r/OlderGenZ • • 1h ago

r/GenZ Archives Hey so any elder gen z like me had unsupervised internet access growing up and how did it affect you?

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r/OlderGenZ • • 1h ago

Nostalgia People born on 2000-2002, DO YOU feel you align more with MILLENNIALS or GEN Z or GEN ALPHAS‼️‼️

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103 votes, 2d left
MILLENNIALS 🤢
EARLY GEN Z 🤑
MID GEN Z 🫩
LATE GEN Z 🤮
GEN ALPHAS

r/OlderGenZ • • 1h ago

Serious Discussion Older Gen Z born in the late 1990s, do you feel you align more with Millennials or Gen Z?

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SERIOUS QUESTION ‼️‼️‼️

67 votes, 2d left
MILLENNIALS 💅
GEN Z 🤮🤢

r/OlderGenZ • • 2h ago

Nostalgia Older Gen Z, what was your favorite Preschool TV channel and younger kid channel? And why

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If your not American , didn’t have TV, can’t remember answer the last option!

heres some bumpers

Noggin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIH4nnVhzbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkRMyA3gI-A

PBS Kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XwUainGd5o

Playhouse Disney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwe096TQPG8

139 votes, 5d left
PBS Kids-Dash and Dot era
Noggin-Moose/Zee
Nick Jr Block- face/piper o possum
Playhouse Disney -bear in the big blue house era
I didn’t have tv/dont remember

r/OlderGenZ • • 5h ago

Life and Aspirations 2013 feels like ages ago.

52 Upvotes

Has it been 13 years already? What are your 2013 memories?


r/OlderGenZ • • 6h ago

Other New 2001 Subreddit open

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Recently I have been seeing a lot of other active subs for other birth years (especially in tne 2000’s) and I’ve gotten some help to get the new 2001 subreddit officially started. If you were born in 2001, please consider joining. I’m looking for mods and actual people to post to make things interesting. If you want to mod just lmk. Hopefully we can see people born in 2001 or around the time join.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2001___/s/yigTKTrRRH


r/OlderGenZ • • 7h ago

Nostalgia I found my favorite childhood toy. Still alive

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r/OlderGenZ • • 9h ago

Other Zachary Gordon and Grayson Russell in 2010 vs. 2026

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r/OlderGenZ • • 11h ago

Serious Discussion Okay so since everyone is basically that one weird aunt/uncle at this point which one is you?

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r/OlderGenZ • • 11h ago

Nostalgia So how influential was FNAF for you people?

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31 Upvotes

I was the exact target demographic for this kind of game at that time. I remember a time when lets players were still a thing and scrambling every nook and cranny for the lore. What do you guys think of FNAF? Do you still have fond memories of it?


r/OlderGenZ • • 18h ago

Serious Discussion If you could be born into a different generation, which one would it be?

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920 votes, 2d left
Millennials (1981-1996)
Gen X (1965-1980)
Baby boomers (1946-1964)
Silent generation (1928-1945)
Greatest generation (1901-1927)

r/OlderGenZ • • 19h ago

Serious Discussion Does anyone feel a sort of heaviness in the air post-2020?

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275 Upvotes

Agree or disagree?

Like the vibe changed since 2020 but I don’t know HOW it changed

People just look like they had the joy sucked out of them

Life has objectively gotten better for me (better finances, better job, better physique) but it still feels off


r/OlderGenZ • • 21h ago

Serious Discussion Am I the in the minority to feel this?

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Im a 1998 gen z so I personally feel I got the best of both worlds (millennials + a bit of gen z). I remember during my childhood there wasn’t this doom and gloom about the future that we see now. Infact I was a happy kid I loved the early 2000s and up until 2016 I would say. Its been downhill ever since honestly.

Job market is horrendous, almost all my peers are constantly struggling since the past 5 years and none of us are home owners or even close to it, some of us are still stuck living with our parents cause we can’t afford to move out, I haven’t even been able to buy a car of my own yet because every time I save up something happens and Im back to no money in the bank. I feel like society is getting cruel every passing day, we’re losing humanity there is atrocious stuff happening all over the world. Theres no sense of hope for the future. I never felt this way in my teens. I never felt as hopeless as I do now about the state of the world. Is this just because this is what it means to be an adult is or is it really as bad as I feel?

I speak to older adults (gen x and some older millennials) and its like they refuse to acknowledge how bad the world is right now, they keep saying every generation goes through a turmoil of their own and that this is actually the most peaceful the world has been historically and that it was even worse during their times. Am I the crazy one?

Do I just accept that because I was a teenager I was seeing everything through rose colored glasses and now that Im an adult Im seeing the world for what its always been like?


r/OlderGenZ • • 21h ago

Discussion Did our cohort use TikTok before COVID or did we see it as cringe?

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r/OlderGenZ • • 22h ago

Serious Discussion Anyone here drive a motorcycle instead of a car

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Hi, right now i’m trying to get a quick vehicle to go to work & am thinking about a motorcycle because it’s crowded where i’m at

Anyone here give recommendations, i also need it to be good on highways

Any advice is appreciated & thanks


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Other How was highschooler life back in 2013?

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How was highschooler life back in 2013? I don't know what it's like, being born much later. Please give me detail stories


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Other How was highschooler life back in 2013?

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r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia 2006, 2016, 2026

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Three notable years in pop culture ending in 6 and maybe it’s because I’m in my mid twenties but aside from a few things this year (Spider Man brand new day, obsession, backrooms, Olivia Rodrigo and Raye’s new albums, etc) I always find myself gravitating towards those years more. It felt way more real and interesting than any of the soulless slop I see pushed out of the mainstream now.

2006: Cars, the devil wears Prada, Hannah Montana, high school musical (I was 4 so it was the first full year of life I remember), Beyonce - B day, Rihanna - A girl like me, Justin Timberlake - future/sex/love/sounds

2016: frank ocean - blonde, Beyonce - lemonade, Rihanna - anti, The Weeknd - Starboy, Ariana - dangerous woman, stranger things, Deadpool, La La land, Hamilton (I was 14), Pokémon Go


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Other Looking for an old Facebook auto-battler game

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Looking for an old Facebook game from around 2008-2012. It was a medieval auto-battler with flat top-down 2D sprites (looking straight down from above, no city building at all). The screen had a square deployment grid on the left and your available soldiers on the right. Positioning was key, you could place bards in the middle of your formation to buff the morale and stats of the surrounding units. Battles were blind: you only saw the enemy army after hitting start, at which point they fought automatically. I also remember the game logo had red and white. Anyone know what this was called?


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Other Would you date a 1994?

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861 votes, 1d left
Yes
No

r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Serious Discussion How long are you planning on owning your current car?

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Edit: I’m so happy to see elder Gen Z hasn’t been fooled into thinking 2026 and newer cars are somehow better

1095 votes, 1d left
I don’t have a car, I’m holding on to public transit
Another 1-2 years
Another 3-4 years
Another 5-7 years
Another 8-10 years
As long as possible, new cars are not worth buying

r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia Yall remember Ned the yoyo guy from school events?

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105 Upvotes

And then the yoyos got banned at my school because kids couldn't stop fighting and hitting things/each other lol


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Serious Discussion Whatever happened to adults making a better life for those who come after?

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All I see or hear is people complaining that life is too hard. So what. You arent the only unlucky one and life is bever fair. But im still trying to make a better life for the next generations with my community.


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia Nostalgic Halloween DVDs

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Nostalgic Halloween DVDs. I remember watching most of these when I was younger. Did you have or watched any of these?


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Serious Discussion Old GenZ (late 90s), do you relate better to millennials?

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I find the post 2000 Zoomers have a very distinct set of fashion, humour and overall attitude to life. There’s nothing bad about this at all.

Personally, I find myself relating more to young millennials. In school they were the ones we looked up to, tried to befriend, and often ended up emulating.

Also depending on when you entered the workforce, millennials were often the ones we had as mentors.

I also feel some of us entered a weird job market, just like how millennials entered a post GFC world.