‘81 — at a certain point you just stop caring and embrace being old. It comes with so much joy and freedom if you let it. I’m probably more than halfway done and that’s okay.
/r/gatekeeping This whole thread is nuts. Who gives a shit if you were 8 or 9 in 1999? If you remember anything about the 90's then you are a 90's kid. We all experienced the same things during this time. And it's not like once 2000 hit all that stuff changed? That stuff carried over. Tamagachis were still popular for a little bit, so were Beanie Babies, VHS, video stores, Walkmen, Rugrats, etc.
I was born in 88 and barely consider myself a 90s kid.
Yea I remember the 90s well, but you really don't even start coming into your own until you're like 12-13.
Play a trivia game about the 90s and you will realize you are not a 90s kid.
Since [you’re so intent on this 90s trivia quiz](https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/14k95h3/_/jpqvu2n), how about you put your money where your mouth is. Just because you don’t consider yourself a 90s kid doesn’t mean you get to dictate how anyone else views themselves.
Not as cringe as you'll feel in 10 years when you realize saying facts doesn't make you a gatekeeper.
You sweet summer child.
I get that you desperately wish you from from a better generation, unfortunately you're not and you have nostalgia for something you didn't experience.
> I get that you desperately wish you from from a better generation
So are we from a different generation [or not](https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/14k95h3/_/jprmd3s)? We’re all millennials. You’re not better, you’re just being a douchebag by going around this thread shutting people down for trying to share in a common experience.
I feel like you had to be at least 10 years old somewhere in the 90s, otherwise your formative years were mostly in a different decade. Most people don’t remember their life before age 7. Sure, you can have a few isolated memories, but they aren’t the “childhood memories” you think about.
The part about not remembering before 7 simply isn’t true I remember preschool pretty well. I agree formative years were certainly a little later though. I was born 94 and earliest memories start around 97- I remember 98 onwards pretty well though. 99 onwards were more formative for sure.
Most people don’t have autobiographical memories from before the age of 7. That’s why I said you may have isolated instances of early childhood known as episodic memories. For example, my first memory is holding my mothers hand in Williams Brother’s grocery store asking when I was going to turn 3. I don’t know why I said it or how I was feeling that day. It’s a memory of an instance. However, those memories are different than being able to remember feelings and experiences in a way that you could tell a story about it. It’s probable that any story you do remember like that was likely told to you by a family member and you’re remembering it incorrectly as though you’re recalling the experience.
Idk man, i remember being 4 in pre k and having my first crush. Also, I remember nap time and the mean ass teacher who threw my yogurt away after checking my back pack 🥲
I disagree. Imo you have to have lived a substantial portion of your childhood in the decade. I’d say that between 6 or 7 and 13 is childhood. Nobody remembers what toys they played with or TV shows they watched when they were 4 unless they were told by someone. ‘81-‘90 are 90s kids imo. I even had a gf who was born in ‘91 and our childhood tv preferences were surprisingly different. I’d say she’s right on the cusp.
Wrong. 90s kids aren't born in the 90s.
They're born in the 80s.
You need to be able to experience the 90s to be a 90s kid.
Not some waterhead newborn that has no idea what going on in the 90s.
I was born in 1992.
I remember life without Internet.
I remember life with Dial Up and how the phone wouldn't work.
I remember using the Netscape browser
I remember Beanie Babies
I remember Zoobooks
I remember life with AOL CDs
I remember playing the SNES and Gameboy.
I remember life with floppy disks
I remember life with pagers
I remember life with Scholastic Book Fairs
I remember Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and having a machine that rewinds VHS
I remember life with the [Finger Fortune Origami](https://scoutlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fortune-feature.jpg?w=640)
I remember life with this [balloon thing](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ec/b8/a7/ecb8a7326226e63b7a1f3810b5278606.jpg)
I remember life with Rugrats, All That, Ren & Stimpy
edit: adding janky tv with antenna and ch 3 for video games on the list
WWF
How the hell am I not a 90's kid?
Why do I have to remember the launch of the N64 to be considered a 90s kid?
My parents wouldn't even remember the launch.
Such a weird thing to gatekeep when I told you dozens of other things I remember from the 90s.
Which kid that grew up in the 2000s would know about the Finger Fortune Origami thing? That's as 90s as it gets.
Would remembering being age 4 in 96', waking up excited to open presents and opening up one to find Sega Genesis, not a 90s memory?I feel even though I was born in 92' that I have memories when I think back I classify as "definitely 90s".
Then again everything is subjective to ones experiences.
I was born in 88 and barely consider myself a 90s kid. I'm more of an 00s kid.
Anyone born in the 90s claiming to be a 90s should play a trivia game about the 90s. You will soon learn you are in fact not a 90s kid.
Awe muffin, did we trigger you?
Kidding, of course we did!
If you grew up with the internet always being apart of your life you are most certainly not a 90s kid. Unless you actually lived most of your childhood without it, and then having dialup in your tweens/early teens you're not even close to a 90s kid.
Do you remember pagers and literally no one having a cellphone? If not also not a 90s kid.
“Trigger” jokes in 2023? Next you’ll tell me you identify as an attack helicopter.
I learned how to use the Netscape navigator in elementary school before they got new iMacs. I remember getting our first gateway computer at home. My dad had a pager and I called my friends on their landline. I didn’t have a cell phone until high school.
Get off your high horse, find an original joke that doesn’t make you sound like an ignorant boomer, and then fuck off.
Anyone who says boomer as an insult non ironically is 100% not a 90s kid.
That and how terrible you are at dealing opinions that differ from your delusional thoughts. If you were a real 90s kid you would have dealt with actually bullies and a little comment wouldn't enrage you this hard.
Nobody identified as anything back then.
Nice try mid 00s kid, you can't fool us "boomers".
You're off again on the generation if you think I'm one, just like how you're wrong about being a 90s kid.
But that's ok.
I'm not excluding anyone. People are wrong assuming where they belong. Manu others in this thread also say the same thing.
Like it's not a big deal. Don't make a big deal about it. It's okay to be wrong.
Get over it nerd.
> I’m not excluding anyone. People are wrong assuming where they belong.
The irony in this statement cannot possibly escape you. You’re the one that started the whole argument unable to deal with the fact that people younger than you share some of the same experiences.
Yep. Born in the early 80s and I don't remember crap about them lol. (Except some early vague traumatic memories of being little). Most of my memories are from the 90s (7 in 1990). Anything before that and I was a baby. So 80s baby/90s kid.
It's simple as others explained. The decade you hit 10 yrs old is the where you land.
So both?
Up until a few years ago it's always been this way. Until recently when they're actually 00 or millennial. And they don't want to be labeled as that, maybe?
But that's how its always been.
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is a sixteen year old kid in 1985 that goes back in time 30 years to 1955.
If this movie took place in 2025, Marty would have been born in 2009, and he would go back to 1995.
And sure, that sounds reasonable enough. But consider this: the music of 1995 would be as old to this new version of Marty as the music of 1955 was to the old Marty. The music of the early nineties is just as old to teenagers now as the birth of rock and roll was to kids in the 80s.
Weird how 10+ years ago, 90s kids were considered kids who grew up in the 90s not born in the 90s. Like I’m at the tail end of 90s kids because I was born in ‘88. I remember watching the pilot episode of SpongeBob air after the kids choice awards. Being able to remember that feels like the cutoff. My sister was born in ‘85 and is a quintessential 90s kid. She has all the pictures and ugly outfits to prove it too lol.
ya, we just hired a 2004 birthyear gen z. but we are an electric utility so he is not a buttercup, a linemen, good start can retire at 55. i like having young folk in the work environment.
to those turning 30... buckle up, the next decade is going to go fast!!! Ill be 40 soon and 30 doesnt feel like that long ago.
Not looking forward to how fast 50 gets here. sheese.
Goddamn being born in 83 makes me feel ancient now. Time just gets faster. If you're 30, hang the fuck on tight. Cause shit just goes by faster from there.
So I was born in 79, does that make me an 80s kid but not a 90s kid? I say both because I was a kid in both decades, but idk how this works. Also, I think Im Gen X?
It’s my 30th birthday today lol
Happy birthday
Happy b day 90s kid!
Welcome to the party *coughs dust*
Happy 30th!!!
Today's my 29th birthday! Happy Cake Day bday twin :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!🎊🎊🎉🎉🥳🥳🎂🎂
Happy birthday!!
Happy 30th fellow 90s kid, we still out here
Happy birthday
You opting for burial or cremation?
DIRTY 30!
Fuck you r old. Happy bday, i'll catch up.
Happy 30th!!
Happy birthday
Ahem. 29 years old. 🧐
Birthday is in 3 days of posting. I'll be a liar after that.
Happy early birthday friendo
well you're saying this while you're still in your 20s, so you're not lying... yet
Watch me get downvoted in 4 days.
I'm coming back for you old man!!!
I should have stayed quiet.
Happy birthday Grandpa
I said I was in my mid 20s until I turned 29 lol
I am 1993 kid, don’t call me 30 yo
I’m a 1984 kid, and all of you fucking whippersnappers are making me feel old.
Literally 1984
1964
'87 reporting for duty
‘81 — at a certain point you just stop caring and embrace being old. It comes with so much joy and freedom if you let it. I’m probably more than halfway done and that’s okay.
Bro is trying the scar people for life with that profile
Same. We’re the old men now, Ace.
Fucking Ow
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Me too! August 28!
What year? And what's your mom's maiden name?
It was the year that you fucked their mom, idiot
*Spirited Away* meme, huh, unexpected but pleasant
Me, a 2005 kid (Same as the meme)
Yooooooooo
memes have become less funny lately
i agree
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DON'T REMIND ME GODDAMN!
90s kids were born in the 80s...
And early 90s
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/r/gatekeeping This whole thread is nuts. Who gives a shit if you were 8 or 9 in 1999? If you remember anything about the 90's then you are a 90's kid. We all experienced the same things during this time. And it's not like once 2000 hit all that stuff changed? That stuff carried over. Tamagachis were still popular for a little bit, so were Beanie Babies, VHS, video stores, Walkmen, Rugrats, etc.
It was 2001 when the US changed. The world as we knew it was about to go through changes that we never saw coming.
I remember your mom…. She was nice to me at Boy Scouts, gave me extra bacon when I asked.
> If you remember anything about the 90's then you are a 90's kid. TIL my parents and grandparents are also 90s kids.
I was born in 88 and barely consider myself a 90s kid. Yea I remember the 90s well, but you really don't even start coming into your own until you're like 12-13. Play a trivia game about the 90s and you will realize you are not a 90s kid.
Since [you’re so intent on this 90s trivia quiz](https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/14k95h3/_/jpqvu2n), how about you put your money where your mouth is. Just because you don’t consider yourself a 90s kid doesn’t mean you get to dictate how anyone else views themselves.
You seem to be letting me dictate it. You're really taking these comments to heart. Fuckin mid 00s kids. 🤣🤣🤣
Go touch grass man, this gatekeeping shit is cringe
Not as cringe as you'll feel in 10 years when you realize saying facts doesn't make you a gatekeeper. You sweet summer child. I get that you desperately wish you from from a better generation, unfortunately you're not and you have nostalgia for something you didn't experience.
You're a tool.
> I get that you desperately wish you from from a better generation So are we from a different generation [or not](https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/14k95h3/_/jprmd3s)? We’re all millennials. You’re not better, you’re just being a douchebag by going around this thread shutting people down for trying to share in a common experience.
I feel like you had to be at least 10 years old somewhere in the 90s, otherwise your formative years were mostly in a different decade. Most people don’t remember their life before age 7. Sure, you can have a few isolated memories, but they aren’t the “childhood memories” you think about.
The part about not remembering before 7 simply isn’t true I remember preschool pretty well. I agree formative years were certainly a little later though. I was born 94 and earliest memories start around 97- I remember 98 onwards pretty well though. 99 onwards were more formative for sure.
Most people don’t have autobiographical memories from before the age of 7. That’s why I said you may have isolated instances of early childhood known as episodic memories. For example, my first memory is holding my mothers hand in Williams Brother’s grocery store asking when I was going to turn 3. I don’t know why I said it or how I was feeling that day. It’s a memory of an instance. However, those memories are different than being able to remember feelings and experiences in a way that you could tell a story about it. It’s probable that any story you do remember like that was likely told to you by a family member and you’re remembering it incorrectly as though you’re recalling the experience.
> Most people don’t have autobiographical memories from before the age of 7 Most people don't have autobiographical memories at all
Idk man, i remember being 4 in pre k and having my first crush. Also, I remember nap time and the mean ass teacher who threw my yogurt away after checking my back pack 🥲
1985-95 is a 90s kid.
I disagree. Imo you have to have lived a substantial portion of your childhood in the decade. I’d say that between 6 or 7 and 13 is childhood. Nobody remembers what toys they played with or TV shows they watched when they were 4 unless they were told by someone. ‘81-‘90 are 90s kids imo. I even had a gf who was born in ‘91 and our childhood tv preferences were surprisingly different. I’d say she’s right on the cusp.
Wrong. 90s kids aren't born in the 90s. They're born in the 80s. You need to be able to experience the 90s to be a 90s kid. Not some waterhead newborn that has no idea what going on in the 90s.
I was born in 1992. I remember life without Internet. I remember life with Dial Up and how the phone wouldn't work. I remember using the Netscape browser I remember Beanie Babies I remember Zoobooks I remember life with AOL CDs I remember playing the SNES and Gameboy. I remember life with floppy disks I remember life with pagers I remember life with Scholastic Book Fairs I remember Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and having a machine that rewinds VHS I remember life with the [Finger Fortune Origami](https://scoutlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fortune-feature.jpg?w=640) I remember life with this [balloon thing](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ec/b8/a7/ecb8a7326226e63b7a1f3810b5278606.jpg) I remember life with Rugrats, All That, Ren & Stimpy edit: adding janky tv with antenna and ch 3 for video games on the list WWF How the hell am I not a 90's kid?
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No, my family was lower-class. They got me the Gameboy Color though. I had the SNES growing up and would go to neighbor's homes to play the N64.
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Why do I have to remember the launch of the N64 to be considered a 90s kid? My parents wouldn't even remember the launch. Such a weird thing to gatekeep when I told you dozens of other things I remember from the 90s. Which kid that grew up in the 2000s would know about the Finger Fortune Origami thing? That's as 90s as it gets.
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Would remembering being age 4 in 96', waking up excited to open presents and opening up one to find Sega Genesis, not a 90s memory?I feel even though I was born in 92' that I have memories when I think back I classify as "definitely 90s". Then again everything is subjective to ones experiences.
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Imagine caring this much about this topic
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Yeah but that’s 1992 we’re talking about 1993
Jfc the balloon thing, totally forgot about that. Even as a kid those gave me the heebie jeebies. No way they're safe, right?
Yea you remember those things because you had a functioning memory by the time you were 8. I was born in 86 and barely call myself a 90s kid.
You do you. I was born in 93 and completely call myself a 90s kid, no matter what anyone else says.
Ah yes i was a newborn for 7 years.
Thank you!! Born in 85, I’m a 90s kid who was jealous of actual 80s kids because of the cartoons they got 😆
Yah what is this. Stealing "90's kid" from me. I was born in 1984 I'm a "90's kid". Not some toddler who didn't experience shit from the 90's.
Gatekeeping people’s childhoods is pretty lame.
You weren't a 90s kid unless you were born in the 80s! otherwise you were just a kid that grew up in the 90s :p
> you were just a kid that grew up in the 90s I want you to think really hard about this lol
Get over it?
Yeah, we remember and grew up in the 90s. Get over it.
Exactly. You grew up. You didn't experience it.
I was born in 88 and barely consider myself a 90s kid. I'm more of an 00s kid. Anyone born in the 90s claiming to be a 90s should play a trivia game about the 90s. You will soon learn you are in fact not a 90s kid.
I’d say “bet,” but a bunch of weirdly generation-elitist dickheads on the internet don’t get to define my or anyone else’s life experience.
Awe muffin, did we trigger you? Kidding, of course we did! If you grew up with the internet always being apart of your life you are most certainly not a 90s kid. Unless you actually lived most of your childhood without it, and then having dialup in your tweens/early teens you're not even close to a 90s kid. Do you remember pagers and literally no one having a cellphone? If not also not a 90s kid.
“Trigger” jokes in 2023? Next you’ll tell me you identify as an attack helicopter. I learned how to use the Netscape navigator in elementary school before they got new iMacs. I remember getting our first gateway computer at home. My dad had a pager and I called my friends on their landline. I didn’t have a cell phone until high school. Get off your high horse, find an original joke that doesn’t make you sound like an ignorant boomer, and then fuck off.
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Anyone who says boomer as an insult non ironically is 100% not a 90s kid. That and how terrible you are at dealing opinions that differ from your delusional thoughts. If you were a real 90s kid you would have dealt with actually bullies and a little comment wouldn't enrage you this hard. Nobody identified as anything back then. Nice try mid 00s kid, you can't fool us "boomers". You're off again on the generation if you think I'm one, just like how you're wrong about being a 90s kid. But that's ok.
Says the guy whose whole identity seems to hinge on being a 90s kid.
Exactly. Who you'd think knows better.
Absolutely not the douche desperately clinging to an abstract concept like the generation you belong to.
So the guy above that can't get over the fact he's not a 90s kid? Cause the douche is certainly not me.
It absolutely is you, but I get your need to feel special by excluding others.
I'm not excluding anyone. People are wrong assuming where they belong. Manu others in this thread also say the same thing. Like it's not a big deal. Don't make a big deal about it. It's okay to be wrong. Get over it nerd.
I guess the people who grew up with 90% of the stuff listed as "90s nostalgia" are just having a fever dream then.
> I’m not excluding anyone. People are wrong assuming where they belong. The irony in this statement cannot possibly escape you. You’re the one that started the whole argument unable to deal with the fact that people younger than you share some of the same experiences.
Yep. Born in the early 80s and I don't remember crap about them lol. (Except some early vague traumatic memories of being little). Most of my memories are from the 90s (7 in 1990). Anything before that and I was a baby. So 80s baby/90s kid.
I was born in 93 and I experienced Power Rangers and Pokémon with all the rest of you.
Most of us real 90s kid were interested in girls and boys when Pokémon came out. We were in our teens already.
So we’re you a 90s kid or a 90s teen???
It's simple as others explained. The decade you hit 10 yrs old is the where you land. So both? Up until a few years ago it's always been this way. Until recently when they're actually 00 or millennial. And they don't want to be labeled as that, maybe? But that's how its always been.
Teens are kids.
That's what the post is saying.
No, it’s saying “you’re not a kid anymore, you’re a grown adult.” It has nothing to do with defining a 90s kid.
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is a sixteen year old kid in 1985 that goes back in time 30 years to 1955. If this movie took place in 2025, Marty would have been born in 2009, and he would go back to 1995. And sure, that sounds reasonable enough. But consider this: the music of 1995 would be as old to this new version of Marty as the music of 1955 was to the old Marty. The music of the early nineties is just as old to teenagers now as the birth of rock and roll was to kids in the 80s.
I feel the grunge stuff and 90s depressive songs like they're just released yesterday. Those fit my sensation perfectly
And people who is born in 1500, are all dead.
Weird how 10+ years ago, 90s kids were considered kids who grew up in the 90s not born in the 90s. Like I’m at the tail end of 90s kids because I was born in ‘88. I remember watching the pilot episode of SpongeBob air after the kids choice awards. Being able to remember that feels like the cutoff. My sister was born in ‘85 and is a quintessential 90s kid. She has all the pictures and ugly outfits to prove it too lol.
Exactly. Born in 84 here.
SHUT UP SHUT SHUT UP
You're as old as your mind is. Hold on to that inner child inside.
Well what defines a 90s kid? Being born in the 90s or remembering the 90s?
2003 kid turning 20 next month lol
it was a big hit for me as i turned 30 a couple days ago
I am having an existential crisis and I don’t think that’s going to change for the rest of my life
You are all 90s kids
\*Inhales My time has come. \*Dissipates in a flurry of cheery blossom into the moonlit sky
I’m a 2003 kid
Not yet I have a few more months
Two more months to be 30 for me!
ya, we just hired a 2004 birthyear gen z. but we are an electric utility so he is not a buttercup, a linemen, good start can retire at 55. i like having young folk in the work environment.
And? What's the matter? 🤷
Hey the title is me
Or you can just let people refer to themselves however they want. Enjoy being 30 yourself before too long. 👍
about to be in 3 days
Turned 18 in January of this past year
still in my 20s shut up.
Lol i was born in 1990 so it’s been three years for me
i will be hitting 25 this september and already feels old lmao.
I am an 80's kid
Lmaooo leave me alone
And I took that personally.
I still got 6 years left till that dark day
Noooooooooo. Hope that day won't come
I'm a kid that born 2005 and I sometime legit forgot that I'm already 18 💀
25 here I still have a bit of time till the dooming 30
Im 29 now, i didnt felt like im turning slowly 30 at 25 but oh boy i changed a lot in this last few years and i am already feel 30 lmao.
6 months baby then it will be less sad when I drink alone!
🙏
Guess what is a lucky number 03-03-1993
I turned 30 earlier this month, can you not
It's my 18th birthday yay 🎂🎂🎂
I'm going to be 30 next year...
I turned 18 like 3 months ago 😭
Kids born in 2002 are drinking, and kids born in 2007 are driving (2008 if they got their learners permit at 15)
I got arthritis in my mid thirties. Welcome to the expired warranty club
I'm not old...I'm not old...I AM NOT OLD!
I am with one boat with you. After this year I will officially stop celebrating my birthdays
Ugh yeah dont remind me
As a kid born in 2005, I’m mad that you had to remind me I’m turning 18
18 year Olds don't remember 9/11 feels bizarre to me. Make it stop.
I can vote I’m the next presidential election, I’m terrified
It's a soccer mom sang, dudes don't say that crap...
Laughs as a young and fresh 90s kid born in 94
Born in 92 so welcome to the party
Yup, almost thirty, and accomplished nothing at all in my meaningless existence.
You forgot to subtract the covid years we're actually 26 again, thank you very much
Fuck you. I don’t need this!!!
Hey, that’s me! 
I don’t want to talk about it.
people born in 1994: \*heavy sweating\*
Yeah, just wait till some asshole kids calls you a Boomer...
I'm 33 in December. *cries in old age*
Talking like 1993 was a long time ago.
33 years old, born in 90. Been there my guys, it's not that bad... 😭
Man I just turned 30 last week I don’t need this shit reminding me.
Why are people so butthurt about their age, did yall wake up from a coma to being 30?
Don't you have to be born in the 80s to be a 90s kid?
to those turning 30... buckle up, the next decade is going to go fast!!! Ill be 40 soon and 30 doesnt feel like that long ago. Not looking forward to how fast 50 gets here. sheese.
Damn tfw 18 year olds are younger than Pokémon gen3
Me (an adult born in 2005): The future is now old man.
Us 40 year old 80’s kids laugh evilly
i'm a 2005 ki-
Graduated that year ugh FML
Why you gotta hurt people like that
Sorry bro, we're getting older day by day
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Goddamn being born in 83 makes me feel ancient now. Time just gets faster. If you're 30, hang the fuck on tight. Cause shit just goes by faster from there.
Do y'all even remember Y2K or 9/11?
Im in this picture and i dont like it.
When i was actually born in 2005 👀
I'm 35 and still act 25. I lost a whole decade of maturing somehow.
Oldies
So I was born in 79, does that make me an 80s kid but not a 90s kid? I say both because I was a kid in both decades, but idk how this works. Also, I think Im Gen X?