Zed Duke of Banville
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The most common definition of Generation Z indicates those born from 1995 through 2009, meaning the oldest turned 16 years old in 2011 and were certainly old enough to have played Skyrim at release, as high-schoolers. Of course, that also means the youngest of Generation Z turned 14 years old last year and would be unlikely to have ever played Skyrim; this conception of 'generations' was developed by American marketeers in the post-WWII era and generally doesn't mean much of substance. The 'Baby Boom' is the only generation based on some objective reality, since there actually was a sharp rise in American fertility rates starting at the end of WWII which eventually terminated about 20 years later. There's no valid rationale for dividing people into these generational cohorts, which misleadingly presents each generation as a monolithic bloc, exaggerates differences between these groups, and presents changes as occurring abruptly at the arbitrarily-chosen generational dividing lines.It depends on how we define the word "zoomer". Older ones (born 97-99) were within the target audience for Skyrim upon its initial release, as were a few more years' worth with the Special Edition release in 2016. A lot of our stereotypes about zoomers now primarily apply to those born in the late 2000s that are currently at high school age, but the term was really coined by older millennials about 7-8 years ago to describe high schoolers that are now in their early-mid 20s.Finding a zoomer into something like Skyrim is rare, I've only met a couple in my life, like 1% of those who told me they play games. The numbers have grown for sure since COVID because everyone and their mom got a PC over COVID so I'm sure a chunk of them have found their way from multiplayer to shit AAA RPGs but not many.