I don't know if this is just being 32, but I really do believe Millenial Optimism *was* real? Like era it describes and the way it felt was a real thing that tracks with my only memory and experiences?

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Mixed for me: it's peak social media where it got big enough to have network effects but before the companies tried to make money and made it bad. But I worked in a job badly affected by government austerity at that time. Being forced to go to 40 hours a week on threat of job losses wasn't good.

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bsky.app/profile/eliz... Just adding for clarity as I really could be confusing - I'm specifically referencing this Tiktok trend of like Gen Alpha talking about 'Millenial Optimism' not suggesting we were all optimistic as a generation

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Rewatching Girls last year really hit that home for me. When Hannah tweets out 'All adventurous women do' it wouldn't have occurred to any of us that within a decade or so that website would be a Nazi infested CSAM generator.

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I think being born in like 1988-1997ish maybe was just a bit of a golden age to grow up in ? (Massive caveats apply I'm not talking about everyone but the overall cohort).

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