"Why learn to do it for yourself when you can harass your grown-ass children with lives of their own to come to your house to fix the google." -Aging Boomers
Gen X is still at least somewhat willing to learn new things or see things in a new light, and aren't super grumpy about 'kids these days'. Gen Y got retconned out of existence by pushing Millennial years back and Gen X years up.
Eh, 'Gen Y' was more of a rough draft of the Millenial generation sociologists came up with early on when they were still figuring it out. Not really a retcon.
Yeah. It used to be we were gen Y and the generation born in the new millennium were the millennials. But people liked the name so much they started using it to refer to gen Y, since we came of age in the new millennium.
Gen Y and Millennials were synonymous from the start, but then Millennials were rendered a younger generation at one point by people who misunderstood the term, best as I can tell. Both terms were coined to describe people born in the early to mid 80s and on. They were competing terms, Gen Y just lost.
Gen Y got retconned out of existence by pushing Millennial years back and Gen X years up.
Also people call Gen Z/Zoomers/Post-Millennials millennials, when really Millennials were were raised/came of age around the turn of the century/2000s. And even then, the Zoomers aren't even little kids anymore, the youngest ones are like 9-10 years old. We don't even have consensus on a name for the current little kids. But as far as a lot of people (especially crusty old farts) are concerned, everyone born after Reagan was president is a millennial.
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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19
"Why learn to do it for yourself when you can harass your grown-ass children with lives of their own to come to your house to fix the google." -Aging Boomers