Current Events > Do Millennials have a everyone remembers where they were when ___ happened?

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Superb philo trolling topic.

He's really starting to fine tune the art at this point.
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I was in my 2nd year of high school when it happened.

TC can't tell the difference between Gen Y and Gen Z.

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Hairistotle posted...

I thought it was 911. I'll be honest I have no clue when Michael Jackson died tho

I don't remember Michael Jackson dying either I just remember that people were making jokes about it not long after.

That's like saying everybody is gonna remember when Bill Cosby died, Michael Jackson was popular when I was old enough to be a target of his but I grew up thinking Michael Jackson was a fucking nutball and it turns out I was right

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I start millennials at 1985 and end the gen at 1995 *shrugs*

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If anything, X-ers have the Clinton scandal, L.A. Riots, Waco, Oklahoma City Bombing, O.J. Trial, Columbine, and anything else that happened in the 90s, mostly.

Even though, I'm a 30-year-old Millennial, I actually remember all of those events though not as explicitly or as vividly as 9/11.

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9/11

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Hairistotle posted...

I thought it was 911. I'll be honest I have no clue when Michael Jackson died tho

It was June 2009. I remember because it was during the last week of 6th grade before summer vacation

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Im a millennial and was a couple weeks away from starting college when 9-11 happened, so I think millennials can claim that as their own.

although obviously Im on the older end.

I remember that Michael Jackson died but it wasnt like a big deal where the world stopped or anything.

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35 here

Colombine and 9 11

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gainingtheoffense posted...

If anything, X-ers have the Clinton scandal, L.A. Riots, Waco, Oklahoma City Bombing, O.J. Trial, Columbine, and anything else that happened in the 90s, mostly.

Even though, I'm a 30-year-old Millennial, I actually remember all of those events though not as explicitly or as vividly as 9/11.

These too

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The Top Crusader posted...

Im a millennial and was a couple weeks away from starting college when 9-11 happened, so I think millennials can claim that as their own.

although obviously Im on the older end.

I remember that Michael Jackson died but it wasnt like a big deal where the world stopped or anything.

The news talked about nothing but MJ for an entire month after he died

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Without looking it up, can you remember the exact date when Jackson died?

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Firewerx posted...

Without looking it up, can you remember the exact date when Jackson died?

It was summer, I think. Not sure the day, month or year lol.

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Drpooplol posted...

I think Pew Research has the cutoff at like 23

The Pew Research Center was attention whoring when they came out with that. No one gives a shit about Pew when it's not an election year so they came out with what they say is the years for the Millenial generation....20 years after it already ended. Pew just wanted attention and to be mentioned.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines it as 1982-2000. This is also the years the vast majority of generational researchers have used as well. This means Millenials are 19/20 to 37/38. The term was created for those coming of age at the turn of the millennium. This would be for those in their 30s. Yet the news media, paragons of stupidity that they are, portray the Millenials as only being in their 20s and apparently the 30 somethings are just lost in the void between generations.

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Gamerguymass posted...

The term was created for those coming of age at the turn of the millennium.

How is "coming of age" defined?

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The way to determine a millenial:

If you distinctly have a memory of 9/11 happening, but you hadn't yet graduated highschool, then you're a millennial.

So if you were a little kid up to a high school senior in the year 2001, you're a millennial.
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Jagr_68 posted...

"Where we were you when Draven won the GameFAQs Character Contest?"

To be fair, League was the most popular game on pc at the time, and the League of Draven meme was in full effect

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Firewerx posted...

How is "coming of age" defined?

Generally your formative years. Being a teenager essentially when you are coming into your own and being more aware of the world.

I know people will then say well that won't apply to those born in the 90s, but that's just how long generations go. Sometimes the oldest or youngest don't feel like they belong depending on what happens during certain age ranges of the generation. The alternative is defining a "generation" as only 5-10 years and even then you can still have the same problem.

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For Xers it's "where were you when the Berlin Wall fell"

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I was eating a breakfast burrito watching CNN when Michael Jackson died. I couldn't finish the burrito.
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I was born in 1993 so I would be considered a millennial, though a younger one. 9/11 was a huge deal for both my generation as well as generation X, so that could go for both generations honestly.

I think Obama being elected was also kinda a big deal at the time. A black liberal president in 2008? That was something. I actually lived in Indiana at the time so I saw Indiana become a blue state for the first time since 1964.

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It's 9/11. Think you're confusing millinials with gen z brother. The oldest millinials are boarding on 40.

Common mistake

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I think when Osama Bin Laden was killed would be a decent one, I remember watching the news report on it before going to school. That might be more for Gen Z though...

Philoktetes posted...

Like 9-11 for X-ers or Kennedy shot for boomers?

Pretty sure this worldwide pandemic with worldwide lockdowns and worldwide mass deaths qualifies and even surpasses those two.

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Hexenherz posted...

I always thought 9/11 was ours, I was in middle school so I at least remember it and I think most people my age remember it pretty well.

Only the oldest millenials, the ones born in the early 80's.

I was in basic training at Fort Knox when it happened.

The rest would probably be to young for it to ha e that much of an impact if they werent actually directly impacted (in the general area.) Like Pepcon.

Speaking of Pepcon.

Fucking Pepcon. A 7 explosion disaster at a rocket fuel plant that the largest of which holds the record for largest artificial non nuclear explosion, 100 times more yield than the MOAB, and 1/10th the yield of the little boy atomic bomb.

That shit I will NEVER forget.

Running out of your collapsing pre school after the tv that was playing short circuit exploded into a shower of sparks, to see a massive mushroom cloud rising over the skyline is a non forgetter.

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I was there when PSN was down. Never forget.

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babyeatermax posted...

I was there when PSN was down. Never forget.

Are you talking about the time it got hacked? lol

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millennials are not particularly young anymore

9/11 and the death of mj seem to be the big ones, but i suppose others were the start of the iraq war and the '08 and '16 elections

oh and obl's death as mentioned earlier itt

and i suppose vtech

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YookaLaylee posted...

Are you talking about the time it got hacked? lol

Yes. That time it was down for over a month.

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when mr. burns got shot. holy shit that a was a moment i will never forget.

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jeffhardyb0yz posted...

Everybody knows what they were doing when Michael Jackson died. It was like the whole world stopped

I remember that, I was on IMDbs forums.

imdb has forums?
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Mezcla posted...

how old do you think millenials are? we're in our 30s

Damn then I'm a late millenial. I'm 28.

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my wife's son is 19 and a freshman in college and he's a millennial
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Philoktetes posted...

Like 9-11

9-11 is literally the litmus test to determine if you're a Millennial or a Zoomer. If you can explain what you were doing then, you're a millennial, if not, sorry kiddo you're a zoomer.

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The easiest way to identify a millennial:

Throw an avocado in a pool and see who gets wet.

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I think defining a millennial has as much to do about the time someone was born with what the world was like during their lives. It's a stretch to call someone born in '80 - '81 a classic millennial. And saying a 40-year-old is a millennial is laughable. A 40-year-old grew up in a totally different world than a 26-year-old. Smartphones and social media have a lot to do with that.
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Mezcla posted...

lmao i was on CE. i remember because thats when "did CNN confirm" started lmao

i was the one who made the first topic about michael jackson dying here because i was watching tmz and dax holt broke the news to dari alexander on fox 5 news and then many people replied that cnn didnt confirm and that i was lying. Most people here dont remember that.

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I was 11 on 9/11. I guess I'm a millennial.

I turn 30 this year, but i relate more to Gen Z i think.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

I remember where I was when the Oklahoma City bombing happened, gulf war 1, Unabomber caught, OJ Simpson trial, 3d Doritos and the kid who got caned mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mm

I remember all those also the Berlin Wall coming down when I was in grade school

coolboy11 posted...

I start millennials at 1985 and end the gen at 1995 *shrugs*

I've heard it goes from 1980 to 2000

I was born in 81 *shrugs*

CloneTheHero posted...

youre making up your own definition. stop that.

because a 40 year old didnt get to grow up with smartphones it disqualifies him from being part of a generation he was born into? lol ok. youre thinking one dimensionally. it has more to do with the social and political climates that define a generation. a 40 yo and a 26 yo grew up in the exact same climate.

Show me a Millennial that remembers the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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CloneTheHero posted...

it doesnt. total deaths havent even reached 200k whereas 911 shook the foundation of this country and put in motion some devastating policies that crippled the economy. not to mention the total deaths in the iraq and afghan war (in direct response to 911) are very comparable to this virus. over a 100k civilians died, a few thousand more on the us side

now i remember 911 well it was far more fear inducing than covid

Are you kidding me?
This pandemic is much worse that 9-11. Not saying 9-11 wasn't bad (it was indeed bad), but this pandemic is much, MUCH worse.
The Global Coronavirus death toll is currently at slightly over 150,000.... and that number is going to be going way, way up. We are expected to go over 200,000 by the beginning of next month.... if not MUCH sooner.
Also, there are lockdowns all over the world in multiple countries causing havoc upon econonies all over the globe. 9-11 didn't cripple the economy that bad in comparison to what the Coronavirus is doing right now and what it has potential to do if this pandemic gets worse (and there is a high chance it will get worse).
Also, in terms of overall fear, far more people are scared of this pandemic.

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jeffhardyb0yz posted...

Everybody knows what they were doing when Michael Jackson died. It was like the whole world stopped

Yeah, I was at the hospital eating my grandfather die... fuck micheal Jackson, damn pedo
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