Name: Does Gen-Z Have a Victim Mentality?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Does Gen-Z Have a Victim Mentality?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Does Gen-Z Have a Victim Mentality?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-23. Transcript available.

now you have a youtube channel where you kind of talk it seems like to a lot of
like gen z is that
kind of safe to say gen z millennial okay what is the number one thing that
they are going into
dead over now in america cars man cars everything's drivable infrastructure
here so you have no choice
but to get a car you need a car to get a job to pay for the car right they kind
of locked us into
that huh yeah when i was a kid they had you felt like you had to have a job
right and my mom or my
um you know i was raised by my mom she always had a job she had a job like i
don't think she only had
like she just it was always work you know and parents would have been ashamed
if they didn't
have a job do do the younger generations feel that same way like people that
you're talking to do they
have that same feeling about work no there's something really interesting
happening in our
culture right now that i cannot define super well i always mess up with the
words
infantile infantilization infantilization yes okay thank you a lot of people i
don't know everyone's
like i'm 19 i'm still a child there's a lot of that conversations that i'm
having on my show and
honestly i didn't notice it too much until i started my doing my show and then
you know being a little
active on reddit or twitter it's like everyone's really acting like they're a
kid until they're like
25 now i don't really know baby syndrome kind of yeah i was so excited to be 18
and have my freedom
and just go make money do what i want go to college figure it out and there's
so many learning lessons
you get during that time period but now it's like i'm a child not everyone but
it definitely feels like
a cultural shift huh you know those um predator like beating videos online oh
yeah there's so many of
yeah one thing that's i i just saw yesterday on twitter uh or x that was just
kind of demonstrating
what happens when gen z meets with those predator beating videos they lured
someone you know as usual
to meet uh underage person to beat the crap out of the person but the gen z
people lured a 21 year old
to meet an 18 year old and beat the shit out of the 21 year old for meeting an
18 year old because it's a
huge crazy underage 18 year old who's a child right so we must beat the crap
out of the 21 it's really
weird like what are you saying like that was just like they can't even do that
right you're saying like
no it's just it's it's thinking that oh i see it says it says five worst to sir
worst set worst sester
worst sister oh brandon's on it students charged after mob beats up falsely
accused child predator
and that's in woos oh i'm sorry i know this place worcester mass five students
from assumption
university in worcester are facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting a man
for a tick tock
inspired to catch a predator police are saying that the man did nothing wrong
as court documents
state the man went to meet a woman who was listed as 18 years old online so so
what are we saying here
are we saying the school would not say what disciplinary action if any may take
first of all
the math department should take action against these against these fucking
predators yeah because you have
to at least be a predator yes you can't just i mean it's so hard to meet people
now and this guy
finally comes out of his house to meet somebody and he gets jumped that's crazy
but no you're seeing
it all over social media right now but what are you saying about this i'm
saying that they think
you're still a child at 18 and 19 and 20 oh i see you're saying so that you
think part of that was
this yeah i mean they're talking about age gaps if you're dating with someone
two years like over two
years people are freaking out now online it's crazy the pearl clutching is wild
online right now lots of
just like over sensationalize right everything right now but i'm seeing that in
these conversations
where people are like 20 and they think they're still a child they don't have
to there's no
responsibility yet they can just lean on everyone around them their family and
they just don't have
to take care of anything yet and that it's kind of hard to see but that case
that we just saw
is further demonstrating that impacting other parts of the culture as well like
we're seeing it across
the board there's also this on tiktok especially there's like this victim olympic
stuff going on
where people are trying to over victimize like i'm more of a victim than you
from this thing and it's
like it's just it's an always over just stepping over each other on who's the
biggest victim i i it's
so funny you say that i saw something like this i love i love where you're at
man because even some
of the things you're saying it's like things that i couldn't um you're just at
this really unique
intersection i think um i just wanted to say that i'm just realizing that more
as i talk to you
um but yeah i'll see things it's like yeah the fires are really bad but
realizing that it's been
11 days since your boyfriend texted you back right and you're like and someone
will be walking down
the street with flames in the back but they're making it about them and their
boyfriend or something
you know it's crazy or i hope my door dasher is okay um it looks dangerous out
here today and
they'll be from their balcony looking for their taco order and there's
buildings on fire like what are we
fucking i don't know man turn on your stove and also leave and go rescue
yourself you're gonna risk
it all for some raviolis yeah it's just it's almost like people don't even feel
like they're gonna die
it's almost like um yeah some before we get before i go off on too much of a
tangent whose fault do you
think that is that there's some of that mentality right is it the parents or is
it just society who's
where are you finding the fault of that you know i haven't seen parents like
talk about it so i don't
see them doing i'm sure there's always an impact right but i think a lot of the
tiktokification of
things and i love tiktok i mean we got a billion views on tiktok last year you
know i'm happy well
thank you but like even still there's i've seen videos of examples of people
talking about a story
from their past and they're just sharing a story about something that was just
you know slightly
inconvenient and then people go in their comment sections and say no actually
you're a victim
you're a victim of all this that this that like there there was some tiktok i
was watching i don't
know i think i was watching a reaction to it someone was talking about how they
had an awkward
hand-holding experience when they were in high school and people were going
through the comments
like no you were and it's like fuck me yeah and they're just i don't know it's
just this enabling
or knuckle shit like stuff like that you're like that's
what are you gonna do a swab kit now on my hand you know it's very interesting
so people it's it's just
kind of this reoccurring thing where just everyone's trying to one-up each
other on the victim scale
but also trying to tell other people that they're victims it's really
interesting but we're also
starting to see a little bit of a cultural shift in it i feel like where like
not everyone's like
respected immediately who comes out of the gate and just like you know tries to
act like this big
victim right all the time especially other creators that try to come out and be
like i'm a big victim
from this other creator who like said something bad about me and then you can
clearly see when you
like look at their social blade and that video they made was their most popular
video of all time i'm like
oh wonder why they did that right so now they're oh if somebody gets uh views
off of victimhood
yeah in some ways i mean but i think you saw go ahead a little shitty part is
it actually just
diminishes like real victims oh for sure well i mean we had a prime example we
called the episode
our our titles are wild but someone finally walks off financial audit i guess
that's actually not that
someone finally what you said walks off financial audit okay and uh one of her
big like she was a
perpetual victim throughout her life uh one of her big things is she sat down
and we were talking about
creating a better income for her and she said my therapist told me i can't have
a boss
so she can't work ever because she's not able to have any kind of authority
around her because it would
make her to feel too triggered or something yeah right so she just couldn't
have a boss ever also
she can't do any physical activity or labor or anything so has to sit down and
do her veterinary
stuff from her house but won't get hired and half of her resume by the way was
like activist stuff
anyway so like someone you'd be a little afraid of hiring because you don't
know what they're going to
going to do to the culture of the company so she's not going to get hired but
she also can't have a boss
right but she kind of low-key does have a boss if she's listening to her
therapist because then the
therapist is like well you're going to pay me and you're you almost become an
employee of your
therapist in some ways i'm not saying that's exactly what happened but
sometimes that will happen to
people and then yeah people are like i can't lift anything heavy because like
in a past life i was a
weight lifter or something who was injured and you're like well we got to get
the boxes on the shelves
okay like it is difficult yeah and she may have had a physical disability with
that but not having
not have not being able to have a boss like you can't just but then complain
about how everything's
bad and i let's be honest there's no way her therapist told her she shouldn't
have a boss yeah
a therapist wouldn't say that yeah well at times you'll pay and then you you'll
but that book that
kind of becomes a um like an emotional race card in a way sometimes where
people are like uh yeah my
therapist said that you know yeah absolutely i mean she was lost all over the
place so i'm not surprised but
again she was also another victim kind of in her relationship she was dating a
dude for eight
years they got married but she decided two weeks into her marriage she wants to
try titties you know
just on the other side date women you mean yeah okay yeah just go to the other
side and hang out a
little bit uh you don't want to so he's a bad person for leaving her because
she wanted to
you know date women two weeks into marriage right you can't just be funding
lesbianism if you don't want
to be yeah it's like you can support it but if your wife leaves you you shouldn't
still have to be the
guy funding it yeah or if you don't want to be open especially yeah yeah yeah
you want to commit a
relationship so he's the bad guy because right so a lot of blame yeah two weeks
into marriage yeah
people people bag on gen z a lot you know i think there's always that thing
where it's like we're
bagging on the next generation but uh i was looking at um a statistic the other
day where um gen z is like the
average job they keep it for two like two and a half years and it's only six
months less than
millennials kept their job sure you know so it's not like gen zers can't work
or that they're not working
you know sometimes that's a lot of the energy that's out there well you know
the crazy thing can
you look up what gen z thinks they need to live have you seen this this shit's
crazy and i'm kind of
gen z i'm like in that middle so i can should talk both sides well that wasn't
the nest that wasn't
the report that came out but google ai is telling us something there we go see
uh yahoo right there
they think they need five hundred thousand dollars a year to be successful okay
go to that mom generation
z thinks it needs half a million dollars a year to succeed wow that part's
crazy half a million dollars
um they pay fourth and i was uh let me see armandar here harvard howard and her
fiancee together earn
more than two hundred thousand dollars a 28 year old knows that's more money
than the vast majority
of americans make yet the los angeles couple still live about half an hour's
drive from their pricier
neighborhoods where most of their friends live they pay four thousand dollars a
month in rent on top
of her 450 student payment their 400 car payment and the 200 she sends home to
her family in indonesia
so they're saying that they need uh the zillennial she's at the cusp of millennial
generation and gen z
set aside 10 percent of her income for retirement as a well healthy monthly
budget of 500 for
entertainment and dining out which she said comes to the side of guilt as
bigger financial goals
continually loom in this economy she said a household income of 500 000 between
two people
would be very comfortable very comfortable it would be very comfortable yeah it
would be very
comfortable and that's also there man that's los angeles yeah that's fair but
like the median
household income in the united states is like sixty thousand dollars you know
right one thing i think
that tells me specifically though zillennial like i'm a zillennial you know in
between that era
i didn't have a job during the great recession i didn't need to i was a kid
what that tells me
thinking they need 500 000 a year is that there's about to be a big awakening
when my generation and the
people around me go through our actual first recession and you realize that
okay maybe living
isn't about being able to get you know five cups of coffee a day that isn't the
requirement for life
i want you to do it yes but for them that is full comfort where you know
throughout most of human
civilization we're just trying to survive yeah and we are very comfortable
right now yeah it's a
comfortable world man i mean america is a comfortable place you know i know it's
on it feels uncomfortable
a lot of times certainly in comparison to other people's lives but yeah it's
like most of us have
food you know we have clothing you know we have a place to sleep and yeah that
like internet in the
world that is opulence uh like a demonstration of this i was dating someone
from venezuela for a
little bit oh wow okay i know exotic and she one thing she was telling me about
our culture i was
like asking what's different about this culture versus the different cultures
she lived in all
over the world when she was escaping venezuela and she says you know things are
good in america
because of how much we focus on the minor little social issue for everything
when you have the luxury
to focus on um tran stuff or not just that like okay so zuckerberg right
yesterday he announced that
tampons are leaving men's bathroom or whatever like i i don't care either way
whatever but the fact
that that is able to be such a major thing that we're freaking out about when
you have that in a
culture that's how you know everything else is pretty damn okay because we're
allowed to focus
our energy on that and not just making sure that half the country isn't
starving yeah or sometimes that
the media is tricking us too by saying like this is what we should be talking
about you know yeah but click yeah
Thank you.

Does Gen-Z Have a Victim Mentality?

now you have a youtube channel where you kind of talk it seems like to a lot of
like gen z is that
kind of safe to say gen z millennial okay what is the number one thing that
they are going into
dead over now in america cars man cars everything's drivable infrastructure
here so you have no choice
but to get a car you need a car to get a job to pay for the car right they kind
of locked us into
that huh yeah when i was a kid they had you felt like you had to have a job
right and my mom or my
um you know i was raised by my mom she always had a job she had a job like i
don't think she only had
like she just it was always work you know and parents would have been ashamed
if they didn't
have a job do do the younger generations feel that same way like people that
you're talking to do they
have that same feeling about work no there's something really interesting
happening in our
culture right now that i cannot define super well i always mess up with the
words
infantile infantilization infantilization yes okay thank you a lot of people i
don't know everyone's
like i'm 19 i'm still a child there's a lot of that conversations that i'm
having on my show and
honestly i didn't notice it too much until i started my doing my show and then
you know being a little
active on reddit or twitter it's like everyone's really acting like they're a
kid until they're like
25 now i don't really know baby syndrome kind of yeah i was so excited to be 18
and have my freedom
and just go make money do what i want go to college figure it out and there's
so many learning lessons
you get during that time period but now it's like i'm a child not everyone but
it definitely feels like
a cultural shift huh you know those um predator like beating videos online oh
yeah there's so many of
yeah one thing that's i i just saw yesterday on twitter uh or x that was just
kind of demonstrating
what happens when gen z meets with those predator beating videos they lured
someone you know as usual
to meet uh underage person to beat the crap out of the person but the gen z
people lured a 21 year old
to meet an 18 year old and beat the shit out of the 21 year old for meeting an
18 year old because it's a
huge crazy underage 18 year old who's a child right so we must beat the crap
out of the 21 it's really
weird like what are you saying like that was just like they can't even do that
right you're saying like
no it's just it's it's thinking that oh i see it says it says five worst to sir
worst set worst sester
worst sister oh brandon's on it students charged after mob beats up falsely
accused child predator
and that's in woos oh i'm sorry i know this place worcester mass five students
from assumption
university in worcester are facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting a man
for a tick tock
inspired to catch a predator police are saying that the man did nothing wrong
as court documents
state the man went to meet a woman who was listed as 18 years old online so so
what are we saying here
are we saying the school would not say what disciplinary action if any may take
first of all
the math department should take action against these against these fucking
predators yeah because you have
to at least be a predator yes you can't just i mean it's so hard to meet people
now and this guy
finally comes out of his house to meet somebody and he gets jumped that's crazy
but no you're seeing
it all over social media right now but what are you saying about this i'm
saying that they think
you're still a child at 18 and 19 and 20 oh i see you're saying so that you
think part of that was
this yeah i mean they're talking about age gaps if you're dating with someone
two years like over two
years people are freaking out now online it's crazy the pearl clutching is wild
online right now lots of
just like over sensationalize right everything right now but i'm seeing that in
these conversations
where people are like 20 and they think they're still a child they don't have
to there's no
responsibility yet they can just lean on everyone around them their family and
they just don't have
to take care of anything yet and that it's kind of hard to see but that case
that we just saw
is further demonstrating that impacting other parts of the culture as well like
we're seeing it across
the board there's also this on tiktok especially there's like this victim olympic
stuff going on
where people are trying to over victimize like i'm more of a victim than you
from this thing and it's
like it's just it's an always over just stepping over each other on who's the
biggest victim i i it's
so funny you say that i saw something like this i love i love where you're at
man because even some
of the things you're saying it's like things that i couldn't um you're just at
this really unique
intersection i think um i just wanted to say that i'm just realizing that more
as i talk to you
um but yeah i'll see things it's like yeah the fires are really bad but
realizing that it's been
11 days since your boyfriend texted you back right and you're like and someone
will be walking down
the street with flames in the back but they're making it about them and their
boyfriend or something
you know it's crazy or i hope my door dasher is okay um it looks dangerous out
here today and
they'll be from their balcony looking for their taco order and there's
buildings on fire like what are we
fucking i don't know man turn on your stove and also leave and go rescue
yourself you're gonna risk
it all for some raviolis yeah it's just it's almost like people don't even feel
like they're gonna die
it's almost like um yeah some before we get before i go off on too much of a
tangent whose fault do you
think that is that there's some of that mentality right is it the parents or is
it just society who's
where are you finding the fault of that you know i haven't seen parents like
talk about it so i don't
see them doing i'm sure there's always an impact right but i think a lot of the
tiktokification of
things and i love tiktok i mean we got a billion views on tiktok last year you
know i'm happy well
thank you but like even still there's i've seen videos of examples of people
talking about a story
from their past and they're just sharing a story about something that was just
you know slightly
inconvenient and then people go in their comment sections and say no actually
you're a victim
you're a victim of all this that this that like there there was some tiktok i
was watching i don't
know i think i was watching a reaction to it someone was talking about how they
had an awkward
hand-holding experience when they were in high school and people were going
through the comments
like no you were and it's like fuck me yeah and they're just i don't know it's
just this enabling
or knuckle shit like stuff like that you're like that's
what are you gonna do a swab kit now on my hand you know it's very interesting
so people it's it's just
kind of this reoccurring thing where just everyone's trying to one-up each
other on the victim scale
but also trying to tell other people that they're victims it's really
interesting but we're also
starting to see a little bit of a cultural shift in it i feel like where like
not everyone's like
respected immediately who comes out of the gate and just like you know tries to
act like this big
victim right all the time especially other creators that try to come out and be
like i'm a big victim
from this other creator who like said something bad about me and then you can
clearly see when you
like look at their social blade and that video they made was their most popular
video of all time i'm like
oh wonder why they did that right so now they're oh if somebody gets uh views
off of victimhood
yeah in some ways i mean but i think you saw go ahead a little shitty part is
it actually just
diminishes like real victims oh for sure well i mean we had a prime example we
called the episode
our our titles are wild but someone finally walks off financial audit i guess
that's actually not that
someone finally what you said walks off financial audit okay and uh one of her
big like she was a
perpetual victim throughout her life uh one of her big things is she sat down
and we were talking about
creating a better income for her and she said my therapist told me i can't have
a boss
so she can't work ever because she's not able to have any kind of authority
around her because it would
make her to feel too triggered or something yeah right so she just couldn't
have a boss ever also
she can't do any physical activity or labor or anything so has to sit down and
do her veterinary
stuff from her house but won't get hired and half of her resume by the way was
like activist stuff
anyway so like someone you'd be a little afraid of hiring because you don't
know what they're going to
going to do to the culture of the company so she's not going to get hired but
she also can't have a boss
right but she kind of low-key does have a boss if she's listening to her
therapist because then the
therapist is like well you're going to pay me and you're you almost become an
employee of your
therapist in some ways i'm not saying that's exactly what happened but
sometimes that will happen to
people and then yeah people are like i can't lift anything heavy because like
in a past life i was a
weight lifter or something who was injured and you're like well we got to get
the boxes on the shelves
okay like it is difficult yeah and she may have had a physical disability with
that but not having
not have not being able to have a boss like you can't just but then complain
about how everything's
bad and i let's be honest there's no way her therapist told her she shouldn't
have a boss yeah
a therapist wouldn't say that yeah well at times you'll pay and then you you'll
but that book that
kind of becomes a um like an emotional race card in a way sometimes where
people are like uh yeah my
therapist said that you know yeah absolutely i mean she was lost all over the
place so i'm not surprised but
again she was also another victim kind of in her relationship she was dating a
dude for eight
years they got married but she decided two weeks into her marriage she wants to
try titties you know
just on the other side date women you mean yeah okay yeah just go to the other
side and hang out a
little bit uh you don't want to so he's a bad person for leaving her because
she wanted to
you know date women two weeks into marriage right you can't just be funding
lesbianism if you don't want
to be yeah it's like you can support it but if your wife leaves you you shouldn't
still have to be the
guy funding it yeah or if you don't want to be open especially yeah yeah yeah
you want to commit a
relationship so he's the bad guy because right so a lot of blame yeah two weeks
into marriage yeah
people people bag on gen z a lot you know i think there's always that thing
where it's like we're
bagging on the next generation but uh i was looking at um a statistic the other
day where um gen z is like the
average job they keep it for two like two and a half years and it's only six
months less than
millennials kept their job sure you know so it's not like gen zers can't work
or that they're not working
you know sometimes that's a lot of the energy that's out there well you know
the crazy thing can
you look up what gen z thinks they need to live have you seen this this shit's
crazy and i'm kind of
gen z i'm like in that middle so i can should talk both sides well that wasn't
the nest that wasn't
the report that came out but google ai is telling us something there we go see
uh yahoo right there
they think they need five hundred thousand dollars a year to be successful okay
go to that mom generation
z thinks it needs half a million dollars a year to succeed wow that part's
crazy half a million dollars
um they pay fourth and i was uh let me see armandar here harvard howard and her
fiancee together earn
more than two hundred thousand dollars a 28 year old knows that's more money
than