Xennials? Oregon Trail? Geriatric Millennials? A Microgeneration’s Obsession With Being Identified

The writer who coined ‘Xennial’ on the attempts to describe this unique cohort

Sarah Stankorb
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10 min readJun 4, 2021

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It’s strange, having a public but evidently forgettable claim to fame. Like being the Guinness Book of World Records holder for longest pinkie nail or voicing a one-hit…

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Sarah Stankorb
GEN
Writer for

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com