Let’s be millennials

I’m an influencer.

How to work with millennials.

Shockingly accurate.

So guys I did a Trader Joe’s run because my roommate said we were out of frozen bimbimbapbap and the cashier asked me how my day was going?? (IKR!)

I was so uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to say so I just looked at him and told him that I was using my own reusable bag. Then he asked like if the bimbimbap was any good, and I was creeped out! I was like oh my god why are you still talking to me???

I made another woman and her baby walk me to my Yaris because was so terrified he was going to follow me out to my car and rape me. So fucking CREEPY.

I don’t think you know what Millennials are.

Food is literal violence to Darfur orphans.

R5 I don't think millennials know what millennials are

Eating bibimbap is cultural appropriation.

I’m “adulting”

I’m reading through the replies and shaking my head.

Even I know how to reply to a “let’s be” thread.

I know how modern technology works and I'm concerned about climate change

R7 it's a split generation - older millenials went through their most formative years without social media being much of a thing, younger millenials went through all 4 years of highschool with smartphones in their pocket. huge psychological difference IMO

Boomer says

Just remember Gen X and some later Boomers raised Millennials. And Gen X is also wholly responsible for whatever comes after Millennials.

^typical

[Quote]I’m reading through the replies and shaking my head.

Even I know how to reply to a “let’s be” thread.

I'm R10. I obviously do NOT know how a let's be thread works, but I will smugly post otherwise.

R15. No, not typical. I’m a Gen X. I’ve seen how other Gen X parents have raised their kids. Kids are always a product of their upbringing and environment. Millennials and following generations didn’t just develop their traits on their own. So it’s a bit disingenuous to blame younger generations for being who they were raised to be.

One more time:

[Quote]I’m reading through the replies and shaking my head.

[Quote] Even I know how to reply to a “let’s be” thread.

I'm R10. I obviously do NOT know how a let's be thread works, but I will smugly post otherwise.

Stop making excuses, r17.

I'm the lack of home ownership. I won't likely change at any point in the future.

What excuses am I making, R19?

This sounds more like Gen Z behavior. Millennials have always been caught in the middle and don’t seem to give a shit.

Yeah sorry this is a gen z. Next

Can’t even recognize an excuse when they deploy one. SMH.

R22 Millenials don't seem to give a shit?In what universe? All the studies show mil's as idealistic and Gen X/Gen Z the dissaffected ones.

I can't grow out of my childhood or my parents. I hold on to trivial things from my childhood like superheroes, t.v shows, toys, what have you , well past adulthood because it's how I cope with "adulting". I want to be told what to do because I value safety over uncertainty and adventure and don't know how to function if I don't have a set of rules to follow.

I give a shit.

When I wake up at 10, I like to lie in bed for 90 minutes reviewing all my social media accounts where I retweet posts about how much I care about climate change and how broke I am compared to other generations. Then I use my technological prowess to order $27 worth of taquitos, LaCroix, Trolli sour gummies, and a pack of American Spirit cigarettes from 7/11 via Doordash. I will tip either $0 because my allowance isn't adequate as a starving "poor" OR I'll tip $50 so I can screenshot the receipt and post it on the Doordash driver sub on Reddit, coyly asking "was my tip adequate?" so everyone can tell me how awesome I am.

When Dad comes home from the part time he had to take after his retirement to help with my bills, he's going to drive me to the Apple store to pick up my new iPhone.

I'm the arrogance. The people who flaunt me know waaay more than anyone else and no one has the right to disrespect them. Truth is, they suck at everything they do.

I am getting the nostalgia or retro "feels" over a social media post featuring anything from the 1990s. Especially, Ninja Turtles, Pokémon, Little Mermaid, Nightmare Before Christmas, Aladdin, or Power Rangers. Only MY nostalgia and tearful feelings about them connected to my "destroyed" childhood (I'm in therapy and taking psych meds!) matter. Anything you like is too old, stupid, and fuckin' SUCKS!

R27 gets it.

i screamed and cried into my Squishmallow when i read your post, R29... i feel seen... im scheduling a telehealth therapy sesh right now.

The most successful woman on the planet, Queen Bey, is a millenial. So is Tom Brady and Michael B. Jordan

I'm the amazement that so many people on DataLounge think of Millennials as the youth of today, even though Millennials are now in their thirties and even forties.

Oh, it is not that they're young, R33-- it's that they never grew up!

Dates vary, but most put the last millennials as born around 1996, making the youngest ones under 30.

Ok, so I was born in 1981. According to some sources, that was the first year of millennials. According to others, that was the last year of Gen X. At the end of the day, does it really matter what label we are given? Because of the time we were born and our upbringing, of course we’re going to identify with Gen X, and we’re going to have a very difficult time relating to millennials born in the 90s.

I'm slowing explaining Excel spreadsheets to older (50+) colleagues...

They still don't get it. I'll end up repeating myself dozens more times before they finally understand. But it will still be my fault they don't understand it and they will lash out angrily and immaturely from embarrassment and frustration.

Again, their anger at their mental incompetence will be my fault.

Let me research that: Hey Google?

This whole thread is cringe.

[quote] Just remember Gen X … raised Millennials.

Lol no

I am young and Dumb and full of ... ...

R40 - lol, yes

[quote] I'm slowing explaining Excel spreadsheets to older (50+) colleagues... They still don't get it. I'll end up repeating myself dozens more times before they finally understand. But it will still be my fault they don't understand it and they will lash out angrily and immaturely from embarrassment and frustration. Again, their anger at their mental incompetence will be my fault.

R37 has it. Hold me, David. I'm tired.

R42 the first Gen Xers were born in 1966 and the vast majority didn't start having kids until at least 1996, the very last year Millennials were born. Only a tiny subset of the oldest Gen Xers raised the youngest Millennials.

I'm triggered!!!

I am so exhausted from adulting all day long! Work, buying groceries, ugh! Sometimes I just want to unalive myself. If I were only a Boomer (which is everybody older than me), I would have had everything handed to me on a silver platter and never had to work for anything. But those selfish Boomers (all of whom are racists and transphobes and I can't wait for them to die so that my kind and tolerant generation can take over and everything will be fair and equitable) took everything good and left my generation with only an empty husk of a world that will soon destroy itself thanks to climate change.

I just need to make myself into a burrito and binge watch Charmed for the next 27 hours to get myself centered. Then I will post to Instagram app everybody can praise me for taking the time to take care of my mental health, which my generation discovered and Boomers didn't even know was a thing.

Self-care! Yay, me!

I am so exhausted from adulting all day long! Work, buying groceries, ugh! Sometimes I just want to unalive myself. If I were only a Boomer (which is everybody older than me), I would have had everything handed to me on a silver platter and never had to work for anything. But those selfish Boomers (all of whom are racists and transphobes and I can't wait for them to die so that my kind and tolerant generation can take over and everything will be fair and equitable) took everything good and left my generation with only an empty husk of a world that will soon destroy itself thanks to climate change.

I just need to make myself into a burrito and binge watch Charmed for the next 27 hours to get myself centered. Then I will post to Instagram app everybody can praise me for taking the time to take care of my mental health, which my generation discovered and Boomers didn't even know was a thing.

Self-care! Yay, me!

Correct, R44, which is why I said they were raised by both Gen X AND later boomers.

I'm hungry I am going to eat some ramen! YUMMO! you want some? YAY! My Jam! did I make it? Fuck No! no way are you going to see me ever use my kitchen but for its counter space

The whole notion of 15-20 years per generation is outdated because of how quickly technology, and with that our world, changes.

I reckon there wasn't much difference between someone born in, say, 1725 versus 1750.

All of that went out of the window after the 2nd industrial revolution (1870-1914), with rapid changes in transportation, jobs, communication — you name it.

Fastforward to today, and you'll find big differences between a mid-millennial such as myself (1987) and a late-millennial born in 1996. My sub-generation, if that's a word, played outside all day. Mobile phones, preceded by pagers, only became ubiquitous when I just entered high school. Facebook came around as I entered adulthood at 18.

Late millennials had mobile phones around them from the day they uttered their first words, and they probably had their first facebook profile before their tenth birthday.

No millennial divider troll at r48, you said:

[quote] Just remember Gen X and some later Boomers raised Millennials.

Which is ass backwards.

In any event, thanks for proving another stereotype of millennials correct — they blame everything on their parents. Earlier generations did that when they were teens, but then grew up and accepted agency in their own lives.

R50 lol Facebook didn’t exist in 2006. Even late millennials didn’t get smart phones until high school. I’m 32 and I don’t feel like my childhood was too different from boomers, just that we had slightly wider options of entertainment. Spent all day playing outside, surfed the dial up internet maybe an hour a day, read lots of books, watched TCM and nick at nite, knife infomercials. Gen Z is the one that grew up with iPads in their faces.

Let's attack "millennials" while the fascists burn books from school libraries, you cunts.

That's how we respond to trolls here, right?

characteristics of millennials I've noticed being older - GenZ doesn't possess these things either, they are uniquely millennial

can't and won't dance

won't cook, prefer take-out

LOVE board games (silent generation loves these too)

hate top sheets, only duvets and "weighted blankets "

And they watch nothing but anime. Anime, anime, anime.

I'm R53. I don't understand that Let's Be threads have always been for laughs, and no one group has been spared from 'Let's Be-ing' over the years because my generation was born without a sense of humor. '

Has anyone seen my phone?

R57, you're holding it!

Sorry if I'm in front of you slowly walking up the subway steps while scrolling through my insta!

"lol" @ R52 (were you really laughing out loud?)

Facebook was founded in 2004 and opened to the public in early 2006, meaning it lifted its "college students-only restriction" that year.

The Nokia 3210 was launched in Q1 1999 and it quickly became the most popular cell phone of the early naughts. This is why I used the term "mobile phones", and not "smart phones", which only became omnipresent in around 2008, a year after the first iPhone was released.

R60 hmm, in 2006 everyone I knew was on MySpace. I remember a mass migration to Facebook in 2010 when high school ended. Maybe it was restricted to 18+. I remember thinking it felt more professional and grown up. You couldn’t decorate your profile and have music. Yes we had cell phones but not as children definitely. In high school we had crappy razr phones. The richer kids had blackberries. They didn’t impact our life much. We didn’t spend all day staring at them. They were just for texting and calling mom to pick us up from the skatepark. When hanging out with friends it wasn’t a thing to pull out your phone randomly and look at it.

Anyone have a charger?

Can I venmo you? I need a chipotle burrito STAT

Don't text me, I will DM you.

Talking on the phone gives me anxiety.

Millennials aren't scared of the phone, R65. If anything, they're overly chatty and perky.

R66 yeah they are. I’ve even been told “why should I talk on the phone when I can just text?”

R67 I fear you don't know who millennials are. Millennials came of age in the 90s when cell phones and smart phones weren't yet common. They have plenty of experience answering land lines.

I was 12 in 1990 (so I’m not even a Millennial). 1990 was the very start of people not answering their phones because they had answering machines at least, if not Caller ID to screen their calls. We were told never to just pick up the phone in case my parents didn’t want to talk to whomever was calling at that time.

Talking on the phone/returning a call was something one did on their own terms. That was the start of all that.

R68 Those aren’t millennials. Those are late Gen X ers.

R70 early 1980s borns answered phones

Correct, R70.

R69, R67 was talking about text messaging. That was way after the nineties.

If they did, it was not for long, R71.

People started screening their calls as soon as they had the ability. They didn’t want their kids picking up the phone if it was work calling or some asshole they didn’t want to talk to, like poor old grandma.

The phone would ring, the answering machine would do the spiel, then beep, and the recipient would wait to listen to hear who was leaving a message before they picked up, if they picked up at all.

R68, I wasn’t replying to R67; I was responding specifically to this from R68: [quote] Millennials came of age in the 90s when cell phones and smart phones weren't yet common. They have plenty of experience answering land lines.

R75 is meant R73!