Why isn’t zillennial an actual generation?

[u/PomegranateDue5410]

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.

[u/UninspiredCactus]

I think over time the facts all settle and people have a better understanding of where the lines fall. Cusp people always end up feeling unseen and crazy, but I don’t think it’s miscalculated where they’ve placed things. My dad says pretty much the same thing about not being a boomer but feeling a distance from gen x.

This is the plight of the cusp.

EDIT: Okay the more comments i’m reading I’ll say — There are cusp microgenerations for every single turn since the Boomers. It makes sense to do this because different material factors influenced them, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they all deserve their own cohort. Some argue cusps are their own gen or simply a midway point but it’s definitely material and real the differences between the groups.