Which is why, as short-form video comes to Instagram (Reels), YouTube (Shorts), and Snapchat (Spotlight), the Millennial pause is becoming easier to spot. ![]() Gen Zers make up a larger portion of TikTok’s base, and have grown up filming themselves enough to trust that they’re recording correctly. “God! Will she ever stop being relatable,” herself a Millennial, says. Last year, a 28-year-old YouTuber and TikToker who lives in Boston, coined the term in a TikTok about how even Taylor Swift can’t avoid the cringey pause in her videos. Or so I thought.Īpparently, I’m still guilty of the “Millennial pause.” After hitting “Record,” I wait a split second before I start speaking, just to make sure that TikTok is actually recording. I took the plunge only after practicing enough to eliminate any telltale signs that I was a near-30-year-old trying to be cool. ![]() I’d press “Record,” mumble into the camera, and hastily hit delete before anyone could see just how awkward I was on video. ![]() It took me two years to post my first TikTok. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.
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