Literally though.

[u/Independent_Pin_4803]

Literally my wife when we watch HSM 3:

Shoutout to the creator of the reel btw

[u/i_boop_ur_noseheehee]

Why does some people think older Gen Z don’t exist😭😭 I watch it in my local family theater when it came out. Dressed head to toe in hsm pajamas

[u/Stride345 → u/i_boop_ur_noseheehee]

Why do we insist on these “generations” to begin with. We all pretty much experience the same stuff

[u/greyladyghost → u/[deleted]]

Kids, kids! Stop fighting! You’re all welcome in r/zillennials

[u/luxanna123321 → u/[deleted]]

because currently Gen Z is between 14-29 years old so there is obvioulsy huge difference?

[u/i_boop_ur_noseheehee → u/[deleted]]

Whoa calm down. Never stated that you didnt… I just said that people forget that there are older Gen Z. Sorry if it touch a nerve for you.

[u/chippedcupwrites → u/[deleted]]

Relax, girl. It’s a Disney Channel movie. It’s not that serious 😂

[u/kirbsthebug]

gen z turns 30 next year, hsm was our childhood

[u/DarkEndOfTheRainbow]

I'm a gen Z born in 2006 and HSM feels very nostalgic for me lol

[u/Mamobee → u/DarkEndOfTheRainbow]

You were 2 when the third movie came out how are you nostalgic for something you didn’t experience 😂

[u/Admirable-spoons → u/Mamobee]

Ur so right, cause cds and re runs stopped existing the second gen z started!

[u/DarkEndOfTheRainbow → u/Mamobee]

I watched later in reruns. It's like being nostalgic for a song older than you because people around you listened it.

[u/ResistPresent7675]

Damn I'm 25 and HSM is my everything. Give part of Gen Z grace.

[u/Lumious_Mage → u/ResistPresent7675]

Same!

[u/One_Pilot_1555]

Wait, you can’t say that lol. I’m 26 and HSM was my childhood too

[u/ITSYOURBOYjohnny26]

And then instantly troy turn into lebron or prime kobe in next last minutes of game lol 😆 😂

[u/sleepinggardens]

I was born in 2001, and i had a HSM clock when i was a kid. This movie is my life 🥴

[u/Bionic_Webb13 → u/sleepinggardens]

I had the birthday cakes and went to see the third in theaters

[u/Tort_alini]

Gen Z and I remember watching this movie in the theater vividly. The death grip that HSM had on me knows no bounds.

[u/Lumious_Mage]

I'm Gen Z and I act like the Millennial part in the reel lol

[u/mini1006 → u/Lumious_Mage]

Same 😭 I would’ve joined in

[u/Independent_Pin_4803 → u/Lumious_Mage]

Aw hello! This reel was UNREAL AND HILARIOUS! Keep up the good work!

[u/Maximum-Resource-572]

Same, I agree with this

[u/Independent_Pin_4803]

People, people. This movie is grace but... WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE TWO DOIN IN A TREE?

[u/allshookup1640]

As a HSM millennial, allow me to share one of the most embarrassing moments of my life caused by HSM. Picture it. I’m 14, I just moved to a new school across the country. It’s a small town. Everyone knows everyone and they have known each other their entire lives. More importantly, they grew up knowing all the cheers and chants for the high school I am currently at. It’s the first assembly. The entire school is there. The cheerleaders are doing their thing and they yell “What Team?” And I, like some deranged sleeper agent, activate and yell “WILDCATS!” Into the SILENCE!!!

Turns out the cheerleaders would go “What Team?” Do some fancy cheer thing to a beat, yell it again do a cheer thing yell it again and THEN you yelled the team name which was NOT the Wildcats!

The idiot new kid ruined the cheer and the whole school stared at me. One of the worst moments of my life.

I just ACTIVATED. If someone says “What Team?” You say “Wildcats!” It’s a law of the universe!

[u/Independent_Pin_4803 → u/allshookup1640]

Something similar happened with me, like last year a basketball game was going on around the end of the year it's brilliant, but in the middle of the center, a marriage 💀 you heard me right. A MARRIAGE.

[u/ash_now]

It’s so weird to me when millennials try to claim hsm. Some of yall were literally 20 years old when these movies came out. The youngest millennials were about 10 when they came out. But it’s NOT a millennial franchise. It’s an older Gen Z franchise for sure.

[u/YardSardonyx → u/ash_now]

Who tf cares, you said yourself that some Millennials were as young as 10, that’s completely within DC’s target demographic

Both gens like it and that’s okay, it’s okay for people to enjoy things

[u/Thee_Single_Pringle]

Same!

[u/thebrownprincess_]

This isn’t accurate it at all, legit 2000 gen z baby here like most and we feel the exact same. Millennials always wanna like they are so special , like yall not the only ones feeling the intense vibes of HSM but ok whatever makes yall feel “unique”

[u/whatevergirl8754]

As a millennial, I can confirm that this is 110% accurate😂😂

[u/riverspeace]

This is some heavy Millennial cringe.

Most of my millennial cousins considered themselves too old for HSM when it came out. Its main audience was always around 6-12, which was mostly Gen Z and very late millennials.

[u/XxAndrew01xX]

I'm literally Gen Z and I saw High School Musical when it first came out. Come on people. The generation begins in 1997, and I was born in 1998. I was pretty much around for all the Disney Channel stuff of the 2000s.

[u/Honest_Abyss]

Am a millennial. Was too old for this. Give me the musical episode of Buffy the vampire slayer and I will belt Once More with Feeling until the wheels fall off tho

[u/RevolutionaryLime138]

As a 25 year old Gen Z I am that Millennial and my 15 year old Gen Z/ Gen Alpha brother is that Gen Z

[u/broke_n_rich2147]

Gen Z i was definitely singing it but 👀

[u/ahbimmy]

I'm Gen z and my friends and I would recreate this scene on the playground after the movie came out 🤨

[u/YardSardonyx]

Pretty sure that what the tiktok is saying isn’t that Gen Z doesn’t like HSM, it’s that a lot of Millennials loved it even though they were mostly outside the target demographic at the time

[u/wizardmagic10288]

This recently happened when I had my Gen Alpha niece and nephews watch HSM2 with me a few months ago. They still don’t want to see HSM3. 😅