I think you've inadvertently highlighted a defining feature of this generation: in rebellion against the previous generations' "everyone is a special snowflake"

I think you've inadvertently highlighted a defining feature of this generation: in rebellion against the previous generations' "everyone is a special snowflake" message and influenced by the internet's equalizing/anonymizing effect, this generation is marked by a realization that we're not really special. Things that are happening to us have happened a million times before and will happen again. We can't all be whatever we want to be. And so on. It's simultaneously humble and cynical about our place in the world as individuals and our place in history as a people and the universe as a species.