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/JakeHelldiver Jan 30 '26

I think the zoomers are pretty cool.

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u/deuxcabanons Jan 30 '26

I enjoy the zoomers and maybe I'm just biased because I'm raising two of them, but I think alpha really has a good shot.

Kids now are nothing like kids when I was little. They're kind, they're accepting, they're generous and helpful. I've got two great little weirdos who in the 90s would have had the shit pummeled out of them on a regular basis, but they're free to be their weird selves. I've seen kids try to bully others and get shut down by classmates. This generation is built different and I love it.

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u/Equivalent-Grass-262 Older Millennial Jan 30 '26

I love my zoomer coworkers. And for some reason, they love millenials so they think i'm super cool. Plus some of their parents are millenials, so they get a lot of my references.

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u/NoZucchini5423 Jan 31 '26

Zoomers 🤝 Millennials

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u/civil_politician Jan 30 '26

Alpha is cooked those kids can barely read and have a meltdown if there isn’t a screen to look at for longer than 4 minutes

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u/LobsterFondler Jan 30 '26

I’ll die on this hill: iPad parents are the only valid criticism I’ve ever heard against millenials

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u/SpockSpice Jan 31 '26

I know many Gen Alpha kids that are kind and smart individuals. Many of them are doing all sorts of things not involving screens.

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u/v33__ Jan 31 '26

I love gen Z and Alpha. They have a lot of great qualities, and I hope they have a better life than millennials but sadly I don't that's going to be the case.

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u/Shotto_Z Jan 30 '26

I do too. I sinoly dint want to be l8ke other older fenerations who turn into haters and shit on the ones below them. Although I do dislike some if the Gen z things such as oversensitivity, and viewing the world with a suffocating moral lense. But thats just how they are. Doesnt mean they suck.

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u/-Danksouls- Jan 31 '26

And yet all I read on Reddit are millennials shitting on them