How Gen Z Changed the Internet

Looking at the Wikipedia article this seems to be an example of circular reporting. Essentially a single tik tok user in 2021 made a video about it and now a number of news sites reported on it citing each other. There are no scientific studies on it, there is no scientific literature, studies, surveys, or research on this whatsoever.

I always thought the millennial pause was due to us millennials learning to record things before devices were good enough to instantly record.

I tell people all the time, millennials are uniquely positioned to know a time where tech wasn’t so advanced but also see how it’s grown and changed the world over a short time

I think part of the reason the boomer stuff started really taking off was because of schooling. I think literally everybody has had experience with the teacher trying to get a computer (or even a vcr) to work and just utterly failing, only for some school aged kid to get up and fix it in 20 seconds.
It felt especially painful to me in college when my computer science professors could barely work their own computer. I remember being "taught" how to use Word in college (as a required course) in freaking 2008.
And of course the irony now is that there probably does need to be a class on Word now that computer literacy has gone back down due to the rise of smart devices.

I always just assumed that was called "good recording etiquette". A heck of a lot easier to edit out one extra second of silence than it is to redo an entire take if your timing was off. It'd be like recording a band in a studio and telling them, "hey yeah no count-in or anything today guys, just start playing the instant you see me hit this little button." Invites lots of potential problems, with literally zero benefits.

Linus not trusting the note stylus but forever trusting the swear button 😂

"Cause you're a milenial" is such a fast and golden answer

The Millennial pause is simply a product of the crappy webcam and cellphone camera software and hardware we had to navigate. It wasn't until very recently that the hardware/software became fast enough to start as soon as you hit record.

I'm Gen Z according to the timelines that are out there on the internet, but I really feel I am of the Millenial-Gen Z crossover in certain ways. There's things that both generations like and grew up with that I also experienced, or I understand those generations nuances and thinking. My "growing up years" or my child to teenage years was in the 2000's to 2010's. A lot of my nostalgia, say when it comes to TV comes from anything shown in the mid 2000's to the late 2010's decades, but because reruns were a thing on TV, tons of "Millenial shows and content" I also intook a lot. As for the recording thing, yes, I am a pauser before starting to speak in a video, lol. And as what Luke said, TikTok is foreign to someone like me. My generation grew up with MSN, the birth of PLclip, and then later Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine were introduced as the big social media players of the time. Vine also started and died in my growing up years.

The entire topic is kind of interesting but the entire "Roast" Linus gave Luke at around 4:00 was absolutely the highlight

In my opinion, the "millenial pause" is something smart because you can always remove it from the beginning of the video whereas when you watch a lot of stuff online, usually because this pause isn't there, the first word is almost always chopped off.
And honestly this millennial pause I've always done and I'm supposed to be gen Z (I'm from 2001), and I think that may be because I'm more tech savvy so I know what can go wrong with tech even though it's much more reliable than before.

The Millennial Pause sounds like some people just don't understand how video recording and streaming works, and don't actually care if their audience hears the whole message or not. I went to video production school and I am never not going to have a pause at the beginning. I'd much rather edit than have to reshoot. And if it's live, I'm doing a countdown.

My first camera was a tape camcorder that would literally cut off the first 2 seconds when you hit record.
It became very much a habit to record and wait a second before starting what ever it was I wanted to record.
When I was a kid I got pretty good at mentally timing when it was safe to talk, but then when I got older I do it out of habit and since I'd be editing afterwards anyways it's not an issue at all.
Plus, it's fun to re-live the conversations that would happen behind the scenes.

Hearing you all rant about the things I rant about struggling with (gigs, groceries, wages, etc) instead of talking tech for a bit was strangely therapeutic 😂

I'm all for Luke's suggestion of already talking when the stream starts.
But it needs to be something completely random and confusing.
Example.
In 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Luke: and that's why it makes more sense to have them use spoons for cavity searches at airports.
Linus: Good point, I never thought about them that way.
Luke: oh were live.
Linus: Welcome to the WAN show.

I have a 13-year old step daughter, and her and all of her friends have literally zero knowledge of which camera has what specs, or how varied they actually are. I take selfies with my rear camera, and I tried to teach them, and they aren't even capable of understanding the concepts when broken down, not because of intelligence, but because they cannot be bothered to learn about what they don't care.

LMGs consistency is what has kept it #1 in my mind in the tech space. I haven’t been following avidly for a few years but I can tell at a glance that your channels are still the same and even better quality and value than they were in 2018 when I first started watching. It allows me to feel confident in recommending your videos and also using them as references to help out and troubleshoot for various things my friends and family need tech wise

There was an intern(gen Z) I worked with that accused me of being guilty of the "millennial pause" and my response was: "Maybe I do it because my generation was taught to think before we speak..."
He was not amused...

We millennials just get hate from all sides. Get slammed by the economic crash while also being told we're lazy for being tech savvy by the same generation that crashed the economy. Yet also being told we're tech cringe by Gen Z. 🤔

Being in IT, you learn not to trust technology did its one job. I run into problems all the time with voice messages where you miss half the message as the person pushed the button as they start talking and the recorder had a second delay before it starts. Voice control isnt much better. I dont see why waiting a second for the technology to start working is a generational thing.

When I started supervising employees I had a training with other new supervisors on how to supervise incoming interns. It was entirely focused on "How to Manage Millennials" and the ways in which Millennials were different, implying different from us, the new supervisors. At the end I had to point out that this was a training conducted by two members of GenX, to a room of Millennials, about managing GenZ.

I believe that categorizing people into groups is helpful when it's helpful and is unproductive when it's unproductive. If you start categorizing people too much you will end up with every single person in his or her individual category. If you reduce the number of categories too much you will end up with the whole human race in one group. So in short, dividing people into generational groups is and interesting thought exercise that could help us understand some differences between these generations, but it's not some ultimate truth.
Comparing groups of people is a useful tool for understanding some differences between people. The whole thing falls apart when you start using this approach as a propaganda tool to "prove" that one group is "better" than some other group. And that's unproductive at best and pure evil at worst.

If you have a trash mic, having that 3-5 seconds of audio background noise at the beginning helps a lot to clean up the audio. It also makes it super easy to connect different short recordings because you have enough time for transitions.

I do agree with the start of the video about "there are boomers who built the internet and also ones who are illiterate on technology" and while there are college age kids who are tech illiterate, boomers are on another level. Like unable to change phone backgrounds after the 12th time explaining it, not understanding that texts are in an app not just your notification bar. Not just not understanding, but actively avoiding learning how their WORK computer functions to the point where printing is a struggle for them daily.
Just my two cents as a tech kid in corporate america

It could be the fact that Millennials have used more than one or two devices in their lifetime with different “pause lengths,” while younger viewers have had a much shorter experience with only one or two different devices.

I'm a millennial but my year is the one that's always debated on ('96). I remember learning about "safari" in 3rd grade but didn't connect that was the internet when I actually had it for myself in 6th grade. I still had to use 95% books on my essays. My teachers said that websites are not reliable sources and I had to learn how to write out the stupid bibliography on notecards. I don't miss writing those. For the job hopping, yeah. I started in retail/ grocery. The "boomers" are absolutely brutal towards employees. There are karens daily. Who wants to work in those conditions for $7.25 before tax, about $6.75 after tax per hour?

You guys might be a bit out of touch with this since you have your own company, but in general staying in the same job rarely brings any benefits anymore, raises and promotions aren't really a thing and companies cut you out like nothing while raising executive salaries, and companies tend to try avoid paying severance. the only way to get a better salary and conditions is to job hop with your currently better resume. very few trust companies pay them the benefits they deserve in the long term and rightfully so.
this is especially emphasized in software engineering. where you can literally double your salary with a single job hop sometimes meanwhile your current employer is refusing to even match inflation.

In the pandemic, me and a friend build a video streaming platform for DJs where they could play sets and receive "tips" through their set. Ended up not being a success, but I learnt *a lot* about video streaming tech.
Our site had a small cluster of video encoder servers. They took the RTMP video stream (from obs) and had to re-encode for the various resolutions and bitrates (1080p, 720p, 420p, etc) and also slice up the video into segments which when all put together becomes the HLS streaming video.
For a start, a huge amount of the delay comes from the fact that the video gets sliced into little segments (e.g. 6 seconds) which are then sent to the viewers. These might be say 120 to 500 kilobytes each, depending on quality. Furthermore, there is always a buffer on the encoding so that if there is any sort of connection loss from the streamer, it doesn't cause the whole system to drop; instead you want a short drop (e.g. 1 or 2 seconds) to be hidden in the buffering. These short drops or latency spikes happen way more often than you'd expect.
So from memory we had 6-second chunks and the system was configured to have 2 chunks of buffer, so you'd always be between 12 to 18 seconds behind. You also save the chunks on the server for a period of time, so if you saved 20 chunks then you'd have two minutes of video, which is the maximum time "behind" that a viewer could get. PLclip use their unlimited bandwidth to save *all* the chunks of the stream, and this eventually becomes the stored video copy.
There is also the latency between the streamer and the encoding infrastructure, and then back to the viewer. This may be say 200ms in each direction, depending on where people are located. We had infrastructure in the U.S. because it was cheaper, even though most of our people were in Australia. Also it seems that a lot of ISPs will "fast track" small requests to make HTTP traffic faster, but some services (e.g. RTMP) get higher-latency connections. It was unusual because we could ping a server in less than 200ms but often the RTMP was more like 300 or 400ms behind.
One last thing which was interesting was the auto-scaling. We were doing this project on the smell of an oily rag, so we didn't run the expensive encoder servers unless if they were needed. We would scale-up when a stream was started, and scale-down when one ended. We could place multiple streams per server, and would vary the server size based on the time of day to get the best utilization BUT in many cases a machine would need to be *added* to the fleet before the stream would start. These would be auto-provisioned off a disk image, but would add about 40 seconds to the start time.
In the end, the project was not really successful. Not long after we started, Twitch had the same idea and added a "music" section, and we basically couldn't compete with the 300-pound gorilla, nor could we afford the infrastructure because powerful compute (to transcode multiple video streams) is expensive, and bandwidth is even more expensive.

Greatly enjoyed the various political tapes, especially pertaining to economics. I know it's not what the show is, but it's nice to see real people see the pain so many of us go through daily, and to call it out. Even if you can't do anything, simply bringing it up gives me hope that enough conversation will happen among normal people, that we'll some day do something about it.

It used to be really common for PLclip videos to be one second shorter than the original video file because of the video encoding or backwards compatibility or something.
If you didn't have the millennial pause or an end-card, then your video would be bizarrely cut off in a way that you couldn't control at all.

One thing they didn't notice/mention about the Millennial Pause, is that it grabs attention right away. All over Tik Tok and PLclip Shorts, there is no delay when the video starts. The content is immediate and makes it easier to grab attention and move to the next video

In high school, my school was on a T1 line (the whole school) in about 2000. I remember my FBLA teacher being super excited about the ability to stream a video over the Internet without having to download it first. Amazing! I also remember when the first 1GHz processor came out and how exciting that was. Also lived through the Y2K scare. I also got a Gmail account early enough that it was still a private invite beta. Ask Jeeves, yahoo search engine, Hotmail, AOL, moving from a dialup connection at home to DSL and the huge jump that was. Perspective. It's easy to forget what it was like before.

I'm gen z, but pretty early one, and I'm pretty sure what is the source of the pause. It's confidence. When things have a 50-50 chance of not working, you will wait a signal, any type, that gives you feedback on whether it does record. Also essentially there's how recording is considered. If recording isn't as natural as breathing to you, you wouln't be able to easily start talking without bracing yourself. I found that an easy way to test that is how we handle calls. When I pick up calls, I don't wait before saying anything, when my parents would wait for the other party to say something. I don't consider calls any different from talking to someone, and it changes my behavior.

I'm a millennial and I just learn, from you Linus, that there is this thing called millennial pause.

This is really funny because for me I was literally trained to take that quarter second pause before speaking in school.

To me it comes to two things, a that recordings before weren't near instant and it had good likelihood of getting cut out. And for general editing purposes (where the initial seconds can sample for background noise and allow for removing the background noise for crispier audio)
Nowadays audio from mobile phones are good enough to not need any post processing.

I saw a lot of live streams starting with a countdown animation and playing an intro to get the timing right. In OBS, you can broadcast a clip before switching over to camera, so if you monitor your end stream, it's an easy fix.
Or they just don't care and only monitor chat, and when people start to write in, they know that they are live and switch.

As a younger millennial who has always dealt with budget tech because I grew up in poverty, if I'm recording something I tend to give a 4-5 second pause at the beginning from old habits with microphones being awful, and various sound sync issues. Gives me plenty of time in post to get "clear" audio to remove mic buzz and other consistent background noises and also getting a mouse click or two in there lets me sync up to actions on screen if the sound and video desync while recording.

As someone who is probably a zoomer but whose childhood didn't have cell service (northern), I seem to remember having to use non-fiction books for projects early in elementary, and being annoyed at how they had hardly any information whatsoever compared to the internet

13:40 is something I just recently realised myself as 1990 born. We are in a special position. If you're born between roughly 1985 and 1995 you saw both worlds at a really young age. The one world with cassettes and and wired phones and then shortly after or before you hit 20 years old the first iPhone was out. I was 17 when it happend and oh boy do I realise because of the previous years how technology changes the world. I sent 160 letters SMS from like age 11 to 18 before mobile messaging was a real thing.

I think part of it is also gen Z humor. Talking while the video starts gives it just a little more of a chaotic feeling. Even when it's not talking, it's a lot more high energy if whatever the video is about is already happening right when you press play. It's kinda like the perfectly cut meme, but at the beginning.

In my personal experience, the "millennial pause" makes sense because of all the times the technology I've used in the past has a certain lag when starting that I've far too often had my first word cut off at the beginning of the video.

I was a IATSE stagehand before Covid. The work was exactly the same at Luke’s brother. It was stressful not knowing when or if I was ever going to work again. I did make more money than most people though, so it was very important to be good with your money so it would last between gigs.

I learned to do this pause from using walkie-talkies at work rather than recording anything. It used to be if you started speaking right away after pressing the transmit button, the first second or so what you said got cut off on the receiving end, so you pause for that second or so to make sure the receiver gets the whole message.

The long chain emails just always remind me of using email as "portable" client for bulletin boards. I want to say I was 2nd grade when I discovered the AppleIIs in my typography class had an email client and for some strange reason a constant internet connection. But trojan highway is definitely something I have always associated with older generations as well. I can't say Boomer because the worst offenders I knew were all a decade too old for that moniker.

Working in an Apple computer factory in the mid 90’s people had loaded the dancing baby video onto nearly every computer on the assembly floor. 😂

Fun fact, the live broadcast used to be standard for cable news. The cameras would be rolling and transmitting to the TV station, then the station decides to broadcast the feed on their channel. This has some pretty funny and controversial consequences, as the feed is just analogue signal, anyone could tap into it with the right equipment. There's footage in ad breaks or before interviews start of politicians doing coke, getting pep talked, being shut out of debates (literally). It was the focus of a doc you can find here on youtube with a bit of searching, I forget the name, but you can find it with a couple of searches.

I don't quite understand gen z but I'm also gen z.
3:50 That's really relatable. The only time I tried to take a selfie of myself was late last year at my university's open day and I struggled. I usually avoid taking pictures of myself at all costs.
Hmm, I guess I'm closer to the milinial generation than to gen z at least certain ways. I might have the milinial pause but the last time I probably video recorded myself was in 2015. I'm also tech savvy enough.

honestly, vtubers solved your problem of having that delay between when all platforms are live to start talking because they'll have a "starting soon" screen and music playing until the time they're actually ready to start, but they'll also sometimes unmute their microphones and kinda talk with those waiting in the chatroom for until they actually hit go time and then transition to their talking or gameplay scenes. I don't see that a lot even with facecam streamers. EDIT: *and* it should be noted they will do this even if they're only broadcasting to one platform. kinda to make sure everyone has seen the Go Live notifications and tweets or posts and taken their seats before starting up, so people don't miss out.

Because when we first started using that crap, everything took way longer to load and was not instant. You get into the habit of having to wait for load time, which a lot of people have no idea how good they have it with instant experiences, and you get your millennial pause. Simple as that.

I've noticed the same thing Luke has w.r.t. grocery increases versus restaurant increases. I don't eat out a ton except when traveling, but when I do, I tend to buy a lot of food on the relative low end-- not fast food, but think food truck, Mexican, Chinese, counter-serve, etc type places. I can still find good-size burritos for $9, or a packed kung pao chicken or Pad Thai plastic takeout container for $12, or a huge deli meal from a supermarket for $7. And I've found such offerings in basically every American city I've been to, even in San Diego and NYC.You'd think these lower-end prices would be most impacted cost-wise, but I guess they're somehow not.

Now thinking about it, its also a second or two of gaining my composure as I mentally adjust to having a camera on me. I didn't grow up with a camera in my face (1980), so for 20-25 years even more I didn't have a camera on me. BUT on a phone which I grew up with I have no pause, I answer and begin talking. I know their generation had a camera on their face for all their life just like I had talking into a phone. So their dont need that mental check as they see the light go on.
Sounds like just another way a younger generation trying to feel better about themselves with their short resumes while not trying to understand why. Just like we did at that age and just like they'll get attacked in 10-15 years for some non sense reason.
I guess another reason I do it is I use that pause for a replacement of a 'Movie Clapper' then edit out pauses.

I remember all that from my schools too. Only time I saw the internet and learned html v 4.0 just came out and Netscape navigator, was grade 7 and 8 (middle school) and highschool in 1998-2002 the internet could start to be used to research, but I had to check out the rows of encyclopedias... And computers in the library you would check out games like origon trail at the front desk to get a floppy. And in computers, in middle school, played the hell out of SimCity 2000.

It's a professionalism difference (or at least the old meaning of professionalism - if that meaning is changing/has changed, fine haha). The pause allows for a clear edit/start point imo. If there's no editing being done and there is just this awkward silence before the person starts to speak, then yeah, I agree lol. But who doesn't trim their Snapchat/Instagram vids?
Look at what's becoming the norm in terms of "accepted grammar" in the workplace lol. People write emails/slack/discord messages like they're texting lmao.

i am gen z and i had no idea what a millennial pause was. Just sounds like new creators are using algo meta and not pausing to gain relevance that millennials already have. Personally, I millennial pause

Times are changing and unfortunately things aren't getting better for many out there. At least they know how difficult life has become nowadays even with their privilege positions. I really like the way Linus thinks.

I remember when I was a teen and early adult, I was REALLY good at that timing thing, like instinctual level knowing how long it would take for some of those things to activate. And now as a relatively old Millennial, I just don't care.

The millennial pause should be because we grew up using technology when they were still unrefined.
Some of the things we expect to just work nowadays are stuff we have had inconsistent experiences with.
Cameras and phones didn't always record the instant you pressed the button, heck sometimes the button didn't work at all. (Resistive touch screens, anyone?)
So now we continue to get the urge to make sure that it is, indeed, running.

Haven't thought to test with video, and I imagine it varies with the app -- but since the last big update or so, Voice Memos on my iPhone XS will take a few seconds to start recording -- if it even does when I press it. It's an app I use all the time and I marvel that it doesn't work the way it should, yet it's also something I'm practically trained to be accustomed to.

As a genz myself, this is also my first time hearing about the Millenial pause

I'm technically Gen Z (born in 98) but I do the Millennial pause and even outside of that I often find myself having more in common with Millennials

I always thought the pause was for ease of editing. You normally have space between takes when filming.

A strong and robust labor movement is exactly what the newer generation needs, love that take!

I do love how GenX is not even in the conversation. But as a GenX tiktoker I tend to just edit any pause out of the start to make things snappy. But then I'm also an editor.

"Millenial Pause" has happened on TV reporting since TV reporting first existed. They, too, had to wait for the tally light to indicate that they were talking to the actual live camera.

I’m an older gen z and it is possible for us to not have had internet growing up in a rural part of the US. Dialup was an option, but it wasn’t really affordable. I didn’t have internet access until late elementary school, and didn’t have anything other than dialup until like junior high (basically middle school)

Wait, so I'm still a Millennial? Whoa, I never felt that way. If I think about that for a minute though, that's exactly how it feels. Because I can connect to so much stuff from Millennials, as well as some things from Gen Z. Probably more Millennial though, since I don't do much TikTok, and I'm just interested in much technological stuff, that people older than me knew much about and as a kid I asked them absolutely everything about it.
On the other hand: I am almost the oldest one in my current social group. So I guess, I am a millennial that has a Gen Z social environment. But: Those Gen Z, I find, also behave more like Millennials. We are studying computer science though, so perhaps that changes things.

It could just be that young people don’t care as much and as you get older you worry about that kind of thing more. But I really think the main reason is that we grew up with technology that was really slow and young people are used to technology that works immediately nowadays. Even though I think it’s silly, not to pause because you’re gonna lose some of your video if you don’t, I kinda get why they may do that. Could just come down to the impatience of youth. I was super impatient when I was a kid and overtime. I’ve developed the ability to slow down.

i think it's that younger people think that everything just works kind of magically, the don't know that after you hit record the mic, the camera, ram and storage have to first initialize. and it's definitely not that they know exactly when to start talking (you need a more responsive interaction for muscle memory to develop than what is possible with watching a video you recorded earlier) voice messages i get from younger people are cut off at the start, voice messages i get from boomers are not

I don't record myself so I guess I can't do the "pause" but I always try to think before I speak. It's kind of shocking how thinking before you speak is such a rare thing today that it has to have its own word for the people that do it

7:50 I also had a note 9, but I found the pen such a bloat feature, I just wanted the screen real estate at the time to watch stuff in the train, but since then I wanted something smaller again, before that I had a Samsung S7 which fit in my hand and pockets perfectly, I really missed that, so I was trying to find something of similar size again but it also had to have a headphone jack, there were very few phones that did both, I ended up getting a Zenfone 8 halfway 2021 and was very pleasantly surprised, don't think I'll ever need to upgrade again lol.

So many thoughts about this... too many to put in a PLclip comment. In general, this is one of the better discussions of generational stuff that I've heard. Thanks for that.

I like how the wiki article states Gen Z are also guilty of the "gen z shake" ... shakily placing the phone down on something as the video is starting... or starting recording while mid-chew or something to seem like they were just soooo busy doing something before randomly hitting record... thus also taking a moment before they can talk.
So we're all cringe. Own it.

I didn't even realize my phone starts my video so fast now that you've mentioned it. I barely take pictures on my phone. I am part of the "too old for Tik Tok" part of Gen Z that no one ever seems to care about.
Although one factor might be that things didn't use to react until you release the button but now a lot of things don't wait for you to release the button to start

We record ourselves using a device we're intimately familiar with to such an extent that when I'm holding the record button, you instinctually know when the video is going to really start and especially with selfies on Snapchat, I have the self illumination on to get a better image, and I know exactly when the picture will be taken, so I don't stop moving to take a picture until the instant it's actually captured, like I press it and then frame myself or my friends a couple moments afterwards inorder to now be holding my phone up in a super awkward way, like it's probably a symptom of using social media at school and not wanting to be super obvious in class to be real

I remember maths teachers saying we had to learn our tables because we wouldn't have a calculator everywhere with us... And even though this was before cellphones, I had my Casio calculator watch.

Part of this is literally because devices we used to use didn't record immediately. They took time to start recording, so it's ingrained into us

I'm taking a second to comment right after Linus explained the "Millennial Pause" and I never realized I did that either. Basically, I'd attribute it to a history with technology, and knowing that there's usually a delay between "Start" and when a computer actually starts.
It sounds like you're about to explain that, but hey, here's to boosting engagement 🤙

The impact of memes on society will never be accomplished again

I love that you bring up the polar opposites of gen Z because I am a part of the older side and built my own computers, servers and got a degree in Information Tech while my brother who is only 3 years younger doesn't know anything about his desktop other than that the hard drive makes his games work

with the wan show intro thing, the solution to this problem is starting the show with a splash screen, waiting until you know it's up, then transitioning out of the splash screen in the broadcast software

as a milenial, the pause is about old cameras took a second to start recording and we waited a second to confirm it was recording , other generations dont

I'm a gen z who grew up with very little tech because my mom doesn't understand it, I was also shielded from most modern tech trends like tiktok/snapchat type media so I am kinda a millenial at heart lol.

I'd say us "early gen Z" were the last intermediate generation.
When I started learning English at elementary school,I was requested to record some homework on audio tape,and by the time I starts highschool, teachers just assumed everyone has a smart phone.
When I told my classmates (I left college for a while,so my classmates are 2,3 years younger than me) about the tapes,they thought I was trolling them, because quote,"You're not that old".

Thats why we make a manual save before closing a game because we dont trust the auto save

“Things are supposed to get better, right” is possibly the most millennial thing Linus has ever said 😂

7:59 I'm generation X (1977), and I have a don't-trust-but-verify tendency with tech.
I'm very tech-savvy, but I grew up with unreliable stuff, and also with bad user interfaces, so even if I tell a piece of tech to do a thing, I will basically always manually verify that it is doing the thing (or at least doing some thing at the correct time).

My god. I've been doing live commentary on Twitch races and even when the restreamed counts down going live with audio I totally give a second or so's break before speaking to make sure I'm actually live when I start! Now yes I'm a millennial, but this is needed because I have had the restreamed go live after my partner and I started talking so I had to do a 15 second fast recap of everything we'd said the minute before. Thankfully I can be a very fast and concise talker, but damn.

It’s definitely the speed and reliability of technology and the tech everyone has grown up with

technically I'm a gen Z (late 1998, almost 99), but I grew up with my older brother wich is late millenial (96) and since I proved to be a smart kid (I'm not a smart adult tho) I skipped a few classes and ended up in classes where people are a lot older than me (from like 96 or 95)
So I have a lot of habits of late millenials, and the millenial pause if one of them. I don't know how I should feel about this lmao

I don't even know what in detail defines a millennial, gen z or boomer, nor do I care for labeling people.
The way they used "stone age, bronze age, iron age" is a good way. That should be used today for like the sub-age that defines recent generations.

The solution for the wan show would be like other fancy shows: use a title card until you're actually ready to start and then count in the talent with the removal of the title card.

I was at a conference and was told by some 'expert' said that millennials were people born between 80 and 2000. I've been told elsewhere that it's 83-93, 80-99, 86-96, etc.
I was born in 2000 but I live and grew up in WV. So until about whatever year the iPhone 5 came out, we were about 5-6 years behind most of the US in IT and the internet. Most would classify me as a Zoomer, I relate a lot more to how millennials grew up because that's how I grew up. I didn't have a smart phone until I was graduating High School.
The generation divide is extremely arbitrary.

It's Def a growing up with broke tech thing. Your analogy with the phone described it perfectly.... We're just used to crap not working first time, so we wait for verification.

I am in that weird situation where being in my mid 30s I went back to uni, so my classmates average very early 20s and a bit younger, and I heard those generalisations a lot. At the end of the day, people is the same and I can see how the asshole/nice idiots/clever people is the same now as it was when 15 years ago, I made decent friends there. Sure, they like different things in music, videogames etc in many cases; but wouldn't I if I was born later or they if they where born earlier? It is such a stupid thing to assume we are different species.

Also, if you immediately start talking, some devices (such as Apple TV) need to sync the frame rate of the device to the frame rate of the video. This causes a 3-5 delay for EVERY PLclip video. If you take a breath before starting, that usually is enough to not need to rewind the video. If you start talking immediately in the video, then users of these devices have to rewind the video 3-5 seconds
since PLclip has no delay for video start during the frame rate negotiation

"millennials are job hoppers" yep, that's what happens when your only raise happens when you get a new job

Regarding the gig thing. As a young adult starting his career in Europe, pretty much every junior position is offered through contractors, there isn't much of a choice to go into a company and staying there forever.

Holy crap, I haven't thought about Encarta in YEARS. I remember when my Grandma got me a copy of Encarta 97 for our brand new computer when I was eleven years old. That was such a huge game changer for homework, I loved it.

I love hearing Linus talk about money. He runs a company that was valued over $100M and yet he never sounds out of touch to me. I'm a student, no job & I save what I can religiously so I truly scrounge for every penny.
It's a shame people complained so much on the main channel, I think price is a really important factor in everything and Linus just never misses.