MTV generation

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Noun

MTV generation

  1. The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
    • 1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346:
      But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […] , it won't impress the MTV generation.
    • 1996, James Robert Walker, Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:
      Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]
    • 1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:
      The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.
    • 2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:
      Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.

See also

Timeline of generations
Generation AlphazoomerGeneration ZmillennialGeneration YMTV generationGeneration Xbaby boomerSilent GenerationG.I. Generationgreatest generation

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