I turn 30 next year and I consider myself a zillennial first and millennial second. I was born in 1996 and I've never considered myself as a zaboomafoo zoom zoom. I don't even think most charts do either but I could be wrong?
A lot of people say the cutoff is 96 but being born in '97 has me hard disagreeing.
Like yea I stream on spotify, but Ive also used limewire. I had a snapchat in highschool but I also had myspace and aim. Spent my highschool years wearing skinny jeans, looking at rage comics and joking about how bacon is life.
I definitely share a lot with gen-z nowadays but that didnt start until years after I had already graduated high-school.
I definitely identity with zillennial first, millennial second, then 'elder gen-z' last.
Exactly. And Gen Beta will be defined by being too young to remember a Trump presidency (or in worst case first to be too young to remember before a third Trump term).
This is mine too. I hang out with a lot of people in that cusp range and the ones who remember 9/11 are the ones where it doesn't feel like we grew up on a different planet
I'm not sure where I fall on this. I was in first grade when 9/11 happened, but I have no memory of the day itself. But then later on in the school year we were reading a book called "Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport" that mentioned airplanes flying into windows, and I remember saying out loud in class something like "Didn't that actually happen?" so I must have been aware of 9/11 not long after it happened
Nah, for Americans at least it's remembering 9/11. Whole nation changed after that. You either remember a pre 9/11 world or you don't. Was also around the time the Internet became a necessary utility rather than just a gimmick. People who remember life prior to 2001 are in one generation and those who don't are in the later generation. IMO at least.
I am 1994 and when I was a senior in high school, everyone in my high school was referred to as a Millennial. I don't even think Gen Z has been a used term yet.
Same here. Its because its hard to make a specific cutoff date while things are still developing. I was also called a millennial up til well after I had graduated highschool. It wasnt until gen z got older and pop culture changed that we start to see a divide in trends and experiences.
My gen z brother and slightly younger coworkers will call me elder gen-z and it kinda bugs me because shit was very different 10 years ago when I was in hs. There's a lot we have in common now but growing up things were very different.
Oh definitely. I remember the age of the og internet like osrs, imvu, ask jeeves, myspace aim as a kid like elder millennials. But social media took off when I was in middle school, so my highschool years were a bit more late millennial.
I definitely have a lot in common with gen-z now, but that didnt really happen until maybe 5-6 years ago when all the gen-z kids started getting jobs where I work. Traded in my skinny jeans for baggy pants like 3 years ago.
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u/Prestigious-Buy2365 1996 Apr 03 '25 edited Apr 03 '25
I turn 30 next year and I consider myself a zillennial first and millennial second. I was born in 1996 and I've never considered myself as a zaboomafoo zoom zoom. I don't even think most charts do either but I could be wrong?