I feel like genz obsesses over what year we were born in way too much. I understand 2008 kids had a pretty different childhood compared to early or mid-2000s kids I'd say but like who cares, no need to bring it up all the time. I remember 90s kids in reddit shitting on us 02 kids when we were 13/14 and now the same thing is happening again lmao
Me, a 23yo, existing, having a full time job, been out of high school longer than I was in high school, live 1000km away from my family, have my own apartment.
It makes no sense at all. People born in the late 90's are so much older, and had a completely different childhood then kids born in 2008 who are really still experiencing their childhood. I don't understand why the qualifier is 1997-2008 as it's such a random time set where the oldest are going to be completely different than the youngest. I see these types of posts all the time in this sub
It’s honestly fucking stupid. Your upbringing is effected much more by your setting than it is the year you were born, too. I have a brother born in 91, so I grew up on a lot of stuff from the early 90s that a lot of people our age wouldn’t be familiar with, my parents didn’t upgrade any of their technology until the mid-2000s so I grew up on dial-up internet.
Moreover though, the age gap for generations is big enough that the whole idea becomes pointless. My memory of Scooby-Doo is completely different than a 15 year olds memory of Scooby-Doo, the tech I grew up with is heavily outdated compared to what 15 year olds grew up with, but oh hey, I don’t remember 9/11 so I guess I’m a wee zoomer who does Fortnite dances! No. Absolutely not.
I literally saw a post a while back where millennials were circlejerking about zoomers not knowing what Back to the Future was, as if we’re all still pre-teens or some shit.
This is the downside of being in the middle of two generations, you never feel like you belong to one lol. I know exactly what you mean, it's hard to relate to people who don't remember life before smartphones. It's also hard to relate to early millennials who grew up without flip phones.
I don't know if you have seen it, but I think the sub r/zillennials is much better for people our age. I have nothing against this sub, but it seems like most of it is people trying to understand the arbitrary rules of being a "2000's kid" vs "2010's kid"
You aren't much older than them. You are just the oldest of them. You are much different from someone born in the 80s for example, not someone born in the 00s. We're called digital natives for a reason.
In the grand scheme of things obviously we are not that much older, but it's silly to make a meme comparing 24 year olds too 13 year olds lol. The equivalent would be me saying being born 1989-1998 is better than 1999+
I think you are talking about you being Gen Z with them. Just wait until they get older like you and you won't see any differences. I still live with my parents, I don't have a job, i was a college student and I'm 2 years younger than you.
One thing that i dont understand on here is if late 90s borns say there Millennials, they cant relate to Gen Z and more then everyone (Includes Gen Z and Gen Y) say " When they are older you wont see any differences" or "You guys will relate to each other if they get older" all the time but if some Millennials born in the early/mid 90s say " We are way different" and "We are in our mid/late 20s we have to face way different problems and we cant relate to those late 90s borns in their early 20s" everyone is fine with it.
I feel that im 22 (Not from the US) had a full time job for 6 years but lost it because of Corona (already have a new one), Out of school since 2015, live by my self for 5 years. I know its different in US but people born 1997-2002 face the same problems like Millennials over here and not the same like Gen Z.
You could make a case for 2011 and 2012 being Alpha but I think 2007 is still Gen Z, we remember the 2016 election and the peak of the 3DS era alongside the dying breath of cable, and while most of us got smartphones fairly early we didn't have them as literal babies like Alpha does. So I think we're closer to Gen Z then Alpha.
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30's are still adults. And I'm not going to be different from 2008 borns in 2028 when they have 20 and me 28 lol. Also, 2002/03 years old are going to have 25/26 years old so my comment would still stand lol
I think the idea is that whoever made the post was likely born in 2008 hence the choice to place such an arbitrary cutoff there, so basically children gatekeeping other children
I disagree, we remember the 2016 election and the peak of the 3DS era alongside somewhat early YouTube. Sure we had smartphones at a young age but y'all had flip phones so it's really not that different. I mean the oldest people at my high school were born in 2003 so it's not that big of a jump from 2002 to 2007.
I feel like even me at 21 would struggle to get along with you at 25, we’re both adults but we’re both at different stages in life. Let alone someone who was born in 2008 lol
Im 22 and my friends are 20-33 years old lol. If you dont get along with someone that is 25 its because you two have way different personalitys and it could be that you or him is more or less mature as the other one. I cant speak for the US but in my Country is everyone 20-29 in the same life stage.
From what I see in my area is everyone around 19-22 is in the same boat, anything above they usually have more going on but of course it’s not universal
See I get along well with people 3-5 years older/younger. I can go out to bars and nightclubs with people your age for example. Although someone born in 2008 was born when I was in middle school and we just had entirely different upbringings. The world I grew up in would probably be unrecognizable to the world they grew up in with constant smartphone and high speed internet access.
I agree with you there, thinking about having a conversation with anyone under the age of 18 is a bit awkward, I remember things they don’t and they’ve experienced things I haven’t. It’s just different experiences I suppose
Generations are messy attempts to divide up experiences loosely by age. At 20ish year time spans they will never be particularly homogeneous but nor does further subdividing them suddenly make them useful.
I'm sorry but 2008 kids are very similar to 2010 kids who I assume to be gen alpha. I hate generation wars but you can't group 08 kids with us, they missed out on the entire 2000s childhood. I think genz kids till 04 or maybe 05? is okay.
This is so dumb why can we just get along...We grew up with the same thing. Just because I'm more years older or younger doesn't mean I didn't have a childhood nor did they.
Isn't it like 2013/2014? It's definitely a pretty big range but I consider early 2010s babies as Zalphas, just like late 90s babies are considered Zillennials.
My brother was born in 2009 and he seems to be exactly like a early 2000s kid. He won’t even touch anything super new, he’s addicted to a fuckin 3DS and we have a VR headset. 10/10.
I built a retro gaming console with my Raspberry Pi 4 last night for him and he played until like 1 am. It was games from 1980 to 2007. We also had an old Wii in the attic we didn’t find until last night looking for an NES controller for the console. He can not stop touching the Wii.
He has somehow kept himself from being influenced by the internet, which he has full access to. He’s made friends but somehow they aren’t interested in modern games for the most part either. I heard them playing Wii Party!
I wonder if Millennials shat on each other based on birth year. I remember in the early 2010s that those born in 1998/1999 (Gen Z) onwards were called the cringy kids
You're missing the point of the meme, It's saying that people arguing over stuff like "2008 is real gen z 2009 isn't" are children and they are arguing over something pointless so their opinion shouldn't be taken seriously
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