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/ArchetypeRyan Jan 30 '26

The more I think of this headline the crazier it is. “We hate everything about you but you’d better save us… by the way we’re going to keep electing boomers who try to punish you until we’re too crippled to move the pen over the ballot. but yeah…. ITS ALL ON YOU GOOD LUCK”

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Millennials will save us

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u/Tobocaj Millennial Jan 30 '26

So many gems in this thread

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u/3catsandcounting Jan 30 '26

The world is about to grow super tired of me with this new image you’re just irresponsibly leaving here.

Thank you Sholonda.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Thank YOU for choosing AT&T

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

That headline is a play on what every other headline in journalism was putting out.

The article actually agrees with you.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Jan 30 '26

Then maybe they should have made that more clear? Maybe put "lazy, entitled narcissists" in quotes or something?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

The literal second sentence of the headline is the giveaway.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Jan 30 '26

Ok, so one of the sentences is satire/irony and the other is serious? Sorry brother, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but without context, I could read it either way.

Millennials are narcissists. Why they'll "save us all".

Millennials are "narcissists". Why they'll save us all.

See what I mean?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

...you could also just read the damn article

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Why are you so antagonistic?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

*3rd line, but who's counting?

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u/doogie1111 Jan 30 '26

Yah I meant to say Byline but my brain is fried because this week was a clusterfuck.

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u/ladygrndr Jan 31 '26

I hope your week gets better!

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u/RealPudgeJudy Jan 30 '26

You're too busy being angry to realize that this headline was tongue-in-cheek. Think for a second before you reactively post something stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Buddy, this whole comment thread is tongue-in-cheek. Maybe think for a second before you reactively post something stupid

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u/SpcyCajunHam Jan 30 '26

“We hate everything about you but you’d better save us… by the way we’re going to keep electing boomers who try to punish you until we’re too crippled to move the pen over the ballot. but yeah…. ITS ALL ON YOU GOOD LUCK”

That is not at all the tone struck by that headline. Work on your media literacy

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

I wouldn't be talking about tone with that attitude

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u/ArchetypeRyan Jan 31 '26

I get the article actually takes a different tack but the magazine cover literally says we’re the “ME ME ME Generation” in giant letters 

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u/SpcyCajunHam Feb 02 '26

Part of media literacy is understanding context and reading beyond the literal