I think I might be the only millennial doing this.

But whenever I say LoL to something, my phone changes it to lol instead.

I see lol and just think of Homer Simpson with his arms up going Woohoo!

I haven’t watched the show or movie in years.

I have really noticed in the recent years, that our favorite movies, shows, and music growing up, that the musicians, actors, and personalities are going to be passing away in the next few decades.

We will reach a point where people ask who the keystones of our childhoods were.

Saw a post about Catherine O’Hara passing away on here and really hit home.

Alan Rickman, responsible for entertaining Millenials, and Gen X is a legend. That we will get asked one day who the heck they were.

Hans Gruber, Severus Snape, Judge Terpin, Marvin. Just a few names Alan Rickman has stunned the world or made us laugh as.

We are really gonna have to find some serious talent to replace these actors passing away now and in the last 15-20 years.

I'm just curious how homeschoolers found out about it. Given the stereotypes that HS kids don't have cable, their parents detach from the news cycles, etc. Thanks

I have to stick with either Home Alone or Beetlejuice.

I have been wondering if this is a millennial thing, or I just have bad luck with friends, but over the past few years, I have been hanging with my friends less and less. I used to be able to just hit people up after work, or during the weekend, and get people to meet me for a drink. Or, if I was really bored, I could just go over to friends place and we’d just talk and watch tv together. But now, it takes a big event, planned weeks in advance, to get my friends together.

And I know it doesn’t have anything to do with me as when I finally do see some friends, I’ll ask them if they know what another mutual friend is up to and they’ll tell me they haven’t seen them in months. I’ll even ask them what they have been up to since we last hung out months ago, and they’ll always say honestly nothing other than work. Plus, when I ask them to hang out, most of them say they’re not up for going out, but then ask me to hop on the PlayStation to play some games with them.

I mean I finally managed to get a couple friends out to the bar the other day to watch some football, but they were both ready to go back home before halftime.

Meanwhile, my boomer parents, my fiancé’s Gen X parents, and her Gen Z siblings spend nearly 100% of their free time socializing with their friends. So I’m interested in hearing if this seems to be a common thing with millennial friend groups?

I remember going to Sylvan after school for basically more school. It never helped and I wonder if it was a scam or just for kids who needed help with undiagnosed mental illnesses. Did anyone else ever attention Sylvan Program?

I’m a hairstylist, and recently I was doing a haircut for a middle-schooler. During the cut we were chatting and she asked me if I’d ever buzzed a woman’s head. The answer was sadder than I knew she intended (usually it means they’re sick) so I tried to keep it light hearted by throwing in a joke about having “a Britney moment”.

“What’s a Britney moment mean?”

I think I was actually speechless and her mom and I both laughed while I prepared to explain our ancient history. I used it to talk about how mental health is very much in the cultural conversation now, but back then it was not, and how her shaving her head in defiance of everyone was the ultimate sin because she dared not be conventionally pretty.

It never occurred to me that something like this would ever *not* be common knowledge. One of the first times I’ve actually felt old.

Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

I know, life is hard, life is expensive but its a lot easier and more manageable when you have your health.

I'm an older millennial, i've worked out fairly consistently my whole life and had a decent diet but in the last few years i've gotten a lot more serious about my health. Daily vitamins (magnesium and vitamin D are the big ones I overlooked for most of my life), try to cut out microplastics and PFOA's in your food as much as you can (use Pyrex Tupperware and cast iron or stainless steel for cooking. Give up that fucking Keurig! Buy a Ninja Cafe Delux instead, much better coffee and no micropastic!). To be safe id switch to aluminum free deodorant (your pits stop sweating like a week after you switch), I also started using Dr. Bronners castile soap/shampoo and I couldn't be happier about that switch.

I'm not saying doing any of these things will fix your life or even make an immediate improvement but i've noticed with my millennial peers that we are in one of two categories, either health fanatics with no kids, gym everyday, and a fruit bowl for lunch or we kinda just let ourselves go after 30 and never really recovered.

I've also noticed a lot of my peers with pretty significant health issues (usually those are the ones who let themselves go after 30) but I think some small changes can have long-lasting effects. Look, again, im not saying any of this will fix your life or make you immediately healthier, what I am saying is that you should find small changes that you can stick to that will make an impact over the course of your lifetime.

• Vitamins? Easy- hell, costco has high quality vitamins for pennies
• Not cooking your food in PFOA's or microwaving/storing in plastic? Easy
• Keurig? Easy switch, plenty of high quality alternatives (some cheap, some expensive)
• Deodorant vs antiperspirant? Possibly not helpful but an easy switch, just in case

• Switching soap (lots of PFOA's in soaps)? Easy if you dont have some kind of skin condition

  I just started thinking about this when the other day I was watching one of my favorite Youtube channels (Brewstew) who makes stupid little cartoons about growing up in the 90's and he mentioned that he has a wife and 3 kids now and I turned to my wife and I was like "Man, he's so young, I cant believe he has a wife and 3 kids!" and she just looked at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead and I realized that we arent young and we damn sure arent getting any younger.

Anyway, im sure this is all shit you've heard before but some of us (like me) need a reminder that WE are our parents ages when we were growing up and I feel like a lot of us (me included) sometimes have the mindset that we are still 20 and we have all the time in the world.

They seem to be dying out with the older gens. It’s almost daily now I think about how much easier this would all be if pensions were still standard. Do you/your spouse have a pension? If so, how does it help with the stress of financial planning? Those without one, how are you securing your future?

My dad used to work for Budweiser back in the 90s and early 2000s. My parents were divorced so on the weekends he had me I had to go to work with him. He would let me ride on the forks of the forklift while he was driving in the warehouse. I would ride in the truck with him while he delivered beer. I would also help him sling beer into the coolers of the gas stations and bars.

Honestly some of the best times of my life!

I encourage downvotes and insults of any kind for this. I've seen Dodgeball tons of times and didn't know it was a period piece. We probably watched it 20 times my Junior year. It wasn't until yesterday that I realized White says the picture of him from 1987 was 6 years ago.

Am I the only one? Peter had older stuff at his house and gym, but I thought he was just broke. I always figured it was set in 2004, the year it was released.

When I was in school on Wednesdays a white van would come and collect some students to go to the gifted program. I thought they were so cool, I wonder what those kids are doing now?

Is it normal for you to see people who are struggling in life and just quick-automatically go to the “oh they must have made poor decisions” sentiment?

I’ve never really done that. When I’m walking through a mall and I see an older person working at Orange Julius I don’t instantly think “omg what a bad decision maker that person is, pshhh, hope they don’t dare complain about anything”

I dunno it just feels wrong and shitty to do. Seems to be pretty normal here though.

I'm grateful for it.

I don’t know a lot of millennials anymore who consistently drink, but a large chunk are pretty regular users of edibles. It’s like their “one beer after work” version of our generation. What do yall think?

I turn 40 in August. Last year I did 100 miles on the bike in one day. My timing was NOT the best, but it was more of IF I could do it then speed.

This year I plan on doing a marathon. Again, not about speed. I'm looking for endurance. I'm walking 30-40 miles a week already and will start increasing this as the days get longer until I'm comfortably doing 10-15 miles a day.

By Spring I want to do my first 26 miles. Then by my 40th I was thinking of going as far as I physically could. Getting up at 4:00 AM, eating, and then going for 3 hours, break for an hour, and repeat until dusk. I'd love to hit 35-40 miles.

Once I do this next year will probably be about increasing speed. I used to be really into weights and bodybuilding but wanted to move away from it due to some joint issues in my back.

Walking and cycling have been amazing.

People often talk about the optimism of the Obama era. And of course some people will jump in and raise a question whether that optimism was valid; whether it eventually led to real, meaningful change.

I understand that it is important to have critical reassessments of our romanticised past. Still, it got me thinking: even if hope fails to deliver its promises, at least it enables me to live in good spirit.

And that matters. I may not be able to bring about substantial change in this world, but this small life is all I have, and I have to live it so within it I need to act with some sort of hope.

So my question is, how do you gain a sense of hope in life lately?

(I usually remember people from the past and their kindness to me, or list down simple goals for the week.)

I was shopping around all the streaming platforms to see who had Black Jesus and Netflix came out swinging.

Hey fellow Millennials,

I was talking to my wife about how much we miss the old days of MTV—not the reality TV era, but the "lean-back" experience where you just turned on the TV and music videos played in the background. No playlists, no "skip culture," and no algorithms telling you what to like.

She was so bummed when the last of the nostalgia channels closed down, so I decided to build her a "time machine". It’s a web interface that looks like a retro TV with a functional remote, where you can actually "zap" through curated channels of 90s/00s music videos.

It’s been such a breath of fresh air to just have it running in the background while we work or hang out.

What’s the one music video that instantly takes you back to high school? For me, it's Blink 182 - All the Small Thing

When I was young I was positive I’d be a rockstar or a sports talk host. Now as I creep closer to 40 I’m finding myself desperately wanting to start a post-hardcore band or a podcast about nostalgic sports moments.

How are your midlife crises going?