50 Funny And Relatable Memes To Share With Your Millennial Friends (New Pics)
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Becoming an adult is all fun and games until you realize your back hurts and now you need to figure out taxes. Soon enough, a solid Friday night involves a movie and some snacks, and midnight is seen as a pretty late bedtime.
The “I Am Thirty AF” Instagram page is dedicated to hilarious and painfully relatable Millennial memes. We got in touch with the page’s admins to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, be sure to comment your thoughts below, and check out our previous article on adulting memes.
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Bored Panda got in touch with Peter and Chloe, the pair behind “I Am Thirty AF” and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. We wanted to hear how they balanced humor and relatability in their content. “Humor is absolutely a big part of what we're going for, but I'd say the biggest thing that engages and connects our following of millennials/30-somethings is relatability. That relatability can and often does come through something we all find to be funny, but can also be anything from shared anxieties to commentary on what it is like being in your 30s to nostalgic experiences we all have in common from growing up in the 90s/00s.”
“The Internet is FILLED with things that are pulling us apart, creating division, and making us feel alone. We are trying to be a space that is the opposite of that. When feeling down and overwhelmed after perusing the comments section of a news article, you can come on over to our page and connect with people about how weird it was that so many 90s toys had a feature that allowed said toy to piss itself or wondering how we all knew how to draw that weird S thing when the internet really didn't exist yet (truly- this one is so bizarre- followers from all over the world have commented saying they grew up drawing it too... where did it come from?!).“
One diabetes specialist kept suggesting this to my MIL for more than a year. She was so sure that the back pain is caused by the weight, she would sometimes even scold my MIL for complaining about the pain. One day the pain became unbearable and we had to rush her to the emergency. After different tests, they found it was breast cancer and the cancerous cells had spread all over the back. She had 3 cracks in her spine. It was already 4th stage and not even one year after finding the cause, she died. The whole family is still furious with the doctor. The younger ones sometimes used to make plans to vandalise her clinic. (They didn't do it, it was just anger)
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'I did bloodwork to determine what is wrong with you. ...the results were within normal limits, so you'll have to call in two weeks to find that out from a nurse, but only when your anxiety has reached a fever pitch...'cause /I'm/ not going to call you. And even though your symptoms persist and the bloodwork gave us no answers, I have no follow up questions, and my interest in the matter has never been nor could it ever be lower.' -My doctor
Luckily, when I was a teen with a mystery illness, I had a doctor who was determined to figure it out and promised me she would get me a diagnosis - all of the other doctors I’d visited before her came to the conclusion I was faking it for attention or out of depression. Turns out I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which took my doctor several months of various tests to figure out, but she fulfilled her promise to me. Because of her, I decided to go to med school and become a doctor, and now that I’m a doctor, I take a leaf from her book and I never dismiss what a patient is telling me. The best part is, I got to work with my hero doctor for 5 years before she retired.
Gonna think of that in case the upcoming scans of my abdominal pains don't give any real result
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These days you often don't get a diagnosis, you get 'Here's a list of several things we think it isn't (but we can't be sure).'
I had a knee surgery a few years ago where they placed some screws in my bones. Two of them were too long and their ends poked out of the bone on the inner side of my knee making it impossible for me to bend said knee. You could even see this on the x-ray. But it took the doctors several weeks to admit that they made a mistake and they had some wild theories why I couldn't use my joint the way it is supposed to be - including "Maybe you are just afraid of bending your knee because it hurts a bit." Well... yeah.
Yeah, I've met those doctors too. Grim. BUT. :-) The reason they do that? They're TERRIFIED. Of: 1) being wrong- frowned on in Medicine. 2) The INSURANCE companies - who are back-seat driving all the time now- and screwing up the doctor's whole world.
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Here, take this drug. And take this other drug to manage the side effects of the first drug...
100% when your doctor is a man and you are a woman.
No when you're a woman it's "it's probably hormones" or "When was your last period?"
Load More Replies... Yes, yes, ALL TRUE- and I've got more stories than you do. BUT !!! I'm a biological researcher, and I can tell you the Doctors are in a VERY tough place these days. Half of the conditions that come back from all the tests? Were UNKNOWN when they went to Med school. And are barely beginning to be understood now. I try to cultivate an attitude of "we're in this together" - and good doctors join up pretty fast, when you show a little sympathy. :-)
When we were kids, the doctors would give a physical exam and suggest medicine. And it used to work most of the times. In last 2 decades, no matter who I go to, first thing they want is to run tests. They will not even suggest anything unless they see the test results. More than 50% of times, the tests came negative to whatever they thought it was. Such a waste of money for the patient
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My doctor. We did the blood test it's not diabetes still hasn't done more than work out a few things it isn't.
Or ‘have you considered it’s just in your head’. I heard that before they found out I have a very bad endometriosis….
"this may be your new normal', "it's all in your head", "it's YOUR fault because you are doing....blah blah blah....or NOT doing blah blah etc", "let's try this new medicine, some of its side effects might actually help", and "i am referring you to every specialist i know of so i dont have to admit i dont know".......
Nurse to doctor: "Female patient is complaining of pain in her left thumb after it was shut in a care door." Doctor to patient: "the no skin or bone is broken so you don't need pain killers. Use Ice for swelling. If you still feel pain tomorrow, consider losing 25 pounds."
Or, you "should stop smoking or at least cut down of the 5 packs a day!"
Seems anymore they just shrug instead of finding the reason and then just say 'you're fine'. I am NOT fine.
"A test could help determine your illness, but some random person at an insurance company said nah."
I had undiagnosed HCV. My doctor gave me a bag, literally, of anti-depressant samples the pharma rep had dropped off that week. Let's all cheer for the US health system. Took months before an eagle-eyed nurse noticed my blood results were highly suspicious.
Psychosomatic. That's what just about everything is if you have depression or anxiety. My stomach issues too until I started vomiting blood. Even after being diagnosed with a hernia that was causing severe acid reflux I've heard how my mood might affect it from those who said it was psychosomatic. Which, no, it's physical and quantifiable
The doctors in shows must have much available time. To my knowledge, there are still waiting lists and a lack of medical personnel do there is no time to focus on one case extensively. There are other patients waiting which can be helped easily. If I were a doctor I'd love the occasional mystery in between the same old everyday.
Actually, send the patient away to get a blood draw, then when the results come in, message them that everything looks good and see you next year! Responsibility dodged again.
11 years. 11 years before doctors stopped saying " you are getting older, these things happen" annd realised i had auto immune.
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I only own a house because I inherited it, there's no way I could've got one otherwise
“You can laugh over the shared experience of being 30-something and suddenly finding the idea of going to a loud bar at 11 PM to be the LAST thing you'd like to spend your night doing when only 5 years ago it sounded like a fun night out. You can bond with absolute strangers over the shared experience of our parents straight up lying to us as kids about how turning on the overhead light in the car was ILLEGAL at night (turns out it very much is not),” they shared. For those interested in bonding over more millennial humor, feel free to peruse Bored Panda’s other articles getting older.
“Do you have a moment of panic that your identity will be stolen if you forget to take your receipt at the gas pump? Turns out you're not alone! These tiny bits of life that maybe you've never really put much thought into before are things we love to bring to the forefront on our page and get people talking about shared experiences and fun things that connect us rather than pull us apart.” These days, as millennials age a bit more, their concerns have expanded, with the average US thirty-something being $28,000 in debt.
6 weeks off (guaranteed) for employees in Germany. It's still not enough 😒 Edit: it's paid, too
Some readers may know that “I Am Thirty AF” graces Bored Panda’s Funny section pretty frequently. The page has been around for a while. That’s why we wanted to know how Peter and Chloe handle challenges in maintaining the page and coming up with new content. “Social Media is constantly evolving and how people engage with these platforms and the types of content we post changes too.”
I hated that story so much. Even as a kid I never understood how one can fall in love with someone whom you don't know at all..
“The types of content that really resonated with our following in 2020 probably won't have the same impact today. We were very much a covid born brand and so much of what we were focusing on back then was centered around the fact that a lot of us were suddenly spending a lot more time at home and on our phones than we had previously. We collaborated a lot with small businesses to try to help them reach people since they had to shut the doors of their shops for so long.” This is, incidentally, quite in line with research that suggests that Millennials are and probably will be digital natives.
“We also spent a ton of time creating interactive content and games for people to spend their time on while stuck at home. For example, we bracketed every NOW! That's What I Call Music album from NOW 1 through NOW 20 and then faced off the winning track from each NOW bracket in an all-stars round to determine the greatest bop of all time (Baby One More Time, of course). This process spanned over a year and a half and people got really into it! By the time we did our final round, we had over 200K people voting every day.“
“But life is really different now than it was in 2020/2021 and content that takes a bit of time to engage with and requires you to keep coming back every day, like voting all week long in a 20-frame bracket series- isn't something people seem to have as much time for now, so we've switched things up! We're focusing more on live events, getting out and connecting with our followers at FUNNY AF! comedy shows (so far just in NYC and LA but we're expanding!) or this global scavenger hunt called Nostalgia Grabs that we run where we hide packages filled with nostalgic treasures for people to find (starting up again this spring- keep an eye out!). This is honestly such a fun job because we keep reinventing how we spend our time and what we post, and it keeps it interesting and entertaining for both of us as well as our following.“
We also wanted to know what criteria they had for selecting and posting content. “Giving credit and connecting with creators is a really important focus for us. We also try really hard to share content that isn't alienating or triggering to people. We absolutely have blindspots and mess up from time to time, but we are constantly monitoring DMs and comments and do take feedback from followers/use that feedback to shape what we share moving forward.”
“For the past year we've shared a different themed roundup every morning featuring a carousel of 10 memes all on a single topic, the topic can range from experiences in a grocery store to Disney movies to books we read growing up. These have been really fun and take a lot of time putting together/coming up with the themes we'll feature each day. A lot of the criteria recently for the content we post is finding things that fit into different themes we're building carousels for! We have a lot of fun with these and post them every morning between 8 and 9 AM Eastern... check them out!”
When I was 8 I discovered the joys of a brand new Pilot G2 0.7 mm black-ink pen. I don't think I was ever a kid
And "mum has a headache and is lying down" was code for mums got clinical depression and can't function today.
Especially since this is how you'll be spending your future together anyway
So if you enjoyed this approach to memes, Peter and Chloe left us with some parting thoughts. “We're growing! Check out our food page iamstarvingaf, our work page iamemployedaf, and our new mental health-themed page iamokayaf! We're also pretty active on Threads- see you there!” And if you want to keep checking out more of iamthirtyaf’s memes, Bored Panda has got you covered.
It definitely was. I made 8 bucks an hour an shared a big beautiful house with 4 other people for 250 a piece. It was glorious.
I have a laptop bag...busting with documents. Someone is in for a depressing surprise if they steal it.
Note: this post originally had 89 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Some of these are old, when it says new pics. Does that bother anyone else or uhm.....
99% of the time it says new pics, I know it’s going to be a lie. Sometimes I enjoy seeing some again. Others I groan at them never going away!!
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Some of these are old, when it says new pics. Does that bother anyone else or uhm.....
99% of the time it says new pics, I know it’s going to be a lie. Sometimes I enjoy seeing some again. Others I groan at them never going away!!
Load More Replies... Unrelated, but this is a weirdness I stumbled upon. On some random posts, you can hover your mouse somewhere on that block, and there is other text to read. Did you know? It's first for me. This image is from post #36. randomstuf...nsored.jpg
