The cutoff is currently 1980, but generations are just weird retrospective categories anyway. They sorta shift a bit as new divisions become noticeable.
I can be Gen x if you want, it’s just financially and experientially I’ve lived much more of a millennial’s life.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies disagrees: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux
That being said, the birth years from 1978-1984 seem to comprise a fuzzy cohort with an even more unique shared experience; some have dubbed this “generation Catalano,” “the Oregon Trail generation,” or even “Xennnials.” We each may personally find our experiences here closer to Gen X or Y, but this millennial cusp coinciding with the advent of the Internet has certainly yielded something interesting.
I guess it’s changed since I last looked, but also the fuzzy zone idea fits with the retrospective nature of generations I was talking about.
TIL I’m the Oregon Trail Generation. Probably gonna die of dysentery.
