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Gen X, I presume?
Who is the 50-something in this situation?
It bothers me how Generation X has been stretched out over time. It should be more people in their 60s. Coupland is 63. If you're 55 now you were barely in high school when his book about late 20s-early 30s people came out.
Intellectually I understand why we gave up on the "Gen Y" stuff once the idea of Millenials surfaced, but I'm in that gradient where during my lifetime I went through waves of being post-Gen X, then a millenial, then all the way back to Gen X, then sorta millenial again once it became OK for millenials to have kids and jobs and be old and stuff.
Generational designators are bullshit anyway, but if you're in that gap between X and millenials, or between millenials and Gen Z, now going through that exact process, they become annoying bullshit.
Late Gen X / early Millennial is called a Xennial. We're characterized as having been born in a largely analog world and coming of age as consumer technology became more prevalent. I think it informally encompasses 1977-1983.
I was born in '81 and graduated high school in '99. I grew up hearing that I was Gen X, the slacker generation, the whatever generation, the generation where trying was uncool. And that's exactly the experience I had. I was an adult before I ever heard the term 'millennial' and I don't identify with it at all, though technically I'm on the cusp. Xennial does seem to fit though.
That's one of the places where it landed. And certainly the stupidest sounding one.
I didn't make up "Gen Y", it was a thing you'd hear at the time, it just didn't stick. Iliza Shlesinger has a comedy special called Elder Millennial, which is also a thing I've heard elsewhere. She was born in 83.
It's all a dumb mess, I guess is my point.