I know it's.a lost cause, but Gen X wasn't supposed to be the start of an alphabetical system.
Sociologist at the time had problems naming a defining characteristic (unlike previous generations like Baby Boomers, etc) and instead named tem by the core tenant of rejecting most social institutions. X was a placeholder.
Ironically, subsequent generations have been labeled based on a placeholder meant to show the breakdown of generational definitions and societal norms and here we are.
Anthropologist here. One big problem with generations is they are essentially marketing terms. Many of the generations we use today were coined/solidified by people without even a background in sociology or anthropology, William Strauss and Neil Howe. The exception being baby boomers which are coined as a group back in the 60s to Mark a massive influx of people going to University.
The names that were developed for these generations stuck once William and Neil release their book Fourth Turning, and it go about labeling generations as far back as the pilgrims.
It's based around a pseudo scientific concept known as StraussāHowe generational theory, where generations in anglo-american society can be broken up into groups of four that repeat themselves and supposedly have predictive qualities that correspond with the previous four generations. It's sort of like a horoscope where they worked backwards in history to get into correlate with how they defined generations that existed at the time. It's a lot of bad history and bad science that is built on another pseudoscientific concept known as pulse rate hypothesis.
William and Neil would go on to work with marketing firms to create better advertising strategies from everyone ranging from the US military to coca-cola with their marketing firm Lifecourse Associates. And people such as Steve Bannon to Al Gore really took a liking to their work which helps solidify their terms into pop culture, politics on both sides of the aisle, and especially the business world. Many of which have created their own ranges for these generational terms.
Generations today are convenient terms to identify people born roughly within certain age ranges but it's all arbitrary at the end of the day. I mean, according to William and Neil, Millennials are an American phenomenon not something that's shared with Russia or Turkey or places like that.
All that said though, they really don't say that much about individuals. Geography, Urban versus rural, and even being an older versus younger sibling will influence what sort of cultural phenomenon you're exposed to.
Preach, fellow anthro! I appreciate your breakdown of this phenomenon and how deeply rooted in the collective consciousness it has become. I think the utility of these concepts is mostly in their application, not their origin, and you're right that the application for these names is largely in North American marketing culture.
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Iām so sorry, but in full honesty reading this I think of anthropomorphism before I think of anthropologyā¦ cursed internet
THANK YOU! My mom and my dad are 3 years apart but fall on different generational lines (she was an elder Xer, he's a young boomer). My brother and I are 4 years apart but fall on different generational lines (he's a young Xer, I'm an elder millennial). As a kid, especially a poor kid, especially one who was much more exposed to and interested in Gen X stuff and was sort of traumatized by their older brother into shunning "kid stuff" way too early, all of the generational cordoning confused and frustrated me to no end. It wasn't until I stumbled on the Douglas Rushkoff Frontline documentary The Merchants of Cool at around 15 or so that I started to get the tip of what you're talking about here.
What you're describing in Fourth Turning sounds like a slightly more academic version of the punk/hippie cycle everyone was obsessed with when I was a kid. Is there a particular academic debunking of Strauss-Howe you can recommend? I get if that's not the sort of thing you're into but personally I love a good academic dis track.
I've heard about that book and seen it pop up on social media a decent amount the last few years but I didn't know it's not well regarded in the anthropology community. Do you have any good critical books or articles you can recommend to learn more about why?
All that said though, they really don't say that much about individuals.
By that count, no anthropological or sociological explanations can either.
You alluded to it, but you seem to be missing the generational consequences of World wars, which is what has allowed this "generational thinking". There are obvious generations for Europe for WW1 and WW2, and for the US and most of the world for WW2. Hence pretending that grouping these people as generation is "pseudo-science" is rather short-sighted of you.
The boomers were a direct effect of WW2: economic expansion, births exploding, etc. and this created structural policies in the West: focus on the youth during the the 20 years after the war, on workers in the following 30 years, and on pensioners after that. This has had impacts on education policies, the work markets and workers protection, retirement systems, etc.
To pretend, that none of that has any consequence on people's behaviors at individual level is rather ignorant. The fact that GenX is a low demographic (due to a combination of being a ripple of WW2 birth deficit and inception of birth control and abortion), with both parents in the work force for many, has impacted their education framework and professional and political outlook for many. That millenials are a massive generation (because they're the kids of boomers) that is hitting the work market when boomers are still in control of all policy levers and are favoring pensioners at the expense of workers.
And you still think that this is just marketing talk that has no relevance?
That marketers love to use this labels for more than they are is one thing, but then to pretend that "generations" is a "pseudo-scientific" concept is really different. Just walk into any of the 36K communes of France, and you will see a "monument aux morts" due to WW1 in each of them save a handful. And tell me it is "pseudo-scientific" to speak of a generation. Where did you get your anthropology degree?
I don't think you are understanding what I'm saying.
I didn't say that the concept of a generation does not exist in any capacity. My critique is of William Strauss and Neil Howe.
They are personally the ones who coined the term millennial, among a number of others.
They created these groupings because they fundamentally believe that anglo-american society functions in these cycles of four generations groupings. Our current grouping consists of baby boomers, gen x, millennials, and gen z according to them. Each of these generations have an archetype which they have no ability to control. Boomers are profits, Gen x are nomads, millennials are heroes, and gen z are artists. Each of these generations are fundamentally locked to the previous four groupings consisting of the Missionary gen, Lost gen, GI gen, and silent gen, which were prophets, nomads, heroes, and artists.
"William-Strauss Generational Theory" which is a pseudoscientific concept built upon revisionist history. They claim it's got predictive properties to determine how future generations are going to behave due to fundamental characteristics that reappear in cycles. It's almost supernatural.
The trouble is though is a lot of it's predictive capability is based upon each generation have an arbitrary attributes that you can associate anything that that age group has gone through with it. But as somebody who themselves is, according to them, a millennial I don't feel like I existed in a world that mirrors what the people who fought in world War II went through. People born around me, our struggles and contributions are widely different.
This is what they claim a hero generation experiences.
"Hero (Civic) generations enter childhood during an Unraveling, a time of individual pragmatism, self-reliance, and laissez-faire. Heroes grow up as increasingly protected post-Awakening children, come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis, emerge as energetic, overly confident mid-lifers, and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening."
This isn't science. This is a horoscope. There are people from any generation they made that can relate to this but also not relate to this. Apparently the next generation after me is one that grows up in crisis but my entire waking memory has been crisis. I was 6 years old when 9/11 happened. 14 when the stock market crashed in 08. The oldest millennials were 28. I'm 28 and we're just getting out of a pandemic with another potential financial crash. People my age are poorer than the generations before them, the housing market is absolutely a mess...
And the biggest thing of note is that millennials are anglo-american phenomenon not a world phenomenon... According to Fourth Turning. It's anglo-american society that functions with these specific traits in the specific cycles...
So when I say it's pseudoscientific, it's because it is. It doesn't have predictive properties. It's vague and revisionist to give the impression that it's correct just like a horoscope does.
They created these groupings because they fundamentally believe that anglo-american society functions in these cycles of four generations groupings.
The baby-boom is something that has happened throughout many countries in Europe. The consequences are very similar to what they are in the US.
You are confusing the name of the label, the existence of what the label is used for, the generations, and what properties can be ascribed to them.
So when I say it's pseudoscientific, it's because it is. It doesn't have predictive properties.
So sociology, history, and even anthropology are pseudo-science by that count, since they have no predictive properties. Hell, even Darwinism is thus pseudo-science then. Again, you claim to have studied anthropology?
"The baby-boom is something that has happened throughout many countries in Europe."
Irrelevant. Fourth Turning makes claims about American society innately functioning in cycles of four* generational groupings at a time that are intrinsically linked with qualities that corresponding generations within the cycle of four had in the past.
Not everywhere in the world has had baby booms at the same time for the same reasons.
"The consequences are very similar to what they are in the US."
False. The baby boom of the United States was paired with a huge economic boom at the end of a war. Jobs were plenty and the US was in a period of its lowest wealth inequality.
This is an experience very different from much of the Eastern Block and much of Western Europe which was going through quite a difficult time financially for quite a while. America was heavily impacted by civil rights issues and War that there isn't a one-for-one comparison to in Spain for instance which didn't even participate in World War II.
This isn't even mentioning the baby booms of Africa which have been faced with an enormous amount of challenges for those Nations. And Nations that are experiencing heavy population decline like Japan.
"You are confusing the name of the label, the existence of what the label is used for, the generations, and what properties can be ascribed to them."
No I'm not. The term baby boomer with coined due to a large influx of youth going to college. Millennial this reflects people coming to age at the turn of the millennium.
The labels can be used conventionally just for vague identifiers for people born in a particular time period. Or they can be used to make very specific claims about what large vast amount of people all experience and think at once.
The properties that forth turning prescribes are not simply what television shows a group of people watched. It makes claims pertaining to fundamental, inexcapable, and almost mystical qualities that repeats in cycles of four. Baby boomers have intrinsic qualities that are shared with Gen Alpha and the Missionary gen as all three are perceived as prophit generations in their respective cycles of four. Here's the problem though, the baby boomer generation which was identified due to a great population Spike is not a quality that is shared with either of those two other generations. But it's that population Spike that led to the identity of baby boomers being even established in the first place. Fourth turning then claims they all will have experiences within the world that are going to be similar. More similar to each other than the generations immediately before and after them according to this model.
"So sociology, history, and even anthropology are pseudo-science by that count, since they have no predictive properties."
None of these three things make claims that tens of millions of people are going to have intrinsic qualities about how their generation is going to experience in the world that are fundamentally linked to corresponding past generations. Fourth turning is pseudoscientific because it's like a horoscope. It's summarizes generations down to couple paragraphs and a few key words and then claims it can predict that the next generation in a corresponding cycle of four is intrinsically going to experience the world in the same way. Because American society supposedly functions in cycles.
"Hell, even Darwinism is thus pseudo-science then."
Evolutionary science has progressed far beyond the principles that Darwin has established. Evolutionary science is not pseudoscience.
"Again, you claim to have studied anthropology? "
Yes, I have a B.A. in anthropology.
False. The baby boom of the United States was paired with a huge economic boom at the end of a war. Jobs were plenty and the US was in a period of its lowest wealth inequality.
This is an experience very different from much of the Eastern Block and much of Western Europe which was going through quite a difficult time financially for quite a while. America was heavily impacted by civil rights issues and War that there isn't a one-for-one comparison to in Spain for instance which didn't even participate in World War II.
This isn't even mentioning the baby booms of Africa which have been faced with an enormous amount of challenges for those Nations. And Nations that are experiencing heavy population decline like Japan.
I suggest you learn history.
The baby-boom happened in all Western Europe and it was combined with an economic boom and lowest wealth inequality as well. Just look at birth and economic data for the OECD if you want. I had never realized that American exceptionalism even extended to the baby boom...
Africa didn't have a baby boom after WW2, so I don't know why you are bringing this up. They went on decolonisation and THAT is also a very defined generation among these countries.
It is incredible that you think that generations can only go by the definition of one guy as if he invented the concept and thus it is an invalid concept because his definition isn't convincing.
Well, I have news for you. The concept of generations long predated even the existence of the US, so I doubt the concept and/or its validity is tied to whatever an American has said about it as you seem to think.
"I suggest you learn history."
Here we go.
"The baby-boom happened in all Western Europe"
Wrong. Countries like Portugal for instance did not have a baby boom. From 1920-1970 they had a relatively consistent 200,000 live births a year.
"and it was combined with an economic boom and lowest wealth inequality as well. Just look at birth and economic data for the OECD if you want. I had never realized that American exceptionalism even extended to the baby boom..."
The British economy struggled quite a bit, it had nowhere near the level of success the American economy had post war. You say all of Western Europe, but you oversimplify and we've had a lot of context.
"Africa didn't have a baby boom after WW2, so I don't know why you are bringing this up."
Didn't say they did after world War II. I acknowledged that the term baby boom, abd the era in which Baby Boomers exist, and the pseudo scientific properties Strauss and Howe place on the term baby boomer are all separate.
'They went on decolonisation and THAT is also a very defined generation among these countries."
Okay
"It is incredible that you think that generations can only go by the definition of one guy"
Two guys. My critique is of their work. I was thinking about generations in the manner which they created them is problematic.
"as if he invented the concept and thus it is an invalid concept because his definition isn't convincing."
Strauss and Howe's work is pseudoscientific. Using the terms in a conventional sense to just acknowledge people born in a specific age range is a way that these words can be used. It's just claiming that they have intrinsic properties that repeat throughout history with corresponding generations and groupings of four, that's the problem.
It's something you continuously do not address.
"Well, I have news for you. The concept of generations long predated even the existence of the US,"
Yeah, obviously. Strauss and Howe's work is from the '80s and '90s, on the other hand.
"so I doubt the concept and/or its validity is tied to whatever an American has said about it as you seem to think."
The generational grouping millennial was specifically coined based around Strauss and Howe's work. They made it. They made predictions about what this generation would be like while the oldest ones were just an elementary school. They said that millennials will experience the world much like the G.I. generation did that fought in world War II.
Because that's how Fourth Turning works. Now are you going to defend that claim?
I mean if it has seemingly real economic factors wouldnāt that imply that something is actually going on?
I agree. I was surprised at a conference when Kendra Creasy Dean basically said all her generational religious studies basically didn't hold up.
Interesting. How is it that the generations are of different lengths? Did the marketers lose interest or something?
The fourth turning is gonna happen man, youāre just trying to shirk your duty as part of a crisis generation!
This is a really minor thing, but thank you for your correct and appropriate use of the en dash.
Do you have a book yet? Because would like to read it. Comment saved
I think im in love with you. Can you tell me more preferably in a podcast form so I wont get bored doing chores?
I've not read the Fourth Turning, but I've had it mentioned both in-person and online numerous times, and from a high level the idea of generational cycles really speaks to me in some sense.
I understand that the idea of a 'generation' is just a construct to try and pin human progression to a stitch in time, but is there any work/study that delves into the behaviour of a population after a traumatic period? Does crime drop temporarily as humanity comes together to rebuild? Is there an extended period of heightened awareness and community?
I was born 47 years after WW2 ended, so I've grown up with an aging population that remembered; and held on to a knowledge that changed them forever. This also means I've grown up with a younger generation that has an ever-decreasing set of tangible ties to the past events that shaped our elders.
There's an obvious and notable difference, and I personally wonder if there's a cyclical nature to our behaviour.
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The generation thing is such an eyeroll.
that's a very GenX sentiment.
GenX
Who? ^(lol)
Who to the lol, y'all!
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I never know what generation I am until an older person is screaming it at me.
To be fair, I span a couple of those groups: gen x to early millennial. Perhaps the labeling convention isnāt as cut and dry as everyone thinks.
For what it's worth I was Gen Y (aka Gen Why at the time) growing up. It didn't seem to be until news needed to make older people angry at us refusing to follow the system that was abusing us that we started to be called millennials.
*Zillenials
So... this is actually exactly how generations work. You cannot define the start and end of a single generation until the following generation starts to influence the society as a whole. That's why we are just now settling on when Gen Y and Gen Z separate (different sources varied from '95 to '00 for a while). Gen Z is just starting to be old enough to vote, enter the workforce, affect marriage and childbirth rates, etc, so we are finally able to start teasing apart the differences between the two generations.
The boomers were the only generation that could ever be firmly defined upfront because they were a birth rate statistic. Everyone else had to be defined by the behaviors of the generation after them.
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Generations are defined by the field of sociology...
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Your comment history suggests otherwise, but you do you.
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Ok Yoomer.
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Funny, never really thought about it but wouldn't Xoomers be pronounced the same as Zoomers using this mechanic.
Or would it be Ex-oomers like people who dig up dead people.
shoomer like Xi Jinping
Getting paged then bumping Palm Pilots. What a time to be alive.
Smart phones came out while I was in high school. I had social media, but not for middle school. Which one am I? Born 94
As someone else born in 94, I consider myself a millennial but I think with our year it's more of a state of mind/being thing. I've met people the same age as me who identify more with zoomers and others who identify with millennials.
late millennial
Millennial. I like the description they gave about social media and whether you had to retro fit it to get in touch with your school friends. If you were using already on MySpace (and the other less successful sites before Facebook came along) while you were still in school then you are Millennial, not Gen Y. Or another way to put it, if your president was Clinton, you are Gen Y. If it was Bush, then Millennial.
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how is AIM not part of this convo? AIM was the original social networking platform and sharing AIM usernames at school was a thing before online profiles became the next big thing. Gen Y should be the ones who used AIM as their primary online communication tool through their junior high/early high school years.
Yup, you are correct. As a Millennial I am unfamiliar with your generationās (assuming you are Gen Y) customs, haha. And here again, as an early millennial I came of age when AIM had already peaked and was being slowly replaced by Yahoo! chat and MSN messenger. That was my first foray into social media and by the time I left school we were well into the era of Facebook ultra dominance.
If we donāt describe Gen Y we are discarding a whole bunch of experiences that are unique to a certain cohort of people.
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The last of the Millenials
Millennial. Gen Y didnāt have meaningful internet at all for the first 10 to 15 years of their lives.
Where the fuck is Spongebob?
Born 92 and myspace/early facebook and smartphones like blackberry/OG iPhone were around by 6-7th grade. So def millennial. It was the Wild West of social media though! We could rank our friends haha
This is an excellent take.
The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. To me the gap between Boomers and Millennials always felt too wide for one generation, but I wasnāt able to articulate it just as you did so succinctly. Dividing that gap into two vaguely distinct, but distinct nonetheless generations makes much more sense. I have cousins who were born in early 80s who are technically considered Gen X but they lean much more towards my generation (millennials) than they do towards the core Gen Xers. And as an early Millennial I too feel I share much more in common with them than I do with my sibling who is barely 4 years younger to me even though we grew up in the same household.
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Very true. I also suspect because of the internet (and tech in general) popular zeitgeist is changing at such a rapid pace that the generations are shrinking compared to the previous generations. Itās either that, or itās recency bias thatās giving that perception. Then again, Āæpor que no los dos?
Donāt forget the iGeneration, that team got dumped
I remember reading articles growing up about being part of a Generation XY, Cusp, or Xennial - it is interesting to see that those distinctions have largely been erased over history and the Millennial Label has been expanded to include groups of people who had pretty startlingly different childhoods with respect to analog and digital technologies.
I think this article sums up your argument pretty well: https://blog.sage.hr/who-are-the-xennials-how-to-manage-them-and-why-they-matter/
You people think too much. Relax, it's not that serious.
see you on Lemmy -- mass edited with redact.dev
Ya, but we're not X'ers either. I learned to embrace "Elder Millennial"Generation names explained
I know it's all arbitrary but I was born in 83 and it never made sense to me being lumped in with millennials. Always felt closer to gen x but kind of straddled the technology divide enough where that doesn't make sense either. All the tech stuff really started playing a larger role in my life in very late high school and college.
As a millennial born in 88, you kinda just sound like gen X. I was always under the impression that gen Y and millennial are identical.
(Pagers seem to be gen X to me)
Iām sure Iād heard generation X on the news and such but i didnāt realize it meant āmeā until Pepsi ran that ad campaign.
I see it becoming a problem with gen alpha
rejecting most social institutions.
Maybe thatās why I donāt recognize or give a fuck about any of this pop culture nonsense. I only came in here because I saw this totally alien picture in my feed.
Perfect Gen X response.
Meh.
Whatever
YEah, annoys me every time too.
There was a book that cemented the Gen X title as well. It's wild reading it today as it nails a lot of things from that time. The plot is meh but still.
The thing that concerns me is how it goes
X Y Z ... Alpha ...
Like they put an ending (Z) and a beginning (Alpha) right at the turn of the century, with 9/11, 2008, and the entire fucking 2020's.
It's like they knew, these ones are old shit from a bygone era. Generation Alpha is the new pattern, the first generation to be entirely raised by the system. The internet. The broken system openly ruled by the upperclass. The crumbling economy in the police state.
Generation Alpha, the first generation of a horrible new world.
Not a lost cause, we have Xillennials, Millennials, Zillennials, and Zoomers. The lettering is a place holder until the name emerges
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Gen X. Just to piss them off.
Felt like no one really gave a shit about it either until someone coined the term millennial. Now it pops up in shit like this all the time, with arguments about who belongs wear. Honestly who gives a fuck. Things move so quickly now itās easy to get disconnected from different age groups. I was in college in 2002 then later in 2011. The massive difference among college kids in 9 short years is amazing and I felt no connection with the ones in 2011.
This
Love that remembering Harambe is included lol
Literally implied as the same level of importance as the moon landing, Challenger Disaster, and 9/11. Amazing.
Dicks out for Harambe
Just as we had our dicks out for 9/11
Some people probably did.
Dick Cheney enters the chat.
Instructions unclear, shot a Dick while hunting. Please send help.
Ah shit dicks back in everybody!
DICKS BACK IN
They rushed Cheney to the bunker.
They left Bush at a school.
Well he was like halfway through a story and needed to know how it ended.
Getting our freedom fucks on.
This is funniest comment Iāve seen on Reddit in weeks lol
I had my dick out for the shuttle explosion.
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Harambocene
It was after this point that social media really started taking over
what would be an alternative world event that Gen Alpha kids wouldn't remember?
Covid. I'd be willing to bet remembering Covid is gonna be the next generation divider like 9/11 and the Challenger.
I think not remembering Covid is more of a Gen Beta thing.
Beta yes, but there's no Betas born yet. Still on Alpha... so I guess half of Alpha will remember and some won't.
Gen Alpha was born as early as 2012, im pretty sure kids who were 8 year olds remember COVID
Watching your aunts, uncles, and other family members go from reasonably approachable individuals to unhinged lunatics from Trump announcing his candidacy onward.
Gen Alpha will only know the Q-anon, anti-vax version of some of their family members.
Lead poisoning is a hell of a thing.
So what you have invented thatās so much better than what the leaded boomers and pre/boomers created?!?
You know, when I went to Florida I met some of these people, but I found that if you ignore politics they are mostly nice people. I had the best turkey dinner made by a climate change denier
That's been my experience as well. Unfortunately, though, a lot of people's very existence is "politics", so they are treated to a somewhat different reception.
Yeah, I don't give a shit if they wear a shirt with Trump's asshole on it, but if they spend the whole time preaching to me about politics then that gets annoying
that is a good obervation! idk why my comment is being down voted. i was honestly asking. i barely knew of Harabe, but ive seen the memes.
Brexit, last flight of the space shuttle, trump's election, ISIS
Pulse nightclub shooting, Panama Papers, Kim Jong-nam assassination
Covid lockdowns.
COVID pandemic.
Early Alpha will remember COVID no problem. My best friend's son is 7 years old, so COVID has been a big part of his early memory forming. It might be relevant to say that late gen alpha won't remember what life was like before COVID, but COVID and post-COVID is just reality for essentially every gen alpha.
I can tell you the day Harambe died but not the challenger or moon landing.
I understand that itās for the US but I couldnāt even tell who was Harambe
Because it is.
No one taking their dicks out for the moon landing...
I bet ten years from now itāll be. If you remember the lockdown vs those who were born in it
Vs those who were born because of it
You merely adopted the lockdown; I was born in it, molded by it.
I don't even actively remember the lockdown now. I said it recently but I'll say it again, the lockdown is simultaneously the fastest and the slowest time has ever felt to me.
I know, I got to the end and I was like was this whole fucking thing a Harambe meme lol
Generational milestones be like:
Gen Alpha: Doesnāt remember Harambe
Gen Z: Doesnāt remember 9/11
Gen Y: Doesnāt remember Challenger
Gen X: Doesnāt remember Moon Landing
Boomer: Doesnāt remember
For Boomers itās definitely the (start of the) Korean War.
Yeah, well, at least the boomers got to grow oldā¦ unlike you youngsters who wonāt have the chance to forget your past coz youāre all gonna die from global climate firestorms! Whoās laughing at whom now ?!?! Bwahahaha!š
I feel like this was the first "you know you're old if..." moment that actually got me. The thought that there could be some people reading this that didn't remember Harambe's death is bizarre. I think that was 2016 so, 7 years ago? Not as bad as I thought it would be, but still, I'm slowly getting old.
Tbf after Harambe died we started getting weird natural disasters
His birthday is coming up soon - May 27. Lest we forget.
Alright I will bite, can I get a tldr on this harambe thing?
Just Wikipedia Him. š¦š¦§
I feel like thatās going to shift with time to āif you donāt remember COVIDā, and the post-Harambe kids will be a micro generation like Xennials are now.
I think 2016-ish will stay the dividing line for Gen Z and Gen A, but the Covid lockdown could absolutely be the line between early and core Gen A.
Memes aside, I feel like memory of the Trump election is the actual differentiating event rather than Harambe. Only a few months apart and literally the whole world was aware of it, similar to the other events.
I did originally believe that Gen Alpha started in 2016, but it kinda feels like it's stretching things since most sources say 2010-2013. 2012 was when smartphones overtook feature phones, so babies born that year are literally the first "born with a smartphone in hand" generation. Putting 2012-2015 in Gen Z just feels like it's stretching credibility.
As a millennial I honestly had to just look up Harambe... I was vaguely aware that it was the name of some of ape that people memed for some reason. I think I had it conflated with this the chimp that tore that woman's face off all this time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)
Were you not active on Reddit/Facebook/whatever has memes in 2016? I swear Harambe was all over the place
I remember Harambe being mentioned but I must have missed the story behind it all so my eyes glanced over the memes. I'm not on Facebook and I can be pretty checked out of online shit periodically too.
Yeah, same here! I guess weāre actually generation Alpha.
I only know he existed because memes on reddit. It's a sad story but i do not remember it when it happened and I'm an elder millennial.
I think they're using it as more of a joke reference point. It would mean little to people who don't explore Internet culture.
I'd argue a more consistent memory for 2016 might be Brexit and the start of the Trump Presidency - they're more political than the other examples, but they're still ginormous events which defined the era, until Covid turned up as the new black swan.
i thought the same thing. Millennial also
That was quite the Wikipedia read š³
He's the key to all of this!
Dicks out for Harambe RIP died from gun violence
Interestingly enough, I think remembering Harambe is also a younger generation thing. I donāt know if my Boomer parents would know āHarambeā by name (maybe they remember the event though)
Most likely because of internet culture, its something everyone can relate to, not just Americans.
No, that's just George W Bush in an afro.
Maybe I'm just crazy but is jojo really considered apart of Gen Alpha culture? I'd think they'd be too young to even know what Jojo is but I could be wrong
yeah, a lot of the end is too adult
This list is a bit off for me as well. Born in 89 but all the stuff I grew up with is in the 82-87 category
yeah I'm '97 but I know a lot about shows like Flintstones, Jetsons etc before my time. my mom categorized me as an millienal. I don't remember 9/11, but I'm Canadian.
You also would have been four.
My brother was born late in 97 and remembers 9/11.
These are simply things that came out in that time frame that were aimed at that specific age demographic. Of course, with the way tv channels and media work, things like Nick and Night, Boomerang, and the like, exposed future generations to past gens pop culture. I remember watching Bewitched and MASH with my grandparents when I was single digits, and day time Cartoon Network was how I got exposed Hannah/Barbara cartoons. Just like the current generation being exposed to shows like Friends, which apparently is having a resurgence? I dunno, but I think itās cool that pop culture is a way to bridge the generational gap.
I don't want to make assumptions, but this is reddit so I'm legally obliged to, is there any chance you have older siblings?
Nope
It's weird because Jojo was a big thing on the internet 20 years ago. Early 4chan was all about Jojo.
Yeah, the Za Warudo / WRYYYYYYY memes are older than the demographic listed.
But 4 chan is underground culture and this refers to pop culture, not release dates
I think there is a bit of "zoomer bias" going on here. Us zoomers are too old to understand what the gen alpha are really into, and thus insert what we are into now into their section.
Damn, I feel old now...
It's ok, these are all pushed forward 5-10 years farther than what is commonly understood as these "generations"
They missed out the Lost Generation in that link! But yeah, I get it.
Jojo's is kind of weird because the Manga has been running since the 80s, there was an anime release in the 90s, then an different adaptation came out like 2 decades later and is still releasing a new season every couple of years or so.
So in a sence it kind of spans from early millennials to the present day, and it's probably near it's peak popularity at this point. I'd agree that gen alpha is probably a bit too young to really claim it at this point but assuming they're still making episodes of the anime at roughly the same pace they have been, I'd imagine they'll probably be getting onboard with it when the next season comes out
Jojo started in 1987 and has been popular for a long time, the most recent anime started in 2012, but the manga was scanned and translated online since at least the early 2000s.
It's definitely gotten bigger recently from the anime (in the US) but it's been massive in Japan since the start and pretty big elsewhere for a long time (France for example).
The author, Hirohiko Araki, was invited to exhibit his work in the Louvre in 2009 and had a collaboration with Gucci around that time too.
Plus animal crossing being on gen alpha? Like whY?
It's New Horizons which became a phenomenon during the pandemic.
They have Gurren Lagann, my favorite anime of all time, as early gen Z. They would have been 6-10 when it aired.
That pretty much discredits the placement of every modern anime on here
A lot of the Gen Alpha seems like more of a guess, the oldest gen alpha is just turning teen, I feel like lot of anime is too adult. Like you don't see Jojo kids toys. Also a lot of media is streaming services now, with so many options there isn't really a centralised culture. I feel like the OP just picked a bunch of the most popular stuff, where in reality kids in the west don't really watch anime anymore except pokemon.
Roblox is old as hell too but it only more recently became mainstream
Came here just for this, in what world is JoJo gen alpha
I wouldn't have thought Naruto was a Zoomer show either. Thought it was squarely in the middle of millennial popularity
Based on the comments I've seen on Jojo clips there's definitely too many apple juice drinkers watching Jojo for their age, but then again Youtube comments are always like that
Same with Attack on Titan being core/late Gen Z. Who is watching Attack on Titan at age 2-6 lol
Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed that. Didn't know Jojo is a staple in gen-alpha right now. The phantom blood movie released in the late 2000s, the manga being created in the late 80s...
weird.
r/shitpostcrusaders still makes the front page and they still air new episodes on Cartoon Network on Toonami at midnight
Born 1996, the lost year on all these charts.
1994-1999. Generation fucked.
Our generation is ungenerationable- I dub us y=genx+b
Ive heard Zillennial
That's what I refer to myself as. I'm 97, definitely not gen Z and "too young" to be a millennial but heavily influenced by millennial culture because I grew up around only older siblings/cousins.
I would say you're much too old to be a millenial if you're 97, I would place you at the tail end of the Greatest Generation
Haha fair enough
1996, but my family was poor so technologically I got the millennial experience
Generation Slope Intercept? That's a bit weird, but who am I to judge?
Generation Slope Intercept
This sounds like the title for an anime.
No kidding. Born way too fucking late to experience life in a stable, functional society; Born way too early to skip the institution of a global totalitarian dystopia straight out of Orwell's worst nightmare and be good cattle-people that have never known anything different.
The past is dead. The present is enslaved and rotting. There is no future.
You seem well adjusted
Being born in 92 was the sweet spot to experience a normal childhood and high school years before the smartphone and social media came around and screwed everything up
Itās a bit of a weird area that honestly to me, seems like the division line gets put in terms of how quickly technology progressed for you. If you were out in the sticks, you probably were closer to classic millennials rather than zoomers simply because the new technology hadnāt reached you yet.
Some of us were stuck in dial-up into 2004-2006. Spent our days outside as the internet and TV was just behind the times for us. So itās kind of apparent why some identify more with the millennial culture.
Others got services like internet DSL or directTV which exposed them to newer technology and such earlier.
Just goes to show you the boundaries of the generations really arenāt there
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Gen Y = millennial. Same thing
nah. millennial by definition goes to 96. sure ur on the cusp but ur year is going to lean millennial over gen z. 97 is the real toss up year where they were called millennials their entire life then ripped from it and now called gen z. i see 97 as the 100% zillennial year where some people can be gen z or millennial based on their life experience.
I find that cuspers with older siblings get biased up and cuspers with younger siblings get biased down. You share a lot of culture growing up together
And then there is me, the middle child. Older sister- 89, me-92, younger brother- end of 96
Averages out at ā92
perfectly balanced
Exactly this
Great point! Have older siblings and always related a bit more to millennial culture than Gen Z
Let me guess, you were born in ā97
Thatās not true for those of us 96 that graduated with 97. 96 and 97 are core zillennials. r/zillennials is founded by a 96er. Idk what happened on December 31,1996 that makes one person more millennial than say somone born in January 1 1997. Itās weird how people like to say we have way more in common generationally with 80s and early 90s babies when half of the generation is 90s kids and 1996 is a 2000 kids just like 97.
Yup. And 97 is the birth year where itās split between who remembers 9/11 and who doesnāt. Early 97/late 96 often remembers, but later in 97 donāt, even though weāre all part of the same school year. Best age group!
Can you explain. Not to sound rude, is it because you donāt identify with the things in the late millennial gen Y? I hear this from people born around 1996 and I just want to understand.
As a 1996er my opinion is that by the definitions its a bit late to be placed in the millennial category. But most wouldnt identify with the zoomer category either since as we were entering adolecence there was a pretty dramatic shift in media, communications and content consumption mostly due to the smartphone and onset of social media. We're probably the last to experience childhood without all those things. Maybe its bias but I think it makes a pretty significant difference. Its also of course based on enviorment, so I can only speak as the youngest of all siblings from a pretty standard household in Norway.
For people born in the "in-between" years, on the edges of the generation categories, I think your perception of your own category is heavily influenced by whether you had older or younger siblings. Born in '94-'97 with older siblings? Most likely more of a millenial than gen-Z. Born in the same era as the oldest with younger siblings? Most likely more of a gen-Z influence
I feel like younger siblings rarely pull you into a more recent bracket.
They most likely go with what their older sibling engages with. I was born in 99 with a sister in 94. Most early memories of media aren't from my own generation.
As an only child 96er born to late gen x it should also be noted younger millennials with gen x parents tend to be more gen z in nature than millennials raised by boomers.
Also true. Our parents were born in 1960, and we always felt a bit separate from kids with younger parents.
I agree i had a ps2, and my dad played some pc games (midtown madness 2 lol) but i didnt have a flip phone till jr hs, and wasnt really interent cultured till jr hs either.
95/96 are commonly placed as millennials. were just on the cusp so of course the experience will bleed over to gen z a little
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I propose a rule: If you had a smartphone in high school youre a z, otherwise youre a millenial
Nah, I can't see any way 1996 would be Z. Lots of people 96-98 still had dial up growing up. That ain't zoomer.
My first gaming console was a gameboy advance sp, which isnt in either chart but most of my gaming was on a ps2, wii, or xbox 360 later. But a lot of my tv was late millenial.
also by definition millennials mostly always include to 96.
If that's a qualifier what does it say for the people still on dialup today?
Almost no experience is universal
there's obviously exceptions to literally everything in this entire discussion
we're talking about the general collective experience of a generation. the 250k people your link says use dial up are am obvious edge case
Why are the 265k+ households today an edge case and not the households in 96? Realistically you're not even talking about 96 because you're not using the internet straight out of the womb. It's probably closer to 01 before most people born in 96 would be using the internet, speaking broadly.
The change in % of adults with dialup at home only changed about 13 points from 01 to 05. If we add dialup and broadband up for 05 we're at about 61%. So that puts more without than with either for when your earliest zoomers would probably be getting online.
Admittedly those are the numbers for adults, but it was the data I could find and is at least a partial indicator for internet prevalence. I'd be happy to see more relevant numbers.
Why are the 265k+ households today an edge case and not the households in 96?
They just are by definition. Those 250k today are not representative of the collective generational experience of people who grew up in the 90s / early 2000s. You're also way too hung up on the dial up comment. I only mentioned dial up to add emphasis to a point, I wasn't making an argument that anyone with dial up can't be part of the more recent generations, and absolutely wasn't drawing a hard line at dial up.
If we add dialup and broadband up for 05 we're at about 61%. So that puts more without than with either for when your earliest zoomers would probably be getting online.
I actually agree with you here, I just said 96-98 because I know going further would be controversial. Personally I'd like to say 2003+ is zoomer, and 1997 or so to 2002 is what the word Zennial was for.
I'd be happy to see more relevant numbers.
This entire comment section is a discussion about something that's almost completely subjective. If you don't understand that, I can't help you.
The dialup comment was most of the comment. The rest was mentioning the year. How can I be to hung up on the bulk of what you said?
If you wanted to make a point about why those years weren't zoomers you should have done so. What you did was say they couldn't be because a lot of them were on dialup.
Zillennial is a bridge, like xennial. The youngest xennials are also millennials while the oldest millennials are the youngest zillennials.
This entire comment section is a discussion about something that's almost completely subjective
Great. Then don't present your opinions as facts
Then don't present your opinions as facts
Lmao, I can't help you if you had a reddit moment and chose to read it that way. By the way: that's literally what you are doing.
You're losing your damn mind over it. Chill out.
I can only read what you wrote. I've got no idea how it sounds in your head. Just like I've got no idea how what I wrote turns into "losing my damn mind" in your head.
And yes, I'm responding to you on your terms. I'm on the stage you set. Curious that you insist I chose to read your comments a certain way but that I'm doing the exact thing.
Take a break. Step away. When you get into "Reddit moments" and "losing your damn mind" territory you're probably taking it all to seriously.
please leave me alone
As a '96 kid too I think it's not the worst spot here.
On the like between early and core.
Really do you feel like an old soul? Put yourself earlier, do you feel more modern? Put yourself more recent.
I'm not sure how accurate or "strict" these times are since I've seen the years change many times. But really it's just a label.
Same, I just say I'm a millennial because my siblings were and their stuff heavily influenced me. I
Im the oldest of my brothers, so maybe i skew later.
Born in 97, I definitely firmly fit late gen y/early z, and also somewhat in core gen y
Shut up zillennial
I have a sibling amoung you.
You are sooooo horribly shaped by if you had older or younger siblings in kid culture imo.
All the cusps are weird the cusps around 1989 79 but you guys have the weirdness of the cusps but you're not a cusp you're in the middle of the decade. Being born in 89 and having parents who were in their 40s when they had me another in their 70s I was hanging out with most of my peer groups older brothers and yeah I feel like an amalgamation of like late Gen x, all three millennial, the first gen z and then some of my parents stuff mixed in from the very beginning even from like 42
Yeah, late millennial here isnāt really right to me. The zillennials are the lost crowd.
I feel the same was as an 82 kid. Too late to be gen x, at the very beginning of millenial. I've heard us called xennials. I associate with both the late gen x more than millenial though with regard to this chart
Same, but relate pretty heavily with the late millennial media
Same here
If you grew up in the Midwest pre-internet, give yourself a two-five year delay for trends.
Also a ton of the spans or vastly different lengths.
It's really confusing to see 7 years represented by a single block, the same width of which is used to represent 4 years later down the line.
Trends used to last a lot longer and change wasn't as fast.
Almost like we were on a dirt road, then a paved road, then an information superhighway.
Late Gen X is definitely more relevant to me (born in '84) than Early Millenial. I identify the stuff in Early Millennial more with my younger brother (born in '87)
I disagree with this. This chart is basically TV and movies, and the Midwest loves their television. It's not like their is a super hipster channel in New York that isn't available in Iowa.
Or overseason military bases pre 2000.
I fit pretty nicely in my generational category. Based on a sample size of one (me), well done!
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As a millenial, whereās Honey I Shrunk the Kids?!?
1985, pretty accurate, though I would add Star Trek TNG.
Girl, same.
These are all off by about 5-10 years of the commonly used and understood generations for things like Geopolitics and Marketing
Being born in 97 Iāve always felt i donāt belong anywhere in these
ā97-ā99 we have no idea who or where we fucking belong
Always referred to myself as a "barely 90s" kid, too young the fit in with other 90s kids but too old to fit in with 00s kids
Not having much social media or smart phones throughout most of our early school life definitely feels like a significant culture cusp that we avoided. While on the other hand having to work through the growing pains of technology separates us from a generation that canāt figure out a file system or something thatās not touchscreen.
I feel like thatās why we donāt fit squarely into generation Z. We may not remember 9/11 like millenials do, but Gen Zās grew up on the internet. Theyāve had social media and smart devices their entire lives. As a 1999 baby, all of my early childhood was pre-mobile devices. iPhones didnāt even come out until I was 9 or 10. I didnāt have a phone until I was 8, and it was a flip phone (most of Gen Z doesnāt even know what a flip phone is). We literally still had a payphone at my middle school. Lumping us in with the Gen Z doesnāt feel right because our childhood experiences are completely different. But, weāre also too young to experience the pre-9/11 childhood that millenials did.
Really felt as lost as the GBA SP when I looked at the graphic myself
Yeah, I feel like some fit but others I never saw. I also have older brothers so a lot of the content put out in the 90s was a staple for me growing up.
Right??
I just know now that I probably watched too much TV in my childhood
Maybe I missed it but for core gen Y, āA Goofy Movieā?
I was looking for ReBoot. What a wild cartoon that was.
Also, totally forgot about Beetleborgs.
Beetleborgs was such a wild ride. I had my fingers crossed super hard that Blue Beetle was a reboot of that show but womp.
It's in the early section
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I love the graph and the content in it, you're just off by 5-10 years for these generations as commonly used and understood for things like Geopolitics and Marketing
To be clear, the shows and stuff we watched are spot on, you just have the wrong years and name overlaps for the generations.
American culture*
Some countries are just now getting Corey in the House.
Scientists estimate the MttC (Mean Time To Corey) for eastern Europe will approach zero within the next 5 years.
it's a great classic anime
It's a neat graph and some things apply elsewhere too, but it's /r/USdefaultism at it's finest. Even included the damn presidents.
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It definitely gained popularity in more recent years though.
As a Y2K Canadian baby, I definitely watched Peppa Pig from like 2004-2006ish but it was on every now and then and people my age were kinda divided on it, some remember it fondly, but most remember it as a show for babies, and not young kids like we were at the time.
The generation after mine definitely got the full force Peppa Pig experience, it has BLOWN up in the last 5ish years
I was thinking the same. Most of these things came later in Eastern Europe where I grew up.
I'm not sure why people act so surprised the United States is the default on Reddit. It's almost entirely English speaking and the majority of users are from the United States and Canada, which is pretty much culturally part of the United States.
people consuming American media
USDEFAULTISM EVERYWHERE š±
Also, it's an American company and website
This is a dumb argument. Reddit is a publicly available website worldwide, and nothing about Reddit is intrinsically tied to the US or US culture. That's like saying YouTube is an American company, or that TikTok is a Chinese company.
Nah, Reddit and YouTube are Americanized because their base began and thrived from an American audience. Tiktok is Chinese but China has their own version of tiktok. Tiktok was created to branch into an American/Western audience.
Those aren't American and Chinese companies? Governed and based in the United States and China? For most cultures and languages, there is usually a loosely separated area for people of said culture to consume content. For the english speaking part of the west that is the core of reddit, the overwhelming amount of cultural influence, money, and individuals come from the United States. Reddit doesn't really practice the same hyper algorithm based design as youtube to separate these cultures, or use regional and language filtering like youtube. Unfortunately for non Americans who speak english, this means you don't really have other options but to be surrounded by Americans, who coincidentally happen to talk about and consume American things.
Some people on this website are exactly like the "Americans" they love to stereotype. I don't show up on Taringa or something and act all annoyed that people speak Spanish and focus on the Spanish area of the world by default. Going to a website dominated by a specific culture or area and expecting it to not be focused on that culture is just dumb. It's pretty much the parallel version of the boomer who demands someone in Mexico to speak English while they are on vacation.
Canadian here!
Culturally speaking Canada is a part of America. Simple as that. As a kid (and even today) I could name more presidents off the top of my head than prime ministers.
The media in Canada (at least growing up, but still to an extent) was almost entirely American. There were a handful of Canadian shows and such on TV, but many of them aired in America, well, many of the good ones at least.
Plus it helps that a ridiculous percentage of our population lives within 100km of the border, and a ridiculous percentage of THAT population lives in southern Ontario. So we are definitely āstealingā a lot of our ācultureā from America.
Corner gas! Red Green!
(American here)
The generational terms are specific to the US. It's a system of grouping Americans based on shared childhood experiences/culture. You can do a similar exercise with other cultures but you wouldn't be identifying the same generations. Baby boomer culture is specific to just how significant the increase in birth rate following WW2 was in the US and the effects of the massive growth of the US economy caused by escaping WW2 in a better state than most other countries. Countries which did not have those same effects will have a very different experience at that time even beyond superficial pop culture references and are not truly "baby boomers".
this is an American website...
You know Reddit is based in California and the majority of users are in the US, right?
Edit: this is like going to a .de website and complaining that people assume most people are German. 40% of users is a majority because no other country has even close to that share of users. .com is the default for US based websites (unfortunate side effect of the internet's history) and English is the major language here (unfortunate side effect of colonialism). This is a US website that many people use internationally.
Edit again: As of last month, US Redditors make up 47% of site traffic. https://www.statista.com/statistics/325144/reddit-global-active-user-distribution/
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42.51% of reddit users are from the US with another 6.36% being from Canada. That's 48.87% of this site having a similar media consumption background. This was also posted during the day for the US and Canada and in the most commonly spoken language for both Reddit and US/Canada. What did you expect? Fucking Azerbaijan to dominate this list or something?
Of any single location, there are more people here from the US than anywhere else in the world. If you're going to assume people are from a place, the US makes the most sense.
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Oh my god, subreddits are forums. Reddit doesn't customize subreddit content based on where you're from. Reddit also doesn't control any of the content; the posters do. The majority of posters at this hour on this site are almost certainly from both the US and Canada. Of course US/Canadian culture will dominate at this hour!
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I don't even know how to respond to your comment. Can't people just enjoy things? The post is 92% upvoted. Clearly the fact that it's based around north american life (not just the US!) is well received. Hell, at this hour, the overwhelming majority of reddit users either speak spanish or english, and this is an english part of reddit so let's just assume that the overwhelmingly vast majorty of users looking at this guide are from Canada and the US.
What you're doing is somewhat akin to going to /de/ and chiding everyone for speaking German. That's why I'm emotional. It's breaking my brain how obtuse you have to be do that.
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It is the same though. If you can't understand why that is, I guess that's on you. It's a basic social concept- you sometimes assume the role of people and places and infer what is right and what isn't. You can also infer extra things not explicitly stated and work off of that information. And again, if you can't get understand that, that's 100% on you if you don't understand these concepts.
Some mornings, my feed has tons of stuff from the Netherlands, Germany, India, etc. I don't get upset at that content being on /r/all. It's just... a side effect of being on a shared site like Reddit. And if you want to have a double standard that some countries can have their stuff in the common feed while others can't, again, that's 100% on you as well.
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You really can't determine that it's North American-specific from the content?
^(holy shit)
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You're not answering my question. Are or are you not able to determine whether the original content is North American-specific?
This post literally has pictures of US presidents, is heavily featuring shows popular in the US, and mentions 9/11.
TikTok has a considerably larger non-US userbase than Reddit. The US barely has more users than Indonesia on the platform. Weirdly, China doesn't make the top 10, but Asia leads by FAR. I am struggling to find anything that breaks down percentage of users by country vs. user count, and I suspect that China didn't report data.
Where did I EVER say people have to conform to the US? I said that it's weird to constantly complain that most people on here are from the US, when 47% of users are in the US, and the second most represented country is the UK with just barely over 7% of users (Canada is 3rd with similar numbers). Keep in mind too that subs themselves are also likely to weight more toward one country than another.
If I assume someone's from somewhere, it's the US or Canada unless otherwise reported... because there's about a 55% chance that's true, and a less than 8% for literally anywhere else on the planet. It's like American tourists going to another non-English-speaking country and complaining that not everyone speaks perfect English.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/325144/reddit-global-active-user-distribution/
Well you really shouldn't count the America as one location because it's so huge and its states are so incredibly diverse
That's not the topic at hand.
Did you know that they call it pop in the Midwest but soda in Florida
That's also entirely irrelevant.
Europe should make there own website if they don't want us to call it pop that's what I'm saying
Absolutely irrelevant where it's headquartered, reddit is a worldwide web.
Faster connection speed, and initial user base
Nope, that is a myth! :) Around 40% of users are USian hahaha!
Where has more than 40% then?
That's 40% US, and then smaller percentages of everywhere else adding up to 60%.
Should people default their assumption to Zimbabwe being the majority because users from Zimbabwe are part of the 60% of non-US Redditors?
"Where has more than 40% then?"
The rest of the world :)
"Should people default their assumption to Zimbabwe being the majority because users from Zimbabwe are part of the 60% of non-US Redditors?"
No, people shouldn't fucking assume, you moron.
I don't know if you're aware, but the rest of the world is REALLY BIG and very diverse. 40% from a single country is huge.
40% from a single country is still a minority. :(
But has VASTLY more people than literally anywhere else in the world on here. Especially when you consider that decent proportions of the other 60% might be in non-English subs, and many default subs are more heavily influenced by/about US politics and culture specifically and draw more of the US users.
Still a minority. :(
"many default subs are more heavily influenced by/about US politics and culture specifically"
That's US defaultism, yes. General subs becoming USA subs is... bad.
From what I can find, US users make up just over 47% of active Redditors. If you include Canada (thanks to our close geography, similar culture, similar approach to laws, and shared history... half of my family is Metis - an arbitrary border line is what makes us US instead of Canadian) that bumps it up to about 55% of users.
For reference, the second most users come from the UK and it's just barely over 7% of Redditors.
So yes, there's going to be a LOT of users from the US here, we are the most represented of any country. Yes, people are going to assume that folks are from the US instead of elsewhere because there's a very high chance that's the case, and there's no other country that comes close to having a similar proportion of people on. It's cool that there's a lot of different parts of the world on here, but unless you're actively including the country or region you're from... how is anyone supposed to have a clue?
I just think it's really weird when people come to a website based in the US, wherein people in the US are the most represented by a LONG shot, where people in the US and Canada make up over half the user base, and complain that people talk about US politics and culture.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/325144/reddit-global-active-user-distribution/
Still a minority. :( You are SOOOO cute though! (You don't get to group Canadians with USians. Canadians complain about US defaultism and US people all the time. I'm afraid you're alone here!)
"Yes, people are going to assume that folks are from the US instead of elsewhere because there's a very high chance that's the case"
A 47% chance is a minority. If you assume someone is USian, you're literally more likely to be wrong than right lmfaooo
"It's cool that there's a lot of different parts of the world on here, but unless you're actively including the country or region you're from... how is anyone supposed to have a clue?"
I literally won't even address this because it is so vomit-inducing. "How is anyone supposed to have a clue that over half of the user base exists?" "How is anyone supposed to have a clue about the orher 194 countries?" Jesus fuck, you are brainwashed.
"I just think it's really weird when people come to a website based in the US, wherein people in the US are the most represented by a LONG shot, where people in the US and Canada make up over half the user base, and complain that people talk about US politics and culture."
Do you have an example of people conplaining about USian politics and culture being mentioned? I've never seen that before, it sounds really interesting! It would be such a shame if it turned out to be a lie that you made up!!
Literally right here. You are literally complaining about people from the US talking about US culture on Reddit. That's the comment you rushed in to defend. Also, you should change your username, because you are not friendly at all.
Also, "USian" isn't a word. The internationally accepted term is "American" because our country doesn't really have a name, as we are a federally grouped collection of individual states, like a tighter EU. But if you want to sound like a huge jerk you can keep doing that.
You sound like the annoying tourist that goes to another country, complains that not everyone speaks your language, you have to eat different kinds of foods, etc.
A lot of people on here are from the US. An overwhelming number compared to literally every other country. No other country comes close to having as many Redditors. Especially for posts made when folks in the US are awake, and in English-speaking subreddits. It's cool that the website is popular internationally and you get to talk to people from other places. It's shitty when people complain and bitch that folks from the US talk about things from the US, in areas where over half the people commenting are likely from the US. If you want people to know where you're from and not assume you're in the majority, SAY SOMETHING.
Also, if you can't tell the OP is about growing up in the US based on the generation names, pop culture references, pictures of presidents, and reference to 9/11, I don't know what to tell you.
Edit: Also you clearly don't know anything about US and Canadian culture and relations. Do you know what "Metis" is?
More like with 47 percent that means we come in first place! And if you arenāt first youāre last like Ricky Bobby always said! So ya, for mostly US news I go to r/news not r/worldnews and same with r/politics. So no different with cool guides. If you are bothered why jot start r/worldcoolguides where you can make sure every guide will contain a reference that every country in the world can get- even that Amazonian tribe that doesnāt have contact with outsiders lest yāall were to exclude them from the default like some damn US redditor colonizersā¦ lmao
Absolutely not hahaha! If you want an USian version of normal subs, YOU make UScoolguides! :)
No need. The content here works just fine for me. Don't fix what ain't broke.
And if not they're English speaking. This image holds near perfectly for Australia. Throw in a few local and UK shows to round it out.
I think the main difference is whether or not you gave a fuck about 9/11 lol
Really? I had no idea 9/11 was big in Australia!! :D
Never understood the r/USdefaultism issue. reddit is an Amercian company.
Edit: Europeans not understanding culture vs language. Shocker š
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Because Americans are the main users for Reddit. Itās why I pointed out itās a U.S. company
They go hand in hand.
Not sure why youād have an issue understanding that.
A US based graph on a US based website? What is this fuckery?
The existence of that subreddit on a website created by Americans, and with a 47% American userbase, is just further proof that people want to be upset by something.
its *
Same in the UK. Definitely not just American with some of these.
That depends. For us older folks (I'm Gen X) about 50% of what's on here was relevant, but we also had loads of our own programming.
Blue Peter
John Craven's Newsround
Rentaghost
Trapdoor
Trumpton/Camberwick Green
Ifor the Engine
Multicoloured Swapshop
There are literally hundreds of UK programmes that were much more commonplace than the American series on this collage.
I didn't see Doctor Who!!
Old Who is top right in the boomer category. Yeah it doesnāt show up again which is kinda odd I thought the tennant/smith era was fairly big in the US.
Weirdly iām late millennial but do remember Blue Peter actually š
Dr Who not being there is weird
Not that weird as it started it 1958 and is still on air now. It's the longest running kids show in the world.
But it does go to show how slanted towards the US this graphic is. Every British kid, from every generation shown, will have seen Blue Peter.
No one cares about "some of these".
It's a chart made by an USian for USians, they just forgot to state that (as per usual).
https://imgflip.com/i/7h5xr2
It's BEEN happening for a while hahaha! Good luck :)
https://reddit.com/r/polls/comments/12cizld/_/jf2ehht/?context=1
Lol.
(Just a heads up: if you block people, they can't see your comments. The more you know!)
"Lol."
? :)
Iād argue that for core or maybe late millennial and later they would be exposed to it via the internet. I think anything zoomer or later will crossover for sure, again due to the internet.
Again, we are. NOT. talking. about. the media mentioned in the post.
So what media are you talking about then?
N O T . t h e . M E D I A
So you mean presidents and things like that?
The US-centric "if you don't remember... you're a..." things, yes.
Some are definitely UK too just the timings are different and we have some more shows exclusive to us.
Yeah they would show things at their own times on our channels, we got caught up in LOST too
As a core zoomer australian this is 99% accurate (peppa pig is way too old to be lumped in with gen alpha). Of course an american website with mostly english speaking users (on an english subreddit) is going to refer to things from the perspective of countries that primarily speak english
*US culture
Well im glad someone said it.
My thoughts exactly
Some thing like cars, playstation and a few other cartoons are also relevant outside america.
Yeah. Some semi-popular animes like HunterxHunter but no One Piece? Fucking seriously?
We had sky channel and super channel when i was a kid (late gen x) and it matches perfectly for me.
There's other culture ?
Early Millennial needs more Gargoyles.
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Wow, you're right. I looked at it on my phone, and didn't see it until I opened it on my laptop. But, I there can still be more Gargoyles.
Darkwing Duck also comes to mind.
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And X-Men
I'm with ya bud! Gargoyles, batman, xmen, boy meets world. What a time
As a xennial, I always feel sad by charts like these because I feel like I don't fit in anywhere.
View it as a gradient vs a hard and fast rule. I'm a late GenXer but had 2 older sisters which meant I lost the remote control wars and watched whatever they were into instead of more "age-appropriate" shows/media. So I lived the core and late GenX life.
And honestly, it's all just bullshit made-up categorizations anyway.
I had a younger sister and young parents so my attention skewed younger. That's a good point about how siblings influence those of us born on the cusp of a generation.
And honestly, it's all just bullshit made-up categorizations anyway.
Boomers are the only truly defined "generation" by sociologists. Everything else was made up by pop-culture and news media.
As someone between Y and Z I feel that
Does that make you a zennial?
I guess though the chart makes it clear that since I don't remember 9/11 I'm a zoomer.
I didnt see 9/11 on tv, but i remember my parents explaining it to my brother and I and how scared everyone was.
What if don't remember it because I'm not American, what does that make me?
Sorry all non-Americans are zoomers according to this
I'm 95 and I thought I remembered 9/11 but then I considered my memory critically and in my memory it happened while I was living in Canada, but I was actually still living in the states at the time.
it's really weird to realize your memory is fake or severely distorted.
the chart is right
I know
I was born in 1999 so I got to grow up with the death of the anolog era itās actually a neat experience no other group will be able so say they did. Knowing what it is like with anolog things but still knowing enough about the new
If you were born in 99 you donāt really remember analog
I lived in a poor family. We didnāt go digital till I was like 12
I was born late 98 so same here
Hey same here. And I have a sister five years older so most of my early media was just her late millennial stuff. And our household was pretty analog for a long time.
Came here to say this š¢ Too young for Facebook, too old for Instagram. Grew up with video games but not all of my friends did. Didn't have a mobile or internet at home until I was an adult but some of my friends did.
The conditional statements have left me [undefined]
I don't remember the moon landing, but I do remember the challenger disaster.
So... I guess I'm not human? Would explain a lot of things...
If people overlook you in this kind of list, you're definitely Gen X. I know I am. :-)
Really? As a core millennial I feel like I fit in basically every block.
I wish they'd make up their minds whether they want to call me X or Millennial. I prefer the Generation Oregon Trail, myself. Typically considered '79-'82. It's a unique period to be born because when we were Freshmen in high school, nobody had a cell phone (if they'd ever even seen one in person) and the internet was still something you had to explain because most people hadn't heard of it, but by graduation cell phones were everywhere and everyone had an email address and a Geocities page.
Yes, calling us Generation Oregon Trail is better than xennial. Dysentery hasn't gotten me yet.
Caulk the wagons. We're fording this bitch. Hang on, Aunt Sally.
It's ok, these years are wrong and it labels our childhood as "Late GenX" but we are, as I've learned to embrace, "Elder Millennials"
Thank you! I identify with millennials but I've known several gen xers who actually get angry when I say that. Weirdos.
Same. Born in 1983. Lots of the gen x stuff is stuff I watched, etc, bust same with a bunch of the millennial stuff. I guess Iām a xennial or whatever.
Late Gen x culture here, kind of sad that Star Trek TNG wasn't included
Sad, Hell it pretty much ticked me off for that. Not to mention ST:DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, and nevermind they left off all of the Star Trek movies especially The Wrath of Khan.
But Small Soldiers made it in. Don't get me wrong I'm glad it made it in. But was definitely not as well known. I know they couldn't include everything but to seriously leave them out and tbf the rest of the Star Wars movies. Ok rant over, don't wanna ruin my own evening.
I'm in the early millennial group but find myself having gravitated towards the late gen x culture since I watched more of those shows/movies than what followed.
Yeah the late X stuff is my childhood as an 89er. Almost all of the stuff in the core category, I feel like I had outgrown them when they were popular.
ha same year and I actually swung more in the other direction. Guess I was more childish than you haha
Same. Same with music as well.
I think a lot has to do with your siblings/immediate peers, if you had older siblings you were definitely exposed to more gen x culture. An oldest child (or oldest cousin) is the opposite, and will more naturally gravitate to the younger demographic
Yeah. Same for me but late boomer/early gen x and I watched tons of the 50s stuff.
I think it just comes down to if the shows were that big of a phenomenon for that generation the just kept rehashing them as long as they could.
Like which generation claims the Simpsons and south Park
Moon landing >> Challenger >> 9/11 >> Harambeā¦
Goddamn!!!
Core and late Gen X weāre just magical.
Oregon Trail generation checking in(76-83). Looking at this chart makes me realize how much of my early childhood was dominated by Boomer TV. Looney Toons, Tom and Jerry, Flintstones, Jetson, Star Trek. Then add on everything from the 70s and 80s it's a miracle we ever left the house.
There's one thing missing from Gen X. Especially my era. Game shows. Shows like Price is Right, Press Your Luck, Tic Tac Dough were every bit as important to me as the cartoons, pop TV and movies of the time.
Big money! No whammys!
I never understood Paul Lynde until much, much later.
Yeah we were lucky enough to see the world before the information/communication/computing explosion and see it all happen as we grew up.
To think Iāve been computer gaming for 46 years.
Love that Rocket Power is just a picture of Tito
A super creepy picture of Tito. Had me rolling.
My toddler it's an Alpha? I can't wait to make my husband cringe by telling him.
Oh fuck, my kids are going to be Betas
There just isn't a name for them yet. Since Gen X, people have just continued the naming traditions. Gen Y became the Millennials and Gen Z is known now as Zoomers. Alpha will change to something once a name picks up enough steam to change it
I know. I just thought it was funny.
WHERE IS VINE should be round mid Gen z
Vine is early Gen Z but yes it should be there
Good lord, this is quite accurate. I was born straddling the core/late Gen X, and of everything there I only didnāt watch one show in each session, and the one is the late was because we couldnāt access Fraggle Rock.
Am Iām overlooking it, but did Robotech (the Americanized conglomerate) not make the list? I watched that religiously.
Born in ā79 but somehow straddle core and late gen x on this chart. Robotech was popular when I was in high school, though; not sure why I never saw it in the ā80s.
Yep, I was born in 92 on the border between core and late millennial, and I recognized pretty much everything from both boxes, and remember watching almost all of it.
This is so male centric. Where is strawberry shortcake, Jen and the holograms, monchici, Sheera Princess of Power? I am sure you are missing others, but it completely ignores female lead entertainment.
No Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place...
No LIZZIE MCGUIRE. Insane omission for core-late millennial imo. Also, they included Cory In The House, but not THATāS SO RAVEN?! š¤¦āāļø
She-Ra is in there, both the old one and the reboot
That is still male centric. All little boys knew about it becuase human.
Right? I thought Iād at least see Totally Spies or even Winx Club
*Jem but yeah I came to say this. No My Little Pony in the 80s? The first Disney Princess is Mulan? No Punky Brewster or Lady Lovely Locks? Rainbow Brite???
And sabrina the teenage witch and all that
Thanks for including Thundarr The Barbarian- amazing cartoon back in the day
Nailed it. For me, late gen xer, anyway. For real, I haven't thought about care bears for YEARS, haha. Awesome. Love this.
I was born in 94 and it was half of core and half of late for me.
My brother was born in 98 he does remember 9/11 despite this assertion he shouldnt. And also grew up on the stuff I did.
Iām a 95 and core millennial makes up like 90% of my early childhood. Late millennial is pretty accurate with 2001-2005, feels like 2001-2007 for me. But man if the playground didnāt absolutely REVOLVE around PokĆ©mon for kids my age back then. Digimon died pretty quick, but had a few good years for me and my friends, but pokemon was all the rage for us as 95s.
And yeah, 9/11. Pretty shitty.
I don't fit into my section at all
I'm assuming you're gen Alpha? It's somewhat hard to determine the lasting culture of a generation that is still developing.
nope.
Same. My years are a gen ahead but everything I grew up with is a gen behind. These charts never get mine right.
Are the young kids into JoJo's? JoJo is old lol. I'm glad they like it though
JoJo didnāt really get popular until part 3 of the anime, which was like 2014? Really weird situation in general, almost BIZZARE. part 4 (2016) it became popular af. Part 5 I remember it being fucking everywhere, part 6 happened and now everyone waits patiently for part 7.
The manga has been running for decades is what I mean
Yeah I know. But the anime made it popular basically.
JoJo didnāt really get popular until part 3 of the anime, which was like 2014? Really weird situation in general, almost BIZZARE. part 4 (2016) it became popular af. Part 5 I remember it being fucking everywhere, part 6 happened and now everyone waits patiently for part 7.
Still a zoomer thing though. The chart does fail to account for the fact that more modern folk continue to enjoy "kid" stuff into adulthood more.
Yeah the manga was basically niche in the west and the anime made it popular.
Early GenX pop culture was extraordinary entertaining. And we had āmuscle bikesā and Big Wheels
Core millennial. Yeah itās pretty accurate
Yeah core and late millennial is basically spot on.
I can't imagine how much effort all of this is, but trying to find what defines Generation and putting it into Charts like this isn't always useful.
A show might have reached peak popularity at a certain time and be a kids show, but the kids might have gotten into it years earlier when it started but the show reached it's peak 4 seasons in and kids could have been at the upper edge of expected audiences when it started while other kids will watch reruns still years later.
Shows that go for 3 seasons, and originally air over 4 years with an age range goal of 10-15 with reruns for the next 6 years could impact people born in 19 different years and more.
Putting them in order by when they came out and for how long reruns kept going as a strip of fading interest might be more usefull than trying to put these things into age categories.
Also official age categories are often not reflective of fan ages, i know a lot of people who got into long running kids shows at 14, that were aimed at 6-12yo and the shows kept going for like 8 more years and are still Fans despite the categories now being 10 years off xD
It seems far more like a for fun/nostalgia thing than a legitimate category. But you're right about reruns and such. I'm a core millennial, born at the tail end of the 80s, but I identify with at least half of every block both before and after my primary block. The only exception is the most recent one, but even then I know of most of it and have definitely watched some of those shows all the way through too.
Consider it more of a āmood boardā than a definitive segmentation of cultural eras.
Aka childhood if you were an american middle class boy, I assume?
Idk lol
The Reddit special
Yeah it's extremely biased towards Americans it seems.
I was born in 99 but Australia was a few years behind with media and my mum would download stuff from Pirate Bay, so as a kid I watched stuff like Adams Family, Get Smart, F Troop, Jetsons, DB/Z, Digimon, Pokemon and way more I can't think of.
My mum had an N64 and my uncle gave me his PS1, we had a windows vista PC, I eventually had dial up internet.
I don't remember 9/11 because I was too young, but that doesn't mean I'm Gen Z. I'm culturally closer to Gen X than I am Gen Z, if these people making the "rules" think I'm apart of the lit bae fam squad finna rizz fr fr club then they need to seek psychiatric care.
The wrestling fan in me loves that this is including The popular wrestlers of the era. The wrestling fan in me also hates seeing Roman Reigns being represented as the popular wrestler of the current generation.
Early millennial is really missing some Xena warrior princess.
I agree to this, born in 87, it was either Teletubbies, Power Rangers or boobs.
Surprised not to see a Call of Duty logo in there somewhere as it had been a viable staple of entertainment for nearly 20 yearsā¦.and much more impactful on pop culture of kids compared to several other IP on this list.
Late millennial probably most appropriate
There are no pogs in this cool guide. Were they not a thing in the early 90s in the US?
Pogs are in there
Ah found them! Niceā¦ what about yo yoās, am I missing those too?
Pretty good layout, but I have issue with the following:
Moon landing
Challenger explosion
9/11
Harambe?! <-- this was, at most, meme material and not at all on the same cultural level as the previous generations. Do we have nothing that could be more identifiable than a meme? Or is that the joke?
Where the fuck is the Xmen Cartoon! Thats a core memory for Millenials
Itās in there next to Goofy movie
...so its confession time. I didn't have my reading glasses on and didn't notice it. I appreciate you. I also noticed Are You Afraid of The Dark? and this is the most accurate thing I have ever seen.
And the fact that I need reading glasses now just to read my phone is depressing as hell. Ah, the slow and inevitable descent into decay and irrelevance.
*Eyes Narrow*
*Points at Early Zoomer / Gen Z Culture kid culture*
"Right here officer, this is where everything went wrong..."
So what Iām hearing is that youāre old and canāt accept it
Let's hear it for OP putting the effort to start all these discussions and arguments. Some quality distraction here
I dunno, some of this stuff feels a little off to me. I was born in January 7th 1997, and I can honestly say that I firmly fit within the "Late Millennial" kid culture, and partially within the "Core Millennial" kid culture, as well as the firmly fitting within the Early Zoomer culture too. Do I remember 9/11? Not really. I was 4 years old. I do remember a couple of things from when I was 2 or 3, but my memories basically start at 4, but the events of 9/11 are just something I don't really remember. Maybe if I lived in New York at the time I would, but at the time I was living in Michigan/Illinois.
Cow & Chicken, Cat-Dog, Batman Beyond, Attitude Era WWF/E, Pokemon vs Digimon, All That/Kenan & Kel, Tarzan, and Iron Giant should be in the crossover between core/late gen Y. These are all things I very much remember seeing in my earliest youth. Heck, Survival Series 1999 is one of my earliest memories. Xiaolin Showdown should be in the crossover between late gen y/early gen z.
Also, why is the dreamcast put in the same region as the PS1/N64? The Dreamcast is the same generation as the GC/Xbox/PS2. And I very firmly remember the dreamcast.
My nostalgia stops at Late Gen X but goes back to Early Boomer. There are many things from the first sections that were just what was on the four tv channels we had. Certainly Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. But also pretty much all the cartoons, Bonanza, Zoro, Andy Griffith, Batman.
Maybe it's in there and I don't see it, I'm way more of a Star Trek: TNG person than TOS. I remember when TNG was in first run syndication and watched it. But also from that era were the TOS films which I'm quite fond of as well.
Had to search to find a fellow Star Trek fan and upvote. At least we're not totally alone.
As a late 80ās baby I refuse to be lumped with the widespread demographic of assholes known as gen-x. I know how to use reply-all properly and strongly idolized the green power ranger.
You're misreading it dude. Look at "Primary audience" for birth years, late 80s is millennial.
The fuck does popularity imply then? The āpopulation born between x-xā?! š¤£
Im 96 and tottaly agree with it and 2001-2005
I have to say it- big love to the smosh and plants vs zombies :,)
I was born in 1993 and identify with the early millenial/core millenial way more than my time actual time period.
Why haven't they remade the six million dollar man? We have the technology . We can rebuild him better than he was before...
IIRC Kevin Smith was hired to write a screenplay for a reboot in 1998, which was then cancelled. Since he wrote the screenplay, he turned it around and made a comic book version of it.
(Update -- Oh, here's the details.
I'm prepared to launch into long discussions of any of the millenial content...
Fuck yeah core/late Gen X!
Awesome post by the way, thank you for putting this together!
Captain....CAAAAAAAVEMAAAAAN!!! If you know, you know.
As a core Gen x kid there was a boatload of crossovers from the earlier boomer stuff. Because there were only four networks. And being a rural kid a lot of the newer stuff took awhile to get there.
Why don't you just take an actual poll? This is so unscientific. Just using personal experiance and feedback isnt qualifications for an accurate guide. Even slightly.
duck tales (woo ooo oo)
I donāt think whoever made this is British, whereās all the CBBC shows?!
As mentioned, this applys for the US only. If you live in a country with heavy dubbing, you basically grew up in the previous sector
i remember the challenger disaster!!! im not a millennial! infact, im a little disappointed that that block doesnt contain Inhumanoids or MASK.. and now i feel like i should be demanding reparations for thinking i was a millennial this whole time.. i'll take one house, please!
What I find interesting is how the use of color has shifted over time in these. Especially if you compare early boomer to late zoomed and everything in between.
These are a little accurate but as long as you watched regular cable you watched all the old shows like Bonanza couldn't smoke Etc up until about 2000 even after when I go to my mother's house she still has it on the TV
ummm... millennial culture is WIDELY regarded as from 1983 - early 90's and distinctly different from gen X. Like... it's settled vernacular. This is like me trying to redefine a carburator as a sandwich with cheese and ham- which has a name, and that's called a ham sandwich. People born from 1983 - 90s have a generation and that generation is not fucking gen X. that's what that generation is.
You're misreading it dude. "Primary audience" is the birth years and those say Millennials were born 1982-1996. "Popularity" is the childhood culture and it says Millennial culture is 1989-2005.
Millennials actually start in ā81
As an early GenXer, I think this is pretty accurate.
Honestly I feel like an entire generation was skipped in between late millennial/gen y and early zoomer/gen z. A lot of the gen z references are too young for someone born in 2001.
This is great work!!!
I am always skeptical of these types of things, but it matched what I watched more than 90%.. hell, I had forgotten about a bunch of them too, like the greatest american hero.. complete oddball show, but i loved it back then
In America
Pretty accurate for Britain as well. Ghost Busters, Turtles (although it was "Hero Turtles" not "Ninja Turtles"), Jurassic Park, SNES/Genesis (Megadrive).
Some things, no, but the most marketable things always made it over the Atlantic.
A lot of it applies yeah but there's a lot of stuff that's irrelevant to us too and even more that's missing if it was a British one
If you made one about India or Brazil you wouldn't get much attention because most users on Reddit are from the US.
r/USdefaultism
If the country isnāt explicitly mentioned, just assume itās the US. Problem solved.
That's what US defaultism is, yes. That doesn't "solve" the problem, it is the problem.
Whatās the problem?
US defaultism
Or, wild idea, just add the country name in the title? "Childhood culture of the generations in the U.S.A." Problem solved.
Sure, either works. My option is simpler and saves on electricity/bandwidth, however.
I say leave it to the discretion of the poster which system they prefer.
Because a majority of Reddit users are from the US and English speaking.
It's more like /r/peopleliveincities
Nope! That is a common myth, but 100% false! :)
No it's not. All statistics I can find show that about 50% of Reddit users are from the US.
You conveniently left out the fact that it's somewhere between 44-49%, which is, in fact, a minority. :)
Even if it was 44-49% versus the rest of the entire fucking planet, thatās not a minority. You think the UK is the other 50+%? What other place has that much of a share? The rest of the other 194 countries are representing the other half. Itās not a minority in any way.
Yes, less than 50% is a minority LMFAOOO. Jesus you are braindead.
You don't have a single clue what a minority is hahaha!
Huh? ....
Huh? :)
Damn, canāt understand this thing, itās all American crap.
Step 1:
Google popular movies/tv shows/video games/whatever from a time period
Step 2:
Make it into a starter pack meme
Step 3:
10k upvotes
Look at the OP's account submission history...
Step 4:
Do it again. In every applicable community.
And it's not even original work.
They just make endless nostalgia collages and repost them furiously.
God that's so annoying
I don't know, seems like a lot of work to me to do everything required for OP. I'd say the upvotes are justified.
You're just Googling images and putting them into a document. Anyone could do that. Then these type of memes in particular don't take any creativity or humor either. I respectfully disagree. I'm just sick of seeing them on my feed.
This guy is the only one I've seen doing this kind of comprehensive, multi-generation pop culture overview. Not sure why you say you're sick of it.
I used to frequent /r/starterpacks and it's very common there. I ended up unsubscribing. That sub used to be great but it's gotten very dull.
From just what I've seen on r/all, I imagine you got sick of a lot of r/starterpacks, because even a lot of the stuff that makes it to the front page is pretty repetitive.
The problem is he doesn't understand what he's doing.
Captain Kangaroo ran until 1992.
I mean I wouldn't necessarily expect the graph to be 100% accurate, but that doesn't mean it isn't still well done in general.
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It's so funny that I've never seen generations depicted so well before. I've never in my life seen Early, Core, and Late used to show this.
The actual media being categorized is a massive cherry on top.
A lot of people have no clue there's 40 year old milennials.
The singular thing the internet has definitively shown us is that generational markers mean nothing.
There is nothing inherently similar in two people growing up on the same street in the same income bracket with global connectivity.
The very fact that you had to update this useless chart is because it is entirely arbitrary.
Why do people give so much of a shit about defining generations?
Relateability. And it helps in understanding how people grew up given the time periods that they were born in.
It gives fringe demographics the perception of group inclusivity while simultaneously engaging in socially acceptable prejudice against others in order to alleviate the symptoms of their own exclusion.
Two sexes. Three economic worlds, Four races. Five income classes. Six generations... Just go down the line until you find your majority.
That or failure to adapt to the times. Failing to burn out, would rather fade away in ad/bot-driven nostalgia.
Cheers!
Early millenial = best childhood culture
Millennials in general had it good. We're the last generation that didn't grow up with the internet during our developmental years. Obviously it was around but noone knew what to do with it outside of watching cat videos and playing flash games. We got to live out the last bit of the chill 90s before 9/11 changed the world.
I'm an early, and one of the stupid things I think was the most precious was going into town and playing whatever demos they had set up on new consoles.
I remember playing Goldeneye on a demo N64 and thinking it was amazing. I remember the Silent Cartographer demo they had for Halo on the original Xbox.
You would buy a game based on a magazine review, or just buy it because it looked right, find out it was terrible, and play it anyway.
Also we got to see the original, unmodified Star Wars films, which are really hard to get ahold of now.
I remember doing that when the GameCube came out. I've never wanted a game more than I wanted super Mario sunshine. I saved up for like 2 years to get one. I still remember my dad driving me to EB games to grab one and me opening a brand new system for the first time in my life.
When we first got a PC (in 1998 I think), I used to love going to Electronics Boutique (as it was called here) to look through the PC games.
You'll know this yourself, looking at the pictures on the back of boxes, or in reviews in gaming magazines, was a big deal. Everything was so expensive (maybe not to the ludicrous degree it is now), you had to be sure if you were getting something new.
Sadly, I missed the GameCube (and never really had any Nintendo consoles bar a hand-me-down NES with only Mario and Duck Hunt, lol). Friends had them, but I never played them much. I did have the pleasure of playing M64, Banjo Kazooie and the original Smash Bros a lot on a friend's N64 though.
Yea a lot of my gaming and tv experience was at friends or family place and my new games were always borrowed or given to me. But anything new was special to me (even if not actually brand new) and i remember getting things in the weirdest ways (flea markets, garage sales, friends giving me hand me downs, etc.) Like my first pokemon game (yellow) was given to me cause my dad found it on the subway and thought it might work on my gameboy.
To your point, when we were a bit better off I remember doing extensive research before buying a game. Reading though magazines and forums to make sure I wasn't screwed by some crap game, especially since it would be quite a while until I could get another.
Like my first pokemon game (yellow) was given to me cause my dad found it on the subway
That is amazing.
My first exposure to Pokemon was a guy in my school year somehow playing a Japanese import version. I don't know how he was doing it, but he was doing it.
To your point, when we were a bit better off I remember doing extensive research before buying a game.
Yeah. And you still got fucked every now and then because the hype would overcome sensibility. Did I mention Fable? 19-year-old me got that game at launch before work one evening. Got home from work at 5 in the morning, having been working on a nightclub door all night without any rest or proper food, played it till sunrise, and realized it was a bit of a turd. :/
āHadā is the key qualifier there. It was good. Fuckin sucks ass now
Based.
Before smartphones, the internet, and social media took over.
This is really, really cool! And also well done. I get influences from older generations, but it totally stops at my generation and I dont know almost anything from that point on. I have two questions to OP. How was it done and do you have a bigger version? I can't zoom much :P
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There's no hard cutoff for any generation, they're all fuzzy boundaries and open to variation depending on who you ask.
Culture and social class also have a big factor of this. I'm a millennial but grew up with a bunch of gen x hand me downs cause we couldn't afford shit. I was playing NES and SNES while all my friends had an N64 or PS1
Strongly disagree with these dates, 8 was born in 1970 but associate way more with early millennial memories. A lot of these shows/references spanned multiple decades
Amazing post. Thank you
poor kids their naruto is boruto
lol.
never watched Boruto, is it that bad in comparison?
ive become jaded with the whole anime sphere because it is so ripe with repetitive tropes. the first 200 or so episodes add nothing
I have to say this is a bit wrong as all the anime at the end is TEEN anime. It isn't for 6 year olds which is what you're implying
johnny quest was the death of cartoons for me everyone in that show was so loud and annoying its like they thought yelling was funny
You mean johnny test?
What?? Jonny Quest is classic. Not Rocky and Bullwinkle classic, but still.
He's talking about Johnny Test which is a different show with a similar name
This should be used as a dating guide.
That was literally how I was looking at it. My special friend is 14 yrs younger..
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I live outside US and I remember clearly that the morning kids show was interrupted to show the "Breaking News" of the second airplane. With video footage and all. And the aftermath was also heavily covered in the news. It happened in the US but it's consequences had influence world. So remembering it is a global event.
Now....who the hell is Harambe? Don't remember the death because I never heard about it.
These terms were coined referring to American society
V interesting!
Where the fuck is Moo Mesa,Biker mice and street sharks?!
And then thereās me. Who had a bit of everything before 2009
This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on r/coolguides
Well done OP!
I know I am going to give off "Ol man yells at cloud" energy with this so don't take it too seriously.
But does anyone feel like kids stuff in the past decade seems kinda soul-less?
Like commercials and shows in the 90s and early 2000s seemed so cool and wacky and fun. But everything I see these days seems almost devoid of all that stuff.
I don't have cable anymore so I haven't seen commercials in years. But every once in a while I'll be somewhere that does, and it's like there are no fun wacky zany commercials for toys or anything anymore. Just like med commercials and ads for tv shows.
There was like this creative wonder when I was growing up I just feel is gone now. Every once in a while something will pop up but its super rare.
Though I could just be remembering all the stuff worth remembering while forgetting about the crap that wasn't of note.
Any idea how insulated you sound? Can a whole country be a cult?
As a gen x I canāt understate the effect of both videocassette rentals (24/7 godzilla access) and the advent of UHF. I basically went from Tom and Jerry (blech) to COBRALALALALALALALA overnight.
Where's "Generation Whiner"?
The whole Generation concept is stupid and causes is now mostly used for defining Them vs Us. But hey, Americans seems to like putting things into simple categories and give them labels, as we see in politics and many other places.
It's genuinely a little terrifying how controlled we've become.
The absence of strong men in later years is a big problem.
No Pete and Pete? What a garbage list.
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Whoa, I haven't thought about Megas XLR in years
Nothing but straight classics for my time - early millennials.
All but the last two are really accurate imo and well it's maybe me but JoJo for example was really really popular in France already back in the eighties, nineties
Oh my ššš
This is a really cool guide. But I have to say, I don't think the years and categorization are quite accurate. I was born in '62 and I'm not supposed to be in core audience for Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and Huckleberry Hound, e.g. They were mainstays for me and all of my friends. Some of the things that are supposed to be in my core I have literally never even heard of: Space Ghost? Astro Boy?
as a Core Gen X, you nailed it.
The only people Iāve ever heard talking about web3 are clueless executives grasping for relevancy. Not sure it qualifies as kid culture.
The only change is that there is a big shift between 2003 kids and 2004 kids. 2003 kids are not the core gen z kids. Early zoomer should end with 2003 instead of 2002.
In France, Naruto was already popular when I was a teen in the mid-2000s
HR Puffinstuff FTW
I got like 95% of the early millennial and 85-90% of the core millennial things. Damn what a trip down my early childhood. Starting to lose track of things that werenāt universal like Star Wars and Windows XP and early memes in the core zoomer group.
Growing up in a third world country after war means being born as a gen Z while receiving early boomer entertainment. And then 2000s brought the internet to my teenager and like a culture steroid from then. Everything everywhere all at once and I remembered sneaked to internet cafe to listen to Eminem "The real Slim Shady" a decade late when I was a teenager. At the same time trying to force everything into my mind from the boomer culture to gen x to millennials culture. Ngl, culturally speaking- I relate most to the boomer era just because of that specific circumstance
I love this graph. I'm born in 2002 and would say it's accurate. Had some elements of previous blocks in my childhood too like others have said. Very interesting to see what older generations have in their blocks!
And Calvin and Hobbes everywhere! ;)
Late boomer here. I feel like my memories are a combination of late Boomer and early Gen X, maybe even bleeding into Core Gen X a bit.
So Iām core Gen Z
A lot of these stayed on TV for decades and apply to multiple generations. Cool guide.
They missed 'Pound Puppies' and 'Rainbow Brite' ?
Help...I remember 9/11 but not Harambe. What kind of generational abomination am I??
I'm guessing you're between 32-38 years old and didn't get fully into reddit culture until somewhat recently.
Them alphas love that Modok MF
Great guide but I think this doesn't work for non American countries, like in Italian born in 2000 but in this chart I basically could be a late/core millenial and I think the millenial/gen y hits the mark more in my care rather than Zoomer.
Neat! I may have missed Mr. Rogers in there.
I'm a late boomer and this nails it.
Doctor Who was in there and I think that most people my age got onboard when Tom Baker was the Doctor (1974-1981?). A little after our kid years.
I was born in 1988 and everything from Late Gen X to Early Millennial was my childhood.
Nothing beats those Nick Toons, but where are Toy Story and the Mighty Ducks movies?
It changes a little bit if you had older siblings. I was born to be the primary audience of the late millennials, but I have an older brother, so I grew up with all of the millennial stuff, plus some late Gen X stuff.
I feel even more validated claiming Xennial now. Do I remember the Challenger disaster? Hell no. But my childhood was Fraggle Rock and assorted Ghostbusters media.
I grew up in Europe and demographically speaking, I was the primary audience of early Zoomer. But since it took ages for the networks to get the licences and translation done, I remember vividly watching late millennial stuff on TV after school. Fascinating post.
I'm classified as early zoomer and yet I still remember growing up with so much stuff from the entire millenial part
This just feels like gatekeeping, especially the "if you don't remember , then you're "
Like I was born in 98, but all the stuff that OP associates with kids born in the slot that ends in 96 was around when I was little and I remember it vividly.
Interestingly, because Iām from Quebec, Canada, the cost of translating the shows into French ensured that earlier shows than my time ( e.g. I dreamed of Jeannie, Bewitched, Little House on the Prairie, etc) were heavily rotated for years and years, as well as being seasons behind by the time they hit the prime time.
Gen-X'er here (born in 1970) and feel this is quite accurate, thank you. :)
Youāre missing āThe Matrixā.
Should be in the first or second millennial boxes.
Itās absolutely part of the millennial culture and had a cult following when it was released.
I love that I recognize something from every generation.
I was born in 80s but I identify more with core zoomers(?) lol am I the only one?
I am core Gen X and agree with this. I will say that due to reruns a lot of the Boomer stuff crosses over.
Anyone else born in 1990 and feel much more in tune with early millennial than core?
Astrology for nerds who never touch grass
"If you don't remember the Challenger disaster, you're a Millennial."
Screw that! I was born right at the end of 80 and I remember that but I still identify more as a Millennial than I do a Gen-X.
As a Brazilian I grew up watching almost everything in this post
I know you canāt include everything, but there is a criminal lack of Gigantor (1963) in the core-late boomer period. Especially when the blurb at the top mentions Anime.
Was I the only one watching Transformers and GI Joe in the 80s? I know Smurfs was popular but I only watched that if the other two weren't on after school.
- signed 80s Latch key kid
As a xennial, this is all true.
Pretty cool!
damn. I must be really old to watch Tom& Jerry while growing up š. Not reached my 20s probably and I already like a cartoon from the Boomer era
Where are the hit clips? I thought those were so cool when I was a kid
(Core millenial is where I think they would be)
Ah MapleStory, you were a fucking fever dream
Late Boomer is so accurate. [Side note: Wikipedia says that it's technically called "Generation Jones" (as in "Keeping up with the Joneses").
I remember the moon landing. I remember getting bored and trying to wander away and my parents yelling at me that I should watch this because it was a part of history.
My brother's are 6 and 9 years younger than me so I got to experience many levels of this.
I have a little bit all from the last 4
Oh god, alpha?
OP def got Late Gen X correct.
Born 1976 and the GenX Core was my experience.
Obviously this is US-centric but I would LOVE to see one of these for other countries all over the world. What was their pop culture and what was popular for them from other countries (like for the US, Japanese animation has been here for decades even before anime was popularized here).
Is that fuckin fanboy and chumchum drawn as chads?
Not bad! It would have been better with books added, literature is part of our culture as well.
Born 1997, most of what I watched was from previous generations: Pokemon, Kim Possible, Shrek, ETC.
The only ones from my time that I watched was the Disney/Pixar stuff
Am I just chronically consuming media or is it completely realistic to know and have seen quite literally each of these up until the last age groups lol
I feel like the internet kind of stopped the shared TV/entertainment culture kind of thing...
All that trouble and no sniff of Jem & The Holograms
me looking through the "if you dont remember" parts
Moon landing - "oh yes, that was a moment that defined a century let alone a generation"
Challenger disaster - "ah, an event that shook the world, case doubt on the space programme and the NASA projects at the time. many school children lost a dear teacher and affected so many lives"
9/11- "that was massive. an incomprehensible number of lives were affected by that disaster, many lives were lost and dragged us into a war that literally spanned a generation"
and finally, the ~~Ukraine War/Climate Crisis/Covid lockdowns/Australia wildfires~~ An internet meme based on 1 gorilla.
To be fair the events in strike through are way too recent. A more fair comparison is Trumpās election in 2016 or Brexit.
true, tbh the list of fucked up things that have happened in the last decade could fill a book
Fanboy and Chum chum look a bit...different
Its weird, despite the ādates of birthā you put in there, late Gen X and Early Gen Y are most of the things that ādefinedā me (then again, I live in Mexico so its probable that shows were aired years later over here compared to the chart)
Late gen z/Gen Alpha.
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Harambe as a generational divide is fitting. Never forget
Every time I see my birth year within the āEarly Millennialā bracket I cringe. Maybe because the Midwest tends to be 5 to 10 years behind on culture, have no connection with millennial.
Can I choose to identify as Gen X?
The most interesting thing about this is the color changes. Earlier colors oranges/greens/reds/blues and later colors are blues/pinks/purples/yellows.
One of the problem is found in separating the early zoomers and late millennials, is that the early-mid 2000ās sucked the 90ās dick for a while
Glad to see Superstar Billy Graham in there for Gen X lol
Oh, so for those that had cable or something right? Haha, where my Arthur and Static shock gang at
Who knows where I can watch the Secret Saturdays now that my nostalgia has been activated?
This one of the realist things ever created.
Why did they have to do He-man like that?š¤£
Iāve never been put into late Gen X before. People keep calling me a millennial for some reason, even though my childhood was completely analog except for Atari 2600 and later Nintendo.
And if you were poor, switch out the cable tv and the gadgets with whatever insane hodgepodge you had access to from all of the previous generations.
Between the UHF channels and PBS (Hey Space Balls is on! Put it on channel 20! CLACK CLA-CLACK!), my childhood pop cultural palette extends far beyond the borders of this infographic. I must've watched the Adam West Batman series every weekday (two episodes, back to back, from separate continuities of course) until I was like 8. We also had a donated 2600 and an NES that everyone in my family chipped in for.
Early millennial checking in. That is a pretty good list.
If youāre from South America, go back one step.
Iām from 86, but I identify most with the Late Gen X content
GenX and absolutely happy to chill with my Alpha kids. Their cartoons are great. Bluey got us through a tough stint in the kids hospital burn unit. About the only thing that would make my little girl smile.
Why is JoJo for kids born in 2012 and later???
This is the comment i was looking for, JoJo is for all.
Why is harambee as important as 9/11 in this guide?
Culture phenomena.
Dicks out for my man.
Sad the way our generation are based on the tv we watched. Then again itās probably all that worth remembering.
Duck Tales is the best thing that happened to me in my childhood.
The thing is, I was born in 2005 and experienced both what you consider early and core gen z culture
I feel so stupid. I saw generation y and was like "never heard of that generation, wonder where they fit between millennials and gen z."
Late gen alpha people got Yod and the League of Cosmos cmon
Gen alpha? Weāre about to create a whole bunch of problems calling a generation āalphasā
I'm born super late in 96 but I also remember 9/11 vividly
School House Rock
Iām looking for MySpace in this image somewhereā¦ like Tomās profile pic or the logoā¦.
Born in 2003 I know all of the stuff for Early Zoomer and Core Zoomer.
The funny thing is that if you had siblings, your category may be significantly wider than the listing based on your birth date. If you have kids, you have your category, and that of your kids.
We Baby Boomers were the first children in human history to be born with television. I'm proud of that because if I didn't have television, now that I'm 67, things would be pretty boring if compared to what my great-grandparents, and everyone born before them, had to look forward to at my present age. I watched television evolve and I'm glad I got to see it.
My grandchildren were born with computers but not my children. š
This is so accurate for me. 1996. I'm the in between but they hit it right on.
TIL the reason my parents were able to afford a NES for me is because they bought it after the SNES was already out
My lord Iām EARLY millennial? I hate getting old.
i love this but it makes me very sad for some reason
You can literally just remove all the BS labels and say "shows and memes popular during this time". Also, Gen X wasn't into the late 80s? I was born 87 and am not considering Gen X.
I'm an early millennial. I think I watched every single one of the shows. What a great time to be a kid.
I really appreciate the pro wrestlers in every generation.
This is only accurate if you live in the US
I love that instead of Rocket Power it's just a close up of Tito lmao
I was born in 1965, so technically an Early Gen X-er.
I do remember the moon landing though. It's a very early memory for me. My mom sat me in front of the TV and said "Watch this; this is important."
early gen z gang
Very American. No Doctor Who, Tomorrow People or Blake's 7 for core Gen X let alone the ZX-80.
Definitely an early zoomer, but I also enjoyed many things from previous generations (like a NES)
Late Gen X-Early Millennial here... you nailed it.š
Who the hell decided to put fucking Jojo in the gen alpha category.
"if you don't remember 9/11 you are a zoomer " š
Sry wat š³š³
American generations Iām guessing
This stuff is always off for me. I was born '81, but I'm the youngest sibling; my older sisters controlled what media was consumed.
But early in my childhood, Mom (a religious lady) decided she didn't like most media (too vulgar & 'worldly'), and cancelled it all.
So I was exposed to a bit of my sister's interests, then nothing until I was in highschool. (Old Books & tech became my hobby) After that, I had little interest in the culture my peers were developing, so I didn't bother.
All I see from this is that early and core millennial entertainment SLAPPED hard asf
This is just weird. Yāall are too obsessed with time. Put down the clocks and calendars and live your lives as the chips fall
Bruh I grew up with Peppa pig and I'm a fully grown adult š
Ren and Stimpy came out in 1991. It is late gen x.
Of course that's the picture used for He-Man. Just, of course.
I feel that diagrams/graphs trying to group people together will never be very accurate, because itās so dependent on an individual familyās personal experience. I take like 90% from the generation previous
You just need to move the C64 under the apple2.
Core zoomer
I do recall playing a lot of PS2 and XBOX Original as a Gen Z kid (born in 2001).
The Moon Landing. The Challenger Disaster. 9/11. Harambe.
Truly rarefied air
I donāt actually remember Harambeās death
Kablam is where I got most of my humor. I don't know if that's a good thing or not lol
I was alive during 9/11, but my memory is bad enough that I don't remember much of 9/11 or Harambe's death. Does that make me a 27 year old Gen Alpha?
Why is Bush the only afroed president?
I'm between Early Zoomer and Late Millenial because I'm from outside the US, and back then translations and dubs weren't launched at the same time as the original broadcast. They were sometimes years aparts. They also sometimes didn't even bother getting new licenses for new shows and just repeated old ones over and over. My older brother also influenced a lot of what I wanted to watch so that's more old shows and movies. It's really not simple to draw a hard line between generations, I think. What we watch is influenced by a lot more than just the time we are born.
Millenial master race.
A lot of the old cartoons were still going strong for Gen X. Looney Tunes, tom & Jerry, The Jetsons, The flinstones, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Popeye. I'm technically Late Gen x, and I can relate all the way up to about core millenial. Also, I think this chart needs Dragonball/DragonballZ somewhere, and also SNL casts.
Simpsons don't exist
I feel like someone just... googled a list of when shows aired and filled in this chart with that instead of figuring out what shows were popular with which groups. This reads like a timeline and not a map of changing trends.
it is really strange watching this 'history' start out with real people entertainment ... mostly.... and ending up almost NO real people ... mostly can't help but feel like we're losing our touch with humanity in more ways than one.....
Rockford Files is cool, but there are some things that I would change, if it were up to me.
Except im from NZ... we are like, at least a generation behind culture
I dunno man, as a 1976 Gen X I think my āchildhood cultureā is more Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles than it is Jaws and Scooby Doo
This is such an incredibly modern thing. For the overwhelming majority of human civilization people had continuity of culture across generations, never mind sub-decadal shifts of what is relevant between people. Time will tell what this does to society but these obscure pockets of nostalgia are pretty good ways to segment people.
Iām havingā¦.weird feelings looking at this..as a Core Millennial. Itās some very painful nostalgia.
Itās crazy that something that is such a significant event that it defines the divide of a generation like the death of Harambe is something that I gave so little of a fuck about that Iām barely aware of what it is other than itās some kind of monkey. Was that really that big of a defining event to people of that age group like Challenger blowing up or 9-11 was to me? Serious question.
As an early millennial, where's Sesame Street?
This pretty much nailed it!
Why does Bush 2 have a fro?
I feel old.
I was born in 93 and I grew up watching all the old 60s and 70s cartoons on canadian tv
Am I just missing Hannah Montana? Looked it over twice and not seeing that show which IMHO was a tent pole in the culture.
Why the fuck is JoJo in the latest one
Animal Crossing in Gen Alpha? The series is damn well over 20 years old.
But the specific one in the image, New Horizons, became a phenomenon during the pandemic.
Apparently I'm considered an early zoomer.
Badass
Born in 1986 and it's so weird that that 1 year between 86 and 87. Nothing in 1987 pertains to me except the video game systems. I feel like the video game part isn't as well researched as the tv shows/movies.
I think this probably also depends on where you're from and how old/rich your parents were. I'm - agewise - an early millennial, but there's a lot of stuff in that bracket that either hadn't reached my country yet, or my mother (who was older than average) just either couldn't afford it or she didn't like it and wouldn't let me have it. She's still only just grudgingly starting to accept that computers weren't a "fad". Up until about 5 years ago she was still firmly convinced "most people" don't even use one haha. I grew up playing with hand-me-downs and watching reruns of stuff from the 70s with her.
Where does Tub Girl fall on this list?
no runescape? :( at least where I was growing up, it was a hot commodity ~2005-2009
The true generation divides are. 1. Moon landing 2. Challenger 3. 9/11 4. Dicks Out!!!!
Early Gen X here. Reality still bites.
As an early zoomer this is perfect
Fun stuff, but if you're going to put Maple Story on there you better have Runescape somewhere too.
I would argue that anything within preceding our succeeding squares is also fair game for each box. I was born in ā05 but grew up with a lot of the stuff from 2005-09 and 2016-20.
Accurate
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I think you're a bit off on the Late Gen X though, I was born in the mid-80s and literally everything on that space is my early childhood.
Ngl Molang is a dope show
moon landing
Challenger disaster
9/11
Harambe
Boy, that really does showcase it all right there, huh?
Too much noise as our gets into millennial.... maybe that's what the problem is : Too much information...
lol "culture" is just popular TV shows? media brained reddit people at it again.
I've seen this posted before. Just looking at my demographic, "Early Gen X", it looks like things skew a bit old. I remember some of the stuff, but most of the things I associate with childhood are in the later groupings. (I mean what the fuck is up with Rockford Files? Was my grandmother a Gen Xer and I didn't know about it?). Nixon and Ford were too early since Reagan was the first election that we voted in.
Yes, but Nixon and Ford would've been the presidents of your childhood era. The image is focused more on childhood culture, not so much teen/young adult culture.
There needs to be a giant baby shark for the first blank square.
Baby Shark is already in Early Alpha
How dare you not include Rugrats or Doug.
Who even came up with this crap like holy shit
Nothing says āI donāt really know where I fitā quite like being sad you donāt see the GBA SP in between the GBA and DS
I feel like two separate versions of the 90s/early 00s pieces could be createdā¦those for kids who had cable and those who didnāt. Less Nickelodeon, more PBS and Jerry Springer š
Once again i am a lost late 90s cusper (ā97) looking at this just like ????????
I may be born early GenZ, but culturally, I am definitely a late millennial.
People actually watch Boruto? I know I'm out of touch, but that piece I doubt.
There's some more polishing I feel could be done in early millennial zone to core millennial.
I'm technically core millennial by your marker, however kid and I feel a lot of those were more targeted at kids under 7 than kids over 7. Lion King for example.
I think what's VERY hard to encapsulate is reruns, captain planet was on cartoon network for well over a decade even if it was reruns.
I have a deep identification with things that I absolutely shouldn't lol, Voltron. All because of when the reruns hit.
Transformers reruns lasted a long long time before beast wars.
Nicely done in general though
'88er here, raised with late-genx older sisters ('82 & '84), and late-boomer parents ('60 & '61). The only thing on this entire amazing chart that bugs me is the Doug poster. That's ABC Doug, not Nickelodeon Doug. How DARE you besmirch DOUG FUCKING FUNNIE. jk cool infographic.
Iām 2000 and I definitely feel my childhood was influenced as much by Millennial / Gen Y pop culture as Gen Z stuff.
so the late gen alphas are being born today. I think the next generation should either be called Omega because they will be the last humans or Bravo because weāll have our shit figured out.
Captain Planet over Rugtats in early Millinneal culture? Fuck you! Nah, good job though.
Where's the Xennials?
I was born in 91 and I really got the best of it all. I miss those days a lot.
Core millennial here. You forgot dragonball z. Also most of the stuff for the early gen z was popular when I was in high-school. Naruto especially.
Jojo is wayyyy too late, like core gen Zish is where Iād put that at the latest and Ed edd and eddy is way too early, I was born in 2001 and I grew up watching it a lot. I also donāt know any late gen Z or early gen alpha people who watch or even care about boruto, most people I know who care about boruto are millennials so I wouldnāt call that ākid cultureā
This is incredible. Thanks, OP! Side note: I hope the generation after Gen Alpha is called some version of Beta like Beta-max. Lol.
Very accurate for someone born in 1959.
Born 93 here. This is pretty accurate, except I'm Canadian so I have some stuff I'd change a bit
Core zommer/ Gen Z is when it all fell apart. I'm sorry youngings! Call me old fashioned or just old but it just feels like the quality of the product went down. At least in cartons.
I'm definitely Core and Late Gen X. Although stuff from early Gen X was before I was born it was still around when I was a kid. Also late boomer stuff hung on for awhile.
Iām late zoom gen z but I grew up with the gold from before
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Most of these generation terms were originally coined referring to American society
I was born in 1965, and straddle Late Boomer and Early Gen X.
Some core shows were omitted. Or my vision is failing. The Banana Splits, Lance Link: Secret Chimp, Jack LaLane, Evel Knievel, Fractured Fairy Tales (maybe lumped in with Rocky & Bullwinkle).
It's cool but maybe add something saying it's specific to the US? Lots of stuff missing for me, and lots of it not relevant.
I'm core gen z, but I really only feel like I identify with everything before gen z.
Did not know space ghost was that old
87 to 96 is GOATed
Childhood culture of the Revolutionary Generation: George Washington, horseback riding
Washington is part of the Liberty Generation (yes, these theories are mapped that far back lol):
https://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/def/liberty-gen.html
My bad
Why does Bush have an Afro?
people have brought on the advent of tv/internet mixing things and "muddying the water" so to speak, as well as the gradient of previous gen culture affecting the later gen, but i think it should also be noted that the gen culture of the parent/guardian also influences the gen of the kid. lots of people had parents from the 70s/80s trying to pass on that culture as a 90s/2000s kid, which i think resulted in a lot of the revamp/live action/reboot we are currently experiencing. people who's parents made them watch thundercats then making the 2011 version, and then influencing those kids to grow up and make stuff like thundercats go, etc etc
also how 90s gen culture (especially late 90s) is so fuddled compared to other gen cultures because of the rapid change in everything, not just media
What if I remember 9/11 but have no idea who Harambe is? Which generation am I in lol
Really bothering me that Rugrats doesnāt appear to be on here. Am I missing it somehow?
Early millenial reporting in: I think you nailed it. Tho I'd make room for Muppet Babies in "Late Gen X".
My oldest brother was born in 1981. My youngest sister was born in 1998. My siblings range from Millennial to Zoomer. Wild.
So weird because I was born in 81. My whole life we were called Gen X up until like, Twitter lol
I am so happy to see Battle of the Planets on Core GenX. I loved that show!
Bluey will be in the next panel aswell. My daughter was born 2020 and currently obsessed with the dogs.
At least in NZ, a lot of cartoons from the 60s to the 80s were still being rerun in the 90s.
So even as a millennial I'm pretty familiar with all the Hanna Barbera stuff, as well as the likes of the Smurfs and He Man
Gen A will never know how important harambe was.
I Love Lucy but no Burns and Allen? Blasphemy.
Why are fanboy and Chum Chum alphas? Actually NVM I know why
easiest way to remember who was president at whoch time
Kinda accurate... Because I'm Asian not American
Dude thank you so much for putting little big planet in early zoomer. Literally my first ever video game and has probably influenced on what i like so much
Since when were boomers born in the 60s? Baby boom happened when World War II ended and soldiers returned home. That was in 1945ish.
It's 1946 to 1964, the birth control pill ended it
i tend to classify based on two base markers, and not by the general cultural associations a generation finds endearing ā these two historic markers are: i) people born before or after the moon landing (1969), and ii) people born before or after the year 2000.
this leads to results which are wrong according to conventional 'classification' ā however it reduces the ambiguity ā anyone born before moon landing (1969) = boomer. anyone born after 2000 = millenial. anyone born between moon landing (1969) and year 2000 = genX.
given a 'generation' is about 20-30 years (the length of time for a human baby to grow up, develop, and have kids of their own), it would mean the next 'gen' after millennial (in this alternate definition space) would be genAlpha ā anyone whose birthday is on or starts after 2020.
you can hate me now and tell me how wrong this is. š¤£
Yup. Born in '78. Pretty spot on.
Also, as a wrestling fan, bless you for including the top (W)WWF/E star for that generation.
This is fun!
I started off at the top thinking "I'm pretty familiar with all of this old stuff", and then I got to "Core Gen X" (I was born in '75) and it hit me like a brick. Like there should be a picture of 10 year old me with my chili bowl haircut right in the middle of it.
I feel like the primary audience born needs shifting forward a year or 2.
I went and crossed off everything I have ever seriously interacted with (tried to go find/watch on my own) Anyone up to guess what year I was born? https://imgur.com/a/HWjkxzy
I'm going to show my age by getting my reading glasses on.
I miss them, I want them to come back more
It always amazing me Robotech is always off these lists. I guess growing up it was only huge with kids in my hometown.
How can I download this image?
Tom and Jerry should be in all of these tbh
Makes me happy to see UB Funkeys on this list. No one I've ever brought it up to has heard of it before.
Lol I'm 33 and my parents were born in 49 and 51
Whereās Dragon Ball Z?
Why would US presidents be part of kid culture?
Why does George W Bush have a black fro?
Early millennial?? When the f was I early for anything? It's "Elder" millennial, ah-thank you. "I open mouth kissed a horse, once."
I also enjoy the Challenger mention, since I got here just in time to not hear about it. I've never heard that "if you remember" line but dang that's a good measure, way better than if you were able to drive in 1999 (would've been slightly older than a "kid" for most of the 90's).
Dicks out for Harambe!
Your experience heaviƶy depends on if you had older siblings.
I am an early core Gen Z with 2 millennial siblings. Due to getting their hand me downs and watching the stuff that they watched, most of my childhood experience fits into core to late millenial.
(hell, my first gaming exoeriences were in the gameboy and gamecube, staples of millenial childhoods)
With both early Milennial and late Gen Z filling out most of the rest.
This feels very male centric, especially my gen (early zoomers)
My girlfriend would add Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, High School Musical, sky high, etc
Nice work, itās cool seeing what was popular for different generations. I feel nostalgia looking through what was popular for my generation.
Okay, but what if you watched things from all prior generations? Am I just, like, a superior being
Nah. I watched a little bit of everything too growing up too. Stuff from previous generations tend to hang around for a while.
Am aware. Of course most older things are archived.
My grandparents, parents, mine, and my younger sister span every one of these columns lol
I was born in 93, but I have two older brothers, one born in 89 and one born in 85. So, growing up, I would watch all of the earlier 80's cartoons with them in the late nineties. Dungeons and Dragons was probably the earliest thing. I stopped watching cartoons right around Camp Lazlo.
It's interesting how having older siblings can expose you to previous generational cultures and impact how you develop. Like I relate to, and associate my childhood, with shows like All That, Kablam, D&D, Fresh Prince, and Playstation 1. I think having siblings removes the "primary audience" part. I found the stuff my brothers watched more interesting than the stuff that was "made for me."
I somehow fit more into the core gen z then the late gen z thanks to something I like to call the slowed Soviet block phenomenon basically everything gets popular here 2+ year after the rest of the world. This phenomenon died out with the spread of the internet. I was born in 2009
AINT NO WAY, the zoomers are getting misadventures of flapjack and Naruto aaaaaand regular show. No no no. Fuckin half of regular show was throw backs to The Mighty Boosh.
Surprised to see some short ran (1-2 season) shows, especially some that I thought were generally ignored/forgotten (mainly thinking of Secret Saturdays, which I liked but no one talked about at the time or after, but seeing some others)
Lol wtf I'm an early zoomer kid but I grew up with mostly boomer stuff š§
I appreciate that whoever made this gave George W an afro.
I think itās a bit off. Iām early millennial (born in 82) but most of the stuff I was into is the ālate Gen Xā and early Millennial. I guess thatās why we also get called Xennials. We donāt exactly fit in either category.
Bluey needs to be on this
I was born in early millenial era on this chart but alot of the stuff I saw on TV and other media was core boomer, Yogi bear, jetsons, dick van dyke show etc.
Iām in the early millennial category (1990) and I remember Thunder Cats. Absolutely loved that show as a kid. Cheetara was my favorite lol and Snarf, of course.
Pretty USA Centric
Being born in 1996 for me is more of a mish-mash of the late millennial/early zoomer than one of either specifically
I always note when GenX is even mentioned in this type of discussion *sniffs*
The charts are a bit off. I was born in 1969 but grew up watching He-Man and the original Transformers.
Anything in higher res? Hard to see some of the newer stuff.
As someone who was born in the early 2000s it's interesting to see what the following generations are into. I've always been able to see what the gens before me were into as kids (and a lot of them like to go on and on about it anyways) so it's interesting to have a compiled group of things that gen Alpha (is that the correct name) are into now. There's definitely things I don't recognize.
Is this based on the USA ?
I think some of the cartoons at the end are oddly specific compared to the ones from earlier. Like, are THAT many people watching Apple and Onion or Summer Camp Island?
Would it be possible to label some of the ones without a clear title? Primarily the older ones so I could ask my dad if he recognized them?
No Neopets :(
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"
Idk if other people can relate but I feel like thereās a sub group of early zoomers that are the youngest kids of baby boomers and the youngest siblings of late generation X/early millennials. Me and all my friends were like that. I feel so lucky to inherit the best of this whole spectrum.
Maybe I'm missing it but I don't see PBS kids shows smh
That's what I grew up on at least
I recognize more from the boomers and Xers than my actual generation lol
I love Tobeyās Spider-Man being cross generational
My 7 year old won't shut up about Web3.
If you don't remember Harmbe you are gen alpha ... so most people over 35yrs old?
It's missing the Simpsons, especially when at it's peak back in the 90s
Adventure time mid-late zoomer?
Look man I was watching that show in my teens and I will not apologise!
But legit that show came out when I was like 12 and it felt like I was still within it's age demographic for a few years.
Missing simpsons on most gen and Bugs bunny show.
Me on row two, my daughter on row five, and holy heck, is that a gulf of culture between us or what?
Where the hell is Sponge Bob?!?!
God I love culture dictated be media corporations.
I was born in '95 and do not remember 9/11.
I did not know it happened until a couple years afterwards lmao
What generation was PokƩmon?
Yes.
91 here, Am I blind or do I not see scooby doo??
Web 3 lmao garbo
It may be how I was raised but, I am well versed in many of these things in every generational culture. Comes in handy if you need to relate to anyone at any age.
The important thing here is that DBZ is eternal.
Alright. What data generated this? Is it someone's SWAG? Can't say I disagree, really, but the markers don't feel incredibly distinct.
It looks like these timelines for generational divides are scooted forward 5 years from what I've usually seen.
I only noticed that you put the presidents of the USA in the generations when I got to the last one and saw Biden. I was like āwtf is Biden doing hereā lol
I started in one generation but I recognize more things in the next generation afterwards. I would still consider myself part of the former but itās interesting to see how certain events and media blend into the next generations as we age and make more cognitive thoughts and remember more things. I noticed that after 3 generation blocks I began recognizing less and less things.
KaBlam! Was a great fucking show.
What I learn from this is, it's all very arbitrary.
Christ, the Alpha generation? The wannabe Alpha bros don't need any more encouragement. Barf.
I'm surprised I couldn't find Toy Story in here anywhere.
I donāt see james bond spanning boomer to early gen Y
Very cool, and pretty spot-on for this early X-er. (Extra props for H.R. Puffnstuf and Bad News Bears.) BUT I was born in the last quarter of ā65, so was almost 4 years old during the moon landing. I totally remember my parents sitting us down to watch it, and I imagine many of those born earlier in ā65 would also remember.
What is the little white thing on early Zoomer? In between Rattatouille, Gurren Lagen, Dark Knight, and Avatar. I still have one of those figurines for it where you place the little guy on the white one and plug it into the computer. I never figured out how to get the sludge of my character and gave up ten minutes in.
Ub funkeys
Hell yeah. Thanks a lot
It's interesting how by growing up in a third world country (Brazil), even though I was born in 98, my childhood culture fits more with late millennial's, which makes sense, until the early 2010's stuff would take longer to get here
Looking at this has made me realize that I've been watching cartoons for my entire life. I'm in my 30s, and there's at least 3 shows in every block I clearly remember watching.
You missed the word 'American' from your post title.
Wow
I remember spending a ton of time playing flash games online when I was kid like 2003-2008. Heavygames.com addictinggames.com armorgames.com the powder game.
i was born in 86 but remember watching cartoons and movies from late gen x culture
The late gen X one of so spot on for me. Made me smile so much!
Turtles in every single one
So Iām a late Gen Xer and an early Gen Yer. Good to know.
No Seahunt should be right next to Dragnet(top). Was a skin diver series.
Did A fine job otherwise.
Mostly games and movies, be nice to add some fashions and toys in there. Great guide so far
Where is baby shark? I hear it nearly everytime I see a kid on the bus
In Early Alpha on the bottom left
This is so misinformed on so many levels
A yes another repost of a completely inaccurate timeline of media. So many of the things in each generation are so much older than what is in the timeline and the 'primary audience' is just plain false. The only reason this still gets posted is that people are desperate for internet points, and what better way exists than making people argue in the comments about generation culture?
Jaws and Dragnet being listed as kid culture is wild - kids weren't allowed to watch one, and would have been bored out of their minds watching the other.
But the chief thing I can see in this list is that there's some really good stuff every single generation chunk.
My understanding of Dragnet based on my boomer parents is that kids would pretend they were cops. Same thing with Gunsmoke and Bonanza - cowboys and Indians stuff.
It's a fascinating chart, however, very American - even the way that American cable facilitated distribution as compared to other countries which had fewer channels makes a difference here. A lot of this filters through, and some the timing shifts because of when it filtered through.
I also think the Alpha section is over playing shows and underpaying YouTube and clips. The media landscape is vastly different now.
Kind of annoys me that they changed the official millennial years to include early 80ās when we hadnāt even heard the term millennial until our mid 20ās.
We are Oregon trail generation or tail end of GenX.
They missed power rangers
Duck Tales, D&D, and Hulk Hogan the foundation of growing up in the late 80s and early 90s. Looking forward to gaming night next Monday!
I didn't see the Simpsons on the 80's 90's kids.
I was born in 81 and I definitely relate to the early millennial. Every single thing on that list. Not really the late GenX. I thought it was called Xennial.
this is crazy accurate, wow
Its ALL marketing
Weird to see mega XLR on her but I can't find codename kids next door
I'm sorry, maybe I missed it....if so, somebody please help me out, but....WHERE IS REN AND STIMPY???
i might be blind but wheres codename knd, danny phantom, and fosters home for imaginary kids and friends
Amazing.
Why did this make me remember hit clips?
Non US, what is this?
So happy Craig of the Creek made the list. Genuinely great show and the humor improved over time!
And each episode has a sorta isolated plot while the seasons have an ongoing storyline, so it feels easy to watch while making you wonder at what comes next.
I dunno
I was born in 64 and was prime star wars material. Saw it at middle school age at the theater.
George bush hahaha
rurouni kenshin made the list? fuck yea
I was today years old when I realized I qualify as a late millennial and not a middle millennial being born in 93. On this chart feel I relate more to mid then late millennial, despite also being the oldest of 4. Have always felt that birth order is equally impactful as early /mid/late generation.
Got damn it, why you gotta make me remember āBridge to Terabithiaā? It was not the fun adventure film advertised we brought back from the dvd rental place
These are incorrect generational years, it's not fuzzy opinion like video game consoles, these are pretty firm distinctions used by demographers.
Greatest/G.I. Generation: 1901-1924 (their kids are largely Baby Boomers)
Silent Generation:1925-1945 (their kids are largely GenX)
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 (their kids are largely Millennials)
GenX: 1965-1979 (their kids are largely GenZ)
Millennials: 1980-1995 (our kids are largely Gen Alpha ) GenZ: 1995-2012 (holy shit I hope most of y'all don't have kids yet.)
Gen Alpha: 2013-2025 ( just no)
I'll be damned if I'll be called "GenY" until I'm 25, then y'all switch it up and call me a Millennial? And now you try to call me GenX?!?!
No sir/ma'am, this is all incorrect.
Edit: spacing, readability, and source
Ric Flair should be in all of these.
Am I missing Spongebob?
Spot on!
If aliens are picking up our radio waves they havenāt attacked because they are either confused af or too entertained.
copy paste Early Boomer kid culture into Gen Alpha boxes for all those Plex/archive.org centre-right millennial dads out there.
Itās a really interesting percentage game, for my ācore groupā I recognize/identify with about 90%-95% of it, but it drops about 5%-10% each block you go in either direction.
I love that beast wars is in this. I remember getting up at 5:30am to watch
I feel like the entire millennial section can be replaced with a picture of fat pikachu
According to whom?
jojo in gen alpha?
Where is how to train your Dragon? Thatās huge for my current young children.
This was fun to read but I remember an equal amount of stuff between Early millennial culture up to Core zoomer culture. This is American though, there's lots of shows we didn't have in Australia/ Australian shows missing.
This is the first one of these I've seen that didn't lump entire generations together as one group, which is great because of course 23 year olds are gonna be different to 13 year olds
Important to note, this is mostly for Americans
Lmao Roman Reigns is gonna stick around for another 10 years isn't he.
If you don't remember WW2, you're boomer.
Super strange to not have SpongeBob across both millennial and gen z?
Look, if I want to feel like I NEVER grew up, I'll have my wife tell me. I don't need that shit on reddit.
Very impressive, you definitely captured some of mine. Unfortunately, you missed Mary, Mungo and Midge, the Magic Roundabout, Gary Glitter and Joy Division. But we all live in North America now.
Generation Alpha? Gonna suck to be the Beta Generation. I am really excited for the Full Release Generation though.
What a load of bollocks
This is awesome.
As a late zoomer a lot of the stuff from the earlier zoomer groups leaks over, especially full-length movies and mobile games
Why George W. Bush got an afro?
Born in 1979. Of course thereās always some overlap/influences. But this is legit.
Iām 30 and Iām familiar with everything except the gen Alpha one at the bottomā¦ I havenāt seen the majority of that stuff nor do I recognize it. This makes me feel ancient.
Iām an idiot, so primary audience is who itās made for, and popularity is who most of its audience actually was? This is cool
Primary audience is who it was made for/who watched it, and popularity is the span of each era's culture.
American culture*
Iām sorry, over 900 comments and not one mentioning the Barbie franchise??
I'm not lookin at all that
X
I donāt know what you have against MAD Magazine. As an early Gen Xāer it was hugely influential to my cohort.
Gen X had the best TV entertainment.
Wait, there is a Gen Y? How I have never heard of them?
Obviously some of those boomer cartoons and shows got a lot of reruns in the decades after but this is pretty good graphic 8/10 stars
Ya know, there's a Verizon of Scooby Doo and a version of Tom and Jerry that would fit within every single one of these categories. Kind of cool to think about
Always knew I was ahead of my group .
I was born in '97 and I relate much more to the late millenial pop culture.
Where is Magic School Bus?
Rocco is too early, Animaniacs is too late.
I hate how they keep changing the years. I'm gen x. Then I was gen y in the 90s. Now I'm a millennial.
What the fuck?
45 to 65 boomers
65 to 85 gen x
85 to 05 millennial
I won't be convinced otherwise.
Happy to see digimon
1997 here I remember 9/11 clear as day
Help - I donāt see Rugrats anywhere? Am i missing them?
My grandma has been listening to this radio show from her childhood called "the great gildersleeve". I suppose it was pretty big in her time in the boomer generation.
Thatās actually so cool. You forgot wow wow wubzy
I was born in '84, but the late Gen X stuff is more culturally relevant to my childhood. My big franchises growing up were GI Joe and Transformers, with a lesser extent He-Man and Thundercats. The stuff in the 'Early Millennial' range is definitely remembered, buy that was more my younger brother's (born in '87) thing.
As a German, my childhood is a weird mix of a lot of these things, spanning multiple generations. Just whatever was running on German TV at the time I grew up.
Thanks for the nostalgia.
I am so happy to see this. Iāve said for years I am Gen X. I had a 70ās childhood built into the early 80ās. I had no internet at my house until I was well into my 20ās. Didnāt have a cell phone until I was 19. No computer until my middle 20ās. Loved all things Late GenX
I can't seem to find "Tales from the Cript"..
Recess is one of the greatest kids shows ever.
Iām born in 1995 but Iāve consumed certain bits of media from all of these groups/generation
No Barney? Nice idea, but sporadic info.
Also is there saved by the bell on here ?
I felt like I just got dragged through my childhood.
I was born in 2000, and I have watched and enjoyed media from all of these, I watched a lot of the old stuff and stuff that was "current" when I was young. And due to me having a younger brother, i have seen and enjoyed new stuff as well. What is my culture?
neat...late Gen X'er here...loved growing up in the 80s...
(Born 2003 core gen z) I feel like more early gen z stuff could be with the core gen z but other than that Iād say that sections is pretty accurate and stirred up a lot of memories. Just to give an example A lot of my friends had a wii or a DS in elementary school and would talk a lot about iron man or lego Star Wars on the wii.
I love just how monumental Harambe's death was
Captures the pop media of my childhood accurately
WHERE IN THE ACTUAL F**K IS SPONG-oh there he is, nvm weāre good.
My childhood š„¹
No Scooby-Doo Where Are You? As a Gen-Xer Iām disappointed.
It's on the first Gen X square
If there was an award for best cool guide I'd give it to this. It made me feel a certain way.
Do not remember 911, GET OFF MY LAWN.
I've watched stuff from every generation, nice
My brother is four years older than me and fell in a different section. The differences between his age group and mine were spot on. Great job, op!
Not cool.
TOBUSCUS!
Fantastic graphic! Only critique is that the late millennial onward needs less tv and more internet culture/video game culture/YouTubers
YouTubers weren't around in the late millennial era. They started in early zoomer with Fred, Smosh, Nigahiga.
Late Millennial had plenty of internet culture though like Homestar Runner, Rathergood, Neopets, RuneScape, and gaming websites like Candystand/golden logo PopCap/GameHouse/Zone.com. I'm guessing they weren't included for congruency purposes with the other Millennial sections.
poptropica>>>
Why is annoying orange so late? It started in 2006-2008ish
It actually started in 2009
Itās still way too late on the listā¦
Where is Alf?!
My mind is blown, the Jetsons were around when my dad was a kid. I assumed it was made in the 70s.
I'm in gen z and Another couple cartoons that made my childhood was some of the PBS shows like wild krats or aurthur. Might be worth it to add.
Lots of overlap between adjoining cohorts. Also some vicarious memories from my kids.
wheres Dragonball?
That isn't a kids movie lol.
for sure, i always watched that as a kid, it was on rtl 2 like all the other kids stuff, i mean i know its originaly not intendet to be for kids but i think germany just give a shit
Quite western-centric pop culture references.
Well one things for sure, shit is just getting so increasingly terrible
Now do one for girls from each generation.
Am in the early Gen Z box but hit almost all of the mid to late Gen Y stuff as well
Born 1n 1965 and my time period is pretty spot on, but I wish they had a spot for our favorite Disney movies of the time. That darn cat, the shaggy DA. the herbie the lovebug movies and especially the Kurt Russell movies. The computer that wore tennis shoes. Loved those movies.
Bravo my friend Bravo. That was amazing.... but you missed Saved by the Bell
So that's why the channel is called BOOMER ang
Could anyone create a British one? This one is still relevant more so in the later years.
In the USA particularly
This is pretty cool
Canāt escape from Weegee
Holy shit I forgot about Real Monsters
Simpson should most definitely be in there for millennials. That and South Park I have been consistently watching since I was a child.
It's in there near Doug
Is recess really that old, im from 2005 and i grew up with it. Same thing for a couple of shows but i was surprised that recess was that old.
Gen Y but the fat Albert cartoon was my favorite! Had the whole season when I was a kid! And watched a majority of the shows from that ācultureā too
as asomeone being born in the 90s, seeing HunterxHunter in the core zoomer feels so wrong since I remember watching the older version in the early 2000s
As a millennial I was exposed to like 80% of the things before my āeraā, and Iām not even from the USA, Iām from Costa Rica. I even saw a lot of racist cartoons way back then in national tv.
DOUG
Why did I love that show so damn much?
Needs more dumb YouTube thumbnail faces pasted on top of every other bit of culture after a certain point
The first thing my eyes went to was that damn beeā¦
mumma had a chicken...
Keyword: American
Born in 87, I remember the orange duck hunt pistol.
Is there a list of the updates? I pored over the first one, can't do that again not knowing what differences I'm looking for
Third time seeing this in less than a year, and thrid time I'm saying: "Where is Buzz, Woody and the gang?
This is so goddamn accurate
This is my periodic table. Suck it Dimitri
Iām Gen X, but, thanks to Ted Turner and all his channel 17 afternoon reruns, I grew up watching all the late boomer shows. The Monkees was my favorite.
Early millennial lands rock solid for me, especially Batman TAS and Jurassic Park ... But I was born in '89, so m not sure if there's any shifting/adjustments to be made, or if it's proof that I just have always liked older pop culture.
Core millennial lands well for me, especially beast wars and the consoles. And Disney's recess was dope too.
We should create a thesaurus
Damn this is a good pop collection/ timeline.
It amazes me how Looney tunes is right at the beginning, and yet it would still air on cartoon networks in my days of early 2000s. Really speaks to the lasting charm of those old characters.
Mfw I am born in 2000 and stuck in a Millennial/Zoomer limbo
Feel too young to be a millennial and too old to be a zoomer
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Same, Iām in the in between state for gen x and millennial, but remember challenger so I guess I donāt get to be a millennial so thatās a win. But gen x is 100% exactly what I grew up with and all the gen y/ millennial stuff I remember existing, but it felt too young for me at the time.
I was born in the 2000ās but a couple of those early boomer cartoon were a huge huge part of my childhood
What about The Thundermans and Victorious and Harry Potter. Sry if it is there I just didnāt see it.
Weird to think that I, a nearly 26-year-old man, am a "zoomer" because I don't remember 9/11
Mine was the best.
Maybe it's a regional thing but I'm at the genx/millennial border and a lot of the boomer stuff was very popular. Tim & Jerry & the Flintstones in particular. The gen X stuff not so much tho.
The Harambe incident is absolutely the same magnitude of disaster as 9/11
this could be lot and nicer with formatting. add rows for different categories OS, gamin consoles, music listening devices like walkman, discman, spotify, etc.
No.
My favourite part of this is the equivalency of the moon landing, the Challenger disaster, 9/11, and Harambe.
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Carousels are for kids
More opinion than guide
Love it.
Goofy movie is underrated
Doesnāt really work if you had an older sibling
Early Gen Z but honestly the Late Millennial was much more my childhood
One of the gen alphas should have Minecraft, Mr. Beast-Lankybox-type YouTubers, oculus/vr, Gorilla tag, itās going to be a lot less movies/shows and a lot more internet content culture.
MrBeast is in there
Mr. Bombastic was a nice trip back memory lane
Nobody is going to say it?
Alright. I'll go.
How come Bush has an afro? Am I seeing the image wrong? I'll be upset if you tell me it's a sailboat.
TV shows are probably the hardest to include because I think you are going by their initial release dates (eg 2001 for Billy and Mandy so itās placed firmly in late Gen Y) even though the show was getting new episodes until 2007, and even then was still regularly airing after that. Maybe use something like google trends for more accurate placement, as it shows the cartoon was at the height of its popularity from 2007 to 2010 and should therefore be placed at the end of Early Gen Z
And another example, although Johnny Test debuted in 2005, it peaked in search terms in 2013. So while this placement is a little more accurate it should really be further into core Gen Z
This might sound crazy, but looney tunes is eternal.
I fall into the early Zoomer category, BUT most all of my earliest childhood experience falls into the Late Millenial category. 96 needs to extend to 98.
Most interesting thing to me on this guide is how we come up with names for different gens.. āGENERATION ALPHA FLY ZOOM 6000++ DESCENDEDā
Core Boomer here... where's Sing Along With Mitch?
Wheres barney the dinosaur for kids born around 1995
The Secret Saturdays is up there, my beloved
This is really cool, good job on making this! My friend showed this to me earlier today haha
Pepper Ann. My god. Thatās what the cartoon was called. I was starting to think I had hallucinated itās existence.
Thank you.
Gen Alpha needs Dogman and Captain Underpants š¤¦š»āāļø
I'm late Gen X, my gf is late Millennial. I knew it before, but this puts it in a weird perspective.
This guide is missing Rudy the undead hound.
98āer, definitely fall into both gen Y categories and actually what I call my in between generation. Sort of a millennial but definitely not a Gen Z
Am i the only one born in 2008 that still embraces early zoomer culture?
I had to stop looking because I started to feel sad remembering my childhood is over..
Shouldāve put Tom and Jerry in every single one cause those two are friggen immortal.
This is super great. Only note would be Frozen should be much larger in the most current gen. that shit is pervasive. lol.
Who the heck is Harambe? (GenX here)
So we're calling them Gen Alpha? Gen-A? Jenny?
I just feel like 1997 is more millennial territory, I know of the things in the zoomer section but ultimately my childhood was 90% the shows, movies and games from the millennial side.
A lot of this is just really inaccurate
Crazy how I get through the early-core millennial stuff that made my childhood and then immediately my visceral reaction to everything after that is 'thisbis such shit'. I guess disdain for younger stuff really is a core feature of aging.
til culture is strictly just movies video games and memes
I wish I was a boomer
I would say there is also a lot of overlap particularly before movie rentals and internet streaming. I am a Gen x kid and tv was full of reruns of older shows from the 60s. I watched classic Star Trek in reruns every week and this was mid to late 70s into the early 80s.
Well this just seems wrong.
Iād be curious about this for other countries. This is really cool.
How do I have core millennial culture but was born as a core zoomer?
Picture of Bush with a bush ā ļø
2007 and 2008 were main kids in 2013-2016 tho
A really interesting thing about this guide is seeing how much of the entertainment of previous generations is still relevant to people outside of the core demographic.
Yeah. My childhood felt less like one defined block and more of an amalgamation of bits and pieces of every block up to that point.
Especially if you take shows and channels like Tom and Jerry and Boomerang into account for spanning the generational gaps.
I'm a millennial who loved watching I Love Lucy on Nick at Nite, so I agree with this.
as a millennial who likes Lucy, you got some splaining to do.
Fun fact (mandela effect): that phrase was never once said in any episode of I Love Lucy. It's unclear where the phrase comes from and why people remember it
He said "Lucy, 'splain."
No way. Refusing to accept this one. Not today Mandela! Not today!
The many YouTube of that line clips would refute your claim.
You've got some postin' to do.
Lol - try to find a single youtube clip. They don't exist, because the line was never said
it was from MADTV. people confuse the skit with their actual memories
Go ahead and post one
I did some research and no, there isn't a single YouTube video of it, and the line wasn't spoken in the show ever. I could hear the line in my head also, but it's been used in The Simpsons and paraphrased on American Dad, aswell as parodied elsewhere.
It's a Mandela effect because of its use in other shows, rather than the show itself.
All bark no post
That's because it's not from the show. It's from a Westinghouse commercial.
they said they liked watching on nick at night as a kid, not necessarily that they still like it now
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Millennial here. Every night that I would stay at my grannyās, weād climb into her enormous bed, sheād eat peaches and cottage cheese, Iād eat popcorn and milk(idk it was good), and we would watch nick-at-nite. We would watch Lucy, all in the family, and threes company every night. My granny, quoting every word under her breath. Sheād finish her snack and turn on the sleep timer on the tv. Sheād get up, go get a tiny cup of coffee, and sip it and fall asleep. Lol
I miss her so much. I canāt even watch those shows anymore because it breaks my heartā¦ but I lived for those nights :)
I was 4 years old or so when Lucy joined nick-at-nite and I swear, I remember it because every night for the whole week I was at my grannyās it was on as a marathon. Haha
This is beautiful! I had a similar experience. I guess streaming services will open up more possibilities for younger generations to watch older media w/ their grandparents :)
Thatās such a sweet memory! I have a memory of watching reruns of the later Lucy show with my nana when she lived at our house for a year. It wasnāt nearly as good as I Love Lucy.
Also millennial but I was forced into Nick & Nite by my "morally responsible" mother. I dream of Jeannie, Get Smart, Bewitched, etc. I liked the shows but if it was up to me I would have been watching other stuff.
Pretty sure this is absolutely why I'm so far removed from popular culture and always have been.
I loved watching those shows w/ my grandma, they always remind me of that special time w/ her. The Adam West Batman will always be my favorite.
What about ā¦ The Lucy Show ā¦ and Hereās Lucyā¦?
Tom and jerry spanned the generation gap, but tom and jerry from 50 yrs before I was born compared to what was airing when I started watching it is like a different show, and early tom and jerry compared to modern Tom and jerry can hardly be called the same genre
Looney Tunes, original Tom and Jerry, Amazing Spiderman, Flintstones, Jetsons, and many more were always on into the mid 90s where I'm at
I'm a core zoomer and loved Looney Tunes etc as a kid, especially the older ones. I think this is because of parents remembering the shows they loved and showing them to their kids
This certainly does sound like more of a zoomer thing, because parents of millenials didn't show us shit, mostly since there wasn't streaming or YouTube yet.
That's an interesting point, as a kid my dad did play Looney Tunes etc on youtube
Siblings also had a lot to do with it. Iām an early millennial, the youngest of 3, and I watched loads of gen x shows because my brothers were bigger and stronger than me, so even if I wanted to watch something else it wasnāt gonna happen. The secret of nihm is still one of my all time favorite movies.
That makes sense, I'm an only child so I hadn't thought about that
Its a pretty timeless show for sure. As I got older I realised how many cultural references there are throughout the show
Tom and Jerry reruns from the 40s stopped playing by the early 80s. In the 90s they played reruns from the 60s. The 40s stuff made the 60s stuff look like the 90s stuff.
Makes sense, I'll take your word for it.
Before Cartoon Network started doing their own content they were mostly a vehicle for Hanna-Barbera.
Idk I watched in the 90s and they were airing episodes from decades before I was born, which I thought was probably from the 50s. They were different from the newer ones but they still showed both.
Interesting, when I watched it in the early 2k it was definitely the original episodes.
And reruns. I've never seen Back to the Future on any format other than live TV.
ā¦ whatās a rerun?
Imagine somebody telling you, āHey, this Ted Lasso show was great!ā So, you decide you want to watch, but somebody else tells you when you get to watch. BUT, you donāt actually know WHEN they have decided to allow you to watch. So you have to drive to the grocery store(where the Instacart comes from), buy a book called āTV Guideā(I assume it would probably have a Real Housewife of some random city on the cover nowadays), then look for Ted Lasso. You now know the time and date you will be allowed to watch.
Next week on Grandpaās TV Tutorialsā¦Channel Surfing: Donāt āJust Pick One!ā When You Can See Them All
It was a reference to Back to the Future.
Was just having a bit of fun imagining how to explain what a rerun is, friend.
It's funny how the phrase re-run is self-explanatory, yet actually does make no sense at all in the streaming age.
Butā¦. Thatās not even what a re-run is, your just describing the concept of live tv in general?
If somebody is telling you about a show theyāve already watched, and you want to watch the show, that would be a rerun. Honestly, I was not even trying to actually define a rerun, just trying to write something fun and goofy.
Also importantly; if you don't catch each episode as it airs the first time, then the reruns of the episodes are almost certainly aired out of order, with some missing from the lineup entirely, and some repeated far more often than others, so you're never entirely sure if you've actually caught up, or if some plot point from a prior episode you've missed will crop up at some point.
I think it may have been TBS that would do 2 episodes of Friends every night, but they would be from 2 different points in the series. So you could watch every night at 6 and get the story in order for season 3, but at the same time the 6:30 slot would be running season 7 episodes. Regular TV was such a mess.
TV guide? We had TV guide as an actual station. Just flip to that and it shows you what each channel is playing that night, or if not that then the newspaper would always print show times.
When they run a show again
Reference https://youtu.be/KEdS_tzGstI Iām sure youāve seen it, itās a classic.
Itās brand new.
Whoa. That's heavy.
I'm old enough to remember when most of Cartoon Network was Boomerang, in that most of the content was just old reruns. Took a few years before they started making their own content.
Peppa pig should have stretched through the last two layers
Same. My parents are both boomers, but with an almost 10 year age gap (donāt worry, they met in grad school after one of them took a lot of time off) and they exposed me and my siblings to a lot of stuff from when they were younger too. My childhood is equal parts Cartoon Network and I Love Lucy.
I noticed the same when i looked at my parents panel, those hit the same nostalgia feelings for me bc they would have us watch their nostalgic tv shows and movies.
The Boomer TV shows were on in syndication all the way through the 70s, 80s, and 90s (some still are if you actually watch over the air TV broadcasts or cable). Gen X and Gen Y watched a LOT of those older catroons and TV shows.
Im a early gen Y but dont remember watching I love luc, maybe because Im Canadian.
I do remember it from the simpson episode.
My parents were both born in the 1930's (I was their youngest born in the late 1970's).
Due to this, my childhood was a weird mix of 80's Saturday morning cartoons and prime time sitcoms from television but the growth of the VCR meant lots of Blockbuster rentals of classic MGM movies and especially musicals. They also had a huge record and cassette collection of Broadway musicals from the 1940's through 80's playing constantly.
It is hilarious when watching things like Schmigardoon! With my spouse and kids, who have seen only a handful of musicals in their lifetime, mostly recent Broadway ones. Because I find myself constantly being their interpreter.
But my mother in law and I can have long conversations about old films and musicals because she is early Boomer and was exposed to many of the same works by her parents.
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Yeah, seriously. I think especially for anyone who was a kid before streaming, it ties to there being a lot less current content, watching of whatever reruns happened to be on, and more cross-generational stuff that families watched together.
I call my youngest brother, āLittle Buddyā, because we watched a ton of Gilliganās Island on WGN. He may be a foot taller than me now but I donāt care!
We also had a big Monkees phase because of reruns and a cassette of theirs that we got at a garage sale.
Our parents getting into buying DVDs very early on helped, too.
I definitely agree. I was born in 96 but I have strong nostalgic pull and memories of the entire 82-05 timeline. After that point I wasnāt consuming as much new childrenās media and only decreased from there. I think itās because for a long time I was the youngest in a family with siblings and cousins at least 4 years older than me. I watched the same stuff they watched and played with the same toys they did. I watched my oldest cousins Dinosaurs tapes and played his NES. We were āthe kidsā of the family together for awhile.
Then I ended up with a lot of significantly younger siblings (at least 7 years younger). Even though my age difference to them compared to my older siblings and cousins is significantly less. Thereās still a very clear separation in āgenerationsā between us. I was past my early developmental kid-ish years by the time they came along and I was seeking more grown up content. We still played together and watched cartoons but I was mostly present as a babysitter/child minder figure.
Thereās also a lot of factors at play like divorces and new marriages. It just goes to show you really are a product of your environment. Not just the time you live in.
I think this ends up being a pretty accurate generational breakdown, for once. Iām also 96 so fall into late millennial but my childhood culture spanned core millennial to early gen z.
1996 is a tough year because I find a lot of people want to stick me in Gen Z and Iām like but I had a VCR! And the original PlayStation! I donāt like being stuck in Gen Z because even early Gen Z is just now really entering adulthood meanwhile Iāve been working for almost a decade and have a 401k. You really canāt compare that to being a fresh college grad.
My childhood spans the third row.
I felt like that as i was reading the boomer/genx slots ... then i got the millennial slots and went "oooohhh yeah".
Gen X (72), can confirm. Every previous block has a high representation of things that I was exposed to in more than passing fashion except early Boomer which is pre-TV.
How dare you defy the simplistic "Generations" model?
Yeah, going by birth year I would fall under late millennial, but I remember a ton of stuff from late Gen x and early millennial stuff to some core Gen z stuff from my childhood.
This. Much of the previous stuff ran in syndication reruns like Dick Van Dyke, Star Trek, I love Lucy. I am a core Gen xer and I watched A LOT of the stuff from before I was born (I loved the Monkees so damn much).
The first thing that stuck out to me was how much of the frame before my age bracket was stuff that I felt like was mine and how dare they? I was born in 1990 - Doug, Rockoās Modern Life, Fresh Prince, Are You Afraid of the Dark, etc.. all things that I have vivid memories of growing up. TV shows are hard I guess because they easily transcend generations, particularly childhood shows. Looney Tunes are goddamn eternal.
Yeah but the further you strayed from your demographic the fewer items you relate to
I know Im an early millenial but I feel like, in addition to the simspons and ren and stimpy I watched a ton of hannah barbara cartoons. In fact the main impact that this post has had on me is getting the Hong Kong Phooey song stuck in my head
number one super guy
quicker than the human eye
We grew up in the early days of cable, and there wasn't enough new material being produced to fill all of the air time.
We saw lots and lots of reruns!
I'm 1981, so the late-GenX and early-Millennial ones all speak to me directly, but I saw tons of the better ones going all of the way back: Looney Tunes, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Flintstones, Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, etc.
There's been so much new content created in the last four decades that my kids don't see anything that I watched as a kid.
This explains why my childhood just felt like nothing but endless TV shows, then as I started entering my teens it became "better wait a week for the next episode!"
Plus, they keep remaking things now, even childrenās cartoons!
Between reruns and my parents introducing stuff to us, we watched stuff from as early as the 1930s (not just The Wizard of Oz, but also screwball stuff like the Marx Brothers). Our mom thought our Monkees phase was hilarious, though we got in trouble for pretending to surf on wheel-y chairs while listening to The Beach Boys.
And VH1ās āI Love the [insert decade]ā series got us into all sorts of things. Those shows were culturally educational!
Totally. I watched a ton of Laurel and Hardy back in the day too! I seem to remember those were on during weekend afternoons after the cartoons had finished up.
Thatās probably because thatās all Cartoon Network used to be prior to like 1997-1998
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Most of shows were syndicated everywhere. Im pretty sure you could find loomey tunes on just about anytime on that line once they made it to tv. Including a lot of stuff like i luv lucy and such. Even before the rise of cable.
Same, though I think the was mostly my Dad (late boomer/early Gen X) introducing them to me, but yeah, watched a ton of the original Scooby Doo, Hong Kong Phooey, Wally Gator, Yogi Bear, etc.
Early Gen Z and same. I watched all of those classic cartoons on Boomerang. Literally saw Hong Kong Phooey on there and immediately had the song stuck in my head.
Top Cat theme song >>>>>> everything else
Same. I'm an early millennial but that late gen-x block is like my entire childhood lol
I'm early gen z ('99) and same with me. Boomerang played all the old hannah barbara cartoons in the early 2000s in my country. I loved hong kong phooey. I've always said my early childhood was the golden age to watch cartoons because they aired all the classic stuff from 40s looney tunes to 00s courage the cowardly dog. Best of times.
One of the sad things about Netflix et al is that kids won't be "forcibly" exposed to older classics due to reruns and such.
I wish Netflix and other streaming services had a "line-up" feature where you can select a group of shows and have them play one episode and then move on to the next series' episode, like television used to be.
I've always wanted the ability to create curated channels, kinda like Pandora but for TV. Select a few different shows and movies to start, with the option of letting similar stuff be automatically included. Then, semi randomize it, maybe weighting more popular episodes a little higher than lower ones.
It beats spending half an hour deciding what you want to watch. I can do this with Plex and custom playlists but it takes a bit more time/money investment up front. Worth it though.
I mean I know why they won't do it, streaming costs them money, every second of not streaming saves them money. They don't want you to have a constant stream, especially if you're not necessarily actively watching it. But hey, they gotta increase their profits, right??
That's true though I feel that a feature like this would be a good way to regain some subscribers they've lost recently with the whole account-sharing debacle.
Iād pay extra for a feature like that and I hate to say it, Iād even deal with commercial breaks better because it feels nostalgic, but the commercials need to be for moon shoes, robot pets, and electronic locking diaries.
User-generated shareable playlists would be cool!
The thing I miss from the cable tv era was the shared experience.
We'll never have a moment again like the end of Friends or Cheers, where the majority of the country is having a collective experience, or calling a friend right after a show ends to discuss it, or having watch parties for season finalies.
The first few seasons of Game of Thrones was the last collective TV experince in my opinion. I can't remeber any later shows where everyone was talking about yesterday's episode or having giant watch parties for a single show.
.... I need to rip tv-show dvds and burn dvds of "tv blocks" for my nephew. Our own curated toonami
First I need to find dvds of my childhood shows
I have a belief that because of that, preferences kids today have will be a lot more homogenous to their era.
For example, I remember in 1997 watching a lot of the remastered Star Wars videos. My dad was 14 when originally A New Hope came out, my oldest cousins were kids little kids who liked it. It trickled down to us younger cousins. We didn't mind that the effects and design were a little older, we had been exposed to a ton of various media from Wizard of Oz and Snow White to Space Jame....we accepted and built a tolerance (as kids) for various qualities.
Now, I've tried introducing Star Wars to my nephews who are about the same age I was. My oldest nephew loved when I read Star Wars picture books to him, but there's less appeal to A New Hope the film. The visuals are outdated. It's even a little stale looking for me, let alone kids who have grown watching the best modern tech can make. If you're not being blown away by the visuals, then various story bits don't grip you.
If you're used to robot vacuum cleaners, quick responding machines in your house, and pop cultural depicts of quicker, smarter, more imaginative robots...then C3PO and R2D2 waddling/scooting through the desert until they're captured and sold is so dull and the young audience isn't impressed and moves on. Their attention and interest is not high enough to make it through an Imperial conference about dissolving the Senate.
How young are we talking here though? Because I've got two kids that love it, and I'm not even a fan myself. The toy shops still have loads of Star Wars stuff. It's definitely still popular with kids.
I think they're meaning specifically the original trilogy. Sure, as a whole the franchise is still immensely popular, they're just saying the originals can't compete visually with everything being made today
But there is a silver lining, that they will all have easy access to it, and will have a higher chance of stumbling across older content on their own than we ever would have 20 years ago.
This isn't a TV example, but Big Star's probably one of my favorite bands, and they failed commercially in their own time, in large part because distribution woes kept people from actually finding their albums in stores. 50 years later, you can search up their songs on YouTube or ITunes or whatever within literal seconds of learning they exist.
Alex Chilton!
Chris Bell!
I think the people who are inquisitive would have naturally found those later anyways, although itās definitely a boon for them. The people who arenāt are just never going to be exposed to it.
Are you under the impression that kids aren't watching cable..?
There's definitely something to be said about the loss of cultural literacy with generations moving forward. I don't necessarily think they're losing out by not watching old sitcoms and cartoons but there is a shared experience they aren't a part of.
I think that pretty much defines our tv exposure as Gen-X. Sure the stuff on our part of this list was great but the majority of content we had to watch was reruns of 50s-70s sitcoms like Green Acres or Gilligan's Island. No 24 hr Cartoon network for us unfortunately.
The funny thing is, while Gen-X was kind of forced to watch Boomer culture, newer generations are seeking out 80s-90s content (and prior) all on their own.
I think itās because television was a relatively newer medium back when we were children, so there was just less content to fill the airwaves.
Not only are the 90s 30 years ago, but there was a massive increase in the amount of content produced due to cable tv and later streaming.
As a child in the 90s, I would routinely watch shows from the 50s and 60s as re-runs. I was born in 1988, and have seen most of the stuff from before my time, or am at least familiar with them.
Also, the way we consume television has changed. You have to actively pick a show, and I have a hard time imagining a child today actively seeking out 30-40 year old tv shows.
I ended up seeing a ton of it because back then it was an old cowboy movie or nothing.
The fact that most households were single television also meant that you were at the mercy of what the adults wanted to watch a lot of the time. I grew up in the same house as my grandparents, so I ended up seeing basically every Humphrey Bogart picture by the time I was about seven years old!
I have a weird exposure to some older stuff from those old Disney sing-along tapes. Like... I've never seen the old Zorro TV show from the Boomer era, but I know the theme song cause it was on a sing-along tape, lol. But thanks to Nick at Nite type of stuff, I've seen a large chunk of the Boomer stuff too. It'll be interesting to see if the newest generations have enjoyed a mix of all eras like we did or if it's just mostly their era that they watched.
It's still happening.
My kids have recently watched How I Met Your Mother and Friends and Seinfeld on various streaming services.
Really? Do you think that they are outliers, or do you think their friends would do the same?
Not sure, but I do know that with HIMYM and Friends, the kids (maybe with help from their friends?) found those shows themselves (their mom and I didn't suggest them).
This is in contrast to Avatar and The Iron Giant and Arrested Development and Community, which we encouraged them to watch.
What do you mean? TV had been around for decades by the 90s.
Yeah and it's been even more decades since. There was only 40 years worth of material back then, and it's more like 70 now. The 90s are about the mid-point of tv.
I was an adult when Avatar The Last Airbender came out, but I'll be damned if I don't think it's possibly the best show I've ever seen (though is brought down by an unfortunately-often-childish first season while they figured out what the show was going to be).
I identify with at least half of the stuff after my core group except for the most recent block, and even then I've seen some good stuff from it.
The Owl house is freakin amazing.
It is! So is Infinity Train. It's a shame they both got canceled.
Trollhunters for me.
I think itās interesting to start at the demographic before my own and realize how I saw many of those shows, but when I move past mine, lots of ānever saw itā, especially in regard to cartoons.
That's my experience too with very few exceptions and it is pretty cool.
I'm late X/early Millennial ('77), and was exposed to a lot of stuff from boomer culture thanks to Nick at Nite. All those b/w sitcoms. Reruns of old cartoons were really common too (Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, etc).
Hell I was born in 1988 and I grew up loving shit like All in the Family, Three's Company, Three Stooges, The Jeffersons.
So you're a racist, a misogynist, find violence funny and watch cartoons?
Me too. Those were great shows.
Tbf, Scooby Doo spanned multiple generations, albeit in different iterations. Many of these shows were also played as reruns during our childhood. For the Flintstones and Jetsons, I remember mainly watching them through the movie āThe Flintstones Meet the Jetsonsā, which was released in 1987
Now I feel old
Best crossover of all time
They played the 60's Scooby Doo on Cartoon Network in the early 2000's. I think I actually still have the block buster disk of Scooby Doo meets Batman somewhere lol.
I was born in '85, and I remember the Nickelodeon block of Inspector Gadget and Looney Tunes at 7:00 and 7:30 heading into Nick at Nite at 8:00.
Anyone remember USA Cartoon network on Sundays? That's where I got exposure to a lot of Hanna Barbera stuff.
Half of USA Network's programming was Cartoon Express by the early 90's, the way I remember it.
We had Bozo on WGN in the morning, cartoons on USA, Brady Bunch and Saved By the Bell in the afternoon, big 3 networks for sitcoms until the news came on, then MASH or Hunter, unless it was Saturday and we had the best years of Saturday Night Live to look forward to.
I think your solidly Gen X if you were born in '77. Millenial doesn't start til the mid 80's.
You are incorrect. Millenials start anywhere from late 70's to early 80's. The truth is there is no hard and fast rule for generations, it's nebulous, not definitive, every chart has a different date depending on the bias and agenda of the author. I was born in 1980 and I am 100% a millenial.
How you gonna say there's no hard and fast rule, then say you're 100% millenial.. when you were born in 1980, which is obviously on the cusp.
You act like it's not set it stone, but you also act like it is, all within one comment lmao
I feel like Adult Swim should be in the millennial section because we all knew it came on right after Cartoon Network. Even those who didn't watch it knew.
This, Adult Swim started when I was in HS. Born in 85. It started as a millennial thing.
I still remember all those early bumpers with old people in the pool. And how, at the time, it felt like I was watching something secret af.
tom & jerry and looney tunes show have been rebooted numerous times over the decade
Gen X.
You are not millennial.
I think Gen Y/Z have an edge here in that they could/can choose what to watch and listen to. Gen X and older were at least partially at the mercy of broadcast schedules, meaning not just when something was on, but also if it was on.
I'm early Gen z and we were at the mercy of scheduling too I was already 18 by the time just streaming everything was a good method to go with.
I think I'm mid gen z (born in 02) and I was also at the mercy of scheduling for a large portion of my life, other than my dad occasionally letting me record something on the cable box. I remember looking hours ahead on the TV guide to make sure there wouldn't be something my dad was recording at the same time as the newest episode of wizards of waverly place or kickin it so that I could watch it. I don't think my parents got any sort of streaming service until 2018 or 2019 when I was 16-17.
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There's a flip side to it, though. I see that they are into the discovery. I kinda was, too, as a Gen-Xer (I was never into deep crate-dives, but I also didn't let myself be defined by one or two genres), but I think that was a rarity. It's been fun watching the next couple of generations discover things.
I DJed at several Millennial weddings and other parties, and it's been kind of cool to see how the playlists end up. One in particular had a blend of 20's rock and pop and 90's hiphop and 10's house and 70's disco . . . it was really kind of cool. Did you know that AWOLNATION, Beastie Boys and Bee Gees can all be made to play nice together?
I was born in 80 and mine fits me perfect. My son born in 2009 though is spread over three of the sections.
Lol, I didn't see the top row of labels and thought each grid was described by the label underneath it.
I was like I guess I watched Underdog and the Monkees but I don't remember Lyndon B Johnson ever crossing my mind.
Then when I saw the grid with He-Man and the ThunderCats I was like this feels more like me.
Yeah, my childhood interests include a lot from Late Gen X/Early Millennial (born in '82).
same here. in fact, it's almost everything from both. I feel like everyone born in like '79 to 84' would look at both of those charts and be like "yep. almost everything in those."
You are a millennial, this list is wrong. I am a year younger than you and they called us Gen Y until about 2008 then switched it to millennials.
generation names explained
The inverse is also true to some extent. Many cartoons from gen alpha are attracting audiences from older generations.
A lot of this is shifted too many years one way or another. My Gen Alpha son plays games on a switch; because it's the latest Nintendo.
Some of these are too mature for the age group listed while they are a member of the cohort. I recall the time I saw John Wick listed as Gen Alpha media despite the first movie coming out when the oldest was 1. Year of release doesn't quite match the primary audience.
This list is wrong. All over the place.
Gen Z is 1995-2012
Gen Alpha is 2013-2025
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For sure... I am an early-mid Gen X but grew up loving Loony Tunes.
It's also interesting how much having a brother or sister can affect your "generation". I was born in 93 but grew up on Sega genesis and N64. We used to watch small soldiers on every car trip because we have one of those vans with a TV and VCR. My dad knew every word to that movie but had never seen it š
Cultural lag used to be (and still is, to a degree) a huge thing, and one that a lot of media fails to acknowledge when depicting the past.
If you grew up in the early 90s, chances are the bulk of the media you were consuming - the music being played on the radio, the stuff you watched on TV etc. - came from the mid-to-late 80s, with little bits and pieces from previous decades, as this was the stuff that had had enough time to percolate thoroughly into the culture. The newest movies like Jurassic Park were being shown at the cinema and took a long time to be released on physical media, so the movies you spent most of your time watching were those already released on VHS or syndicated on TV, e.g movies from several years ago. Same with music - most people's parents wouldn't have been savvy enough to only listen to bang up-to-the-minute music, so odds are the CDs they played around the house were from an older time.
That's why it's always seemed a bit silly when older people act surprised that I (born in 1987) have heard of older bands - I didn't have a choice, that shit was everywhere growing up.
Interestingly one TV show that depicts this well is Stranger Things. Even though it's set in the 80s, most people's home decor is still clearly from the 70s or earlier, as the characters are mostly working-class people who wouldn't have had the money to update their interiors to the latest trends. I bet if you checked the Byer's record collection it would be mostly Carpenters records instead of Wham! or whatever.
But itās getting worse and worse
This is why! My birth year and the generation off by 2 decades
Classics like Tom & Jerry, Flintstones, Jetsons still relevant today.
I (born 1983) grew up without ever having cable/satellite tv (still at 40 have never had cable/satellite tv at any point in my life) so a lot of the Nickelodeon/disney stuff featured on this graphic was unknown to me outside of hearing friends talk about it. But I was really into tons of stuff on here listed as primarily being targeted at prior generations. Wild seeing things like Thundercats, G.I.JOE, He-Man, Hannah Barbara, Loony Tunes, etc listed as earlier generations as most of it was still on tv well into to early 90s and was wildly popular through several generations.
My early childhood was filled with boomer stuff because of the amount of time I spent with my grandparents, gen x stuff because of late night TV with my parents. So much of that stuff became ingrained in my core memories because of reruns and VHS recordings, commercials and all. I love Lucy, mash, Andy Griffith show, lassie etc. I watched a huge amount of when I was very young. I relate the most to the stuff that was uniquely middle-late millennial though and that was stuff my parents didn't watch with me and I watched by myself or with friends and the early millennial stuff is still very relatable because most of those shows (like fresh prince) were on their last seasons or on reruns when I was old enough to start watching them. And I can still relate to some of the gen z stuff because I spent time with my younger cousins and niece and was still able to get interested in like hunger games and such even though I was "outside the age range" I still found it interesting. The gen alpha stuff I don't relate to at all, while I'm aware of some of the stuff's existence it holds almost no culture relevance to me because I know absolutely zero kids in that age range. I've watch encanto and soul and the last spiderman of course and I've been on TikTok but none of these things have an emotional hold over me like the millennial stuff.
Yeah, I was watching Fraggle Rock as a teen as sort of a "return to simpler times" escapism.
Reruns used to be more impactful and common
Doug was rerun on Nick for like a decade
If it doesn't have Rita Hayworth in it I don't want any part of it.
OP doesn't understand how much kids' programming was reruns from the past 30 years until fairly recently. Hell, I'm late gen-X and a good amount of the shit I watched growing up was in black & white
What was interesting to me was to look at how many things in my generation and the ones around it I enjoyed, but I also have a kid in the Early Gen Alpha group and get to see a bunch of the stuff we watch/watched together in there.
Especially given reruns. We watched the prime time programming of previous generations on weekday afternoons in reruns.
Yeah itās a really interesting percentage game, for my ācore groupā I recognize/identify with about 90%-95% of it, but it drops about 5%-10% each block you go in either direction.
Yeah I see my block plus a lot of stuff that came before but was in heavy syndication rotation
I love this chart but I think the current media ecosphere might be too fragmented to represent in this way
Maybe if there were a way to show the relative strength of some cultural lulls to others. Like if TikTok were the size of Jupiter and the Nintendo Switch were the size of our moon. At least thatās how it seems in my kidās world
No. Only boomers watch tom and jerry. On a loop. They focken love that shit. Wont talk about anything else, just tom this, jerry that. Ok boomer, we get it.
Strangely, I am Gen X and despite what this says I have liked shows that came before and after my allowed timeslot.
I was born smack in the middle of core millennial, but prefer a more of the early millennial stuff. You can't get any better than those disney movies in the early millennials category and gargoyles and xmen were awesome.
My biggest chunk of ticks is definitely the one before my labelled one, I am close to a cut off point though so it makes sense.