Obviously everyone knows Lion King, Toy Story, Little Mermaid, etc and even to this day they're selling merch and have good marketing power. But what is a Disney movie that is pretty much forgotten to everyone outside your generation and didn't get as much attention as the timeless classics
i’m gen z in case you couldn’t tell by my lack of capitalization and punctuation. that’s not what i have a problem with, it’s the fact that they don’t know how to socialize. i was in 8th grade during covid but even i know basic etiquette and social practices. now in days everyone is embarrassed by everyone and it’s fucking annoying. like you are legally allowed to go up to strangers at the bar and talk to then. i hate that everyone is so embarrassed, and i don’t know if i should be. i wasn’t raised to feel embarrassed and now that makes me “neurodivergent” im not even joking. some “friends” i had asked me if i had asburgers because i like starting conversations with random people. like what? i like meeting new people and talking to them, everyone individual on this earth has a story that i want to listen to and because of that im labeled as “weird.” what happened to manners and interests and respect? i wish i was born in a generation where phones were background characters and no the forefront of every issue. i wish i could make friends organically and not be given looks for talking outside my social status. i yearn for a time where i could talk to someone and have them respond normally and not give me a looks that reads “what the fuck are you doing?”
i have been seeing this all through out tik tok and i am a firm believer that 1997-2002 are older gen z, with 2002 babies being in class of 2020, meaning they were entering college by the time the pandemic hit like the rest of older gen z. meaning the oldest of gen z is currently 29-24 as of 2026.
i dont believe 2004-2007 should be considered older gen z because i dont think people born after 2004 even properly remember the 2000s. 2003 is in that weird spot where they’re the oldest gen z in the mid gen z bracket.
i also think anyone born between 2005-2012 are the ipad babies everyone talks about. or the start of it at least. since 97-02 babies were born and had their more formative years before the invention of the iphone/ipad. 2003-2004 it’s either or.
anyone else feel this way or have something interesting to add? i’m very interested in this topic
As a Gen Z myself, this take is really funny and hypocritical in many ways. I remember back in 2020, that we did TikTok dances to preschool show songs like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Hip-Hop Harry, and The Backyardigans, the shows that we watched as little kids and probably still watch them. So it’s funny for Gen Z saying that watching Disney Channel after middle school is “cringe”, when they were making TikTok videos of them dancing to songs from preschool shows that they watch when they were little.
I was born in 1998 , so I’m Gen Z (early Gen Z) and one funny thing I feel like a lot of us experienced were people lying about having a phone at home during the smartphone boom. Some would exactly say “ I have a phone at home but my parents won’t let me bring it to school” this was in middle school so I know some were lying and some might of been telling the truth.
By 2012, when I entered high-school social media and smartphones were already everywhere and everyone had one. However , iPhone were in their peak so instead of people saying their parents wouldn’t let me them bring their phone to school..people started saying “I have an iPhone at home but my parents won’t let me bring it to school” even though we all know they had a Samsung and it was okay to just have a Samsung or some Android.
December 1999 baby here. This post is for those of us born in 1999, especially September-December, who were also a part of the class of 2018.
This is mainly for those of us who graduated from high schools in the United States, but those of you from other countries are able to answer, too. After all, the more the merrier!
Being born in 1998 i am among the earliest of gen Z, and if i were to choose i'd say i am closer to people born around 94-96 than to a lot of gen Z, but...once you get outside this close familiar range it definitely feels more distant...people born in the early 90s/late 80s feel like a totally different behemoth, while sure someone born in 2003-2006 aren't exactly my age group, and they might have some weird trends and slang i don't quite get i still feel closer to their struggles in life and experiences.
It’s interesting that, among rappers commonly labeled Gen Z, only those born in 1998 and 1999 have surpassed 100,000 album-equivalent units in a single opening week. Surprisingly, no rapper born in the 2000s or later has achieved that milestone yet. Ken Carson had an opportunity with Xperiment, but it debuted with only 42,000 units, falling far short of 100K.
When i see music videos from the late 90s especially 98-99 they already seem to have a 2000s flair, the early 90s feel different by contrast, how different would you say society was in that period in terms of pop culture, trends, music and vibe going from an end to the other?
bro time flies way too fast like 2010-2013 borns are already teens and we thought they were just little kids and most gen z are adults while the zalphas are the teenagers now
Bro why are generations so strict generations are not hard borders they are fuzzy cultural lines and this is why generations are a mess
I would think you would as your direct peers with 1997 but it honestly depends on you all as i don't have a say in this.
Part of what makes the '80s and '90s nostalgic in the first place, was how new, exciting, and optimistic things felt. People in the '90s weren't even nostalgic over the '80s, which already seemed dated in comparison, cuz the wheel kept on turning smoothly.
Love or hate Skrillex and modern EDM, but it at least felt fresh and exciting around 2010. Now everything just seems like a curated homage or throwback to something else. As nice as it is to see some styles come back, it's also bittersweet, and not necessarily a substitute for innovation.
I think I'm saying; a style is more than the sum of its parts. Borrow from the past, sure, just don't get stuck there. Pick up at a good point where things left off, and keep the underlying intent and spirit alive, instead of a retrospective checklist.
In this context, “Last of name” means you can generally verify there are no living individuals on this planet with your surname and exact spelling, and that surname will die with you.
Being the last original Smith in a family bloodline does not count, because there are other smiths in the USA.
Being the only remaining Smyth in the Smith family counts, if there is no one else you can think of or verify with a good google search.
I wanted to ask this question because I have a last name which will be extinct if I don’t pass it on, which I probably won’t. No one in my family has it, and those who have the name globally never spelled it like my family did. I’ve done searches up and down, and it’s one of those “so rare it might as well be a misspelling” type of name because I haven’t met another family with it even though it’s phonetically commonish.
I want to preface that there is no pressure to actually share your family name haha anyone who shares a name with these traits knows how easy it is to google
I think these hard cutoffs are silly sometimes. But I suppose that's why Cusps exist? Because those born in the cusp can relate to the late and early portions of both generations?
I'd say 1971–1972 were more 70s than 60s, but they were a transition period.
If you forced me to quantify it:
1971: ~60% 70s / 40% 60s
1972: ~70% 70s / 30% 60s
For example, Logan Paul (born 1995) and Jake Paul (born 1997) were both dominant on YouTube from 2015 to 2019. Musician Cody Simpson (born 1997) used to be big from 2010 to 2017. Austin Mahone (born 1996) also used to be big in the early to mid 2010s.
It's just a observation but why are the prices for housing everywhere (even in my rural hometown) so damn expensive, nowadays, that it requires the so called necessity for a large down-payment, last but not least, a 30 year fixed mortgage when there is not much reilable work available anymore and soon to be mass unemploymemt with the advent of AI? The other half of the tragedy is the divorce rate is about 50/50 and in some places, it's even higher. When times get tough, people just don't stick together anymore. So much has changed in the last 40 years or so.
My home town was mostly de-industrialized around 1980s, thanks in part to Reaganomics and even back then there were some noticeable wealth gaps still in the late 1990s.
Around 2000s, it got much worse when everything got outsourced, thanks in part to NAFTA, etc. Occasionally there would be a couple food banks but now they're everywhere.
I left my hometown in 2008 and never bothered to come back. My Boomer ex-landlord was not very happy about young people leaving the area but I already saw the writing was on the wall as I watched my hometown's economic decline sink further, as it seemed absolutely inevitable with no end in sight. Homelessness. Crime. Addiction. A shrinking middle class and inflation.
Most good paying careers nowadays on the West Coast are stuck in Silicon Valley. A place where the price of basic housing for an ordinary family is completely unaffordable for the average Joe, unless you're a high flying, high paying magic guru that's exceptionally talented in the tech arena.
Is it my imagination or are the only people that can afford to get into a wayhalf decent housing is only with the generous helping hand of the bank of Mom and Dad via some kind of a family loan, gift, dowery or inheritance, further exacerbating the large wealth gap in the United States and throughout the western world?