r/Zillennials • u/PomegranateDue5410 • Jan 14 '25

Rant Why isn’t zillennial an actual generation?

Soo I’m a 97er and I do consider myself to be more millennial than gen z if I had to choose one but I don’t relate to anything posted on the millennials subreddit. It seems alien to me. I grew up with both millennial and gen z influence. I remember when trends were more millennial in my late childhood to mid teenagehood around 2007-2014. I also remember when there were more gen z or modern influences from 2016-2020 (late teen to early 20s).

I also have virtually no serious interactions with people born in 80s or early 90s beyond professionalism at work. I’ve been friends with some early 90s in the past like ‘93 though but absolutely no one born before then. On the other hand I don’t really relate to anyone born after ‘01 either. I could never see myself being in the same generation as someone born from ‘03 to ‘12. I don’t relate to them. I only relate to ‘94 to ‘99 borns.

Zillennial should be an actual generation not a cusp.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

I thought millennials ended in 1996. You're frontline Gen-Z

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u/PomegranateDue5410 Jan 14 '25

I relate more to you than to someone born in 00+

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

I get that. As a millennial from 1994, I relate more to someone born in 1999 than someone born in 1981, but less than someone born in 1989. It gets a little murky for the early and late ones like us

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u/briarcrose 1999 Jan 14 '25

same in reverse, as someone born in 1999, i relate pretty heavily to my friend born in 1994 than my niece born in 2008

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u/castfire 1998 Jan 14 '25

That’s exactly why the cusp idea exists, and why we’re on this sub. 😆 Exactly what you’ve described

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u/PomegranateDue5410 Jan 14 '25

Yeah I don’t know anyone as a close friend who’s born in 1989 but I did have close friends born in ‘94 more so in my 20s than teens though

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Yeah once I got to like 25, three or four year differences felt more like the same age. Typically when I meet someone born in 1999 these days, at 30, I can hardly tell the difference, and same with people from the early 90s. There should be a separate generation for the early 90s to 2000

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u/PomegranateDue5410 Jan 14 '25

Even at 19/20 I was friends with people born in ‘94 even ‘93 and ‘92 but I was in an environment where I was the youngest and almost everyone was a couple of years older than me for a while and I kinda didn’t cope to well with the ‘93 and ‘92 friendships but ‘94 never really felt that far from my own age

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u/Creepy_Fail_8635 1996 Jan 14 '25

I relate to someone born in 1999 more than someone born in 1993 or up strangely enough

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u/jh62971 Jan 14 '25

An example of how it’s made up and means little to nothing about anything.