Are you a xennial?

There's a new label for people born between 1977-1983. So...are you a xennial?

[@TommyboyGTP]

I was born in 77 and consider myself a late gen X-er. I grew up with vinyl and cassettes and transitioned to cd's in my later teen years. I learned DOS before Windows and Macs came out in 84 when i was in 2nd grade. Our social media was being outside, and like the one guy mentioned we went home when it got dark for dinner and our parents had no way of getting ahold of us unless we told them we were going to a friend's house and my mom called my friend's mom. I turned 21 in the 90's, went shopping for Y2K compliant computers, and wrote checks and put them in the mail to pay bills, and balanced my checkbook by hand. I had an extensive collection of 5.25 and later 3.5in floppy discs which I had to save my college class work on since thumb drives didn't exist. We started off with Atari's and then moved on to Nintendo and Sega. We took quarters to arcades and watched Wayne's World on VHS and was saddened when Married With Children and In Living Color ended. I had Tonka trucks made of metal and was addicted to Dukes of Hazzard, and was glued to the TV when The X-Files premiered and got a t-shirt to wear at the mall that i'd always wear the following Monday.

[@drubber007]

I was born May 77 and agree with pretty much all of what you say....but did you have an an Amiga or an Atari ST?

[@TommyboyGTP]

@@drubber007 No but my friends did.

[@DrAnalieseMasonJudeMD]

December 77 but culturally skew slightly early millennial (oldest of 3 kids each spaced closely apart).

[@seekthegood]

I have to admit, this totally describes my upbringing; might as well embrace being a xennial 😊

[@BkVincy]

Same

[@Coinbrag]

I prefer "Oregon Trail Generation" to "Xennial."

[@rlt152]

Same here, although I would expand the generation a bit on both sides from 1975-1985

[@xennial80sxberner]

I don't think anything before 1977 is even transitional, it's flat out Gen X. and even 77-83 is still Gen X, it's simply later 90s style Gen X. The entire 80s babies should be the transition from X to Millennial, that'd make this debate much easier, lol.

[@Captaincracker826]

Suchos , Best comment Ever! That made me laugh so much! When I played that game it was in computer class in 3rd Grade. I died of Dysentery. What ever that is... bummer! "raises little hand"Teacher what's this word mean? lol Back then I thought they called it a floppy disk because it was bendable. lol

[@gamma21285]

rlt152 do it right. It would be more like 77 to 88/89. People who Keep using 1985 as a cutoff are dumb af

[@ShockerTopper]

Jason Wren - I totally agee with you and I was born in 85. I had plenty of friends older and younger +/- 2 and even though it "kind of" felt like a difference back then, looking back it really wasn't. Especially in comparison to kids these days.

[@polymathg]

I have been saying this for years. I had an analog childhood and a digital early adulthood. Got a pager at 18 and a cell phone at 21. MySpace didn't exist until my early 20s and KZbin even later. Downloading became a thing when I was 18. I saw the new millennium come in at 19. Strange.

[@xennial80sxberner]

80s babies still seem Generation X to me, just a later part. We're not the stereotype of a Millennial, even if we were young enough to adapt into it (especially the more liberal ones like me). Granted the Gen X influence starts faltering around 1989 where people suddenly start seeming way younger/more Millennial, but even they have some tidbits of retro 90s Gen X stuff they grew up exposed to.

[@ShockerTopper]

100% agree man, I wasvborn dead center in the 80's (June 18th 1985), you make a good argument for sure.

[@amarchhabra2175]

Agree - I was born in 1975 (guess that makes me a Gen-Xer) but I feel like I can really relate to this Oregon Trail/Xennial generation thing - I was not even two years old when the original Star Wars came out - got my pager in the early/mid 90s and my first cell phone (flip phone) around 2002.

[@FS02012]

I had both in 1994 i was 14 and 15 and had a computer for school and video games

[@FS02012]

Exactly we were young and the first ones...we are the first Millennials!!! I was a teen 18 downloading songs and 15 on aol internet i was born 1979 had all the video games at 13,14

[@xennial80sxberner]

77-83 is too damn early, that's still Gen X just a later section of it. They should've made it 82-88 or so. First of all, 77-81 doesn't seem to fit the millennial stereotype AT ALL. Why do these lists never acknowledge mid or late 80s babies as having anything in common with Gen X? (many still share traits from growing up in the 90s)

[@mattyice4844]

JPMcFly1985Two #FeelTheBern agree any birth year from the 70's and your just a younger gen xer. I mean, if you were born in the 77/78 you could of gone to a bar in the late 90's!

[@AriesSimmer]

Spot on. 👍 The '82-88 range makes a whole lot more sense. Don't lump us in with those sorry ass 90s babies! Lol.

[@GenXer82]

77-83 is really the "last-wave" of GenX!

[@DeejayFlawdiziana]

I still have the jury out on 87 but I noticed the difference way back in h.s. starting with 88 and 89. I was born in 86 and just thinking of my teaching experiences throughout this decade and seeing how digital 90s/2Ks-born kids are in comparison, and also how educational policy changes and parenting have affected academic expectations and more. Plus, the 90s bunch grew up in a more ✌️PC✌️-environment. I think it's safe to put the generations: Silents (50s-Era) 1927-44 Boomers 1945-57 Jonesers (similar to Xennials) 1958-64 Gen-X 1965-81 (My sister was a 79 baby and I can't picture her having much commonalities with anyone born in the 90s...) Xennials 82-87 (A bit more accurate since we were the test dummies of Millennial/digital society) Millennials 1988-06 I feel this is more accurate.

[@GenXer82]

CajunOWTLaw Xennials need to belong somewhere, and I consider them to be a sub- generation of Gen X, since we had an analog childhood.

[@austinballard6815]

I am definitely part of this group, born 1981...I had long considered myself more part of GenX than Millennials, though this seems to fit better. Coming of age, graduating high school in 1999, before Columbine had chance to take any significant effect, before 9/11, Iraq war, before cell phones became common, before the internet REALLY came I to everyday life, before social media (as we known it today)...the times we live in shape ourselves and I'd say Xenials had an adolescence more like genXers than Millennials, even though just a few years separate. A lot of changes occured in our society soon after the year 2000.

[@Aaroncarter55726]

I feel the same way, expect that I was born in 1982.

[@austinballard6815]

@@Aaroncarter55726 its a pretty narrow 'window' really...Id say like 1977-1983. I read one article which argued 1982/83 being the end cutoff for Xenials; true Millennials came of age after 9/11, had no real memory of Cold War, cell phones and internet were more or less second nature to them. Xenials have at least some memory and experience with a more analog world. I can remember mimeograph machines being used in grade school, well as 16mm film projectors, phonographs, tape decks and the vast majority of toys and amusements involved non-electronic means, save for TV, VCRs and the few lucks of us who happened to have parents well off enough to be able to afford a computer before the mid-1990s. Certainly those born from the later 80s onward had cell phones being ubiquitous by high school, internet in school and home being very common. Not to mention the corresponding social and culture changes that also ensued! I would practically call it a silent revolution.

[@helena_augusta]

So very true. Life completely changed after 2000 and I have a hard time believing those changes were better (except for dominos pizza recipe!).

[@austinballard6815]

@@helena_augusta I'd say one thing that really underscores this idea is how we communicate and interact with each other: Before about 2000-2005 or so, most socializing was done in person and the majority of friendships and dates were found in person. I do not have kids, but several of my friends from high school and college do...these kids would have been born generally 2008 to 2016, so all grew up with smartphones from a young age, texting and video calls, internet not just in home, but at school, plus computers take up a very significant amount of schoolwork. Dates are found online, with not much interaction, less parenting hands on, less discipline, etc etc...even though only a generation separate, the way these kids grow up is quite different than we did 30 years ago, in some pretty fundamental ways.

[@darthstryk7169]

I was born in 83 and I've always felt this way.

[@ashes2342]

I read another article that says xennials are from 1977 to 1985.

[@alkaseltzer84]

1984 born and proud baby. Shout out to 80s babies everywhere.

[@xennial80sxberner]

I wonder if the only reason they didn't push Xennial farther out into the 80s was so that people born in 84-89 still want to feel young like they'd fit in with 90s babies in their 20s, and would resent being lumped in with someone born as far back as 1977?

[@suzakuscorpio79]

It's so my boyfriend born in 1983 won't have to say he's a millennial.

[@vernonhuffman2311]

Born in '81. My life was Atari and later NES. No cell phones as a kid and "You died of Dysentery" was soul crushing. I remember no storage for consoles. So you would leave it on all night because you couldn't save progress. I was the hottest kid one summer because my Big Wheel had a squirt gun on the handlebars. We played yards games and Spotlight and played in creeks. And I say things now like "I cant stand these young kids these days, they're soft and spoiled" yet I help out and admire (though rarely directly relate) to the older folks that came just a bit before.

[@1978wolfie]

Love that ‘nope! It’s exclusively ours’ so really the most admired gen is xennials, childhood free and test subjects and guardians of future ... for now.

[@anikadiamond007]

Gen X is admired due to the 80s/90s culture that we built that spans generations.

[@sylvialupehernandez9154]

Before the Baby Boomer Generation was called the Silent Generation, that was my husband he was born in 1938, I am a boomer born in 1955. My son is a Xennial, born in 1981.

[@billydiana]

1981 too. I'm a Surinamese revolution baby.

[@corymiller536]

Actually your the silent generation not boomer

[@patricknelson4703]

1983. I'm not a Millennial. I was the youngest of 16 cousins. The oldest is now 50. There are many factors to consider. I suppose I'm a Xennial also.

[@xennial80sxberner]

Yeah I don't think anyone born before 1989 should be called a real Millennial, and in my experience us 80s babies still have a lot of Geneation X traits... for you I'd imagine you have even more growing up with older cousins you probably related to people born in the '70s more than '90s babies.

[@ShyRage1]

You are absolutely right! We were here when land lines were still the thing and cassette players were booming. Heck, I remember my grannys 8 track

[@billydiana]

When I first looked up my birth year and saw that I was labeled a millenial I was seriously offended. I don't feel genX either. I feel right at home being a Xennial.

[@ACEVegasStudios]

The generation before the Baby Boomers was the Silent Generation. Think of the teenagers in Rebel Without a Cause in the 50s. They were like the "Xennials" of their generation between the Greatest Generation and Boomers. :-)

[@GenXer82]

Great name for this micro-generation! I like to think of Xennials as "Tail-End GenXers" who happen to have some of the good Millennial characteristics. Strauss & Howe's classification of Gen X (1965-81) is way too short, and Xennial should be a "sub-generation" of Generation X.

[@xennial80sxberner]

It's ironic that the transitional years got stuck onto the later part of Gen X rather than onto the early part of Millennials. It's kind of ridiculous to say someone born in December 1983 still has Gen X in them while someone born January 1984 doesn't, lol. That's why I think they should've just extended it for the whole 80s.

[@melanieberthelo9582]

@@xennial80sxberner 1983 here. 1984 should be included. It changes after that.

[@jessjoy85]

The ultimate identifiers for me are actually writing and folding up NOTES in cool ways to send to your friends (pre-cell phone/texting), having a mix of actual mixtapes /cassette tapes and cds (1995 was when i got my first cd) , VHS, nintendo, sega, gameboy, then of course aol later on, and nokia cell phones in my later teens. Born 1985 and i definitely identify as an Xennial, even though they say til '83 i am so claiming this one. It's good to know theres a name for this time period and shift.

[@ShyRage1]

Xennial here. If you are too raise youre hands

[@nancykillsyou]

I think if you say “big deal who cares” on the news then you are definitely a gen-x’er.

[@poki7179]

NANCY Noise definitely. It’s all made up anyway to categorize people

[@staceyboomboom8031]

The most gen X comment ever vs the millennial " I don't wanna!!"

[@CarlyneDTQTonPod]

Who is sniffing their nose over the mic ? 🧐 I’m 1980 Xennial and I can relate to Gen before me and after + my 2 nieces ages 16 & 9

[@cloeye32]

I was born June 1, 1977 in Cleveland Ohio I’m in this category

[@staceyboomboom8031]

As an 83 baby ,we are the post punk generation. The world was changing at such a rapid pace and we were thrown into it without knowing what to expect. Millennials had the luxury of those changes already being established when they were growing up

[@ShockerTopper]

I thought it was just me and my friends playing Oregon Trail. As an adult now I feel like everybody must have played it that grew up in the 90's. Guess we didn't have the internet (as we know it) back then to convey that information lol...how ironic. Thinking about it just now I had some really weird deja vu about how it was when you had to call your girlfriend's home phone and speak with her parents first. Maybe that's part of what kept us all in line..well more or less comparatively at least. Everybody else remember how awkward it was when you didn't know who you were going to get on the other end of the line when calling? It was like russian roulette haha...you always hoped certain people wouldn't pick up and had to be cognizant of potential other people on a different phone in the house listening to your conversation.

[@delberthcastro656]

1980 is the middle of all this, gen x and millenials. In 2020, all people born in 1980 can technically say, "I lived the first 20 years of my life without technology or internet, and I lived the last 20 years with the technology that we know today" Hello to all my 1980 people out there, happy holidays!!.

[@STMARTIN009]

It's 2020 and I am a 1980 baby. I plan on roping someone into a story about the 56k modem and using payphones. Heck my high school wrestling teammates told me my brother was in a car accident and I didn't believe them I had to use a payphone to call home to find out the truth. If I had a modern cellphone I would have just got a text

[@STMARTIN009]

My brother and the other driver was ok but the car was totaled

[@FS02012]

Guys dont for get the 1978-1986 kids had video games we were the first electronic kids, teens we were the first that had beepers, we 1977-1985 kids first internet etc...

[@STMARTIN009]

Don't forget about those cool Starter jackets with the pouch in the front.

[@pika62221]

1977 as adults in college as Windows 95 didn't even exist until those born in 1977 were 18, and freshman in college.

[@FS02012]

@@pika62221 look up the term Xennials... dude this is a 5 year old comment.

[@preppychrisbou]

Born in 84, definitively not a millennial. The characteristics of the millennials doesn't match the people born before 1986.

[@mario-rj7ti]

I agree..I think millennials should start at 87

[@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927]

@J G unless its the same person behind every comment, what I am seeing is that most people born between 1977-1984 identify as Xennnial. They have more in common with Gen X and less with Millenials. Are you trolling on purpose?

[@shaniell.mathur6372]

As an elder millennial myself, born in (1986) my peers and I consider our self-more of a (Xennial, 1978 to 1983 and some say to 1985) We have nothing in common with younger millennials, but we are more in common with people being born in the early 1980s, which includes (while growing up) common interest in TV shows, music, movies, culture, fashion, politics and so on. If you are a older millennial, born around the early to mid 1980s, look up the generation (Xennial)

[@ReganMarcelis]

I am smack dab in the middle and couldn't relate more to this as I never felt fully part of either however leaned towards X and was born in 1980. However I can build you a computer and program it, also I can take technology or leave it and see where it can be bad for people not communicating as much in person but yet also embrace it. When I found this micro gen I googled it and everything said of this was spot on, I finally have a place to belong. The picture they have up on Google for the definition is of AOL, wow, spot on. I met the mother of my kids via an AOL Chat room and I don't think this was so far fetched. I had an AOL Pager to a black and white sidekick to blackberry 'even today and prior to that into my early to mid twenties mobile technology still wasn't as advanced 'unless you knew where to go and get what you wanted and paid a monthly fee... Millennial's are always thought of "knowing" how to build or fix a PC or cell phone when I find this to be further from the truth as they just are "always on a cellphone or PC or gaming system" we Xennials are the ones who know how to create, fix and build them down to the nitty gritty... our micro gen... glad to be out of both but I think it should be from about 1977 to 1987 in that ten year span as I had kids as old as '78 or '79 in my class when I and most were '80 which is dead smack in the middle of what they say it is... however I had a cousin whom was very close to me born in 1987 and he was nearly just like "us" down to the alternative music he listened to but maybe a few things had him weighing more towards Millennial just as I GenX however mostly we were of the same tribe so I would say 1978 to 1986 as in the 8 year span at least if not going all in for 1977 to 1987 at most.... ten years... anybody?.... I also prefer xennials over Oregon Trail and put it in me Facebook secondary nickname 'if your a Xennial I suggest doing the same as there are not many of us so we must Scream. :p

[@RavenousFallen]

Xennial is the first micro generation we've noticed to exist and it might be the only one due to what made them a generation by growing up in the traditional Era and crossing over into the Digital Age... that'll never happen again for any generation. It's a pretty significant moment in human history.

[@lamarlo4437]

Childhood is between the ages of 3-11 and as a 90's kids I had an analog childhood. I came up during a time when digital was emerging and becoming steadily popular, although mine differ from Xennials because they were college age and I was teenage when it went the shift happened. Although we have experienced the same thing, the difference is we were at different stages in life

[@poki7179]

I was born in 81 and I’m definitely n x’er. Besides my parents were boomers

[@summertime87]

I was born in 77, so I think I’m a xennial. But I feel I have more in common with generation x

[@jessicavoll1382]

If you grew up with the internet you are xenials gen x never had those things. Cell phones either. Born in 1976 and a gen x i remember having to go to the public library to do homework. My sister.born in early 80s had a computer for that at homw

[@DrAnalieseMasonJudeMD]

Dec 77. Squarely in the Xennial microgeneration. First generation so my immigrant parents weren’t taking us to Star Wars. I never saw ET (still haven’t). I never saw Jaws (still haven’t) so most early GenX references are lost on me. Jared Leto was bae from “My so-Called Life.” I grew up on the Cosby Show but had internet access by the end of high school but can’t keep up with the Kardashians. I love my generational niche. My Gen Alpha kids. Every conversation ends with #LikeAndSubscribe 😂

[@YoureGorgeous]

Love being born on the cusp.

[@deegreatest6867]

1977 here *I am gen-x through and through*

[@billydiana]

I've heard that the next generation will be called generation Alpha. Lord help us!!!!

[@anarchistatheist1917]

I was born in the middle of 1984. So I am a member of generation X according to some sources. Or I am a member of generation Y (Millennial) according to other sources.

[@Militantreturns]

Nope. You"re a millenial accept it

[@samb9027]

Dude ur a millenial. Stop it

[@BKrystall]

1979 baby here. A true xennial

[@shaggy214]

1979. Game night with frineds evolved from board games to PS4

[@FS02012]

All the kids born in 1979 also had cells in high school we were the first gen that had cells back in 1997 high school the 1978-1986 baby echo gen now Millennials we are the baby boomers kids

[@russellhoward3866]

I think our calling as a generation is to be great parents. We've got a perspective that X'ers & Millenials don't have.

[@dylancooper3690]

I didn't have internet in my home until 11th grade and got my first cell phone right after graduating college.

[@brandonly27]

I saw someone bring a car phone into middle school one day like he was cool. I'm not even sure it worked! 😅😅

[@justbenelson]

Someone give that guy a Kleenex.

[@FS02012]

Yes im confused.. my sister was born in 1979 and she grew up with computers, 14 she had dial up internet watched sailer moon...she said she feels more of an millennial she reached full age of 21 in 2000 and was a student so she can't relate to those older people in the 60s she grew up in the 80s and 90s...in 1990 she was a little girl 10 years old then turned 11. Then in 93 a teen to 99 1977-1986 are also the first Millennials

[@pika62221]

1977 is too old to be a Millennial, since that'd be a college graduated 22-yr-old in the workforce come Y2K. Don't forget 1977 is also old enough to vote for Bill Clinton, and old enough to party like it's 1999 IN 1999.

[@Love1nOther]

Yay!!!! It's Kennelia Stradwick!!!! I miss you on after buzz tv. I'm glad I found you!

[@TheMichelex20]

When he said the emergency cellphone kept in the glove compartment I knew immediately we were born the same year. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yoymama7]

I was born in mid 76...and I don't relate to X or millennials.

[@samb9027]

Ur gen x

[@pika62221]

Those born in 1977 shouldn't be included. First, Dustin Diamond was born in 1977, meaning he wouldn't be the same generation as his costars? Okay. But, everyone born in 1977 were all old enough to vote for Bill Clinton- if they even voted as 1996 remains still today the lowest turnout in the 18-24 demographic (which would span 1974 too young to vote in 1992, and most of 1978 as some will miss the cutoff turning 18 after election day). It's also the last year to graduate both high school (1995) and college (1999) unless they were held back or had more than 4 years in college, took time off, etc. Last, those born in 1977 and before were all old enough to toast in 1999, legally, being 21+, meaning it's the last year that they could party like it's 1999 IN 1999. To graduate college and enter the workforce pre-Y2K, vote for Bill Clinton, and party like it's 1999 IN 1999 kind of says Gen X, don't you agree? If anything Xennials should be 1978 to 1983, the college kids of 9/11, and the ones too young to vote for Clinton, and in college during Y2K's big concern. Actually, 1979 to 1983 was the original span of Xennial in 2014 when the term first debuted. Take a look: www.good.is/articles/generation-xennials

[@msm624]

Gen x.....I think the Internet access is a great thing but I wish there was no such thing as any social media

[@arturovillalobos336]

Before Baby Boomers were "The Builders".

[@christinagaller4374]

All born in the cusp of generations would feel like they dont fit in any generation.

[@benjaminburkett9962]

No such thing. They are just late Xers. Everything you are saying applies to GenX

[@staceyboomboom8031]

The woman whining about being a millenial just PROVED why Millennials are viewed so poorly. It's the entitlement and refusal to accept what is. You were born in that generation - you may have played a game that was around before you were born , but that doesn't give you the same experience as someone who lived when it was brand new. Deal with it.

[@kevinthomson2691]

xennials goes until 1985 or even 1987.

[@stevejohnson3456]

Our generation rocks we raise our kids right we own odd ball classic cars like aspens minivans and other cars from the 40s to the 90s

[@wdmassey1734]

i would also say that i was a xennial also because for me like everybody else i had a xennial upbringing like i was into the lord of the rings and reading the chronicles of narnia awhile watching the original and the re release of star wars and also had my fair share cassette tapes and to mention the video tapes and the playstation 1 console also that is why i classify my self as a xennial and i was born in 1989 also the year of the xennial if you can call it that too because that was also the year when batman and the second ghostbusters movie came out

[@dylancooper3690]

Xennials' kids are now Generation Alpha, right?

[@nicholassmith32]

I Was Born A Mellenial Year 1989 But My Upbringings was A Xennial Growing Up We Had 1 Phone With A Long Cord AND IN School I Remember Playing Origon Trail

[@nicholassmith32]

The Household That I Was Born Into Was A Xennial Household With A Long Cord Phone Before Going To Grandmas Parents Telling You When To Be Home I Got My 1ST Cell Phone Between 18 To 21 Year Olds

[@ryenwthomas]

The silent generation where before the Boomers. Xennial is just a special brand that one of my cohorts created so that they could be special and specially escape the bad stigma Boomers gave Millennials. Here’s the deal, you don’t base a generation on tech because that changes fast. What we’re talking are cohorts and waves. Regarding a Millennial, that simply means someone who came of age during the first part of the new decade and have a leg in a world before 9/11 and the digital age.

[@eljefe8149]

Born in 77. I'm Gen X.

[@jamesbarnett8]

I consider myself xennial and born in 87

[@brucewaynefive]

i feel that people would use the word millennial in a derogatory way

[@MedalionDS9]

I am a total Xennial.

[@UntappedShesources]

I don’t want to be called a millennial either so preach 😂

[@punkyagogo]

This is the most millennial thing ever lol

[@matthewlee9728]

im 84 baby but this is me

[@noblelies]

Here's an easy test. If Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift annoy the heck out of you but Green Day, N'Sync, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera are things you heard playing in high school, you're a Xennial. The TV shows of your day were Charmed, Buffy, and Dawson's Creek, and you watched them while in middle school and high school, not while college or elementary school. Ignore the naysayers. You will not be forgotten. Chances are your parents had you when they were still teenagers and that is why everyone is so confused, because you came in the middle between two different generations.

[@burnbabylonburn78]

noblelies those were all college or soon after for me.

[@tehrinny7031]

My parents are boomers tho, lol. My mom had me in her late 30's. My parents were born at the start of the Boomer generation. It's not even so much technology or media influences, but it's more how your upbringing influenced your actions as an adult. I'm greatly different from someone born at the end of the Millennial era (1994). I have a bit of the Gen-X mentality: independent, played outside all day, parents weren't always home, didn't have constant supervision much like the generations that came before me. This leads to me being very goal driven and independent in work. I'm not cynical, but somewhere between optimistic yet also pragmatic opting for gradual change and progress (in some cases). Xennials may be more likely to stick with a company for a long time or work toward promotions, where as a full-on Millennial may want to do more meaningful work or may job hop. Still, we can leave a job if we see the writing on the wall and a gold watch and 401k isn't motivation for us to stick around either. We can be loyal but not to a fault. The economic crash and college debt crisis influences my thoughts on financial policies and trends in voting. Also, I find myself more tolerant than Gen-X (they're tolerant, but Millennial are far more) but I can't get into cancel culture. The last thing I want is a pat on the back or a gold star for putting on pants and showing up. I don't need constant feedback, numbers and reports speak more and motivate me to work toward goals. If you're grouped with the Millennial but a young Millennial or Z'er in your job will call you out of touch and you get "OK Boomer" too, you're probably a Xennial.

[@Truthseeker1515]

You forgot.....The Simpsons.

[@ianbohannon130]

My sister and I were born in the early 1980s

[@annecavender3980]

Can’t even listen to the whole thing due to dude sniffing into his microphone

[@1978wolfie]

Xennials parents will have kids that are at least very late MinionZ/ Gen Z/ unnamed cusp/ Gen A.

[@Megdracula]

I am a xennial

[@weirdblackgirl4827]

I feel like America forgot about us that's why they're trying to give us a corny name to try to describe my generation (1977).

[@jortega61924]

The newer gen is called gen z

[@kieshagaskins7958]

My kids are Z'ers... 13 and 3...

[@MrPAULONEAL]

I'm the same age as Rob...

[@funNactive1]

100% Necessary

[@judy2624]

I was born in 1980 and I don’t think I relate to any Xeninals. I’m more of a Generation Xers than a Xennials. I was a Latchkey Kid (Generation X kids who grew up without adult supervision). And grew up listening to Nirvana and Tupac. Not a Xennial.

[@MrPAULONEAL]

The silent generation

[@Truthseeker1515]

Amusing to what extent millenials refuse to accept who they are.

[@idylledoll]

This is such a stupid non-issue. There’s nothing more millennial than calling ourselves Xennials. It’s not about who you relate to, it’s about when you’re born. There is no such thing as micro generations. Facts over feelings.

[@nathankkarren5316]

I have discovered this topic a little late, but I disagree that it's a non-issue, at least as far as having any generational names is concerned. I am in this group and one way I would characterize it is having a GenX-wannabe childhood and a Millennial-wannabe adulthood. We looked to the older kids for influence only to be sprung on that the younger kids are the future. Significantly, GenX and Millennials are very different. This isn't meant as a complaint, only that there exists a spread where we are not, and never were a part of either. Tentative dates for "Millennials," however, were apparently pushed back to fill a classification vacuum. 'Put it this way: I identify as much with the term "Millennial" as I do with _Harry Potter_ or with furiously texting in the same room!

[@joeman677]

Honestly what a stupid way to try to disassociate yourself with stigma around a generation just accept you are a part of it and by the virtue of being a part of a massive group there is gonna be differences between you ill let you all in on a secret no one thinks you are a part of the stereotype unless you react to it in a way like this trying to be special.

[@FGAlele]

What about 80s Babies born from 84-88? We have Alot in Common with Younger Generation Xers. Didn't have my First Cellphone till College. I Remember what Dating was Like before Cellphones & Texting became Staples in our Culture. 85'er.

[@STMARTIN009]

Cyber bullying was non existent. Thats a big problem now. I got my first cell in 1999 but I was born in 1980.

[@kenc5999]

THE SNIFFING!!!!!

[@MrPAULONEAL]

User chat rooms

[@Bassman7608]

1977-1985

[@kmusic160]

Born 1988 yet I feel the same. And experienced the same......soooo

[@xennial80sxberner]

I think they fucked up by making it stop in 1983, the span is too early and should've covered the entire 80s babies

[@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927]

um 1988 is solidly Millenial, how much could you have in common from someone born in 1978?

[@Naetanarr]

I could not even watch this because of the constant f sniffling! ugghhh

[@1978wolfie]

No it’s for us! Lol.