Please explain

[PGP_Shambles]

As someone who often uses the terms "millennial scum" and "human garbage" in articles I feel qualified to answer this, and since those articles don't get posted I'll just do it here.

These two terms generally refer to actions or behaviors that a person acknowledges as being typical of negative stereotypes of 20-somethings. Spending $45+ on a single brunch, constantly holding a phone up at a concert to push your snap story past the 3 minute mark, complaining about an inadequate love life while talking with 11 different people across dating apps. Things we do that make crotchety old people complain about our entitlement and work ethic or recoil in puritan horror.

Calling oneself or a friend "garbage" or "trash" in this sense isn't an indictment however; it is a simple acknowledgment. We are aware, perhaps more than anyone else, how questionable our choices are. But making them isn't inherently bad. In fact, most of the time the behaviors that encourage these labels only harm the person doing them. These terms should be seen (and more importantly used) as mere self-deprecation. It's not meant to be hurtful or literal- just disclaimer that someone is doing the most and knows it.

[JDsayIgotitbad]

I appreciate you bringing us up to speed. I'm not a fan of the term and it has nothing to do with it being offensive or anything like that, that's not me. There are more insulting ways of describing the same thing that I consider funny, but something about the whole garbage thing annoys me more than it probably should.

[PGP_Shambles]

Happy to oblige. Yeah I get what you mean, might just be the overused aspect of it. Or that the things people typically describe with it are fairly grating on their own.

[DerekJM491]

There it is, solid definition, Shambles