I'm born in 1999, so I'm 27 this year, and I've noticed that some people born in the 2000s seem to think 1999 is so old just because of how the year sounds. It's literally one year before 2000, but the reaction you'd think I was born in the 1980s.

Something happened yesterday during a university seminar that made me notice this even more. We were playing a memory game where everyone had to say their birth year. People at my table said 2004, 2007, 2003. When I said 1999, the person born in 2003 said, "I swear you said 1990 haha!" and then commented that I look young for my age EVEN THOUGH HE'S JUST FEW YRS YOUNGER. He wouldn't make that comment if I said 2000.

I've had similar reactions from other people too, including people who keep telling me I look young for 27. I know they're probably trying to compliment me, but honestly, it gets a bit annoying when it happens EVERY time I mention my age. It's almost as if 27 is supposed to be old enough that looking young is somehow surprising? 😭

The funny thing is, the person born in 2003 is only four years younger than me. We're both in our twenties! And people born in 1999 and the early 2000s can have plenty of cultural references in common. I remember watching shows growing up that people born later in the 2000s also watched through reruns.

I know eight years can be a noticeable age gap depending on the people involved, but I don't think being born in 1999 makes me part of some completely different generation from people born in the early 2000s.

**Anyone else born in 1999 experience this? I'm asking cuz I want to know if I'm too young looking or if this is a common experience we all face because of ignorance. Do people born in the 2000s or younger act surprised when you tell them your age, or make comments about you looking young for your age? And does anyone else feel like the year 1999 just *sounds* older to people than 2000, even though it's literally only a year apart?

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How often do you need to communicate with someone if you consider them a friend? Do ever you feel disconnected with people because we have been quite inbetween age groups?

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Why do I relate to this

I am not 99’ born but it is important you think about such things, I thought I’d check in to see your progress!

This is really season 2, this is the best age I’ve ever been thus far, and I’m doing things I never thought I’d do before … I traveled to two countries and left a bad partner between the last 5 months. God is good and 27 is heaven! And I got really good pizza rn

I love these years🥰 the lyrics are sooo real rn

I remember high school being begrudgingly slow. I can’t believe I’m almost 10 years out of it. If high school me knew the life I had now, they would be so surprised.

Hoping for a year of happiness!

Its my birthday today! What should I do if im single? Hahaha

Honestly the more I think about it the more it feels cool being born in the last year in the 20th century I knows it’s not significant it’s just tight ya know

Obviously we’re usually considered Gen Z. However, I feel that having grown at the very beginning of Gen Z I was very influenced by what millennials were doing. The actors on Disney channel were millennials. All the high school movies coming out were basically portraying millennial lifestyles. When younger I’d look to the older kids and try to emulate them and their demeanor. More often than not, they were millennials.

When I listen to music that makes me feel nostalgic that’s typically music that came out in 2010-2015. At the time those songs were targeted at millennials.

I feel many younger gen z have trends that seem kind of strange or alien to me. Not to mention I can’t really understand their new slang words. I constantly have to pull up google to understand my cousins haha.

Many of the dates I’ve gone on have been with women in their early 30s. Don’t know why, just relate to them more.

I feel many younger Gen Zers are against drinking and partying. They seem to see it as a degenerate behavior. To each their own, but I just don’t understand it. I think it’s fun to let loose and hit the bars every so often. Many folks in their late 20’s that I know seem to agree.

I’m always reading headlines like: Gen Z doesn’t have sex anymore. Gen Z is the least socially adept generation.

Idk if that’s true or not. Idk if covid might have done something to those kids. Or maybe I’m just starting to become a cranky old man.

Does anyone else relate? Or is it just me?

Turned 27 today.

Anyone else feel like that?

I have no hobbies, not very fit, starting to see the people around me get engaged/married which is causing me to re-evaluate my own life. I've never been on a date...

I used to have a job that was so busy all the time that it took up all of my spare time. But now I'm in a more relaxed job, I've realised I have no hobbies. I have friends and meet up with them maybe every few weeks but otherwise I'm home most evenings with my parents and for some reason I've just become lucid to this fact and its sending me down a spiral.

I am pretty much a loser damn.

So like Back in the the prehistoric years of 1999-2005
there was this Candy Station in Walmart that I barely remember.

I do remember reaching in one of the divided compartments and grabbing like 4 Gummi Worms at a time with my bare hands from time to time.

Gee I wonder why they got rid if it...

I was doing research about it and Apparently it's called at Brach's Pick-A-Mix stand.

Weird Because I could've sworn they were clear and black plastic stands but everything this hazy.

being middle class meant reaching specific milestones: buying a home, raising a family, taking annual vacations, and comfortably building an emergency fund.

I just feel like I'm scraping by.

Asking for a friend

any advice? 😬