As a Millennial who attends the TLM (almost exclusively) these discussions always amuse me. It seems like every couple of weeks some Catholic internet liturgical hotshot writes up a piece about the supposed traditionalist springtime that should be coming to the Church any day now due to the influx of young people to the traditional liturgy. This is then countered by an alternative narrative about the youth not wanting tired old liturgies in a dead language, or some other such criticism. What seems to be lacking in both cases is actual (name removed by moderator)ut from the very young people who are the object of these discussions. I mean, I haven’t seen a single one of these articles actually interview people of my generation to figure out what it is that attracts us to the TLM (or doesn’t attract us, if that’s the conclusion you’re looking for).
Instead, these older “experts” make the observation that some 20s/30s are present at the TLM and they therefore must love Latin, embrace everything “traditional” under the sun, and must be actively rebelling against the liturgical reforms post-V2. Alternatively it is observed that the vast majority of young adults are still more than content with the OF, and so they must be graduates of Lifeteen, love guitars and drums in the liturgy, and don’t have much tolerance for more traditional forms of spiritual discipline. Both sides then draw causal relationships from correlative data about seminarians in traditionalist orders on one hand, and about the mass exodus from the Church of youth in general on the other hand. To be brutally honest, from my point of view it’s just two different groups of geriatrics trying to “claim us” for their own “team” without any concern for which team we want to be a part of, or if we even want to play along with this stupid liturgical pissing contest.
Would it kill ya to, I dunno, have an exit poll of TLMs? Ask us “young people flocking to the TLM” what we think? I know that all any of us here have in this argument are anecdotes, but my own experience (again as a 29 year old TLM attendee with a cohort of friends close to my age who also attend the TLM) is quite different from what I’ve read in any of these articles in Catholic media and from their subsequent threads here on CAF through which I’ve lurked.
If I could’ve written a novel over take calculus I’d have done it. LOL. 
