Any other so called millenials puzzled by the "millenial optimism" trend that seems to be a thing online for awhile now?

Like clearly they never listened to the lyrics of the songs we listened to or the ones they are putting in "millenial core" compilations for that matter. I mean "Fun:We are young" is pretty clearly about self destructive binge drinking and that is the mild stuff.

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Lostpoet · M

Binge drinking was a thing we all grew up on. 😒 Thanks to the Gen Xers

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Lostpoet Alot of it was very unhealthy self medicating as we watched our futures burn around us. And alot of the "optimism" at least for me and those I knew was just desperately clinging to bright spots we could cling to so we didn't go full Joker nihilism.

Lostpoet · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yeah it was pretty bad, but I'm still glad that we grew up in the age before social media and all this Ai stuff.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Lostpoet Oh absolutely. I look at my nieces and worry about what they are going through as high schoolers now.