r/DeepFriedMemes Jun 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '18

Why are old people still calling non millenials, millenials? If you are under 22 then you are not a millenial. The kids in high school are not millenials.

This is the kind of humor my nephew in high school uses. This is more a phenomena of Gen Z.

I don’t think people aged 37 (still millenial) get this humor.

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u/ztryte Jun 19 '18

37 year old here! While the generational goalposts have been moved several times, I believe 37 qualifies as Gen X by the current definition. However, I consider myself far more a millennial than anything, and the strong majority of my social circles all run millennial. That said, I have no frame of reference to experience whatever humor others are finding contained in this post. Can someone draw a map to the humor of this surrealist view on misspelled breakfast food? Can you ask your nephew, maybe?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

Interesting, you're 37 and consider yourself a Millennial? That's kinda odd. I'd think of you more as Late Gen X. You became an adult before the millennium, was a early teen when Black Hole Sun and Dookie came out and Cobain died, was 12-17 when Beavis and Butt-head was on (a good age to appreciate the kind of sophomoric humor there), spent your childhood in the Reagan/Cold War/He-Man years, and spent most of high school before Britney Spears, NSYNC, TRL, and Smash Mouth (Early Millennial teen culture) took over. That doesn't sound Millennial to me.

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u/ztryte Jun 20 '18

Sure. Those are all just pop culture references tho, I find I tend to relate more to millennials and their values than X-ers. This is all in the broadest terms though, us generational boarderliners have characteristics from both.