im not even 30 yet but damn, accidentally stumbling on some comments and posts over the past few years have been wild. apparently if you are over 35 forget about snapbacks, sneakers and shirts with prints

I've seen this sentiment before but I wanted to hear how common it is. Because when I look back it now the years 2005-2012 with Myspace and Facebook were truly the golden years for millennials on the internet. It was literally our world because there barely were any older people and there basically couldn't have been any younger there than us. Then somewhere around 2012-2013 our parents started to flood Facebook and things changed for good.

And boomers started to inject their worldviews, culture and technological ineptitude to our social media. And I'm kinda resent boomers for this. Like it's still going on even in 2026. There they are posting about politics with their mouth foaming. I barely know millennials who use it actively.

So was this a generational experience for us?

This is completely anecdotal of course, but every single nephew, cousin, in-law, coworker, friend, acquaintance etc that I know who is male and under 25 is single. Every single one of them. The only males I know in this age group who aren’t single are the ones I know specifically only because they are dating one of my nieces, cousins, in-laws, etc.

I find this very strange because when I was the one in that age group, quite a lot of my acquaintances were married, engaged, or had a gf. Of course I knew single guys too but most of them were single by choice, like they didn’t want to be locked down or wanted to focus on their careers. Is there just more of that with Gen Z? Or what is going on?

The 20somethngs enjoys calling 30s and 40s old.. but now they are feeling the heat from the people younger than them.

Earlier this year, in written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said Gen Z is less cognitively capable than previous generations, despite its unprecedented access to technology. He said Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.

While skills measured by these tests, like literacy and numeracy, aren’t always indicative of intelligence, they are a reflection of cognitive capability, which Horvath said has been on the decline over the last decade or so.

I (millennial) can understand typos, and general grammar and punctuation mistakes, but I keep seeing the lowercase "i" pronoun lowercased, and I'm sure it's endemic.

My generation had our faults for sure; I'm pretty confident we invented shorthand, but we had to deal with T9 keyboards, limited screen space, and expensive SMS rates. Many of us also grew out of it.

I don't know who is doing the lowercase thing, but Zoomers, you're all old enough that you shouldn't be doing it at all, and Alphas, this your early alert to set yourself straight before it becomes a chronic issue.

“A BofA survey found Gen Z is the most successful sports betting generation by recovering 80 cents for every dollar wagered”

If you thought Gen Z was annoying with how they overglaze the 90s and act like they know about the decade more than the people who were there, you should see their parents and how they glaze the 50s.

Go on Facebook or Twitter and you'll see a right wing or conservative account by a Gen Xer posting memes (especially an AI slop image) about how back in the 50s, a man could support a family and put food on the table with just "one income" and how you could just pay off your student loans with a summer job and how there was "no trans kids" and how women looked nicer than women now before the Boomers "ruined everything". They hate on the 60s and Boomer hippies and Boomer protesters more than the police and politicians that arrested them did.

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En el 2020, los nacidos en el 2010 tenían 10 años y sabían perfectamente que estaba pasando cuando estaban en la primaria, ellos empezaron a Zoom y Teams en casa con 10 años y tenían más consciencia, los que eran mayores de 10 años son de la Generación Z y los que la cumplieron son Gen Z y los nacidos en el 2011 eran menores de 10 años tenían 9 años cuando empezó la pandemia, no sabían que estaba pasando, su mundo era muy infantil, estaban jugando en su casa y extrañaban a sus amigos de la escuela porque querían jugar en el recreo, ellos sintieron que los meses de encierro se sintieron como una década, los que eran menores de 10 años son Gen Alpha.

Gen Z here. I don't mean to intrude, so feel free to tell me if this isn't the place. I'm trying to understand the millennial experience better, because from the outside it looks like the generation got sorted very differently depending on when and where you started. A lot of Gen Z talks about a K-shaped economy, where some people keep climbing and others stay stuck. It seems like millennials lived a version of that first.

I, and many of my Gen Z peers, have the impression that some people graduated into the 2008 crash and never really got their careers off the ground, or lost years of earnings and compounding they never made back. Others graduated a few years earlier or later, or got into tech or finance during a boom, and did very well. Among Gen Z there is some resentment for these, as getting into white collar work back then also seems to have been a lot easier than it is now, with the rise of AI, Trumponomics etc.

So I'd love to hear from people on different sides of this, so:

If you graduated or started your career around 2008-2012, what did it actually look like for you? Do you feel like you've caught up, or is it still with you?

If you did well (tech, Silicon Valley, finance, whatever), do you feel like you dodged something? Is there a "we survived 2008, we must be the best" mindset, or is the guilt or awareness more about how lucky the timing was? How much do you think class background mattered, compared to timing? Did family money or a safety net make the difference between riding out 2008 and getting flattened by it? Is there tension inside the generation between the people who "made it" and the people who didn't? Or does it mostly go unspoken? Do you think younger people describe the millennial experience accurately, or are we flattening it too much?

I'm not trying to start a generational fight. I'd just rather hear it from people who lived it than piece it together from Instagram Reels lol. Thank you!!

Como alguien que nació en 2015, ¿no entiendo por qué la Generación Alfa empieza en 2011 y termina en 2026? O sea, no tengo nada en común con alguien que nació en 2026, ¡a pesar de que ambos somos Gen Alpha? Yo y alguien que nació en 2026 fuimos criados diferente y tenemos infancias completamente distintas. Tengo más en común con mi hermano que nació en 2012 y mi primo que nació en 2010 porque nuestras infancias fueron bastante parecidas. Personalmente, creo que la Generación Alfa empieza en 2010, pero esa es solo mi opinión, jajaja. Creo que alguien que nació en 2010 es demasiado joven para ser Gen Z porque una persona que nació en 1999 y 2000 no tiene la misma infancia que alguien nacido en 2010. Además, no creo que alguien que nació en 2025 o 2026 sea Gen Alpha porque son demasiado jóvenes para ser Gen Alpha. Esta es solo mi opinión personal. Creo que la clasificación de la Generación Alfa es un desastre, para ser honesto.

Is it normal for a 16 year old to break a piñata on her birthday?😭😭😭 im celebrating my birthday and got it but i think ppl will judge me for it 😭😭

I'm a zillennial (born in 96) and I gotta say it's pretty great. I can skirt all accusations directed toward either generation.

Whenever the behavior of millennials is under scrutiny, guess what, I'm more Gen Z-coded than older millennials so it doesn't apply to me.

Criticisms toward Gen Z? Well I'm more millennial-coded than the younger Gen Zs so that doesn't apply to me either!

I will, however, gladly accept any positive sentiments directed toward either gen 🙂‍↕️

Soooo ik this sounds rly dumb but i feel like I'm just tethering between the youngest of Gen Z and the oldest of Gen Alpha, and idk which i am....as every person and every website has a different opinion and i can't really find anything universal....so lemme spill my bday, it's in october of 2012, so which would i be? I feel like both and neither at the same time....

And what were the generations before them labeled as? Or did all this generational stuff (nonsense?) start with calling children born after WW II the “baby boom” which led to the moniker the “baby boomer generation,” and so forth?

So for the current academic year, the HS seniors are the members of the HS Class of 2027 and most of them are 2009 babies and the HS freshman are the members of the HS Class of 2030 and most of them are 2012 babies. But using the 1997-2012 range for Gen Z, this means that this is the last academic/school year where all high schoolers are Gen Z (though roughly three quarters of them are what is known as Zalphas). But next year, do you think the HS seniors (mostly 2010 borns in the HS Class of 2028) will relate more, less or the same amount to the HS freshman (mostly 2013 borns in the HS Class of 2031) in terms of life experiences and how they grew up overall, etc as the HS seniors and freshman relate in those this academic year considering next year, they will be different generations technically speaking (though pretty much all high schoolers will be Zalphas next academic year)?

Alaska is known for very high violent crime rate such as homicide

Long dark winters, alaska only has 4 hours of daylight during the winter and 2 hours of darkness during the summer

The ocean is extemely cold to swim in. It has mudflats along the coastline. So a human can get trapped in it and never get out of it alive

Is it boomers, gen x , millennials or gen z