This is such a weird trend in general in the past few decades. We went from typifying things by decade to typifying them by generation, which makes no sense whatsoever because these generations are still alive. It’s not like everything from 2000-2010 was made for millennials specifically and no one else is allowed to watch them. Shows might have general target age ranges that are taken into consideration in marketing, but amazingly people don’t stay the same age their entire lives and targeting has very little to do with who might actually enjoy a show.
The concept that a specific piece of entertainment, terminology, fashion, or idea belongs to one specific generation and only that generation is extremely silly. Each generation doesn’t just wither up and die once the next generation hits their 20s or whatever. Likewise, there’s nothing stopping a teenager from sitting down and watching Farscape and deciding they love it.
Well I do believe that in a narrow context, it does make sense to identify specific shows and films as “Millennial” or “Gen Z” based on the time they were released, and their focus on specific the lives of age-groups within the plot - as I referred to there. But mostly overall, you’re absolutely right.
This is such a weird trend in general in the past few decades. We went from typifying things by decade to typifying them by generation, which makes no sense whatsoever because these generations are still alive. It’s not like everything from 2000-2010 was made for millennials specifically and no one else is allowed to watch them. Shows might have general target age ranges that are taken into consideration in marketing, but amazingly people don’t stay the same age their entire lives and targeting has very little to do with who might actually enjoy a show.
The concept that a specific piece of entertainment, terminology, fashion, or idea belongs to one specific generation and only that generation is extremely silly. Each generation doesn’t just wither up and die once the next generation hits their 20s or whatever. Likewise, there’s nothing stopping a teenager from sitting down and watching Farscape and deciding they love it.
…millenials are old now; their lives are practically over anyway so it’s not like they matter anymore…
Okay boomer.
What movie is that?
Well I do believe that in a narrow context, it does make sense to identify specific shows and films as “Millennial” or “Gen Z” based on the time they were released, and their focus on specific the lives of age-groups within the plot - as I referred to there. But mostly overall, you’re absolutely right.