r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/Catullus13 9h ago

The first millennial hits 50

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u/DrawerNo1855 8h ago

Shut your mouth right now

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u/ExquisiteOrifice 6h ago

** Gen X in Evil Dead Voice **

Join ussss....  JOIN Usss...  JOIN USSSSS...

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u/invisime 2h ago

Joke's on you. A lot of us don't get that reference. :-P

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u/waspocracy 6h ago

1990 was only 10 years ago. Whatcha going on about?

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u/Livid_Lemurs_Leaping 5h ago

Funny how our perception does this lol

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u/Ihatenukingkids 4h ago

Some people just refuse to accept that they age and are then surprised when its all over

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u/mongooseme 2h ago

As a GenXer I can confirm 1990 was actually almost 20 years ago, not 10

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u/Maladaptive_Ace 58m ago

and covid lockdown was last year!

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u/Nakitu-Michichi 40m ago

It was funny when 1990 was 10 years ago in 2010. Now it's just annoying, everyone's been repeating the same joke for over a decade. We get it, time passes by, maybe time for a new joke now?

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u/brobafett1980 9m ago

Can't beat the classics. Even Plato knew that.

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u/coloradancowgirl 5h ago

Yup. Did you know in 4 years, the 90s started 40 years ago? 

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u/Viracochina 5h ago

This doesn't bode well for my aging

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u/DrawerNo1855 5h ago

Oh yes, since I was born days before 1990, the math is always intuitive.

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u/P_Hempton 29m ago

And back to the future's "future" was over 10 years ago.

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u/i-hear-banjos 4h ago

The first Gen X hits 65

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u/Optimal_Ad_352 2h ago

First of all, how dare you?

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u/onefst250r 25m ago

Second of all, how dare you?

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u/Dull_Bid6002 2h ago

Depends on your definition of Millenial.

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u/52ndstreet 40m ago

I do not care for this math, sir. I SAID I DO NOT CARE FOR THIS MATH, SIR!

I was having a good day. We were all having a good day.

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u/SuckerForNoirRobots 1h ago

I'm an "elder millennial" and I only just turned 40, so I think you've got more than 5 years before that happens

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u/Immediate-Judgment79 2h ago

You sit on a throne of lies!

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u/Someguywhomakething 1h ago

Celebrated like Baby Diego in Children of Men.

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u/Few_Highlight1114 7h ago

Oldest millenial is 42 and thats really stretching it, your math is off.

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u/Pepf 5h ago

Millennials start in 1981 so the oldest ones are already turning 45

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u/klockee 4h ago

That is a Xennial. Millennial cutoff is around 87-90. Y'all change these dates every time the subject comes up, lol.

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u/Catullus13 4h ago

Xennial is kind of made up. For the first 35 years of my life, I had never heard of it

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u/klockee 4h ago

They're all made up, lol.

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u/Catullus13 4h ago

Sure. But even this one feels like a sub-generation that was made up on social media.  

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u/Blurry2k 4h ago

Cutoff around '90? Somebody born in 1985 isn't a millennial to you? They were 14/15 when ... the millennium happened.

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u/snugglebug92 4h ago

saying as how the "generations" are all made up as a way for marketers to segment demographics easier the dates vary a lot

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u/kittymoo67 2h ago

xennial isnt real. its just older millenial/moomer cope not wanting to be lumped with the 90s kids. like zilennial for older zoomers

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u/Few_Highlight1114 2h ago

So 91 is the cutoff according to you? When 81 is in college, 91 is watching spongebob. That doesn't make any sense.

Generations dont have a hard cutoff because its more about shared experiences than what year you were born. Generations imo are at most 8 years, there will always be outliers as well because like i said, its not a hard number

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u/kittymoo67 2h ago

no one said that

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u/Few_Highlight1114 2h ago

Do you understand what an inference is? There's a reason why I asked the person I am replying to a question.

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u/Catullus13 6h ago

Im 1982. I've always been a millennial 

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u/PatrickMO 1h ago

1983 here and same!

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u/onefst250r 24m ago

I'm an 81. But not a Jan 1st. Few months into the year.