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All the comments about what it means to be a 90s kid still miss the obvious fact that this is indeed what it felt like for us 10 years ago. There isn't a meme yet to describe what it feels like entering our 40s currently. Personally, it feels like the time Shredder and Krang got pulled back into and trapped in Dimension X; only we are Shredder and Krang.
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I wish I could go back in time just to tell my younger self "Hey Kid, don't get your hopes up", save myself a lot of pointless struggle...
I realized recently that teenage-me was right about a lot of things I believed about the future, and I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about it.
It's like my anxiety is doing a victory dance on my hope's grave.
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I'm from 94 and I do remember watching tons of anime in the tv at 5 and 6 years old. Come on dude what's with the gatekeeping.
And I'm from '84 but I don't claim the 80s because I barely remember starting Kindergarten in '89. If you honestly feel that remembering some cartoons at the end of the 90s qualifies you, I won't deny your 90s kid membership.
Also, I hardly see this as gatekeeping. If you can't remember the decade, I think it's fair to say you're not a kid of that decade.
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It makes perfect sense. Would you call a baby born today a "2020s kid"? They're a baby, they won't remember shit. They'll be a kid (and adolescent) in the 30s. That's when formative experiences will occur
I just want to say, this is the first time I've seen/heard the 2030s referred to as simply "the 30s" in a casual sentence. It still feels weird. But eh, that's life. I still remember "2002" feeling like a far-off future.
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I'm from 94 and I do remember watching tons of anime in the tv at 5 and 6 years old. Come on dude what's with the gatekeeping.
If they'd said ""All" 90s kids were born in the 80s," yeah, that would be gate-keepy. However, they used "mostly," which leaves room for outliers. If you remember the 90s, you can still fit the bill.
Which means like it or not, you're one of us.
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Chronic pain is not a normal health issue for someone in their 30's.
I'm from the US. I live in a country with health care too expensive to stay on top of. Where it's normal to skip routine check-ups because they would cost too much (if you can even get a day off work in the first place.) Our jobs either do not offer vacation time, or limit any time off to something like 2 weeks or less per year. Most areas are unwalkable, while in others, any adult who rides a bike is assumed to have had a DUI (that is, people assume they lost their driving privileges. Why else no car?) Nothing about my environment is healthy.
Ergo,
I have no idea what "normal health" means.
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There's a few years left, 96 and up
wrote on last edited by [email protected]'96 and up are not 90s kids, that's Gen Z .
You have to actually remember the 90s to qualify as a 90s kid, which basically excludes anyone younger than a Zillenial. If you were born in 1996-1999, you were an infant or very young in the 90s, so your memories of the time period are going to be vague at best. You can't relate to 90s kids.
Hell, smartphones had already replaced iPods by the time anyone born 1996-1999 was in middle school. That ain't no 90s kid lol. 90s kids had a cassette Walkman and dial-up internet when they were in middle school. We were still rocking CD players and flip phones even into high school. Smartphones weren't a thing until college.
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I remember watching Power Rangers and Barney in the 90's which I was born. Take that meaningless distinction.
Then you remember the 90s as a kid, which makes you a 90s kid.
Like the other person said, when you are born has nothing to do with it. Spending the most formative years of your childhood in the 90s is what makes you a 90s kid. Sounds like you did, so you qualify.
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That is very US-Centric though.
The term Millenial orginally and specifically, academically and etymylogically in general usage... refers to generational cohorts of USAmericans.
As does Baby Boomers. As does Gen X.
You can maybe make an argument than Gen Z / Zoomers and Gen A / Alpha are more globalized, due to the massive proliferation and normalization of digital culture... but they are again still based off of a naming convention schema describing USAmericans.
So yes, I am using a US-centric definition for a US-centric term.
If ya'll want to come up with your own terms, I'm all for it, the US has long had and still does have waaaaayyy too much influence over many aspects of general internet culture, global culture in general, the other economies and societies of the world, etc.
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No it wasn't. Not in a per day basis. It's significant because of how much Americans talk about it yet, when so little people died compared to any bloody war since. Any dead is too many sure, but the response was to kill way more innocents so..... I don't care.
The 9/11 attacks were significant here in Australia. It was all over the news for ages and also directly led to other major changes such as a real stepping up of our airport security measures, a swathe of legislation in the name of anti terrorism, and us getting dragged into the war in Afghanistan.
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The 9/11 attacks were significant here in Australia. It was all over the news for ages and also directly led to other major changes such as a real stepping up of our airport security measures, a swathe of legislation in the name of anti terrorism, and us getting dragged into the war in Afghanistan.
Well they weren't in Spain. They were on the news ofc but not so much that I would remember what I was doing the very day they happened. I don't remember what I was doing in one of the several bombings we have had in Spain with our local terrorists even! They really have blown the thing our of proportion, really.
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I'm from the US. I live in a country with health care too expensive to stay on top of. Where it's normal to skip routine check-ups because they would cost too much (if you can even get a day off work in the first place.) Our jobs either do not offer vacation time, or limit any time off to something like 2 weeks or less per year. Most areas are unwalkable, while in others, any adult who rides a bike is assumed to have had a DUI (that is, people assume they lost their driving privileges. Why else no car?) Nothing about my environment is healthy.
Ergo,
I have no idea what "normal health" means.
I'm in the US so I underhand all of that.
All I am saying is that chronic pain at 30 is not normal.
I am not suggesting anything beyond not ignoring that specific condition.
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Isnt a 90s kid someone who grew up in the 90s not born in them? I was born in 84 and i consider myself a 90s kid and Iām certainly not 30
I also am confused by the timeline.
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I'm in the US so I underhand all of that.
All I am saying is that chronic pain at 30 is not normal.
I am not suggesting anything beyond not ignoring that specific condition.
Indeed. I didn't intend to deny that. The phrase just got me thinking, and I realized that "normal health" is hard to even imagine. It would require so many things to be different. The chronic stress alone must be destroying us.
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I remember watching Power Rangers and Barney in the 90's which I was born. Take that meaningless distinction.
in the ā90s*
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If they were born in 78-79, they'd have spent a good 3 years of childhood in the 90's. Being 11 years old in 1990, it would be the mid-90's before they hit their adolescent years. This would make them 90's kids by the definition that they were kids in the 90's that also remember the 90's
- in the ā90s*
- would be the mid-ā90s*
- were kids in the ā90s* that also remember the ā90s*
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That makes people born in the 80's and late 70's 90's kids...it makes no sense.
the ā80s* and late-ā70s*āā90s* kids
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"90's kids" always stuck me as a cultural thing more than being tied to a specific decade. Like if you were alive while Nickelodeon Studios was colorful and fun, then you're a 90's kid.
ā90s kid*
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So... My grandpa was a 90's kid? Weird.
ā90s kid*
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Chronic pain is not a normal health issue for someone in their 30's.
Chronic pain is pretty normal health issue for someone working in trades.
Well i'm not to the point of chronic but almost there.
