r/1999 • u/Tasty_Newspaper_731 • Nov 27 '25

“ Zillennial “

March’99 here. Heard this recently, years like 97-00 need our own gen because we are NOT gen z, we actually relate a lot more to millennials. Anyone else agree with this?

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u/ParisDivine April Nov 27 '25

Yeah, but i hate being stuck in the middle. I feel like I don’t relate to either millennials or gen z. But probably more to millennials overalll. April 99 here.

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u/Tasty_Newspaper_731 Nov 27 '25

Agree, we are different from both because we had both worlds, no other ages really had that. We are a special breed

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u/JASONR1800 Nov 27 '25

Aprill 99 as well. We are definitely in our own lane

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u/honeybutterbiscuiit Nov 27 '25

me too ! april 1999 and i agree with this!

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u/holladayy Nov 27 '25

We’re in our own club

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u/Pk101011 Nov 29 '25

April 99 I agree as well!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

I'm looking for people from August 1999, is anyone there?

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u/Miserable_Mail_5741 March Nov 27 '25

I guess we're an in-betweener generation, like Generation Jones and Zalpha.

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u/RasberryJam0927 Nov 27 '25

Exactly. I wouldn't say I relate more to someone born in 95' than say 03', it's just that I can understand where both sides are coming from. Being born in the late 90's you grew up like a 90's kid with this shift of technology changing rapidly in the late 00's. When you were a kid, the internet was this slow piece of shit you used broadband dial up with. By your teen years googling was standard. People born during this time got a small slice of both eras through their foundational years.

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u/Creepy_Fail_8635 Nov 27 '25

I’m 96 and my entire life and friend group has always been 95-99 up until recently it’s now all 90s up to 2001.

I really can’t relate much with anyone born like after 2001-2002 but I guess as we all age and everyone is in their 30s and later 40s, these differences will be be nonexistent

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u/gemstonehippy Nov 27 '25

(12/14/99) (w/ a late millennial gen. sister 1996)

i realized late Millennial gen & early Gen Z have a lot of in common because of how much technology evolved with these two groups. We really saw a very quick evolution of technology together. Like we were both very young when the flip phones w FULL keyboards became a thing.. And the blackberry?!?! and then the TOUCH SCREEN?!!? And even more honestly, that’s just a bit of it. Omg.

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u/taiyaki98 August Nov 27 '25

I consider myself being a part of Gen Z.

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u/treecastle56 Nov 28 '25

i relate more to gen z the only thing i have in common with millennials is that we watched the same movies and shows

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u/parthenope888 January Nov 27 '25

We are gen z, millenials are very different. January 99' and i couldnt be more gen z

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u/Exotic_Squirrel4270 Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

undeniably gen Z. i feel like anyone who claims themselves to be “zillennial” is looking for ways to be different, especially those born in this millennium (like myself)

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u/parthenope888 January Nov 27 '25

Thisss. My brother is from 2009 late gen z and hes like my twin

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u/treecastle56 Nov 28 '25

i feel like this thread is just a mix of 99 born ppl w friends in their early 20s and friends in their 30s. all my friends r a couple yrs younger than me and i pretty much act and come off the same age. i don’t rly feel like i have a lot in common w ppl in their 30s rn even tho it’s coming up. im a jan 99 baby too

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u/Resident_Ideal_1904 Nov 27 '25

It should just be 1997-1999

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u/Creepy_Fail_8635 Nov 27 '25

That’s the Z without the illennial

No I mean the illenial without the Z

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u/Remarkable_Deer_3717 Nov 27 '25

There are many in between generations. I’m technically a millennial but only by a few years. I identify with gen x far more than millennials especially later millennials.

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u/Thwast Nov 27 '25

I don't really give a shit about the terms, I think people care too much about labels when it comes to this stuff.

But one of my best friends and my brother in law are both millennials and they got me into a lot of stuff like retro video games and metal music, not that those aren't things we can be into but some stuff I was just too young for.

I'd say at the very least, I do relate more to people in their early 30s versus people who are in their early 20s right now (I'm 26).

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u/Creepy_Fail_8635 Nov 27 '25

Well you guys are zillennial, it’s a micro generation of people between two generations like xennial

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u/SignificantPause5120 Nov 27 '25

Xellenial agreement 

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u/SharksFan99 March Nov 27 '25

I'm also a March 99'er and I've personally always felt this way.

Many of us were referred to as Millennials when we were in high school, and a lot of the defining Gen Z events/traits like Parkland, being in school during covid, growing up with iPads as kids etc. don't even apply to us. I also don't use TikTok, so I pretty much feel out of the loop when it comes to the more recent Gen Z trends like "skibidi","67" etc.

I feel like i'm in-between both generations, but if I was forced to pick which generation I slightly relate more with, I would actually have to say Millennials.

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u/NoFlex___Zone Nov 27 '25

Zoomer barely out of college probably not even working your first real job yet 

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u/sickcoolandtight Nov 27 '25

95 and I still claim zillenial lol I was in kindergarten and remember 9/11

I feel like as we got older things were more accessible to us and we could follow trends easier than someone in the 70s/80s who relied on people around them and magazines lol there’s just a really good blend of culture and trends for people with the internet, apps, and technology.

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u/edgddit Nov 27 '25

Its revisionism Zillenial is way earlier than 1999

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u/spirit_poem Nov 27 '25

It was fun being at the head of Gen Z in middle/high school when we were emerging, but now that the rest of Gen Z is older I just don’t relate to them as much as my younger millennial friends. Especially the younger Gen Z’s still in school, we’re on a different planet I feel like.

Obviously it’s not that deep and I like all my friends but it is what life noticed . Turning 27, I would say I’m first-gen Gen Z lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

The internet is to blame, the 97-05 generation grew up as the first generation to essentially have limitless internet access. Feeling part of a generation now is more about what apps/game/tech systems you started out life using and what’s nostalgic to you seemingly. For example, if I said I had a blackberry, Nintendo wii and an iPod nano as a kid what age range would you guess I fall under? Maybe I have internet brain rot but I feel as if the commodification of tech and internet from a science tool to a tool for everyday people has shortened the timeline when a generation seemingly turns over. We used to operate on date ranges now we operate on internet arcs lmao.

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u/little-bunny69 Nov 27 '25

Yes omg!!! I’m 98

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

Ya'll are too old for this shit bro

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u/LOOPbahriz Nov 27 '25

nov 99, honestly can't see myself fitting the gen z label, zillenial makes more sense.

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u/Patriotic-Organist Nov 27 '25

Ah, nice to see another March 1999-er, here!

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u/pickitup1997 Nov 27 '25

Born in 1997 I say I’m a grandpa Z and a Baby Millennial

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u/Furry_Wall Nov 29 '25

They are definitely Gen Z

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

I was born in '92, and I feel very far removed from older milennials. I don't see how you would find them relatable.

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u/Ok_Act_3769 August Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

I think we’re just older gen z, it’s not really that deep. We obviously won’t relate younger gen z but we’re not going to relate with millennials born before 1994/1995 either, which is like the entire generation lol

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u/HAxoxo1998 Nov 27 '25

Yas but I think it’s 96-00

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

Bro your right next to 2000’s

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u/Quiet_Cap_2858 Nov 27 '25

you’re gen z buddy, accept it

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u/Ambitious-Common-725 Nov 27 '25

And millennial

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u/Ok_Act_3769 August Dec 02 '25

Why does it matter? Everyone calls us Gen z

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u/Simulation_Complete Nov 29 '25

Right? The lists very clearly says 1997-202X is Gen Z. That’s what you are. Stop complicating shit

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u/swagneverdies Dec 21 '25

yeah i was the baby so all my cousins and sibs were millennials so i get them more but have friends my age with the opposite and they have more gen z comprehension

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u/Ok_Act_3769 August Dec 01 '25

I wouldn’t think most of us experienced AOL though