I'm a millennial (circa 1986 woo I'm getting old) and I can tell you that I...relate to Millennials my own age but not entirely to millenials 4 years outside of my range. Mostly because when I graduated from college it was 2009, in a terrible recession, and that's something that really affects a lot of other decisions you make at a pivotal time. It was very traumatizing.
That and there's just suuuch a range for Millennials. I am from the emo era and the very indie Sufjan Steven's vibe era--super hipster and experimental--but millennials who were born in like...1996 were little children when I was in High School. They skipped the era where we listened to Evanescence unironically. My high school era was smack dab in the middle of Death Note (as a manga. I think the anime was when I was in college.) I was there when Facebook started (like literally the year Facebook started I went to college) and I left Facebook right when they opened it up to people outside of college and it could no longer function as a party website where you can stalk your ex.
So we have very different experiences although we all used the same things and went to the same places. I was there when All Star was cool. I was also there when Millennials turned All Star into an insufferable meme.
As for my age range and how it effects what I consume on tapas--a LOT! a whole lot!
I grew up reading comics that weren't anime at all unless it were directly from Japan. That whole webtoon style of comic phenomenon just wasn't a huge thing until later. So the webcomics I grew up on were super western and in page format style. So when I came back to comics, having been away for 10 years because of--the job stuff I mentioned earlier in this post--it looked completely different. The whole landscape.
And while I do appreciate phone format and I've always loved anime styles, I kinda miss my nostalgia. 00's webcomics had sloppy edges, for sure, but I didn't mind that. I think it made me a lot more open to reading different art styles because I grew up with Western, but I'm also very influenced by the anime stuff that's already here on the site and has been growing in popularity in Western illustration. So basically...I like seeing things that look different. I don't really want comic comfort food. Especially since my comic comfort food is Calvin and Hobbes, and that's not on Tapas.
