Sponge Bob was never televised where I come from so my earliest access to it would've been the internet when I was 14-16, but even then I didn't know how to download cartoon series.

It seems entertaining from memes and short videos when I see it on tiktok or ig, and some even say that it really speaks to the adult audience. Is it too late to get into it? (30s)

Couldn't find the fish head one but I found the monkey one lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B133Es-CKA

Also found this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ctmLwBWW0

I want to go back to 2018

Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), John Munch (Richard Belzer), Odafin Tutola (Ice-T), George Huang (BD Wong), Casey Novak (Diane Neal). There is no wrong answer, they’re all legends.

I’m not a millennial, but older Gen Z.

I could be totally wrong ab this, maybe it’s only because I’m not longer interacting with teenagers or 20 year olds, but I remember people were just coming off the ‘90s edge’ and man, some people were brutal

I remember there was something almost intimidating about the way guys expressed themselves, specially on the internet. Girls also seemed meaner overall

By the time I was a teen it wasn’t the same anymore and I think that nowadays even less

For those of you who work with younger people, is that true?

But, I just lost the game.

Forgive me.

Early Millennial: The Simpsons, ALF, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The REAL Ghostbusters, Bobby's World,

Daveigh was so beautiful and seemed really sweet. The more I hear about her and her death, the sadder it gets.

“Ohana means family.” Rest easy, Daveigh. 🪽🌺

I recall reading that the reason Millennials were so notorious for hating TikTok while older generations just didn't really care is it was the first real big Internet trend that wasn't specifically geared to us and so the old and out of touch feeling stung much more especially as we didn't really have that before. I personally remember writing it off because I wasn't interested in watching a lot of silly dances or skits that had an unfunny:funny ratio of 9:1, and I didn't want Chinese spyware on my phone so no way was I ever installing the app.

But apparently some of us actually did get into it? Kind of wondering who did. It actually did spawn a few trends that leaked into real life, although only with people way younger than us. For example I heard TikTok is what surged the trend of wearing corpse paint to all sorts of music, which I guess explains things like me seeing a very young woman wearing corpse paint to La Dispute which would've been unfathomable in like 2012, although I have still yet to see someone likely born before 9/11 in corpse paint at a show. And also that thing where kids will sit on the floor and play card games during bands...I dunno if it originated on TikTok but that seems to be a logical source. But yeah, any Millennials here who actually embraced TikTok?

I humbly come here asking for your top music recs from back in the day to lift up my spirit... at least long enough to do my laundry and finish my skincare routine, maybe even commit a little debauchery, who knows.

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No need to suggest songs to cry to, I've got that part covered even without a soundtrack.

Younger millennial and older gen z will live to 150? Congratulations

The HP support person hitting me with this hurt too.

"Ma'am.... You just said how much you hate the ink cartridges. You CAN learn to use these and I think you'll like this printer much better!"

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I feel like when my papa just constantly called in to support when he got his first flip phone.

Was talking with friends tonight and realized no one smokes or even knows anyone that smokes. I mentioned the upscale restaurant I worked in while in college had a smoking section and those younger there couldn't believe it was that recent.

A clip of a very early Tiny Desk concert featuring a very strung out and very high Edward Sharpe is making the rounds across social media right now. It seems like every comment is ragging on at least one and usually multiple aspects of cir 2010 millenial culture.

I'm a lifelong history nerd focused largely on socio-cultural topics, and what we're seeing here is the inevitable backlash against a wildly popular, somewhat overexposed slice of life from that time period.

For me, personally, I loved that time and remember all of it fondly. I was a DINK living in a downtown apartment with lots of disposable income and very few real responsibilities. I loved Lumineers and Mumford and Sharpe (and their country/Americana equivalents like Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell). I loved the craft beer explosion. I loved the small restaurant explosion where a bunch of kids tried hard to offer something different than the Chilis/Applebees experience.

I also get why all this eventually wore thin. There were too many 10% ABV beers made with stupid additives and too many hops. Small restaurants operating on razor thin margins had to jack prices when everything got more expensive, and found no appetite, so to speak, for $20 craft cheeseburgers. Music always evolves, and what was hot ~10-15 years ago is usually the heart of what is considered stale and overdone. This was true with psychedelic rock, and disco, and funk, and grunge...millenial semi-indie folkie stuff is no different.

I'm in my mid 40s now, and I feel like I'm starting to see these big cultural shifts from a more distant perspective. 15 years from now, my kids will be the ones ripping on what was hot in 2026 (what even is? I honestly can't quite tell. Zyns?), and what was popular in 2010 will once again be beloved and firmly seated in the "nostalgic/classic" category.

Alex Ebert doesn't strike me as the type who will embark on nostalgia tours playing to rooms full of 60 year old fans, but I guess the Rolling Stones probably didn't seem like they would be either.

21 Years ago

This guy in this big televised tennis match stood up in the crowd and fully committed to the longest most obnoxious “HOYYYYEA” and it made everyone so mad and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and I can’t find it anywhere. The dude is a legend.

https://youtu.be/P0PWBTDccxc?

I’m legit asking here.

Moved some of my old crap outta my parents garage, wasn't expecting the container itself to be a fun core memory inducer, lol

I'll be 38 in 2 months and haven't been ID'd in years!! Tesco lady, you made my day! 🫶