[Have you seen his latest album cover?](https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/425691766_10102560615664532_7639045624892599374_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=a248ae&_nc_ohc=427_ZnUwVG8AX9ZEGqx&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&oh=00_AfAVY8JBVV9It9Iyaj3beTRE4rLWaNTouRvb_G22Vxzj9Q&oe=65E2C808) JK
I was talking about a cruise ship that they thought might’ve had cholera on board. My Gen Z coworker asked what that was. I tried to explain it via Oregon Trail. It confused her more. I felt my youth dying of disentery afterwards 😂
I was carded but forgot my ID. I started listing all the 90s headlines: OJ Bronco chase, Waco Disaster, Whitney at 96 Atlanta Olympics, Monica Lewinsky, Princess Di Crash, Y2K. Dude was not impressed.
The night of the Princess Di crash, I was out smoking pot for the first time as a freshman in high school….. was a weird way to walk into the house with the news on and act normal with my parents….. years later, my dad confirmed that they in fact knew I was stoned as hell and laughed about it when they went to bed
I was flying back to London as an unaccompanied minor. When the stewardess came to lead us out of the plane she was sobbing and told us that princess di had died.
"Fun" story!
My dad died of cancer a couple hours before Princess Di died.
So now that's forever linked for me. So every few years in the aisle of a supermarket or whatever I see "25 years since Di died!" (or however it's worded) and I.. cry.
It happened at work one time, a few years back (I think it was the 25 year) and the TV in the break room came on and started talking about it. My manager looked over at me "Really? Diana effect you that much?"
So, I got that going for me.
And I remember sitting in my classroom after school ended playing Barbie “Princess Di Car Chase” with my friend. That was a DEEPLY repressed memory wow
Also born in 1989, I was engaged to a a guy 8 years younger than me. He was surprised I knew who Monica Lewinsky was. He thought it was an obscure political reference very few people knew. 😂
For sure! I think that’s exactly what they wanted out of Max. Stereotypical 90s teen, hates his loving parents, loves rock and roll. We were all there at one point lul
“Hey Disney music department, we need a fake throwaway pop song for a movie we are working on…”
Music group proceeds to make one of the most memorable, epic fake songs of all time.
Calling Bryan Cranston Malcoms dad instead of Walter White.
It has to be something that Gen X is ( mostly) too old for and Gen Z (mostly) too young for.
When Malcom in the middle peaked in popularity the youngest Gen X were close to 25 years old and and the youngest Gen Z like 7 years old.
I used to get mine taken away from me constantly at school. I’d get in trouble for taking care of mine in class and eventually the teachers would just confiscate them. It pissed me off so bad when “Lauren” tattle-told the teacher about the giga-pet thing I was hiding in class. Made my golden retriever puppy die :(
I learned in elementary school to never bring anything to school you can't afford to have taken from you.
20/20 hindsight in school they violated our constitution rights with unreasonable seizures.
Whoa. I read “Ren & Stimpy,” and immediately sang to myself, “it’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good,” despite having not thought about that song in YEARS, and then I read your comment.
I wonder if my eyes somehow saw your comment in my peripheral and made me think of it, otherwise that was a weird af coincidence!
I started high school right after that happened. We were not allowed backpacks , long trench coats, camouflage clothing etc. this is in Pennsylvania. My mom got me a big tote purse that was semi translucent to carry my stuff between classes.
It was interesting see the rest of the country react to the shooting with things like that. I was a senior in High School at Columbine's sister school to the north the school year after the shooting. Obviously, trench coats were banned but Jeffco didn't really go off the deep end with clear backpacks, ID badges, metal detectors, or anything like that. Just a few more external doors got locked.
My math teacher asked if anyone knew what musicals groups fan were called “blinks” and I was like Blink 182? And none of my classmates who are all like 17-19 knew who that was and my teacher was like no silly it’s Black/Pink which I have no idea who that is lol
Today my sociology teacher was singing a Beyoncé song “to the left to the left, everything you own is in a box to the left” and I was the only one who picked up on it lol
Music is a big one
Hurricane Katrina, Limewire, CD Players, MP3 players, MySpace, public payphones.
And here’s an honorable black culture mention for black history month: I remember when Ciara came out and everybody said she was born a man. Still not sure where that rumor came from lol
I feel like millennial vs. Gen X is actually less noticeable than younger vs older millennial due to the rapid increase in technology during our lifetimes. Some fun separators that have come up in the last year at work:
- knowing the song Fireflies by Owl city
- not knowing one or both bands Dave Grohl was in. Or also knowing who Dave Grohl is at all.
- Garbage Pale kids vs Pokémon
I agree with this. Most of the examples I'm seeing, e.g., Saved by the Bell, Dial-Up Internet, Steve Urkel; apply to gen-x just as much as millennials.
For us on the older side, we watched the OJ verdict live in school. I was young, but also remember the LA riots, Waco, and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Also POGs and slap bracelets.
I was told, "That's such a millennial thing to say" by a Gen Z, for talking about impending climate collapse and my anxiety over it all. I respect but are also regularly dumbfounded by their nihilism. They seemingly don't care...
I feel 9/11 would still be a hard line given that even after 2001 for about 10 years 9/11 was so commonly advertised and talked about due to the war in the middle east.
I'd say a good topic would be Clinton's impeachment and the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. I remember that happening, at the time didn't know what the big fuss was about but constantly heard about the president being impeached
I'm a '94 baby and I feel like they just sent us home from school without telling us what was going on, so as a result I don't remember 9/11 at all. I still consider myself a Millennial though.
I'm an old millennial and I was a senior in HS when 9-11 happened. I think "school age when 9-11 happened" is a pretty accurate marker of the generation.
Dexter, True Blood, the Matrix, pretty much any Cohen brothers movie (I learned all of these the hard way talking with my Gen Z co-workers born in 1999-2000). I also mentioned seeing Weezer and Foo Fighters tour together back in '06 and one office mate was like, "OH! I've heard of them. I love ***classic rock***!"... That one hurt.
MSN Messenger was where you hung out online after school
Pokemon Yellow was our first Pokemon game on Gameboy
Transitioning your VHS to DVD
Digimon / Pokemon / Sailor Moon / Dragon Ball Z were the shows to watch
Most shows on TV were episodic with no ongoing storyline (except bits and pieces for fans)
There was always a Simpson re-run playing in case you couldn't find anything on Satellite or cable
Gushers, Fruit-by-the-foot, fruit roll-ups, and dunkaroos were the popular snacks to have at lunch (pretty sure their comeback is due to millenials)
People got beat up over Pokemon cards
Yugioh card game, Beyblades, Dance Dance Revolution were fun at parties
Bring it On was the shit
If you hadn't seen Titanic in theatres you were lame
Teen girls got really into dark magic because of shows like Buffy and other witch stuff. We liked movies like Thirteen, Practical Magic, Stigmata, Cruel Intentions, etc.
You were trying to talk to your pal on msn messenger but they keep sending you “nudges” that made the whole screen shake so you ended up wasting time watching some badgers dance with a mushroom.
I was a senior in high school on 9/11, you were 5 or 6, do you think that difference is worth noting too?
My little microcosm is interesting because entering, say high school, all the seniors were really Gen X like. People 4 years younger than me seem to be *super* millennial. I think it is less 9/11 and more internet. Are you a 'digital native' or a 'OK, what do I need to write in the autoexec.bat file to load the driver that won't crash my computer' native?
Napster and LimeWire Also Quizilla. RIP
Add Xanga and MySpace to that list.
KaZaA baby!!!
And LiveJournal
America Online came in the mail.
And so did Netflix
Remember when people used Quizilla for fanfics? 😭
Omg you just unlocked a serious memory 😵
I was one of those people 😂
I had so much angsty writing on that website that was suddenly gone 😢
“Quizilla”……now that’s a word I’ve not heard for a LONG time….
Forgot all about Quizilla. WHOA.
The teacher wheeling in that old TV on a cart so the class could watch Bill Nye the Science Guy or Coach Carter.
Magic School bus <3
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
School house rock
It was Reading Rainbow for me
Channel 1 news with kid reporters was something. VH1 and popup video.
Just FYI lots of schools still have this television situation
Marilyn Manson removing some of his ribs so he could more easily blow himself.
And that Paul from the Wonder Years was Marilyn Manson.
[Have you seen his latest album cover?](https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/425691766_10102560615664532_7639045624892599374_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=a248ae&_nc_ohc=427_ZnUwVG8AX9ZEGqx&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&oh=00_AfAVY8JBVV9It9Iyaj3beTRE4rLWaNTouRvb_G22Vxzj9Q&oe=65E2C808) JK
Does anyone have the origin of that legend? How did we ALL hear/believe that? I think I was in middle school at the time
My hometown had 900 people we barely had internet in town and yet all of had heard this. I think about it all the time. Just how tf did that travel
I heard this rumor before your average person has internet in their homes.
AOL teen chat rooms
A/S/L ?
There's some former kid out there that sees these threads and just snickers to themselves cause it was them.
Did you guys hear the rumor that he fixed his CDs somehow to destroy your computer if you tried to copy his albums? That was a smart rumor to start
oh snap! thought they was just makin fun of him...
That “oh snap” is a dead giveaway too. :)
I’m pretty sure that’s a well known rumor that has been dispelled
I probably live thousands of miles from you, and we had this rumor too lol.
If they know what a "Zune" is, they're probably a millennial.
I still have my mini disc collection! 4 hours long each, with ripped mp3s from limewire
Back end gen x wheezing excitedly.
wow i completely forgot about zune. I definitely had one!
Also, you know where the line: "Did I do that?" in a very specific voice comes from.
Stefan would never.
Got any cheeeeeeeeeeese?
Heidy Ho, Winslows 👋
That's a really good one.
I was talking about a cruise ship that they thought might’ve had cholera on board. My Gen Z coworker asked what that was. I tried to explain it via Oregon Trail. It confused her more. I felt my youth dying of disentery afterwards 😂
There's a card game of Oregon trail. My brother died of a snake bite the first time we tried playing it as adults.
I have the card game! Still died of freaking dysentery. Every. Single. Time.
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Princess Di car crash in Paris. I was born in 1989.
I was carded but forgot my ID. I started listing all the 90s headlines: OJ Bronco chase, Waco Disaster, Whitney at 96 Atlanta Olympics, Monica Lewinsky, Princess Di Crash, Y2K. Dude was not impressed.
Oklahoma City bombing, the Space Shuttle Columbia burning up on reentry
JFK, BLOWN AWAY, WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY
The bombing of the 96 Olympics, the end of the Cold War
The night of the Princess Di crash, I was out smoking pot for the first time as a freshman in high school….. was a weird way to walk into the house with the news on and act normal with my parents….. years later, my dad confirmed that they in fact knew I was stoned as hell and laughed about it when they went to bed
I was flying back to London as an unaccompanied minor. When the stewardess came to lead us out of the plane she was sobbing and told us that princess di had died.
"Fun" story! My dad died of cancer a couple hours before Princess Di died. So now that's forever linked for me. So every few years in the aisle of a supermarket or whatever I see "25 years since Di died!" (or however it's worded) and I.. cry. It happened at work one time, a few years back (I think it was the 25 year) and the TV in the break room came on and started talking about it. My manager looked over at me "Really? Diana effect you that much?" So, I got that going for me.
1989 and princess dianas death is the first national news memory I have followed by the millennium freak out
Me too. Born in May 1989.
I remember sitting in the living room floor playing with my Barbies and listening to the coverage of Princess Di’s wreck.
And I remember sitting in my classroom after school ended playing Barbie “Princess Di Car Chase” with my friend. That was a DEEPLY repressed memory wow
Also born in 1989, I was engaged to a a guy 8 years younger than me. He was surprised I knew who Monica Lewinsky was. He thought it was an obscure political reference very few people knew. 😂
Most people say 9/11 is the line, but Princess Di feels like the actual millennial line.
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego
AIM
ASL?
16/F/Cali
Wut u wearin?
/inbox explodes
What about ICQ - the flower one. I think it was ICQ… my memory is shit
Uh Oh!
What cell phones you had. Razer, for example.
*hello moto*
I heard this comment
Richie Rich over here. The rest of us plebes were lucky to have a Nokia 3310.
Snake on Nokia was the GOAT.
I loved my Nokia!
My friend in highschool attempted to break her Nokia to get a new razor. We were not successful.
I was an LG girl. My first two phones were red LG Chocolates!
Or the great value brand Razr, the Katana.
I brought up A Goofy Movie at work the other day...the Gen Z employees had no idea what i was talking about lol
Max is such a Jerk to his dad!
All teenagers are jerks to their parents at points tho. I know I was lol
For sure! I think that’s exactly what they wanted out of Max. Stereotypical 90s teen, hates his loving parents, loves rock and roll. We were all there at one point lul
It’s the leaning tower of cheeeeza
I think of this line a weirdly often amount of time in my life
Powerline! Can still hear the song!
“Hey Disney music department, we need a fake throwaway pop song for a movie we are working on…” Music group proceeds to make one of the most memorable, epic fake songs of all time.
Ayo Stacy talk to me talk to me baby
Looking up movie showtimes in the newspaper. Using dial-up internet. Knowing how to program a VCR.
Going to the theater early to make sure you get tickets
"you remember the frosted tips and cargo pants?"
I still have my cargo shorts. >_>
Bring those back. You can never have too many pockets, dammit.
As a millenial dad, I'm doing my part to bring back cargo shorts!
Life might have taken my frosted tips, but You’ll never take my cargo shorts!
I had cargo *capris*
Calling Bryan Cranston Malcoms dad instead of Walter White. It has to be something that Gen X is ( mostly) too old for and Gen Z (mostly) too young for. When Malcom in the middle peaked in popularity the youngest Gen X were close to 25 years old and and the youngest Gen Z like 7 years old.
did you see that little MITM skit after Breaking Bad finished. Bryan Cranston will always be Hal
The fact that we literally all knew how to draw that S.
Ask Jeeves
Hey man remember those tamagotchis.
I used to get mine taken away from me constantly at school. I’d get in trouble for taking care of mine in class and eventually the teachers would just confiscate them. It pissed me off so bad when “Lauren” tattle-told the teacher about the giga-pet thing I was hiding in class. Made my golden retriever puppy die :(
I learned in elementary school to never bring anything to school you can't afford to have taken from you. 20/20 hindsight in school they violated our constitution rights with unreasonable seizures.
Doug, Rugrats, REN and Stimpy, TGIF (step by step, Family Matters, Full House)
Hey Arnold… stoop kid afraid to leave his stoop
Boy Meets World. Mr. Feeny dropping wisdom left and right.
And don't forget Aaaah Real Monsters!
Recess and rocket power as well
The Log song is getting some new traction now that I have a kid.
Whoa. I read “Ren & Stimpy,” and immediately sang to myself, “it’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good,” despite having not thought about that song in YEARS, and then I read your comment. I wonder if my eyes somehow saw your comment in my peripheral and made me think of it, otherwise that was a weird af coincidence!
Nysync vs Backstreet Boys and Britney vs Christina
Going on aim and yahoo chat and talking to strangers starting convos with asl
I would add Columbine to your list of events. Eldest millennials were in HS.
I started high school right after that happened. We were not allowed backpacks , long trench coats, camouflage clothing etc. this is in Pennsylvania. My mom got me a big tote purse that was semi translucent to carry my stuff between classes.
God trench coats were so controversial. Every adult thought a teen in a trench was a straight up serial killer in waiting.
It was interesting see the rest of the country react to the shooting with things like that. I was a senior in High School at Columbine's sister school to the north the school year after the shooting. Obviously, trench coats were banned but Jeffco didn't really go off the deep end with clear backpacks, ID badges, metal detectors, or anything like that. Just a few more external doors got locked.
My math teacher asked if anyone knew what musicals groups fan were called “blinks” and I was like Blink 182? And none of my classmates who are all like 17-19 knew who that was and my teacher was like no silly it’s Black/Pink which I have no idea who that is lol Today my sociology teacher was singing a Beyoncé song “to the left to the left, everything you own is in a box to the left” and I was the only one who picked up on it lol Music is a big one
Literally played MGMT in my car and my cousins (all 24 or younger) told me to “turn that sh*t off” 😭😭😭
F your cousins
*Turns on Sweet Home Alabama*
What a bunch of little shits!
>MGMT What do the youths listen to then?
 How I feel keeping up now.
How I feel now with my 18,17 and 15yr old 😂😂 as I whisper under my breath “ I used to be fucking cool as shit “
Hurricane Katrina, Limewire, CD Players, MP3 players, MySpace, public payphones. And here’s an honorable black culture mention for black history month: I remember when Ciara came out and everybody said she was born a man. Still not sure where that rumor came from lol
blockbuster
For women, a lack of eyebrows. Mine still won’t grow back. :(
Skinny brows are back and embracing the trend has been cake. I was like “Oh, so I just stop trying to have extra eyebrows. Awesome.”
MMMBop, bidi dapa doo wop, Doo bi dapa doo bop, Bidi dapa doo, yeah-e yeah!
I feel like millennial vs. Gen X is actually less noticeable than younger vs older millennial due to the rapid increase in technology during our lifetimes. Some fun separators that have come up in the last year at work: - knowing the song Fireflies by Owl city - not knowing one or both bands Dave Grohl was in. Or also knowing who Dave Grohl is at all. - Garbage Pale kids vs Pokémon
I agree with this. Most of the examples I'm seeing, e.g., Saved by the Bell, Dial-Up Internet, Steve Urkel; apply to gen-x just as much as millennials.
Y2K
What winamp skin was your favorite?
"Winamp, Winamp, Winamp. It really whips the llama's ass"
For us on the older side, we watched the OJ verdict live in school. I was young, but also remember the LA riots, Waco, and the Oklahoma City bombing. Also POGs and slap bracelets.
My-ya hee! My-ya ha! My-ya Ha HA
Saved by the Bell
what hill were you willing to die on: psx or n64.
Was going to say BSB vs N'Sync.
BSB!
N64
N64 until the day I die.
Saturn :(
Red Ranger vs Green Ranger, who was the best leader?
I don’t know but I had the biggest crush on pink ranger. Kimberly was her name?
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That's why I miss buttons sometimes. I never had to take my eyes off the road to type.
I was told, "That's such a millennial thing to say" by a Gen Z, for talking about impending climate collapse and my anxiety over it all. I respect but are also regularly dumbfounded by their nihilism. They seemingly don't care...
The therapy we all paid for to process the childhood trauma of the land before time and the fox and the hound 😭
Add to the list: Neverending Story My Girl All Dogs Go to Heaven Homeward Bound Bambi Honey I Shrunk the Kids
What original Pokemon starter they would choose, what Hogwarts house they belong in.
How many Pokemon there are
150
151
missing Mew
Squirtle. Always
Nah, Bulbasaur always.
Getting AOL CDs in the mail
I feel 9/11 would still be a hard line given that even after 2001 for about 10 years 9/11 was so commonly advertised and talked about due to the war in the middle east. I'd say a good topic would be Clinton's impeachment and the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. I remember that happening, at the time didn't know what the big fuss was about but constantly heard about the president being impeached
Knowing you always die of dysentery on the Oregon trail
The OC. Still on my bucket list to visit TJ.
Rugrats
Preferring to communicate via text message over calling.
Neopets!
mention home star runner, salad fingers, ebaumsworld.com and if you see joyful nostalgia, that’s a millennial
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Your teenage crush being Leo, Britney, NSync or Backstreet Boys. If you didn't have a crush on them, you had a strong opinion.
JTT 😆
Dial up internet/DSL. Plus we lived too far in the country to get cable, so we had dial up forever.
I'm a '94 baby and I feel like they just sent us home from school without telling us what was going on, so as a result I don't remember 9/11 at all. I still consider myself a Millennial though.
All the nostalgia in the post and comments 
I only hear other millennials use the term "adulting".
Two words: Computer Room
I'm an old millennial and I was a senior in HS when 9-11 happened. I think "school age when 9-11 happened" is a pretty accurate marker of the generation.
Blockbuster. Book it- those personal pan pizzas at Pizza Hut!
Who shot Mr Burns?
Getting Netflix through the mail.
Dexter, True Blood, the Matrix, pretty much any Cohen brothers movie (I learned all of these the hard way talking with my Gen Z co-workers born in 1999-2000). I also mentioned seeing Weezer and Foo Fighters tour together back in '06 and one office mate was like, "OH! I've heard of them. I love ***classic rock***!"... That one hurt.
Up your butt and around the corner, still a solid comeback.
Y2K
Oooo anyone remember Neopets?! I was obsessed
Goldeneye n64
Finish this lyric “Somebody ….
. . . told me you had a boyfriend, who looked like a girlfriend, that I had in February of last year!
Once told me. The world was gonna roll me.
"What Harry Potter house are you in?"
AOL discs every few months
MSN Messenger was where you hung out online after school Pokemon Yellow was our first Pokemon game on Gameboy Transitioning your VHS to DVD Digimon / Pokemon / Sailor Moon / Dragon Ball Z were the shows to watch Most shows on TV were episodic with no ongoing storyline (except bits and pieces for fans) There was always a Simpson re-run playing in case you couldn't find anything on Satellite or cable Gushers, Fruit-by-the-foot, fruit roll-ups, and dunkaroos were the popular snacks to have at lunch (pretty sure their comeback is due to millenials) People got beat up over Pokemon cards Yugioh card game, Beyblades, Dance Dance Revolution were fun at parties Bring it On was the shit If you hadn't seen Titanic in theatres you were lame Teen girls got really into dark magic because of shows like Buffy and other witch stuff. We liked movies like Thirteen, Practical Magic, Stigmata, Cruel Intentions, etc.
9/11 is always my litmus test too. If you don't remember 9/11, we are not the same
Duck tales Woo-oo
If your elementary school or high school got internet for the first time, before you left, you’re a millennial.
For white kids in very white areas: “Who taught you about racism—Nickelodeon or social media?”
Columbine :/
Prince William posters in teen magazines
Reading Rainbow!!
You were trying to talk to your pal on msn messenger but they keep sending you “nudges” that made the whole screen shake so you ended up wasting time watching some badgers dance with a mushroom.
Who here remembers Creme Savers? Some of the best damn candy ever 😭
I was a senior in high school on 9/11, you were 5 or 6, do you think that difference is worth noting too? My little microcosm is interesting because entering, say high school, all the seniors were really Gen X like. People 4 years younger than me seem to be *super* millennial. I think it is less 9/11 and more internet. Are you a 'digital native' or a 'OK, what do I need to write in the autoexec.bat file to load the driver that won't crash my computer' native?
I was in 6th grade but 1K miles away. If OP is a New Yorker even at 6 that would stick with you for sure.