Guy Lists Why Millennials Are ‘The Most Unique Generation Of All Time’ And His Twitter Thread Goes Viral
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The war between the generations never ends and each group seems to think they have all the answers, but no matter who is fighting who it seems millennials are always at the center of it. Whether they are lecturing baby boomers on how easy their generation had it compared to them, or educating generation z on all the tech “struggles” they will never know about, one thing is for sure being a millennial is a strange time to be from.
You feel like you are simultaneously from the future and the past depending on who you are talking to. One Twitter user tried to not only sum this feeling up but share why it was, in fact, positive and people agree he has some points.
This Twitter user took to the platform to explain why millennials are ‘the most unique generation of all time’
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User @zedinfluencer began his thread by clarifying that people born between 1985 and 1995 are the most unique of all the generations. It is safe to assume that the user probably setting dates to define the “millennial generation,” however, Pew Research Centre announced in 2018 that from now on they would only be applying the term “millennial” to people born between 1981 and 1996.
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He broke down the differences into categories of the evolution of technology, work mentality and the relationship with tradition and explained why millennials had the benefit of sitting in the middle of both worlds.
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So what’s so important about dividing and defining these generations anyway? Michael Dimock, president of Pew Research Center wrote in the same blog post that one primary reason is for research, “Generational cohorts give researchers a tool to analyze changes in views over time. They can provide a way to understand how different formative experiences (such as world events and technological, economic and social shifts) interact with the life-cycle and aging process to shape people’s views of the world.”
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So what kind of formative experiences have millennials gone through? They went through a world transformed by 9/11, the first black president, an economic recession, rapid shifts in technology (remember dial-up) and social media. Through all these changes people born in this era became generational chameleons.
Many people in the comments agreed and added more points to his argument
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While others wanted to prove him wrong
Still, there is no exact science to these groupings. Millennials and Gen z both span over 16 years, while the Baby Boomer era crosses over the course of 19 years.
Do Millennials Have It Worse Than Baby Boomers?
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Do these people not realise that Gen X existed? We aren't Baby Boomers, we aren't Millennials. We're the ones in between that not only created the best music in human history but ALSO saw it all and are ALSO still young but old enough not to act like tw*ts. I say we're the best and Millennials are pale imitations.
EXACTLY! Those born in 1995 would not have experienced technology pre-internet and cellphones. Maybe as a young child, but not when you're coming of age like he's talking about. Gen X is actually the generation to bridge that gap. We went from 8 tracks to CDs, landlines to cellphones and saw the rise of the personal computer and internet. He's wrong, not those BORN 1985-1995 but grew up during that time frame. He completely forgot we existed.
Hear hear 🙌
Yup, he pretty much just described Gen X. As an iGen kid, my parents (Gen X) always were into technology & knew a lot about it.
GenX saw the birth and slow death of video arcades and the birth of home video gaming systems (I miss my Atari 2600). I've seen computers morph from the Commodore 64 to quadcore gaming machines. I was the only kid at my college who had their own computer. I knew the internet before the world wide web was a thing and played text-only games via Gopher. We went from nothing but landlines to car phones (for the rich) to beepers (doctors and drug dealers) to cell phones (everybody, even toddlers!). My first car didn't have a stereo until I installed it myself. My GenZ kids ask me how to do things on their computers. GenX rocks.
Yes!! This.
This post is not new but they have the dates wrong. It is the Xennials (born between 1977 - 1985) who are the micro generation who enjoyed a digital free childhood but had the benefit of enjoying the rise of the digital age whilst we were still young enough to adapt to it. We are also known as the happiest micro generation.
Everyone forgets about Gen X - we never got a fun name like Millennial so they just forget about us. Another part is that since there are sooooooo many Baby Boomers and Millennials we're going to forever be the middle child generation.
It’s because Gen X is easier to say than Gen Y or Gen Z. I think.
Everyone forgets about Gen X. We're the forgotten generation :)
We're the OG "Oregon Trail" generation!
Technically Millennials are from 1981 to 1996. I'm 1984. I had already smoked weed and gotten to 3rd base when I got home and found out Kurt Cobain died. If you were born from 1981-1985 it's actually really hard to identify with millennials. I feel we have more in common with X. If you were getting road head on your way to the beach on New year's eve 1999 you shouldn't be called a millennial.
I agree with you 100% (fellow 1984, can't identify with millennials at all) but...you were smoking weed and getting to third base at 10? Damn, where'd you grow up?
SOME say millenials are from 1981 to 1996 🙄 Some, not all.... I would not agree with that since I'm from 1983 and I do not wish to be mixed up with these millenial idiots. I identify much more with gen X, and some with Xennials which is mentioned here in the comments. Before I looked it up (many years ago), I thought that millenials was people born much later than us, from like late 90's to 2005-ish. I naturally assumed that since the name sort of points to it.
The problem is that there really is no single 'gap generation', as the phenomena described in the article have been witnessed by people born in quite narrow age cohort, spanning from early-1970's to early 1980's (e.g. younger 'Generation X' and the eldest 'Millenials'). Only these people have personally seen the whole history of computers, from the times when computers were industrial machines, to the microcomputer revolution, to the internet, to the global social media. They also lived through the final stage of Cold War and Great Political Mess Up of early 1990's. Their peers in Central Europe were raised in communist regimes but entered workforce in fully capitalist ones (this also applies to some extent to China). But I really doubt this cohort is so unique, especially when you take technology out of equation.
They seem to have forgotten GenX after Slacker.
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"Created the best music in human history"? GenX invented jazz & rock ? LOL I'll give GenX for having an ego the size of a millenial
I don't know if millennials are the most unique generation. After reading this post, I'm fairly sure they're the most self-entitled one. GenXers did the same without all the song and dance.
Wait until you meet GenY. You will find that the exceptions are the ones making change, the rest are shopping on Amazon and immune to anything but instant gratification.
Before you go and slander an entire swath of the population just because of birth year... Researchers "found little evidence of meaningful change in egotism, self-enhancement, individualism, self-esteem, locus of control, hopelessness, happiness, life satisfaction, loneliness, antisocial behavior ..." with a sample size of nearly a half million high schoolers. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691609356789
Pittsburgh, you have no idea when I was born and are apparently incapable of reading, comprehending what you read, and then forming an argument. There's an insult for you that's not about your birth year. Enjoy :)
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Ironic that you talk about slandering people because of birth year when you millennials are always doing it with boomers.
Lol love it.
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Nobody on earth is more entitled than boomers and Gen Z. This post is corny though. Someone born in the 90’s won’t understand any of this stuff.
OK. I’m iGen and not (incredibly) entitled. Maybe don’t judge an entire group of people all over the world because of the years we were born in. Just, it’s kinda unfair.
The idea that there are concrete generational divides and that you can slot people neatly into categories is total bunk. No research has ever supported the idea. People are entranced by the possibility of finding a group identity and insight into their own personality. (I'm a Sagittarius, INFJ, a kinetic learner, and my love language is messages of affirmation.) They can be fun and help people prioritize which personal qualities they would like to present to the world, but most of these categories are useless when it comes to meaningful information. Short version: If you say, "Millennials are X whereas Baby Boomers are Y," you're perpetuating bad logic.
Agreed, this naming of generations is getting very old fast, as well as this inter-generational back-and-forth nonsense. When we were young and in our 20's, we couldn't believe how the old folks could be the way they were, now we're old and things are much the same. I was born in '55 and there's nothing in common, for me, with people born after '60 as a generation. If you went to college from '69-'73, your experience was at least a generation away from the years '75-'79. Generations last about six years, at most, I would say. That's too many clever names to come up with.
Do these people not realise that Gen X existed? We aren't Baby Boomers, we aren't Millennials. We're the ones in between that not only created the best music in human history but ALSO saw it all and are ALSO still young but old enough not to act like tw*ts. I say we're the best and Millennials are pale imitations.
EXACTLY! Those born in 1995 would not have experienced technology pre-internet and cellphones. Maybe as a young child, but not when you're coming of age like he's talking about. Gen X is actually the generation to bridge that gap. We went from 8 tracks to CDs, landlines to cellphones and saw the rise of the personal computer and internet. He's wrong, not those BORN 1985-1995 but grew up during that time frame. He completely forgot we existed.
Hear hear 🙌
Yup, he pretty much just described Gen X. As an iGen kid, my parents (Gen X) always were into technology & knew a lot about it.
GenX saw the birth and slow death of video arcades and the birth of home video gaming systems (I miss my Atari 2600). I've seen computers morph from the Commodore 64 to quadcore gaming machines. I was the only kid at my college who had their own computer. I knew the internet before the world wide web was a thing and played text-only games via Gopher. We went from nothing but landlines to car phones (for the rich) to beepers (doctors and drug dealers) to cell phones (everybody, even toddlers!). My first car didn't have a stereo until I installed it myself. My GenZ kids ask me how to do things on their computers. GenX rocks.
Yes!! This.
This post is not new but they have the dates wrong. It is the Xennials (born between 1977 - 1985) who are the micro generation who enjoyed a digital free childhood but had the benefit of enjoying the rise of the digital age whilst we were still young enough to adapt to it. We are also known as the happiest micro generation.
Everyone forgets about Gen X - we never got a fun name like Millennial so they just forget about us. Another part is that since there are sooooooo many Baby Boomers and Millennials we're going to forever be the middle child generation.
It’s because Gen X is easier to say than Gen Y or Gen Z. I think.
Everyone forgets about Gen X. We're the forgotten generation :)
We're the OG "Oregon Trail" generation!
Technically Millennials are from 1981 to 1996. I'm 1984. I had already smoked weed and gotten to 3rd base when I got home and found out Kurt Cobain died. If you were born from 1981-1985 it's actually really hard to identify with millennials. I feel we have more in common with X. If you were getting road head on your way to the beach on New year's eve 1999 you shouldn't be called a millennial.
I agree with you 100% (fellow 1984, can't identify with millennials at all) but...you were smoking weed and getting to third base at 10? Damn, where'd you grow up?
SOME say millenials are from 1981 to 1996 🙄 Some, not all.... I would not agree with that since I'm from 1983 and I do not wish to be mixed up with these millenial idiots. I identify much more with gen X, and some with Xennials which is mentioned here in the comments. Before I looked it up (many years ago), I thought that millenials was people born much later than us, from like late 90's to 2005-ish. I naturally assumed that since the name sort of points to it.
The problem is that there really is no single 'gap generation', as the phenomena described in the article have been witnessed by people born in quite narrow age cohort, spanning from early-1970's to early 1980's (e.g. younger 'Generation X' and the eldest 'Millenials'). Only these people have personally seen the whole history of computers, from the times when computers were industrial machines, to the microcomputer revolution, to the internet, to the global social media. They also lived through the final stage of Cold War and Great Political Mess Up of early 1990's. Their peers in Central Europe were raised in communist regimes but entered workforce in fully capitalist ones (this also applies to some extent to China). But I really doubt this cohort is so unique, especially when you take technology out of equation.
They seem to have forgotten GenX after Slacker.
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"Created the best music in human history"? GenX invented jazz & rock ? LOL I'll give GenX for having an ego the size of a millenial
I don't know if millennials are the most unique generation. After reading this post, I'm fairly sure they're the most self-entitled one. GenXers did the same without all the song and dance.
Wait until you meet GenY. You will find that the exceptions are the ones making change, the rest are shopping on Amazon and immune to anything but instant gratification.
Before you go and slander an entire swath of the population just because of birth year... Researchers "found little evidence of meaningful change in egotism, self-enhancement, individualism, self-esteem, locus of control, hopelessness, happiness, life satisfaction, loneliness, antisocial behavior ..." with a sample size of nearly a half million high schoolers. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691609356789
Pittsburgh, you have no idea when I was born and are apparently incapable of reading, comprehending what you read, and then forming an argument. There's an insult for you that's not about your birth year. Enjoy :)
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Ironic that you talk about slandering people because of birth year when you millennials are always doing it with boomers.
Lol love it.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Nobody on earth is more entitled than boomers and Gen Z. This post is corny though. Someone born in the 90’s won’t understand any of this stuff.
OK. I’m iGen and not (incredibly) entitled. Maybe don’t judge an entire group of people all over the world because of the years we were born in. Just, it’s kinda unfair.
The idea that there are concrete generational divides and that you can slot people neatly into categories is total bunk. No research has ever supported the idea. People are entranced by the possibility of finding a group identity and insight into their own personality. (I'm a Sagittarius, INFJ, a kinetic learner, and my love language is messages of affirmation.) They can be fun and help people prioritize which personal qualities they would like to present to the world, but most of these categories are useless when it comes to meaningful information. Short version: If you say, "Millennials are X whereas Baby Boomers are Y," you're perpetuating bad logic.
Agreed, this naming of generations is getting very old fast, as well as this inter-generational back-and-forth nonsense. When we were young and in our 20's, we couldn't believe how the old folks could be the way they were, now we're old and things are much the same. I was born in '55 and there's nothing in common, for me, with people born after '60 as a generation. If you went to college from '69-'73, your experience was at least a generation away from the years '75-'79. Generations last about six years, at most, I would say. That's too many clever names to come up with.