How to Form Deeper Friendships, Why Does Gen Z Do 9/11 Memes?

Millennial: Pretend Adulting, Real Talk

• Welcome to #Millennial, the home of pretend adulting and nothing but love for Taylor Swift, Haitian migrants, and geese.
• Is your calendar the secret to fostering deeper friendships? The NYTimes (and Andrew) think so!
• It seems simple enough - a standing coffee date, joining a sports league or a book club. But why do so many of us struggle to make these commitments?
• We discuss some ways to make planning an event with a large group easier, like using a scheduling app for availability, instagram polls in DMs, or just making plans and inviting anyone who wants to come rather than trying to cater to a bunch of scheduling needs.
• If so many of us are lonely, why do we struggle so much to make friend dates happen?
• Laura has a Bumble BFF update for us, and a reminder that we should all be conscious of not wasting others' time!
• Apparently for certain Gen Z'ers, 9/11 has become a popular internet meme. WHY?
• People have been processing traumatic events with dark humor since the beginning of time, but why are these memes crossing a line?
• We chat about how weird it is that people just a few years younger than us don't remember 9/11 - and it's probably why it's easier for some to be desensitized to it.
• Do the annual memorials and replaying of the same footage over and over play a part in desensitizing us to the horrors of that day?
• Read. the. room.
• We've got some solid recommendations for y'all this week: Frank Turner's latest album 'Undefeated' (Laura), SpotHero (Pam), and Zero app (Andrew).

And in this week's installment of After Dark:

• Time to judge each other on our morning routines (or lack thereof).
• Andrew is not prioritizing enough time for HIMSELF in the mornings!
• Pam has the most durable, instagram-worthy morning routine.

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