Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know Pokémon.
Kid ... I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.
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I tell my kids that any pokemon beyond the original 151 is a fake pokemon.
Get off my lawn!
me when kids explain minecraft history to me
me when kids explain weird-ass minecraft lore to me when i've been there since it was a browser game
My kid is getting into Minecraft and it's so hard to not stop their excitement by being like "yeah, I know, I've been playing this for longer than you've been alive" because I love how excited they get learning about how to make basic shit (and they're playing ATM10,so there's a TON of shit they haven't even come close to seeing) and sharing that with me.
Reminds me of a time when my nephew was playing vintage Super Mario Kart and started trash talking me about how long they had been playing and that I didn't stand a chance.
"I was playing this since before you were born kid"
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"Kid you don't even know what Alpha means..."
All these zoomers thinking I'm a manosphere chud because I said I played minecraft alpha version 😣
I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!
Okay xoomer, I bet you don't get spongebob references either, do ya!
Not directly! Only if they're repeated a lot online.
What a sad, depraved life... 😔
(/jk)
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it took my mom and I half an hour to figure out how to leave the house when we first booted up pokemon blue
"Kids these days"^TM^ don't get any references before Pokemon...like McGuyvering, Voltron...so I resent Pokemon because of that...😬
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Son, I remember when people were confused about Mr. Game and Watch while I was fondly reminiscing about my first handheld while looking at my childhood through R.O.B colored glasses.
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You had to be born in the mid late 80s To truly appreciate the 90s
GenX hates this one thing...
Thats not true, they hate most things.
Fuck you
This is what x, y and z can agree on
Meh (as a standard gen x answer).
I would argue mid-late 70's actually. It's when we were in high-school.
If you weren’t young enough to watch gummy bears, you just weren’t there, man lulz
ikr, just kinda bouncing here, there and everywhere.
79, I feel the same.
mid 70s. i am a 90s kid because all my highschool and vollege was in the 90s.. no one cares about a grunge 10 year old
Xelenials unite!
You underestimate just how long the 90's stuck around in some parts.
I was born in the 90's molded by the 90's, I didn't see the 2000's until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing but blinding.
90s ended for everyone on September 11th, 2001. From there on it's all been heartless shit, in lametta.
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mfw over half my hair is gray and the kids online are complaining about being old
mfw I get AARP monthly newsletters
When I turned 30 I was quite ate up about it.
Now almost 20 years beyond that point, when a colleague turns 30, "oh whatever you're still just a baby lol"
Funny how that works
perspective and time is a bitch. I hear about my little nieces and nephews getting married or having kids and all I can remember is how tiny they were the last time I saw them.
I see them and I think, damn you're still kids.
I get aarp letters too, but it was also really common in the 90s and early 00s to fill in your birthday as the early half of the 1900s. So I think that’s just them thinking I’m over a hundred.
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It's kinda silly. I was born very early 90s, but since I was so young I don't actually remember much about that time. My teenager years were in 00s, so I much more identify as "millenial" or 90s baby rather than 90s kid
Totally. The difference between generations is cultural not time based.
Millennials are old enough remember where they were on 9/11. Similar to GenX and the Challenger explosion in 86. Not sure what the zoomer equivalent is -maybe Obama? For Gen alpha it'll be remembering the pandemic starting.
Millenials can't remember life before wireless communication.
Zoomer's can't remember life before the internet.
Alpha can't remember a time before smart phones.
Gen Beta wont remember a time before AI (shudders)
Not sure about boomers/genx... probably something about the vietnam war or colour tv.
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I have a memory of getting annoyed because I kept writing 93 instead of 94 on my school work after the Christmas holiday was over
I was born 95, but I was the youngest kid. I was exposed to a lot of 90's stuff that I probably wouldn't have been if not for that, like the snes felt really crusty and old by the time I would have been old enough to get my own console, but I grew up mirroring the excitement of my older peers for stuff like SMW and Plok. I miss a lot of stuff from the 90's and I was only ever 4 or younger in it hahahaha
I was born in '91 and a lot of what I associate with the '90s actually are things from the early '00s. I think part of it is because we moved around that time so memories of my old house and things that were from the actual '90s sort of faded in my mind.
Time shifted childhoods are a thing. Especially when you have no internet and live in the middle of nowhere.
Being a "__s kid" means that's when you had your childhood. (From 5 or 6 to preteen-early teens) Even someone born in 97 isn't a 90s kid.
So me being born on the very tail tend of the 70 is an 80s kid? Tbh I feel more like a 90s kid as that's when I was a teenager
Being a kid doesn't start when you're a teenager.
people will form tribes for just about anything
Bro misses the ‘90s like he had rent to pay back then 😭
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