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LightningStrikes posted...

4chan was founded in October 2003. Any 40 year old millennials would have been 18 (or at least 17 and 11 months) when it started, which is not growing up with it. While the oldest millenials are now in their early 40s, most are still in their 30s and the youngest millennials are in their 20s. There are like single digits millennial world leaders. The levers of power are still firmly in the hands of Gen X and the Boomers and will be for another decade. Also this seems like Gen X cringe very specifically.

18 to like 24 is still a pretty big 'growing up' period. Somebody like JD Vance (somebody in the oldest 3rd of the millennial gen) was 23 when the Casual Revolution took off. 23 is still pretty young and a formidable time for people, especially in the modern society we live in.

I mean hell Karoline Leavitt is borderline a zoomer. 1997 is kind of the last year of millennial/start of gen z.

Yes the highest names are still predominantly boomers and the older half of gen x. But a lot of these immediate advisers/behind the scenes work is youngest gen x/millennials now. Russ Vought? Born in 1976, fairly late gen x (gen x ending around 80/81). Stephen Miller? Born in 1985, well into the millennial era, etc. Those republicans who get caught in these group chats every other day? Born in the 80s/90s mostly.

The problem is society has stagnated since 2007, and so people think somebody born in 1991 is still 18 or something, when they are mid 30s.