• dukeGR4@monyet.cc
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        nah gen X is called sth like MTV or Lost generation or sth, it’s between boomer and millennial in other words

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          Y’all hurting me in my millennial soul 😭

          (TLDR - age cohorts like this is a marketing invention to group american consumers based on generational media and product consumption patterns as well as lifestyle patterns. non-Americans born between … 1970-ish to 1995 or so will always be a little confused because technological change was so quick and uneven that global southies might have had a childhood like an older generation - because foreign/american media arrived slower but then as soon as the internet and satellite broadcasting arrived their patterns quickly kept up with their american age cohort.

          (Ok, all that established:

          Gen X is 1965-1979

          Millennials had the most amount of technological change in their lifetimes that there’s a sub-cohort:

          Xennials/Older Millennials: 1979-1982 (but this rly can be contested) they have Gen X childhoods but millennial young adult and onwards consumption - Malaysian xennials I think felt this change A LOT, imo

          Millennials - 1980/81 to 1995/96

          (Gen X - defined by Reality Bites, Prozac Nation

          Older Millennials - internet/being online

          Later Millennials - the internet they know is probably mostly Web 2.0)

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            we use age cohort a lot in my household cause my boomer dad keeps shitting on “Gen Ys” for buying bubble teas cause I really like bubble teas.

            That said, which age cohort is the best you reckon? anyone else feel free to share!

            I think mine (Late Millennial) is definitely the best :D Spent my early childhood playing sticks and eat shit outside then i get to play PS2. Then i moved to PC and played lots of classic RPG - World of Warcraft, Gunbound, Knight Online, RAN Online, Wolf Team etc. Fesbuk was at its peak too, less commercialised and it was strictly a social media platform. Truly the best of both worlds!

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              1 year ago

              my boomer dad keeps shitting on “Gen Ys” for buying bubble teas cause I really like bubble teas

              🤣🤣🤣

              I don’t think there’s a “best” cohort objectively, because subjectively for most people, it would be their childhood and young adult years 😝😆😆😆 I mean, for me, I’m nostalgic for proper mix tapes and Limewire hahahahhahaaha (TLDR the best age is whenever my knees were good and the liver is strong, ehem)