"Zillennials", who do you identify with more?

[National Defense Advocate]

97', Zoomer solidarity. Even if they are majority brown.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

A Millennial born in 1980

Millennials start in 1981 as the generally accepted definition.

 

[Althalus]

There's some zoomers that are strangely interested into how the internet used to be.

A few years back I probably would have fit that category, born in 2001 if it matters. Basically the fascination with "old internet" comes from having barely seen glimpses of it before the corporatizing of everything in the 2010s/20s. Not being able to truly experience it, while still being able to see an idealized version of it and recognizing that something was lost.

To answer the actual question, idk. Closest I can get is relating to zoomers like me who graduated high school pre-Covid. The post-covid 2003+ zoomers have a different mindset, idk how to explain it but they seem a bit more "sanitized". And Millennials (at least in my area) made up a big percentage of mask/lockdown freaks because most of them already finished college and had jobs so WFH was all they cared about. Which is why I don't really relate to them either, a lot of Millennials (not all but a lot) are basically redditor-lite.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The nostalgia for the 80s and early 90's culture is hyper commercial yuppie culture. It's nothing like that generation grew up with. 2020 is selling you adverts from 1990 and telling you that's how it used to be as if owning a SNES with 5 games is anything like having a steam account with a fiber connection or having to spend a couple of weeks chore money to buy a new album is like having Spotify. You can go to Neocities and load up the pages in half a second but you will never know what it was like to click on an anime gallery page and watch it load Slayers, Gundam Wing and Dragonabll 480x640 wallpapers over 20 minutes. Zoomers would lose their mind at the amount of downtime the old internet had and the gameboy advance requires physical batteries you have to get from a store in person so you can't spend all that time playing with a gadget to keep yourself occupied.

You can even find decades of fan translated foreign media within seconds. I can find stuff from Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, France, Germany, Japan, China, Russia, and North Korea all on the same device with fan made English translations of varying quality. That was somewhat possible when I was a kid in the 2000's, but stuff from some countries wasn't as easy to access as it is now. Most of the fan translated stuff was from Japan.

 

[The Hardest R]

The millennial start is pretty logical, it’s kids who were 18 when the year 2000 hit.

The whole Xillennial thing is retarded. Its roots were from millennials who hated that their oldest cohort were getting to be in their 30s and the youth-obsessed culture thought you became a boomer after 30. Now the oldest cohort of millennials are 44 years old.

I think there definitely is a clear difference between millennials and zoomers and it is basically attitudes towards life. Millennials were the Hope and Change Generation so everything is all based on faux positivity. Zoomers seem to know how fucked shit is so that proliferates everything you see and hear from them.

My kids are in generation alpha. I pray for them.

 

[3deadniggers]

I think there definitely is a clear difference between millennials and zoomers and it is basically attitudes towards life. Millennials were the Hope and Change Generation so everything is all based on faux positivity. Zoomers seem to know how fucked shit is so that proliferates everything you see and hear from them.

Hope and change generation? Millennials (early) are cynical as Gen X but they're more offensive. Early millennials were in their late teens when all the Iraq and Afgan war stuff was going on. They were into bands like Green day and Slipknot. They were in online games saying nigger and faggot to each other. Early Millennials are tech savvy cynical nerds who laugh at suffering because the early internet encouraged it. They saw the best of technology and watched it rot into AI sludge while the baby boomers and Gen X's blew up random brown people for a decade.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Hope and change generation? Millennials (early) are cynical as Gen X but they're more offensive. Early millennials were in their late teens when all the Iraq and Afgan war stuff was going on. They were into bands like Green day and Slipknot. They were in online games saying nigger and faggot to each other. Early Millennials are tech savvy cynical nerds who laugh at suffering because the early internet encouraged it. They saw the best of technology and watched it rot into AI sludge while the baby boomers and Gen X's blew up random brown people for a decade.

You forgot about the black Messiah

 

[3deadniggers]

You forgot about the black Messiah
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Obamas a Gen X thing. Early millenials were just hitting voting age and the majority weren't. It's also American which doesn't define other places.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Kiwi Farmers.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Obamas a Gen X thing. Early millenials were just hitting voting age and the majority weren't. It's also American which doesn't define other places.

Most millenials were of voting age or politically active when Obama got into office, that gen starts in 1981, meanwhile the youngest Gen Xers were almost 30 when he assumed office

 

[3deadniggers]

Most millenials were of voting age or politically active when Obama got into office, that gen starts in 1981, meanwhile the youngest Gen Xers were almost 30 when he assumed office

How many teenagers do you know that care about voting? Almost 30 is when politics started to matter back then. Everything wasn't politically charged the way it is now.

 

[The King-In-Chains]

Generations are split into groups of 3 each by three years; I prefer to call them waves.

Think like the asian wealth proverb. First gen always bears the brunt of new ideas/problems; actively engages in sunk cost fallacy when the generational term end arrives. Second gen pushes the narrative or kicks the can down the road. Third gen figures it all out; realizes the first two waves shit really stank and goes the wayward direction in order to move away if not correct the mistakes made.

Generation argument adjacent stuff is really gay. Suffers from the same problems as oldfag v. newfag where you have instances of lurkers who could qualify as oldfags, oldfags power-tripping when being given a decent/legitimate criticism via newfag, etc.

That being said, zoomers on average are less adept at adaptation on average based on my judgements interacting with the first and third waves. There has been outliers, probably like posters on the farms ヽ(￣▽￣)ノ, but they suffer from broken-shell syndrome on average if they don't get results that they manifest in their dreams. The confidence angle is pure pump faking at its best. The tech-literacy thing is largely true, (seriously, are we really using file directory management as a benchmark? That is telling) if they see me break out bash/zsh they think it's fucking hacking. I've seen them try to complete work with a Chromebook when it's been stated in contract, multiple times, that you will not be able to progress due to some applications not being compatible and still ask why it won't work. Is there an app?

That being said first wave millennials are retarded and deserve their fate along with the consequences their offspring will inherit; if they aren't trooned/retarded already. I've said this before but GenX really dropped the ball. The actual "apathetic" generation. They were actually primed to take everything and still to this day we complain about the boomers influence when from a historical/economic standpoint it was just dumb luck being at the right time and place for them.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Millennial, probably, even though I veer JUST into Generation-Z territory, with me being born on the 30th of September, 1996.

 

[The Hardest R]

Most millenials were of voting age or politically active when Obama got into office, that gen starts in 1981, meanwhile the youngest Gen Xers were almost 30 when he assumed office

Exactly. I don’t think it could be emphasized enough how much 2008 was _the_ election for millennials. They even geared TV shows and movies all around the Hope and Change Generation Unsurprisingly millennials failed to live up to the hype and they were cast aside for the browner and gayer zoomers.

 

[08903248752]

I'm early 90s, but I made a career switch so my career peers are late 90s-early00s, and they all have assumed I'm the same age as them (and I don't correct them because I don't care).

Here's my observations: zillenials/zoomers are far nicer than millennials in general. They don't engage in the bullying/shit-talking/banter that I grew up used to. It's friendly in a certain way, but I've found that when I let that stuff slip because it's what I'm used to, it's seen as egregious.

In the worst cases, it'll lead to someone being super high strung and pissy, when it was just a bit of light banter.

I'm not trying to push the "Zoomers are pussies" shit, but they do seem to have generally more of a Japanese "maintain social harmony" attitude in groups in general.

Otherwise, I've heard some pretty retarded shit sometimes just from being steeped in the left leaning monoculutre of the past 2 decades (I got told by one that Clinton was probably the best president in the past 50 years in his opinion).

There's also this habit that trends worse the further you get away from the millennial range where you can be having a conversation and bring up something, and they'll instantly try to look it up on google to fact-check it. Which is rude as shit, to my sensibilities at least.

 

[9th year in hell]

I find it weird how websites like kiwifarms and 4chan seem to care so much about generational identity, especially since their shared hatred of wokeness which was born of identity politics.

People go to these forums and imageboards to get the "taboo/edgy" insights, "redpills" and other memes to reprogram their own conditioning. If you have a massive influx of these people, the result will be ending up with people bringing their own psyops with them. Hence why you see the reminiscence of "identity politics" and other similar concepts that is of a lefty/pozzed narrtive around these parts of the internet. Sometimes it's just normies who don't know how psyoped/brainwashed they are ending up diluting the quality (election tourists + new faggots who are very "normie"), other times it's malicious users poisoning the well on purpose (a.k.a shitting up the threads + slide/spam threads).

if they see me break out bash/zsh they think it's fucking hacking.

Kek! I can't use a computer without a GUI. To get command lines to work for me is an hour of trial and errors at minumum.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Otherwise, I've heard some pretty retarded shit sometimes just from being steeped in the left leaning monoculutre of the past 2 decades (I got told by one that Clinton was probably the best president in the past 50 years in his opinion).

In terms of how his presidency went, you can't really argue with that. The economy was good, people were optimistic about the future, things like the L.A. riots have been basically removed from the public memory, Russia and China all seemed to be set to become liberal democracies and we would all live happily ever after. Of course none of that lasted/was thanks to him specifically but propaganda and nostalgia go a long way

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

98' culturally i probably would identify myself as a millennial but in terms of hobbies im somewhat close to being a zoomer, ive noticed a lot of Early Gen Zers tend to be more calm and slightly less terminally online then later Gen Zers, I guess a part of that is having a childhood that was at least partially before Wifi/Smartphones

 

[Lexi-karabiner]

I'm not sure how millinnials could borrow much "spine", "heart", and "confidence" from zoomers when zoomers appear to be even more lacking in those things on average than millennials are.

Zillennials like myself are generally the cream of the crop when it comes to zoomers, though I try my utmost to not be persecutory, bigoted, nor hateful in the discriminatory sense of judgement (lest they become so fake and gay they degenerate into blasphemous and pedophilic e.g 764/UTTP/Skibidi Farms/Orion Grant Passmore, in which case they deserve Purification at the hands of His Judgement).