Is it just me or is there a new generation about every 4 months lately?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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Gen Alpha started in 2010 bro, where ya been?
My question is who comes up with these names?? Is there a commission I was never invited?
Baby boomers (named after the post war baby boom that created them) started it by calling the generation following them "generation X". Then millennials were gen Y for a while before the millennial rebrand after the turn of the millennium for some reason. Gen Z got the nickname zoomer pretty much because it rhymes with boomer. Then we ran out of letters because the boomers decided to start at the wrong end of the alphabet, so we're doing the Greek alphabet now. Thus gen alpha, who haven't been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.
Given generations seem to be about 15 years or so, the line for gen beta kids is just around the corner I guess
How much longer until we get the first sigma male.
Exactly, it takes time to get a non-sequential name. I haven't heard Gen Y in probably a decade. I still hear Genzie but I suspect it's partly waiting for the Zoomer adoption, partly due to being the easiest to say. Jennay is smooth but not too clear as a standalone word, needing context like "PIN number"
Thus gen alpha, who haven't been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.
"iPad babies" seems to be the closest thing we have at the moment. Only time will tell if that sticks.
Generation Fucked didn't stick and tbh covers too many years.
Wait... I was born close to the start of 2010.
Am I gen alpha?
Yeah
:'(
Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You're just getting old. Alpha's been with us for a while now.
The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that's connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The "iPad kids".
I tend to agree with the person you're responding to in that actual generations tend to be marked by massive paradigm shifts more than chunks of years.
Like fall of the Berlin wall through 9-11 is a generation.
9-11 through COVID is a generation.
COVID until the water wars is a generation.
It's marked by things that the basically the whole world is affected by, and we all experience it together in some way.
Agreed. There's isn't enough of a difference between a number of the recent gens. I feel like the millennials were the last big one that made sense to me.
There's gonna be a big shift in the way that we consume media that there's gonna be a difference between generations that grew up before that big shift and the generation that grew up after that big shift.
More the latter than the former. GenZ commonly includes 2005ish, and people born in the early 2000s got to experience the proliferation of the internet during their childhood
I think you are correct.
lisa needs braces, DENTAL PLAN...
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Oh hallelujah our problems are solved. We have banana bread.
Iron helps us play!
Except when OP is making breaking bad references
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
I mean 90% of my dad's humor is dad jokes and Monty Python
And it's awesome lmao
Thanks! Which one of my kids are you?
Will you be my dad? I miss my dad.
Sure! What's one more?
Father? 🙋
NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge ... tracts of land!
And no singing!
Is this a reference I'm not getting?
We're calling them gen a?
We can just end the whole "gen" thing.
I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).
But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.
OK, EUmer
Yeah it's a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.
Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.
It's media-friendly astrology
!showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Haha, perfect!
In the case of this post, I'd say it's more a fact that the early seasons of The Simpsons are 20-30 years old rather than different generations have different perspectives. Gen alpha will not be exposed to those seasons unless it's by someone older.
The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough
Remember folks, don't show your significant other The Simpsons/Futurama/South Park/ or anything else until after you're married. Then they can know you aren't actually funny
Add Rick and Morty and you just found the other 9.99%
Last 0.01% is "nobody here but us trees"
Simpsons did it
Great googly moogly!
Their aren't nearly enough Phineas and Ferb memes
I know what we're going to do today!
Yes, that’s a real pickle.
It's gone
I'm helping!
I watched a random episode on my media box today (Season 7, Lisa becomes a vegetarian). It's been a while and I forgot how good it is. The sheer number of scenes that my wife and I quote to each other on a regular basis that were just in 1 episode was ridiculous.