Forrest Gump before he got the braces taken off, otherwise great vid man, there's so many more ideas for this structure, keep on being creative, love it.

@drewskih4005

7 ай бұрын

He runs like a cartoon villain or I get Dick dastardly vibes 😅😂

@taciterudite9224

7 ай бұрын

@@drewskih4005not penguin? 🐧

@drewskih4005

7 ай бұрын

@@taciterudite9224 pingu ?

@thehousecat93

7 ай бұрын

There is no way to run with a backpack on that doesn’t look cringe, so it’s best to make it at least look like it’s intended to be ironic cringe.

@jamesg7191

7 ай бұрын

touche@@thehousecat93

I asked for this. Thanks.

You’ve killed this one Frankie

I thought my kind were exempt from these. I feel so seen now.

Finally someone is able to distill what we have noticed about these poor parenting results.

i personally never saw or heard of participation awards until i was an adult, and im a millennial. its a gen z thing

@m.gnsgrd16

5 ай бұрын

I’m a millennial, 1991. Never heard of it either. You snooze you loose

@iamgreenshoes

4 ай бұрын

Can confirm participation trophies were a heavy part of my millennial childhood. I never excelled at anything so it was all I could look forward to. Born in 89.

There are Millennials and then there are MILLENNIALS.

Masterpiece, laddy

Not me being a slytherin with a beige wardrobe 🥴

Appreciated the Urban Outfitters comment and someone wearing Iets Frans later.

COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR! God bless you repping Oregon's own across the pond. Gurt Boyle RIP

Frankie is my sense of humour

I am not ironically cringe i am just socially inept and then other millennials think i am being ironic and that has been a good shield for me

Most precise docu ever done on Gen Y

man i love you, do keep going

this hit home

i do be acting cringe to try and differentiate myself XD

Spot. On.

Once he starts going... it's just mezmerizing... I couldn't stop watching him droning on about our horrendous existence on this fucked up planet :D

Just curious, do any groups get praise? Or just all burnt to a crisp

@BiggyJimbo

7 ай бұрын

No cohort is exempt from criticism

@HelpfulTed

7 ай бұрын

The "Greatest Generation" that fought WWII is the only generation I haven't heard someone slag off.

@bc7282

7 ай бұрын

​@@BiggyJimboyeah I can't think of one tbh

@JohnDoe-bt9qp

7 ай бұрын

He would be afraid to analyze the Jews impartially. 🔯🌞

based , been a long time coming for a banger like this one g.

Did they have participation trophies in dublin ?

These are great. 😄 As an old school Gen X Mom, my '97 & '00 kids got a very unique upbringing w/input from the Greatest Gen & Baby Boomers while limiting the social trends of the time. Able to hold convos w/adults since they could talk, spent half the day outside, recite cartoon monologues, prefer quiet reflection to social media, & work w/their hands & to pay their rent. ❤ Are there anymore of you out there..?

@autozyklusi5093

6 ай бұрын

97&00 would make them Gen Z tho

Damn this hit hard

You nailed it

'The occupational hazards of learned helplessness' genius :D

I'm a Gen X Englishman. Love your videos.. feel free to take the piss out of my generation. Funnier than anyone elses videos I've seen in years 😂

@beeticket

7 ай бұрын

In true fashion Gen X has been completely forgotten and left to run around feral

@shaunw9270

7 ай бұрын

@@beeticket Feral ? Uh , no .

@beeticket

7 ай бұрын

@@shaunw9270Isn’t it a meme that Gen Xers’ parents had to have a 10 o’clock news PSA to remind them where their kids were at night? And that kidnappings during the 80s were happening like every other day? Idk I’m Millennial tbh.

@shaunw9270

7 ай бұрын

@@beeticket Memes maybe. Not the truth. We were allowed a lot of freedom but our parents always (mostly) knew where we were. In our teens if we got in trouble with the Police, we were shitting ourselves about what our Dad's punishment would be after the Police station.

@beeticket

7 ай бұрын

@@shaunw9270 I see. Maybe this is also partly an American vs. British cultural divide.

Millenials are such good sports.

Millenials love you Frankie ❤😊🎉

thank you for validating me

Oooof mate too accurate 😢

I had to watch both versions , The zillenial crowd doesn't know who the heck to side with still in your 20's but technically part of the last 2 years to be considered millenial, 94 so 94,95,96,97 Give or take one more year on each side... on island all by ourself , a little gap gen that doesn't know where to go haha

The irony of the phrase "shackled to their hot-desk" 😂 I'll be quoting this one.

How come all of your texts are so damn good?

Excellent, although one completely missed fact of life is that EVERYONE is cringe in some way or other. People who think they aren't and only certain others are, invariably are also cringe. Cringe is part of the human condition.

Genius!

Amazing

I appreciate you showing some older millennials!

I have never felt so called out and yet so seen...

You are genius son 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

This video overlooks the fact that Britain recently saw the biggest strike wave since perhaps the 1930s, driven by millenial workers

@ExecutionerHopkins

6 ай бұрын

We strike because we are lazy. Thats the difference.