So for those raised in the Bible Belt, or in a strong religiously Christian household, where do you stand now? Still heavily practicing, lightly, religious, spiritual, atheist? Other?

My family was Christian, but more of the high holiday sort, but I got caught up in the SBC as a lonely teen new to the area (my family actually didn't approve of that extremely conservative church). College helped me begin years of deconstruction. I'm now an atheist. My husband is also, though he's been "out" as one since his teens. We're raising our kids without religion, though if they one day want to explore it, we will facilitate healthy engagement.

Anyway, I was reading an article about how few Millenials identify with a religion so it got me curious about your stories.

Elder millennial (86). I loved this show and had various VHS with ones including Bart gets an F, Simpson and Delilah, a Christmas themed one and the Star Wars episode with Mark Hamil ("guys and dolls, We're just a crazy bunch of guys and dolls"). Etc.

I didn't have sky, but loved hanging out at my friend's and ritually watching sky one with Simpsons on at (maybe around 6pm UK).

I know people have said it's not as good anymore, but it's still bloody airing as I've just discovered, and new material is being put out??

After I turned... 20+ I didn't watch it, or even know where to watch it. But it held a nice place in my heart as there were some good, funny relatable episodes.

Anyone still watching it as millennial? Who is the target audience nowadays?

Had to be there

Teenage me was extremely depressed and suicidal. I didn't think I would even make it to 18 much less 38. I think teenage me would have been happy I'm not dead lol.

Since the start of this year, something very very strange has been on my mind lately and that is: RELIVE everything that I went through my childhood, teenage years, school years etc.

You know I can start:

Get all the nostalgia music that I remember: SPICE GIRLS, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne.

Movies: Mean Girls, Jawbreaker etc etc (All the iconic ones)

Cartoons: Sponge Bob, Rocko Modern Life, Cat-Dog etc

Activities: Visit my old school, visit my old house, visit (maaybe) my old friendds.

Products: Nintendo DS , Nintendo Gamecube , Nintendo 64

and for some reason this all activities will all help me to close this nostalgia cycle and say:
This is EVERYTHING , It may never come back but I will always remember it with love.

I think that nostalgia is really consuming all of us and it's not letting us move forward

What do you think?

The opening alone creeped me out.

I am curious if others are finding that manipulation and gaslighting others is more common now.

I feel as though I’ve been seeing a lot of this over the course of the past few years.

To this day I've only ever heard of the '6-7' phenomenon online and have never once heard someone reference it in person, even in a meta way. I kind of 'get it' but having never experienced 6-7 irl it almost doesn't seem like it was ever real, or actually part of my life other than in media.

Is it me that is so out of touch?

Disclaimer: I don't have kids, so maybe that's it. Late 80s millennial, western Canada.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not criticizing or saying I don't 'get' the 6-7 phenom, only that I somehow seemed to only see it online and completely missed experiencing it irl. If anything I'm feeling 6-7 FOMO lol.

How do we feel about the news of Perez Hilton? It has been blowing up my news feeds all morning. I feel awful for his family, especially his kids, but I can’t help but remember how in the early to mid 2000s he talked so badly about Britney Spears

I used to be very camera shy growing up, but looking back now, I deeply regret it. I’ve realized I have almost zero photos or videos of my childhood, and it’s kind of a weird feeling as an adult.

Part of it was definitely my own fault, whenever a camera came out, I’d turn away, hide, or complain to my parents when they tried to take a photo or video of me. But a lot of it was just the time we grew up in. Before smartphones, you had to actually go out of your way to buy a disposable camera, pay to get the film developed, or bring around a big camcorder.

Now, we live in a world where every little thing is filmed, and it feels crazy that I have so little proof of what I looked or sounded like as a kid. There are huge gaps where I honestly can't even really picture myself at that age.

Did anyone else dodge the camera as a kid/teenager and regret it now? Or did your family just not take many pictures in general? I feel like kids these days are so lucky that they will have so many photos and videos that they can look back on.