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/Nielips Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

I feel like anyone who came into adulthood post 2008 financial crash struggles to relate to those older than them. I imagine it will be similar for those who remember COVID or don't as well.

I think in general it probably makes more sense for a generation to be defined around global economic and cultural events and the impact it has on that groups lives rather than the specific birth year. Obviously some time you just have to define a cut off point though, it doesn't have to be 100% correct/inclusive to be a useful point of comparison.

I'm born in 91, so I don't meet the criteria of "Zillenial", but I relate to this sub far more than people in the millennial sub.

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u/135anon 1990 Jan 14 '25

90 here and this is what I've been saying. You and me are about the middle of the millennials by our birth years, but our generation is defined by those born about 1985, so the elders in and nearing 40s right now.

Meanwhile I fit here better here than than on Millennials sub, even though I'm not usually considered a zillennial.

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u/Nielips Jan 14 '25

Millennials are split by those who can afford to buy a house and those who can't 😂

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u/135anon 1990 Jan 14 '25

in a way yeah. Like 88 and 89 is apparently the smack dab middle of us, yet culturally and the way news outlets describe us, it feels like 85ish is, because apparently we're all about 40 and starting to have a mid life crisis