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Millennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift
Adam Conover's talk at a millennial marketing conference argues that generations are an unscientific, condescending idea and that millennials do not exist as a real category. The description notes that researcher Jean Twenge later said he misrepresented some of her work.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it when arguing that generational labels are marketing inventions used to belittle groups.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Adam Conover
- Topic
- generational stereotypes
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Agreed. My favorite quote was "In some ways I love being a millennial, because it’s so much easier to be better than the rest of our generation" I can't tell if this statement supports or contradicts the rest of the article, but regardless, this bears …
fattire on Hacker News · 2016-07
In I’m a millennial and my generation sucksMillennials don't exist, according to Adam Conover: [VIDEO] I'm careful using the word "Millennial" these days and increasingly skeptical of online articles with the word "Millennial" in the title. Thanks to shows like Adam Ruins Everything[1], I am more informed on a variety of topics. …
zerognowl on Hacker News · 2016-11
In 3 Out of 4 Millennials Have Received Financial Help from Parents After CollegeI still see the term 'millennial fashion' and 'the noughties' been thrown around, but these are meaningless terms. Here's an interesting talk by Adam Conover debunking the term millennial: [VIDEO]
sr2 on Hacker News · 2017-06
In Decades
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