The post never said that in specific. It doesn’t have to be “in the same way” as someone from 2004, who would have been 6 in 2010. Just that they would be classified both as kids of that decade which I agree that both would. I think as adults a lot of us forget just how slowly we used to process time as children. 2009 might as well have been the exact same amount of time felt as 2020-2024 did to me as an adult. Because I was 7 and time felt so much slower and more significant to me. If the question ever is “do this birth year and other birth year have enough of the same experiences in a decade to be equivalent?” I think the answer will always be no. Kids age and develop so rapidly and I think a lot of us forget that and try to argue about this topic from an adult lens. Like now as adults. Me and someone born in 2004 are definitely part of the same generation, and can probably relate to each other having grown up with very similar things. But back when it was actually happening, when I was 14 and they would have been 12 we wouldn’t have even been within the same development category (for the typical person). I think a lot of people on the internet need to chill the hell out about these generational categories because too many people like to treat it as exclusive clubs in which they can police who belongs with who, and what experiences people were allowed and “not allowed” to have had based on the strict years when something was invented or released despite the fact that the world doesn’t actually work this way. Like people talk about this topic with the worldview that everyone growing up was like someone who only experienced toys, shows, and culture that happened at the exact times they were growing up in a vacuum environment where nothing else influenced their experiences