- Oh my gosh, I had that.
- Oh my God, the game with the paper.
- Yep.
- Uh, Temple Run, damn.
(gasp)
- Jetpack Joyride, no!
- When I was like literally a fetus,
Doodle Jump was my (beep).
- Something that's keeping a lot of us
distracted these days is watching TikTok.
But what we see on the app and how we perceive it,
depends on who we are.
So we invited strangers from across the country
and around the world
to all react to the same TikTok's
so we can explore how opposites react.
(upbeat music)
- I think TikTok portrays my generation as
pretty emotionally intelligent.
I also think TikTok portrays our generation as
incredibly dumb,
but I like that because I think we are very much both.
- Also we will speak out,
We are very woke these days.
- They portray us as some old ass grandmas and grandpas.
- Millennials stumbled into TikTok,
tried to do the dances but we're not really good at it
and we drink a lot of wine and we're like really depressed.
Maybe that's just my For You page.
- We are the superior generation and that's on facts.
(ding)
- I think that they try to make us old folks look dumb.
- Yeah that's what I think too.
Yeah, like they make fun of the way,
the things we say, or the way we talk.
That's what I think.
- I need a bad bleep, uh, Addison Rae.
Lil shorty, the baddest. Yeah. And she got her ways.
So these lyrics are obviously very heartfelt
to me because I'm Addison Rae.
- What? Why is there a horse coming out?
(horse neighing)
Wait, did I miss something?
Hold on.
- Who is she, Addison Rae?
Is she like an influencer?
- So she's Addison Rae.
- Right. And he's making fun of her,
because she's saying that was heartfelt
to her and he thinks that's silly, right?
- Right.
- I don't even know who Addison Rae is.
Everything I know about her is
from that clip and that's everything I need to know
- The most chaotic yet amazing generation.
I mean, ha.
- Hi, can I get an orange juice please with no ice?
Thank you.
- Pause. When does orange juice ever come with ice?
Alright, resume.
- It's apple juice.
- Oh my gosh.
- You know what? I'm not even gonna bother.
- Of course.
- Thank you guys. I have anxiety.
Okay.
(laughing)
I ain't afraid to die.
I ain't afraid to die bitch.
I've been waiting to die since I came out the womb.
I ain't afraid to die.
(laughing)
- Yeah. So we have anxiety
but we're not afraid of being hit by a car.
- Like random personal interactions
I feel like could be so hard.
But then when it comes to stuff that like matters,
we're ready, we're getting in your face.
- I feel like millennials are more, we have more
existential dread and we're way more pessimistic about it.
Gen Z feels a lot of the same (beep)
but they're more, like, hopeful,
like I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna (beep)
change all this (beep).
- Millennials when they download TikTok.
Oh no, that's me.
(hip hop music)
- Yep
(laughing)
- What did I say? Wine and dancing.
(beep) called it.
- I don't know why, but I feel like millennials
just have to make it known that they're able to drink.
Like we get it.
- I feel like if millennials download TikTok
they're just trying to relive their youth.
I don't wanna say youth,
because most of them aren't even that old,
like 30 isn't old.
- When I was like 17 or 18, I was always like
oh my God being 30, that would be so old.
But now I'm that age? I'm like, wait a second.
We're all the same. I'm still young.
Anyways that's probably what old people say.
- (singing) Okay, Boomer.
Why can't you love me as much?
- This slaps.
- (singing) As you love to share memes about Minions.
(minion laugh)
- Thanks.
(laughing)
- (singing) Okay, Boomer.
Why can't you hold me as close
as you hold your belief that climate change isn't real?
(laughing)
And okay, Boomer.
- Call them out.
- (singing) Why can't you carry me
Like you carry your handgun in public?
I want to say I'm okay, Boomer,
but Boomer, I'm not okay.
- Okay.
(clapping)
- First, he gets props.
- Great melody and lyrics and voice.
- He sings good and he plays piano good.
But wait a minute.
First of all, I don't have a handgun.
- Yes.
Second, I don't put memes.
- Well, sometimes you do.
- A couple times on Facebook.
- A couple times.
And I believe climate change is real.
I am not in that category you guys.
- Yes because you're the cool boomer.
- Thanks, honey.
- If you describe your music taste as oldies
literally do not touch me. #mesothelioma (laughing)
Oh my god.
- Bro, I hate when people come up to me
on that pretentious ass (beep)
and they're like, how have you not listened to the Beatles?
They changed music forever.
Bruh, does it look like I give a (beep) about the Beatles?
I've never listened to the Beatles.
I don't intend on it bro, I'm listening to SZA.
Leave me the (beep) alo-
(laughing)
- It is so true.
- Literally me.
- I'll relate.
I'll put on a Beatles every now and again,
but I'll throw some SZA.
- How can he not like, I mean, it's okay to not like
the Beatles, but like not know like the Beatles or anything
but listen to them, man. See, I feel like a boomer now.
- But when people are so pretentious, like,
how do you not know this person?
Or how do you not listen to them?
Get out of here, leave me alone. Let me like what I like.
- Like. Listen, SZA is an icon.
However, the Beatles man, come on.
What the (beep), the Beatles?
You need to hop on Yellow Submarine.
God damn.
- So how have things been?
Maybe I was just put on this earth just to die.
Okay.
Like I'm not meant to find love or be happy.
I got you.
Like, I'm just supposed to die.
It do be like that sometimes.
(laughing)
It do be like that sometimes, but not all the time.
- It do be like that sometimes.
- It do be like that sometimes. That's cute, I like that.
- I feel like with millennials, we were kind of
protected in the sense that we were just kind of
entering our teenage years when social media became a thing.
And by social media, I mean like MySpace and Facebook.
But now there is like instant social media, right?
And Gen-Z is just like barricaded
with all of this stuff all the time.
And so if they, a lot of them are having problems
processing their feelings or they just become evil.
I get that. I get that.
- We'll be excellent therapists.
Our generation will be, because I feel
like we talk about mental health so much more,
we are activists for mental health.
So I think we will be equipped
with those skills from an early age.
- Is it terrifying?
Shit, I don't even know like I can't even tell you that.
(laughing)
- I have friends that, like, are getting married now.
And like, I'm just like, I've never had a boyfriend
and you're ready to like buy a house.
How do you be? How do you be? How do you be?
- You see like, I'm more terrified to not have kids
than to have kids, but not everyone is meant to have kids.
And I feel like that should be accepted.
- Yeah, man, I don't know.
I feel like I was way more worried about it when I was 15,
you know? And I think nowadays
I'm just kind of, you know, going with the flow.
It's fine if you don't come out like exactly as you wanted
when you're 15 or maybe, you know,
just because there's value
in every single outcome you can have.
- Do whatever you gotta do.
If the cat is what you want, the cat is what you want.
Nobody should pressure you to have kids anyways.
Just do what you gotta do and live your extra life, man.
- If you're not in the class, get out.
- Nope. Sorry.
- I'll call security.
- Please do because we have security, right? Please do.
- I don't need a disruptive student.
- I'm not disruptive. I sat my ass down.
Didn't say one word
- All you've done
- Oh (beep), what we gonna do now?
You (beep) boomer.
(background chatter)
- That's the energy I wish I had in high school.
- She has no chill.
Honestly, I have respect for her though.
I don't think I'd go off on a teacher like that
but definitely wanted to before I'm not even gonna lie.
- I don't know, I personally do not like people like that.
Like just sit down, like why cause all the disruption?
- I don't know what happened.
Here's the thing, a lot of people make assumptions
from videos they see, we didn't see the beginning.
Maybe she is rude or maybe he's just annoying.
I don't know, but ending with okay, Boomer.
She just like threw that insult in there about age,
which was not, it was not needed.
- I wish actually there was more
of an understanding between both sides
whether that be Gen-Zs, Millennials with Boomers.
I just feel like the bridge between it all is communicating
and understanding that, you know
like we grew up in a different time now, you know
I don't think we should devalue each other from that.
- I think it's important to really take a critical eye
to how media portrays each of these generations.
I know this is just TikTok,
it's meant to be silly and funny.
Lots of times if this is your only experience
to how Boomers act, how Gen-Z acts,
then of course that's how you're gonna think
that all of them are, so talk to people of other generations
and see what their experience is really like.
And don't get all of your experience through media
through TikTok and stuff like that.
That's something I feel challenged to do
after watching all of these things.
So I hope I can get even better at that.