r/generationology

r/generationology is one of the dumbest fucking subs on this site because it’s literally just people turning birth years into ethnic groups. Grown adults arguing over whether being born in 1996 vs 1997 created “completely different life experiences” because one remembers a different iPhone launch or cartoon lineup. It’s narcissism disguised as sociology.

The entire sub is built on fake divisions that do not matter in real life. Nobody outside that echo chamber gives a shit about your “core childhood era” or whatever made up label you stapled onto your personality. Your identity is not interesting because you watched one version of Nickelodeon instead of another. You are not historically significant because you used a DS in middle school.

And the funniest part is they act like these labels are objective when the definitions constantly change every five minutes. That’s because the entire hobby is intellectually empty. It’s just insecure people trying to feel special over completely arbitrary dates. Family, culture, money, location, actual life experiences all of that matters infinitely more than what year you were born, but admitting that would destroy the entire sub overnight.

It’s manufactured tribalism for people with no real personality outside of nostalgia and internet arguments.

so i was talking with my mom about this post i once saw where it was criticizing the boomer generation for how they'd work extremely dangerous and long shifts for little to no pay and zero benefits. then somehow the conversation topic shifted to Gen Z and here is her take on Gen Z's Work ethic: she claimed that this generation is entitled in these senses but claims it started with her generation and just grew and got progressively worse...

• wants to work only 6 hours a day
• wants 20 dollars an hour
• wants to show up whenever
• wants to leave whenever
• wants health insurance they don't have to pay on
• wants a car to be given to them

Edit: she essentially believes if you have a family and bills, you should ask for more. But if you're 16 and flip burgers on a weekend you don't need 20 an hour.

I was born August 18, 1996, so I’ll be turning 30 this year and yes I'm excited. According to Pew, I’m a millennial, and I do feel like a millennial.

And I’m glad to be in the millennial category because I would rather be the youngest millennial than an older Gen Z. No shade to Gen Z at all, but I personally relate more to the younger millennial experience overall.

That being said, there are definitely aspects of Gen Z that I relate to, especially older Gen Z. The way I usually describe it is: I have the fire of Gen Z, but the emotional damage of a millennial if that makes sense 😅

I feel like people born around 1994, 1995, and 1996 are in such a weird little crossover zone. We remember a lot of millennial things, but we were also young enough to understand and relate to some older Gen Z culture too. It feels like we’re close enough to Gen Z to understand them, but old enough to have that classic millennial burnout/trauma/humour.

Does anyone else born in 1996, or even 1995 and 1994, relate to this?

Also, do you personally feel like 1996 belongs in the millennial category? I think it does, but I’m curious what everyone else thinks.

For a generation growing up completely on technology, they've become technologically conservative. Gen Z has revived the Vinyl, They want retro consoles and pay from either a really cheap or even a 100+ dollar price to retrieve them. Same goes for old hobbies, fashion or third spaces. It seems like (from what ive personally observed) older generations are more fascinated by advancements and minimalism , mainly because its cool to see how advanced things were than back then. Is it simply because Gen Z yearns for more?

Young Brits and young people across the planet don't really want to work until they drop. I get it, and I honestly approve. Let me explain why:

1) Cost of living. Take young Arthur from somewhere like Glasgow. If he works a regular job making £1,500–2,000 a month (best case), he'll pretty much never be able to buy a decent townhouse in any safe area or city. If he starts a business, the chance of going bankrupt in the next five years is practically 90 percent.

2) Climate change. Glaciers are melting, ecosystems are dying, clean drinking water is becoming scarcer a lot of it is being taken by data centers, golf courses, etc. Due to climate disasters (and scientists predict the hottest summer ever in 2026–2027), food will become much less available and way more expensive same with water. So why bother doing anything?

3) Inequality. The level of inequality in the UK, the US, Europe, and around the world is just staggering. In the UK, you have the wealthy south and the poor north they hate each other, and it breeds a quiet resentment. The richest 1 percent of people on Earth, in almost every country, own something like 40–60 percent of the nation's wealth. That doesn't make capitalism a miracle that helps you succeed it makes it a new form of slavery.

4) Global aging. People aren't just getting older in Europe, the US, and Asia it's happening all over the world, and fast. By 2080, the share of people over 65 will be much larger than those under 18. That means the tax burden on young people will be insanely high.

I'm 18 myself, and like so many others, I'm going to have to live in this new, old, dishonest, unfair world with a terrible climate. It's not our fault. We're not lazy we just don't see the point. Houses cost a fortune. What are the chances that I, living in Liverpool, will be able to buy an apartment here after I graduate as a history teacher? I'd say zero

I suddenly started wondering if the rise of fast fashion and micro trends has killed off the giant garbage bag of clothes your older cousins outgrew and your aunt saved because she knew you’d grow into them.

I (GenX) certainly inherited hauls like that, and the ones from my cousins who were 10 and 6 years older had pure gold buried among the tops I couldn’t possibly imagine wearing.

It's a made-up term that describes, at most, a small percentage of humanity, not some global phenomenon. It's better to change it to "middle-upper class rich western world optimism" and then it will make some sense.

It's like assuming all boomers were hippies when that only applied to the Western world, and even there, most boomers weren't hippies.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that this sub is filled with naive, inaccurate, or completely made-up generalizations about generations, which often don't even apply to Europe and seem to apply only to Trumpistan.

Este debe ser la generación edad Primaria

• 2014: 2020-2026
• 2013: 2019-2025
• 2012: 2018-2024
• 2011: 2017-2023
• 2010: 2016-2022
• 2009: 2015-2021
• 2008: 2014-2020
• 2007: 2013-2019
• 2006: 2012-2018
• 2005: 2011-2017
• 2004: 2010-2016
• 2003: 2009-2015
• 2002: 2008-2014
• 2001: 2007-2013
• 2000: 2006- 2012
• 1999: 2005-2011
• 1998: 2004-2010
• 1997: 2003-2009
• 1996: 2002-2008
• 1995: 2001-2007
• 1994: 2000-2006
• 1993: 1999-2005
• 1992: 1998-2004
• 1991: 1997-2003
• 1990: 1996-2002
• 1989: 1995-2001
• 1988: 1994-2000
• 1987: 1993-1999
• 1986: 1992-1998
• 1985: 1991-1997
• 1984: 1990-1996
• 1983: 1989-1995
• 1982: 1988-1994
• 1981: 1987-1993
• 1980: 1986-1992
• 1979: 1985-1991
• 1978: 1984-1990
• 1977: 1983-1989
• 1976: 1982-1988
• 1975: 1981-1987
• 1974: 1980-1986
• 1973: 1979-1985
• 1972: 1978-1984
• 1971: 1977-1983
• 1970: 1976-1982
• 1969: 1975-1981
• 1968: 1974-1980
• 1967: 1973-1979
• 1966: 1972-1978
• 1965: 1971-1977
• 1964: 1970-1976
• 1963: 1969-1975
• 1962: 1968-1974
• 1961: 1967-1973
• 1960: 1966-1972
• 1959: 1965-1971
• 1958: 1964-1970
• 1957: 1963-1969
• 1956: 1962-1968
• 1955: 1961-1967
• 1954: 1960-1966
• 1953: 1959-1965
• 1952: 1958-1964
• 1951: 1957-1963
• 1950: 1956-1962
• 1949: 1955-1961
• 1948: 1954-1960
• 1947: 1953-1959
• 1946: 1952-1958
• 1945: 1951-1957
• 1944: 1950-1956
• 1943: 1949-1955
• 1942: 1948-1954
• 1941: 1947-1953
• 1940: 1946-1952
• 1939: 1945-1951
• 1938: 1944-1950
• 1937: 1943-1949
• 1936: 1942-1948
• 1935: 1941-1947
• 1934: 1940-1946
• 1933: 1939-1945
• 1932: 1938-1944
• 1931: 1937-1943
• 1930: 1936-1942
• 1929: 1935-1941
• 1928: 1934-1940
• 1927: 1933-1939
• 1926: 1932-1938
• 1925: 1931-1937
• 1924: 1930-1936
• 1923: 1929-1935
• 1922: 1928-1934
• 1921: 1927-1933
• 1920: 1926-1932
• 1919: 1925-1931
• 1918: 1924-1930
• 1917: 1923-1929
• 1916: 1922-1928
• 1915: 1921-1927
• 1914: 1920-1926
• 1913: 1919-1925
• 1912: 1918-1924
• 1911: 1917-1923
• 1910: 1916-1922
• 1909: 1915-1921
• 1908: 1914-1920
• 1907: 1913-1919
• 1906: 1912-1918
• 1905: 1911-1917
• 1904: 1910-1916
• 1903: 1909-1915
• 1902: 1908-1914
• 1901: 1907-1913
• 1900: 1906-1912

In most Gen discussions online or IRL, its always Boomers vs Millenials vs Gen Z. Memes always just include those three and online discussions about common childhood experiences never really talk about Gen X as its own thing.

Gen X barely ever gets brought up. It feels like elder Gen X just gets lumped into boomers and the younger ones get thrown in to Millenials.

I am an ambivert but my parents are extroverts so they are very talkative they joke with random people and can talk with strangers for hours I noticed that people respond very positively to my parents They actually like their energy and those strangers often become their friends

But when I try to do the same thing with people from my generation they sometimes react rudely

some of my old friends disliked my energy

I used to be a kind and joyful person but now I am mostly serious with people until I trust them

my parents have lots of friends who match their vibe but I have only a few friends I am the kind of person who cares about you, helps you, makes you happy during sad times, has a lot of fun with you, encourages you, and supports you but I still don’t have genuine friends

Sometimes when I feel bored I talk to my parents’ friends and they are better than my own friends

For instance, missing turn of millenium is mabye a flaw in a birth year for society. My mother also made comments about me nof being alive during alive during 9/11 as if it was my fault

Frozen was everywhere and all the songs were sung by little kids when I was in 2nd game, despite I didn’t like it but a lot of my girl classmates and younger did. I would say we were older audiences since I was 8. Middle schoolers def did not care about frozen and hated it

In many online discussion boards and real life discussions, many will refer to age 24 as “early 20s” when it’s not. It’s clearly mid 20s.

I already went analog and deleted all of my social media apps, so if I want to go in Reddit/Tumblr I'll use the site. I also started reading books, listening to older songs, and writing on my journal. I don't want to buy all the antique stuff from the 90s/2000s though, cuz I am a minimalist lol. I also relate to 1989 borns so much even though I was born 20 years later...

I am 22, so I am in the middle of Gen Z. Next year, the oldest Gen Z will turn 30.
Is there any show that captures our generation’s young adulthood?
\-All in the Family/The Mary Tyler Moore Show for boomers
\-Friends/Seinfeld/Living Single and the movie Reality Bites for Gen X
\-shows like New Girl for millennials (Idk about other millennial-targeted shows)

Do we have one that represents Gen Z’s experience ?