Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

At least Kirsti isn't a boomer. Our reputation has been tarnished enough as it is.

xxp I think something said golden birthday which is some invented holiday where your current age matches the day of month? so turning 31 on may 31st or whatever

I don't even know

been halfheartedly pondering the overlap between instagram moms and the pre-existing milieu of suburban wine moms this afternoon and, while not a perfect circle, there's a definite early millennial/mid-millennial overlap

i've definitely gone on dates with suburban wine moms, and perhaps with aspiring instagram influencers, but never someone who has been both

instagram seems bad

I really hate the term cougar juice, but they don't make it easy.

Are they going to keep complaining/complimenting themselves in regard to "adulting" until they die?

Something about "being a kid at heart" that tolls throughout the Millennials and the Boomers. So many 40somethings in 80s commercials, can't believe they're wearing a SUIT and TIE, hearing the distant call of the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" echoing from somewhere past the conference room windows...

I don't see a whole lot of that from my generation. Except from Beto, who's got some trip going on that I'd wish he'd keep to himself.

I don't care much about instagram, it seems mostly spon cons and people doing yoga in inappropriate places. But I hate that a lot of places/tourist destinations have become unbearable just because people go there to get a shot for their social media.

The worst is when people ask you to move in a museum so they can take a picture of a picture.

my dad’s boomer version of “adulting” jokes was probably his insistence that he’s still working on figuring out what he wants to be when he grows up

now that he’s transitioning into retirement, he’ll perhaps have the time to work on that

DId boomer dad's have adulting jokes? I always thought they were more on the Al Bundy, giving up on life at age 40 angle.

I never see any of this on Instagram bc I don’t follow these people. It’s pretty easy to avoid!

I don't have an instagram account but every so often I like to watch the short vids of pasta being made.

I never see influencers or spon con or famous ppl bc that’s not why I’m there. It makes me sad to see people sorted into slots like wine mommy and insta mommy and any unnecessarily pigeonholed group. I guess that’s what they’re putting out there. Glad I don’t have to see it, with the exception of Kristi’s bday photo shoot.

afaict "adulting" jokes/comments at least among my peers are m/l a sort of ironic comment on the distance between what adult life looked like when we were kids versus what's attainable and/or desirable to us now. since so few mid-30s ppl in my circles have kids, own homes, or have job security, very little of their lives look like their parents' lives in the 1980s. so when something does, like getting a car or buying a durable large appliance, it sorta stands out. but i might be misreading it or coming from a very narrow area.

since so few mid-30s ppl in my circles have kids, own homes, or have job security, very little of their lives look like their parents' lives in the 1980s

this was the case w me in my mid-30s too. It hasn't been like the 80s since the uh 90s

That’s not much different from my experience as a person at the tail end of gen x except there were a few marrieds w kids. Not that many.

Everyone has been more or less screwed since the boomers. Might as well all stick together instead of subcategorizing each other to death.

gen xers are junior baby boomers stop playing

always confused about where our lines would split, catholics vs tiger cubs vs furious tattoo artists maybe

uk? thatcherites vs blairites vs corbynites? seems neat enough.

Douglas Coupland designed some very mediocre furniture. Although I liked his mod table.

much of silicon valley can probably be blamed on gen x, but zuck's a millennial

yeah sorry I normally frown on dumb hair-splitting / narcissism of small differences between microgenerations. anyway i imagine that as a pre-hashtag cohort, gen x would have gotten this kind of sentiment across in a different way. maybe like a really wordy, snarky t-shirt with distressed typewriter font or something? i was a kid, idk.

all of you will be baby boomers when your time comes

Something about "being a kid at heart" that tolls throughout the Millennials and the Boomers. So many 40somethings in 80s commercials, can't believe they're wearing a SUIT and TIE, hearing the distant call of the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" echoing from somewhere past the conference room windows...

― pplains

i'm a kid at heart because my crippling childhood trauma prevented me from ever reaching emotional maturity

"Rose bud..."

https://i.imgur.com/CvHnx7Y.gif

https://i.imgur.com/2jKqZX3.jpg

Lol

feel like a lot of the people living in a house with their spouse and 2.5 kids aren’t the ilx posting type

except pplains — i see you there!!

haha xp

“all the gen x people were there”

aka the olds

https://i.imgur.com/fbIa0i8.jpg?1

that's a good one

i wish zoomers existed in 2016 when i made this poll. they're the best ones.

they seem to have more of a generational consciousness than the millennials, who always seemed vaguely embarrassed or defensive about being millennials. i wonder if this is a positive -- like can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?

iirc the class of 2000 started getting promoted as such when they were like kindergartners so maybe the drumbeat of millennial zeitgeistery wore those kids down

also newspaper editors liked to torture us for sport in the early 2010s, commissioning all those op-eds wondering why we weren't buying houses during the worst job market in a generation

best is still the horrifying amount of sex we were having, until we suddenly weren't having enough

classic. zoomers are getting ahead of this by going on the offensive right away.

millennials could never really bring themselves to disparage a whole older generation. we recoiled from generalizations and lacked a revolutionary consciousness.

we were just like a massive punching bag essentially

I think you all kinda enjoyed it.

yr like the Cindy Brady of generations

it's over though now. the zoomers are the ones to watch.

I think you all kinda enjoyed it.

poor perverse bulb

I don't buy the wonderful zoomer narrative. Plenty of them would volunteer to be the foot soldiers of the Fourth Reich if a Twitch streamer told them to.

can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?

climate change is rendering generational divides unusually material but nothing like as material as class. don't mind the occasional deployment of generational consciousness for the sake of gretaist rhetoric but soon of course the boomers will be gone and here we will all still be, not on the same side.

"ok boomer" otoh i must confess i have been waiting for my whole life. too old now to indulge in it myself but god bless.

if all the zoomers agreed to not get any tattoos they could effortlessly tag and outdate the millennials

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12

When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data.

some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12🕸

_ When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data. _


some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?

millennials (born between 1981 and 1996)

hey buddy, we're a youthful 38 over here!