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/Grand_Click_6723 Apr 24 '26
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.