Childless Millennials at Disney World

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Childless Millennials at Disney World refers to the reaction to an anonymous Facebook by a mother complaining about millennials at the Walt Disney World theme park in Orlando, Florida.

Origin

On July 19th, 2019, Twitter ^[1] user @JenKatWrites tweeted, "This is my new favorite wild mommy post. It’s me, the millennial slut who just goes to Disney World to make children cry." The tweet included a screenshot of a Facebook post that reads. The post received more than 70,000 likes and 17,000 retweets in ten days (shown below).

It pisses me off TO NO END!!!! when I see CHILDLESS COUPLES WITHOUT AT DISNEY WORLD!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 DW is a FAMILY amusement park!!!! yet these IMMATURE millennials THROW AWAY THEIR MONEY ON USELESS CRAP!!!!! They have NO idea the JOY and HAPPINESS it is to MOTHERS WHO BUYS THEIR BABIES TREATS AND TOYS!!!! THEY WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE EXHAUSTION THAT IT IS TO CHASE A 3 YEAR OLD AROUND AND GETTING STARES AT ASSUMING IM A BAD MOTHER!!! This whore in some very SLUTTY shorts was buying a Mickey pretzel and Aiden wanted one but the line was very long so I said later and it broke his poor little heart and he cried I WANTED TO TAKE THAT DAMN PRETZEL FROM THAT TRAMP LIKE THANKS BITCH YOU MARE MY SON CRY!!! 😡😡😡😡😡 DW is for CHILDREN!!! People without CHILDREN need to be BANNED!!!! Mothers with children should be allowed to skip ALL THE LINE!!!! YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT ITS LIKE TO HAVE TO STAND IN LINE FOR 3 HOURE WITH A CRANKY TIRED EXHAUSTED TODDLER!!!! AND I CANT JUST TELL HOM THAT WENCANT DO SOMETHING BECAUSE ITS HIS VACATION TOO!!! I fucking hate childless women with a BURNING PASSION!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Spread

People responded negatively to the post, by and large, disagreeing with the unnamed mother. Twitter^[2] user @robertbohl tweeted, "'I hate childless women' is 'I hate my choices and regret them.'" The tweet received more than 5,300 likes and 240 retweets in ten days (shown below, left).

On July 26th, the New York Post^[3] published an article entitled "Sorry, childless millennials going to Disney World is weird." The article argues, "Millennials are indeed in an unhealthy relationship with Disney, having granted control of so much of their leisure time and personality to a single, enormous corporate entity meant for children. Want to see a movie? Let’s go to the remake of 1994’s The Lion King or 1992’s Aladdin. Want to go on vacation? Sure, let’s jet off to the new Toy Story Land at Disney World, based on my favorite film from 1995."

Some disagreed with the article, responding that millennials are not having children because of economic factors, such as the 2008 financial crisis that occurred as they entered the workforce. Twitter^[4] user @iamnotatwit tweeted, "I wish millennials could afford to have kids and go to Disneyworld. Can't have both." Within three days, the tweet received more than 28,000 likes and 2,300 retweets (shown below, center).

That day, Twitter^[5] user @katiethehuman99 tweeted, "WALT’S👏🏻WHOLE👏🏻GOAL👏🏻WAS👏🏻TO👏🏻MAKE👏🏻THINGS👏🏻THAT👏🏻EVERYONE👏🏻COULD👏🏻ENJOY.👏🏻 maybe stop shaming people for enjoying a freaking theme park." Within three days, the tweet received more than 23,000 likes and 3,800 retweets (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the debate around and response to the article, including CBS,^[6] Fox News, ^[7] The Washington Post,^[8] Mashable ^[9] and more.

Additionally, Twitter^[10] published a Moments page on the debate.