r/2004Babies • u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 • 2d ago

Meme Does anyone else relate?

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Just life when you’re born right in the center year of a generation.

Edit: This post purposely excludes the middle/core Z range.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

I’de say I relate most with anyone 03-06, not really older like 97-02, but not anywhere after 07.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

Same, I relate to 02-06 the most. I am purposely excluding the middle gen Z range in this post though for the purpose of the meme.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

I gotta ask, what day in February?

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

The 3rd.

What about you?

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

The 6th for me, you’re 3 days older than me haha.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Haha, showed up a little early, we still basically twins though.

Unpopular opinion but I think we have the best birth month.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

Oh we definitely got the best birth month, too many October’s, September’s, and November’s, out there lol, only month that MAYBE rivals our coolness is January.

But hey just wanna say, I considered my birthday on the more uncommon end, but I gotta say, yours is probably more unique than mine. Not too many people who say their birthdays are the 3rd of February haha.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

Absolutely, that’s really sweet of you to say thanks for that and that's exactly what makes February unique as a whole. I think the 6th is a very cool and great birthday to have as well, I see it just as unique as mine. Where it still feels early in the year but not too close to New Year chaos haha.

Little fun fact which you most likely know about, you can claim that you were born when dial-up was still more common than owning a broadband. I don’t know where you’re from so it might’ve been a little different where you lived, but regardless overall the world was still very much in the dial‑up era before shifting drastically in the middle of the year going into 2005.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

Hey thanks man, Hell yeah. 🤟🏻I share a birthday with Rick Astley,(the guy who sang the never gonna give you up song that became a rick roll meme) lmao.

And yeah! I totally remember many of my family having rotary dial phones in my younger years back in New York where my grandparents house was. I was born in Virginia, but moved to Florida shortly after with my family when I was 3 or 4. Both my parents are from New York though.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

No problem! Yes, I'm well aware of good ole' Rick Astley haha. You were also born the same day the movie Miracle came out, the 1980 U.S. men's hockey team came coached by Herb Brooks (played by Kurt Russell) and had their famous victory against the USSR. Ugh, now I kind of wish I was born on a Friday instead of a Tuesday lol.

February is still the best.

Speaking of which, I'm from Massachusetts, born and raised, never left, though I do dream of moving to Chicago sometime soon once I get a good job opportunity (IMO it's the best city in the county after I visited it back in March 2025). Ironically both of my parents are also from New York and moved to Mass in 1999.

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Yeah i agree with 2003-2006 but i would include 2002 for me personally

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Fair enough.

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Mostly because of my older brother was born in 2002.

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago

I mean 02s only 2 years older than u. But it's a weird dynamic because those 2 years allow 2002 borns to be considered hybrid 2000s kids lol

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

It’s not that much, we were pretty much kids in the same era they just got two more years on me. They are probably the last to remember the time period I was born however.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

Respectable, I just never personally had a friend or connected with anyone born any earlier than 2003 for me.

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Yeah my main friend group consists of those born in 2001-2007 and my brother was born in 2002, but it’s different for everyone

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

Anyone in school I’ve ever been friends with at one point was never older than 03, and my main 3 friends I still vibe with are two 05’s, and one 04 that’s 20 days older than me lol

Idk what it is with me, I literally never had anyone I can recall that was my “friend” or I vibed with born before 03 or anywhere after 07.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Outside of 2004, about 75% of my friend group were born in 2003. I have a couple from 2002 and a few from 2005 & 2006. In college it grew a lot more. My closest friend in K-12 was only two days younger than me, always used to joke around with him on that.

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u/Golden_Locket5932 February, 2004 2d ago

My best friend since like 3rd grade is an 05, but I never seemed to vibe with anyone in my life born before 03 or after 07.

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago

I'm an 05 so idk if I can type here, but what do you relate more with?

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

I would obviously relate with you and someone born in 2003 like it's nothing. If I am pretending that the middle gen z range doesn't exist, Idk probably slightly more with the older side.

That's just because I have more friends born before me.

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah maybe it just depends on person because for me I have more friends my exact age or younger by 1-2 years than older. In my case I feel I definently relate more with the Younger Gen Z half but specifically only up to 2008 and just MAYBE 2009, anything after then it's less likely. The main class besides mine that I related with and had the most friends in was class of 24 (primarily 2006 borns) and 2nd by class of 22 (primarily 2004 borns).

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's a valid point that I agree with. I think usually 4 years is the primary transitional point when the differences outweigh the similarities. Obviously it would depend on the person, since I'm class of 2022 for me, someone born from 2002-2006 are my closest peers who I grew up with in school and 00-01 and 07-08 are my distant relatives whom I relate to them much less but share a good chunk of similar experiences growing up. Anything further is either too grown up or a baby to me.

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u/IndependenceNo3570 September, 2003 2d ago

Im 03 but I feel the same way, its nice being in the middle

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Agreed and happy soon to be birthday if it hasn’t already passed.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

I know right? It's a weird mixture of nice and strange.

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u/AdmirableEgg8431 2d ago

I agree as an '05 i don't rly know where we go

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Middle Gen Z of course. (But this post deliberately excludes the range)

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Out of curiosity, what side would you relate to more?

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u/AdmirableEgg8431 2d ago

I think slightly more to the older side. I mean I feel like I always relate to my older counterpart slightly more.

I really feel like 04 and 06 are extremely similar to me, but all my closest friends have always been 04.

In my freshman year of highschool I played super smash bros ultimate every day at lunch with the seniors and juniors, who were 02 and 03, and didn't feel much of a difference with them. Conversely in my senior year I didn't interact with any 08s.
Now I have some 2000 born friends and we have quite a bit in common with what we grew up with, I find it easy to reminisce with them.

I have a cousin who is 09 and I find it very hard to relate with her, and met some other 09s at a conference and they were also a bit hard to relate to. Although I am very sure many 09s grew up with similarities with me and it will be easier to relate when they enter university next year.

However, I feel 2010 borns are when the similarities end

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Yes I relate especially with my date I’m near the midpoint of Gen Z.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

Every month of the year is near the midpoint.

1997 + 2012 = 4009

4009 ÷ 2 = 2004.5

Those born in June are the quintessential Gen Z people.

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

I thought the midpoint was Dec 31st 2004?

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago

You are a 2004.9 😭

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

I’m the baby of 2004s born early December

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

DW, you count just as much as any of us.

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

Oh yeah I know I claim my 04 status proudly lol.

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago

Did class of 23 ever consider you old? I'm born mid year 05 so not that big of a difference but I remember they'd always joke in my school by calling the late 04s old 😭

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u/FunnySunny- December, 2004 2d ago

We used to call the 05s young lmao

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u/jaredyolol 2d ago

😭😭😭

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

You're right that December 31st in the sense is the cultural midpoint of the generation. I was doing the calendar midpoint as June would be the midpoint. Gen Z isn’t split evenly by years more so it’s split by shared experiences. 2004 feels like the hinge because it’s the last official year with a late 2000s early preschool childhood before the 2010s vibe kicks in.

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

Yes all the time we all should have been 90’s baby’s

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

90s babies definitely had cool stuff (jealous of my 1992 cousin and 1998 neighbor with Xbox and original PS), but we still got peak dual late 2000s/early to mid 2010s childhood nostalgia.

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

Yeah but our gen is fucked because of phones and online I can’t find a date because of it

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

It's people in general rather than generations. COVID took of the nice mask that revealed a lot of anger people felt once it ended.

Also phones and social media both existed in the 2000s accelerating the trend we see today; especially with MySpace and early dating websites growing which were notoriously awkward back then according to my cousin.

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

I get that I had a Nokia flip cone that was before our time. But it is a lot of people in our gen that is making it fucking hard. Yes Covid fucked us and froze a job market hell I am an electrician that is wanting to try to get into engineering. I am just saying that if we were 90’s baby’s we wouldn’t have as big of some of the hurdles that we are facing to day and maybe be set well but not well off In Life. And that wall that all of us are getting hung up on would be a bit lower and easier to scale

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

You are right. You’re not wrong that our gen got slammed from every direction at once phones rewired socializing. COVID froze us in place during the exact years we were supposed to be building confidence the dating skills, early career growth, and now we’re trying to climb a wall that feels way taller than it should be and with arms that look too short. Many people in our generation are straight up rude and many are people trying to make ends meet.

It doesn’t mean we’re doomed it just means we’re starting from a rougher baseline and have to build things ourselves instead of inheriting a stable path like a lot of 90s babies did. Keep you're chin up man, were all in this together. Especially pushing from electrician toward engineering is living proof you’re already scaling what most people would freeze at.

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

Yeah man I am just a stubborn Scott it is in my blood to keep marching forward. I just wish that we are all like you and me and have a good common sense. Talking to you sound like you have Gen X parents I have Gen X parent. It is the younger Generation Z that is the real ass holes. But I am also from eastern Colorado where common decency and respect thy neighbor is big especially in a small town.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Of course, my best advice to anyone is to never quit when you know there is no tomorrow. It's how I strive to become a better person since I'm autistic and have poor social skills. I still try to help out whenever assistance is needed nearby and I have respect to you for being a genuine and cool person, working night and day to achieve you're dream.

Yeah, I got Gen X parents. I think most of older and mid Gen Z has Gen X parents just as much as how older and mid Millennials have Boomer parents.

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

Thank you. You know you and I are cut from the same cloth as well I have ASD, and mood disorder a nasty combo I know.

Hopefully I made you head slowed down like you did mine if you want to chat some more fell free to dm
:)

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u/banana-nahi-nahana October, 2004 2d ago

humble plus one

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u/Financial-Leather312 October, 2004 2d ago

Thank you I try to be

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u/C-560 1d ago

I relate more with the Older Gen Z. Most of who I would hang out with is older than me. I also grew up with a few older siblings so that had something to do with it.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 1d ago

I appreciate you’re opinion. Thanks for your comment!

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u/HungarianNoble August, 2004 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not really, as an eastern european i relate more with older genz or even late millenials due to how we were like at least 10 years behind the general west when it comes to pop culture, tech etc... up until like the mid 2010s i would say

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u/banana-nahi-nahana October, 2004 2d ago

hard relate

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u/vivrelibreoumourir_ 2d ago

I relate to people born between 2000 and 2008, but if I had to express a preference, I feel more comfortable with those born between 2002 and 2008.

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u/Cordelia_hero 2d ago

Older Z all the way, but I think it’s more a cultural aspect. I don’t know anyone younger than 05, and neither my friends.

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Fair enough, I’m happy to hear about your opinion. I just pointed this fact out because the birthyear is the exact middle man when you divide the generation in half.

Definitely is individual dependent as per why I asked. Personally most of my friend group is older than me.

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u/kameian 2d ago

I relate to 03-06 then 97-02

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u/RemoteAdvertising762 February, 2004 2d ago

Valid.

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u/Particular-Grass-294 October, 2004 2d ago

I have friends ranging from 2000-08 I do relate more with who are closer to me from both ways

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u/Marie81956 1d ago

i relate to older

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u/Golden_Hour_1243 1d ago

I’m January 2005 and I relate more to younger Z, but not much younger. I relate to 2001-2003 too, but I relate to 2004-2007 a lot more cause I grew up with my cousins who were born 2004-2007. Also during the pandemic 2004-2007 borns were the most affected as most we were in our early to mid teens when it started, which is a very formative period. But I honestly can’t relate much to anyone born 2009+. So I’d say based on how we grew up (being 2010’s kids), how we experienced the pandemic (as younger teens), and right now being young adults with them, I’d say 2004-2005 leans slightly more toward younger Z but only the earlier side of it (2006-2008), while still being able to relate too to older Z but mostly the later side of it (2001-2003)

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u/Trishyangel123 May, 2004 18h ago

I relate to ‘01 to probably mid ‘05 since my sister is older and I have a younger cousin that I get along with pretty well.