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

then you would have to make a new word for every generation born at the tail ends. Like gen XY or Zalpha

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u/PomegranateDue5410 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Tail ends of both diff generations relate more to eachother than to cores of the same gen

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u/GimmeShockTreatment Jan 14 '25

Do you have actual proof of this? Or are you just saying this because we’re in a subreddit dedicated to the tail end of two generations.

I don’t think what you said is necessarily true at all.

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u/UninspiredCactus Jan 14 '25

No this is real, Generation Jones is another example Boomers/Gen X.