Historical - so so good!! I hear you Michael behind the scenes!!!

There was something in the hose water we drank and anything went as long as we were home before the street lights turned on

I was 4 years old when I became a latch key kid and when I was 5 I was in charge of babysitting my 3 year old sister

No one noticed us…

At the beginning of the 70 s, people looked down on latch key kids, by the end, everyone’s parents split…and the morphed into the very people they looked down on.😂

11 years later, still relevant. Thanks!

I actually forgot the millennials used to be called gen y.

When I was 6 years old I played my parents vinyle From the Beatles, Carol king, Zeppelin, T Rex and etc. Gen X had the best music. Punk. Metal, Ska, New Wave. Classic Rock , Goth, Industrial, Techno Country, Disco and the birth of Hip Hop. You know this

Proud to be Gen X

Here in the UK, I made 'mix tapes' as you call it, from rock music stations. Yes, we traded tapes. Then we heard that recording was 'killing music' - hell, no man, I was attending concerts and buying records from bands that I wouild not have otherwise discovered. It was a whole underground market that the boomers could not understand.

Absolutely true! I was in charge of my sisters when my mom worked and there was no school. I was about 10 years old and we would watch Frankie Valle and Annette Funicello movies, old shows like The Dick Van Dyke show and I Love Lucy. I would feed my sisters bologna sandwiches and top ramen. We played and watched TV till it was time for our mom to come home. Then, just before she got home we cleaned up the house and put away all evidence of our shenanigans so we wouldn't get in trouble. I was an adult before I ever made it to puberty, responsible for my siblings and the house being cleaned.

XD it’s very funny I’m a gen z

Karen is Proud to be a Karen.

Both my parents were from the silent generation. They were born in 33 and 40. I'm an early Gen X....

Gen-Z "Slang" is almost exclusively derived from AAVE (African American Vernacular English) that has, for the most part, been in use by the Black community in the United States for many decades. It is unoriginal and borders on cultural appropriation.

Gtfoh with that nonsense. I'm 1984 millenniaI. Both my parents worked full time jobs. My mom would get home between 5-6p and dad around 9p-12a. Was just as unsupervised. once came home after midnight at about 13. My dad was hiding in a shadowy corner. when I tried to open the front door as quietly as I could. he pops out of nowhere and hit me open handed upside my head so hard i rolled 2 summersalts. Another time in baseball, side note when I was in sports only 1st 2nd and 3rd got trophy's, but anyways I was pitching got a line drive and missed it, hit me right in the eye. My dad assistant coach after scolding me for not catching it told me to walk it off. I heard all the classic lines like I brought you into this world and I will take you out. I wasn't allowed to cry or the line stop your crying or ill give you something to cry about. If I cursed I had to keep a bar of soap in my mouth for 5 minutes after being smacked upside the head. When we learned about social services in school and I tried to tell my dad he couldn't hit me, he hit me anyways and said good now you can go live off of them. I've got a million story's just like those. I was raised to show elders respect and not to speak until spoken to. We went to church almost every Sunday. I drank from the garden hose and used the side yard as a toilet because i was locked out of the house. Had a cassete tape walkman. I was kicked out of the house at 8am and told not to come home until the street lights were on most weekends. Most of my clothes came from older cousins. I had to earn money doing chores for any money I got on top of my normal chores I was just expected to do. I had a lawn care business at 14 which I bought all my own equipment such as a mower, edger, hedge trimmer etc. That's in Las Vegas where some summers reached above 120 degrees. I knew how to clean the pool and check chemicals at about 13-14. Knew how to patch a roof leak same age. Change the oil and belts on a car before I was 15. Didn't get my first family computer until about 14-15. Still had to input ms dos commands to get anything to do anything. Shot my first gun and learned hunter safety at 8. I don't know about post 90s millennials but we definitely did all the same crap and went through all the same crap as any prior gen did. We grew up through some of the worst gang violence in american history. It wasnt just the werdo in the creepy van we had to worry about. You waved at someone or looked them in the eye they might shoot you calling your wave a gang sign. All the same crap gen x thinks made them special was the exact same crap I was raised with. Atari game system and all. I remember getting a regular Nintendo for my birthday a couple years after it's release. It was a total game changer. And again I had to earn every dollar to buy my own games for it. I think gen x just likes to feel like they were somehow special because they didn't get enough love or something. Wasn't gen x the generation of flower power and hippies in the 70s? Then cocaine and heroin junkies in the 80s? Didn't gen x create the disposable economy and ship off all our middle class jobs to China in the 80s? Then they have the nerve to say millenials don't want to work? No, we just don't want to work the dead end going nowhere jobs that were left behind and have had to start our own businesses to have any chance at success. Isn't it gen x that kicked the can of the federal national debt down the road for us to deal with? Didn't gen x change the name of secretaries to managers for a pay raise and to feel important while doing none of the actual work. Didn't gen x loose every war they fought in? Man I love how gen x likes to talk soooo much crap when they don't really have any success stories to be proud of. Must be nice to have them rich boomer parents to give yall opportunities in life like a new car and a college education. My generation had to go through the worst economic recession in history just after we started into our careers and never recovered to how good they had it in the 90s. Man I could go on all night. It just must be soooo nice to be a gen xer with their jobs that still offer benefits like insurance, retirements, and paid vacation. I've worked in construction for 26 years and was never offered any of those things. I just wish the damn boomers would retire already so that we can have a shot to contribute to society instead of being the grunts doing all the work for the gen x glorified secretaries called managers who stand around or sit in their cushy offices all day while we do all the work. Trust me gen x ain't no better nor any more street smart. Their all ego. All show and no go. Bunch of arrogant pricks that never accomplished anything. Gen x is an absolute joke. They are the weak men good times created. They created the hard times that have sculpted us strong men. We will create the good times so that our children can thrive. Gen x isn't anything special their mommies just told them that they were and they believed it. I've got more knowhow and resilience in my pinky than your generation has in its whole fat out of shape body. Gen x better than us. What an absolute joke. Sit back and watch real men make america great again after you destroyed it.

Another boomer mom telling their weak coddled children how great they are. Lmfao😂😂😂😂😂

who is this lunch lady "gen x whisperer" again ...

60yr. I was recording Rush.

I'm totally down with us being a bridge. I'll be happy to help. But it's a toll bridge, payable on demand, and closed when I'm off the clock Don't like it, build your own damn bridge

I’m part of the 1976 Gen X variant. I’m glad I had around 8 years before my father introduced our family to our first computer (commador 64) and I had a chance to live the Gen X life before technology entered into the equation.

We believed that we could grow up and be president.

45, proud to be a baby of 79, Gen x all the way.

We drank beer and smoked cigarettes at 17 nobody OD if we did drugs it was weed

im a xennial, but i was raised the same way, i have gen x bro and sis, i had independence, i could go pretty much where ever i wanted, had to be home by the street light

Why's she blowing air up our asses? What does she want? Ngl this feels like a warm up for some narcissistic gaslighting bs

Why is youtube pushing gen x on me at this time? Genuine question? Gen X here

F that

My dad was a boomer..my mom me generation..my parents were total opposites..my mom kicked us out all day..I had to babysit..my sisters were terrors..😂..

Only positive is a scam. Never buy in to it.

We (Gen-x) sold out like the rest of them. We're garbage. I hate my sell out Gen-X. We where supposed to destroy the system. WE DIDN'T!!! WE JUST GOT OLD!!

My biggest Gen X worries were being eaten by Jaws or being a slave to the Planet of the Apes....

My mom even had a coded knock on the door as well🙃

So true

Elon Musk. Generation X. Yeah. A real good example of our slacker generation, huh?

We're not the leaders of today because the boomers refuse to step down and they're holding all the real estate

Yesssssssaaa

We were not all watching MTV because we did not all have it, if nothing else I was watching cartoons. I might of made mix tapes from the radio. In 1987 a low was passed it is not considered stilling it to make a mix tape music off the radio or TV.

But I’m the generation that had to wow burn 🔥 floppy 💾 disks in to graduate high school 🏫 yup 👍🏻

Yes I’m the floppy 💾 disc generation 👍🏻

I use a lot of Spotify oh yeah 👍🏻

😂this is so true! 😂

1966 I was born , childhood in the 70s was great , wish those days were back life was great .

Plug the crockpot in? That's not exactly the idea of crockpots...

Wonderful outlook thank you

Gen X was in the best position to fully maximize their imaginations, innovations and introspection..

You need to find Gen X.

I'm a Feb. 1970 X-er and my parents are 1940 and 43 late Silents. Dads parents were Lost Gen. 1890 and 1896 and moms were Greatest Gen. 1914 and 1918. So I had different perspectives growing up.

Gen-X is bookended by Jen Jones (1960-65) and the Xennials (1980-85) subgroups of the generations before and after. As a Feb. 1970 Gen-X I feel I have more in common with Gen Jones than I do Xennials. Interesting subject.

Absolutely true. Born in 68. Was shoveling snowy driveways in the neighborhood for a few dollars in the 70s, when I was 5, & my brother was 7. We always had work to do as kids. Only got a couple gifts in special holidays or your birthday. As a child, we were taught not to speak when adults are having a conversation, unless you’re spoken to first. We def had become a disgruntled Generation by my 20s. We’d seen all the factory jobs disappear. I grew up in the Rust Belt & we watched as towns they once thrived, were now in serious disrepair & crime had gone up. We started really noticing the disparities in what our traditional news sources were telling us, versus the reality we were living in. It caused a deep distrust in the “system.”