@@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.
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
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 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 RU-vid 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’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
@@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
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.
*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.
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 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.
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 😔
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.
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 → ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fe0ipLhwmfo.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
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.
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 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
‘97 - ‘03 is all too young for 90’s kids but too old for the Jake Paul, tide pod kids EDIT: y’all rlly need to chill. Just because a random comment on RU-vid says it’s 97 - 03 doesn’t mean that’s some sort of law. It’s literally just my experience and opinion, it’s going to be okay if 04 isn’t included in a random RU-vid comment. You’re going to live
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 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.
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’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
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
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
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 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 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.
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.
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...
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.
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’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.
@@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
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”
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
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 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
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
1997-1999 are totally excluded from the two generations, millennials assumes we are too young and gen z assumes we are too old for their stuffs. I prefer referring anyone according the dacade. Like 90s kid- Super Snes/PS1, Disney movies( golden ages), Nick and Cartoon 90s. 2000s kid- PS2, NDS and GBA, SpongeBob, Jimmy Neutron, Drake and Josh, Ipod shuffle and mp3.
ps2 gba nds mp3 pmp disket cassett vhs win 98 win xp dmb I've been exposed to various kinds of things. The smartphone generation? That's a wrong perception.
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 feel very much the same. Those of us born between 1995 and 2000 tend to get lumped in with one or the other, when honestly we're neither gen z or millenials. I don't identify with either of those generations, being born January 97. I remember not having computers in classrooms at all, and I remember being one of the first graduating classes in my state to be required to complete one course fully online in order to graduate. I don't remember a lot of the 90s, but I do remember a lot of the same pop-culture things which carried over into the early 2000s, like furbys and tamagotchis.
Being born in December '96 definitely qualifies to be a "cusper", I'd say. The music media progression from using physical CDs as a kid, to downloading illegal music (FBI, don't) onto my iPods during adolescence, to now just streaming music on Spotify, was the most relatable thing ever
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 RU-vid 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 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 😂😂😂
I was born in 1996, I don’t remember 9/11 (it wasn’t that significant in Canada) but I remember VHS tapes, Walkman’s, Blockbusters, Taking pictures and going to the store to get the pictures developed and waiting a week to get them, technology free childhood as I run around my neighborhood everyday until night falls, the transition of chalkboards to Smartboards in school, N64/GameCube/Gameboy, Flip Phones and Saturday morning cartoons.
Think being born in the mid-90s is rough? Try being born in the early 2000s (2000-2003). I was born in 2002, grew up with tapes, DVD and 2000s Disney and Nickelodeon. I know nothing about your Tiktok and Instagram, but I still get looped in with these kids born in 2008, and somehow am considered "the same generation" as them.
That is so relatable. We are thrown together with 2008+ people. There was so much development during the 2000s, especially in the late 2000s and back then just a minority had these things while in 2010s most people had it and even kids already got a touch device. We were kids who grew up without this and still people group us together with late 2000s/early 2010s borns. That is so stupid.
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 a 93 baby and being in highschool in the late 2000s and being enjoying my early 20s during the early to mid 2010s was awesome I dont remember the 90s that much my childhood was the early 2000s
@@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 1997 technically the first year of Gen z but I’d definitely say I was raised more as millennial, I did not grow up with technology at all and I didn’t get a phone until I was 17 and bought it myself, mainly because my family moved from Russia and they are very religious and conservative
I would argue a micro-generation would be accurate. We are the exact people who the internet actually grew up with us. When we were young and free, so was the internet. And when we graduated and got jobs or went to college, the internet grew up as a way to be monetized by stealing data. We remember RU-vid and google before they were owned by the same company and full of ads all over. We had the best children’s/teen’s tv during our childhood, and had limited internet. I actually do remember dial up as a young little guy, vaguely.
I'm born in 93, and i still remember using sony walkmans to listen to music in my teens when ipods and music players werent invented and i use to use tape recorder to record sounds... generation gaps are very real coz it's very easy for the kids these days to enjoy the benefits of technology which i didn't have in my childhood.
global south country? because the ipod launched in 2001--and were not uncommon by 2004-05, and you would've been 8-12 by then... but global south is a different story
I was born in 2001 and I live in a country where every trend used to come to my country a few years later. So despite being a gen z, I sometimes relate more with millennials than gen z. So I’ve had the best of both worlds ;)
Same here. I was born in 1998 and that makes me a zoomer but I was grown up around millennial principles. This included individuals with skinny jeans and emojis as well as vhs tapes. I just don’t fit in with the people who are 4/5 years younger than me.
Upbringing, culture, socioeconomic level, etc. plays a massive role in whether or not you feel like you fit in with your generation. I’m a 2004 kid and relate to many aspects of zillennial life, but have had a cell phone since the age of 12. This is actually really useful in helping me realize that I am closer to Gen Z; for a while I thought everyone born after around 2000 was Gen Z, but apparently there is a more definitive end and a bit of overlap into the last century.
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 was born in 1996 and have more in common with those born 95 and before but also relate to those born 97-98. I usually don't relate much to those born 99 and after.
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
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.
1997 and im young but i sometimes feel old compared to people only 3 years younger than me ... i accept that im gen z bc generally i relate more to those experiences despite an affinity to millenial *content* but its so mindwarping
I like how the Millenials have as I think a pretty big gap to Gen Z in terms of experience in life, but aren't in this "You don't know anything about life" or "You are too young to know that" state of mind, like some Boomers are.
I think millennials are just more jaded compared to gen z, also life changes pretty drastically between teens to 20s - older people remember losing youthful nativity and are basically saying you will too. Although it helps to not be a dickhead about it and cut younger people some slack, we ALL were young at one point figuring out our shit haha
Honestly this is a cycle and sadly, it probably will never break. It isn't anything new. Millennials were criticized by the GenX, GenX was criticized by the boomers, the boomers were criticized by the "greatest generation," and so on. Eventually GenZ is going to do the exact same thing to the "gen" that comes after. Not saying I like it or that it is a good thing, but it's definitely going to happen.
Hi, 1996 but I relate HEAVILY to basically everything in this video ahaha like it’s actually really cathartic to hear my childhood summed up so perfectly. I remember that my cousins family had a Netflix subscription like before it ever streamed online- and they would get mailed DVDS each month that they would order online I think, and then we would send them back and get two new dvds the next month lol. I feel like gen Z to me feels more like the kids born in the 2000s and maybe like 1999 too- like born when technology already was a thing by the time they are in middle school. Either way this was a great video and I appreciate you.
I was born in ‘07. My sister was born in 2011 and the gap of what our childhoods were like are insane. People her age have had a phone as long as I have (they’re in freaking 4th grade, I’ve seen two year olds with their own iPads). It’s insane
I’m an older millennial (b. 1988) who went returned to college at the age of 27, with classmates around 18-19. While, sure, there are large numbers of cultural cornerstones that differ between millenials and gen z, I did not feel there was any significant differences separating us. In some areas, I felt it was easier to relate to my gen z classmates than even my own generation. I’m asexual and discovered this term in 2008, when asexuality was largely unknown. I have spent much of my adult life explaining to people what that is and fully expected to have the same experience with my younger cohorts, but this was rare. In many cases I was met with reactions like, “that’s cool,” with no further discussion needed.
i think with gen z there’s a HUGE difference between kids who were growing up in like the 2000s/early 2010s then kids who were 10 in like 2018 because the majority of americans didn’t have smartphones until 2012, and i was born in 2005 and i still remember when my parents had flip phones. 2010s kids could not relate.
also 05, i remember still thinking laptops seemed like something out of a scifi film until i was like 9 and having one of those TVs that looked like a box. I think a lot of people confuse gen alpha (kids born 2012-present) with gen z which is annoying cause like u said, most early gen z kids have very different experiences growing up than anyone born in late 2000s/2010s
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
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!
Born in July of 96, I completely relate to everything you said about your early childhood, totally nailed it… I feel chronically trapped in between, but definitely resonate much more with millennials, especially considering most of my friends growing up were born between 93-95. I didn’t make an Instagram account until my first semester of college in 2014. I remember back then it was much more lowkey and still secondary to Facebook, and quickly over the next few years it blew up into the biggest social media platform and the toxic popularity contest that it’s become. I had a very low-tech childhood and mostly hung out with the kids in my immediate neighborhood. I remember discovering RU-vid sometime in the early 2000s and I was suddenly exposed to a whole world outside of my little hometown community. The advent of all the technology that runs the world today unfolded along side my childhood, but as I recall as a kid I didn’t fully grasp the significance of these tech changed and how dramatically it would change things in such a short time. I remember when we got our first old dell laptop and that was how to learned about the world and tapped into subcultures that didn’t exist in my community. I feel like I tasted the tail end of a time when your consciousness was bound to your immediate surroundings and people were much less exposed to the world around them…. I also grew up without cable because my parents were hippies.
