Reality Television Generation

1985-1994: Babies
1995-2004: Tweens/Teens - RealityTV
2005-2014: Twenties

Historic Predecessor of Reality Television:

1940–1950:
Queen for a Day, Cash & Carry, Candid Camera, Beat the Clock, Truth of Consequences, You Asked For It
1960–1970:
Seven Up!, Up Series, The American Sportsman, Let It Be, An American Family, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, The Gong Show, The Big Time

1980–1990

Real People, That's Incredible, That's My Line, COPS, The Real World, The Bachelor

Cultural Traits

• Teen Mom
• Teletubbies
• LGBT & Transgender
• Anti-vaccination Movement
• Mass School Shooting
• Victims of Helicopter Parenting
• YOLO: You Only Leave Once
• Hashtags: # symbol to help search and make "viral"
• Autism

Crack Babies (prenatal cocaine exposure)

Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE), theorized in the 1970s, occurs when a pregnant woman uses cocaine including crack cocaine and thereby exposes her fetus to the drug. Babies whose mothers used cocaine while pregnant supposedly have increased risk of several different health issues during growth and development.

1. Crack Babies: Twenty Years Later, Michel Martin, May 3. 201: Nisa Beceriklisoy (Mother Mary Barr)
2. Slandering the Unborn: The Legacy of a Myth

Sample Stories of GenZ:

Megan Bradley was born in 1986; her tween & teen years were 1996-2004. The Bachelor started in 2002, when she was sixteen. This now makes perfect sense why she thought it was perfectly normal to be living in Matt Maas' house, have a one-night stand at Chase Main's Ugly Sweater Party, then move forward to Aaron Donald (shortly after Matt kicks her out). She was just playing the role of The Bachelorette (which debuted in 2003, the year after when she was seventeen). That is what GenZ does.

Definition of Generation Z

Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012.