Sometimes, I fucking love being a millennial. While I may not have achieved the so-called "American Dream" or several other 'milestones' by this time in my life (late-30s), I still at least have memories of a time before the world went to complete shit, the world itself was a little bit brighter, more colorful, experiences were genuine, and there was at least an illusion of hope for the future. Now, everything looks like Minecraft, we have full knowledge that everything is fake and essentially a house of cards built on a foundation made of sand. It is what it is, but it isn't what it was.>oh boo hoo, you couldn't go to prom because of covid.>we woke up one morning, ate breakfast, went to school, and watched 3,000 people get murdered on live TV>still kept it pushingAnd yes, I would absolutely fuck the shit out of Lizzo. Don't pretend you wouldn't.
>>84007017the only thing i had was a bike. what was it like growing up rich?
>>84007038I wasn't rich; I was just an only-child. I did live in a house a couple of times though, complete with a back-patio (screened-in) and a laundry room connected to the garage. Shit was so cash.
>>84007017>I would absolutely fuck the shit out of LizzoYour b8 conpletely fell apart here. Other than that it seems somewhat genuine
>>84007068It's not b8; I've been thinking a lot about her lately, not sure why. But what prompted this thread was that I was earlier notified that Gen-Z apparently thinks we Millennials are 'cringe' or whatever, to which other Millennials chimed in about how we're not perfect, but at least we can read, write, and do other things the younger generations apparently can't.
>>84007081>I've been thinking about some famous obese nigger a lot latelyWhatever I guessRegardless, thinking of generations as uniform blocks is retarded. Within each generation there are varying strata of normalfaggots with no agency and the end of the bell curve who possess it, and shades of each in between. Anything less is overly reductive and a useless model to think by.
WOAW THE FRICKING NINETIES MAN REMEMBER
>>84007017In (original) strauss-howe theory Millennials have a "golden childhood" (all 'civic-gens' do) do to a few factors:>1)growing up in good peaceful times (low anxiety)>2)being raised moderately (not helicoptered parented(gen-z), nor neglected(gen-x))>3)childhood right before a crisis eraThey basically have perfectly balanced childhoods. This causes proceeding gens to be inadvertenlty nostolgic for the childhood of the civic-gen (millennial = 80s/90s/early 00s). So for example Gen-A and Gen-Z overwhelmingly perfer asthetics of millennial childhoods over thier own (avant basic, etc), even "frutiger aero" (gen-z's supposed distinct look) started in the late 90s.
>>84007017Literally every person alive acts like their generation was the last one to do stuff. You're not special.Also, half of the "90s" shit that millennials obsess over was still relevant for most of the 00s, yet they act like it wasn't.
>>84007017I'm a zillennial and I'm in 100% agreement. Pre internet world was easier on the mind, people weren't as unhinged and the women weren't as aggressive. Letting sociopaths have control of such powerful technology destroyed any chance of society evolving.
>>84007017Based. Wish i had been born earlier, but still glad i got to experience the last good decay before the decay began.
>>84007365It's actually mostly about good ecnoomic times. Good times cause parents to be low-anxiety which means NO helicopter parenting, which means kids don't get anxiety, which means they know how get friends and get dates and stuff.>>84007413>Pre internet world was easier on the mind, people weren't as unhinged and the women weren't as aggressive.There will be a cultural backlash against it. I've studied cultural cycles, they typically takes 60 for a reversal:>1993-2013 people are naive to the negative consiqences (like: post ww1 cigarette use).>2013-2033 people are aware it's bad but are addicted, govs/corpos exploit the situation making things shittier. BUT the backlash also begins in this era.>2033-2053: Majority openly want change, the establishment fights it but lose groundBasically it won't be until about 2050 before it becomes popular to avoid social media (it'll be considered low class to use social media, like drinking malt liqour).
>>84007062>I did live in a house a couple of times thoughIn the 80s-90s in America you just lived in a house. Like that was still expected for anyone who worked.My family was poor-ish and we had a basement, a screened-in patio, a big backyard, trees, two cars. So did everyone in my suburb. It was just normal.God I miss those days so much, they don't even feel real compared to this hell. It's like everything we had is gone and home ownership is a silly concept like owning a golden yacht or a spaceship. Just being alive felt great, we looked forward to the future instead of fearing it. I'm glad I got to experience it but it's like this tease for how good life can be but I can't ever have it back.
>not playing pogs at school
>>84007639For me, it was Magic: The Gathering.
>>84007413you're a zillennial so stay out of the fucking conversation. of course you disagree because you can't comprehend things that aren't what you experienced you absolute brain fuck of a nigger
>>84007853He said he's 100% in agreement slow cunt
>>84008571>saar he bloody say he 100 percant in agreement u slow count saar.
>>84007853what more than 5 minutes without childhood toys does to a millennial
>>84008611Look up the worlds largest toy collections.Guess which single generation buys 70% of all toys. millennialsThey buy more toys then all other gens combined. They buy 10x more toys then gen-z which itself buys 10x more toys then gen-x.
>>84007017Did it get better than this
>>84007017We get to live in a parallel universe for a while, it was good while it lasted. But things like the N64 are just relics of a deleted timeline. That time is dead, and it'll NEVER come back.
>>84007017I think the 20 year period from 80's with stuff like transformers up until about Harry Potter were just so good to grow up. Zoomers seem to have a sad childhood dominated by phones but lacking toys and play with others. Before the 80's it more about playing with stones and a ball. Probably stronger friendship and group play though.The coming generations and going to have to deal with a 24/7 AI snitch, ever notice they don't really have big toy sections in stores anymore.>>84007081Millennials were the type to make of you for not wearing the right shoes or a non name brand shirt, they were judgemental barsteds.
>>84007017>playing with POGs -after- you got home from school???Brother POGs were played on the playground up until the very last minute that the teachers banned because kids were crying from getting bullied/scammed out of their collections and learning the hard life lessons of "you mostly lose at gambling".Even when they were banned on school ground during school hours we'd have POG tournaments off to the side of the yard or across the street at a park.
>>84009731>Zoomers seem to have a sad childhood dominated by phonesI think that's moreso Gen A. For Zoomers their childhood defining trait is really coming home to the internet after school and raging in XBox voice chat, watching funny youtubers on youtube, etc.A lot of Zoomers didn't get a cell phone until they were 15 or whatever, now Gen A kids are given smart phones at I don't even know what age - 7?They did grow up on tablets though, they're the original ipad babies.I'll also give zoomers credit for possibly being the last generation to have grown up on physical media by way of Blu Ray movies, and back when games still mostly came on a disc or cartridge instead of just being a download code.
Same I love being a younger millennial (31). Had a nice childhood and got to eat jello pudding bites. When Obama was elected in 2009 life was objectively peak
>>84007017i feel like if the covid lockdowns had happened in 2005 teens would have had a wicked insane time with no school on, just all fucking off to the woods or staying at their friends' houses for weeks at a time playing smash bros 17 hours a day. it was such a lost opportunity really...im sure some teens had a kickin time but most seem to have just scrolled it away alone. yeah i KNOW you werent supposed to go outside but there used to be a little thing called SNEAKING OUT and without a phone they couldnt call you or track you. so yeah, it was sad. the real difference between now and then though is just phones and social media trasharoni. in NYC theyve banned phones during the school day and the teens are suddenly like ALIVE again, talking fast and excited with each other instead of that deadeyed semi torpor of the allday phone addict. i hope everywhere else follows suit fast.
>>84007623>2033-2053: Majority openly want change, the establishment fights it but lose groundHopefully the CIA doesn't learn from the other times people successfully changed the status quo.
millenials are buck broken though>lived in the best time to be a child>lived in the worst time to be an adultat least zoomers don't have any illusions on how things work while millenials still want you to trust the plan/trust the experts(tm)
>>84010010>>lived in the worst time to be an adultbut zoomers also live in these terrible adult times, while having grown up in terrible childhood times.
>>84007245I hate how long nostalgia for the 90s has lasted too but I don't think it's going away.
I mean I'm late 30s and can relate to some of these. I'm not American, though.Most kids just like to have fun. Kids like to have fun.I do think there's a significant line between pre- & post-internet, but that line has been well and truly crossed. I imagine people that are entering their 20s now will feel nostalgic for their youths, too.
>>84007017Millennials:>vegan cults/meat alternatives>BBC porn>capeshit>political "jokes" in everything>rampant feminism to the point of female dominated society>tranny faggotry(majority of troons online are Millennials)>pro-Jewish/Israeli>massive consumers, thanks to them Iphone kicked off>majority of Millenials were vaxxie cattle>MUH HECKIN SCIENCERINO>numale/s*yboy was literally invented during their time and they look the part>my wife's boyfriend>majority is obese, bald and ugly because they never heard of self improvementYou can go on. It was an overall weakest and shittiest generation since WWI.Millennials are the lowest-IQ, lowest-testosterone, lowest self-esteem, and most embarrassing generation in the history of humanity. When they were zoomer age, they were told to hate boomers. Now that they are old themselves, they hate boomers (ie - their parents), and now they hate zoomers. Millennials are just the whiniest, hate-filled generation with no self-responsibilities or self-accountabilities. They only know how to express hate, which is their survival mechanism to distract you from noticing what losers their generation is. Fat, bald, and low-T. No wonder they hate the chad generation.
>>84010322But the gen after is weaker still, amirite :3
>>84010343Yasssss queen tell them gen zers they will never understand us elder millennials
>>84007017>>we woke up one morning, ate breakfast, went to school, and watched 3,000 people get murdered on live TV>>still kept it pushingAmericans did anything but keep it pushing what on earth are you talking about
>>84007623Well put anon, I hope this really does end up happening.Even when I was teen I knew about the dangers of smartphones/social media and only got one begrudgingly for work. No expectation of being available 24/7, no malicious propaganda being blasted to your face, the ability to let loose without being secretly recorded yeah I would trade almost anything to a world before this was a thing.
>>840103815555 but the gen Alphas now *they* will rly be shit 5555
>>84007245>>84010220Blame it on the fact that our elders left us a terrible future. The "fuck you I got mine" attitude is what directly lead us here.
>>84010220The only people with nostalgia for the 90s are people that experienced it as little kids and talk about it on the internet. What are you on about. The one decade that refuses to die and keeps getting milked for nostalgia points is the 80s.
>>84007853>t. entitled overconfident millennialWe get that you lived through a time of unprecedented technological breakthrough and economic boon for the working class, but keep your shorts on gramps.
>MUH GENERATION WARSAll of you should kill yourselves. From a '90fag.
>>84011800truth is millennials are a trasgh generation, its just that gen-z is worse.
The 90s were grimy. Everyone stank. The mullet was a popular haircut, let that sink in. Just way more redneck and nigger shit going on back then, it was out of control.A lot of the woke shit that happened in the 2000s was a backlash towards that redneck/nigger shit, where they try to hold everyone back in the 60s and KKK days and just keep reliving everything and refuse to move on, aka, progressives. That why people wanted "progressives" in power.
>>84011852refused to move on, also known as progressing*is how i meant to type that.
>>84010322>lowest-testosterone>low-TGen Z is way under the testosterone levels of prior generations including the millennials who were in their 20s during the late 2000s. Gen Z is in fact the lowest test generation in recorded history.
>>84007017>Sometimes, I fucking love being a millennial.I wish I was a millennial!>While I may not have achieved the so-called "American Dream" or several other 'milestones' by this time in my life (late-30s)Don't worry, you had like 15-20 years to get an easy laptop job >Now, everything looks like Minecraft, we have full knowledge that everything is fake and essentially a house of cards built on a foundation made of sand.Thanks Boomers and Gen X! Hopefully Millennials fix it as they step into leadership roles!
>>84011819Bragging about what year you were born in, something completely out of your control, is gayer than getting a dick in your ass and mouth at the same time.
>>84007081somehow I've been here for every time you've posted that fucking projector image.
>>84012463Thats cause theres only 5 people on /r9k/ these days.
>>84013232We had a thread about that the other day.
i miss flash games more than anything else in that list. i have a working 64 and a neat gbc clone. i can buy boosters of pokemon and yugioh. i can buy all the lunch packs i never got as a kid cause they were expensive. but i cannot play those porn miniclip games where if you do really well you might see a tit
pogs and pokemon weren't really popular at the same time... and imagine not eating your boyardee from a can
>>84013356>but i cannot play those porn miniclip games where if you do really well you might see a titNot quite the same but if you learn the rules of mah jong you can find all sorts of sexy mah jong arcade games for emulators.
>>84007017>at least an illusion of hope for the future.If it weren't for the illusion, we could've been prepared better.
>>84013371>pogs and pokemon weren't really popular at the same time... and imagine not eating your boyardee from a canIsn't pokemon at the peak of their popularity right now?
>>84014201i mean in the 90s, pogs were popular in like <95 and pokemon was popular in 98 on. usually a starter pack features simultaneous elements
>>84011920but that's a good thing. it makes them pretty nice to deal with. i deliver right now and deliver to gen z all the time and they're always super easy to deal with because they don't pipe up about anything lmfao. they're quite cute. i should say the younger zoomers more so. college aged zoomers are extremely nice, it's as if they aren't even there it's quite weird
>>84014214So how big was pogs? fidget spinner big (mildly so) or like labubu/stanley big (people fist fighting each other for the last box in a store).
>>84014429i only played with pogs 1 time and it was when i was 6 at this muslim kid's house, but from what i gather they were quite popular, probably about crazy bones level popular
>>84007623*snap* yep, this is going in my prophecy compilation
>>84007245The 90s were one of the peak decades in American history, the culmination of 50 years of postwar economic and cultural dominance. 90s America has a legitimate argument for being the greatest decade any country has ever had in world history. You are never going to stop hearing about it.
>>84010220It already went away, what're you talking about? Since 2020 the rage has been the 2000s. Y2K (2020-2022) then the mid-late 2000s (2023-2024) and now finally shit like Frutiger Aero and early 2010s aesthetics are becoming cool to be nostalgic for again as late zoomers and alphas get older and contribute to the culture.Nobody gives a fuck about the 90s anymore.The 90s are as lame in 2026 as the 1970s were in 2010.
only good thing about being a millennial is the ability to fuck a young teen and handwave it when someone calls you out
>>84007017we had the peak childhoodthats why life has peakedwe became the peak humans too
>>84007017I miss the time before internet to be honest. Internet is a fucking cancer, it literally bankrupted the soul of the world. The genie is already out of the lamp though. You can't go back. We already know of it, we won't just forget it. It would take generations.
>>84017563>I miss the time before internet to be honestIt was objectively better. The entire world was never meant to be interconnected socially. It's a clownish concept and a verifiable failure. Every facet of life is just worse now.I would rather call a travel agent to plan a road trip and pull over to the side of the road to read a huge paper map again instead of getting live directions than deal with the zombified populace that can't stop staring at Tiktok and Twitter rage bait.The internet has radicalized children into deranged cultists who can't accept compromise. When I hear teenagers talk now, it's so wildly different than me and my friends in the 90s. It's like they're from a different dimension.
>>84010322those were the worst of millenials which then became the average zoomer
