Ruben Harris - IG: @rubenharrisVerified account

This deserves a blog post but who has time for that, so here's a bit more context for this data.

There are many definitions for generations. I think of them as spikes in the birth rate. This means they aren't continuous; there are gaps.

It makes sense to think of them this way, because as the babies born in that spike get older, media & experiences & pop culture follow.

In the gaps are the people who identify either way, depending largely on whether they have older or younger friends.

Or sometimes, they don't identify with either side. That's me. I was born where that graph bottoms out.

Media aimed at genX, like The Breakfast Club, wasn't aimed at people my age. We were too young when it came out. Older siblings, maybe.

At the same time, we were too old (or pretended to be) for the kids media renaissance in the late 80s. That was for millennials.

In any case, no matter how you mark the cutoffs for boomers, genXers, and millennials, genX is a blip in between two behemoths.