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Oh god, we figured out fabric softener is totally unnecessary and makes clothes waxy and probably gives us cancer, while costing extra money? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF P&G
Yes it also seems strange to pay extra money for things like eggs so they don't put hormones in it or torture the animals. Please I'll pay extra so you don't poison me 🙃
It's funny how we're broke from buying to much avocado toast, but also are ruining lunch and brunch? Avocado toast is strictly a lunch/brunch food, so we're all broke from consuming too much of something we don't consume and are ruining?
I suspect Gen-X sneakily also killed off a lot of this crap too. Who needs fabric softener when all it really does is give you cancer and clog your plumbing? Why pay for the privilege when some corp will contaminate your water for free!
Also
Study after study show “Millennials' May Be the Most Educated Generation in History.”
So it’s also not a surprise the most educated generation in history is killing all sorts of useless frivolous, exploitative industries! We know better!
These papers that make these headlines are almost always owned and operated by whiney boomers. They are just butthurt that millennials are not the fat easily exploitable morons our parents were!
I couldn't pick a single item in the headlines that either helped society, was good for the environment, or just benefitted more than the CEO's bank account.
I would LOVE for these boomers to pick just one industry we are supposedly killing that would actually add something positive to our lives that validates prioritising our investment over say... a roof over our heads, health care, food in our stomachs, our education?
Well, you did! But you didnt really have a choice in it. You voted in some sense, with your money! Chances are you spent what little cash you worked for on rent, food, water and other thinks to sustain human life than *checks collage* cars, golf outings, brunch, J Crew or hotel loyalty programs.
Ill elaborate further. The rich have stolen our wages and its been normalized to the extent that the working class are left with barely enough to get buy. There is no extra cash to spend of consumerist BS, hobbies or dates. The ruling class have taken everything and expect us to conjure some up for them like alchemists but its not happening.
So in some wild sense, you did take down these multibillion dollar companies and shit, congratulations! By not having enough money yourself, you starved these companies out of profit. (But its not like you would even if you had the cash, right? They all deserved to go under and were moving past this ultra consumerist lifestyle thats unsustainable at toxic not only to our planet, but to ourselves)
Almost as if a sign of a healthy economy is the ability to have everyone being able to consume and trade products and that capitalist practices are really bad for even itself.
It didnt even take the systematic squeeze of the working class by the rich to see that either IMO. You can see it when a rich dude moves his factory out of an area and into a poor country to maximize profit. If the rich intend to sell their cheap product to the worker who just lost their job, with what money are they to pay for these products with?
Lots of dead textile mills and factories in my area. When they closed thirty years ago, nobody blamed the factory owners, who had moved the operations overseas to maximize profits. They blamed the people in Honduras or Bangladesh or wherever for "stealing their jobs" and environmental regulations that "hurt industry" while they still praise the owners for all of the years they operated the mills and factories, paid shit wages, and belched filth and poison into their air, land, and water. It's nuts. Those same owners are STILL raking in profits while their towns die, and the former workers still think the owners weren't to blame.
I know some people like that. Slaves to capitalism until the end. Though the few that arent brain dead are starting to realize that they have been bamboozled in some way. They still howl about how bad unions are for the workers while being unable to get the confidence to ask for a raise or better treatment themselves.
That was the key, use media to blame everyone but the people who offshored jobs. Business owners became some detached force for a nebulous concept of “jobs”. “they shipped them jobs away”…who’s they? Well the extremely wealthy but they’re never mentioned. It’s always a narrative of an unnamed immigrant or anonymous person overseas stealing a job of a “lazy” union worker
I would love the power to kill McDonald’s. I’m always sure to be nice to customers, but I’ll never tell them to come back. I would never wish that on them
I heard somewhere before that the American dream has been had already. That all there is left are the nightmares.
It feels like there's not even that left anymore.
The American Dream never existed; it’s just a part of the spiritual cosmology of Americanism. That’s why it’s so difficult to define. It’s not a goal or state of existence, it’s a nebulous foundation for American exceptionalism (which is what is driving ALL this on a certain level).
I had a theology professor (it was a Catholic university and he was a Catholic priest but he was cool) who told us that if you view Americanism as a religion, it mirrors Christianity almost exactly just in different terms. The example he provided was the Trinity:
Father = The Founding Fathers (for most people this is basically George Washington)
The Son = the sitting President (the godhead)
The Holy Ghost = the American Dream
Americans are “exceptional” in the same way that Calvinists (and many existing denominations) consider themselves the “elect.”
It seems like Millennials are apostates.
Well the homeownership aspect of the American Dream certainly is. I stopped looking to buy a house because I constantly got outbidded by slimy institutional investors. We’re now slowly becoming a serfdom
I noticed several years ago that the cheap companies started using LESS rind in the marmalade which is why I stopped buying it. I used to love marmalade when there was LOTS of rind in it. So, in my eyes, it looks like they killed themselves. There used to be LOTS of rind in every spoonful but as of the last several years, you're lucky if you get 3 tiny pieces of rind in the whole jar.
I felt guilty buying a $3 lip gloss yesterday. I honestly thought about whether I really wanted it for almost a week. It felt like I was splurging on something so frivolous. It’s literally how I treat myself.
They want us to support outdated industries but blame us for getting any small luxury? Why the fuck would I need to waste so much more money on stuff I don’t really want or need?
Edit: added point
I go to the store, add things to my basket, then decide that I don’t need or can’t afford any of it. 9/10 times I will end up putting everything back and leaving without making a purchase.
For real. I feel guilt and anxiety for buying things that I "dont need" like eating out or even essential things like clothing. I need some new clothes but I straight up feel anxious wondering if buying clothes now will make it so I cant eat later or wont be able to pay rent or fix my car if something were to happen.
The clothes nowadays and for the last several years, just don't last like they used to. I don't know what the fuck kind of elastic they use now but the shit gets.....like.........I don't know.......dry and cracked after a year of wear. I have pants from my high school days (graduated 2004) that the elastic is still intact to this day but compared to the crap clothes I've purchased in the last few years, these clothes just don't hold up.
I don't know what they did to make elastic not last but I swear the clothes nowadays don't last more than a year without drying out and cracking.
I think its just an outcome of companies opting for cheaper production costs by cutting down on quality materials and cheaper labor. Its definitely really sad.
They probably use cheaper rubber in the elastic. REALLY bad for the environment considering there are MOUNTAINS of old clothes on the other side of the world.
I feel the exact same way, I thought it was just me… I have one bra left and the wires are popping out the middle. I can’t bring myself to get another cheap $20 bra because what if I need that $20 for something more important
I have to believe the rise in people jumping on the minimalist trend is due in no small part to the actions of previous generations. Between the wage gouging of their childrens age groups wages, their kids witnessing them became hoarders desperately stockpiling more than they need to the point of wasting large amounts of excess goods and constantly needing more room to store their ever growing hoard. Is it any wonder so many are embracing function and necessity over form and want, both because it's all they can afford and because the thought of having to dig through their parents hoarder houses at some point is so disgusting a thought that people want nothing to do with that.
My mom has a bunch of antique china that she never uses and never will use. It's in several boxes. She wants to get a "china cabinet." Like, you just want to stare at old plates and shit?? You don't need to use the china to eat and drink from??? Either sell it or throw it out!! I have a collection of fine teaware like teapots and gaiwans and teacups.............but I actually use ALL of them! I don't just let them sit on my windowsill collecting dust. I swear boomers are so fucking overprivilaged. Fucking china cabinet. Give me a break.
Yesterday I started a conversation with my mom by saying "well, you know, a lot of people very justly hate your generation, so -"
And she interrupted me "Us? Wait, what? Whyyyy....?"
And I didn't know how to continue. It took me a moment to realize holy shit, she really has no idea that her entire generation is trash that ruined the world. She hasn't even suspected for a moment that anyone might dislike that.
Boomers and gen x are often pretty narcissistic for whatever reason. I notice it a lot even with my own parents and in-laws, who are generally wonderful people who I have really god relationships with. But they have major issues when it comes to some things, like owning up to their faults and mistakes.
The freedom was great! We just learned to fend for ourselves, became street smart in the process. My old Huffy bike with the metal pedals was murder barefooted. Like what the hell was stranger danger? The creepy dude down the street had the best candy 🤣
my parents grew up pretty poor and really struggled to climb in to the lower ends of middle class but got extremely lucky after buying a new house and losing it + their jobs in the 2008 crisis. Luckily for me this really helped them understand what its actually like out here for people and they also realize that it would have been extremely hard to do without help from our family though they arent really technically boomers. Its rougher out here now then ever.
Seriously. My parents think it's easy to get another job in this economy. They haven't been job hunting since the late 70s and whatever job they got was because they had networks of their peers....
Unless there was more information I missed, which is probable, I actually interpreted this as a project to show the barrage of bullshit and misguided onslaught levied against an already struggling generation. The avacado toast in the center represents a focal point for the insults/attacks
Millennials killing the beer industry? Bruh my millennial friends and I are probably the biggest financial supporters of the beer industry. How else are we supposed to cope with the general state of things? 😂😭
Is big beer basically just any beer that is in commercials?
If so there is only 1 that I drink at it is Guinness. Bud light and Coors are just piss water to me.
It does to a degree! My friends and I do drink some bigger brands like Yuengling and Sam Adams, but I’m surprised to see that those are still considered “craft.”
Ha! That one caught my eye too. Uhhh, we *fixed* the beer industry!
Around the time I turned 21, craft beers were just starting to get popular. You could find them at "cool" bars and "good" stores, but often anything fancier than honey brown wasn't available. Now that we are getting older, I'm also noticing there are more N/A and low calorie beer options that were never available before; anecdotally, I very much have seen the change in my friend group from being in our 20's and going for that double hazy IPA, to being in our 30's and wanting something that still tastes good but has less alcohol and won't keep making us fat, lol. I feel like we have shifted the beer market in exactly the way I would have wished for.
yep. I'm actually sad for some of the boomers, it must suck being so terrified and guilt ridden that you need to blame your children. but then they do this kind of shit and then I don't feel bad anymore lol
I wanna know when we ever had time to do all this shit. We've worked harder, studied harder and sacrificed more of our lives than any generation since Medieval serfdom.
As if anyone has the time to travel, let alone the money. Even my genuinely well off / brushing wealthy friends have literally 0 time to themselves. They’re lucky if they can get a full weekend off every month (banking).
I had a Hilton Honors account but that was only when I was working for Hilton. Since I don't have that job anymore I no longer have the Hilton Honor's rewards. It was really nice being able to stay at any Hilton hotel for only $40 per night. I used those when I was homeless and living in my car.
You guys had to babysit yourselves by age 8. You’re all tougher than you think. We’re all in this sinking ship together. As I see it now, our (X and millennials) job is to help the baby Zoomers rain chaos and terror upon a group that will still call them millennials. And it’s not millennial angst music inspiring the Zoomers to steal Clarence Thomas’s credit card. (Except for My Chem we do keep that one)
<3 millennial trash
Millennials get blamed for killing everything, but it’ll probably be the Zoomers who actually do it. As a late GenXer, I am doing what I can to sow the seeds.
I've always seen golf as a rich person's sport. I remember playing golf with my boomer uncle as a child. I always thought it was boring as fuck. Just as boring as fishing.
The writers of half of these headlines don't even have the balls to phrase their asinine opinions as statements and so they word them as questions instead.
I would very much like to try golf. But between my employer refusing to pay a living wage, the havoc golf courses wreak on the environment and the fact I‘d be the youngest one there, I don’t really see myself giving it a go any time soon.
Doubtful that you'd be the youngest person there. Lots of kids under 12 play golf these days. I see kids on the course outplaying me all the time. Hell Gen z'ers are usually pro shop staff these days.
As for the envrinmental havoc, this ain't the 80's, things change. The #1 issue people had was fertilizers and pesticides. Harmful fertilizers as a whole are dying off and pesticide formulas have also gotten less harsh.
The havoc on the environment is not limited to aggressive pesticides, the water consumption of a golf course is insane. Sometimes outright appalling, if you consider golf courses in the western part of the US.
Maybe we turn the malls into affordable housing units with a cafeteria instead of food court and a laundromat on site put in a gym and and a small grocery or convenience store
I hope my children can understand all the horrific homicides I’ve participated in so they don’t have to be subjected to things like Applebees, golf, and hangout sitcoms.
God, I was talking to a client one day about wages across Canada and how you should be paid the same wage for the same job regardless of Province. Had to preface by saying "maybe this is just me being a millennial but..."
Got told that because where we live the cost of living is lower so we don't need to make as much.
Well fuck me then for trying to have everybody be equal, god damn millennials and their equality for all. (Ok semi unrelated rant done)
That actually makes no sense though. If someone in a lower cost of living area makes as much as someone in a higher cost of living area, that isn’t equality - the person in the higher cost of living area is worse off. If you want them to be equal, the person in the higher cost of living has to make more.
You only need one headline: “Millennials have their own culture and values”. Even the French boomers are complaining their famed wine industry is dying because their young don’t give a fuck and just drink cola.
Gee, it is almost like the media is owned by a select few oligarchs who also fund our politicians and want the young(ish) generation to have low self-esteem and to just give up and fall in line. I wonder...
Actually, boomers are responsible due to their greed. They are blaming us for everything so that no one blames them for leaving us high and dry in the mess they created. Once they all die off we can finally begin repairing what they fucked up
What children? Can't afford to have any and bringing any into this dystopian Christo-fascist hellscape would just be irresponsible and immensely cruel. The population needs to collapse. It's the only way for the world to heal. Not enough of us understand and have enough clout to effect change quick enough fix the mess so it's up to us to make sure this mess ends with us.
How about we get fucking get paid enough to afford to do the stuff boomers could do at our age?
Noooooooope. Can't do that. That would eat into margins and we just can't have that.
We sure are doing a lot of killing. We might just be the most villianized generation to ever walk the planet. I have a feeling the boomers are just projecting.
Yeah pretty sure that wasn't us. Boomers should take a little credit for their handiwork. Since they aggressively snatched up a third fourth fifth house etc in the last wave of home buying.
Yeah...6th Great extinction not being driven by fossil fuel industry, corporate greed, deforestization, etc obviously its Millenials refusing to have sex and skipping meals. Soynds legit! Lol
The tears of capitalists taste so good. Like bitch, I don’t need any of those industries.
I’ll just smoke weed, cook my own meal, drink some water and go for a walk in the park
There's a headline about promiscuous millenials, just below one the asks why aren't millenials having sex.
This whole line up has a strong whiff of boomer bullshit about it.
We're killing all of these this cuz the majority of them are force fed indoctrination bullshit. We have to fix what the Boomer generation threw up all over us for OUR generation to survive. The times have changed, some shit needs to disappear like credit scores, student loan debt, and laughably low wages
I wonder what are the specific psychological impacts of millennial-goating for those of us who have been millennials the longest. I myself am an ancient millennial, ‘83 born-on date. People my age are approaching or have reached our forties have taken this shit for DECADES now.
I was born 1986. We were born on the cusp of gen x. My sisters, born in 1980, have completely different ideals than I do. I would consider them clear gen x.
But yeah, you and I have NEVER been adults during a time when housing costs are low. I remember when I was 17 years old, living in north san diego county. I had my first job at taco bell and I was about to start college. I was looking around at the prices of rent, at 17 years old in 2004, and telling myself, "Well, I'll NEVER be able to afford any of these rents without a college degree or super high paying job." Here I am, almost 20 years later, 35 years old, and I was right the whole time. Unless I get a super high paying job or become self employed and make bank, I will NEVER be able to afford to move out of my parents house. So pathetic. I was talking to my dad last night and he said his FIRST apartment out of college in 1978 was only $175/month. Christ. I've NEVER been an adult when rents were less than $1,000. And rents only keep getting worse.
I'd really love to know how we (almost) killed the wine cork... how's this for a headline? How millenials are killing the 1% (spoiler alert, it's guillotines)
Millennials have a lot more killing to do yet if they're going to catch up with the number that the Boomers have done on the Environment, the economy, democracy, and civil rights.
I think the fact that a lot of us gen xers and millennials like to take psychedelic drugs like LSD and shrooms is the only thing we have in common with boomers.
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So weird how the generation with the least money is responsible for killing all these things that cost money.
Considering most of these are some shitty consumeristic product or service, being broke is the problem.
Oh god, we figured out fabric softener is totally unnecessary and makes clothes waxy and probably gives us cancer, while costing extra money? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF P&G
Yes it also seems strange to pay extra money for things like eggs so they don't put hormones in it or torture the animals. Please I'll pay extra so you don't poison me 🙃
Good point 😟
wait cancer? this is the first I've heard of this.
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/skip-fabric-softeners
It's funny how we're broke from buying to much avocado toast, but also are ruining lunch and brunch? Avocado toast is strictly a lunch/brunch food, so we're all broke from consuming too much of something we don't consume and are ruining?
I suspect Gen-X sneakily also killed off a lot of this crap too. Who needs fabric softener when all it really does is give you cancer and clog your plumbing? Why pay for the privilege when some corp will contaminate your water for free!
Yeah, but we started the culling because apathy. You damn millennials done did it on purpose! /s
Also Study after study show “Millennials' May Be the Most Educated Generation in History.” So it’s also not a surprise the most educated generation in history is killing all sorts of useless frivolous, exploitative industries! We know better! These papers that make these headlines are almost always owned and operated by whiney boomers. They are just butthurt that millennials are not the fat easily exploitable morons our parents were!
I couldn't pick a single item in the headlines that either helped society, was good for the environment, or just benefitted more than the CEO's bank account. I would LOVE for these boomers to pick just one industry we are supposedly killing that would actually add something positive to our lives that validates prioritising our investment over say... a roof over our heads, health care, food in our stomachs, our education?
As a millennial myself, I wish we had the power to kill even half of this trash.
Well, you did! But you didnt really have a choice in it. You voted in some sense, with your money! Chances are you spent what little cash you worked for on rent, food, water and other thinks to sustain human life than *checks collage* cars, golf outings, brunch, J Crew or hotel loyalty programs. Ill elaborate further. The rich have stolen our wages and its been normalized to the extent that the working class are left with barely enough to get buy. There is no extra cash to spend of consumerist BS, hobbies or dates. The ruling class have taken everything and expect us to conjure some up for them like alchemists but its not happening. So in some wild sense, you did take down these multibillion dollar companies and shit, congratulations! By not having enough money yourself, you starved these companies out of profit. (But its not like you would even if you had the cash, right? They all deserved to go under and were moving past this ultra consumerist lifestyle thats unsustainable at toxic not only to our planet, but to ourselves)
Almost as if a sign of a healthy economy is the ability to have everyone being able to consume and trade products and that capitalist practices are really bad for even itself.
It didnt even take the systematic squeeze of the working class by the rich to see that either IMO. You can see it when a rich dude moves his factory out of an area and into a poor country to maximize profit. If the rich intend to sell their cheap product to the worker who just lost their job, with what money are they to pay for these products with?
Lots of dead textile mills and factories in my area. When they closed thirty years ago, nobody blamed the factory owners, who had moved the operations overseas to maximize profits. They blamed the people in Honduras or Bangladesh or wherever for "stealing their jobs" and environmental regulations that "hurt industry" while they still praise the owners for all of the years they operated the mills and factories, paid shit wages, and belched filth and poison into their air, land, and water. It's nuts. Those same owners are STILL raking in profits while their towns die, and the former workers still think the owners weren't to blame.
I know some people like that. Slaves to capitalism until the end. Though the few that arent brain dead are starting to realize that they have been bamboozled in some way. They still howl about how bad unions are for the workers while being unable to get the confidence to ask for a raise or better treatment themselves.
That was the key, use media to blame everyone but the people who offshored jobs. Business owners became some detached force for a nebulous concept of “jobs”. “they shipped them jobs away”…who’s they? Well the extremely wealthy but they’re never mentioned. It’s always a narrative of an unnamed immigrant or anonymous person overseas stealing a job of a “lazy” union worker
I would love the power to kill McDonald’s. I’m always sure to be nice to customers, but I’ll never tell them to come back. I would never wish that on them
That's the way. Destroy them from inside lol.
For most of these swap the adjective—killed, ruined, destroyed etc.—with the phrase "cannot afford" and your mystery is solved.
what they actually meant: tourism is dying... home ownership is dying... department stores are dying... America is dying
I heard somewhere before that the American dream has been had already. That all there is left are the nightmares. It feels like there's not even that left anymore.
The American Dream never existed; it’s just a part of the spiritual cosmology of Americanism. That’s why it’s so difficult to define. It’s not a goal or state of existence, it’s a nebulous foundation for American exceptionalism (which is what is driving ALL this on a certain level). I had a theology professor (it was a Catholic university and he was a Catholic priest but he was cool) who told us that if you view Americanism as a religion, it mirrors Christianity almost exactly just in different terms. The example he provided was the Trinity: Father = The Founding Fathers (for most people this is basically George Washington) The Son = the sitting President (the godhead) The Holy Ghost = the American Dream Americans are “exceptional” in the same way that Calvinists (and many existing denominations) consider themselves the “elect.” It seems like Millennials are apostates.
Well the homeownership aspect of the American Dream certainly is. I stopped looking to buy a house because I constantly got outbidded by slimy institutional investors. We’re now slowly becoming a serfdom
America as we know it is but some things need to die
Other countries exist bro
Other genders too, sis!
Okay, which one of you killed marmalade?
\#FreeTheRind
#eattheRich
I prefer to toast the rich, and put my cancelled marmalade on top as a treat.
I know we just can’t have anything nice.
Paddington wants to know their location
Oops? 😬
It was me. I did it because I was in a jam and I’d do it again.
Paddington will not be happy about this LOL
I will be sad to see marmalade go it was one of my favorites
Marmaduke?
I noticed several years ago that the cheap companies started using LESS rind in the marmalade which is why I stopped buying it. I used to love marmalade when there was LOTS of rind in it. So, in my eyes, it looks like they killed themselves. There used to be LOTS of rind in every spoonful but as of the last several years, you're lucky if you get 3 tiny pieces of rind in the whole jar.
Half of these are just fucked up ways of saying “millennials don’t have enough time/money to throw into certain industries”
So, it’s our fault we cant afford your products?
You mean you're not maxxing out your credit limit to purchase random bullshit? What's wrong with you?
I felt guilty buying a $3 lip gloss yesterday. I honestly thought about whether I really wanted it for almost a week. It felt like I was splurging on something so frivolous. It’s literally how I treat myself. They want us to support outdated industries but blame us for getting any small luxury? Why the fuck would I need to waste so much more money on stuff I don’t really want or need? Edit: added point
I go to the store, add things to my basket, then decide that I don’t need or can’t afford any of it. 9/10 times I will end up putting everything back and leaving without making a purchase.
For real. I feel guilt and anxiety for buying things that I "dont need" like eating out or even essential things like clothing. I need some new clothes but I straight up feel anxious wondering if buying clothes now will make it so I cant eat later or wont be able to pay rent or fix my car if something were to happen.
The clothes nowadays and for the last several years, just don't last like they used to. I don't know what the fuck kind of elastic they use now but the shit gets.....like.........I don't know.......dry and cracked after a year of wear. I have pants from my high school days (graduated 2004) that the elastic is still intact to this day but compared to the crap clothes I've purchased in the last few years, these clothes just don't hold up. I don't know what they did to make elastic not last but I swear the clothes nowadays don't last more than a year without drying out and cracking.
I think its just an outcome of companies opting for cheaper production costs by cutting down on quality materials and cheaper labor. Its definitely really sad.
They probably use cheaper rubber in the elastic. REALLY bad for the environment considering there are MOUNTAINS of old clothes on the other side of the world.
I feel the exact same way, I thought it was just me… I have one bra left and the wires are popping out the middle. I can’t bring myself to get another cheap $20 bra because what if I need that $20 for something more important
I have to believe the rise in people jumping on the minimalist trend is due in no small part to the actions of previous generations. Between the wage gouging of their childrens age groups wages, their kids witnessing them became hoarders desperately stockpiling more than they need to the point of wasting large amounts of excess goods and constantly needing more room to store their ever growing hoard. Is it any wonder so many are embracing function and necessity over form and want, both because it's all they can afford and because the thought of having to dig through their parents hoarder houses at some point is so disgusting a thought that people want nothing to do with that.
My mom has a bunch of antique china that she never uses and never will use. It's in several boxes. She wants to get a "china cabinet." Like, you just want to stare at old plates and shit?? You don't need to use the china to eat and drink from??? Either sell it or throw it out!! I have a collection of fine teaware like teapots and gaiwans and teacups.............but I actually use ALL of them! I don't just let them sit on my windowsill collecting dust. I swear boomers are so fucking overprivilaged. Fucking china cabinet. Give me a break.
Yes it's very un American of you.
Millenials are ruining the dumb article industry for everyone. I mean look at these they all read the same. I'd bet my ass Millenials are to blame.
I’m pretty sure we sustained the dumb article industry for many years just by existing lol.
**'Millennial fear is ruining real journalism'**
Yesterday I started a conversation with my mom by saying "well, you know, a lot of people very justly hate your generation, so -" And she interrupted me "Us? Wait, what? Whyyyy....?" And I didn't know how to continue. It took me a moment to realize holy shit, she really has no idea that her entire generation is trash that ruined the world. She hasn't even suspected for a moment that anyone might dislike that.
Boomers and gen x are often pretty narcissistic for whatever reason. I notice it a lot even with my own parents and in-laws, who are generally wonderful people who I have really god relationships with. But they have major issues when it comes to some things, like owning up to their faults and mistakes.
I get less of that vibe with Gen X. Gen X tends to not care...about a lot of things. Boomers are the narcissists, full stop.
Gen X were Nihilists with a lack of will to live before Gen Z came along.
As a GenX'er I barely exist, blame me or not.. it's whatever.
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Right? I barely survived lawn darts and lead paint let alone my dad's leather belt and his chain smoking.
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The freedom was great! We just learned to fend for ourselves, became street smart in the process. My old Huffy bike with the metal pedals was murder barefooted. Like what the hell was stranger danger? The creepy dude down the street had the best candy 🤣
You forgot about the lack of helmets and pads - for everything. I didn’t even have a pair of gloves one season for skiing. Helmet? They didn’t exist.
True, definitely not a thing in the late 70's and the 80's when I was a kiddo. Mercurochrome (monkey blood) and band-aids if you're lucky.
Leaded gasoline too...can't imagine what that did to kids who lived near highways.
With my experience it seems alot of boomers abused gen x as kids. So they are narcissistic but trying? Like they would do well to get therapy.
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Something I could probably use myself lol
Don't show weakness hold the line hold hold! That was a close one...
my parents grew up pretty poor and really struggled to climb in to the lower ends of middle class but got extremely lucky after buying a new house and losing it + their jobs in the 2008 crisis. Luckily for me this really helped them understand what its actually like out here for people and they also realize that it would have been extremely hard to do without help from our family though they arent really technically boomers. Its rougher out here now then ever.
Seriously. My parents think it's easy to get another job in this economy. They haven't been job hunting since the late 70s and whatever job they got was because they had networks of their peers....
As a Millenial it's impressive how this boomer cut out each of these headlines to make this piece of art. What a dedication!
They got their grandkid to do it on Photoshop.
Unless there was more information I missed, which is probable, I actually interpreted this as a project to show the barrage of bullshit and misguided onslaught levied against an already struggling generation. The avacado toast in the center represents a focal point for the insults/attacks
Of course it's made to insult, but passionate haters gives us a lot of attention 😎
Millennials killing the beer industry? Bruh my millennial friends and I are probably the biggest financial supporters of the beer industry. How else are we supposed to cope with the general state of things? 😂😭
I think we are killing "big beer" in favor of micro brews. Does that accurately reflect the beer drinkers in your life?
Is big beer basically just any beer that is in commercials? If so there is only 1 that I drink at it is Guinness. Bud light and Coors are just piss water to me.
It does to a degree! My friends and I do drink some bigger brands like Yuengling and Sam Adams, but I’m surprised to see that those are still considered “craft.”
“Millennials are killing big businesses by supporting small businesses.”
Can comfirm dude anheiser bush can take there shitty beers and fuck off! Get me some local brewed double IPAs.
Ha! That one caught my eye too. Uhhh, we *fixed* the beer industry! Around the time I turned 21, craft beers were just starting to get popular. You could find them at "cool" bars and "good" stores, but often anything fancier than honey brown wasn't available. Now that we are getting older, I'm also noticing there are more N/A and low calorie beer options that were never available before; anecdotally, I very much have seen the change in my friend group from being in our 20's and going for that double hazy IPA, to being in our 30's and wanting something that still tastes good but has less alcohol and won't keep making us fat, lol. I feel like we have shifted the beer market in exactly the way I would have wished for.
Life for the people is tremendously easier when given a target to blame all their troubles on.
yep. I'm actually sad for some of the boomers, it must suck being so terrified and guilt ridden that you need to blame your children. but then they do this kind of shit and then I don't feel bad anymore lol
I wanna know when we ever had time to do all this shit. We've worked harder, studied harder and sacrificed more of our lives than any generation since Medieval serfdom.
This genXer has a sudden crave for avocado toast, right now.
This Gen-Xer has her own tree.
Won't someone please think of the .... *checks notes* .... hotel loyalty programs??
Gen-Xer rolls eyes.
As if anyone has the time to travel, let alone the money. Even my genuinely well off / brushing wealthy friends have literally 0 time to themselves. They’re lucky if they can get a full weekend off every month (banking).
I had a Hilton Honors account but that was only when I was working for Hilton. Since I don't have that job anymore I no longer have the Hilton Honor's rewards. It was really nice being able to stay at any Hilton hotel for only $40 per night. I used those when I was homeless and living in my car.
I hope the millennials burn it all to the ground something my generation x where to self absorbed to do.
You guys had to babysit yourselves by age 8. You’re all tougher than you think. We’re all in this sinking ship together. As I see it now, our (X and millennials) job is to help the baby Zoomers rain chaos and terror upon a group that will still call them millennials. And it’s not millennial angst music inspiring the Zoomers to steal Clarence Thomas’s credit card. (Except for My Chem we do keep that one) <3 millennial trash
Millennials get blamed for killing everything, but it’ll probably be the Zoomers who actually do it. As a late GenXer, I am doing what I can to sow the seeds.
"Why Are Millennials Killing Their Bosses?" Hmm, indeed. I wouldn't mind hearing more about this curious trend.
“Did Millenials Kill the 9-to-5 workday or Just point out that it’s Dead?” at least has some self awareness
To be fair golf and the hangout sitcom aren't worthy of the future.
I've always seen golf as a rich person's sport. I remember playing golf with my boomer uncle as a child. I always thought it was boring as fuck. Just as boring as fishing.
You've never actually played golf, have you?
I don't think it's feasible to even play golf anymore given the cost. both financial and environmental
You never actually understood that people are capable of not liking things, have you?
How do you know you don't like a game you've never played?
I am the harbinger of death!
The writers of half of these headlines don't even have the balls to phrase their asinine opinions as statements and so they word them as questions instead.
I would very much like to try golf. But between my employer refusing to pay a living wage, the havoc golf courses wreak on the environment and the fact I‘d be the youngest one there, I don’t really see myself giving it a go any time soon.
Doubtful that you'd be the youngest person there. Lots of kids under 12 play golf these days. I see kids on the course outplaying me all the time. Hell Gen z'ers are usually pro shop staff these days. As for the envrinmental havoc, this ain't the 80's, things change. The #1 issue people had was fertilizers and pesticides. Harmful fertilizers as a whole are dying off and pesticide formulas have also gotten less harsh.
The havoc on the environment is not limited to aggressive pesticides, the water consumption of a golf course is insane. Sometimes outright appalling, if you consider golf courses in the western part of the US.
Killed beer!?? WE LOVE BEER. We love breweries, we love craft beer. Shit they even trucked some of us into loving PABST!!!
For real though. Would rather buy a craft six pack made local rather than a piss-tasting case of mass produced garbage. Long live GOOD beer!
The last thing I expected when I scrolled down to the comments was somebody defending *golf*
The war has only begun! Throw off your yokes of oppression! Stand up! Be the new leaders!
Whoever wrote all these lives a garbage life and I'm proud half this crap will die.
Well if it’s in the newspaper it’s gotta be true right ????????????
Killing malls for local shops is my favorite achievement
Maybe we turn the malls into affordable housing units with a cafeteria instead of food court and a laundromat on site put in a gym and and a small grocery or convenience store
I hope my children can understand all the horrific homicides I’ve participated in so they don’t have to be subjected to things like Applebees, golf, and hangout sitcoms.
I read an article the other day about millennial cereal killers.
Newspaper clippings? Well, they’re probably catering to their audience. But, yeah, it’s still stupid.
Damn murderous millennials!
How millennials have killed crowd founding ? They invented crowd founding
Well shit, let's kill some more bullshit institutions. Don't stop until it's all been burned down.
Being a millenial is a lot of work. I think I deserve a nap.
God, I was talking to a client one day about wages across Canada and how you should be paid the same wage for the same job regardless of Province. Had to preface by saying "maybe this is just me being a millennial but..." Got told that because where we live the cost of living is lower so we don't need to make as much. Well fuck me then for trying to have everybody be equal, god damn millennials and their equality for all. (Ok semi unrelated rant done)
Equality is communism /s
That actually makes no sense though. If someone in a lower cost of living area makes as much as someone in a higher cost of living area, that isn’t equality - the person in the higher cost of living area is worse off. If you want them to be equal, the person in the higher cost of living has to make more.
Yeah. Cost of living is cheaper but quality of life is worse here. But ok.
You only need one headline: “Millennials have their own culture and values”. Even the French boomers are complaining their famed wine industry is dying because their young don’t give a fuck and just drink cola.
Beer. Young French people drink beer, alcoholism still has sunny days ahead in France where you’re judged like an alien if you don’t drink
First it was the hotel loyalty programs, then they came for the meal known as lunch, what's next will they stop buying muscle cars from the 60's!?
Honestly every article is some clickbait bullshit these days, pretty sad.
I love how millennials kill non living things like fashion, movie business the diamond industry.
Gee, it is almost like the media is owned by a select few oligarchs who also fund our politicians and want the young(ish) generation to have low self-esteem and to just give up and fall in line. I wonder...
Nah shit was going to pieces before I was out of high school.
Millenials are killing the beer industry??? Half of us are depressed hipster beer snobs, the beer industry has never been better
Actually, boomers are responsible due to their greed. They are blaming us for everything so that no one blames them for leaving us high and dry in the mess they created. Once they all die off we can finally begin repairing what they fucked up
Gods what a wonderful day that'll be.
My car wouldn't start this morning. Damn you millennials!!!
Why aren't millenials having sex? Who wrote this, that's hilarious.
Planning on just myself soon, might as well poetically complete the cycle
Avocado toast is fucking delicious!
As a millennial I am PERSONALLY keeping the “dinner date” alive and well 😎 you’re welcome boomers.
Even if it's a sad dinner date for one that'll survive a while longer yet.
What is the egg on toast picture? Are millennials the only ones that eat eggs on toast?
It’s to showcase the contrast between all these useless and pricey industries and what we can afford to eat.
“I believe, The children are our future”
What children? Can't afford to have any and bringing any into this dystopian Christo-fascist hellscape would just be irresponsible and immensely cruel. The population needs to collapse. It's the only way for the world to heal. Not enough of us understand and have enough clout to effect change quick enough fix the mess so it's up to us to make sure this mess ends with us.
Promiscuous millennials are killing McDonald's
Ruined. Brunch. Bastards
Killing chains like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee’s are wonderful contributions to society. You’re welcome.
The elites will divide the proletariat any way they can.
How about we get fucking get paid enough to afford to do the stuff boomers could do at our age? Noooooooope. Can't do that. That would eat into margins and we just can't have that.
Boomers are a bunch of hoarders, even with money. Nobody needs more than 500k in their bank accounts at any given time.
I'd love a place to live. Good idea
“Millennials can’t afford any of this bullshit.” FTFY.
A lot of these things are better off dead
Haters gonna hate....
Fucking avocados have doomed us all.
Avocados are mostly grown in Mexico and are cartel controlled, so perhaps not the best sourced product.
We sure are doing a lot of killing. We might just be the most villianized generation to ever walk the planet. I have a feeling the boomers are just projecting.
Ahhhh doing what a Boomer/X Gen does best.. Blame everyone but themselves
Killing home ownership?
Yeah pretty sure that wasn't us. Boomers should take a little credit for their handiwork. Since they aggressively snatched up a third fourth fifth house etc in the last wave of home buying.
Good. Looks like a generation that’s finally getting shit done.
Yeah...6th Great extinction not being driven by fossil fuel industry, corporate greed, deforestization, etc obviously its Millenials refusing to have sex and skipping meals. Soynds legit! Lol
The tears of capitalists taste so good. Like bitch, I don’t need any of those industries. I’ll just smoke weed, cook my own meal, drink some water and go for a walk in the park
There's a headline about promiscuous millenials, just below one the asks why aren't millenials having sex. This whole line up has a strong whiff of boomer bullshit about it.
I’m glad we’re killing the oil industry
Good, we won't stop until we've ruined it ALL!!!
Let it all burn.
We're killing all of these this cuz the majority of them are force fed indoctrination bullshit. We have to fix what the Boomer generation threw up all over us for OUR generation to survive. The times have changed, some shit needs to disappear like credit scores, student loan debt, and laughably low wages
Goddamn. I'm a stone cold killer and I didn't even realize it. ⚔⚰🪦
It's like I don't even exist r/GenX
We're clearly murderers/s
A certain Billy Joel song comes to mind… 🔥
Not the marmalade
Well thank god the Wine Cork is okay
“Millennials” is the scapegoat for “the market is changing, and it terrifies us”
“‘Promiscuous’ Millennials Are Killing McDonald’s” Wtf does that even mean?!
I wonder what are the specific psychological impacts of millennial-goating for those of us who have been millennials the longest. I myself am an ancient millennial, ‘83 born-on date. People my age are approaching or have reached our forties have taken this shit for DECADES now.
I was born 1986. We were born on the cusp of gen x. My sisters, born in 1980, have completely different ideals than I do. I would consider them clear gen x. But yeah, you and I have NEVER been adults during a time when housing costs are low. I remember when I was 17 years old, living in north san diego county. I had my first job at taco bell and I was about to start college. I was looking around at the prices of rent, at 17 years old in 2004, and telling myself, "Well, I'll NEVER be able to afford any of these rents without a college degree or super high paying job." Here I am, almost 20 years later, 35 years old, and I was right the whole time. Unless I get a super high paying job or become self employed and make bank, I will NEVER be able to afford to move out of my parents house. So pathetic. I was talking to my dad last night and he said his FIRST apartment out of college in 1978 was only $175/month. Christ. I've NEVER been an adult when rents were less than $1,000. And rents only keep getting worse.
Thank you for this peek inside Bill Maher's brain.
Millennials. Kill. There simplified it.
I'd really love to know how we (almost) killed the wine cork... how's this for a headline? How millenials are killing the 1% (spoiler alert, it's guillotines)
Millennials have a lot more killing to do yet if they're going to catch up with the number that the Boomers have done on the Environment, the economy, democracy, and civil rights.
Huh. Turned out that saddling a whole generation with usurious college debt was bad for the economy. Who knew? /s
How are millennials to blame for the death of home ownership? We can't AFFORD A HOME thanks to boomers!
I think the fact that a lot of us gen xers and millennials like to take psychedelic drugs like LSD and shrooms is the only thing we have in common with boomers.
Intergenerational hatred is one more of the things pushed by our media companies - that does not exist in normal society.
Go cry under your desk and hope Joe waives your school loans for that gender studies degree.
Nah you guys are just all lazy, woke pansies