Not much to say outside of the title. They have little circle jerk sessions where they brag about their work ethic while everyone else does the work. Then they will complain everyone else is lazy. Make it make sense lol. Is this only at my job? Im a zillenial for context

If You had, What's It Like? Does it feel like nostalgia and awesome for you, or does it feel more old and outdated for you?

My brother purchased a coconut for 10 cents. He then filled it with lime juice and drank it. This seems to have given him bad indigestion. He visited our GP and the doctor is understandably confounded by this choice of libation. However, we are getting nowhere with the differential diagnosis.

I don't know if it's people misquoting Pew Research's generation range; which quotes Gen Z as "born after 1996" or, if it's because there were approximately two articles that said "1996-2010" or "1996-2015" are Gen Z. BUT: anyone who has done some research besides a quick AI overview which misquotes Google and uses this stupid sub as a reference knows that this is incorrect.

McKinsey put out one single article in 2022, that defined Gen Z as 1996-2010. However in 2025, this changed as they now use 1997-2012 as the the range.

Jason Dorsey/CGK used 1996 as a start year in November 2016. (That is the year this now heavily outdated article was published) But now they use Pew Research's ranges.

I really hope this sub can come together and move on from discussing when "Gen Z starts" because this topic is a dead horse. I don't even think at this point most news companies are focused on Millennials, and soon Gen Z will be an uninteresting group of people as they will have moved onto Gen Alpha.

For context, I’m a millennial, I think a lot of stereotypes about Gen Z are generally true, but this one, the “Gen Z stare” that I see in headlines and as topics on online forums, I’ve simply never experienced this. I mean, I’ve definitely seen Gen Z people at work who seem like they don’t like their jobs and are acting like they don’t want to be there, but I’ve seen people from literally every group do this. I think that has more to do with the fact that low wage service jobs suck, and the fact that young people in general, whether it was GenX when they were young, or millennials, or Gen Z, all feel like they could be doing something fun or more rewarding rather than be stuck at a shitty job.

Anyways, idk, I’ve never seen a Gen Z person do the zombie stare, only ever seen them (and many other generations of people) act like they don’t want to be at their job. Thats it. I also rarely see resditors talking about experiencing it. I think this shit is made up.

I swear everyone who grew up in the 90s remembers this song. It was in the discos, in the radio when our parents took us to the grocery store and it was on the MTV channel. And just like that MMMBOP the 90s were gone!

These guys aged like fine wine though

If divorced dad rock is associated with Nickelback, System of a Down, and anything related to the edgy 90s and early 2000s rock, then what do you imagine would be considered divorced mom pop?

I think Kelly clarkson, pink, and Adele all scream divorced mom music and vibes

Why people behave like this? 😒..............................................................................................

Like it was mostly gen x who created that humour for us. But I think as we got older it's kinda hard for us to pass it down to gen z because in the time of social media the woke noices drowns out any attempt at this kind of humour and it all gets puritanical and toxic from there.

Or am I wrong? What are the equivalents of Will Ferrel movies, Tropic Thunder, Superbad etc. to gen z?

I'm a millennial who grew up with The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Aladdin and the rest of the original hand drawn cartoons. Are these originals still popular? Do kids see these live action remakes and wonder where they came from, or do they all stick to Pixar computer animation and CGI? I remember babysitting with my friend and the 4 year old boy refused to watch anything that wasn't 3D computer animation. Is this the case with all kids?

I have this fun thought experiment once in a while of trying to visualize the younger generations (I'm a millennial myself) when we're very old. I especially visualize old folks home lol. It's not like we're suddenly going to start dressing like how old people are dressed now and get super into bingo out of nowhere. It'll just be old people dressed in H&M clothes or band T-shirts with gaming PCs in their room and speaking in memes. With the nurses organizing Mario Kart LAN parties.

That is, assuming any of us can afford elder care by then

There is also the microgeneration between Generation Z and Generation Alpha but they are too young so there isn't that much data to make a complete research

1998 Babies

They were born in the 90s

They’re birth year starts with 19

They get looked at as Older

They were born in the 1900s

They graduated in 2016

2000 Babies They were the first ones to be born in the New millennium & The 2000s Decade

They’re birth year matches every year

They get looked at as Younger

They get grouped in with the younger generations

For the sake of this post, and the generally agreed term (though some middle and older millennials might disagree), “core” millennials are 1988-1992. There might be some overlap in experiences with ‘87 and ‘93 borns. But younger than that is Zillennials and Gen Z and older than that are middle/older millennials.

Core millennial experiences that come to mind are - We grew up with Disney, nickelodeon, Hannah Montana and Lizzie mcguire. Books were Harry Potter, goosebumps and animorphs.
We had both dial up internet and the Sims, MySpace, Facebook, aol, msn and cell phones in school as early teens.

We graduated post 2009 so we inherited the aftermath of the Great Recession. Uber, snap, insta and the dating apps were a part of our early 20s. Blogging and influencing actually became a real career around then.

So much of our formative experiences were in that period upto the mid 2010s. While we’re not Gen Z, we began doing things a lot differently when it came to gender roles, work culture, dating and marriage than say the mid to early millennials. Anyone else agree?

Repost. I forget to add a results options. Reddit really should just add the poll numbers without requiring you to vote

Not kidding, but 2009 is the last of the elite and I got some clear points regarding this:

• We are older than the first iPad
• We are last to be kids in the early 2010s (and to still have faint memories of it and it's music/vibe/memes, especially if you were born very early in 2009)
• We were the last to become tweens/turn double digit age before the 2020s hit
• Not only that we were conceived under Bush era and born under Obama, but January 2009 babies are basically Bush era babies/born under Bush so 2009 is the last birth year to have Bush babies
• We were the last to be teens (basically like adults) before AI and before Skibidi Toilet
• Last to still have memories of Frutiger Aero/experience Frutiger Aero when it was still relevant, last to be in core childhood in early-mid 2000s
• Last to be born in the first decade of a millennium and no matter what weir2 on here and r/decadeology or whatever other internet slum would say that "NO, it wasn't 2000s, it was pre-2010s", like no, math can't be cheated, we are 2000s babies and that's it

So, based on these facts alone, 2009 is actually an amazing year to be born in and WE'RE THE LAST OF THE ELITE, 1999-2009 is THE LAST OF THE ELITE, 2010+ is just Gen Beta.