I recentally saw this:

Share of U.S. household net worth, 2025 Q3

Baby Boomers

51%

Millennials and Gen Z combined

10%

Source: New York Fed analysis of Federal ReserveDistributional Financial Accounts. These are shares oftotal wealth, notaverage wealth per person.

Boomers own 51% of America's wealth. Millennials and Gen Z combined own just 10%.

So apparently, we're doing a pretty terrible job at this whole wealth-building thing. Maybe Boomers are just that much better at the economy than we are.

Honestly, if Millennials and Gen Z contribute so little to the nation's wealth, maybe we should just step away from the workforce. Surely the economy can survive without our measly 10%

As a Gen Z Who knows the other Gen Z person a fellow 04 baby who made this subreddit. It used to be cool now its shit. People are dumber now and younger Gen Z happened to be in high school at the time so no were not dumber. Like a 17-year-old giving you a stare maybe it's because he is a teenager "teens are bad" that saying is as old as time Bringing us all into it is not fair.

rant done bye

As a crusty older US millennial, it doesn’t feel it was that long ago when we were constantly being infantilized by boomers. Especially when it came time for an election cycle.

We were relentlessly told “your generation doesn’t vote!” by our finger wagging elders. I don’t wish to repeat that cycle for Gen Z. Which is why I’d love their weigh-in here.

Also I hyper reject this framing, especially now that a lot of us millennials/gen z are in our 30/40’s, have careers, have families, etc.

And we absolutely fucking vote.

Now since a bunch of states have started early voting ahead of the November 3rd midterm election, I’m just wondering how many of us have already cast our ballots.

Whether that’s due to avoiding the long(er) lines ahead of Election Day, or general fear of federal interference/shenanigans, who has voted early already?

Some of you, especially older millennials seem to be oblivious to this phenomenon, maybe because you were busy doing other adult stuff. But it most certainly was a part of our zeitgeist for arguably the years between 2008-2012.

Here's what it boiled down to:

• The progressive movement/culture reached it's peak with the election of Obama. He literally had campaing slogans based on Hope and Change. This acted as a symbolic victory of the liberal status quo at the time after two terms of the Bush administration.
• Younger millennials who were the children of the younger boomer generation, who in turn spent their formative years during the start of the social justice movement (60s -70s), were arguably, and even more so in retrospect, the most socially liberal generation of our time. They as 20 year olds were in charge of the youth culture at the time. This is the gen that voted for the legalization of same sex marriages and set in motion Occupy Wall Street. Alot of the popularity of Obama was because he was popular in the youth culture of younger millennials.
• Early social media before algorithms and polarization was a unifying phenomenon. It was not divisive like it is now. It was used as a tool of communication in the Arab Spring in 2011 and in the Occupy Wall Street. It connected people globally like never before and at the time it felt unifying because it was mostly a place for young people.
• Popular culture: all of this was reflected into the popular culture in the form of stomp clap music and uplifting party EDM like Avicii and Calvin Harris. Basically the message was "hey we are young and we can do anything" which you can see even in some of the rap associated songs like "Pursuit of Happiness" by Kid Cudi and "Young and Wild and Free". And this is why tumblr of that time was full of this sort of open minded, unifying and rebellious aesthetic. Even shows like the Office and Parks and Rec had this uplifting message behind them.

So basically this era was the celebration of the liberal progressive ethos: the value of universalism and individuality and I think it served as a stepping stone from the 2008 recession onwards. Obama and early social media all played a part in that but it was mostly because younger millennials at their core were mostly drawn towards progressive values because of their parents generation.

I’m jealous of everyone who was old enough and aware during the Nirvana era and 2pac and Biggie era. That’s all I gotta say

The early-mid 90s was 🔥🔥🔥

For context.

A user made a post with screenshots of me commenting on his fake pages on here posing as different birth years. The mods removed the post because it’s against the rules to mention user names in posts.

It’s a guy in this sub who’s born in 1985, and he’s having a crisis about being 40s.

He has a strong distaste for people born in the early 90s, mainly 1992-1993 babies. He says that we are childish for associating ourselves with Gen Z and that we are more like older millennials than the older Gen Z’s.. and in the same breath dude also claims that as a 1985 born his “outer” peers are people born in 1991..

He follow users around to other subs to harass them lol.

I blocked him on his main account, and all the others. He came back to one of my posts posing as a 1990 born who frequents the zillennial subs.

Think about it: If you’re 1990 and you claim that 1992-1993 are not zillennials, why are you in the zillennials subs so much? And making everything about 1992-1993 babies?

So far he’s been born in 1985, 1995, 1999, 2011 (a kid) 1986 and now 1990.

For the record, we are all anonymous and I truly give no fucks.. but I’m just calling out the tom foolery.. it’s funny and crazy asf.

After this, dude will be ignored. I just had time this morning.

For me, since it ran from 2015 to 2024, I could say that it is both a Gen Z and a Gen Alpha show, but Gen Z was the main audience for this show.

So obviously i’m not born in 2012 at all but I think one of the biggest things that distinguishes gen z and gen alpha is starting k-12 pre and post covid. 2012 and early 2013 borns in American standards were the last ones to fully have a school year without covid but early 2014 borns also experienced part of a year pre covid

And I know in different countries this is different and it’s different if people went to pre school or skipped grades

Are these years of roughly 2012-2015ish different from the rest of gen alpha? Because I personally think schooling before covid and having vivid memories of it creates a huge generational divide between most of gen z and alpha

Do I have super powers or does no one else remember being 2? Actually I have some memory of being freshly 2, late 1 turning 2 matter of fact and no one believes me. Obviously I don’t remember everything from when I was that young properly but I’ve definitely had some moments time to time that i’ve never forgotten. What do yall define as gaining awareness? Because I’d say I was aware because I had a conscious thought process and I remember what was going through my mind at exact moments

We're all still considered young adults until our 20s and 30s, 40s is middle-aged and 50s is older middle-aged. But you don't actually start getting old until 60~70 years old—and most people can live until their 70s or 80s, maybe over 90 to 100 years if you get very lucky. Though there are exceptionally rare cases of supercentenarians making it over 110~115 or more.

Change my mind.

What will the people born between 2081 and 2097 be called? Centennials?

We know what the gen after Gen Z is called, Gen Alpha but what will the generations be called after that?

I wonder if there'll be any repeating. Like the a future Gen X will be called X2 or stuff like that. Z2? Centennials?

Maybe there'll be another baby boom if we ever get out of this mess, and if they're called a variation?

I am referring to the generations who are ages 18-21 or below. Not Gen Z.

I feel like in maybe another 500 years or so, we will have a generation who doesn't read at all. Every type of information will be used with videos or technology and books will become extinct. It will start off as a gentle "Well I just don't enjoy reading" into 'I'll never read anything, I hate it". We will just depend on AI for everything and no longer be able to use our brains at all. Socializing will become more and more difficult. Finding someone who is charismatic and socially intelligent will be rare. Everyone will become extremely difficult to talk to.

I know right, labels are BAD mmmkay?? There don't seem to be many artist and actor or even bestselling author beatniks so which one of these famous people are the most befittingly called beatniks? I have avoided using the most commonly cited beat authors and poets.

I am not a fan of either of them

Random access memories has disco elements that i do not like

https://youtu.be/wIMSU8otS-g?is=gPjEBPTNs9m_1KUZ

Moon safari uses moog synthesizers, which is a turn off . I hate the sound of moog synthesizers

https://youtu.be/3XTV6pkQne0?is=rDMlqvos_2QSzS4B

I think the music appealed to millennials . I am actually a millennial but it did not appeal to me

https://youtu.be/3XTV6pkQne0?is=rDMlqvos_2QSzS4B

For me , I was not into any subcultures.

I remember that i hate reading books . It feels like a chore . I was just lazy

I hate to work but i have to work to make money

The only music that i used to like were R&B and some hip hop

I am closed minded when it comes to music . I am still closed minded about music

I believe i have third grade reading level

for me it was 2015 and 2016 so you had the NBA with The golden state warriors and Currymania taking over, OKC thunder with KD and Westbrook, Houston with Harden and Dwight howard,

portland was start to make noise with Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, you had the lob city clippers, the Grit and grind grizzlies, the Cavs with lebron,kyrie, and Kevin Love,

Miami with Wade and bosh post leBron And heatles, Kobe’s last nba game, the all time great dunk contest with Zack levine and Aaron Gordon, plus the Cavs making the epic comeback in the finals

The NFl with the manning brothers, Brady, Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliot, Odell Beckham JR, Aaron Rogers, Drew Bree’s, JJ Watt, Adrian Peterson, Cam Newton, Russel Wilson, Marshawn Lynch.

The UFC was red hot at the time with Connor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier.

the MLB with the Cubs winning the World Series.

honestly a pretty cool time period for sports In my opinion.

hey millenials, I’m a big Meghan trainor fan but unfortunately I’m too young to have experienced her like you did. me and my bff were chatting about her songs and I was talking about how ppl would have danced to dear future husband in the club, but he said it definitely didn’t… even though we are both too young to have known.

so tell me honestly millennials of Reddit, did they ever play dear future husband at the club??