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?

EMO, I was not an EMO.
I wasn't an emu either, but you could have probably guessed that.

@whoamongstus

U OK hun?

Serious question.

@TeenyTinyDustinHoffman

EMO, I was not an EMO. I wasn't an emu either, but you could have probably guessed that.

I wasn't gonna judge. Emus are possibly more scary than teenage emos though haha! I couldn't beat anyone at Mario Kart so you've got me there

[quote LisaLee333]@whoamongstus

U OK hun?

Serious question.[/quote]
Yes cheers. I'm eating a mince pie and watching someone build bad robots on YouTube while my boyfriend makes my tea. Having a lovely day :)

I have to say I've had more people on Mumsnet, be rude to me than on Twitter, so just putting a different point of view across too.

(Awaits to be attacked on Twitter now, after tempting Fate!)😆

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...

Ummm, the only bit of that I understood was eyeliner. 🤷‍♂️

@CremeEggThief

I have to say I've had more people on Mumsnet, be rude to me than on Twitter, so just putting a different point of view across too.

(Awaits to be attacked on Twitter now, after tempting Fate!)😆

Same! But I follow very nice people on Twitter and don't really stick my head over the parapet, so that's probably why haha

How do you play golf ironically?!!

@SecretSpAD

How do you play golf ironically?!!

Asked and answered!

(I was forced to on a corporate away day. I was VERY BAD)

@SecretSpAD

How do you play golf ironically?!!

It's an odd requirement.

God no.

I'm a millennial, probably about your age, practically to the month, I'm guessing, given what you're saying.

The only box I can tick there is the left wing one, but even then, I'd rather not align myself with the dreadful, screechy SJW types that seem to have taken over.

Fall Out Boy and MCR were, and continue to be, shit. Even aged 15 I couldn't believe anyone listened to them and took them seriously, especially after a perusal of the lyrics. Dear God, the bathos.

@BebeStevens

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.

Yeah I think I'd agree that there is a lot of that. Some of it is well-meaning but misguided, some of it is just arseholes.

@PhilCornwall1

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...

Ummm, the only bit of that I understood was eyeliner. 🤷‍♂️

Best to just google image search emo kid, you'll probably recognise emos on sight. Was a huge teen subculture back in the day.

All of those teen subcultures seem to have died out imo. Or maybe I'm out of touch now and can't recognise them? I saw some goths the other day - hadn't seen goths in Dublin in years - which was nice. Brought me back to the good aul days of box dyeing my hair awful colours!

Millennials are 1980 - 2000 I think. So I am bang in the middle. How is someone born in 1990 an adult already? It was only a couple of years ago! 😔

Whats an emo-kid? Genuine question too Think diet goth, less keen on pointy shoes but big fans of sideways fringes that need to be flicked out of the way in order to see.

I was saying exactly the same the other day Sionnach - either there aren't the same subcultures these days or we're too old to spot them. Miss seeing (/being one of) the little moshers hanging around Urbis in Manchester though!

I think there’s more posters like that then you realise, but like all fashions of the past, would prefer to forget it.

I probably ascribe to a lot of what you said, did listen to all you listed but preferred alt rock, and still game a fair bit.

Though I’ve never really done Twitter, other than using it as an easy platform to enter competitions. I’d say ‘extremely online’ does extend to a lot of frequent MN users too.

@Sn0tnose

Millennials are 1980 - 2000 I think. So I am bang in the middle. How is someone born in 1990 an adult already? It was only a couple of years ago! 😔

Whats an emo-kid? Genuine question too Think diet goth, less keen on pointy shoes but big fans of sideways fringes that need to be flicked out of the way in order to see.

'Diet goth'... you got me there hahaha.

And yep sorry, I'm 31 now!

I think a lot of people are extremely online now OP - WFH plugged into teams all day , relaxing with MN and Netflix . Probably not what you meant though ..........

Yeah. Sorry . I'm completely the wrong age group . Just clicked on your thread to see what you were talking about

I meet your criteria (I also have a twitch account) except I'm Gen X. I suspect we're quite different because of our ages though, more so than would be the case for any other single criteria you mentioned.

@ReallySpicyCurry

God no.

I'm a millennial, probably about your age, practically to the month, I'm guessing, given what you're saying.

The only box I can tick there is the left wing one, but even then, I'd rather not align myself with the dreadful, screechy SJW types that seem to have taken over.

Fall Out Boy and MCR were, and continue to be, shit. Even aged 15 I couldn't believe anyone listened to them and took them seriously, especially after a perusal of the lyrics. Dear God, the bathos.

Interesting... out of curiosity then, what kind of kid were you in year 10/11 at school? I apparently only hung about with other emo kids (and I take deep offence at your FOB comments, but I agree on My Chemical Romance) so I don't know what, say, the Jane Norman bag and Rockports lot are like as adults!

Yeah, it's a shame really. All I see nowadays are young lads with haircuts like llamas. I think a lot of it has moved online (like egirls).

My god. Are lots of people your age like this? "The rockports and jane norman bag lot"?

@BoomBoomsCousin

I meet your criteria (I also have a twitch account) except I'm Gen X. I suspect we're quite different because of our ages though, more so than would be the case for any other single criteria you mentioned.

Yeah I'm beginning to think age might not be the be all and end all of the particular 'type' of person I'm thinking of... my boyfriend is a very top-end millennial/probably culturally more Gen X and he streams on Twitch and is otherwise pretty much the same as me!

Why are people voting YABU? What's OP being unreasonable about?

I tick all your boxes apart from being emo, was a bit too old for it. I suspect most of us stay away from MN due to its reputation.