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TIL I'm one of those millennials people keep complaining about. I thought it was people born after the turn of the millenium. What happended to "gen Y"?

pyre 8y ago
Gen Y == Millennial This is why there is a Generation X/Millennial "transition" group of people that is sometimes referred to a Xennials[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
chrisseaton 8y ago
It’s people who became adults around the turn of the millennium, not people born then.
- rsynnott 8y ago
  Or at least people who were aware around the turn of the millennium; a 25 year old is a millennial, but an 18 year old probably isn't, for example.
SuoDuanDao 8y ago
Both Gen Y and Millennials were the generation after Gen X, but different analysts placed the cutoff at different points and around different events. The people who coined the phrase 'millennial' thought that generation started in '82 and ended in '02 while the people who came up with the name Gen Y were, if I recall correctly, placing the cutoffs at '78 and '98 (or thereabouts). 'Millennial' seems to have been the catchier name, so it stuck around more - I think most people who are Millennial or Gen Y are also the other.
- fouc 8y ago
  Ended in '00 you mean? But earlier comments allude to whether the person remembers 9/11 or is aware at the turn of the millenium. So that probably results in a range from '82 to '96.
rsynnott 8y ago
Millennial was a renaming of gen Y. People born after the turn of the millennium are normally down as gen Z, though I assume someone will come up with a snappier name for that in time. Precisely what their view on avocados is remains unclear. Note that if you're in the older end of the cohort (mid-30s), there's some effort to rebrand those as 'Xennials', if for some reason you're really bothered by being called a millennial :)

pyre 8y ago

Gen Y == Millennial This is why there is a Generation X/Millennial "transition" group of people that is sometimes referred to a Xennials[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

chrisseaton 8y ago

It’s people who became adults around the turn of the millennium, not people born then.

rsynnott 8y ago
Or at least people who were aware around the turn of the millennium; a 25 year old is a millennial, but an 18 year old probably isn't, for example.

SuoDuanDao 8y ago

Both Gen Y and Millennials were the generation after Gen X, but different analysts placed the cutoff at different points and around different events. The people who coined the phrase 'millennial' thought that generation started in '82 and ended in '02 while the people who came up with the name Gen Y were, if I recall correctly, placing the cutoffs at '78 and '98 (or thereabouts). 'Millennial' seems to have been the catchier name, so it stuck around more - I think most people who are Millennial or Gen Y are also the other.

fouc 8y ago
Ended in '00 you mean? But earlier comments allude to whether the person remembers 9/11 or is aware at the turn of the millenium. So that probably results in a range from '82 to '96.

rsynnott 8y ago

Millennial was a renaming of gen Y. People born after the turn of the millennium are normally down as gen Z, though I assume someone will come up with a snappier name for that in time. Precisely what their view on avocados is remains unclear. Note that if you're in the older end of the cohort (mid-30s), there's some effort to rebrand those as 'Xennials', if for some reason you're really bothered by being called a millennial :)