Being a Millennial is funny (I was born in 94, so if the cutoff is 96 then I'm a late Millennial).
We were definitely there at the start of the "pussification" of children, but at the same time, we were the last generation to experience the last pings of a "traditional" childhood. While kids did have Internet in the early 2000s, it was dial up, so we moderated most of our time with outdoor activities, and there was still a sense of wonder and exploration to the world. We also caught the last kids media to have the "balls" of adult media, like Osmosis Jones, Prince of egypt, Samurai Jack, The animatrix, etc.
Whereas now everything is so over-connected that the wonder is gone. Gen Z will mostly know only a post-2005 childhood, in the world of mobile apps, Youtube shows, the Wii, minions, Johnny test, Hannah montana, and Steven tranny universe. The rise of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s arguably "pussyfied" the lifestyles of kids. I mean kids were already getting pussified/coddled by the late 90s, but around 2006/2007 it just accelerated.
That's just tye start of Millennials. The end of Millennials would be around 1996, the youngest to remember 9/11.
Jace Bennett
i was born in 83 and i refuse to be grouped with these fucking millenials
Jace Sullivan
But we both grew up playing outside and both had Saturday morning cartoons. 1981-1996 makes sense because people born in 93 have wayyyy more in common with those born in 83 than those born in 2000.
Eli Hughes
1994 is usually seen as the cutoff point between gen y and gen z although in reality the only generation to really be clearly defined is boomers since that generation started nine months after the end of WWII and ended with the introduction of the birth control pill
Charles Thompson
Jordan Peterson would have a heart attack if he saw this picture.
Jaxon Wright
Yeah that bothered me too. And all the rest of the electronics too. I only had an old tv from my sister's boyfriend without a remote control. And that was when I was 16.
John Bennett
I was born in november 95 and I identify with both late millenials and early gen z.
Asher Hill
More like 1996. 1994 is too early.
Colton Reyes
Does Aussie shitposting know no bounds?
Nice date you pulled out of your ass. It's commonly known that Millenials are 1980 - 1997. Some groups will even push it to 2000, but most don't agree with that.
Boomers - 1945 - 1965 X - 1965 - 1980 Y - 1980 - 1997 Z - 1997 - 2010? TBD Me/I/? - 2010? -
Xavier Myers
too long, didn't read, someone give me a quick rundown?
Noah Reyes
No. I grew up without internet and I watched He-man.
Juan Clark
>giant blog post about himself >millenial Checks out
Kayden Smith
>Has attention span of a gnat
Gen Z confirmed.
Brandon Gutierrez
>boomers grew up in the comparative safety and prosperity of the postwar economic boom >Boomers grew up to be spoiled brats with loose morals and liberal political views >millennials grew up in the comparative safety and prosperity of post-Cold-War 90s and early 00s >Millennials grew up to be spoiled brats with loose morals and liberal political views
>Silent generation grew up during the constant tension of the Great Depression and WWII >Silent generation grew up to be extremely conservative both politically and morally >gen Z grew up during the constant tension of the war on terror and the recession And yet people still doubt that Gen Z will grow up to be Gen Zyklon
Go away, we never talked about generational shit til about 2013, and it's annoying as fuck.
We used to bash boomers and only boomers on /b/ and /new/ way back in the day, this is nothing more than a spit of opinion. Man. After 13 years of Jow Forums it might actually be time to move on.
Jose Wood
No shit, millenials span ages ~21 to 38, 80% of this site is a millenial.
Colton Anderson
>And yet people still
Dunno how the fuck that last sentence got there, whoops
Nicholas Phillips
Calm down, dude
Christian Gomez
Millennials are 1980 onwards
Leo Cox
>PC/iMac >TV >video recorder >food in room >every single toy available >no books >bed not made >absolute mess >no space to even turn around
That room looks like a stereotypical soyboy den. It's basically a picture of the point when everything turned wrong.
>millennials grew up in the comparative safety and prosperity of post-Cold-War 90s and early 00s >gen Z grew up during the constant tension of the war on terror and the recession Who do you think fought in Iraq and Afghanistan? It was X'ers and Millennials kiddo. I don't consider anyone born after 1994 a Millennial though because no born that late can really relate to growing up during the technology shift that completely changed society as we know it.
Dominic Peterson
The fact you're not acclimated to standard discussion tone on this Welsh sheep worship forum proves you need to get Teenagers grow up user. 80% is probably high but think of all those summerfags over 14 years coming, some staying. It builds up.
Ryan Jones
1973 here and get the fuck off my lawn and learn childhood things like camping, how to use and sharpen knives and axes, cooking, marksmanship, unsupervised play, and phrases like "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"
Brody Gomez
Have you literally never been inside a girls room user? 99% of them are cluttered and messy as fuck
Matthew Gray
i didn't know david bowie was a computer
Landon Watson
Yeah and Boomers fought in Vietnam but they're still a generation of spoiled liberals, it's the environment of childhood that has a massive influence on a person's values
Justin Powell
O wow OP your childhood was so much cooler den the kids of these days! your cartoons were cooler, U werent so #pussified and u had RED PILLED CARTOONS OMG YES QUEEN SAMURAI JACK OSMOSIS JONES XD
Jaxson Gutierrez
I'm from '93. People born in 1981 had to go through mandatory military service. I didn't. People born in 1981 didn't see a cellphone until they were at least 16. At age 8 I had a majestic Nokia 3310. So it's not really the same, honestly.
I have a colleague born in '97 and he doesn't remember a world without the Euro, which is weird as fuck for me as I remember all the excitement back in '99. I remember going to France and Spain as a kid and having to change currencies. I remember the queue at the border checkpoint. He doesn't remember 9/11, I remember it clear as day. I was watching a shitty (back then fantastic ofc) kid's show and they interrupted it to show the North tower ablaze... me and my grandma watched it collapse on live TV. It took years for me to understand the significance of what I watched that day, but still I'll never forget it.
Still, he's mostly the same as me. The real difference is with people born after 2003/2005. They'll never know a world where the internet isn't ALWAYS at your fingertips. They'll never know the internet before social media. They'll most likely never use a paper map, ever. The list goes on and on.
Nathan Garcia
Bowie was a notorious technophile user, he loved computers
Oliver Bell
You fucking millennials are worse then boomers, constantly reminiscing about when you were young and how great all the empty hedonistic culture was the difference is the the boomers actually had a good time. You faggots had a bunch of shitty animes, depressing grunge bands. The boomers actually had decent music and a lot of the pre cultural revolution benefits. That picture perfectly sums up how gay the fucking 90s were, it was the autistic decade.
Sebastian Torres
>Yeah and Boomers fought in Vietnam but they're still a generation of spoiled liberals, it's the environment of childhood that has a massive influence on a person's values Most Vietnam vets I know (even the liberals) are still pretty cool, non vet boomers are faggots because instead of going to war they just did drugs and fucked each other. It's not that different from today. Either way I brought that up because you act like Z grew up in a time of strife when in reality Z has it way easier than we did.
Owen Bailey
Gen z wants to ban guns in between eating laundry detergent and snorting condoms.
Gen z is already dead.
Lucas Diaz
Thats literally the girl version of me. Same gay snow leopard imac, same tv, crazy room, wood desk. I had surfing pictures hung up everywhere though.
White power.
1987
Hudson Russell
=== OFFICIAL KIKE ANNOUNCEMENT === From henceforth millennial will ONLY refer to fags born after the release of Super Mario World.
>Anitas who they think they're allowed to wear Ren & Stimpy caps.
Jonathan Smith
>Gen Z grew up in a period of less strife than millennials
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that user, I'm certainly not saying things were as bad as they were during the Silent Generation but the post-Soviet Union/pre-9/11 period really was one of exceptional peace and prosperity, in contrast if you think growing up during the recession and the war on terror didn't have a massive effect on Gen Z values and worldview you're delusional
Cameron Lopez
the internet was probably the worst thing to ever happen to society; social media more specifically i guess.
Isaiah Bailey
While I get that many of the millennial memes about being overly sensitive soyboys who prefer avocado toast to owning a house seem fairly true, one thing I think that's overlooked is that millenials were also the generation that fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. I assume that the military kind of defies most of the stereotypes anyway, or perhaps enlisting automatically puts you out of the norm, but it always seemed like an interesting point. If the years are right, then Millenials were the junior enlisted at the beginning of Iraq, all the way through pulling out of Afghanistan.
Jordan Robinson
>we wuz older gen Z! Are we seriously going to start doing this?
Grayson Nelson
Your childhood was nothing but consumerism and entertainment. No wonder the millennial generation is notoriously naive and useless.
Gavin Edwards
no one cares
kys
Oliver Walker
John K is a degenerate pedo
Aiden Adams
This is true, I was born in the mid 90's and my siblings in the early 00's and the difference is staggering
Nathan Young
Nigger most millennials entered the work force right as the recession hit. Z didn't fight the war and were largely uneffected by the two things that marked adulthood as a millennial. It's not like we didn't have the first gulf war and kosovo for childhood wars. Millennials also actually experienced 9/11.
Isaac Parker
Well to be fair user you literally can't comprehend how much better life was back then because you've never experienced it, you think the current level of shittiness is normal because it's all you've ever known. Also boomer music was actually pretty shitty, people remember the best stuff like Led Zeppelin but in reality most of the music released then was shitty forgettable pop music just like today
Joseph Young
I think the parents changed not the kids. I was born in 89 and remember parents having weird discipline plans and shit and teachers having the guts to instill at least a bit of control in the classroom.
Since then the parents went full retard. The no bullying movement is making things awful. The ultralight move away from discipline is killing us. The grade inflation is killing us. Something has to give and the grade inflation has got to stop. 4.0 scale should mean something.
Jeremiah Parker
Cast iron radiator heat is the best heat .
Jacob Nelson
The internet was fantastic when it wasn't a centerpiece of everyday life yet, once it centralized around a few huge normie sites and literally everybody got a smartphone to be online 24/7 is when it all turned to shit.
Jace Lewis
Gen Z hasnt personally experienced hardship yet, but since they came out of the womb theyve been confronted with constant warfare and terrorism from the news, the internet etc. At age 5 they saw humans hurling out of the twin towers. Theyve seen a thousand dead bodies on the news and online before theyve hit 10. Theyve witnessed the slow surrender of the west to terrorism and saw their leaders keep safe rapists and murderers.
Sebastian Ward
Yet again I'm saying that by the time people enter the workforce their values are already pretty much solidified, it's the environment of their childhood that determines those values
Jason Ortiz
>Yet again I'm saying that by the time people enter the workforce their values are already pretty much solidified, it's the environment of their childhood that determines those values Yeah I'm sure the generation that grew up watching minecraft videos on their ipads is totally going to be great. Millennials have soyboys and hipsters but we also had loads of people ready to go fight and start businesses during a hardcore recession, overall we did fairly well at everything except parenting. Millennial parents are pretty fucking shit. Meanwhile gen Z is filled with people who cannot function in society and live on the internet and have always lived on the internet. As a kid we played games where we threw rocks at each other, these gen z kids watch people play video games.
Evan Mitchell
true post OP, feels sad man i watched some post-2000 neighbour-kids grow up and made sure to give them premo media, got em started young on Half-Life/StarCraft and early seasons of The Simpsons
the younger generation always rebels against their parents. And this time rebelling means taking responsibility and not giving in to self pity.
Blake Butler
>Cast iron radiator heat is the best heat . >t. cityfag who never stood in front of a wood stove with a raging oak fueled fire in it.
Christian Flores
Then don’t steal that girl (probably roastie now)’s identity.
Ian Diaz
>not mentioning based cartoon Reboot
Nolan Martin
EARLY EIGHTIES ARE NOT MILLENIALS.
>Goonies >e.t. >Van Halen >Van Hagar >Captain Picard >Nintendo >Camaro IROC Z >Dust Buster >Ecto 1 >Apple II >Smoking in restaurants >Playing outside >everyone was white
Lincoln James
i was born in 90 and didnt have cellphone till i was 16. Didnt have internet until 21
Ethan Hill
It's not as if Gen Z is the first generation to sit inside playing videogames all day instead of playing outside user, kids have been doing that since the fucking Atari came out and by the time of millennials it was already extremely common, do you seriously not remember how ridiculously popular Pokemon and whatnot was when it first started? Not to mention the amount of kids playing outside drastically reduced when things like cartoon network and Nickelodeon came out
Evan Adams
If most of your fond childhood memories were pre-Berlin Wall, you're Gen X. If most of your fond childhood memories were post-Berlin Wall but pre-YouTube, you're a Millennial. If most of your fond childhood memories were post-YouTube, you're Gen Z.
Right, because the most advanced toy you had when you were a kid was a grampa munster doll with dried up cum on it. The picture in the original post is made of happiness. You feel happy looking at it and it makes you realize what a dystopian world we live in now that boomer policies have turned the world communist. And the picture isn't even from that long ago if you think about it. Also don't bring everybody on this board down and shit the place up with the same holier than thou attitude that made your kids hate you. Were all laughing at you.
Justin Phillips
>too poor to own a bestmac
Ryder Myers
Yeah people played videogames but even that was a social activity usually followed by going outside to play fight with sticks. Gen Z is going to be very poorly socialized, I see it all the time with them they have no idea how to handle normal social interactions.
Bentley Hall
Exactly. After 9/11 or 2005 at most, the world, everything went to shit
Dominic Wilson
>Gen Z is going to be very poorly socialized
Well I agree with you about that
Chase Ortiz
>owning a turn of the millennium computer that you didn't build yourself I'm sorry you missed out on the golden era of PC gaming, faggot.
Josiah Torres
millenials were old enough to witness 9/11 and observe the downfall afterward. your argument is invalid
Jaxon Jones
Since there seems to be some confusion, the generation breakdowns are 41-61: boomer 61-81: generation x 81-01: millenial 01-21: gen z
Luis Allen
Completely wrong if you don't remembrr 9/11, you're. Gen fucking Z.
Jackson Lopez
Wtf I had internet in 2003 as a 7 year old and got a smart phone in 2009 as a 13 year old.
Jeremiah Reyes
dat you?
Austin Wood
Millenial is up to 1999 Gen Z is after 2000
Gabriel Murphy
Wrong.
Aaron Cook
Nope. 1996 was the last year of Millennials. Remembering 9/11 is an important factor.
goddamn look at all that faggot's useless materialistic garbage
Aaron Hill
>Looks at the pic A budding shitposter right there.
Robert Brown
I disagree. I think is has to do with the culture. I say after 2000 is gen z because people born after then grew up with smartphones and after the internet became common for everyone to always have instead of it beint confined to the household computer. Honestly 9/11 is pretty meaningless for defining generations.
Michael Price
> me, born in 1995 > lived on a hill in the Catskills in upstate NY, my nearest neighbors a mile away > TV only had three channels (barely), I'd watch Saturday morning cartoons when the TV felt like it > the rest of the time, I was playing outside by myself > or we would do work like mowing the lawn, chopping and putting away firewood, and clearing bamboo > no friends came, except for one who slept over two times in four years > no video games allowed in my house > I'd read the dictionary and thumb through some huge history picture books on Rome and Egypt when I was bored of the outdoors > fucked around at very rare occasions on DK's space game and the Jumpstart games on our PowerMac 6100 w/ Mac OS 8.5
Lonely at times, yes, but idyllic in many ways. When I moved into a mansion near Houston during fourth grade, the culture shock was significant enough to make me a shut-in and antisocial, since I didn't have a PS2 like everyone else. I remember having fucked up dreams where I'd shoot people and feel bad after they begged me for their lives after playing GTA Vice City for the first time, and I still can't go on a killing rampage in that game without feeling bad inside.
