I need a rant about millennials

I don’t really agree with what she said, but I’m assuming she is a younger millennial? Possibly born post 1990. 9/11 is probably the first big big news story that younger millennials will remember. I remember how shaken everyone at school was the next day. It also happened in the early days of rolling news coverage and the internet, so it was broadcast and covered in a way earlier events hadn’t been.

I don't know about that, I am a very old Millenial and have older siblings, I definitely remember in the early 90s a Gen x voice that felt they were hard done by in that the expectations of their Boomer parents were stuffy and boring. They were the generation that didn't want to be confined by those expectations of this linear experience of live e g. Get a good job, mortgage and settle down. Wasn't Grunge music reflective of that and there was even a book called Gen X moaning on about not being understood and the quite famous film- Reality Bites with Winoner Ryder and Ethan Hawke, it was supposed to capture the struggles of that generation.

It sounds like you have a particular bee in your bonnet about millennials, because they're the generation that came directly after you.

I saw someone talking about this the other day and it fascinated me.

Older millenials arguably had the best childhoods. And so far have had the shittest adulthoods.

Its an interesting juxtaposition.

They say she’s the voice of the millennials because she’s a bloody millenial 😂 She’s 35!

I meant the youngest ones.

I have young adults too and they don’t talk about it either.

They have already become adults, I have one but they don't talk about it.

Yes, Gen Alpha certainly already moan about millenials IME as lots of them teach that generation and Gen Alpha will attribute certain behaviour to millenials, especially with the way they use social media.

Because that’s how the media treated us when we were growing up. You can’t blame people for absorbing a message that was aggressively pushed on them through 9/11 and the 08 recession news.

Plus Gen Z doesn’t want the world to heal they want to watch it burn 😂

Just wait until the covid generation grows up and start blaming covid for everything.

Because the actions of the U.S. that followed had consequences for the whole world. The subsequent military campaign in Afghanistan, 7/7 terrorist attack. 9/11 claimed more British lives than any other terrorist attack. Arguably, it influenced Brexit due to the reactionary approach to security and sovereignty

Yes - it was one of those days when everyone remembers where they were, like Kennedy's assassination for a previous generation

They already are. Gen Z too.

Yeah I'm with you. It was a huge epoch in the modern era and that was apparent to me even as a teen in a different country.

I personally didn’t feel 9/11 was such a culturally defining moment unless you lived in the US.
Events closer to home were much more significant imo.

Millennial here (apparently, I did have to check with Google). I have no idea what the OP is on about. Most people IRL have better things to do than trying to pit the 'generations' against one another and don't know which one they are anyway.

Millennial here and I’ve got to say I’ve not noticed this. Yes, we’ve been shafted hard by certain huge events but, as you point out, every generation has had huge challenges. I feel sorry for gen Z and my kids who are gen Alpha. God knows what they will see in their lifetime.

I don’t remember the prominent classification of generations until about maybe a decade ago and it feels like another divisive construct in keeping with identity politics.

Just sounds like you're blaming millennials for internet culture existing.

her being the 'voice of Millennials', when it's a universal coming of age / love story

It's both. If you want to talk about your generation talk about them. Don't expect others to be silent though because you feel weirdly disenfranchised and resentful when you hear millennials talk about stuff. I kind of get it because I am so annoyed when I hear that Gen Z are the first to grow up worrying about climate change when I remember hearing about the "greenhouse effect" on Newsround as quite a young kid, have grown up with the climate crisis as a central part of my awareness of the world, as well as being gaslit and ridiculed for caring about if for years before it mainstreamed. But that's my immaturity to deal with, isn't it, because it doesn't really matter who thought of/ experienced things first, and getting uptight about it is just a sign of insecurity.

They're just trying to find a connection with people. And doing that by honing in on what they see as a shared experience of people of a (pretty wide but) similar age.
In fact as you've pointed out, others of an even wider age share similar experiences and feelings.

I voted that you were U because you're simultaneously telling one group of people that they shouldn't behave as though they can claim or act in a certain way because of their age, while simultaneously telling them that they are behaving and acting in a certain way because of their age.

This is what happens when a few individuals make Internet pronouncements on behalf of a whole generation, you can't speak for yourself anymore than a few vocal millenials can speak for theirs. It's a waste of time then lumping a whole generation into the riposte.

Millennial here, I have absolutely no idea what that person meant nor have I ever heard anyone of my generation say anything remotely similar