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Generations are said to have about the same Zeitgeist and experiences growing up, but honestly, the Zeitgeist culture from 1998 to 2008 is way different than from 2008 onwards. Early and late gen z also behaves completely different overall. Its not a matter of age and maturety.

Anyone else feel like that? Especially other old Gen Z?

Edit: forgot you can rarely have a casual talk without someone bringing up politics and nihilism points on here

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Thb, that's going to fluctuate for awhile until they're all adults. Some people were tryibg to argue Millenials went all the way up to 2000 until a bit less than 10 years ago, where the cutoff settled on 1996.

Much of what goes into defining a generation is based on formative events. For millenials, it's being a kid before widespread internet and growing up alongside it, plus remembering 9/11. I bet 2015 is going to become a cutoff year, as anyone older than that would be in school during Covid and be affected differently.