@@bavarianplaguedoctor So far Gen Z’s suffering is only a fraction of the Lost Gen’s suffering but there’s a chance it could rise to double that if WWIII starts as a nuclear war cuz idk some world leaders hate Gen Z and want them gone.
@@d1kgaws12 grass is always greener but something about the levels of isolation, loneliness and addiction seen in gen z and how accepted and normalised they are, idk seems like another kind of misery.
I'm of the "silent" generation. I remember as a child receiving penicillin for a severe tonsillitis. I had been bedridden for two weeks and very ill. The doctor came to the house and explained to my mother that he was giving me a new medication called penicillin. I remember feeling better almost instantly. I missed 1 entire month of school. After reading the posts, wow, I'm old enough to be the grandmother or mother of most of you.
our current generations have more nuance because we are all still alive and can tell the difference. once everyone today is dead the peoples of the future will give us a new label and cherrypick whatever seemed the most influential from our time period to describe what we were like. Im sure the "lost generation" was full of the same level of nuance and as we have today between millelenials and zoomers but outside of specific historians the general public cant really tell the difference so we just say "that was the great depressions generation"
Born during WWII. My grandmother barely made the lost generation [1885-1976]. her and my great grandmother, [1864-1955], had some fascinating stories they shared before their passing.
Both social media applications are designed to be addictive. Millenials are addicted and drug addicts share whatever their using which is social media and now there are traumatized social media addicted toddlers with ipads burning their eye holes.
Well during the pandemic I noticed young parents who were both working from home still bitch about child care as it was their "right" to not have their own kids around them 24/7.
I noticed a lot more similarities than I expected rather than differences. Seems like we always got a quiet, then loud, then quiet generation, but the internet radically changed how everything works, so it's all loud now
It feels amazing to see a video where they don't just shit on and ridicule generations for no reason at all. This guy stays respectful and understands they all have benefits to offer to the world. Absolute legend. Edit: you guys are really taking this the wrong way Edit 2: if y'all don't stop being pathetic morons who keep arguing, I'm deleting this comment.
@@PrivateForPersonalReasonsgen alpha is a very new generation so im not suprised that there are few benefits (they are still children after all) Im sure later on people will see some
My grandfather (1927) passed away a few years ago; but in his life, he went from riding his horse to school to driving an electric vehicle. He was fascinated with technology.
Reminds me of mine too, although much younger. Had no electricity as a kid, rode a donkey to school, witnessed rapid change and now he fully adapted to computers and smartphones. How I wish to be as smart as him...
Mine quit school in 10th grade to work in the mines to support his mom and his sisters while his brother went off to fight in WWII. He couldn't go due to having injured his right eye with a stick when he was a little boy. He worked extremely hard in rural Appalachia raising 6 kids and caring for the billion grandkids they had. He was one of the most singularly knowledgeable and wise people I've ever known. I miss him. He was not quite 92 when he passed.
This reminds me of my great grandma, born in 1927 and passed away on November 25, 1999. It was her dream to live to see the new millennium but she missed it by a month. May she rest in peace.
My great grandma (born somewhere near segregation) died in May of last year. She was able to tell you stories from her childhood, who her family members were and almost everything she remembered about segregation. She walked with MLK Jr. (yes, she was black), had her best years and I only ever saw her once. I’m currently in 6th grade and only learning this now. Rest easy.
For all those wondering what he got “wrong” was the part about ww1 being fought. To be clear with everyone the lost generation was BORN during the years leading up to 1900, meaning their generation was the one to fight in ww1. Not that ww1 took place during the time the silent generation was being born.
This video convinces me that I grew up in the best years. I'm a GenX (older side). Childhood in the 70s, High school in the 80s, college in the 90s, had children in 2000s. What a great time.. This decade (2020s), is the worst decade of my life. It's like a nightmare. 😢
I'm younger Gen X, born later 70s and I agree the 2020s are depressing. I had childhood in the 80s, high school in the 90s, college in the 90s as well. Continued college in the 2000s. Never had kids, but if I did I would imagine my kids would have born in the 2000s and 2010s, though I know some middle and younger Gen Xers like me that started really early and had kids in the 90s, and even much older Gen Xers that had kids in the 80s.
@@Timbiscuit12 I don’t think Kurt Cobain was anywhere near as popular as John Lennon. And I say that as someone that grew up with Kurt as a teenager, Lennon's fame as a Beatle was before my time, but I recognize their fame and his as bigger than what Kurt and Nirvana were. I vaguely remember Lennon's murder as a small child in the early 1980s, I didn't know who Lennon was as a little kid but I know it impacted people far more than Kurt's suicide.
I feel this video missed an important point about the silent generation, which includes both my parents. Their early years were spent during the great depression, which formed a lot of their personality. They learned to save everything because it might be needed someday. And never turn down a steady job, because you're lucky to have one. Tomorrow there may be no jobs, and no food. So you should always be preparing for the future. Worse times may always be around the corner.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. You make an excellent point about how the experiences of the Great Depression shaped the mindset and values of the Silent Generation. Their upbringing during this challenging period indeed influenced their approach to saving, job security, and preparedness for the future. Your insights help to shed light on the broader context that the video may have missed, highlighting the impact of historical events on shaping a generation's mindset.
My granny is just like that, she hides food in her closet, for 'just in case' situations, keeps absolutely everything she owns, never decluttering her house (that used to drive me insane, her home was so cluttered). It took me a while to understand she grew up in fear of poverty and hunger, and that fear never fully died :(
Tell me about it. Silent Gen'ers are crazy hoarders! My mom buries herself in junk. Unfortunately some of the hoarding mentality rubbed off on me and I have to constantly fight it as a Gen X'er. I am finally managing to throw away a few things I should never have kept. Still way too much clutter in my place.
I agree, strongly. This describes me to a T. I’m the oldest of 11, my 10 siblings being Boomers. The younger are all liberal with my brother and I being quite conservative.
I'm assuming your Gen Z by that? I know I can say the video is a bit off with some things. like he says Gen Z started in 97. then his own video shows Gen Z started in 95. but everything online says it started in 96. Also never in my life heard of X being the "latch key" generation always the heard it called the forgotten generation
@@Omalleyus Generational limits are fuzzy. It's not like a person born in 96 is going to be substantially different than one born in 94. The real answer is there's always a microgeneration at the borders that bleeds into both and encapsulates experiences and traits of both generations. For instance, I was born in 93. I fall within the microgeneration between Millennials and Gen Z. I'm old enough to remember 911, dial-up internet, checkbooks, and 5th generation consoles. However I'm young enough to have grown up with shows like Spongebob, and to have largely avoided the 2008 recession. Moreover, my own personality, outlook, and sense of humor feels so much closer to Gen Z than millennials Also, I have heard it referred to as the "latchkey" generation, but I think it's one of those "proposed names" like how some folk wanted to call millennials the iGeneration due to the explosive popularity of tech like ipods and iphones
@@ScipiPurrexactly! It's even harder for people like me (born in 2010) to know where they fall between Gen Z ans Gen alpha because...i dont think anyone wants to be considered an alpha at this rate...but I've seen so many mixed info about when gen z ends and when gen alpha starts to the point where I just base it off maturity now because I've seen so many mature young gen z'ers and early gen alphas that arent charactarized by ipads and "skibidi toilets" n what not. So as you said, definitely fuzzy with generations now
It's funny how each generation after boomers acts as if the previous ones have no idea what they experienced. We lived during those times too and with a better perspective in many ways.
I think they’ll do just fine. Besides the internet, they’re pretty fucking smart and pick up on things easily even from ages 1 and 2. If you keep one from the internet while the other nine are still on it, that one will definitely become a billionaire but the others can probably go on to do great things as well. I feel like while each generation had their rough points, a good bit made the best of it. Lost generation probably said greatest would need luck. Greatest generation probably thought silent needed luck. Silent generation probably felt that boomer needed luck and so on
@@MidnightGD5 There is a solid case to be made for it though (but to be fair, I wouldn't use the word "doomed", I just happen to be sympathetic for those who don't see a way out). Technology has been exponentially advancing faster than many people can even adapt to it and it's only been getting even faster. That combined with an epidemic of internet-dope fiending, narcissism, and neglectful (and equal parts overindulgent) parenting are going to pose some serious psychological issues for Alpha to deal with. Psychological dynamics are so intertwined with corporatized modern gaming, "gamified" aspects of living, and social media that I'm getting worried, and not to mention how kids are basically being raised as the digital equivalent of crackheads from a startlingly young age. I would need a better, more concise name for it, but I'm tempted to call Gen Alpha the "Innocence Lost Too Early" generation. That makes me wonder, why are they called Alpha? What are they the beginning of, the "out of touch" generations? The generations that people like Larry Fink, Klaus Schwab, and their ilk will have social control over unlike any generation prior? The "truly and thoroughly lost" generation? And with all the muddied waters of online information sharing and convincing AI generated info/media, it's gonna get pretty messy. Look at how antiquated our governmental institutions' understanding of the internet already is. We need to get our shit together and hold tight, this is gonna be a very interesting transition.
2:24 A few years ago, there was a church service to honor veterans. The pastor was like, “Stand up if you fought in Afghanistan.” “Stand up if you fought in Vietnam.” etc. and kept going all the way back to WWII. A single man stood up and everyone applauded him. At around the same time, I went to a restaurant with my then-boyfriend for Valentine’s Day. We saw an old man wearing a hat stating he was a WWII veteran enter the restaurant and decided to thank him for his service. He ended up telling us what it was like to fight in the war. Apparently, his friends from the army died due to an attack with toxic gas and he was the only survivor. He then went on to tell us how he missed his friends. It was very heartbreaking to listen to. He was clearly in a lot of pain even after 80 years.
I think that it's a good thing he was able to share his story with you. In a sense, it's a way to have someone know he and his bretheren existed, heard them, and will carry the memory of them even after he bites it. It might have even been cathartic for him to know you'd listened intently to him to be able to relay his deeds. Honor to him and his brothers in arms ❤️🩹
I just wanted to say that I am glad you thanked him for his service. I find that veterans are often put under scrutiny or judged, or even just forgotten. Ultimately I don't think most of them really had a choice in the matter, And after going through all of that it must be hard to try to live alone with stories like his. The feeling of isolation must be overwhelming, with most of the people who could share in your struggles dead through old age or service; I can imagine it wouldn't be difficult to feel forgotten.
Gen X from the UK. I used to have door key on a piece of string around my neck. I had a Commodore VIC20 and C64 and absolutely loved seeing how new technology was changing the world. Our music and films were THE BEST :)
@@Levi-zr4dq They were great. But one day a huge big ball of rock hit the earth sending massive amounts of dust into the atmosphere. They all disappeared after that. Not sure where they went.
I feel like seperating people by their eras actually makes sense. It’s more of a phenomenon than a theory for me, though it’s different for foreign countries, like the Gen x in Japan is different, they’re “delinquets”.
Well in Japan Gen X is the last Gemeration to experience the economic boom and wealth and freedom Every generation after that just hasn't experienced that same level of prosperity
@@sreyaar5199 then again he focused on what is happening in the US but India is catching up in the generation timeline with rapid development the elementary school kids are semi ipad kids in the sense they do depend on it but they don't have huge problems like in America of literacy probably because of the lower per capita rates not allowing very lavish lifestyles making them still have to think and do some kinds of works making them still have some physical aspects but it's otherwise still catching up. I don't have any information on Japan tho since I don't know much about East Asia countries.
Gen X here, classic latchkey kid. My mom raised me alone, so between work and school I mainly took care of myself. Cooking, cleaning, even first aid, from 8 years old I was doing it all. This led me to be basically a hermit as an adult. I never really had friends as a child, so I didn't need them as an adult.
stop going out after 10 due to a trauamtic event. but i miss my childhood friends was short time frame but wud lve to go back to be a kid in the 80s and early 90s.
I'm a millennial (1988) and also went through all that you described except the single mom. One important thing to keep in mind is that this video is based on US history/events. I'm Brazilian and we were very much behind in a lot of aspects compared to the USA (we still are to this day). I remember the first CD player our family had was around 1993. It was super expensive and almost no one in our small town had it. The first time I accessed the internet was around 2001, the first time I watched MTV I was 15 and on another city (we didn't have the TV signal in my town or cable). Just to give an example of having the ability to have technology be it availability or price: To this day I don't have any Apple products because they're massively overpriced here. Example: iPad Pro 11" US$799 (converting R$3960, reasonable), here it costs R$9799 which would be U$1976, more than double the price... My salary is around R$3k monthly (that's more than 80% of the population earns), I'll never be able to buy it. Everything that's imported have multiple taxation added to it, and that impact people's ability to buy technology, which impacts the development, education... Sorry, I went all over the place with my comment lol
You are so right. We had to be independent. Our parents were never around or there was just one parent and they worked all the time. So Home Box Office, Atari, Commodore/Sega Genesis, and kickball or riding your bike was all you had.
Gotta be honest that sounds pretty great Gen Z kid, had MAJOR helicopter parents and then I got to college and figured out I don't know how to do anything by myself and my younger siblings who live at home are even more incompetent Your generation does a lot of things right but you guys have no idea how to raise capable kids (actually, a lot of my friends parents did a really great job so it's definitely not universal but I do think it's pretty widespread). I think there's an unappreciated power in not having friends. I have 2 friends and don't want any more. People think I'm crazy cause "don't you get lonely" like no I'm okay being by myself, just still figuring out the whole "how to life" thing
I agree, Gen X didn't do a good job raising their kids, not that they are not a good generation. Just too much happening to them and around that they were not ready for. @@samstromberg5593
Gen X here, Everything was new and exciting, nothing compares to having your new Atari or Commodore 64 and learning how to program a little. I still have a dopamine rush thinking about buying the tech magazines that had printed BASIC code routines to write your own programs. Parents were never home or they were divorced and we had time for ourselves. and let's not talk about the incredible music of the 80s
We laid the technical foundation being enjoyed by later generations. When we are gone, let’s hope AI will replace us because the later generations are hopeless
I spent a lot of time coding while reading the code from an article, played all the video games on my home computer, dialing up BBS's. I think I started a decade earlier than my generation on internet stuff thanks to BBS's.
Also didn't mention the Korean War and western movies/TV shows. Beatniks were important in the 1950's, didn't mention them either. Sponge Bob was the greatest culture of the whole century??
Hippie movement created when insane asylums closed and the patients were just let out. Flooding society with all their psych drugs too. I remember hearing about black beauties. It was a pill can't remember what it did. Just remember all the new drugs suddenly being all over.
When your first assignments were saved onto floppies, then suddenly CDs and USBs all in one 12 year course of education, truly wild times in the 2000 -2012
Gen alpha, here to report that I'm in dire need of therapy! Also its that parents spends less time with kids as well as kids not wanting to be around their parents. School is torture, the people as judgmental as ever, and teachers not caring much. I pray that I'm able to survive mentally stable enough into full adulthood.
My great grandmother was born 1917 and passed away 2017 Lived through it all She's a survivor of the Greatest Generation, a hard working woman during the Silent generation, an enjoyer during the boomer generation, amazed by the X generation, started to relax during the Y generation, and passed away peacefully towards Zoomer generation.
Nice my grandparents was both greatest generation and silent generation, greatest on my mom's side and silent on my dad's, my parents are great-grandparents now, my mom's not even 60 yet and my dad is in his mid 60s and my older brother that's not even 40 yet is already grandparent, god time flies by so fast .
I thought i was watching a massive channel then i saw the subs and likes, this quality is so so good for such a small channel! good job dude!!! Edit: Bungle Schmungle in my grungle
Bro woke up one day and decided that “I’ll make a banger” always come from small channels but this is the first one I’ve found being only one and the first video kinda jealous, because i didn’t tried hard enough because of several factors but this surely did encouraged me to just get real
There really were a good old days alright... everything changed when social media became popular and opened the floodgates to make internet usage acceptable, and then cool. I'd say 2012 was the last year of the old internet, maybe that was the apocalypse the Mayan's were referencing. :P
@@planescaped The only reason the Mayan calendar ended with 12/21/2012 is because that was the end of a celestial age. When a calendar is outdated, you swap it for a new one. If they'd had time to make a new one, they would have, but they were child-sacrificing idolatrous imperialists despoiling the land just like the Canaanites did, subjecting it to futility while oppressing their own people in service to false "g0ds." So they, along with the Aztecs, were rightly conquered. Ave vindicta!
I don't think I've ever seen questions like "What is (random explicit tag)?" while on the net. It was like, we were all subjected to it at roughly the same time and were right there as the terms were coined.
You're obviously wrong, it's mostly relevant to the west world, not only the US. For example I am Greek and all these generations and descriptions are highly relevant.
@@georgedimitrakopoulos2546 and especially the newer generations, because the world is now connected by the internet, so cultures around the world mix together.
Yup, this is a very "first world" view on the topic, mostly focused on the U.S. Only the newer generations could fit the rest of the world, obviously because of the internet
It's generally translateable to the entire western world though, you only have to shift some of the dates back and forth and sometimes they have different names. In Germany for example, the Greatest Generation is called "Generation War", the Silent Generation is called "Generation Post-War" or "Rubble children" due to them having grown up amidst the ruins of their hometowns. Compared to the US, the Boomers started with a delay of about 5 years since economic recovery from WW2 only truly began at the start of the 1950s but ended at about the same time as they did in the US. Gen X, Y, Z and Alpha are functionally similar to those of the US. I'm a late Millenial (born in 1993) and even though I'm living on the other side of the Atlantic I would still consider 9/11 to be the most impactful "political" event of my childhood and teen years.
My great-grandparents are Silent Generation My grandparents are Boomers (1950s) My aunts and uncles are Gen X(1970s) My parents are Gen Y(1981) My cousins and I are Gen Z(2005 and 2009) And my little sisters are Gen A
My great-grandparents are Greatest Gen/Lost Gen (???-1910s) My grandparents are Silent Gen/Boomers (1930s-1940s) My parents are Gen X (1977-79) I am Gen Z (2006)
My grandparents were greatest generations. I have some silent generation aunts and uncles. My parents are boomers (but only in age, not attitude). Some of my older cousins are gen x, but most of my cousins--and myself--are millennials. I also have a few early Gen z cousins.
Some of my grandparents are early to mid Boomers, while others are late Silents. My aunts, uncles, and parents range between the early Gen- X’s to the late Millennials. My cousins range from the early Zoomers, possibly the late Millennials, and the latest Alphas. I, myself am an early Alpha.
Gen Y here and I was very traditional as a kid. Every week was church, family gatherings, travel, sports and video games. Grateful to be born in the 80s.
Probably because the parallels are very much not comparable. Saying World War is even moderately comparable to Ukraine - russia or saying that covid is same as spanish flu is extremely dishonest.
@@JL-hk6pqNo one can have a conversation about older generations without some peanut brain mentioning how racist they were. Obviously they were racist but that's not the point of the conversation
Well if generations are standardised to 15 years and the order of the Greek alphabet is followed, the first Gen Sigmas won't be born until the mid-2260s. The last Gen Alphas will die over a century earlier in the 2140s. Sadly the two will never meet.
Everything kinda went to 💩 after us. When we were young, it wasn't always easy, but we just rolled with it. We're middle-aged now. Old enough to remember the good times and how different life was not that long ago. Young enough to have to adapt to the cluster-F that the world is now. Well, if anyone can adapt, it's us. I really think everything started to change after 9/11. We were young adults in 2001. Old enough that our view of the world and our place in it seemed set. Not that we wore rose-coloured glasses, but we took a certain level of stability for granted. That day was the original Throat-Punch Tuesday that left all of us gasping for air and trying to find our balance. If we're honest with ourselves, we've never really recovered. We've just sucked it up buttercup and carried on.
@@icouldjustscreamrealistically the turning point for things sucking were when the boomers took power politically. They had everything handed to them on a silver platter thanks to the hard work of the greatest generation
I'm a "Zillenial," born in '94. Really resonating with the Lost Generation comparisons here. Hopefully we're remembered as resilient too, not just broken. Good video, subscribed.
@@MasterProgrammer423even for me 1995 and I still count myself a millennial. For me I’m just attached with anyone born in 1994 or older and anyone younger than me or born from 1996 onwards i consider them Gen Z.
I mean being born in 94/95 is a bit tricky. If you have older siblings and baby boomers parents, you are most likely to grow up like millenials, but if you are the first born while having late Gen X parents you are most likely to grow up like early Gen Z. I belong to the first case and growing i noticed that my friends that was first born didn't grow up with most things that i experienced since early childhood because of my elder brothers such as old gen video games (atari, nes, snes, ps1, gameboy color...) , hip hop culture/80's/90's ganster rap, old pentium 1 or 2 pc with windows 95/98, old comic books, 80's/90's anime and mangas, 80's/90's science fiction movies (star wars, matrix terminator, alien...etc), and countless other old oudated technologies and stuff (belonging to either my baby boomers parents or my elder brothers) i miss and which they don't have a clue about despite us being born the same year (1994) 😅
Its unreal man. I am a Zoomer and what you said about losing most of the highschool hurts. I am really jealous of the older generations sometimes cause it just aint the same anymore after the pandemic
I got stiffed out of maybe a month of high school. You wanna know what you missed? Go listen to Bowling for Soup's "High School Never Ends." It's cynical but pretty accurate. High school sucked for everyone in one way or another anyways, so don't worry about it.
In many ways I feel that I never fully recovered from the lockdowns. Before them I felt I had direction, motive, and ambition. I now feel lost, stagnant, and aimless. Ultimately I feel that this feeling can't be entirely attributed to the pandemic, It is likely natural for many people to feel this way in the weird transitional period between youth and adulthood; But I certainly feel that the pandemic didn't help. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself other than salary slave and hope I find my way.
@@Helios8170 I lost almost half of highschool. The half a year before the pandemic was one of the best in my life. Than when the lockdowns ended it was absolutely amazing again. And then it all went seriously wrong with university. So I beg to differ, highschool was awesome and it makes me super sad i missed so much of it and ended up depressed because of lockdowns.
honestly, man, i feel so emotionally stunted. i really weep for gen alpha kids though. i taught some elementary classes in my senior year, and dear lord, they lost so many absolutely crucial years of learning and socialization skills. i wish them the best
There is one thing to point out that all generations share or have in common. They all have problems and no generation is perfect. We all experience things differently from all walks of life.
@@Sir_GuardusJust because no one is perfect, doesn't mean Gen Z isn't the worst of them all. As far as I see it especially in America, it's the most confused generation, to say the least.
As a GenXer, I grew up in times of very high interest rates, in the shadows of 2 oil crises, and with the constant threat of nuclear war being vividly depicted in movies and TV series. We went through school thinking that we would either end up being unemployed, or living in a postnuclear wasteland. It was also a time of innovation. I know a few guys who became rich writing a 8-bit computer application and selling it to a big corporation within a year. But most of us just felt lucky we could cling to an office job, work very long hours and come back home at 7pm to a TV show recorded on VCR.
Ya now try to imagine what it's like for young kids growing up now. Everything bad you had is worse for them and all they have to look forward to is no job at all
@@andrewrules231 They have plenty of jobs here. Employers literally begging them to work. However, rent and house ownership has become outrageously expensive since the 2010s. They can't afford to live anywhere except at their parents' home. Even with a good salary life is way too expensive for the millenials. They face a completely different challenge, but they don't have it any easier, I agree.
@@hdufort i was talking about gen A. But if you want to talk about melenials I am one and let me give you some perspective. I have been forced to start my working career over from ground zero More than 6 times by 33. Plenty are hiring but to do construction I require a car to be hired by any company and I sold my car to keep a roof over my kids head during COVID. I would take any retail job but they won't take me because my work history is a Forman and technician in industrial construction and maintenance. So hear you have competent experienced people like me (and there is a lot) that can't work but want to. And dispute what you may think I can't just move to America and take a job. As a Canadian the only way I could do that is if I were a doctor,nurse, an engineer or already a multi millionaire. Western countries don't take imagrants from other western countries only the 3rd world
@@hdufort true. I make over $60k, so not bad but not otherworldly, but I still live with my parents, and likely will until I can save enough for a down payment.
I'm a "millennial" born in '87. Though I'm not American, so there's some strong differences with living in another country. However, I saw with my children that phones and iPads would be so detrimental. They're not deprived of technology, they have never had an iPad to themselves. They go outside, play in the garden, or play with their toys. They spent 20 minutes throwing feathers up into the air the other day just to watch the wind catch them, and were delighted. They get to ask us questions and talk to us in a way that most children would never experience in previous generations. Though, they are not disrespectful, my wife and I make sure of this. I watch so many others sit at restaurant's, isolated by the ghostly light of screens. Or they say things like "we don't like to tell our children 'no'." while their child makes a mess of someone else's house. Or "oh, parenting is hard, they're a handful, they're exhausting." I'm not one to like over generalisations, but I think you can see a break down (if that is the right phrase) of families, of proper parenting. It's too easy to just throw a screen at your child instead of spending the effort in actually parenting. However, parents are having to work long hours, put their kids into day care at 7am, pick them up at 6pm. It's sad to see, but they have to do it to survive. Where Alpha will end up, I don't know, but people need to realise that parenting isn't that hard, it just requires presence, attention, and love. Why else would you have children other than the absolute gift and privilege of seeing them grow and helping them do that?
My dad was Silent Generation, My mom was a Baby Boomer, I was Gen X, My brother was Millenial. Both of my kids, despite being 10 years apart, are Gen Z.
As a Gen X person just out of my 20s, i watched the second 9-11 plane fly over my head in Brooklyn so low i could read the numbers under the wings, and strike the towers. 9-11 hit all of us, hard. I was wiping soot containing pieces of burnt clothing off my windowsill at 30 years old. I wouldn’t call 9-11 an event that mostly impacted the psychology of Millennials. It really changed everyone.
Thank you for sharing. I agree. It was that type of event where everyone knew where they were when it happened. If you experienced it in real time (like you did)…there’s no words to describe how shocking and terrifying and SAD that day was. I’m originally from NY. Seeing those towers fall…heartbreaking.
Typically... You Americans get for once a slight, minor but oh so spectacular tragedy, nothing which compares to what your country has inflicted on the world, and BOOOMM it's trauma all over the place. Yes, I also remember where I was on that dreadful day (dreadful in the sense that it gave Baby Bush and his henchmen the opportunity to invade and destroy Afghanistan and Irak). But I also remembered sitting as a little kid in the car and hearing on the radio that Brezjnev died. Or the day the Soviets called it quits... Or the day that Belgiums public enenmy number one escaped and went for a stroll in the Ardennen, and so on. Stop that 9/11 glorifying, and think about what it was the start for. A Gen X'er from silly Belgium.
I LOVE that you mentioned Spongebob, one cannot drive home enough the influence that this series had on our childhood. I do communicate in Spongebob references with people of my age to this day.
Honestly, SpongeBob is our equivalent of Mickey Mouse in terms of cartoon iconography similar to how the G.I. Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X grew up with Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, the list goes on and on.
There are 2 parts of every generation Generates: people who act like their predecessor generations Degenerates: people who act like their own generation or future generations
As an older gen z (born 2002) I honestly relate much more to millennials than younger gen z in terms of computers and the internet. It might also be because I was exposed to the internet very early. Some of my oldest memories involve the family computer in 2006-2007
I got my first dose of the web back in 2011, I was 2 back then, so I'm a late gen z. Dear god, I feel so old yet I'm just 14 about to be 15 in a few months. Time really flew quick.
@@xrostr2K09 I would've had my first dose around 2004-2005 when I was also 2. According to my mother, I used to watch my older sister browse the internet. We're in the same generation, yet the eras of the internet we were exposed to were very different.
born in '86, that weird generation who were born into an analog world and as technology advanced we grew up in our teens into the digital world and can move between the two effortlessly
I was born the same year and I agree. When I was growing up my granddad had a hi fi with record, tape and CD players. We went from VHS to DVD to streaming. The early internet years of chat sites and message boards to social media. Cord landline phones to cordless landline phones to mobile phones to smart phones.
I was born over 10 years before you so a '70s/'80s kid who loved her BBC computer. All that computer stuff began in the early '80s. We did basic programming at school/home and played simple arcade-like games - Bugblaster, Kong, and story-like games where you picked text choices. We also spent a good chunk of our time playing outside, climbing trees, making dens, cycling, roller-skating and sledging. I like that aspect of my childhood :)
@@hashira9223 by using that logic you could also add the redeemed zoomer to that list, it’s just a new video essay format that the paint explainer used first
@@EternallyDoomedwhat you say makes no sense as the Redeemed Zoomer started this format 10 months ago (he also only does religious related videos). This guy has “paint” in the channel like Paint Explainer, a similar profile picture…like what can i say?
@@demetrisbarnwell2798 I realize that after I checked but my point is that it’s not a copy, it’s a newer format that people started to use that the paint explainer and redeemed zoomer happen to use
I am an Xennial - the micro-generation from approx 1977 to 1985. We have very little in common with the younger Millennials who were born in the mid-90s. I was born in 1983. Many of my friends were latchkey kids. Very few had computers. Most of us didn't get the internet until early/mid-high school. Most of us didn't get cell phones until late high school or early college. We lived both the free life of Gen X but as we aged, we began living the technological life of a later Millennial.
Well said! As a fellow Xennial, you hit the nail on the head. The only difference in my life is that the majority of my friends were/are younger than me.
Born in 83 also & I couldn’t agree more…grew up w/ Atari & Nintendo but played w/ toy guns that were ACTUAL METAL…no cell phones until after I graduated High School…my high school had about 20 computers per 1000 students primarily for MS Word & dial up modem…I had to read books taken out from a library & had VHS….I find I have almost nothing in common with late 80s-90 millennials & almost everything in common with Gen X…IMO a Generation should be 20 yrs so Gen X is 65-84 millennials 85-94 Gen Z 95-2014 Alpha 2015 now
I was born in 86 and feel exactly like that. We grew up in a very technological and connected world, but we can live without it as well. We can build a toy out of wood, wires and nails, but we can set up a smartphone without help. We find youtube very useful, but we don't need to rely on it to learn something as long as we have books.
They need to better define the line between Millennials and the Zoomers, mainly because I guess by the standards of this video I qualify as a Zoomer but keeping it a buck I get lumped in with the Zoomers but as a middle school educator I will be the first to tell you I have virtually nothing in common with those kids compared to what I have in common with Millennials 😂
We live in the most important time in human history. For most of humanity, if you looked a hundred years into the past, they would have lived in almost exactly the same way. Now every decade something shows up that changes everything. We are privileged to be alive to witness this.
Eh, living in 2024 is very different to 1924 but that is still a world away from living in 1824 with European superpowers and that's incomparable to 1724 which was pre-industrial revolution. I agree we're living in the most pivotal period though, if only because this century will decide if humanity move beyond our Earthly limits to colonise space or if we'll collapse into climate change/WW3 induced calamity.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr2024 to 1924 might be the most different yet, and smellthel said “for most of humanity” and since we can trace back human lifestyle as far as 5000bc that’s still correct go before the 1600s and progress is at a snails pace compared to post Industrial Revolution
1824 really wasn't THAT different to 1724 for the average person, and 1724 and 1624 were pretty similar. While many changes occurred between 1724 and 1824, most of them were yet to filter down to the average person. The American and French Revolutions coupled with the end of the Iberian colonial empires in Latin America were big upheavals, but the defeat of Napoleon meant the restoration of the old monarchy in France. Life under the Brazilian Empire was probably not much different to life under the Portuguese Empire and outside major cities like Buenos Aires, life in the new republics of Spanish America was probably not much different to under the Spanish, at least initially. The US was still small and most of North America was still under colonial rule in 1824, as it had been in 1724. Africa had yet to snapped up by colonial powers absent a few coastal areas, so life there was mostly the same. In Asia the Ottomans continued to dominate in the west, as they had in 1724. India was quite different with the massive expansion of the British Raj. In East Asia the Qing and Tokugawa in China and Japan were declining, but still in power. In Oceania, ancient ways of life had been massively distupted by the onset of particularly British colonial power in Australia and NZ. The needs of total war during the Napoleonic Wars coupled with new tech had kickstarted the industrial revolution, but it still hadn't fully gathered steam (pun entirely intended). Trains and electric lighting technically existed by 1824, but only in the sense nuclear fusion technically exists in 2024. Overall, for most people in most parts of the world life in 1824 was pretty similar to life in 1724. The same could not be said of the changes between 1824 and 1924 or 1924 and 2024.
"privileged" is a word that can be used, sure. Knowing that your career or job that you went to school 8 years for can be obsoleted in 10 years and then your next one can also be obsoleted sure doesn't sound like a privilege.
This is great. My dad was born in 1943. His next birthday card will read: "I just learned you're from the Silent Generation". Then inside it will say, "Now shut up!" Thanks
As someone who was born in 97, I feel more in line with Millennials than with Zoomer's, I had a flip phone in case of emergency but my younger brother did not get one and I didn't have a computer of my own until around 2006 or 07, instead playing on the PS2 for only about an hour a day given I had finished any homework and chores. And I only had these things because my dad, who was single, worked a really well paying job with over 30 years of experience. And for now, I'm content with just being alive and though I'm not living, instead I'm just surviving as the world drastically changes again.
That's only because you are at the beginning of the Zoomer generation. And are comparing yourself, a 26 year old, to basically children. Give it some time my man, and once all the zoomers are adults, you will see that our differences ain't actually that different, in terms of how we think, mindsets, and technology utilization. I honestly feel that labeling a new generation with Alpha is way premature.
I feel the same way. I'm born early 97, and my siblings are 92 and 88. I got their hand-me-downs, I was raised on the same shit they were raised on. I was into games very early on and played a lot of the older consoles. I just don't relate to any of my Gen Z friends. It's as if they live a completely different life to me. I'll never understand why we use 1996 as a cut off point for Milennials. My buddy is late 96 and I'm early 97. Despite being 2 months apart, we're of different generations? Just doesn't make much sense to me.
@jdubo1998 Judging by your comment, I'm assuming you're a Gen Z? Naw bro, Gen Z are in their late teens and early 20's now. They ain't basically children, they're adults now. And I still don't relate to any of them. I relate so much more to Millennials.
Internet was cool at first but turned out a big downfall of society. Miss the days of visiting often with neighbors, young or old. More were willing to lend a hand if needed. Now you can be lying on the ground from wrecking your leg in a groundhog hole and completely ignored by cars passing by. Took awhile to get into the house then go and get xrayed. More are self absorbed and rude. If I saw someone on the ground I would check on them.
@@JNoMooreNumbersThat happened to my husband’s friend! He fell, and he was lying on the ground for a few minutes. Cars were just driving by, and not one person came to help him. After a few minutes, he got up. Most people are self absorbed these days.
They go in cycles of 4. You need to view each as they are at their peak; I.e., when they reach the point that they are the status quo. This is to view each on equal background. Currently, we are still in Gen X as status quo, and slowly moving into Millennial as the status quo.
@@Fishsticks360 As a young Millennial, I'm eagerly awaiting for you Gen X'ers to push the Boomers into their retirement homes so that we can get some work done. It's shocking that Boomers are even allowed to remain in relevant power this long past their prime.
I’m a Boomer and I’ve witnessed and participated in a tremendous amount of change over my 71years. I’ve learned a lot and “I’ve been there and done that!” Traveled the world as a Corporate Pilot for 32yrs. Married for 26yrs and have 2 wonderful daughters. Who we spoiled greatly and they are both married now and I’m hopeful to be a Grandpa someday before I’m gone. I’m thankful that I was born in AMERICA 🇺🇸 because there’s not many places on this planet where I could have done all this. All I ask is that when you become my age somewhere down the road and you look back on your life have as few regrets as possible. Best Of Luck
this is actually surprisingly good considering your subscriber count, i dunno what YT has been doing with the algorithm but i've been finding a ton of small channels like this one that are making hella good content. Here's your official hidden gem award 💎
That means the algorithm is doing a good job, as it is showing us these channels. Edit: reread your comment, you weren‘t arguing against that. Anyways, my point still stands ;)
I agree that something changed recently. I hadn’t been getting any new channels for ages, and then all of a sudden I started getting channels I’d never seen before, like this one. It’s refreshing!
Gen Z here, 2006, in my opinion I am still so lucky I got to know the spark of previous generations. I am still able to sing almost every lyrics from the 1970s to 1990s during the great music generation while I also didn't get a phone until I was in secondary school. And even that one was actually an old Nokia from my mother and just for calling when I needed help. I think I'm one of the last people who can really say, that they had a lucky childhood with climbing on trees and without social media. I was raised with parlor games and I am proud of it
in my case and many others here in argentina, we didnt had consoles or phones till 8-9 years old, so we were raised playing outside, and when ps2 arrived, we did both,playing outside and then going to someones home and play fifa 2006 or mortal kombat probably the best childhood someone could ever had
Same for me. Didn't get my phone until 8th. I had a childhood mostly like that of a Millennial, with real internet access being given to me only when I entered middle school.
atleast this person didn't say "yeah gen alpha sucks so i'm not gonna add it here" edit: ik that nobody knows how to act just stating that some say that gen alpha sucks
As a Millennial, I think u are spot on. I witnessed how we changed from floppy disks to CDs, then to USB sticks and cloud storage, I have to live with my parents, everything is expensive but I still feel relatively fine financially speaking, and I don't have much seggs...
I have heard it said that another name for millennials is the bittersweet generation. Because we grew up in the integration of the Internet and modern technology. Most of us still played outside when we were kids, still used streetlights as our curfew, still rode around on our bikes to go find our friends. But we transitioned into technology at a younger age, playing games on the computer, having a phone to easily be called home, and texting our friends to stay in touch. Leaving a lot of us nostalgic for a type of childhood we partially experienced, a simpler one. One that most of the generations after us didn't get to experience, and the generations before us had entirely. Hence, the bittersweet generation.
@@ginniekyle5872 We are the last generation to experience the "old school" ways none of the newer generations will ever get to experience. Our childhood saw a major transition from analog to digital. Some of the tech we see today were Sci-Fi not too long ago, now we take it for granted.
Pretty good video but you forgot the Interbellum generation. If you didnt know they're said to have been born in 1901-1914. They're often lumped together with the Greatest Generation but I think they deserve their own category since many born in this time period were too young to fight in WW1 and too old to fight in WW2 hence the name interbellum.
@@ConnorLonerganummm, people in the 40s are not "old enough" to fight in the war. I think it's mostly too old. But idk, maybe many of them were still conscripted to fight in WW2 even though they are old enough to be middle-aged man
@@ConnorLonergan I'm from a country in which millitary service is not mandatory. But from what I know (I might be wrong), countries that do have millitary service usually enforce it for around 1-3 years, or maybe even less. If the service started at 25 years, then that means one can retire when they're 28. I think that's where the idea comes from... But now that I think more deeply, there are alternative scenarios. For example, if a soldier rises through the ranks, or when they voluntarily choose to stay, or were forced by the situation, then it's completely possible to still be in service when you are in your 40s. This is especially more true in the extreme reality of WW2. So, I correct my previous statement. Thank you for your comment 👍
YESSSSS! Going to concerts in the 80’s and 90’s was so amazing! I remember camping out all night waiting to buy tickets (that were affordable!) and sneaking in a cheap camera that had film you had to have developed. If the concert security saw the flash they would confiscate your camera!
as someone who genuinely does not know, how come? i am gen Z, ive gone to all kinds of concerts and sets now, they put stickers on phone cameras, ask people to turn off their phone during sets, and many of the ppl who do record (especially with flash) are disrespected or asked to turn off their phone
@@allenr.3237 Obviously I can't answer for OP but for me Also Gen Z Phones really ruined the world. People do things "because everybody else is doing it" like no that's not a good reason. I'm not saying that never happened before phones (people are stupid but at least then it was managable) but social media mades these idiot trends a lot faster and more widespread. People don't know how to make friends anymore but also always have to know what everybody else is doing. Social Media took all the effort (and reward) out of friendships. You'll get people who take 3 hours setting up the perfect look for their photoshoot about their vacation to Hawaii instead of just being present and appreciating the beautiful nature there. Then all their "friends" comment about how much fun that looks and how beautiful the photoshoot was but everybody involved knows it's all empty words. The Hawaiian vacation person doesn't draw any comfort from all these compliments because she knows they're all fake but because she's chasing these compliments she doesn't have any time for real friends or appreciating nature or family or anything that brings real happiness. I mean look I can't PROVE that an increase in technology and mental health tolerance caused an increase in depression but I think it's telling that they happened together. And I don't think it's because the increase in depression caused the increase in technology and mental health tolerance
I’m a gen z born in 2008 but I don’t really take anything for granted because I have nothing to complain about like the lost generation was depressing and I’m just thankful for everything I have in life
I’m glad I was born in 84, I witnessed the growth of video games (after the game crash of ‘83), the evolution of home entertainment (from VHS to dvd) and the way we listened to music. I still remember when DVDs came out. I was 11 and I thought it was so cool seeing a dvd player and the thought of interactive menus and selecting chapters. True that my family grew up in the 60’s and 70’s with cassette tapes, but it really changed in the late 80’s and early 90’s with CDs, in which led to DVDs
Gen X and proud. Had a great, balanced upbringing which helped me be an epic father to my boys. Also watching this made me realise I know and have known family members from all 7 generations and listening to the earlier generationer's stories were fascinating. Amazing how far we've come in ~125 years
Don’t forgot to mention that you were the last generation that could own a house while me and my generation will have to spend our ENTIRE lives cleaning boomer’s mess
GEN X Love my generation We appreciate technology but can live without it. We invented video games but still played outside. We rode bikes and skateboards, We set fires, we threw rocks, we tried drugs, we lived! Sure we came home to empty houses, but we were kings of those houses. We watched MTV when the M stood for music. We stayed out till the sun went down and nobody could call us because we didn't have or need cell phones...we were free.
For further reading into this subject, I highly recommend "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss & Neil Howe (1997). Reading the first chapter is valuable in itself to cover the main broad gist of generations and eras/turnings.
Thank you for sharing your recommended reading! "The Fourth Turning" sounds like an interesting book. If you'd like to explore similar topics further, I also have a RUclips channel dedicated to discussing generations and societal trends. I think you might find it insightful and enjoyable. Feel free to check it out and consider subscribing for more content on this subject.
I agree. I read that book several years ago, after hearing them on the radio. They went pretty in-depth on the differences between Gen X (which I am) and prior age cohorts. They also wrote a book specifically about us.
As soon as the narrator said we can't predict what will happen in the future, I thought, yes we can. The crisis is upon us, and hopefully we come out of it for the better.
The fourth turning theory is dead on the beam. We’re in the fourth turning right now. Read the book or look up videos of the authors Strauss and Howe. I read it about 15 years ago.
young Millenial here (born '94), married with 3 kids (4, 2, newborn), and we get to celebrate grandpa's 100th birthday in a few weeks! he served in WWII as an army scout and has wild stories that he doesn't mind sharing, even some of the sad ones. absolutely legend of a man, and I'm truly honored to learn from him (and for my Alpha kids to even know him!)
I'm the same age with 2 kids (3.5 and 1.5). I feel happy for you that your kids get to know their great grandfather. Such a blessing! All of their great grandfathers died before we had our kids, which makes me sad sometimes because the men built back then were tough as nails! I would have loved to have them around to see my sons.
@@jsheav Its true. As they say, "“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” I think we're somewhere toward the end of that phrase...
That's incredible! It's really inspiring to hear about your grandpa's remarkable life and his service in WWII. I can imagine the wealth of knowledge and wisdom he must have accumulated throughout the years. It's fantastic that you get to learn from him and that your kids have the opportunity to know such a legendary man. If you're interested, I actually have a RUclips channel where I share content related to history and personal stories. I think you and your family might enjoy it, especially given your connection with your grandpa's experiences. Feel free to check it out and subscribe if you'd like!
I'm actually a Deist agnostic. I don't know if there is a god and if it existed, they probably just made the universe and what most people call god is simply what Catholics call "The holy spirit".
@@sor3999 theres a distinction between "Spiritual" as in collecting energy rocks and doing salt rituals to shoo off evil spirits and "spiritual" as in having a deep spiritual reverence for the world around you without making it into a whole thing that takes up your whole personality.
@@sor3999 spiritual can mean a lot of things. For some it might mean metaphysical beliefs, for others it just means self-care taking time to reflect and meditate and stuff like that.
There definitely seems a bit of a divide between 'Old' Millennials born in the early 80s and 'Young' Millennials born in the late 80s or early 90s. I was born in 1981 and didn't get my own phone till my first year at college in 2000. I turned twenty six days before 9/11. The internet existed during my teens but it barely resembled the modern internet and you only got a brief window on the family computer every day. I do think people underestimate just how big an impact Gen Xers had especially on 'Old' Millennials. They were our older siblings, the cool kids on TV and in the movies (teen movies in the 90s were mostly acted by twenty-something Gen Xers and watched by actually teenaged Millennials.)
Yeah older millennials in my country had opportunities to afford housing. They got affected hard by the recession but opportunity was still there and once things improved housing was there. Younger millennials are coming into a job market with high inflation, high costs of living and insane housing prices and thus can't afford life.
Yes my older brother was born in 76 so I got to listen to his music and the movies he watched I was born in 92 so he was 16 when u was born so I got to listen to the old skool rap and hip hop
Even for young millennials Gen X were always the cool adult cousin or something. A lot of our culture was influenced by them and what they thought was cool.
@@KentPetersonmoney Yeah I see what you mean but they became legal (18) in the 90s whether it was January of 99 or December31st of 99 it’s still the 90s
Born in 93 i am happy to have the Internet but also have been sad to see social life go from something so simple to highly dependent on social media and algorithms. Life was nice when social life and achievements were very physical and hands on but we still had the internet to use for knowledge and entertainment. Before the likes everything felt just right
I understand your sentiment. The rise of social media and the internet has certainly transformed the way we interact and pursue our goals. While it has made communication and access to information more convenient, it has also brought about a shift in the way we perceive and engage with the world. In the past, social life and personal achievements were often built on physical interactions and face-to-face communication. Connections were made through shared experiences and genuine interactions, which arguably brought a deeper sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. However, with the advent of social media and the rise of algorithms, our social lives have become more virtual and dependent on technology. Likes, followers, and online validation have become currency, influencing our self-worth and interpersonal relationships. It can sometimes feel like genuine connections have been replaced by superficial interactions. Additionally, the constant exposure to carefully curated online personas can lead to comparisons and feelings of inadequacy. The pressure to present oneself in a certain way can take a toll on mental health and wellbeing. That being said, it's important to recognize the benefits the internet and social media have brought us. The ability to connect with individuals from different parts
As a generation X person. I can tell you my parents were the luckiest generation of Americans. My parents don’t understand why anyone just can’t go buy a new home new cars even if you work at McDonald’s.
They live in diffrent times as a millenial i would say same about Gen X you guys also complain alot about younger generations, Just dont forget we are the ones that will face a WW3 or whatever that is waiting for us...
@@SlideRSB Well, at least the latter two. There haven't been many lost gen's around for quite awhile now. The one that I actually got to know sounds exactly like myself and many other zoomers oddly enough, though on a "moral of the story is" kind of level.
here in australia we have something called "The stolen Generation" and i couldnt be ass'd to type it out so i got google to do it for me: The Stolen Generations refers to a period in Australia's history where Aboriginal children were removed from their families through government policies. This happened from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Awesome video! I didn't even really know I was a Gen Y but I was born in 82 I dealt with fertility issues I fell into the Trap of the opiate crisis. I do have decent student debt which was pointless only my hard work has gotten me where I'm at. Being born in 82 was one of the best times because we saw the creation of the internet and I work in technology very thankful for that.
thanks man, I'm actually writing a new video right now, was surprised to see my phone blow up with comments. Definitely not planning to stop anytime soon
Good job on the video. I liked the lighthearted nature of it and how you had something nice to say about each generation while also not shying away from the negative things that occurred during these various time periods.
It's crazy when I think about the fact that I was born in 2000 and I'm 5 generations ahead of my grandma, born in 1913. She died in 2008 and I didn't have that much time to know her unfortunately. She sort of experienced ww1, she definitely experienced ww2 (my grandpa got captured by germans from what I heard about him), and then many good and bad stuff until the current century. Actually crazy
Wow! My grandma was also born in 1913, but she died in 2000 when I was 19. I thought I had an older grandma, but it looks like yours was even older compared to you if you were born in 2000, the year that I graduated from high school.
My parents didn't start having kids until they were in their forties, so they were old enough to be my grandparents--but your family really seems to have outdone mine! I'm just three generations ahead of my grandparents, who were all born in the 1890's. My grandfather and two of his brothers were all seriously wounded in WW1. My father and five of my uncles served in WW2, but fortunately, none of them got seriously wounded.
@@ACGreyhound04 Ahh maybe they had the same birthday ^^ Personally I was just 8 years old which means I was kinda too young to comprehend what was happening, it was the first death I heard about in my surrounding. And now I'm sad that I haven't known her enough.
So your grandma was 87 years old when you were born? That's wild! I never heard of two consecutive generations having children in their fourties! 😳 What's especially wild to me is the fact that my *great* -grandma must have been a few years younger when I was born, than your grandma was when you were born! She survived my grandma's who both died in their fifties before 1997, when I was born. She died in 2007 and I believe she was born in 1914 or 1916, but not earlier. I also know the opposite case: the grandma of a friend wasn't even 35 yet when he was born, because both his mom and and his maternal grandma were underage teenage pregnancies 😅 In fact, If I remember their ages correctly, as one being 16 or 17 and the other being 15 at their first child, then his grandma is only one or two years older than my father, who was 30 ( - 1 month, 3 days) when I was born, though to be fair, he was just 27.5 years ( - 9 days) old when my brother, his first child, was born. So, I'm just two Generations ahead of my father: he's Gen X and I'm Gen Z, like my 10 and 13 years younger cousins, but *not like* my 2.5 years older brother, who's Gen Y 🤦♂️🤣
I'm a Gen X'er and I think Millennials and Gen Z are pretty good, once you get used to them. You just have to give them a chance and be open to change.
Generation X here. Internet became broadly available when I was in the last year of college. We have experienced the growth of technology from the early personal computers (which had a very limited use) to the modern ones which have become so important for work, connectivity and creativity. I remember the first times when I had a chat online with foreigners, practicing my english. There were not many websites for chats and for a student it was so exciting to get in contact for the first time with someone from a far away country in a personal conversation! I got in contact with a girl from Croatia and we started to write letters (not electronic) to each other and send printed photos (digital photography and webcam came later). what I enjoyed most is the fact that we have grown up relying solely on our memory and the use of books, and not searching on google for every question we had. I think that this is fundamental for the growth of every child to develop their brain and confidence in their skills.
I completely understand where you're coming from. As a member of Generation X, I also experienced the transition from a time when the internet was not readily available to the moment it became an integral part of our lives. The early days of personal computers were quite limited compared to the multifunctional devices we have today, and witnessing that transformation has been fascinating. Connecting with people from all around the world through online chats must have been an incredible experience for you. It's true that back then, there were fewer websites and platforms available for such interactions, making each conversation feel special and unique. In a way, it felt like the world was opening up, and we had the opportunity to learn and communicate beyond the boundaries of our immediate surroundings. The exchange of letters and printed photographs with your friend from Croatia also sounds like a truly meaningful experience. It's beautiful to see how friendships and connections were formed through these more traditional means, without the instant gratification that technology provides today. The anticipation of receiving a letter and the effort put into maintaining that correspondence fostered a deeper level of connection that is somewhat lost in our modern, digitized world. I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment about relying on memory and books for information. While search engines like Google have made it incredibly easy to find answers to our questions, there is something to be said about the process of actively seeking knowledge and building our own understanding. Developing the skills to solve problems, think critically, and retain information without immediate access to the internet were crucial aspects of our intellectual growth. In this rapidly advancing technological age, it is essential for parents and educators to strike a balance between utilizing the resources available to us online and nurturing the ability to think independently and confidently. Encouraging children to explore the world outside of search engines and nurturing their curiosity will undoubtedly contribute to their development and overall well-being. Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts on this matter. It's great to reflect on how far we've come and appreciate the unique aspects of our generation's journey.
@@vucubcaxis that's great parenting! I believe that there is a right age in the growth of a child when they can start to rely more on the immense availability of knowledge from internet. If done too early, it will become an obstacle for their growth and will keep forgetting. I remember talking with a photographer/scenographer and asking whether the digital revolution of his work made it more easy for him to visualize and experiment. His answer was no, it became an obstacle. For an experienced professional, most of the concept work is based on his experience and visualized in his mind. But customers and people with poor experience constantly request the use of technology to evaluate and visualize so many alternatives, and this has made his work become slower and not more productive than it used to be.
@@vucubcaxis I'm a Millenial and one of the biggest obstacles to getting information back when I was in highschool in the early 2000's is the inaccessibility of it all. Without the technology of the internet, I would've had to dedicate at least a week to a month of manually hunting down books from libraries, manually search the indexes of encyclopedias for the topic I was researching, then spend yet more time returning the books. And not to mention, sometimes my local libary doesn't even have the physical book in their repository and has to request it from another library so there'd be a few waiting days for it to be physically delivered. I like the ease and accessibility of the internet now with finding the info that I want in an instant. If I wanted to quickly search a long article for a specific word, I just hit Ctrl+F to bring up the "find word" option on my browser. If I wanted to read a book that's out of stock at my library, chances are that there's an online e-book version of it. And it saves my shoulders and back from carrying heavy textbooks when I could just save a digital file version of them on my USB thumb drive.
Generation X too (although almost "young" enough to be a millennial). We're the last generation to grow up without having our brains warped by the internet, and experiencing life with or without the internet. A generation Z was shook, asking me, "how did you manage to communicate with both millennials and boomers?" Because we understand life on both sides!
Baby Gen X, born in 1980. We were so lucky that our wild teen years weren't memorialized on social media. Damn, we had fun. I think society peaked in the 90s, but that's just my opinion.
I wouldn't cling to that opinion too tightly. It's what every person of every generation thinks. That the best time of their personal lives and what they knew was when things were at their best. Cultural and societal changes are inevitable. And while it's fine to look back fondly at when it was "your time", holding onto a position that things were categorically better before can lead to some pretty bad places.
@@Crawver No. Across several generations, from Silent to late Millennials, the overwhelming general consensus is that the 80s-2000s were the best years.
Born in 80 and I feel like it was a good time until Twitter came about. But that's just me. The average person started getting their hands on smartphones and it's been downhill from there.
I always felt closer to Gen X being born in the early 80's and hitting my teens in the 90's. It's weird explaining to my nephew who is 12 that I can remember the majority of people not having internet access or mobile phones. If you wanted to talk to your friends or play video games together you had to physically go to their house. If you arranged to meet somewhere and they didn't turn up you just had to go home lol. I can't remember the exact point that most of my conversations for both my social life and work began being online instead of face to face. That's not really all bad, I'm happy that meetings are online now and I don't physically have to get up early and go into work just to have a meeting. I can be at home and still join a meeting, get sent all the important documents and contribute what I need to.
1980 was last year of GenX birth year. Early '80s birth years are the GenX/Milleneal cuspers, Xennials. That's where you probably are at. So it makes sense.
I remember when cable hit my neighborhood and enthralled with MTV. I loved it, then my dad cut the cable because MTV would "damage our brains" with insane music videos". I loved my cable loving grandparents, l... I got my MTV!!!
I was born in 1979, so I'm supposed to be GenX, but I feel way closer to people born in the early 80's than the ones who were born in the late 60's. These labels are completly artificial. Decades are more relevant in my opinion.
It’s fascinating to think about the impact that a generation’s parents has on their children. For instance, I’m generation Z and my parents are from Gen X. Both my dad and myself are very entrepreneurially minded. That could just be us, but there’s something to said about generational factors as well.
"That could just be us, but there’s something to said about generational factors as well." 🤯 It's fascinating that zoomers are able to reach that kind of conclusions by their own. Truly inspirational.
These two hateful mfers in the replies, can't you survive on anything other than other people's misery? Man's just saying what he thinks, you really gotta sour everyone's mood?
Absolutely! The impact of parents on their children's mindset, values, and aspirations cannot be overlooked. Generations often pass down certain characteristics, ideologies, and behaviors to their children, shaping their perspectives and ambitions. In the case of your entrepreneurial mindset, it's likely a combination of both personal inclination and the influence of your Gen X parents. Gen X, often characterized as independent and self-reliant, experienced significant economic changes and witnessed the rise of entrepreneurship and innovation. This could have cultivated an environment that encouraged and supported entrepreneurial thinking within your family. Moreover, generational factors can play a role in shaping mindsets and aspirations. For example, Baby Boomers may have valued stability and loyalty to organizations, while Gen Xers began challenging traditional career paths and sought more independence. This shift in mindset and priorities might have influenced Gen X parents to raise their children to be more entrepreneurial and open to taking risks. However, it is important to remember that individual differences exist within each generation. While generational factors can contribute to similarities, personal inclinations, experiences, and other external factors also shape an individual's mindset and aspirations. In conclusion, the influence of parents from one generation on their children can certainly impact their entrepreneurial mindset. Cultural, societal, and generational factors all intertwine, contributing to the development of future generations.
Funny. My friend and I are both born in 1986 Germany (which brings a whole other aspect into the mix with the fall of the Soviet Union, German Unification etc.) and we characterised ourself as the "19th Century of the 20st Century" meaning that we expirienced a phase of rapid techonological advancement and social/ economical decline much like during the industrial revolution. We tend to call people our age a "forgotten generation", too. Now I saw your definition of the Lost Generation and I want to say, I do see uncanny parallels. Luckily we haven't experienced a world war (yet?), but almost everything else during a phase of our lives that should've been dictaded by personal growth, family building and finding your place in the world rather than war on terror, crushing economics and being totally forgotten by the rest of the world because "you need to be 18 with 20 years of experience to get that job!" - after being told that you can archieve everything in the world if you just try hard enough. Rise. Fall. And I'm not sure if we're confident in our lives or if we've just given up and being cynical about it.
Nice video! ♥
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@@Paint_Guythats you
i agree
True
Generation Alpha? nothing alpha about them, more like Generation Betacuck.
The Lost Generation is honestly just straight up depressing. They lived through probably the worst chunk of the 20th century.
Those are my grandparents
@@bavarianplaguedoctorYeah
@@bavarianplaguedoctor So far Gen Z’s suffering is only a fraction of the Lost Gen’s suffering but there’s a chance it could rise to double that if WWIII starts as a nuclear war cuz idk some world leaders hate Gen Z and want them gone.
@@d1kgaws12 grass is always greener but something about the levels of isolation, loneliness and addiction seen in gen z and how accepted and normalised they are, idk seems like another kind of misery.
as long as nothing catastrophic happens within Gen Z's and Alpha's timeline, The Lost Generation will be the hardest one to go through
I'm of the "silent" generation. I remember as a child receiving penicillin for a severe tonsillitis. I had been bedridden for two weeks and very ill. The doctor came to the house and explained to my mother that he was giving me a new medication called penicillin. I remember feeling better almost instantly. I missed 1 entire month of school. After reading the posts, wow, I'm old enough to be the grandmother or mother of most of you.
grandpa
Fascinating
@@TidalWaveRBLX69 grandMOTHER
Thank you for your comment. It’s wonderful to hear stories from different generations
My mother is the same generation, she was the first person in my town to receive penicillin according to her doctor. I think hers was for tonsilitis.
it's funny how the older generations span decades meanwhile the more recent ones only last for a couple of years.
I'm not exactly sure why but is it maybe because of the exponential advancement of everything in general, like technology and shit?
Millenials were raised with the internet. Zoomers were raised on the internet. Alpha is being raised by the internet.
our current generations have more nuance because we are all still alive and can tell the difference. once everyone today is dead the peoples of the future will give us a new label and cherrypick whatever seemed the most influential from our time period to describe what we were like. Im sure the "lost generation" was full of the same level of nuance and as we have today between millelenials and zoomers but outside of specific historians the general public cant really tell the difference so we just say "that was the great depressions generation"
@@Drathgore I thought they were the lost generation because half of them died
Hey! I lasted for a whopping 21 years, not just a couple 🙄
Born during WWII. My grandmother barely made the lost generation [1885-1976]. her and my great grandmother, [1864-1955], had some fascinating stories they shared before their passing.
Are Gen Alpha spending less time with their parents?
Or are their parents spending less time with them?
Exactly
I think it’s both
Both social media applications are designed to be addictive. Millenials are addicted and drug addicts share whatever their using which is social media and now there are traumatized social media addicted toddlers with ipads burning their eye holes.
Well during the pandemic I noticed young parents who were both working from home still bitch about child care as it was their "right" to not have their own kids around them 24/7.
The second leads to the first one, I believe. Children feel unwanted and try to find attention or an escape in other forms.
Comparing each generation really puts things into perspective.
I noticed a lot more similarities than I expected rather than differences. Seems like we always got a quiet, then loud, then quiet generation, but the internet radically changed how everything works, so it's all loud now
@@Paint_Guygen x and millenials were both quiet so now gonna be gen z and alpha loud
@@Paint_Guy what does loud mean here excactly? I didn't quite get it
@@Paint_Guyevolution of technological advancement surely did impacted social changes
@@olaf-chan-728No millennials are loud, he literally says in the video they are very involved and not afraid to use their voices.
It feels amazing to see a video where they don't just shit on and ridicule generations for no reason at all. This guy stays respectful and understands they all have benefits to offer to the world.
Absolute legend.
Edit: you guys are really taking this the wrong way
Edit 2: if y'all don't stop being pathetic morons who keep arguing, I'm deleting this comment.
fuckin boomer
W!!
Hell yeah, we’re all in this together fellas.
I don't see what Gen Alpha benefits from.
@@PrivateForPersonalReasonsgen alpha is a very new generation so im not suprised that there are few benefits (they are still children after all)
Im sure later on people will see some
Knowing who owns this channel now is crazy cause I got some of these videos in my recommended from RUclips months ago.
My grandfather (1927) passed away a few years ago; but in his life, he went from riding his horse to school to driving an electric vehicle. He was fascinated with technology.
Reminds me of mine too, although much younger. Had no electricity as a kid, rode a donkey to school, witnessed rapid change and now he fully adapted to computers and smartphones. How I wish to be as smart as him...
Mine quit school in 10th grade to work in the mines to support his mom and his sisters while his brother went off to fight in WWII. He couldn't go due to having injured his right eye with a stick when he was a little boy. He worked extremely hard in rural Appalachia raising 6 kids and caring for the billion grandkids they had. He was one of the most singularly knowledgeable and wise people I've ever known. I miss him. He was not quite 92 when he passed.
This reminds me of my great grandma, born in 1927 and passed away on November 25, 1999. It was her dream to live to see the new millennium but she missed it by a month. May she rest in peace.
My great grandma (born somewhere near segregation) died in May of last year.
She was able to tell you stories from her childhood, who her family members were and almost everything she remembered about segregation. She walked with MLK Jr. (yes, she was black), had her best years and I only ever saw her once. I’m currently in 6th grade and only learning this now. Rest easy.
Honestly when I (gen z) take a step back and look at the technology we have, I am amazed that in less than 100 years we got here
no intro and no outro, thank you for not wasting my time paint guy
Gotta love it
personally, I would've liked at least a little bit of a wrap-up instead of a dead stop.
He's gonna upload a video of paint drying after that comment.
and no stop sign at the junction either.
For all those wondering what he got “wrong” was the part about ww1 being fought.
To be clear with everyone the lost generation was BORN during the years leading up to 1900, meaning their generation was the one to fight in ww1. Not that ww1 took place during the time the silent generation was being born.
Exactly, that dumbass got ratioed on his own comment anyways lol
OHHHH thank you! I was like WW2 did not happen in 1927 💀
Did the video change? I am unable to connect your comment to the video.
Thanks!
I was also wondering, because the great depression happened in 1929.
This video convinces me that I grew up in the best years. I'm a GenX (older side). Childhood in the 70s, High school in the 80s, college in the 90s, had children in 2000s. What a great time.. This decade (2020s), is the worst decade of my life. It's like a nightmare. 😢
I'm younger Gen X, born later 70s and I agree the 2020s are depressing. I had childhood in the 80s, high school in the 90s, college in the 90s as well. Continued college in the 2000s. Never had kids, but if I did I would imagine my kids would have born in the 2000s and 2010s, though I know some middle and younger Gen Xers like me that started really early and had kids in the 90s, and even much older Gen Xers that had kids in the 80s.
You were in college in the grunge years. Kurt Cobain was the new John Lennon. Must have been very exciting!
@@Timbiscuit12 I don’t think Kurt Cobain was anywhere near as popular as John Lennon. And I say that as someone that grew up with Kurt as a teenager, Lennon's fame as a Beatle was before my time, but I recognize their fame and his as bigger than what Kurt and Nirvana were. I vaguely remember Lennon's murder as a small child in the early 1980s, I didn't know who Lennon was as a little kid but I know it impacted people far more than Kurt's suicide.
@@John-ct9zskind of. With the Grunge generation it was a big deal
@@Timbiscuit12It was!!! 😊
I feel this video missed an important point about the silent generation, which includes both my parents. Their early years were spent during the great depression, which formed a lot of their personality. They learned to save everything because it might be needed someday. And never turn down a steady job, because you're lucky to have one. Tomorrow there may be no jobs, and no food. So you should always be preparing for the future. Worse times may always be around the corner.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. You make an excellent point about how the experiences of the Great Depression shaped the mindset and values of the Silent Generation. Their upbringing during this challenging period indeed influenced their approach to saving, job security, and preparedness for the future. Your insights help to shed light on the broader context that the video may have missed, highlighting the impact of historical events on shaping a generation's mindset.
A very important point: that perfectly describes my parents too, and that perspective very much influenced my own view, growing up.
My granny is just like that, she hides food in her closet, for 'just in case' situations, keeps absolutely everything she owns, never decluttering her house (that used to drive me insane, her home was so cluttered). It took me a while to understand she grew up in fear of poverty and hunger, and that fear never fully died :(
Tell me about it. Silent Gen'ers are crazy hoarders! My mom buries herself in junk. Unfortunately some of the hoarding mentality rubbed off on me and I have to constantly fight it as a Gen X'er. I am finally managing to throw away a few things I should never have kept. Still way too much clutter in my place.
I agree, strongly. This describes me to a T. I’m the oldest of 11, my 10 siblings being Boomers. The younger are all liberal with my brother and I being quite conservative.
8:55
This tickled me, it's sometimes easy to forget that parts of our generation are actually parents, raising actual human kids.
I'm assuming your Gen Z by that? I know I can say the video is a bit off with some things. like he says Gen Z started in 97. then his own video shows Gen Z started in 95. but everything online says it started in 96. Also never in my life heard of X being the "latch key" generation always the heard it called the forgotten generation
@@Omalleyus Also I'm pretty sure it ended in 2010.
@@thescarf926nope. You can look it up Gen Z is 1996-2012.
@@Omalleyus Generational limits are fuzzy. It's not like a person born in 96 is going to be substantially different than one born in 94. The real answer is there's always a microgeneration at the borders that bleeds into both and encapsulates experiences and traits of both generations. For instance, I was born in 93. I fall within the microgeneration between Millennials and Gen Z. I'm old enough to remember 911, dial-up internet, checkbooks, and 5th generation consoles. However I'm young enough to have grown up with shows like Spongebob, and to have largely avoided the 2008 recession. Moreover, my own personality, outlook, and sense of humor feels so much closer to Gen Z than millennials
Also, I have heard it referred to as the "latchkey" generation, but I think it's one of those "proposed names" like how some folk wanted to call millennials the iGeneration due to the explosive popularity of tech like ipods and iphones
@@ScipiPurrexactly! It's even harder for people like me (born in 2010) to know where they fall between Gen Z ans Gen alpha because...i dont think anyone wants to be considered an alpha at this rate...but I've seen so many mixed info about when gen z ends and when gen alpha starts to the point where I just base it off maturity now because I've seen so many mature young gen z'ers and early gen alphas that arent charactarized by ipads and "skibidi toilets" n what not. So as you said, definitely fuzzy with generations now
my grandmother is 97 years old. she was 15 when pearl harbor bombing happened . she will be 98 in march, wish her well to 100 and hopefully beyond!
Your grandmother has seen quite a lot
Peace to your grandma ✌️❤️
Power to yr Gran! Just out of curiosity: does she complain abt "kids these days"? 😀
@@anabltc no shedoesnt, infact she still thins that kids act the same way they did when she was a kid
@@EpicMemergamer thought so. That's experience and wisdom ❤ wishing all the best!
It's funny how each generation after boomers acts as if the previous ones have no idea what they experienced. We lived during those times too and with a better perspective in many ways.
But we gen z have a crisis even worse than the one 1929
Every generation since the dawn of time assumed their struggles were far more unique than they were
@@WildOwen I think we will be the first generation that can say past was hard because it truly was.
@@josem588 I'm Gen Z, but no. The Great Depression was awful
Good luck Gen Alpha. You're absolutely going to need it...
I think they’ll do just fine. Besides the internet, they’re pretty fucking smart and pick up on things easily even from ages 1 and 2. If you keep one from the internet while the other nine are still on it, that one will definitely become a billionaire but the others can probably go on to do great things as well.
I feel like while each generation had their rough points, a good bit made the best of it. Lost generation probably said greatest would need luck. Greatest generation probably thought silent needed luck. Silent generation probably felt that boomer needed luck and so on
@@Jaiiswifi i dont think its up to them. we're living in a time of unprecedented misinformation and social media manipulation and radicalization
@@Jaiiswifiyeah and people are calling Gen A doomed for the slightest rough patches they have.
Edit: my nonsensical stuff that my tired self said
@@MidnightGD5 There is a solid case to be made for it though (but to be fair, I wouldn't use the word "doomed", I just happen to be sympathetic for those who don't see a way out). Technology has been exponentially advancing faster than many people can even adapt to it and it's only been getting even faster. That combined with an epidemic of internet-dope fiending, narcissism, and neglectful (and equal parts overindulgent) parenting are going to pose some serious psychological issues for Alpha to deal with. Psychological dynamics are so intertwined with corporatized modern gaming, "gamified" aspects of living, and social media that I'm getting worried, and not to mention how kids are basically being raised as the digital equivalent of crackheads from a startlingly young age. I would need a better, more concise name for it, but I'm tempted to call Gen Alpha the "Innocence Lost Too Early" generation.
That makes me wonder, why are they called Alpha? What are they the beginning of, the "out of touch" generations? The generations that people like Larry Fink, Klaus Schwab, and their ilk will have social control over unlike any generation prior? The "truly and thoroughly lost" generation? And with all the muddied waters of online information sharing and convincing AI generated info/media, it's gonna get pretty messy. Look at how antiquated our governmental institutions' understanding of the internet already is. We need to get our shit together and hold tight, this is gonna be a very interesting transition.
Plot twist, gen alpha becomes the new lost generation
2:24 A few years ago, there was a church service to honor veterans. The pastor was like, “Stand up if you fought in Afghanistan.” “Stand up if you fought in Vietnam.” etc. and kept going all the way back to WWII. A single man stood up and everyone applauded him.
At around the same time, I went to a restaurant with my then-boyfriend for Valentine’s Day. We saw an old man wearing a hat stating he was a WWII veteran enter the restaurant and decided to thank him for his service. He ended up telling us what it was like to fight in the war. Apparently, his friends from the army died due to an attack with toxic gas and he was the only survivor. He then went on to tell us how he missed his friends. It was very heartbreaking to listen to. He was clearly in a lot of pain even after 80 years.
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I think that it's a good thing he was able to share his story with you. In a sense, it's a way to have someone know he and his bretheren existed, heard them, and will carry the memory of them even after he bites it. It might have even been cathartic for him to know you'd listened intently to him to be able to relay his deeds. Honor to him and his brothers in arms ❤️🩹
He seems like such a kind and hardworking person. May his friends rest in peace,they will come back to him. ❤
I would have booed the Vietnam vets. Why honor baby murdering losers?
I just wanted to say that I am glad you thanked him for his service. I find that veterans are often put under scrutiny or judged, or even just forgotten. Ultimately I don't think most of them really had a choice in the matter, And after going through all of that it must be hard to try to live alone with stories like his. The feeling of isolation must be overwhelming, with most of the people who could share in your struggles dead through old age or service; I can imagine it wouldn't be difficult to feel forgotten.
"The dopamine economy"
That is so very well put.
couldn't have found better words
Yes. This is brilliantly said.
In other words, the point were things are gonna start going downhill.
Gen X from the UK. I used to have door key on a piece of string around my neck. I had a Commodore VIC20 and C64 and absolutely loved seeing how new technology was changing the world. Our music and films were THE BEST :)
Hey old man how were the dinosaurs
@@Levi-zr4dq They were great. But one day a huge big ball of rock hit the earth sending massive amounts of dust into the atmosphere. They all disappeared after that. Not sure where they went.
@tnetroP how old are you im 13 😂
I had those computers too!
I feel like seperating people by their eras actually makes sense. It’s more of a phenomenon than a theory for me, though it’s different for foreign countries, like the Gen x in Japan is different, they’re “delinquets”.
Well in Japan Gen X is the last Gemeration to experience the economic boom and wealth and freedom
Every generation after that just hasn't experienced that same level of prosperity
Honestly, same in India, it's becuz the timeline in each country is different from USA's timeline.
@@sreyaar5199 What about The United Kingdom?
@@sreyaar5199 then again he focused on what is happening in the US but India is catching up in the generation timeline with rapid development the elementary school kids are semi ipad kids in the sense they do depend on it but they don't have huge problems like in America of literacy probably because of the lower per capita rates not allowing very lavish lifestyles making them still have to think and do some kinds of works
making them still have some physical aspects but it's otherwise still catching up. I don't have any information on Japan tho since I don't know much about East Asia countries.
Gen X is the West are considered delinquents...
Gen X here, classic latchkey kid. My mom raised me alone, so between work and school I mainly took care of myself. Cooking, cleaning, even first aid, from 8 years old I was doing it all.
This led me to be basically a hermit as an adult. I never really had friends as a child, so I didn't need them as an adult.
stop going out after 10 due to a trauamtic event. but i miss my childhood friends was short time frame but wud lve to go back to be a kid in the 80s and early 90s.
I'm a millennial (1988) and also went through all that you described except the single mom. One important thing to keep in mind is that this video is based on US history/events. I'm Brazilian and we were very much behind in a lot of aspects compared to the USA (we still are to this day).
I remember the first CD player our family had was around 1993. It was super expensive and almost no one in our small town had it. The first time I accessed the internet was around 2001, the first time I watched MTV I was 15 and on another city (we didn't have the TV signal in my town or cable).
Just to give an example of having the ability to have technology be it availability or price: To this day I don't have any Apple products because they're massively overpriced here.
Example: iPad Pro 11" US$799 (converting R$3960, reasonable), here it costs R$9799 which would be U$1976, more than double the price... My salary is around R$3k monthly (that's more than 80% of the population earns), I'll never be able to buy it.
Everything that's imported have multiple taxation added to it, and that impact people's ability to buy technology, which impacts the development, education...
Sorry, I went all over the place with my comment lol
You are so right. We had to be independent. Our parents were never around or there was just one parent and they worked all the time. So Home Box Office, Atari, Commodore/Sega Genesis, and kickball or riding your bike was all you had.
Gotta be honest that sounds pretty great
Gen Z kid, had MAJOR helicopter parents and then I got to college and figured out I don't know how to do anything by myself and my younger siblings who live at home are even more incompetent
Your generation does a lot of things right but you guys have no idea how to raise capable kids (actually, a lot of my friends parents did a really great job so it's definitely not universal but I do think it's pretty widespread).
I think there's an unappreciated power in not having friends. I have 2 friends and don't want any more. People think I'm crazy cause "don't you get lonely" like no I'm okay being by myself, just still figuring out the whole "how to life" thing
I agree, Gen X didn't do a good job raising their kids, not that they are not a good generation. Just too much happening to them and around that they were not ready for. @@samstromberg5593
Gen X here, Everything was new and exciting, nothing compares to having your new Atari or Commodore 64 and learning how to program a little. I still have a dopamine rush thinking about buying the tech magazines that had printed BASIC code routines to write your own programs. Parents were never home or they were divorced and we had time for ourselves. and let's not talk about the incredible music of the 80s
Hellz yeah to all of this!
Agree -- boomer here (1953) but early adaptor to computers and a fervent love of 80's music. Gen X folk are fun!
We laid the technical foundation being enjoyed by later generations. When we are gone, let’s hope AI will replace us because the later generations are hopeless
That was me 100% and yes the music. yeah xD
I spent a lot of time coding while reading the code from an article, played all the video games on my home computer, dialing up BBS's. I think I started a decade earlier than my generation on internet stuff thanks to BBS's.
failed to mention the hippie movement, one of the biggest highlights of the baby boomers
Also didn't mention the Korean War and western movies/TV shows. Beatniks were important in the 1950's, didn't mention them either.
Sponge Bob was the greatest culture of the whole century??
Hippie movement created when insane asylums closed and the patients were just let out. Flooding society with all their psych drugs too. I remember hearing about black beauties. It was a pill can't remember what it did. Just remember all the new drugs suddenly being all over.
The bad people pretending to be good people
@@notproductiveproductions3504 Baby boomers are better than the younger generations.
@@notproductiveproductions3504 Baby boomers are better than the younger generations.
You were actually recommended on my homepage on RUclips. This is a gem, and has better quality than most video essays
New upload tomorrow! Been working super hard on this next one
Same, underrated channel
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Same!
you're a biased leftard@@Paint_Guy
Imagine fighting in WW1/WW2 only for some youtuber to draw you as a crying wojak 100 years later.
Skill issue
The training wheels didn't even make sense in any context. Lefties can't meme.
When your first assignments were saved onto floppies, then suddenly CDs and USBs all in one 12 year course of education, truly wild times in the 2000 -2012
My darn assignments were on a typewriter.
I missed that period lol
And now I have a phone more powerful than every computer in my elementary school combined with a 1tb micro sd card.
And now everything is saved in the cloud
My era is 1990-1997!
Gen alpha, here to report that I'm in dire need of therapy! Also its that parents spends less time with kids as well as kids not wanting to be around their parents. School is torture, the people as judgmental as ever, and teachers not caring much. I pray that I'm able to survive mentally stable enough into full adulthood.
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My great grandmother was born 1917 and passed away 2017
Lived through it all
She's a survivor of the Greatest Generation, a hard working woman during the Silent generation, an enjoyer during the boomer generation, amazed by the X generation, started to relax during the Y generation, and passed away peacefully towards Zoomer generation.
lol, my great grandmother was born during the american civil war
Nice my grandparents was both greatest generation and silent generation, greatest on my mom's side and silent on my dad's, my parents are great-grandparents now, my mom's not even 60 yet and my dad is in his mid 60s and my older brother that's not even 40 yet is already grandparent, god time flies by so fast .
@@odelhilgendorf702that's crazy
Hmm
oh wow respect to her, rest in peace my great grand mother was also born in 1917 and i dont remember well but she maybe passed away year or two later.
I thought i was watching a massive channel then i saw the subs and likes, this quality is so so good for such a small channel! good job dude!!!
Edit: Bungle Schmungle in my grungle
hahaha I just started! thanks for checking it out
remember me when you're famous@@Paint_Guy
@@Paint_Guy forget me when ur famous
Bro woke up one day and decided that “I’ll make a banger”
always come from small channels but this is the first one I’ve found being only one and the first video
kinda jealous, because i didn’t tried hard enough because of several factors but this surely did encouraged me to just get real
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Millennial here. I can't believe that we are entering our forties now. How time flies.
Righttttttt!
It speeds up too as you get older
It gets better.
I'm a millennial, but I am 28😢
I still have 9 years left, don't remind me 😂
There is so much we can learn from the Lost and War generations in how they persevered in the most dangerous and pivotal times in modern history.
Being a millennial, I grew up with the "wild west" internet. I will never fully recover what was taken from me.
There really were a good old days alright... everything changed when social media became popular and opened the floodgates to make internet usage acceptable, and then cool.
I'd say 2012 was the last year of the old internet, maybe that was the apocalypse the Mayan's were referencing. :P
@@planescaped The only reason the Mayan calendar ended with 12/21/2012 is because that was the end of a celestial age. When a calendar is outdated, you swap it for a new one. If they'd had time to make a new one, they would have, but they were child-sacrificing idolatrous imperialists despoiling the land just like the Canaanites did, subjecting it to futility while oppressing their own people in service to false "g0ds." So they, along with the Aztecs, were rightly conquered. Ave vindicta!
@@planescaped Tempted to say 2001 instead. 9/11 fucked us for good.
Most millenial growing up without internet
I don't think I've ever seen questions like "What is (random explicit tag)?" while on the net. It was like, we were all subjected to it at roughly the same time and were right there as the terms were coined.
This should be titled "Every US Birth Generation Explained in 9 Minutes". These generation labels are mostly relevant to the US.
YT is an American platform, so yeah.
You're obviously wrong, it's mostly relevant to the west world, not only the US. For example I am Greek and all these generations and descriptions are highly relevant.
@@georgedimitrakopoulos2546 and especially the newer generations, because the world is now connected by the internet, so cultures around the world mix together.
Yup, this is a very "first world" view on the topic, mostly focused on the U.S. Only the newer generations could fit the rest of the world, obviously because of the internet
It's generally translateable to the entire western world though, you only have to shift some of the dates back and forth and sometimes they have different names. In Germany for example, the Greatest Generation is called "Generation War", the Silent Generation is called "Generation Post-War" or "Rubble children" due to them having grown up amidst the ruins of their hometowns. Compared to the US, the Boomers started with a delay of about 5 years since economic recovery from WW2 only truly began at the start of the 1950s but ended at about the same time as they did in the US. Gen X, Y, Z and Alpha are functionally similar to those of the US. I'm a late Millenial (born in 1993) and even though I'm living on the other side of the Atlantic I would still consider 9/11 to be the most impactful "political" event of my childhood and teen years.
My great-grandparents are Silent Generation
My grandparents are Boomers (1950s)
My aunts and uncles are Gen X(1970s)
My parents are Gen Y(1981)
My cousins and I are Gen Z(2005 and 2009)
And my little sisters are Gen A
My great-grandparents are Greatest Gen/Lost Gen (???-1910s)
My grandparents are Silent Gen/Boomers (1930s-1940s)
My parents are Gen X (1977-79)
I am Gen Z (2006)
Cool
My grandparents were greatest generations. I have some silent generation aunts and uncles. My parents are boomers (but only in age, not attitude). Some of my older cousins are gen x, but most of my cousins--and myself--are millennials. I also have a few early Gen z cousins.
My family weren’t in merica till my parents came here.
Some of my grandparents are early to mid Boomers, while others are late Silents. My aunts, uncles, and parents range between the early Gen- X’s to the late Millennials. My cousins range from the early Zoomers, possibly the late Millennials, and the latest Alphas. I, myself am an early Alpha.
Gen Y here and I was very traditional as a kid. Every week was church, family gatherings, travel, sports and video games. Grateful to be born in the 80s.
Imagine being dumb enough to be religious
Gen A here I am more close to my religion than I am the internet
I love it with every strand of my heart.
Unc
The parallels between the lost generation and the young millennials/older zoomers (ie me, born in ‘98) are something I never really thought about
Same, history is truly a cycle that keeps repeating
Probably because the parallels are very much not comparable. Saying World War is even moderately comparable to Ukraine - russia or saying that covid is same as spanish flu is extremely dishonest.
@@JL-hk6pqNo one can have a conversation about older generations without some peanut brain mentioning how racist they were. Obviously they were racist but that's not the point of the conversation
@@JL-hk6pqBut but but they weycist... Waahhhhhh..... weycist bad... waaahhhh....
Am I an early zome?, I was born in '03
Gen alpha when gen sigma walks in
With a bigger and hotter gyatt and Skibidi Rizz
Well if generations are standardised to 15 years and the order of the Greek alphabet is followed, the first Gen Sigmas won't be born until the mid-2260s. The last Gen Alphas will die over a century earlier in the 2140s. Sadly the two will never meet.
@@SexyChilliLMAO
@@MrMuel1205I really hope we don’t continue down the Greek alphabet and actually find unique names for future generations.
It'll be a while until gen sigma comes, gen beta will be the generation after alpha and the children us zoomers raise.
I'm cool with being Gen-X. We had the 80's, a golden era for music and awesome cinema.
Everything kinda went to 💩 after us. When we were young, it wasn't always easy, but we just rolled with it.
We're middle-aged now. Old enough to remember the good times and how different life was not that long ago. Young enough to have to adapt to the cluster-F that the world is now. Well, if anyone can adapt, it's us.
I really think everything started to change after 9/11. We were young adults in 2001. Old enough that our view of the world and our place in it seemed set. Not that we wore rose-coloured glasses, but we took a certain level of stability for granted.
That day was the original Throat-Punch Tuesday that left all of us gasping for air and trying to find our balance. If we're honest with ourselves, we've never really recovered. We've just sucked it up buttercup and carried on.
@@icouldjustscreamrealistically the turning point for things sucking were when the boomers took power politically. They had everything handed to them on a silver platter thanks to the hard work of the greatest generation
Middle and late Gen-X had grunge. Which fortunately died out and seems to have no resurgence.
I'm Gen Z but would rather be Gen X
@icouldjustscream Spot on. I'll add that we also learned to deal with anxiety rather than run for a pill for rescue.
I'm a "Zillenial," born in '94. Really resonating with the Lost Generation comparisons here. Hopefully we're remembered as resilient too, not just broken. Good video, subscribed.
Your a millenial. Ive never hear anyone say gen z started in 1994. Only 1995 or 1997
@@MasterProgrammer423even for me 1995 and I still count myself a millennial. For me I’m just attached with anyone born in 1994 or older and anyone younger than me or born from 1996 onwards i consider them Gen Z.
I mean being born in 94/95 is a bit tricky.
If you have older siblings and baby boomers parents, you are most likely to grow up like millenials, but if you are the first born while having late Gen X parents you are most likely to grow up like early Gen Z.
I belong to the first case and growing i noticed that my friends that was first born didn't grow up with most things that i experienced since early childhood because of my elder brothers such as old gen video games (atari, nes, snes, ps1, gameboy color...) , hip hop culture/80's/90's ganster rap, old pentium 1 or 2 pc with windows 95/98, old comic books, 80's/90's anime and mangas, 80's/90's science fiction movies (star wars, matrix terminator, alien...etc), and countless other old oudated technologies and stuff (belonging to either my baby boomers parents or my elder brothers) i miss and which they don't have a clue about despite us being born the same year (1994) 😅
Its unreal man. I am a Zoomer and what you said about losing most of the highschool hurts. I am really jealous of the older generations sometimes cause it just aint the same anymore after the pandemic
I got stiffed out of maybe a month of high school. You wanna know what you missed? Go listen to Bowling for Soup's "High School Never Ends." It's cynical but pretty accurate.
High school sucked for everyone in one way or another anyways, so don't worry about it.
In many ways I feel that I never fully recovered from the lockdowns. Before them I felt I had direction, motive, and ambition. I now feel lost, stagnant, and aimless. Ultimately I feel that this feeling can't be entirely attributed to the pandemic, It is likely natural for many people to feel this way in the weird transitional period between youth and adulthood; But I certainly feel that the pandemic didn't help. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself other than salary slave and hope I find my way.
@@Helios8170 I lost almost half of highschool. The half a year before the pandemic was one of the best in my life. Than when the lockdowns ended it was absolutely amazing again. And then it all went seriously wrong with university. So I beg to differ, highschool was awesome and it makes me super sad i missed so much of it and ended up depressed because of lockdowns.
honestly, man, i feel so emotionally stunted. i really weep for gen alpha kids though. i taught some elementary classes in my senior year, and dear lord, they lost so many absolutely crucial years of learning and socialization skills. i wish them the best
Ngl yall dodged a bullet
There is one thing to point out that all generations share or have in common.
They all have problems and no generation is perfect. We all experience things differently from all walks of life.
Seriously? Such a freaking obvious comment -.-
@@marekukawski202Ey with how many Gen Z hate I’ve seen I believe some people need to read this
@@Sir_Guardus seems like gen alpha is becoming the new punching bag
@@Sir_Guardusthere’s more Gen Z defense and hatred towards boomers.
@@Sir_GuardusJust because no one is perfect, doesn't mean Gen Z isn't the worst of them all.
As far as I see it especially in America, it's the most confused generation, to say the least.
As a GenXer, I grew up in times of very high interest rates, in the shadows of 2 oil crises, and with the constant threat of nuclear war being vividly depicted in movies and TV series. We went through school thinking that we would either end up being unemployed, or living in a postnuclear wasteland. It was also a time of innovation. I know a few guys who became rich writing a 8-bit computer application and selling it to a big corporation within a year. But most of us just felt lucky we could cling to an office job, work very long hours and come back home at 7pm to a TV show recorded on VCR.
But we had the best action heros and action movies.
Ya now try to imagine what it's like for young kids growing up now. Everything bad you had is worse for them and all they have to look forward to is no job at all
@@andrewrules231 They have plenty of jobs here. Employers literally begging them to work.
However, rent and house ownership has become outrageously expensive since the 2010s. They can't afford to live anywhere except at their parents' home. Even with a good salary life is way too expensive for the millenials. They face a completely different challenge, but they don't have it any easier, I agree.
@@hdufort i was talking about gen A. But if you want to talk about melenials I am one and let me give you some perspective. I have been forced to start my working career over from ground zero More than 6 times by 33. Plenty are hiring but to do construction I require a car to be hired by any company and I sold my car to keep a roof over my kids head during COVID. I would take any retail job but they won't take me because my work history is a Forman and technician in industrial construction and maintenance. So hear you have competent experienced people like me (and there is a lot) that can't work but want to. And dispute what you may think I can't just move to America and take a job. As a Canadian the only way I could do that is if I were a doctor,nurse, an engineer or already a multi millionaire. Western countries don't take imagrants from other western countries only the 3rd world
@@hdufort true. I make over $60k, so not bad but not otherworldly, but I still live with my parents, and likely will until I can save enough for a down payment.
I'm a "millennial" born in '87. Though I'm not American, so there's some strong differences with living in another country. However, I saw with my children that phones and iPads would be so detrimental. They're not deprived of technology, they have never had an iPad to themselves. They go outside, play in the garden, or play with their toys. They spent 20 minutes throwing feathers up into the air the other day just to watch the wind catch them, and were delighted. They get to ask us questions and talk to us in a way that most children would never experience in previous generations. Though, they are not disrespectful, my wife and I make sure of this.
I watch so many others sit at restaurant's, isolated by the ghostly light of screens. Or they say things like "we don't like to tell our children 'no'." while their child makes a mess of someone else's house. Or "oh, parenting is hard, they're a handful, they're exhausting."
I'm not one to like over generalisations, but I think you can see a break down (if that is the right phrase) of families, of proper parenting. It's too easy to just throw a screen at your child instead of spending the effort in actually parenting.
However, parents are having to work long hours, put their kids into day care at 7am, pick them up at 6pm. It's sad to see, but they have to do it to survive.
Where Alpha will end up, I don't know, but people need to realise that parenting isn't that hard, it just requires presence, attention, and love.
Why else would you have children other than the absolute gift and privilege of seeing them grow and helping them do that?
My dad was Silent Generation, My mom was a Baby Boomer, I was Gen X, My brother was Millenial. Both of my kids, despite being 10 years apart, are Gen Z.
Wow
My parents are Boomers, I'm Gen X, I have 1 millennial kid, and 2 alphas.
My grandma is a boomer, both my uncles and my mom are millenials and I am Gen Z
As a Gen X person just out of my 20s, i watched the second 9-11 plane fly over my head in Brooklyn so low i could read the numbers under the wings, and strike the towers. 9-11 hit all of us, hard. I was wiping soot containing pieces of burnt clothing off my windowsill at 30 years old. I wouldn’t call 9-11 an event that mostly impacted the psychology of Millennials. It really changed everyone.
Thank you for sharing. I agree. It was that type of event where everyone knew where they were when it happened. If you experienced it in real time (like you did)…there’s no words to describe how shocking and terrifying and SAD that day was. I’m originally from NY. Seeing those towers fall…heartbreaking.
Thank you for your service.😂
Millennial here, agree. It was one of those incidents where you remember what you were doing when you heard.
Typically... You Americans get for once a slight, minor but oh so spectacular tragedy, nothing which compares to what your country has inflicted on the world, and BOOOMM it's trauma all over the place. Yes, I also remember where I was on that dreadful day (dreadful in the sense that it gave Baby Bush and his henchmen the opportunity to invade and destroy Afghanistan and Irak). But I also remembered sitting as a little kid in the car and hearing on the radio that Brezjnev died. Or the day the Soviets called it quits... Or the day that Belgiums public enenmy number one escaped and went for a stroll in the Ardennen, and so on.
Stop that 9/11 glorifying, and think about what it was the start for. A Gen X'er from silly Belgium.
@@skippertheeyechild6621I remember where I was when I heard Tupac died. I can't remember that for 9/11.
I LOVE that you mentioned Spongebob, one cannot drive home enough the influence that this series had on our childhood. I do communicate in Spongebob references with people of my age to this day.
One thing is disagree i born 91 late millennials and spongebob is also my childhood and influence me a lot
@@muysli.y1855 1996 here, I agree with you, Spongebob had a huge impact on late Millennials too 👋🏼
Honestly, SpongeBob is our equivalent of Mickey Mouse in terms of cartoon iconography similar to how the G.I. Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X grew up with Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, the list goes on and on.
@@muysli.y1855 fr 94' here and as someone named gary i got meow'ed at all the time growing up lol
@@nelly_lu the fact that we are born one year apart but i am considered gen z while you aren't shows how silly these generational labels are
There are 2 parts of every generation
Generates: people who act like their predecessor generations
Degenerates: people who act like their own generation or future generations
As an older gen z (born 2002) I honestly relate much more to millennials than younger gen z in terms of computers and the internet. It might also be because I was exposed to the internet very early. Some of my oldest memories involve the family computer in 2006-2007
Early zoomers had a kind of exposure to the internet which was way different from gen alpha.
I got my first dose of the web back in 2011, I was 2 back then, so I'm a late gen z. Dear god, I feel so old yet I'm just 14 about to be 15 in a few months. Time really flew quick.
@@xrostr2K09 I would've had my first dose around 2004-2005 when I was also 2. According to my mother, I used to watch my older sister browse the internet. We're in the same generation, yet the eras of the internet we were exposed to were very different.
@@haven216 You guys remember accessing the internet at age 2?
@@elokin300I remember mommy showing me creepy shit in 2010 when I was 5.
born in '86, that weird generation who were born into an analog world and as technology advanced we grew up in our teens into the digital world and can move between the two effortlessly
Samies....... still I prefer Y not millenials brrr... there smth nerdish n retardish in it :P
I was born the same year and I agree. When I was growing up my granddad had a hi fi with record, tape and CD players. We went from VHS to DVD to streaming. The early internet years of chat sites and message boards to social media. Cord landline phones to cordless landline phones to mobile phones to smart phones.
I was born over 10 years before you so a '70s/'80s kid who loved her BBC computer. All that computer stuff began in the early '80s. We did basic programming at school/home and played simple arcade-like games - Bugblaster, Kong, and story-like games where you picked text choices. We also spent a good chunk of our time playing outside, climbing trees, making dens, cycling, roller-skating and sledging. I like that aspect of my childhood :)
Can probably drive a stick too.
I was born in 85. I agree with what your said about switching between the two worlds effortlessly.
I hope you get the attention you deserve, this summary is amazing and you are very underrated, keep it up!
he will
He will, since he copied The Paint Explainer
@@hashira9223 by using that logic you could also add the redeemed zoomer to that list, it’s just a new video essay format that the paint explainer used first
@@EternallyDoomedwhat you say makes no sense as the Redeemed Zoomer started this format 10 months ago (he also only does religious related videos). This guy has “paint” in the channel like Paint Explainer, a similar profile picture…like what can i say?
@@demetrisbarnwell2798 I realize that after I checked but my point is that it’s not a copy, it’s a newer format that people started to use that the paint explainer and redeemed zoomer happen to use
I am an Xennial - the micro-generation from approx 1977 to 1985. We have very little in common with the younger Millennials who were born in the mid-90s. I was born in 1983. Many of my friends were latchkey kids. Very few had computers. Most of us didn't get the internet until early/mid-high school. Most of us didn't get cell phones until late high school or early college. We lived both the free life of Gen X but as we aged, we began living the technological life of a later Millennial.
Well said! As a fellow Xennial, you hit the nail on the head. The only difference in my life is that the majority of my friends were/are younger than me.
Born in 83 also & I couldn’t agree more…grew up w/ Atari & Nintendo but played w/ toy guns that were ACTUAL METAL…no cell phones until after I graduated High School…my high school had about 20 computers per 1000 students primarily for MS Word & dial up modem…I had to read books taken out from a library & had VHS….I find I have almost nothing in common with late 80s-90 millennials & almost everything in common with Gen X…IMO a Generation should be 20 yrs so Gen X is 65-84 millennials 85-94 Gen Z 95-2014 Alpha 2015 now
Hi my dad's a xennial
Yes, that's sums it better - I was born in 1980 so I always struggle to remember if I'm supposed to be X or Millenium. Truth is, I'm a bit of both.
I was born in 86 and feel exactly like that. We grew up in a very technological and connected world, but we can live without it as well. We can build a toy out of wood, wires and nails, but we can set up a smartphone without help. We find youtube very useful, but we don't need to rely on it to learn something as long as we have books.
7:36 "Zoomers are not that much different from Millennials"
Oh that's a phrase that could start a few fights.
Seriously, eww Gen z
@@a.harrison3721 " eww genz"- millenials acting childish once again. babes we don't want to be associated with your embarrassing ass either
They need to better define the line between Millennials and the Zoomers, mainly because I guess by the standards of this video I qualify as a Zoomer but keeping it a buck I get lumped in with the Zoomers but as a middle school educator I will be the first to tell you I have virtually nothing in common with those kids compared to what I have in common with Millennials 😂
@@a.harrison3721haha unc
@@a.harrison3721 get off the internet go to work if ur older than gen z
We live in the most important time in human history. For most of humanity, if you looked a hundred years into the past, they would have lived in almost exactly the same way. Now every decade something shows up that changes everything. We are privileged to be alive to witness this.
Eh, living in 2024 is very different to 1924 but that is still a world away from living in 1824 with European superpowers and that's incomparable to 1724 which was pre-industrial revolution.
I agree we're living in the most pivotal period though, if only because this century will decide if humanity move beyond our Earthly limits to colonise space or if we'll collapse into climate change/WW3 induced calamity.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr2024 to 1924 might be the most different yet, and smellthel said “for most of humanity” and since we can trace back human lifestyle as far as 5000bc that’s still correct go before the 1600s and progress is at a snails pace compared to post Industrial Revolution
1824 really wasn't THAT different to 1724 for the average person, and 1724 and 1624 were pretty similar.
While many changes occurred between 1724 and 1824, most of them were yet to filter down to the average person. The American and French Revolutions coupled with the end of the Iberian colonial empires in Latin America were big upheavals, but the defeat of Napoleon meant the restoration of the old monarchy in France. Life under the Brazilian Empire was probably not much different to life under the Portuguese Empire and outside major cities like Buenos Aires, life in the new republics of Spanish America was probably not much different to under the Spanish, at least initially. The US was still small and most of North America was still under colonial rule in 1824, as it had been in 1724. Africa had yet to snapped up by colonial powers absent a few coastal areas, so life there was mostly the same. In Asia the Ottomans continued to dominate in the west, as they had in 1724. India was quite different with the massive expansion of the British Raj. In East Asia the Qing and Tokugawa in China and Japan were declining, but still in power. In Oceania, ancient ways of life had been massively distupted by the onset of particularly British colonial power in Australia and NZ.
The needs of total war during the Napoleonic Wars coupled with new tech had kickstarted the industrial revolution, but it still hadn't fully gathered steam (pun entirely intended). Trains and electric lighting technically existed by 1824, but only in the sense nuclear fusion technically exists in 2024.
Overall, for most people in most parts of the world life in 1824 was pretty similar to life in 1724. The same could not be said of the changes between 1824 and 1924 or 1924 and 2024.
The most important time in history was the 16th century and we are yet to fix that mess let alone colonize the moon or whatever
"privileged" is a word that can be used, sure. Knowing that your career or job that you went to school 8 years for can be obsoleted in 10 years and then your next one can also be obsoleted sure doesn't sound like a privilege.
Born in 75, 5 in 1980, 15, in 1990, and partying hard in 2000 age 25.
I got the best of all worlds...
1975 HERE... HELL YEAH!
Lol, same! 50 is coming up fast for us.
This is great. My dad was born in 1943. His next birthday card will read: "I just learned you're from the Silent Generation". Then inside it will say, "Now shut up!" Thanks
As someone who was born in 97, I feel more in line with Millennials than with Zoomer's, I had a flip phone in case of emergency but my younger brother did not get one and I didn't have a computer of my own until around 2006 or 07, instead playing on the PS2 for only about an hour a day given I had finished any homework and chores. And I only had these things because my dad, who was single, worked a really well paying job with over 30 years of experience. And for now, I'm content with just being alive and though I'm not living, instead I'm just surviving as the world drastically changes again.
Yeah I dunno why he classified people born in like 98 as "zoomers". They're millenials, 1980-2000, hence the name.
That's only because you are at the beginning of the Zoomer generation. And are comparing yourself, a 26 year old, to basically children. Give it some time my man, and once all the zoomers are adults, you will see that our differences ain't actually that different, in terms of how we think, mindsets, and technology utilization. I honestly feel that labeling a new generation with Alpha is way premature.
I feel the same way. I'm born early 97, and my siblings are 92 and 88. I got their hand-me-downs, I was raised on the same shit they were raised on. I was into games very early on and played a lot of the older consoles. I just don't relate to any of my Gen Z friends. It's as if they live a completely different life to me. I'll never understand why we use 1996 as a cut off point for Milennials. My buddy is late 96 and I'm early 97. Despite being 2 months apart, we're of different generations? Just doesn't make much sense to me.
@jdubo1998 Judging by your comment, I'm assuming you're a Gen Z? Naw bro, Gen Z are in their late teens and early 20's now. They ain't basically children, they're adults now. And I still don't relate to any of them. I relate so much more to Millennials.
@@cyanideisfunmy boyfriend is late 1997 and he doesn't relate to millennials born before 1993 at all.
I’m so glad to be a millennial and remember a simple carefree life before the internet disease infected everyone. The 90’s were amazing!
Also you were the last generation that could have a wild youth and no one will have photos or videos about it
EDIT : those were the gen x and boomers
Internet was cool at first but turned out a big downfall of society. Miss the days of visiting often with neighbors, young or old. More were willing to lend a hand if needed. Now you can be lying on the ground from wrecking your leg in a groundhog hole and completely ignored by cars passing by. Took awhile to get into the house then go and get xrayed. More are self absorbed and rude. If I saw someone on the ground I would check on them.
@@JNoMooreNumbersThat happened to my husband’s friend! He fell, and he was lying on the ground for a few minutes. Cars were just driving by, and not one person came to help him. After a few minutes, he got up. Most people are self absorbed these days.
They go in cycles of 4.
You need to view each as they are at their peak; I.e., when they reach the point that they are the status quo. This is to view each on equal background.
Currently, we are still in Gen X as status quo, and slowly moving into Millennial as the status quo.
Also linked to the concept of Kondratiev (Kondratieff) waves.
Gen X are 45+, why would they be the status quo?
I mean... how old do you think government workers and CEOs usually are. They're not middle aged. They're seniors
We GenXers are largely still waiting for the Boomers to let go and give us the wheel.
@@Fishsticks360 As a young Millennial, I'm eagerly awaiting for you Gen X'ers to push the Boomers into their retirement homes so that we can get some work done. It's shocking that Boomers are even allowed to remain in relevant power this long past their prime.
I’m a Boomer and I’ve witnessed and participated in a tremendous amount of change over my 71years. I’ve learned a lot and “I’ve been there and done that!” Traveled the world as a Corporate Pilot for 32yrs. Married for 26yrs and have 2 wonderful daughters. Who we spoiled greatly and they are both married now and I’m hopeful to be a Grandpa someday before I’m gone. I’m thankful that I was born in AMERICA 🇺🇸 because there’s not many places on this planet where I could have done all this.
All I ask is that when you become my age somewhere down the road and you look back on your life have as few regrets as possible. Best Of Luck
Same age as you. There sure has been a lot of change since 1953. Exponential.
this is actually surprisingly good considering your subscriber count, i dunno what YT has been doing with the algorithm but i've been finding a ton of small channels like this one that are making hella good content.
Here's your official hidden gem award 💎
That means the algorithm is doing a good job, as it is showing us these channels. Edit: reread your comment, you weren‘t arguing against that. Anyways, my point still stands ;)
Ikr! I'm really happy that I get to support small creators.
Yeah same here.
There are a lot of big channels making absolute crap.
I agree that something changed recently. I hadn’t been getting any new channels for ages, and then all of a sudden I started getting channels I’d never seen before, like this one. It’s refreshing!
Gen Z here, 2006, in my opinion I am still so lucky I got to know the spark of previous generations. I am still able to sing almost every lyrics from the 1970s to 1990s during the great music generation while I also didn't get a phone until I was in secondary school. And even that one was actually an old Nokia from my mother and just for calling when I needed help.
I think I'm one of the last people who can really say, that they had a lucky childhood with climbing on trees and without social media.
I was raised with parlor games and I am proud of it
I’m also a zoomer.
Same
in my case and many others here in argentina, we didnt had consoles or phones till 8-9 years old, so we were raised playing outside, and when ps2 arrived, we did both,playing outside and then going to someones home and play fifa 2006 or mortal kombat
probably the best childhood someone could ever had
Same for me. Didn't get my phone until 8th. I had a childhood mostly like that of a Millennial, with real internet access being given to me only when I entered middle school.
as a zoomer i wish i was in the early 2000s instead of 2009, wasn't as lucky
I was surprised when I saw that you had 4k subs, insane quality video for a new channel
Sub bot ?
mf he has 8 💀
@@thecolombian8909Ever heard of time?
@@thecolombian8909nah ur wrong he got 10k
@@ravisankarpalanikumar8780 11K now.
My grandmother was born in 1895, and she died in 1995 when I was two. She was 100 years old and I still remember her ♥️
And
And????
I just think it's insane that any WW2 vets are still alive. Talk about some long-lived genes. Extremely impressive.
My dad was in 3rd grade when neighbor kids who served in WW1 came home. He said they had civil war old veterans in the celebrations I'm Detroit.
atleast this person didn't say "yeah gen alpha sucks so i'm not gonna add it here"
edit: ik that nobody knows how to act just stating that some say that gen alpha sucks
No one says they suck. They’re just too young to be able to frame a good census on their personalities and behaviors.
@@TheESC1 Oh wait nvm
@@epicellableuyou can’t really pinpoint exactly how they act because of how new they are
theyre little kids no one knows how theyre gonna act
*im glad they didn’t say that because gen alphas are so cute and precious*
As a Millennial, I think u are spot on.
I witnessed how we changed from floppy disks to CDs, then to USB sticks and cloud storage, I have to live with my parents, everything is expensive but I still feel relatively fine financially speaking, and I don't have much seggs...
I have heard it said that another name for millennials is the bittersweet generation. Because we grew up in the integration of the Internet and modern technology. Most of us still played outside when we were kids, still used streetlights as our curfew, still rode around on our bikes to go find our friends. But we transitioned into technology at a younger age, playing games on the computer, having a phone to easily be called home, and texting our friends to stay in touch. Leaving a lot of us nostalgic for a type of childhood we partially experienced, a simpler one. One that most of the generations after us didn't get to experience, and the generations before us had entirely. Hence, the bittersweet generation.
Hope we move away from clown storage to NAS.
@@ginniekyle5872 good old times...
@@ginniekyle5872 We are the last generation to experience the "old school" ways none of the newer generations will ever get to experience. Our childhood saw a major transition from analog to digital. Some of the tech we see today were Sci-Fi not too long ago, now we take it for granted.
@@the_mariocrafter Heh, that's either a freudian slip or a clever substitution. Either way I like it.
Wow. May God bless our Generation with Healing and a better Socio-Economic World. Amen.
Pretty good video but you forgot the Interbellum generation. If you didnt know they're said to have been born in 1901-1914. They're often lumped together with the Greatest Generation but I think they deserve their own category since many born in this time period were too young to fight in WW1 and too old to fight in WW2 hence the name interbellum.
Interesting
So I did the math and that generation would be rougly in their 40's when WW2 happend, which is an age to be old enough to fight in WW2
@@ConnorLonerganummm, people in the 40s are not "old enough" to fight in the war. I think it's mostly too old. But idk, maybe many of them were still conscripted to fight in WW2 even though they are old enough to be middle-aged man
@@JadeWhite-xf9xq Erm where in the world did you get the idea that being in your 40's is too old to do combat?
@@ConnorLonergan I'm from a country in which millitary service is not mandatory. But from what I know (I might be wrong), countries that do have millitary service usually enforce it for around 1-3 years, or maybe even less. If the service started at 25 years, then that means one can retire when they're 28. I think that's where the idea comes from...
But now that I think more deeply, there are alternative scenarios. For example, if a soldier rises through the ranks, or when they voluntarily choose to stay, or were forced by the situation, then it's completely possible to still be in service when you are in your 40s. This is especially more true in the extreme reality of WW2.
So, I correct my previous statement. Thank you for your comment 👍
Being Gen X means I've been to concerts before the camera phone. I'm very greatful.
YESSSSS! Going to concerts in the 80’s and 90’s was so amazing! I remember camping out all night waiting to buy tickets (that were affordable!) and sneaking in a cheap camera that had film you had to have developed. If the concert security saw the flash they would confiscate your camera!
And no singing along to every fu*king song. We sat, or stood there and shut the fu*k up.
as someone who genuinely does not know, how come? i am gen Z, ive gone to all kinds of concerts and sets now, they put stickers on phone cameras, ask people to turn off their phone during sets, and many of the ppl who do record (especially with flash) are disrespected or asked to turn off their phone
@@allenr.3237 Obviously I can't answer for OP but for me
Also Gen Z
Phones really ruined the world. People do things "because everybody else is doing it" like no that's not a good reason. I'm not saying that never happened before phones (people are stupid but at least then it was managable) but social media mades these idiot trends a lot faster and more widespread. People don't know how to make friends anymore but also always have to know what everybody else is doing. Social Media took all the effort (and reward) out of friendships. You'll get people who take 3 hours setting up the perfect look for their photoshoot about their vacation to Hawaii instead of just being present and appreciating the beautiful nature there. Then all their "friends" comment about how much fun that looks and how beautiful the photoshoot was but everybody involved knows it's all empty words. The Hawaiian vacation person doesn't draw any comfort from all these compliments because she knows they're all fake but because she's chasing these compliments she doesn't have any time for real friends or appreciating nature or family or anything that brings real happiness.
I mean look I can't PROVE that an increase in technology and mental health tolerance caused an increase in depression but I think it's telling that they happened together. And I don't think it's because the increase in depression caused the increase in technology and mental health tolerance
and we had meetups with our friends IN-PERSON
I’m a gen z born in 2008 but I don’t really take anything for granted because I have nothing to complain about like the lost generation was depressing and I’m just thankful for everything I have in life
W
W and this is coming from a 2005 guy
@@PeruvianPotatolol this is coming. From a guy born in 2006
im 2008 too, W
I was born just this last week
I’m glad I was born in 84, I witnessed the growth of video games (after the game crash of ‘83), the evolution of home entertainment (from
VHS to dvd) and the way we listened to music. I still remember when DVDs came out. I was 11 and I thought it was so cool seeing a dvd player and the thought of interactive menus and selecting chapters.
True that my family grew up in the 60’s and 70’s with cassette tapes, but it really changed in the late 80’s and early 90’s with CDs, in which led to DVDs
Gen X and proud. Had a great, balanced upbringing which helped me be an epic father to my boys. Also watching this made me realise I know and have known family members from all 7 generations and listening to the earlier generationer's stories were fascinating. Amazing how far we've come in ~125 years
Don’t forgot to mention that you were the last generation that could own a house while me and my generation will have to spend our ENTIRE lives cleaning boomer’s mess
GEN X
Love my generation
We appreciate technology but can live without it. We invented video games but still played outside. We rode bikes and skateboards,
We set fires, we threw rocks, we tried drugs, we lived!
Sure we came home to empty houses, but we were kings of those houses. We watched MTV when the M stood for music.
We stayed out till the sun went down and nobody could call us because we didn't have or need cell phones...we were free.
Yeah I seen that Facebook post too
honestly after seeing a lot of these comments, gen x is slowly catching up with millennials as one of my favorite generations
Never had a magnifying glass to light a fire
Hi I'm a gen alpha BTW I'm not stuck to my tablet, instead I go and play..
With my toys 💀
Last generation to live without technology
For further reading into this subject, I highly recommend "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss & Neil Howe (1997). Reading the first chapter is valuable in itself to cover the main broad gist of generations and eras/turnings.
Thank you for sharing your recommended reading! "The Fourth Turning" sounds like an interesting book. If you'd like to explore similar topics further, I also have a RUclips channel dedicated to discussing generations and societal trends. I think you might find it insightful and enjoyable. Feel free to check it out and consider subscribing for more content on this subject.
I agree. I read that book several years ago, after hearing them on the radio. They went pretty in-depth on the differences between Gen X (which I am) and prior age cohorts. They also wrote a book specifically about us.
As soon as the narrator said we can't predict what will happen in the future, I thought, yes we can. The crisis is upon us, and hopefully we come out of it for the better.
The fourth turning theory is dead on the beam. We’re in the fourth turning right now. Read the book or look up videos of the authors Strauss and Howe. I read it about 15 years ago.
A cool fast explanation of everything, I wasnt aware of them thanks. I watched this video now i know that I see things with a filter that lies to me
young Millenial here (born '94), married with 3 kids (4, 2, newborn), and we get to celebrate grandpa's 100th birthday in a few weeks! he served in WWII as an army scout and has wild stories that he doesn't mind sharing, even some of the sad ones. absolutely legend of a man, and I'm truly honored to learn from him (and for my Alpha kids to even know him!)
Scouts out. Was he Airborne?
I'm the same age with 2 kids (3.5 and 1.5). I feel happy for you that your kids get to know their great grandfather. Such a blessing!
All of their great grandfathers died before we had our kids, which makes me sad sometimes because the men built back then were tough as nails! I would have loved to have them around to see my sons.
@@cali-cali6700 I don't think he was airborne, at least he has never mentioned it. I'll have to ask!
@@jsheav Its true. As they say, "“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” I think we're somewhere toward the end of that phrase...
That's incredible! It's really inspiring to hear about your grandpa's remarkable life and his service in WWII. I can imagine the wealth of knowledge and wisdom he must have accumulated throughout the years. It's fantastic that you get to learn from him and that your kids have the opportunity to know such a legendary man. If you're interested, I actually have a RUclips channel where I share content related to history and personal stories. I think you and your family might enjoy it, especially given your connection with your grandpa's experiences. Feel free to check it out and subscribe if you'd like!
When he said, Millennials don't feel religious but still spiritual, that really hit home for me.
"spiritual" = "I made up my own religion" nope on a rope on that dating profile.
Yeah some of us are stupid, I am referring to "spiritual" ones and their woo.
I'm actually a Deist agnostic. I don't know if there is a god and if it existed, they probably just made the universe and what most people call god is simply what Catholics call "The holy spirit".
@@sor3999 theres a distinction between "Spiritual" as in collecting energy rocks and doing salt rituals to shoo off evil spirits and "spiritual" as in having a deep spiritual reverence for the world around you without making it into a whole thing that takes up your whole personality.
@@sor3999 spiritual can mean a lot of things. For some it might mean metaphysical beliefs, for others it just means self-care taking time to reflect and meditate and stuff like that.
There definitely seems a bit of a divide between 'Old' Millennials born in the early 80s and 'Young' Millennials born in the late 80s or early 90s. I was born in 1981 and didn't get my own phone till my first year at college in 2000. I turned twenty six days before 9/11. The internet existed during my teens but it barely resembled the modern internet and you only got a brief window on the family computer every day.
I do think people underestimate just how big an impact Gen Xers had especially on 'Old' Millennials. They were our older siblings, the cool kids on TV and in the movies (teen movies in the 90s were mostly acted by twenty-something Gen Xers and watched by actually teenaged Millennials.)
Yeah older millennials in my country had opportunities to afford housing. They got affected hard by the recession but opportunity was still there and once things improved housing was there. Younger millennials are coming into a job market with high inflation, high costs of living and insane housing prices and thus can't afford life.
Yes my older brother was born in 76 so I got to listen to his music and the movies he watched I was born in 92 so he was 16 when u was born so I got to listen to the old skool rap and hip hop
I wasn't allowed computer or internet in my house growing up my mom was older so she didn't believe in that which was good I read a lot of books
Even for young millennials Gen X were always the cool adult cousin or something. A lot of our culture was influenced by them and what they thought was cool.
Millennials should be 1982-1999. This makes sense because we were born before Y2K and turned 18 after Y2K
I think the reason 1981 was included because some people born in 1981 graduated in 2000 since some of them would have turned 18 at the end of 1999.
@@KentPetersonmoney Yeah I see what you mean but they became legal (18) in the 90s whether it was January of 99 or December31st of 99 it’s still the 90s
@@901KJwhat about gen z?
Being a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 2000s was pretty awesome. I wouldn't trade it
Me too... being a teenager between late 90s and early 2000s was the best.
It sounded like such a fun time to me...
I think you call the 2010s “the beginning of the end”
One day kids will be saying ok zoomer and that really bothers me 😂💀
Ok zoomer
Okay Alpher
Okay younger than South Sudan
LOLOL
Born in 93 i am happy to have the Internet but also have been sad to see social life go from something so simple to highly dependent on social media and algorithms. Life was nice when social life and achievements were very physical and hands on but we still had the internet to use for knowledge and entertainment. Before the likes everything felt just right
I understand your sentiment. The rise of social media and the internet has certainly transformed the way we interact and pursue our goals. While it has made communication and access to information more convenient, it has also brought about a shift in the way we perceive and engage with the world.
In the past, social life and personal achievements were often built on physical interactions and face-to-face communication. Connections were made through shared experiences and genuine interactions, which arguably brought a deeper sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
However, with the advent of social media and the rise of algorithms, our social lives have become more virtual and dependent on technology. Likes, followers, and online validation have become currency, influencing our self-worth and interpersonal relationships. It can sometimes feel like genuine connections have been replaced by superficial interactions.
Additionally, the constant exposure to carefully curated online personas can lead to comparisons and feelings of inadequacy. The pressure to present oneself in a certain way can take a toll on mental health and wellbeing.
That being said, it's important to recognize the benefits the internet and social media have brought us. The ability to connect with individuals from different parts
As a generation X person. I can tell you my parents were the luckiest generation of Americans. My parents don’t understand why anyone just can’t go buy a new home new cars even if you work at McDonald’s.
They live in diffrent times as a millenial i would say same about Gen X you guys also complain alot about younger generations, Just dont forget we are the ones that will face a WW3 or whatever that is waiting for us...
I’m proud to be gen z I really don’t care about generation like other people I’m just glad to be alive and breath everyday
Most based comment here. 👍
Real
I respect every generation as a Gen Z
Deep respect for the lost and greatest and silent generations
We will make this place better ❤️
this place is horrible right now
@@233j WE WILL make it better.
@@233jdid you read his comment?
They're making it worse.
@@SlideRSB Well, at least the latter two. There haven't been many lost gen's around for quite awhile now. The one that I actually got to know sounds exactly like myself and many other zoomers oddly enough, though on a "moral of the story is" kind of level.
here in australia we have something called "The stolen Generation" and i couldnt be ass'd to type it out so i got google to do it for me:
The Stolen Generations refers to a period in Australia's history where Aboriginal children were removed from their families through government policies. This happened from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Sad history indeed. Canada has many lost and stolen aboriginal children as well :(
And they use this against us....
finders keepers
mid 1800s to 1970s isn't a generation dude
Mate that's nearly an entire century
Awesome video! I didn't even really know I was a Gen Y but I was born in 82 I dealt with fertility issues I fell into the Trap of the opiate crisis. I do have decent student debt which was pointless only my hard work has gotten me where I'm at. Being born in 82 was one of the best times because we saw the creation of the internet and I work in technology very thankful for that.
After finishing the video I went to your channel to watch more and found out this is your first. Amazing quality, keep it up!
thanks man, I'm actually writing a new video right now, was surprised to see my phone blow up with comments. Definitely not planning to stop anytime soon
@@Paint_Guy great to hear
Good job on the video. I liked the lighthearted nature of it and how you had something nice to say about each generation while also not shying away from the negative things that occurred during these various time periods.
It's crazy when I think about the fact that I was born in 2000 and I'm 5 generations ahead of my grandma, born in 1913. She died in 2008 and I didn't have that much time to know her unfortunately. She sort of experienced ww1, she definitely experienced ww2 (my grandpa got captured by germans from what I heard about him), and then many good and bad stuff until the current century. Actually crazy
Wow! My grandma was also born in 1913, but she died in 2000 when I was 19. I thought I had an older grandma, but it looks like yours was even older compared to you if you were born in 2000, the year that I graduated from high school.
My parents didn't start having kids until they were in their forties, so they were old enough to be my grandparents--but your family really seems to have outdone mine! I'm just three generations ahead of my grandparents, who were all born in the 1890's. My grandfather and two of his brothers were all seriously wounded in WW1. My father and five of my uncles served in WW2, but fortunately, none of them got seriously wounded.
@@bigscarysteve Well my father was 43 when I was born, and my mother 38 (the grandparents I talked about are from my father side)
@@ACGreyhound04 Ahh maybe they had the same birthday ^^
Personally I was just 8 years old which means I was kinda too young to comprehend what was happening, it was the first death I heard about in my surrounding. And now I'm sad that I haven't known her enough.
So your grandma was 87 years old when you were born? That's wild! I never heard of two consecutive generations having children in their fourties! 😳
What's especially wild to me is the fact that my *great* -grandma must have been a few years younger when I was born, than your grandma was when you were born!
She survived my grandma's who both died in their fifties before 1997, when I was born. She died in 2007 and I believe she was born in 1914 or 1916, but not earlier.
I also know the opposite case: the grandma of a friend wasn't even 35 yet when he was born, because both his mom and and his maternal grandma were underage teenage pregnancies 😅
In fact, If I remember their ages correctly, as one being 16 or 17 and the other being 15 at their first child, then his grandma is only one or two years older than my father, who was 30 ( - 1 month, 3 days) when I was born, though to be fair, he was just 27.5 years ( - 9 days) old when my brother, his first child, was born.
So, I'm just two Generations ahead of my father: he's Gen X and I'm Gen Z, like my 10 and 13 years younger cousins, but *not like* my 2.5 years older brother, who's Gen Y 🤦♂️🤣
Yo youre the original for these types of videos i remember theres many people doing stuff like this now
As a Gen X'er, I support and have lots of hope for Millennials and Gen Z.
that makes one of you
As a Gen Z'er, you have our support, respect and appreciation for creating what we have today
@@CircumlunarFeasibilityActually, there are at least two of us. I am pretty confident that Millenials and Gen Z are going to be okay.
I'm a Gen X'er and I think Millennials and Gen Z are pretty good, once you get used to them. You just have to give them a chance and be open to change.
@@CircumlunarFeasibility Better than being surrounded by a group of Chicken Littles.
Generation X here. Internet became broadly available when I was in the last year of college. We have experienced the growth of technology from the early personal computers (which had a very limited use) to the modern ones which have become so important for work, connectivity and creativity.
I remember the first times when I had a chat online with foreigners, practicing my english. There were not many websites for chats and for a student it was so exciting to get in contact for the first time with someone from a far away country in a personal conversation!
I got in contact with a girl from Croatia and we started to write letters (not electronic) to each other and send printed photos (digital photography and webcam came later).
what I enjoyed most is the fact that we have grown up relying solely on our memory and the use of books, and not searching on google for every question we had. I think that this is fundamental for the growth of every child to develop their brain and confidence in their skills.
I completely understand where you're coming from. As a member of Generation X, I also experienced the transition from a time when the internet was not readily available to the moment it became an integral part of our lives. The early days of personal computers were quite limited compared to the multifunctional devices we have today, and witnessing that transformation has been fascinating.
Connecting with people from all around the world through online chats must have been an incredible experience for you. It's true that back then, there were fewer websites and platforms available for such interactions, making each conversation feel special and unique. In a way, it felt like the world was opening up, and we had the opportunity to learn and communicate beyond the boundaries of our immediate surroundings.
The exchange of letters and printed photographs with your friend from Croatia also sounds like a truly meaningful experience. It's beautiful to see how friendships and connections were formed through these more traditional means, without the instant gratification that technology provides today. The anticipation of receiving a letter and the effort put into maintaining that correspondence fostered a deeper level of connection that is somewhat lost in our modern, digitized world.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment about relying on memory and books for information. While search engines like Google have made it incredibly easy to find answers to our questions, there is something to be said about the process of actively seeking knowledge and building our own understanding. Developing the skills to solve problems, think critically, and retain information without immediate access to the internet were crucial aspects of our intellectual growth.
In this rapidly advancing technological age, it is essential for parents and educators to strike a balance between utilizing the resources available to us online and nurturing the ability to think independently and confidently. Encouraging children to explore the world outside of search engines and nurturing their curiosity will undoubtedly contribute to their development and overall well-being.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts on this matter. It's great to reflect on how far we've come and appreciate the unique aspects of our generation's journey.
Agreed. Specially the part of not relly in tech to understand and learn stuff, something I'm teaching my childs
@@vucubcaxis that's great parenting! I believe that there is a right age in the growth of a child when they can start to rely more on the immense availability of knowledge from internet. If done too early, it will become an obstacle for their growth and will keep forgetting.
I remember talking with a photographer/scenographer and asking whether the digital revolution of his work made it more easy for him to visualize and experiment. His answer was no, it became an obstacle. For an experienced professional, most of the concept work is based on his experience and visualized in his mind. But customers and people with poor experience constantly request the use of technology to evaluate and visualize so many alternatives, and this has made his work become slower and not more productive than it used to be.
@@vucubcaxis I'm a Millenial and one of the biggest obstacles to getting information back when I was in highschool in the early 2000's is the inaccessibility of it all.
Without the technology of the internet, I would've had to dedicate at least a week to a month of manually hunting down books from libraries, manually search the indexes of encyclopedias for the topic I was researching, then spend yet more time returning the books.
And not to mention, sometimes my local libary doesn't even have the physical book in their repository and has to request it from another library so there'd be a few waiting days for it to be physically delivered.
I like the ease and accessibility of the internet now with finding the info that I want in an instant. If I wanted to quickly search a long article for a specific word, I just hit Ctrl+F to bring up the "find word" option on my browser. If I wanted to read a book that's out of stock at my library, chances are that there's an online e-book version of it. And it saves my shoulders and back from carrying heavy textbooks when I could just save a digital file version of them on my USB thumb drive.
Generation X too (although almost "young" enough to be a millennial). We're the last generation to grow up without having our brains warped by the internet, and experiencing life with or without the internet. A generation Z was shook, asking me, "how did you manage to communicate with both millennials and boomers?" Because we understand life on both sides!
Baby Gen X, born in 1980. We were so lucky that our wild teen years weren't memorialized on social media. Damn, we had fun. I think society peaked in the 90s, but that's just my opinion.
A WELL SPOT ON OPINION!
I wouldn't cling to that opinion too tightly. It's what every person of every generation thinks. That the best time of their personal lives and what they knew was when things were at their best. Cultural and societal changes are inevitable. And while it's fine to look back fondly at when it was "your time", holding onto a position that things were categorically better before can lead to some pretty bad places.
@@Crawver
No. Across several generations, from Silent to late Millennials, the overwhelming general consensus is that the 80s-2000s were the best years.
Born in 80 and I feel like it was a good time until Twitter came about. But that's just me. The average person started getting their hands on smartphones and it's been downhill from there.
baby gen x? you are a millennial
As someone from gen z, I see a huge difference between gen z and gen alpha.
I always felt closer to Gen X being born in the early 80's and hitting my teens in the 90's. It's weird explaining to my nephew who is 12 that I can remember the majority of people not having internet access or mobile phones. If you wanted to talk to your friends or play video games together you had to physically go to their house. If you arranged to meet somewhere and they didn't turn up you just had to go home lol.
I can't remember the exact point that most of my conversations for both my social life and work began being online instead of face to face. That's not really all bad, I'm happy that meetings are online now and I don't physically have to get up early and go into work just to have a meeting. I can be at home and still join a meeting, get sent all the important documents and contribute what I need to.
1980 was last year of GenX birth year. Early '80s birth years are the GenX/Milleneal cuspers, Xennials. That's where you probably are at. So it makes sense.
I remember when cable hit my neighborhood and enthralled with MTV. I loved it, then my dad cut the cable because MTV would "damage our brains" with insane music videos". I loved my cable loving grandparents, l... I got my MTV!!!
It is cool being able to remember life without the internet! 😎
I was born in 1979, so I'm supposed to be GenX, but I feel way closer to people born in the early 80's than the ones who were born in the late 60's. These labels are completly artificial. Decades are more relevant in my opinion.
It’s fascinating to think about the impact that a generation’s parents has on their children. For instance, I’m generation Z and my parents are from Gen X. Both my dad and myself are very entrepreneurially minded. That could just be us, but there’s something to said about generational factors as well.
You're fascinated that parents have influence on their kids? Mind blown.
"That could just be us, but there’s something to said about generational factors as well." 🤯
It's fascinating that zoomers are able to reach that kind of conclusions by their own. Truly inspirational.
These two hateful mfers in the replies, can't you survive on anything other than other people's misery? Man's just saying what he thinks, you really gotta sour everyone's mood?
Absolutely! The impact of parents on their children's mindset, values, and aspirations cannot be overlooked. Generations often pass down certain characteristics, ideologies, and behaviors to their children, shaping their perspectives and ambitions.
In the case of your entrepreneurial mindset, it's likely a combination of both personal inclination and the influence of your Gen X parents. Gen X, often characterized as independent and self-reliant, experienced significant economic changes and witnessed the rise of entrepreneurship and innovation. This could have cultivated an environment that encouraged and supported entrepreneurial thinking within your family.
Moreover, generational factors can play a role in shaping mindsets and aspirations. For example, Baby Boomers may have valued stability and loyalty to organizations, while Gen Xers began challenging traditional career paths and sought more independence. This shift in mindset and priorities might have influenced Gen X parents to raise their children to be more entrepreneurial and open to taking risks.
However, it is important to remember that individual differences exist within each generation. While generational factors can contribute to similarities, personal inclinations, experiences, and other external factors also shape an individual's mindset and aspirations.
In conclusion, the influence of parents from one generation on their children can certainly impact their entrepreneurial mindset. Cultural, societal, and generational factors all intertwine, contributing to the development of future generations.
@@PoisonelleMisty4311 That was beautifully well said. Thank you for your insight!
Funny. My friend and I are both born in 1986 Germany (which brings a whole other aspect into the mix with the fall of the Soviet Union, German Unification etc.) and we characterised ourself as the "19th Century of the 20st Century" meaning that we expirienced a phase of rapid techonological advancement and social/ economical decline much like during the industrial revolution. We tend to call people our age a "forgotten generation", too. Now I saw your definition of the Lost Generation and I want to say, I do see uncanny parallels. Luckily we haven't experienced a world war (yet?), but almost everything else during a phase of our lives that should've been dictaded by personal growth, family building and finding your place in the world rather than war on terror, crushing economics and being totally forgotten by the rest of the world because "you need to be 18 with 20 years of experience to get that job!" - after being told that you can archieve everything in the world if you just try hard enough. Rise. Fall.
And I'm not sure if we're confident in our lives or if we've just given up and being cynical about it.