It’s impossible to pin down the essence of an entire generation. Still, as members of Gen Z, we spend a lot of time thinking about what makes us different from those born before and after us.

Boomers can’t navigate technology. Millennials walk their “doggos” and despise “adulting.” Gen Alpha is doomed. As for Gen X? No one really knows.

Now it’s us sitting in the hot seat, facing bafflement from both sides. Our generation was born between 1997 and 2012, so our oldest might remember the presidency of George W. Bush, while our youngest could’ve grown up reaching for an iPad while at a restaurant. You might know some of us for our unsettling stare or our preference for subtitles. What’s universal is that people outside our generation can’t seem to figure us out.

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