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The authors of the book "The Coddling of the American Mind" seem to think that it's not so much Milennials as Gen Z, and attribute this to the fact that they were the first generation to grow up with the internet in their pockets. Cancel culture has always existed on university campuses to a small extent, but it only really took off after milennials had mostly graduated and the student body became entirely made up of Gen Zers.