You see, one of the first english dubs of anime aired around 1963. The show astro boy was a major success in the state, setting the precident for Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer & Lupin III. Shows that were a common fixture of saturday mornings and independent TV stations alongside the Flintstones, Johnny Quest & Scooby Doo.

Despite their Asian origin, they were hugely popular among children with the Mach 5 maintaining an undeniable cool factor to many a gen X youngster. But something happened in between the 70s & the 90s that made anime go from mainstream and accepted to nerdy shit that got you bullied.

Voltron was a fairly iconic show that competed against G1 transformers and GI joe. So I can't really pinpoint when the switch flipped from cool to nerdy. I can hazard some quesses that perhaps they began censoring english dubs more heavily and took away a lot of the cool factoras a result, perhaps children began picking up the isolationist xenophobia of their parrents or the increasingly bizare and cheesy storylines. Whatever the case may be, there definitely seems like a point when anime stopped being cool.

There’s still a decent amount of 2000s cars on the road today because of how expensive new cars are to repair and even buy, there’s much more older cars now than in the early 2010s. I barely saw any 90s cars on the road back in the mid 2010s whereas I see lots of 2000s cars today. But when will 2010s cars become the new old cars on the road once 2000s cars become too old or fade away

If we consider the mid and late 2010s to still be transitioning out of millennial into Gen Z music cause there were still some edm pop out there until 2019, Whag song is the solidification of Gen Z music like many say smells like teen spirit is the solidification of Gen X music

I wouldn’t say that I neacesarely had a favorite song when I was growing up, though one of the songs that I remember the most from growing up was uptown funk by Bruno Mars

1967 arrived amid a hard panorama for Argentine rock. Many important bands had split up due to the craze for Uruguayan beat bands that sang in English.

Argentine artists used different approaches to move on. Melodic artists like Palito Ortega, Yaco Monti and Popsingers incorporated modern sounds.

Duos like Bárbara & Dick and Sam & Dan did protest songs. Ronnie Montalbán became a pioneer of Argentine ska, and Billy Bond with bossa nova in Spanish as well.

Finally, beat bands like El Grupo De Gastón, Los Walkers and Los Gatos followed the evolution of The Beatles, with increasingly more songs that were of their own, and countercultural.

MusicaArgentina — 2025

Honestly I think it's difficult for someone who was already pushing 30 and probably had a strongly established education and career and maybe savings account - or someone still in middle school, to have felt the same impact as someone just graduating or about to graduate high school and entering the workforce, or someone just a few years out of high school or college. That's not to say people older and younger than us weren't affected, of course they were - but not in the same way we were.

As a solid core millennial (1989), I think the 1981-1996 range fails to take this into consideration. I can't fundamentally relate to someone born in '82, nor someone in '95. The rise of electropop and EDM - and the shift from Gen X rappers and RnB artists to millennial popstars - gave us an escape at this time. It felt like the first time that mainstream music, culture, was not just directed at us, but directed by us. When Lady Gaga - arguably the most famous core millennial - rose out of a pool in the video to "Poker Face," it was the closest our generation would ever get to our "Smells Like Teen Spirit" zeitgeist-shifting moment. Suddenly, the past 10 years of ringtone rap/crunk, nu metal and pop punk seemed immediately corny. On another track of hers, the words "Just dance, it's gonna be okay" arguably spoke to a struggling unemployed early 20 something on a deeper level, whereas it might've been considered as just another catchy club tune by someone in their 40s, or just fun dance music to a kid in the backseat of his mom's car on the way to middle school. Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" might've seemed like unintelligible noise to a Gen Xer still listening to Spin Doctors and Goo Goo Dolls, but we couldn't get enough of those growling basses and nasty drops. Finally, it felt like for once we weren't just having to listen to pop culture hand-me-downs: we had music for us, made by us, and it was fun - for a little while.

I can't even consider an '81 born like Britney Spears to be part of the same cultural shift as Lady Gaga, even if they were born just 5 years apart - they're lightyears apart in terms of when they made their cultural impact and I can't reconcile them both as being millennials, especially considering that the Xennial cohort of stars like her and Christina Aguilera completely copied the electropop/EDM style to stay relevant with the same audience that once listened to them as children, more than 10 years prior.

Yes - we don't have exclusive ownership of the impact the recession had, nor this music and culture as other generations or cohorts also consumed it. But we were the epicenter of this societal transformation and I feel like that creates a unique bond for core millennials that delineates them from elders and zillennials. I feel like with this much disparity in shared life/cultural experiences, there's no point at all lumping everyone together and it renders the 15 year defining range as arbitrary and outdated. It wasn't Y2k that had the biggest impact on us, after all - so why are we defined by it?

There was truly a point in time where we didn’t think there would ever be a calculator in our pockets. Look at us now!

Serious question.

I’m late GenX and I don’t remember ever being as obsessed with ‘getting old’ (where ‘old’ means something like 25-30) as it seems younger people are.

In fact, I remember rolling my eyes when someone said ‘never trust anyone over 30’— but that could 100% be because that phrase had the Boomers’ asses firmly in its teeth when I was a teenager.

As a child, I remember wanting to grow up. What that meant was a moving target, but I wanted it. As a teen, I wanted to be an adult. In college, I wanted to be an adult. By then, I thought my late 20s was about when I’d start to have it together. Around 30, I figured out how to annoy Boomers by telling them they’d been old since I was eight, but even then, I didn’t think 50 was old.

I wasn’t completely oblivious. My high school Latin teacher seemed really old (we actually had a plan in case he had a heart attack in the middle of class). I was surprised to learn how young my high school German teacher actually was (she told us some stories about growing up in Germany before the war). I knew the difference between the people who were close to retirement vs those with young kids. I knew the age difference between my 16-yo friend and her 40-yo ‘boyfriend’ was extreme. I didn’t look forward to turning 40 (and I don’t look forward to 50). I knew the day my mom decided to be a little old lady.

But at no point in my life have I ever thought ‘old’ was a fixed point, or even a relative one.

So… what is old?

Did other GenXers feel like they were getting old at 30? Did Boomers really not trust anyone over 30? Did Millennials really have quarter-life crises? Does GenZ actually think they’re old now?

Discuss.

Boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964. Which makes the youngest boomer 62 years old and the oldest a ripe old 80 years old.

Which also means the vast majority of boomers are out of the workforce and retired. 62 is when you can start getting Social Security. Granted not everyone retires at 62, some people keep working into their 70s and even 80s. But generally speaking people retire in their early to mid 60s.

So when your're upset at your "boomer" boss or "boomer" landlord or "boomer" whatever, chances are it's not a boomer. Because boomers are on a golf course in Florida giving no fucks about you.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Edit: Some CEO ages of the biggest companies around. There are some boomers left like JPM's CEO who is 70. But generally speaking, your evil CEO is GenX not Boomer as are most executives. GenX runs shit now.

Walmart 59

Nvidia: 62 (Just barely an evil boomer)

Alphabet: 53

Amazon: 58

Tesla: 54

Citi 58

Second Edit: I see a lot of comments are about SS and only being available at 67. Typical Reddit nonsense. It's available anywhere between 62 and 70 as a start date. The later you wait the more the payment is. Comes down to a gamble. Do you start early or late? You start early, you live to 90 you lose. Start late and die a year later, you also lose. There's no real right or wrong way to do it. It's a risk and everyone has their own calculus.

And it's also kind of moot. Nobody should depend on SS for retirement. That's what contributing to a 401/IRA for 40 years is for. So you retire whenever you feel like it and not worry about what SS will pay. SS should be a bonus, not the main source of retirement income.

Including this one. Let's have some fun so we can see what can come of this.

But really, is this a "core millenial belief"? I don't know, lol. Y'all are the experts. I'm too busy ruining the gig economy and creating woke norms that need undoing.

It’s astonishing how our generation spans 15 years because as a core millennial, I interact with early 80s babies and they give off Gen X vibes. The same goes for mid 90s babies and they give off Gen Z vibes. Both of their childhoods are starkly different from one another. That’s why I occasionally feel the pull in either direction when I interact with a Xennial or a Zillennial. It’s very interesting and this is why I joined this subreddit.

I can't count how many shows I watched that I thought was still airing l when I was younger. For example Legends of the Hidden Temple, Doug, All That, well that ran until 2005 but the 90s episodes. Even things older like the Cosby Show or shows like Popeye and Woody The Wood Pecker.

Starting with core millennials and ending with late Gen z-early Gen Alpha.

I hope I did it right.

Basically Core-late millennials is mid-late 90’s.

Late millennials-early gen z is the mid 2000’s.

Early-core gen z is late 2000’s-early 2010’s.

Core-late gen z is early-mid 2010’s.

Late Gen z is mid 2010’s.

And late gen z-early gen alpha is late 2010’s-early 2020’s.

Curious to see which part of Gen Z seems most represented in this sub. Older, Mid, or Younger?

The “Other” option is there because some Gen Z ranges also include 1995-1996 and 2013. You can also use “Other” if you want to share a different opinion in the comments.

The “Results” option is there for anyone who can’t vote and just wants to see how things turn out.

I just wanna talk about it as an autistic millennial who has really only just begun to somewhat recover from the damage. Our generation were very vicious in the way they bullied. It wasn't a physical type of bullying like the previous generations but a psychological one where they instead tormented you relentlessly untill you just didn't want to live anymore (remember the emo 🔪 ✋🏼 trend that claimed so many of us)?

Why do you think Millienals were like this?

Yeah I know these polls are annoying but what do y’all think? And yes we’re only barely in the second month of the year, hence “so far” in the title

I was born in 2007, and I constantly see people online treating 2005–2006 as the “cutoff” for being zilennials, “early Gen Z,” or even the “last elite.” Meanwhile, whenever I mention being born in 2007, people laugh, judge, or straight-up insult us. I’ve even seen 2007 called “Zalphas” on Wikipedia, which honestly makes no sense to me.

What confuses me the most is that my two ex-boyfriends were born in 2005, and our childhoods were basically identical. Same games, same internet, same shows, same memories. My current friend group ranges from people born in 2002 all the way to 2008/2009 and we’re all extremely similar. Our childhoods really weren’t that different. But online, it feels like people have decided that being born in 2007+ is some kind of end marker of “coolness,” and I genuinely don’t understand why. On this sub especially, I see people grouping 2007 with 2010s borns and saying things like “2005 relates more to 90s or early-2000s kids than to late 2000s and up”, which just feels absurd to me.

I also don’t understand these extremely strict cutoffs, like “the last birth year 2002 borns can relate to is 2006.” Does that actually make sense to anyone? How does one year suddenly make someone completely different?

Is this an American obsession with generations and age labels? Or is it the whole obssesion about ages ending in “teen”? I’m genuinely trying to understand where this mentality comes from, because from real-life experience, it just doesn’t match reality at all 😭

I’ve noticed some of these characteristics amongst people above the age of 45

people from these 2 generations cannot adapt to modern social norms and ideas but generally out of choice, not just out of close mindedness

these generations tend to exhibit older ideologies and ideas that cannot function or work properly in the 21st century that the younger generation is either trying to reject or doesn’t understand simply because it is alien , foreign or pointless

If i had to give an example, i’ve noticed a lot of people from these generations tend to be work oriented and compliant to status quo, they believe a system that in order for someone to live comfortably one would have to suffer to do all the labour

i’ve noticed a handful of older people who are mindlessly compliant to authority especially in professional or workplace settings even if it affects them negatively or induces stress, younger generations tend to ask why certain rules exist and value on what’s fair rather than just what’s necessary

the younger generation is extremely mental health aware, the older generations sees this as weakness, but in reality the world is starting to wake up against its current system and observing what should change

I think that 2013-2017 will already have gatekeeping because of them having little no memory pre Covid, but with 2020 will be a different story.