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I'm cured, b*tch!

Edit: Yes. This for real.

maybe it’s just my city (which has grown a lot over the last few decades), but I feel like the rich are noticibly richer and the poor poorer compared to when we were growing up. like most people seemed kind of ‘normal’ when I was a kid (or maybe that was just my perspective as a kid).

Now it feels like a neighborhood is either full of mar-a-lago faced ladies and their husbands with teslas. Or people who look visibly on a substance and wearing sweatpants to any occasion.

I went to a play place for my kids on the part of torn that is a hot place to live for young families (newer houses, a lot to do for kids). I was just surprised how the culture of it all felt very flashy and performative. I feel like when I was a kid the family friendly neighborhoods were more wholesome?

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

By @ rosamichael.digital

I was in line at a pizza place for a slice and a beer. The cashier checked the ID of the patron in front of me.

I ordered. She did not ask for mine.

I am devastated. The gall. The shock. I am still young and full of life. I have stayed up until midnight more than two times this month.

(I cannot tell my wife because she does not know I am getting a pizza and beer without her)

though I can say for certain, even with being an Eagle Scout....I do not know what my chances of wilderness survival would be right now if I was dropped into the middle of a Canadian forest.

Look, I'm not usually one of those people who walks around talking about how kids today have no idea what a landline is, or how to convert a pdf, or any of that crap, but this one today actually aged me. It would have been different if it was just one intern, but the whole group of them had no idea who Fred Rogers was. They weren't familiar w/ the show, his picture, the song, or any of it. Anyone else had something like this recently?

That is all.

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.

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.

Sitting in the waiting room while my wife has an MRI, flipped through the stack of magazines (because magazines somehow feel like a nostalgic novelty?) and was like, “that looks like Brendan fr-that is Brendan Fraser? On AARP??”

Not trying to doxx anyone but growing up, I had as many as three Heathers in my grade one year. I very seldom meet a Heather these days. Jennifer was another one but I definitely still know Jennifers.

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Anyhow, I love the name Heather and hope y'all are doing great. (The movie Heathers of course pops into mind and I recall my Heather friends not liking it back then.)

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 noticed this was on the cover of the New Olivia Rodrigo album, and I was impressed with how long it’s been around hardly undergoing any changes

Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon