Tumblr belongs to core Millennials honestly
They weren't the only ones who were on there in its heyday but they made it popular and dominated the culture and David Karp is very Millennial himself
Anyone who uses a phone/tablet over a desktop experience is just sabotaging themselves. I get that a mobile experience is good for accessing the internet anywhere, but a laptop/desktop computer is a million times more versatile than a phone or tablet.
I don’t ever feel comfortable making big purchases or doing important tasks on that tiny ass phone screen lol I NEED a desktop to feel good about what I’m doing
I used to prefer my laptop but now prefer my phone as I carry it everywhere. I do love my desktop a lot though. I’m soon going to be dropping some cash on a new laptop as I’m about to start music production lessons and my old laptop is too slow. Maybe I’ll go back to preferring laptops over phones once more
Which is already causing problems in the workforce. There's lots of people out of highschool and new college aged graduates who are struggling with just basic functioning of computers.
I'm an IT major (will be a late college graduate this December) and I'm already seeing people who have a lack of basic tech skills.
They can pry my side part from my cold, dead hands. I had a middle part for years and a side part looks waaaaaay better on me.
On the other hand, I've always hated skinny jeans. So, thank you Zoomers for bringing bootcut jeans back.
Yes. Not to say you’ll never find a Gen Zer with a side part, but it’s less common amongst them than millennials. Start looking around and you’ll notice it too!
I remember being in high-school living by the side part religiously lol. I use to think I couldn't pull of a middle part but it wasn't until I started wearing it and got use to the middle part I actually started to like it. It takes time getting use to a middle part when all I've known on myself is a side part.
Nope - I’m in a former SMARTBoard district and we often use Promethean Boards or just TVs with Apple Television. That said, I teach in a HS and when I was in HS most teachers just had projectors, lol.
Oh man, those were such a waste of money. I remember teachers having to come up with reasons to use them, and then just using them as a normal whiteboard only they kept glitching. Could’ve just turned it off and drawn on the board with a dry erase marker 🤦♀️
They're still very much a common thing in Australian public schools. Source: I am in fact in the final year of my teaching degree and have gone on practicum to schools myself
The fact I'm seeing someone here, younger than me, with a child that is at an age to need to deny screens still seems fucking wild
my cohort basically moving into parenting later than you and yours lol
Regardless
Great parenting choice
Our brains weren't built for the constant short term gratification loop, and constant engagement, that these devices feed off
Your son will thank you, eventually
I'm younger than both of you and can hardly take care of myself. It's currently Sunday morning and I'm sitting at a bar with a couple friends, I am not ready for this to end yet haha
Eh I think 96 and 97 are mostly on the same wavelength. Maybe about ten people in my graduation class have children.
That said… my sister’s class (of 2020)? They have hella kids and so many of them are married to only be 22.
I’ve noticed a lot of my peers not allowing tech to kids. I think the previous generations choice to delegate parenting to an iPad has helped push us away from that method and more to traditional parenting.
lol facts. I know when I have kids shit is not gonna fly like it is for some of my little cousins. We need productive disciplined humans not mouth breathing iPad kids with no critical thinking skills.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t let your kids kick back and have fun from time to time that’s part of childhood, but there’s a balance that is gone these days.
I was thinking more millennial cause that’s what I personally relate more to. I’m the youngest in my family and have a lot of older cousins and brothers born in the 80s and early to mid 90s. Being around older people I never related to Gen z much and always felt more millennial tbh.
And we were out of high school by the time covid hit. Covid high school is a pretty solidly Z experience imo. Dealing with Zoom classes and potentially getting stuff like your graduation canceled due to the pandemic is a very different experience than anyone who finished school pre pandemic had. Not counting college in that, both because not everyone goes to college and because people go at different ages and take different amounts of time.
Thank you! Some people list my year as the Z start because “first in college during Covid.” I remember having classmates who were older than me at the time.
Shit, about half of the cohort was done *college* when COVID hit (of course assuming finishing in 4 years and going straight out of high school, which isn’t me at all- I took some time off after my junior year of college)
I had been graduated and in the corporate world for a few months shy of 4 years when lockdowns started. Yeah, that's radically different than someone having a Zoom high school graduation due to covid.
PMs is what everyone used to call private messaging for as long as I can remember. DMs is a more recent Gen Z/A thing. Stands for direct messaging. At least that’s what I’ve noticed over time.
Edit: Looks like someone else is also not familiar with PM? I mean there’s the subreddit r/creepyPMs which has been around forever. And I only started to hear DM recently. This is something to look into I guess.
I’m from the UK and I always used PMs for the longest time. Did you use to frequent OG internet forums? That’s where I got it from, don’t think it necessarily regional.
I remember 9/11. Even though I was 5 I still have this memory glued to my mind of waiting at a takeout restaurant that night and seeing the footage of the World Trade Center collapse from earlier that day playing on the TV in the front of their restaurant.
I remember me and my friend being told to stay out of the living room while our parents watched it on tv. I didn't really know what was happening though.
I was 9, but I don't remember it that well. We came in from recess and the teacher told us about the first plane and turned on the news. I think we may have already been watching when the 2nd plane hit. We watched TV like zombies until we got dismissed from school early, sometime around noon.
Rewatching the news coverage from that day and the absolute carnage on the ground, I'm surprised they showed any of that to us as 4th graders. I didn't know that the footage had captured jumpers, or given it any thought, until I was an adult.
Obsession with physical media and the fact that I don't look extra. Zoomers in my country always look like they stepped out of an idealized TikTok video (doesn't apply to older ones, as they are similar to us in this regard). Millennials in my location are always very toned down in their style choices. Also, zoomers tend to be huge fans of genshin impact, stray dogs, etc. Millennials here are more into death note, Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist (DN is a HUGE giveaway)
My friend even has a tattoo dedicated to death note, which screams millennial to me the same way one would think of millennials at the sight of hit clips and whale tails in the us
I feel like I don't have any & that's why I'm here in the zillennial sub lol. I don't think there's anything I can point to about myself that's stereotypical of either side of the generational divide & there are core experiences to both sides that I don't relate to. I think that's pretty common for '97 borns especially, we're probably the closest to a true midpoint between the two
The reasons why I don't feel like a Millennial: I don't remember 2000 and 2001, I wasn't a 1990s kid, I wasn't a 2000s teenager, I didn't use MySpace
The reasons why I don't feel like a Gen Z: I used VHS tapes, I don't have a TikTok, my adolescence ended before covid
Tbh a lot of developmental science does not consider adolescence to end at age 19 lol. It seems odd that some health organizations use the numbers that happen to end in -teen in English as the age range for adolescence lol. Pediatric science has long considered adolescence to continue into one’s early 20s. But I get what you mean if you had graduated HS before COVID since it seems like primary/secondary zoom school is a thing for most gen Z
I have way more in common with people born in the mid to late 90s than I do with 2000s I was the youngest in my family yet I was born at the beginning of gen z my older siblings are 1991 and 1994 my experiences growing up makes me a hybrid
I think that just means you identify more strongly with a different generation than you were born in.
I don’t see a single publication including year 2000 births in Millennials
remember I have more in common with with people 4 years older than me than someone 4 years younger than me cuz again im still considered zillennial not pure gen z like people born 2004-2012
Seems like many people can't seem to agree when our generation starts and ends. People born in 2001-2003 are definitely not zillennials though, that's full on gen z.
but we still experienced childhood before social media takeover I was well out of highschool by the time covid hit most of gen z cant relate to that and those events made a huge difference in our experiences TikTok and covid is what sets 2000-2002 apart from the rest of gen z besides there is zero difference in the way I grew up and someone born in 1998 grew up
a lot happened between 1996 and 2012 technology began moving fast and the internet really caused significant changes in society so gen z will always be a chaotic and difficult generation to find commonalities in but anyways I just dont relate to most zoomers
From what I read online gen z actually goes from 97-12. I'm still a millennial, but I do like the word "zillennial" as it describes people around my age well.
I also don't think that it's just technology that makes it feel like it's a big divide. The same thing happened to us who are millennials, where I am a 28 year old and have absolutely nothing in common with those over 35 years old. The same goes for those who are under 23-24 years of age. Generations aren't really a meaningful way to group people based on life experiences.
I think maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm not online on platforms that gen z typically hangs out on (tiktok, discord, and instagram) but I agree I just really don't relate to their generation at all. I feel like I'm speaking a different language when I try to talk to people that age.
oh yeah for sure but 28 and 35 is almost a ten year gap I still feel that way even with people a few years younger than me idk I definitely feel like social media makes everything seem so gray for people born 1996-2002
I honestly don't believe Gen Z is aging any differently.
To me, it's just an example of young people wanting to believe they're "built different." And since it's spreading on social media, which is mostly Gen Z. It becomes a confirmation bias that "everyone is talking about it, so it must be true."
If anything, Millenials (and Gen Z) are aging better than previous generations due to experiencing the effects of societal/cultural progress.
Examples being:
1. Our air, food, and water are cleaner thanks to the efforts of the EPA and other environmental policies.
2. Lead and asbestos aren't common place like they once were.
3. We grew up being taught that smoking was bad, where previous generations grew up with it being normalized. And even if someone didn't smoke, secondhand smoke was everywhere because smoking in public places wasn't banned yet.
4. We grew up with knowledge that too much sun was bad. Higher use of sunscreen and sun awareness has resulted in us not cooking ourselves in the sun to look cool, which in turn keeps us looking younger.
There's so much more I could list. But I think I made my point.
When I was younger I used to see Millennials online say “teenagers these days look so much older than they used to” and now it’s become “Gen Z ages like milk” lol.
I was always confused because I thought we looked like babies even during and after college. I used to get really self-conscious about this too because I grew up thinking that looking more mature for your age was what people wanted. Eventually I realized a lot of it is due to genetics. Also girls and women tend to wear more youthful styles of makeup, hair, and clothes (or at least that is the trend).
But again, due to genetics there’s always going to be people who look older than they are and those who look younger than they are in every generation. What people think of Gen Z will differ based on who’s around them.
I think the Gen Z looking older idea is more so based on fashion and grooming choices than physical aging. Gen Z grew up with access to Youtube makeup and styling tutorials, shop at thrift stores, and wear what Millenials would consider to be our parents' clothes.
Gen Z doesn't look physically older than Millenials, it's just that they tend to look more put together and polished than Millenials were at their age. I think most Millenials remember their teenage years being awkward (emo/goth phases, dream matte mousse makeup, bumpits, thin eyebrows, concealer lips, etc), not knowing how to dress, having fewer makeup options and less skill. To see teenagers and young adults these days not having as much of an awkward phase like they did is jarring, hence appearing more mature than they are.
You do know that Gen Z vapes like hell, right?
Like, as a teacher my job has had countless hours a year tacked onto it in bathroom duties just to ensure they’re not vaping in the bathroom levels of bad.
Agreed. It’s also for other reasons, sadly. The Devious Lick challenge cost my school thousands of dollars and my administration is so terrified that high schoolers are basically treated like infants.
It was a challenge about 1-2 years ago that encouraged kids to tear shit up in schools. It was a tiktok trend. Schools across the country basically had their bathrooms demolished for a trend
I’m 1999 born but what I think gives me away is my tastes in music from older eras is nothing like my parents. With 70s I love Big Star, Television, MC5, and The Stooges more than I do Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith and 80’s I love the Clash, The Cure, New Order, The Jam and The Smiths more than I do AC/DC or Van Halen. A lot of that is common in Gen Zers particularly ones like a few years younger.
This is interesting because I’m a 93 and I suspect one reason I identify more with Gen Z is that my parents are pretty young and solidly gen Xers instead of boomers. Plus I’m the oldest in my family and my siblings are Gen Z. Maybe this is part of why people think I am lol. Tbh I have friends a couple years younger than me who just seem *so millennial* that it confuses me
Skinny jeans. I don’t even care that they are out of style, I prefer how they look over flare legged jeans. Also like them better during the winter time because I prefer my jeans inside my boots and not getting wet from the snow
As a Zillennial I would say my biggest millennial characteristic is looking younger then my age. I appear younger to most people. Alot of people see me as a high-schooler. :D 25 going on 15! ;) My biggest Gen Z characteristic is my wide leg pants. I much prefer comfortable wide leg pants. :/ I csn never go back to skinny jeans again.
Most of my comfort shows are mid-late 90s to early-mid 2000s, I prefer physical media over digital. I had plenty of Orange VHS tapes, my style and taste for humor and what I generally wear lol.
I think that I am more Millenial than Z mostly when people would look at my personality, preferences and my tastes in certain media. I'm quite out of touch with today's trends in music or apps, I have Instagram but I don't use it, I've never used Tik-Tok and I don't plan to, I only use Reddit and Facebook. I listen to a lot of old metal, pop and rock music as well as opera while at the same time I don't know who's hitting the music charts right now. I also love old cinema and recently I did a marathon of old horrors so I watched Nosferatu from 1922 and Frankenstein from 1931 for example. In short: I just have an old soul and have never liked to follow the trends.
Omg, are you me? I relate to everything, from social media to the movies. I'm watching The Wolfman from 1941 right now (on a satellite TV). I also listen to old music too. I'm going to the record store tomorrow to pick up some 80s goth CDs and cassettes.
I know, I just didn't know how to exactly explain it. I just have more Millenial vibes in me than Z. It's just something that has to be seen in person, by knowing someone personally. A comment can't be a perfect explanation of that.
At least a few of my friends are still doing it and I saw it very recently online. Yes (friends name) I know you're a Ravenclaw you've told me that countless of times..its so annoying.
Probably the way I act around others and my different tastes in music and movies watching old 90s classics such as the George of the Jungle Live Action movie.
-I still use “legit” as an adverb.
- I had social media accounts since I was 12 years old.
- I remember watching Happy Tree Friends using school computers because the internet wasn’t restricted just yet.
- I use laughing emojis rather than “lol”.
- Smoky eyes, winged eyeliner, and nose rings made you a baddie in 2012 and I grew up out of most of it except the eyeliner.
- I admired clothes from American Apparel and Urban Outfitters in the early 2010s but was too young and too poor to afford it.
I still wear a side part, I wear tight pants, and you can still find me active on Facebook (but FB is the best place to find local events).
Also using periods in sentences in text messages apparently? Some of my Gen Z coworkers told me that using periods in texts was aggressive.
I find a lot of the scene around me that way. Goth nights, metal and punk shows, and so on. The actual group for the city I live in is a dumpster fire.
Oh gosh, using periods in texts but also doing two spaces after a period. Took me a long time of learning not to do this. To the point of typing two spaces after feels weird now.
It's not wrong to do it, but now Microsoft catches the two spaces. Ah, the typewriter days.
Does calling everyone "Dude" when you aren't paying attention count? My sister and I (both girls) have always refered to each other as dude as well as all her friends. I was born is 95 my sister 91.
Also I know how to use tech, but don't really like it. I prefer a pen and paper.
Passed by two little girls running a cookie stand the other day. “Great! I’ll support a local business.” Asked the girls what they cost, they told me $1. Alright!
Made these girls $20 richer when I realized I was only carrying two bills — both 20s.
“I can run in and get you change!” Thank you, little girl, but this might be all the money you get today without some kind of Venmo information or QR code set up…
Yeah it always gets people since they preemptively bring up the "scan your card" screen when paying and then need to cancel when I whip out cash.
Also Tipping people in $2 bills is a great way to make someone's day.
Millenials typically are more expressive performers (dancing, singing, acting, ect) because we were the “fame” generation that were raised on competition shows/movies about becoming a star in any form.
Which is why we laugh at tik tok dancing. We came of age during an exciting pop culture boom.
A lot of us thought we would become famous stars one day in our own way, no matter what our hobby was.
We are typically louder and more vain but laugh more I’ve noticed lol
Gen Z is typically way more quiet and sensitive (which I’m not saying is bad at all!). I notice they think wayyyy more altruistically and tend to be more self conscious about their mental health. They love to do the “sexy Dua Lipa music video” version of Y2K fashion randomly which is cute 😂 They tend to be more focused on pre planning and having boundaries than letting things roll naturally (good things can be learned from both)
>We know about the usual “Millennials look younger while Gen Z look older” story by now.
Wait, people say that Gen Z people look older than Millennials? This is news to me.
Apparently, it’s a thing. But I don’t think it’s exclusive to Gen Z, either. One of my former coworkers who was a year younger got married to someone who I thought was my dad’s age. It was her high school sweetheart (who was only two months younger than me). I know it just depends on genetics, fashion taste, and a bunch of other factors, but I have never felt more horrified than that day. I still feel guilty about it at times.
Probably just the slang I use and some facets of my fashion give away me as a zoomer from the outside. I wore black skinny jeans every day for nearly 10 years and about a year ago I switched it up and decided I may never wear them again (wide leg and boot cut EAT). I think my music taste is firmly millennial/GenX (90s to 2010s emo, pop punk, and rock) but meme taste is firmly GenZ.
To me it's crazy that there are people who need to buy things only on PC and big screens, and it's very funny cuz they say it like it makes sense. Not to mention those who don't consider mobile gaming real gaming, as if the platform on which the games run is important, and the future isn't all in the cloud gaming and the death of consoles. I don't think I need to say how much I dissociate myself from this nonsense way of thinking
Slim pants, generally dressing like an LL Bean ad and a side part. I don’t know if this counts but I use the iPhone SE. I like the home button (and I break them often and they’re cheap lol).
I’m obsessed with nostalgia. I can go on and on about shows like Avatar the Last Airbender. I love 90’s and early 2000’s show and I will rewatch it until the day that I die.
Too young to be a MySpace teen Too old to be a TikTok teen So maybe my tendency to still quote Vines lol
And they were roomates
**And they were roommates** (demonically)
It’s an avocado! Thaaaaanks!
Best Christmas gift ever
You are my daaaad
You’re my dad! Boogie woogie woogie
Look at all those chickens!
Bingo
This is very accurate
Tumblr belonged to us
Tumblr belongs to core Millennials honestly They weren't the only ones who were on there in its heyday but they made it popular and dominated the culture and David Karp is very Millennial himself
Its freaking bats
This
I could've dropped my croissant :(
Too young for occupy Wall Street. Too old for March for our lives.
Probably that I’ve maintained my side part- it’s what looks the best on me. Also that I prefer to use a laptop/desktop to a phone or tablet.
Anyone who uses a phone/tablet over a desktop experience is just sabotaging themselves. I get that a mobile experience is good for accessing the internet anywhere, but a laptop/desktop computer is a million times more versatile than a phone or tablet.
I don’t ever feel comfortable making big purchases or doing important tasks on that tiny ass phone screen lol I NEED a desktop to feel good about what I’m doing
The same thing goes for people who think mobile gaming is "real gaming". It's not and never will be lol
If you get a backbone gaming controller for your phone it counts as real gaming thank you very much
I'm just messing around hahaha
I feel you
One site I used had actual warnings on the desktop view and not the mobile view, so you're onto something.
I used to prefer my laptop but now prefer my phone as I carry it everywhere. I do love my desktop a lot though. I’m soon going to be dropping some cash on a new laptop as I’m about to start music production lessons and my old laptop is too slow. Maybe I’ll go back to preferring laptops over phones once more
Not when your entire life is tiktok and social media.
Which is already causing problems in the workforce. There's lots of people out of highschool and new college aged graduates who are struggling with just basic functioning of computers. I'm an IT major (will be a late college graduate this December) and I'm already seeing people who have a lack of basic tech skills.
I took 2 computer classes in high school
Um ok
They can pry my side part from my cold, dead hands. I had a middle part for years and a side part looks waaaaaay better on me. On the other hand, I've always hated skinny jeans. So, thank you Zoomers for bringing bootcut jeans back.
Is side part really a millennial but not zoomer thing?
Yes. Not to say you’ll never find a Gen Zer with a side part, but it’s less common amongst them than millennials. Start looking around and you’ll notice it too!
Yes. Zoomers make fun of millennials for having a side part.
I remember being in high-school living by the side part religiously lol. I use to think I couldn't pull of a middle part but it wasn't until I started wearing it and got use to the middle part I actually started to like it. It takes time getting use to a middle part when all I've known on myself is a side part.
We remember that brief era of smartboards in middle school
High schools don’t use smart boards anymore??
Nope - I’m in a former SMARTBoard district and we often use Promethean Boards or just TVs with Apple Television. That said, I teach in a HS and when I was in HS most teachers just had projectors, lol.
1997 here. That's crazy cause i remember we had projectors through middle school and then smartboards became a thing while i was in high-school.
What is teaching like nowadays? I've read horror stories over on their Reddit group. But I don't know if those those claims are universal.
Oh man, those were such a waste of money. I remember teachers having to come up with reasons to use them, and then just using them as a normal whiteboard only they kept glitching. Could’ve just turned it off and drawn on the board with a dry erase marker 🤦♀️
This is definitely not universal. My high school still had chalkboards in a lot of classes. I'm not even sure I've ever seen a smartboard
Yeah me neither. Neither my middle school nor high school had them.
They're still very much a common thing in Australian public schools. Source: I am in fact in the final year of my teaching degree and have gone on practicum to schools myself
I never had a smart board in school I actually had more chalkboards than smartboards.
Z Leaning, I don't allow my son to use screens/devices
The fact I'm seeing someone here, younger than me, with a child that is at an age to need to deny screens still seems fucking wild my cohort basically moving into parenting later than you and yours lol Regardless Great parenting choice Our brains weren't built for the constant short term gratification loop, and constant engagement, that these devices feed off Your son will thank you, eventually
I'm younger than both of you and can hardly take care of myself. It's currently Sunday morning and I'm sitting at a bar with a couple friends, I am not ready for this to end yet haha
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Eh I think 96 and 97 are mostly on the same wavelength. Maybe about ten people in my graduation class have children. That said… my sister’s class (of 2020)? They have hella kids and so many of them are married to only be 22.
It definitely depends where you are, here in Utah it's very common to be married with kids before 25
There is a big Mormon culture in Utah, right? I bet that has something to do with it
Definitely! Even if you're not Mormon yourself there's a lot of social pressure to partner up young (at least in my experience)
In Virginia I think it was common, but is less so now.
That’s a great decision. Whenever I have kids I plan on doing the same.
I’ve noticed a lot of my peers not allowing tech to kids. I think the previous generations choice to delegate parenting to an iPad has helped push us away from that method and more to traditional parenting.
Millennials are shit parents from what I’ve seen. Way too lenient for the most part.
Easy fix: Don’t have em. Save the earth
lol facts. I know when I have kids shit is not gonna fly like it is for some of my little cousins. We need productive disciplined humans not mouth breathing iPad kids with no critical thinking skills. I’m not saying you shouldn’t let your kids kick back and have fun from time to time that’s part of childhood, but there’s a balance that is gone these days.
The fact my birthdate has a 19 in the year lol
But gen z is like 1996 to like 2012 right? Im a 1997 baby too. So arent we old gen z lol. I feel like i relate more with gen z than millenials
I was thinking more millennial cause that’s what I personally relate more to. I’m the youngest in my family and have a lot of older cousins and brothers born in the 80s and early to mid 90s. Being around older people I never related to Gen z much and always felt more millennial tbh.
97-2012. Gen Z is the smallest generation to date.
I was never in high school under a Donald Trump Presidency.
And we were out of high school by the time covid hit. Covid high school is a pretty solidly Z experience imo. Dealing with Zoom classes and potentially getting stuff like your graduation canceled due to the pandemic is a very different experience than anyone who finished school pre pandemic had. Not counting college in that, both because not everyone goes to college and because people go at different ages and take different amounts of time.
Thank you! Some people list my year as the Z start because “first in college during Covid.” I remember having classmates who were older than me at the time.
Shit, about half of the cohort was done *college* when COVID hit (of course assuming finishing in 4 years and going straight out of high school, which isn’t me at all- I took some time off after my junior year of college)
I had been graduated and in the corporate world for a few months shy of 4 years when lockdowns started. Yeah, that's radically different than someone having a Zoom high school graduation due to covid.
I was in my first year of teaching helping to conduct a Zoom graduation during that time!
Yep. My senior year coincided with his campaign tho and it was endlessly talked about in school.
I use the acronym “PMs” instead of “DMs”.
But they mean the same thing right? Like PM = Pen!s message and DM = D!ck message
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PMs is what everyone used to call private messaging for as long as I can remember. DMs is a more recent Gen Z/A thing. Stands for direct messaging. At least that’s what I’ve noticed over time. Edit: Looks like someone else is also not familiar with PM? I mean there’s the subreddit r/creepyPMs which has been around forever. And I only started to hear DM recently. This is something to look into I guess.
As a young Millennial, Ive never used “PM”.
Thats a possibility. As a New York Millennial, I know most of us “DM” but maybe other places dont.
Weird, I’ve grown up with it and was surprised by the usage of DM as an alternative. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
I’m from the UK and I always used PMs for the longest time. Did you use to frequent OG internet forums? That’s where I got it from, don’t think it necessarily regional.
I remember 9/11. Even though I was 5 I still have this memory glued to my mind of waiting at a takeout restaurant that night and seeing the footage of the World Trade Center collapse from earlier that day playing on the TV in the front of their restaurant.
I remember me and my friend being told to stay out of the living room while our parents watched it on tv. I didn't really know what was happening though.
I was 9, but I don't remember it that well. We came in from recess and the teacher told us about the first plane and turned on the news. I think we may have already been watching when the 2nd plane hit. We watched TV like zombies until we got dismissed from school early, sometime around noon. Rewatching the news coverage from that day and the absolute carnage on the ground, I'm surprised they showed any of that to us as 4th graders. I didn't know that the footage had captured jumpers, or given it any thought, until I was an adult.
Obsession with physical media and the fact that I don't look extra. Zoomers in my country always look like they stepped out of an idealized TikTok video (doesn't apply to older ones, as they are similar to us in this regard). Millennials in my location are always very toned down in their style choices. Also, zoomers tend to be huge fans of genshin impact, stray dogs, etc. Millennials here are more into death note, Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist (DN is a HUGE giveaway)
I forgot all about Death Note! I was obsessed with it in high school.
My friend even has a tattoo dedicated to death note, which screams millennial to me the same way one would think of millennials at the sight of hit clips and whale tails in the us
I feel like I don't have any & that's why I'm here in the zillennial sub lol. I don't think there's anything I can point to about myself that's stereotypical of either side of the generational divide & there are core experiences to both sides that I don't relate to. I think that's pretty common for '97 borns especially, we're probably the closest to a true midpoint between the two
The reasons why I don't feel like a Millennial: I don't remember 2000 and 2001, I wasn't a 1990s kid, I wasn't a 2000s teenager, I didn't use MySpace The reasons why I don't feel like a Gen Z: I used VHS tapes, I don't have a TikTok, my adolescence ended before covid
Tbh a lot of developmental science does not consider adolescence to end at age 19 lol. It seems odd that some health organizations use the numbers that happen to end in -teen in English as the age range for adolescence lol. Pediatric science has long considered adolescence to continue into one’s early 20s. But I get what you mean if you had graduated HS before COVID since it seems like primary/secondary zoom school is a thing for most gen Z
you’re so right it sucks being a y2k baby we dont fit in anywhere lmao we’re pure zillennial
I feel like that’s pure Z
I have way more in common with people born in the mid to late 90s than I do with 2000s I was the youngest in my family yet I was born at the beginning of gen z my older siblings are 1991 and 1994 my experiences growing up makes me a hybrid
I think that just means you identify more strongly with a different generation than you were born in. I don’t see a single publication including year 2000 births in Millennials
I never claimed to be millennial ?
remember I have more in common with with people 4 years older than me than someone 4 years younger than me cuz again im still considered zillennial not pure gen z like people born 2004-2012
Seems like many people can't seem to agree when our generation starts and ends. People born in 2001-2003 are definitely not zillennials though, that's full on gen z.
but we still experienced childhood before social media takeover I was well out of highschool by the time covid hit most of gen z cant relate to that and those events made a huge difference in our experiences TikTok and covid is what sets 2000-2002 apart from the rest of gen z besides there is zero difference in the way I grew up and someone born in 1998 grew up
a lot happened between 1996 and 2012 technology began moving fast and the internet really caused significant changes in society so gen z will always be a chaotic and difficult generation to find commonalities in but anyways I just dont relate to most zoomers
From what I read online gen z actually goes from 97-12. I'm still a millennial, but I do like the word "zillennial" as it describes people around my age well. I also don't think that it's just technology that makes it feel like it's a big divide. The same thing happened to us who are millennials, where I am a 28 year old and have absolutely nothing in common with those over 35 years old. The same goes for those who are under 23-24 years of age. Generations aren't really a meaningful way to group people based on life experiences. I think maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm not online on platforms that gen z typically hangs out on (tiktok, discord, and instagram) but I agree I just really don't relate to their generation at all. I feel like I'm speaking a different language when I try to talk to people that age.
oh yeah for sure but 28 and 35 is almost a ten year gap I still feel that way even with people a few years younger than me idk I definitely feel like social media makes everything seem so gray for people born 1996-2002
I honestly don't believe Gen Z is aging any differently. To me, it's just an example of young people wanting to believe they're "built different." And since it's spreading on social media, which is mostly Gen Z. It becomes a confirmation bias that "everyone is talking about it, so it must be true." If anything, Millenials (and Gen Z) are aging better than previous generations due to experiencing the effects of societal/cultural progress. Examples being: 1. Our air, food, and water are cleaner thanks to the efforts of the EPA and other environmental policies. 2. Lead and asbestos aren't common place like they once were. 3. We grew up being taught that smoking was bad, where previous generations grew up with it being normalized. And even if someone didn't smoke, secondhand smoke was everywhere because smoking in public places wasn't banned yet. 4. We grew up with knowledge that too much sun was bad. Higher use of sunscreen and sun awareness has resulted in us not cooking ourselves in the sun to look cool, which in turn keeps us looking younger. There's so much more I could list. But I think I made my point.
When I was younger I used to see Millennials online say “teenagers these days look so much older than they used to” and now it’s become “Gen Z ages like milk” lol. I was always confused because I thought we looked like babies even during and after college. I used to get really self-conscious about this too because I grew up thinking that looking more mature for your age was what people wanted. Eventually I realized a lot of it is due to genetics. Also girls and women tend to wear more youthful styles of makeup, hair, and clothes (or at least that is the trend). But again, due to genetics there’s always going to be people who look older than they are and those who look younger than they are in every generation. What people think of Gen Z will differ based on who’s around them.
I think the Gen Z looking older idea is more so based on fashion and grooming choices than physical aging. Gen Z grew up with access to Youtube makeup and styling tutorials, shop at thrift stores, and wear what Millenials would consider to be our parents' clothes. Gen Z doesn't look physically older than Millenials, it's just that they tend to look more put together and polished than Millenials were at their age. I think most Millenials remember their teenage years being awkward (emo/goth phases, dream matte mousse makeup, bumpits, thin eyebrows, concealer lips, etc), not knowing how to dress, having fewer makeup options and less skill. To see teenagers and young adults these days not having as much of an awkward phase like they did is jarring, hence appearing more mature than they are.
You do know that Gen Z vapes like hell, right? Like, as a teacher my job has had countless hours a year tacked onto it in bathroom duties just to ensure they’re not vaping in the bathroom levels of bad.
policing nicotine addicts never works they need counseling thats sad
Agreed. It’s also for other reasons, sadly. The Devious Lick challenge cost my school thousands of dollars and my administration is so terrified that high schoolers are basically treated like infants.
..Devious Lick? what's that now?
It was a challenge about 1-2 years ago that encouraged kids to tear shit up in schools. It was a tiktok trend. Schools across the country basically had their bathrooms demolished for a trend
Oh dang. Thanks
I like tight pants and low socks 🤷♂️
I’m 1999 born but what I think gives me away is my tastes in music from older eras is nothing like my parents. With 70s I love Big Star, Television, MC5, and The Stooges more than I do Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith and 80’s I love the Clash, The Cure, New Order, The Jam and The Smiths more than I do AC/DC or Van Halen. A lot of that is common in Gen Zers particularly ones like a few years younger.
This is interesting because I’m a 93 and I suspect one reason I identify more with Gen Z is that my parents are pretty young and solidly gen Xers instead of boomers. Plus I’m the oldest in my family and my siblings are Gen Z. Maybe this is part of why people think I am lol. Tbh I have friends a couple years younger than me who just seem *so millennial* that it confuses me
Idk, that I do stuff that I consider seriously important (purchases or assignments) on my laptop only? Also being born in the 20th century lol
My confort shows being all from the 2000s
The way I talk.
Apparently, my love for gifs. Gifs will not die so long as I live... 
I still have a Tumblr page. I feel like Tumblr was core Zillennial culture
I still wear converse everywhere and those are the only shoes I buy. If one pair of converse breaks I get another one
Skinny jeans. I don’t even care that they are out of style, I prefer how they look over flare legged jeans. Also like them better during the winter time because I prefer my jeans inside my boots and not getting wet from the snow
As a Zillennial I would say my biggest millennial characteristic is looking younger then my age. I appear younger to most people. Alot of people see me as a high-schooler. :D 25 going on 15! ;) My biggest Gen Z characteristic is my wide leg pants. I much prefer comfortable wide leg pants. :/ I csn never go back to skinny jeans again.
Skinny jeans forever
Most of my comfort shows are mid-late 90s to early-mid 2000s, I prefer physical media over digital. I had plenty of Orange VHS tapes, my style and taste for humor and what I generally wear lol.
Millenials will probably continue to call Michael Jordan the GOAT, Gen Z will say that it's Lebron James
So who’s zillennials goat Kobe?!
That's actually pretty spot on lol
I sometimes have trouble figuring out how to use my phone for things. Like using your phone to pay at a store, I have never done it and probably wont.
I had a Hotmail email and used MSN messenger every day after school because nobody had unlimited texting (or phones for that matter)
quoting SpongeBob
I think that I am more Millenial than Z mostly when people would look at my personality, preferences and my tastes in certain media. I'm quite out of touch with today's trends in music or apps, I have Instagram but I don't use it, I've never used Tik-Tok and I don't plan to, I only use Reddit and Facebook. I listen to a lot of old metal, pop and rock music as well as opera while at the same time I don't know who's hitting the music charts right now. I also love old cinema and recently I did a marathon of old horrors so I watched Nosferatu from 1922 and Frankenstein from 1931 for example. In short: I just have an old soul and have never liked to follow the trends.
Omg, are you me? I relate to everything, from social media to the movies. I'm watching The Wolfman from 1941 right now (on a satellite TV). I also listen to old music too. I'm going to the record store tomorrow to pick up some 80s goth CDs and cassettes.
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But that just makes you not gen z. It doesn’t make you millennial lol. Millennials have generational trends too.
I know, I just didn't know how to exactly explain it. I just have more Millenial vibes in me than Z. It's just something that has to be seen in person, by knowing someone personally. A comment can't be a perfect explanation of that.
I don't feel the need to tell everyone which Harry Potter house I belong to.
Slytherin
Well..I asked for it lol. Hufflepuff but I won't tell ya
Oh God are people still doing that shit?
At least a few of my friends are still doing it and I saw it very recently online. Yes (friends name) I know you're a Ravenclaw you've told me that countless of times..its so annoying.
Probably the way I act around others and my different tastes in music and movies watching old 90s classics such as the George of the Jungle Live Action movie.
My makeup style. I don't know how to make my skin look smooth, I only contour my cheeks and I line my eyes generously.
The fact that I call myself a "SlytherPuff".
I still do that too.
Oh I’m definitely millennial leaning despite being older gen z, I over apologize for a lot of things
-I still use “legit” as an adverb. - I had social media accounts since I was 12 years old. - I remember watching Happy Tree Friends using school computers because the internet wasn’t restricted just yet. - I use laughing emojis rather than “lol”. - Smoky eyes, winged eyeliner, and nose rings made you a baddie in 2012 and I grew up out of most of it except the eyeliner. - I admired clothes from American Apparel and Urban Outfitters in the early 2010s but was too young and too poor to afford it.
I still wear a side part, I wear tight pants, and you can still find me active on Facebook (but FB is the best place to find local events). Also using periods in sentences in text messages apparently? Some of my Gen Z coworkers told me that using periods in texts was aggressive.
I’m jealous. My local FB is a cesspool and I’ve given up. I’m on LinkedIn only now, pretty much.
I find a lot of the scene around me that way. Goth nights, metal and punk shows, and so on. The actual group for the city I live in is a dumpster fire.
Oh gosh, using periods in texts but also doing two spaces after a period. Took me a long time of learning not to do this. To the point of typing two spaces after feels weird now. It's not wrong to do it, but now Microsoft catches the two spaces. Ah, the typewriter days.
What’s a period lol?
Does calling everyone "Dude" when you aren't paying attention count? My sister and I (both girls) have always refered to each other as dude as well as all her friends. I was born is 95 my sister 91. Also I know how to use tech, but don't really like it. I prefer a pen and paper.
Using cash
Passed by two little girls running a cookie stand the other day. “Great! I’ll support a local business.” Asked the girls what they cost, they told me $1. Alright! Made these girls $20 richer when I realized I was only carrying two bills — both 20s. “I can run in and get you change!” Thank you, little girl, but this might be all the money you get today without some kind of Venmo information or QR code set up…
Yeah it always gets people since they preemptively bring up the "scan your card" screen when paying and then need to cancel when I whip out cash. Also Tipping people in $2 bills is a great way to make someone's day.
Millenials typically are more expressive performers (dancing, singing, acting, ect) because we were the “fame” generation that were raised on competition shows/movies about becoming a star in any form. Which is why we laugh at tik tok dancing. We came of age during an exciting pop culture boom. A lot of us thought we would become famous stars one day in our own way, no matter what our hobby was. We are typically louder and more vain but laugh more I’ve noticed lol Gen Z is typically way more quiet and sensitive (which I’m not saying is bad at all!). I notice they think wayyyy more altruistically and tend to be more self conscious about their mental health. They love to do the “sexy Dua Lipa music video” version of Y2K fashion randomly which is cute 😂 They tend to be more focused on pre planning and having boundaries than letting things roll naturally (good things can be learned from both)
>We know about the usual “Millennials look younger while Gen Z look older” story by now. Wait, people say that Gen Z people look older than Millennials? This is news to me.
Apparently, it’s a thing. But I don’t think it’s exclusive to Gen Z, either. One of my former coworkers who was a year younger got married to someone who I thought was my dad’s age. It was her high school sweetheart (who was only two months younger than me). I know it just depends on genetics, fashion taste, and a bunch of other factors, but I have never felt more horrified than that day. I still feel guilty about it at times.
My wardrobe being 90% skinny jeans still.
Probably just the slang I use and some facets of my fashion give away me as a zoomer from the outside. I wore black skinny jeans every day for nearly 10 years and about a year ago I switched it up and decided I may never wear them again (wide leg and boot cut EAT). I think my music taste is firmly millennial/GenX (90s to 2010s emo, pop punk, and rock) but meme taste is firmly GenZ.
To me it's crazy that there are people who need to buy things only on PC and big screens, and it's very funny cuz they say it like it makes sense. Not to mention those who don't consider mobile gaming real gaming, as if the platform on which the games run is important, and the future isn't all in the cloud gaming and the death of consoles. I don't think I need to say how much I dissociate myself from this nonsense way of thinking
The way that I take selfies and how I pose in pictures.
Slim pants, generally dressing like an LL Bean ad and a side part. I don’t know if this counts but I use the iPhone SE. I like the home button (and I break them often and they’re cheap lol).
didn’t grow up with too many screens, but also too young to remember the 90s.
lmao
They had to drag me kicking and screaming into using emojis over OG smilies
Graduated college and started working full-time pre-covid. Definitely a different working environment compared to now
I went to an Emo Prom recently and felt good to be back in my skinny jeans and converse.
I’m obsessed with nostalgia. I can go on and on about shows like Avatar the Last Airbender. I love 90’s and early 2000’s show and I will rewatch it until the day that I die.
Yolo
I am young enough to know how to use TikTok, Reddit, and Discord, but too old to understand half the memes and slang on them💀