I have been slowly losing my mind over the mains 6's timeline. I know in the grander narrative it means pretty little but I just need to share my thoughts.
We know that the show takes place in 2017
we also know the ages of the gang (minus Cain)
I am trying to order who got there when (roughly) again I know this is basically a pointless exercise narrative wise. But fuck it I'm bored.
we know Kinger has been there the longest and Pomni the shortest (duh).
But I think Zooble is the newest next to Pomni. They are one of the youngest but she is also only just now fully challenging Jax's and getting closer to Gangle. This means they have not had a set dynamic with everyone and why they were still pretty raw about their appearance early on in the show. I think character wise it fits and explains a lot of their snappy nature early on.
i have no clue how is next between Jax and Gangle. but if I have to guess I would say Jax has been there longer simply do to the amount of rank pulling with Gangle he does (making her join his teams etc.)
Ragatha is the second longest out of the current crew one due to her age but also she did not get the breaking bad ref (more on that in a bit).
So the order is most likely:
But when did they get there is the next question. ep 5 is a gold mined for this as it shows who knows what. As mentioned Ragatha did not get the Breaking Bad ref it came out in 2008, so that's the cut off for her and Jax's uses more mid 2010's language (cringe, using youtuber as a noun ect.)
I have no clue when Kinger got there but lets say he has been there since the start, ok so the first VR headset used for gaming was in 1994
[in] 1994, Sega had released the VR-1 motion simulator ride attraction in Joypolis indoor theme parks, as well as the Dennou Senki Net Mercarcade game
also the theme park thing seems like a relevant ref here.
Ragatha was a real estate agent in or around 2008 aka the housing crisis in the USA which is probably why she was around abandoned buildings, I am going to stay it was early to mid 2008 cause BB was around but didn't gangbusters until early season 2. so she may not have know about it even if it was out. And she is mostly likely the kind of co worker to take the jobs not body else wanted to be seen as more likeable.
Jax i would say it was around 2015 for the fact that he used youtuber as a job title and people were only able to get paid for their vid's since 2015. it also explains his very 'its just a prank bro' attitude that was very popular in that era of YT.
I think Ganagle being around the same time but later that year makes sense to me cause she would be about 20 in 2009 and working in Fast Food this could mean that she still had hope for her future (going to collage) but got crushed by the realities of the rescission and working in retail (fair and real).
side note I can't think of a reason for Gangle to be near the headset at all? like Pomi and Zobble just went to abandoned buildings for fun, Kinger likely worked on it, Ragatha would have been near it due to work, and Jax was running from something so he ended up in a random build at least tracks. But Ganagle? no idea, but here is some bullshit I pulled out of my ass:
she is an NPC and that is why she didn't get an evil version in ep 5
there was a headset at the McDonald's she worked at? maybe C&A made worker training videos?
she found it in the community collage as they were using old equipment to save money?
Zooble I feel would be a year later making it a bit awkward for her to fit in with everyone but also keep to herself for a descent amount of time.
Kinger 1994 - Worker on the TADC
Ragatha 2008- Was a real estate agent inspecting a C&A building during the rescission
Jax 2015- a ran away who found a C&A building (maybe)
Zooble 2016- Urban explorer
Pomni 2017- Urban explorer