maybe it's just me and my infinite gift for feeling uniquely butthurt, but I think the microgenerational sliver of people who are turning 40 this year have had an especially rough go of it

too young to get rich in the first dot com boom ... confusingly in middle school for the actually cool part of the 90s ... the first election we could legally vote in was Bush v Gore ... no photos of us at our hottest because iphones didn't come out til we were 26 ...

people 4 years younger than we are had Facebook in college and are thus basically a different species, and people 4 years older are cool, rich Gen Xers who own houses because they made bank at their first job at some neon orange coolhunting agency