The Brief: Memes featuring Wojak cartoons of Chad and a Trad Wife are highlighting the differences between what people's parents did at age 29 versus what they're doing at that age.

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“My parents at age 29” vs. “me at age 29” memes joke that millennials’ parents were much more responsible and stable at that age than they are today. These memes include cartoons of a Chad and Trad Wife character to represent the parents and Chad to represent “me.” The cartoons are the same ones featured in “boys vs. girls” wojak memes. Typically, these memes show people’s parents getting ready to have a baby at age 29 while their children do something much more immature, reckless, and/or misguided.

One particularly popular iteration of this meme by @fad_albert on Instagram shows someone’s parents planning to have a baby at age 29 whereas they decide to eat a random pill they found on the ground at that age.

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This Reddit meme of “my parents at age 27” features the drummer from vibing cat GIF memes:

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