I need a rant about millennials

The only people who would legitimately be saying they're particularly impacted by 9/11 would be Americans and Afghans...theres a whole other world out there with their own challenges and hapennings and I'm pretty sure 9/11 don't appear high in their list, tragic as it was.
Also this labelling of anyone round the globe from the same year range sounds a bit like astrology. Sure geopolitics of the times impact everyone and there are broad issues like climate change etc but saying every whatever x gen is a snowflake, like any other broad brush labelling, is silly at best discriminatory at worst.

American Millennial (and local to Boston) - I haven't heard anyone say this nor do I think it myself.

No idea. I'm American and I've never heard this. FWIW, the largest generational group to die in 9/11 were Boomers.

Millennial here - I've never heard anyone use 9/11 as a reason or excuse. Is this more of a thing in the U.S. or something?

I hate all this generation stuff

its bullshit made up by companies for marketing

Can't say I've noticed this but then, I am not the sort of person who lumps people into labelled groups. This country suffers from too much (largely made up) division - please can I ask that you contain your hobby to the 'Let's bleat about how awful (insert preferred generation here) are' to reddit. Alternatively, you could try generally broadening your horizons.
People are not lumpen masses.

Thank you. My gen z DD is nearly 29 remembers dial up internet and is laden herself with student debt to gain a nursing degree which the final year in my opinion she should be given a refund for as she stepped up as a nightingale nurse.
But who would pay for that refund her great grandchildren if the future exists?

Nobody is claiming the AIDS crisis was exclusively experienced by Gen X. Unlike certain Millennials claiming to have been the only generation to live through the development of the Internet.

Im gen x. What are you talking about? This just didnt make sense?

It's a good job this person did not live through the the decades when there was a genuine threat of a Nuclear War.

She wouldn't have lasted five minutes.

Do these people ever have any type of enjoyment or happiness?. As they say Misery loves Company. Lets get upset on somebody else's behalf.

Maybe it sounded weird to you, but I suppose every generation has it's challenges and instead of this war of words between us maybe we should start listening to each other. As a generation Xer I remember the cold war and anxiety about the world ending in a nuclear explosion. The older generation who had already been through WW2 would probably have thought we were neurotic.

Surely most millennials were teenagers for 9/11 and won’t have been massively impacted, in the uk at least.

Gen X has the AIDS crisis

Huh? I'm a Boomer - still paying rent by the way - and remember the Aids crisis well. Still around as well.

All this trying to fit people into pigeon holes by giving it labels does us no good.

There is a theme on social about “Millenials living through another disaster” but your friend sounds like a self absorbed pillock.

I had to vote YANBU just because what your friend said sounds so annoying!

I don’t have any experience of millennials in generals acting in this way personally but it would have irritated me.

Millennial aren't those born in 2000, but those coming of age around the turn of the millennium (with a fairly generous margin for 'around').

Honestly the only thing I’m pissed about is the fact that it feels impossible getting on the property ladder/stagnating wages vs house prices etc. I’m sure every generation had a difficulty though.

Other than that, I’m grateful we weren’t around during the world wars, and I’m grateful I’m not growing up in this new world.

What the hell is generation X & Z??
obv millennials is year 2000… but 2000 til when?
How did 9/11 affect them more than older generations? I mean they were too young to even remember it happening!! The only millennials 9/11 affected are surely the ones loosing a parent in the attack? Older gens actually lived through the horror!

Most of those are shared experiences across many generations though, not exclusive.

And singing wartime songs is singing - not lived experience. Performing Handel's Messiah doesn't mean I lived through the War of Jenkin's Ear.

I am a millennial and I can say that every single one of us doesn't think like that because I don't.

What a load of twaddle! One event in America defines a world? No, I dont think so!
You're batshit to think you have/had it worse. It's not a bloody competition. There are awful events in everyone's life. Generational defining changes etc. And blaming others you have it harder - well, my mind boggles! Get over yourself. Respectfully, you are very self indulgent.

As a millenial, I did not, in fact, hear you out. You are welcome to try again tomorrow.

Im a millennial and I think we're awesome.

I think you give Gen X a bad name - Gen Xers also tend to be a cool bunch.

You sound more like a boomer describing a Gen Z tbh. Maybe you need to have some Avocado on toast and chill the fuck out dude

It's late. I had no sleep last night & im tired, so possibly shouldn't reply to you...
but... I'm 57, born in 69 & could have written your post?!?! I FEEL my millenial family members have less of a contrast than I do.

I’m an old millennial and don’t think like this, nor have I ever used the expression. I think you’ve just encountered a lone American idiot who spends too much time online.