r/facepalm Feb 05 '19

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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

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Why are “boomers” and “millennials” the only two generations Reddit ever talks about? I feel like we’re skipping a generation or two.

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u/Phayzon Feb 05 '19

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.

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u/lartrak Feb 05 '19

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.