r/OlderGenZ • • Sep 11 '26

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r/OlderGenZ • • Sep 11 '26

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r/OlderGenZ • • 12h ago

Nostalgia Liberty Kids

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370 Upvotes

Jumping on the remembering old shows bandwagon, who remembers this show??


r/OlderGenZ • • 8h ago

Nostalgia Yall remember Ned the yoyo guy from school events?

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And then the yoyos got banned at my school because kids couldn't stop fighting and hitting things/each other lol


r/OlderGenZ • • 10h ago

Nostalgia Nostalgic Halloween DVDs

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Nostalgic Halloween DVDs. I remember watching most of these when I was younger. Did you have or watched any of these?


r/OlderGenZ • • 7h ago

Music/Media Your favorite song based on these top hits from summer 2016

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347 votes, 2d left
Closer by The Chainsmokers & Halsey
One Dance by Drake ft. Wizkid & Kyla
Into You by Ariana Grande
Cold Water by Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber & MƘ
This Is What You Came For by Calvin Harris & Rihanna
Heathens by Twenty One Pilot

r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia Dragon Tales

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Who remembers Dragon Tales? This was one of my Favorite Shows


r/OlderGenZ • • 11h ago

Serious Discussion Old GenZ (late 90s), do you relate better to millennials?

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I find the post 2000 Zoomers have a very distinct set of fashion, humour and overall attitude to life. There’s nothing bad about this at all.

Personally, I find myself relating more to young millennials. In school they were the ones we looked up to, tried to befriend, and often ended up emulating.

Also depending on when you entered the workforce, millennials were often the ones we had as mentors.

I also feel some of us entered a weird job market, just like how millennials entered a post GFC world.


r/OlderGenZ • • 10h ago

Life and Aspirations Do you relate to late millennials (born 1990-1996)?

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LM stands for Late Millennials.


r/OlderGenZ • • 13h ago

Nostalgia Just remembered a baddie

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She was so c*nt omg! I used to love watching her before bed and learning something new 😭


r/OlderGenZ • • 17h ago

Discussion Why do we get lumped as iPad kids despite us being in our teens when they became ubiquitous. Core and younger zoomers are the iPad kids.

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r/OlderGenZ • • 5h ago

Other Would you date a 1994?

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219 votes, 2d left
Yes
No

r/OlderGenZ • • 21h ago

Advice how are you all coping with daily life?

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I’ve been working for 3.5 years in corporate. It feels like a lifetime. I can’t believe I’ve been working the same amount of time I was in college. It just feels unreal and I have a hard time accepting it. All my friends are getting married and rather than feeling happy for them, I just feel kinda sad cuz it means they will just become another married corporate cog in the machine and so will their future children. They will slowly make less and less time for me and other single friends. I can’t put my finger on why high school and college were amazing for me and not this chapter of life. I have an amazing paying stable job (knock on wood), I have close friends, I have my family. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman and I feel that disgusting intense societal saying that women at 24/25 are ā€œwashed upā€ and ā€œpast their peakā€. I look at teens and college students out in my town and I see them as children. Genuine youth. I remember thinking I was so old when I turned 21. I felt like a dinosaur. Crazy how now I feel like 21 is a child. I think it’s my draining corporate job that makes me feel this way but I also can’t say for sure. I also have had thoughts about quitting this job and doing something entirely new but it feels too late (I don’t wanna state my age but I’m younger than 27). Anyone else wanna chime in and share their feelings? It’s just all so confusing.


r/OlderGenZ • • 25m ago

Other Looking for an old Facebook auto-battler game

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Looking for an old Facebook game from around 2008-2012. It was a medieval auto-battler with flat top-down 2D sprites (looking straight down from above, no city building at all). The screen had a square deployment grid on the left and your available soldiers on the right. Positioning was key, you could place bards in the middle of your formation to buff the morale and stats of the surrounding units. Battles were blind: you only saw the enemy army after hitting start, at which point they fought automatically. I also remember the game logo had red and white. Anyone know what this was called?


r/OlderGenZ • • 12h ago

Nostalgia DID ANYONE HAVE THIS SET

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r/OlderGenZ • • 21h ago

Nostalgia Which movies come to mind when you see this on?

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The movies that come to mind from this block on Cartoon Network are Shrek, Garfield, Open Season, Surf's Up, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Bean, Despicable Me, Home Alone, Happy Feet, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ice Age, Hoodwinked, Men In Black, Madagascar, The Princess Bride, Scary Godmother, Shark Tale, Pirates of the Caribbean​: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, Sky High, The Smurfs, Stuart Little Films, TMNT 2007, Tom & Jerry Movies, Scooby-Doo Movies, Underdog, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Snow Day, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Planet 51, Over the Hedge, Nacho Libre and also Spy Kids.


r/OlderGenZ • • 6h ago

Serious Discussion How long are you planning on owning your current car?

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Edit: I’m so happy to see elder Gen Z hasn’t been fooled into thinking 2026 and newer cars are somehow better

257 votes, 2d left
I don’t have a car, I’m holding on to public transit
Another 1-2 years
Another 3-4 years
Another 5-7 years
Another 8-10 years
As long as possible, new cars are not worth buying

r/OlderGenZ • • 10h ago

Serious Discussion Whatever happened to adults making a better life for those who come after?

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All I see or hear is people complaining that life is too hard. So what. You arent the only unlucky one and life is bever fair. But im still trying to make a better life for the next generations with my community.


r/OlderGenZ • • 20h ago

Advice Anyone still in uni?

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Hey.
I’ve been seeing a lot of hard core ADULT stuff here and I just wondered if some of you are still in university and not fully fledged adults with real responsibilities yet. I am 25M, still living with my parents, final year of my bachelors, still feeling like a child and a fallire because of how behind I am compared to everyone else.

I come from Northern Europe btw, it’s quite common to take a gap year or repeat a year in uni or high school because of the high work load. I started uni at 21, but made bad choices and picked a very demanding university and had to drop out due to not passing all my courses despite working hard and studying as much as possible.

I changed uni and I’m getting good grades now but man I really hate my life. I miss being independent like I was I my old uni, I hate living with my parents even though god bless them they still support me financially and don’t really cause much trouble.
I know I’m privileged to still be supported by my family, but I feel shame and guilt over it.

Anyone also in my position? Would love to have different perspectives.


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia Pop culture differences I think define young and old genz

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These are just random differences I’ve noticed as an older Gen z gal (B.2000) with a few younger gen z friends ( b.2004 ).

  1. Music streaming being normalized , I grew up with iPods and Mp3 players as I’m sure much of older gen z did as well. I still have an iPod and never really got used to the idea or streaming nor do I care to use my phone for music but I’ve noticed a lot of younger gen z ( and millennials lmao) use spotify , Apple Music etc rather than just download mp3s lol.

2.Lin manue-miranda this one may be oddly specific lmao but I feel like he had a super big resurgence after Hamilton and in the heights but I knew him from the 2009 revival of electric company ( anyone else ??) lol. I also can’t stand Hamilton or in the heights 😬. his spoken word rap thing worked in electric company but I haven’t liked his other works lmao

  1. John M.Chu I mainly knew him for his work on the Justin Bieber movies , step up and the music tours he did lol. I feel though like a lot of younger gen-z may know him from wicked or crazy rich Asians.

  2. Charli XCX , do the kids remember famous ??? Boom clap ??? Fancy ??? Doin’ it ?? lol the commercialized charli was soemthing else. Then she disappeared and came back as the current version lol I feel like it’s a vast differences for the older and younger charli listeners but could just be me again.

  3. Influencer culture / trends. Back in the early 2010s someone would get popular or trend would happen a few times a year and that’d be the news in the end-of-year wrap up. The nay nay , on fleek , running man challenge, malvin gregg, joe sugg etc. it was every once in a while that something would become trendy or make the front page now it seems as if every instant the trend changes or the new person is being glorified for mundane daily things 🄲🤣. It used to be acceptable to leave people on the internet where they belong ( but we won’t get into that 🤐)

  4. social Media definitely changed in a massive way and I think tiktok and shorts showcase huge age divide as well. Back in my day we’d watch blog or get ready with me’s and it was amazing if you’d find a good 30+ min Video to watch while getting ready or cleaning etc now everything’s a sped up 2minute overly performative information dump.

lol idk if orhers agree but these are just some things I’ve noticed.


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Rant Some of my coworkers make me realize why older gens who deal with them would claim Gen Z doesn't want to work 🫣.

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The lack of work ethic and independence is astonishing. I swear I am 26 and I feel like I'm hand holding coworkers 2 or 3 years younger than me. I'm not even the manager but if I don't tell them to do something it won't get done. They have to have everything spelled out for them. They also just either sleep at their desks or watch Tiktok all day unless they are specifically told to do something or the task is due the next day. It's so unprofessional and I can understand why older generations would complain about them. It sucks because we aren't all this way but the bad apples always shine through.

Edit: We all make over the minimum wage for our state by over $6. Our salaries are funded by property taxes because we are local government. We also have great benefits ie: insurance and vacation time.


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Rant I'm so glad I found this sub-reddit

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Recently I have been thinking more about my age and how I'm getting older. While also comparing myself alot to others around my age. Feeling so behind and on top of that those Instagram nostalgic reels make me feel even more sad.

But after going through this sub, I feel so much better and calm. I came across so many posts that brought back nice memories. Reading people's comments and insights brought some peace.

Even writing this out makes me feel better. Whoever reads this sorry for wasting your time. This is such a useless post, it will probably be deleted by the mods anyways.


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Nostalgia Disney Buddies

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Who remembers the Disney Buddies Movies? Which one is your Favorite?


r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Serious Discussion What was your first car?

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Edit: I’m so happy to see so many Gen Z folk be part of sedan gang

991 votes, 1d left
Sedan (GOAT/classic)
Hatchback (econobox vibes)
Minivan (family vibes)
SUV.
Pickup truck.
What car? I take public transit/don’t even have my license

r/OlderGenZ • • 1d ago

Other Asking a different question from the usual posts - what’s a GOOD thing (or multiple) you’ve noticed about this new generation (Zoomers/Alpha/etc)?

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I’ve seen enough ā€œTHIS GENERATION IS HORRIBLE AND ENTITLED AND COOKED, EVEN THOUGH THERE’S NO WAY MOST OF US ARE OVER 30 IN THIS SUBREDDITā€ posts, so I’m posting something different. Hence the title.

For me, some good things about this new generation are that they don’t mindlessly follow AI trends (edit: ofc some of them do, like the kids who use ChatGPT to do their homework, but apparently younger gens are also not blindly following AI as much) and that some of them (older Zoomers, I think) are very into analog stuff and ā€œgrandma hobbiesā€ and the 2000s. It’s nice that they too see how good those times were.

Thoughts? I’ll also post this in [r/zillennials](r/zillennials), probably.

Edit: a word