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minus-squareWolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up94arrow-down3·3 months agoBoomers: racism, wife bad Millennials: aggressive misunderstandings, the collapse is imminent, domng cute Gen alpha: remember when there was fish, skibidi
minus-squareWoahWoah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up62·3 months agoGen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·3 months agoCan confirm, Gen-X here. We’re all either Boomers or Millennials depending on whatever is coming out of our mouths. To all that noise, I say: Meh, whatever.
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoI was born in 1980 and have never known what generation i am. Meh, whatever. (Am i X now?)
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months ago1980 is the youngest of gen X, according to most definitions I’ve read. It’s also The Oregon Trail generation, which IMO is the perfect label. Not that any of these generations or age cutoffs are real things, of course.
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoThen I’m definitely The Oregon Trail generation. No, you have dysentery!
minus-squareWolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoI always assumed the tail of gen x and the head of gen z was included in “millennials.” TIL that’s not the case
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·3 months agoWe’re called Xennials. We had an analog childhood with a digital young adulthood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
minus-squareChekhovs_Gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoAye…the Oregon Trail generation.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI was born in ‘84 but I count because we were poor and I was playing ColecoVision in the 90s
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoI was born in the late 90s but didn’t get high speed internet (had dial-up ethernet growing up), wifi, or cable until the mid- to late-2000s.
minus-squarepeopleproblems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down5·3 months agoThe collapse is imminent, and y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it. Living as if you haven’t nothing to worry about tomorrow, how do you get through the day?
minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 months ago y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it Is that helping?
minus-squareWoahWoah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·3 months agoThat’s their point. It’s millennial sarcasm: indistinguishable from actual sentiment, that way they can deny they mean it.
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Boomers: racism, wife bad
Millennials: aggressive misunderstandings, the collapse is imminent, domng cute
Gen alpha: remember when there was fish, skibidi
Gen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.
Can confirm, Gen-X here. We’re all either Boomers or Millennials depending on whatever is coming out of our mouths.
To all that noise, I say: Meh, whatever.
I was born in 1980 and have never known what generation i am. Meh, whatever. (Am i X now?)
1980 is the youngest of gen X, according to most definitions I’ve read. It’s also The Oregon Trail generation, which IMO is the perfect label.
Not that any of these generations or age cutoffs are real things, of course.
Then I’m definitely The Oregon Trail generation.
No, you have dysentery!
I always assumed the tail of gen x and the head of gen z was included in “millennials.” TIL that’s not the case
We’re called Xennials. We had an analog childhood with a digital young adulthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
Aye…the Oregon Trail generation.
I was born in ‘84 but I count because we were poor and I was playing ColecoVision in the 90s
I was born in the late 90s but didn’t get high speed internet (had dial-up ethernet growing up), wifi, or cable until the mid- to late-2000s.
The collapse is imminent, and y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it. Living as if you haven’t nothing to worry about tomorrow, how do you get through the day?
Is that helping?
That’s their point. It’s millennial sarcasm: indistinguishable from actual sentiment, that way they can deny they mean it.