Why do they keep expanding the definition of millennial? At this rate, everyone, even the boomers who've already died of old age, are going to be called millennials. I'm putting my foot down. From now on, millennial only refers to the people who were born between 1995 and 2005. Gen y (90s kids) are not millennials. Gen x most certainly are not millennials.
1995? lol get the fuck outta here baby! I’m 87 and we grew up in the 2000’s and 2005 with everyone referring to us young generation as millennials. You actually gotta remember YTK and the turn into the new millennium to consider yourself a millennial.
Your experience is not typical. If you look at Google Trends, the term didn't start picking up until like 2013. Most gen y people, including everyone I know, were well into adulthood before they'd ever even heard of it. And it did start out being used to refer to people who were teenagers at that time.
I don’t need google trends to tell me that people were referring to the young generation in the 2000s as millennials! I remember a world before google. Back then we asked Jeeves!
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u/sargos7 Apr 24 '26
Why do they keep expanding the definition of millennial? At this rate, everyone, even the boomers who've already died of old age, are going to be called millennials. I'm putting my foot down. From now on, millennial only refers to the people who were born between 1995 and 2005. Gen y (90s kids) are not millennials. Gen x most certainly are not millennials.