Poll of the Day > What was the last year Millenials were born?

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I did this a few years ago, and 2000 won pretty easily iirc. Since then, one source (Pew) said they consider 96 to be the cutoff. I think one of the original people who developed the generations said 2004.

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The best definition I heard is millennials are too young to remember the Challenger and old enough to remember 9/11.
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1957

Thats how they got the name for Heinz 57
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The general consensus is 1981-1996.

something like late 80's/early 90's
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Uh oh, more responses than votes

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81-96

Id say 93-95 were the last years. Being born in those years, you could easily be either a millennial or a zoomer

Always heard 96.

Generations are not absolute, they are fluid as they are more of a cultural/mindset thing.

I would argue they were also slightly shifted, until the 2 great unifiers.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

The best definition I heard is millennials are too young to remember the Challenger and old enough to remember 9/11.

Which is a very US-centric viewpoint. I agree on 9-11 being the great unifier, in that together with the internet, it streamlined Western culture. I would say that to us Europeans, the culture bubble I had my formative years in was between the fall of the wall and 9-11.

I also feel like "Millennial" is more of an insult aimed at (a sub-set of) Gen Y by older generations, for having ideas so opposite to their own. Those ideas make me say I am late Gen X to early Gen Y mindset-wise, but still absolutely opposite on the things that are supposed to mainly identify "Millennials".
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I believe the cutoff for the American cohort is 1997.
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1996
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I'd say 96, since all children after that had full uptime on their internet and then grew up in the mobile generation
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1000
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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Generations are not absolute, they are fluid as they are more of a cultural/mindset thing.

Made worse by the fact that there's no one official body that established standards, so you can have half a dozen assumptions about what defines a given generation based on who's talking.

But I'd argue the real problem is that there's a greater difference in generations in the modern technological age - pop culture moves at a much faster pace, and the trailing members of any given generation have almost nothing in common with the earliest members, which was never really the case in older times.

Personally, I'd argue that in modern culture we're almost better off ignoring generational distinctions entirely and focus more on decade-based division (ie, "80s kids", "90s kids", etc). Or, at the very least, that the concept of "Millennials" is flawed because you almost have to make a distinction between the first half of the group (the ones born in the 80s) and the second half of the group (the ones born in the 90s). I feel like the distinction is strong enough between the two so that, even though there are shared similarities, they have less in common with each other than prior generations did.

Then again, most of the time I ignore the concept of generational cohorts at all, because it never really seems to mean much in my personal experience. My parents mostly hated their own generation while they were part of it, I never really related to mine, and so on.
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