The way I see it, being born three days before the cutoff of the Millennial generation put me in an excellent position to go into a creative career. Hear me out:

I’m a Millennial-Gen-Z-cusper (Zillennial, if you will). In my most formative years, I had hands-on experience with pretty much every cutting edge technological advancement. I remember using those short-lived, two-in-one VHS-DVD players, and (semi) portable CD players. I’d only been posting on social media for a few weeks around the time we switched from Myspace to Facebook… then ultimately Twitter (nobody can convince me to call it X), and now… Threads, kinda?! Anyone?! Crickets? I was among the tweens who coded their own Tumblr HTML, and taught myself how to market my blog. In high school, there was a time when half my friends still had flip phones and half had smart phones, and in college I transitioned from making Vines to making TikToks. I was part of the last college graduating class to get a formal, in-person graduation before the era of COVID, and I had to find my first full-time job in my field in a brand new, fully-remote landscape. The next change was AI, and I guess we’ll see what happens next.

What I’m saying is, I’ve always had to get creative. When every development in your lifetime is rapid and unprecedented, your brain is built like a sponge that immediately absorbs new concepts, trends, and tech. Basically, I’m pre-wired to be ~extremely adaptable~, inventive, and forward-thinking, which are crucial in a line of work that requires you to think on your feet. So aside from my general lifelong passion for writing and creating video content, I’m grateful to my confusing, in-between micro-generation for my career path. As a special bonus, I’m just enough of a Millennial for some Zoomers on TikTok to call me a grandma (at the ripe age of 27).

Oh, and my name is Isabelle.