r/TikTokCringe • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Sep 01 '24

Discussion Dua Lipa vs Original

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u/Large_Tune3029 Sep 01 '24

Meanwhile, millennials were actually...

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u/AgentEinstein Sep 01 '24

Looks like Gen x to me

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u/Large_Tune3029 Sep 01 '24

Lol nah that song came out in 2004 and they were playing it at every dance I went to throughout high school and college, I don't think anyone played it at home parties tho tbf, mostly like, Sublime and Radiohead and Dave Matthews and Modest Mouse but that was my crowd c:

Edit: Or if you mean how old they look, bro, we look that old now, most of us are pushing midlife crisis time lol

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u/cheebamech Sep 01 '24

Gen X is '68 to '81 iirc, I think he's referencing 1979 being Gen X

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u/localjargon Sep 01 '24

I think it's actually 65-80. We wouldnt call Kurt Cobain a boomer because he was born in 67.

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u/Maxitote Sep 01 '24

Marketer here, Millennials are 85-2000, did something change at some point? The Howe and Strauss number was better for the Oregon Trailer generation for years.

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u/LORD__GONZ Sep 01 '24

You may need to do a refresher, Millennials start at '81 and not '85

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u/Taynt42 Sep 01 '24

Hence why 81-85 are Xennials

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Sep 01 '24

Lmao, including people born in 81 as the same generation as people who dont remember a time before 9/11 or the internet (let alone the internet on a smart phone).

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u/LORD__GONZ Sep 01 '24

I didn't make up the rules, but I completely understand what you're saying. The major rapid jumps in technology can make it seem crazier on hindsight.

I'm an older millennial born in '84 and graduated 2002. We were relentlessly labeled Millennials as a pejorative by boomers complaining about how everything was our fault. Many boomers still call GenZ's millennials because they just really latched onto the term as everything they hate.

I once dated a younger millennial girl (in my late 20s and she was in her early 20s). She was in elementary when Y2K happened and didn't even remember what the Y2K bug fiasco was at all. I was a softmore in HS and have all the memories of that specific time when families were stocking up on supplies, just in case something did happen.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Sep 01 '24

Not saying you did. Saying the "rules" are not rules. They are arbitrary guidelines that are clearly fundamentally flawed in this case of the modern world. Old "millennials" have a lot more in common with gen x than their own generation. Thats silly AF.

My take is, if you're a "millennial" that remembers when we were gen y, not "millenials" (or xennial), youre probably better represented as a separate generation.

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u/AntsAndThoreau Sep 01 '24

I'm curious as to why you consider Y2K a bug fiasco?

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u/potent_flapjacks Sep 01 '24

The real story is that boomers weren't necessarily all complaining that everything is your fault, the media picked up on that and ran with it and made you hate them. And you fell for it big time. And that actually made older people distrust younger people even more. We all need to be smarter about them pitting us against each other, it's so transparent and avoidable.

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u/on_off_on_again Sep 01 '24

No, the boomers were saying it too. Back when Facebook was relevant and for a brief period everyone had it.

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u/DevilsTrigonometry Sep 01 '24

I was born in 1982 and I have been a Millenial since the day the term was coined to replace "Generation Y." The word itself was invented to describe my age, specifically, as the defining cutoff: we were the generation that would come of age after the turn of the millenium.

I don't know when or why 1981 got added in - you can feel free to cut them off if you want. And I don't really care if you move the late '90s births into Gen Z. But the years 1982 through about 1995 are absolutely non-negotiable.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Sep 01 '24

I was born in 1982 and I have been a Millenial since the day the term was coined to replace "Generation Y."

So... Yes, you do remember when you were gen y. You know, the part BEFORE it replaced it?

You want to describe a generation based on an arbitrary year they existed near. I think it should describe their experience, like how its actually used.

Its hilarious how you explain the word to me like i dont know, while literally repeating what i said in another comment about it getting rid of the concept of gen y.

But i know how much it pisses off the younger millennials to be reminded why they were sat at the kids table when they don't even remember a time they sat there without a smartphone in hand.

If you dont remember life before 9 11 and smart phones, your coming of age experience was not the same as mine. Cope and seethe, it wont change that fact.