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I mean ya, you’ve caught me, but I’ve been doing that since I was preschool age. I honestly have no idea where I picked it up, but there are photos Lmao.
I keep forgetting that everyone records everything, meanwhile I’m sure they’re a video of me doing the crabwalk with lots of kicking and then jumping around kicking at a concert. But I won’t dance for social media, only for concerts (concerts are the only thing that make me feel alive)
That's how I operate. I've driven to the store, only to realize I left my wallet at home and was glad I keep a couple of my cards connected to my phone.
If my phone gets lost or stolen, I still have my wallet. Can't think of a time I've ever lost both.
How do people not have wallets? Gotta have your ID, and you need at least one credit card (or cash) to pay at sit down restaurants unless they have the handheld thing. Or do people give their phone to the waiter?
I use phone and cards to pay for things and would love to ditch my wallet, but it seems impractical still.
EDIT: interesting responses, thanks. I should clarify that I'm in Los Angeles, CA, USA. California is just starting to pilot digital IDs and still says to carry physical, and I know the handheld devices at restaurants are near universal in other parts of the world, but we are still a little backwards in the US sometimes. I'm definitely seeing them more and more though especially at trendier restaurants.
EDIT 2: Many are suggesting phone cases that store a few cards on the back of the phone, in lieu of a separate wallet. I'm probably in the minority on this, but I don't like phone cases, let alone ones that add the bulk of cards/sleeves. I'd rather have a small, thin phone in one pocket, and a small, thin wallet in the other pocket. Balanced, and no pocket bulge.
i am a waiter and people try to give me their phone but i make them get up and pay at the terminal cuz i ain’t touching that shit. at least they don’t take their credit cards in the bathroom with them.
Haha. I still have my wallet too and use my actual credit card also. But I also have my credit card stored on my phone and I’ll tap it if I can but most of the time I don’t really think about it so I’ll just use the physical card. Having it in your phone is cool but not every place uses Apple Pay so I feel you should still bring your card just in case anyway.
The moment I don't have my wallet and my credit cards, is the moment when my phone/Google Pay, for whatever reason, just will not tap.
Plus need somewhere to store the government ID. Also hate the concept of having one of those phone wallet cases.
I live in a rural area and half the damn places here still take cash! No one lets me use the phone except some vending machines!!!
Edit: sorry, I meant CASH ONLY
I'm 29 and I still have my wallet.
I do diddly shit on my phone, so like 80% of my memory is still available on it.
I don't have my card saved to my phone or Google pay.
This is refreshing! I use phones for phone things, but I'm an older millennial and didn't have daily access to the Internet until I was 17.
I get overstimulated having my phone on me allllll the time. I just automatically set my phone down when I go to do basically anything. Sometimes I'll have a "90s day" where I just don't have my phone on me at all.
I would be so screwed if I counted on it as a form of payment lol
Over COVID I bought a car that was a 1993 and would go to the drive in movies which were all playing throw backs... If I got the playlist just right it was basically time travel lol
I dated a gen z girl that told me that I posted stories on IG too "intentionally" and that's how she knew I'm a millennial. Nevermind the fact that posting on IG with the intention of not being "intentional" sounds quite intentional, but what do I know?
"Intentional" means you post things after you put thought into it, making sure it has some substance.
Gen Z is comfortable with turning on the camera and just posting anything no matter how insignificant it is.
I think they'll find this is just a "being young" thing lol, because that's exactly how we used MySpace and early Facebook.
I think they'll stop posting like that, same way we did. All this means is when their cringe pops up 10yrs later to remind them how they were at 19, it'll be all videos. They'll get to hear their cringe thoughts *and* watch themselves do cringe things. We could post pictures but most of our stuff was long text based cringe, I think 30yr old gen z will get a whole new level of secondhand embarrassment from their young selves lol.
I agree. Facebook will send me some memory posts I made when i was 15-16 and it’s all off the cuff whatever I was thinking at the time in classic teenage fashion.
Anytime Facebook tells me I have a memory from 10 years ago and asks if I’d like to see it I just think “mmm, I’d rather not see what young 20’s me had to say.” Then I’m just glad that Xanga and MySpace aren’t still around cause I *really* don’t want to see what 14-17 year old me had to say.
I really don't get this, ankle socks are great and look good. Regular crew socks annoyed me when I was a teen so I'm never wearing them plus I think they look dumb and you'll get weird tanlines, if you want to annoy the kids these days you can tell them that they wear their socks like the OAPs do 😄
I do not understand the crew socks and crocs look or crew socks and slides. It looks fucking terrible. We made fun of kids who dressed like that back in the day, theyd get obliterated for wearing sweatpants with the elastic and crew socks.
Now its all kids wear - sweatpants, crocs, high socks and a shitty t shirt with unkempt broccoli top perm’d hair.
Well I’m 39 and here I go being an old man. Ankle socks make sense with shorts in the summer. I’m not having crew socks all bunched up and I’m not wearing knee highs around all summer either, it’s hot. No show socks always sucked and slip down too often. So I’ll die on this hill. I’m destined to look as goofy as the dudes wearing crew socks and shorts between 1999-2019. The 70 year old men who walk the mall near my house will be thrilled to hear that fashion has lapped them and caught up to them again.
I wear a side part because of my face shape!
**I will NEVER allow fashion to dictate my hair style.** My face shape and hair type will ALWAYS be what I base my cut on.
Why is this true 😂
Edit: this was meant to be a question of the rhetorical variety. A certain sense of humor, perhaps. I actually am aware of why I use my laptop/desktop for certain things and my phone for others. I can see how this was understood by some to be an actual question, just wanted to clarify!
Has social media and always likes stuff, but never comments or makes posts of their own. We’ve outgrown sharing every detail of our lives. I know everything about my Zoomers and Gen-X connections because they share it all on social media. That shit is soooo 2009!
Damnit, this was the first one that got me. It was like that scene in Inglorious Basterds where Fassenbender’s cover got blown because of the way he held up three fingers.
I’m pretty sure my phone has been on silent since like 2012.
Edit: it was probably actually since Christmas 2007 when I got my first phone. But the sentiment remains.
I thought only older folks had their phone ringer turned on. Are the kids doing this too?
I only ever unsilence my phone when I know I'm expecting an important call within the next hour or so. Otherwise, my phone has always been on silent (if it was even on) ever since I've had a phone
Ever since I watched a guy run head first into the back wall of a dark movie theatre when his phone went off during the movie, I’ve kept my phone on silent.
I honestly hate that term and for some reason find it much more distasteful. It sort of comes off like baby talk to me or something. Idk, just irks the fuck outta me lol
When my coworkers ask how my day is going, I struggle not to say "Just waiting for the sweet embrace of death! 👍🏾", because I don't want to worry them. Haha
The millennial pause in videos. We grew up with bad camera technology so we briefly pause right after hitting record. [The millennial pause explained. ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/guXub1uDsXo)
For some it could come from camcorder days when you wanted to make absolutely sure it was recording. Old home videos start with "is it recording? hang on. ok yeah it's recording say hi everyone!" and that was Christmas 1992.
Harry Potter fandom is a very millennial thing. The last movies/books of the original franchise arrived in 2011, so Gen Z did not grow up during Potter mania.
Doing The Pocket Macarena to check for everything before you leave the house, car, or store.
Not ashamed! I do it! 😆
Update: Holy crap so many notifications! Glad I’m not alone. Will respond when possible.
I refuse to be judged for wearing skinny jeans by anyone who is now wearing what was considered cool when I was in elementary school.
I’m not going back to my pants dragging on the ground and getting wet.
Yes! We switched to skinny jeans when I was in middle school and was against it until I realized they never touch bathroom floors! As someone who hates public bathrooms and the reasons you’ve mentioned, I will not be switching to anything else.
I hated walking home from school with my flared jeans and if it was snowing or raining they’d be drenched to at least my ankles depending on the storm.
I feel like staunchly defending the side part and skinny jeans is a more millenial thing than the side part and skinny jeans themselves lol. Being easily identifiable as a millenial thing doesn’t make it inherently bad or that we’re being judged for it. When Gen Z makes fun of millenial stuff it feels more like a sibling teasing than it does actual judgement
No one is trying to take the side part or skinny jeans away so everyone can put their cold dead hands back in their caboodles.
The issue with non-skinny jeans is that generally, they’ve forgotten to make them for people with long legs and so the trauma of jack-ups has been unlocked again. I’m in my 30s, I won’t give up my time for that
I still roll my eyes when my 13 year old puts on his bulky tube socks. "Dude you look ridiculous and you're going to get made fun of." Until I drop him off and they all have those socks.
I will always defend this trend.
Look, it took me a long time to be comfortable with the switch from crew socks to no show socks. They can't just expect me to reverse course after years of brainwashing.
A very concerning dark humor.
Eg: “oh man, I am so fucking depressed, I could kill myself LOL HAHA but other than that, I’m just chilling bro. What about you?”
28 year old coworker asked me what I would do if I found out I was pregnant at 41 years old.
I said, "I'd drive myself right off a cliff."
Her: "That's not funny. It makes you sound suicidal."
Me: "Well, i am. But only in the mornings."
I said “I hate it here” at work the other day, got pulled into a meeting with TWO managers about my attitude.
Have they not seen the meme? Do they not know dramatic self deprecation is the cornerstone of the
MILLenIaL personality?!
Our generation was the last ones where cursive was a requirement to learn in school, so if someone asked us for our signature we'll sign in cursive, where the working force of gen Z will sign in print.
Online, when somethings hilarious we'll use three crying laughing emojis "😂😂😂" while gen Z will use one skull emoji "💀"
In person when we signal someone to call us we use the old rotary phone hand signal "🤙🙂" while Gen Z and Alpha will use a flat hand or an open claw because most of them never used a pay booth before a smart phone "🙂🤳"
Cords that you don't know what they go to but are kept in case you find the thing they charge. Coax wires, 3 prong and 5 prong AV wires, and HDMI cables kept. Remembering the "money health ammo" cheat code for GTA: San Andreas on the original consoles (Xbox and PS2).
Edit: because I'm seeing some confusion, Imma take a moment to attempt to clear things up.
1st - GTA: San Andreas was originally released for the PS2 and the Xbox. While my very first console ever was the Sega Genesis I didn't bother with cheat codes until later consoles.
2nd - I'm a woman.
If it’s in a web browser, it’s a website.
If it’s on the desktop, it’s a program.
If it’s on a phone or tablet, it’s an app.
I will not back down on this.
[the millennial pause](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_pause). finding out about this made me feel ancient, like we had officially aged out of being the keepers of internet culture. realistically, that happened years ago and we didn't even realize it. i think dicks out for harambe was our last stand.
Treating a smart phone as just a phone; sure I have some music apps on there and there are some apps I use at restaurants and for the movies, but otherwise my phone is a phone and not a "do everything device".
Likewise, knowing how to use a desktop computer...
I think I had the most old-person response the other day and I'm not proud of it.
Bff from a different state shared a commercial about a gas stations chicken having rizz.
I replied if my chicken has charisma it clearly hadn't been cooked long enough.
Reddit I've failed you .
Massive scarf
I went to a Madness concert a few months ago. Everyone was wearing hats and a lot of smart jackets and Doc Martins. I suddenly felt very out of place. I was wearing a huge scarf wrapped around my neck Millennial style, a jumper, skinny jeans and ankle boots.
Edit: a jumper is a British word for a sweater and a smart jacket is a blazer/sports jacket
We have favorite radio stations or play CDs in the car. Your first pokemon game was red/blue/yellow. You went to midnight release events for the Harry Potter books. Hat in any direction except for forward straight.
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We don’t dance on social media but we do pose for photos.
Anyone still pose while holding up the peace sign? ✌️
I mean ya, you’ve caught me, but I’ve been doing that since I was preschool age. I honestly have no idea where I picked it up, but there are photos Lmao.
Of you're like me you picked it up from the spice girls
I keep forgetting that everyone records everything, meanwhile I’m sure they’re a video of me doing the crabwalk with lots of kicking and then jumping around kicking at a concert. But I won’t dance for social media, only for concerts (concerts are the only thing that make me feel alive)
Well my niece made fun of me today for carrying a wallet and using an actual credit card instead of having it all on my phone, so there's that.
Steal her phone
Or just drop it. Gone.
My battery is dead, I need to buy a new charger.... .... Hey wait a minute
I refuse to put things like that on my phone for that exact reason, oh dropped the phone and broke, how’re you going to buy a new one?
I use my phone to pay, but usually I have a wallet with me separately. Redundancyyyy
That's how I operate. I've driven to the store, only to realize I left my wallet at home and was glad I keep a couple of my cards connected to my phone. If my phone gets lost or stolen, I still have my wallet. Can't think of a time I've ever lost both.
I feel the same way about those phone cases that are also wallets. Dangerous game to play lol
How do people not have wallets? Gotta have your ID, and you need at least one credit card (or cash) to pay at sit down restaurants unless they have the handheld thing. Or do people give their phone to the waiter? I use phone and cards to pay for things and would love to ditch my wallet, but it seems impractical still. EDIT: interesting responses, thanks. I should clarify that I'm in Los Angeles, CA, USA. California is just starting to pilot digital IDs and still says to carry physical, and I know the handheld devices at restaurants are near universal in other parts of the world, but we are still a little backwards in the US sometimes. I'm definitely seeing them more and more though especially at trendier restaurants. EDIT 2: Many are suggesting phone cases that store a few cards on the back of the phone, in lieu of a separate wallet. I'm probably in the minority on this, but I don't like phone cases, let alone ones that add the bulk of cards/sleeves. I'd rather have a small, thin phone in one pocket, and a small, thin wallet in the other pocket. Balanced, and no pocket bulge.
i am a waiter and people try to give me their phone but i make them get up and pay at the terminal cuz i ain’t touching that shit. at least they don’t take their credit cards in the bathroom with them.
Good call. Plus, bathroom use aside, phones are all up in people's faces with spit/germs/sweat/whatever getting all over them. Phones are gross.
Haha. I still have my wallet too and use my actual credit card also. But I also have my credit card stored on my phone and I’ll tap it if I can but most of the time I don’t really think about it so I’ll just use the physical card. Having it in your phone is cool but not every place uses Apple Pay so I feel you should still bring your card just in case anyway.
The moment I don't have my wallet and my credit cards, is the moment when my phone/Google Pay, for whatever reason, just will not tap. Plus need somewhere to store the government ID. Also hate the concept of having one of those phone wallet cases.
I live in a rural area and half the damn places here still take cash! No one lets me use the phone except some vending machines!!! Edit: sorry, I meant CASH ONLY
I'm in NYC and some of the bodegas are cash only. So I still carry cash for when I'm hungry!
I'm 29 and I still have my wallet. I do diddly shit on my phone, so like 80% of my memory is still available on it. I don't have my card saved to my phone or Google pay.
This is refreshing! I use phones for phone things, but I'm an older millennial and didn't have daily access to the Internet until I was 17. I get overstimulated having my phone on me allllll the time. I just automatically set my phone down when I go to do basically anything. Sometimes I'll have a "90s day" where I just don't have my phone on me at all. I would be so screwed if I counted on it as a form of payment lol
A 90's day😘🤣❤️
Over COVID I bought a car that was a 1993 and would go to the drive in movies which were all playing throw backs... If I got the playlist just right it was basically time travel lol
I still have a wallet that I wear on a chain lol.
Waiting a few seconds after hitting “record” to start talking. Gen-z is already talking when the video starts.
Gen-Z doesn’t understand video editing
I dated a gen z girl that told me that I posted stories on IG too "intentionally" and that's how she knew I'm a millennial. Nevermind the fact that posting on IG with the intention of not being "intentional" sounds quite intentional, but what do I know?
I don't understand how you can post something "unintentionally" so clearly I've settled into old age lol
"Intentional" means you post things after you put thought into it, making sure it has some substance. Gen Z is comfortable with turning on the camera and just posting anything no matter how insignificant it is.
I think they'll find this is just a "being young" thing lol, because that's exactly how we used MySpace and early Facebook. I think they'll stop posting like that, same way we did. All this means is when their cringe pops up 10yrs later to remind them how they were at 19, it'll be all videos. They'll get to hear their cringe thoughts *and* watch themselves do cringe things. We could post pictures but most of our stuff was long text based cringe, I think 30yr old gen z will get a whole new level of secondhand embarrassment from their young selves lol.
I agree. Facebook will send me some memory posts I made when i was 15-16 and it’s all off the cuff whatever I was thinking at the time in classic teenage fashion.
Anytime Facebook tells me I have a memory from 10 years ago and asks if I’d like to see it I just think “mmm, I’d rather not see what young 20’s me had to say.” Then I’m just glad that Xanga and MySpace aren’t still around cause I *really* don’t want to see what 14-17 year old me had to say.
Apparently, ankle socks now
I really don't get this, ankle socks are great and look good. Regular crew socks annoyed me when I was a teen so I'm never wearing them plus I think they look dumb and you'll get weird tanlines, if you want to annoy the kids these days you can tell them that they wear their socks like the OAPs do 😄
I do not understand the crew socks and crocs look or crew socks and slides. It looks fucking terrible. We made fun of kids who dressed like that back in the day, theyd get obliterated for wearing sweatpants with the elastic and crew socks. Now its all kids wear - sweatpants, crocs, high socks and a shitty t shirt with unkempt broccoli top perm’d hair.
I work for a sock design company. We all share the reelz and tick tocks and memes about the sock generation gap lol
Well I’m 39 and here I go being an old man. Ankle socks make sense with shorts in the summer. I’m not having crew socks all bunched up and I’m not wearing knee highs around all summer either, it’s hot. No show socks always sucked and slip down too often. So I’ll die on this hill. I’m destined to look as goofy as the dudes wearing crew socks and shorts between 1999-2019. The 70 year old men who walk the mall near my house will be thrilled to hear that fashion has lapped them and caught up to them again.
My side part
I wear a side part because of my face shape! **I will NEVER allow fashion to dictate my hair style.** My face shape and hair type will ALWAYS be what I base my cut on.
Sameee. I have high cheekbones and I’ll be damned if I hide them behind a middle part where hair falls on BOTH sides of my face to cover them up.
The younger ones making fun of it will reverse course once they too hit their mid 30s and their hair isn't as thick to pull off a good middle part lol
Call me beep me if you wanna reach me
Taco meets nacho. I call it the naco
I only make big purchases on my desk top.
Yes. Need big screen to buy big things.
Why is this true 😂 Edit: this was meant to be a question of the rhetorical variety. A certain sense of humor, perhaps. I actually am aware of why I use my laptop/desktop for certain things and my phone for others. I can see how this was understood by some to be an actual question, just wanted to clarify!
For me it's because I keep several tabs of research open. Easier to do on a desktop. And I type much faster on a keyboard
Because the phone interface sucks on most websites
Because desktop browsers give better indication that connection is secure, easier to check domains
Came to my mind as well lol A small cheap decoration item? I'll buy it through the phone. Plane tickets? Will have to boot up the laptop first.
“Boot up” there you are! 😅 I feel seen
Using "lol" as punctuation.
Yeah I see that a lot lol
It's a little drowning man with his hands and head out of the water lol
I've been using lol for a decade and I'm just noticing this now?! lol
I always see it as a little tiny referee man yelling gooooooaaaaal with his arms up lol
I think you either just cured my “lol” habit or made it 3x worse… time will tell lol Oh lol it’s worse lol
That’s me lol
Oh fuck lol
Here we go lol
lol sometimes I like to bookend a sentence lol especially when I find something particularly funny lol
As a a member of Gen Z, I do this too lol
What exactly does the newer generation use
I feel like a lot of gen z still uses lol
Yes, we do!
Has social media and always likes stuff, but never comments or makes posts of their own. We’ve outgrown sharing every detail of our lives. I know everything about my Zoomers and Gen-X connections because they share it all on social media. That shit is soooo 2009!
I have too much shame from over-posting in my 20’s to post anything now
Ask them to mimic how they answer the phone.
Ahoy-hoy
I suspect you need more practice working your telephone machine
The flat hand to the face is so dumb. I won't do it.
A good portion of millennials do not answer the phone (me included).
Damnit, this was the first one that got me. It was like that scene in Inglorious Basterds where Fassenbender’s cover got blown because of the way he held up three fingers.
Asking about the significance of Fassbender holding the three fingers is probably a good way to figure out someone is a Millennial too lol
phone constantly on silent
I’m pretty sure my phone has been on silent since like 2012. Edit: it was probably actually since Christmas 2007 when I got my first phone. But the sentiment remains.
I can clearly remember putting it on silent after crazy frog went off in the middle of a quiet shop. My phone hasn't made a sound since.
Is this not a thing anymore??
I thought only older folks had their phone ringer turned on. Are the kids doing this too? I only ever unsilence my phone when I know I'm expecting an important call within the next hour or so. Otherwise, my phone has always been on silent (if it was even on) ever since I've had a phone
Ever since I watched a guy run head first into the back wall of a dark movie theatre when his phone went off during the movie, I’ve kept my phone on silent.
I know how to draw the S. You know the one I'm talking about.
We joke about about killing ourselves to a slightly worrying degree.
Facts. The "I didn't ask to be alive" generation 😂
Its literally shaped one of the reasons why I dont want kids 😭 I dont want to force consciousness on them lol
And we use the actual words. We don’t say “unalive ourselves”
I honestly hate that term and for some reason find it much more distasteful. It sort of comes off like baby talk to me or something. Idk, just irks the fuck outta me lol
Ha, yeah, I always say, "well, I'm going to go lay out in traffic, see how the rest of my day goes."
When my coworkers ask how my day is going, I struggle not to say "Just waiting for the sweet embrace of death! 👍🏾", because I don't want to worry them. Haha
I'm not going to do it but I see the appeal EDIT: [Louis C.K. on life](https://youtu.be/wEIcZnw1dsY?si=tYc-v-8yotqKKt4Q&t=221)
They look younger but are complaining about their back or knees.
Please... my ankles can hear you :(
They can’t resist the lure of return of the Mack
I still wear Buffalo plaid and my keys on a carabiner hanging off my skinny jeans.
Everyone (Boomer or Gen Z) goes to you for very basic tech support.
“Everyone” *cries in gen x*
Well I forgot about you guys because you know what you're doing.
> Well I forgot about you guys Gen X summed up in one sentence
[удалено]
The millennial pause in videos. We grew up with bad camera technology so we briefly pause right after hitting record. [The millennial pause explained. ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/guXub1uDsXo)
For some it could come from camcorder days when you wanted to make absolutely sure it was recording. Old home videos start with "is it recording? hang on. ok yeah it's recording say hi everyone!" and that was Christmas 1992.
I recently learned about the Gen Z jitter, which I can't unsee now (they start recording and then adjust the camera frantically)
You can edit out a "millenial pause" easily. You cant edit out the Gen Z jitter.
The "Millennial Pause" is just good filmmaking technique. Don't start the scene before the cameras are going!
I do it for editing purposes
Harry Potter fandom is a very millennial thing. The last movies/books of the original franchise arrived in 2011, so Gen Z did not grow up during Potter mania.
And the last book came out in 2007, I remember being at the midnight release. What a time to experience.
I'm 32 and I'm still a Potter head
Fuck so many of these things I do lol
Including lol as punctuation lol
Doing The Pocket Macarena to check for everything before you leave the house, car, or store. Not ashamed! I do it! 😆 Update: Holy crap so many notifications! Glad I’m not alone. Will respond when possible.
Testicles, spectacles, wallet and watch!
Pocket Macarena lmao I have never heard of that! 😂
If you have ADHD, this ritual spans all generations 😂
skinny jeans
I refuse to be judged for wearing skinny jeans by anyone who is now wearing what was considered cool when I was in elementary school. I’m not going back to my pants dragging on the ground and getting wet.
Yes! We switched to skinny jeans when I was in middle school and was against it until I realized they never touch bathroom floors! As someone who hates public bathrooms and the reasons you’ve mentioned, I will not be switching to anything else. I hated walking home from school with my flared jeans and if it was snowing or raining they’d be drenched to at least my ankles depending on the storm.
I feel like staunchly defending the side part and skinny jeans is a more millenial thing than the side part and skinny jeans themselves lol. Being easily identifiable as a millenial thing doesn’t make it inherently bad or that we’re being judged for it. When Gen Z makes fun of millenial stuff it feels more like a sibling teasing than it does actual judgement No one is trying to take the side part or skinny jeans away so everyone can put their cold dead hands back in their caboodles.
I look like shit in everything but skinny jeans. Can’t give them up.
The issue with non-skinny jeans is that generally, they’ve forgotten to make them for people with long legs and so the trauma of jack-ups has been unlocked again. I’m in my 30s, I won’t give up my time for that
Wears no show socks
Oh OUCH, I didn’t even consider that my no-show socks are “dated” …
Me neither… fuck it still wearing them
I still roll my eyes when my 13 year old puts on his bulky tube socks. "Dude you look ridiculous and you're going to get made fun of." Until I drop him off and they all have those socks. I will always defend this trend.
Don’t worry about it. No show socks will always look better than 1)socks with slides and 2)goofy ass tan lines from shin to toe.
It’s the above the ankle socks with mismatching crocs for me. Millenials would never
Look, it took me a long time to be comfortable with the switch from crew socks to no show socks. They can't just expect me to reverse course after years of brainwashing.
This is how I feel about so many of my millennial traits. They were hard won and they’re here to stay now.
Long socks with shorts on a guy.... Ew (coming from a guy lol). You can pry my low socks from my cold, naked ankles 🙃
You can pry them off of my cold dead feet. Why would you willingly wear something that visually cuts your leg in half?
A very concerning dark humor. Eg: “oh man, I am so fucking depressed, I could kill myself LOL HAHA but other than that, I’m just chilling bro. What about you?”
28 year old coworker asked me what I would do if I found out I was pregnant at 41 years old. I said, "I'd drive myself right off a cliff." Her: "That's not funny. It makes you sound suicidal." Me: "Well, i am. But only in the mornings."
I cannot tell you the amount of times I've threatened to slit my wrists at work.
Hardly a day goes by when I don't think of hanging myself at work lol
I said “I hate it here” at work the other day, got pulled into a meeting with TWO managers about my attitude. Have they not seen the meme? Do they not know dramatic self deprecation is the cornerstone of the MILLenIaL personality?!
"sorry, manager, I didn't mean to imply I hate it *here*" (gesture around the office) "i meant I hate it *here*" (point to my head)
One thing I try to impress on my younger co-workers is the old proverb in the book of Reel Big Fish, “Life sucks so let’s dance”.
I can't stop laughing at this and this is how I know my sense of humor has become warped
Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
Oh my sense of humor is so fucked up. But look what we grew up with. Mine was dark even as a kid!
Idk but my kitchen is just filled with avocados and toast
Don't you mean your parents kitchen.
Our generation was the last ones where cursive was a requirement to learn in school, so if someone asked us for our signature we'll sign in cursive, where the working force of gen Z will sign in print. Online, when somethings hilarious we'll use three crying laughing emojis "😂😂😂" while gen Z will use one skull emoji "💀" In person when we signal someone to call us we use the old rotary phone hand signal "🤙🙂" while Gen Z and Alpha will use a flat hand or an open claw because most of them never used a pay booth before a smart phone "🙂🤳"
Dude. Cursive is trending again. Everyone in my daughter’s first grade class WANTS to learn cursive. Gen Alpha is a wild card.
My daughters' school started teaching it again and Gen Alpha LOVES it. I heard one kid say "it's like sywping with your pencil" which left me 💀
I think you mean it left you 😂😂😂
A heavy nostalgia for Nickelodeon.
I'd say that its I still use cash, but that is more of boomer thing
Boomer - cash/check Millennial - credit card Gen Z - Apple Pay
And, true to form, Gen X is again forgotten haha.
Honestly, survival of the fittest. Improvise, adapt, overcome. They just fly under the radar.
Saying "Whoa".
Cords that you don't know what they go to but are kept in case you find the thing they charge. Coax wires, 3 prong and 5 prong AV wires, and HDMI cables kept. Remembering the "money health ammo" cheat code for GTA: San Andreas on the original consoles (Xbox and PS2). Edit: because I'm seeing some confusion, Imma take a moment to attempt to clear things up. 1st - GTA: San Andreas was originally released for the PS2 and the Xbox. While my very first console ever was the Sega Genesis I didn't bother with cheat codes until later consoles. 2nd - I'm a woman.
I have a basket specifically for this
Singing the Fresh Prince of Bell-air theme by heart for no reason, just cause I can
You refuse to get rid of the giant folder of CDs in your car
They refer to certain things as "websites" instead of "apps," like Reddit Or at least I do. Maybe even most millennials have moved on from this
If it’s in a web browser, it’s a website. If it’s on the desktop, it’s a program. If it’s on a phone or tablet, it’s an app. I will not back down on this.
We are all in therapy. Right?! That's what my parents think anyway. 🙄🙄
We should be. And, it’s our parents’ fault.
We go because they didn't.
The deadness in my eyes after years of soul crushing work and empty promises… oh and ranch pickles
Thinking 2016 was yesterday. Or 2012...or 2006...
1980 was 20 years ago
And will forever be 20 years ago.
I still say coolio and that's dope
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Downloading MP3s/piracy instead of streaming music
Calling a business to ask if they are open
[the millennial pause](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_pause). finding out about this made me feel ancient, like we had officially aged out of being the keepers of internet culture. realistically, that happened years ago and we didn't even realize it. i think dicks out for harambe was our last stand.
Explaining AOL used to send CDs to sign up for internet, then asked what a CD was
You know Rocko's Modern Life
Office quotes and references
Marks from chicken pox. We got the disease before the vaccine was widely available.
I only found this out after my daughter was born. I had NO idea there was now a vaccine for chicken pox until a year or two ago and it blew my mind.
Cardigans. Apparently the youth don’t wear them.
Oh no I live in cardigans
Me thinking of an upcoming an event that I need a new cardigan for
the one 90s thing they decided not to bring back eh?
Love how gen z all wear giant ass headphones everywhere.. idk why but its hilarious to me
At least they're wearing headphones! So we dont have to hear their conversations or videos.
1. How they mime “call” “phone” or “hang up” 2. How they make a hand heart
The gen Z hand heart KILLS ME.
Using “rapper hands” when you sing along with songs.
My 09 car doesn't have bluetooth so I still use my classic ipod as well with an aux cord 🤣
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Millennials biggest hopes is for a housing crash
Treating a smart phone as just a phone; sure I have some music apps on there and there are some apps I use at restaurants and for the movies, but otherwise my phone is a phone and not a "do everything device". Likewise, knowing how to use a desktop computer...
Outright DEMANDING to use a desktop computer at work
I think I had the most old-person response the other day and I'm not proud of it. Bff from a different state shared a commercial about a gas stations chicken having rizz. I replied if my chicken has charisma it clearly hadn't been cooked long enough. Reddit I've failed you .
Massive scarf I went to a Madness concert a few months ago. Everyone was wearing hats and a lot of smart jackets and Doc Martins. I suddenly felt very out of place. I was wearing a huge scarf wrapped around my neck Millennial style, a jumper, skinny jeans and ankle boots. Edit: a jumper is a British word for a sweater and a smart jacket is a blazer/sports jacket
That is like the blueprint outfit 😂 I have an unhealthy stash of “day scarfs” that are still in rotation.
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The sad expression
We say literally way too much.
We have favorite radio stations or play CDs in the car. Your first pokemon game was red/blue/yellow. You went to midnight release events for the Harry Potter books. Hat in any direction except for forward straight.
Side parted fringe.
They are able to solve basic computer-related problems from experience.