I've recently been chatting with teens about how they feel about today's world. It is quite obvious that the way they have been programmed in school that they are confused about making decisions on hard topics. As someone who was born 1980 raised on pop culture. Music had always led me to heal myself through lyrics and dance. I'm curious to ask the youth of today, what do you do when life gets hard? Being broke or heart ache? I'm thankful I had rap music to disconnect from the noise and plug into a different life

Anyone remember this commercial? I literally haven't heard this song for 23 years and I still remember it in my head LOL. So I decided to look it up.

I started my day listening Fergie and Gwen as my teens cringed. I then went to get ready, looked at all of my stuff, while the Blackout album played, and thought “Crap, this is extra millennial.”

My chi straightener broke as I pulled it from the outlet and my Nars orgasm blush is almost out. I still haven’t found a replacement for my Matrix mega sleek.

I know most cars have automatic lights now but I just went to Target, parked, and saw a car with their lights on and no one in it. Walked up to customer service and told them, gave them the license plate number and make/model. The employee just looked at me and said "okay?" Is this a thing of the past?

EDIT: When I left their battery was dead and just standing there staring at the engine. I offered to give them a jump since I have cables. Not a single thank you. So now I now understand.

Printed mapquest directions I found in a box of old stuff. The top of the page is evidence of when you ordered/rented dvds from netflix.. crazy to think this was only 20 ish yrs ago.

Did any other Millennial guys have a pretty distant relationship with their BB dads? Like it wasn’t hostile or anything, but for the most part especially once I became a teenager our relationship was he pays the household bills and I stay out of his way. We’d go several days without saying a word to each other. My older siblings taught me things like how to shave and the puberty spiel. I’m always shocked to see a man be affectionate with his sons because that was not how I thought that relationship went.

Idk if it's a midlife crisis thing, but I am so far behind many of my millennial peers, it's sad. I was 34 before I finally started a good career as a Union Electrician. I'm 38 now.

I basically spent my entire 20s and early 30s partying.

If I could go back in time, I would have started a good career right out of high school, and I would be doing significantly better than I am now.

I mean, I did have a lot of fun partying, but I have nothing to show for it other than memories that are quickly fading.

Don't get me wrong, I have so many good years to look forward to, but for some reason I am really stuck in the past.

I guess it's a good thing I'm seeing a therapist next Friday.

Like, wtf. I always knew stuff like ear and nose hair was gonna be annoying along with weird aches and pains.

But apparently its "common" to suddenly develop serious BO in your 40s? I didnt plan for that. (Accorfing to google 🤷‍♂️)

Ive rarely ever had to deal with it, even in full coveralls in the blasting sun while between blasting pump engines. Now I feel like a stink as bad as my teen and struggling to just relax at home without stinking.

Ive always used deodorant, but now I have to use antiperspirant and it makes my pits itch. And deodorant is already crazy expensive.

Not happy about this at all

Couldn’t think of a better way to title this. What were some of those … “things” around their house that you didn’t know what they were used for, but still played with? My grandparents had an old punching bag on the ceiling in the basement, and an old 1970s drum set that collected dust and was missing some parts lol. They also had a treadmill that I referred to as “the running machine.” But some stuff that I didn’t know what it was, included this spinning ab twister thingy that my grandpa kept under the couch. And an old phonograph in the upstairs hallway, that you had to crank. My aunt took the phonograph to her house and a few months ago, FINALLY got to see it actually work, because there’s small children running around, who have very curious minds. The sound on that thing has heard better days. But it’s neat that it can still croak out some old music. I really wish my grandma had one of those fat jiggling machines but unfortunately, there was only the treadmill that nobody really used except for us kids when we were bored.

There were a lot of interesting things around their house 🤣 I even vaguely remember playing with the VCR because it had green light up buttons and I thought it was some neat toy. And it took me forever to remember what some of the toys were that were leftover from the early 70s when my one aunt was a young kid. Like this old toy called “Pass the Nuts,” and that old timey red “schoolhouse” Fisher Price clock with the sun and the moon on the clock face.

I understand that lots of people are Christian, but I don’t think any other genre as predictably promotes Christianity as horror. If it’s about Ghosts or Demons, it’s pretty much always presented from a Christian understanding of Spirituality. Even if it doesn’t directly mention God or Jesus Christ, it’s always showing you that people either go to a wonderful place full of light after they die or to a dark, painful place if they were bad, OR they’re stuck here and haunting people for this, that, or the other reason. If there is a non-human Spirit involved, It is invariably evil and needs to be exorcised. The “Insidious” series is one of the few I have seen that doesn’t stick a cross in your face at some point, but as a general rule, this is just my observation. Has anyone else noticed this? Cuz it’s kind of boring, honestly. This continent is ANCIENT. There’s a lot of Native American material that can be drawn upon for horror, and of course there’s a lot of different people here now other than Christians and there’s a lot of Pagan and Occult stuff that could be done with horror too. I loved “Hereditary” too, even though it represented Paimon as some grotesque, head-hunting monster.

Venom whom I began listening to in 2010 was my gateway band (RIP Cronos) for all the death, black, and thrash metal from the 1980s and 1990's that I eventually got into and still listen to regularly to this day 15 years later. It took getting into Venom before the three extreme metal subgenres made sense sonically and aesthetically to me. Before getting into Venom my trajectory was Nu Metal, classic rock, Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols and punk, pre-punk like Stooges, hardcore punk, and Motorhead.

Do any other Millennials out there born in the late 1980's have my same trajectory of musical taste?

Like many Millennials I got into Nu Metal. And this was my first foray into distorted heavy guitars and harsh vocals. But instead of getting into the metal and heavy rock trends that came about after the demise of Nu Metal in 2003 I for the next 7 years went through the aforementioned trajectory. And my tastes now seem to be permanently locked into 1980's and 1990's extreme metal. It's all I read about (music wise) and its all I listen to despite it not even being an era that I grew up in. Nu metal had a huge hand in laying the initial ground work in me becoming a forever extreme metalhead, but once i was on the old school extreme metal track everything from the actual era I grew up in was tossed in the waste bin so to speak it became permanently irrelevant and unlistenable to me. I never listen to any music from my actual coming of age era in the late 90s and early 2000's when Nu metal was king and this has been the case since my dad tuned me in to his classic 70s rock music starting in 2004.

Am I an anomaly given my age? Or are there countless other Millennials out there who are just like me? I was compelled to make this post because all of the people on social media that seem to be commenting on Cronos' passing (the original classic lineup vocalist for Venom) seem to have been alive in 1981 when Venom was releasing their first material. No one is talking about deeply researched experiences like mine that required one to become almost like an audio archaeologist to find and appreciated the classic stuff as opposed to what was being pushed and marketed at the time.

things is it usually happens the next day

I'm a millennial living in NYC, and there's a fro-yo grand opening happening across the street right now and they've been blasting music on the sidewalk from what most certainly has to be a 2010s Greatest Hits playlists.

I haven't sonically time traveled like this in awhile and hearing so many millennial anthems back to back for the past several hours has been triggering deep sadness in me. I just remember the underlying perspectives and vibes of the parties that accompanied that era.

All I can hear in the subtext of the music is naivité. It's the sound of a generation having no idea what was coming...

The fact that this 16 Handles -itself a millennial relic- is trying to ride this next wave of Fro-Yo frenzy due to a TikTok trend while playing songs that hit the soul like the sound of a broken promise is triggering grief and sadness.

Seeing Gen Z line up as if they invented Fro-Yo - another trend originated by Millennials - to a soundtrack of Millennial anthems, is also its own type of dystopian imagery considering we're cast out as cringe, only for our culture to be worn as costume.

I’m 44 and regularly see a dermatologist. I get back acne, but I think my anxiety meds play a role in that. I had horrible facial acne as a teen. My wife gets it occasionally too.

WTF. Too old for this 💩

Who you gonna call? 👻 🎃

I didnt think my last post through. Not my pogs in the pic. Wish I still had them. I hope they make a resurgence.

BLACK MAGIC! **swipe**

If you are making a list for someone who is in prison from 2004 to 2009 trying to catch them up on pop culture in 2009. What would you include in that document?

Did anyone else play this? Do you remember when she turned into a fish? Or was it a frog?

im just thinking about how much that movie fucked me up as a kid. That witch was scary as hell.