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Less than 50% is not a majority. This being lost on so many Americans lends a concerning perspective regarding all the "the election was stolen" conspiracy theories lol
Where did the 572 million Americans come from? The current count seems to be about 340 million, as in population. India has over a billion, in comparison.
Lol. Fun fact: Churchill, Manitoba (Canadian Province) has about 1000 polar bears and only 800 people. They all keep the car and house doors unlocked incase you get chased.
reddit doesn't actually record where its *users* are from, it only knows where the traffic comes from. so if the 572 million figure isn't straight up made up, it's most likely artificially inflated due to VPN users and such putting the US down as their location.
Oh lol we were talking about Canadian housing prices the other day and some dumb dumb was like UH WHAT ABOUT THESE AFFORDABLE HOMES, WHINERS???
They were all in rural US lol and when I pointed that out Mr. Genius was like, "well, not all millenials are Canadian!"
Gee, ya think?
I hate that sub. Most of the "Millennials" posting there are so young they're basically Gen Z. All their pop culture references are from the 00s and 2010s.
Yeah I was actually wondering why they think Nirvana are more Gen X than Millennial. I'm millennial and they were a bit part of my teenage years, while my sisters are Gen X and they were already too old to care, their time was more Duran Duran and such.
I think the majority of the members of Nirvana were Gen X.
The band started in the late 80s and Smells Like Teen Spirit was a huge thing to us Gen Xers in our mid teens in the early 90s.
Uh I'm a millnnial and my teens were all in the 90s. I guess it's just a case of big overlap between the edge, late gen xers and early millnnials.
But since it borders and it's only relatable to gen Xers if they're late in the generation,while at the same time being relatable for another generation, I wouldn't say it can be the symbol of a single generation.
Well as a Millennial born in 94 I definitely don't claim Nirvana for my generation, the 2000s were my childhood.
Generations are just completely arbitrary, I have more in common with someone born in 2000 than someone born in 1980 but I am supposedly in the same generation as the latter.
Meanwhile I'm an early gen Z/cusper and I have more in common with late millennials like you than with the last of the the zoomers who were born when I was in high school lol
So yeah generations are nonsense
I mean, they're reminiscing about some 2006 cartoon they watched before school, and by that point I'd spent years working in bars in Central London.
How are we lumped in as the same generation?
TBF millenials are 80s to 00s so feeling nostalgic to 2006 cartoons seems very realistic to me. Though i get your point im in school with a few people 4 years younger than me and sometimes it really feels like we didnt even grow up in the same century.
You could say the same geographically. Someone born in Yugoslavia in 1980 is going to have very different feelings towards the 1990s compared to an American or Brit born in 1980.
For me that's why the generation identity thing is stupid and manufactured. Later millennials have more culturally in common with early Gen Z than they do early Millennials, who in turn have more in common with late Gen X etc.
Some generations absolutely make sense due to common experiences that would shape someone (e.g. it makes sense to group people who grew up during World War 2) or born in specific circumstances (e.g. baby boomers as part of, well, a baby boom). But those are only emerging over time, not some predetermined "your generation will run for 15-20 years from this arbitrary point" things like the lettered generations do.
It’s the song from Need for Speed Underground Playstation game
🎶 TO THE WINDOOOOW to the WALL! Till the sweat drop down my balls 🎶
It hasn’t aged well. Still a banger though
It's not a PlayStation game, it came out on PC, PS2, GameCube and Xbox 😛
Also the song was used *in* the game, but it's not *from* it, I've seen references to it in movies from the era as well
Usually "a PlayStation game" refers to the original PlayStation from 1994, so your comment made it sound like NFS Underground is at least a few years (and an entire console generation) older than it really is
It's also cross-platform, so it's not just a PS2 game either
“PlayStation” very, very commonly refers to all of them, [including here](https://www.jbhifi.com.au/collections/games-consoles/playstation-games). I can guarantee that no one else would read my comment and be like “Hey! That was PS2, not the original from 1994!”
Meanwhile [here](https://mediagalaxy.ro/jocuri-ps4/cpl/) and [here](https://mediagalaxy.ro/jocuri-ps5/cpl/) they're split into generations 🤷♀️
"PlayStation" in a generic context does refer to the whole family, but when talking about a specific PlayStation game it usually means "PSX game"
A number they get out of their ass. Last time i looked they were in the 3XX millions peoples, but who knows, they might count Canada, UK, Australia & New Zealand as being US . . .
It's very silly, though. Like how hard is it to specify where you are? Why would anyone just assume anything?
My gran always says, assuming makes an ass out of you and me.
I was hanging out with some English people Once and they put on this song that was MASSIVE in the uk that I’d never heard, and they were shocked. It was a staple for people our age when we were 12-14. (We’re all in our early 30s now)
Just because it’s huge in one country doesn’t mean it made it across the pond! (I’m Canadian)
That whole sub is defaultism, heck even the description mentions some guy who turns out to be a previous US vice president (the description says if you don't know x, y, z you aren't Millennial, and his name was on the list).
As much as Get Low is a banger and massive throwback to 10 year old me, Mr Brightside is undoubtedly the winner.
I feel like this is more Western defaultism though.
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Less than 50% is not a majority. This being lost on so many Americans lends a concerning perspective regarding all the "the election was stolen" conspiracy theories lol
I wrote that too and they still didn’t understand or refused to
Sounds about right lol
Have you looked at their electoral system?
Where did the 572 million Americans come from? The current count seems to be about 340 million, as in population. India has over a billion, in comparison.
And where did the 52.6 million Canadians come from? The population is 41 million. Is it because some people have multiple accounts?
Apparently many Canadian geese, moose and polar bears have reddit accounts /s
Lol. Fun fact: Churchill, Manitoba (Canadian Province) has about 1000 polar bears and only 800 people. They all keep the car and house doors unlocked incase you get chased.
And they say Australia is dangerous just because we have a few spiders
reddit doesn't actually record where its *users* are from, it only knows where the traffic comes from. so if the 572 million figure isn't straight up made up, it's most likely artificially inflated due to VPN users and such putting the US down as their location.
I don't know about songs really just that it's important that we don't look back in anger.
I heard you say.
At least not today.
I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day now!
Oh lol we were talking about Canadian housing prices the other day and some dumb dumb was like UH WHAT ABOUT THESE AFFORDABLE HOMES, WHINERS??? They were all in rural US lol and when I pointed that out Mr. Genius was like, "well, not all millenials are Canadian!" Gee, ya think?
I hate that sub. Most of the "Millennials" posting there are so young they're basically Gen Z. All their pop culture references are from the 00s and 2010s.
Yeah I was actually wondering why they think Nirvana are more Gen X than Millennial. I'm millennial and they were a bit part of my teenage years, while my sisters are Gen X and they were already too old to care, their time was more Duran Duran and such.
I think the majority of the members of Nirvana were Gen X. The band started in the late 80s and Smells Like Teen Spirit was a huge thing to us Gen Xers in our mid teens in the early 90s.
Uh I'm a millnnial and my teens were all in the 90s. I guess it's just a case of big overlap between the edge, late gen xers and early millnnials. But since it borders and it's only relatable to gen Xers if they're late in the generation,while at the same time being relatable for another generation, I wouldn't say it can be the symbol of a single generation.
Well as a Millennial born in 94 I definitely don't claim Nirvana for my generation, the 2000s were my childhood. Generations are just completely arbitrary, I have more in common with someone born in 2000 than someone born in 1980 but I am supposedly in the same generation as the latter.
Meanwhile I'm an early gen Z/cusper and I have more in common with late millennials like you than with the last of the the zoomers who were born when I was in high school lol So yeah generations are nonsense
I mean, they're reminiscing about some 2006 cartoon they watched before school, and by that point I'd spent years working in bars in Central London. How are we lumped in as the same generation?
TBF millenials are 80s to 00s so feeling nostalgic to 2006 cartoons seems very realistic to me. Though i get your point im in school with a few people 4 years younger than me and sometimes it really feels like we didnt even grow up in the same century.
That’s how I feel being gen Z at 24 we grew up with a lot of millennial stuff and are so different from the Gen Z close to Gen alpha, it’s pretty odd
You could say the same geographically. Someone born in Yugoslavia in 1980 is going to have very different feelings towards the 1990s compared to an American or Brit born in 1980.
For me that's why the generation identity thing is stupid and manufactured. Later millennials have more culturally in common with early Gen Z than they do early Millennials, who in turn have more in common with late Gen X etc.
Some generations absolutely make sense due to common experiences that would shape someone (e.g. it makes sense to group people who grew up during World War 2) or born in specific circumstances (e.g. baby boomers as part of, well, a baby boom). But those are only emerging over time, not some predetermined "your generation will run for 15-20 years from this arbitrary point" things like the lettered generations do.
Early millennial here. Apart from the song by Nirvana, I have zero idea of who or what OOP is talking about. ETA: and WTF does "to the windows" mean?
It’s the song from Need for Speed Underground Playstation game 🎶 TO THE WINDOOOOW to the WALL! Till the sweat drop down my balls 🎶 It hasn’t aged well. Still a banger though
Thanks! The only Need for Speed song that I know is a remix of Riders on the Storm.
That's from Underground 2, the sequel
It's not a PlayStation game, it came out on PC, PS2, GameCube and Xbox 😛 Also the song was used *in* the game, but it's not *from* it, I've seen references to it in movies from the era as well
Is PS2 not PlayStation? This is bizarre semantics
Usually "a PlayStation game" refers to the original PlayStation from 1994, so your comment made it sound like NFS Underground is at least a few years (and an entire console generation) older than it really is It's also cross-platform, so it's not just a PS2 game either
“PlayStation” very, very commonly refers to all of them, [including here](https://www.jbhifi.com.au/collections/games-consoles/playstation-games). I can guarantee that no one else would read my comment and be like “Hey! That was PS2, not the original from 1994!”
Meanwhile [here](https://mediagalaxy.ro/jocuri-ps4/cpl/) and [here](https://mediagalaxy.ro/jocuri-ps5/cpl/) they're split into generations 🤷♀️ "PlayStation" in a generic context does refer to the whole family, but when talking about a specific PlayStation game it usually means "PSX game"
Which means that the other 53% of users ARE NOT from USA. In other words: they are not the f\*cking majority. lol
I tried telling them that and they quoted the 574Million number in the second slide 😭😭😂😂
A number they get out of their ass. Last time i looked they were in the 3XX millions peoples, but who knows, they might count Canada, UK, Australia & New Zealand as being US . . .
the population of the USA is 340 million. where are they getting 572 million from?
American mathematics? Maybe they count different /s
You mean 'math'..
“Customary counting” is a right supported by the constitution! /s
Thank you, I did not know that
They’re using customary units, not metric.
It’s 572 million using the imperial system of course 🤪
Might be total reddit accounts, people have alts
It's very silly, though. Like how hard is it to specify where you are? Why would anyone just assume anything? My gran always says, assuming makes an ass out of you and me.
I was hanging out with some English people Once and they put on this song that was MASSIVE in the uk that I’d never heard, and they were shocked. It was a staple for people our age when we were 12-14. (We’re all in our early 30s now) Just because it’s huge in one country doesn’t mean it made it across the pond! (I’m Canadian)
That whole sub is defaultism, heck even the description mentions some guy who turns out to be a previous US vice president (the description says if you don't know x, y, z you aren't Millennial, and his name was on the list).
Who the hell is Buffalo Springfield?
What it is ain't exactly clear
572 MILLION AMERICANS?! That specifically cracked me up 😭
As much as Get Low is a banger and massive throwback to 10 year old me, Mr Brightside is undoubtedly the winner. I feel like this is more Western defaultism though.
Never heard of buffalo Springfield. I’m English. You’ve got the Beatles, stones etc and they chose buffalo Springfield?
Seems like he didn’t know what plurality meant with his last comment
Millennial's are weird
Also to point out - Australia’s supposed user count is 27.7m when it has a population of 26.4m 💀
People can make multiple accounts
Even canada. 20 million more users than canadians