Other generations like to dunk on millennials for their love of avocado toast, their inability to purchase a home, and their questionable taste in humor. But Gen Y currently makes up the biggest portion of the population in the U.S. with 72.7 million or 21.7% of the population share.
So, seeing as they're the current majority in America, we've decided to dedicate a post to the Generation Y yuppies. This list of funny posts about what it's like being sort of young but not really comes from Samantha Matt's page, "The Forever Millennials." Check out her poignant observations below!
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Never write the list down. This is important. A mental list means you can change it at will. A physical list means that you can see all the things you haven’t done because you got side tracked by squirrels and cat videos and then people are judging you. Or you feel like people are judging you. Or maybe you’re judging yourself. Just go watch more videos. It’s fine
Even a mental list is too much for me. I generally know there's lots of other things to do but cannot even think about them until the main one, the one I've been agonising over for days, the crucial one, has been done. Which may or may not happen, of course.
Load More Replies...It’s true, writing the list gives you a dopamine hit of accomplishment. There was a study about it.
Start small - make a grocery list so you won't get home and realize you forgot the one thing you really need.
Does anyone else write a to-do list after you’ve done the things on the list, only to feel the accomplishment of crossing off the things you just wrote down?
Add November and December onto that and maybe even October.
Load More Replies...I love the cold, but I hate hot weather. I just want to lie on the couch and think of autumn.
I'm with you there - hate the heat, love the cold. I wish I could move to, like, Finland or something. After all, I can put on more clothing, but there's only so much clothing I can remove before people start gouging their eyes out at the sight. 😂
Load More Replies...Seasonal Affective Disorder. Not quite depression, but more like hibernation.
I hear that. I wanna be a beach bunny when I grow up. I hate the cold!
It is officially the worst time of the year. I am hot. I are sweaty. I am red. I have gained 2kg because I can't do anything. January, February is the worst time of the year wherever you are.
5lbs is nothing, who cares anymore. bored? get a job. pale? so what its winter. cold? wear a sweater.. how is this summing up millennial life?
What does is truly mean to be a millennial? Being that I'm technically a millennial since I was born in 1994, I should be able to answer you, Pandas, but I somehow don't feel qualified. Most millennials are '90s kids, but I only spent around three sentient years in the decade.
My childhood and early teens were pure 2000s: listening to pop-punk on an MP3 player, watching Pimp My Ride and other bad reality shows on MTV, the OG YouTubers, and reading the Harry Potter books. I always think of myself as a zillennial: a person in between Gen Y and Gen Z.
Same, especially nature ones. The Discovery Channel was great back then.
Load More Replies...And now as an adult I actually subscribe to streaming services that are nothing BUT documentaries!
A documentary holds my attention much longer than a ludicrous action film. Film producers still think audiences like car chases? And ten minute fight scenes where people are impossible invincible? Just end it already!
Load More Replies...I've always loved documentaries. You can learn so much. I was wrongly diagnosed with the histrionic disorder and called dramatic and theatrical. Couldn't quite understand what theatrical means. Found the answer in a doc about the start of Hitler's political career. Unfortunately, the man had talent.
About 6 months ago, my mate called from the karaoke at the White Swan while I was sat in my pyjamas. I got changed, went, started to regret my life choices in the Uber and hated my life even more when I later got in at 3 and couldn't get to sleep. I'm 39 by the way.
It depends... Pre-disability I used to be able to get up from my sofa, freshen my make up and go meet you! Now it's - I'm old and disabled and that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! 😄
Retirement is 90% boredom punctuated by 10% terror in the medical industrial complex. It is when one's only social contact with humans are all medical staff.
Load More Replies...It takes a while to unlearn all those 30-year habits that yu don't need to do anymore.
Yup, because insomnia doesn’t just get better with age..
Nope. My joke was i was gonna get up at noon cuz I am still up at 4 am. In actually, my sleep hours are 3 am to 20 and an hour nap around 4pm. Only exception is for medical appt (my physiotherapy office only operates until 11am)
and? this one person does not speak for all of us. she is clearly useless.
But let's explore what makes millennials different from the other generations. The Pew Research Center put 1996 as the cut-off year. So, millennials, are people born between 1981 and 1996. That makes the oldest millennials 44 this year, and the youngest will be 29.
At the same time, the researchers at Pew note that the cut-off years aren't an exact science. Yet they think that 1996 is a good year to end the millennial generation because of certain socioeconomic and political factors that the people born until that year have experienced collectively.
I was devastated, okay just gutted, the first time someone asked me if I had grandchildren too. Technically, possible (I was 41), but grandparents are always at least 70 in my mind…
It's worse when you look at a guy and think he's cute, but then realize you're so old he could be your son or, God forbid, even your grandson.
Load More Replies...I was called “ma’am” for the first time in my life last week. It felt strange. I wasn’t offended, I guess I’m a “ma’am” now, but I’ve been a “miss” my entire life so far. 😭
I would love this! Scrolling through real estate listings always means 56 thousand emails, sms from agents that I never contacted in the first place
Just make yourself a spam mail address and create a new real estate website account. Those 56 thousand mails will go down the drain without you even noticing.
Load More Replies...MLS listings are online, just search real estate sales - realtor.com, homes.com, etc
What about Zillow or Trulia? I go on those sites all the time to see the absurdly expensive houses in the area where I work in Northern NJ.
I do this too .. mostly to ogle the mansions I can't afford.
Load More Replies...Only in the US, here it is called BienIci, and if one just wants to look at hideously expensive castles for sale there is Proprieties Figaro.
Load More Replies...pretty sure real estate agencies have apps; have you tried looking?
Oh boy does this sound familiar. Of course, I haven't been a teenager for over 40 years. I still occasionally think that the early 90's wasn't that long ago but also have to stop and realize "wait, that only happened 4 years ago? I thought it was longer ago".
It's worse with me because I think 1990 was just a few years ago and it's been 30 years. Then I realize that if I live for another 30 years, I'll be a hundred years old. Comparing those two time frames has me going crazy.
Load More Replies...saw an HVAC repair truck that said "since 1987". That wasn't that long ago. Oh right!, that was 38 years ago. Half my lifetime.
The most notable event that shaped millennials is the 9/11 terrorist attacks, especially for American millennials. Pew claims that most Gen Zers were too young to comprehend the historical significance of it. Millennials, although they were only children too, when it happened, were of age where they could comprehend what this means to the world.
They are all doing the same thing you are doing and wondering the same thing.
I just assume they're all shift workers running errands either after their graveyard or before their swing.
If you work a Mon-Fri 9-5 kind of job I could see how you’d be baffled by this, but my last job was Weds-Sunday, 5:00pm-1:00am. I was literally always going about my personal business while everyone else was at work 🥲
Shift workers as someone else mentioned 😉 How do you think things such as supermarket shelves get restocked? Certain road repairs done? We've had a few power cuts here and they've worked throughout the night to get it restored. Then there's nurses, doctors etc... The list goes on. Not everyone is on a 9-5 shift. And gosh bless those who keep us all going and okay 👍🙂
And the super high massive redneck trucks that tailgate you with their high beams on don't help the anxiety level either.
My astigmatism can’t handle them 😅 streetlights etc are not TOO too bad for me at night but those massive excessively bright tall pickup truck headlights really mess with my nighttime vision, it’s like a biblical angel mooning me through the windshield
Load More Replies...Visiting a relative in Galax, WV back in 1996, at the ripe age of 19, my friend and I actually got pulled over by the local police because we were driving around the place at 2 am. Not getting out anywhere, just driving. The bafflement on the poor guy's face is something I can remember to this day, mainly because I feel the same way at the idea of driving around at 2 in the morning, when I should be snuggled in bed and watching a low-budget schlock film on Tubi.
Was this article actually supposed to be titled The Samantha Whatever show? I hate thinking I’m getting an article from a cross section of people. Only to find out it’s an advertisement for 1 person. Samantha probably paid a lot to get this published.
My friends & I got off work from McDs around 1AM. Hung out at Denny's, the airport, Alki Beach...aw, to be young and foolish again!
My vision at night is scary terrible! If I forget my glasses I really can't drive at night. 38 btw.
And now I just try not to be on the streets after dark, which at this time of year (January) in the northern hemisphere means leaving work asap and racing home!
I miss my uggs and lululemon pants & lululemon hoodie combo lmao, that was like a high school staple in my town in 2008
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also shaped millennials profoundly. Some experts say that it's what caused the current sharp political polarization. Most millennials could also vote during the 2008 election when the first black president was elected. This win is often attributed to the youth vote and the fact that millennials were the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in American history.
Gentlemen, I strongly recommend not to follow this advice. Somehow my boss found it pretty strange I had a Bra on at work.....
I can't tell you the thousands of women who hit the front door, the bra comes off and THEN you're home.
or you can just be an adult and know the difference. if its your everyday life then sure, but if its once a week calm down.
Happened to me last night and I was still too lazy 😂 I decided to try making “mayo ramen” (google it, it’s a thing) for the first time instead. It was awful, I gagged for like 30 mins after trying to eat it. That’s what I get for being too lazy to shop 😂
Load More Replies...Generations have a lot more in common with each other than many think. But every single individual person on earth has moments where they realize something for the first time, and have their first genuine reaction to it. Young generations like millennials and gen z are having these moments now, and tweeting about it. So this is a list of millennial tweets about the millennial experience from a millennial. No, it doesn’t mean they EXCLUSIVELY ONLY pertain to millennials. It means theyre tweets about millennials experience life. Hope this helps!
Load More Replies...Which will be put off until tomorrow because you're tired from the trip to the container store.
I remember calling my bff to excitedly tell her about the new hand mixer and new blender I'd just bought from Costco. She was equally excited. Then I pointed out to her that just 10 years earlier we were calling each other to gush over whatever new album we'd just bought and how pathetic we were now....lol
I did it wrong, I got high then went to the container store then ate everything in the pantry.
On the economic front, the 2009 recession is the reason why many millennials struggled with home ownership and financial independence even when they were well into adulthood. Although Gen Z has grown up with the Internet, millennials were the ones who created the many social media spaces the youth occupies today. However, the trends and aesthetics of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are very different today from what they used to be in the millennial era.
And here we are, rational thinking humans, the highest lifeform, whose intelligence and willpower is easily defeated by fast food and sugar.
When I returned from Christmas I planned my travels so I could get a stopover in Bruxelles for frites, frites are the best, especially if they are Belgian.
Oooh do they make Belgian frites a particular way? Or are they just delicious in general?
Load More Replies...I can't afford to eat out often, but when I have french fries, I savor every bite.
If it was that easy everyone would have no problem doing it, obviously.
Load More Replies...Let's see: Turning 48 in March and I have only one friend who I speak to/visit less living 5 miles away from her than I did when living 250 miles away; I have a combo microwave oven and air fryer; and I fret over how much money all my streaming services are costing me - I have no skin care routine. So, the same? 😂
An air fryer is useful for certain things but an oven? Invaluable when it comes to Christmas time, cooking Christmas dinner and you've got to cook half a million things and know how to space it all out while keeping things warm! Plus? Cooking smells! 💜💜💜
eh sort of, but replace skincare routine with coffee from starbucks.
With my air fryer, I open it up, pop something in, set a timer and temperature, and let it go. It uses heat and air to heat/crisp/cook your food :) I threw a frozen breakfast burrito in there this morning while I got dressed and within minutes I had a hot and crispy burrito!
Load More Replies...You decide that "skin care" is one word. You develop a routine for it.
I can't wait for this "air fryer" fad to be over. It's a frickin convection oven and they have been around for decades!
I said the same thing for years until I got an air fryer 😂 I used to scoff at the “silly people” who I thought weren’t as smart as I, an intellectual, who knew it was just a small convection oven. My dude, I was wrong. 😂
Load More Replies...So, what is the legacy of millennials, or, what describes them best? In the beginning of 2024, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton wrote for The Times of London that some of it might be embarrassing: living with our parents, not having a driver's license, burnout culture, and a declining fertility rate.
The last interesting thing happened to me back in 1995. Unless people would enjoy 500 or so songs about how incredibly adorable my cats are?
I thought the amazing thing was her music is popular despite the fact that it sucks
I was also too old for Jonas Bros but that Year 3000 song absolutely slaps.
Don’t underestimate the importance of cheese. The grocery stores have the best music. And get off my lawn
Excuse me, I have had several favourite cheeses in rotation from the time I could even pronounce the word cheese. (The rest is accurate tho lol)
i hate cheese. my store plays the goddamn hold music that every company uses, and i can't see at night but that makes it more fun.
You honestly sound like such a miserable person, judging by all your other downvoted comments here 😂 It makes sense that you hate cheese.
Load More Replies...But in a rebuttal for Vogue, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett defends her fellow millennials, claiming that the media's portrayal of millennials as infantilized wallflowers isn't as accurate. Gen Y's adult lifestyles might be wildly different from the previous generations in terms of late marriage, homeownership, and prioritizing pets over having children.
It would basically be a history class about the predatory elite becoming billionaires.
I have a finance degree... And could probably use that class :)
You have to spend cash you don't have or everything will be denied to you as an adult.
There really needs to be a mandatory life skills class in high school for seniors.
Calm down and maybe take that stick out of your a*s?
Load More Replies...The older generations often call millennials self-absorbed and call them out for thinking they're special. But Cosslett points out that this isn't such a bad trait. Millennials are the generation which turned to therapy and self-work the most. "As a generation, we really do question ourselves and our life decisions. We have so much to weigh up when thinking about our futures, after all, from financial circumstances to our environmental impact," Cosslett writes.
We have bat colony living in our roof and it’s amazing, they eat all the mosquitos and leave the bees and butterflies, sitting in the summer garden is bliss.
When I lived in NYC, I was ground zero for every mosquito around.
And here is you, once again complaining about her. It's she an old girlfriend, or do you just get off on bitching in a comment section? Cause I'm pretty sure nobody is forcing you to read this.
Load More Replies...Used to seem that every time I got my chit together, someone flushed the terlet.
I love the accent I mentally read that sentence in
Load More Replies...So you don't have drippy hair when you go to comb it. Completely reasonable.
Boomers and Gen X might fault millennials for not being as tough as them and liking avocado toast too much. But if liking intricate recipes with hard-to-find ingredients, oversharing, and loving our pets too much is the only crimes millennials are guilty of, I think I'll gladly take it over some of the criticisms other generations had to deal with.
Meredith was shamelessly gold-digging and manipulative though. Kids were right to get rid of her, esp. since the dad was too nice and oblivious to see it until the end. I do rather dislike it when shows/movies have kids that try to force a breakup just because they don't like change though. This wasn't one of those times, clearly.
"Ship them off to a boarding school in Switzerland."
Load More Replies...I’m gen x and perfectly happy hiding behind a computer screen. The invention of email and texting was a boon for every introvert everywhere
As a millennial I see boomers and gen x doing things confidently in real life and I’m like HOW??! Then I see gen z doing things confidently on the internet and I’m like HOW????!!!! 😂
I'm a millenial and I'm not afraid to CALL the dentist, in just afraid to GO to the dentist!
There are two ways to deal with SAD: either fight it with a therapy light, daily exercise, avoid the carb foods, start indoor hobbies. Or give into it and accept it as a normal part of being human and just sleep 20 hours of the day. It is more like hibernation than depression.
I did the can't get out of bed for weeks thing, for many winters. Moved to sunny Colorado springs 2 years ago and best thing I ever did for my mental health. I knew I wasn't going to be able to get through another winter.
Load More Replies...So, Pandas, what do you think best describes a millennial's life? How accurate do you think are Samantha Matt's observations? Share your thoughts with us in the comments! And if you want to see more funny content from Samantha, be sure to check out our previous article about her now-extinct page right here!
At age 11, you are excited to connect with humans. By age 33, you have had your life's fill of humans.
Something about having to prep before and wash up after. All that for10 minutes of chewing. Of course, there can be wine all through the process.
same can be said for any food made in a restaurant that you try to make at home. why is subway better than my subs? why doesn't my pizza taste like pizza hut? why can't i make costco style cookies?
Nooe cause I have cooked for a few restaurants and pocketed the recipes 😊 The Keg-style Brussels spouts and bacon anyone? I can make it identically.
Load More Replies...When I do have to go into the office it's at least a two hour drive home, so as soon as I pull up to our house. I turn off my car, take off my seat belt, grab my work bag and purse, and straight up sprint to the bathroom...
OH MY GOD. Traumatic memory unlocked. They had like sensory things like little blasts of air and vibrations to make it feel like there were bugs everywhere.
i went to that too, and sure its freaky, but can people stop making stuff up to get points? first off bugs life didn't just "come on tv tonight" and you dont have PTSD. if you had PTSD it wasn't those bugs crawling under you but the spiders that are in your face.
OMG this!!! Grocery day is designated pizza day
Load More Replies...Man, I am so hungry for pizza rn! Damn, I hate not having money... 😭
ok... people keep frozen pizza for various reasons; you aren't special.
For real though 😂 I’m 32 now and it hits a lot different. Everyone expects you to be an adult, whereas in your 20s you’re given a bit of leniency for making mistakes, because “you’re young!” Now it’s like “you’re not a kid anymore, figure it out”
And contrary to myth it counts as fluid intake.
Load More Replies...How many downvotes do you think you have now?
Load More Replies...You need to leave a bed unmade so it can air, don’t want all that nasty night sweat trapped in there! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
And when I learned that dust is made from our dead skin cells, and I realized that dust gets into my open glass of water on my nightstand, I realized I am drinking my own cells. Micro cannibalism.
Load More Replies...It is illogical to say make a bed and then not use it immediately.
you should have just kept it the same... this woman is really not that funny. maybe 1 or 2 so far that were passable.
Me at work: “oooh I’m going to make such a delicious and healthy dinner tonight.” Me after work: “meh”
Wait until you have to buy olive oil. The real authentic olive oil costs more than gold per ounce.
You're fun at parties, aren't you? Wanker.
Load More Replies...It's called "sarcasm". Why are you here still reading? It's a nice day out. Go find some other haters to play with.
Load More Replies...MushroomHead22! just spreading the misery today eh 😂 lets make it more positive - everyone comment your favourite animal that seems cooler than MushroomHead22!
No, it is choosing anything but your picture, because you don't want to see how much weight you've gained.
being an adult is actually not giving a s**t about social media or your profile picture. you probably so many other issues in your life. everything you are explaining is not millennial life problems, you haven't grown up and are just now being "popular"... its ok, those girls were cool in high school but are probably not very cool now.
Being an adult is being mature enough to realize you’re embarrassing yourself on the internet.
Load More Replies...LOL I thought I’d have a huge house and cars and ponies and a zoo full of kittens and puppies and baby goats and my own business and travel to multiple countries every year…..31 sounded so old and world-wise to me when I was a kid. Now that I’m 32, I rent a beautiful apartment and have 2 cats and a car and a career I’ve been building for 5 years and I’m lucky enough to travel to a new country every other year or so. I hope younger me would still be proud 😊
“Being in your 30s is wild because you know people who used to party hard and get blackout drunk at the bar just a few years ago, and now they have kids and go to bed at 9pm like responsible parents and also have pain in their backs”
Load More Replies...this woman spends too much time trying to come up with these things.... its kinda sad. she must be the person who was not very popular on myspace, but wishes they were.
And since we're on the subject of "spending too much time" on something.....
Load More Replies...significantly smaller portions, lots of fruit and vegetables, walking absolutely everywhere
very ignorant thought, and to say that this is a millennial issue is insulting to other non-ignorant millennials. FFS who lets this woman post things?
There's a posting police to stop people? Wow, where were they for you?
Load More Replies...again; she hasn't grown up. millennial here and if i think i deserve more pay, i will prove it by showing them proof that i am doing more and deserve more.
I very intentionally have to avoid target. I will always walk out of there spending way more money than I planned, so I just don't go in.
so this article is just "look at these tweets i found on this one user's account"?
Yes? The first paragraph says “This list of funny posts about what it's like being sort of young but not really comes from Samantha Matt's page, "The Forever Millennials." Check out her poignant observations below!“
Load More Replies...So when it says 60 posts about millenials, it just means tweets from one specific person?
Should rename this 'Samantha Matt's Life In 60 Posts'. Awfully lazy, BP....
The first paragraph literally says “This list of funny posts about what it's like being sort of young but not really comes from Samantha Matt's page, "The Forever Millennials." Check out her poignant observations below!” It’s not uncommon AT ALL to make listicles from funny posts from only one popular account. Not even uncommon on BP. It’s not all they do, and they specified it at the beginning of the article so you didn’t have to read it if you disagreed with that format. Complain if yall want though I guess.
Load More Replies...All I learned from this list is that I am so glad I don't know MushroomHead22.....
No kidding lol sounds like such a miserable annoying human
Load More Replies...Sone specific person was so miserable
Load More Replies...Hilarious, yet again, being a very much misused word, but that is all these "writers" do 99% of the time. Copy and paste.
so this article is just "look at these tweets i found on this one user's account"?
Yes? The first paragraph says “This list of funny posts about what it's like being sort of young but not really comes from Samantha Matt's page, "The Forever Millennials." Check out her poignant observations below!“
Load More Replies...So when it says 60 posts about millenials, it just means tweets from one specific person?
Should rename this 'Samantha Matt's Life In 60 Posts'. Awfully lazy, BP....
The first paragraph literally says “This list of funny posts about what it's like being sort of young but not really comes from Samantha Matt's page, "The Forever Millennials." Check out her poignant observations below!” It’s not uncommon AT ALL to make listicles from funny posts from only one popular account. Not even uncommon on BP. It’s not all they do, and they specified it at the beginning of the article so you didn’t have to read it if you disagreed with that format. Complain if yall want though I guess.
Load More Replies...All I learned from this list is that I am so glad I don't know MushroomHead22.....
No kidding lol sounds like such a miserable annoying human
Load More Replies...Sone specific person was so miserable
Load More Replies...Hilarious, yet again, being a very much misused word, but that is all these "writers" do 99% of the time. Copy and paste.
