The blog-turned-book Humans of New York has been an easy target for parody since it began five years ago. Founder Brandon Stanton's photographs of New York City dwellers, paired with inspirational anecdotes from each subject, have garnered similarly formatted satirizations replacing "humans" with everything from photoshopped lizard people to orcs.
Finally, one parody account that pokes fun at the demographic everyone loves to hate, millennials, has risen - and it might be the most popular to date.
With an accumulated 257,116 Facebook likes, Millennials of New York takes the less-flattering attributes that many have come to associate with Generation Y (a Pew study conducted in 2015 found that milennials themselves even worry that they are "cynical," "self-absorbed," "greedy" and "wasteful," not to mention tech-obsessed) and ups the ante in a way that is both hilarious and clever.
Nothing is kept sacred and no one is safe: accountants who call "[collecting] old receipts and add up all the prices" performance art, people who go on juice cleanses, and the phrase "Netflix and chill" are all opportune targets for MONY's rip-roaring humor.
"Ever since 'The Colbert Report' ended and Jon Stewart left 'The Daily Show,' my grasp on American politics has really...
Posted by Millennials of New York on Thursday, November 12, 2015
"My doctor said I need to stop smoking if I want to lower my risk of cancer. I told him he might want to go back to med school. I’m a Sagittarius. Everyone knows we’re not compatible."
Posted by Millennials of New York on Friday, January 22, 2016
“So what kind of artist are you?”“Well, right now I’m working on this performance piece about capitalism where I collect old receipts and add up all the prices.”“So you’re an accountant?”“Yes.”
Posted by Millennials of New York on Friday, January 15, 2016
“If I could live in any decade, it would definitely be the 60’s…"
Posted by Millennials of New York on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
“Whole Foods is the best. It’s incredible. I can get avocados from Mexico, salmon from Alaska, pasta from Tuscany, and pretentious people from the seventh circle of Hell."
Posted by Millennials of New York on Friday, December 4, 2015
Meet the Man Who Isn't Afraid To Call Himself a Feminist"I'm a feminist and I don't care who knows it..."
Posted by Millennials of New York on Wednesday, February 3, 2016
From a girl who describes her cocaine addiction entirely in coffee euphemisms, to the guy who isn't afraid to call himself a feminist, to another woman who lies about living in "a basement apartment in Bushwick with four Bulgarian DJs" to appease her parents because they're worried she'll get decapitated otherwise, this millennial take on the HONY parody is something that everyone, New Yorkers or not, can get behind.
Source: Facebook
