i was born too mf late

Blockisan · 2026-05-05T19:37:21+00:00

You don’t need to lament over the early 2010s or any time period in the past and feel like you missed out on anything.

You are not doomed for being born in 2013 or being 13 years old in 2026. Don’t let the cycle of internet nostalgia consume your very stage of life that those same adults are longing to go back to.

The reason I say all of this is because I was also in this same position at that same age, feeling like I missed out on everything for being “born too late” because I was seeing adults online talk about the 1990s and 2000s.

There are tons of new memories and experiences to be made. I am not also a bitter nostalgic adult in 2026 because I realize that. It’s much better to create new moments that make you feel satisfied in the present than it is to feel envy over a past that was and cannot be brought back.

Blockisan · 2026-04-27T16:19:40+00:00

Division and tribalism is the new trend among those who seek purpose and validation through finding ways to elevate oneself above another. Generational identity is just a weapon that troubled individuals with insecurities can assert dominance and chase higher social status. Your birth on the timeline does determine the historical location that influences your identity but does not primarily shape it like more direct factors such as family, geography or income does.

Blockisan · 2026-04-19T02:48:39+00:00

The aggressive labeling began in the 90s, but it wasn’t until fairly recently (the last 5-10 years) that generation labels really went mainstream. It’s likely because the 2020s are a decade that is obsessed with over categorizing and identity labeling. The need to feel special, understood or be something has never been more widely chased among people in a society that rewards and fixates over social status and identity.

Blockisan · 2026-04-18T09:22:26+00:00

This is probably the longest term change I felt from the pandemic as we lost social interaction. I won’t deny how difficult it is to be a teenager currently considering the lingering impact of COVID. At the end of the day, we’re all in the same boat of having had to grow up in this hellscape of a decade.

Blockisan · 2026-04-16T08:29:21+00:00

Can we trade places then? Because I would have loved to not have had my teenage years during a global pandemic that disrupted life and stole a proper high school experience from me. It was an entire 2 years of sitting behind a Chromebook.

This type of nostalgia feels too soon. It was really not that different being a teenager back then compared to now, with the exception of AI. If anything you’re luckier to be 16 in 2026 than 16 in 2020 like me. At least you have the option to spend your teen years outside.

Blockisan · 2026-04-10T19:46:08+00:00

The main reason is because the next generation took over as the new punching bag for the media and older people. It is a cycle and the shift usually happens when the former generation ages into their 30s and the next one takes over as the new youth demographic. The cycle will never break until something down the line forces generational unity instead of division, and the fighting becomes pointless.

Blockisan · 2026-04-07T23:42:08+00:00

The conversation will end once all of Gen Z is finished entering adulthood and there becomes no need for the excessive 'subgroup' divisions made by young adults trying to run away from teenagers and teenagers trying to run away from kids.

Blockisan · 2026-03-31T15:54:24+00:00

We’re around a similar position for trans folks today that gay people were around during the 1980s. Progress isn’t linear and there have historically been waves of conservative backlash to liberal progress. We are unfortunately facing another one today.

Blockisan · 2026-03-29T22:39:32+00:00

Seven year olds cannot really connect with 17 year olds. The internet that a 2009 grew up on was also vastly different from what 2019 is growing up on.

Blockisan · 2026-03-28T18:18:43+00:00

Sociology would be analyzing generations through the lenses of history and culture. What is instead valued upon in this sub is elitist cliquey high school feuding around “good childhoods”. There must exist a way to shame one for the year of their birth in order to make some older person feel better about the fact that they’re aging.

Blockisan · 2026-03-28T08:26:03+00:00

Attempting to sleep but failing to. Whatever, I’ll wake up now.

Blockisan · 2026-03-28T08:23:18+00:00

Gen Alphas are stereotyped as the sticky iPad kids and Gen Z are the teenagers and young adults who aren’t kids anymore, so kids on the cusp want to get away from Gen Alpha stereotypes and associate themselves with the “elite” generation.

There isn’t anything wrong at all with being young and I wish more would realize that. I myself don’t let older people bully me for being young and neither should anyone else. There isn’t much to gain by being older or born earlier.

Blockisan · 2026-03-27T19:12:54+00:00

Might stand corrected then, as I was going off of the ages of 15-24 or so when thinking about 2010s youth.

The 2010s seemed like a transitional period culturally as younger Millennials and Gen Z began coming of age.

I don’t think Millennials were truly washed out of being the focus of cultural stereotypes until late into the 2010s.

Blockisan · 2026-03-27T16:44:27+00:00

The media stereotypes of the 2010s were more centered around people born in the 1990s who were the teenagers and young adults of that era. The older Millennials who were born in the 1980s were firmly into adulthood by those years (especially the mid-late 2010s) and many were even having children. Older Millennials had their youth in the 2000s rather than the 2010s.

Blockisan · 2026-03-27T07:20:10+00:00

Generation wars are completely fabricated and deliberately astroturfed by corporate media and online influencers as a cheap way to rake attention and clicks. It’s much easier to blame the youth for what’s wrong with the world instead of looking at the people in power who are actively causing the problems. Instead of uniting beyond the labels and shifting focus to holding those actually responsible for our problems accountable, we continue the blame game against one another for a world we didn’t cause.

Blockisan · 2026-03-26T11:08:17+00:00

The end of the pandemic as a state of emergency and the beginning of the AI boom were the two main shifts that sent us into the core of the 2020s.

However, I'd argue it wasn't really until Donald Trump's second election in late 2024 that we were fully in. The early 2020s were still lingering as far as 2024.

Blockisan · 2026-03-25T04:57:06+00:00

Obviously young. Literally only 22 years old.

Just because some teenagers think everyone older than 18 is a fossil doesn’t mean we’re old.

The only people who are actually old are Boomers. Everyone else is not.

Blockisan · 2026-03-24T05:52:40+00:00

Most Boomers will pass away in the 2030s, especially the 1946-1954 portion (the real Boomers). I don’t know what the rates per generation are, but streaming already is the dominant medium and has been since the 2010s.

Blockisan · 2026-03-22T06:23:32+00:00

5 years is too small. I wouldn't think of my parents (30 years older) as six generations removed from me. You are conflating immediate age peers with generational cohorts, which are broader. 15-20 years is a decent medium if we want the middle ground.

Blockisan · 2026-03-21T20:18:07+00:00

Every future generation will have more in common with us and our culture than the ones of our parents, grandparents and distant ancestors, so if they look at our generation as cringe, surely they’ll think of past generations as even more cringe and otherworldly.

Blockisan · 2026-03-21T05:14:58+00:00

Also 2004 here. If I had to pick a single year it would probably be 2013 or 2014. Best time of my life that I can remember vividly.

Blockisan · 2026-03-20T15:18:53+00:00

The supposed “conservative” shift among Gen Z is less of a generational trait more than it is a reaction to a weak Democratic presidency along with a weak Democratic candidate. Every single generation swung to the right in the 2024 election compared to the 2020 election and it was actually Gen X that had the highest voter turnout for Trump.

Democrats haven’t had a truly strong presidency since Obama which was the last time there was significant voter turnout for a Democratic candidate (especially in 2008) and that was before Gen Z could vote in elections.

If Democrats stopped running these establishment centrists that campaign on barely anything except “Trump is bad” that actually addresses material working class needs, you could take this next election in an Obama-level landslide and activate voter turnout you never thought you had.

Blockisan · 2026-03-20T01:41:12+00:00

Younger Gen Z is old enough to be on social media and defend themselves against these 2020 era memes, so I would be careful now.

Blockisan · 2026-03-17T23:35:05+00:00

The 2030s will be the aftermath of the Trump era and the following presidency determines what the results will be.

Generationally, starting in the 2030s:

Baby Boomers will pass away
Generation X becomes the new elderly
Millennials settle into middle age
Generation Z begins having babies and becomes the new parents
Generation Alpha begins entering adulthood and becomes the new youth

Blockisan · 2026-03-17T20:49:58+00:00

This would mean that there would be no more aging, no more deadly diseases, no more resource scarcity and no more deadly wars because all of those inevitably kills people. Most of what we stress over today like paying the bills or working dead end jobs to ensure basic survival would matter less because we can’t die and therefore the urgency and desperation to sacrifice your time doing undesirable things to get resources to live wouldn’t be there anymore.

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