Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I’m starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.
I never said old? Quick edit, I meant “how old” as in people have a misimpression of our age, not old as in “oh we’re so old.” People think gen Z is just a bunch of teenagers who couldn’t possibly share any experiences with them.
The generations are determined by what the biggest common experience they all have is (at least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.)
Millennials are millennials because they all remember the turn of the millennium. anyone born 1997 or later wouldn’t remember it, which is why the generation line was drawn where it was.
There are people who find that weird and prefer to call anybody born after 2000 gen Z because they were born after the turn of the millennium, so there’s a sizable amount of people who’ve taken to calling anybody born 1996-2000 a “zillennial” as a compromise. I use the term sometimes, but only when I need to demonstrate to somebody that there’s no clear difference between a young millennial and an older gen Z.
Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I’m starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.
That’s cute how you think you’re old.
I never said old? Quick edit, I meant “how old” as in people have a misimpression of our age, not old as in “oh we’re so old.” People think gen Z is just a bunch of teenagers who couldn’t possibly share any experiences with them.
Fair enough.
You’re not in your late twenties if you’re Gen Z. Gen Z is like 2001 onwards.
Gen Z is 1997-2012. The oldest of us are 27.
That’s dumb. Surely millennials have to include people born in 2000
Also I am a Gen Z. You aren’t.
The generations are determined by what the biggest common experience they all have is (at least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.)
Millennials are millennials because they all remember the turn of the millennium. anyone born 1997 or later wouldn’t remember it, which is why the generation line was drawn where it was.
There are people who find that weird and prefer to call anybody born after 2000 gen Z because they were born after the turn of the millennium, so there’s a sizable amount of people who’ve taken to calling anybody born 1996-2000 a “zillennial” as a compromise. I use the term sometimes, but only when I need to demonstrate to somebody that there’s no clear difference between a young millennial and an older gen Z.