Just found out about Xennials, GenX-Millennials, also known as the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano, demographic on the pod (not sure which one tbh) and while I’m definitely not one, I do know people who are, and it is a bit of an obscure “generation” as meaningless as a lot of those labels are.
They typically were around and active when personal computers and the internet as we know it starting coming up, but they also remember a time when things were very much still analog as well. That has to be a weirder one cause they likely don’t ID with both GenX and all the shit millennials grew up watching or doing.
Even just like 15 years ago the internet was insane. Message boards sucked in a lot of ways and in others were quite good. Also there was clearnet drug sites operating like crazy and were super legit lol
Honestly, I think watching in real time as platforms like Facebook and Twitter grimly foreclosed on the creative and experimental possibilities of the early internet was a large factor in my radicalization.
Just found out about Xennials, GenX-Millennials, also known as the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano, demographic on the pod (not sure which one tbh) and while I’m definitely not one, I do know people who are, and it is a bit of an obscure “generation” as meaningless as a lot of those labels are.
They typically were around and active when personal computers and the internet as we know it starting coming up, but they also remember a time when things were very much still analog as well. That has to be a weirder one cause they likely don’t ID with both GenX and all the shit millennials grew up watching or doing.
It is weird. Too young for Gen X culture, too old for stuff like Harry Potter. Growing up alongside the internet, however, was indescribably cool.
Even just like 15 years ago the internet was insane. Message boards sucked in a lot of ways and in others were quite good. Also there was clearnet drug sites operating like crazy and were super legit lol
Honestly, I think watching in real time as platforms like Facebook and Twitter grimly foreclosed on the creative and experimental possibilities of the early internet was a large factor in my radicalization.
Listening to Machinae Supremacy while quoting Mentor’s Last Words and Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
And being very, very angry about Horse Armor.