Trending Instagram Account Tells Stories of Millennial City Life Through Cartoons

whatever it takes to GTS (this acct turned one this week! 🎉🎉#crawlingnotyetwalking)

"Unit to base. No reinforcements needed. Cancel EMS. It's just a group of Caucasian females watching [The Bachelor]. Allegedly one of the callers was looking at some creepy messages from a male on 'Tinder.' Caller states that she is simply literally dying and not actually dying. Sobriety test indicates that these females are all intoxicated from wine. 10-4, leaving this location to respond to call for a fire mixtape. Suspected arson." -- RIP @trevso_electric your captions were always 🔥🔥🔥 (#trevsotuesday #trevtuesday)

real talk, amirite? (collaboration with @tank.sinatra)

it's 5pm do you know where your wine is? #wednesdays

wishing you all a fantastic start to the new year! #2016

I've teamed up with my friends at @lokelyapp for a series of cartoons about how locals and tourists experience the same places differently. Be sure to give @lokelyapp a follow and check out their app!

hit 10k followers this week! thank you to everyone for your support!! (#tbt to the first cartoon on this account)

if you're going out this dress code should be strictly enforced #athleisure 💁🏻

New York City has seen its fair share of innovative City-centric Instagram accounts. From @GuessNewYorkCity's gallery of guessable City street art (sans locations) to @hotdudesreading's collection of attractive men reading books on the Subway, us New Yorkers have gotten to see the City through many different lenses.

The newest Instagram account to take off, however, doesn't even make use of a camera. Instead, Brooklyn Cartoons chooses to capture City life through a series of black and white drawings à la The New Yorker, which are shared with its nearly 25,000 followers almost daily.

Many of the cartoons feature irony and dry humor as their main narrative tools, sharply capitalizing on the ridiculousness of twenty-something City life--but all in good fun. Excessive smartphone use, Tinder, Uber, The Bachelor, and millennial existentialism are only a few of the topics that are frequently touched on by artist Emmet Truxes. Browse the gallery above to get a glimpse of his work, but be prepared to cringe as he "holds up the mirror to generation why".

Maggie Jeffers

Contributing Writer

Maggie is a recent graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in English and learned that she has no tolerance for the Poughkeepsie cold. She loves all things related to food, TV, movies, and music, and enjoys playing the violin and surfing the web in her spare time.

Posts by Maggie Jeffers

Something wrong with this post? Let us know!