A Generation United by the Small Screen

Most generations are named based on when the people within them were born along with a significant historical event that transpired during their lives. We are all familiar with The Lost Generation, The Greatest Generation, and The Baby Boomers and why they are given these names. Often times, these names are given in association with the role they play in whatever war is going on at the time. Recently, however, we’ve been running out of creative names (something that has been made apparent by the fact that we have named our last three generations X, Y, and Z). On top of that, after The Baby Boomers, these generations have been running together due to uncertainty of when one should end and another begin. Someone born in 1979 and someone born in 1991 hardly have enough in common to be grouped in the same generation. So, just how do we define the generation that was born from 1990 on? By the one thing we can all remember vividly from every point in our life: what was on T.V.