"Zillennials", who do you identify with more?

[Brenda Holiday]

"Zillennials grew up during the late 1990s and early 2000s technological boom, when the transition from analog to digital was happening. They came of age during the social media and smartphone revolution that defined Gen Z. They experienced life before smartphones were ubiquitous but were able to adapt to the digital age."

With that definition, I want to know if zillennials of the farms identify more with millennials or zoomers. I've been thinking recently about how personally I feel more accepted with gen z. I was a tween during the now defined "cheugy" era and did not fit in at all. My fashion style which was seen as strange when I was younger is now what's popular. With millennials, I barely relate to anything other than remembering things like vhs tapes and having dial up internet.

Generation discussion and arguments can be annoying but its an excellent way to define cultural shifts and changes.

 

[Lexi-karabiner]

To be absolutely frank, zoomers need and deserve the insight, wisdom, audacity, and just ingenuity, wit and cleverness of millennials, and millennials need the spine, heart, and confidence that many zoomers have.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Wtf.
Am i not a milenial not a zoomer?
Well, i have gen x tastes at least.

 

[Willie B. Hardigan]

To be absolutely frank, zoomers need and deserve the insight, wisdom, audacity, and just ingenuity, wit and cleverness of millennials, and millennials need the spine, heart, and confidence that many zoomers have.

A lot of the best "young" people I have met online and IRL have all been Zillennials. It also helps if they come from a poorer background because that grounds them to reality more.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

zoomers need and deserve the insight, wisdom, audacity, and just ingenuity, wit and cleverness of millennials

As a millennial you people are complete fucking faggots, and I hope nobody tries to emulate anything you do. Otherwise we're doomed to a culture of people trying to "recreate the magic" of AOL chatrooms, Josta cola and Catdog.

 

[gagabobo1997]

No such thing as a zillennial, that's a retarded term. You're either a millennial (pre-95) or a zoomer (post-95)

 

[KittyGremlin]

Born in 1997, I think I relate to zoomers more.

 

[Willie B. Hardigan]

No such thing as a zillennial, that's a retarded term. You're either a millennial (pre-95) or a zoomer (post-95)

A Millennial born in 1980 is vastly different from one born in 1990. That's a decade of difference which is important seeing how fast culture and technology shift modern society. This isn't like Ancient Egypt where things stay stagnant for centuries.

A Zoomer born in 1997 is gonna be vastly different from one born in 2007. I think there deserves to be some sub-categories otherwise Generation X is just more Baby Boomers which also isn't really true.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

A Millennial born in 1980 is vastly different from one born in 1990. That's a decade of difference which is important seeing how fast culture and technology shift modern society. This isn't like Ancient Egypt where things stay stagnant for centuries.

The period 1980-2000 is pretty unique in the sheer speed of technological and social changes brought by the Internet and the spread of personal computers.

What followed hasn't been anywhere near as rapid or as dramatic but more like building on what was already present.

 

[TEA 3HF]

This generation shit is so incredibly gay. Because of the year you were born you *must* identify either with the pinko nihilists of the 9/11 to '08 recession years or some mumbling, broccoli-headed retards? How about neither?

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Born in 1999 here. I'm a Zoomer by definition, but I don't really identify with either Zoomers or Millennials. I was born to two Baby Boomers, and I feel like I've got more in common with Gen X-ers than anyone else for a number of reasons, though more of the Millennial stuff leaks in as well thanks to the cultural stuff I grew up around. I don't use TikTok or play video games, so I don't really relate to Zoomers. At all.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I think a lot of the generational lore that people have come up with online seems a little bizarre and hair brained. The only consistent difference seems to be that gen z shows all the traditional signs of being slightly younger and less run through it.

People nowadays make a huge deal out of the issue, but I'd even suggest that the difference between someone who's 30 and 20 is probably less than it ever was in the past, since everyone's drawing from a similar cultural well with the internet. That probably offsets the effects of rapid changes in tech itself.

That's mainly what think. Just that the difference in overall outlook when compared to younger generations seems less drastic than when compared to the older generations, boomers in particular (old-old people can be cool, but that's probably just because they long since learned to stop caring).

 

[local arkansas man]

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.

 

[PovertySprocket]

If you're born within the last 50 years, your childhood can be resumed to. Going to school, hanging out with friends, talking dumb shit and attempting to rebel in a retrospectively based or cringe way. The only things that change are the props.

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

A Zoomer born in 1997 is gonna be vastly different from one born in 2007.

It also relies on class, in my opinion. The y2k/frutiger aero aesthetic is heavily nostalgic for same age peers who grew up with the latest technology but I was reliant on a barely functional desktop running windows 98 while they were toting around their DS Lites. I didn't eat yogos, I've never played club penguin, I still don't know what those little plastic dogs do. Something with your iPod probably. How you relate to others in your generation depends on how 'accessible' the culture was to you.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Obsessing over generations is dumb and gay. It all realizes on how into the current zeitgeist one is, like being poorer ment you still used vhs and older tech. If you weren't watching cable or the news you didn't know what was hip and current just what was popular in your semi isolated area.

 

[sadbird]

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.

"Finding yourself" is the problem of youth, when you age you don't have time to care about that shit anymore. Either you get with the program and figure it out or you aquire lifetime arrested development like people who get made fun of on this site.

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

Seems like a strange place to draw the line. If we're drawing the line at like 1997, that means there's supposed to be a big difference between me and the kids that became freshmen in highschool the year after I graduated. I think when you've bisected a group of people by that small amount you don't really learn anything different. There's no way a kid born in 92, or 97 or 98 is that much different from one another. Not a whole lot of defining things happened within those six years.

The biggest thing is obviously 9/11 and that I was a little kid when that happened and they were infants, but 24 years later I barely remember the world pre-9/11 in much more detail than I'm sure they do.

 

[Ogre Magi]

Boomer Zoomer here: A lot of the friends I've made online are technically Millennials, but weirdly enough I think I relate more to Gen Z. However, my youth was closer to what my Millennial friends experienced than what younger Zoomers experienced. What an odd pocket of time to grow up in.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Obsessing over generations is dumb and gay. It all realizes on how into the current zeitgeist one is, like being poorer ment you still used vhs and older tech. If you weren't watching cable or the news you didn't know what was hip and current just what was popular in your semi isolated area.

Yeah. I went from vhs to streaming. Dvds were for rich kids. Although with the internet there isnt really isolated areas or local culture. Things are becoming homogenized.