I love these “millenial” memes because you can always tell about how old the meme maker is.
There are millenials that are in their mid 40s, and there are zoomers that are almost 30. Assuming they were just going for a round number, the creator could have said 50, 45 or 40. But no, they chose 35, presumably because they are around 35.
I still remember when crackpot thought the world was gonna end in 2012. When that time came. I just looked at my cat and said ‘hey kitty, we’re still here!’
I’m pretty sure we did all die that day. We’re clearly in hell at this point.
Being born in the early 80’s… we’ve seen a lot.
I was working in Tech when the Tech Crash in 99 happened, working in the only large Investment bank that went bankrupt in the 2008 Crash and living in Britain when Brexit won the Leave Referendum.
That’s unlucky as heck. I always think about how I decided last minute to go to get an associates instead of going to the typical four year. I ended up graduating and getting a job right before the financial crash. A pretty significant amount of my friends were still in college and couldn’t get jobs for years if ever (at least related to their degree)
Well, after my first crash and being out of a job for 6 months because of it, I’ve always been very prepared for that kind of situation so when Lehman Brothers went down I was just fine because I had plenty of savings (and was even asked back after a month because the division I was working with was bought by a Japanese Brokerage and remained operating) and similary when Leave won, not only had I “just in case” financially protected my savings from the hit on the British Pound if Leave won, but I could and did chose to leave Britain before the actual Leave date because I expected that country to increasingly suffer from the effects of leaving the EU.
So in a way, after the first one it wasn’t too bad.
You know the saying “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”? This is literally what it means. You suffer hardships you can learn from, and you adapt. Lots of people seem to think it’s about physical suffering, but in reality it’s more about overcoming adversity in general.
Yeah, that’s also the conclusion I came to.
Seen it all happen from a “safe” distance. Damn you’re unlucky in a way.
The goofy part about this type of generational cock contest meme is that we all live through it together. Every generation alive has gone through horrific shit and every generation has gone through periods of peace. Some for longer than others.
I’m a millennial and I have been pretty lucky if I may say so myself. Compared to what young people and kids go through today, us older generations had it good.
Yes, our times of youth also brought on wars and economic struggles and what not, but they came in intervals.
Nowadays it is all happening at the same time and at lightening speed.
And us peeps, boomers, Gen X and millennials sit here all smug about it, like we went through ANYTHING comparable to what young people go through today.
We had it good. We are lucky to all be in our 30s and up during this stretch of history. I feel for the youths of today. They are the ones going through some shit in their formative years.
The 2020s are happening to all of us, but the kids of today have way more worries thrust upon them than any of us old fucks ever did.
We had a lot of things pretty good. Since we don’t have TV, I’ve spent the last year every weekend creating a 2.5 hour block of tailored programming to recreate the experience of Saturday morning cartoons for my kid, with selections from ~60 of the best (and some bad) cartoons from the last several decades, animated music videos, unearthed funny old clips, and modern indie animations, often with seasonal themes. Halloween is the most fun.
My toons are objectively better than the Saturday morning block ever was, and it takes hours every week to gather clips, edit, and manage where we’re at with every show. I sometimes wish I could share it with a larger crowd but it’s really not worth the expense, legal exposure, or effort - not to mention it’s more special since it’s just for my kiddo. I get to share the culture with him, with the crusts cut off. They don’t have to put up with commercials, bad reception, or the constant ear-splitting blare of homophobia that was the nineties.
All that to say, that’s the big picture too. Every generation we try to make things a little better for the young ones. Sometimes we’re pretty envious of them, but we’d be failures if things were completely better when we were kids - and they’ll have to work hard too, because in some ways we have been failing.
Haven’t boomers been drafted to Vietnam by force? Like you had to go there to die, no options.
I think being forced to fight a war is pretty worse than most issues of people that age now.
At least we are talking about young people who live in active combat zones right now. I’m just taking the euroamerican centristic view on the matter.
Lol, well, if we go by that standard, then we can all ride the coat tails of the soldiers of every generation who were drafted to fight someone else’s war. My country, per capita, were the country to lose the most men in Afghanistan. I have friends who went to Afghanistan and their experiences were varied.
But my point still stands: the bad in every generation came in intervals and affected groups differently. A lot of boomers had nothing to do with Vietnam just like a lot of Gen X and millennials had nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.
But we all had slower lives and we did get to be relatively protected in childhood from the worst of the news out there.
In this day and age, youths and children are bombarded woth the most heinous shit 24/7 and it is everything, everywhere, all at once.
None of the prior generations have had back to back to back terrible world events happening like the youths of today have. We all live through it, but most of us are old enough and hardened enough by life that we deal with it.
I don’t think it is a coincidence that anxiety among children and youths today has sky rocketed. And it isn’t just news, it is also the negative effects of social media and that whole psychosis and how it distorts and perverts identity and self love nowadays.
There is no contest. It is not remotely anything our generations had to deal with.
And yeah, we can make a ton of whataboutisms where we pick out minority groups who went to war or were brought up in war torn countries. That has happened and will happen always.
But none of us old facts had the perversion of current day internet to deal with on top of intervals of this and that crisis and none of us had to deal with all our generations’ crises all at the same time over the span of a few years. That is what I’m saying. We simply cannot imagine what it is like for the young ones today because their world is so far removed from the world we grew up in.
I am a millennial, neither an old or a young millennial, but an in the middle one. I grew up in a world without internet and had myself introduced to the world wide web in my teens. My childhood and teen hood is still much closer to that of a boomer’s childhood and teen hood than it is the kids and teens today. I cannot comprehend what childhood even looks like or feels like for kids today. All I know is that anxiety and body image issues and thoughts of world problems have sprung from the mouths of kindergarteners and that is not something I have seen to this extent ever before.
I still think going to war is worse than watching some news about whatever on the tv or tiktok.
Btw, mental health issues are not on the rise. Diagnosis is on the rise. Before those same mental health issues existed and were undiagnosed and untreated, with terrible consequences. At least kids today are getting the help they need with mental health.
Good luck in the 80s trying to go to a doctor for anxiety, or to get any kind of mental health diagnosis or treatment as a kid.
And let’s not even mention the constant house violence against kids that used to happen. Boomers and gen x were wildly beaten by their parents as a normal practice. Nowadays parents no longer hit their kids.
Child protection laws are way better in every way, many kids are no longer forced to stay with abusive families…
And of course there is a world in difference for an LGBT kid in the 80s compared to now.
I sincerely don’t think there is any reasonable approach to defend that today kids “have it worse” than previous generation.
Correct. When I was living in Reno there was a doomsday DATE people decided on. It was a huge thing. A bunch of people just bought in. People euthanizing their pets, just madness. Day came. Nothing happened. It’s amazing what people fall for. It’s very sad.
I remember people following Harold Camping’s doomsday predictions. They sold their houses, bought RVs, preached that The End is Nigh, etc. The day came and went like any other. He revised the date a couple of times, but of course world didn’t end. I just can’t believe people are that gullible.
What if the world has ended multiple times before but since this is a simulation, we just have no memory of the actual cataclysm because the operators of the simulation restored the server using backups so all memories of the event were purged? 🤔
What if this happens every Thursday?
- “Oh no everything will crash at the end of 1999 !”
- “Wait nothing happened… but that because it will definitely happen in fact at the end of 2000 ! Because there’s no year 0, we start at year 1, you see”
It was difficult to deal with the disappointment after all the hype 😢
Millions of man-hours were put in to keep Y2K from happening. In their coverage of New Year’s Eve 1999, ABC cut to the Y2K control room where people were amazed nothing was happening.
The only recognition all of those folks got for all of their work to keep the lights on and the planes in the air was the movie Office Space, and people who were disappointed they didn’t fail.
For all the verbal fellatio Office Space receives I was expecting it to be a god-like ultimate peak of human culture type deal but in reality it was a mid movie humor and plot wise. Its not bad but its very catery to a specific audience I wasn’t part of. I can see it being one of the first and few relatable films for white collar cubicle boglins at the turn of the century which feels like pretty much the sole reason of why I have to see it occasionally referenced 25 years later.
You’re right that it’s one of the few relatable films about that, but what gives it the staying power is that it is still relevant for the sort of work they’re doing. All of the things they talk about are the same 25 years later, except now they don’t know I’m not wearing pants since it’s on Zoom. Silicon Valley is in the same vein, and created by the same guy. I expect him to make “Home Office Space” shortly.
Its getting uncomfortably accurate
41 years old and I’ve lived through 4 once in a lifetime economic events, one impending societal collapse (Y2K), a global pandemic, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. I vote Giant Meteor 2025, just get it over with already.
There’s a few genocides in there too. Also I sleep in an abandoned house for like 6mo after the housing bubble burst. Whole neighborhoods where a light never turned on. All speculation market.
Honestly I could have written a novel worth of things, but I wanted to keep it short.
I thought it was the dotcom crash and great recession, in addition to the ones you mentioned war on “terror” and pandemic.
2000 dot com crash, 2008 housing bubble, 2020 COVID recession, 2025 tariff downturn and looming crash. (That’s not including the recessions from the 80’s and 90’s)
I count Afghanistan and Iraq separately, they were two very different wars and fought for different reasons. Afghanistan was because of 9/11, Iraq was oil and regime change.
If I had a dollar every time some looney came up to me saying it’s the apocalypse in X day… I dunno like 12 dollars?
Which isn’t a lot because inflation is getting out of hand.
But it’s weird that it happened twice.
Everytime I see this I think “Gen-X would like a word.”
I mean, yes millenials, but we were alive for all that plus more, most notably a childhood filled with “the russians might nuke us tomorrow.”
And frankly the boomers get to throw in JFK assassination, etc along with all the Genx stuff.
We’re just an unfortunately stupid and murderous race, and plus also the universe is very happy to snuff us out if we let it. Not a good combo for a stable boring life.
Meanwhile gen-x: So have we. Plus growing up during the Cold War, Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11.
Yes it sucks.
You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education
The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.
Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.
And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.
Proxy wars didn’t stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn’t stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.
You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.
And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.
Yes it sucks.
But you had it good, and politically you’ve fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.
We’ve got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.
You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that. College was cheaper, but nowhere near cheap. Homes were possible, but many lost them in the crash. It wasn’t like the boomer and earlier days where you could support a family to retirement on one job needing only a GED.
You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that.
Yeah, randomly shitting on individuals of older generations is just not productive.
Yes, the society as a whole benefitted from better economic conditions, borrowed from tomorrow, and pulled the ladders up behind them… but we don’t know that user. Plenty of people in “the good times” did not have it good.
For all they know, that particular GenX or Boomer was destitute and desperate.
For all they know, that particular elder was in the protests and on the picket lines and fighting this shit every step of the way.
We need solidarity. Every generation, every age, everyone and anyone who is willing. Don’t blame the individuals for the groups.
At least four end of days. Y2K, Maiyan 2012, Rasputin’s 2013, and that Christian Fundie quadruple moon eclipse one.
The same group of Americans all worried the anti-Christ found the one guy who matches the profile and decided to make him President. Twice.
Accelerationists and bigots make up a large chunk of that bloc, and “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” make up the rest.
(The oligarchs that bought him don’t count in the same group as the plebeians.)
Religious accelerationists are beyond my understanding. Provoke God into action? And how exactly do you plan to avoid God’s judgement? I mean religious extremists often give impression like they think their God is stupid and you just need to find a loophole in the rules.
They were made in God’s image and they are morons therefore God is a moron. - Moron Thinking
Moron Logical Fallacy - A moron who has the unfounded belief that they are smarter than anyone else and anyone who claims otherwise is a moron.
It’s a mental illness, it doesn’t make sense, and its not use trying to make sense of it.
God is omnipotent. He doesn’t need our help to sound the trumpets and bring about Revelation.
It’s like they started at Genesis, got bored in Leviticus, and skipped to the end of Revelation without bothering to read about that pesky Jesus fella in the middle.
Bold of you to assume they even opened a bible to start with
I mean, there’s literally an “actual” case in the Bible. I’m not even religious, so sorry if I can’t provide much detail, but in the story of Sodoma and Gomorrah there’s this bloke who asks God to save one soul. After God says okay, he’s like, if you could save one, couldn’t you save another? Then he proceeds to get God to save everyone in the same vein.
Yeah, God in his infinite wisdom and his mysterious ways (of being convinced by a 10 cent trick).
I hate to burst your bubble there, but actually it’s the exact opposite. Abraham hears what God is going to do to Sodom and Gomorrah (and that’s only because God chooses to tell him), and thinks to himself, “Oh shit, my cousin is there. I don’t want him to die.”
So Abraham starts out small. He says, “if I can find 50 good people, you won’t murderhobo everyone?” “Fine,” God replies. Now Abraham has something he can work with. He tries 45, God says cool. Abraham gets God to agree on 40, 30, 20, 10, each time God agrees. At 10, God up and leaves, and Abraham just chills there.
But of course, they can’t find even 10 in those cities. Oh well
God’s just trying to avoid a buffer overflow. So only one person per request.
What if you 👉
wanted to go to heaven ☁️
But God said ☝️
429 Too Many Requests
There are a lot of us who’ve been paying close attention, though, and are doing all we can.
I was 17 when 9/11 happened and I’ve been watching and learning. Now is the time to move
You may be able to survive the shakeup. Maybe a loved one doesn’t end up in Lubbock or Alcatraz or CECOT. Maybe your neighborhood looks like it always did.
Maybe your state plays nice with the feds. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe shit gets hairy. The people pulling Trump’s strings want Christian Nationalism and they’ll get it, at least here in the South. We fought em before and we’ll fight em again. We may lose, though.
The time for action is here.
