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?

Perhaps ascribing such shaping power to generation is where you are going wrong OP. Other shaping influences - notably, gender, social class, educational attainment, professional pursuits, and much else shapes internet cultures. Your personal social circle may feel representative of all these attributes but they are unlikely to be representing the broader spectrum of things. You will find broader social reality far less pigeonholed in terms of digital cultures, far more overlapping in reality, and far less acutely shaped by generational positioning, than what you describe

Fairly left wing millennial here too. I'm down for an emo revival!

Twitter can get in the bin...I wouldn't admit to using MN irl, it has a bad rep among my friend group (not entirely unwarranted). I prefer Reddit anyway tbh.

Hello! 👋

I can tick the ex emo box too!

Ugh the other week our management team had a meeting with some graduates and they were asking lots of questions like “do you know how to talk to generation z and millennials” “do you know how to get us to perform well” - there were lots of faces

Yeah, still here to watch the car crash

@MrsMiaWallis

but there are also a much broader range of people on here than I anticipated when I started reading threads

You have no clue if anyone is who they say they are

Very true! I was expecting - out of sheer stereotyping, I admit - it to be mostly 35-40+ women, middle class, with children. And that's not the case, which I was interested by. But maybe they're all using fake usernames haha :)

@SionnachRua

Fairly left wing millennial here too. I'm down for an emo revival!

Twitter can get in the bin...I wouldn't admit to using MN irl, it has a bad rep among my friend group (not entirely unwarranted). I prefer Reddit anyway tbh.

Yes to the emo revival (she says, listening to Paramore while she works)!

Don't disagree with Twitter. Reddit feels easier to stick to decent boards, whereas you get exposed to absolute horrors on Twitter without even meaning too, so I'd agree with you there :)

parlourpalm

This is so sad

Indeed

@LST

Hello! 👋

I can tick the ex emo box too!

HIYA... that's about 4 of us now hahaha. And a few people who think we're weird edgelords, apparently.

AIBU to wonder where all the mumsnetters like me are?

Given that a large focus of this website is still parenting I think 24-39 is probably a pretty big demographic.

@Posturesorposes

Perhaps ascribing such shaping power to generation is where you are going wrong OP. Other shaping influences - notably, gender, social class, educational attainment, professional pursuits, and much else shapes internet cultures. Your personal social circle may feel representative of all these attributes but they are unlikely to be representing the broader spectrum of things. You will find broader social reality far less pigeonholed in terms of digital cultures, far more overlapping in reality, and far less acutely shaped by generational positioning, than what you describe

Very good point. I'd say my social circle is also broadly of working class backgrounds, first in their families to go to uni, work in the media or creative industries... so these things are all definitely aspects that influence their digital and RL culture too, possibly more than generation. Although I do think there are definitely generational lines online too - my younger cousins think Instagram and Twitter are outrageously passe and far more into 'stan' culture than people I know, for example.

@donquixotedelamancha

AIBU to wonder where all the mumsnetters like me are?

Given that a large focus of this website is still parenting I think 24-39 is probably a pretty big demographic.

Also a good point. One of the things I was surprised by on mumsnet is how much of it isn't related to parenting, though!

I don't use twitter much because it's a cesspit or a bit of a circle jerk. I food know what you meant by extremely online though! I just know I'm not it.

Otherwise probs tick the boxes. Also chid free.

Millennial, was an emo, but fuck twitter, not left wing or right wing, game lots, nobody I know plays golf. That online thing sounds like a load of shit too. Also preferably non binary with blue hair? Get in the sea, im all for dying hair but non binary is a load of crap.

Nope, way to old and far too cool.
Am left wing though.

@palourpalm do you not see the irony? Just hide the thread duck.

Not into Twitter anymore. I spend my time on TikTok

Whats an emo-kid? Genuine question too.

I was extremely online before the internet was even a thing.

Glad I'm Generation X.

@LolaButt

Not into Twitter anymore. I spend my time on TikTok

AHA I have somehow ended up bisexual pirate and/or American socialist Tiktok. I have never and will never make a video though because I can't dance for shit

I'm an Elder millennial so I was more nu-metal than emo.

@PhilCornwall1

Whats an emo-kid? Genuine question too.

I was extremely online before the internet was even a thing.

We spent a lot of time listening to My Chemical Romance/Fall Out Boy/Dashboard Confessional and wearing a lot of eyeliner in the mid-late 2000s. I have not 100% grown out of it yet hahaha...

Well, I'm 28 and would describe myself as left wing. I don't think I know anyone who plays golf but possibly they just don't mention it to me.
I'm not Extremely Online. I go on Twitter and find it interesting, if exasperating, but don't post anything.
Was not an emu, I'm afraid.
My feelings around gaming are based on what I can beat my nephew at. Currently this means that I approve of Mario kart and mortal Kombat and think everything else is the root of all ills.

@ArosGartref

I'm an Elder millennial so I was more nu-metal than emo.

I have a younger sister in that demographic. We could not be more different, there's definitely an air of "get in your assigned box and do the 'right' thing" that I simply don't have.