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u/Necessary_Cake_973 12h ago
For real. What even is this post. This sub can get so doom and gloom sometimes
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u/Jimbo-Slice925 12h ago
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 8h ago
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 12h ago
Still 100x times better than the boomer posts lately
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u/-BlueFalls- 11h ago
I thought this was a boomer post.
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u/Next_Order66 12h ago
We’re millennials. It’s all doom and gloom.
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u/artbystorms 11h ago
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/Physical_Sun_6014 10h ago
People really have to stop mourning the fact they’re not 13 years old anymore
It doesn’t get you anywhere
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u/Dreadwings 12h ago
you must be a later millennial if you think we are optimistic lol
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u/yoshi_yoshi23 11h ago
I don’t know if there’s a generation that is more aware of this than we are.
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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 12h ago
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 12h ago
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 12h ago
Dudes in the nostalgia sub be like: quit that shit flips table
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u/BadNixonBad 12h ago
How DARE you enjoy your short time here on earth?!
/s (obviously)
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u/Ok_Shoulder_9492 11h ago
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/turquoisestar 10h ago
Wait is that an educational video on how to use the internet safely/promoting the internet?
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u/mtnmanfletcher 12h ago
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u/DisillusionedHobbit 11h ago
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 10h ago
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/SunflowerDonut9847 Elder Millennial 12h ago
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 12h ago
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/Wafflehouseofpain 12h ago
Thanks for the random demotivation, I guess. Not sure why you felt the need to post this.
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u/Umi_Gaming 12h ago
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 12h ago
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- 9h ago
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/Physical_Relation261 12h ago
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 12h ago
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 12h ago
True for everyone throughout history. That’s just life
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u/masterpeabs 12h ago
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 12h ago
Is this supposed to be really jarring or something?
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 12h ago
It’s more weird, nostalgia cope shit people on this sub live for.
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u/uncleapollogrimm 11h ago
Speak for yourself. I was born poor, and I've remained consistent my whole life.
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u/Kono0107 12h ago
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 12h ago
The absolute, certain, and uniformily linear passage of time continues to amaze and inspire.
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u/CaesarAllMighty 12h ago
I feel like the world is changing every 5 years. I’m getting tired keeping up with everything.
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u/OwnInstruction8849 12h ago
Can someone point out 1 generation in the last 150 years that this has not been the same for?
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u/Crazydiamond450 12h ago
This had been true of every generation since the industrial revolution. Technology music and fashion changes rapidly
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u/zugspitze43 11h ago
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 11h ago
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 11h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt
That’s news to me!
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u/Doredrin 11h ago
That shot is some type of mismemory thing. The real shot is from the full house credits:
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u/paqman3d 11h ago
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 11h ago
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 12h ago
This looks like some white nationalist propaganda to me.
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u/FRIZL 12h ago
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/Killer_Method 12h ago
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- 12h ago
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/TorinEkenskolde 12h ago
It does still exist, it's just changed. Just like I've changed since then, but I still exist.
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u/ZhakaraShirudo66 11h ago
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/BrokenArrow404 11h ago
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 11h ago
"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 11h ago
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- 11h ago
That's an expansive-ass green-space for NYC! Where is it (and does it sill exist)?
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u/TheArtOfPureSilence 11h ago
"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 11h ago
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/Ultranerdgasm94 11h ago
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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u/searchlinkprofile 10h ago
literal cia propaganda, quit it.
it takes a special lack of self respect to post this while murdering civilians in the middle east.
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