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kaneda26
I remember when I saw the headline "Milennials are killing Applebee's" and I was like "You're fucking welcome"
theimgurappsucksballs
urbanfire
Parents: why are you so ungrateful?
bearbug
I’m in this photo and I don’t like it. My husband and I are turning 30 this year. This is too accurate a description.
DontDoWhatDonaldDontDoes
Horny cartoons actual overlaps all these life phases
RadasNoir
I'm pretty sure it's how a fair chunk of us managed to barely make it through the rest of our lifecycle.
Everyfootisalegend
At no point in global history that was different for all. Recognize our problems - absolutely! "We've got it the worst!!!" - No, shame on u
VagisilToothpaste
Time-line is a bit off for some of us. I was 16 when 9/11 happened. Millennials span quite a few years in either direction.
afatrollofmyown
Anywhere from age 27 to age 40 at the upper end.
Gaelwyn
Yep. I was 20 and at work watching the towers fall.
NomadMiner
I'm in this and I hate it
CrazyCatLad
Yeah. I'm exactly 30 and this is too accurate.
excessivesmoker
I'm gen x and I'm lost. Wiped out in 2008 rebuilt my life and finances only to find that I have been left behind as housing cost have >
excessivesmoker
Skyrocketed and can't afford shit anymore. Looking to relocate but other cities look only marginally better >
excessivesmoker
The American dream is just that a dream that doesn't exist for a lot of people. There's still hope out there I just have to go find it
Alamagordo
They forgot 10-14 - develop extremely unhealthy porn addiction because of unfettered access to the newly developing, misunderstood internet.
MetalGreymon
Don't forget the beheading videos too.
paintingagency
15-30: harness porn addiction and knowledge of horny cartoons to sell Rule34 art to each other online.
durandana
how did u know
Alamagordo
I think it happened to far too many of us. Just going somewhat unspoken.
StarkRG
As a millennial, I was nearly 19 when 9/11 happened.
SSJGodan
Out of all people alive who fall into the "millennial" age group, those who are attributed the term, and identify as such (typically
SSJGodan
Westerners) don't realize they have it the best, out of anywhere in the world.
raulote
I really fear that Arizona Ice Tea cannot possibly retain its 99 cent retail price for much longer.
ezmicken
It hasn't in my town. $1.29!
LiterallyThatGuyInThePic
Atleast I appreciate the horny cartoons.
tehdonno
20 - buy bitcoin
HenchGoalkeeper66
We all wished we'd got Bitcoin and ETH a lot earlier than we actually did lol. At least there's that in common
SithElephant
I first downloaded a bitcoin client for my phone as a joke. If I had kept that phone plugged in and mining, (it was unused), I
SithElephant
would now have around 3 bitcoins. (needless to say, if I'd run it on my computer at the time, rather more).
DetroMex
Hey we still have horny cartoons
Bandlith
Pentacus
DetroMex
Literally what I was thinking of
JayEnfield
Furry here. My chart goes '0-35+: Horny Cartoons'
vash77
HermitBean
We are not that special. It's peaceful, food is relatively cheap and diverse, technology helps us etc. every gen has had their problems
ChristopherHallett
I remember being taught we needed to make vast serious changes to save the environment at school back in the 90s, or in 20-30 years the (1)
ChristopherHallett
world's climate would reach a tipping point, or point of no return, where we would see a sharp increase in the frequency and severity of (2)
ChristopherHallett
catastrophic weather events, the world's oceans filled with pollution, the poles melting, mass extinction events, crops failing, global (3)
ChristopherHallett
average temperatures skyrocketing... Thankfully none of that has come true, hey? Please, don't interrupt me here, it's hard enough to (4)
ChristopherHallett
type these comments through all the tears. (fin)
Superflash4
Would you prefer to have lived through World War 1, the great depression and then World War 2?
ThrowAwayAcct0000
A huge number of people alive at those times, didn't.
whatisausernam3
Crombrumbo
not lucky enough for climate change to cause human extinction
Its332amAndMyDogNeedsAWalk
Forgot all the wars, but yeah, accurate
HarbourMistress
I think that primitive life, medieval life, the black death and the industrial revolution would all have been worse.
trinityj1
Middle ages was better in some ways, worse in others. Industrial revolution was pretty rough, agree there.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Better? For whom? Farmers? Bound laborers were a thing, you know? Every age has something that's better in "some ways".
Whatsname
shhh, you are going to trigger them.
HarbourMistress
Imagine working in a cotton mill or mine from the age of 7 and dying of an industrial accident or disease by age 30. With poverty.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Things are supposed to be getting better. That's what progress is. Comparing now to those times is silly. Compare to the 1960s instead.
HarbourMistress
Nuclear war ending the world, the cold war and threat of communism, Vietnam, poverty, white male supremacy, generation gap.
cyborganism
I'm in the early millennials. Saw Jessica Rabbit on tv. Saw murder in Iraq. Graduated 2008 right in the big crash. Did my best to survive.
Daarst
Hello fellow 08 grad. Life so far has taught me that things don't get better, just varying shades of worse.
cyborganism
Now COVID. This winter was pretty warm. Summer is a month early. No idea what'll happen next.
actuallynotirate
Cold*
WhistlePig
As a millennial, I'm pissed and confused. Our future doesn't look bright. Technology, greed, selfishness, climate change... It's to much
StewedTomaters
That's kind of middle of the millennial generation tbh. You and I aren't the early part.
rudejohn
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was rated PG when it came out in theaters in 1988 and the very oldest millennials were born in 1981. Just saying.
MacClay
Yeah, I was wondering whether he meant college or what. Graduating high school in 2008 would make him a middle millennial.
cyborganism
University. It was university.
MacClay
That narrows it down considerably! Now we can focus on some other mundane mystery that still beats doing anything productive.
rudejohn
"graduated right in big crash" leads me to believe born 1980 and finished college 2008, which would make the person not really millennial.
MacClay
Could be he didn't do an 8 year program, so anywhere between 1981 and 1990 is possible, making him at least a 'first half' Millennial.
cyborganism
I'm first half millennial for sure.
rudejohn
Yep, I'm not calling liar, simply explaining the oldest millennials were 7 when Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out & unlikely to have seen it.
somebodythatyouusetoknow
This is for a younger millennial. Older millenials are facing covid in their late 30s and were almost 20 when the towers fell.
AliceHope78
I was 17, that say I was at home, still on holiday, studying Latin with a classmate.
AliceHope78
*day
idontlikepickingusername
Yep, was in university in 2001 but considered a millennial.
sykoticflaw
37 year old Millenial here. Yup. The entire nation is a fucking nightmare hellscape.
BobbieNell
Yep. I graduated in the mid 2000's and took the first job I could find. Still here 15 years, 1 car payment, 1 mortgage, and 2 kids later.
Ejsdead
Thats not a millennial then duh
darkestkale
Yarp. I graduated university RIGHT into the GFC. Thanks folks!
ColoneISanders
Yup. It kinda irks me that "Millenial" has such a wide spread but people often associate it with only those born in the 90s.
afatrollofmyown
MIllennial includes all the 80s kids too.
ColoneISanders
Yes, that was my point. People like the twitter in OPs post seem to forget that it includes more than just 90s kids.
afatrollofmyown
This millennial turns 40 this year, and oops. Look where I am on the chart. Great.
Chadillac84
I came here for this comment
AgentCatherine
I was 19 when the towers fell but before that we watched a team of astronauts die on live TV, and also OKCity bombing and Columbine.
afatrollofmyown
I forgot about watching the challenger live. Had a copycat incident at my high school right after Columbine too. I was a senior then.
AgentCatherine
It really felt like Columbine was the beginning of the end as far as having any innocence as a kid went. It just got worse from there.
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Oh man, that teacher who won the trip to space! I forgot about that. I didn't understand why my mom was crying....
squirrelfartsy
Christa McAuliffe from Concord, NH
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Thank you for sharing her name.
somebodythatyouusetoknow
We also graduated just before the first recession hit, and we lost our new jobs b/c we were the newest and we took others for peanuts just->
somebodythatyouusetoknow
To keep afloat, but we were paid less even after the recession was over. I discovered I was paid like 15k less than a new hire I was ->
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Training. But that low salary follows you around b/c companies ask what you are currently making and only pay you slightly more. It's a ->
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Hard cycle to break.
polarpurple
No it's not, it's called lying.
voltekker
Elder Millennial here, yup, and our 3rd once in a generation recession. It is really hard not to resent the fuck out of Boomers.
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
I despise that generation. Not on an individual level, tons of cool boomers, but as a gen, they destroyed fucking everything.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Seriously. The dot com crash, the 2008 housing crash, and now covid. All these crashes... seems to me the economy is unstable as all hell.
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Not if you're a Boomer....
paulus1978
The boom/bust cycle that was prevalent in the UK economy during the 80s and 90s makes these recessions just seem part of life
mofojar
Yeah! Elder millennial here. The towers fell 3 days after I turned 19.
somebodythatyouusetoknow
5 days for me. It was my first week of uni .....
thebigsexyfrost0
Yeah I was a month shy of hitting 17 when they came down... that was an interesting day at school. But being in Aus it wasn't hard hitting.
mofojar
I'm in Canada, heard a tiny blurb on the radio, got ready to go to work and buddy is like DUDE HAVE YOU SEEN TV!!!
voltekker
tomatoboy
Ditto. I was in the first few weeks of my freshman year in college.
afatrollofmyown
Same, went to class, had no idea what happened, and my teach was like, "What are you doing here?" told me what happened.
tomatoboy
I went into a 9AM history class and heard something about smoke and a helicopter on a gardener’s radio, walked out of the class at 8:50AM...
tomatoboy
...and heard the buildings were in fire, sprinted to my dorm but only made it to the Physics building because there was a TV on and I got...
somebodythatyouusetoknow
I was in a computer lab, first week of uni, someone came running into the lab saying a plane went into a tower. We ran out to a student ->
somebodythatyouusetoknow
Lounge were it was on TV. It was surreal. 2 students from my lab ran to find a phone. Apparently they had family that worked in the towers.
GreatOdinsTaint
Got out of the Army, went to college, and graduated in 2008 as the recession hit. Couldn't get even a $10/hr job for the next two years.
GreatOdinsTaint
Got desperate, went to grad school, and got bilked by a for profit school...
GreatOdinsTaint
...now I'm 37, have 320k in total debt, and have zero savings in general, let alone retirement savings.
GreatOdinsTaint
...but I married a stellar babe and I'm finally in post doc, so I got that going for me...which is nice.
GreatOdinsTaint
But seriously, fuck the past 20 years
railroadman22
At least we had 0-10
InHarmsWay
What a glorious time.
PieAndPunch
Our 0-10 was arguably the best 0-10
ArbitraryCommas
We got to see some absolute bangers on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon
3RsReadingRitingRithmatic
I mean, you could keep watching them after 10. But to each their own.
YeahBu0y
Ah yes. Good ol year zero, we took it for granted.
GravityOtter
First gen Pokémon and fight club posters in our dorm
Bigcurly2000
Yep, the 90's were a pretty fucking great time to be a kid, at least where I am. Computer games were starting to get good, but we still 1/2
Bigcurly2000
Spent most of our time actually outside. Cartoons were fantastic. The internet hadn't warped us too much.
crateo
Actually, 90s Internet was a wild, wild place.
existe
I remember trying to sneak online and hope no one heard that stupid dial tone!
TotallyNotASnail
Good times
Caniid
This explains why hentai is so popular.
Cha0sForever
Making it to 40 might be a stretch too. Also, 50 is definitely out of the question
JasperNY845
Yeah thank God for Jessica Rabbit, was all down hill from there.
rtysiiik1
If you don't count the Oklahoma city bombing or columbine
Hextator
Some of you did, yeah. Some of us just had catastrophic family dysfunction caused by Boomer parents fulfilling stereotypes.
celestedrake
I was reading books back then. They were good books though.
Smeenu
graehall
And at least some rich sociopathic narcissists got richer & more powerful while using their money & power to fuck over everyone else.
i2ocker89
I'm 32, born in 89. Am I a millinial?
railroadman22
Yes. But NEVER admit that
Pulsifer
Yes. 26-38 is the current age range I think.
i2ocker89
I get so confused with millinials, gen x, why's, why nots......only one I know for sure is boomers lol
Sypiner
Tbh, some millennials were born in early 80s, so had a solid 18-20 good years. Source: self
MarysueUltrabittch
Those motherfuckers
FluffyCthulu
We're a micro generation called xennials
HappinessIsaColdPint
I was 3 when I got an NES, so that was kinda awesomely life-altering.
Heavenissize17socks
But only because you didn't start voting at 18.
fbutt09
Why were horny cartoons? Pepe La Pew?
EternalSunshineofthePotlessMind
And other generations constantly make fun of us for being too nostalgic
HostMigrationPleaseWait
ive never seen this. gen X has you beat on that for sure
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
Gen x here. We think you kids are great. We don’t judge you,I’m gonna go back to my 80s/90s music and waiting to die now. Have a good day!
ThisPleasesZulthar
Unfortunately my dad (Gen X) has a negative opinion of millenials. I've never really spoken about it with him, not sure where he stands rn
Sholk7
Its crazy to me how people, boomers especially, will talk shit about millenials while having lunch with 5 people and 2 of them are 31 and 34
HighSorcerer
They still think millennials are 10-15 with no life experience and somehow missed all the shit that's happened the last 30 years.
Lanhdanan
Those were the millennial good ol days.
LeSethX
I still think 15 was the perfect age; just border enough to have household freedoms without adult responsivities.
JayEnfield
I'm a furry. Y'all are nuts for leaving that phase. My chart goes 0-35+: Horny Cartoons
NutsForKnots
ThatswhatIwasthinking
That's what I was thinking
EmotionallyWetSocks
Username checks out.
HenchGoalkeeper66
The good ol days finished before we could barely competently read and tell the time properly lmao
cyberimg
But what do you mean with horny cartoons? They always existed of course, but which ones would get into contact with 0~10yo?
0atmealcreampie
Johnny bravo
MTLourenco
Ranma was kind of horny ? I loved it... and still do ?
AstronautChicken
Rocko's modern life, ren and Stimpy, cow and chicken, etc etc
HairyBigToe
*Stupid sexy pantless red guy*
cyberimg
I wonder if you meant those. But those are not so much horny, as rude.
cyberimg
Yes, there is the occasional adult joke for the older viewer, but even powerpuff had those.
AstronautChicken
Rocko's creator literally tried to put a sexually themed joke into every single episode.
RustyNeX
forgot that covid is the second recession with record unemployment
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
It's our second once-in-a-lifetime economic disaster within 12 years.
voltekker
This is like the third once in a generation recession I have lived in, being a millenial feels like having so much work shoved onto us.
Jatenffxiv
The best part was being blamed for the first one. When most off us weren't even 18 yet.
webslinger007
If only the housing market would crash so I could afford a house.
Jatenffxiv
I know a lot of people doing that, It's only a matter of time. The market will crash again
ficticiousenigma2000
The market, then the grid then the world ha! Then Brain will emerge and finally show he has achieved his goal haha
ficticiousenigma2000
Yeah, this already occurred and they picked offs bunch of rental properties I believe and rent went up lol
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
They still are. Wealthy people putting money into real estate is what's driving the housing bubble.
sadurdaynight
And folks acting like it all magically got better in 2021... Nope. Employment got worse after december, and economy still sucks.
ForseHucker
Who the fuck have you been talking to saying its all better? Oh that's right, no one. Get the fuck out of here.
sadurdaynight
People that havent been hit hard. Eg my father in laws business hasnt been impacted, so he doesnt know why folks are "bitching".
afatrollofmyown
Right after unemployment of whooop $65/week got cut off too. I filed a new claim, but it's April and haven't be re-certified YET
BananaParagon
Let's see, there was the .com crash, the sub-prime crash, and now covid. That's 3
ItsGeno
So we’re on at least the second “word economy since the great depression” — yayyy.....
dudeloveall
I'm hoping for another houseing crash so I can finally afford one. Pricing in California is REDICULOUS
jwillr86
I'm hoping the San Andreas fault blows and Bakersfield becomes ocean front property.
Xerxes8169
As long as interest rates remain near 0% (fed funds rate not ours) housing prices will continue to be crazy high
PerpetuityPhoto
The price to buy MIGHT drop, but it's being kept artificially inflated by foreign investment.
PerpetuityPhoto
IIRC Seattle, Vancouver, probably Portland, and a few other places are money laundering hotspots for fentanyl dealers via real estate.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
The problem is that new homes aren't getting built as fast so older ones become worth more?
Aboutasbad
Unfortunately I feel like the housing market and its nonsense will probably be around for a while. It's crazy out here in the northeast too.
CornCobMcGee
No joke. I found a house that would probably cost 100k to get it livable going for 60k in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
Aboutasbad
I bought my house for 190k back in 2010 and I've refinanced it once. The value of my house will supposedly get me over 120k back. Almost 150
CantStopTheRock
Not to mention two housing bubbles, two different threats of nuclear war and a varitable list of other bullshit I can't think of right now.
JackSmiles2
resetting the year to 1920
RustyNeX
suffering existing in the same timeline as trump?
fightfightfightlosewinfight
isn't it more like constant threat? maybe it's because I'm +15 years on this timeline and still have russia hangover from my parents.
eastherbunni
I thought you were talking about the Hawaii false alarm for a minute and was wondering when the second one was
Bigblunt83
2 threats of nuclear war?
ruferto
those stories were buried QUICKLY
DeathBy1000PaperCuts
North Korea and Iran, I assume.
navyjeff
After the Soviet Union dissolved, they weren't entirely sure where all their nukes were, too.
CantStopTheRock
Yup
passwordissteve
Make it three with China's constant breaches of Taiwanese airspace.
TA2019
We're not on that chapter yet, that's the next one though
CantStopTheRock
That's just WWIII
vudak
Accurate. Don't forget that freddos used to be just 10p too.
aggregatenow
Man, Kinder Surprise really fucked me up with their prices.
MaybeTrans
I thought 10p was like a really low quality video for a second
SuperiorPebble
This. The next version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy will read "Mostly harmless. Fredos used to be 10p"
Mpisinchanga
When I was little we had chomps with the hippo on em.
HistoryDogs
Taz bars were clearly superior.
Blake242
When wagon wheels were larger, with better biscuit and more chocolate and filling. New ones just make me sad
RottedOnion
Have ye grown now? Have ye got a mortgage and two kids!?
TheArtistFormallyKnownAs
An outrage!
Mutat0
Don't forget the oft forgotten "Taz"
Steffychuuuu
Freddo killed Taz, now Caramel Freddos reign supreme
vudak
Aye the caramel taz were great
IainImgurs
Fudge for me thanks... 15p if memory serves? Failing that... A chomp.
LuncheonRoll
The freddo index https://maflingo.com/freddo-index/
fbutt09
With inflation, today they are priced at £5
waudey912
Plus sunny D was essentially liquid cocaine
prawncracker786
I remember when they used to be 5p :(
keshaOpBandit
I remember. Even more crazy...getting a caramel Fredo for 5p
TacticalL0tion
This is a myth! No one has ever seen the legendary 5p fredo!
ifyourfriendsdntdanceandiftheydntdancethentheyrenofriendsofmine
Honestly, I think the lowest they ever were was 10p.
Fairdinkums
Mate don't even get me started on chocolate prices let alone the fact they're shrinking!
GeographyIsWhereItsAt
They are shrinking?
UsernameIsTheNewBlack
Aww. Man cobbers got priced out and it hurts
unclewookwook
Apparently it's for our own good, the manufacturers don't want us to be unhealthy, so they're helping us cut our calories/s
Fairdinkums
Thats my decision!
vudak
Aye, I got a snickers recently and had to double take, wtf man.
Fairdinkums
Did it feel like a fun size snickers?
squishygummyfeet
Kit Kat Chunky is so unchunky now
Mxlespxles
Well TBH we shouldn't have had access to so much cheap chocolate we are only able to do so because of slaves labor
yoseiwind
That’s still the case for the major companies - Mars, nestle, Hershey all use slave chocolate. Small fair trade ones that have verifiable
yoseiwind
Supply chains don’t and are slightly more expensive but also don’t have the same heavy metal toxicity issues as the non fair trade companies
emjay9010
Not to mention have you tasted a Chokito of late? They used to be caramel awesomeness. Now, NOW, they using some budget plastic choc shit th
Fairdinkums
Haven't had one in ages but used to love them, now I'm sad.
emjay9010
that takes over the whole flavour, can't taste any caramel, and they worse than a budget chocolate crackle bought at a school fete.
Asikar
Ah, yes the good ol' shrinkflation.
Fairdinkums
Is there anything worse?
GoddamnitClown
Imo, mass market chocolate being tasteless, dry-but-somehow-slightly-oily Christmas-decoration-tier quality these days is the real killer.
Fairdinkums
Well said, I know exactly what you mean
GlowstickJedi
Are the chocolate bars getting smaller, or are our hands getting bigger?
Fairdinkums
Wack
camcam1234
$0.30 in Australia.
pallara
Mint patties for 15c...
ChristopherHallett
Curly-Wurly's were 20 cents. Mars Bars were 60 cents, and they were 60 grams!
BruthaFromSmallGods
What's a freddo?
HenchGoalkeeper66
A Cadbury chocolate bar (of the tiniest possible denomination) in Britain and possibly beyond. It's like a quarter the size of 'a whole bar'
Voidhawk42
The metric unit of Happiness.
Pentacus
Small Cadbury chocolate bar shaped like a cartoon frog, they were really cheap for how much you got
emjay9010
A chocolate frog. Plain chocolate, or can get them with creme fillings too.
DaveSamsonite
Boomers had two choices. Hershey’s or carob.
saxon2060
A smallish piece of individually wrapped Cadbury's chocolate shaped like a cartoon frog. Sold in the UK for decades.
Jasonreissue
vudak
Freddo Baggins and Tazwise Gamgee
onfire
A chocolate frog
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
And no they didn't come with a card of a famous wizard
BalCheema
I'll do you one better - Why is a Freddo!?
icantbelievesharknadoisathingsomeoneactualypaidfor
I'll do YOU one better - Who is Freddo
shimmernshine
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/take-a-leap-into-the-past-with-freddo-frog-during-history-week-20151018-gkbwye.html
Seethreepeeoh
Media: MILLENIALS ARE RUINING LIFECYCLES
gonergoner22
Boomers abandoned the younger generations and blame us for the consequences. They are the worst generation of Americans bar none.
HasAnyoneInThisFamilyEverSeenAChicken
Well, seeing as millennial suicide rates have gone up by ~56% in the last decade, I guess that’s fair.
Seethreepeeoh
True, there was barely any millennials killing themselves in the 80s
HasAnyoneInThisFamilyEverSeenAChicken
Hell, I wasn’t even alive yet to kill myself!
Snarknado
IsendDickPicsIfYouAskNicely
Boomer lifecycle: born into ww2 money. Cheap college. Cheap housing. Destroy economy. Destroy environment, blame millennials. Go maga crazy
Closeenoughforthis
My boomer parents went the other way. They're liberal as fuck now.
gonergoner22
Yup. Boomers don't give a shit about us. They just want the easy life and if others have to suffer for it they don't care.
ZenToaster
To be fair: only the rich boomers. My dad was a computer engineer and didn't exactly sway the economy
SomeKid
Computer engineers changed the San Francisco Bay area forever. I'd argue that they were a major part of the problem (maybe not your dad)
Nuttburger
Do all the drugs in the 60s and 70s. Ruin peoples lives for having a joint in the 80s-2000s
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
I was born in 1977, grew up under the constant threat of a global nuclear conflict, with acid rain, pollution and a hole in the ozone layer.
Allgoodnameslonggone
1975er here. What bums me most is people getting religious again. Loved the late 80ies and 90ies, when we had hope for science and reason.
shitheadtookmyname
Two of those three got much better over time.
FluffyGreyJedi
Psssst. That's the point
TA2019
Pssst. Possible it got better because it actually was a big deal that forced action.
FluffyGreyJedi
Still literally the point. Things may seem bad, but it's not the end times
TA2019
Until it is. But I get what you're saying.
toolarchy5
But you got that super sweet fist of the northstar anime out of the deal.
Beetlebard
This is great and all, but part of this is that those issues were never solved when society first saw those signs back then. Complacency 1/2
Beetlebard
Is what got us here. Hope doesn't mean anything without community effort to fix it. Now we're dealing with the start of those Consequences.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
You create new consequences for the generations that follow you. You're not special.
Beetlebard
You're absolutely right. And that's why we each need to find something we can help fix and commit to it. Otherwise it'll only get worse.
TheInfamousPenguin
And now; speaking of acid rain. You get to enjoy the knowledge that we have "Plastic nano-particle rain" all over the world instead.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
I'm 10 years older and we had the same things, plus traditional jobs dying all around us, plus AIDS before we knew about HIV, ...
FuzzyX
Well at least we fixed the hole. Earth will remain a virgin.
laiskamato
Xennial Finn here; I remember flinching at every siren test as a kid, and old men being very serious about maintaining the bomb shelters.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Siren tests, yes. And seeing the faces of my Mum and my Grandma turn white. They were right in the middle of this shit.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
Before that if you were a male living in the US there was the threat of being drafted into the Vietnam war. Every gen has it's challenges.
NayaTaylor
I mean as a millennial we got to deal with literally all those as well. In fact your generation screams at us that none of those are real
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IHateHumanInteraction
Do we not?
imakeurglassesfoggy
Indeed we do, but other immediate more impactful disasters take primary anxiety time
thatguyisreallydeep
The threat is still there, but the dread and constant reminders of it certainly seem to have subsided.
Chainhealer
And Chernobyl was a thing for us here in Europe at least.
alitquar
‘74 checking in. You’re right you know.
TrueNorthernLights
'74 here as well. Yup.
FroopyHood
And all drugs are instantly addictive and will kill you.
Promethianfire
We were told that if you smoke marijuana once, you'd be dead within 10 years. I don't think any of us believed it.
dunewarrior
at least you had a good economy though?
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Let me guess. You're American.
MediocreExtremist
1970's oil crisis; don't think so. 80's was better indeed .. for the happy few
QuamvisSintSubAqua
Yes and no. Oil price shocks and high inflation until the wall fell, then a good time until 2000, then y2k and dot com bubble burst.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
In my country, in 1984 the economy was far worse than it was at the deepest point of the financial crisis of 2008.
AndrewWiggin
There was the dot-com bubble in 2000. I was born in the early 80's and never experienced a good economy as a grown-up...
Homophone
No, '78 here. We moved from OH to TX when I was little because my dad couldn't find work anywhere else. Was still better than now though
Chainhealer
Interest was sky high, unemployment too, oil crisis was ongoing, the economy is much better now.
NothingPrince
Over 9% on home loans is not good
paulus1978
Yup. The background threat of MAD is something that's almost like a bad dream when i think back. Did I really live like that once?
rebmafire
Honestly, 90s kids genuinely had one of the best childhoods. The world was successfully pretending that everything would be okay after all.
PinkProzac
Aside from my dad going to war for a year and bomb threats all through high school, 90s wasn’t too bad.
Jatenffxiv
My brother was in HS at the peak of the bomb threats, once to twice a week they were evacuating.
rebmafire
Maybe the US was different. In the U.K. It was all “recycle and save the planet kids! :)” “WWII was so long ago, everything’s great now! :D”
rebmafire
It was in the 00s when the bubble of reality started to burst. 9/11 and the Iraq War, and the level of social denial never recovered.
sadurdaynight
Gen x in 90's got massive kick in the nuts. We had a few years of success, then dot com bubble burst and we got chucked off a cliff.
rebmafire
Are Gen X millennials? I was born in 1991, and the entire 90s had this air of “bad things only happened in the past, if we all do our part-
sadurdaynight
Gen x are 1965-80, but 20-30 as dot com burst. So many got to see their careers take a shit. I was working at worldcom when it tanked.
rebmafire
everything will be alright! Save water, plants trees, grow up to be anything! Give money to starving kids overseas and soon they’ll be just-
rebmafire
like us! Wasn’t the Holocaust awful, kids? Good job everybody is enlightened and modern now! Treat everybody equally! Yaaaay! ✨”
rebmafire
A brief period of “it’s the future, everything’s gonna be better now!” and that trickled down to us from the adults. Shame it wasn’t true.
rebmafire
That’s why we’re so disillusioned as a generation. We really were brought up in a world where everything was gonna be okay.
FrozenCoast
Things seemed like they were getting better through the 90s until 9-11.
rebmafire
Basically this, yeah. Except now we know it actually wasn’t true, because climate change and economy and global political shifts.
BoomerSooner767
Sorry, that doesn't support th narrative. Millennials have the exclusive right to bitch about life being hard.
sisuandserenity
Born in 1983. I remember doing a bomb drill where we all had to hide under our desks in first grade, then the Cold War was over.
AliceHope78
I was born 3 years prior Chernobyl. Living in north eastern Italy. Yeahhhh
dinosaurakadinosaur
Was searching for it. I think some people forget the worst scenario like wars and ww2 is not too long ago
HeroesAndBosses
Yeah the cold war was shit to live through. But I'd take that over climate change any day. Nuclear war is FAR less scary.
sadurdaynight
Nuclear war is a sabre rattle threat from countries lookong for handouts. N Korea threatens to nuke us whenever they want $ from us.
Ozzy98
Well, the thing about climate change, most of what you hear about doesn't involve steps we can take to mitigate it. I don't mean prevent...
Ozzy98
...the change, I mean stuff like having people relocate inland more. Which is a hell of a lot of work, but can be done. We should at least..
Ozzy98
...plan for these worse case scenarios a bit better. Don't put all our defense into preventing clim.change, but don't stop trying to fix it.
bolobass
Acid rain.
TheChook
Plus we saw a space shuttle explode live on tv in the middle of class. Moved from LPs to cassettes to CDs back to LPs.
665NeighborOfTheBeast
Hahaha, your "CDs back to LPs" missed a few steps in there!
thecheesedip
Yeah we saw one of those too, in the cafeteria. Columbia.
IVoted4Pedro
Don’t forget that you were told you’d turn into a devil worshipper for listening to Twisted Sister.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Or any other Metal Band. Not that I gave a shit about the whole Church thing anyway.
ToSisPoS
Ironically, Dee Snider is full-on Christian.
kaoticgirl
I hated twisted sister (and all those type bands), wonder what pushed me into Satanism if it wasn't the music?
Snooj
Or for playing D&D.
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
Oh DEVIL worshipper. That makes a lot more sense than what I turned in to
greenchair
lived repihsrow?
METROlD
But with the ozone layer we actually got our shit together and stopped it. No more styrofoam, no more aerosol. And it shrank. Today there i
METROlD
Is no such effort
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
Dont forget AIDS. We were basically told sex = AIDS.
ricpaul
I'm from 1970 and coined the phrase "Save Sex? Safe Sex!". Never caught on.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Sex? One of my classmates likes a word with you - oh, wait, she can't because she's dead. HIV from blood plasma transfusion.
CodeWarrior
Yeah, but the anti-gay and religious peeps didnt like to talk about that. It is sex that does it. And gay sex especially according to them.
IHateHumanInteraction
Gay* sex. It was their way of negatively stigmatizing gay sex.
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Ozzy98
No, in my area\schools in ohio, it was just sex = aids.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
People were convinced they'd witness the last whale being killed. Then the wall fell, the Soviet Union went away, lead was removed from
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
gasoline and CFK's were banned. And I lived through the same things milennials lived through as well. And these things are scary and big and
secretoaster
Also no good horny cartoons
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Saigon333
Is that... is that not normal?
OKSasquatch
A while back I rewatched the old He-Man again after probably 30 years. When I was 5 it was my favorite. As an adult, it's fucking terrible.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
make you feel hopeless. But there is always hope. One of my favourite quotes: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
lostlittletimeonthis
The ozone is still on the fence...china still uses those chemicals and it's always dependent on any loosening of rules.
Lanhdanan
The Ozone was a multi national effort that helped reverse the effects within decades. Climate change is another monster on a larger scale.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
So?
Flortzweich
Back when we listened to science, instead of degrading and demonizing knowledge. Welcome to the new dark ages.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.
kaoticgirl
I was born in 77 also, (fuck i'd kind of forgotten being terrified of acid rain) and I appreciate your optimism but it kind of really is
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”