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Subject: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: shaneiscrazy on 05/23/06 at 5:33 pm
:)
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/23/06 at 5:50 pm
Events:
9/11 and the Dot-Com Crash
The Dot-Com Boom
The Monica Lewinsky Scandal
Kosovo
The Iraq War
The 2000 Election Scandal
Things:
Reality TV and Campy '00s Melodramas and Teen Dramas
Uggs
Glam Rap and Eminem
Emo and Associated Indie Rock
Urban Outfitters
The iPod
Teenybopper Music
Nu Metal
DVDs
Myspace
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/23/06 at 5:52 pm
More Things:
Old school Nickelodeon
Disney movies from the first half of the '90s.
Cell phones
Digital cameras
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: Donnie Darko on 05/24/06 at 4:43 pm
Full House
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/24/06 at 7:00 pm
The first Gen Y things:
The Bart Simpson Craze c. 1991, Home Alone (these are sort of XYish things)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nickelodeon
The Little Mermaid
In terms of music, I think the Macarena and the Spice Girls were the first Gen Y things.
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: Donnie Darko on 05/24/06 at 7:02 pm
The first Gen Y things:
The Bart Simpson Craze c. 1991, Home Alone (these are sort of XYish things)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nickelodeon
The Little Mermaid
In terms of music, I think the Macarena and the Spice Girls were the first Gen Y things.
The Macarena is very Y.
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/24/06 at 7:05 pm
The Macarena is very Y.
First there was that mid-1996 to early 1998 period that was partially Y and partially X, and then there was the "Y explosion" that happened over the summer of 1998. Though, as you've said before, we related to later Gen X things like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air very well in the earlier '90s.
Subject: Re: things and events that define gen Y
Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 05/25/06 at 12:44 pm
The first Gen Y things:
The Bart Simpson Craze c. 1991, Home Alone (these are sort of XYish things)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nickelodeon
The Little Mermaid
In terms of music, I think the Macarena and the Spice Girls were the first Gen Y things.
I'd include late '80s/early '90s Disney toons like Ducktales and Darkwing Duck in there as well and I would agree that "old school" Nickelodeon is very Y.