When I think of depressing case studies in how badly millennials have it compared to past generations, hannah hays and terry davis are two that stand out. Not because of what they represent, but because they both were people who were failed and unsupported by the ‘system’, yet had pretty active groups of people who would have supported them had they been able.
I’m fuzzy on the timeline of Hays, but my understanding is that she was discovered as a poor, unfortunately brain-damaged woman online before being shoved into porn by the usual suspects. Terry lived off the dole, slowly getting worse until he was homeless (and possibly murdered by trolls).
In either case, in ages past there would have been more than a few well-off, lucky people in that fanbase totally happy to provide for them. There would have been a dude willing to put terry up in his backyard cottage as a patron of the arts, another would have flown hannah out to be his darling lil’ retard-wife while he manages a chain of honda dealerships.
Instead, millennials have been struggling to survive, with no overhead to care for anyone else. See? Depressing.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/bfda7147-12b2-42e2-a7ee-9bc62c7c773a