Why is Gen Z Humor So Weird?

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  • čas přidán 18. 08. 2020
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  • @MisterSweetProductions
    @MisterSweetProductions  Před 3 lety +12437

    Couple of small changes since I’ve learned new info since this video was made!
    (Btw I was born in 2001)
    Gen Z seems to be somewhat loosely defined as 1996-2010, 1997-2012, or 1997-2015.
    There may also be an inter generation between millennials and Gen Z
    The point is, you’re defined by whatever you’re closest to!
    Also beans is often a euphemism for drugs… apparently!
    And the “Gen Z born with an iPad” analogy was meant to more to illustrate being born with the modern internet, like having access to Google and CZcams as a young person. Maybe YOU didn’t, I don’t know your life.
    Anyways, thanks for letting me know, if you were born after 2015, I am mostly positive that you are Gen Alpha!

    • @robblequoffle8456
      @robblequoffle8456 Před 3 lety +727

      This is what I say:
      Baby boomers: 1946-1964
      Gen X: 1965-1979
      Gen Y/Millennial: 1980-1994
      Gen Z: 1995-2009
      Gen Alpha: 2010-2024

    • @WilliamHollinger2019
      @WilliamHollinger2019 Před 3 lety +180

      @@robblequoffle8456 gen beta not yet around 2024-? I am a gen z I will wait for kids after marriage.

    • @lolguyhandsome4954
      @lolguyhandsome4954 Před 3 lety +50

      Those 69 likes... Couldn't get my attention away..

    • @lolguyhandsome4954
      @lolguyhandsome4954 Před 3 lety +28

      But seriously, I was born in 1995 !

    • @jacobtablet
      @jacobtablet Před 3 lety +6

      Its actually 8

  • @angel.985
    @angel.985 Před 2 lety +12857

    So basically...
    Boomers Humor: man vs man
    Millenials Humor: man vs himself
    Gen Z Humor: man vs reality

    • @savagetruthercritic8646
      @savagetruthercritic8646 Před 2 lety +617

      That's pretty astute I think. Gen X humor seems to be man vs appropriate behavior.

    • @xdxrax
      @xdxrax Před 2 lety +10

      GEN Z IS THE MOST MESSED UP DUMB GENERATION IN HISTORY IM ASHAMED TO BE A MEMBER OF THIS SICK GENERATION

    • @lawyerreactsnotthemoon85
      @lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 Před 2 lety +241

      @@xdxrax trust me when I say the millennials and boomers were far worse lol and still are, they didn't even have some human rights in their days. We just have more access to knowledge and of news around the world of what's going on now. So settle down 💀

    • @xdxrax
      @xdxrax Před 2 lety +2

      @@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 OH YEAH! WELL GEN Z HAS WIDESPREAD RACISM AND HOMOPHOBIA! JUST CHECK MEMEPAGES AND COMMENT SECTIONS! ALSO THATS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THIS WORTHLESS GENERATION. THEY CALL TOXIC EAR BLOWING RAP WHICH SPEAKS ABOUT SEX AND DRUGS "MUSIC", AND THEY CANT STOP SWEARING AND SWEAR MORE THAN ANY OTHER GENERATION! PLUS WHAT EVEN DO GEN Z WEAR FOR FASHION! GIRLS WEAR CROP TOPS AND EXPOSE THEIR STOMACHS LIKE WHAT THE HELL! ITS DISGRACEFUL! ALSO GEN Z THINKS THEY ARE SO COOL WITH THEIR "GEN Z SLANG" TRYING TO CREATE THEIR OWN VERSION OF ENGLISH! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS WHY CANT YOU JUST SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH MY GOD THIS GENERATION IS SO STUPID AND HOPELESS

    • @umnothanks9504
      @umnothanks9504 Před 2 lety +161

      @@xdxrax are you high or sum-
      “girls wear crop tops”
      bro don’t look if it bothers you that much

  • @KeyboardMoment
    @KeyboardMoment Před 2 lety +9845

    I love how the older generations are legitimately researching and deciphering our god forsaken awful humor.

    • @awesomeguyness
      @awesomeguyness Před 2 lety +922

      Trying to figure out how to market to you.

    • @kushclarkkent6669
      @kushclarkkent6669 Před 2 lety +176

      @@awesomeguyness Exactly lol

    • @manwhoismissingtwotoenails4811
      @manwhoismissingtwotoenails4811 Před 2 lety +335

      @@awesomeguyness wAIt dONt sKIP. WhOSe tHE impOSTeR???

    • @shionkreth7536
      @shionkreth7536 Před 2 lety +83

      We're just trying to figure out what we're seeing on the interwebs. :D

    • @commentresurrection1841
      @commentresurrection1841 Před 2 lety +87

      How to market and take advantage and boy is it easy with this generation. You guys will literally buy anything "just because". Thank you for my wealth!

  • @davetoms1
    @davetoms1 Před rokem +3528

    My favorite explanation was that Gen Z are overwhelmed by how absurd everything is. So they simply embrace the absurd. No punchline needed. They create something like a meme to create more absurdity. The existence of their creation is itself the joke. Its existence is funny even if the thing itself is not.
    And I like that.

    • @2DarkHorizon
      @2DarkHorizon Před rokem +96

      When you watch so many funny youtube and tiktok videos it is hard to find things funny anymore. That it comes to the point of being absurd to get an emotional response it is kinda sad. Though this sub-cultural maybe small or big noone has done analysis how many people have such attitudes and consume meme media frequently. I think it is a smaller group than people imagine. I think most people are still struggling with life offline to spend hours watching and consuming such media.

    • @sin3358
      @sin3358 Před rokem +46

      I mean, every century has a certain philosophy that dominates within societies, and I've noticed that absurdism, existentialism and nihilism are the dominant ones for gen z. By any means, not all of gen z have the same humour. I come from a conservative country and majority of people here don't speak English so they haven't been raised with the memes and humour I was raised with, do while I embrace absurdity, others here don't and think I'm nuts for doing so. I've also noticed that my sense of humour is a part of my logic. I'm an atheist (and that number is growing a lot within gen z) and I question a lot of things. I don't, however, believe that this humour is that big of a change in everyday life, you only see it on social media. Most of them are made by specific witty people who already are considered to be weirdos and are now embracing that side of themselves without an issue. I've seen some very veryyyy poorly made memes and jokes trying to pretend to be as absurd as possible. Just because we see this type of humour online, it doesn't mean all of us have the balls to use it in everyday life. I've only seen that happen in certain American states. Come visit Europe and any other continent, we're more reserved

    • @musicalmischief9135
      @musicalmischief9135 Před rokem +19

      In other words, my life is a joke

    • @delilahl5934
      @delilahl5934 Před rokem +5

      MTV did it first when it first started so theres that....I couldnt imagine growing up in an age where nothing a huge population of people do or say is unique or will really make a difference or matter. Millennials saved the world in y2k.fixed the ozone layer.made some of the most modern iconic content.broke all the records.made a new info/tech/industrial boom all while having zero money and never seeing a good economy (owning land credit or being paid a living wage let alone a wage at all)and witnessing more national/worldwide historical events/ wars/pandemics than any generations-let alone multiple generations had ever seen.....
      millennials....they are a tired bunch of 30 year olds.

    • @Mich6961
      @Mich6961 Před rokem +9

      So basically reality is stranger than fiction

  • @pauljohnson3851
    @pauljohnson3851 Před rokem +1535

    "You say peacock, and no one bats an eye. You say poop cock, and everyone loses their minds."
    So powerful 😔✊

    • @ayanoaman3179
      @ayanoaman3179 Před rokem +79

      did you really have to make me spit watermelon on my keyboard

    • @griffithwes0074
      @griffithwes0074 Před rokem +21

      @@ayanoaman3179 yes.

    • @HypnosisBear
      @HypnosisBear Před rokem +19

      LMFAO I'm dying of laughter no cap 🤣🤣🤣

    • @txni.mp4865
      @txni.mp4865 Před rokem +1

      Wtf.

    • @HeckOffCommie
      @HeckOffCommie Před rokem +2

      Not as powerful as “India is leading the pack, no really, us Jews are number two, but number four is Germany, so everybody watch your backs.” 😝

  • @ghost_trap10
    @ghost_trap10 Před 3 lety +4304

    I’m gen z and i still don’t understand my humor

    • @epiphanyjervisbattilega3158
      @epiphanyjervisbattilega3158 Před 3 lety +282

      lol yea, my mom asked me to explain my humor and i was like "the whole thing is that its chaotic, it isn't clever or anything and purposely doesn't make any sense".
      She didn't get it.

    • @flamezismad1306
      @flamezismad1306 Před 3 lety +29

      Becuase the when y fje

    • @Luxkyang
      @Luxkyang Před 3 lety +9

      Me too 😅

    • @flamezismad1306
      @flamezismad1306 Před 3 lety +4

      @Ian Salyer a k
      N

    • @mrman8663
      @mrman8663 Před 3 lety +7

      It is what it is

  • @louismakesmusic
    @louismakesmusic Před 2 lety +10400

    Explaining a joke kills it.
    This is the exception to the rule.

    • @MisterSweetProductions
      @MisterSweetProductions  Před 2 lety +796

      I tried to just explain dead jokes for this exact reason haha

    • @boo.hates.spiders
      @boo.hates.spiders Před 2 lety +265

      @@MisterSweetProductions Honestly still laughed at a bunch of the bad ones and found it pretty well put together.

    • @b0ltun0
      @b0ltun0 Před 2 lety +29

      at least he doesn't do it like behind the meme

    • @novaeir7602
      @novaeir7602 Před 2 lety +100

      Nah, explaining a joke can make it funnier for me, but I'm neurodivergent so maybe that's why idk

    • @MisterSweetProductions
      @MisterSweetProductions  Před 2 lety +75

      @@novaeir7602 I'm the same way! It helps me appreciate the humor more!

  • @Nelmel2007
    @Nelmel2007 Před rokem +748

    I love how our humor is being researched it’s amazing

    • @thevirtunaut1856
      @thevirtunaut1856 Před rokem +7

      Humor has always been researched. Understanding what makes things funny can be powerful. Sorry, this honestly wasn't meant as an attempt to say Gen Z's don't matter. What I said is just true. haha

    • @tommyrobinson9862
      @tommyrobinson9862 Před rokem +6

      @@thevirtunaut1856 Yeah but they are also quite full of themselves aswell... so yeah

    • @Cronofear
      @Cronofear Před rokem +1

      So they can sell you shit in a box by making le funny video.

    • @TheGravygun
      @TheGravygun Před 5 měsíci +1

      Too bad it wasn't funny

  • @NuttyMongrel
    @NuttyMongrel Před rokem +190

    As a millennial in his 30s, I've never really been perplexed by gen Z culture. I think in a lot of ways, it's part of a cycle young people go through in every generation. The humor, in particular, is not that different from the weird, absurd internet humor I enjoyed back in the early 2000s.

    • @unknown-ke1it
      @unknown-ke1it Před rokem +9

      lol hopefully we can all
      get along one day

    • @lalaland2107
      @lalaland2107 Před rokem +7

      I feel the same way especially when I rewatch a funny video from early 2010s(not the cringe ones with stereotypes). Or when I listen to a funny song from that era as well.

    • @undeafeatable36
      @undeafeatable36 Před rokem +4

      2000s humor will always be an all time classic.

    • @MarmaladeINFP
      @MarmaladeINFP Před 10 měsíci +3

      Why do we act like everything is new with each generation? As a GenXer, there was plenty of absurd humor, such as Ren and Stimpy or Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

    • @JodyBruchon
      @JodyBruchon Před 7 měsíci +2

      Yeah, it sure is different.
      It's trash.

  • @Tan12
    @Tan12 Před 2 lety +8943

    So basically, our humor=absurdism+irony+contrarianism+referential humor+an undercurrent of existential dread. Sounds about right for the times.

    • @EQOAnostalgia
      @EQOAnostalgia Před 2 lety +10

      The devil manufactures the image of each generation. He fills your childhood with degeneracy and tried to get you to ignore or deny God through your entire journey growing up. He wants you to live YOLO with an evolutionary mindset because it's much easier to control people with fear, and it's much easier to steal their joy when they think they came from a pond of ooze that randomly came into existence millions or billions of years after a random bang lol.
      He also fills our heads with humanism like "ye shall be as gods" using tech or other means. The docu on Netlix about He-Man and how they marketed him to kids to take away the influence of parents and give kids the power is very revealing.
      All of media is owned by him and his minions, they put their pyramid symbolism, one eye symbolism, cube symbolism, etc... etc.. ON EVERYTHING. The only people who have eyes to see it and hear it are those who know the Lord Jesus Christ.
      You are by default, made to knee jerk negatively whenever someone mentions faith or Jesus... you are in effect, the brainwashed, while believing Christians are... this entire economic collapse is to bring about the rise of the beast system. Nobody will buy or sell without his mark and what is happening today, is conditioning you for that.
      GOOD NEW!
      Christ died for our sins, we don't have to go down with this ship... and look around people... it's sinking FAST.
      1 Corinthians 15 1-4
      1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
      2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
      3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
      4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

    • @yaronimus1
      @yaronimus1 Před 2 lety +32

      Sounds right for humor in other times

    • @icouldbeanyone.9345
      @icouldbeanyone.9345 Před 2 lety +60

      You forgot random words.

    • @SuchitaBhattacharya
      @SuchitaBhattacharya Před 2 lety +32

      my humor is a vegetable falling out of a pan...

    • @darkenergy7291
      @darkenergy7291 Před 2 lety +17

      @Tanrahk12 basically :3
      The first, third and fourth things in that list (absurdism, contrarianism, referential humor) are byproducts of consuming too much memes I'd say :3 and as a fellow Gen Z person, we both know the last point (existential dread) and the second point (irony) are very much a Gen Z thing as other generations don't really care about the climate, among other things, as they will not live to see all the bad outcomes anyway. Can confirm the dread is real :3

  • @TalesGrimm
    @TalesGrimm Před 2 lety +8706

    Now that you've explained it, our whole comedic culture is unfunny and we will never laugh again. Thanks.

    • @ant.rammstein4346
      @ant.rammstein4346 Před 2 lety +85

      Big cat

    • @ant.rammstein4346
      @ant.rammstein4346 Před 2 lety +135

      Bread

    • @ZenCorvus
      @ZenCorvus Před 2 lety +91

      That's alright.
      All of this is some inside garbage and is beyond actual humor.
      Go use this humor in front of a crowd and silence.
      As the video says, mental illness is super high with this generation.
      And to think its the easiest time to live.

    • @ant.rammstein4346
      @ant.rammstein4346 Před 2 lety +54

      Sus discussion
      H

    • @Kaktanternak
      @Kaktanternak Před 2 lety +81

      If it's not funny just laugh because you're ironicly enjoying it. You can always justify your sense of humor to others that way, but most importantly - to yourself!

  • @lildooma
    @lildooma Před rokem +67

    Born un 2002; I cracked a laugh so many times watching this. Our humor really does get weird

  • @movement6514
    @movement6514 Před rokem +136

    I love how Gen Z took Morbius and saw it for what it was. I'm seeing a dozen Morbius on Nintendo DS memes, and they all nail the cash grab franchise thingy so well. Give these kids some love, they are much smarter than some of the millenials of my generation at their young age.

    • @kolossis8283
      @kolossis8283 Před rokem +17

      We managed to bomb a multi billion dollar company by using sarcastic memes. And I can't believe either how out of touch in reality these old people in movie industries are

  • @vidalia3418
    @vidalia3418 Před 3 lety +3016

    Boomer: "Man vs Man"
    Millenial: "Man vs Self"
    Gen z: "Man vs Reality"
    Credits: someone in Reddit

    • @boogleluu
      @boogleluu Před 2 lety +76

      Lmao Reddit Moment

    • @mzaklanc4371
      @mzaklanc4371 Před 2 lety +129

      MAN VS JUAN

    • @Disanem
      @Disanem Před 2 lety +35

      BREAD GO FALL

    • @irl_Five
      @irl_Five Před 2 lety +14

      @@Disanem WAIT I DONT WANT TO FALL A THOUSAND MORE TIMES-

    • @Disanem
      @Disanem Před 2 lety +9

      @@irl_Five too late

  • @toganium4175
    @toganium4175 Před 2 lety +5695

    Gen z humor is essentially just being as stupid as possible, so I find it to be very relatable.

    • @TheLastMillennials
      @TheLastMillennials Před 2 lety +14

      Born after the year 2000 is considered part of iGeneration (aka Generation Z/FORTNITE KIDS). It is so-called due to the technology that existed during the time of their births: iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, Wii, etc, and the way that they are used: individualized.Zoomers! tiktokers, QuaranTEENs, Omegle kids, fortnite kids, tide pod babies, jake paulers, logan paul kids and streamer twitch kids are those born between 2001-2009 and beyond. They all grew up on the same stuff. If you want more facts check my playlists If you want more facts check my playlists on my channel. I have a video on my gen z playlist called Gen Z and why we matter watch that video and get back to me

    • @MeelisMatt
      @MeelisMatt Před 2 lety +47

      i think people have lost intelligence allot and this is not moment for me to shine and say i'm someone smart - i'm not. i explain what i mean. in 90s when internet wasn't used so much to replace thinking people had to really use their head. nowadays if someone has a quesiton they google it. so essentially if you ask someone something they use less their head but external search engine what may as well give info that is warped and messes with their view on world. i think the overflood of information form commercials and media has changed thinking. so summarise it's like in the matrix agent smith said 1999 world is peak of their civilisation when machines started thinking for humans it's not anymore human civilisation.

    • @connect04r86
      @connect04r86 Před 2 lety +95

      @@MeelisMatt Civilization btw bozo

    • @mengoinggodsway9024
      @mengoinggodsway9024 Před 2 lety +13

      @@MeelisMatt Nailed it. People do not critically think anymore, they look to outside sources because they are lazy, or they see them as "authoritative", when anyone can set up something. Pair that with most authoritative media from both sides of any argument being subverted, and few being impartial or fact based, and you have a bunch of young adults, teenagers and children who only believe what they are told by a small group of society. People who do engage in deeper thought either repeat something that would have been considered surface level a few decades ago, or they are shunned because they make people who love meaningless entertainment feel uncomfortable.

    • @jimmycon2001
      @jimmycon2001 Před 2 lety +2

      @@TheLastMillennials What about minecraft?

  • @cardiabardia439
    @cardiabardia439 Před rokem +44

    10:10 "There's nothing that Gen Z loves more than changing or hating things"😂😂😂😂😂
    No truer words!!

  • @tonynussbaum
    @tonynussbaum Před rokem +25

    I was born in 1984. Call me immature, but I find Gen Z humor hilarious. I died when the word "beans" just randomly appeared on the screen. 5:55

    • @MisterSweetProductions
      @MisterSweetProductions  Před rokem +9

      I love it too! I may be 17 years younger than you, but I’m still old enough to buy alcohol… and guns… and uh… vote

    • @shadowchasernql
      @shadowchasernql Před 6 měsíci +1

      beans arefunny?

    • @AndromedaChace
      @AndromedaChace Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@shadowchasernqlbeans are funny. 4th meal beans are funnier

    • @Lilly-bo1mi
      @Lilly-bo1mi Před 4 měsíci +1

      Literally 1984.

    • @Arrayonex
      @Arrayonex Před 4 měsíci +1

      At that part of the video, I was just surprised to hear the music Casin.

  • @Ludvix
    @Ludvix Před 2 lety +7996

    this is something Mark Zuckerberg would watch

    • @youngtre1372
      @youngtre1372 Před 2 lety +105

      you're going to make me spill my beans all over the place

    • @JorgeGastaldi
      @JorgeGastaldi Před 2 lety +63

      He would, if he had Internet.

    • @LocalIndianGuy
      @LocalIndianGuy Před 2 lety +8

      Hi Ludvix.
      Want some cooked beans? They’re fresh
      (BTW I took them from Young Tre, he’s above me)

    • @wolfvoort834
      @wolfvoort834 Před 2 lety +10

      Quark F*ckerberg

    • @cassandraa
      @cassandraa Před 2 lety

      Yes

  • @janesullivan692
    @janesullivan692 Před 2 lety +26615

    Boomer: I hate my wife
    Millenials: I hate my life:
    Zoomers: Beesechurger
    Edit: gen x humor: I WILL SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER

    • @floorbeardthepirate1141
      @floorbeardthepirate1141 Před 2 lety +2982

      You killed me with the beeschurgur

    • @BrgArt
      @BrgArt Před 2 lety +723

      @@floorbeardthepirate1141 Same Beesburgir

    • @sownheard
      @sownheard Před 2 lety +665

      Borgir

    • @MrShanester117
      @MrShanester117 Před 2 lety +483

      Millennials had that same irreverent sense of humor. It’s really dumb to think that’s a new thing

    • @HermanWillems
      @HermanWillems Před 2 lety +509

      Seriously though, As a Millenial. I feel like i almost gave up... but Gen Z? They literally gave up and don't even put up a fight. hahahahaha ha :( ha :(

  • @linuszetterstrom8590
    @linuszetterstrom8590 Před rokem +7

    This man predicted both Quandale Dingle and Morbius 💀

  • @CaptainLog
    @CaptainLog Před 2 lety +13131

    In short, young people have always enjoyed existential absurdity.

    • @iCraft54Games
      @iCraft54Games Před 2 lety +170

      Well said 👏👁

    • @thoticcusprime9309
      @thoticcusprime9309 Před 2 lety +56

      Not really

    • @Itiswhatitisitiswhatitiswhatit
      @Itiswhatitisitiswhatitiswhatit Před 2 lety +434

      Pretty much, but now that you've said it it's completely irrelevant and no longer funny

    • @bemnet329
      @bemnet329 Před 2 lety +11

      no

    • @zladut
      @zladut Před 2 lety +422

      Well yes but actually no. I think that's true to an extent, but gen Z is the first generation to have had access to the internet to such a degree at such a young age, so while millenials like myself probably did make a lot of absurdist humor (I still do, but that's beside the point), the internet has amplified that many times over for Gen Z (and arguably younger millenials).

  • @4per8
    @4per8 Před 3 lety +1906

    the point of gen z humor is randomness

  • @brah04X
    @brah04X Před rokem +26

    I'm 33 and I connect so much with the youngsters' humor, it's so much more my cup of tea than what I grew up with. The world is weird and sometimes dark, and the humor should recognize that :) Irony is the best medicine for this strange place. Some meme stuff reeeeally sucks though, and when it does, it's painful to have it repeated for months on end, lol. When I was young, people were like quoting Borat for months on end, and now the joke is about people quoting Borat, that's some real humor! People also used to love shit and pee when I was young, I never really got the feeling for that stuff haha, no matter my age.

  • @Christina-CA-808
    @Christina-CA-808 Před rokem +17

    This has been a valuable lesson for me. I barely understand my younger friends or their ways of humor and this just made so many things make sense to me.... still doesn't make me feel like anything they say is funnier sensical, but def makes the confusion I feel less hazy

  • @mandamn5791
    @mandamn5791 Před 3 lety +3310

    Future historians getting to Gen Z comedy and b like “How tf was this comedy?”

    • @The_Copper_Element_Itself
      @The_Copper_Element_Itself Před 3 lety +254

      Because of MONKE FLIP OOOOOOOUUUIOOOOOOH O O O HHJ OOOOOOH

    • @yellowdude9425
      @yellowdude9425 Před 3 lety +222

      *starts laughing at a tree*

    • @The_Copper_Element_Itself
      @The_Copper_Element_Itself Před 3 lety +96

      @cowsandcows imagine a monkey falling being considerated an artistic critic to our society, that would be really funny

    • @antinatalistrevolutionary8656
      @antinatalistrevolutionary8656 Před 3 lety +101

      Explaining Gen Z humor is like explaining a Lovecraftian Horror it's unexplainable and indescribable

    • @cursedgrogu7538
      @cursedgrogu7538 Před 3 lety +92

      Imagine we become so immature, future kids get tired of us and become really mature then when they get old future future kids get so bored they become immature and it goes on like that...

  • @guillaumesauter
    @guillaumesauter Před 2 lety +3647

    As a gen Z, I am ashamed at the fact that I laughed at every single example shown used to illustrate our nonsensical humor, as well as cringed at the missusage of said humor in the outro.
    You, sir, clearly knew what you were doing and know your shit. Good job.

    • @icouldbeanyone.9345
      @icouldbeanyone.9345 Před 2 lety +4

      You don't know of the Dokter.

    • @droptherapy2085
      @droptherapy2085 Před 2 lety +1

      @@israelosilva I can't tell if this is obvious bait or you're just a sad human being

    • @adamstephenson9011
      @adamstephenson9011 Před 2 lety +40

      Geriatric millennial here, still laughed

    • @Forcoy
      @Forcoy Před 2 lety +5

      Why are you ashamed?

    • @guillaumesauter
      @guillaumesauter Před 2 lety +13

      @@Forcoy My entire humour has essentially been broken down as something absolutely nonsensical, where the presenter didn't laugh once. It made me feel a bit dumb, hence the feeling "shame". This feeling, however, isn't a bad feeling. I used the term "ashamed" the same way that you would say that you want to kill yourself for looking for your phone by using your phone's flashlight, or by saying orgasm instead of organism

  • @kulvib4601
    @kulvib4601 Před rokem +10

    Thanks, this video IS gen Z humour. I laughed all the why through it, especially when the video title "beans" came up.

  • @turtleboy1188
    @turtleboy1188 Před 9 měsíci +2

    The humor in this video is so 2017. It's 2023 when I'm watching this and it's slightly nostalgic.

  • @manicmath3557
    @manicmath3557 Před 2 lety +4024

    Meme culture is the weirdest and most fascinating thing to observe.

    • @DrMuffin1080
      @DrMuffin1080 Před 2 lety +87

      I’ve been saying to my friend to years Memeology should be a college elective

    • @manicmath3557
      @manicmath3557 Před 2 lety +3

      @@JulsTheo-pn5rs haha yessss

    • @manicmath3557
      @manicmath3557 Před 2 lety +11

      @@DrMuffin1080 prob a subfield of psychology. Lol

    • @split_bug6760
      @split_bug6760 Před 2 lety +13

      @@DrMuffin1080 Memetics is the study of shared ideas and is where the name came from, don't know any more than that

    • @ArtamisBot
      @ArtamisBot Před 2 lety +11

      Humans are one of the weirdest and most fascinating things to observe.

  • @mdioxd9200
    @mdioxd9200 Před 3 lety +22035

    I'm a Gen Z and even I dont understand why im laughing so much at *E*
    Edit: wow I didn't expect that comment to blow up LMAO

  • @lukescastle
    @lukescastle Před rokem +4

    This hole video is honestly hilarious. A deep dive into the _psychology_ of _our humor._ I love this video and how you really take a subject like this and make it like a medical school essay.

  • @englishmuffin7
    @englishmuffin7 Před rokem +8

    Irony. It's just Irony and dark humor because that's a lot of our coping mechanisms, but also because it's fun to laugh at the thought of things going horribly wrong

    • @snap__shot
      @snap__shot Před rokem +1

      Lol no.
      People have used the phrase "coping mechanism" so much to the point that it's lost all meaning. It's used more as an excuse to get away with terrible shit. "Oh I'm sorry that I do weird shit and act like a spastic. It's just my coping™ mechanism™"

  • @nutellaking734
    @nutellaking734 Před 2 lety +2412

    I have never been so offended by something that is 100% true

    • @FirstNameLastName-ig2im
      @FirstNameLastName-ig2im Před 2 lety +20

      why would you be offended. your age demographic shouldn't be an identity.

    • @nutellaking734
      @nutellaking734 Před 2 lety +140

      @@FirstNameLastName-ig2im i was trying to quote the „i have never been offended by something i 100% agree with“ meme - i am not offended, i laughted my ass off watching this😂

    • @MisterSweetProductions
      @MisterSweetProductions  Před 2 lety +134

      I got the reference, it was funny 👍

    • @99Gara99
      @99Gara99 Před 2 lety +18

      We live in an age of explaining joke and then laughing, otherwise we would have noone to laugh with

    • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
      @MidlifeCrisisJoe Před 2 lety +10

      @@FirstNameLastName-ig2im Everything's an identity these days. That's part of the problem of course.

  • @mynamefrank6567
    @mynamefrank6567 Před 2 lety +7359

    gen Z humor is like covid, widely spread and constantly evolving

  • @fusion325
    @fusion325 Před rokem +1

    BLESS YOU FOR CREDITING THE BACKGROUND MUSIC, you're a life saver

  • @Registered_Simp
    @Registered_Simp Před rokem +3

    Well, two years later and this video is still relevant. You pretty much nailed the framework

  • @Nixlplix
    @Nixlplix Před 2 lety +1953

    So logically, whatever generation comes after Z should be normal humor again because that's the only logical direction to go from counter culture.

    • @negirno
      @negirno Před 2 lety +64

      I sure hope so.

    • @eliteteamkiller319
      @eliteteamkiller319 Před 2 lety +185

      I doubt it. The next generation you speak of is being raised by Millennials.

    • @silverhost9782
      @silverhost9782 Před 2 lety +123

      @@eliteteamkiller319 The future seems bleak then

    • @professormancaptain4210
      @professormancaptain4210 Před 2 lety +102

      The next generation will be raised by phones more than we'd even already assume

    • @eliteteamkiller319
      @eliteteamkiller319 Před 2 lety +14

      @@professormancaptain4210 Or maybe by then we'll move to integrated head gear with augmented reality (like smart glasses).

  • @calvingoodall2065
    @calvingoodall2065 Před 2 lety +1848

    I think another force causing Gen-Z memes to become incomprehensible is the desire for exclusive humor. If a corporation's media department can figure out your meme, they can run it.

    • @rexnemorensis8154
      @rexnemorensis8154 Před 2 lety +225

      Yeah exactly, we're all sick of others with an agenda crashing the party. In a world where people are constantly exposed to advertising, we just want to enjoy a private giggle.

    • @SpikeyBagel
      @SpikeyBagel Před 2 lety +141

      yeah, if a corporation touches something, it's like they smoked a cigarette on your couch. it might have only happened once, but the stench is gonna stick around, and you can smell it from a ling ways off

    • @furinick
      @furinick Před 2 lety +49

      Nowadays templates are frowned upon by any decent shitposter, i used to frequent r/dankmemes 3 years ago, for a while it was a pretty cool place but after the big chungus and ugandan knuckle thing it was filled with karma whores, kids, people that needed more love feom their parents or worse a combination of all, those people just found any template and started pumping out similar jokes that were in previous places, stuff like fortnite bad and breathtaking.
      But go to a place like discord and you'll find in smalled channels the ideal meme environment, where the one or two shitposters of the server decide what does and doesn't survive, then those small servers share thus creating a survival pf the fittest type of situation where a united hivemind decide doesn't decide but instead some random dudes that stare at that stuff all day, some even make stuff thenselves and it ends up viral

    • @wakkaseta8351
      @wakkaseta8351 Před 2 lety +11

      Ironically, they're so desperate to be special snowflakes their memes end up looking like something a bot or algorithm churned out.

    • @paquito-lc2pl
      @paquito-lc2pl Před 2 lety +13

      there are exceptions just like kfc, they figured out not how to use a meme, but how to make shitpost (at least in the Spanish twiter account).

  • @wpyyexe
    @wpyyexe Před rokem +4

    As for somebody who is born in 1993, I thank you for this video. I no longer have headaches when I hear those ghastly/mean spirited memes. I am more accepting of them, yet teach those that are willing to listen, that there are limits/lines that should not be crossed.

  • @dontsubtomeijustwannamakec5524
    @dontsubtomeijustwannamakec5524 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Funnily enough, now that this video is 2 years old, the dead memes he featured in this video are now ironically funny again, therefore making it not be obsolete.
    Also kinda surprised he didn't show the veggietales randomly generated humor thing

  • @ruthlessasmr6662
    @ruthlessasmr6662 Před rokem +3

    *Damn Doki soundtrack*
    Did you have to come swinging at us gen z that hard?

  • @muffinlamp
    @muffinlamp Před 2 lety +2917

    holy shit, he actually did it. he managed to explain gen z humor

    • @Jin-kk1mg
      @Jin-kk1mg Před 2 lety +25

      to this hour i wonder how are these funny, yet i take a look at one and recognize i'm one of these failures myself

    • @TroIIingThemSoftly
      @TroIIingThemSoftly Před 2 lety +5

      @Nick H You're a year late bruh

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 Před 2 lety

      Finally I can make a meme SKONKS!

    • @johnathanhodskins5820
      @johnathanhodskins5820 Před 2 lety

      For now

    • @FIVExTIGERS
      @FIVExTIGERS Před 2 lety +4

      I thought us millennials were fucked, good to see the human race is actually getting worse, we’re so fucked as a species. 🤣.

  • @RubbelisPro
    @RubbelisPro Před 2 lety +2777

    I don't think people realize how far gen z has transcended comedy as an artform, it's gotten to the point where a rat spinning to free bird at 240p can damage the lungs of multiple gen z'ers.

    • @marco-pe3om
      @marco-pe3om Před 2 lety +93

      does a video like that exist ????

    • @TromboneConductor767
      @TromboneConductor767 Před 2 lety +93

      I don’t think that’s transcendent. More like diluted comedy as an art form.

    • @nacrid2314
      @nacrid2314 Před 2 lety +44

      @@TromboneConductor767 i mean its not like we cant enjoy normal jokes also so i dont think its deluded

    • @TromboneConductor767
      @TromboneConductor767 Před 2 lety +33

      @@nacrid2314 Fair enough but this is what you see all over the internet.
      And just for the sake of clarity, I don’t mean deluded as in delusional, I mean diluted like when you water down alcohol for example.

    • @RubbelisPro
      @RubbelisPro Před 2 lety +37

      @@TromboneConductor767 I think you're right, I didn't mean transcendent in that it's better or worse, simply that it's moved past what might've been traditionally funny 10 years ago. Not everyone gets it, but not everyone found Seinfeld funny either. I think so many of us are so dead inside that anti-comedy is the new meta.

  • @liamstark5982
    @liamstark5982 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I was interpreted the "Beans at 2 A.M" meme as a cartoony depiction of midnight munchers

  • @jacquelyndaniel7135
    @jacquelyndaniel7135 Před rokem +2

    I’m gen z, this explains our humor so well, I didn’t think it was possible to explain our humor lol but you did it perfectly 👏🏻

  • @tnt_gaming21
    @tnt_gaming21 Před 2 lety +2218

    As a Gen Z, I can't wait to see how complex Gen Alpha's comedy will be
    2023 edit: this is NOT what i was hoping for

    • @Olovian_government
      @Olovian_government Před 2 lety +195

      Cringe cocomelon stuff

    • @AlexSpherebob
      @AlexSpherebob Před 2 lety +156

      @@Olovian_government bro they won't like cocomelon forever

    • @Olovian_government
      @Olovian_government Před 2 lety +2

      @@AlexSpherebob czcams.com/video/zEAUuJhHDqA/video.html

    • @KoeSeer
      @KoeSeer Před 2 lety +33

      @@Olovian_government dude what the hell is even that? It's kinda like YTP but with even less context.

    • @devluz
      @devluz Před 2 lety +26

      I thought we call them Gen Z because that is where we end it?

  • @smashyboi6887
    @smashyboi6887 Před 3 lety +2539

    As a Gen Z member myself, I feel that we don’t legitimately think our humor is top notch, if anything it is only for the memes that we enjoy it so much. Other than that, I have no clue whatsoever

    • @stereoheart.806
      @stereoheart.806 Před 3 lety +53

      Yes. It doesn't talk about anything of substance either

    • @sreejas3503
      @sreejas3503 Před 2 lety +68

      Gen z humour is not humour.
      It's brain cancer.

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 Před 2 lety +30

      @@sreejas3503 Yea. Kids today wouldn't know funny if it kicked them in the keister. Now, back in my day, we had vaudeville and such. Now THAT was funny!

    • @Batmanbatman59
      @Batmanbatman59 Před 2 lety +99

      @@sreejas3503 amogus

    • @yonixrubio803
      @yonixrubio803 Před 2 lety +125

      @@milascave2 damn nobody cares

  • @lunarplexus4442
    @lunarplexus4442 Před rokem +4

    I've seen the rise of "ironic humor" through the years and hadn't thought about the rejection aspect.
    Baring your thoughts makes you vulnerable to criticism, something that doesn't happen when you only pretend to like something, or say you like something because it's awful.
    With internet access becoming ubiquitous, you have a potential critic hiding everywhere. It doesn't help that many don't know or care how hurtful they can be (or even go out of their way to be as hurtful as possible).
    Which means that ironic humor acts as a way of defending yourself from possible attacks from anyone.

  • @modernmusicofthedarkages296

    One of the best meme compilations out there!
    Never laughed that much in my life

  • @sugarcombfilms3467
    @sugarcombfilms3467 Před rokem +2625

    Considering Gen Z has been actively bullying a media corporation for making a dog shit movie, but their sense of humor is so skewed that the corporation actually took it as praise and re-released the movie only to bomb again really shows how much humor has changed.

  • @Cloverien
    @Cloverien Před 3 lety +3200

    Thank you I am 71 years old and I’ve been trying to relate to my grandkids with humor! This has explained so much! Ok Iphone stop typing the message.

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva Před 3 lety +96

      @Ian Salyer Filthy Frank made a video about you 😂

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva Před 3 lety +215

      @Ian Salyer no, people like you
      is the legendary: "I _WAS BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION_ "

    • @loslingos1232
      @loslingos1232 Před 3 lety +61

      @Ian Salyer Traitor

    • @salleh0648
      @salleh0648 Před 3 lety +15

      ​@Ian Salyer Me too

    • @Aldi__130
      @Aldi__130 Před 3 lety

      Oh its realy weird and random grandma/pa

  • @4chinny
    @4chinny Před rokem +6

    I was a teenager in the 90s and this video could have been describing our humor then (minus the internet and speedy propagation). I don't think youth humor is changing so much, it's the tools for sharing that affect its evolution.

  • @huntercool2232
    @huntercool2232 Před měsícem +3

    If they think our humor is weird, just til they find out about Gen Alpha’s definition of humor.
    *S K I B I D I T O I L E T*

  • @evergreen4103
    @evergreen4103 Před 2 lety +16323

    The only thing I think you missed is how memes are often used as sort of massive inside jokes where it only makes sense if you are already aware of the multiple memes contributing to the punchline. Many layers of irony and niche references just compound into more incomprehensible and absurd variations (absurd = funny). I really do think every gen z has experienced a meme that is totally incomprehensible even to their peers but is absolutely hilarious to them and few others living in that specific microculture of the internet.

    • @alterrush5930
      @alterrush5930 Před 2 lety +1834

      in short, you have to have been on reddit for at least a month to get it

    • @WW-fn7rt
      @WW-fn7rt Před 2 lety +517

      @@alterrush5930 No, it's a lot more personable. When you have close friends that share the same wild humor as you. Then the connection means that much more. Coming from someone whose seen both gen z and millennial humor. I enjoy both types of humor, but Gen Z humor does overblow some jokes by bass boosting it. Which I personally find aggravating.

    • @xantishayde-walker4593
      @xantishayde-walker4593 Před 2 lety +196

      @@WW-fn7rt I don't mind the distortion/bass boosting if it's subtle. It's just that annoying, ear-drum shattering nonsense that you were talking about that I can't stand.

    • @okthisisepic6273
      @okthisisepic6273 Před 2 lety +13

      spot on

    • @ohgon4355
      @ohgon4355 Před 2 lety +75

      Is this loss?

  • @Thirtyfivepercentferal
    @Thirtyfivepercentferal Před 2 lety +1808

    "You would breathe out of your nose slightly and that was enough for them"... The most true statement in this video.

    • @pathologicaldoubt
      @pathologicaldoubt Před 2 lety +26

      What a depressing existence

    • @Atlas-pn6jv
      @Atlas-pn6jv Před 2 lety +56

      @@pathologicaldoubt yup. Millennials don't feel like that have much to live for considering they grew up being told they could reach for the stars, only to be shot down by those same people when they tried. Quoth the Boomers: "Quit acting like you're so special." "Then why did you tell me I was special, mom?!" Beans.

    • @Thirtyfivepercentferal
      @Thirtyfivepercentferal Před 2 lety +2

      @@pathologicaldoubt lol.

    • @mooremusic4394
      @mooremusic4394 Před 2 lety +3

      @@pathologicaldoubt i don't know, I would enjoy laughing at everything, laughing is fun

    • @flutterwind7686
      @flutterwind7686 Před 2 lety +1

      I think this to still be the case

  • @demonikidoff4613
    @demonikidoff4613 Před rokem +4

    I am a genZ guy and all you said in this video is totally true and totally concerns me as a member of this generation

  • @Aha5653ch.
    @Aha5653ch. Před měsícem +1

    As an oldest gen alpha myself (2011) but I watch Milenial humor back in 2020

  • @tiarazhang9580
    @tiarazhang9580 Před 2 lety +2860

    the xue hua piao piao joke was so funny for me as someone who was born in china. it was hilarious watching a bunch of white kids in my class yelling butchered Chinese across the oval

    • @mrsxber1916
      @mrsxber1916 Před 2 lety +107

      💀💀

    • @ra6153
      @ra6153 Před 2 lety +191

      It’s the same as about 10 years ago when the Tunak tunak song became a meme, and bunch of white millennials would quote that and much earlier like 15 years ago Punjabi MC songs became a meme too. Same concept but different execution.

    • @BarryAllenFlash
      @BarryAllenFlash Před 2 lety +29

      i heard in china that the boys in school make fun of americans, and in our classrooms they would make fun of chinese/japenese

    • @BarryAllenFlash
      @BarryAllenFlash Před 2 lety +14

      i didnt even get the extent of your comment until i seen that xue hua piao joke. thats funny ash

    • @mothxii5598
      @mothxii5598 Před 2 lety +62

      @@BarryAllenFlash Everyone makes fun of americans

  • @spicytaco5975
    @spicytaco5975 Před 3 lety +737

    we have reached a point in life where we're laughing at spinning computerised cows that have a song about drugs playing in the background.
    wtf

    • @cartoondragon8946
      @cartoondragon8946 Před 2 lety +43

      I laugh at bread falling

    • @Arif_Raziq
      @Arif_Raziq Před 2 lety +25

      Im starting to think we are going to be broken now and dont take this as a joke im serious

    • @stalker2084
      @stalker2084 Před 2 lety +7

      I laughed at a person breathing

    • @TheItalianoAssassino
      @TheItalianoAssassino Před 2 lety +1

      koksu dremch gram or whatever the fuck it says

    • @ffoska
      @ffoska Před 2 lety +1

      spinning toilet with gay sex in the title is better IMO

  • @eriakk
    @eriakk Před rokem +1

    the title made me wonder what could possibly be sooo "weird" about our humor, until i clicked on the video and started cackling when the "water" meme appeared

  • @Nostalg1a
    @Nostalg1a Před rokem +1

    The loud equals funny is not always funny since it’s a gag as old as CZcams poops. It’s only funny when it’s random and unpredictable, when it’s predictable it loses the funny aspect because zoomers are a generation who have seen too much and therefor can form and see through patterns very fast.
    Also if the sound is vaguely nostalgic like a vine boom it helps, also worth noting that it’s a generation that has become self aware too soon, as people are already nostalgic from 2014/2016

  • @MagicYoda
    @MagicYoda Před 2 lety +2426

    the fact this video only being 2 years old and definitely feels aged already, meme wise, is so funny

    • @aquilamflammeus5569
      @aquilamflammeus5569 Před 2 lety +69

      Most of it is still relevant. At least the motivations behind the changes have remained constant.

    • @MagicYoda
      @MagicYoda Před 2 lety +37

      @@aquilamflammeus5569 yeah that's why I said "meme wise" 👍

    • @LeafDaGoat
      @LeafDaGoat Před 2 lety +5

      but there's an entire new era of humor which comes from channels like kraccbacc (spelt that wrong :p) arcade assasin and similar channels, those humor is like way different than the humor mentioned in this video

    • @aquilamflammeus5569
      @aquilamflammeus5569 Před 2 lety +8

      @@LeafDaGoat It's not a new era it's the same absurdity taken to new heights.

    • @stilscarlott
      @stilscarlott Před 2 lety +8

      @@LeafDaGoat it's called shitposting if you don't know it already, all those channels take popular reddit memes and post it in an endless cycle on YT. And they've been similar since late 2020

  • @karliehatcher
    @karliehatcher Před 2 lety +1453

    "you would breathe out of your nose slightly and that's enough for them" is a level of humor I wish to achieve in my lifetime

    • @hiimdanii
      @hiimdanii Před 2 lety +5

      youre white+ratio+date me?

    • @RoronoaEmi
      @RoronoaEmi Před 2 lety +4

      @@hiimdanii This is the comment I was looking for. I laughed so hard when he said that. 😂

    • @AlxndrHQ
      @AlxndrHQ Před 2 lety

      😂

    • @obada.
      @obada. Před 2 lety

      behold wide Puting walking

    • @salt.n.pepper_ketchup.n.mu4638
      @salt.n.pepper_ketchup.n.mu4638 Před 2 lety +1

      Goid job. You have achieved it, so you may now rest in peace.

  • @synergyprotogen7546
    @synergyprotogen7546 Před 6 měsíci

    years later, and this is the most accurate guide I've seen to date, well done.

  • @eafe394
    @eafe394 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Now we are watching gen alpha humours

  • @xx20k61
    @xx20k61 Před 3 lety +13146

    I literally laughed so hard at a biscuit falling off my plate.

  • @megamansoupreme7122
    @megamansoupreme7122 Před 2 lety +4549

    I think the humor broke entirely... I watched this, as a Gen Z, to figure out how the hell our brains work... I still don't entirely get it, but it seems like counterculture, irony, and shock factor are our most potent sources... But why does a 144p rat spinning faster than entirely necessary send me down the stairs tho?

    • @varunbendre
      @varunbendre Před 2 lety

      the rat will be off to college next year and that's one of his coping mechanisms

    • @gazelle_diamond9768
      @gazelle_diamond9768 Před 2 lety +261

      Because it's funny

    • @Deadstew
      @Deadstew Před 2 lety +26

      @@gazelle_diamond9768 no its not...

    • @gazelle_diamond9768
      @gazelle_diamond9768 Před 2 lety +129

      @@Deadstew You are not!

    • @Deadstew
      @Deadstew Před 2 lety +16

      @@gazelle_diamond9768 def 9 years old

  • @pauldelabruere1583
    @pauldelabruere1583 Před rokem +4

    Great video! Entertaining and enlightening. I'm a millennial, and feeling older all the time. This clarified things for me, but I just about that Gen Z humor will still largely be just annoying to me, even if I get it. I think this is just what life is like when you're approaching 30.

    • @rgonzalo511
      @rgonzalo511 Před rokem

      Im approaching 30, and its hilarious to me. But then again random, wierd, and meta humor was always funny to me.

  • @minecraft-shower425
    @minecraft-shower425 Před rokem

    I am extremely impressed with the amount of ifunny references, or at least watermarks

  • @siryak
    @siryak Před 2 lety +3112

    I started laughing hysterically at Hagrid in the water. Maybe Gen Z humor is broken.

    • @lets_see_777
      @lets_see_777 Před rokem +161

      people: one humor please
      genz: *screeching* humor broke
      people: aight under the table, have an ice day
      genz: *eats ice under the table menacingly*

    • @F4ulpilz
      @F4ulpilz Před rokem +23

      I'd love to like your comment but you got 69 likes and we're not supposed to do that

    • @nativenewyorker3144
      @nativenewyorker3144 Před rokem +16

      @@lets_see_777 🧍🏾‍♀️I really hope wasn’t aiming for a joke

    • @lets_see_777
      @lets_see_777 Před rokem +8

      @@nativenewyorker3144 i was aiming for absurdity of it all

    • @LazyNVersions
      @LazyNVersions Před rokem +3

      It is broken

  • @paige.elayne
    @paige.elayne Před 2 lety +2186

    Literally just the word “beans” showing up on the screen made me audibly laugh

    • @iris5478
      @iris5478 Před 2 lety +69

      ngl same 💀

    • @eggs8021
      @eggs8021 Před 2 lety +77

      Your comment about it made me audibly chuckle

    • @squirrllymidget3782
      @squirrllymidget3782 Před 2 lety +6

      Same

    • @Hip.Username
      @Hip.Username Před 2 lety +33

      That's because beans have and always will be funny. Potatoes had their moment, and there may be other foods that we laugh at in the future, but we'll always go back to beans

    • @lovefist86
      @lovefist86 Před rokem +2

      🙄

  • @Chaosqueenngami
    @Chaosqueenngami Před 7 měsíci

    Thank You, I think I can finally comprehend TicTok’s existence now.

  • @sjthjsdreadfather4867
    @sjthjsdreadfather4867 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Gen Z humour seems to be defined by that fact that humour comes from subverting jokes. So it’s funny to a Gen Z when a joke isn’t funny, or has no punchline

    • @joandarc441
      @joandarc441 Před 3 měsíci

      Hence why a lot of memes died fast.

  • @reedcriswell6654
    @reedcriswell6654 Před 2 lety +3829

    I am a Boomer father of a Gen-Z son. This didn't make a damn bit of sense to me, but I feel a little better. Thanks.

    • @Furiends
      @Furiends Před 2 lety +166

      Imagine 100 different cliques at a high school competing for all the same attention Mean Girls style.

    • @TravisTLK
      @TravisTLK Před 2 lety +54

      @@Furiends Sounds like absolute hell.

    • @michaelpinkerton460
      @michaelpinkerton460 Před 2 lety +79

      Bet you don’t even breed rare fish

    • @Furiends
      @Furiends Před 2 lety

      @Skynet I find this to be "boomer" rage. What Gen Z is more than past generations is they're all exposed to the world for ridicule. I was watching porn when I was 11 years old. I'm not Gen Z. It's easy from afar to judge "degeneracy" and now more than ever its easy to do. Need I remind you that Boomers salivated over an underage pop singer all through the 1990s? My opinion is that things have gotten better. It's much harder to pimp sex workers since they can create their own onlyfans. I do think the overall obsession with attention can be poisonous and cause a lot of stress but honestly this is the stupid world Boomers created. We're in late stage capitalism where you must stand out or die.

    • @anesu846
      @anesu846 Před 2 lety +10

      Best of luck to you and your boy

  • @Relmyna
    @Relmyna Před 2 lety +397

    breathing out the nose slightly is peak millennial humor.

    • @panitaeo
      @panitaeo Před 2 lety +19

      bonus points if you don’t inhale afterward.

    • @memk
      @memk Před 2 lety +26

      more bonus points if you don’t inhale afterward. ever.

  • @gardensaladdude90
    @gardensaladdude90 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Anyone who grew up watching Spongebob knows it's the main culprit for a lot of this

  • @SamRubyTheCat
    @SamRubyTheCat Před rokem

    2022 and this is still accurate enough, good work dude.

  • @calasunilyarun7906
    @calasunilyarun7906 Před 2 lety +2038

    So gen Z essentially are non conformists conforming to non conformity. That hasn't been done before. That was a good synopsis, well done and bravo.

    • @jeb419
      @jeb419 Před 2 lety +106

      I'd say they're conformists attempting to avoid the inevitable conformity and monotony of their existence.

    • @oimate6357
      @oimate6357 Před 2 lety +68

      @@jeb419 man I just wanna be happy
      I don’t even know what conforming is

    • @lua6586
      @lua6586 Před 2 lety +13

      i literally can't relate to anything in this video. none of my friends would be able to either. weird generalizations

    • @ooSLEEPWALKERoo
      @ooSLEEPWALKERoo Před 2 lety +39

      pretty much every young generation always has been conforming to non conformity

    • @spankyspork5808
      @spankyspork5808 Před 2 lety +24

      ​@@lua6586 The same thing happened to millennials, we were generalized to be rich and spoiled when we barely have any money and grew up during a recession and the most expensive and longest war in history

  • @cstorey987
    @cstorey987 Před 2 lety +1124

    Don’t forget the major cultural shift and craziness we grew up with. I think the reason our humors so out there is because the walls are closing in.

    • @weinteruptth.1479
      @weinteruptth.1479 Před 2 lety +18

      unfortunately I still dont recycle

    • @YourPalKindred
      @YourPalKindred Před 2 lety +95

      the walls are closing in and we have nowhere left to go to. we are told to just smile so we laugh at our own agony
      this is the edgiest i have been since i was 14

    • @samw1red805
      @samw1red805 Před 2 lety +2

      Craziness must be watching fall of the towers 9/11 and then maybe climate change plus SoMe. Those before had WW2 and nuclear doom. Should be the happiest generation in the history of mankind, yet is not - baffling, really

    • @manbaby9166
      @manbaby9166 Před 2 lety +21

      @@samw1red805 we still have nuclear doom, but it’s the premium edition.

    • @cstorey987
      @cstorey987 Před 2 lety +19

      @@samw1red805 idk what world you are living on but on Earth I’m a little concerned about china, politics, and having a senile old man as president...

  • @dawnsybebo2632
    @dawnsybebo2632 Před rokem +1

    Me and the boys at 2am is a great one, now I have to show this video to my mom cause she doesn’t understand any of the funny videos my brother and I show her

  • @_meldrop_
    @_meldrop_ Před 3 lety +785

    me and the boys laughing about BLOCK for an hour before suddenly breaking down about how fragile our existence is in this hypothetical situation of me and the boys

  • @zackzallie8735
    @zackzallie8735 Před 2 lety +997

    If Joker uses Gen Z humor in his diary, he would be a successful comedian.

    • @kennethguthrie7196
      @kennethguthrie7196 Před 2 lety +3

      Doubtable.

    • @hamster5390
      @hamster5390 Před 2 lety +14

      just stands on stage and says bababoey for 15 minutes

    • @mrmenko
      @mrmenko Před 2 lety +1

      It would look more like a ploy directed by suits to make Joker "more relatable to the kids"

    • @punkisinthedetails1470
      @punkisinthedetails1470 Před 2 lety

      Is that not which his name implies

    • @jojojo9240
      @jojojo9240 Před 2 lety +1

      No one's laughing now!

  • @sirgentleman8834
    @sirgentleman8834 Před rokem

    This is a truly fascinating insight. My thanks, Mr. Sweet for having helped me to better grasp the sense of humor of this century. To think that of all things, absurdism would have such enduring longevity. although I suppose its poetic in some manner, that of all forms of comedy, it is absurdism that should outlive us all.

  • @indubitablyamy
    @indubitablyamy Před rokem +1

    PLEASE THE SQUIDWARD ONE IS SO INCREDIBLY HILARIOUS OMFG BAHAHAHAHA

  • @jallet7629
    @jallet7629 Před 2 lety +623

    I knew my humor was bad, but when i audibely laughed at a black screen with the word "beans" on it I just gave up

  • @cara-setun
    @cara-setun Před rokem +1258

    If I had a nickel for every time a video about Gen Z mentioning heightened depression rates, I’d be able to pay off the national debt

  • @catlady8256
    @catlady8256 Před 9 měsíci +1

    9:49 Another thing to note, gen z is into many niche/mainstream things that you may never notice surrounds you yourself in your everyday life, just like how gen z is surrounded by many niche/mainstream things millennials are into, such as the reference of the Terminator 2 death scene in Among Us. For example, this song playing in the time stamp marked is from a very *wholesome* game in 2017 👍🏻

  • @Kittyravenhog
    @Kittyravenhog Před rokem +1

    In the cover of the video, there is a man in a sailer moon uniform. That thing looks exactly like a man I dated. I was disgusted by him back then and now this image is talking my brain cells away.

  • @wrinkleintime4257
    @wrinkleintime4257 Před 2 lety +2035

    Being 25 years old and teaching middle school is such a wild ride lol. Their sense of humour both eludes me and makes sense …

    • @ismypcworking95
      @ismypcworking95 Před 2 lety +120

      i hate to break it to you my guy, but you're gen z too

    • @ismypcworking95
      @ismypcworking95 Před 2 lety +38

      @Critique Everything 1996-now is genz my guy, look it up

    • @martinledermann1862
      @martinledermann1862 Před 2 lety +86

      @Critique Everything Let's just agree that he's just borderline ;)

    • @farismustafa5389
      @farismustafa5389 Před 2 lety +13

      @@ismypcworking95 there is gen alpha after 2010

    • @DeannaSusanHealy
      @DeannaSusanHealy Před 2 lety +1

      why is your profile picture a tardis when your username is wrinkleintime42

  • @NoName-md6fd
    @NoName-md6fd Před 2 lety +2478

    Okay so let me get this straight :
    From a Millenial point of view, Gen Z humor is exactly what was on Newgrounds 20 years ago, except it's on a 15 second format and everybody can be a content creator. As a result, every culture and sub culture gets crammed into the mix.
    Since the images and videos are released at an increasingly high speed, Gen Z managed to disturb the space time continuum of a thousand years of humor evolution into about 2 days and that's why nobody understands it.
    Also my spoon is too big.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 2 lety +88

      If you add the milk before the cereal, its size is actually right!

    • @LatteLazarus
      @LatteLazarus Před 2 lety +18

      @@Perririri yes

    • @Miners666
      @Miners666 Před 2 lety +51

      I am a banana.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Před 2 lety +17

      I didn't need that "From a Millenial point of view,..." part, I was well aware.
      The simple answer is the world normalizing horror now, its seen everyday, the other reason is the internet has already shared every idea of almost most topics. Each has a bar line such as car designs are at 62%
      Background sceneries are around 40% as in into the trillions with 60 percent more past trillions to go
      Humour jokes have hit a impossible 87% almost made every job available to be heard...at least the bad ones more so than good, most have multiversed off of the same joke translated 600,000 times across multiple regions. Every concept is being copied as we speak or has already been had, most influencers are outcast children who were once the unpopular group, and media is received by individuals both insane and smart...who are so manipulated they talk confidently and harass others who don't agree to their insane ideologies.

    • @bhoxified8932
      @bhoxified8932 Před 2 lety +4

      Great comment

  • @picax8398
    @picax8398 Před rokem +1

    the USB mouse plugged into the wall lmao.

  • @osime1909
    @osime1909 Před rokem +2

    the last part where Squidward shouts had me wheezing

  • @itscriispy
    @itscriispy Před 2 lety +1193

    the thing is most of us don't like our own sense of humor, but still laugh at a waffle falling over with the sound of a reverbed fart anyway

    • @xoriven
      @xoriven Před 2 lety +159

      just reading this made me chuckle, cuz i imagined it in my head

    • @notblake8617
      @notblake8617 Před 2 lety +59

      it pains me that i am aware of the exact video you are referencing

    • @kokonutmilkshake703
      @kokonutmilkshake703 Před 2 lety +19

      This hit a little too close to home

    • @juliusdepravedprince7104
      @juliusdepravedprince7104 Před 2 lety +24

      I think it's less most of us don't like it but that we're encouraged to not like it by people who don't understand it, which makes us hate our own humor even if there isn't anything actually wrong with it

    • @mihakabercic4457
      @mihakabercic4457 Před 2 lety

      just you bro

  • @ahobimo732
    @ahobimo732 Před 2 lety +1610

    I always liked rage faces - not necessarily because they were funny, but because they expressed certain, very specific emotions incredibly well.

    • @Conbonzx
      @Conbonzx Před 2 lety +19

      and we have mfw. tfw
      tfwnogf

    • @Stryfe52
      @Stryfe52 Před 2 lety +4

      Tyfes

    • @idcaf
      @idcaf Před 2 lety +11

      Which is basically why we have tiktok now... Expressing certain emotions in an exaggerated form.

    • @ImTheWarlock64
      @ImTheWarlock64 Před 2 lety +24

      @@idcaf what emotion can you express making the same dance that all the other 689 billion of people are doing in tik tok

    • @MisterSweetProductions
      @MisterSweetProductions  Před 2 lety +41

      Tik tok just made a new video without dance, it is very cool!

  • @kptlt.phillipthomsen5973

    There is also a clear distinction between older Gen Z (1995-2001) and younger Gen Z kids
    Older Gen Z kids didnt grow up with iPads in their face 24/7 and did this thing called "Going outside with the boys, on a neighborhood bender"

    • @shadowchasernql
      @shadowchasernql Před 6 měsíci +1

      I got smacked in the face with an iPad once. It hurt. I guess you could say it was IN MY FACE!

    • @lovecupcakex642
      @lovecupcakex642 Před 4 měsíci

      I was born in 2009 and didn't really use the internet until 2022. I went outside, played with my brother A LOT, rode my bike, draw, go for rides and did all other stuff. That's a lie, lol.

  • @pussilanious
    @pussilanious Před rokem +1

    the vine you used for the “Oversaturation” portion was this dude Riley (i believe) that went to my High School, he was annoying 💀

  • @saltyowl3229
    @saltyowl3229 Před 2 lety +1930

    The fact that he did the “comically large spoon my friends” at the end as like a joke intentionally trying to be as out of touch sounding as possible by misusing a joke that is has already been popular twice was funny in its own right. But adding in the sense of intimacy with “my friends” and the sheer randomness of considering the phrase without the context of the meme was enough to legitimately make me laugh. Like “haha” out loud type laugh. I hate that it managed that

  • @darkscienceyt
    @darkscienceyt Před 2 lety +8467

    Thank you for explaining this. The inability the comprehend gen Z humor has been taxing

  • @monke3719
    @monke3719 Před rokem +2

    “We don’t know” - gen Z
    And as for the mainstream thing it’s not exactly like that its more like if somebody in their 50s who uses Facebook and thinks minions = funny does it that’s how you know the joke is no longer funny

  • @sunnypodbelsek6697
    @sunnypodbelsek6697 Před rokem +1

    Nice analysis! Cool to see it broken down. I don’t know if I feel like there’s nothing I like more than hating things though-