• Jo Miran
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    11 months ago

    Every time I see these generational memes I think of this one.

  • @TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    1711 months ago

    We’re all kids. We just have responsibility now so we have to pretend we don’t want to sit around and play with Legos all day. None of us have “figured it out” and the only reason it seemed like adults knew what they were doing when we were kids was because adults were old enough to have fucked everything up at least once.

  • @Username02@lemmy.world
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    1511 months ago

    Don’t be sad. I think 30 is a good age to be politically effective in the upcoming class war against the fascists and capitalists.

  • Boozilla
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    1011 months ago

    Goddammit, I’m an 80s kid and refuse to accept otherwise. Now somebody please help me attach these tennis balls to my walker.

  • @callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    1011 months ago

    A 30 year old would be a 2000s kid.

    Why do people get this wrong. It’s not about the decade you were born in, it’s about the decade you spent most of your formative childhood in.

    Roughly, kids born in the 70s were 80s kids. Born in the 80s were 90s kids. Born in the 90s were 00’s kids. Born in 00s were 10s kids.

  • @jaaake@lemmy.world
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    611 months ago

    Born in ‘81. The ‘90s were my teenage years.

    I’m just a ‘90s kid with a rapidly greying beard.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      My brother was born in 81, I was born in 91. It’s weird how we’re both considered 90s kids. Like, why that decade in particular seems so formative for so many. The 00s were my teenage years, and they did inform me as a person a lot, but when I think back on, like, the quintessential elements of my childhood, it’s the late 90s, pre 911. Same for my brother.

      • @nomous@lemmy.world
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        It’s probably just nostalgia but the 90s were formative. It was pretty much peak network TV. Peak music label music, the internet was a thing everyone had heard about but only schools and nerdy parents had. It really does feel like a different era.

      • @jaaake@lemmy.world
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        111 months ago

        Yeah, I was alive for nearly all of the ‘80s, but I wasn’t really aware of the ‘80s.

        By contrast, I took part in the ‘90s. I went to ska shows, I watched TRL, I sent pager codes to my friends.

  • @DannyMac@lemm.ee
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    411 months ago

    I’m 1983 and I barely remember anything from the 80s aside from kindergarten

    I guess you could say I was bootstrapped in the 80s and formed in the 90s

    • @Samsy@lemmy.ml
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      411 months ago

      Same year here. We are xenials, to early for millenials, to late for Gen-X. We only strive the real 80s and be the real 90s kids.

    • @TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      Arguably, the 90s had been the most peaceful (with the exception of few conflicts) and most prosperous decade. The world was just coming out from the spectre of the cold war as a result of collapse of communism, and globalisation is ramping up with many countries signing free trade agreements. But if you ask me, the 00s is arguably more peaceful and more prosperous decade than the 90s, because there were fewer conflicts and we’re enjoying the full peak economic prosperity of globalisation and free trade. However, globalisation is mismanaged and we were living in borrowed time during the era as deregulation of free trade led us to the Great Recession. And now we’re in downward spiral since with economic austerity having been applied; more conflicts spewing again; and nativist counterculture is trying to reverse globalisation.