11-20-2021, 02:09 PM
1981 may be a good earlier start for Millennial, and it lines up well if we consider experiencing life as a minor in the pandemic a hallmark of the generation afterwards. We don't know yet where generational lines will be drawn but if we assume roughly 20 years to a generation & work backwards from people born now in the pandemic (still living quarantine life w/o a vaccine for youngest kids, still masks in schools), we get birth years of: 2002 (some like a cousin of mine were late 2001 birth and so ended up as c/o 2020 in our school system) for Class of 2020, 2003 for c/o 2021, 2004 for c/o 2022. Everyone born after ~2001 so far has experienced some form of pandemic-related disruption in their upbringing, either in early childhood or the schools. If the pandemic is our big Crisis of our time and it ends by mid-2020s, then kids born now ought to be part of the next generation - who will grow up in a post-Crisis world with no memory of either pandemic or all the things that led to it. So Millennial at 1981 to 2000/1 birth years, Zoomer for 2001/2 to 2022, & next gen(s) for 2023+?