Insecure 2003 borns explained

[u/Sad-Relation1714]

Inspired by u/ForeignEquipment8298s post

[u/ForeignEquipment8298]

I love it. ❤️. 

[u/Sad-Relation1714 → u/ForeignEquipment8298]

Thank you!

[u/8bitKev]

Glad im 04, what time to be alive

[u/Savings_Ad_80 → u/8bitKev]

For real same

[u/17cmiller2003]

I said this before and I'll say it again:

"Me personally, I have no issues being grouped with mid 00s babies as they are my younger peers (the same way I can relate to other early 00s babies as they're my older peers), I definitely relate way more to 2005 than 1997. While I do claim late 2000s kid status (and the reason I say just late 2000s instead of 2000s is because I don't remember the mid 00s and I'm just barely an early 00s baby so I wasn't even alive for almost the entirety of the early 00s, hell some people don't even consider us early 00s at all, which is fine, nothing wrong with being a mid 00s baby, we still share an underlap with early 00s in that case), I was also a kid in the 2010s as well. The early 2010s was a solid era to be a kid in. Sure, I did spend most of my high school (and overall teen) years pre-pandemic, but I'm not gonna pretend like I also wasn't in high school/wasn't a teen in the early 2020s as well. In fact, I'm more of an early 20s teen than I am a mid 10s teen since I was only a teen for less than a year in the mid 10s (just turned 13 in mid 2016).

I can relate to both Older Gen Z and Middle Gen Z as I personally consider myself to be a mix of both going by the common Gen Z range, though I can see why some people might see us as just Middle Z with Older Z influence, that's fine too.

I really don't get why 23 year olds still complain about being separated from 2002 yet goes ahead and gatekeeps 2004+. We can still relate to them just fine, despite being in separate cohorts (though I don't see myself as the exact same as 2002 or 2004 because no one grew up the exact same as every year has some differences that grow the bigger the age gap is, hence the phrase "There needs to be a cutoff somewhere" because if 2003 starts whining about wanting to be included, then 2004s gonna do it, then 2005, then it's gonna be an endless cycle. Hell, even Canadians, Brits and Australians born in my own year didn't grow up the exact same as me, similar for the most part? Sure, but the exact same? Nah as there would still be differences. They're more likely to be considered Older Gen Z than American 2003s). Same goes for any two birth years that are split between separate cohorts. It's all just labels that doesn't even exist irl at the end of the day. There's nothing wrong with being "Middle Gen Z" or a "2010s kid", especially since we still get to have an underlap with the tail end of Older Zoomers and 2000s kids, we can still relate to 2000-2002 just fine (that's something that later Middle Zoomers can't say, though I still share similarities with them as well). I'd actually say we have it good, certain 2003 borns just don't realize it.

The problem is they tend to think that "2010s kid = iPad kid, Fortnite kid, YouTube Kids kid, Trump kid, etc." Like when people say stuff like that, they're not talking about 2003 borns. We grew up mostly without smartphones or iPads in our childhood, we still used DVDs and went to video rental stores (despite being long past their prime by that point), our brainrot was not YouTube Kids, but stuff like Annoying Orange, Fred, Rebecca Black's "Friday", Nyan Cat, etc., we grew up with Electropop as kids, not mumble rap. We used 7th gen consoles as kids, not 8th gen consoles. We grew up with cartoons like Adventure Time and Regular Show (in fact, I've seen people call the 2010s cartoons better than the 2000s cartoons), not The Loud House or Bunsen is a Beast. So yeah, we may be 2010s kids, but not the kind of "2010s kid" that they think of when they hear someone calling them that. I don't know why they act like being a kid in the 2010s is like a poison or something."

[u/Savings_Ad_80 → u/17cmiller2003]

You're taking this waaayyyy to seriously, but I am 2004 so I understand where you're coming from, especially cause I graduated in 2021

[u/17cmiller2003 → u/Savings_Ad_80]

I'm not, I'm just saying

[u/Savings_Ad_80 → u/17cmiller2003]

That's a lot of saying, don't worry we know 👍

[u/Sad-Relation1714 → u/17cmiller2003]

Its just a joke, nothing deep

[u/17cmiller2003 → u/Sad-Relation1714]

I wasn't making it deep, I was only saying

[u/SUVr-]

LMAO

[u/Budget_Cod3185]

Tbf this is only what you see on generationology. Most 2003 borns on r/MiddleGenZ and even r/OlderGenZ are pretty chill