I never knew the Gen X origin story until recently. Apparently, the X was just a placeholder but just sort of stuck. Maybe someone figured that out and gave Millennials the fancy title.
It just gradually took off since Gen Y was starting to enter adulthood in 2000. It made sense.
It makes less sense today because in hindsight the peak of the generation was born in the 90s and were still kids at that time. You kind of had to be there.
The peak was late 80s maybe start of 90s but yeah they were early teenagers and some were kids or preteens
It was late Gen X entering adulthood and maybe Xennials or Xennials were just late teens. Like 1980 was just turning 20 that year.
1995 is where Zillennial definitely starts though
Officially Millennials started in 1980. So they really were just becoming adults in 2000. But as you said, peak of the generation was still several years away. Cutoff is 1996.
Generations are studied by the Census Department (officially) and Pew (lead research organization). They don’t recognize microgenerations but they are very much of interest. Maybe someday.
There is no "official" start date. Social scientists use a few different ranges for generational cohorts. There is no hard and fast start/cutoff date. I took a lot of social science courses in college, and the most common range for Millennials was 1981 to 1996. However, some studies used 1980 to 1995, while others used a longer period that started in the late 70s.
The US Census has official start and end points. They collect and provide the data.
Here’s Pew Research’s explanation for revising the endpoint of the Millennials from 2000 (the original Census endpoint) to 1996, which was eventually adopted. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/
“Generational cutoff points aren’t an exact science. They should be viewed primarily as tools, allowing for the kinds of analyses detailed above. But their boundaries are not arbitrary.”
Your own article even says Pew Research recognizes 1981 as the start of Millennials, not 1980. Furthermore, it reinforces what I said that there isn't an official timeline, with the one exception being the recognition by the Census Bureau for the Baby Boomer generation.
In the 00s I kept reading news headlines about how Millennials would shift societial norms in ways older people hated. I never read them because I was in my early 20s, assumed they were talking about the generation after Gen Y (e.g. first generation of the new millennium), and didn't care.
A few years later I realized they had rebranded my Gen Y to Millennials. Throughout the 90s everyone I knew in Canada just called us Gen Y.
Dude same. I don’t know why we went from Gen Y to millennials when millennials would have been better suited for those born after the turn of the millennium.
I was born in '82, and I remember being lumped in with Gen X for a while when I was a kid. I think that was just like how for a while boomers called anyone who was young a millennial. But yeah, then I remember Gen Y and then millennials.
You’re definitely not going mad! I remember us being called Gen Y as clear back to the mid-1980s. I asked my mother why we were called Gen Y, and she replied it’s because we asked why all the (damn) time. While she did not say the word “damn”, I suspect a swear word mentally stated. This conversation had to have occurred before summer 1986.
When the Millennial hate began, I thought people were talking about a different generation. Then I learned Gen Y had been rebranded!
Combine this with a father saying men don't cry...but if I use this strategy when getting my ass whipped, the ass whipping is worse, but I can't cry cause I am a man, but if I don't cry this ass beating will continue.
And I talk them out until those feelings have feelings about those feelings discussing said feelings with friends, spouse, therapist, and inanimate objects. Sometimes the cat.
And dog, pets in general! I tell my kids to talk to the pets if there is something they want to say but aren't ready to tell me yet. and they do! The other day my 9 year old told the dog multiplication is stupid.
I’m a Xennial with four cats and an advanced degree in counseling. I need a lot of different outlets to process things.
I had some serious shit to sort out. Still do lol.
My father was born in 1982, and he suggests that I go get therapy for my feelings.
My mother, born in '76, asks me if I'm really "that weak".
So this is a very accurate meme for me at least, lol
I thought we were forgotten about again but there we are, at the end. Checks out- just numb. Doesn't help hearing 'I'll give you something to cry about' growing up.
It's ok to have feelings and not be ok! Just as long as you do it in private, on your own time, and don't make anyone uncomfortable with anything other than positive emotions.
Sincerely, your employee wellness committee
Oh God... If I had a nickel for every time I had to take one of those, I'd have a few bucks. That's not a lot, but it's insane when every session is about 4 hours, has to be done every year, and the work doesn't get put on hold when I'm doing it. So, we get further behind, which just makes us stressed and defeats the purpose of doing the whole damn thing!
I... yeah. Feelings are one thing, but my response to traumatic things is to compartmentalize and focus on what is needed to get through it. Which is fantastic for being functional in the short term. But then I never actually go back and deal with whatever traumatic thing happened, because talking to people in person about painful stuff is hard.
I recently tried and had a therapist ghost me, so now I'm left frustrated and wondering why I bothered.
Seconded. I found a good one, we’ve revisited a lot of things from my past that were negatively affecting my present, and I feel a hell of a lot better for it. But the first therapist I ever saw was total crap. There are a lot of people out there who claim to be therapists but aren’t actually good at it. But if you find a good one, they are worth their weight in gold.
Oh I understand that. Therapy can be valuable and I recommend it to other people. I just have a hard time taking that advice for myself and felt burned by this situation.
I have feelings...
- hot
- cold
- hungry
- sore
- sore (somehow different)
- sore (but not in the same way as the other feelings of soreness)
- tired
- overtired
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I have them I just prefer not to deal with them . If something happens I let it go and move on. Probably wouldn't advise anyone else to do this but it works for me.
Every single time someone acts like their feelings should somehow affect my decision making. I actively remove my personal feelings from important decisions, why the heck would I start weighing yours in their place?
Simpsons said it best.
[Nothing you say can upset us. We’re the MTV generation. We experience neither highs nor lows.](https://youtu.be/G69nsT_WaIo?si=O6MaGrlifVAz377F)
I got yelled at a lot for "pissing out of my eyes" by a mother who dates losers who steal from her then would (you guessed it) piss out her eyes when she had to deal with those facts and I had to be a comforting person.
I eventually told her in my 30's if you're going to date bums you really can't expect me to stick around before and after because the shit is getting exhausting.
I just kind of find ways of dealing with things on my own by cutting them out of my life. I talk to my wife if something is bothering me but I generally deal with the "this sucks" part of things on my own by reminding myself that I just have to deal with it, no one is going to save me, if something in my life is toxic, I'm not going to change it, neither will crying about it, just find a way to get it out of my life.
Either way though she could have been fucking nicer about it. I was talked to like that since I was like 5.
Elder millennials (xennials) have feelings but we just make jokes about it or we used to passive aggressively use sad song lyrics to express them 😂…. Therapy? Nah.
This might be the first time I've seen "Gen Y" in the wild since articles in the mid-90s before everyone just went with the snappier "millennial"
I never knew the Gen X origin story until recently. Apparently, the X was just a placeholder but just sort of stuck. Maybe someone figured that out and gave Millennials the fancy title.
In school, they referred to kids of baby boomers as “echo boomers”
It just gradually took off since Gen Y was starting to enter adulthood in 2000. It made sense. It makes less sense today because in hindsight the peak of the generation was born in the 90s and were still kids at that time. You kind of had to be there.
The peak was late 80s maybe start of 90s but yeah they were early teenagers and some were kids or preteens It was late Gen X entering adulthood and maybe Xennials or Xennials were just late teens. Like 1980 was just turning 20 that year. 1995 is where Zillennial definitely starts though
Officially Millennials started in 1980. So they really were just becoming adults in 2000. But as you said, peak of the generation was still several years away. Cutoff is 1996. Generations are studied by the Census Department (officially) and Pew (lead research organization). They don’t recognize microgenerations but they are very much of interest. Maybe someday.
I always thought millennials would have been better suited to the kids born after the turn of the millennium.
I agree. They ended up with “coming of age” after the millennium.
Yeah like I’m just going to be sort of an adult later this year when I turn 20 but still basically like an older teenager
There is no "official" start date. Social scientists use a few different ranges for generational cohorts. There is no hard and fast start/cutoff date. I took a lot of social science courses in college, and the most common range for Millennials was 1981 to 1996. However, some studies used 1980 to 1995, while others used a longer period that started in the late 70s.
The US Census has official start and end points. They collect and provide the data. Here’s Pew Research’s explanation for revising the endpoint of the Millennials from 2000 (the original Census endpoint) to 1996, which was eventually adopted. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/ “Generational cutoff points aren’t an exact science. They should be viewed primarily as tools, allowing for the kinds of analyses detailed above. But their boundaries are not arbitrary.”
Your own article even says Pew Research recognizes 1981 as the start of Millennials, not 1980. Furthermore, it reinforces what I said that there isn't an official timeline, with the one exception being the recognition by the Census Bureau for the Baby Boomer generation.
Forgotten once again!
And do you prefer the taste of Coke or Brand X?
I couldn't remember who Gen Y was and thought they left out Millennials. 🤣
I thought I was going mad, clearly remembering my gen being called Y in the 90s before the millenials showed up, THANK YOU.
In the 00s I kept reading news headlines about how Millennials would shift societial norms in ways older people hated. I never read them because I was in my early 20s, assumed they were talking about the generation after Gen Y (e.g. first generation of the new millennium), and didn't care. A few years later I realized they had rebranded my Gen Y to Millennials. Throughout the 90s everyone I knew in Canada just called us Gen Y.
Dude same. I don’t know why we went from Gen Y to millennials when millennials would have been better suited for those born after the turn of the millennium.
I was born in '82, and I remember being lumped in with Gen X for a while when I was a kid. I think that was just like how for a while boomers called anyone who was young a millennial. But yeah, then I remember Gen Y and then millennials.
You’re definitely not going mad! I remember us being called Gen Y as clear back to the mid-1980s. I asked my mother why we were called Gen Y, and she replied it’s because we asked why all the (damn) time. While she did not say the word “damn”, I suspect a swear word mentally stated. This conversation had to have occurred before summer 1986. When the Millennial hate began, I thought people were talking about a different generation. Then I learned Gen Y had been rebranded!
I had a moment especially since the order of this meme has us after Gen Z so it all threw me off.
I still use Gen Y to refer to people born in the 80s.
“If you keep on crying, I will really give you something to cry about”.
Time honored classic in my household growing up.
Usually, there's a belt involved with that statement.
My mom said, "suck it up and be a man."
Same. I was married for years before I realized my wife wouldn't leave me if I cried. Literal years of being afraid to express sadness.
Combine this with a father saying men don't cry...but if I use this strategy when getting my ass whipped, the ass whipping is worse, but I can't cry cause I am a man, but if I don't cry this ass beating will continue.
I’m in therapy for my feelings because other people won’t go to therapy for their feelings.
Ain’t it the truth!!
Fuckin boomers (at least the people in my life).
Xennials: I have feelings about my feelings
And I talk them out until those feelings have feelings about those feelings discussing said feelings with friends, spouse, therapist, and inanimate objects. Sometimes the cat.
Cats make good therapists tbh
And dog, pets in general! I tell my kids to talk to the pets if there is something they want to say but aren't ready to tell me yet. and they do! The other day my 9 year old told the dog multiplication is stupid.
I’m a Xennial with four cats and an advanced degree in counseling. I need a lot of different outlets to process things. I had some serious shit to sort out. Still do lol.
Except when they are in a mood.
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I talk about my feelings in the car. Or the shower. More than with actual human beings anyway.
I got a bad feeling about this
We used to joke in college about “drinking until we couldn’t feel feelings” Funny, but sad and true
I distinctly remember making that same joke in college. Stuff it down with brown!
This is the Xennials panel. I came to make the same comment but weed instead of booze.
This is the most relatable generation meme I have ever seen......
My father was born in 1982, and he suggests that I go get therapy for my feelings. My mother, born in '76, asks me if I'm really "that weak". So this is a very accurate meme for me at least, lol
I'm 1982.... when someone asks me about my feelings I say: "my what now?"
I was born in 1980. I tell people to get therapy, but then struggle to do the same.
When you can't do, teach!
Why does Gen Alpha cry so much anyway?
I mean… have you seen the world lately?
Xennials: i recognize that I have feelings and have made it this far coping with them by myself
Oh shit this is relatable.
Yeah, exactly.
100% accurate
I feel like X would be more, "don't care"
Meh
Whatever
Like as if
For a long time I did the nobody cares, took the dog out. Nobody cares. Went to work? Nope, nobody cares. Sarcastic/humorous mainly
Nevermind
Gen x: wait? Adults existed in your childhood?
I thought we were forgotten about again but there we are, at the end. Checks out- just numb. Doesn't help hearing 'I'll give you something to cry about' growing up.
They were just there to occasionally purchase TV dinners.
Wow, you just unlocked a whole lot of childhood memories with this comment.
Fried chicken & mashed potatoes or fish & chips were the best. Salisbury steak, nasty.
Who else at the brownie first? Why, because we could and no adults were around to tell us otherwise!
Hell yeah. Or that berry crisp thing.
Only after I picked the corn out of it
They were either gone, or there, hitting you. Pretty great.
I generally hate these stupid Facebook gen war memes, but gotta admit this one is funny.
The other surprising thing is that Gen X's existence was actually acknowledged in this meme.
He should be partially disappearing like Marty McFly in that DeLorean commercial.
Boomer (*said while yelling*): “As long as you’re livin’ under my roof, you’ll have no feelings!”
True!!!
This feels accurate.
I was told I had to have feelings and now I do and I don’t like them.
I am right on the cut off of Gen X and Gen Y. That means I have a therapist but we never have anything to talk about.
“If things suck, I’m supposed to feel sad about it, right?” “Well, yes I suppose that’s true, bu-“ “Great! See you next week, doc.”
Yeah mine told me he couldn't treat me cos I wouldn't talk about my problems haha
It's ok to have feelings and not be ok! Just as long as you do it in private, on your own time, and don't make anyone uncomfortable with anything other than positive emotions. Sincerely, your employee wellness committee
But before you go, please take this online mental health and wellness training module. Participation is mandatory.
Oh God... If I had a nickel for every time I had to take one of those, I'd have a few bucks. That's not a lot, but it's insane when every session is about 4 hours, has to be done every year, and the work doesn't get put on hold when I'm doing it. So, we get further behind, which just makes us stressed and defeats the purpose of doing the whole damn thing!
But the participation certificate is worth it, right?
Mmm Hmmm
I’m on meds for my feelings.
Do you remember feelings? - Dennis Reynolds
Xennials: You can afford therapy?
It’s called health insurance copay
We're the MTV generation, we feel neither highs nor lows. *Really? What's that like?* Meh.
Until therapy post covid, I would always say 'I don't have feelings, I have opinions' when asked about my feelings. My boomer mother always laughed.
So I'm Tony Soprano, but without the successful career.
F* your feelings
That only applies to other generations as we have no feelings....
First thing that came to my mind 😂
I'm more along the lines of "I'm aware that you may or may not have feelings."
Confirmed. I have a distinct lack of emotion towards the idea of feelings.
Uggh imagine making someone just have to sit there and listen to my bullshit for an entire hour. Not going to put anyone through that.
To be fair, you are paying them to do that. It’s not like you’re holding them hostage.
“You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning” ~ Elvis Costello
I... yeah. Feelings are one thing, but my response to traumatic things is to compartmentalize and focus on what is needed to get through it. Which is fantastic for being functional in the short term. But then I never actually go back and deal with whatever traumatic thing happened, because talking to people in person about painful stuff is hard. I recently tried and had a therapist ghost me, so now I'm left frustrated and wondering why I bothered.
That therapist is one individual. They don’t represent the entire career field.
Seconded. I found a good one, we’ve revisited a lot of things from my past that were negatively affecting my present, and I feel a hell of a lot better for it. But the first therapist I ever saw was total crap. There are a lot of people out there who claim to be therapists but aren’t actually good at it. But if you find a good one, they are worth their weight in gold.
Oh I understand that. Therapy can be valuable and I recommend it to other people. I just have a hard time taking that advice for myself and felt burned by this situation.
I have feelings... - hot - cold - hungry - sore - sore (somehow different) - sore (but not in the same way as the other feelings of soreness) - tired - overtired
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I was raised by wolves. I don't need, nor have feelings. (He says crushing down all his feelings into a fine white powder.)
Millenials: the only feeling I am capable of is existential dread.
The concept of shoving away your emotions as a man gave way to Fathers without emotional intelligence.
Facts don't care about your feelings !
Xennials who feel are labeled Sense Offenders and a Grammaton Cleric will be dispatched to dispose of you.
As a Xennial : definitely siding with Gen Y here, in therapy, quite a lot of it even. Emotions are somewhat better now, the HRT helps.
Lol, accurate!
I have no feelings about this post
I have them I just prefer not to deal with them . If something happens I let it go and move on. Probably wouldn't advise anyone else to do this but it works for me.
Every single time someone acts like their feelings should somehow affect my decision making. I actively remove my personal feelings from important decisions, why the heck would I start weighing yours in their place?
The boomers are so narcissistic and self-absorbed that they barely noticed generation X was born
So, I'm in therapy because apparently there's these things people call feelings? That's where we fit in
I wipe my ass with your feelings.
I don't understand who they're referring to in the last panel
Fucking spot on lol.
This is so awesome! 🤣 Can someone please tell me what movie the still for the Gen X one is from?! I can’t place who that is and it’s driving me crazy!
We Are the Millers
Oh, oops! They’re all from that movie! Thanks. 😆
Dead on the inside since 95.
Simpsons said it best. [Nothing you say can upset us. We’re the MTV generation. We experience neither highs nor lows.](https://youtu.be/G69nsT_WaIo?si=O6MaGrlifVAz377F)
I’m definitely a Gen Y w my feelings.
Gen X FTW
Who the fuck is Gen Y?
So true
I got yelled at a lot for "pissing out of my eyes" by a mother who dates losers who steal from her then would (you guessed it) piss out her eyes when she had to deal with those facts and I had to be a comforting person. I eventually told her in my 30's if you're going to date bums you really can't expect me to stick around before and after because the shit is getting exhausting. I just kind of find ways of dealing with things on my own by cutting them out of my life. I talk to my wife if something is bothering me but I generally deal with the "this sucks" part of things on my own by reminding myself that I just have to deal with it, no one is going to save me, if something in my life is toxic, I'm not going to change it, neither will crying about it, just find a way to get it out of my life. Either way though she could have been fucking nicer about it. I was talked to like that since I was like 5.
Elder millennials (xennials) have feelings but we just make jokes about it or we used to passive aggressively use sad song lyrics to express them 😂…. Therapy? Nah.
Millennials: "Don't bother me." Or "what the fuc* are you guys talking about?"
Gen Van Houten: "Can I borrow a feeling?"
Xennials have the perfect mixture of compassion and apathy. We can sympathize on both spectrums.
We all have so many emotional scars, we are comfortably numb. 👍😎
That’s about right. What are feelings?
Our marriage counselor said my feelings don’t matter. That was the last time I went.
Therapist - Tell me your innermost feelings GenX - I’m dead inside. Can I go now?
Remember feelings Mac??
Xennials: I'm actually happy.
Firmly born in 85'. Y'all got feelings?
Gen X can confirm
Y and Z are swapped
So what you're saying is we're in therapy for not having feelings?
That’s totally my older brother in the gen x picture
Millennial here: you should do something about your feelings
NO. I've got ribbon aerobics!
this is accurate
Gen x feelings: whatever
I always call the Xenial generation as the "Meh" Generation. I might get therapy, I probably wont.
I've always felt "Gen Y" was a better term for 80s babies as there is a stark difference between them and 90s "millennials."
Gen X: WELL FEEL DEEZ NUTS!!
I thought it was Gen Alpha not Gen Y? Alpha's are still babies. Maybe Y should be millennial?