The first Millennial will turn 50 in 1 Jan 2031. We are currently only 4 years and 2 months away from that time.

Early voting is well underway in a lot of states. Get out there and cast your ballot!

Sick of being reprimanded about our generation(s) not voting.

Just had some dork dox me over disagreeing with their infantile comment.. genuinely convinced this might be an AI, bot poaching or overall shit testing experimental scheme page with the most mind boggling posts showing up occasionally on our feeds to capture reactions from otherwise sane, healthy people.

I want to be clear, I wasn't a luddite; I had an Xbox 360 and a computer for years, and tech prior, I loved playing Bad Piggies on other phones and loved stealing my sister's iPod Touch; online, I was deeply involved in the lower end of the YTAC (YouTube anime community) and was a subredditdrama reader/reactor to early reddit ongoings; it's simply that I was late to get both a keypad phone and a touchscreen of my own, and when I did, I wasn't on the Twitter/Facebook/Instagram etc. social media sphere, except I was eventually on Facebook for the YTAC spin-off groups and group planning with friends.

That's the context for what shaped my engagement with phones; it's not that I wasn't aware of and engaged in the shifting tech, but that was the first time I reaaaalllly noticed cellphones impacting my social experiences in a legitimately intrusive (as I saw it then and in 2021) way.

Before then, smart phones were auxiliary, beyond the point, something I borrowed to play Bad Piggies from a waterpolo team mate; and phones? Barely texted when I had one, and when out we were still in the business of walking to friends just to ring their bell, there or not.

I still essentially am the same when socializing with people, my phone is not in hand except for what needs to be shared for the conversation (news, a joke saved) or to change songs.

As a child, I spent a ton of time outside with neighborhood kids switching between houses and the school playground several blocks away. When the weather was bad, we were inside with Legos, hot wheels, Barbies, board games, puzzles, and Disney VHS tapes.

As preteen/teens we went to the mall, roller rink, bowling alley arcade, or drive in theater when we weren't loitering in parking lots or riding around aimlessly with our music loud.

I vaguely remember my cousins having a party line phone when I was young. My first email account was AOL. My first cell phone was a Nokia.

Can you guess from that, or what else do you want to know?

In 2026, for example, a mother born in 2004 is raising her two-year-old toddler (born in 2024). A father born in 2002 is raising his four-year old son (born in 2022) and one-year-old daughter (born in 2025).

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2007-2010 borns voting on the 2028 election, What side are you voting?

2007-2010 borns voting on the 2028 election, What side are you voting?

I feel insecure and bad that I am sort of a cultural univore that likes edgy things. I didn't use to be like this, I only had a preference for edginess, which radicalized over time into being the primary and nearly only type of media I enjoy consuming. And by edgy things, I mean stuff from the 2000s associated with edge, such as Linkin Park, Xbox Live, and what is called today on TikTok "older-brother-core."

I feel angsty and sometimes alienated, so I listen to rock music. I started cruising around on a skateboard partly because of this, and also got somewhat into alternative fashion.

My radicalization when it comes to edginess started out with me playing video games, and noticing that culture has changed a lot. I thought that Xbox Live was the peak of gaming, and that the 2000s attitude gamers had back then was something I wanted to aspire to have when I was younger. When I got a gaming PC, the first thing I did was get 7th generation (2005-2012) era games and finally enjoy it.

I realized at some point that the gaming community had moved on from the aesthetics and the misfit attitude I liked looking at from the outside, and had already for a long time. Nobody was saying "I'm a hardcore gamer" or hated on "scrubs" or used memes like "PS3 has no games" anymore. So I kept looking for new communities that had that feeling. Music is the closest, but most people listen to everything these days. Thankfully there is a sort of separate metal community.

So I kept moving around to different places to try and find somewhere that's just angsty, edgy, and what I personally consider "awesome." Skateboarding, nu metal and grunge, new fandoms and fictional media, and more stuff. I have been doing it for a couple years until now.

Society is like moving towards everyone doing everything individually. Instead of subcultural tribes, people are just doing things alone and mixing things together. People because of algorithms are doing multiple things and are kind of eroding the boundaries between the communities I want to belong to.

It's great to be able to do whatever you want, but I want like a community that likes the same aesthetics and has the same culture as I like. I don't want to just be doing this alone without any other people who think the same.

Everything is finite and changes, but I can't bring myself to accept the fact that there's no going back. I like the stuff from back then a lot, and it's making me feel worse. And even the 2000s only lasted 10 years, and we're 7 years into the 2020s, so the 2020s are finite too.

My point is that I want a very specific identity, but modern social media and society is positioned against, it in a way. Everything has changed now. People have different direction trends, different type of attitude and talking (everything is clean cut now instead of dirtbag), different kinds of posers (performative men), less subcultures (no new ones are being created), and less aggressive rebelliousness in media (everything is anxious instead of angry).

I don't like change at all. And I think the lack of a community I fit into is the root of why I feel so angsty.

I also hate the idea that things are objectively better today than it was in the past. Sure, technology and medicine is, quality of life and length of life is, I will admit many objective markers have improved, but the trends and aesthetics and values can't be measured objectively. I don't believe modern values are better than the ones of the past.

I don't think values just because they are old, means that they are bad. I do not believe that everything new is good.

I've read many threads that people born in 1986 are completely different from those born in 1985 just because the former cohort started high school in 2000 while the latter cohort entered in 1999. First of all, I was born and raised in Florida (West Palm Beach to be exact) where the cutoff date is September 1 (not December 31), meaning it was based off near the school year and NOT THE FREAKING CALENDAR YEAR!!!!!!!!! Second off, I missed the cutoff because I was born on September 27, 1986, and therefore, I couldn't start kindergarten until 1992, which means I started high school in 2001 (much like all my 1986-born friends/classmates with September 2-December 31 birthdays) and NOT 2000. I had a few friends born between September 2-December 31, 1985 that all started high school in the year 2000, so with that logic, you can't call them Xillennials either nor can you say they have any more Gen X traits than I do because none of us have any Gen X traits. When I moved to Georgia briefly in 1994 during the early part of second grade and then again in 2004 (this time, for good) for my senior year, all of my classmates (minus the ones that were held back) were the exact same age (September 2, 1986-September 1, 1987) because Georgia has a similar cutoff to Florida. Yes, my cohort (late 1986) spent all of their years in high school during the 2000s but so did the late 1985 cohort. I know there are a couple of states like New York that have calendar year cutoffs but guess what, not everyone lives in freaking New York.

There's another reason Redditors love to separate 1986-borns from 1985-borns: 1985-borns were the last to remember the 80s just because they turned 4 in 1989 while 1986-borns could only remember up to 1990 when they turned 4. First off, how is being 4 any more significant than being 3? Both ages are within the post-toddler phase, people can remember being 3 just as well as being 4. As a September 1986-born, I remember living with my mom and grandmother during the summer of 1989 before I was even 3, and I remember the exact house my mom moved in a month after me and my twin brother turned 3. I also remember seeing The Little Mermaid (that's right, the Disney film, not the live-action 1990 film with Cher and Winona Ryder) in theaters in November 1989, and I remember my older cousins having stuff like Teddy Ruxpin, the board game Mouse Trap, and NES games like Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Kung Fu, and Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I remember when The Simpsons debuted on Fox channel 29. I even remember hearing Babyface's "Tender Lover" on the radio during that time. Do I have a full year of memory during the 80s like a 1985-born? Absolutely not because while I remember the earlier parts of 1989 when I was seeing brick house and balloons flying to the sky, they were very fuzzy and I didn't even realize those brick houses were actually part of the University of Florida in Gainesville until three and a half years later but that don't mean I have zero memories of 1989. Am I a 90s kid? Absolutely but I'm also a 90s kid that remembers THE ENTIRE DECADE (Including January-September, not just from October 1990 onwards).

I've also read that 1986-borns grew up with 1991 and 1992-borns just because they all started high school during the 2000s, which is stupid because there's a 5-to-6-year gap between my cohort and those born in 1991-1992. I wasn't a preteen at any point during the 2000s because I became a teenager in late 1999, started high school a month before 9/11, was among the youngest voters of the 2004 election, and graduated in May 2005 (which is after YouTube's launch but YouTube didn't even get any notice from the public until around November). 1991 and 1992-borns spent the early part of the 2000s as preteens and didn’t even become teenagers until 2004-2005 and their high school years were shaped by a mainstream YouTube, an available-to-everyone Facebook, and a rising Twitter. January-September 1, 1991-borns didn't even begin high school until August 2005 (which was three months after I graduated), September 2, 1991-September 1, 1992-borns started high school a year later (August 2006), while September 2-December 31, 1992-borns started even later (August 2007), and that means I didn't go to high school with them at any point in history.

Another thing that separates me from 1991 and 1992-borns is that I grew up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, and Chip N' Dale, and remember the debuts of Darkwing Duck, X-Men and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. I remember freaking James Bond Jr., something 1991 and 1992-borns never even had a clue about until they looked it up online. The early part of my adolescent years was during the Y2K era when Nu-Metal, late 90s pop rap, teenyboppers, Pokémon, Trash TV, the Monday Night Wrestling Wars, and peak PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were dominant while 1991 and 1992-borns didn't even enter their adolescent years until that era was either on its last legs or was pretty much over.

2019 was way better than 2026 it was our last year of normalcy before AI before the Pandemic lockdowns when everything was still cheap & affordable it’s a lot of reasons why 2019 will forever be better than the 2020s decade in my Opinion Even class of 2019 was the last best class to graduate in a normal world

As someone who is born in late 2005 [turning even more older next month 😭), i consider the 2010s as the decade that'll forever be nostalgic for.

My life was at its best during it so basically that's my childhood.

I don't claim the late 2000s as part of my childhood compared to some ppl that are my age despite having some blurry memories from 2008 and 09.

The 2020s were horrible when it comes to my personal life and add Covid on top of it, it was just a nightmare.

I can see some people in the future considering the 2020s as their youth and being nostalgic for it, and i'm not part of them.

I think it makes sense for someone my age to not acknowledge this decade as part of their youth.

I mean i also don't see myself as young anymore so calling this decade "my youth" would be ridiculous.

Call me crazy but that's my opinion.

Someone in late teens (18, 19) and early 20s is considered like an early adult instead of just an adult.

Somebody in their late 20s instead of 40 is considered at the verge of middle age. 40-60 is what the standard range for middle age used to be.

I don't know what's up with teens and preteens these days

My opinion is if people in their 30s are considered "old", you'd be spending the vast majority of your life as an old person. That doesn't sound right to me, so let's leave old to 60 somethings and older.

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This is something I always see mixed answers about, like I don't really consider the mid 2010s as part of my childhood since I was already in middle school by then.

Tengo 14 años y estoy condenado a estar con depresión crónica por no haber visto muchas caricaturas antes de los 13, ya que 13 no es infancia, y no importa que intente buscar, en ningún lado dice tan siquiera que cuenta como preadolescencia, y eso me deprime de manera crónica.

Solo quiero que alguien me dé consejos o me ayude en algo porque de verdad es imposible creer que aún no haya perdido la batalla contra esto y este aún vivo, y realmente solo quiero series totalmente honesto a este punto ¿Hay solución para mí estado deprimido?