Funny Gen Z T-Shirts & Early Internet Tees

JLM Apparel's Gen Z shirts are funny graphic tees about growing up online in the 2000s and 2010s: Vine and the family PC, early TikTok, the group chat, the aux cord and "okay boomer." They're unisex, printed on demand on soft black Gildan Softstyle tees, for the generation that was born to scroll.

Early internet childhood

Childhood Was Vine and the Family PC, No Cap, I Lived Through Early TikTok and The Family Tablet Had One Good Angle are for kids who grew up sharing one screen. Wi-Fi Passwords Were Family Heirlooms, Childhood Came With a Password Reset, Childhood Was Low Battery and No Charger and We Survived the Screen-Time Warning finish the story.

Group chats and feeds

We Grew Up in the Group Chat, We Used Emojis Before We Used Words, We Remember When Apps Had Chronological Feeds and Before Short-Form, We Made Long Captions are for the feed historians. We Learned Privacy From Tagged Photos, We Made Memories Before the Cloud Did and We Had a Camera Roll Before a Career cover the photo years.

The unwritten rules

The Aux Cord Was a Social Contract, Our First Algorithm Was the Lunch Line, Recess Was Our First Content Break, Born to Scroll, Forced to Make Eye Contact and Okay Boomer Was Peak Diplomacy say the quiet parts out loud.

Most designs come in a White Ink version and a color version. Want to see what your older siblings wore? Try our Millennial shirts or the funny meme tees.

Quick answers

What years is Gen Z?

Pew Research Center defines Gen Z as people born from 1997 to 2012, the first generation to grow up with the internet in their pocket.

What's a good gift for someone in Gen Z?

Go with the app, gadget or group-chat rule they'd recognize right away, like Vine, early TikTok or the aux cord. Every tee in this collection is $16.99.

What does White Ink mean?

White Ink designs are printed in white ink so they pop on the black shirt. Most Gen Z designs also come in a color-print version.