Me and plenty of girls my age loved baby JTT in the 90s and had his posters on our walls and everything anyway, but Randy really holds up as a character. Far more than Brad (more of a jock with some character development) or Mark (cute when he was little then very much a mallgoth as he got into puberty).
His wit and humor in every situation was impeccable and (even though I didn't think or even really know about politics as a kid), I love his left tendencies like being an environmentalist living in Costa Rica and going against Tim on religion in one episode. He volunteered at a senior center and just by the last few seasons was a wonderful humanitarian and I realized he's the one who grew up just like Jill wanted too. I know he's a fictional sitcom character but it's so sweet.
You could see 13 year old Randy probably making ironic memes or 16 year old with the sunrise movement.
This cusp was coined basically to give context and belonging to a group of people born in the window of time encompassing the last few years of X and the first few years of Millennial. The group was basically Carter and early Reagan babies.
We were the forgotten ones. The middle children among middle children. Too young to be old, too old to be young. It took years for Xennial to even gain enough acceptance to get into an online dictionary.
But now I'm seeing more and more people who literally aren't even in the X/Y cusp trying to claim Xennial status. To the point of wanting to rewrite the whole range, or stretch it out to absurdly long lengths, just so they can join the club.
How in the world did we go from the forgotten and ignored to people trying to literally rewrite us just to be included?
It's equal parts incredible and just straight bizarre.
This subreddit is for the cuspers, those born too late to fit in with Gen X but too early to fully identify with Millennials. We share some traits with both generations but the primary idea is that due to our analog childhood and digital young adulthood, we don't truly belong to either of them. While there is some debate on what years are accepted as Xennial, for the purpose of this subreddit, we will use the generally adopted range of birth years between 1977 and 1983.
A few guidelines for the subreddit: Reposts and/or blogspam will be removed at moderator discretion. Please keep conversation civil, no hate speech or unnecessary rudeness.
A quick note about the subreddit...Why am I posting this now? Well, because the subreddit now has an active moderator! The subreddit creator and sole mod has been inactive for quite some time and as a longtime subscriber here, I noticed that as the sub has grown, there has been an uptick in blogspam and reposts. I decided to request the sub via /r/redditrequest and that request was granted this morning. I have no intentions of making any major changes here because I really enjoy this community, I just want to help keep it a bit more clean of spammy type posts and hopefully help it grow!
Edit: I've just enabled user flairs! I added Xennial years plus a few others, or you can edit your own.
With new management for the sub, what better way to expand than to start a discord server as well. Might be empty in the beginning but eventually enough people will show up to make it a chill place.
Feel free to come join! https://discord.gg/nzMsqVErgN
1977-1983 seems to be the consensus for Xennials. But I was wondering if people born in 1977 feel like a Xennial. When I think of someone around that age I think of DJ tanner and Kimmy Gibler from Full House who strike me as nothing but a Gen Xer.
S Club 7 was a very popular UK band(they were well known in Canada in the late 90's/early 2000's among kids my age at the time) they were big from about 1999 to 2002 I think. All members were born from 76 to 82. Technically the oldest were outside the Xennial age bracket, but they were a very Xennial group for which younger millennials were their target audience.
Then came along S Club Juniors(later 8) - all born from 87 to 90. Almost every member was born in 1989 apart from the eldest(87) and youngest(90). S Club 8 were formed in 2001 and officially disbanded in early 2005.
I was into both groups back in the day, and I just like that one group represents the earliest millennials and the next the core of the gen in their early teen/adolescent years. I wonder if you can see the vibe change?
Maybe better posted in the millennials sub.
S Club 7
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S Club 8
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Modern day xennial problems
I feel like 84-86 and even '87 borns like me are on the cusp of it. I've said that Millennials are the only generation that takes several years to "get going" where people seem like the media stereotype.
1981-'86 I feel are all early Millennials, but again don't typically fall into the social media obsessed types. My graduating class and the one after it, 1987-88 are the first to start having that as teens and definitely anyone even a little bit after us did.
That's why I have such a grievance with Xennials ending in 1983, doesn't seem fair and it's far too early.
Definitely 84-85 were partial 90s teens beyond just being little kids. But people don't seem to think they grew up with anything beyond Barney or the playground. Yet they're also too old for having even a texting phone in high school, much less social media. 1986 is on the cusp like I said, as at least the first dumbphones were getting popular in their senior year 03--04.
It's caught in between two worlds. That's why I like Xennials to be 1977-85 (yes its long for people's taste but its good to not exclude '77 who have been part of it for years, and they even used to be considered Y). If it has to be shorter, then 79-84.
Any other Xennials (older millennials) struggle with their job being their entire life or sense of self? How did you learn to separate career success from concepts of selfworth or societal value? How did you learn to stop caring about your reputation or what people think about you? Does being childless or having children change those perceptions?
This hasn’t been asked for a couple years so I figure it’s a fair question: ex-ennial or zennial? Since it’s a portmanteau of “gen x” and “millennial” it would seem like the first choice is correct. But that’s not how you pronounce x at the beginning of word in English: you say “z”. (Xerox, xylophone, xenophobia, xeriscaping, etc).
Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts. Researchers and popular media use birth years from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.— Wikipedia
I strongly identify as Xen, but my younger geriatric Millennial sibling strongly rebuffs that identity, so there is pushback on the legitimacy of the label. So I was wondering if Jack and Miles know about it since it would resolve the issue of what jack is
