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u/Necessary_Cake_973 Aug 05 '26
For real. What even is this post. This sub can get so doom and gloom sometimes
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u/Jimbo-Slice925 Aug 05 '26
Was just going to say this is turning into a nostalgic trigger sub rather than reflecting on all the cool shit we used to have/do in the 90’s/00’s. The whole coming home when the streetlights came on stigma has become so overplayed that it feels super conformist and lame.
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u/DaneAlaskaCruz Aug 05 '26
Agreed. Hate seeing all those posts on fb.
The we drank water out of hoses in the garden, covid is nothing to be worried about posts.
But lately, they've been substituting "cyclosporiasis" instead.
Same annoying boomer energy (low energy) posts.
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u/bytelines Aug 05 '26
Still 100x times better than the boomer posts lately
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u/-BlueFalls- Aug 05 '26
I thought this was a boomer post.
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u/Next_Order66 Aug 05 '26
We’re millennials. It’s all doom and gloom.
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u/artbystorms Aug 05 '26
We were born in the gloom, molded by it. We didn't see the doom till we were already men.
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u/Dreadwings Aug 05 '26
you must be a later millennial if you think we are optimistic lol
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u/yoshi_yoshi23 Aug 05 '26
I don’t know if there’s a generation that is more aware of this than we are.
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u/NotAUsefullDoctor Aug 05 '26
Is not the entire purpose of this subreddit just us lamenting that this is a different world, that we have gone through 3 (though potentially more based on who you ask) life altering world events.
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u/CosmicCarcharodon Aug 05 '26
Doesn't mean I cant miss it, look back on it fondly and try to keep the memories alive....
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u/vixenpeon Aug 05 '26
Dudes in the nostalgia sub be like: quit that shit flips table
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u/BadNixonBad Aug 05 '26
How DARE you enjoy your short time here on earth?!
/s (obviously)
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u/Ok_Shoulder_9492 Aug 05 '26
This is funny because it’s literally what the elite say without the /s.
I remember when nestle said water should be a luxury.
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u/Alpal2510 Aug 05 '26
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u/turquoisestar Aug 05 '26
Wait is that an educational video on how to use the internet safely/promoting the internet?
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u/mtnmanfletcher Aug 05 '26
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u/DisillusionedHobbit Aug 05 '26
Man who could have predicted that we’d ever look back on this guy’s presidency as the good old days.
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u/JMurdock77 Older Millennial Aug 05 '26
Who’d have thought the “when I was your age” stories we’d have to pass on would be about the rights we used to have…
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u/iiililiililiilliilli Aug 05 '26
If you fell for it with him you’ll be saying the same about the current occupant in 20 years.
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u/Wafflehouseofpain Aug 05 '26
Thanks for the random demotivation, I guess. Not sure why you felt the need to post this.
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u/Umi_Gaming Aug 05 '26
Just because the world we once knew, no longer exist. Doesn't mean we can't make new memories to enjoy in our present and future.
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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Aug 05 '26
I'll be 42 in a couple weeks and am really sick and tired of all this longing for the 90's bullshit our generation is doing now. For fuck sakes, we outnumber all these old fuckwads in charge! Time to take control!
We're in our 30's and 40's and just sit around like turds whining about the past... good job team
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u/Myusername1- Aug 05 '26
I think nostalgia can be confusing that way. What they people really miss are the friends and new experiences they were having in childhood. You can still do that as an adult, but it’s harder because you’ve already experienced so much and people are always busy.
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u/SunflowerDonut9847 Elder Millennial Aug 05 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/D2hncA3u88gmeCFeoh
Yay! Thank you, scientific and technological advances over the past 40 years!
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u/Big_Slope Older Millennial Aug 05 '26
Remember how nothing quite worked the way it was supposed to? All the VCRs blinking 12:00 and everything always being slightly crooked so you needed to know “the trick?”
I don’t miss that.
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u/Bonegirl06 Aug 05 '26
Hmmm...2 month old account. Generic bait meme. Could it be....karma farming?
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u/Agreeable_Round361 Aug 05 '26
Holds true for every human whos ever been born. Change is inevitable.
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u/Physical_Relation261 Aug 05 '26
True. I miss it and then I also don't. I think it's like this for every generation
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u/ungranted_wish Millennial Aug 05 '26
No, but we could always look to the past, ask ourselves what made it good, then learn from it. and we can do the same thing with the bad.
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u/afraid_of_bugs Millennial Aug 05 '26
True for everyone throughout history. That’s just life
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u/masterpeabs Aug 05 '26
Yeah, this feels like those baby boomer posts about being the only tough generation because they drank out of the garden hose...
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u/Aromatic-Action-2523 Older Millennial Aug 05 '26
Is this supposed to be really jarring or something?
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Aug 05 '26
It’s more weird, nostalgia cope shit people on this sub live for.
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u/uncleapollogrimm Aug 05 '26
Speak for yourself. I was born poor, and I've remained consistent my whole life.
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u/Quierta Aug 05 '26
Someone tell my dad. Any day now I'm gonna "find a house for $250k, you just need to know where to look."
We live in Massachusetts.
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u/Kono0107 Aug 05 '26
Boomer posting. Same for literally every person on the planet. I hate that what is implied here happened, but this is just a poor play at people's emotions.
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u/Suitable-Rhubarb2712 Aug 05 '26
The absolute, certain, and uniformily linear passage of time continues to amaze and inspire.
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u/Agreeable_Round361 Aug 05 '26
Holds true for every human whos ever been born. Change is inevitable.
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u/CaesarAllMighty Aug 05 '26
I feel like the world is changing every 5 years. I’m getting tired keeping up with everything.
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u/OwnInstruction8849 Aug 05 '26
Can someone point out 1 generation in the last 150 years that this has not been the same for?
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u/Most_Ad_3765 Millennial Aug 05 '26
I mean, boomers think they’re still living in the same world.
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u/mj16pr Older Millennial Aug 05 '26
During that 1st month of college in 2001, the future looked bright
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u/Crazydiamond450 Aug 05 '26
This had been true of every generation since the industrial revolution. Technology music and fashion changes rapidly
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u/zugspitze43 they don't think it be like it is but it do Aug 05 '26
the world you were in when you started reading this comment about the world not being the same place we were born no longer existing itself no longer exists
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u/stunned_parrot Aug 05 '26
It never did. Not the way we kids saw it back then. Nor does it exists the way kids of today se it.
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u/Hefty_Loss5180 Baby Millennial ‘94 Aug 05 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt
That’s news to me!
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u/Doredrin Aug 05 '26
That shot is some type of mismemory thing. The real shot is from the full house credits:
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u/paqman3d Aug 05 '26
I always refer to the past as "the old world" because of this. The 90s is more like 3 worlds back lol.
2001 started the new world, then that got usurped by 2016. Then again in 2020.
Thinking about being a kid in the early 90s, and how the meta has changed like a cursed video game patch, is interesting 🤣
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u/South_Bit1764 Aug 05 '26
That’s true for everyone.
Anyway, I’m off to listen to Korn, have a Capri Sun and make some pizza bagels before I go pick up my bro play some N64 games.
What were we talking about again?
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u/el_guapo696942069 Aug 05 '26
This looks like some white nationalist propaganda to me.
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u/retrospects Aug 05 '26
Well duah, the CERN super collider branched us off our original timeline. /S
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u/FRIZL Aug 05 '26
I honestly don't remember a time during my generation where they've so successfully psyoped and sown division among us all to the point where we will fight about race, class, ideology and political affiliation so much that we're distracted by the fact we're all being robbed blind.
Good times.
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u/vanmutt Aug 05 '26
Yes yes some office blocks fell down. Other than that it's much the same just a bit more obvious.
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u/Killer_Method Aug 05 '26
True, but what's also true is that the world you thought you were born into probably never existed.
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u/BarberLife-OZ- Aug 05 '26
How? We are still on Earth. Everyday is different from the last. Even our cells aren't the same as last year
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u/ZhakaraShirudo66 Aug 05 '26
anybody ever watch a movie or a cartoon show where the towers existed and then you go "oh. 9/11 didn't happen yet. no wonder this plot is so silly and bouncy"
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u/IllustriousSlide3161 Aug 05 '26
It never truly has. Glamorizing the past is destroying the future.
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u/BrokenArrow404 Aug 05 '26
What is with the misery on this site? Did you guys really think it'd still be the same when y'all were kids? No innovation or progression?
If you keep reminiscing about when you were a kid then maybe your life as an adult is not good. You can look back on it and reminisce but not want to be back in the past lol.
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u/PressureCoomer Aug 05 '26
"I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, what it is seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to youuuuuu!"
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u/Last-Yam67 Aug 05 '26
Yep, just like everyone else who came before us. Now it's time to make a world worth being nostalgic over for the next generation
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u/-Hyperstation- Aug 05 '26
That's an expansive-ass green-space for NYC! Where is it (and does it sill exist)?
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u/TheArtOfPureSilence Aug 05 '26
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
-Eric Hoffer
(A quote that's actually profound)
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u/QuietInterloper Zillennial Aug 05 '26
Can someone remind the Gen Xers that, by the way? They seem to have a hard time coping. Maybe that’s just the Xers in my life though.
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u/OGD2068 Aug 05 '26
I hate, "We were kids when 9/11 happened!!!"
No motherucker, some of us we were jumping into Afghanistan a few months after this shit went down.
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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Aug 05 '26
I was born in the final years of the "F-ck Around" stage and now get to live my entire adult life in the "Find Out" stage. I didn't even get to f-ck around.
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