Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

What does Night Ventures Investor Emily Herrera think about the pressure for Gen Z to be creators?

5 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational excerpt, the hosts discuss the social pressure faced by Gen Z—and earlier generations like millennials—to become online creators. Speaker A asks about the feeling that being offline is now seen as rebellious, while Speaker B reflects that millennials experienced a similar tension: they want to stay connected and not miss out, yet resist constant online engagement. The dialogue highlights the cultural expectation to produce content and remain in the digital loop, framing offline disengagement as a form of rebellion.

What do you think about the pressure for young people to be creators? So there's all these stats about like people wanting to be creators, but can you talk a little bit about your thoughts on like there may be like a social pressure to like be online? It's kind of like rebellious to be offline. Let's talk about that.
Yeah, totally. I think about this constantly because I think it's a similar pressure for, for honestly millennials, because millennials They don't want to be online, but then they don't want to be out of the loop. It's like they don't want to be left behind, but it's like the online medium doesn't necessarily—
like, they're kind of like, okay, okay.
Yeah, I think that's more of a mishap on like general media not really covering online culture correctly. So I think people unnecessarily feel like they have to be like creating and interacting and blah blah blah, but realistically you don't really have to.