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✍️ Original author: Anonymous

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I am a millennial in my late thirties. I didn’t get to experience the before times like the 50s or the 80s that people rave about. But I feel like growing up as a 90s kid I got to experience the death of what made these eras “good”.

There is virtually no reason to willingly leave your home. There are no video/gaming rental shops like I loved at a kid. It was amazing getting a great deal on a handful of Sega Genesis carts and playing for the weekend and paying virtually nothing. Now I have to wait for a sale every 3-12 months or shell out 70+ dollars on Steam. Most game stores are just GameStop and people hate them. We replaced rental shops with a literal box with maybe 10 games in it. Gaming magazines told us shit we had no other way of really knowing because the internet wasn’t big, and demo disks were a big deal because download speeds were shit.

There is no mystery anymore, the internet taught us everything we want or need to know. We learn about zebras and shit we will never fucking see in real life. Why visit Africa? Why even walk down the street when you can pull it all up on Google Maps and see in 3D?

Libraries used to be an interesting meeting spot too but no one goes there and no one fucking reads. Its completely obsolete. I remember being a kid in the mid 2000s and loved the mall. I met a ton of people and now malls are fucking dead. There is no reason to go out to the movies because of Netflix. Finding a cool CD at the mall, thrift store or goodwill is pointless because 99.99 percent of music is free online. There is basically nothing to “discover” anymore.

Any other millennials and older feel this way?

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