11-14-2021, 10:14 PM
I've definitely thought for a while that the Millennial generation begins a little earlier than 1982. There are several notable people born in 1980 and 1981 that seem *very* Millennial to me, such as Hank Green or Kelly Clarkson, or for an international example, Jacinda Ardern.
I guess I'd point to, roughly, vaguely 1980 to the middle of 2002. Not the whole year, only to around August or September (whenever the last of the Class of 2020 was born), as I believe the most salient divides are whether or not a person experienced the full year of online school (2020-2021 academic year) and whether or not someone was old enough to vote in the 2020 election. I suppose this makes the few people in the Class of 2021 who could vote in 2020, all born between summer (varies by state) and November 3 of 2002, the most borderline of all.
Borderline sections more broadly are probably defined by "doesn't remember 9/11" and "remembers the 2008 crash but did experience the year of online school," so that puts the borderline zone at about 1998-2004. These cohorts, of which I am a part, are very keenly aware of their generational location and tend to feel a bit of tension and confusion about it, struggling to identify with either generation. You hear the phrase "I'm not part of the Logan Paul generation" a lot as an expression of this, a recognition that we the 1998-2004 people are clearly different from what comes after, but struggle to relate to those who came before because of, primarily, technology changes and the 9/11 divide.
One other interesting thing is that if birth-year political trends hold, then in the future we can expect roughly 1998-2004 to be the most strongly Democratic-voting birth years in recent history.
I guess I'd point to, roughly, vaguely 1980 to the middle of 2002. Not the whole year, only to around August or September (whenever the last of the Class of 2020 was born), as I believe the most salient divides are whether or not a person experienced the full year of online school (2020-2021 academic year) and whether or not someone was old enough to vote in the 2020 election. I suppose this makes the few people in the Class of 2021 who could vote in 2020, all born between summer (varies by state) and November 3 of 2002, the most borderline of all.
Borderline sections more broadly are probably defined by "doesn't remember 9/11" and "remembers the 2008 crash but did experience the year of online school," so that puts the borderline zone at about 1998-2004. These cohorts, of which I am a part, are very keenly aware of their generational location and tend to feel a bit of tension and confusion about it, struggling to identify with either generation. You hear the phrase "I'm not part of the Logan Paul generation" a lot as an expression of this, a recognition that we the 1998-2004 people are clearly different from what comes after, but struggle to relate to those who came before because of, primarily, technology changes and the 9/11 divide.
One other interesting thing is that if birth-year political trends hold, then in the future we can expect roughly 1998-2004 to be the most strongly Democratic-voting birth years in recent history.
2001, a very artistic hero and/or a very heroic artist