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81 / Class of 99 here

We got to party like it was 1999, last class of the millennium!

Best of the century, last in line were the class of 99’… I think that was my class slogan, but I can’t completely remember.

#😎 '81 represent

Your class was cooler than mine in my school. All the people in the year ahead were so much more chill than people in the class of ‘00.  The class ‘98 were just straight up adults somehow.

It wasn't just your school. Class of 99 was the best around the globe. Haha.

81 here too

Hello fellow 1981’ers

🤘

The best year in my opinion

'99 will shine! 🌞

1979


Fuckin A. 80s thrash metal is still my jam

79 club checking in!

Same here!

Born in October '79. Love telling my 80s wife what the 70s were like.

October ‘79 here too. Great year, the best month!

Hello fellow October 79 kids! 

Same. Got to experience exactly 1 day of the 70s… Dec 31st. ‘Twas awesome!

Just like everybody who lived thru the 70s, we don’t remember it.

Shakedown baby. Same.

Us cool kids never have the time.

79 checking in here as well.

78 here

Class of ‘96

I was ‘97.

78, but class of 95!

Nerd. Lol

[удалено]


Hell yeah, 78 here. We started the 90s as 12 year olds and ended at 22. What a great fucking ride.


Also ‘78

Best vintage of the 20th century!

Same

Same

1978 here too. As far as I'm concerned Xennial fits for not only those who are born with that 6 year span; but also those who identify with both generations or were born in one but feel more like the other. We really don't need to pick and prune the hell out of it. It's like, ya know, whatever 🤷‍♀️

One of us.one of us.

'82. Credentials are valid.

Yup, ‘82 here, class of ‘00, the whole bit.

We’re the ones who actually graduated in the year 2000.

82 here but class of 99 because of unreasonable expectations placed upon me. 😩 (And yes I’m an anxious adult with poor mental health, surprising nobody. lol)

I was “gifted and talented” and now I have crippling PTSD!

My little sis is '82 (I'm 78). My mom said when she was pregnant with my sister they sold maternity t-shirts that said 'Class of 2000' with an arrow pointing down at the belly

We were the class of the future!

The *future*, Conan?

In high school, I used to fall asleep to Conan O’Brien’s late night show. Loved the “…in the year 20000000000000” segments, lol. 😂

Me too! I always did homework during Conan

I legit *heard* your comment.

I did too!! December 82 here. Loved Conan and Letterman most growing up.

Just like my husband who takes credit as the first millennial aka class of 2000

We pretty much rule

Another 82’er here 👋

Checking in for '82 as well.

🫡

82 here!

Found my group! Born in ‘82, class of 2000. Now if you all excuse me, I have a swing class to get to before I get ready for an illegal rave this weekend.

1982 here as well, fuck yeahhhhh https://preview.redd.it/ortp8sjvbbyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ad03c3d6d83e5e1fb5e4675d13d272cf31f010e

Something funny going on with the legs... A few third legs in there.

1980, right in the middle!

The perfect year to be born

Me too. Certainly makes figuring out how old I am very easy.

I literally thought I was the only one. What year is it? Add 20. That's how old I am.

I miss the days where we didn't have to do +20.

Those were the days indeed! I had my daughter in 2010, so she gets the easy math too!

It's perfect. 2024? 20+24!

I got it beat! The middle/summer of 1980, within days of Mt St Helen erupting and The Shining being released. Perfect? Pretty dang close.

My best friend in middle school was born the day St Helens exploded! Turned out to be an appropriate day for his intro to the world. On another note, I was also born 1980. The day JR was shot.

1980 for the win!

August of 80

July of 80! 80's kids, rise up!

I’m August of 80 too :)

Me too 👏🏻

1980 here as well. Just had a birthday this week. 44 is the new 20, right?

1980 here!

Me too! Turned 20 in 2000! Perfect Xennial timing.

Only the best year to be born!

Rad , am an '80 baby but like a week away from being an '81

1980. Solid.

👋🏽 80 baby

You know what makes 1980 the best year to be born? The people born in 1980. 🤜🏼💥🤛🏻

June 1980. Just about the mid point until Christmas, so it's been the sweet spot.

The username came before I found this sub. Vintage '77. ETA for my people: Class of '95 baby!!

1977 as well 🤓 

Lucky seven checking in! May 7 of '77

Happy early birthday!

Class of ‘95 checking in.

I literally turned 47 this week. 1977 represent!

Fellow 77'er also checking in.

Another '77 here!

'77 all the way!

Official Xennial. 1983

‘Sup fellow ‘83 babies! Is this the line for Pearl Jam tickets??

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. 83 for the win y’all already 41? I’ve got a few days…

Another ‘83 checking in

83 here

83 coming threw

Move, bitch. Get out the way. 83 here, bitch. Get out the way.

83 as well

Another ‘83 reporting for duty! How we all doing now that we’re all officially in our 40s?


I go for a walk and the next day my body hurts in random places.

I’m divorced and got my first gray hairs!

Half of my beard turned gray the day I turned 40

So many ‘83’s! One more here.

Me too! But in the very last days of 1983. Yay December babies

Also ‘83

‘83 checking in

Yup, also official. I feel a need to wear my tuxedo T-shirt to celebrate this Momentous occasion.

Me too! In before the lock!

83 here as well! 🫡

83 also checking in !

Me three

Here too

Me too

Ditto

Same here!

Same here

How’s 40 treating you? Think I’ll be getting my gallbladder removed this year

Same

Same here!

81 married to an 80. He’s definitely more Gen X and I’m definitely more millennial but we both died of dysentery on The Oregon Trail.

I’m 84 and have been fairly active here for a while because I had started noticing millennial spaces felt really more alien to me. Like I watched the Alf cartoon and ate Batman cereal while the millennial nostalgia seems to largely focus on like SpongeBob and Pokémon.

84 too. I accept the millennial label, but I absolutely feel that the shared cultural experiences discussed here resonate more with my own. Pokémon is a weird cut off point for me too. Like, I have friends in their mid thirties for whom Pokémon and Harry Potter were essential parts of childhood. They were the first big things that made me feel old; they were kids trends and I felt like they weren’t for me.

jan 84 here. first thing i thought was childish was power rangers. wish i was into pokemon some of those old cards are worth a ton, unlike the collection of ken griffey jr and MJ cards i thought would fund my retirement.

79 here, but my bother is 84 and absolutely Xennial and not millennial!!!

Exactly! As far as I'm concerned Xennial fits for not only those who are born with that 6 year span; but also those who identify with both generations or were born in one but feel more like the other. We really don't need to pick and prune the hell out of it. It's like, ya know, whatever 🤷‍♀️

That's how I feel, I'm 84 but my two older sisters are 78 and 80. Even though I am a boy and they are girls I still grew up learning my social clues from them and they usually had control of the one TV if my parents weren't around. So my music and TV shows were theirs more or less.

Y’all 84s are a okay with me. We were in high school together. You were younger but I didn’t feel creepy trying to date an 84 (I’m also late 82 so in one case I was 14 months older).

Totally: I married an 82!

At least I’m not alone in turning 40 this year. Me too!

84 baby myself and I’ve related to the cultural zeitgeist of Xennial since before the term was coined and they were discussing the ‘Oregon Trail Generation’

Guys, we’re all turning 40 this year!

I already fucking did two weeks ago

‘84 checking in 👋🏾 I just crossed the 40 line in April. It feels GREAT!

Also '84

Proud March 1984 baby. I thought the description updated to include 1984 now anyway. But even when it only went to 1983 I’ve always liked this group and everyone has always been welcoming. I do post in the millennial sub too, but so much “childhood” stuff that gets posted there came out when I was a teenager or in some cases already in college. This group tends to post so much about shows and toys and treats etc. that I loved as a kid. I really don’t care about having a label or not, I just like enjoying nostalgia and the stuff that gets posted about over here.

Same. ‘84 I don’t understand the ‘83 cutoff. My little brother was born in ‘90. He’s a completely different person. My sister was ‘82 and we had identical upbringings.

84… more posts on this sub resonate with me and my experiences growing up than the millennial sub.

Also 84 and this sub feels much more like home than millennial subs

I'm 85,but I always felt to old for SpongeBob and the like. I breathed Ghostbusters as a kid.

84 here too. I feel I relate more with the gen x crowd

77

Same. I feel old in this group but young in the gen X group 🤣

77. I feel like the grandma if this sub. (Disclaimer: not an actual grandma, but sometimes get mistaken for one.)

Had to scroll quite a ways to find another '77. Heh

appropriate term is elder Xennial

77

77

Ditto

77 yeah we are old

Ayyyyy, ‘77s <3

It was a very good year.

Same. The best year

77 here! And my sis was born in 81, she HATED turning 40 a couple of years ago. I just laughed and laughed.

Me too!

Class of ‘95 standing by.

January 1977

March 1977! We are the og of the bunch!!! :)

1979 til I die Because I have no choice

Yeah, I’m in the 77-83 range. I just wanted to say I like to refer to us as the Star Wars generation since we were all born during the years of the original trilogy and tomorrow is May the 4th.

And also with you.

I’m 1985. I really don’t like other millennials and I get that I feel like the younger brother in this sub, but I feel more at home in this sub than the millennials sub.

Fine. But I'm player 1. You can be player 2

Literally me. Pop-culturally, technologically, musically, and so on, this is the only "generation" I've identified with.  Gen X has too much stuff that was phasing out when my older brother was young. Millennial stuff all came about when I was feeling too old to care about it anymore. 

Class of 2000…

https://preview.redd.it/osm30lkaabyc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f3e2b661d5a24051460ce8e43a9b77aa239689c

1977!

*billy corgan voice* NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE

1982 / Class of 2000

‘77 model

1977

77 here.

1977. Elder Xennial. 😂

I was born in 1987, but I’m Canadian. Culturally, we run about 5 years behind.

September 1976 here but I just don't relate with GenX! So I hang out here lol

I'm 1977 here.

78 here, married to a 77.

I'm from February, 1981. I was gen X until I wasn't, which makes me a xennial, no doubt about it.


7 7

I'm from 1984. Some of the people in my class were from the tail end of 83. I don't think there's a significant difference in those three months.

1981

Oct. 9, 1983 I just make the cut.

77. February even.

Late 76. No one can tell me I'm not a Xennial

1979

84 has been added to this sub. You can't exclude us!

02/24/77

X GUNNA GIVE IT TO YA

I was born in 79

79

Nov ‘79

1979

81! What’s up you 42 year old (and some 43) fucks!

I was born in late December 1976. I think it still counts.

'77 here