My son was born in 1999, So I've told him that if he can make to 101, he can live in three centuries.
He's questioning if humanity will still be here by then. American Gen Zs aren't feeling too hopeful about their futures.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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I am more amazed by the fact that in 2118 they have 1930's journalists really.
The answer will be "only 90s kids will remember" but then it'll totally be something that vast swaths of people from all walks of life and many other generations will remember and/or be familiar with.
What did the journalist expect? When you are born in the 90s, you aren't necessarily a 90s kid. This man was at best 10yo when the 90s ended and most likely a baby when 2000 came. The old man is right, only 90s kids will remember, and those were born in the 80s.
To be fair, the comic stated the guy was the last person alive born in the 1900s, and grew up in the 90s. Those are two very important details where words matter. In my mind this infers he was born before the 90s and spent his childhood in the 90s. And knowing kids from the 1900s it’s not too far fetched to imagine most died at a young age (I’m very surprised I’m still alive and it’s only 2025). 🤣
Also, the year stated in the comic is 2118, so the guy is already older than 118 years. If that’s possible, then it’s also possible he was born in the 80s, or late 70s.
~God I really hope I don’t live that long.~
~God I really hope I don’t live that long.~
You're right, he says last born in 1900, not 1990. What are the chances that a guys born before 1990 survived all of the people born in the 90s tho ?
Even a one-in-a-million chance is a chance.
He said the grampa was the last to be born in the 1900's. Not that they had a childhood in the 1900's. Then they're ask about the person's experiences growing up in the 90's. They're don't assert he had any.
And they wouldn't. The last person born in the 1900's was probably someone born a few seconds to midnight. I remember there being several competitions or promotions (on national levels, not global so timezones don't really come into it in most countries) or some such for the first kid born in the new millenium.
Nah actually it was on a global level as well, my bad. Here's an image of the google.com search to see some headlines so you don't need to bother
The point being that because a lot of people were aiming for midnight at new years, and you have to start the project 9 months earlier, there'd have been quite a lot of "just a little too early". Definitely more born in the days 30.12.1999-02.01.2000 than 30.12.1995-02.01.1996, I would wager. (I don't have the data on that but one would imagine it's available at least in parts.)
Omg this thread
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Id go as far to say you have to push it back 16 years or so. Being born in 1989, I would say I didn't experience the 90s at all, I experienced 2005+.
Sure I remember the Y, and had inline skates as a kid, but it's not like I was out experiencing the music/parties/culture of the 90s as someone who could absorb any of it.
There was a couple kids who wore Jeanco jeans in my elementary school, but being born in 89, that means I left elementary school in 99, not much life lived yet
bold of you to assume reporters will be human then
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easily.
Purpose fulfilled
I don't get it
it's a joke about engagement bait. You post something like "the TMNT liked pizza! Only 90s kids remember!" and anyone born between 1971-89 and after 2000 replies saying "I knew this too!". Viral post, algorithm, etc
Um, I hate to break it to you, but people born in the latter half of the 80s are 90s kids.
Born in '87 but please don't call me an 80s kid. I have zero memory of that decade; can't relate to it at all. Most of my core memories come from being a kid in the 90s (and a little bit of the 2000s). I'm a 90s kid through and through.
Edit: Ah shit, god dammit. Immediately after typing all of this out, I now see what you did there, you clever bastard. I took the bait.
get algorithm'd!
Oh I thought maybe there was more depth to it than that