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Don't be like the boomers. We should be loving the generation coming after us not making fun of them.
Also, we were were cringeworthy than they are now. I was there in the late '90s and the early 2000s. I remember the forum posts, the livejournal drama, the unfunny memes, the rise of MySpace. The Xanga sites alone were far more cringeworthy than Tumblr ever was, even if you ignore the underage nudes AND early 2000s fanfiction that people posted on their Xanga pages it was still worse. At least zoomers don't have emo hair and post about their angst in the form of shitty poetry with handles like xXx_darkbl4de_st0rmwind_xXx, and those of us born in the mid '80s through the early '90s cannot always say the same.
We were extremely cringe but there are barely any trace left of it nowadays, thank god. I really feel for the zoomers and alphas who have their entire life plastered all over the internet forever...
Funny you should mention that, I found a particularly cringeworthy forum thread featuring child millenials lying about being badasses from back in 2005, and through the magic of Google Groups we can even laugh at sports fans' forgotten shit takes they posted to Usenet 40(!) years ago: