#genzennials

[bisexualjodielandon]

Is it just me, or do people 40+ feel the need to be super condescending when speaking to younger adults?

[vacuously-true]

The Wikipedia article for millennials notes different authors and organizations as using a variety of years between 1995 and 2004 as the end of the generation. I was born pretty near the middle of that range so by plenty of definitions, I am a millennial, and by plenty of definitions, I'm not. Regardless of the years, I fit traits of both the millennials and generation z, both good and bad. The most exhausting thing though, is people telling me I'm definitely in one group, and me saying okay and turning around and someone else telling me I'm definitely in the other group.

And I know that's the experience of a lot of people born in that range. So if you're like me, and you have experienced confusion at people complaining about millennials not having jobs or living with their parents when you were in high school or college but thought you were a millennial, or experienced confusion at people talking about gen z as a bunch of aspirational kids when you were already an adult and maybe not even a teenager anymore but thought you were gen z, I've got a proposition.

We call ourselves genzennials.

And we don't define ourselves by birth year or stage of life or any experience other than the experience of the people on the edge of a generational shift, being asked or even forced to choose between identifying with cohorts on average much more and much less mature than themselves. We won't choose. Because

We can't

We shouldn't have to

The line is fuzzy

And made up anyway

It's better that we own that we are both

And also neither

We're the bridge, the glue between the millennials and gen z

In all of the worst ways

And in all of the best.

So. Genzennials?

The loosely defined intergenerational and extragenerational champions of nuance and compromise? Who's with me?

[comicccsansfans]

Everyone always acts like it’s super hard to tell the difference between Gen Z and Millenial but like the biggest difference is do you remember 9/11? Not like a blurry haze of what was happening but where you were when the towers fell. Gen Z is defined as generation that has no memory of not being at war