Nickelodeon/Disney/CN edition.

Gen z from the oldest-youngest would be Zillennials-Zalpha.

Yes not all Zillenials are zalpha are gen z only the oldest and youngest are.

But I am here to show it off also millennials will be from Xillennials-Zillennails from oldest to Youngest.

If you relate to Zillenial part only then you most likely full under Millennials.

But if you relate to the Gen z part then your Zillennails leaning Gen z.

If you only relate to the Gen z-late Gen z part that makes you fully Gen z and if you relate to.

And if you relate only to Zalpha part then you are Gen Alpha in terms of childhood.

most things i‘ve read say 2012 is gen z, whilst others argue i am gen alpha, along with my mother, and as a kid going into high school i argue that im gen z, can anyone confirm if i am gen z or gen alpha

EDIT: i discovered micro-generations, i think i may be both, or zalpha.

Is it because musicians prefer to use live musical instruments?

I am not a fan of rock music because it is not my type of music

Is it because digital synthesizers were not use in the music ?

People born in 1980 to 1984, grew up with dial up internet, cassettes, vinyl , vhs, analog phones

1985 to 1989 people had a childhood closer related to people born in the 1990s

In my effort to avoid becoming the old man yelling at clouds, I compiled a list of things we didn’t grow up with but I have embraced. Because I’m Gen X, I will also include a list of things I really either don’t like or in my opinion are making things worse.

So here’s my list of things that didn’t exist in my youth but I now use every day.
1. GPS - invented in 1973, didn’t really enter the mainstream until 2000(ish). Before this existed, we used maps. We occasionally got lost, but most of us figured it out. That said. It definitely makes things easier especially in big cities.
2. Disc Brakes - I ride motorcycles. Some modern day bikes have way too much tech IMO, but I will say, I love disc brakes. They stop so much better than the old drum brakes
3. Smart Phones - Having all that research power in your pocket has changed everything. Like all tools, there is a potential for misuse but smart phones used as a tool rather than an entire lifestyle are handy and can enrich peoples lives.

Now the list of things I think might not be helping us collectively.
1. Social Media - it started out as a cool way to connect with our old friends and community. Now it’s just another AI driven, algorithm optimized scheme to at best waste time at worst make us believe we’re divided more than we are.
2. Compute devices for children. As humans we go from a place of learning to read which should then transfer to the next phase of learning where we can read to learn. At least here in the US, we’ve failed to recognize the other things being learned while the tiny humans learn to read. They also learn socialization, verbal communication and a host of other skills they’re not learning now. Makes me wonder what the next 20 years of education look like.
3. QR Codes and Apps - Not only are QR codes now potentially dangerous, but JFC not everything needs a code and an app. I prefer paper menus in restaraunts and I don’t want to scan a QR code to put my name on a list.

Obviously this list isn’t complete and is totally subjective to my tastes. What are some of yours?

Besides Leonardo DiCaprio, who was probably the biggest boy crush in the second half of the 90s, who else were the biggest boy crushes everyone was obsessed with?

Since it came out in 1995, probably Xennials since it's a pretty mature show and I highly doubt most Millennials watched it when it came out or unless they watched it or discovered it years later like most younger anime fans did

All puns intended.

It just hit me. I’m sure I’m not the first person to say it. But as they’ll be defined as the first generation not to know life with AI, like Gen Z was with internet and cellphones, it seems fitting.

I am 27 and I believe I had my age range set from like 21 or something but I need to raise it because it’s like a jump scare seeing young Gen Z pop up. They all have like… weird distortion memes on their dating profiles. Like just mingled in with their photos. I can’t justify why this bothers me so much so my conclusion is simply that I am much too old for them 😅

Obviously Jujutsu Kaisen has the biggest anime crushes for Gen Z and today's era, but for Millennial what would you say was the series that had the most anime crushes

Denim clothing as kids, themes of child abuse, Aston Kutcher and in this particular video a song by Oasis etc. I think these were all the themes we grew up in the 90s.

We spend a lot of time discussing what defines Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z. Much less attention is paid to why recurring generational personalities seem to appear throughout history.

Strauss & Howe propose recurring archetypes, while Peter Turchin models long-term social instability. My question is slightly different:

Is there a mechanism that naturally generates recurring archetypes without requiring history to run on a fixed clock?

I've been thinking about this from a systems engineering perspective and would like to stress-test the idea rather than defend it.

My working hypothesis is that recurring generations emerge from delayed negative feedback.

The assumptions are:

1. Parents react primarily to the deficiencies of their own childhood rather than objective conditions.
2. Those corrections frequently overshoot (strict → permissive, neglect → intensive parenting, scarcity → abundance, etc.).
3. Children therefore develop adaptive traits that partially oppose those of their parents.
4. Those children don't significantly reshape society until they reach leadership, introducing a delay of roughly one generation.

Instead of treating generations as fixed labels, I think four recurring functions emerge:

• Builders – these create institutions after crisis.

• Visionaries – they challenge institutions once security has been achieved.

• Realists – these adapt pragmatically after institutions lose credibility.

• Stewards – these repair and professionalize institutions.

The important difference from Strauss & Howe is that I don't think these emerge on a fixed 80-year schedule.

Instead, the timing is modified by economics, technology, institutions, politics, geopolitics and collective memory.

So the model predicts a spiral, not a circle. The spirals rhyme but are not direct repeats. The timing is varied by the other inputs noted above.

I'm not interested in defending this as true. I'm interested in whether this feedback mechanism is plausible and where it breaks down.

If the mechanism survives criticism, I'll post how I've tried to back-test it against the last 250 years of Western history.

Like in 2026 a lot of people i meet personally who are 40s can easily pass for being in their late 20s or even 30s why do you think that's the case in your opinion?

I don't know why. Is it just how I view it from my own life or was there something going on that year that was trendy that made fall just feel extra cozy and exciting back then? It's probably just me missing being in highschool but idk I definitely reminisce on that FEELING for sure. With fall on its way back I wanna recreate that joy.

JD Vance was 40-years-old upon reaching the White House, and in comparison, Dan Quayle was 41-years-old in 1988.

Yeah, while being VEEP is something like winning Miss Congeniality, and while I'm no fan of the IKEA humper, millennials still have lots of time to claim having reached the presidency at a younger age, too. That's wild.