#millenials look younger than gen z

[illicit-astrology]

'Millennials look younger than Gen Z' discourse from Astrology POV:

While I don't necessarily agree with this, the statement could be easily explained by astrology:

Millennials were lucky enough to be born when Saturn - the planet of aging & time - is in strong dignity: Libra (1983), Capricorn (1988-1991), and Aquarius (1991-1994). Having Saturn in strong dignity (in a sign where it's in domicile or exalted), definitely gives you the privilege and advantage to age gracefully and look better with time.

Millennials also are defined by having their Pluto in Scorpio. Pluto is the planet of transformation, and also regeneration - think of a snake shedding its skin, or skin regeneration. Pluto is in strong dignity (domicile) in Scorpio, which gives millennials another advantage.

Gen Z were born in times when Saturn happens to be in weak dignity (in a sign where it's in fall or in detriment); Aries (1996-1999), Cancer (2003-2005), Leo (2005-2007).

Gen Z are defined by having their Pluto in Sagittarius. Pluto in Sagittarius is neither in strong nor in weak dignity here.

#millenials look younger than gen z #gen z #millennials #aging #aging gracefully #saturn #pluto #astrology notes #astrology #zodiac #synastry #composite

[llyfrenfys]

Very much off topic but it has occurred to me that the half-life of intergenerational discourse has shortened considerably over the last few years.

I made a post not too long ago where I was surprised Gen Z was redefined as 1996-2009 (or any such similar range) and I've been thinking about it- and the more I do the more I'm sure of one thing:

Gen Z and Alpha are being exposed to more ire at their existence at much younger ages and much faster than Millenials did from their elders.

When the whole "Blame Millenials for everything" era was in full swing, the vast majority of Millenials were adults (the fact Millenials were adults and not children was a pretty big part of the backlash against the ire). All the "avocado toast rhetoric" peaked when most Millenials were adults.

But Gen Z (my apparent generation) is half adults, half minors at the time of writing. I was born in 2000, I'm 23. But Gen Z kids born after 2005 aren't adults yet. So all of the current doomerism about our generation is annoying for me, but must be so demoralising if you're born after 2005. Like, I can't escape the feeling current generation discourse has given up on finding hope in late Gen Zers. It doesn't seem to know how to categorise early Gen Zers. We straddle Millenial and typical Gen Z experiences and so kinda get the worst ire from both.

Not to mention I've recently seen a whole lot of ire directed at Gen Alpha. C'mon these are literal children now being roped into generation discourse about how they're apparently hopeless or ipad babies.

It was one thing for Millenials to deal with this as adults. It's annoying as fuck for me to deal with it now as an adult. But I worry so much for younger Gen Zers and Gen Alpha who have to bear the brunt of grown ass adults using generations like they're star signs. If you find yourself saying "Gen Z/Alpha are so doomed lol" genuinely take a look at yourself and remind yourself you're talking about literal children. Especially if you're a Milennial yourself who went through the banality of being shit on by every generation preceeding.

It's so easy to not be a dick, yknow?

#generation discourse #gen z #gen alpha #Millenials #boomers #generation z #generation x #generation alpha #baby boomers #millenial

[elliesgaymachete]

I’ve seen a lot of posts lately complaining about the decline of computer literacy and judging younger generations for not knowing how to use computers and like. All they do is complain and talk about the importance of knowing this stuff, but i’ve yet to see a post that would be helpful in actually TEACHING the younger generation the basics of computer literacy and i’m sure the heavy judgment in those posts is not making people more inclined to actually learn anything.

But also @ the younger generation following me, teaching yourself computer skills is INVALUABLE. Sure, maybe it’s clunkier and less user friendly, but it’s not meant to be carried around in your pocket and there’s A LOT more you can do with just basic computer skills. And honestly, a lot of it ARE things you can figure out with a quick google search (we can get into other search engines later, but google will suffice for this). I use excel at work a lot and I’ll look up “how to do X on excel” whenever I don’t know something and there will be a ton of results with handy step by step guides. You can even look things up on your phone and then use that to figure out how to use a computer! If you don’t have a computer to just play around on and figure things out yourself, your local library will always have computers for public use. And if you want one of your own so you can spend more time with it, a cheap laptop is a few hundred bucks (way cheaper than an iphone) and will be able to do all the basics

Anyway @ millenials be nicer and more supportive and helpful. We WANT them to know how to use computers. And @ gen z i believe in you, if you want to learn how to use a computer you absolutely can

#i would make a basic computer literacy post but i’m probably not the best equipped for the job #but i can give some of these helpful tips #anyway yeah those posts have always rubbed me the wrong way and i just realized why because they’re not helpful in any way

[queen-mihai]

I wanna talk directly to the members of Gen Z who can hear me for a moment

Because it hit me just now that we have ourselves an opportunity!

The greatest generation. The silent generation. The baby boomers. Generation X, and I'm sad to say Millenials;

Have ALL spent freaking YEARS talking shit about the next generation after them.

"This generation doesn't know how to write with chalk"

"This generation is too obsessed with books"

"This generation watches too much TV and won't read books"

"This generation is killing the TV industry"

"This generation is terminally online"

It's fucking stupid.

But we have a chance. A real chance here.

You're becoming adults. You mostly ARE adults now. And generation Alpha has already been born.

Of course there's gonna be some argument at some point of when Z stopped and when Alpha began, and that's fucking stupid too because honestly generations don't exist like that, strictly speaking.

But in a few years, there's gonna be a temptation to draw some sort of separation between the older teens and young adults of today, and your baby siblings, or your children if you choose to have them.

And that's where we have an opportunity. Millenials I'm talking to you too because you're the ones HAVING these children and you KNOW you want the world to be different for them than it was for you.

So here's what we do:

No matter what new technology comes out in the next few years

No matter how much time gen Alpha spends USING that technology

We won't shit on them for it!

We refuse.

We've seen the cycle. And we can fucking break it.

The new tech is some fucking hivemind protocol that we struggle to use?? And the kids just jump on it immediately?

Then struggle! Work to understand it. Meet them where they are and teach them about life anyway.

When they reach their late teen years, go back and look. Look at you from TODAY. and see how fucking SICK you are of older generations shitting on younger generations for embracing a technology that genuinely has made your life easier and better *and isn't that the fucking point?*

Congratulate them on mastering something that's genuinely hard to do, and USE that technology to teach them about particle physics and chemistry and math and show them what this universe is capable of.

Make life COOL for them instead of a grinding slog.

Oh

And one more thing

Causality is something the universe can't ignore

No matter how weird your math is or how technical your theory. Nobody can ignore.. like... how things happen in a practical sense.

Causality allows us to bypass the annoying and complicated math to just show what the heck the universe is doing and THAT, I think, is a good place to start for kids.

You don't even have to call it that. Big stupid word, what even is that. No. Show them stuff happening under a microscope or through a telescope. Show them a screen on a spectrum analyzer and open up your phone to let them see the line shift when it sees your phone picking up a signal. They don't NEED to know the math to see "when the phone starts a video, the line jumps! That's so cool!"

That's a GREAT place to start and if we meet them there, we might just be able to stay connected with them and never feel the need to say the same dumb shit people have been saying every generation for which we have records.

#ily

[nancydrewwouldnever]

People are just tried of white men talking politics, giving their thoughts on how to educate the youth and how to get them involved. Asp is just promoting a problematic system that most young millennials and gen z have realized isnt going to be fixed by these white men talking, that includes his fan base. People are tired of hearing these politicians and people who bow down to politicians which Asp is pretty much doing because they fail to fact check anything. He may have lost a significant portion of his base and those are left can just look at screenshots of the event without having to tune into this BS event about how to get the young involved and informed. Tbh the young are more likely to informed of facts than the older base.

Hear hear. When ASP tried to make the shift to "young voters" I was rather perplexed, as the layout and set-up of the site is in no way geared toward a younger demographic. It very much "reads" to the late Gen X/early Millenials.

#ask

[diamondseaside]

it's so funny to me you think millenials didn't have a hard time growing up (not in a mean way just like a wow i feel old way). that's literally the generation that coined the term adulting because they were struggling with it so much! i think older/younger sibling dynamic is interesting in that way because younger siblings tend to look up to and almost romanticize how their older siblings are. you should ask your sister how she felt at your age! i bet it's different than what you think!

it’s so interesting to me bc a lot of gen z is struggling with the whole 9-5 corporate grind and trying to balance everything which is where the “i don’t wanna work” sentiment comes from. but i feel like millennials just gritted their teeth and accepted it. i’m definitely guilty of putting my sister on a pedestal but then again she’s an overachiever and i am… not

[thatnerdinthecorner]

you know what i make fun of tiktok a lot, bc most of the time it deserves it, but i think that a lot of people on tumblr could use some time on tiktok. a little bit of exposure.

the majority of tumblr users have been here a while and i know we all said that we wouldnt do the whole millenial vs gen z vs whatever comes next thing, but theres a whole lot of people on here taking things from tiktok out of context and going 'oh no look at the next generation, look how terrible' and then saying how awful tiktok is. and tiktok is awful. but its awful bc it harvests data, and is super addictive, and is fucking up the music and publishing industries, and not, i repeat not, bc the younger generation are just so terrible

yeah the whole goncharov rip off was boring and inauthentic and we all made fun of it, but the whole girl dinner and girl math thing. No.

girl dinner isnt promoting eating disorders. are there people with eating disorders that are using the girl dinner trend, yeah, but idk if you know this but any food related trend is going to have people with eating disorders jump on in there, and whilst there are definitely things we can do to mitigate the success of them spreading their gross diets and whatever the next fad laxative is, we shouldnt stop having fun with food just bc any food trend online can be done by people with eating disorders too.

girl dinner isnt some evil trad wife trend, its the exact opposite. women arent using the 'girl' in girl dinner to say la lala la laa look at me, im a little girly who only likes pink and not thinking, la dee da

they use it to say there are certain expectations that we have been taught women have to be beholden to, the idea of the perfect woman who can do it all, raise the kids, do the housework, have the full time job as well, but the kids and housework are full time jobs, and this is exhausting, and heres what i make for dinner when im too tired to cook a full meal, when living up to all the expectations is hard, bc im human, im not perfect, and if its not what a perfect adult woman would do then i guess im not, so heres me eating my girl dinner and i wont be ashamed of that, bc the patriarchy feeds on our shame, and if we arent ashamed of being the perfect woman under patriarchy, then at least in that way, it does not control us, if patriarchy is the panopticon then if we dont fear the watchman, we will never become our own watchman

ill admit, i know less about girl math, bc its popped up less for me (i think its a trend fewer people do, but it could just be the algorithm), but from what i can tell its basically just social/behavioural economics. it illustrates things like the sunk cost fallacy, eg. if ive already put money on an app to pay for my coffee then that coffee is 'free'. the people making those videos dont literally think their coffee it free, they're just saying it feels like its free, which it does, because of the sunk cost fallacy. thats not women being stupid, thats an actual theory in behavioral economics. i've also seen people talk about 'its cheaper to buy something else and get free shipping than to pay less but not get free shipping'. they don't literally think that, and its kind of insulting the amount of people there are seeing women make that joke and immediately assuming that they are too stupid to be joking.

#tiktok #girl dinner #girl math #you are not above looking down on the next generation #and youre not above assuming women are stupid bc they present something in pink and choose to have fun with it #get your heads out of your asses and get over your not like other girls shit #yeah some women feel the need to do make up and fashion bc patriarchy says so #others want to bc they were taught to by the patriarchy and now theyve decided they enjoy it #and they shouldnt have to abandon the things they enjoy just bc other people assume that liking feminine things makes you stupid #also there are an awful lot of people on here assuming that everyone just HAS a preexisting knowledge of a whole lot of stuff #and if you do thats great #but not everyone is in the same boat so leave that poor girl alone #you know the one #the one who walks around in pink and uses traditionally feminine things to explain concepts a lot of people have never been taught #or have been told not to bother with bc for example theyre women #bc that couldnt be useful to anyone at all could it #certainly not when there are tons of women who have been specifically taught that there are some things they should learn #and some things they shouldnt learn #and using someones preexisting knowledge to help them understand new concepts is a terrible idea

[perdrixforelle]

Yesterday I saw a comic saying that basically gen Z has a variety of hyper specific clothing styles for teens and young adults to express themselves in while millenials only had "emo" and I resented that so much for some reason? First of all it's completely false, it just so happens that emo was the most "online" style of alternative fashion and therefore the most documented imo. It also happens to be the style of later years millenials, who are the link between gen Z and millenials, thus cementing the "online" and most visible part of the trend. But please, I didn't go through all the phases I went through as a teen to be erased like that. I'm too lazy to find pics for each item of the list but off the top of my head, growing up in France I personally had these phases:

Y2K streetwear extremely influenced by hip hop and R&B with a touch of futurism in there like tinted frameless glasses and the like. This was almost always styled with a middle part for girls, and extremely flat, straightened hair. It's making a big comeback right now, mixed with elements of 80's fashion, and I love seeing it.

The whole Skater aesthetic with big Van's and Buffalo shoes, loose cargo pants, flannel shirts over t-shirts, lots of bracelets you'd never take off even in the shower. I exclusively wore bikini bottoms so that the bright color of them peeking out from my loose pants would match the rest of my outfits and it's a miracle I didn't get a yeast infection per week, somehow.

Goth, goth has always been there in all of it's iterations. There was a time when boneless corsets were so casually mainstream you could find them in many stores and you bet your ass I was getting my hands on as many as possible. I was the romantic goth with the long skirts and the corsets over mesh tops. We didn't have Hot Topic but we had Claire's, and it had a lot of goth stuff back in the days.

Punk, I would call it light punk or commercial punk, Avril Lavigne and the likes. It's kinda adjacent to the skater aesthetic but you would see a lot of tartan miniskirts over pants, and belts, and ties, and safety pins. I would DIY a lot of clothes by painting them too (with song lyrics), fun times.

Hippie: lots of "harem pants" and shawls wrapped around the waist and handmade jewelry with beads. Very music-festival-white-citizen-of-the-world cringe but hey, it was what it was. Now my siblings are 4 years younger than me and they experienced the Emo days. but never partook. They also lived through the weird "mini-adult" phase of fashion where everybody dressed super boring like jean T-shirt and ballerina flats, and were either carrying their books in their arms like they were in a teen movie, or only using longchamp bags (or fake ones) on the shoulder. Another regional variant I got, as I lived in Southern France, was the cagole (bimbo) look, but it's pretty specific to where I lived and is kinda timeless since I keep seeing women of all ages rocking it proudly: basically loud animal print, loud makeup, and fluorescent colors matching in at least two items of clothing/accessories. I cannot express how much it delights me when I seen an old woman at the beach dressed like Fran Fine enjoying her tan and not giving a fuck. It's amazing. Anyway, millenials of all background feel free to add to this post with your experience of alternative fashion as a teen.

#fashion #millenials #gen z #alternative fashion #perdrix talks

[techmomma]

hey. hey you. are you a gen x or millenial or gen z artist.

even if you're not, have you been seeing a bunch of younger artists like half your age who seem like they're doing work better than you were at their age? maybe better than you are now?

Number 1, this is an ENTIRELY subjective question, but you may not be wrong!

younger kids may be better than you are, in whatever definition of the word you wanna use.

this is okay. really. it is.

you're not a bad artist if someone younger than you can draw "better" than you, but I also want to bring up something that I think nobody has really mentioned before:

kids these days have access to not only programs and technology that you did not, but a general library of knowledge that you didn't have access to, either.

how easy is it now to search for a shading tutorial?

how easy is it now to look for tutorials on effects and shading, on animation, on almost any damn niche art-related subject you can think of? and not just one tutorial, but several versions, a walkthrough, maybe a tutorial for different KINDS of shading?

how much rarer is it now to NOT find a tutorial for what you're looking for?

those who remember the old web and trying to do digital art pre-2010, do you remember how damn hard it was to find information on digital art? I REMEMBER.

I REMEMBER BECAUSE I HAD TO FIND AND CREATE SOME OF THOSE TUTORIALS MYSELF.

clip studio paint now has a function that, pretty decently, will auto-color images for you.

i started with photoshop elements like... 3.0? whatever was cheapest around 2004.

the newest versions of microsoft paint have as much, if not more options now. and that's just. a default program that comes with windows.

kids these days have it a LOT easier than us growing up on the old internet--and this is good!! this is SO SO GOOD! There are so many kids who now have access to creating art in ways that you or I never had! they have so much information at their fingertips to do amazing things with, things that us older web users had to find out by ourselves. sometimes, we even created those resources ourselves.

give yourself some credit. younger digital artists have a lot of advantages that we just plain did not have, growing up on the internet. you were pioneers. you had to make do with a wild, unknown and undiscovered space in digital art.

ngl, sometimes I do feel bitter, seeing what younger digital artists have access to these days that I literally dreamed about having when I was younger.

but that's how it's supposed to work. we helped make things as they are now. we put on those bulky, uncomfortable space suits so that the generations after us could build colonies on the moon.

cut yourself some slack. and see what new, wonderful things have been opened up to kids who would have never gotten these opportunities when we were growing up.

we had to learn a lot of stuff the hard way. but so too does that give us knowledge that younger generations might not have.

and in this way, we all make each other better.

[knicks-knacks]

So there's a bit of a generational issue going on between Millennials and Gen Z. Unsurprising, there is always going to be a bit of pushback or friction between differing age groups. I think that's just the nature of society.

This post I just saw got on my nerves though. Summary is basically an older individual complaining about Millennials not liking Gen Z, and how they're no better than Gen X or Boomers... That Millenials are the problem...

As an Older Zoomer™, I very staunchly disagree. I do think that some older individuals are being unfair to younger people, I'm not saying that they're completely innocent but I mean... To focus on a small subset of society/community, look at fandom, or stan twitter I guess. Literally today I just saw a tweet of a 19 year old telling a 22 year old that they should have "a career and a family by now". Which is BONKERS to me because both of these individuals are zoomers. It is blatantly ageist and misogynistic. It's bleak. I see so many teenagers and younger people toting around this narrative that life ends at 20 - by the time you pass 18 you need to stop having a life or stop having interests, that it's WEIRD to have a life outside of work and family when you're 25... like. Why am I hearing talking points from the 1950s here in 2020 from FIFTEEN YEAR OLDS? Why is my parents spiel about "getting married and having kids before 30 or else you're useless" almost indistinguishable from some of the shit I see teenagers say on twitter?

I was born in 1997, which is the cut off year for Gen Z - I am the oldest year of Gen Z. And even I fucking hate some of the younger Gen Zs. I said "AO3 is good actually" and then suddenly I had teenagers calling me a pedophile and telling me I should die. That's not normal, and I think that's a pretty reasonable thing to dislike.

Anyways, I'm done I'm gonna go make soup

[silly-goofy-mood]

This morning at work i had to go do something in the store adjacent to my job (i needed to use a machine that they have)

And while i was using it, i heard two of the employees talking about how like... No one wants to join the military anymore

And complaining about the "nintendo generation" (which is not even gen z lmao, i'm pretty sure that's millenials - but they were talking about gen z... My point is these dudes are idiots but anyway) and "entitled kids who don't wanna work"

Like of fucking course they don't wanna go to war you fucking nimrod

Oh and the best part

Since i was there and am visibly young (21 but i look a lot younger), one of the guys looked at me and said "oh, we're not talking about you, you're hardworking" and i just didn't answer - and he said "it's a compliment" and i just went "mmhmm" and left

(ps that is the literal definition of a backhanded compliment in this context - like "yeah you're wardworking for gen z" - fuck off)

Anyway

Other than that my day was good

#rant

[ankhisms]

ok cant find the post i made a little after it happened but im remembering how at the end of the last theater production i was in one of the cooler people in the cast with me was like oh rey do you have a tiktok? and i was like oh no i dont really do a lot of social media and they gave me this look and were like "oh my god not you too youre one of those people? you and (name) both said you dont have tiktok 🙄🙄" and im still really baffled by that. i dont really believe in ~millenials and gen z and zoomers etc etc~ generation divides bc i think thats all kind of bullshit and theres plenty of people older than me and younger than me who arent in the same "generation" as me who ive connected with and who have similar experiences and thoughrs and philosophies as me but sometimes i do wonder if this was an instance of me just being a few years older and having already dealt with a lot of gross shit on social media and not buying into shit that gets shoved down ur throat on things like tiktok bc this person was like 19 vs me being 23 at the time. anyway it was very weird i really dislike how saying you dont use a lot of social media is seen as a red flag or even just super strange by people and i especially dislike how for certain things like art and theater people almost make it so you have to have some kind of social media platform in order to succeed it sucks

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[iampikachuhearmeroar]

oooop and another rant!

I've been thinking about it for a little bit now, but sometimes I really do hate the weird superiority complex some ~elder millenials~ have against the later mid to late 90s kids (like 1995 babies- eg me), meaning "younger millennials".

so, last year at my old work's staff christmas party, I stumbled into a convo with one of the ladies in the finance team, and the new guy in customer service (who wasn't really new by that point, but still) who was into mid2000s emo/pop-punk like me. they were talking about the differences and similarities between (elder) millennials and gen z and also younger millennials.

the finance lady was all like "OH! I'm soooo glad I'm an ELDER millennial (just on the cusp off 1989 and 1990)!!! I'm so much better than you, I lived through the 90s and early 2000s!!!!! I used a landline phone for 10 years!!!! for most of my life, actually. then me and emo guy were like "uh sadie, so did we???? like I was born in 1995 (me) and I was born in 1997 (emo guy).... so we both used landline phones and went through mobile phones becoming computers in your pocket. having to carry both ipods and phones in our pockets. computers going from chunky af boxes to super sleek and shit..... like the list goes on and on???? we HAD THE SAME LIFE sadie, what the hell???"

then the woman was all like "uh NO. nuh-uh. you DID NOT live it like i did. you did not have to go through what I did.... like overplucked sperm looking eyebrows!!! those were so awful!!!" etc etc etc to invalidate our experiences.

like I'll admit that for trends such as the sperm brows and disgustingly low-rise jeans, I was just that bit too young. but that doesn't mean I didn't witness those fashion faux pas'es ALL THE TIME on celebrities and on TV shows!!!! or even on my older cousins!!!! one of my year 5 disco looks in 2006 was a business casual look, but ALL hello kitty... with a full popped collar t-shirt, mini skirt, and newsboy hat with light up shoes. it was utterly garish and ugly. I had a mizzundastood (tween clothing brand here in aus) like edgy girl phase with baggy, ugly street style clothes that were all ripped/distressed in weird places for the ~urban, edgy lewk~, obvs paired with stupid oversized skate shoes (my sister's) to complete the look.

I had ugly ass lace motif shirts from mary kate and ashley olsen's girls' clothing line from like 2003. i had those ugly ass like weird stringy tie-up belts (from supre or paired with some jeans as a set), with ugly embroidered jeans, and wore those with a tie and a skinny scarf; to be all avril lavigne and/or hayley williams pop-punk princess in 2007. i played the original mid-2000s xbox and playstation 2. I had gameboys. and the original nintendo DS.

obvs given that I wasn't doing the trends in nightclubs or in school, properly, like little miss 1989 was. but that shouldn't invalidate my experiences of living through the late 90s and the 2000s all bc im a "younger millennial or early gen z"??? I was obviously a child. but again, that doesn't invalidate my experiences. bc I used a landline up until about 2008 or 09, when I was in early high school..... bc that's when all of my friends started to get mobile phones (bc I got my first phone in 2005 in year 4 at 9/10 years old- long story). I used fuckin MSN (bc AOL didnt work here in aus), late stage myspace and early facebook. just like you, sadie. why the actual fuck are you so fucking smug about being born in 1989 and "not being a younger millennial baby and not being a 90s kid"????

and of course, the all-important 9/11 stuff from the states that was ALL THROUGH aussie news for years, bc we're besties with the US..... even if i didn't really understand it all, bc I was like literally nearly 6 years old when it happened.

but yeah. the fucking weird ass smugness from this woman that she's a REAL millennial bc she's a 1989 baby, just like 2 days shy of being born in 1990.... whereas me and emo guy weren't REAL millennials (although he is gen z as 1997 but I don't care really) bc we were apparently "born too late in the 90s" for her liking, to be millennials.... when I AM THE CUT OFF AT 1995.

like what the fuck is this??? why be so stupidly fucking pedantic about this utter bullshit anyway???? stop fighting over some fucking dumbass marketing scam classification, just for an inconsequential asf superiority and power complex, over someone whose literally only 6 years younger than you (me).... or 8 years younger than you (emo guy).

#life #about me #shut up ilona

[pozn08]

Vicki Bello - "Pandemic Effect" Ad (2020)

The now-deleted controversial advertisement entitled "Pandemic Effect" ad by Vicki Belo shows a woman in a lockdown during the midst of a pandemic undergoing an appearance change, including gaining weight, growth of facial and bodily hair, and acne growth. The central subject concept of the ads was to promote healthy living and lifestyle among the gen z and millennials, portraying a woman who "let herself go" amid the COVID-19 lockdown. Thus, the video ends with the tagline, "Tough times call for beautiful measures," calling for a book consultation with medical doctor Vicki Belo. However, because of the controversial advertising, it gained attention among the viewers, calling it insensitive and not empowering, particularly to women.

Belo is a brand that offers a wide range of skincare, beauty, and wellness products. The target audience of Belo products may vary depending on the specific product. Still, they cater to individuals interested in improving or maintaining their skin's health and appearance. Belo's target audience may include people of different ages, genders, and skin types looking for effective and reliable skincare products. Some products may also target skin concerns like acne, dark spots, and aging.Additionally, Belo may target consumers willing to invest in premium skincare products and look for products backed by science and research. For example, Gen Z and Millenials, Because, There's an increased awareness in the younger generation of the connection between mind, body, and skin, Jefferies said. In other words, the typical Gen Zer thinks of beauty as a way to express themselves, not to attract others. The advertised product was safe and reasonable. We need to consult a professional or a licensed dermatologist before using any skincare products, including those offered by Belo. Additionally, it may be helpful to read reviews and research the ingredients and formulation of the product to make an informed decision. It is also important to note that what works well for one person may not work well for another, as everyone's skin is unique. Although the advertisement does not contain Media Manipulation, some advertisements may use tactics that target people's insecurities about their physical appearance to convince them to use their products. Such tactics can be harmful and may contribute to the promotion of unrealistic beauty standards. It is crucial to prioritize self-acceptance and self-care rather than relying on external factors, such as products, to feel good about one's physical appearance.

Overall, the controversial advertisement by Vicki Bello delivered the message poorly and not empowering women. With this in mind, the controversial ad was unsuccessful, and thus, it received criticism from viewers across many social media platforms. For this reason, it was deleted due to the insensitive and thoughtless nature of the ad. It received backlash from the viewers and audiences of Vicki Bello, even stating that society's standards should not define beauty.

Reference:

Botros, A. (2022, July 25). Gen Z is teaching older generations a lesson about beauty: It’s not about sex. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2022/07/24/gen-z-beauty-industry-bare-midriff-low-rise-jeans-sex-self-care/

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- I recently watched a ‘Youtube essay’ (?) on New Found Glory’s third album ‘Sticks and Stones’ with the thesis being that it was their most important album in their 25 years(?) as a band. It was certainly a very important album to me, and perhaps my first real experience of the (old?) music fandom pipeline of ‘getting into band -> being excited for, then enjoying new album -> seeing them live’. It definitely left its mark as did many of the band’s music videos.

- I could go off on one about how it blew my tiny teenage mind that Rachel Cook was in the Dressed to Kill video, or I could rant about how I dislike the weird ass steampunk / carnivalesque treatment of the All Down Hill From Here video or the general off-key, mid 00′s aesthetics of It’s Not Your Fault, but in a bid to not let too many posts on this thing be some nostalgic, rose-tinted look back on my teenage years, I thought it worth checking out and reflecting on some of their more ‘recent’ output with this video for Greatest of All Time.

- As someone who, it’s safe to say, has grown apart from the band in the past decade or so, it’s kinda comforting to hear that their sound is largely unchanged. In fact, musically it seems a lot more in line with their early 00′s, Self-titled album era of, fast, melodic-hardcore influenced pop-punk rather than their later 00′s bouncier, hardcore, or should I say ‘Easycore’, style on Catalyst and Tip of the Iceberg. Honestly speaking though, whilst somewhat comforting, I don’t love the song. It feels a bit cynically constructed and doesn’t have that nervous, youthful (unsurprisingly) energy of a newer band like Anxious.

- The video is perhaps more intriguing than the music. Some classic NFG video motifs are still there even 20 years down the line: rambunctious, direct to camera live performance, crowd surfing, young (hetero / cis gendered) romance storyline, etc. However, the band probably playing a secondary role to the young and diverse looking characters doing all the classic, cool subcultural things: skateboarding, graffiti and tattoos, albeit in a very Gen-Z guise. It seems like there was more of a concerted effort to make this video, and by proxy the band, seem ‘cool’ to a younger audience. A risky decision given the age of the band and also quite odd given that, even in their early years, the band was more likely to come goofy or silly, more so than cool, in their videos.

- I guess what I find interesting, and perhaps cynical, is the quite obvious attempt by the band to reconnect with the renewed mainstream popularity of Pop-punk. The title of the song is obviously paying homage to the band’s deep credentials within the genre and the video seems like a clear play to connect NFG with a younger audience; those coming to this new wave of Pop-punk via Machine Gun Kelly rather than Blink 182. In this way the video is perhaps pitching for the kind of crowd the band wants, rather than the (ageing) one they perhaps still have. 

- I guess when you’ve been a band long enough to have made it though a twenty year pop-culture cycle (albeit a guitarist down for some pretty creepy behaviour with underage girls), why shouldn’t you be allowed to reap the fruits of your labour? Also, maybe ditching the goofiness (which often times could turn into or read as sketchiness - another reason the band is now a four piece instead of a five) is a pretty smart move for guys well into their 40s. I just feel bad for any 16 years old who watch this video expecting a NFG glory show to look like they this, when in actual fact it’ll be ageing Millenials like me and my secondary school mates that I see once a year, muttering along, drinking over priced beers, standing a safe distance back from the stage and groaning about how bands aren’t as good as they were in 2002.

#new found glory #greatest of all time #music video #pop punk #sticks and stones #catalyst #blink 182 #nfg #drive thru records #epitaph records