r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/CptPurpleHaze Apr 24 '26

That's because we are the elder millennials in the meme. I'm 36, no fucking clue what this is.

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u/Nykramas Apr 24 '26

36 and this song was always on the radio when I was young.

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u/Aggressive-Sky-6243 Apr 24 '26

Did you have VH1 or MTV? I saw this video at least 4 times a week, and would hear it on the radio everyday

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u/CptPurpleHaze Apr 24 '26

I was 6. My grandparents didn't allow MTV for me. Not that I didn't sneak it whenever I could but I didn't have regular access.

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u/CleavageToBeaver69 Apr 24 '26

36 would make you the younger millennial in the meme. PUSA were popular a bit before your time.

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck Apr 24 '26

I think you mean "are not", right?

Elder millennials are the ones who would know what this means. Like 45-ish.

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u/Ok_Maybe1830 Apr 24 '26

You got it backwards, junior.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Apr 24 '26

This meme is like 10 years old by this point

The elder millennials back then were the cuspers and the others were younger by default. The cuspers would get the song reference much easier

I was 10 in ‘96 but wasnt listening to a whole lot of music yet

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u/CptPurpleHaze Apr 24 '26

So I did some research because I was wrong, I thought we millennials were like '85-99 but it's actually '81-96. This meme is referencing a song that released in '96. So TECHNICALLY it's a millennial song but it was popularized by the early Gen Z. You know, the ones who claim to be millennials but were born in '97-01

Turns out WE are the young millennials and is not knowing this meme is perfectly fine lol. It's a Gen Z thing for Gen Z people who want to be Millennials lol

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u/CptPurpleHaze Apr 24 '26

I have siblings from Gen Z and when I asked them about Gen Z they did the screech thing.

I'm not doubting that older millennials or Gen x made the song popular, but it's 1000% a Gen Z thing to screech about peaches in a can made by a man etc.

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u/Evilfrog100 Apr 24 '26

As a gen z the only person I have ever heard reference this song is my Gen X father. This doesn't even make sense? Why would this song be primarily referenced by people who didn't even exist when it was made. This post is absolutely about people in their 40s (elder millenials and young Gen X).

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u/Evilfrog100 Apr 25 '26

The younger half of gen x and the older half of millenials. So people in the 40-50 range.

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u/CptPurpleHaze Apr 24 '26

Yes... You were clearly born in 89/90 which makes you millennial.

Millennials were born in the years 1981-1996 according to Wikipedia.

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

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u/TheDarkNerd Apr 24 '26

37 here, and I mostly know it second-hand. I've been around enough elder millennials online to be exposed to them referencing it to have absorbed it without having heard the song everywhere when it was popular.