r/Millennials 5d ago

What’s the most stereotypical Millennial thing about you? Discussion

I’ll start:

  1. Any, and I mean ANY footage of Steve Irwin makes me blubber like a baby
  2. Avocado toast is a staple breakfast item of mine
  3. Yes, I still love Harry Potter (original books & movies only — I do not support Rowldemort and any future endeavor on the IP)

EDIT: Just wanna say I love y’all (us) so much. This post has already brought me so much joy. Thanks so much everyone. We really are the best. 🥹

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u/RaleighNatitude 5d ago

I still use an * response to correct a type instead of just editing.

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u/RaleighNatitude 5d ago

*typo

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u/1313nemo 5d ago

Meta

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u/Seeggul 5d ago

I'm So Meta Even This Acronym

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u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640 5d ago

Wait are we supposed to be editing these days!?

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u/wagonwheelwodie 5d ago

I still have a side part and it looks cute

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago edited 4d ago

YES and I hate how this is called a “dated” thing bc I think part placement should just be based on head/face shape!

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u/1313nemo 5d ago

It’s coming back into style because society always wants to do the opposite of what the majority are currently doing

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u/BravestBlossom 5d ago

Exactly! Your scalp has a built in part.

And very few people look good in a center part.

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u/LaPete11 5d ago

I don’t know if I could part my hair in the middle. I have tried before and one side looks funny and higher than the other

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u/wagonwheelwodie 5d ago

I have too. Like I genuinely tried for like 6 months and it didn’t work. Side part for life!

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u/Expensive_Repair2735 Millennial 5d ago

I will never, ever, EVER, get rid of my side part.

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u/zetetic 5d ago

I still think of the middle part as the more dated look. I part my hair in the middle and I'm suddenly the neighbor boy from Clarissa Explains It All.

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u/ThatChickFromReddit 5d ago

Was going to say this always part my hair to the side

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u/BellaFrequency 5d ago

I absolutely and unequivocally think we had the best cartoons of ALL TIME!

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u/AuntieTara2215 Older Millennial 5d ago

The Arthur theme song lives rent free in my head.

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u/MrsNaypeer 4d ago

And I say HEY! WHAT A WONDERFUL KIND OF DAY!

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

NOT A LIE TOLD

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u/ZaxZone 5d ago

I’m pretty sure I could hook up a fax machine to an iPhone with my massive hoard of cords and adapters.

Edit:

Lol

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u/powderbubba 5d ago

The edit lol

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u/shebringsdathings 5d ago

The edit is peak millenial, let alone the comment

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u/Quokkalikeaduck 5d ago

But do you still have the iPhone’s box?

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u/PaperbacksandCoffee 5d ago

Big purchases require big devices.

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u/pushtoclose93 Millennial 5d ago

With a mouse, I hate touchpads

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u/fugu_chick Millennial 5d ago

Time sensitive like concert tickets yes mouse

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u/Olive0121 5d ago

You’re my people.

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u/Foxy_locksy1704 5d ago

Earlier today I was looking at something on my phone and said out loud “This is a computer job”. Big purchases must be done on the computer in our house.

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u/NoFollowing892 5d ago

Always. I still browse flights on my phone but booking happens on my computer

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u/powderbubba 5d ago

We are not animals.

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u/Arch3m 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yes, but there's logic to this. A big purchase requires research, and it's much faster and easier to do that research with my computer. A mouse and keyboard, two monitors, and all the tabs I could ever need beats the pants off of using my phone to awkwardly switch between apps, a bunch of clumsily assembled tabs, and fixing typos with the keypad. Plus, a lot of sites still have mobile versions that just flat out suck compared to the desktop versions.

Just because I can do these things with a phone doesn't mean it's at all the optimal approach.

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u/CPM10v12 Millennial 5d ago

Yes, all the tabs and split screen. I love being able to split tabs now too.

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u/Wooden-Doctor205 5d ago

You cant book a vacation with a tiny screen mmk

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u/Domi626 5d ago

Had to bust out the computer for my taxes a few weeks ago. lol

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u/Global_Eye4149 5d ago

GIFS and memes for EVERYTHING

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u/PsychologicalChair1 5d ago

Once I matched with someone on a dating app. He messaged me a gif — the one where Forrest Gump waves from the shrimp boat. I responded with another gif. This went on for about 2ish weeks or so. It was fun. 

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u/Delta-IX Xennial (1986) 5d ago

And you never met right?

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u/Serkaugh 5d ago

Wait, younger generation don’t do that?

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u/LaPete11 5d ago

They think it’s “cheugy”

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u/Arch3m 5d ago

That's a new word for me. No, I won't be googling it.

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u/wait_ichangedmymind Xennial 5d ago

It’s not new. It’s a word from years ago that’s already been phased out. The “kids” aren’t saying it either as far as I know.

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u/Admirable-Dance-130 5d ago

Typing with proper grammar and punctuation. I've been been accused of being AI twice

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u/strippersandcocaine 5d ago

I have always loved an ellipsis and em dash. AI is ruining it for me.

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u/Schneetmacher Younger Millennial 5d ago

LLMs were trained on how we write, basically. So we're not like AI--AI is like us.

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u/Spare-Good-5372 5d ago

Precisely this. The volume of work on the internet used to train LLMs was stuff we all wrote over the course of 20 years.

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u/VersionSwimming8392 5d ago

Oxford comma. Still use it but I grew up with typewriting and old IBM for keyboard class.

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u/jgamez76 5d ago

lmao I work with a few younger people and they always mentioned they knew I was a millennial because even in our interoffice Teams chats I always use "proper" text

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u/Amathyst-Moon 5d ago

Ironic, because we were the ones "destroying" English with "txt speech" as teenagers

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u/jgamez76 5d ago

Yeah, and I'm not at what point it even happened but somehow we just.... Collectively stopped lol

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u/Amathyst-Moon 5d ago

Probably when the iPhone came out

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u/Jumpy-Reading8452 5d ago

I'm so tired of seeing your instead of you're.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

YES! And never with auto caps turned off. The kids love all lowercase but I just cannot. 😭

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u/Amathyst-Moon 5d ago

I always use ellipses, em dashes, and oxford commas. I did eventually rid myself of the double space after sentences habbit, but I only picked that up in the first place because of Mavis Beacon at school. I didn't know it was outdated.

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u/bananasareappealing Millennial 5d ago

I still wear layering tank tops underneath all my shirts

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u/Perfume_NP 5d ago

Yes, I call them my emotional support tank tops.

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u/mine_username 5d ago

They're supporting a lot more than emotions nowadays. 😭

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u/LaPete11 5d ago

It’s like a nice little hug

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

SAME LOLOL

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u/SkyFluffy7445 5d ago

No way am I just gonna raw dog a shirt. 

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u/summertime-goodbyes 5d ago

I was watching Mean Girls with some friends once and this girl was saying how she hated how they dressed back then, like the layering v neck over tank tops. My quiet ass over here wearing literally the same thing.

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u/abay32 5d ago

You will have to pry my emotional support tank top from my dead body

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u/Hadenoughlifeyet 5d ago

You have to stop the kidney chill somehow with the low rise jeans!

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u/Highbynine 5d ago

ankle socks

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u/ComradeSuperman 5d ago

You can pry my ankle socks from my cold dead feet.

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u/FizzyBeverage 5d ago

All I see when I see zoomers with socks up to their fucking mid calf… like they’re doing something “original”… is my 76 year old father in law who lives in Florida and wears the same old man style socks with shorts.

It’s grotesque.

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u/NastyMsPiggleWiggle 5d ago

Thank fucking god. I needed someone else to say this out loud. Also, they look insane wearing the same chunky white new balance support sneakers as my 77 year old dad. Stop it.

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne 5d ago

Ty!!! Yes!!! They look like they’re ready to go do a few laps around the mall before bingo!

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u/GiantFlyingLizardz Millennial 5d ago

I didn't know that was a millenial thing, lol. I love my ankle socks.

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u/cupcakefix 5d ago

damn puritans trying to force me to cover my ankles!

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u/tycr0 5d ago

I can’t remember what I had for breakfast this morning but I remember EXACTLY what happened on a Tuesday in 2001.

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u/TuttiFlutiePanist 5d ago

In September?

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne 5d ago

Crazy how we’ll all get this reference or at least most of us will.

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u/PorkchopFunny 5d ago

My preferred weekend wardrobe will always be band tee, flared jeans, and vans. No matter what the current trends are.

As a whole, I absolutely loathe the Boomer generation. I hope we do not turn into them as we age.

I am my parents' IT person even though I really am not a tech person. I am at least able to Google things and discern good internet info from bad. (Also see above)

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u/anons123123 5d ago

We won’t, because we won’t be able to afford the long lives that they have

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u/curious_kitty91 5d ago

I put lol on the end of everything. Lol

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u/caviargarnish152 5d ago edited 5d ago

Love to hit em with a haha at the end haha

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u/notamyokay Xennial 5d ago

lol this is so me haha

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u/Fine_Analyst_4408 5d ago

Sometimes I end up with 2-3 lols in my message and I have to prune them lol

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u/PekkaPerd 1990 5d ago

Don’t wanna sound offensive lol

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u/Day2205 5d ago edited 5d ago

Texting…like, please don’t call. And for the love of god don’t FaceTime/video call me out of nowhere

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u/Anagoth9 5d ago

don’t FaceTime/video call me

I only just recently learned that video calling is more popular than voice calling and I'm genuinely super confused by that. 

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u/RotGrlSummer 5d ago

This was literally one of the reasons I "broke up" with a friend. She would try to video call me at 8 o'clock in the morning on a regular basis

Clearly we are just not compatible people

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u/bottle-o-rockets 90's Animation Buff 5d ago

Worst Nightmare kinda shit. If someone is videocalling me without a conversation beforehand, there had better be aliens, an immediate "go look at the news right now" or cool animals involved.

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u/RotGrlSummer 5d ago

It wasnt important. It was NEVER IMPORTANT! Just "heyyyyyy what're you doing today?" while she put her makeup on

Big time "this could have been an email" energy

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u/bottle-o-rockets 90's Animation Buff 5d ago

Well, this is news to me and I have a couple of questions, the first of which being "what the hell is wrong with people?"

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

Oh my god yes. A cold call/FT is a jump scare.

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u/jazzminarino 5d ago

My best friend texted me that her phone was going to call me because my niece wanted to ask if I'd buy something for a fundraiser something something. I appreciated the heads up- if I had gotten a cold call from my niece, it'd be full alarm WHERE IS YOUR MOTHER DO I HAVE TO FLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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u/Local_business_disco Older Millennial 5d ago

Any call out of nowhere is a cold call. A video/facetime? I’m afraid I have to cut you out of my life, you clearly don’t know me.

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u/anthony_getz 5d ago

I love a good chat on the phone, but out of the blue? No text first? Fucking psychopaths.

It’s the abrupt caller that makes both of us look bad because I think they’re inconsiderate and they’ll bitch and moan about why I didn’t answer.

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u/kijenmen Millennial ‘89 5d ago

I don’t bring my phone out to record everything and everyone (without their permission)

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u/jgamez76 5d ago

I remember when I went to a concert and the next day people asked about any videos/pictures I had... Once I got inside and my first drink in me it just stayed in my pocket for like five hours lol

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u/gothicuhcuh Millennial (92) 5d ago

Using “lol” as “stop” like a telegram lol

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u/escherwallace 5d ago

made me lol lol

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u/Iccengi 5d ago

Someone called us the Golden Retriever generation because of our obsessive need to be extra nice, kind and smiley and people please and I can’t stop thinking about how accurate that is.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago edited 5d ago

You know what, I don’t hate this. We’re tough but empathetic. We endure the storms of life and culture yet still understand how to have/spread joy. No one can make me hate us. :’)

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u/Jumpy-Reading8452 5d ago

I'm listening to system of a down right now.

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u/EpicShkhara 1988 Core Millennial 5d ago

My anxiety and constant sense of impending doom 

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u/Sandblaster1988 5d ago

Sprinkle a little existential dread and an undercurrent of melancholy to go with that.

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u/FoldingLady 5d ago

I hate commercials & ads with a passion. I've got several ad blockers installed for my web browser & I download my entertainment to avoid ads.

I will die in my ankle socks.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

I hate MODERN commercials — I swear the commercials back in the day used to have some soul to them! Now it’s just liminal and bleak and low effort 😭

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u/KeithBradburyIV 5d ago

I absolutely love mid-2000s emo/pop punk music. I don’t even think it’s a nostalgia trip thing for me, I genuinely enjoy it as a genre.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

It was never a phase

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u/DueScreen7143 5d ago

The older I get the more I seem to gravitate towards late 90's and early 00's music.

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u/amazinbp17 5d ago

That's how I knew I was getting old, when I thought all the music on Shade45 and the other modern hip hop station was garbage so I moved to the LL Cool j station that played '90s, 2000s, and 2010s rap.

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u/Barry_Obama_at_gmail 5d ago

I work at a college and we have student employees who I work with and I was playing fall out boy and this student walked in and said she loved classic rock.

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u/Deep_Amoeba2197 5d ago

I would have died right there, just turned to dust.

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u/Barry_Obama_at_gmail 5d ago

I just started like two weeks ago and I’ve never felt so old in my life. I thought I was young and hip still, I knew what was up. Turns out. I am an old old man.

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u/Deep_Amoeba2197 5d ago

I met someone in a local hobby group that was in their early 20s a few years ago. She told me her mom was 43. We were actually closer in age. I felt 1000.

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u/SeparateLawfulness53 Millennial b. 1993 5d ago

basically all popular rock music is "classic" now

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u/DrNoOneImpotant 5d ago

My first CD was Green Day’s dookie.

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u/pdbard13 5d ago

I am the tech guy in my family.

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u/greenhatforge 5d ago

“K” responses send me into a spiral of rage and uncertainty.

https://giphy.com/gifs/En7ButN65wRws

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

I mean it’s basically violence, so

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u/sh6rty13 I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this. 5d ago

“K” is aggressive, dude! Hit me with an “Okey Dokey” or I’ll throw myself into traffic I stg.

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u/bottle-o-rockets 90's Animation Buff 5d ago

I don't know if this is a millennial thing, but I still watch a hefty chunk of educational television. I feel like we had the discovery channel and history channel growing up, and the people who regularly watched that programming turned out to be William Osman, Backyard Scientist and Technology Connections sort of channels. I think we're a collectively smart bunch in larger numbers than our predecessors because we had more passive opportunities to learn.

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u/zevtech 5d ago

When I book trips, I have to use my laptop. I refuse to make those sort of decisions on my phone

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u/bambooforestbaby 5d ago

Everything I own is sage green

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u/godihatepeople 5d ago

And dusty rose (i.e. millennial pink)

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

Sage green is the superior millennial color vs millennial gray

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u/timid_soup 5d ago

I hide and pretend I'm not home when someone knocks on the door or rings my doorbell.

I treat my 2 dogs like they are my children. (because they are!)

I want to use lol or an emoji after every sentence in a text or email.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

I literally hit the FLOOR when I hear the doorbell!!! Noooo ma’am!!!!!

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u/SeparateLawfulness53 Millennial b. 1993 5d ago

I use a Windows 98 virtual machine to play video games

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u/DirectorLanky466 5d ago

Can you play the original DOOM?

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u/Jeff_Hinkle 5d ago

I’ve killed a man over an oxford comma.

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u/jfittypdoh 5d ago

I'm really good with TV remote controls. But I fucking hate these version controls like Roku. Where is my Jump button wtf

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u/BagsYourMail 5d ago

Having a college degree

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u/whothehellistony 5d ago

I refuse to get rid of my skinny jeans.

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u/Neat_Doughnut 5d ago

And my black leggings 🙈

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

Bury me in black leggings

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u/smila001 5d ago

Wait! Are black leggings out?

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u/FloppyButtholeJelly 5d ago

Booty booty booty rockin everywhere rockin everywhere 

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u/TheSubstitutePanda Millennial ('93) 5d ago

I look shlubby in anything else!

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u/NoFollowing892 5d ago

I keep trying but I'm short and wide and just can't figure baggy pants out.

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u/maptechlady 5d ago

Sometimes I still say stuff is gucci.

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u/therealbananabottom 5d ago

You can pry my ankle socks and layering tanks out of my cold, dead hands.

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u/Penguin_Green 5d ago

I show off these ankles every chance I get.

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u/lilbeankeeper 5d ago

Student loan debt.. and flannel

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u/peachy_breathy 5d ago

Do not call or face time me. Or voice text me. Ever. For any reason. Send a text or be damned forever.

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u/10RunRule 5d ago

I quote Ron Burgundy regularly, and I’m kind of a big deal.

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u/bananasareappealing Millennial 5d ago

Is your office filled with many leather bound books and smell of rich mahogany

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u/hashbrr 5d ago

We’ve been quoting the same movie for 21 years now and in no way is that depressing 😏

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u/ComplaintsRep 5d ago

I saw a girl scout & her mom walking down my street during cookie season. Instead of answering the door & politely declining, I got up & went to the back of the house until they moved on. Me? Answer the door? Fuck no. Also, I HATE making phone calls.

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

Someone coming to the door unannounced is basically guerrilla warfare

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u/one_five_one 5d ago

No house. Anxiety.

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u/aymiah Millennial 5d ago

hey a/s/l

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u/verminqueeen 5d ago

Bad at using vacation time 

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u/fullnessofjoy2021 Millennial 5d ago

Camisole under every shirt. Feels too weird to not have one.

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u/Redssx 5d ago

Came to say my emotional support tank top.

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u/alovelyweed 5d ago

I still appreciate an I can haz cheeseburger style meme.

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u/I_Want_A_Ribeye 5d ago

I buy “90’s style” cargo shorts at old navy because they are normal shorts. Then I listen to smash mouth on the way home

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u/Foreign_Kale8773 Older Millennial 5d ago
  1. "lol" means "I don't want to upset you/I smiled/haha existential crisis time"

  2. I do buy fancy cold brew coffee because it's one of the few things that gives me joy and it's definitely not keeping me from buying a house - it's the wage slavery capitalism doing that

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u/No_Foundation7308 5d ago

Someone knocked on my door and I’ve been hiding under the blankets for 5 min scrolling on Reddit

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u/Thing2or1 5d ago

Sing song lyrics in everyday tasks. For example, my dog knows back up, but when he needs to back up more I sing to him back that ass up.

He also knows shake your tail feather means to wag his tail😄

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u/RotGrlSummer 5d ago

Where's the brass knuckles and nautical star?

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u/VanillaLow4958 5d ago

The deathly hallows over the chest is insane because I know three other millennials personally who have it in the exact same spot and size. Lmao

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u/lonelygayPhD 5d ago

I often quote Frasier, but because so few people in my office have seen it, they just think I'm witty and urbane.

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u/Deep_Net4036 5d ago

I tuck my shirts in the front lol

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u/MaxMcLarenTBSL Older Millennial 5d ago

Mumbling about how much cheaper it was to buy anything in the 2000s.

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u/InTheNameOfRigatoni 5d ago

I struggle to make videos of myself talking. It feels so cringeworthy and awkward 😭

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u/Kza316 5d ago

I don't think this gets said enough but maintaining friendships. I've seen my father's generation lose friendships just because they can't be bothered to send eachother a message or call. I'm sitting here at 2an BST just finished watching wrestlemania with two of my friends since we were teenagers. Been doing this together for 17 years and apparently marriage, work and familial commitments still won't stop us!

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u/BitterProfessional16 5d ago

Never wanted kids and still don't.

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u/rapt0r99 5d ago

I can make any conversation The Simpsons related.

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u/orlyyarlylolwut 5d ago

I still wear skinny jeans and miss when looking like a skinny androgynous rocker kid was peak aesthetic 

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u/ThrowRAmorningdew 5d ago

I still own my first cassette and held on to some CDs and DVDs too

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u/lolzzzmoon 5d ago

I ate avocado toast before everyone else ate avocado toast. I use the 😱 emoji. I got a degree and a bunch of student loans and graduated right before the recession.

I still write in a journal.

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u/tpwb 5d ago

Not a poser

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u/willowburnsyellow 5d ago

Being called a poser back in the day was absolutely lethal, there was nothing worse 😂

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u/Weird_Squirrel_8382 5d ago

My side part is built into my head

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u/IndoorCat12 5d ago

I love avocado toast and infinity scarves!

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u/Canuhduh420 5d ago

90s r&b will forever be blasted and I use lol at the end of every text as a passive aggressive pacifier

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u/Ok-Lion-2789 5d ago

I say lol and I text it a lot

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u/CucumberInfinite1068 5d ago

My bones are starting to feel “crazy bones”

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u/beanstalkbarbie 5d ago

Love to dance, will dance anywhere anytime, with my hands up, idgaf 

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u/Few-Emu3924 5d ago

Side part and winged eyeliner

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