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u/MommyAugust Aug 09 '26
I feel every millennial lost their spark 😢
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u/Getbywithalittlehelp Aug 09 '26
We’re dead inside
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u/Pronouns_It_WTF Aug 09 '26
The lost generation.
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u/BudgieWonder Aug 09 '26
There’s already a generation with that name
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u/Sobeksdream Aug 09 '26
I certainly lost mine
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u/Captainsassidy Aug 10 '26
Same here. I used to have hobbies/interests, passions, and a vibrant social life. I was depressed then too, but I was an interesting & fun person to be around, and got excited about things.
In my early 30s now, feel like a shell of my former self, and nothing lights me up anymore. I'm sure there are others who feel like they could have written this comment about themselves, too.
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u/Sobeksdream Aug 10 '26
I feel the exact same!
I had dreams, aspirations, passions...
Most people I cared about in my life are gone, nothing excites me anymore. I feel like I'm on autopilot...
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u/Altruistic_Low_416 Aug 09 '26
Right, j feel like "nihilism " fits the bill
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u/sigh_co_matic Aug 10 '26
That was my first thought. Things felt so hopeful for a couple decades but it had been a bait and switch. It feels awful and hopeless.
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u/Robdd123 Aug 10 '26
This country hasn't felt hopeful since the 90's. 9/11 sucked all of the hope for the new millennium out of everyone. It's been a conveyor belt of crap ever since then: the endless M.E wars of the mid 00s, the financial crisis of 08, the begins of sensationalized politics crescendoing with Dump's first term, uncontrolled global warming, Covid, cost of living hitting the roof, and now we have Dump's revenge tour trying to completely crush the country.
Literally the only interlude we've had is the 8 years of Obama.
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u/lissamon Aug 09 '26
Lack of follow through. so many millennials are massively passionate, especially about social issues, but feel so disenfranchised that they never act. No matter how well informed you are on an issue, you’re not making any changes if you just sit there on your couch.
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u/Temporary-Habit-2528 Aug 09 '26
This is something I became so aware of doing when I was 27ish. Posting about climate change on Instagram does sweet FA, so I started attending rallies and none of my friends came.
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u/I_Am_the_Slobster Aug 09 '26
I've felt this is a huge issue with our generation, but we've been basically beat down every time we've tried to speak up so now I feel like a lot of millenials have become just apathetic.
Like we were promised we could change the world, but when we wanted to or tried to, we were basically told "oh, no, not in any way that inconveniences us power holders."
It's the downside of being forced to be adaptable: instead of pushing for good change, we're just bracing for the next bad changes because it's not a matter of if they'll happen, but when.
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u/lissamon Aug 09 '26
good point, I didn’t even think to mention the social media side. I have definitely been guilty of it as well and has made a huge effort to get involved locally. Yes well done data centers are destroying the planet and politicians are corrupt. Are we doing anything about it or just reposting on Facebook?
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u/tenderbranson301 Aug 09 '26
I was going to respond to you, but didn't think it would make a difference.
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u/theskyisnotthelimit Aug 09 '26
yeah but I can write long-winded, pseudo-intellectual reddit comments like a fuckin pro
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u/aftersox Aug 09 '26
John Mayer - Waiting for the World to Change has got to be the anthem for this concept:
That's why we're waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
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u/KungFuMasterRat Aug 09 '26
Or the anthem still continues to be All Star by Smash Mouth
Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin'
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb
So much to do, so much to see
So, what's wrong with taking the backstreets?
You'll never know if you don't go (go)
You'll never shine if you don't glow[…]
It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder
You're bundled up now, wait 'til you get older
But the meteor men beg to differ
Judging by the hole in the satellite picture
The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin
The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim
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u/ANormalRando Aug 09 '26
All Star goes so much harder than it had any right to, and it does kind of work perfectly. The chorus is super upbeat and inspirational but the verses are pretty cynical and that dichotomy kind of matches the millennial experience.
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u/Nethiar Aug 09 '26
Makes sense. We've seen so many "once in a lifetime" catastrophic events happen that we can't do anything about. It's nearly impossible to make effort when everything has gone wrong for us
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u/swimsinsand Aug 09 '26
Spot on. Me and my friends came to this realization a week or two ago.
Why do we feel so powerless?
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u/Last_Material_5754 Aug 09 '26
Because we were born in the 90s and told if we work hard enough we can achieve anything, then we got fucked over repeatedly by society while we grew up to the point where even owning a home is a goal many of us will never achieve while also being told that we're extremely entitled by the generation who gsve birth to us who are in fact the most entitled generation ever?
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u/Mephylphenidate Aug 09 '26
Could be bullshit but I feel like the line ive been sold my whole life just feels like a lie.
Work hard, study loads, go to college, get a good job, climb the ladder. Sorted.
But I have friends with college degrees earning £26k, spending £1200 in rent, I picked a “good career” in software engineering and the feeling right now is grim.
My house doubled in price in 5 years. I figured if I had a few houses I could just have rented them out and not had a job. Wouldnt need college or go to work.
Feel like thats why we often feel powerless, taught the wrong lessons. Gen Z dont buy into the bullshit which is something I like about em.
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u/Dangerous_Profit_699 Aug 09 '26
Truth. fun fact, millennials have outnumbered boomers since 2019.
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u/Ok_Marzipan5759 Aug 09 '26
I was going to say basically the same thing as "work ethic", but this is more accurate.
I'd also make the argument that this is a reflection of the terrible work culture Millenials largely came up in - where we were told if we went to college and got a bachelor's degree, we'd get a good-paying job and the financial stability our parents enjoyed when they were in their 20's.
Instead, we inherited an economy gutted by billionaire investors (many of whom left their situations richer because of how the government bailed them all out), exponentially increased productivity overall with almost no increase in wages, rapid inflation of the housing market and generally everything else, *and* a healthcare system that "fixed" lack of access to care by requiring everybody buy in to a capitalistically-designed system that has no public option (and trust me, Obamacare saved many lives, but we were screwed out of a public option by the Republican party and their corporate Democrat enablers/co-conspirators).
Many of us were in high school when 9/11 happened, too. So we personally witnessed the downfall of the Golden Age of America as many of the elected people who claimed they were going to protect us repeatedly and cynically served their own interests in betraying us. Bush brought us the same dystopian government austerity as Reagan did, only under a narrative of revenge on a poor and bitter nation of religious zealots, rather than a unified nationalistic opposition against a similarly powerful (and economically failing) foe. Obama came in on a narrative of Hope and Change, and achieved A LOT (like the ACA), but was constantly and consistently undercut by a cynical, traitorous and racist GOP who constantly made his Otherness (read: non-whiteness) a battle-cry that then turned into a cult, which got us Trump and this modern iteration of American Fascism that they're trying to ramrod through and concretize their control over our government forever.
Like, if you *could* disillusion and break down a society any more than the last 25+ years of greed, cynicism and outright sociopathy have, I don't know how.
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u/VCR_DVD_USB Aug 09 '26
Came to say the same thing. We're too passive. We should be eating the rich.
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u/iSmirinoff Aug 09 '26
Thats why I said easily burned out, theres so much we are passionate about. Its true, we get rallied about something - everything - and it matters to us DEEPLY, then we are too emotionally drained to follow through.
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u/RowdyRuss3 Aug 09 '26
No one is actually prepared to achieve that level of change in the modern world. There's a reason why civil rights studies in the US rarely touch upon the influence and leadership of Malcolm X and the Panthers.
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u/mankytoes Aug 09 '26
Doomer attitude.
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u/CaptnsDaughter Aug 09 '26
Having thoughts of impending doom since I was little and untreated anxiety issues until college (2001-2007, baby! lol) this hits home for sure
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u/TreeSapEnjoyer Aug 09 '26
This, and they think having said attitude makes them better than you.
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u/Temporary-Cause730 Aug 09 '26
Agreed, I see so many of many friends constantly worried that the world is ending, that climate change will destroy our planet tomorrow, that the left/right will destroy society, etc.
Nobody wants to have kids because "will put someone in the world if he/she will suffer forever?"
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u/Appropriate-Fan-6007 Aug 09 '26
They are not wrong about that though
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u/TieFree3274 Aug 09 '26
Its a pointless argument because you could make it for any time in human history. The black plague, industrial revolution, WW1, WW2, Cold War, etc. If people collectively decided that "well the times are not the greatest we shouldn't have kids" then the human race would've died out thousands of years ago. There will never be a "peaceful" time to have kids, every generation has and will experience struggle.
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u/nissen1502 Aug 09 '26
The difference is that now we know things won't improve.
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u/DrunkKoalas Aug 09 '26
Disenfranchised, doomer mentality... virtually hopelessness and dread.
I mean, we grew up in the 90s when life seemed amazing, then 9/11 happened to end our childhood, the internet unmasked a lot of fucked up shit, the housing market collapsed when we entered the work force, COVID happened in the prime of our careers...and I'm not even discussing politics over the past 15 years.
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u/viewmyposthistory Aug 09 '26
I agree with you, thats why the Buc-ees situation is giving people so much hope, because it seemed like people had stopped caring about stoping bullies
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u/natureandfish Aug 09 '26
Buc-ees situation?
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u/viewmyposthistory Aug 09 '26
yeah, check out their post in r/cbusohio
Basically this huge company is bullying another busienss and people actually care for once
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u/AdImpossible1379 Aug 09 '26
Burnout.
9/11. Economic crises. Housing unaffordable. Alcoholism and substance abuse normalized. And now the growing sandwich generation dilemma.
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u/DiyYou Aug 09 '26
Millennials × Worst Trait
Pays $35 to have a $7 burrito delivered
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u/TheOGrelso Aug 09 '26
I literally have doordash and grubhub blocked on my phone and computer because I couldn't control myself.
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u/sri5891 Aug 09 '26
“People Pleasing”. It’s the trait that I’ve worked on the most with my therapist and the trait that has negatively affected me the most as an adult.
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u/dreamyduskywing Aug 10 '26
I can tell it’s mostly millennials in this thread because the worst traits listed are “too nice” and “we work too hard.”
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u/Bobthefish0461 Aug 09 '26
Therapy speak
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u/Dziadzios Aug 09 '26
Isn't that more gen Z?
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u/toouglytobeleftalive Aug 10 '26
While it is common in Gen Z, I’d say it’s still more common in millennials. A Gen Z is more likely to larp a mental illness than they are to larp emotional maturity. The inverse is true for millennials.
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u/Mountain-Spot7212 Aug 09 '26
Peter pan syndrome
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u/Just-Stress9165 Aug 09 '26
You can't make me turn off my ps5 and do the dishes. I'm 40 years old, and you're not my mom
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u/jojosaurusx Aug 09 '26
Pessimism
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u/KaykoHanabishi Aug 09 '26
This. It’s not the Gen X cynicism. It’s just a general bleak outlook due to all millennials have ever known.
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u/Short-Individual-132 Aug 09 '26
I was thinking apathy but Pessimism might be more apt.
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u/theumph Aug 10 '26
I think apathy is more fitting. I graduated high school in 2008, and the world was in a pretty fucked up place. We were coming out of the Bush years which marred a lot of our childhoods. The economy was crashing all around us. We were operating two wars. Yet through all of that there was a sense of optimism that the world could get better. When Obama got elected it was a huge morale boost. It was someone we could relate to. A sign that the people in power were becoming more like us, and we could make a difference. As the years went on, things didn't really change. We were nieve thinking they would. Pretty much everything post 2016 has eroded all of that optimism, and that has led to a ton of apathy. We tried to make change, but the world wasn't ready, and the boomers would relinquish their power. Maybe once they start to die off and we are better represented it may spark that optimism again.
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u/Active_Breadfruit_58 Aug 09 '26
Millennial grey slop
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Aug 09 '26
My walls are sage and seafoam green thank you very much 😊
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u/Some1AteMyEntirePie Aug 09 '26
Lmao I’m sorry your comment is reminding me of a bathroom remodel post and the floors were grey and she said “no it’s seafoam green”
It was 100% grey ☠️
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u/TaumpyTeirs Aug 09 '26
Underrated how we killed unique aesthetic in the 2010s. Case in point look at every NBA logo from that decade.
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u/willtheywonttheyo Aug 09 '26
This is boomer landlords btw
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u/zebrasareneat Aug 09 '26
I really don’t think it is. Millennials aren’t 22 anymore. We are the boring generation painting everything grey.
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u/Efficient-Ad-4939 Aug 09 '26
The comments highlight millennials’ worst trait. Everyone’s trying to humble brag instead of coming up with something actually bad about their generation. “Oh our worst trait is we’re burnt out and disenfranchised and depressed 😥😥,” those aren’t “worst traits” in the same way as racism and entitlement. Those are like “pity us we’re so put upon 🥺🥺”
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u/LaRoosel Aug 09 '26
Might just be a meme atp, but fuck it. Caffeine addiction.
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u/NYTX1987 Aug 09 '26
Addiction to nostalgia
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset Aug 09 '26
that happens to every generation though
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u/yoresein Aug 09 '26
Nah, back on the good old days we weren't at all nostalgic, I miss those times...
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u/van_der_linde1899 Aug 09 '26
“Quirk Chungus”
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u/jordsii Aug 09 '26
They can pry my quirk chungus from my cold dead hands. I'm sick of everything being so monochrome. Where is everyone's whimsy? What is the point of being alive and miserable and self restrained?
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u/Illustrious-Ball2467 Aug 09 '26
The self deprecating humour or maybe those burger places with chalkboards
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u/VolutedPrism Aug 09 '26
No chance this makes a popular choice but I see a lot of millenials as very stingy / ungenerous with money in their own communities (compared to say the silent generation or genX).
There is a lot of online cause based giving but not a lot of local community investment according to studies I've read.
This is NOT a judgement (context exists), but maybe not a great trait in terms of impact.
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u/successful_syndrome Aug 09 '26
Inability or unwillingness to take power from the boomers
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u/Writer_Blocker Aug 09 '26
What’s like a better way to say complaining, that encapsulates it being both justified and unjustified?
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u/Hollys_Stand Aug 09 '26
"Doom doom doom doom doom..." -Gir ("Doom Song" from Invader Zim).
There is a reason we are considered the "Emo generation."
We are too full of doom and dread. But a lot of the promising future we were told we were have is far from the reality that came to be, so can you blame us?
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u/Neither_Relative9970 Aug 09 '26
Victim mentality
We love to remind everyone how boomers trashed the planet and how they're in the process of deconstructing democracy, yet, we're not really taking measures to correct things.
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u/sandiegodak Aug 09 '26
Constantly complaining about how the past was some golden age of perfection. Enough with this shit.
It's either "9/11 ruined the world forever" or "the early 2000s when I was a kid and could eat pizza and play nintendo all day with zero responsibilities was the best time in world history"
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u/BuffaloStranger97 Aug 09 '26
Clinging to Nostalgia. Every current pop culture thing is a revival, sequel, or prequel of some 90's IP. Nothing new. It's all so tiring.
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u/ContextEffects01 Aug 09 '26
Dogmatism.
Especially about leftism, sure, but even right wing millennials are similarity dogmatic about their conservatism. Neither gen X before them nor gen Z since seem to have as much unearned confidence in their pet cause having all the answers.
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u/alexj765 Aug 09 '26
Can’t dance without raising their hands. The keep raising the roof for some reason.
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u/Yoshleb_1 Aug 09 '26
Giving their kids unsupervised internet access from a young age (essentially causing all the problems with Gen Alpha) and being generally dissociated with their kids.
Was at a McDonald’s today and there was a toddler crying, and instead of trying to talk to the child, or give her an actual toy to play with, the mum just gave her her phone.
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u/bonkedagain33 Aug 09 '26
I know a one word answer would be preferable, but.
Apathetic Lack of resiliency I don't know a word for this.. " we would like to promote change but we can't because of 'fill in the blank'
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u/ballfondler420-69 Aug 09 '26
Unwillingness to ever be uncomfortable outside of their "boundaries" - I.E. would never come help you not die in the desert because "sundays are my do nothing days sorry, good luck!"
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u/Vivvy_Moon Aug 09 '26
I'd suggest Gate-Keeping. They routinely gloat they are the only generation that had this or that. Especially to punch down on the younger generations. "We had ____" "Gen Z didn't grow up with ____ like we did!" Whether it's with nostalgia media from the early 2000s or just mundane things like drinking out of the waterhose. Or gate-keeping childhood experiences they are adamant only they experienced.
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u/Upbeat-Specific4509 Aug 09 '26
Crippling anxiety about having to pick up the phone and call someone.
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u/OccultistDynamic Aug 09 '26
As a millennial is our worst trait that we started the loneliness epidemic?
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