Xennials are not a thing, huh?

To that I say: “bullpucky”

Ashley
Ashley
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read
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According to this article, the idea of the Xennial generational cohort is all just a sham. I beg to differ.

“Over the last month, the internet has embraced the idea that there’s a generational cohort of people born in 1977 through 1983 that should be labeled “Xennials” (half Generation X and half Millennial).”

Actually, the concept of this generational cohort was first talked about in Slate’s 2011 article dubbing the cohort as “Generation Catalano”. However, it was in 2015 when most caught on to the idea, as the “Oregon Trail Generation”.

“To start with, what makes a group of people a generational cohort is what happened when they were coming of age, essentially during their teenage years…The talk about Xennials today is more about what they are experiencing now, in their late-20s and early-30s. It’s more about life stage than generational cohort effects.”

To start with, Xennials are between the ages of 34 to 40, not “late-20s and early-30s”.

Xennials are very much define by our coming of age, not our life stage. As I like to say: we grew up *with* the internet (as in it aged along with us, as if it were are classmate per-say). Let’s not forget Xennials literally invented social media. We had a “AOL adolescence”, our teenage years were filled with War on Terror and our first jobs or the pursuit of one was defined by the Great Recession.

It’s important we recognize the Xennial generational cohort because of its uniqueness. We lived and helped mold our culture’s transition from the analog to digital, all while the rest of the institutions and world around were up in metaphorical flames.

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#OregonTrailGeneration Millennial addicted to the convergence of my generation &...pretty much everything. #TheResistance #FreeTheBear #StillWithHer

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