WEBVTT - "Being An Influencer 🤳 & Bad Taste In Memes 🐸" Gen Z's 5 Biggest Icks

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex

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<v Speaker 1>and Frooms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Fumi's had far too many cookies on air. Her tummy hurt.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not unusual for for me to come to the

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<v Speaker 2>studio sick and unwell. For me, it is a rare

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<v Speaker 2>occasion that we've doubled up, unfortunately, but we will get

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<v Speaker 2>through it because we can do all things together. It's true,

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<v Speaker 2>we can. What we can also do together is discuss

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<v Speaker 2>and unpack some gen Z dating habits. My goodness, what

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<v Speaker 2>are the ages of gen Z? I think the oldest

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<v Speaker 2>gen Z would be twenty six or twenty seven right now?

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<v Speaker 2>Twenty seven to get twenty seven. So Frem's on the cusp.

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<v Speaker 1>I know that because I'm twenty eight, and that hurts me.

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<v Speaker 2>No, you're on the cusp, Energetic. No, she's not on

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<v Speaker 2>the cusp. We've got a key, we've got a representative.

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<v Speaker 2>Why would you throw me on the boulder of a

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<v Speaker 2>gen D spectrum. At my old job, we kept on

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<v Speaker 2>having these gen Z meetings and I was the only

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<v Speaker 2>ten Z there and I was sick of these customers

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<v Speaker 2>coming into the room.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, get out.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they tend to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>There's clinging on to their youth. Let it no, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>fully back in the millennial camp. Okay, okay. I enjoyed

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<v Speaker 1>the fruits of the labor of being friends with older people,

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<v Speaker 1>and now that the times come around, why am I

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<v Speaker 1>trying to lean into my ninety five heritage.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not for you. It's as someone who's been

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<v Speaker 2>in ninety four. I'm firmly a millennial, and I think

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<v Speaker 2>I'm quite millennial coded. That's called millennial at that but

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<v Speaker 2>millennial coded.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's the thing.

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<v Speaker 2>E Harmony is a dating app, not one that we use.

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<v Speaker 2>But what they do like and what I do appreciate,

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<v Speaker 2>is that they take the data that they mine from

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<v Speaker 2>their users and from the Internet broadly to create these

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<v Speaker 2>annual surveys that tell us about dating habits. So it's

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<v Speaker 2>not about presuming, it's about getting to the core. Their

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<v Speaker 2>topic of choice this year was gen Z and what

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<v Speaker 2>we found is you're just so strange. Now. The most

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<v Speaker 2>common social media turn off for gen Z singles is

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<v Speaker 2>overwhelmingly a bad taste in memes, with forty two percent

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<v Speaker 2>of people saying yuck. Discuss if you don't have the

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<v Speaker 2>same memes as me, then we cannot be together, followed

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<v Speaker 2>by being an influencer or that one hurts yeap, that

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<v Speaker 2>one that one's personal, follow by using gifts regularly, which

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<v Speaker 2>I'm quite funny about too. I don't really understand a

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<v Speaker 2>gift if a reaction image. Thirty one percent say a

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<v Speaker 2>turnoff is not having an active social media presence. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's like, if we use gifts, you're turning people off.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're not online, you're turning people off. You can't win.

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<v Speaker 2>And then the last one, which confused me, thirty percent

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<v Speaker 2>of gen Z singles say that sliding into dms before

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<v Speaker 2>meeting in real life is a turnoff.

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<v Speaker 1>What are you reading that correctly?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm reading that correctly. Wow, I paused when I read

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<v Speaker 2>it the first time. So it's very contradictory. You can't

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<v Speaker 2>do anything right. Fifty percent of gen Z singles survey

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<v Speaker 2>so they've got dating app fatigue, which is very unsurprising.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that number is quite low considering the reality

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<v Speaker 2>of what's going on in these apps. Fifty six percent

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<v Speaker 2>of single gen Z respondent said they've met at least

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<v Speaker 2>half of their romantic partners on social media and dating apps. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought they'd be much higher. Where are you guys

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<v Speaker 2>hanging out? Honey d Twenty five percent wait a few

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<v Speaker 2>months before sharing details about their relationship online, and twenty

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<v Speaker 2>one percent wait until they're exclusive, but thirteen percent don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Share anything at all. Bitter me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Literally.

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<v Speaker 2>The one thing that I knew about Frumi before we

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<v Speaker 2>became partners is that people are constantly speculating about Frumi's

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<v Speaker 2>sexuality and her dating status.

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<v Speaker 1>And will we confirm all tonight?

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<v Speaker 2>Know we will?

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<v Speaker 1>My ability girls and boys.

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<v Speaker 2>We shared a lot of harrowing information about dating and

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<v Speaker 2>romance broadly over the last two years, about how a

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<v Speaker 2>majority of men will be infertile by twenty sixty.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a big dramatic issue with like women not having

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<v Speaker 2>children and like what're going to do the population? People

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<v Speaker 2>aren't getting married like they used to, and then people

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<v Speaker 2>getting divorced at higher rates. There just seems to be

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<v Speaker 2>this big confusion with dating broadly, And it's only an

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<v Speaker 2>issue for me personally because I believe in my heart

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<v Speaker 2>of heart the only thing that will make life inherently.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoyable is a romantic partner.

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<v Speaker 2>No is to love and be loved, But I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think people have the wherewithal to explore that in their

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<v Speaker 2>platonic and professional and familiar relateationships, because a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>those things are quite set in stone, Like if you

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<v Speaker 2>have a very tense relationship with your mum, there's very

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<v Speaker 2>little you can do about that as an adult and

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<v Speaker 2>as like you know, it just is what it is.

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<v Speaker 2>If you found yourself raised in a regional town where

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<v Speaker 2>nobody relates to you because you exist on the fringes

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<v Speaker 2>of society, there's not a lot you can do in

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<v Speaker 2>your current circumstance. I think for a lot of people,

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<v Speaker 2>dating feels like a fresh go I get to try

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<v Speaker 2>new things to get this thing, this beacon, this prize.

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<v Speaker 2>But what's concerning me is that we're not learning. We're

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<v Speaker 2>not learning people. I reckon any single person right now

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<v Speaker 2>who is dating. If you surveyed them and said, are

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<v Speaker 2>you guilty a perpetuating behavior in dating that you dislike

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<v Speaker 2>in other people? Unanimous one hundred percent yes, and you

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<v Speaker 2>would think there should be joy in that self awareness.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not. It's not it's unbecoming, it's boring, it's lazy.

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<v Speaker 2>It's taking us so far from the prize.

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<v Speaker 1>We all know what we.

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<v Speaker 2>Want, we all know we want.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we all want that? Though?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm not saying we all want the same thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying we all know what we want. Yes, And

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<v Speaker 2>I think if we will prioritize that, like that eye

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<v Speaker 2>on the price, that is the vision, and we ensured

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<v Speaker 2>that everything aligned in a way to make that plausible, it.

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<v Speaker 1>Would work out.

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<v Speaker 2>There are plenty of people, So let's talk about the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that people don't want to be having children. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>whether you're an anti natalist, or you just don't have

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<v Speaker 2>the right income, or you are raised in a family environment,

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<v Speaker 2>that means that it's not really something you want to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever the reason is, the reality of the situation is

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<v Speaker 2>there are enough people who want to do it that

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<v Speaker 2>won't for fear of what it looks like, Oh, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to have a kid because like, oh I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just too progressive for that, or like that's outdated. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to get married, it's outdated. I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to be I don't want I don't want to be

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<v Speaker 2>single forever because people are gonna think I'm a spinster.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like, get out of that. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.

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<v Speaker 2>This is like the.

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<v Speaker 1>Overcorrection from main character syndrome.

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<v Speaker 2>You're not living your life for consumption unless you literally are,

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<v Speaker 2>but you are of zero point zero one percent if

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<v Speaker 2>you are.

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<v Speaker 1>And then if we are, what do we have to do?

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<v Speaker 2>But even if you are living your life with consumption,

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<v Speaker 2>remove those people out of the equation. That leaves ninety

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<v Speaker 2>nine percent of the rest of the world. You get

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<v Speaker 2>to live your life simply for you. And yet there's

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<v Speaker 2>this imaginary spectator who you're performing for, who's dictating what

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<v Speaker 2>you can and can't do.

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<v Speaker 1>It pains me to know that a lot of us

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<v Speaker 1>are going to get to the end of our life

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<v Speaker 1>and be like, done what I wanted?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, my God, should have done what I wanted?

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<v Speaker 1>So is the point to text that person?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, if you want to dwindle down everything I

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<v Speaker 2>said to that sure, text them.

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