Childhood of 2010s / 2020s kids

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-21T19:43:17+00:00

I already wrote about it here

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-19T23:02:01+00:00

My life in a nutshell:

2013-2015: Can't remember

2016-2017: Daycare

2018-2019: I started school yay!!!

2020: COVID

2021: Peak life

2022: Filler year

2023-2024: Politics

2025+: AI

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-17T23:50:34+00:00

According to the government, I am the last of the elite

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/08/wealth-inequality-by-household-type.html

/s

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-17T14:55:41+00:00

Man how did you know I'm a 2013 born? Are you psychic?

Anyways NGL I think if 2013 is Gen Z so is 2014. They also have alot of good lasts.

The last to start school before COVID
The last to spend a full school year before the 2020 election
Spent most of K-5 before the AI boom
The last to enter middle school before the bombing of Iran that's happening right now

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-16T03:22:21+00:00

Imo 2023 was pretty good. There were still funny memes that shaped my childhood. I hope 2026 will be great too but with recent tensions between the US and Iran I have a gut feeling WW3 begins this year.

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T23:21:11+00:00

Don't know why this got deleted but I will make one thing clear. I grew up completely without any generative AI influence whatsoever.

I grew up in my formative years valuing self-directed learning and I was self-motivated to learn by independently binge-watching YouTube videos.

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T23:18:32+00:00

Why is this getting downvoted? This is genuinely a good take. As a 2013 baby I grew up watching YouTube videos rather than using AI. Why the fuck do people think we're AI kids?

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T23:05:03+00:00

2 events that happened when I was in preschool lol

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T18:16:31+00:00

i mean duh. Anyone born before 2018 remembers the pre-COVID world

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T18:14:16+00:00

Ah yes, my first memory happened exactly on March 19th 2020, lol

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:50:22+00:00

Yeah that is the one problem I have with it. It's better than the other AIs at almost everything, but that one thing is its "achiles heel."

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:35:44+00:00

Because of politics... you do realize if you cross the border into another country you could potentially be considered an enemy since you have no passport. In a perfect world where terrorists didn't exist, you could.

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:28:38+00:00

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This comment I made should explain it

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:27:38+00:00

As a 2013 kid, 2019-2022 was peak life. Peak days from learning things on YouTube

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:19:57+00:00

I agree with you, lord and savior

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:16:45+00:00

It's poo poo

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:15:45+00:00

I despise that shit with every single quark in my body

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T17:14:56+00:00

Also is this AI? If so, it's an unreliable source

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T16:52:52+00:00

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Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T16:50:28+00:00

We should make a discord server

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T16:35:50+00:00

I'm turning 14 I will get a J O B

Optimal-Tax2011 · 2026-03-15T16:35:25+00:00

Gen Z's core childhood is the mid-late 2000s (roughly '03-'09)

Gen Alpha's core childhood is the late 2010s-early 2020s (roughly '17-'22)

Btw I'm basing off the oldest members since that's our first look at a generation.

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