05-09-2022, 03:29 PM
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Discuss Typical Millennial Behavior, Pathologies, Important Events in the Millennial Timeline, etc.
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05-11-2022, 12:01 AM
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The book Ready Player One is Millennialism par excellence. It's a drawn-out textual gooning session where the author lays out - in excruciating detail - his personal fantasy of becoming the most powerful person on Earth by memorizing '80s pop-culture trivia.
I uploaded an AutoAdmit user's lengthy chapter-by-chapter dissection of the book to the Amarna Archive a while ago. For those who don't want to read through the whole thing, here are some choice sections:
The Author's Vision of a "Humanistic Education"
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"The Almanac contained thousands of references to Halliday’s favorite books, TV shows, movies, songs, graphic novels, and videogames. Most of these items were over forty years old, and so free digital copies of them could be downloaded from the OASIS. If there was something I needed that wasn’t legally available for free, I could almost always get it by using Guntorrent, a file-sharing program used by gunters around the world.
"When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I’d worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I read every novel by every single one of Halliday’s favorite authors.
"And I didn’t stop there.
"I also watched every single film he referenced in the Almanac. If it was one of Halliday’s favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds, I rewatched it until I knew every scene by heart.
"I devoured each of what Halliday referred to as “The Holy Trilogies”: Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones. (Halliday once said that he preferred to pretend the other Indiana Jones films, from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull onward, didn’t exist. I tended to agree.) I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
A Totally Awesome New Genre of Video Games
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"I’d spent years wondering what challenges awaited me inside the First Gate. Never once had I imagined this. But I probably should have. WarGames had been one of Halliday’s alltime favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times. Well, that, and also because it was completely awesome, with an old-school teenage computer hacker as the protagonist. And it looked like all of that research was about to pay off."
"It seemed that the only way I could get back would be to clear the gate by completing the quest. But if this was a videogame, how was I supposed to play it? If this was a quest, what was my goal? I continued to play Galaga while pondering these questions. A second later, a young boy walked into the arcade and came over to me.
"'Hi, David!' he said, his eyes on my game.
"I recognized this kid from the movie. His name was Howie. In the film, Matthew Broderick’s character hands his Galaga game off to Howie when he rushes off to school.
"'Hi, David!' the boy repeated, in the same exact tone. As he spoke this time, his words also appeared as text, superimposed across the bottom of my display, like subtitles. Below this, flashing red, were the words FINAL DIALOGUE WARNING!
"I began to understand. The simulation was warning me that this was my final chance to deliver the next line of dialogue from the movie. If I didn’t say the line, I could guess what would probably happen next. GAME OVER.
"But I didn’t panic, because I knew the next line. I’d seen WarGames so many times that I knew the entire film by heart."
"I started to feel giddy. This was incredible. I was totally inside the movie. Halliday had transformed a fifty-year-old film into a real-time interactive videogame. I wondered how long it had taken him to program this thing.
"Another warning flashed on my display: YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL, DAVID! HURRY!
"I stepped away from the Galaga machine. 'Hey, you wanna take this over?' I asked Howie.
"'Sure,' he replied, grabbing the controls. 'Thanks!'
"A green path appeared on the floor of the arcade, leading from where I stood to the exit. I started to follow it, then remembered to run back and grab my notebook off of the Dig Dug game, just like David had in the movie. As I did this, my score jumped another 100 points, and ACTION BONUS! appeared on my display.
"'Bye, David!' Howie shouted.
"'Bye!' I shouted back. Another 100 points. This was easy!"
"Whenever I flubbed a line or didn’t perform an action at the right moment, my score decreased and a warning flashed on my display. When I made two mistakes in a row, a FINAL WARNING message appeared. I wasn’t sure what would happen if I got three strikes in a row, but my guess was that I’d either be expelled from the gate or that my avatar would simply be killed. I wasn’t eager to find out which it would be. Whenever I correctly performed seven actions or recited seven lines of dialogue in a row, the game would award me a “Cue Card Power-Up.” The next time I blanked on what to do or say, I could select the Cue Card icon and the correct action or line of dialogue would appear on my display, sort of like a teleprompter.
"During scenes that didn’t involve my character, the simulation cut to a passive thirdperson perspective, and all I had to do was sit back and watch things play out, sort of like watching a cut scene in an old videogame. During these scenes, I could relax until my character came on-screen again. During one of these breaks, I tried to access a copy of the movie from my OASIS console’s hard drive, with the intention of playing it in a window on my display so I could refer to it. But the system wouldn’t let me. In fact, I found that I couldn’t open any windows at all while inside the gate. When I tried, I got a warning: NO CHEATING. TRY TO CHEAT AGAIN AND IT’S GAME OVER!"
"I didn’t know it at the time, but I’d just become the first person to play an entirely new type of videogame. When GSS got wind of the WarGames simulation inside the First Gate (and they did a short time later), the company quickly patented the idea and began to buy up the rights to old movies and TV shows and convert them into immersive interactive games that they dubbed Flicksyncs. Flicksyncs became wildly popular. There turned out to be a huge market for games that allowed people to play a leading role in one of their favorite old movies or TV series."
Goon-Thoughts on Masturbation
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"Driven by loneliness, curiosity, and raging teen hormones, I’d purchased a midrange ACHD, the Shaptic ÜberBetty, a few weeks after Art3mis stopped speaking to me. After spending several highly unproductive days inside a stand-alone brothel simulation called the Pleasuredome, I’d gotten rid of the doll, out of a combination of shame and selfpreservation. I’d wasted thousands of credits, missed a whole week of work, and was on the verge of completely abandoning my quest for the egg when I confronted the grim realization that virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation. At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot. So I got rid of the ACHD and went back to spanking the monkey the old-fashioned way."
"I felt no shame about masturbating. Thanks to Anorak’s Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating.
"Anorak's Almanak 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal’s most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it’s doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn’t first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or “knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom”). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.
05-11-2022, 02:45 AM
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The defining millennial experience is disappointment. For some reason millennials were raised with the mantra "you can be whatever you want when you grow up", which might have even been true if the world had stayed a preposterous land of plenty like it seemed it always would in the Clinton years. But instead millennials ended up graduating into a colossal economic recession where it was difficult to even find entry level jobs, much less decent ones. Millennials grew up in a world that would cease to exist after 9/11 and the 2007 financial crisis, never to return. If they particularly seem like cucks it's because they did get cucked spectacularly. Not that this is a comparable trauma to say growing up in an African slum, but there's studies on the long-term negative impact of entering the job market in a recession, which range from reduced income and career prospects to decreased life expectancy. The resentment towards boomers, which is perhaps strongest in the millennial generation, is likely due to a promised future which evaporated completely, and being called lazy and entitled for being ill-equipped (through no real fault of their own) to meet the challenges of this new economic reality. This collective trauma is at the core of the millennial outlook.
05-12-2022, 02:04 PM
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Childish excess is a quintessentially millennial trait. Bacon is le yummy and epic XD.
Bacon any time I want. Bacon for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Bacon sandwich, bacon ice cream, bacon christmas tree. Boutique restaurant serving nothing but bacon, walls papered over with bacon-related slogans (generous swearing, of course, because you're a FUCKING GROWN-UP and SHIT, though adulting can be hard sometimes lololol XDDDDD). Le narwhal bacons at night. Posting 50s illustrations to Memebase dot com with quirky captions about how awesome sexytimes and bacon are, with added swearing of course, don't you get it, it's funny, we're appropriating the aesthetics of a more refined generation but making them rude and crass and EPIC to fit our EPICNESS. Fuck you Dad, you can't tell me what to do. 60,000 calorie bacon burger:
Don't you get it, it's a PARODY, it's like SATIRE. Satire. Satire of everything. Cable news satire, Hollywood satire, YouTube Satire Content Creators. Nothing is beyond satire. Watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in lieu of cable news (not that this is a bad thing, in fact it's a much healthier alternative, like drinking motor oil instead of battery acid). Porn parodies on Newgrounds. Borat. Epic satire DUNKING on STODGY CONSERVATIVES and DUMB REDNECKS, running fucking CIRCLES around them, like holy shit.
Watching porn. Le fapping before school *fapfapfap* "me gusta" rage face. Le fapping after school. Le fapping before bed. You don't get it, man, I NEED to fap to porn, guys NEED porn. "Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein". And guys need sexy times too. Epic sexy times with gamer girls. But not fake gamer girls who play browser and mobile games - Pokemon is, like, the bare minimum. Science geek girls are cool as well. EPIC atheism tells me that there's no GOD, so I can have as much EPIC sexy times with EPIC gamer and geek girls as I want. EMPOWERED atheist women speaking out at Skepticon (@ Trevor Bauer was 100% right about all outcasts ultimately being sexual outcasts - all it takes is a couple of mid women getting behind a cause for a mass of male refuse to think it better than God, it's why any sub-culture that isn't overtly misogynistic eventually devolves into worshipping women for farting and having body hair).
Zoomers are the opposite - incredibly repressed, detached from their bestial urges - but that's a damn sight better than Millennial excess.
05-12-2022, 02:27 PM
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I'd like to clarify that I don't harbor a hatred of millennials so much as a seething ressentiment. They were the last generation of men who could meet girls at anime conventions, and like twenty percent still turned into faggots of some sort.
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I have never been in one, but I imagine barcades are huge with millennials. When I think of a typical millenial man, I think of this scenario.
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I have never been in one, but I imagine barcades are huge with millennials. When I think of a typical millenial man, I think of this scenario. The clientele consists of exactly who you think it does, and they're exactly the kind of exposed red brick establishments this post describes except they happen to have a few arcade cabinets lining the walls. There's no attempt made to replicate the arcade aesthetics of yesteryear. These people don't know what an "SNK" is. They're not really there to play the games, the games are just a set-piece so you can have a quirky experience drinking IPAs with other soybearded men and their overweight girlfriends. It's a clear vestige of hipster culture and I'm not entirely sure why this was the one to survive.
(05-12-2022, 04:06 PM)Heil Wrote: I have seen two "dave n busters" (one such "barcade" chain). At both the parking lot was a sea of cars and they were full of what I could only imagine to be the most soy millennials possible. This was pre-covid, no idea if it's still popular. My millennial brother also wanted to go to a craft brewery for his birthday one time (exactly what you are imagining: exposed brick walls, etc) and I noticed there was one of those "axe-throwing" places on the other side of the street. I have no idea what caused this type of behavior/archetype for millennials, but I'll be damned if all of the memes aren't accurate portrayals. "DnB" is a different but still very Millennial phenomenon. It's not a hipster hangout but rather a "Chuck-E-Cheese for adults". Alcohol is still the main product being sold but the target demographic is the normie and they do actually go there to play the games. Rather than being the "Mundane activity/venue with a wacky twist" described above, these businesses opt for the "Dude, we're doing kid things but as adults and with alcohol!" aspect of Millennial culture. It might be worth mentioning that these businesses are found in the suburbs while barcades are purely urban establishments.
(05-13-2022, 02:10 PM)Edge Wrote: (05-12-2022, 03:35 PM)Exile Wrote: [Image: https://i.ibb.co/QmBYLMT/E3-C85705-574-D...72-AC9.jpg]
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I have never been in one, but I imagine barcades are huge with millennials. When I think of a typical millenial man, I think of this scenario. The clientele consists of exactly who you think it does, and they're exactly the kind of exposed red brick establishments this post describes except they happen to have a few arcade cabinets lining the walls. There's no attempt made to replicate the arcade aesthetics of yesteryear. These people don't know what an "SNK" is. They're not really there to play the games, the games are just a set-piece so you can have a quirky experience drinking IPAs with other soybearded men and their overweight girlfriends. It's a clear vestige of hipster culture and I'm not entirely sure why this was the one to survive.
I looked at the local barcade in my town (not a d&b or chain one) on Instagram and it looks exactly like you said. It looks like it has about 4 pinball machines and 4 Pac-Man type games on a wall and in none of the pictures is anyone playing them. It looks like they get by having sports nights and live dj sets, the most recent one being a “90s vs 2000s” set. Pictures mainly show people at the bar and the people look exactly as you described.
05-14-2022, 12:17 AM
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I've noticed that millennials have a fixation on levelling culture, in the sense that they're taken with low re-interpretations of "high" culture or, inversely, "high" interpretations of low culture, i.e 8-bit remixes of classical music and Lindsay Stirling style "classical pop", respectively. Of course they have no idea what high culture is, so their actual effect is a continual submergence in garbage while convinced that they're connoisseurs of an ironic sophistication. They can never say how highly they think of something, but its evident in their ironic love of "their time".
Someone else mentioned that the primary millennial hangup is disappointment, which is very true. I believe this is the origin of what I observed. They feel an intense disappointment that promises, feelings, expectations, etc. weren't fulfilled in their lives and that the prosperous high-imperial stage they grew up in began to meaningfully collapse just in time for their adulthood. As a result they feel an intense, insecure desire to reflexively denigrate/deconstruct what they feel unable to participate in, for whatever reason.
The defining political moment of any millennial was the 2008 financial crash. The information was passed onto them at an age where their brain had the beginning of knowledge without application and mythologized the evil forces of "capital".
Mommy and daddy started fighting. They just lost the house. Divorced.
For millennials there was a pre 2008 where everything was fine and the post 2008 world. You can observe this with the infantilized attachment to early cartoon and kids tv shows they grew up watching. Harry Potter, South park, Pokemon DBZ etc... go on youtube and you can find insanely weird 30minute video where someone in their early 30s is talking about the "philosophy of Hogwarts" "why x character really matters" it's just this weird phenomenon of trying to find deep philosophy in their kidshows.
Another observation - millennials are just not funny whatsoever. The humor is this crude fart butt dick joke amalgamation college party movies that are about as humorous as an orphanage on fire. Go watch "American Pie" or "Scary Movie III" excerpts on youtube and you will be stonefaced the entire duration of the clip.
FUCK
This thread is an accurate and searing indictment of the final generation with the opportunity to turn things around. The financial crisis of 2008, and 9/11 to a lesser extent, has been noted as a seminal event, but I propose Obama as another piece of the failure puzzle.
The 90s and 2000s promise of colour blindness (we ended racism!!11!!) cumulated with the election of a black man to the highest office. Amongst the ongoing chaos, a significant portion of white millennials got to feel successful and included in a big win that was attached to race. Despite the fact Obama was a garbage war mongering neoliberal, he was re-elected in 2012. At that point race relations went off a cliff.
Attempting to recapture that feeling of success in 2008 has played a part in creating the large group of "anti racist" white people that are intent on fucking up society while being completely oblivious to the consequences. They try to recreate the same conditions to feel a sense of fulfillment which inevitably fails. Resulting in this group constantly doubling down and making things worse.
Hate em.
05-17-2022, 05:56 AM
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(05-17-2022, 02:48 AM)Millennial Wrote: FUCK
This thread is an accurate and searing indictment of the final generation with the opportunity to turn things around. The financial crisis of 2008, and 9/11 to a lesser extent, has been noted as a seminal event, but I propose Obama as another piece of the failure puzzle. This thread largely describes various caricatures of the (comparatively) affluent redditor-yuppie (who still makes half as much money as his dad did at the same age), which is a millennial species but is hardly universal. Millennials are failures for the same reason zoomers will be failures, "trends and forces". But then again maybe if millennials didn't buy iphones, and avocado toast and funko pops things would be different. Previous generations may have been motivated to take part in the rat race, millennials are resigned to the rat utopia.
"Craft beer is good thoughever."
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I have never been in one, but I imagine barcades are huge with millennials. When I think of a typical millenial man, I think of this scenario.
There is nothing wrong with any of these things besides the obviously slapped on vasectomy and furbaby stuff. There is nothing wrong with living in a city, drinking, joking around, and/or playing video games. Take your meds.
(05-17-2022, 09:41 PM)BillyONare Wrote: (05-12-2022, 03:35 PM)Exile Wrote: [Image: https://i.ibb.co/QmBYLMT/E3-C85705-574-D...72-AC9.jpg]
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I have never been in one, but I imagine barcades are huge with millennials. When I think of a typical millenial man, I think of this scenario.
There is nothing wrong with any of these things besides the obviously slapped on vasectomy and furbaby stuff. There is nothing wrong with living in a city, drinking, joking around, and/or playing video games. Take your meds.
While some of the things I don’t think are wrong on their own, like drinking a beer, it’s the soyjak speech pattern, attitude and total story that builds this character. Also I would imagine that type of guy watching something like Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Rick and Morty on adult swim. Along with this, video games in a barcade are not like playing video games at home.
When I think of the average millennial woman, I have in my mind an image of this fat fucking landwhale.
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If she marries, she will marry in her mid to late 30s or later and will never have a kid. She’ll never be a woman. She will be an obese tub-o-lard “dog mom” until she plops over dead gasping for air from a heart attack (preferably as soon as possible). She’ll never be a rebel. She’ll never resist the system although she think she is. In truth she is in lock step with the system that she’ll never refer to as zog. She’ll never say nigger, she’ll never post a troonjak, she’ll never like a post of a troonjak. She will report it, but acab, right? Cops are pigs, but she’ll report a fat joke to HR. Let’s police jokes! No fat shaming! All bodies are beautiful! Fat liberation!
I think you see things that started with a small percentage of younger millennials such as pronouns, trans, “mental health”, blm/nigger worship that expanded under zoomers and now more millennials have grasped onto them to seem relevant and stay up with the current thought.
I associate frequently with too many middle class millennial “artist” types. They create “work” but it’s mostly just nigger tier pop trap shlock or avant-garde too deep 4 u bullshit. There’s this trend I see that as long as one is aimlessly grinding, gigging, creating the “art” that’s commendable as opposed to actual craft and work. They mostly just want to be entertainers and thereby famous, successful but are stuck in their pseudo bohemian hipster ghetto of pretentious dickheads that think they’re artists. They thought life was a big party and like being 20 forever. They think being broke but having a “creative” side gig is noble as opposed to just being a bum. It’d be one thing if they made innovative and wonderful things that were merely unrecognized. It’s an affectation brought about by deep disappointment in their life choices in the early 2010s.
Millennials don’t do anything and do not have ambitious independent pursuits. They’re consumeristic and a very referential cohort. They refer endlessly to things they have a surface level knowledge of in a variety of areas but they cannot do anything in particular. Millennials are about right opinions, right tastes, and affecting an aloof superiority and being in the know. they’re pseuds, dilettantes, and pretentious about very base consumeristic entertainment products.
Some millennials I know are engaged in writing projects for different medium as a side independent pursuit but one thing I’ve noticed is a tendency of them to be impressed by mere form rather than content. They’ll write a narrative but the content is just derivative and puerile. “Society maaaan” tier. They have no inner vision, turmoil, controversial ideas they’re willing to explore or entertain. It’s all very shallow and captured by liberal nothingness.
(05-20-2022, 11:15 PM)jacques Wrote: (05-15-2022, 01:43 PM)FruitVendor Wrote: Another observation - millennials are just not funny whatsoever. The humor is this crude fart butt dick joke amalgamation college party movies that are about as humorous as an orphanage on fire. Go watch "American Pie" or "Scary Movie III" excerpts on youtube and you will be stonefaced the entire duration of the clip.
You weren't kidding. I watched a ten minute "funniest moments" from Scary Movie III and even the rare laugh was in spite of the toilet humor it was layered in.
The first skit is very funny because it uses the n word. Light up a joint and touch grass.
05-26-2022, 06:54 PM
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One thing I’ve noticed among many millennials is a sort of hyper-nostalgia that almost borders on outright infantilization. This is something I saw today which sent my mind into a spiral; by itself it’s nothing but it’s just a single example of a larger phenomenon. Winnie the Pooh, but BLOODY and SCARY and FOR ADULTS. It truly amazes me that this sort of thing appeals to anyone, but it obviously does considering how often we see these ‘adult themed’ remakes occurring. Just a couple more examples to drive the point home:
In a way that’s utterly different than our (or at least my) parents, Millennials seem to have this obsessive attachment with the Brands and IPs of their youth. My dad has certain movies he likes to watch during Christmastime because he watched them as a teen, or he showed me cartoons that he watched during his own youth growing up, but that’s it. If you asked him if he wanted to see an ‘adult-version’ or ‘raunchy remakes’ of the media he watched as a kid, he’d think you’re a fucking weirdo, which I think is the normal, healthy reaction to such a proposition. Why do people want to watch a Ned’s Declassified or Lizzie McGuire or iCarly that centers around FUCKING? What goes on in these people’s minds? I have to imagine it’s something like:
Quote:these characters helped me get through my (pre)teen problems, wouldn’t it be so great if they brought them back to talk about my adult problems, too?
It’s an entirely unhealthy relationship to have with any kind of media; the fact that it’s (mostly) shitty children’s media makes it so much worse. Another example of this phenomenon is the whole concept of the ‘ Disney Adult.’ The article only discusses people who actually go out to the Disney theme parks, but there’s a much larger kind of ‘Disney Adult’ who, despite being in their 20s, 30s, and sometimes even 40s, obsessively continues to consume DISNEY products. And I’m not just talking about the new Star Wars movies and shows, I’m talking about the literal children’s Disney Princesses movies these same people used to watch as kids. I cannot tell you the amount of retarded women I’ve interacted with in the past 5 years who end up ranting to me about how they’re so happy that Disney+ is adding Mulan or Brave or the Kim Possible Movie. It’s like these people (mostly women) completely stopped maturing when they were teens, and the absolute height of Art and Creativity is the stupid sappy slop they watched when they were 12.
Previous generations obviously experienced nostalgia; we all do and always have. What’s unique about this Millennial form of nostalgia is that, instead of simply fondly remembering the media of their past, Millennials continue to obsess over said media, watching it over and over again well into adulthood. They then go on to demand that remakes occur or that there’s some form of adultified revival so that they can continue the journey with their favorite childhood characters. They’re people who refuse to grow up. And it’s not as if all this demand for revivals and remakes is from today’s kids themselves, why would it? They have no connection to the IPs; companies continue to make these movies because ADULTS want to see them. Note this passage from the article:
Quote:Beecher describes taking her young children to see Toy Story 4 recently. That the theater was filled with adult laughs throughout, but not many reactions from children. One of her daughters even described it as "trash" after leaving the theater. Don't get us wrong, there are new movies and creations for children. But honestly, which parent, millennial or not, is going to take their children to see The Queen's Corgi when Toy Story 4 is showing in the screen next door?
Zoomers are too young to be having kids, but I’ve also seen them participate in this form of Hyper-Nostalgia/Infantilization, I just think it’s something that largely started with Millennials. Finding a 20-30 woman who is like this is relatively easy, but 50+ it seems rather hard to find people like this with the same ease. I wonder if anyone has thoughts as to why this phenomenon arose...
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