(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)
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!
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)
nah gen X is called sth like MTV or Lost generation or sth, it’s between boomer and millennial in other words
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)
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!
🤣🤣🤣
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)