Generations Throughout History
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2017
- The fascinating evolution of all seven living generations, compared and contrasted through their unique perspectives over the course of 125 years in America.
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Idk why but the ‘silent generation’ visuals gave me chills
@John Taylor
That's pretty cool actually
Me too. It perfectly portrays the generation's experience of war, all the pain that came with it yet for some without having been part of it themselves. Like they're not fully sure of the world around them, finding happiness trough little things grateful to live in peace
Jason Cheers
Every scene with the “Greatest Generation” left me teary eyed
same and the fact that it said that gen z is the most similar makes it even more chilling.
@@my_universe1290 same
boomers then: wanted to change the world
now: climate change? dont know her
They did change the world.
For the worse, that is.
That’s how it is with every generation. You only want to change the world while you’re young, when you have strength and passion, and you loose it drastically as you age. This problem is as old as humanity itself.
You can’t change climate change
Boomers discovered climate change???
Political change different to climate change, one is real, one is natural and would happen with or without human involvement
For all its flaws, BuzzFeed has created this absolute masterpiece of a video and year after year i find myself coming back to it. Truly one of the best UA-cam videos available.
It's because of Eugene
Agreed.
@@monishaxd6098Who is eugene and why is he (or she) responsible for buzzfeed's decline
@@Ryann9Eugene Lee Yan is responsible for making this video, not for Buzzfeed's decline.
@@Ryann9 Eugene is the Gen X man
I felt bad for the Greatest Generation just because their entire life seems to have been filled with depression. PTSD, the repression of all things accepted now, and the fact there's so few left would break me.
@Cyo 22 and here I was thinking I was immortal
I’m sure their embarrassed of what the current populous has become.
@@softdrink-0 agreed
@@softdrink-0 I can understand, I would love to spend my time with them!
@@softdrink-0 mhm
imagine one day everyone in this comment section being 90 year olds
it would be weird to see a typical comments section filled with "100000 years ago"
Charles Lee and actly rly sad
I doubt I'd live that long but... we'll see! :D
Unless we find the cure to cancer, I doubt most of us zoomers would reach such age... We consume too much industrialized food, and we live in a very polluted environment.
omg, dEd.That thought's kinda creepy.
If I had a dollar for every time someone over 45 told me my generation sucked, I'd have enough money to buy a house in the economy they screwed up...
the economy isnt bad if you're living in america
Don't worry about what they say about your generation. Gen X gets called slackers all the time. And we couldn't afford houses either in our 20s and 30s because of the 87 stock market crash, the 80s savings and loan failures, the 90s tech crash and a 90s housing bubble burst. Most people in my generation either got houses in their forties or still don't own homes.
This was meant to be a joke but okay...
Chloe_Smore sure it was buddy
@@lukea2646 I mean they literally wrote it so I think they know what it was supposed to be lmao
"Gen Alpha will be the wealthiest generation"
COVID-19: im going to start an economical crash today.
Well to be fair a lot of Gen Alpha doesn't need to worry about financial problems yet cause a lot of them are still kids. The one that's really suffering in this pandemic are us the Gen Z.
@TheBossANDJay thats gen alpha
We were fucked before the virus. Numerous reports have come out saying we will be poorer then our parents, wake up. The only people who benefited was the top 1% who ran off with the money.
Gen alpha wont enter the workforce until the 2030s so there's still time
That would be artificial intelligence.
Fun fact :
Before greatest generation there was the " Lost Generation " it is generation that feel WWI and borned in 1883-1900
There's also Interbellum Generation in between Lost and Greatest Generations.
Xennials are between GenX and Millennials.
What’s the name for those born between millennial and gen z?
@Souven Tudu Fitting lmao
@@Aworology323 I think it’s zennials? Or smth
@@Aworology323 Zillennials. I was born in 1995 (25 years old) and fall into that weird gap
i just find it ironic how the boomers were "hippies" or "the rock and roll generation" yet grew up to be so judgemental of millennials and the younger generation.
Fcking hypocrites.
i personally cant stand most baby boomers.........its this very specific radioactive personality the way they sit in this high and mighty throne judging and demanding respect calling us lazy because they're all rich..................
And blaming them for using the phones that they invented...
True, but I think that that’s just how every generation gets as they get older. We’ll just learn from it. Try to be better. In the end, we probably won’t be better, but we can most certainly try.
Let’s all make a pledge to not treat our grandchildren like this
I feel like people born close to the year 2000 are so strange because people born then relate to both millennial and gen z ideas, especially if they have a millennial as a sibling.
true!
agreed!
Exactly! When I saw the thumbnail I had no clue which one I was. I thought to myself "hmm I want the millenial hair but gen z clothes"
Miku Hotori ALL OF MY SIBLINGS ARE MILLENNIALS
Miku Hotori I'm exactly that I was born 2003 and I have a brother 1992 and a sister 1987, so I always end up being kinda mixed in that
7:45 "No member of the silent generation has ever served as president."
Joe Biden in 2020: "Fine, I'll do it myself."
I mean this was before he got elected
Joe Biden: Hold my ice cream.
Bernie would've been better
@@loconamiwooo I know lol
@@dainty_af I agree.
Hey, looks like the Silent Generation finally produced a president!
Yay
*applause*
Two of them, actually.
@@everlyw7892 who and who ?
@@AA-sg2py Joe Biden is the only one. Jimmy Carter just misses the Silent Generation deadline by a few months.
Apparently Generation Alpha has a thing for knocking over really nice vases.
lol
Blue Bell soft and neat
The way I iew Generation Alpha, is yes. They have more access, they'll have a lot of information, but that doesn't entirely mean they'll use it right. And just because they'll have a lot of natural intelligence due to that, doesn't make them street smart which is a high concern in my opinion. It also scares me that they will have all these advantages at the tip of their fingers, what /will/ they work for? Not saying they won't work, but I can guarantee a vast majority may either be a bit spoiled, or look back into the last generation, learn from their mistakes, and turn it around. (I think it repeats itself with every generation, either way it's always something to think about)..
Lmaooo
Maybe they were plastic? Or digital...
*Baby Boomers:* Smoking
*Millennials and Gen X:* Drinking
*Gen Z:* cAtS
cats are the best substitute for drugs, they can be just as deadly, are adorable, and are superior in every way
Anna Robles Or just the internet loves cats
@@iyanez But WHY, that's what I explained
Forgot about the vaping crisis?
i think gen z's drug could be interpreted as the phone the guy had on him the whole time
and i say that as a freshman who's on discord more than i am at school kjsadjkashdkj
Boomers: fights with Millennials
Millennials: fights with Boomers
Gen Z: fights with Millennials and Boomers
Gen X: don't mind us guys, we're just chillin' watching MTV...
Gen alpha: plays Roblox peacefully
@@sprucebrine9 and uses cocomelon as a weapon
*When MTV was about music
This video came out seven years ago,
I watched it the day it came out. I was 15 at the time. I come back to this video very often and meet that self again and again.
There is something about the cinematography and the music that is so inherently, so deeply moving. To this day the clash and merge and dynamic evolution of generations that form these cultural bubbles we live in, in community with other people of our age and times, is something that intrigues me immensely. It’s part of how I see the world, what I notice and how I interpret all the information people give me about themselves and who they are. It’s part of my psyche. It has ended up being part of my studies in university, part of my conversations, my thoughts and my feelings about how the world is changing and what the future will be. And in a way through these words I want to say thank you to Eugene Yang and Nombe because they managed through art to evoke such a deep feeling of inspiration and awe inside me that this same emotion still echoes through the chambers of time, 7 years later. Thank you.
same
It’s nice to see someone else who feels the same way about this video. This video is the only video from Buzzfeed that really awed me and stuck with me. I also remember when it came out, and I watched it a LOT back then. I was really into learning about generations and what made each one unique, so this video was very intriguing to me. I remember showing my dad this video too, because I was curious about what he’d think(he’s Gen X). Like you, I still come back to this video sometimes, because I just love the music, the presentation, the colors, the cinematography, everything. It’s just so wonderfully made.
you worded this so much more perfectly than i ever could have hoped to , but you encapsulated the way this video makes me feel so so accurately. It truly is so beautifully made aand it's so interesting to see the predictions and how much the world has changed
“Gen Z may take social issues for granted” promise you we won’t because they are constantly being threaten of being taken away from us
@@d-rockanomaly9243 lol
@@d-rockanomaly9243 I don't know about where you live, but things are getting stuck up when it comes to politics. A ton of countries are going back to their fascist mindset and Gen Z is struggling a lot with that. We really want social issues to positively develop, but we can't take those for granted when people like Trump, Bolsonaro and Macron are being taken seriously by millennials and boomers.
So true. Until the dang boomers are gone, we will have to face, work with, and clean up the mess that they made.
@@alexanderb4818 boomer>new generation lol
eri, plus a lot of us are really young making it a lot harder to do stuff.
Gen Z is growing up in a time when crisis is rising and we literally have no idea how to fix it
I think we have an idea and a lot of Gen Z are doing something to fix it
We're in even more trouble because of how much Gen zs are being raised spoiled and ignorant.
I will tell them with you! ❤️that’s my plan too we all know how we just have to get people to listen and care 🤨😒😬🤗
Not with that attitude!
@@Jackscalfani2 I think this is more tru of gen Alpha, cuz my sister is way more of an entitled brat than I am, at least my parents say so lol. Not saying i'm not an entitled brat, cuz tbh I am sometimes.
It's really fascinating to watch this video nearly seven years on. Nobody in 2017 could have possibly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and how much it would affect the futures of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
I’ve talked to my grandparents who are silent generation and I can say for sure that Gen Z is not similar to them. Gen Z has nothing that can compare to their pain. The closest thing we have is this pandemic, but my grandparent’s stories about war and the Great Depression sent chills like no other down my spine.
Well probably suffer some severe poverty after Covid 19 so prepare
@@marisolr3674 Covid seems to be hurting gernations that are a bit older than us. Gen Z kids are currently about 23 at the oldest, so most of us are high school and college age
@@jackandthebeanstalk4253 There are still wars as worse as theirs.
@@afish3976 I don't see any contemporary war that is much deadlier than Korea
COVID has now also resulted in an unstable economy. Inflation is sky high and many supermarket shelves are empty.
“In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it.”
Just thought some people here needed to see this again since they clearly missed it before.
Yeah was going to point that out too. It's not like you can change the time you were born in, you are you. "Are you going to do anything?"
Desi Dog and Co. Exactly!
It’s a very questionable yet true quote.
These labels dont determine what generation you are in. It is how you grew up.
The silent generation was so silent that I didn’t know they existed before this video
😶👀
Yup.
Lmaooo
Edit: yeah I think the baby boomers/x were the ones to study "generations" and label them. So the silent generation doesn't refer to themselves as such.
I've known about the silent generation for years only because my father was born in 1931 (died in 1988) and my mother was born in 1938, and I wanted to find out what group they were labeled. Don't remember where I first heard the label. Their small generation begot my small generation, Generation X. The first time I heard the label Generation X was in an article In Rolling Stone in the 1980s. It seems over the years there wasn't much press about Generation X. There was always a lot of news about the Baby Boomers (ie: Yuppies and just the vast size of that generation) and then onward to the Millennials. When I've read several descriptions over the years about my group, it is a common characteristic that Generation X does skipped over more so.
Neither did my English class (even my teacher) until I told them.
I knew because my great grandpa is still alive, and he's a part of the silent generation.
Gen X : **looks sad and smashes bottle 😔**
Millenials : 😝🍾
Nope Gen X would smash it on your head and buy more drinks🍾🤬🍻
millenial is styled like gen x and boomer
lol
The 'Greatest Generation' is portrayed by a soldier showing signs of anxiety and PTSD. Like, yes, he worked hard to build up a nation, but at what cost? Where has it left him mentally and emotionally? And the Silent Generation, struggling with depression.
I love how the video showcases the mental illnesses-- That we society still see as taboo-- and showing them in times when they couldn't be formally diagnosed. Like, these are the generations that were supposedly so much better and stronger, but in reality, they went through just as much turmoil and struggled with mental health just as much.
No most that I've know were very content and living well . It's not what you think . I have family members who are from the silent generation
@@theonlyonestanding8079 idk if you know this but 28 million is a lot of people and just bc the ones you know were happy doesn't mean the majority was
@@emiliew5553 how do you know the majority wasn't ? Mr. Doom and Gloom
Mental illness is celebrated these days.
Did this make anyone else sad for some reason?
Yep. I don't know why though
yeah same, for some reasons I know and some I cannot put my finger on
Perhaps it's the knowledge that younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha are mostly going to be shaped by war and environmental issues. It made me slightly sad too knowing im part of that demographic.
LpsEVIE yep
I think it was the music, the colours used (the components of the video, really); and even though you may not have been a part of all of those generations, you probably have some feeling *like* nostalgia that longs for (what you think of as) a simpler time.
2019- Okay Boomer
2039- Okay Millennial
2069- Okay Gen Zoomers
By 2069 it's probably going to be Ok zoomer (gen Z)
Glow co. Zoomer makes no sense. They are generation Z, Not like “Baby Zoomers”.
Nice
Wil Smith that. Is. Why. It's. A. Joke.
if we're even still alive by 2069 lmao
something about the silent generation’s aesthetic and the actor’s face expressions made me feel so bad about them
came back to this video after 5 years and it oddly makes me feel sadder than the first time i watched it
right reflecting on how much gen z were predicted to thrive vs the after effects of covid that we know now makes me emotional
Boomers: the younger generations use addictive devices like phones
Also boomers: *generation with the most use of drugs*
LSD and weed are *a lot* less addictive
Wasn't weed in cigarettes? If they were I'm pretty sure they were very addictive
@@mrsushi6498Weed is not in cigarettes. Cigs are addictive because of nicotine, and that isn't in weed.
@@mrsushi6498 Cigs is every toxic chemical known to man. No weed though. Its stuff like tar and etc.
"U cannot truly appreciate goodness(good acts) unless u have experienced ignorance(evil) firsthand" this implies that the losers(who stopped being bad) of time eventually give better advices to younger generations.
This video fucked me up and idk why
sophiuh same
yep I'm crying
The music combined with the darkness of the video kinda creeped me out tbh I can't even explain it
same oh god I came to the comments to see if anyone else cried
I'm tearing up for some reason...makes me wish I lived in other generations but I did love my time period: Gen-Y...life now...just existing.
I love that last quote. "In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your unique place within it." We're unique individuals, and most of us differ from our generational stereotypes in one way or another. But what is true is that the unique ways in which each generation grows up can influence the way we perceive the world, resulting in the numerous different perspectives held by individuals from every generation.
As a “Zillennial” (Born in 1998) I consider myself to have grown up in the Post-911 environment and see the Cold War as history and the Pax America as the natural end of history and are deeply worried about both Russian revanchism, the rise of China and the disintegration of the domestic political situation in what most would call the west. Which probably defines by politics and world view as Hawkish compared to my piers, committed to liberalism at home and generally favoring the free market while supporting a social safety net but not really into redistribution of wealth or radical changes to the economy. Basically a mainstream democrat with a fetish for war material.
it's actually generation alpha that will be the first generation to not remember a childhood without internet, smartphones etc. i still remember my parents having small nokia phones and we didn't get smartphones till i was 13 (i was born around mid 2000's)
But like, the internet was created in 1990, and smartphones like in the late 90s or 2000s
@@gottalivehappy even if the internet was created then it didn’t have widespread use until the 2000s. same with smartphones, widespread use began around 2010 i’d say
Yeah they usually get that part wrong. It never resonated with me and many other younger Millennials/older Gen Z.
No shade, but the internet was very popular before the mid 2000's. Almost everyone I knew had home computers by y2k
@@gottalivehappy the first smartphone was the first generation of iPhone, which came out in 2007.
this video is kinda scary as I realize my generation, with time, becomes past....
yeah I graduated HS in 2011 and that's when gen alpha was born and gen z started to enter the scene lol
Brittany Love So deep and thoughtful
Don't worry! You're gen is amazing and continues to make an impression on the world like all of them, there's no way we will forget any gen. As the a part of the newer gen, we will try to follow in your footsteps. 🙂
I think Gen alpha will really start in 2025 not end. There is no big difference between a Gen z and a Gen alpha if they are born in 2011-2025. in 2025 most of the jobs will be take by robots and A.I and automation will become a thing.
+Butter man - Pancake legacy I wouldn't really consider programmable logic controllers and variable frequency drives and other industrial electronics in factories A.I's lol
Why does generation alpha keep breaking vases?
kalaiakea .Blakemore vases represent previous generations
Because they mad they didn't get to see Shrek when it came out in theatres.
kenalpha3 dude wtf are you even talking about
It seems that they won't be able to grasp what they are doing and control their actions.
kalaiakea .Blakemore And you're 'triggered' by progressives??? Spend ur life doing something more positive lol. Also the person in the video breaking vases is a SHE and happily identifies as a lesbian woman. Your assumption was incorrect and portrays how you clearly only see what you want to see; something which offends you or makes you uncomfortable. Grow up. Accept the fact that not everyone is like you, and that your sense of social issues is not somehow superior.
God bless the GI generation, their great endeavors and sacrifices will never go unnoticed
Generation Z is left with the mess from previous generations (expensive education, no retirement, pollution, political issues, global warming etc..) that we don't know how to clean up
A lot of us Millennials are still young and dealing with these issues.
Y E S Go off @Noura Sobhy
Noura Sobhy
Just learn some common core maths
Nicō:2
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We in X said the same thing, snowflake.
Can we just take a moment To appreciate the aesthetic and the effort of the cinematography for a moment? I feel like we should give the creators some credit instead of complaining and bashing.
Folsi Choi 👏👏👏👏 So many cry babies bitching, and they can't even appreciate what a work of art this is!
Folsi Choi +
Folsi Choi IT'S CAUSE EUGENE DID IT!
I was reading. I didn't have enough time to watch the background video
all the shots + the color coordination with the music is beautiful. it must've taken so much work and research
We need an update to this, given the recent developments in society
bro 3 yrs later and our generation (gen z) is throwing tear gas back at cops with our bare hands but is too scared to ask for ketchup at a restaurant.. oh how i love us
Gen Z formative events:
COVID-19 Pandemic
And that is a big one
Also, literally anything that happened in 2020
probably another recession
And the George Floyd/BLM riots.
George Floyd’s death
BLM protests
Basic human rights protests
We have gotten a lot in 2020
"Millennials have the most members of LGBT ever."
Gen Z: hold my ice coffee
LGBT acceptance rates are significantly lower in Gen Z as well
KrystalKat LuvsCreepyPasta It’s statistically true.
Spades 101 do u mean in gen z’s parents? cause if so yea, I know a lot of my friends that are confused about their sexuality and their parents are homophobic.
@@loonagroupfundsent.1447 No, I'm talking about Gen Z itseld.
@@loonagroupfundsent.1447 *itself
Can you please create an updated version? I always loved watching this video, and it would be neat to see an updated version
I'm feeling that genz is growing up faster and going straight to a career.
I wanna be a pulmonologist. But like, if that doesn’t happen I’ll be a financial adviser, and of that doesn’t work then I’ll try to be an Architect. IF THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN. Then I’ll be a Geologist… if that doesn’t happen
McDonald’s or stripper ✋💀
Yessss i fell like aging like a bullet
im a millenial, i dont work a job, i blaim that on girls taking the jobs for me, i get to relax, thanx girls.
I don't think we're growing up faster tbf
@@fsdffdfd2534 uh huh
The Lost generation, who saw the first flight, women suffrage, the titanic sink, fought in world war 1 and partied during prohibition became officially extinct in January 2019. The women of that generation grew up during suffrage, entered the workforce in masses after so many men were killed during World War One. They were very sexually active in the roaring 20s. They were named by Ernest Hemingway, most of them died in World War One or the flu epidemic and were known for being philosophical.
Yep! My great-grandparents were part of the Lost Generation. My great-grandfather (on my mother's side) fought in World War 1.
Yeah the oldest person in the world (who is still currently alive) is only just in the greatest generation :(((((
Haha my great grandad is gonna be 103 soon he was alive in ww1 but not old enough and fought in ww2
The last WW1 vet recently died as did the last remaining person born in the 1800s
The acting for the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation made me feel emotions. That little smile from the Silent Generation that almost immediately went away and the dancing from the Greatest Generation was heartbreaking. I love how they portrayed the PTSD too. Overall, great video
TheBiffle Sisters yeah i agree. i especially loved Sara's portrayal of the Silent Gen. The acting was so believable plus the makeup, costume and production design. whoever created this were geniuses tbh
It was absolutely amazing. It gave me chills, but it was just so, for a lack of better words, cool!
Greatest generation: andrew
silent generation: sara
both of them were especially beautifully done
Love the silent generation when men were men and women were women. They didn't run away from their problems but took it head on and won.
please do an update of this video because so much of this has changed
I'm a millenial. And as someone who spent A LOT of time with my grandparents, I consider myself as having been brought up by both the greatest generation and boomers, and I think this was an advantage. My greatest generation grandparents taught me virtues typical of their generation like restraint and modesty, while my boomer parents taught me values typical of their generation like being rightfully sceptical of authority and being sympathic towards the disadvantaged.
The Gen Z is actually the last generation to remember a childhood before smart phones. For _most_ of us growing up they were still either very new or in the process of making. It's our generation making all the memes about how kids now won't remember times before getting phones and being on social media at 9
I was born the year the first smartphone was made. (I was born in 2006)
SchnitzelBerry 13 the first smartphone was made in 2007.....
*sweats nervously* I’ve had a UA-cam account since I was 8 and I’ve been watching UA-cam for basically my whole life... (Btw I’m was born in 2010 so I’m apart of Gen Z)
I don’t have a phone though,I don’t think there’s a point in getting a phone if I have an iPad but when this iPad gets old and glitchy or it breaks (it will most likely break because I’m super clumsy), I will probably get a phone instead of a new iPad.(I’m sorry I talk a lot)
Minecraft Stuff you’re barely a part of gen Z. You said yourself you have been watching UA-cam your whole life. I feel like you would more fit with Gen Alpha people.
love how everyone is in a fancy colored place and gen z is like, jsut house
I mean considering *the economy*
And cats
@@LlamasAtMidnight never forget about the cats
Other generations: aesthetic colours
Gen Z: *orange cat*
Gen Alpha: *vase*
Tells how sad your life is
I can’t believe this was 6 years ago already
right im gnna cry
It makes me so sad to see how boomers were the generation of change in their time. My grandma remembers saying "don't trust anyone over 30". I feel like they worked so hard for change, but now that others took the baton from them, they realized they weren't ready to pass it and are wasting time trying to take it back rather than helping. They fought so hard for the world to change, but when it actually did, they weren't ready for it. Once they were no longer young, they didn't want the world to change past the way they knew it in their childhoods/ young adulthood. I'm nervous that zoomers will be the same way, so I really hope we can learn from their mistakes and continue our quest for the betterment of the world gracefully as we age. The divide between young and old people starts when we're young, so we need to break that cycle now.
the oldest boomers are 75 some in their 70´s are pretty fit
also an old person older than that can still be active
maybe grow up
@@hjibakkkihjibakkki6408 I'm gonna be honest with you. Your reply has nothing to do with my comment.
I think its very simple, once they achieved the change they wanted, they didn't want to change anymore. I predict the rest of us will do the same. You can say that you will support future change but that's probably 30-40 years from now, so who knows lol
Lowkey I felt a little intimidated when generation alpha showed up
Ikr, it looks cool lol
Same.
c r o w b a r
Komla Tettey when were you born
@@colsonweiser5648 2011
The scary part is the fact that when we get older, our GRANDCHILDREN will be the ones making fun of us and saying “ok zoomer”
Peppa Puff
And we should be proud
lol I'm not having kids
Yup. That why our generation needs to stop disrespecting the older generations so much because the next generations will do the same since they learned to do it.
@@cindacinder2080 the older generation is also why our world is so fucked up rn
Your icon pic just ended my childhood
they said gen z is most likely to be silent and not speak up about political issues... look where we are now?
Ikr, I'm so proud that we're not putting up with bs like people saying climate change isn't real or that not everyone deserves equal rights
@lPartyBoy69 Could you at least try to look up the statistics on that?
This is one of Buzz Feed’s best works ever
Any vase in a 10 mile radius: exists
Gen Alpha: *im boutta end this man's whole career*
lmao
Me: Gen Alpha: I SHALL DESTROY ALL YOUR VASES
My brother is gen alpha XD
😂
Like cats
Why is literally NO ONE talking about how beautiful this video is?? Whoever directed, filmed, edited, and acted in it did an amazing job. 👏👏
Yes the choreography is beautiful 👏🏽
Agreed
Right!!! Such passion was put to film and edit this lovely video!
It’s Eugene Yang. He literally directed, produced, edited and acted!
Eugene did! He’s a wonderful choreographer. He played Gen X.
The Lost Generation (born 1883-1900) experienced WW1 AND The Spanish Flu
Also the last WW1 veteran died 12 years ago.
Yes. My great-grandparents were a part of that generation. My great-grandfather was a WW1 veteran.
Generation z and still remember a little bit what it was like without a smartphone from newborn to like elementary school thank God and my parents I feel very Blessed to have experienced that
*In the end, your generation does not ultimately define you, but how you interpret your place within it.*
The Floridian Gent it said that in the video...
The Floridian Gent nm
My group of Millennials between 1990 & 2008 set the stage for the Alpha and so on.
We are the pioneers who saw the writing on the wall...
From terror to economic upheaval, social changes, technology, everything.
Now we are living it as adults
Well, it partially defines you.
Jade Shard wow that’s deep
One thing I noticed is that the majority of gen z is suicidal, depressed, or has anxiety issues.
*all of that 3 is my mood every FCKN day* lol
Random Awesomeness like me ironic
Marcel_ den'z get some help
Use me as an example whit anxiety :v)/
mood
“They will likely take many social issues for granted” you can tell this was made 6 years ago haha
I have been looking for this forever! I remember seeing it and falling in love with everything - the styles, the people, and music accompaniment. So well done!
When the Greatest Gen guys head was bleeding..my heart just went out to them
I got CHILLS when that came up. It was such a simple scene but it really provokes emotions
Ky Fabulous that’s Andrew btw
i was wanted to like your comment, but i didn't want to ruin the 666 number
that generation deserves the most respect, they began the turn of the century and had their lives stolen from them because of war
@@cannonball2264 that would actually be the generation directly before them, the Lost Generation. They were born between 1880 and 1900 and were shaped by such things as the 19th century going into the 20th, the sinking of the Titanic, Prohibition, World War 1, the 1918 flu pandemic, women gaining the right to vote, and the Roaring 20s.
Greatest Gen: Orange
Silent Gen: Teal
Boomers: Yellow
Gen X: Indigo/Blue
Millennials: Pink (duh)
Gen Z: White
Alphas: Rainbow/Multicolored (bc they haven’t been around long enough for us to see their true colors yet)
wOw ThAtS dEeP...
xD I'm Gen Z and my favorite color/shade is white
@@matthewepshtein9026 fucky wucky
Tbh I have no idea what the color represent
The colours are regular colours up until Gen Z. It's a clean canvas for my generation, white. Ready to be painted. Gen Alpha? They are the new world we have painted, so bright and colourful and new, unlike any generation before us. It is a beautiful world, where everyone can be accepted.
Gen z could’ve been like green but idk
At the same time though white is good because it seems more modern and gen z is very modern and new. It’s also open for any color to be painted in, like a canvas. We are now in the process of finding our color and painting.
Alpha gen is multicolored because it’s still trying new colors and seeing what fits them best before they get their canvas ready to paint.
love the sound design on this video
I’ve watched this video many times over the years, I suggest an updated one in this post Covid world? ❤
Is no one going to talk about the ACTING??
Sia Bakshi they were so GOOD!
Sia Bakshi Good acting, but the clothing and hair for some of the generations were a bit off.
Sia Bakshi the gen Z one perturbed me.
Sia Bakshi dude forget the acting the CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sia Bakshi AMEN🙏
Greatest gen: *war*
Silent gen: *Depressesed Divorced Wives/Husband*
Boomers: *Drugs*
Gen X: *Depressed Teens*
Gen Y: *Happy Drunked Gays*
Gen Z: *Cats*
Gen Alpha: *More Cats*
i love cats ^ ^
Gen Xer's are the slackers, we had teen spirit! nothing depressing about us as teens. We just dgaf.
@@OneYulaw eh wouldn't say that since yknow earth
Millennials aren’t all happy drunks. We’re so busy trying to pay rent while holding a day job, doing Uber & Postmates. We’re also pretty stoned (the legal way, baby!)
Gen Alpha: P90 PDW
It’s wild how so many formative events could be added to the gen z one
I still remember being obsessed with this vid in 2017 😭
you forgot the 'Lost Generation' born 1883 till 1900
this is the generation that fought in WW1
I can’t find that generation 🥁
Yep. My great-grandparents were a part of that generation.
At the time that this video was made, very few if any of the Lost Generation were still alive. Someone commented that as of 2018, they had all died out.
Can we just take a sec to appreciate how beautiful this whole thing is
I know right. This is pure art!
Kitcat for real I watched it over and then bee again
right i love this it calm me down 😂
Jordan_Editz yeah it’s Eugene
The scene with the blood coming down the soldiers face really got to me
XQueenX XHX Same.
XQueenX XHX samee
I guess it has to do with the fact that a good chunk of the Baby Boomer vets returned home with PTSD in some form.
I think they were talking about the Greatest Generation (between 1901-1927).
Because PTSD at the time wasn't widely diagnosed and was simply accepted as something that happens, the greatest generation suffered the most despite all the groundbreaking moves they were capable of achieving for modern america. Most of them likely suffered in silence...
Or at least that was my perspective on it. Still, pretty sad.
Chelsea Lucien it also hit hard for people born during 1919-1923 which meant they will be old enough to ship out for war during WW2
I come back and watch this video 2 to 3 times a year. It always helps me view everyone as a community
right ! i feel like we seperate and attack each other so frequently without remembering we all impact each other and should be kinder to ourselves and others
And with the closure of Buzzfeed, that's the last nail in the coffin of the 2010s. RIP
Someone somewhere is *the* youngest person of a Generation.
doesn't that depend on timezone?
@@andro1096 It does so there are plenty of people that are the youngest in their generation in their timezones.
At one point, right as we were born, we were the youngest in our generation
yeah but being the legit first of a generation would blur the lines too much. at that point you're p much trans-gen
Guys times zones doest affect how old you are 😂
Baby boomers : dooms the world with climate change
Also baby boomers: it’s those phones
@John Taylor yall screwed us for not doing anything ab it and going with the system
John Taylor *silence boomer*
John Taylor so it's our job now to fix the mess you started? if only you weren't so depending on your future generations, then these wouldn't have ever happened.
@John Taylor ok boomer
Cartoon Comedy it would appear we have located another wild boomer we must tread lightly
Ps thanks for 145 likes
This was genuinely so beautifully done, I'm in awe.
I'm a greatest Generationer. G.I actually (in my day G.I. was ww1 only born) anyway i saw this with my family which spawn all the generation mentioned. I was in my 20s in the 1930s I remember the depression and prohibition. I remember being stuck in traffic because theeeee Bonnie n clyde shoot up some joint in their spree, I remember the world being paralyzed and every girl in my school (and boy and professor) sadden over the internationalized death of Jean Harlow at age 26, I remember dirty paper dolls, 2 cent comic strips, breadlines, FDR, Houdini climbing skyscrapers and every single face of not only my family, friends and lovers but of every icon from that era and history makers and shakers~
Stop capping man you would be like a 100
@@Kbxbigbro808 bingo you know your math!
@@Kbxbigbro808 you know people can live over 100 right.
@@KatherineBoleyn yea but last I checked not be on UA-cam typing comments 😂
actually there are some on youtube @@Kbxbigbro808
Gen Z: supposedly doesn't remember a time without internet/smartphones
Also Gen Z: playing with toys as kids and not owning a phone until much later
But alsoy brother who is a gen x bought an ipod touch when I was 7 and still I knew how to use it better than my brother 😂
Facts , when I was little I was still playing tea-party with my dolls and making mud pie and little fairy houses.
-a gen Z person lol
@Jessica Hello , yeah well when your older you kinda need your phone to get around, when your little your parents do everything for you so you don’t need it
Ikr born in late 2002, had my first phone at like 15, though I already had access to the internet as a four year old
Yep. I didn't get a smartphone till I was 15, born in 2000. I had a little flip phone but it was only in case I needed to call home from school (like if I needed to stay after). I did have a PS2 and a Wii though. I played a lot of video games when I was younger lol.
This made me feel really empty
Sarah Something same
Same
Sarah Something omgggg glad I’m not alone:DDD
Sarah Something same
This song gives me a lonely vibe.
“Millennials view their economic futures more positively than older generations” millennials can’t afford to pay student loans or buy a house😭
😭
Greatest generation is literally the greatest generation
do people know that gen z kids actually had a childhood outside of phones? They are always said to be 'the generation born with phones in their hands' but really, we use our phones less than the Millenials...
Used your phones less than the millenials?? Not a chance. Statistically speaking, at least. Phones weren't even a thing during my childhood.
For real. I was born in 98 and didn't have my phone till I was in Middle school. Even then it wasn't really a phone. All it was used for was calling my parents. Most of my childhood was spent outside with friends. Now being 21 I see kids in elementary school having the new iPhone and being glued to it 24/7
we still grew up in a world that is very dependent on technology regardless of how much you individually use it.
ChaosSlay3r I feel you on that one. I feel like millennials always confuse us with Gen Alpha. Only a few of us had phones in our childhood. If you were lucky, you had a flip phone wit him limited minutes and WIFI didn’t exist!
Morgan Marsh bruh my mom uses her phone than me. Millennials definetly use technology more
Gen Alpha's list of formative events:
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The year 2020
More like gen z, gen alpha are all too young to really remember this
Yep, this year sucks lol
@@christybyrne9844 Exept for the eldest one they are turning 9 and probably will remember this.
Jermane Anyoha great I’m Gen alpaha
Christy Byrne well, I’ll remember it, plus what about the aftermath? It is said trump effect on this place will go generations.
Watching this in mid-2020 makes me realize how wrong this video is about Gen Z.
_they were right abt the cats tho_
@@clairmoon06
One good answer doesn't make you suceed the test Tommy
@@unchartedraider7547 yes mother, please forgive me..I was foolish m(_ _)m
i feel like gen z and alpha are gonna change everything
No we're not. Us gen z literally can't afford to
you´re making everything more uniform
I loved this video, but it also made me feel kind of sad... time is passing for all of us, and soon us Millennials will be the older generation...
Kvitkasapiens this type of videos always seem to be sad.in a beautiful nostalgic kind of way.it's just a strange feeling
True, is lovely to see how the world is changing, but it is also nostalgic and gives me the sensation of loosing something, its strange.
c'est la vie
I'm part of Generation Z and there are so many people I respect who are Millennials 💖
Eugh. Gen Z birthed Bronies. I think that says enough.
That PTSD shot was breathtaking.
Natalie Larkins What is PTSD
look it up
I felt it in my bones dude
Kitty Cutie post traumatic stress disorder, people who have really traumatizing experiences and have breakdowns and flashbacks. Most of the greatest generation have ptsd from ww2
Natalie Larkins it was so powerful
I’m forever in love with everything about this video. It’s incredible
This is one of the most aesthetically beautiful videos I've ever seen.
So nobody talking about the style of this video? The atmosphere, the lighting. This is just art.
It's amazing. The feel it gives me. And when the music kicked in and they started dancing it strangely felt inspirational and made me inspired and excited for the future
@@MinorAccidnt saaameeee
We don't need to talk about it because everyone knows this is well made
@@MinorAccidnt Yessss, the moment the music cut in and they started dancing, I had goose bumps.
I’ve come back to it so many times is it’s so beautiful to me
Yall talk about Gen alpha as if climate change ain't gonna end us all.
gen alpha started in 2010....
multiple sclerosis is hot It was a joke...
It aint idiot.
I mean gen alpha kids are already being born so...
Vicky Tsak and Ionut DU both of you missed the friggin’ joke
With how much life has changed since this video came out in 2017, I'd love to see an updated version someday.
So when will Buzzfeed be producing this type of short clips again?
Let's all admit it; this video is aesthetically awesome.
land whales dancing and smoking. bbbbbbbbb eeeeee aaaaa utiful. fuckin bimbo
yes! thats what i was thinking the whole video
kinda repetetive
Mjr Dngr I
i replayed it like 4 times just for the aesthetic.
When it said that Generation Alpha will most likely achieve commercial space flight, which was a dream that Greatest Generation started. I got chills and got so emotional, legit tearin up.
yeahhh
Y’all are Gen Alpha?
I thought about that and how all most all of the greatest generation will never see space travel and the landing of mars and a more technical age of humanity that they themselves had put into motion but they will most certainly not be able to see that moment take place.
Nerdy Citrus gen aplpha are 2011 and so on I think.
Nerdy Citrus if you gen alpha you are like 8 years old
I do not know why I just love watching this video over and over, anyone else or just me.
This will always be the best video buzzfeed has or will ever create