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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z …. We gotta hold on to what we have and get along. Cuz this isn’t our fault. Except for the few we don’t talk to.
Feb 8, 2026 4:50 AM
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z …. We gotta hold on to what we have and get along. Cuz this isn’t our fault. Except for the few we don’t talk to.
CaldariBob
My Platonic shadow looks like a bunny.
Hazearil
Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z really are dogshit names. X was used initially because it stood for being undefined. But once you decide to name the next one Gen Y, you are making it a countdown. You know you can only do it once more before you run out of letters. Now, Y was just a placeholder, but Z, we still use that. And what do we get after than? Alpha, and the next proposed one is Beta. From names like "Lost, Greatest, Silent, Boomers, undefined, and millenial", we just gave up and started counting
duktayp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
davllot
"Terms like "Gen Z", "Boomer" and "Millennial" are popular, but they have no basis in science. Demographers and social scientists are now pushing back. Generational labelling, they argue, is akin to Astrology and while politicians, journalists and media influencers find them irresistible, they actually promote pseudo-science, sew social division and can reinforce prejudicial stereotype.." - https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/futuretense/the-danger-of-generational-labelling/105884536
BobaFettApproves
I purposely didn’t say millennial, but you did.
CaldariBob
No war but class war.
Hazearil
The strongest argument I got is that the generations are often noted to have a specific start and end year. Millenials are typically up to 1996. Therefore the logic of the generations is that if I specifically were born just a couple weeks later, I would be in a different generation. But I wouldn't be a different person, so, what gives?
bekkayya
ok neat tell all the boomers to surrender power and stop acting in ideological lockstep and i might believe you
davllot
Many boomers were not actually born in a baby boom which was the original purpose of the word.
Clockworkdancerobot
Mostly just marketing.
Zyrixion
This is stupid as fuck. It is incredibly obvious to anyone with two brain cells that people are largely going to be a product of the times they spent their formative years in, because we as humans tend to bake in our beliefs based on the experiences we have over time. Thus it is highly useful to look at the technological, social, and economic culture that a cohort experienced because that will influence how that cohort writ large will, on average, view and experience present reality.
Zyrixion
This doesn't mean that it's quite as simple as broad generational labelling across the continent, but it also doesn't mean that it isn't, only that subdividing that to smaller regions would be *more* useful in forming general averages and predictors of beliefs and stances for a given generation.
xeoxion
Even you forgot Gen X
We really are the forgotten generation
davllot
Gen X came from a book by Douglas Coupland who borrowed it from pop culture. Coupland later disowned the term.
EltaninDracoPwc
Tell this to a teacher. The different generations think differently, communicate differently, use technology differently, learn differently. There are obvious differences that are totally based on when they grew up. I'll grant that it's more a continuous spectrum than discrete groupings, but there are absolutely meaningful distinctions between the generations.
davllot
"But generational research has become a crowded arena. The field has been flooded with content that’s often sold as research but is more like clickbait or marketing mythology.. Existing generational definitions also may be too broad and arbitrary to capture differences that exist among narrower cohorts... As many critics of generational research point out, there is great diversity of thought, experience and behavior within generations..." - Pew Institute
AndroidSoul
But that's the problem, it's a bunch of 'continuous spectrum' groups raising continuous spectrum groups. Someone born in 1985 being raised by someone born in 1965 is going to have a notably different experience than someone born in 1998 being raised by someone born in 1978, because tech and culture change noticeably in a decade and a half. And yet both are millennials raised by gen x
Zyrixion
This just means we've set our parameters wrong, not that such labelling is without merit or use, but even with that the experiences still largely rhyme and fall into a greater average range.
BobaFettApproves
This is also deviating from the entire point to say we should all unify despite our differences, not pretend like we’re not different.
AndroidSoul
Nothing is better at dividing people than arbitrary boxes to sort people into