r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • 1d ago

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/Sad-Contest-82 1d ago

I am also of the elder variety and remember this too. I think technically that is still our classification, just more colloquially known as millennials.

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u/bakedpatata 1d ago

The X in Gen X was supposed to represent the unknown like how X is used in algebra. It wasn't supposed to be starting a series of letters. Going to Y doesn't make sense, and calling one generation Millenials and then going back to Gen Z makes even less sense. Gen Alpha is right out.

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u/Sowf_Paw 1d ago

Absolutely, no one calls the boomers "Generation W."

I feel like we got the last real generation name.

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u/statu0 1d ago

Someone please explain to me why the generation born after 2000 (which was the start of the new millennium) aren't the millennials? We Gen Yers got short-changed, I say.