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21 things that trigger millennials

The internet has been led to believe that millennials are the first modern generation to be too sensitive, and while there is some truth to that, every generation before them has its hang-ups. Don’t even get a Gen X started on who was the best grunge band, and don’t try and ask a Boomer about how they got to school vs. now (trust, it’s always through a winter storm no matter where they grew up). While the things that can leave millennials hot and bothered aren’t as serious as they could be, the following still triggers millennials like no other.

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Jelly shoes

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The memory of the smell is enough to make a 30-something shudder with fear.

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Phone calls

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Millennials were the last generation to experience house phones, so it’s ironic that in modern times, they cannot handle someone calling them instead of texting.

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Horrible haircuts

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Parents truly believed putting a bowl on a kid’s head and just cutting around it was okay.

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Bees

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Macaulay Culkin means a lot to this generation, so when he got taken down by a barrage of bees, it was a lot to handle. Millennials still scream about how Thomas Jay can’t see without his glasses in My Girl

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Beanie Babies

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Millennials will never own homes because, at 10, they invested in toys that were stuffed with so-called beans.

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Parted hair

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Some of Tiger Beat’s elite rocked the parted hair, but seeing it now is just a reminder of how outdated it looks and lost youth.

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Fast food prices

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Don’t go to a fast food spot with a millennial and expect them not to tell you how much a kids’ meal was in 1995.

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'The Land Before Time'

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Dinosaurs died long before humans could bond with them, but that didn’t stop millennials from feeling emotionally attached and destroyed by the passing of Little Foot’s mother in The Land Before Time.

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Low-rise jeans

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Low-rise jeans plagued millennials during middle and high school. Seen as fashionable at the time, they are now merely just a dark time they’d like to keep tucked in the back of their mental closets.

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Dial-up internet

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Not every millennial grew up with access to the internet, but those who did know all too well how deafening the sounds were when you logged on.

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Commitment

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This is a generation that would hoard stickers in contraptions called sticker books so that they didn’t have to fully commit to permanently sticking the sticker somewhere. Fast forward to today, and people wonder why it’s like pulling teeth to get a millennial to commit to anything from where to eat to what to do with an hour of free time.

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Stampedes

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Most millennials will never face a stampede, but they forever flinch at the thought because of Mufasa’s untimely death.

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Smoking

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A lot of millennials’ parents smoked throughout their childhoods, and while some picked up the bad habit, many were swayed by the anti-smoking ads that ran rampant through the ‘90s and ‘00s. So much so that many can’t fathom picking up a pack, especially when it comes to the price.

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Bacon

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Not because millennials devoted their lives to bacon and the idea of it via fashion in the 2000s, but because, once upon a time, they were obsessed with a pig in a movie named Babe.

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Furby

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Despite having the likes of Alexa and Siri, there was something off about Furby, and it’s like the supposed innocent toys knew that, too!

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Quicksand

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One would’ve thought a great deal of millennials would have faced quicksand in their life. Most haven’t, but they are fully prepared to panic when they do.

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Frilly socks

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Even families that weren’t heading to church on Easter Sunday somehow managed to dress their kids in these itchy demons.

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Ginger (Spice)

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It’s hard for someone who was alive and well during the Spice Girls’ heyday to see ginger as an ingredient and not think back to that fateful day in which MTV’s Kurt Loder popped up with the breaking news that Ginger had parted ways with the internationally beloved girl group.

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'The Lion King' video game

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Disney managed to make some of the best movies of the ‘90s and some of the hardest video games. The thing about The Lion King is that it could take the No. 1 spot in both of those categories.

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Bermuda Triangle

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Fully blame Unsolved Mysteries for this one.

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Hot Topic

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Once a store parents feared, it has since become a Disney adult's dream come true.

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