Millennials' Childhood Nostalgia and Investigative Skills
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This is a short-form video format video with a creator discussing how millennials' childhood experiences watching crime shows and mysteries have honed their investigative skills. The creator is seated in a car and speaking directly to the camera, with text overlays reinforcing the spoken content.
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Millennials could run the FBI at this point. We were watching Law & Order, Judge Judy, Jerry Springer, Maury, COPS, and Unsolved Mysteries, my all-time favorite. Before we were even old enough to stay home alone, by age 10, we knew how to solve a murder, identify a liar from one facial expression, and figure out why this guy was cheating on this woman with five different women, including her best friend and possibly her cousin. There were no parental controls, no content warnings, and definitely no asking, is this show age appropriate? Our parents just handed us a snack and left us to investigate the case. So yes, Gen Z might be a little bit better with technology, but we have been profiling suspects since elementary school. Someone just needs to give us a badge already.
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