The Biggest Misconceptions About Gen Z | Vibe Check | Insider
Gen Z is the most connected generation in human history. And that's meant huge shifts in how they think about their work and social lives. Business Insider spoke with Gen Zers and asked them - what are the biggest misconceptions about Gen Z? They had a lot to say.
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The Biggest Misconceptions About Gen Z | Vibe Check
In my head Gen-Zs are still in their late teens to early 20s. Why some of these people look like they're in their mid-30s 😂
Yes!... they look old to be Z
yeah to be fair most of gen z is made up of teenagers. i think they just picked older gen z people for this video
these people look like late millenials rather than gen Z
Man, everybody knows life can make you tired and look older.
Gen Z starts in 1997, so some are close to 30.
Jesus you picked the most holier than thou Gen Z people you could. All these little weirdos think theyre the first generation of people to tout concepts of free love and label themselves as less "-ist" than any other generation
I know right? Imagine finding people willing to speak this way on camera? A lot of political discourse presumes a narrative of progress which implies that older/past people are/were dumb, but usually people don't just say it out loud.
I came here to learn about GenZ, But since it was mostly complaining about the older generations, I guess I learned all I needed to know.
So basically, this turned into a platform of what's wrong with older generations 😂 Thats the most Gen-Z thing ever.
No. For example... they know if they're men or women and they spend their own money, no their parents' money... xD 💀
Except for the last guy who has a wider more encompassing view
That’s actually the reverse of : in my times students where more disciplined. No, every young person critisises old persons. That’s like the one thing everyone has in common. There are no generations. Just different aged persons with vastly different world views disregarding the age. How come everyone tries to homogenise people regarding their age when that’s absolutely not possible.
it definitely wreaks of lack of life experience, the sweetest knowledge that older folks have is that the youth will one day be old and realize how silly they were jajaja
lets have this conversation again when they turn 30
Even the old Greek complained about their kids as spoilt. This will never change. But GenZ can share information about things going wrong while the others often thought that the status quo is "widely accepted " although everyone was secretly annoyed.
Debunking a gross generalization about a whole generation of people by asking a few individuals to make gross generalizations about other generations. How about we just don't make sweeping assumptions about *_any_* groups?
Takes themselves way too seriously.
I am GEN-Z. These peeps looks wayyyyyyy older.
We don't care what you do. signed GenX.
Ha!
Thanks for the permission. I think I might buy 3 more houses today.
not half the video being abt polyamory 😂
Hey Gen Z here... To be perfectly honest we fit most of the 'misconceptions' listed in this video. We're impatient, whiny, insecure, overly-sensitive, stressed, lazy, and complain all the time (which relates to whiny - I'm even complaining about us right now). Growing up with the Internet and such fast access to social media and so many other things has, I think, screwed us up. Not to mention growing up in COVID, our creativity is at a depressing low (which is also demonstrated by the lack of new ideas in the 'new' music that comes out nowadays. It's rare to find something actually new and revolutionary, and let's be honest when it does happen it's usually Jacob Collier being a genius). I do not like my generation and I wish I was born at a different time, but still we're not the worst generation, which I think is at the moment Gen Alpha
So to discuss Gen Z you got a bunch of inner-city, late 20 somethings? Doesn't seem very accurate
Millenials who think they are Gen Z
It's not accurate. Gen Z begins in 1997. The oldest aren't even in their late 20s yet.
These are like the oldest Gen Z'ers possible. Im guessing they were born at the start (1997).
Gen Z is somewhere around 1997 to 2012. So yeah, most likely the older ones.
Just hear how they say oLdER GeNEraTIons 😂
Every younger generation gets dogged out by the previous ones.
This generation are a bunch of self entitled narcissistic losers
This one still sucks
Can't remember any boomer saying : 🤪💊 i IdEnTiFy aS a DoG!
@@1893unknownuser 💯 exactly
@@1893unknownuser thank you I’m younger and I hate most of the people in this generation who go along with that disease
I feel like every complaint people have about Gen Z is pretty similar to the complaint people had about millennials not too long ago. I still remember everyone shitty on millennials. Now everyone is shitting on us Gen Z
EXACTLY! History repeats and often rhymes
Nope this generation are oversensitive entitled babies
Yep, as a millennial this rings very true
Starting to happen with gen alpha
Gen z says this while blaming Millennials 😂
People keep on hating on me for being apart of Gen Z saying I’m always on my phone, think that I’m sensitive and that I believe that I’m a washing machine (people think I identify as stuff that I don’t).
You probably are a little baby crying about it all
I've had enough with people criticizing being on the phone. Phones are not distractions anymore. Much of studying and good part of working are now done on the phones. The dinosaurs need to shut up.
@@JohnJaneson2449get off your phone it’s good for you no matter how you use your phone.
@@zaynesworld1680 I’m 15 💀
I think to many older generations the gen z issue isn’t the attitudes for change or not settling. But the general assumption and perceived attitude that it’s the first generation to act and be this way. You look back on the young people in the 60s and it was the hippy generation. Different visuals but same core mentality. Push for change in a more direct manner. Same for 70s/80s/90s (in the UK we didn’t have a guaranteed minimum wage until 1997 how do you think that happened. Younger people pushing for change.) Otherwise imo there’s nothing special about the attitudes changing gen to gen. Maybe that’s what frustrates gen z with older generations perception and ambivalence. Older generations have been there and done that in their own way. It’s nothing new or special. Just a different focus. And it’s not their generational fight. Each generation has their own problems to tackle. Can’t fight every battle.
This is such a skewed interview. As a Gen Z, I must say do your surveys better.
Gen Z on average have bad work ethic and attitudes. As a millennia i work and interact with them constantly, so im speaking from first hand experience
My parents were hippies … So “old people” were more free than Z.
I feel bad for gen z.
People use a label, so it is hey look at me all attention on me.
I am very old now: hearing the Gen Z’ers speaking and explaining their generation, I realise again there is nothing new under the sun!!!
And Solomon was complaining there’s nothing new under the sun 3000 years ago.
It’s giving gen z delusional vibes… many comments below are so accurate. Typical gen z, avoiding the accusations made towards them while accusing others. Avoiding answering and saying in-between the lines ‘yes’ to some generalizations and offering up excuses. Claiming these concepts have been around forever when in reality not, no backup for their claims. Just sad to see the lack of inner reflection and delusion.
Trust me: Every Gen. gets unfairly stereotyped by the previous Gen. My guess is twenty years from now they will criticize the newer Gens. A side note is they did not get to all of the people that were sitting there to interview!
These were descriptions not misconceptions. Try again...
The biggest misconception about Gen Z is that Generations don’t exist. There is no scientific evidence or consensus on what a generation actually is and how to compare it.
Bro 90% of our generation meets these stereotypes :(
I love the kiddy music in the background. Its an indirect way of stating these kids actually believe they're original and this never happened to anyone else before them. The complain about the previous generations not questioning things or being stuck in their ways. Considering they're in the age technological advancements and increase exposure THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO QUESTION THINGS. They act as if their doing something that has never been done before. Perhaps they're a bit....."assine"🤣
So where do you think they get it from? Looking at the parents.
all that things they say represent them have always existed. and i thought the same of older generations when i was a teen.
As a 2001 Gen Z guy, this video is gonna be awesome
They did themselves NO favors by doing this video. Better to have kept quiet and we might have assumed they were smart.
Is it just must or did all the people come across as very arrogant?
Slightly yea
In Canada we call them Gen Zed
Can I be a gen Z, millennials and gen X simultaneously?
Well... Some comments don't pass the vibe check
I completely disagree with them. I am a Gen Z and I work with others my age and they are lazy, arrogant, complain about everything AND the older people I work with do no such thing.
Anecdotal evidence at best. Doesn't prove anything.
ah good ol' blamin game :)
Thank you for the update, Insider..!! I wonder who created these coined terms like Gen X/Y/Z in the first place. Why would they want to divide people up by branding them like livestock?
As a Gen X'er myself, the first time I heard the term was the well known book by Douglas Coupland, Gen X, from 1991 (iirc). I did read it, and at the time, thought it was a pretty decent summary of my my generation. But I don't think there was really a plan for the world to follow it and accept it as a term. Afterall, if that were so, he'd have called it Gen A so there'd be a load of options to come after, not just Y and Z.
heh, I thought they'd address something else. But yeah, I guess they're very indirect in the way they speak instead of addressing people directly due to the influence of the internet and not needing to respond to people directly, and moreso needing to influence the opinion of thousands of third parties. Like, if genz's are used to beign able to be convincing and eloquent enough, it can turn anything into a victim of injustice.
Apart from the very interesting selection of people, it is bewildering to just ask someone for a misconception about them and go with whatever they say unchallenged. I am sure Trump would say that him being a liar is a misconception. Doesn't make it true.
vibe check: croc wrangler at 520k, you at 13k. Same timetrame. All that dialating must keep the views down.
Misconceptions?
Complainers 😂
Those would be boomers
My generation (millennials) laid the groundwork for all the bad qualities there are about gen z.
Nah that's boomers
nah bro we be making fun of millenials with the oldheads
I agree with all of this.
Some of the testimonies feel is a bit adverserial towards.the older generations. I wonder if they're taken out of context. Like these aren't topics that can be cleared up in 3 minutes. What is up with this channel?
Especially lazy. But I'm sure it's not their fault. That's just how it is for their generation.
We are wrong to think that. The Z have a better priority of work-life balance. Remember this is a time when AI bots and actual robots are threatening to replace theirs and their future gens
@@ivanttosuckyourblood I guess.. but other things too. Other topics as well that I cannot mention here due to political correctness. But let's just say that I'm very old school and we'll leave it at that.
“We’re getting rid of asinine thinking “ says the person who feel like a helicopter today.
Never did they say that they feel that way.
This wasn’t convincing
No one cares
You care if you commented
@@chasehedges6775so true 😂
@@I1p💯💯
Why did you see the video then? You cry baby
You just said exactly what a Gen Z would say@@chasehedges6775
What a joke!
I wish we’d come up with a better name for this generation Doomers? Lost souls? No Home owners? Cannon fodder?
None of those are better.
@@josewmeldondo 😐😐
😅 this is just the media making up lies to scar people about gen z ,every generation complains about next 😊
This gen is smarter and intelligent and I love that. But 1 thing to remember this is on the shoulders of (knowledge acquired and taught by) the previous gen. So ....
they are not smarter, they are more institutionalized, they are all academic and zero scientific.
Lol much of those accusations are Millenials' characteristics, not Gen Z. A more accurate generalized character of Gen Z, that I meet everywhere, is that they are very shy and scared. It's the result of a very damaged world that they grow up in.
why are they always complaining?
Why does everyone make it out like gen z or any other generation is another species? They are still people and they are evolving to their environment like we have done since all the generation. Im 32 so in generations i think im y? Doesn't change anything at all. People are still people, the way things work are fucked bug they are a shitload better then what they have been and we are getting better but its gonna take alot of time for the rest of humanity to catch up
Also saying that I have seen more generation z people actually trying to help something and the rest of us fight it? What does that say about us?
These kids would be shocked to realise everyone at their age basically thought and felt the same and that they’re not special lol
zoomer looking old right now
Gen Z are still kids-how can there be misconceptions about them?
Gen z😂😂
This is a complete rip off of Anthony papilla’s series “assumptions”
Is pretty pathetic that the editors featured misconceptions that are so trivial. All of the problems that Gen Z has and people tend to have misconceptions about in the media can be blamed on baby boomers who are the worst generation in many generations and are the source of many of the different issues Gen Z and other generations are having to address. Gen Z, as with all generations, have also created issues for themselves, both real and imagined. Number one problem though is screen time which is partly their own fault, but is mostly their parents' fault. Problems aside, I think their is more upside with this generation. They are mostly good people
Well millennials complain about gen zers. It wasn't very long ago when older generations complained about millennials. So...😅
GenZ is optimistic. Good for them
Gen z is softtttttttttttt
Lìssen up. Yeah my. parents lived through a n economic depression anda World War . Does that make me a Boomer ? At the beginning of the '80's, things were slow. I didn't have no silver-spoon. It wuz dog-- eat - dog @ ! You donnow ! So , I consider myself to be part Boomet, mostly Gen X. Little part of me is z ! What's a number ? You are what you feel. G'usef too it.
Yeah they are very opinionated and outspoken. That's not a good thing when it means they are extremely intolerant and overwhelmingly antisemitic compared to older generations.
Its official , im now a gen alpha ( i was born in late 2011 so i think i can pass it off )
Lol
a bunch of leftards... where did you get that?
That we are seeking attention
And they're right about that.
😂 no they aren't. Attention-seeking is a Millenial characteristic, not Gen Z. Gen Z are actually more shy than the Millenials.
@@JohnJaneson2449 Ok.
They are stuck on sTupid!!!
I don't like these zoomers, speaking as another zoomer
I just wish Gen Z would pick a side and get out and vote. Blaming both sides or voting independent / 3rd party when they have no chance of winning isn't going to make progress.
Picking a side is the problem. There shouldn't be a 2 party system
You absolutely have the right to believe that. But if that's really what you want, then you should be going out to every one of the 50 states to try to eliminate the Electoral College. The fact that third parties don't even lift a finger to do that proves they only have one goal, and that is to muck up our elections. Third parties and independents are a big reason we are in the mess we're in now. If you care about women's rights, vote blue. If you care about healthcare, vote blue. If you care about the economy, vote blue. If you care about democracy, vote blue. If you care about this planet, vote blue.
Or they could burn down the 2 party system, cause it's dumb. A lot of us don't fit in either box that's why we're Independent
the white gentleman was edited out of the video, he was probably the only sensible one.
at 0:36 you can tell he wasnt a sheeple like all the others because he didnt nod his head under peer presure.
Gen-Z is soft.
I don't know who's worse, them or the millennials?