Generations, Explained
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- Mr. Beat explains what generations are, why generations are a thing, and what the big characteristics are of every generation.
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#generation #generationalpha #genz
A generation is all the humans born AROUND the same time AND who experienced pretty much the same culture growing up. Specifically, we are talking about SOCIAL generations. That’s the generations most typically bring up today. There’s also the more traditional FAMILIAL generations, or a group of humans all on one level of a family tree. Nah man, in this video, we’re focusing on social generations.
0:00 Introduction
3:25 What are generations?
7:05 Why are generations?
15:50 The Lost Generation
18:14 The Greatest Generation
21:11 The Silent Generation
24:38 Baby Boomers
28:29 Generation X
32:11 Millennials
35:43 Zoomers
39:09 Generation Alpha
41:37 Micro-generations
Correction:
32:51 Here I mispronounced "Xennial." I am sorry about that.
Which stereotypes do you associate with all the generations?
Me and my brother are both Gen Z, and we’re always constantly on our phone and computers.
That we are the wiser, the productive and the advance of all gens.
Good video watched it on 5x speed
My generation good. Other generations bad. Old people dumb. Young people dumb. Me smart.
Gen Xer’s grew up believing we were gonna be nuked to smithereens, and helplessly watching our friends die from AIDS.
2:22 That one girl saying Gen Alpha can’t read, and then immediately switching to the Gen Alpha kid saying the longest word in the Oxford dictionary is pure gold
Mission accomplished
tbh, its only well off neurotypicals who cant read. generation doesnt matter
I definitely laughed too.
Older Gen Alpha can still read. I have heard nightmare scenarios from elementary teachers though.
@@ghintz2156 as a teacher, I can tell you these nightmares have been told for quite a few generations already
@@jurgnobs1308 well that makes me hopeful. I've only taught secondary and undergrads.
All generations think they’re smarter than the previous and wiser than the next.
But i am smarter, better, and stronger than all of gen alpha
/j
True, in my case. I'm a genius.
@@Delivery_Boy_Roy truer words have never been spoken. I would know as I'm a millennial, which makes me smart and wise.
It is hilarious how throughout written human history, every generation complains about the next one. It's a staple of being human lol
Nope. My folks were smarter than me. I think millennials although they are younger. And all these stereotypes are incorrect. 40% of seniors live on 40k or less..many rent. Millennials I know are not glued to their phones and Mr. Beat is actually wrong about something about these groups. These terms were devised by Newsweek, LAWeekly and Bam and other periodicals, a now defunct throwaway term. The age ranges tended to change depending on the years or the throwaway newspapers.
Gen X: (hand wave) "We aren't the generation you're looking for. Move along."
We grew up feral and it was awesome.
or get some free dental work
@@uprebel5150playing outside doesn’t make you feral.
@@uprebel5150no, we grew up free
Playing outside, with no supervision, a feral kid does make.
@@hirsch4155
Holding up the tail-end of GenX at 1979 I have to say that I don't think I'm better or worse than any other generation but I do genuinely love being born when I was born. I say this because I honestly feel like a time traveler and am endlessly fascinated with the "future" I now live in. This has to do with the transition I and those in my age range got to witness. If you really think about it, we were the very last to have a childhood/teenage years that had more in common with our grandparents than those born as little as 5 years after us and we were the very first / youngest to enter our adulthood just as the internet boom was really taking off. I really can't explain just how quickly this shift happened. It was so sudden that in college, my first 2 years of industrial design education was mid-century based hands-on marker rendering model building techniques and my last 2 years were all computer based. Certainly, pop culture, styles, tastes, social norms and technologies did advance between the 1920s and 1990s, but in that 70-year span we still functioned through life using the same techniques with only incremental advancements, most notably satellites and microchips. In the early 20th century as with the early 90s, we shopped at stores, malls and via mail-order (later phone) catalogs. If we wanted to learn something we went to a library, bought text books or got information from encyclopedias. News was still centralized to network stations, newspapers and other periodicals. Automobiles worked relatively the same way. Film photography worked relatively the same. We used film projectors in my elementary school classroom. If you wanted to book a flight or a travel of any kind, you went to a counter, used a travel agency or a land-line phone. If you needed to find your way somewhere, you used a paper map. We used pay-phones to get in contact with each other and set up meeting points/times at public places like amusement parks. If your friend didn't answer their land line, that was the end of it. There was no easy way to settle arguments about who sang what song what the actual lyrics were and what year it came out.
Our older GenX siblings were definitely cooler than us and more "with it" socially/artistically but we digested all that and took to computers and tech with less mental hurdles (mostly because we probably did a little less drugs for better or worse). I don't think times were better during my childhood, just sharply different from the world we know today. We still do the same paradoxical stupid things but the way we do it is different. So I'm thankful to have known both worlds because it means I take what I'm doing now a little less for granted. End Rant.
Agreed! 😊
Born ‘72 and feel much the same. At some point in the late 80s, I realized I’d spend most of my life in the 21st century. Part of me will always feel awe at that.
And yeah, you’re closer to my younger sister’s age. As older Xers we got more “value neutral” messages about sex and drugs. (“Here’s the facts. Now you decide.” Well, sometimes we decided poorly.) Younger Xers got more DARE and abstinence-only messaging, as that approach was taking off.
@@catsmom129 Oddly I think DARE did work albeit some of it via fear tactics and half-truths but not all of it was off. Ah the Reagan years. The "do as I say now, not as I did then" years. What a generational "about face" that was eh?
It's interesting now to know what "the future" actually is vs. what the entertainment industry told us it might be. Maybe not as bad as the dystopian ideas but certainly not as good as the optimists predicted. In a lot of ways we're full circle but with a lot more ability to spin each other out via all matters of over-stimulation.
I was born in early 1959 so I suppose I'm considered a "Boomer." Thank you for taking the time and effort to clarify your true feelings on this matter. I genuinely appreciate your detailed comment.
I was born in 61, and I feel the same way about when I was born, and my mom, who was born in 33 feels that way too. I think the best part about growing older is all the history that we get to witness, and the innovations along the way.
the fact that "homeowner" was seen as a "boomer trait" is so MF sad lmaooo
yep…
And scary when you think about it
Indeed :/
Thats how the system is set up!
The landchad generation
Gen X were able to experience the 70s, 80s, & 90s culture all wrapped in one as kids, teens, and young adults. Some of the best years to come of age in my opinion.
Yes! I agree.
I'm a Xennial *1981& agree 100%. I didn't personally experience the 70s, but it feels like I know it because so many of my peers did & my mother was a teenager then & constantly shared her life in such detail. All of my older cousins were 70's kids, too. It's so weird that I never realized how connected I am to a time period I never knew.
Yes it was great because all the dumb stuff we did there is no evidence
Word to your mother.
I was born in '69, and witnessed those 3 decades (my memories kick in c. '71-72). It was such a privilege to see the events and changes that occurred in my first 30 years.
My great grandma (who died in January at the age of 108 (she would have been 109 in September)) had a lot of the traits of the greatest generation. I was very fortunate to spend lots of time with her over the years. I often talked about her youth and her personal experiences. She also wrote a lot of her stories down for her granddaughter (who had a genealogy school project at the time).
My Great Grandma grew up in a house with lots of people in it (ranging from 5-10 people). The house also had one bathroom. She remembered when there weren’t as many planes in the sky. When she started paying attention to more things, Coolidge was President. The family had two versions of the landline phone in their house. She remembered gathering around the piano and/or radio for entertainment.
She was also very close to her grandmother (who was born in 1849).
Baby boomers are early and late. Early baby boomers, faced Vietnam, but graduated into free or nearly free state universities. The economy was booming, interest rates were low. Those born after 1955, graduated into a shrinking economy, high unemployment, and high interest rates, and something called stagflation. State universities began raising tuition and fees. The digital calculator replaced the slide rule. The “personal” computer debuted, and all of them who got a bachelors of science degree had to take a class in computer programming.
@@randallthomas5207 I’m a late Boomer, we did not have computer classes in school. They didn’t come into schools here until a few years after I graduated. We had digital calculators, but were discouraged to use them except in certain cases. They wanted us to learn math by the traditional method.
Correct , there is a cohort of late boomers known as Generation Jones 1954-1964. More cynical than early boomers but less than Gen X.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 Did you study for a Bachelors in Science? Most colleges were requiring a computer language by the mid to late seventies. Business, Finances, Econ and most humanities were pushed towards COBOL, and most of what are now referred to STEM degrees towards FORTRAN.
@@randallthomas5207 We weren’t pushed towards anything computer related in the 70s Midwest. The first time I ever saw a computer wasn’t until around 1979-80 when someone brought one to school as part of a science fair. Even in college when I went in 1983-84, computers weren’t the norm. But then, I was studying Geology at the time. If I’d been in business courses, maybe it would have been a little different, but I doubt it. Everything I picked up on computer came after 1998, when I finally got my first home unit.
I graduated in the late 1970's from HS. While education wasn't free, it was more affordable. The state university I went to was $97/semester, so the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant that all California natives got, paid for all one's fees and books. So, one could get a college degree without going into debt.
However, until 1977 women & minorities had barriers to getting financing to buy a home. My high school didn't fund girls sports, so we had to wash cars, sell candy to buy uniforms. Boys didn't have to do this.
As a Gen Z character, I have to say that never in my life would I have ever thought that I would hear Mr. Beat say "Skibidi Toilet." I believe I am lost now, and have no idea how to carry on henceforth.
No need to worry. I am just fulfilling the role of cringy Millennial character.
There was Generation x and y ones after that would degenerate and die even the thumbnail says it all
umm, you are a character? so, gen z is a book, tv show, or movie?
@@DaviAlex8 We are all characters in our respective stories.
@@captainclark2337ok
Generations do have different names in different places. In Latin America, Boomers/Gen X have started calling Gen Z "the crystal generation", implying that they're weak and get offended too easily. In response, Gen Z call older people "cement generation", like they're stubborn and close-minded 😭
this is iconic i love it
At least Cement stays together
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@TheBandit025Nova so do crystals, what?😂
@@pixilatedsarin2408 Do know anything about Crystals
I grew up during the 80's as one of the X generation, the smallest one after WWII. We were last to know what the Cold War was like, to live with the anxiety that the next day one could be vaporized under a mushroom cloud. We were born as analog kids and grew up to be digital people. We are self reliant independent, and resourceful. We were cynical of others, politicians in particular in the age of Watergate, ABSCAM, the Savings And Loan scandal, televangelists, and Iran-Contra. We were the first generation not be better off than their parents. We were the first generation to grow up around both parents working and we were known as latch key kids. We were the bridge from the old ways of doing things to the new.
Word to your mother.
Did I catch a Rush reference?
@@mattmelton2561 Yes, I was thinking of two songs from "Signals", "Analog Kid" and "Digital Man". But the terms are apt. If you were born in the early 70s, you are born into an analog world mostly. Computers were a thing but mainly confined to large institutions and hobbyists. You could get a computer in the late 70s and early 80s but they were very expensive and were viewed as toys. But during that time period that X generation grew up, the digital revolution transformed every aspect of life into digital.
I think the odds of a nuclear war are far higher now than they ever were during the Cold War (perhaps with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis). Those that lost the Cold War have a lot less to lose now, a much more precarious position, much more to gain and much more will to start real, armed conflict, than their predecessors. Such things lead to an increased possibility of escalation, as compared with a rivalry between two more or less equals, both in pretty strong and thus content positions, geostrategically.
@@decus9544 I disagree with that. The risk of nuclear war isn't as much as it was then especially in the early 80s when the US was in a window of vulnerability where the Soviets fielded highly accurate nukes with large throw weights. In addition the US deployed Pershing IIs in western Europe which could hit Moscow in as few as 8 minutes. 1983 was the year we were closest to nuclear Armageddon since the Cuban Missile crisis. The Pershing IIs put the Soviets in a difficult position whit only a 5-8 minute warning which is barely any time to to determine if the warning was false. And exercise Able Archer nearly caused WW III when the Soviets received a false warning. If the Soviet commander followed standing orders, things would have turned out very differently.
My granny is 96 and is for sure the greatest person I have ever known! ❤
You're blessed to still have her!
"Millennial memes are cringey"
Do not cite the deep magic to me, Zoomer, I was there when it was written.
it's the office memes. I bet Wojak memes will go the same way. But it can be seen the millennials just like a certain era of memes and thus stick with the old even if it wasn't really that long ago. It's the modern version of how generations have different clothing choices that they stick to.
Rage comic enjoyer
I don't get the Millennial hate thing. Hitting the job market when the 2008 crash happened was bad luck. The generation who entered the job market during the Great Depression is called the Greatest Generation, but we're apparently lazy.
@@MyUsualComment all inter-generational hate is a generalization.
It happens, but far from everyone has that point of view.
I don’t see boomers as inherently stubborn and entitled.
Just like I think the hate being put on alpha is useless and mean. Gen x, millennials, and gen z have all gone through being ridiculed and called bad kids when they were younger.
And, as a gen z fellow, I think millennial memes are great.
They’re not funny, but they’re fun. They are great at building a sense of community and are just wholesome overall.
I don’t go out of my way to see them, but I respect and appreciate them^^
@@cheeseninja1115 I don't know a single millenial that uses office memes lmao. Gen X and older
As a person born between 1998-2002, I can confidently say I’m an honorary member of the Black Eyed Peas
I saw them in concert in 2003, before they were big. I'm not joking.
@@iammrbeat Closest I ever got to seeing them live was the Kid’s Choice Awards so you’ve got me *beat*
lmao
So should I! Born in '98!
@@iammrbeatduring their “let’s get retarded” era?
This has to be one of the best videos ever done by Mr. Beat. As a proud founding member of Gen X who has lived up to almost everyone of the stereotypes associated with it, I am an outlier one major front-- technology. Being a natural early adopter, I was internet savvy before many millennials were even born. To this day, I'm explaining technology and associated concepts to many Zoomers who supposedly grew up on this stuff.
Born in 1966 and took my first Apple Programming class in 1982.
Last month I got to meet several World War II veterans, ranging from 97-103 years old. I really appreciate how they were all willing to talk about their experiences despite their advanced age. It was truly fascinating to learn history from those who were actually there rather than a textbook or CZcams video, which is why it’s so important for young people to listen to the experiences of older generations. Thank you, Mr Beat.
When I was in college in the 1980s, my American History II professor was a WWII vet. He was set to retire that year, so he didn't care. He spent the whole semester sharing his war stories about being in the trenches and being shot at by the Germans. We didn't cover any other material. I got an A. 😅😅
As someone who was actually born in 1996, I'm stuck in this dilemma where normal age Millennials make me feel young but normal age Gen Z'ers makes me feel old. I'm just in a class case of emotions.
Milk was a bad choice 😂
i relate more to the technological experiences of millennials so i tend to lump myself with them despite being born in 1997. like i didn’t grow up with high speed internet or a phone
See, I TOLD you that you were born in 1996. :)
As someone who was born in 1997, I felt the exact same way, but I feel more related to Millennials at the end of the day
You’re a Zelinenial darling just like me 😭 a mix of both.
it wouldve been a crime to not mention "that toilet youtube series" in this video
lol yeah it took me awhile before I realized what he was talking about
I only know if this from my children. It is dumb. But I remember being a kid and we would make weird, sometimes offensive and whacky shows with the ol cam corder as kids lol. We just didn't have the Internet to distribute it. Maybe that's a good thing.....
it's just old gmod stuff, but people pretend it's a new thing
@@blueninja012 No I remember the OG Garry's mod for half life 2 back in the day. The head is gman from half life 2. I m old enough to remember gaming on dos. There was no GUI. You'd have to navigate the file system to launch the executable etc. this skibidi toilet stuff came decades after
@@BeansMcGriddle I don't understand the relevance of what you're saying, all I meant was that skibidi toilet is the same kind of thing as old school gmod memes (which I grew up watching)
I'm a baby boomer born in 1962. I'm pretty comfortable with technology (I have had smartphones for years), and I remember a world before cable TV.
Exactly I am 1964 and never have had an issue with technology and keeping up with AI also.
Yes, I think that stereotype is stupid and unfair.
I'm early Gen X and, to this day, can't use a smartphone. When i had to give up my flip phone a couple of years ago, i went for a mini smartphone. It's great bcz it has internet access, so i can check email, call an uber, or watch a quick video, but everything else I do on a tablet or computer.
my mom was a boomer and she as a computer programmer who knew more about tech then I, a millennial, ever did. I think her brother also did programming and now m gen x cousin is a software engineer. I am far behind all of them.
*_"I'm a baby boomer born in 1962"_* I don't know when exactly people who were born in 1962 started calling themselves "Boomers", but you are MUCH closer to Gen-X than you are to actual Boomers. In other words, you have a lot more in common with someone born in 1972 than 1952.
I always found uncontacted people fascinating. It’s like looking into a time machine. It’s so rare that you have a certain group of people live in their own bubble for thousands of years.
My Grandma is part of the silent generation. she was born into the great depression, grew up during WW2, and lived through all of the craziest technological advances in human history. i love talking with her about her life experience.
Same for my great grandma. Her dad came from Mexico with his wife and her mother. He went through the roaring 20's and became a millionaire. He would walk around with a fat roll of 100's. My great grandma had to help raise the kids because her mom passed away in her 40's and because he had 26 kids throughout his life. Growing up my great grandma and her children (my aunts) made sure my siblings and I were nice and stuffed fat like piggies. Anytime we felt was snacktime. Food didn't go to waste. She made sure we said the Our Father prayer before bedtime. She was a strong believer in God.
One of my Grandmothers was born in 1898.
Heck yeah, thanks for sharing that
I have a grandma who's a member of the Silent Generation too! Born in 1943.
Same, MawMaw was born in 1935, grew up in rural Indiana, vividly remembers the War, how scar it was being a kid with the world at war, became an adult in the 50s, married, gave birth, got a job, traveled a lot, and then raised and spoiled Grand Children (not technically grandchildren) from the late 80s till me in 2010. The people that say the Silent Generation aren’t very loving, they’re not wrong; most aren’t, but the good ones are
These dang kids with their new-fangled fire, always cooking their food. What, too good to spend all your day chewing?
Haaaaa!!!!!! 🤣 🔥
They just don't appreciate a raw diet.
@@ChaosTheoriesLux spoiled snowflakes. 😆 🤣
And they're lazy, too. I saw some of them using a thing they called "a wheel". /j
@MinnesotaGuy822 WHAT!!!!! Lazy good for nothing generation. Ya know what's even worse? I hear they are taking those big animals with the hooves off the steppes to pull around those wheels. What's this world coming to?
such a great topic! I like how some valid holes were poked in the concept of naming generations to begin with. I'm all for bringing different people together and this video indirectly called me out on some negative thoughts I find myself having towards other generations' stereotypes. Mr. Beat I hope you continue to win the internet.
I love this. I was born in 74. My Grandpa fought the fascists in Italy. My Grandma picked cotton instead of going to school. They truly were they greatest generation and I hope we never forget it.
Gen x made important strides to normalize mental healthcare. We owe a lot to them.
Fun fact, women in programming jobs were more common for gen x than millennials. I blame video game companies for convincing my generation we girls weren't supposed to love computers
Aww, thanks. I think between Gen X and Millennials we helped stop the cycle of abuse and bad parenting. I tried therapy in my 20s but I wasn't ready for it. I tried again in my 30s and it went much better. It actually helped. Both of my Zoomers have gotten therapy when they went through hard times. I can see how the '90s (and '00s?) really targeted guys for video games. Meanwhile, the '80s had a variety of games for all genders. I loved Pitfall and a bit of Pac-Man. I'm not a fan of the shooting games.
Apparently in Iran, of all places, women in programming is very common.
@@KarlSnarks sweeeet
As a Gen-X'er, I don't care what others think of me.
@@tonyo3544 yep, most of us stamped out peer pressure by age 18.
@@Ardante11We grew up feral and it was awesome. So was the music.
it doesnt matter. we know
@@tonyo3544 OK Boomer!
@@craig3649 whatever zoomer
This was my first time seeing one of your videos. Loved it! Great sense of humor!
Wow, this was such a engaging and informative video!
Definitely one of if not your best video yet.I never feel the need to comment on videos but just had to now.
There is a costumer that comes in every now and then, 99 years old, WW2 veteran, I find it very cool
I spent the day with a 100-year old WW2 vet and a 101-year old WW2 vet last week, and it was incredibly rewarding
@@iammrbeat I enjoy it when activities are incredibly rewarding
@@iammrbeatThat’s great. I got the chance a few WWII last month, the oldest turning 103 in September.
Mr. Beat I love how you go out and interview all these different people for these videos. You got the best educational channel on the tube.
This was a fascinating video Mr. Beat
I was born in 94 and grew up with my grandparents who were born in the late 40s and early 50s. My grandfather was directly influenced by his uncle who served in the war and lived in their family farm. Some of the stories, the life sentiments, the work ethic that comes from baby boomers who did grow up on a farm hearing stories of war both valorous or sad, that is something I could never have “experienced” if it wasn’t linked to me. I’ve been blessed to have a close connection with my grandparents and I do hope to have the same for mine as I am starting a family a decade after my parents. Stories from 9/11 to Covid and anything I can remember I’d love to share with them.
Also born in 94, but to a teen mom (and grandparents who were a similar age to yours) Because of how young my mom was, a lot of my upbringing (the music she listened to, her outlook on life, etc) probably looked a little bit more like your typical Zommer than Millennial
Born in 94 but my parents were born in the early 60s and their parents were born in the 20s.
My daughters also live with their grandparents. :)
@@iammrbeat They seem like great folks! Grandparents can play a powerful role in shaping a child.
My grandparents were all silent gen. My grandfather on my dad's side was the one who lived the longest, and he actually fought in Korea, with my dad being born just a year after he returned from the war in '54.
Im Xennial (born in 78) and i'm remember world without internet. I start working as a graphic designer 2 years before internet being popular in my country (Poland) and my work and life was totaly different before e-mails / www's / ftp's. Still lots of my friends from my age still behave more like boomers then millenials or later generations. They are just not tech savy then younger ones. But in other hand younglings don't have particular skills to build theirs own PC, install windows or pirate game from torrents :). They not need that skills and they can learn new useful ones. I'm just glad i didn't grow up in time where toxicity of social media is wide spread.
Fellow Xennial here. I agree that I feel lucky to be born at a good time to remember vividly a world without the internet.
@@iammrbeat Living now and then is living on the different planet. Free access to unlimited knowledge is true blessing in internet era. Plus Pax Americana (with all his faults) is still great thing for our planet.
@@iammrbeat i disagree with your years for xennials. It originally meant people who were born after the nixon resignation and before the challenger disaster ( when it was called the Oregon trail generation)
Fellow xennelial. I like "millennial falcons", born between episode 4 and episode 6
I'm a 77..not sure about the Xellenial thing, more of the last of the original Gen Xer. We are very cynical, violent, yet cool...we created Hip Hop, Alternative Rock and what propelled MJ, Micheal Jackson, Madonna to GOAT status...the first generation that was completely feral. We typically have the REAL beef with the Boomers because they were absolutely selfish and demeaning, which coincidentally we (Gen X) identity with as we get older. It's like we understand why our parents were so cold to us and a lot of the Gen Xers realized we over corrected what our parents did to us: make us tougher.
This is an awesome video, Mr Beat.
Fantastic video and fun watch. Thanks a lot!
We got Mr Beat saying "skibidi toilet" before GTA VI ☠️
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Thank you so much for making this video! I’m generation Z and find this topic Very interesting and I love Mr. beats videos! Always enjoy your fairness and objectivity :)
Thank YOU :)
@@iammrbeat you’re welcome and I believe the next generation is generation beta beginning in 2025 and they’ll get their own name in the future when they are born and growing too. A lot of interesting things to see in the future with this topic :)
This video is an absolute banger 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Born in 73 and agree growing up during 70s 80s and 90s was amazing. That said I feel a strange nostalgia for the 60s though I never experienced it.
as an American Gen Z kid, I think our generation will be defined by social media and hardships faced. The oldest of us are only like, 25-ish and we've already been born into a post-9/11 world riddled with multiple recessions, COVID, climate change, some of the worst inflation in a while, the bizarre political landscape of Hillary and Trump, then Biden and Trump, now Biden and Trump again... We currently have little hope to see ourselves purchase a home and raise a family in a conventional way: we've been sold on a promise to go to school and sink $10,000's of dollars into college with largely little payoff, corporations are skyrocketing housing costs, social security may run out, everything is subscription based or rented... Gen Z is living in a time where we were promised everything yet own nothing. I think its making us antsy and distrustful of those in power. Going into the future, I think our generation will be remembered for the hardships we've faced and what we have done to face them. Oh, and all things Internet culture.
your generation has much in common with millennials in those respects (I'm 40) but at least you didn't grow up with hope! I was 18 when 9/11 happened and the atmosphere of our economy and society was pretty rosy in the year 2000, then things turned on a dime. Very disillusioning. Hang in there!
@@NG-cf7zh the economy was never good unless you were born well off. eurocentric cultures well off people are raised to viciously dehumanize anyone with less than them.
@@saturationstation1446 I don’t want to be rude but you’re going off on some unrelated tangent. Both the guy I’m replying to and myself are American, foreign economic matters are irrelevant in this context.
Stop lol, millennials had it worse and every generation has its hardships
Climate change was around for millennials, wars, 9/11, biggest ever recession just as we graduated and trying to find jobs and not being able to own a house like previous generations
If im given 6 hours to chop down a tree, i will spend the first 4 hours furiously edging in the park.
-abraham lincoln
Great video! I was really cool to see some interviews, they made the video more diverse and fun.
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You know the drill, it’s mr Beat’s No.1 fan 💪, and I’m here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
I’ve committed my life to this bit now
Thanks for the positive comment. :)
You know the drill, it's mr Beat's No.1 fan and I'm here to deliver this quick message of gratitude. History is definitely, probably cool. Thanks for the content mr BEAT!
It really is the same cycle every time, how the older generation doesn't understand and dislikes what the newer generation likes. TikTok, smartphones, the internet, video games, rock/rap music, T.V. There was even a time when fictional novels were disliked back in like the 1700s when printing books became easier, and they were seen as a "waste of time".
love your work mr beat keep it movin
Basically it's just 'Us versus Them' drama in an age of classism which has been growing since the 1800's (in the United States). People always find ways to find problems. And in the end it isn't even technology which causes the divide: it is people being people, and when they recount attributes as to who's who in this exercise in drama, it usually stems from details from casual conversation/communication.
The "My Generation" by Limp Bizkit references were killing me lol
Dont step in a big pile of ish
The captains drunk
“Mr. Beat take em to the Mathew’s bridge”
everytime he said one I was like "that's so familiar, where have i heard that before?" and then it all made sense.
Very disappointed. You didn't interview someone from the lost generation.
He must of lost them
Guess he couldn’t find any 😆🤷♂️
The pre-boomer generation is officially called the silent generation because they were told to never complain, never explain, don't talk about your feelings and all that stuff that the Boomers rebelled against. Before them was the Greatest Generation that pulled through the Great Depression, won WWII and ushered in a time of prosperity that is now in the final stages of decline.
Mr. Beat should interview Biden because he’s from the Silent Generation.
Look, I tried...
Late Congrats on 1 million subscribers, Mr. Beat!
My grandparents are from the silent generation and they really went through a lot of change. I interviewed my grandfather for a school project once about it. He spent the first few years of his life in Brooklyn. They’d get their food from a local butcher and grocer. Then after the war, when he was around 9 or 10, they moved out to the Long Island suburbs, started shopping at supermarkets, and would watch TV with dinner every night. He hated that last part, so when my dad was growing up they weren’t allowed to have the tv on at all during dinner. My dad later had us stuck to that as well in the 2000s
Currently I'm a tenth grader and in my country everyone from class 5-13 is in one school so I see a lot of gen alphas (class 5-6) and one thing I've noticed is that friend groups there aren't really seperated by gender and that they essentially treat boy friends and girl friends pretty much the same (in the sense of ripping on them as an example) which I think is sth. positive.
Fascinating. I haven't noticed this yet with my daughters, but it's something I'll pay closer attention to as they get older.
@@iammrbeat
1: Thanks for commenting
2: can't guarantee it happens throughout the generation as a whole (considering how popular these alpha male influencers are).
Edit: 3: Just saying what I saw personally
No?
@@Based_Gigachad_001 might be because your a based gigachad and have no freinds
@@MrLongDoYT Says the guy with a sans PFP in 2024.
I’m 20, (smack dab center of Gen Z) and I am slightly older than CZcams itself. I remember the first smartphones, and when many older folks were still fully unfamiliar with the internet. I think many on the elder side of my generation still remember the world before it moved online.
I have one sibling who is 5, and his entire world exists in iPads, CZcams, and things I struggle not to describe as “brainrot.” Now that the internet is no longer in its fetal stage, the cost of entertainment has plummeted. TV shows with real production value seem to have taken a backseat to mass produced content. Kids today are more at the whim of capitalist interests than ever before, because attention is cheap.
I realize that this is a never ending cycle. New technology breeds comfort, taking things for granted, and dismissal of older ideas. That said, I wish more young people would use the internet to explore the depth of content from all eras which we finally have access to. Media from this entire list of ages is accessible to us now, and each generation has movies, music, and more to offer.
I agree, the (hopefully) neverending cycle of generations. It's as true for our species as it is for bacteria and all other forms of life on this planet (the ones that went extinct obviously excluded). It's very valuable to listen to the ones who have gone before you because they've had experiences that you haven't and knowing the history of how the state of the world you now must live in evolved gives you a sense of perspective about how to interpret what's currently happening and helps you to make more informed choices. And if you continue living, you will gradually become like the older ones. They way you treat them now is how the younger ones are likely to treat you in your older years.
Loved this❤
Nice video. I learned some things. It is very USA oriented. In Europe we only got microwave in the 80s and we still don't use air-conditioning. When Dire Straits sang about microwave ovens, we had no clue what they were and it wasn't in the paper encyclopedia. Greetings from the Netherlands
My parents are both Silent Generation, so I disagree with you about that generation growing up with TV. My mom (born 1939) grew up in the middle class and only one of her friends came from a family with a TV. They existed, but they weren't mainstream. My dad (born 1929) saw at TV only once as a kid; it was the amazing new technology being displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Saying the Silent Generation grew up with TV is like saying Gen X grew up with the Internet. Sure, early forms of the Internet existed in the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't mainstream.
@@danrobrish3664 Yeah, I think a few of those would have applied more to the next generation. Like Gen X having computers, or Gen Z with social media are both more Millennial things. A lot of my Gen Z coworkers hardly ever use social media or don’t know how to use it in general.
It’s actually kind of surprising at how much Gen Z doesn’t understand computer technology.
I think most people consider the mid/late 1950s and early 1960s as the period when TV was taking over. Which would be more for Baby Boomers.
I believe my grandparents in the Silent Generation on both sides of my family didn’t have a TV until they had kids.
I thought the same thing. My grandma was of the Silent Generation. TV started entering most homes in the early 1950s.
You are correct. TV didn’t come into our house until 1953. I clearly remember listening to the radio for serials we followed in the years before TV. It was great. So was TV, but in a very different way.
I don't know about that. My parents were born in the late 1930's and so were many of my older relatives and it seemed like they loved to watch TV. Unfortunately, that's all my dad ever did and still does even in his late 80's is watch TV.
@@republitarian484 Yes, but did your parents grow up with TV? I love to use the Internet, but I didn't grow up with it.
You forgot about the transitional generation called *_Generation Jones,_* basically the last few years of the Baby Boom and the first few years of Generation X-roughly 1955 to 1966. We were just children in the 1960s and weren't too affected by the political ferment or the free love or the prosperity our older brothers and sisters experienced.
Instead, we had our teens in the 1970s, when western economies slumped into recession, the world became a lot more cynical place, hair and fashion were pretty comical, and pop music became more complicated and experimental, even disco. And then our generation was slammed by AIDS just as we were coming of age in the 1980s, music started to suck, and all the jobs were taken by people 10 years older than us and 10 years younger than us.
We're Generation Jones because we were jonesing for things other generations had. Watch _Dazed and Confused_ some time, and you'll get it.
Aug 64 here.
I have always heard that Boomer can remember where the were when JFK was shot. I was in utero. US involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 11. I graduated high school into the recession of the early 1980s.
But online I am the reason that younger generations have problems. "OK, Boomer."
@@skippythetubrat You must be another Kennedy Assassination Consolation Baby. I was also born in August 64. We don’t remember the assassination, but most of us do remember the moon landing, and how things were groovy and far out. We kept on Truckin’!
Generation Jones was coined by Jonathan Pontell in 1999. Known for coming of age during stagflation, Watergate, AIDS and the oil crisis.
That is still part of boomers.
@@vaderladyl
Except we're more like Gen X.
Ive missed you, Mr. Beat! Nurses pick up holidays and extra hours when needed..love the video! I want my MTV! Gen x and proud of it!:-) seeing your Beavis and Butthead in the back ground always reminds me of my oldest sons generation! Y'all are SMART! Relaxing n catching up on Mr. Beat videos great way to relax after an extremely busy week! Keep these great videos coming! ✌️Thanks again! Class of '84!
Loved how open your interview with parents and kid.
Your parents look great, Mr. Beat!
I'll let them know that!
@@iammrbeat Another great vid! 👍
Congrats on getting one million subscribers, Mr. Beat! I’ve been around here since around 2017-2018 and I’m so glad that your channel has grown so much!!!
We do focus too much on generations but it can still be interesting to look at the differences between the generations.
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting a video that wasn’t related to presidents from Mr. Beat, but I am pleasantly surprised by how this video turned out.
As a 97 baby, I’m stuck in between generations. Its weird. I have the nostalgia of the 90s and early 2000s but have the anxieties troubles of zoomers and millennials.
@@Gihad97 yeah I think '92 to 2001 should be it's own generation.
I was born in 2002 and I remember a good majority of the 2000s, I was even on CZcams that long ago too. I like to believe that the generations should be more based on what we experienced than just the birth year because everyone is different. (I'm technically considered a Generation Z but I have interacted with the good majority of them who was born after me that I cannot even understand at all because of the way they speak and their personality). To someone like me to be also categorized with them just makes no sense to me lol
There's no way you remember the 90s
@@themanthelegendjmwSo Gen Y should be 10 years and the next one should be 9? 😂
@@sethpoynter787If it were based on experiences, you could never classify anything as a generation because everyone has vastly different experiences. Time periods allow for broad generalizations.
I wish the generations could listen and try to comprehend each generations different struggles and try to work to fix the problems in this country. However as an older millennial it does feel like the older generations don’t care about our struggles because they grew up in a much easier economy and were able to buy houses and live the American dream off the 9-5. At 29 I make more per year than my Gen X father made at his age and I cannot afford a house by myself. For reference my parents bought their house in 98 and my dad was making $6.50 an hour and my mom was stay at home.
Yeah our parents definitely timed it right in terms of being born at the right time.
Well, we recognize that everyone faces problems. We see you keep comparing yourself to Boomers and moaning about how bad you have it, instead of comparing yourself to every other country in the world today, and the entirety of the rest of human history. You have it worse than the boomers, but you don't have it bad. If you stopped blaming other people (Boomers) long enough, and realized you have a more privileged life than the almost every human who's ever lived, you might actually find happiness.
But I don't expect you to actually listen to this, the empiricism of rest of the world and human history notwithstanding, you'll dismiss me as "disconnected" and go on blaming everyone else. Good luck with that.
@@davagevorriose8046I love the classic "other people have it worse so you can't complain"
if we don't complain and create change, our literal entire world is going to be destroyed, sorry that this bothers you
@@blueninja012 I didn't say you can't complain though it accomplishes nothing and falls flat to everyone else who has it worse), I said as long as you keep moaning and blaming everyone else, you won't be able to take charge of your life and create the change.
When you attribute blame to someone else, you ascribe your agency to them; to reclaim your agency, you have to take on responsibility for your circumstances. The only good comparison to hold yourself against is your past self; anything else is the thief of joy.
@@davagevorriose8046 not once in my comment did I mention “boomers” I simply stated the older generations like boomers, Gen x, the silent generation. I also compared myself to Gen X. I can see you outed yourself so I will hit you with the, “ok boomer”. You also proved exactly what I was saying. You legitimately must have some lead poisoning but I get it, growing up they told you lead was great that’s why I don’t think reading comprehension is your strong suit. Also yes if we are comparing ourselves to poorer countries of course we have it worse. While you older generations got to play the Economy on easy mode. I would bet at age 29 you were not making $80k a year like me with a base salary and a detailing side hustle cannot afford to buy a house. I honestly am baffled at your comment as all I’m asking for is to work 9-5 and to be able to afford what you did making substantially less money than me. But I don’t expect much from a generation that in the words of George Carlin, “they took it all folk, drugs rock and roll and now they are staring down the barrel a middle age burn out and they don’t like what they see so they turn self righteous”. I’ll leave you with that quote to stew on. Best of luck and may god bless you and open your eyes.
I'm a rural pastor and small town XC and Track coach. I've have the privilege of communicating across many generational lines each week. This video rings pretty true.
Thanks!
42:47 Never in a million years would I predict Mr. Beat would utter "skibidi toilet" out loud
Hey Mr. Beat, can you consider making a video on the Presidential Transition Project, otherwise known as Project 2025, from the Heritage Foundation?
Yeah. The news keeps sounding the alarm on it but I don't trust the news because they're so biased.
I plan on doing a podcast about it, actually
Trump surprisingly distanced himself from Project 2025 recently.
@@abrahamlincoln937 wdym
@@abrahamlincoln937He's also a chronic liar so take it with a pinch of salt
In highschool, I read what an ancient Greek who complained about his childrens' generation. I'm 65 now and that was 2000+ years ago. The kids are alright!
As a late Boomer,(1963) I tend to align more with GenX than early Boomers. I was latch key some days ,still in my early teens, when Atari came on the scene and waited til later to have kids. I tend to be less traditional than early Boomers.
I really feel that 1963 should be the beginning of Gen X as far as shared experience goes. They were arbitrarily using the old 20-year rule. Having been born in 1965, I’m sometimes told I’m the last year of Baby Boomers, but usually it’s the first year of Gen X. The kind of music we listened to and the TV we watched was quite different from that of the Baby Boomers, and you would have been affected by the same recessions and depressions that hit us serially.
I was born in ‘85, and my siblings were born in ‘81 and ‘88, respectively. I’d argue that Xennials are more in line with people born from 1979-1988. My household didn’t get CDs until 1997, and didn’t get the internet until 2000. I grew up with a rotary phone in one room, a black & white TV in my parents’ bedroom, and we even had a vacuum cleaner with a cloth-covered cable (not to mention several two-prong appliances). As I got older, I found that I had more in common with the generation that came before me than the generation I was supposedly a part of, though now I will say I have one foot in each since I work with several Zoomers.
@@stevegutrot2476 a millennial is anyone turning 18 from Jan 1st 2000. Xennial is 78 to 85 at most.
I was born in '87 and always felt I had more in common with Gen X growing up than the younger millennials. That change after the 2010s when I started keeping up more with internet trends, videogames/anime, getting younger friends who initially thought I was close to their age -- and now I feel like I have a lot in common with older Gen Z.
My parents are the silent generation and my dad got us our first computer in 1978. I have a Boomer sister and myself, my brother and other sister are Gen-X. We are all technology savvy including my 82 year old mother. But I suppose we are the exception to the rule.
@@markiefufu silent generation's kids were the best friends to have. boomer's kids were obnoxious by comparison. Gen X (when it was just the 70s) was already 60% Boomer's kids. Now its 1960+?? So its Boomer's (originally 1946-52) kids, Silent gen kids, and late Boomers themselves. Now, impossible to say anything about that group as a whole.
Plato complained about how lazy and effeminate the youth of his day were. Every generation has done the same. Your parents said it about you, their parents said it of them.
Yet, they didn’t have to deal with digital technology ruining society.
As an 'older' boomer, at 72, I'd like to put in a word about I.T. No, we often don't understand computers, but it is not wilful stubbornness. You have to remember that technology of any sort was a fairly new thing in the fifties, especially in Europe: we didn't even have a 'phone, a tv or a washing machine until I was 12 years old, and my father didn't even learn to drive until I was 15. Now, it's a fairly well known phenomenon that the best learning years are in childhood, and we had a childhood where we were NOT surrounded by high tech. Please be patient with us, especially us older folks who also have the problem that our memories are not what they once were, and our schooldays are a long way behind us!
Mike and the Mechanics said it best: "Every generation, blames the one before"
Before I became obsessed with genealogy, I was quite interested in social generations. I read a few of the Strauss/Howe books and even wrote a term paper about "The Fourth Turning" in college.
You look good in green and blue as Luigi.
I’m born in the late 1990’s but grew up in the 2000’s era
Luigi FTW
@@iammrbeat he’s number one
Good video man.
Engagement with the channel to boost numbers, if that's still how it works
Mr. Beat with the Limp Bizkit- My Generation references! You've outdone yourself with this one!
I know the boundary between Gen Z and Gen Alpha is disputed, but as someone born in 2010 I 100% identify as a member of Gen Z and not whatever the hell a Zalpha is.
Considering that a lot of the dates for when Gen Alpha begins are roughly ten years or more ago now, I've been wondering if kids born this year onwards should be considered Gen Beta. Maybe it's too early to tell
@@BlueMonkey_CZcams i take anyone born from 2001 forward as gen z, me being from the true gen z, from 96 to 2000. We werent pussies back the
Yeet
@BlueMonkey_CZcams if your mom had a smartphone when you were born, you're gen alpha
@@BlueMonkey_CZcams no response to " Yeet" I see. My son is Gen Z. And Yeet was one of his slang words he's used
Watching this on my iPad while filming a tiktok, listening to the soundtrack for Disney's Little Mermaid, discussing my cynical views and applying for retirement benefits.
Great video, Mr. Bead :)
The limp bizkit references did take a couple of minutes to sink in for me. But laughed when hit. Well done!
loved the Limb Bizcuit quotes. i caught every single one of them. great album. i enjoyed growing up to the TRL show which would clash all kinds of genres of music into a top 20 show. it was a defining show for my generation that deserves more credit.
another banger Mr. Beat
Millennials, Z and Alpha: We are fucked
We can turn it around
Not millinnials though!!! we've have atleast lived through age of true interaction with people without existence of social media
@@sameersheriff7078 notice how we were the last generation to actually have friends outside of our generation?
@@saturationstation1446 If your maybe earlier genz say like 96-01 then maybe yes as some of your young years would be without toxic social media so the ones born after that would struggle to have any sort of meaningful relationship in comparison to earlier generations but there could always be some outliers though depending on how your raised .
@@sameersheriff7078 As a Zoomer I'd like to give an olive branch. I do think Gen Z has less face to face interactions, BUT I believe we might actually be more closely interacting with our friends than any before. A lot of our generation uses messaging sites such as Discord or Snapchat that while similar to other social media are much more interested in the personal relationships. I still play DnD with buddies from middle school even though we are all across the country in college! This also coincides with the prevalence of friend groups playing video games online together more often without the logistics of old LAN parties.
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Great video Mr.Beat
Thank you 😊
Boomer here. I love your videos.
Watching this while taking a break from learning violin, which i can do by accessing all the classical music that's available for free online. Feeling very privileged at this moment in time. It's hard to imagine what I'd be doing if I were alive twenty years ago.
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The idea for the outline of the video to follow the cadence of Limp Bizkit’s “My Generation” is an amazing concept Mr. Beat.
1970 is the best year to have been born in. You would be a kid in the 70s, a teenager in the 80s, a twentysomething in the 90s, a thirtysomething in the 2000s. You would see so much history and inventions and pop culture before being 40.
I agree.
Wait a second, what about being a fortysomething in the 2010s?
@@iammrbeat Being a fortysomething in the 2010s is cool too.
Being a thirty something and trying to raise your family during the 2000s,2010s and getting destroyed by covid in your 50s would be hard lol
Being born in the 50s is prolly cooler. Microwaves, indoor plumbing in most houses, tv and color tv, boomboxes, vcr, jet airliners, computers, internet, transplants
My sister is a xellenial, and I’m 3 years younger than her comfortably an elder millennial. It’s pretty surprising how different her experiences were growing up is from myself and my wife, even though the age gap is fairly small.
Anyway, I respect Gen Z more than any other living generation right now. Obviously it varies from person to person, but just what I’m exposed to it’s very heartening to see the way that group handles themselves. They have the advantage of being prepared for the rough times that caught millennials off guard.
That said, it will be fun to watch them get into their 30s and have the next generation think of them as cringe or whatever the new word will be.
born in "61, ive always felt special as a boomer, we got the best of everything, the best music, the best movies, war stories straight from the men that actually on the lines, now most of them have past on, you are the real greatest gen those born short of the war years and its all been downhill from there, they are the ones the really need to be remembered, through a modernized version of he 60's and 70's ...................
I’m just wondering whether you meant music was best when you were in your early teens, which is when we tend to like music most. Having been born in ’65, I mentioned on another thread above that music by Caucasians was pretty bad in the ’70s and didn’t get good until the second British Invasion around 1983, give or take two years. Your user name suggests you’re a fellow Canadian. I listened mostly to Black music because I found the rest pretty unpalatable since I kind of assumed white people did just hard rock (yuck!) and bubblegum pop (boring!). Bands like Yes and Genesis were the exception, along with Pink Floyd.
again i lost what i wrote, i give up...............
As a 65 baby I more identify with “Generation Jones” than with Gen-X or Boomers. I rode the technology wave through the Yuppie and Hipster eras and into today, but still empathize with boomers. Both my parents were early silent generation and grew up during the depression.
Those of us born in 1965 didn’t get to become Yuppies, either, because we had to survive so many recessions and depressions, while the whole range of Baby Boomers got to enjoy prosperity. My parents, born in 1934 and ’36, likewise knew the depression years in childhood and then again in middle age, so we both knew what it’s like to struggle.
@@KennethWedin My parents were 1929 and 1931 and I’m still caring for my Mom. Look up “Generation Jones” and tell me if it describes you.
@@HybridBattery Yes, it’s definitely applicable. It’s too bad that that didn’t get coverage in the video while so many other transitional generations or micro-generations got coverage, such as Xennials, Zennials, Zalphas, etc. Yesterday, I got ChatGPT to output the following in case anyone else visits this thread:
Generation Jones refers to the cohort of people born between approximately 1954 and 1965. The term was coined by cultural historian Jonathan Pontell to describe the generation that bridges the gap between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Here are the key characteristics and themes associated with Generation Jones:
Characteristics:
1. Transitional Generation:
• Generation Jones is considered a bridge between the optimism and idealism of the Baby Boomers and the skepticism and pragmatism of Generation X.
2. Cultural Influences:
• This generation experienced the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s as children and teenagers, such as the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and the anti-war protests.
3. Economic Environment:
• Unlike the early Boomers who enjoyed post-war economic prosperity, Generation Jones came of age during economic turmoil, including the oil crisis of the 1970s, stagflation, and the recession of the early 1980s.
4. Technological Shifts:
• They grew up with the introduction of personal computers and the early stages of the digital revolution, but spent their formative years largely without the pervasive technology that defines later generations.
Themes:
1. Jonesing:
• The term “Jonesing” refers to a sense of yearning or craving. Generation Jones is often characterized by a sense of unfulfilled expectations, both personally and societally, as they witnessed the decline of post-war optimism and economic security.
2. Consumerism:
• Generation Jones grew up during the rise of mass consumerism and experienced the beginnings of the credit boom, leading to significant consumer debt issues.
3. Work Ethic:
• Members of Generation Jones often emphasize hard work and self-reliance, values influenced by the economic challenges they faced as they entered the workforce.
4. Political and Social Involvement:
• This generation has been active in political and social movements, influenced by their exposure to the activism of the 1960s and 1970s, but often with a more pragmatic approach compared to the idealism of the Boomers.
Cultural Markers:
• Music: Influenced by the tail end of the classic rock era, the punk movement, disco, and the early rise of new wave and synth-pop.
• Media: Grew up with television becoming a dominant medium and were the first generation to widely experience color TV. They also witnessed the early days of cable television.
Significant Events:
• The Vietnam War and its aftermath.
• The Watergate scandal.
• The oil crises of 1973 and 1979.
• The Iranian hostage crisis.
• The early years of the Reagan administration.
Generation Jones is marked by its unique position in history, experiencing the end of post-war prosperity and the beginning of modern economic challenges, along with the cultural and technological shifts that defined the late 20th century.
4:34 "In fact they killed him" and it immediately cut to an ad
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You interviewed the best people honestly
Honestly, I never knew what generation I was in until I looked it up. Personally, I think this type of thing has gained more attention now than it ever did in the past. Social media has really raised its relevance to an unnatural level.
Great video!
I'm a zillennial and you got my generations spot on!!