90s kids are hitting 40 now (or soon)
Signed, a 90s kid
Depends on the definition. Growing up in the 90s, yes. Born in the 90s, no, not quite yet.
Yea. Born early 90s here. Just into my 30s now. I guess I “grew up” in the 00s? I was in the second grade when the towers fell.
These terms are just made up so it doesn’t matter, but I always read “90s kid” to mean your childhood was during the 90s, so you were BORN in the 80s (edit: or early 90s)
I was born in 92. My childhood (part of it, anyway) was in the 90s and I do remember the latter half of them fairly well. These things are never really clear cut, especially for people born around the “change” in generations.
Yea. I have 3 little brothers. All of them are gen Z. Being so exposed to the same things they were, I often feel I have a lot more in common with gen Z emotionally, but somehow more financially with millennials.
Do newer kids have more money now?
Nope! Just less hope!
I’d say that counts!
It’s in the name. If you were a kid in the 90s, you’re a 90s kid. Babies are not the same as kids. Kids can cover a wide range of ages, as they can be referred to as that their whole life with a certain kind of phrasing.
I get the line is debatable, but I feel like consistent early conscious memories is about the starting line for “kid”. I’ve never really heard of it being used to mean when they’re born in conversation.
This is just my experience, but I’ve never heard of this particular molehill.
Generally it refers to the decade you most associate with childhood memories. Usually babies are the decade before. So 80’s babies are 90’s kids. Of course this is all super generalized because humans are born everyday.
Next year for me :(
Graduated high school in 2000. I’m 41 now and my kid is graduating high school soon.
RIP
Every time I see these generational memes I think of this one.
The oldest Gen Alpha kids are 14 now, older than the kid in the picture.
It’s going to be so funny when generation beta gets old enough to dunk on.
i mean it’s in the name
They start next year! Is Gen Gamma gonna be next? The generation naming is getting pretty lazy. Maybe a different name will stick, like “Millennial” did instead of “Gen Y”.
Gen X were the shitty “journalists” pushing out the generation war articles.
That’s pretty good!
I use used to use these terms to describe a time period and its history until I couldn’t even get out my thought without it turning into a us v them situation.
- I am 40. Thanks fuckers.
I just did that this month. Made it to the 40. The 90s are as far away from now, as the 60s were from the 90s.
This month like June?! Me too! High five! But not to hard don’t wanna sprain a wrist…
At least you’re not 50, like me. Ugh.
Some of us are 30 year old women, than you very much.
We’re all kids. We just have responsibility now so we have to pretend we don’t want to sit around and play with Legos all day. None of us have “figured it out” and the only reason it seemed like adults knew what they were doing when we were kids was because adults were old enough to have fucked everything up at least once.
Like the environment! Yay!
A 30 year old would be a 2000s kid.
Why do people get this wrong. It’s not about the decade you were born in, it’s about the decade you spent most of your formative childhood in.
Roughly, kids born in the 70s were 80s kids. Born in the 80s were 90s kids. Born in the 90s were 00’s kids. Born in 00s were 10s kids.
2024 = 2030
Interesting math you’ve got there
Somebody born in the 2000’s was a 2010’s kid
Why?
Because in 2013 a person born in 2000, would be a 13 yo. Kid?
A person born in 2004 (like me) would be a 13. Yo in 2017 for example.
Don’t be sad. I think 30 is a good age to be politically effective in the upcoming class war against the fascists and capitalists.
Jokes on them, 90’s kids are pushing 40.
I graduated in 1998 and I’m 44.
Goddammit, I’m an 80s kid and refuse to accept otherwise. Now somebody please help me attach these tennis balls to my walker.
Promise you won’t beat me with a pool cue til I have detached retinas?
If nobody pays the requisite $2, sure!
People gatekeeping what it means to be a 90s kid wasn’t on my bingo card for today lol.
sad 50 year old noises
… jk, being 50 has been awesome.
How’s the back pain?
A lot better than it was in my late 20s.
what a comeback
You’re welcome back!
Don’t say that… I’m a 40 year old man. I was a kind in the 90s, I wasn’t born in the 90s.
I’m 1983 and I barely remember anything from the 80s aside from kindergarten
I guess you could say I was bootstrapped in the 80s and formed in the 90s
Same year here. We are xenials, to early for millenials, to late for Gen-X. We only strive the real 80s and be the real 90s kids.
83 here as well. I tend to identify with Gen-X much more strongly. I think that’s because all of the music we were listening to was grunge stuff Gen-X was making.
Born in ‘81. The ‘90s were my teenage years.
I’m just a ‘90s kid with a rapidly greying beard.
My brother was born in 81, I was born in 91. It’s weird how we’re both considered 90s kids. Like, why that decade in particular seems so formative for so many. The 00s were my teenage years, and they did inform me as a person a lot, but when I think back on, like, the quintessential elements of my childhood, it’s the late 90s, pre 911. Same for my brother.
It’s probably just nostalgia but the 90s were formative. It was pretty much peak network TV. Peak music label music, the internet was a thing everyone had heard about but only schools and nerdy parents had. It really does feel like a different era.
Yeah, I was alive for nearly all of the ‘80s, but I wasn’t really aware of the ‘80s.
By contrast, I took part in the ‘90s. I went to ska shows, I watched TRL, I sent pager codes to my friends.
but if you were born in the 90s then you’re 34 at most or 25 at least.
24 at least till year is over
Ah, right right, because it hasn’t been a full 25 years since 1999 until the year is complete. For some reason I was thinking 2024 - 25 = 1999
rounding error
A decade of births aren’t a rounding error, lol.
Who cares. There’s nothing good about the 90s. We just got sucked into capitalism.
Batman: The Animated Series.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
It was ok. Nothing amazing.
Well that’s… certainly an opinion o.O
Arguably, the 90s had been the most peaceful (with the exception of few conflicts) and most prosperous decade. The world was just coming out from the spectre of the cold war as a result of collapse of communism, and globalisation is ramping up with many countries signing free trade agreements. But if you ask me, the 00s is arguably more peaceful and more prosperous decade than the 90s, because there were fewer conflicts and we’re enjoying the full peak economic prosperity of globalisation and free trade. However, globalisation is mismanaged and we were living in borrowed time during the era as deregulation of free trade led us to the Great Recession. And now we’re in downward spiral since with economic austerity having been applied; more conflicts spewing again; and nativist counterculture is trying to reverse globalisation.
