Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know Pokémon.
Kid ... I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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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
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I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!
yeah, i'm an older Xennial and my younger sibling was not allowed to watch anime for reasons. My first handheld gaming console was my first smartphone in 2014? I don't understand pokemans at all.
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"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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mfw over half my hair is gray and the kids online are complaining about being old
mfw I get AARP monthly newsletters
Note you can sign up to AARP at any age.
can I wait to sign up until I'm 70 then? because shit is annoying.
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.
half? lucky.
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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
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90s kid here. i dont get it.
The one person was born in 2000 and the other person complains about how young they are. It turns out that the complainer was born in 1999, and therefore is only a year older. Thus making the complaint a bit silly.
I like to think he was born on 12/31/99 to make it extra ridiculous.
As that aging adult who was born on 12/29/99, it is extra ridiculous because 90s kids laugh at you and 00s kids think you're already a corpse.
thanks :)
ngl, now i feel a little silly for not having gotten it.
Its okay. Only 80s kids can appreciate the joke.
I thought the joke was they were both both before the start of the new millennium. Awful lot of people started counting with 0 instead of 1 in 2000.
I think of it like this. They’re a 90s baby, not a 90s kid.
90s kid would be more like born in the mid 80s to mid 90s so you have actual memories of the 90s.
yeah i consider myself a 90s kid bc i was born in the 80s
same. i existed in the 80s, but i only really remember calvin and hobbes and some baseball games. i grew up in the 90s.
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Wait so he was the baby from Eraserhead?
In Heaven
Everything is fine
Try being Gen X, lol.
No, thanks. You'll always have better cultural references and more ironic detachment than my millennial folks, but we killed the most industries.
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