1992 here and I never really think of myself as a 90s kid. All the things I remember happened in the 00s.
i mean that’s what “X kid” means. usually if you were born in a decade you’re the next decade’s “kid”.
Being an elder zoomer be like:
As a late GenX 90s kid: Fuck you for forgetting us AGAIN.
We truly are the forgotten generation.
If you’d stop being the majority of conservative social media personalities we’d stop trying to forget you, you Charlie Kirk looking goofy motherfuckers.
Wait, so you are painting an entire generation of people based on for-clicks neocon youtube personalities?
Fuck that I am blocking your entire instance now. Literally nothing within a hundred miles of you could possibly be good.
Although it is fun to eat popcorn while the millennials and the boomers yell at each other.
But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?
We were 90s kid first, we fucking founded the council.
Okay boomer
Weaksauce, try harder.
Or maybe you are just bad at math, who knows?
It’s a joke
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
NONE of you has had to deal with as many years of boomer bullshit as I have. NONE.
You think shit’s bad for you now? Imagine turning 50 and being in the same economic position that all you millennials whine about. At least the economy has a chance to recover before you retire. None of my cadre have that kind of time left.
Some older GenX did make their wad before things got bad but literally the 3rd month of my IT career when the dotcom bubble burst.
If I could say to you what I really want to say, I’d get banned. If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
Dude, relax
At least the economy has a chance to recover before you retire. None of my cadre have that kind of time left.
Don’t worry, it won’t; the issue is not with what people associate with economy, that one is booming, just look at how the market is developing. But the wealth pools at the top and there’s no political will to change that.
Calm down, nerd.
For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.
Then you are the source of most of your frustration.
You think shit’s bad for you now?
I didnt say anything about anything.
If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.
Lol okay tough guy.
Chillout this is a meme thread. No one is talking shit about Boomers, Gen X, Millenials or Zoomers. It’s a comically inoffensive meme.
I’m not trying to start shit, but wouldn’t all people who were 90’s kids start the council at the same time due to how time flows?
If we are adopting the ‘media culture’ view, then you need to at least be around 6 to start making the abstract connections necessary to make lasting memories about media.
So in 91, some ‘90’s kids’ are turning six and able to effectively even be cognizant of a council, whereas some 90s kids are yet to be born.
Or all generational cadres are made up arbitrary bullshit but if you watched Ducktales AND Rescue Rangers, and knew bugs bunny when he was still racist, then it is likely you and I will have a lot more in common than 90s kids who knew Spongebob and Blues Clues.
Yeah, but as a member of Gen X, we’re the last to be able to own property.
Swings and roundabouts, innit?
Sure that’s possible for older GenX.
Xennials like myself had barely a few years (in my case months) before the dotcom bubble ruined our one generational leg up.
If I had been smart and dumped IT and went back to school for writing, I’d probably have a house, but stupid autistic me wanted to fucking be a computer person…
Tech pays just fine. Maybe not as much as being a lawyer, but there are people who make £50-100k per year working in tech as programmers, engineers, or professors. That’s a reasonable salary for most of the country. I know there are people in America making way more, though that does have to cover health care.
Not if you were caught in the middle of Florida when IBM and everyone else pulled out from the dotcom crash, flooding the entire state with thousands of career IT people WITH FUCKING IBM ON THEIR RESUMES and you are a naive little autist with literally zero support fresh out of college.
Sure there are parts of the world my experience would have landed me a living wage.
Not in florida in the 90s. I never broke the equivalent of £30k till I crawled out of that humid hellhole.
I never recovered and people never seem to tire of dismissing it all as my fault.
I was in the same place experiencing the same thing, hell we probably ended up working together doing trivial jobs surrounded by people grossly overqualified. Things did end up better eventually for me, sorry to hear it didn’t for you. We got the short end of the stick there for sure.
You’re talking about things that happened in the 90s. If you are still struggling now 3 decades later because of that then I have to question if you are the problem. I know people about my age (I was born in 2001) getting mortgages working in tech without even a proper computer science degree, just doing desktop servicing and repair. There have been some rough times recently with people getting fired after the pandemic ended and with the AI boom. However there have also been new opportunities thanks to AI. I am getting funded to do a 3 year PhD with a 19K a year bursary thanks to AI hype. If there is an AI bust that just means more jobs for regular programmers as companies realize that replacing them with LLMs wasn’t a good idea. If not then anyone who can make or work with AI models is quids in.
I have never worked in or been to America so I have no idea what has or hasn’t happened in Florida before I was born, nor do I care. Given that was three decades ago you shouldn’t really care either. If it’s that big of problem can’t you “move state” since America is supposed to be so big and diverse? For me to leave the UK which is much smaller I would need to go through immigration. There are booms and busts in all markets and always will be until we can overthrow capitalism.
Nice try troll, I hereby excise you from my internet experience forever.
I am not a troll. I am talking from my own personal experience. It is good though when the trash takes itself out.
I believe were called Xennials.
I can confirm this is inaccurate. I was in a class of 93s and 94s and we were told by our science camp councilor that we were not 90s kids, but 2000s kids. That was back in 2005. The 2000s hadn’t even finished yet. So shrink that first range to at least 1981-1989 and extend that second range to at least 1990-1996.
1993. What I know about the 90s is what I learned about it once I achieved self-awareness well into the 2000s
Are… Are you an AI?
They said they have self awareness.
So no, of course not.
Rest assured, I am composed of flesh and blood. The same as you, fellow human!
The T-100 was flesh and blood too, so that’s an evasion of the question.
You didn’t gain self-awareness until after the age of SEVEN?! What the actual hell? Are you ok?
Most people have only vague memories before they’re 5 or 6, so that’s not so uncommon. I, an elder millennial, have lots of memories from before I was 6, but only because I have a big life event that happened when I was 6 that marked a “before time” and “after time” allowing me to easily place memories before or after the age of 6. All of my memories from the “before time” are vague and hard to place at specific ages except for a specific few that I can place due to houses I lived in at the time and what my parents told me.
I wouldn’t say I wasn’t self-aware in the “before time” but I definitely don’t remember it as well as what came in the “after time”. I’m sure that is what the above poster is referring to.
Yeah bad news for anyone born after 1990 on being a 90’s kid…
I don’t think you understand how child culture works, frankly I doubt you have even the slightest grasp on how normal culture works and Wooohooo let me tell you child culture is a hell of a lot more complex and nuanced.
The media of our formative decades is what classifies us as the decade kid we are, and that only happens for people who live through the period old enough to contextualize abstract thought but young enough to be a separate social group than the adults.
So no, kids born in say 95 doesn’t fall into that impressionary period for being a ‘90s kid’ and all the rancid pedants like yourself that are milking this meme for clout are actively damaging the discourse.
Not that you care, none of you are actually here to advance knowledge or discussion. The internet was a mistake and I regret every cable I laid to help build it.
Your username really checks out
I did not choose it arbitrarily. At least now when I am banned I can say ‘I warned you’.
I admire your candor
I don’t know who you thought you were responding to, but you got em! I agree with you.
‘95 here. Never heard anyone born my age claim they were a 90s kid. Sis is ‘93, I don’t think she considered herself one either.
I think the best marker for what ‘decade’ someone’s childhood exists in is to have people list the media that stuck with you as a kid.
I see the ‘90s kid’ cutoff being the prevalence of Spongebob Squarepants, it aired in 99, so kids hit their formative years watching it if they were born early 90s and beyond making them ‘00s kids’. It’s like stratigraphy for media. Actual 90s kids were already too old to adopt him en masse so their media was Ducktales and Rescue Rangers, preceded by the generation raised on Bugs Bunny before they removed the bigotry, and the generation before that Mighty Mouse and Pink Panther.
As usual there is always some bleedover, for example I’m part of the beginning of the Ducktales era yet still have a great fondness for Pink Panther which was already in reruns before I was born.
As a humanist I think we should go with human first before or instead of these potentially divisive, arbitrary age brackets, contemporary generational labels, etc.
Ok, boomer.
The boomers divided us up this way so they could shit on us. Always remember that.
Fair point, actually, and I was being glib. ✊🏽
I agree. All of this shit is divisive.
That’s pretty unnatural state of affairs not gonna lie
To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I’m a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.
Yea I was probably too young to remember anything of the 90’s. Probably my earliest memory that feels like a part of my “kidhood” is being annoyed that 9/11 interrupted my morning cartoons. Even then I wouldn’t consider that part of my core childhood memories. But who knows, maybe there are people with vivid memories of themselves living their best life as a 5yo in 1999.
Shiiiit. I lost my virginity in '90, and I know I’m a “90s kid”.
How old were you in 90?
I started highschool in '91.
Bring on the downvotes, bored Redditors.
Is starting Highschool in 91 something people don’t like? 🤔
Nah, just that one salty bitch. 🤪
No need to downvote. Nothing wrong with having been a 80s kid.
Wait another decade and “90s kid” won’t be a title anyone wants to claim.
You’re too young if you care.
Born in '72 here. What is this attention to generations and acknowledgement of existence you speak of? Your words are strange and foreign to me.
Don’t you have a mortgage to pay off? Hush hush to work, and leave the internet to us. Doesn’t matter if you were in some usenet mailing groups already, when most people couldn’t type on a keyboard.
(me, born in 94)
Yup sorry buddy I don’t make the rules
The years are wrong. To be a 90s kid you need to be born by 1991.
Typically being a 90s kid means you experienced the 90s during your formative years. Not that you were born then.
Which formative years? Everything until 25 is quite formative.
I’d assume in order to be a 90s kid you would’ve needed to have a memory of your existence in the 90s. Most kids can’t remember anything earlier than 4-5 years old, so the cutoff of 1994 seems about right using that criteria.
I read an article that basically said we give up on trying to categorize you guys (97), you’re just “transitionals”. Not millennial or gen z. And honestly I get that. I only remember 9/11 because of my mother’s reaction. I grew up in a weird phase for tech. And I don’t feel like I belong to either group.
So I think they cracked the code!
I was born in 1980. I refuse to be in any generation, I just was born in 1980.
“Weird phase for tech” is a nice euphemism for “knows what casettes are, but didn’t have to put them into computers anymore.”
I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9
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Putting cassettes in computer is OLD. Like… Gen X old.
