'Gilmore Girls' Fans Are Making Milo Ventimiglia Feel Old as Dirt

Time is a cold, unrelenting woodchipper that comes for us all. Even weirdo billionaires pumped to the gills with the blood of their sons aren’t safe. You are going to age and you are going to age droopily, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Milo Ventimiglia has been feeling the harsh sting of time thanks to Gen Z discovering Gilmore Girls. I have a 14-year-old daughter who likes to call me “Grandpa” and look at me funny pretty much any time I talk, so I feel this man’s pain at interacting with the youth of today. They’re awful, and quite frankly, I don’t know why we keep making more of them.

Here’s what he told Us Weekly about the viral TikTok where Jess berates Rory for dropping out of Yale. Apparently, kids are really into that clip? Hey, I just mind my business and eat my sandwiches. That’s my motto.

“That decision for higher education, I think that’s great. I feel like for a period of time there was a moment where everybody wanted to be a DJ and an influencer, and now it’s like, Oh. No. Maybe they want to go to school and maybe they want to learn something that will take them a little further.”

“It’s funny when 14-year-olds walk up to me, they’re like, ‘You don’t look like Jess, but you look like Jess,’” Ventimiglia continued. “I’m like, ‘Well, that was 25 years ago! … It was a long time ago.”

“You don’t look like Jess, but you look like Jess.” Maybe I’m a vain b*st*rd who remembers being so young and alive in college — Why did you do this to me, God?!? — but if someone said that to me, I would lay down in traffic.

Except, oh wait, someone does say that to me almost every single day, and I reward them with Starbucks. Is this the Bad Place? Did I die? Be honest with me.