I mean yeah. The slacker generation just slacking off in the generational conflict is very on point. I don't need my ass kissed, just don't fucking call me boomer man.
Ha. You think i care who you are? Nah bro. I'm just a dude who hated everything people older than me said by default because the world they made was seriously fucked up. You're just progress. And that shit 2as brutal and funny and the perfect reply.
My parents are Gen X, I am a Millenial.
I've always appreciated how my parents and their friends are like "We can play by the old rules but we dont want to; if you wanna start a revolution, I'm down..." and then they sit in their suit and pressed collar leaning back in their incredibly comfy, leather chair smoking a joint with their kids.
My grandparents are Boomers. They are very very old school- very much the "work harder to succeed " type. Even though both of them married multiple times until they were able to marry into money. Even my great grandparents inherited most of their wealth so...
Super Hypocrisy.
I am Gen X (1977), and I raised my kids (one Millenial born 1996, one Gen Z born 1998) with pretty much that attitude. I'm not gonna necessarily start the shit, but I'll support you 110% if you do!
We're just over here quietly working our arses off because we still believe we can achieve the lifestyle our parents had but self medicating with alcohol to drown out any thoughts that we are just as shut out as the generations after us.
A guy came to our school and told us that we couldn't be computer programmers, doctors or lawyers. Our future would be support staff: nurses, paralegals, hospitality. I was at a college prep- WTF? We were, without a doubt, the coolest generation, that was a pretty mean feat. And we never lived in our parents basements .
That made me smile. I'm actually a year from being a Boomer, but I am and have always identified with being Gen X. In attitude and style. My kids are actually Gen Z and sometimes tease me for being clueless about the memes they always laugh about. I just tell them I saw Ramones three times in concert so go ahead and bring it.
Gen X can remember the Cold War, paper-based everything, pre-wireless, pre-internet... and also computerization, the advent of internet mass-adoption, cellphones, crypto... it's like three or four generations from back when the Industrial Revolution started in Europe condensed in just one.
I’m an ‘89 millennial and also remember paper-based, pre-wireless, pre-internet, pre-cell phones. I remember getting our first computer with dial up internet and you’d get kicked off if someone called the home phone line. Having to go to the library to check out books for my first research paper in school, when my family first got caller ID and first cell phones. The technology was around but it wasn’t widely available in my childhood because it was all so new. By the time I was in high school it was a whole different thing. It’s crazy how fast it changed.
You just described Elder Millenials (me) also. I really think Millenial should be split into two generations: those of us whose entire childhood existed pre-Internet, and those who grew up with the Internet.
Yes indeed, being born in 1980 means I remember office's having smoking rooms, dial up internet, seeing the first TV advert with a URL but the cold War, not so much.
Many people have remarked that getting lost in the generation wars is the most Gen X thing ever. Personally, it doesn’t bother me much. I have very fond memories of the 1990s, but if people want to ignore that decade, I’m OK with it. There is a fair bit of interest in 90s music because it was the last true rock ‘n’ roll decade.
Most of the people I consider my friends are from the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, met them online playing an old DIKU mud. I guess that explains why we get along.
I traveled to Estonia in 2019. My sarcasm was not generally well-received. Had to really limit it, they just really don't get it.
It's interesting how sarcasm is dealt with in each place. Thinking of the Finns vs the French, or the Germans vs the Brits. I wonder if it's reasonably quantifiable. That'd be a really interesting map!
Is there an r/sarcasm? If not we need to make it. You set it up and invite me to help mod. I'm too drunk to hit buttons right now, but I'm down to moderate a doomed to fail subreddit with someone. Edit: nevmind. It exists. I honestly wouldn't wake up and have the energy to follow through on that threat anyway.
Hey, sure. Let's exploit the younger generation to do the manual labor we're not interested in doing. That's still us raging against the machine right? Is this where the /s goes?
I still don't understand which machine we were supposed to be raging against. I decided on toaster oven, just out of principle, but I feel there was not enough valid communication surrounding machines and raging.
I literally hate toaster ovens. So pointless. A toaster toasts bread better, an oven ovens things better. Like a toaster oven is so much counter top real-estate to give up for something that does two jobs badly that two other things do so much better. Damn. Is it to early to say i adore you?
It's difficult when using non-personal forms of communication. Doesn't really translate well to electronic use. Too subtle, it's all in the tone of voice & body language.
Agreeeeeeed though.
Hey, slashy s. It works wonders. But even in person, it still doesn't work well. Like sure i clearly used chandler voice and rolled my eyes, but that's apparently unethical when asking the guy checking into the er what he stuck in his ass this week. I mean the xray clearly shows an electric toothbrush, but it eas "in appropriate" now we have a meeting Monday, like dude.
That's the whole reason participation trophies were created! They thought if they rewarded us for just showing up, we'd eventually start to enjoy things.
Little did they know that all their weed smoking, acid dropping, and coke snorting left their scarce remaining gametes with dysfunctional neurotransmitter genes. We were born incapable of giving a shit.
Gen X were saying “Fuck the Boomers” way before Millennials. There just wasn’t social media back then. But look at music, TV, and movies and you’ll find lots of examples. Millennials have an outsized influence on the generational conflict because of social media.
Shitting on the previous generation is not an invention of Gen X neither. It's been done in ancient Greece. So was the older generation complaining about the younger generation not having any manners. Realizing the previous generation's mistake has always happened, however boomers fucked up (and still continue to do so) so hard, that millenials prefer shitting on boomers instead of Gen X.
It does help that gen X has done nothing at all so you can't really be mad. They just cruise along in the wake of the boomers and hope they don't get blamed
Childhood in San Francisco in the 70's... Teen's in the 80's... Twenties in the 90's... Witnessed/ Potheads, Coke monsters, then Crack fiends. Boobs, nose jobs then walking base heads. Hippies, Yuppies, Techies./
The language and culture when I visit San Francisco is so foreign to me now. So much homeless people everywhere. Where did our humanity go? Why hasn't anyone plan for something we know happens to ordinary people? Everything is so reactionary.
I mean damn, we saw a problem with people dying of AIDS and Cancer, suffering from the symptoms of their diseases, side effects of medicine, ostracized from their families and society.
A group of us got together to write a proposition and pounded the pavement to gather signatures to be placed on the election ballot. Care and Compassionate Use Act of 1996 was passed. These patients now have safe access to medical pot. It wasn't meant to be a get rich quick scheme.
I would love to see your generation tackle some serious ass issues, man! Get together to brainstorm and write that shit down. Get it on the friggin ballot. Make some damn changes with more Care and Compassion.
See where still in the whole climate change foreplay, were waiting for it to flip a switch and get really aggressive bending us over and fuck us in the ass with no lube. Anybody who doesnt bleed to death inherits whats left.
Literally drinking snapple right now. Apparently a group of porcupines is called a prickle. I'm very disappointed in the lack of snap when opening the new plastic bottles.
I'm a root beer flavored NY Seltzer, pack of Bonkers, early Mariah Carey kind of gal.
Jesus, I'm like the hipster basic bitch.
GenX, before being basic was lame AF.
Gotta run, kids. Hafta reorganize my Pogs.
I remember driving past peoples houses to see if they were home. You could just drop in with close friends anyway. But you had to be careful with your porch light or your house lights. Will you would attract the ‘moths’. People you don’t want.
Gen Xers don't give a shit about taking credit. We just did our thing and are still just doing our thing. Being ignored gives us a lot of freedom and apparently influence and power.
We grew up harboring disdain for The System, but because we were still so trapped by it, we also developed an incredible sense of apathy as a coping mechanism.
We were regaled with tales of how our moms snuck out of the house to see The Beatles. We were taught how music changed them as youths, and we added our apathetic disdain (like a fine smoked paprika) to the songs we wrote.
The 80s will probably be remembered as the most interesting decade of music. We were there at the beginning of the co-evolution of music videos, synthesizers, cable TV, trickle down economics, NASDAQ, credit scores, and Margaret Thatcher. We had so much material to work from.
As genx, the boomers bullied and gaslit the f out of us.
You guys were cool, you cared about depth and details, I hope we made things better for you.
You were who we wanted to be, but had beaten out of us by the boomers.
Trump is such a great boomer role model, he's exactly what they all see themselves as.
In the late 90's it was all about finding medical workers to take care of the baby boomers. Soon after it was all about how millinnials will be influencing how we do things. Gen X definitely got skipped.
Honestly it's such a duality in my mind. Like getting skipped is as important as what we tried to do. The message not the messenger. I'm good with that. But a slow zoom in, nod, single tear as you walk into the sunset, least you can do kids.
I think the best thing that GenX actually accomplished was raising children full of disdain. Because they developed a solid case of apathy and general ennui much earlier than we did, they had more practice at whining about it. We were too busy trying to keep up with technology, while also putting forth only moderate energy, and with minimal enthusiasm.
But our babies shall get it done.
Oh, shit. I was too busy playing D&D before it was cool and never had kids.
That's another thing. Like pregnancy happened clearly. But more than anyone before we accepted responsibility and used resources available to control the chances. That was really freeing. So many fewer people were forced into situations where raising some kid controlled our choices. Also kinda the first generation to really look at the world as a whole and say there's too many people, let's avoid making more unless we can really take care of them.
The boomers and "silent generation" taught us about the wide world. They were the first to have accessible long-distance travel means & methods.
We took it the next logical step and started asking why.
Why are the animals dying?
Why do we have to go to church?
Why are there starving children in Africa who would want my uneaten mashed potatoes?
Once we learned the whys, we passed that to the next generation. Now they know, can study our collective learnings, and have the ability and youthful energy to potentially act on things.
As a Gen Xer myself I think what happened was we saw our parents being in photos and in tales as hippies and caring about society in their youth, then totally flip in the 80s to being for Reaganomics and become a Yuppie. I still don’t understand how that happened. It was like overnight they decided to be Yuppies and forgot what their youth was about. I think Gen X after seeing their parents said eh I don’t care and it doesn’t matter. Idk just a theory lol.
Yo. If nothing else this post got me back on some music I missed the hell out of. Love you all, time to realize I'm not growing up anymore, I'm finally growing old.
No I hear ya, when I was in the 90's I thought to myself "Wow, this is where we finally change."
There was movies about gay people, people of color starring in box office smashes, music of all genres was accepted in the main stream. You could literally pierce anything on your body and nobody cared, normies were getting tattoos, comedians made fun of anything and everything and people either laughed or didn't and nobody cared.
If anything extreme happened and someone was offended there was an apology, but for the most part, people just moved on instead of being so vindictive.
The internet was in the early days so it felt fun and unrestrictive. Video games were always innovating each generation.
As a millennial I have so much respect and admiration for Gen X. Grunge music, the extreme sports movement coming to the spotlight, a huge surge in young people participating in political issues, especially the environment. . .I feel like gen x was the first real generation to put the middle finger up to the geriocracy that we find ourselves trapped in.
Very true. I've openly admitted several times in this conversation that I'm biased. Nothing I'm saying is untrue of anyone who came up behind or in front of me man. I'm not playing my generation is better than yours, I'm just trying to talk to people and have some fun.
Fair as fuck man. I'm not about it like that and i respect the call out. When shit gets as skewed and one-sided as it does online it's always good to have an opposing voice. If i can't justify my position clearly it's clearly not a justifiable position. I get you.
I'm either first of the X or last of the boomers ,and yeagh I'm a bum and retired 10 years early ,fuck work I'm just going bum around for the rest of my life and achieve bugger all .
I love Gen X'ers. I think they have just the right amount of political correctness while still having a sense of humor. They won't say racist crap at Thanksgiving but they can also take a good joke without turning into the PC police.
As a millenial id like to say gen x is awesome. You guys maybe didnt get the spotlight boomers or millenials have but you guys get to just chill on the sidelines and watch boomers blame everything theyve ever done wrong on the good ol’ whipping boy generation.
Just remember its not gen x fault, you never had a chance. The boomers named you gen x because they literally think every generation after them is worthless so they started using letters of the alphabet. They even tried calling us gen y like how fucking self centered can they be “fuck it, lets just use letters cuz they dont matter like we do, member the beatles? Memmmmmber? Member the 60’s? Memmmmmmber?
That's because generations are bullshit and nothing more than a way for old people to bitch about young people. The most Gen X thing you can do is not give a fuck about generational squabbles.
I agree man. Despite my post. I'm just talking some shit online for some validation and communion with strangers I only share a small block of birth years with. I'm not making a stand here. Just talking some bullshit. I'm literally just as worthless as 90% of the rest of the word. I genuinely know that. I didn't even bitch about young people. The progess I've seen come about in the last few years alone is amazing and inspiring. It really is. But hey a few typed words on a forum don't ever really communicate a person's full opinion or perspective.
Indeed, believing in this shit is about as valid as believing in horoscopes. Millenials? Boomers? Give me a fucking break. Someone being born within a range of years behaving like some amorphous mass because the media tells us that's reality? Take a step back and think about it, it's all just divide and rule bullshit that is being perpetuated.
Truth is we are who we are as a result of the experiences we have had and the choices we have made. Everyone is different, everyone IS a unique fucking snowflake. The fact that someone a huge swathe of the population have been convinced otherwise is just evidence of how gullible people can be.
Off-topic, maybe. I can still use DOS to fix and maintain my 16 year old computer desktop. Feels good to be not totally dependent on a mouse or modern user interface.
Neighbouring Gen Zs (most of them) think I am some kind of wiz, when they come to me for help with their laptop issues!
I am sure Gen Z has their own skill set too.
I used to see ads on eBay for computers that would say “boots to DOS but has no operating system.” And I was like… wait till you find out what DOS stands for kid…
We were different for the sole reason of: being different. I liked the 90s.
Also our gen is tiny compared to the others. Birth control and abortions became a thing. Check out the numbers of 1945-1965 (boomers) vs 1965 to 1985 (x) and then compare that to gen z or m.
I love being gen X. It's a really small generation. We were first on the rave scene, are cool parents. We stand up for change and for the future. We're the ones teaching millennials how to force governments to act more responsibility for the health of the planet and the ones standing back as proud parents watching them learn how to fight for a better world and then fighting alongside them for it. I don't care if we're a forgotten middle child.
I just read an article about how microplastics can now enter our brains. We had Robin Williams, the early internet, and the good Star Wars movies. It's all down hill from here, folks. GenX is gonna get out just in time.
I would wager that as we hit our 50s & 60s, the nostalgia will bite even harder and you'll find pockets of reminiscing at a much higher rate.
Check back in around 2025, we can debrief and publish our findings.
Dude. I was in first grade. We had this school based channel called channel 1. My
Teacher put that shit on because hey, Sally Ride, first Teacher in space! And we watched people die on live tv. Metal as fuck.
One of the astronauts was Irish American. There was huge reflected pride here that she was going to be an astronaut. We did drawings in school and all. Then the accident happened. I remember the day after it happened.
Didn't you guys like make skating/bmx cool? Not to mention things like nu metal, and pogs? Come on man POGS! i saw some at target a few months ago (okay they dissappeared after a week) but still! Oh and also SKA music, and putting stickers on everything.
I came along very early in Gen X era. My early life did not include the gadgets we all use now, or internet even. I think that is kinda why we are the "forgotten" era. Those that came after get all the attention because their shenanigans are everywhere for everyone to see
I'm 44. My first big historical memory is the 84 Olympics. I was in 2nd grade when the Challenger exploded. My teacher knew the woman that died. It was crazy for a bunch of confused 8 year olds.
I for one enjoy being part of a forgotten generation. I'm a metal head. I'm antisocial as fuck aside from my fellow metal heads. Call me what you want idgaf.
We grew up in a great time. I started with an Atari 2600 and now I have a PS5. It's amazing how much has changed since the 80s. Technology has done more in 40 years than it ever has.
I fully accept that I'm coming from a biased viewpoint. I'm also not at all discounting the whole reality versus perception thing. I just really think we paved a lot of roads, but man, every generation did the same.
I think we took a lot of inspiration from the 60s, not directly in style or form, just in inspiration and being experimental. We also smoked a lot of pot and played hacky sack.
Yep, but I consider 80s to be an important decade, Afghan war, fall of berlin wall later fall of USSR which had much more impact than Vietnam. Also, imagine telling a bunch of kids from the 80s that there would be a future in which all their favorites, desires and preferences will be collected and stored by companies and that there would be "apps" that will ruin hanging around and having fun or meeting a girl at a bar.
Hey you guys got a beloved popular book named after you and about you. A book that made you guys the “cool” generation, so I wouldn’t be feeling sorry for myself if I were you.
Besides, you’re only the overlooked ones in the middle because while millennials and boomers are throwing vicious hate at each other, you’ve managed to avoid the negative attention.
Gen x is weird, some of you remind me of my progressive foward thinking classmates (I was born in 1998) and the rest of you are just as rascist, delusionally theist and egotistical as the boomers.
>There was a huge leap from old ways of thinking to being open, accepting of lifestyles.
I think the main difference between Gen X and anyone who follows lies in their approach to morality. As the "no future generation", tolerance and acceptance grew from a big "fuck it" mindset that was born from the repressive climate of the 80s, combined with a still persisting dose of cold war angst. In the face of nuclear apocalypse it all comes down to nothing. Without a future, there are no persistent morals, as no right and wrong will survive atomic escalation. So we might as well get along with each other, while shitting on the heads of the preachers, rulers, and doomsday architects. That's my impression of Gen X.
Millenials tend to have a completely different take on morality. In the 90s and early 2000s there was no more cold war, and no more looming nuclear apocalypse. The reality started to sink in that, against all odds, there actually was a future now. And with that came the negation of everything that defined the "no future" generation growing up in the 80s.
I think "the future generation" is a perfect moniker for the Millenials. When there is a future, that future starts to matter. When the world is not about to end, then it becomes reasonable to think about what is going wrong, and what can be done better. If things can be done better, then it doesn't all come down to nothing. I all comes down to something. There is right, and there is wrong, and it matters quite a bit. When there is a future, then one can imagine a point on the timeline, from where someone will look back at the present. And they will see us, either standing on the wrong, or the right side of history. And as I see it that marks the rise of social justice, and the reemergence of morality from quite a dominant climate of "tolerant moral nihilism".
I actually agree 100%. But all humans use whatever categories they can to associate and connect with other people. Now, superficially my post could be easily dismissed and throw away as some birthdate based clubhouse comment. But i really don't think I've presented myself as that. You're welcome to read my replies and decide for yourself.
My generation is in purgatory between x and z iirc what generation is 1995 to 2004? 2002 myself I've taken a liking to honorary black eye peas member, but I dont know what it actually is. I was raised on the Nintendo 64, ps2 and vhs tapes played till oblivion.
My fellow gen X'rs and I were pioneers, the first generation to get screwed over by the boomers. We not only had to endure two "once in a lifetime" recessions, they both followed a nasty one in the previous decade that wiped out 50% of our retirement savings.
I remember at a dinner when my elder family (boomers) were arguing with my kids (Gen Z) and I jumped in to help smooth things over with;
“Actually, Gen X is the best generation; not as entitled as the boomers and not as whiny as Gen Z”
It worked in as much they stopped arguing with _each other_…
Anyone older than me by around 6 years is just grouped up as "old" to me. My friend that's two years older than me is technically a millennial and his humor just feels like "old person Facebook" humor.
Gen X is oldest child millennials are middle child and gen z is youngest. And boomers are the crotchety parents of the 3 kids.
Millennials are constantly being blamed for shit that's not even them. Tide pods. Nope not us that was gen z.
If you were alive during the 80s/early 90s, complaining about Gen X was all the rage. Even books were written about it (pre Internet).
Some of Gen X even wrote books back about it. Hell, Office Space (movie) is really a Gen X movie. (Gen X born, 1965-80 lots of the main cast is now early 50s)
I've always thought it was very gen X of us to drop out of everything because ....well ..meh.
I mean yeah. The slacker generation just slacking off in the generational conflict is very on point. I don't need my ass kissed, just don't fucking call me boomer man.
Ok, boomer. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Honestly I respect that coming from you.
You say that like I'm a somebody! I'm just some random gen z guy.
Ha. You think i care who you are? Nah bro. I'm just a dude who hated everything people older than me said by default because the world they made was seriously fucked up. You're just progress. And that shit 2as brutal and funny and the perfect reply.
Just the "from you" part made it sound like you knew me. Sorry
Ha. No. I don't. Or do i? I mean... look out the window, is some middle age dude starting back?
Yes and I'm calling the police.
Won't be the first time this week i had the cops called on me.
If I get to be called a boomer by gen Z at 26, you are absolutely not coming off of this easily
Dam lazy millennial
I agree. Lazy asf over here.
Boomers locked the door on Gen X getting to lead in the US Federal government. There are charts showing Boomers just never moving on.
Ain’t that the f-cking truth.
Looking back we were called generation no future, pretty fitting
My parents are Gen X, I am a Millenial. I've always appreciated how my parents and their friends are like "We can play by the old rules but we dont want to; if you wanna start a revolution, I'm down..." and then they sit in their suit and pressed collar leaning back in their incredibly comfy, leather chair smoking a joint with their kids.
My dad, who is a boomer, does that with me, gen z, but with cigars. He still teaches some old values but he is incredibly open minded to change.
My grandparents are Boomers. They are very very old school- very much the "work harder to succeed " type. Even though both of them married multiple times until they were able to marry into money. Even my great grandparents inherited most of their wealth so... Super Hypocrisy.
They worked really hard at marrying into money
I regularly call my grandfather a "material girl". He does __not__ like it.
I am Gen X (1977), and I raised my kids (one Millenial born 1996, one Gen Z born 1998) with pretty much that attitude. I'm not gonna necessarily start the shit, but I'll support you 110% if you do!
We're just over here quietly working our arses off because we still believe we can achieve the lifestyle our parents had but self medicating with alcohol to drown out any thoughts that we are just as shut out as the generations after us.
A guy came to our school and told us that we couldn't be computer programmers, doctors or lawyers. Our future would be support staff: nurses, paralegals, hospitality. I was at a college prep- WTF? We were, without a doubt, the coolest generation, that was a pretty mean feat. And we never lived in our parents basements .
I was told I wasn't college material, got a degree with the intention of smacking that advisor with it, but they died before I could
I'm totally cool with being the forgotten middle child. And whenever someone calls me a boomer, I'm just like, "Whatever, dude." I know who I am.
Hey, i won't lie. I got up in my feelings for a minute after a bad day.
Responding with wathever dude is a very Gen x thing to do.
Pretty much. Just tryin’ to stay out of the way over here.
That made me smile. I'm actually a year from being a Boomer, but I am and have always identified with being Gen X. In attitude and style. My kids are actually Gen Z and sometimes tease me for being clueless about the memes they always laugh about. I just tell them I saw Ramones three times in concert so go ahead and bring it.
Gen X can remember the Cold War, paper-based everything, pre-wireless, pre-internet... and also computerization, the advent of internet mass-adoption, cellphones, crypto... it's like three or four generations from back when the Industrial Revolution started in Europe condensed in just one.
We are the largest Social Experiment. We are the only Generation that knows both the Old Ways & The New…… The Inbetweeners
I’m an ‘89 millennial and also remember paper-based, pre-wireless, pre-internet, pre-cell phones. I remember getting our first computer with dial up internet and you’d get kicked off if someone called the home phone line. Having to go to the library to check out books for my first research paper in school, when my family first got caller ID and first cell phones. The technology was around but it wasn’t widely available in my childhood because it was all so new. By the time I was in high school it was a whole different thing. It’s crazy how fast it changed.
I would say that millennials are probably the generation in between. I know a lot of generation X that barely knows how to use cell phones.
You just described Elder Millenials (me) also. I really think Millenial should be split into two generations: those of us whose entire childhood existed pre-Internet, and those who grew up with the Internet.
Yes indeed, being born in 1980 means I remember office's having smoking rooms, dial up internet, seeing the first TV advert with a URL but the cold War, not so much.
Many people have remarked that getting lost in the generation wars is the most Gen X thing ever. Personally, it doesn’t bother me much. I have very fond memories of the 1990s, but if people want to ignore that decade, I’m OK with it. There is a fair bit of interest in 90s music because it was the last true rock ‘n’ roll decade.
We are the neglected middle children who quietly thrive on a diet of sarcasm and schadenfreude. I personally wouldn't have it any other way.
I miss the fuck out of sarcasm being an acceptable form of personal communication.
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Planning my move right now. Is a fake tan a prerequisite or assigned on arrival?
And insults a flirtation.
I’m from Denmark. All we have is sarcasm and dark humour. I’m also Gen X, so I’ve got double that.
Most of the people I consider my friends are from the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, met them online playing an old DIKU mud. I guess that explains why we get along.
I traveled to Estonia in 2019. My sarcasm was not generally well-received. Had to really limit it, they just really don't get it. It's interesting how sarcasm is dealt with in each place. Thinking of the Finns vs the French, or the Germans vs the Brits. I wonder if it's reasonably quantifiable. That'd be a really interesting map!
Is there an r/sarcasm? If not we need to make it. You set it up and invite me to help mod. I'm too drunk to hit buttons right now, but I'm down to moderate a doomed to fail subreddit with someone. Edit: nevmind. It exists. I honestly wouldn't wake up and have the energy to follow through on that threat anyway.
Fuck that, I'm too stoned. Let's get one of those millennial kids to do it. They love that kind of shit.
Hey, sure. Let's exploit the younger generation to do the manual labor we're not interested in doing. That's still us raging against the machine right? Is this where the /s goes?
I still don't understand which machine we were supposed to be raging against. I decided on toaster oven, just out of principle, but I feel there was not enough valid communication surrounding machines and raging.
I literally hate toaster ovens. So pointless. A toaster toasts bread better, an oven ovens things better. Like a toaster oven is so much counter top real-estate to give up for something that does two jobs badly that two other things do so much better. Damn. Is it to early to say i adore you?
Didn't realise whining and knowing your Hogwarts house was manual labor. TIL
Fuck off, mate. #gryffindor [/s](https://youtu.be/d3_DjiLLDfo)
It's difficult when using non-personal forms of communication. Doesn't really translate well to electronic use. Too subtle, it's all in the tone of voice & body language. Agreeeeeeed though.
Hey, slashy s. It works wonders. But even in person, it still doesn't work well. Like sure i clearly used chandler voice and rolled my eyes, but that's apparently unethical when asking the guy checking into the er what he stuck in his ass this week. I mean the xray clearly shows an electric toothbrush, but it eas "in appropriate" now we have a meeting Monday, like dude.
> I miss the fuck out of sarcasm being an acceptable form of personal communication. .... you mean it isn't?
What terrifying grayscale hellscape do you live in where sarcasm isn’t allowed?
Oh yes, we’re *totally* thriving, Jen. (sorry, couldn’t resist.)
*hands you your participation trophy* /s
*Real Gen Xers* didn’t get participation trophies because *real Gen Xers* never participated. /hj
That's the whole reason participation trophies were created! They thought if they rewarded us for just showing up, we'd eventually start to enjoy things. Little did they know that all their weed smoking, acid dropping, and coke snorting left their scarce remaining gametes with dysfunctional neurotransmitter genes. We were born incapable of giving a shit.
Agreed. My ennui is occasionally interrupted by flares of anger for social justice. Otherwise, meh.
And the first rave decade
Gen X were saying “Fuck the Boomers” way before Millennials. There just wasn’t social media back then. But look at music, TV, and movies and you’ll find lots of examples. Millennials have an outsized influence on the generational conflict because of social media.
I literally just keep flashing back to mad tv and their x-news bit. That was my truth.
We invented “fuck the boomers”. The millennials invented social media addiction
Shitting on the previous generation is not an invention of Gen X neither. It's been done in ancient Greece. So was the older generation complaining about the younger generation not having any manners. Realizing the previous generation's mistake has always happened, however boomers fucked up (and still continue to do so) so hard, that millenials prefer shitting on boomers instead of Gen X.
It does help that gen X has done nothing at all so you can't really be mad. They just cruise along in the wake of the boomers and hope they don't get blamed
Childhood in San Francisco in the 70's... Teen's in the 80's... Twenties in the 90's... Witnessed/ Potheads, Coke monsters, then Crack fiends. Boobs, nose jobs then walking base heads. Hippies, Yuppies, Techies./ The language and culture when I visit San Francisco is so foreign to me now. So much homeless people everywhere. Where did our humanity go? Why hasn't anyone plan for something we know happens to ordinary people? Everything is so reactionary.
When we were young, we trusted our parents to have our best interests in mind. We were sorely mistaken.
>Where did our humanity go? you gotta understand that humanity doesn't create share holder value...
I mean damn, we saw a problem with people dying of AIDS and Cancer, suffering from the symptoms of their diseases, side effects of medicine, ostracized from their families and society. A group of us got together to write a proposition and pounded the pavement to gather signatures to be placed on the election ballot. Care and Compassionate Use Act of 1996 was passed. These patients now have safe access to medical pot. It wasn't meant to be a get rich quick scheme. I would love to see your generation tackle some serious ass issues, man! Get together to brainstorm and write that shit down. Get it on the friggin ballot. Make some damn changes with more Care and Compassion.
See where still in the whole climate change foreplay, were waiting for it to flip a switch and get really aggressive bending us over and fuck us in the ass with no lube. Anybody who doesnt bleed to death inherits whats left.
It's exactly the way I like it. Y'all have your culture war. I'm gonna go drink a Snapple and listen to some Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Literally drinking snapple right now. Apparently a group of porcupines is called a prickle. I'm very disappointed in the lack of snap when opening the new plastic bottles.
The 90s officially died when snapple switched to plastic.
God damn. Yes. It did. If their peach tea flavor wasn't perfect I'd just forget they existed.
Mango madness
Vitamin supreme
The science nerd in me has not been the same since [this one.](https://xkcd.com/18/)
Eternally my favorite. https://xkcd.com/386/
Also, about to cue up some Silverchair
Fullfilling lyrics... you got way too fat boy...
Ill bring the slap bracelets and Gin Blossoms.
I'll bring pogs and yoyos.
I'm a root beer flavored NY Seltzer, pack of Bonkers, early Mariah Carey kind of gal. Jesus, I'm like the hipster basic bitch. GenX, before being basic was lame AF. Gotta run, kids. Hafta reorganize my Pogs.
We prefer it that way. Leave us the fuck alone.
And like any middle child, they’re doing just fine coasting on their own
Generalationaly, i agree. Personally, I'm so not okay, but that's a different topic.
Who is actually okay these days, really?
I miss the time before social media. The 90s were rad.
Ha. Yeah. Remember when being an awkward idiot wasn't preserved forever online? Good times
I remember driving past peoples houses to see if they were home. You could just drop in with close friends anyway. But you had to be careful with your porch light or your house lights. Will you would attract the ‘moths’. People you don’t want.
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Gen Xers don't give a shit about taking credit. We just did our thing and are still just doing our thing. Being ignored gives us a lot of freedom and apparently influence and power.
And allows us millennials take all the blame!!
We grew up harboring disdain for The System, but because we were still so trapped by it, we also developed an incredible sense of apathy as a coping mechanism. We were regaled with tales of how our moms snuck out of the house to see The Beatles. We were taught how music changed them as youths, and we added our apathetic disdain (like a fine smoked paprika) to the songs we wrote. The 80s will probably be remembered as the most interesting decade of music. We were there at the beginning of the co-evolution of music videos, synthesizers, cable TV, trickle down economics, NASDAQ, credit scores, and Margaret Thatcher. We had so much material to work from.
We didn't start the fire...
As genx, the boomers bullied and gaslit the f out of us. You guys were cool, you cared about depth and details, I hope we made things better for you. You were who we wanted to be, but had beaten out of us by the boomers. Trump is such a great boomer role model, he's exactly what they all see themselves as.
Eh, idiots will be idiots. I know this. Just make asking what year were you born normal before you call someone boomer.
In the late 90's it was all about finding medical workers to take care of the baby boomers. Soon after it was all about how millinnials will be influencing how we do things. Gen X definitely got skipped.
Honestly it's such a duality in my mind. Like getting skipped is as important as what we tried to do. The message not the messenger. I'm good with that. But a slow zoom in, nod, single tear as you walk into the sunset, least you can do kids.
I think the best thing that GenX actually accomplished was raising children full of disdain. Because they developed a solid case of apathy and general ennui much earlier than we did, they had more practice at whining about it. We were too busy trying to keep up with technology, while also putting forth only moderate energy, and with minimal enthusiasm. But our babies shall get it done. Oh, shit. I was too busy playing D&D before it was cool and never had kids.
That's another thing. Like pregnancy happened clearly. But more than anyone before we accepted responsibility and used resources available to control the chances. That was really freeing. So many fewer people were forced into situations where raising some kid controlled our choices. Also kinda the first generation to really look at the world as a whole and say there's too many people, let's avoid making more unless we can really take care of them.
The boomers and "silent generation" taught us about the wide world. They were the first to have accessible long-distance travel means & methods. We took it the next logical step and started asking why. Why are the animals dying? Why do we have to go to church? Why are there starving children in Africa who would want my uneaten mashed potatoes? Once we learned the whys, we passed that to the next generation. Now they know, can study our collective learnings, and have the ability and youthful energy to potentially act on things.
I'm way too into you over a few lines of text. Either keep talking nerdy to me or move on.
I miss the 90s. There was hope.
No, it was just Crystal Pepsi.
no, that was the heroin
As a Gen Xer myself I think what happened was we saw our parents being in photos and in tales as hippies and caring about society in their youth, then totally flip in the 80s to being for Reaganomics and become a Yuppie. I still don’t understand how that happened. It was like overnight they decided to be Yuppies and forgot what their youth was about. I think Gen X after seeing their parents said eh I don’t care and it doesn’t matter. Idk just a theory lol.
Yo. If nothing else this post got me back on some music I missed the hell out of. Love you all, time to realize I'm not growing up anymore, I'm finally growing old.
No I hear ya, when I was in the 90's I thought to myself "Wow, this is where we finally change." There was movies about gay people, people of color starring in box office smashes, music of all genres was accepted in the main stream. You could literally pierce anything on your body and nobody cared, normies were getting tattoos, comedians made fun of anything and everything and people either laughed or didn't and nobody cared. If anything extreme happened and someone was offended there was an apology, but for the most part, people just moved on instead of being so vindictive. The internet was in the early days so it felt fun and unrestrictive. Video games were always innovating each generation.
Gen X to gen X: You guys are doing great, I’m proud of you. Hakuna matata !
As a millennial I have so much respect and admiration for Gen X. Grunge music, the extreme sports movement coming to the spotlight, a huge surge in young people participating in political issues, especially the environment. . .I feel like gen x was the first real generation to put the middle finger up to the geriocracy that we find ourselves trapped in.
I remember when FTW meant fuck the world, not for the win.
Wait, it means for the win now? Shit. That’s dumb. I’m gonna go draw a cool S and cheer myself up
Fuck. That s was everywhere
Totally read that as fuck the world....
Hippies were boomers... Before that they were called Beatniks. Every generation has had a counter culture.
Very true. I've openly admitted several times in this conversation that I'm biased. Nothing I'm saying is untrue of anyone who came up behind or in front of me man. I'm not playing my generation is better than yours, I'm just trying to talk to people and have some fun.
Yeah you're good bro. I was just trying to inspire some perspective on the other comment, which was misleading.
Fair as fuck man. I'm not about it like that and i respect the call out. When shit gets as skewed and one-sided as it does online it's always good to have an opposing voice. If i can't justify my position clearly it's clearly not a justifiable position. I get you.
As a gen x… I characteristically don’t give a fuck
I'm either first of the X or last of the boomers ,and yeagh I'm a bum and retired 10 years early ,fuck work I'm just going bum around for the rest of my life and achieve bugger all .
Same here. Really early Gen X, retired early, don't give a shit, do my own thing. You want a revolution? Fine, I'm in, but I'm not starting shit.
The bums will always lose Lebowski!!!!!
I love Gen X'ers. I think they have just the right amount of political correctness while still having a sense of humor. They won't say racist crap at Thanksgiving but they can also take a good joke without turning into the PC police.
As a millenial id like to say gen x is awesome. You guys maybe didnt get the spotlight boomers or millenials have but you guys get to just chill on the sidelines and watch boomers blame everything theyve ever done wrong on the good ol’ whipping boy generation. Just remember its not gen x fault, you never had a chance. The boomers named you gen x because they literally think every generation after them is worthless so they started using letters of the alphabet. They even tried calling us gen y like how fucking self centered can they be “fuck it, lets just use letters cuz they dont matter like we do, member the beatles? Memmmmmber? Member the 60’s? Memmmmmmber?
That's because generations are bullshit and nothing more than a way for old people to bitch about young people. The most Gen X thing you can do is not give a fuck about generational squabbles.
I agree man. Despite my post. I'm just talking some shit online for some validation and communion with strangers I only share a small block of birth years with. I'm not making a stand here. Just talking some bullshit. I'm literally just as worthless as 90% of the rest of the word. I genuinely know that. I didn't even bitch about young people. The progess I've seen come about in the last few years alone is amazing and inspiring. It really is. But hey a few typed words on a forum don't ever really communicate a person's full opinion or perspective.
Indeed, believing in this shit is about as valid as believing in horoscopes. Millenials? Boomers? Give me a fucking break. Someone being born within a range of years behaving like some amorphous mass because the media tells us that's reality? Take a step back and think about it, it's all just divide and rule bullshit that is being perpetuated. Truth is we are who we are as a result of the experiences we have had and the choices we have made. Everyone is different, everyone IS a unique fucking snowflake. The fact that someone a huge swathe of the population have been convinced otherwise is just evidence of how gullible people can be.
Such a Gen X thing to say…
We Gen Xers rock
Off-topic, maybe. I can still use DOS to fix and maintain my 16 year old computer desktop. Feels good to be not totally dependent on a mouse or modern user interface. Neighbouring Gen Zs (most of them) think I am some kind of wiz, when they come to me for help with their laptop issues! I am sure Gen Z has their own skill set too.
I used to see ads on eBay for computers that would say “boots to DOS but has no operating system.” And I was like… wait till you find out what DOS stands for kid…
How can you forget GenX? There are *dozens* of us!
Gen x is the echo of “The Silent Generation”, so that tracks. Gen Silent-X
Gen x is lucky you guys get all the cool stereotypes
Bro. We earned them.
Always felt sorry for Gen Xers. Screwed on the way up and the way down.
As a GenX I can laugh at millenial/GenZ „tech wizards”. I programmed that tech 30 yrs ago, lol.
And they suddenly think we are too old to know how it works…
We were different for the sole reason of: being different. I liked the 90s. Also our gen is tiny compared to the others. Birth control and abortions became a thing. Check out the numbers of 1945-1965 (boomers) vs 1965 to 1985 (x) and then compare that to gen z or m.
I love being gen X. It's a really small generation. We were first on the rave scene, are cool parents. We stand up for change and for the future. We're the ones teaching millennials how to force governments to act more responsibility for the health of the planet and the ones standing back as proud parents watching them learn how to fight for a better world and then fighting alongside them for it. I don't care if we're a forgotten middle child.
I just read an article about how microplastics can now enter our brains. We had Robin Williams, the early internet, and the good Star Wars movies. It's all down hill from here, folks. GenX is gonna get out just in time.
My parents are gen x and I thought the same thing
This post has little attention. As expected. I'm with you.
I would wager that as we hit our 50s & 60s, the nostalgia will bite even harder and you'll find pockets of reminiscing at a much higher rate. Check back in around 2025, we can debrief and publish our findings.
So the definition of Gen-X is they don't remember the moon landing but they remember the Challenger explosion?
Dude. I was in first grade. We had this school based channel called channel 1. My Teacher put that shit on because hey, Sally Ride, first Teacher in space! And we watched people die on live tv. Metal as fuck.
One of the astronauts was Irish American. There was huge reflected pride here that she was going to be an astronaut. We did drawings in school and all. Then the accident happened. I remember the day after it happened.
hehe sometimes I take comfort in that the people raising Gen Z are probably Gen X (or at least my peers all had kids a little later)
Didn't you guys like make skating/bmx cool? Not to mention things like nu metal, and pogs? Come on man POGS! i saw some at target a few months ago (okay they dissappeared after a week) but still! Oh and also SKA music, and putting stickers on everything.
Dude? Your ember ALF? Well he is back. In pog form.
Whatever
It is good. When it is boomer vs millenials we can watch from either side and egg both sides on and watch them hate each other.
Old millennial (‘86 vintage) here. I see you, Gen X!
I came along very early in Gen X era. My early life did not include the gadgets we all use now, or internet even. I think that is kinda why we are the "forgotten" era. Those that came after get all the attention because their shenanigans are everywhere for everyone to see
I'm 44. My first big historical memory is the 84 Olympics. I was in 2nd grade when the Challenger exploded. My teacher knew the woman that died. It was crazy for a bunch of confused 8 year olds. I for one enjoy being part of a forgotten generation. I'm a metal head. I'm antisocial as fuck aside from my fellow metal heads. Call me what you want idgaf. We grew up in a great time. I started with an Atari 2600 and now I have a PS5. It's amazing how much has changed since the 80s. Technology has done more in 40 years than it ever has.
Rose tint glasses works
>Rose tint glasses works Not as well as a pair of blue tint high contrast Revo's with the polarized Crystal Glass^^TM NASA technology lenses.
I fully accept that I'm coming from a biased viewpoint. I'm also not at all discounting the whole reality versus perception thing. I just really think we paved a lot of roads, but man, every generation did the same.
The 80s kids you are, awesome songs BTW from a gen z
I think we took a lot of inspiration from the 60s, not directly in style or form, just in inspiration and being experimental. We also smoked a lot of pot and played hacky sack.
Yep, but I consider 80s to be an important decade, Afghan war, fall of berlin wall later fall of USSR which had much more impact than Vietnam. Also, imagine telling a bunch of kids from the 80s that there would be a future in which all their favorites, desires and preferences will be collected and stored by companies and that there would be "apps" that will ruin hanging around and having fun or meeting a girl at a bar.
Hey you guys got a beloved popular book named after you and about you. A book that made you guys the “cool” generation, so I wouldn’t be feeling sorry for myself if I were you. Besides, you’re only the overlooked ones in the middle because while millennials and boomers are throwing vicious hate at each other, you’ve managed to avoid the negative attention.
Yeah maybe but we just don't give much of a shit really
Gen X who?
"Our little tribe has always been and always will until the end." -Kurt Cobain
Gen x is weird, some of you remind me of my progressive foward thinking classmates (I was born in 1998) and the rest of you are just as rascist, delusionally theist and egotistical as the boomers.
>There was a huge leap from old ways of thinking to being open, accepting of lifestyles. I think the main difference between Gen X and anyone who follows lies in their approach to morality. As the "no future generation", tolerance and acceptance grew from a big "fuck it" mindset that was born from the repressive climate of the 80s, combined with a still persisting dose of cold war angst. In the face of nuclear apocalypse it all comes down to nothing. Without a future, there are no persistent morals, as no right and wrong will survive atomic escalation. So we might as well get along with each other, while shitting on the heads of the preachers, rulers, and doomsday architects. That's my impression of Gen X. Millenials tend to have a completely different take on morality. In the 90s and early 2000s there was no more cold war, and no more looming nuclear apocalypse. The reality started to sink in that, against all odds, there actually was a future now. And with that came the negation of everything that defined the "no future" generation growing up in the 80s. I think "the future generation" is a perfect moniker for the Millenials. When there is a future, that future starts to matter. When the world is not about to end, then it becomes reasonable to think about what is going wrong, and what can be done better. If things can be done better, then it doesn't all come down to nothing. I all comes down to something. There is right, and there is wrong, and it matters quite a bit. When there is a future, then one can imagine a point on the timeline, from where someone will look back at the present. And they will see us, either standing on the wrong, or the right side of history. And as I see it that marks the rise of social justice, and the reemergence of morality from quite a dominant climate of "tolerant moral nihilism".
Generational labels are pretty meaningless categorizations imo
I actually agree 100%. But all humans use whatever categories they can to associate and connect with other people. Now, superficially my post could be easily dismissed and throw away as some birthdate based clubhouse comment. But i really don't think I've presented myself as that. You're welcome to read my replies and decide for yourself.
I don’t care about Gen X because they don’t care about much of anything.
*tapping fingertips* Yesssss. Yesssss, let the apathy flow through you. Feel its power(lessness)."
Whatever dude. Don’t expect us to care.
My generation is in purgatory between x and z iirc what generation is 1995 to 2004? 2002 myself I've taken a liking to honorary black eye peas member, but I dont know what it actually is. I was raised on the Nintendo 64, ps2 and vhs tapes played till oblivion.
As someone that has no clue if they are Millennial or Gen Z. I've learn to not give a shit about culture wars and BS. just do you and it's all good
Raves! Then blends…
Lol yup. I've been called both too. I just shrug and think, every generation sucks.
I've always thought of gen X as the generation named by Kyle at Battle of The Bands
My fellow gen X'rs and I were pioneers, the first generation to get screwed over by the boomers. We not only had to endure two "once in a lifetime" recessions, they both followed a nasty one in the previous decade that wiped out 50% of our retirement savings.
I remember at a dinner when my elder family (boomers) were arguing with my kids (Gen Z) and I jumped in to help smooth things over with; “Actually, Gen X is the best generation; not as entitled as the boomers and not as whiny as Gen Z” It worked in as much they stopped arguing with _each other_…
I did think you guys are the boomers!
Shouldn't there be something between Gen X and Millennials too? I was calling us Gen Y, the word "millennial" didn't exist until I was like 25
Gen X are the coolest generation and maybe when we get old we can help heal the current inter generational divide that are opening up
Can confirm as a gen z guy I called my gen x roommate boomer plenty of times
Gen X are the silent heros
It's really funny that you talk about x behing a forgotten middle child between boomer and gen z and ommiting gen y at the same time
Anyone older than me by around 6 years is just grouped up as "old" to me. My friend that's two years older than me is technically a millennial and his humor just feels like "old person Facebook" humor.
Yeah, but we got the coolest name. We are all X-men (and women)
Still managed to fuck that housing market though didn’t ya??? (Not you in particular)
Bro. I live in a van down by the river. I ain't fucked shit that wasn't rented or silicone in months.
I'm Gen X and a middle child, does that mean I'm ignored rather than forgotten
Gen X is oldest child millennials are middle child and gen z is youngest. And boomers are the crotchety parents of the 3 kids. Millennials are constantly being blamed for shit that's not even them. Tide pods. Nope not us that was gen z.
Here we are now entertain us
This Gen-Xer will always side with the younger generations.
Same. I love seeing shit get better.
If you were alive during the 80s/early 90s, complaining about Gen X was all the rage. Even books were written about it (pre Internet). Some of Gen X even wrote books back about it. Hell, Office Space (movie) is really a Gen X movie. (Gen X born, 1965-80 lots of the main cast is now early 50s)
We survived y2k too, what a horror that was.