Terrible Moments from Each Generation

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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Narrator:

Chris Kane

[owenjacobson]

The Lost Generation (born 1883-1900) experienced WW1 AND the Spanish Flu. From 1914-1919, a whole 25% of that generation died of those two things.

Also, the last WW1 veteran died only 12 years ago.

[HeisenbergFam]

Born too early to explore Space
Born too late to explore Earth
Born just in time to witness the peculiar state of 21st century

[ishikawagoemon]

I love it how each generation sound differently as Generation Alpha and Z sound modern and clear while the rest sound old like in a radio or on the phone line. This is really well done showing each generations

[TechieWidget]

From top of my head, it would be the silent generation that suffered the most. My grandparents were born during the Second Sino-Japanese War and had very difficult childhoods during Japanese occupation and living in refuge/hiding. My parents and I sometimes don’t realize how lucky we are to not be born during wartime.

[ScorpoYT]

Generation alpha has it the hardest when it comes to job stability since AI is replacing everything nowadays

[psycho]

Nothing in recent memory compares to the suffering that people endured during WW2.

[KingJojoB]

If you didn’t come from tiktok raise your hand 🤚🏽

[meejinhuang]

The silent generation suffered the most. They had the Great Depression and WW2.

[Rachmaree]

The Lost Generation suffered immensely! From WW1 to the Spanish Flu Pandemic to the great depression to WW2. My 2nd great uncle was in both world wars and somehow made it home

[gswanson]

It was weird that Viet Nam was the defining event of my generation, because to me (having been born after it was over) it seems like ancient history. I do remember being terrified of getting drafted. But I also remember us having a lot of fear over nuclear war as well. This is really reflected in our media with Mad Max and Terminator and other post-apocalypse movies filling the theaters and video stores. And if it wasn't the nuclear bombs, it was complete environmental collapse. And I remember the first Iraq war being a big thing growing up. I bet a lot of people in the latter part of Gen X feel this way. To me Viet Nam was more my dad's generation's thing.

[jeo]

If anything, this shows that holding metaphorical pissing contests to see who had it the worst, doesn’t really help anybody.

No matter the generation or the time period, human nature will always have its best and worst moments.

[CaptainMarvelsSon]

Every generation has flaws and issues, doesn't believe the previous generation understands what they are going through, and knows that they don't fully understand what the next generation is going through. And while we can live wonderful, happy lives, we have allowed media from around the world rather than personal experiences in our tiny slice of it to take over our lives, sharing only the worst about us.

[jacksongrantham]

Honestly, this should definitely be a video to show every generation that we're not so different as the media wants to portray. We've all faced our own hardships and high times. So we need to make a change, we need to make sure that there is no room for these tragedies to take place

[jtgd]

I like how none of the generations insult the others, or makes themselves sound like they’ve faced the worse events in human history

[oliversherman]

I'm part of Generation Z (I was born in 2003). I wasn't born until 2 years after the 9/11 attacks, but the war on terror was a big deal when I was little. I just hope we can learn from our mistakes and be more responsible than our idiot politicians

[TheSteam]

What I like about this video is that it isn't made to be some competition of who suffered the most. It's a video that shows that every generation had some type of struggle to deal with. History really does repeat itself, whether for better or for worse.

[Admiral-]

I think it's fair to add one another thing for GenZ and Gen Alpha: Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a massive crisis of mental health all around the world, as also causing massive downturn in global economy, that we still face today. And let us not forget, that January 2020 was already pretty eventful - there was also Australia wildfires and killing Iraninan general.
Of course, I don't recall this time *this* badly, but so doesn't my mom and dad 1980's, which were pretty difficult for my country.

[benjatrujillo]

My great grandma was on the greatest generation, being born on 1919 in barcelona spain she was forced to escape Spain at 15 years old with fear of being killed in the civil war, she and her family escaped to argentina then moved to Chile.

She died in 2020 just 2 months before her 101th birthday

Imagine having to see the Spanish flu, your country in a civil war, ww2, cold war, fall of the U.S.R.R, gulf war, 2000's, 9/11 all of that in one lifetime

[CyBrook]

“Gen z suffers the most with gender crisis, discrimination, and Trumps election into offi-…… why are y’all laughing?”

[JamesFromTexas]

My father-in-law just passed from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. My dad was there too but luckily avoided it I think; he doesn't really talk about his time there. Interesting aside, my father and FIL were 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam, I was Big Red One in Iraq, and my nephew is with them in Poland to train Ukrainians. 3 generations, 3 wars, all BROs.