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boydster ,
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Geriatric millennial checking in from 1983.

I like the “Oregon Trail generation” name someone mentioned earlier too, I might lean into that one more in the future. Remember playing Math Blaster on an Apple Mac Classic in elementary school computer lab? Then you were there too!

suburban_hillbilly ,

This one. I was born in 85, but in very poor, very rural Pennsylvania. I describe my upbringing as nearly gen x, with some millenial quirks.

lobut ,

Same year!

Mavis Beacon teaches typing. BBSs. Cassette tapes with the pencil. I had a Spectrum that used cassettes before I got my Amiga 500.

boydster ,
@boydster@sh.itjust.works avatar

There are dozens of us!

SmokeInFog ,
@SmokeInFog@midwest.social avatar

Same

s3rvant ,
@s3rvant@lemmy.ml avatar

Ditto though '84

Zink ,

I like to use Oregon Trail generation too. It’s the perfect label for those of us who essentially had computers inserted into our childhoods at some point.

Computers pre-date us by a lot, obviously, but it’s more about the mass market computers (and home video game systems) that normal people could access.

apotheotic ,

Generation 4, Diamond was my first and my best friend had Pearl

Serious answer, I’m on the border between millennial and gen z

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

i dont get that reference, sorry

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

It’s Pokemon games.

apotheotic ,

As @Zagorath mentioned, its a pokemon thing. Those happened to be the current gen game when I was of the age of interest in them.

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

well when pokemon was popular i thought that anime was cringe so i avoided all of it back then

apotheotic ,

Fair enough, embrace cringe

Interesting_Test_814 ,

Hey, fellow gen4 here !

apotheotic ,

…are we about to kiss?

Interesting_Test_814 , (edited )

…what ? feels unprompted but…

apotheotic ,

😂

neidu2 ,

Xenial, I think it’s called. I was the youngest, and I was born in 1983. My siblings are Def GenX, and I never quite identified with that group.

I never quite identified as a millennial either, I’m somewhere in between.

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

i dont know how its called but my shot would be xillenial

SpaceNoodle ,

Also dubbed “Generation Catalano:” slate.com/…/generation-catalano-the-generation-st…

BartyDeCanter ,

I prefer Oregon Trail generation.

Klanky ,
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

This is how I feel too. 1984 for me.

NotSteve_ ,

Same here except a Zillennial. I was born in 97 so I don’t really identify with zoomers nor millenials

norimee ,

As a fellow Gen Zer

Fellow to whom now?

pedka OP ,
@pedka@lemmy.ml avatar

not you

norimee ,

Obviously

Hikermick ,

Early Gen X. Just gotta say, the term.baby boomer was tossed around when I was younger but I never heard the term generation X until the 90’s, maybe late 90’s.

Lemmy_2019 ,

Hello fellow kid. I remember Pepsi Generation and MTV Generation. But you’re right, Gen X didn’t start in earnest until the 90s, I’m pretty sure.

Fun fact, Generation X originally applied to Boomers.

Nonameuser678 ,
@Nonameuser678@aussie.zone avatar

Zillenial or younger millenial

m4xie ,

I’ve also heard cusp millennia, but I’m not 100% sure which boundary they’re meant to be on. I think it’s the younger one

PNW_Doug ,
@PNW_Doug@lemmy.world avatar

Generation X here.

SpaceNoodle ,

Why is your profile pic an outline of me

PNW_Doug ,
@PNW_Doug@lemmy.world avatar

Haha, I’ve been using old.lemmy.world for so long I’d forgotten I even had the Space Needle profile on my account. Was truly puzzled for a minute.

“How do they know I’m in Seattle? Oh, yeah.”

SpaceNoodle ,

No, it’s because you’re wearing socks with your sandals

atrielienz ,

As someone who lives in the PNW that PNW clued me in.

thebardingreen ,
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz avatar

One of us!

Aurenkin ,

Generation strange.

Sun don’t even shine through our window pane.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

A big tech transition generation.

X.

pyre , (edited )

older millennial

edit: this being downvoted is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen on lemmy

polarpear11 ,

Millennial, born in '91

choco_polus ,

Born in '97, childhood went through the 2000’s and early 2010’s

I’d say a solid LatAm Gen Z

WhatsHerBucket ,
@WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world avatar

Gen X. Aka: The feral generation. We were left to our own devices and most of us turned out fine.

Now get offa muh lawn! shakes fist

atrielienz ,

You know what’s kind of funny. Both my parents identify as Gen X. Both of them are actually Baby Boomer’s. With the pre-requisite feral children. But I’m a millennial and it’s kind of funny that having grown up basically a feral child my generation doesn’t get to claim that.

Valmond ,

Same here.

ZagamTheVile ,

Same. Raised on neglect and hose water.

WhatsHerBucket ,
@WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry, can’t stay. The street lights just came on.

flambonkscious ,

That’s a great image, love it

Annoyed_Crabby ,

You call it feral, i call it free range.

Nikls94 ,

Huh… I never thought of that in this specific way.

When we were kids, and I was born 1994, our parents both had to work to acquire enough income to afford things, making us rely on ourselves. Parents did not pay that much for babysitters back then, no? And us kids weren’t being watched by GPS or something 24/7.

But it’s a tight window, and it depends on the family how long it stays open. I know some people born in 1997 who are like this, and others who aren’t.

Knowing about 2girls1cup, 1man1jar, that creepy car zombie coffee advert, other shock content… we were desensitised to gore and shock content. We played on MS Paint for hours.

Our parents did not know what we were doing, and it was… I’d say it was good.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Supposedly Gen Z due to being from 99.
Don’t feel like them though. More like a very young millenial.

fireweed ,

Millennial here. My impression is we’re the largest generation on this platform, but I could be wrong.

SnotFlickerman ,

Further proving we’re all more alike than we think.

fishos , (edited )
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Because every other “generation” is about 10 years and yet somehow “Millennials” are an almost 25 year gap. Notice how it’s “Older Millennial, younger millennial, etc”. You don’t use those qualifiers with the other generations because they are appropriately sized.

Millennials should be 2-3 named generations. It currently refers to 80’s kids, 90s kids, any kids alive when 2000 happened, and early Aughts kids(probably because the last name sucked and no one wanted to use it). Too many generations wanted the claim of “I was the first generation of the new millennium” and everyone co-opted the term even when it didn’t traditionally apply(newborns because they were closest to the date as opposed to when their major development occured is part of that stretch)

SnotFlickerman ,

I’ve only ever seen it include 1981-1996. Gen Z is considered 1996-2009.

Seems like Gen Z should be split between pre-9/11 and post-9/11 in the US.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

You’re further proving my point. A person born in 1981 would be 18 years old in 1999. They will have had NONE of their childhood during the Millennium(unless you’re counting the very end of it)

SnotFlickerman , (edited )

I think you’re focusing on what really amounts to a bad nickname for the generation that obviously is Generation Y. (Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, I wonder what letter was left out??)

Secondly, a millennium is a thousand years. Are you saying the previous thousand years (1000-1999) don’t count as a millennium that millennials… existed in?

Thirdly, it’s the change from one new millennium to another that people were excited about, no one gives a shit about the before or after. It’s simply excitement about the changeover. In 2024, no one gives a shit that we’re living in the “new millennium.” The song goes “let’s party like it’s 1999” not “let’s party like its 2001” or “let’s party like it’s 1981.”

Finally, last I checked, humans tend to celebrate things before they come to pass, kind of like how walking for graduation comes before finals. We celebrate New Years Eve all night leading up to the New Year. New Years is over when the new year has actually begun. Nobody celebrates on January 1st.

So literally no one born in the new millennium gives a shit about it being a new millennium. Only people born before it cared or would care.

Zagorath , (edited )
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Secondly, a millennium is a thousand years. Are you saying the previous thousand years (1000-1999) don’t count as a millennium that millennials… existed in?

I agree with that the comment you’re replying to is basically nonsense, but I do have two points to correct about this.

First, a small nitpick. Technically, millennia go from 01–00, so 1001–2000, with 2001 being the first year of the new millennium.

More significantly, it is obviously the case that millennials were so named because of something to do with the turn of the millennium. Frankly I don’t know what that is and it would have made more sense to name gen Z millennials because they actually span across the millenium divide and are the first generation born into the new millennium. Or if gen Y had started and finished 5 years later, they could have spanned the bridge, as well as even older genYers still being children during it, which would have been more appropriate.

SnotFlickerman ,

First, a small nitpick. Technically, millennia go from 01–00, so 1901–2000, with 2001 being the first year of the new millennium.

Bro, a hundred years is a century. That’s why 1900 was “turn of the century.”

A millennium is one thousand years.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Ah shit sorry. I’ll edit that.

Still, it’s 1001 to 2001.

SnotFlickerman ,

Yes, and with that edit, I do agree with your point.

teawrecks ,

Think you mean 1001 to 2000 😉

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

🤦‍♂️

Yes. Yes I do.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Notice how it’s “Older Millennial, younger millennial, etc”. You don’t use those qualifiers with the other generations

Of course you do. I, a young millennial, have a lot more in common with my old genZer sister than she does with a young genZer born in 2011. It’s an important distinction because we both didn’t get smart phones until we didn’t have smart phones until late teens at least, while young genZers weren’t even born when the iPhone was first released.

My parents are young boomers. For my dad that means he never had to worry about getting drafted like his older boomer brothers.

Mac , (edited )

there are no gen Z born in 11.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

1997–2012 is the definition used by Pew (which also uses the oft-quoted 1981–1996 definition for millennials). Statistics Canada uses 2012 too, while the US census uses 2013.

But anyway, the earliest cutoff I could find was 2010, which is what the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses, and my point still works for 2010 kids. (The ABS’s other boundaries also don’t change the fact that I’m young millennial but my sister old gen Z, or that my parents are young boomers, either. So every point I was making still works.)

Mac ,

My mistake, i thought it was 10.

flubba86 , (edited )

When it was growing up, the definitions kept changing.

I was born in 1986, and while in primary school I was told that makes me GenX. So I grew up thinking I was GenX. Then in high school, my teachers said actually anyone born after 1985 is GenY, so we’re definitely GenY.

Then when year 2000 came around people started talking about a new generation of people who would “never remember the 20th century”, or “never know a world without the internet”, basically people born after 1997 so they grow up completely in the 2000s. They called them Millennials.

From then on the usage of “millennial” kept growing, starting to see it everywhere. Mostly by boomers complaining about millennials.

Around 2012 I stated seeing some youtubers around my age referring to themselves as millennials, I thought it was a joke, or a bad understanding. Then people started referring to me as a millennial. Someone who’s whole childhood was in the 90s, how could I be a millennial, it defied the definition.

So I imagine my shock when I find now they’ve removed all trace of the usage of GenY, and retroactively applied “millennial” to mean anyone born after 1985. So maybe I am a millennial? I remember staying up late to celebrate with my parents and make sure our computer didn’t crash at midnight on new years eve in 1999. I remember wondering why dragonballz wasn’t on TV when the news was showing footage of American skyscrapers in 2001. Are those the things that make me a millennial? If so then what about the original definition? Those born 1997 or later won’t remember those things, so now they’re Zoomers? All this business makes me so confused.

fishos , (edited )
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you, someone who gets it. The definition has expanded so much it’s essentially meaningless now.

When I grew up and the term was first coined, it refered to the generation coming after mine. It was literally “what will we call this next generation? Well, they’re growing up during the turn of the millennium…”. Then suddenly years later it included my generation. Then suddenly it includes the generation before me? When really it’s just a lazy replacement for “kids these days”.

tan00k ,

It’s not an exact definition, but below I think is close:

Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (18 years)

Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (15 years)

Millennials (Gen Y): Born 1981-1996 (15 years)

Generation Z: Born 1997-2012 (15 years)

Generation Alpha: Born 2013-present

What you’re saying doesn’t line up with this at all, but maybe you have other generation dates in mind.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

And look at all the other dates others are giving me. They’re not the same as yours. THATS my point. No one actually agrees on the dates and at this point, it’s expanded to include other generations.

Yet I have 10 different people spouting different dates and all telling me I’m wrong. None of you see that you’re the exact point I was making. Everyone tries to shove in some extra years before or after.

tan00k ,

Which is exactly why I qualified it saying it’s not exact. What dates are you using? You must be using something to say that Millennials are 25 years while the others are 10. That’s MY point.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Look around at the other comments like I said?

That’s MY point. It’s called reading comprehension.

tan00k ,

I did. You never explained where you got this idea that Millennials have a 25 year gap and the others are 10.

maegul , (edited )
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think this is correct.

The bit you’re getting confused by, I think, is that some generations are just bigger than others. The boomers were by their name sake a big generation. Millennials are essentially boomers’ kids … and so they’re bigger than both Gen X and Gen Z.

  • Most “generational” definitions span about 15 years, sometimes more. EG, Boomers: 1946-1960
  • There are sensibly defined micro-generations typically at the borders between generations.
    • EG, “Jones Generation”: 1960-1965 … “young boomers” … they had a distinct life experience from “core boomers” not too different from that of X-Gens. Vietnam and 60s happened while they were children, Reagan was their 20s, not 40s, etc.
  • Xennials are notable here because they’re the transition between X-Gen and Millennials (late 70s to early 80s) … probably what you’re thinking of as “older millennials”. What’s interesting though is that the relevance of Xennials is that technological changes mark the generation … they’re essentially just barely young enough to count as part of the internet generations but not old young enough to be ignorant of the pre-internet times. Which just highlights that how you talk about generations depends on what you more broadly care about. In the west, arguably not too much political upheaval has occurred since WWII and its immediate consequences (basically Boomer things) … and so the generations are distinguished on smaller and probably more technological scales.
Nemo ,

Older millennial here. I came here a year ago.

HurlingDurling ,
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Xenial

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