Well, I do consider myself a "millenial" by the fact of being born in 1996 and experienced pretty much 2000s culture (though with a Colombian or Latin American touch because of my nationality) during my childhood. Oh, and pogs never went out of style in Latin America (and Spain) and they appear every three years or so.
Am I A Millenial?
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 On 07/15/2014 at 06:30 PM by Super Step See More From This User » |
I just joked that I am in a draft of an article I'm writing for plus10damage, but really, am I?
I guess technically the answer is yes, since the Internet was around for most of my life, but the Internet also sucked and made pterodactyl noises when you woke it up for a good chunk of that time. Plus, looking up porn on there tended to have actual consequences and take forever to begin with. It was a dark time in human history.
And DVDs came out in what, 1999? Yeah, we didn't have the money for that shit. I still remember longer movies like Titanic (which I realize hit theaters in 98', but it was still long after that when we finally bought a low-end DVD player) needing two VHS tapes in order to handle all that elbow cleavage and a CD player in a car was kind of a big deal. My brain nearly exploded when I saw that my cousin David could hook his iPod up to his car's stereo system. At least something happened to my brain when I saw that, cause I kept trying to make that fucking thing fly. Surely something so futuristic would have a jet fuel system somewhere.
But then, this might have less to do with the time I was alive, that being 1990 until now, and myself and my family having been a bit behind the curve. We were never poor, but we were never rich either, and sometimes there's just no way to justify the unnecessities, even if "everyone else can" (<--- probably more my perspective as a kid than actual reality went into that line of thinking).
There's also the fact a lot of what I remember was influenced by my very Gen-X older brother, who was born in 1984 and loved Pantera, Nirvana, etc. and without whom I'd never have played NES, SNES, PSX, or PS2 at home, otherwise having only my N64, Gamecube, and Nintendo handhelds growing up.
There's also the cultural aspect, where I feel like the people we refer to as millennials don't remember when the Internet's #hashtags were the telephone's #pound sign and Bender from Futurama's successful trolling campaign wasn't the customer service for every other corporation.
AT&T Cares
In any case, I respond positively to those 90s nostalgia things on Buzzfeed, so if that's the test for being a millenial, I fit the bill, but when I think millenial, I don't think of anyone who knew that pogs were a thing once.
Like, is Millhouse a millenial?
What do you think determines whether or not someone is a "millenial?" According to Wikipedia, it can be anybody born from the early 80s to the early 2000s, but let's be honest: no one thinks of 80s kids as millenials. Or at least I don't. Do you?
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