Millennials and the Internet as it relates to Professional Success

Older generations grew up in a different atmosphere than we millennials do and did. Baby Boomer and Gen X generation artists and storytellers who have made  brands out of their names and works say your Jhonen Vasquezes, Todd McFarlanes, Stan Lees, Jim Lees, George Lucases, and Tim Burtons, had to achieve the bulk of their success, be it animation or comic book work, the old Fashioned way, WITH NO Social media or internet technology. With mostly just word processors, art supplies, wealthy connections, and agents and producers they submitted their work to. Well that, or they snuck onto a Hollywood studio lot illegally and set up office. Looking at you Spielberg.....

One interesting development I've noticed is we're all going to get to watch how the Millennial Generation of Entertainers, Media Tycoons, Brands, Auteurs, and Creator Writers and Artists, and filmmakers and broadcasters, ultimately achieve social, financial, and material success WITH the aid of the internet, but ALSO starting with what is often nothing and no money. It's going to be interesting to see how the power of the internet generation both helps, aids, hassles, and hinders the millennial generation of storytellers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, designers, and artists. This generation will have to work hard too, just like previous ones if they want to really get anywhere in this world, but in many ways my generation has more utilitarian based resources that can aid young people pathway to a career, money, status, and success.

THIS generation of young adults, the current one, is growing up in a different world, with different challenges and advantages than their predecessors, and will be inheriting this world within the worldwide shadow of the Internet and social media.

It will be interesting to watch this generational, social, economical, and technological shift and seeing the hypothetical torch passed to the first major generation of young adults of THIS Century and Millennium. The Millennials of the 21st Century and early 2000s.