Zendaya attends a presentation of "Dune: Part Two" during CinemaCon in April in Las Vegas. I really do relate to both, but I also don’t at all,” she said. “My entire life, I’ve been told I’m a millennial or a new Gen Zer. Grimaldi has a younger sibling who is Gen Z and an older one who’s a millennial. She launched Zillennial Zine, a mostly online site for her micro-generation, in 2021. “We’ve been growing up with technology our whole lives, but we’re not TikTok dancers like Gen Z but also weren’t on MySpace like millennials,” said Sabrina Grimaldi, 23. Zillennials straddle the generations of millennials, who are considered digital pioneers, and Gen Z, who are considered digital natives who never knew life before screens. The different ways generations grow up with and use technology is a strong delineator in defining generations. How does tech define the cutoff for Gen Z? A decade earlier, “we had the iPod Touch to download music online and did YouTube-to-MP3 converters.” Olarte’s sister and other members of “Gen Z grew up with a phone in their hand and with social media - they didn’t miss a beat,” Olarte said. Zillennials were born roughly between 19, but there isn’t one consistent cutoff point that experts agree on, Carr said.Īsk a zillennial, though, and they might tell you who they are. “They attended college during the pandemic, and missed out on important social markers.” “They were babies and children when 9/11 struck and don’t know life before airport security screenings, rampant domestic terrorism and other frightening threats,” she said. Members of this micro-generation, loosely defined as being in their early to mid-20s, have faced and overcome much adversity in their relatively short lives, Carr said via email. Everything you think you know about us is wrong “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.” “Zillennials refer to a small cohort born between the early 1990s and the early 2000s,” said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. Unfamiliar with the term? It’s a tiny group. “When I first heard the term zillennial, in college, I was like, ‘That’s me,’ ” Olarte said. The term millennial (also known as Generation Y) refers to anyone born between 19, and Gen Z refers to anyone born from 1997 through 2012, according to the Pew Research Center.Īlong the blurry edge at the cusp of the two generations, between Gen Y and Z, is where zillennials live. “My sister sees me as a young millennial, and millennials see me as Gen Z,” she said. Gen Z uses the term to refer to “millennial things that are kind of uncool or cringey,” according to Olarte. Her Generation Z sister, who is 16, sometimes calls Olarte “cheugy,” she said. There was a time when Juliana Olarte, a 26-year-old travel publicist living in New York City, couldn’t figure out where she fit in from a generational standpoint.
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