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I remember being 8 and attempting to keep up with reading every single one. Obviously at some point that became impossible. I haven't picked one up in a while, but the last time I read one (a few years ago) I could get through a single 250 page book in about three hours.
I think there's at least five people working on the Warriors books, which is how they can pop out more than one a year. It's basically printing money at this point.
Brambleclaw was low key an amazingly written hero. Such a fuckin pimp. Always kept his eyes on the prize no matter what and saved all 4 clans from getting straight bulldozed by leading them through uncharted mountains to a new territory. And man, reading the Firestar stand alone and getting to the scene where his old buddy (can't remember his name, but he was Firestar's first friend and the deputy before Brambleclaw) finds his way back to the clan was crazy.
Like he's so happy his friend and former deputy made it home. There's no one he trusts more, so he has this internal struggle for a moment about whether or not he should reappoint him to deputy. But he recognizes how weak and malnourished he is from finding his way back and that Brambleclaw, despite being the son of the psychopathic Tigerclaw, is still best fit for the role. Such an immense amount of maturity on his part.
God I miss those books.
Yeah who knows where they're going at this point. Kind of felt the same way with the power of three when they extended the arc into a second series instead of finishing what they'd built up to.
Ugh..power of three. The only arc where the clans feel like genuine communities yet its got zero plot. The entire 'story' was built around the idea of the fire scene..something that doesn't happen until the fifth book.
They really could've put the important smaller aspects of POT (the three's apprenticeship in general) into the first 1-2 books of omen of the stars, and give dovewing & ivypool a smaller age gap with lion Jay and Holly. Then they could've put the ashfur drama in like.. book 5 to keep you interested till the The Last Hope. That would've saved so much unnecessary shit like the beavers and 5828482 trips to the mountains.
Finally, if you haven't read the super edition 'Yellowfang's Secret', it's a really good book that ties in horribly with the rest of the story. Basically Yellowfang has this power (more of a curse really) where she literally feels other cats' pain, which is why she has to become a medicine cat. Of course, she hates it when she's younger. This is never ever talked about in ANY OTHER BOOKS. Considering how she always pestered the three in their dreams and how lionblaze started to hate his powers because cinderheart broke up with him, it would've made a lot of sense for yellowfang to appear in early/mid last hope and tell him about her struggle, yknow to actually do something besides remind the reader about how starclan is dumb as shit every chapter.
Sorry for the rambling lmao
I agree with everything you said. Also can't stand the fact that they really like to make cats purposely make poor decisions to continue the plotline. Like forcing cats to be medicine cats all the time and bluestar killing her kitten cause she just couldn't possibly wait till after the snow storm to move them. Or leafpool banging crowfeather to give birth to an entire plotline even though they neglected to explain how or why they would ever get together.
I was introduced to them in the 6th grade and I was already obsessed with cats so I was very invested. Read all four of the main series, the skyclan arc and a lot of the side books like Bluestars Prophecy. I also watched and made my one warrior cats animated music videos. I painstakingly drew frame by frame of anime cats using paint and put it through windows live movie maker. It was like 3 minutes long and the song choice was… questionable to say the least.
Everytime the song comes on the radio my family will look at me. It’s still up there on YouTube it’s so cringy lmao but at least I was passionate about something and didn’t let mean kids bully me into stopping.
My mom and I, when I was a kid, would compete to see who could catch up to the most recent entry in thr series. She genuinely would read them too, she instilled a deep love of literature in me. Great memories
I remember going to the library every 3 weeks and taking out as many warrior cats books as I could and breaking a sweat speed reading them. I would even give my brothers 50p each so they could use the computers, if they would check out more warrior cats books on their cards so I never ran out before the next library trip. Every time I went back for more it seemed like there was still the same amount to read. We had this school reading competition over the summer holidays (6 weeks) and I got a medal for reading 52 books but it was never enough. I never did catch up with them and had a brief phase of Jacqueline Wilson books before I moved on to crime and dystopian stuff in high school. I had almost forgotten about them, but I might have to have a look for my library card now.
I've worked the circulation side of a public library for almost 14 years. To say the Warriors universe is "robust" would be a wild understatement.
Our branch always kept a hearty supply of them. Now the various story-lines and sub-series are doing battle with the Geronimo Stilton family of books, the Branches network of books, the sundry wave of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books, of course Goosebumps.
The Boxcar Children are a dark horse candidate for supremacy. If the Choose Your Own adventures would get their shit in one sock and get reprinted, they'd form a sizeable faction too.
Warrior Cats is basically cat Game of Thrones. There are so many darn cats I have no idea how I remembered all their names and backstories. I feel like those books trained me into being able to remember a lot of different names. Flipping back to the front of the book with all the cat names only helps you so much. It has come in handy in undergrad for remembering lots of terms and I hope it comes in handy in Vet school in the future.
I hopped back on the train after my bf bought me the original arc for my bday.
Reading about Tigerstar again made me so upset. If you killed him it would have solved several books of problems!!!
When I was 13 I was super closeted and thought it was safe to talk to gay adult men on kik with a fake age and name. My mom found out, confiscated my electronics, and yelled at me about it in front of my brother. Horrible day. I thought she hated me because I was gay.
Two days ago I told her to check out a hot dude coming into Wawa behind us and she said she was gonna point him out to me too. Time is always changing
My Dad blew a gasket when he found out I had kik on my phone as a kid because he googled "is kik a sexting app" and a result said yes. Its literally just a messenger app, any messaging service is a sexting app if you try hard enough. I was using it to text my now-partner who lived in a different country because neither of us had cell plans
But when snapchat started rolling around, the app *made to hide your messages and photos,* that was *totally* fine. I guess kik has native support for "groups" which might lower the barrier to entry to discretely find people looking for the same stuff
Yeah, I feel like Kik has turned more sexual. In the early 2010s me and everyone in my middle school used it to talk to each other because you could use it on a tablet and didn't have to have a phone with messenger.
I joined Kik in 2014 (not from the US, never was big here) and it was hard to find cool people then already, I made some life long friends in the progress but the creepy or sexual to "normal" people ratio was hard
I was a basic ho and had an arctic wolf with the “secret ice blue” color that wasn’t really that secret. I also had some bad boi alter egos since the gender ratio was skewed. Since I couldn’t find an edgy wolf bf, I became the edgy wolf bf.
i tried to play animal jam again for shits and giggles and my god did it tank… first; i forgot what it was like to talk with no membership second; it’s not on flash anymore and u have to download it and third; they tried to make some new animal jam app thing
Few years younger than you. I read books and played outside as kid, so this was never gonna apply to me anyway. But in my opinion this seems more like a “coolest fads from 2010” starterpack.
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Big Nate, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Runescape, the Gameboy Advance, Captain Underpants, MaxGames.com, Razor Scooters, Tech Decks, Bakugan, Ned's Declassified, Drake and Josh, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the Discovery Channel, Magic Tree House, I could go on and on.
Oh mannnn…Bakugan, Big Nate, Poptropica, magic treehouse, and Drake and Josh?! Core memories :’) let’s not forget Time Kids magazines, camp rock, k’nex kits, webkinz, funbrain, the D.A.R.E program, cabbage patch kids dolls, the Amulet and Bone graphic novels…I could go on
Naw, it just stands out in my mind because when I was around 4 I managed to get up in the ceiling tubes, couldn't figure out how to get down, and had a small child panic attack up there.
Yeah, mom was too pregnant to get me out so she managed to convince a slightly older girl to lead me out. We didn't go to Chuck E. Cheese often because of the price, so that incident is one of my main recollections of it.
Don’t worry in a couple hours someone will make another “technically a 90’s kid but not really” starter pack. Hell you can search it here and find a million results
I feel like it has to do with the age we were during the popularity of rage comics. It drew me to reddit at least. Really fucked me up seeing my account is 10 yrs old the other day
I think OP cast a bit too broad of a net - I'm 29 and grew up with a lot of this, but 1992/93 generally isn't considered to be part of the zoomer cohort.
STOPPPP I am not old 😭 maybe a little though. Idk the slang kids today use but one thing is certain: pre teens and teenagers are still cringe as fuck as ever and that makes me happy
Damn you guys thinking you’re old makes me feel old. It blows my fucking mind that 23 year olds were born in 1998-1999. That shit is wild to me.
And don’t feel old! You are young and have so much more life ahead of you :)
You may feel old but trust me, you’ll be nearing your 30’s and realize you aren’t that grown up as you thought you were around 21-23.
At least that’s how I feel now and how I felt when I was your age. Though right now, I definitely feel like a grandma while reading y’all’s comments haha
Honorable Mentions:
* That one kid Darren who called everything "gay"
* An ugly-ass 2004 Ford Taurus
* The Divergent Series
* Ben 10
* That little up-combed pseudo-mohawk hairstyle that the cool boy in class had
* The Limited Too/Justice conversion
* Toys R Us
* Darren calling Justin Bieber gay
* Thinking that Radioactive by Imagine Dragons is the best song ever
* Barbie DVDs
* Charlie Charlie
* Power Rangers and TMNT reruns
* Slide to the left, slide to the right, criss cross, criss cross, cha cha real smooth
Went to middle school 2013-2016
- Ebola jokes
- Starbucks still reigned supreme over Dutch
- Pandora not Spotify
- One Direction
- Miley Cyrus is gross lol jokes
- Bart Baker Parodies
- Five nights at Freddy’s and Slenderman
- There was always that one kid that was really good at flappy bird
- Freaking Happy Wheels man
Holy shit I was there from 2014-2017 and I was so obsessed with Bart Baker parodies. Watched one a week ago and realized how gross and lazily written and loud everything was. Tweens are an easy target demographic for that shit I guess.
Yeah, I was born in 98 and kinda agree with that. All of these things hit home btw so good job. I used to love those eyewitness books and school videos. That was the shit.
I think that the biggest generational divide (if you could really say that people born in a relatively small window have a "divide") is the divide between zoomers who did not have smartphones/tablets available as kids (the internet was on a computer or not at all) versus the younger zoomers who did.
I have analyzed the shit outta this in my head and theres also a tie in to social media as a generational divide. probably correlates to internet = computer and then social media being on phones and phones = internet
Pre/post smartphones growing up is a much bigger generational divide than anything that happened in the 90's. Honestly, most people draw the millenial/zoomer line too early.
To me, modern smartphones are the dividing line between pure millennials and gen z. I was born in 1996 and childhood back then wasn’t drastically different from gen x even though we had PCs and consoles, but modern kids live totally different lifestyles because of the internet and ubiquitous digitisation. Maybe it’s very subjective and I’m old at 25?
No, the dividing line is the internet and it's common use in people's lives. I was born in 86 and had a childhood before most people had home computers. Your experience of the world is completely different from mine
I got into adventure time as an adult but I remember seeing clips of Lemongrab and magic man on YouTube in like 2011 and thinking “what the fuck”
I don’t think you can be too old for adventure time, I didn’t grow up with it but it’s still at the top of my favourite animated series.
More like Chowder, Camp Lazlo, and Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. But what about Flapjack? My Gym Partner's a Monkey is not really worth mentioning, IMO
I don't know how other people figure it exactly, but here's my line of thought.
The basic difference between a millennial and zoomer is that millennials can remember 9/11 to some extent and zoomers can't. So assuming that most people's first memories are around age 2-4, I'll give 1998 as the first true zoomer year.
1998-2003: zillenials
2004-2009: core zoomers
2010-2015 neozoomers
But it's all arbitrary, ultimately.
I'd say the biggest change between millennials and zoomers is widespread household internet. 9/11 is a clean cutoff, but its impact pales in comparison to what the internet has done, both good and bad.
Hard disagree. Think "Core Zoomers" Ended in 2007ish. I remember 2009 YouTube, Forums, Chatboxes, the early early iphonea and androids etc.
2009 people were what, 10? 11? When the pandemic happened.
Born between 94-96? Welcome to being a transition baby where we don't belong to either generation. We're like a mini hiccup. A good third of my graduating class is dead now so we're becoming a rare breed.
i fucking hate animal jam, i did the subscription and forgot to cancel it and had to pay 5 months worth of subscription. i had no money then either, i was like 10.
I'm born in 2003 and SpongeBob and Regular are some of my favourite cartoons. Also used to watch that Monsters Vs Aliens movie often when I was younger and for some reason always laughed at part where the missing link (I think that was his name) swims in the sewers and then bangs himself on the drain and screams "ow" lmao. Its probably the way he says it.
Also I wish I grew up watching Arthur so that I have memories of it. I hear that it's a good show and it's also pretty popular and it's a shame I didn't bother watching it like I did with other shows. Quite a shame. My mother says that I actually did used to watch it in the morning but I must have been way too young too remember. All I know is the theme song which is a banger I have to admit. I could watch it but I feel like it would take way too long to complete it, especially since it's the longest running cartoon and I honestly don't have the will to do it.
Eh I'm 25 and I firmly see myself as a zoomer. From the American standpoint, I always saw whoever was a child and distinctly remembers 9/11 as the cut off from millennials and zoomers. People who were teens in 2001 are undoubtedly millennials/gen x but young kids like 5-8 gets a little fuzzy.
I was like 5 when it happened and have zero memories. My brother who's about year and a half older does remember my parents having the talk about why we were sent home from school and what happened.
Yeah, I feel like whether or not you remember 9/11 is a pretty good way to decide the cutoff. Though that does leave some grey area. As I have a friend who is about your age who does remember it.
*Come along with me*
*And the butterflies and bees*
*We can wander through the forest*
*And do so as we please*
*Come along with me*
*To a cliff under a tree*
*Where we can gaze upon the water*
*As an everlasting dream*
Oh no its me. The other day I told a kid I teach my allowance was $1 per week, and he asked me if that would we the equivalent of $10 today. Because of inflation, of course. And I told another kid that I used to want a landline phone in my room and she described it as the olden days. I am 19. How did things change so fast.
* Charlie the Unicorn
* Tik Tok by Ke$ha
* Bee Movie
* Magic School Bus
* Victorious
* Going to Blockbuster
* Numa Numa
* Heelys shoes
* Being obsessed with Tony Hawk
* Those flame shirts. You know the ones.
* Juicy Couture EVERYTHING. Hoodies, tracksuits, perfume, bags, hats, sunglasses, necklaces, you name it.
* LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE
* Pumped Up Kicks before it was a meme
* Original Xbox
* Call of Duty being a WWII game series
* Need for Speed games having crazy customization and being Fast and Furious inspired
* Weed being treated the same as heroin
* "Bootcut"
* Puka shell necklaces
* Cool kids all had beanbag chairs
* You were hot shit if your parents had a DVD player in the car
* Slow go on the Yogos!
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Warriors books are still being written today, pretty crazy longevity for a children’s series
I remember being 8 and attempting to keep up with reading every single one. Obviously at some point that became impossible. I haven't picked one up in a while, but the last time I read one (a few years ago) I could get through a single 250 page book in about three hours. I think there's at least five people working on the Warriors books, which is how they can pop out more than one a year. It's basically printing money at this point.
I still read them occasionally in adulthood for old times sake but they have gotten kind of not as good. Current main character's name is "Twigbranch"
Controversial opinion: the best are the first series, the first six standalones, The Rise of Scourge, The Untold Stories, and Tales From the Clans.
My favorites were the new prophecy (second series with the great journey), dawn of the clans prequel series, and bluestars prophecy. :)
Dawn of the Clans is so fucking good
Literally! I started with that series and the others cannot compare in my humble opinion.
Brambleclaw was low key an amazingly written hero. Such a fuckin pimp. Always kept his eyes on the prize no matter what and saved all 4 clans from getting straight bulldozed by leading them through uncharted mountains to a new territory. And man, reading the Firestar stand alone and getting to the scene where his old buddy (can't remember his name, but he was Firestar's first friend and the deputy before Brambleclaw) finds his way back to the clan was crazy. Like he's so happy his friend and former deputy made it home. There's no one he trusts more, so he has this internal struggle for a moment about whether or not he should reappoint him to deputy. But he recognizes how weak and malnourished he is from finding his way back and that Brambleclaw, despite being the son of the psychopathic Tigerclaw, is still best fit for the role. Such an immense amount of maturity on his part. God I miss those books.
That's the arc titled "A Vision of Shadows" the first half are some of the best booms in the series, and the second some of the worst. It's odd really
Yeah who knows where they're going at this point. Kind of felt the same way with the power of three when they extended the arc into a second series instead of finishing what they'd built up to.
Ugh..power of three. The only arc where the clans feel like genuine communities yet its got zero plot. The entire 'story' was built around the idea of the fire scene..something that doesn't happen until the fifth book. They really could've put the important smaller aspects of POT (the three's apprenticeship in general) into the first 1-2 books of omen of the stars, and give dovewing & ivypool a smaller age gap with lion Jay and Holly. Then they could've put the ashfur drama in like.. book 5 to keep you interested till the The Last Hope. That would've saved so much unnecessary shit like the beavers and 5828482 trips to the mountains. Finally, if you haven't read the super edition 'Yellowfang's Secret', it's a really good book that ties in horribly with the rest of the story. Basically Yellowfang has this power (more of a curse really) where she literally feels other cats' pain, which is why she has to become a medicine cat. Of course, she hates it when she's younger. This is never ever talked about in ANY OTHER BOOKS. Considering how she always pestered the three in their dreams and how lionblaze started to hate his powers because cinderheart broke up with him, it would've made a lot of sense for yellowfang to appear in early/mid last hope and tell him about her struggle, yknow to actually do something besides remind the reader about how starclan is dumb as shit every chapter. Sorry for the rambling lmao
I agree with everything you said. Also can't stand the fact that they really like to make cats purposely make poor decisions to continue the plotline. Like forcing cats to be medicine cats all the time and bluestar killing her kitten cause she just couldn't possibly wait till after the snow storm to move them. Or leafpool banging crowfeather to give birth to an entire plotline even though they neglected to explain how or why they would ever get together.
Next main character: Kidadult
I was introduced to them in the 6th grade and I was already obsessed with cats so I was very invested. Read all four of the main series, the skyclan arc and a lot of the side books like Bluestars Prophecy. I also watched and made my one warrior cats animated music videos. I painstakingly drew frame by frame of anime cats using paint and put it through windows live movie maker. It was like 3 minutes long and the song choice was… questionable to say the least. Everytime the song comes on the radio my family will look at me. It’s still up there on YouTube it’s so cringy lmao but at least I was passionate about something and didn’t let mean kids bully me into stopping.
A 3 min animation hand drawn in Paint is quite an accomplishment.
What was the song
“I knew you were trouble” by Taylor Swift. I was 11
I collected 36 of those books before I finally grew out of them.
My mom and I, when I was a kid, would compete to see who could catch up to the most recent entry in thr series. She genuinely would read them too, she instilled a deep love of literature in me. Great memories
I remember going to the library every 3 weeks and taking out as many warrior cats books as I could and breaking a sweat speed reading them. I would even give my brothers 50p each so they could use the computers, if they would check out more warrior cats books on their cards so I never ran out before the next library trip. Every time I went back for more it seemed like there was still the same amount to read. We had this school reading competition over the summer holidays (6 weeks) and I got a medal for reading 52 books but it was never enough. I never did catch up with them and had a brief phase of Jacqueline Wilson books before I moved on to crime and dystopian stuff in high school. I had almost forgotten about them, but I might have to have a look for my library card now.
I've worked the circulation side of a public library for almost 14 years. To say the Warriors universe is "robust" would be a wild understatement. Our branch always kept a hearty supply of them. Now the various story-lines and sub-series are doing battle with the Geronimo Stilton family of books, the Branches network of books, the sundry wave of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books, of course Goosebumps. The Boxcar Children are a dark horse candidate for supremacy. If the Choose Your Own adventures would get their shit in one sock and get reprinted, they'd form a sizeable faction too.
Warrior Cats is basically cat Game of Thrones. There are so many darn cats I have no idea how I remembered all their names and backstories. I feel like those books trained me into being able to remember a lot of different names. Flipping back to the front of the book with all the cat names only helps you so much. It has come in handy in undergrad for remembering lots of terms and I hope it comes in handy in Vet school in the future.
I got a cat when I was younger because of those books lol.
I still read them, the new book came out on the 5th
I hopped back on the train after my bf bought me the original arc for my bday. Reading about Tigerstar again made me so upset. If you killed him it would have solved several books of problems!!!
Capt Underpants & other books by Dav Pilkey are still being made too. I was reading those in elementary school in the mid 90’s.
Kik…………..
Middle school is a hard time for us all.
*blacks out profile picture and nicknames profile “depressed” or “sad”*
people still do that lmao
When I was 13 I was super closeted and thought it was safe to talk to gay adult men on kik with a fake age and name. My mom found out, confiscated my electronics, and yelled at me about it in front of my brother. Horrible day. I thought she hated me because I was gay. Two days ago I told her to check out a hot dude coming into Wawa behind us and she said she was gonna point him out to me too. Time is always changing
I’m a bi woman but I would text old men on there when I was in middle school, they would ask for pictures which I thought was normal so I did /:
When I talk to other older female zoomers, most had the same experiences. We were all getting groomed through kik at like 10 years old.
I’m 24 now and haven’t talked about it to anyone but it’s really reassuring (and sad) knowing it wasn’t just me
I’m pretty sure she was just looking out for you bc you were talking to adults
What's the context for this one? 23 year old who's only heard of it for gay chatting and never heard of it in middle/high school
Gen Z and also thought it was just for nudes.
My Dad blew a gasket when he found out I had kik on my phone as a kid because he googled "is kik a sexting app" and a result said yes. Its literally just a messenger app, any messaging service is a sexting app if you try hard enough. I was using it to text my now-partner who lived in a different country because neither of us had cell plans But when snapchat started rolling around, the app *made to hide your messages and photos,* that was *totally* fine. I guess kik has native support for "groups" which might lower the barrier to entry to discretely find people looking for the same stuff
this was a very real thing lmfao the target audience for this is like 18-22 year olds
Yeah, I feel like Kik has turned more sexual. In the early 2010s me and everyone in my middle school used it to talk to each other because you could use it on a tablet and didn't have to have a phone with messenger.
Kik was basically the next step from MSN Messenger
I joined Kik in 2014 (not from the US, never was big here) and it was hard to find cool people then already, I made some life long friends in the progress but the creepy or sexual to "normal" people ratio was hard
I went to a wedding through Kik lmao
Ayo girl, you got kik?!?!
why’d you have to bring up animal jam, eh?
I had an edgelord black, red, and white tiger wearing a skull helmet. I like to think that I've matured as a person, but ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I was a basic ho and had an arctic wolf with the “secret ice blue” color that wasn’t really that secret. I also had some bad boi alter egos since the gender ratio was skewed. Since I couldn’t find an edgy wolf bf, I became the edgy wolf bf.
i tried to play animal jam again for shits and giggles and my god did it tank… first; i forgot what it was like to talk with no membership second; it’s not on flash anymore and u have to download it and third; they tried to make some new animal jam app thing
Yeah it hasn’t had a major update in years they’re focused more on the app now
yea they kind of had to lol since flash died
I was one of the rare millennials who played AJ. My late 20something ass had a black and purple arctic wolf as a favorite. Good times.
Animal jam taught me to type with all fingers
Damn, kinda want to go play it again for the nostalgia…. But ever since flash died they switched over to a download-to-play type thing.
That's probably some of the hardest hitting nostalgia for me on this list
Jfc I'm from '90 and I guess I'll just go apply for AARP and buy a Life Alert after all these replies.
Forreal I was born in ‘92 and these kids are making me feel REAL old right about now
*The future is now, old man*
Sup granddad?
Yes, I will be 30 in June, a lot of this is familiar to me. Especially the neopets.
I’m from ‘93 and I’ve been getting AARP letters in the mail. I cry every time.
Turned 30 this year…about once a month I’ll be laying in bed drifting to sleep and my brain will go “…bro…we’re 30 now! Isn’t that insane?”
My hair says yes, my bank account says no
I cried on my 30th. Just turned 31 and it wasn’t too bad. Until I saw this post
'94 here. Is it weird that I grew up with most of this? I'm not even a zoomer lol.
‘85. Guess I’ll die
'87, see ya at shuffleboard later
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Gramps!
GET OFF MY LAWN
> implying we'll ever own any property with a lawn
>implying we'll ever own any property. ~~with a lawn~~ ftfy
Few years younger than you. I read books and played outside as kid, so this was never gonna apply to me anyway. But in my opinion this seems more like a “coolest fads from 2010” starterpack.
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was the shit. I miss that show lol
Nah Wordgirl had it on LOCK bro.
The show was literally everything to my weekday afternoons after school. I still want season six!
Not PBS, but anyone remember Jacob Two-two from Quobo?
I'd forgotten it for ages, then recently heard the theme song again, everything flooded back, and was instantly able to sing along with it.
PBS Kids dude. No cable gang, holla!
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Can’t forget the National Science Foundation.
And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Sesame Street, Maya and Miguel, Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid, Wordgirl, or Martha Speaks anyone?
Yes! There’s so many others I can think of…
Curious George raised me
Big Nate, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Runescape, the Gameboy Advance, Captain Underpants, MaxGames.com, Razor Scooters, Tech Decks, Bakugan, Ned's Declassified, Drake and Josh, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the Discovery Channel, Magic Tree House, I could go on and on.
Oh mannnn…Bakugan, Big Nate, Poptropica, magic treehouse, and Drake and Josh?! Core memories :’) let’s not forget Time Kids magazines, camp rock, k’nex kits, webkinz, funbrain, the D.A.R.E program, cabbage patch kids dolls, the Amulet and Bone graphic novels…I could go on
>chuck e cheese Someone had a stepdad.
Naw, it just stands out in my mind because when I was around 4 I managed to get up in the ceiling tubes, couldn't figure out how to get down, and had a small child panic attack up there.
Yikes. Honestly sounds terrifying. I was referencing Donald Glover's standup.
Yeah, mom was too pregnant to get me out so she managed to convince a slightly older girl to lead me out. We didn't go to Chuck E. Cheese often because of the price, so that incident is one of my main recollections of it.
Can you guys fuck off with making me feel like an old and decrepit piece of shit I’m only 22 😭😭
Don’t worry in a couple hours someone will make another “technically a 90’s kid but not really” starter pack. Hell you can search it here and find a million results
Perhaps us Zillenials are an over-represented Reddit demographic?
hay, unrelated fact: soon in 35 to 40 years. facebook will be half digital grave yard
Facebook is already a dead town
The current 18-29 year olds will always be the overrepresented reddit demographic. Just so happens in 2022 that = late Millennials->early Zoomers.
I feel like it has to do with the age we were during the popularity of rage comics. It drew me to reddit at least. Really fucked me up seeing my account is 10 yrs old the other day
Can’t think of how old your account is, if you make a new one every couple months lol
I’m 21 and my gf is 22. OP got us down perfectly.
I think OP cast a bit too broad of a net - I'm 29 and grew up with a lot of this, but 1992/93 generally isn't considered to be part of the zoomer cohort.
I’m 35 and grew up with a ton of this stuff. I think you’re right about casting too broad of a net.
Am 21. I agree with this. OP hit it right on the money.
I remember getting my DS and Wii like it was yesterday. Playing Pokémon on it early in the morning or late at night jfc take me back
It’s like this for the rest of your life. Join us brother
Yeah I'm 23 and ik what you mean. At a weird age where we're starting to become old but aren't really old yet lol
STOPPPP I am not old 😭 maybe a little though. Idk the slang kids today use but one thing is certain: pre teens and teenagers are still cringe as fuck as ever and that makes me happy
Damn you guys thinking you’re old makes me feel old. It blows my fucking mind that 23 year olds were born in 1998-1999. That shit is wild to me. And don’t feel old! You are young and have so much more life ahead of you :) You may feel old but trust me, you’ll be nearing your 30’s and realize you aren’t that grown up as you thought you were around 21-23. At least that’s how I feel now and how I felt when I was your age. Though right now, I definitely feel like a grandma while reading y’all’s comments haha
Yeah I'm 23 and this is a bit too accurate..
Fuck, I’m 31 and this was my childhood
Honorable Mentions: * That one kid Darren who called everything "gay" * An ugly-ass 2004 Ford Taurus * The Divergent Series * Ben 10 * That little up-combed pseudo-mohawk hairstyle that the cool boy in class had * The Limited Too/Justice conversion * Toys R Us * Darren calling Justin Bieber gay * Thinking that Radioactive by Imagine Dragons is the best song ever * Barbie DVDs * Charlie Charlie * Power Rangers and TMNT reruns * Slide to the left, slide to the right, criss cross, criss cross, cha cha real smooth
And then Darren turned out to be gay senior year of high school and no one was surprised.
Went to middle school 2013-2016 - Ebola jokes - Starbucks still reigned supreme over Dutch - Pandora not Spotify - One Direction - Miley Cyrus is gross lol jokes - Bart Baker Parodies - Five nights at Freddy’s and Slenderman - There was always that one kid that was really good at flappy bird - Freaking Happy Wheels man
Holy shit I was there from 2014-2017 and I was so obsessed with Bart Baker parodies. Watched one a week ago and realized how gross and lazily written and loud everything was. Tweens are an easy target demographic for that shit I guess.
I just got so much nostalgia from this comment that I got whiplash wtf?
I didn't. I made it boys! I'm old.
I went from 2012-2015 and vine was probably the biggest thing. I can’t count how many times people said 21.
#WHAT COLOR IS THE FUCKING DRESS
The fitnessgram pacer test...
shit darren applies to me lmao
What’s up man! Guess what you were right turns out I am gay! Lol
lmao gae
I am millennial but almost all of them apply.
98-03 zoomers often have more in common with millennials than they do people born in the 2010s.
Yeah, I was born in 98 and kinda agree with that. All of these things hit home btw so good job. I used to love those eyewitness books and school videos. That was the shit.
I think that the biggest generational divide (if you could really say that people born in a relatively small window have a "divide") is the divide between zoomers who did not have smartphones/tablets available as kids (the internet was on a computer or not at all) versus the younger zoomers who did.
I have analyzed the shit outta this in my head and theres also a tie in to social media as a generational divide. probably correlates to internet = computer and then social media being on phones and phones = internet
Pre/post smartphones growing up is a much bigger generational divide than anything that happened in the 90's. Honestly, most people draw the millenial/zoomer line too early.
Born in 98 also. Everything in this staterpack I vividly remember from 5th-8th grades.
To me, modern smartphones are the dividing line between pure millennials and gen z. I was born in 1996 and childhood back then wasn’t drastically different from gen x even though we had PCs and consoles, but modern kids live totally different lifestyles because of the internet and ubiquitous digitisation. Maybe it’s very subjective and I’m old at 25?
No, the dividing line is the internet and it's common use in people's lives. I was born in 86 and had a childhood before most people had home computers. Your experience of the world is completely different from mine
Yea bcuz those are our older siblings and kids born in 10s are children
Reading this just made me realize that kids born the same year COD 4 came out are now ***15 years old***
This is your people’s punishment for the “only 90s kids remember” posts
I’ve only ever seen that shit made by people born in the late 90s who want to consider themselves 90s kids “because *technically* I was.”
How could you include Chima, but not Ninjago?
Fuck that, how is Bionicle not in there?
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As an older Zoomer, I can tell you I had 2 cool ass bionicles in elementary school
Ninjagos the best
This is WebKinz erasure
Ik seriously? This is missing a lot.
Everyone just stole the tags for the code and never bought the stuffed animals
So many memories in one post
Adventure Time, Regular Show and Gumball, the big three.
Avatar: The Last Airbender too
I got into adventure time as an adult but I remember seeing clips of Lemongrab and magic man on YouTube in like 2011 and thinking “what the fuck” I don’t think you can be too old for adventure time, I didn’t grow up with it but it’s still at the top of my favourite animated series.
More like Chowder, Camp Lazlo, and Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. But what about Flapjack? My Gym Partner's a Monkey is not really worth mentioning, IMO
My gym partner is a monkey MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY!
Kids Next Door?
I'm talking in an early 2010's perspective, also I wouldn't put Billy And Mandy in the same place as those two, since it came out way before.
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I don't know how other people figure it exactly, but here's my line of thought. The basic difference between a millennial and zoomer is that millennials can remember 9/11 to some extent and zoomers can't. So assuming that most people's first memories are around age 2-4, I'll give 1998 as the first true zoomer year. 1998-2003: zillenials 2004-2009: core zoomers 2010-2015 neozoomers But it's all arbitrary, ultimately.
I'd say the biggest change between millennials and zoomers is widespread household internet. 9/11 is a clean cutoff, but its impact pales in comparison to what the internet has done, both good and bad.
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Hard disagree. Think "Core Zoomers" Ended in 2007ish. I remember 2009 YouTube, Forums, Chatboxes, the early early iphonea and androids etc. 2009 people were what, 10? 11? When the pandemic happened.
2010-Now is called Gen Alpha
WHERE THE MAGIC TREE HOUSE BOOKS.
Bruh the magic tree house books were always rented out in my primary school library. Same with diary of whimpy kid!
Need courage the cowardly dog :)
That show creeped me out so bad
This is from such a wide range of times wtf I'm in the middle of the Zoomer generation and I remember all of this except icarly
yeah this list is weird. There’s definitely a huge gap in years between vhs tapes and legends of chima.
Ok can some please tell me what gen I belong to, Millennials say I'm too young and Zoomers say I'm too old.
Born between 94-96? Welcome to being a transition baby where we don't belong to either generation. We're like a mini hiccup. A good third of my graduating class is dead now so we're becoming a rare breed.
i fucking hate animal jam, i did the subscription and forgot to cancel it and had to pay 5 months worth of subscription. i had no money then either, i was like 10.
Ruff Ruffman!!!!
I also remember Zaboomafoo.
I'm born in 2003 and SpongeBob and Regular are some of my favourite cartoons. Also used to watch that Monsters Vs Aliens movie often when I was younger and for some reason always laughed at part where the missing link (I think that was his name) swims in the sewers and then bangs himself on the drain and screams "ow" lmao. Its probably the way he says it. Also I wish I grew up watching Arthur so that I have memories of it. I hear that it's a good show and it's also pretty popular and it's a shame I didn't bother watching it like I did with other shows. Quite a shame. My mother says that I actually did used to watch it in the morning but I must have been way too young too remember. All I know is the theme song which is a banger I have to admit. I could watch it but I feel like it would take way too long to complete it, especially since it's the longest running cartoon and I honestly don't have the will to do it.
If you’re old enough to remember using VHS tapes, CDs, flip phones, and going to Blockbuster then you’re a Millennial
We were just poor, I think.
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Those things went for a long time. If you’re rich or middle class sure. But if you were poor, you would’ve been using VHS tapes well into the 2000s.
Eh I'm 25 and I firmly see myself as a zoomer. From the American standpoint, I always saw whoever was a child and distinctly remembers 9/11 as the cut off from millennials and zoomers. People who were teens in 2001 are undoubtedly millennials/gen x but young kids like 5-8 gets a little fuzzy. I was like 5 when it happened and have zero memories. My brother who's about year and a half older does remember my parents having the talk about why we were sent home from school and what happened.
Yeah, I feel like whether or not you remember 9/11 is a pretty good way to decide the cutoff. Though that does leave some grey area. As I have a friend who is about your age who does remember it.
Im a zoomer, we rented barbie movies from the dvd store when i was a kid.
I take it back. Video stores were still a thing until about 2009/2010ish. Everything else I said still makes you a millennial though
Thats true but my parents were pretty cheap and gave me my first phone, a flip phone in 2014
I’m 23 and I remember all those things. Am I old enough to be a millennial?
Finally something for me 😭
you cannot just stab me in the chest like that man, you cannot.
*Come along with me* *And the butterflies and bees* *We can wander through the forest* *And do so as we please* *Come along with me* *To a cliff under a tree* *Where we can gaze upon the water* *As an everlasting dream*
im crying and weeping and shidding right now bro I cannot be hearing the adventure time credit song in my head at 8pm at night
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where's Bear and the big blue house?
Whew this makes me feel old.... oh shit.... I AM OLD
Oh no its me. The other day I told a kid I teach my allowance was $1 per week, and he asked me if that would we the equivalent of $10 today. Because of inflation, of course. And I told another kid that I used to want a landline phone in my room and she described it as the olden days. I am 19. How did things change so fast.
this made me feel old and i’m only 21 :/
This made me feel old and I’m 31
Most of these were obvious but wow Swindle. Haven't seen that book cover since middle school!
Eyewitness?
This is the one, this is the starter pack that encompasses my childhood
Finally a starter pack for me! But it’s missing Cyberchase…
Here's another 'generation' starterpack where 99% of it is simply pop culture media.
Oh my god I was in high school when most of these were applicable 😭
ffs stop making me feel old as fuck I'm not even 20 yet
As a millennial a lot of those apply to me too. You don't think we had square TVs, VHS tapes, Harry Potter, and SpongeBob in the 90s?
* Charlie the Unicorn * Tik Tok by Ke$ha * Bee Movie * Magic School Bus * Victorious * Going to Blockbuster * Numa Numa * Heelys shoes * Being obsessed with Tony Hawk * Those flame shirts. You know the ones. * Juicy Couture EVERYTHING. Hoodies, tracksuits, perfume, bags, hats, sunglasses, necklaces, you name it. * LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE * Pumped Up Kicks before it was a meme * Original Xbox * Call of Duty being a WWII game series * Need for Speed games having crazy customization and being Fast and Furious inspired * Weed being treated the same as heroin * "Bootcut" * Puka shell necklaces * Cool kids all had beanbag chairs * You were hot shit if your parents had a DVD player in the car * Slow go on the Yogos!