30 Things People Roasted Millennials For Loving In 2023, And It’s Funny Because It’s True
On the internet, we're all fair game, no matter the generation. From Boomers to Zoomers, everyone gets their moment in the spotlight; it's like a never-ending roast session.
Now, it's time for Millennials. Recently, people have been taking jabs at the cohort, listing all the peculiar things they love, so we decided to put together a list of the most accurate observations that hilariously describe the essence of belonging to this avocado-toast-adoring Harry Potter fan club.
Continue scrolling to check out the posts and don't miss the chat we had with a Millennial blogger from the United Kingdom, Tanya Korobka. You'll find it spread in-between the pictures.
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To get a better understanding of the cohort everyone seems love to mock, we got in touch with Tanya Korobka, the woman behind the blog Lucky Attitude, through which she became the voice of Millennials in the UK.
Tanya sees Millennials as pragmatic idealists. "We want to change the world and we know it's not going to be easy, but we're going to have a plan for how to get there," she told Bored Panda. "61% of Millennials are worried about the state of the world and feel personally responsible for making a difference."
"Millennials are nomadic global citizens," the blogger added. "We are the first generation born into a globalized world offering cheaper travel. The nomad, defined as 'an individual with no fixed location who wanders in search of pasture' can represent a cultural ideal for many of our generation."
I'm Gen X,is this really a millennial thing? Asking for a friend.
According to a 2023 Deloitte survey, the high cost of living is the top societal concern for Millennials (42%).
This shouldn't come as a surprise when you consider that 52% of them are living paycheck to paycheck and 37% have taken on a side job to make ends meet.
Economic uncertainty is causing Millennials to postpone big life decisions, for example, starting a family or buying a house, and they believe the situation won't change unless there will be systematic changes implemented.
These things are taking a toll on them, as the same survey discovered that four in ten Millennials feel stressed or anxious all or most of the time.
Because of that, 82% say mental health support and policies are important to them when considering an employer and 53% agree that their employer's focus on the subject has resulted in positive change.
(However, 31% still do not feel comfortable speaking with their manager about their mental health challenges.)
Tanya Korobka of Lucky Attitude agrees that personal finance is a pressing matter for many Millennials and believes that affordable stable housing (either rented or owned) is arguably the biggest challenge that the generation is facing today.
"It's nearly impossible for common folk to get an affordable home in a bigger city," she said. "The main reason is a steep rise in house prices since the early 2000s compared to stagnating salaries. Why are the prices so disproportionate? Because rich people can afford to buy homes as an investment, which inflates the prices for others as a result."
I TRIED starting my sentences with "listen to this sh!t", but apparently that's "profane" and "not work appropriate"
It's true, affordability has been a growing problem in many places across the world.
In the US, for example, in the last decade, the median home price rose roughly 30% and incomes crept up just 11% over the same time period, according to a Bankrate analysis of data from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.
Over 50 years, the difference is even more striking. After accounting for inflation, home prices have jumped 118% since 1965, while income has only increased by 15%.
The jokes we see in the pictures have a lot of truth in them, but plenty of myths about Millennials have been hammered into our heads by the media, too.
"The biggest misconception is that Millennials are irresponsible snowflakes who can't afford a house deposit because they spend too much money on avocado toast and flat whites," Korobka said.
Perhaps you have your centuries off? This was soooo, last century. #prohabitionsucks
"These stereotypes hide the very real structural problems facing the average young person today (inequality, recession, absurdly high home prices, unregulated markets)," Korobka added.
In other words, avocados and coffee aren't the reasons why Millennials can't afford many components of a (traditionally) happy life. But if they help folks get through all the hardship, then perhaps seemingly trivial indulgences aren't so bad?
Posted by someone that has obviously never been in a Wetherspoons.
Gen X, not all millennials use this. Gen X uses this too. Some of these phrases in this article are non generational. I know as my boomer dad has used them too, just like this one.
Same, none of that made sense to me. Of course we like different generational stuff. Give it a few years till gen alpha comes after them for phrases like "Rizz and Cap".
Load More Replies...I believe these are mostly west coastal millennials. East coastal folks are down to earth and not very conservative toward these nonsense. The only things that comes to mind is the text emoticons. We've started those over actual emojis. ^w^
I'm Gen X and I honestly don't understand why society points out which generation people are from CONSTANTLY. I don't remember ever doing this while growing up. It divides people and sets us against one another. I see this in my younger coworkers every day. Any behavior they find unacceptable from any one is due to that person being from another generation. STOP!!! We all do garbage things...we're human.
Actually we were called the slacker generation... we embraced it too
Load More Replies...I don't think Gen X embraced a damn thing about stupid labels. Maybe that's why we're slackers? I don't remember spending my days bringing up generational "differences." We weren't obsessed with this and didn't let it drive a wedge between us and other generations.
Well... we Gen-Xers are.. .... aren't we the "sit back and watch the show" people... yet get stuff done that's attributed to another generation?
That is exactly why they do it! Can't use the same old things so generations are the next one.
Millennials started the intergenerational online war and now the Zs are coming after them. As an X, this is mildly entertaining.
This didn't start with millennials, and it won't end with the Z's. This is human nature. Old people love complaining about young people being lazy, liking "dumb" things and having their mind poisoned by the latest media format (this literally goes back to ancient greek philosophers complaining about young philosophers writing notes). Young people love complaining about old people being out of touch with reality.
The millenial equivalent of a boomer comic is a millenial meme. It is often a caption about how depressed they are/how work sucks/Their one friend etc. and captions an image often from a tv show or is a dog, and is rarely the best option for that meme.
What age group is posting these things? I feel like I'm getting bullied.... by the truth.
Honestly, I only felt like maybe one of these was deliberately an insult myself. The rest just seemed brutally honest. 😂
So millennials love their exclamation marks! Then who are the ones who use so many question marks? In my day, statements ended with a full stop or even an exclamation mark, but not a question mark? Asking for a friend, of course?
As a millennial, I get the humor. It's no different than how we view the generation before us. They'll look at our views and proclaim that they weren't like that, when indeed in some ways they were.
I'm a millennial and the only one relevant to me is the one about Harry Potter.
I make candles. This year at the Christmas market I sold exactly 0. Nobody wanted green, red or yellow - everybody asked for black candles. Also during the year people constantly ask for black. Why do people hate color so much? No wonder they are feeling depressed. Tis is not about a 60s/70s revival, but a normal use of color in daily life. I don't make them, because one has to put so much coloring in the wax that burning it is really no good idea.
So many people were dressed in black in the office that I decided I would put some color and every day I would come with colored pants and tops and if it was the winter, socks too, just to match. People also expected this of me. I wasn't taken for a clown, just a cheer-me-upper. The exception was when I was dealing with customers F2F. Not sure why you got downvoted for saying this so I put you back to zero.
Load More Replies...Maybe Wednesday and Sabrina being so popular on Netflix caused an influx of satanists? I saw a lot of black christmas tree ornaments this year too.
Millennials always carry their little children on their shoulders.
Not really, I've met most millennials (only '92-98 babies) who aren't having children. Because we're currently surviving the money costs on children alone. We're still children, we just don't want to grow up out of it
Same, none of that made sense to me. Of course we like different generational stuff. Give it a few years till gen alpha comes after them for phrases like "Rizz and Cap".
Load More Replies...I believe these are mostly west coastal millennials. East coastal folks are down to earth and not very conservative toward these nonsense. The only things that comes to mind is the text emoticons. We've started those over actual emojis. ^w^
I'm Gen X and I honestly don't understand why society points out which generation people are from CONSTANTLY. I don't remember ever doing this while growing up. It divides people and sets us against one another. I see this in my younger coworkers every day. Any behavior they find unacceptable from any one is due to that person being from another generation. STOP!!! We all do garbage things...we're human.
Actually we were called the slacker generation... we embraced it too
Load More Replies...I don't think Gen X embraced a damn thing about stupid labels. Maybe that's why we're slackers? I don't remember spending my days bringing up generational "differences." We weren't obsessed with this and didn't let it drive a wedge between us and other generations.
Well... we Gen-Xers are.. .... aren't we the "sit back and watch the show" people... yet get stuff done that's attributed to another generation?
That is exactly why they do it! Can't use the same old things so generations are the next one.
Millennials started the intergenerational online war and now the Zs are coming after them. As an X, this is mildly entertaining.
This didn't start with millennials, and it won't end with the Z's. This is human nature. Old people love complaining about young people being lazy, liking "dumb" things and having their mind poisoned by the latest media format (this literally goes back to ancient greek philosophers complaining about young philosophers writing notes). Young people love complaining about old people being out of touch with reality.
The millenial equivalent of a boomer comic is a millenial meme. It is often a caption about how depressed they are/how work sucks/Their one friend etc. and captions an image often from a tv show or is a dog, and is rarely the best option for that meme.
What age group is posting these things? I feel like I'm getting bullied.... by the truth.
Honestly, I only felt like maybe one of these was deliberately an insult myself. The rest just seemed brutally honest. 😂
So millennials love their exclamation marks! Then who are the ones who use so many question marks? In my day, statements ended with a full stop or even an exclamation mark, but not a question mark? Asking for a friend, of course?
As a millennial, I get the humor. It's no different than how we view the generation before us. They'll look at our views and proclaim that they weren't like that, when indeed in some ways they were.
I'm a millennial and the only one relevant to me is the one about Harry Potter.
I make candles. This year at the Christmas market I sold exactly 0. Nobody wanted green, red or yellow - everybody asked for black candles. Also during the year people constantly ask for black. Why do people hate color so much? No wonder they are feeling depressed. Tis is not about a 60s/70s revival, but a normal use of color in daily life. I don't make them, because one has to put so much coloring in the wax that burning it is really no good idea.
So many people were dressed in black in the office that I decided I would put some color and every day I would come with colored pants and tops and if it was the winter, socks too, just to match. People also expected this of me. I wasn't taken for a clown, just a cheer-me-upper. The exception was when I was dealing with customers F2F. Not sure why you got downvoted for saying this so I put you back to zero.
Load More Replies...Maybe Wednesday and Sabrina being so popular on Netflix caused an influx of satanists? I saw a lot of black christmas tree ornaments this year too.
Millennials always carry their little children on their shoulders.
Not really, I've met most millennials (only '92-98 babies) who aren't having children. Because we're currently surviving the money costs on children alone. We're still children, we just don't want to grow up out of it