Millennial pause

See also: millennial pause

English

Noun

Millennial pause (plural Millennial pauses)

Alternative letter-case form of millennial pause.
- 2022 August 6, Kate Lindsay, “Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ’Millennial Pause’?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-31:
  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.
- 2022 September 10, Emer McLysaght, “So much admin, too many taxes – adulthood is a crushing disappointment Emer McLysaght”, in The Irish Times‎^[2], Dublin, archived from the original on 2022-09-10, page 3:
  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”.
- 2022 September 30, Alison Izzo, “There are big pros and cons to using Instagram's Close Friends function to lure your crush”, in Body + Soul‎^[3], news.com.au, archived from the original on 2023-10-01:
  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.
- 2023 February 22, Amy Francombe, “Unpacking the Gen Z shake”, in i-D‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-03-20:
  As the mannerism is somewhat exclusive to those born in and around the 2000s, it's being cast as this generation’s Millennial pause.