Even as a teenager I was pretty crystal-clear on the fact that anybody who knew anything about how a computer worked also knew that Y2K was not the cataclysmic society-ending event that the fucking braindead news media were making it out to be at the time.

I remember in '99 the radio DJs loved talking about how there was a chance the world would end on new years, so there was a degree of anxiety, especially to dumb kids like myself

Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.

I certainly don’t feel hated by Z.

I did mention skibidi toilets and 6 7 in front of a group of gen alphas and they literally cringed at me though lmao

Who gives a shit what boomers think, genx literally are incapable of giving a shit about anything and genz are in their 20’s, what the fuck you care what a 20-something thinks about you? That’s the glory of your 40’s: you’re fat, old and don’t give a crap

So much this. It boggles my mind that I was considered an “essential worker” and had to work every single day of the COVID shutdown when everyone else was staying home and social distancing. But I never got a raise or a bonus. I’m treated like dogshit stuck to my boss’s shoe. Collectively Millennials are the current backbone of the United States workforce and we are expected to keep society running but we are treated like shit and are paid a fraction of what our boomer parents were making at our current age.

Don’t forget we’re hated by baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and younger.

What? Why? Everyone seems to like me lol. You’re telling me they actually secretly hate me?

Living through, not working through.

There was constant reports about how disastrous it was going to be if it wasn’t fixed. That puts some strain on people. I remember thinking that it didn’t matter what I did for a job if everything collapses.

I still remember the hype about it, and wondering if something would actually happen. I was 12 and sleeping over at my friends house on NYE. We were all a bit excited to see what midnight would bring.

I’m trying to remember the name of it, but there’s a micro-generation made up of late X and early millennial (Like 78-85 or sokething) that’s seen as the transition generation from the analog world to the digital world.

We’re old enough to clearly remember pre-digital/internet life, but young enough to have been exposed to tech while our brains were still developing. We’re the generation that’s comfortable in both worlds.

We’re also good with computers generally because we developed alongside them and had to learn more about their inner workings and quirks as they were less automatic. All my new college graduates at work are surprisingly illiterate on tech because they grew up in a world of apps that are so automated they didn’t have to learn anything.

Stuff as simple as navigating a network is weird to them, because they’re used to apps just handling stuff like file locations.

Don’t forget Tchernobyl and the fall of the Berlin wall…

According to this slop all that happened after you hit 40? How old are you?

Or did you just not bother to proofread what the robot vomited out? Typical lazy gen Xer, can’t even make their own meme.

'88 here. 9/11 sits at such a clear demarcation line for us. Happened in 8th grade where you’re still straddling the fence that’s childhood, while still capable of grasping the enormity of what was unfolding.

Though I also grew up in the rust belt, so there was always the sense that you were riding a wave that had long since crested.

Yep, things looked positive for a short while after the end of the cold war and the Internet became widespread when we entered the workforce. The advancement of the human race only seemed a matter of time.

But our Boomer parents weren’t willing to let anyone else have a bright future, keeping us away from any real power while driving exploitation of nature and people to the max to fill their bank accounts. If you look at the US, this is thill the case, with a gerontocratic political caste that fights tooth and claw to prevent the next generations from enacting change - somewhat like fucking elder vampires.

The generation that’s more pro trump than any other 🤢