After millennials came...The Founders

[benjipwns]

http://time.com/4130679/millennials-mtv-generation/

Griffin is part of a generation that hasn’t been fully defined but appears to break from millennials—and one that doesn’t yet have a widely accepted name. MTV is looking to change that, and the network will announce a new name Wednesday: the Founders.

MTV President Sean Atkins says the name acknowledges that while millennials have disrupted society, it’s this new generation’s job to rebuild it. “They have this self-awareness that systems have been broken,” he told TIME ahead of the announcement. “But they can’t be the generation that says we’ll break it even more.”

“The Founders” generation is still in its early stages, and the perceptions being formed may change over time. MTV executives say they realize that and may rethink the name in the future. But for now, they’re sticking with Founders, a name Griffin, the New York City teenager, endorses.

“It definitely describes our generation,” he says. “And considering the other names out there, it’s a lot easier to remember.”

[benjipwns]

This was a thing:

echo boomer

noun, Informal.
1.
a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.

Origin of echo boomer
so called because many are children (‘echos’) of baby boomers, and the birthrate also increased in the 1980s and 1990s

[ToxicAdam]

The Screenies.

[Human Snorenado]

The Derps

[Madrun Badrun]

A generation of young girls who all think they can pull off the Miley Cyrus look

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MTV President Sean Atkins says the name acknowledges that while millennials have disrupted society, it’s this new generation’s job to rebuild it. “They have this self-awareness that systems have been broken,” he told TIME ahead of the announcement. “But they can’t be the generation that says we’ll break it even more.”

What.

[Madrun Badrun]

When no one cares what you say, you can say anything. 

[ToxicAdam]

MTV President Sean Atkins says the name acknowledges that while millennials have disrupted society, it’s this new generation’s job to rebuild it. “They have this self-awareness that systems have been broken,” he told TIME ahead of the announcement. “But they can’t be the generation that says we’ll break it even more.”

What.

Please reference middle graph

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How did we disrupt society? I'm so confused. We haven't had the time to disrupt anything yet.

[ToxicAdam]

It was the millennials that made Mtv irrelevant and also quit paying for cable television altogether. Quite disruptive to a man like him.

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Ahhh.

[recursivelyenumerable]

fuck, i was totally meaning to call dibs on naming the next generation just yesterday but i think my reminders app must've had a sync error or something and i forgot. goddamn mtv you canny smooth bastards.

[Tasty]

Title sounds like a cut plotline from Destiny or some shit.

[Joe Molotov]

Sold.

[benjipwns]

How did we disrupt society? I'm so confused. We haven't had the time to disrupt anything yet.

Something about using Facebook and Twitter a lot. And Uber. And getting music videos on YouTube.

MTV is part of a growing number of media companies and marketers that have been trying to figure out what drives this group. Research is beginning to show that teenagers today are more pragmatic and independent than their millennial predecessors. They’re more likely to stand out than fit in. They’re digital natives who don’t know a time before being constantly plugged in. And they’re part of the most diverse generation in history, a generation that will soon be as coveted among marketers as millennials.
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MTV says its research shows that younger teens today see a world drastically disrupted. Facebook and Google have upended the news business. YouTube has disrupted television. Airbnb and Uber have unsettled long-established industries like hotels and taxis. The economy itself was disrupted by the Great Recession, creating a world in which their parents may have lost their jobs and family budgets are tight.

[Samson Manhug]

I have to admit I'm kind of sad that the new generation is getting the spotlight. Millenials are old news.

[recursivelyenumerable]

anyway Qualcomm already christened them generation M for BORN MOBILE. i am so jealous of them. i will never have a girlfriend who is totally hot and by hot i mean fuego.  :'(

[thisismyusername]

Title sounds like a cut plotline from Destiny or some shit.

Using the snake person extension makes it even better for a Destiny plotline.

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I have to admit I'm kind of sad that the new generation is getting the spotlight. Millenials are old news.

Think of this way. We will no longer be blamed for everything, and the new gen seems  pro-millennial.

[VomKriege]

God those generation labels are so garbage. We don't fucking need to brand everything like cattle.

[benjipwns]

Would be cool if this could be the last generation and we could just wind things down after that.

Do you mean in an extermination of the human race kind of way? Because...I mean...it is you...

[Human Snorenado]

I don't understand where the hatred of Gen X comes from, nor do I get how the Millennials have fucked anything up. (You'd have to do anything in order to fuck anything up)

Whole thing seems like a ploy to distract hatred from where it belongs: the boomers, who actually fucked everything up.

[chronovore]

Who actually fucked everything up after coasting in on the tails of The Greatest Generation, and subsequently point at everyone else as the cause of all problems, despite having abandoned all their own ideals.

[tiesto]

I never got the etymology of the "silents" name.

[Great Rumbler]

The dank meme generation.

[thisismyusername]

I never got the etymology of the "silents" name.

1920's, silent films coming into vogue.

[Barry Egan]

imagine being the type of person who would read an article like this with sincerity.

[Madrun Badrun]

They are the kind of people that peeked in highschool. 

[brawndolicious]

I just got the pun in the title. 

Aren't these generations usually evaluated after puberty at least? Since your teens are usually the point you're most in touch with popular culture.

[Madrun Badrun]

They are the kind of people that peeked in highschool.

Peeked at what? Into the girls' locker room?

You know what I meant, jerk

[studyguy]

The shitposter generation.

Years from now you'll tell your kids at how you managed to duckroll some fuck on FB.

[Joe Molotov]

I just got the pun in the title. 

Aren't these generations usually evaluated after puberty at least? Since your teens are usually the point you're most in touch with popular culture.

MTV is the only the bleeding edge of culture, I trust them implicitly. Just look at this Sword of Shannara TV series they got coming out, which is designed specifically for the FOUNDER GENERATION and their love of Terry Brooks, voice of the generation.

[Shadow Mod]

We disrupted society? lol, Millennials accomplished a lot in between working shit jobs, going into student loan debt and generally watching unions/safety nets erode away while boomers were grandfathered into the good shit 

[Great Rumbler]

Do people still watch MTV?

[kick51]

jesus fuckin christ, consider the source of this sagely wisdom.  MTV making the babe ruth call on what the next gen's attitude must be like   


and also shit is not disrupted enough at all.  It won't start coming together till the baby boomers die off. 

[Yeti]

Internet killed the MTV star

[Samson Manhug]

RIP in peace TRL

[Yulwei]

This whole marketing obsession with generational names never seizes to make me cringe.

[ToxicAdam]

Carson Daly is still getting getting checks from that talk show no one watches. What the fuck ..

[benjipwns]

Carson Daly is still getting getting checks from that talk show no one watches. What the fuck ..

I read somewhere that and hosting The Voice was his payoff because he had a clause in his contract regarding succeeding Conan/Fallon on Late Night.

EDIT: lol, it's still on too

It was eventually decided that Daly would limit his role on Last Call to the opening and closing segments as of the 13th season. All other segments are either interviews done by producers or production assistants without comment by them, or straight musical performances with only Daly's continuity introducing them

[benjipwns]

I knew he was around and on The Voice because of it running over before shows. And that gets like 14 million viewers an episode. And somehow had nine seasons in four years.