You know what’s super millennial? Making up a counter-culture, sub-group because you don’t like your generation, then complaining about how you didn’t get credit for it.
Meet Sarah Stankorb, who is doing just that over the made up word “Xennial.”
According to Mama Mia, Xennials are the micro generation born between 1977 and 1983 who grew up without video games but became digitally savvy as adults and share Gen-Xers cynicism and Gen-Y’s optimism.
Not sure if you’re a member of the Xenial generation? Now you can take an online quiz, created to help non-generational conforming individuals figure out which generation is their true home.
As previously opined at Red Alert, “It sounds like people who are Xennials are simply millennials who never invested in Pokemon Go and probably didn’t date much on apps.”
The term Xennial has gone viral over the past week due to the Mama Mia piece which interviewed Professor Dan Woodman, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne.
Stankorb used this term in 2014, however, and doesn’t want anyone to forget it. She has a new op-ed out at Vogue, titled, “I Made Up Xennial 3 Years Ago, So Why Is a Professor in Australia Getting All the Credit?”
Woodman, the professor who has been referenced many times this week, even points to Stankorb as the term’s creator — but that’s not good enough for Stankorb. She’s missing out on the good life: Google alerts, retweets, and internet fame.
Not only is it ridiculous to complain about not getting credit for a made up word, it’s even more ridiculous when the made up word is just a combination of two other words that anyone could come up with.
Stankorb calls herself “so vanguard” despite the lack in attribution.
“[I]n the past week, as the term has taken on a global reach, it’s been hard not to feel like the woman in a meeting who shares an idea and watches credit evaporate,” Stankorb complains. “ The news continues to spin on without me, or attribution, or fact-checking,” she continues.
In other words, the author is saying “Look at me! Look at me! Please, everyone, look at me!” How millennial…
