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
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.