AIBU to wonder where all the mumsnetters like me are? V left wing, Extremely Online millennials only need apply

[whoamongstus]

Where are all the mumsnetters who:

• are mid-millennial
• Extremely Online
• left wing
• probs on Twitter
• do not think gaming is the scourge of society and causes you to turn into a zombie
• does not know anyone who unironically plays golf

Bonus points for ex-emo kids.

Do you exist?

Interesting! If I was also going to make a huge sweeping generalisation, I think people who were 'like me' as teens who have children have changed more than those who haven't (with exceptions, of course). So I think that makes sense - 90% of my real life friends are intentionally child free or not really thinking about having children yet, so I'll be interested to see what we'll all be like in 10 years as (presumably) more of them do have children.

Completely disagree. My friends who do have kids are still emo-listening, blue-haired, tattooed gamers. Their kids are jow gamers too.
I never 'got' emo, so I guess as we have grown up, I find it all tedious. Not my friends as people btw.

@whoamongstus, we're adults now (with ability to totally hide what we actually listen to on Spotify with incognito mode). No gun required!

Millennials (especially 1980s/early 90s) were the luckiest group, they could enjoy going online (even with 56k modems) but not have this digital fingerprint that the new generation have now. We were allowed to be weird on forums and msn chatrooms with little trace! (she says, realising she has a MN name with no link to actual details).

Though these days (GenZ) you can’t have thick eyeliner without being “gay”. Had someone tell me that “you can’t be straight with that eyeliner”

[quote Tofu35]@whoamongstus, we're adults now (with ability to totally hide what we actually listen to on Spotify with incognito mode). No gun required!

Millennials (especially 1980s/early 90s) were the luckiest group, they could enjoy going online (even with 56k modems) but not have this digital fingerprint that the new generation have now. We were allowed to be weird on forums and msn chatrooms with little trace! (she says, realising she has a MN name with no link to actual details).[/quote]
That's very true actually. I definitely didn't even consider the pressure that high schoolers would now about how erverything I ever put on the internet could come back to haunt me - just didn't occur to me, at all. The internet felt (but probably wasn't) safer - I met up with people off band forums at gigs, I made friends I still talk to today from all over the world and it rarely occured to me to be worried that they weren't legit. Now if I had a 15 year old daughter who told me she was off on a train to meet some people from a different city at a gig I'd have conniptions!

Hmmm. Not sure that's true. I know what extreme means. I know what online means. And I am online far more than I probably should be. But that's not really what the link OP posted said it means

Didn't see the link or missed it but i took it to mean always online gaming, social media, etc as I wrote above. If that's not what it means, fair enough. Then I don't know either.

Hullo I get the bonus points too

@Borgonzola

Hullo I get the bonus points too

Welcome... I've been down a music rabbit hole this evening so please share your favourite teenage emo song so I can reminisce!

Sounds like a dumb and crackpot existence.

@RUTheShitploppeeOrShitplopper

Hmmm. Not sure that's true. I know what extreme means. I know what online means. And I am online far more than I probably should be. But that's not really what the link OP posted said it means

Didn't see the link or missed it but i took it to mean always online gaming, social media, etc as I wrote above. If that's not what it means, fair enough. Then I don't know either.

That's pretty much what I meant! I have friends who do use social media etc, but wouldn't have a clue what ...I dunno, Twitch was. Or remember the day that 30 to 50 feral hogs was a thing on Twitter. Or, I dunno, haven't played a game since they were a kid?

My version of being very online is that my sense of humour has been ruined by weird memes so now I laugh at, idk, a photo of a raccoon with a communist caption or something. Because I spend too much time on the internet. It's not necessarily a good thing (unless I can one day go on Mastermind with 'obscure shit that happened on Reddit between 2010-2020' as my specialist subject)!

@1forAll74

Sounds like a dumb and crackpot existence.

Cool! Thanks for this valuable input! Have a nice day!

I'm radically left wing and spend half my life in my little socialist Twitter bubble. Also child-free with cats

But gen Z rather than millennial

OP

I’m much older than you

And I have no idea what you’re on about

But you might enjoy one of my fave songs

Oh also ex emo teenager

PS I’m also childfree and trying to be Extremely Offline but MN seems to hook me!

@MrsMiaWallis

That is one of the most cringeworthy OPs I think I've ever read.

Definitely

Oh well if that's what you meant by extreme online then yes thats me. Although my online is mainly MN

As for when I was younger I didn't fit a 'box'. I was a pink loving , ballet studying, geeky, Disney and musicals lover. I also wore DMs which were decorated with tip ex, skater jeans, and mini skirts depending on my mood. I wasn't "girly" (aka dress and makeup wearing) enough for the popular kids. But wasn't skater enough for the skater crowd. Liked colour so didn't fit in with the goth/emo crowd.
I also spent too much time flirting with older men in online chat rooms

You called ?

Although twitter is absolutely beyond me as a platform (I use Instagram to laugh at animal memes)

I also don't admit to mumsnet usage. My friends that know (caught me on here) take the ever living piss out of me for it but that's probably because- im not a parent , im under 25 and I look at the dumbest threads

Honestly, do people pigeonhole themselves like this? I tick a lot of these 'boxes', but do you really carry your teenage tastes into adulthood and use them to categorise yourself and others?

@IndecentFeminist

Honestly, do people pigeonhole themselves like this? I tick a lot of these 'boxes', but do you really carry your teenage tastes into adulthood and use them to categorise yourself and others?

Depends. If the stuff you liked as a teen hasn't changed that much, I cant see why it wouldnt be part of your identity. Popular culture is pretty much what shapes generations.

To be fair, Indecent the only thing on my OP that described my teenage self was my music taste.

[quote AcornAutumn]OP

I’m much older than you

And I have no idea what you’re on about

But you might enjoy one of my fave songs

[/quote] Good taste!

@iabvvu

I'm radically left wing and spend half my life in my little socialist Twitter bubble. Also child-free with cats

Ditto, and hello!

I’m 31, so am I the right age?

Extremely online- I go on my phone quite a lot.
Left wing- I’m a bit of both. There are some left wing things that really piss me off such as benefit bashing.
Twitter- I’ve never bothered with it thank god.
Gaming- I agree with you. I don’t enjoy it myself and find it deadly boring, but my kids love it like most kids and they’re not damaged by it.
Golf- I don’t know anyone who plays it.
Emo- my friends were all emos and I remember it being extremely popular back in 2005

loved reading this thread.

I tick a few of the boxes, but I'm GenX and don't do Twitter or extreme online. Over the years have gone extreme MN though

Not Emo either.

Grew up in a techy house and am a gamer as is DH and both DS.

What I love about reading the thread apart from the usual AIBU entertaining responses, is actually seeing the reminiscing, its fascinating the the online stuff you chatting about. It looks like a great nostalgic thread.

Your thread is the first sort of millennial nostalgia one I've seen and will probably be first of many. Just like the loads of 90s era ones that make me feel like a teenager again and compile new play list on spotify of long forgotten favourites.