I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid… Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I’m wrong because I’m either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I’m a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I’m a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it’s exhausting.
Have you tried being born in a different year?
My plan is to claim that I’m “about 38” for the next decade or so…
If you wanna get real pedantic about it, millennials are considered to be FROM 1981 to 1996. I was born a few years after you, and I get called an Elder Millennial. Which always makes me imagine those Teletubbie Elders and they’re bad ass.
ETA: I don’t think you can ever escape the “you’re too young to understand” crowd of GenX haters. I caught that shade too, which is extremely boring and rude lol
Every night but apparently wishes don’t actually work no matter how many innocents you sacrifice or how perfect your binding circle.
Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it’s unnerving… sometimes.
Don’t be unnerved by our superior life experience!
Superior… Well. I don’t miss the smell of smoke everywhere. But I do miss the slower news cycle. And not having to grow up with any media that try’s to tell me everybody is everybody’s enemy.
How about the part where only we so accurately can gauge how shitty the internet has gotten in the last 15 years. I don’t consider superior life experiences a benefit when they only serve to remind us what was lost and can never be reclaimed.
Fucking same. But hey, at least for a few more months, I’m 42, so I got that going for me.
You probably started remembering stuff in '84 and were 9 in '90, so you qualify as both an 80s and 90s kid.
Sounds like you’re somewhere around the center in a polarised society
Honestly I’d argue it was the sweetest spot to live in, we came home with the street lights and didn’t have to go through metal detectors at school.
The only problem is literally no one younger or older than us cares that we struggled with the boomers for longer than anyone. Millennials call me boomer, boomers call me millennial. Fuck all of you I remember what the world was like before popups.
To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I’m a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.
Yea I was probably too young to remember anything of the 90’s. Probably my earliest memory that feels like a part of my “kidhood” is being annoyed that 9/11 interrupted my morning cartoons. Even then I wouldn’t consider that part of my core childhood memories. But who knows, maybe there are people with vivid memories of themselves living their best life as a 5yo in 1999.
Shiiiit. I lost my virginity in '91, and I know I’m a “90s kid”.
edit: typo
How old were you in 90?
I started highschool in '91.
Bring on the downvotes, bored Redditors.
Is starting Highschool in 91 something people don’t like? 🤔
Nah, just that one salty bitch. 🤪
No need to downvote. Nothing wrong with having been a 80s kid.
My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.
It feels like a good place to be.
At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?
I have no idea lmao. I think the last half is there for a self confidence boost, since it’s subjective.
Edit: Maybe once you give up on slang from new generations?
If this one wasn’t so shit at creating new slang, maybe it wouldn’t be so fuckin’ easy to give up on it?
ah, shit.
No cap, fr fr. 👀
If my life is accurate, irrelevancy begins at 36. Too old to be hip, too young to be financially well established.
Those of us who remember the tale of the land line telephone…
“Maaaaa, get off the phone, I’m trying to get online!”
Trying to play red alert or age of empires and having to fill in a box for baud rate, but I have no idea what baud rate fucking is. Now we need to make another phone call and start the whole process over again.
My first telephone was a rotary. More than once I didn’t call pizza Hut because it had 3 0’s at the end.
Lmao. I remember a rotary but I was too young to be calling anyone.
83 here. We’re a bridge generation.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
1993. What I know about the 90s is what I learned about it once I achieved self-awareness well into the 2000s
Are… Are you an AI?
Rest assured, I am composed of flesh and blood. The same as you, fellow human!
The T-100 was flesh and blood too, so that’s an evasion of the question.
They said they have self awareness.
So no, of course not.
December of 94 here, same. All of my memories of that time have nothing to do with the trappings/culture of the decade outside of my Disney VHS tapes and the bean bag chair I watched them in
You didn’t gain self-awareness until after the age of SEVEN?! What the actual hell? Are you ok?
There are many full grown adults who aren’t self aware.
1992 here and I never really think of myself as a 90s kid. All the things I remember happened in the 00s.
i mean that’s what “X kid” means. usually if you were born in a decade you’re the next decade’s “kid”.
Yeah bad news for anyone born after 1990 on being a 90’s kid…
I don’t think you understand how child culture works, frankly I doubt you have even the slightest grasp on how normal culture works and Wooohooo let me tell you child culture is a hell of a lot more complex and nuanced.
The media of our formative decades is what classifies us as the decade kid we are, and that only happens for people who live through the period old enough to contextualize abstract thought but young enough to be a separate social group than the adults.
So no, kids born in say 95 doesn’t fall into that impressionary period for being a ‘90s kid’ and all the rancid pedants like yourself that are milking this meme for clout are actively damaging the discourse.
Not that you care, none of you are actually here to advance knowledge or discussion. The internet was a mistake and I regret every cable I laid to help build it.
Your username really checks out
I did not choose it arbitrarily. At least now when I am banned I can say ‘I warned you’.
I admire your candor
I don’t know who you thought you were responding to, but you got em! I agree with you.
To me, being a Millennial to me means you remember 9/11. If you don’t, then you’re Gen Z.
The Oregon Trail generation might remember Challenger and the fall of the Berlin Wall and Rodney King, but not Reagan being shot.
What if I don’t remember 9/11 (because my teachers and parents deliberately didn’t tell me what was happening) but remember the Oregon trail?
‘95 here. Never heard anyone my age claim they were a 90s kid. Sis is ‘93, I don’t think she considered herself one either.
I think the best marker for what ‘decade’ someone’s childhood exists in is to have people list the media that stuck with you as a kid.
I see the ‘90s kid’ cutoff being the prevalence of Spongebob Squarepants, it aired in 99, so kids hit their formative years watching it if they were born early 90s and beyond making them ‘00s kids’. It’s like stratigraphy for media. Actual 90s kids were already too old to adopt him en masse so their media was Ducktales and Rescue Rangers, preceded by the generation raised on Bugs Bunny before they removed the bigotry, and the generation before that Mighty Mouse and Pink Panther.
As usual there is always some bleedover, for example I’m part of the beginning of the Ducktales era yet still have a great fondness for Pink Panther which was already in reruns before I was born.
As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.
We truly are the forgotten generation.
But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?
We were 90s kid first, we fucking founded the council.
I’m not trying to start shit, but wouldn’t all people who were 90’s kids start the council at the same time due to how time flows?
If we are adopting the ‘media culture’ view, then you need to at least be around 6 to start making the abstract connections necessary to make lasting memories about media.
So in 91, some ‘90’s kids’ are turning six and able to effectively even be cognizant of a council, whereas some 90s kids are yet to be born.
Or all generational cadres are made up arbitrary bullshit but if you watched Ducktales AND Rescue Rangers, and knew bugs bunny when he was still racist, then it is likely you and I will have a lot more in common than 90s kids who knew Spongebob and Blues Clues.
Okay boomer
Weaksauce, try harder.
Or maybe you are just bad at math, who knows?
It’s a joke
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
NONE of you has had to deal with as many years of boomer bullshit as I have. NONE.
You think shit’s bad for you now? Imagine turning 50 and being in the same economic position that all you millennials whine about. At least the economy has a chance to recover before you retire. None of my cadre have that kind of time left.
Some older GenX did make their wad before things got bad but literally the 3rd month of my IT career when the dotcom bubble burst.
If I could say to you what I really want to say, I’d get banned. If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
Then you are the source of most of your frustration.
You think shit’s bad for you now?
I didnt say anything about anything.
If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
Lol okay tough guy.
Chillout this is a meme thread. No one is talking shit about Boomers, Gen X, Millenials or Zoomers. It’s a comically inoffensive meme.
Calm down, nerd.
I believe were called Xennials.
Bro stealing the remote from your little brother who was watching doug to watch MTV was not being a 90s kid. You had punk rock, give us something.
What’s the difference between 95-96 and 93-94? They all don’t remember most of the 90s.
Old enough to play Ocarina of Time when it came out.
Or at least old enough to play it at your cousin’s house and ask your mom for it for christmas because you really wanted it but she wouldn’t buy it for you because she was in full 90’s helicopter parent mode and thought it looked too scary. I’m sure that’s a universal experience.
This
Still remember staying up till midnight on new years watching my brother play, he said I could have a turn in the morning. I did not get that turn in the morning.
I’ve been playing it on a PC emulator recently and it’s still really fun. The controls take a bit getting used to, but it’s great other than that. If you never got a chance to get your turn growing up, I highly recommend checking it out.
Even better than an emulator is Ship of Harkinian, a full source port to modern PC hardware. It has tons of graphical and QOL improvements, built in randomizer, modern controls if you want.
And to the people that like to say “MM iS beTTeR”, they just released 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.
Works great on a hacked Switch, too! Sadly, 2S2H isn’t ported to it yet.
That’s actually what I’m playing it on! Sorry, I’m a nerd, but not enough of a nerd to distinguish between an emulator and a port. But yeah, the QoL stuff is nice. For example, you can have it respawn you where you left off rather than back at the starting area every time you continue your game.
I haven’t seen anything for modern controls though. I might have to poke around.
Edit: This video explains some of the good settings to try out. Free camera is mentioned near the very end. https://youtu.be/IPFb5iCMaBY
“No mom, it’s not scary at all!”
redead scream
Edit: ReDead! Took me a long time to remember what those scary mofos are called!
What’s the difference between 95-96 and 93-94
Time.
I read an article that basically said we give up on trying to categorize you guys (97), you’re just “transitionals”. Not millennial or gen z. And honestly I get that. I only remember 9/11 because of my mother’s reaction. I grew up in a weird phase for tech. And I don’t feel like I belong to either group.
So I think they cracked the code!
“Weird phase for tech” is a nice euphemism for “knows what casettes are, but didn’t have to put them into computers anymore.”
I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9
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Putting cassettes in computer is OLD. Like… Gen X old.
I was born in 81 and my first computer used a cassette tape. I’m not sure what it was so I’ve never tried looking up how old it was I guess.
I was born in 1980. I refuse to be in any generation, I just was born in 1980.
Born in '72 here. What is this attention to generations and acknowledgement of existence you speak of? Your words are strange and foreign to me.
Don’t you have a mortgage to pay off? Hush hush to work, and leave the internet to us. Doesn’t matter if you were in some usenet mailing groups already, when most people couldn’t type on a keyboard.
Being an elder zoomer be like:
Wait another decade and “90s kid” won’t be a title anyone wants to claim.
If you remember 9/11 you’re a 90’s kid. If not, welcome to Zoomer gang – perspective of 02 kid
I think this is honestly it. I was in 5th grade and remember all of it (and the world response to it) very vividly. I really miss being able to greet people at the gate when they came to visit :(
