Current Events > You know y'all are probably millenials, right?

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MILLENIALS

Unless you're over say 35, and I doubt there are that many users over that age here anymore.

But please continue using astrology to assign a character profile to everyone you don't like in society
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Another topic from a spoiled millennial with rich parents
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I've said this in some millennial bashing circle jerk topics before, but if you're not a millennial, you don't belong on this site tbh.
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I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.
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im 30 and a millenial.
I dont like most millenials.
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Im a millennial. So what?
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the majority of researchers and demographers start the generation in the early 1980s, with many ending the generation in the mid-1990s. wiki.
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Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.
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AmonAmarth posted...

im 30 and a millenial.
I dont like most millenials.

Do you prefer any other generation for some reason? I personally just dislike most people in general, I don't discriminate by generation.
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FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?
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Link HT posted...

Do you prefer any other generation for some reason? I personally just dislike most people in general, I don't discriminate by generation.

i prefer gen x in technology (their habits in technology as opposed to old tech)
I prefer silent gen for morals (minus the racism)
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The bigger question is whether or not the whiny media follows the actual age range or not
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FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

It makes no sense that someone that was 18 when 2000 came around could be considered a millenial.
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I'am tail end GEN X thankfully.

LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

Millennials are early 80's to early 2000's.

Generational classification really needs to end. It's just bullshit spread by marketers and "news" outlets looking for views. We need to stop dividing ourselves.
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1337toothbrush posted...

Generational classification really needs to end. It's just bulls*** spread by marketers and "news" outlets looking for views. We need to stop dividing ourselves.

we are the borg. you will be assimilated?


In 1993 Advertising Age one of the first times millenials were mentioned it was 1980–1995
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Newhopes posted...

I'am tail end GEN X thankfully.

LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

Millennials are early 80's to early 2000's.

Again, that makes no sense. But, leave it to millennials to not make sense.
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Kisai posted...

Again, that makes no sense. But, leave it to millennials to not make sense.

You saying it doesn't make sense does not mean it does not make sense.

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

There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

TL;DR - your formative years are in the 2000s. You are a millenial.
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Gen X reporting in, fuck off
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voldothegr8 posted...

Gen X reporting in, fuck off

How old are you
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35
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Kisai posted...

Newhopes posted...

I'am tail end GEN X thankfully.

LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

Millennials are early 80's to early 2000's.

Again, that makes no sense. But, leave it to millennials to not make sense.

How does the concept of generations not make sense?

voldothegr8 posted...

35

So right on the cusp, lol. Do you run around saying "fucking millenials" anytime someone 5 years younger than you does something slightly silly? Because you shouldn't.
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LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

It's a term that's already been clearly defined, and your opinion doesn't change that widely-accepted definition.
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"I'm not a normal millennial, I'm a cool millennial!" - most of you
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weren't most 90's kids before? what happened with that?
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pinky0926 posted...

Unless you're over say 35, and I doubt there are that many users over that age here anymore.

I'm a Gen X
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I've taken to apologizing when people say bad stuff about millennials.

It's surprising how well that ends the complaining.
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You can criticize your own generation just like you can criticize your own country.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

You can criticize your own generation just like you can criticize your own country.

Sure, but if your criticism is just "here's ANOTHER thing millenials are ruining" I mean I'm not going to take that criticism seriously
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FarFromFields posted...

LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

It's a term that's already been clearly defined, and your opinion doesn't change that widely-accepted definition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
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If you're in your 20s you're a millenial
if you're in your teens you're probably not

For some reason millenial gets taken to mean some really young person that grew up with a smartphone
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I'm going to have yo ask you to delete this.
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CmndrHurricane posted...

weren't most 90's kids before? what happened with that?

Yeah, pretty much 90s kids = the core of the millenial generation. there's outliers too but "90s kid" and "millenial" mostly overlap
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Millennials grew up with fast internet. Counting people born in the late 80s and early 90s is just silly.
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I Like Toast posted...

Counting people born in the late 80s and early 90s is just silly.

That's literally what a millenial is. People born in the late 90s are Gen Z.
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I Like Toast posted...

Millennials grew up with fast internet. Counting people born in the late 80s and early 90s is just silly.

I was born in 89
I'm a millenial, what else would I be? Gen x? Lol
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Conflict posted...

LordRazziel posted...

FarFromFields posted...

Kisai posted...

I would say anyone whose childhood was during the 2000s is a millennial. Not someone 28 and older.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

Why?

Because the definition isn't about what 'you feel like'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
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I think I'm actually a post-millennial at age 19.
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ThyCorndog posted...

I'm a millenial, what else would I be? Gen x? Lol

Gen y is pre modern internet. Millennials grew up with social media. MySpace was barely a thing when I was in high school. I went to college before Obamas changes to grants and was employed just as the recession was starting rather than as it was recovering. I wasn't getting participation trophies in youth sports and we kept score.

The rise of the internet, and the impact it had on your childhood, is a huge difference, and that is the point of being a millennial. If you used yahoo or ask jeeves as your primary search engine throughout school, you weren't a millennial.
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I Like Toast posted...

ThyCorndog posted...

I'm a millenial, what else would I be? Gen x? Lol

Gen y is pre modern internet. Millennials grew up with social media. MySpace was barely a thing when I was in high school. I went to college before Obamas changes to grants and was employed just as the recession was starting rather than as it was recovering. I wasn't getting participation trophies in youth sports and we kept score.

The rise of the internet, and the impact it had on your childhood, is a huge difference, and that is the point of being a millennial. If you used yahoo or ask jeeves as your primary search engine throughout school, you weren't a millennial.

Everything you're talking about is still applicable to people born as late as 91. I was born in 87 and transitioned from ask jeeves to google. We had myspace and bebo and msn messenger and SkiFree.
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I Like Toast posted...

ThyCorndog posted...

I'm a millenial, what else would I be? Gen x? Lol

Gen y is pre modern internet. Millennials grew up with social media. MySpace was barely a thing when I was in high school. I went to college before Obamas changes to grants and was employed just as the recession was starting rather than as it was recovering. I wasn't getting participation trophies in youth sports and we kept score.

The rise of the internet, and the impact it had on your childhood, is a huge difference, and that is the point of being a millennial. If you used yahoo or ask jeeves as your primary search engine throughout school, you weren't a millennial.

Gen y are millenials though. It's just another term for the same generation... or so I thought
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pinky0926 posted...

I Like Toast posted...

ThyCorndog posted...

I'm a millenial, what else would I be? Gen x? Lol

Gen y is pre modern internet. Millennials grew up with social media. MySpace was barely a thing when I was in high school. I went to college before Obamas changes to grants and was employed just as the recession was starting rather than as it was recovering. I wasn't getting participation trophies in youth sports and we kept score.

The rise of the internet, and the impact it had on your childhood, is a huge difference, and that is the point of being a millennial. If you used yahoo or ask jeeves as your primary search engine throughout school, you weren't a millennial.

Everything you're talking about is still applicable to people born as late as 91. I was born in 87 and transitioned from ask jeeves to google. We had myspace and bebo and msn messenger and SkiFree.

This is true for me as well and I was born early 90s
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pinky0926 posted...

I was born in 87 and transitioned from ask jeeves to google. We had myspace and bebo and msn messenger and SkiFree

And you're not a millennial.

ThyCorndog posted...

Gen y are millenials though

I don't view it that way. Millennials are the later half of gen y and the early part z. It's the people who grew up on social media and broadband internet . The kids that were coddled and not taught how to cope with failure. The people that have become the sjw snowflakes because they believe society needs to cater to them.

The next divide is the kids who grew up with smart phones. And remember kids are not teens.
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I Like Toast posted...

And you're not a millennial.

You're just plain wrong about this dude. Literally every definition you can find online puts people of our age in the textbook millenial generation.
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It's sad how much Mental Fu people do to say that they are not a millennial.
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pinky0926 posted...

I Like Toast posted...

And you're not a millennial.

You're just plain wrong about this dude. Literally every definition you can find online puts people of our age in the textbook millenial generation.

Definition is irrelevant to how it's used by the media and what people think of when they say it. Hence why these topics exist because the definition doesn't match the use.
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I'm a 90s kid, not a millennial.
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I Like Toast posted...

Definition is irrelevant to how it's used by the media and what people think of when they say it. Hence why these topics exist because the definition doesn't match the use.

Because what you personally feel a millennial is according to various negative character traits you dislike is not what a millennial is, and that's entirely my point. Millennials are just people born within a certain date range. The exacts of that date range are up to scrutiny, but generally agree on somewhere between 1980 and 2000.

If you want to define millenials as just anyone who is a snowflake who needs to toughen up and get a real job, that's fine. But it makes no sense other than to just pat yourself on the back for being a trooper.
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