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Millennial Pause
The millennial pause is a pause in speaking at the start of some videos, especially in short-form content and on social media apps such as TikTok. The pause is generally ascribed to millennials, the generation of people born from the early-mid 1980s to mid-1990s. The phenomenon is an example of the digital generation gap between millennials and subsequent generations. Observation The term "millennial pause" is attributed to TikTok user nisipisa, a millennial who posted a TikTok video on 26 November 2021, pointing out that Taylor Swift, a millennial singer, includes such pauses at the start of her videos. Kate Lindsay of ''The Atlantic'', a millennial, stated that this pause is becoming more noticeable as short-form content, short-form videos are becoming more prevalent on the social network Instagram, instant messaging app Snapchat, and online video platform YouTube. Videos by people other than millennials have also been described as exhibiting a millennial pause; ''Parade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short-form Content
Short-form content (also known as short-form videos) are short videos, often from movies or entertainment videos, that are published on platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and others. Short-form content has become popular among young people, especially those of Generation Z and Alpha, shaping modern internet culture. Short-form content gained some popularity in the 2010s before becoming even more popular in the 2020s, especially with the creation of platforms such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc. Most short-form content today is usually shown as a vertical video up to a few minutes long (3 minutes maximum for YouTube Shorts content ). They can contain snippets of videos taken out of context and made as memes. Sometimes short-form content can be used to attract the public to the user's other accounts or their other long-form contents. On the Internet Short videos became popular in the 2010s. Snapchat started allowing users to share 10-second videos i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |