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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't next-up be Gen A?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's making a pun, you twits (affectionate usage of the word)

Gen A

I'm not a smart man JENN-AY but I know what love iz

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Oh fuck. Thank you for explaining the joke. I for real didn't get it. LoL

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think OP's joke is that Gump pronounced Jemny as "gen aaaay" or Gen-A. Unfortunately the generation is named Gen Alpha not Gen-A.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's an alpha move I'd say

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I’m not a smart man.

My dumb brain was thinking. “Why is Gen A important? Does the A stand for AIDS?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Forrest got it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's already been named. It's Generation Alpha.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I think Gen A and me will be like peas and carrots.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As Gen X, this is hilarious.

They called us Gen X because they didn’t want to bother understanding what personality we might have as a group.

Then people started counting from there for the next generation’s placeholder names.

Y became millennials Z is zoomer, but I don’t think that’s going to stick. They may stay Z because they are X’s kids. Time will tell.

It’s not like the boomers were ever Generation W.

My point is that it doesn’t really matter. They will be the millennials’ kids and they will get a name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

The W stands for wankers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's interesting how labels for generations are made both to understand them but also to avoid having to understand them and paint with broad strokes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Parents can also have one child near the end of one generation and another at the beginning of the next one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nah, Gen Æ and Gen Ø first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Gen &

The last letter of the alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah Alphas are going to be confused with alpha males, a juxtaposition I would not inflict on anyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Gen AA, we're using Excel column names

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or battery types.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I thought we were call point it Gen Alpha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Covid kids?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago