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We're calling them gen a?
We can just end the whole "gen" thing.
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.
OK, EUmer
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.
It's media-friendly astrology
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Haha, perfect!
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.
The capital letter alpha also happens to look the same as Latin and Cyrillic A, so the all-caps text is still good enough