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[-] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 14 points 1 year ago

Wait wait wait... Am I gen X?! My world just crumbled

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago

Gen X is 1965 to 1981; if you just missed the mark for Gen Z, you're possibly a millennial, aka Gen Y (1982 - 1996).

[-] Waker@lemmy.pt 12 points 1 year ago

As someone from 1996 I feel split :[

[-] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yep! I'm dumb, thanks for the correction, I'm feeling a bit less old now :)

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

Hey, it's all good, welcome to Team Millennial. Here's your complimentary 'I Am Older Than The Internet' T-shirt, and your back pain medication.

[-] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Good GOD I needed that medicine, thank you!

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Mfs turn 30 and get a herniated disk for sleeping the wrong way.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

My two herniated discs are glaring at you.

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've only got one so far - 22 to go

[-] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 1 points 1 year ago

What can we do?! IT life for me....

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

My back after 10 minutes in city bus when it's Irisbus Citelis 10.5M:

[-] dartos@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Maultasche@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Do we get coupons for avocado toast?

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So I am Gen X born 1980. And who decided this?

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting question and I wasn't sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.

According to this source, which I can't verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:

No official commission or group decides what each generation is called and when it starts and ends. Instead, different names and birth year cutoffs are proposed, and through a somewhat haphazard process a consensus slowly develops in the media and popular parlance.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

TL;DR "It's all made up and none of it matters!"

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Gen x is 1965-1980 Gen y (millennial) is 1981-1996

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

There's contention on if gen z started in 96 or 97

I choose 96

For no particular reason

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I think the demarcator is whether or not you can remember 9/11

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I just had this realization with a guy I'm training at work who lived in Queens and was 2 when 9/11 happened. He has absolutely no recollection of it. Meanwhile my old ass was in high school when it happened and I can remember that day very clearly.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Heh. "Highschool". I remember driving down the road and seeing cars abandoned in the middle of an intersection, doors open and all, just outside a popular diner on the corner. The crowd was eerily silent, packed around the TVs inside that normally showed the weather, sports, what have you. When I followed suit, a stranger turned to me and said "They hit the Twin Towers!" while behind him, a screen showed the second plane impacting.

That was a couple years postgraduate, and everything changed that day. Nothing seemed real anymore, and at the same time, everything mattered โ€” down to a debilitating granular scale. I called a colleague who had just left for NYC on a photog trip, and he didn't pick up. A few days later, be called back, frantic and babbling about some crazy shot he got just walking around town on his own. It was too be TIME's cover.

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I recently promoted a guy to be a supervisor, and only just now realised he was born after 9/11...

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Deargawd. How are you on the internet?!

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 4 points 1 year ago

when were you born? if its the early 80s multiple groups want to claim you

[-] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Not really, I'm clearly an Y lemming. Just sleep deprived to thing straight

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Briz@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

...and sometimes Y

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