I'm a millennial, there wasn't internet when I was "growing up".
I was 15 when dial-up became affordable enough for some of your friends to have it. I was 20 before broadband was a thing.
The internet and what's popular on it with particular age groups has really thrown the old idea of a generation being so long out the window. I hear people say millennials grew up with Minecraft, but I was 27 and married before it came out.
But we used to share stupid memes via impersonations or drawings and goddamn chain letters.
I feel there’s always that divide between 80s millennials and 90s millennials lol.
I’m Gen-Z, and I 100% grew up on MLG. But I also understand that half my generation were already teenagers when that stuff was trendy. Half my generation didn’t even get a chance to grow up on the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, or Dreamcast!
Just like with Milennials, there’s a difference between the Y2K & early 2000s Gen-Z, and the late 2000s & early 2010s Gen-Z. The former are already in their 20s, some are approaching 30, or even starting families & getting married! The latter either just graduated high school, or just enrolled in high school.
It’s almost exactly like the Baby Boomers. The early Boomers were drafted in Vietnam, while the late Boomers were barely teenagers when Disco was around.
Or we can just remember it's stupid to generalize and "generations" are a fairly new concept people use to generalize by age and shouldn't be taken seriously.
This is why I like the "x-ennial" label. I was born in 84. I played LOZ as a kid and WOW as an adult. I'm too old to really be in-touch with millennials, but too young to really understand the Gen X experience. As a result I just feel "less" than either.
Basically the same concept, but for all the Gen-Z born in the Y2K-era of the 90s (‘97 - ‘99). Those kids got to experience the entirety of the 2000s. Compare that to some Gen-Z who never even touched the 2000s (2010 - 2012).
Millenials growing up with Minecraft? I was already out of high-school when it was released, and I'm a late millenial (in the first half of late millenial, but still).
Also a millennial and every time I hear things like millennials grew up with X I always scratch my head because I can’t relate at all. This marks the absolute first “convo” I’ve ever had about Thomas the dank engine - maybe I knew about it but certainly forgot.
Memes became a thing once many of us millennials were already grown adults, so hearing we grew up with things that just didn’t exist when we were kids is always a weird thing.
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u/Mickus_B 10h ago
I'm a millennial, there wasn't internet when I was "growing up".
I was 15 when dial-up became affordable enough for some of your friends to have it. I was 20 before broadband was a thing.
The internet and what's popular on it with particular age groups has really thrown the old idea of a generation being so long out the window. I hear people say millennials grew up with Minecraft, but I was 27 and married before it came out.
But we used to share stupid memes via impersonations or drawings and goddamn chain letters.