I need a rant about millennials

Why do you need to rant about an entire genre based on one internet nutter?

But this is Gen X? Or xennials at least? I remember all those things and have a very strong sense of the before and after. Millennials won't really remember life as adults before social media, they were born earliest 1981, and by 2000 social media was a thing.

But the mourning of not being able to achieve despite the hard work, that feels sad. Some Gen X snuck in and managed to get the last wave of decent property with low rates and that made a big difference.

I’m not sure either of these things are real things. They’re just exchanging points of views with a stranger on the internet. Maybe not that deep…

Nothing to do with millennials and more to do with one random opinion.

Gen X had parents and careers advisers who remembered the labour shortages of the 60s, when you could walk out of a job in the morning and walk into a new one the same afternoon. But we were trying to get first jobs in the post 87-crash/90s recession/as the dot com bubble burst. As children we were told robots would take over all manual labour and to expect a 6 to 12-hour work week. Instead we spent the first decade or so of our careers before the existence of the working time directive (the working week for junior doctors regularly exceeded 90 hours, which wasn't safe for anyone) and grappling with constantly changing technology that needed a brand new programing language every time you'd finished learning the last one. I've had to re-buy my music collection 4 times because of technology changes. I first used an Internet chat room in 6th form, and remember the peace of life before pagers and mobiles, as well as life before social media, but have spent most of adulthood living with them. The students before us had full grants and could claim benefits during the holidays. By the time I got to university the grant was exactly the same amount as my accommodation costs (not including food, books, travel or anything else), student loans didn't exist, and students couldn't claim benefits. I lived through the 70s recession; Black Friday means the '89 crash not the Amazon sale - not to be confused with Black Monday which was the '87 crash; then there was the 90s recession and Poll tax riots, the dot com bubble, Y2K and the 2008 crash. By 24 I'd been made redundant twice with no notice because the entire company went bankrupt, and have spent most of my working life under constant threat of 'restructuring' consultations. The hope of the Iron Curtain falling was followed by the Balkan wars and fear of Europe falling apart, then the resurgence of Russian authoritarianism and expansions. Everyone lived through Covid and the world changed for eveyone after 9/11; but we also had the Cold War, the Troubles, acid rain, mad cow disease, the hole in the ozone layer and the rise of the superbug.

My parents grew up with the shining promise of the Atomic Age and the post-war social contract, and instead got the rolling blackouts of the 3-day week, the endowment mortgage mis-selling scandal, and waiting for days on trolleys in hospital corridors because there's no bed available.

My grandparents saw the glitter of the Roaring 20s as they were on the brink of adulthood, then came of age to the Jarrow March, the Wall St crash of '29, and were then sent off to war.

Childhood is always better and simpler, whatever point you're looking back from.

They do a lot as their own though
Many videos Ive seen millennials posting, people have commented about it being Gen X, then they’ll say ‘Oh yeah, Gen X too’ no not Gen X too, it was only in that generation 😂

The millennials you know might do that. Do you grasp that they aren't the only millennials? That their age doesn't make them all the same as each other? That other people their age find what you're saying they do incredibly weird? Almost as weird as your obsession with generational traits which aren't actually a thing. Step away from the internet.

I'm gen z and not clear what this is about.
When did the world stop OP? You said in your first post?

I don’t even understand what you are on about. Gosh the millennial bashing is just something else….

Do you think by "millennial trend" they mean stuff lots of millennials do? Rather than stuff millennials created?

Do you think, as well, that you just happen to be one of, and spend time with, those people who are buying into / falling for this intergenerational warfare crap? It's made up internet shite. I don't know anyone who describes themselves as "millennial/ gen x/ whatever". No one in real life thinks like this, surely?

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd be tempted to point out whoever made up this internet trend of tribal labelling for ages groups has done a great job making sure we're not talking about the social divides that actually exist and actually matter. Trillionaires and famines, anyone?

Yes Top shop! Def Gen X/Xennial-think Kate moss!

I well remember Thatchers two recessions. And even the preceding one caused by the Yom Kippur war. Boomers lived through all those recessions, including 2008. But they / we could always find a job ,even a crap one and a cheap place to rent so there was that. But after the last Thatcher / Major recession there was a long boom circa 94 to 2008. This gave Gen X a chance to get their feet under the table at least . While a degree still meant something. Now with AI the future could be very messy.

Older millennials born in the early to mid 80s have it better than younger millennials as adults and there’s such a big difference between both ends they could be two different generations.

Millennials born in the early 80s reached adulthood when houses were still just about affordable. Those born in the early to mid 90s did not.

Older millennials experienced childhood and teenage years without the internet (a good thing imo). Younger milennials can only just remember life without it.

I don’t think the millennial group as a whole have had the ‘shittiest adulthood’ though. I think it’s worse for Gen Z - look at the number of NEETS and how hard it is to get a job. Rising student loans, insane house prices, covid disrupting their exams or start of their career etc etc.

Why shittest adulthood though?

I was a young child in the 80’s-E.T, Back to the future, freedom, outside all the time. Teen all through the 90’s-Rave, Nirvana, Brit pop, clubs, no social media…Freedom. 20’s in the 2000’s, social media, phones but not an overload, still some good music, free uni, able to get a mortgage

Personally feel it was the best of everything and feel very grateful, life pales in comparison and feel sad for Dd’s future (Alpha)

Exactly, as a millennial, I never even thought about it until it started being pushed by the media and we became known as ‘generation rent.’ There’s no doubt it’s been tough for lots of Millennials but I live in a million pound house with no family help. I know lots of millennials who are doing extremely well for themselves.

My parents were boomers but didn’t have a pot to piss in. I have friends of every generation but definitely have more in common with people born prior to 1990. I am not a fan of tech and the pushing of social media and self promotion. I could sit in a pub with people 30-40 years older than me and have more in common than someone in their 20s. There’s always exceptions of course.

Yes, I could see that happening I have a young one who was very young in COVID and I could see the Alpha generation bringing that up in the future!