Poor You, Sad Me, a Millennial Memoir.

Where do new anthropology theories come from? Something I often ask myself while rubbing the sick and tired outta my eyes. I write thesis after thesis of human behavior and all the ideas I come up with must have supportive evidence in quotation marks with an old dead white man’s last name behind it. Apparently, surviving middle school as a slightly overweight girl with an AIM account doesn’t exactly grant you the credentials to know a thing or two about life.

I digress. Much like my age, my once innocent AIM account as evolved attached to my hand flooded with products promising to keep me young, skinny, and mentally stable. Consumerism cloaked in the disguise of self-care, whispering, "Look young, or else!" A consent reminder that the sweet embrace of death is patiently waiting in the wings.

With all the world's information at the tip of my figures I find myself in a constant state of unimpressed, empty, and most of all- bored. But why? Algorithms, influencer marketing, and whatever crisis is trending today it seems we’re leaving a few things behind. But what? I don’t know.

There seems to be nothing but the struggles for survival between the ever-expanding territories of performative wokeness and manufactured outrage. In this thrilling race between PC culture and outright fascism both competing to see who can dictate the moral compass of the masses, independent thought and actual human behavior have been trampled underfoot. All casualties in the grand crusade for virality, where the loudest voice wins and the sanest one sighs into the void.

Luckily, dear reader, you’ve found this blog, written by an unmarried 32-year-old woman who dedicates more than half her serving job income to a shoebox-sized apartment, losing "going out" friends to motherhood one by one, and desperately hoping someone—anyone—might come along and break the fourth wall. Because, clearly, this is where the wisdom of the ages resides.

Here, we’ll explore the intricate ways human connection has been distilled into engagement metrics and how sarcasm—once a bonding mechanism—is now flagged as “problematic.” feeding the endless loop of groupthink. We’ll discuss how scrolling through curated trauma and manufactured discourse has replaced real social interaction, drawing parallels to past life events that once brought us together in meaningful ways.

So, if you’re wondering how we got here, if you, too, feel the whiplash of a culture that can’t decide whether it wants to be coddled or enraged, welcome. Let’s navigate this mess together.