2:22 That one girl saying Gen Alpha can’t read, and then immediately switching to the Gen Alpha kid saying the longest word in the Oxford dictionary is pure gold
Nope. My folks were smarter than me. I think millennials although they are younger. And all these stereotypes are incorrect. 40% of seniors live on 40k or less..many rent. Millennials I know are not glued to their phones and Mr. Beat is actually wrong about something about these groups. These terms were devised by Newsweek, LAWeekly and Bam and other periodicals, a now defunct throwaway term. The age ranges tended to change depending on the years or the throwaway newspapers.
Gen X were able to experience the 70s, 80s, & 90s culture all wrapped in one as kids, teens, and young adults. Some of the best years to come of age in my opinion.
I'm a Xennial *1981& agree 100%. I didn't personally experience the 70s, but it feels like I know it because so many of my peers did & my mother was a teenager then & constantly shared her life in such detail. All of my older cousins were 70's kids, too. It's so weird that I never realized how connected I am to a time period I never knew.
I was born in '69, and witnessed those 3 decades (my memories kick in c. '71-72). It was such a privilege to see the events and changes that occurred in my first 30 years.
My grandma (who passed a few years ago) was a member of the "Greatest Generation" and asking her about her childhood was _always_ a fascinating experience. I also recommend talking to them before they're all gone, for the sake of oral history.
Me being born in 1997 with no memories of the 90’s and having the internet since birth but also remember when RUclips and smartphones were introduced puts me at a weird crossroad in time.
1999 and same. Always grew up being called a Millennial. People didn't use to talk about generations as much as they do now and try and put a label on you.
It's kinda wild having a vague memory of older phones, computers, and toys that the millennials enjoyed. Like yeah I remember hearing dial up internet but by the time I frequently used it, dial up was a thing of the past.
This is why I like to use memories of major events to divide the different generations. 1997 is right on the edge since it is iffy if you really remember 9/11. A US millennial should be able to remember 9/11 but not remember the Challenger disaster. A Gen X would remember Challenger but not the moon landing.
As a Gen Z character, I have to say that never in my life would I have ever thought that I would hear Mr. Beat say "Skibidi Toilet." I believe I am lost now, and have no idea how to carry on henceforth.
Late to the commenting party but I’m Gen Z and I’ve gotta say, when you got to my gen I didn’t expect it to be so validating. You described us so succinctly and non-judgementally, I didn’t realise how much I needed to hear that. I don’t cry often but that had me in tears, thank you Mr Beat.
Me too, it made me feel a good sense of camaraderie with my peers & wanting to stick together since we have a unique painful experience (& there’s apparently much fewer of us)
I love this. I was born in 74. My Grandpa fought the fascists in Italy. My Grandma picked cotton instead of going to school. They truly were they greatest generation and I hope we never forget it.
My great grandma (who died in January at the age of 108 (she would have been 109 in September)) had a lot of the traits of the greatest generation. I was very fortunate to spend lots of time with her over the years. I often talked about her youth and her personal experiences. She also wrote a lot of her stories down for her granddaughter (who had a genealogy school project at the time). My Great Grandma grew up in a house with lots of people in it (ranging from 5-10 people). The house also had one bathroom. She remembered when there weren’t as many planes in the sky. When she started paying attention to more things, Coolidge was President. The family had two versions of the landline phone in their house. She remembered gathering around the piano and/or radio for entertainment. She was also very close to her grandmother (who was born in 1849).
My Grandma is part of the silent generation. she was born into the great depression, grew up during WW2, and lived through all of the craziest technological advances in human history. i love talking with her about her life experience.
Same for my great grandma. Her dad came from Mexico with his wife and her mother. He went through the roaring 20's and became a millionaire. He would walk around with a fat roll of 100's. My great grandma had to help raise the kids because her mom passed away in her 40's and because he had 26 kids throughout his life. Growing up my great grandma and her children (my aunts) made sure my siblings and I were nice and stuffed fat like piggies. Anytime we felt was snacktime. Food didn't go to waste. She made sure we said the Our Father prayer before bedtime. She was a strong believer in God.
Same, MawMaw was born in 1935, grew up in rural Indiana, vividly remembers the War, how scar it was being a kid with the world at war, became an adult in the 50s, married, gave birth, got a job, traveled a lot, and then raised and spoiled Grand Children (not technically grandchildren) from the late 80s till me in 2010. The people that say the Silent Generation aren’t very loving, they’re not wrong; most aren’t, but the good ones are
Generations do have different names in different places. In Latin America, Boomers/Gen X have started calling Gen Z "the crystal generation", implying that they're weak and get offended too easily. In response, Gen Z call older people "cement generation", like they're stubborn and close-minded 😭
I was born in 1985. I still remember when the internet was not in every household (if you did, it was dial-up) and not everyone had a cell phone. As a matter of fact, I didn't have a cell phone until I was 18, and you had to pay for each individual txt you sent, so you either didn't, or you made it a long txt.
I was born in 95, and my life was simular tbh. I didn't even get my first phone till like 16. We might be 10 yrs apart, but people born in 95 are definitely Millennial leaning.
Holding up the tail-end of GenX at 1979 I have to say that I don't think I'm better or worse than any other generation but I do genuinely love being born when I was born. I say this because I honestly feel like a time traveler and am endlessly fascinated with the "future" I now live in. This has to do with the transition I and those in my age range got to witness. If you really think about it, we were the very last to have a childhood/teenage years that had more in common with our grandparents than those born as little as 5 years after us and we were the very first / youngest to enter our adulthood just as the internet boom was really taking off. I really can't explain just how quickly this shift happened. It was so sudden that in college, my first 2 years of industrial design education was mid-century based hands-on marker rendering model building techniques and my last 2 years were all computer based. Certainly, pop culture, styles, tastes, social norms and technologies did advance between the 1920s and 1990s, but in that 70-year span we still functioned through life using the same techniques with only incremental advancements, most notably satellites and microchips. In the early 20th century as with the early 90s, we shopped at stores, malls and via mail-order (later phone) catalogs. If we wanted to learn something we went to a library, bought text books or got information from encyclopedias. News was still centralized to network stations, newspapers and other periodicals. Automobiles worked relatively the same way. Film photography worked relatively the same. We used film projectors in my elementary school classroom. If you wanted to book a flight or a travel of any kind, you went to a counter, used a travel agency or a land-line phone. If you needed to find your way somewhere, you used a paper map. We used pay-phones to get in contact with each other and set up meeting points/times at public places like amusement parks. If your friend didn't answer their land line, that was the end of it. There was no easy way to settle arguments about who sang what song what the actual lyrics were and what year it came out. Our older GenX siblings were definitely cooler than us and more "with it" socially/artistically but we digested all that and took to computers and tech with less mental hurdles (mostly because we probably did a little less drugs for better or worse). I don't think times were better during my childhood, just sharply different from the world we know today. We still do the same paradoxical stupid things but the way we do it is different. So I'm thankful to have known both worlds because it means I take what I'm doing now a little less for granted. End Rant.
Born ‘72 and feel much the same. At some point in the late 80s, I realized I’d spend most of my life in the 21st century. Part of me will always feel awe at that. And yeah, you’re closer to my younger sister’s age. As older Xers we got more “value neutral” messages about sex and drugs. (“Here’s the facts. Now you decide.” Well, sometimes we decided poorly.) Younger Xers got more DARE and abstinence-only messaging, as that approach was taking off.
@@catsmom129 Oddly I think DARE did work albeit some of it via fear tactics and half-truths but not all of it was off. Ah the Reagan years. The "do as I say now, not as I did then" years. What a generational "about face" that was eh? It's interesting now to know what "the future" actually is vs. what the entertainment industry told us it might be. Maybe not as bad as the dystopian ideas but certainly not as good as the optimists predicted. In a lot of ways we're full circle but with a lot more ability to spin each other out via all matters of over-stimulation.
I was born in early 1959 so I suppose I'm considered a "Boomer." Thank you for taking the time and effort to clarify your true feelings on this matter. I genuinely appreciate your detailed comment.
I was born in 61, and I feel the same way about when I was born, and my mom, who was born in 33 feels that way too. I think the best part about growing older is all the history that we get to witness, and the innovations along the way.
I only know if this from my children. It is dumb. But I remember being a kid and we would make weird, sometimes offensive and whacky shows with the ol cam corder as kids lol. We just didn't have the Internet to distribute it. Maybe that's a good thing.....
@@blueninja012 No I remember the OG Garry's mod for half life 2 back in the day. The head is gman from half life 2. I m old enough to remember gaming on dos. There was no GUI. You'd have to navigate the file system to launch the executable etc. this skibidi toilet stuff came decades after
@@BeansMcGriddle I don't understand the relevance of what you're saying, all I meant was that skibidi toilet is the same kind of thing as old school gmod memes (which I grew up watching)
Baby boomers are early and late. Early baby boomers, faced Vietnam, but graduated into free or nearly free state universities. The economy was booming, interest rates were low. Those born after 1955, graduated into a shrinking economy, high unemployment, and high interest rates, and something called stagflation. State universities began raising tuition and fees. The digital calculator replaced the slide rule. The “personal” computer debuted, and all of them who got a bachelors of science degree had to take a class in computer programming.
@@randallthomas5207 I’m a late Boomer, we did not have computer classes in school. They didn’t come into schools here until a few years after I graduated. We had digital calculators, but were discouraged to use them except in certain cases. They wanted us to learn math by the traditional method.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 Did you study for a Bachelors in Science? Most colleges were requiring a computer language by the mid to late seventies. Business, Finances, Econ and most humanities were pushed towards COBOL, and most of what are now referred to STEM degrees towards FORTRAN.
@@randallthomas5207 We weren’t pushed towards anything computer related in the 70s Midwest. The first time I ever saw a computer wasn’t until around 1979-80 when someone brought one to school as part of a science fair. Even in college when I went in 1983-84, computers weren’t the norm. But then, I was studying Geology at the time. If I’d been in business courses, maybe it would have been a little different, but I doubt it. Everything I picked up on computer came after 1998, when I finally got my first home unit.
I graduated in the late 1970's from HS. While education wasn't free, it was more affordable. The state university I went to was $97/semester, so the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant that all California natives got, paid for all one's fees and books. So, one could get a college degree without going into debt. However, until 1977 women & minorities had barriers to getting financing to buy a home. My high school didn't fund girls sports, so we had to wash cars, sell candy to buy uniforms. Boys didn't have to do this.
I'm Gen X ... thank you for including us. I have seen lists of the generation, including on MSM that completely skipped over Gen X in their graphics. Another thing about Gen X, we might be the first generation that had to deal with "culture wars". There were concerted efforts to ban our toys and restrict our music. We had the best music ... 70's and 80s in our formative years, then when we started making the music ourselves, our music was filled with the angst we experienced. My mother (a boomer) used to call us the "Generation of Leased/Least Hope". I put both words there because when I asked her which she meant (she said it verbally), she conceded that it could be both. We borrowed our hope from the previous generations since we were the first to experience the effects of trickle down economics, and we were the first that experienced the increased need for higher education for low tier jobs in the corporate world, pushing us into the perpetual debt cycle. Home ownership became a pipe dream for many of us. I only own a home because my husband's parents died and we were able to refinance their mortgage to buy out his siblings. We would not have been able to acquire a downpayment on our own. Subsequent generations have experienced worsening conditions, but they seem to be equipped with the fortitude to actually fight back against the injustices they perceive and see, at least as far as will goes. I keep applauding them for seeking greater union representation and refusing to work for subpar wages and conditions. And when the boomers around me complain about them, my response is "Whatever", of course.
Wow, it’s crazy how many fellow Gen X viewers are listing the 1970s as having good music. I don’t think music got good again until as late as 1982, give or take a year. As mentioned on other threads above, I just couldn’t abide AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Judas Priest, etc., on the one hand, or ABBA, The Bay City Rollers, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc., on the other hand. That’s why I found my only refuge in Black (Soul and Funk) music until the New Romantic synth-pop came across the pond to make New Wave more sophisticated and creative throughout the 1980s, which truly is the era of the best popular music. I was born in 1965, and my parents were from the Silent Generation (1934 and ’36), so we represented the two most neglected generations, overwhelmed by the dominant Baby Boomers between us. Yes, we Gen X survivors endured not only the Cold War but also the many recessions and depressions that Mr. Beast inaccurately attributes to Millennials, who basically just had the 2008 collapse. Nearing age 60, I had hope of home ownership, aiming for 2027, but the recent July 4 collapse of Bitcoin’s price wiped out my accumulated $1.2 million in an instant last week, and houses here in Metro Vancouver start around $4 million. Now, a condominium is no longer likely.
This has to be one of the best videos ever done by Mr. Beat. As a proud founding member of Gen X who has lived up to almost everyone of the stereotypes associated with it, I am an outlier one major front-- technology. Being a natural early adopter, I was internet savvy before many millennials were even born. To this day, I'm explaining technology and associated concepts to many Zoomers who supposedly grew up on this stuff.
Last month I got to meet several World War II veterans, ranging from 97-103 years old. I really appreciate how they were all willing to talk about their experiences despite their advanced age. It was truly fascinating to learn history from those who were actually there rather than a textbook or RUclips video, which is why it’s so important for young people to listen to the experiences of older generations. Thank you, Mr Beat.
When I was in college in the 1980s, my American History II professor was a WWII vet. He was set to retire that year, so he didn't care. He spent the whole semester sharing his war stories about being in the trenches and being shot at by the Germans. We didn't cover any other material. I got an A. 😅😅
Dividing people in generations is part of the human desire to make patterns to understand the world, even if they aren’t real 😂. It’s also a form of tribalism that is common in sports.
I was born in 94 and grew up with my grandparents who were born in the late 40s and early 50s. My grandfather was directly influenced by his uncle who served in the war and lived in their family farm. Some of the stories, the life sentiments, the work ethic that comes from baby boomers who did grow up on a farm hearing stories of war both valorous or sad, that is something I could never have “experienced” if it wasn’t linked to me. I’ve been blessed to have a close connection with my grandparents and I do hope to have the same for mine as I am starting a family a decade after my parents. Stories from 9/11 to Covid and anything I can remember I’d love to share with them.
Also born in 94, but to a teen mom (and grandparents who were a similar age to yours) Because of how young my mom was, a lot of my upbringing (the music she listened to, her outlook on life, etc) probably looked a little bit more like your typical Zommer than Millennial
My grandparents were all silent gen. My grandfather on my dad's side was the one who lived the longest, and he actually fought in Korea, with my dad being born just a year after he returned from the war in '54.
Thank you so much for making this video! I’m generation Z and find this topic Very interesting and I love Mr. beats videos! Always enjoy your fairness and objectivity :)
I was born in 1994 in a somewhat rural town (definitely not in a suburb) and I feel like a millennial. My wife is a year younger and grew up in a dense suburb and definitely feels a lot more like a gen z folk than a millennial. I didn’t have a phone until 10th grade and she got one in 5th. It’s interesting to see how other factors than just age influence the social generation throughline
@MinnesotaGuy822 WHAT!!!!! Lazy good for nothing generation. Ya know what's even worse? I hear they are taking those big animals with the hooves off the steppes to pull around those wheels. What's this world coming to?
I grew up during the 80's as one of the X generation, the smallest one after WWII. We were last to know what the Cold War was like, to live with the anxiety that the next day one could be vaporized under a mushroom cloud. We were born as analog kids and grew up to be digital people. We are self reliant independent, and resourceful. We were cynical of others, politicians in particular in the age of Watergate, ABSCAM, the Savings And Loan scandal, televangelists, and Iran-Contra. We were the first generation not be better off than their parents. We were the first generation to grow up around both parents working and we were known as latch key kids. We were the bridge from the old ways of doing things to the new.
@@mattmelton2561 Yes, I was thinking of two songs from "Signals", "Analog Kid" and "Digital Man". But the terms are apt. If you were born in the early 70s, you are born into an analog world mostly. Computers were a thing but mainly confined to large institutions and hobbyists. You could get a computer in the late 70s and early 80s but they were very expensive and were viewed as toys. But during that time period that X generation grew up, the digital revolution transformed every aspect of life into digital.
I think the odds of a nuclear war are far higher now than they ever were during the Cold War (perhaps with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis). Those that lost the Cold War have a lot less to lose now, a much more precarious position, much more to gain and much more will to start real, armed conflict, than their predecessors. Such things lead to an increased possibility of escalation, as compared with a rivalry between two more or less equals, both in pretty strong and thus content positions, geostrategically.
@@decus9544 I disagree with that. The risk of nuclear war isn't as much as it was then especially in the early 80s when the US was in a window of vulnerability where the Soviets fielded highly accurate nukes with large throw weights. In addition the US deployed Pershing IIs in western Europe which could hit Moscow in as few as 8 minutes. 1983 was the year we were closest to nuclear Armageddon since the Cuban Missile crisis. The Pershing IIs put the Soviets in a difficult position whit only a 5-8 minute warning which is barely any time to to determine if the warning was false. And exercise Able Archer nearly caused WW III when the Soviets received a false warning. If the Soviet commander followed standing orders, things would have turned out very differently.
I’m 20, (smack dab center of Gen Z) and I am slightly older than RUclips itself. I remember the first smartphones, and when many older folks were still fully unfamiliar with the internet. I think many on the elder side of my generation still remember the world before it moved online. I have one sibling who is 5, and his entire world exists in iPads, RUclips, and things I struggle not to describe as “brainrot.” Now that the internet is no longer in its fetal stage, the cost of entertainment has plummeted. TV shows with real production value seem to have taken a backseat to mass produced content. Kids today are more at the whim of capitalist interests than ever before, because attention is cheap. I realize that this is a never ending cycle. New technology breeds comfort, taking things for granted, and dismissal of older ideas. That said, I wish more young people would use the internet to explore the depth of content from all eras which we finally have access to. Media from this entire list of ages is accessible to us now, and each generation has movies, music, and more to offer.
I agree, the (hopefully) neverending cycle of generations. It's as true for our species as it is for bacteria and all other forms of life on this planet (the ones that went extinct obviously excluded). It's very valuable to listen to the ones who have gone before you because they've had experiences that you haven't and knowing the history of how the state of the world you now must live in evolved gives you a sense of perspective about how to interpret what's currently happening and helps you to make more informed choices. And if you continue living, you will gradually become like the older ones. They way you treat them now is how the younger ones are likely to treat you in your older years.
Im a Gen X (Xennial really cuz 1980) elementary school teacher. I teach ESL students at an international school outside of America. These kids are learning about shit we didint know about till our 20s. Kids are gonna be fine. Just like last generations figured it out so will alpha kids.
such a great topic! I like how some valid holes were poked in the concept of naming generations to begin with. I'm all for bringing different people together and this video indirectly called me out on some negative thoughts I find myself having towards other generations' stereotypes. Mr. Beat I hope you continue to win the internet.
it's the office memes. I bet Wojak memes will go the same way. But it can be seen the millennials just like a certain era of memes and thus stick with the old even if it wasn't really that long ago. It's the modern version of how generations have different clothing choices that they stick to.
I don't get the Millennial hate thing. Hitting the job market when the 2008 crash happened was bad luck. The generation who entered the job market during the Great Depression is called the Greatest Generation, but we're apparently lazy.
@@MyUsualComment all inter-generational hate is a generalization. It happens, but far from everyone has that point of view. I don’t see boomers as inherently stubborn and entitled. Just like I think the hate being put on alpha is useless and mean. Gen x, millennials, and gen z have all gone through being ridiculed and called bad kids when they were younger. And, as a gen z fellow, I think millennial memes are great. They’re not funny, but they’re fun. They are great at building a sense of community and are just wholesome overall. I don’t go out of my way to see them, but I respect and appreciate them^^
Im Xennial (born in 78) and i'm remember world without internet. I start working as a graphic designer 2 years before internet being popular in my country (Poland) and my work and life was totaly different before e-mails / www's / ftp's. Still lots of my friends from my age still behave more like boomers then millenials or later generations. They are just not tech savy then younger ones. But in other hand younglings don't have particular skills to build theirs own PC, install windows or pirate game from torrents :). They not need that skills and they can learn new useful ones. I'm just glad i didn't grow up in time where toxicity of social media is wide spread.
@@iammrbeat Living now and then is living on the different planet. Free access to unlimited knowledge is true blessing in internet era. Plus Pax Americana (with all his faults) is still great thing for our planet.
@@iammrbeat i disagree with your years for xennials. It originally meant people who were born after the nixon resignation and before the challenger disaster ( when it was called the Oregon trail generation)
I'm a 77..not sure about the Xellenial thing, more of the last of the original Gen Xer. We are very cynical, violent, yet cool...we created Hip Hop, Alternative Rock and what propelled MJ, Micheal Jackson, Madonna to GOAT status...the first generation that was completely feral. We typically have the REAL beef with the Boomers because they were absolutely selfish and demeaning, which coincidentally we (Gen X) identity with as we get older. It's like we understand why our parents were so cold to us and a lot of the Gen Xers realized we over corrected what our parents did to us: make us tougher.
The pre-boomer generation is officially called the silent generation because they were told to never complain, never explain, don't talk about your feelings and all that stuff that the Boomers rebelled against. Before them was the Greatest Generation that pulled through the Great Depression, won WWII and ushered in a time of prosperity that is now in the final stages of decline.
I'm very fortunate to work in an Assisted Living Facility with members of the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation (and a few older Baby Boomers). Getting to know them and being their friend is such a joy. Remember there are good and bad people of all ages, and the elderly are not the enemy of the young
this is earned a place in one of the most important videos I've watched. A conversation that need be had, coupled with objectivity. younger generations obsess over this distinction- evidence enough that this is very important
You know the drill, it’s mr Beat’s No.1 fan 💪, and I’m here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
You know the drill, it's mr Beat's No.1 fan and I'm here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
My parents are both Silent Generation, so I disagree with you about that generation growing up with TV. My mom (born 1939) grew up in the middle class and only one of her friends came from a family with a TV. They existed, but they weren't mainstream. My dad (born 1929) saw at TV only once as a kid; it was the amazing new technology being displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Saying the Silent Generation grew up with TV is like saying Gen X grew up with the Internet. Sure, early forms of the Internet existed in the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't mainstream.
@@danrobrish3664 Yeah, I think a few of those would have applied more to the next generation. Like Gen X having computers, or Gen Z with social media are both more Millennial things. A lot of my Gen Z coworkers hardly ever use social media or don’t know how to use it in general. It’s actually kind of surprising at how much Gen Z doesn’t understand computer technology. I think most people consider the mid/late 1950s and early 1960s as the period when TV was taking over. Which would be more for Baby Boomers. I believe my grandparents in the Silent Generation on both sides of my family didn’t have a TV until they had kids.
You are correct. TV didn’t come into our house until 1953. I clearly remember listening to the radio for serials we followed in the years before TV. It was great. So was TV, but in a very different way.
I don't know about that. My parents were born in the late 1930's and so were many of my older relatives and it seemed like they loved to watch TV. Unfortunately, that's all my dad ever did and still does even in his late 80's is watch TV.
It really is the same cycle every time, how the older generation doesn't understand and dislikes what the newer generation likes. TikTok, smartphones, the internet, video games, rock/rap music, T.V. There was even a time when fictional novels were disliked back in like the 1700s when printing books became easier, and they were seen as a "waste of time".
Millennial (92) raised by Gen-X (early 70s) raising Gen alpha (20) and I’ll say the diagnosis of autism and suck increasing has been a blessing. As odd as it sounds back in the 90s one would have to be very very high support needs to get even considered for diagnosis and ADHD was the same way. My parents had 5 children all ND in some way only 2 getting diagnosed with ADHD in pre teen age. Me, the other ADHD-er and the autistic child they had kept getting dismissed. My son and nephew are 4 and got diagnosed early. There’s still a long process for diagnosis but I’d like to thank Gen z for removing these barriers and stigma so no more of us slip through the cracks. My parents tried so hard to help us but our kids are getting what they need.
I feel like generational definitions haven’t really been much of a conversation piece until recent years-like, 10-15 years ago. I personally was born in 1981 & when I first learned of generations being a thing, 1981 was firmly rooted in GenX. Somewhere along the way, they shifted us over to Millennials. That’s okay; I think it’s awesome being right at the borderline of two generations because I can take credit for all the cool stuff from both generations while dismissing the negative attributes as someone else’s. I do that all the time.
as an American Gen Z kid, I think our generation will be defined by social media and hardships faced. The oldest of us are only like, 25-ish and we've already been born into a post-9/11 world riddled with multiple recessions, COVID, climate change, some of the worst inflation in a while, the bizarre political landscape of Hillary and Trump, then Biden and Trump, now Biden and Trump again... We currently have little hope to see ourselves purchase a home and raise a family in a conventional way: we've been sold on a promise to go to school and sink $10,000's of dollars into college with largely little payoff, corporations are skyrocketing housing costs, social security may run out, everything is subscription based or rented... Gen Z is living in a time where we were promised everything yet own nothing. I think its making us antsy and distrustful of those in power. Going into the future, I think our generation will be remembered for the hardships we've faced and what we have done to face them. Oh, and all things Internet culture.
your generation has much in common with millennials in those respects (I'm 40) but at least you didn't grow up with hope! I was 18 when 9/11 happened and the atmosphere of our economy and society was pretty rosy in the year 2000, then things turned on a dime. Very disillusioning. Hang in there!
@@NG-cf7zh the economy was never good unless you were born well off. eurocentric cultures well off people are raised to viciously dehumanize anyone with less than them.
@@saturationstation1446 I don’t want to be rude but you’re going off on some unrelated tangent. Both the guy I’m replying to and myself are American, foreign economic matters are irrelevant in this context.
Climate change was around for millennials, wars, 9/11, biggest ever recession just as we graduated and trying to find jobs and not being able to own a house like previous generations
Currently I'm a tenth grader and in my school in Germany everyone from grade 5-13 is in one school so I see a lot of gen alphas (grade 5-6) and one thing I've noticed is that friend groups there aren't really seperated by gender and that they essentially treat boy friends and girl friends pretty much the same (in the sense of ripping on them as an example) which I think is sth. positive.
@@iammrbeat 1: Thanks for commenting 2: can't guarantee it happens throughout the generation as a whole (considering how popular these alpha male influencers are). Edit: 3: Just saying what I saw personally
Congrats on getting one million subscribers, Mr. Beat! I’ve been around here since around 2017-2018 and I’m so glad that your channel has grown so much!!!
This was such a great video. You talk so slowly that I can actually hear it on double speed which is great for my time management - I sent it to a few of my friends who didn't find it very interesting. So of course I've decided to give you more likes and get new friends
I really like the range of questions you asked each generation about each of the living generations. Could you do a podcast about the differences in communication and work styles between the generations? I think that would help younger and older generations understand each other and work better together without jumping to conclusions about why someone does or doesn't do this or that. We all have strengths (and weaknesses) but a little patience and understanding would hopefully help us all work better together. We're not all technological dinosaurs though and incapable of learning so I wish younger generations wouldn't assume that. Great job on this podcast.
I wish the generations could listen and try to comprehend each generations different struggles and try to work to fix the problems in this country. However as an older millennial it does feel like the older generations don’t care about our struggles because they grew up in a much easier economy and were able to buy houses and live the American dream off the 9-5. At 29 I make more per year than my Gen X father made at his age and I cannot afford a house by myself. For reference my parents bought their house in 98 and my dad was making $6.50 an hour and my mom was stay at home.
Well, we recognize that everyone faces problems. We see you keep comparing yourself to Boomers and moaning about how bad you have it, instead of comparing yourself to every other country in the world today, and the entirety of the rest of human history. You have it worse than the boomers, but you don't have it bad. If you stopped blaming other people (Boomers) long enough, and realized you have a more privileged life than the almost every human who's ever lived, you might actually find happiness. But I don't expect you to actually listen to this, the empiricism of rest of the world and human history notwithstanding, you'll dismiss me as "disconnected" and go on blaming everyone else. Good luck with that.
@@davagevorriose8046I love the classic "other people have it worse so you can't complain" if we don't complain and create change, our literal entire world is going to be destroyed, sorry that this bothers you
@@blueninja012 I didn't say you can't complain though it accomplishes nothing and falls flat to everyone else who has it worse), I said as long as you keep moaning and blaming everyone else, you won't be able to take charge of your life and create the change. When you attribute blame to someone else, you ascribe your agency to them; to reclaim your agency, you have to take on responsibility for your circumstances. The only good comparison to hold yourself against is your past self; anything else is the thief of joy.
@@davagevorriose8046 not once in my comment did I mention “boomers” I simply stated the older generations like boomers, Gen x, the silent generation. I also compared myself to Gen X. I can see you outed yourself so I will hit you with the, “ok boomer”. You also proved exactly what I was saying. You legitimately must have some lead poisoning but I get it, growing up they told you lead was great that’s why I don’t think reading comprehension is your strong suit. Also yes if we are comparing ourselves to poorer countries of course we have it worse. While you older generations got to play the Economy on easy mode. I would bet at age 29 you were not making $80k a year like me with a base salary and a detailing side hustle cannot afford to buy a house. I honestly am baffled at your comment as all I’m asking for is to work 9-5 and to be able to afford what you did making substantially less money than me. But I don’t expect much from a generation that in the words of George Carlin, “they took it all folk, drugs rock and roll and now they are staring down the barrel a middle age burn out and they don’t like what they see so they turn self righteous”. I’ll leave you with that quote to stew on. Best of luck and may god bless you and open your eyes.
I always found uncontacted people fascinating. It’s like looking into a time machine. It’s so rare that you have a certain group of people live in their own bubble for thousands of years.
Bro I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR work , beautiful work so much fun I am already watching it for the 3rd time consecutive, very informative and very delightful to watch, your parents are so beautiful 😻 😻you are so lucky to have a such cool parents ! All the best from Adelaide South Australia 🇦🇺
Gen x made important strides to normalize mental healthcare. We owe a lot to them. Fun fact, women in programming jobs were more common for gen x than millennials. I blame video game companies for convincing my generation we girls weren't supposed to love computers
Aww, thanks. I think between Gen X and Millennials we helped stop the cycle of abuse and bad parenting. I tried therapy in my 20s but I wasn't ready for it. I tried again in my 30s and it went much better. It actually helped. Both of my Zoomers have gotten therapy when they went through hard times. I can see how the '90s (and '00s?) really targeted guys for video games. Meanwhile, the '80s had a variety of games for all genders. I loved Pitfall and a bit of Pac-Man. I'm not a fan of the shooting games.
As a 97 baby, I’m stuck in between generations. Its weird. I have the nostalgia of the 90s and early 2000s but have the anxieties troubles of zoomers and millennials.
I was born in 2002 and I remember a good majority of the 2000s, I was even on RUclips that long ago too. I like to believe that the generations should be more based on what we experienced than just the birth year because everyone is different. (I'm technically considered a Generation Z but I have interacted with the good majority of them who was born after me that I cannot even understand at all because of the way they speak and their personality). To someone like me to be also categorized with them just makes no sense to me lol
@@sethpoynter787If it were based on experiences, you could never classify anything as a generation because everyone has vastly different experiences. Time periods allow for broad generalizations.
Hi Mr. Beat, I really enjoyed your video on generational cohorts-it’s always great to see history presented in such an accessible and engaging way. However, I noticed your comment about uncontacted tribes not having social generations, and I wanted to share a different perspective on that. Even in uncontacted or isolated societies, social dynamics exist that can create generational cohorts, albeit in ways that might differ from what we see in modern, industrialized societies. For example, significant events like famines, environmental changes, or shifts in cultural practices can profoundly impact one generation differently from another, shaping their identity and role within the community. These differences are similar to the generational distinctions we observe in other contexts. Anthropologists have documented how generational differences manifest in all human societies, even those that are isolated or uncontacted, and it’s fascinating how these dynamics can play out across cultures. I think incorporating this perspective could add even more depth to your already excellent content. On a side note, I just wanted to let you know that I love your work so much! Fun fact: one of my college students actually interviewed you on their podcast-it was a highlight for them and for our class. Thanks for everything you do!
I like that we got to speak with ALMOST all represented gens. It's good to hear everyone's perspective... My main takeaway: We're all great and all also terrible. Lol!...and yes, Mr. Beat, the generational convo has gotten somewhat out of hand. There's this feeling that we're all pointing fingers, and nobody has anything nice to say about anyone else. We should try more empathy because, honestly, every generation has had its cross to bear, so to speak. WE NEED EACH OTHER. ✌🏾❤&Blessings
Before I became obsessed with genealogy, I was quite interested in social generations. I read a few of the Strauss/Howe books and even wrote a term paper about "The Fourth Turning" in college.
My sister is a xellenial, and I’m 3 years younger than her comfortably an elder millennial. It’s pretty surprising how different her experiences were growing up is from myself and my wife, even though the age gap is fairly small. Anyway, I respect Gen Z more than any other living generation right now. Obviously it varies from person to person, but just what I’m exposed to it’s very heartening to see the way that group handles themselves. They have the advantage of being prepared for the rough times that caught millennials off guard. That said, it will be fun to watch them get into their 30s and have the next generation think of them as cringe or whatever the new word will be.
In Hungary, millennials born in the 1980s are sometimes called the “Duck Tales generation” (or “Kacsamesék generáció") because the death of József Antall, the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary, was announced during a DuckTales episode in 1993. My Hungarian millennial husband remembers this! There’s a RUclips video of the interruption and death announcement-it looks like it would have been very scary for an 8 year old to see!
As an 'older' boomer, at 72, I'd like to put in a word about I.T. No, we often don't understand computers, but it is not wilful stubbornness. You have to remember that technology of any sort was a fairly new thing in the fifties, especially in Europe: we didn't even have a 'phone, a tv or a washing machine until I was 12 years old, and my father didn't even learn to drive until I was 15. Now, it's a fairly well known phenomenon that the best learning years are in childhood, and we had a childhood where we were NOT surrounded by high tech. Please be patient with us, especially us older folks who also have the problem that our memories are not what they once were, and our schooldays are a long way behind us!
I'm early Gen X and, to this day, can't use a smartphone. When i had to give up my flip phone a couple of years ago, i went for a mini smartphone. It's great bcz it has internet access, so i can check email, call an uber, or watch a quick video, but everything else I do on a tablet or computer.
my mom was a boomer and she as a computer programmer who knew more about tech then I, a millennial, ever did. I think her brother also did programming and now m gen x cousin is a software engineer. I am far behind all of them.
*_"I'm a baby boomer born in 1962"_* I don't know when exactly people who were born in 1962 started calling themselves "Boomers", but you are MUCH closer to Gen-X than you are to actual Boomers. In other words, you have a lot more in common with someone born in 1972 than 1952.
In highschool, I read what an ancient Greek who complained about his childrens' generation. I'm 65 now and that was 2000+ years ago. The kids are alright!
I was born in ‘85, and my siblings were born in ‘81 and ‘88, respectively. I’d argue that Xennials are more in line with people born from 1979-1988. My household didn’t get CDs until 1997, and didn’t get the internet until 2000. I grew up with a rotary phone in one room, a black & white TV in my parents’ bedroom, and we even had a vacuum cleaner with a cloth-covered cable (not to mention several two-prong appliances). As I got older, I found that I had more in common with the generation that came before me than the generation I was supposedly a part of, though now I will say I have one foot in each since I work with several Zoomers.
I was born in '87 and always felt I had more in common with Gen X growing up than the younger millennials. That change after the 2010s when I started keeping up more with internet trends, videogames/anime, getting younger friends who initially thought I was close to their age -- and now I feel like I have a lot in common with older Gen Z.
My parents are the silent generation and my dad got us our first computer in 1978. I have a Boomer sister and myself, my brother and other sister are Gen-X. We are all technology savvy including my 82 year old mother. But I suppose we are the exception to the rule.
@@markiefufu silent generation's kids were the best friends to have. boomer's kids were obnoxious by comparison. Gen X (when it was just the 70s) was already 60% Boomer's kids. Now its 1960+?? So its Boomer's (originally 1946-52) kids, Silent gen kids, and late Boomers themselves. Now, impossible to say anything about that group as a whole.
I’m an early GenXer born to young Boomer parents in 1968. Dad was 20 and Mom was 17. I was very lucky to grow up and get older and never have my parents get divorced. I saw what true love looks like. I am also lucky to grow up in the 1970s & 1980s. Life was much better before the internet took over. I can still remember how fascinated I was by our first VCR and microwave. It was also very awesome to get cable TV in the ‘70s. It was normal for me to see the broadcast day to begin and end with the National Anthem being played. 24 hour TV would’ve seemed strange to me then. I can remember the first few years of grade school saying the Pledge of Allegiance and Lord’s Prayer every morning before class started. It saddens me that kids still don’t do that. It should’ve never been stopped. It’s not today’s kids fault that they don’t get the education they deserve anymore though. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m much more connected to the music and tv shows of the Boomer generation. I’m a lifelong 2nd generation Beatlemaniac and an Elvis fan. Music has sure gone downhill since I graduated high school in 1986. The artists were actually talented then. They didn’t get by with using computers to make their voices sound better. TV and movies were also more patriotic from the 1950s into the 1980s. The main character or protagonist was rarely, if ever, anti-American or evil in any sense. TV wasn’t so controversial then either. It was simply aimed towards a wider “target” audience and didn’t have to use explicit language to get laughs or attention from viewers. I’m one of those people who will NEVER GIVE UP on physical media. I just don’t like streaming because I can’t trust what I want to watch to be there forever. I’ve bought over 1000 movies and over 50 complete tv series on DVD and Blu Ray. Shows that I watched during my childhood in syndication or first run, and movies from the 1930s to present day. I can still say that I’ve spent most of my life in the 20th century until I am 64 years old. Thanks for your video. I’ve been looking for something to explain the generations and years of their births. This video was very informative.
Best description of Gen z I've heard is that it's a generation with an absolute distain of nuance, a people that works towards "being difficult to kill" with its obsession with personal health and self improvement. Very innovative in a practical sense but prone to neuroticism like the generation before.
You forgot about the transitional generation called *_Generation Jones,_* basically the last few years of the Baby Boom and the first few years of Generation X-roughly 1955 to 1966. We were just children in the 1960s and weren't too affected by the political ferment or the free love or the prosperity our older brothers and sisters experienced. Instead, we had our teens in the 1970s, when western economies slumped into recession, the world became a lot more cynical place, hair and fashion were pretty comical, and pop music became more complicated and experimental, even disco. And then our generation was slammed by AIDS just as we were coming of age in the 1980s, music started to suck, and all the jobs were taken by people 10 years older than us and 10 years younger than us. We're Generation Jones because we were jonesing for things other generations had. Watch _Dazed and Confused_ some time, and you'll get it.
Aug 64 here. I have always heard that Boomer can remember where the were when JFK was shot. I was in utero. US involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 11. I graduated high school into the recession of the early 1980s. But online I am the reason that younger generations have problems. "OK, Boomer."
@@skippythetubrat You must be another Kennedy Assassination Consolation Baby. I was also born in August 64. We don’t remember the assassination, but most of us do remember the moon landing, and how things were groovy and far out. We kept on Truckin’!
Honestly, I never knew what generation I was in until I looked it up. Personally, I think this type of thing has gained more attention now than it ever did in the past. Social media has really raised its relevance to an unnatural level.
Thank you for this, I enjoyed it immensely. I sat with my Grandaughter who is 8 years old. You are absolutely correct they are the iPad generation. I would argue a difference in Western society for the generation from Gen X. Here in the UK, we first saw computers ar school in 1981. We had mobile phones (I had one) from 1988. I was on the Internet in 1989. In 1990, I worked with Tim Berners-Lee! Today, I am about as technical as you can find working on on the development of Alice in 1991, then stayed in AI. Currently developing the next generation of AI (GANs). I expect to stay current until I am in my 70’s, currently 54 years old.
1970 is the best year to have been born in. You would be a kid in the 70s, a teenager in the 80s, a twentysomething in the 90s, a thirtysomething in the 2000s. You would see so much history and inventions and pop culture before being 40.
Being born in the 50s is prolly cooler. Microwaves, indoor plumbing in most houses, tv and color tv, boomboxes, vcr, jet airliners, computers, internet, transplants
born in "61, ive always felt special as a boomer, we got the best of everything, the best music, the best movies, war stories straight from the men that actually on the lines, now most of them have past on, you are the real greatest gen those born short of the war years and its all been downhill from there, they are the ones the really need to be remembered, through a modernized version of he 60's and 70's ...................
I’m just wondering whether you meant music was best when you were in your early teens, which is when we tend to like music most. Having been born in ’65, I mentioned on another thread above that music by Caucasians was pretty bad in the ’70s and didn’t get good until the second British Invasion around 1983, give or take two years. Your user name suggests you’re a fellow Canadian. I listened mostly to Black music because I found the rest pretty unpalatable since I kind of assumed white people did just hard rock (yuck!) and bubblegum pop (boring!). Bands like Yes and Genesis were the exception, along with Pink Floyd.
Plato complained about how lazy and effeminate the youth of his day were. Every generation has done the same. Your parents said it about you, their parents said it of them.
I know the boundary between Gen Z and Gen Alpha is disputed, but as someone born in 2010 I 100% identify as a member of Gen Z and not whatever the hell a Zalpha is.
Considering that a lot of the dates for when Gen Alpha begins are roughly ten years or more ago now, I've been wondering if kids born this year onwards should be considered Gen Beta. Maybe it's too early to tell
loved the Limb Bizcuit quotes. i caught every single one of them. great album. i enjoyed growing up to the TRL show which would clash all kinds of genres of music into a top 20 show. it was a defining show for my generation that deserves more credit.
Watching this on my iPad while filming a tiktok, listening to the soundtrack for Disney's Little Mermaid, discussing my cynical views and applying for retirement benefits. Great video, Mr. Bead :)
Gen Alpha isn't stupid. I feel like a lot of them are being failed by the same underfunded school system that failed Gen Z and Millennials and Gen X that has only further slid into disrepair, but they're not stupid. A lot of them are wicked smart, if they have direction and know what they are interested in because they have the tools to teach themselves about literally anything they want. But when teachers are underpaid and parents are busy working two jobs each to make ends meet, there's not going to be any adults in their lives with the resources to guide a kid who doesn't necessarily know what they want to do. So you end up getting this disconnect within the generation itself where kids with early special interests who work well on their own excel and kids who are more generalist and group oriented fall behind. There's a real epidemic of childhood neglect nowadays and just letting the i pad do the job of raising the kid because people just don't have the resources to raise kids 'properly' and give them the attention they really need. Parents shove it off onto the school, the school shoves it off onto the parents, the kid ends up raising itself. It feels to me like Gen Alpha is going to have some similarities in Gen X and early Millennials in that regard, having to mostly rely on themselves to get what they require because the adults in their lives are so distracted. Unlike those generations though, some of them are able to use the tools available to them to hopefully rise above it.
I agree. Plus you got both parents are tired from work and not helping them with their homework. But again we don't live in the 1950s where moms stayed home and dads went to work.
As a late Boomer,(1963) I tend to align more with GenX than early Boomers. I was latch key some days ,still in my early teens, when Atari came on the scene and waited til later to have kids. I tend to be less traditional than early Boomers.
I really feel that 1963 should be the beginning of Gen X as far as shared experience goes. They were arbitrarily using the old 20-year rule. Having been born in 1965, I’m sometimes told I’m the last year of Baby Boomers, but usually it’s the first year of Gen X. The kind of music we listened to and the TV we watched was quite different from that of the Baby Boomers, and you would have been affected by the same recessions and depressions that hit us serially.
I'm a rural pastor and small town XC and Track coach. I've have the privilege of communicating across many generational lines each week. This video rings pretty true.
Great video as ever. I'm mid-late Gen X and would say in terms of unifying events that the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain was at least as powerful as 9/11 for Millennials. Different perspective in Europe perhaps. Keep up the good work.
You could argue a lot about generations and they’re pretty arbitrary Personally, these are my definitions- Older Boomers 1940-1945 Core Boomers 1946-1952 Younger Boomers 1953-1958 Older Gen X 1959-1964 Core Gen X 1965-1973 Younger Gen X 1974-1979 Older Millennials 1980-1984 Core Millennials 1985-1989 Younger Millennials 1990-1996 Older Zoomers 1997-2004 Younger Zoomers 2005-2010 Gen Alpha 2011-2020
The generally accepted classic rules is 18 years to a generation and the boomers are generally accepted to start in 1945 So boomers 45-63 Xers 64-82 Millennials 83-01 Gen Z would be 02-20
I am Gen X. I definitely do not have negative perspectives of the older generations. My grandparents were part of the Greatest Generation and I have to agree that they were the Greatest Generation. They had the best work ethic, morals, character, and they got stronger because of adversity instead of complaining. I miss that generation on the earth. I can't say enough good things about that generation. As for Boomers, my parents are Boomers. Although some rebelled, most followed in the footsteps of their parents. They also were hard working and most of them had good moral character. Obviously, the nation went through some upheaval during Vietnam, JFK and Martin Luther King being assassinated, and much more. Those historical events did change the dynamic of the Boomer generation. However, overall they are a great generation. Gen X, in my opinion, is the last generation on the earth that knows what it is like to live in a country where everyone has a religion and believes in God, a world where everyone is not hooked to something digital, a world where everyone around you was patriotic, and a world where community mattered more than a bunch of people on the internet. Gen X is hard working without having to be showy. We don't expect much, but are grateful for what we have. There are great people in the younger generations, but overall they do not have the work ethic or morals or gratitude of generations from the past. They ask what is in it for me instead of asking what they can give to others. I always have looked up to the older generations and think they are wise. I respect and honor those that have paved the way for me and have the wisdom to help me see what will make me happiest in life. Teenagers and young adults that think they are so much smarter and wiser are actually just arrogant and narcissistic. They don't realize that they could learn so much from past generations because they think they know better. Sadly, they will come to find out that they are just dumb.
i was born in post Soviet country in the 90s, but we had influence from the 80s - 60s tv shows like green acres and I Dream of Jeannie clothes of 80s that's why it is really hard to put my generation in place it should belong
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Which stereotypes do you associate with all the generations?
Me and my brother are both Gen Z, and we’re always constantly on our phone and computers.
That we are the wiser, the productive and the advance of all gens.
Good video watched it on 5x speed
My generation good. Other generations bad. Old people dumb. Young people dumb. Me smart.
Gen Xer’s grew up believing we were gonna be nuked to smithereens, and helplessly watching our friends die from AIDS.
2:22 That one girl saying Gen Alpha can’t read, and then immediately switching to the Gen Alpha kid saying the longest word in the Oxford dictionary is pure gold
Mission accomplished
tbh, its only well off neurotypicals who cant read. generation doesnt matter
I definitely laughed too.
Older Gen Alpha can still read. I have heard nightmare scenarios from elementary teachers though.
@@ghintz2156 as a teacher, I can tell you these nightmares have been told for quite a few generations already
@@jurgnobs1308 well that makes me hopeful. I've only taught secondary and undergrads.
All generations think they’re smarter than the previous and wiser than the next.
But i am smarter, better, and stronger than all of gen alpha
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True, in my case. I'm a genius.
@@Delivery_Boy_Roy truer words have never been spoken. I would know as I'm a millennial, which makes me smart and wise.
It is hilarious how throughout written human history, every generation complains about the next one. It's a staple of being human lol
Nope. My folks were smarter than me. I think millennials although they are younger. And all these stereotypes are incorrect. 40% of seniors live on 40k or less..many rent. Millennials I know are not glued to their phones and Mr. Beat is actually wrong about something about these groups. These terms were devised by Newsweek, LAWeekly and Bam and other periodicals, a now defunct throwaway term. The age ranges tended to change depending on the years or the throwaway newspapers.
Gen X were able to experience the 70s, 80s, & 90s culture all wrapped in one as kids, teens, and young adults. Some of the best years to come of age in my opinion.
Yes! I agree.
I'm a Xennial *1981& agree 100%. I didn't personally experience the 70s, but it feels like I know it because so many of my peers did & my mother was a teenager then & constantly shared her life in such detail. All of my older cousins were 70's kids, too. It's so weird that I never realized how connected I am to a time period I never knew.
Yes it was great because all the dumb stuff we did there is no evidence
Word to your mother.
I was born in '69, and witnessed those 3 decades (my memories kick in c. '71-72). It was such a privilege to see the events and changes that occurred in my first 30 years.
My grandma (who passed a few years ago) was a member of the "Greatest Generation" and asking her about her childhood was _always_ a fascinating experience. I also recommend talking to them before they're all gone, for the sake of oral history.
I am fortunate to have two grandparents still alive. I just saw them a couple days ago actually. :)
@@ScienceAsylum can you share some of the stories you heard here?
Yes! I love talking to my grandmas about their childhoods - born in '35 and '36. Fascinating stuff.
Me being born in 1997 with no memories of the 90’s and having the internet since birth but also remember when RUclips and smartphones were introduced puts me at a weird crossroad in time.
1999 and same. Always grew up being called a Millennial. People didn't use to talk about generations as much as they do now and try and put a label on you.
It's kinda wild having a vague memory of older phones, computers, and toys that the millennials enjoyed. Like yeah I remember hearing dial up internet but by the time I frequently used it, dial up was a thing of the past.
Zillennials. 1997 is definitely a weird time to be born, too old for zoomers, too young for millennials.
@@fuosdi64 so frustrating
This is why I like to use memories of major events to divide the different generations. 1997 is right on the edge since it is iffy if you really remember 9/11. A US millennial should be able to remember 9/11 but not remember the Challenger disaster. A Gen X would remember Challenger but not the moon landing.
As a Gen Z character, I have to say that never in my life would I have ever thought that I would hear Mr. Beat say "Skibidi Toilet." I believe I am lost now, and have no idea how to carry on henceforth.
No need to worry. I am just fulfilling the role of cringy Millennial character.
There was Generation x and y ones after that would degenerate and die even the thumbnail says it all
umm, you are a character? so, gen z is a book, tv show, or movie?
@@DaviAlex8 We are all characters in our respective stories.
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As a person born between 1998-2002, I can confidently say I’m an honorary member of the Black Eyed Peas
I saw them in concert in 2003, before they were big. I'm not joking.
@@iammrbeat Closest I ever got to seeing them live was the Kid’s Choice Awards so you’ve got me *beat*
lmao
So should I! Born in '98!
@@iammrbeatduring their “let’s get retarded” era?
the fact that "homeowner" was seen as a "boomer trait" is so MF sad lmaooo
yep…
And scary when you think about it
Indeed :/
Thats how the system is set up!
The landchad generation
Late to the commenting party but I’m Gen Z and I’ve gotta say, when you got to my gen I didn’t expect it to be so validating. You described us so succinctly and non-judgementally, I didn’t realise how much I needed to hear that. I don’t cry often but that had me in tears, thank you Mr Beat.
Me too, it made me feel a good sense of camaraderie with my peers & wanting to stick together since we have a unique painful experience (& there’s apparently much fewer of us)
I love this. I was born in 74. My Grandpa fought the fascists in Italy. My Grandma picked cotton instead of going to school. They truly were they greatest generation and I hope we never forget it.
My great grandma (who died in January at the age of 108 (she would have been 109 in September)) had a lot of the traits of the greatest generation. I was very fortunate to spend lots of time with her over the years. I often talked about her youth and her personal experiences. She also wrote a lot of her stories down for her granddaughter (who had a genealogy school project at the time).
My Great Grandma grew up in a house with lots of people in it (ranging from 5-10 people). The house also had one bathroom. She remembered when there weren’t as many planes in the sky. When she started paying attention to more things, Coolidge was President. The family had two versions of the landline phone in their house. She remembered gathering around the piano and/or radio for entertainment.
She was also very close to her grandmother (who was born in 1849).
My Grandma is part of the silent generation. she was born into the great depression, grew up during WW2, and lived through all of the craziest technological advances in human history. i love talking with her about her life experience.
Same for my great grandma. Her dad came from Mexico with his wife and her mother. He went through the roaring 20's and became a millionaire. He would walk around with a fat roll of 100's. My great grandma had to help raise the kids because her mom passed away in her 40's and because he had 26 kids throughout his life. Growing up my great grandma and her children (my aunts) made sure my siblings and I were nice and stuffed fat like piggies. Anytime we felt was snacktime. Food didn't go to waste. She made sure we said the Our Father prayer before bedtime. She was a strong believer in God.
One of my Grandmothers was born in 1898.
Heck yeah, thanks for sharing that
I have a grandma who's a member of the Silent Generation too! Born in 1943.
Same, MawMaw was born in 1935, grew up in rural Indiana, vividly remembers the War, how scar it was being a kid with the world at war, became an adult in the 50s, married, gave birth, got a job, traveled a lot, and then raised and spoiled Grand Children (not technically grandchildren) from the late 80s till me in 2010. The people that say the Silent Generation aren’t very loving, they’re not wrong; most aren’t, but the good ones are
Generations do have different names in different places. In Latin America, Boomers/Gen X have started calling Gen Z "the crystal generation", implying that they're weak and get offended too easily. In response, Gen Z call older people "cement generation", like they're stubborn and close-minded 😭
this is iconic i love it
At least Cement stays together
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@TheBandit025Nova so do crystals, what?😂
@@pixilatedsarin2408 Do know anything about Crystals
I was born in 1985. I still remember when the internet was not in every household (if you did, it was dial-up) and not everyone had a cell phone. As a matter of fact, I didn't have a cell phone until I was 18, and you had to pay for each individual txt you sent, so you either didn't, or you made it a long txt.
I was born in 95, and my life was simular tbh. I didn't even get my first phone till like 16. We might be 10 yrs apart, but people born in 95 are definitely Millennial leaning.
Born in 73 and agree growing up during 70s 80s and 90s was amazing. That said I feel a strange nostalgia for the 60s though I never experienced it.
'71 model here.
We all grew up watching what our parents watched, often reruns from the 60s or even the 50s.
Holding up the tail-end of GenX at 1979 I have to say that I don't think I'm better or worse than any other generation but I do genuinely love being born when I was born. I say this because I honestly feel like a time traveler and am endlessly fascinated with the "future" I now live in. This has to do with the transition I and those in my age range got to witness. If you really think about it, we were the very last to have a childhood/teenage years that had more in common with our grandparents than those born as little as 5 years after us and we were the very first / youngest to enter our adulthood just as the internet boom was really taking off. I really can't explain just how quickly this shift happened. It was so sudden that in college, my first 2 years of industrial design education was mid-century based hands-on marker rendering model building techniques and my last 2 years were all computer based. Certainly, pop culture, styles, tastes, social norms and technologies did advance between the 1920s and 1990s, but in that 70-year span we still functioned through life using the same techniques with only incremental advancements, most notably satellites and microchips. In the early 20th century as with the early 90s, we shopped at stores, malls and via mail-order (later phone) catalogs. If we wanted to learn something we went to a library, bought text books or got information from encyclopedias. News was still centralized to network stations, newspapers and other periodicals. Automobiles worked relatively the same way. Film photography worked relatively the same. We used film projectors in my elementary school classroom. If you wanted to book a flight or a travel of any kind, you went to a counter, used a travel agency or a land-line phone. If you needed to find your way somewhere, you used a paper map. We used pay-phones to get in contact with each other and set up meeting points/times at public places like amusement parks. If your friend didn't answer their land line, that was the end of it. There was no easy way to settle arguments about who sang what song what the actual lyrics were and what year it came out.
Our older GenX siblings were definitely cooler than us and more "with it" socially/artistically but we digested all that and took to computers and tech with less mental hurdles (mostly because we probably did a little less drugs for better or worse). I don't think times were better during my childhood, just sharply different from the world we know today. We still do the same paradoxical stupid things but the way we do it is different. So I'm thankful to have known both worlds because it means I take what I'm doing now a little less for granted. End Rant.
Agreed! 😊
Born ‘72 and feel much the same. At some point in the late 80s, I realized I’d spend most of my life in the 21st century. Part of me will always feel awe at that.
And yeah, you’re closer to my younger sister’s age. As older Xers we got more “value neutral” messages about sex and drugs. (“Here’s the facts. Now you decide.” Well, sometimes we decided poorly.) Younger Xers got more DARE and abstinence-only messaging, as that approach was taking off.
@@catsmom129 Oddly I think DARE did work albeit some of it via fear tactics and half-truths but not all of it was off. Ah the Reagan years. The "do as I say now, not as I did then" years. What a generational "about face" that was eh?
It's interesting now to know what "the future" actually is vs. what the entertainment industry told us it might be. Maybe not as bad as the dystopian ideas but certainly not as good as the optimists predicted. In a lot of ways we're full circle but with a lot more ability to spin each other out via all matters of over-stimulation.
I was born in early 1959 so I suppose I'm considered a "Boomer." Thank you for taking the time and effort to clarify your true feelings on this matter. I genuinely appreciate your detailed comment.
I was born in 61, and I feel the same way about when I was born, and my mom, who was born in 33 feels that way too. I think the best part about growing older is all the history that we get to witness, and the innovations along the way.
it wouldve been a crime to not mention "that toilet youtube series" in this video
lol yeah it took me awhile before I realized what he was talking about
I only know if this from my children. It is dumb. But I remember being a kid and we would make weird, sometimes offensive and whacky shows with the ol cam corder as kids lol. We just didn't have the Internet to distribute it. Maybe that's a good thing.....
it's just old gmod stuff, but people pretend it's a new thing
@@blueninja012 No I remember the OG Garry's mod for half life 2 back in the day. The head is gman from half life 2. I m old enough to remember gaming on dos. There was no GUI. You'd have to navigate the file system to launch the executable etc. this skibidi toilet stuff came decades after
@@BeansMcGriddle I don't understand the relevance of what you're saying, all I meant was that skibidi toilet is the same kind of thing as old school gmod memes (which I grew up watching)
My granny is 96 and is for sure the greatest person I have ever known! ❤
You're blessed to still have her!
@@kv2723EXACTLY was I was thinking. Just teared up thinking of mine.
Baby boomers are early and late. Early baby boomers, faced Vietnam, but graduated into free or nearly free state universities. The economy was booming, interest rates were low. Those born after 1955, graduated into a shrinking economy, high unemployment, and high interest rates, and something called stagflation. State universities began raising tuition and fees. The digital calculator replaced the slide rule. The “personal” computer debuted, and all of them who got a bachelors of science degree had to take a class in computer programming.
@@randallthomas5207 I’m a late Boomer, we did not have computer classes in school. They didn’t come into schools here until a few years after I graduated. We had digital calculators, but were discouraged to use them except in certain cases. They wanted us to learn math by the traditional method.
Correct , there is a cohort of late boomers known as Generation Jones 1954-1964. More cynical than early boomers but less than Gen X.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 Did you study for a Bachelors in Science? Most colleges were requiring a computer language by the mid to late seventies. Business, Finances, Econ and most humanities were pushed towards COBOL, and most of what are now referred to STEM degrees towards FORTRAN.
@@randallthomas5207 We weren’t pushed towards anything computer related in the 70s Midwest. The first time I ever saw a computer wasn’t until around 1979-80 when someone brought one to school as part of a science fair. Even in college when I went in 1983-84, computers weren’t the norm. But then, I was studying Geology at the time. If I’d been in business courses, maybe it would have been a little different, but I doubt it. Everything I picked up on computer came after 1998, when I finally got my first home unit.
I graduated in the late 1970's from HS. While education wasn't free, it was more affordable. The state university I went to was $97/semester, so the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant that all California natives got, paid for all one's fees and books. So, one could get a college degree without going into debt.
However, until 1977 women & minorities had barriers to getting financing to buy a home. My high school didn't fund girls sports, so we had to wash cars, sell candy to buy uniforms. Boys didn't have to do this.
I'm Gen X ... thank you for including us. I have seen lists of the generation, including on MSM that completely skipped over Gen X in their graphics. Another thing about Gen X, we might be the first generation that had to deal with "culture wars". There were concerted efforts to ban our toys and restrict our music. We had the best music ... 70's and 80s in our formative years, then when we started making the music ourselves, our music was filled with the angst we experienced.
My mother (a boomer) used to call us the "Generation of Leased/Least Hope". I put both words there because when I asked her which she meant (she said it verbally), she conceded that it could be both. We borrowed our hope from the previous generations since we were the first to experience the effects of trickle down economics, and we were the first that experienced the increased need for higher education for low tier jobs in the corporate world, pushing us into the perpetual debt cycle. Home ownership became a pipe dream for many of us. I only own a home because my husband's parents died and we were able to refinance their mortgage to buy out his siblings. We would not have been able to acquire a downpayment on our own.
Subsequent generations have experienced worsening conditions, but they seem to be equipped with the fortitude to actually fight back against the injustices they perceive and see, at least as far as will goes. I keep applauding them for seeking greater union representation and refusing to work for subpar wages and conditions. And when the boomers around me complain about them, my response is "Whatever", of course.
Wow, it’s crazy how many fellow Gen X viewers are listing the 1970s as having good music. I don’t think music got good again until as late as 1982, give or take a year. As mentioned on other threads above, I just couldn’t abide AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Judas Priest, etc., on the one hand, or ABBA, The Bay City Rollers, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc., on the other hand. That’s why I found my only refuge in Black (Soul and Funk) music until the New Romantic synth-pop came across the pond to make New Wave more sophisticated and creative throughout the 1980s, which truly is the era of the best popular music.
I was born in 1965, and my parents were from the Silent Generation (1934 and ’36), so we represented the two most neglected generations, overwhelmed by the dominant Baby Boomers between us.
Yes, we Gen X survivors endured not only the Cold War but also the many recessions and depressions that Mr. Beast inaccurately attributes to Millennials, who basically just had the 2008 collapse. Nearing age 60, I had hope of home ownership, aiming for 2027, but the recent July 4 collapse of Bitcoin’s price wiped out my accumulated $1.2 million in an instant last week, and houses here in Metro Vancouver start around $4 million. Now, a condominium is no longer likely.
Gen X: (hand wave) "We aren't the generation you're looking for. Move along."
We grew up feral and it was awesome.
or get some free dental work
@@uprebel5150playing outside doesn’t make you feral.
@@uprebel5150no, we grew up free
Playing outside, with no supervision, a feral kid does make.
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This has to be one of the best videos ever done by Mr. Beat. As a proud founding member of Gen X who has lived up to almost everyone of the stereotypes associated with it, I am an outlier one major front-- technology. Being a natural early adopter, I was internet savvy before many millennials were even born. To this day, I'm explaining technology and associated concepts to many Zoomers who supposedly grew up on this stuff.
Born in 1966 and took my first Apple Programming class in 1982.
Last month I got to meet several World War II veterans, ranging from 97-103 years old. I really appreciate how they were all willing to talk about their experiences despite their advanced age. It was truly fascinating to learn history from those who were actually there rather than a textbook or RUclips video, which is why it’s so important for young people to listen to the experiences of older generations. Thank you, Mr Beat.
When I was in college in the 1980s, my American History II professor was a WWII vet. He was set to retire that year, so he didn't care. He spent the whole semester sharing his war stories about being in the trenches and being shot at by the Germans. We didn't cover any other material. I got an A. 😅😅
Dividing people in generations is part of the human desire to make patterns to understand the world, even if they aren’t real 😂. It’s also a form of tribalism that is common in sports.
Boomer here. Generations change, but nerdy dads never do. Fun post. Keep 'em coming.
I was born in 94 and grew up with my grandparents who were born in the late 40s and early 50s. My grandfather was directly influenced by his uncle who served in the war and lived in their family farm. Some of the stories, the life sentiments, the work ethic that comes from baby boomers who did grow up on a farm hearing stories of war both valorous or sad, that is something I could never have “experienced” if it wasn’t linked to me. I’ve been blessed to have a close connection with my grandparents and I do hope to have the same for mine as I am starting a family a decade after my parents. Stories from 9/11 to Covid and anything I can remember I’d love to share with them.
Also born in 94, but to a teen mom (and grandparents who were a similar age to yours) Because of how young my mom was, a lot of my upbringing (the music she listened to, her outlook on life, etc) probably looked a little bit more like your typical Zommer than Millennial
Born in 94 but my parents were born in the early 60s and their parents were born in the 20s.
My daughters also live with their grandparents. :)
@@iammrbeat They seem like great folks! Grandparents can play a powerful role in shaping a child.
My grandparents were all silent gen. My grandfather on my dad's side was the one who lived the longest, and he actually fought in Korea, with my dad being born just a year after he returned from the war in '54.
There is a costumer that comes in every now and then, 99 years old, WW2 veteran, I find it very cool
I spent the day with a 100-year old WW2 vet and a 101-year old WW2 vet last week, and it was incredibly rewarding
@@iammrbeat I enjoy it when activities are incredibly rewarding
@@iammrbeatThat’s great. I got the chance a few WWII last month, the oldest turning 103 in September.
Thank you so much for making this video! I’m generation Z and find this topic Very interesting and I love Mr. beats videos! Always enjoy your fairness and objectivity :)
Thank YOU :)
I was born in 1994 in a somewhat rural town (definitely not in a suburb) and I feel like a millennial. My wife is a year younger and grew up in a dense suburb and definitely feels a lot more like a gen z folk than a millennial. I didn’t have a phone until 10th grade and she got one in 5th. It’s interesting to see how other factors than just age influence the social generation throughline
That interaction with his daughter starting at 42:40 is something all parents can aspire to
These dang kids with their new-fangled fire, always cooking their food. What, too good to spend all your day chewing?
Haaaaa!!!!!! 🤣 🔥
They just don't appreciate a raw diet.
@@ChaosTheoriesLuxe spoiled snowflakes. 😆 🤣
And they're lazy, too. I saw some of them using a thing they called "a wheel". /j
@MinnesotaGuy822 WHAT!!!!! Lazy good for nothing generation. Ya know what's even worse? I hear they are taking those big animals with the hooves off the steppes to pull around those wheels. What's this world coming to?
I grew up during the 80's as one of the X generation, the smallest one after WWII. We were last to know what the Cold War was like, to live with the anxiety that the next day one could be vaporized under a mushroom cloud. We were born as analog kids and grew up to be digital people. We are self reliant independent, and resourceful. We were cynical of others, politicians in particular in the age of Watergate, ABSCAM, the Savings And Loan scandal, televangelists, and Iran-Contra. We were the first generation not be better off than their parents. We were the first generation to grow up around both parents working and we were known as latch key kids. We were the bridge from the old ways of doing things to the new.
Word to your mother.
Did I catch a Rush reference?
@@mattmelton2561 Yes, I was thinking of two songs from "Signals", "Analog Kid" and "Digital Man". But the terms are apt. If you were born in the early 70s, you are born into an analog world mostly. Computers were a thing but mainly confined to large institutions and hobbyists. You could get a computer in the late 70s and early 80s but they were very expensive and were viewed as toys. But during that time period that X generation grew up, the digital revolution transformed every aspect of life into digital.
I think the odds of a nuclear war are far higher now than they ever were during the Cold War (perhaps with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis). Those that lost the Cold War have a lot less to lose now, a much more precarious position, much more to gain and much more will to start real, armed conflict, than their predecessors. Such things lead to an increased possibility of escalation, as compared with a rivalry between two more or less equals, both in pretty strong and thus content positions, geostrategically.
@@decus9544 I disagree with that. The risk of nuclear war isn't as much as it was then especially in the early 80s when the US was in a window of vulnerability where the Soviets fielded highly accurate nukes with large throw weights. In addition the US deployed Pershing IIs in western Europe which could hit Moscow in as few as 8 minutes. 1983 was the year we were closest to nuclear Armageddon since the Cuban Missile crisis. The Pershing IIs put the Soviets in a difficult position whit only a 5-8 minute warning which is barely any time to to determine if the warning was false. And exercise Able Archer nearly caused WW III when the Soviets received a false warning. If the Soviet commander followed standing orders, things would have turned out very differently.
I’m 20, (smack dab center of Gen Z) and I am slightly older than RUclips itself. I remember the first smartphones, and when many older folks were still fully unfamiliar with the internet. I think many on the elder side of my generation still remember the world before it moved online.
I have one sibling who is 5, and his entire world exists in iPads, RUclips, and things I struggle not to describe as “brainrot.” Now that the internet is no longer in its fetal stage, the cost of entertainment has plummeted. TV shows with real production value seem to have taken a backseat to mass produced content. Kids today are more at the whim of capitalist interests than ever before, because attention is cheap.
I realize that this is a never ending cycle. New technology breeds comfort, taking things for granted, and dismissal of older ideas. That said, I wish more young people would use the internet to explore the depth of content from all eras which we finally have access to. Media from this entire list of ages is accessible to us now, and each generation has movies, music, and more to offer.
I agree, the (hopefully) neverending cycle of generations. It's as true for our species as it is for bacteria and all other forms of life on this planet (the ones that went extinct obviously excluded). It's very valuable to listen to the ones who have gone before you because they've had experiences that you haven't and knowing the history of how the state of the world you now must live in evolved gives you a sense of perspective about how to interpret what's currently happening and helps you to make more informed choices. And if you continue living, you will gradually become like the older ones. They way you treat them now is how the younger ones are likely to treat you in your older years.
Im a Gen X (Xennial really cuz 1980) elementary school teacher. I teach ESL students at an international school outside of America. These kids are learning about shit we didint know about till our 20s. Kids are gonna be fine. Just like last generations figured it out so will alpha kids.
such a great topic! I like how some valid holes were poked in the concept of naming generations to begin with. I'm all for bringing different people together and this video indirectly called me out on some negative thoughts I find myself having towards other generations' stereotypes. Mr. Beat I hope you continue to win the internet.
"Millennial memes are cringey"
Do not cite the deep magic to me, Zoomer, I was there when it was written.
it's the office memes. I bet Wojak memes will go the same way. But it can be seen the millennials just like a certain era of memes and thus stick with the old even if it wasn't really that long ago. It's the modern version of how generations have different clothing choices that they stick to.
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I don't get the Millennial hate thing. Hitting the job market when the 2008 crash happened was bad luck. The generation who entered the job market during the Great Depression is called the Greatest Generation, but we're apparently lazy.
@@MyUsualComment all inter-generational hate is a generalization.
It happens, but far from everyone has that point of view.
I don’t see boomers as inherently stubborn and entitled.
Just like I think the hate being put on alpha is useless and mean. Gen x, millennials, and gen z have all gone through being ridiculed and called bad kids when they were younger.
And, as a gen z fellow, I think millennial memes are great.
They’re not funny, but they’re fun. They are great at building a sense of community and are just wholesome overall.
I don’t go out of my way to see them, but I respect and appreciate them^^
@@cheeseninja1115 I don't know a single millenial that uses office memes lmao. Gen X and older
Im Xennial (born in 78) and i'm remember world without internet. I start working as a graphic designer 2 years before internet being popular in my country (Poland) and my work and life was totaly different before e-mails / www's / ftp's. Still lots of my friends from my age still behave more like boomers then millenials or later generations. They are just not tech savy then younger ones. But in other hand younglings don't have particular skills to build theirs own PC, install windows or pirate game from torrents :). They not need that skills and they can learn new useful ones. I'm just glad i didn't grow up in time where toxicity of social media is wide spread.
Fellow Xennial here. I agree that I feel lucky to be born at a good time to remember vividly a world without the internet.
@@iammrbeat Living now and then is living on the different planet. Free access to unlimited knowledge is true blessing in internet era. Plus Pax Americana (with all his faults) is still great thing for our planet.
@@iammrbeat i disagree with your years for xennials. It originally meant people who were born after the nixon resignation and before the challenger disaster ( when it was called the Oregon trail generation)
Fellow xennelial. I like "millennial falcons", born between episode 4 and episode 6
I'm a 77..not sure about the Xellenial thing, more of the last of the original Gen Xer. We are very cynical, violent, yet cool...we created Hip Hop, Alternative Rock and what propelled MJ, Micheal Jackson, Madonna to GOAT status...the first generation that was completely feral. We typically have the REAL beef with the Boomers because they were absolutely selfish and demeaning, which coincidentally we (Gen X) identity with as we get older. It's like we understand why our parents were so cold to us and a lot of the Gen Xers realized we over corrected what our parents did to us: make us tougher.
Very disappointed. You didn't interview someone from the lost generation.
He must of lost them
Guess he couldn’t find any 😆🤷♂️
The pre-boomer generation is officially called the silent generation because they were told to never complain, never explain, don't talk about your feelings and all that stuff that the Boomers rebelled against. Before them was the Greatest Generation that pulled through the Great Depression, won WWII and ushered in a time of prosperity that is now in the final stages of decline.
Mr. Beat should interview Biden because he’s from the Silent Generation.
Look, I tried...
I'm very fortunate to work in an Assisted Living Facility with members of the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation (and a few older Baby Boomers). Getting to know them and being their friend is such a joy. Remember there are good and bad people of all ages, and the elderly are not the enemy of the young
this is earned a place in one of the most important videos I've watched. A conversation that need be had, coupled with objectivity. younger generations obsess over this distinction- evidence enough that this is very important
You know the drill, it’s mr Beat’s No.1 fan 💪, and I’m here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
I’ve committed my life to this bit now
Thanks for the positive comment. :)
You know the drill, it's mr Beat's No.1 fan and I'm here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
My parents are both Silent Generation, so I disagree with you about that generation growing up with TV. My mom (born 1939) grew up in the middle class and only one of her friends came from a family with a TV. They existed, but they weren't mainstream. My dad (born 1929) saw at TV only once as a kid; it was the amazing new technology being displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Saying the Silent Generation grew up with TV is like saying Gen X grew up with the Internet. Sure, early forms of the Internet existed in the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't mainstream.
@@danrobrish3664 Yeah, I think a few of those would have applied more to the next generation. Like Gen X having computers, or Gen Z with social media are both more Millennial things. A lot of my Gen Z coworkers hardly ever use social media or don’t know how to use it in general.
It’s actually kind of surprising at how much Gen Z doesn’t understand computer technology.
I think most people consider the mid/late 1950s and early 1960s as the period when TV was taking over. Which would be more for Baby Boomers.
I believe my grandparents in the Silent Generation on both sides of my family didn’t have a TV until they had kids.
I thought the same thing. My grandma was of the Silent Generation. TV started entering most homes in the early 1950s.
You are correct. TV didn’t come into our house until 1953. I clearly remember listening to the radio for serials we followed in the years before TV. It was great. So was TV, but in a very different way.
I don't know about that. My parents were born in the late 1930's and so were many of my older relatives and it seemed like they loved to watch TV. Unfortunately, that's all my dad ever did and still does even in his late 80's is watch TV.
@@republitarian484 Yes, but did your parents grow up with TV? I love to use the Internet, but I didn't grow up with it.
It really is the same cycle every time, how the older generation doesn't understand and dislikes what the newer generation likes. TikTok, smartphones, the internet, video games, rock/rap music, T.V. There was even a time when fictional novels were disliked back in like the 1700s when printing books became easier, and they were seen as a "waste of time".
Millennial (92) raised by Gen-X (early 70s) raising Gen alpha (20) and I’ll say the diagnosis of autism and suck increasing has been a blessing. As odd as it sounds back in the 90s one would have to be very very high support needs to get even considered for diagnosis and ADHD was the same way. My parents had 5 children all ND in some way only 2 getting diagnosed with ADHD in pre teen age. Me, the other ADHD-er and the autistic child they had kept getting dismissed. My son and nephew are 4 and got diagnosed early. There’s still a long process for diagnosis but I’d like to thank Gen z for removing these barriers and stigma so no more of us slip through the cracks. My parents tried so hard to help us but our kids are getting what they need.
I feel like generational definitions haven’t really been much of a conversation piece until recent years-like, 10-15 years ago. I personally was born in 1981 & when I first learned of generations being a thing, 1981 was firmly rooted in GenX. Somewhere along the way, they shifted us over to Millennials. That’s okay; I think it’s awesome being right at the borderline of two generations because I can take credit for all the cool stuff from both generations while dismissing the negative attributes as someone else’s. I do that all the time.
As a younger millennial (who often gets read as Gen Z), I do the same
as an American Gen Z kid, I think our generation will be defined by social media and hardships faced. The oldest of us are only like, 25-ish and we've already been born into a post-9/11 world riddled with multiple recessions, COVID, climate change, some of the worst inflation in a while, the bizarre political landscape of Hillary and Trump, then Biden and Trump, now Biden and Trump again... We currently have little hope to see ourselves purchase a home and raise a family in a conventional way: we've been sold on a promise to go to school and sink $10,000's of dollars into college with largely little payoff, corporations are skyrocketing housing costs, social security may run out, everything is subscription based or rented... Gen Z is living in a time where we were promised everything yet own nothing. I think its making us antsy and distrustful of those in power. Going into the future, I think our generation will be remembered for the hardships we've faced and what we have done to face them. Oh, and all things Internet culture.
your generation has much in common with millennials in those respects (I'm 40) but at least you didn't grow up with hope! I was 18 when 9/11 happened and the atmosphere of our economy and society was pretty rosy in the year 2000, then things turned on a dime. Very disillusioning. Hang in there!
@@NG-cf7zh the economy was never good unless you were born well off. eurocentric cultures well off people are raised to viciously dehumanize anyone with less than them.
@@saturationstation1446 I don’t want to be rude but you’re going off on some unrelated tangent. Both the guy I’m replying to and myself are American, foreign economic matters are irrelevant in this context.
Stop lol, millennials had it worse and every generation has its hardships
Climate change was around for millennials, wars, 9/11, biggest ever recession just as we graduated and trying to find jobs and not being able to own a house like previous generations
Currently I'm a tenth grader and in my school in Germany everyone from grade 5-13 is in one school so I see a lot of gen alphas (grade 5-6) and one thing I've noticed is that friend groups there aren't really seperated by gender and that they essentially treat boy friends and girl friends pretty much the same (in the sense of ripping on them as an example) which I think is sth. positive.
Fascinating. I haven't noticed this yet with my daughters, but it's something I'll pay closer attention to as they get older.
@@iammrbeat
1: Thanks for commenting
2: can't guarantee it happens throughout the generation as a whole (considering how popular these alpha male influencers are).
Edit: 3: Just saying what I saw personally
@Based_Gigachad_001 might be because your a based gigachad and have no freinds
@Based_Gigachad_001 mf you have patrick bateman
@Based_Gigachad_001 yep thats why you have no friends.
Congrats on getting one million subscribers, Mr. Beat! I’ve been around here since around 2017-2018 and I’m so glad that your channel has grown so much!!!
This was such a great video. You talk so slowly that I can actually hear it on double speed which is great for my time management - I sent it to a few of my friends who didn't find it very interesting. So of course I've decided to give you more likes and get new friends
I really like the range of questions you asked each generation about each of the living generations. Could you do a podcast about the differences in communication and work styles between the generations? I think that would help younger and older generations understand each other and work better together without jumping to conclusions about why someone does or doesn't do this or that. We all have strengths (and weaknesses) but a little patience and understanding would hopefully help us all work better together. We're not all technological dinosaurs though and incapable of learning so I wish younger generations wouldn't assume that. Great job on this podcast.
We got Mr Beat saying "skibidi toilet" before GTA VI ☠️
💀🥛
I wish the generations could listen and try to comprehend each generations different struggles and try to work to fix the problems in this country. However as an older millennial it does feel like the older generations don’t care about our struggles because they grew up in a much easier economy and were able to buy houses and live the American dream off the 9-5. At 29 I make more per year than my Gen X father made at his age and I cannot afford a house by myself. For reference my parents bought their house in 98 and my dad was making $6.50 an hour and my mom was stay at home.
Yeah our parents definitely timed it right in terms of being born at the right time.
Well, we recognize that everyone faces problems. We see you keep comparing yourself to Boomers and moaning about how bad you have it, instead of comparing yourself to every other country in the world today, and the entirety of the rest of human history. You have it worse than the boomers, but you don't have it bad. If you stopped blaming other people (Boomers) long enough, and realized you have a more privileged life than the almost every human who's ever lived, you might actually find happiness.
But I don't expect you to actually listen to this, the empiricism of rest of the world and human history notwithstanding, you'll dismiss me as "disconnected" and go on blaming everyone else. Good luck with that.
@@davagevorriose8046I love the classic "other people have it worse so you can't complain"
if we don't complain and create change, our literal entire world is going to be destroyed, sorry that this bothers you
@@blueninja012 I didn't say you can't complain though it accomplishes nothing and falls flat to everyone else who has it worse), I said as long as you keep moaning and blaming everyone else, you won't be able to take charge of your life and create the change.
When you attribute blame to someone else, you ascribe your agency to them; to reclaim your agency, you have to take on responsibility for your circumstances. The only good comparison to hold yourself against is your past self; anything else is the thief of joy.
@@davagevorriose8046 not once in my comment did I mention “boomers” I simply stated the older generations like boomers, Gen x, the silent generation. I also compared myself to Gen X. I can see you outed yourself so I will hit you with the, “ok boomer”. You also proved exactly what I was saying. You legitimately must have some lead poisoning but I get it, growing up they told you lead was great that’s why I don’t think reading comprehension is your strong suit. Also yes if we are comparing ourselves to poorer countries of course we have it worse. While you older generations got to play the Economy on easy mode. I would bet at age 29 you were not making $80k a year like me with a base salary and a detailing side hustle cannot afford to buy a house. I honestly am baffled at your comment as all I’m asking for is to work 9-5 and to be able to afford what you did making substantially less money than me. But I don’t expect much from a generation that in the words of George Carlin, “they took it all folk, drugs rock and roll and now they are staring down the barrel a middle age burn out and they don’t like what they see so they turn self righteous”. I’ll leave you with that quote to stew on. Best of luck and may god bless you and open your eyes.
I always found uncontacted people fascinating. It’s like looking into a time machine. It’s so rare that you have a certain group of people live in their own bubble for thousands of years.
Bro I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR work , beautiful work so much fun I am already watching it for the 3rd time consecutive, very informative and very delightful to watch, your parents are so beautiful 😻 😻you are so lucky to have a such cool parents ! All the best from Adelaide South Australia 🇦🇺
Great video! I was really cool to see some interviews, they made the video more diverse and fun.
Gen x made important strides to normalize mental healthcare. We owe a lot to them.
Fun fact, women in programming jobs were more common for gen x than millennials. I blame video game companies for convincing my generation we girls weren't supposed to love computers
Aww, thanks. I think between Gen X and Millennials we helped stop the cycle of abuse and bad parenting. I tried therapy in my 20s but I wasn't ready for it. I tried again in my 30s and it went much better. It actually helped. Both of my Zoomers have gotten therapy when they went through hard times. I can see how the '90s (and '00s?) really targeted guys for video games. Meanwhile, the '80s had a variety of games for all genders. I loved Pitfall and a bit of Pac-Man. I'm not a fan of the shooting games.
Apparently in Iran, of all places, women in programming is very common.
@@KarlSnarks sweeeet
There goes the complaining
Your parents look great, Mr. Beat!
I'll let them know that!
@@iammrbeat Another great vid! 👍
As a 97 baby, I’m stuck in between generations. Its weird. I have the nostalgia of the 90s and early 2000s but have the anxieties troubles of zoomers and millennials.
@@Gihad97 yeah I think '92 to 2001 should be it's own generation.
I was born in 2002 and I remember a good majority of the 2000s, I was even on RUclips that long ago too. I like to believe that the generations should be more based on what we experienced than just the birth year because everyone is different. (I'm technically considered a Generation Z but I have interacted with the good majority of them who was born after me that I cannot even understand at all because of the way they speak and their personality). To someone like me to be also categorized with them just makes no sense to me lol
There's no way you remember the 90s
@@themanthelegendjmwSo Gen Y should be 10 years and the next one should be 9? 😂
@@sethpoynter787If it were based on experiences, you could never classify anything as a generation because everyone has vastly different experiences. Time periods allow for broad generalizations.
Hi Mr. Beat, I really enjoyed your video on generational cohorts-it’s always great to see history presented in such an accessible and engaging way. However, I noticed your comment about uncontacted tribes not having social generations, and I wanted to share a different perspective on that.
Even in uncontacted or isolated societies, social dynamics exist that can create generational cohorts, albeit in ways that might differ from what we see in modern, industrialized societies. For example, significant events like famines, environmental changes, or shifts in cultural practices can profoundly impact one generation differently from another, shaping their identity and role within the community. These differences are similar to the generational distinctions we observe in other contexts.
Anthropologists have documented how generational differences manifest in all human societies, even those that are isolated or uncontacted, and it’s fascinating how these dynamics can play out across cultures. I think incorporating this perspective could add even more depth to your already excellent content.
On a side note, I just wanted to let you know that I love your work so much! Fun fact: one of my college students actually interviewed you on their podcast-it was a highlight for them and for our class. Thanks for everything you do!
I like that we got to speak with ALMOST all represented gens. It's good to hear everyone's perspective...
My main takeaway: We're all great and all also terrible. Lol!...and yes, Mr. Beat, the generational convo has gotten somewhat out of hand. There's this feeling that we're all pointing fingers, and nobody has anything nice to say about anyone else. We should try more empathy because, honestly, every generation has had its cross to bear, so to speak.
WE NEED EACH OTHER.
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The "My Generation" by Limp Bizkit references were killing me lol
Dont step in a big pile of ish
The captains drunk
“Mr. Beat take em to the Mathew’s bridge”
everytime he said one I was like "that's so familiar, where have i heard that before?" and then it all made sense.
Before I became obsessed with genealogy, I was quite interested in social generations. I read a few of the Strauss/Howe books and even wrote a term paper about "The Fourth Turning" in college.
My sister is a xellenial, and I’m 3 years younger than her comfortably an elder millennial. It’s pretty surprising how different her experiences were growing up is from myself and my wife, even though the age gap is fairly small.
Anyway, I respect Gen Z more than any other living generation right now. Obviously it varies from person to person, but just what I’m exposed to it’s very heartening to see the way that group handles themselves. They have the advantage of being prepared for the rough times that caught millennials off guard.
That said, it will be fun to watch them get into their 30s and have the next generation think of them as cringe or whatever the new word will be.
In Hungary, millennials born in the 1980s are sometimes called the “Duck Tales generation” (or “Kacsamesék generáció") because the death of József Antall, the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary, was announced during a DuckTales episode in 1993. My Hungarian millennial husband remembers this! There’s a RUclips video of the interruption and death announcement-it looks like it would have been very scary for an 8 year old to see!
As an 'older' boomer, at 72, I'd like to put in a word about I.T. No, we often don't understand computers, but it is not wilful stubbornness. You have to remember that technology of any sort was a fairly new thing in the fifties, especially in Europe: we didn't even have a 'phone, a tv or a washing machine until I was 12 years old, and my father didn't even learn to drive until I was 15. Now, it's a fairly well known phenomenon that the best learning years are in childhood, and we had a childhood where we were NOT surrounded by high tech. Please be patient with us, especially us older folks who also have the problem that our memories are not what they once were, and our schooldays are a long way behind us!
I'm a baby boomer born in 1962. I'm pretty comfortable with technology (I have had smartphones for years), and I remember a world before cable TV.
Exactly I am 1964 and never have had an issue with technology and keeping up with AI also.
Yes, I think that stereotype is stupid and unfair.
I'm early Gen X and, to this day, can't use a smartphone. When i had to give up my flip phone a couple of years ago, i went for a mini smartphone. It's great bcz it has internet access, so i can check email, call an uber, or watch a quick video, but everything else I do on a tablet or computer.
my mom was a boomer and she as a computer programmer who knew more about tech then I, a millennial, ever did. I think her brother also did programming and now m gen x cousin is a software engineer. I am far behind all of them.
*_"I'm a baby boomer born in 1962"_* I don't know when exactly people who were born in 1962 started calling themselves "Boomers", but you are MUCH closer to Gen-X than you are to actual Boomers. In other words, you have a lot more in common with someone born in 1972 than 1952.
In highschool, I read what an ancient Greek who complained about his childrens' generation. I'm 65 now and that was 2000+ years ago. The kids are alright!
I was born in ‘85, and my siblings were born in ‘81 and ‘88, respectively. I’d argue that Xennials are more in line with people born from 1979-1988. My household didn’t get CDs until 1997, and didn’t get the internet until 2000. I grew up with a rotary phone in one room, a black & white TV in my parents’ bedroom, and we even had a vacuum cleaner with a cloth-covered cable (not to mention several two-prong appliances). As I got older, I found that I had more in common with the generation that came before me than the generation I was supposedly a part of, though now I will say I have one foot in each since I work with several Zoomers.
@@stevegutrot2476 a millennial is anyone turning 18 from Jan 1st 2000. Xennial is 78 to 85 at most.
I was born in '87 and always felt I had more in common with Gen X growing up than the younger millennials. That change after the 2010s when I started keeping up more with internet trends, videogames/anime, getting younger friends who initially thought I was close to their age -- and now I feel like I have a lot in common with older Gen Z.
My parents are the silent generation and my dad got us our first computer in 1978. I have a Boomer sister and myself, my brother and other sister are Gen-X. We are all technology savvy including my 82 year old mother. But I suppose we are the exception to the rule.
@@markiefufu silent generation's kids were the best friends to have. boomer's kids were obnoxious by comparison. Gen X (when it was just the 70s) was already 60% Boomer's kids. Now its 1960+?? So its Boomer's (originally 1946-52) kids, Silent gen kids, and late Boomers themselves. Now, impossible to say anything about that group as a whole.
I’m an early GenXer born to young Boomer parents in 1968. Dad was 20 and Mom was 17. I was very lucky to grow up and get older and never have my parents get divorced. I saw what true love looks like. I am also lucky to grow up in the 1970s & 1980s. Life was much better before the internet took over. I can still remember how fascinated I was by our first VCR and microwave. It was also very awesome to get cable TV in the ‘70s. It was normal for me to see the broadcast day to begin and end with the National Anthem being played. 24 hour TV would’ve seemed strange to me then. I can remember the first few years of grade school saying the Pledge of Allegiance and Lord’s Prayer every morning before class started. It saddens me that kids still don’t do that. It should’ve never been stopped. It’s not today’s kids fault that they don’t get the education they deserve anymore though.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’m much more connected to the music and tv shows of the Boomer generation. I’m a lifelong 2nd generation Beatlemaniac and an Elvis fan. Music has sure gone downhill since I graduated high school in 1986.
The artists were actually talented then. They didn’t get by with using computers to make their voices sound better. TV and movies were also more patriotic from the 1950s into the 1980s. The main character or protagonist was rarely, if ever, anti-American or evil in any sense. TV wasn’t so controversial then either. It was simply aimed towards a wider “target” audience and didn’t have to use explicit language to get laughs or attention from viewers. I’m one of those people who will NEVER GIVE UP on physical media. I just don’t like streaming because I can’t trust what I want to watch to be there forever. I’ve bought over 1000 movies and over 50 complete tv series on DVD and Blu Ray. Shows that I watched during my childhood in syndication or first run, and movies from the 1930s to present day. I can still say that I’ve spent most of my life in the 20th century until I am 64 years old.
Thanks for your video. I’ve been looking for something to explain the generations and years of their births. This video was very informative.
Best description of Gen z I've heard is that it's a generation with an absolute distain of nuance, a people that works towards "being difficult to kill" with its obsession with personal health and self improvement. Very innovative in a practical sense but prone to neuroticism like the generation before.
As a Gen-X'er, I don't care what others think of me.
@@tonyo3544 yep, most of us stamped out peer pressure by age 18.
@@Ardante11We grew up feral and it was awesome. So was the music.
it doesnt matter. we know
@@tonyo3544 OK Boomer!
@@craig3649 whatever zoomer
You forgot about the transitional generation called *_Generation Jones,_* basically the last few years of the Baby Boom and the first few years of Generation X-roughly 1955 to 1966. We were just children in the 1960s and weren't too affected by the political ferment or the free love or the prosperity our older brothers and sisters experienced.
Instead, we had our teens in the 1970s, when western economies slumped into recession, the world became a lot more cynical place, hair and fashion were pretty comical, and pop music became more complicated and experimental, even disco. And then our generation was slammed by AIDS just as we were coming of age in the 1980s, music started to suck, and all the jobs were taken by people 10 years older than us and 10 years younger than us.
We're Generation Jones because we were jonesing for things other generations had. Watch _Dazed and Confused_ some time, and you'll get it.
Aug 64 here.
I have always heard that Boomer can remember where the were when JFK was shot. I was in utero. US involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 11. I graduated high school into the recession of the early 1980s.
But online I am the reason that younger generations have problems. "OK, Boomer."
@@skippythetubrat You must be another Kennedy Assassination Consolation Baby. I was also born in August 64. We don’t remember the assassination, but most of us do remember the moon landing, and how things were groovy and far out. We kept on Truckin’!
Generation Jones was coined by Jonathan Pontell in 1999. Known for coming of age during stagflation, Watergate, AIDS and the oil crisis.
That is still part of boomers.
@@vaderladyl
Except we're more like Gen X.
Boomer here. I love your videos.
Honestly, I never knew what generation I was in until I looked it up. Personally, I think this type of thing has gained more attention now than it ever did in the past. Social media has really raised its relevance to an unnatural level.
Thank you for this, I enjoyed it immensely. I sat with my Grandaughter who is 8 years old. You are absolutely correct they are the iPad generation. I would argue a difference in Western society for the generation from Gen X. Here in the UK, we first saw computers ar school in 1981.
We had mobile phones (I had one) from 1988. I was on the Internet in 1989. In 1990, I worked with Tim Berners-Lee! Today, I am about as technical as you can find working on on the development of Alice in 1991, then stayed in AI. Currently developing the next generation of AI (GANs). I expect to stay current until I am in my 70’s, currently 54 years old.
You look good in green and blue as Luigi.
I’m born in the late 1990’s but grew up in the 2000’s era
Luigi FTW
@@iammrbeat he’s number one
1970 is the best year to have been born in. You would be a kid in the 70s, a teenager in the 80s, a twentysomething in the 90s, a thirtysomething in the 2000s. You would see so much history and inventions and pop culture before being 40.
I agree.
Wait a second, what about being a fortysomething in the 2010s?
@@iammrbeat Being a fortysomething in the 2010s is cool too.
Being a thirty something and trying to raise your family during the 2000s,2010s and getting destroyed by covid in your 50s would be hard lol
Being born in the 50s is prolly cooler. Microwaves, indoor plumbing in most houses, tv and color tv, boomboxes, vcr, jet airliners, computers, internet, transplants
42:47 Never in a million years would I predict Mr. Beat would utter "skibidi toilet" out loud
born in "61, ive always felt special as a boomer, we got the best of everything, the best music, the best movies, war stories straight from the men that actually on the lines, now most of them have past on, you are the real greatest gen those born short of the war years and its all been downhill from there, they are the ones the really need to be remembered, through a modernized version of he 60's and 70's ...................
I’m just wondering whether you meant music was best when you were in your early teens, which is when we tend to like music most. Having been born in ’65, I mentioned on another thread above that music by Caucasians was pretty bad in the ’70s and didn’t get good until the second British Invasion around 1983, give or take two years. Your user name suggests you’re a fellow Canadian. I listened mostly to Black music because I found the rest pretty unpalatable since I kind of assumed white people did just hard rock (yuck!) and bubblegum pop (boring!). Bands like Yes and Genesis were the exception, along with Pink Floyd.
again i lost what i wrote, i give up...............
I am a Millennial who was born on July 10th 1992. My parents are Baby Boomers. Yes we get along pretty well despite our age difference.
Plato complained about how lazy and effeminate the youth of his day were. Every generation has done the same. Your parents said it about you, their parents said it of them.
Yet, they didn’t have to deal with digital technology ruining society.
I know the boundary between Gen Z and Gen Alpha is disputed, but as someone born in 2010 I 100% identify as a member of Gen Z and not whatever the hell a Zalpha is.
Considering that a lot of the dates for when Gen Alpha begins are roughly ten years or more ago now, I've been wondering if kids born this year onwards should be considered Gen Beta. Maybe it's too early to tell
@@BlueMonkey_YT i take anyone born from 2001 forward as gen z, me being from the true gen z, from 96 to 2000. We werent pussies back the
Yeet
@BlueMonkey_RUclips if your mom had a smartphone when you were born, you're gen alpha
@@BlueMonkey_YT no response to " Yeet" I see. My son is Gen Z. And Yeet was one of his slang words he's used
Hey Mr. Beat, can you consider making a video on the Presidential Transition Project, otherwise known as Project 2025, from the Heritage Foundation?
Yeah. The news keeps sounding the alarm on it but I don't trust the news because they're so biased.
I plan on doing a podcast about it, actually
Trump surprisingly distanced himself from Project 2025 recently.
@@abrahamlincoln937 wdym
@@abrahamlincoln937He's also a chronic liar so take it with a pinch of salt
loved the Limb Bizcuit quotes. i caught every single one of them. great album. i enjoyed growing up to the TRL show which would clash all kinds of genres of music into a top 20 show. it was a defining show for my generation that deserves more credit.
Microwaves were not common until the late70s/early 80s.
Watching this on my iPad while filming a tiktok, listening to the soundtrack for Disney's Little Mermaid, discussing my cynical views and applying for retirement benefits.
Great video, Mr. Bead :)
another banger Mr. Beat
This was my first time seeing one of your videos. Loved it! Great sense of humor!
Gen Alpha isn't stupid. I feel like a lot of them are being failed by the same underfunded school system that failed Gen Z and Millennials and Gen X that has only further slid into disrepair, but they're not stupid. A lot of them are wicked smart, if they have direction and know what they are interested in because they have the tools to teach themselves about literally anything they want. But when teachers are underpaid and parents are busy working two jobs each to make ends meet, there's not going to be any adults in their lives with the resources to guide a kid who doesn't necessarily know what they want to do. So you end up getting this disconnect within the generation itself where kids with early special interests who work well on their own excel and kids who are more generalist and group oriented fall behind.
There's a real epidemic of childhood neglect nowadays and just letting the i pad do the job of raising the kid because people just don't have the resources to raise kids 'properly' and give them the attention they really need. Parents shove it off onto the school, the school shoves it off onto the parents, the kid ends up raising itself. It feels to me like Gen Alpha is going to have some similarities in Gen X and early Millennials in that regard, having to mostly rely on themselves to get what they require because the adults in their lives are so distracted. Unlike those generations though, some of them are able to use the tools available to them to hopefully rise above it.
I agree. Plus you got both parents are tired from work and not helping them with their homework. But again we don't live in the 1950s where moms stayed home and dads went to work.
Wow so many generations makes me feel old
Are you in the Greatest Generation?
old is gold !!! period
As a late Boomer,(1963) I tend to align more with GenX than early Boomers. I was latch key some days ,still in my early teens, when Atari came on the scene and waited til later to have kids. I tend to be less traditional than early Boomers.
I really feel that 1963 should be the beginning of Gen X as far as shared experience goes. They were arbitrarily using the old 20-year rule. Having been born in 1965, I’m sometimes told I’m the last year of Baby Boomers, but usually it’s the first year of Gen X. The kind of music we listened to and the TV we watched was quite different from that of the Baby Boomers, and you would have been affected by the same recessions and depressions that hit us serially.
I'm a rural pastor and small town XC and Track coach. I've have the privilege of communicating across many generational lines each week. This video rings pretty true.
Great video as ever. I'm mid-late Gen X and would say in terms of unifying events that the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain was at least as powerful as 9/11 for Millennials. Different perspective in Europe perhaps.
Keep up the good work.
4:34 "In fact they killed him" and it immediately cut to an ad
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these interview vids are fantastic
I'm glad you dig them!
You could argue a lot about generations and they’re pretty arbitrary
Personally, these are my definitions-
Older Boomers
1940-1945
Core Boomers
1946-1952
Younger Boomers
1953-1958
Older Gen X
1959-1964
Core Gen X
1965-1973
Younger Gen X
1974-1979
Older Millennials
1980-1984
Core Millennials
1985-1989
Younger Millennials
1990-1996
Older Zoomers
1997-2004
Younger Zoomers
2005-2010
Gen Alpha
2011-2020
The generally accepted classic rules is 18 years to a generation and the boomers are generally accepted to start in 1945
So boomers 45-63
Xers 64-82
Millennials 83-01
Gen Z would be 02-20
Very informative video, also loving the Limp Bizkit references scattered through your commentary.
I am Gen X. I definitely do not have negative perspectives of the older generations. My grandparents were part of the Greatest Generation and I have to agree that they were the Greatest Generation. They had the best work ethic, morals, character, and they got stronger because of adversity instead of complaining. I miss that generation on the earth. I can't say enough good things about that generation. As for Boomers, my parents are Boomers. Although some rebelled, most followed in the footsteps of their parents. They also were hard working and most of them had good moral character. Obviously, the nation went through some upheaval during Vietnam, JFK and Martin Luther King being assassinated, and much more. Those historical events did change the dynamic of the Boomer generation. However, overall they are a great generation. Gen X, in my opinion, is the last generation on the earth that knows what it is like to live in a country where everyone has a religion and believes in God, a world where everyone is not hooked to something digital, a world where everyone around you was patriotic, and a world where community mattered more than a bunch of people on the internet. Gen X is hard working without having to be showy. We don't expect much, but are grateful for what we have. There are great people in the younger generations, but overall they do not have the work ethic or morals or gratitude of generations from the past. They ask what is in it for me instead of asking what they can give to others. I always have looked up to the older generations and think they are wise. I respect and honor those that have paved the way for me and have the wisdom to help me see what will make me happiest in life. Teenagers and young adults that think they are so much smarter and wiser are actually just arrogant and narcissistic. They don't realize that they could learn so much from past generations because they think they know better. Sadly, they will come to find out that they are just dumb.
i was born in post Soviet country in the 90s, but we had influence from the 80s - 60s tv shows like green acres and I Dream of Jeannie clothes of 80s that's why it is really hard to put my generation in place it should belong
You grew up as your country was more chaotic.