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[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

Is it just me or is there a new generation about every 4 months lately?

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 32 points 8 months ago

Gen Alpha started in 2010 bro, where ya been?

[-] RovingFox@infosec.pub 21 points 8 months ago

My question is who comes up with these names?? Is there a commission I was never invited?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Baby boomers (named after the post war baby boom that created them) started it by calling the generation following them "generation X". Then millennials were gen Y for a while before the millennial rebrand after the turn of the millennium for some reason. Gen Z got the nickname zoomer pretty much because it rhymes with boomer. Then we ran out of letters because the boomers decided to start at the wrong end of the alphabet, so we're doing the Greek alphabet now. Thus gen alpha, who haven't been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.

Given generations seem to be about 15 years or so, the line for gen beta kids is just around the corner I guess

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

How much longer until we get the first sigma male.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Not within this century :(

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Exactly, it takes time to get a non-sequential name. I haven't heard Gen Y in probably a decade. I still hear Genzie but I suspect it's partly waiting for the Zoomer adoption, partly due to being the easiest to say. Jennay is smooth but not too clear as a standalone word, needing context like "PIN number"

[-] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Thus gen alpha, who haven't been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.

"iPad babies" seems to be the closest thing we have at the moment. Only time will tell if that sticks.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

Generation Fucked didn't stick and tbh covers too many years.

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 2 points 8 months ago

Wait... I was born close to the start of 2010.

Am I gen alpha?

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You're just getting old. Alpha's been with us for a while now.

The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that's connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The "iPad kids".

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I tend to agree with the person you're responding to in that actual generations tend to be marked by massive paradigm shifts more than chunks of years.

Like fall of the Berlin wall through 9-11 is a generation.

9-11 through COVID is a generation.

COVID until the water wars is a generation.

It's marked by things that the basically the whole world is affected by, and we all experience it together in some way.

[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Agreed. There's isn't enough of a difference between a number of the recent gens. I feel like the millennials were the last big one that made sense to me.

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[-] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I think you are correct.

[-] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

I mean 90% of my dad's humor is dad jokes and Monty Python

And it's awesome lmao

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Thanks! Which one of my kids are you?

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 5 points 8 months ago

Will you be my dad? I miss my dad.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[-] Kase@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Father? 🙋

[-] sfbing@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge ... tracts of land!

And no singing!

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Except when OP is making breaking bad references

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago

lisa needs braces, DENTAL PLAN...

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
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[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Iron helps us play!

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

We're calling them gen a?

We can just end the whole "gen" thing.

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago

I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).

But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago
[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.

Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.

[-] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

It's media-friendly astrology

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Haha, perfect!

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

In the case of this post, I'd say it's more a fact that the early seasons of The Simpsons are 20-30 years old rather than different generations have different perspectives. Gen alpha will not be exposed to those seasons unless it's by someone older.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 8 months ago

Remember folks, don't show your significant other The Simpsons/Futurama/South Park/ or anything else until after you're married. Then they can know you aren't actually funny

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Add Rick and Morty and you just found the other 9.99%

Last 0.01% is "nobody here but us trees"

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Simpsons did it

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago
[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Their aren't nearly enough Phineas and Ferb memes

[-] whosdadog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I know what we're going to do today!

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

I watched a random episode on my media box today (Season 7, Lisa becomes a vegetarian). It's been a while and I forgot how good it is. The sheer number of scenes that my wife and I quote to each other on a regular basis that were just in 1 episode was ridiculous.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, that’s a real pickle.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'm helping!

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Same but married with children

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