generation Nobody Knows has the qualities of both Millennials and Gen Z. We are broke and miserable like Millenials and frothing at the mouth and out for blood like Gen Z. 

Yeah it’s like we’re too old for gen z but too young for millennials. We’re generation limbo.

I like Generation Limbo, or another favorite of mine I’ve seen used (and a nod to Gertrude Stein) the new lost generation

This happened to me – I was technically part of Generation X but never identified with it, and then when everyone younger than me was suddenly a Millennial, I decided I would be the leading edge. 

All of my experiences sync up with Millennial experiences much more than GenX, even though I’m technically before the start date; I know people younger than me by a year or two who don’t identify as Millennials, but I think a lot of it depends on where you grew up and a bit on socioeconomic status. But there’s always a space between two generations where a handful of years fall. For us, there are names like the Prodigys (after the early online service), the Oregon Trail generation, or Xennials. But I prefer to be a Millennial. 

Take it from the previous limbo generation: pick what you like best and be either the youngest or the oldest…or tell everyone to go screw and be your own generation. Boomers will hate you regardless so you might as well call yourselves something fun. :D 

I was born in 1984, right on the cusp between Millennials and Gen X. As such I’m kind of stuck between the two. I’ve got the social awareness of Millennials and I’m a child of the internet; but I actually own my own home, because my parents had me so late in life (my mom was 40 when I was born) that I’m the daughter of Baby Boomers and have benefited from their money.

Gen X, I’ve noticed, tends to be…not apathetic, but not of the belief that they can change anything. They’re the ones who first became aware during the Reagan era, who came of age at the absolute start of globalization. There was a palpable feeling of helplessness as our culture shifted from localized government and corporations to multi-national organizations. Gen X had been raised by boostrap Boomers who could understand why their kids couldn’t just ask to speak to a manager at Amazon.

In response to this pervasive sense of helplessness, Millennials turned inward. They took selfies, they focused on themselves. If you’re feeling helpless in a giant world so much bigger than yourself, of course you focus on you. That’s all that Millennials have left, in a housing market that has crashed and absurd wealth discrepancies. When confronted with issues, Millennials ask, “What can I do as an individual?” Which is frequently not helpful, because we’re too small.

Gen Z…Gen Z has been raised in the era of globalization. It’s all they’ve ever known, and so of course they can navigate it better. They understand unity, and unions, and banding together for issues. They aren’t afraid of the multi-national corporations, they’ve learned how to bring them to heel with tweet bombs and boycotts. The children will save us all, and the best thing that we can do, all of us, is to support them in that quest.

Gen X only has 50% as many people as boomers and millennials. We don’t have enough people to change anything. (We’re also the first generation not expected to do as well as their parents, and suffered the most financially during the recession.)

The conversation that this has drummed up is really interesting and it reminds me of a vsauce video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc)

But basically a big divide I’m seeing is that the younger kids who grew up poor identify more with Millennials because they had a very similar life, while kids from more wealthy families identify more with Gen Z. I think mainly because of the hand-me-downs you get from older siblings and that a big driving force for the generational transitions is technology. My dad is a baby boomer, born in 1955. He’s useless with tech. He tried to go to college in the 90s for comp. sci. but just couldn’t keep up. My mom is Gen X, born in 1967 and can coexist pretty seamlessly with technology unless it’s broken. She knows how it interact with it but that’s about it.

Then we get to Millennials, who I see a LOT of similarities with the Lost Generation from after WWI (but that’s a whole other topic for later) but anyway, and if you watched the above vsauce video, Millennials are different in that they took the technology that was building up around them and learned how to live in it. They learned how to create in it, but they still have a nostalgic sense of the Before Times, when there wasn’t this total immersion always at your fingertips. I think that’s probably why you see all of that nostalgia for the 90’s stuff, because Millennials were born in a time of a jawdroppingly exponential growth of technology that the human race has literally never seen before. Gen Z is similar in that way too, they don’t really remember the Before Times and are extremely adept at learning and interacting with new technology.

Ooh man I could go on and on and I didn’t even get into political cycles lol

it wasn’t a “tide pod challenge” it was “haha tide pod look like yummy fruit”

cant believe u just “kids these days"d gen z

millenials: why are baby boomers always shitting on us what the fuck!

millenials: *do the exact same thing but with gen z*

me: hey New Generation don’t eat tide pods
yall: wow you really hate gen z huh :/