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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We're calling them gen a?

We can just end the whole "gen" thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).

But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a strange, obviously inaccurate consolidation of millions of people, as if they all share a personality.

Pretty useless and somewhat demeaning trend.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's media-friendly astrology

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

In the case of this post, I'd say it's more a fact that the early seasons of The Simpsons are 20-30 years old rather than different generations have different perspectives. Gen alpha will not be exposed to those seasons unless it's by someone older.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough