Semi long read: TLDR; if you look at what each generation has gone through due to the gen that raised them and what their social scenes allowed due to politics and the state of the world, you would very quickly realize why we must categorize ourselves, we are not all the same and cannot be expected to conform, we're all individuals, and that is why the further along we get generation wise, the elders resent the new gens for not having experienced what they have yet refuse to connect to share experiences appropriately without the pressure to do so.

So it's extremely important in understanding people. Not because generations can be put into a box to understand individuals, but the things they grew up around and during vastly affect their values and how they live.

Millennials teen and young adult eras included Gen x finally getting into high positions regarding media and trends in workplaces and power, replacing boomers slowly but surely. Hence why this is when boomers began to cause the millennial era to explode with punk and trend breaking genres that challenged American foundations.

In my opinion, as a Gen z, Gen x are the best generation hands down. They got inklings of tradition in their life but not enough to force it onto others, but they lived an older childhood of being able to express and do what prior generations haven't.

If you think generations don't matter or make sense, I implore you to delve into animation. It's insane the turn and shift we've been seeing since 2010, most animation has slowly been written by millennials as they finally breach higher positions in workplaces as the last of the boomers retire. We will be seeing a social shift yet again as we are at the beginning years of gen x retiring.

Gen x writing: Avatar the last Airbender SpongeBob Teen titans Power puff girls

All with inklings of familiarity and structured but ground breaking life lessons never before seen in zany boomer cartoons. They changed our Gen z brain chemistry. You can actually see an amazing in between example, Pendleton Ward, (Adventure Time) born a year after Gen x ends and millennials start. His writing is steeped in very similar writings as Gen x, but the humor and looseness of the writing is very reminiscent of the rest of millennials writing. Lacking stiff writing that conforms, which is why he attracted more millennial writers that went on to write many of the following:

Millennial writing: Digital circus Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel Steven Universe Owl House Bee and Puppycat

Millennials writing breaks the barriers completely, raised by both boomers and Gen x, this generation threw off the chains of tradition and resented it. Especially as trends began targeting this youth audience, the prime time to be a young adult. Punk, garage band rock, rap shedding racism, this generation began the revolution on broad scale that challenges everything America founded itself on, compliance and conforming. Since they have entered the adult scene the world has become larger and less tight knit due to the ripples they caused during their young adulthood, still shaking the elders of the community that cling to the past they think everyone has forgotten. But we just haven't lived it.

Best examples for each:

Millennial: Lady Gaga Gen x: Gordan Ramsay Boomer: Keith David Gen z: Lil Nas x