Meme About What Millennials Have Lived Through Sparks Debate on How Hard Younger Generations Have It

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Oct 25, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Most generations feel like they have it hard in some way or another, but few have been given the range to complain about it like millennials and Gen Z. The times we live in can be overwhelming, and it has resulted in numerous despairing memes over the years.

Not everyone supports this wave of self-pitying content, though. A meme recently posted to Twitter has been provoking some fierce debate, thanks to the stance it takes on what millennials have dealt with throughout the course of their lives. It mentioned some of the things that this generation have lived through before they hit 40, such as 9/11 or Y2K.

People of all ages took issue with this message, with many claiming that those born earlier had dealt with a far more difficult youth. At the same time, some protested that it still wasn't easy to be a younger person in this day and age. I guess it's all relative.

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    Facial expression - rare insults @insultsrare Subscribe Millennials living through Y2K, 9/11, a plague, 2 economic recessions, and a possible WW3 before they hit 40
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    Product - Train With Kenny... @Zamgerian Follow Replying to @insultsrare Wait till you hear about the people born in the 1910's.
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    Rectangle - C SE CINEMA @RollandCamera Replying to @insultsrare We also survived 2012 end of the world prophecy Follow
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    Font - Vlogging Through... @VTHistory25 Follow Replying to @insultsrare Thinking this is somehow uniquely trying is the most millennial thing ever. Someone born in 1910 lived through two works wars, a global pandemic, and a Great Depression by the time they were 35
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    Font - Good Tweetman @Goodtweet_man Follow Oh shut up, imagine being a Russian man born in 1899 and the first 46 years of your life being essentially hell
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    Font - BB Karras @FrDamien Karras 3d I don't think the people mocking this meme appreciate how millennials are unique in that we are the only generation to both have grown up in a pre-9/11 America and yet not have been able to partake in the benefits as adults. ● We saw a better world, and it was ripped from us.
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    Organism - Matt Walsh @MattWalsh Blog. 5d Someone born in 1910 would have lived through WW1, WW2, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and the Kennedy assassination all before they turned 60. We live in comparatively uneventful times.
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    Font - Lily @nope_its_lily. 5d Baby boomers probably contend for one of the most destructive and self-centered generations in aggregate in world history.
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    Smile - Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy Follow We're living in the most peaceful and prosperous time in history.
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    Font - Ice Spice Nationalist @ElonMusgraves Follow worst thing about this moronic post is all the "lol Y2K was a massive nothingburger" responses when it actually necessitated one of the biggest collective efforts to fix the problem in technological history
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    Font - Aqualmperium @aquaimperium8 Follow Boomers living through Vietnam, the oil ceisis, global stagflation, the early 80s recession, a destabilizing middle east, the height of the cold war, the serial killer wave, and several possible WW3s before they hit 40
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    Font - wanye @wanyeburkett - 6d This meme is really the spiritual essence of the millennial, who, despite living through relatively ordinary times, takes it as a core principle that they have had it particularly bad
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    Font - rudy betrayed @rudy_betrayed. 6d yeah y2k was f cking nuts. everyone that made computers in the 1990's didn't program them to register any years in the 2000's. so basically at midnight on new years eve 1999, there was a very scary possibility that our computer clocks would be wrong for a little bit
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    Font - Denver Riggleman @RepRiggleman Follow Gen X actually deploying and fighting in 9/11, living DURING the Cold War, going through a half dozen recessions, being old enough to actually remember Y2K, Oklahoma City bombings, the first World Trade Center bombing, and drinking from a hose and not having bottled water...
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    Font - Conspiracy Bullsh t @ConspiracyBull1 Follow The threat of a "possible" World War 3 has been a thing since the late 1940s. I'm pretty sure anyone who lived through the 20th Century would disagree with this meme.
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    Font - River Tam @RiverTamYDN 6d When Joe Biden was born the infant mortality rate in the US was worse than it is in Sudan and Haiti today.
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    Rectangle - Kelly Campagna @warriorwoman91 Follow Replying to @insultsrare I'm still literally shaking and crying from Y2K
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    Rectangle - SOUT The History Unde... @history_under Follow Replying to @insultsrare Imagine listing Y2K as something that you "lived through". Easily the most millennial thing that I've seen all day.
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    Azure - Supernova @michaelthups Follow Replying to @insultsrare I'm a zillenial and I can relate lol
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    Product - No Context Reply... @noncontextreply Follow Replying to @insultsrare that's nothing, the first two world wars were only 20 years apart
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