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0 pointslkitching7y ago0 comments

The term 'Xennial' was coined just for people in your demographic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

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For some reason the Gen Y label never stuck. It was the thing back in the 90s and early 2000s, but then just faded away for no reason in particular.

dragonwriter7y ago

Because Millennial was catchier; Gen Y only made any kind of sense in relation to Gen X, not independently.

jandrese7y ago

But Gen Y wasn't the millenials. Millenials came after them. Gen Y is the kids who grew up with computers and early Internet/BBSes, but not the pervasive information brokers that millenials know. Back when the internet was pseudononymous by default and nobody really knew how anybody was going to make money with it. Theme song: Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Maybe they should have been called the grunge generation.

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jandrese7y ago

For some reason the Gen Y label never stuck. It was the thing back in the 90s and early 2000s, but then just faded away for no reason in particular.

dragonwriter7y ago

Because Millennial was catchier; Gen Y only made any kind of sense in relation to Gen X, not independently.

jandrese7y ago

Maybe they should have been called the grunge generation.

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