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"living with your parents in sleepy little suburban town designed for families, and you're not getting paid enough so you can't move out, and your college years were ruined by COVID...man this sucks"
"Many of them live with their parents in commuter towns full of families and zero millennials/older gen Zers. And their college years were already decimated by COVID to begin with."
"millennials with no spine, who originally thought that disciplining their dog is tantamount to abuse, are now stuck with adult dogs raised to know that aggression can get them what they want. And rather than having fixed it when they were a puppy and malleable, are now trying to expect the public to"
"They're good kids and I feel bad for them. I feel bad that it seems hard for them to hold a conversation. To my ageing cohorts here (30+), we weren't like this right? We had computers and video games but we still did other things and weren't socially lagging. I guess COVID can hold a lot of blame fo"
"I spent ages 15-20 browsing 4chan and suicide forums on a daily basis. The latter part of this was during the COVID lockdowns so it was my only form of human interaction."
"For those born in those earlier years, they were either done or almost finished with college, or had already been working full time if they didn't attend school. For everyone born after, their schooling was disrupted, social development stunted, and they all resorted to brain rot since they weren't "
"Before today, I don't think I've ever cried since Covid."
"After checking my temperature I found I was running a fever of 101. I volun-tined myself to the bathroom immediately, even though the odds were that all of us had been infected"
"specially ever since Covid hit"
"Feeling really alienated by modernity/COVID/online college classes/a localized cancellation/ horniness/feelings of inadequacy/unfulfilled artistic desires"
"COVID lockdowns + this have made it a very isolated few years"
"My infatuation diminished during Covid, and was essentially gone by 2021."
"Even so I got close to taking a masters in prosthetics but it was COVID, good luck doing that remotely lol."