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For quite a while, I was convinced they weren’t a real trend at all but some sort of hoax that the media fell for, because there simply weren’t any in any place that I’d been until about a month after I first heard about them on the radio.
To date, I’ve still only ever seen one that was actually in a person’s possession and not sitting unsold on a store shelf, so I still suspect the trend has been somewhat overstated.
I thought The Oregon Trail generation was just millennials? I’m 1986 and literally all of my friends wax nostalgic about playing Oregon Trail on our old desktop computers. That’s what we did in school when outdoor recess was cancelled due to rain.
Oregon Trail was just a little after me. My younger friends wax nostalgic about it, but I didn’t run into it until much later. I think I heard about it starting in college. I’m significantly before ’86 though, early Gen X.
1986 is after Oregon Trail came out and generally considered well into millennial.
We had computers in high school. Played Ultima 3 on them.
But I kind of trend later, particularly since I was on the internet pretty early. Usenet through bulletin boards and then Delphi, before AOL became ubiquitous. The Internet before the Web, even.
Wait, so these “Millennials” go from 1981 to 2000? I thought it was later than that. That would make Daniel the Human a Millennial. That doesn’t sound right…
I was born in 1982 and count myself as a tail-end Gen X, rather than a millennial. I tend to have a lot more in common with the supposed personality traits of Gen Xers than millennials on the whole.
My parents are early Baby Boomers, though without the typical financial success. ;P
Yeah, ’87 for me, and I hear people in our age range call Gen Z
“Millennials” a lot, too. A lot of people like to use it as a catch-all for younger people they want to shit on, which is NOT how generations work.
It’s how people relate to generations, though. The Youngs gripe about The Olds being in the way. The Olds gripe about The Youngs being different and, well, existing in a way that reminds them of mortality. Sure, there are different names for roughly 18-25 year range ‘generations’, but functionally, the way people treat it is there’s only three generations: Olds, Youngs, and Peers.
Nope. One of the defining characteristics of being a millennial is actually being cognizant of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. I’d actually cut the birth year for millennials off sooner because of that.
I’ve read news stories that have used “born around the millennium” as their description so you are not alone in that. It also isn’t too shocking if it is an ongoing refinement on who counts. Generations are fuzzy logic until they are history.
Pew research is the closest thing to the “authority” on the matter and a couple years ago they defined it as born from 81-96. That puts the millennials 23 to 38 years old. Significantly older than most people are thinking of when they say “millennials”
Same here, I’ve always felt like a Gen X-er who missed the bus, values-wise. (Born mid-late 80s though, between Challenger and the Berlin Wall coming down.) I can relate to the current wave of 90s nostalgia, but only the tail end of the 80s wave from several years ago. I have an office job and a mortgage. I don’t put much stock in “gig economy” stuff like ride sharing, renting your home out by the night, or those electric bikes and scooters that are littering the cities. Most of the Gen Z stuff the Boomers are blaming us for is just “kids these days” to me.
I used to be “with it”, then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it”, and what is “it” is new and scary to me. This will happen to you!
Knowing that there are still new episodes of the Simpsons for a full 2 decades since I last regularly watched it is frightening and scary. Thank goodness all Simpsons memes and quotes I ever see come from before that
The “it” in “with it” is constantly changing. As someone who recently hit the 70 mark, I’m not sure I find any of “it” scary. Some of “it” is really cool and some of “it” is dumb, but if “it” stops changing then something is wrong. And “it” would get rather boring after awhile. Rap is not and will never be my thing, but the best of it is awesome. So is Bach.
Same here.
The boomers destroyed all the fun stuff just before I could get on board.
Free love? Nope, herpes, STDs and then aids.
Smoke po etct? Nope, war on drugs.
Easy slide into the tech industry? Nope, bubbles bursting, etc.
Buy a house? Insane interest rates and inflation bigger than pay raises if you even got one. Followed by the mortgage crises fuelled by institutionalized greed.
At least I haven’t been held for ransom by Big Pharma … yet.
THANK you, yes people born as long ago as mid-90s are Gen Z, I have a long drag out on FB over this with all manner of family and friends. Official guidelines put the end of millenials and beginning of gen Z anywhere between 94 and 97. I believe it’s shifts in cultural/social consciousness, millenials are the last generation to have lived before the internet became ubiquitous, on the political side of things I believe to qualify as a millenial you had to be old enough to remember 9/11, though memory of 9/11 itself is not strictly necessary as it’s still a very america-centric metric to use.
Honestly though, is there anyone who would use the term millennial that wouldn’t have also been in a position to be aware of 9/11 when they were teen-agers? The attack itself and the following “global war on terror” had worldwide effects and we do get cnn…
Yeah people forget an entire 2 decades have passed since millennials were defined as a generation. mid-late 80s is DEFINITELY millennial. Some older generations just started using it as a catch-all term for anyone younger than them and forget that actual millennials are generally in our 30s (or at least late 20s) by now.
Yeah a 20 year period for a generation doesn’t seem right. That means a Millennial could give birth to another Millennial as a legal adult
Hell even the 80-94 is pushing it cause as someone born a few days before ’94 I have way more in common with Gen Z peers and culture than I do with someone who finished high school in the late 90s(early millennial). I finished high school in the 2010’s. That’s way too much of a difference
I use those numbers too, but MSM cannot seem to make up its collective mind on when Gen X, Millennials or Gen Z started and ended.
Gen Z (2001-????)
Millennials (1980-2000)
Gen X (1965-1979)
Boomers (1946-1964) At least the MSM is consistant with this group.
Silent Generation (1928-1945) They were alive during WWII but were too young to fight in it.
G I Generation (1901-1927) They were the ones that fought in WWII.
I think we should define Gen Z as ‘too young to remember how things were before 9/11’, which would put the cutoff somewhere around 1997.
Then again I’m too young to remember the Cold War. My youth was during the relatively quiet post-Desert-Storm, pre-9/11 period, where it seemed like maybe the world could finally move on from the conflicts of the 20th century and look ahead to the future. It was going to be a whole new millennium! We had computers talking to each other! We were building a whole new space station with the Russians and the EU. The US was on track to finally balance the budget. Sure things weren’t perfect (Oklahoma City, Columbine, Princess Diana, the UK’s lease on Hong Kong expired, the dot-com insanity bubble burst, Euro Disney…) but things were finally looking up. There was no loosely defined threat looming overhead at all times, ready to be used as a convenient excuse to justify prying. There wasn’t a perpetual war against an ideology fueled by said war.
That was the future we were promised. That’s why first wave Milennials are so bitter.
I was born at the very end of ’93 so I should be a millennial, right? According to like the Pew research center anyway
But all of my sisters I grew up with fall within Pew’s Gen Z and we’re the same literal generation, growing up in the same circumstances.
I remember being on the internet since I was a child since my parents were young and tech savvy gen X teenagers, I literally cannot remember a time when the internet wasn’t a part of my life.
I barely remember 9/11, I was like 7 and didn’t get it, but my older 30-something year old millennial friends can tell you exactly where they were when it happened, in detail cause they were in high school. The only thing I remember about pre-9/11 society is that the N64 was pretty cool
Youtube and streaming services being the main source of my entertainment since middle school, social media dominating all my communication since middle school. The internet has been central to my entire life.
My older millennial friends age 31 and 32 can’t relate to those things at all while my 19 year old Gen Z sister and I feel like we had the same experience, so I think I’m Gen Z
Interesting. I am like a year older, but I only used the internet occasionally from about 2nd grade through 8th. I wouldn’t say it was really part of my life until high school, and even then it wasn’t as pervasive as it is for the teens I currently work with because smartphones weren’t a thing, at least in my circles, till a few years later. I didn’t see a YouTube video until I was maybe 15, and again, back then I didn’t use it, say, every day. 9/11 was a huge turning point in my childhood, but I’m from NYC. I have same-age friends from elsewhere who weren’t so affected by it, so I guess geography is part of that (although my slightly younger cousins grew up in NYC too and don’t really remember the incident, so she is def a factor). Guess we’re borderline.
How old were your parents when you were born and how old were your siblings you lived with if any? I think factors like that make a lot of difference and are part of what tilt me towards Gen Z. If I had boomer parents and older siblings instead of younger I’d def be a millennial in culture
Yeah I’m 33 (1986) and I remember floppy disks, getting dial-up internet for the first time, getting our first CD-rom, (the brief period Zip drives were gonna be a thing and then fizzled). All my friends’ first systems were Sega Genesis, SNES, the original Gameboy, or Game Gear. N64 was something we didn’t get until later.
It has always seemed weird to me how far the millennial designation spans. I do feel like people at both ends of the range really don’t feel like the same generation.
And gosh, social media, that’s a big one. Other than Myspace, forums, and Livejournal, social media wasn’t a thing for my age group until at least college. Facebook was literally created while I was in college and twitter not until after I graduated I think? You’d think that’d be a clearly defined cut-off point (growing up with social media vs. having to adapt to it in early adulthood).
This is where I sympathize with Hank’s joke in one of the early strips “If you needed Internet while I was here, you had to leave your room, walk the hall, get an elevator, go into the lobby and invent the internet.”
I remember all the stuff from college and the end of high school. My first computer in high school had a tape drive – literally storing programs on a cassette tape. Dial up internet came after college.
I remember switching from myspace to facebook while I was still in middle school, like around 8th grade or something. I remember my step dad still have floppy drives around the house but we never used them, I never used tapes either, I remember it being CDs until (once again) middle school when I got my first mp3 player. The iPhone also came out while I was in middle school though I didn’t get my own smart phone til a few years later. It’s honestly strange to me that people can be only a few years older than me but not have the same internet driven youth culture I had
Oh, floppy drives, tape decks, it was all new stuff when I came of age in the 80s. One of the reasons I haven’t got into “Stranger Things” is because it reminds me too much of my awkward teen years
Ok I’ve decided now: the cutoff for millennials should be people who do and don’t find the snapchat UI incredibly confusing. That was the first app I’ve ever used that made me think “Wow, I’m old.” I may have even used the words “newfangled UI”
Ahh floppy disks! I remember those! Missed the original Gameboy, but I still feel like there should be only 150 Pokémon (maybe 151, or 152 because Togepi came on the scene early haha).
Dude I was born in 1992 and you just described my childhood. I legit feel like a different generation from my cousins born in the late 90s because they don’t remember 9/11 or how it changed things, life before Google and smartphones and Amazon and the dawn of social media and YouTube, or the days when eve in our native NYC it was totally normal and mainstream to be homophobic. They don’t even really remember it being a huge deal when a Black guy was nominated for president. I like to tease people a few years older than me that I was born after the fall of the Soviet Union, but really, my worldview has a lot more in common with people born in 1987, say, than in 1996.
Yeah, I was born ’87, and your experience sounds very similar to mine. All the stuff you mentioned (smartphones, YouTube, etc.) came into existence while I was in college, old enough to understand very well what life before those things was like.
Yeah I generally find that my coming-of-age memories are more aligned with those of folks 5ish years older than those 5ish years younger. I’m curious, as an 80s baby, do you find the same thing? Or is the difference not as big for you?
I actually like being in this generation (or generation segment or whatever) because it’s like, the internet grew up with me. By the time I had a camera phone or social media, I was old enough to be at least semi-intelligent about what I posted. And like, I watched way too much TV lol but sometimes nothing interesting was on and I would be circumstantially forced to do something more active haha. If I’d come of age in the streaming era I may never have left the couch.
To be fair though it feels more smoother to say millennial rather than “those damn gen-z’ers/”. Not as catchy. It’d help if there was a name for gen-z that everyone agrees with
Yeah, as a millennial I didn’t even know what tide pods WERE when all that went down and had to look them up. I had just adapted to concentrated laundry detergent, forget detergent in pod form.
Millennials were probably more worried about our babies/toddlers eating them than eating them ourselves.
Hahaha I saw an improv show in which a guy took on the persona of a YouTuber who ate Tide Pods for views and I 100% thought it was a parody until the mainstream media started covering real-life stories like a month or two later…but then, when I was a senior in college, my peers were planking for lols, so who am I to complain :p
Fun fact: Baby Boomer is the only generation that officially exists, all other generations, past and future, are social constructs, and nobody can agree on when they start/end
Like a week (IRL) from now we’re gonna come back to Becky finding the one bag of frozen fruit Robin got, and is nibbling on them as they’re thawing when Robin walks in gnawing on the spinner.
She got kicked out of home in shortpacked and there’s a patreon backer strip that seems to imply the same thing happened in this universe. It makes it doubly confusing how Robin survived.
You’re right, that is different than being kicked out (and now that I look at the backer strip again I’m realizing it didn’t show what I thought it did, whoops).
“We were Both millennials when this college semester started, but that’s a discussion for another time. By the time you get elected? You’ll be in Gen Z.”
It’s the middle of October now, so if we figure 3 weeks (21 days) times the old 66.67:1 DoA time progression ratio, that’s 1400 days, or just under 4 years, until we’re well into November.
If he started in 2010 it’ll be 9 years since the comic started in two months. So let’s round that up and say that its been 9 years. University of Indiana semester starts on August 26th. I’ll take a rough guess and say its mid october right now in the comic, so lets say so far it been 7 to 8 weeks in the story so far.
So that puts this comic on going 4/5ths of a week in-universe for ever year of our time.
When this comic started I was a junior in high school. Now I’m probably like the same age as the teacher aides
If we say that the pace picks up to 1 week = 1 year then that means that the fall semester will end by 2028 and the school year itself will end by 2044 with the main cast still being 18 or 19 while I’ll be 50.
Needfuldoer’s Ratio takes into account the original five-day-per-week schedule and various other factors.
Since it was first calculated, there’s been a three-day time skip, but there have also been a lot of flashback panels, and the ratio remains accurate. If it holds up, the end of the school year will be in 2063.
Of course, as financial analysts say, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Willis can speed up or slow down or time skip at will. The Thanksgiving holiday in particular may offer challenges to the one-storyline/one-day structure; the Christmas break, even more so.
Anyway, aging is a thing that happens, so you might as well get used to it. Just remember, it’s better than the alternative.
As someone who was the same age as the kids when the strip started, the fact that Becky was a millennial when the strip began was the funniest part of today’s comic for me.
This is where those relative timelines get really confusing, because Becky hasn’t really aged since she was introduced so she’s definitely a millenial in older strips, but not really anymore (depending on the definition).
I mean, I’m just impressed that she recognized that the food situation in the house was a problem in the first place, and made an effort to correct that!
You’re on the edge. Basically, you get to choose based on what cultural and behavioral attributes you find describe you better. Of course, generations are a bit slipperier in the past few decades as the internet permits greater sharing of experiences across these artificial demarcations. For instance, I was born in ’91, but being Incredibly Online, I’m not exactly a stranger to what Z is up to.
Yeah, at this point, definitely Gen Z. (I think Gen Z has taken de facto hold over that generation). Most freshman were born in 2000 or 2001 at this point. https://bit.ly/2S1cY16
I kinda think she A. just kinda wants a friend, and B. specifically wants to hang out with a queer person due to Leslie making her realize that, oh, she likes women.
I do not think this indicates an attraction to Becky, not suggesting that, but I do think she has no ability to socialize outside of her job, and she’s not great at doing that, either.
So much stuff the candy bar apparently can’t contain it and you learn the name “Outrageous” is earned for how outrageously sticky your fingers get opening one.
Weird, I’ve never seen the bars, and at least thought Outragious was the label on the ones I have. Only some stores I go to have those, though, so I guess I’m not surprised that ones that are a step weirder/more extreme aren’t really around here.
Many companies and statisticians are increasingly putting the border at 1981-1996 = Millennial, 1997-2012 = Gen Z (following the length of time for Gen X, which was 1965-1980). So Becky was obviously like 10 years old in the first comic
Eh, Willis has already stated that the timeline on this comic is “Current day” and we’re ignoring the continuity problem where it’s taken 9 years to go forward 4-7 weeks, including timeskips.
Which would make Becky a first year college student age, today, around what, October? Ergo, she should be about 17 years old, and born in 2001 or 2002.
Nine years ago, she’d have been born in 1992, but today? 2001. Sliding timeframe!
First year college students are generally 18 or close to it. I was 17, but I graduated high school at 16. I went to a one-room school for 4th grade and got skipped a grade, straight to 6th. I might have been the last kid in West Virginia to get a double promotion.
Yeah, you get a few outliers who are still 17 at the start of their first year and some who turn 18 during it (some even early), but 18 is the general rule.
I think we can assume all the main cast are 18, except for those known to be sophomores or older. Dina has her 19th birthday coming up. A couple other birthdays were mentioned, but no ages attached I think.
I teach high school, you’d think I’d know that. But my first year was a mess because they’d recently removed grade 13 from high schools, and I remember being an outlier because I’d actually turn 19 (legal drinking age) during my first year. A lot of my friends didn’t.
Still, 17-18 is the right age group, and being 18 still makes her born in 2000-2001, and not a millennial. My math didn’t need to be that precise to work out correctly.
Generations are generally done on a national scale since it’s about shared experiences. Someone from Honduras wouldn’t understand what it meant to be part of the Great Generation for the US shared social experience. (Country picked at random – not a slight on achievements made during a time period).
Caveat: a lot of the western world uses the same terms for the same eras due to WWII etc but have different names, slightly different defining dates, and sub categories within. Social constructs – they get blurry!
You’re both gonna die of scurvy. I beg you, go to the pharmacy and buy a bottle of multivitamins or vitamin c. Get the chewable gummy ones they make for kids.
I agree with He Who Abides, only witches do not like orange juice. I am sorry, but you have to go learn all about Wicca and casting spells now, you have no choice.
Now, now, let’s not be hasty here. Let’s just feed Becky on the side. A dead Robin is a marked improvement over a living one, as exemplified by Jason Todd.
But you can bite ON things, and then realise that what you bit is too big to chew, therefore “bitten on more than she can chew”. Bagge can be technically correct, and he should be, because as we all know, that’s the best type of correct.
I think it’s bitten “off” because if you’ve only bitten “on” you can let go and try again… but once you’ve bitten that meat off, you’re committed now. There’s no way to adjust the situation that doesn’t make you look dumb. And gross.
It’s like that episode of Night Vale where a bigot starts saying hateful stuff about millenials, but when it’s pointed out he is a millenial because of his age, he ages rapidly with magic to get away with his comments. “See, I can’t be a millenial since I am an old man now!”
A guy who was 5 years younger than me (correctly) called me a millennial, but meant it as an insult to imply that I was young and immature and I was like, “I have bad news for you buddy…”
They are and people still sell them too. Neurotypicals may have lost interest in them but considering it was never for them to start with, that’d be a good thing.
It may just be me but….it seems like Robin’s intelligence really seems to have fallen since her first appearance in the comic.
When she was first introduced, she was never a genius, but she at least seemed to have some basic awareness (like understanding voting demographics and public perception issues). Now she doesn’t even understand what a ‘Millennial’ is.
Robin is not actually interested in anything but the perks of her job. I think she’s also grown sick of even pretending to care to the level she did before. She doesn’t want to be a Senator, she wants to be rich and powerful.
oh right technically all the “millenials” are now “gen z” or in that awkward spot between those two groups (whatever theyre called)
come to think of it i sometimes forget i am a millenial until i have to scroll further and further down to pick my year of birth on the apps that require you to be a certain age for creating an account, and then i just sigh.
Heh, similar with me and my wife. We met when I was 27 and she 33. She’s technically a boomer (by about 6 weeks) but really by her experiences she’s more like an early Xer.
Protip: Save your candy containing chocolate until you get home, then put it in the refrigerator for an hour or so. Afterwards, even if the candy melted to the wrapper a bit, now it’ll be solid and you’ll be able to separate them without losing candy to the trash or your fingers. Also works for rice crispy treats that got just a bit too squishy from the heat.
If you need your treat right away though, you must accept the melty mess into your life.
Re the hypertext: Oh, gods yes. Yesterday I bought a Snickers almond butter for the first time. I love Snickers so I figured I’d give this a try. All melted to the wrapper it was. And super sugary. Pretty much a ‘nope’ on ever buying that again. I think I like Snickers because of all the nuts and caramel, and how it doesn’t seem like it’s just a sugar bar even though it totally is.
At the start of this comic, Becky actually was a millennial. By the end of this comic, neither of them will be millennials. Willis needs to tiptoe around his sliding timeline, because things like this can come back to bite you.
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well according to Boomers, they’re BOTH millennials
and so am I
and, like, anyone younger than a Boomer, even though that’s like three, maybe four generations by now
buy one what, fidget spinner? LOLOLOLOL =B
I have no idea why those things were so popular for that couple of months. They taste like crap!
For quite a while, I was convinced they weren’t a real trend at all but some sort of hoax that the media fell for, because there simply weren’t any in any place that I’d been until about a month after I first heard about them on the radio.
To date, I’ve still only ever seen one that was actually in a person’s possession and not sitting unsold on a store shelf, so I still suspect the trend has been somewhat overstated.
Three, by my count. X (65-80), Millennials (81-00), and Z (01-present).
My parents are Boomers, though they suck a little less than most Boomers.
You don’t count microgeneration “Catalano”? (or, “The Oregon Trail” generation)
I thought The Oregon Trail generation was just millennials? I’m 1986 and literally all of my friends wax nostalgic about playing Oregon Trail on our old desktop computers. That’s what we did in school when outdoor recess was cancelled due to rain.
There’s also Xennial, the blurry area between X and Millennial
I identify with that the most, I suppose
Oregon Trail was just a little after me. My younger friends wax nostalgic about it, but I didn’t run into it until much later. I think I heard about it starting in college. I’m significantly before ’86 though, early Gen X.
1986 is after Oregon Trail came out and generally considered well into millennial.
We had computers in high school. Played Ultima 3 on them.
But I kind of trend later, particularly since I was on the internet pretty early. Usenet through bulletin boards and then Delphi, before AOL became ubiquitous. The Internet before the Web, even.
Wait, so these “Millennials” go from 1981 to 2000? I thought it was later than that. That would make Daniel the Human a Millennial. That doesn’t sound right…
Well, it’s all social construction anyway. Some people think it goes later, that’s just where I make the cut in my head.
I figured the idea was one came of age at the turn of the millennium, so the early 80’s has to be is the upper bound.
There’s some disagreement about the exact years (I’d say 1982 is the early edge of it), but the upshot is, a Millennial came of age with the Internet.
I was born in 1982 and count myself as a tail-end Gen X, rather than a millennial. I tend to have a lot more in common with the supposed personality traits of Gen Xers than millennials on the whole.
My parents are early Baby Boomers, though without the typical financial success. ;P
I just assumed that millennials were those born somewhere around the year 2000. That’s what happens when you don’t pay attention.
It has more to do about coming of age around the new millennium.
But it was born in ’88 which is unquestioned millennial territory.
*I was born
Yeah, ’87 for me, and I hear people in our age range call Gen Z
“Millennials” a lot, too. A lot of people like to use it as a catch-all for younger people they want to shit on, which is NOT how generations work.
It’s how people relate to generations, though. The Youngs gripe about The Olds being in the way. The Olds gripe about The Youngs being different and, well, existing in a way that reminds them of mortality. Sure, there are different names for roughly 18-25 year range ‘generations’, but functionally, the way people treat it is there’s only three generations: Olds, Youngs, and Peers.
Nope. One of the defining characteristics of being a millennial is actually being cognizant of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. I’d actually cut the birth year for millennials off sooner because of that.
I’ve read news stories that have used “born around the millennium” as their description so you are not alone in that. It also isn’t too shocking if it is an ongoing refinement on who counts. Generations are fuzzy logic until they are history.
Pew research is the closest thing to the “authority” on the matter and a couple years ago they defined it as born from 81-96. That puts the millennials 23 to 38 years old. Significantly older than most people are thinking of when they say “millennials”
Same here, I’ve always felt like a Gen X-er who missed the bus, values-wise. (Born mid-late 80s though, between Challenger and the Berlin Wall coming down.) I can relate to the current wave of 90s nostalgia, but only the tail end of the 80s wave from several years ago. I have an office job and a mortgage. I don’t put much stock in “gig economy” stuff like ride sharing, renting your home out by the night, or those electric bikes and scooters that are littering the cities. Most of the Gen Z stuff the Boomers are blaming us for is just “kids these days” to me.
I used to be “with it”, then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it”, and what is “it” is new and scary to me. This will happen to you!
Knowing that there are still new episodes of the Simpsons for a full 2 decades since I last regularly watched it is frightening and scary. Thank goodness all Simpsons memes and quotes I ever see come from before that
The “it” in “with it” is constantly changing. As someone who recently hit the 70 mark, I’m not sure I find any of “it” scary. Some of “it” is really cool and some of “it” is dumb, but if “it” stops changing then something is wrong. And “it” would get rather boring after awhile. Rap is not and will never be my thing, but the best of it is awesome. So is Bach.
Which makes me laugh a bit. I was born in 1970 and have far more in common with the stereotypical personality traits of millennials!
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/ft_19-01-17_generations_2019/
I really don’t feel like a Boomer, but there you have it…
Same here.
The boomers destroyed all the fun stuff just before I could get on board.
Free love? Nope, herpes, STDs and then aids.
Smoke po etct? Nope, war on drugs.
Easy slide into the tech industry? Nope, bubbles bursting, etc.
Buy a house? Insane interest rates and inflation bigger than pay raises if you even got one. Followed by the mortgage crises fuelled by institutionalized greed.
At least I haven’t been held for ransom by Big Pharma … yet.
THANK you, yes people born as long ago as mid-90s are Gen Z, I have a long drag out on FB over this with all manner of family and friends. Official guidelines put the end of millenials and beginning of gen Z anywhere between 94 and 97. I believe it’s shifts in cultural/social consciousness, millenials are the last generation to have lived before the internet became ubiquitous, on the political side of things I believe to qualify as a millenial you had to be old enough to remember 9/11, though memory of 9/11 itself is not strictly necessary as it’s still a very america-centric metric to use.
Honestly though, is there anyone who would use the term millennial that wouldn’t have also been in a position to be aware of 9/11 when they were teen-agers? The attack itself and the following “global war on terror” had worldwide effects and we do get cnn…
Yeah people forget an entire 2 decades have passed since millennials were defined as a generation. mid-late 80s is DEFINITELY millennial. Some older generations just started using it as a catch-all term for anyone younger than them and forget that actual millennials are generally in our 30s (or at least late 20s) by now.
Yeah a 20 year period for a generation doesn’t seem right. That means a Millennial could give birth to another Millennial as a legal adult
Hell even the 80-94 is pushing it cause as someone born a few days before ’94 I have way more in common with Gen Z peers and culture than I do with someone who finished high school in the late 90s(early millennial). I finished high school in the 2010’s. That’s way too much of a difference
I use those numbers too, but MSM cannot seem to make up its collective mind on when Gen X, Millennials or Gen Z started and ended.
Gen Z (2001-????)
Millennials (1980-2000)
Gen X (1965-1979)
Boomers (1946-1964) At least the MSM is consistant with this group.
Silent Generation (1928-1945) They were alive during WWII but were too young to fight in it.
G I Generation (1901-1927) They were the ones that fought in WWII.
I think we should define Gen Z as ‘too young to remember how things were before 9/11’, which would put the cutoff somewhere around 1997.
Then again I’m too young to remember the Cold War. My youth was during the relatively quiet post-Desert-Storm, pre-9/11 period, where it seemed like maybe the world could finally move on from the conflicts of the 20th century and look ahead to the future. It was going to be a whole new millennium! We had computers talking to each other! We were building a whole new space station with the Russians and the EU. The US was on track to finally balance the budget. Sure things weren’t perfect (Oklahoma City, Columbine, Princess Diana, the UK’s lease on Hong Kong expired, the dot-com insanity bubble burst, Euro Disney…) but things were finally looking up. There was no loosely defined threat looming overhead at all times, ready to be used as a convenient excuse to justify prying. There wasn’t a perpetual war against an ideology fueled by said war.
That was the future we were promised. That’s why first wave Milennials are so bitter.
Damn.
Amen.
I was born at the very end of ’93 so I should be a millennial, right? According to like the Pew research center anyway
But all of my sisters I grew up with fall within Pew’s Gen Z and we’re the same literal generation, growing up in the same circumstances.
I remember being on the internet since I was a child since my parents were young and tech savvy gen X teenagers, I literally cannot remember a time when the internet wasn’t a part of my life.
I barely remember 9/11, I was like 7 and didn’t get it, but my older 30-something year old millennial friends can tell you exactly where they were when it happened, in detail cause they were in high school. The only thing I remember about pre-9/11 society is that the N64 was pretty cool
Youtube and streaming services being the main source of my entertainment since middle school, social media dominating all my communication since middle school. The internet has been central to my entire life.
My older millennial friends age 31 and 32 can’t relate to those things at all while my 19 year old Gen Z sister and I feel like we had the same experience, so I think I’m Gen Z
Interesting. I am like a year older, but I only used the internet occasionally from about 2nd grade through 8th. I wouldn’t say it was really part of my life until high school, and even then it wasn’t as pervasive as it is for the teens I currently work with because smartphones weren’t a thing, at least in my circles, till a few years later. I didn’t see a YouTube video until I was maybe 15, and again, back then I didn’t use it, say, every day. 9/11 was a huge turning point in my childhood, but I’m from NYC. I have same-age friends from elsewhere who weren’t so affected by it, so I guess geography is part of that (although my slightly younger cousins grew up in NYC too and don’t really remember the incident, so she is def a factor). Guess we’re borderline.
How old were your parents when you were born and how old were your siblings you lived with if any? I think factors like that make a lot of difference and are part of what tilt me towards Gen Z. If I had boomer parents and older siblings instead of younger I’d def be a millennial in culture
My parents were boomers indeed. My only sibling is the same age as you.
Yeah I’m 33 (1986) and I remember floppy disks, getting dial-up internet for the first time, getting our first CD-rom, (the brief period Zip drives were gonna be a thing and then fizzled). All my friends’ first systems were Sega Genesis, SNES, the original Gameboy, or Game Gear. N64 was something we didn’t get until later.
It has always seemed weird to me how far the millennial designation spans. I do feel like people at both ends of the range really don’t feel like the same generation.
And gosh, social media, that’s a big one. Other than Myspace, forums, and Livejournal, social media wasn’t a thing for my age group until at least college. Facebook was literally created while I was in college and twitter not until after I graduated I think? You’d think that’d be a clearly defined cut-off point (growing up with social media vs. having to adapt to it in early adulthood).
This is where I sympathize with Hank’s joke in one of the early strips “If you needed Internet while I was here, you had to leave your room, walk the hall, get an elevator, go into the lobby and invent the internet.”
I remember all the stuff from college and the end of high school. My first computer in high school had a tape drive – literally storing programs on a cassette tape. Dial up internet came after college.
I remember switching from myspace to facebook while I was still in middle school, like around 8th grade or something. I remember my step dad still have floppy drives around the house but we never used them, I never used tapes either, I remember it being CDs until (once again) middle school when I got my first mp3 player. The iPhone also came out while I was in middle school though I didn’t get my own smart phone til a few years later. It’s honestly strange to me that people can be only a few years older than me but not have the same internet driven youth culture I had
Oh, floppy drives, tape decks, it was all new stuff when I came of age in the 80s. One of the reasons I haven’t got into “Stranger Things” is because it reminds me too much of my awkward teen years
Ok I’ve decided now: the cutoff for millennials should be people who do and don’t find the snapchat UI incredibly confusing. That was the first app I’ve ever used that made me think “Wow, I’m old.” I may have even used the words “newfangled UI”
Ahh floppy disks! I remember those! Missed the original Gameboy, but I still feel like there should be only 150 Pokémon (maybe 151, or 152 because Togepi came on the scene early haha).
Dude I was born in 1992 and you just described my childhood. I legit feel like a different generation from my cousins born in the late 90s because they don’t remember 9/11 or how it changed things, life before Google and smartphones and Amazon and the dawn of social media and YouTube, or the days when eve in our native NYC it was totally normal and mainstream to be homophobic. They don’t even really remember it being a huge deal when a Black guy was nominated for president. I like to tease people a few years older than me that I was born after the fall of the Soviet Union, but really, my worldview has a lot more in common with people born in 1987, say, than in 1996.
Yeah, I was born ’87, and your experience sounds very similar to mine. All the stuff you mentioned (smartphones, YouTube, etc.) came into existence while I was in college, old enough to understand very well what life before those things was like.
Yeah I generally find that my coming-of-age memories are more aligned with those of folks 5ish years older than those 5ish years younger. I’m curious, as an 80s baby, do you find the same thing? Or is the difference not as big for you?
I actually like being in this generation (or generation segment or whatever) because it’s like, the internet grew up with me. By the time I had a camera phone or social media, I was old enough to be at least semi-intelligent about what I posted. And like, I watched way too much TV lol but sometimes nothing interesting was on and I would be circumstantially forced to do something more active haha. If I’d come of age in the streaming era I may never have left the couch.
Relate. I was born in 90 and this is the thing.
Hell, MSM tends to forget Z even exists, any time Gen Z does something like that tide pod thing, they start talking about millennials.
Millenial became a catch all for “the delinquent youths”
To be fair though it feels more smoother to say millennial rather than “those damn gen-z’ers/”. Not as catchy. It’d help if there was a name for gen-z that everyone agrees with
Yeah, as a millennial I didn’t even know what tide pods WERE when all that went down and had to look them up. I had just adapted to concentrated laundry detergent, forget detergent in pod form.
Millennials were probably more worried about our babies/toddlers eating them than eating them ourselves.
Hahaha I saw an improv show in which a guy took on the persona of a YouTuber who ate Tide Pods for views and I 100% thought it was a parody until the mainstream media started covering real-life stories like a month or two later…but then, when I was a senior in college, my peers were planking for lols, so who am I to complain :p
I don’t have the money to waste eating my detergent. If I’m buying laundry detergent its going in the washing machine.
just looked upon my own country’s wp, and it seems there is a “meh generation” concept, going from 71 until today. I’d suscribe to that, but meh.
Fun fact: Baby Boomer is the only generation that officially exists, all other generations, past and future, are social constructs, and nobody can agree on when they start/end
According to Boomers an XBox is a Nintendo.
Some of us are still trying to figure out Pong.
The stick moves and the ball goes ‘tok’.
Stick? Sheer extravagance.
We had rheostats … er … dials for each players controller.
This boomer doesn’t know an XBox OR a Nintendo from a hole in the ground.
A hole in the ground is what you get when the controller battery dies on your RC plane.
You are all tiny tots too insignificant to differentiate, and both the ruination and future hope of the nation, depending on whether and how you vote.
So there. And get off my lawn.
Forever amused by people’s needs to attach labels to themselves, while simulataneously insisting on their individuality.
Someone get Robin a dietitian. Please.
Why? Seriously, A Robin in a diabetic Coma is a Robin NOT enacting Toxic policy.
well, I fully expect Robin to eat the fidget spinner, honestly
Like a week (IRL) from now we’re gonna come back to Becky finding the one bag of frozen fruit Robin got, and is nibbling on them as they’re thawing when Robin walks in gnawing on the spinner.
I fully expect Robin to burn out the bearings on the fidget spinner.
But this is the source of her power.
Are you implying that it’s not healthy to eat fidget spinners?
You are confusing them with midget spinets. Wait, let me check my notes…
A routine physical exam would reveal she has the digestive tract of a mummy they found frozen on top of a mountain.
Without an almost constant diet of sugar and stimulants, I’m pretty sure Robin’s body would shut down.
What did Mrs. DeSanto feed her kids? Between Robin and Riley, there’s a real sugar influx.
As long as Roz was around, there was plenty of salt.
Considering Robin got kicked out, after a certain point she didn’t feed Robin at all.
Dumbing of Age Book 9: I’M Not a Millennial. YOU’RE the Millennial.
Dumbing of Age Book 9: I’m Not Really up on What Millennials Eat
Dumbing of Age Book 9: It’s like a TWO-FER.
DoA Book 9: Woman Cannot Live On Cadbury Creme Eggs Alone, Amirite?
“Man was NOT meant to tamper with–The Four Food Groups!”–The Tick
Today’s strip was sponsored by KitchenAid refrigerators, available at The Home Depot.
I recently bought my first two KitchenAid products (immersion blender and stand mixer) and FUUUUU they are so good.
Our KA stand mixer is 24 years old, and survived the store chain (Lechmere’s) we bought it at. It will outlive me, I’m sure.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
‘Member Bradlees, Ames, and Caldor?
Yes, I do. Worked at a Bradlees when I was in college
KitchenAid was bought out by Whirlpool over 30 years ago. It’s just a name on an appliance, so far as refrigerators go.
“Not baked goods, professor. Baked bads.”
Oh honey, how did you survive to adulthood? You weren’t rich enough to have someone prepare all your meals before Congress…
Except her mom probably did.
Did she just stay at home until becoming a politician?
I mean, it’s Robin. Would you be surprised?
She got kicked out of home in shortpacked and there’s a patreon backer strip that seems to imply the same thing happened in this universe. It makes it doubly confusing how Robin survived.
I thought Robin ran away from home when she was 16/17 in the Walkiverse?
You’re right, that is different than being kicked out (and now that I look at the backer strip again I’m realizing it didn’t show what I thought it did, whoops).
My guess is some type of wingnut welfare grift. Being a right-wing pundit pays well.
Jerky? With protein? That’s almost close to food, Robin.
I mean, that and some OJ and she might actually not die.
How has Robin not died of a heart attack with a diet like that?
Incredible metabolism? Her campaign aides were previously making sure she ate right? Some combination of the two?
She ate her previous campaign aides.
She’s buying Becky all this junk food to fatten her up.
She only ate the female ones.
All that sugar and spice and everything nice – still not a healthy diet.
“We were Both millennials when this college semester started, but that’s a discussion for another time. By the time you get elected? You’ll be in Gen Z.”
…I really hope it doesn’t take Willis another ten years to get to early November.
Webcomic Time is a harsh master indeed.
It’s the middle of October now, so if we figure 3 weeks (21 days) times the old 66.67:1 DoA time progression ratio, that’s 1400 days, or just under 4 years, until we’re well into November.
If he started in 2010 it’ll be 9 years since the comic started in two months. So let’s round that up and say that its been 9 years. University of Indiana semester starts on August 26th. I’ll take a rough guess and say its mid october right now in the comic, so lets say so far it been 7 to 8 weeks in the story so far.
So that puts this comic on going 4/5ths of a week in-universe for ever year of our time.
When this comic started I was a junior in high school. Now I’m probably like the same age as the teacher aides
If we say that the pace picks up to 1 week = 1 year then that means that the fall semester will end by 2028 and the school year itself will end by 2044 with the main cast still being 18 or 19 while I’ll be 50.
That makes me uncomfortable about aging
Needfuldoer’s Ratio takes into account the original five-day-per-week schedule and various other factors.
Since it was first calculated, there’s been a three-day time skip, but there have also been a lot of flashback panels, and the ratio remains accurate. If it holds up, the end of the school year will be in 2063.
Of course, as financial analysts say, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Willis can speed up or slow down or time skip at will. The Thanksgiving holiday in particular may offer challenges to the one-storyline/one-day structure; the Christmas break, even more so.
Anyway, aging is a thing that happens, so you might as well get used to it. Just remember, it’s better than the alternative.
yeah it does sort of date this one a bit doesn’t it
To be fair, the DS and Switch comics date them, too. And, eventually, them living freely on Earth, I’m sure. It’s “early 20th century.”
I can’t wait until the year when they’ve both sliding timescaled out of Gen Z.
“But Millennials are college kids!”
As someone who was the same age as the kids when the strip started, the fact that Becky was a millennial when the strip began was the funniest part of today’s comic for me.
Sliding Timescales are bloody weird
I was so focused on everything else going on I forgot about this trainwreck in progress. It’s nice to know things are going well everywhere, right?
Is this product placement?
This is where those relative timelines get really confusing, because Becky hasn’t really aged since she was introduced so she’s definitely a millenial in older strips, but not really anymore (depending on the definition).
With the diet she has, I’m surprised Robin is still alive or seemingly having no medical issues.
RE Hover-Text: That sounds like a personal problem. They’re never melted when I get to them.
… Robin really thought she was being responsible with this grocery trip, didn’t she? Hoo boy. Let’s give her, um, a B- for effort?
I mean, I don’t think that bag costs more than $10 in total. Not exactly high praise.
I mean, I’m just impressed that she recognized that the food situation in the house was a problem in the first place, and made an effort to correct that!
… Maybe my expectations are too low?
. . . . I was born in ’95. . . I’m technically a Millennial right?
Yeah, but you’re almost at the border there.
I’m a Baby Boomer: my parents met during WWII, as a result of my father’s war service.
You’re on the edge. Basically, you get to choose based on what cultural and behavioral attributes you find describe you better. Of course, generations are a bit slipperier in the past few decades as the internet permits greater sharing of experiences across these artificial demarcations. For instance, I was born in ’91, but being Incredibly Online, I’m not exactly a stranger to what Z is up to.
I think at the beginning of the webcomic, (9 YEARS AGO!) Becky was a millennial.
Now she’s part of…
I wanna say the iGen?
Yeah, at this point, definitely Gen Z. (I think Gen Z has taken de facto hold over that generation). Most freshman were born in 2000 or 2001 at this point.
https://bit.ly/2S1cY16
I think she might be Gen-Z? she may be too old for that at 18, though.
“Zoomers” or “Gen Z” seems to be what’s sticking.
Except Zoomers has been co-opted by Boomers as their retirement banner.
As a millennial and someone who was Becky’s age when the strip started, can confirm.
Ah yes the Gen Z/millennial divide conversation.
Honestly, that went about as well as could be expected. At least some of those things are actually edible.
I’m still disturbed by how Robin seems more interested in playing house than her winning the election.
I kinda think she A. just kinda wants a friend, and B. specifically wants to hang out with a queer person due to Leslie making her realize that, oh, she likes women.
I do not think this indicates an attraction to Becky, not suggesting that, but I do think she has no ability to socialize outside of her job, and she’s not great at doing that, either.
The alt text about the Reese’s Outrageous is 100 percent true. You cannot by one that isn’t stuck to the wrapper with caramel. It’s impossible.
Wait they have caramel? The ones I’ve been buying just have Reese’s Pieces (and regular Reese filling) and come in a two pack.
You’re probably thinking of the Reese’s cups with Reese’s Pieces in them. This is a single giant bar full of stuff.
So much stuff the candy bar apparently can’t contain it and you learn the name “Outrageous” is earned for how outrageously sticky your fingers get opening one.
Weird, I’ve never seen the bars, and at least thought Outragious was the label on the ones I have. Only some stores I go to have those, though, so I guess I’m not surprised that ones that are a step weirder/more extreme aren’t really around here.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=resses+nutrageous&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=e5ec23c4419641c1aa1406210f4389a9&cc=US&setlang=en-US
there ya go …
look okay maybe if you put “reese’s outrageous” into a search first you would have learned it is separately existing thing
(1) what David said
but also
(2) “resses”
and
(3) bing
oh thank god I’m not the only one who noticed the bing
willis got it wrong tho its called nutrageous
jesus christ
Many companies and statisticians are increasingly putting the border at 1981-1996 = Millennial, 1997-2012 = Gen Z (following the length of time for Gen X, which was 1965-1980). So Becky was obviously like 10 years old in the first comic
Eh, Willis has already stated that the timeline on this comic is “Current day” and we’re ignoring the continuity problem where it’s taken 9 years to go forward 4-7 weeks, including timeskips.
Which would make Becky a first year college student age, today, around what, October? Ergo, she should be about 17 years old, and born in 2001 or 2002.
Nine years ago, she’d have been born in 1992, but today? 2001. Sliding timeframe!
First year college students are generally 18 or close to it. I was 17, but I graduated high school at 16. I went to a one-room school for 4th grade and got skipped a grade, straight to 6th. I might have been the last kid in West Virginia to get a double promotion.
Yeah, you get a few outliers who are still 17 at the start of their first year and some who turn 18 during it (some even early), but 18 is the general rule.
I think we can assume all the main cast are 18, except for those known to be sophomores or older. Dina has her 19th birthday coming up. A couple other birthdays were mentioned, but no ages attached I think.
Plus it helps if everyone’s 18+ if/when Willis wants to do a Slipshine.
I teach high school, you’d think I’d know that. But my first year was a mess because they’d recently removed grade 13 from high schools, and I remember being an outlier because I’d actually turn 19 (legal drinking age) during my first year. A lot of my friends didn’t.
Still, 17-18 is the right age group, and being 18 still makes her born in 2000-2001, and not a millennial. My math didn’t need to be that precise to work out correctly.
I kind of go by ‘if you can remember 9/11 you’re a millenial (or older),’ but that might only work in canada and the states.
Generations are generally done on a national scale since it’s about shared experiences. Someone from Honduras wouldn’t understand what it meant to be part of the Great Generation for the US shared social experience. (Country picked at random – not a slight on achievements made during a time period).
Caveat: a lot of the western world uses the same terms for the same eras due to WWII etc but have different names, slightly different defining dates, and sub categories within. Social constructs – they get blurry!
Truly, truly, truly Outrageous.
Thaaaat’s Robin!
To be fair she doesn’t really know what SHE should be eating either so her point still stands.
dammnit Robin
You’re both gonna die of scurvy. I beg you, go to the pharmacy and buy a bottle of multivitamins or vitamin c. Get the chewable gummy ones they make for kids.
They make those for adults too now.
Yeah, but the chewables for kids come in cartoon character shapes.
They’re not likely to die of scurvy. They’ll just suffer horribly until they drink some orange juice. Everyone loves orange juice.
I don’t.
WITCH!
I agree with He Who Abides, only witches do not like orange juice. I am sorry, but you have to go learn all about Wicca and casting spells now, you have no choice.
Actually, BBCC weighs the same as a Canadian goose, not a duck, and so she can’t be a witch.
Does it have to be Wicca or do I get my own choice in witchcraft?
We’ll allow it, but at an XP penalty.
Eh, that’s fair.
Plenty of college students are poor enough now that scurvy is a real risk. We get cases of this state side every year.
Now, now, let’s not be hasty here. Let’s just feed Becky on the side. A dead Robin is a marked improvement over a living one, as exemplified by Jason Todd.
Jason Todd is infinitely more interesting alive than as a memorial case to brood over.
Or get them on Amazon, they’re about $12: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JGW2JKF/?th=1
Becky’s transparent hair-thing doesn’t get any easier with exposure.
It’s transparent polycarbonate, like a Tangerine iMac G3.
Right now she’s uncanningly reminiscent of the Philadelphia Flyers mascot, and I don’t like it.
I bet Becky never knew this job was at least on third being an idiot’s keeper!
I kinda think she got that from context clues.
She took the job anyway, figuring she could outgoof Robin. I think she starts to realise she might have bitten on more than she can chew
Bitten off. You don’t bite things on, you bite them off.
If you think you can correct everyone on the Internet, you’ve bitten on more than you can use.
But you can bite ON things, and then realise that what you bit is too big to chew, therefore “bitten on more than she can chew”. Bagge can be technically correct, and he should be, because as we all know, that’s the best type of correct.
I think it’s bitten “off” because if you’ve only bitten “on” you can let go and try again… but once you’ve bitten that meat off, you’re committed now. There’s no way to adjust the situation that doesn’t make you look dumb. And gross.
I like “bitten on,” even if it’s a mistake — because not only can she not chew it, she can’t even bite it off to begin to chew it.
It’s like that episode of Night Vale where a bigot starts saying hateful stuff about millenials, but when it’s pointed out he is a millenial because of his age, he ages rapidly with magic to get away with his comments. “See, I can’t be a millenial since I am an old man now!”
A guy who was 5 years younger than me (correctly) called me a millennial, but meant it as an insult to imply that I was young and immature and I was like, “I have bad news for you buddy…”
Yay, no rocks.
Gonna put the die back in diabetes.
Are fidget spinners still a thing? I thought that fad went out of popularity a couple years ago.
They are and people still sell them too. Neurotypicals may have lost interest in them but considering it was never for them to start with, that’d be a good thing.
Off topic, but I was watching poker on YouTube, and I realized that if you put a pair of glasses on Maria Ho, she’ll look just like Billie.
I love candies and sweets, but even I begin to feel disgusted by Robin’s diet.
And the adult, Becky, do not forget, you are also the adult.
I’m sure that there’s some kind of commentary about the nature of modern politics here…
MR. willis might i offer an correction? its called “nutrageous” and heres everything you needed to now
that is a separate thing
https://www.hersheys.com/reeses/en_us/outrageous.html
Someone’s gonna die of scurvy at this rate
It may just be me but….it seems like Robin’s intelligence really seems to have fallen since her first appearance in the comic.
When she was first introduced, she was never a genius, but she at least seemed to have some basic awareness (like understanding voting demographics and public perception issues). Now she doesn’t even understand what a ‘Millennial’ is.
Robin is not actually interested in anything but the perks of her job. I think she’s also grown sick of even pretending to care to the level she did before. She doesn’t want to be a Senator, she wants to be rich and powerful.
As someone who spent quite a lot in Poli-Sci classes…those aren’t incompatible in the least.
I feel like you’re glossing over the bigger problem of her not understanding what “groceries” are.
I feel like Robin probably lived on sugar during her college days.
I think these days, “millennial” just means “person I don’t like who is younger than me”.
Yes, it’s been diluted out of all meaning but the pejorative, like “politically correct.”
“In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
oh right technically all the “millenials” are now “gen z” or in that awkward spot between those two groups (whatever theyre called)
come to think of it i sometimes forget i am a millenial until i have to scroll further and further down to pick my year of birth on the apps that require you to be a certain age for creating an account, and then i just sigh.
My mind’s all broken realizing just now the students are post-millennials – well, due to comic time. Yikes.
Becky would’ve been a millennial when the comic started.
I’d ship it if not for the gross power discrepancy and Robin being a terrible person. The age difference? Well, my wife is eight years older than me.
My wife is 9 years my senior. The thing is, we met at 26 and 35.
If I were 18 like Becky, it’d be different.
(And I tease her with the fact that she got her Bachelor’s degree before I started high school!)
Heh, similar with me and my wife. We met when I was 27 and she 33. She’s technically a boomer (by about 6 weeks) but really by her experiences she’s more like an early Xer.
For a moment, I wondered how this Robin got elected. Then… then I remembered where I am in history.
Protip: Save your candy containing chocolate until you get home, then put it in the refrigerator for an hour or so. Afterwards, even if the candy melted to the wrapper a bit, now it’ll be solid and you’ll be able to separate them without losing candy to the trash or your fingers. Also works for rice crispy treats that got just a bit too squishy from the heat.
If you need your treat right away though, you must accept the melty mess into your life.
Re the hypertext: Oh, gods yes. Yesterday I bought a Snickers almond butter for the first time. I love Snickers so I figured I’d give this a try. All melted to the wrapper it was. And super sugary. Pretty much a ‘nope’ on ever buying that again. I think I like Snickers because of all the nuts and caramel, and how it doesn’t seem like it’s just a sugar bar even though it totally is.
At the start of this comic, Becky actually was a millennial. By the end of this comic, neither of them will be millennials. Willis needs to tiptoe around his sliding timeline, because things like this can come back to bite you.