Revisited: Cringe! Why millennials became so uncool
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:03.1 | Hi, it's Helen here. Today in Focus is taking a little Christmas break so that we can recharge our batteries ready for 2026. |
| 0:14.0 | While we're off, we are replaying a few of our favourite episodes of the year. |
| 0:18.2 | Today, it's a fun one, presented by Lucy Hoff, who is now the host of |
| 0:21.7 | our sister podcast, Today and Focus latest. As a geriatric millennial, my cheeks burned |
| 0:26.9 | throughout when I listen to this the first time round. Enjoy. |
| 0:32.4 | Today, why a millennials suddenly so deeply uncool? |
| 0:49.8 | Somewhere back in the Halcyon 2010s, millennials were the bright young things, |
| 0:56.5 | a generation of digital pioneers defying our dire economic outlook by frittering away any savings we might have on flat whites and short-haul flights. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, I can't afford a house. Why bother even trying? Let me have my Starbucks. Let me |
| 1:05.8 | have my avocado toast. Let me have my Netflix subscription. Let me have my... |
| 1:10.0 | Boomers and Gen X derided us as self-absorbed snowflakes, and I think we could live with that. |
| 1:15.9 | But now, we have a much more dangerous enemy, Gen Z. |
| 1:20.7 | In the eyes of our successes, millennials are not just over the hill, but deeply and achingly |
| 1:26.2 | cringe. |
| 1:27.6 | A quick scroll through TikTok shows rinsing us is a favorite Gen Z pastime. |
| 1:32.5 | We're millennials. We talk about our pets like they're our children. |
| 1:35.9 | And our children like there are pets. |
| 1:38.1 | We're millennials. Everyone's a narcissist except for us. |
| 1:42.1 | So I just did a thing. I bought pumpkin chocolate chip muffins in true Hufflepuff fashion. |
| 1:50.9 | The list of what irks Gen Z about millennials is long. |
| 1:55.3 | Harry Potter, the cry face emoji, pumpkin spice lattes, our choice of skinny jeans, |
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