Starter Pack Memes for Quintessential Millennials Who Resent Adulting

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jun 4, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Hey there millennial prince and princesses. There's way too much I miss about growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. Kids these days will never understand the beauty of phoneless hangouts, not knowing what time it was with friends till the twilight hours of the morning, not worrying about what you look like because there wasn't the potential of a camera taking your photo at any time, and the general lack of aesthetic competition that comes with growing up today. Our childhoods were filled with borderline inappropriate, yet genius cartoons, self deprecating humor, existential dread, and knowing how to ride a bike or use a map. 

Our natural instincts and human skillsets are dwindling as the generations go by. Where our grandma's were baking homemade bread and milking cows, we can barely heat up our microwave pot put properly without burning our uncalloused little hands. These days, kids growing up can't even write with a pen and paper because their hand cramps too easily. I have some words for those kids: my hand cramps from texting and typing! See how it feels to be an old millennial looking to the past. 

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    Our water park of the 90s @millennial misery
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  • We were told “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and other nonsense phrases that ultimately didn't do us any good. We were taught that the harder you work, the more results you'll see. Oh boy, were our silly boomer parents wrong. How disillusioning it is to realize your hard work goes nowhere and you'll never buy a house or be out of debt. 

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    Growing up in the 2000s starter pack: O NOW THAT'S WHAT CALL MUSICI LipSmarker Lip Smacker pSucker Lip Smacker BEST FRIENDS { NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 18 TOP CHART MITS Juicy 20 CHART-TOPPING HITS! Away Message or labet -OUT- Enter now Away message AA B7 U -OUT WITH THE GIRLies-* (You Know Who You ArE) Special Characters in Screen Name of Buddy Xd-Current date Crent time I'm Away TIG Save for later use Cancel c Mitary's
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    4th grade me riding the school bus and watching two rain drops race it out on the foggy window w/evan.ldz
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    + 1:23 "FATE FELL SHORT THIS TIME YOUR SMILE FADES IN THE SUMMER PLACE YOUR HAND IN MINE I'LL LEAVE WHEN I WANNA!" blink-182 Feeling This blink-182 -1:30 D
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    Dads of the 90s @millennial misery >
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    okay apparently not everyone got these from the school nurse when they lost a tooth in elementary school but i vividly remember getting to wear one of these and everyone asking to see the tooth i lost throughout the day and i felt like a bad b...
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    The pool of the 90s The Wet Set 6 POOL 6 POO SNAPSET SNAPSE PEADY TO-FILL NO ASSEY millennial misery
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    i hope everyone with this logo tattooed on them is doing okay
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    myke_olsen By your 40s you should have: - - two or three good friends (they 800+ miles away) - a chronic illness, maybe - a pet's ashes - a weird collection >
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    Henpecked Hal @Henpecked Hal Welcome to your 40s. The DJ at this grocery store is spinning nothing but hits. >
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    < LiXes @AbleLikes Welcome to your 40s. You exercise for medical reasons now.
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    Your mom thought you were riding your bike around the block for 8 hours. But in that time you went 5 miles away, explored an abandoned house, jumped over some garage roofs, attempted a ouija board, built a den in the woods and made your own fire
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    Dad Mode, 90s style > @millennial misery >
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    If you wore these, you were a bad b
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    I'm this old. FILLENNIUM 200 Jon
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    Today kids would never understand Grok
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    Rissa SoFar. Follow 15h . The babies will never experience the flip flop wall at Old Navy. Early 2000s was a TIME END LATE
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    CLUB Warch S 0 over Whe "you're so funny" 00 be thanks i used to save all of my best stickers for the right *** moment but it never came ** ** ** * *** * Which PEAS 1 E
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    Millennials in their gardening stage like...
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    > I am this old. @millennial misery CHINA ON
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    This is what I was doing in 2008 Millennial sh 08.02.2008 22:22
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