Millennial optimism died in 2016 when Trump was elected.
2026-01-27 11:12:16
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David :
Team Wenlock and Mandeville.
2026-09-19 16:46:00
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jadewukong :
now they like this?? didn't they call us cringe for years about this????
2025-12-11 03:12:29
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ColdAngst :
millennial optimism didn’t exist. i was emo
2025-12-11 08:03:01
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🇨🇦 HaloInHeat :
We were never optimists ☹️it was ironic. Why don't people get this
2025-12-11 06:41:00
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⋆ 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 :
nostalgia is a dirty liar that tells you everything was greater than it actually was
2025-12-11 07:08:56
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nrm :
I was there and we were not optimistic???? Depression, anxiety, EDs were all running rampant on tumblr during this time
2026-09-07 04:07:30
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Jayburding :
Nearly died in 2012 and I'm still partially convinced that I ended up in the wrong timeline as a consequence
2025-12-11 01:33:08
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ziade.darkheart :
We were not optimistic. We'd just come out of 9/11 and the financial crash and realized our life path was a lie so YOLO.
2025-12-11 18:15:45
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ciel 🔻 :
There was not an ounce of optimism to be found back then, which is the funny part. We just didn’t live with the level of surveillance that teens and young adults do today, so we weren’t really afraid to be embarrassing, but a good chunk of us were horrifically depressed lol
2025-12-11 03:41:50
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Miranda Read :
Looking fondly upon 2016 is insane. I feel like that’s when we officially jumped into the “bad place” timeline.
2026-09-07 16:09:25
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Kathryn :
Bro ran out of shirts to wear and just put on bacon 🥀
2025-12-11 01:17:36
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Trazyn's Surrogate Reposts :
Actual Millenials Optimism is Optimistic Pessimism. Things are probably going to go bad, but if they don't I'm pleasantly suprised.
2025-12-11 02:10:09
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Donnie Smith :
It wasn’t optimism! We were depressed young adults packed with ennui so we reverted to infantile quirks to fill the gap of sad existence. We knew we had no hope. That’s pretty much what Arcade Fire’s Funeral was all about
2025-12-11 11:01:37
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Jon :
Are they just moving on chronologically from the y2k trend?
2025-12-11 03:21:33
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ETP 🇨🇦 📚 :
…. We were optimistic? Wheeeeeen?
2025-12-11 04:16:22
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Vanessa :
Fireflies by Owl City
2025-12-13 09:10:04
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Joeth :
Justice for wenlock and mandeville
2025-12-11 15:14:15
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Jason B Dimley🔬 :
this has to be a recession indicator.
2025-12-11 11:59:39
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Lenni Harrison :
feeling validated that *you* brought up 2016, because when you said earlier in the video, "when did everything go to shit?" My immediate first thought was 2016 😅
2025-12-11 02:10:44
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DJ :
I think we shifted into the worst timeline in 2016
2025-12-11 01:32:26
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afrothespis :
everyone is mistaking Nihilism for Optimism
2025-12-11 08:01:53
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Lowcarbpotato :
Millennial optimism was ignoring the lyrics to pumped up kicks 😂
2025-12-18 12:56:38
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DonnaM1991 :
It's like how every generation thinks their music is better than the current stuff because all they remember is the hits. No one thinks about the truly horrid trends.
2025-12-11 01:23:50
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Persil :
Being first? That’s tennis
2025-12-11 01:04:16
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