The Revenge of Millennial Cringe
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The Revenge of Millennial Cringe
The 20-year nostalgia cycle, climate-change nihilism, information saturation, streaming-era content overload, and our collective Long COVID of the soul have converged in a tidal wave of tackiness.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
It was usually cooler to seem poor than seem rich, whatever your status actually was. Indie sleaze is back, I’m told, but the PBR-swilling ‘00s hipster—however affluent underneath the blue-collar disguise—would surely recoil from the $20 espresso martinis that their present-day counterparts celebrate.