The Micro-Generation That NO ONE Talks About… (ZILLENNIALS)

[@cal4906]

As a zillennial, I hated going through generational hate twice. We were lumped in with "those entitled millennials" ALL through our teen years, only to get lumped in with the gen z hate right after.

[@SoullessResident]

THIS!!!

[@yourgirltheory]

EXACTLY!!

[@christiangreen2324]

Facts, I'm 28 and millennials still call me a baby, and I'm a grown ass man I pay my bills, it seems kinda patronizing at times

[@dinosaurman5178]

I remember being 13 in 2013 and reading some article calling people my age millennials. So I just assumed I was, until years later someone came up and went “actually you are gen z”. I just went “uh, alright” Strange how generational labels just get thrown at people the way they do

[@GravityFallsUp]

@@dinosaurman5178literally had the exact same experience

[@MercurySmith-]

I was born in ‘95 and honestly that’s the perfect middle ground for both generations. We still played outside, rode bikes, and made calls on the house phone. People had iPods/mp3 players. Smart phones came out when I was in high school so it was the perfect age to learn modern technology. I’ve lived like 4 lives and I’m not 30

[@oceanah7317]

Thisss

[@stephenbalk4978]

Same for 1996

[@fujoshipeanut5074]

Same for 1998 tbh

[@DaphneHughes442]

i was born in 2002 and can say the same thing except smart phones came out a bit sooner for me, but i didn’t know anyone that got a phone before middle school

[@annabellablue344]

I was born in 2003 and experienced literally all of that? I had iPods and an mp3 player and my first phone was at 13 and it was a flip phone I think people don’t realize that a lot of gen z didn’t grow up that much different ?

[@beleden1215]

I was born 1993, and Zillenials are hallmarked by watching the world go from analog to digital while being comfortable with both

[@AlysiaTribeca]

I vividly remember for the first 2 months or so of 2000 that I kept writing x/x/99 on all of my school work 😂 I still do relate to most millennials our age or older though, but I like hanging out with the zillenials and gen z because they make me feel younger

[@jellydarling1008]

Same! The wild west of the internet was my playground hahahaha…..I saw things 👁👄👁

[@piscesmoon6333]

I feel the same way but I’m a 1979 born “xellenial” and am comfortable with both lol

[@mikeypl7]

1993 is still very much millennial

[@AbstractPoetics]

@beleden1215 Actually that's Xennials who are as you described; they crossover the Gen X and Millennial generations. The cutoff is mid 80s. Zillenials crossover the Millennial and Gen Z generations. Being born in the 90s firmly places you in the Millennial category...or Zillenial if you're feeling spicy. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@yourlordship1119]

I was born in 1999, I think Zillennials are the transition generation. We had the childhood of millennials, but the teen experience of gen z. We grew up with giant box TV's, game boys and black boards in class rooms. Then we lived through the rise of technology in everyday life, flip phones, Nokia, the first i phone, laptops, the first generation consoles. We saw the death of landlines and dial up. We had to adapt quickly to the new technology that everyone kept dumping on us. All that completely changed how school was done, of course PowerPoint was introduced, typing classes, quizzes were online, exams became all online.

[@isaiahmarker407]

We had VHS in it's last years, DVD was hitting the mainstream as the new great thing (then Blu Ray not long after), we were one of the last classes (born 1999, Class of 2017) to ever be taught cursive and see the 90s style education system shift to the modern state standardized tests. We were one of the last classes to use textbooks before everyone switched to iPads in the classroom. We had a mix of old world and modern and we were growing up through all the changes

[@mikaelalundberg6207]

Same here, I remember dialup internet and crazy sounds it made. My dad had a HUGE CD case he carried it with him everywhere to listen to music and audio books, until he got a smart phone.

[@Blackwing_Earth-2_]

Same here, I never felt like I fit neatly into millennial or gen z because we thought tide pods looked like candy too, we just knew not to eat it but I also wasn't old enough to have had a MySpace when it was hot. I remember the switch to whiteboards and the switch to smart boards. I remember wheeling the TV in the classroom for Magic school bus or Schoolhouse Rock tapes

[@kimberlycampbell1100]

I'm February '99 and fully agree with this.

[@fulloddskurt5600]

Born in august 1999, it's comforting to hear others have also had the same thought's/experiences. There aren't many of Gen Z in general compared to population size of other generations, so there's even less "zillennials". I'm proud of the era we grew up in, I may be a little biased but I truly think it was one of the best times to grow up :)

[@CAVFIFTEEN]

As someone born in '97, it's wild to see how things shifted. Growing up, we were always called millennials by those older than us. Now we get lumped into gen z and are told how lazy we are and all that stuff. First, Gen Z isn't "lazy". They're just fighting for their worth and rights like everyone else should've been doing already. Second, it's so true that we had a very unique experience given that we don't really remember what the world was like before 911, grew up with a computer in the home (but not with us at all times like smartphones now), had adults telling us you can't believe everything you read or see online (funny how things changed), and lived through all of those changes. I think we have incredible insight and it makes it very difficult for us to relate with other gens and vice/versa. I wouldn't be surprised if just because of the world we lived in, we may actually be the ones who are more progressive and accepting of others even more than millennials. We constantly dealt with a changing world and no one asked us first. We just had to accept the technological and social changes and I think it kind of forced us to learn to be accepting of change and understand that it's inevitable. It's all very interesting to think about none the less and I really appreciate this video as if nothing else, it helps us to feel seen and understood to some extent.

[@MaxRamos8]

Yup different enough to be our own generation. 97 here too I don't remeber 9/11 but I remember watching Revenge of the Sith in Theaters and having the big box computers at school. Chalkboards, Xomi Showdown, and Yugi oh

[@MaxRamos8]

Anyone remeber celluFun?

[@natashasprunk7436]

"funny how things changed" has me rolling!!! '96er here!

[@smallcryingchild9322]

I love this comment

[@100karla3]

97 here too…. I also got to experience playing outside more and the computer was barely touched to play halo and fb games sometimes. Had my first working cellphone (SG6) till college cause I bought it. Samsung galaxy was starting to get more field over iphones but teens still thought those were for old people and IPhones were cooler. I still got to have some flashy flip phones, vertical, diagonal and horizontal, a blackberry and a Nokia, but muy dad gave them to me only for emergencies and I didn’t had enough data o need to use it for something else since there wasn’t many games and I also had an mp3. I don’t remember 911 either, but my mom said I was happy cause my sister didn’t go to school and I wanted to watch my cartoons like always but I couldn’t cause they were watching the news, but obviously I was too little

[@YTuser1998]

‘Zillennials’ definitely needs to be used so much more and recognized. As zillennials, we experienced something so specific in comparison to millennials and young gen zer’s, and we often do not even fit into either groups. Zillennials were born in the turn of the century, many of us grew up with the internet not being nowhere close to what it’s become, and social media was just beginning to start. Such a pivotal moment and we didn’t even realize. My youngest sister is 15, making her a younger gen z’er but we couldn’t be more different. Truly fascinating.

[@ocean440]

2003 is millennial?

[@MISSMADISONMEDIA]

@@ocean440 it’s not

[@ArticBlueFox96]

​@@ocean440I think that 1993 to 2000 (inclusive) is probably the best definition for Zillenials.

[@Pwn3540]

She seems like Zalpha cuspie since first gen alphas will be 18 sometime between now and 2028

[@dijonay971]

@@ArticBlueFox96 Agreed

[@Shiann444]

Born in 98… always felt like the forgotten middle child. Especially because I’m ACTUALLY a middle child and have siblings that are hardcore Millennial and Gen z. I genuinely feel like I relate to both lol

[@sophiaec2607]

S A M E omg are we all middle children

[@wolfsbaneamp]

Same. Born mid 98'. I remember having to plug the phone into the computer😂😂 9/11 is my earliest TV memory😂

[@mattowens5349]

Same. I relate to the gen z social stuff but all the media I grew up with was from the 80s-90s. But my family was also poor so I didn't have a bunch of technology until like 2012-ish when I think I got my first smart phone (Nokia Windows phone)

[@dijonay971]

@@mattowens5349 Yep, and this is why having arbitrary points to mark a generation is only relevant to certain populations. People with lower socioeconomic status or living in a developing country did not experience certain technological changes at the same rate as other households or countries.

[@adnamaameda2473]

ummm, yesss girl. 100%

[@beleden1215]

I know I’m a Zillenial because of how I listened to music as a teen. That is the defining factor: radio, limewire, mp4, IPod, Spotify, CD’s and burning them, etc. I transitioned from CD’s to IPod/mo4 downloads then to Spotify

[@Beqeeangel]

I remember pausing KZbin and playing with my cousins for twenty minutes while the video loaded so we could all watch it together 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Bubblies005]

Born in 1995 and my obsession with Sims, Animal Crossing, and Minecraft is very real. I grew up on Webkinz, Neopets, climbing trees, and listening to kidz bop Black Eyed Peas. 😂

[@NatashaSullivan]

Literally same except sims, Animal crossing and Minecraft 😂 95 here too. But my dad didn't let me play Sims 😂😂 (but I played it myself as an adult of course) But I had a computer at 10. Played webkins, neopets, and spent a lot of time outside (lived in Florida for my younger childhood) Had a Gameboy color. I also remember red faction 😂 played a lot of halo. Definitely had a Wii and loved Zelda twilight princess (waiting for it to come out on the switch). I spent time talking with my friend on my home phone. Had an MP3 player first (my dad never got me a CD player 😅) Got my first smartphone in middle school. Well, my first touchscreen phone was the Nokia Music Express 5800. But the Samsung S3 mini was my first real smartphone.

[@Bubblies005]

@ Webkinz, Neopets, and KZbin helped me cope through Middle School.

[@NatashaSullivan]

@Bubblies005 saaaameeee

[@brittanysbookburrow5237]

I was born in 1996 and I’m glad you made this video! I’m too young to understand the Millennial struggle and too old to understand the Gen Z struggle. I experienced a mix of both and I’m still considered “entitled” due to my age being lumped in both generations.

[@MiaBostic]

@K.C-2049 very true!

[@jocelynsmyth6604]

I'm an 88 baby, so I'm smack in the 'struggle' - we got told to go to college and work hard, and we've lived through so many recessions and have worked out butts off, for not much. I can admit, I do find people about 10 years younger than me very whiney - I can understand that you are living through a different experience, but everyone using the word 'truama' all the time bothers me, when 80s babies grew up with veterans from the world wars and people who lived through the depression and knew people affected by that time in history. Edit: this is a generalization, not speaking for people as individuals

[@bre5623]

​@@jocelynsmyth6604tbf with the whole trauma thing, it's pretty misunderstood. Most people do experience some trauma in their lives, but it doesn't always lead to PTSD or CPTSD - there's a difference, so opening that conversation is not necessarily a bad thing, in fact, being able to talk about your trauma more openly will make it more likely that you WON'T develop PTSD/CPTSD, but I think there's still a lot of misunderstanding as to the difference.

[@redlight3932]

How can you be entitled if you don't act entitled

[@evapara]

I was born late-October 1996 and I was always in the middle of not exactly understanding either millennials or gen z 🥹

[@vivalasammm]

im '95 and identify as a millennial but im glad the word "zillennial" is becoming more common because younger millennials and older gen z are honestly pretty much the same. i notice at work i usually tend to grow closer with older gen z than older millennials because of how common our interests and our childhood are

[@MJPhoenix]

I’m a 95 baby also and I agree. We’re cuspy lol

[@AmeenAnis]

It makes sense because the oldest Gen Z and youngest millennials interlap, just like the oldest millennials and youngest Gen Y interlap a bit

[@mynameisreallycool1]

That can apply to any cusp of two generations. Late gen z with early gen alpha, late gen x with early millennials (xennials), late baby boomers and early gen xers, etc.

[@AmeenAnis]

@@mynameisreallycool1 you mean early gen z with late generation alpha

[@natashasullivan4559]

Yeah, as a 95er I feel closer to either very young millennials, or older gen Z. Reasons I feel more like a Zillenial than a millennial. If I have to say what generation I'm in and don't want to explain. I'll just say millennial. But, in all reality, I definitely feel more in the middle. There are so many "growing up in the 90s" millennial things I don't even remember. That I feel not really part of the millennial (older) group

[@o.o6340]

Your point about life simulator games kinda blew my mind a bit. Born in 98 and yeah I do love life simulator games. Maybe it's something about how most of us feel like we don't have control over our lives while being raised in such unstable times. Something like that.

[@poogissploogis]

I agree completely! I think this is a big reason why a lot of Millennials have a reputation of not growing up through buying toys and things that they grew up with. They hold onto their childhoods because that was the last time things were stable and good.

[@Cosmics0098]

So true😢

[@mynameisreallycool1]

​​​​​@@poogissploogis Or the opposite reason (more likely the case for most), where they're trying to reclaim their childhood and live it the way they wished they could and hold on to their youth because of it, because they had a traumatic childhood (like they were physically or mentally abused, had controlling parents, were neglected, poor, sexually abused, or anything else that kept them from having the happy and stable childhood they desperately wanted and needed). It could also be a little bit of both reasons, if your childhood and adultlife both sucked. Also, childhood trauma tends to make you stop emotionally maturing anyway, though I don think buying kid toys is the same as having actual emotional issues like a bad temper, being clingy, being passive-aggressive, being co-dependent, having entitlement/control issues, being impulsive, being overly-sensitive to criticism, etc.

[@autumnhaywood1851]

​@poogissploogis this made me understand my husband and bit more

[@autumnhaywood1851]

I always questioned myself for why I love games like sims. Now i have an idea. Born in 97 btw

[@ceilingbagel]

I am placed solidly in Gen Z, but I grew up lower income and had older parents than my peers. This gave me latter access to the internet more on par with Zillennials, making me relate more to them especially with our relationship to the internet

[@emmakane6848]

As a Gen Zer with parents who kept a lot of ‘vintage tech’ I absolutely identify with this, and always think that many people’s first experiences with technology are dependent on their parent’s willingness to adopt it and income level.

[@kaydenstuff]

Mood, I was born in 2001 but I've never had a computer or game console at home and my first phone was a flip phone and most of my favorite movies as a kid were on VHS, I played cool math games in school and I have very fond memories of the trap remix of the Little Einsteins intro song and still listen to it sometimes when I'm excited about going somewhere. And to be literal with the thumbnail, I have never used Myspace, partially because I was a small child and partially because we couldn't afford a computer or internet anyways, but I never found any kind of personal appeal with tik tok, I can see myself posting there for various reasons but I have almost never actually scrolled through the fyp, I find it pretty overstimulating actually because I just can't get behind not having much control over what I view on social media. The most tiktok I watch is specific types of compilation videos on KZbin

[@delanieromack1792]

This is what I was thinking too. Like I grew up in the middle of nowhere, so everything moved slower. Like I was born in 02 and we didn’t get Chromebooks introduced into our schools until 7/8th grade. There’s still areas in my county now where internet access still isn’t available.

[@CerberusC23]

It's crazy how much poverty can impact how much you fit in with whatever generation. I'm 99 but for the most part I never got gen z vibes and my childhood was very millennial. Played outside all day, rode a bike clear across town and mom never knew where I was, didn't have a smart phone til 10th grade just a beat up laptop. Spent years without having internet consistently so we would rent movies from the LIBRARY 😂 And I had a MySpace before a fb but nobody used it's anymore when I got it

[@rachaelwilliams4936]

Same. I feel like from my perspective of growing up in the mid to late 2000s, things like fancy gaming consoles or computers were still somewhat a luxury that few could afford.

[@Fanny-ge6ge]

I'm officially a Millenial, and my sister is officially gen Z. We're only 4 years apart, and basically had the same childhood. I truly believe micro-generations make sense, especially nowadays when society and technology move so fast, so the experience of a younger Millenial and an older one will radically differ, but a younger Millenial and an older gen Z will have had the same childhood, basically.

[@emmakane6848]

Similar boat with my siblings. I think it absolutely depends on how parents raised people, and there isn’t as much difference as people might expect.

[@xTwinVipersx]

Agreed!

[@dijonay971]

Exactly.

[@cloudsurfer73]

Exact same with my brother and I. He's 4 years older and a millennial and I was born in the starting year for Gen Z.

[@Manie230]

My sister is from 92 and I am from 2000 but I still basically grew up with everything she did. I watched the same shows as her. Played the same games. Only later in life when she went to high school we started to really drift apart in terms of what we enjoyed. I have a sister who is born in 2009 and I honestly have very little in common with her although we are supposedly in the same generation.

[@meegsoteegs]

2000's baby here: I literally didn't know how to use a computer until 4th grade. And it was through one of those "computer carts" lol. Then I had a school-provided laptop for the entirety of high school, so I had a bit of both experiences.

[@meegsoteegs]

Also pretty interesting: in 2nd grade I remember an assembly about Pirate's Bay and Limewire, and then in like 7th there was an assembly about Instagram (and Amanda Todd)

[@reybenesmisasi8017]

'02 kid, and i had something similar. I remember the transition from flip phones to smart phones vividly, as well as the rise of laptops.

[@meegsoteegs]

@ same! I grew up learning the best ways to dramatically hang up on a flip phone, and then the world evolved past flip phones before my time :')

[@tristan_840]

2001 kid, I knew how to use computer through our neighbor friend who is have more money than us. They are kind to let me go play with their children and they are all girls (maybe that's why I was bullied back then, calling me gay, but I know I'm not though) they treated me like I was also their child, and I'm like eldest brother. But now things have changed and we rarely even talk to each other. My mom and their mom even had argument that led them to never engage with my family again.

[@sacha3296]

@@reybenesmisasi8017 This. Like i remember everybody wanting a flip phone. also all the cool high schoolers with them. Also i remember a phone was only the house phone or your first one when you go to middle and high school

[@poogissploogis]

I'm right on that Gen Z/Millennial cusp as a 1997 baby and I remember feeling so seen when I first discovered the Zillennial micro generation. I feel like I relate to about half of each generation's experiences. I think the Zillennial experience of the internet and phones is super unique. I definitely grew up on the internet, but it was the "beta" stage of the internet. I saw the birth of KZbin, I used MSN messenger to talk to my friends, etc. And the internet was confined to that family computer with the huge beige brick monitor. We didn't have the internet on us 24/7, we would log off and go play outside. If you accidentally clicked on the internet button on your flip phone, you hammered that cancel key like crazy so your parents wouldn't get charged for such a luxury. I had a slide phone until my junior year of high school, which was when I got my first smart phone. I actually have recurring dreams where I ditch my smart phone for that old model. I kinda miss the simplicity. But yeah, I definitely believe in the micro generation model because I feel so perfectly represented by the Zillennial label.

[@MichaelWadhwania]

@@poogissploogis you're clear cut Gen Z

[@zes793]

1997 is peak Zillennial imo. I'm a 93 baby, older sibling is a 92 baby. We are both firmly Millennial with a different life experience to Gen Z. We remember the 90s. We remember 9/11. We got our first smartphones in late highschool. We have a sibling born in 99 and he's absolutely a Gen Z. Totally different life experience, born and raised in a different era, different world, different culture. The last sibling is right in the middle. 1997. His experience is SO unique genuinely being right in the middle of these two different life experiences and having various recollections and experiences from each. He's neither Millennial or Z, yet simultaneously both at the same time. It's a crazy thing not being able to entirely relate to people just a couple of years older or younger than you yet be this bridge between the two.

[@MichaelWadhwania]

@zes793 how can you remember the 90s except for the kids shows

[@MichaelWadhwania]

@zes793 93 is zillenial because Gen Z starts in 96, oldest millennials are 1981

[@jetleeprimestate]

​@@zes79393 is zillenial, you were a teenager in the early 2000s, millennials had MTV of the 90s. You were still a kid. You were born in the 90s, you did not grow up in the 90s. Millennials are firmly 1981 to 1992. These people were in high school during the 90s.

[@kiaer.s]

The part about zillenials in the workplace is so real. Having discussions with older coworkers about work culture and helping them understand where gen z is coming from should be a part of my job description at this point.

[@chamomillian]

"Nouveau" means new in French. Its usage here is similar to the term "art nouveau", which refers to an existing movement being revived with usually a new modern dimension or element.

[@TFrills]

yeah this guy is illiterate. Everyone knows that

[@phantomesque]

As a zilennial, I can remember the birth of surveillance capitalism as we know it today. Data mining was in its infancy in my teens. It was a scandal when we learned Facebook was running social experiments on minors. Now everyone just accepts it. Remember going online and feeling free? It used to be a sanctuary for me. Neopets, startup social media for subcultures (like goth and scene), and the ability to learn anything you could ever want to learn. It makes me sad to see what the internet has devolved into.

[@RainerRilke3]

For real it's so crazy to have been born in the exact time to be introduced to properly accessible internet culture in that tiny timeframe before it went completely to shit.

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

Remember the copy-paste FB message that supposedly stopped them from collecting your data 😂

[@WiseSageBum]

Back when Google was the best way to find anything you wanted to learn

[@fyi0beast]

Old enough to be able to afford my car note, young enough to cry when grocery shopping! It's me A Zillennial!!

[@shiannafoxx]

Lmao real

[@lexa_power]

Trust me lots of millennials and gen x folk can’t afford their car notes right now

[@WolfeWrangle]

I can ""afford"" my car note

[@jameswhitaker4357]

Please don’t get a car note

[@ashton5493]

One of the things I struggle with a bit as a Zillenial is that some Millennials say I can’t have my earliest childhood memories that are nostalgic to me. Saying things like “oh, your remember being a baby?” And saying I didn’t grow up with box shaped TVs and box shaped computers with screensavers. And VHS and cassette tapes, or over head projectors and tv on the wheel cart at school, or family cars that have a cassette or DVD players.. or even blockbuster or the joy carpets that where seen in skating rinks, bowling alley, or movie theaters. I am told I never experienced it even though I was old enough to remember all of that.

[@emmakane6848]

God, that feels so mean to people with parents who couldn’t afford (or chose not) to get rid of old technology. As a Gen Zer with a dad who had a VHS collectio, and put off getting rid of the thousand dollar box tvs for as long as possible, I always got so offended as a kid when people acted like I wouldn’t know what a rotary phone was - when they were in so many movies and tv shows.

[@MiaBostic]

A lot of 90s things hungover to the 2000s so no one should be discrediting your childhood or saying you didn't experience things, that's cruel.

[@ashton5493]

@ Same, my parents were low income and the “if it still works why replace it?” type of people. And we grew up with a lot of things that crossed over from the 80s and 90s. And then I get millennials saying “ it’s not nostalgic if it’s from the generation before”, as if it can’t continue to be nostalgic to future generations as long as it’s around? Not to mention that VHS and cassette tapes where around way before millennials anyway and it didn’t make it any less nostalgic for them. Why would it be any different for older gen Z and Gen alpha ? My son is Gen alpha (currently 4 years old) and I am raising him up with a lot of physical technology and toys I had as a kid, just because a lot of his generation isn’t growing up with them doesn’t make it any less nostalgic to him. In my opinion as long as you can get things second hand or if it’s something that still exist brand new today then it’s not gonna stop being seen as “nostalgic “ to younger generations unless they stop making them or kick down the doors and take it out of peoples houses and every second hand store and thrift shops.

[@ashton5493]

@ ikr, it kinda rude to say too for anyone who was born into a low income family or even business that either can’t afford or choose not to update things. I’ve been in the same town all my life and our roller skating rink, bowling alley, and movie theater still have those same Joy carpets that haven’t been replaced since god knows how long. So that means that some of those nostalgic things are being passed down to Gen Alpha as well.

[@ReginaTrans_]

lol i was born in 1988 and I DO notice millennials from like 1994/1995 want so bad to have Gen Z live what they live, people born after 1996 is Gen Z even in astrology and Pluto, and because they look technically the same age, earliest Gen Z will believe what those millennials say, and im like Jesus leave those gen Z alone dudes!!!!!!

[@palasiksivain]

born in 2000, i spent my childhood using windows msn on my family computer, and my teenage years taking buzzfeed personality quizzes. i grew up thinking i was a millennial, but as i reached my early 20's i found myself relating to gen z a lot more. definitely can remember the time without smart phones, but also don't know what i would do without one today. a certified zillennial.

[@downtownsasquatch]

also born in 2000 and i feel this comment so muchhhhh

[@erinmctague7188]

Yes me too, born in early 2000 and my mom told me I was a millennial. She was completely wrong lol

[@roonilwazlib5402]

@@erinmctague7188 2000 is definitely gen z. The last Millennial birth year is 95 or 96. I‘m born in 1996 and my sister and my boyfriend are both 2000 babies and some generational differences are so huge it’s always mind blowing for us because we’re only 4 years apart. We’re all on the edge but I’d say while I lean towards millennials experiences they definitely relate more to gen z’s and constantly have to explain memes, trends and new slang words to me.

[@heath6802]

Felt

[@sp9459]

@@erinmctague7188 2000 here as well. I mean that time we were literally born at the year of the millennium. I was never called millennial BUT all of us 2000 babies were called millennium-kids 😂

[@winterfreshification]

I'm a 1995 zillenial. I think I'm technically on the exact year where it transitioned. The biggest defining feature is I grew up in a time where you still needed social skills but also technology skills. It was a transition time where you may text your high-school girlfriend more then talking in person but still had ample social gatherings to fall back on. Social media wasn't nearly as evolved and was really a mostly early adulthood thing. I also think we were the last group to try and fail with the old school boomer advice about work and education. I like being a cusp generation cause I feel like I can relate to more people and act as a bridge for the two.

[@jacqulynmiller4489]

hey friend, you're a millennial! i'm a 1995 millennial as well, just a super young one! :)

[@winterfreshification]

@jacqulynmiller4489 think it depends on what chart or source. But most i have seen put the switch either in 1995 or 1996. So either way I'm a millenial but if it's 1995 then I would be on the switch year. Either way I think most within 2 to 3 years of the switch from one generation to another can relate heavily to both

[@Atkreality]

Some foreign countries (from what I’ve read) have different charts claiming 1995 to be the starting point of GenZ. But it all depends on the person, the culture and upbringing. As a 95 born from the pacific islands near Asia I don’t relate to western millennials or the culture much.

[@jacqulynmiller4489]

@@Atkreality i can understand not relating to our culture over seas for sure! There's been debate about this sort of thing, but in recent years i've only ever seen consensus that 96'-97' is the cut off. I've personally always felt like a millennial though as I grew up with people older than me mostly! Also, this wasn't an attack, i just have legit never heard of 95' babies being called zillenials, only 97' babies tbh :)

[@Danap-mykaykat]

Same, I feel far more connected to my best friend born in ‘98 and coworkers who are older gen Z than my sister who was born in ‘85nor even my coworkers born in ‘91 I know some people still claim it’s millennial, but honestly I think it firmly falls into the transitional periods, as I’ve seen ‘92-‘93 be called the beginning of the transition and only recently have seen ‘97 as the switch, when I’ve been told ‘97 was firmly gen Z. Honestly if you were born mid ‘90s to late ‘90’s I think that’s the transition period. I grew up online with internet culture and was hounded by PSA’s on TV about internet safety and never give your face, location or age to strangers. My sister played with cabbage patch kids and pogs, I played with Pokémon toys+plushies and game boy color

[@RazyPINK]

Zillennials remember when we could play snake on KZbin loading screens.

[@shiannafoxx]

I miss Snake 😭😭

[@kiaer.s]

Zillenials remember when you could sit and let a video load all the way before watching it to avoid buffering issues

[@rhysiescups]

@@kiaer.s I don't remember snake but you get the veteran's pass if you remember the star rating system lol

[@babyg7796]

I literally don’t remember any of these I was born in late ‘97!😭

[@rhysiescups]

@@babyg7796 that probably just means you weren't online too young then lol, I've been on KZbin since I was like 7

[@netteloveszebras]

I'm a '97 zillennial. I was 4 when 9/11 happened, and just remember my mom talking to my neighbor and being concerned about having family in New York. I got a Facebook when I was 11 to be in touch with my sister when she went to college. I talked to strangers on Club Penguin and Neopets without my parents knowing. I lost my college graduation to the pandemic, but was lucky enough to work in manufacturing and still have to go to work in person.

[@yourgirltheory]

As a 1999 Zillenial born right at the cusp of the turn of the century, I’ve always felt left out of any generation. I was clumped in with the millenials in my childhood but now I feel I have to re-learn how to be in Gen Z even though this has always been my generation.

[@mynameisreallycool1]

I was also born in 1999 but always felt more gen z than millennial, probably because a lot of my younger siblings are also in gen z (others are in gen alpha), and my mom is in gen x, PLUS she's on the younger side and would technically be a millennial herself if she was just a year younger, so I'm probably bias. Plus I don't think anyone should be considered a millennial if they weren't old enough to remember the 90s.

[@fujoshipeanut5074]

Loool like learning all the gen z slang I'm supposed to know despite being in my late 20 😂😂

[@Hellisarickroll]

The century changed in 2001 not in 2000 ❤ the new millenium started bc 2000 but centuries start at year 1

[@MrsAnnThropy]

THIS LOL my older brothers were born in 90/94 and im the youngest so i basically just got grouped in with them but not a *part* of them. and don’t get me started on the way i did NOT relate to my peers in school and still don’t relate to the people who are supposed to be my peers. its so difficult actually

[@Mazygolucky]

Same October 99’ baby here and it’s such a weird feeling

[@mrmackey710]

Zillennials experienced both gens cultures, likeness, interest. Especially the 97ers, we were the first and last class to go to school with millennials of our (gen z) generation.

[@JanaeRose]

Ion know bro I was born in 98 def relate to the younger gen z kids more than these lame ass Millennials

[@cat86581]

@@JanaeRose Then you're a child in an adults body, idk why you think that's a good thing

[@JanaeRose]

@@cat86581 oh it’s the best thing, fuck growing up lmao

[@cat86581]

@@JanaeRose .. you're pushing 30.

[@JanaeRose]

@ I’m 25 stupid

[@RvnClw-e8d]

I’m a 27 year old Gen Z (zillenial) about to give birth to a Gen beta baby- wild stuff 🤯 Also I do have hope for this generation because most of the Gen Z moms I know differ from millennial moms in the way that we saw from first experience how screen time has affected us negatively and we aren’t letting our kids have iPads and all of that- so I have more hope for Gen beta tbh

[@hydroarchonfaker]

Ayeeee I'm a 95 Zillenial! Also having a gen beta baby soon. Woah will they be Alpheta's? On down the line? 💙

[@MichaelWadhwania]

As a 1993 person, I do not remember the 90s MTV, I do remember the Nickelodeon shows like Hey Arnold, but my middle school years were the early 2000s when smackdown vs raw came out

[@maliciousanddelicious]

As a 1994 person, same. I don’t remember 90’s MTV either but definitely remember early 2000’s cartoon shows.

[@MichaelWadhwania]

@maliciousanddelicious you're apart of the era where you were mature enough to watch high school stuff. You are too little if you were either in diapers or the 4th grade in the 90s.

[@HemasLiving]

I'm 29 right now which means I was born in 1995, that makes me a millennial but if I date a 41 year old woman, she would be a millennial too because she was born in 1981 but I think 41 is too old for me, but if I date a Gen Z girl who is 20 or 22, that feels closer to me.

[@MiaBostic]

Yeah it's interesting! I was born in 1990 so feel like peak Millennial, early 2000s were everything and luckily a lot of great things from the 90s still hungover.

[@marklouis1890]

Same man. 1993, baby.

[@Lily-uu6wq]

1997 peeps let’s go!

[@fkfkfkl09505]

Ayeee

[@Ft_september]

1998 and it's so weird

[@JulianSteve]

@@Ft_september Hey fellow 1998 person🙋🏾‍♂️!

[@ccss9827]

1998 :')

[@thomasbalsor8684]

AyEeeEeee 97's lesssgoooo

[@anabritelora]

Born in August of 97, high school class of 2015. It’s always so funny (in an infuriating way) when people say “No you can’t be a millennial, 1996 is the cutoff point, you’re Gen Z!” And I just think…so half the people in my class were in an entirely different generation? Doesn’t track… Plus as the youngest of 5 kids (my siblings were born between 1982-92) that definitely had an impact to my worldview and upbringing as well. It’s tricky feeling like you always have to defend where you stand within the generations, even if you’re not entirely sure where that is.

[@loloppololp9304]

Because its not black and white as most people think it is. The concept of generations was created from extreme generalizations that don't always make sense. I mean, how are you going to make 911 a marker when there are kids from other parts of the world outside of US? And technology? You know, cause its not like kids from the third world saw the progression from mp3s to iPods in the same way as kids in the US would. In all, it's based on assumptions and generalizations.

[@SoullessResident]

I was born summer of 1994 and it's what Ive always said. Gen Z thinks I'm a boomer and millennials think I'm a fetus 😂 I've accepted I don't have an officially recognize gen a long time ago 😂

[@Ichsukatanuka]

30, you're a milennial, we claim you lol. But you might not relate as much to the older ones

[@samanthaw8837]

I have never heard someone call a 30 year old a fetus

[@SoullessResident]

@@samanthaw8837 you would be surprised. People are rude af

[@SoullessResident]

@@Ichsukatanuka I honestly don't relate with millennials at all. All my siblings are Z and my parents were X. I barely remember 911 and don't remember a time before internet

[@SoullessResident]

@@Ichsukatanuka yes but I just turned thirty in July. Before then people would go "oh your only 29? Your a Z. Sooo... I imagine over the next few years as millennials go into their 40s they will al go back to calling me z again. 😂

[@grace.1123]

i'm born at the end of nov '94 and i'm so glad that zillennial is becoming a thing because i've never identified being a full 'millennial.' don't fully relate to people born in 1990 and don't fully relate to people born in 2000 but also simultaneously feel like i'm both of them combined. literally smack in the middle and just turned 30 but still feel like i graduated hs last week and it's been almost 13 years lol. grew up chronically on dial up AOL and neopets in elementary school and tumblr in high school, don't remember 9/11, remember when nickelodeon used to air the go out and play days and was part of that final group of students who thankfully only experienced the very early beginnings of social media as i was graduating high school in 2012.

[@rhysiescups]

I'm def Gen Z but I HAAAATED Go Out and Play on Nickelodeon lmao, like wtf just put Avatar back on 😭

[@IndigenousExotical]

@@rhysiescupsi almost forgot that annoying ass get up and play program 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jenjenthepixie4796]

I'm also a late 1994 baby and never felt like a millennial but feel too old for Gen z. I remember in middle school, my English teacher made the class write a journal entry about 9/11. I had gotten a bad grade because I had written that I was 6 and didn't remember anything of that day.

[@grace.1123]

@ I also can’t remember 9/11! Maybe because we were born at the end of the year (I was almost held back with the ‘95ers) that that also affects remembering 9/11 or not as well. Like it’s weird being grouped as a Millennial when the older Millennials were literally in college when 9/11 happened and we were just starting elementary school… so it’s like, are we REALLY in the same generation as them? 😂

[@Ashclayton1994]

I was born in August '94 and have clear vivid memories of 911 happening I had just turned 7 less than a month earlier

[@Cryinginthecloudssss]

I grew up with VHS’s turning into DVD’s not having internet at home playing games on my friends home computer too watching videos on KZbin on her first generation iPad. I had an in person highschool graduation but I graduated in 2018 I was going to do a gap year and then go to college. then covid happened and I decided to not go to college cause I just knew I was not gunna do well with online classes. Looking back at it now i should’ve went to college anyways cause they probably would’ve just passed me but also i don’t have student loans and work with people who have literal degrees and can’t find a job in their field. I constantly feel regret about decisions i did and didn’t do I feel behind people older than me and people younger then me

[@lalycassie]

I was born in 1999 ❤️ The Sims prepared us for Socialmedia and taught us that we can create our own worlds. I was first popular on Facebook, then Instagram, then TikTok (let's hope it doesn't get banned everywhere) and now I'm building a music career as an independent artist on KZbin, Spotify, etc. 🎤🎬 Even with mixed feelings about the new world & some fear of the future with AI, I feel blessed to be born in this generation. We've explored new ways of making money, some of us don't need the traditional 9-to-5 system - even though our Generation X parents taught us that & still have trouble believing in “internet money”.... I love the spiritual, open-minded energy of my generation, even though I'm definitely not a fan of everything they changed & still hold traditional values to some extent.

[@Certainlynottimmy]

As someone born at the very beginning of Gen Z in 2000, I definitely feel hella isolated on both ends of Millennials and also younger Gen z lmao

[@Thechosen1000]

2000 is not the beginning of Gen Z

[@Sjood-qs8ol]

Gen z started in 1997

[@bcray2548]

Think they meant turn of the century

[@Certainlynottimmy]

@@bcray2548 yes! I meant Gen Z in the 2000(s)!

[@JayNoodles]

@@Sjood-qs8ol According to the government it’s 2001.

[@matcha.cinnamon]

i 100000% agree w the workplace stuff. I started working in 2019 at 18 years old during lockdown at a coffee shop & im kinda grateful bc my work and social skills were maintained and grew during the pandemic rather than how many of our generation only knew or experienced work remotely

[@s.tiaira9081]

1996 zillenial🙋🏽‍♀️ I gagged when you said Poptropica!! I also played Virtual Villagers and loved Animal Crossing on the DS

[@controllingdestiny8768]

Just started watching the vid so I haven’t hear him say it yet but that was my shitttt. We didn’t have a computer at the house but I’d go spend my weekend at the library to play poptropica all day. And then go home with like 6 books to read for the week UGHHHH that was the life

[@rhysiescups]

I'm like 5 years younger but Poptropica was my shit lol

[@E4439Qv5]

I miss Virtual Villagers...

[@somewhatdiscrete]

born at the end of 94 and I’ve always felt like the cut off of relatability for me was about 3 years older than me and 5 years younger so I’ve come to really resonate with the zillenial distinction since it first emerged. I find the way we usually discuss generations to be really silly a lot of the time bc it makes no sense that we would speak about two people 15 years apart in age as having the same experiences but people who are a year or two apart are somehow from different worlds. if generations are meant to signify shared culture and experiences then rolling micro generations are really the only thing that makes sense.

[@ryeneaton892]

Born 2002 I feel like like there’s this 5 year grey area in ppl I know where maybe like 97-03 doesn’t really fit the molds

[@tylerhackner9731]

Also born in 2002, I feel this I don’t feel like I fit the typical gen z mode all the time

[@christiangreen2324]

@@ryeneaton892 born in 96 and millennials still call me a baby so zillennials I believe is completely accurate

[@tlow1256]

People don’t believe in astrology but this can be looked at by looking at generational planets Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. People born from 1998-early 2003 have Uranus and Neptune in Aquarius and Pluto in Sagittarius. While 1997 does as well except their Neptune is Capricorn sharing that energy with a large portion of millenials. So yeah this is why people usually say this about 1997-2003

[@shiannafoxx]

Omg same. I'm 02 too and Idk if I'm an older gen z/zillennial or just gen z but I also grew up in an age when internet and social media wasn't as prevalent as it is now and I don't really relate to a lot of younger gen z

[@theveganclown]

Also 2002 And I Feel Too Old For Gen Z

[@dakotaXmae]

I feel like the life sim thing is a product of living through the economic changes we’ve lived through. When we were young, there was still some hope of being able to own a home and a car and have a comfy life etc, but as we got older and that hope dwindled, the life sim became something we lived through vicariously not because we were dreaming of the future, but because we are dreaming of the seemingly impossible. Or maybe not a product of it exactly, but it could be part of why life sims have been such a big part of our lives.

[@vistarox]

I always say the biggest difference between Millennials and Gen Z is that the Millennials believed in the American Dream, but Gen Z knew they’d never achieve it.

[@danielmalinen6337]

As someone born in 1996, what I dislike is when people ask me "What it was like to be a teenager in the late 90s or early 2000s and become an adult during the 2008 crisis", which apparently are some stereotypical cornerstones for the millennial generation. And then those people get confused and get stuck when I say, "No, I was a teenager from 2009 to 2015 and I only became an adult in the mid-2010s, which is why those experiences are familiar from the side but still very alien to me." If we Zillenials were just accepted as an official microgeneration, everything would be much easier and clearer. But so far, not all generalogists like the idea, and there is still division in the field about whether we exist or not, and consensus is still far away. Another thing I dislike is that when I graduated in 2015 at the age of 18 (in Finland), I've been told my entire adult life that first no company needs me because they already have all the necessary workforce they need, and then in recent years that I'm not needed because they prefer to hire people with more recent professional degrees and younger ages. However, I have received peer support from others born in the mid-1990s to early 2000s who are in the same situation and feel left out of working life, which is a bit of a consolation that I am not alone and the only one with this problem, but also very sad that it affects so many, especially in my own and so close age groups.

[@fuosdi64]

Well generations aren't really a real thing.

[@jasu_san9246]

ay, feel that 🥲 ylävitoset.

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

Damn, I didn’t know things were that serious about generations in Finland. That’s peculiar to say the least.

[@WillSmith-wg4hs]

96 here as well. I feel your pain. Yeah I was around 11-12 when the 2008 recession hit the USA, and it didn’t really affect me as it did older millennials. And I graduated high school in 2015 as well. Post Covid job hunting has been terrible as literally all jobs want “3 years experience” in any field and the fields I do have that in don’t want to hire right now.

[@ReginaTrans_]

i was born in 1988 and I was 13 in 2001 lol

[@Piximae]

Ironically enough, I was born in '93. We didn't get high speed Internet in my area until 2008, and I didn't even get a flip phone or social media until 2006 due to it taking born forever to load and not being able to use the Internet anyway. There was one internet cable in my house, and my mom needed the phone. High speed Internet where everyone can use it was amazing. Not to mention not remembering 9/11 because all that happened was the boring news was on the TV, and I was worried about my mom's sick goat that she took to the vet that day. So the older millennial lingo I kinda understand, but the experiences of the Zoomers I relate to better. That being said shout-out to the fellow country bumpkins who also had a lot of awesome tech get to their area 5 years late❤

[@nicolesherman8974]

Yes, I’m ready for this conversation 🍿

[@imuRgency]

tap innnnn friend 🫶🏾

[@red_light_3937]

I really love this as a ‘96 kid! In those same articles complaining about ‘avocado on toast’ folks I had seen a mix of different ‘generations’ guide flipping me back & forth from millennial to Gen Z so I kinda stopped caring. I’ve otherwise associated a lot of my not-fitting-into either Gen as a function of class so I really like how you’ve laid out the zillennial ! :)

[@jeremydavis8932]

As a Zillenial (born 99) I relate more with my older millennial cousins then my younger gen-z cousins. When it comes to how we socialize, communicate and etc, I feel like I can’t relate to anyone born after 2005 lol. I didnt get any social media til I was in middle school but I wasn’t active on it til high school. Whether it was around or not I didn’t access much of the internet on a daily basis til I was in middle school.

[@cupantae1893]

99 and same here. I have a friend born 2006 and it’s like speaking to a child while she sees me as a millennial 💀😂

[@MariankGonzalez]

Thank you for this video! I was born in 1998, I am definitely a Zillennial. I grew up with Myspace, Facebook, cassettes, VHS tapes, disposable cameras, and DVD, and heard of Blu-ray. I am a 90's baby and an early 2000's kid. Thank you so much for this video, I feel so validated learning that I'm a Zillennial! :)

[@1CourtneyMichelle]

As a 28 year old, I feel seen with this video😄

[@SyneticToss]

Millenials are the ones who were teenagers in the 90s listening to adult and teenage content whereas Zillenials were all elementary school kids still watching zoom, pbs, cartoon network, because they were still kids. Gen Z were just babies are about to be born. Of course a kid in the 1st grade in the 90s would not relate to a kid in the 9th grade who graduated high school in 2002.

[@BluIndy27]

2000s zillenial here,tuned into this convo!

[@victoria_xo884]

2003 🥲🫶

[@domer_clips]

I am a Zalpha and I was born in the year 2010. Gen Zalpha is like between the years 2008 to 2013. I am already 14 years old and I have some younger friends from Gen Alpha and some friends who are just as old as me or even older. And I do have this understanding of both Gen Z and Gen Alpha jokes, memes and other stuff. It's kinda cool

[@ItsZaire]

Real as a 2009

[@Anneliese2340]

as someone whos the same age as you, i feel like i relate to gen z more because my parents are in their late 40s and early 50s and my siblings are 27, 18, and 17, and i was raised without a phone until highshool, so i definitely relate to gen z more

[@johnika20091]

They have KZbin videos that's older than you...

[@Errcia]

Too young for Myspace? 😭 I resent this. Myspace needs to come back and honestly was a way more advanced social media than the ones we have. We could play games from our profile, add music that plays, design literally every aspect, have favorite friends and show them publicly, ect. That was the actual drama, granted I was in middle school 😭😭

[@dinosaurman5178]

It isn’t very popular, but the site “spacehey” was made to operate in similar ways to MySpace

[@MiaBostic]

I miss myspace D=

[@benwasserman8223]

1996 kid and I honestly find my understanding of internet culture and pop culture so radically different from everyone in the traditional Gen Z area. Like i remember when the Star Wars prequels were the most hated thing online - now those same haters are doing everything to cover up their “Jar-Jar Stinks” jokes.

[@mrmackey710]

Being born in ‘97 I always felt too young for millenials, but too old for anyone born after ‘98.

[@mloomer123]

I was born in 2001 and relate to Zillennials because my sisters were born in 1996 and 1998 😭

[@tressymart]

as a 96 zillenial with a 2002 and 2003 sisters I relate to gen z way more than millenials tho

[@AmeenAnis]

Millennials - walkman, pagers - high school Zillenials - flip phones, MP3 players - middle school Gen Z - smartphones - elementary school

[@SharonHealyHealy]

Bingo !

[@calvinrump3558]

1984 - 1992 Millennials (Tales from the Crypt) 1993 - 2002 Zillennials (Kenan and kel) 2002 - 2010s Gen Z (Drake and josh) 2010 - 2015 Gen alpha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SharonHealyHealy]

@ you missed out 1995 and 1994? zillennials are 93-98. I’m born at the end of 94 and don’t have a clue what tales of whatever are 😭

[@calvinrump3558]

​@SharonHealyHealy I'm 1992

[@Its_Akeria]

I was born in 92. I definitely feel different from those born in mid-late 90s as well as those born mid-late 80s(like my first cousins.) it’s all so fascinating.

[@OutfitRepeater]

For those born in 1993, we were either 7 or 8 when 9/11 happened (not 10) but that is still old enough for most of us to remember it at least in part. Not to mention collectively traumatic events like that leave more of an impression. I remember very little else from being 7 years old 😂

[@PeacePetal]

Same, I was born in ‘97 and I certainly remember seeing a fireball boom out of one of the towers on live TV. Probably don’t remember anything else from 2001, but that stuck.

[@simplememe70]

98 baby here, working an office job in person during the pandemic was so rough lmfao

[@tylerhackner9731]

I was born in 2002, and I identify much more with older gen z/zillennials than younger gen Z and gen alpha. Although I graduated high school during Covid, I spent the vast majority of my time there before then, and it allowed me to make connections people a few years younger than me hadn’t had. As well as having a 2000s/early 10s childhood I also don’t really get younger gen z humor as it’s too closely tied to gen alpha, like that skbidi toilet stuff? I’m 22, and I already don’t get it

[@anikasmucker3208]

How young were the gen z? I am 19 born 05 and I have friends that are 16 born 08 as well as friends that are 25. They often actually have quite similar humor lol. none of the 16 year olds have ever used that term.

[@emmakane6848]

I think there is a major difference between massively online Gen Z and all other Gen Zers. The same can probably be said for Millennials and Gen Alpha, but I think it is acutely evident with Gen Z because it is such a huge part of some people’s identity. And there probably isn’t really a way to avoid it in younger generations.

[@jaylenrussell4090]

Born in December of 02, couldn’t have been worded more accurately 🤣

[@KpopUnniesUwU]

Born in 2002, the youngest I met and talk with is 2012 liner. And they are still Gen Z! But I feel more related to someone born 1997- 2006 than under 2006 (maybe bcuz I worked in a workplace with all early GenZ now) and under 2006 are still minor so it’s hard to communicate but I think as soon as they all grown up, we will relate to them as some point!

[@whitekj03]

I'm 30 and this video hits lol. I was someone that had dial up and early windows 95 PCs, but also got myspace, facebook, Twitter, instagram, etc as a young teenager when they launched.

[@coleydotmp4]

Zillenials are the last generation to get a complete education. This is a very important fact when considering the incoming workforce/voter base/generation of parents. Covid did not disrupt major parts of our education, typically only our final year of college if at all. No AI reliance/use while in school, little to no covid interruption or online classes. When they look at intelligence levels per generation, this age range (born 1995 through 2000) will probably be the last before a big drop-off in academic outcomes.

[@maxmeier4039]

I think this is a super important point! Trying to pin down exact generational starts and ends is always an arbitrary futile exercise, but what stage of life you were in when the pandemic hit had a real distinct impact on people. I was just wrapping up college during the pandemic, and I feel like people who lost two years of their high school experience just ended up on a whole different trajectory in life than I did

[@CatholicTraditional]

True, but most Z’n’ls were doing most of their schooling on computers. I was born in the Millennial era (but always acted older) and I carried a lot of 📚 to class and took most of my exams with 📝. Most typed assignments were printed and turned-in hard copies. All computers, including 💻, had 💿 drives. I even remember the older ones with 💾! We used real TVs, radios, video players and games, and just simple cell phones.

[@CrunchyCrowe]

Born in 1995, *high fiving all my other 95ers* Growing up WITH technology has made me just assume everything is always going to be changing and upgrading, and I'm always going to have to buckle down to learn the new computer, console, phone - etc. I feel like that gives people our age a disposition for learning new things, and having longer attention spans than people JUST a few years younger, who were born with instant touch screens and hyper fast wifi- I REMEBER DIAL UP, but was not old enough to have enjoyed space jam in the theatre. You're right on the money! Funny tho I'm in the minority for having a myspace page, but being a bit young for it and remembering 9/11 and having a myspace page, though i was too young for it for sure - I remember that I got a half day at kindergarten, and all the adults were really glued to the T.V. I had a chill walk home that day, and I only put the pieces together about why that day in kindergarden was so weird, YEARS later, but the day was odd enough to put away in my long term memory

[@WillSmith-wg4hs]

96 here. I also got a half day in kindergarten for 9/11 but was completely unaware of 9/11. My mom tells me I went to the backyard and pretended I was Indiana jones. I do remember invading Iraq in 2003 and having to ask my mom what “9/11” was.

[@monriatitans]

I was born in the EARLY 90s, but my being ADtistic (ADHD + Autistic) prevents me from remembering most of my childhood, so... And the (neurotypical) social skills I would have had for the in-person workforce are gone now. And, due to how exhausting I now realize it was maintaining them, I have no desire to relearn them. WFH is best for me.

[@danielhubley3335]

i was born in 1998 and i remember bringing my dad to his gates at the aiport!!!! it was so cool and so nice to get to say bye like that. i dont remember where i was or what was going on during 9/11 tho, its funny how memories work and im glad i remember a bit of life pre-911

[@elfangel94]

i was born Nov ‘94 and was 6 on 9/11. i remember it pretty vividly. I just remember waking up to chaos an my mom on the phone with one of my aunts yelling “TURN ON THE TV TURN ON THE TV WE’RE BEING ATTACKED” then me and all my siblings piled onto my parents bed as we all watched. Tbh i thought i was like 8 from how clear that memory is but i’m shocked i was only 6

[@SharonHealyHealy]

Me too! Isn’t such a mind fuck being born at the end of 1994! They’re even trying to push us out of the zillennial title

[@AriannaCrawford-l6s]

I feel like 2008 (and all the mounting anxiety since) is often overlooked by Gen Z since they were children. Millennials were entering the workforce and their dreams were crashing down around them while us Zillennials were early teens watching our parents worry about making ends meet but also we were posting "just went to the gas station and got some bomb hot cheetos" on facebook for our 60 "friends". We just learned to become used to constant massive change and dealing with it.

[@vistarox]

Zilennial here, but I relate way stronger to Gen Z. - Millennials expected to own a home, whereas I’m young enough to be completely priced out of home ownership and other adulthood markers 😭😭 - No memory 9/11, and I was a little kid on my PS2 during the Great Recession - I’ve only ever reworked remotely - Graduated college during pandemic - Had Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter all throughout high school - Also, millennials still had a functioning dating market in young adulthood lmao Millennials were the cool kids I looked up to when I was high school, but I don’t feel like them, and I just don’t relate to them at all. We came of age in totally different times. Millennials feel like properly grown adults, while Gen Z and Zillenials feel like grown adolescents at this point. I feel like this is because Zillenails have been totally priced out of adulthood markers at this point. I just can’t relate to a 37 year old with a suburban house, family, dogs, career and two cars and all that. That lifestyle seems totally unachievable for Zillenials and younger.

[@tristengodfrey1529]

As a 28 year old I relate to that last point xD I can't picture the suburbs, the ownership, the privacy of properly grown adults. My wife and I live in my grandma's house and pay rent

[@fuosdi64]

I'm a Zillennial, and I don't agree with this comment at all. Maybe you're a "younger Zillennial" (wow were really splitting hairs) but as someone that is 28 I far relate more to Millennials in their 30's than Zoomers that are teenagers or in their early 20's. I work with Gen Z'ers in their early 20's and the experiences they've had could not be any more different.

[@fuosdi64]

Also saying that Zillennials are "grown adolescents" is ridiculous. I know plenty of people my age, and myself that are making good money in our careers. Alot of people starting families AND buying their first houses. Maybe you're just behind?

[@vistarox]

@@fuosdi64 Also, I think geography matters a lot. Living in a big city is expensive, and delays life milestones. I’m in a big city, and I know literally nobody under age 29 who’s been able to buy a home and start a family. Even the ones with careers are unable to afford any of it. All the Zillenials around me seem collectively stuck in terms of achieving adult milestones.

[@vistarox]

@@fuosdi64 I think much of the Millenial vs Gen Z generational divide depends on if you were able to achieve home ownership prior to the pandemic. If you could buy a home pre-pandemic, you’re Millenial in my mind. After the pandemic, housing prices and interest rates got so crazy that it pushed home ownership and family establishment out of the realm of possibility for older Gen Zs. Most ppl I know in my age group (Zillenial) aren’t even trying anymore. The Millenials just 5 years older than us were able to buy condos and houses and all that. That all seems impossible for those of us who graduated post-pandemic.

[@DuskusCB]

Born in 91 but I DEFINITELY feel like I fall into this

[@weenyoo]

It's sooo accurate to say we witnessed the rise of the internet, and that we've seen every iteration of social media, and online gaming. I remember being able to play Runescape in middle school, because they didn't block websites. You really only knew about a website if you learned it from somewhere (no collections of links online) so no one had thought to block anything yet. And the golden age of YTPs and flash animations... man, the internet used to be fun.

[@SmollCritter]

Loved this video! I also feel like no one talks about generations in different countries, which I think does have an impact, even if it's just a little bit. I was born in 1999 in western Europe and feel like a zillenial too, especially because in our youth, everything technological what happened in the US came here a year or two later, which might be unimaginable to those born later or in the US so fair enough! Cannot even imagine what it's like in non-western countries

[@jonathanogebe7269]

2001 zillennial here! I never fully felt "Gen Z" because of having experiences pre smartphones like playing double dutch outside, trying not to use the internet on early phones (because roaming the internet was so expensive then lol), VHS to CDs/DVDs and now streaming. But then I also was only 8 months when 9/11 happened. I'm glad that more people are talking about us!

[@tristengodfrey1529]

I am a 28 year old millennial and will say that the airport security before and after 9/11 didnt effect me. I was a poor/am a poor millenial. I have never flown, it is too expensive

[@PsychonautMonique]

I was going to say the same thing. The first time I ever flew was in like 2017 and it was due to a family emergency and it was such a weird experience and I dont really ever plan to fly again due to money and also fear of flying.

[@TayonaDarling]

Where my 94-96 babies at?

[@EpicofEpica]

🎉

[@SharonHealyHealy]

Here 1994!❤

[@HeyJakFrost]

Born in 95 and I remember 9/11 quite well for how old I was. I remember the teachers being scared and not know what to do. They kept us quiet in our classrooms, listening to the news separately from the kids. Eventually, they sent us home early. I remember the US became very patriotic and everyone started joining the military. I also joined the military at 17, heavily influenced by 9/11.

[@MultiJay10]

4:00 😂 new-voh baby boy

[@drella1775]

Nova vu 💅🏼

[@MultiJay10]

@ ooh he was trying hard too bookie 😭😂

[@mykeadelic]

lmfao

[@thechannelformerlyknownasp8111]

I wish people would talk more about how lonely and frustrating it can be to be in the in-between. I was born in ‘98, and can relate to a bunch of stuff from pretty much every living generation, but I can’t relate with any of them enough to be a part of their shared cultural/generational experiences. It can be super isolating.

[@Tajmaj]

I was born in 1994 and def identify as a zillenial. having millennial siblings 1986&1990 and boomer parents I lean towards millennials but I literally dont remember much before 2002 lol. I appreciate the recognition I think you're on point.

[@FaeChild8478]

We were too young for MySpace, and too old for Tiktok, but we were old enough for Tumblr. I'm a 2003 baby, and my school years started in the 2010s. I remember climbing trees with friends and lots of imaginative play, but we also had whiteboards, ipod touches, Club Penguin was still a thing and home phones still existed. The interent back then was WAY DIFFERENT to what it is today

[@melodyanderssondeporras6221]

0:32 As someone born in 96 I do indeed not remember 9/11. I was 5. I sorta vaguely remember post 9/11 vibes. But where I was on the day? lol no

[@Jojo_Ojo_14]

I just remember the anti Muslim/anti Arab propaganda. I was 3 at the time.

[@misomie]

I'm 95 and the only thing I remember about 9/11 was my parents making a big deal and trying to get the tv signal to work. Literally nothing else stood out besides me being confused on em being weird about the tv

[@TheReducedsodium]

Goodness, I was born in '95 and I remember it so clearly. We were in IHOP at the time.

[@Shadowtiger2564]

I was born in 95. I remember mostly being confused at why everyone was panicking and such. My mother pulled me out of school and I remember seeing the second tower fall on the living room TV, but not really understanding what I had just saw until the following days when it was explained in school

[@katherinefotopoulos9244]

I only remember it barely as a fellow 96'er. I was in a daycare in New York City and I remember my teachers making us take nap time at a weird time and all the teachers were huddled at a tv whispering. I remember going home early with mom and thinking this day rules!!

[@nianimarz2551]

Dude I have never encountered your channel before and I was LOCKED IN. There is this weird detachment I have with memories of my childhood (born in 1995) with beepers and pay phones and free texting only after 9pm and now. We are now so far removed from that way of life technologically that it feels like an entire different persons memory. The cognitive dissonance created by micro generations is wild

[@cloudyskiessunnyview]

I think it also depends on who you grew up around. My husband and I are both 'peak' Millennials (born 1990), but he was the youngest of his siblings and I was the oldest of mine. So he knows about some technologies and make references that I know nothing about (pagers dont make a lick of sense to me) and I will quote shows and trends that he felt like he was "too old" to be watching/doing (he never watched Raven/Drake & Josh or any of those 2000s shows). So I feel like micro-gens are totally justified for existing!

[@yumaeyres]

Yessss! Thank you for this lovely take on an issue I’ve been dealing with for a while now. I’m glad you’re speaking up about this. 97’s girl here.

[@VybeX-]

can confirm bc in 2006i turned 13 and became addicted to IMVU when it was first coming out. im 31 now and its crazy to think how its even still running today.

[@MorganJ]

I was just thinking about this today, and I'm glad that the KZbin algorithm showed me this video! I'm one of the late '90s babies that's normally categorized as Gen Z, and I feel like I have more in common with younger Millenials than with a lot of the people who are technically considered "my generation". It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[@SammyLammy1D]

I think we will have another one of these, Zalpha or smth. Because the youngest of gen Z and oldest ot gen Alpha are already somewhere in between, and it will only get worse. I also feel like the bigger the gaps be generations are, the more "hate" (not sure if there is a better word for it) the micro-gens get. I am not anywhere near a micro-gen, but I am a strong believer in accepting that they exist and are equally as valid as people who strongly identify with one or the other.

[@aaaaa-q9f]

As a 2011 zalpha They already exist

[@aaaaa-q9f]

And zalpha is 2010-2012

[@packnetadaija]

It’s also crazy you bring this up because like being born in ‘95, I just turned 29 earlier this month, like I often feel like im young, but like my 10 year high school reunion was last month haha

[@kateribarry]

Thank you! My older sister is 35, my tounger sister is 19. Im about to turn 30. I feel so awkward feeling like i have the ability to connect with both of them but also feeling like an imposter if i did.

[@TheDeluche]

I am a proud xennial aka “the Oregon trail generation”. We remember a time before the internet, we remember the chip shortage, the bit wars and we played out in the streets. We listened to music on cassettes players and in-flight entertainment on planes was a thing for first class travel on long hauls. Also in our most important transitional phases in life, we got screwed over by 9/11 fallout, the Great Recession, and the pandemic.

[@PixelaGames2000]

I was born in 2000, I was alive during 911, but I wasn’t really conscious because I was just a baby. I feel like I do fit the Zillennial mold, my sister is a millennial she was born like 5 or 6 years before me. Also…My nephew is Zen Alpha, he was born early 2023, and my Niece who has yet to be born will be a gen beta…dang, that’s insane. I’m an auntie of 2 generations XD

[@lilpsyche6971]

You just connected the dots in one of my earliest memories. When I was freshly two years old, yes you heard that right, TWO! I remember my stepdad carrying my little sister on his shoulders and saying goodbye to us at the gate. This was right after 911.. My mom said he had to go through security to get back there. I don't really see anyone do that these days. People say goodbye in the parking lot of the airport. So knowing that I experienced that tradition before the TSA killed it is wild. I really am a Zillennial.

[@g_ellybean]

the millsberry mention lol

[@thoughtsonawhim]

I love the skits!! You should definitely lean into them fs. Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎁

[@lydialaeke6647]

I’m 2003 and identify pretty clearly with gen z because even if I was alive with the beginning of the internet it wasn’t really a part of my life till I was older but I still remember some thing like online games and stuff like that

[@allahjoseph]

Skit was real af lol. Love your show bro! KEEP GOIN ⚙️

[@tappytart]

phew, the in-between-experience is so real! But I'd also like to add that the cultural inequality (?) is never adressed! So as a 2000 child in Europe, trends arrived way later due to the lack of social media and whatnot, and I would say the zillennial term refers differently to people born in the late 90s to the early 2000s. And I bet it's different again for people in Africa or Asia

[@webisayoub237]

Preach🙏

[@CatDoll-tq8my]

Great points all around. I think it's also really interesting how class divide can influence where you feel most at home generation-wise. I was born in the early 2000s and I feel both a part of the zillennial generation and separate from it. I grew up poor in a rich area so I could see all the technological advancements happening - flip phones to touch screens, Blackberry to iPod, Blockbuster to Netflix, etc - but I wasn't a part of that change myself because we simply didn't have the money to participate. I got my first phone - a flip phone - at twelve when the rest of my classmates were getting their fifth or sixth brand new iPhone. We didn't have internet in our apartment until I was fifteen and I only ever used the computer at the library or in my school's computer lab. I watched all the same zillennial media and had the same zillennial experience as other cuspers, but only at friends' houses and very sparingly. I feel the zillenial camaraderie, but at the same time, I feel like I fit in more with millennials when it comes to technology specifically because I don't have the same tech experience as middle to upper class zillenials. Generations are so interesting to me because it all just depends on time of birth and specific life circumstances. No one has any control over these things, but the rivalry between generations is still so strong. Interesting stuff!

[@emilyloerakker1257]

self identifyingly sat 🧘🏻‍♀️

[@ManuXinzoENG]

Born without Internet Born with Internet in house Born with social media Born with AI Born with robots in house Etc. So many eras in so little time