Overthinking About Millennial Cringe

Magical Overthinkers

Amanda Montell & Studio71

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.3 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's more than side parts, skinny jeans, and the way you make a heart symbol with your hands—"millennial cringe" is the breed of shame exclusive to a generation that had about .0001 seconds of glory in between their status as entitled babies and out-of-touch olds. But is the cross-generational roast of adults who suck at #adulting, those born roughly between 1982 and 1997, just garden-variety ageism, or is the millennial plight more profound than that? Host Amanda Montell (@amanda_montell) is joined by the brilliant high priestess of millennial culture, Kate Kennedy (@katekennedy)—host of the Be There In Five podcast and author of "One in a Millennial"—to unpack these Lisa Frank-tinted thought spirals. Go to https://Zocdoc.com/MAGICAL to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at https://Shopify.com/magical (all lowercase) This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/MAGICAL and get on your way to being your best self. - Join the "Magical Overthinkers Club" by following the pod on Instagram @magicaloverthinkers. - To access early, ad-free episodes and more, subscribe to the Magical Overthinkers Substack. - Pick up a hard copy of Amanda's book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, or listen to the audiobook. To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkersYouTube ; Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, DM, email, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spiralers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about, from narcissism to nostalgia.
0:18.3	If you can connect to the idea that for some mysterious reason, it feels especially hard to
0:24.4	exist as a human in the world right now, then you're in the right place.
0:28.8	This podcast is here to soften the clash between our innate human mysticisms and the digital
0:35.4	age, to be in conversation with philosophers, psychologists, writers, astrophysicists, and more,
0:43.2	to help us think less about the things that don't matter and more about the things that do.
0:49.8	I'm your host, Amanda Montpel, and today we're overthinking about millennial cringe.
0:57.0	I don't often stop to fully process this because I don't want it to depress me and I don't want to
1:12.1	feel sorry for myself, but it really is starting to seem like millennials never stood a chance.
1:18.4	Not to be Pollyannaish, I guess, but I kind of always thought, at least until recently, that
1:24.7	our generation was special, you know, like this bright
1:29.6	millennial pink generation that invented social media and changed the world. But now I'm actually
1:37.1	starting to think that we're just fucked. I don't remember exactly when it happened, but at some point, I guess during the pandemic,
1:47.2	Millennials' reputation solidly went from entitled babies to hopeless, out-of-touch girl-boss olds,
1:56.2	seemingly overnight.
1:57.9	I feel like as recently as 2018, the millennial generation's main critics were boomers,
2:05.2	who blamed us for ruining the economy with our obsession with avocado toast. And then it seemed
2:11.9	like the moment Gen Z's generational identity was fully established and thus possible to capitalize upon from a
2:20.5	marketing perspective, millennial identity became out of date. And it happened fast. The conversation
2:28.6	turned from you are spoiled children who got too many gold stars to you're old. And we weren't ready.
2:36.0	Because so many of us were drowning in student loans, not thriving in the ways that adults
2:42.1	should. And all the while, we were still on social media participating in trends and suddenly
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