#Generation Y

[moonys-chocolate28]

Can we please stop putting 2010 kids with gen alpha? Im 14 years old i dont wanna be associated with the brainrot generation

Like bffr i am NOT gonna be seen as the same as kids that dont even remember the pandemic.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Something depresses me about the fact that generational wars are usually about bullshit… Because what else can you call it all when genocide and wars are taking place in this world?

Now that I have your attention:

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Die Katze

[into-september]

please reblog for sample size

[divine-mystic-princess]

[nando161mando]

The meat shield generation since 1981.

[yahoo-a-post]

To the kids and the teens out there;

NEVER wish to become older.

ALWAYS tell the truth.

Advice from a 36 year old.

Yahoo, unsolicited advice!

[millennialsargueback]

[sailoreuterpe]

I have far more in common with the Boomer who lives in Section 8 housing and uses food stamps than I do with Mark Zuckerberg.

[thornestar]

Generation Y are called the “forgotten generation” for a reason.

[that-gay-jedi]

Sigh. Born too early to know or care about Percy Jackson, born too late to have formed a ring of nerdy pen pals after painstakingly eviscerating each individual episode of the spinoff show spawned by Disney's Hercules on the early internet.

[crystal-charlotte-lynch]

Telling Stories: she wore daisies

By Crystal Charlotte Lynch

I want to tell you something.

The story of a girl with daisies in her hair.

She was funny and brilliant.

Bright full of love and light.

She was light in life.

Giving her all to everyone.

She rarely got mad or even sad.

You didn’t know what she held up inside.

She always sported a smile and spoke with her heart.

There was grace in her presence and she held wisdom in her soul.

Her eyes full of wonder and mysteries.

You wouldn’t know it looking at her but her heart carried sorrow and misery.

On the inside she was wilting and withering away.

You wouldn’t believe that her lovely smile was just an empty mask.

This was the story of a young girl.

She wore daisies in her hair.

[ryf8589]

I remember this and will always see it as synonymous with summertime in TX! This was also one of the last things I remember seeing on Fox Kids before, albeit unwittingly, focusing more on both Kids' WB and One Saturday Morning.

[icemankazansky]

Fellow millennials, we may not ever be able to buy a house or retire or stop feeling this sense of existential dread/liminal space/peri-apocalyptic depersonalization, but we are doing some really great things for journalism, and I mean that.

(One of these articles was written by a friend of mine from grad school. Guess which one, and... you will have correctly guessed which one.)

[darthkieduss]

A Request of Generation Z from a Millennial Activist.

(If you know Lance Henriksen, please read this in his voice in your head. Best voice actor I’ve ever heard.)

This July 5, 2023, I will leave my twenties and enter my “Dirty Thirties” as my wife calls it.

As time goes on and I grow older, I have a message for the Generation Z. But not just a message, I will also have a request for them. For any “Zoomer” reading this, before I go on, please know this isn’t condescending or looking down on you. This is from one older comrade to the younger comrades. And I personally couldn’t be more proud of your generation TBH.

As 80s millennials enter their 40s and us 90s millennials enter our 30s, just know that unlike the generations that came before, most of us will NEVER forget who we are. We will always remember what it was like to be young. To be thrust into a world that was rigged against us. To crush on a girl in class that you had NO chance with. The senior home coming dance. Getting your driver’s license. Getting your first job. you know. But We also remember telling our parents thing they DIDN’T want to hear. Like coming out as gay or trans. Or not Christian anymore. Or coming out as a Socialist Catholic in my case. Yeah, my parents DID NOT like that. Point is we will always be young at heart. 

We are comrades united because we are fighting for the same cause. The fight you’re fighting now is the same one we stood for when we were teens and you were kids exploring Minecraft. (am I hip yet?) I remember going to pride parades as a straight ally at 21 in the months before Oberefell v. Hodges legalized same sex marriage in 2015. Though I couldn’t vote in 2008 (I was 15), we millennials made the huge turnout to elect the first black man into the White House. I remember getting tear gassed as an “old” 26 year old during the BLM protests.

Let me say as a millennial I am so proud of your generation, Zoomers. You’ve stepped to the mantle when called. In some cases, you’ve outshined us. That’s why I’m asking you, not to revere us millennials, but simply to remember us. Not because we were in the fight first, but because we’ve been in this fight so long and we’re just getting fucking started lol. Remember that unlike us when we were younger, you are not alone. We millennials were alone because we were the first to recognize the rot in the system made by the previous generations, especially the Boomers. But now y’all are coming of age and taking up the fight for our futures. You swell our ranks and I can’t thank you enough. One day as time goes on, we will take this country back. TOGETHER.

We stand with you.

The war against the system is not yet over. It’s only just begun. So as President Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “Let Us Begin.” But we’ve made some victories from 2008 to last years 22 midterms.

In 2020, Millennials and Gen Z united to kick Donald Trump out of the White House.

In 2019, millennials entered Congress for the first time. We Georgians elected the First Millennial to the United States Senate (Jon Ossoff) in 2020-21. And now Maxwell Frost has the honor of the being the first Gen Z in Congress in 2022.

We’ve suffered many losses, but we won the last two elections. These victories belong to each of us. Every man, women and child. Every person in every state.

Now as we take our first steps toward restoring what we lost, we must remember what it took to win. These weren’t victories by a single party, a single voting bloc or a even by a single generation. If this war has taught us anything, it is that we are at our strongest when we work together. And if we could put down our grievances to defeat something as evil as Donald Trump, imagine what we can achieve now that he is defeated. It will take time, but we can rebuild everything that was destroyed. Our homes. Our lives. Our economy and country. All of this and more.

Together we can build a future greater than any one of us could imagine. A future paid for by the sacrifices of those who fought, bled and even died alongside us. A future that many will never see.

And while we still have many challenges ahead of us, We can face them Together. And we will honor those who fell to give us that future.

That’s why I’m asking Gen Z as you come of age and take power, remember us. For we were your age once and one day you will were we are now. And one day, the Generation Alpha that my four nephews belong to will succeed you. For inspiration, look to yourself and your millennial brothers and sisters beside you.

We stand with you so stand with us.

Sincerely, a 1993 Millennial.

PS: please stop eating tide pods. at least cinnamon is meant to be eaten. JFC

[nando161mando]

At Least Gen Z and Most Millennials Aren't Fooled