GENERATION GAPS

Seventy years after the end of W.W. II, 50 years after the Beatles at Shea, 20 years after the birth of AOL, 10 years after YouTube, and 3 years after "Call Me Maybe," Vaninity Fair charts the latest generational divides—and the state of our psychic disunion

BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

GENERATION

iGEN

MILLENNIALS

GENX

BABY-BOOMERS

GREATEST

GENERATION

YEAR OF BIRTH

After 2000

1980-2000

1965-1979

1946-1964

Before the end of W.W. II

WHICH MAKES THEM HOW OLD?

0-14

15-35

36-50

51-69 (but they lie)

70 +

LIFE-ALTERING

EVENT

Release of the iPhone 6

Free Wi-Fi

9/11

First time they tried pot

First time they laid eyes on a '55 Ford Thunderbird

CURRENT LIVING SITUATION

Down the hall from Mom and Dad

Sharing an apartment in Brooklyn

Priced out of Brooklyn, considering Los Angeles

Back in the city, baby!

Using a revers mortagage to provide shelter for feckless offspring

HOW DO THEY GET AROUND?

Mom's Prius

Lyft

Dreaming about that '55 T-Bird

Soon-to-be-

repossessed

BMW

Handmade Dutch bicycle

TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE

YouTube

Twitter

John Oliver

Dan Rather Brian Williams

Dead

trees

PREFERRED MODE OF COMMUNICATION

Snapchat

Selfies

Text

Lawsuits

Guilt-inducing phone calls

ICON

Ariana Grande

Mark Zuckerberg

Kurt Cobain

Howard Stern

Harry Truman

SOCIAL NETWORK THEY ABANDONED FACEBOOK FOR

Instagram

Tinder

Linkedln

Match.com

The Rotary Club

ENTERTAINMENT

EXPENDITURE

$26.95 on Minecraft

$900 on Coachella

$2,000 on Burning Man

$5,000 on "Platinum" tix to the Rolling Stones

$35 on Oklahoma at community dinner theater

MONEY-

DRAINING

ADDICTION

Mobile-game

upgrades

Second home

G.O.P. fund-raising e-mails

Limited-edition Nikes

Superhero collectibles on ebay

GET-RICH-QUICK

SCHEME

Create a video game

Invent an app

Sell something to Yahoo

Flipping houses

Fracking

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY

Being Common Core guinea pigs

Trigger warnings and micro-aggressions

Artisanal

pickles

The bong

Defeating Hitler

DEFINING

CONDITION

Peanut-allergic

Gluten-intolerant

Attention-deficit-

disordered

Erectile-

dysfunctional

Permanently

aggrieved

Low batteries

Everybody doesn't get a trophy?

How to pay off grad-school loans

No longer being the center of the universe

America,

2015

DEEPEST FEAR

AND, FINNALY, THE KEY QUESTION OF THEIR LIVES

What's a

landline?

What's a career?

What's the point?

Where's the Viagra?

Where the fuck did we go so very, very wrong?

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