We're just a couple months shy from reaching the half point of 2018 and soon enough, it will be 2019! Once 2019 hits, I feel like this current generation is almost over. In 2019, everyone born in the 90s will be in their 20's and everyone born in 2000 and 2001 will be 18 and 19 meaning most, if not all, the 2000s kids would have graduated high school next year. Once 2020 hits, a new generation will start. If 2019 marks the end for this generation, I'm kind of excited to see what the next gen has to offer :) What are your thoughts guys?

You mean Millennials? There has been a few posts about it, the new generation of pop stars, the end of hipster culture, etc. Probably 2018 is the transitional year to Gen Zers culture

We're just a couple months shy from reaching the half point of 2018 and soon enough, it will be 2019! Once 2019 hits, I feel like this current generation is almost over. In 2019, everyone born in the 90s will be in their 20's and everyone born in 2000 and 2001 will be 18 and 19 meaning most, if not all, the 2000s kids would have graduated high school next year. Once 2020 hits, a new generation will start. If 2019 marks the end for this generation, I'm kind of excited to see what the next gen has to offer :) What are your thoughts guys?

All 2000s babies 2000-2006 would be in their teens now in 2019.

You mean Millennials? There has been a few posts about it, the new generation of pop stars, the end of hipster culture, etc. Probably 2018 is the transitional year to Gen Zers culture


Overtime, I have a feeling that people will say that 2018 was the first Z-leaning year in pop culture.

All 2000s babies 2000-2006 would be in their teens now in 2019.

2000s babies =/= 2000s kids.

2000s babies =/= 2000s kids.

2000-2002 borns are 2000s babies and kids so.

2000-2002 borns are 2000s babies and kids so.

Exactly. Star Struck's point is correct.

Exactly. Star Struck's point is correct.

I wasn't trying to confuse 2000s kids with 2000s babies i'm just saying that 2000s borns would be teens by the end of this decade but i should've said borns instead of babies.

We're just a couple months shy from reaching the half point of 2018 and soon enough, it will be 2019! Once 2019 hits, I feel like this current generation is almost over. In 2019, everyone born in the 90s will be in their 20's and everyone born in 2000 and 2001 will be 18 and 19 meaning most, if not all, the 2000s kids would have graduated high school next year. Once 2020 hits, a new generation will start. If 2019 marks the end for this generation, I'm kind of excited to see what the next gen has to offer :) What are your thoughts guys?


already came to an end in late 2016 when trump won

Just because every 90's baby will be in their 20's next year, doesn't really mean it's a generational shift. This happens every single decade. In 2009, most if not all 80's babies were in their 20's, in 1999, most if not all 70's babies were in their 20's. It's a repeating cycle. It's not anything new.

Just because every 90's baby will be in their 20's next year, doesn't really mean it's a generational shift. This happens every single decade. In 2009, most if not all 80's babies were in their 20's, in 1999, most if not all 70's babies were in their 20's. It's a repeating cycle. It's not anything new.

We will be in our 20s before 2029  ;D

This thread is likely going to spark another generationology debate. If that happens, it should be locked, but let's hope it doesn't.
Anyways, I do agree that generations should be defined by decade of birth, instead of events. pop culture, birthrates, etc.
It's way less arbitrary and much easier to process in the brain if you're going by decade of birth;

1940s babies = Baby Boomers
1950s babies = Gen Jones
1960s babies = Baby Busters
1970s babies = Gen X
1980s babies = Gen Y
1990s babies = Millennials
2000s babies = Centennials

We will be in our 20s before 2029  ;D

Yes, we, but not ALL 2000's babies.

I wasn't trying to confuse 2000s kids with 2000s babies i'm just saying that 2000s borns would be teens by the end of this decade but i should've said borns instead of babies.

Ok but that doesn't have much to do with what Star Struck said.

Ok but that doesn't have much to do with what Star Struck said.

Okay and?

Everyone born in the 90s will be in their 20's
That hurts man, I feel like we were all little kids yesterday :-\\

Yes, we, but not ALL 2000's babies.

Maybe all except for 2009 borns.

Maybe all except for 2009 borns.

On December 31, 2029 at 11:59:59 PM, every single 2000's born will be in their 20's.

On December 31, 2029 at 11:59:59 PM, every single 2000's born will be in their 20's.

True, December 31,2029 is way to soon when i think about it.

True, December 31,2029 is way to soon when i think about it.

By the way, are you still in the Livestream? They're all talking about Pokemon and I'm not really interested in that topic lol.

By the way, are you still in the Livestream? They're all talking about Pokemon and I'm not really interested in that topic lol.

No not really i went back there and i was like They're talking about Pokemon i'm leaving lol

True, December 31,2029 is way to soon when i think about it.

So many "Will the 2030s be better than the 2020s?" threads gonna be made that day.

No not really i went back there and i was like They're talking about Pokemon i'm leaving lol

I didn't leave but I'm starting to get bored lmao.

So many "Will the 2030s be better than the 2020s" threads gonna be made that day.

8-P

I didn't leave but I'm starting to get bored lmao.

I'm coming back i didnt totally leave i just sometimes visit and leave and comeback sometimes.

True, December 31,2029 is way to soon when i think about it.


You're making me feel old. Stop it.  ;D

You're making me feel old. Stop it.  ;D

;D

So many "Will the 2030s be better than the 2020s?" threads gonna be made that day.

And people would be running back and missing the 2010s.

And people would be running back and missing the 2010s.


I could see this decade getting some attention and nostalgia by the late 2020s. A lot of people used to hate 2000s, but now it seems like people are warming up to it.

For me personally, it has felt like we've been in a particular stage since the mid-late 90s.

The current generation is yesterday's socks. Time to move on.

Gen Z is definitely taking over, if that's what you mean.  A lot of us are pre-teens, teenagers, and some of us even young adults now, and 2018 is the first year when someone born in the 2000s is actually an adult. 

This thread can go suck a penis.

This thread can go suck a penis.

http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/picard.png

For me personally, it has felt like we've been in a particular stage since the mid-late 90s.


Really? You can’t tell the difference between 1997 and 2017, in terms of pop culture and climate and attitudes towards society?

Was trap rap and EDM “mainstream” in the late ‘90s? No, but post-grunge was. Do you hear any post-grunge on Top 40 radio anymore? Do you hear R&B (of the Keith Sweat variety)? Nu-metal?

What about cultural attitudes? I feel as though my generation is awash in nihilism, although it might be starting to slowly get better.
I don’t notice that nihilistic, misanthropic, sociopathic air from 70s and 80s babies. Or even early 90s babies for that matter.

This thread can go suck a penis.

https://i.imgur.com/QTUTC0l.gif

I don't think that a generation is coming to an end, but I do definitely feel like we're approaching the end of an era and that 2020 will mark the end of it. 

I don’t notice that nihilistic, misanthropic, sociopathic air from 70s and 80s babies. Or even early 90s babies for that matter.
Uhm what

https://media.giphy.com/media/Rt23MIHkCJwdy/giphy.gif

Gen Z took over last year. A lot of famous people now are Gen Zers if we consider Gen Z as 1997-2012:
Camilla Cabello: 1997
Khalid: 1998
Lil Pump: 2000
Kodak Black: 1997
Shawn Mendes: 1998
Millie Bobbie Brown: 2004
Finn Wolfhard: 2002
Kylie Jenner: 1997
Lil Yachty: 1997
Sabrina Carpenter: 1999
xxxtentacion: 1998
Maddie Ziegler: 2002
Jacob Sartoriuos: 2002
Danielle Bregoli: 2003
Mark Thomas: 2001

I don't think that a generation is coming to an end, but I do definitely feel like we're approaching the end of an era and that 2020 will mark the end of it.

This.

I don't think that a generation is coming to an end, but I do definitely feel like we're approaching the end of an era and that 2020 will mark the end of it.

I agree.

Gen Z took over last year. A lot of famous people now are Gen Zer if we consider Gen Z as 1997-2012:
Camilla Cabello: 1997
Khalid: 1998
Lil Pump: 2000
Shawn Mendes: 1998
Millie Bobbie Brown: 2004
Finn Wolfhard: 2002
Kylie Jenner: 1997
Lil Yachty: 1997
Sabrina Carpenter: 1999
xxxtentacion: 1998
Maddie Ziegler: 2002
Jacob Sartoriuos: 2002

I think it's weird that there's nobody born in 2001 on this list. Also, all the 2002 borns you mentioned were born in late 2002. Damn.  :( ;D

I think it's weird that there's nobody born in 2001 on this list. Also, all the 2002 borns you mentioned were born in late 2002. Damn.  :( ;D

I couldn't find anyone born in 2001 who's well known enough to put in the list ;D

I couldn't find anyone born in 2001 who's well known enough to put in the list ;D

Well damn. 2001 borns really are rare then.  ;D

Also, you forgot Danielle Bregoli, who was born in 2003.

Well damn. 2001 borns really are rare then.  ;D

Also, you forgot Danielle Bregoli, who was born in 2003.

Oh yeah! I completely forgot about her!

IMO one of the late 2010's years (2017-2019) will probably be seen as the first 100% Generation Z pop culture year. Right now, millennial culture is on its last legs and it seems like Generation Z really has taken over.

A new generation will not start in 2020 because that has already happened. We have famous artists influencing pop culture who were born mostly in the late 90's/early 2000's. If there is any millennial culture still lingering, it's most likely not mainstream or popular as Gen Z culture. The only thing I can predict in 2020 in terms of Generation Z pop culture is that all millennial influences will be gone and we will firmly be in Gen Z culture.

This thread can go suck a penis.


;D

I couldn't find anyone born in 2001 who's well known enough to put in the list ;D


Mark Thomas?

Mark Thomas?

I remember Leafy's video on him lol

Mark Thomas?

Who?

Who?

Use Google.

Use Google.
Other search engines are available?

You mean Millennials? There has been a few posts about it, the new generation of pop stars, the end of hipster culture, etc. Probably 2018 is the transitional year to Gen Zers culture


I actually think that is 2017.  We started 2017 is virtually the same musical era we had been in since 2013.  The Chainsmokers, teen pop, and dancehall dominated.  By the end, it was noticeably different, with new artists like Cardi B, Kodak Black, Lana Del Rey, Camila Cabello, Khalid, etc dominating.  Lady Gaga signed her Vegas residency which means she is likely a legacy artist by this point never to return to the kind of prominence she had in the early '10s.  Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have shown clear signs of being past their peak with their latest albums.  Eminem has lost it (though I do like the Nowhere Fast extended version).  Bottom line is, 2017 seems like a "changing of the guard" year looking back on it.  It was the beginning of the transition everyone on this board is waiting for.  2017 was also the year that you could really feel that we were past "peak hipster." 

I actually think that is 2017.  We started 2017 is virtually the same musical era we had been in since 2013.  The Chainsmokers, teen pop, and dancehall dominated.  By the end, it was noticeably different, with new artists like Cardi B, Kodak Black, Lana Del Rey, Khalid, etc dominating.  Lady Gaga signed her Vegas residency which means she is likely a legacy artist by this point.  Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have shown clear signs of being past their peak with their latest albums.  Eminem has lost it (though I do like the Nowhere Fast extended version).  Bottom line is, 2017 seems like a "changing of the guard" year looking back on it.  It was the beginning of the transition everyone on this board is waiting for.  2017 was also the year that you could really feel that we were past "peak hipster."


Well, there were some stuff from 2018 that didn't exist in 2017, such as the Tide Pod challenge, the condom snorting challenge, and the March for our Lives movement.

2018 actually seems much more Gen Z than 2017 so far.

Well, there were some stuff from 2018 that didn't exist in 2017, such as the Tide Pod challenge, the condom snorting challenge, and the March for our Lives movement.

2018 actually seems much more Gen Z than 2017 so far.


I don't know.  March for our Lives is more or less another one of the hashtag movements that have been big all decade.  I think people are overstating the impact of things like the Tide Pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge but once again, viral YouTube meme challenges have been popular all decade.  It really isn't anything new.

I don't know.  March for our Lives is more or less another one of the hashtag movements that have been big all decade.  I think people are overstating the impact of things like the Tide Pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge but once again, viral YouTube meme challenges have been popular all decade.  It really isn't anything new.


I seem to see much more Gen Z stereotypes this year than last year, which is probably why I assumed that 2018 seemed much more Gen Z than 2017.

I don't know.  March for our Lives is more or less another one of the hashtag movements that have been big all decade.  I think people are overstating the impact of things like the Tide Pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge but once again, viral YouTube meme challenges have been popular all decade.  It really isn't anything new.

I swear this was a millennial challenge. I vividly remember it being big back in 2013 or 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM31tXAW-HI

I swear this was a millennial challenge. I vividly remember it being big back in 2013 or 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM31tXAW-HI
FTFY


I don't know.  March for our Lives is more or less another one of the hashtag movements that have been big all decade.  I think people are overstating the impact of things like the Tide Pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge but once again, viral YouTube meme challenges have been popular all decade.  It really isn't anything new.
Agreed! It seems like people are forgetting the cinnamon challenge in 2011-12 and the Ice bucket challenge from 2014.

I don't know.  March for our Lives is more or less another one of the hashtag movements that have been big all decade. I think people are overstating the impact of things like the Tide Pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge but once again, viral YouTube meme challenges have been popular all decade.  It really isn't anything new.


I agree. In fact 2011 was the first big year of these kind of movements in the world, since then started everything with the Indignados and the Arab spring. Even that year had purely millennial culture, there’s nothing new about March for our Lives
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2011/1101111226_400.jpg

I swear this was a millennial challenge. I vividly remember it being big back in 2013 or 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM31tXAW-HI


First it's the cinnamon challenge and then you had all these other challenges following that too and now condom snorting? God, I hate this generation, What the "f" has this generation come to? We're snorting condiments just to get a big high and posting it to social media for others to see. ::)

I actually think that is 2017.  We started 2017 is virtually the same musical era we had been in since 2013.  The Chainsmokers, teen pop, and dancehall dominated.  By the end, it was noticeably different, with new artists like Cardi B, Kodak Black, Lana Del Rey, Camila Cabello, Khalid, etc dominating.  Lady Gaga signed her Vegas residency which means she is likely a legacy artist by this point never to return to the kind of prominence she had in the early '10s.  Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have shown clear signs of being past their peak with their latest albums.  Eminem has lost it (though I do like the Nowhere Fast extended version).  Bottom line is, 2017 seems like a "changing of the guard" year looking back on it.  It was the beginning of the transition everyone on this board is waiting for.  2017 was also the year that you could really feel that we were past "peak hipster."

Really? Lana Del Rey saw presence since 2011 at least thanks to "Born to Die", and she has no dominance whatsoever right now. Her peak was in 2013 with "Summertime Sadness"

She belongs to the 2012/2013 indie krew that saw prominance during those years, not the "Gen Z" krew or whatever y'all calling it.

I swear this was a millennial challenge. I vividly remember it being big back in 2013 or 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM31tXAW-HI


I wonder what happens if they try to snort a RIBBED condoom? ???  :o

I agree. In fact 2011 was the first big year of these kind of movements in the world, since then started everything with the Indignados and the Arab spring. Even that year had purely millennial culture, there’s nothing new about March for our Lives
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2011/1101111226_400.jpg

No, I absolutely disagree.

March for Our Lives was a mostly student lead nationwide protest calling for proper gun control and reform. That has NEVER happened in the entire history of the US. Students across America taking the lead and asking for gun reform and it was loosely organized, that's entirely different from Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, BLM, etc.

No, I absolutely disagree.

March for Our Lives was a mostly student lead nationwide protest calling for proper gun control and reform. That has NEVER happened in the entire history of the US. Students across America taking the lead and asking for gun reform and it was loosely organized, that's entirely different from Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, BLM, etc.


Led by students my arse. They were fully funded by deep-pocketed anti-gun groups. What a sham.

Led by students my arse. They were fully funded by deep-pocketed anti-gun groups. What a sham.

The only sham is the NRA (which is a terrorist organization in my opinion) and you gun nuts.

The fact that you think those students were in the pockets of gun control advocates is sickening. Disgusting 8-P.

No, I absolutely disagree.

March for Our Lives was a mostly student lead nationwide protest calling for proper gun control and reform. That has NEVER happened in the entire history of the US. Students across America taking the lead and asking for gun reform and it was loosely organized, that's entirely different from Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, BLM, etc.


Even so it will be remembered as part of the same big movements of the 2010’s, that were started on social networks and inspired each other

Even so it will be remembered as part of the same big movements of the 2010’s, that were started on social networks and inspired each other

Not really.

Especially if the Congressional midterms later this year end up being a Blue wave like many predict and a Democrat is elected President in 2020.

A lot of the students in March for Our Live can vote in either 2018 and/or 2020 and they have been energized to vote and get a lot of these deficient politicians out of office.

They WILL have an impact greater than the other ones we have seen.

Really? You can’t tell the difference between 1997 and 2017, in terms of pop culture and climate and attitudes towards society?

Was trap rap and EDM “mainstream” in the late ‘90s? No, but post-grunge was. Do you hear any post-grunge on Top 40 radio anymore? Do you hear R&B (of the Keith Sweat variety)? Nu-metal?

What about cultural attitudes? I feel as though my generation is awash in nihilism, although it might be starting to slowly get better.
I don’t notice that nihilistic, misanthropic, sociopathic air from 70s and 80s babies. Or even early 90s babies for that matter.


I'm thinking more 98' to now. I know there's been lots of changes but there's been this overall feel that's stuck ever since. I'm not talking about specifics.

And I don't see nihilism in millennials. In fact, I think millennials are super into causes. Social justice has been a huge thing with our generation. That doesn't seem nihilistic to me. It seems like the exact opposite.

We started 2017 is virtually the same musical era we had been in since 2013.

I disagree. The music from 2017, even the early part, was already different from the music of 2013. Trap rap wasn’t as popular in 2013 as it was in 2017. I don’t think I can imagine “Shape of you” or Drake’s “Passionfruit” or Future’s “Mask Off” being released in 2013, nor can I imagine songs like “Wake me up” by Avicii , “Suit & Tie” Justin Timberlake, or “Power Trip” by J. Cole being released in 2017.

I do think 2012-2013 was the last Millennial high school year looking back; Facebook was still in its prime, PS3 and Xbox 360 were still popular, emo and scene subcultures were at their very tail end, last year of yoloswag sheesh, preppy brand hoodies in their last days, dubstep and electropop still relevant, apps like Angry Birds and Temple Run still being relevant, TV shows like Breaking Bad, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother at their tail ends, teens still having flip/brick phones at first before moving up to smartphones, etc.

From 2013-2014 onward smartphones were now an affordable, must have first choice, the rise of Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Lorde, rise of PS4 and Xbox One, Dubstep phasing out in favor of EDM, Lady Gaga and Kesha fading out in popularity, Blackberrys dead AF by this year, Twitter becoming more popular among teens, "teens aren't using Facebook anymore" becoming a popular sentiment, Vine and Snapchat getting big this year, Miley Cyrus twerking on the VMAs indicating a weird culture shift, "post-ironic dank maymays" becoming popular, etc.

I do consider Gen Z as starting in the late 90s so that's when early Gen Z teen culture probably started to me, 2013-2014ish. By the time that Whip Whip Nae Nae song came out in 2015, Gen Z teen culture had fully arrived for sure. I would say Millennial teen culture began with Britney Spears (1998) and ended with Gangnam Style (2012) or mayybeee Harlem Shake (2013).

I do think 2012-2013 was the last Millennial high school year looking back; Facebook was still in its prime, PS3 and Xbox 360 were still popular, emo and scene subcultures were at their very tail end, last year of yoloswag sheesh, preppy brand hoodies in their last days, dubstep and electropop still relevant, apps like Angry Birds and Temple Run still being relevant, TV shows like Breaking Bad, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother at their tail ends, teens still having flip/brick phones at first before moving up to smartphones, etc.

From 2013-2014 onward smartphones were now a must have, the rise of Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Lorde, rise of PS4 and Xbox One, Dubstep phasing out in favor of EDM, Lady Gaga and Kesha fading out in popularity, Blackberrys dead AF by this year, Twitter becoming more popular among teens, "teens aren't using Facebook anymore" becoming a popular sentiment, Vine and Snapchat getting big this year, Miley Cyrus twerking on the VMAs indicating a weird culture shift, "post-ironic dank maymays" becoming popular, etc.

I do consider Gen Z as starting in the late 90s so that's when early Gen Z teen culture probably started to me, 2013-2014ish. By the time that Whip Whip Nae Nae song came out in 2015, Gen Z teen culture had fully arrived for sure. I would say Millennial teen culture began with Britney Spears (1998) and ended with Gangnam Style (2012).


I wouldn't go as far as to say 2013 to now is gen z. I think maybe 90s borns are just latter half millennials the same way Jones generation is a latter half version of Boomers.

I do think 2012-2013 was the last Millennial high school year looking back; Facebook was still in its prime, PS3 and Xbox 360 were still popular, emo and scene subcultures were at their very tail end, last year of yoloswag sheesh, preppy brand hoodies in their last days, dubstep and electropop still relevant, apps like Angry Birds and Temple Run still being relevant, TV shows like Breaking Bad, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother at their tail ends, teens still having flip/brick phones at first before moving up to smartphones, etc.

From 2013-2014 onward smartphones were now an affordable, must have first choice, the rise of Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Lorde, rise of PS4 and Xbox One, Dubstep phasing out in favor of EDM, Lady Gaga and Kesha fading out in popularity, Blackberrys dead AF by this year, Twitter becoming more popular among teens, "teens aren't using Facebook anymore" becoming a popular sentiment, Vine and Snapchat getting big this year, Miley Cyrus twerking on the VMAs indicating a weird culture shift, "post-ironic dank maymays" becoming popular, etc.

I do consider Gen Z as starting in the late 90s so that's when early Gen Z teen culture probably started to me, 2013-2014ish. By the time that Whip Whip Nae Nae song came out in 2015, Gen Z teen culture had fully arrived for sure. I would say Millennial teen culture began with Britney Spears (1998) and ended with Gangnam Style (2012) or mayybeee Harlem Shake (2013).

I agree. The 2012-2013 school year felt like the last millennial school year. The 2013-2014 - 2016-2017 school years felt transitional. I actually think this is the first pure Generation Z school year. With the March for our lives and all early 2000's babies in high school now, it really does feel like Generation Z culture has finally arrived.

I wouldn't go as far as to say 2013 to now is gen z. I think maybe 90s borns are just latter half millennials the same way Jones generation is a latter half version of Boomers.

I consider early-mid 90s borns to be Millennials and late 90s born to be Gen Z. 2013-2015 was around the time where the last mid 90s born started graduating high schools and teen culture shifted to be targeted more at late 90s borns with all the new stuff I mentioned.

I consider early-mid 90s borns to be Millennials and late 90s born to be Gen Z. 2013-2015 was around the time where the last mid 90s born started graduating high schools and teen culture shifted to be targeted more at late 90s borns with all the new stuff I mentioned.


Eh. I guess that 95-99 born area is too fuzzy to really debate hard on.  ;)

Eh. I guess that 95-99 born area is too fuzzy to really debate hard on.  ;)

IMO people born in the second half of the 90's are Y/Z Cusp. Everyone born after 1999 is definitely generation Z though.

I agree. The 2012-2013 school year felt like the last millennial school year. The 2013-2014 - 2016-2017 school years felt transitional. I actually think this is the first pure Generation Z school year. With the March for our lives and all early 2000's babies in high school now, it really does feel like Generation Z culture has finally arrived.

Not to mention 2012 was the peak of popularity for Hunger Games (very much a Late Millennial teen fad) with its movie released and everyone talking about it. The 2013-2015 movies, especially Mockingjay Pt 1, were not really talked about as much from what I remember.

No, I absolutely disagree.

March for Our Lives was a mostly student lead nationwide protest calling for proper gun control and reform. That has NEVER happened in the entire history of the US. Students across America taking the lead and asking for gun reform and it was loosely organized, that's entirely different from Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, BLM, etc.



Actually, that HAS happened in US history-in the 1960s/70s. Students protesting the war in Vietnam. Somewhere in the archives is a front page pic of (at the time) our local newspaper of my sister at an anti-war rally. She was only in either high school or jr. high. Schools & colleges across the nation protested-because they were the ones being sent off to fight. Can you say, "Kent State"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings



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Not to mention 2012 was the peak of popularity for Hunger Games (very much a Late Millennial teen fad) with its movie released and everyone talking about it. The 2013-2015 movies, especially Mockingjay Pt 1, were not really talked about as much from what I remember.

I feel like Twilight is the movie for millennials. The Hunger Games’ primary audience were mostly 10-16 year olds, which were born 1996-2002, which I think makes it more of a late millennial/ early gen Z movie than a completely millennial movie.

I feel like Twilight is the movie for millennials. The Hunger Games’ primary audience were mostly 10-16 year olds, which were born 1996-2002, which I think makes it more of a late millennial/ early gen Z movie than a completely millennial movie.
To put in prospective, I have seen the films for Twilight and The Hunger Games, and I can inform you all, they are not my kind of movies.

Oh great, here comes the generationology/decadeology debate, I was right...

The OP didn't even use the terms "Gen Y", "Millennial", or "Gen Z" in his original post. He was referring by decade of birth, and decade of childhood.
If you ask me, generations should be classified by decade of birth, since it's way less arbitrary and way less ambiguous. This is also how China classifies generations.

Oh great, here comes the generationology/decadeology debate, I was right...

The OP didn't even use the terms "Gen Y", "Millennial", or "Gen Z" in his original post. He was referring by decade of birth, and decade of childhood.
If you ask me, generations should be classified by decade of birth, since it's way less arbitrary and way less ambiguous. This is also how China classifies generations.

I guess people including myself were talking about it because the OP used the word "Generation" and that led to people debating about the ending point for generations.

I guess people including myself were talking about it because the OP used the word "Generation" and that led to people debating about the ending point for generations.


I know, I predicted in my first post on this thread that this was gonna happen, which is why I said "I was right" in that one post.

To put in prospective, I have seen the films for Twilight and The Hunger Games, and I can inform you all, they are not my kind of movies.


I wasn't into the Twilight books/movies but I actually jumped on THG bandwagon when I read the first book after the first movies' trailer was released. The first two books were fast paced, interesting, easy to read, and intellectual enough for adults to read. The last book I thought was good but slower paced, a little less interesting, a little harder to read, and had a more adult message that was harder to swallow. I hated the first movie. It's pretty groan-worthy. However, I liked Catching Fire and the Mockingjay movies but Mockingjay movies does have the depressing vibe the book has so a lot of people didn't care for them.

I read the Hunger Games books and loved them but only watched the first movie lol.

Twilight... Not even once. That's not a Gen Y thing though, that's just a woman thing. A lot of middle aged women were really into it.

Led by students my arse. They were fully funded by deep-pocketed anti-gun groups. What a sham.


Yeah (((George Soros))) and the Deep State plotted with Antifa and the Muslim Brotherhood to use paid protestors to take our guns away and take over America and start a pedo ring and force sex reassignment surgery on everyone and whatever right wing conspiracy salad. #ProjectVeritas #StopBelievingMSMPropaganda

Not to mention 2012 was the peak of popularity for Hunger Games (very much a Late Millennial teen fad) with its movie released and everyone talking about it. The 2013-2015 movies, especially Mockingjay Pt 1, were not really talked about as much from what I remember.


The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were pretty popular.  Mockingjay was hurt by the fact they split it into two movies.  It seems like that was a trend in the early and mid '10s after the final Harry Potter movie was split.  However it worked for Harry Potter since there was enough story there for two movies.  When the Hunger Games and Divergent series tried to do it, people saw it as the cheap cash grab that it was.

I consider the Hunger Games to be the beginning of the dystopian young adult fiction fad that was specifically a mid '10s thing (even though the books were popular before that).  Blocky, dystopian fonts seemed everywhere back around 2014 and 2015.  It seems that in the Trump era, that has died down somewhat.

I feel like Twilight is the movie for millennials. The Hunger Games’ primary audience were mostly 10-16 year olds, which were born 1996-2002, which I think makes it more of a late millennial/ early gen Z movie than a completely millennial movie.


I remember when James Cameron's Avatar was popular, a lot of people were declaring it the defining movie of the Millennial generation.

I would say the Hunger Games was both.  I really liked the movies and I am quite a bit older than the targeted demographic.

Actually, that HAS happened in US history-in the 1960s/70s. Students protesting the war in Vietnam. Somewhere in the archives is a front page pic of (at the time) our local newspaper of my sister at an anti-war rally. She was only in either high school or jr. high. Schools & colleges across the nation protested-because they were the ones being sent off to fight. Can you say, "Kent State"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings



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Yeah, I know about those protests.

Those protests were against war not gun control. March for Our Lives was mostly high school students protesting for gun control.

I wasn't into the Twilight books/movies but I actually jumped on THG bandwagon when I read the first book after the first movies' trailer was released. The first two books were fast paced, interesting, easy to read, and intellectual enough for adults to read. The last book I thought was good but slower paced, a little less interesting, a little harder to read, and had a more adult message that was harder to swallow. I hated the first movie. It's pretty groan-worthy. However, I liked Catching Fire and the Mockingjay movies but Mockingjay movies does have the depressing vibe the book has so a lot of people didn't care for them.

I loved the Hunger Games film as well. I hated Twighlight. 

I loved the Hunger Games film as well. I hated Twighlight.


I didn't understand Twilight popularity and I still don't. Especially when those vampires was juxtaposed with the first season of True Blood.

Man, the late 2000s and early 10s really was its own thing.

Not really.

Especially if the Congressional midterms later this year end up being a Blue wave like many predict and a Democrat is elected President in 2020.

A lot of the students in March for Our Live can vote in either 2018 and/or 2020 and they have been energized to vote and get a lot of these deficient politicians out of office.

They WILL have an impact greater than the other ones we have seen.


Far from reality... we’re comparing the biggest movements of recent Middle East history and economic discontent against of just a reinforcement law for guns. Also, the elections of 2020 is a different topic which involves every problematic in the US, you can’t only focus on that student movement as the principal cause of the Trump’s exit (obviously if he loses the elections)

I wonder what happens if they try to snort a RIBBED condoom? ???  :o


maybe they pass out?

Gen Z has been in effect tho