"The life Lena Dunham broadcast in Girls was chaotic, and her disciples' schedules were packed. As I've gleaned, millennial New Yorkers apparently went out on Thursdays and sweated out their hangovers at SoulCycle at the crack of dawn on Fridays. That's the adulthood I expected when I moved to the city for college in 2020, and back again in 2025 after a stint in my tiny Massachusetts hometown."
"I wondered: Could I handle the go-go-go lifestyle of the 2010s? Me, who has never worked in an office more than one day a week? Me, with a passion for cancelling plans? After consulting with my most trusted elders, I loaded my schedule with everything from avocado toast to an indie show at a Brooklyn dive to, yes, business-casual clubwear. Ahead, I took it back to 2016, and I lived like a millennial for a week."
Widespread nostalgia for 2010s millennial aesthetics appears across Instagram and TikTok, often driven by Gen Z longing for a narrowly missed adulthood. The 2010s featured distinctive music, clothes, and carefree social posting that now feel more optimistic than current trends. Contemporary forces such as AI-generated music, mass-market outfit duplications, and recurring viral outrage dampen that optimism. Millennial New York routines included packed schedules, Thursday nights out, and SoulCycle hangover classes. Increased remote work and influencer-promoted quiet routines have reduced after-work socializing. One person deliberately recreated a week of millennial habits, adopting early wakeups, vintage makeup, avocado toast, indie shows, and clubwear.
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