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The term "Generation Snowflake" or "Snowflake Generation" was popularized by Claire Fox's 2016 book I Find That Offensive!. The book discussed a 2015 student/faculty confrontation at Yale University between university students and faculty head of college, Nicholas A. Christakis that was recorded and uploaded to YouTube .
Snowflake Bentley, a 1998 children's book by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Generation Snowflake, a derogatory term derived from the slang word snowflake, referring to the young adults of the 2010s who are perceived as quicker to take offence and less resilient than previous generations
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Move out of the way Gen Z, a new generation is taking over. Generation Alpha, or Gen Alpha, is comprised of those born between 2010 and 2024 — children between infancy and 14 years old.
Millennials and Generation Z dislike the 'snowflake' characterisation, and believe it less than older generations do.
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012 and is considered the first generation to have largely grown up using the internet, modern technology and social media.
Other terms, such as the Star Wars Generation, the Oregon Trail Generation [20] and Generation Catalano [21] have been proposed. Doree Shafrir , writing for Slate magazine, chose " Generation Catalano " for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (born 1971), from the 1994–95 teen drama My So-Called Life .
Millennials get the period from 1981 to 1996, another 15 year interval, then Generation Z is the term for those born 1997 to 2012, another 15-year “generation.”