Baby boomers (named after the post war baby boom that created them) started it by calling the generation following them “generation X”. Then millennials were gen Y for a while before the millennial rebrand after the turn of the millennium for some reason. Gen Z got the nickname zoomer pretty much because it rhymes with boomer. Then we ran out of letters because the boomers decided to start at the wrong end of the alphabet, so we’re doing the Greek alphabet now. Thus gen alpha, who haven’t been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.
Given generations seem to be about 15 years or so, the line for gen beta kids is just around the corner I guess
Exactly, it takes time to get a non-sequential name. I haven’t heard Gen Y in probably a decade. I still hear Genzie but I suspect it’s partly waiting for the Zoomer adoption, partly due to being the easiest to say. Jennay is smooth but not too clear as a standalone word, needing context like “PIN number”
Lol what, did you want to be Gen Z or something? Technically you’re on the borderline, and people on the borderlines of generations are kind of a mix of the two gens. So I guess you’d be a … Zalpha? Alphaz? Idk
Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You’re just getting old. Alpha’s been with us for a while now.
The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that’s connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The “iPad kids”.
More the latter than the former. GenZ commonly includes 2005ish, and people born in the early 2000s got to experience the proliferation of the internet during their childhood
Is it just me or is there a new generation about every 4 months lately?
Gen Alpha started in 2010 bro, where ya been?
My question is who comes up with these names?? Is there a commission I was never invited?
Baby boomers (named after the post war baby boom that created them) started it by calling the generation following them “generation X”. Then millennials were gen Y for a while before the millennial rebrand after the turn of the millennium for some reason. Gen Z got the nickname zoomer pretty much because it rhymes with boomer. Then we ran out of letters because the boomers decided to start at the wrong end of the alphabet, so we’re doing the Greek alphabet now. Thus gen alpha, who haven’t been around long enough to develop an identity resulting in a catchier nickname.
Given generations seem to be about 15 years or so, the line for gen beta kids is just around the corner I guess
Exactly, it takes time to get a non-sequential name. I haven’t heard Gen Y in probably a decade. I still hear Genzie but I suspect it’s partly waiting for the Zoomer adoption, partly due to being the easiest to say. Jennay is smooth but not too clear as a standalone word, needing context like “PIN number”
“iPad babies” seems to be the closest thing we have at the moment. Only time will tell if that sticks.
Generation Fucked didn’t stick and tbh covers too many years.
Wait… I was born close to the start of 2010.
Am I gen alpha?
Yeah
:'(
Lol what, did you want to be Gen Z or something? Technically you’re on the borderline, and people on the borderlines of generations are kind of a mix of the two gens. So I guess you’d be a … Zalpha? Alphaz? Idk
I think it would be zalpha
Cus chronologically z comes first
Idk I just liked the way it sounded
Unless my 5th grade kid had a kid, no. You’re just getting old. Alpha’s been with us for a while now.
The marker is supposedly anyone born entirely within the 21st century and living in a world that’s connected to the internet 24/7 since birth. The “iPad kids”.
More the latter than the former. GenZ commonly includes 2005ish, and people born in the early 2000s got to experience the proliferation of the internet during their childhood
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