Generations are said to have about the same Zeitgeist and experiences growing up, but honestly, the Zeitgeist culture from 1998 to 2008 is way different than from 2008 onwards. Early and late gen z also behaves completely different overall. Its not a matter of age and maturety.
Anyone else feel like that? Especially other old Gen Z?
Edit: forgot you can rarely have a casual talk without someone bringing up politics and nihilism points on here
Given as these “Generation” tend to be made up anyway for marketing, tell me more about the split you are thinking of and why?
Please stop obsessing over this generational nonsense. It is made up to distract you from the fact that we are all in this together against the billionaires. The rest is bread and circus.
I keep wondering when people will tire of this culture war bullshit.
I swear to god it is orchestrated at this point.
Yes, just like political and racial divide, it’s all a distraction from class warfare happening.
Nah, they are pretty similar. Which is kind of expected since it’s a totally arbitrary distinction in the first place.
Yes the arbitrary nature of generations mean the early and later people are a mix of the one they are born in and the connecting generation.
It’s almost like they are made up like the whole 90s kid phase that went around in the early to mid 2010s.
Isn’t 08+ gen alpha?
No 2012
Thb, that’s going to fluctuate for awhile until they’re all adults. Some people were tryibg to argue Millenials went all the way up to 2000 until a bit less than 10 years ago, where the cutoff settled on 1996.
Much of what goes into defining a generation is based on formative events. For millenials, it’s being a kid before widespread internet and growing up alongside it, plus remembering 9/11. I bet 2015 is going to become a cutoff year, as anyone older than that would be in school during Covid and be affected differently.
American talking point. 🤮
Yes, recently I complained about a local goon and accidentally accused them of being a Gen Alpha, but they were late Gen Z. To prevent incorrect generational discrimination I propose an extension of the generations in the format
{generation label}-{birth datetime in ISO 8601}-{country code}:{postalcode}-{firstname}:{lastname}-{random-id}. Now I can correctly complain how the “GenZ-2007-05-01T09:00:00Z-de:33604-Lazlo-Ailton- 16b849e3-3368-4df0-b4c1-56e9cf46c5fb” are lazy slowpokes who will be the doom of the world.I haven’t noticed any particular difference, but I think that cultural rate-of-change is dependent on the rate at which information can transmit through a population. The internet makes certain types of information disperse super fast compared to older routes, which makes certain parts of culture mutate faster. The older routes still exist, so some parts of culture still evolve at the same old pace. I think the internet means I see a lot more of (some of) youth culture than my parents did at my age, and that culture seeps into me. Not completely, I don’t claim to understand youth culture and the non-internet parts are all but invisible to me, but it it has to have some effect.
I mean, generations since like gen x are separated pretty arbitrarily, so that’s not surprising.
I feel like Millenials are pretty well-defined: We came of age in the aftermath of 9/11. Anyone who can’t remember that time is too young to be a Millennial.
