it's more accurate to put it around the 2's. i've always believed in a gen y, which is the cohort who identified as gen y before millennial became a thing. it's loosely those who entered the workforce before the year 2000 which fits with not being millennials. these people had the internet when they entered the workforce, but did early adulthood without smartphones. they're the "organic food" and "ethically sourced coffee" faggots who support total gender equality but not trannies and aren't vegan. they also became tech using yuppies, and hipsters emerged to mock the hypocrisy of very left but holding on to center for dear life gen y people. part of hipster irony was a lot of them were the old cringe post-soviet former communist youth vanguard who wouldn't buy "corporate water". they were the mentors for the ows fags. millennials are the ones who saw the irony of the hipsters and unironically thought it was cool and tried to be that en masse. i'd say "gen y" were the last generation where you actually asked a single person out on a one-on-one date to lead to a steady relationship then marriage. millennials killed dating. although, gen y is a relatively small cohort and a transition which is formally counted among millennials, although i include some gen x in gen y in the same way there are zillennials. i suppose there was a gen x boomer bridge which i define as people who missed the beatles but lived and breathed the rolling stones. if you had the sense to take it easy with the drugs and weren't a faggot like ed norton's fight club character and just got a fucking hobby because even though the corporate office space job was soulless they handed out those positions like candy and you could have just saved money and developed some hobbies like a ton of gen x did (like, everyone that went into early game dev), then gen x was unironically the peak generation. imagine being a teen with motorhead and real camaros. imagine going to summer camp.
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