This might be TMI but I figure it pertinent to the zoomer discussion:
As a 2001 Zoomie, I have always felt like I stood with a toe in each faction among a totally fractured generation. I was raised alongside the Internet, but I was never immersed from birth. I saw our culture go insane right around 2015, which was timed directly in the middle of puberty and totally destroyed gender relations before they could even develop for a large number of my peers. I graduated in 2019, the last batch of socialized kids before covid wrecked that too. I used to hang around the older kids, but have since dealt with and befriended the younger zoomers as I postponed university until I found a useful major to pursue. Point being: I see the seams which stitch my generation together, and the difference between them is so large, I wouldn't even consider them comparable.
You have guys who were told "sit still, be quiet, you're not wanted, you're not needed" their whole lives becoming uncooperative and misogynistic as a natural response. You have girls who excelled in female-led school, pursue female-led jobs, and understandably feel disappointed at the men around them who never seemed to grow up. You have older Zoomers funneled into CS majors disgusted at "digital nomads" who are oblivious to anything outside the iOS walled garden. This doesn't even touch on the more prominent race differences or the LGBT chasm which has effectively established a nameless state religion which half of zoomers subscribe to.
The worst part about it all is how each pocket blindly dismisses anything from the others. I have to hold my tongue when people force "they/it" pronouns into speech, but I have to hide my love of art and cute things when around right wing chuddies because it's "troon-coded." I'm tired of pussyfooting around my views of history, politics and philosophy to avoid getting cancelled, but I can't even embrace like-minded individuals because they are often some of the biggest losers in the world who just happen to share my beliefs because it absolves them of responsibility for their own shitty lives.
I was born normal, but normal doesn't exist anymore.