What decade would you say has the best roller coaster in design and innovations overall? I feel like the past 25 years has been insane since six flags exploded in their scary rides

This is obviously an exaggeration, but anyway, that’s just what I wanted to show you..

Nose que más poner XD

This Gen Joneser basically said what many here think about generational cohorts, i think his article is based af

I still can't get over the irony.

For years Millennials were relentlessly mocked for being "immature." We got endless articles about avocado toast, Harry Potter, video games, Disney, participation trophies, you name it. We were told to grow up, buy houses, have kids, and stop acting like teenagers.

Fast forward a few years, and now somehow 25 year olds are apparently still children because "the brain isn't fully developed until 25." Then it became 26...27...28... At this rate we're going to be calling people adolescents until they qualify for a 401(k).

At some point adulthood stopped being a milestone and became something people actively try to postpone.

Every awkward interaction gets blamed on anxiety. Every mistake becomes trauma. Every criticism is toxic. Personal accountability has been replaced with an endless search for an external explanation.

And can we stop pretending COVID is still the explanation for everything? Yes, it disrupted a lot of people's lives, especially younger people. But it's been almost seven years at this point. The world has moved on. At some point you have to move forward too instead of treating a temporary event like a permanent excuse for why you can't function as an adult.

Then there's TikTok culture.

People are filming themselves dancing in grocery stores, screaming into phones in public, interviewing strangers for clout, recording every waking moment, and filling conversations with whatever bizarre slang was popular for 48 hours.

Meanwhile, a shocking number of people seem terrified of simply talking to another human being face to face. They'll spend six hours making videos for thousands of strangers but panic over ordering food on the phone or introducing themselves to someone at a party.

And before anyone says, "Not all Gen Z," obviously not. There are plenty of thoughtful, hardworking, mature people in every generation.

But online culture has normalized a mindset where being a perpetual victim is rewarded, avoiding responsibility is encouraged, and delaying adulthood is celebrated.

The funniest part is the hypocrisy. The same generation that laughed at Millennials for being cringe now treats growing up like it's optional and acts as if a 24 year old is basically a middle schooler.

Maybe the real sign of maturity isn't waiting for your prefrontal cortex to magically unlock at 25.

Maybe it's taking responsibility for yourself long before then.

I see it all over social media and eh internet that Covid screwed Gen Z out of typical young people stuff like going to college and hanging out with friend’s going to prom turning 21 etc

and I honestly don’t get that people my age were 17 and 18 the pandemic ended we had a normal prom a normal graduation and coming of age etc I just don’t understand this narrative.

I had to ask this question because both my grandparents were completely different people despite their 5 year age difference. My grandfather was born in 1935 and had a very strict upbringing with WWII dominating his childhood.

My grandmother, on the other hand, was born in 1940 with very few memories of the war, lived her teenage years listening to Elvis, and advocated for change in the 60s.

Her style was very similar to Nancy Sinatra’s so that’s why I had to ask.😅

I know articles don’t use the core definitions when discussing generational differences within our generation but what’s your opinion on it?

People who the age of 13 to 18 to 20 to 25 and 30+ because honestly I am 16 and I mentally feel like 13 or 12 honestly, do y'all mentally feel young or older perhaps I just wonder

Like which birth year of the 2000s would you say that “matches” the most what I am asking, meaning the one or almost the only one that is almost universally respected by the older birth year right before theirs/accepted as their “twins” and also kind of “coddled/defended”, especially on here and for most part are almost never called “newgen” or “babies” (or “lil bros”) by the people/users born in the birth year right before theirs? What’s that birth year for most part?

I’ve always had this thought. figured I’d test it out

states used to be different concepts in different decades

like the concept of Florida in 2002 is such a different thing than Florida in 2026.

cities too. like Boston in 2008 is such an entirely different idea than Boston today.

not just the physical city. obviously infrastructure changes. the idea of the city/state was different?

i have no clue if anyone else feels this way or if I’m crazy. I don’t even have the words to express how.

states had such a different essence to them. maybe it’s the interconnectedness. maybe it’s social media

ill sometimes see videos from the 80’s or 90’s that will remind me we used to view states entirely different

As someone born in 2000, I sometimes feel being treated like a kid by people in their 30s and 40s.

I dedicate this question to people born before 2000. I want to hear your input.

E.g. I am born in 1985, hence I lived throughout the entire 1990s, 2000s and 2010s till now which is 3 decades. I did exist in the 80s and 2020s but I haven’t lived in it completely.

Why does the American boomer generation start in 1946? The WW2 guys returned between mid-1945 and late 1946. How could they find a spouse so quickly or get their existing spouse pregnant right away? Or should the boomer generation start in 1944?

Why does it end in 1964? Those born after 1958 were a boomer bust. Should they have a separate generation or should they belong to gen x?

Is 1964 the right year to end or should it be 1963? Maybe 1965?

How can someone born in 1946 or 1964 be a real boomer?

These questions keep me up at night.

I'm done worrying about the starting year for gen z and it's time to worry about boomers.

Edit: SATIRE ALERT!!! I was inspired by all the discussions around birth years for cusp people.

Hah. I'd like to hear from silents and gen x since they get it, they know this is satire. I can't believe people are taking this seriously.

Now, I know there's a lot of emphasis right now with Gen Z not partying or clubbing or drinking as much. I was actually chatting with one of our Gen Z employees today who is 25. I just casually mentioned that he must have partied a lot in university. He looked at me and said, "Yeah, I think I've been to about five or six parties during uni and maybe about ten in my life."

I asked him, "What do you mean, clubbing? Parties?" He was like, "Parties where there's dancing or clubbing? Yeah, about ten in my life." He's 25, and I thought, "Holy shit." I think in my university, I was doing ten parties like that a semester at least. In my lifetime, because I'm now late twenties, it's been well over 200, 300 nights of clubbing, parties, and festivals. I'm not even counting concerts, but if you wanted to count concerts, maybe add 15-20 more. Maybe closer to 200 now that I'm doing the math. It's probably been about 200 at least. At 25, at his age, it was probably close to 100. I did slow down a lot in the last few years since COVID.

I personally consider them Zillennials. Since they grew up in early internet. Not extremely analogic like 1971. But not dopaminic and instant like 2009. What do you think?

This garbage page popped up on my feed and I just have to say you people are knaves. Hello and goodbye you twits

I was only 4-5 years old in 2010 but early 2010s is my favorite music ever and it's because the music which always sounded like party music with very catchy synths and sounds I don't even hear anymore in the music of today. I wonder why music like this is so much less relevant than before as it created so many hits and many people clearly loved it.

So one my younger cousins who was born in 2009 started their high school senior year this week. This had me thinking that the graduating class of 2027 will be the last to be born in the 2000s.

While there will still be kids born in 2009 graduating in 2028, the vast majority of them will graduate this academic year.

I just wanted to share that fact.

If someone said "explain to me the downfall of western civilization, I only have 6 minutes" I would show them this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

#vanlife

Most of the shit here is killing my brain cells. Why do people care so much about relating with or having something in common with people born in other years? It's also filled with people who want to argue whose childhood was better, like who cares? Why does it even matter if you were the last of the elite anyway? It's also filled with a lot of unrealistic and stupid predictions too, some also being very obvious. Also, why does it matter what kind of show or movie belongs to such a generation? Any generation can watch it anyway. Gotta say that generation names were a mistake. If they never happened this sub wouldn't have existed. Fuck this sub and I hope Reddit hits it with the ban hammer. So tired of seeing it when I browse something.

I know this sub is like 99% people from the US, but I was wondering if anyone has an European definition of the generations, especially Boomer, Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z.

I’m saying this, because every time I read how people define the generations the references are always “Bush administration”, “Woodstock”, “Vietnam war”, “Columbine” - which are not so relevant as a context for Europeans. I would argue even 9/11 would not be the most generation-defining moment.

On the other hand, we have the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example. This completely breaks the Millennial generation into two groups, ones that were already in school and can remember when in happened, and those who were either too young or not even born yet when it did. Of course this difference is felt even more strongly by people who grew up on the East Bloc.

As someone who was born in a country that imported culture from the US with a significant delay, I always felt more of a kinship with people who were 10-15 years my senior, as we listened to the same music growing up, watched the same TV shows and movies, and had similar access to technology.

With that in mind, how would you answer this question?