ONTD, Are You A Geriatric Millennial?

[stewie_e]

"Geriatric millennials" (born between 1980 and 1985) are best positioned to lead teams that will thrive in the hybrid workplace," writes @ericadhawan. https://t.co/e0jSyj6eJY
- Medium (@Medium) May 14, 2021
A recent article discussing “geriatric millennials” have many going “oh” and “excuse me?” over the last few days on social media. I’m being

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[champagnexdream]

Proud 1985er here so technically I’m a young geriatric millennial 💅 (Husband is 1982. Old ass.)

Also I thought we used to call this ~Xennial wtf

[pciam]

I’m an 84 baby!

[champagnexdream]

Yasss I’ve always been a little jealous of 1984 babies because of the book lol. Early or late ‘84? I’m early ‘85 so graduated HS in 2003

[pciam]

I’m July 84. Graduated HS in 02!

[champagnexdream]

Yas. My ex and one of my good friends were both born on July 6, 1984!

[pciam]

Nice! I’m July 29 so a proud Leo hehe. I was still 17 when I graduated in may of 02!

[tilou]

Proud 84 baby as well!

[cecilia_tallis]

Yay for ‘85 babies!

[umilicious]

I will always call myself a member of the “Oregon Trail generation,” since that label always felt like the best fit

Also, not great to hear that you’re considered “geriatric” right after you turn 40, because I was dealing with getting older just fine before I read that tweet last week 😑

[champagnexdream]

Awww. I feel you, I’m 36 and a “geriatric” pregnancy already so this is the last thing I need to hear lol

[sherrilina]

"Oregon Trail Generation" would include beyond 1985 though, through 1990 at least.

[patchsassy]

I'm an 85 baby and proud member of the Oregon Trail Generation!

[lozbabie]

Oregon Trail Millenial is so American centric though

[totalrecoil]

We still call them "Xennials".

The term "geriatric millennial" was literally invented by the author of this dumbass medium article.

I've been trying to find mentions of the term "geriatric millennial" published before this week and the only thing that keeps coming up is a new book (in stores this month!) called "Digital Body Language" written by Erica Dhawan.

And guess who wrote this medium article - Erica Dhawan!

We're literally watching someone trying to make "fetch" happen in real time and I'm genuinely curious to see if it works. She's at least succeeded at getting herself a shitload of clicks and publicity the week her book is released.

[patchsassy]

Yeah, this whole thing reeks of trying to get all of us 80s babies riled up by calling us old.

[blazingeternity]

Uhm what? Makes it even more ridiculous that she appears to be born in 1985 - placing her right at the edge of the age bracket for her ridiculing term, so she's "almost not part of the group", but still enough to benefit from the compliments she makes them.