17 Things You’ll Only Understand If You’re a Millennial

4. When you and your siblings have to run interference at Thanksgiving dinner to keep things friendly.

After the shitstorm of an election we just had, politics are a touchy subject for almost everyone. And when you get multiple generations and personalities together, people are bound to disagree.

It’s only a matter of time before some drunk uncle goes off on an anti-Hillary tirade or boasts about how Trump will take care of “the illegals.” So you need a plan to nip that in the bud, or shit will absolutely start to get ugly.

 

5. You’re totally numb to advertising – whether it appears in your social feeds, on TV, you name it.

This has one of two effects. On the one hand…

“Please,” you think, “If I see one more poorly made gif of Ernie the Keebler Elf attempting to take a selfie, I am going to burn the Kellogg factory to the ground. Get the FUG off my Twitter feed!”

Yet on the other hand… you follow more brands on social than you do people. And that’s not an accident.

The struggle is real, my friends.

 

6. When older people berate you and your peers for living with your parents – ahem, freeloading – with zero awareness of how hypocritical they’re being.

You know, since they’re the ones who ran things into the ground, what with destroying the environment, letting banks hijack the economy, etc.

We’re literally paying for your mistakes, boomers… that’s why we’re  $60,000 in debt.

Written by Samantha Grasso

Journalist, Austinite