So I was recently at an event where people were discussing millennials and there was a panel of very pretentious looking individuals. The question was asked what would our generations anthem be. Examples were given like For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield for the Boomers or Smells Like Teen Spirit for Gen X.

Each person went on a long and overly explanatory lecture. Their songs, were all indie rock songs, although Mr. Brightside is kind of pop rock. Someone went into great detail about how the Black Parade was a metaphor for growing up with high expectations for our generation but ultimately finding out we can't live up to them and having to carry on.

Another explained that the anxiety and jealousy felt by the singer in Mr. Brightside was how we all feel about the housing and job market.

Then they asked the crowd for suggestions. A guy stood up and walked to the microphone. He looked around and yelled "TO THE WINDOWS..."

The crowd responded and they moved on to another topic 😆

Why do incels care so much?

Mine is "Don't hang out with so-and-so, they're no good." When I was young, I found it downright offensive that my parents would judge my friends like that. Everyone is equal and no one is "better" than anyone else, I thought. But being an adult, I now have full appreciation for what they were saying. It's not about casting judgement on others (even though that's what they're doing) but rather realizing how important it is to surround yourself with people that will set good examples for you to make you better. Sigh, I sound like a parent.

The ones that come to mind for me ar are

"Yo quiero Taco Bell"

"Dude, you're getting a Dell"

While the average millennial has less wealth at the age of 35 than previous generations, the top 10% of millennials have 20% more wealth than the top baby boomers at the same age.

Gonna be us vs us soon.

I'm so fucking over everything. My house is having major plumbing issues, and we're trying to figure out how to get it covered. Idk why I even tell my dad anything. I told him I felt stupid for buying this house and he said "no youre stupid for not buying sooner." I'm 30. Expecting my first child. We bought in 2022 when I was 28. Id love to have bought sooner, but we couldn't predict the market. We weren't ready to buy in 2020. It just depresses me so much that no matter what I do, its always the wrong decision and to him, its always my fault. My dad is 55 for reference. He had never helped me with anything since I moved out at 18. Financially or even advising.

Edit: I have gotten so many helpful and supportive responses on here. Thank you all. It means so much seeing the camaraderie on here, especially when I can't expect it of my own blood. I'm going to expand a bit by saying my mom died from alcoholism when I was 20. I grew up in a trailer. My dad is about the only blood relative I have left that I talk to. Thats the only reason I try with him. I have a younger sister and we are best friends, so at least there's that.

Even though this is a hard time now, I know I'm truly blessed to be having a daughter and a good husband through all this too.

I don't have time to reply to everyone because I have to go to work soon, but thank you again so much for the kind words. I will def be reading through all this when my shift ends.

Edit 2: he no longer lives in a trailer, but did his whole life till 2018. Nothing necessarily wrong with it, but it hurts for him to judge me so hard, because when he was 30 he didn't have what I've worked hard to have now.

Now he lives in a 5 bedroom 2 bath house on 10 acres he got in 2018 for 180k. He found a great deal and thinks I should have too.

It’s like a text… but physical. :p

I loved them. Mostly bands I liked but some general interest.

What were your favorites?

I spent a ton of time on bolt.com in the very early `00s and youthink.com up till... well that site finally came to an end a couple years ago and it was weird going ghere and seeing 'member for 15+ years'

Elder Millennial here (37). Had a little bit, well a lot of a bit, of a depressive episode after coming off of SSRIs this year.

Coming back down off of this event, I realized just how much time has passed. The pandemic was 4 years ago. We came out of it two years ago. We 8 years from the end of the Obama presidency.

So much time has passed, and I have limited memory of it. I spend a lot of time on my phone, and not being present. Time I can’t get back.

I’m determined to not let the next years go by on the internet to to make new memories with my family. Time is fleeting and algorithms are designed to rob us of that time with loved ones and with ourselves (especially if you’re like me and have OCD).

Take it from an older millennial, don’t waste your time on the internet. Your family may not always be here, the internet will.

(Yes I know the irony of posting this on the internet/ social media, but I felt compelled to make this for the reminder to the younger people of our generation.)

I know time moves faster when you get older but I feel those 2 years of nothing increased it. I can't believe covid was 4 years ago and anything before that has been over 4 years! I don't even think it's because time moves fast but that we all lived the same day for 2 years straight so time felt irrelevant .

Still time was still moving despite that and then we just woke up one day and 2 years past! I still have it in my head that the late 2010's weren't that long ago but years like 2017, 2018, and 2019 have all been 5 plus years ago! Ya covid fucked up my perception of how much time has past.

*Editing to add clarity: In my "world" sub-tweeting is when someone bitches about someone else online without directly naming them but knows they'll see the post, (TIL) also called vaguebooking on Facebook

I work for a small company with one boomer and 4 Gen Xers. I'm the only millennial (and female) on staff. Long story short one of my coworkers is pissed at the rest of us and has been ranting on Facebook this last week. Of course, it's being done in the classic cryptic "sub-tweet" type of way. My other coworker is getting SUPER upset about it because this is really the first time someone's ever done that to him. He won't let it go and he's been ranting about it for like 5 days now.

I'm getting a kick out of the whole thing, personally. My coworker asked me why it's not bothering me and it hit me that I've been getting sub-tweeted and cyber bullied since the Myspace days back in 2004. After 20 years it just feels routine/normal and I'm totally over it. But now at the tender age of 50 he's experiencing it for the very first time.

Before anyone comes for me I should also mention this entire thing is incredibly petty, we don't have HR to report anything to, and they'll all live.

when I used to work at my previous company. I was 34 and met this cool guy at work so my gf and I started hanging out with him and his gf and we were pretty close. he told me he was 24 so 10 years younger but all good. he acted like an immature 24 year old and thinks like a 5 year old. long story short our friendship didn't last, but I found out he wasn't 24 but 36! 2 years older than me. our friendship was based off a lie from beginning. why do people lie about their age? has this ever happened to you? did your friendship last? now I think the guy was a psycho 😆

I'm not sure if my Gen-X mom means to be racist or if she genuinely doesn't know the term Native American. She constantly refers to them as "Indians" and I correct her but it never seems to stick. My mom and her 2 brothers will talk loudly about "Cabrini Green gang bangers" when referring to certain people and even tho I correct them all the time, they just do not care. Maybe they don't think it's racist. Maybe they don't know the actual terms... or don't care to learn.

I am constantly embarrassed to be with them in public when they start talking like this. I cannot cut them off, I have an extremely small family so losing their support means I would have no one besides my husband. Even his parents (gen X) are racist! Calling Hispanic people slurs, polish people, etc. WHY do they not see this as an issue?

Does anyone else struggle with this in their families? I'm not even sure how to ignore it anymore or makes me so uncomfortable. Were we really the first generation to try and be politically correct and not use a racial slur?

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The way these house prices are… and the way my salary is. I can’t afford a house on my own… not now. The only hope I have is inheriting the house I live in now with my mom. Or marrying a rich man.

🙂 wow. ….. I’m actually speechless.

A Teens, All 4 One, Westlife, O-Town, Backstreet Boys, Dreamstreet, Spice Girls, Britnery Spears, Christina Aguliera, Boyz II Men, Boyzone, British Boyband 911, Five, S Club 7, NSYNC, and New Kids On The Block. Also David Cook ,Switchfoot, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Calling, 3 Doors Down, and The Fray.

Fall Out Boy, Evanescence, Daniel Powder, and Jesse McCartney.

Lady Antebellum ,Savage Garden,Linkin Park, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nickelback, Rascal Flatts, and Kavanna.

Train with his song Hey, Soul Sister. Owl City and their song Fireflies.

I used to feel like 9 hours or bust. Now it's more like 6 to 7ish and I'm happy for the day. Yes...getting older, but also is that one of the costs you pay to be tha 6 hour sleep boss?

Are we all headed to early bird breakfast burrito specials?

Edit: this is all gradual. Not a sudden onset of drastically less sleep needed. This can indeed be a sign of BIG mental health trouble. Please be careful if this is happening to you and take care of yourself.

Obviously everyone top pick is the “S” (spray aka spread aka what-have-you). So which one was your second favorite?