[ SECRET POST #6448 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6448 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Powerwolf]



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[Genshin Impact]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #922.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/8u2KTDr.png

[(Anonymous)]

You're RIGHT and you SHOULD say it! Nothing about Homer and Marge makes sense if you update them to be millennials.

[(Anonymous)]

They're WRONG because being ADULTS in the MID-90s makes that version of them older than Millennials.

[(Anonymous)]

Got married in the mid-90s, am GenX. A GenX person could have three small kids in the 90s.

Personally couldn't afford a house until the 2000s, but it happened.

[sparklywalls]

Didn't they basically retcon this BECAUSE there was such a backlash about how it just didn't work aesthetically (and yes probably some nostalgia goggles thrown in as well.)

[(Anonymous)]

I like this episode, but I agree that it doesn’t make sense. Also, my secret is that I thought Homer was hot with his grunge look.

[hey_hey_hey]

Wouldn't they be Gen X if they were young adults in the early 90s?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Yes they would.

I almost want to post that CBS screengrab where they're listing the generations and just plain skip over X.

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand yes.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the elastic timeline they use means that Homer and Marge would actually be millenials based on their established canon ages and the established conceit that the series is always set in the present day, so OP isn't wrong.

It won't be that long, really, before Homer will be younger than The Simpsons.

[(Anonymous)]

OP seems to be specifically talking about an episode where they’re gen X, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok but Homer being in a grunge band makes them solidly Gen X.

[greghousesgf]

the show was still good in the 90's....

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh* Gen X gets forgotten, yet again...

In any case, while I don't know many Millennials with three kids, I know plenty who are married with at least one kid, a house, and a career. Management at my company is comprised of almost all Millennials at this point, with the exception of the executive suite (which is elder Gen X and one Boomer on the extreme tail end of that generaion).

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this. OP seems to be forgetting that the oldest millenials are in their early 40s.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people forget this. "Millennial" is used almost like a synonym for "young adult" instead of a name for a generation.

[(Anonymous)]

This is 100% right. Everything about the Simpsons and their way of life only makes sense in the context of when the show first started.

[(Anonymous)]

Comics have been doing this for years, with a few fixed points in history (Steve Rogers will always be a WWII vet), and it generally feels weird when you go back and look at older stories.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

if it's any consolation to anyone I realised that they'd be Gen X after I posted this secret to be made and a couple of days after so it was too late to correct.

My family is pretty mixed. My father is silent gen, mother boomer and my sister and brothers are Gen X while I'm millennial. I've never had much to do with either of my brothers or sister so I tend to forget their generation name.

[(Anonymous)]

I do know Millennials who own a house, have a stay at home parent and three kids, but they're not in a large town or city. I live in a small town where the flow of young people to the city has drastically reversed because none of them can afford to live there, so they tend to leave and go to university, then come back by age 30. My generation (Gen X) mostly left and didn't come back - I grew up in a different rural area and I sure wasn't going back there.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn’t Springfield supposed to be a small town anyway? The nuclear plant is the largest landmark in town and 99% of the populace goes to the same church.