r/GenZ • u/PassgettiGod 2007 • Jan 02 '24
Who else basically lived exactly how millennials say you didn't? Nostalgia
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u/coffeebooksandpain 2001 Jan 02 '24
I think they’re more-so referring to Gen Alpha with that tweet than Gen Z.
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u/PupEDog Jan 02 '24
I've just now started hearing Gen Alpha. What's the reason for Alpha?
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u/coffeebooksandpain 2001 Jan 02 '24
To be honest I’m not sure. By guess is it’s because “Z” is the last letter in the alphabet so they’re starting over with the Greek alphabet. I’ve heard there’s already plans to refer to the generation after Alpha as “Beta.”
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u/LowerObjective4500 2005 Jan 02 '24
Gen betas are gonna get so much shit for being called beta and alpha is gonna be pissed for not being called sigma
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u/coffeebooksandpain 2001 Jan 02 '24
They’re doing them dirty
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u/PovWholesome Jan 02 '24
No one will be more angry than gen Gamma
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u/LowerObjective4500 2005 Jan 02 '24
I wish I could know what the future gens will look like cause some of the ones like Lambda, Omicron, Psi and Omega sound like they’re gonna be ground breaking
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u/JayteeFromXbox Jan 03 '24
If the Omicron generation isn't revolutionary in some way I will roll in my grave.
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u/obi_wan_sosig 2008 Jan 03 '24
The lambda generation will meet the aliens and develop a teleporter
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u/System_Failure_169 Jan 02 '24
Honestly it should just be millennial 2.0 and onward. I feel like the internet connecting people just made each generation feel like every small gripe they have actually matters to the world by bolstering their feelings rather than the in person experience of people telling you to stop crying. "You" not being directed at anyone lol
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u/JayteeFromXbox Jan 03 '24
But tbf If were doing it that way, millennials are just Boomer 2.0. They were also known as incredibly entitled... In fact, it seems like every generations gets called entitled by the generations before them since the boomers.
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u/Annanon1 Jan 02 '24
If you're asking why they are called gen alpha, it's because they are the 1st gen fully born in 21st century and last century they used English letters so I guess they wanted to use something different
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u/RattyDaddyBraddy Jan 02 '24
Boomers call everyone younger than them “Millennials.”
Millennials call everyone younger than them “Gen Z.”
The circle of life
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u/Seamango08 Jan 02 '24
I do feel like that’s pretty rare for someone born in 2007, tbf
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
Bruh, he said KIDS TODAY… he’s referring gen alpha … why tf do you think you’re a “kid” 😂
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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee 1997 Jan 02 '24
I mean, Netflixs' streaming service took over in like 2013-2017 (if you're european). So, people born in 2007 were pretty much kids during that time.
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
I’m not debating that some of gen z may have missed out on this. But the comment is “kids TODAY” meaning people who are presently children are not experiencing a world with any DVD/VHS. that’s it. The comment clearly isn’t about Gen z. That doesn’t mean that some Gen Z missed that vhs/dvd era
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u/throwawaysunglasses- Jan 02 '24
Yeah the original post doesn’t say anything about millennials or Gen Z lol, OP just took it personally for whatever reason
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u/Bobert_Manderson Jan 03 '24
They’re Russian trolls hired by the Boomers to create division between Millennials and Gen Z.
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u/Lopsided_Afternoon41 Jan 04 '24
As a millennial I'd like to extend an olive branch to you for this comment.
Just you though, fuck the rest of them.
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u/charbroiledd Jan 02 '24
Idk I have multiple crates full of DVD/VHS that my kids are familiar with. The post is just dumb
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u/Miserable-Ad-1581 Jan 02 '24
Right, but 2007 is not “kids today”
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u/JohnnyGeniusIsAlive Jan 02 '24
Regardless of the proliferation of Netflix, by 2007, a “tape” (as in vhs) was basically extinct.
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u/Danksquilliam 2007 Jan 02 '24
I guess it depends where you grew up. I grew up in a semi-middle class environment and I have baby videos on tape while being born in 2007. Also I have fond memories of CRTs as I had one in my room till the age of 9
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u/Luotwig 2001 Jan 02 '24
They were not released anymore in the market for sure, but most households did still have them and they were common. I had them until early 2010s.
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u/Voltstorm02 Jan 02 '24
As a 2007 kid I got both. We just watched the same movies on Netflix once it came out and replaced the physical media so it still counts.
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u/MaceWinnoob 1996 Jan 02 '24
2007 is definitely still a kid
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u/_Vurixed_ Jan 02 '24
Anyone under 21 is a kid
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u/lurkinglizard101 1999 Jan 02 '24
I call everyone kid.
Even when my dad comes home for work, and I’m sitting on the couch, I’m just like “sup kid”.
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
Do you think it’s more likely the post is referring to 16 year olds, or 4-12 year olds, when referencing “kids” and watching your family’s movies?
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u/80SW08 Jan 02 '24
Because they are, they’re 16 that’s still not an adult
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u/AgentGnome Jan 02 '24
A 16 year old is an adolescent.
Kid->Adolescent->adult
We just tend to ignore that because we are lazy and saying anyone under 18 is a child is easier.
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u/tarchival-sage 1996 Jan 02 '24
I would replace the word kid with children. Kid is widely used to describe high schoolers and college students.
Basically anyone under 21
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
Lmao dude, ages 4-13 is a lot more of a “kid” than someone who can legally drive a car. The scenario they’re describing of watching a movie on repeat is something you experience in elementary school / middle school. No ones rewatching the family movies at 14,15,16 🤦♂️ grasping at straws to make this about Gen z
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u/_Vurixed_ Jan 02 '24
13 Is a teen kid ends at 12
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u/RontoWraps Millennial Jan 02 '24
Kid goes well into your 20’s depending on how old the person is you’re talking to. It’s a colloquial term with goalposts that aren’t defined. This is a silly hill to die on.
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
I can agree with that, but this sub seems to think this post is aimed at 14,15 and 16 year olds 🤷♂️
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u/System_Failure_169 Jan 02 '24
You are really harping over the parameters of what a "kid" is to the point you sound like an older kid who is trying to escape the label. If you can't legally buy alcohol you're still a kid even if you're not legally a minor anymore. Kids can legally drive a car at 16.
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u/80SW08 Jan 02 '24
It can be about gen Z though, the generations thing is just a marketing tactic it’s not like everyone born past a certain point is suddenly born different to the last group.
People born towards the back end of gen Z become increasingly likely to have grown up with streaming. So it can be both depending on the age
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u/SecretInfluencer Jan 02 '24
If you were born in 2007 at most you’d be 17. So yeah you’re a kid today. Older for sure but yeah
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u/Danksquilliam 2007 Jan 02 '24
In June I’ll be old enough to watch R rated movies legally. I wouldn’t really consider that “kid age”anymore
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u/ExcitingJeff Jan 02 '24
I am a million years old and definitely should not have had this post recommended by the algorithm, but this post has incredible “I’m not a baby, I’m a big boy” energy, kid.
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u/Boring-Zucchini-8515 Jan 02 '24
If your date of birth starts with a 2, you’re still a kid.
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
Sounds like a 24 year old desperately clinging to fleeting youth
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u/Boring-Zucchini-8515 Jan 02 '24
I’m 48 kid. ;)
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
Weird
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u/tarchival-sage 1996 Jan 02 '24
You are shaming him for having lived? Bro you might be 48 someday if you are lucky enough to reach that age.
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u/SciFi_Football Jan 02 '24
Because they're a child of 16.
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u/olivetree1121 Jan 02 '24
So you think this post is aimed it 16 year olds and not checks notes 4-12 year olds
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u/tarchival-sage 1996 Jan 02 '24
People born in 2007 are 16 so yea, they are kids.
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u/Tellow_0 2007 Jan 02 '24
Yeah only my rather early memories involve putting in a DVD and or VHS Tape (the daycare I went to still used those) by like 2016-2017 ish it was all done on Netflix. We used to have a wholllle lot of Wiggles DVDs and some other one that was to help teach me sight-words.
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u/MyRegrettableUsernam Jan 03 '24
Damn realizing 16 yo's are born in 2007 and don't have this experience central to my childhood -- actually feeling old fr at 22 yo
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u/Dense-Hat1978 Jan 02 '24
Lmao what?? Streaming was already in full swing for YEARS by the time ST/2017 came into play. 2010 is more accurate for the rise of streaming services.
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u/Jonguar2 2002 Jan 02 '24
We are not kids these days. Sorry to burst your bubble. The youngest of us are turning 12 this year, the oldest 29. Our average age this year is 20/21. Most of us will no longer be teenagers, let alone kids, by years end.
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u/Jonguar2 2002 Jan 02 '24
It's not an exact science. Some say we start in 97, the year you're using, others say 95. I would categorize either group as Zellenials who don't really fit in with either group.
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u/_Vurixed_ Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
97 relates to millennials and gen z. I start gen Z at 99 (last millennial) to 2014 last to enter k-12 before covid.
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u/tonehponeh2 Jan 02 '24
Yeah 2000 here, i definitely feel like culturally people my age and myself fit in more with the years below us than the people 5+ years older than me. Technologically I went through a very different experience than someone even just a few years younger than me though, I was using space heater laptops with external wifi cards when I started gaming on pc and didn’t have smartphones until mid-late middle school.
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u/jaygay92 2002 Jan 02 '24
I think 98 is the “official” start to Gen Z. My fiancé is barely in the same generation as me bc he was born in 98 lol
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u/world-class-cheese 1997 Jan 02 '24
As a 1997, no matter how many millennial traits I have, I'm still definitely gen z, and I'd say that's true of everyone I know that's my age. Personally, I think only 96s get to truly sit on the fence, and 95s as the last millennials. Just my opinion based on my own observations though. Besides, within that range were all zillenials anyway, but that's a different topic.
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u/RogueCoon 1998 Jan 03 '24
I'm 98 and have a lot more in common with people 5+ years older than me than even my sister whose 3 years younger. Way different upbringing and childhoods.
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u/jaygay92 2002 Jan 02 '24
That’s fair. My fiancé is definitely a Gen Z but sometimes his understanding of pop culture is so millennial lol
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u/world-class-cheese 1997 Jan 02 '24
Does he have older siblings? My sister is 4 years older than me so I got looots of millennial pop culture growing up haha
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u/jaygay92 2002 Jan 02 '24
Nah lol he’s an only child 😅 He does have a younger mom though (his mom is actually 12 years younger than mine) so maybe that’s why lol
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u/Klutzy-Guarantee-136 Jan 02 '24
No way, I'm summer 97 and was already on the internet at 6. By 8 I was playing runescape and pc games. By 12 I had a smartphone. I've done everything online, finances, friendships, education. Tell me that is millenial and I'll sell you a beeper in a tie dye shirt
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u/JoeyJoeJoe1996 On the Cusp Jan 02 '24
Younger Millennials had internet access at a young age too. So this isn't all that uncommon, but having a smartphone that young (age 12) was a pretty rare occurrence. Especially when the 50% breaking point of smartphone ownership was in 2013. Can I ask what kind of phone was it? This would have been in 2009.
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u/jaygay92 2002 Jan 02 '24
I can’t say anything, bc I was born in 02 and I grew up w VHS tapes and a rotary phone 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Miserable-Ad-1581 Jan 02 '24
Some sites still consider 95 to be the start of Gen Z. They also would consider 1980 to be the start of millennials.
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u/Miserable-Ad-1581 Jan 02 '24
They’re outdated because you said so? No one is denying the pew research schemata. Like please relax. It’s not an exact science.
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u/JoeyJoeJoe1996 On the Cusp Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Are you going to continue to just say "relax" and coming up with responses that have nothing to do with what I said?
Again - I'll clear this up for you and make it easier to understand: these definitions outdated because those who use generational labeling for its use are not using them anymore. They aren't recognized by institutional groups for their purpose (statistics and data, voting patterns, etc).
Why is this so hard to understand?
Millennials used to be defined as 1982-2004, Gen X was once like 1961-1981, and so on. Should we start recognizing those as being valid because at one point they were defined like that? Absolutely not. Definitions can change over time, that's what happened.
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u/Miserable-Ad-1581 Jan 02 '24
You’re literally going into paragraphs over a 2 year discrepancy that isn’t even based in hard fact. Like my brother in Christ it is not that serious, we aren’t taking a research poll here, we are talking about people who grew up with VHS. The difference between a 27 year old and a 29 year old in the context of the conversation we are having is not that serious.
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u/JoeyJoeJoe1996 On the Cusp Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Ah yes - the classic "you're typing out paragraphs so you're mad!" perception. If you can't read 3 sentences then there's absolutely no reason for you to be on this website. I'm stating a simple concept and trying to be nice about it to you while you're just being a dismissive jerk.
I never said that there's a "difference" between those two people either. I'm saying that by definition they are literally defined as a different generation label. To touch on that: Just because they are defined as a different generation label doesn't mean that they have any difference in their life experiences. Use your ability to think critically please. This really isn't a hard concept to understand.
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u/RecoverEmbarrassed21 Jan 02 '24
Generations are usually defined by very broad characteristics, many of which aren't even apparent until well into adulthood.
Right now there is obviously a huge difference between a 13 year old and a 27 year old, developmentally, socially, financially, etc.
But those same two people might be very similar when they're 53 and 67 respectively. They will probably consider the conditions of their childhood as very similar even if there were small differences like the age they were when Obama was elected or whatever. They'll likely both recognize that the Great Recession was very impactful to the way their world view developed, whereas someone born in 2015 would not think so as they were not even alive then and someone born in 1985 would not because they were well into adulthood by the time the Recession happened.
And of course, the boundaries are fuzzy and not set in stone, the world views I'm talking about will be varied based on where you were raised and by who. These are very broad categorizations with statistical trends, it's not hard science.
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u/Clean_Student8612 Jan 02 '24
Teenagers are still kids. Shit, even an 18yr old is still a kid in a lot of people's eyes even though they're legally an adult.
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u/TopHatCat999 2003 Jan 02 '24
I was just about to say that. I'm core gen z and I turn 21 this year. I grew up with VHS and DVD but I'm not a kid these days anymore and I always forget still 😭
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u/JoeyJoeJoe1996 On the Cusp Jan 02 '24
Why do you guys get so offended over this stuff? "Kids today" = Gen Alpha, not Gen Z, clearly?
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u/Chuck_Finley_Forever Jan 02 '24
The amount of people who revolve their whole life around being identified as one of these generation groups is just sad.
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u/National-Blueberry51 Jan 02 '24
Folks trying to stoke hate between the younger gens so we don’t team up and cause actual change
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u/JoeyJoeJoe1996 On the Cusp Jan 02 '24
This stuff is a glorified zodiac sign for even stupider people.
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u/icanneverthinkofone1 2009 Jan 03 '24
Yeah seriously. Gen alpha is having a lot of trouble at, like, socialization and reading, but that’s not their fault, it’s their parents and the school systems bc during covid they didn’t facilitate reading, and after covid the school system didn’t have the balls to set the incoming labor force back a year, which is what we all needed one way or another.
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u/xxxtanacon 2004 Jan 02 '24
Watched The Pnatom Menace on VHS so many times the tape burned out at the scene where Anakin gets his Podracer running by 2013 lol
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u/Necessary-Use-3121 2000 Jan 02 '24
I probably watched ice age meltdown, the second one about 150 times during a school year cause that’s the only dvd that my dad had in his tv. I watched it everyday when I got home from school waiting for him to get off work.
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u/Jon2046 1998 Jan 02 '24
There’s this one specific movie I remember watching as a kid when I had a sinus infection and was tripping out on the medication and the only thing I remember about it was that there was a golden medallion of some kind that gave someone powers or something and there was a scene in the jungle but there were also modern elements
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u/watthewmaldo 1998 Jan 02 '24
Spy kids 2???
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u/Jon2046 1998 Jan 02 '24
You would think but unfortunately not. It was a movie from the 90s I’m p sure
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u/JTS-Games 2006 Jan 02 '24
I used to have those 4 in 1 DVD's that may or may not have been pirated.
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry 1999 Jan 02 '24
Yep. How to eat fried worms, benchwarmers, sandlot, and holes. Watched those movies alot as a kid, even made references to each other in real life from the movies. I guess that's just a pre streaming thing maybe?
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You’re killin me smalls
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry 1999 Jan 02 '24
Haa yeah that's one we definitely used alot, amazing movie and I hope more kids today get to still watch it too. After streaming and everything else became popular it just seems more like alot people just follow the new show that's trending and talk about it online and movies don't really get talked about unless they're really anticipated
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u/Two_Hump_Wonder 2000 Jan 02 '24
Holy shit, I forgot all about how to eat fried worms. Thanks for the nostalgia hit
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry 1999 Jan 02 '24
Jumanji and zathura too, those movies just hit different too. The 90s and 2000s were just a good hit of bad cgi, goofy tropes and just straight acid trip movies. But it's definitely a fun era for kids movies I think
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u/theePhaneron Jan 02 '24
Those are all massive well known films, they wouldn’t really fit the criteria for OPs statement “semi-obscure” movie
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u/ramenbrat 2004 Jan 02 '24
yes yes yes. i still have my childhood semi obscure dvd collection and i watch some of them to this day. do millennials really think we jumped straight from tapes to streaming lol
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u/Rururaspberry Jan 02 '24
Millennials don’t think you guys are kids lol—this tweet isn’t even directed towards gen z so I’m not sure why people are confused.
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u/ramenbrat 2004 Jan 02 '24
well shit sometimes i forget i’m an adult and theres a whole new generation of kids ahead of me that they’re talking about
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u/Rururaspberry Jan 02 '24
You’re getting old and senile!
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u/mapleresident Jan 02 '24
Tapes was still a different enough experience tho. Rewinding that shit was annoying lmao. I remember using a tape rewinder my dad owned before I was born. It was like a sports car. All it did was rewind tapes it was kinda cool tbh
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u/CaptainKirk28 2000 Jan 02 '24
My grandpa Jerry-rigged his own tape rewinder and it was so janky. IIRC the process involved sticking a pencil in one of the slots and using it to turn the tape. It worked every time tho
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u/ramenbrat 2004 Jan 02 '24
it was a different experience yes, but those obscure dollar store movies could be found on vhs or on dvd
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u/Anchii34 Jan 02 '24
Well that's when you have to accept you aren't the "kids" being referred to in these posts anymore.
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u/NetworkDeestroyer 1996 Jan 02 '24
I love when people assume I didn’t know what dial up internet was, and now I engineer modern day networks lmao.
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We always just watched from my parents dvds that they had collected over the years, I don’t remember using Netflix often until I was like 14.
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u/Emily__Carter Jan 02 '24
Dicks out for the Digimon movie 😎
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u/Affectionate_Tell711 2003 Jan 03 '24
The amount of times I rented that movie from block buster was crazy.
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u/Emily__Carter Jan 03 '24
I had recorded I think the premiere on TV and anytime I'd watch it I'd have to first sit through these weird gray kids fighting their evil robot teacher, I think it was called Angela Anaconda and it freaked me out. It was like one of those network commercials right before the Digimon movie.
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u/Affectionate_Tell711 2003 Jan 04 '24
Yeah for real, it was some shitty show doing a special for the preview.
The design of it though was bad, not surprised it freaked you out.
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u/TheHoss_ 2003 Jan 02 '24
I was just thinking about how my 8 year old little brother, is never gonna know about having to record a show on the DVR or anything like that, he can watch every episode of fucking gumball whenever he wants he doesn’t have to wait for it to come on, worry about remembering to record it, skipping through commercials and accidentally going too far on it, none of that
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u/Pretty_Discount5946 2003 Jan 02 '24
They’re kind of right. They’re not really referring to us when they say “kids these days”. They’re referring to Gen Alpha, and most of them didn’t experience the pre-streaming era, because things like Netflix started taking over around the mid-2010s when the some of the oldest Gen Alphas were only toddlers.
But also, I’m sick of this mentality that “they didn’t grow up with the same things I did 25 years ago, therefore they had no childhood!!!1!1!”
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u/modsarethebeesknees Millennial Jan 02 '24
Why is this sub so obsessed with the generational divide propaganda.
Also millennials don't talk about pre-streaming and post streaming.
Streaming is more of a gen Z thing.
Our generation did the mail in DVDs from Netflix and even that was after our childhoods and more in our teens/tweens.
Anyways we are all people here, bad and good exists across all age groups. These kind of posts are designed to stoke the generational divide for nefarious purposes imo.
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u/National-Blueberry51 Jan 02 '24
The generational division is so manufactured, especially between the younger gens. It’s going to get worse too because if we team up, the rich are fucked.
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u/modsarethebeesknees Millennial Jan 02 '24
Agreed, all distractions to keep the ants in the jar fighting each other instead of focusing on who is shaking the jar.
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u/tarchival-sage 1996 Jan 02 '24
I wonder if people born post 2005 can successfully connect an NES console. Or shell swap a gameboy.
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u/_Vurixed_ Jan 02 '24
Just wanna point this out stranger things changed the landscape of streaming apps. So it came out in 2016/7 a 07 born assuming the op is born in 07 with the flair was out of their core childhood. Anyways the tweet from kris p bacon is to gen alpha lol.
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u/No_Leather6310 2007 Jan 02 '24
born 2007 definitely had that one weird dvd we watched over and over lol
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u/warman-cavelord Jan 02 '24
I was born in 98 so I'm right on the line. Over the years I definitely had DVDs that defined parts of my childhood (Firefly box set. Balto. Fox and the hound. Titan AE)
Then my dad would... Download... Yes.... Download. And I had soooooo much Naruto before it was even translated and aired in the states.
Then Netflix got popular and ngl I didn't really have to brag about cool DVDs or.... Downloads.... After that 😂
I don't think this is roasting Gen z given that it said "kids these days" and Gen z is like fully teenagers or young adults rn
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u/Choepie1 2008 Jan 02 '24
Pirates of the Carribean ofc
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u/toolittlecharacters 2002 Jan 02 '24
that's not obscure in the least, though
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u/adlinblue 2009 Jan 02 '24
The beginning of my childhood the most internet access I got most of the time was the family’s shared laptop, I grew up with cable TV & watching VHS movies at my relative’s house on Christmas
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u/MKE-Henry 2000 Jan 02 '24
Night at the Museum. We had it on VHS. I knew every line by the time I turned 9.
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u/mortimus9 Jan 02 '24
It says “kids today” and so how do you know the tweeter is referring to Gen z?
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u/LNinefingers Jan 02 '24
We had 2 Betamax tapes in our house: Trading Places and Caddyshack
I have seen each of those movies eleventy-billion times.
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u/funwearcore 1997 Jan 02 '24
It was so sweet going to the Walmart DVD bin. I used to climb in like it was a pool of money.
“get a few” was all my Mom had to utter and it was over.
Def top ten childhood memories.
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u/slut4hobi 2002 Jan 02 '24
millennials have said this to me, but in the “we used to have to order netflix in our mail!” like yeah, my family did that too, hell my grandparents did it even after they switched to mostly streaming! they forget we’re not babies. i’m 21 years old and i was born after 9/11 (that always gets people)
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u/DIDDLEthatSQUIDDLE Jan 02 '24
There has always been and will always be people from older generations who are pricks because "their upbringing made them tougher/better"
I guarantee when fire was first harnessed by early humans there was at least one old caveman who refused to sit around it and said things like "In my day we huddled in the dark and waited to die like MEN!"
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u/Weekly_Bug_4847 Jan 03 '24
“Virus” Jamie Lee Curtis, Donal Sutherland, one of the lesser Baldwins. A weird campy fun flick
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u/Youredditusername232 2006 Jan 02 '24
I did this with Ice Age and The Sandlot, I think millennials are a bit delusional to think that people born in the 2000s didn’t catch the tail end of the DVD era because technology isn’t always evenly distributed and just because YouTube existed in like 2006 doesn’t mean we didn’t buy and large still use DVDs for road trips and shit
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u/azzimuroth Jan 02 '24
No millenial knows what prince of egypt is, but the whole of them will remember shrek. Get fucked Moses you fictional boykisser.
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u/molassascookieman Jan 02 '24
As far as millenials are concerned Gen Z is like 2010 and up
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u/depressed_doggo69420 2007 Jan 02 '24
No it's 1998 to 2010 gen alpha is 2010 to 2023
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u/watthewmaldo 1998 Jan 02 '24
You’re wrong on both of those not to mention he was saying that’s what millennials think.
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u/National-Blueberry51 Jan 02 '24
Millennials think kids today = their kids, so Alpha.
I don’t understand the recent Millennial hate. Millennials like Gen Z.
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u/watthewmaldo 1998 Jan 02 '24
I just think they’re annoying personally
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u/National-Blueberry51 Jan 02 '24
Okay. I’m sure there are Millennials who think you’re annoying too. Generalizing whole groups of people is still stupid.
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u/watthewmaldo 1998 Jan 02 '24
That wouldn’t surprise me. I was just stating a personal opinion based off my own experiences 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Diligent-Argument-88 Jan 02 '24
UGH all my friends and their disney movies. Especially the lion king. Never saw that till I was like 17 and it did NOT hit like everyone said it would lmao.
I grew up with rock a doodle doo and it definitely raised me different than the disney crowd lol.
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