Very informative Thanks, I think we are getting smarter by each generation.

 

You might want to tweak your Zillennial years to include 2001ers (C/O 2019). They fit more of those traits than the Core Z traits you listed.

 

I sort of did. In the Zillennial chart, it says "could extend to early-mid 2001 borns". Generally, I would put 1995-2000. I think 2001 born generally are the first non-cusp Gen Z as most sources put them as Z. 2001, is transitional, though, because they would fit a lot of the Zillennial traits that I listed. But, one main reason I put them out of the cusp is because they were born in the 21st century. Even 2002 borns could fit the Zillennial cusp and can relate more to those traits than Core Z traits, too, however, that would sort of be stretching it because that is usually the first year when almost everybody agrees that they are Gen Z. By the way, having a Core Z trait doesn't automatically make one Core Z, but it usually automatically makes one off the cusp, while having a cusp trait could or could not automatically make one a cusper.

 

New year. Fuck i don't want to get old and die.

2020.

I don't give a fuck now everything is not essential and become more religious and thinking about having a real family and working around 14H/day.


I hate death. I hope i can punch this bitch on day.

 

I think 1993-1998 is the Y/Z cusp. I don’t consider 1999 a cusp year anymore, let alone 2000 & 2001.

X/Y cusp = 1977-1983
Early Y = 1981-1985
Core Y = 1986-1991
Late Y = 1992-1996
Y/Z cusp = 1993-1998
Early Z = 1997-2001
Core Z = 2002-2006
Late Z = 2007-2010

1992 is a tricky one for me because it seems too early for the cusp but too late for core Y. I definitely think they have Z traits though.

 

IMO this is more accurate than @Coca Puff's chart

 

Generation Jones looks more like a cohort than a generation.
Most people would say 1955/56 to 1965. Starting it with 1955 would make sense because that was the first year when no one was drafted to fight in Vietnam. Although draft numbers were assigned to people born in 1955 and 1956 and the lotteries were done, those numbers were never used. In my opinion, having classmates drafted and sent off to Vietnam was traumatic for people. And seeing them come home to a cemetery, instead of their families, must have been painful. I think that was the experience that was the dividing line between the older and the younger boomers.
Also, I would delete the name baby boomer because that's just based on population surges.
The Vietnam War draft affected everyone born between 1938 and 1954. I would call that the Vietnam Generation.
People actually went to fight in the Vietnam War from other countries, besides the United States.

 

Good job. I'm proud of your complexity and subtlety. I agree with your identifiers of Xennials. You seem to have actually studied the broader sociological and political implications rather than just the impacts of art or popular culture.

One thing that has been on my mind lately is the new Suspiria. This is no way to measure generations as a whole, but I wondered how Gen X, Xennials, and Gen Y responded to it respectively because it's an extremely complex revision on the film that differs greatly from the 1977 Argento film, it doesn't even try to be Suspiria 77. You would almost have to be obsessed with Dario Argento to immediately dismiss it.

It seems like ironically it would appeal most to Gen X because of its overt Cold War themes but offend them the most, because they may have actually seen Suspiria first run as children or adolescents (where as I didn't see it until the 2000s, about 25 years after it was made). As someone born in the Xennial window I was young enough to not take offense to the re-make but old enough to appreciate how heavily Cold War it was.

There's a new re-boot in art house horror in the past five years though that Gen Y/Millennials can surely take credit for as directors, but Gen Z is surely avidly consuming as young people. It's interesting because Millennials had a Horror Revival of slasher flicks in the 2000s, then in the 2010s this new art house thing took over: The Witch, Hereditary, Mother!, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Midsommar, The Lighthouse, and the Suspiria remake. I'm honestly not sure about it though because some of them feel too drama and not enough horror, they're very extremely pretentious as horror films, especially when one goes weirdly South at the end like Hereditary.

Horror is always supposed to be the reflection of a generation. Art house horror is a very late 60s/70s European thing, and we haven't had a ton of it as an entire movement until about 2015-Present. I wonder if this is due to the seriousness of climate change, or because Millennials are too jaded to actually be afraid. Because these movies aren't scary. They're disturbing in a way that gets under your skin and doesn't leave you afterward, at best. I do think Suspiria is probably the scariest of the lot, though.

 

Silent Boomer Cusp: 1940-1945
Core Boomer: 1946-1959
Boomer X cusp: 1960-1964
Solid X: 1965-1979
XY cusp: 1980-1983
Solid X: 1984-1992
YZ cusp: 1993-1999
Core Z: 2000-2012
Z Alpha cusp: 2013-2019
Core Alpha: 2020-present

 

When it comes to generations, it makes sense that with Mid 90s babies, they are predominantly Millennial and with Early 00s babies, they are predominantly Zoomer, by the traits they have, the way they grew up, and the way they act. Definite Millennials born in the Mid-Late 80s and Early 90s are obviously different from definite Gen Zers born in the mid-late 00s. But those born from the Mid-Late 90s and Early 00s are not completely one generation and can relate to both cohorts in some ways with varying degrees of both gens.

For good reason, clear-cut Millennials would be 90s kids (1983-1992), although 1983 & 1984 babies are very Early Y, having some X or Xennial traits, like spending a good chunk of childhood in the 1980s, growing up entirely in the 1990s, experiencing almost all coming-of-age moments (16-25 years old) in the 2000s, having most of their youth pre-9/11 and having basically all of their college years before social media blew up. It doesn’t truly get Millennial until 85’ borns, whose youthful peaks were in the 2001-2002 school year, right after 9/11, started elementary in the 90s, had all their teen years in Millennial-driven culture and while they were the last to enter high school during the 90s, it was post-Columbine. But 1985-1987 borns are in-between early and core Y, with a very slight influence from Gen X, as they are the very last to have any memory of the 80s and the Cold War, entered high school pre-9/11, and spent all high school years before MySpace took over in late 2005.
The high schoolers of the mid 00s who first experienced the social media world before adulthood and grew up in the 90s and 2000s (1988-1990 babies) are the absolute core Millennials. While 91ers are definitely Y and are one of the last true Millennials, along with 92’ babies, they are probably the first that are not complete stereotypical Gen Yers, and are like a cusp of core and late Y, because they were mostly late 2000s teens, when social media was rising with MySpace (a core millennial site) and Facebook (a late millennial site), could not vote for Obama in 2008, when core Y were able to vote, but however were the last to actually be in the workforce during the peak of the recession and be affected by it, making them the last of the true Yers. 1993 and 1994 babies are sort of more very Late Y with minor Z or Zillennial traits, because they were the first to have most of their childhood fall within the 2000s decade (which was a very transformative decade, technologically, economically, generational-y, etc.), not have been able to work during the peak of the recession, and had a significant amount of their teen years in the 2010s. The Zillennial cusp would really span from 1995-2000 and are probably the last branch of Y, due to the fact their childhoods transitioning from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, they were born in the Clinton administration, could remember the early 00s, had most of their core-childhoods post-9/11 but pre-Recession, and they were born in the 20th century. 2001ers are sort of cuspy, but they were born in the 21st century, had most of their core childhood after the Great Recession in late 2007, youth period peaked after Trump was inaugurated as president, started kindergarten when kid culture started to clearly lean Z, and they don’t have early 00s memories.

So, to end this long speech off, The YZ transition ends with 2001 & 2002 born’s who are very Early Z for the reason that they will be able to vote for Trump in the 2020 election this year, the last to have most of their childhoods in the 2000s, even though basically all Y remnants in kid culture officially died when their childhoods peaked, they spent high school when Obama was still our president, which was when liberal SJW culture was still very popular, at least have concrete memories of the mid 00s, and while some were born after 9/11, they were all born prior to the establishment of the Homeland Security, going into the Iraq War, truly ushering in the post-9/11 mood and atmosphere, which is why I think Z truly begins in 2003 for those reasons. 2003 and 2004 babies share a lot of similarities in growing up experiences to other early 00s and even late 90s babies, so I consider them cusps of early and core Z and would have a bit of a Y influence, but can never be millennials. However you take all of this, I know this was pretty subjective in a lot of ways but not completely non-credible as it does have some objectivity here. I’m done here.

 

Core Z = 2005-2008 (core representatives of Gen Z)

05-08 borns are solely 2010s kids, and basically have zero in common with someone such as myself, a core 2000s kid that was a teen / young adult throughout the 2010s. There's no good reason for me to be even loosely associated with them, aside from people needing generations to run at least 10 years.

And most media don't even acknowledge the existence of cusps when discussing generations, so it just makes the whole situation even more ridiculous.

 

That is a good point because my great niece is also a Generation Z, and she is currently eight years old. So I don't really see that you have all that much in common with her, either.

 

Xennial here. I can't remember any Challenger explosion but I remember the Tsjernobyl-acccident very well!

 

What a time to live in it!