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Zillennials are a micro-generation of people on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial. How do they fit in between the two generations?

Juliana Olarte, a 26-year-old travel publicist in New York City, found herself perplexed about her generational identity. Her 16-year-old sister from Generation Z playfully calls Olarte "cheugy," a term Gen Z uses to describe "millennial things that are kind of uncool or cringey," according to Olarte. "I'm seen as a young millennial by my sister,…

“Zillennials refer to a small cohort born between the early 1990s and the early 2000s,” said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.”

The term millennial refers to anyone born between 1981 and 1996, and Gen Z refers to anyone born from 1997 through 2012, according to the Pew Research Center. Along the blurry edge at the cusp of the two generations, between Gen Y and Z, is where zillennials live.

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