I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid… Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I’m wrong because I’m either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I’m a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I’m a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it’s exhausting.
Have you tried being born in a different year?
Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it’s unnerving… sometimes.
Don’t be unnerved by our superior life experience!
How about the part where only we so accurately can gauge how shitty the internet has gotten in the last 15 years. I don’t consider superior life experiences a benefit when they only serve to remind us what was lost and can never be reclaimed.
Being an elder zoomer be like:
To me, being a Millennial to me means you remember 9/11. If you don’t, then you’re Gen Z.
The Oregon Trail generation might remember Challenger and the fall of the Berlin Wall and Rodney King, but not Reagan being shot.
What if I don’t remember 9/11 (because my teachers and parents deliberately didn’t tell me what was happening) but remember the Oregon trail?
wouldn’t you remember a weird couple weeks where all adults were acting incredibly suspiciously
Yeah but it wasn’t until like a week or so later they told me what happened and I was too young to really understand so it didn’t really have much impact.
too young to really understand
I pronounce you gen Z!
Damn.
The worst part is I still remember dial up internet and cell phones that didn’t flip closed smh my head
Me: I try not to gatekeep.
Also me: ☝🏼 (see meme)
I don’t think it’s special to be a 90’s kid, and nothing to really be proud of and everything. But when someone born in 98 or 99 says they are a 90’s kid… That’s even weirder. You were just barely aware of your surroundings for this “glorious years”.
90s kids got some pretty unique stuff. We were around pre and post internet. We lived through the yo-yo resurgence. We had the absolute golden years of American kids cartoons. We grew up as kids without cell phones, but were still young enough to be tech literate. Last generation that grew up with “come home when the street lights come on”, and we remember 9/11.
American “kids” cartoons? Pfft. Have you already forgotten about Liquid Television? That shit was so clearly by stoners, for stoners that even MTV knew it wouldn’t fly in any other time slot than post-midnight, but maaan was it glorious! Sifl & Ollie, Ren & Stimpy, Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Big Head, and so much more! (fuck Beavis & Butthead, the inbred cousin that made scrote-cheese like Howard Stern marketable? Hard pass.)
Sifl & Olly
You know what your problem is? You don’t have chicken-flavored air conditioning.
As a humanist I think we should go with human first before or instead of these potentially divisive, arbitrary age brackets, contemporary generational labels, etc.
Ok, boomer.
The boomers divided us up this way so they could shit on us. Always remember that.
As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.
But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?
We were 90s kid first, we fucking founded the council.
I’m not trying to start shit, but wouldn’t all people who were 90’s kids start the council at the same time due to how time flows?
If we are adopting the ‘media culture’ view, then you need to at least be around 6 to start making the abstract connections necessary to make lasting memories about media.
So in 91, some ‘90’s kids’ are turning six and able to effectively even be cognizant of a council, whereas some 90s kids are yet to be born.
Or all generational cadres are made up arbitrary bullshit but if you watched Ducktales AND Rescue Rangers, and knew bugs bunny when he was still racist, then it is likely you and I will have a lot more in common than 90s kids who knew Spongebob and Blues Clues.
Okay boomer
Weaksauce, try harder.
Or maybe you are just bad at math, who knows?
It’s a joke
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
NONE of you has had to deal with as many years of boomer bullshit as I have. NONE.
You think shit’s bad for you now? Imagine turning 50 and being in the same economic position that all you millennials whine about. At least the economy has a chance to recover before you retire. None of my cadre have that kind of time left.
Some older GenX did make their wad before things got bad but literally the 3rd month of my IT career when the dotcom bubble burst.
If I could say to you what I really want to say, I’d get banned. If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
Then you are the source of most of your frustration.
You think shit’s bad for you now?
I didnt say anything about anything.
If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
Lol okay tough guy.
Chillout this is a meme thread. No one is talking shit about Boomers, Gen X, Millenials or Zoomers. It’s a comically inoffensive meme.
Yeah, but as a member of Gen X, we’re the last to be able to own property.
Swings and roundabouts, innit?
Sure that’s possible for older GenX.
Xennials like myself had barely a few years (in my case months) before the dotcom bubble ruined our one generational leg up.
If I had been smart and dumped IT and went back to school for writing, I’d probably have a house, but stupid autistic me wanted to fucking be a computer person…
Tech pays just fine. Maybe not as much as being a lawyer, but there are people who make £50-100k per year working in tech as programmers, engineers, or professors. That’s a reasonable salary for most of the country. I know there are people in America making way more, though that does have to cover health care.
Not if you were caught in the middle of Florida when IBM and everyone else pulled out from the dotcom crash, flooding the entire state with thousands of career IT people WITH FUCKING IBM ON THEIR RESUMES and you are a naive little autist with literally zero support fresh out of college.
Sure there are parts of the world my experience would have landed me a living wage.
Not in florida in the 90s. I never broke the equivalent of £30k till I crawled out of that humid hellhole.
I never recovered and people never seem to tire of dismissing it all as my fault.
I was in the same place experiencing the same thing, hell we probably ended up working together doing trivial jobs surrounded by people grossly overqualified. Things did end up better eventually for me, sorry to hear it didn’t for you. We got the short end of the stick there for sure.
To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I’m a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.
Shiiiit. I lost my virginity in '91, and I know I’m a “90s kid”.
edit: typo
How old were you in 90?
I started highschool in '91.
Bring on the downvotes, bored Redditors.
Is starting Highschool in 91 something people don’t like? 🤔
Nah, just that one salty bitch. 🤪
That’s pretty unnatural state of affairs not gonna lie
