From millennial perspective Y2K was a no event. Nothing happened and they weren't developers fixing software to ensure that nothing happened.

I think the bigger picture is missed here - it's the natural environment that is suitable for humans to exist that has been pillaged, razed, and sold off for cheap while a handful few have become obscenely wealthy as the guardrails that were put in place to prevent/mitigate such environmental extraction are dismantled all in the name of short term gains. While the guardrails can be placed back in relatively quickly, it is the raping and the alternation of the natural environment that is not easily reversed - if even possible at all right now.

That is the real cards current and future generations have to deal with or the lack of...the longer we ignore this issue, the worse it will get. Tragedy of the commons.

But I will also mention that millennials were pretty much sold lies at every turn while growing up.

Hard men make good times ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Generation X lived through the Cold War, the oil crisis, the Powell Memo (the beginning of the corporate takeover), Reaganomics, neoliberal deregulation, the aids epidemic, the threat of nuclear annihilation, Y2K, 9/11, a pandemic, 2 economic recessions, and a possible AI apocalypse along with more nuclear annihilation threats and watches as America turns into a fascist hellscape all before they hit 57 years old.

Yay, we win.

Think you forgot a couple wars, I mean special operations, or whatever.

And they want people to make kids through all of it too.

Odd not to include the 2008 or COVID crashes.

I just put dogs in my ass. You don't have to think about it, it just happens to you then you bow right into the an other net gone rightly to ir.

Y2K wasen’t I big deal to live through… nothing happened. There was more hype for Star Wars episode one

As a millennial, these posts are cringe af.

I'm just glad that I wasn't born in 1890. A world war, then the great depression, then another world war.

“Living through Y2K”? What does that even mean?

Can't be. He's smoking.

They took that away from us too.

Add next year's "biggest il niño in 500-1000" years to the list

This is exactly the reason Billy Joel wrote We Didn’t Start the Fire.

Every generation has its challenges.

I ain't even thirty and I only "missed" Y2K, ha.