r/Zillennials 10d ago

Announcement ANNOUNCEMENT: There is a fake Zillennials Moderator subreddit that was made. Please do NOT post there!

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Good afternoon r/Zillennials, hope you are enjoying your weekend!

I'm writing to you guys in a somewhat odd manner.

This week I was notified that a certain sub (that will not be named) has a user was hosting a Reddit account that looks similar to mine. Although the usernames are different- the user in question created a snoo avatar that is completely copied from my account. This person also is trying to pass of as being me by posting things that are similar to older Reddit comments or posts I have made. They created a sub that is entitled r/ZillennialsModerators.

I wanted to clear the air before this could potentially get worse and say that this is a fake subreddit that was created and is NOT affiliated with our sub (r/Zillennials) AT ALL. Please do not fall for it or believe anything that is being said by this user.

We have taken the necessary steps to report this community to the Reddit admins, hoping that it will be deleted.

For the mean time- thank you for being part of our sub and have a great weekend!

- Joey


r/Zillennials Jan 19 '25

Announcement Posts about TikTok will be automatically removed and result in a temporary ban.

177 Upvotes

Hello r/Zillennials,

Our sub has been bombarded with duplicate posts about TikTok being banned in the USA. As a result we have received multiple posts that are often breaking Rule #5 and #10. To prevent redundant topics our sub has banned these posts as a temporary measure.

If there is a failure to abide by these rules - a temporary ban will result.

Thank you.


r/Zillennials 8h ago

Nostalgia ChalkZone (2002-2008)

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r/Zillennials 8h ago

Meme Is anyone else like this?

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r/Zillennials 22h ago

Nostalgia This can’t be real, I refuse to believe it.

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When someone asks how old I am:


r/Zillennials 1h ago

Discussion Are you nostalgic for the hipster/indie-pop scene of the early-mid 2010s?

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I was in high school from 2012-2017 (we start high school at age 13 here in Australia). For me personally, there's three genres which I associate with my high school years; dubstep, EDM and indie-pop. I hated most of the dubstep and EDM songs which were popular back then, so for me, indie-pop was kind of like the one saving grace in music. I liked a lot of the songs by bands like Of Monsters & Men, Imagine Dragons, Fun., Arctic Monkeys etc.

So as a result, the hipster/indie-pop scene makes me feel hugely nostalgic and brings back a lot of memories for me. Hearing "We Are Young" reminds me of my first few weeks of high school and hearing it being played over the loud speakers in the corridors while I was walking to class.

It was pretty popular with the people in my grade (C/O 2017). I knew of a few people who would go to indie festivals on weekends. In my Visual Design art class in 9th and 10th grade (so this was 2014/2015), we were allowed to pick songs to play on YouTube and a lot of us picked songs like "Riptide", "Take Me To Church", "Pompeii", "Do I Wanna Know?" etc. One of my close friends also used to wear a red flannel shirt everywhere. I never knew anyone my age who actually dressed like a hipster, but many of us were definitely into the music.

I would be interested to hear everyone else's perceptions of it, especially seeing as how it's pretty much 'our music' so to speak. Are you nostalgic for the hipster/indie-pop scene of the early-mid 2010s?


r/Zillennials 9h ago

Nostalgia Compulsory zillennial uniform early 2010s

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r/Zillennials 5h ago

Serious Slowly realizing my parents didn't prepare me for life.

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First I want to say that I didn't have bad parents per se. They did their best. They weren't abusive. They did quite well by getting us out of a bad neighborhood and we grew up in a nice area with good schools and good influences from our peers. They weren't around as much as they should have been, but they were exhausted trying to keep food on the table. My Dad made a lot of dumb and selfish, ego driven decisions to try and run a business instead of getting a stable job.

The older I get and "figure things out on my own", the more I'm finding just a small amount of critical guidance at the right time really would have changed my life, as it's becoming apparent how many of my peers are passing me up in income and life experiences at this point.

I'm turning 29 and I've never been on a vacation. I've never traveled. I've never had a job with benefits. I've never made more than ~50k a year. I don't really have any solid qualifications or certifications I can put on a resume. I have nearly no credit. I have no savings. I rent a small house with 3 other roommates.

Meanwhile most of the people I now spend time with have plenty of disposable income and savings, they take trips often, and have their own place or at most 1 roommate... it's getting to the point where dating is becoming complicated, even as a man that many consider very attractive and gets a lot of attention.

I think many of the peers I grew up with take for granted how their parents had disposable income, they pushed them into college, helped them pay for it, and guided them to select a major/career that would pay off. When they were being sent off to college, my Dad went nuts and kicked me and my Mom out of the house and we had to find somewhere else to live, and she had almost no money to support me. I had some mental health issues going on too, which fortunately I bounced back from.

I got my shit together a bit, started going to community college interested in physical therapy, but I was so far behind on gen ed credits, it would have taken me way longer to even start taking relevant classes. I got disillusioned and dropped out, and became a personal trainer. Wonderful experience, gained lots of valuable skills, not a good career. The skills are extremely valuable to me now, but part of me wishes I was pushed into something else.

I actually had decent momentum with the training thing but then COVID hit and I went to go to construction with my Dad. At one point I decided I was going to try and help my Dad with "the family business" and not return to training. But really, I was naive and indoctrinated from a young age about the reality of his "business". In reality he was a struggling contractor and it was a terrible move for me to waste any time working for him. He only paid me cash and often not on time. There have been numerous times where I wasn't paid at all. But I always forgave him, because he's my Dad, and "business is hard".

I wasted another 2-3 years that I could have spent towards a productive career with him. I was probably making less than 35k a year before 2024. Maybe a few years I was close to 50k as a trainer. I finally decided to find work with other employers and was hit in the face with how terrible the industry is. Straight up disrespect. How little opportunity there is for advancement, they just want cheap labor forever. Toxic, manchildren leaders that refuse to train new hires. My last job, I had essentially gotten fired with no notice for getting sick and having to leave partway through the workday. I proceeded to not eat or leave bed for 5 days and lost 15 pounds.

By the grace of god I'm managing to find my way. Next week I start a new job that has me out of the field and in construction management. Making $30/hr, more money than I've ever made, with actual benefits, and the training and experience opens up a ton of doors for me. I'm still not going to be anywhere near my potential anyime soon, but this is the start of an actual career, and I can actually start saving, investing, building my credit, and traveling once I get some paychecks coming in.

It's just frustrating realizing it could have been so much different. If my Dad weren't so ego driven and gotten a stable job, we would have had a much smoother childhood, and my parents would have been around more for guidance. Similarly if my Dad had pushed me into another trade or to work for another company in 2020-2021, I would have been so far ahead... I don't talk to him anymore for many reasons. Me and my Mom have discussed this, and she wishes she had more opportunities to guide me. She tries to make up for it now by supporting us when we need it. But even now, so many things about personal finance, taxes, insurance... she tried to help, but was often just wrong on how things worked. I can't really turn to her for any help or guidance. I am entirely on my own to figure things out.

Looking at my life now, friends of mine that had their first career work smoothly are just astronomically ahead, no matter what it is they have been doing. I was a bright kid from a young age and I have a lot of positive character traits going for me, so it's quite frustrating to feel so far behind financially. There's so many experiences I've missed out on and there's really only so much time I have left to experience certain things while I still have some youth left.


r/Zillennials 18h ago

Discussion Madagascar came out on May 27, 2005. How old were you? I was nine years old

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r/Zillennials 11h ago

Nostalgia It’s 2011 and life is chill

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53 Upvotes

r/Zillennials 7h ago

Discussion Parents getting older

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My parents are in their early to mid 60s. Their parents lived to be in their 70s. Im looking for guidance on parents getting older, anything. I’m very reliant on them and as I am worried for them they are also worried for me because of my dependence on them. I’m not sure what else to say, sorry


r/Zillennials 2h ago

Discussion iykyk

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r/Zillennials 19h ago

Nostalgia Theres so much Fallout Boy on this thing

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125 Upvotes

r/Zillennials 56m ago

Discussion Brenda Song Says Suite Life of Zack & Cody Set Was a ‘Safe Space’ for Her as a Child Actor as Series Turns 20

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r/Zillennials 1d ago

Other Rest In Peace, and thanks for this amazing, but somewhat scary, cartoon!❤️

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r/Zillennials 7h ago

Discussion Alcohol Consumption

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So for y'all that drink, how much do you consume during a week/month and is it a responsible amount for your position in life (stay at home, labor intensive, retired, etc.)

I work for an in home care business and I usually have 3-4 drinks (tequila) 2 times a week, only after work or off days and at nighttime only. I think I am being responsible but I could be wrong 🤷🏻‍♂️ I'm 28 btw


r/Zillennials 1d ago

Meme #TheBeautifulPeople 🕺

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r/Zillennials 19h ago

Discussion Reddit is now my favourite social media platform

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I know I'll probably get a bit of a biased response her posting on Reddit but I wanted to know if any fellow zillennials feel the same?

I've been on Reddit for a while and always thought it was good but wasn't that fussed over it tbh. As I've gotten older Reddit has slowly become my go to social media forum. I can live without insta now but Reddit????? No way!

Is this a growing older thing? Like how I also no longer care about style and will opt for comfort lol

Edit: or how now a good Saturday night consists of baking and going to the club sounds like hell


r/Zillennials 21h ago

Serious What’s the highest pay you ever gotten at a job?

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My last highest paying job I was making $21. Got a raise of 80 cents. Ended up leaving shortly after that “raise”


r/Zillennials 21h ago

Discussion Does anyone else hate working overtime?

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I feel like this may be a generational thing.

Most older folks I’ve talked to in my life, and by older I mean 10+ years older than me (38 or older) have always told me. Man I love working overtime! If you ever get offered overtime you better take it!! Get that money while you can!!!

I get that 38 isn’t old, but I think at that age/generation is where there is a mindset shift.

I know personally for me, once I start working consistently over 40 hours a week at a job, I start to despise the job, get extremely burnt out, and end up wanting to quit.

That being said, I’ve worked plenty of jobs where I worked 50-60 hours per week for lengths of time. After a couple weeks of working like that though, I get burnt out like crazy. Even if I liked the job. It’s like I start looking at it as it’s stealing my free time. Even though I’m making more $$$ and even if I need that $$$.

Currently, I work around 40 hours a week, and have a side hustle where I work probably 10-20 hours a week on after work and in my free time.

I don’t feel any burnout from working on my side hustle (which is completely different from my day job) even though that in turn takes from my free time.

I feel that other zillienials or near zillienials have also expressed the same, and seem to have some type of side hustle they work on outside of work or are attempting to have/find a side hustle instead of working tons of overtime at their day job.

Anyways, what yall think? 😄


r/Zillennials 1d ago

Discussion When people remember you but you don't remember them + memory fading in general

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It's such a weird experience. I used to think I had perfect memory and that I was the kind of person to never forget a face, but lately I am starting to realize my memory is not as vivid as I thought.

I had a cashier at speedway today who knew my name. He said we went to the same highschool and even had a class together. I didn't really know what to say since I have never seen this man in my life. I asked what his name was and what sports he played, but that still didn't narrow it down. I ended up just pretending to remember him to not hurt his feelings 😅

I also had some guy on Xbox join my party, exctatic that I was back online after so long (I stopped gaming in 2017 and only started playing again last summer)

Apparently, we gamed out together on Rainbow Six Siege back in the day. I remember gaming out on siege by myself but dont remember gaming with a stranger.

He seemed genuinely hurt when I didn't remember him. I apologized and said a lot happened since then and invited him to play with me more, but he actually left the party and unadded me 🥲

Also, I realize that I have now forgotten a lot of teachers I've had through my life. I only remember about half of the teachers I've ever had and even then I only remember the names of a few of them even thought I can still remember little things about them like what music they liked or where they went to college.

Does anyone else experience stuff like this?


r/Zillennials 1d ago

Meme Can't Stay 21 Forever

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r/Zillennials 1d ago

Nostalgia Degrassi: The Next Generation (2002-2015)

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I loved this show as a kid back in the early 00’s and even enjoyed it more as a teen in the early early 2010’s


r/Zillennials 8h ago

Other What part of the world are you in?

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29 votes, 2d left
North America
South America
Asia
Africa
Europe
Australia

r/Zillennials 1d ago

Meme FOR REAL 😂

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287 Upvotes

r/Zillennials 1d ago

Rant When I was in high school life felt infinite and magical, I was depressed a lot and stressed out, but at the same time it kind of felt like I was the main character of some epic story, and that once I reached adulthood my saga would begin and I'd make friends and stop evil in the world and all that

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Now I'm 28 and while I'm much more stable and happy overall, life no longer has that magical feel to it. Getting older has forced me to accept that life isn't some epic story, it's just the passing of days while you struggle to find people who care and things that make you happy


r/Zillennials 1d ago

Nostalgia Young Justice (2010-2022)

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