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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Millennials are split into the older and the younger ones. I am one of the older ones, and I don't know what the heck is going on with the younger ones.

Can GenX adopt me please?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TIL, I'm a xennial. Thx for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anna Garvey has described these individuals as having "both a healthy portion of Gen X grunge cynicism, and a dash of the unbridled optimism of Millennials"

I'm sorry?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well, before everything happened.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a younger one, we grew up with social media becoming available to us right at the worst age. Like seriously imagine if you and your parents were allowed on Facebook right as you hit puberty and nobody understood what it could do to you.

That and also growing up not remembering 9/11 but remembering adults mocking al gore for caring if we all die of ecocide.

We’re basically the prototype for gen z. You merely adopted hopelessness. We were born into it, molded by it, we didn’t see a chance until we were adults.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate to break it to you, but memory of 9/11 is kind of a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border. If you don't remember it you're likely Gen Z or right on the border where generational definitions get really fuzzy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well that still puts you pretty safely in the range, actually. The typical cutoff year is 1996. I'm 30. You were 7 (or almost 7) but you don't remember 9/11?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Not really, maybe I had more important shit happening at the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm on the cusp between X and Millennial but my moon is in Z.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Might as well. GenX is trying to keep a roof over its brainwashed parents’ heads while its own kids rack up student loan debt. What difference would one more mouth make?