Kelly Williams Brown Millennials

In the video “Millennials: Why are They the Worst?” by Kelly Williams Brown, she persuades an audience of highly educated people about why millennials are not as bad as people think. Usually when thinking of a millennial a picture of someone who is always on their phone or social media pops up, but just because we have these advances in technology does not mean we are entitled or all about ourselves. Brown is effective in presenting that we are not these things to the intended audience, because she can back up her claims with excerpts or her own knowledge on the topic. Although what Brown talks about in this video may be controversial between generations, Brown is also effective in saying that all millennials are the same, whether we like to
Brown walks onto the stage telling her audience to hold on a second because she is busy on her phone. She then precedes to take a picture of herself and then upload it to Instagram so that everyone can see what she is up to (Brown). Brown acts this tiny section out because it gives a good foreshadowing effect for the audience. The audience is a group of highly educated individuals and just by the title would know what the talk is about. By opening her presentation this way, Brown shows the audience that she wants to focus her talk about millennials in the social media aspect. Later in the video though she goes on to explain that the only difference between millennials and older generations is the gadgets we have available to our generation today (Brown). The reason Brown mentions this is because over thirty years ago, before the age of millennials, people didn’t have the same technology and social networking sites as generations do today. Most of the audience in the room would say millennials act the way they do because of the technology in today’s world. In reality, we act the way we do because our parents acted the same way and it has just passes on from generation to
Brown read from Time Magazine that “They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike the Himalayas than climb the corporate ladder. They crave entertainment, but their attention span is as short as a zap of the T.V. dial.” which was written in 1990 (Brown). She shows this piece of information to the audience because Brown believes it is more eye catching than accurate of millennials. Brown also believes that this excerpt is not what people are truly saying about millennials, but are just made up to make millennials seem worse than they really are. Brown then flows into saying what people are really saying about millennials by using information from the New York post saying “Yes they are absolutely the worst generation” and she also goes on to say that “it is the first time we hear the ‘e’ word when it comes to millennials,” which in this case means entitlement. (Brown) Brown stress the importance of the word entitlement because this is the single most important word that falsely describes millennials. She even likes to play a game with the word entitlement by seeing how far she can get into an article before finding it. Brown does this because the word entitlement is the most used adjective for describing millennials than any other word she had read from an excerpt. The game Brown has made up shows just how bad news sources and writers portray millennials in