• Sabin10@lemmy.world
    104·
    10 months ago

    I’m to young for the first one but too old for the second one. I’m also used to society ignoring my generation so that’s fine.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        81·
        10 months ago

        This. Our generation grew up on Reading Rainbow and the tail end of Mr. Rogers, not Blue’s Clues. Blue’s Clues is Gen Z fodder.

        • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
          21·
          10 months ago

          Um, no? I was born in late 94 and was the prime audience for blue’s clues. I had so much blue’s clues merch as a tot. It was that and teletubbies. I would say the youngest millenials were probably a bit too young to have caught much of Mr Rogers (I didn’t) but that may be a case by case thing.

          That said, I do feel a lil disconnected from the rest of the millenial generation in what I remember from the 90s—as it’s basically nothing—and I often have to teach my '91 spouse and his similarly-aged friends about tech and current slang, but I’m still slightly to old to roll with gen z lol. Being a cusp gen baby is weird.

          • Vespair@lemm.ee
            2·
            10 months ago

            Millennials are 1981 to 1996; you’re a very late millennial so it makes sense your experiences are more similar to Gen Z. I doubt many people only a couple years older than you watched Blue’s Clues.

      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu
        5·
        10 months ago

        Yeah I’m like older gen z and was huge into blues clues. Tons of people my age hate being identified with gen z tho because we grew up with DS lites not iPads lol.

        • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          No shame in being gen z. The political activism of that gen is truly impressive. They’re doing the best they can with what they’ve been given, and I think they’re doing great. I’m really proud of them as a generation :) I can’t wait to see Gen Alpha come into their own, too.

    • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      It was stupid to use a kids show as an example. That episode aired in 2002. Only a small slice of people born 1980 to 2000 would care.

      The other examples had an audience with a much wider age range.

    • eric@lemmy.world
      341·
      10 months ago

      I’m a millennial but too old to have ever watched Blue’s Clues, so I couldn’t give two shits when Steve left.

      Also, it’s hilarious that this meme completely ignores Gen X.

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        12·
        10 months ago

        I’m an older millenial that identifies closer to Gen X. I think mine would be … Will Smith crying to Uncle Phil about his dad on Fresh Prince? That was pretty iconic. Wasn’t a good bye or finale one though.

        Seinfeld finale was kinda bleh. I skipped Roseanne, Friends and Frazier’s finales to be honest and the fact no one references them never made me catch up. The Simpsons seemingly won’t die. I’d say Futurama but like, it keeps coming back with declining quality. I guess I can’t choose?

        What would yours be?

        • eric@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          Steve wasn’t the finale of Blue’s Clues, so I don’t think it has to be a series finale. For me in the 90s, I can’t think of any tv shows that made me cry, but i can think of quite a few movies. Over all, My Girl is probably the only one that completely destroyed me emotionally.

        • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I fell off from Friends and Frasier years before they ended, partially because I didn’t have time to watch tv at that point, but for Friends it was also because I just didn’t care anymore. Not sure whether I can really say I was representative of the Xennial demographic though. The finale of Roseanne, on the other hand, was the groaner of a punchline to the hack comedian’s joke that the final season was, so it certainly wasn’t iconic either.

          That scene from Fresh Prince that you picked is a great one. I made another comment suggesting Atreyu trying to save Artax, and I suppose I should add the super dark finale of Dinosaurs. Otherwise I can’t think of much else; so many of the iconic characters I grew up watching wore out their welcomes because tv execs in the ‘90s somehow figured out how to suffocate the lightning they caught in a bottle.

          • lobut@lemmy.ca
            2·
            10 months ago

            Two main things I remember about that finale. Cliff ending the conversation on shoes because their topic was about shoewear. Lastly, Sam saying to the incoming patron: “we’re closed”.

            I loved Cheers.

        • The BartoEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          I’m not gonna lie, that choked me up really good, I really needed that at the time.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      18·
      10 months ago

      Not from USA. Well the last one I guess you could know as is from YouTube, that said I didn’t know who the guy was or is either.

      Honestly I haven’t seen any of that I know the rest because of reddit mentioning them in another moments. Again not from the US.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        9·
        10 months ago

        I’m a millennial from the US and I’ve never seen even an episode of Blue’s Clues.

        • XTornado@lemmy.ml
          3·
          10 months ago

          It’s from Nickelodeon it seems so I guess you need to have the channel first and then watch it and watch it when they did it…

          I mean where I am from the private cable tv wasn’t as common so it was easier for people to see most of the stuff as all was free over the air tv, as long as you had a tv and antenna that’s it.

          On America it seems like it would be easier I guess for people not see certain things if they didn’t have cable or their didn’t have certain channel or similar.

        • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
          21·
          10 months ago

          As a young gen Xer the only reason I know about blues clues was my nieces.

      • thorbot@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        I wish I could claim I wasn’t from the US because its embarrassing to live here right now, but I am. Never watched a single episode of blues clues, it was popular when I was in high school.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, I used to wash MASH with my parents because one house TV’s and primetime. It was ok. I watched the finale, It was ok.

        I was a hell of a lot sadder when the dropped Hogans Heroes from syndication.

    • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Older millennials too, I don’t give a shit about Blue’s Clues. Then again, I’m dead inside, just like an older millennial

  • xploit@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 months ago

    *American

    Still watched and liked MASH in my country in 90s as a kid (although not my choice) enough to introduce my wife to it a year ago and she enjoyed it too, having never heard of it. No clue what the other 2 things even are.

  • Nikls94@lemmy.world
    22·
    10 months ago

    I‘m a millennial but too… old? Annoyed by it? to have watched blues clues other than by accident while playing Gameboy. According to Google it aired from 1996 to 2006 here, which means that I was ages 2 to 12. It was just too dumb for me. Matt Patt on the other hand, I watched it grow since its start in the golden era of YouTube, the. I stopped when the dark ages started at around 2017-ish. Now I‘m sad that I didn’t do anything good in my life until May of last year.

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      You’re on the tail end of Millennial, and it definitely sounds like you were the target age for Blues Clues. I’m right in the middle of the Millennial years and I was 9 when that show came out, so I only know it as that thing my friend’s little brother watched. I have more feelings about MatPat leaving, even if I stopped watching years ago. Point is, I don’t think this meme is very accurate.

    • deksesuma@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Millennial is such a huge range anyway. In 1996 I was 12. There was no way I would have been watching Blue’s Clues.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
        201·
        10 months ago

        Sounds about right.

        I believe FNAF getting mega-popular was the precise moment when the scales tipped for me and I officially became old. I looked at it, and I decided that it’s just dumb and I can’t comprehend why the kids these days are so into it. I mean, I know the real draw is watching streamers or whoever freak out at all the jump scares and act ridiculous. But that’s a pastime that doesn’t appeal to me in any form whatsoever. Just, get that kind of thing off my lawn.

        I did watch a ton of Game Theories videos, though.

        • guyinachair@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          I wanna point out, recognizing something isn’t for you doesn’t make you old. Your refusal to recognize it as something someone else enjoys is where that boomer mentality comes in. That’s just a theory, a BOOMER theory

          Truly an internet staple

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
      1·
      10 months ago

      I had the same exact thought, but I suppose a lot of people born after 1990 would have witnessed it or the rerun and maybe felt something, but otherwise it was completely obscure. TBH I don’t really recall any of the shows from my childhood ending with a goodbye, I wasn’t all that fortunate to be worrying about those things.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      61·
      10 months ago

      I was going to say I don’t really recognize any of them, although they’re vaguely familiar …. yes, forgotten again

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        The only reason I knew it was M.A.S.H. was the font/color.

        In this case, I don’t feel too bad being missed. Keep your head down and stay out of the news :)

        That said, I watched Theorists with my tween. Kinda sad seeing MP go, but not as sad as MP was.

        I expect the channels will go tits up without his personality. The new hosts are pleasant but honestly unremarkable. The show was far less about the content and more of his performance. If you thought the idea was crap, you subliminally blamed it on him. There are plenty of other personalities out there doing what they’re doing and almost all of them go on unknown because they don’t have screen chemistry.

    • Jeom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      gen x is overlooked way too often, a ton of millennial media were made by gen x

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      As a Gen Z, agreed.

      I’ve seen just about every episode because of my dad who loves it and the series finale is absolutely amazing.