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ive said this like 4 or 5 times irl, maybe twice online, and it's been recieved VERY positively so far, everytime; so i assume it's a good rule of thumb on how to tell if youre a millenial or gen z

also i admit, this rule of thumb MIGHT(?) be American only?? bc it relies, via implicatipn, on some of the nationalistic/patriotic propaganda. idk how heavy those sentiments are for one's own home-country when said home-country is not a territory within the USA. so if such applies to you, great! well. not "great"-great, bc it actually sucks to experience that as your overall enviroment. but like. you get to join in too. that's what i mean lol

anyway. people who were born at the fringes of baby-millenial/elder-gen-z-er/zillenial/whatever, here's my pitch to you on "what side are you on":

if you grew up, feeling like you were decieved on how [the world/your home-country/the economy/etc] works?? like you feel like kid you had so many hopes be dashed as things "became unveiled" as it were?? millenial

versus: if you grew up seeing [the world/your home-country/the economy/etc] works with a reluctant or despairing "ahh... so this is how things are", not feeling lied to at all, but rather just like you are old enough to be observant of "the truth" and that younger-you was just unaware?? gen z

if you're somehow both (which is a response i have not heard irl or online yet when i broached this, but is one i statistically know could happen), you're either a 50/50 "zillenial" or you pick the majority-experience you most identify with. so, if you want to say you grew up 75% "ahh... so this is how things are" and 25% feeling decieved by the adults/culture around you?? you can do a joke about "i am a gen z sun-sign with a millenial moon" zodiac oooorrr just say you're a gen z in that example. whatever. there's no rules lmao

which means, yeah, you can be a 2000-millenial with a 1996-gen-z best friend, sure. hell, it means people you share/d classrooms with are also probably a mixed bag of gen-z-ers and millenials. my big brother is a millenial (he is not in the fringes) and my littlest sister is a gen z member (also not in the fringes), and id consider myself (a '97 baby 🤡) a member of gen z. meanwhile, my little sister (the who IS with me on being in the fringes) is debating it still and most of these days is leaning millenial(? could be subject to change). whatever. it happens

bc baby-millenials and elder-gen-z-ers are both at the blurry (fringes) area and sometimes people were parented differently, some towns in some states had odd climates, sometimes people processed things differently, it's okay if we don't make a ton of sense

it's just those two items tend to be kind of the core of a millenial or gen-z-er (from the USA), so that's how i personally vote the shift be made. very choose-your-own adventure but with a dash of some ✨️guidance✨️ so youre not lost in the woods, so to speak, like, you now know where north is (or what i say north is, bc again, idk how "universal" this is outside of the USA) but whatever lol

just wanted to share in case it continues to be a helpful lil guide for people to decide how they feel