Me too. It perfectly portrays the generation's experience of war, all the pain that came with it yet for some without having been part of it themselves. Like they're not fully sure of the world around them, finding happiness trough little things grateful to live in peace
I feel like people born close to the year 2000 are so strange because people born then relate to both millennial and gen z ideas, especially if they have a millennial as a sibling.
I might be the opposite. I'm an 02'er, and my sister is from 2007, so she doesn't really remember anything important happening in the US during her life except maybe the 2016 elections, where as I remember both gay marriage and the 2012 election I live in Denmark btw, so US stuff isn't really something that impacts us too heavily
“In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it.” Just thought some people here needed to see this again since they clearly missed it before.
For all its flaws, BuzzFeed has created this absolute masterpiece of a video and year after year i find myself coming back to it. Truly one of the best RUclips videos available.
Unless we find the cure to cancer, I doubt most of us zoomers would reach such age... We consume too much industrialized food, and we live in a very polluted environment.
The Lost generation, who saw the first flight, women suffrage, the titanic sink, fought in world war 1 and partied during prohibition became officially extinct in January 2019. The women of that generation grew up during suffrage, entered the workforce in masses after so many men were killed during World War One. They were very sexually active in the roaring 20s. They were named by Ernest Hemingway, most of them died in World War One or the flu epidemic and were known for being philosophical.
I felt bad for the Greatest Generation just because their entire life seems to have been filled with depression. PTSD, the repression of all things accepted now, and the fact there's so few left would break me.
The acting for the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation made me feel emotions. That little smile from the Silent Generation that almost immediately went away and the dancing from the Greatest Generation was heartbreaking. I love how they portrayed the PTSD too. Overall, great video
TheBiffle Sisters yeah i agree. i especially loved Sara's portrayal of the Silent Gen. The acting was so believable plus the makeup, costume and production design. whoever created this were geniuses tbh
This video came out seven years ago, I watched it the day it came out. I was 15 at the time. I come back to this video very often and meet that self again and again. There is something about the cinematography and the music that is so inherently, so deeply moving. To this day the clash and merge and dynamic evolution of generations that form these cultural bubbles we live in, in community with other people of our age and times, is something that intrigues me immensely. It’s part of how I see the world, what I notice and how I interpret all the information people give me about themselves and who they are. It’s part of my psyche. It has ended up being part of my studies in university, part of my conversations, my thoughts and my feelings about how the world is changing and what the future will be. And in a way through these words I want to say thank you to Eugene Yang and Nombe because they managed through art to evoke such a deep feeling of inspiration and awe inside me that this same emotion still echoes through the chambers of time, 7 years later. Thank you.
It’s nice to see someone else who feels the same way about this video. This video is the only video from Buzzfeed that really awed me and stuck with me. I also remember when it came out, and I watched it a LOT back then. I was really into learning about generations and what made each one unique, so this video was very intriguing to me. I remember showing my dad this video too, because I was curious about what he’d think(he’s Gen X). Like you, I still come back to this video sometimes, because I just love the music, the presentation, the colors, the cinematography, everything. It’s just so wonderfully made.
you worded this so much more perfectly than i ever could have hoped to , but you encapsulated the way this video makes me feel so so accurately. It truly is so beautifully made aand it's so interesting to see the predictions and how much the world has changed
i just find it ironic how the boomers were "hippies" or "the rock and roll generation" yet grew up to be so judgemental of millennials and the younger generation.
i personally cant stand most baby boomers.........its this very specific radioactive personality the way they sit in this high and mighty throne judging and demanding respect calling us lazy because they're all rich..................
True, but I think that that’s just how every generation gets as they get older. We’ll just learn from it. Try to be better. In the end, we probably won’t be better, but we can most certainly try.
My grandparents are baby boomers. They are actually really funny, hardworking, definitely not rich, but have come so far from what they once were. They aren't judgmental of people because they enjoy technology to.
It's amazing. The feel it gives me. And when the music kicked in and they started dancing it strangely felt inspirational and made me inspired and excited for the future
i think gen z's drug could be interpreted as the phone the guy had on him the whole time and i say that as a freshman who's on discord more than i am at school kjsadjkashdkj
Well to be fair a lot of Gen Alpha doesn't need to worry about financial problems yet cause a lot of them are still kids. The one that's really suffering in this pandemic are us the Gen Z.
We were fucked before the virus. Numerous reports have come out saying we will be poorer then our parents, wake up. The only people who benefited was the top 1% who ran off with the money.
@@cannonball2264 that would actually be the generation directly before them, the Lost Generation. They were born between 1880 and 1900 and were shaped by such things as the 19th century going into the 20th, the sinking of the Titanic, Prohibition, World War 1, the 1918 flu pandemic, women gaining the right to vote, and the Roaring 20s.
Don't worry about what they say about your generation. Gen X gets called slackers all the time. And we couldn't afford houses either in our 20s and 30s because of the 87 stock market crash, the 80s savings and loan failures, the 90s tech crash and a 90s housing bubble burst. Most people in my generation either got houses in their forties or still don't own homes.
@@d-rockanomaly9243 I don't know about where you live, but things are getting stuck up when it comes to politics. A ton of countries are going back to their fascist mindset and Gen Z is struggling a lot with that. We really want social issues to positively develop, but we can't take those for granted when people like Trump, Bolsonaro and Macron are being taken seriously by millennials and boomers.
Kitty Cutie post traumatic stress disorder, people who have really traumatizing experiences and have breakdowns and flashbacks. Most of the greatest generation have ptsd from ww2
Perhaps it's the knowledge that younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha are mostly going to be shaped by war and environmental issues. It made me slightly sad too knowing im part of that demographic.
I think it was the music, the colours used (the components of the video, really); and even though you may not have been a part of all of those generations, you probably have some feeling *like* nostalgia that longs for (what you think of as) a simpler time.
Generation Z is left with the mess from previous generations (expensive education, no retirement, pollution, political issues, global warming etc..) that we don't know how to clean up
The Gen Z is actually the last generation to remember a childhood before smart phones. For _most_ of us growing up they were still either very new or in the process of making. It's our generation making all the memes about how kids now won't remember times before getting phones and being on social media at 9
*sweats nervously* I’ve had a RUclips account since I was 8 and I’ve been watching RUclips for basically my whole life... (Btw I’m was born in 2010 so I’m apart of Gen Z)
I don’t have a phone though,I don’t think there’s a point in getting a phone if I have an iPad but when this iPad gets old and glitchy or it breaks (it will most likely break because I’m super clumsy), I will probably get a phone instead of a new iPad.(I’m sorry I talk a lot)
Minecraft Stuff you’re barely a part of gen Z. You said yourself you have been watching RUclips your whole life. I feel like you would more fit with Gen Alpha people.
Boomers: fights with Millennials Millennials: fights with Boomers Gen Z: fights with Millennials and Boomers Gen X: don't mind us guys, we're just chillin' watching MTV...
Yup. That why our generation needs to stop disrespecting the older generations so much because the next generations will do the same since they learned to do it.
@@Jackscalfani2 I think this is more tru of gen Alpha, cuz my sister is way more of an entitled brat than I am, at least my parents say so lol. Not saying i'm not an entitled brat, cuz tbh I am sometimes.
I’ve talked to my grandparents who are silent generation and I can say for sure that Gen Z is not similar to them. Gen Z has nothing that can compare to their pain. The closest thing we have is this pandemic, but my grandparent’s stories about war and the Great Depression sent chills like no other down my spine.
@@marystark1193 Covid seems to be hurting gernations that are a bit older than us. Gen Z kids are currently about 23 at the oldest, so most of us are high school and college age
That’s how it is with every generation. You only want to change the world while you’re young, when you have strength and passion, and you loose it drastically as you age. This problem is as old as humanity itself.
When it said that Generation Alpha will most likely achieve commercial space flight, which was a dream that Greatest Generation started. I got chills and got so emotional, legit tearin up.
I thought about that and how all most all of the greatest generation will never see space travel and the landing of mars and a more technical age of humanity that they themselves had put into motion but they will most certainly not be able to see that moment take place.
"U cannot truly appreciate goodness(good acts) unless u have experienced ignorance(evil) firsthand" this implies that the losers(who stopped being bad) of time eventually give better advices to younger generations.
It's really fascinating to watch this video nearly seven years on. Nobody in 2017 could have possibly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and how much it would affect the futures of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
My group of Millennials between 1990 & 2008 set the stage for the Alpha and so on. We are the pioneers who saw the writing on the wall... From terror to economic upheaval, social changes, technology, everything. Now we are living it as adults
You know what hurts. In 10 years, when people say the 20s they're talking about 2020 and not 1920. I'm 14 and I feel old. Idk this stuff makes me feel depressed
Same. I´m soon 16 and I´m seeing all those people my age and younger going places, I feel like I haven´t done anything with my life and that I don´t have a lot of time left. But at the same time it makes me want to work even harder and change the world as we know it. Or, just give up.
typically i dont watch buzzfeed videos (other than unsolved) but this video was absolutely amazing. it was very informative, it didn't cut any corners, it's color palette and the way it was filmed gave off a cool vibe. i want to see more buzzfeed videos like this. quality over quanity.
Look for the videos directed by Eugene on the Buzzfeed staff (He actually doesn't work for Buzzfeed any more) his artistic visions play out so well on film. He really has an eye for capturing whatever he is trying to convey.
I think they were talking about the Greatest Generation (between 1901-1927). Because PTSD at the time wasn't widely diagnosed and was simply accepted as something that happens, the greatest generation suffered the most despite all the groundbreaking moves they were capable of achieving for modern america. Most of them likely suffered in silence... Or at least that was my perspective on it. Still, pretty sad.
The 'Greatest Generation' is portrayed by a soldier showing signs of anxiety and PTSD. Like, yes, he worked hard to build up a nation, but at what cost? Where has it left him mentally and emotionally? And the Silent Generation, struggling with depression. I love how the video showcases the mental illnesses-- That we society still see as taboo-- and showing them in times when they couldn't be formally diagnosed. Like, these are the generations that were supposedly so much better and stronger, but in reality, they went through just as much turmoil and struggled with mental health just as much.
it's actually generation alpha that will be the first generation to not remember a childhood without internet, smartphones etc. i still remember my parents having small nokia phones and we didn't get smartphones till i was 13 (i was born around mid 2000's)
@@gottalivehappy even if the internet was created then it didn’t have widespread use until the 2000s. same with smartphones, widespread use began around 2010 i’d say
it's kinda based on book Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future By Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams ----- Book covers more deep trends and cycles www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842812-pendulum
John Taylor so it's our job now to fix the mess you started? if only you weren't so depending on your future generations, then these wouldn't have ever happened.
To my fellow Z’s We’re approaching the end of the decade, and going into the 20s By the end of the 20s, all of us will be adults. We will have changed the world for better or worse. We might not be able to do much now, but the future is bright Keep going, we got this
I'm just crying knowing that we'll lose the greatest and silent generations in our lifetime, I only have one grandparent left and it pains me to think of the day when I'll never be able to talk to someone who personally went through the roaring 20s, Great Depression, ww2, old entertainment, etc. again. They've gone through so much for you and I hope to be able to tell my grandkids and great grandkids about growing up in the 2010s and see their faces light up with wonder like mine does when I hear old people talk about their lives. So please people, talk to your elders while you can.
I agree.. I'm a Jew, my mother's uncle is the only survivor in my family from the Holocaust and now he has Alzheimer's.. Doctors say he doesn't have much time left but there is so much I don't know from that time that in my opinion EVERY future generation should know! If we care about our future. We need to have them heard. Many in our generation fail to understand that in 70 years from now, children will mock us the same way we mocked our elders. Everyone deserves to be heard in every generation.
I seriously fuckin feel that. I've lost two very important family members less than a year apart, with most recent one being a couple weeks ago. I regret not talking to them nearly as much as I should have. There's still so much i don't know about them.
It honestly sucks to be gen z. You’re childhood was similar to 90’s kids, but once you get into you’re teens this sudden responsibility of how “the world may end because of what we created”. But in reality we didn’t create it. We were given this broken Earth and everyone older than us expects us to magically fix it. Being afraid to go to school without being shot isn’t normal. No wonder depression and anxiety has gone up. We miss our childhood with iCarly, wii, and so much more. There is also technology we are expected to produce for Alpha. We are so overwhelmed. Anyone born between ‘98 and ‘10, reply what you think!
Bored5703 i agree with every single part of this, we really were just handed this huge, barely fixable problem, and now we’re being blamed for it. Even though everything that they’re calling bad and all the problems about us were caused by them.
We are also (mostly) unable to fix some of these problem that have been handed to us becuase we are to young. Even so we have started marches against gun violence and have tried to stop basic human rights violations. An yet we STILL get called slackers. Uggg
Exactly, and its not fair that older generations always tell us we arent doing enough. We JUST entered the work force, and we're already staging protests and marches that people of all ages have been attending. Every generation is important and unique, its wrong for older generations to look down on us for having more exposure and opportunities tech wise. We arent lazy, we're just desperately trying to prove ourselves in anyway we can. Its especially difficult because mental illness is very common in our generation, and older gens dont always understand how hard it truly is.
I love that last quote. "In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it." We're unique individuals, and most of us differ from our generational stereotypes in one way or another. But what is true is that the unique ways in which each generation grows up can influence the way we perceive the world, resulting in the numerous different perspectives held by individuals from every generation.
As a “Zillennial” (Born in 1998) I consider myself to have grown up in the Post-911 environment and see the Cold War as history and the Pax America as the natural end of history and are deeply worried about both Russian revanchism, the rise of China and the disintegration of the domestic political situation in what most would call the west. Which probably defines by politics and world view as Hawkish compared to my piers, committed to liberalism at home and generally favoring the free market while supporting a social safety net but not really into redistribution of wealth or radical changes to the economy. Basically a mainstream democrat with a fetish for war material.
This is the type of video that originally drew me to buzzfeed. Heavily music based, informative, awesome videography. Way to go! Hope this is a new spring for their brand.
Lmaooo Edit: yeah I think the baby boomers/x were the ones to study "generations" and label them. So the silent generation doesn't refer to themselves as such.
I've known about the silent generation for years only because my father was born in 1931 (died in 1988) and my mother was born in 1938, and I wanted to find out what group they were labeled. Don't remember where I first heard the label. Their small generation begot my small generation, Generation X. The first time I heard the label Generation X was in an article In Rolling Stone in the 1980s. It seems over the years there wasn't much press about Generation X. There was always a lot of news about the Baby Boomers (ie: Yuppies and just the vast size of that generation) and then onward to the Millennials. When I've read several descriptions over the years about my group, it is a common characteristic that Generation X does skipped over more so.
THIS is the kind of material I would love to see more of from buzzfeed. It really was interesting and the cinematography was just perfect. I wish buzzfeed valued quality over quantity. I wonder how many amazing videos like this they would produce if they focused more on quality?
"It is predicted that Generation Alpha will be a more wealthier generation” *me, tearing up, because it means my nieces & nephews will be able to live better than I do and they really do deserve it: yEAh?*
If the situation improves by then that means you all will reap the benefits. It also means that what you do now will lead to the world that will give them that wealth. Think of yourselves as builders.
Every Generation has it's problems. Have you noticed that even as the generations progressed every one of them had their own unique problems? Don't worry, they'll have their hardships.
"Although they entered the workforce during the Great Recession, Millennials view their economic futures more positively than previous generations" Oh boy, 7 years has done a number on this one.
Gen Z here, i think our generation is the most “aware”. Many of us, including me are getting quite irritated from what is happening to humanity, the US, and climate. We also seem to be the most liberal generation. Given we were 5-10 years in the future I can see us fixing the climate, economical and health issues and lots of other stuff in between. Other generations call us lazy, but we are just in a generation with new technology and advancements, while they sit i front of that TV we are shifting more towards phones and video games. This is the generation i have the most hope for, we care more about what this planet is turning into than ourselves. Millennials are more optimistic for the future, we are more realists, and possibly pessimistic. We see the glass as half empty, and needs to be refilled.
And I think it's why we are so anxious. We have slots of problems that we want to fix. We are young, but we have older generations as leaders who dont really want to listen to us yet. But the 1st born Gen Zs will be turning 20, 19, and 18 this year. So, safe ro say that maybe and hopefully our anxiety will decrease and we can take the world over and try to fix it.
As someone born in 2007, I full-heartedly agree with you. My teachers always want us to see the glass as half full and to be positive, but I always thought that was kinda weird. I would think, “Why would it be half full? It’s half empty and you should do something about it and not wait until you have nothing left.” I thought I was weird that I thought that and that I should be thinking positively instead, but after I saw what you wrote at the end of your comment I was thinking that maybe what I felt about the matter wasn’t weird and pessimistic, but realistic and determination to fix the problems at hand. I now feel that this is how other Gen Z’ers perceive our world and that they too acknowledge the difficulties in our world, but do not have the power, opportunities, and experience to fix them. I really admire all of the Gen Z’ers going out their and doing their best to help repair the damage that older generations have pushed on us. I have a lot of faith in this generation.
What some other generations don’t see is that life is different. People blame us “oh you don’t go out as much with your friends” or “what about actually going outside” but they don’t see that’s it’s dangerous. In my country teen/young adults, especially females, can barely go outside with the fear of being raped and people still complain that I’d rather call my friends to talk than actually seeing them in a park/shopping mall because it’s scary. Again, life is different. We have technology now, we have machines and cellphones and that’s for a big part how we have fun, socialize etc. ok, I get it, it can be harmful but that’s how we grew up being tho. I think that gen z and gen alpha will both be the ones who are super anxious because we have so much to change and no idea how to do so, and just “searching it on google” won’t fix it, and giving us such responsibilities is making us feel anxious and rush on things that we should have a lot of time to fix
True. I went for Friday’s for future from my school, I think it is a good idea protesting for our climate. But i think this is an unpopular opinion- Greta Thunberg is not doing much to help our country, she goes on live tv and complains about the climate. I do admire her but I feel she’s not helping much, except in Sweden of course, she did a lot of good there, but I feel like things should be changing. Of course we are more aware than other generations, we have the internet, (which boomers literally created but they blame it on us) so we know about our world. It’s hard for gen Zers to do much since we are very young.
I can already see that happening... Millennials being used as target dummies (minus the most stubborn, who will be atop skyscrapers swatting at planes), while members of Gen Z will run through giant corn mazes to find the way out.
3:26 Wow never realized it fully, that Gen Z is the FIRST people do not know a world without the internet/smart devices. That gives us a huge responsibility to shape how technology is woven well with human experience/evolution. If done well, prosperity. If done wrong, the machines turn against us as a Frankenstein's monster.
@@robhousehold but we had a childhood whit out internet and high tech tehnology the internet didn't became main stream until their search engine was implemented. I don't live in USA but i got my first internet connection when i was 8, but yea if you count late Gen Z they pretty much lived whit the internet.
We are basically fucked by the gens before us but we are still organizing worldwide protests to get the goverments to take action against climate change.
Mos of us GenZ are still young adults though we're undoubtly going to save the environnement. We are aware of the possible downfall of technology, the best example being the show 'Black Mirror' which name represents the mirror of a computer or phone screen. I agree that some of us seem blind to issues or joys, but not everyone of GenZ is like that ; we can help others to widen their world view as we grow, for the sake of the entire human race.
bro 3 yrs later and our generation (gen z) is throwing tear gas back at cops with our bare hands but is too scared to ask for ketchup at a restaurant.. oh how i love us
Great video. But I wish you showed more of how gen z is very politically inclined and more accepting of diversity. And also how those of us born in the earlier years of gen z (such as myself) were born at the start of what technology would truly become in the future, and not fully receiving its benefits until our teen years.
Ghe iphone came out whem i was 12 that was 13 years ago. The ipod touch came out when i was about 10, 15 years ago. You were bron woth tech that made my PC as a child look like the appollo 12 landing module. My most advanced gaming PC at 13 is penauts compared to the cell phines you were born with. I wasnt allowed to have a phine until i turned 17. At all. No cell phone. Had to ask to use the landline. Your gemeration is the most privilaged of all time and thats a fact and with pribilage comes iggnirance and laziness. Your genration is going to have a very hard life because you think nothing is your fault and you beleive you are all so great and wise and wonderful in every way but like a narcist you soon find that the rest of the world has no place for stupud confident people.
What I found really interesting was that Gen Z are being compared to the Silent Generation. On one hand I can understand that. We're left with a mess we didn't create and many feel left alone by older generations save some Millennials. On the other hand it also implies that Gen Z is a quiet generation (I mean I wasn't alive back then when the silent generation was young, but the name leads to that conclusion) which I feel like is changing (or at least in Germany it is) there are literally constant protests against climate change, article 13 (before it was too late that is) and it is constantly a topic in the news. So I feel like Gen Z is becoming quite the loud generation
I'm also from Germany and was born 2003 I think that our generation is really strongly trying to engage themselves in politics and climate change. Everyone my age is heavily involved. So I totally think comparing Gen Z to the Silent Generation isn't right. We are starting to speak up not only in Europe with Fridays for future but also in America through the student protests against Gun rights. It's just that the older generations don't even want to listen. But all in all we have great responsibility when it comes to the present and future. I hope we will be able to keep up with the problems.
We should be known as the greatest generation,we will never be silent I mean look at us we are fighting for a better world, I think we will be known as the generation that was forced to age faster.
I know this is controversial, but a better comparison with the Gen Z is the Greatest Generation AND the Boomers. All three lived in political turmoil, (I mean we always are) and are all very active in correcting it.
Did anyone else get kind of sad when they saw how the are only 4 million Greatest Generation left like the people that lived through that part of American history is almost completely gone
Zombie221 they built modern America, and many fought for civil rights. And of course they might be homophobic or transphobic but they grew up in Jim Crow and many of them helped to end that. You really can’t expect that much more from a generation civil rights wise tbh
My grandfather died in March, he fought in the Pacific in WW2 and he was the last Greatest Gen member left in my family. I did kind of feel like we were losing a piece of history when he died. And no he wasn't homophobic :P
I wanna be a pulmonologist. But like, if that doesn’t happen I’ll be a financial adviser, and of that doesn’t work then I’ll try to be an Architect. IF THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN. Then I’ll be a Geologist… if that doesn’t happen McDonald’s or stripper ✋💀
Greatest Gen: Orange Silent Gen: Teal Boomers: Yellow Gen X: Indigo/Blue Millennials: Pink (duh) Gen Z: White Alphas: Rainbow/Multicolored (bc they haven’t been around long enough for us to see their true colors yet) wOw ThAtS dEeP...
The colours are regular colours up until Gen Z. It's a clean canvas for my generation, white. Ready to be painted. Gen Alpha? They are the new world we have painted, so bright and colourful and new, unlike any generation before us. It is a beautiful world, where everyone can be accepted.
Gen z could’ve been like green but idk At the same time though white is good because it seems more modern and gen z is very modern and new. It’s also open for any color to be painted in, like a canvas. We are now in the process of finding our color and painting. Alpha gen is multicolored because it’s still trying new colors and seeing what fits them best before they get their canvas ready to paint.
@Mr. Burger Even if Millenials have done a lot of horrible stuff, which disappoints me a lot, I don't think it would be a good idea nor would it be a good example to express hatred for a random person. Our generation shouldn't be made out of hatred for others, it would just give us a negative image that we just focus on the negative traits of the past, rather than trying to make the future look bright.
As a 70s baby, I thank you. As someone else mentioned, our music was choice. Rap AND Punk (which splintered into Postpunk, Metal, and Grunge)?? Honestly, no use trying to compete with that. LOL. Kind of true and a bummer that we have the most personal debt. It also truly sucked to become a horny teenager during the AIDS crisis. But I wouldn’t exchange my nihilism-inducing youth for an “insta-worthy” one. I can’t get over how much my students (mostly Zs now) are so afraid of being “awkward.” You mean, normal? Human? I have nothing but hope for the younger gens. I hope they fix the mess my gen foresaw but couldn’t seem to avoid. Do well and take care of me! Lol!
@Jessica Hello , yeah well when your older you kinda need your phone to get around, when your little your parents do everything for you so you don’t need it
Yep. I didn't get a smartphone till I was 15, born in 2000. I had a little flip phone but it was only in case I needed to call home from school (like if I needed to stay after). I did have a PS2 and a Wii though. I played a lot of video games when I was younger lol.
do people know that gen z kids actually had a childhood outside of phones? They are always said to be 'the generation born with phones in their hands' but really, we use our phones less than the Millenials...
For real. I was born in 98 and didn't have my phone till I was in Middle school. Even then it wasn't really a phone. All it was used for was calling my parents. Most of my childhood was spent outside with friends. Now being 21 I see kids in elementary school having the new iPhone and being glued to it 24/7
ChaosSlay3r I feel you on that one. I feel like millennials always confuse us with Gen Alpha. Only a few of us had phones in our childhood. If you were lucky, you had a flip phone wit him limited minutes and WIFI didn’t exist!
your son is SO lucky, he'll get to see 2100 while still a bit young, if it's possible, which I know it is, I will be 96 in 2100!!! *just like stan lee, he lived till 95, so one year off
I feel like Gen Z won’t be this bleak we will probably have serious change in how mentally ill people are treated. Especially in America Gen Z has to deal with the constant fear of school shootings and the amount of teen depression is insane and I see us in the future really changing out outlook and bringing it to the forefront where it should be.
Also the amount of stress we’re always under because of our school system. I can see possibly later in the future Gen Z fixes the education system at least I hope we do.
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Idk why but the ‘silent generation’ visuals gave me chills
@John Taylor
That's pretty cool actually
Me too. It perfectly portrays the generation's experience of war, all the pain that came with it yet for some without having been part of it themselves. Like they're not fully sure of the world around them, finding happiness trough little things grateful to live in peace
Jason Cheers
Every scene with the “Greatest Generation” left me teary eyed
same and the fact that it said that gen z is the most similar makes it even more chilling.
@@my_universe1290 same
I feel like people born close to the year 2000 are so strange because people born then relate to both millennial and gen z ideas, especially if they have a millennial as a sibling.
true!
agreed!
Exactly! When I saw the thumbnail I had no clue which one I was. I thought to myself "hmm I want the millenial hair but gen z clothes"
Miku Hotori ALL OF MY SIBLINGS ARE MILLENNIALS
I might be the opposite. I'm an 02'er, and my sister is from 2007, so she doesn't really remember anything important happening in the US during her life except maybe the 2016 elections, where as I remember both gay marriage and the 2012 election
I live in Denmark btw, so US stuff isn't really something that impacts us too heavily
“In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it.”
Just thought some people here needed to see this again since they clearly missed it before.
Yeah was going to point that out too. It's not like you can change the time you were born in, you are you. "Are you going to do anything?"
Desi Dog and Co. Exactly!
It’s a very questionable yet true quote.
These labels dont determine what generation you are in. It is how you grew up.
For all its flaws, BuzzFeed has created this absolute masterpiece of a video and year after year i find myself coming back to it. Truly one of the best RUclips videos available.
It's because of Eugene
Agreed.
@@monishaxd6098Who is eugene and why is he (or she) responsible for buzzfeed's decline
@@Ryann9Eugene Lee Yan is responsible for making this video, not for Buzzfeed's decline.
@@Ryann9 Eugene is the Gen X man
imagine one day everyone in this comment section being 90 year olds
it would be weird to see a typical comments section filled with "100000 years ago"
Charles Lee and actly rly sad
I doubt I'd live that long but... we'll see! :D
Unless we find the cure to cancer, I doubt most of us zoomers would reach such age... We consume too much industrialized food, and we live in a very polluted environment.
omg, dEd.That thought's kinda creepy.
Can we just take a sec to appreciate how beautiful this whole thing is
I know right. This is pure art!
Kitcat for real I watched it over and then bee again
right i love this it calm me down 😂
Jordan_Editz yeah it’s Eugene
The Lost generation, who saw the first flight, women suffrage, the titanic sink, fought in world war 1 and partied during prohibition became officially extinct in January 2019. The women of that generation grew up during suffrage, entered the workforce in masses after so many men were killed during World War One. They were very sexually active in the roaring 20s. They were named by Ernest Hemingway, most of them died in World War One or the flu epidemic and were known for being philosophical.
Yep! My great-grandparents were part of the Lost Generation. My great-grandfather (on my mother's side) fought in World War 1.
Yeah the oldest person in the world (who is still currently alive) is only just in the greatest generation :(((((
Haha my great grandad is gonna be 103 soon he was alive in ww1 but not old enough and fought in ww2
The last WW1 vet recently died as did the last remaining person born in the 1800s
I felt bad for the Greatest Generation just because their entire life seems to have been filled with depression. PTSD, the repression of all things accepted now, and the fact there's so few left would break me.
@Cyo 22 and here I was thinking I was immortal
I’m sure their embarrassed of what the current populous has become.
@@softdrink-0 agreed
@@softdrink-0 I can understand, I would love to spend my time with them!
@@softdrink-0 mhm
The acting for the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation made me feel emotions. That little smile from the Silent Generation that almost immediately went away and the dancing from the Greatest Generation was heartbreaking. I love how they portrayed the PTSD too. Overall, great video
TheBiffle Sisters yeah i agree. i especially loved Sara's portrayal of the Silent Gen. The acting was so believable plus the makeup, costume and production design. whoever created this were geniuses tbh
It was absolutely amazing. It gave me chills, but it was just so, for a lack of better words, cool!
Greatest generation: andrew
silent generation: sara
both of them were especially beautifully done
Love the silent generation when men were men and women were women. They didn't run away from their problems but took it head on and won.
can we just take a moment to appreciate the amazing cinematography in this video
Ikr, it was so pleasing to watch I got tingles
Eugene never lets us down🙃
true!
Yesssss
It was pretty but effectively empty
Why is literally NO ONE talking about how beautiful this video is?? Whoever directed, filmed, edited, and acted in it did an amazing job. 👏👏
Yes the choreography is beautiful 👏🏽
Agreed
Right!!! Such passion was put to film and edit this lovely video!
It’s Eugene Yang. He literally directed, produced, edited and acted!
Eugene did! He’s a wonderful choreographer. He played Gen X.
This video came out seven years ago,
I watched it the day it came out. I was 15 at the time. I come back to this video very often and meet that self again and again.
There is something about the cinematography and the music that is so inherently, so deeply moving. To this day the clash and merge and dynamic evolution of generations that form these cultural bubbles we live in, in community with other people of our age and times, is something that intrigues me immensely. It’s part of how I see the world, what I notice and how I interpret all the information people give me about themselves and who they are. It’s part of my psyche. It has ended up being part of my studies in university, part of my conversations, my thoughts and my feelings about how the world is changing and what the future will be. And in a way through these words I want to say thank you to Eugene Yang and Nombe because they managed through art to evoke such a deep feeling of inspiration and awe inside me that this same emotion still echoes through the chambers of time, 7 years later. Thank you.
same
It’s nice to see someone else who feels the same way about this video. This video is the only video from Buzzfeed that really awed me and stuck with me. I also remember when it came out, and I watched it a LOT back then. I was really into learning about generations and what made each one unique, so this video was very intriguing to me. I remember showing my dad this video too, because I was curious about what he’d think(he’s Gen X). Like you, I still come back to this video sometimes, because I just love the music, the presentation, the colors, the cinematography, everything. It’s just so wonderfully made.
you worded this so much more perfectly than i ever could have hoped to , but you encapsulated the way this video makes me feel so so accurately. It truly is so beautifully made aand it's so interesting to see the predictions and how much the world has changed
i just find it ironic how the boomers were "hippies" or "the rock and roll generation" yet grew up to be so judgemental of millennials and the younger generation.
i personally cant stand most baby boomers.........its this very specific radioactive personality the way they sit in this high and mighty throne judging and demanding respect calling us lazy because they're all rich..................
And blaming them for using the phones that they invented...
True, but I think that that’s just how every generation gets as they get older. We’ll just learn from it. Try to be better. In the end, we probably won’t be better, but we can most certainly try.
Let’s all make a pledge to not treat our grandchildren like this
My grandparents are baby boomers. They are actually really funny, hardworking, definitely not rich, but have come so far from what they once were. They aren't judgmental of people because they enjoy technology to.
So nobody talking about the style of this video? The atmosphere, the lighting. This is just art.
It's amazing. The feel it gives me. And when the music kicked in and they started dancing it strangely felt inspirational and made me inspired and excited for the future
@@MinorAccidnt saaameeee
We don't need to talk about it because everyone knows this is well made
@@MinorAccidnt Yessss, the moment the music cut in and they started dancing, I had goose bumps.
I’ve come back to it so many times is it’s so beautiful to me
*Baby Boomers:* Smoking
*Millennials and Gen X:* Drinking
*Gen Z:* cAtS
cats are the best substitute for drugs, they can be just as deadly, are adorable, and are superior in every way
Anna Robles Or just the internet loves cats
@@iyanez But WHY, that's what I explained
Forgot about the vaping crisis?
i think gen z's drug could be interpreted as the phone the guy had on him the whole time
and i say that as a freshman who's on discord more than i am at school kjsadjkashdkj
"Gen Alpha will be the wealthiest generation"
COVID-19: im going to start an economical crash today.
Well to be fair a lot of Gen Alpha doesn't need to worry about financial problems yet cause a lot of them are still kids. The one that's really suffering in this pandemic are us the Gen Z.
@TheBossANDJay thats gen alpha
We were fucked before the virus. Numerous reports have come out saying we will be poorer then our parents, wake up. The only people who benefited was the top 1% who ran off with the money.
Gen alpha wont enter the workforce until the 2030s so there's still time
That would be artificial intelligence.
When the Greatest Gen guys head was bleeding..my heart just went out to them
I got CHILLS when that came up. It was such a simple scene but it really provokes emotions
Ky Fabulous that’s Andrew btw
i was wanted to like your comment, but i didn't want to ruin the 666 number
that generation deserves the most respect, they began the turn of the century and had their lives stolen from them because of war
@@cannonball2264 that would actually be the generation directly before them, the Lost Generation. They were born between 1880 and 1900 and were shaped by such things as the 19th century going into the 20th, the sinking of the Titanic, Prohibition, World War 1, the 1918 flu pandemic, women gaining the right to vote, and the Roaring 20s.
If I had a dollar for every time someone over 45 told me my generation sucked, I'd have enough money to buy a house in the economy they screwed up...
the economy isnt bad if you're living in america
Don't worry about what they say about your generation. Gen X gets called slackers all the time. And we couldn't afford houses either in our 20s and 30s because of the 87 stock market crash, the 80s savings and loan failures, the 90s tech crash and a 90s housing bubble burst. Most people in my generation either got houses in their forties or still don't own homes.
This was meant to be a joke but okay...
Chloe_Smore sure it was buddy
@@lukea2646 I mean they literally wrote it so I think they know what it was supposed to be lmao
Is no one going to talk about how perfectly this video was timed? 10:00 _perfectly_
love the icon vro 🤠👊
This made me happier than it should have
They want money
it’s so they get more money..
Imagine if they missed one frame to get to 10 minutes...
*_not stonks_*
Fun fact :
Before greatest generation there was the " Lost Generation " it is generation that feel WWI and borned in 1883-1900
There's also Interbellum Generation in between Lost and Greatest Generations.
Xennials are between GenX and Millennials.
What’s the name for those born between millennial and gen z?
@Souven Tudu Fitting lmao
@@Aworology323 I think it’s zennials? Or smth
@@Aworology323 Zillennials. I was born in 1995 (25 years old) and fall into that weird gap
“Gen Z may take social issues for granted” promise you we won’t because they are constantly being threaten of being taken away from us
@@d-rockanomaly9243 lol
@@d-rockanomaly9243 I don't know about where you live, but things are getting stuck up when it comes to politics. A ton of countries are going back to their fascist mindset and Gen Z is struggling a lot with that. We really want social issues to positively develop, but we can't take those for granted when people like Trump, Bolsonaro and Macron are being taken seriously by millennials and boomers.
So true. Until the dang boomers are gone, we will have to face, work with, and clean up the mess that they made.
@@alexanderb4818 boomer>new generation lol
eri, plus a lot of us are really young making it a lot harder to do stuff.
That PTSD shot was breathtaking.
Natalie Larkins What is PTSD
look it up
I felt it in my bones dude
Kitty Cutie post traumatic stress disorder, people who have really traumatizing experiences and have breakdowns and flashbacks. Most of the greatest generation have ptsd from ww2
Natalie Larkins it was so powerful
Did this make anyone else sad for some reason?
Yep. I don't know why though
yeah same, for some reasons I know and some I cannot put my finger on
Perhaps it's the knowledge that younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha are mostly going to be shaped by war and environmental issues. It made me slightly sad too knowing im part of that demographic.
LpsEVIE yep
I think it was the music, the colours used (the components of the video, really); and even though you may not have been a part of all of those generations, you probably have some feeling *like* nostalgia that longs for (what you think of as) a simpler time.
Hey, looks like the Silent Generation finally produced a president!
Yay
*applause*
Two of them, actually.
@@everlyw7892 who and who ?
@@AA-sg2py Joe Biden is the only one. Jimmy Carter just misses the Silent Generation deadline by a few months.
Generation Z is left with the mess from previous generations (expensive education, no retirement, pollution, political issues, global warming etc..) that we don't know how to clean up
A lot of us Millennials are still young and dealing with these issues.
Y E S Go off @Noura Sobhy
Noura Sobhy
Just learn some common core maths
Nicō:2
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We in X said the same thing, snowflake.
The Gen Z is actually the last generation to remember a childhood before smart phones. For _most_ of us growing up they were still either very new or in the process of making. It's our generation making all the memes about how kids now won't remember times before getting phones and being on social media at 9
I was born the year the first smartphone was made. (I was born in 2006)
SchnitzelBerry 13 the first smartphone was made in 2007.....
*sweats nervously* I’ve had a RUclips account since I was 8 and I’ve been watching RUclips for basically my whole life... (Btw I’m was born in 2010 so I’m apart of Gen Z)
I don’t have a phone though,I don’t think there’s a point in getting a phone if I have an iPad but when this iPad gets old and glitchy or it breaks (it will most likely break because I’m super clumsy), I will probably get a phone instead of a new iPad.(I’m sorry I talk a lot)
Minecraft Stuff you’re barely a part of gen Z. You said yourself you have been watching RUclips your whole life. I feel like you would more fit with Gen Alpha people.
This is possibly the coolest video Buzzfeed has made so far
true
I KNOW
no, that is 'is your life average?'
Avril Willowbend agreed
Annabelle Geluk I just watched it and it was really good
Boomers: fights with Millennials
Millennials: fights with Boomers
Gen Z: fights with Millennials and Boomers
Gen X: don't mind us guys, we're just chillin' watching MTV...
Gen alpha: plays Roblox peacefully
@@sprucebrine9 and uses cocomelon as a weapon
*When MTV was about music
Any vase in a 10 mile radius: exists
Gen Alpha: *im boutta end this man's whole career*
lmao
Me: Gen Alpha: I SHALL DESTROY ALL YOUR VASES
My brother is gen alpha XD
😂
Like cats
The scary part is the fact that when we get older, our GRANDCHILDREN will be the ones making fun of us and saying “ok zoomer”
Peppa Puff
And we should be proud
lol I'm not having kids
Yup. That why our generation needs to stop disrespecting the older generations so much because the next generations will do the same since they learned to do it.
@@cindacinder2080 the older generation is also why our world is so fucked up rn
Your icon pic just ended my childhood
Gen Z is growing up in a time when crisis is rising and we literally have no idea how to fix it
I think we have an idea and a lot of Gen Z are doing something to fix it
We're in even more trouble because of how much Gen zs are being raised spoiled and ignorant.
I will tell them with you! ❤️that’s my plan too we all know how we just have to get people to listen and care 🤨😒😬🤗
Not with that attitude!
@@Jackscalfani2 I think this is more tru of gen Alpha, cuz my sister is way more of an entitled brat than I am, at least my parents say so lol. Not saying i'm not an entitled brat, cuz tbh I am sometimes.
I’ve talked to my grandparents who are silent generation and I can say for sure that Gen Z is not similar to them. Gen Z has nothing that can compare to their pain. The closest thing we have is this pandemic, but my grandparent’s stories about war and the Great Depression sent chills like no other down my spine.
Well probably suffer some severe poverty after Covid 19 so prepare
@@marystark1193 Covid seems to be hurting gernations that are a bit older than us. Gen Z kids are currently about 23 at the oldest, so most of us are high school and college age
@@jackandthebeanstalk4253 There are still wars as worse as theirs.
@@afish3976 I don't see any contemporary war that is much deadlier than Korea
COVID has now also resulted in an unstable economy. Inflation is sky high and many supermarket shelves are empty.
boomers then: wanted to change the world
now: climate change? dont know her
They did change the world.
For the worse, that is.
That’s how it is with every generation. You only want to change the world while you’re young, when you have strength and passion, and you loose it drastically as you age. This problem is as old as humanity itself.
You can’t change climate change
Boomers discovered climate change???
Political change different to climate change, one is real, one is natural and would happen with or without human involvement
When it said that Generation Alpha will most likely achieve commercial space flight, which was a dream that Greatest Generation started. I got chills and got so emotional, legit tearin up.
yeahhh
Y’all are Gen Alpha?
I thought about that and how all most all of the greatest generation will never see space travel and the landing of mars and a more technical age of humanity that they themselves had put into motion but they will most certainly not be able to see that moment take place.
Nerdy Citrus gen aplpha are 2011 and so on I think.
Nerdy Citrus if you gen alpha you are like 8 years old
Boomers: the younger generations use addictive devices like phones
Also boomers: *generation with the most use of drugs*
LSD and weed are *a lot* less addictive
Wasn't weed in cigarettes? If they were I'm pretty sure they were very addictive
@@mrsushi6498Weed is not in cigarettes. Cigs are addictive because of nicotine, and that isn't in weed.
@@mrsushi6498 Cigs is every toxic chemical known to man. No weed though. Its stuff like tar and etc.
"U cannot truly appreciate goodness(good acts) unless u have experienced ignorance(evil) firsthand" this implies that the losers(who stopped being bad) of time eventually give better advices to younger generations.
It's really fascinating to watch this video nearly seven years on. Nobody in 2017 could have possibly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and how much it would affect the futures of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Great video
Gen Z formative events:
COVID-19 Pandemic
And that is a big one
Also, literally anything that happened in 2020
probably another recession
And the George Floyd/BLM riots.
George Floyd’s death
BLM protests
Basic human rights protests
We have gotten a lot in 2020
I think this is Buzzfeed’s best Video
it had potenital but the makeup fucked it up
Because Eugene made it 😂
Not a very high bar.
*Only* good video
It is
crazy to think that all these generations will be gone eventually...
Are gen is just one that will be gone in time soon we will be the oldest gen still alive
It be like that
Mel Del crazy to think that generation alpha can even exist because machines will kill us all out of efficiency necessity
Why crazy? It’d be crazy if we lived forever because that’s not natural 😂😂 why people have to consider death so rare?
Elizabeth Figueroa it isn't that death is so rare, it's that life is so temporary
7:45 "No member of the silent generation has ever served as president."
Joe Biden in 2020: "Fine, I'll do it myself."
I mean this was before he got elected
Joe Biden: Hold my ice cream.
Bernie would've been better
@@loconamiwooo I know lol
@@dainty_af I agree.
*In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your place within it.*
The Floridian Gent it said that in the video...
The Floridian Gent nm
My group of Millennials between 1990 & 2008 set the stage for the Alpha and so on.
We are the pioneers who saw the writing on the wall...
From terror to economic upheaval, social changes, technology, everything.
Now we are living it as adults
Well, it partially defines you.
Jade Shard wow that’s deep
You know what hurts. In 10 years, when people say the 20s they're talking about 2020 and not 1920. I'm 14 and I feel old. Idk this stuff makes me feel depressed
Same. I´m soon 16 and I´m seeing all those people my age and younger going places, I feel like I haven´t done anything with my life and that I don´t have a lot of time left. But at the same time it makes me want to work even harder and change the world as we know it. Or, just give up.
Not that soon! Maybe 25 years?
@@mariahf7968 dont give up.
give your life to jesus repent of your sins
and you'll be secure
🙏🏼
Had a similar thought to that after Y2K, I was like ten n felt old🤣
I'm sorry man I had to do this... R/im14andthisisdeep
typically i dont watch buzzfeed videos (other than unsolved) but this video was absolutely amazing. it was very informative, it didn't cut any corners, it's color palette and the way it was filmed gave off a cool vibe. i want to see more buzzfeed videos like this. quality over quanity.
Look for the videos directed by Eugene on the Buzzfeed staff (He actually doesn't work for Buzzfeed any more) his artistic visions play out so well on film. He really has an eye for capturing whatever he is trying to convey.
Gen X : **looks sad and smashes bottle 😔**
Millenials : 😝🍾
Nope Gen X would smash it on your head and buy more drinks🍾🤬🍻
millenial is styled like gen x and boomer
lol
The scene with the blood coming down the soldiers face really got to me
XQueenX XHX Same.
XQueenX XHX samee
I guess it has to do with the fact that a good chunk of the Baby Boomer vets returned home with PTSD in some form.
I think they were talking about the Greatest Generation (between 1901-1927).
Because PTSD at the time wasn't widely diagnosed and was simply accepted as something that happens, the greatest generation suffered the most despite all the groundbreaking moves they were capable of achieving for modern america. Most of them likely suffered in silence...
Or at least that was my perspective on it. Still, pretty sad.
Chelsea Lucien it also hit hard for people born during 1919-1923 which meant they will be old enough to ship out for war during WW2
love how everyone is in a fancy colored place and gen z is like, jsut house
I mean considering *the economy*
And cats
@@LlamasAtMidnight never forget about the cats
Other generations: aesthetic colours
Gen Z: *orange cat*
Gen Alpha: *vase*
Tells how sad your life is
This made me feel really empty
Sarah Something same
Same
Sarah Something omgggg glad I’m not alone:DDD
Sarah Something same
This song gives me a lonely vibe.
The 'Greatest Generation' is portrayed by a soldier showing signs of anxiety and PTSD. Like, yes, he worked hard to build up a nation, but at what cost? Where has it left him mentally and emotionally? And the Silent Generation, struggling with depression.
I love how the video showcases the mental illnesses-- That we society still see as taboo-- and showing them in times when they couldn't be formally diagnosed. Like, these are the generations that were supposedly so much better and stronger, but in reality, they went through just as much turmoil and struggled with mental health just as much.
No most that I've know were very content and living well . It's not what you think . I have family members who are from the silent generation
@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 idk if you know this but 28 million is a lot of people and just bc the ones you know were happy doesn't mean the majority was
@@emiliew5553 how do you know the majority wasn't ? Mr. Doom and Gloom
Mental illness is celebrated these days.
Gen Alpha's list of formative events:
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The year 2020
More like gen z, gen alpha are all too young to really remember this
Yep, this year sucks lol
@@christybyrne9844 Exept for the eldest one they are turning 9 and probably will remember this.
Jermane Anyoha great I’m Gen alpaha
Christy Byrne well, I’ll remember it, plus what about the aftermath? It is said trump effect on this place will go generations.
Whoever directed this and shot it is brilliant
Eugene did
"Eugene did" yup that explains it.
Bacon Dang this actual coment and the replies has a high amount of likes...congrats👏👏👏
Bacon What was the song that they put in the background when they were summarizing the generations I know the song?
itrynottolie lol ikr
Lowkey I felt a little intimidated when generation alpha showed up
Ikr, it looks cool lol
Same.
c r o w b a r
Komla Tettey when were you born
@@colsonweiser5648 2011
it's actually generation alpha that will be the first generation to not remember a childhood without internet, smartphones etc. i still remember my parents having small nokia phones and we didn't get smartphones till i was 13 (i was born around mid 2000's)
But like, the internet was created in 1990, and smartphones like in the late 90s or 2000s
@@gottalivehappy even if the internet was created then it didn’t have widespread use until the 2000s. same with smartphones, widespread use began around 2010 i’d say
Yeah they usually get that part wrong. It never resonated with me and many other younger Millennials/older Gen Z.
No shade, but the internet was very popular before the mid 2000's. Almost everyone I knew had home computers by y2k
@@gottalivehappy the first smartphone was the first generation of iPhone, which came out in 2007.
THIS IS THE KIND OF QUALITY CONTENT I WANT MORE OF
YASS
LITERALLY
SAME
Nabiha T. Ii
ikr so aesthetically pleasing
it's kinda based on book Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
By Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams ----- Book covers more deep trends and cycles
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842812-pendulum
By far one of Buzzfeed's best videos. It was educational, informative, aesthetically pleasing, not boring, and not biased
Lilly AGREED
Lilly And it had great music! I can't stop watching it lol
i see an army😂
Eugene created it of course
Agustina D ayeee what's up fellow yoongi stan 😂😂
2019- Okay Boomer
2039- Okay Millennial
2069- Okay Gen Zoomers
By 2069 it's probably going to be Ok zoomer (gen Z)
Glow co. Zoomer makes no sense. They are generation Z, Not like “Baby Zoomers”.
Nice
Wil Smith that. Is. Why. It's. A. Joke.
n i c e
God bless the GI generation, their great endeavors and sacrifices will never go unnoticed
Baby boomers : dooms the world with climate change
Also baby boomers: it’s those phones
@John Taylor yall screwed us for not doing anything ab it and going with the system
John Taylor *silence boomer*
John Taylor so it's our job now to fix the mess you started? if only you weren't so depending on your future generations, then these wouldn't have ever happened.
@John Taylor ok boomer
Cartoon Comedy it would appear we have located another wild boomer we must tread lightly
Ps thanks for 145 likes
To my fellow Z’s
We’re approaching the end of the decade, and going into the 20s
By the end of the 20s, all of us will be adults.
We will have changed the world for better or worse.
We might not be able to do much now, but the future is bright
Keep going, we got this
I need to get a cat
Abeni Schwebke I am with you
*screenshots this for future reminder*
Audrey Hawrylo Amén... especially the last part... ok, gen z..
I'll be 18 in 2025 and 23 in 2030 I'm kinda scared idk why 🙃
I’m not going to lie but this is like my favourite buzzfeed video to ever be made
Annie Willing
Same
Annie Willing Same
Just because Eugene made it ?
I love your profile pic 1. Daveed is the greatest person alive and 2. LAFAYETTE
Same, it was a good look at who is really around us and what has happened and what we have become.
We need an update to this, given the recent developments in society
I'm just crying knowing that we'll lose the greatest and silent generations in our lifetime, I only have one grandparent left and it pains me to think of the day when I'll never be able to talk to someone who personally went through the roaring 20s, Great Depression, ww2, old entertainment, etc. again. They've gone through so much for you and I hope to be able to tell my grandkids and great grandkids about growing up in the 2010s and see their faces light up with wonder like mine does when I hear old people talk about their lives. So please people, talk to your elders while you can.
I know. There's a lot of things I want to know and ask then I remember its too late.
I agree.. I'm a Jew, my mother's uncle is the only survivor in my family from the Holocaust and now he has Alzheimer's.. Doctors say he doesn't have much time left but there is so much I don't know from that time that in my opinion EVERY future generation should know! If we care about our future. We need to have them heard. Many in our generation fail to understand that in 70 years from now, children will mock us the same way we mocked our elders. Everyone deserves to be heard in every generation.
Kipling was a furry my grandparents were born in the late 50s so there’s not many exciting stories
@@Bruh-kd9rx Every single human being has exciting stories to tell. Keep asking them and you'll be surprised.
I seriously fuckin feel that. I've lost two very important family members less than a year apart, with most recent one being a couple weeks ago. I regret not talking to them nearly as much as I should have. There's still so much i don't know about them.
It honestly sucks to be gen z. You’re childhood was similar to 90’s kids, but once you get into you’re teens this sudden responsibility of how “the world may end because of what we created”. But in reality we didn’t create it. We were given this broken Earth and everyone older than us expects us to magically fix it. Being afraid to go to school without being shot isn’t normal. No wonder depression and anxiety has gone up. We miss our childhood with iCarly, wii, and so much more. There is also technology we are expected to produce for Alpha. We are so overwhelmed. Anyone born between ‘98 and ‘10, reply what you think!
Bored5703 i agree with every single part of this, we really were just handed this huge, barely fixable problem, and now we’re being blamed for it. Even though everything that they’re calling bad and all the problems about us were caused by them.
agreed. im tired of all the older generations blaming us for problems we didnt create
We are also (mostly) unable to fix some of these problem that have been handed to us becuase we are to young. Even so we have started marches against gun violence and have tried to stop basic human rights violations. An yet we STILL get called slackers. Uggg
Exactly, and its not fair that older generations always tell us we arent doing enough. We JUST entered the work force, and we're already staging protests and marches that people of all ages have been attending. Every generation is important and unique, its wrong for older generations to look down on us for having more exposure and opportunities tech wise. We arent lazy, we're just desperately trying to prove ourselves in anyway we can. Its especially difficult because mental illness is very common in our generation, and older gens dont always understand how hard it truly is.
Aubrie Kadabree I’m in gen z and I’m not going into the work force 😐
I’m far from it
I honestly feel thankful for The Greatest Generation.
Yep,because they fought for the things we have today😊 a millenial here 1994 baby😊
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Thankful and sorry
I love that last quote. "In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it." We're unique individuals, and most of us differ from our generational stereotypes in one way or another. But what is true is that the unique ways in which each generation grows up can influence the way we perceive the world, resulting in the numerous different perspectives held by individuals from every generation.
As a “Zillennial” (Born in 1998) I consider myself to have grown up in the Post-911 environment and see the Cold War as history and the Pax America as the natural end of history and are deeply worried about both Russian revanchism, the rise of China and the disintegration of the domestic political situation in what most would call the west. Which probably defines by politics and world view as Hawkish compared to my piers, committed to liberalism at home and generally favoring the free market while supporting a social safety net but not really into redistribution of wealth or radical changes to the economy. Basically a mainstream democrat with a fetish for war material.
This is the type of video that originally drew me to buzzfeed. Heavily music based, informative, awesome videography. Way to go! Hope this is a new spring for their brand.
og yes the music was great
Plot twist; it was not a new direction for their brand.
The silent generation was so silent that I didn’t know they existed before this video
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Yup.
Lmaooo
Edit: yeah I think the baby boomers/x were the ones to study "generations" and label them. So the silent generation doesn't refer to themselves as such.
I've known about the silent generation for years only because my father was born in 1931 (died in 1988) and my mother was born in 1938, and I wanted to find out what group they were labeled. Don't remember where I first heard the label. Their small generation begot my small generation, Generation X. The first time I heard the label Generation X was in an article In Rolling Stone in the 1980s. It seems over the years there wasn't much press about Generation X. There was always a lot of news about the Baby Boomers (ie: Yuppies and just the vast size of that generation) and then onward to the Millennials. When I've read several descriptions over the years about my group, it is a common characteristic that Generation X does skipped over more so.
Neither did my English class (even my teacher) until I told them.
I knew because my great grandpa is still alive, and he's a part of the silent generation.
THIS is the kind of material I would love to see more of from buzzfeed. It really was interesting and the cinematography was just perfect. I wish buzzfeed valued quality over quantity. I wonder how many amazing videos like this they would produce if they focused more on quality?
Kaylee Yes!!
Can you please create an updated version? I always loved watching this video, and it would be neat to see an updated version
Doubtful as this was all Eugene's creation
Yes. Also the right styles for the right generation.
Like you are styled like an 80s boomer, and in the video they would make it, gen y
etc
lol !
I’m sorry but the aesthetics and cinematography of this video is bomb af
Hayley XD why are u sorry if it’s a compliment lmao
"It is predicted that Generation Alpha will be a more wealthier generation”
*me, tearing up, because it means my nieces & nephews will be able to live better than I do and they really do deserve it: yEAh?*
I'm going to try not to get on my cousins' bad side. 🤣
yeah so unfair for gen Z i mEAN IT'S NOT SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE
dazed delgado true, at least one generation gets to live in a world that's happy and clean
If the situation improves by then that means you all will reap the benefits. It also means that what you do now will lead to the world that will give them that wealth. Think of yourselves as builders.
Every Generation has it's problems. Have you noticed that even as the generations progressed every one of them had their own unique problems? Don't worry, they'll have their hardships.
no one:
everyone coming back to video after november 2019:
*_okay boomer_*
Celina Astbury facts
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
Oml- I saw this video before and here I am in December
"Although they entered the workforce during the Great Recession, Millennials view their economic futures more positively than previous generations"
Oh boy, 7 years has done a number on this one.
Gen Z here, i think our generation is the most “aware”. Many of us, including me are getting quite irritated from what is happening to humanity, the US, and climate. We also seem to be the most liberal generation. Given we were 5-10 years in the future I can see us fixing the climate, economical and health issues and lots of other stuff in between. Other generations call us lazy, but we are just in a generation with new technology and advancements, while they sit i front of that TV we are shifting more towards phones and video games. This is the generation i have the most hope for, we care more about what this planet is turning into than ourselves. Millennials are more optimistic for the future, we are more realists, and possibly pessimistic. We see the glass as half empty, and needs to be refilled.
And I think it's why we are so anxious. We have slots of problems that we want to fix. We are young, but we have older generations as leaders who dont really want to listen to us yet. But the 1st born Gen Zs will be turning 20, 19, and 18 this year. So, safe ro say that maybe and hopefully our anxiety will decrease and we can take the world over and try to fix it.
As someone born in 2007, I full-heartedly agree with you.
My teachers always want us to see the glass as half full and to be positive, but I always thought that was kinda weird. I would think, “Why would it be half full? It’s half empty and you should do something about it and not wait until you have nothing left.”
I thought I was weird that I thought that and that I should be thinking positively instead, but after I saw what you wrote at the end of your comment I was thinking that maybe what I felt about the matter wasn’t weird and pessimistic, but realistic and determination to fix the problems at hand.
I now feel that this is how other Gen Z’ers perceive our world and that they too acknowledge the difficulties in our world, but do not have the power, opportunities, and experience to fix them. I really admire all of the Gen Z’ers going out their and doing their best to help repair the damage that older generations have pushed on us. I have a lot of faith in this generation.
Hmm I guess I am millenial with a Gen Z mindset.
What some other generations don’t see is that life is different. People blame us “oh you don’t go out as much with your friends” or “what about actually going outside” but they don’t see that’s it’s dangerous. In my country teen/young adults, especially females, can barely go outside with the fear of being raped and people still complain that I’d rather call my friends to talk than actually seeing them in a park/shopping mall because it’s scary. Again, life is different. We have technology now, we have machines and cellphones and that’s for a big part how we have fun, socialize etc. ok, I get it, it can be harmful but that’s how we grew up being tho. I think that gen z and gen alpha will both be the ones who are super anxious because we have so much to change and no idea how to do so, and just “searching it on google” won’t fix it, and giving us such responsibilities is making us feel anxious and rush on things that we should have a lot of time to fix
True. I went for Friday’s for future from my school, I think it is a good idea protesting for our climate. But i think this is an unpopular opinion- Greta Thunberg is not doing much to help our country, she goes on live tv and complains about the climate. I do admire her but I feel she’s not helping much, except in Sweden of course, she did a lot of good there, but I feel like things should be changing. Of course we are more aware than other generations, we have the internet, (which boomers literally created but they blame it on us) so we know about our world. It’s hard for gen Zers to do much since we are very young.
Can we talk about how awesome the video scheme was? The colors, the music, it was all so beautiful.
And, it was exactly 10 minutes long for that double ad
7:33 Generation Alpha gives me the creeps. Wouldn't be surprised if they start the Hunger Games.
My little brothers 7 and he's the oldest Generation Alpha so really there's no way of knowing if they'll be like that or not.
I can already see that happening... Millennials being used as target dummies (minus the most stubborn, who will be atop skyscrapers swatting at planes), while members of Gen Z will run through giant corn mazes to find the way out.
@@DarkSunGameplay LOL 😅
Im worried about the future generations too, born with devices instead of rattles. What will become of us 😰
The person like president snow would be from gen z and then gen alpha would be all the people in the capital that run the hunger games and such.
something about the silent generation’s aesthetic and the actor’s face expressions made me feel so bad about them
One thing I noticed is that the majority of gen z is suicidal, depressed, or has anxiety issues.
*all of that 3 is my mood every FCKN day* lol
Random Awesomeness like me ironic
Marcel_ den'z get some help
Use me as an example whit anxiety :v)/
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Gen Z it’s so underrated just give us 5 more years and everyone will see what we can do
The day of the rope
3:26 Wow never realized it fully, that Gen Z is the FIRST people do not know a world without the internet/smart devices. That gives us a huge responsibility to shape how technology is woven well with human experience/evolution. If done well, prosperity. If done wrong, the machines turn against us as a Frankenstein's monster.
@@robhousehold but we had a childhood whit out internet and high tech tehnology the internet didn't became main stream until their search engine was implemented. I don't live in USA but i got my first internet connection when i was 8, but yea if you count late Gen Z they pretty much lived whit the internet.
We are basically fucked by the gens before us but we are still organizing worldwide protests to get the goverments to take action against climate change.
Mos of us GenZ are still young adults though we're undoubtly going to save the environnement. We are aware of the possible downfall of technology, the best example being the show 'Black Mirror' which name represents the mirror of a computer or phone screen. I agree that some of us seem blind to issues or joys, but not everyone of GenZ is like that ; we can help others to widen their world view as we grow, for the sake of the entire human race.
the definitely got the anxious part right about gen z
Tell me about it
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I felt anxious waiting for the part about gen z to come up
That is just created by helicopter parents and the overuse of technology
damnb yep
bro 3 yrs later and our generation (gen z) is throwing tear gas back at cops with our bare hands but is too scared to ask for ketchup at a restaurant.. oh how i love us
Great video. But I wish you showed more of how gen z is very politically inclined and more accepting of diversity. And also how those of us born in the earlier years of gen z (such as myself) were born at the start of what technology would truly become in the future, and not fully receiving its benefits until our teen years.
Ghe iphone came out whem i was 12 that was 13 years ago. The ipod touch came out when i was about 10, 15 years ago. You were bron woth tech that made my PC as a child look like the appollo 12 landing module. My most advanced gaming PC at 13 is penauts compared to the cell phines you were born with. I wasnt allowed to have a phine until i turned 17. At all. No cell phone. Had to ask to use the landline. Your gemeration is the most privilaged of all time and thats a fact and with pribilage comes iggnirance and laziness. Your genration is going to have a very hard life because you think nothing is your fault and you beleive you are all so great and wise and wonderful in every way but like a narcist you soon find that the rest of the world has no place for stupud confident people.
Forrest Hayson next time you should learn how to spell correctly before you make a point.
@@rohankhubchandani3694 i dont have time to proofread youtube comments.
@@KushDragon420 Then you don't have time to make them, you illiterate douchebag.
Forrest Hayson it’s 2018, autocorrect? and that’s coming from Gen X
What I found really interesting was that Gen Z are being compared to the Silent Generation. On one hand I can understand that. We're left with a mess we didn't create and many feel left alone by older generations save some Millennials.
On the other hand it also implies that Gen Z is a quiet generation (I mean I wasn't alive back then when the silent generation was young, but the name leads to that conclusion) which I feel like is changing (or at least in Germany it is) there are literally constant protests against climate change, article 13 (before it was too late that is) and it is constantly a topic in the news. So I feel like Gen Z is becoming quite the loud generation
I'm also from Germany and was born 2003 I think that our generation is really strongly trying to engage themselves in politics and climate change.
Everyone my age is heavily involved. So I totally think comparing Gen Z to the Silent Generation isn't right.
We are starting to speak up not only in Europe with Fridays for future but also in America through the student protests against Gun rights.
It's just that the older generations don't even want to listen. But all in all we have great responsibility when it comes to the present and future. I hope we will be able to keep up with the problems.
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TL;DR Gen Z carries massive responsibility in society.
We should be known as the greatest generation,we will never be silent I mean look at us we are fighting for a better world, I think we will be known as the generation that was forced to age faster.
I know this is controversial, but a better comparison with the Gen Z is the Greatest Generation AND the Boomers. All three lived in political turmoil, (I mean we always are) and are all very active in correcting it.
Did anyone else get kind of sad when they saw how the are only 4 million Greatest Generation left like the people that lived through that part of American history is almost completely gone
Yep that's how time works :D
I’m lowkey glad bc most of them are super homophobic and transphobic and we don’t need that negativity in modern day society
Zombie221 they built modern America, and many fought for civil rights. And of course they might be homophobic or transphobic but they grew up in Jim Crow and many of them helped to end that. You really can’t expect that much more from a generation civil rights wise tbh
Yes this was emotional knowing our grandparents generation will be gone soon, especially during this pandemic.
My grandfather died in March, he fought in the Pacific in WW2 and he was the last Greatest Gen member left in my family. I did kind of feel like we were losing a piece of history when he died. And no he wasn't homophobic :P
I'm feeling that genz is growing up faster and going straight to a career.
I wanna be a pulmonologist. But like, if that doesn’t happen I’ll be a financial adviser, and of that doesn’t work then I’ll try to be an Architect. IF THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN. Then I’ll be a Geologist… if that doesn’t happen
McDonald’s or stripper ✋💀
Yessss i fell like aging like a bullet
im a millenial, i dont work a job, i blaim that on girls taking the jobs for me, i get to relax, thanx girls.
I don't think we're growing up faster tbf
@@fsdffdfd2534 uh huh
Greatest Gen: Orange
Silent Gen: Teal
Boomers: Yellow
Gen X: Indigo/Blue
Millennials: Pink (duh)
Gen Z: White
Alphas: Rainbow/Multicolored (bc they haven’t been around long enough for us to see their true colors yet)
wOw ThAtS dEeP...
xD I'm Gen Z and my favorite color/shade is white
@@matthewepshtein9026 fucky wucky
Tbh I have no idea what the color represent
The colours are regular colours up until Gen Z. It's a clean canvas for my generation, white. Ready to be painted. Gen Alpha? They are the new world we have painted, so bright and colourful and new, unlike any generation before us. It is a beautiful world, where everyone can be accepted.
Gen z could’ve been like green but idk
At the same time though white is good because it seems more modern and gen z is very modern and new. It’s also open for any color to be painted in, like a canvas. We are now in the process of finding our color and painting.
Alpha gen is multicolored because it’s still trying new colors and seeing what fits them best before they get their canvas ready to paint.
it’s scary how time flies. gen z’s youngest is already a decade old. no more single numbers. yikes :(
amal arbi - I’m a Millennial and I was 18 twenty years ago now. WTF happened to the time? Lol.
@@Culpeppered you didn't use enough brain power to discover time travel, try harder
marsha You did the math wrong.
Im the youngest gen z at 10.
@@charleslee5073 underrated comment lmao
Hey fellow Zs, the '20s is about to be our time lol.... it feels wierd this decade's about to end
The Developer am i really the only one on here older than gen z
just turned 19 yesterday and i feel so weird, almost two decades...
Mr. Burger the path to the future is not paved with hatred brother
@Mr. Burger Even if Millenials have done a lot of horrible stuff, which disappoints me a lot, I don't think it would be a good idea nor would it be a good example to express hatred for a random person. Our generation shouldn't be made out of hatred for others, it would just give us a negative image that we just focus on the negative traits of the past, rather than trying to make the future look bright.
The Developer That makes me feel a bit sad tbh, I'm only 16 and I feel like I'm getting old.
came back to this video after 5 years and it oddly makes me feel sadder than the first time i watched it
right reflecting on how much gen z were predicted to thrive vs the after effects of covid that we know now makes me emotional
I LOVE THIS SIDE OF BUZZFEED
Adeline Chau same
Me too
OMG YASSSS
u mean eugene?
yeah me too :"D
who doesn't love Eugene?
I feel that the “silent generation” and Generation x are the most underrated
Those are the best generation (gen z)
Lacey Kean it’s true they have geo up listen to to Tupac biggie and begin a teen in the 90s am so jealous
As a 70s baby, I thank you. As someone else mentioned, our music was choice. Rap AND Punk (which splintered into Postpunk, Metal, and Grunge)?? Honestly, no use trying to compete with that. LOL. Kind of true and a bummer that we have the most personal debt. It also truly sucked to become a horny teenager during the AIDS crisis. But I wouldn’t exchange my nihilism-inducing youth for an “insta-worthy” one. I can’t get over how much my students (mostly Zs now) are so afraid of being “awkward.” You mean, normal? Human? I have nothing but hope for the younger gens. I hope they fix the mess my gen foresaw but couldn’t seem to avoid. Do well and take care of me! Lol!
Remember, without gen x, me telling you this wouldnt be possible. The three guys who invented google were all gen x'ers
Both of my parents are gen X and tbh they’re super chilled out
I love snails and slugs
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please do an update of this video because so much of this has changed
Gen Z: supposedly doesn't remember a time without internet/smartphones
Also Gen Z: playing with toys as kids and not owning a phone until much later
But alsoy brother who is a gen x bought an ipod touch when I was 7 and still I knew how to use it better than my brother 😂
Facts , when I was little I was still playing tea-party with my dolls and making mud pie and little fairy houses.
-a gen Z person lol
@Jessica Hello , yeah well when your older you kinda need your phone to get around, when your little your parents do everything for you so you don’t need it
Ikr born in late 2002, had my first phone at like 15, though I already had access to the internet as a four year old
Yep. I didn't get a smartphone till I was 15, born in 2000. I had a little flip phone but it was only in case I needed to call home from school (like if I needed to stay after). I did have a PS2 and a Wii though. I played a lot of video games when I was younger lol.
Is no one going to mention how awesome Eugene looks??
Like, his aesthetic level is 120%
eVEryOnE looks just so fabulous
Ronilson Núñez he was the dude at gen x
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do people know that gen z kids actually had a childhood outside of phones? They are always said to be 'the generation born with phones in their hands' but really, we use our phones less than the Millenials...
Used your phones less than the millenials?? Not a chance. Statistically speaking, at least. Phones weren't even a thing during my childhood.
For real. I was born in 98 and didn't have my phone till I was in Middle school. Even then it wasn't really a phone. All it was used for was calling my parents. Most of my childhood was spent outside with friends. Now being 21 I see kids in elementary school having the new iPhone and being glued to it 24/7
we still grew up in a world that is very dependent on technology regardless of how much you individually use it.
ChaosSlay3r I feel you on that one. I feel like millennials always confuse us with Gen Alpha. Only a few of us had phones in our childhood. If you were lucky, you had a flip phone wit him limited minutes and WIFI didn’t exist!
Morgan Marsh bruh my mom uses her phone than me. Millennials definetly use technology more
“Millennials view their economic futures more positively than older generations” millennials can’t afford to pay student loans or buy a house😭
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my son is generation alpha and he definitely likes to knock breakable objects off tables
Evan Brettell LoL
LMAO
your son is SO lucky, he'll get to see 2100 while still a bit young, if it's possible, which I know it is, I will be 96 in 2100!!! *just like stan lee, he lived till 95, so one year off
@@key745 ,i will be 100 years old in 2100...
K doge I'll be 98
Imagine our grandkids showing us the “I could’ve dropped my croissant vine” and we’d all be laughing in our chairs saying “that was iconic”
Awwwww
@@Heezbungus I’m honestly kinda ashamed of that.
I’m guessing you’re a millennial because no zoomer would laugh at that
@@Alexa-so4jh I was confused
then WE will be the GRAND DAD
I feel like Gen Z won’t be this bleak we will probably have serious change in how mentally ill people are treated. Especially in America Gen Z has to deal with the constant fear of school shootings and the amount of teen depression is insane and I see us in the future really changing out outlook and bringing it to the forefront where it should be.
Oh god the depression rates in teens are just skyrocketing at this point >_
Yea
AprilFools and anxiety 🤩
And now the situation of WW3
Also the amount of stress we’re always under because of our school system. I can see possibly later in the future Gen Z fixes the education system at least I hope we do.
I can’t believe this was 6 years ago already
right im gnna cry