We explain why every non‐trivial exact tensor functor on the triangulated category of mixed motives over a field double-struckF has zero kernel, if one assumes ‘all’ motivic conjectures. In other words, every non‐zero motive generates the whole category up to the tensor triangulated structure. Under the same assumptions, we also give a complete classification of triangulated étale motives over double-struckF with integral coefficients, up to the tensor triangulated structure, in terms of the characteristic and the orderings of double-struckF.