• don
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    4 months ago

    I think Gen X usually just gets lumped in with boomers

      • HelixDab2
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        Makes sense given they still haven’t had a president lol

        I think you mean that it doesn’t make sense given that [we] still haven’t had a president.

        I would not be adverse to X getting skipped entirely for Millenials or Z though.

      • don
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        Well now that I don’t think about it, was X really ever a generation? Or was it really just a product of some really weird marketing? I feel like 75 years from now, “Gen X” is gonna wind up on a watchmojo video of “The Top 10 Generations That Never Actually Existed”

        • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          4 months ago

          From GenX onwards they’re all marketing terms.

          Normally generations were only distinguished after some kind of geo political event, like first world war, or when the birth rate was exceptionally high.

          Now we pre-name generations so marketing teams can segment people into target groups.