{"id":18763,"date":"2025-05-08T04:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/cringe-how-millennials-became-uncool\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T04:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:37:41","slug":"cringe-how-millennials-became-uncool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/cringe-how-millennials-became-uncool\/","title":{"rendered":"Cringe! How millennials became uncool"},"content":{"rendered":"

They are mocked by gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here?<\/p>\n

Her right to a naked ankle is, in the end, the hill Natalie Ormond is willing to die on. Ormond, a millennial, simply cannot \u2013 will not \u2013 get her head around gen Z\u2019s fondness for a crew sock, pulled up over gym leggings or skimming bare legs, brazenly extending over the ankle towards the lower calf. \u201cI stand by trainer socks and I won\u2019t budge,\u201d says the 43-year-old. \u201cThe more invisible the sock, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

A proclivity for socks hidden within low-top trainers<\/a> is just one reason why millennials \u2013 anyone born between 1981-1996 \u2013 are now considered achingly uncool by the generation that came next: gen Z, AKA the zoomers, or zillennials. According to countless TikTok videos, other sources of derision for the generation that first popularised social media, millennial pink<\/a>, and pumpkin-spice lattes<\/a> are their choice of jeans<\/a> (skinny and mom jeans are out; baggy hipsters are in); an obsession with avocado on toast<\/a> (gen Z\u2019s green grub of choice is matcha<\/a>); their excessive use of the crying laughing face emoji <\/a>(for a zoomer, the skull emoji<\/a> indicates humour, representing phrases such as \u201cI\u2019m dying with laughter\u201d); and the \u201cmillennial pause\u201d<\/a>, a brief moment of silence at the start of a millennial\u2019s video or voice note, thought to be because \u2013 and this really does make them sound ancient \u2013 they like to check the device they\u2019re using is actually recording. Millennials, typically self-deprecating, tend to join in, poking fun at themselves under the hashtags like #millennialsoftiktok.<\/p>\n

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\nThey are mocked by gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here?
\nHer right to a naked ankle is, in the end, the hill Natalie Ormond is willing to die on. Ormond, a millennial, simply cannot \u2013 will not \u2013 get her head around gen Z\u2019s fondness for a crew sock, pulled up over gym leggings or skimming bare legs, brazenly extending over the ankle towards the lower calf. \u201cI stand by trainer socks and I won\u2019t budge,\u201d says the 43-year-old. \u201cThe more invisible the sock, the better.\u201d
\nA proclivity for socks hidden within low-top trainers is just one reason why millennials \u2013 anyone born between 1981-1996 \u2013 are now considered achingly uncool by the generation that came next: gen Z, AKA the zoomers, or zillennials. According to countless TikTok videos, other sources of derision for the generation that first popularised social media, millennial pink, and pumpkin-spice lattes are their choice of jeans (skinny and mom jeans are out; baggy hipsters are in); an obsession with avocado on toast (gen Z\u2019s green grub of choice is matcha); their excessive use of the crying laughing face emoji (for a zoomer, the skull emoji indicates humour, representing phrases such as \u201cI\u2019m dying with laughter\u201d); and the \u201cmillennial pause\u201d, a brief moment of silence at the start of a millennial\u2019s video or voice note, thought to be because \u2013 and this really does make them sound ancient \u2013 they like to check the device they\u2019re using is actually recording. Millennials, typically self-deprecating, tend to join in, poking fun at themselves under the hashtags like #millennialsoftiktok. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They are mocked by gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here? Her right to a naked ankle is, in the end, the hill Natalie Ormond is willing to die on. Ormond, a millennial, simply cannot \u2013 will not …<\/p>\n

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