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Those born in 1997: did you grow up moreso with Millennial shows, or Gen Z shows?

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CitizenVectron

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ThePrequelsSuck said:
1995 is the last year of millennials, full stop, period. I think.

People born in 1995 definitely watched those shows, they were 9-10 when they were out. Logically making them late Millennial shows.
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ThePrequelsSuck said:
Gen Z
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You are mistaken, sir.

The Millennial generation ranges from as early as 1980 to as late as 2000. Some groups extend this to as early as 1976 and as late as 2006, but these are in the minority.

There is no precise definition of a generation.

And as someone who was born in 1984, let me tell you that I haven't heard of the majority of the shows you listed. To me, popular kids TV shows were GI Joe, Gargoyles, Dexter's Lab, Teddy Ruxpin, Beast Wars, ReBoot, etc.
 
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pretty done

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Bounceounce said:
97 here, Hey Arnold still ran and we all watched it, still remember catching the movie airing.
Doug was on Toon Disney for us to watch, a lot of those other listed cartoons all had re-airings.
And All That was still there for us to watch as well.

Also your shows aren't any superior.
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Our shows are way superior. You listing Disney Doug is just proof your generation knows less than Jon Snow. That's not even Doug.
 
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StoneFox

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1993 here, I definitely fit more in the Millennial one. Kids born in the year 2000 are going to be legal adults soon, it's so weird.
 
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Bounceounce

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pretty done said:
Our shows are way superior. You listing Disney Doug is just proof your generation knows less than Jon Snow. That's not even Doug.
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I've heard it was changed, I'm more just listing it for effect.
But yes, I don't remember Doug's existence on Nick and didn't know it aired there until years later.
 
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Mortimer Brewster

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Shit I was 17 in 1997, I'm feeling old again. Don't know any of those kids shows. My kids shows were the original Transformers, GI Joe, Real Ghostbusters and Fraggle Rock.
 
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BocoDragon

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TaterTots said:
Hearing you complain about feeling old and born in 93 and REALLY making me feel old(84).
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People in their 20s are famously drama queens about getting old. They don't even know what it is to age yet, but they think they're ancient lol.
 
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daveo42

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The Lamp said:
I can't believe there will be college students this year that never existed in the 90s. It's still weird for me to think that people born after 93 aren't even infants.

'91 here. I know all of those shows
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Don't remind me of the passage of time please. thanks.
 
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BocoDragon

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Lord Frieza said:
Yeah, most millennials wouldn't have watched that show, or been old enough to really remember anyway.
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Same goes for the later shows that younger millennials would have watched. Older millennials were in their early 20s and have no idea about them.

Like I'm an older millennial and the Real Ghostbusters toys from McD's are a formative life experience.
 
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Lord Frieza

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BocoDragon said:
Same goes for the later shows that younger millennials would have watched. Older millennials were in their early 20s and have no idea about them.

Like I'm an older millennial and the Real Ghostbusters toys from McD's are a formative life experience.
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I have no idea what you're trying to say with this at all.
 
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Mortimer Brewster

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BocoDragon said:
Same goes for the later shows that younger millennials would have watched. Older millennials were in their early 20s and have no idea about them.

Like I'm an older millennial and the Real Ghostbusters toys from McD's are a formative life experience.
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Millennials are similar to the Boomers in that they are a large cohort which due to the generations length the older and younger ones can have drastically different experiences. Early millenials would have more in common with us Gen Xers where the younger ones with Gen Z.
 
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BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Lord Frieza said:
I have no idea what you're trying to say with this at all.
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If you're going to try to exclude shows that early millennials absolutely did watch because younger millennials would have been too young, you could just as well go the other end and exclude later millennial shows like Spongebob because older millennials were too old to watch those as kids.
 
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BocoDragon

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Mortimer Brewster said:
Millennials are similar to the Boomers in that they are a large cohort which due to the generations length the older and younger ones can have drastically different experiences. Early millenials would have more in common with us Gen Xers where the younger ones with Gen Z.
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Yeah true. We older millennials share late 80s things with Gen X like TMNT, Ghostbusters, DuckTales, etc.... maybe Transformers and He-Man if we're really stretching it.
 
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TaterTots

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Lord Frieza said:
The Real Ghostbusters aired from 86-91, so that's a stretch. Extreme Ghostbusters, though, definitely.
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Apparently, 1980 is the beginning of the millenial generation. You could start watching that show at 8-10 years old. I'd say that's under the millenial category along with gen X. I remember watching it when I was really young and had a bunch of toys from the show and I was born in 84. Also, from everything I've searched TRGB's ended in 92.
 
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BocoDragon

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Maybe we should divide the generations by game consoles.

Early millennials remember NES's lifespan. Later millennials are more like poor poor N64 Pokémon kids.
 
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Mortimer Brewster

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TaterTots said:
Apparently, 1980 is the beginning of the millenial generation. You could start watching that show at 8-10 years old. I'd say that's under the millenial category along with gen X. I remember watching it when I was really young and had a bunch of toys from the show and I was born in 84.
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I think 1982 is the official start of Gen Y.
 
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BocoDragon

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JordanN said:
Only 3 more years and the PS2 is 20 years old.

That's a bigger gap than NES to N64 was.
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Like, almost double the gap. Famicom to N64 was 13 years. NES to N64 was only 11 years. That's not a long time at all.
 
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cwmartin

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tip for you homie. NeoGAF is not "society". Don't base your sociology work on data gathered here.

And please don't write your sociology paper on fucking cartoons.
 
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CitizenVectron

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Isn't asking for help with your homework against the rules or something?

Especially if you don't even know the proper definition of a Millennial, like this guy?
 
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Austriacus

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This thread is like that one time a couple of young dudes i play with told me spongebob was a 90s kids show and Runescape was the mmo of choice of 90s kids.

They were born in 1997 as well.

I laughed so hard my stomach hurt me for a couple of minutes.
 
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