Reminder that early zoomers (1997-2001) are 2000s kids

my parents were trashy retards lol im one of you!!!

You really need to shut the fuck up, zoomoid gutter scum

trashy

Projection?

are there...zoomers who enjoyed the very same things i once did?

and...they're YOUNGER than ME?

OH MEIN GOTT THE WEST HAS FALLEN I AM GOING INSANE!

Imagine being so pathetic that you get angry that someone consumed the same media when they were a child.

NOOOOO, 19 IS MY CHILDHOOOD!

literally the best childhood, invader zim, ut99, Hercules and tarzan games for windows 98. you are just jealous old man because you daddy beated you up instead of playing with you

Why no xbox

why do zoomers pretend they never watched fred figglehorn? he was just as popular as pewdiepie. zoomers are the fred figglehorn generation

yeah my cousin is 1998 and we like similar shit
it was different tho
cuz 1998 kids got the tail end of the good times
2006/2007 and onward sucked ass outside of movies and videogames and even then not gonna lie it wasnt as good as the shit before.

Why does the Zoomer make the millenoid seethe so hard?

I don't pretend I didn't watch it but I never really got into it. It's just some guy screaming like a chipmunk for 5 minutes. I preferred flash animations with Mario/Sonic or Youtube Poop.

Zoomchad here. I had a gameboy sp.

Mom said is their turn to play.

you people are delusional to think that a 97 guy is the same as a 2004 guy. you guys need to touch some grass, we are no longer in 2015

these are such weird cope threads

I actually don't understand this. Isn't being 5 a lot more reminiscent of childhood magic than being 15? When I was in my teens I was nostalgiafagging over my childhood. Even in middle school people want to go out of their way to avoid seeming childish, and that's around 11/12. I can recall my 6-7 year old friends talking about playing Toontown on the playground. Yet we'll be told we simply couldn't comprehend it?

/thread

babbies first existential crisis, the thread

Why do retards on this site seethe so much at zoomers? Makes you look like a braindead boomer when you think tiktok retards are the average zoomer.

What's there to cope with? It's the truth.

Why do zoomers dickride the gamecube but have zero nostalgia for PS2 or the Halo box?
That's right, Youtubers. Zoomers did not play gen 7 games.

You didn't play it because you weren't 10 or something.

zoomers have no culture, their existence is a perpetual fortnite hotpocket of c-rap "music" and mullato perms

zoomers dont play games

Why does literally everyone seethe at 1997-98 Chads?

I grew up poor, so I'm experiencing a lot of the vidya from then for the first time.
I'm playing the CoDs in order. CoD 4 is actually pretty cool and fun.

because we got the childhood of a millennial and it was taken away from in 2006/2007. when we became teenagers only 2011 and 2012 were millennial teenagers experience, after 2014 everything was over

we are the cursed generation that we were too young to full experience the millennial gen but too old to understand zoomer's culture

beyblade

I had nobody to play with because everyone grew out of beyblades and those kinds of saturday morning cartoon stuff by like the 4th grade just before the mid-late 00s.
See also pic rel. God it sucked having nobody to talk to because everyone was already on CoD by middle school.

I do have nostalgia for the PS2 and I did spend a lot of time playing on it, but I think it might be because the PS2 lasted longer. And Nintendo has a more tightknit identity compared to Sony. There are a lot of good games on PS2 like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater or Grand Theft Auto or Katamari or Okami but it doesn't feel like a singuar identity the way Gamecube or Xbox do. Gamecube has that beachy feel for a lot of its games.

tf is this thread even about? "My opinions on games from this era should matter as much as yours because I played them when I was 4?" Shut up and come back when you're 30.

How can you miss anything at 4 years old kek

Nobody played Bakugan. At best they had the Happy Meal toys or watched the anime when it came on.

Nonsense

I KNOW THAT'S WHY I SAID I HAD NOBODY TO TALK TO ABOUT IT

No. I am incredibly nostalgic for 2005, it feels like it was yesterday. 1995 feels so long ago that it doesn't even feel like it was real.

im not a zoomer but still remember all the mega drive stuff i played at 5

I miss free milk at school

Why are we acting like 4 year olds cannot comprehend any sort of media or that they never consume any media?

I found amusing how guys in their 30s are seething because late 20s guys feel old and nostalgic for the early 2000s. shouldn't you guys be worried about getting a wife and some kids instead of bullying other baldies because they are not as bald as you?

ok zoomer

That just seems weird to me. I didn't have a video game console until I was 8. I don't distinctly remember much at all from when I was 5, just a handful of events.

1988 reporting in hello fellow kids

The grooming has been perfected. Now society can heal.

Most of the media I'm most nostalgic for is stuff I consumed from when I was 4/5. And I had a Gamecube and PS2 around then (shared with my brother) and later got an N64 for myself, which is more unusual for my generation but I love the N64.

But why you all have broccoli-hair? I am serious

98fag here, this is because of the onset of the globohomo internet emerging in the middle of Gen Z being born, this confuses millennials

It's really funny. Anon Babble 8 years ago used to call people with 2000s nostalgia zoomers. Now they want to claim zoomers actual childhood from them.

Zoomers are 21st century. If you were born in the 90s, you're Millennial.

I wish this dumb shit would end.

inb4 self-hating Millennial further fucks with their own generation's dates

I wish this shit would end

but let me give you my specific brand of tribalism first to set the standard

Based retard
None of this shit matters. It's all fucking nothing.
We laugh at you idiots because you get so butthurt about it.

this, i started posting here around that time, its just that the goalpost keeps getting moved and Zoomer is just a synonym for anyone who is in their teens or early 20s, Zillenials and post-2005 Zoomers fucking hate each other because the latter grew up after the onset of the global internet, causing them to have pop culture preferences closer to Gen Alpha

retard ESL cant comprehend fashion trends, much less conversation flow

Dabbing is still cool

I'm 2001 and am not typically considered Zillennial but I relate to them a lot as I barely missed whatever the cutoff is. I experienced a lot of 6th gen games, 2000s era internet, and cartoons like Billy and Mandy/Ed, Edd n Eddy/Foster's Home when they were still airing new episodes.

I was born in 1996. Who the hell am I generation-wise??

Someone whose birth year starts with 2 made this pic. You'd be beaten to shit if you went out in public with a linkin park or MCR shirt in that era.

didn't have cable

everyone at school stopped watching channel 3 cartoons by like 5th grade

everyone at school stopped caring about things like yugioh by like 5th grade

didn't have a console

didn't have a computer

didn't like XTREME sports

didn't like wrestling

really just me, my legos, and my gameboy advance

It was pretty lonely. I was still sociable and everything but I couldn't make any actual meaningful connections until like high school.

Well from the look of the image it seems like he's an older guy reminiscing on his childhood. So a Linkin Park/MCR shirt is now acceptable.

did you even remember rugrats, zim invader, ps1 games or window 98?

Windows XP was what I used. Rugrats I watched a lot of, I actually liked it a lot back then. PS1 games, somewhat. Mostly the Tony Hawk/WWF games from PS1. I was familiar with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon (it was weird when that one weird little game came around where he was featured as some figurine, I forget the name). Invader Zim I think I vaguely was aware of but didn't really pay much attention to until I was a little older and became super obsessed with it and binged the whole series. They really fucked up with the continuation movie. Gaz a cute.

I had a family that loved me though. Enjoy your cold empty street while I remain unkicked from my parents' house with the memories of a brother that wasn't a total failure like most millennials and burned 100 games of different genres that he thought I might enjoy to a cd when I was 9.

You'd be beaten to shit if you went out in public with a linkin park or MCR shirt in that era.

By who, exactly?

they used to bully weirdos like us back then, I think people started to accept us after 2012 or 2013

even e-girls were treated like garbage before social media so getting a gf wasn't that hard

You're lucky. My brother tried to indoctrinate me with Spirit Science videos when I was 9, lol

vape in 1998

RIP

Isn't the target demographic for a lot of the shit in the OP small children? Spider-Man was definitely enjoyed by them as well as Sonic and Billy and Mandy. Linkin Park is debatable and personally I never liked Call of Duty that much (though the one I am sorta nostalgic for is MW4), Halo was always better. How would enjoyment of that start at 10?

alphas,betas, and sigmas all ganged up on gammas/omegas back then
right now its kind of weird as even alphas and betas just get fucked by jews

Hybrid Theory came out in 2000 you goddamn poser

zoomers as an entire generation have little brother syndrome.
they can't get their own identity and constantly try to leech off us.

Ranking TurboGrafx 16 over Nintendo 64

Calls Sega Genesis "Mega Drive"

You can tell the maker of that "meme" was a Ken-Sama level weeb.

youtube.com/watch?v=NU61CbO9u6o

This is kind of underrated in terms of nostalgic Linkin Park songs. This used to play in MANY youtube AMVs of the time.

No matter how much you millennials love to yap about "games were better in my day", you ruined the modern gaming landscape with your shit writing.

someone unironically typed this

just because we loved good games doesn't mean we can make good games.
Then again, if you really want to do this. Zoomers really amped up generational softening, especially with their "mental health" obsession. And made companies put trigger warnings on old movies and tv so...

All eras are slop. Video games should have been banned just to return retard kids to boredom.

I don't understand why 2000s culture can't be a shared late millennial/early zoomer thing. It's pretty delusional to say some zoomers didn't grow up in the 2000s but a lot of the stuff on the internet was created by millennials/x'ers.

Actually, the millennials were the ones who were old enough to bitch and moan to companies about trigger warnings. In 2008, Warner Brothers was already putting trigger warnings on Tom and Jerry DVD collections, and I, a zoomer, was a toddler and gave zero fucks about being triggered.
That reminds me, when was Big Red the Feminist born?

most of Anon Babble are gamma (empath) theta (thinker) lambda (rebel) and zeta (critic) males
all bottom 4 on male hierarchy

I had just graduated college in 2008. The ones putting trigger warnings in shit were Gen X women.

Actually, zoomer here. This is actually true. A lot of G4 people who became shitlibs or supported them/early Skeptics were also Xers so they have a huge hand in the 2010s culture war. Briannu Wu was born in like 1976.

millennials

old enough to do shit in 2008

Their parents were the ones bitching because said millennials were growing up watching Terminator 2 and playing Doom and jerking off to Sonya Blade getting her head punched off. All of the baby boomers and older gen x faggots were freaking out about violence in movies and video games creating monsters.

Actually, the millennials were the ones who were old enough to bitch and moan to companies about trigger warnings.

90% of the time, you mean a gen X and don't realize how old millennials were in 2008, or what we were doing in 2008 (Not bitching about that inane shit).

Why isnt there a category for a male who doesnt care about women or anyone else and just wants to live his life?

wut?

In 2008 I was going to get an Xbox 360 for my birthday, I wanted GTA4 because at the time it looked like the most realistic game I ever saw up to that point but my mother was very strict about not wanting me to play GTA. She suggested Halo 3 and that was the first HD game I ever played.

There are lots of kids born in 2000 that didn't really experience stuff until close to 2010. I didn't even have a phone of my own until 2015 in my first year of highschool.

if you're a poor zoomer then you grew up with even older tech from pass me downs just saying

obsessed with an older sibling, trying to copy and claim everything they do instead of having their own identity or be their own person.
Notice how every generation didn't have this problem, and then zoomers spawned...(and then they'll blame us anyway)

Literally me, I grew up with hand me downs, flash games and pirated stuff on my shitty pc

Speak for yourself.

mfw Epsilon male

In 2008 I showed up for my job that I interned for the previous summer. I was supposed to be a compliance investigator and go interview people whenever shit hit the fan and write reports because "everyone likes you, Anon, and you write so well." I was stoked.

I show up and they were like "oh, shit, no one called Anon, uh, your offer was revoked, the economy isn't doing so great." I always chuckle when zoomers blame my generation for everything when boomers and Gen Xers completely eliminated us from the workforce. Kid, we got no power. We're an actual lost generation. If you were born before 85, odds are that you are fucked. Anyone who graduated college during the global economic crash is down at least 50% of their expected earning potential and most of them are completely eliminated from the job market because each president keeps changing the definition of who is unemployed to make it seem like the economy is recovering.

Funny how the economy is always recovering, isn't it?

I wonder what gen alpha will be like when they are all around the average zoomers age.

x and y are worlds apart. y and z are indistinguishable.

Older-younger sibling relationship perfectly describes it.

Having worked with some 18 year old temps, extremely grim.

hand me downs

idk why i wrote pass me down i'm retarded

but rather than age and zoomer/gen-z i think looking at country of origin and socioeconomic status is more of and indicator of who's playing what game

98bro here
I also grew up playing 90s games because my dad was a geek. So I objectively had the best childhood.

What does it feel like growing old in 2025 oldanon?

I only respect those born before 97. They knew the world went to shit after the iPhone and the smart phonization of the internet.

Elaborate

Yeah, I'm a zoomer and know everything in the images posted here. People are understimating how much culture have stagnated and how much everyone now has consumed the cultural Zeitgeist. There's no replacing Linkin Park or Pokémon. Hell, Evanescence released a song for Devil May Cry just a few weeks ago. And every retro trend gets popular on TikTok.

i also noticed zoomers arent spiritual at all

lolwut? my little brother is from 2000 and he played ms-dos floppy disk games and used win3.1 all the way up to windows 11 today and played the shit out of wario land 3 on the original gameboy

Alot of new shit get released but it requires effort and digging to find really good stuff. The nostalgia thing isn't new and it was prominent in the 00s with 80s nostalgia and movies.

What might be true for one case isn't for the vast majority of the zoomer population. Most of them were still babies when Steve Jobs introduced the worst thing to happen to the internet.

pretty much every shitpost stereotype in real life

broccoli head

awkward wigger fashion

that distinctly retarded, spaced out zoomer stare when you talk to them

struggling to articulate themselves with frequent uhhhhhhhhs and pauses for basic thoughts, like watching a human brain struggle to stay powered on

incredibly emotional / feminine (Can't take the slightly negative interactions well, not even slight misunderstandings)

very low tolerance for physical labor

Granted the sample size was low, but still not great.

Im a 20 yr old neet zoomer who just reads visual novels, plays vidya and watches anime all day. I like otaku culture and have probably read around 400 eroge by now so maybe I should do anki, hit N3-N2, go back to college and visit jp. I cant use social media because I hate everyone online, it all feels inauthentic, nothing feels genuine online and real life I feel I cant really be myself about anything, I just fake acting like a normalfag. This site feels pretty inauthentic too but at least I can mostly say what I want and talk about my hobbies with more like minded people. I dont have a cellphone and I cut off all my old highschool friends as they were a bit too normie for me. I am all alone freeloading off my parents, I dont really care about dating or relationships, all I care about is art. I should get a job, but im lazy. I tried discord but I hate the cliqueness of it, I wonder what I should be doing with my life. Maybe I should just neet on 5ch instead of here.

Pretty good, all things considered. I'm aging supremely gracefully. I'm not going bald, I have no kids or family so I have enough money to buy nice clothes and boots (Texasfag), and I've had my soul crushed so many goddamn times that I'm never particularly upset about anything going tits up. I'm going back to college, again, and getting a PhD. I have managed to fuck several undergrads who have daddy issues/fetishes. I fucked a girl recently and then got an invitation to her marriage.

I forget that I'm in my 40s, sometimes. A large part of it is not having children or a family, another large part is that I'm always surrounded by young people. When I'm on campus, I talk to a lot of undergrads. When I'm here, I'm surrounded by young people. I believe that's why many professors don't retire until they're like 90 years old or they die in their offices, they just forget they're old because they're surrounded by youth.

This keeps you on your toes and your brain active. I've had a lot of injuries and surgeries so it hurts to walk, but I never feel old. The best thing to do to avoid getting old is stay active. Work out and be around the younger generations as much as you can tolerate.

a few years also matters a lot because a lot of technlogical innovation happened during 2000 and 2010

It is verifiably true. Zoomers didn't grow up with a an iPhone because their parents wouldn't even buy them a pc.

nigger you're retarded. which part of being a millennial are zoomers trying to steal? getting disowned for being gay?

Glad to hear everything's worked out great for you, anon

I said the same thing 10 years ago. I hate FOMO idiots and tend to cut off most people from my life since I value peace and solitude over the stress of catching up on this fabricated rat race. Funny that time doesn't change much when you're a hermit.
t.31 years old

i am not like other zoomers i am the cool kind :)

thread full of man children who had parents with money arguing with older man children who had parents with money

The real redpill is realizing that your average poorfag zoomer from 98-2002 had the exact same media experience as your middle class 90s kid because we couldn't afford the new shiny shit. My first fucking console was an N64.

you guys just have nothing of your own. What have you created?

More like what doesn't make the m*llen*al seethe lol

?
Its peaceful

what have you created?

I just noticed this about Zoomer weebs. They only know about Trigger and nothing about Ginax. Fuckkin idiots.

very cool now tell my my horoscope you fucking faggot

This. Gamers also used to shame other gamers relentlessly into not buying MTX-slop.

Ginax is kino too though
t.zoomer

elder millennial

zoomers don't dig into history or care about beginnings.
they just care about fulfilling checklists and FOMO

gotta watch TRIGGER

then cowboy bebop & champloo

then NGE

then watc-i mean "read" Berserk

phew i'm officially a Weeb™ now

The entire golden age of the internet you yearn for.
Now stop no u'ing and engage honestly you twat.

Isnt that normies in general though, I see millenials and gen x do the same thing when it comes to the average socially acceptable weeb.

Sorry FAG I can't hear you over my fifth rewatch of Space Dandy

Anyone who can't remember being in school during 9/11 shouldn't be allowed to vote or use the Internet.

what is there to engage. it's verifiably untrue that you created the golden age of the internet. your legacy is shitposting and being obnoxious XD.

Nerdy Gen x made the golden age of the internet, millenials and zoomers have created nothing.

so true that's why the games became shit after 2015 when they entered the workforce

once game design became a university degree is when games went to the shitter

>then watc-i mean "read" Berserk

God I personally hate this one so god damn much. JUST READ MANGA YOU FUCKING NIGGERS. I know a guy who literally watched a 10 hour "berserk manga explained" video instead of READING a fucking COMIC BOOOOOK. Fuckers man.

Great is relative. I was "supposed" to be a multi-millionaire by now, based on outdated statistical data regarding my demographics and education. Instead I'm just a perpetual student mooching off others. It works for me, but I don't think it's viable for 99% of my fellow bums.

I was born in 2005

OP was talking about early Gen Z (born late 90s/maybe 2000/2001) not core Gen Z
Millennials hate being reminded that they’re old and they’re desperate for another generation to be worse than them so that they can escape the label of “worst generation ever”
I think that Gen Alpha (Millennial’s kids, 2010-2024) are going to be pretty bad considering how fried their dopamine receptors will be from having iPads from birth + TikTok at a young age too

I vomit violently in public every time I see a gaggle of kids with that dumb fucking hair.

then watc-i mean "read" Berserk

I really, really don't get this one. They watch the 97' anime and then pretend everything else after Golden Age doesn't exist. ALL of them do this.

Hey, what do ya mean just maybe? And I will vouch for 2010-2012 being late zoomers. It's supposed to be 1997-2012 with 1995/1996 being sorta on the cusp.

So someone born in 1980 shouldn't be allowed ot vote or use the internet?

1987 kid
Been here since 2013 when I discovered/tg/
Eternity spent watching the definition of "old cunt" come under new words, new terms, endless gatekeeping or moving the goalposts.
Epsilon anon has it right. The current generations will only ever know a world that is "recovering" but never quite there yet. Give it another 25 years and the only things that will have truly changed is that there will be a couple billion more retards in the world going through the same motions we are now with faster WiFi and new fucking buzzwords.
Welcome to the system, you're here forever. Cunts.

The cutoff for Gen Z is literally 2009.
Generations are made up anyways, late millennials/early Gen Z (what I am) have far more in common with one another than early Gen Z and core/late Gen Z and late millennials and early millennials.

What point are you trying to make here?

coming home from school and eating some mini corn dogs while playing Rumble Racing on a big ass CRT in my parents room

simpler times

1997-2012 is the typical range. 1995-2009 isn't used as often.

i miss my NES 3-6 yo. NES>SNES

Between zoomers wanting the AoC to be 30 and Millennials saying childhood doesn't truly start until 10 here in this thread, what is going on with infantilism?

Most people shouldn't be allowed to vote or use the internet

I don’t hate them, I feel pity for them. They were born with shit tier mobile games in their hands clicking gold coins and then watching 30 second ads. They’ve been born into gambling addiction based games and other monetization schemes and games will never go back. The zoomer will never unlock anything by simply playing a game. They have to buy a season pass, on disc dlc or a loot box and they have never known any different. Now they watch other people play games on streams which is just absolutely brain dead and shows in any game with a meta where they just copy paste shit endlessly. Poor zoomers and everyone else by extension has been robbed of a golden era of video games for $$$.

1997-2009 is the most widely used range for Gen Z.

She was only 24 you sick fuck, her frontal lobe wasn’t fully developed!

They objectively had a 2000's childhood no matter how hard you try to push the goalposts (your childhood isn't in your teens/twenties)

i never had teenager love, i never held hands with a girl when i was 16, do you think that i care about what games i played when i was a kid?
mario galaxy is the best 3d platformer ever made btw

i don't hate zoomers because i'm sure the ones behind the generational war in Anon Babble are trannies and terminally ill online zoomer weirdos

This was revealed to me in a dream.

Everything in this image is peak

i never had teenager love, i never held hands with a girl when i was 16, do you think that i care about what games i played when i was a kid?

files.catbox.moe/abddma.mp4

not clicking that shit nigga

peak

slop

we can certainly tell which era you are from lil z

Gen Alpha begins in 2010 according to most sources so 2010-2012 are in limbo

not clicking that shit nigga

youtube.com/watch?v=UiHXQx57QhA

1997 is last millenial tho. zoomer start in 1998

I'm black

Also Trans by the way, don't forget how crucial this is to you specifically anon. Intersectionality is love

I think it's silly for early gen z niggas like yourself to grasp on whatever you can to separate yourself from others. You make it seem like it's too late to experience these games and these younger kids are doomed. That's simply untrue.

Gen Z is 1997-2010
t. 1997 and I thank God every day that I am not a m*llennial

We need a year limit rather than an age limit.

2003
the year pkmn ruby and sapphire released

no you don't get it, we're millenial you and I, 1997 is the last year

If you can remember the world before 9/11, you are a millennial. If not, you are a zoomer. That said these things are gradual shifts, not concrete eras.

then watc-i mean "read" Berserk

i should've bought a house before the 2008 crash instead of wasting my time in pre-school back in 2004

The time to buy was ~2008-2010

well then I should've bought a house in 2009 instead of wasting my time in elementary

Keep coling subhuman
1995 balding zoomer

THANK YOU

Now do the east coast and west coast, you hillbillys in the south have it easy, most houses near me are 900k minimum. I wish I could live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and own a house for 450k, 900k near me gets you 1 acre btw.

I've watched him. The great prank on July 31st 2009 is the first raid I remember happening.
You're implying the entire generation is at fault for the industry hiring a few nepo babies. How many video game writers do you know among your peers?
Literally me 8 years ago. You'll grow out of it.

Why are zillennials like this?

imo there's no reason to live in a HCOL area if you're not making at minimum 150k, ideally 250k+
There's a reason that North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas are exploding in population while California is experiencing a net decrease in population

Kill all zoomers.

the word slop was conceptualized on the boomer board you illiterate uneducated reverse furry

zoomers are so unlikable the youngest zoomies don't want to be lumped with them

l o lmao l

your parents had unprotected sex at the wrong time

Another one of these threads eh

The only group of men that vote democrat are Millennials.

Its true though, all my zoomer friends hate older zoomers and young millenials for being the most onions faggot pussies on earth

You're actually looking at a voting poll not a popularity contest.

SA2 was goat

The only benefit to living in my area is people are either all white or asian, blacks,mexicans and brown skins dont exist here, they all live in the ghettos 5 towns away.

Thats worth all the money in the world though, why are you complaining.

I'm from 92. I don't know if that's technically millennial or zoomer but it definitely feels millennial to me

Linkin Park, Spider-Man 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted and the free space pinball game definitely feel milennial core

PS2 went on for so long that I'm not sure it counts as milennialcore. I think it might be zoomercore too, for the elder zoomers.

Black Ops II does not belong there.

I wonder if elder millennials still exist in this site.

false

absolutely based

95 best year.

They objectively had a 2000's childhood

Is that supposed to mean something? How young are you?