The Battle of the True 90’s Kids
Recently on Twitter, there has been an uproar on who can honestly claim the title of the 90’s kids. Now as someone born on the line of millennial and Gen Z, I am not saying the conversation is not valid. There is a line between the two and I do have stance on that line. Who really gets to define that period of time should matter and if people are spending time to argue about it, well then let's take a look into it.
The battle lies on the line of what should define an actual 90’s kid. The question remains is it the person who got to grow up during the time or the person that was born during the time? With arguments on what trends are actually from the 90’s or a mesh of three different decades the ’80s, ’90s, and the ’00s. This battle has become quite out of hand and quite funny. From Gen Zers calling people who are either in their mid-20’s old and in need of a nursing home to Millielnals telling Gen Z that it is past their bedtime. The question still remains who are the honest 90’s kids.
In reality, I think the kids who enjoyed the culture and were able to impact the culture during that time should have the name 90’s kids. Even though I was blessed to be born in the 90’s I had no impact on the toys that were cool, the shows that were enjoyed, nor a real sense of the music because I was too small to even remember it then. So how can you deem someone a 90’s kid when they were just born into that time. In all honesty, unless you were born in the early 90’s such as 1990–1993 most of the time spent in the 90’s you do not remember. You were still learning to walk, speak and pee on your own. Which you consider you to be a 90’s baby and a 2000’s kid. Even thinking about the shows, clothing, and music is somewhat different. Think of a show that you would deem a 90’s show one that was watched in that time and came out with new episodes in that time. If you thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, or Moesha, I am sorry to tell you that these aren’t 90’s shows, they are 2000’s shows. They had most of their seasons in the early 2000s. I will let the 90’s kids have it, they do have some great shows that reigned in the ’90s like Fresh Prince, Full House, Martin, and The Nanny. This just goes to show that you may just be a 2000’s kid.
I was able to enjoy the early 2000’s from watching Kim Possible to Spongebob. Kids who were born in the ’90s get the benefit of being able to grow while technology developed and shows were on rerun while having great TV of our own. Think about it if you were born in the 90’s you went from having a flip phone to an iPhone while still in either middle school or high school. You were able to enjoy both of the best parts of being a millennial and a gen z. From fashion, music to the evolution of social media. Gen Z gets to prance around on Tik Tok when we got to evolve from Myspace to Tik Tok. We were able to enjoy the phase of computer games and level up to enjoying the PS5. We have the benefit of both, while still being no longer kids during this time. Imagine turning 21 now during a pandemic. As early 2000’s kids, we don’t have to because we already had that season in our life. I think it is honestly time for the 90’s babies to claim the era of being 2000’s kids. We get the best of both worlds while not having to be the kids who came behind us. I will honor the 90’s kids because that was their world the time where iPhone’s weren’t a thing and they did not have to post their awkward stage on social media because there was not anywhere to post.
