Every Birth Generation Explained in 9 Minutes

Every Birth Generation Explained in 9 Minutes

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// TIMESTAMPS //

0:00 - Lost Generation
1:19 - Greatest Generation
2:28 - Silent Generation
3:10 - Baby Boomers
4:51 - Generation X
6:15 - Millennials
7:30 - Zoomers
8:50 - Generation Alpha

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[enderplant]

it's funny how the older generations span decades meanwhile the more recent ones only last for a couple of years.

[ClovisPictures]

The Lost Generation is honestly just straight up depressing. They lived through probably the worst chunk of the 20th century.

[loganorcutt]

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.

[brye]

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.

[chualarbill]

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.

[jjbud]

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.

[totrigo]

failed to mention the hippie movement, one of the biggest highlights of the baby boomers

[tikerlivvy]

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

[fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

Are Gen Alpha spending less time with their parents?

Or are their parents spending less time with them?

[rawmen_numbers]

Comparing each generation really puts things into perspective.

[ThanhLe-buix]

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

[aaronTGP_]

A big part of us Zoomers is retro culture. Many trends are related to older aesthetics (especially the 90s). But more importantly, the traditional collective culture is breaking down into several groups. For example, nerds aren't outcasts any longer, but have also split into many different types: specifically, culture nerds and edu-nerds.

[paradiseoctagon]

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.

[dr.gordontaub]

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.

[KJ]

Millennials should be 1982-1999. This makes sense because we were born before Y2K and turned 18 after Y2K

[jaylenmitchell]

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

[tikothedoggy]

What I love is that he doesn't criticise any generations and look at it from a more factual unopionated perspective.

[smanGTA]

8:55

This tickled me, it's sometimes easy to forget that parts of our generation are actually parents, raising actual human kids.

[odelhilgendorf]

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.

[tetradnello]

We live in such great time that was mostly built by gen x.