25 Millennial Memes More Valuable Than Your Old Beanie Baby Collection

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Apr 30, 2025 11:30 AM EDT

Millennials are the last generation to understand an analog life. Getting our first cell phone after middle school, we enjoyed an unplugged childhood, while riding the rising tide of the Internet like a cowabunga surfer. Lest we forget, however, our true value lies in our long lost Beanie Baby collection. Forget buying stock in Apple or Microsoft, let's spend thousands on tiny, bean-filled stuffed animals with fragile tags attached to their ears! Kids will love it.

So while we reminisce on the days of playing Hot Crossed Buns on the recorder, we recall our formidable years on Myspace, posting 250 photos from our Coolpix cameras at the end of a wild night out. Riding the line between the wild west of the Internet, claiming modernity through rhinestones, inflatable furniture, and indestructible Nokia flip-phones, every millennial secretly yearns for the simpler times that came before—a time where you could ride your bike around the neighborhood for hours without checking in with your parents.

As a generation entirely associated with technological change and the short end of the generational stick, millennials still have one thing going for them! Despite mountains of student debt, no home to afford, and an army of furbabies in the house, millennials are still the only generation that seems to understand how to attach a PDF to an email. So there's that! Congrats!
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