I’ve hated being a Millennial ever since the stupid avocado toast days. I’ve been pretty vocal about my dislike of profiling generations, I know everyone is probably getting tired of me ranting about it. I see it as useful for knowing what environment people have likely grown up in and that’s about it. It’s very obviously often weaponised as a way to divide people and I’ve always tried to ignore the discourse (despite probably annoying you all by ranting about it constantly in a “Jesus Dort just get off the internet and go get some help” kind of way)

But now Millennials are getting older and it feel like we’re only getting more and more hate. We’re being remembered by everyone, young and old, as failures who accomplished nothing. Nothing we did mattered, and nothing we do now will ever be acknowledged as ours because in the eyes of society our time is over. It feels like the world is like “Oh thank god those losers don’t matter any more, see how much better at life the next generation is? Zoomers are directing Hollywood hits at age 20!” like I want to be happy for them but at the same time I can’t help but feel like when my generation did/does shit like that no one went/goes “Wow! Look at what Millennials accomplished!” I feel like the only time anyone ever spoke/speaks about us is to complain about how much we suck. Anything good we do/did gets ignored and only our flaws ever get acknowledged.

It really gets me down for some reason, maybe it’s RSD, a mid-life crisis, maybe I’m just weak, who knows? I feel like we weren’t given the chances others were and given yet we’re judged for it like it was our fault.

Anyway this is the last I’ll ever say about it because it’s embarrassing to be whining like a victim in my 30s and this site isn’t a mental health service. I just feel like I’m part of a generation whose life is over before it got a chance to begin and I never got a say in it. Like nothing I do now matters.

Posting this in the neurodiverse comm because I’m pretty sure my feelings are the result of… something, whether it’s the aforementioned RSD from my AuDHD, some kind of trauma or just middle age around the corner making me existential, I don’t know. Maybe all three.

Fully understand if mods decide to delete this for being too much

  • haxboar [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    say what you will about millennials, but we built the torment nexus. we invented the digital crack everyone is on right now that they’re using to belittle our accomplishments.

    Did we? I saw us build open and free spaces for everyone, then the older generations came in to monetize it. I remember us kicking and screaming the whole way.

    I’m not saying we have no blame in the way things currently are, but I remember most of what we built being taken from us, perverted, then blamed on us.

    we’ve done a lot of stuff that matters to us, haters gonna hate cuz they have nothing better to do. you can find plenty to nitpick about if you look closely enough at any demographic. the online mean girls need to get a life honestly.

    we’ve done a lot of stuff that matters to us, haters gonna hate cuz they have nothing better to do. you can find plenty to nitpick about if you look closely enough at any demographic. the online mean girls need to get a life honestly.

    Totally agree here. What works best for me to fight the feelings that OP described is to get stuff done: Build social networks, Hang with friends, Help fix problems that you see in the world, etc

    • gayspacemarxist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      Did we? I saw us build open and free spaces for everyone, then the older generations came in to monetize it. I remember us kicking and screaming the whole way.

      Some people kicked and screamed, some went to work at Meta for a fat paycheck. Most of the tech people I knew in my 20s were looking for the next viral app and dreaming of getting acquired by google or some other SV mega. The open source space was different, and I liked it there better, but there’s a pretty large contingent of millennials who followed along with Zuck (who is part of our cohort) into the nexus.

      • haxboar [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        That’s a fair point. I spent most of my time in FOSS-land, so my view may be skewed.

        Also: Holy shit, I didn’t realize Zuck was so young. I always thought he was older. TIL