Say what you want about millennials, but if loyalty were a generation, it’d be them. Loyal to their sitcoms. Loyal to their fonts. Loyal to their coffee orders. While the rest of us are in our villain era, trying matcha for the first time and pretending we like oat milk, millennials are out here rewatching F.R.I.E.N.D.S for the 19th time. And you know what? Power to them.
Here are 18 things millennials absolutely refuse to let go of, and TBH, we kind of get the obsession:
1. Owning way too many mugs with quotes.
2. Still using Facebook (mostly to stalk people).
3. Their undying love for sitcoms from the 90s and 2000s.
4. Refusing to delete old emails “just in case”.
5. Saying “I’m a 90s kid” at every opportunity.
6. Getting way too excited about stationery.
7. Living for the golden era of Youtube and OG creators.
8. Having a borderline spiritual attachment to their college laptop.
9. Still hoarding old phone boxes “just in case”.
10. Skinny jeans that cut off circulation but spark joy.
11. Keeping screenshots of food they’ll never cook.
12. Taking deep pride in knowing movie dialogues word-for-word.
13. Keeping every earphone they’ve ever owned in a tangled ball of doom.
14. Still thinking they’ll go back to their first blog one day.
15. Never really recovering from the flip phone era.
16. Using their laptop for ‘big’, serious purchases, and their phone for everything else.
17. Downloading e-books and never reading them, but feeling oddly accomplished.
18. Side parts like their life depends on it.
Call it comfort, call it denial, or just call it vibes, millennials aren’t letting go of these things anytime soon. And honestly? Who can blame them? They survived dramatic soap operas, and downloading full movies in 3GP format. If holding on to their playlists, and emotional attachments to Yahoo Mail gives them peace in this chaotic world, maybe we should all just let them have it.