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What Generation Are You?
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uncreativename
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I was kinda jealous of people your age + early 80s millenials, you got to live through Grunge. Pretty sure by the time I even knew who Kurt Cobain was he was already dead.
On the other hand, us late 80s millenials got to be the perfect age for Pokemon and Harry Potter and mid-late 90s/2000s videogames :] .
ForAcademicPurposes
Gold Member
The jilted generation
Unknown Soldier
Banned
These poll results are..... basically what I expected lol
TheUnicornGuy
Gold Member
I'm not dead though, I'm living the high life! Thanks for the gold!
Idleyes
Gold Member
I'm not dead though, I'm living the high life! Thanks for the gold!
My bad OG gangsta. I'll tread lightly from here on out.
rm082e
Gold Member
I was in middle school in the early 90s. I was way into Metallica's Black album, Alice in Chains' Dirt, and Pearl Jam's Ten. I played guitar and bass so it was an awesome time for music.
I saw Tool on the aenima tour in '97 at a local theater and I remeber the ticket was $18.50 for general admission - I was right in front of Justin Chancellor when he kicked off Fourty-Six and Two. A core memory for sure!
I missed Pokémon and Dragon Ball entirely. I did get sucked into the Harry Potter books when I was in college just because of the cultural zeitgeist.
Sybrix
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
I'm Gen-X but right on the cusp, so really don't feel too much kinship with any given generation.
Since I was on the internet from like the age of 12 I am kind of like a millennial but I think you should get beaten up for watching anime.
Since I was on the internet from like the age of 12 I am kind of like a millennial but I think you should get beaten up for watching anime.
Bojji
Gold Member
I didn't have similar interests with most of the people my age (1989) - videogames, internet and anime, few years ago I found out that this is the dominat culture of Gen Z, lol.
So I was ahead of my time... I can talk with many zoomers without problems (outside of when they use some idiotic new words).
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Proud millennial of 89
We got the last real movie and music stars. Tech was fun for the sake of fun, not an agressive epenis like asking thing or worrying about the government censoring our shit
Saw a lot of old analog tech, worked within the transition to new, and he we are
We got the last real movie and music stars. Tech was fun for the sake of fun, not an agressive epenis like asking thing or worrying about the government censoring our shit
Saw a lot of old analog tech, worked within the transition to new, and he we are
Insane Metal
Gold Member
I'm of the sane gen.
uncreativename
Member
It's weird. To me, forums are objectively better than Reddit or X or Bluesky. You can bump threads so it's possible to have a real long-term disccusion, you can see people's avatars properly because they're not circles. You can easily search for what you're looking for. What's not to like
epicurius-seven
Gold Member
It's almost like modern communication platforms are quicksand by design.It's weird. To me, forums are objectively better than Reddit or X or Bluesky. You can bump threads so it's possible to have a real long-term disccusion, you can see people's avatars properly because they're not circles. You can easily search for what you're looking for. What's not to like
PonyStation4
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epicurius-seven
Gold Member
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Gen X. The best generation
ForAcademicPurposes
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PlayofSparta
Member
Millennial. 1992.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Gen X born at the perfect time, best time to be a kid early 80's, best time to be into gaming late 80's/early 90's, best time to be into partying/raving 90's, best time to buy a house late 90's/00's... I genuinely feel sorry for all those that came after, you missed out on running around fields with your mates from sun up to sun down as a kid, proper gaming generations and arcades, you missed out on going clubbing and getting absolutely wasted without 400fuckers filming you for Snapchat and sure as shit missed out on affordable homes and last but not least you missed out on a time when nobody gives a shit about politics
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Amen!
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
uncreativename
Member
Oh, my mum used to give those to us too, even though I'm a millenial. See you at 100 :]
Avid Reading Horse
Member
1981 here, love Usenet... actually it's where I get most of my 'streaming' content these days (I haven't checked the copyright but I'm sure it's all on the up-and-up). And I use Discord plenty, though more for direct communication with friend groups and the occasional LFG Discord, and not so much anything approximating the function of GAF for example.
I don't particularly want to be considered a millennial... Half of my high school class would've been 1980. Okay. Well less than half. But you know what, the fucking football coach's son was in my class and apparently he was born in fucking 1979. And he was drafted to the NHL (but didn't actually make the NHL, probably because his career was bullshit built on pushing around kids 20 months younger than him... what a motherfucker), anyway what was I talking about?
I guess I'll just raise my fist to the sky and call myself Millennial X. A man without a tribe. One foot each in two different worlds. Familiar to both, accepted by neither.
(definitely more of a Millennial reference there but I rock out a lot more to Gen X music for sure)
Laptop1991
Gold Member
There is 1 Zoomer on here, respect to that young un!, he will have more hair than us lol.
Nydius
Member
I'm a 1977 "Xennial", generally regarded as the first year in that microgeneration.
I didn't used to give a lot of stock to the "Xennial" title until recently when I realized there are equal times where I disagree with Elder X'ers but agree with Elder Millennials. My wife is a dead-center member of Gen X, 6 years older than me, and sometimes it feels like there's a generational difference between us on certain things. My oldest sister-in-law, 9 years older than me, is more Boomer than Gen X.
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You're a Xennial too.
Welcome to the microgeneration group, my Oregon Trail Generation brother.
IMO, Pokemon is a great example being "familiar to both, accepted by neither". I bought Pokemon Red on a whim in my senior year in college so I could play something between classes and during my break times at work. But I never got into the cartoon or most of the spin-offs like the merchandise or the TCG. Almost 50, I'll still play Pokemon games, but I'm not steeped in the Pokemon nostalgia like a lot of millennials.
I didn't used to give a lot of stock to the "Xennial" title until recently when I realized there are equal times where I disagree with Elder X'ers but agree with Elder Millennials. My wife is a dead-center member of Gen X, 6 years older than me, and sometimes it feels like there's a generational difference between us on certain things. My oldest sister-in-law, 9 years older than me, is more Boomer than Gen X.
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You're a Xennial too.
Welcome to the microgeneration group, my Oregon Trail Generation brother.
IMO, Pokemon is a great example being "familiar to both, accepted by neither". I bought Pokemon Red on a whim in my senior year in college so I could play something between classes and during my break times at work. But I never got into the cartoon or most of the spin-offs like the merchandise or the TCG. Almost 50, I'll still play Pokemon games, but I'm not steeped in the Pokemon nostalgia like a lot of millennials.
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I'm a young gen X, but there's this category of like 1975 to 1985 (+- a couple years possibly) which is way different than older Gen X or younger Millennials (as stated above). The older part Gen X is pretty close to boomers in my opinion, while the mid and younger is more of the true Gen X in my opinion (have to solve everything on our own, parents just left us to do whatever, better with electronics than both our parents and our kids, etc). What we really need is someone in this 1975 to 1985 group in the white house...because instead of just talking they'd go get stuff done. But now we're getting candidates both older and younger than that, and the problem solvers are in the middle. Like Kamala was a 'gen X' candidate but she represented literally nothing I could relate to as Gen X, she was more boomer to me than Gen X.
i am a millenial but see myself more as a gen xerI see a lot of people saying nasty things about millenials lol, a lot of them fair, but still, I'd assumed that most of you were also millenials like me, but maybe not.
So I decided to make a poll.
Also I'd never heard the term Silent Generation before, so I learned something new, and I'm gonna assume no one here is Gen Alpha or Greatest Generation so didn't bother to include those
87 btw
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uncreativename
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Hm, do you have older siblings? I was born around the same time, but I'm an oldest child, so there weren't older kids to influence me
. Definitely think of myself as a millenial and not Gen X.no only child grew up around a lot of baby boomer and Gen X television.Hm, do you have older siblings? I was born around the same time, but I'm an oldest child, so there weren't older kids to influence me
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Gen X
December, 79
December, 79
spookyfish
Gold Member
Born 1970, so my formative years were two of the best decades ever (80s and 90s). Unapologetically Gen-X.
Audiophile
Member
'92 Millennial but kinda feel like a Millennial/Gen-X Hybrid.
Was quite lucid while a kid in the '90s and absorbed a lot of that decade as well as the echoes of the prior decade or two, also had a brother 10yrs older and at least one of my parents are a good bit older than average.
On one hand I really appreciate being born in that perfect middleground where I got to experience the largely pre-tech world and being left to go off outside and keep myself occupied, plus the general lay of the land where kids would just go knock on other kids doors to go out and play; while also being able to grow up with just enough tech to become technically-versed. On the other hand, witnessing the social breakdown and the degradation in the quality of entertainment and culture is miserable.
Was quite lucid while a kid in the '90s and absorbed a lot of that decade as well as the echoes of the prior decade or two, also had a brother 10yrs older and at least one of my parents are a good bit older than average.
On one hand I really appreciate being born in that perfect middleground where I got to experience the largely pre-tech world and being left to go off outside and keep myself occupied, plus the general lay of the land where kids would just go knock on other kids doors to go out and play; while also being able to grow up with just enough tech to become technically-versed. On the other hand, witnessing the social breakdown and the degradation in the quality of entertainment and culture is miserable.
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ForAcademicPurposes
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TheHighFlyingBirds
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Millenial from 82, but feel more like gen x.
Laptop1991
Gold Member
No idea, i am in England and all i can see is a big purple box with content not viewable in your region on your pic lolDoes that take into account body hair?
