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Posted: 2024-10-10T23:45:55Z | Updated: 2024-10-10T23:45:55Z

KeKe Palmer has some burning questions for Gen-Z about why theyre gunning for millennials .

In a recent TikTok video , the actress a millennial herself, at 31 jokingly points to the many ways that Gen Z has tried to roast her generation.

Palmer is getting her hair done in the video, which was posted Sept. 29. I never thought Id see the day that yall tried to get millennials outta here, she says to the camera, as someone brushes her hair. The way that yall are gunning for us, it has to be stopped.

(People born between 1981 and 1996 are millennials, while anyone born from 1997 to 2012 is a part of Gen Z, at least as defined by the Pew Research Center. )

The Disney alum then switches gears to telling her 8 million-plus followers that she was baffled after discovering the definition of millennial zoom.

According to TikTokers like @Jordan_The_Stallion8 , millennials use the zoom function on their phone cameras when they film videos, while Gen Z-ers edit in zoomed-in angles after filming.

Since when was zooming too much? What did Gen Z do? Do they do no editing? They dont use any of the editing tools that are in any of the applications? Palmer says.

Joking that shes tired of the discourse, Palmer adds, Im only 31. I never thought that yall would try to close the lights on millennials like this.

When one of Palmers followers commented on the video, Wait but what is a millennial zoom is it just zooming? I cant zoom anymore? the singer replied, well apparently it ages us!? girl I cant keep upppp.

As expected, Palmers video stirred up some incredulous reactions,

I think GenZ just wants to be us. I think thats the truth, one person wrote.

Another said, Millennials have been the main character longer than any generation. Its unprecedented.

Someone else referenced the OG millennial movie character from 2004s Mean Girls to argue that millennials are here to stay: Millennial are the Regina George of generations YOU CANT STOP US!!!

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Elsewhere in the clip, the Nope actor trash-talked the mid-20s adults that still feel too old to be Gen Z.

And then, I hear some people hanging on trying to call themselves zillennials? You cant be both. I wont get over this, Palmer said.