38 ‘Me Vs. My Parents’ Memes That Show How Different Our Generations Are

With a whopping 95mln people in their 20s and 30s, millennials make up America’s biggest generation. And they’re the grown-up kids of baby boomers, the second biggest generation there is.

But the differences between these two are bigger than life. While boomers love spending their weekends making a day-long meatloaf, their kids order the world’s cuisine as take-out with friends. And it goes beyond that. A 2018 report by the Federal Reserve Board, for example, stated that millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth, in general, compared with their parents.

Thanks to the recent surge in “me vs. my parents at my age” memes, people have managed to capture the subtle and (sometimes very obvious) generation differences. Both absurd and hysterically funny, these memes will probably feel very close to home, and if they do, they will definitely crack a smile or two.

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Doggo 3 years ago (edited)

then its an upvote from me

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

So true. My parents paid less than $30,000 for their house in the 80’s which is about $100,000 in todays money. To buy a house like theirs these days you are looking at paying over $340,000 and need a 5-10% deposit to get a loan, PLUS money to pay things like stamp duty, application fees, inspection and conveyancer etc.

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

The accuracy of this physically hurt.

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To find out more about “me vs. my parents" memes, Bored Panda reached out to Alaina Stamatis, who has been running the popular Instagram meme account @Fad_albert. It has a solid fanbase of 31k followers who love the humorous content and spot-on jokes.

Alaina explained that memes are basically inside jokes about the human experience that you have with thousands of people. “The ones I make are inside jokes with anyone whose brains have been melted on mushrooms,” she said about her content. Alaina’s recent “me vs. my parents" meme amassed 11.2k followers.

“At first glance, the 'my parents vs. me' meme is about emotional maturity. My mother had me when she was 29 (and my father even younger), whereas I at 29 was just sobering up from a decade of alcoholism. I was struggling to keep a plant alive, much less an infant.” But on a further note, Alaina added that she’s “almost 35 now and recently became a parent, and it’s going very well!”

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

Step in the right direction.

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Little Zoologist 3 years ago

That's me 😂

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

This is a good thing.

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Meanwhile, viral “my parents vs. me” memes are also about “economic stability; the average cost of a home is 3x what it was when we were babies, but incomes certainly aren’t triple,” she added. In reality, “adolescence is getting longer and longer,” and this is what the memes are making fun of.

Alaina said that while her memes are more about psychedelic experiences—“I make fun of hippies and I am one”—she said that a good meme is one that makes you laugh instantly. “I know a meme is going to do pretty well if I’m laughing while I’m making it. If I show it to my husband and he laughs, then I know I’ve struck gold,” she concluded.

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Mustn’t eat the mango 🥭 3 years ago

Yes

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Reginald the spider crab 1 year ago

i have consumed the mango.i failed to calculate the mango's radioactivity levels.

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kat lia 3 years ago

Me..... unable to keep my plants alive.

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doggo-is-fren 3 years ago

Try a pothos, Pretty low light Water once a week

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RavenClaw 3 years ago

yep..i have a room in my home for my plants sadl i treat them better than i do myself ..:9

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Enalpria 3 years ago

Plants are awesome!!!!

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axolotl 3 years ago

welp,that's a good thing. therapy plants

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Dolevaal 3 years ago

Plants are great anyway.

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miten sasmita 3 years ago

Do whatever makes you happy!

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A Jones 3 years ago

I have so many green babies myself. :)

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Soap 3 years ago

Little succulents. <3

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Bob Belcher 3 years ago

The fact that so many individuals and couples aren't having kids should be concerning. Not because they don't have kids, but because financial factors may be preventing them from choosing to. Over population is a myth and we will see the world population begin to decline within the next 20 years. What's going to happen to the millions of abandoned houses? What businesses will fail because of fewer customers? What will happen to all these hospitals, ER centers, and nursing homes when the elderly population is cut in half? I'm curious to see how it plays out.

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Monika Soffronow 3 years ago

Personally, I do not give a f**k about what will happen to businisses having to adjust to new situations, they do that every day anyway. Housing will become more affordable and I am certain that the younger generations that have been more or less excluded from the housing market because of the insatiable greed of the older generations will be very happy about the prospect of being able to afford owning their own home. The percentage of elderly people has been rising for many years, and a more normal distribution will not harm humanity. Overpopulation harms the environment and this is coming back to haunt us, all of us, weather we personally have overconsumed finite resources or not.

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cursed--alien 3 years ago

Yeah. I don't want kids because I don't want them, but a lot of people aren't having kids because they can't afford to take care of them.

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Monika Soffronow 3 years ago

Go back ONLY 50 years to 1970 and there were ONLY HALF as many people on our little planet as there are today!

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Wendillon 3 years ago

Over population most definitely isn't a myth, but it isn't quite the global problem people are making it out to be. There are cities that are over-populated, but that doesn't make the world over-populated.

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 3 years ago

Wow. Now you have me thinking.

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banana 3 years ago

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Enalpria 3 years ago (edited)

Me too, besides it evolves into a pretty good Pokemon(Venusaur)

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Monika Soffronow 3 years ago (edited)

Oh, oh, Corona. Ah, ah, Corona. No matter what age you are, this is still the year 2020. Not even democracy-hating Trump stands a chance against the handouts of corona misery to all, rich and poor, all over this world.

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