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I'm the same age - you Gen Xers can't steal me... I had to endure decades of shitty avocado toast references and can't afford a decent fucking home. I'm millennial to my core!
I like to think a good way to tell if someone is one is asking if they've ever heard of or played the original Oregon Trail, or know what Pogs are.
I was early 80s and grew up with those things too, but really I think if your childhood internet experience was "wtf is that" or BBS boards, then that's the GenX cut-off, whereas millennials got the full WWW/AOL+ experience.
Millennials were the "Information Age" generation, and being a part of that, when there was some thought that free access to information and true knowledge would connect us all and bring us all into a new world... Before that was all completely crushed by corporate/government manipulation... that really feels like the defining aspect of being a millennial to me.
It becomes a far more defining characteristic to me as I see where the world is heading. That's probably why a lot of us "older" folks are here, escaping enshittification and weaponized social media platforms, searching for some semblance of what we grew up with. It's making me a bit emotional to be honest... another "millennial" thing i suppose.
Unless you were early eighties baby and introduced to BBS at a remarkably young age like me. Oregon Trail generation FTW.
I tried to resist being lumped in with millennials, meekly clung to "Xennials" for a time, but I've accepted my place finally.
Did you buy a detached house before you joined us? If not you'll probably need to wait until at least 2060 to afford one.
Fortunately I did manage to exploit my then in-between status to purchase a home before covid, but i had to permanently sacrifice avocado toast to do it.
I'll bring the avo if you've got a couch, buddy.