millennial pause

See also: Millennial pause

English

millennial pause (plural millennial pauses)

(Internet, social media, neologism) A brief pause taken 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).
- 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 August 16, Katja Vujić, “An Ode to Ekin-Su, TV's Best Reality Star”, in The Cut‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-05-10:
  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).