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Buzz Feed
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Gen-Z Things That No Millennial Can Hope To Recognize
These quizzes are going to show you a bunch of (mostly) Gen-Z-related people and things to see if you recognize them. Whether you do or don't is the irrefutable, undeniable measure of whether you're a young, happy, zesty person or an over-the-hill, ancient pile of dust. No One Over 27 Years Old Can Recognize These 15 Things If you're young and cool, you'll know exactly what these if you're kids or siblings are young and cool. Otherwise, prepare to realize you are completely out of touch. Take the quiz here. If Life Peaked For You In 2016 (Same), You'll Easily Pass This Old Gen Z'er Brain Rot Quiz This quiz will be a truly humbling experience for some of you. Take the quiz here. Gen Z Is Going To Recognize All Of These Singers, But I'll Be Shocked If Millennials Can Recognize 8/13 Of Them Unless you're a hip, cool millennial. Or a Gen X'er with children. Or a boomer who still listens to pop radio. Take the quiz here. Listen Up, Millennials And Gen Z'ers: If You Can Identify These 17 Famous People, Your Parents Raised You Right These celebrities are incredibly famous, but they're also not exactly young. If you recognize them, thank your parents. Take the quiz here. Let's Play A Gen Z Version Of "The Price Is Right" To See How ~Trendy~ You Are Finally, we won't ask you to prove you're cool by identifying things and celebrities, but rather by knowing the price of trendy things. Take the quiz here.
Buzz Feed
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Shrek Screenshot Trivia Quiz — BuzzFeed Quizzes
If you're a younger millennial or older Gen Z'er, chances are you're obsessed with Shrek. Sorry, but there truly is no other animated movie franchise like it — the Shrek movies are funny, unique, and just such a happy vibe (like, uh, there are no scenes where all the characters are almost literally burned talking about you, Toy Story). But even as a big Shrek fan, it's often hard to remember the movies distinctly. So let's put your knowledge to the test! I'll give you a screenshot from a Shrek movie, and you'll have to tell me which one it's from. Got it? Let's go! And for more ✨Shrexy✨ content, be sure to follow BuzzFeed Canada on Instagram and TikTok!
CNBC
07-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
America's Deficit Reckoning: How the U.S. debt spiral could spark a crisis
Independent analyses – ranging from Yale University to the Wharton School to the Congressional Budget Office – have each said that President Donald Trump's budget plan will add trillions of dollars to the U.S. deficit over the next 10 years. What's at stake if the deficit continues on its upward trajectory? This year, the U.S. deficit is exceeding 6% of GDP, a level roughly 63% higher than the average in the past five decades. And unlike past spikes, the current one isn't driven by war or economic crisis, leading many to raise concerns about why America might be playing with fire when it comes to its fiscal health. CNBC's "America's Deficit Reckoning" explores the consequences – not how to solve the budget deficit, but what's at stake if we don't. Watch the video to learn more. Through interviews with more than a dozen top officials, economists, and investors, including Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, macro investor Ray Dalio, and Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, CNBC homes in on three potential areas of fallout: the markets, the economy, and international relations. Markets at Risk: Persistent deficits have many prominent investors on high alert. Dalio says that the U.S. is showing "classic signs" of a late-stage debt cycle, ascribing a 50% chance of trauma in the next three years. PIMCO's Chief Investment Officer Dan Ivascyn was a bit more sanguine – saying that he thinks a crisis of investor confidence is unlikely in the U.S., but has been diversifying away from Treasuries. That mirrors some recent activity in the bond market, which hasn't been overtly reacting to the new budget plan. Still, the bond vigilantes will police the deficit when they feel it's necessary: Ed Yardeni, who coined the term in the early '80s, says they're more powerful than ever. Economic Strain: If Americans benefit from policies like tax cuts and higher spending, why should they care about the longer-term implications of wider deficits? The most apparent risk to the economy is inflation, which would keep interest rates higher and "crowd out" private investment. Additionally, when interest payments become a higher proportion of Federal outlays, they drain resources that would otherwise go to other budget line items, says Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. And it hinders the government's ability to respond in the event of an emergency. But some of the worst economic effects will be felt by future generations, who, according to one GenZ'er interviewed by CNBC, are already concerned the deficit will impede their ability to collect social services. International Implications: Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once called the national debt the "greatest threat to national security." His concern was that as debt levels increase and rates remain higher, that it could squeeze discretionary defense spending. As historian Niall Ferguson warns: a great power that spends more on interest payments than defense breaches a threshold that historically has preceded a decline. The U.S. crossed that red line last year. There's also a significant interdependence between the U.S. and its foreign creditors – especially China and Japan, so if global investors begin to truly question America's fiscal health, the ripple effects could extend beyond the bond markets. The Clock Is Ticking: Experts at the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimate the U.S. has less than 20 years to fix its fiscal trajectory. After that, even aggressive tax hikes or spending cuts may not be enough to stave off default — implicit or otherwise. While the U.S. can technically print its way out of debt, doing so risks runaway inflation, economic contraction, and geopolitical fallout. As former Treasury Secretary Rubin puts it, we may be entering uncharted territory. The time to prepare is now—before markets force our hand.
Buzz Feed
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Gen Zers Are Sharing What They Really Think About Millennials
Generational drama is basically a full-time job on the internet, but every now and then, someone actually cuts through the noise with something real. Case in point, u/ree2bMe2122, a millennial, sparked a surprising and honest conversation when they asked Gen Z, "What are your thoughts on millennials?" So, here's what Gen Z had to say about their slightly older internet siblings: "As a Gen Z'er, I feel a pretty strong sense of camaraderie with millennials. We have an understanding, you know? Similar environment and struggles, all of us victims of a damaged system, struggling in solidarity, etc." "We share a lot of trauma..." "They're fun to make fun of (LOL). I like calling them old and saying new terms to throw them off, but they're chill people." "Y'all are silly in a good way. I'm glad you guys were the first to want to talk about emotions and mental health. Thanks to that, our generation is much more emotionally intelligent than many of the previous generations. My therapist is a millennial, and she's awesome." "My brother is a millennial, and he's pretty cool. Other than the fact that millennials pretend to be '90s kids when they don't even remember the '90s, they're fine." "I'm not sure because I think I fall in the middle, being both millennial and Gen Z. But honestly, younger millennials are really not that different than older Gen Z in terms of interests, lifestyle, and hobbies, as well as childhood. I do think older millennials are a little narcissistic and never really grew up, but that's just my own bias from my experiences with my older siblings and friends who were born in the '80s." "I poke fun at millennials for their 'millennialisms' — like making songs out of literally everything mundane or saying things like 'OMG this' and Blink-182 references — but overall, I don't actively hate millennials." "The only real difference between Gen Z and millennials is the media we grew up watching. We are in the same economic position, we lean the same ways politically, and we were fed and saw through all the same lies. It's literally just what shows we watched and where we watched them as kids that's different. Before anybody says slang, that stuff changes dozens of times within each generation. The language difference between older Gen Z and younger Gen Z is just as big as between millennials and Gen Z." "In my opinion, I see the generations as kind of like this: greatest generation leads to boomers leads to millennials leads to Gen Alpha. Silent generation leads to Gen X leads to Gen Z. I think millennials share a lot of similarities (for better or worse) with boomers. Both had large protest cultures that gave way to a kind of almost hedonism before a crash. For boomers, it was the '60s summer of love and protests against Vietnam, followed by the greed-is-good '80s. With millennials, there was the Occupy Wall Street and Obama hope culture, plus the sleazy indie party culture in Brooklyn and LA. The only difference is millennials got absolutely screwed over by the recession and have been getting screwed ever since." "Millennials are mostly OK. There are a few that are just very goofy, but that's in every generation. I think Gen X is possibly the worst generation, followed by boomers." "Why are you wearing Gen X clothing and listening to their music?" "Some of them are low-key boomers, LOL." "Honestly, as a queer person, Gen Z gays hate on millennial gays way too much. Our generation doesn't realize how much harder they had it, and cringe isn't a crime. There are some millennials who make hating Gen Z their whole personality trait, but who cares really." "Millennials are largely fine. We share a lot of the same struggles. But the 'doggo' cutesy baby voice thing and thinking that making exaggerated facial expressions to chipmunked audios is funny will always make me want to curl up into a ball and implode into a fine mote of dust. But that's not all of y'all." "Millennials really appear to be horrible parents, raising children that nobody wants to be around. So many children of millennials seem very intellectually stunted, behaviorally challenged, excessively defiant, tech-addicted, and socially inept. There is no way that every single one of these 30-something's kids I've seen has autism and/or ADHD. Maybe you're the problem. Kids from regular households seem to have issues I used to only see in children going through abuse or neglect. You put your safety at risk by babysitting these kids. Do better, guys. You of all people should know how wrong it is to give internet access to your child, yet they all have phones and tablets. And, you still plaster pictures of them all over social media. At least Gen X has the excuse of not knowing how that stuff works." "I notice a lot of millennials online being ignorantly confident about how they think Gen Z collectively grew up, which is annoying. For example, I notice a lot of millennials gatekeeping older Gen Z'ers from the 2000s. Some really can't tell the difference between someone my age and someone born in 2008. Many also feel the need to give opinions that ooze with a superiority complex on certain Gen Z topics. I see millennials in YouTube comments saying most of us are aging rapidly because we never had a childhood. They'd say that even if they thought we were aging slowly. Then, it'd be, 'Gen Z'ers never played outside, so that's why they don't have as many scars and wrinkles as previous generations. Their faces are stunted.' It's just bias. Other than this, I looked up to my younger millennial cousins when I was a kid. I think of my childhood as being closer to late millennials than younger Gen Z'ers." "I try not to always get caught up in generational divides (though I admit sometimes boomerish behavior can get to me). However, as far as they go, I do tend to see millennials and Gen Z as 'brothers and sisters in arms,' so to speak." "My brother's a millennial. Being born so close to your generation, I find myself relating to you guys more than my own generation." "I think millennials are way, WAY too obsessed with generations and assigning traits to them. It's cool to see what generations are interested in or act like overall as a sociology thing, but making it part of how you understand everyday life just makes us feel othered or, at worst, some kind of zoo animal." Whether you're a proud millennial, full-on Gen Z, somewhere in the middle, or beyond, it's clear we've got more in common than not. So if you've got thoughts, feelings, or generational hot takes of your own, drop them in the comments below!
Buzz Feed
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
17 Back In The Day Experiences That Are Now Obsolete
Recently, older adults of the BuzzFeed Community shared the common but unique experiences from "back in the day" that are now practically obsolete, and as a Gen Z'er, I'm completely fascinated. Here are some once-common practices from the past that, depending on your age, will have you either feeling super nostalgic or incredibly perplexed: "Not having disposable diapers. Cloth diapers were delivered by a diaper service, and they were washed and reused." —Anonymous "In the '50s, a man selling vegetables would drive his truck slowly through the neighborhood, calling out, 'Vegetables!' People would run out of their houses to see what he had, and he'd stop so they could buy." "Cigarettes were in a vending machine, and kids would be sent to the store to buy them for our parents. Also, if you had a penny, you could buy a piece of candy!" —Anonymous "We freely walked on and off campus at our own school and other schools. There were no fences to keep kids inside or other people out. Former students would visit and chat with the principal, and students would walk home during lunch and come back. It wasn't a big deal back then." "In the 1960s, cars didn't have seatbelts. My mom would take loads of neighborhood kids to the beach, and we'd all just hang out in the 'Way Back' (station wagon), talking, laughing, and sliding around." —Anonymous "I live in Kentucky. When we were kids, what we called 'spray planes' used to fly over us, releasing insecticide to kill all the mosquitoes. We'd run outside and wave at the man in the plane, all while the insecticide came raining down." "Girls could not wear slacks to school during the '40s through '60s — dresses or skirts only. We had to kneel to prove our skirts touched the floor, and if they didn't, we were sent home to change clothes. Boys had to wear belts and have their shirts buttoned, except the very top button. Boys could wear jeans, but nothing ragged or torn." —smartwitch66 "When I lived in Wisconsin in the late '60s and early '70s, the fire department would open the hydrants down the streets on hot and humid days to let the kids cool off. Good times!" "Before photocopy machines, they used a device called a mimeograph in schools. A stencil was attached to the drum of the machine, and when the handle was turned, it would spit out a mirror image sheet of paper. The process used an alcohol-based ink. Many times, the teacher would walk out of the office, be gone for 10 minutes, then come back with freshly printed papers. The smell of that fresh ink was heavenly; half the class would huff their paper as it was handed to them. Then Xerox came along and spoiled it all." —Kerry, 60 "In some places where I've lived, pregnant teenagers weren't allowed to attend regular schools because they were thought to be bad influences." "In the '60s, my mom would have to ask the grocery store lady cashier for a Kotex belt, which was kept hidden under the conveyor cabinet." —chillsinger56 "When the new car models came out, it was common to go window-shopping at the dealerships. Even though the salesperson knew you were too young to purchase a car, they'd still let you look around and take brochures home." "Making long-distance phone calls used to cost you by the minute." —Anonymous "Up until the '80s and before cable was available, there was nothing broadcast on TV late at night. At 1 a.m., after late-night shows ended, the stations played an instrumental of 'God Bless America' with a video of a waving flag. Then, white fuzz would appear on the screen for several hours until the morning shows came on the following day." "The number of people who'd smoke in hospitals. It was common in the '70s to see that smoking was allowed in the emergency department waiting area, the hospital cafeteria, and even in the patient rooms!" —Anonymous "Back in the late '60s, we wouldn't wear any shoes during the summer months. We'd walk around barefoot, even in San Francisco! No one even batted an eye." Lastly: "Littering. In the '50s and '60s, eating in the car was a regular thing. Our dad taught us to throw our food wrappers out the window to 'keep the car tidy.' Now, if you litter, it's a pretty hefty fine." —Anonymous, 70 If you're an older adult, what are some everyday experiences from "back in the day" that are now obsolete? If you want a chance to be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post, let us know in the comments, or you can anonymously submit your story using the form below!
