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BappleBopper
I keep seeing the year 1996 in both the millennial and gen z. I turned 25 this year, What am i?! WHAT AM I?!
Meowzzar
reject millennial/zoomerdom, embrace nine-sixial, we are our own generation
DavosTheOnionKnight
A manager at work earlier this year refer to a 21yr old as A "damn Millenial". Had to tell them that Millenial isn't just a stand-in term
DavosTheOnionKnight
for any young person that annoys them in perpetuity. BTW, she refuses to belive I'm a Millenial. I'm 36.
FallingStar7669
I've heard Zoomers call Millennials Boomers, as if it was a stand-in term for any adult that annoyed them. Language is weird.
nero4ty2
when the whole "ok boomer" thing started a lot of "kids" started referring to basically anyone older than 25 as boomers
LazerHawkAttack
My name is jake, I'm 49 years young and I live in a cardboard box out in the park
onlinejimk
I’m a Boomer and I live in a van, down by the river ?
FatBastardVegetarian
I'm a boomer; but, I use words like "yeet" and "bruh" and "fam" which means I am MUCH less cool than I think I am.
AtsaMattaForMe
gawsss
This is stupid
protoman007
A friendly reminder that generational terms are bullshit with the goal of driving a wedge between people
SoberToast
I'm 33 last Saturday
copingcabana
Anyone else worried that we're at the end of the alphabet?
bluesymuse
Gen Doomed is next up
copingcabana
Sounds like a Fantastic Four villain's army - Generation Doom
annyeonghaters
Younger millenial and I'm still 29 this year... My bones are tired and I have a mortgage. I can't stay up past 10 without getting a headache
Hismomoness
I'm Gen Y and I'm sticking to it, like - Y the fuck is everything going to shit and being blamed on us?
boomroasted
The concept of generations is a just yet another nonsensical way to divide people. Gay/straight. White/black. Boomer/GenX.
shartedatmysonsgraduation
Pretty happy with the gen x smile and little waist. Fist pump.
Imadudefromokc
MagnificentCake
Not anymore.
austinwizardforhire
Gen X also
Gianttesticlemonster
ElFreakoDiablo
Me too, brother. 1979.
TrueNorthernLights
Gen X, represent!
Vesorias
RIP
McJersey
That was the comment I was looking for!
Frogchildren
We old
FoamingToad
Represent!
Shohanna
It's nice not to be forgotten! Gen X here too.
triggertx
No, no, I like it that way. Just forget we exist. We can fly under the radar while everyone else fights.
CutChemist
From what I here, DMX is gonna have a hard time giving it to you anymore
HypnoCT
X too, but the part I just realized is that my kids are millennials... that never occurred to me before.
spacestationnumberfive
Putting up with boomer shit since 1965.
Mockingbirb
Dryheat
Hoopdajon
*angry barking noises intensifies*
afraid2fart
Not anymore :(
PutItInNeutral
After the Boomers die off, we will be the next generation to take the blame for everything.
Roehcai
Doubt it, and even if so, we'll just shrug and say 'whatever' and roll our eyes. It's got us this far.
Wonkable
Meh...we didn't start the fire.....
dronette
It was always burning, since the world's been turning...
ObliqueRay
What?! We're the MTV generation, we did nothing wrong.
ImNotTaylorSwift
Pretty sure millennials get blamed for a lot of shit. Usually that we killed some useless industry.
TrueNorthernLights
Every generation blames the one before....
CookieWrecker2000
When all of their frustrations comes knocking on their door...
idkalan
Or that we're not having enough kids and not spending enough money to keep the "economy" moving,
Bojovnik84
I claim Xennial, which is 81 to 84. 85 is millennial.
lelevup
Xennials are (according to Wikipedia) from late '70s to early-to-mid '80s.
cyborganism
One of the first millennials here. Turning 40 this year.
thegregorious
One of the last, turning 26 this year
strawmanAlert
Always thought I was a gen-xer until like 2009
ailike
You’re not Gen X unless you saw Reality Bites in the theater.
QueenofFerelden
Yup, me too. I feel your pain. Maybe, just maybe though, it means our generation will start taking more and more political seats?
drbloodbathmc
One of the last and I just turned 27
varsipieru
I was born in 1980 and I call this division bullshit. ☹️
servingmytimeinusersub
I'd always been told I was the tail end of Gen x. I was born in 81
500HPS
Same I definitely feel like Gen X culturally and Millennial financially
SpiritAnimalisBruceCampbell
You're a Xennial. It's missing from this graphic, but we all know what we are, neither Millenial nor Gen-X describes us.
QueenofFerelden
Nah, I totally identify as a Millennial! Born in '81.
cyborganism
I'm a millennial. I identify with that group as I have had the same struggles.
AdirtybadgerFart
I was born in '96 and depending on which article I read I'm either a millennial or Gen Z... And I don't even like avocado on toast
YeOlRazzleDazzle
When you're on the final year of a generation, I feel like we get to pick.
Lichelf
Sometimes they actually just skip 96. It's weird.
Theonewiththesandwich
Same here. I've seen people on here constantly say we're one or the other. We're practically our own generation at this point.
Meowzzar
millennial? zoomer? nah, i'm a nine-sixial :sunglasses:
KatoGodPrime
I have always been confused on whether or not i am a millenial or gen Z because the date always tends to change .-.
Emjayen
Were you in diapers when Jurassic Park was released? Then you're Gen-Z if we're going by the colloquial meaning.
CallThisAUsername
Honestly who gives a shite, it's just an arbitrary tag thing, it means nothing.
Mondasin
Do you remember a pre-9/11 U.S. / world? if no Gen Z. this is my hard and fast rulings on the split.
PinkSodaMix
They change all the time. They even change the older generations. It's all stupid.
FeelTheTingle
Yeah, I’m a 96 kid and am told something different with every person I talk to. I’m just going to consider myself both
FnordGallop
I've usually seen 1946-1960 is boomer, genx is 1975-1985, millenial is like 1985-2000, and 2000-2010 is zoomer. But yeah
justlurkinfornow
So, there's 15 years with no generation between '60 and '75? Millenials I've always understood to be from 81 or 82 to 2000.
Meowzzar
96 is such a cursed year to be born in i swear ;-;
YourUpstairsNeighbor
I was born end of Dec in 1995. Should I stop buying coffee or should I keep trying to pick myself up by the bootstraps?
ScienceIsNotALiberalConspiracy
It depends - have you ever had a facebook account?
Palmskie1
As I'm a mechanic your like one of them cars on a change over year no one knows what parts fit ?
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Depends... if by coffee you mean "Star Bucks", then yes, you should definitely stop buying that.
AVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryLostDragon
Hah same! No one ever knows what the hell we are. By this chart at least we're at the edge of millennial.
PicassoCT
You are now rich, cause old, just as every 18 year old is adult, cause old.. thats how it works
mifoon
I laughed so hard at this! +1
mhersh26
I was born in 1980, depending on the source I sometimes fall into Gen X, and other times Millennials. I don't feel like i fit into either
MyPseudoIsAlduinSkyrimStoleItFromMe
78 here I feel the same.
lelevup
You, like me, are xennial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
sp00ds
So what are the post-zoomer kids saddled with? Gen Alpha?
Leonon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra!
sp00ds
Gen Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs then.
FallingStar7669
We'll keep going until we reach Wingdings.
ScienceIsNotALiberalConspiracy
Fucked. Generation Fucked.
Gianttesticlemonster
Ill be 29 this year and maybe have 20% of my life together
Idontknowwhybutusernamescanberidiculouslylong
Hey, that's 15% more than me and 20% more than some people I've met
CatatonicCowMoo
Hey I just turned 29 and I have maybe 15%! *high five*
youknowthatonepersonwiththeface
As someone turning 29 this year: y'all have a percentage of your life together?
CatatonicCowMoo
Eh, not really. But I count things like making money occasionally and doing the dishes. Makes me feel better to say 15%
IAmGodot
I have a 30 year old friend who regularly bitches about millennials. He simply refuses to acknowledge that he is one.
BlumpkinPie69
my brother is like that too. He says millennials suck but he and his wife had gender reveal parties-the most millennial thing you can do.
SomeDetroitGuy
...what does he think he is?
IAmGodot
When asked he likes to identify with Gen X. He gets upset when you remind him that he's not.
YouHaveNoodsAndIHaveAnInbox
Everyone knows you become a boomer when you turn 30
5amNonsense
The common usage is more about mindset than actual date of birth anyways.
SomeDetroitGuy
1996 - 2010 are Zoomers. Don't steal our naming scheme.
TheDrunkenBulldog
I heard it's changed to Coronials. Not that I care, I'm gen x.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Man, the classical station near me has used Zoomers to denote active boomers for years. I think it's hilarious you guys want it
DisneyFanatic
As someone in that range (1998), we are called zellennials
OhMyTitsAreSoggy
The hell is a zoomer? I ask because I'm '96
YeOlRazzleDazzle
Honestly, at 96 I still identify as a Millennial.
OhMyTitsAreSoggy
There are too many of these with different data
BrickShakes
We still eat avocado toast tho, fuck that shit is good.
Linnabelle
No green slime for me, thanks. I like my toast with cinnamon sugar.
thisismyusernamenowiguess
Back in my day we used to not have fancy bread and instead we'd put sugar on a slice of tomato!
interesseret
Why, when salt is so much better?
thisismyusernamenowiguess
Haven't tried it but il give it a shot before I get back to you!
squirreltactics
Not all of us. I don't care much for avacodos. In unrelated news I just bought my first house! /s
inchoroi
I'm a millennial and I'm 36 (and I fucking hate it).
DiceyBusiness
Fun to be raised with a particular world view only to go out into the real world and have the world be like "sike!".
MilometersKilometers
26 and I fucking hate it.
EvilKrikkit
I'm 39 this year. I'm real tired of everything being blamed on Millennials.
ihateeggs
Im 40. Sick of being told I'm an elderly millenial...
ChaosMatrix
Im just tired of everything in general, waiting eagerly for the sweet embrace of death.
banz111
Mood
RichardPicture
"Millennials destroy Imgur comments" - jk. Me too. There is plenty of blame for everyone.
DanaConti5
I see the complaints shifting to the generation who actually runs things and the young people who are actually young.
EchoWhiskyBravo
As a Gen X I’m just happy nobody remembers we exist.
JamJarre
I feel like it's been years since that was in full swing
YouHaveNoodsAndIHaveAnInbox
Yeah...like...im literally just trying to survive and keep the lights on, but sure...im killing the mega yatch industry or something...
SteelyDad
I just turned 40. I lie and say I'm Gen X.
BavarianGuy
How dare you! (born 4 month early to be a Milennial ;P but experienced the Internet since childhood part but only since 12-13 year old)
raosion
Generational labels are kinda fuzzy at best. I don't think anyone reasonable would complain if you called yourself a Xennial?
colt64
Are they still? I feel like the only things I see about millennials these days are people making fun of people making fun of millennials.
ComcastLover
It's almost as if dividing people into arbitrary groups solely based on the year you were born is a really stupid thing to do.
Eammeny
37 here. I had my "generation" blamed for the spelling of my own name by someone that looked to be about the same age my mom was... WTF
znuff
Speak for yourself! I love KILLING whole industries!
LeutAldoRaine
Right? I'm not too entitled or lazy. Just trying to go to my middle management job to support my family and pay my mortgage.
creepwood
you're a xennial, my man! enjoy it
EvilKrikkit
No thanks.
cptcarnage
One of us! one of us!
Widgetboy
I still think of us as Gen Y. I don't know when they started calling us millenials.
Theonlyyeti
Generation that became adults at the turn of the new millennium....or marketing gimick by boomers trying to sell avacados...I forget which
ThuglasonRails
Just turned 39 myself...Elder Millenial indeed!
raosion
Why did you kill "X industry"?!
soapaid
Take your position as an Elder Millennial
djzapz
I'm 31 and I don't care about everything being blamed on Millennials. It's hilarious.
GooniesNeverSayDieDieDieMyDarling
I just turned 39 this month
xyxyxyxy31
whoisyourdaddy
Then quit f*cking everything up for everyone else, Millennial.
bottledham
Well that's really your fault if you think about it
AoxomoxoA35
'82 was a good year to be born
ThuglasonRails
Grad 2000 heck yes.
ObscureReferencing
That's where the name millenial comes from
ThuglasonRails
That so? TIL.
Lmedic37
Same! It was great.
CorneliusCornwall
Well maybe we should stop being horrible.
pandatwee
Ok boomer
CorneliusCornwall
In my kids respected their elders and then we beat them. Now excuse me while I watch the news at full volume
pandatwee
People my age have our parents to thank for all the trauma and therapy.
DookieHowserMD
Speak for yourself. You can start there.
CorneliusCornwall
Never!
Megasuperfreshdonut
CorneliusCornwall
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
ShawnS0l0
^
CorneliusCornwall
Joke on you I know I'm dumb.
ShawnS0l0
hoehandleharry20500
Gen x, overall are the problem
DyceCA
We haven't been super helpful, but we are much too small to be a major problem. The Boomer generation was huge and they still run everything
ambiencenever
The governmentts of the world are stacked with Boomers, elected by Boomers.
pm1001
Blame it on boomers then
BikerRay
Boomer here, we're already blamed for everything. Have to go, my butler tells me the Rolls is ready for inspection.
BillogUncle
Unoreverse.jpeg
Ynigmatyk
Nope, blame it on the next generation as is tradition
Chakra5
Or we could reject the whole generational blame game as a bullshit paradigm used mostly to set us against each other.
swedishpancakeswithlingonberries
Shhh...what would Imgur talk about then?
PTMdragon
eat the rich
BillogUncle
Why should we eat the rich? You are what you eat and the rich eat cake. Eat the rich! They're basically cake!
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
“Maybe I didn't think this cake idea through” - Marie Antoinette, probably
Brittle7299
Real talk!
Ynigmatyk
True and false each generation has different struggles some caused by previous generations some by themselves that's just fact
Ynigmatyk
However "you caused it so you should fix it" is stupid. Be the change you want to see. If you want it fixed right, fix it yourself
SarcasticComment
I'm not willing to let go of the fact Ronald Regan and the people who put him in office royally fucked our futures.
Chakra5
of course he did. he was a jackass. that really doesn't support the idea that everyone over x age is a jackass. poor logic meant to divide.
SarcasticComment
Boomers can take the blame on that one.
Brittle7299
Give it up - better to move forward then hang on to idiotic decisions. The rich deserve our hate.
SarcasticComment
Or. Acknowledge what they did and hold them accountable. I'm not letting the person who shit on the floor tell me to "just move on"
Greenwaxy
SO sick of hearing “You’ll be conservative when you’re older!”
charlefine
It's not wrong. U might will have similar views as now but there will also be newer views, making your old ones the new conservative.
kualityE
That's only bc they think everyone needs a label. Think for yourself and find out what's actually best not what x group says
Krakencrotch
I counter that with "You'll be dead when I'm older and I won't give a shit"
Relusion
I heard that from people that never knew my parents or my grandma. All 3 are extremely liberal
iDrinkDrano
I'm on an all-out sprint to the left, myself.
StrickenStrychnine
Glad to hear I'm not alone. I've only gotten lefter as I've gotten older
Larktonguesinadicecup
I did. I moved from libsoc type anarcho to euro type socdem
madeejit
"I will in my fuck! "
blisfulloblivion
Studies show that political leanings tend to change in cycles. Older gen started more blue and went red. Younger gen start red move blue
blisfulloblivion
Since they went red they think next gen will too but its more of a balancing act with following gen seeing what didnt work and trying new
LongtimeLurkerFirsTimePoster
We gen xers were told that, too. As were boomwrs at woodstock. Its a thing all generations hear. See also: lazy, pop culture is too sexual
majorcovert
I was more of a conservative when I was younger. The GOP is not conservatism. It's fascism now. Been speaking down hill since the Tea Party
PorneliusHubertII
As I get older I care more for the people around me.
puffyjacket69
Also "making real money". My parents say this to me. My reply is "I'm 40" and my house and cars cost 3x what yours does."
VonZinzer
If anything I get more radical in the opposite direction! Conservatism implies, ya know, wanting to keep things the way they are/were.
NKato
Ironically, I *was* leaning conservative as I got older, but when George Floyd happened, I took a hard left turn.
spiffylookingnerfherder
Kudos to you for that.
mikeatike
Im in my 40s and for a long time my dad couldn't figure out how I got more left as I got older. Then Jan 6 happened and he was like "oh".
ReaperCDN
I got more liberal as I got older. Those people who got "more conservative" are probably remembering they were racists from the democrat /1
ReaperCDN
party that left when the republicans said they'd take them. 2/2
ReaperCDN
Southern Strategy during Richard Nixon.
Goryofa
I swear to god, we're like one more global catastrophe away from raising a hammer and sickle flag.
PTMdragon
i genuinely hope my views are considered conservative when i'm older. not because they've changed but because we have progressed.
AzraelEternity
KaraokeLemur
That's an awesome way of putting it.
AzraelEternity
"If you aren't liberal when you're young you don't have a heart. If you aren't conservative when you're old you don't have a brain." -my dad
LoudBirb
"To be successful you have to stop caring about anyone but yourself." Is a succinct summary of the core tenet of modern conservatism.
LoudBirb
Aka "Fuck you, got mine."
Greenwaxy
That’s based on an old French politician’s quote. Has nothing to do with the current R/D dichotomy.
Greenwaxy
Except there’s nothings conservative about Republicans. Hasn’t been for decades.
AzraelEternity
Well it's been decades since he said that but I agree. Its been all downhill for a while.
deasmuth
Gen X here.
thereitis101
Same
JackBurton777
Ilovebuns
Same, but right there on the border.
madrush
I don't give a shit and leave me alone. Sincerely, grumpy Gen Xer (47 yo)
copingcabana
Me too. Started out to fix the world, ended up disillusioned, playing video games.
buddhanature
And I'm a big fan of avocados in all forms, not just on toast.
madrush
More guac please
Softbuns
ChibiGojira
shouldn't you be watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Back to the Future?
Kongur
Welcome back from the museum son
ohio311
Born in 1980 right on the cusp, so I kinda have things in common with both generations while also feeling completely out of place.
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
What happened to gen y? These are always so arbitrary and undefined that every article thinks they are different years.
Panserclaw
We were there at the start when the internet started. Ebaumsworld, YTMND, Duke Nukem soundboard trolling. We were the original meme'ers
madrush
I remember being in college, 1991, and they showed this fantastic thing called the World Wide Web. Mosaic browser
EnvoyEngineer
Nothing is sacred!
Diverge
Hey buddy.. remember ?
BrokenAnimal
Present!
BrokenAnimal
Also, rapidly reaching the point where I am out of fucks to give. It's kinda freeing actually.
thatshytidontlike
Same, but I definitely don’t wear frumpy brown suits
TakenToaster
I think the suggestion is we were the last Gen to not get financially screwed. I agree
deasmuth
Hell no! Ermenegildo Zegna all the way.
ImBoredouttamyskull
I do fuck around with avocado toast. Add a fried egg and it's even better.
TerryCrews
Represent! Quietly, and in the background.
nukemall
Seriously, is seems like we are the ignored background noise generation.
dillbn
GEN xers are barely indistinguishable from Baby Boomers, you're just not as old looking.
TerryCrews
Bitch, we're the ones rooting for all the things the millennials have the power to accomplish. We're outnumber by the boomers, they're not.
HobbesAP
Exactly! Change happens by building coalitions, not by alienating potential allies! "Generational rivalries" are nothing but a distraction.
OptimisticSchrodinger
The middle child of gens
Icecreammanfromhell
Gen X here also. 45 baby!
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
50 here.
GoriddleGorilla
Me too. Is you a ice cream melted because your from hell or has hell frozen over? Hard to tell from username.
Icecreammanfromhell
I am an icrecream man but from hell. Like most ice cream men.
Redbeard54
45 here too!
creepwood
xennial here, grew up without internet but still down with the millenials pop culture.
somtin
Same, got to grow up playing outside, and Nintendo 8 bit when it rained.Wasn't exposed to Hentai during my impressionable years. Win Win.
itsallaboutthecones
Y'all seem to get shit on much less than my millennial and Gen Z compatriots.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Being latchkey kids taught us to be low-key.
cepacolusmaximus
Why do you think they call us Gen-X? Everyone forgets about us; we've turned it into an advantage, e.g. passing legal weed & gay marriage.
itsallaboutthecones
Well technically it was Gen X, Millennials are Gen Y, and then Gen Z. Point taken though, I tend to agree.
peterbozeman
Stick to the shadows.
cepacolusmaximus
Hidden in the noise.
peterbozeman
Treetop flyer.
Bigemedic
We had our time in the barrel.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Yeah, when I was in high school every other article was about "why are American high schoolers so DUMB now," always written by Boomers.
itsallaboutthecones
Were they written by boomers or the silent generation? (Genuine question) It seems the feuds skip a generation to me.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Oh it was definitely Boomers. They *hated* us and liked to tell us that we were "born too late" and such.
doktorivan210
They forget we're here. Which kinda sums us up better than anything except Winona Ryder.
Nick3571
license2kilt
Nobody talks about Gen X and as a Gen X-er I’m kinda okay with that.
madrush
I'm MORE than okay with that
nangke
Slacker generation for the meh
TrixDante
From millennial to gen x. How was the transition to touch screen auto correct from a Noka 3310?
TakenToaster
I was only in my 20’s when I had a 3310. The tech has grown with us. Very gradual
BrokenAnimal
I was a very late adopter of smartphones. Still miss the tactile feel of actual buttons and being able to text from my pocket.
W92Baj
Old autocorrect was much better. It was correct most of the time
TakenToaster
T9 auto correct! You’re not wrong
SamuraiChemist
Book
TrixDante
Asking because still using a Nokia 3310 and I finally decided to make the switch.
cepacolusmaximus
Android uber alles. And swype typing is your friend. Most of the time. Except when it's not.
InspiredForestRaptor
The lack of tactile feedback was weird. Blindly typing is no longer a thing till you can "muscle memory" your virtual keyboard
InspiredForestRaptor
@Usieus is correct. Feel free to use some of the vibrations as tactile feedback. It will help so much! And my suggestion is avoid the slidy
Eiladar
Yeah. There's no tactile feedback and you can't feel your way along the keys. Phone's with full slide out keyboards were available for a bit
TakenToaster
Palm Treo!
Eiladar
And I loved them, but they're harder to find now.
onsamyj
I loved my Nokia C3.
bumcivillian
Im a millennial, im 35 next week
dpunk9
Just turned 32 today
argast
40 this year, sup!
CarlottaVonSprockett
Samesies!
Beezlebubble
Millenial...turning 27 in a few weeks. I'm a youngin
kgirl924
Same here! I'll be 27 in June, so just barely a millennial as well.
ElKikko
Just turned 33, went in for my annual. doc said you're about the age I tell people to bike instead of run for cardio to avoid knee trouble
ShiroganeEz
I'll be 32 tomorrow. :(
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
Happy Birthday??
Jshephe6
Please stop that. I don’t want us to be old
LetTheFishBurn
Oregon Trail Generation
PugDogMan
Yes!
activeracer28
Going on 37 in June. Still only have around 35k in retirement/savings.
shorey66
39 in Jan. Get off my bloody lawn!
wHatThEQuAk
Beeing 27 and crying about how old I'm. Almost Youngest millenia though :'D
shorey66
I'm almost oldest. Group hug!
bril350
28yrs im millennial right? It feels weird sometimes
CMarshmallow
Same here, in both age and feeling.
bril350
Right?! Like i dont get alot of the gen z trend stuff but I get raised eyebrows from people older than me when i mention im not yet 30
bril350
But consider myself millennial
Boksha
36 in less than a year here. If you're talking about millennials, we're it.
AnotherSadGear
Just turned 34. Guess it's our turn at this whole run a country thing. Can't be any worse than the last group.
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Fuck I'm an old millennial. Wife and I only just started fucking around with avocado toast because we can just afford to so in our careers.
taitati
the other name for millenials is "lost generation"
stankginchfurbuger
Are we naming ourselves after a group that died in droves at the muzzle of a machine gun now?
CaptainMisanthropy
I'm 40 in May. I'm one of the first millennials apparently.
SirRichardOfHead
37 on thursday here!
stolenmemepolice1
Millennials are a would be scapegoat for the worlds problems, but we are to self aware and have been calling baby boomers on their shit.
woodchippy
I turn 27 in July. I definitely fuck around with avocado toast before starting my day.
captbananapants
30 in a couple of weeks. I hope my knees survive my evolution.
chrisjfinlay
Holy crap, so am I
ALLCAPSDUDE
I’m a young millennial, born in 95, I’ll be 26 next week
paistykakes
I'm 29 this week. And will be next week and the week after that.
doodyhowitzer
I’m a millennial, I’m 36 next month, I have a 3 year old, and a mortgage.
RainbowAmoeba
Got my 15 year reunion email reminder today.
OperationM1ndcrime
Shit myself when I realized my 20th is im two years
Steffychuuuu
34 tomorrow ✌?
goodgraces515
Hap borthday in a week!!
billdozer86
Same. Well next month.
iamnotarobotipromise
I'm a millennial, and I turn 40 in 4 months
beerandfireworks
Turning 35 in July myself
robinjamesgray2
Same
Momof2needsabreak
36 last month, god I'm tired and my back hurts.
lazycrow
Turned 38 yesterday...
humptydumptywastheking
33
toraty
I turn 35 in 2 months, where has the time gone?
TheGriffin
32 later this year
4noku
Turned 31 this March. *Geriatric high five*
EveryTimeIfartaFairyDies
40 third week of July
AndromedaBlade
35 three days ago. welcome.
webslinger007
Happy birthday!
rockuhard
I'll be 30 this year
MrLevtron
I'm 34 this week. My birthday is in December but I'm 34 this week too. That's how time works.
minyak
Happy early birthday fellow 86:er :D
Qpnao
I also choose being 35 next week
Rignak
Howdy fellow kids!
PlacentaEaters
I'll be 38 in May
EnterPlayer3
34 this month. Graduated into 2 recessions so far and have crimped my total earnings and employment opportunities each time
ishouldprobablybeplayingpokemonATM
turned 34 today...
nomorehate
On the cusp here, turned 27 last week.
EdgarAllanPoo
Same. April 30?
Burke616
38 over here, 39 in October.
yourbassist
3.5 weeks for me
eatandsleep
I turn 30 in July! I feel the memes in my soul now.
Arcrosis
28 on the 28th here
freshage
33, married, just bought a house and have a very successful career... Still have Avacados at all times.
aldasa
I stopped counting at 30
L1NS4S4URUS
36 here! I'm so broke
Tatsumaru004
Yap millennial here, turned 35 last week.
slumshoes
37 just last week. Not as active in Imgur now because most posting are Gen Z & I'm no longer with 'it'.
darkninja2992
I'm 28, i'm just a bit short of the next generation
BlumpkinPie69
I turn 30 on saturday! woooooo
mmartin762
Happy early birthday
Mogish
Just turned 36!
TieflingDelivery
Hi 35 next week, I'm dad.
pyroshen
I turned 35 in February
prisonmike1991
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
Gibenitural
40
afatrollofmyown
it's wild to think "those damn millennial KIDS" are turning 40 this year.
PushnFords
Yep me too. January BD. Wife is Nov ‘80 so I give her crap about being a whole generation older than me.
BobKemp
I turned 35 last week
HalloIamherenow
27 year old millennial, I'm one of the youngest
bumcivillian
You are on the council, but we do not grant you the rank of master
HalloIamherenow
That's not fair! How can you be on the council and not a master!?
bohjeenie
35 last week, still gathering that down payment...
sunyudai
Happy early IRL cake day.
GingerGoddess357
My husband and I are both millennials, he's turning 40 and I'm turning 38 this year
Mulberryberry
What, nobody’s 37?
bcd051
And my axe...
SirRichardOfHead
In two days, bro!
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
37?? In a row??!
LexLurker84
DangerMous
I’m 39 in June. That was a fast decade.
4vie
Millenial, 33 in May :D
IWasToldThereWouldBePie
I'm a millennial, and I need to stretch before taking a trip to the hardware store. Also, my back and knee hurts.
PearjuiceATX
Turned 32 last week.
boomstastic
I turn 30 on the 30th whoohoooo!
Onsvaltti
I just turned 28, but I was born in 1993. Funny to think that boomers think millennials as 15-22 year olds.
ButtonsAreForPushing
Happy birthday. As an aging Gen-Xer, may I also say “get off my lawn, you degenerate!” Unless you have good drugs. Then pull up a chair.
CapnPawsome
Just turned 28 a month ago... I make my own fucking avocado toast. (But shit is tasty....)
LariCheltsy
I turned 39 first week of March
justlurkinfornow
37 in the first week of march. Yay.
flyingirishman82
Turned 39 last Friday!
DreadPierateRoberts
July
Randazzo
Two weeks ago here. I remember being promised a lot of shit "when you grow up" and I'm still waiting.
euphoricopportunity
9 more weeks, I'll be there.
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Fuck I'm an old millennial. Wife and I only just started fucking around with avocado toast because we can just afford to so in our careers.
Vercci
Honored Elder
NorfolkEnchantsmate
Snap me too! Yet I don’t feel millennial somehow.
YouNeedAJacketAndImLowOnGas
I'm 39. We are considered Xennials
LariCheltsy
I grew up rural and poor, hand pumped and boiled water for baths as a kid, now i have an email. We are the apes who touched the obelisk.
TimeTravellingSpaceBear
Luxury, we never had a pump, and you'd be put in the tub ti warm the water
bushfrogben
I'd argue that within a few years you can feel like another gen, Born in 82, most my mates were older. I thoroughly identify with GenX.
xlr82xs
Not to mention regional differences. I'm on the genx boundry, but being Australian most of the "you know you're a..." lists ring 0 bells..
Youhavinagiraffe
How's your back holding up?
iii900
Wait that’s normal? My back started hurting when laying down/getting up just this year. I’m 35.
Lapkin
Damn, is it common at this age? My back began killing me once I turned 34.
Yenaldooshi
33 next month. My back is fine, its my knees that are the problem.
freshage
Fuck my back. My knees! And my hearing is starting to go. Damn tinnitus
kenji0132
Back is fine, knees are fucked
EveryTimeIfartaFairyDies
Same bro, same.
Jesusderschreiner
Not even 30 and its killing me. Fuck hard labour
SirRichardOfHead
Not good I tell you...
Rogahar
I ha e woken up 3 times this past 12 months in actual eyewatering pain from sleeping wrong. The fact that we can sleep wrong is >
Colombias720
my hotdamn neck is strained (deep muscles attaching vertebrae) when i lay down!! tossed for 30 mins. last night to get best sleep positionTF
Rogahar
> all the proof I needed against the concept of Intelligent Design.
Tom40
Why are generations getting to be shorter intervals? I mean a kid born in 1946 has little in common with one born in 1964.
ArcaneConjecture
Key inflection points are: End of the Baby Boom, entering the workforce with/without the Internet, and being raised with the Internet.
EvilKrikkit
Tech.
1ittle1auren
Change is accelerating
Youhavinagiraffe
Culture is changing faster and also age gaps matter less when you get older. Generational boundaries might shift in the future
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
The guys who first codified this stuff went for around 18-20 years, but other people make up different dates. No reason why, they just do.
MrAgrijag
Yeah but they're both fuckin annoying boomers
SrMordred
Technology causes culture to move faster, thus commonalities, as tenuous as they are, have a shorter window.
ARandySavageGifForEveryOccasion
more in common than I do with these kids on tik tok tho.
Itchy73
Yeah. And I'm 26.
jawsoshuell
Baby Boomers was the first marketed generation. That made it profitable to define generations, which made it lucrative to shorten them too.
xXxSTEVOxXx
Maybe the rate of cultural turnover of accelerating? Or maybe our emphasis of generational divides is exaggerating our experience of them?
jursamaj
Also, people tend to lump older history more than recent. Example: the Elizabethan era is 45 years, thrown into 1 bin.
TheMemeForge
Technology has an exponential rate and impact per generation. Should the world become stay at home labour, that will divide gen Z to current
SilverHornet
Because they need us all blaming each other, rather than the system that's abusing us all. Invent differences, divide and conquer.
thomrun5772
I was born in 1962 and I have zero in common with the "well I've got mine so fuck everyone else" Boomers.
gotmoxie
It's all based on which star sign Pluto is in, for Millenials Pluto is in Scorpio.
poochyena
There is no reason. Its completely arbitrary.
LadyStormdance
Technology and culture speeding by, ever evolving at a faster rate than humanity is used to adapting to.
Qualtagh
Possibly we consolidate generations into more general term over time. It's easier to see differences between a 14 yr old and 1/2
Qualtagh
a 20 yr old than between a 70 yr old and an 80 yr old. 2/2
parkerh17
Real answer? It is made up. Best approximation? Technology accelerates so being born in 1940 or 1960 is less dif than being born 1990/2010
Plaguestorm172
especially since the dates vary fucking wildly. 18/15/14/14
brownsugga
Cuz Boomers can't keep up with the names
leonleonardo
Because they're arbitrary lines that have to be drawn somewhere. That's just how categorization works.
edgeofadhesion
18 years vs 14 for the others. It's not massively longer. Not much in common between 1981 and 1995 either tbh.
edgeofadhesion
People born in 1995 won't remember a pre broadband time for example.
flavivsaetivs
Marketing.
therewk
Indeed. That's why at 43 I feel both X and millennial. Hence Xennial.
mercyPandaRunner
It's all part of a scientifically highly controversial model of generational circles. Each rebels against the last and becomes the next ~>
mercyPandaRunner
establishment. There is much dispute about the validity of such a models, such as the question if it really was generational conflicts.
nclu
Boomers are following a demography pattern. For that period there were more babies each year than the last one.
RideTheStimutacs
It's not really, it's typically about 15 years. But post-WW2 life was weird and everyone was expected to procreate at early adulthood.
chainmaille
Depends on culture which depends on country as well, last millenials were 5 about to turn 6 when 9/11 hit, culture took a massive change.
gaidinbdj
Because cheap communication more widely available and we're *way* richer than 70-80 years ago.
xerofall
I'm wondering what they're going to call people born after 2010? They ran out of alphabet letters.
LaLLe
Choose a different language. Danish has æ ø å after z...
StrickenStrychnine
Goddamn generation ø's. They ruined everything!
SilverHornet
The last generation
chelli
tonchandailvert
Tough luck
B3N15
I believe its Generation Alpha
xerofall
Makes sense.
howtobeacat101
I’ve heard this also
Solarstephy
My grandma was 2 in ‘46 and she had my mom in ‘63. It’s a huge interval.
SnarkyScience
It’s based on major cultural events. Eg if you remember 9/11 vividly you’re a millennial or older.
SnarkyScience
Gen X ends more or less when you vividly remember the Berlin Wall falling. Baby boomers would be adults during moon landings.
rando84
Mostly dependent on history, but there’s always a limited range (society will always have children, young adults, middle aged and elderly (1
rando84
cohorts). Generations are defined before their defining historical circumstances are clearly understood so the years will be subject to (2
rando84
revision. The tech changes today are more gradual than the transition from the pre-Great Depression/WWII Era to the postwar period. (3
AnyUsernameWillDoForMe
The baby boom was looong
dontworryguysimhere
Babies be boomin’... babies be mad boomin’
PWBoiler
That’s because it’s not a “generation.” It’s just a tremendous increase in the number of babies born that didn’t subside until the Pill.
Mediocreclient
18 > 15 > 14 > 16 doesn't really seem like a massive decline in interval length when you're talking about literally made up things.
chainmaille
19 > 16 > 15 > 15, count the year it ends on.
Mediocreclient
I appreciate both examples of more finite math, but neither seems to really address or disprove my original point.
jursamaj
By the pic, the last should be 14 not 16. And I think it's a reflection of the fact that people tend to lump older stuff more than (1/2)
jursamaj
newer stuff. This is why we lump whole centuries, or even millennia of ancient history as if everybody from 1000 to 1100 are the same. (2/2)
JamJarre
I'll tell you a secret: it's all fucking made up
byronape
Nope, there is an actual science behind it. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/09/03/the-whys-and-hows-of-generations-research/
JamJarre
I think "actual science" is a bit of a stretch. They seem to be retroactively applied labels and ignore pretty much everywhere but the US
JamJarre
Just read any book trying to discuss "Generation Y" before the 2008 crash. Events basically make the model. It's wildly unpredictable
JamJarre
Wait until you hear about how cultural movements don't respect dividing years up into decades. Hooo boy
Chibo3000
When these started in theb90s I was a Gen Y and my sis was a Gen X. Were both Millennials now
Beardologist
Which international body makes these rules?When I was a scallywag it was gen Stone, gen Iron, and gen "go outside and play like a normal!"
Chibo3000
I think its just magazine articles that decide what the general public see/read. I'm sure there are people who study this subject.
Chibo3000
A section of Sociology probably focuses on generational studies
danielson144
Haha exactly. There’s no science to it...
PandaManCan2
I believe it’s based on technology boom. So as technology gets better we change the generation. The new generation is the age of technology
NuclearButtPlugFromPlanetX
Pretty much. I was born in 1980. Technically I'm Gen-X. I have more in common with someone born in '85 than I do with someone born in '65.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Hell, the guys who made it up didn't even call Millennials Millennials - that name was for what Gen Z is now, and Gen X was "Thirteeners."
CyanideBreathMint
Thirteeners are mountains over 13k' tall.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
I honestly can't remember what they initially called the generation we now call Millennials.
jayhaJapeLord
Gen y I believe.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Not initially, their first book came out about the same time as "Generation X" did, people weren't calling my generation that yet.