Millennials gained reputations for avocado toast, craft beer, Harry Potter, Disney adulthood, and girlboss feminism, prompting backlash from older generations. Boomers initiated anti-millennial sentiment as a generational rite. Gen X occasionally participates. Generation Z has intensified mockery of millennials on social media, coining "cheugy" to label millennial uncoolness. Individuals born around 1997 identify as zillennial and occupy both generational camps. Both millennials and zoomers supply abundant cringe material through trends, slang, and aesthetics. Some participants admit to mocking millennials but temper criticism upon recognizing similar faults in Gen Z.
Millennials are a generation infamous for their love of avocado toast, craft beer, Harry Potter, inventing the idea of a Disney adult and girlboss feminism. For that they've been subject to the brunt of our zeitgeist's wrath in the years since. Resentful boomers began the anti-millennial crusade. That's to be expected; older people griping about the kids is nothing new, but rather a rite of passage that signifies a healthy ecosystem within the age groups.
Hell, even gen X occasionally joins in on the action. But now millennials face a brand-new beast of an enemy: their younger, meaner and far more tech-literate younger sibling, generation Z. It's not hard to find anti-millennial sentiments on practically every mainstream social media site out there zoomers are the new apex predator of the internet after all even coining an antonym custom-fit for millennial uncoolness: cheugy.
I was born at the tail-end of 1997, making me either the most fresh-faced millennial or the oldest gen Z hag, depending on who you ask. I'm otherwise known as a zillennial. The unexpected benefits of cringing So as a generational fence-sitter with a foot in both camps, I reckon that I'm an excellent candidate to unravel this sibling rivalry. First, let's point out the obvious: I'm sorry, dear millennials, but you are pretty easy to make fun of.
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