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[The Sarcastic Dude]

Because the newest generation is always called the worst.

Ding Ding Ding. The youngest gen is always considered the downfall of civilization. It never is.

 

[Ke0]

I was born in 1991.

Thank god, I'm not a millenial apparently. Though I'll only be 24 in August.

The 2000's started out great but it got shitty somewhere in the middle and didn't really recover until the very end, which carried over into what is currently the best decade of this century thus far.

No, but you are a millennial.

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

Ding Ding Ding. The youngest gen is always considered the downfall of civilization. It never is.

The baby boomers may just well be though.

 

[MightyKAC]

How can Millennials even be considered bad at this stage?

They haven't had time or opportunity to really even DO anything.

I'd give them at LEAST a few decades before we try to rate them.

Now these baby boomers on the other hand.....


FUCK those guys.

 

[Ke0]

What generation voted for Reagan? That by definition would be the worst generation in America easily.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

What generation voted for Reagan? That by definition would be the worst generation in America easily.

That would be the Baby Boomers and for the most part, yes, they are certainly the worst generation by a long shot.

 

[Daffy Duck]

I was born in 1981 and I can almost swear I saw something that stuck me into the millennial group as well.

All I know is that when I was a kid I was part of Generation X and then I was Y and then I was a Millennial and now I'm a Y again.

Make up your minds!

81 here too, god damn baby boomers keep fucking us around man.

 

[Omega]

Because the newest generation is always called the worst.

as time goes on maybe not

it'll be hard to top the baby boomers. from now on everyone will be the second worst

 

[Square2015]

We were known for the advent of the emo movement and hipsters.

 

[BarringGaffner]

I thought we all agreed that Baby Boomers are the worst... due to them, you know, being handed everything and leaving their children nothing.

 

[Unknown One]

Now these baby boomers on the other hand.....


FUCK those guys.

Here here, fuck the baby boomers.

 

[Sober]

What generation voted for Reagan? That by definition would be the worst generation in America easily.

Wrong. Clearly these people could be considered the worst generation. Look at how badly they fucked it up.

 

[Cryxo93]

Because baby boomers are getting old and they're jealous of us millennials. Which is why they're increasingly oppressing us with those damn student debts... Bastards. They had free education in the UK way back when.

 

[evilromero]

It's literally just 30 year olds who are now realizing they are losing touch with what it means to be young and hip. It is their way of transitioning into angry old people.

And you'll be there too someday. Same song and dance.

 

[MedHead]

I think it's due to the internet. The worst of the generation has the most time to go online and complain, so that's what they do. The result confuses us all into believing the worst of the next generation.

 

[Renekton]

Ding Ding Ding. The youngest gen is always considered the downfall of civilization. It never is.

Not sure... Gen-X and Boomers were received quite optimistically at their coining.

 

[Ke0]

Wrong. Clearly these people could be considered the worst generation. Look at how badly they fucked it up.

keyword is America mate.

 

[Lego Boss]

I'm Gen X (1975) and I gotta admit, when I see the kids of today . . . they are SO much better behaved than when I was young.

Honestly, when I look back on the stuff I did, these guys are SAINTS. I think a lot of it has to do with the social disconnection from social media, but in all honesty, it has a lot of positive by-products (less drug and alcohol use, lower crime) as well as negative side-effects.

I don't think they're the worst at all. I think the Boomers are the most self-entilted of the lot of them, but that's just because I'm bitter that house prices are high and I have to pay c £800 p/m for my daughter to go to nursery so my wife can work . . .

I'm not THAT bitter though . . . . !

 

[Foffy]

How can Millennials even be considered bad at this stage?

They haven't had time or opportunity to really even DO anything.

I'd give them at LEAST a few decades before we try to rate them.

Now these baby boomers on the other hand.....


FUCK those guys.

That generation is also going to inherit a world with an incredible lack of mobility and possibility, especially in America.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

I think it's pretty amusing to categorize a group of people as "the worst" when none of them are in a position to actually make any laws or make any changes because they're too young. How can the unproven be the worst? What kind of logic is that?

 

[John Kowalski]

We're "it". They're not.

 

[jersoc]

because the baby boomers fucked the world for us so they are projecting.

Well, on you guys. I'm a Y'er.

 

[Timedog]

Because they take selfies and use social media, which means that none of their ideas matter.

 

[Foffy]

I think it's pretty amusing to categorize a group of people as "the worst" when none of them are in a position to actually make any laws or make any changes because they're too young. How can the unproven be the worst? What kind of logic is that?

Because for many reasons, they have failed to live the same lives as the previous generation. There are many reasons for this, some due to it being insoluble to do so like with climate change, and some are because that generation has made the world a nightmare for the next generation to clean up on.

Consider for the moment the baby boomer generation has nearly given millennials an oligarchical society with monetary inequality not seen since pre-World War II days. That's going to take YEARS to fucking fix, and this generation is being forced to start late for problems such as those.

 

[AngryNapkin]

Being in the U.S. Army for 15 years I'll say there is a significant difference between 1982 and 1995. I wouldn't put those guys in the same group as their childhoods were basically completely different.

The changes to our initial entry training drastically started to change when that age group started to join.

The same thing happened after WW2 and Vietnam too with my generation being easier but 1985-2000 the training wasn't drastically different.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

Because for many reasons, they have failed to live the same lives as the previous generation. There are many reasons for this, some due to it being insoluble to do so like with climate change, and some are because that generation has made the world a nightmare for the next generation to clean up on.

Consider for the moment the baby boomer generation has nearly given millennials an oligarchical society with monetary inequality not seen since pre-World War II days. That's going to take YEARS to fucking fix, and this generation is being forced to start late for problems such as those.

Sorry, I was trying to insinuate that it's a messed up proposition, not actually asking why this is happening. Written communication tonality problems strike again!

But thank you for the detailed explanation, as it's always good to state the issue clearly.

 

[BocoDragon]

If we were to say that all Millennials don't fit in one group, or whatever, I'd actually argue that the older millennials are more authentically millennial than the younger ones. Growing up alongside the Internet and coming of age at the turn of the millennium is the touchstone. For someone born in 1982 that's easily the landscape... But later 90s born kids, maybe not.

I'm generally an advocate that the millennium label fits well enough, though. I'm 30 and in University currently so it's my daily reality to interact with younger millennials... I feel that the younger kids have the same "the Internet is new and everything is changed from before" mindset that I have. And sooner or later some paradigm shift will happen with younger kids to the point that I can't relate to their experience and neither will later 90s born kids be able to either.

 

[Robot Pants]

Because the Boomers and Gen X try to divert attention away from the fact that due to their collective greed and assholeness, they have literally wrecked the world for Millennials and every other generation to follow. So because millennials abuse the shit out of social media sometimes and are very loud in demanding what is owed, these older groups shit on them.

Yea it's this.
And they still hold out hope and it annoys me for some reason (I'm technically one also)

 

[Fahrenheit]

Since when did the boomers stop being the worst?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Millennials are the worst because they expect people to address systemic racism and homophobia.

 

[soepje]

You're definitely a Millenial. Did you think you were Gen X?

So according to this i fall in the age 10 to 49 category, i feel a little lost now. But at least i still get to complain about the boomers and scream at babies.

 

[teruterubozu]

Not sure... Gen-X and Boomers were received quite optimistically at their coining.

Not really. Gen X kids were considered "slackers" and never experienced war. X meant lost generation. Baby Boomers were positive, yes, cuz they named themselves.

 

[BocoDragon]

Not really. Gen X kids were considered "slackers" and never experienced war. X meant lost generation. Baby Boomers were positive, yes, cuz they named themselves.

Agreed. Actually I thought Generation X was the ultimate smear label from an older generation. The X means "no ethos, no care... a worthless and lost generation". That was implicit in the discussion of them 20 years ago.

Interesting how they've settled into a seat of power in society. But maybe it's pretty common.. Younger generations always take the throne and become the new normal.

 

[Phobophile]

One of the biggest defining traits of Millennials:

They suck at spelling.

They're also insufferable, which is why older generations hate them.

 

[John Bender]

1982-2000

Nice!
So 19XX.1981 are called what?
Generation X?

 

[CassSept]

I love how some people just need to deny them being Millennials just to feel better about themselves. Seriously, why do you care, it's a meaningless distinction.

Will the next generation be referred to as the "Meme Generation"?

The Dankest Generation

 

[DragonSworne]

Every older generation thinks the new generation are degenerate shit heads.

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

― Socrates

Well Socrates had a point. The Ancient Greeks are no longer around. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Prime crotch]

Cause no one shuts up about them, even Millennials.

 

[RangerX]

I have never seen this term used anywhere except neogaf. Never heard anyone talk about it in real life or on the telly or anywhere. I think its just another buzzword.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

I thought the general reason for the dislike was their sense of entitlement. At least that's what I've observed in print.

 

[teruterubozu]

I have never seen this term used anywhere except neogaf. Never heard anyone talk about it in real life or on the telly or anywhere. I think its just another buzzword.

It's an American thing. I'm assuming with "telly" that you are not in the US.

 

[KMS]

The baby boomers may just well be though.

As a 35 year old it seems pretty obvious to me that people born 2000 and after are growing up in the internet age and will become a civic generation that will fix the financial mess that the boomers created living high on the hog called debt. Because of access to information they have grown up far better at seeing things from multiple angles, not falling for platitudes or propaganda, and parsing it all in a way older people seem to struggle with. In the end the millennials and Gen Z or what ever they end up being called will be far more responsible, balanced, diverse and nuanced in how they run the world. imo

 

[Opiate]

I'd point out that older generations frequently think young generations are entitled and have weird belief systems; are we sure the millineal generation is in any way unique or special in this regard?

Maybe we are. Maybe we are especially hated, or maybe our beliefs are especially disconnected from our parents' beliefs. But if I were a young abolitionist in 1855, those of my parents' generation would almost certainly have disagreed with me very strongly. So yes, it's possible that the millineals are getting an extra spoonful of this fist shaking, but I'm not convinced this concept is in any way new.

 

[Jacobi]

Well, who is even a good generation right now?
The old people reign pretty much and do whatever it costs to hold on to their power.
Generation Y slowly gets older but can't change a lot. Of course in IT it is pretty different, but people still go the old ways there when they are succesful.
Millenials are pretty young and I'm not seeing any revolutions or anything happening there.
Why should there be any revolution? Because it looks right now like everything is going to shit, there are just too many factors...

 

[spons]

Old people are jelly.

That's about it. While we go into the prime time of our lives, old people are slowly dying. They just want one last thing to say, and that's that our generation is ruining it. Hatred out of jealousy.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Agreed. Actually I thought Generation X was the ultimate smear label from an older generation. The X means "no ethos, no care... a worthless and lost generation". That was implicit in the discussion of them 20 years ago.

Interesting how they've settled into a seat of power in society. But maybe it's pretty common.. Younger generations always take the throne and become the new normal.

Not quite sure how people are pointing the finger at Generation X because from what I remember they/we were labeled punks, slackers, degenerates, etc, etc. If anything Gen X is mostly associated with Clinton Era which 98% of GAF wish we could go back to.

I know everyone here hates the Boomers, but it's easy to point the finger at them for ruining things when we (as a country) spent so much time riding a wave of high prosperity and then had it crash down. I don't believe you can point to any single generation for good or bad since the factors that can come into play are either A. out of our control or B. take years to see long term impact.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Every generation is the worst.

 

[terrisus]

millineal

millineals

Et tu, Opiate?

 

[Africanus]

How does the centennial generation fit into this?

 

[terrisus]

How does the centennial generation fit into this?

Considering the most recent millennium and the most recent century changed at exactly the same time, it makes absolutely no sense to use one to refer to one group/time period, and the other to refer to a different group/time period.


And that chart saying:
"Why 'Centennials?'"
"Centennials are being born at the turn of the century"

Is a meaningless statement, since they're also being born at the turn of the millennium.