Yeah same but iGeneration is actually put under Generation Alphas thing (idk what it’s called) I don’t know how that really makes sense but I am learning about this stuff in one of my classes and it’s interesting to find out why Generation Alpha is getting the iGeneration name instead of gen Z’s but my teacher explained it in a way where it was easy for us to understand why, but I still think it should be in Gen z not Alpha
@@sofiaelena1973 Okay but see this is the kind of divide we're talking about here... I am ten years older than you, born in 97. IPads didn't exist when I was 9. I didn't know anyone that had what we now refer to as a "smart phone" until I was in high school, although my dad had a Blackberry in 08 (it was anything but smart). I'm pretty sure the year I turned 9, I got a Zune (that's a major throwback) for Christmas, although it might have been the year after. I suppose we in some ways were a part of this technology generation and did have some tech from a young age (I had a desktop at 4) but the technology was just really, really different then and the generational norms that all of you experience really are different than ours. My sister was born in 02 and as someone who is now a teacher I really, really struggle to relate to my students who are only five years younger than me because of a very noticeable generational gap. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a millennial. I had to endure all the torture of being called an entitled millennial for years, so I'm going to stick with the label.
Jacob Wilkins i really really want to thumbs up your comment but i struggle to accept that u cant just call yourself the generation you are. I was born two years earlier than you and im still gen z. Just because old idiots call us millennials doesnt make us millennials. There are 35 year old millennials who think that six year olds are gen z. Theyre not. Theyre gen alpha. And they think that we are millennials. We are not. We are gen z. What do you think millennials think they Are if they think we are millennials and gen alpha is gen z? You said you are a teacher, but you would prefer to go by what stupid idiots think rather than the truth, which is fucking concerning.
august 1998 here, i watched disney movies on VHS when i was a kid and i don't understand tiktok . . . but i also grew up on the internet so what is it 😔
Every generation has been accused of being narcissistic. Once upon a time baby boomers were being accused of ruining society because of rock music, hippie culture, vietnam and civil rights protests, etc... "Kids these days" is an ancient story that will probably never go away, which is why I never took a lot of the millennial critisms to heart.
I’m from Argentina, so tech takes longer to arrive here because it’s more expensive so I share all the technology stuff she said even though I was born in Dec. 1999
*exactly* this. I'm trying to get into tiktok, though, to relate/stay informed with my younger sisters. I'm as old as the content creator, and us sisters each have a six year gap. Both the 17yo and the 11yo use snapchat, tiktok, etc.
That's so Raven, Cory in the House, Kim Possible, Brandy and Mr Whiskers, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley Place, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, HOUSE OF MOUSE (good lord, House of Mouse was probably the last good piece of Mickey Mouse cartoons for years before 2018's Mickey Mouse shorts came up). Basically Disney Afternoon and Toon Disney was where it was at for late Gen Z-ers. My sister was born '08 and has no idea Raven Baxter had a brother
Yes as a 2000 baby, we enjoyed some goodies like Kim possible, jake long the American teenage dragon, the proud family, that’s so raven, but then also Hannah Montana, wizards of waverly place, suite life of Zach and Cody, good luck Charlie all those gems could go on forever of shows. Also the amazing Disney channel original movies like sky high, princess protection program, or teen beach movie. Don’t forget Nickelodeon with ICarly, or Cartoon Network with total drama Island, cow and chicken, and dexters laboratory. Or PBS kids with Caiou and dragon tales omfg my whole childhood.
I love how the comment sections of these videos have kind of become a support group for people who are out of touch or don't really fit in too much. It's so wholesome
I feel like a nihilistic misfit for a millennial that's for sure, I criticize them as well as the Baby Boomers, only Generations I won't criticize are Greatest Generation, Silent Gen, and Generation X
You might not have closed blockbuster, but that doesn't mean I forgive you. You know they rented video games right? Like 25% of my local store was just video games that you could rent for 2 weeks and return for like $5, and we'll never get that back.
I would personally argue that Zillennials really are their own micro generation. We did have phones and stuff as children, but not until our teen years, and that's shaped our interactions/opinions on both technology and society in a completely unique way. Maturing ALONGSIDE technology is a completely different experience from both growing up outside and growing up online.
Where do you come up with 1994? I was born in 93 do I not belong I ask cause I don’t feel I don’t fit in with a 1981 millennial I was using an iPhone at 16 in 9th grade what do you think ? I definitely grew up before 18 in the i-generation I wasn’t big into social media tho
@@annaborbon5425 you even tho I’m 1 year shy of 1994 cutoff I couldn’t identify as a zillenial? I feel 1993 is an odd one because it’s over looked mathematically brining you into the 2010s by adulthood vs the common 2000s millennials. There are all these defining moments that indicate millennials like remembering 9/11 coming of age during the 2008 crash. Both are vague memories I was 8 years old in 9/11 and in 2008 I wasn’t coming of age I was just starting high school. Mid 80s to early 90s true millennials it has to count for something that I’m on the border of 94.
@@annaborbon5425 I don't know I was born in 93 as well and definitely don't feel like a true millennial. Most of my peers in high school had computers, phones(most were touch screen), there was social media, people spend alot of time on the Internet, and TH-cam was already blowing up. The 2008 financial crisis had zero effect on my life and most of my friends aswell. Don't remember 9/11. We didn't have Instagram, Twitch, online gaming wasn't as big, neither was online shopping though
@@annaborbon5425 Nope we were poor. I was 7 when 9/11 happened I didn't even find out about 9/11 until much later. Technically I belong to millenial but so do you. But I would assume you don't feel as such, so do I mostly. You said you were born in 96 I mean that's nothing in terms of change compared to 93. I feel like a cusper causs most of my teens were surrounded by all the tech we have today. It was simply just in it's beginning phase.
I feel like the whole "generations" debate is too US-centric. Most people in the world can't relate to stuff like 9/11, the recession, specific shootings. I think each country or region should have it's own definition of Millennials, Gen Z, Baby Boomers, etc. Obviously they would all have points where they meet, especially since newer generations are more globally connected thanks to the Internet and technology.
No it’s not. It’s a demographic research topic across the western world. This video is US centric because the creator is from the US. Also where she refers to 9/11- THAT WAS AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. That’s why you have the security you see in airports today, across the world. I was 21 when 9/11 happened and I remember it clearly, not because of my age, but because here in the UK it was the ONLY thing on the TV for days. It’s still on the TV every anniversary. Replay after replay. The recession also happened in the UK, Greece and many other countries. Additionally with Globalisation, when the richest country in the world goes into recession it directly affects the economy, trade and inflation of other countries.
Honestly being on the cusp is great because we can relate to older and younger people. Old enough to fit in w millennials but young enough that Gen Z thinks we’re cool lol
Being a millennial from a European country I definitely remember 9/11 and I fully understand the impact it had, it really did have an impact on the whole world. But saying my youth was shaped by it goes a bit far.
@@Riowe I keep thinking that too. I was born in 01 and grew up with a lot of things from the 90s, always played outside without technology and later witnessed the new changes and got my first flip phone quite late. The people from 04 onwards somehow behave differently. It feels like a new generation begins from 04.
@@justlukas701 EXACTLY that’s how I feel. I’m 02 in I do remember playing outside with 04 babies but it was still cause they had phones in stuff I didn’t
Join us here in Gen Z, we're living it up playing fortnite and popping adderall for fourteen hours a day to forget about the fact that it's getting hotter outside.
and share the daily paranoia that is thinkign that if you step into your school it could be the day you die... school shootings love emor hate em.. we all hate them wtf
Gen Z will go down in history as the opioid generation, you guys are all drugged the fuck out and every girl has anxiety and every guy has Aspergers or adhd
When I’m 80 my grandchild will come over and say “hey grandpa I’m doing a school project on memes Me:sheds a single tear “I think I can help you with that”
Technology has developed so quickly over the last 20-30years meaning that we are living in one of the most rapidly accelerating periods of history. I don't think dividing generations into 20year chunks seems appropriate anymore. I think there needs to be shorter intervals.
i love being on the millennial/gen-z cusp, you have: - charli xcx's vroom vroom - black eyed peas - not fully understanding tiktok - not fully being part of the vine age - living through vines - buzzfeed video and youtube
Emilia lmao same 97’ had my first smart phone in middle/highschool but I also had a phone that u press the number multiple times to get a certain letter
Elle BC What? Lol. I was 6 when 9-11 happened and I remember it vividly. I remember exactly where I was. Are you saying that you’re 40 and you’re a millennial?
MO MARIE the oldest millennial is 39 so most likely. Like Tiffany said in her vid the “I’m younger than the generational cohort and I’ve experienced blah blah blah so your analysis doesn’t make sense” line doesn’t apply to an entire generation. Experiences are relative but the MAJORITY of millennials can remember 911( I was in 2nd grade in dance class, confused why all these kids were being sent home and I wasn’t) while the majority of gen z were taught 911. Doesn’t mean that there are certain millennials that don’t remember or gen z that do, it’s just the best way to categorize a generation while it’s still pretty current.
i will never forget seeing this meme that the group that falls between millennials and gen z should be called gen shrek or something like that bc the first shrek came out in the early 2000s and that was like the defining event/phenomena of this group LMAO
@@FruityHachi I actually feel like Harry Potter really gained popularity in the last 5 to 6 years. Maybe it's just here in Italy, but I remember when I was in middle school (like 2013 to 2014) liking Harry Potter was something that was looked down upon, kinda like a "nerdy" thing, and you were made fun of for it. Then after a little bit, seemingly out of nowhere, everyone loved it and knew everything about it, even the people who made fun of you for liking it just a year prior. I remember those times where Pottermore was still Pottermore and it was truly magical. And how to forget the first time I took the test to find the house I belonged to... Nice memories 😍
@@giuliami2706 i think it’s just Italy, i’m from Slovakia and i have found articles from 2003 that Pottermania arrived here too kids weren’t made fun of for liking it, and I remember that in around 2004, 05 plenty of kids in my class liked HP, had school supplies and bag packs with HP, it was actually the “cool” thing to like HP, one of my closest friends at that time was a potterhead
I was born in 1996, I graduated from high school with people born in 1996-1997, and I graduated from college with people born in 1997-1998. I think high school graduation year needs to be taken into consideration when determining generational demographics.
So does 1996-1997. If u and ur brother had same childhood (1995-1996) than 1996 also have same childhood with 1997. And then 1997 can say the same thing about 1998. That they grow up the same. Heck, even 1999 can say the same thing about 2000. And the cycle goes on. If that's the case than all generations has no end because According to you, each year born a year apart can relate to each other. It has to end somewhere.
@@rhys4489 But how is anyone born in 1995 any different from 1996? Is weird how you kids love to act like 1995 babies have a dramatic difference in comparison to those who were born 1996.
@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast Wow are you wrong, gen alpha has begun. Let me ask you what you think anyone born after 2013 is considered? Generation alpha of course what else? Simple logic.
KILIMANJARO i dont know. The toddlers seem pretty gen z to me. Well, one thing is that 1997 isnt gen z. I would sooner consider mid 2010s babies as alpha than 97 to ever be generation z
same I was born in '98 and my brother (15('03)) is always mocking me for being to old to understand certain things in Pop culture. It's an ongoing joke between my younger sibilings
This is such a fun watch. I'm a 2001 baby, but my little sister's (2007) childhood was different from mine in so many ways. So I'm solidly Gen Z, but I remember when I was younger everyone told us we were millennials. I still remember VHS and the home desktop, and I didn't get my first phone until middle school. I also loved your blockbuster and Netflix convo, that was funny to remember. BUT my first phone was a smartphone, and I went to an online meeting school for 4 years. I took online "gifted" classes. It's just crazy to think about how much 5 years can change my experiences from my younger sister's because I think some of my earliest memories align a lot more with yours.
I was born in 2000 and I believe one of the biggest reasons us older gen z's don't like being called gen z or being associated with the generation is because we grew up during the "millennial = young person" time, so we spent our whole childhood being called millennials until gen z started getting more attention when we were in our late teens or early twenties and we were suddenly being called gen z, but we'd been conditioned to think we were millennials, so we all tried to prove that we were millennials and clung onto google results that said the millennial cutoff was in the early 2000s...it's a really strange position to be in lmao
as a 98er, wholeheartedly agree. And like, growing up as the youngest of three I also got to experience more millennial things for myself. I got their old phone before getting anything else. When the flip phones came out I was 11 but I also used my mom's laptop for the first time. But we also had a home phone until I was 19. Situationally speaking, people's financial situations also make a huge difference. Someone who grew up poorer tended to not have newer things, including newer technology.
@@thatsdisco I was born in '97. I agree with what you said about finances. I technically didn't grow up on the internet because my family couldn't afford at home internet. I started being on it daily in middle school, but before then I would use it in places w/ free wifi or at family members' homes.
The toxic part of Gen Z is mostly the ones that were born from 2007- and up. They’ve been unfortunately grown up with the internet in their face and a tablet on their face by the time they came out of the womb. People need to start distinguishing two types of Gen Z’s because not all of us are like what we are stereotyped to be, grown up with social media in our face, totally wrong.
@@metalrockstarizer89 feel like it's kinda weird to call gen z kids born 2007 and later "toxic" though, considering they're 14 at the oldest and still in elementary school at the youngest
@@quincyquiz I just said that partly because there becoming much more prominent in social media outlets like TH-cam Snapchat and Instagram, they’re getting phones at a much younger age, becoming more prone to addiction to being an “influencer” “gossip” spending less time outside, constantly worrying what other kids their age are doing, when I mean toxic I don’t mean that they’re terrible but there more prone to become more social media addicts compared to us and more likely to rebel.
As someone who was born in late December 1996, hearing the definition that “Millennials end in 1996, Gen Z starts in 1997!” gives me an existential crisis
Netflix still has a DVD rental service, just not as frequently as they have back in the early days before they spewed a mix of good and bad tv shows and movies.
i feel like a big element of this being a 'cusper" is also just how wealthy your family was growing up. like i was born in 2000 but a lot of my childhood was still vhs and using the home phone and computer and owning a flip phone but it was mostly because we had less money.
2000 still wouldn't be considered "cusper" though lol. No matter how poor you were growing up. I was born in 91 and I still remember record players and black and white TVs because we we're poor af lol. That doesn't make me a boomer. It just means I was poor 😂😂😂
@@colanico2003 The first lost generation was during World War I. I consider the second lost generation to be people who were young during 9/11 and/or the beginning Iraq/Afghanistan war. As well as people young enough to remember the days before smartphones and internet culture.
I was born in 94' and relate so much. I was 7 when 9-11 happened and I vaguely remember watching the news about it. I also think that most people born from around 92' to 2000' were the first kids and teens to really have to navigate school issues coming home with us because of social media. I remember getting Facebook in 8th grade, and then Instagram, snapchat and vine were big throughout high school. Also online gaming became huge around middle school and high school. Before I remember Inviting friends over to play split screen Halo with 4 of us, then freshman year high school hits and my friends and I text each other to play call of duty on xbox live. I think this really defines us "cuspers" or "Zillenials." We grew up, for a small portion of our life much like older Millennials but our middle school and high school years have a lot in common with how Gen Z teens are growing up today. Older Millennials who were out of high school by the time social media, youtube, online gaming exploded didn't experience this.
to me people born in between 1995-2000 is like the weirdest generation ever like...we are our own generation but we're a lil bit of both millenials and gen z. some part of uswanted to be in gen z, some wanted to be millenials. i am in fact born in 1997 and to be honest when people talked about a specific group/gen i just don't fit in any of them? so i stop thinking about but seriously when media keep shoving us in the face about "millenials this, gen z that" it's so damn frustrating! this might seems weird but sometimes i do feel offended by that 😔 thanks to you i learned something new called cusper, literally never heard of it until today!
I was born in early 95 and I kinda dont feel like I get along well with anyone who is 1 and up years younger than me and to be honest I don’t like tik tok and never have downloaded the app because i just don’t find it amusing so I would say that Gen z starts from 96 up until the late 2000s. Facts
My thing is if you dont remember 9/11 at all then its hard to call you a millenial or if you didnt remember y2k those events defined that era . A 90s kid remember all about these important events and remembers where they were at the time like it was yesterday . thats just my opinion though
but what I dont get about the whole "if you dont remember 9/11" is like I was about to turn 3 and while I dont remember 9/11 itself, I remember the events surrounding it. I remember that summer and I remember my bday a month later.
@@prestigiouscrown6876 i was born in 96 and i never had friends older than me because i didnt get along with them and all my friends were younger than me
We are the lost one's. Born between the golden age of disney tv cartoons and the dark void of internet fuckery. We are the best and worst of both worlds. I'm also sad most of the time...
This suddenly makes me think of the silent generation. Born from around 1939-1945. Very short for a generation. Also small for it's length in years, because people weren't having many kids, as all the men were off fighting in WWII. My grandmother is from that generation, and is very proud to not be a baby boomer.
As someone born in 2000, I feel like older gen z kids were all old enough to remember stuff like blockbuster, dial up, and vcrs, but that all went away by the time we were preteens, and this new age of technology started during our most formative years. I remember the 2008 recession, but at eight years old, I was too young to process what any of that meant. We played outside, but we also started on social media as young as 11 or 12 years old. Some of us even had a flip phone for a short period of time. We had ipods before we had iphones, and all our snapchat usernames are extremely embarrassing, because the app came out while we were in middle school.
@@XxSukiDaisukiXxMe too, except the snapchat thing (I got mine when I was 16 and didn't care what to make my name so it was auto-generated to my initials). I honestly think it's silly that us 2000-born kids aren't called millenials because we were literally born in the new millenium. Yes, it's come to mean those who came of age around the new milennium, but the way that the average cutoff is set up, it has people born in the early '80's and having the ability to make sense of the world before the millenium even started called millenials. What defines coming of age, turning 18 or being old and mature enough to understand the world around you and what it all means?
was born in '98 and can relate I remember buying videos from blockbuster and I remember a time when cell phones were still motorola. I think the first proper apple ipod came out when I was like 12/13.
I’m old enough to remember rotary phones and 8 tracks. Dani was years away in the future when I was born. I guess I’m gen X. I was a baby when Nixon resigned.
My late father had a record collection and I listened to Elvis, Beach Boys, and CCR. My father passed March 8, 1986. I recorded off the radio on tapes in the 80's. What do today's kids use for music? Streaming downloads? Are even CD's obsolete? Back in the day we had to wait for a favorite song to play on the radio, or go out and buy the record/cassette/CD. I liked Casey Kasem's American Top 40 in the 80's. I listen to replays on the internet, from a streaming station playing them 24/7, or from websites that have some full shows on demand, 4shared, mixcloud, etc. His show reminds me of a simpler time. The young ones today will never know that simpler time.
trust me be grateful you don't remember dial up.. it was that annoying and the time period on the net was more limited plus you can't use the phone and net at the same time.
Im born in 2000 too. The thing I read about this is that millennials are millennials because they were old enough to have their first conscious memories from around 2000. Also read this thing that if you remember the live on 9/11 then you are a millennial. Idunno. It's confusing. Im not from the US so I'm not even sure if I can relate to the GenZ experiences
Millennials are people who grew up during the turn of the millennium. That’s why we are called millennials. Considering how many times I heard the term “millennium” during my adolescence, I think it’s appropriate.
We are called millenials because we were born at the start of the 21st century and we could actually experience the millenium. Those born 1999- 2000 could not
1990s to 2000s are called 'Zillineals'. People who experienced the shift from old technology to digital era. I remembered my school gave out diskette, and myspace were still huge than Facebook.
I was born in ‘97 and FELT this video. You should do an internet analysis vid just on memes, I think as much as they are jokes they also incredibly fascinating in terms of marketing and exposure
I am born in 1997, and in many ways I feel like I'm culturally closer to current late teens than young adults. Internet culture and interests affect a great deal.
Juan Pablo Corredor that makes sense, I could definitely see how you’d feel that way! Majority of my friends are older than me and I’m not huge into social media or anything like that, so I’m sure that contributes. Interesting to hear your perspective!
I was born in 98 (I'm 23) and I've never felt like I'm gen Z. It might be partly because I have much older siblings and grew up listening to all their music, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a young child etc. I've also heard Millennials defined as people who can remember 9/11 (as opposed to gen z, who can't), pretty sad metric, but I can or at least I remember my parents explaining it to me when it happened.
I was also born in 98 and just like you, I never felt like a true generation Z individual because I was raised around millennial concepts or principles. I even remember having conversations on landlines! Honestly I feel like these generation labels separate people rather than unite them.
I was born in 1997, got 3 older siblings(all 90s kids) was practically raised by them, grew up listening to their music and watched tv shows they watched. So I always thought I was a millennial. I voted in 2016 election and graduated from college in 2019 before the pandemic hit. The whole campus being closed and attending classes online is another thing I can't relate to. Hell, anyone born post 2000 is still a kid in my head. Being grouped in the same gen as them just feels bizzare.
It's not about how you feel. It's about when you were born. There are plenty of people who are obsessed with Victorian era or Edwardian era England, but it doesn't mean they aren't people of the modern world. You're Generation Z.
I also noticed that a lot of things that “define“ generations are things Americans relate to rather than Europeans For example: 9/11 and the 2008 economy did affect us, yes, but not as much as the USA
Debby W I feel like generations in Europe (cannot talk about other continents) should definitely be defined differently than those in the US. (And there should also be a generation inbetween Y and Z. The millennial group is way too big.)
Dominic Dawes I’ve noticed that too. I was class of 2018, and all of the things that are known as “Gen Z” trends like TikTok, e-girls/e-boys, VSCO girls, etc. really became popular during my freshman year of college. Gen Z culture is just high school culture at this point.
The cool thing about being born 1997-98 is that you can say you’re either Generation and still be kinda right. People born 1995-96 (like me and Tiffany here) on the other hand are without a doubt millenials.
I bet this has been said in the comments already but I would say that the biggest difference between the generations is that millennials grew up with hope for the world and then had those hopes crushed with 9/11, the war on terror, school shootings, and the climate crisis. They tend to have a darker view on the world and are more nostalgic for their childhood when these things weren’t common. Gen z grew up with all of these things already existing so they’re just part of the world for us. We don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a war on terror or when school shootings weren’t in the news at least once a year. Because it’s normal to us, we joke about it a lot more because it’s one of the only ways to cope with the fact that we are going to be living in a world that that has a less than stellar economy, an environment that is quickly failing, and constant war, and there isn’t that much we can do to change it unless the older generations start changing things now. By the time we have enough influence it will be too late. So basically the big difference is that millennials still see the world as much darker than their child hood, while gen z grew up in the dark. I don’t know if this made any sense at all but it’s basically how I feel about the generational gap
This is so true! I think nostalgia runs really deep with millennials, and I think we tend to idolize our childhood and our childhood experiences more than other generations. But that's just my personal opinion 😌
Absolutely right. Almost my entire life, I’ve seen nothing but how the world’s economic and political systems can utterly fail, and there’s nothing worse than knowing that the world went to hell in a handbasket long ago and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
I am definitely a Zillenial since I grew up with Cable TV, VHS, Blockbuster, early Netflix discs, and did not get my first phone at all until I got an iPhone 5 at age 16. I remember pirating Minecraft on my Samsung Tablet and playing Worldcraft 2, which was the best knock-off Minecraft clone. I also remember playing Space Cadet Pinball on Windows XP, playing the sims 2, NFS underground, Midnight Club 3 dub edition remix. I did not grow up with dialup and AOL, but I remember early youtube in 2009 and watching all the YTP videos I can find.
I really feel like 1997 - 2001/2002 is its own generation. Like we relate to each other on so many more levels than we do to that of Millennials and Gen Z.
@@aimdog2000 Depends on when you were born in those years. Like I'm 2001 but my birthday is pretty early in the year so I went to school with 2000s babies.
Elena Johnston i’m early 04 and even i can relate to millennials or late 90s kids sometimes, that doesn’t necessarily mean i should be grouped with them. 01-04 are like early gen z years with ‘95-00 being the cusps
Elizabeth LeBeau i’m a freshman in high school right now so there’s no one in my class who was alive during 9/11. it must be so wild for our teachers who have to teach kids, who weren’t alive during 9/11, about 9/11
@@user-iz8rr1kt5w even if they were born before 9/11, teachers have been teaching 9/11 to people who were still too young to remember or really get it when it happened for quite some time now. It isn't all that new.
Yeah, that is crazy. I was in like 7th grade when 9/11 happened. It was such a huge deal, i remember the teachers all stopped their classes and put on the news, and everyone just watched. A lot of kids were taken home early, but at that time I had only been in America for about 5 years, so i don't think my parents really understood how important of an event it was, or how important the Twin Towers were. I definitely got a better feel for the magnitude of the situation though, seeing how my teachers and classmates reacted
I was born 29 Dec 1996 and I have never been so confused about anything in my life because I literally relate with both generations. Thank you for this video I have some kind of relief.
willy head bc I've always been called a millenial or seen myself as one and didn't really know about gen z til recently bc ppl associate it with tiktok and now I have an identity crisis bc I'm not a 12 yr who does dances on tiktok (even tho I have the app and love it) and that's what I feel like most people see gen z as. And bc so many ppl tell me I'm actually a millenial, it dosen't really help
What pisses me off about the whole thing is that the term “gen z” didn’t really start getting used in reference to people my age until AFTER I left for college. I and people in my age group were all called millennials by our parents and our schools until suddenly we weren’t. I was born in ‘98 and it frustrates me to no end that I grew up a millennial then suddenly got stuffed into a category of people I feel I have very little in common with. Then when I make the argument that individual experience matters people say that I’m making it too complicated, like it’s completely arbitrary anyway so why do you care if I make it complicated?
I was born in 99 it’s weird I was brought up like a millennial, Idk if it was just me but my school often tested different state exams on us. I had to take 3 different ones until they settled on one. I always felt like we’re the lab rat generation.
*me when I tried to look up which generation I’m in* “Millennials are born between 1981-1996” “Gen Z’s are born between 1996-2010” Me: born in 1996 [internal screaming]
I was born in 1997 and I think I'm a Zillennial, I grew up in the whole 2000s as a kid, I was a teenager during most of the 2010s until 2017, I'm 27 now so I'm about to be 30 in a few years so this decade has got me feeling so old compared to the last decades.
I’m 29 and call myself a Zillennial to. I was born in late '94 _(so less 2 years proceeding the start of the last millennial birth year and less than 3 years proceeding the start of the first zoomer birth year)_ That’s young enough that I was usually one of the youngest people in my grade level and despite being born in the mid-90s I still consider myself a 2000 kid mostly. I wasn’t a teen until the late 2000s and was below 21 more than half of the 2010s I hardly have memories of age 3 _(most of which took place in in '98 not '97)_ and that made my Kindergarten year the class of 2000- so I don’t really have school memories of the 1990s. Idk why online 1994 kids qualify as 90s kids. What we remember of the 90s was mostly playing in a sandbox, not pop culture AS it was happening. My husband was born in the early 80s and he’s the truest of the 90s kid imo because he actually spend the entirety of the 90s an actual kid/teen _(not newborn, infant, toddler- that shit doesn’t count)_
Do you know how many people in their early to mid 30's I've met that tell me how much they hate my millennial generation and I'm like "you do know YOU are a millennial right?"
rayamat01 those are the people who say they’re Gen X but they were born in 1987. Meanwhile I was born in 1976 and I think I’m a little too young to be Gen X (but definitely too old to be a millennial).
rayamat01 I’ve seen the most rudeness from boomers. They cut us in line all the time and turn down their noses because of the way we look and they don’t know us as people at all. They say we’re lazy but we work the most and get paid the least. I can barely afford to live in the generation/economy those boomers so lovingly built for us.
Ugh. You must have met some grumpy ass 30 year olds. I'm 32 millenial and I love the younger generation. You guys rock! Don't listen to the jealous millenials. I Stan all of you. Keep thriving and being successful!
Going off life experiences, I think having siblings that are older or younger than you factors in a lot. I'm 23, and my brother is 28. I probably wouldn't know about a lot of the common "millennial" experiences if I didn't have him, or obviously if he was 5 years younger. I had a gen ed college class with this girl who is 2 years younger than me, and we were talking about childhood (i think we were in a psych class lol) and she never had AIM account. I was honestly shocked by that. Then she told me she was the oldest sibling, and that's when I began to realize no one was there to teach her about AIM. I hope that makes sense. It sure is interesting to think about.
I think this makes a huge difference! I'm the oldest of my siblings, but I had older cousins and neighbours that I spent most of my time with growing up since my younger siblings are all closer in age to each other than me. So I spent a lot more time around millennials and "millennial things" (thanks to the older kids in part) whereas my younger siblings are pretty solidly in gen Z, and share a lot of the more Gen Z stuff with each other (like growing up with video games and social media from a very young age). It's strange to think of a generational cohort gap within our generation (ie me and my siblings) but I see a difference. We only got internet at home when I was in high school whereas my brother has been playing Minecraft since he was six. And as "kids these days" as it sounds, I was obsessed with finding good trees to climb as a kid and I don't know if I've ever seen my brother in a tree... these seem like small things but I think there is a definite shift in how we grew up
Thats exactly what I was thinking! I'm the oldest sibling and I feel like I have more in common with my brother who is 6 years younger than any millennial even though I'm born in 1996.
Yeah I was born in 1998 but my sister was born in 1994, my brother in 1991 and my oldest cousin in 1980 so I feel like that had an influence on me but at the same time I can really feel the difference between my cousins or my brother and myself. It's more blurry with my sister but something's different
Really? Huh, I'm the oldest sibling of one brother born in 2008, I was born 4 years prior. I grew up with 90's music and methods of living, as well as 2000's culture like the rise of punk and emo bands, as well as some awesome hip hop. I used Limewire, downloaded music into my little MP3 player, I watched original Disney, CN, and PBS kids. Listened to Linkin Park, Nirvana, Green Day, The Used, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, a lot of great music. Other than experiences, I don't think there is much of a difference, I see a lot of bright kids out there, not all of them are sitting in front of the tv all day, in fact I see plenty of them doing things that we never thought to do, amazing things. They are creative and hard working. If we're being real, it seems you've only listened to what the media tells you if you think all of these kids sit in front of screens all day. But look beneath what you read and actually observe the kids to see the great things they could do.
I cut myself off from Harry Potter when I was young because it creeped me out so badly. I watched the first one at this after school center I went to and when that face was on the back of the professor’s head I said ‘Nope, what the hell is this?’ It gave me nightmares. I missed the WHOLE Harry Potter craze and didn’t get into them till a few years ago. I absolutely love the series but now JK Rowling is being weird and the second Fantastic Beasts movie was awful so that sucks.
@@LoveK1 lol well I'm the oddball who's read probably thousands of Harry Potter fan fics but never watched all the movies and never read any of the books so who am I to judge🤪
I’m early 96. The rage I feel when people tell me “it doesn’t matter what you feel like, you’re gen z” like Um excuse you, generations are defined by the trends you followed and the experience you had. I’m millennial.
@big Head Cut off of X is around 1979, with millennials starting around 1980-1981. Millennials are too young to remember the 80's culture well, like new wave, hair bands, Ronald Reagan, etc. their early years were shaped more by grunge, Bush, Clinton, boy bands, teen pop, rap, AOL, etc. Someone born in 1987 was 11-12 when Britney Spears made her debut and TRL. So their teen years were shaped more by that, rather than American Bandstand and the Cars, Phil Collins, etc. like kids in the early 80's did. Gen X grew up with Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, but millennials with Reagan, Bush, Clinton. But there are way more millennials and z than gen X. They even outnumber the boomers now. That's many more Britney/Katy Perry fans than Pat Benetar/Def Leppard fans. There were way more people born in 1987 than 1977.
Y’all 😂😂 literally her whole video was about being a cusper between millennial and gen z...is that the only cusper cohort?? Certainly not! I’m also 38...was born in ‘82 and am a cusper. I have older brothers born in the early 70’s, so even tho I was young when they were teens, there was a lot of 80’s influence that I personally remember in my home, even tho I do identify with a lot of the millennial trademarks (grunge, Bill Clinton, Boy bands and Britany Spears etc. etc.). On the other side of that...there is a whole lot of things that define millennials that I completely do no identify with...a lot of the early 2000’s I was just slightly too old for. I’d be curious if Polar Bear Editing is the oldest child in her family and that’s why she comes down firmly as a millennial. As a cusper who didn’t have gen x siblings to adjust you to the 80’s when you were young, it would make sense that you identify so readily with millennials. What’s super amusing to me is that two of my three children according to this video are considered the youngest of gen z, while my youngest is undefined. So...I’m raising three cuspers who will equally find themselves jammed between two generations one day 😏😂
The big kicker about this is that I’m sure the pandemic will be the defining factor of Gen Z, like 9/11 was for Millennials, as in everyone born after the pandemic or are too young right now to remember it impacting them, will now be considered by a whole new generation identity.
@@11mazatl every pandemic before has ended, and this one will as well, nobody know's when this one will end, though we will be contending with the virus in the future, but not on the scale of a pandemic, covid 19 is going to remain with us
Damn I hadn’t even thought about it like that......it’s crazy bc I went through almost all of school without a pandemic, it hit during my senior year. My brother was a freshman when it hit, and his overall high school experience is going to be SO wildly different because he barely experienced it before everything shit down
As a Christian (who was allowed to watch HP but never really got into it) I think even die-hard Harry Potter fans nowadays acknowledge HP does have demonic influences in the form of JK Rowling 😂
I’m a 95 baby and I sit on that borderline of millennial & gen z. They say 95-97 is the “weird gap” bc we experienced both 90s and 2000s. We were too young for the y2k fashion but I still experienced the y2k aesthetic in middle school before transitioning into the 2010s for the horrid swag era lmao
The worst is being born in 1999 cause your birth year is technically still in the 90s but you lived none of your life in it. It makes us sound way older than people born in 2000 but we were in the same grade and had the same stuff growing up... It's also weird to be in 'the gap' because we grew up before the 'smart phone revolution' so we remember clearly what it was like not having a smartphone. Like yes Uncle Rick I know what a VHS and street directory book is...yes, I also had to call my primary school friends on a corded landline telephone. But we also were also teens to pre-teens when all the 'smart' technological advancements came along so we are now completely tech savvy and competent - more so than our parent's generation. It puts us in an odd position where we understand many aspects of the older AND younger generations to us but WE aren't very well understood by these generations.
yess!!! im born in dec. of '99 and i totally agree with you that we remember all these old things but we were SOO VERY YOUNG like at age 10 youtube was popular and most social media platforms were already created and stuff so i'd definitely say we're gen z without a question!
Born in 1997 and I can completely relate. Actually I didn't have phone anxiety as a kid, so most of my memories talking on a phone with other people in general involves twirling my fingers around a landline cord.
This is do accurate I think it's because being born from late 90 to early 2000s is a turn of the century so habits from the 90s bled over into the early 2000 n we really don't know what to do....
Also want to note that this experience is vastly different across socioeconomic status. I think I relate more to the zillenial or millennial experience (I was born in 2000) because my family was poor and so I didn’t grow up with the newest technology. I didn’t have a phone until high school and before then my friends would call my home phone whereas some of my friends who grew up in higher economic situations grew up around more technology. I think the generation thing is cool and definitely some things are relatable but it is a huge generalization because everyone has different experiences even when they’re the same age.
Recording songs from the radio to a cassette! REALLY??? I'm 52 and had no clue kids today did that at one point. I did that in the late 70s and early 80s! Spent untold hours waiting for songs to come on, praying the DJ didn't talk over them. Some of my fondest memories of that time.
@kaleel clark I didn't say he would remember it. Obviously he wouldn't ... just that it was VERY similar to what we did during the late 70s and early 80s.
@kaleel clark don't be too sure that no one did that, just because you didn't. I did also use cd's but yeah still used cassettes. I still have some. I understand that the popularity of cassettes or vhs has dropped overtime and not as many used them in the -00's or -90's as before that. But the were still used by some and do continue to be still used by people.
Between 2000-2010 was the fastest advance in technology the world has seen in such a short amount of time which is probably why there is such a huge divide in the millennial gen. I was born in 94 and and when the term millennials started to get thrown around negatively that kinda hurt lol
This was incredible. I was born a few months after you and I swear it's like you described my entire existence. I feel like a lot of our Gen Z tendencies came from one divide, TUMBLR. I feel like the "millenials" I have difficulty relating to are the ones who never made a tumblr because they were just slightly "too old" for it when it became popular. This divide sparked a lot of powerful mental health initiatives and social justice movements, it popularized trigger words, and it's why we as 23-year-olds still feel really connected to Gen Zers. It's weird. Because I could have an incredibly intelligent conversation with a 18 year old about LGBT issues or mental health. We could get along hypothetically. I might relate to them more than my 34 year old cousin. However, even just the five year age difference between a 23-year-old and 18-year old is massive when it comes to our childhood experiences. I think I relate more to millenials when it comes to my childhood, and Gen zers when it comes to social/political interests
This is a really interesting take! It does explain a few things too- even though I'm solidly Millennial ('91) I find myself advocating for and explaining a lot of Gen Z ideas to my friends. I never connected this with the fact that I spent a lot of time on tumblr and they didn't.
I would say for the years 2002-2005 it really depends on their exposure to either millennial or gen z culture. If they had older siblings belonging to the millennial generation, they can relate more to the “awkward cusp” culture. If they are the first born or weren’t really exposed to millennial culture, then they naturally grew up with the culture of gen z. This, however, I would say only refers to the pop culture of the generations (toys, movies, games, technology, etc.) When it comes to specific historical events that shaped the way kids were raised (9/11, presidential elections, school shootings, etc.) that’s where the line gets drawn. I think the true “awkward cusp” is 98’ to 2001 because it experiences relation to both generations (millennial and gen z) in regards to both subjects (pop culture and historical events).
Honestly yeah, my sister is older by three years but isn’t a millennial, most of my cousins are, and we just grew up with the same stuff they did (that’s so raven, corry in the house, etc..)
This makes the most sense, but I wanted to ask: what about the people who aren't American? 9/11, the presidential elections etc aren't as big of a deal here (ofc it's a bit of a big deal bc America is huge, but we weren't that affected by these things) so these events didn't shape the way kids were raised in other countries that much. Would you still consider 2001 the cut off point?
I feel like the definition of Cusper is not remembering that September 2001 one big bad thing in America, but also remembering vhs/ the pre-iPhone period of life...
Omg I was going to type about me not relating to Gen Z when I'm born in 1999 but then I saw the starter pack for early gen z and I'm just holy hoooops it is me the Gen Z gurl
Same except I never saw anything the shape of a smartphone till I was older than that image seems to be implying That was not part of my earlier childhood.
Yeah I was born in 2002 and just can't relate to alot of the younger members of gen z. Technology was really evolving as I grew up, but I wasn't raised on smartphones and snapchat like some of the middle school kids I see today. I'm definitely a gen z but in the older half lol
The one thing I will say about the "zillenial"/genz people is that while we are caring and attempting to be more inclusive, that kindness and compassion gets thrown out the window the moment your opinion doesn't follow the trend. I've seen this personally on social media where someone will have a different opinion, not even be rude, and all the "compassionate" souls start attacking the person with hate speech or just rude commentary to almost bully the other person into submission. I know someone personally who likes to internet troll but will cry about her anxiety when confronted in person 🙄 we have to walk the walk if we're gonna talk the talk about being kind
"iGeneration reminds me of iCarly"
*a true iGeneration thing to say*
It was literally the first thing I thought about when I first heard that phrase! 🤣🤣🤣
I still want an ipear
jAdamariE I want that giant pear pad that Robbie had
Strangerxartx I always wanted that too
Yeah same but iGeneration is actually put under Generation Alphas thing (idk what it’s called) I don’t know how that really makes sense but I am learning about this stuff in one of my classes and it’s interesting to find out why Generation Alpha is getting the iGeneration name instead of gen Z’s but my teacher explained it in a way where it was easy for us to understand why, but I still think it should be in Gen z not Alpha
I don’t like when people blame gen z for growing up the way we did, because we didn’t give ourselves iPads when we were four did we sharon?
a masterpiece same
Um no, but neither did I 😁
@@sofiaelena1973 Okay but see this is the kind of divide we're talking about here... I am ten years older than you, born in 97. IPads didn't exist when I was 9. I didn't know anyone that had what we now refer to as a "smart phone" until I was in high school, although my dad had a Blackberry in 08 (it was anything but smart). I'm pretty sure the year I turned 9, I got a Zune (that's a major throwback) for Christmas, although it might have been the year after.
I suppose we in some ways were a part of this technology generation and did have some tech from a young age (I had a desktop at 4) but the technology was just really, really different then and the generational norms that all of you experience really are different than ours. My sister was born in 02 and as someone who is now a teacher I really, really struggle to relate to my students who are only five years younger than me because of a very noticeable generational gap.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a millennial. I had to endure all the torture of being called an entitled millennial for years, so I'm going to stick with the label.
Not all Gen Z got iPads/devices so young. Older Gen Zs (such as myself, born in 2000) got that stuff at like 10
Jacob Wilkins i really really want to thumbs up your comment but i struggle to accept that u cant just call yourself the generation you are. I was born two years earlier than you and im still gen z. Just because old idiots call us millennials doesnt make us millennials. There are 35 year old millennials who think that six year olds are gen z. Theyre not. Theyre gen alpha. And they think that we are millennials. We are not. We are gen z. What do you think millennials think they Are if they think we are millennials and gen alpha is gen z? You said you are a teacher, but you would prefer to go by what stupid idiots think rather than the truth, which is fucking concerning.
august 1998 here, i watched disney movies on VHS when i was a kid and i don't understand tiktok . . . but i also grew up on the internet so what is it 😔
Genuine question, is this a joke or do you really not understand a video making app?
99 here... i’m confused
How are you on all the videos I watch 🤔🤔
I’m March 98 and I never realized Im a bit older than you lol 🧐
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I feel like “zillenials” are the people that remember when their schools got SMARTBoards
the heck is smartboard? like backboard but digital?
@@FoxGameCZ yes pretty much its an interactive white board
Yes!!!
I rember that! I'm a fairly yough Gen Z tho... it was like kinder - 3rd-ish
Literally though!
Every generation has been accused of being narcissistic. Once upon a time baby boomers were being accused of ruining society because of rock music, hippie culture, vietnam and civil rights protests, etc... "Kids these days" is an ancient story that will probably never go away, which is why I never took a lot of the millennial critisms to heart.
Most underrated comment!
But baby boomers still are narcissistic and ruining society
Ancient Greeks literally 25 centuries ago complained about "kids these days".
GEN Y (1980-1993)
GEN Z (1994-2010)
GEN ALPHA(2011- probably 2015)
Boomers are narcissistic though. Like not because of that but they just think they’re the best generation like ALL of them do.
if you were born in the early 2000's and we're poor you had a childhood similar to 90's kids
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o shit this is. true oh my god i never thought abt it like that
Accurate
true
I’m from Argentina, so tech takes longer to arrive here because it’s more expensive so I share all the technology stuff she said even though I was born in Dec. 1999
What defines a Zilennial is the level of Hannah Montana / High School Musical knowledge
This is the best way to define it
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Ndeye Faye No lots of older gen Z people know a lot about those things.
@@annabelcrescibene4257 Exactly a millenial would not know about HIghschool musical and Hannah Montana.
i feel like the main identifier of being a “cusper” is being alive for 9/11 but not remembering or understanding it.
I kinda agree with that because I was alive but I was like in first grade or something like that.
Totally. I have no recollection of it (born 1996) but it definitely shaped a lot of the world we live in today.
I was in kindergarten when 9/11 happened and understood it was a serious event, but didn't understand all the specifics.
I was 8 I think. I don't remember any of that day personally.
I wasn't even old enough to be in school yet. But I was old enough to walk and tall and watch it on TV and not understand it.
Are we all doomed because Gen z is the last letter ... it seems ominous
@@ok-ts4bt no, beta
Pickle P lol
global warming............
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@@claireteague957 god help us all
okay but who remembers when blue ray was a thing and everyone thought it was so cool????
I never really understood what it even was. I just knew they were like more than double the price of regular dvds😂😂😂
WAIT, when blue ray starts not to be cool ? Ps5 can also play blue ray and is essentually a blue ray player...
I remember the format war between hd-dvd and blue ray
@@chai_lattes DVD is standard definition while blue ray is high definition
@@cheapskateaquatics7103 interesting. Good to know! Do DVDs come in HD now? I don't really see much of blu-ray anymore.
when you’re too old for the tiktok generation but too young to be a millennial
We're honorary members of the black eyed peas
Well, if it makes you feel better, you had Vine lol
*exactly* this. I'm trying to get into tiktok, though, to relate/stay informed with my younger sisters. I'm as old as the content creator, and us sisters each have a six year gap. Both the 17yo and the 11yo use snapchat, tiktok, etc.
Trueee, 1997 and I don't understand why the kids love tik tok or where the eboy / vsco girl style came from lol
jule c: i was the vine generation lmao
i’m gen z but i feel like “cusper” micro generation can be defined as having the best disney channel era
That's so Raven, Cory in the House, Kim Possible, Brandy and Mr Whiskers, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley Place, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, HOUSE OF MOUSE (good lord, House of Mouse was probably the last good piece of Mickey Mouse cartoons for years before 2018's Mickey Mouse shorts came up).
Basically Disney Afternoon and Toon Disney was where it was at for late Gen Z-ers. My sister was born '08 and has no idea Raven Baxter had a brother
@@TinyToonStar those were the shows!!
I claim not being affected by that (much) because no one in my household watched it save for Kim Possible and the House of Mouse
I think it can be defined by how exposed you were to technology growing up, as well. Anyways, generations are dumb
Yes as a 2000 baby, we enjoyed some goodies like Kim possible, jake long the American teenage dragon, the proud family, that’s so raven, but then also Hannah Montana, wizards of waverly place, suite life of Zach and Cody, good luck Charlie all those gems could go on forever of shows. Also the amazing Disney channel original movies like sky high, princess protection program, or teen beach movie. Don’t forget Nickelodeon with ICarly, or Cartoon Network with total drama Island, cow and chicken, and dexters laboratory. Or PBS kids with Caiou and dragon tales omfg my whole childhood.
everyone in the gap is an honorary member of the black eyed peas
That makes me feel even older. I am old enough to remember when Fergie was a child first hand on her first TV show.
Thank you.
What an honor
yes
Don't stop the party
I love how the comment sections of these videos have kind of become a support group for people who are out of touch or don't really fit in too much. It's so wholesome
laverna love ur profile pic 🖤
@@fishi246 the cutest
i love the moomins uwu cute pic x3
I feel like a nihilistic misfit for a millennial that's for sure, I criticize them as well as the Baby Boomers, only Generations I won't criticize are Greatest Generation, Silent Gen, and Generation X
i feel like people always blame gen z for growing up the way we did...like WE didn't close blockbuster
I've seen people blame us for early 2000s fashion like I was born I 2002 how did I effect the popular fashion then
@@ashlovesbats *We have nobody to blame for 2000s fashion but ourselves and the Disney channel.*
You might not have closed blockbuster, but that doesn't mean I forgive you.
You know they rented video games right? Like 25% of my local store was just video games that you could rent for 2 weeks and return for like $5, and we'll never get that back.
Cory Mck
there’s redbox but it’s more expensive
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I would personally argue that Zillennials really are their own micro generation.
We did have phones and stuff as children, but not until our teen years, and that's shaped our interactions/opinions on both technology and society in a completely unique way. Maturing ALONGSIDE technology is a completely different experience from both growing up outside and growing up online.
Where do you come up with 1994? I was born in 93 do I not belong I ask cause I don’t feel I don’t fit in with a 1981 millennial I was using an iPhone at 16 in 9th grade what do you think ? I definitely grew up before 18 in the i-generation I wasn’t big into social media tho
@@annaborbon5425 you even tho I’m 1 year shy of 1994 cutoff I couldn’t identify as a zillenial? I feel 1993 is an odd one because it’s over looked mathematically brining you into the 2010s by adulthood vs the common 2000s millennials. There are all these defining moments that indicate millennials like remembering 9/11 coming of age during the 2008 crash. Both are vague memories I was 8 years old in 9/11 and in 2008 I wasn’t coming of age I was just starting high school. Mid 80s to early 90s true millennials it has to count for something that I’m on the border of 94.
@@annaborbon5425 I don't know I was born in 93 as well and definitely don't feel like a true millennial. Most of my peers in high school had computers, phones(most were touch screen), there was social media, people spend alot of time on the Internet, and TH-cam was already blowing up. The 2008 financial crisis had zero effect on my life and most of my friends aswell. Don't remember 9/11.
We didn't have Instagram, Twitch, online gaming wasn't as big, neither was online shopping though
@@annaborbon5425 Nope we were poor. I was 7 when 9/11 happened I didn't even find out about 9/11 until much later. Technically I belong to millenial but so do you. But I would assume you don't feel as such, so do I mostly. You said you were born in 96 I mean that's nothing in terms of change compared to 93. I feel like a cusper causs most of my teens were surrounded by all the tech we have today. It was simply just in it's beginning phase.
@@annaborbon5425 Zillenial is not a thing so how could there be an age range💀
I feel like the whole "generations" debate is too US-centric. Most people in the world can't relate to stuff like 9/11, the recession, specific shootings. I think each country or region should have it's own definition of Millennials, Gen Z, Baby Boomers, etc. Obviously they would all have points where they meet, especially since newer generations are more globally connected thanks to the Internet and technology.
Oh yeah the US dominates this discussion but every country does have their own generations defined differently if you look into it
As 90s kid: Lady Di's assassination *cough* I mean accidental death
It’s a North American thing (Canadian + American, not just American)
No it’s not. It’s a demographic research topic across the western world. This video is US centric because the creator is from the US. Also where she refers to 9/11- THAT WAS AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. That’s why you have the security you see in airports today, across the world. I was 21 when 9/11 happened and I remember it clearly, not because of my age, but because here in the UK it was the ONLY thing on the TV for days. It’s still on the TV every anniversary. Replay after replay.
The recession also happened in the UK, Greece and many other countries. Additionally with Globalisation, when the richest country in the world goes into recession it directly affects the economy, trade and inflation of other countries.
Cosmic Centaur yeah I agree! I’m from the Netherlands and typical gen z stuff was introduced way later here.
Honestly being on the cusp is great because we can relate to older and younger people. Old enough to fit in w millennials but young enough that Gen Z thinks we’re cool lol
So true
I'm a 1994 guy back in college with 2000s and that is so true lol. People think I'm cool (lol how)
Yeah, I'm definitely a cusper
I’m not on the cusp of it (I was born in 2005) but I don’t relate to most people in my generation
Hannah May facts
"millenials' youth was shaped by 9/11" "gen-z had iphones from childhood"
Me, not american, apparently a cusper: *very confused*
The problem with this sort of thing is that it's SUPER USA focused
Agree this whole generation thing is always americanised however, 9/11 rlly impacted the whole world
@@m_adalena Nah, never knew that It happend until 5th grade
I'm sad cus of 9/11......
WHY ARE HUMANS SO CRUEL?! I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!
Being a millennial from a European country I definitely remember 9/11 and I fully understand the impact it had, it really did have an impact on the whole world. But saying my youth was shaped by it goes a bit far.
People born in the early 2000s definitely have really different experiences than people born in 2012.
Us 00-03 babies are really different from 04-09 babies we the last people to grew up without technology going outside till the street lights on etc
@@Riowe I keep thinking that too. I was born in 01 and grew up with a lot of things from the 90s, always played outside without technology and later witnessed the new changes and got my first flip phone quite late. The people from 04 onwards somehow behave differently. It feels like a new generation begins from 04.
@@justlukas701 EXACTLY that’s how I feel. I’m 02 in I do remember playing outside with 04 babies but it was still cause they had phones in stuff I didn’t
@@Riowe in my opinion people born between 2004 to 2006 are the people that are close to adulthood 15-17 age
@@thesecondfirstergamer467 doesn’t change anything I said.
Join us here in Gen Z, we're living it up playing fortnite and popping adderall for fourteen hours a day to forget about the fact that it's getting hotter outside.
On a very coincidental note, I just released a song about this, like, 4 hours ago, so SHAMELESS PLUG TIME → th-cam.com/video/Fe0ipLhwmfo/w-d-xo.html
and share the daily paranoia that is thinkign that if you step into your school it could be the day you die... school shootings love emor hate em.. we all hate them wtf
Gen Z will go down in history as the opioid generation, you guys are all drugged the fuck out and every girl has anxiety and every guy has Aspergers or adhd
@@Southforthewinter true
Meanwhile us millenials are the only generation not addicted to nicotine in some form XD we're all out here going on hikes and shit
When I’m 80 my grandchild will come over and say “hey grandpa I’m doing a school project on memes
Me:sheds a single tear “I think I can help you with that”
😭
Melon Stories starts showing ptsd of the meme war.
Y’all love rehashed jokes lol
"come over" you mean physically?
"say" what, like with their mouth?
don't think so archaic.
I can't imagine that😂😂
Too young to be on myspace, but too old for tik tok, fucking weird age group im in (born 1998)
You're not the only one sis. 1998 here too 😔✊🏽
you're not the only one
Myspace was weird
I was on MySpace had no business on there but I had one 98
Same sis 😭 born in 1998 also
Technology has developed so quickly over the last 20-30years meaning that we are living in one of the most rapidly accelerating periods of history. I don't think dividing generations into 20year chunks seems appropriate anymore. I think there needs to be shorter intervals.
Agree.
AMEN!!!
Yessss
100% - 5-6 years tops.
Yep.
i love being on the millennial/gen-z cusp, you have:
- charli xcx's vroom vroom
- black eyed peas
- not fully understanding tiktok
- not fully being part of the vine age
- living through vines
- buzzfeed video and youtube
I love being able to claim old school Spongebob episodes originally airing as some of my oldest memories
@@justinokraski3796I remember watching the camping episode when it premiered
you really snuck vroom vroom in there LMFAO
cute sexy and my ride's sporty
And being at the perfect age to have experienced peak pokemania
I’m 23. And I relate. I feel too out of touch for gen Z and too childish for millennials.
Same! I was born in 2000 and I feel like I'm not that experienced like the Millennials but I'm more mature than younger Gen Zers!
This is me and I'm 18 🤦🏾♀️
Emilia lmao same 97’ had my first smart phone in middle/highschool but I also had a phone that u press the number multiple times to get a certain letter
Elle BC
What? Lol. I was 6 when 9-11 happened and I remember it vividly. I remember exactly where I was. Are you saying that you’re 40 and you’re a millennial?
MO MARIE the oldest millennial is 39 so most likely. Like Tiffany said in her vid the “I’m younger than the generational cohort and I’ve experienced blah blah blah so your analysis doesn’t make sense” line doesn’t apply to an entire generation. Experiences are relative but the MAJORITY of millennials can remember 911( I was in 2nd grade in dance class, confused why all these kids were being sent home and I wasn’t) while the majority of gen z were taught 911. Doesn’t mean that there are certain millennials that don’t remember or gen z that do, it’s just the best way to categorize a generation while it’s still pretty current.
i will never forget seeing this meme that the group that falls between millennials and gen z should be called gen shrek or something like that bc the first shrek came out in the early 2000s and that was like the defining event/phenomena of this group LMAO
defining event/phenomena was Harry Potter
shrek didn't even come close to Pottermania
MY CHILDHOOD! I was born in 2002 and I freaking grew up with Shrek
@@FruityHachi I actually feel like Harry Potter really gained popularity in the last 5 to 6 years. Maybe it's just here in Italy, but I remember when I was in middle school (like 2013 to 2014) liking Harry Potter was something that was looked down upon, kinda like a "nerdy" thing, and you were made fun of for it. Then after a little bit, seemingly out of nowhere, everyone loved it and knew everything about it, even the people who made fun of you for liking it just a year prior. I remember those times where Pottermore was still Pottermore and it was truly magical. And how to forget the first time I took the test to find the house I belonged to... Nice memories 😍
@@giuliami2706 i think it’s just Italy, i’m from Slovakia and i have found articles from 2003 that Pottermania arrived here too
kids weren’t made fun of for liking it, and I remember that in around 2004, 05 plenty of kids in my class liked HP, had school supplies and bag packs with HP, it was actually the “cool” thing to like HP, one of my closest friends at that time was a potterhead
@@FruityHachi cool how certain perspectives change so drastically from country to country, I find it fascinating!
I was born in 95, my brother was born in 96. We had the exact same childhood, you cannot possibly categorize us in different generations.
Of course it's literally one year. Lol some kids born in 95 were in the same grade as me.
I was born in 1996, I graduated from high school with people born in 1996-1997, and I graduated from college with people born in 1997-1998. I think high school graduation year needs to be taken into consideration when determining generational demographics.
yeah we are defentiely in the same micro generation.
So does 1996-1997. If u and ur brother had same childhood (1995-1996) than 1996 also have same childhood with 1997. And then 1997 can say the same thing about 1998. That they grow up the same. Heck, even 1999 can say the same thing about 2000. And the cycle goes on. If that's the case than all generations has no end because According to you, each year born a year apart can relate to each other. It has to end somewhere.
@@rhys4489 But how is anyone born in 1995 any different from 1996? Is weird how you kids love to act like 1995 babies have a dramatic difference in comparison to those who were born 1996.
if you thought "isn't this basically a knock-off version of vine" when tik tok came out...you're probably on the cusp.
🤣Awww I miss vine
But I was born in 2005
help thats what I thought and my 11 year old sister got mad at me. she didn't even know what vine was. made me feel old and I was born in 01 😭
didn't everyone think that 😭
💯 feel this
Gen Z:The generation that was never able to become an actual generation because the earth died
Gen alpha hasnt even begun yet
owenklp123 that one will also never be able to become an actual generation
@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast Wow are you wrong, gen alpha has begun. Let me ask you what you think anyone born after 2013 is considered? Generation alpha of course what else? Simple logic.
KILIMANJARO i dont know. The toddlers seem pretty gen z to me. Well, one thing is that 1997 isnt gen z. I would sooner consider mid 2010s babies as alpha than 97 to ever be generation z
@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast us born in 97-02 are early gen z tho.. Generation alpha I think are people born after 09-10
Born in '97 doesn't feel like a millennial or gen z 🙋
Born 97 too. I’m confused about my identity lol
same I was born in '98 and my brother (15('03)) is always mocking me for being to old to understand certain things in Pop culture. It's an ongoing joke between my younger sibilings
same, having brothers 4-5 years older than me and only hanging out with them and their friends makes being lumped in with 2000's kids weird
I was born in 2001 but had the childhood of someone growing up in the 90's
ya exactly when she said AIM i couldnt relate but we used msn
This is such a fun watch. I'm a 2001 baby, but my little sister's (2007) childhood was different from mine in so many ways. So I'm solidly Gen Z, but I remember when I was younger everyone told us we were millennials. I still remember VHS and the home desktop, and I didn't get my first phone until middle school. I also loved your blockbuster and Netflix convo, that was funny to remember.
BUT my first phone was a smartphone, and I went to an online meeting school for 4 years. I took online "gifted" classes. It's just crazy to think about how much 5 years can change my experiences from my younger sister's because I think some of my earliest memories align a lot more with yours.
Generations should be defined based on how they stole music
i am the youtube to mp3 people
I used limewire and burned my CDs but eventually started using TH-cam mp3 converter, so what am I?
@@kayhope2602 ditto.
Not exactly steal but Soundcloud remixes which add few changes as to not be copyrighted.
If I started using Emule at the age of 11 (2005) and UTorrent after 2008, should I count as a Zillennial?
Can we define us gap-people by the hit special That’s So Suite Life of Hannah Montana?
yes
Savannah confirmed
Omg I'm 21 and was thinking about this episode today.
bruh that was so weird
I just got a seizure
I was born in 2000 and I believe one of the biggest reasons us older gen z's don't like being called gen z or being associated with the generation is because we grew up during the "millennial = young person" time, so we spent our whole childhood being called millennials until gen z started getting more attention when we were in our late teens or early twenties and we were suddenly being called gen z, but we'd been conditioned to think we were millennials, so we all tried to prove that we were millennials and clung onto google results that said the millennial cutoff was in the early 2000s...it's a really strange position to be in lmao
as a 98er, wholeheartedly agree. And like, growing up as the youngest of three I also got to experience more millennial things for myself. I got their old phone before getting anything else. When the flip phones came out I was 11 but I also used my mom's laptop for the first time. But we also had a home phone until I was 19.
Situationally speaking, people's financial situations also make a huge difference. Someone who grew up poorer tended to not have newer things, including newer technology.
@@thatsdisco I was born in '97. I agree with what you said about finances. I technically didn't grow up on the internet because my family couldn't afford at home internet. I started being on it daily in middle school, but before then I would use it in places w/ free wifi or at family members' homes.
The toxic part of Gen Z is mostly the ones that were born from 2007- and up. They’ve been unfortunately grown up with the internet in their face and a tablet on their face by the time they came out of the womb. People need to start distinguishing two types of Gen Z’s because not all of us are like what we are stereotyped to be, grown up with social media in our face, totally wrong.
@@metalrockstarizer89 feel like it's kinda weird to call gen z kids born 2007 and later "toxic" though, considering they're 14 at the oldest and still in elementary school at the youngest
@@quincyquiz I just said that partly because there becoming much more prominent in social media outlets like TH-cam Snapchat and Instagram, they’re getting phones at a much younger age, becoming more prone to addiction to being an “influencer” “gossip” spending less time outside, constantly worrying what other kids their age are doing, when I mean toxic I don’t mean that they’re terrible but there more prone to become more social media addicts compared to us and more likely to rebel.
I'm so glad I was born in July 1996 because I can claim either Millennial or Gen Z depending on which one is being annoying that day.
😂samee
I’m glad I was born in 1997 I don’t feel connected to the Gen z I grew up with house phones and flip phones and two-way pagers 📟
I’m 23 years old and I feel old. Lol we are too old for Gen Z and too young for Millennials. It’s so strange because we don’t really fit in anywhere.
victoriah rosah dude same I thought I was the only one lol I’m 23 and didn’t know what I was lmao
I feel the same
Tbh, I don't think many people feel they "fit in" with their generation because they are gross generalizations.
Like I'm 20, even I feel the same way.
Shelby Thibodeaux right. My brother is 18 and he talks to me but I cannot understand wtf he says.
can us 90-early 00s just have our own era???
Hell yeah
I had all the crap my older sister had by like only 8 year difference and still felt like her at age lol
"honorary members of the Black eyed peas"
OMG YES PLEASE
Agreed!
As someone who was born in late December 1996, hearing the definition that “Millennials end in 1996, Gen Z starts in 1997!” gives me an existential crisis
Hahah I was born dec 97 and I feel the same way when they say it actually starts in 1998 😂
I was born 2 days into 1997 so I get it
Oh man you're pretty.
lol 1996 starts gen z.
@@AP-ym1lo i am dec 2014 and i feel the same when they say 2015
I remember Netflix starting as a DVD Rental straight to your house and then the streaming platform came from that. It is crazy!
Crazy to think I have been subscribed to Netflix since it was lovefilm and 3 DVDs at at time posted 😂
Same! I remember when Netflix was a disk we loaded into our wii and that was the first time you could have a streaming library at home.
I didn't have Netflix nor have any friends who had Netflix but I did remember the hamster commercials lol
Netflix still has a DVD rental service, just not as frequently as they have back in the early days before they spewed a mix of good and bad tv shows and movies.
Speaking of DVDs I actually remember going to places like blockbuster. I’m sure the younger gen Z’ers will not know what blockbuster is.
i feel like a big element of this being a 'cusper" is also just how wealthy your family was growing up. like i was born in 2000 but a lot of my childhood was still vhs and using the home phone and computer and owning a flip phone but it was mostly because we had less money.
Yes, I remember I got excited when I had a bootleg mp3 player blasting 2005&06 Kidz bop 😂😂
2000 still wouldn't be considered "cusper" though lol. No matter how poor you were growing up. I was born in 91 and I still remember record players and black and white TVs because we we're poor af lol. That doesn't make me a boomer. It just means I was poor 😂😂😂
auburn.honey i’m ‘02 and we had a black and white tv growing up(but mostly because my parents wanted to be “vintage”) lol but i love my gen z
Imogen Cole yes! Great point
Gen Z is awesome and i love you guys. Can't wait to see what you do with this world when you're older.
Sincerely, a millennial
I call the 1996-2002 people the second lost generation.
@@colanico2003 The first lost generation was during World War I. I consider the second lost generation to be people who were young during 9/11 and/or the beginning Iraq/Afghanistan war. As well as people young enough to remember the days before smartphones and internet culture.
@@colanico2003 2002 was a stretch. I don't mean young enough to necessarily remember it, but just living during that era.
We even have a name now - Gen K, and its span is 1995-2002.
people born in 1996 are 23 or turning 23 end of this year they'e not 17,18 and 19
Colanic O LOL, this comment is so sad and confused.
as a solid gen z cool kid i have to say you give off millennial vibes
hahaha how (genuine question)
General despair ?
Hahahahaha idk why this made me laugh so hard
@@honeymoonfolklore
I uhm.....
I didn't want to think of that
@@liliannegauthier2905 Why does everyone make it seem like Generation Y are so edgy? I don't get it.
I was born in 94' and relate so much. I was 7 when 9-11 happened and I vaguely remember watching the news about it. I also think that most people born from around 92' to 2000' were the first kids and teens to really have to navigate school issues coming home with us because of social media. I remember getting Facebook in 8th grade, and then Instagram, snapchat and vine were big throughout high school. Also online gaming became huge around middle school and high school. Before I remember Inviting friends over to play split screen Halo with 4 of us, then freshman year high school hits and my friends and I text each other to play call of duty on xbox live. I think this really defines us "cuspers" or "Zillenials." We grew up, for a small portion of our life much like older Millennials but our middle school and high school years have a lot in common with how Gen Z teens are growing up today. Older Millennials who were out of high school by the time social media, youtube, online gaming exploded didn't experience this.
to me people born in between 1995-2000 is like the weirdest generation ever like...we are our own generation but we're a lil bit of both millenials and gen z. some part of uswanted to be in gen z, some wanted to be millenials. i am in fact born in 1997 and to be honest when people talked about a specific group/gen i just don't fit in any of them? so i stop thinking about but seriously when media keep shoving us in the face about "millenials this, gen z that" it's so damn frustrating! this might seems weird but sometimes i do feel offended by that 😔
thanks to you i learned something new called cusper, literally never heard of it until today!
Yes someone put it in words
I was born in early 95 and I kinda dont feel like I get along well with anyone who is 1 and up years younger than me and to be honest I don’t like tik tok and never have downloaded the app because i just don’t find it amusing so I would say that Gen z starts from 96 up until the late 2000s. Facts
My thing is if you dont remember 9/11 at all then its hard to call you a millenial or if you didnt remember y2k those events defined that era . A 90s kid remember all about these important events and remembers where they were at the time like it was yesterday . thats just my opinion though
but what I dont get about the whole "if you dont remember 9/11" is like I was about to turn 3 and while I dont remember 9/11 itself, I remember the events surrounding it. I remember that summer and I remember my bday a month later.
@@prestigiouscrown6876 i was born in 96 and i never had friends older than me because i didnt get along with them and all my friends were younger than me
when you said 16 year old born in 2003, my heart skipped
exactly, like shouldn't they be in 3rd grade or something?
Nah, the kids in 3rd grade are from like 2010
@@jaciel.a466 it Twas a joke
@Quin Roseman literally me- Literally felt-
that’s, uhh.. that’s me
" You're on the cusp of being on the cusp." 🤣 I'm out.
"Im BoRn In 2004 aNd cAn ReLaTe!!!!!!"
pinkskies21 2002 and can relate even more
@@zeusrulez woosh
We are the lost one's. Born between the golden age of disney tv cartoons and the dark void of internet fuckery. We are the best and worst of both worlds. I'm also sad most of the time...
This suddenly makes me think of the silent generation. Born from around 1939-1945. Very short for a generation. Also small for it's length in years, because people weren't having many kids, as all the men were off fighting in WWII.
My grandmother is from that generation, and is very proud to not be a baby boomer.
As someone born in 2000, I feel like older gen z kids were all old enough to remember stuff like blockbuster, dial up, and vcrs, but that all went away by the time we were preteens, and this new age of technology started during our most formative years. I remember the 2008 recession, but at eight years old, I was too young to process what any of that meant. We played outside, but we also started on social media as young as 11 or 12 years old. Some of us even had a flip phone for a short period of time. We had ipods before we had iphones, and all our snapchat usernames are extremely embarrassing, because the app came out while we were in middle school.
Sarah Catherine this is the most relatable comment i’ve seen so far. I had this exact same experience down to the sc name 😬
@@XxSukiDaisukiXxMe too, except the snapchat thing (I got mine when I was 16 and didn't care what to make my name so it was auto-generated to my initials).
I honestly think it's silly that us 2000-born kids aren't called millenials because we were literally born in the new millenium. Yes, it's come to mean those who came of age around the new milennium, but the way that the average cutoff is set up, it has people born in the early '80's and having the ability to make sense of the world before the millenium even started called millenials.
What defines coming of age, turning 18 or being old and mature enough to understand the world around you and what it all means?
As a 1999 kid, I agree with you.
And Netflix literally getting mailed to us 💀 (I’m a March ‘00 baby)
was born in '98 and can relate I remember buying videos from blockbuster and I remember a time when cell phones were still motorola. I think the first proper apple ipod came out when I was like 12/13.
I'm in the "not quiet old enough to remember dial-up vividly but remembers when netflix was mailed to you" generation
wow when netflix was mailed to you. I haven't thought about that in ages. but same
I’m old enough to remember rotary phones and 8 tracks. Dani was years away in the future when I was born. I guess I’m gen X. I was a baby when Nixon resigned.
My late father had a record collection and I listened to Elvis, Beach Boys, and CCR. My father passed March 8, 1986. I recorded off the radio on tapes in the 80's. What do today's kids use for music? Streaming downloads? Are even CD's obsolete? Back in the day we had to wait for a favorite song to play on the radio, or go out and buy the record/cassette/CD. I liked Casey Kasem's American Top 40 in the 80's. I listen to replays on the internet, from a streaming station playing them 24/7, or from websites that have some full shows on demand, 4shared, mixcloud, etc. His show reminds me of a simpler time. The young ones today will never know that simpler time.
trust me be grateful you don't remember dial up.. it was that annoying and the time period on the net was more limited plus you can't use the phone and net at the same time.
I had this strange moment when I realised that I have used and know what floppy disks are, but not old enough to remember a time before USBs
14:51 Tiffany singing “they used to call me on my house phone” close to tears is a big mood
HOLY SHIT SKSKSK
Hahaha, yeah it used to cause real conflict between my sister and me when someone was on the phone too long so the other one cant make a call
Not being allowed to watch Harry Potter because our moms thought it was “satanic witchcraft” is such a young millennial thing
Gen Z didn't know who Donald Trump was until he started running for president
True, cuspers know Trump from the Apprentice (or Celebrity Apprentice) and wrestling fans know him for shaving Vince McMahon's head at Wrestlemania 23
Most zillennals and probably younger millennials too.
I was in another country that ain't fair XD
True
Not true... My sister is a gen Z and our family watched the Apprentice in 2000. 1997-2000....she was 3 but still knew..
I honestly hate that people don't put millenials _around the millennium_
Lycaon1765p Mood! I was born in 2000! I should be the ultimate millennial!
Im born in 2000 too. The thing I read about this is that millennials are millennials because they were old enough to have their first conscious memories from around 2000. Also read this thing that if you remember the live on 9/11 then you are a millennial. Idunno. It's confusing. Im not from the US so I'm not even sure if I can relate to the GenZ experiences
Millennials are people who grew up during the turn of the millennium. That’s why we are called millennials. Considering how many times I heard the term “millennium” during my adolescence, I think it’s appropriate.
We are called millenials because we were born at the start of the 21st century and we could actually experience the millenium. Those born 1999- 2000 could not
Yes always frustrates me! Xxx
*_"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses"_*
*-Utah Phillips*
Cory Mck and I oof
This aint related to the video
@@tomfoolery2913
She literally said the earth is dying.
The earthquakes tell me the earth is not dying. The surface might be fucked though.
The Earth will not be killed, we're killing ourselves
1990s to 2000s are called 'Zillineals'. People who experienced the shift from old technology to digital era. I remembered my school gave out diskette, and myspace were still huge than Facebook.
I was born in ‘97 and FELT this video. You should do an internet analysis vid just on memes, I think as much as they are jokes they also incredibly fascinating in terms of marketing and exposure
I was born in '97 and tbh since I found out I'm not a baby millenial but rather an elder Gen Z it has given me anxiety
i felt this 😔✊
Yeah I was all fucked up realizing I'm gen z
Why millennials are lazy as hell and complain and wine gen z is project to be as hard working as the baby boomers
Kerry it's just like as the youngest of a generation you feel young and as the oldest you feel old and like time is slipping away I guess
sarah kerr lmao I would be any genders too other than baby boomers, they are literally the worst
I was born in 1998 and I’m 21, it makes me sad that we’re in the same generation as 8 year olds but not 24 year olds loooool
I am born in 1997, and in many ways I feel like I'm culturally closer to current late teens than young adults. Internet culture and interests affect a great deal.
Juan Pablo Corredor that makes sense, I could definitely see how you’d feel that way! Majority of my friends are older than me and I’m not huge into social media or anything like that, so I’m sure that contributes. Interesting to hear your perspective!
Joseph Giddings that’s a good way to look at it!!
Juan Pablo Corredor I think gen z has way more influential meme culture
I was born in 2000 and my younger cousins say I can't be a Gen Z cause I don't find dank memes as funny as they do lol
I was born in 98 (I'm 23) and I've never felt like I'm gen Z. It might be partly because I have much older siblings and grew up listening to all their music, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a young child etc. I've also heard Millennials defined as people who can remember 9/11 (as opposed to gen z, who can't), pretty sad metric, but I can or at least I remember my parents explaining it to me when it happened.
I was also born in 98 and just like you, I never felt like a true generation Z individual because I was raised around millennial concepts or principles. I even remember having conversations on landlines! Honestly I feel like these generation labels separate people rather than unite them.
I was born in 1997, got 3 older siblings(all 90s kids) was practically raised by them, grew up listening to their music and watched tv shows they watched. So I always thought I was a millennial. I voted in 2016 election and graduated from college in 2019 before the pandemic hit. The whole campus being closed and attending classes online is another thing I can't relate to. Hell, anyone born post 2000 is still a kid in my head. Being grouped in the same gen as them just feels bizzare.
It's not about how you feel. It's about when you were born. There are plenty of people who are obsessed with Victorian era or Edwardian era England, but it doesn't mean they aren't people of the modern world. You're Generation Z.
@@ledam2654why are you obsessed with labels? Generation Z is very weird...
@@svalerie98 it is useless 1996 and 1997 and 1998 grew in same era so it going pointless each day passing
I also noticed that a lot of things that “define“ generations are things Americans relate to rather than Europeans
For example: 9/11 and the 2008 economy did affect us, yes, but not as much as the USA
Debby W I feel like generations in Europe (cannot talk about other continents) should definitely be defined differently than those in the US. (And there should also be a generation inbetween Y and Z. The millennial group is way too big.)
I feel like for Australia a good millennial definition is being able to understand the importance of the Kevin Rudd apology to the indeginous culture
SO TRUE! I didn’t realize this! So annoying; Western Modern Society really does believe everything is centered around them?!
Oh my, true
@@razk9231 relate
"They used to call me on my house phone"
DECEASED 💀
As a European I'm Generation confused
Mood
@@camilaortiz7516 I guess that being born in different parts of the world can make you wonder where do you belong exactly
This video is addressing US generations only so, makes sense why you're confused.
Americas confusing run while u can 😌
I’m confused too I live in Europe haha
True millennial/gen z solidarity is being able to immediately recognize a photo from the early 2000s.
I was born in '98 and definitely relate to being a cusper. There are characteristics/experiences of both generations that I identify with.
Facts, I feel like the main “Gen Z/Tick Tok” range are HS c/o 2019 and younger
Dominic Dawes I’ve noticed that too. I was class of 2018, and all of the things that are known as “Gen Z” trends like TikTok, e-girls/e-boys, VSCO girls, etc. really became popular during my freshman year of college. Gen Z culture is just high school culture at this point.
I feel exactly linke you
The cool thing about being born 1997-98 is that you can say you’re either Generation and still be kinda right. People born 1995-96 (like me and Tiffany here) on the other hand are without a doubt millenials.
‘98 me too. I feel you. Even tho I’m from Eastern Europe, soo I identify a bit more to millennials..
I bet this has been said in the comments already but I would say that the biggest difference between the generations is that millennials grew up with hope for the world and then had those hopes crushed with 9/11, the war on terror, school shootings, and the climate crisis. They tend to have a darker view on the world and are more nostalgic for their childhood when these things weren’t common. Gen z grew up with all of these things already existing so they’re just part of the world for us. We don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a war on terror or when school shootings weren’t in the news at least once a year. Because it’s normal to us, we joke about it a lot more because it’s one of the only ways to cope with the fact that we are going to be living in a world that that has a less than stellar economy, an environment that is quickly failing, and constant war, and there isn’t that much we can do to change it unless the older generations start changing things now. By the time we have enough influence it will be too late.
So basically the big difference is that millennials still see the world as much darker than their child hood, while gen z grew up in the dark. I don’t know if this made any sense at all but it’s basically how I feel about the generational gap
This is so true! I think nostalgia runs really deep with millennials, and I think we tend to idolize our childhood and our childhood experiences more than other generations. But that's just my personal opinion 😌
Absolutely right. Almost my entire life, I’ve seen nothing but how the world’s economic and political systems can utterly fail, and there’s nothing worse than knowing that the world went to hell in a handbasket long ago and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
I'm an older millennial and you're spot on!
Well said! Come to think about it, I don’t really remember a time where there weren’t wars going on and terrorism and fear (2004 baby here)
Catherine Leach this is just pure facts
So... Does anyone else remember when all you could do was rent physical dvds from Netflix?
A C i rented dvds from Blockbuster 😂
my parents still get the dvds from Netflix
Me!!! I think I'm too young to relate to going to blockbuster BUT we had Netflix in my household to get DVDs in the mail.
YES ! 1998 yeet im def gen-z, millennial feels too old for me
Remember it?? That was like, yesterday. 😉
I am definitely a Zillenial since I grew up with Cable TV, VHS, Blockbuster, early Netflix discs, and did not get my first phone at all until I got an iPhone 5 at age 16.
I remember pirating Minecraft on my Samsung Tablet and playing Worldcraft 2, which was the best knock-off Minecraft clone. I also remember playing Space Cadet Pinball on Windows XP, playing the sims 2, NFS underground, Midnight Club 3 dub edition remix.
I did not grow up with dialup and AOL, but I remember early youtube in 2009 and watching all the YTP videos I can find.
i’m gen z and i can’t stand people saying that we’re “ThE jAkE pAuL KiDs”
mari koeller oml ikr
lol you guys are way too old to care about jake paul. Idk who ever said that but they were crazy
ugh, just bc im 14 doesnt mean i wont recognize douchebags
you get called zoomer in 4chan
As as "gen z kid" that can't stand a lot of my peers let alone adults who can't be responsible, that comment irritates me .
I really feel like 1997 - 2001/2002 is its own generation. Like we relate to each other on so many more levels than we do to that of Millennials and Gen Z.
i wouldn’t include 01 and 02, those are pretty much core gen z years lol. it’s more like ‘95-‘00
@@aimdog2000 Depends on when you were born in those years. Like I'm 2001 but my birthday is pretty early in the year so I went to school with 2000s babies.
I was born in 2001 and I’d say I relate to late 90s babies more than the younger people tbh.
Elena Johnston i’m early 04 and even i can relate to millennials or late 90s kids sometimes, that doesn’t necessarily mean i should be grouped with them. 01-04 are like early gen z years with ‘95-00 being the cusps
I’m like, ‘06 and I can relate to the 90’s kids and 2000’s kids based on how I was raised. But I can’t say I’m not gen Z.
i just realised... next year, there will be no one of high school age who were alive in 9/11
There barely is now. My class is the first class where a majority of people were born after 9/11 (2020)
Elizabeth LeBeau i’m a freshman in high school right now so there’s no one in my class who was alive during 9/11. it must be so wild for our teachers who have to teach kids, who weren’t alive during 9/11, about 9/11
All the 90s kids are no longer kids now :/
@@user-iz8rr1kt5w even if they were born before 9/11, teachers have been teaching 9/11 to people who were still too young to remember or really get it when it happened for quite some time now. It isn't all that new.
Yeah, that is crazy. I was in like 7th grade when 9/11 happened. It was such a huge deal, i remember the teachers all stopped their classes and put on the news, and everyone just watched. A lot of kids were taken home early, but at that time I had only been in America for about 5 years, so i don't think my parents really understood how important of an event it was, or how important the Twin Towers were. I definitely got a better feel for the magnitude of the situation though, seeing how my teachers and classmates reacted
I was born 29 Dec 1996 and I have never been so confused about anything in my life because I literally relate with both generations. Thank you for this video I have some kind of relief.
I'm born in 99 and I've just accepted that I'm a gen Z, just an older gen z, and so many people my age are in denial about it.
Thank you!!
You're a zillennial actually.
@PORRRNESIAN PARRAPIO I see a lot of people who think GenZ is awful bc most are on their cringe phase
willy head bc I've always been called a millenial or seen myself as one and didn't really know about gen z til recently bc ppl associate it with tiktok and now I have an identity crisis bc I'm not a 12 yr who does dances on tiktok (even tho I have the app and love it) and that's what I feel like most people see gen z as. And bc so many ppl tell me I'm actually a millenial, it dosen't really help
Nana White yes!!!!!!!
What pisses me off about the whole thing is that the term “gen z” didn’t really start getting used in reference to people my age until AFTER I left for college. I and people in my age group were all called millennials by our parents and our schools until suddenly we weren’t. I was born in ‘98 and it frustrates me to no end that I grew up a millennial then suddenly got stuffed into a category of people I feel I have very little in common with. Then when I make the argument that individual experience matters people say that I’m making it too complicated, like it’s completely arbitrary anyway so why do you care if I make it complicated?
Shit I was born in 2001 and I relate to both millennials and gen Z, though I'm clearly in the latter...
I was born in 99 it’s weird I was brought up like a millennial, Idk if it was just me but my school often tested different state exams on us. I had to take 3 different ones until they settled on one. I always felt like we’re the lab rat generation.
yes!! this!!! omg yes. all throughout high school i was given shit by older people for being a 'millennial' and now somehow i'm not
That’s exactly what pissed me off too!!! I keep seeing stuff that was called millennial now being called Gen Z?! Like uh no?
I feel this way too. Why'd they wait until late 90s babies reached adulthood to be like "we're actually lumping you in with 14-year-olds now"?
*me when I tried to look up which generation I’m in*
“Millennials are born between 1981-1996”
“Gen Z’s are born between 1996-2010”
Me: born in 1996 [internal screaming]
Yes definitly
It actually says 97-2012
Sakura Kalawitigoda 1996. They say. Because kids born in 1996 and onward don’t remember a time before the internet.
@@Loveisfun123 I'm '98 and I remember life without the internet cause we were poor.
@R RQ You're a millennial.
I was born in 1997 and I think I'm a Zillennial, I grew up in the whole 2000s as a kid, I was a teenager during most of the 2010s until 2017, I'm 27 now so I'm about to be 30 in a few years so this decade has got me feeling so old compared to the last decades.
I’m 29 and call myself a Zillennial to. I was born in late '94 _(so less 2 years proceeding the start of the last millennial birth year and less than 3 years proceeding the start of the first zoomer birth year)_
That’s young enough that I was usually one of the youngest people in my grade level and despite being born in the mid-90s I still consider myself a 2000 kid mostly. I wasn’t a teen until the late 2000s and was below 21 more than half of the 2010s
I hardly have memories of age 3 _(most of which took place in in '98 not '97)_ and that made my Kindergarten year the class of 2000- so I don’t really have school memories of the 1990s. Idk why online 1994 kids qualify as 90s kids. What we remember of the 90s was mostly playing in a sandbox, not pop culture AS it was happening.
My husband was born in the early 80s and he’s the truest of the 90s kid imo because he actually spend the entirety of the 90s an actual kid/teen _(not newborn, infant, toddler- that shit doesn’t count)_
Do you know how many people in their early to mid 30's I've met that tell me how much they hate my millennial generation and I'm like "you do know YOU are a millennial right?"
rayamat01
As a millennial in their mid thirties, this made me laugh. I can absolutely see this happening.
Yeah, I just learnt from this video I'm a millennial while being born in 88.
rayamat01 those are the people who say they’re Gen X but they were born in 1987. Meanwhile I was born in 1976 and I think I’m a little too young to be Gen X (but definitely too old to be a millennial).
rayamat01 I’ve seen the most rudeness from boomers. They cut us in line all the time and turn down their noses because of the way we look and they don’t know us as people at all. They say we’re lazy but we work the most and get paid the least. I can barely afford to live in the generation/economy those boomers so lovingly built for us.
Ugh. You must have met some grumpy ass 30 year olds. I'm 32 millenial and I love the younger generation. You guys rock! Don't listen to the jealous millenials. I Stan all of you. Keep thriving and being successful!
Going off life experiences, I think having siblings that are older or younger than you factors in a lot. I'm 23, and my brother is 28. I probably wouldn't know about a lot of the common "millennial" experiences if I didn't have him, or obviously if he was 5 years younger. I had a gen ed college class with this girl who is 2 years younger than me, and we were talking about childhood (i think we were in a psych class lol) and she never had AIM account. I was honestly shocked by that. Then she told me she was the oldest sibling, and that's when I began to realize no one was there to teach her about AIM. I hope that makes sense. It sure is interesting to think about.
I think this makes a huge difference! I'm the oldest of my siblings, but I had older cousins and neighbours that I spent most of my time with growing up since my younger siblings are all closer in age to each other than me. So I spent a lot more time around millennials and "millennial things" (thanks to the older kids in part) whereas my younger siblings are pretty solidly in gen Z, and share a lot of the more Gen Z stuff with each other (like growing up with video games and social media from a very young age). It's strange to think of a generational cohort gap within our generation (ie me and my siblings) but I see a difference. We only got internet at home when I was in high school whereas my brother has been playing Minecraft since he was six. And as "kids these days" as it sounds, I was obsessed with finding good trees to climb as a kid and I don't know if I've ever seen my brother in a tree... these seem like small things but I think there is a definite shift in how we grew up
Thats exactly what I was thinking! I'm the oldest sibling and I feel like I have more in common with my brother who is 6 years younger than any millennial even though I'm born in 1996.
Yeah I was born in 1998 but my sister was born in 1994, my brother in 1991 and my oldest cousin in 1980 so I feel like that had an influence on me but at the same time I can really feel the difference between my cousins or my brother and myself. It's more blurry with my sister but something's different
Heh im 17 and my sister is 29 while my brother is 16
Really? Huh, I'm the oldest sibling of one brother born in 2008, I was born 4 years prior. I grew up with 90's music and methods of living, as well as 2000's culture like the rise of punk and emo bands, as well as some awesome hip hop. I used Limewire, downloaded music into my little MP3 player, I watched original Disney, CN, and PBS kids. Listened to Linkin Park, Nirvana, Green Day, The Used, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, a lot of great music.
Other than experiences, I don't think there is much of a difference, I see a lot of bright kids out there, not all of them are sitting in front of the tv all day, in fact I see plenty of them doing things that we never thought to do, amazing things. They are creative and hard working.
If we're being real, it seems you've only listened to what the media tells you if you think all of these kids sit in front of screens all day. But look beneath what you read and actually observe the kids to see the great things they could do.
"I was never allowed to watch Harry Potter because my mom thought it was Satanic witchcraft."
- mood. And im 32.
As a potterhead i say :WHAT?
+ yaaas. the sad thing is I'm sure this is still happening in evangelical households today.
I cut myself off from Harry Potter when I was young because it creeped me out so badly. I watched the first one at this after school center I went to and when that face was on the back of the professor’s head I said ‘Nope, what the hell is this?’ It gave me nightmares. I missed the WHOLE Harry Potter craze and didn’t get into them till a few years ago. I absolutely love the series but now JK Rowling is being weird and the second Fantastic Beasts movie was awful so that sucks.
@@LoveK1 Yeah. I never was really a big fan of it. Still am not. But... I don't think there's anything morally wrong with them. It's fantasy. :)
@@LoveK1 lol well I'm the oddball who's read probably thousands of Harry Potter fan fics but never watched all the movies and never read any of the books so who am I to judge🤪
I’m early 96. The rage I feel when people tell me “it doesn’t matter what you feel like, you’re gen z” like Um excuse you, generations are defined by the trends you followed and the experience you had. I’m millennial.
But technically 1996 is the last millennial year lol
@@Theoriginalotaku96 that’s what I try to tell them
@@ko379 yeah i consider myself a younger millennial. I just think I'm a little too old to be a zoomer lol.
I'm mid 97 and I get called a Gen Z but technically I'm not at all.
I think defining generations is stupid tbh. It ultimately always ends up making it an "us vs them" situation. Just enjoy life and be yourself.
"Millennial and young person can't be used interchangeably."
Can confirm. Am 38 and millennial.
@big Head I'm an elder millennial.
@big Head Cut off of X is around 1979, with millennials starting around 1980-1981. Millennials are too young to remember the 80's culture well, like new wave, hair bands, Ronald Reagan, etc. their early years were shaped more by grunge, Bush, Clinton, boy bands, teen pop, rap, AOL, etc. Someone born in 1987 was 11-12 when Britney Spears made her debut and TRL. So their teen years were shaped more by that, rather than American Bandstand and the Cars, Phil Collins, etc. like kids in the early 80's did. Gen X grew up with Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, but millennials with Reagan, Bush, Clinton. But there are way more millennials and z than gen X. They even outnumber the boomers now. That's many more Britney/Katy Perry fans than Pat Benetar/Def Leppard fans. There were way more people born in 1987 than 1977.
1983 - 36 and most definitely late Gen X
Depends greatly on your surrounds growing up. Since I only moved to the US at 14 I do not relate
Y’all 😂😂 literally her whole video was about being a cusper between millennial and gen z...is that the only cusper cohort?? Certainly not!
I’m also 38...was born in ‘82 and am a cusper. I have older brothers born in the early 70’s, so even tho I was young when they were teens, there was a lot of 80’s influence that I personally remember in my home, even tho I do identify with a lot of the millennial trademarks (grunge, Bill Clinton, Boy bands and Britany Spears etc. etc.). On the other side of that...there is a whole lot of things that define millennials that I completely do no identify with...a lot of the early 2000’s I was just slightly too old for.
I’d be curious if Polar Bear Editing is the oldest child in her family and that’s why she comes down firmly as a millennial. As a cusper who didn’t have gen x siblings to adjust you to the 80’s when you were young, it would make sense that you identify so readily with millennials.
What’s super amusing to me is that two of my three children according to this video are considered the youngest of gen z, while my youngest is undefined. So...I’m raising three cuspers who will equally find themselves jammed between two generations one day 😏😂
big Head Xennial.
The big kicker about this is that I’m sure the pandemic will be the defining factor of Gen Z, like 9/11 was for Millennials, as in everyone born after the pandemic or are too young right now to remember it impacting them, will now be considered by a whole new generation identity.
the first birth after the end of this pandemic will likely be the start of a new Generation
if it ends
"When I was in highschool..."
@@11mazatl every pandemic before has ended, and this one will as well, nobody know's when this one will end, though we will be contending with the virus in the future, but not on the scale of a pandemic, covid 19 is going to remain with us
Damn I hadn’t even thought about it like that......it’s crazy bc I went through almost all of school without a pandemic, it hit during my senior year. My brother was a freshman when it hit, and his overall high school experience is going to be SO wildly different because he barely experienced it before everything shit down
My mom to this day still believes Harry Potter has demonic influences.
Oh for goodness sake
I had a nightmare about it and never got into it
As a Christian (who was allowed to watch HP but never really got into it) I think even die-hard Harry Potter fans nowadays acknowledge HP does have demonic influences in the form of JK Rowling 😂
Bruh mine too that’s why I have never read it lmao but my friends keep telling me to read it’s too boring for me...tbh. sorry
You should listen to your mother more.
I’m a 95 baby and I sit on that borderline of millennial & gen z. They say 95-97 is the “weird gap” bc we experienced both 90s and 2000s. We were too young for the y2k fashion but I still experienced the y2k aesthetic in middle school before transitioning into the 2010s for the horrid swag era lmao
The worst is being born in 1999 cause your birth year is technically still in the 90s but you lived none of your life in it. It makes us sound way older than people born in 2000 but we were in the same grade and had the same stuff growing up...
It's also weird to be in 'the gap' because we grew up before the 'smart phone revolution' so we remember clearly what it was like not having a smartphone. Like yes Uncle Rick I know what a VHS and street directory book is...yes, I also had to call my primary school friends on a corded landline telephone. But we also were also teens to pre-teens when all the 'smart' technological advancements came along so we are now completely tech savvy and competent - more so than our parent's generation. It puts us in an odd position where we understand many aspects of the older AND younger generations to us but WE aren't very well understood by these generations.
yess!!! im born in dec. of '99 and i totally agree with you that we remember all these old things but we were SOO VERY YOUNG like at age 10 youtube was popular and most social media platforms were already created and stuff so i'd definitely say we're gen z without a question!
Born in 1997 and I can completely relate. Actually I didn't have phone anxiety as a kid, so most of my memories talking on a phone with other people in general involves twirling my fingers around a landline cord.
Dec 99 kids can relate to this so much.
This is do accurate I think it's because being born from late 90 to early 2000s is a turn of the century so habits from the 90s bled over into the early 2000 n we really don't know what to do....
That's how I feel about 89, technically born in the 80's but never lived them.
It’s just great to be “the gap” 😭😭😭 No one really wants to claim us. But then again. we don’t want to claim y’all either
Right like they both suck lmao I don't wanna be a part of either
Lets claim ourselves
who tf said nobody wanted you?
@@pinkiox2389 Me. I said that.
And I'd say it again.
Also want to note that this experience is vastly different across socioeconomic status. I think I relate more to the zillenial or millennial experience (I was born in 2000) because my family was poor and so I didn’t grow up with the newest technology. I didn’t have a phone until high school and before then my friends would call my home phone whereas some of my friends who grew up in higher economic situations grew up around more technology. I think the generation thing is cool and definitely some things are relatable but it is a huge generalization because everyone has different experiences even when they’re the same age.
Seeing people born after 2000 in the comments is wild. In my head you're all still 12
i get that, i was born in 01 and most of my friends were born in 00. it makes me feel so strange knowing most of my friends will be 20 next year
Sarah Ambler bruh we’re 2 decades into it
I still think it’s 2010
Omg so true and I was born on 1997 so they are only 3 years younger but I always think they were 14 idk no offense time just flies 😂😂
I swear I will never get past 2010
I'm Gen Z and I remember watching Winnie the Pooh from a VHS as a kid, and recording songs from the radio to a cassette.
Recording songs from the radio to a cassette! REALLY??? I'm 52 and had no clue kids today did that at one point. I did that in the late 70s and early 80s! Spent untold hours waiting for songs to come on, praying the DJ didn't talk over them. Some of my fondest memories of that time.
@kaleel clark I didn't say he would remember it. Obviously he wouldn't ... just that it was VERY similar to what we did during the late 70s and early 80s.
SAME!!!
same!!! and dial up, not having a phone for a while etc.
@kaleel clark don't be too sure that no one did that, just because you didn't. I did also use cd's but yeah still used cassettes. I still have some. I understand that the popularity of cassettes or vhs has dropped overtime and not as many used them in the -00's or -90's as before that. But the were still used by some and do continue to be still used by people.
Between 2000-2010 was the fastest advance in technology the world has seen in such a short amount of time which is probably why there is such a huge divide in the millennial gen. I was born in 94 and and when the term millennials started to get thrown around negatively that kinda hurt lol
Olivia K so true
I was like "why is she not mentioning the pandemic" and then I realized..................................
This was incredible. I was born a few months after you and I swear it's like you described my entire existence. I feel like a lot of our Gen Z tendencies came from one divide, TUMBLR. I feel like the "millenials" I have difficulty relating to are the ones who never made a tumblr because they were just slightly "too old" for it when it became popular. This divide sparked a lot of powerful mental health initiatives and social justice movements, it popularized trigger words, and it's why we as 23-year-olds still feel really connected to Gen Zers. It's weird. Because I could have an incredibly intelligent conversation with a 18 year old about LGBT issues or mental health. We could get along hypothetically. I might relate to them more than my 34 year old cousin. However, even just the five year age difference between a 23-year-old and 18-year old is massive when it comes to our childhood experiences. I think I relate more to millenials when it comes to my childhood, and Gen zers when it comes to social/political interests
This!
YES
This is a really interesting take! It does explain a few things too- even though I'm solidly Millennial ('91) I find myself advocating for and explaining a lot of Gen Z ideas to my friends. I never connected this with the fact that I spent a lot of time on tumblr and they didn't.
KatalovesLinkinPark 🥰
emerald angel2000 THANK U
I would say for the years 2002-2005 it really depends on their exposure to either millennial or gen z culture. If they had older siblings belonging to the millennial generation, they can relate more to the “awkward cusp” culture. If they are the first born or weren’t really exposed to millennial culture, then they naturally grew up with the culture of gen z. This, however, I would say only refers to the pop culture of the generations (toys, movies, games, technology, etc.) When it comes to specific historical events that shaped the way kids were raised (9/11, presidential elections, school shootings, etc.) that’s where the line gets drawn. I think the true “awkward cusp” is 98’ to 2001 because it experiences relation to both generations (millennial and gen z) in regards to both subjects (pop culture and historical events).
I've been struggling to put this into words, that was beautiful
jenna benna I kinda considered myself this even though I was born in ‘06 but I am the youngest so
Honestly yeah, my sister is older by three years but isn’t a millennial, most of my cousins are, and we just grew up with the same stuff they did (that’s so raven, corry in the house, etc..)
This makes the most sense, but I wanted to ask: what about the people who aren't American? 9/11, the presidential elections etc aren't as big of a deal here (ofc it's a bit of a big deal bc America is huge, but we weren't that affected by these things) so these events didn't shape the way kids were raised in other countries that much. Would you still consider 2001 the cut off point?
I was born in 2005 but my siblings are 5 and 8 years older than me and I grew up with the same stuff as them so I feel like I’m in the awkward cusp
I've accepted the term zillenial now, it's the closest thing that can make sense at this point
I feel like the definition of Cusper is not remembering that September 2001 one big bad thing in America, but also remembering vhs/ the pre-iPhone period of life...
Omg I was going to type about me not relating to Gen Z when I'm born in 1999 but then I saw the starter pack for early gen z and I'm just holy hoooops it is me the Gen Z gurl
Playing temple run on an iPod touch is literally the definition of gen z
Same except I never saw anything the shape of a smartphone till I was older than that image seems to be implying
That was not part of my earlier childhood.
Yeah flappy bird pretty much solidified it for me
Yeah I was born in 2002 and just can't relate to alot of the younger members of gen z. Technology was really evolving as I grew up, but I wasn't raised on smartphones and snapchat like some of the middle school kids I see today. I'm definitely a gen z but in the older half lol
born In 2001 but grew up watching lion king on VHS tapes lol
pnp Millennial Z?
Same lmao but im an 03 liner
same
@@felixsfrecklessavedmylife9173 the user name tho, i felt that
Same but I'm even younger :')
I was born in 97 and I feel this on a spiritual level
The one thing I will say about the "zillenial"/genz people is that while we are caring and attempting to be more inclusive, that kindness and compassion gets thrown out the window the moment your opinion doesn't follow the trend. I've seen this personally on social media where someone will have a different opinion, not even be rude, and all the "compassionate" souls start attacking the person with hate speech or just rude commentary to almost bully the other person into submission. I know someone personally who likes to internet troll but will cry about her anxiety when confronted in person 🙄 we have to walk the walk if we're gonna talk the talk about being kind