A phenomenon called 'the millennial pause' is doing the rounds - and I'm sure we've all seen it happen before.

The battle of the generations continue, with different behaviours and online tendencies being pointed out by any one of the main three generations that occupy social media - those being: Generation Z, Millennials and Generation X.

It's got to the point where Gen Z have started pointing out the difference between their own slang and old, uncool Millennial slang.

Agree to disagree though, as I firmly believe that there should be a mini generation in-between Z and Millennials, because those of us born in that transitional period got a slice of both - hopefully my fellow 'zillenials' back me up on that.

Anyway, it looks like a certain mannerism has been spotted by Gen Z'ers on Reddit, and it's all to do with their bitter rivals - the Millennials.

Before you Millennials start replacing your 'got game' shouts with 'rizz' (which is now in the dictionary), and getting rid of your 'vibes' for 'type beats', it's worth listening up to this particular mannerism though, because cutting it out could make you look less old - if that's what you want, anyway.

It's all to do with how you are when you're being filmed. (Getty Stock Photo)

Labelled 'the Millennial pause', it's all to do with how you are when a camera begins recording, more specifically your own camera, when you click record on front camera.

It is so common, in fact, that it has its own Wikipedia page, which defines it as 'a pause in speaking at the start of some videos, especially in short-form content and on social media apps such as TikTok'.

So though it's not just aimed at Millennials, the name has been used to slander them anyway.

You've definitely seen it on the likes on Instagram and TikTok, when someone has started recording a video, they don't cut it at all, leaving the motion of them clicking recording and getting in position in silence.

They then take a beat and begin talking, after which they will probably silently lean forwards and stop recording.

After looking back at that video, they will happily green light it and post it online for millions to see.

Taylor Swift is apparently known for this, I mean why else would she be the face of the Wikipedia page about it? (George Pimentel/WireImage)

And users on Reddit were split over it being a generational thing, though several comments garnered thousands of upvotes as the conversation got heated.

One person joked: "Well duh, it takes a sec for the tape to engage the recording head."

While another said: "This is obviously because some cameras to this day will have a delay before recording after you press go. it was even worse for phones when millennials were growing up."

A third pointed out: "I know millennials get made fun of, but this is SO much better than the Gen Z style of videos where they always seem surprised that someone (themselves) started videoing them halfway through their sentence."

Don't worry though, as Gen Z'ers were more chipper in the comments, as one final joke from a user said: "I thought you were supposed to say 'is this thing on' or 'is it recording' then acting awkward for 5 seconds."

Classic.