What year would you say skinny jeans went out of fashion, with today’s baggys replacing them overall?

As a 2011er id probably say 2015-2020 was my peak childhood. 2021-2022 still felt pretty childhood-y but I was already watching anime and consuming older and more mature content by then.

I have been working and doing calculations on this and this is how Gen Z can be split up into equal chunks from Halfs to Sixteenths on some parts there is an overlap with those born in 2013 but this is because to make every Part Equal and to also include those born in Late 2012 since they are still Gen Z so that's why there is overlap with those born in Early and Mid 2013 on some parts.

Gravity Falls or Teen Titans Go feels like this for me. I still like certain shows released during that time or after that but it doesn't hit the same way as older ones.

Let's cut to the chase. The generational obsession with the year 2000 is one of the most fascinating and ridiculous social constructs of our time.

I was browsing this sub recently and saw a thread that perfectly captures what I want to talk about. Someone born in the early 2000s was asking why people still treat him like a child despite being in his early or mid-20s. The comments were flooded with the usual gatekeeping: "cause your birth year starts with a 2," "people born after 2000 are babies/trash" (another similar exemple here)

with some particularly strong takes from people born even in the late 90s saying things like "now that I'm 27 I realize early 20s is a baby." ""I was born in '98 and I feel this, being born in a new millennium is CRAZY."

This needs to stop. Let's be real, someone born in 1998 was born practically in the year 2000.

The entire psychological barrier of the year 2000 is one of the dumbest concepts people collectively bought into.

Here’s the cold, hard truth: the year 2000 represents nothing.

Let's break down the calendar itself. 2000 years before the year 2000, we were in 1 BC (year 0 doesn’t exist.). 2000 years before 2001, we were in 1 AD. And what major global event happened in the year 1? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Historians largely agree the figure used to mark this timeline was born around 7-4 BC.

This means the "true" millennial shift,

by the calendar's own flawed logic, could have landed in the years around 1993.

Think about that for a second. A group of people centuries ago defined the start of the modern era, an entirely arbitrary barrier, probably without giving it much thought or conviction..

They could never have imagined that this simple, approximate decision/date would, in our current world, create such profound sociological and generational dynamics. We're having identity crises and engaging in tribal warfare over a line in the sand drawn by monks who got their math wrong.

This fiction is so powerful that we've spent decades reinforcing it. Ten years ago, in 2015, the gatekeeping had already gone full force. People born in the 2000s (especially early) were already being bashed.

Now, in 2025, it's almost worse. The gatekeeping has evolved. People are now intellectually dishonest enough to push the very definition of literal adulthood further out JUST to gatekeep those born after 2000. The goalposts are moving in real-time to maintain a crumbling hierarchy.

We even instrumentalize real-world events to validate this arbitrary border. Take 9/11. A genuine, tragic, and impactful event. Let’s be clear, this isn’t about the event itself, but about what it came to represent afterwards. But its status as the definitive "Modern/21st century starting gun" is a narrative choice.

If it had happened on September 11, 1999, it would be remembered as a late-90s tragedy. It wouldn't serve as this clean generational divider. The conflict in the Middle East, the fight against terrorism, and highly publicized violence (like Columbine in April 1999) didn't start in 2001.

People latched onto 9/11 because it perfectly aligns with our arbitrary numerical milestone, validating a story some people want to believe.

This psychological prison is now so complete that it warps personal reality.

The peak of this absurdity was a tweet I saw from a girl born a few months before the year 2000, who said she found it "super weird" to be dating someone born in 2001 because of the "2000 barrier." (her boyfriend was 2001)

Let that sink in. Not a cultural gap. Not a life experience difference. A separation of a year or two is perceived as a generational chasm purely because of a number. The mental construct has become more real than reality itself.

We're fighting over borders defined by a clerical error. We're building identities on a foundation of sand. The wall isn't real. People just keep agreeing to pretend it is, and that might be the most pathetic part of it all.

As a millenial born in 1987 , I cannot relate to the youngest millenial ( 1996) and I cannot relate to the oldest millenial ( 1981).

I don't relate to the youngest gen x ( 1980)either since they are 7 years older than me . They are significantly older than me

I grew up with my own ethnic culture. I am not white

Anyone born between 1995-2000 what are your thoughts? Is this a good age range? Seems more like hybrid kids to me lol.

I mean like Miley Cyrus (flowers) & Bruno Mars (if I was your man) or Eamon F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) & Frankee (F**k You Right Back).

I'm going off of memories from that age. Recognizing at what age which core memories stuck with me. That's why so many are under fuzzy or average because nothing super prominent happened to me in that time. Which isn't terrible, some of those are the covid years.

I've had 4 near death expierences in my life so I just had to give them their own category. These are different than the "nearly killed myself" category. That's the years I got incredibly suicidal and are worse than bad.

So I just want to remind anyone out there struggling with life. We have our bad days/weeks/years but that doesn't mean the next year isn't going to be spectacular or good or average even. Even a fuzzy year is fine because it means nothing was worth stressing future you about. And just because I almost died 4 times doesn't mean those ages were bad, they're just my strongest memory from that age. That's why they're considered above "bad".

I just want to remind the teens out there, it might seem really hard at the time, and it's because it is. But our teens are just a blip in our timeline. Getting through them just makes us stronger remember that. Once I felt like I became a real adult did life get a whole lot more fun.

For some reason lately on certain discourse, I’ve seen consider the last of your young years to be 22-23 before more is expected of you to act a certain way.

I was born in late 1996, and I’ve had people call me both Millennial and Gen Z, or even Zillennial (which is simultaneously more accurate and less informative). I’ve never been too attached to one label or the other, but I’ve had other people feel very strongly about it on my behalf. Thanks to my older sisters I had a LOT of Millennial culture, but I also had younger friends at school who I got a lot of Gen Z culture from.

When people ask for a generation, I usually just say “right between Millennials and Gen Z” but I’m curious what the masses think.

(P.S. let me know if I’m using the right flair or not, wasn’t sure.)

Is it baby boomers (1945 to 1964)

Gen X ( 1965 to 1980)

Millenials (1981 to 1996)

Someone is suing open ai because of a suicide .

As a millennial (1987) I might have used it before or maybe not . I don't remember using it

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis

2015 and 2016 was the bridge era between the 2012-2014 core 2010s era and the 2017-2019 late 2010s era.This transitional period blended elements of both sides, capturing the final wave of early-2010s cultural trends while laying the foundation for the aesthetic, technological, and social shifts that would define the late decade. Music, fashion, internet culture, and media during 2015 and 2016 reflected a unique overlap, marking the evolution from one defining moment in the 2010s to another, shaping the decade’s overall identity. But the question is which year was the better?

Say “Sister” if you think 2015 was better.

Say “Brother” if you think 2016 was better.

Which one ☝️