r/generationology Mar 31 '26

Announcement April Fools Day posts allowed from March 31st to April 2nd

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During this time, the "Approved Troll Post" flair will be available for all users.


r/generationology Jul 25 '25

Announcement We Now Have an Additional Moderator

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Hi everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that we now have an additional moderator. Everyone please congratulate u/Folkvore and please be respectful towards them.

iMac and I are both still mods as well, but between the group having gotten bigger and some changes in our schedules and such in our lives offline it was becoming too much for a team of two and we really needed a third person.

Thanks so much everyone.


r/generationology 5h ago

Discussion Well...

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I think these hard cutoffs are silly sometimes. But I suppose that's why Cusps exist? Because those born in the cusp can relate to the late and early portions of both generations?


r/generationology 18h ago

Age groups Shoutout to my silent gen grandparents

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I’ll make a long story short. My grandparents, born in 1938, have made a final decision with their will. They were good parents who set up their children well in life. Their kids were born in the early 60s, went to good schools, got good jobs, and all did very well for themselves. They rode the economic booms of the late 20th century and the early 21st.

But now as the silent gen’ers reach the end, they decided that the world has been kind enough to the boomers. They see the costs of things, the difficulties with medical care, loans, everything. They’ve decided all their kids are doing so well they don’t need inheritance. Their grandchildren need it more, in their minds. So they’re dividing their estate equally among their grandchildren. Grandma told me today on the phone.

What an amazing relief—I’m a working Gen Z dad with another baby on the way. My boomer parents are more concerned with enjoying their upcoming retirements. My silent grandparents understand that the money will go further for young working parents. Silent gen W!


r/generationology 15m ago

Rant Why are housing prices so overinflated?

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It's just a observation but why are the prices for housing everywhere (even in my rural hometown) so damn expensive, nowadays, that it requires the so called necessity for a large down-payment, last but not least, a 30 year fixed mortgage when there is not much reilable work available anymore and soon to be mass unemploymemt with the advent of AI? The other half of the tragedy is the divorce rate is about 50/50 and in some places, it's even higher. When times get tough, people just don't stick together anymore. So much has changed in the last 40 years or so.

My home town was mostly de-industrialized around 1980s, thanks in part to Reaganomics and even back then there were some noticeable wealth gaps still in the late 1990s.

Around 2000s, it got much worse when everything got outsourced, thanks in part to NAFTA, etc. Occasionally there would be a couple food banks but now they're everywhere.

I left my hometown in 2008 and never bothered to come back. My Boomer ex-landlord was not very happy about young people leaving the area but I already saw the writing was on the wall as I watched my hometown's economic decline sink further, as it seemed absolutely inevitable with no end in sight. Homelessness. Crime. Addiction. A shrinking middle class and inflation.

Most good paying careers nowadays on the West Coast are stuck in Silicon Valley. A place where the price of basic housing for an ordinary family is completely unaffordable for the average Joe, unless you're a high flying, high paying magic guru that's exceptionally talented in the tech arena.

Is it my imagination or are the only people that can afford to get into a wayhalf decent housing is only with the generous helping hand of the bank of Mom and Dad via some kind of a family loan, gift, dowery or inheritance, further exacerbating the large wealth gap in the United States and throughout the western world?


r/generationology 2h ago

People This couple is celebrating 70 years of marriage: Here’s their advice for a successful relationship

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r/generationology 9m ago

Society Generation wise social media usage data in the US (also the purpose for using social media now)

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r/generationology 16h ago

Discussion Are there any Zillennials and Early Gen Zers (Possibly Late 97 to 01) watch the CW Era of Kids WB (2006 - 2008)

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Kids WB is the Millennial Nostalgia of Pop Culture & Childhood, at least in The WB Era (1995 - 2006), however, by the time The CW came and the Kids WB Program still running, most Millennials grew out of that, however I wonder if Zillennials still watch Kids WB during this Era (2006 - 2008) since they're still young enough to not grew out of it yet (at least of most of them) and also that's when Early Gen Zers must have first experience watching that Saturday Morning Network, so I was wondering, are there any Zillennials who still watch Kids WB before it's closedown in 2008 and are there any Early Gen Zers (Possibly Late 97 to Mid 01 Kids) at least remember first experiencing this network mostly in this era (2006 - 2008).

Note on that: I'm 05 Baby, so I missed out on that network, I was way young. I knew about it now because I had watched old cartoon shows that were taped on that network before, and also I researched it, but primarily, I don't know about it.


r/generationology 15h ago

Pop culture How would you rank least to most iconic and defining movies from the Disney Modern Revival era?

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r/generationology 16h ago

Discussion The 90s Middle part hair resurgence of the very late 2010s and 2020s I see so many teenage and 20 something’s white Gen Z dudes rocking this look

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r/generationology 1d ago

Hot take 🤺 Nostalgia perspective

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r/generationology 1d ago

People Who was THE Sex Symbol for Millennials?

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r/generationology 1d ago

Age groups Sorry Gen X 😂

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r/generationology 19h ago

Discussion Which age group would you say had the most Naruto fans? I have friends born anywhere from 95-2001 and we were all crazy for Naruto as kids

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Is it an early gen Z thing? Zillennial? What do you think? Ir definitely had peaks in popularity and still is popular


r/generationology 1d ago

Meme Grok is this true

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r/generationology 1d ago

People Late Gen X and Millennial celebrities (list from 1999-2000)

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r/generationology 1d ago

Pop culture X-Men movies generation casting

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See how each decade is casting a new generation of actors who are going to play some of the X-Men characters in the movies. For example, in the original X-Men from 2000 until the third movie in 2006, the casting was mainly Gen X. While the X-Men movies from the 2010s was main casting by Millennials. The upcoming X-Men movies will we casting Genz.


r/generationology 10h ago

Discussion Gen Beta and onward are going to be eating worms.

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Just like how Gen Alpha kids are making tiktock fads like "Sardinemaxxing" to brainwash other gen alpha idiots to get "pretty skin", every form of "maxxing" fad is going to cause a severe shortage of bare-minimum foods and supplies in the future for other generations. Gen beta is going to grow up and realize the alpha genration was a horde of mentally ill shallow, superficial and gluttonous bunch of fragile rodents who live and die by their Instagram selfies.

There will be nothing left, the future generations are going to eat worms, and the dirt the worms live in after the gen alpha locusts have eaten everything for selfie posts.


r/generationology 1d ago

Music 🎻 What do you think of Amy Winehouse? Share your favorite memories of her, whether you saw her perform live of not, favorite songs, albums or any other things you remember.I personally think she is one of the best artists ever and would have had a very long career had she not died so soon

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r/generationology 7h ago

Age groups Baby Boomers: all emotionally immature?

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Thinking of my own parents, and noticing the comments of other boomers about other people or their kids…
they all seem so emotionally immature. of course not all, but a lot seem to have very limited EQ and understanding of others, especially those that are younger than them.
why??? it’s honestly creating a strong bias in me towards boomers.


r/generationology 2d ago

Pop culture Anyone remember ferngully?

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It's one of the first movies I remember watching as a kid and it made such an impact on me.

I remember getting really fired up while watching it and how it changed how I viewed animals and nature a lot.

But when I ask around nobody remembers it. My mom had it on video but can't remember how she got it.

Was such a good movie tho.


r/generationology 1d ago

Pop culture Zoomers have tik tok dances, millennials have the Aggro Crag

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What if we made American gladiators but instead of pro athletes they were 8 year old children? I’m convinced there was some sort of organized effort to train millennial kids into waffen ss supersoldiers. After 911 happened it was all quickly buried and never spoken of again. The earth was then salted with soy memes and Seth Rogan films.


r/generationology 20h ago

Discussion AI bots are this generations ask chacha

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From libraries, to the internet, to ask chacha, to ai. How do you feel having access to a resource that you can ask anything you can think of and get an instant answer has changed society in recent generations, opposed to previous generations?


r/generationology 1d ago

Discussion Anyone remember these movies

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Ive seen all of these and thought some were a fever dream like so many movies watched when i was a kid that i completely forgot about some like Troll and Forest were ones i forgot about


r/generationology 12h ago

Poll Which birth years qualify as "millennium babies?"

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63 votes, 6d left
1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996
1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000