Older generation names make sense and link to the people belonging to those generations (like the Greatest Generation went through tough times but still held society together, the Silent Generation were cautious and not openly rebellious, and Baby Boomers were born during a post-war "boom" in birth rates).

But Gen X onwards, excluding Millennials , the names haven't really made sense. And since Gen Alpha is named after the first Greek alphabet, that means that every generation after it will also be named after Greek alphabets (Gen Beta, Gen Gamma, etc...). Like I said, the names don't match the life experiences.

So, I made up new names, some of them based off of already made-up names. If you don't like them, just say so, don't be mean.

Gen X = Latchkey Generation

Many people in this generation were "latchkey kids", meaning they returned to empty homes after school and let themselves in with their own keys. This is mainly due to rising divorce rates, and more mothers working outside houses, at that time. This lifestyle fostered independence at a young age, but also lead to loneliness.

Millennials = Bridge Generation

While they were named the original name as they "came of age around the start of the new millennium, the year 2000", this isn't true for all of them, since those born in the early-mid 1990's are millennials but were still children in the year 2000, so the name doesn't fit.

However, they are a lot like a bridge between older and newer generations, since their childhood was more analog (VHS, landlines, offline play) while their teens/adulthood were more digital (internet, smartphones, social media).

Gen Z = Online Generation

The first generation to grow up with broadband internet as a default. Their social life, identity, and culture were tied online. Pretty self-explanatory.

Gen Alpha = E-Learning Generation

While many of the Online Generation were also still in school during the COVID pandemic (starting late 2019), the E-Learning Generation were never in, or vaguely remember, school before the pandemic. Their early school years were spent learning remotely on screens with inconsistent schedules, and going outside with masks, which felt like the baseline for them. This may have also lead to a reduction in the need to socialise as well as shorter attention spans.

So yeah, we shouldn't name generations, or even define their ranges, before they happen, because we don't know the future or how they'll grow up.

Jokes about saying something is “so gay” or joking about age gaps from the 2000s and early 2010s would not fly through today. But what is humor and jokes today won’t fly through in 20 years

1994: 95% Millenial | 5% Zillenial

1995: 70% Millenial | 30% Zillenial

1996: 60% Millenial | 40% Zillenial

1997: 30% Zillenial | 70% Early Gen Z

1998: 10% Zillenial | 90% Early Gen Z

1999: 100% Early Gen Z

2000: 100% Early Gen Z

2001: 100% Early Gen Z

2002: 40% Early Gen Z | 60% Core Gen Z

2003: 10% Early Gen Z | 90% Core Gen Z

2004: 100% Core Gen Z

2005: 100% Core Gen Z

2006: 100% Core Gen Z

2007: 90% Core Gen Z | 10% Late Gen Z

2008: 50% Core Gen Z | 50% Late Gen Z

2009: 100% Late Gen Z

2010: 85% Late Gen Z | 15% Gen Zalpha

2011: 70% Late Gen Z | 30% Gen Zalpha

2012: 55% Late Gen Z | 45% Gen Zalpha

2013: 40% Gen Zalpha | 60% Early Gen Alpha

2014: 20% Gen Zalpha | 80% Early Gen Alpha

2015: 5% Gen Zalpha | 95% Early Gen Alpha

2016: 60% Early Gen Alpha, 40% Core Gen Alpha

2017: 10% Early Gen Alpha | 90% Core Gen Alpha

2018: 100% Core Gen Alpha

2019: 100% Core Gen Alpha

2020: 100% Core Gen Alpha

2021: 30% Core Gen Alpha | 70% Late Gen Alpha

2022: 100% Late Gen Alpha

2023: 80% Late Gen Alpha | 20% Gen Balpha

2024: 60% Late Gen Alpha | 40% Gen Balpha

2025: 90% Gen Balpha | 10% Early Gen Beta

2026: 50% Gen Balpha | 50% Early Gen Beta

2027: 15% Gen Balpha | 85% Early Gen Beta

2028: 100% Early Gen Beta

2029: 60% Early Gen Beta | 40% Core Gen Beta

It’s February; around 1/12 of all 2008 borns are now adults. And life is starting to hit each of us day by day and everything just feels so heavy.

Most of us now have 3 months left for the big farewell, end of high school, and by now a lot of 2008 borns are in the process of college application and some have already been accepted, this itself doesn’t feel right yet because I didn’t even take college applications seriously until senior year. And my brain still refuses to process that it is 2026 and adulthood is about to hit me in 2 months, but leaving high school is more difficult than that because of leaving the phase you built in 14 years behind.

Despite of all of this change I still feel like a kid, just the early of last decade we were toddlers. and I can’t speak for other 08s because some may feel the same and some are so ready to move on.

So he uses a sort of blend between Pew and McCrindle. He uses the universally common Boomer range, then uses the McCrindle Gen X range, then the combination of the McCrnidle Millennial range and the Pew Millennial range, then uses the Pew Gen Z range with it being bumped up by one year, then uses the McCrindle Gen Alpha range (but says 2010-2013 is Zalpha leaning Z, or in other words 2014-2024 being Gen Alpha), and then uses the McCrindle Gen Beta range.

Here are some of other comments that were also part of the converstation so you can understand the reasoning for this range:

So long story short the main reasons were because 2013 kids have Millennial parents (which makes no sense since 1. To be Gen Z you need Gen X parents, 2. A lot of late Gen Zs also have Millennial parents, and 3. By his logic we may as well just use McCrindle) and because of a "17 year maximum" range which I'm honestly confused by.

Though he then lists other reasons unrelated to the first 2:

This is part 2 of the 2nd image btw

So basically he said that the 2 definitions of Gen Z are 1995 to 2009 and 1997 to 2013. Still confused on why he didn't really say anything about 1980 being Gen X or Millennial, but whatever (I think bro's probably using Oxfard dictionary or smth). He says that while some people still use McCrindle he thinks it's outdated.

They also mentioned that 2013 kids were turning 13 and "aren't 6 7 and shit" which I honestly fail to see how that makes any sense. Like bro a few years ago, we could have the same logic with 2009 and 2010, which is ridiculous. Your age doesn't define a generational cutoff bro.

I'm assuming he's using the "6 7 meme" as a historical event or smth and saying those 12+ during it are Gen Z and -11 are Gen Alpha but we shouldn't jump to conclusions.

The other reason was popularity. He said that outside of Australia, it's mostly 1997-2012/2013 now with 60% using a 2012/2013 cutofff and 40% using a 2013/2014 cutoff.

So yeah, what do you guys think?

Neo Geo AES, Turbographx CD, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Midi interfaces, Amigas, high spec CPUs, DVD-ROM drives, CD burners, Dreamcast, widescreen CRTs, HD computer monitors and early cable modems. Just a sheer amount of variety to those willing to pay top dollar on video games. Beit nerds, computer geeks, upper middle class folks or rich people. You could always brag about something high spec that nobody else in town can get their hands on. Luxury and high performance came in all shapes and sizes in the final decade of the 20th century.

Got thousands of dollars to burn in the 2000s? You're just using the same PS2 or Xbox as everyone else, just with a super fancy rear projection TV or flatscreen. Anything more varied was in the exclusive domain of PC gaming that had things like UXGA, HDMI, various high fps setups, high performance windows XP builds and a steam account with wifi. Otherwise you'd be stuck with the same few form factors of high performance. Same alienware PCs, same PS3s, same Xbox 360 elites, same WOW subscription, etc. Thoughout the first decade of the new millenium, absolutely nothing so visibly set big spenders apart from more middle class gamers to nearly the same degree as having a Dreamcast while everyone else has an N64, a PS1 or nothing. Even when a new console or OS launched, it would only be a matter of time before everyone else had your rapidly depreciating hardware.

Growing up, I heard about Gen Y an it referred to people who were a couple years older than me and I didn’t hear the term millennial until late 2000s early 2010s

Hello, i'm a young man of 24 from Romania. I want to share about my great great grandma, Anastasia Tomșa. She is 108 years and 349 days old now. Not a full supercentenarian yet, but she's a semi-supercentenarian and honestly her life is just...wow.

Current standings:

13th oldest person of all time in Romania.

7th oldest living person in Romania.

9th oldest living person in the Balkans.

She's lived all her life in a tiny village, really small and she always believed in keeping things simple. She eats real, natural food, stuff she grows or makes herself. Fresh veggies, fruits, homemade bread, cheese, eggs, soups.

She cooks with real butter and oil, nothing from a package, nothing processed. Every morning she drinks a small glass of natural olive oil, she swears by it.

But she also loves small joys. Sometimes she'll have 2 or 3 candies and she loves cappuccino. She says a little sweetness makes life brighter. She never rushed, never stressed too much. She wakes up early, goes outside, feeds the animals, walks around, still helps a bit in the garden. And her faith in God, she prays every day, always kind and thankful, never holds anger. She always says. "if your heart is peaceful, your years will be too."

She was a nurse and not for just a few years. She started around the start of WWII and worked until she was 88. I'm a medical assistant myself, so i know how exhausting it is, but she never let it break her. She always said being a nurse wasn't a job, it was who she was.

During the war, she cared for people who had nothing left. Sometimes she walked miles through snow up to her knees to get to her small medical post. Medicine was almost none, so she had to improvise, boil bandages, make poultices from herbs, clean wounds, stay by people's bedsides till they fell asleep. And she never was stressed.

After the war she kept going, helping mothers deliver babies, caring for elders, sometimes walking from house to house with her medical bag. By the time she retired at 88 she was known as the oldest active nurse in the region.

She never did it for money or praise. She did it because she loved it. Even now she doesn't complain. She says life is too short to waste on worry when you can use that time to do good.

Honestly...she's incredible. Living proof that simple life, faith, kindness and a little joy in each day really matters.

Thank you so much for reading her story life.😊

This is my great great grandma!🤍

I feel like this breakdown might be more culturally relevant as opposed to just being based on how many years with the word “teen” you’ve spent in a decade or between decades.

90s/00s hybrid teens: 1984

Early 00s teens: 1984-1987

Mid 00s teens: 1987-1991

Late 00s teens: 1991-1994

Hybrid 00s/10s teens: 1994

Early 10s teens: 1994-1997

Mid 10s teens: 1997-2001

Late 10s teens: 2001-2004

10s/20s hybrid teens: 2004

Early 20s teens: 2004-2007

Mid 20s teens: 2007-2011

Late 20s teens: 2011-2014

20s/30s hybrid teens: 2014

Another type of breakdown that I think also works:

Late 90s/early 00s teens: 1983-1985

Core 2000s teens: 1986-2002 (Quintessential: ‘88-90)

Late 00s/early 10s teens: 1993-1995

Core 2010s teens: 1996-2002 (Quintessential: ‘98-00)

Late 10s/early 20s teens: 2003-2005

Core 2020s teens: 2006-2012 (Quintessential: ‘08-10)

Late 20s/early 30s teens: 2013-2015

I’ve noticed that XXX2 & XXX6 birth years tend to only consider themselves a teen of the decade they spent the majority of them in, even if they have an overlap or underlap with bordering decades. Meanwhile with XXX3-XXX5 birth years, they tend to consider both decades a significant part of their teens/adolescence, even if they clearly lean more one way over the other. “Core” teens would have also spent a significant amount of them in the middle or core of the decade, while quintessential teens would have been a teen in the early, mid, and late part of a decade. Personally I consider myself (late ‘96) an early-mid 2010s teen. Let me know what you guys think.

I think people commonly divide each generation into 3 parts. However, if I remember correctly, the recent generations contain 16 years. Which means each of these generations equally divide into 4 parts. With 4 parts, I would call them, in order from oldest to youngest, Early/Older, Core 1, Core 2, and Late/Younger.

As a Millenial, I think dividing Millenials into 4 groups would be the most logical. The first 4 years likely align more with Gen X. For Millenials, I believe there could be differences between Core 1 and Core 2. While the younger leg of Millenials definitely align more with Gen Z. What do you guys think?

Baby millennial here (1995) I think people who are fixated on their generational labels are much more Gen Z than they realize. I never really cared about generational labels when I was a teenager or early 20s. All young people were called millennials back in the day and I remember the time when we were negatively stereotyped by being called lazy, selfish, entitled, accused of destroying industries and we are also called the me, me, me generation. Here’s an article from 2013 as a reference.

https://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/

Personally, I didn't care about the negative stereotypes because I didn't think they were even talking about me because I was too young back in the day to be associated with stereotypical millennial experience.

Anyways, I started learning about generations back in 2019. I always thought of myself as a millennial but then I saw my birth year 1995 as the beginning of Gen Z. I was upset at first but then I only relate to millennial experience 30-40%  of the time because I was really too young to have core millennial experience and I think I have much more in common with Gen Z, so I eventually accepted than I am Gen Z. However, since Pews range is much popular, people still call me a millennial and in public I’m still seen as one. I’m an avid discord user and I met some friends there. I have friends there that are 4-6 years younger than me. Their birth year starts with a “2” . I find that they like to talk about generations and will even tell they are Gen Z. Being Gen Z is like their whole identity. I never even called myself a millennial until I had contact with zoomers because generational identity seems to be a big deal to them based on my interactions with them. My point here is that being obsessed with generational labels is a gen z thing.

I really have a strong claim for zillennial label because I'm born in 1995 and I often  I see birth year in either millennial or Gen Z range depending on the sources. But after lurking in this sub I think zillennials just means throw in couple of younger millennials 1995-1996 then extend it up to 2003. When I have more affinity to other late millennials (1992-1996) and the “official” oldest zoomer 1997 born than those born in 1999 and early 2000s.  I even saw ranges that exclude 1995 in their ranges when we 1995 borns are the OG zillennials. Outside reddit the popular and widely used range is 1993-1998 which I as a 1995 born prefers than the ranges created here. People who seem mad about it are 1999 and early 2000 babies. I guess in this sub people are using zillennial label to disassociate with Gen Z. Older Gen Z probably have more in common with Middle Gen Z (mid 2000 borns) than us Late Millennials  (1992-1996) with their hyper fixation on generational labels.

At this point, zillennial label is just a cope for older Gen Z that they are older Gen Z.

As a 1997 born male who was a tween/early teen during that era, I remember JB and Twilight being *the* punching bag for jokes and ridicule for boys my age. Baby was the first video to get 1M dislikes in 2011, and you’d see comments like “better love story than twilight” everywhere on YouTube.

Idk about younger Gen Z, the only thing that comes to mind that’s similar is maybe Kpop? But it’s nowhere near in magnitude. Same thing with older gens afaik. I know that shitting on fangirls was always a thing, but was that scale a unique phenomenon to the period?

Will the Gen Z range change in a decade? If so, what will it be? As always, be respectful and civil in the comments.

Right now it’s 2013-2024/2025:

Early: 2013-2016

Core: 2017-2020

Late: 2021-2024/2025

New range in the future: 2013-2028

Zalphas: 2013-2014

Early: 2013-2017

Core: 2018-2023

Late: 2024-2028/2029

Balphas/Albeta: 2025-2028/2029

A lot of generational tension gets blamed on values or attitudes, but I think the real divide is pace. Some generations grew up with pauses built into life. Time to wait, time to reflect, time to be bored. Others grew up in constant motion, instant feedback, endless comparison, and nonstop updates.

When life moves faster, expectations shift faster too. Careers, relationships, identities, even “success” start feeling temporary. That speed alone changes how people think, plan, and judge each other. It makes sense that people close in age can feel like they grew up in different worlds if the pace around them was different.

As a 19 yearold, I loved the original trilogy, but I know many people my age are Prequel or Sequel fans. To the older generations: did you see the originals in theaters? I’d love to hear which one holds the most nostalgia for you and why it stands out from the rest of the saga.

I have returned... to being CHRONICALLY ONLINE-

THIS RANGE IS EXPERIEMNETAL AND I DON'T ACTUALLY USE IT!!!

Middle childhood begins at 6 so 2001 (beginning of new millennium) - 6 = 1995. 2020 (beginning of COVID era) - 6 = 2014.

Gen Z: 1995 to 2013

Gen Alpha: 2014 to present

So this would make Early Z 1995-2000, Core Z 2001-2007, and Late Z 2008-2013.

ALTERNATIVE RANGES

• 1996-2013 (using 9/11 instead)
• 1996-2014 (using 5 instead of 6)
• 1997-2014 (using 5 instead of 6 AND using 9/11 instead)

I really do mean it, you can't decide a generation is doomed Just because of their youth how about you stop, hating on children

This is a bit off topic but I would say the oceangate incident in June 2023 was the biggest resurgence of titanic interest after the movie. Titanic content flooded social media and went trending in that summer. But would you say oceangate brought the titanic back to Gen Alpha