They were only ever interested in coming across as aloof, cynical, counter culture contrarians. Hipsters, very much in the way we stereotypically used that word in the mid-aughts. A tendency that most other millennials of that era grew out of by the time Obama took office. My freshman year roommate was exactly like her, he even had the same face and same smarmy, snide drawl as her, too-cool cynicism masking an untethered, dispossesed alienation. Like it’s almost triggering watching her talk because I see right through her to him. But, even he grew out of that phase eventually.