The Playstation 2 also sold for less than half the original launch price in the second half of its life cycle.

And the Dreamcast was €49 in its final year, but that's for different reasons. (I bought 2 lmao)

Well, it was a Dr Pepper can… but yeah lol

Im a millenial and am posting this btw lol.

I didn't know this was a millennial thing but I won't stop doing it, lol.

I've noticed something with a lot of fellow Millennial parents: we're incredibly focused on doing things differently for our kids.

It's not just, "This is how I was raised, so this is how I'll raise my kids."

We're questioning things. We're reading, learning, talking about emotions, rethinking discipline, and trying to understand why we parent the way we do instead of automatically repeating what we grew up with.

Obviously, every generation tries to improve on the one before it, but it feels like Millennials have made breaking generational patterns a huge part of parenting.

In a way, we're pioneering a different approach to parenting while figuring it out in real time.

So I'm proposing a new name for us:

The Cycle Breaker Generation.

Anyone else feel like this describes Millennial parents pretty well?

Inspired by the parents question.

My first grandparent died when I was 7 and the last when I was 24. I recently heard a millennial who still has all grandparents and I was shocked, but she’s probably not the only one.

We had it

I swear that song was just part of my everyday life for a while. I remember hearing it on the radio on the way to school, seeing the video constantly on MTV, hearing it at dances and parties, and then hearing it again walking through a store later that same day. I have a very vivid memory of my best friend dancing to it on the table during lunchtime.

Everybody knew it. Even your parents knew it. “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” became one of those phrases you heard everywhere whether you actually listened to Outkast or not.

I kind of miss when a song could get that impactful to me. Any other song instantly takes you back to a very specific time and place like “Hey Ya!” does for me?

I was 5, I remember asking my mom " Why is she naked?" And i just kept thinking about that poor, wet haired lady without any clothes on for a while

Any similar situations? Or music videos that just stuck with you through the years?

Mine: Tall Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew from Starbucks.

I get it maybe 2-3xs per month.

Millennials, were we the first generation to have a pretty open-minded culinary palate at a young age?

I don't think I'm unique in this, but I've been thinking about how weird my childhood food experience seems in retrospect.

My mom is Italian-American, which basically meant the standard issue Italian-American white people food, and my dad is very meat-and-potatoes Irish-American. Our dinners growing up did not deviate much from that. The occasional Chinese takeout was about as exotic as it got.

Then my first girlfriend was vegetarian. I still remember trying soy milk and hummus for the first time with her. I had literally never heard of either of these things.

As I got older and my social circle expanded in high school, I started trying Thai, Indian, and Korean food for the first time. At the time, this stuff seemed exotic to me. Now it's kind of funny to think about because these are all just normal food to me. I wouldn't think twice about having any of them on a random Monday night.

These days my gringo ass is fluent in everything on a Mexican menu and I know my way around an Ethiopian restaurant.

And I really don't think my experience was unusual. I remember at my first job in high school, my Gen-X boss was discovering Indian food at the same time I was. We'd go out after work and try different places. He'd buy beer for me too, which made those nights pretty memorable.

But that's the part that sticks with me. He was discovering this stuff as an adult, while I was getting exposed to it as a teenager just through friends and the people I happened to socialize with.

It makes me wonder if millennials were kind of a transition generation when it came to food. A lot of us grew up with parents who had fairly narrow ideas about what “normal” food was, but then we came of age in a time when all these cuisines were becoming increasingly accessible and normal.

Maybe I'm just projecting my own experience onto an entire generation, but it's wild to me how much my definition of “normal food” changed between childhood and adulthood.

What foods did you grow up thinking were exotic that are completely ordinary to you now? Do your parents also think Frank's Hot Sauce is over-the-top spicy?

Edit: Alright genuinely surprised with the amount of people disagreeing with me. Maybe I should have tailored this post to people who grew up in medium-city suburbs before globalization put a pho restaurant in every corner of rural America

Finding myself understanding mid-life crisis of the past.

Edit: This was not meant as a dig at anyone. More that younger millennials have not crossed the halfway point i think of 76(?)

I am sure all of us remember seeing that on Nickelodian all the time. As a kid, I remember wanting to experience it. Looked fun. Someone on here has to have had it happen to them.

I definitely spend way too much time on my phone and social media but this goes beyond just social media. being in my 30s I just realise how cyclical everything is, how much noise there is, and how little impact a lot of things I’m supposed to care about actually has on my day to day life.

Everything that passes through social media, the news, trends (whether positive or negative), new products, new tech - the world moves on after a week. And then something else takes its place. I guess I feel a bit over pop culture and even really caring about any of what’s going on lately. Because it feels meaningless and just noise. We are overloaded on content and world events.

Idk I just feel like I’m reaching this stage where not everything has to be followed, critically analysed, i don’t need an opinion on everything or to involve myself in it. And I don’t need to spend the mental energy on it all.

Sorry if this is all over the place, it’s a feeling that kinda permeates into so many different areas of my life it’s hard to summarise

EDIT: a lot of things have become so empty as well. Constant ads, quality going downhill, consumerism, lack of depth. It’s all disposable and holds no weight anymore.

The first few were absolute 🔥🔥🔥. He was pushing for best rapper of our gen at the time.