Poll of the Day > Are you a millennial?

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I dont even know

I was born in 85
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I was born in 84. I doubt I'm on the affirmative side of the cut-off, but either way I neither consider it nor care much about the whole "millennial" label.
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I was born in 86 so maybe? I don't actually know.
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I was born in '84, so yuh.
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I was born in 1994.
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Nope. Born in 1977.


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Based on birth date: yes
Based on mindset: no
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Keebs05 posted...

Based on birth date: yes
Based on mindset: no

Millennials can be incredibly conservative. Hell, I'd argue there's probably more conservative millennials than conservative baby boomers.
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wwinterj25 posted...

I was born in 86 so maybe? I don't actually know.

^This is me. :X
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ComradeSeraphim posted...

Keebs05 posted...

Based on birth date: yes
Based on mindset: no

Millennials can be incredibly conservative. Hell, I'd argue there's probably more conservative millennials than conservative baby boomers.

Oh absolutely. I know tons of millennials that have conservative views but when people, in general, think "millennial," they think liberal. There's a certain stereotype that comes with the millennial tag.
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I believe that I technically am. Born in 89.
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Dunno, seen a lot of different cutoff dates.
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I don't feel like a millenial... not the ones people make fun of, anyway. 1993. Never felt entitled, I always felt awkward receiving stuff without working for it.
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They said i was generation Y growing up, but then they labeled a bunch of dipshits who gew up in a complwtely different world a decade later "millenials" and lumped me in with them.
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Yeah i am.

I dont really care though. All that seems to mean to me is i grew up with computers and internet which i had from the age of 5 onward.

Born in 1981. Im a Xennial.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
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83, I don't fit into any of the Millennial stereotypes though (other then thinking avocado toast is great). Even my workplace still has cubes and offices versus open floor plans.
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83, but I fit all the diagnostic traits of Gen X
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If you were born in the mid 80s, you absolutely are.
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I want to know where the zoomers are at.

Millennials are 82-97-ish. Zoomers are after. Most of you are probably in denial. The real enemies are the zoomers.
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Entity13 posted...

I was born in 84. I doubt I'm on the affirmative side of the cut-off, but either way I neither consider it nor care much about the whole "millennial" label.

It's mostly bullshit pop sociology anyway, and it hasn't really been accurate for decades.

The accelerating pace of pop culture and greater penetration of media and information means that 20-30 year wide cohorts are basically meaningless. At this point, saying "I'm an 80s kid" or "I'm a 90s kid" conveys far more and far more accurate information than any attempt to classify someone as a millennial.


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Judgmenl posted...

Millennials are 82-97-ish. Zoomers are after. Most of you are probably in denial. The real enemies are the zoomers.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone born after 1983 is a child who needs to be stuffed into a burlap sack and beaten with sticks.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Judgmenl posted...

Millennials are 82-97-ish. Zoomers are after. Most of you are probably in denial. The real enemies are the zoomers.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone born after 1983 is a child who needs to be stuffed into a burlap sack and beaten with sticks.

But we love you for that.
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'90. Maybe? idk. Don't really care if I am or not.
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Yes, born in '86.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Judgmenl posted...

Millennials are 82-97-ish. Zoomers are after. Most of you are probably in denial. The real enemies are the zoomers.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone born after 1983 is a child who needs to be stuffed into a burlap sack and beaten with sticks.

Don't sugarcoat it or anything...

I know some ok people who fall into that range. That's why I keep saying I don't understand these generation terms. Maybe they alter the dates because people don't want to be a millennial to avoid the negative impression.
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Born in '89, so I'd fit most definitions for it. Really, though, the term has lost all meaning beyond "somebody that I disagree with but I'm too lazy to blame anything but their age for that disagreement."

I feel like most millennials are too different to compare. Especially with such a big age group. And one that seems to change a lot. And stuff...
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Supposedly, millennial is anyone born in 1982 onward to some other year. Because they turn 18 in the year 2000, the word "millennial" is used. The dates seem really arbitrary to me though. Like, I guess the cutoff year could be 1997 to make every generation 15 years, but why would you start the generation in 1982? Wouldn't it be easier to track if it were 1980 or 1985?
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DPsx7 posted...

Maybe they alter the dates because people don't want to be a millennial to avoid the negative impression.

Each generation is bound to have its share of hard working citizens, dead beats, and in-betweens. The various negative impressions I feel is next to pointless. I know some Scouts who are 19-20 years old who I feel have already done more in their lives than some 40+ years old. Rather than judging a generation as a whole why don't we judge the individual on his/her merits instead of his/her peers?
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'88 so apparently I am.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

Supposedly, millennial is anyone born in 1982 onward to some other year. Because they turn 18 in the year 2000, the word "millennial" is used. The dates seem really arbitrary to me though. Like, I guess the cutoff year could be 1997 to make every generation 15 years, but why would you start the generation in 1982? Wouldn't it be easier to track if it were 1980 or 1985?

I thought it was just reaching adult around the millennium instead of being 18 right at 2000. So it could be a little before, as well...

InfestedAdam posted...

Rather than judging a generation as a whole why don't we judge the individual on his/her merits instead of his/her peers?

Thats what most normal people like to do. But some like to based people on the year they were born instead sometimes...
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I was born in 1977. You tell me
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I'm gen X but not the punk band.
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Judgmenl posted...

I want to know where the zoomers are at.

Millennials are 82-97-ish. Zoomers are after. Most of you are probably in denial. The real enemies are the zoomers.

Is that what the Post-Millennials are being called now? Because I remember when Gen Y got rebranded as The Millennials, and it was pretty confusing at first.

InfestedAdam posted...

DPsx7 posted...

Maybe they alter the dates because people don't want to be a millennial to avoid the negative impression.

Each generation is bound to have its share of hard working citizens, dead beats, and in-betweens. The various negative impressions I feel is next to pointless. I know some Scouts who are 19-20 years old who I feel have already done more in their lives than some 40+ years old. Rather than judging a generation as a whole why don't we judge the individual on his/her merits instead of his/her peers?

That's kinda where I was going. Millennial has become a term rather than a description of a generation, if that makes sense. So you hear 1980, 1982, maybe 85 onward, anyone who grew up in the 90's, I don't know what the official range is. Not that it matters since I don't fit any normal definitions. Ha.
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DPsx7 posted...

InfestedAdam posted...

DPsx7 posted...

Maybe they alter the dates because people don't want to be a millennial to avoid the negative impression.

Each generation is bound to have its share of hard working citizens, dead beats, and in-betweens. The various negative impressions I feel is next to pointless. I know some Scouts who are 19-20 years old who I feel have already done more in their lives than some 40+ years old. Rather than judging a generation as a whole why don't we judge the individual on his/her merits instead of his/her peers?

That's kinda where I was going. Millennial has become a term rather than a description of a generation, if that makes sense. So you hear 1980, 1982, maybe 85 onward, anyone who grew up in the 90's, I don't know what the official range is. Not that it matters since I don't fit any normal definitions. Ha.

A lot of them actually dont. At least, from the ones I know...
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1997, idk.
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I was born in the late '80s, so yes. Whether I'm one "mentally" is a silly question since that entails all sorts of stereotyping.
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By dates yes; but socially, politically, and ideologically no.
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Did you learn how to type on a typewriter?

Have you ever used a computer with a monochrome screen for anything other than gaming?

Did you die of dysentery before you were 12?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are Gen X, IMO.

kukukupo posted...

Did you die of dysentery before you were 12?

So many times...
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ComradeSeraphim posted...

Keebs05 posted...

Based on birth date: yes
Based on mindset: no

Millennials can be incredibly conservative. Hell, I'd argue there's probably more conservative millennials than conservative baby boomers.

I'll have what he's smoking.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's mostly bullshit pop sociology anyway, and it hasn't really been accurate for decades.

The accelerating pace of pop culture and greater penetration of media and information means that 20-30 year wide cohorts are basically meaningless. At this point, saying "I'm an 80s kid" or "I'm a 90s kid" conveys far more and far more accurate information than any attempt to classify someone as a millennial.

More importantly, there's the variance in birth rate. Some boomers are great-grandparents, other boomers are just parents. The whole system kinda arose from the idea that there was a baby rush so a large cohort was born at once.

And even 80s kid vs 90s kid has different connotations, depending on arbitrary cutoffs.
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Hitler was a millennial.

He was born in '89.
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That would have made him a centennial.
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