![]() ![]() ![]() “They were babies and children when 9/11 struck and don’t know life before airport security screenings, rampant domestic terrorism and other frightening threats,” she said. Members of this micro-generation, loosely defined as being in their early to mid-20s, have faced and overcome much adversity in their relatively short lives, Carr said via email. Everything you think you know about us is wrong “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.” “Zillennials refer to a small cohort born between the early 1990s and the early 2000s,” said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. Unfamiliar with the term? It’s a tiny group. “When I first heard the term zillennial, in college, I was like, ‘That’s me,’ ” Olarte said. The term millennial (also known as Generation Y) refers to anyone born between 19, and Gen Z refers to anyone born from 1997 through 2012, according to the Pew Research Center.Īlong the blurry edge at the cusp of the two generations, between Gen Y and Z, is where zillennials live. “My sister sees me as a young millennial, and millennials see me as Gen Z,” she said. Gen Z uses the term to refer to “millennial things that are kind of uncool or cringey,” according to Olarte. Her Generation Z sister, who is 16, sometimes calls Olarte “cheugy,” she said. There was a time when Juliana Olarte, a 26-year-old travel publicist living in New York City, couldn’t figure out where she fit in from a generational standpoint. ![]()
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