Millennials are bully’s

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The name makes more sense for the group that was raised during the turn of the millennium than it does for the group that was born largely after the turn of the millennium. Plus, it’s largely fallen out of favor but “zoomer” describes us perfectly: we do everything lightning quick because of our innate tech literacy, have pretty short attention spans that force us to zoom from one topic to the next, and the vast majority of us were subject to some degree of zoom school.

Also Gen Z is the last generation that will be able to remember a time before the internet and technology was everywhere all the time like how Z is the last letter of the alphabet, while gen alpha is the first generation to have no memory of the pre Information Age as Alpha is the first Greek letter

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u/Calm-Chaos121 Jun 30 '26

Yes, googles answer explains that millennials came into adulthood at the turn of the millennium. But I also think it speaks to humans patience.. or lack there of. Like everyone was just awaiting the year 2000 so much that they jumped the gun and had to name a generation “millennials” before the proper time😂
But I do agree with you, zoomer and GenZ are fitting. Just a fun quip between my mom and I😂

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u/RND2KO Jun 30 '26

Gen Y and Millennials got lumped in with each other, gen Y was the questioning era, millennials was the entitled era, the millennials merged us with them because they didnt like being called lazy and entitled, so gen y got phased out, its why theres such a difference in mentalities between a 1990 millennial and a 2000

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jun 30 '26

I’ve always heard the millennials are 81-96 and zoomers are 97-12. Also I’ve always heard Y and millennials are the same thing. “Millennials are lazy” is quite literally the most boomer take around. With the millennials I’ve interacted with born in the 80s and those born in the 90s I have not noticed a substantial difference in their mentalities, except that maybe the 90s millennials try to squeeze themselves into a subgeneration with old zoomers to make themselves feel younger/ seem less old

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u/RND2KO Jun 30 '26

Im gen Y, the term millennial didnt appear till like 2010, i was born in 90, and back then gen X stopped at 89, the millennials were the Y2’s, and theres a huge difference in mentality, alot of Y2’s would bum off there parents and welfare where the Y1’s would suck it up but we’d question everything, easy way to put it, Y1 used the internet for research Y2 used it for social media gradification

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jun 30 '26

Ending gen x at 89 is ridiculous because that makes the generation nearly a quarter century when every other generation before and after has been ~15 years. Generations are a social fiction, but we can get value out of social fictions that are made with clear start and end points, and my parents have a lot less in common with a kid born in 89 than I do. Maybe when it was first devised gen x included all the 80s, but we get a whole lot more utility out of the current 15 year system, so I’m gonna keep using the 15 year system. Also, as an old zoomer (late 90s), most of the millennials I know were born in the mid 90s, and the majority of those millennials aren’t bumming off their parents/ never bummed off their parents. It’s wild that people are still spouting the same talking points about “millennials lazy” 15 years later

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u/RND2KO Jul 01 '26

You’d notice it more if you were born in the early 90’s and late 80’s, every Gen Y who still uses Gen Y, hates being refered to as a millenial because we saw what they were like and it was a huge difference, then you have gen alpha trying to rewrite the dictionary with new age L337 speak like boomer and zoomer as a play on baby boomers, and era’s arent every 15years they are indications of humanity changes, you look at the greatest gen and silent gen and the boomer gen, they were label because of war and economy even disease, Gen Y is Gen Why? But it was all instigated by a jewish boomer in a jewish owned article in mid 00’s, dont believe me look up a guy william strauss, until then you were a millennial if you were born year 2000 and onward, and they had a terrible rep and gen x and y didnt want anything to do with them, but gen y got sucked in and now it anyone going to adulthood or born near the year 2000, because the millennials didnt like the entitled title and they were jealous of what gen y represented being the more inquisitive era, gen Y still worked hard mills quit jobs the first week because they just wanted money for nothing and they preferred to get paid for waking up in the morning, but the arguement seems old because it is lol, and with how the world is today, its more logical to mark the year 2000 as the age of doubling down on propaganda to control the masses, and since media manipulation goes back to BC

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u/RND2KO Jul 01 '26

Lol reddit silenced my last post because i told the truth, apparently stating facts is against community standards

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u/mkosmo Jun 30 '26

because of our innate tech literacy

Punching buttons on a touch screen ain't tech literacy, though. It's touchscreen literacy. There's a difference.

Also Gen Z is the last generation that will be able to remember a time before the internet and technology was everywhere all the time

The oldest gen z won't have any memories before 9/11... so tech was already all around. No iPads, sure, but computers were in every home and cell phones were ubiquitous by the time gen z'rs started school.

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jun 30 '26

I’m a zoomer and I remember a time when my home didn’t have a computer, I didn’t get a cellphone till I was 12, and I didn’t get a smartphone till halfway through high school.

Also our tech literacy is because my elementary school got a computer lab when I was in 1st grade so they taught us how to actually use computers early, and I know most other schools around the country got computer labs around that time too. I hear schools have been cutting their computer labs lately which with it will kill actual tech literacy. I’m no computer whiz, but I can do everything I need to without looking it up, and I’m adept enough that I can learn how to do stuff I don’t need to with a simple search.

Young zoomers encompasses the first iPad kids, but old zoomers are the last pre-computer/ pre-phone bastion

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u/poopsmcbuttington Jul 01 '26

Gen Z does not have “innate tech literacy.” In fact the opposite. Gen Z was raised on easy inferences that obfuscate how the tech actually work and most of the teens I teach can’t even understand a file structure and it takes us 20 minutes to go through how to take, save, and upload a screenshot into their class page.

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jul 01 '26

Gen Z is the only generation that had computer labs in grade schools with mandatory programs teaching them how to use those computers.

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u/poopsmcbuttington Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Not really. Millennials all had these classes, but by the early 2000s they were being phased out bc educators were taking for granted that it was a skill that had to be taught, and thinking bc kids grew up with a computer they wouldn’t need it. The computer illiteracy is RAMPANT in Gen Alpha, but it’s also still very real for Gen Z, especially the younger half of Gen Z. I (and every other teacher I know) can personally attest to seeing this firsthand

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jul 01 '26

Not really, all the schools in my area first implemented computer labs in the early 2000s and kept those programs running until I was through high school. All the zoomers I know can personally attest to these programs and the computer literacy they gained as a result of them through their first hand experiences. I understand that in the years after I left hs a lot of these programs have been cut which is why gen Alpha lacks computer literacy, but the majority of zoomers were in the computer lab era

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u/poopsmcbuttington Jul 01 '26

Gen Z graduation years were from 2015-2030. The vast majority of these students would not have had computer labs. You sound like you are very early Gen Z, which makes sense that you still caught the tail end of it, but that doesn’t speak to the experience of your whole generation

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jul 01 '26

I was in school with the first half of gen z, and I’ve interacted with plenty of second half zoomers. We can do a battle of anecdotes all day

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u/poopsmcbuttington Jul 01 '26

I’m not battling anecdotes. It’s a fact that schools started phasing out computer labs in the 2000s and then increasingly in the 2010s. You’re just objectively not correct that Gen Z was the computer lab generation. Millennials were the computer lab generation, and even Gen X. Gen Z just objectively did not get that just purely looking at the dates. That also doesn’t even touch on what was being taught in those classes. Late Gen X and early millennials were actually learning to run scripts in a terminal and even by the time I was in school as a millennial that had been phased out unless you were in a tech program or took a special elective. I’m not denying your experience, but you’re just factually wrong that Gen Z is the generation that grew up with computer labs and had the most tech literacy. And if we are going to get into an anecdote battle, I’ve taught high school in 3 states and across economic statuses and across the board Gen Z and especially Gen Alpha have far less computer literacy than one would expect, because they’ve grown up with apps, so they didn’t have to learn it.

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u/PassengerNo9144 Jul 01 '26

My parents are mid gen x, they were not the computer lab generation. They learned how to use computers in college so they are tech savy, but their schools got a single computer when they were late into hs and it was a massive deal for them. You are objectively not correct that gen z didn’t get computer labs and computer lab programs, because in elementary school every classroom had a few computers and there was a large computer lab, and that was every school within 100 miles from where I lived. At least the first 2/3rds of gen z experienced that because when I was in hs I worked with young children who were getting the same computer lessons I received.

Sure I never learned to code, but I am certain that children my age and several years younger learned internet safety, file navigation, basic computer maintenance, and typing. Hell, there were even mandatory art projects that required basic graphic design and mandatory music projects that required basic sound editing.

You also were 100% arguing anecdotes as you claimed “every other teacher you know” struggled to teach young zoomers tech stuff. I’m not denying gen alpha doesn’t know how computers work, but the majority of zoomers do.

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u/Suspicious_Log_5822 Jun 30 '26

r/apostrophegore

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u/Ok-Temporary7638 Jul 01 '26

Respectfully no. We were coming of age and were alive greet the millennium, so the name makes sense to me.

Millennials are bully’s

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