Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotteronHBO/comments/1s5exuz/anyone_else_feeling_a_kind_of_intense_sadness_in/
Pictured: Millennials talking about the silly wizard power fantasy like it’s Shakespeare. Harry Potter truly is to Generation Y as Star Wars was to Generation X. It reminds them of a “better time” when they could remain ignorant of all the horrible things happening in the world (paid for by their tax money).
I consider Xillennials and Zillennials to be honorary members of gen Y, subsumed by the Millennials’ culture-altering purchasing power.
What about Willenials?
Am Xennial. Can confirm. I’ve got a lot more culturally in common with my youngers than my elders, including once having been a Potter fan.
Potter can eat shit these days though. Its not even just that Rowling is a piece of shit, which would be enpugh on its own, but the actual product has aged worse than Joss Wheedon. All the weird shit in it that comes to light when you give it more than a moments thought is so offputting
I dunno this sounds like horoscope shit to me
there’s a little bit to general trends if you map it against economic conditions or major events. There’s a difference between those of us who remember 9/11 and all the horseshit that came in the years after and those who don’t. or the challenger disaster, or whether you were entering the job market in 2009 or during covid lockdowns or how established your life was in the 90s former soviet union
That makes sense. I think I still have a kneejerk reaction to ‘millennials be like this’ because I got used to it being used to it being used to blame people for the economy
I feel bad for people who remember living in the fall of the Soviet Union. Must have been wild to live through your country getting burgerfied