Older generations make fun of us. Younger generations make fun of us. Usually both sides do it by mischaracterizing generational behaviors or by being super hypocritical.
Once I ingrained that realization, I reached a zen state of not giving a shit. Boomers fucked up the world and Gen Z can't read. Why do I need to care about their opinions of Millennials?
It used to mean "Baby Boomer, aka someone born right after the end of WWII when the troops came home & had a bunch of kids." But now it means "older person with an outdated or out of touch view/opinion."
This is the most true statement. When we became part of the work force and started multiplying and taking their roles it was “damn millenials” it never stopped. I’ll take my emojis and love of 2000s music and culture (bc we lived it), our millennialisms and excitability any day over these other emotionless younger ones (I know I’m generalizing and I’m sorry to the ones who aren’t this way) is rather be cringe and live life than be too worried about the way I/we look to do it. And to be totally frank I actually genuinely feel sad for the younger gens. It cannot be easy living worrying about what everyone thinks 24/7. I would be so jealous of the childhood we got if I didn’t live it. And it crushes me for our kids that they don’t have it. Trying my best to recreate parts of it but impossible to totally do, I think. I’m not saying that condescendingly either. I genuinely don’t envy being in my 20s or younger. What we had was the ultimate and I’m so thankful for it
If being cringe, not applying winged eyeliner correctly and loving rap from the 2000s is all they can dig up on us, we're doing pretty well. Gen X were supposed to be the bad boy rebels and became Boomers 2.0.
Gen X is soooooo confused about who they are. They'll be sucking up to the same boss above them as a millennial in the office, and then turn around and act tough like we didn't just see them on their knees licking a boot.
Older generations make fun of us. Younger generations make fun of us. Usually both sides do it by mischaracterizing generational behaviors or by being super hypocritical.
Spoiler alert: every generation is getting roasted in their own ways lol
Once I turned 40 I stopped caring about pretty much everything. It's so freeing
EDIT: since there's some traction on this, the reason it's taken so long was that narcissistic personality disorder runs hard on both sides of my family. I was raised to be a people pleaser as a survival skill essentially - and my parents were nowhere near as evil as many other narc parents, trust me.
Good on anyone who shook this bullshit and focused on themselves much earlier than 40!
being selfish for the right reasons took me way too long to learn - that doesn't mean be an asshole but it also means don't feel guilty for doing so either
I've never met a Millenial that thought of themselves as the greatest. The only thing I see Millenials giving themselves credit for is troubleshooting damn near anything. Other than that, the lot of us just seem anxiety riddled and wondering if we'll survive for long in our old age
Personally, I don't think I'm the greatest. But I do think my friends and other millennials I know ARE the fuckin' best.
And generally yeah, I think our generation is pretty rad. I don't necessarily have beef with Gen X'ers or Zed's, but being used to getting shit on by other generations, I don't think it's crazy that we've got this mentality of solidarity✊🏼
I do think it’s possible we will be the most educated generation that has or will ever be. I mean unless you’re going to tell me LLMs are going away and they’re not.
Gen Z already is in the midst of a literacy crisis. I work in a college and I can tell you right now, these kids who would've been born.... what, 2007? Tail end of Gen Z? Cannot read. They do not know the meaning of words. They cannot understand a sentence more than 10 words long. It's really dire and depressing.
I am in my mid thirties and I’m taking online college classes. I have to put disclaimers not to respond with “AI” which somehow works a lot of the time, it seems anyway.
I had to call the school and had a very uncharacteristic “meltdown” when it was obvious an instructor was using it to respond to me and other students. It felt like a punch in the face and a hand in my wallet, because I pay for this. The person I spoke to didn’t see a problem at all. I said I don’t want to be instructed by AI, I want a person. There’s no way to prove it and so I can do nothing but keep my ideals and get my degree.
I can’t imagine if I had children of my own. I have shed tears for the next generations. I wish I could hold out hope for it to die down, but I really don’t think it will.
The absolute audacity for collegiate officials to say reusing information from our own papers without citing ourselves is plagiarism, but AI use by professors is totally acceptable.
Exactly.... more like dealing with older generations' bullshit.
I'm suing a couple of asshat boomers for covering up a massive defect in the house I purchased from them. Old asshole generation still preying on my generation.
Same here, never really been around a millennial who thinks their hot shit. I have seen some who wonder how their future is gonna be and doing their best to survive (consumed with anxiety and depression. I have seen some who were silver spooned or entitled to some things (but all generations cover that slippery slope).
I will say the most annoying generation for me is Gen X. They post the most annoying “me me me,” memes about how they are so great because they been through this and that etc. I always call them the middle child generation and they need attention now.
Boomers just post stupid stuff about back in the day or no one wants work anymore/work hard for what they want
My daughters call our dog “doggo” and “pupper” so it’s definitely in rotation in my house. I honestly assumed it was a younger generation thing, though, as I don’t recall hearing it from my peers, and I’m in my late 30s.
Adulting and AF are definitely not my speed, however. And I have heard those from other millennials.
I think it’s too broad to say yes or no because back pain can come from so many causes. I’ve had it since my 20s, but I played football in high school and beat the shit out of my body, so it’s somewhat logical in that scenario.
It's likely compounded sleeping habits that are now starting to hurt after years. Most of these aches are bad habits compounded to the now result that you have chronically tight muscles. For Instance, I used to kind of sleep with my right arm "chicken winged", like bent at the elbow tightly, and then tucked under my body. About 5 years ago my right delt, the tendon or whatever that goes from my delt to my wrist, and my scapula all started hurting really bad. It would hurt through my bicep, wrist and deltoid. So I started consciously not doing that, and it seems to have really eliminated the pain. So check how you relax, how you sleep, the position your body rests. All these things can compound and just cause aches. It's not too late to make corrections.
My back does not hurt. The only time I can remember it hurting was after I spent a whole day hunched, cutting stones and carrying them around when I decided I could pave my own backyard instead of paying someone thousands of euros to do it
Nah man, people just out here 30-40lb overweight and pretending like it’s not the reason they feel like shit. Pretty much all my aches and pains have disappeared since returning to the gym, including Knee pain that was making me limp.
30 - 40 lbs overweight, while not super healthy, will not cause any back issues on its own.
It's 100% sedentary lifestyle causing problems like joint pain, etc. I'm 6'1", 170 lbs, with a desk job. If I don't do some kind of physical activity several times a week, I get all kinds of issues.
I’m not over weight and have a manual labor job, nothing too taxing but repetitive stuff. I have all types of soreness and hurting. I think it can go either way
Nurse here. It is this. Sedentary lifestyle will cause way more aches and pains than being slightly obese, morbidly obese is another issue altogether. But staying active does wonders. Also if you're active you probably won't get morbidly obese, just normal (for Americans) obese.
My back was fucked up a couple of years ago and I was terrified that was just gonna be a thing. I bought a new mattress and quit drinking for a month. Maybe just a coincidence but I've been good since then.
I feel like we're one of the last outdoor generations that still messed around on the dangerous park equipment, and part of that first group of latchkeys in the 90s when we were still figuring out how to have two parents working while keeping the kids alive.
I hurt my back at 16 riding a bike down the rocket slide. I went back a couple years ago, the rocket still exists, but they covered off the slide. I think we're just preventing folks from injuring themselves young leading to chronic issues (as a broad stroke. Plenty of folks are still klutzy like me and would have just ended up like this regardless)
I, for one, find having a butt drinking quite good for the soul. As such, I have my butt drank at least three times a week to keep the humors in check. I also reciprocate drinking butts on occasion, as I want to make sure I keep all well with butt drinking partners.
masturbatory-posting is the realm of the gen X, in my experience, I've never seen much of anything masturbatory from millennials outside of this sub. In fact, I think we've been feeling pretty humbled as of late
Yeah. Millennials may have created modern social media, but we were the first generation to actively take distance from it if you ask me. No matter if we talk about facebook, instagram or tiktok.
and in that case I can't be held responsible for whatever bullshit is about to come out of my mouth because it's a dog and I'm in my "this is a precious doggy doodle" lizard brain
I think that when we were kids, 40-somethings seemed to look way older than 40 somethings today... but shoot maybe that's my millennialism showing... They looked way older didn't they?! Like grandparents compared to now, no?!
I have a picture of my parents shortly after I was born. They were about 40. They overall looked pretty good! My dad looked a little older than he was, and mom looked a little younger, but that was mostly due to my dad's stressful job.
They're in their 70s now. My dad looks about 60, and still walks or jogs a couple miles 2-3 days a week, weather depending. My mom looks her age, mainly because she never bothered to take care of herself after 50. (Too much TV.)
Idk. It's made me prioritize basic cardio (brisk walks) and healthier eating. I despise running, but walking the dog is enjoyable.
I can explain it. Millennials were the first generation to still look young in their 30s. So they interantized the feedback that they "looked 20" well into their 30s.
But by the time you hit 40 you've got grey hairs, thinning hair and some lines in the face. There's simply no escaping it, you look older. I think the millennial experience with aging is closer to "hitting a wall" where within a short few years you go from "looking in your 20s" to "looking like a 40 something middle aged person."
And not everyone's self-perception has caught up with how quickly reality arrived.
I think that the issue is what kind of paragon we make, In general though it is true that on average our generation looks younger than the equivalent Gen X and Boomer did at at the same age, but if we compare with current 25-30 years old that impression disappears, since they do have the same advantages in nutrition and in general healthcare understanding that we did (if not a better one).
Jeez, I've been hearing/reading "hubby" since I was a wee 'un in the early 90's - it always seemed like a perfectly normal casualization of "husband" to me.
"Littles", though - that's definitely internet-era and I do hate it. Just use the perfectly well-established, fittingly casual "kids" if "children" is too stuffy.
The “hubby” and “ the wifey” are just a no-go for me. It feels like a childish nickname for a husband, and a demeaning name for a wife, somehow.
Like a role, rather than a cute nickname. “The wifey said”, “the wifey felt like….” Almost like, “the plumber said”, or “the electrician said”. 😕
That being said, in private, a significant other will be definitely be hearing they are a cutie patootie, cutest of all cute, lovey dovey, sweetie pie. 💖
the new one that makes me want to yeet myself into the sun is seeing people can their children "littles". Like "I have two littles" or "am a mom of littles" or "do other moms of littles...."
We should do a series of these. The next one can have "communicates often via gif" and "chronically adds 'lol' to the end of text messages to express that it's not that big a deal"
Turns out the entire clan I was playing a game with was gen z, and they knew I was a millennial just because of the "lol" thing. They never made fun of me for it to be clear, but one day they did start calling me a millennial I was like "how the fuck do they know???", then they just started sending a bunch of messages capped with lol... Goddammit! LOL
Plus we narrate all our thoughts in our texts—well, some of them depending on how unhinged they are that day—and l know this because I honestly could have written this myself. Also, well placed meme! I had to stifle a laugh in my gp’s waiting room.
Why are so many millennials obsessed with looking 25? I’m in my 40s, in great physical shape, take good care of myself and I look fantastic. I look like a healthy 40-something still, and it doesn’t bother me . Pretending you look 20 years younger is really sad in a special way . Looking 40 is not a bad thing .
I don't think they are actually obsessed with looking 25, they just still wear jeans and tees and/or hoodies and anyone saying it's to intentionally look 25 is just wrong
edit: don't know why my 41 year old millennial ass, currently wearing a hoodie, said they and not we
People acting like most millennials are actively trying to look younger don't seem to understand the cyclical nature of fashion.
Most of the time, when anything but a fraction of a fraction of any generation seem like they're "trying" to dress young, it's because most people maintain the style they had in their later formative years and that style just so happens to have cycled back around.
I think even whale tales have circled back around.
Some are but I believe most of the narrative is from how we dress, which is dumb, yes I wear some of the same clothes I did when I was 25, I still like them and I'm to cheap/poor to just toss them out. Doesn't help that I see so many 20 somethings wearing the same type of clothes saying we are dressing like them. I like what I like and idgaf.
Ahh yes, millennials invented the obsession to look younger than you are. Never happened in history before them and possibly never again. Ooh what’s this, kids use hammers on their faces to look better? You like that on your face?
I have a friend who comments this on damn near every pic “we look 10-15 years younger” and I’m like, we look great, but we def look 35+, go look at us at 25-30 when we were in grad school together and no, we don’t look like that at 40-45
Yeah sometimes I think the "people think I look 25!!" thing is actually just "I look damn good and people forget that you can look good in your 40s!!" or something
I mean, 20- somethings are frequently shocked when I say I'm 40 because they expected me to be much younger, but I think this happens because 20-somethings imagine 40 being much older than it actually is.
Now that I’m in my early 40s I can look back and laugh because my mom seemed old to me when she was my age. Now my mom is in her 60s and I feel like my grandmother seemed so much older when she was at the age my mother is now.
(Edit) I don’t do any of this. But if you do or don’t…it’s weird to care so much about it. We’ve got real shit going on in the world that needs attention. None of this matters.
Am I the only millennial who took the back pain advice of boomers and gen xers seriously and took great care to maintain good posture and back strength; therefore dodging chronic back pain so far?
I was a dancer, so I have good posture and back strength. Also back pain from said dancing. I think we just did more extracurricular sports than our parents and their parents.
I got back in really good shape started playing on a sports club team in the past few years. What I learned is most people's (myself included) back pain is from weak hips with poor hip mobility and being out of shape, rather than posture. Bad posture is also usually a symptom of that.
Back has never hurt. Never said adulting or doggo in my life. Have never posted a meme, or cared about memes in the slightest. Guess I'm not actually a millennial.
Thank you for posting this. I love so much about our generation but we made fun of Gen-X posting the "we were the hardest/toughest don't-give-a-damn generation" and now seeing us do it is painful.
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