25 Millennial Memes More Valuable Than Your Old Beanie Baby Collection

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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. 

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  • 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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    Me in my 30's after sleeping on my side slightly different than usual:
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    Other girls in high waisted pants Me in high waisted pants
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    Hitting the age where I finally understand why people were so excited to win an appliance
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    which auto response should i send back to my dentist? Attached is the pano that was taken today. Thank you! So cute! I love this picture!
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    this remains one of my favorite pieces of internet cultural criticism griculture g 2 lbs. Follow us You Tube For fun recipes, activities and more, visit www.lilsn "Std. Mag & Data Rates May Apply bro i'm not going to my pears' youtube channel
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    Friendly Reminder: If retailers can rebrand "plastic" as "vegan leather" and increase the price 300%, you can believe in yourself for five minutes
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    I need an adult study abroad semester. Just me and a group of friends going someplace for 3-6 mos, learning and exploring.
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    in my nightmares im really late for work and i have to put this on Valeria @valeriavenoire Yohji Yamamoto: Many Buttons Shirt (2010)
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    here i am, ready to take on the week!!! Smoke ہے beautiful screaming lady 18590
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    I just saw a baby wearing a shirt that said "Class of 2040" A
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    The combination of these two was *chef's kiss* WIDE photobucket OPTICAL
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    "Childless cat lady" and it's the most fabulous woman you've ever seen in your life
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    There is a lot to process with this new parental verification on my child's iPad. Parent Required Age check question: What is a VCR used for? Curing headaches Keeping people safe Playing video tapes Heating up food
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    Just a reminder that shrek wore this vest for fashion, not warmth or function and I'd be lying if I said I don't want one for hot girl summer
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    You wake up and it was all a dream. It's 1998. Your phone doesn't connect to the internet. There's a new episode of Bug Juice on tonight and your vanilla frosting lip smackers is still in the pocket of your favorite Mudd jeans.
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    i'll see your "live laugh love" sign and raise you an "ew, people" EW, PEOPLE
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    Seven year old me strategizing which shitty Lion King Valentine's Day card to give to the kid I *cannot* stand REPE 171
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    Me in 1994 hiding in a department store clothing rack while my mom has the scariest 17 mins of her life
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    Winter 2008: DISSOLVE Unphased by freezing temps, in nothing but my Charlotte Russe dress, waiting for the bouncer to let me in.
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    The week between Christmas and New Years is the giant gym class parachute of the calendar year
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    ! Ethan @E.miller92 Bro what's he running from Yahoo @Yahoo His mid 30s
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    stop glamorizing "the Grind” and start glamorizing whatever this is
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    now more than ever i relate to the elf mailroom guy who is inexplicably 26 years old
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    hey millennials, did you know that the american pie character stifler's mom, aka jennifer was actually the grand age of *drum roll* ...thirty-eight have a great day Th
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    I'm old enough to remember when the internet only existed here. Now it's attached to us like an organ we can't function without.
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