“I know an older Gen Z was behind this.”

An IHOP menu is bringing millennials down after referring to the years of our childhood as “the late 1900s.”

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Yes, it was that petty.

IHOP’s Nineteen Nineties insult

Recently, TikToker Britni, @britnixh91, shared a video she took whereas out to eat along with her kids at IHOP. 

“I’ve been insulted by a menu,” she advised viewers earlier than highlighting the paper youngsters’ menu on the desk. On it was a bit that demonstrated how to attract a selected “S” image that shall be acquainted to millennials and Gen X.

@britnixh91 acknowledged it immediately, sharing her amusement at one thing so blatantly “millennial-coded” on the menu—till she regarded slightly nearer.

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“Then you look over here and it says, ‘Fun fact: The S Thing was really popular in the late 1900s!” she learn.

Look, technically, that’s right. Many of us are accustomed to the image from the Nineteen Nineties, which is by definition “the late 1900s.” And maybe whoever wrote the menu copy did so as a result of that specific S truly rose to recognition in the course of the Eighties, so it had twenty years of robust recognizability, slightly than simply the Nineteen Nineties.

Farewell to the 1900s

But the truth that IHOP is grouping the years of our childhood in with the period of the Great Depression beneath one massive umbrella often called the 1900s feels disorienting, to say the least.

“I mean, I guess the 90s are the late 1900s, but like, why did they word it that way?” @noelledevitopurr commented, together with a crying emoji.

“I know an older Gen Z was behind this, I just can’t prove it,” @queenravengames joked.

“At first I was like ugh, another person being offended,” @coffeendrawing admitted, “but then I was like oh no *I’m* really offended now and I want to speak to a manager.” 

Fellow millennials/Gen Xers additionally shared another run-ins that made them notice sufficient time has handed for the reason that ’80s and ’90s that it’s simply handled as distant historical past now.

“Last summer I had a group of teenagers ask me ‘if I was born in the 1900s?’” @davemercado16 recalled. “Yeah…..I was, but damn.”

“Went into Spirit Halloween and saw that my era (’80s, ’90s) is now a costume,” @nefrodite_luvgoddess89 chimed in, whereas @puttingpuzzlestogether wrote, “My son came running in one day wanting to show me a REALLY OLD COIN he found. 1981. My birth year.”

The passage of time is all the time quite a bit to absorb, nevertheless it certain does really feel exacerbated on the web generally. Or as one commenter succinctly put it: “I’m so tired of this app calling me old.”

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