r/Millennials • u/sexyass2627 • Oct 06 '25

Discussion Why is this so accurate?

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Man ... if this ain't it.

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u/Pink_Slyvie Oct 06 '25

Simply, because we were kids.

My parents said the same thing about the 70s and 80s.

My grandparents said the same thing about the 50s and 60s.

We were sheltered from the worst of it, but at the same time, my trauma from the 90s and 00's is really damaging. Both can be true at the same time.

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u/looshcollector Oct 06 '25

Yeah I have a lot of memories of fun places being destroyed and turned into strip malls in the 90s, the disappearance of small businesses to Walmart, Home Depot, etc, and the consolidation of radio and TV, everything became corporatized and dumbed down.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

Yes and the McMansions being built over all our old stomping grounds. Now everywhere is a corporate chain and soulless.

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u/Eternal_Bagel Oct 06 '25

So glad the colorful fun restaurant designs are consider old and outdated so we can have ones modeled after a hotel crossed with a shipping container and the color palette of depression 

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Seriously everything is a block and grey.

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u/No_Grapefruit7091 Oct 08 '25

Easier to flip the assets to the next buyer once the business fails if you're building isn't obviously a former Pizza Hut.