Keeping up with pop culture
Jun. 14th, 2024 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellI have just learned about Famous Birthdays from a news story calling it "Wikipedia for Gen Z". This appears to be wrong on two counts. One is that it doesn't allow every passing rando to edit it. (There's an edit icon but it just takes you to a form suggesting changes.)
The other is that it skews older than that description makes it sound. I had no trouble finding the big TV shows I was watching as a Gen X kid. When I looked up sf authors, I found Samuel R. Delany, C. J. Cherryh, and Mercedes Lackey, but not N. K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, or Lois McMaster Bujold. It does include Seanan McGuire, but then claims she lost the 2013 Best Novel Hugo to Isaac Asimov. (It was actually John Scalzi, who doesn't have an entry.)
The other is that it skews older than that description makes it sound. I had no trouble finding the big TV shows I was watching as a Gen X kid. When I looked up sf authors, I found Samuel R. Delany, C. J. Cherryh, and Mercedes Lackey, but not N. K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, or Lois McMaster Bujold. It does include Seanan McGuire, but then claims she lost the 2013 Best Novel Hugo to Isaac Asimov. (It was actually John Scalzi, who doesn't have an entry.)
