I just realised that Reddit slightly changed their User interface and it looks really ugly ngl. Does anyone else think it looks flat and bland?

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Honestly you can't change it and your going to be sad and stressed if you think you can or obsess on it. Just bc some redditors tell you something doesn't mean it's gospel only you know your experiences.

According to this it seems lead has affected them the most.

When I hear the term zillennial thrown around (normally referring to people born 1995-1999/2000) I see people on this sub splitting the first half millennials that have gen z influence and the 2nd half Genz with millennial influence. I don’t think this makes any sense how can you have influence from a generation that came after you? The way I see it 1995-1999/2000 are gen z but 1995 has the heaviest millennial influence and 1999/2000 has the least. To me zillennial is the period were gen z first began to emerge so some may feel they relate to millennials growing up

Example. March 1997 for I or March 2005 for I.

I want your opinion.

I think it is like 16.

imo it's like 4th-6th grade (or like 9-11/12) because you don't have to worry about school like later on, your grade isn't like messed up yet and people are actually still nice, and you don't have like the little kid rules at home and actually have some freedom cuz ur like a tween and ur a bit more mature now

True or False & why?

When I joined this sub 2 years ago, I expected to peacefully talk about the generations. What I got?

• The gatekeeping that I have to endure for 2 years (Early Gen Z label almost drove me insane, lately I was acting mentally ill, when people didn't consider 2000 as Zillennials. After seeing the poll results I've realized, most people will see my age people as just Older Zoomers without a cusp and there's nothing I can do to change the situation, no matter how much I'll put the effort of proving them wrong).
• Americans failing to acknowledge, a foreigner didn't grow up the same as them (I get it Americans make up the majority of this sub. Keep in mind, there are Non-Americans are visiting this sub. I'm an European and my thoughts and experiences usually differ from an average American).
• The misuse of influence (For example: One 2001 born was influenced by Millennials culture when they were kids, meanwhile the other 2001 born wasn't influenced by Millennials. In reality, 2001 borns are seen in the Gen Z. People must remember the "influence" thing is subjective and it generally depends on individual. The generation should determine which year you were born in, not based on influence).

In conclusion, this sub is affecting my mental health.

Part of the identity of a generation is the age range it includes at any given time. This tangibly changes as the age range evolves from youth to younger adulthood to midlife to old age.

What Gen Z considers most important today is very different from what it will consider salient in 2075. And what GenX considers important now is quite different from what we embraced in, say, 1988.

I've been seeing posts online with younger people lamenting that they're being called middle-aged. I'm a middle-aged person (GenX) being called old.

I also am disappointed to see "official" or scientific-adjacent sites creating this weird pattern...

The upshot is this:

Literally all of the dictionaries and other printed references I saw until there weren't any around, defined midlife as 45 to 65. The rise of the Internet, which happened when I was a young adult, brought reference sites that confirmed the same.

Generally, over the decades since, life-expectancy has gone up. It is true that in very recent times, there's been a dip, especially in the States, due to both the pandemic and the lifestyle changes in youth with resulting negative health effects. But overall, people are living longer throughout the first world.

Then why, as the last 2 decades have gone by, has the definition of midlife crept steadily backwards from beginning at 45, to 40 to 35 to 30? And the defined start of old age has crept from 65 to 60 to 55 to 50. WTAF, world??????

Our life expectancy is roughly 80. Really, WHY are all these "experts" making young people feel middle-aged and middle-aged people feel old???

When midlife is defined starting at 25 and old age at 45, I will have to conclude they either know something very ominous I don't, OR that it's some kind of conspiracy. And I am not a conspiracy theorist.

It's getting ridiculous. 👶🏻👧🏾🧑🏼👵🏿

Ideas??

Caveat: Life can be divided into four stages: Youth, Younger Adulthood, Midlife, and Old Age. Currently, divide 80 years into four chunks of 20 years. Set the childhood section aside. Midlife should be roughly in the middle of the adulthood three sections.

We’re going to be in 2025 within 2 months, so I thought I’d make a poll.

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I did a previous one based around the 90s. This time I’ll be doing one based on the 2000s. Also, I’ll be including every group that spent at least a year of adolescence in the 2000s. This should range from 1981-1999 using the 10-19 range or 1983-1999 using the 10-17 range at its broadest. I’ll start off with those born in 1990 as I’ve already covered those born in the 80s.

1).1990: They are the first group (and the only group) to spend all of their Adolescents in the 2000s. They spent ages 10-17/19 between the years of 2000-2007/2009, making them the peak 00s adolescents.

2).1991: They are another group that mainly experienced their adolescent years in the 2000s. They spent ages 10-17/19 between the years of 2001-2008/2010, making them predominantly 00 adolescents, but with little influence from the 2010s during their late adolescents (17-19).

3).1992: They are also another group that mainly experienced their adolescent years in the 2000s, with a minor underlap towards the 2010s. They spent ages 10-17 between the years of 2002-2009 and 18-19 between 2010-2011. They are predominantly 2000s adolescents

4).1993: They are the last group to predominately be 00s adolescents as they spent a significant amount of time in the 2010s, however they are mainly 2000s adolescents. They spent ages 10-16 between the years of 2003-2009 and 17-19 between 2010-2012.

—————Predominantly 2000s Adolescents

5).1994: They are our first group to be hybrids but they still lean more towards the 2000s. They spent ages 10-15 between the years of 2004-2009 and 16-19 between 2010-2013.

—————Leaning more towards the 2000s

6).1995: They are essentially the Peak Hybrids of the 2000s and the 2010s as they spent ages 10-14 between 2005-2009 and 15-19 between 2010-2014.

—————Leaning more towards the 2010s

7).1996: They are our last hybrids, but they lean more towards the 2010s as they only spent ages 10-13 between the years of 2006-2009, and 14-19 between the years of 2010-2015. If we were using the 10-17 range, then they could be seen as peak hybrids

————Predominantly 2010s Adolescents

8).1997: They are the first group to heavily lean more towards the 2010s as they only spent ages 10-12 (or early adolescents) between the years of 2007-2009 and ages 13-19 between the years of 2010-2016. If we were using the 10-17 range, then it could be possible that they can be seen as the last hybrids, but leaning more towards the 2010s.

9).1998: They are another group that experienced majority of their early adolescents (10-11), between the years of 2008-2009, however, they spent ages vast majority of their adolescents (12-19) between the years of 2010-2017.

10).1999: They are the last group to experience any adolescents in the 2000s, but a vast majority of it was centred mainly in the 2010s, or between the years of 2010-2018, when they were aged 11-19 years old.

In conclusion, those born between 1987-1993 are mainly 2000s adolescents, with some underlaps/overlaps from the 90s or the 2000s.

Those born between 1994-1996 are hybrids leaning towards their respected decades (If we were using the 10-17 range then the hybrids would be those born between the years of 1995-1997)

Those born between 1997-1999 experience only a portion (or all) of their adolescents in the 2000s

2025 is only 50 days from today, and I'll be 26 in 56 days. It feels very weird since I saw people born in the same year just celebrated their 25th birthday, and sometimes I thought I had just turned 25 but I'll celebrate my 26th birthday soon. 

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In honor of November 11th

I had Silent Gen Great-Grandfathers who served in the Korean War with the US Marines and Air Force, they are the furthest back I can trace

Another Great-Grandfather attempted to join the Canadian military during WW2 but was denied due to medical issues

recently we're always being told her being born my year is not Millennial. We are told because we didn't get to Vote in 2008 or experience an ounce of memories in the 90's we're practically outliers. People point this out all the time and you can just tell by how no one considers us millennials or would rather group us with a 2004 born before a 1994 and say we are more culturally similar to someone born '04. A 1992 born will literally grow up watching the same shows as us but people will still say we're culturally different because they were 2000's high schoolers. I started High school in 2010 and there were people born in 1993 there. Even stuff like we don't remember a life before 9/11 but as a kid how would any kid remember a whole life before 9/11?. I used to think it was just younger people but it seems the older folks dont want to consider us part of millennials too. I guess you can count 1995 and 1997 in that too being put down, every topic is about 97 or 95 or 96 and basically implying we aren't the same as someone born 1991 or 1994 because we weren't 90s kids. Our years are always seen in a negative light here and things are said like "I'd rather be born on or before 1994" like it's a bad thing being born 1996, we got to experience the whole entirety of the 2000's the same way any millennial did but because we didn't get any conscious 90's years along together with that some how that's not good enough for us to be considered a millennial. I dont understand why us 96/ 97 /95 borns we get a lot of hate here. also Being told "I couldn't have watched Johnny Bravo because it aired in the late 90''s because I didn't watch the first season but the show ran from 1997-2004 from 2001-2004 I was consciously watching it, same with catdog, hey arnold, and a lot of cn shows or it cant be our "nostalgia". When we complain its like no one takes us seriously or just mocks us for wanting to be considered a millennial even though we already are. I'm not sure what or where all this hate for us has come from but it's making me starting to hate my birth year

I would want to be a 90s kid. I was born 2005 and sometimes I wish I was born in the 80's like 82-85 so I could be a kid in both the 80's and 90's. McBling Era of 2000's era of my college or seems like a cool teenager experience so it would go well with the years I chose. I'm okay Even if I was born 1981 I would still be a kid 1991 and watch all the cool 90's tv shows as a preteen. 1986 is cool too. Which decade would you want to be a kid in and why??

For example if you were born 1985 would your peer group be 4 years from you younger or older or 1983-1987 or be

I wanted to share some things I grew up with in my childhood as a '95 born and would love to hear yours also.

~ Shows & movies: PowerPuff Girls, The Proud family, That's So raven, Kim Possible, High School musical 1-2 Lizzie McGuire & the movie, Dexters Lab, Spongebob, 6teen, Zoey 101, GAOBAM (GrimmBA), Arthur, Pokemon, Martin Mystery, The Iron Giant, Barney and Friends, Franklin.

~ Toys: MyScene Dolls, Bratz dolls, Polly Pockets, Tamagotchi's, Furby's, Sailor Moon and Barbie Dolls, BeyBlades, Betty Spaghetty, Socker Boppers (those hurt), PooChi the Robo Dog

~ Gaming: Neopets, FlashGames like Darkness, Line Rider, Myscene dressup, Runescape, Sims 2, I had a Gameboy advance and played a lot of Tetris, the wii. I've played with the SuperNintendo & n64 & gamecube, with a cousin (born 87): Mario Kart, 007, Mario party, Runescape, CD Rom games; Rollercoaster Tycoon

~Pop Culture and Music I heard around me: The only music I heard from the 90s mostly came from 99 and it was mostly Britney, BSB and Xtina on the radio which also continued to the 2000s which is more what I remember I know very very little of the 90's. I remember hearing Genie In A bottle a lot in car rides. 2000s: Ja-Rule Ashanti, Avril, Hilary duff, Lindsay Lohan (they were always pitted against each other cuz of aaroncarter rip), Ashlee Simpson loved her album (she had the snl controversy), Jojo, Jesse McCartney Beyoncé's 1st solo album, Eminem, Chris brown mid 2000s, Paris Hilton and her dog Tinkerbell in magazines, I remember hearing about JT and Janet Jackson Superbowl incident, Chad Michael Murray being the eyecandy (this is more elder millennial territory) - during my tween years I really liked fall out boy, paramore, chris brown, panicatd, monkey business blackeyedpeas 2005,

We only had dial-up when I was 10, so when the internet wasn't allowed to be used all the time because my parents had to use the phone for their business. (my parents didn't switch over right away to dslbroadbandwifi) I was outside with the neighbor kids a lot of times, hanging out at the park or plaza, biking, or getting slushies from the corner store.

I didn't really play computer or console games around 12-13 to 14 I started to lose interest in games and kid stuff, it was mostly on Social Media like Facebook, Myspace, MSN, LimeWire, Shopping, boys(crushes), Music and friends, movies that caught my interest and Gossip Girl, music Videos on mtv, shows like, Punkd, wildnout, Secret life of the American teenager, Jerseyshore and other shows.

How was the childhood and adolescence like for 95-96’ kids ? What did they grow up with ? What did they do for fun? What shows did they grow up with? what video games did they mostly play? What was popular culturally?

I'm finding it hard to believe that 2017 was almost 8 years ago, close to being a decade old. 2017 only feels like yesterday to me. That was when Trump was in office. Fidget Spinners were also a trend during that time and the iPhone X had just come out in that year. I remember listening to early 2010s music in 2017 and felt nostalgic for it and now when I listen to 2017 music I have the same feeling of nostalgia. Does anyone else have the same feeling about 2017?

Personally born in mid 90s, parents were 1965 gen X/boomer and dad being early 1950s so a core boomer. Interesting experience having older parents, everyone growing up around me had really young parents, some of them were still mid twenties when we were 10, anyway I made this list to get an idea of who gave birth to what generation, also marked the cusps with asterix so if it's a cusp year it could go in either direction of the generation it's sandwiched between, at least for some, others are just close enough to a cusp. Anyway I hope everyone enjoys this.

There have been MULTIPLE trolls and gatekeepers running around this subreddit and i feel like we should call them out for their bullshit, I'm not going to name names but you know who they are.

The first wavers weren't the ones in the college campuses in the 2010s demanding millions of pronouns. That was the second wave but the first wave get blamed.

I treat 1995 borns as one of my peers but there are some things that we can’t relate especially things about the 90s. Most 1995 people I know do not remember the 1990s.

I think one of the biggest successes of Millennials is convincing the rest of the world that GenZs are offended by everything. I can’t speak for GenZ women, but your average western GenZ male was raised being called every bigoted slur in online video games. Most male GenZ friend circles base their friendships and sense of humor around racism and homophobia among other forms of bigotry. Of course it is all ironic in nature, and very few GenZs actually have any genuine bigoted views towards any groups of people

But this paradigm shift towards being easily offended started in college campuses between 2012-2015. The oldest GenZs were still in highschool and in first year university. First year students don’t exactly have much influence over the sociopolitics present on university and college campuses.

So congratulations Millennials… you convinced the rest of the world to blame GenZs for YOUR sensitivity to everything

I know that people born around my year and later had a childhood dominated by smartphones and social media.

How was your childhood growing up? What did you experience and what did you use for entertainment?

Every 40 years, one US president will change the country forever, determining the next few decades of politics.

We had Washington in the 1780s, Jackson in the 1820s, Lincoln in the 1860's, McKinley/Teddy Roosevelt in the 1900's, FDR in the 1940's, Reagan in the 1980's, and now Trump in the 2020's.

Is there a name for this cycle?

Day 1: 1995-2009, Day 2: 1996-2010, Day 3: 1997-2012, Day 4: 2002-2019, Day 5: 1997-2014, Day 6: 2001-2015, Day 7: 1998-2013

Welcome back again. Last time, the 1998-2013 ranked actually resulted in a tie between B/C Tier. But by on average, it will go in C Tier due to more people being against it than for it.

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Oh wow, I'm dreading this one, the 1996-2015 range.. by Jason Dorsey.

Here are the ranges if to follow this range:

Early: 1996-2001
Mid: 2002-2009
Late: 2010-2015

1st Wave: 1996-2005, 2nd Wave: 2006-2015

Wtf is this range. He only made this range because he was born in the late 70s, and wanted to be a Millennial, so he screwed up that range as well. This is wonky and doesn't make much sense, I would rank this an E tier, but since it's not even in the rankings, it's the first F Tier I'm giving.

How would you rank this range from S-F? Feel free to comment your reasoning. Voting only lasts a day so make it count!

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