Selfie and wealth display marked millennials as a narcissistic generation.

Evidence

In this posture toward the world, both LeBron and Ronaldo faced the same label often applied to the entire millennial generation: narcissist. The 2013 Time cover story on millennials had declared, “The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s now 65 or older.” Critics like Jeffrey Kluger lamented that millennials were displaying narcissism “on a pandemic level,” with the selfie becoming the definitive emblem of their self-obsession. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 334

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to archive of moral panics over ‘immodesty’ and generational self-obsession across eras.