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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 92 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 70 points 3 months ago

Have you tried being born in a different year?

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

My plan is to claim that I'm "about 38" for the next decade or so...

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[-] Brocon@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it's unnerving... sometimes.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Fucking same. But hey, at least for a few more months, I'm 42, so I got that going for me.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You probably started remembering stuff in '84 and were 9 in '90, so you qualify as both an 80s and 90s kid.

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[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 months ago

My favorite I've heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago

Only because everyone else does shit at voting. There's only 75 million boomers left in the US, and millions of those are too bedridden or too mentally incapable to vote. There's a lot more people in the 18 to 60 crowd than there in in the 60+ crowd.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

83 here. We're a bridge generation.

We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we're exposed to tech early enough to learn it.

We also had much jankier software. I'm finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they've grown up on just do everything for them.

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

It feels like a good place to be.

At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Those of us who remember the tale of the land line telephone....

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 38 points 3 months ago

Me: I try not to gatekeep.

Also me: ☝🏼 (see meme)

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

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".

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 3 months ago

Being born in '85, I guarantee I have more vivid memories of the 90's than someone born in '95.

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[-] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

1992 here and I never really think of myself as a 90s kid. All the things I remember happened in the 00s.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

i mean that's what "X kid" means. usually if you were born in a decade you're the next decade's "kid".

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 24 points 3 months ago

That's ridiculous, 1995 and up kids still remember CRT monitors, weird ball mice, green glow in the dark toys/hats/shoes, VHS tapes, polaroid cameras, all the girls on TV having a perm, etc.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

My grandparents had an 8 track collection. That doesn't make me a 60s kid.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1993. What I know about the 90s is what I learned about it once I achieved self-awareness well into the 2000s

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
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[-] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94? They all don't remember most of the 90s.

[-] rImITywR@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Old enough to play Ocarina of Time when it came out.

Or at least old enough to play it at your cousin's house and ask your mom for it for christmas because you really wanted it but she wouldn't buy it for you because she was in full 90's helicopter parent mode and thought it looked too scary. I'm sure that's a universal experience.

[-] Snailpope@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

This

Still remember staying up till midnight on new years watching my brother play, he said I could have a turn in the morning. I did not get that turn in the morning.

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“No mom, it’s not scary at all!”

redead scream

Edit: ReDead! Took me a long time to remember what those scary mofos are called!

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago

OP was born in 93-94 and wants to still be included.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94

Time.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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?

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah bad news for anyone born after 1990 on being a 90's kid...

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[-] rowdyrockets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

‘95 here. Never heard anyone my age claim they were a 90s kid. Sis is ‘93, I don’t think she considered herself one either.

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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Born in '72 here. What is this attention to generations and acknowledgement of existence you speak of? Your words are strange and foreign to me.

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Don't you have a mortgage to pay off? Hush hush to work, and leave the internet to us. Doesn't matter if you were in some usenet mailing groups already, when most people couldn't type on a keyboard.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Being an elder zoomer be like:

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.

[-] nexas_XIII@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

We truly are the forgotten generation.

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[-] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

I read an article that basically said we give up on trying to categorize you guys (97), you're just "transitionals". Not millennial or gen z. And honestly I get that. I only remember 9/11 because of my mother's reaction. I grew up in a weird phase for tech. And I don't feel like I belong to either group.

So I think they cracked the code!

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

"Weird phase for tech" is a nice euphemism for "knows what casettes are, but didn't have to put them into computers anymore."

I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9

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[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

I was born in 1980. I refuse to be in any generation, I just was born in 1980.

[-] Fleur__@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

If you remember 9/11 you're a 90's kid. If not, welcome to Zoomer gang -- perspective of 02 kid

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Wait another decade and "90s kid" won't be a title anyone wants to claim.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 7 points 3 months ago

You're too young if you care.

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