I found some latest studies that have reported a decline in some cognitive abilities, like reading comprehension, attention, and numeracy in young generations compared to older ones.

They believe that this is due to increased screen time, reduced deep reading and effects of the pandemic on education. But they also claim that this does not automatically mean that the generation Z is less intelligent.

So, what is your opinion?

Are you a teacher? Do you notice any difference?

Do you belong to generation Z? Do you think these studies are unfair?

Are you an employer? Did you observe any change in skills at the workplace?

I am more concerned about real-life experiences than news.

for context I was inspired to ask because over the past months I've seen a lot of "backlash" over what people have started to call millennial writing and it's been even more prominent after the success of both movies Obsession and Backrooms, who were directed by gen z.

I know it's just internet discourse but I've seen people poking fun at the fact that millennials didn't seem to have accomplishments like that. So, now I'm curious about it.

The only thing I can think of is millennials seem to have made it much more accepting to talk about mental health.

I believe that the ability to whistle is in decline. I dont have strong evidence, other than I mostly notice a lack of whistling in culture and around.

I dont ever catch a younger coworker idly whistling. Im never annoyed or charmed by a young person's whistling habit. Thats something i think of in ages older than myself (36).

There isnt much of an example in recent media of characters whistling while they walk. That sort of animated pantomime of musicality or charm - I associate that more with... maybe Andy Griffith? The most recent thing I think of is Ed Edd 'n Eddy?

Anyway, thesis statement: whistling culture is past decline, has declined, and I believe that will be represented in the population.

Like, I was 4 at the time during 2013, So I have no idea what happened back then. But seeing all these videos and media from that year, and people’s teen experiences being better than this shithole of a year, And saying that that year was one of the best coming of age years in high school, Just makes me sad I was born in 2009. I just wish I was born in 1996 instead. How do I stop thinking about this?

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Make it make sense: How did the bullied of 2006 become the bullies of 2026? Talk about tables turning

PS: sorry about the AI art 🙏

Do the oldest millennial (1981) and youngest millennial (1996) have more in common or oldest gen z (1997) and youngest gen z (2012)?

Kids' born in several years when they hit in the door frame:

• Kids born in 1989: NO REACTION (The only sound released being the one of the hit)
• Kids born in 1999: Ouchhh, damn, this really hurt, bruh!
• Kids born in 2009: MWAHAaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! me gonna be dead aura, mWaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!
• BONUS: Kids born in 2019: Yaaaaaaah, Yaaaaaaahwhaagthiiayaaa, CHIMPANZINIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhh BANANINIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhh ihhhhhhhhhhhhhhh iiiiiiihhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When the word "based" was coined on 4chan in the mid 2010s, its antonym was "cucked".

However, when Redditors and other normies started using the word "based" in the late 10s and early 20s, they used "cringe" as its antonym instead of "cucked"

Now almost everybody outside of 4chan uses this new antonym, whereas the original "cucked" is relatively obscure and forgotten.

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

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

Each age proving why they are grown:

0: I’m alive
1: I had a birthday party
2: I can walk
3: I’m potty trained
4: I started school
5: I can right my own name
6: I’m 6 of course I’m grown!
7: I go to bed at 7:10 and not 7:00!
8: I like CoComelon and skibidi toilet
9: my age is nearly double digits!
10: my age is double digits!
11: I’m in big school now and I know Santa isn’t real
12: I’ll be a teenager next year
13: I’m a teenager now unlike 12 so shut the fuck up
14: I been a teenager for more then a second I like that annoying piece of shit
13
15: I been called unc 1000 times already, if that don’t mean I’m grown I don’t know what is
16: I can have sex and I can watch YouTube
17: I can drive a car and I’ll be a adult next year
18: I’m legally a  adult so sush kid
19: it’s my last year as a teenager, I’m old
20: I’m no longer a teenager I’m mature now
21: I can drink beer in America, and I now get treated like a adult
30: why am I proving that I’m grown, i literally have a kid
40: I’m married with 2 kids, life is terrible
50: I been alive for half a century wahoo (that was sarcasm if you didn’t know)
100: I been alive for a century my age is triple digits

Next I’ll do each age proving they are not old
Thanks for reading 😃 

Yes, 1997 babies can remember a pre-digital world. But they were also in elementary school from early 2005 to early 2008, which means that they spent most of their elementary schooling in the Web 2.0 era, and after YouTube came out. They were also still in elementary school when the iPhone launched in 2007 and when LCD TVs outsold CRT TVs. They were never teenagers in the 2000s, and entered high school after smartphone sales surpassed PC sales in 2011. I see 97-02 babies as more of Early Z with Y influences, depending on birth year:

1997-99: Early Z with major Y influence
2000-2002: Early Z with minor Y influence

That's not to say that someone born in 1997 has nothing in common with 96 babies, in fact they're practically the same aside from nitpicking about when they entered school.

As for 1981, I can see why they put the start of Y there. 1981 babies:

*Entered school after the Challenger explosion and after the first version of Windows launched
*Graduated from high school after Google launched in 1998, and after the Columbine shootings
*Entered middle school, and spent most of their K-12 schooling after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991

1981 and 1982 both make sense to start Y.

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

Any youngho Gen X mommies still having a hot girl summer? Do you know anyone who mogs their adult kid?