When Millennials Grew Up
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In this series, to mark the end of this decade, and the beginning of the 20s (an age that is in every millennial’s rear-view mirror at this point), we look at how the last 10 years shaped millennials.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: How Dating Apps Changed the Way We Love in the Last Decade
It was love at first sight with Tinder in 2012. Now, as we near the end of the decade, we millennials know no other way to love. “No labels” is the default setting. Ghosting is pretty much par for the course. Collectively we’re all playing the largest ever game of “Who cares the least?”
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: How Millennials Changed after Their First Vote
It may seem absurd to connect a national election to personal growth, but 2014 taught me many lessons. What felt like a victory of spirit that night, has ever since felt like a self-inflicted defeat. Voting for the very first time taught me how to come to terms with the impossibility of instantaneous turnarounds.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: Will Social Media Grow Up in the Next Ten Years?
In the 2010s, from gaming social metrics to gaming democracy, the means on social media didn’t matter, ends did. But even as the promised virtual utopia increasingly begins to resemble a dystopia, it’s important to remember that it wasn’t always like this, and it doesn’t have to be in the future.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: The Decade When Bollywood Found Heroes in its Heroines
Personally for me, 2010s was a decade of finally embracing adulthood. It was the time I stopped being fascinated with the Rajs and Rahuls of Bollywood. Instead my heroes were Piku, a daughter who indulged her father, and the Queen, who decided to go on a solo honeymoon.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: The Decade When Indian Stand-up Became a Thursday Night Plan
In the last decade, stand-up comedy came-of-age in India. The comedy scene went from being limited to laughter challenges on TV to hilarious sets packaged as bite-sized videos on YouTube. What started as a bunch of people posting their thoughts with the sole purpose of being funny transmuted into a sub-culture of its own.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: The Decade We Embraced Fleabag Feminism
Fleabag has emerged as the literal last word in feminine black comedy – more universal than the self-indulgent whiners in Girls and more visceral than the witticisms of Broad City. Perhaps, it’s because Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s show has both the sharpness and the courage to identify problems with millennial feminism as we know it.
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When Millennials Grew Up Goodbye 2010s: The Decade in Which Millennials Realised Work-Life Balance is a Myth
Millennials started off their careers as bright-eyed optimists, excited over what the future held. But the past ten years have been an eye-opener. Most of us are burnt out, with visits to the counsellor lining up, debt mounting, and Sunday trips to the office.
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