I measure generations by the time between Sam O’Nella Academy videos. Edit: well crap

Important division in your fanbase is those subscribed during the moustasche era and the ones during the dyed hair era

JJ be like: *is born* Everyone: omg it’s literally 1984 😖

one big change in why generations are more prevalent now might be how we market fashion and what is fashionable, too. Before WWII, fashion was a thing for rich, older people. After mass manufacturing started, it became whatever teenagers and young adults were into.

I left university for a couple of years because of illness, and when I came back I suddenly started feeling like I'm a 90-years old grandpa because I was so unable to understand my new fellow students's jokes and all those tik-tok stuff and I'm only 25. Way too fast I think. (Russia)

Its crazy how like 500 Years ago 3 Generations wouldn't have made any changes.

Generational trauma is also a huge deal in China these days, as Mao's Cultural Revolution ended only 45 years ago. It heavily affects the current president and everyone else in that generation there. And my wife's grandparents lived under four different governments in China in their lifetime - Imperial China, Japanese occupation, Republic of China, and CCP

The Jewish generational trauma sounds very familiar. In my first year of uni, I had a Jewish professor from Sweden (which was neutral in WW2 and was mainly spared by the Holocaust). She got her degree in Jerusalem, and once told us of the frequent arguments she would have with her roommate. The arguments would always be about petty things, like when to buy toilet paper. My professor wouldn't buy new rolls until they were almost out, while her roommate would constantly buy new ones, even if they had like 10 whole rolls left. Her roommate's grandparents were Holocaust survivors, so that hoarding mentality had been passed through several generations.

I like this style of video. Bringing the best parts of the discussion to the masses.

The real divide is between the people who remember the life before the internet and those who don't!

I don't know who this Nestor is from Greece, but as a fellow Greek, my friend, at the start of the video I thought about exactly the same thing you said: the difference between people who even remember a Greece before the crisis and us zoomers who basically have only known crisis. And a huge thank you for making JJ put the PASOK anthem in one of his videos

The store "the Gap" was named after the whole generation gap idea.

These charming cards feel a lot like the animations of the Crash Course channel, by the Green Brothers.

The generational trauma perspectives on Israel and Cambodia are heart-breaking. Thank you for sharing this

10:25 My mom was a 50’s boomer from the Midwest, where families with only 5 kids were considered “small”.

I think the discussion of the Holocaust for generational trauma is very interesting. I grew up in a jewish family here in the uk and I’m considered a 4th generation Holocaust survivor (my great-grandma was a polish jewish Holocaust survivor) and while I never met her my grandad still had that kinda paranoia. He would always have a packed suitcase at the front door and whenever I asked about it he just said “just in case”. My mum and myself obviously don’t do that but sometimes I do feel like we are both more hypersensitive to things like that. Not because we experienced it, thank god, but because my greatgran was a survivor, passed that attitude into my grandad and I guess a bit of that went to my mum and then me. It’s weird because I never really thought of it in that context but it does make sense

9:25 all the greek memers freaking cried tears of joy when PASOK's anthem played

I did a large video over the concept of generations, but an important thing I came across is that they have largely become marketing terms. Generations like millennial, and Gen X, their names were either coined or solidified through a pseudoscientific work by William Strauss and Neil Howe. Through their book, The Fourth Turning, they claim that American society intrinsically functions in cycles made up of four types of generations at a time. The concept utilizes pulse rate hypothesis which within itself is also pseudoscientific. It feels much more like a horoscope. The two would go on to create Life Courses Associates and inject this concept into the marketplace working with everybody from Coca-Cola to the US military, and being championed by everyone from Al Gore to Steve Bannon. Generations as they have come to make us think of ourselves as, are not real. I'm an actual anthropologist, and while obtaining my degree we learned about generations as a concept that's much more regional and influenced by friends, siblings, the rest of your family, and so much more. There are definitely large scale trends, but nothing that works quite like these generations would have us believe.

Here in Canada I always felt that each grade at school was quite different from each other, and that each grade had their own identity in terms of a generation with some overlap.

JJ went to the barber and came back looking like a da vinci painting 👌

I was born in 1995, and I've always felt like the oldest zoomer. I have very little in common with people a mere 5 years my senior, but much in common with people 5 years my junior, but I definitely feel like I have a foot in both camps. I grew up on Nick toons whilst growing up with the internet, mainly Newgrounds, Albino, and KZfaq and various other websites (like encylopedia dramatica), and though I don't use much social media (only yt, really) I love memes and internet culture and talking about the good old days of the 2000s (I have no memory of the 90s and care little for it). I'm a weird zoomer because I fondly remember yt and pre-yt equally. There was some crazy internet shit before yt. So many weird sites. Childhood favourites are miniclip and flashring, but I adore yt and use it every day. I also lived and worked in China for a bit, and there was such an insane generational divide between grandparents, parents, and kids. So insane. Grandparents are from a different planet, parents are still figuring things out, and kids are the same as us. I really feel like we're moving towards a unified world culture. People are so similar these days. I love it. It's our best chance at world peace.

I feel the use and due to the lockdown by some estimates over-use and abuse of the internet by my generation, the zoomers, has created a generation more atomised and harder to pin down than any other. It's true that someone born in 2001 will have very very little in common with someone born even 5 years after, as the internet culture changes so fast. Zoomers tend to relate more to their own internet sub-culture and community rather than their age group. Stuff has also gotten a lot more politicised online recently, leading to political sub-cultures among the zoomers creating resentment between each other, rather than some sort of generational comradery. Culture has become incredibly self-referential and nostalgic, due to the influence over internet culture of the millennials and gen x, leading to many zoomers identifying more with decades in which they weren't even born, as the media they grew up with was nostalgic for previous decades, so now they feel nostalgic for the nostalgia of the 80s and 90s. Culture, especially meme culture, has almost become a self-referential nostalgia loop, rather than creating new things of its own.

One thing I have noticed in my generation (born 2004) is a growing lack of 'belonging'. There are a lot of people in my generation that have parents and grandparents from different nationalities and ethicities, this (from my experiences) have caused a sense of drifting where we do not truly belong in any group. As for me, my bloodline originates in China however I was born in Thailand, have a Thai passport, grew up in Thai society surronded by Thai culture, and done the things Thai kid do (first thing to come to mind is our military service/ROTC depending on which path you choose). However on top of this, I also grew up in a very conservative Chinese household with many Chinese traditions. As a result, I have found myself in a position where I am not considered Chinese by Chinese and not considered Thai by Thais. I have aspects of each culture instilled into me, but not enough for me to be considered part of either. On top of this I am born into this weird spot on the class scale where my family is too rich to be considered working class but too poor to be considered upper class. Add to this the fact that I am currently attending a British school, so my ideals and values are extremely western and many of my Chinese relatives deem me to westernised to be Asian (but this opens a hole nother can of worms about Chinese who grew up in the country and the generation born outside the country) I have a friend who is even worse. She was born in the middle east to an American-Irish father and a Romanian Mother, but spent most of her life in German (before moving here), surrounded by German culture and values (even learnt the language). She too is in a weird spot where she can't truly label herself as American nor Romanian nor German. I personally have deemed this phinominon as 'Cultural Nomadism'. People like me often drift from culture to culture but never stay since we always know too little (according to those part of the culture) to truly belong. I hope you find this interesting JJ (if you have read it), I love your work.

The whole distinctive generations idea began with "the Lost generation" whose who fought and lived through WW1 were scared by its consequences

The India thing is so apt! Like we (and many others in our part of the world) made the jump directly from Gen X to Gen Z mainly cause the period the western nations see as "Millenial" wasn't very different from Gen X in India and like pretty much everything was kinda the same from the mid 80s to like 2005-ish.. and then suddenly the boom in everything

in France we are the first western country to have started showing Japanese animes (during the 80s) on TV, they became extremely popular with children in a program called "the Dorothée club". a big debate in France if the anime should be broadcast or not because they could "corrupt our youth" in the end the show had to be canceled and we sometimes call the generation who experienced this show "the Dorothée club generation" this génération impact french pop culture

The Greatest Generation: Exists JJ: "Greatest Generation, eh? Let's measure it to be sure."

Hey JJ, I was thinking maybe for your next video you could do something on “revanchism” or intense rivalry’s between countries and how history, culture and language have effected that. I was also wondering if you could do a video on the phenomenon of “Reactionism”

As for general trauma, my dad is the son of a “possible” Nazi. He inherited an amount of shame so deep… I didn’t even know he was German until I was in 9th grade. I knew he spoke some different language to me and had and accent but I had no idea what it was. When I would ask what language it was, he often said Swedish or Finnish or something else.

It is weird to think about how far removed from WW2 zoomers are and I often think about how covid-19 will effect the way I will raise my children.

The last time I was this early, it was considered a compliment to call someone a Boomer.

Off topic but I can kind of relate to the German person not knowing whether their grandfather was a Nazi. My great grandfather was German and I know absolutely nothing about him, not even his name. My grandfather (his son) was born and raised in Canada by his mother and stepfather so I'm not sure how much he even knows about him. I think this is very common in Canada though, people not knowing anything about their ancestors, especially the farther back you go. There doesn't seem to be an emphasis on educating people on or "preserving" (for lack of a better word) their family tree. I assume this is especially true for people who immigrated to Canada from Germany around WW2 and had family associated with the Nazi party lol

Hearing my name in a KZfaq video is very weird. On a different note, I also wanted to add to the family size thing, because I see an interesting divide between my extended family and my direct family. My direct family and I live in South Carolina while everyone else lives in California, and as a result I’ve never really had a strong connection to them save for my other grandparents and a few cousins and aunts, while my grandparents seem to remain very invested in family drama. Now this could be chalked up to distance, obviously, but I think it is something that is relatable for other people born after the 1980s, or maybe even regional differences between East and west coast.

I don't have a video idea for you. More a thought that might lead to a topic, down the line. You once made a video, that I still think about a lot today, which was titled "Male Insecurity and Male exploitation". In it, you mentioned how uniquely awful men can be towards other men, in a way that's very different from the relationship between men and women, as well as women and women. I've gone on to observe some of the behaviour, that is unique to men, and I've recently obsessed about one in particular. It's that men, especially older ones/dads, have far fewer and far less intense friendships. Part of that is down to men being closed off more, they don't talk about their feelings, sort of because that was instilled into them from an early age. I usually hang out with girls, more than I do with boys and the atmosphere is starkly different. And even though I'd like to break down some of the more toxic parts of male behaviour, I myself have never been able to replicate that openness and support with my male friendships... which makes them seem far more shallow by comparison. As I said, this is especially a problem for older men. I believe it was on TikTok, that I saw someone say: "Your dad doesn't have friends. Your mum has friends, and your dad merely hangs out with her husbands" or something like that. And that really hit the nail on the head. I'm gonna keep thinking about this, because I think it's important that we grapple with these inherited limitations that can make life quite shallow or even downright miserable for some. In my life I have certainly encountered a few men, who were entirely oblivious to how women behave, or how they could behave differently, to foster deeper and more worthwhile relationships. This all to say: Feel free to break from your thematic roster of "Countries, Culture and Canada" a teeny bit. The video I mentioned above was very insightful and I'd certainly like seeing something like it again :)

I really love how you take the time to showcase our thoughts and opinions, it creates a sense of community for us JJ viewers.

*The comments that are spam* are clearly from the generation where we all are cyborgs.

The generational size is interesting because my mom grew up in China in the 70s and so she had no siblings but my grandma's generation grew up before Mao really came to power. This has the effect of my mom having no siblings but tons of cousins

I took this class in high school called AP Human geography which is the study of people and how they interact with the world around them. It was so insightful and applies to everything culture related and it connects to basically every aspect of daily life and it really reminds me of your videos

I think one reason I don't like generational stuff is because they're largely based around what is the most normal in pop culture for age groups, but I'm never really into the most common things. I don't watch movies often, I play video games for good stories. I don't watch tv, I watch KZfaq. I don't listen to popular music (or know the artists), I listen to metal in languages I don't speak.

MAN !!!!!!! that was one informative and thought provoking vid -- to your contributors Thanks so much for putting out there your views and thanks J.J. for your hosting and editorial skills --- really enjoyed the vid MORE PLEASE

One of the first recorded instances of a generation being different from the previous one can be found in ancient Rome. Noble youths, of the generation of Julius Caesar, were viewed as effeminate (longer hair, loose clothes...), but also violent (street gangs), promiscuous, opposed to the classic Roman values, and the young women of that generation were viewed as more assertive and whatnot. Also, that rebellious generation of noble youths would adopt slang and accents from the plebs/poor, because they thought it was cooler essentially. Ring a bell? Also there were cases of "celebrity" gossip of sorts, people whose antiques were known and followed by everyone, like Publius Clodius Pulcher, or Caesar.. Julius Caesar in his youth was described as wearing lose clothes and a loose belt, like baggies. The reason Julius Caesar's generation was such a rebellious one is that just previously, in the matter of 50 years, Rome had gone from a fairly powerful Republic to THE undisputed superpower of the known world. Kind of the same for the US between 1914 and 1945. Anyway, Rome had suffered great social turmoil as a result, notably the civil wars ending with the dictatorship of Sulla. Caesar and others grew up during these times of massive political struggle, where thousands of people were killed left and right. So you got yourself a generation who have seen adults act savagely against eachother in the streets of Rome, thus a generation that doesn't really trust the famed moral values of their seniors. What's funny is that it's only fairly recent scholarship, from around the 50s or 60s, that recognized that this Roman generation was a rebellious one, comparable to hippies, punks, or other adolescent movements we now have in every generation since the boomers. The reason scholars only recently understood that is because before the boomers, there was nothing to compare them to, since as you said, it's a recent phenomena for youths to be different in terms of values from their seniors. Scholars of the late 1800s wouldn't delve on this phenomena because they couldn't understand it like we do now.

This video is really well done! It obviously took a lot of work to go through all the submissions, and the finished product is cohesive, easy to follow, and fun.

Maybe someone made a comment on the previous video, but I would just like to mention the countries of the former Yugoslavia, specifically Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that have been most affected by the wars of the 90s. I feel like there is a huge difference between the people who have experienced the war and the people born after the war. Those differences range from how religious they are, their level of patriotism, political views, how good or bad they think they have it currently to how they view other Yugoslav countries and treat people from those countries.

JJ's hair is so stunning 😍😍

that irish lad was so relatable my mam had one sibling her mother (my grandmother) also had 12 siblings. i have none

What I find very interesting about my family of Hungarian Jews, is the stark contrast in the extent to which people of certain ages care about their family history. My father's parents, one born during WW2 and one born after, grew up in socialist Hungary, where both as a result of the state's antireligiousness and the way Hungarians coped with the trauma of WW2 either as Jews or as non-Jews, family history wasn't really talked about. Towards the end of socialism in Hungary but primarily after, a lot of people went back to pre-WW2 times to make up an identity for themselves, and that is what led to my grandparents starting to follow more Jewish traditions. Most notably though, the key generational difference is that they tried to compensate for this lack of a distinct socio-ethnic identity by doing a lot of research into their family history. Something that younger generations seem to care a lot less about. My grandparents talk a lot about what they know even about their most distant relatives and try to keep in touch with as many of them as possible, but I think that when their generation will no longer be with us, no one will stay in contact with distant relatives and family stories from the first half of the 20th century will be lost as well.

The "Generation Gap" is also how the clothing store "GAP" got it's name

I had a really interesting conversation with my fiancé’s family when I met them for the first time over Christmas. We found out our grandmothers had both been born to first gen German immigrants during WW2 and both had some interesting generational trauma over the war that they were both babies during bc of their German heritage. The big twist was that his grandmother was an Arian German who’d come to America basically as a refugee after their city was ravaged by the war while my family were Jewish Germans escaping liquidation. After coming to America her family lied about their country of origins to not be seen as nazis and to this day his grandma feels profound guilt for the nazi atrocities that neither she or her family really had anything to do with. Meanwhile my grandmother converted from Judaism to Catholicism to distance herself from the antisemitism that was still bad in the US. To this day I know very little about my Jewish heritage and get faced with a lot of defensiveness about it from my family. I wound up asking his grandmother if she’d like to start celebrating Hanukkah with me so I can learn more about my future and so she can feel solidarity with the people she feels were wronged by her people. I would like to reiterate that I don’t think Germans, especially those born during or after the war, should feel guilty for the actions of the /nazis/, but it seemed much more meaningful to invite her into a culture she felt she had wronged in some way than try to convince her that she was just wrong to be guilty.

As an older “Gen Z-er” (born 2003) from the Republic of Ireland, I think our generations are mostly defined by religion (surprise, surprise), the “boomers” of our country were born right around the time of the full separation from the UK, and they are highly Catholic and religious as a result of bei mg taught separatist and Catholic values, the “Gen X-ers” were born during The Troubles and religion was a very taboo thing for a long time, they were either highly religious or not at all, the Millenials and Gen Zs kinda blend into one, and we are generally less religious, we were born in a time where the scars of the Troubles were very much open, and although we are taught religion and faith in school, we are more skeptic of it generally. I know that’s a trend in many countries but it’s more exaggerated here.

I think a fun video idea would be going over how different countries teach kids in elementary school. There's something I've always found really intriguing about the odd mix of cultural topics from around the world I was fed as a kid here by the Alberta curriculum.

Really fun seeing you do videos like this where you go over the community discussion on your topics.

I love these videos. Everytime I watch a new one it keeps my interest throughout. I don't know if a video was already made about this but it would be interesting to see the different perspectives as it relates to different generations of immigrants into various countries and how they either assimilate or not into that particular culture. Or even comparisons of similarities in those different cultures.

I recognise generational trauma in my grandparents generation caused by the German occupation (I'm Dutch). It's far from the generational trauma of the victims of the Holocaust and people from other occupied countries that had lived under far worse conditions, of course. During the occupation there were a lot of collaboration and snitching. Sometimes people would betray others to protect themselves. After the war, people didn't talk about the war because of this. The war was over and there was no point in accusing this or that person, people had to move on. It was mainly just hard to talk about all that had happened during the occupation. Now, my grandparents were children, so this aspect of the occupation doesn't play that much of a role on they themselves, but they did later grow up in an environment were the war was taboo. They were more affected by simpler fears. My grandmother would jump at the sound of prop planes, because the allied bombers that would fly over at night scared her a lot as a child. Especially because her primary school accidentally got bombed once and one plane crashed near the house of her grandparents. I don't know much about my grandfather's experience of the war, but I do know that he had a slight disdain towards Germans and German culture. Though it was nothing too extreme; it mainly manifested in never going on vacation to Germany. He still bought German products and didn't hate people for being German.

I walk away from videos like this with a deep sense of connection and appreciation for the much broader world. I am in your older demographic of fans JJ (pushing 50), but I really do get a lot out of hearing these stories and it helps to drive a reminder of the diversity in experience and life outside of my own personal bubble that I get stuck in so often. I have been really fascinated with the idea of "sonder" lately (the realization that others have as rich a life and experience as I do). I have often wondered if that kind of individualized focus (or lack of sonder) is a product of being raised in the US or is it just a more human feature. Sorry for the rambling but thank you as always for making my weekends more thought provoking!! Have a great weekend everyone!

this is definitely one of my favorite videos your channel, whatever this style is keep doing it.

Mannn I love these guys video could just watch it for daysss. Keep up the good work J.J

I prefer calling Zennials the "Sonic Heroes Generation"

I'm curious where your audience is from on average, it seems amazing that you managed to gather such an international audience, I guess that's the power of the english language it's unthinkable to have such a diverse audience in my Mother tongue (french) even though it's not the rarest of languages, anyway love this ability you've got to collect that many perspectives on such universal topics, looking forward to participate in your future inquiries haha

Your videos are always very informative and interesting to watch, and this one was no exception. Thanks for putting together such diverse inputs from people. Excellent work.

JJ, your hair and outfit are absolutely on point today, it's fabulous 👌 And I love these kinds of videos as much as you love making them, they really enrich the topics you talk about in your other videos.

I would say the things the German dude was talking about with Nazi family members, is defiantly here in the deep south. Every family here has slave owning ancestors and pro-segregation ancestors, but it is often ignored or not thought about, because no-one wants to think of their grandparents or parents as being racist and immoral. With young people like myself today it is more common to talk about slavery in your family. but segregation is still kind of off limits, because our grandparents are still alive. We also don't usually think of time as before and after World War 2, here it's more common to think of it as Antebellum and Postbellum, with segregation and post segregation being common, but less so.

Politically speaking, Thai generations is divided into: Pre 1973 Popular Uprising, Pre 1976 Thammasat Massacre, Pre 1997 Financial Crisis/2001 Thaksin Rise into power and Pre 2005-8 Political Crisis

This is why i love your videos. It's always fun to learn about other people's cultures and how they do things

Something about how your voice just gave out at 14:51 really made me feel the words that were being said

You should do a video on how colonization has influenced what foods we consider to be culturally iconic. Like how tomato’s are such a staple of Italian cuisine but were only introduced after they were brought over from the new world.

As someone born in 2001, I agree with the "Zennials" (from 7:39-8:23) on what they had to say! I don't get many of the 80's and 90's references, but I definitely don't relate to the TikTok and Fortnite kids. Since most of them has gotten a smartphone before the age of 10, while I only had a "dumbphone" (a cell phone with a keypad) and a Nintendo DS. I and many other classmates didn't have any internet access on our own until we were 10-12. When most kids that are currently 10-12, has had internet pretty much their entire life. While I was one of the last kids that lived in an era where VHS and movie rentals was still relevant, and didn't start using streaming services like Netflix until I was 16 (2017-18). When most kids nowadays has had Netflix for almost their entire life. That's right! Up to that point, I've been only watching movies through physical media (VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray), aside from a few occasions when I went to see the rich friend who has Netflix. I'd say the Zennial generation starts in 1996, and ends in 2004. Since by the time kids born in 2005 started coming to my school (around 2012-13), that's when the internet, smartphones and iPads started to become common among children. Because prior to that, only the rich kid in my class had a smartphone and internet access on it. But I don't know exactly when the ending year should be, but if you're someone born in the 2000's, and you know what a VHS is, and didn't have any internet access on your own until your later childhood, you might be a Zennial. That's where I draw the line. Reply if you are a 2000's kid who had a similar childhood to mine, and which year you were born in, let me know. :)

My parents were born in 1911 and 12. Mom said that her mother called the music she liked, "drum drum," which was her Swedish way of saying Noise Noise. She was 11th of 12 children, although some died before she was born. This was on a dairy farm in Upper Peninsula Michigan.

Very interesting as always, thanks for doing what you do J.J. 🇨🇦🙏

So glad you brought up epigenetics, I was hoping you would during the first video after you brought up generational trauma. It will be interesting to see what studies find as it is studied further. I was born in 1985 and my sister was born in 1997. Some charts put us as both being Millennials but I just don't get that. Our growing up was so much different from each other, but a lot of that may have been related to other factors. Like from birth to about 3rd grade we were a lower income family, my mom divorced my dad when I was 5, we had 1 TV, no computer until I was 13, my first cellphone was an out of date Verizon phone when I was 16 because I started driving, and did not go on vacations besides camping or to my Gpa's cabin. Whereas my sister grew up with her parents together, going on many vacations (after I left home), she could navigate the PBS website to print out hundreds of coloring pages at 3 🤣, there were 3 TV's in the house, and got a cellphone at 11. Our mom says one difference she noticed raising us was that with me all my friends' parents were married and with my sister hardly any of her friends' parents were married or together. My mom was born in 1965, she has 2 older sisters, her parents divorced in the late '70s. She considers herself a boomer due to musical tastes and so forth. Her mother was a rare only child born in the early 1940's to a single mother in her forties. She was a feminist and went to college after divorcing. Perhaps shaping my mom's world view. Speaking of marriage, I wonder if the Zoomers will continue the trend of marrying later or not at all. My husband and I got married in February of 2020 after being together for 16 years. He was born in 1984 and his parents were also divorced. We chose to get married so he could get on my insurance plan at work. He is self employed and getting coverage on your own is too expensive in the US. Otherwise we would not have married, filing taxes for 2020 was horrible for us being married, we owe a lot more than we did when we weren't married but making roughly the same amount as the previous year.

I'd love to see a video about the aesthetics if regimes and how they represent the emotions and outlook of people. The perfect example is the Nazis where there pride and strange historical beliefs manifested in uniforms that demonstrated ideals and opulence while removing cultural quirks in favor of uniformity.

Your videos are uniquely educational and entertaining in relation to subjects I didn’t know I wanted to know more about and never thought to think about(depending on the subject) thanks from Winnipegers

This was a fascinating video, thank you

Dude, what charles said was like looking into a mirror: born in 2001; same music taste as my parents; same politics as my dad; heavy youtube and meme watcher; am weirded out by people just a few years younger by how different they are from me. Some crazy stuff.

About zennial...I think because of how we grew up, only up to about 5 years ago being told we were millennial then a drastic shift to gen z, zennial is actually important. Specific dates probably actually don't matter as much as shared experience and depending on how you are raised can change that. With me, both my parents are boomers, which even though I'm a couple years off from the traditional split, puts me into more of the millennial qualifiers than zoomers

I've enjoyed watching your videos and this one significantly for how skillfully you have integrated your community's contributions on the subject. To offer a subject I would enjoy watching you approach with equal skill and enthusiasm is the unusual way Canada's sextrade industry has been managed over time. Thanks for all the hard work and considerate thought you bring to this platform. Your playfull skeptisism of culture and patriotism is highly entertaining and disarmingly informative. Keep it up!

Yaaaay I made it on the video!!!! Thanks JJ!!!! Great content as always!! Interesting to hear how other countries groups themselves generationally. Really cool..

Hey, I'm also a 2001-born "zennial" named Charles (from France tho). Coincidentally enough, I could relate a lot to what American Charles said, I actually left a pretty similar comment under the previous video.

Really loving the facial hair & your mane looks wonderful too😃

Awesome video. Keep up the great work. 😄

this is such good content thank you

My grandparents on both sides came from the south from states like Louisiana and Alabama to California for new lives and to get away from the heavy segregation and racism of the south. Obviously here there still was racism but there were more opportunities. My grandparents on my fathers side and the immediate family were really the first to come out west. And my father tells me that he remembers cousins and family members coming by and staying with the family for a time and helping them while they were getting re settled and eventually moving to their own homes. Eventually more and more came west. My dad remembers everyone staying at the big house with his grandmother and cousins and aunts and uncles. My mother remembers traveling on road trips to Alabama and stopping by all the aunts and uncles houses . Both my grandparents had large families yet with my parents generation the number of kids went down. Its only me and my brother for my family. Sadly as older generations have died off it’s been harder to connect to the wider family as people like my aunt my dads oldest sister or grandmother on my moms side passed away who were the connection and knew the many cousins and who was who. I have connected more to family members through Facebook though, and my family did go to some family reunions prior to covid.

You can easily measure anime viewer generations inbetween the time each different Evangelion movie has come out.

this was super interesting, thanks JJ.

Thank you for these insightful videos on generations. Your viewers' comments tell us how relevant generational experience and memory is, even if the "labels" are often just marketing or pop culture constructs! I made a short video (you can find it on my YT channel) proposing my own labels for different generations in India, inspired in part by my grad school research on MTV audiences and the idea of "rebelling in" (post-socialist Asian generations "rebelled in" to capitalism, consumerism etc. rather than "rebelled out" like in the West). Looking forward to more on this topic!

I have a topic request similar to this one. Can you look into what defines the 2010s? I was re-watching WandaVision and I love how every episode represents a time period, and the last part was a 2010 reality tv show that her kids dressed in polos and long sleeves beneath it and I smiled because it was like the 2010s had finally been defined. It’ll be interesting to see what the 2020s definition will look like.

Holy shit 1984 you could be my father but you look like my brother

In Iran, they refer to generations based on their Persian calendar decades: 50s, 60s, 70s (70s, 80s and 90s in Gregorian). Also older ones divide themselves into pre-revolution and post-revolution. People who are born in the 80s (or Persian 60s) refer to themselves as the Burned Generation since they experienced turbulences after the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, and a whole decade of social instabilities.

Fascinating! Love this

JJ is like a really good friend that you spend a crap ton of time with and learn something new every time y'all talk

the moustache is coming back! been a darn while

I really enjoyed this format. Refreshing to hear from so many different perspectives. The generation-defined-by-emperor thing seems like what's used in Japan but mixed with Western ideas about generational divides that look at cultural differences.

Now THIS , is how you do a follow up video! Not only did you expand the topic, and give a global perspective, but we also got to see comments that provided anecdotal example that we can quantify.

In Indonesia recently, the term Millenial has became sort of a buzzword since the late 2010's and sometimes media would lump zooners into this category too

That Generations outro music brings back some memories.

I love hearing this viewer mail. Additional perspectives like this are so interesting.

Please do more of these

I’m curious how Iran views generations, as it could be argued that life in the 1970s was a lot more free.

I measure generations by JJ's hair and facial hair' evolution

Your videos on generations made me think about my place in the generational schema. I immigrated to Canada in my early teens and as such I cannot place myself as either Canadian or from my country of origin. This type of content makes me think about the Canadian identity, specially as a person from a multicultural city. I have close friends who are "old" Canadians and "new" Canadians. We all share a common generational understanding of our share experiences but we also have drastically different experiences. My "old "canadian friends have stereotypical Canadian/ Ontarian childhood experiences like weekends at the cottage, playing different sports, permissive parents, etc. While my "new" Canadian friends carry the experiences from living in their country of origin, or having parents raise them with their culture of origin. Often we share experiences of hardship that "old" Canadians of the same age would not understand, like facing discrimination because of our (or our parents) language skills, or having to take on the family's economic burden as a teenager. We end up having such different early childhood and parenting experiences. How does this phenomena affect the culture that is developing today in Canada? It is a fascinating topic...

This is exactly the video i wanted this week