Current Events > What Gen Z'ers Really Think of Millennials

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GentlemanGamer posted...

I'm 31 and your family must have just been very early adopters, the internet wasn't at all widespread when we were very young. Even for folks who had it, it took up your phone line so they didn't use it nearly as much as we do. People still called each other back then.

yea. I am 39. my family didn't get online til like 1995 or 1996 when I was like 14 or 15. he must have been one of those people around 1990 who got online. technically there were even people online in the 80s but it was super rare. like even in a huge city there would be maybe a handful of people people online

ox0shadow0xo posted...

These are hilarious. Especially the out of touch 23 year old at the end, that doesn't seem to realize that the youngest millennials right now are 24.

That's because a lot of people tend to forget about Gen X. They go from millennial straight to boomers.

The youngest Millenials are 19 turning 20 this year. Millenial years are 1982-2000. The Pew Research Center decided to fuck things up by attention whoring and made their own claim to seem special of 1981-1996 even though pretty much everyone else had been using the other years for decades.

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One thing I do wonder if it will be unique to Millennials is our heavy attachment to stuff we grew up with. The previous generations didn't seem to care that much compared to us. I wonder if the next one will.

I think social media is more of a bigger reason for this though so I don't think it will change. A 16 year old not caring about stuff they perceived for kids was common for our generation too until we sort of flipped it as liking whatever you want is still mature. So I don't think it will change. If anything they probably will just like the same stuff we do because there's not much new stuff to take their place. Especially with movies.

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Gamerguymass posted...

The youngest Millenials are 19 turning 20 this year

no, those are zoomers. The general consensus for the end of millennials and start of zoomers is the mid to late 90's.

If you were born in the year 2000, you're way past the threshold and are officially classified as Gen Z

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Gamerguymass posted...

The Pew Research Center decided to fuck things up by attention whoring and made their own claim to seem special of 1981-1996 even though pretty much everyone else had been using the other years for decades

What source are you using for 1982-2000?

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Millennials care about others. I appreciate that.
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lilORANG posted...

Millennials care about others. I appreciate that.

lmao no the fuck we don't

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Gamerguymass posted...

The youngest Millenials are 19 turning 20 this year. Millenial years are 1982-2000. The Pew Research Center decided to fuck things up by attention whoring and made their own claim to seem special of 1981-1996 even though pretty much everyone else had been using the other years for decades.

I used the Pew Research Center's age ranges because the article included her as a Gen Z'er.

But yeah, if we use the 82 to 2000 range, then she herself would be a millennial.

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lol these privileged ass people getting internet in the 90s

dont think i got internet til like 2002ish

Ludacris01 posted...

lmao no the fuck we don't

I mean I'm generalizing. Maybe you're a shithead but the general "culture" associated with millennials is one of empathy for the struggle the entire generation is going through.
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GenZ or Millenial?

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Generations dont exist.

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ox0shadow0xo posted...

I used the Pew Research Center's age ranges because the article included her as a Gen Z'er.

But yeah, if we use the 82 to 2000 range, then she herself would be a millennial.

The Silent Generation is '28-'45

Boomers are '46-'64

Gen X is '65-'80 or '81

Gen Z ends in sometime around the early 2010's, and is the start of Gen Alpha

why would Gen Y all of a sudden have a full 19 or 20 years and Gen Z all of a sudden only have like 10 or 11 years?

That guy trying to claim '81-2000's for Millennials is just making up shit.

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Zoomers should stick to what they do best: eating Tide pods and licking toilet seats.

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toyota posted...

lol these privileged ass people getting internet in the 90s

dont think i got internet til like 2002ish

honestly I think we only ever had computers at all, cause of my older brother begging for them or saving up for them or something. he was the PC whiz in my house for a while. it's only cause of him that I got exposed to pc gaming I think.

Parappa09 posted...

They dont have big ideas because theyre already past their expiry date. For me, Ive got big ideas in big proportions, but for them, small simple things mean everything. Hadi, 16, South East London

That's because life hasn't decked you in the teeth yet.

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I would say millenial is more like 1982-1996 and 1997 onwards is zoomer. I definitely feel there is a cultural difference between people born 97 on wards

GentlemanGamer posted...

I'm 31 and your family must have just been very early adopters, the internet wasn't at all widespread when we were very young. Even for folks who had it, it took up your phone line so they didn't use it nearly as much as we do. People still called each other back then.

My dad was a massive computer geek. We had two phone lines for it. We were also fairly poor

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I think a big discrepancy is that most Millenials have some idea of what things were like before 9-11 and the several economic disasters weve gone through.

COVID/Trump is the first real one for Gen Z to experience as adults, and some of the older ones might remember some stuff from before 07/08, but not as adults.

Being stuck in the middle, as it were, has colored a lot of the general tropes Millenials fall under.

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toyota posted...

lol these privileged ass people getting internet in the 90s

dont think i got internet til like 2002ish

I lived on council estates (UK social housing from the government) where a regular sight out of the window was seeing a car being smashed up and set on fire. My parents got their house repossessed a few months after I was born. We were very poor. Still had the Internet from the early 90s

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remember when everyone thought that theres no way a future president could be worse than bush

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Ludacris01 posted...

no, those are zoomers. The general consensus for the end of millennials and start of zoomers is the mid to late 90's.

If you were born in the year 2000, you're way past the threshold and are officially classified as Gen Z

No, Millenials are 82-2000. It is the years literally almost all groups and people that do generational research were using for decades. It is also the years the official U.S. Census Bureau uses. It wasn't until fucking 2019 that Pew goes "oh btw Millenials are 81-96!" So they waited until the generation AFTER Millenials to say what Millenials were? Because that makes sense. The only reason Pew did that was because it wasn't an election year. No one pays attention to them when its not an election year, so they needed some way to get attention. Now for whatever stupid reason a lot of the media keeps using their dates even though the other dates had been used for literally decades. Everyone else already established 82-2000 long before Pew ever said anything.

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p-m posted...

We were very poor. Still had the Internet from the early 90s

obviously not that poor

Gamerguymass posted...

No, Millenials are 82-2000. It is the years literally almost all groups and people that do generational research were using for decades. It is also the years the official U.S. Census Bureau uses. It wasn't until fucking 2019 that Pew goes "oh btw Millenials are 81-96!" So they waited until the generation AFTER Millenials to say what Millenials were? Because that makes sense. The only reason Pew did that was because it wasn't an election year. No one pays attention to them when its not an election year, so they needed some way to get attention. Now for whatever stupid reason a lot of the media keeps using their dates even though the other dates had been used for literally decades. Everyone else already established 82-2000 long before Pew ever said anything.

This is all wrong and incorrect information.

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The United States Census Bureau used the birth years 1982 to 2000 in a 2015 news release to describe millennials, but they have stated that "there is no official start and end date for when millennials were born" and they do not define millennials.

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Ludacris01 posted...

This is all wrong and incorrect information.

Its also highly amusing given how defensive he is about it.

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Ludacris01 posted...

This is all wrong and incorrect information.

Everything I said is correct. You apparently work for Pew so you can't accept that for whatever reason.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html

Article from the U.S. Census Bureau using the years I stated. Thus proving your claim of "This is all wrong and incorrect information" itself wrong and incorrect.

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Gamerguymass posted...

Everything I said is correct. You apparently work for Pew so you can't accept that for whatever reason.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html

Article from the U.S. Census Bureau using the years I stated. Thus proving your claim of "This is all wrong and incorrect information" itself wrong and incorrect.

Isn't that the 2015 news release he was referring to?

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@Gamerguymass youre gen Z, just accept it

Darmik posted...

Isn't that the 2015 news release he was referring to?

It wasn't posted before I started writing. Either way it still proves me right. I said the CB uses 82-2000, which they do. I never claimed there is official legal years for each generation. And in that regard, the choice is an official government entity or a company that takes surveys, which do you think is the better choice?

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Gamerguymass posted...

Everything I said is correct. You apparently work for Pew so you can't accept that for whatever reason.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html

Article from the U.S. Census Bureau using the years I stated. Thus proving your claim of "This is all wrong and incorrect information" itself wrong and incorrect.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/demo/p20-579.pdf



Your information is out of date.

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Lucas shed blood for you, Gen Z!

Yeet him a bae!

Where the women at, where the party at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-QqXHB92aU

Gamerguymass posted...

It wasn't posted before I started writing. Either way it still proves me right. I said the CB uses 82-2000, which they do. I never claimed there is official legal years for each generation. And in that regard, the choice is an official government entity or a company that takes surveys, which do you think is the better choice?

https://tinyurl.com/y2fk39uy (URL's longer than 150 chars aren't permitted by GameFAQs, hence the tinyurl)

"The Census Bureau does not provide guidance on which years are included in the millennial generation, and many definitions are used by the public"

-The Census Bureau

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Gen Z is about as self-aware as Millennials were when we were their age.

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Polycosm posted...

Gen Z is about as self-aware as Millennials were when we were their age.

true
bet were gonna be laughed at for making tiktoks by next gen. theyre already born omg

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NeoBowser posted...

true
bet were gonna be laughed at for making tiktoks by next gen. theyre already born omg

Thats probably true. GenZ is gonna get ostracized for blowing off their own privacy.

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NeoBowser posted...

true
bet were gonna be laughed at for making tiktoks by next gen. theyre already born omg

My dude, everyone gets old. You can bet your ass newborns now will be laughing at us in years to come. That's the circle of life right there my friend.

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If one got up in my face I probably would throw hands

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some funny stuff in there, but my eyes almost rolled out of their sockets at the claim that the younger generation doesn't care about their image.

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K181 posted...

some funny stuff in there, but my eyes almost rolled out of their sockets at the claim that the younger generation doesn't care about their image.

It's the exact opposite and it's complete filth

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Ha tidepod generation can't really insult any other generations. We are seeing/saw all the stupid shit they did growing up.

BeyondWalls posted...

Gen X for the win?
Nobody ever says anything bad about Gen X.

Right? We're a pretty badass gen

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I love the "millenials are obsessed with Harry Potter" stereotype. I've seen it in a couple places and it's hilarious.

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Yeah I love the books, but HP fans fans be a bit cringe and its hilarious that Zoomers are calling them out on it

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Blightzkrieg posted...

I love the "millenials are obsessed with Harry Potter" stereotype. I've seen it in a couple places and it's hilarious.

lol that shit is true. they also have an obsession with being a hufflepuff.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I love the "millenials are obsessed with Harry Potter" stereotype. I've seen it in a couple places and it's hilarious.

Yeah, I called bullshit on a few of their points but that one is a definite touch.

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Ludacris01 posted...

https://tinyurl.com/y2fk39uy (URL's longer than 150 chars aren't permitted by GameFAQs, hence the tinyurl)

"The Census Bureau does not provide guidance on which years are included in the millennial generation, and many definitions are used by the public"

-The Census Bureau

Lol he disappeared

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remember how everytime a new Harry Potter movie came out, groups of people would go to the theater dressed up as wizards and carry wands and birdcages and shit

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Parappa09 posted...

Were a lot more political than millennials were at our age. I think its because things are affecting us more.

Yeah, I am sure that will be the first youth generation to vote in significant numbers, because no prior generation ever thought that same thing only to not vote.
/s

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