That’s an interesting question and I wasn’t sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.
According to this source, which I can’t verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:
No official commission or group decides what each generation is called and when it starts and ends. Instead, different names and birth year cutoffs are proposed, and through a somewhat haphazard process a consensus slowly develops in the media and popular parlance.
Gen X is 1965 to 1981; if you just missed the mark for Gen Z, you’re possibly a millennial, aka Gen Y (1982 - 1996).
As someone from 1996 I feel split :[
Yep! I’m dumb, thanks for the correction, I’m feeling a bit less old now :)
Hey, it’s all good, welcome to Team Millennial. Here’s your complimentary ‘I Am Older Than The Internet’ T-shirt, and your back pain medication.
Good GOD I needed that medicine, thank you!
Mfs turn 30 and get a herniated disk for sleeping the wrong way.
My two herniated discs are glaring at you.
I’ve only got one so far - 22 to go
What can we do?! IT life for me…
My back after 10 minutes in city bus when it’s Irisbus Citelis 10.5M:
I feel heard
Do we get coupons for avocado toast?
So I am Gen X born 1980. And who decided this?
That’s an interesting question and I wasn’t sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.
According to this source, which I can’t verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:
TL;DR “It’s all made up and none of it matters!”