So you know those news stories about how Millennials don’t buy enough breakfast cereal or paperback books or homes or whatever the hell that Boomers are complaining that “kids these days” don’t spend money on? And y’all are like “LOL, no cash my pal”?
I think there’s something more insidious going on. You see, they thought they had you. Forget the Saturday morning cartoons of my childhood, they had Disney Channel and Nickelodeon feeding you ads all day long. Your generation got advertising in your schools. Your parents took you to prosperity doctrine spewing MegaChurches (it’s Mega so it’s gotta impress the kids, right?).
They thought you were going to be their generation of super-consumers.
You are generations distant from the great depression, and the 1979 energy crisis. Boomers want to pretend that the 2008 housing bubble wouldn’t affect the little kids. And plus, we had grown past the era of Yankee thrift and hippie DIY frugality. Right? And there was no mopey Kurt Cobain glamorizing thrift-store flannel shirts. You guys were going to out-consume the Boomer generation. They were sure of it.
Those think pieces? They’re Boomer disappointment that you have found value in something other than your place as a mindless consumer.
And yeah, I’m not going to pretend that y’all have more cash than you do. It was fucking idiotic to think they were going to raise a consumer generation without having to pay them the money they would need to buy even life’s necessities. And I could write a book about how my generation was complicit in destroying the old values around work and loyalty that left your generation screwed. Really, I’m genuinely sorry for the mistakes we made.
But you guys have given a big middle finger to the generation who thought that they could manipulate you from birth into manipulable-money-spending-machines. And I’m way fucking proud of you for that.
If you require kids to go to school by law, they shouldn’t have to pay for anything at all to be able to go there. They shouldn’t need to pay for food, books, a laptop, anything that the school gives you. If a child has to pay in any way to attend school, it’s a failure of our government to provide proper funding
nick cage, internet explorer, comic sans, and crocs
WHAT IF TUMBLR WAS A SCHOOL?
“this is the only sex gif i’ll ever reblog”
posts written as an anNOYING CRESCENDO
david karp unironically being called daddy
peasant
based on the notes of this post, i’ve decided to give an update!
2017 tumblr dashboard, Tumblr Veteran Edition:
people who genuinely think that people on tumblr were nicer in 2012 because you could say the n word without getting run off the site
every few months you hear of a new scam. you wonder where people get the money to get scammed in the first place
at least 10 posts on your dash of people with Gofundmes begging to not die on the streets because the economy is so fucked up
thinking it can’t get worse, politically, but news breaks that donald trump publicly admits to using sliced onions as deodorant. nobody blinks an eye.
an article blatantly from the onion or clickhole that people take at face value
seeing a meme that’s genuinely funny and sighing in pain because you know you’ll grow to hate it in two days time
somehow still being on this site after almost half a decade, hardened. you want to quit so fucking badly. and yet you continue to scroll. your body cries out for you to stop but you do not. you scroll and there is no end.
Im so happy to be with my gf and to know a person like my gf and have the privilege to be able to call her my gf she is so wonderful inside and out im so blessed thank god i met a girl like her
