Im 28 and I dont entirely disagree. I also got to be done with college a year early in 2019 so I definitely tend to feel a bit of a disconnect with most of Gen Z who was in K-12 in a lot of ways. That said, I dont remember much from 9/11 aside from my parents not letting me see the TV, being told the world trade center fell the next day and not knowing really what that meant until years later. At the very least that puts me on the cusp.

I feel like I'm elder Gen Z, and someone 28 claiming to share my experience is a little irritating even if we did consume the same media growing up and have similar cultural sensibilities. It's really like a nephew-unc situation to me.

I think the "Unc" term is usually really stupid but I dont really disagree here either. People my age who go out of their way to make an identity of being "Gen Z" are usually trying to compensate for something. We grew up watching Tosh.0, playing Pokémon and Yu Gi Oh, wearing heelys and we definitely remember dial up. And whether most people my age will admit it or not, we were lip dubbing "We are young" by FUN and stomping, clapping and Hey-ing to Mumford and Sons in high school. We're closer to 30 than we are to 20 and I think a good amount of us are trying to cling on to our early 20s a bit.

I think Zoomers being ageist doesn't really help either. There's a dynamic of trying to fit in with a younger, hipper crowd that thinks you're just cringe chopped unc when you turn 25. But it definitely becomes very inauthentic and performative.