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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gen X is 1965 to 1981; if you just missed the mark for Gen Z, you're possibly a millennial, aka Gen Y (1982 - 1996).

[–] Waker 12 points 1 year ago

As someone from 1996 I feel split :[

[–] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! I'm dumb, thanks for the correction, I'm feeling a bit less old now :)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey, it's all good, welcome to Team Millennial. Here's your complimentary 'I Am Older Than The Internet' T-shirt, and your back pain medication.

[–] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good GOD I needed that medicine, thank you!

[–] UhBell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mfs turn 30 and get a herniated disk for sleeping the wrong way.

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My two herniated discs are glaring at you.

[–] UhBell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've only got one so far - 22 to go

[–] FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.ca 1 points 1 year ago

What can we do?! IT life for me....

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

My back after 10 minutes in city bus when it's Irisbus Citelis 10.5M:

[–] dartos@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Do we get coupons for avocado toast?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So I am Gen X born 1980. And who decided this?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an interesting question and I wasn't sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.

According to this source, which I can't verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:

No official commission or group decides what each generation is called and when it starts and ends. Instead, different names and birth year cutoffs are proposed, and through a somewhat haphazard process a consensus slowly develops in the media and popular parlance.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

TL;DR "It's all made up and none of it matters!"