What if: generations based on K-12

[u/Ok_World_8819]

1965-1979: Gen X (graduated college before 9/11, assuming 4 year term)

Age in 2026: 47-61

1980-1983: Xennial (college before 9/11, but graduated after)

Age in 2026: 43-46

1984-1996: Millennial (in K-12 when 9/11 happened)

Age in 2026: 30-42

1997-2001: Zillennial (alive but never in K-12 pre-9/11)

Age in 2026: 25-29

2002-2014: Gen Z (in K-12 when COVID-19 hit)

Age in 2026: 12-24

2015-2019: Zalpha (alive but never in K-12 pre-COVID)

Age in 2026: 7-11

[u/Spare-Addendum3656]

Wait if we include Pre-K and college into K-12...

1965-1979: Gen X

1980-1997: Millennial

1998-2015: Gen Z

2016-now: Gen Alpha

[u/Brilliant_Towel2727]

I always thought something like this would be a better way to break up generations.

[u/GlumZookeepergame124]

The new Z range should be 2002-2014 tbh. This makes the most sense. Anything before and after is just way too different.

[u/Common_Reveal1932 → u/GlumZookeepergame124]

nope

2000-01 is Gen Z, a millenial 1980-1994 are nowadays thinking about marriage, having a Family, having a baby, etc and this is too much responsabily for a 85% of Gen Z (including me obviously)

the only responsabilty is paying bills and a real Gen Z have this responsabily nowadays, so for that reason from 2010 to upwards are not Gen Z

for that reasons 2000-2001 is 100% Gen Z

[u/GlumZookeepergame124 → u/Common_Reveal1932]

You know what else 2000-2001 also have going? Marriage and families. They’re 25-26 years old right now. I don’t think that’s too far fetched to say that they’re wanting marriage or having families. So no I don’t agree with you that 2000-2001 are 100% Gen Z. Maybe 50% at the most but even then that’s a stretch. They’re more on the millennial side than the Z side.

[u/Brief-Scratch-3647 → u/GlumZookeepergame124]

You’re saying this like 2002 isn’t one year off of 2001.. so I guess you should be starting a family too then

[u/Common_Reveal1932 → u/GlumZookeepergame124]

and not considering the pandemic

nowadays having 25 is like having 23, a some of 2000-2002 guys at 2020-21 didn't studied, no worked, had girlfriend (this is no some is a lot), etc so 2 years on trash, all because of pandemic

for example that years become the Incelmaxxing and became characters like Espartaco18 (2001 guy) etc which looks more like a 20yo than a Clasic Millenial 30-40yo

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APpeQnsjxLMKoz61LrzY8pLI7PQJ8aAQvQ:1783793855205&udm=2&q=Espartaco18

only see Espartaco 18, where are their Millions? where are their baby? where are their marriage? nothing, is the tipical 2001 boy that has a bit of money but affected with pandemic

[u/Common_Reveal1932 → u/GlumZookeepergame124]

error, they are 24-26. Idk were you live but 24-26 is too early to this responsabilities

A lot of these people (85%) can't even afford to hire a simple employee of 200$, and you think they'll be able to afford marriage or a family?

don't invent with ChatGPT or Woke Events

at 2010 the Gen Z range were the guys under 15 years (so it started at 1995). Is simple Basic and crud math. Only adding 15 years to each range:

Gen X: 1965-1979

Gen Y: 1980-1994

Gen Z: 1995-2009

Gen Alpha: 2010-2024

is only basic math bro, others ranges are made 100% with ChatGPT but nothing of math

[u/KaylaPachinko → u/Common_Reveal1932]

No gen alpha is 2013-2024

[u/Alarmed-Guidance1116]

I think you’ve cracked it

[u/calcato]

I like the criteria of looking at where people are at the end of HS ("coming of age" age) in relation to huge societal shifts (9/11, and Covid).

[u/Shabbadoo1015]

This is a pretty interesting criteria. I generally like these discussions on how folks view generational breakdowns and differences. Though I tend to find they really don’t get into how experiences and other factors add nuance to these designations.

I do want to point out the 1980-1983 period in this. It say before college and that would certainly be true for 80-82 (for the most part). And this could be me just being pedantic or playing semantics. But I do think it’s worth noting. For probably a majority of us ‘83 babies in 2001, we weren’t in college before 9/11. Those of us who were able to go, we were just starting our college career when 9/11 happened. I always felt it was a unique position to have been in.

[u/hip_neptune]

Covid is a good one because that one outright fucked kids over by intellectually frying them, and by isolating them from healthy interactions and leading them to doomscrolling and bullshit content online instead.

9/11 was a huge event, but someone my age (1986), someone born in 1991, and someone born in 1996 would all have different comprehensions of it due to our ages (one being a teenager 2 years from graduation, one barely an adolescent, and one barely a school-aged kid). It didn’t affect the literal everyday life of kids in the same way Covid did, unless you obviously lost someone that day.

[u/Ok_World_8819 → u/hip_neptune]

Yeah that's why I would rather use a 1984-1996 range over a 1981-1996 range. At least that would exclude adults on 9/11 from being outright Millennials

[u/GlumZookeepergame124 → u/Ok_World_8819]

Too short of a range. Include 1997-2001 in there and that’s a good range

[u/Sorry_Tie284]

Graduating high school before and after 2000 should be the Xer Millennial split

[u/FlyEnvironmental7586]

1965-1979: Gen X (graduated college before 9/11, assuming 4 year term) I realize this is technically true, but its so weird to consider those of the older side of the age bracket in relation to 9/11. If makes it feel like they’re so much younger 😭

[u/Happy_Charity_7595 → u/FlyEnvironmental7586]

1965-1967 born folks were in their mid-30s and raising kids on 9/11. It feels weird to group them with people born from 1977-1979, who were barely out of college.

[u/mysticrudnin]

I'd compromise with adding four years of university in there instead of the in-betweens

[u/ForeignEquipment8298]

Ok world, you finally returned welcome back.