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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Everyone saying this is too late. We are Xennials not Millenials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

[–] shuvit@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

The graduating class of 2000 were the original millennials before it was used as a general term for an entire generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.[29]

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

By the same article you posted, this is 3 years late. That fucker is already on the car and climbing towards the rest of us

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure whatever millennials are consider starting in 1981. So oldest is 45. But whatever they are all made up and mean nothing. Cause now they are starting micro generations.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are now several studies showing that generations rarely end precisely at one point and begin anew at another. In the case of Xennials, they do not identify with either the later Millennials or Generation X.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No really a made up thing isn't precise. There is no Xennials or that is the micro generations some are pushing. And come on the wealth of your family, where you are raised how you are raised are going to be bigger factors in how you grow up then your generation.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

Was looking for this comment, thanks!

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Oregon Trail generation!

Missed out on that one by a couple years unfortunately, though I feel more of a connection to those who had a pre-digital childhood like myself than I do to the iPad babies of today.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that sweet spot in timeline between analog and digital.