The real comedy of your meme is that Gen-X was forgotten about, once again.....

It's almost like a sport now to find reasons to criticize other generations. It's a bummer because it just creates more division and takes away from finding common ground.

Cause it's fun to make fun of millennials. It's not like they can do much about it cause they're too busy complaining about how difficult it all is.

I think it's downstream of the rate of change in society driven by technology.

20 years age difference has never been so meaningful to economics and culture.

There's some precedent with major geopolitical events, the greatest generation via WW2 etc, and the boomers they created... but even the scale of that was technology driven.

There's still people alive today that were once in awe by horseless carriages, it's entirely rational to demarcate the cohorts.

Now consider that 'Generation Putin' is already an established label for Russian children and youth growing up during Putin's era. Such a horrible label.

Yes.

I think it all seems to matter less when you are defined as X Y Z but in reality you on the cusp of one and another.

I remember once when referring to these classifications a friend stated that he didn't use any of it as it was just engineered to divide us.

Thinking that mankind existed for millennia without any of it, kind of makes sense.

I think you're right. Certainly people talked about the Baby Boom after WWII and things that were different for that generation, but that was more demography than pop culture.

For some reason, I feel like "Gen-X" was created by marketing campaigns.

Thanks. I finally got around to checking what are the "definitions" for each of the labels. I didn't even know about Gen Alpha and Gen-X. I just know I am a millennial, my parents are boomers, and the people that I don't understand are Gen-Z.

I think some people just like labels. My wife loves talking about her being INFJ. I still don't remember my letters, even though I did the test, and she knows my labels. She got annoyed once by the fact i did not remember, but then suddenly accepted it when she read somewhere that INFJ care about the letters while my subgroup is known for not caring about the letters.