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Easy test: do you remember 9/11? 
Yes? You're a millennial. 
No? You're Gen Z.
1996-1998 are zillenials. They don’t really fit into either.
Also using TikTok does not make someone fit into a generation. There are plenty of 50 years old on tiktok. >

I feel like Zenillels could even go down to 92, that whole cohort are really between true millennials and gen z >

I tend to agree with you. I've always viewed the change in generation being based on the internet going mainstream and adoption of certain technology. Being born in like 94, for example, by the time you really start to remember, you have a decent amount of exposure to computers and internet. If you grew up before it dominated a large part of your childhood I feel like your a millenial for sure, and being born in 90 im very much the tail end of that cause i saw the change just with my fruends younger siblings. I distinctly remember computers and the internet really getting introduced to us when we were in late elementary early middle school so we had a large part of our childhood where computers/internet just didn't play a part. Sort of the last era of independence with playing outside and be home when the streetlights turn on mentality. I think AIM went big when I was in 6th or 7th grade and that is my first memory of really using the internet. >

You're exactly my cousin's age. 1990 is about the last year people would have some fuzzy memories of a pre-internet world. 
Barney was his definitive childhood TV show, mine was more Sesame Street with Big Bird being the main star (pre Elmo era) and Mr Rogers. 
His first game console was the Nintendo 64. Mine was the NES. We're both millennials, but his first Nintendo game was Mario 64, mine was Super Mario 3... he got the better deal there ;) >

My first console was SNES and first game Super Mario World. Still randomly play it to this day! >

I was born in 1997 and I align more with millennials based on mutual shared experiences than zoomers but in the end it doesn't even matter lol 
Gatekeeping this sort of thing is dumb. >

I think at the edges it probably depends on your upbringing. I’m only a year younger than you, but because my parents are relatively young Gen X and I don’t have older siblings I think I had a very zoomer upbringing, whereas I know ppl my age who have millennial older siblings and boomer parents who think of themselves as millennials >

I definitely agree. >

This Gen Z or millenials thing is even more odd outside of the US or english speaking countries. We got movies or pop culture stuff 6 months, a year, maybe 2 years later or even never. As someone who was born in 1999, that makes it difficult to associate myself with any generation. >

You'd still be Gen Z going by the cohort. Because you likely don't clearly remember a pre-internet world. >

I do? My dad used the internet, sure, but I think the first time I really used it was in 2007 or so. My sister and I loved this one Barbie online game collection, but couldn't even think of playing it before I could read the instructions reliably. My favourite movies were on VHS, I remember my dad installing the first CD player. And the shift to blu-rays happened many years later. >

First experience with the internet being in 2007 would be clearly Gen Z. I was already graduated from college and working in my first job by then. 
If your first experience with the internet was AOL 4.0 in 1997 after school, that’s a millennial story. >

WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT >

Generations in general are just dumb.
Every person is different. The year you were born does not affect your beliefs, interests, or experiences. >

Whether or not you use TikTok has no bearing on the generation you were born in. There are set years for generations and that’s it. With the evolution of technology we are seeing more rapid changes and a smaller timeframe for generations to be “different”. But that really doesn’t matter. You’re GenZ plain and simple. >

These labels are fucking stupid and not real in the first place
It's just a stupid way people of different age groups can gatekeep each other "you didn't grow up with this" or be ageist. "Haha your old" shit. >

A lot of people who scream about this, also casually forget that not everyone is from the USA.
I remember getting into an online fight about this. Basically, it was a typical "only millenials remember" thing. Including the show Danny Phantom. Except...I'm from Germany and remember growing up with the show. It was reruns, most likely, but they also have to dub them, mind you. I also remember older gameboys (though tbf they were partially from my cousins) and a lot of "typically millenial things". 
The other person thought I was nuts. I couldn't have watched Danny Phantom, because it was already off air over there. Or that I "still" used those things.
At this point, I realized that people are way too obsessed with lables. I generally see everyone roughly around the start of TikTok as the Gen Z era. Millenials is everyone who's roughly around the millenial change. Forwards and backwards. And with 2002, I think that's still close enough. >

Technically many generation classification sites cap Millennials at 1996, but potato poTOTTo. >

Who honestly gives a fuck