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The Silent Civil War Happening Within Gen Z · The imuRgency Room

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  Dumb babies are different, OK? Dumb babies that went to high
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  school during, went to college during their full college
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  experience during. Yet they are different.
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  I don't think Gen. Z's more conservative.
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  I think they're hopeless. I think they spent a majority of
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  their educational career dodging bullets and having drills for a
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  majority of politicians to reduce things down to a debate.
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  There's no promise of buying a home.
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  There's no promise of being financially secure.
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  Ever. We're told that we were a
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  generation that was going to save us all as we were being lit
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  in schools. We're a generation that every
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  time we come and talk about the realities of the world we live
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  in, it's met with one of two Either we're too young, haven't
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  experienced enough life to know where we're talking about, or
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  maybe we need to run for office. And then on top of that, when we
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  have conversations about what needs to be done.
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  Nobody can breathe. There's been a divide brewing
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  within Gen. Z for almost half a decade now
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  that's gone by largely undetected until now, where the
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  differences could not be clear. What I'm talking about here is
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  the ideological and political split within our generation that
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  has led to an alleged rise not only in a social behaviors, but
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  also in regressive and sometimes conservative ideologies and
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  beliefs shared more closely to those in Gen.
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  X and Boomers rather than millennials and the older half
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  of Gen. Z.
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  Everyone's been talking about the rise of conservatism in Gen.
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  Z. I've made a video talking about
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  the rise of conservatism in Gen. Z.
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  But now, I don't think that it's completely fair to monolith Gen.
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  Z in this way because the data shows that Gen.
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  Z does not think the same way. And in fact, there is a more
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  coherent split than we may have initially thought.
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  And in this view, we're going to try and get to the root of
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  exactly why this is where this split is coming from, where this
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  ideologic departure began. And to discuss whether or not
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  it's still fair to look to younger generations,
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  specifically Gen. Z as being the monolithic symbol
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  for progress anymore. Because as far as I was told, we
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  were supposed to be the future. And we're seeing how that's
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  going. Before we get into all that, if
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  about more lifestyle and other things that aren't as heavy in
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  commentary base. Let's actually talk about what's
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  going on with the younger Gen. Z.
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  So you may be asking Rumi, what's driving you to say that
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  there is a divide in Gen. Z right now?
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  Well, let's look at the data. So what's going on with Gen.
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  Z right now? Like I said in the intro,
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  there's been a lot of conversation online about Gen.
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  Z moving more and more to the right.
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  And outside of exit polling from the 2024 election, most of this
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  has been like pretty anecdotal, Like there hasn't been a ton of
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  like true statistical research for this.
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  So when we've been talking about this, it's been more of like,
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  yes, the amount of young people that voted for Trump in the 2024
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  election, but also just like the general sentiments with the rise
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  of more conservative leading trends, regressive ideologies,
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  making a return to the zeitgeist and just the general vibes of it
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  all. And I think that what's changed
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  now is that we actually do have some statistical data here.
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  It's not looking great. According to a new Yale Youth
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  Poll, which is a survey affiliated with the Yale
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  Institution for Social and Political Studies, voters 18 to
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  21 have been revealed to lean Republican by 11.7 points.
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  And when asked who they would support in the 2026
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  congressional elections, essentially meeting the midterm
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  elections next year, which in and of itself is wild concerning
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  everything that we've seen happen over the past four
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  months. But interestingly, voters aged
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  22 to 29 favored Democrats by 6.4 points, really showing a
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  statistical split within Gen. Z, or at least the adults of
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  Gen. Z.
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  And I think that this split is really interesting and something
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  that we should really talk about because I don't think that these
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  splits in age groups are just irrelevant.
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  I do think that this age divide does tell a story based on the
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  experiences of young people of Gen.
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  Z in these age brackets. And I think this is an important
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  conversation because honestly, like up until last year, Gen.
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  Z has been seen in the media as like this overwhelmingly liberal
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  or at least more so progressive than previous generations,
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  generation that believes strongly in things like climate
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  change, equality, human rights, bodily autonomy, and all these
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  things, which is typically made Gen.
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  Z lean more heavily to the left. But as we've seen in our culture
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  and in our polling, that is no longer necessarily the
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  monolithic or one truth anymore for Gen.
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  Z. You can't solely count on the
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  youth vote anymore because the youth vote is divided.
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  And I really do think that this divide comes down to the
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  difference in life experiences and just cultural experiences
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  from the older and younger half of Gen.
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  Z. Now before we hop in this
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  conversation, let's define what we're talking about when I say
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  older Gen. Z and younger Gen.
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  Z. Those are really good opinion
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  piece that was later turned into like Tik Toks where someone
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  coined the term Gen. Z1 point O and Gen.
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  Z2 point O, essentially distinguishing the two halves of
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  Gen. Z.
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  Right now Gen. Z1 point O being the older half
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  of Gen. Z.
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  What the distinguishing factor between Gen.
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  Z1 point O and two point O is how old you were and what life
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  stage you were at in 2020 when the pandemic hit?
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  Well, Gen. Z1 point O being those that were
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  able to experience graduating high school prior to or just at
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  lockdown and up. And Gen.
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  Z2 point O being those that went to high school during the
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  lockdowns and missed out on the things like graduation, prom, or
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  just generally had more of a hybrid school experience.
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  And I think that it's really important that we talk about
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  this academic situation and the impact of this one major life
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  indicator on the entirety of Gen.
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  Z and how that's contributed to the split under play a lot about
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  one thing specifically is the impact that it had on education
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  and how long lasting those effects were and continue to be.
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  We spoke about the specific impacts of education in previous
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  videos before talking about things like how younger Gen.
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  Z and Gen. Alpha are on a reading level and
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  just generally struggle with things like literacy and are
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  falling behind academically in the US.
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  As well as talking about things like how dismantling the
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  Department of Education and attacking education has been and
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  will continue to impact the futures of Gen.
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  Alpha and Gen. Beta.
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  But just speaking in generalities, things don't look
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  great. No, in 20/22/26 percent of 8th
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  graders were at or above proficient in math, much worse
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  than before the pandemic, with that being around 33% in 2019.
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  And it's not just math, it is across the board.
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  You can look no farther to TikTok to see teachers and
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  educators alike sounding alarm bells to the state of education,
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  how things just are so bad and so underfunded, and how schools
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  now have essentially become forms of daycare because they
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  have to pass the kids along every single year despite
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  whether or not they're actually passing their classes or not.
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  So the combination of education interruptions from the pandemic,
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  the lack of resources given to students, teachers and schools,
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  and the lack of general care for one's schooling education, as
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  well as political moves being made to dissuade people from
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  getting higher levels of education.
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  Like with all the things going on with student loans being
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  collected, it really sets the stage for what we're seeing and
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  what we're going to see with groups of people growing into
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  adults in society without the same or similar level of
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  education or experience as seen in times past.
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  And this isn't me saying like, oh, not being educated makes you
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  automatically conservative. Like now what I'm trying to do
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  is paint a picture for what the major differences are between
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  the older and younger halves of Gen.
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  Z and what their experiences are like.
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  Although I will say that looking at voting trends and
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  demographics with those without higher education or just general
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  uneducated communities do tend to vote more conservatively just
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  looking at voting records. But I bring this up because just
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  one, I think that it's genuinely concerning and we'll continue to
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  make a clear disconnect from Gen.
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  Z just from the sake of quality of education for at least 10
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  years worth of students just not getting the education that they
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  deserve or need. And not saying the state of
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  education prior to the pandemic was great either.
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  Like it was still trash, but it's the fact that it's worse
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  than trash now is the problem. And this isn't even talking
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  about Gen. Alpha.
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  Like the widespread lack of literacy, critical
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  comprehension, and thinking that is generally taught in schools
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  makes things like manipulation and mis and disinformation
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  easier to spread and propagate because it's more likely to be
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  taken at base value or immediately believed to be true
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  without taking a critical lens to the things that you're
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  hearing or consuming or even when evidence points to the
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  opposite. But this whole point isn't just
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  to talk about like, oh wow, education sucks.
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  It's more so to highlight that like younger Gen.
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  Z came into a system that really just was not secure or safe.
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  Like the younger half of Gen. Z experienced things like middle
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  school, high school, and even college where things were shown
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  to not matter. Like having school be completely
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  remote, like having classes and workloads that were either non
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  existent or a joke or classes that were entirely too difficult
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  despite everything else that was going on in the world.
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  Showing that like, this doesn't matter leaves the impression
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  that like, yeah, school doesn't really matter.
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  School isn't something that's necessarily for one, safe or
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  sacred even when it is in person.
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  And for a select group of people in that 18 to 22 year old
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  bracket, they didn't necessarily experience the same life events
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  or see the same life events take place as those of us in the
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  older half of Gen. Z.
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  Like think of things like graduations or Proms or just
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  other socialized events that take place during that time.
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  They didn't have that security or that stable grounding.
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  So it makes sense. Not saying that it's right, but
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  it's understandable why having those experiences and not
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  feeling a sense of stability or something concrete to look to
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  that you would turn to more conservative ideals that prop
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  themselves up to be things that are more set in stone, more
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  standardized. More like this is how things are
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  always done and this is how we're always going to do them.
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  Whether or not that actually becomes true in practice or not.
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  It's why I'd argue that we're seeing a lot more of a push
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  towards traditionalism, traditional values, trad wives,
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  traditional gender roles and stereotypes.
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  Because those are things that have been tried and true, tested
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  to quote UN quote work and provide that stability that we
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  all saw in media from our parents generations or the
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  generations before that. However, times are different and
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  the is in that the traditional lifestyle doesn't necessarily
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  work in practice for a lot of people is because the world is
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  different. The price of things is
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  different, and it's a lot harder and a lot more expensive to have
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  and live in a traditional lifestyle in untraditional and
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  unprecedented times. Like, I don't know, but I think
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  I'm getting ahead of myself here because I think that there's
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  another sub reason that contributes to that and that's
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  just the general rise and distrust of authority of systems
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  of people and the rise in things like conspiracy theories.
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  Surveys show that there is a significant erosion of trust
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  among Gen. Z in the major US institutions,
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  whether that be specifically in politics, whether it be the
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  courts, whether it be science, whether that be the police like
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  any of the powers that be, there is a widespread distrust or a
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  growing distrust in these institutions and honestly real.
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  Fewer than one in four Gen. Z members trust the information
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  they find in the Internet, the US Supreme Court and the
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  criminal justice system, with science having the most trust
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  that around 71%, which yay, period, love that we believe
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  science, but it makes sense why we would have a growing and
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  distrust of the systems around us because a lot of times they
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  lie. And if they're not lying,
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  they're not actively working in the interest of younger people
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  or the general public. There seems to be a wider spread
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  of skepticism and general disillusionment with the
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  traditional structures at hand and the authorities that uphold
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  those structures. And you could argue that in the
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  case of young people as a whole, the traditional structure for
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  young people, or at least the structure in which Gen.
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  Z was brought up and socialized and was like, we're going to be
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  the generation for progressive change.
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  It's expected for us to overwhelmingly be more to the
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  left, to be more progressive, to vote more democratic.
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  So as we're seeing this push towards a counterculture or
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  rejection of the traditional structures and systems at B, for
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  the younger half of us, that very well could mean Cowling to
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  the other party going to the other side.
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  So we've talked about some of the reasons why the younger half
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  of Gen. Z has moved the way that it
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  does. We're going to get back there.
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  But I think it's also important to talk about like why there's a
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  split in general and why it seems that the older half of
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  Gen. Z is still more so, leading to
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  the left. And for this I'll quote an
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  opinion article from the Washington Post.
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  The older zoomers still maintain some of that 2016 era
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  perspective, even if they frequently sound exhausted in my
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  experience by many of the same issues facing the broader
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  electorate. Inflation, sky high cost of rent
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  in the job market. The protest movements of my
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  college years felt like a rebellion against the older
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  establishment racism and indifference to young lives that
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  have gone on for far too long. For Gen.
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  Z 2.0, the perspective was flipped and the prevalent status
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  quo was a walking on eggs culture shaped by the shared
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  activist gains of Gen. Z 1.0 and millennials.
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  It didn't help that the same progressive circles they
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  associated with these causes were also LinkedIn the public
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  eye with things like collections and slower school reopenings.
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  So I'd agree for Gen. Z 1.0, a lot of us grew up in
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  the era we had been seeing a lot of social change and especially
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  where young people had been at the forefront of that social
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  change. I think Greta Tomberg, the
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  survivors of the Parkland then went on to become activists
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  advocating for things like and like.
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  There were still definitely very big blurring issues as there
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  always have been. It just seemed that like Gen.
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  Z and the younger generation was down to sort of fight those head
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  on and to be the agent of change and progress to move them to a
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  better place. Where as Gen.
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  Z2 point O, as the Arthur puts it, grew up in turmoil in a
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  world where everything seemed broken.
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  The K through 12 education system, social interactions, the
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  economy and traditional institutions.
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  They didn't really have this basis to necessarily come
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  together as peers or to have like normal social interactions
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  and to have those developmental stages like flirting and
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  courtship in real life or like having and maintaining
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  friendships in real life as like a teenager and as like a young
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  adult. And we're going to put a pin on
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  that because I'm going to talk about that point specifically in
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  just a second when we talk about our next point.
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  But all that jigs opposed against the fact that like the
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  younger half of Gen. Z was brought up and became
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  aware of the world in a way that was inherently anti
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  progressiveness with a lot of the issues going on in the
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  country and the world that had to do with things that directly
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  impacted all of our lives like schooling, health.
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  And we're turning back to a sense of normalcy being blamed
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  by either side and politicized, essentially leading people in
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  that group vulnerable to the lovely alt right pipeline.
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  I want to come back to that, that pin that I put in the whole
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  dating and flirting of it all because I talked about this a
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  little bit on life. But I do think that it's really
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  interesting that when we think about this divide that we
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  mention how different those formative experiences of like
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  socialization are in between Gen.
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  Z and especially for the generations, like the older part
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  of Gen. Alpha as we see them grow up.
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  Because socialization just looks so night and day different for
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  these groups. Like we see all the time with
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  teachers telling us that like it seems that like the kids in high
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  school and that being like the younger half of Gen.
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  Z are a lot meaner, a lot more misogynistic, a lot less
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  empathetic. And when we see these things, we
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  have to think like, OK, these people are lacking. 1.
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  The foundational experience of like socialization and
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  especially when it comes to things like talking to people
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  and flirting with people. For a lot of these people in 400
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  years, especially the people that were in high school doing
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  things like lockdown, everyone was really siloed off.
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  And even after the lockdowns, people continue to be more and
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  more isolated. Like we see everything with like
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  the loneliness epidemic, like people generally are to
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  themselves and in their bubbles more So when people are in these
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  bubbles and in their own spaces, they one don't have the
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  experience to know how to go through these things and have
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  these interactions in a healthy or seemingly normal way.
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  And the examples that are given, the examples that are popular
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  are from people like influencers, streamers, the self
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  help gurus that try and help you win the girl or get the guy to
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  notice you that are all gateways to the alt right pipeline.
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  And that leads me to the next section of the we're talking
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  about the impact of these influencers.
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  And honestly, the fault of some of these influencers for
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  influencing and swaying things this way.
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  But I think that a good portion of it is that like, is that our
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  generation, specifically the younger half of our generation
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  has all of this information and has all these ways of flirting,
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  their own ideas of like what's desirable and how to talk and
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  flirt to people in whatever way they've been seeing fit online.
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  But don't really have the avenues to put that in practice.
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  For real. Because I think toxic dating
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  content like the alt right pipeline, the alt right adjacent
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  dating advice videos have always been a thing like that.
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  As long as the internet's been around.
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  There's always been like the alpha male strategy videos, the
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  funk and foot adjacent clones. But I think this is more so head
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  cannon and conjecture rather than like actually research
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  based. But like the difference is like,
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  like prior to lockdowns and stuff, you'd see that kind of
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  content and people would try it out and they would see exactly
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  how I'll received that is in the real world.
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  And how a lot of that advice does not really hold up in the
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  real world. And in fact makes you very
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  misogynistic, makes you pick me, makes you undesirable in real
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  circles, not just the ones online.
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  And then you course correct, change your behavior and act
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  accordingly. But I feel like that aspect of
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  it, of the actual interaction and like having these things
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  play out in real life is not happening.
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  It has not happened to the same degree.
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  So a lot of people are just like running off it.
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  They think that these things that they're hearing online work
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  and aren't getting the real life feedback that they do or don't.
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  Let's always see so much either freaked out content or like
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  extremely misogynistic content online that people just think
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  would work in real life, but it actually doesn't.
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  Like that makes you a weird person.
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  Like doing the things and saying some of the things that y'all
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  say online in real life. We'll get you some real
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  consequences. It's not going to pan out the
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  way that it does online. Now let's talk about the
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  influencer of it all because this kind of spirals into a
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  larger conversation about the role that influencer
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  specifically we had during the election last year, but also
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  sort of the flip flopping that has gone on since then.
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  Showing that this was definitely just like a grift.
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  And now that the things that the person they got people to vote
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  for is doing is actually impacting them via things like
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  tariffs and student loans and whatever would have you people
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  are switching up showing that like, yeah, this was all either
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  for money, for engagement or just to be controversial.
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  And it really makes me and many other wonder like, are y'all
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  regretting your choice right now?
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  Like over the past couple months or so, we're now witnessing a
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  lot of voter regret, especially most it's on display is
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  influence your voter regret from people who were on the front
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  lines platforming and sort of campaigning for Trump because
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  they thought that they would be unscathed for some reason.
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  But now that things are starting to affect their bottom dollar,
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  we're searching things out and it's seeping like it's almost as
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  if they cared about the rights of everybody else.
• 17:00
  Any point in time we could have avoided this.
• 17:03
  But you know, here we are now. I mentioned before like the red
• 17:07
  pill pipeline, adjacent influencers and content that
• 17:10
  were really prevalent during the 20 twenties.
• 17:12
  We want to talk specifically about the youth boat and the
• 17:15
  monolith that had previously been thought of as Gen.
• 17:18
  Z being the Democratic voting base.
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  We saw a really big social campaign push for this from the
• 17:23
  Republican side on social media last year.
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  And what I think is important is that social media is clearly the
• 17:29
  main way to engage young people in politics.
• 17:31
  But unlike TV campaign commercials or sponsored
• 17:35
  messages on traditional forms in media, influencers don't
• 17:38
  necessarily need to disclose if they're being approached by,
• 17:41
  paid by, sponsored by a certain party in order to endorse them.
• 17:45
  Which means that some people may be advocating for a certain
• 17:47
  party because they really feel passionate about it or because
• 17:49
  they're being cut a check. And there is honestly no way to
• 17:52
  really know unless the influencers themselves come
• 17:54
  forward and be like, hey, yeah, this is a sponsored message by
• 17:58
  or I was paid by. And I guess now we can kind of
• 18:00
  tell based on who's been backtracking, expressing regret
• 18:03
  in their decision because either that chick's dragging out or you
• 18:06
  see that your future check is. And to be clear, both the
• 18:08
  Democratic and Republican parties and their affiliates
• 18:11
  approached influencers last year for paid endorsement,
• 18:14
  collaboration, appearances, whatever would have you.
• 18:16
  But also to be fair, only one of them was running on a Project
• 18:19
  2025 campaign and actually advertised a man who I thought
• 18:22
  we all hated 4 years ago and just repurpose but more extreme
• 18:26
  this time. I don't know.
• 18:27
  And to back this up, a very reputable source, Tana Mojo,
• 18:31
  YouTube, with more than 5 million subscribers, suggested
• 18:33
  during an episode of her podcast that she was offered millions to
• 18:36
  endorse an unnamed political party on social media.
• 18:39
  And to be clear, she'd already publicly backed Harris, implying
• 18:42
  that the offer came from another party.
• 18:43
  But she vaguely indicated that she turned down the money, and
• 18:46
  she was being allegedly told an alleged list of other
• 18:49
  influencers that had already hypothetically accepted money to
• 18:52
  do those hypothetical things. She said, though according to
• 18:55
  CNN, spokespeople from her camp did not reply to CNN's request
• 18:59
  for an interview. Now, I was joking before when I
• 19:01
  said that Tana Mojo was a reliable source, not saying that
• 19:03
  she's, but she did speak on this on her podcast.
• 19:06
  So that's something to take with a grain of salt.
• 19:07
  And while a lot of influencers and creators over the past month
• 19:10
  have been backpedaling and expressing their regret and
• 19:12
  their decisions to endorse Thromp, it's important to look
• 19:15
  at how impactful these facilitators of indoctrination
• 19:18
  for Adsense are and who their demographics are.
• 19:21
  Specifically how this is all contributed to the split between
• 19:24
  Gen. Z.
• 19:24
  And this can be a specific look at people with huge platforms
• 19:27
  with the tangible ability to influence and engage
• 19:30
  communities. And for this, I'm looking at
• 19:32
  people like Joe Rogan via Bond and the likes who majorly
• 19:36
  profited off of platforming Trump.
• 19:38
  If not from an alleged endorsement check definitely
• 19:40
  from the clicks and engagement. So let's start off with Joe
• 19:42
  Rogan. Joe Rogan is the name that we
• 19:43
  all know but wish we didn't. He is a podcaster and I'm not
• 19:47
  sure if right now it is still. So I think he is like the
• 19:51
  largest podcast, if not in the top three largest podcasts on
• 19:54
  Spotify. And his podcast kind of talks a
• 19:56
  little bit about every, It's definitely a right leading show
• 19:58
  and has like those all right Broy vibes that also have had a
• 20:01
  record of spreading misinformation, especially about
• 20:03
  things like Glick rhetoric and of course has the inclusion of
• 20:06
  things like slurs at least as recently as 20/22.
• 20:09
  And truly I don't think I could tell you much more than that
• 20:11
  because I have not fully listened to a podcast nor do I
• 20:13
  necessarily want to. Anyways, Rogan was not one of
• 20:16
  those on the fence. People like can be convinced
• 20:18
  either way. Like centrist types like the
• 20:20
  Yvonne. He just outright went and
• 20:22
  supported Trump and even had him on the podcast for three hours
• 20:25
  prior to the election. And at the time of the study
• 20:27
  we're about to talk about in October 2024, this is how Joe
• 20:30
  Rogan's listeners fell in terms of voting and politics.
• 20:33
  And I want you to keep in mind the demographics here.
• 20:35
  Who's listening? So according here, his
• 20:37
  demographics are about 80% male, 51% aged 18 to 3434% independent
• 20:43
  or something else, 32% Republicans, 27% Democrats, and
• 20:46
  21% Hispanic or Latino. And again, you can kind of tie
• 20:50
  this back to my old like Gen. Z men being more conservative
• 20:52
  video and looking at the voting records for those demographics
• 20:56
  as well. Well, in the last election.
• 20:58
  And if you look at the data from this Edison Podcast metrics
• 21:00
  survey, you can see that listeners in November of 2024
• 21:03
  definitely have a pro Trump swing.
• 21:06
  But what's interesting about Rogan's case specifically is
• 21:09
  that, like, while he is a very controversial figure in 2022, he
• 21:13
  looked at things a little differently.
• 21:14
  The controversial podcast host says that he's not a Trump
• 21:16
  supporter and refuses to support Trump by having him on the show.
• 21:19
  The Trump era is also going to be one of the weirder times,
• 21:22
  Rogan said, when people look back historically about the
• 21:25
  division in this country. He's such a Polaroid advising
• 21:27
  figure that so many people felt like they could just abandoned
• 21:29
  their own ethics and morals and principles just to attack him
• 21:32
  and anybody who supports him because he's an existential
• 21:34
  threat to democracy itself. He added that he is not a Trump
• 21:37
  supporter in any way, shape or form.
• 21:39
  He's got the opportunity to have him on his show more than once.
• 21:42
  I've said no every time. I don't want to help him.
• 21:44
  I'm not interested in helping him.
• 21:45
  Which of course everyone's entitled to change their
• 21:47
  opinions at any point in their life, but it just shows how far
• 21:50
  the times have changed. And though everyone has the
• 21:53
  ability to change their opinions, it's not as if he got
• 21:56
  substantially better from 2022 to 2024.
• 21:58
  Like things he just got worse. But like the problem that he was
• 22:02
  going on about in 2022 did not improve at any point or did not
• 22:06
  get better for many people. I mean, maybe him for like the
• 22:09
  tax benefits, I don't know, in 2024.
• 22:11
  But that also reminds me of how Joe Rogan is kind of at odds
• 22:13
  with Trump right now because he doesn't agree with the case that
• 22:16
  has been coming from him. And I'm sure he, like the rest
• 22:20
  of us, wasn't too happy about the tariff situation and the
• 22:23
  stock market crash. Now this whole video isn't to
• 22:25
  talk about Joe Rogan. It's more so an example of
• 22:27
  influencers who are on the grift who are in it, not necessarily
• 22:29
  because they 100% believe it, but because it's divisive, can
• 22:32
  get attention, and there is benefit from it, which
• 22:34
  unfortunately does have an impact on the audiences viewing
• 22:38
  it. Specifically younger audiences
• 22:39
  viewing it. Because again, if this is
• 22:41
  content that's popular, this is the content that people are
• 22:43
  seeing and resonating with and believing in without any form of
• 22:46
  necessarily rebuttal or real life application or example of
• 22:49
  these things being upheld. It's no surprise that we've been
• 22:52
  seeing to just stark divide within the younger and older
• 22:54
  halves of Gen. Z.
• 22:55
  With all that said, I think it's important right now to really
• 22:57
  take stock of like where we are as a generation and where we're
• 23:01
  planning to go because it seems that there is definitely a
• 23:04
  disconnect here. And while we can understand why
• 23:06
  things are the way they are, it doesn't necessarily mean that
• 23:09
  that's how we need to keep them and where they need to always
• 23:12
  be. Again, I'm not here and the
• 23:13
  point of my videos isn't to necessarily make you feel a
• 23:15
  certain way or to believe a certain way.
• 23:17
  It is just to provide perspective and to start a
• 23:20
  conversation. But we really need to start
• 23:21
  talking like what? What's the goal here?
• 23:24
  Because if the goal is to bridge the disconnect here, a lot of
• 23:27
  things need to change. We're seeing in real time how
• 23:30
  these structures and institutions that be are
• 23:32
  essentially making it easier and easier to fall down these
• 23:34
  pipelines and to not have our needs be met.
• 23:37
  And I think as a generation, it's important that we are at
• 23:39
  least looking out and keeping our ears and minds open to
• 23:43
  what's going on and what's affecting us as young people
• 23:46
  because it's clear that isn't working and how people are
• 23:48
  dealing with that and coping with that.
• 23:49
  And the places that we are gravitating to are more
• 23:53
  different than we initially thought.
• 23:54
  But yeah, I think we'll leave the video off here.
• 23:56
  Y'all. Thank you so, so much for
• 23:57
  watching. Now I want to hear from you.
• 23:59
  What do you think about this? Do you feel like there is a
• 24:01
  cultural or ideological divide between Gen.
• 24:04
  Z? And if you do, if you don't,
• 24:05
  what do you think the reasons are?
• 24:07
  I'd love to hear all your thoughts down in the comments
• 24:08
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• 24:18
  Peace.