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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ones that is blamed for the ills of society by both the baby boomers and younger gen zs

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yep. I was born 1998. To Millennials, I'm a tiny baby Gen Z, to Gen Zs, I may as well be a boomer. It's odd.

Growing up poor confuses things even more, because I have more in common with people born late 80s/early 90s than with people born only a few years after me. My first game console was a SNES and we had a VCR until we got a PS2, and kept using it well after.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Growing up poor confuses things even more

Yeah this is why generations aren't actually a good metric. I might as well be from another planet lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah, are we the same person? My family was poor too. I'm a bit younger (born 2000) but I grew up using a VCR, and my first console was a GBA where I played a lot of SNES ports. The internet has existed my entire life, but I still remember before smartphones were a thing. It's a really weird place to be socially. I don't connect with Gen Z culture in almost any way, but I'm also distinctly not a millennial.

Interestingly my older sister (1998) who has zero interest in anything tech is actually pretty tech savvy for how little she cares about it. I think she crossed that threshold of learning how to learn, where even when she comes across something she doesn't understand she knows how to approach the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

95 here. Started with the original GameBoy and an old Macintosh in the basement. My first computer was a POS gateway with the cow logo and 128MB of RAM. Finished up high school with the Xbox 360 and an iPhone. I'm a retrogrouch to Gen Z and some kind of hacker to most Millenials. My GF (same age) and I jokingly call ourselves "MillenialZ" (with an obnoxious accentuated zzzzzz at the end) because we don't quite fit in with either generation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love it. I think that should be the official title for our mini generation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same boat here, though a couple years later. It feels really weird to be so out of the loop with my "fellow" Gen Z siblings who were born in the late 00s.