Thing is, generations are like astrology, there’s no real scientific basis behind it, especially when people display traits from multiple generations.
This is the thing. The Adam Ruins Everything guy did a great takedown on the notion of “generations”. Bears (re)watching when people have internalized marketing strategies a bit too much.
This is the thing. The Adam Ruins Everything guy did a great takedown on the notion of “generations”. Bears (re)watching when people have internalized marketing strategies a bit too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ&t=4s
It’s interesting that the guy that ended up naming Gen X is actually from Generation Jones and the book best described people in that age range, TBH.
It never seems to come up much, but Generation Jones is a group that has even more erasure than Gen X. :) But then microgenerations don’t seem to be something most people adopt in their everyday language… https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/forget-boomers-and-millennials-we-actually-belong-to-8-micro-generations/91033196
To your point about games, it’s interesting how some tech influences this guys’ choices for microgeneration breakdowns.