Generation Z - Is there something different about this generation?

[Henry V]

I think the focus needs to start switching to Gen Alpha now who are well into their teenage years and the youngest Gen Z’s have more in common with them than they do with other Gen Z’s.

There is a big difference between 1997-2002 Gen Z compared to 2005-2011 Gen Z, plus or minus a year or so. If you were born in 2005 you were around five years old when iPads first released, going through formative years with that kind of technology at your fingertips is leagues different than growing up in the preceding five or so years.

 

[Trilby]

There is a big difference between 1997-2002 Gen Z compared to 2005-2011 Gen Z, plus or minus a year or so. If you were born in 2005 you were around five years old when iPads first released, going through formative years with that kind of technology at your fingertips is leagues different than growing up in the preceding five or so years.

I guess we'll have to create a new sub-generation for this type, like we did with "Xennials" (those born between 1977-83).

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

There is a big difference between 1997-2002 Gen Z compared to 2005-2011 Gen Z, plus or minus a year or so. If you were born in 2005 you were around five years old when iPads first released, going through formative years with that kind of technology at your fingertips is leagues different than growing up in the preceding five or so years.

iShit becoming common place "toys" to give to kids to distract them didn't really kick off until the mid-2010s. So the ones that would've been most affected by it are mostly Gen Alpha with the occasional late-born zoomer. Alphas are also the ones most heavily affected by the general decrease in education quality of the past decade and crap like brainrot. Yes, many Gen Zs are helpless and low attention span but that was also a common complaint lobbed at Millennials.

 

[Mage Killer]

It's nuts to see that even in 2017 people were saying gen Z is more conservative than millennials.

 

[Althalus]

It's nuts to see that even in 2017 people were saying gen Z is more conservative than millennials.

I remember people saying that back then too, but the issue is, how do you define "conservative"?

If by "conservative" you mean the typical Christian-Zionist Republican, that is absolutely not common among Gen Z.

But if by "conservative" you mean racist, sexist, and LGBT-phobic, then Gen Z is absolutely more "conservative" than Millennials.

Obviously leftist LGBT zoomers exist, but Gen Z as a whole is very polarized. For every Zoomer that insists on pronouns and language policing, there is another one blasting "Nigga Heil Hitler" from his phone speaker, and a third one that doesn't really give a fuck about either, but hates being lectured by pronoun people.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

I guess we'll have to create a new sub-generation for this type, like we did with "Xennials" (those born between 1977-83).

There is already Zillenials for late millennials to early zoomers. So like 95/96 to 2001.

 

[Mage Killer]

I remember people saying that back then too, but the issue is, how do you define "conservative"?

If by "conservative" you mean the typical Christian-Zionist Republican, that is absolutely not common among Gen Z.

But if by "conservative" you mean racist, sexist, and LGBT-phobic, then Gen Z is absolutely more "conservative" than Millennials.

Obviously leftist LGBT zoomers exist, but Gen Z as a whole is very polarized. For every Zoomer that insists on pronouns and language policing, there is another one blasting "Nigga Heil Hitler" from his phone speaker, and a third one that doesn't really give a fuck about either, but hates being lectured by pronoun people.

This was in 2017, the oldest gen Z would've been 22 and the prediction was already there.