Why do I get the feeling that most people who use "millennial"
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Why do I get the feeling that most people who use "millennial" as a buzzword / boogeyman don't actually know what a millennial is, and are probably millennials themselves? A millennial is anybody who reached adulthood around the year 2000 or later, AKA anyone born in 1982 or later.
FFS, this site was founded by a millennial and I guarantee that most if not all of its moderators are milennials, too.
Same people who use "nu-male" and "cuck".
>>472700
The definition of millenial greatly varies and nobody really agrees on what it defines.
For instance, you could classify people born between 1982-1995 as part of Gen Y, and anyone born after '95 as Millenials (which is usually what people refer to when they use "millenials" as an insult). Another term for that is "digital natives".
>>472815
>usually what people refer to when they use "millenials" as an insult
You asked them?
>>472815
Gen Y are millennials, you millennial fuckwad
>>472700
People who use buzzwords are always saying more about themselves than about the thing they're describing.
>>472815
>The definition of millenial greatly varies and nobody really agrees on what it defines.
It's basically become just a catch-all term for "anyone I don't like." It's so broad and vague, it can't mean anything else.
Another reason that word kind of pisses me off, it makes me feel like I've been transported back in time to the late '90s or early 2000s when it seemed nearly impossible to hear or read a sentence or phrase or any string of words without "millennium" being shoehorned in somehow. (For example, just imagine how cringe-worthy it would be if Will Smith released an album today called "Willennium." Yeah, that's how it sounds to me whenever I hear someone talk about millennials.)
>>473042
>(For example, just imagine how cringe-worthy it would be if Will Smith released an album today called "Willennium."
Dude, I'd love it.
>>472815
>digital natives
Why is this even a thing? Are there cringe-y special terms I'm not aware of to refer to people people born after electricity, or running water, or the printing press? What is it about computers, the internet, and cell phones that makes everyone flip the fuck out?
>>473060
Nobody ever spent 16 hours a day staring at running water every day for 18 years.
>>472840
>are
It's one of the definitions, yeah, but not the only one.
It's dumb as fuck to lump people who grew up then were teenagers in the 80's and 90's with kids born after that who grew up with broadband Internet and the smartphone boom.
>>473060
>people born after electricity, or running water, or the printing press
At that time anybody that wasn't crippled could find a job easily, now with outsourcing/automation people have to create buzzwords in order to justify bullshit jobs like social media manager or millennial marketing specialist
>>473236
>It's one of the definitions, yeah, but not the only one
It's almost every definition, even the people who coined the term millennial used it to replace Gen Y.
>It's dumb as fuck to lump people who grew up then were teenagers in the 80's and 90's with kids born after that who grew up with broadband Internet and the smartphone boom.
People who were teens in the 80's are not millennials. And for the rest of the group, why is it retarded to lump them together? People born in '82 had roughly the same exposure to roughly the same technology that I grew up with and with roughly the same type of parents and culture. There's no reason to be upset unless you really need the term "millennials" as a way to punch downward on some group.
>>473124
>not being a Taoist hermit
Wew lad
OP it sounds like you got called a name you didn't like in a thread. Are you sure the proper response is crying about the semantics of being called so young idiot on qa?
>>473487
Sounds just like what a millennial would post.
>>473598
alpha post
>>473598
No, it's more like I don't believe there are actually enough posters in their mid 30s or older on this website for all the "millennial" boogeymanning on /pol/ and /r9k/ to be anything other than hypocritical.
>the semantics of being called so young idiot on qa?
>being called so young idiot on
Please speak English.
Just now I was browsing part of the internet that real people visit, and saw a couple people in their early 30s referring to themselves as millennials, explaining to someone in his 50s why they prefer text-based communication to the telephone.
99% of people on 4chan using that word as a shitposting pejorative are millennials themselves.