Ranking The Generations (sorry millennials)

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Generations tier list! Boomers vs millennials, gen z vs gen x, silent generation, gen alpha and more. What is the best and worst generation?
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[@xp8969]

The Silent Generation didn't do anything except die in Korea lol, what in the world makes them S-tier? Did you confuse them with the Greatest Generation who fought in WW2? 🤔😂🤔😂🤔

[@michealrosen]

I'm a millennial with 2 houses and I had 0 help from my family getting those, so I'm adulting I guess, also I drank from the garden hose.

[@Mommythief0069]

Have you tried going to a non metal focused react channel for twitch clips? Kinda like how asmongold went from wow content to a react channel. Just a thought

[@mnstorm99]

@@xp8969 He said the Silent Generation was also known as the Greatest Generation, which as you stated were different generations. Finn was obviously confused.

[@xp8969]

@@mnstorm99 I didn't hear that part Lmfao, that's even worse 😂☠️😂☠️😂

[@EngineeredChannel]

I'm Gen X, but Millenials really did get a raw deal. The social contract was basically broken after 9/11 and has gone downhill with every passing year.

[@aletnieuwoudt2717]

True that

[@SkinnyEatWorld95]

Agreed

[@virgilflowers9846]

It’s true. And some of the millennial stereotypes are true too, I’m not denying it. But millennial struggles are completely dismissed and mocked by older generations, exactly like what Finn did here. Millennials will be the first generation in American history to be worse off than their parents. I’m an older millennial and was in high school during 9/11-im not whining about it, it is what it is; we are used to being ridiculed by Gen X and Boomers lol. But it is true that things changed so drastically by the time we hit adulthood, many of us had to pivot and figure out a new plan. Which is okay too, but some of my generation didn’t realize this until they finished college and were deep in debt. That said, TikTok millennials are incredibly cringe, and definitely don’t do anything to bust apart these stereotypes lol

[@Chill-mm4pn]

We were in highschool during the war on Afghanistan. I remember hearing about being in a repression and the future just didn't seem to be in the cards for us. Existential anxiety about where our lives were going, a lot of pressure to go to college and compete for a job. For profit colleges took advantage of us and so here we are. I mean I'm doing pretty okay for myself working a regular job. Wish people had more empathy for us though. I was in the hood trying to survive while going to IADT Chicago. Not everyone is privileged as they make us out to be. DBZ fanatic is on point though I watched that shit religiously as a child.😂

[@PunchyOne]

We may have, but I refuse to linger on it. Despair is bad for my skin.

[@danbazinet8006]

Ranking Boomers over Millennials is the most GenX take ever

[@liamcragin]

It really is

[@FISHEXE.R]

Fr

[@louisiles1446]

Finn really has a chip on his shoulder about millennials, every generation hates the generation that comes after them, finn is no exception.

[@d.klotzzz1383]

I dont know anybody in real life that complains about the shit he's talking about.

[@Vivi_9]

I'm a millennial who doesn't hate themselves or their generation but I found him roasting us hilarious, the "millennial starter pack" photo and comments saying "DBZ fanatic" were actually spot on, I'm not offended even though it felt oddly specific to me haha

[@SkinnyEatWorld95]

​@@Vivi_9 Dude same😂 The DBZ Fanatic felt like he was aiming directly at me😂😂😂

[@Vivi_9]

@@SkinnyEatWorld95 let's fusion dance and become more powerful than Finn can possibly imagine

[@camerontetzlaff7807]

How old is Finn?

[@instantbadass]

Finn, how can you expect me to afford butt balm? I havent recovered from the 2008 financial crisis!

[@C24242]

I dunno man...a lot of the millennials I know fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[@SaintMartins]

lol, those were short & easy wars mainly fought by the air force in the sky with missile strikes against 3rd world people who lived in tents or caves & traveled with old used cars from the 1970's to transport themselves & their weapons.

[@nighttrappodcast1181]

@@SaintMartinsthis is the dumbest argument. My best friend has been in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than 10 years now.

[@drummerdude0515]

True, but I can almost guarantee the ww2 and veitnam vets would call those dudes soft compared to their generations war

[@nighttrappodcast1181]

@@drummerdude0515 I’m sure that a completely able bodied person that went to war with no issues could call a veteran from Iraq with no vision or missing limbs a soft person and the same the other way around. One war was more important than the other I’m sure, but human life is important to all generations.

[@drummerdude0515]

@@nighttrappodcast1181 I agree, I'm just saying I know vet's can be like that lol

[@about7grams]

This is your "old man yells at cloud" moment

[@colinrussell2017]

You must be new here. Finn yells at clouds all the time

[@PastelRemix]

He did the same thing with Indie music, which is hilarious because it's a genre dominated by millennials. Literal crusty dude is literally a hater

[@stikkontakt4]

Didn't watch yet but i already know the stereotypin' you are about to do is sure to be among your finest work 🔥

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Stereotyping is my gift

[@Milehighssc5280]

Triggers will be triggered​@@FinnMckentyPRMBA

[@virgilflowers9846]

Right off the bat Finn’s wrong lol. Silent Generation were too young to fight in WWII. Greatest Generation were the WWII guys, 1901-1927

[@endcensorship874]

Silent Generation fought in Korea and early VietNam.

[@basildog007]

Pffff

[@metalheadjake3339]

I don't think Finn is lying about his grandfather

[@virgilflowers9846]

@@metalheadjake3339 Did I say he was lying about his grandfather?

[@vibetech89]

Meanwhile Hitler and Stalin was born in the Lost generation.

[@nixilaas8071]

by the way finn yes 2008 absolutely still impacts today, if you didn't own your house before it you are fucked now and will always be fucked. Literally not dying is harder financially now than it was and that's measurably true.

[@Mr.briteside]

As a young millennial (95) I can say 911 was extremely traumatic for us too. The effects of that moment truly changed EVERYTHING. Salute to the millennial men & women that served in that time.

[@bl00df4rt]

thoughts and prayers

[@BlunderCity]

9/11 was not the defining moment of Gen X, clearly that would be the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Xers were 19 to 36 when 9/11 occurred and the events that define generations are those that occurred during coming of age or young adulthood. 9/11 is the defining moment for Millennials.

[@jeffreyhunt1727]

You're a 95 year old Millennial? Holy cow man

[@nyssakeith]

@BlunderCity I went into the video knowing what to expect lol, but him saying 9/11 was a gen X defining moment instead of millennial felt... wrong? There were other moments more specifically gen X. Edit to say just agreeing with you and glad I wasn't alone in that.

[@3arthandsky]

I wasn't in the u.s when that happened but they showed the black out videos in school when I first arrived. We also had a moment of silence to remember the event. I never really understood what really happened cause of the mixed information and people with their own theories.

[@Darth5idious]

As an elder millennial. Finn forgot to mention all my fellow service men and women who have served due to 9/11. And all the effd up stuff that has come out of decades of war.

[@Jamesserx10]

One of my best friends (also a millennial) served in Iraq after joining the Marines right out of high school. Great guy but suffers from a lot of trauma and PTSD. Despite this, he has a successful career in construction, wife, and kids; has managed to break through all of that. Tons of respect for those guys, unfortunate this wasn't considered.

[@GalenIRL]

Yea blame everybody else, that will surely make us look better.

[@Chill-mm4pn]

Yeah, for some reason people forget that. A lot of hate towards our vets in general honestly.

[@ax0execute]

We were in the Middle East before 9/11…that’s kinda why they bombed us

[@nyssakeith]

When he said 9/11 was a Gen X defining moment I was stunned! I was in high school when it happened and felt like it was THE thing that defined our generation, or at least the older millenials

[@andrewlegrand4416]

The greatest generation fought WW2 the silent generation fought in Korea

[@FlobsterforLobster]

The boys in WW1 and WW2 where a different breed.

[@brettkihlmire573]

Silent generation was tough as nails too. The marines are chosin reservoir beat the hell out of the chi-coms and North Korean troops.

[@stephenventura4075]

Greatest generation and silent generation were different. The greatest generation fought in WWI, suffered in their 20s or 30s through the Great Depression, then watched their kids go fight in WWII. The silent generation grew up during WWII and fought in Korea

[@TheCivildecay]

Greatest generation = the PTSD generation. Humanity should stop romanticizing going to war

[@michaelbeard4883]

@@TheCivildecayvietnam is the ptsd generation

[@DarrenOrson]

Nah man, Gen X doesn't get to claim 9/11. I was in middle school just figuring out that boobs rock and they called us down to the gymnasium and we watched CNN all day on a big projector while we were convinced that the world was ending and a shit load of kids spent the whole day crying. We were mostly too young for the financial crash to really hit us, we didn't really own many houses or stocks to lose. We might suck as a generation but there's no way we're worse than the boomers.

[@mudallan6877]

bro you just proved him right. thats main character syndrome right there.

[@nashvegasmgt]

That might be your experience, but it’s not the rule. Check the birth dates again. Tons of us had families, homes, and a lot to lose.

[@epo6831]

I’m GenX, 3 years into my first enlistment when 9/11 happened. Pretty sure it was the defining event.

[@joseureste8257]

Im a millennial, 9/11 8th grade, financial/housing collapse was 08, i was 19. Our whole adult lives was screwed the moment we joined the real world.

[@sgtz1445]

Exactly, you were in middle school. You were still in the safety of your child life. Experiencing something in the adult world is much different. The people in those buildings were my age. The firemen who died were my age. The people who immediately enlisted in the military were my age. The musicians making songs about it were my age. You get Tide pods.

[@TheMostGloriousBeard]

No need to apologize to us millennials. I definitely get it. We can be fucking unbearable at times. 😂 That being said I was kinda raised the way Gen X was. I drank out of the hose, had to stay outside till the lights came on, and hung out with the other kids in my area. Fun fact, we are the last generation whose baby pictures aren’t on a cell phone/social media.

[@cosmicghost811]

Same. (Born in 92).

[@bailey3209]

This, I was born in 87 and I drank from the hose, ran round the streets still the lights came on but was also there at the birth of the internet as we know it now, I feel us millennials had the best of both gen x and gen z in a way but not to the extreme of current day gen z

[@cosmicghost811]

@@bailey3209 true.

[@HappinessDIY]

There was a short window. Like older millennials born until about 1984 are practically adopted gen x.

[@CasualViewer-t4f]

@@bailey3209Born in 86. I agree.

[@install_complete]

I really do have parasocial friendship with Finn. As soon as he mentioned his grandfather, I thought "oh, the fella that was in the bubble turret."

[@0dd1ty399]

my relationship is not parasocial (he liked my comment once)

[@andrebirds6308]

I’m come close to one myself, he read one of my chats on stream and I almost fainted😮

[@spfadden082711]

I feel like the millennials can be divided into two sub categories. The early millennials and the later millennials. There’s a pretty big difference between the ones who were born in the early 80s and early 90s.

[@thomaswilson8022]

Anyone born before the internet is significantly different than the ones who don't remember life before it. Same goes for people born before social media took over and people born into it

[@spfadden082711]

@@thomaswilson8022 agreed. That was my frame of thought. While I use the internet in my daily life now. I didn’t have it in my childhood. I was probably around 15-16 when we first got dial up.

[@thomaswilson8022]

@spfadden082711 I'll never forget the free floppies that came with everything. Like old Playstation demo disks. That sound of a dial up router though.... there isn't a hammer big enough to smash it hard enough

[@ethanwelk2736]

You could say that about any generation though

[@StonyATGmetal9]

I agree to this. I was born in 84 and grew up pre-internet. My childhood and who I am today is more in line with Gen X stereotypes. So I identify more with that generation.

[@nickkorea5850]

My parents were late Boomers, born in the early sixties USA. I believe they are the most privileged group in human history. Too young for Nam and still got to live the prosperous post WW2 life along with all the modern medicine and gadgets that made life pretty easy. Being white also helped

[@jasons5916]

Late boomers like to complain that all the early boomers already took the good jobs and benefits. They also like to complain that their mortgage rates were like 13%. But at least they could afford a house...

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

my parents born were born in 1958 and were also too young for vietnam service

[@ryanshinermusic]

The thing with that: Student loans didn’t exist when they got to be college-aged. And also Reagan took away a lot of benefits from veterans. I notice a lot of people my age (Millenials) who complain about Boomer housing are people who grew up in really well-off families

[@Gremlack13]

Millennials get caught up in boomer and gen x hate scope when their anger is actually pointed at gen z kids. Us millennials are getting deep into our 30s, and not the problem creators they reference. We just struggle to get by in life and enjoy what we have.

[@danbazinet8006]

30's? 43 year old Millennial here lol

[@dom7015]

I'm sorry but y'all made some cringe ahh memes back in the early 2010s. Never got a chuckle out of me even as a kid.

[@jaridatkinson4907]

​@danbazinet8006 almost like millenials were born from 81 to 96 imagine that

[@thinman5484]

Finn turns heel and embraces his true form.

[@rcurl44]

Finn is a boomer confirmed.

[@Brian-jb1db]

How Gen Z gets a pass is wild. They started off in the cringe phase.

[@ananmuadi31]

Ikr, we are the cringiest and most whiny generation, tenfold the millenials.

[@roballan1024]

Extremely generous take on gen z. As an honorary member of gen z who spends entirely too much time on tik Tok, Gen z is guilty of the same sort of self obsessed, politically self righteous whining that millennials became known for. Every other video is another 22 year old who just discovered their inherent autism/adhd/neurodivergence and has made the forgone conclusion that no effort of any kind is worthwhile in life because the entire game is rigged. Gen z seems to have discovered the worst of early 2000s fashion, and appear to be much less motivated at work or education than millennials, but complain about it at the same rate. Anyway I'm another person on the Internet who doesn't know anything.

[@PackinStackin]

Gen X hasn’t moved on from shitting on millennials just yet. It’s close. Just give it time.

[@ananmuadi31]

You took every word out of my mouth.

[@bailey3209]

I'm a 36 year old millennial, grew up in Liverpool running round the streets, throwing stines through windows and all the stuff Finn says that gen x did. But I also have a switch, i fucking hate being an adult and i watch wrestling and Star wars lol I also spent 10 years in the infantry, travelled the world, have been homeless to now being married with 3 kids and i still cant stand being an adult 😂 so Finns right, we do love a good moan. But i think we had some of the best music 😂

[@rebd00mer93]

Millenials didn't get supervised either. At least I didn't. I grew up like gen x. These days kids just hang out with their friends at Walmart (dumbest thing I've ever seen. Idk why hanging out at Walmart is cool.)

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

i was thinking the same thing i was born in 1982 i definitely remember hanging out with friends all day and night and not checking in or having to call anyone and having to find stuff to do outside also my parents would have me in sports year round to keep me out and doing stuff

[@ryanshinermusic]

Millenials were the first generation with helicopter parents.

[@jaridatkinson4907]

​@ryanshinermusic eh kind of but not really I know alot of millenials that grew up outside like gen x

[@joshlynch5676]

@@ryanshinermusic we get it, you drank from the hose bro.

[@leoglasmeyer2853]

Finn raging over a war america never had to fight in the first place and being extremely historically innacurate. Great video!

[@hulluporo9067]

Finn, will you still defend your son if he´ll be in a band that blends Ska and Power Metal and their albums top the Billboard charts?

[@acerimmer8338]

Power Ska! Oh my, Finn would have an aneurysm.😂

[@dxchea]

And sings like Eddie Vedder. 😂

[@Cereal421]

He would shit talk his son's music then follow it by saying "But I respect the hustle. Get that bag my man."

[@charli.ward.]

The thing about us millennials is, we have been perpetually infantilized by older generations, even this far into adulthood, and I think we lean into it because we got tired of fighting it and trying to be taken seriously as adults. Also, I think we haven’t been able to experience the American dream we were promised we could have if we just went to college and worked real hard, and we rely on nostalgia and feeding the inner child because we wish so deeply that we could go back to a time where we did feel hope for the future. Nothing in the world feels safe anymore, and there’s so much safety in the things that used to bring you joy.

[@metaleroperonista]

100% agree with this, Finn doesn't know shit about millennials.

[@thomaswilson8022]

My guy, I'm only two years older then you and I've bought 3 houses and sold two. I live in the 3rd house and it sits on 5 acres. I have the title to my car and my wife's car. I'm not a ceo, I'm a mechanic. I'm not some college trained one either, contractor working eight hours a day. I got off my knees and did something for myself, you can too.

[@charli.ward.]

@@thomaswilson8022 okay, do you want a trophy? The boomers aren’t going to pick you because you’re spouting off their stale bootstraps nonsense.

[@metaleroperonista]

@@thomaswilson8022 Is not about a personal issue, the problem is generational and most of the people born in the 90s is poorer in an economic way than their parents. Very few people can afford houses in the great scheme of things. If you can't see that, then you are probably living under a rock or something.

[@thomaswilson8022]

@bisys2 I see people who were born in the 90s still able to make smart decisions and grind the exact same way I did and make it. Are we rich? No, but we've been able to get through it. None of us created the problems, but it is up to us to get ourselves out of bad situations.

[@xxenthusedgames1540]

I was born in 89 and grew up being left at home to take care of my brother and wouldn't see my mom for a day or so constantly. Most of us millenials were raised the same way as gen x because they became parents before they knew how to even take care of themselves lmfao. Millenials are just trying to break that cycle instead of making it a personality trait

[@Brian-jb1db]

Gen X never understanding that the first half of millenials were raised exactly the same way as them is wild

[@wolfcoma]

Everyone belongs in F tier.

[@Wailmur]

Besides Gen Z that deserve it's own G tier

[@ananmuadi31]

​@@WailmurWe deserve Z tier, the bottom of the pit.

[@sethwalters1509]

I’m a millennial and you’re 100% correct! Our generation is living life on hard mode BUT we also chose cheap dopamine hits over long term financial decisions.

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

I’m a millennial too and completely agree.

[@michaelbeard4883]

yes that coffee definitely killed my chances of a mortgage

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

@@michaelbeard4883 coffee, no. New Cars/holidays/phones/laptops yes. Our generation generally do not know how to spend within their means (a lot of us weren’t taught). It’s one of a number of reasons why home ownership is down.

[@Chill-mm4pn]

Depends on how you grew up. If you were middle class I guess but if your mom struggled and shit you learned to be frugal and not charge lots of credit cards when you can't afford it. Bad impulse spending lol tell the kids to stop it!

[@justinh7560]

@@pratosaurusrex1128Getting married helped me the most as a millennial. I’m 35 now and didn’t have shit to my name, then I got married last year and we’ve been able to save over $50k in one year, on top of having the wedding without accruing new debt, and at the same time paying off my SUV and student loans, and growing my 401k. This single year has given me more financial gain than any of my years as a bachelor. Wouldn’t never expected

[@kerbangol.8386]

I'm Gen X but your description of gen Z is My Life currently. Also, 300.00 for a concert ticket is doable whereas, 1,300,000+ for a house, not so much. We had ozzfest and monsters of rock tours.

[@owenwexler7214]

Also musical nostalgia and the 20 year nostalgia cycle is definitely a multi-generational thing. How many times did boomers buy the same Beatles records across several different media? Was Fleetwood Mac not selling out Wolf Trap in the 90s and 2000s?

[@kerbangol.8386]

@@owenwexler7214 exactamundo

[@lippi2171]

I'm Gen Z and married to my Gen Z wife. I'm a teacher and my students are mostly Gen Alpha. Let's face it, we're not the youngest ones anymore.

[@toga4900]

Yeah, but we're the youngest adults. Sorta hard to describe a generation as a collective while they're all still kids. I hadn't even heard the label Gen z until I was like 14 - 16 (I'm 23 now)

[@lippi2171]

@@toga4900 that's true. I didn't even know I was Gen Z until last year. I'm 26 now. Adulthood comes very quickly

[@3arthandsky]

It's alarming that gen z are technically allowed to get married. That just shows how very old the other generations really are specially cause of experiance and way past 18 yrs of age.

[@Dukeofmamucas]

@@3arthandsky your point aside the labels are ridiculous. I’m an elder millennial at that .

[@alexanderarmstrong5306]

So glad he's still keeping his head up and doing his videos!! I love you we love you you're true fans love you...

[@FupaLipa]

the "i dont think about you at all" meme really does fit gen x lol

[@jerrysimko4557]

Exactly.

[@alexmale2274]

We definitely wanna see more tier list videos and the really good videos that you do using the graphic lines. Keep up the good work Finn!

[@EdwardNaccarato]

He just made 2 whiny videos on both of his channels about how everyone was hurting his feelings and he is even losing sleep over it. Then proceeds to talk trash to a bunch of people he doesn’t know about issues he doesn’t understand.

[@jamesmcgrath9000]

Soft lol

[@skree_fpv436]

Did you miss the part where he said these are jokes? You can't really categorize a how a person is by the year they are born. There a good, bad, brave, whiny, cringe, etc. people of all ages but some of the stereotypes are true. Join in with the many other Millennials who are laughing along and don't take things so personally.

[@EdwardNaccarato]

@@skree_fpv436 There have been some very consequential policy choices in the last 4-5 decades that have lead to a historic decline in the standard of living for younger generations. This is not like the other intergenerational divides of recent history. Those who make cheap jokes about it, or seize on it as an opportunity to try to seem like the adult in the room by ridiculing both sides equally, in a lazy attempt to seem above it all, never seem to understand that.

[@djinnxx7050]

I've not seen the whole video yet, but I'm just gonna assume that how Finn feels about millennials is how the rest of the world feels about Americans.

[@terrymills810]

They love us? I have lived in Japan, Germany, Korea, and Turkey and the people always treated me kindly and with respect just like I treated them.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

american is the most popular country in the world wtf are you talking about we set the standards for everything cultural

[@Guitarnoob85]

​@@subparnaturedocumentaryonly Americans think that. Everyone else thinks America is pretty cringe. Sorry, but it's true

[@Guitarnoob85]

​@@terrymills810it's not that the rest of the world hates Americans as individuals, it's hating America as a whole. America is known for being a bully to other countries, no one likes a bully. Individual Americans are different story.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

@@Guitarnoob85 maybe except for our entertainers, sports leagues, musicians, products, brands and foods but yeah.

[@stuckpig92]

The silent gen dad disapproving of his boomer sons long hair will always be my favourite thing

[@MikeHoncho610]

Haven’t started the vid yet but if gen z is anywhere but F tier this list is factually incorrect

[@21YearOldLonerVirgin]

welp you're not gonna be happy😂 but seriously i'm a Z'er myself and agree, we should've been F tier with Millennials

[@onefordespair]

Now I’m starting to get why people hate you so much.

[@andrewstableford9781]

I’m 53 and everything said about gen x is 100% accurate.

[@toddmueller8948]

We raised ourselves and now we're parenting everyone else.

[@Guitarnoob85]

He just left out that gen x is the most pretentious, other than that it's good.

[@ianmacdonald5336]

I’m going to assume Gen X puts themselves in as S tier, yet never really overcoming anything of note. Every article about them is written by one of them and is the written equivalent of a person sniffing their own farts and saying “mmmm, that’s good.”

[@raddadchris]

They are quite high on themselves. Very self centered and condescending. Easily offended at everything but pretend nothing bothers them.

[@21YearOldLonerVirgin]

it was A tier but close lol

[@dynamicphotography_]

Nope, Gen X always recognizes The Greatest Generation first. Gen X still runs everything. Everybody still relies on Gen X. So yeah....

[@joshlynch5676]

@@raddadchris The most easily offended generation that acts like they are oblivious to criticism. 100% agreed. They argue everything they can with absolutely no one else around. Hey, they drank from a hose a few times though, and had to hang out in the alley behind their house until their parents came home. They really think that makes them badass.

[@KillerKingTy23]

​@@raddadchrisI've heard that same exact sentence to describe millennials and Gen Z as well lmao.

[@TheNewChevyRoll48]

Putting the iPad kids in S Tier? You have a great child sir, but that does not take away from Gen Alpha as a group who gets spoon fed Cocomelon and Skibidi toilet. We're talkin about generations here not just individual people.

[@Martin_Koepl]

Great, now "My Generation" from LImp Bizkit is playing in my head. I am doomed.

[@IanEskelson]

'85 Millennial here. 9/11 happened while I was in high school and when the winter Olympics were in Utah where I live. We had lots of roaming military and snipers perched on our school rooftops and heavy security proticals in fear of terrorist threats from one of the Olympic skate rinks across our school. That was pretty defining for us. And although I don't even think about it anymore, I absolutely lost everything during the Recession. Laid off 3 of my jobs, significant life progress was lost and had to reset my life as if I was reborn. It took years to find new jobs and climb back up the ladder. I know everyone has their own personal downfalls, but the constant life resets including Covid were certainly not caused by my own hand. However, I take full responsibility to own how I recover. It's how you recover that defines you the most. Anyway, I wish all generations the best, we're still living this life together.

[@apparaoapparao]

Us Gen Xers get off the hook because we tried and very briefly succeeded at turning the tide. For a very short window we experienced the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and traditionally niche alternative art/music became the most popular and powerful cultural force of change. Sure, this only lasted three years and then we were back to war and Gin Blossoms…but we did it and showed the world it is possible.

[@zdunne]

One thing that could be taken into consideration are cuspers such as Generation Jones (late 1950s-early 1960s babies), Xennials (usually born 1977-1983 or 85, and Zillennials (usually early 1990s-early 2000s), there is also overlap with late Silent and Early Boomers. The cusper article on Wikipedia gives a good explanation of this phenomenon en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusper

[@kohiek]

I just hope that Millennials and Gen Z can team up. But Z might hate us too much.

[@carmendotnet6805]

Gen Z have suggested to do so, but us Millennials are so tired of being shitted on by everyone else (Yes, we were shitted on by Gen Z) that we told them to screw off and that they were on their own. We are tired.

[@renflower1910]

Funny because as a GEN Z Zillennial, I thought Millennials hate us too much lol. But honestly we should be on the same side. We have to deal with shit from Boomers and we grew up with a lot of the same things especially Zillennials.

[@SolarWraith]

You got Gen X down with the reckless behavior. Used to crawl/climb through abandoned buildings, hopped on the tops of elevators in the projects, riding between train cars, riding on the back of a bus, playing live Frogger on the highways, creating ramps and jumping over construction areas on my BMX, and obliterating telephone booths and garbage cans with M80s and half sticks of dyno. Damn, now that I think about it I'm really surprised I made it out of the 80s and 90s. 😄

[@takodabostwick8507]

S: Silent Generation A: Generation X, Millennials B: Boomers C: Generation Alpha F: Generation Z

[@ananmuadi31]

S: Silent Generation A: Generation X B: Millenials C:Boomers F: Generation Z, Generation Alpha

[@tangerinesrock90038]

If I am not mistaken “silent generation” is after “greatest generation” late 19-teens to late 1920s “silent gen” is the Korean War dudes Don Draper Mad Men crew. Great video Finn!! Love the commentary!

[@PunchyOne]

Between Silent and Great Generation, their cartoon creation was incredible.

[@williamconner9921]

The worst generations is the Tide pod eating kids

[@MrMegatron85]

I was born in 85, but I identify as gen x...

[@djinnxx7050]

Bloody transgenerationals, always trying to muscle in on gen X credibility...

[@Darth5idious]

You would be located in the sub genre of millennials called the elder millennial. We lived before the youtubes

[@21YearOldLonerVirgin]

i'm Gen Z (2003) but grew up as a Millennial & like Gen X pop culture so i call myself a Xennial

[@MrMegatron85]

@@Darth5idious before KZbin, social media and basically the whole Internet. Haha I didn't even know how to get into a website until I was 16...

[@Darth5idious]

@@MrMegatron85 Dude same thing. We had windows 95 on our PC when I graduated HS.

[@tatemcilwain1775]

As a Gen Z myself, I don't think that the people I know are going to be blaming other people for their problems too much. I think that there's absolutely a bit of that going on but we're also smart and capable people when we stop being depressed and actually get our shit together. I always like to surround myself with smart and talented people and they're not hard to find. I generally feel good about this generation and even though theres a lot of depressed, lonely and confused people out there, I think we can figure our shit out pretty well.

[@cosmicghost811]

So basically, gen-z is Heath Ledger's Joker.

[@colinrussell2017]

Literally me

[@xshadowscreamx]

And Millennials are Arthur fleck joker.

[@ben10jenkins]

Fin, I'm 20 and your entire childhood and the way the videos described it were also my childhood. I literally lived your special "gen x" life in it's entirety. People are still raising there kids like this - y'all aren't special lol.

[@DrNutbag]

I thought the silent generation came after the greatest generation? Around the time of WWII but too young to participate but did live through The Great Depression? I could be wrong

[@terrymills810]

WWI, roaring 20's, Great Depression, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War general timeline

[@Chill-mm4pn]

Gen X is silent generation I thought.

[@jasons5916]

Silent gen is the one born before WW2, but too young to fight. The oldest would have been 17 in 1945. Some of them were born after the depression. They're called silent because the Greatest Generation did all the great world saving stuff and there were so many loud Boomers that the Silents just faded into the background without anything to make them notable.

[@Brian-jb1db]

Really? All the amazing metalcore that came out during the Millenial coming of age years and you choose the Lumineers.

[@DrastixMachina]

My grandmother (1954) always told me stories of growing up still in segregated schools out here in Delaware. How the few black students she was with would have stuff thrown at them walking into the school n stuff. What a time

[@bc7013]

yeah but today is way worse

[@Christinascupcakes]

“Be back by dark.” 😂 exactly. So many good memories!

[@NuMetalfan1996]

I don’t know where this stereotype of Boomers owning their own homes comes from, my parents are Boomers and they have never owned a place in their entire lives. Guys you have to be at least Middle Class to own your own home, and work in well paid middle class jobs like being a Docter/Nurse, a high paid School Teacher, a Dentist, in high paid Office Jobs, high paid Estate Agent. My father was a working class Builder/labourer, people that work in manual labour jobs DO NOT own their homes, and a lot of Boomer men ended up working manual labour jobs. My father had to stop working when he hit his mid 50’s because his back was too damaged after years of building and manual labour jobs. And My mother mainly worked in stores/shops.

[@dadboard]

The stereotype comes from it being insanely easy for their generation to buy a home off of even a single household income back then.

[@real30yearoldboomerhours53]

May also be an American thing. Just an assumption so please correct me if I’m wrong, but based of some of your spelling/vocabulary are you from teh Brit place? Not sure how it was/is back there.

[@NuMetalfan1996]

@@real30yearoldboomerhours53 Yeah I’m British. To say most boomers in Britain found it easy to own their own homes, is ridiculous, unless they were Middle Class. Which is why I never got the stereotype. Over here in Britain you have to have been at least Middle Class to own a home, NOT Working Class. Most Working Class families lived/lives in what we call Council properties. Basically homes and flats that are used by the local Council to let tenants stay via paying bills, rent and tax. That has been the main Working Class way of life in Britain since Post WW2. In Britain you would need to be on very good money to own your own home, which means you would have to be Middle Class, Posh basically.

[@fray3dendsofsanity]

Well it helps that there actually WAS a middle class back then. It's basically eroded now

[@NuMetalfan1996]

@@fray3dendsofsanity what are you talking about?. There are 4 classes in 1st world countries (technically 5). Poor (poor people tend to live in rundown council estates, rundown flats, caravans, hostels, or are homeless, and tend to have either very low skilled jobs like cleaning, or have no jobs) Working Class (working class people tend to live in council homes, where you pay rent and tax, and tend to have jobs like caring for elderly, building/manual labour, low level office jobs, work for McDonald’s and fast food places at a low level, low level school teacher, retail work, or on benifits/welfare that they need as they have bad mental health or are disabled) Middle Class (middle class people tend to live in homes they can buy, their kids can go to fancy private schools and universities, and middle class people tend to have jobs like, estate agent, high level School teacher, high level office jobs, dentist, nurse/doctor, mid level actor, lawyer, politician) Rich (rich people tend to have multiple homes, and can have what they want and desire, and have jobs like Lawyer, politician, CEO’s and heads of companies, high paid actor, etc etc) Super Rich (technically) (people like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Royalty, the Rockefeller family, the Rothschild family) These Super Rich people have more money than quite a few countries, that’s how rich they are.

[@skramzfather]

i feel as though generations are different based on the area you grow up in as well. i’m an elder gen z but since we grew up in a poor rural area we didn’t grow up with a home computer and i didn’t have a phone until high school, my friend group and i get dubbed “zillennial” quite often

[@CaloBrown]

I'm born in 87, so that makes me a millennial(?), anyway, I relate more to Gen X.

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

Finn said the typical millennial is 36, so he is talking about you (and me too!)

[@21YearOldLonerVirgin]

yes, Millennial is 1981/82-1996. i'm 2003 but grew up like a Millennial

[@wubslicer9021]

I really like how I'm taking notes in my head from Finn while I'm 21 years old, and about to turn 22 next week, really feels like dodging a few bullets so I won't eff up my future, so thanks, Finn 😅

[@NuMetalfan1996]

As a Millennial, Gen X are the coolest generation and Gen Z are the most cringe generation. Which is ironic considering Gen X are the parents of Gen Z. As for us Millennials, those born in the 80’s are good, us 90’s born Millennials not so much though. The Boomers (my parents generation) are meh, not as cringe as Gen Z, and not as cool as Gen X.

[@bananaempijama]

Your words are also mine 👌 Born in '85, and i loved growing up in the 1990's.

[@NuMetalfan1996]

@@bananaempijama I envy you, I was born in the mid 90’s, so I was very late to the Millennial generation.

[@djinnxx7050]

I slipped in before the cool cut off then, '89. The 90s in England were great, it felt like freedom, early 2000s as well. Top tier jazz material as well.

[@stephendeinema9259]

Finn, all the things you described for Gen x you just stole from millennials and then retconed us with the behavior of gen z. I was born in 90, had 0 adult supervision, smoked cigs at 10 and weed at 12, had firework and bb wars in the woods to hundreds of times, we all have bb scars, was out on my bike 24/7 so I wouldn't have to go home and get hit by my alcoholic dad, drank from the hose, every time we played football someone was leaving with a broken finger, we blew shit up in the woods, shot guns, beat the shit out of each other because we grew up on jackass, Beavis and Butthead and South Park. Nobody gave us a trophy, they didn't start that crap until gen z with all the kids born after the year 2000 so stop pinning that shit on us. 9/11 was our generations big event, I was 10 and my brother was 14 and it's still a vivid memory. We didn't have Internet or cell phones unless your family was rich and answering machines were still a thing. My family didn't even have a computer until like '99. You could still smoke in bars and restaurants in the smoking section. We grew up on cassette tapes, my first CD player was a ps1 in '98. So I'm seriously confused when your generation sits there and acts like you guys were the last ones to do all this stuff.

[@apparaoapparao]

The greatest generation was born 1930-1945. Tough, gritty folks that remember life before televisions in homes. They are respectful and thankful (for the most part)…especially those who served.

[@virgilflowers9846]

That’s Silent generation. Greatest Generation is 1901-1927

[@xp8969]

​​@@virgilflowers9846 exactly, they're called the greatest because they grew up during the Great Depression and went on to defeat the Nazis

[@apparaoapparao]

As a nearly old/old I apologize for getting my dates wrong. I should go back and edit 1915-1930. Just so few left alive…but when you meet one, hold the door open for them, help them get something off the top shelf, assist them walking across the parking lot. They are National Treasures who will be all gone soon. Much respect and thank you….yes I know their generation wasn’t perfect; but they kept us going and prevented many more disastrous potential future scenarios.

[@xp8969]

@@apparaoapparao your numbers are still off bro, Virgil Flowers already corrected you

[@apparaoapparao]

@@xp8969 ok, ok. I defer the dates to virgil

[@onyx0fire]

Awesome video Finn, can’t wait to watch this one with the family who cover all generations.

[@Roger-fs5yo]

Gen X are the same as we've always been. We are sitting here watching the place burn, while the other generations won't shut up😮‍💨

[@christiankoll1528]

And that's why the millennials are crying.

[@Roger-fs5yo]

​@christiankoll1528 ok, but the the question that needs to be answered is what exactly do they want the X'rs to do about it?

[@the_kombinator]

@@Roger-fs5yo Nothing now, they inherited our problems. Just like The Offspring sang about in the 90s ;)

[@Roger-fs5yo]

@@the_kombinator oh God, the OFFSPRING are such wannabe conformist🙄

[@plusmin09]

@@Roger-fs5yo 🤣🤣🤣 "anti-conformist" A term taken straight out of the Gen X playbook!

[@lupo3694]

I love how genX act like they had they wildest, roughest childhoods. "We drank out of hoses. We played unsupervised outside." I am an old millenial (39) and I did all that. We did Jackass level stupid shit before the show even came out. Jumping from 1 story buildings into bushes, and shit. It is not that unique, I am sure kids still do it. Also no one fucks with GenX because they are the most boring, lethargic generation there is. They are simply not interesting enough to make fun of.

[@TheuglyTrip]

Gen Z is funny they just can’t seem to comprehend much . Call us 40 year olds Boomers , think that NU metal is making an insurgence due to Metalcote lol mannn it goes on and on . Gen Z is something else

[@donnienarco144]

Ever since my gen (z) starded doing stuff I realized most if not all of us miss the point completely. I dont know a single person under 30/40 who's art talks to me more than stuff from the 80s/90s.

[@Shadow_Noceda]

​@@donnienarco144 that's called being blinded by nostalgia

[@donnienarco144]

@@Shadow_Noceda Im not really THAT nostalgic. My life was shitty in the 2000s but I still liked some things of that era. I remember being a kid/teen and realizing things had changed A LOT real fast from 2009 to 2011. But I still was enjoying lots of new shit all through the 2010s. IMHO most artists are still creatively "dependant" on culture before 2010 bc life hasnt changed that much ever since 2015/16.

[@21YearOldLonerVirgin]

you are a Boomer. but as a Z we are NOT funny & yes we're pretty stupid but Gen X raised us so i resent Gen X for coddling us..

[@TheuglyTrip]

@@21YearOldLonerVirgin and don’t blame us for the way your kids turned out. My two daughters turned out just fine . Perhaps some of your parents sucked there’s no doubting that but you kids also have brains of your own , try using them

[@Preetvnd]

Millennials made youtube what it is today. Gen x m'fers getting a free ride.

[@zachsmith1634]

As a millennial the truth hurts bad hahaha. Thanks for slapping me with the truth Papa Finn

[@JC_2311]

For Gen X, being a kid, after school until dark, was like one long episode of MTV's Jackass...

[@jerrysimko4557]

We were Jackass before portable video was available.

[@Otaku_Jinsei]

Fins been dropping heat lately🤙🏻

[@robertrogers3055]

The hose thing, i didnt have time to go in the apartment (that we were ejected from around 10AM) go to the cabinet and get a glass and fill it. We had WAAAYYY to much going on outside to be bothered

[@UnePaquerette]

I feel like millenials are the 1st born, gen z are realizing they are the middle child, gen alpha is the toddler, and gen x is like the cousin who was born beteen 2 generations and wants to be seen. Please correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't most Karens gen X ?

[@djinnxx7050]

Gen X is Karen central, yes. But technically the boomers were entitled first, and they passed that on to their sprogs. Between gen X and millennials, millennials are the most entitled on paper but too riddled with social anxiety to show it in actually, whilst gen X had to simply get over that anxiety thus they're far more obnoxious vocally. Millennials are arguably more obnoxious visually, if you're to go by the prevalence of tattoos, hair dye, stretchers etc. And gen Z have combined both generations into an unholy union.

[@PackinStackin]

This guy didn’t include 9/11 as a millennial defining event is on something. I’m 41 and it sure as hell was.

[@darkgardener9577]

Born early Jan 1980.......I feel like that guy hanging on the wheels of the Gen-X cargo jet leaving Afghanistan........"I hate millennials too!!! I promise I'm not one of them!!!"

[@fredericlatreille]

I was born in '78 as well and when I was a kid, my mom would force me to play outside at 8am and I would come back when it was dark ... even as a teenager, they wouldn't know who my friends were nor where I was until my 11pm curfey.

[@hulluporo9067]

The best year of all time was 1978. Finn was born, and his favourite European viewer, which is me.

[@patrickwade757]

my dad was in the navy during Vietnam. he basically just got in trouble, drank, and scraped paint for a few years.

[@ryanmaass5360]

This is exactly the type of content I'm here for.

[@09624brent]

Gen X here… I literally spent one summer chopping trees down in the woods behind my house to dam up this stream. It would over flow… rinse and repeat. Just a 9 year old with his axe in the woods channeling his spirit animal.

[@edwinlujanhernandez6048]

I was born in 1988... he's not wrong about us

[@bc7013]

speak for yourself

[@edwinlujanhernandez6048]

@bc7013 ok he's talking about me

[@lightningmonky7674]

Finn you gotta be the coolest gen x'er I've ever heard of. You somehow seemed to have retained a youthful spirit and your humor is hilarious to a gen z'er like me , which is why I've been subbed for all 6 years

[@KaiyaBell-oq1xx]

Gen Z are based.

[@TimWhitt]

Gen Alpha is already better

[@xp8969]

True, gen Z is definitely doing too many drvgs

[@mathewyerry2072]

Yes

[@renflower1910]

@@xp8969 And sadly vape. But other than that, not too bad.

[@lyramckenzie8550]

These are based on generalizations. Not just millennials, but a lot of them. I've never used the finger mustache, i've never listened to stomp clap hey music, i dont use the 08' crash as an excuse for my life sucking, and ive never used words like adulting. I thought all those things were lame while they were popular. I am guilty of nostalgia, to an extent. But mainly for the 90s. However, I dont like the repetitive nature of media repeating itself because its never as good as the original and its a blatant cash grab. I like most of the stuff that is talked about on this channel, but in general, i think we need to stop assuming that every person that is part of a generation subscribes to those characteristics. Its usually all in good fun, but this notion of grouping people into categories doesn't allow people to be viewed as individuals.

[@Brian-jb1db]

Every Gen X: We are the best because we drank from a hose

[@krissybee2484]

Love how the justification for the greatest generation being that at 22 his granddad was dropping bombs. Uh that wasn’t the only war. Uh millennials having to fight post 911 and still to this day. Nothing was the same. Like 22 year olds didn’t do that. I was in the military at 22. Just depends what 22 year old were talkin about. Every generation had their time to fight. I’m not downplaying his grandpas story at all. Like not even slightly. But there were other wars to follow. Each generation had people who had to fight that fight sadly.

[@WhereYouGoinCityBoy]

Finn confuses the hell out of me. His bad takes (millennials are softer than gen z) are just too bad to ignore. A lot of us millennials grew up pre internet and were free range. We also don't think words are violence like gen z does.

[@PackinStackin]

Pre internet life is always associated with Gen X. But there is a group of millennials remember pre internet life. The older millennials.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

Hi, Gen Z here. What you said about us is true. However, my music taste is mostly in line with that of Gen X and Millennials.

[@mattmichaels5195]

I definitely enjoyed this and feel humbled and enlightened. You really put things into perspective. I sincerely appreciate it. For arguments sake (as a millennial born in '90) we really deserve the B tier and Gen Z should be with the Boomers in C tier (just my opinion). Millennials grew up with the analog tech and grew into the digital. Boomers overall had a sense of reluctance to this progression and many pay the price every day. Gen Z is ignorant to this shift and therefore generally seems to take technology for granted. It is a kind of "two sides of the same coin" thing for Boomers and Gen Z. Millennials still have time to make up for shortcomings but overall we have a unique, grounded type of fairness motivated way of seeing things that I admire.

[@jonathanhebert5271]

as a supposed millennial i just cant relate to any of the generational stereotypes. i dont seem to fit it anywhere. maybe cajun country is just different. hose water? i drank swamp and bayou water. hose water was a luxury. locked out the house until sundown? if i didnt have school i didnt really have to come home. especially if some neighborhood kids or my uncles (only a few years older than me) were with me, we would just stay in the woods for days and no one worried. if i was home i was working my ass off with my silent gen great grandfather who raised me, literally drinking gasoline occasionally. building fences, digging ditches dismantling houses nail by nail to saveevery piece of wood and hardware. i could use a chainsaw at 8 and was a jaded cynical alcoholic by 16. my gen x parents are more stereotypically millennial than i am. and i would say my hometown peers probably feel similarly and led similar lives.

[@burningtheevidence8038]

Now we need a montage of Finn joining Cartman in his hunt for Hippies and how they eliminate them playing Slayer xD

[@permafrostprod1]

I'm by date of birth a millennial but I was raised with gen-Xers and my references and memories are messed up because when I hear people like Finn, describing his childhood, I can relate 💯 but when I talk about my childhood with friends my age, they don't understand what I'm talking about. They don't know about bands, cartoons, concerts and places I'm talking about and I'm baffled everytime they tell me about their tween/teen years filled with Pokemon and other stuff that I saw as "baby" stuff when I was that age. I'm like a weird chameleon that confuse the observant. Because I look youthfull younger millennials and older gen-Zers think I'm about their age until I talk about stuff with them. On the other hand when I have nostalgic conversation with friends that are around 45 years old, I also get those confused looks of "how do you know, why, what...HOW?? How old are you again?" 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 One thing I know for sure, none of my kids will know until they realises around 8th grade that they were not born in the 80's 📠📼📺📻🎶👨🏻‍🎤

[@ChrisMcSweeney]

3:07 This is a plot point in Masters of the Air - decent series worth a watch if you haven't already, it's all about exactly this part of the war. Your grandad might even be a background character.