90s kids are hitting 40 now (or soon)
Signed, a 90s kid
79Depends on the definition. Growing up in the 90s, yes. Born in the 90s, no, not quite yet.
47It's in the name. If you were a kid in the 90s, you're a 90s kid. Babies are not the same as kids. Kids can cover a wide range of ages, as they can be referred to as that their whole life with a certain kind of phrasing.
I get the line is debatable, but I feel like consistent early conscious memories is about the starting line for "kid". I've never really heard of it being used to mean when they're born in conversation.
This is just my experience, but I've never heard of this particular molehill.
11Generally it refers to the decade you most associate with childhood memories. Usually babies are the decade before. So 80's babies are 90's kids. Of course this is all super generalized because humans are born everyday.
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Next year for me :(
4Graduated high school in 2000. I’m 41 now and my kid is graduating high school soon.
3RIP
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Every time I see these generational memes I think of this one.
60Gen X were the shitty "journalists" pushing out the generation war articles.
3That's pretty good!
3I use used to use these terms to describe a time period and its history until I couldn’t even get out my thought without it turning into a us v them situation.
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- I am 40. Thanks fuckers.
34I just did that this month. Made it to the 40. The 90s are as far away from now, as the 60s were from the 90s.
11This month like June?! Me too! High five! But not to hard don't wanna sprain a wrist...
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At least you're not 50, like me. Ugh.
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We're all kids. We just have responsibility now so we have to pretend we don't want to sit around and play with Legos all day. None of us have "figured it out" and the only reason it seemed like adults knew what they were doing when we were kids was because adults were old enough to have fucked everything up at least once.
25Like the environment! Yay!
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Don't be sad. I think 30 is a good age to be politically effective in the upcoming class war against the fascists and capitalists.
17Jokes on them, 90's kids are pushing 40.
3I graduated in 1998 and I'm 44.
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A 30 year old would be a 2000s kid.
Why do people get this wrong. It's not about the decade you were born in, it's about the decade you spent most of your formative childhood in.
Roughly, kids born in the 70s were 80s kids. Born in the 80s were 90s kids. Born in the 90s were 00's kids. Born in 00s were 10s kids.
15Goddammit, I'm an 80s kid and refuse to accept otherwise. Now somebody please help me attach these tennis balls to my walker.
14Promise you won't beat me with a pool cue til I have detached retinas?
6If nobody pays the requisite $2, sure!
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Some of us are 30 year old women, than you very much.
10Born in ‘81. The ‘90s were my teenage years.
I’m just a ‘90s kid with a rapidly greying beard.
7My brother was born in 81, I was born in 91. It's weird how we're both considered 90s kids. Like, why that decade in particular seems so formative for so many. The 00s were my teenage years, and they did inform me as a person a lot, but when I think back on, like, the quintessential elements of my childhood, it's the late 90s, pre 911. Same for my brother.
3It's probably just nostalgia but the 90s were formative. It was pretty much peak network TV. Peak music label music, the internet was a thing everyone had heard about but only schools and nerdy parents had. It really does feel like a different era.
2Yeah, I was alive for nearly all of the ‘80s, but I wasn’t really aware of the ‘80s.
By contrast, I took part in the ‘90s. I went to ska shows, I watched TRL, I sent pager codes to my friends.
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I'm 1983 and I barely remember anything from the 80s aside from kindergarten
I guess you could say I was bootstrapped in the 80s and formed in the 90s
7Same year here. We are xenials, to early for millenials, to late for Gen-X. We only strive the real 80s and be the real 90s kids.
683 here as well. I tend to identify with Gen-X much more strongly. I think that's because all of the music we were listening to was grunge stuff Gen-X was making.
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Don't say that... I'm a 40 year old man. I was a kind in the 90s, I wasn't born in the 90s.
6People gatekeeping what it means to be a 90s kid wasn't on my bingo card for today lol.
5Yeah, but unlike other old people, we're still cool, right? RIGHT???
5For real for real no cat
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but if you were born in the 90s then you're 34 at most or 25 at least.
424 at least till year is over
3Ah, right right, because it hasn't been a full 25 years since 1999 until the year is complete. For some reason I was thinking 2024 - 25 = 1999
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rounding error
1A decade of births aren't a rounding error, lol.
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Got recommended a video “you know your a 2000s kid when”
And I only cried for 20 minutes
3Is this whole thing about becoming a wizard true though?
3Who cares. There's nothing good about the 90s. We just got sucked into capitalism.
2Well that's... certainly an opinion o.O
5Arguably, the 90s had been the most peaceful (with the exception of few conflicts) and most prosperous decade. The world was just coming out from the spectre of the cold war as a result of collapse of communism, and globalisation is ramping up with many countries signing free trade agreements. But if you ask me, the 00s is arguably more peaceful and more prosperous decade than the 90s, because there were fewer conflicts and we're enjoying the full peak economic prosperity of globalisation and free trade. However, globalisation is mismanaged and we were living in borrowed time during the era as deregulation of free trade led us to the Great Recession. And now we're in downward spiral since with economic austerity having been applied; more conflicts spewing again; and nativist counterculture is trying to reverse globalisation.
4Batman: The Animated Series.
4Buffy The Vampire Slayer
1It was ok. Nothing amazing.
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I'm a 00's kid.
2Favorite pokemon?
2Charizard
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You're both.
1Cries in cat
1I forgets it's not my teenage
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