• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    I guess it depends on how restrictive your parents were with TV access, Millennials born between 1990 and 1995 could have easily seen Married with Children and then Futurama and understood the reference from a young age, but Gen Z wouldn’t be very likely to see Married with Children at all, and I dispute the existence of a Gen Alpha yet because there is no way Gen Z are old enough to have kids with opinions in any sizeable demographic so therefor it isn’t a generational gap.

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      10 months ago

      I am refiering to generation alpha. (2010 on since there is not really an agreed on date.)

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        10 months ago

        To be Gen Alpha you must be the child of Gen Z who had to be the child of Millennials.

        So if you agree that a millennial was born in 1980 and had kids at 18 who then had a kid at 18 then a Gen Alpha would be like 6 or 7 years old maximum.

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            10 months ago

            Listen if there is no generational gap between you and boomers, then you’re just a Gen X, mate. One generation to the next, no skipping.

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                10 months ago

                Do you know what the word Generation means? Literally in no other context is it defined that way, but you’re using Wikipedia as a source so clearly I don’t expect you to have any learning capacity at this point. Maybe you really are Gen Alpha at your mommy’s tablet.

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                  10 months ago

                  Ok, I think this is just trolling at this point. No way someone can make this argument in good faith AND throw out that weak of an insult.

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                    10 months ago

                    I think it was a banger insult, just enough not to seem unreasonable. If I wanted to alienate the opposition then discussion would very quickly become meaningless, like your comment for example: completely devoid of any relevant context, only an attack on my person.

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          10 months ago

          Yes, as I have nephews that are gen alpha, that is how that works. You have kids now that are not gen Z and are around 10 that never knew MWC. Just because someone is young does not invalidate their status as people (yet, don’t give them any ideas).

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            10 months ago

            The problem is there are people in the comments who seem to think they’re Gen Alpha, Millennial, or Gen Z without realizing they skipped generations in their calculation.

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              10 months ago

              Yes and yet you are the only person that seems to think this is how generations work, that somehow you can skip at all.

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                  10 months ago

                  Wait, no. You are the one that thinks you can skip!

                  As in the whole concept of skipping generations is insane in this context.

                  You almost got me there.

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                    10 months ago

                    I’m saying it goes in sequence, that it can’t go from Gen X > Gen Z without a Millennial intermediary. Therefor I am in fact the one saying there is no skipping.