• Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    I thought Gen Z started in 1995 or so ? I’ve always been called gen z and I just turned 28, definitely feeling almost 30 (especially after a long weekend)

    • booty [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The cultural marker I've always heard was if you can remember 9/11 you're a millennial. I was born in 1999 and barely was not old enough to remember 9/11. Someone born in 1995 definitely remembers 9/11.

        • booty [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          Well, Americans and people from other places that pay attention to America, which is a lot of places and probably the majority of people reading this.

          • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

            Er, no. You greatly overestimate the amount that people gave a shit. Children especially didn't give much of a shit. I have memories from 2001, none involve 9/11

      • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        I was born in ‘95 and after talking to my peers no one remembers 9/11 other than people being in a panic. To say we remember 9/11 is an overstatement.