Everyone’s going to be using millennials as a punching bag forever aren’t they? People are never going to leave us alone and let us rot in peace, are they? What the fuck did we do aside from be depressed and poor?
I know my grown ass shouldn’t care about this kind of thing, but I just hate being lumped into this caricature that was wrong even when boomers invented it like 20 years ago.
The “gen alpha bad” stuff is cringe too. Let the kids 67 in peace.
Adam Conover stretched one decent point over a 20 minute video, which is that people have always talked about time but switched from “it’s the 90s! Boy the 80s sure were dorky” which frames time as a collective experience, to more in-group out-group generational labels for the simple reason that “it’s the aughts” or “it’s the 2010s” is awkward to say.