Meaning of millennial pause | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
   Internet, neologism
2. Alternative letter-case form of millennial pause.
   alt-of

Examples

“Apparently, 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.”

“Ekin-Su doesn't flatten herself to widen her appeal to audiences. It's even more obvious, now that she's out of the villa, that she had minimal IG career aspirations going in — she and Davide both are endearingly bad at social media (check Ekin's IG Story and you're likely to find millennial pauses, the comic sans font, and 2012-style selfie angles).”

“Apparently, 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.”

“As Millennials overtake Boomers as the most embarrassing generation — the most recent focus of slagging by the younger Gen Z is the “Millennial pause”, which is that excruciating two seconds that pass in a smartphone video while a thirtysomething is checking to make sure they’re recording themselves — I’m reminded of the phrase “adulting”.”

“From embarrassing Millennial poses to the dreaded Millennial pause, and even just the simple boundaries you put (or don't, in my case) around apps like Instagram, there's plenty I do wrong on a weekly, or even daily basis.”

“As the mannerism is somewhat exclusive to those born in and around the 2000s, it's being cast as this generation’s Millennial pause.”

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