Terrible Moments from Each Generation
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LOL what about USA invading a country with made-up lies of "weapons of mass destruction". If you had added that, I might think you are against wars, but the propaganda type mono on first part just shows you're just an idiot living in a bubble. And fighting between some white civilized people like how your media showed has nothing to do with us barbarians like how your forefathers called.
I had no idea your face look like that simple history! Also, I think the lost generation suffered the most. Not only did they have to go through a world war and a global pandemic that happened more or less simultaneously, they then had to deal with the great depression, followed by ANOTHER world war! While they didn’t fight in World War II in the same numbers that the greatest generation did it should be remembered that many of the people who were in leadership roles during the second war, who commanded those of the greatest generation, were mostly members of the lost generation who remembered the last time War had ravaged the world
What about Congo Yemen Syria Iraq what about Libya and Afghanistan i am 24 years old and i did not forgot those wars even if i am from Europe im not some Russian bot but only thing you do now is blaming Russia for war that started almost 10 years ago
@@simosetkic3283 for clarification are you talking about the war in the Congo during the 1960s or around the 90s and early 2000s?
@@lucasquintanilla1673 2000s it was 2nd congo war
Born too early to explore Space
Born too late to explore Earth
Born just in time to witness the peculiar state of 21st century
That's.. kinda right tho who knows about the space part if you ain't 50 you still have a small chance
Good to see you again on a history channel! I usually see you in chemtube
Born just in time to see the best memes of all time
Born just in time to see the exploration of technology!
this is a perfect time for me, social welfare plus globalization with decentralized crypto currencies. i can pirate content or buy dark net stuff all i want!
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.
Really? 12 years ago? I always thought it was longer than that
It was 2011.
@@owenjacobson9794 damn, I was close
My great-grandfather was a part of that generation. He and his wife immigrated to the United States from Germany before WW1.
I'm pretty sure his parents had a lot of optimism. Because of things like the Franco-Prussian war, or the Boer War (colonialism).
But unfortunately, he took his own life a few years after WW1 ended. Not sure why. But it left my grandfather and his older sister orphans.
(All I know is my grandfather knew both German and English. And he also mentioned that there wasn't a lot to eat when he was young.)
Fortunately though, my grandfather was able to find work as a pipe threader after WW2. And he lived a relatively decent life.
Wow, that is an interesting story, and very sad.
I had some ancestors come from Germany in the late 1800s. One served for the U.S in WW1. He lost an entire lung from gas and suffered severe shell shock. He disappeared several years later, sad and depressed.
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.
And even that depends on where you are born. If you were born in China during WWII then absolutely you would’ve had to suffer through the Rape of Nanking and horrendous Japanese occupation, but if you were born in America life would’ve been relatively normal, especially if you were just a child who didn’t understand the outside world and the war like my grandpa was at the time. He also managed to defer the draft to the Vietnam War despite not being so rich. He said that the draft came in waves, the first wave they were drafting men who were out of high school (he wasn’t), the next one they were drafting men who were out of high school but were unmarried (he was already married to the love of his life) and the final draft they we’re going after men who were out of high school, married, but with no children. But by then he already had his first child. He just managed to do the right things at the right time and I would consider him extremely lucky, otherwise he would’ve been dead or permanently scarred and I wouldn’t be here.
America has been at war for almost 20 years. Imagine thinking there isn’t war right now. Your generation is the dumbest without a doubt.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Very convient and impressive
It’s messed up that George Takei said something along the lines of everyone should pass time in a camp, to learn some type of lesson… it’s like nooooooo, I got the message loud and clear just by reading on history, he sounds like it gave him lifelong Stockholm syndrome.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 wow. Thanks for sharing that. That’s insanely deep and terrifying. He must of had amazing karma.
Generation alpha has it the hardest when it comes to job stability since AI is replacing everything nowadays
greatest generation is says 100 % right. History Repeat self over in the over again.
Dey took yer jerbs!
That’s literally not true
AI can't replace all jobs only jobs with internet connections
Not yet
But let's see
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
clearly anti russian bias.
@@teru797 huh? What's that mean?
@@ishikawagoemon4397 they showed the civilian suffering POV when it came to Ukraine’s part but on the Vietnam segment, it wants us to sympathise for the American orcs. Completely ignored the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan on the 9/11 bit
@@user-op8fg3ny3j and? What's new?
@@ishikawagoemon4397 you said “huh, what’s that mean”?
If you didn’t come from tiktok raise your hand 🤚🏽
They have a tt account?
They have a TikTok?
Shut up, bot.
🖐️
🤚 I never used or liked Tiktok ever
I like how none of the generations insult the others, or makes themselves sound like they’ve faced the worse events in human history
You young whippersnappers should've been around the time of the Huns, now there was an invasion....
The video takes a swipe at boomers for owning the most homes today. Well, what do you expect in 202x since they have been around the longest and have had time to amass the money? But it was the boomers that suffered the most of the Viet Nam war. And suffer we did. The Draft for one thing. And in seeing our buddies come back in body bags. Many, many body bags.
I don’t like it…as a millennial, my generation should be greatly insulted, as well as Gen alpha, gen z. Boomers certainly deserve plenty of criticism. But the cultural weakness of the younger generations has contributed greatly to our nations downfall.
@@2dollab178There is not one thing that any of the generations you've just mentioned can currently do to change how poor the economy is right now. I guess the 5 year gen alpha child is more to blame for gas prices than the boomer in office.
@@EldishRinger like I said, plenty of valid criticisms for boomers to be had. Their lack of civic diligence to conserve of founding principles is certainly a primary factory for our current situation
“Gen z suffers the most with gender crisis, discrimination, and Trumps election into offi-…… why are y’all laughing?”
U lost me at trump election
BTW I do like trump
@@Gameferret16191 crazy🫠
Roflmao I got to generation z and started laughing. Ty for the laugh btw, I needed that lmao
It's not a competition but Gen z did have it's fair share of suffering with Covid, climate crisis causing a record high amount of natural disasters, the post 2020 economic crisis, Ukraine war, ISIS war,Hamas Israel war,the Housing crisis etc
@@OK-yy6qzsheltered much, internet warrior?
Nothing in recent memory compares to the suffering that people endured during WW2.
Yup, then on top pf that they dealt with the great depression.
Yep
Both world wars.
Except those that endured the Roman conquests and the Huns invasion and the Viking raids and the Mongol rampage......
@@SirAntoniousBlock Would help if you read what I said properly, even still, WW2 has the biggest loss of life and sheer level of destruction of any period in human history especially that it only lasted 6 years.
The silent generation suffered the most. They had the Great Depression and WW2.
Technically i think that would be the silent and greatest generation... But yeah...
Honestly, I think the structure of this video was a bit off. The greatest generation lived through the great depression and world war two. The silent generation had Korea and shared Vietnam with the Boomers. Seeing as Korea is the Forgotten War and Vietnam was a crapshoot, I'm not going to complain. GenX lived through the seventies eighties and nineties. Those thirty years hardly sound like much suffering, especially when you look at just how few people the aids epidemic actually affected and who most of them were that were affected. Honestly, the whole prospect of mutually assured destruction probably was a heck of a lot more important than HIV. Cases like Isaac Azimov were paltry compared to the rest of them, and that medical loophole was quickly closed once it was found... Nukes are still a thing, by the way. Ukraine may be seeing the worst fighting since the Persian Gulf war between Iraq and Iran, but apart from tax money being gifted to Ukraine, It really doesn't affect Americans much at all. Pretty much the worst thing millennials can complain about is lack of upward social and financial mobility. That is not to say that it is not important, because it is... it just seriously needs to be put in perspective. Alpha will be paying for the mistakes of the Genx and Boomers, what with the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation going out the door as we speak and tbe Boomers not far behind them. Heck, Boomers are only halfway retired as a Generation. The youngest of them are still under 60, so let that sink in. I turn 35 in a ouple of months, and all I can think about is how many mistakes and errors I've made, and I've only seen real conflict because I elected to, gangland shooting as a kid notwithstanding.
@@Deridus Millennials were the ones that mainly fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and are the ones dealing with PTSD and other issues because of it.
@@ColoradoStreaming (rubs notch in skull) Don't remind me. Lol.
Imagine being in poverty in the Great Depression and then enlist to fight Japan in the Pacific islands.
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
The lost generation and the greatest generation
And for those in Eastern Europe, also Soviet occupation or times of _Great Repair_ (at least in Poland; these were trully very difficult times)
That's pretty remarkable.
@ElonMasks My Uncle had a relative who died in the Spanish Influenza, Her name was Mary and passed away in October 1918 during the last days of WWI
It seems as though The one from the Lost/Gi is dead(Due to him being a young ghost he unlike others actuallly died from the moment)He seems to be a dougboy from WW1.
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
Who do you think voted them in?
@@anthonycekic4509 boomers
This thing is off by 1 generation or so. Millennials watched that stuff in school and a good amount of them fought in the wars that followed. Gen x lived through the aids epidemic when it was effecting thier age range
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.
💯💯💯
absolutely correct
I agree with you on that, im 19 and I don't care for social media, i have a Facebook account but that is mostly for games.
Hindsight is only 20/20. It's a forgiving attitude that transcends unforeseen faults.
There will always be conflict on any part of the world even we would try to remove that upcoming threat, there's always something to balance it out which may not be just a normal war but a war on mentality.
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
Yeah but life is just a series of tragedies and failures on an individual scale. Without those tragedies and failures we wouldn't have happiness and success so I guess every rose has its thorn.
It's weird to think which tragedies each generation can "claim." As a millennial I saw 9/11 as "our" tragedy and never thought of AIDS as one.
exactly but as a gen z id say we have it the easiest though there a struggles
@RaptorFromThe6IX Honestly, not really. We've still had to deal with a lot of the struggles of the past decades even now. Like, a lot of the middle east is still horribly dangerous thanks to both land mines left by Russian forces back in the 80's and 90's, as well as IEDs 2left by Al Qaeda and the Taliban. We also now face the risk of nuclear war being instigated as Putin, since it's like he's losing a game of chess badly, and if we anger him sufficiently, he might flip the board and scatter all the pieces in the form of atomic annihilation.
@@jacksongrantham4848 it's why we have the word YOLO
I like how they’re all being nice and validating each other’s trauma
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.
i love everything that generation, the 60s itself was an incredible decade. but for that gen, the 60's, getting to have so many political assassinations in a decade nver to happen again, teh music, the cults, the wild woodstock tales, vietnam and the anti war movement, peace love and war, summer of 69 with bob dylan, greatful dead, strawberry alarm clock and jefferson airplane, joplin, hedricks and just so many other legendary audio, that generation man...
gen X isn't vietnam defined, that is baby boomer lol
Of course, it's ridiculous to include people in generations they were far too young to understand (or not even born in my case).
You were never going to be drafted. You said you were born after Vietnam ended... The draft officially ended in '73. Vietnam ended in '75.
I mean my parents had nothing much to do with that war either. My mom’s dad was the one affected the most by it out of everyone in my family as he was forever pop marked by scars from his exposure to Agent Orange and died a very early death.
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.
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
Wow 101 years old! Rip
Truly fascinating! My Great Grandmother was born 9 years earlier, in 1910! That would make her live when those events happened:
The Sinking of the RMS Titanic
The Great War
The Great Depression
Second World War
Fall of the USSR
9/11
Invention of the Smartphone
She died in 2010, and it was a pleasure to meet her when she was still alive.
As a gen z that was born before 08. Our terrible moments are scrolling through instagram reels comment section
"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" hearing this gives me goosebumps
Silent gen and boomers: "perhaps I judged you too harshly"
Nah not really, my Grandma's two sisters were raped by the Japs and other family members were flagged and killed whilst its the same from my grandpa and the level of brutality and horrors can't compare to the present.
From Philippines.
Great video, man. Notably made with passion. Great insights. The phantom's portrait besides Generation Alpha!
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.
I won't lie as a person who is Gen Z, I don't think 9/11 defines our generation. The oldest Gen Z person when 9/11 happened was about 5-6 years old. They would have some memory of the tragic event but it wouldn't scar them unless they were actually in New York or had someone close to them on one of the planes. To many of us in our generation it is a tragic event that happened but it feels kinda like an event that happened in history than an event that actually happened during our time.
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.
Hard times continue for every generation
exactly
Preaching to the choir.
Like deciding what your gender is
@@just.8797 or whether or not blacks could use water fountains
Was there ever a generation where no one suffered?
You have a VERY creative way of measuring when each generation begins and ends!
This was an amazing video. Your animation is greatly improving
Simple history really live up to there name. They make history so fun and simple
With his voice, the Hello Fresh ad felt like the most intense and suspenseful fresh food ad I've ever heard.
You like that they dumbed it down for you? The animations made it fun for you? Aww….
@@southernsmoke8391 Thats why they are called Simple History.
Its just a dumbed down, simplified version of history.
It aint supposed to be a documentary
@@southernsmoke8391 Before you go and start feeling superior, you should ask yourself: What are you even doing in the comments section of "Dumbed down" videos?
@Tau sounds like he has a greater capacity to learn and is eager to take in knowledge in more diverse forms.
Besides, @Tau's done nothing but be awesome. So I'm calling you out.
I despise bullies.
i like how the animations improved over the years
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill.
The line is better attributed to George Santayana.
Exactly. Also, my like is the 69th like. And yes I know nobody asked and nobody cares.
Mihajlo Bogdanović
Maybe we are all doomed again
I like how that bald guy with a gas mask in 3:20 looks like walter white😂
This hurts to hear as many of my classmates are failing history class and with people not remembering are missing we are truly doomed to repeat history
Silent generation, or greatest generation... Its not even a debate. Everything thats happened since those generations has been childs play they were the world war and great depression generations.
true
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.
May your father in law rest in peace 🫡
My respect to your family.
My respect goes out to you and your family. We thank all of you for your service. You may not think it’s enough or you hate yourself for going through such atrocities horrors, but we back home appreciate it. 🫡
@@therealspeedwagon1451 it was my pleasure, most of the time. Seriously, none of us in my family would change what we've done aside from bringing back some fallen comrades. Thank you and yours for your support!
@@NebulaHasADigBick it was his time. He was declining in health for years and I know from experience that death brought him more peace than anything on this earth could have. Thank you for your kind words, sincerely.
What sickens me is that some kid out there could still say "Yea, but mine's worse"
Its crazy to think that there was a time where how good you did on exams determined if you were drafted and shipped to Nam or not
I’d still say that the destructiveness and scale of ww2 made it the worst time to be alive.
Think about it this way. You survive the greatest war humanity has ever seen only to have the threat of nuclear destruction follow you for the rest of your life. As i'm constantly pointing out to people, nukes are still here and aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
I think the Depression Generation was the most hard hit. I mean, growing up on rice and beans and having to fight a Second World War. Then, seeing their sons and daughters raise their kids to love big government. Then, seeing the country revert back to the Great Depression? Yeah they suffered the most out of all the generations.
In comparison to later wars like Korea and Vietnam or Iraq World War II was actually far worse for not only a large number of soldiers died but also civilians who were intentionally targeted in bombings and genocide e.g the Holocaust second only to World War I which was deadly due to the new weapons of warfare introduced like poison gas and machine guns.
@@CrossOfBayonne Actually Vietnam vets suffered much worse than WWII vets because WWII vets got parades thrown for them upon returning home, whereas Vietnam vets got spit on and shamed for fighting in a war they were FORCED to fight. Furthermore, many of them ended up getting cancer from Agent Orange poisoning (a poison the government knew was deadly and caused cancer) and were denied life-saving access to affordable health care by the very same government that sent them there to fight. And while I do have a great admiration and respect for WWII vets there's no way you can honestly say they suffered more than Vietnam vets did.
This shouldn't even be a question. We don't know how well we have it, compared to the generations that suffered from war, famine, poverty and disease
Every generation is different, suffered their own hardships, and experienced unique moments. Furthermore, every generation can & will relate to each other, we just have to be compassionate with each other. It is up to us/everyone to work together not only to stop repeating history but, to also stop rhyming with history. We all want the best life for everyone ✌✌
It’s the same. One thing I learned about getting old is that from taking to my mom who is almost 80, is that her youth is almost exactly like mine.
The generations are not that different.
It’s just the environment around us changes, but we are still human
_My_ generation -- the Millennials -- have definitely suffered the most. My most vivid memory of that suffering was a few years ago, when our local Starbucks closed unexpectedly due to a water pipe bursting. So, instead of being able to simply purchase a Caffè Vanilla Frappuccino Blended coffee, I had to go to the trouble of having my executive assistant make me a mug of basic Vanilla Frappuccino, _because we were out of vegan whipped cream._
That trauma has never left me.
lmao 😂
ooookkkkkkkkkkkk
NGL, had me there for a minute.
Can you believe that the barista at my local cafe only put 2 pumps of raspberry in my mocha 2 coconut shots 1 coconut swirl 3 pumps vanilla and 1 pump mocha latte? Clearly she should've read my mind when I said 2 pumps and should've known I really wanted 3. I didn't think I was going to live when I had already taken a sip before finding out about this... Someone help! Therapy, I need therapy!
Stop it! 🤣😂😭
It was cool seeing your face after listening to your voice narrate for so long. Really enjoy your content
Also for the greatest generation. Some of the soldiers in WW1 were children who lied about their age to either escape their home lives and make it better, or to do their family names proud.
Cool detail that the audio changes to sound older like it’s coming from a radio
I'm from the older half of millennials... Aids was not a traumatic thing for us. It happened and it sucked for those involved but no one not involved was traumatized by it
So since the 1st video ive seen ive been subscribed mainly for your voice. Then the ad popped up. And i wasn't expecting the face that creates the voice but non the less can't wait to bingwatch more.
Awesome video. Boomer here. The world sucked when I got here and the world will suck when I am gone. I don't see any difference between the generations. Just a lot of people trying to find peace and happiness in trying times
Honestly, Silent Generation and Gen Z now. Think about. My Generation isn't able to do much anymore like buy a house or afford rent, and food. It's the great depression again.
I have great hopes for Z and Alpha... Provided we can repair our economic system. I'm not convinced that we can, but there's a chance.
@@Deridus hopefully.
Really enjoy your interesting video. You make history exciting and interesting and fun to know.
Loved it!
Also enjoyed the Force ghost at the end. Unfortunately not many young people are learning from the past or mistakes nowadays
One man kills a person. Then, the victim's offspring kills the murderer and the murderer's offspring kills the victim's offspring, and the cycle continues!
Most of these tradegies were actually tragic to the generation before than the year of the current generation of which it happend.
Imagine surviving WW2, the depression only to die at 90 by being beat to death by some 16 yr old.
Interesting format. Factual, and yet emotional. I like it!
The thing that has always fascinated me about these generational mass traumas, is how in some cases, they've served to draw generations together. I remember decades ago, how some of the last surviving members of The Lost Generation, and some of The Silent Generation, when interviewed, remarked how similar the experience of Millennials was to theirs. To me, that was both chilling for its proof that we were doomed to repeat history, and encouraging, because to feel heard and seen by those generations at that time was validating at a time where many generations were putting down Millennials and accusing them of being slackers and whiners (something that happens to every new generation, it seems). The kinship that made me feel for those generations was incredible. To hear those generations confirm that they too felt we were marching toward repeating the great traumas of their generation was sobering.
My predictions back then that we were headed toward another world war looks increasingly more prescient as this attack on Ukraine by Russia continues. At this point, so many of the countries around the world have contributed weapons, training, medical supplies, and food aid to this war, that it almost feels reasonable to call it a world war, because of the vast international involvement with it.
That the Lost Generation also experienced a pandemic in their lifetimes, as we have, is often forgotten. The generational similarities in terms of wealth disparity, health risks and war between Millennials and The Lost Generation are truly staggering. It is easy to lose hope when it feels like the world is throwing everything it possibly can at you, but, take heart; The Lost Generation faced all of this too, and they survived. We can too, if we just remember to open our history books, and take onboard the lessons learned through blood, sweat, and tears by our forebears.
Being born in 1996, I was a child who remembered how much media coverage 9/11 got but could not comprehend its significance during that time, yet at the same time I felt the emphasis of AIDS even though I could not understand what that is as a kid. Hoping those horrors from the previous gens don't happen again, but who am I kidding.
That was sobering.
Every generation suffers, just in different ways; but every generation also has it's triumphs; no time truly had it better or worse, just different.
Naw, the silent and greatest generations literally saw the world destroyed by war... And lived in poverty few can imagine due to the great depression... Some generations absolutely had it worse.
That's BULLSHIT! Baby boomers definitely had it easier than millennials and gen z
@@Sure_You_Betcha yeah, saying that the issues we have now (“Oh no, McDonald’s is closed this is a catastrophe!”) is better than what our grandparents had to deal with is really stupid
@@Sure_You_Betcha exactly. They built this country to the greatest dynasty in history and we’re the one dropping the ball. They didn’t make excuses or celebrate mediocrity.
@@Sure_You_Betcha One can argue that the Lost Generation (late 1800s to 1900) had it the worst of all. Not only did they experience the things you mentioned, but World War 1 and the Spanish Flu epidemic as well.
I love that each generation was respectful and didn't try and outplay eachother, acknowledging their individual lifetime's tragedies as terrible things.
"History always repeats because humanity never learns," ABSOLUTELY!
the Silent and Greatest generation undoubtedly had it worst.
Honestly, what I find most depressing is that as history repeats itself, we continue to make the same mistakes, and the most effort we put is into measuring on who deserves to most pats on the back
Basically we can rename every generation "Generation Our Time Sucked."
It’s of course going to, there’s gonna be someone out there who takes advantage of someone else to get something or acts like an dictator because they’re in power
like in Ukraine, which feels like the Spanish civil war in a way. Two world powers fighting a proxy war, except one is involved directly and both are the same idealogy (conservative capitalism)
@@tempejkl and the west framing it in their favor
The Lost Generation suffered through two world wars and the cold war, and watched everyone forget about them and instead focus on their kids.
WW2 was primarily fought by the Greatest Generation.
This was a great idea. Great video.
IMO this video is a phenomenon that Simple History has ever uploaded
Usually, when they make content, they narrate all of that’s happened like any history channel would do including my own other channel (in some occasions) but in this video, this is way serious as it’s MOSTLY about their characters sharing their experiences about their hard life of their generation in place of a narrator like it’s a short movie instead of a documentary.
Very nice and I’ve been a fan of your channel since around 2019-17
This is one of the main reasons why I like to study history: to know about past experiences in order to learn from previous mistakes and be prepared for the future.
Okay, the “Bommer” thing is getting old now. TikTok is ruining generation!
Millennials: TikTok is ruining this generations
Genx: the internet is ruining this generation
Boomers: violent video games is ruining this generation
Greatest generation: TV is ruining this generation
Silent generation:comic books is ruining this generation
@@loona_mew the thing is the TikTok one is real just compare tik tok idiots to everything else
@@loona_mew GenZ, can confirm TikTok is cringe. What did the Silent Generation say?
@@lolmeme69_ comic books is ruining this generation
Bit of a weird pissing contest.
Edit: lmfao everyone moaning till great grandad chimes in.
I was in middle school during 9/11. In high school I spoke with a few military recruiters. Some guys I knew from high school went to Iraq. I don't know how many made it back.
I’m a 97 kid, and honestly 9/11 wasn’t so much of a big memory for me, but I think in my generation it’s more of the War on Terror/ Mass Shootings/ The rise of ISIS/ Covid/ the end of our involvement in Afghanistan/ and now the war in Ukraine. At the same time though, the rapid rise of technology and access to information and insanely bipolar political climate and economic climate kinda puts everything in a “Oh what now” feel, like very desensitized. We see all of the horrifics in the world on our phones a minute or so after it happens and we shape our minds around what ever agenda someone is pushing on the yearly basis. To the point where we see so much pandering and misinformation that everything is a doubt now. In prior generations you could pick out the key 1-2 things that really defined it, but today it’s just so wild. You got riots in Israel, Riots in France, Riots in America, etc. and yet we’re being told to focus on people’s sexuality and personal beliefs and then we’re seeing a suppression of information globally.
The onion generation is the least talked about, why isn’t anyone talking about the greatest generation who fought for their swamp?
Ironic that no one ever cries over onions.
My grandfather had to endure child labor (he didn't played cowboys at 8, he was one), hunger, cold and not being killed in the crossfire when civil war broke out in Italy.
When meeting us at restaurant for Christmas he would remind me an my mother: we are RICH, we are living abundance.
You had to be a legend to live long enough and witness anything that happened in one century
At first, I was worried with a title like the one this video has. Usually videos with such titles are very biased, but I like the angle this took of every generation having its own struggles. If anything, I just wish that more people were able to understand the struggles of others.
I thought the video was gonna end at the silent generation but I didn't expect the Greatest generation to appear and drop the coldest line of this channel
Great video IGS 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I like that you used condemned instead of doomed. Condemned shows no hope of escape.
I think every generation will suffer, no matter what, small or big that will have a huge impact
I tired Hello Fresh. They dropped off my order at 9:30 at night, without any tracking information and didn't knock like the delivery instructions suggested, so I had no idea at all it was out there. Needless to say by the time I saw it in the AM, the local wildlife had a field day on everything in the order.
Dude, Why is your content so awesome
Simple History nailed it! An excellent video. Five stars!!!!! *****
The first guy claiming he’s suffering so much by watching another country at war across the world suffer is hilarious
ong bruv
As an Iraq war veteran... I guffahed, chortled, then giggled at the absurdity.
It's quite a bummer knowing that i was born just 8 years after the new millenium, especially when i realise that most of the huge quantities of things we learn in history was all packed into a single millenium...
The Greatest Generation: I saw modern warfare.
The Silent Generation: I saw the Holocaust.
Baby Boomers: I saw us lose.
Generation X: I saw economic prosperity.
Millennials: I saw terrorism.
Generation Z: I saw riots.
Generation Alpha: I saw....
@simple history, this is one of your greatest videos
As a historian I can confidently say things are on track to get worse.
Nice this create stronger humans
I was born 2005 but I'm with Generation Z. 9/11 was by far the worst thing to happen to the U.S. and the fact many first responders are still effected by something that happened almost 22 years ago is heart breaking. Not only to the ones who were there but also the families of those who lost someone.
Me too also from Gen Z
Awesome Video!
Great video!
The Boomers ate and drank everything on the table and left nothing for the future generations.
PIssed off Gen X
thats not even true if anything you guys were the better off you guys lived in the economic miracles of the 1980s and 1990s
What trickle down economics?. Look at it this way. The Boomers enjoyed student grants, decent healthcare, access to the housing market, social mobility and a pension and the young who are offered none of the above and are instead vilified as being idle and spoilt.
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 except wages stagnated.
its really great how theyve brought all the generations of the last 120 year together. i love that!
Yoooooo this is the first time I’ve ever seen simple history’s face! This was so cool to finally see his face.
I feel like I wasn’t supposed to see your face lol
Millennials born in 1990s Yugoslavia and earlier had it infinitely worse than Westerner millennials. We basically witnessed the crumbling of a country in the worst, bloodiest of fashions in modern age, grew up in shortage of food, water and electricity and in constant fear of bombs falling on our heads. Boomer politicians and parents have left us with literally nothing, other than crippling poverty, unresolved and absolutely rampant human rights violations that are normalized as "muh tradition", and dealing with dysfunctional system and deranged nationalist politicians who still keep running our countries to the ground while blaming millennials and minorities for it all. Because of this, us ex-Yugoslav millennials have extra reason to hate boomers.
No matter what, it's not the generations them selfs that will experience the worst tragedy. It is the people who have little to no say in the matter, the petty squabbles of those in charge shall always cause tragedy and hard ship, but they will never know the true pain and horror that those sent forward will see and feel. A king may see an image or hear a poem of a battle, but the soldier and pesent will forever feel the pain and relive the nightmares for the rest of their days.
What an interesting video. A great idea, which you pulled off.
A very lighthearted and gross surface level take on generational suffering...
the greatest generation were witnesses to 2 world wars and thats just the most talked about aspect of this period. i have no doubt there were hundreds of disasters and epidemics world wide in this period that are overshadowed by the wars. they also witnessed the roaring 20s become the great depression. these are just the problems i recall off the top of my head.
theres also the issue of documentation, we are spoiled by the permanance of the internet, anything posted here is forever and we are the first generations to experience this. so many events from that time period which had huge impacts are now forgotten because we only recall the best and worst moments of each period.
imagine all the the stuff that happened after the two wars which are all overshadowed, even games are always ww2 this and ww2 that and im getting pretty sick of it now what about stuff like latin america, africa, middle east, kashmir, the problems of 1800s, the eugenics, human zoos, circuses etc etc.
I say everyone suffers differently and no, not by being cut off in traffic. Like some suffered emotionally or physically.
Best lesson is to learn how to prevent those things.
This dude could totally be a news spokesperson on live tv or something