'2050 is closer than 1990': Nostalgic memes and fails for aging millennials

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 18, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

For those of us foolishly clinging to the past, we've got you covered. We may live in a world these days where the culture of the present does not match that of our youth, and that feeling can be, well, let's face it, infuriating. But rather than accept a world in which my interests and hobbies are no longer in the zeitgeist, I prefer putting on my rose-colored glasses and pretending I'm still just as relevant to the marketing industry as I once was. If this also describes your experience, then please come along and join me as we hop on the nostalgia with no plans to hop off any time soon. Keep scrolling below for these nostalgic memes and fails for all you aging former 90s kids and teens. For more compilations like this, feel free to check out these real estate fails and these travel memes and fails.

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    Clothing - Me realizing that kids talking about the 90s today is the same as kids in the 90s talking about the 60s
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    Smile - my mom driving me to Hot Topic when i was 14
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    Organism - Gareth Waugh @GarethWaugh : No I don't watch tiktoks, I watch Instagram reels of tiktok videos that were popular two weeks ago, LIKE A GROWN UP
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    Gesture - Michael, PA-C, RN @michael_RNtoPA Being an adult really just means you have an upstairs bottle of ibuprofen and a downstairs bottle of ibuprofen
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    Organism - Trey @treydayway Adulthood is just paying bills and being attacked by the foods you like 11:10 AM Twitter for Android 318 Retweets 15 Quote Tweets 1,158 Likes
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    Outerwear - i am completely incapable of imagining the type of person this shirt is for Thomas Wagner You bring me closer to golf 5h Haha Reply NIИ Made with memalic 4
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    Font - I wanna be 14 again and ruin my life differently. I have new ideas.
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    Head - 10 y/o me: I'm never gonna be those boring adults, always in a bad mood Me today:
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    Font - Absolutely devastated to learn this DAD ROCK album with AVRIL LAVIGNE and SUM 41 is not just a meme but is, in fact, real NOW www.stappe MUSIC Sam Maggs @SamMaggs NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DAD ROCK MAUIDAR DA AV 5:35 PM III 41 42 43 44 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus Kids MGMT In Too Deep Sum 41 America Razorlight Twitter for iPhone ...
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    Font - Owl! at the Library @SketchesbyBoze I would like a scientist to explain how last March was ten years ago and 1990 was also ten years ago 4:54 PM ● Twitter Web App :
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    Product - Harry Potter looks like he's about to drop the hardest mixtape of the decade PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT the boy who lived @Viccre fa012
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    Facial expression - SO I PUT MY SONY DISCMAN IN MY JNCOS WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME imgflip.com
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    Forehead - My answer whenever someone asks me how old I am I WAS ONCE ON THE TELEPHONE WITH BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO
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    Font - eleanor @snitchery getting older is so weird?? you never really stop feeling like a kid then one day adults just start treating u like a fellow adult with an inherent understanding of the housing market and medical insurance. like i was 12 years old 12 minutes ago leave me alone 10:21 PM. · Twitter for iPhone : 1,886 Retweets 59 Quote Tweets 16K Likes
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    Clothing - When you're over 35 and you use the Urban Dictionary to find out how to say things like "yeet" and "it's lit fam" (ما - @macaroniandmomjeans
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    World - ben mekler @benmekler ... Gen Z will never understand growing up with parents who basically poured a gallon of milk into your body with a funnel every day because Big Milk told them that if we didn't drink enough our bones would go soft and we'd turn into pudding people and get kidnapped at the mall
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    Computer - me in the 2000s on myspace html changing my theme & adding a hidden song no b could pause ERNE <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC <html> <head> <meta name="TITLE" <met <meta name="KEWIRDS" RERESSANTI a <link rel="stylesheet" <script language" </head> du bgcolor="afting " class
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    Hat - Me getting on tik tok
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    Outerwear - THREE FOR THE ELVEN KINGS NINE FOR THE MORTAL MEN AND NONE FOR GRETCHEN WIENERS, BYE! SEVEN FOR THE DWARF LORDS ONE FOR THE DARK LORD
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    Data storage device - Summer mix -1999- 1- Hard knock life-play 2-Baby One More Time-Britneys 3-No Scrubs- 4-Steal My 5-Miami - TLE Sunshine-Len Will Smith C-mambo #5-Lou Bega 7-7 want it that way-BSB 8-All star- Smash Mouth 9-La Vida Lood-Ricky My PART 1 Corp alion /GB
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    Font - D Rose liked Stitch, Emergency Manager 626 @UntamedAcademic Just saw that Titanic is available on Netflix. When I first watched Titanic it was on two separate VHS tapes because it couldn't fit on one cassette. I am old. 10:28 AM Twitter for iPhone 591 Retweets 61 Quote Tweets 3,198 Likes
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    Hairstyle - How we used to take selfies in the '90s JJD
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    Font - Agent 47.5 @Uwe Bollocks Guy got to the gym a few minutes before I did and asked "Are you ok with listening to metal?" so I was just like "Yeah sure that's fine" and he put on Fall Out Boy lol
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    Forehead - when you change it to 'classic rock' expecting zepplin but get weezer
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    Product - I think my body just woke up one day and decided I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS WAY HARDER THAN IT NEEDS TO BE.
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    Cartoon - 2050 IS CLOSER THAN 1990. UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN! imaflin com
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