Re:Why is everything so ugly?
by topaz0 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:42AM
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Not sure where you're getting this. Zero of my millenial friends like this look -- and we represent a wide range of the millenial years.
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I don’t know if it’s millennials per se but subreddits about cozy, nice living spaces are upvoting for whatever reason quite uniformly empty and gray minimalist designs. Like a distopian hospital from the future or something.
Since when are redditors representative of the population?
Just noting the existence of a trend, not making any broader statement about redditors being representative of the population. Hopefully we can at least agree there are millennials on Reddit upvoting the style, or if not there’s always plenty of articles like https://millennialmagazine.com/2019/10/02/why-are-millennial.... Or, if that isn’t compelling either, there are replies from other millennials here indicating they like it.
In any case try not to worry too much about it, there are plenty of people with (arguably) bad taste in every generation.
Well Redditors sure as hell aren't typically Boomers, and the Zoomers can't afford houses.
> Not sure where you're getting this.
No, it is (or was) definitely a trend. Google "millennial gray" -- it's so common it became a meme.
I've observed the trend. I'm unsurprised that it was named after the generation that was putatively buying the most houses at the time. But I haven't observed any people my age actually liking this fact.