Do you like the year you were born in?

I got the best of both worlds (late 2000s and early 2010s), so yes.

I am happy with the year I was born. I only have to live to be 102 to live in three different centuries and see the year 2100, and being born in 97 let me experience 99 a little, so happy with that. If I was forced to change my year of birth, I would switch to 1994 as being born in 1995-1996 wont make a difference as I would still be in preschool during 1999, and being born later would mean less time in a world without the web being widespread However, that was until nine months ago, when I first saw the term millennial defined by Pew and sources using Pew that made me wish I could have been born 5 months earlier in December 1996 instead of May 1997 as Pew and many sources that rely on Pew ended millennials at 1996 and making 1997 Gen Z meaning I cannot relate to anyone older than me, but I am grouped with everyone younger than me, even babies. And then, when I joined personality cafe and popedia, everyone seemed to have a fixation about having childhood start at age 3, saying that the earliest memories were formed at age 3, and that age 3 is the minimum age for preschool, so that would mean I would have to convince people I could actually remember the 90s, was a preschooler in 99, and had a little childhood in the 90s. If I was born in December 1996, people would at least believe I was a kid in the 90s for less than one month, I was able to be in preschool at the end of 99, and I was able to at least remember December 1999. SO BOTTOM LINE: I WISH I WAS BORN FIVE MONTHS EARLIER, MEANING DECEMBER 1996 INSTEAD OF MAY 1997.

Not sure if you've seen them, but I really like Dances With Wolves and Misery. They're pretty good movies. Home Alone and Kindergarten Cop were both released that year as well, so 1990 generally wasn't all that bad for movies IMO. There's definitely a few diamonds in the rough. 

Probably the biggest let-down about the pop-culture of 1990 was the music, to be fair. Music at that time was defined by dull adult-contemporary, remnant '80s pop, house and hair-metal. One of my favourite songs of the Early '90s went to #1 that year though, so I have to give at least some credit where it's due:

Fair enough. I’m more of an “Angel Dust and later” fan of Mike Patton. And to be honest I kind of like Tomahawk more anyway.

I said got damn @ that clapback. That shut the dragon's mouth up.

2000 was pretty good. One of my favorite rap albums, Stankonia, came out and Eminem and Nelly became huge.

While I hate the cheesy teen pop boom that was present during the year, there was at least diversity in the music charts like rap-rock, metal, alt-rock, hip-hop, R&B, and latin pop all being represented.

Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon were all doing well with high-quality kids' programming with diverse scheduling (unlike today). I love the second season of Spongebob (some of my favorite episodes were "Bubble Buddy" and the Christmas special).


The fifth generation of video game consoles were running on their last breath (N64, PS1, Saturn, Game Boy) as PS2 and Dreamcast were pretty much battling it out with PS2 being the victor. Sad, really. Dreamcast (imo) was a much better system and was way ahead of its time with its features.


If I was to choose which year I would be born, I would probably choose 1985 since I would witness the golden ages of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, more kids playing outside, the revolution of the Internet, and relative calm in American society before 9/11.