The millennial council

I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid... Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I'm wrong because I'm either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I'm a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I'm a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it's exhausting.

To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I'm a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.

My favorite I've heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.

Me: I try not to gatekeep.

Also me: ☝🏼 (see meme)

Being born in '85, I guarantee I have more vivid memories of the 90's than someone born in '95.

1992 here and I never really think of myself as a 90s kid. All the things I remember happened in the 00s.

1993. What I know about the 90s is what I learned about it once I achieved self-awareness well into the 2000s

That's ridiculous, 1995 and up kids still remember CRT monitors, weird ball mice, green glow in the dark toys/hats/shoes, VHS tapes, polaroid cameras, all the girls on TV having a perm, etc.

To me, being a Millennial to me means you remember 9/11. If you don't, then you're Gen Z.

The Oregon Trail generation might remember Challenger and the fall of the Berlin Wall and Rodney King, but not Reagan being shot.

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94? They all don't remember most of the 90s.

‘95 here. Never heard anyone my age claim they were a 90s kid. Sis is ‘93, I don’t think she considered herself one either.

Yeah bad news for anyone born after 1990 on being a 90's kid...

Born in '72 here. What is this attention to generations and acknowledgement of existence you speak of? Your words are strange and foreign to me.

As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.

Being an elder zoomer be like:

I read an article that basically said we give up on trying to categorize you guys (97), you're just "transitionals". Not millennial or gen z. And honestly I get that. I only remember 9/11 because of my mother's reaction. I grew up in a weird phase for tech. And I don't feel like I belong to either group.

So I think they cracked the code!

If you remember 9/11 you're a 90's kid. If not, welcome to Zoomer gang -- perspective of 02 kid

Wait another decade and "90s kid" won't be a title anyone wants to claim.

I can confirm this is inaccurate. I was in a class of 93s and 94s and we were told by our science camp councilor that we were not 90s kids, but 2000s kids. That was back in 2005. The 2000s hadn't even finished yet. So shrink that first range to at least 1981-1989 and extend that second range to at least 1990-1996.

That's pretty unnatural state of affairs not gonna lie

As a humanist I think we should go with human first before or instead of these potentially divisive, arbitrary age brackets, contemporary generational labels, etc.

(me, born in 94)

Yup sorry buddy I don't make the rules

The years are wrong. To be a 90s kid you need to be born by 1991.