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According to Pew (not actually according to Pew): * 72% of millennials literally can’t right now * 99% of millennials want to know how they can make this about them * 1/3rd of millennials are legit embarrassed you just tweeted that, like…no * 33% of millennials are p tired rn tbh * 61% of millennials wonder what they should turn down for * 28% of millennials think you’re _actually_ _the worst_ * 1/8th of all millennials have the middle name “Brand” * 27% of millennials found this poor sick dog on the side of the road and could not _believe_ what happened next Kids these days, smh. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/"},"headline":"8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials","datePublished":"2014-03-07T16:30:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:35.737Z","description":"\"Facts\" that you won't actually find in the Pew study (because we made them up)","url":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Humor"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"selfie1","caption":"","creditText":"Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","name":"8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials"}}]}] ```