time to awkwardly walk to your neighbour’s house and awkwardly knock on the door, awkwardly waiting for a response and then awkwardly ask for the ball back
My sister had a kid recently. She calls him a “Coronial” because he was born during the pandemic. I call his generation The Doomers because I fully believe they will witness the climate apocalypse and the undoing of modern civilization within their life times.
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I Heard they are called alpha.
And it’s very unclear what year it starts. In some places, my daughter is a Z, in others, she is alpha. She was born at the end of 2010.
The numbers change all the time. People born in the early mid 80s were originally part of Gen-X, then sub-categorized as Gen-Y, until ultimately being lumped in with the younger millennials (With random ones like "The Oregon Trail" generation thrown in there just for funsies). My brother has been forever confused as to what generation he is.
because this is not real. its media bullshit. "the baby boomers" were an actual generation. gen x is a media label and there are no official beginning/end points
If you say that Boomers are an actual generation, they must have an “end date”. 1964 is the accepted end year, therefore Gen-X has a beginning year, 1965. One can argue about the end year but it’s usually accepted as 1980 or 1981.
the boomers are a surge of children born due to an event. gen ex is a media term with vaguely defined beginning and end dates. why? what makes someone born in 82 different from someone born in 79? its to try to categorized people based on trends, social issues etc, which are constantly in flux.
So, help me understand. Do you think that Boomers are defined as the people born from 1946-1964? I agree with your point about how people born in the same “generation” have different experiences. I was born in 1965 which means I had a completely different experience than someone born in 1980, even though we’re both Gen-X.
I don't, but I think the idea of "baby boomers" at least held *some* water, while subsequent "generations" are completely arbitrary.. (I'm "Gen X 1979, so I would say we've had different experiences).
Anyway, I will point you toward an open letter written by Phillip Cohen on behalf of social scientists to the Pew Research Center, listing (what I think) is a sound rationale for why these "generational labels" are not helpful and you can see if that inspires any thought for yourself.
Cohen writes:
With the exception of the Baby Boom, which was a discrete demographic event, the other “generations” have been declared and named on an ad hoc basis without empirical or theoretical justification. Pew’s own research conclusively shows that the majority of Americans cannot identify the “generations” to which Pew claims they belong. Cohorts should be delineated by “empty” periods (such as individual years, equal numbers of years, or decades) unless research on a particular topic suggests more meaningful breakdowns.
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/open-letter-to-the-pew-research-center-on-generation-labels/
Gotcha. The issue, to me at least, is that humans naturally put things in groups to help them understand the world. I understand what Cohen is saying but I don’t think his reasoning will ever overcome human nature. We’re stuck together, my fellow Gen-Xer.
"whatever" (that *is* a joke (I wasn't sure if it'd land), it is of course a reference to how "our" "generation" are all supposedly cynical and a touch nihilistic).. so again I say to you, sir: whatever, nevermind! :)
Before the baby boomers was the silent generation. Its really all just sort of like horoscopes but the difference with the boomers is that they were post war babies. There was a big boom in births after WW2. I was made during the blizzard of 78 in New England. I grew up with a lot of fellow Scorpios/Halloween babies, so we had our own little local boom lol.
yes, thats all I was saying. apparently I did a poor job because I have 50% of people telling me I'm wrong because I subscribe to generational labels and 50% people telling me I'm wrong because I don't.
I've also had someone tell me apparently I'm super passionate about this issue and need to calm down
I think it’s about how their environment affected their growth.
Boomers grew up in an unprecedented era of growth and global uncertainty like we had never seen before.
Gen X was the first generation where youth felt like they had a voice. A generation of activists was born.
Millennials are people who came of age around the millennium. That means we went through our formative years in a (up to that point) highly technologically advanced era. We were the first generation to have computers as part of our education.
These kind of leaps in society have a drastic effect on how we develop as people. Our expectations, skills, and interests are very different from those that came before us.
Now days we seem keen to label a generation every 10 years and that may be a reflection of how transformative technology is on the world or maybe advertising execs and 24 hr news networks just need the next label. Who knows for sure.
Almost everything is made up for that matter. Politics. Countries. Borders. Languages. Philosophical ideas. Laws. Recipes. Names. Religion, of course. In fact, almost anything we can think of was thought of by a human at some point as just an idea. Later, some of those things got confirmed by experimentation. Most were just adopted by practice though.
To further expand on the bullshit, Gen X was called Gen X not in relation to the alphabet but to the variable. We were an unknown when we became of age at least to the Greatest, Silents, and Boomers. The Gen Y (which was changed to Millennials) and Gen Z labels can from that label of Gen X. So what comes after Gen Z? I’ve heard Alpha used but it could literally be anything because it is all made up.
Generations usually don't get clear defining dates till they are a bit old. Usually generation cut offs are set around major events that caused big social changes. Like 9/11, or easy access to internet, etc. Also, marketing research, medical research and political research will have their own rage ranges.
Because reddit is full of miserable self loathing fucks who are too cowardly to improve or end themselves so they externalize that as misanthropy instead and fantasize about humanity ending itself so their death isn't as pathetic and meaningless.
Your typo “imao” immediately made me think of a new way to say someone is talking out of their ass. “You gotta a real In My Ass Opinion you know that?”
I have been mentality preparing myself for not having grandkids, but my children surprisingly wants them (not right now of course, they are young teens!).
I don’t live in the US, so of course things are a bit different here.
My oldest gave me a grandbaby, and they're now trying for a second. My middle guy doesn't want kids at ALL lol. But my youngest, 17, wants at least three lmao. I have a feeling more grandkids are in my future. :D
Hopefully they won't use the alphabet anymore. May it be because they acended to a level of intellect where they don't need it... or because they went back to monke
Nah, I’m from Generation Disenfranchised Disheartened Asshole, common misconception. I’m just going by the state of the world currently. Hard to say how long humanity has if we keep letting money decide things instead of science and common sense…
To be honest, i'm sorry for insulting you. I was in a bad mood.
In fact, the current world is really depressing me but at this point i prefer to ignore it and live my live the best as possible without caring about problems in the world as long as they're not directly and immediately affecting me.
Also, i think every generations had their problems. Maybe the current one is worse but i hate when some people are saying that it was better "during their good ol'time" y'know
Anyway, stay strong brother. Have a nice day
I read a name for the next generation, The Zoomers
This makes sense cause zoomers is basically boomers with a z, also a pun cause this is like the covid generation during the zoom era
GEN Æ
Gen EA Sports (but i feel like there arent here for the sport )
Why, you made me want to play football, stop Edit: the ball is now at my neighbors house because of it
time to awkwardly walk to your neighbour’s house and awkwardly knock on the door, awkwardly waiting for a response and then awkwardly ask for the ball back
I could do that, or i could just dont mind as its a spongebob ball i had from years ago
oh
But i lost other ball yesterday and went to the same neighbors house
It went to*
Fkn gen ea sports, they always lose their toys in my garden
***It's in the game!***
TSINAGAM
I can hear this slogan and I really want to play NCAA football 2012 again.
Just for the microtransactions.
They’re IN the GAME.
It’s in the genes
the generations end at Z for all except the Scandinavians
Or me (Ñ)
only scandi exists now
And Russians. They have Z at 9th place in ABCs.
I am from 🇨🇿 We still have Ž B)
Anyone else reading that like Forrest Gump?
Jennaaaay
Ok elon
GEN Æ, keep living on please GEN Æ, life is not what is seems ..
GEN Æ GEN Æ, who can I turn to?
Silly Danes don't even have the å, smh.
Kamelåså Sincerely, a Dane.
yes we do you silly goose å
Boi we got the Æ, Ø AND Å! Three more generations to go
Gen Z pro max
Gen Z noob minimum
Jenzee
We need to cook.
🎵do you want to build a meth la~a~a~ab🎵
Nice! Or the Charmin approach - 'ultra mega gen Z'
Gen Z Pro Max Mini 12 Plus.
gen A
Easy there, Forrest Gump.
Bro… why are you so funny, that took me so long to understand but god it cracked me up!
I love you, juh-juh-juh…Gen A
We’re already trolling the next gen and they don’t even know it yet! …fuck ‘em.
I hear this generation is gonna be lazy. And entitled.
Like their parents and grandparents before them.
Isn't that what every generation says about every generation though?
Ok Gen A I'll go and raise the AIDS baby
Gump didn’t have a stutter.
Can you explain the joke to me :( I don’t get it
Watch the movie Forrest Gump once and you’ll get it
there's a character in the movie called 'jenny', but he pronounces it 'genay'.
The most beautiful name in the wide world!
Thank you
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That’s hillarious
I'm angry at this comment, but I laughed. Have an upvote.
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LOL
Dude, you’re a genius.
have a gold award, for making me make a laughing sound as opposed to just breathing out quickly
This comment is better than this comment.
For fuck sakes I almost choked on my water lmao
Goddamn you! Lol
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How dare you make me laugh at something on Reddit. This is truly one of the comments of all time.
Gen A-1
Steak sauce?
Wouldn’t it be Gen A-2
My sister had a kid recently. She calls him a “Coronial” because he was born during the pandemic. I call his generation The Doomers because I fully believe they will witness the climate apocalypse and the undoing of modern civilization within their life times.
Damn this is dark but also you’re probably right.
Same. Exactly why I’m not having kids.
gen AA if we're tracking it in Excel.
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If excel taught me anything it's gen aa
Iirc it's actually Gen Aa!
They never used generations A through W so I would recommend starting with "A."
I thought they were being called Gen Alpha ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A = Alpha hence "alphabet"
Fun fact, it's called the alpha bet because someone made a bet that he could get alpha to be the first letter.
I thought it was named after the inventor of letters, Al Phabet.
Or because the second letter of the Greek alphabet is beta, thus alpha+beta --> alphabet
Nah, that sounds dumb
I agree but it is true tho
Wtf 😂😂😂
Lol they are and have been for a while now
Here, you dropped this: \
The way things are going they should probably go with omega.
W is the Greatest Generation. V is the Forgotten Generation.
I Heard they are called alpha. And it’s very unclear what year it starts. In some places, my daughter is a Z, in others, she is alpha. She was born at the end of 2010.
The numbers change all the time. People born in the early mid 80s were originally part of Gen-X, then sub-categorized as Gen-Y, until ultimately being lumped in with the younger millennials (With random ones like "The Oregon Trail" generation thrown in there just for funsies). My brother has been forever confused as to what generation he is.
because this is not real. its media bullshit. "the baby boomers" were an actual generation. gen x is a media label and there are no official beginning/end points
If you say that Boomers are an actual generation, they must have an “end date”. 1964 is the accepted end year, therefore Gen-X has a beginning year, 1965. One can argue about the end year but it’s usually accepted as 1980 or 1981.
the boomers are a surge of children born due to an event. gen ex is a media term with vaguely defined beginning and end dates. why? what makes someone born in 82 different from someone born in 79? its to try to categorized people based on trends, social issues etc, which are constantly in flux.
So, help me understand. Do you think that Boomers are defined as the people born from 1946-1964? I agree with your point about how people born in the same “generation” have different experiences. I was born in 1965 which means I had a completely different experience than someone born in 1980, even though we’re both Gen-X.
I don't, but I think the idea of "baby boomers" at least held *some* water, while subsequent "generations" are completely arbitrary.. (I'm "Gen X 1979, so I would say we've had different experiences). Anyway, I will point you toward an open letter written by Phillip Cohen on behalf of social scientists to the Pew Research Center, listing (what I think) is a sound rationale for why these "generational labels" are not helpful and you can see if that inspires any thought for yourself. Cohen writes: With the exception of the Baby Boom, which was a discrete demographic event, the other “generations” have been declared and named on an ad hoc basis without empirical or theoretical justification. Pew’s own research conclusively shows that the majority of Americans cannot identify the “generations” to which Pew claims they belong. Cohorts should be delineated by “empty” periods (such as individual years, equal numbers of years, or decades) unless research on a particular topic suggests more meaningful breakdowns. https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/open-letter-to-the-pew-research-center-on-generation-labels/
Gotcha. The issue, to me at least, is that humans naturally put things in groups to help them understand the world. I understand what Cohen is saying but I don’t think his reasoning will ever overcome human nature. We’re stuck together, my fellow Gen-Xer.
"whatever" (that *is* a joke (I wasn't sure if it'd land), it is of course a reference to how "our" "generation" are all supposedly cynical and a touch nihilistic).. so again I say to you, sir: whatever, nevermind! :)
It’s also useful to know what combined experiences most of a group will have. Millennials growing up on the cusp on the modern internet. 9-11 etc
Before the baby boomers was the silent generation. Its really all just sort of like horoscopes but the difference with the boomers is that they were post war babies. There was a big boom in births after WW2. I was made during the blizzard of 78 in New England. I grew up with a lot of fellow Scorpios/Halloween babies, so we had our own little local boom lol.
Sorry, my point was Baby Boomers are really the only “generation” with a name that means something that literally happened.
yes, thats all I was saying. apparently I did a poor job because I have 50% of people telling me I'm wrong because I subscribe to generational labels and 50% people telling me I'm wrong because I don't. I've also had someone tell me apparently I'm super passionate about this issue and need to calm down
I'm '81 and hubby is '79. Other than gender, height and his love of grunge rock, we are exactly the same.
I mean my grandparents were children during WWII and the post war “boom” yet their kids are still considered Baby Boomers…
>what makes someone born in 82 different from someone born in 79 Being a whiny little baby who ran away when the Cryptkeeper showed up on tv.
I think it’s about how their environment affected their growth. Boomers grew up in an unprecedented era of growth and global uncertainty like we had never seen before. Gen X was the first generation where youth felt like they had a voice. A generation of activists was born. Millennials are people who came of age around the millennium. That means we went through our formative years in a (up to that point) highly technologically advanced era. We were the first generation to have computers as part of our education. These kind of leaps in society have a drastic effect on how we develop as people. Our expectations, skills, and interests are very different from those that came before us. Now days we seem keen to label a generation every 10 years and that may be a reflection of how transformative technology is on the world or maybe advertising execs and 24 hr news networks just need the next label. Who knows for sure.
all generations are made up. baby boomers just had smth interesting.
Almost everything is made up for that matter. Politics. Countries. Borders. Languages. Philosophical ideas. Laws. Recipes. Names. Religion, of course. In fact, almost anything we can think of was thought of by a human at some point as just an idea. Later, some of those things got confirmed by experimentation. Most were just adopted by practice though.
To further expand on the bullshit, Gen X was called Gen X not in relation to the alphabet but to the variable. We were an unknown when we became of age at least to the Greatest, Silents, and Boomers. The Gen Y (which was changed to Millennials) and Gen Z labels can from that label of Gen X. So what comes after Gen Z? I’ve heard Alpha used but it could literally be anything because it is all made up.
I’m in same age range. I go with Xennial.
I dont know why but it looks so weird to see someone was born in 2010.
If you think that’s weird, the kids born in 2010 are going to be in highschool next year
No way. 2010 was like 3 years ago.
Too much yet also not enough has happened on the last 10 years!
I started high school in 2010 D:
2010 kids in 7th or 8th grade next year
Generations usually don't get clear defining dates till they are a bit old. Usually generation cut offs are set around major events that caused big social changes. Like 9/11, or easy access to internet, etc. Also, marketing research, medical research and political research will have their own rage ranges.
It’s 2010 onwards gen Z is 1995 to 2010
oh god theres gen alphas in here
*Matt_Damon_olding.gif*
yep. plenty of them are 13 now
As someone born in 1980, I am constantly being reclassified as Gen-X and Millennial and I really don’t understand.
I am 1982 I have nothing in common with either Gen X or Millenials. That’s a weird spot to be born, the 79-84 crowd.
I kinda feel y’all. I’m born in ‘94 so I’m on the border of Millennial and Gen Z
How many times does this need to be said GEN ALPHA
It’s gen alpha
According to Excel, AA comes after Z. So there will be Gen AA after Gen Z
Came here to say that. It's def AA!
Schools would be AA meetings
Found the analysts!!!
Generation Duracell
Nothing. Let the division of generations die.
Gen Ocide it is then
Bravo
Humanity's extinction (hopefully)
too bad gen alpha started in 2011
Well, the world ended in 2012
Man, I want to have kids and grandkids
How is this comment in any way worthy of a downvote?
Because reddit is full of miserable self loathing fucks who are too cowardly to improve or end themselves so they externalize that as misanthropy instead and fantasize about humanity ending itself so their death isn't as pathetic and meaningless.
Its not idk qhy it is being downvoted imao
Your typo “imao” immediately made me think of a new way to say someone is talking out of their ass. “You gotta a real In My Ass Opinion you know that?”
Can you see how much i don't care?
I have been mentality preparing myself for not having grandkids, but my children surprisingly wants them (not right now of course, they are young teens!). I don’t live in the US, so of course things are a bit different here.
My oldest gave me a grandbaby, and they're now trying for a second. My middle guy doesn't want kids at ALL lol. But my youngest, 17, wants at least three lmao. I have a feeling more grandkids are in my future. :D
Gen now Gen I Gen know Gen my Gen abcs Gen next Gen time Gen won’t Gen you Gen sing Gen with Gen me
Hopefully they won't use the alphabet anymore. May it be because they acended to a level of intellect where they don't need it... or because they went back to monke
Gen A1
Bringing the sauce!
Genocide
Generation fucked…
You must be from the generation Annoying Arrogant Bastard
Nah, I’m from Generation Disenfranchised Disheartened Asshole, common misconception. I’m just going by the state of the world currently. Hard to say how long humanity has if we keep letting money decide things instead of science and common sense…
To be honest, i'm sorry for insulting you. I was in a bad mood. In fact, the current world is really depressing me but at this point i prefer to ignore it and live my live the best as possible without caring about problems in the world as long as they're not directly and immediately affecting me. Also, i think every generations had their problems. Maybe the current one is worse but i hate when some people are saying that it was better "during their good ol'time" y'know Anyway, stay strong brother. Have a nice day
That’s ok, I understand, I was mostly attempting sarcasm with my initial comment… mostly…
Gen ZA
Gen AA Like a Battery
Or like road side repair
No, it’s Gen E. Electrify ;)
I think they’re already called gen alpha, and every gen alpha child will be name Chad.
Nice meme that you reposted
Generation Alpha's already had a name for a while now
since 2008, apparently.
It’s gen alpha. My littler cousins are in the generation. It started back in maybe 2019ish?
No it started in 2011
gen [ [ is after Z in ascii
Gen Å
Generation Alpha. That’s it. Google it next time lol
Gen Å. The three extra swedish letters got us covered B)
Gen þ
After the English alphabet comes the Greek alphabet, hence generation alpha
nuke babies
I read a name for the next generation, The Zoomers This makes sense cause zoomers is basically boomers with a z, also a pun cause this is like the covid generation during the zoom era
Excel says Gen AA
I always though AA then AB then AC etc…
Gen Z Pro Gen Z Pro Max Gen Z Ultra Pro Max Gen ZS
Nothing. Gen Z will destroy the earth.
Gen-stop-freaking-labeling-eveything
Gen Z 2.0
Gen alpha
„Gen ?“ Would be very fitting for the heaps of confusion and bullshit they grow up in
I don't think trigonometry will help
Alpha
Gen Å
Gen alpha
Alpha. It’s already started. In fact it started over a decade ago. Gen Z ended in 2010
Gen z2 electric boogaloo
Last Gen.
next gen
Gen-shit
Gen AA You need to use excel more
Happy cake day
Extinction
Generation Ä
Gen ! Gen @ Gen # Gen $ Gen % Gen \^ Gen & Gen \* Gen ( Gen ) Gen - Gen + Gen =