Why do people call Millienials, Millenials, instead of Gen Y?

[Sweetsurprize]

They're technically Gen Y. They're after Gen X and Before Gen Z?

[BeMuse]

Millienials started to graduate high school in the year 2000. Millienials are the generation that reached adulthood in the new millennium. It's pretty common sense. It's something that only happens every 1,000 years, so a special title is earned to note the occasion.

[Sweetsurprize]

True, but people born in the 90's also reached adulthood in the 2010's too. Sure, we did it first (us 80's babies) but still... I do like the term Gen Y. It's like they're questioning everything about life lol.

[Mangospacho]

It’s just another thing the boomers came up with, ruined, and then blamed millennials for them ruining it.

[OlderAndWiser]

Why do people call them Gen X when they are pre-Millenials, and why do they call them Gen X when they are post-Millenials?

[Sweetsurprize]

What do you mean post-Millenial? Are you referring to Gen Z, not X?

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, I meant Gen Z

[Anonymous]

Why do we decide people into "generations" based upon arbitrary date ranges?

If when you were born matters at all then a guy born in the early 1980's has a lot more in common with a guy born in the late 1970's than with a guy born in the late 1990s.

Whom you parents are, where you grew up are a lot more consequential to whom you are.

[Sweetsurprize]

True I agree.

If I lost my virginity at 13 and got pregnant at 14, I would have had "Millenial" baby too lol. I feel I don't really have much in common with people born in the 90's, especially mid to late 90's!

[NamerOfStars]

Because they reach right up until the end of the millennium- which means your chart is inaccurate, as 1996 is not, in fact, 2000, and the Millennial generation is, quote "those who graduated [high school] in 2000, and those born in 2000, and all those in between".

Plus, calling them "Gen Z" makes it sound like they're zombies, and how often do you get to do that?

[Sweetsurprize]

Well

1. This was NOT my chart, just some chart I picked off a search engine. So don't blame me.
2. I graduated high school in 2003 (was supposed to be 2002 but I repeated the first grade because I immigrated here from the Philippines in 1991 at the age of 7. I didn't want to repeat 1st grade, but my parents and teacher forced me).

3. If I had a child in Gen Z, it wouldn't be nice to make fun of those lol.

[D_Bone_Steak]

They just like to wrap everything into neat little boxes. I was born in 82 and I grew up watching MTV, listening to Metallica and Megadeath, and playing street hockey instead of playing with a phone. I'd say it was the early 90's when shit started getting retarded enough to really be for the "Generation Why?"

[Lynx122]

What will the next generation be called if we're at gen z now? :P Well I was 10 in the year 2000 so I always thought millenials made sense although most of the rest that was said about us didn't XD.

[Sweetsurprize]

Generation Alpha.

[Kaneki05]

This would be like asking why do people call people people instead of humans. The answer is who gives a shit and the terms are interchangeable.

[Astarlessnightsky]

They grew up during the change of the milenium.

Also there is no generation ABC... VW before generation X as well. So it doesn't matter if the naming skips a letter.

[provokeesmokee]

Same reason people think of those labels: marketing and media.

[Christoff92]

I became 20 in the new millienium. Basically millennials means those who got to adulthood in the 21th century.

[mommymommymommy]

Because we were born or grew up during the millenium

[Sweetsurprize]

You mean NEW Mllenium. There have been mltiiple Milleniums in centuries past.

[Luckycharms12]

Don't listen to any that shit people are people who cares when you are born

[OddBeMe]

Because their zeitgeist is the millennium. 2001 sht birds. Not 2000.

[PizzaDaddyo]

Generation Y? Because they gotta!


Glad you showed me this diagram didn’t know I was this gender till now.

[Sweetsurprize]

Y?

And you're Welcome.

[abc3643]

They do also call them Gen Y.

[Sweetsurprize]

Not always. It's more Millienials that I read and here, rather than Gen Y. I don't like it.

[abc3643]

Millenials is more descriptive so it is easier to remember.

Besides, this is all really horseshit anyway. There's no real hard cut-off for the years for this crap.
For instance, I am a "boomer" born in 1963. Am I a Baby Boomer? No, not really. My GRANDfather was in WW2 and my mom was in diapers when the war ended. Don't get me wrong - I have a lot in common with Baby Boomers, but also a lot that is different. For instance, Baby Boomer males had to worry about the Vietnam draft. I was 12 when the Vietnam War ended. So, to me, Vietnam was a real thing but my perceptions and attitudes towards it would be different compared to a guy 15 years older than me. To classify us both as "Baby Boomers" is ridiculous.

So, in a sense, these generation break-downs are more like about a 5- to 7-year span.
Your "generation" in a sense is made up of those kids about 4 years older to about 4 years younger than you because you would have grown up mostly with similar experiences and viewpoints.

You need to know about these two books, both important and from 1991. This is where all this Generation crap is came from:

The debut novel "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Copeland.

"Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069" by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
This gave rise to "Strauss Howe Generational Theory"
en.wikipedia.org/.../Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

Both books are good but, as usual, the culture runs with it ad absurdum.

[abc3643]

From Wikipedia about Coupland's novel "Generation X..."
en.wikipedia.org/.../Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture

(Douglas Coupland was born in 1961.)

Novel
Coupland felt that people his age were being misclassified as members of the Baby Boomer generation.

"I just want to show society what people born after 1960 think about things... We're sick of stupid labels, we're sick of being marginalized in lousy jobs, and we're tired of hearing about ourselves from others"

— Coupland, Boston Globe, 1991[6]

Later, Coupland described his novel as being about "the fringe of Generation Jones which became the mainstream of Generation X". Generation Jones is a term for tail-end Boomers, born between 1954 and 1964, who felt disconnected from the experiences of older Boomers such as the Vietnam War and the hippie subculture.

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So, that would be my group which also had the name "Tweeners" because we were born during the Kennedy Admnistration __between__ the Baby Boomers and Gen X.

[abc3643]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

[WhitneySnow]

That’s a good question. I don't know.

[In_Trance]

What's the difference?

[Jazzy54]

Not sure. 🤔