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    WhyCantYouDeleteKinjaAccounts?William Hughes
    12/05/17 5:50pm

    The way people talk about different generations has always been so weird to me. Like, apparently someone born 15 years before me is part of my generation and thus somehow fundamentally the same as me but someone born 5 years after me is part of a different generation and therefore fundamentally different than me. It all just seems so arbitrary.

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      PootieTang13WhyCantYouDeleteKinjaAccounts?
      12/05/17 5:58pm

      Seems like a moving target, too. Didn’t people born in the 70's used to belong to Generation X? What’s the time frame on that, now? Sounds like it shrunk.

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      CineCraftWhyCantYouDeleteKinjaAccounts?
      12/05/17 6:02pm

      The trick is, generations can mean different things, and the term is used somewhat interchangeably. There is generation in regards to shared experience, in which case, yes absolutely the person who is five years younger is closer to you than the person 15 years older.

      Then there is generations from a historical or epoch frame of reference, most notably the baby boom generation which has a very definite beginning in the months after the end of WWII. In that case it is important that there is a particular defining cutoff, even if that means someone born in 1943 is considered of a different generation than one born just three years later.

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    TurbotasticWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 5:49pm

    millennials are an important group of WSJ readers (not to mention many of your colleagues)

    We’re WHAT? But only members of the ESTABLISHMENT read the Wall Street Journal! Does that mean WE’RE becoming...oh dear God, has the Grandpa Prophecy come true?

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    *runs to my room and listens to the Spice Girls, who were objectively better than KISS in every way.*

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      natureslayerTurbotastic
      12/05/17 7:34pm

      Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
      So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
      I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
      So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
      I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
      I wanna really, really, really wannavocado toast

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      Champinessnatureslayer
      12/05/17 11:19pm

      At first I thought you had printed these lyrics as a reference to the unusual speed of the Simpsons gif.

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    tom dunneWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 7:16pm

    Nope to 1977. If you’re 40 years old, you’re not a millennial.

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      Kit Jackson 67tom dunne
      12/05/17 7:30pm

      That’s what I thought, but I’m also really bad at math so I second guessed myself for a minute or two. Millennials start in 1980 or 1983.

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      istari risesKit Jackson 67
      12/05/17 8:59pm

      Beginnings and endings are debatable, but yeah, Millennials start in 1980 at the earliest.

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    GACWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 6:10pm

    Twist: Skynet was actually the Millennials.

    Humanity created them. We taught them. We supported them. And then...they gained financial independence, and did not use it to subscribe to magazines.

    Also, Millennials are Cylons.

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      Martian LawGAC
      12/05/17 6:28pm

      They’re toasters? That explains their predilection towards avocado toast.

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      bfredGAC
      12/05/17 6:35pm

      Ha ha ha...financial independence.

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    ArgieBargieWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 5:47pm

    2017: the year in which both millennials and Nazis can be considered people.

    Fuck the WSJ and every Murdoch-owned propaganda mill.

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      Martian LawArgieBargie
      12/05/17 6:26pm

      I’ll only accept the Millennials after they’ve been tried for their crimes against humanity in a Nuremberg-like trial.

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      WhatsThatSmellArgieBargie
      12/05/17 7:23pm

      Don’t forget corporations.

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    Mr GlitchWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 5:51pm

    Sounds like someone in the subscriptions department had a look at how many of their subscribers are really old and/or dead. 

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    Mirror Universe TrumpWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 6:25pm

    The response by millions of millennials: “Wall Street Journal? Do people still read that?”

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      bfredMirror Universe Trump
      12/05/17 6:40pm

      WSJ was the first to hold the line on its paywall and from what I read is by far the most profitable U.S. paper. NYT and WaPo make some money but are still trying to scrap back what they originally gave away online for free. After that...I wouldn’t get too attached.

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      q-paMirror Universe Trump
      12/06/17 8:45am

      My dad subscribes to both that and The Nation...

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    FastFreddy666William Hughes
    12/05/17 7:48pm

    People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)

    Just because we get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)

    Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)

    I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)

    So say we all! I used to do plenty of drugs back in the day but i never managed to overdose on something. Damn it. Well the song by the who is way before my time (1965) but it’s still applicable.

    Millenials. Look it up on Spotify. It’s a song for the ages so to speak.

    Now, why don’t you all f-fade away... 

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      sharpmathFastFreddy666
      12/05/17 11:06pm

      What the fuck are you trying to say. You may have not OD’ed on those drugs, but they may have done some serious damage to your brain.

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    Dr Emilio LizardoWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 5:55pm

    And you wonder why the press won’t be tougher on Trump. The WSJ is worried about appeasing MILLENIALS for fuck’s sake!

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      sharpmathDr Emilio Lizardo
      12/05/17 11:07pm

      This is the best joke response I’ve seen to anything ever.

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    Doctor ProfessorWilliam Hughes
    12/05/17 7:00pm

    The rapid advance of technology made this generational label absurd. A good amount of my life came before the internet was widespread, and the ubiquity of cell phones, let alone smart phones, did not occur until I was out of my parents’ house already, yet I’m grouped with people who have always known these things to be a major part of their lives.

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      DarthPumpkinDoctor Professor
      12/06/17 2:03am

      I’d agree...if we were going by the timeline in the article (Millennials born from 1977-1997), but that’s an outlier. I’ve never seen another article include people born prior to 1980 in the Millennial generation.

      Usually, Gen X runs from late-1960s to early/mid-1980s, Millennials (i.e. Gen Y) run from early/mid-1980s to late 1990s, and Gen Z runs from late 1990s to late 2000s.

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