The "millennial uncle" is my spirit animal

 *looks sternly at zoomers and gen alpha whenever one of my interests is brought up*

YOU DON'T KNOW CRAP ABOUT THAT, DO YOU? I WAS THERE WHEN POKEMON CAME OUT. I PLAYED GEN 1. I WAS THE FIRST ONE IN MY SCHOOL TO FIND THE MISSINGNO GLITCH. I SPENT 9/11 WATCHING DBZ. 

True story...

 Okay, so....I've been finding these kinds of videos making fun of us millennials now in our 30s when we try to relate to younger generations, and I'm just gonna say, yeah...I get it. I own being the quintessential 90s kid. I own being in the age range that is being made fun of here. And I own sounding like that in trying to talk to younger people. 

Heck, these zoomers and alphas have even called the games I grew up with "unc slop." Once again, I own that. And a lot of those games are better than the newer stuff that exists today, sorry, not sorry. 

Compared to the 90s, I thought the 2000s sucked at the time. I mean, 9/11, the stock market crash, and us being in this weird awkward age of digital stuff that never really aged well. I dont glorify that stuff as much as SOME do, but I do have some nostalgia toward it. 

Still. I miss the 2000s. They were a better time than now. Even if Bush-Cheney functionally ruined the 2000s in effect, Trump is like Bush Cheney's worst attributes on steroids. 

And culturally, it was better. It wasn't woke, or alt right. It just was. And everyone fricking understood it. We had more productive conversations on the internet. Games didnt suck, and we seemed to have a lot more of them a lot more quickly. And they got cheap quickly too because tech was ever advancing and stuff that was 4 years old at the time was considered ancient that could be run on your new family computer with integrated graphics. Again, it wasnt perfect, but it was better than now. 

And...on the whole divide between us millennials who have inherited the role gen x used to have as being the chill middle aged generation, and gen x turning into the new conservative boomer stereotypes, well...at least we can relate to you guys. And at least we try. And this millennial uncle stereotype, it's us trying to relate to you guys, to teach you more about the world and what came before you. We're trying to teach you our proud culture as the first generation to walk in the digital divide in a reasonable way. Because trust me, that's...the biggest cultural divide between generations. The pre internet people don't get the modern world at all. They dont. They can't relate to us like...AT ALL on things sometimes. They think that our PS2s were "nintendos", that's how out of touch they are. You hand them a video game controller and they wont know what to do. They might even struggle with simply turning on a computer or a tablet, let alone using it. 

Us...we get it. We get gaming. We were the forebearers of it. The franchises you know and love, we love too. And we remember the old stuff. You guys play pokemon legends ZA, we're here still going on about how great gen 1 was. You go on about anime, we tell you about toonami. You talk about the PS5, we talk about the PS2. We're basically you, just older. And we're just trying to relate to you. Would you rather we do that, or to do what our parents did and try to ban video games because they thought they caused violence? 

I admit, sometimes we push too hard. We act like the 90s and 2000s were perfect. They weren't. And I know some 90s kids can be quite annoying. Still. Again. You could do worse. You could end up with older generations who cant relate to you at all. Trust me, that's worse. 

Anyway, that's what I call aging gracefully. Basically being in my late 30s and still having an inner child that wants to play video games. Maybe our classics are....15-30 years out of date by this point. But they're still good. Kinda like action movies from the 80s were still good in the 2000s. Thats basically what "uncslop" is. It's stuff from 20 years ago that's still cool today. Just like how when it was the 2000s some of us still liked stuff from the 80s and 90s, especially in movies. But I digress. Respect your elders, kids. You don't know crap about that 30 year old franchise you happen to like the latest game on. We were there when it was created.