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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago
[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't next-up be Gen A?

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 83 points 1 year ago

He's making a pun, you twits (affectionate usage of the word)

Gen A

I'm not a smart man JENN-AY but I know what love iz

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck. Thank you for explaining the joke. I for real didn't get it. LoL

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

I think OP's joke is that Gump pronounced Jemny as "gen aaaay" or Gen-A. Unfortunately the generation is named Gen Alpha not Gen-A.

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 points 1 year ago

That's an alpha move I'd say

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’m not a smart man.

My dumb brain was thinking. “Why is Gen A important? Does the A stand for AIDS?”

[-] Daxter101 5 points 1 year ago
[-] BranBucket@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Forrest got it.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

It's already been named. It's Generation Alpha.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

I think Gen A and me will be like peas and carrots.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

As Gen X, this is hilarious.

They called us Gen X because they didn’t want to bother understanding what personality we might have as a group.

Then people started counting from there for the next generation’s placeholder names.

Y became millennials Z is zoomer, but I don’t think that’s going to stick. They may stay Z because they are X’s kids. Time will tell.

It’s not like the boomers were ever Generation W.

My point is that it doesn’t really matter. They will be the millennials’ kids and they will get a name.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The W stands for wankers.

[-] forrealthrowawa 9 points 1 year ago

It's interesting how labels for generations are made both to understand them but also to avoid having to understand them and paint with broad strokes.

[-] FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Parents can also have one child near the end of one generation and another at the beginning of the next one

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago
[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, Gen Æ and Gen Ø first.

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Gen &

The last letter of the alphabet.

[-] uriel238 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah Alphas are going to be confused with alpha males, a juxtaposition I would not inflict on anyone.

[-] match@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago
[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gen AA, we're using Excel column names

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Or battery types.

[-] iviattendurefort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I thought we were call point it Gen Alpha

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Covid kids?

[-] megopie 3 points 1 year ago
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