We were the adolescents of the 1990’s. We came of age when the internet was a baby. It was the “grunge” era, so we went to school every day wearing flannel shirts and jeans. We remember the OJ Simpson trial and President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
I can change a tire... I haven’t but I know to and I have no idea how to write JavaScript but I can make coffee but I would rather make , drink, and spill tea! (That last part is a joke- I don’t really like gossip)
I don't like the 77-83 span, it's too early. Are they really saying someone born in January 1984 doesn't have any Gen X characteristics? Then again I'm from September '83 and I'm pissed off and bitter that people four fucking months younger than me are the cool hip generation and I'm not.
JPMcFly1985Two #FeelTheBern “Generations” are very subjective and there are really no clear-cut boundries. (2 years ago, I has no idea that they even existed...except for the Boomers...which is based on concrete data such as birth rates). If you’re at the “cusp”, choose whoever you identify with.
No we are not. We grew up woth techno music, we were the first obes to use internet in school, had the computer in the home 8-15 years old, we playes video games but also outside. We had great cartoons, we read goosebump books came out in 1992, i was 12-13. 1978-1986 are the techno kids some us went to raves, listened to music called jungle, house music, dance, euro. Nothing loke the gen x from the 60s that are 5 years younger than my parents. I was born in 1979 but was also a baby in the 80s and a child of the 80s and 90s...late mid 90s a teen had all the top electronics and one of the first to have a cell in high school. Im basically a millennial!!! I became of ful age 2000 i was 20-21
I was born in 1982. I agree with this title as well. I definitely remember the times before cellphones and digital tech. I remember playing an Atari as a kid. My first console game was the regular Nintendo. We would always be outside making "forts" in the woods. We would go out and have rock and stick fights. I remember playing Oregon Trail on those old Apple computers with the black and green screens. You know the computers I'm talking about... The ones where the floppy disks actually really did flop when you shook them. I remember looking forward every Christmas to the Sears, Penny's, and Hills department store catalogs for toys. There were no cellphones, tablets, and iPods. I had a Walkman and remember having to always fix my cassette tapes because they would get chewed up. I remember staying at my grandmother's house and watching her black and white TV even. We had a color TV however it was a console. You remember those big old TVs that were encased in a wood enclosure. Whenever you wanted to change the channel you had to get up and go turn the knob. I remember having to use a typewriter to do book reports. Going to the library to get information for assignments. Having to use the card catalog system to find a book. I remember when everyone had a "just say no" and or "Book it" buttons. Reading those books so you could get your free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut for the "Book It" program. I remember every Christmas in grade school the Santa workshop would come and you would go and buy little ornaments or other things for your family. I had knee high socks with different colored stripes on them. I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lunch box and thermos. I also had several trapper keepers. It definitely was a very defined generation and time period. Just a couple of years older and you would have missed all of that. I would not change my childhood and early teen years for anything. Definitely a proud Xennial here.
Born at the very end of GenX and in the middle of the Xennial generation (1980). My first tv was black and white and without remote control. My first music was played from vinyl records and cassette tapes (CD's didn't exist). My first movies were from VHS tapes and we actually recorded things from TV that would otherwise be missed (same goes for radio btw)! Cellphones weren't even a thing, nor was texting and I knew about 30 phone numbers by heart! When we called a friend, we called their home and had to ask their parents to hand them the phone. I grew up watching cartoons like He-Man, Scooby-Doo, G.I. Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Pee-wee Herman Show and faithfully watched Star Trek the Next Generation every week with my father. But I was to old for things like Power Rangers and Pokemon! We were born into an entertainment golden age with great movies like Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, RoboCop, Terminator 2 and many many more amazing flicks! The Titanic was huge and as a young male I hated it, along with Backstreet Boys and the Hansons (but you went anyways, because the girls loved it). When it comes to music we heard all the great stuff from the 60s and 70s, because our parents listened to it all the time. While also getting all the great music from the 80s and 90s from MTV, when they actually played music! My generation witnessed the rebirth of the game industry, with the Nintendo Entertainment System, but was to young to comprehend it's fall (at the time at least), thanks Atari! We played in arcades and took part in the console wars between Sega and Nintendo, because Sega does what Ninten don't. We witnessed the birth of the internet and before that, some of us would take part in Lan-parties! Online reviews didn't exist yet, so we actually read books and magazines for information, or just to know what's on TV. Growing up, we actually used physical dictionaries and went to the library! We would rent movies and video games, or borrow them from friends and when someone didn't return what you borrowed them, you would immediately know they weren't to be trusted. Just like the generations before us, when we played outside as young children, it was true freedom! Because we were completely cut off from our parents, with no means of direct contact (unless we were playing at a friend's house). When we first started driving, GPS wasn't wide spread, nor did everyone have a cellphone yet. Life was an adventure and we actually learned how to use a map! During our first years of clubbing or bar hopping, smartphones didn't exist. You didn't have to be afraid of being recorded and social media wasn't really a thing until the mid 2000s. We witnessed major events like 9/11, both wars in Irak, the Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the USSR and Berlin wall, the rise of China and if you lived in Europe, the implementation of the Euro as a new currency. In fact your first job would likely have been payed out in the 'old' currency! The Y2K bug was a laugh and along with both the millennials and the generations before us, we lived in times of optimism (when you thought the future would be better) and fealt the change creep in during the mid 2000s. Sufficely to say, things evolved very quickly during the 80s, 90s and 2000s, which is why it's been awesome to be part of the Xennial generation!
I'm 100% XENNIAL and very proud of that. I consider that we're blessed because we got the BEST of both worlds! We're still too young to be a X Generation but we're also too old to be a Millennial. We were born between 1976-1985 approximately and today we're around 34-42. We are the LAST GENERATION to be EDUCATED and RAISED with Old School traditional and strong VALUES. Maybe we're a very small generation but we're the most capable nowadays! We had a very innocent and funny childhood. We grew up in a world without Internet, playing on the street, with game boards, and enjoying the remains of the Old World form our parents. But we were also the FIRST GENERATION to welcome the new digital world, the cellphones, computers, video games, globalization...but we have ANALOGICAL roots. Some of us were "forced" to accept the new technologies and with the time we learn how to use them but some of us prefer some traditional habits and behaviors....we are more Conservatives than the Millennials. We RESPECT the authorities and our elders, we really know how to WORK and we know the importance of EDUCATION to succeed in life combined with values such as Tolerance, Compassion, Honesty and Perseverance. We like Technology but we DO NOT DEPEND ON IT....we watch the Internet only as a very useful TOOL but we like to do the things in the "Old Fashion Style"...at least I do! Some people of our Generation became "tech-addicts" but most if us prefer to practice sports, spend time with family, talk with our friends in person, go to the shopping malls...just simple things in life. We went to Libraries to do our homeworks, we were witnesses of important events like the 9/11/2001, the Millennium New Year 2000, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the Globalization, the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the famous OJ Simpson car chase, 2PAC murder in 96...etc. We grew up surrounded by Excellent MUSIC and MOVIES thanks to our parents. We understand and value the EFFORT and how difficult this world is. Here in Mexico City where I am from....my childhood and adolescence was awesome, there were very good times. Globalization arrived to Mexico, the computers, the MTV, McDonalds in 1985, the Nokia and Motorola "brick" cellphones....and more! We know how to use the old TurnTables with vinyl records, Walkman, Discman, MP3 until Spotify. We are also a very, very nostalgic Generation....no matter the new movies and TV shows, Netflix series.....we always prefer the classics form the past. Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, Seinfield, The Simpsons, Knight Rider, McGywer, The A team, Miami Vice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina, The Fresh Prince, the Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Transformers, Home Improvement, Baywatch....and more great POP culture TV shows. We are very lucky to be the Generational Bridge between the X's and the Millennials. I liked your video and even we grew up in different countries...I think we agreed about this. Definitely we are XENNIALS. Greetings from Mexico City.
I remember learning how to use a typewriter and an analogue phone (the one where you spin to dial a phone number). I was in the 2nd grade when computers were introduced in school. First computer game I remember playing was like a mouse hunt game where you guided a mouse through a maze. There was also Where in the US is Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, and other games that were for educational purposes. Yet back then we still had like hour long recesses. I was a freshman in HS when the WWW was introduced to me when my HS got it. Those computers were in our library and I got my first email account through school instruction, and I still use that email to this day.
Falling right in the middle of that range, that is being born around half 1980, I definitely feel to be Xennial. I always hated to have to choose between one group ranging from the early 1960s and the other going all the way up to 2000s. That's a span of 40 years and you can imagine how much people and the world changed during that time. It's nice to have our tiny spot finally, I feel comfy there. What I find the most significant is our teenage transition from the purely analog world to the digital one. We got on that train just in time not to lag almost at all while we still have the memory of being able to function perfectly normally without the Internet or mobile phones. We may even have been the last generation to have a "normal" childhood. Anyone much younger didn't really get that purely analog world experience and vice versa the older ones seem to have a handicap in the digital department. I always felt that Xennials are a somewhat lost, or confused generation. So much, or rather too much was happening when we were growing up. And the fact that the fall of communism also happened in our formative years only added to the mess. I had even the bonus of being in one of those former communist countries, so add the cultural and economic shock to the mix.
Awesome perspective, I was born in 81 and I think being the generation that transitioned from analog to digital worlds is an overlooked reality. In a way, I feel like this makes us able to still exist somewhere in the middle of those two frames of reality. It is almost like some form of a superpower. I honestly wouldn’t exchange the time we grew up in for anything.
@@merkaba1 I say hi to a fellow Xennial. In a matter of approx. 10 years, I transitioned from having no home phone line at all, when you had to go to the post office phone booth to make a phone call, to a rotary dial, later push-button, then an analogue mobile phone with no texting, and finally I got a digital GSM one. All in my most formative years. Likewise, I started with no internet experience at all, then local LAN, BBS, dial-up connection and finally cable. All in a matter of approx five years. Everything changed so rapidly in the 90s in the former commie bloc. Take music, for instance, I started with vinyl records, then I got all sorts of tapes, then CDs, and before you knew it I was sharing music through Napster using a college optical line. Again, all in a matter of approx. ten years. Hard to say it's a superpower. Rather a unique experience to have been exposed to so many different concepts while growing up in such a short time. I just feel like I can relate to both worlds. I dare say I'm almost both a digital and analogue native.
Late 80’s (1987-1989) are truly Millennials along with the 90’s kids including with the people who was born in the early 2000’s (2000-2003) We are all truly Millennials (1987-2003) 😎🤳🏻
1985 I love this label. I can definitely identify and it should go to at least 1989. My nephew was born in 94 which means I have a 11 year age gap. He is definitely a Millennial.
Ah yes gen xennial - the generation that has a social life in reality and online. The generation that can date anyone that they meet at the grocery store or on some website. The generation that can afford to buy their own house AND party hard. The generation that gets along with baby boomers and Gen Z. And the greatest games in the world were lemonade stand and Oregon trail. The only generation that could appreciate rock, hip hop, pop, edm AND country. And all of us look good in our late 30s and early 40s.
i was born in 1983 and our generation i remember..NES...sega genesis..over sized cell phones the pager.....vhs ...beta....recording tv shows with a blank vhs tape...early days of cable ..no social media...dial up internet....and we were the last generation of genuine tv network Saturday morning cartoons from Fox..nbc..abc and cbs..o even remember..USA network cartoon express and TNT used to show looney tunes in the weekday afternoon
so were making video games on how we identify with and tech savvy bullshyt based on how we identify with a generation? i mean you have kids today glorify the 80's wearing jordans sneakers can they identify too ? its the YEAR nothing more nothing less . not mumbo jumbo
I was born in late 1982. I don't often find others my own age and the ones I do all seem to share the same weird sense of not really fitting in anywhere with other people. I can get behind "not into labels but this one fits".
I like the Xennial idea. I was born in February of '82, and have NOTHING in common with someone born in 2004...that's when I graduated from college! My husband was born three months earlier than I was (technically in '81), and we have everything in common, and yet before the Xennial thing came out, we were considered different generations! Stupid!
So do I...I was born in January '82, I went from the NES to Sega to the PlayStation (1, 2 & 3). I found out about the term years ago when I looked it up on Wikipedia. What I read on there - literally - describes us perfectly, myself included
I’m 1982 and I relate to gen x more as well. I don’t have debt. All millennials I know talk about education debt and I think… and….what exactly are you doing with your life…
If you use fuckin' "hash tags" then that makes you very Millennial. Don't want the Millennial label? Then cut that shit out with the obnoxious "hash tags".
I was born in 1984 and can definitely identify with being an xennial. My older sister was born in 1981. So a lot of things she was into I was in too as well. Definitely grew up analog and as we got older things transition to digital world. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 16. The brick phones with the pull-out antennas😂😂. I do miss the good old days.
I was born in 84 and xennial fits me better, I can't identify with millennials, they don't get what it's like to grow up without so much technology in your life.
@@darkrosereaper4653 Xennial is pronounced Zennial, not X-ennial like this news lady says. So putting Zennial in there is repetitive. I would also warn against using older and younger, since that makes it sound like they are the same generation.
@roxics There are other news reporters that pronounce it as X-ennial. I have seen some Reddit users discuss the term “Zennial” so that will do for now. Also, it seems like most YT users can relate with two generations...
To me Xennials are a transition generation, not really gen x or not really millennials but have and experience some of both generations. Xennials looked up and thought gen x was cool, since most Xennials were babies and children, we experienced a romanticized 80s through movies and tv. but we ramped up along with millennials with tech and the internet. even in early 90 much of the 80s feel in movies, tv, and music bled through 1994~1995
I was born in the middle of 1984. So I'm a early millennial, but also remember mixed tapes, new kids on the block, AOL, and the dial up internet connection sound, so I might be a xenial as business insider termed xenials born from 1977 to 1985.
My marketing book from school, which is older starts them in 1979, they keep changing it. I am not in the mood right now but I will picture the book later. I am a marketing mage and all these names are is a marketing strategy. For one you know what age groups like, for two you know to keep them all interred with some sort of youth. Basically the terms are all bogus! Will never define you, but boy if you are not careful can indeed sell to u. My A's were not for nothing. Just everyone beware at what marketing is. You are studied.
@@1857sfmr Yes, it's funny how marketing tactics have become so sneaky, even down to personal levels such a birth years. And as you mentioned, they have so many different start dates for the Millennial Generation (as well as others) which shows how artificial and man-made Generations really are.
They majorly fucked up and made the dates too early. 1977-1983 is still Generation X it's just a later 90s style X. Why couldn't they extend it further into the 80s? I'd say the entire transition from xers to millennials covers all 80s babies.
They really didn't though. If you're an 85er, as an example, you'd have been 5 years old during the first Iraq war. How much of that do you really remember? Were you able to comprehend why it was so different from any other conflict beforehand? (Hint, it has to do with the birth of 24 hour news) The early 90s, the bright colors, tie dyed shirt (not hippy style, 90s), the Fresh Prince rapping (before the millennium).. and more. You'd have been 5, too young to see it, or understand it. A 7 year old is vastly more aware of the world at that point, and so is better equipped to understand it all. Of course, not all 5 year olds, or 7 year olds are built equally... so it's entirely possible to have a mature 5 year old and an immature 7 year old... but overall, the dates do make sense. Here, maybe this is helpful? In what method are you most comfortable reaching out to communicate with a friend?
Dale Carriere Exactly!! You're 100% correct Dale! I hate how people keep including 1985 borns in their definition of xennial or whatever it's called. There's no difference between mid 80s babies and late 80s babies.
Dale Carriere I remember the gulf war. I was 12/13. I remember what happened in Kuwait as well. Canada had a dollar bill and a female prime minister. I also remember the challenger explosion. Don't forget Trenoble, stranger danger and I went to expo 86... I am from 79. No 85er would remember the challenger or expo 86. My cousin born in 85 was in a push chair sucking on a big fat dummy...
Kids born in 1979 also had video games and internet when they were 14! I did i cant i identify any thing with the 1966 kids they are the ones that grew up in the stone age the first apple computer was released on 1977 and that changed the world as of 1977 into a digital age the 1977 kids were 9-10 in 1987 which means they grew up with computer and video games too. Had internet in school and it was a big deal. From grades 1 to 11 in 1993 to 1994 you learnt about hiw the internet is changing our world and teachers saying we were the next generation of techno kids, the space kids and we were all late 70s and mid 80s babies then. So we are xennials the real Millennials
Being born in 1980 I always felt I was in between two generations. My older brother was born in 1978 and we both identify ourselves more so as genXers. On the other hand my baby brother was born in 1984 and he sort of reminds me of an older millennial maybe because he's more tech savvy than I. It makes more sense to me being identified as a Xennial because I could identify with both sides. Tech for me started out with atari, nintendo, Oregon trail and ended with ps2. Music went from my cd walkman to cd discman, then to apple ipod and now all music is on my new Galaxy S9+. So I guess I've been through all the tech stages. However, this idea of having cellphones classrooms still seems crazy to me.
Born in 85 and feel that xennial fits me better than millennial. When people talk about millennials, I feel like they’re talking about somebody way younger than me.
@@GodsavesTrump Say what you want but someone born in 1985 had a completely different childhood and adolescence than someone born in 1995. That is a fact.
If you came of age in the 00s, you are technically a Millennial. You might not identify with someone 10 years younger (or 10 years older), but generations typically span 15-18 years.
I took a typing class on an electric type writer my freshman year in HS and by the time I was a senior I was taking a “computers in business” class that was all internet and digital. My childhood was 80s And hair metal but adolescence was gangster rap and grunge. Remember seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid and 9/11 was the defining event of my early adult life. Born in 1978. I guess I’m a Xennial
@@pika62221 I graduated at age 18, in 1996. The internet started getting popular a couple years before. I know because I lived through it, but if you need something more objective, there are clips of major tv shows doing segments on the internet as far back as '94 ru-vid.com?search_query=today+show+internet+clip+1994 Not sure what the year you think i graduated being an "internet year" has to do with anything though???
77 here...I remember taking a typing class in early high school too. I also remember watching the space shuttle challenger blowing up on live TV and then all the teachers crying because I lived in New Hampshire and many of them knew Christa Mcauliffe or had met her in person. I remember the jokes afterward too like "what does NASA stand for, Need Another Seven Astronauts or what did Christa Mcauliffe say to her family before she left...you feed the cat and dog I'll feed the fish or how did they know what kind of Shampoo Christa Mcauliffe used....they found her head n shoulders.
Thank you Jesus I am a Xennial !!!! 1978 and there are spot on I had a star tac phone and I played with GiJoes I had He-man and Apple I am Gen Xennial !!!
I can still remember my landline phone #. I have no problem reading a physical book. I don't check my email multiple times a day. I can help a GenXer understand their technology, and I have no problem understanding today's technology. It makes sense.
As an elder millennial myself, born in (1986) my peers and I consider our self-more of a (Xennial, 1978 to 1983 and some say to 1985) We have nothing in common with younger millennials, but we are more in common with people being born in the early 1980s, which includes (while growing up) common interest in TV shows, music, movies, culture, fashion, politics and so on. If you are a older millennial, born around the early to mid 1980s, look up the generation (Xennial)
OMG that dialup sound of the modem gives me instant goosebumps, how many times did I sit and listen to it before going onto Napster and then LimeWire for the night before my parents used to freak out in the morning because they couldn’t receive phone calls while I was connected 😅
Definitely a Xennial. I nod my head vigorously at Xennial descriptions I read. When I read Gen X and Millennial descriptions, I don't identify with even half of either.
I think the 6 year period between 1984-1989 should also be included for the Xennials. Since the age range of people born in those years are 35-30 which can also identify with being the generation to still use analog technology in the 90s until the rise of the internet, cell phones, Myspace and Facebook. I remember playing games like Oregon Trail, and Number Mucncher. Also we grew up watching first run episodes of shows like Full House, Married with Children, Boy Meets World, Super Mario Super Show/Bros 3 and World, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Friends, Martin, Step by Step. We still had Saturday morning cartoons on network tv and the craze of the original Power Rangers, TMNT, Pokemon. We also can remember significant events in our youth such as Kurt Cobain's suicide, Princess Diana's fatal car accident where her funeral was aired on damn near every TV channel which overtook Saturday morning cartoons that weekend, the murders or 2Pac and Biggie in the midst of the east vs West coast rap war, and 9/11 which not only ended America's innocence but our youth since I was a freshman in high school when it happened. Then digital technology was in full swing shortly after that. I didn't get high speed broadband internet till around 2004-05 (I know a bit late by that point) and I didn't get a brick gameboy green screen Nokia phone cellphone till I was a jr in hs.I know I'm just rambling about my childhood/teen years but my point is that us mid-late 80s babies can also identify with the older Xennials of 1977-1983.
just no. I don't think you had anything to do with grunge. which was iconic and important for Gen-X. And the power rangers were a children's product that the teens of 1993 would have never wanted a part of unless they were special.
I was born in 79 yet grew up with technology had the dial up internet in school and home at 14, the cell phone in high school, the laptop for school and the home computer, played video games...gameboy Nintendo etc.. we also had digital childhoods too as well as some analog we were the first technology kids! 1978-1985 the true Millennials or xennial
Ya all gotta wrong that’s Gen X generation (1965-1986) Millennials are in between 1987-2003, there’s are 3 different type of kind of Millennials if you are born between 1987-1993 you are a Xennials as the older/elder Millennials and if you born between 1994-1998 your the middle age Millennials and if you born in between 1999-2003 you are a Zennials it’s mean your the mixture of Millennials & Gen Z in you but you are more Millennial than Gen Z but still Gen Y. That’s the right correct years of those generations. Some people get confused of they generations where they belong, it’s the same with astrology who you compatible with and what’s your personality like based on your zodiac sign.
1981 I didn't have my first cell till 24 when I needed to have 1 for work. I've always felt closer to Gen X but man do I love technology so there is def that Millennial in me too.
Born in 85 had to stay out side all the time to be a feral beast growing up and just in time for atari and nintendo , dial up was a thing and i played on apple computers 85 is the actual cutoff for this term
1988 and I'm not Millennial at all. I played Oregon trail. Made mixtapes. Didn't have the internet. My childhood was analog because we were poor. 90s millenials are a different breed of people. Freaking sociopaths. All of them. I listened to Backstreet boys not N'sync. I was slightly too old for all the millennial crap. 80s babies aren't millennials.
Anyone born in the 70's would have had mixed tapes, known New Kids on the Block, and recognize America OnLine (especially with all those free discs in the mail). However, until 1978, those born in the 70's would all have reached their 20's, graduated college (unless held back for whatever reason), and entered the workforce by 1999, pre-Y2K, you know this "millennial" thing. Someone born in 1977 who graduates in 1999, and is at work hearing about 9/11 from coworkers is suddenly in the same demographic as those college kids who cut class to watch it on television? Or, how about the fact that those born in 1977 were also old enough to vote for Clinton in 1996, their first Presidential election, which is the same as those born in 1974 (who missed being old enough to vote in 1992)? So, according to these, someone born in 1974 would also be a Xennial. They fit the same thing those born in 1977 do. I guess Xennials should really be 1974 to 1983?
Why do you assume that anyone born in 77 was voting for Clinton in 1996 instead of Bob Dole? I was born in 1977 and want nothing to do with the ridiculous term xennial. I am Gen X. I remember new kids on the block, mixed tapes, Guns N Roses, riding my bike all over town all day with no helmet and my parents didn't know where I was or care because it meant I wasn't bugging them.
I was born in 86, which I guess makes me a millennial, but I don't feel like I belong to that group. I was raised by boomers, and I grew up with gen xers. So, I identify more with them than millennials. Granted, at the end of it all, I'm just me.
I agree whole heatedly with the article. I'm a true GenX and I've noticed that friends born after 1976 seem to have different ideals and ethics. I can renovate a house, while they can only change a toilet or faucet. I get mad because someone didn't do their job and they only get frustrated. I can rebuild and engine, they can struggle through changing their oil or changing an air filter. They have more drive than millennials, but not as much as the hard core Xer's. Have a friend born in 1981 and for years, I've been telling him he is a millennial, not GenX, no matter what year he was born in. This new term fits him to a "T". He's somewhat capable and spends too much of his time texting and accomplishing nothing he'll knuckle down and get work done if forced, but sometimes loses focus and ends up doing something else. If I yell, he reacts by getting back to work, not coming up with reasons, why it isn't his fault that the work isn't done. BTW, if he worked for me, I'd still fire him. Nothing makes me happier than a business of all Xer's. We use all the technology available AND have focus and no excuses. I belong to such a group and what pleasure it is. We break up a task and assign the parts to the most efficient candidates for each part. We return to a meeting with all of the parts complete and then reassemble the completed task. If need be, you can contact the group to make sure your work will integrate well, but by no means will I spend the entire time asking for guidance. At least know I can stop calling people millennials who aren't really.
Ive always thought of being born in 1983 as Gen X with the way I was raised. If you go based on the 20 year generation gap, Gen X goes through to 1984. I don't have the same opinions as millennials. So I don't think I fit in as a Xennial. If I could relive the first 20 years, I would definitely do things differently.
I'm an Xenniel I was born in 83 however if I had to choose which other generation next to me that I belong to I would say generation Xers cuz I do not identify with millennials
Just found out there's a "flip-side" to the Xennials....the ZENNIALS!! (the Y/Z micro-generation). Unified as cuspers surrounding the Millennials, and both names sound exactly the same!! Yet, opposite life experiences, hence Z replaces X.😁
I came here to say one thing, I didn't even watch the video. Stop calling us Xennials, we are not Generation Catalano, nor are we the Oregon Trail Generation. We are a generation in the void, we don't fit in. If anything, call us the Grunge Generation, or the 90s generation. We are the Voiders, the forgotten ones. Your definitions of this generation are lacking and stupid, I've been calling us the Voiders since the 90s.
Xennials/MTV Generation/Nintendo Generation/Cuspers has been a concept since about 1990. Basically, anyone who grew up on Super Mario Bros and Music TV hitting adolescence around the Shoegaze/grunge/R&B era. We were on the verge of our teenage years between around the times of the NWA breakup and feud, Kurt Cobain's death, and the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. When the Internet became a major thing in the mid to late 90s, we probably made up about 85% of the population. IRC and ICQ (or AOL for Americans) were our preferred choice of communication - just missing out on that generation (X) that spent 18 hours a day on the phone.
Gen X was labeled the MTV Generation from it's inception. We also were the ones who were teens and created grunge, golden rap and were the RnB artists of the 90s. Cobain, Tupac, Biggie, Snoop all of those artists were 100% Gen X.
I'm disappointed to learn it's pronounced like that instead of "Zennial" or "Zeennial," because that's how you pronounce "X" at the start of words. I vote we go back to being "The Oregon Trail Generation"
Come on guys. We played with the Atari 2600 and the Commodore 64 when we were barely at school. We invented filesharing (floppy discs at the schoolyard). We saw and lived the rise of the internet. We saw how the first Google logo looked like. We were the first to buy at Ebay or Amazon. We were the early adoptors. And the Millenials or GenZ are "digital natives"???!!?? Go eff yourselves.
I was born in 1984 and I remember living through all that. Even though they classy the years from 1977-1983 (the Star Wars trilogy) I have seen many end the micro generation at 1985 which makes more sense to me. Because I think it ties down more to how much you remember before the internet boom. For instance when at home internet became mainstream around the early 2000's I was already in high school. I had an analog childhood and had to bring in the digital age while ending high school and going into college.
@@chrisrj9871 the internet boom was really like 95 with Windows 95 and AOL however I would even consider Windows 98 to be the true internet boom as in 1995 less that 40 millions households had the internet and it shot up to about 150 millions users with Windows 98 (which a little movie called You've Got Mail came out in 1998 which maid AOL a household name). Even half the articles seem to be 50/50 as the stop date being '83 (The guardian) and '85 (Business Insider). Again 85 seems to make the most sense to me again though as most generations seem to be defined by major events as opposed to years (IE Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers most of which were defined by the wars most of them lived through)
@@chrisrj9871 I think you are missing the point of big events that shape generations...power rangers would not be said big event...but it's ok to agree to disagree because again if you look up Xenniels it is pretty much split down the middle with all sources of 83 or 85. So regardless you and I will probably never agree but we both will always be half wrong according to news sources. I just think putting random years as opposed to using an actual big event like previous generations (IE the Great Depression, WWI and II, the Hippie movement, Civil Rights and in this case the move into the digital age are better definers than X-Y years)
Honestly I was born in 1984 and I feel part of this new microgeneration because I can't really understand all of the millennial s*** that's going on in the world. I know how to change a tire work on cars make a mixtape from a cassette and program your computer and fix your cell phone so I guess I'm part of that same group as well. I'm also not self entitled and I don't feel as if everyone in the world should change their ways just because I'm uncomfortable with it so I know definitely I'm not a millennial.
The people who come from other minority countries and didn't have internet or computers don't belong in any of these generations or didn't know the back street boys these definitions are stupid if you were born amish or in poverty or in a faraway land.
I think there should also be Micro-Gen from 91-00, called Zennials or something like that. My sister was born in the early 90s and I the late 80s, but she's more a Gen Z than a Y. She does have a lot of our Y'ness, but also the Z'ness of the later 90s and early 00s.
This will make my 1983 born brother very happy, as he was convinced until fairly recently that he was gen x and thought of millenials as entitled f*ckwits. I was the one that told him he was the latter 😁.
Technically he would be a mix of both most likely, though he could just be more generation x than a millennial. Hence the in-between xennial.lol same year I was born, I remember the new kids on the block, yet also remember nysnc and back street boys etc. Remember before internet, remember dial up AOL, before touch screen cell phone ( WiFi) 😂
umm what about 1984? I grew up without the internet for the most part, no cellphones. In high school people had pagers and that was considered a fancy technology. We made mix tapes, I remember playing them in my first car. I remember new kids on the the block and Oregon Trail and the introduction of the internet. We remember answering phones and not knowing who was on the other line first. We remember playing outside all day with our friends and no social media. Why I keep getting lumped into the same catagory as millenials I will never know. They are clearly from a different world than we are. I almost think anyone born in the 80's is a gen x and xennial combination.
