As a Gen X can confirm, we just want to be left alone and not sucked into all the drama 😂

@@suzybearheart530 exactly. Some make it sound like we feel left out, when honestly it's giving us what we want.

Say it louder for the wazzbags in the back!! Our superpower was (and still kinda is) Apathy. It's how we survived, man. We were the Feral Generation. I love this sh...tuff.

Amen!

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Been telling people all my life that I was born 30, and at the age of 47 I'm still 30.

Yes we are...so true

Facts

❤well said

Bingo 🎯

"Don't miss school tomorrow" was pretty much it. Spent a lot of time doing the "sleeping over at blank's house" dodge.

Free range and positively feral. Yes, we really were raised by wolves

"Stay within sight of the house" in forests of PNW. I'd be a ridge over, but could see the house. Broke "Be home by dark" only once. Never did it again because one simple fact. My 9 year old @$s literally took a beating.

Stranger danger.b

As long as we were home for supper or called that we weren't going to be home for supper.

I bought cigarettes at 17.

​@@heraldomedrano1417I bought cigarettes at 14, we thought it made us look cool. Now I know we were cool without them.

I liked 2000's when single guys had yahoo personals and myspace to meet ladies. That worked for me. I'll take any recent decade pre smartphone.

Truth.

Being in a Hispanic household. Maybe if my parents left me alone to do other things instead of having a paint brush in one hand and a hammer in the other. I would have done better in high school.

Taught self reliance at a young age. We all started working around age 15 so we could buy our own things etc then Move right out after high school graduation or go straight to college. VHS, Sony walkmans, Sony discmans, CD, laser discs, Atari, Sega Genesis, a lot of outdoor activities ;) I liked growing up as a kid in the 80’s.

This is so true.

Damn right!!

born in '65 & raised my kids ['92/'96] the same way I was raised... "You have a dog, a creek, and bicycles. I'll holler when dinner's ready."

Bicycle everywhere, spend the entire day at the mall, listen to good music, do my homework while watching MTV, scare myself by watching scary movies late at night while alone, cooking tv dinners, walking home from school because I missed the bus, staying outside until the street lights came on, staying up late during school days, going to arcades, building tree forts, skateboarding, and so much more.

Ironically we all seem to love our childhood yet we robbed our own children of that... We were the last generation to play outside, to ride our bikes across town to our friend's house, Walk to school... But yet it seems most Gen xers raised their children completely opposite.

i always thought that was awkward - I'm a millennial born in 1990 and i remember going outside and playing baseball outside my house with my friends and yelling "car!!" whenever one came through (and also getting grounded from going outside and hating being in the house). also, if you're born in the 80s, doesn't that make you a millennial? i thought gen x was between 1965 to 1979...

Agreed!!

I was born in 1970 as well . I didn't have the best childhood , but I also have a lot of good memories . Growing up in the 70s and 80s was a fun time to be a kid ; I have a lot of nostalgia for this time period and wouldn't trade it for anything . I'm also a proud Gen-Xer .

Your experience sounds close to mine. I don't think that this vid creator understood what a huge difference growing up without social media made. If you wanted a social life, you had to actually go and visit friends (or they visited you) and interact with them face-to-face and it's a massively different (and positive) experience compared to texting, posting or calling. It's the single biggest thing I'm thankful for as a GenXer. Plus just about everyone was super-fit because we had to amuse ourselves by playing sports, exploring the outdoors and the like because yeah there was Atari etc. but for sure the majority couldn't afford them. Ditto on the music - my Spotify playlists are almost all 80s and 90s music lol.

I was born in the 80's and that sounds like my childhood too. 😂 Only saw my parents at mealtimes. Every house in the street was open, and every adult in the street would parent us.

80s had the best music ever!

​@@item6931I'm '72 and miss my childhood.

This statement is so true that it's almost scary.

We get to watch it all go to hell, haunted by wistful memories of our first 25 to 40 years. We wont be able to relate to anyone in another 30 years. Younger generations born after 2000 will think we are aliens.

Not true older millennials like my self remember climbing trees and playing manhunt (hide and seek). I remember only 4 TV channels (UK), dial up internet used to take hours to load a website, mobile fones as big as a house brick with pull out aerials so long if you're stood next to someone and turn around you'll have their eye out 😂 best years of my life.

I'm a millenial, and definitely remember before the internet. It was barely coming out when I was late into high school.

@@DizzyedUpGirl It came out when I was in high school. And I'm generation x

Yeah I was playing Doom on PC when I was like 12 but we didn't get Internet till I was 14 like 1995 somewhere in there

@@DizzyedUpGirl : ¿¿ ??

No, that's the millennial generation... The Gen X didn't grow up with Internet and still is fairly technologically illiterate. Gen Y is the "hybrid generation".

Exactly. We Xers just did what needed to be done without needing permission from everyone else to do the simplest of things. That's why we were able to be so inventive. Millennials and Z's have to be told how to do everything...

@@Deborahtunes Many of the later generations don't think it is important to learn anything. They have it all on their phone. Critical thinking skills are now left to the internet.

@@rockymntain ~ True. With Millennials and the Z generation, everything is about their FEELINGS. They don't know how, or even want to think for themselves...

YES!

The boomers cry more than the millennials about what they think they are owed.

Some of us had them as our parents. The boomers were our siblings.

Yeah but Gen X had Zoomers. So... lol

Excellent point

My grandma was born in 1926. I would have loved to have seen the world the way she got to.

@darthtinkerbell3736 Yeah but the internet was invented. So... Nobody knew the long-term effects of a cell phone or iPad. When a child has instant gratification ongoing that leads to permanent heightened emotions. Everybody goes through a slightly bratty phase during childhood. The heightened emotions appeared very normal until they never faded away. I can tell the difference online with some of the more recent generations. Whose parents did not give them an electronic device early on. They are patient and respectful with a gentle nature. Yet they can hold their own not requiring somebody. They slightly resemble Generation X in a certain way.

Well said. This is why we take umbrage at the millenials who like to pretend they went through what we went through. Back in our day we called someone who did that a POSER!

You hold grudges and are apathetic. Seem to be smart but do cruel things unconsciously.

Couldn't have said it better myself...just gonna sit on the porch with a drink and watch it all burn with an "I told you so" ready on my lips.

I wouldn't. Your generation kept quiet and allowed mega corporations to take over the world. You're generation was useless and accomplished nothing

AMEN!!!

OMG that's so true. Everyday I meet a kid digging thru our old toy box of games, music and movies. In a way it felt like my childhood was extended a little longer because of them.

Yes and we don’t give a fuck about stupid agist media tropes.

@rustytr Generalizations about age groups that span many years is a joke. Free Navalny.

​@rustytrEvery generation since the beginning of time.

We're often forgotten

tears for fears boomers

@@margaretanderson7993 You guys haven't been around long enough to hate, walking around with your breaths still smelling like similac.

@@margaretanderson7993 Good! Come to the dark side. We have cookies! People suck and I don't care.

LOL! That is my all time favorite song!!! And as many others have said us Gen X grew up on our own and we just want to be left alone!!

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

...and really just want to be left the F alone.

That is the strange thing about this time period, the only thing that is really new is the powerful digital technology

@@dr.strangelove5708 Agreed, everything else is still the same. It just got smaller, streamlined, and stupider. Rap was the last original music genre to be created. EDM = 80s techno.

I get it, but most of us have gen Z children. They are pretty cool not as cool as us , but certainly not those whining millennials.

@J B good point. Never thought about that. It's funny because my lily sis was an associate proff for 20years at Yale.

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Not all, I hated the Beatles and am very meh towards Motown.

I agree. I still remember when I bought the greatest hits of the Beatles. They and there songs are still awesome today.

80s was The Absolute BEST Decade for music EVER!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗

Gen X here. I never really cared for the Beatles. I was more into Black Sabbath.

You left out edm and industrial.

Same❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

Me, and my sisters would go home after school, and my oldest sister would make supper for when my mom, and dad came home from work.

Sadly now CPS would be called. But I grew up just like you.

born 1980 here, i remember summers, going out with friends into woods (Finland, we have forests), and going home eating when hungry, or we had something with us, or foraged something. Unless we had somewhere to be (like we are going to visit granma this weekend), none cared where we were. This was when we were mature age of a 9-13.

All that lack of parenting wasn't all good, either. Some Gen Xers ended up pretty crappy parents themselves because their own parents sucked. It just snowballs from their every generation. And I'm saying that as a Gen Xer who remembers some of my friends having absentee parents who were selfish Boomers, and those friends grew up to be crappy parents themselves.

I was eleven when I first spent the night in my house by myself, Because dad had to go out of town on a business meeting and it was a school night and I had to be in school the next day. I actually liked having that time to myself.

No doubt….I was born in DC in 1971 so we’re pretty close both in age & in geography…..these days making a kid go outside IS the punishment 🤨🤷🏼‍♂️I vividly remember the excitement & anticipation of another school year ending & spending pretty much the entire summer at the neighborhood swimming pool ….I know every generation says this but life seemed so much simpler than…..the world has changed A LOT in the last 20-25 years…..probably more so than any other time in history & it can be hard to keep up at times but it sure is entertaining to watch…to watch humanity drive the last few nails into its own coffin all because of uncontrollable & unchecked greed,as long as $$ continues to trump everything else including etchics,morals,reasoning & decency it’s only gonna get worse as you have more people fighting over less & less while a small number of people reap all the benefits & have more than they can use in 10 lifetimes yet entire families starve in the street….I hope I’m at least 100 miles away when/if karma comes to collect that debt 🤨

Also born in '73 in Minneapolis. And I can relate to everything you said. Now, at 50, I can say that I wish I were 80 and on my way out b/c of the direction this bat$hit insane First World is headed.

I so agree entirely. Was a great way to grow up. I feel so terribly sorry for kids today.

Get off your phone and go bitch and complain to someone in real life.

@@marlaalbrecht5516100 totally agree born in 73 in California and I dont recognize my clown 🤡 world any longer . I loathe this timeline

Amen

Oh, how I miss the 70s. It seemed like we had the entire world at our feet and all things were possible. Then, reality hit in the 80s & 90s. Things have never been quite the same since.

@@samsmom1491 unfortunately, at the turn of the Millennium 2000s, things were going downhill!!!!!:/

@@sgt_slobber.7628 From 2000 onwards the magic faded away.

I agree 👍

I find a lot of fellow Gen Xers repeating this "no curfews, muh freedom" thing, but I think a lot of it is covering up that some Gen Xers parents just sucked and didn't do their job. My parents weren't divorced, dad was employed, mom was a stay-at-home mom, and I saw friends whose parents were divorced suffering from the lack of parental guidance. No helicopter parenting, just...no parenting, because mom and dad divorced had to work harder to own two separate homes and had less time to pay attention to their kids. Maybe I had a different perspective not growing up in a broken home with less parent attention.

I had a window that I knew how to work open from the outside of my parent's garage. Once in, I used the attic ladder that led to a door that entered my upstairs bedroom. LOL.

Our key was hidden under a rock by the gutter downspout and it froze. My twin brother and I couldn’t get in the windows so we sat on the front porch in the warm sun. The neighbors had us come in when it got dark and fed us soup at the family table. Dad showed up about 10 or so. Good times! lol I am very good and breaking in windows now but don’t lol

My mom put my house key on a ribbon I wore around my neck.

So funny my grandma forgot her keys and I caught her trying to crawl through the window, I started yelling tuck and roll, tuck and roll grandma. Lolol. I got her out the window lolol and crawled in for her lolol.

Had to do this multiple times....

Born in '70. We learned quick that attention is a double-edged sword. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the nail that stands up will be pounded flat. Cries for help can make you a target. So we chose stealth and self-sufficiency, and became Generation Unknown, Generation X.

I remember being told by my father to do something, and me saying "what for?". His response: "come here. I'll show you what for".

Sure thing. That's when libs started teaching socialism just hasn't been done right. Birney bros took the bait. You work give me the money. FJB

It's like in the Never Ending story where the boy is told his destination is to walk 10,000 miles, so he trudges in the mud, almost drowns, gets up and keeps going until he can't anymore... It's a good and bad thing. 😅

_You don't know how good you got it_ _No one likes a crybaby_ _Stand up for yourself_ These are the things I heard from my Dad, Granddad, and coaches. It built emotional fortitude.

Totally agree.

In the 90'S there's was a lot fist fighting in middle school and high school.

And still do!

Hahaha

@Edgar Foerster cringe

@@FelonyMelanie420 Yea, right. You wish. We're making everyone else wanna kill themselves online bc we're the only generation of ppl who don't get 'triggered'

perfectsplit Bullies and victims often became friends, too.

LMAO. Yes!! I was actually referred to as an "Elitist Poser" on a metal music thread the other day, and my high School memories all came to mind. Little punk! Who you calling an "Elitist Poser"? My reply went something like this: Awe man why ya gotta be like that? I'm just a cool little jive turkey chillin and enjoying some tunes. I'm far from "Elitist Poser." You and I need to sit down over a few beers and have metal summit. Metal Head's accept all the societal unwanted and misfits of the world without question or judgement. How does "Elitist Poser" even become a realistic notion in your mind where my comment is concerned? I also followed with.... You know what? Nevermind! I'm not spending my hard earned beer money and metal music time with you. Us "Elitist Posers" have upper caste reputations to protect. I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression that I was breaking bread with the help where my peers are concerned. Society and other's points of view influence all aspects of my life. I simply cannot be seen with you in public or otherwise. It could have detrimental effects in my life and influential connections. Redacting my invitation is the best course of action at this time. Do take care! Yeah, stick that up your "Elitist Poser" commenting butt! Lol. God do I miss the days where if you had an issue or problem, you talked it out or you fought it out. You won some and you lost some. No anonymous chicken shite comments where the responder can hide behind a keyboard and accept no accountability for their actions or words. Alrighty." Elitist Poser" out! I have dinner staff to emotionally bankrupt. Do take care!😉

Yes i ended the century for graduation. From all i read 81 is edge so we are xiennal because of where i was year wide which im 1981 born

Don't forget, "wannabe". We, Gen X, are the "keep it real" generation. Millennials, not so much. The entire hipster culture is based social memes of the past, pretending to be sailors, lumber jacks, etc. Not only are they unoriginal, the seem to be proud of it.

@@jimnorrison8481 yes i know what your saying . Im a keep it real . People don't like real though

That's Good Dagmar! I So remember that term "POSER" I never wanted to be called a "SOSH" that was the designer Jeans and polo shirt People....LOL! I have My Own look that is not mainstream and People are still Assholes the with the looks I get

Not to mention we were the post-Nixon generation. We're cynical because we're the first real generation with the distrust in government.

The threat of nuclear annihilation was always in the background growing up. But we didn't let it get to us. Now kids are terrified of the weather...

Amen Sister!!

Millennials would do that too. We used to have those magazines where we look for the ten things that are different from the other photo.

FUCK... that shit is true... try not to get kid napped today okay?

@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast we just get amber alerts we ignore now.

@@karamlevi Stick em with the pointy end ok?

That's a fact...Proud latch key kid here...Mom had to work 2 jobs since she was raising 2 kids by herself after dad left. Mom would say be back by dark and she doesn't want to get a call from the police or hospital about me.

come on, the video games were kinda boring. We would play like half an hour then go outside. Pestering the boomers was way more fun.

Too self reliant

@@nunodasilva5449Personally. I rode my bike everywhere or my older brother would take me on the bus downtown to search for baseball cards and Garbage Pail Kid cards.

The power of one

You wouldn’t need to roll your eyes if you did your job as parents properly.

dcrea, you’re a Xennial 😀 1980-1983

Originally GenX was 1965-1985 now they have a “micro generation” for whatever reason that is from around 1980-1984ish. Still very much GenX though, just the very tail end.

​@@BarbaraM-lv7peXennials are 77 to 85

Yep, I was born in 78 and that's a very strong cherished memory of mine, watching Saturday morning cartoons, Smurfs, Land Before Time. I remember having the Three Stooges on in the background as I was getting ready for school. I'm glad I had at least 40 good years in a sane America.

😂😂exactly. I’m so glad I am Gen x.

yes, being narcistic was shame for us

Agree with everything except the expensive therapy. I can't remember a single person in therapy in the 70's 80's...

So true. I'm experiencing this with my kids and wife's father right now.

Perfectly stated 👌

So true, having it worse than our parents and working harder.!

A lot of our parents like to ignore that they used a lot of us gen x eldest or eldest female children as part-time SAHP to our siblings and as housekeeping. Now they tell us that they can't help us because they are done raising a family. Dude, you didn't raise a family, you worked. The kids raised themselves.

Boomer grandparents have raised many of genXes children

Lmao I totally get it. We got away with (or maybe we were allowed) to do things that today they would call a SWAT team on you.

Rich Henry Okay Karen.

@@phoenix5054 Were you crying when you wrote this? Nevermind, we all the know the answer.

Amen!

no one listened to them anyway.

@@phoenix5054 You must be of the Ritalin generation. Your thought process is of no consequence to others, as you are "special". Note; an attempt to use the simplest and direct wording here may have resulted in the use of words above the two syllable mark. Please have someone interpret for you. A participation award will be issued, along with free entry passes to your nominated safe space.

Someone raised these little motherfuckers that all we "Gen X'ers" are complaining about.. and it wasn't me.

So true! A sense of humor... The next generations lack that.

We wanted the political correctness to go away, but internet trolls ruined all that.

The greedy Boomers saw it coming, especially those in politics and they played everybody like a well-tuned violin.

Me, too. As a Gen X dude I agree

100%

Gen X becomes ignored while 80s culture is stripmined within an inch of its life.

Turned 10 in 80, graduated in 87. There was no better time.

@@onehothand68 I was depressed as heck in high school, but what I wouldn't give to live back in time for a while. Things were so simple and every new discovery, experience, book, piece of music *was* something. Now things just fly by, and there is no more magic. Back then we were forced to make our own magic out of almost nothing.

@@donnaknudson7296 good times

Ain't that the truth... At least they haven't gotten to Gilligan's Island, Fat Albert or Fantasy Island... Yet, I better shut up!

Some have Millennial kids.

@@FutureNow You forgot to mention Gen X made rebellious music in the 90s and early 2000s besides Nirvana like Eminem, Slipknot, Green Day, System of a Down, Drowning Pool, Blink 182, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, Disturbed and so on.

Todd Reyes True.

"Gen x parents have gen z kids" This is true. A lot of gen Xers like myself waited until much later in life to have kids than their boomer parents did. My kids are actually on the young side of gen Z. I almost feel bad for them, because they will have much less access to the internet than most of their peers. Lol

I'm a Boomer with a Gen Z kid

I remember that. Man,the bizarre hysteria just never stops. It just moves on to something else to fear.

Some of my earliest fears were getting nuked in world war 3.

You are so right. I remember on Dec 31, 1999, when millennials were dancing to Prince’s song “1999” I wanted to shout out “do you hear what that song is talking about?”! We didn’t even know if we were going to make it to the year 2000!

​@@TheBetsyBoopLmao! I set my alarm to go off whenever the 1st place on earth experienced the New Year (somewhere in China), just so I could see if everything went to shit; & get a head start, if it did. When it didn't, I went back to bed!

@@ericaz1494 that’s funny!

No one will ever know the hour to week long wait to get film developed, like us older folk (Gen X here).

​​@@karmaalstad5588 Yeah take that stuff to the Fotomat lol

It certainly made it easier for me to go through family photos and remove every one of me with that hideous hair cut my mother insisted I get. Oh yes, I won't miss those 80's hair styles.

@VR Wanderings You mean One Hour Western Photo Center, right lil'shooter. It shut down way back when insta downloading to computers to print off and Wal-Mart.

Amen!

I'm a 73 baby and I recall the 70s and 80s being incredibly bigoted and right wing. Pop culture was awesome but society was messed up. Our teachers would beat us and throw things at us, I had one who made kids pit their hand in a bear trap. The streets were full of paedos and flashers. The police were infinitely worse than they are now. Women were forced to go to work fulltime AND do everything they always did as mums and wives. Without mobile phones, lost stayed lost and the 6 weeks summer holidays were spent on a curb watching ants, because there was nothing to do. We were the last generation to have reflection time forced upon us. It was essential thinking time. It is the constant digital media stream that ruined society. In our day we got maybe an hour of Kid's programmes a day and EVERYTHING STOPPED BY 10:30 OR 11PM. The street lights would even turn off. Mostly life was very boring but that made us creative. Mods, rockers, goths, punks, skins, new wave, these were all created by kids in the street. Kids haven't invented anything for 30 years, they accept the rubbish they are spoon fed and content creators really don't CREATE anything. So sad.

You know middle aged people said the same thing 30 or 40 years ago?

The last generation before the rise of the Internet forum, where hive minds started taking over the world, and really weird niche groups started feeling "normal."

​@@BishopWalters12Tale as old as time.

Well... who's the parents of the later generations that was helicoptered and told they deserve a trophy for participating? Who's the parents millennials? I'm a GEN Y (between Gen X and millennials) my kids are Gen Alpha and I'm 39....my mom was Gen X and so was my Dad and they had me very young. So Gen Z and millennials are both the product of Gen X.

@@hostileactual7655 My man, Gen Y and millennials are the same generation, 81-96.

100% see. We can see right through the media and government racial politics. Gen X more than any other age demographic stood up to the nonsense jab and mask mandates. Millennials and Gen Z conformed to that like sheep. Boomers of course made the mandates.

YES! I keep telling people this kind of thing, too! Only Gen-Xers get it, unfortunately. We had great things happening - no one gave too many fucks about anything - but I mean this in the best way - for example, we had friends of all colors and no one even talked about racism. It was increasingly on life-support. This progress was quickly bulldozed by righteous, overly idealistic, tech-smug, hive-minded, impatient, instantly gratified (or else!), arrogantly wiki-educated millennials who had no idea about true individuality. Back in the day - for MANY people - things like skin color / gender etc. were actually irrelevant to who you were as a person & we naturally found things in common without identity labels. But these narcissistic babies with bad habits show up - all tattooed but fragile, glued to social media groupthink - they're just a lump of virtue signalling idiots, accountable for nothing - this is how they position themselves and they're everywhere. I actually want to get on an island where only Gen-Xers are allowed. No cell phones or fucking email. Maybe some boomers can come - they at least say hi to strangers and can carry a conversation skillfully with a sense of humour or sarcasm. haha

​@@MrKingalowthe only people who believe that racism wasn't an issue or there wasn't way more work to be done were very naive white people. Talk to a black person for a few minutes in the mid 2000s and they'd tell you something different.

Generational bridge. I like that. I never would have handed my kids everything. They’d have to work for it. That is the parenting job; to prepare for the real world with self sufficiency… not expecting to be taken care of by government subsidizing.

Same as you...eh, I had a grandpa born in 1895 ! Both grand-parents and parents, although caring in their own way (though love) were not sugar coating anything. Hard work, no fuss, no sense of entitlement, working for our allowance, not complaining about small injuries... as far as I know, best preparation to face an adult life. !

😂

I remember the time in the mid 80s when I would get off my train stop to walk to high school and my friends would be waiting around the corner, telling me we're not going to school today, lol.

Exactly! Back then people still read books, we played outside with our friends, learned to think and problem solve better because there was more “real life” application.

You mean ruin it.

Great point I agree.

😂😂😂

Truth. 😀

....and your pinky finger getting sore or stuck after two turns. LOL

That sh*t was delicate work. Constantly on the edge. If the tape broke that was as bad as the Blue Screen of Death.

Never mind having to wait for that particular song to come on only to have the DJ talk over the whole beginning of the song. @@5Gburn

Agreed.

They have no idea just how much we don't care. Bless them.

@@AM-ji5pi Your first sentence--no, that's us, but only a portion. The nutter MAGAs are GenX, not millennials. And they were raised by the unhinged portion of the Boomer gen.

He sounded like a liberal Millennial to this Gen Xer.

Hes a millennial and millennials all expect to be handed success.

PRECISELY!! Which means that our evaluations of living life in "both worlds" are likely the most pertinent and truthful evaluations to be had. We actually witnessed the societal evolution of all the above "tech" and many of us were responsible for actually designing it and pushing it through. As a cross-over generation...generation X straddles one of the most significant societal periods in modern, cultural history and we are akin to people who have actually lived TWO lives...rather than just one. Pre and post social media....provide two VERY different life experiences on this planet and it's only generation X that can claim to have experienced the overlapping zeitgeist in real time.

Exactly.

@@donnietobasco9791 well said

Correcto! Gen X gets the crown 🔑 👑 😉 📺 🎶 💻 🏃🏻‍♂️ 😘👏🏼👍🏼…

I remember the internet just starting to come out, the America online discs that were packaged with everything. "You got mail!" And last but not least, 10 minutes of waiting to get on the internet with dial up. I didn't have a cell phone in highschool they wouldn't be out until a few years later, I had a beeper.

Baby boomer the worst generation ever their opulance and greed that will never be equaled

Ironically gen x sold out the hardest

@@Yamaha_slut Agree! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when my son said I was a sellout because I work for a major corporations most of his life. More sad because he is right, but glad he recognizes it so young and hopefully won't drink the kool-aid too. And no, he's not living in my basement saddled with student loans and depression. He's making his own way. He will be able to do what I could not.

@@1destinySS selling out isn't the worst thing in the world, it secures one's future fainancially. Which really opens up opportunities for them, but much like everything else in the world, every action has a reaction be it good or bad!

@@highjenks3d The Silent did a better job, well actually they just got freaking lucky. ( then they spent their grandchildren's inheritance.) Boomers gobbled everything that was left.

Well said.

@Ken Meyer-Landrut Never heard of a Gen Xer requiring safe spaces -- EVER -- let alone in our college years. Nor did we get participation ribbons. We won or we lost. We competed. Nor were we coddled . Our parents most certainly did NOT make excuses and defend us when we were wrong. We got our asses whipped. We experienced the consequences of OUR actions. We didn't have attitudes of entitlement nor believe what we wanted should be handed to us with no blood, sweat and tears. Never did we consider we were entitled to other people's money and the fruits of their labor -- the millennial mantra is everything free, free, free for me, me, me. We most definitely were NOT offended and whining every single minute of every day. We weren't dictating what was and was not acceptable speech, and no rioting, violence, and destruction of property to shut down the speech of people with whom we disagreed. We weren't triggered by opposing points of view. We listened, debated and conversed. We weren't MY FEELINGS OVER FACTS. We didn't harass and assault people dining in restaurants or who wore red hats -- taking it even further to their homes and family -- UNTHINKABLE. We enjoyed and lived OUR lives and left others to their own. We weren't dictating to others how to live. But most of all, WE LOVED OUR COUNTRY IN OUR YOUTH AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED. WE WEREN'T I HATE AMERICA SOCIALIST MARXIST COMMIES IN TRAINING. Baby boomers are our parents, dumb ass. There's bound to be friction. Millennials deserve every verbal beating and beat-down they get. It's called cause and effect.

@Ken Meyer-Landrut Radical feminists started in the late 60s/early 70s. I was born in 1965, and I am telling you, that was not mainstream popular youth culture. Period.

@Ken Meyer-Landrut I lived and came up in the 80s/90s. That shit was NOT across the nation mainstream day in and day out in your face like it is with the millennials today. You can spout as much as you like. It doesn't change the reality of the time in which I came of age.

@Ken Meyer-Landrut In fact, I personally know four millennials. Two young women and two young men. They call me Aunt Dawn. Thankfully, they are sane, rational, intelligent, hard-working, and dare I say normal. My niece has shared with me the multitude of times she was harassed for wrong think on her college campus. So, you'll excuse me if I take her personal experiences as nearer the truth than your claims.

Millenial here. I can agree with that. I find that Gen Xers are easy to relate to, far more than baby boomers. You guys were our older brothers and our pop culture heroes. In fact, I feel more connected to Gen X than Gen Z. Millenials definitely remember prank calling on 3-way phone lines, hanging out at the mall, and going to arcades.

Generation Z will have big impact on the world, they are not idiot boomers or weak milennials. Far better than them, If we put internet along there generation Z already will reach the god level on this world. This is the generation you grew up X and Milennials, those monster generation are away from control. You will not control us but we will control you, our sons Beta Generation will be your nightmares on the path you will see.

@@olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari534 Wow... mkay. Hate to say it, but Gen Z is gonna face the same problems as Gen X: low population. Gen X had a hard time being heard and making moves in the world because they were so many Boomers in control of the world their whole life, and they were overlooked. Sorry to say it, but I fear the same happening to Gen Z. Not that it's really all that big of deal though.

@@DKC_Returns yup sounds true just like when my father's Silent Gen was stuck in the middle with the Greatest n Boomers those things can happen with the younger

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN One of the biggest threats future generations will have to face will be disinformation and foreighn propaganda aka informational warefare waged by trolls on behalf of rough foreighn states and organisations. These rough states (dictatorships, authoritarian states) will use the young people of their countries (cyber terrorists) to promote their ultra conservative, authoritarian agenda to Western liberal democracies by creating an illusion of suport of authoritarian and backwards ultra conservative ideas and spreading conflict between different age, gender, race and political groups with the goal to trigger them into rate against one another. Back in my day (lol) we told such people to „fuck off”, and just like in the songs of one of my favorite Punk rock bands from the 90’s The Offspring to all younger generations i would say „if you take home anything let it be the will to think” and not really on what random people on the internet say, no matter how many of them seam to suport agree and thumbs up the conservative agenda promoted by some backwards authoritarian state. All generations are different because they had different experiances that is why they have a problem to understand each others perspective. In no way one generation is better than the onter. If you do not understand this then you are either stupid, arrogant and/or sponsored by some rough backwards state to promote such agenda.

😂🤣 Perfect.

Classic!

haha same here!

Spot on

order9066 If you honestly didn’t really care then you wouldn’t of taken the time to post your comment on this video, it seems to bother you enough to comment on it so at some degree you do care. Lol

Too busy taking care of my Boomer parents and putting my Gen Z kids through college while working full time so I don't have time to care about much else, frankly.

Yea cynical

That's part of our problem. We're so wrapped up in our own lives that we don't realize we're about to be run over.

You don't care as long as you can live life as you want to. Y'all don't want to be forced to contemplate the well-being of others because that might make you uncomfortable. Secretly weak trying to wear a facade of apathetic independence.

@@soccerwizard975 *hits buzzer* WRONG!!! GenXers do care about people. We largely just don't care about what people think about us. We're used to people not giving us recognition or credit for the things we contribute, so we just go ahead and do them without making a show of it.

I know this reply is 8 months old but when you talked about recording song off the radio it put a smile on my face. I made a ton of mix tapes like that as I rarely had the money to go to Tower Records or any other music store and buy singles or records.

​@@gryphon9507 going out to buy 45s was the big thing back then too. Or getting the last of the 8 tracks in stores. I'm talking about pre CD era.

@@mikemcgown6362 oh I was there born in 72.

@@gryphon9507 Right on! 😁

I didn’t have cable so MTV came through in snow and I’d sit there for hours waiting for ‘that new tune’ like, The Eurythmics or something, to pipe through and I’d grab my portable tape cassette player and hold it speaker to recorder and press record and hold my breath that no little sister would come storming down the stairs and screw it all up. mix tapes of newly discovered music were everything! And I’d spend days on end decorating the paper that listed the songs. And don’t even get me started on the frustration/thrill of going to the local video store to see what was left in the new releases! I understand why kids are nuts now- they never wait for anything; there is never a thrill just over the horizon.

No doubt. Every time our parents left town for anything. House party

Truth

Yes 1990s college parties in particular were fantastic

COPS!

And leave no evidence

@T Mox for real bro. It's a fight on who is the most special. Gen x is smaller by date than others for some reason too. We just want to be left alone to do what we do. Earn that trophy of we deserve one .

@@darkhighwayman1757 gen z born of gen x parents. Their quietness help mine

Well I mean...

Millennials are being spoken about, it’s not them boasting about how great they are, it’s older generations blaming millennials for destroying industries/companies/dating etc. I was born in 84 so I’m technically a millennial, but my childhood was very Gen X. Bikes. Building dens/forts etc. Very little technology. I relate to both generations and there’s even a “micro generation” from like 78-86 or something called Xennials for this very reason. I do however think Millenials get a hard time. We can’t get on the property ladder. University degrees don’t lead to jobs in the relevant field very often. University loans are massive. Rent is extortionate and wages are low so we can’t save money or travel as much as previous generations. But the only thing boomers focus on is that we aren’t buying fabric softener and we’ve stopped eating at shit chain restaurants.

Being Gen X and not being talked about is better than being a millennial or boomer and being constantly dogged on with idiotic negative stereotypes that aren’t even true. Most people aren’t obsessed with hearing how amazing they are. Most people are just trying to survive.

It would be nice to see and hear fresh talent, but Hollywood rolls their own way.

Same 71 model here too

Agreed. Loved being an MTV kid. 😎👍

@Martin Wheatley yep, you got that right!

we are well balanced

Greatest generation hands down, they raised me & actually saved the world, they were & knew real Americans, then boomer cuz they hogged all the last of the American dream then US, tho we had the best music

It was better times back than!!

@* Social media has screwed everything up.

NES ... my best friend and I playing co-op games on the NES, trying to beat Double-Dragon II, and later III by playing together. "Jackal", or "Contra" ... oh Contra. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select Start (had to hit "select" because it was a 2P game). - Bonded of that. - Later went to High School together and kept it up with the SNES. - We'd be 16 or 17, go into a convenient store back when they had nude-magazines on the rack behind the counter, and ask to buy a scratch off ... if the clerk allowed it (meaning that he didn't card us), then try to casually say, "Hey, uh ... go ahead and throw on that Hustler, too." - We'd get sodas from the vending machine in front of the grocery store, and it was legit 25-cents -- just a quarter. Always walked everywhere.

Karate Kid!

True

😆😅🤣😂

Dont forget millenials

Right you guys are the best. I'm Gen Z.

Millennials lived through that era as well.

well done man! What an innovative, revolutionary you are!

there isn't any room either, with a bunch of washed up 80 year old corpses in politics because they are selfish assholes.

Well stated

yes but, its in our nature to go into those places and fix it to how it use to be and how it worked -- no one wants that ive found. Millennials think they have over taken gen x for some reason... boggles the mind.

We are also prudent fact checkers, prefer to maintain our emotions until we know the whole story, some are minimalists BUT will go all in for philanthrophy, conservation, and saving money for a future of some sort

So did millenials ? Lol

Heisenberg I'm at the end of the "Baby Boomer" era and grew up under circumstances just like you. My single mother was working full time and going to night school so she could get a better job to pay the bills. Without help from our dad and an abusive ex-stepfather under our belts (yes I use that term specifically) we were on our own to get to school, do our homework, finish our chores and stay out of trouble. My sister and I did well but I can't say the same for my brother who hung out with "hoodlum" friends!

Yep, that was my life growing up as well. We know how to cook, clean and be self sufficient. Mom could depend on me and still can.

Preach on!

True facts ! Also, when parents got the first microwave it made cooking even easier !

Holy shit, Spot on man

Yes! Gen x also seem to be raising gen z similarly to how they grew up (at least from my experience and that of my friends) because they (as other comments pointed out) are the workhorse generation and having to work all the time to accommodate boomers' excessive lifespan and gen z's difficulties entering a job market laying off more people than they hire or earning enough to not be dependant on their parents since wages have been stagnating compared to inflation pretty much all our lives. Even when, on the odd occasion both parents are home, gen x parents seem more than happy in front on the telly and leaving their kids alone like they're still at work. No doubt because, as the workhorse generation, they're exhausted and just need to switch off after being worked to death all day. Does make me angry when some gen x parents opt to give their kids an ipad instead of actually spending time with them though. Maybe us gen zers are just too insufferable to want to spend time with, lol

YES!! I still need to have my ALONE time so that I can rejuvenate and be able to deal with my own family! It work’s so beautifully!! I was “re-setting” before we were able to re-set! Lol 🤯👍

I could totally survive solitary confinement.

Me too . Loved coming home with my parents gone .

@@5Gburn 🤣😂🤣 LMAO, I secretly think I could do it too! Lol 🙊 Only a Gen Xer would say that!

😊👍

Class of '85 here

Amen brother, same here. Class of 89'

Ricardo Macias ,that's a joke,gen x is too consumed with iPhones and games and ignorant of common sense,logic,and morality. Gen X are in deep depression,just being.

Trump’s A FatAss I completely agree,as well as majority lacking social skills learned by things like little baseball,pee wee football,boy and girl scout etc. I'm 43,and WE failed you guys,our children failed you guys. Alot of y'all are so intelligent,b it will not accept labor jobs.There is good money plumbing,electrical work etc. I'm just a high school grad,now a towboat pilot making over 85 gran a year.Startrd as a deckhand earning 54$ a day. I love you guys,and wish for y'all's success and happiness!!!!

Aint that the truth

Yes....There are not enough of US to do the job. Gen X need to start popping out gen "Alpha" while there's still time! Baby making window is closing!!!! :)

Gen X - The generation that blames all other generations other than themselves for pretty much everything..

@@tacitdionysus3220 Hmmm...why do you say that?

Gen X here , I'm stuck with trying to keep my ass alive , to old to start over to young to give up , parents getting old , grown kids who still dont know what they want to do , two divorces, ..... fuk this , take me back to when Billy Idol was a M.T.V mainstay...

Painful isn't it?

But now we have KZfaq!

I blame reality TV like road rules and TRL and yo MTV raps being play non-stop episode after episode they stop playing good music music that people liked then started force-feeding people stuff like Britney Spears and boy bands.....and Kids stop watching

@@leroylowe5921 Yeah but its way more work and you have to know what you are looking for. The cool thing about MTV was you never knew what was next and they gave a variety. Algorithms can't seem to do variety.

@ Yeah, the algorithms (that sounds like a band) are made to show you more of what you seem to like. It's like a self sustaining positive feedback loop (okay, phrases like that are above my pay grade).

Yeah, Saturday morning just isn't what it used to be, is it? You looked forward to ONE day out of the week to be entertained and not educated, and now look at? They replaced all the cartoons with educational programs, these kids today will never know the joys of Bugs Bunny!

DAMN RIGHT!!! Bugs bunny Road runner show.

and those trippy live action sid and marty krofft Saturday morning shows. Our childhoods were spent consuming far-out media created by a bunch of a drug addicts

@@gauloise6442 Hey, I'd much prefer that to watching an antelope give birth, any day! To Gen Z, I guess I would say what you never knew, you don't miss. But imagine for four hours, pure animation joy having your Saturday mornings begin with Bugs Bunny and end just before Noon with Shazam/ISIS!

3 words Creature Double Feature.

Amen to that!

So true....

Thats not GenX but all middle age people past, present and future

My mom is gen x and my dad born in 1950s shithead and they suck and aren't helpful at all

Well without your parents you probably would have never been born