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My late Wife insisted upon Gen Y being a legit cultural thing, and i agree. She worked on the original Assassin's Creed, lived through "Troubles" Era bombings, was a hacker of sorts, and is very much missed...but...entirely different from Gen X.

born in 88 here. i will say "millennial" in itself was vague and nebulous. i never actually heard of the term untill we were all already adults and the most i heard of anything specific was "oh what do we call this generation now? we cant keep saying gen x because there's now 40-60 year olds claiming to be gen-x. we gotta do something special to reflect the new digital age culture of so many kinds of media" and the term i actually heard proposed was "mosaic" generation to reflect being surrounded by so many media sources at once, we had tv playng, media player playing, laptop, and the new and trendy pda/cellphone hybrid we now call smartphones. all of this all at once

Us Gen Y were bamboozled on opportunity and ideology, depending on location and values. I was told to fight like Malcolm X, Gandhi, and other human/civil rights leaders of the 20th Century. Knowing that was so 1965 and my values were over 50 years old and have to start over on what to believe in and/or how to make money in today's world. Yep....that was something alright. Good video, James.

There does seem to be more of an attempt among people I’ve spoken to to distinguish between older millennials (Gen-Y) and younger ones. The most recent form of this seems to be the idea of micro generations. Gen-Y are being called Xennials (a mix of Gen X and Millennial), and the younger half are Zennials (Gen-Z and Millennial). I must admit I much prefer this distinction of Gen-Y to give us a distinct way of identifying those of us who grew up before the dark times.

I like GenY. I always called myself a VCR Millennial to differentiate from the Blu-ray Millennials.

at this moment this video has 152 likes with the channel having 181 subs....shit, i'm no scientist but you're doing something right....but personally as a person born in 1990, yes, you're very correct. I'd really like to see an updated version of this essay one day

I don't use the term "Gen Y" since everyone would look at me funny, but I definitely don't relate to most other Millennials. Feel like a weird hybrid of Gen x's individualism and boomer's over-the-top optimism.

Yes, it is GEN Y not Millennial..... I will subscribe.

I personally like the term Gen-Y more than millenial. I think it is because I sense a lot of confusion from people about what a millenial is, and the term "millenial" is often used by older people to negatively describe younger people, or at least it seems like that to me. Also, "Gen-Y" makes logical sense (X => Y => Z).

Born in 86. This is validating and great insights thanks

I was born in '85 and remember my grandfather referring to me as gen x. Later around 2008 or so when people started to complain about millennials I never felt I had much in common with them. I even tried to resist the internet and digital technology for as long possible

I was born in 85. Depending on who you ask, I feel like I'm considered one or the other. Yet I remember the term gen y, and just about all of the things you had mentioned. You hit the nail on the head with this.

I remember the first time I heard the term "Generation-Y" and it really resonated with me back then. For me, however, it felt more like "Generation Why?" as in what's the point? Generation X were the cooler older siblings or the kids you looked up to. Generation X were rebelling against the obvious contradictions present; they were able to turn away from the mainstream and live out their own truth. By the time we came along, most of those issues were streamlined, but we were still brought up to live in a world that stopped existing on Sept. 11th 2001. Seems kinda crazy and arbitrary to use that date as a reference, because many of the factors that would formulate the world in the 21st century were already in place, but on that date it all became sobering and real. I have adapted to a world of social media, but I do so grudgingly, mourning the world I was brought up in. I see you and I salute you, Generation "Why?"

YES YES YES THANK YOU SO MUCH

I was born in 1983 and remember being referred to as generation 'Y' and always felt like we were overshadowed by generation 'X' until sometime around the year 2000 where everyone started referring to us as "millenials". Millenials were like the new young and fresh generation, but by the time the word had set in I felt alienated from it. It really does make a lot of sense to divide these two generations as they were far removed from one another. I think in the book The Fourth Turning the difference was described as the Power Ranger (I never watched it and even I was a bit too old to watch that when it was popular) generation versus the Barney generation (which I was far too old to have been a part of). In my opinion our generation is somehow more lost than even generation x was. Within my generation, I feel like we're all alienated from one another and I rarely know what happened to all of my friends from high school unless they died. I would mark the divide as follows: Generation Y= 1981-1989 and Millenial=1990-1996(or maybe even up to 2000). I might even argue that generation Y requires that the person still has memories of the 1980s. so that could even make it an even narrower window of time, maybe even like 1981-1987.

Gen-Y was just never as economically relevant as Gen-X. Add to that war and recession by maturation.

I took your advice and watched the whole video. I like it, and could see what you were going for. It is a very ambitious summary of the last 40 years of political, cultural, and economic history. I've taken issue with a few things, primarily the fact that you didn't need to include so much information and references to win me over in your argument (I entered into this whole thing thinking it's unnecessary to have the Gen Y name, but you did indeed persuade me). However, I don't think it needed to be so long and sometimes I felt that you could have mentioned a little more about which country you were basing this off... some of the things are very UK-centric, and in saying that I don't mean to infer that the US could be in there more, but it would be nice to have some quantifiers for an international audience like, "in Britian at least..." or "here in the UK"... Some of the following were just things you might want to fact check before posting, and other things are more subjective, but I feel strongly about them: I think the 2000s being somehow connected to the 80s passed me right by (unless you mean experimental Indie Rock bands being influenced by Joy Division and stuff like that). Bush Jr was made president by the US Supreme Court, after they ordered the halt of the Florida recount, allowing Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida to sway his state's Supreme Court to declare Bush the winner in Florida in 2000. Fox News had nothing to do with that, and in fact, they followed suit with all the major networks in first declaring Gore the winner in Florida. A month of litigation followed before a final result was declared. "the 90s wasn't an analogue world by any means, but technology wasn't as invasive or tyranical as it is now" True - also technology was nowhere near as advanced, as fast, as convenient, nor as useful either.... Amy Winehouse was not Jazz revival - she was Soul/ early R & B or even Motown revival. Being inspired by Jazz vocalists doesn't mean her music was Jazz. Madonna had more number one hits in the 80s and was such a defining voice of the era that it's really not accurate to refer to her as a 90s artist. Neo-Liberalism is well-defined, but it also needs reference to deregulation and free market economics, the rise of the Libertarian movment stateside, and the push to reduce government's role. The War in Afghanistan wasn't a violation of international law. Nato and the UN supported the decision to remove the Taliban from power. The 2nd Iraq War, however, was. RUclips has been around for a long time - the 2000s was very RUclips-y... Also, speaking of connecting like-minded idiots from around the world, X ? Really? The biggest Neo-Liberal of the moment's own personal reactionary playground has been losing users left and right to find other more progressive platforms. However, despite these disagreements and fact-check errors, I do see what you mean about Gen Y and Millenials - in other words, you have persuaded me, who at first didn't see the point of it... I'll see what I can do, but, like pronouns, I will refer to people's generations by the one they are most comfortable with - and judge that on a person to person basis. And one last thought looking forward: why give Gen Alpha a name already? Shouldn't we just let them grow up and define themselves? Do we really want to continue naming generations alphabetically? It's so boring... (also, talk about helicopter parenting/uncle-ing/mentoring - we older people are going to define who you are, new generation: you're the alphas. you're younger brother is a beta. no pressure.)

I’ve never been a music nerd but now that I’m 30 I realize a major issue is that Punk died. I was talking to an old head yesterday and I was introducing him to Cyberpunk. He immediately started getting worked up about “punks”. He’s not homophobic (well as far as 60 year old black men are). I remember thinking as a kid that it’s weird those two words are the same. I grew up listening to punk and hip hop but never really understood why I didn’t care for R&B. Now I realize I just liked resistance music. Even now, I like drill music for the same reason. It’s all that same itch if it makes sense

The video is about a lot more than the term Gen-Y. If you could please watch the whole video if you intend to comment.

Its crazy how some people have vastly different upbringings yet are in the same generation span.　What to an early and late millineial really have in common? They grew up in completley different worlds.

i 'member the first time, when i was too young to be x. they were calling that y, or pep see or next, then twenty years later was when you said

Mid-late Gen-Xer, born in '74. Entered the job market as I was coming of age during the mid-late '90s, just when the party was over, thanks to Reaganomics & Thatcherism. Every time I started getting on my feet, 9/11, the crash of 2008, the thing that happened around 2020 that the algorithm doesn't like me to mention, the cost of everything crisis, the rise of AI. While I found myself struggling more and more to get my life going, I got old, even as I found myself being lumped in with the same issues newer Gens got stuck with. Yet I was there when the promises made to previous generations first got broken. Still, one good thing about more recent times. Dubstep will never die. ;-)

Thank you very much! Amazing work!

I liked most of this video, but choked when you talked about us being freer now to communicate now that we're starting to distrust the tech bros. With YT, blah, blah, *X*...seriously? There have been multiple reports of the X algorithm magically changing when the crypto man child endorsed DT and it's well documented that one of the first things he did when he took over was hack the recommendation algorithm to boost his own influence. You said it yourself earlier in the video...we're all ruled by algorithmic overlords and nothing says that those algorithms have to be anything but what their owners want it to be. I tried suggesting in random places recently, that regulation of the social media algorithms are long over due and was immediately shouted down unfortunately (persumably by younger generations who will, as mentioned in The Matrix, fight to protect the system they're a part of, even if it's harming them). The critics thought it meant that governments could bias the conversation, though that's not what I was arguing for, and completely ignores the fact that at least government influenced algorithms would have some kind of legitimacy because that government is presumably elected. Fearing that more than the influence of the corporations / technocratic overlords is insane to me and personally I have some faith that good government based regulation would just ensure impartiality of the algorithm....ensuring it's one that can't boost specific content at the platform owners whim to drive society down a certain path like has and is clearly happening on X. Of course there will always be the need to demote / kill unacceptable content, but that window should be very narrow and should basically be limited to the things we all agree on...namely, CSAM, but that's it and all those demotions / deletions should be logged and auditble too, so that governments can make sure that those tools aren't being abused to silence talking points that the platform owners don't like. We also need massive business reform to stop this malignent form of capitalism that we have at the moment that makes it possible for these C-suite sociopaths from trying to kill everyone else in the pursuit of more money to pad their bank accounts, but that's a much harder fight, so best saved for the time when our social networks are truly unbiased and when people can organise properly without their content being artificially down-ranked.

I can't remember but I think that clip of "Steal some more..." is Trent Reznor from NIN?

This is important - thank you for documenting our unique experience and relevant insight

Were called millennials you dunce

Fuck. Who is cutting onions? I graduated from high school in 1999. I clearly remembered being referred to as Generation Y. Later in life, in my mid twenties I remember thinking “who the fuck are these millennials everyone can’t stop talking about” before I understood it was my generation being talked about. You got me with this one. I’m deeply disillusioned and I’m having a hard time finding much of a point to anything related to work, culture, arts. It’s not depression, it’s a sense of wondering if this is just it, because the world I was promised is absolutely not the world I’ve inherited and I can’t let go of the feeling that we’ve dumbed everything down in the name of optimizing profits. I work in tech, I’ve been laid off for a long time now and I don’t love it anymore. I’ve stopped seeing it as the future of humanity, all of the wonder has been sucked out and I now see it as just another avenue for exchanging goods and services for money.

I totally am confused because I remember all of these things and am both a *Millennial* and *Gen. Y,* seeing as they're the same thing. You're claiming that they're not, though; so, I'm a bit confused. After further listening to you, I understand the difference that you're making. I agree that there are those of us who had a different experience seeing as most people don't remember a lot of the things that I recall from my childhood. *[Edit]* I truly appreciate this amazing perspective. I concur. This gives me hope ('94).

Amazing video

This is so beautiful and detailed, keep them coming!

This is an absolutely fantastic tutorial. As a former dancer I can only imagine how exhausting both of these athletic performances were for the young dancers, but especially for the women in Pina's interpretation. Beautifully done, thank you, thank you for this!

ピナの作品はとても素晴らしいです。 でもなぜモーリス・ベジャール版を無視するのだろう

Lorca’s poetry shaped my much younger self. As an old man I should return to his.

No one can understand Lorca, before losing himself in the vast, hot, fields of Andaluzia.

Ridiclous to speak while music drowns out the dialogue so we can't hear what is being described!!!! Gave up trying to hear....

Well done

IM SO SEATED . i've been looking for in depth analysis of this movie bc at first three viewings it felt incomplete and i couldn't figure out if it was intentional or circumstantial due to the process of making the movie and the passing of takahata

Wonderful comparative project! Thank you for doing this cultural work.

Happy this popped up in my feed! Sat for parts two and three!

hey man, great analysis, on the who might be the model for the Uncle, Look up Jean Sibelius poster. in a new Miyazaki documentary you can see Miyazaki have this poster right next to him. jean Sibelius is a Finnish compoer. Miyazaki literally copy 1-1 the appearance of Sibelius in this poster. (wanted to post imgur link but cant because youtube will prob auto delete my message as a scam link)

This video is excellent! Thanks a lot for your extensive research and thoughts on this wonderful work of art! ❤️❤️❤️

Just gave this a listen, fantastic insights. Will re-watch it a few more times to absorb the breadth of it

fascinating

There's a link in my description to download my full written essay which expands on further detail. Including what the Grey Heron as a man-bird is based on. A section that's in my essay, and I made a slide for it, but for some reason I hadn't recorded that particular paragraph.

i love this idea. I would prefer if this was not AI generated and an actual fully fledged film. Have you tried pitching this idea?

Woah, just woah. I wanna watch that movie. Incredible.