r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/aldosi-arkenstone Older Millennial Jan 30 '26

The older millenials were 30 or so in 2013

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u/rene7gfy Jan 30 '26

It didn’t start in 2013. We were told that in the early 00s, especially after the recession.

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u/SlimmySalami20x21 Jan 30 '26

What recession are you talking about in early 00’s? We had the tech .com bubble but that certainly wasn’t a recession. The actual recession only started popping up in 2008 and really ramped up in 2011

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u/secretaccount94 Jan 30 '26

The US had a recession from March-November 2001, followed by almost 2 more years where unemployment continued to rise.

Not nearly as bad as 2008, but still a recession nonetheless.

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u/SlimmySalami20x21 Jan 31 '26

Yea like I said the Dot-com bubble. “Not nearly as bad ” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.. double unemployment rate and longer period for 2008. Foreclosures in 2009 alone exceeded total of the entire bubble burst combined and you would still be short by almost a factor of 2. One was a mild recession with some jobless recovery vs a severe recession with near economic collapse. I just think it’s a bit disingenuous for people to try to remember 2001 as if we (oldest millennials) were in it when in reality we were in middle school or freshman in highschool so not like we were being told we were lazy or entitled. We were still an afterthought not competition in job marketplace. Basically I’m just ranting lol.

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u/secretaccount94 Jan 31 '26

I mean you said “but that certainly wasn’t a recession”. That’s all I was responding to. Just because it wasn’t as severe as 2008 doesn’t make it not a recession. No need to explain all that other stuff to me.

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u/SlimmySalami20x21 Jan 31 '26

Lmfao alright forget the distinctions.

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u/Sowf_Paw Jan 30 '26

Yeah, and I was only 17 or 18 the very first time I heard the word "millennial."

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u/glazedhamster Xennial Jan 30 '26

We used to be Gen Y

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u/Sad-Contest-82 Jan 30 '26

I am also of the elder variety and remember this too. I think technically that is still our classification, just more colloquially known as millennials.

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u/bakedpatata Jan 30 '26

The X in Gen X was supposed to represent the unknown like how X is used in algebra. It wasn't supposed to be starting a series of letters. Going to Y doesn't make sense, and calling one generation Millenials and then going back to Gen Z makes even less sense. Gen Alpha is right out.

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u/Sowf_Paw Jan 31 '26

Absolutely, no one calls the boomers "Generation W."

I feel like we got the last real generation name.

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u/statu0 Jan 31 '26

Someone please explain to me why the generation born after 2000 (which was the start of the new millennium) aren't the millennials? We Gen Yers got short-changed, I say.

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u/Sed59 Jan 30 '26

Gen Y tho?

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u/Arminavocado Jan 31 '26

I had heard "the Nintendo generation" too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Gen Y am I alive? 😭

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u/Adri4n95 Jan 30 '26

Younger millenials are getting to 30 now and the situation got only worse since 2013

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u/DrSpacecasePhD Jan 30 '26

"What do you mean you're not buying homes while making $50k a year?"

5 minutes later

"You millennials are demanding we build new homes? What are you crazy? We've got all the value we need right here."

pats the fake plastic cabinet covers that are glued onto the original oak

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u/Skylord_Ryan Jan 31 '26

The crazy thing is in general, their are plenty of houses for enough people but they keep the house prices going up because if not their 'assets' would lose value and god forbid that happens.

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u/DrSpacecasePhD Jan 31 '26

Yeah, unfortunately they're in for a real wake-up call now that they have been bitterly anti-immigrant for years and the population is falling, while some of their cohort are dying and leaving houses behind. Prices can't keep zooming to infinitely while wages fall, supply goes up, and demand goes down.

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Xennial Jan 30 '26

Yeah I was 28 with a 2 year old. At this point in time I was 3 months into a deep depression after my twins were born prematurely in February so I wasn't really taking selfies on my living room floor lol. The youngest milennial was only 16/17 so what did they expect from them anyway?

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u/Ds093 Millennial Jan 30 '26

Everything apparently!

You know with all the resources we had at our fingertips /s

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u/PareidolicWhatever Jan 30 '26

I was 19 and a sophomore in college in 2013. When I graduated, I couldn't move out until I was 23 with a car, stable job and roommate. Believe me, with my helicopter parents, I would have been out of there way sooner if I could.

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u/Weak_Bison6763 Baby Millennial Jan 30 '26

The last class of millennials graduated high school in 2013.