Millennial culture has officially made it to the history books.
A history teacher recently turned her sixth grade classroom into a museum for millennial paraphernalia with the help of her Gen Alpha students' parents. Judging by the comments on the teacher's TikTok video, millennials aren't sure whether to be thrilled or horrified.
Malinda Nichols (@hipsterhistorywithmrsn) posted the video earlier this month, highlighting "historical artifacts from the 1990s" for her students' benefit. Out on display were flip phones, Nintendos, and disposable cameras. Boyz II Men and Beanie Babies also made an appearance. "The collection in here has easily got to be worth 10s of dollars," she joked. "But the nostalgic value is truly priceless."
In a second video, with almost 800,000 views on TikTok, she showed the students' reactions to the "museum of the millennial," as she called it. Students played POGS, a popular playground game played with flat circular cardboard milk caps, and attempted to figure out how buttons worked on an old-school Nokia.