101 Funny And Relatable Posts To Share With Your Millennial Friends (New Pics)
InterviewNo generation has it easy, but being a millennial comes with what seems like more challenges than normal. It sometimes feels like you’re living in a never-ending series of global crises while also wondering how to save up for a home while affording groceries. It’s no wonder then why so many people turn to nostalgic content as a distraction.
The ‘Millennial Misery’ Instagram account shares some incredibly relatable and funny memes that you’ll probably enjoy if you’re a member of Generation Y. We’ve picked out the most nostalgic and fun of the bunch to share with you. Scroll down to take a peek!
Bored Panda reached out to Jamie Jackson, the founder of the 'Millennial Misery' account, and she was kind enough to answer our questions. You'll find her thoughts below.
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We got them every Earth Day in Elementary school. I'd always plant mine, and at some point in time it would always get ran over when mowing XD
We planted to in 1990, in honor of my grandfather who had recently passed. They are now tall and strong! I never imagines they would grow to full size, and it's crazy seeing them now in all their glory and remembering the day i brought home the little springs wrapped in wet paper towels haha
Load More Replies...We were interested in how Jackson sees millennials, as well as what sets them apart from other generations. "At the core of being a true millennial lies a delicate balance between existential dread and artisanal joy," the creator of 'Millennial Misery' told Bored Panda in an email.
"We’re the generation that will spiral into a quarter-life crisis, then soothe ourselves with a $7 oat milk latte and a weighted blanket," she said.
"We survived dial-up internet, watched the rise and fall of MySpace, and still mourn the loss of Vine like it was a national tragedy."
I tell people all the time how important it is to memorize the phone numbers of at least two or three of your closest contacts. Phones can be broken or stolen in a critical situation and not being able to contact someone you need quickly can make a bad situation that much worse. No one ever listens to me.
An easy way to do this is to manually dial those people every time you call them. You'll have the number memorized in no time
Load More Replies...Our parents told us to go outside and play and we would would ride bikes all over town until it was time to go home for dinner.
If I could, I would go back there in a heartbeat 💓
Load More Replies...Back in the day I had dozens of phone numbers memorized. Now I know exactly two; mine and my wife's. The rest are written on a business card in my wallet in case of some emergency when I need to contact another family member and my phone isn't accessible.
I still remember two of my childhood numbers and my Mamaw's. She's had the same number all my life.
Load More Replies...According to Jackson, what sets millennials apart is their "uncanny ability to turn any life event into a meme," alongside their "deep emotional connection to Harry Potter despite being full-grown adults."
She added that something else that's unique about Gen Y is their "commitment to using avocado as both a food group and a personality trait."
"We invented the phrase 'I can’t even' and truly, sometimes—we just can’t. Also, we may not own homes, but by god, our houseplants are thriving."
You were allowed to have a water bottle? We had to line up for the rusty fountain where a teacher would count to three for each kid.
bold of you to assume that there's only coffee in those iced coffees
OMG. I actually did that and sold it to another student for his lunch money.
The weird thing for me was being mistaken for an adult when I was a teenager and now to be mistaken for a teenager when I am now an adult.
I’m often mistaken for a sigma because I have so much Skibidi Rizzler.
At 42, when facing crisis, a problem or in need of advice, i still look around for the adult adult in the room.
Bored Panda was also curious to get Jackson's thoughts on how content creators can stand out from the crowd on social media.
"The memes that stand out are the ones that hit you right in the oddly specific feels. I’m talking about the ones that make you laugh, then immediately spiral into an identity crisis like, 'Wait… how does this stranger on the internet know I still think about that cringey thing I said in 2009?' We really all lived the same lives..." she said.
From her perspective, the "magic formula" for truly great content is combining nostalgia with absurd relatability and unhinged timing.
"Also, if a meme makes me actually LOL while questioning my life choices and also craving Dunkaroos? You win."
I am an electronic music composer. I burn CDs all the time to listen to the music on various stereo systems and to give to friends.
No, what’s really sad is that new cars don’t have cd players, or tape players or 8-track tape players either 🙀
Load More Replies...Umm I still burn a couple of DVD's every year. And keep my DVD-R drive (what?) so I can read all the discs I've burned.
Never say never. My 8-year old watched Guardians of the Galaxy and requested a mixed tape. Tapes and Walkman are nowhere to be found so I made him a mixed CD and I’m now his hero
Last week, in fact, for a friend who has an older car with CD changer, but no aux for MP3 LOL
pls tell me why I fall asleep immediately if I;m in the couch, but I toss and turn for hours in bed?
Millennials fundamentally have a close relationship with technology. Born between 1981 and 1996, the members of Generation Y (aka Gen Y) are the first to be born into a truly digital world.
Investopedia notes that they’re digital natives, as tech has been a part of their everyday lives. Just one example is the fact that millennials check their phones an estimated 150 times a day.
Some researchers argue that millennials should be defined to include people born in 1980 or even 2004. But most commonly, anyone born before 1981 is labeled as Generation X (Gen X), while those born after 1996 are part of Generation Z (Gen Z, whose members are colloquially called Zoomers).
Those born right on the cusp between Gen Y and Gen Z are sometimes referred to as millennials, and they might sometimes find it hard to tell which generation they truly belong to.
Every once in a while I'll go back and listen to one of the early NOW that's what I call music. Pure magic.
I don't remember "yanks plank away" being discussed on career day. Pity, I look good in green.
Where do you see them yanking them away? This is so the actors can lean in non-natural positions, without wires.
Load More Replies...It's kinda scary to think that eventually, the millennial generation will be the last living humans to walk the earth who will have experienced and remember life before computers and the internet...
I dunno, one good CME, and we won't have those, or electricity anymore, at least for awhile.
Load More Replies...Investopedia notes that millennials are typically more progressive and less religious. In the US, they are the biggest generation in terms of numbers. Unfortunately, due to the wealth gap, members of Gen Y start off with less household income.
Millennials are also burdened by huge amounts of student loan debt. The upside? They are incredibly energetic, typically follow their career or leisure ambitions, and embrace travel.
There's one in my home town, still with the distinctive architecture, that has been converted into a funeral home.
Good that they still use the ovens then.
Load More Replies...Does anyone else see other restaurant healings? You never forget the classic styles of Church's Chicken, Taco Bell, KFC, and more....cause you can put new food inside but still SMELL the other place.....maybe that is just me?
I hope they keep the shape of the roof and replace the brown roof with a red one.
I can remember being shown a mechanical adding machine - good for maths, but useless for money as we had pounds, shillings and pence (£1 = 20 shillings = 240 pence)
My son (7th grade) is taking coding, typing, AND home ec this semester. It's a glorious time to be a schoolkid.
According to Statista, millennials are “quickly becoming the world’s most active group of consumers.” Naturally, this means that lots of companies focus their marketing campaigns and the media they produce to target Gen Y. Broadly speaking, millennials are major consumers of tech products, especially smartphones, tablets, computers, and gaming consoles.
As more members of Gen Y continue working their way up their career ladder, they become an ever more important part of the economy.
I always wondered what about a light case of Crohn's
Load More Replies...It's like seeing your childhood toys for sale at the antique store. That moment hit me like a window shade flapping out of control. Whapwapwapwap...
Or talking about music with young people. I was in a discussion once and said I liked old country music. The reply I got back was "Oh, like Hank Junior." I said "No, like Hank SENIOR."
Load More Replies...I'm old enough to remember the betrayal I felt when Nike used The Beatles "Revolution" in an ad. The horror.
You can blame Michael Jackson for that. He did it to p**s off Paul McCartney.
Load More Replies...My grandma was a dull cold woman. Her ashes were gray 🤷♀️
Load More Replies...‘Millennial Misery’ first found its way on Instagram in mid-2021. In the several years since it was created, the account has grown by leaps and bounds.
Currently, a whopping 1.7 million people follow it on social networks for the freshest content. Though the memes are geared mainly toward millennials, aka Generation Y (hi!), everyone can enjoy the nostalgia and humor.
The ‘Millennial Misery’ account is part of a wider network run by the founder of the project, Jamie Jackson—aka the Chief Meme Officer. She also runs the popular Humorous Resources account and has recently created Parody Parenting, too.
“My goal is to create a safe place for work professionals to commiserate about their corporate lives, millennials to submerge themselves in nostalgia, and HR professionals to escape from the ridiculousness of HR,” Jackson writes on her website.
Eat something weird? Pffft... we threw lawn darts at each other!
And we liked it! And it saves me 50% on prescription eyeglasses!
Load More Replies...Who invented the idea that not having a parent at home every single moment of the day and night was sad and meant they didn't love you?
I agree. Anyone with a brain would say "Hey my parents had to work."
Load More Replies...Yeah, my hours were way longer than just two XD Most of the time I just got on the computer
before 'latchkey kids' we were the generation that left the house in the summer & on wkends to roam the neighborhood & hang out with friends. didn't come home until supper or streetlights--sometimes just ate at a friends house. We were one of the last generations to have this kind of freedom. My children were the last. We EARNED our independence & relished it.
As an only child, it was when I'd watch MTV music videos and Beavis and B******d before my mom got home from work and subjected me to watching the news and PBS documentaries 😂
Really. Bütthead is a naughty word now? If you let me say murder...
Load More Replies...When we were around 12/13, we would watch reruns of Oz that I secretly recorded every night. By the time mum figured out I was watching that show, I'd already seen pretty much every episode. xD
My sister and held forks to each others’ jugular veins, screaming “today you will die!!” We’d get bored half an hour later and make up.
That being a latchkey kid was SAD because the social make-wrong was parent shaming - mostly the mother because they could not afford that 1950s insistence on what was "right" and how dare a woman work.
Wow you got left alone? My mother just sent me across the road to be m*olested. Boy you were lucky.
I can't stand how the younger generations only know how to b-itch and moan and make everything about themselves as if they are the only humans in existence to ever have it "hard".
Those coddled little snot nose sissies have no idea what having it hard even means.
Load More Replies...hence 35% of them not voting and us endingup with Don-The-Con in the WH destroying everything our forefathers created 250 yrs ago
Stop paying attention to the mainstream news and look for positive news. I get daily email newsletters from The Optimist Daily and The Good News Network and its been great for my mental health. Feel free to ignore me if you're American. You guys have every reason to be freaking out .
And WHAT are YOU dong to make a better world? Other than whining...
13 year old me hade orgasmdonor@somethingmail.com (hides face in shame)
Load More Replies...I can testify to that as I have one from 1996-use it every day 😉
Load More Replies...I have had my first email address (and ise it daily!) for 26 years.
My Hotmail address is so old it's actually my real name with no numbers or symbols! And it's not an unusual name, either!
When I was 10, you still needed a military ID or an ARPAnet timeshare account to have an email address...
Been using what 6 year old me thought was a good idea a quarter of a century ago. Too much effort to redirect it to a boring email name now.
Previously, Bored Panda got in touch with the creator of the ‘Millennial Misery’ project, Jackson, to hear all about its history and the inspiration behind it.
“I created a corporate meme page called @Humorous_Resources first, but being an elder millennial myself, I had nostalgia content I wanted to create and share,” she said.
Until it doesn't. I discovered I am lactose intolerant. Also about ten years ago a study linked the protein in dairy products to prostate cancer and even breast cancer. Then that study vanished. You think maybe the dairy industry had something to do with that?
Load More Replies...And if you are lactose intolerant like me, you have to get lactose free milk or plant based milk.
My lactose tolerant baby innards left me when I stopped being a nursing baby.
I mean, yeah, because it's disgusting and the product of a cruel industry.
Load More Replies...I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want
Load More Replies...I even know who each shoe belongs to. Starting at 12 and going clockwise, that's Posh, Baby, Ginger, Scary and Sporty.
“Millennials have really experienced some pretty wild life events growing up, and we could all use a little humor to survive the trauma,” Jackson told us during an earlier interview. She was also kind enough to share what sets millennial humor and life apart from other generations.
“We (millennials) love to make fun of ourselves. From our fashion to our lack of money to afford a home from all the avocado toast we eat! Millennials have received blame for [destroying] so many things from department stores to the doorbell—I love joking about the idiocracy of it all.”
At least your family had some good ones. Raising Arizona was an early Cohen brothers classic along with Blood Simple
Load More Replies...Oh God the amount of times I have seen monster squad. I had to hide it from my brothers
I remember how incredibly expensive our first VHS player was, for two broke college students: $400. And it was a used player!
Nobody knows how to use the printer. That’s why the printer scene in Office Space is so hilarious.
Two of my most satisfying emotional cathartic experiences involved smashing and kicking jammed printers.
My mom recently got a new printer. One of those monstrosities with "refillable" cartridge wells that is also wireless via an app. I set everything up in 20 mins but told her it only worked through the computer it's connected to and cancelled the auto-ship of ink when the machine "detects low levels". F all that nonsense. The only stuff she needs to print is driving directions and itineraries. Should last her plenty more than suggested. OH! and the stupid machine wasted 1/3 of each cartridge in only doing the initial set-up. Ridiculous!
For those saying that it's not correct- It's someone looking at a photo, lets say from 2070 or there about's... (that's my take anyway)
I knew a woman who became a grandmother at age 29 and a great-grandmother at age 44.
Funny, how many people in comments have no imagination. And also accurate for the years 2080-2100.
Aaarrgh - Goodness sakes it's a joke based on old Southern stereotype of very young parents yeesh
Jackson noted that millennials “love to submerge themselves” in nostalgia. “I believe it makes us feel safe like we are kids again. It’s not about your political stance, religion, or race—it’s about remembering the innocence of our childhood,” she shared her thoughts about reminiscing about the past.
A lot of the “look a lot older than they were” actors disappeared as smoking became less common.
Roberts Blossom was 66 in 1990, the year Home Alone came out.
Which of these awesome memes did you enjoy the most? Which posts did you forward to your friends because they were just so relatable, dear Pandas? Are you from Gen Y or a different generation entirely? What do you personally believe are the biggest signs that someone’s a millennial? We’d love to hear what you think!
That is a Sony brand which sounded pretty good. Most of those stereo rack systems cost less than $100, came from Walmart, and sounded like garbage.
For a brief period, Altoids made a super strong mint gum and I miss it so much.
This is super strong. Also, it's made with real chicle instead of polyvinal acetate. https://www.simplygum.com/
Load More Replies...What about the selection of caffeinated mints that were all the rage?
I'm looking at this pink thing and thinking about something naughty. Sometimes I miss my pre-Internet brain.
We used those tubes at the large grocery store I first worked at. If you need more change or smaller notes for the till you’d scribble on a bit of paper what you wanted and dropped 100 bill in there. 2min later the tube came back with the change. I used to try fart in it too and send it.
My old iPod was like this. A friend was amazed that Rachel Steven’s was followed by Rachmaninov.
My playlists were always like this, including when I was a college deejay in the late 80's, early 90's. You're not so new and special.
Sometimes I think the 2012 predictions were right on point, with the only exception that the End of the World will be slow, veeeery slow, and painful...
Was life great then? Or were you just at a great point in your own life then? Nostalgia is a powerful force currently being used for evil...
Or the European financials crisis of the 90’s.
Load More Replies...B***h we were doing that with NES games before you were a glint in your daddy's eye
If you're nostalgic for that taste, you can make it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MvjFaTVzE
I knew exactly what video that was going to be before I clicked it. Max Miller is a treasure.
Load More Replies...I flew last week and the fight attendants appeared to be passing out cartons of chocolate milk. I was weirdly excited until they handed me a carton of water. Which tasted of cardboard. It could have at least tasted like hose water.
My kid still will not eat pizza because none of it tastes like his elementary school pizza. I need to call them and get the recipe...
I had the black light posters and the cargo netting hanging in the corners
Well, yes, it probably was a shock at first. Now dig out a wallow, get comfy, and set a while. This doesn't make things better, it just preserves your energies for vague old person statements. "Tires? We didn't have tires, we had tuna helper!" It's kind of fun once you get the hang of it.
^ not meant to be taken literally. Modern wallows look like recliners.
Load More Replies...My little sister once racked up a $750 phone bill when we were in another country. The whole time we were there, she kept telling mum she was "just playing games." If it was me that had done that, I would have beaten to within an inch of my life and had the bill paid from my college fund. Ohhh to be the golden child.
It’s good orange juice. It consistently gets high marks from reviewers like Americas Test Kitchen and others. It man not be the very best but it’s still very good, inexpensive, and easy to have on hand. I recommend to keep one in the freezer for emergencies and impromptu brunches.
It's not inexpensive around here! I prefer the taste but the bottled stuff is cheaper.
Load More Replies...stop/drop reminded me of those mobile tiny homes that came to our elementary school. To practice crawling low in case of a home fire. They had single story and 2 story and this fog to simulate smoke i can still smell and taste.
And at that point all those beautiful people suddenly realized they should have cultivated a nice personality all those years.
I spent YEARS seeing people wearing Hollister clothes and thinking they were all alumni of some huge college I'd never heard of.
These days the teen girls at high school wear hooker dresses that cost hundreds of dollars.
Load More Replies...Study in contrasts: We used to give the kids cash and take them shopping day after Xmas at the mall. One daughter would go to American Eagle and Hollister and come back with 2 medium bags and $50. The other would be laden with stuff from Sears/ JCP and have $75.
Don't forget music videos, teen shows where the girls were always discussing if they were fat or not, commercials with gorgeous women only, etc.
Welcome to the Jungle was on the oldies station in a doctor's office I was in last week. That one hurt.
Load More Replies...Just like everyone does at all ages. My boss still listens to the Who and Steely Dan and such. He doesn't understand why I think they're c**p. My musical tastes calcified while I was in grad school, not while I was in high school...
"what is the cheese situation" is an appropriate question for any occasion
That is a not a Polly Pocket from my childhood. Back then Polly's whole house fit in your pocket.
The art work on it... I was there. I remember but now that I'm looking at it, NONE of those items require an electric knife to cut.
I have my parents' electric carving knife. I keep it in the shop for soft materials like styrofoam blocks and panels. The blade is still sharp.
Love Dum Dums. But they release limited edition flavors fairly regularly.
Dum dums tie generations together. Came out in 1924 and kids still love em
I hope you know, I hope you know that that has nothing to do with you
Being a goth/metalhead kid starting at a young age saved me from so many bad fashion choices.
Can he come back and save us from the modern nightmare social media has become?
Perhaps my generation and the one above mine shouldn't have gamed the system into massive wealth inequality? Just sayin.
Recently read only 40% of males under 25 have ever been on a date with a woman. No wonder MAGA appeals to them!
I'm not concerned about my daughter and her fiancé - they're both baby lawyers (two years out of law school) and pretty fiscally conservative (with their money - using a lot of my money on their wedding), but my son is trying to get into cinema, and he may never own much of anything...
No but the scene when he sings to her in the outdoor stadium with marching band i loooveee youuuu baby!!! And i say "can you ever just me whelmed" (i know can be over/under)
Phew! I was born at the end of 1990 - I still have time, right? Right?!
Claire Danes' love interest in My So-called Life.
Load More Replies...This makes me so glad I'm in my 50s, simply because I went to school when I learned proper grammar. I had to study this for almost a minute to figure out what the hëll it said.
I just wait for a younger Panda to explain. People are very kind and thoughtful
Load More Replies...they still use these. I'm a high school student and I had a bio test with these last week
Janine Lindemulder was a p**n star. If I had to have a choice of who could give me a prostate exam, I would prefer Janine over my urologist.
My son’s an older millennial, but he’s done okay, altho he and SO have had to work very hard. The Bush recession and current inflation were hard on them and I’m afraid the Trump one is going to be worse.
I have always been confused about this. I'm technically a millennial because of being born in '89, but I relate to so many more things from Gen X... Is that the elder millennial thing, or is it something different entirely?
All of these generations are groupings to make it easier for marketers. Have no basis in reality.
Load More Replies...My son’s an older millennial, but he’s done okay, altho he and SO have had to work very hard. The Bush recession and current inflation were hard on them and I’m afraid the Trump one is going to be worse.
I have always been confused about this. I'm technically a millennial because of being born in '89, but I relate to so many more things from Gen X... Is that the elder millennial thing, or is it something different entirely?
All of these generations are groupings to make it easier for marketers. Have no basis in reality.
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