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Zillennial Thread

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:13:34 No.58997722 View View Reply Original Report

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State your
>birth year
>which gen your childhood revolved around the most (which games you and the kids around you played the most)
>which gen the kids around you lost interest in Pokemon
I want to see if early zoomers learn more towards the Game Boy gens or the DS gens.
>Born: 1998
>Childhood Gen: 3 (FRLG and RSE)
>Lost interest in Gen: 4

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:15:02 No.58997729 Report

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>>58997722
>Born: 1996
>Childhood Gen: 2
>Lost interest in Gen: 3

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:15:35 No.58997736 Report

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>another blackrock-sponsored data harvesting thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:22:17 No.58997775 Report

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>>58997722
"Zillennial" is a cope buzzword for Early zoomers to feel and present less like zoomers

it identifies those born from September 1996 to whatever arbitrary endpoint they've decided upon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:22:28 No.58997777 Report

Quoted By: >>58997793

>>58997722
>born 1997
>no games cuz poor, watched anime
>got into Pokemon with gen 8

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:24:42 No.58997793 Report

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>>58997777
As to answe your question Gen 4 was when we really got into Pokemon and anything after that no one cared cuz the anime sucked for gen 5

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:24:44 No.58997794 Report

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>>58997722
1998

mainly firered, emerald, diamond

i was growing out of pokemon in my early teens. i didn't even play bw1, but i bought bw2 because the trailers looked cool. i can't remember if i even beat the story mode, i mostly played random wifi matches through matchmaking with teams i pokegenned in and battled people i met on serebii's irc.
i skipped all the 3ds games and didn't get back into the franchise until a few years ago

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:31:38 No.58997826 Report

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>'97
>Gold was my first and always my favorite as a kid but I played emerald as the prominent game in my childhood/peers since it was already a few years old by the time I got a used copy.
>Lost interest with XY but ORAS sucked me back in to competitive a bit and then gen7+ lost me again and I just play nuzlockes and rom hacks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:34:20 No.58997833 Report

Quoted By: >>58997842

1991
Ruby/Sapphire because those were the first I owned. But I played RBY first and was obsessed with GS as much as my friends let me play their copies.
After Diamond/Pearl but I still had a few homies who played Black and White with me. Closest friends still play the games to this day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:36:24 No.58997842 Report

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>>58997833
>1991
this thread isn't for you nigga

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:42:22 No.58997865 Report

Quoted By: >>58998075

>>58997722
>1995
>gen 4
>gen 4
In the gap between DP and Platinum everyone moved on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:43:25 No.58997871 Report

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>>58997722
1997
Pretty even split between gens 3 & 4. I also played a lot of gens 1 & 2 because I had my brother's copies of Red and Crystal, but in terms of what my friends were playing and what peripheral media I interacted with, it was gens 3 & 4.

Personally lost interest with gen 7. Most of my friends skipped gen 5 in middle school, but then there was a brief resurgence in high school where everybody was playing XY, then lost interest again between ORAS and SM, which is also where I dropped off for the most part (obviously not entirely because I'm here, but I haven't bought a Pokemon game since then).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:47:45 No.58997882 Report

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>>58997722
>1996
>Gen 3
>Gen 7 when my 3ds died
I started playing again around when Arceus came out, still haven't had any interest in playing and completing gen 7 or 8 but I have them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:49:33 No.58997893 Report

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>>58997775
Nah it's a pretty real thin, but it's defined more by what kind of influences you had in your childhood than a specific cutoff year. If you had an older sibling and/or were in a lower income household, you likely were immersed in a lot more millennial culture growing up because you would have the run-offs from your sibling and lagged behind in tech. Generations are purely a cultural thing anyway, being born in a specific year doesn't magically make you act a certain way, and there are no hard cutoffs. It's really about how you were raised. The late 90s/early 2000s were a really transitional period, a lot of households were still firmly rooted in the 90s for a lot of the 2000s and the kids who grew up that way will have more in common with millennials than zoomers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 05:50:11 No.58997894 Report

Quoted By: >>58997920

I think people in this thread are missing that the last question is when kids around you lost interest, not when you lost interest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:00:28 No.58997920 Report

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>>58997894
Every friend I had liked pokemon so I wouldn't know

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:11:26 No.58997946 Report

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>>58997893
if you were actually anything like millennials, you would be called millennials and not zoomers

the cutoff got moved back to 1996 specifically because you all were starkly noticeably unlike millennials in both mentality and behavior, not merely taste nor even "influences"

you've been othered since 2018 when the term was invented

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:23:33 No.58997983 Report

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State your
>birth year
1993
>which gen your childhood revolved around the most (which games you and the kids around you played the most)
Hard to answer this. I played through Red & Yellow, then eventually got GSC and played them even more, played a good amount of Sapphire, a lot of Diamond, HS, White, Y, Sun, Sword.
I'll say Gen 2 as a combination of the first and second region. Gen1 was the most prominent in my youth because of the TV show and stuff, but Gen 2 is where the games really had the most of my focus.

>which gen the kids around you lost interest in Pokemon
There really wasn't a generation I personally TOTALLY checked out from until Scarlet/Violet but my best friend is still a die hard. It's weird, there are just so many people who still play these games, I would too if they were catering more to me as an adult but I accept they are for kids and that's ok.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:23:44 No.58997984 Report

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>>58997946
>you would be called millennials and not zoomers
yeah, except they're not, they're called zillennials.
trying to claim an entire like, 20 year range of people are a cultural monolith with hard cutoffs, especially in a time where culture changed so rapidly as the 90s and 2000s, it's fucking retarded. there are grey areas, transitionary periods. and even within those, you'll have zillennials who identify more with millennials, and others who identify more with zoomers, based on the kind of influences they had growing up. but the whole point of that zillennial gap generation is that they're not really claimed by either one. millennials don't claim, they say they're zoomer kids. zoomers don't claim them, they say they're millennial uncs. so naturally, they found their own identity. at the end of the day it's all just cultural tribalism anyway, there is no hard science to it.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:26:50 No.58997990 Report

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>>58997722
>1993
>even between gens 2 and 3
>Ultra Sun/Moon was the first mainline game I skipped, and Legends Arceus was the only one I have bought since.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:27:27 No.58997993 Report

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>>58997722
>birth year
not letting you data collect the second answer makes a general frame obvious anyway
>which gen your childhood revolved around the most (which games you and the kids around you played the most)
gen 4 and 5
>which gen the kids around you lost interest in Pokemon
i didnt know anyone who liked pokemon, as for me, gen 6. x&y were the first time i was ever disappointed by a game
though i didnt really fall off the series i moreso just ignored that it was continuing on

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Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:51:25 No.58998053 Report

Quoted By: >>58998075

>>58997722
>year
1999
>gens
Mostly 3 and 4, but I was introduced to the series with 1 and 2.
>peers lost interest in
Gen 5. It was fairly taboo to even talk about Pokémon around that time, but once Gen 6 came out, everyone around me was proudly into it again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 06:58:40 No.58998075 Report

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>>58998053
More specifically, the fan exodus began in late gen 4 like >>58997865 mentioned. In early gen 4 it was incredibly easy to find other kids to trade with for the postgame DP evos. By the end, around HGSS or so, it was hard to locate anyone who still played. By Gen 5 it was a ghost town.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:00:10 No.58998082 Report

Quoted By: >>58998148

>>58997984
>they're called zillennials
no one uses that term but the zoomers who want it to be real
>trying to claim an entire like, 20 year range of people are a cultural monolith with hard cutoffs
it's not a monolith; they are all tripartitely divided
the cutoffs are discovered through extensive analysis of observed patternistic tendencies
>especially in a time where culture changed so rapidly as the 90s and 2000s
as opposed to???
>it's fucking retarded
nah that's ur argument

>there are grey areas, transitionary periods
anything undefined is merely understudied
>even within those, you'll have zillennials who identify more with millennials, and others who identify more with zoomers
once again, "zillennial" just means "I'm a zoomer who doesn't want to be a 'zoomer' so I'll call myself a special snowflake term adjacent to millennials so I don't have to identify as an early zoomer (which apparently I don't even have a conception of since I talk as if zoomers are an unsegmented block)"
>the whole point of that zillennial gap generation is that they're not really claimed by either one
says who?
if all of you early zoomers are trying to call yourselves "zillennials", then it's clear you actually do identify with each other as a block—which would just be 'early zoomers'

>millennials don't claim, they say they're zoomer kids
the ones that graduated in 2015 onward, yes

>zoomers don't claim them, they say they're millennial uncs
"zoomers" in your mind are mid and late zoomers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:01:48 No.58998088 Report

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>>58997722
1996
>your childhood
1 and 3
>kids around you played the most
I knew of one kid who played gen 3 pokemon and we didn't interact.
You were treated like a complete sperg if you played pokemon as a child.
No one else engaged with that shit. Kids treated me like I was the pokemon weirdo
just because they knew I liked it and I really wasn't doing anything insanely cringe
like walking around with a pikachu plushy or randomly bringing it up.
I drew pokemon sometimes at my desk out of sheer boredom which definitely branded me as official class pokefreak
but what was I supposed to do when I'm forced to sit in a wooden chair for 6 hours a day.
Kids were playing mario kart, doodle jump and fruit ninja. Not pokemon.

I knew a kid in kindergarten who had gen 1 pokemon but we couldn't figure out how trading worked.
>when you lost interest
7 was the final straw for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:01:53 No.58998089 Report

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>>58998075
>fan exodus began in late gen 4
>By the end, around HGSS or so, it was hard to locate anyone who still played. By Gen 5 it was a ghost town.
because HGSS sucked and BW was even worse

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:19:59 No.58998148 Report

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>>58998082
Nta but you seem strangely upset that the term exists and is being used. Like it's very important to you that people don't identify with it for some reason. I mean you can dislike it but it's not gonna make it disappear.

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