Xennials were born 77-83 this fits perfect. I’m smack dab in the middle of that range and our ‘generation’s’ defining characteristic is that we’re in a constant state of nostolgia because we were on the wave of every new technology as it came out and subsequently fell off. I’ve had everything from an 8 track player, cassettes, cds, mp3’s, limewre to an iphone in my pocket. we played oregon trail, nintendo, playstation, to VR games. We watched phones go from a party line to kids not even knowing what a rotary phone is or how to use one.
I’m in that range, GenX always felt older and Millennial a bit too young though I feel like I can identify with some of each but not all of either generation. I will say it’s been a cool experience experiencing technology as this generation, from some places can’t even use touch tone phones to internet everywhere(well mostly), and all the nifty stuff in between.
I once had a discussion with a user on reddit who argued that generation groups like baby boomer, Gen x, millenials etc only applied for USA and other countries were not meant to use them…
Well, the Dutch wikipedia article on generations has the groups different than the English version. In English, I'm Gen X, in Dutch I'm from the "pragmatic generation".
I would say it applies to a lot of the Anglosphere but I have zero evidence that it applies to every western nation. I’m sure a ton of them have their own names for generations with their own quirks and subcultures.
Xennials were born 77-83, aka the Oregon Trail Generation. They had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Source: I am one and also wikipedia
Younger millenial. You were cognizant, you were present not only in body but also mind during the “turn of the millennium”. That is the key component of a millenial. You didn’t just slide out of your mom December 21, 1999, oooo, that makes me a millenial! No, bitch, it does not. It is our collective memories & upbringing that define us as a generation.
You remember where you were, what you were doing when 9/11 happened. Another shared generational experience.
Isn’t Gen X and millenial the same? So a portmanteau word from these two is totally something else. As a Gen X’er myself (who is totally neither millennial nor xennial) I get it
You could. No one would know what the fuck you’re talking about, but you could.
Milinneal is meant to be more descriptive to highlight that the generation approached adulthood around the turn of the century, and are characterized as having witnessed the rapid technological evolution of PCs, the internet, mobile phones, and smart phone in the first ~quarrer of their life
I think we can all agree that Gen X starts with the end of the boomers in 1965, and that the end of millennials is if you weren’t old enough to remember 9/11, so about 96-97.
The only disagreement is where the dividing line is between the two. I suggest the line should be Reaganomics, so early 1980s.
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