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[–] -1 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Millennials had nothing to do with Y2K except hear about it. The older generations were the ones that actually made sure it didn't impact everyone like it was being predicted.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You think we weren’t, as teenagers, huddled around thinking the world was going to end? I was 13 and distinctly remember thinking, based on all the sensationalist reporting that had bombarded my tiny pubescent brain, that all the electronics were going to fail and the world would devolve into anarchy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Millennials didn’t have any connection to 9/11 either, but living through the chaos is still bad enough.

    I knew Y2K wasn’t going to be the predicted apocalypse, but the stress of dealing with people who did (like my mother) was real.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    No connection? Tell that to my friend who lost his aunt, my classmate who lost her cousin, or even all of us Millennials who suddenly had fighter jets flying overhead all day every day, jingoism, militarization, and on and on, as a brand new form of all-encompassing daily life.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    How do you figure we didn't have any connection to 9/11? Many of us lost loved ones or friends that day and the world is still feeling the fallout from that event.

    Compare that to Y2K. No millennials, or very very few, were directly affected. It was a nothing burger because of the older folks who quietly handled it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    And?

    Like it didn’t cause stress?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm apparently in the minority here, but I gave zero shits about Y2K beforehand beyond a mild curiosity of whether anything would actually happen. And when nothing happened I continued to not give a shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    And when nothing happened I continued to not give a shit.

    Yeah, because you weren't the one who had to do a ton of work to fix everything before Y2K. The people who worked their asses off to make sure nothing happened sure gave a shit.

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