You Know You're a Xennial when

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

You watched reel-to-reel films in elementary school (looking at you, The Red Balloon) and graduated high school with an email account.

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dontletyourcrownslip@reddit

An email account that wasn't @gmail.com

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I remember when Gmail first came out, you could only set up an account if you got an invitation from someone who already had a Gmail. Which reminds me of when Facebook first came out--you had to have a .edu email address to set up an account.

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dontletyourcrownslip@reddit

Same. I remember who invited me

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

I've got my first name.last name @gmail. I was so excited to get that back then

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ancilla1998@reddit

yahoo! My email address is almost 30 years old.

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BunchofMums@reddit

Old enough to have email addresses of its own

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Adventurer_By_Trade@reddit

I know I closed my Yahoo! account. I might still have a Hotmail....

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Sensitive_Pianist777@reddit

There were security issues with my Yahoo

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Tootalou25@reddit

I've been having issues lately and thinking of closing it. Have you found a better one?

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Adventurer_By_Trade@reddit

Same - I think that's what prompted me to close mine.

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besleysfw@reddit

My hotmail is still my main email address

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BoneWhiteHaze@reddit

Same 😂

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Tootalou25@reddit

Still using my yahoo account.

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Purple4199@reddit

AOL for me.

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Riala4@reddit

Juno ftw!

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HungryFinding7089@reddit

Ballon! Ballon!

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elphaba00@reddit

Y'all got email addresses in high school? I got one from my college in the fall of 1996. I then also signed up for a hotmail account to separate school from personal life.

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

I grew up in an early adopter tech home, and we had a local ISP that provided dialup modem access around 1994-1995 or so.

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elphaba00@reddit

My dad got into computing and programming in the early 80s, but he was really slow to latch on to technology in the home. We never had an answering machine. He was probably the last people to get a CD-ROM drive with his computer. I bought them a DVD player in the early 2000s as a Christmas present. A few years later, I bought my dad an iPod. I'm not sure how much he used any of it.

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arcxjo@reddit

Did got teacher ever rewind them with the light on so you could watch the kids ride his bike backwards?

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

No haha that would have been so cool!!!

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Lilithbeast@reddit

For us it was Electric Grandmother

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

I had forgotten about "The Red Balloon"

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WaitingForMrFusion@reddit

We also watched "The Electric Grandmother".

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Close. Didn’t get an email address until freshman year in college, on their ancient linux server

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

Got my first one from a local dial-up ISP provider, first in the county! Connected with my 14.4k modem and that was around '94-'95. I also ran a BBS out of my bedroom as a teenager at that same time.

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CallieKitty81@reddit

This.

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Which_Throat7535@reddit

My favorite 3 -

You listened to Biggie and Tupac before they died

You know how to use a microfiche / microform machine

You were “on your own” during the great recession (2007-2009)

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mikeyj777@reddit

It hit me the other day the large fraction of our workforce that was never alive during Biggie or Tupac.

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

And you had very strong feelings about East Coast vs. West Coast rap, despite being a 12-year-old white kid living in suburbia.

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Available_Ad_4030@reddit

Oh man this should get more upvotes. I’d give you an award if I knew how to do that.

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BasicRabbit4@reddit

I listened to tupac and biggie. But I felt conflicted.

But we all knew puff was guilty.

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

Right. Puff Daddy, not P Diddy!

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YEMBOTT@reddit

When Hypnotize came it was played alot, by me

First time hearing micro fiche/form. I feel very confident I could figure it and probably quickly

The ramen and blue box blues years...

Count me for yes on all. Mark it 3

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Doctor_of_Rockology@reddit

I think Microform is the catch-all term for microscopic print media.

The ones I recall using were microfiche (slides with grids of thumbnails of magazine or newspaper pages that you manipulated with a handle to slide through the pages) and microfilm (sequential filmstrips where you fast-forward or rewind through the pages).

It was the only way to do research past a certain point, and usually meant going to the town library rather than the school library.

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luda54321@reddit

Good ones!

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Boetheus@reddit

I got kicked out of the school library for squishing bugs in the microfiche machine. Good times!

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DaringMoth@reddit

At some point you've been frustrated that pioneers couldn't carry more meat.

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Minouris@reddit

... When you keep hearing your age mates from one single country out of hundreds talk about an experience unique to that country as if it's universally shared ;)

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imjustpeachy2020@reddit

I guess we do kind of gate keep it. It’s literally often referred to as “The Oregon Trail” generation in the USA.

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Cold_Barber_4761@reddit

Also, since we grew up with original Nintendo, where at least you could win a game with skill, The Oregon Trail just felt like a trick because you could do everything right and still lose (die)!

Then again, now that I think about it, having also grown up being told that we could be anything we wanted, and that if we went to college we'd already have a huge career/financial advantage, The Oregon Trail was closer to current reality than what our teachers and parents told us! 🤣

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Cold_Barber_4761@reddit

So true.

As an American Xennial, I apologize!

But to be fair, the Oregon Trail game was a quintessential grade school memory for so many Americans of our age.

And the frustrating (and hilarious) thing, as I'm sure you can gather is that 90% (or more) of the time you and your family just died along the way. It was odds, not skill.

But you make a fair point!

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DaringMoth@reddit

Fair.

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RathielintheRun@reddit

I was doing GREAT once and then I just got this sequence where it was like “John has died” and then “Abigail has died” and then “Carl has died.” WTF happened to all of you? I lost 3/5 of my family for no reason in like 30 seconds? We had food? Couldn’t you have the decency to at least get dysentery?

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

And that you felt stupid for wasting so many bullets on two lbs of meat (squirrels).

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Key_Permission_3351@reddit

How many times did I have to die of drowning??

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

I got all the way until the end, when you had to “ford” (float down) the river, dodging all kinds of rocks and stuff, and died. -Made the always-stoned-faced, ultra-strict teacher crack up when I crashed and died.

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Purple4199@reddit

I hated wasting all that meat and having to leave it behind.

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UrbanSurfDragon@reddit

Squirrels are really hard to shoot. Where are all the buffalo?

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imjustpeachy2020@reddit

That, and the dysentery.

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Thamnophis660@reddit

"overhead projector" "walkman" "VHS tape" are all devices you're familiar with

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K2sX@reddit

Your Gmail account is your actual name.

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TurboJorts@reddit

Oh you needed an invite for Gmail and sent invites to your friends

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ashlyn42@reddit

The first time I got “how’d you get your name? “

Never felt older. Honey I got an invitation when it was in Beta

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detourne@reddit

At one point I had like 6 invites to send out for Gmail. And was trying to coordinate with other friends so everyone could get one.

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

Yes, and once in a great while someone will make a comment and then I feel old lol

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wooq@reddit

When your hotmail/ Yahoo mail account is your actual name

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bibbityboo2@reddit

I made one for my daughter when she was 5, it's literally just her name, that was 2022ish.

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arcxjo@reddit

Boomer version: "your Yahoo! account is you and your wife's names, and you've been divorced for 15 years."

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Useless-Photographer@reddit

Mine has a 1 in it now. I had originally set up a Gmail account with just my name (no dots, numbers etc), then forgot about it and continued using my Hotmail. Completely forgot my password when I eventually decided to move over to Gmail so had to set up a new one

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tlmz99@reddit

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Inevitable-While-577@reddit

When people around you don't want to believe the 80s were 20 years ago but you know it's a fact.

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elphaba00@reddit

When our grandpas were talking about WW2 in the 80s and we thought that sounded forever ago .... but now the 80s are farther off than that now

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Inevitable-While-577@reddit

What a liar you are!

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

You know you’re a Zennial when the younger kids see a little grey in your beard and call you “Boomer”, while the Boomers still call you “young man” in that same condescending tone they’ve taken since your early childhood.

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linseeds@reddit

And I'm still helping boomers with their computers.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

I’m done helping Boomers with their computers. At best, it’s a thankless job, and at worst, they attempt to blame you for making it “worse” when it no longer “works the way they remember” and are not willing to learn a new software version or even write it down.

“I don’t know computers” is no longer an excuse when we’ve both been using personal computers for the same amount of time, IE literally 3+ decades.

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gorilla-ointment@reddit

Maybe not helping them with their computers can keep them off Facebook and then Facebook dies

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FingerCapital3193@reddit

Or! Grandpa ends up with 19 Facebook accounts because he thinks he needs to create a new account every time he gets signed out 🙃

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

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gorilla-ointment@reddit

Oh no! I made a monkeys paw wish

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RoseRedVelvet@reddit

Same here. For example: My mother-in-law simply refuses to learn tech things, and even when she did try she’d give up at the first friction point. It’s just to stressful and annoying to keep trying with her

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xeonicus@reddit

Oh good god. My mom still doesn't even know how to send an email. I'm not even joking.

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c_b0t@reddit

My mom is an older boomer ('49) and she calls people in their 40s "young guy/young girl" all the time. It drives me crazy because I know it means she doesn't consider those people full adults (it's been a common complaint with me and my cousins that our parents' generation still thinks of us as children whose life experience and expertise is of little consequence). I call her on it a lot but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

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elphaba00@reddit

My MIL is 80 and refers to my parents as "babies" in such a condescending way. Um, they're 73 and 74. It's one of the many ways she tries to exert her superiority.

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igorpk@reddit

I love getting called 'young man' by boomers - it always seems endearing somehow, like they're gently reminding us that we're in the prime of our lives.

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No-Salt4637@reddit

I’m so grateful for the “young man” part that I don’t even care about the tone.

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JayBea-on-Sea@reddit

When Robin Hood was first a fox, then Kevin Costner.

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nuxi@reddit

This comment is Cary Elwes erasure

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Objective-Plum1201@reddit

It took me a second to realize that Cary Elwes wasn’t the fox they were referring to.

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nuxi@reddit

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Agitated_Earth_3637@reddit

I love Eddie Izzard's bit about this.

Eddie Izzard - Robin Hood & Accents

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arcxjo@reddit

That voice? And how he didn't wear pants -- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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detourne@reddit

When Jeff Foxworthy comes to mind if you hear this sentence structure.

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melanthius@reddit

I still think the peak "... you might be a redneck" joke was

"If your dad walks you to school because you're in the same grade"

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Sleepy_cheetah@reddit

My favorite is when your Granny gets pulled over she doesn't even take the cigarette outta her mouth before telling the Sherrif to kiss her ass - you might be a redneck.

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

Just so everyone reading this is aware...

My grandma would have fucked you up.

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YEMBOTT@reddit

You might be a Xennial.

If your house sits on cinder blocks....

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Ganson@reddit

If your car sits in cinder blocks, but your house sits on wheels.

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MilaVaneela@reddit

If you cut your grass and find two cars and a riding mower….

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arcxjo@reddit

If the bartender asks you "Got any ID?" and you reply "'bout what?"

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brainvheart143@reddit

If your working tv sits on top of your non-working TV …

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The_Abjectator@reddit

If your "Retirement Plan" includes the phrase, "and when we win the lottery"... you might be a redneck.

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Apprehensive-Stay196@reddit

Jeff Foxworthy occasionally hosts the Radio Rental podcast and he’s so hilarious. It was such a blast from the past when he first showed up! He plays a character of course but he’s still hilarious! He’s the only host I don’t skip through 😂

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Immorpher@reddit

You can program a VCR.

You can open task manager on windows.

You can hum the dial up modem sound.

You remember pogs.

You can walk the dog on a yo-yo.

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ashlyn42@reddit

5/5!

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rosujin@reddit

I remember pogs but I was a couple of years too old to play it. My girlfriend’s brother had them. All the others are spot on.

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FlatSixFun@reddit

Yeah, pogs must have been the younger end of Xennials. They weren’t even on my radar until people at work told me about them in my 30’s.

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

I was there in their heyday, but thought they were so lame.

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Fakeadmiral_tt@reddit

Dunno about that last one, I couldn’t even do it in 1995 lol

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xeonicus@reddit

It's one of those things that I don't immediately know how to do. But if I putz with it for a bit, I can figure it out. That generally applies to all tech. We don't necessarily know how to use everything, but we aren't afraid to doodle. It seems like other generations are terrified they will break something.

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FacePresent2379@reddit

Or the first one. I’m pretty sure the blinking 12:00 was considered part of the decor at my house.

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Immorpher@reddit

I'll admit my microwave is blinking 12:00 !

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Immorpher@reddit

Honestly, I tried it the other day and I could only walk the dog for one inch, I dont know if that counts haha.

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Libelia@reddit

All of your stupid teenage/early 20s shenanigans are hidden away in old boxes of photos instead of on the internet.

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

A person who passed away in 2017 was the last known possessor of The Polaroid. My former roommate and I still wonder where said Polaroid ended up, and I don’t have a Ouija board to ask her

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VanellopeZero@reddit

Ours was taken on spring break in Daytona and we’re pretty sure it ended up on the wall of a frat house in Canada. At least our faces aren’t showing!! 😂

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

Oh our faces are showing, and it’s my roommate and I each wearing one sock.

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DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit

I'm guessing they aren't on your feet. lol

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

Correct assumption my good man. Nice username btw. Discworld fan myself.

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DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit

Don't forget to wear your lilac tomorrow.

And have a hardboiled egg.

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NotAPreppie@reddit

We didn't even bother taking photos. Film and cameras were too expensive.

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TraditionalMood277@reddit

We turned disposable cameras into tasers.

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FlatSixFun@reddit

Those freaking HURT!

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Taint_Flicker@reddit

Yes! And then you occasionally zapped yourself trying to strip the ends of the wires that melted off.

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jahmill@reddit

Film and cameras weren't expensive. Developing the pictures was what broke the bank. Only to be disappointed because half of the pictures were messed up lol

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musical_shares@reddit

15 out of 24 photos reliably had mum or dad’s index finger in the photo.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

Yep. A lot of my memories live entirely in my mind.

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melanthius@reddit

The early 00s were a dark age for photos.

No one could be bothered to carry a film camera, if they did, no one was making physical photo albums anymore so they are likely lost somewhere.

Digital cameras were expensive and shitty

Hard drives were unreliable, the only way you still have these photos is if you burned them to a CD or DVD

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christopherDdouglas@reddit

18 year old me is thankful for this.

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

I was born in 83 and have been on the net since 11/12. Thankfully back then it was 1.0 so all of my stupid online antics were wiped before Meta and Google started hoovering it all up and saving it.

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Riala4@reddit

Oh no, our antics were online since '95....

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Sinistas@reddit

I've got .bmps from high school kicking around.

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Rampasta@reddit

My box s got list in a move about 20 years ago, so I've only got memories from that time

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JSpitzRule@reddit

For this, I am supremely grateful!

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hey_nonny_mooses@reddit

You remember the BluRay vs HD wars and learned how to jog holding a discman.

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Plumeria9798@reddit

When you still use your Yahoo account and it’s old enough to rent a car…

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No-Salt4637@reddit

My Amazon account is 28. If only I could’ve bought stock back then…

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Plumeria9798@reddit

Haha, right?????? Mine isn’t quite that old but it has to be 25 or so.

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Zorgsmom@reddit

I got a notification the other day that my EBay account is 20 years old.

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Apostate704@reddit

When you watched Star Trek TNG as a kid in elementary school and then saw all the technology from the show become commonplace in everyday life.

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ninetentacles@reddit

We're living in the future but why doesn't it feel like it?

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mountednoble99@reddit

Michelle. I had like four girls in my class named Michelle in elementary school!

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Junebug35@reddit

You know you're a Xennial when:

You can navigate any gaming console from Pong to Xbox.

You have an N64 (or older system) and an Xbox Series X hooked up to the same TV.

Your first video game played was PacMan.

You have spent all the money in your piggy bank at the arcade at least once.

Yes, I am guilty of all of these. 🤣

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

It's my birthday and this thread has been a great walk down memory lane to welcome in the big 45.

Holy shit. I'm 45.

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Relative_Progress946@reddit

When Gen Xers tell you you're not Gen X because 1980 is the last Gen X year, while Millennials tell you you're not Millennial because 1982 is the first Millennial year.

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

We got the shaft for so long. I'm glad we're known as Xennials.

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ToeLimbaugh@reddit

You knew an "unattractive" girl into troll toys

Mountain biking (mongoose!) and roller skating were huge hobbies when you were a kid. Huuuge

You had a cool cousin with a giant collection of pogs or garbage pail kids cards

You owned MC Hammer styled baggy pants or wanted to.

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FormerWrap1552@reddit

You actually belived "we were the world"

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FormerWrap1552@reddit

You know to pick the banker from Boston.

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FormerWrap1552@reddit

When MASH or Night Court are on, you're about to fall asleep.

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septembersongar@reddit

You remeber exactly when and where you where when you first heard "Wannabe"

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Zorgsmom@reddit

You watched the Challenger explode live in with your school class. You watched The Day After & was worried about nuclear war for years afterwards.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

What if you watched it from your porch instead?

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Zorgsmom@reddit

Even worse. My uncle was an engineer for NASA at the time. He lived in Cape Canaveral. He was an engineer in the Navy prior to that & served during the Vietnam war. He said witnessing that first hand was one of the most terrible things he ever saw in his life.

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defective_toaster@reddit

And had a boomer parent tell you to stop worrying about said nuclear armageddon because 'there's nothing you can do about it anyway' instead of trying to comfort their scared child.

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Zorgsmom@reddit

Ah ha ha! So true.

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JFei1221@reddit

This is how I learned the lyrics to the “Duck and Cover” song. Because my mother was still convinced that huddling under my desk was an appropriate preparedness plan and should calm my nerves. Anything else was a gross overreaction.

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Zorgsmom@reddit

Because those desks in the 70s/80s would surely protect you from a nuclear bomb, lol!

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MilaVaneela@reddit

We stood out in the front yard (my dad, my grandma, and I, I wasn’t quite in school yet) and watched the Challenger go up… I still remember my dad saying “wait, what the hell?!” And grandma saying “that doesn’t look right-“ and them running inside to flip on the TV to see if they could find it on the news. Then my brother got him from school later, very upset because they watched it on TV.

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BraveLittleToaster8@reddit

And we saw the very special Punky Brewster episode that addressed the tragedy more than the teachers did in our actual school.

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JovialPrincess@reddit

How about being an extra in The Day After? Guilty.

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Zorgsmom@reddit

Yikes! That would give me nightmares!

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johnb300m@reddit

Less and less folks get my Ferris Bueller references anymore….

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VectorJones@reddit

You ever watched scrambled porn on cable or ever had the TV Guide channel on for longer than 5 minutes.

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MysteryMolecule@reddit

There we go

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MysteryMolecule@reddit

You know you’re an Xennial when you STILL do NOT understand what the whole deal was with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

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Specialist-Leek8645@reddit

You're calling me out by name. Yes, there were several of us in each class and often our last names were close enough that we'd be clustered, worsening the confusion. Felt like a leftover from past Gens when boys were called by Last name military-style but it helped!

I don't think you can have Jennifer without Jessica and Rachel was not common at all in my area. I'd put Mark / Marc up there too.

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MysteryMolecule@reddit

When you can finish this jingle: “Where in the world is…”

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Boring_Pace5158@reddit

You start laughing when when someone says “I’m so excited”

Your first email address was either: Hotmail, AOL, or ended in .edu

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therealpopkiller@reddit

If Bush v Gore was the first presidential election you were eligible to vote in. Bonus if you were in college in Florida at the time and harbor a certain amount of guilt bc you could’ve worked hard to get 539 other students to vote Gore and the world would be a different place

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Nola_Nativ@reddit

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Wasn’t just a song

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imjustpeachy2020@reddit

You ended up owning your favorite musicians on vinyl, tape, and CD.

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arcxjo@reddit

I bought Appetite for Destruction on vinyl about 10 years ago when I was in the next county over and went into a record store.

I got home and it was scratched so bad I drove an hour back to the store to replace it and the guy at the store was all "Yeah, that 'All Merchandise Guaranteed' sign doesn't apply to stuff we sell.

Fucker put the "seedy" in "CD Warehouse".

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

Tape, CD, Kazaa/Limewire, Spotify.

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ipsumdeiamoamasamat@reddit

> Kazaa

And your computer has the viruses to prove it!

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

No. My PARENTS’ computer had the viruses to prove it!

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PurpleCatBlues@reddit

This! I still have an unopened "rare" vinyl record of The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, as well as cassettes of bootlegged demos/live concerts, and of course their entire discography on CD through Machina II (kinda lost track of them post break-up and briefly followed Zwan).

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Zorgsmom@reddit

Vinyl, cassette, CD, Napster & legal digital form.

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Aromatic_Ad_7953@reddit

If you ever got pissed off by a dog snickering at your bad aim.

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the_hucumber@reddit

You've wooed potential lovers with a mix tape, a burnt CD, and an online playlist.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

If you know what a Kissyfur is

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LatinBotPointTwo@reddit

Most of us where called Chris, thank you very much.

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Canadatron@reddit

Ryans, a whole lot of Ryans...

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Nicolas_yo@reddit

You can remember that gas was .89 cents a gallon in a pre 9/11 world.

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bottleofgoop@reddit

You were left home alone for hours and hours during your younger years with no problems whatsoever but of yiu set foot outside the house you had to come home to check in every hour and the streetlights were home time.

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Telgar321@reddit

You have very strong feelings about Scrappy-Doo. Some would call the strength of those feelings irrational...but nah, it's totally justified.

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Kain347@reddit

You had Atari and/or Coleco before NES

You watched Three's Company religiously

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Humble_Ladder@reddit

You know what awsd has to do with computer games.

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Strange_Airships@reddit

You read Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, and Bridge to Terabithia in school and learned to be less afraid of your emotions than both Boomers and Gen Z.

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super_scary_ferry@reddit

Oh gawd... I never read Where The Red Fern Grows in school, but picked it up at a yard sale and read it on a flight as an adult. Biggest mistake ever! I was sitting in the middle seat bawling uncontrollably between two people.

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MundaneHuckleberry58@reddit

You used to open CDs, extracting them from a plastic case encased in an over-long box.

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luckybuster1029@reddit

You had all the Garbage Pail Kids cards plus a few Cabbage Patch dolls.

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gurnard@reddit

They taught you at school how to correctly write a cheque. You've still never owned a chequebook.

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FaceRockerMD@reddit

You know you're a Xennial when you provide PC tech support for your parents AND your kids

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MrNialliv@reddit

You know what an uhf splitter is. You know the greatest comedy titled UHF. You know all the lyrics to Baby Got Back

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irrelevant_user_name@reddit

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yodellingllama_@reddit

Oh, Joel Miller, you've just found the marble in the oatmeal. You're a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy. 'Cause you know why? You get to drink from... the FIRE HOOOOOSE!

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No-Salt4637@reddit

Wait, “Joel Miller,” for real?

The Last of Us wiki says he was born in 1981, so this actually fits…

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im_a_picasso@reddit

The best Michael Richards is pre-Kramer yelling about his mop, and I don't even look at the monitor for sir-mix-a-lot karaoke.

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sneakyDoings@reddit

Chris

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FairfaxAikman@reddit

You had a Walkman, CD player, skip-proof CD player then a Minidisc.

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Just-Try-2533@reddit

🎶 I went to school with 27 Jennifers 🎶

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walter_grimsley@reddit

You know you’re Xennial if your gaming career spanned the Atari 2600 through the PS2 before you got overwhelmed with ‘adultness’ and lost the time to really play

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit (OP)

My gaming consoles were NES/Super NES/Genesis/PS1/PS2/XBox/PS3.

I lost desire to play

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xeonicus@reddit

I started my gaming career with an Intellivision because we didn't have an Atari in my house.

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Close enough. I never even heard of Intellivision or Colecovision until much later

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xeonicus@reddit

Intellivision was a better console, but Atari had better games.

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

Close. I went from NES to PS2.

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designyillustrator@reddit

Literally! I was just saying how my kiddo is old enough that I started the 4 year process of saying, I should get a new system before actually getting one🤣

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Fuckspez42@reddit

I think Jason and Jessica were far more common than Rachel and Joseph

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TakingYourHand@reddit

The store wouldn't sell you a 2 Live Crew cassette due to the parental advisory sticker.

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rosujin@reddit

My music store sold me 2 Live Crew snd NWA on tape when I was 12. I remember reciting Me So Horny on the playground in 6th grade word for word.

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit (OP)

Me So Horny is classic 😀

Sitting at home with my dick on hard, so I got the black book for a freak to call 🤣🤣

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BraveLittleToaster8@reddit

Did you rewind the tape a bunch of times to write down and learn the lyrics? We used to do that all the time because not all albums came with lyrics!

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rosujin@reddit

I would just play it over and over again. I didn’t set out to memorize the songs, it just happened over time.

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jackfaire@reddit

You know you're a Xennial when you lived through Teddy Ruxpin, POGs and Tamagotchis.

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit (OP)

And you put whatever other music cassette into Teddy (I did Van Halen)

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shajurzi@reddit

Beanie Babies too! Or were we a Lil older?

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jackfaire@reddit

Them too. I worked at McDonald's when we were giving them away with Happy Meals. My mom was as obsessed as my friends.

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MonkeyBred@reddit

... you tell your kid that you're older than Wi-Fi and she just stares blankly in disbelief.

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

You watched the most news in one day on 9/11. Us being in our late teens/early 20s, and not known for watching the news unless we had to. We watched it.. over and over and over.

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

To be fair, that is all they had shown for some days afterwards, as it was on every channel

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PoisonMind@reddit

You watched two different anime about koalas on Nickelodeon.

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I_luv_breakfast@reddit

You played duck hunt as a kid, but only learned player 2 controlled the duck as an adult.

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becauseineedone3@reddit

You know what “asl?” means.

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Striking-Access-236@reddit

You know you're a xennial when you get asked this question in this sub on a too regular basis

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Inevitable-While-577@reddit

You Know You're a Xennial when: You had more than 3 classmates in your grade named Jennifer, Rachel, Michael or Joseph

If you went to school in the US.

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LimeSalty4092@reddit

Yeah I’m in the US and people way overemphasize Jennifer

While forgetting Kristin/Kristen/Kristy

And Erin

Also forgetting Eric And Aaron

I think Eric is the most consistently forgotten popular boys name

And Erin is always forgotten in the discussion of popular names

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ipsumdeiamoamasamat@reddit

A-aron?

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ipsumdeiamoamasamat@reddit

You played Snake on your Nokia.

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yodellingllama_@reddit

Does getting a little excited whenever I see a woman wearing Lisa Loeb glasses count?

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MundaneMeringue71@reddit

AOL chat rooms (A/S/L). Message boards. ICQ. This was our version of social media.

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actionerror@reddit

When you know where the quote“light as a feather, stiff as a board” came from which classic 90s movie

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BasicRabbit4@reddit

Puff being the mastermind behind tupac and biggie's murders did not shock you. Youve known since the 90s.

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Flowers_By_Irene_69@reddit

You forgot Chris and John/Jon.
Plus some squirrelly kid named “Jon-Jon.”

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Agitated_Earth_3637@reddit

You know that the Barlow Toll Road is a scam.

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YEMBOTT@reddit

Portobello Road?

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Flashy-Share8186@reddit

when you neglected and accidentally killed your tamagotchi pet.

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ancilla1998@reddit

Six Tamagotchis in perfect health!!

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LimerentLotus@reddit

You had to get your eyebrows microbladed to be visible after over plucking in the 90s.

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PurpleCatBlues@reddit

This struggle hits hard! I've tried growth seurms, microblading, and nanoblading, but nothing lasts longer than a year or so. I'm debating trying nanoblading one more time before waiting until whatever the newest treatment is and hoping that lasts at least two to three years.

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