Let's be a Millennial's Glory Days (2000-2010)

I'm Butt Hole Girl.

I'm the Fornasetti knock-off vase that every art major had in their first off-campus apartment.

I'm 2 Girls 1 Cup

I'm cdnow.com

I'm having BIG FEELINGS on Livejournal

I'm Fuck the Pain Away

I'm Enron.

I'm your Kazaa queue. Only 18-hours left!

I am naked on cam4 pretending to be over 18 I am the teen pregnancy on mtv I am the yellow mouse pokémon I go around the world and sing lalalalala

I'm the 'RENT' soundtrack and I will be inevitably slipped into the cd player and scream-sung every time there are more than two drama kids in a car.

I'm the American Apparel Art-Hoe. Last night I fucked a guy with a framed Fight Club poster in his bedroom.

I'm wearing Billabong with Groovejet on my 4th Gen iPod snowboarding in Verbier

I'm a pack of Parliament Lights.

I'm ordering Kamikazes.

R13 Parliament Lights were totally the hipster cigarette of choice before American Spirits came on the scene.

I'm the Rocky Horror Picture Show revival.

i'm the lack of sex

I'm the post-9/11 suspicious looks your boomer parents are giving the arab gas station attendant.

Going to party in Berlin with your friends how live there now. See also: Shanghai.

I'm the grape fall.

Born in the early 80s;

Came of age in the 90s;

Can barely remember the 2000s. ;)

I'm the late 2000's , I feel very hip with my beanie, my ironically retro sneakers, my PBR and my beard. I brag to everyone I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn but technically I'm from Bed Stuy.

I’m the smelly vintage clothes, greasy hair and porn addiction. I’m also the ever present beanie I wear in July to hide my thin hair and bald spots.

I’m also the shitty pop music that I think is edgy. I do molly and listen to Katy Perry!

I'm Stace Hole, queefing my way to fame.

I just watched TDK and have made Heath Ledger's Joker my religion.

I'm Salvia

I'm the handsome ivy-educated ne'er do well Peter Pan man setting up my outlaw raw milk artisanal micro-creamery in a moldy barn in Ulster County. Don't worry, my wife has a massive trust fund.

I'm your college boyfriend's Deviantart page. He's going to make you scroll through every entry and pretend to be impressed before he'll let you fuck him tonight.

I'm dubstep

I um... umm..got nothin'

I'm tumblr, the birthplace of all the weepy strange rainbow haired screechies that we have all grown to hate.

I'm microbrewing to compensate for my micropenis.

I'm weeping over my last failed relationship while listening to Adele.

I'm 'Zeitgeist' and I am BLOWING your stoned mind.

Watching Passions during summer break.

I'm 4 Loko

I'm 'How I Met Your Mother'. Your straight friends are obsessed.

I'm molly. I'm your best friend this decade.

I'm the rich hip slutty art girl on campus who becomes a McKinsey Killer Kapitalist and Bridezilla before the decade is out.

I'm gleefully scoffing at every Bushism, thinking there'll never be such an embarrassingly stupid president in office.

I'm the launch party attended by Tyler Brûlé, Lisa Loeb and Kara Walker.

Ibiza - OUT / Bodrum - IN

I'm the pants you stole from your sister as makeshift skinny jeans.

I Occupied Wall Street. Seven years later I was working for Amazon.

I'm "reality" t.v...I grew up on it On the other hand I grew up during arguably the best decade for television. Breaking Bad, Lost, Mad Men, The Sopranos....I had plenty to chose from.

I'm Robotripping

I'm the dogs who are test run babies.

I'm the Stepford-Wives adjacent house-flipping couple about to get burned in the subprime mortgage crisis.

I'm Chatroulette

I'm the RAMPANT homophobia in every blockbuster comedy and sitcom.

I'm the millennial thrilled by genuine past season merchandise bargains at the outlet mall.

Fuck you bitch, you're saying I had my glory days from age 9 to 19?

I'm the fit "str8" college brah drenched in Fierce by Abercrombie & Fitch about to get sex trafficked to the Hamptons and Marrakech.

R52 You're basically a Zillenial. The oldest Millennials were born in the early 80's.

I always associate Millenials peak around the years 2006 to 2012. I feel before that they hadnt quite reached their peak and were still growing, in an "awkward" stage. Then after 2012 the oldest ones turned 31...no longer cool

I sort of feel the same about peak Gen X and associate them to the years around 1991-1997...interestingly it's the same with me's, in 1997 the oldest X-er turned 32.

Going by this I guess peak Gen Z is/will be between 2022 to 2028

And Boomers peaked between 1971 and 1977

Generation Jones peaked between 1979 and 1985

I'm gay Zumba.

I'm SmarterChild, the wet-brained uncle of Chat GPT.

I'm their only claim to fame: blue suit, orange shoes, beard (still in use).

R54, aka the original and best millennials.

[quote]I’m the smelly vintage clothes, greasy hair and porn addiction. I’m also the ever present beanie I wear in July to hide my thin hair and bald spots.

[quote]I’m also the shitty pop music that I think is edgy. I do molly and listen to Katy Perry!

This guy would have been listening to Passion Pit and like, Vampire Weekend, not Katy Perry. Did anyone ever think Katy Perry was edgy?

I think you missed the diss in that, R60. "the shitty pop music that I think is edgy"

R59 Zillennials are the Lizzie McGuire/ Vine Generation.

R62, ewww.

I'm making amateur money on Xtube!

I’m every single cliche / trope in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

I’m riding my penny farthing down a busy city street, relishing all the attention.

I’m “metrosexual” and I encouraged straight guys to bathe, clip their nose hair, and lose the JNCOs!

I’m HU-210 - delightful synthetic HTC that gets you high for 45 minutes and then goes away.

I’m the bed bugs that made any piece of used, upholstered furniture scary - you began buying lots of new beige couches because of us.

I'm all of the un-PC language that will be misremembered a decade later!

Our parents forced us to stay in college and get three degrees so as not to embarrass George W. Bush's lousy Presidency. That resulted in $100,000 in student loans. Then the real estate crisis in 2008 erased whatever jobs were left. We ended-up riding bicycles to our volunteer positions!

I'm the 'Garden State' soundtrack. I'm the album that every BPD Art Hoe wished she had lost her virginity to (instead of the scratched-up "Audioslave/Chili Peppers/Eminem Road Trippin' Mix" CD that her boyfriend selected).

I'm purple DRANK

I'm Green Day's 'Time Of Your Life'. I almost certainly played during your high school graduation.

I'm two emo boys kissing to be edgy.

I’m LiveJournal

I'm the two hipster guys the two emo boys will transition into by the end of the decade.

R73 Emo boys were just sad twinks.

R76, until they became insufferable hipsters. ;)

I'm Proactiv, and despite what Jessica Simpson promised, I didn't do SHIT.

I'm celeb photos on Perez Hilton, with cum (added in MS Paint) dripping from their mouths.

I’m “The Secret” and you’re all self-manifesting. I can smell it on you.

I'm the MEAN older millennials, now with homes and equity. The new boomers.

I'm the voice of my generation.

I'm Neutral Milk Hotel.

R83 I <3 Neutral Milk Hotel ALWAYS AND FOREVER.

I'm the Bret Easton Ellis phase. Don't be ashamed.

I'm the all-cheese Atkins diet you went on to lose the breakup weight.

I’m Tina (AKA meth) and I’m cute and everyone could use me as a pickmeup. It’s so much cheaper than cocaine Plus, we don’t smoke it; we just do a little bump.

Is your neighbor knocking on your door at 3am asking to sell you a desk lamp? He knows where to get Tina!

I'm the hundreds of scratched, poorly labeled burned CD's and DVD's littering your entire life.

I'm the $25 nitrous balloons

I'm the tears of joy the night Obama is elected and the confidence that racism has officially been eradicated.

I'm the deep song lyrics chosen for your AIM away message.

I'm the glove compartment full of printed Mapquest directions.

I’m my QAF fanfic - 72 followers and counting!

Brian 💜 Justin

I'm someone in the house screaming at you to get the fuck off the computer so they can make a call.

I'm every girl in high school's exposed thong that you kept trying to convince yourself to be aroused by.

I’m neopets.com

I’m super low-rise jeans that show off that vein radiating from your dick to your abdomen.

I'm the apple you smoked weed out of with your friends while cruising around in your mom's minivan.

I'm *67

I’m taking for granted the multiple gay bars, bookstores, and coffee shops that even medium-sized cities have. Surely I am living during the beginning of a post-AIDS gay renaissance and these institutions will all still exist in a decade.

I'm still buying weed off a dealer.

I'm 'bi', 'fluid' and 'questioning'- still used as excuses for gay sex.

I'm all the LiveJournal fanfics

I’m MakeOutClub.

I’m this

The millennials' glory days begin NOW.

In middle age.

Being in charge.

I'm the poster of two hot female models kissing in bed. I adorn the walls of countless college dorms. I'm sexy and classy because of the black and white photography. No way am I a perfect example of the problematic male gaze.

I am The Strokes.

[quote] I'm ordering Kamikazes.

I thought kamikazes were an '80s drink. BTW, a cosmopolitan is just a kamikaze with a splash of cranberry juice.

I'm the millionth time you've heard about the apple bottom jeans and the boots with the fur.

I'm the UGG boots and the knockoffs, too, I guess.

I'm YOLO, bae and bi-curious....all stupid terms that will wear out in a few years time.

I'm the disillusion felt after Tavi Gevinson published her account of being "groomed, coerced, and raped" by 30-year-old indie dream boy Ezra Koening at age 18. I then switched my affections to indie dream boy Sufjan Stevens, but, you know...

I'm Jia Tolentino's "Interview With a Virgin" in The Hairpin

I'm the Canadian Tuxedo. Britney and Justin made me famous.

R107 I'm "The Male Gaze". I was dismissed from the zeitgeist in the 1990s, along with semiotics and psychoanalytic critical theory.

I’m fitted, ribbed shirts from Structure.

I’m A&F and you’re not allowed to wear any of my clothing, but you do.

I thought Kamikazes were an 80s drink as well.

Good evening, America. I'm Chloe Sevigny!

R81: Everybody is freaking out and playing hot potato about who is going to be the new Boomers. I don't see it that way. If being the new boomers means having power, influence, money and control of the nation, I welcome it. It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it, right?

This thread is giving me a generational existential crisis.

Chloe Sevigny seems Gen X to me more than anything...at most Xennial.

Brit-Brit is their patron saint: 42 but 4-ever a teen. Still fighting her Boomer 'rents for control!!

I am Juicy Couture terry cloth track suits with words written over the ass.

I am also gradated sunglasses with embedded rhinestones in the corner.

Shoes

R126 was a blatant rip off of

I’m the Kiehl’s Apothecary that opened in every city where there was lots of disposable money.

You’re welcome. No, not for the creams and dozens of free samples every time you refilled your moisturizer.

I groomed hundreds of moisturizer freaks and sunscreen slatherers. Each is now convinced everyone thinks he is ten years younger than his true age.

I'm Gen X being their usual sourpuss judgmental selves.

I'm Stuff White People Like

[quote]I thought kamikazes were an '80s drink.

They had a major comeback in the early 2000s.

I'm the Gap June 2005 in-store playlist, a true capture of the era!

You can listen to the full Gap June 2005 CD at the Internet Archive:

I'm also the Gap August 2005 in-store playlist, a true capture of the era!

You can listen to the full Gap August 2005 CD at the Internet Archive:

Official Theme Song

I'm Bonsai Kitten.

Who was the biggest walking red flag? The guy with the 'Fight Club' poster in his dorm room or the one with the 'American Psycho' poster?

[quote]Surely I am living during the beginning of a post-AIDS gay renaissance and these institutions will all still exist in a decade.

So true. 2000-2010 really was the gay renaissance. We had no idea that the beginning of our erasure was just a few years away.

Millennial gays had it so well and we had no clue at the time.

It was a little oasis, a little reprieve from the shadow of AIDS which came before us and covid + the queer/trans wars of the 2020s.

Hindsight is 20/20

I'm on ONTD every day posting about Mary-Kate's daily Starbucks runs, Mischa Barton's saggy-balled boyfriend Cisco Adler, and the contents of Paris Hilton's storage unit.

R104 Any Makeout Club memories? I used primarily to find shows to go to and hook up. Remember when users would announce what page they were on, because the site listed every member chronologically? I was page 3🙌

I'm "cyber sex".

I'm this guy. I took permanent residence on every college quad and never had weed when you needed it.

The Millennial Glory Days were much better than the shit we're living through now.

Glory days? The majority of us grew up in the 90s.

I'm dubstep. I was immensely popular, then around 2012 everyone forgot about me.

R144 The vast majority of millennials were in high school and college/their early-mid 20's between 2000-2010. That is what is generally considered one's "glory days".

Even if you are among the oldest millennials, you would have been about 19 in 2000.

Obviously, most of these references would be lost on zillennials, but they've got more in common culturally with zoomers anyway. I consider true millennials to be those who were old enough for both Columbine and 9/11 to be formative experiences, and who came of age before social media and smart phones.

I’m viewing the original Facebook layout on my laptop.

I'm electroclash.

[quote] That is what is generally considered one's "glory days".

That’s subjective.

R149 Did you assume "glory days" was referring to elementary school?

[quote] zillennials,

Ewww. Their glory days (right now) SUCK

I’m Netflix in the mail.

[quote] I consider true millennials to be those who were old enough for both Columbine and 9/11 to be formative experiences, and who came of age before social media and smart phones.

I would agree that your "glory days" or heyday are late teens to mid-20s.

I'm not a Millennial, but it does seem that Millennials experienced life before social media and smart phones, so I'd agree with this post.

I’m the CD to cassette converter that made your Cherokee a Yaz/Eurythmics haven.

I’m slim fit distressed denim jeans from Top Shop and a deep v-neck t-shirt from American Apparel.

I'm the original trolls on the Datalounge

Did Millennials shop at Hot Topic? I think so. It was goth lite?

R157, goth packaged and mass-marketed to angst-ridden suburban teenagers.

R157 Are you kidding? You can't get more millennial than Hot Topic. You were either a Hot Topic kid, an Abercrombie & Fitch kid, or, if you were a poor like me, a No Boundaries kid.

^Rich kids = three stripes

Poor kids = two stripes

I’m the cornrows you had woven in Mexico for $40. It took five hours and three mojitos!