A millennial vs a Gen Zer
Millennials and Gen Z truly have a sibling kind of relationship. They take turns teasing each other but in the end it's nothing but love between the two generations. One such viral taunting involved people saying that Gen Zers have aged like milk. Several Gen Zers themselves even agreed that people often mistake them for much older than they are. But that's neither here nor there.
Gen Z eventually fired back with their own commentary about how poorly millennials age. But millennial came with receipts to prove that this was beyond untrue. Millennial Chris Bautista uploaded a pretty savage video response to these young whippersnappers explaining why they feel that way.
According to Bautista, the answer is quite simple. Millennials set the bar for what aging looks like for people approaching middle age.
"I'm gonna say this a little bit louder for the Gen Zers in the back that didn't hear me the last time. Millennials look fantastic for our age and you cannot tell us otherwise," Bautista starts. "The reason why you think we don't look great for our ages is because we have set the new standard of what it looks like to age."
Then he pulls out the evidence. Pictures of celebrities who were the age Millennials are right now when the pictures were taken. Yikes! Most Millennials look nowhere near the age of the people in the pictures.
Watch the video:
Fellow millennials were quick to chime in with their guesses as to why they are the poster children for anti-aging.
"It's cause all millennials used the St. Ives peach scrub exfoliating wash and we achieved eternal youth," someone surmised.
"It's gotta be the Flintstone vitamins," another quipped.
"I don't know, I am 40 and got stopped at my son's high school security guard because he thought I was a student. No one ever believes my age," wrote a third.
A fourth shared,"But seriously like what's the reason? Cause this life has been stressful."
There are several theories as to why the anti-aging phenomenon has occurred. none of them actually involve Flinstones vitamins of St. Ives scrubs, but they do have that signature self deprecating millennial humor—from being the first group heavily indoctrinated to cosmetic "tweakments," to being depressed and therefore indoors all day, to simply having youthful energy due to never being able to truly grow up.
A woman getting botoxPhoto credit: Canva
However, according to experts, it really comes down to millennials being among the first group to take the basics seriously. by basics, we mean, sunscreen (and somehow bypassing the anti-sunscreen conspiracy theory craze via TikTok) as well as hydration (hellooooo Stanley water bottles). Plus, millennials aren't as known to have a proclivity towards vaping, like the Gen Z counterparts. Sometimes it really comes down to the simple things.
Millennials love their sunscreenPhoto credit: Canva
Regardless of aging it seems that the sibling banter between these two generation will remain alive and well forever and ever.
This article originally appeared last year.
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