cultural observations: gen x

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[@kahwigulum]

"Unlike Gen Z, Gen X's nihilism isn't performative. It's authentic." Truest part of this whole video.

[@snowmonster42]

Obviously! It just grinds my gears that millenials and gen z think they invented the word "whatever."

[@auroraborealis13579]

Yes!

[@JP-JustSayin]

[cold_war] _has entered the chat_

[@MarcillaSmith]

@@snowmonster42 Gen X was never given gears to grind in the first place.

[@aick]

^ 100% We really *don't* give a hoot.

[@LividImp]

As a Gen X'er, I am very disappointed to see that we weren't forgotten.

[@ImaDoGToo]

Right? Just DONT with Xer videos.

[@dalerushton1394]

Me too.

[@ryanmichael1298]

Who are you talking about?

[@TheChristonline]

Gen X'er as well , this video would be way better if it was a silent video . Happy Thanksgiving !

[@reidellis1988]

I like Robert Smith.

[@ramundopepitos]

As gen Xs, my brother and I grew up like wild pack of dogs. We were given keys to the house by the third grade and were left to our own devices. We'd walk to and from school by ourselves, ate whatever my mother had prepared the night before and played outside with our free ranged friends till the sun went down. Ah, what a childood 😄

[@dalerushton1394]

It was the best !

[@EattheApple666]

Yes, but I'm happy my kids didn't do some of the things I was doing at ages 10-18... that being left alone is 100% accurate.

[@yeahno8294]

Same I had a key to the door in kindergarten came home to an empty house after riding the bus and would eat either pea nut butter sandwichs or pop tarts until Mom came home and made dinner lol rode my bike up and down the street with the neighborhood kids or by myself which was just as fun and would not be home until it started getting dark as we lived in an area that didn't have street lights to be the curfew teller lmao

[@jannap66]

100% was so fun and we were so fortunate

[@ramundopepitos]

@@yeahno8294 did you have a BMX?

[@LovelyDay11]

We didn’t just think the world was gonna end in 2000, it actually ended.

[@drivethrupoet]

I was too drunk or stoned to care.

[@Warbird_Death]

Truth

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@drivethrupoet Why not both?

[@Misty-gc6bq]

You're right.

[@Britpop938]

Exactly 😂

[@fredfredburger5150]

I'm Gen X, everything Frankie said is accurate, not that I care.

[@BrokeMoeHowardUHF]

Nope, he is wrong and stupid.

[@dalerushton1394]

What is this "care" word you speak of ? - Gen-X dude, 1969

[@nichollebraspennickx943]

Well said!

[@piccalillipit9211]

*AS A GEN X* At 13 years old I was rallying an old car with no windows in it, around the disused gravel quarry at the back of our house. To get there I had to drive the wrong way up a dual carriageway. 13 with no license no insurance no technical certificate no windows no seatbelt and no one reported me to the police, that was perfectly normal. In winter we used to scramble our motorbikes on the ice of the frozen quarries and in summer we used to jump off the top into the water - one time my foot went through the back window od a car someone had driven off the edge - I was severely cut but that was not a hospital issue cos my leg was still on.

[@A-with-the-J]

*AS A GEN Z* that’s hilarious and sounds like a dream. Gimme some of that childhood

[@emzed1275]

Rich kid….

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@A-with-the-J On the other hand my friend died sniffing butane gas at the back of the biology class and 2 other friends died on an RD350 LC motorbike when they hit a horse outside the school - so not all of us made it. The amount of insanely dangerous stuff we did.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@emzed1275 GOD NO - I grew up in the north of Thatcher's Britain - I went to school in black trash bags too poor to afford a coat. We ate pigs feet and nettle soup once a week.

[@agentsbigassforehead]

where were your parents

[@mickenoss]

'72 here, amazed there was no mention of how we used to live in the woods as kids ... literally. We built a den and camped in it all through summer.

[@TrepeGB]

Or how we thought nothing of playing in the rubble of derelict buildings that were never cordoned off back then.

[@InvalidUsername480]

And sometimes it would devolve into some Lord of the Flies shit. Time of my life

[@Kintabl]

83 and we did the same.

[@alij6350]

"Spending your formative years, dodging flying dinner plates would make a cynic , out of anyone" 😂😂

[@MarcillaSmith]

Most of us only dreamt of getting that much attention.

[@TheWorld_2099]

That really did happen, more than once.

[@rhodesboyson1700]

Are you saying that parents don't throw plates anymore?

[@johncasey1020]

Lived it, it was the entire kitchen table a couple of times.

[@victorkreig6089]

I have a soft spot for GenX because they were the first victims of the boomers

[@ProJanitor]

Ain’t that the damn truth

[@piccalillipit9211]

Not really, we were mostly ignored and forgotten by the boomers i.e. our parents...

[@victorkreig6089]

@piccalillipit9211 now you're understanding

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@victorkreig6089 In winter we used to scramble our motorbikes on the ice of the frozen quarries and in summer we used to jump off the top into the water - one time my foot went through the back window of a car someone had driven off the edge and was under the water- I was severely cut but that was not a hospital issue cos my leg was still on.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@Post-ApocSpaceDolphinPosadist Boomer is not an adjective - its a noun. You cant just use it to describe people older than you.

[@digichalk]

My Gen X memory: I use to pass a cold beer to my dad when requested from the backseat cooler during road trips when I was around 10. It was legal to have open container back then.

[@brt5273]

Same. I used to claim the right to pop the top and slurp the foam along the way to pssing it.

[@rhodesboyson1700]

I lived in Naples, ai could order a beer at the bar when I was 11 :)

[@ianobrien3248]

"Yes please" from any adult meant any kid under 10 had to get said adult a beer asap.

[@tinabean713]

I occasionally remind my mother that they let my alcoholic uncle who drove while drinking take us places all the time. She says they didn't know any better back then, but I remember that he usually kept his hands at 10 and 2, but lowered his beer hand below window level any time a cop passed and once told me we couldn't let the cops see that.

[@rhodesboyson1700]

@@tinabean713 just teaching you important stuff about the police :P when I was 4 my grandad took me for a walk through Edinburgh (he didn't have a buspass for me and there's no way he was forking out a ticket) we saw a wild drunk on princess Street (it was early afternoon to be fair) and my grandad (step) pulled me aside and crouched down next to me like he was showing me some beautiful secret of nature and said, quite sincerely, 'you canae fight when you're drunk son, if he's drunk, just headbutt him, he will go down like a sack of shite'. I remember looking up at this scary drunk guy thinking, 'this doesn't sound like good advice for someone who is three feet tall. But it was, it was great advice, because I ended up being 6 2 😂🤣. I'm going to pass it on to my grandson, 'a crack dealer is an easy target for extortion son, always remember that'. What a thoughtful generation of wise old men 🤣😂

[@TheWBWoman]

Dang, he nailed it! I did get lost by my parent in a store multiple times, have to cook spaghetti for myself, suffocate on constant 2nd hand smoke, and dodge things being thrown at me. I'm not even exaggerating.

[@dalerushton1394]

Yea, those were the days.

[@Jantonov1]

This video was healing for me in that respect.

[@ComicAcolyte]

So you are Spider-woman

[@TheWBWoman]

@@ComicAcolyte As I sit here staring at the big spider in the corner of my ceiling that I feel too bad to kill...yes, I think I am spider woman.

[@PamelaGriffin-hr3bd]

Sounds about right - given money to ride my bike to the store to buy my mother cigarettes and milk lol With a note for the lady at the store ha ha

[@rebeccahicks2392]

Millennial here, but it is weird realizing that Gen X is now old. I'm so used to thinking of them as around 40-year olds. Guess that's us now.

[@lionheart6518]

I'm 45 and Gen x but I identify as a Xenical.

[@TheBuggeroff]

mhmmm seems milennials didn't have maths in school....?

[@twinkincarnate]

the youngest gen x is 42 years old..? not quite “old”

[@Playingwith3D]

sneaks up fast. I still remember being a 20 year old smart ass like it was yesterday, and I'm gen x

[@AntithesisDCLXVI]

Sure feels old, but thanks.

[@jameshughes3014]

lol we really did get lost in supermarkets, a lot. The best description I ever heard about my generation is that we valued authenticity, even if it meant you were authentically silly or lame or whatever, it was better than being a 'poser'

[@deirdrebeecher3508]

Jesus, the accuracy, tho I was left behind after Mass not at the shops. Have to say I have forgave my Mam (74) her benign neglect when she told us she has no childhood memory of being hugged. The generational trauma in this country is mind-blowing.

[@artifundio1]

Not just your country. Most of countries.

[@Don-du7du]

He described my Canadian gen x upbringing to a T😬

[@eliza6971]

My mom’s from Massachusetts and come to think of it, she might also be your mom

[@SithCelia]

@deirdrebeecher3508 "The generational trauma in this country is mind-blowing." An under-statement, indeed. I grew up the last in a multi-generational line of passive-aggressive women, a grandmother who once gave her husband the Silent Treatment for a month just to prove that she could do it. I also still remember the time at age 8 or 9 when my mother drove off without me when I disobeyed her to chat up a neighbor friend. Nowadays, a little kid running after their mother in a car would incite calls to CPS, but in the '80s it was just life as usual for some kids. That any of us grew up to become halfway sane or rational adults is still hard to fathom.

[@tangyjoe4326]

My mom, who was otherwise a great mom, forgot to pick me up all the time. The movie theater, the public swimming pool, the mall etc…. We didn’t have cell phones but fortunately public pay phones were EVERYWHERE!

[@justahumanbeing.709]

As a 48 year old this was spot on, didn't mention all the drugs and solvent abuse tho. I remember being left in 'The Kids Room' in pubs for hours with all the other kids while the grown up's all got drunk, every now and then someones parent would come in with a coke and packet of crisps for their kid.

[@Surai00]

Did you play the mini bowling machine, too? Maybe an early arcade to keep the kids busy while dad tried to set a new record for how drunk he could get before he drove us home.

[@zelaht2778]

We were given tk lemonade. The pub crisps were amazing. Sometimes we got a packet of peanuts 😂

[@mynameisreallycool1]

How is that abuse? I guess the standards for parents have gotten lower these years. 😂

[@justahumanbeing.709]

i never said it was abuse.Where did you get that from?@@mynameisreallycool1

[@justahumanbeing.709]

@@Surai00 LOl. no, we didnt have anything in our kids room, just chairs and a sofa, was a bit awkward when there were other kids you didn't like, or didn't like you in there.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

This is very accurate. Gen X are collectively like an exotic pet turned loose in the wild and forgotten. We have learned to survive and neither expect nor require aid from anyone. Leave us alone and all will be well, tread on us and you will be devoured.

[@atomictraveller]

we'll make gGreat pets

[@TonyMarselle]

Bullshit. Gen x talks tough but sold the world to Amazon for a discount.

[@mstyles2667]

my friend says we're like the dinosaurs....@@atomictraveller

[@atomictraveller]

@@mstyles2667 i've been issued an emergency passport for unsolicited implantation. you're not dinosaurs, you're people who can't remember a word that begins with a m, a, s, o, n, s. john quincy adams political party was anti them guys. the only people aware now are just tortured in front of you for laughs.

[@user-uc3yv3rj3n]

What?, hopefully you dont expect to live long enough to become elderly

[@krash66]

As a GenXer, I often wonder how I made it past 30yo, not permanently maimed, dead or in prison. Mental and emotional trauma was not a thing back then, so we just pretended it didn't exist. GenZ is nothing like us. Last summer I had to show a group of 8-12 year old kids how to climb a tree to retrieve their ball stuck in the branches. I have never been so disappointed in any group of children. SMH. Just so sad.

[@dalerushton1394]

My sentiments exactly; well said.

[@willevidar6840]

Those are not Gen Z. Those are Gen Alpha.

[@tinabean713]

I remember when my grandparent's neighbor trimmed all the lower branches off his trees so I couldn't climb them anymore. I'm still unhappy about that 40 years later. 😠

[@Pollicina_db]

The last gen z were born in 2012 and to be honest the later part is more aplha than it is gen z. Most gen z are now in high school and university.

[@Kinikia95]

What?! I wouldn't know what to teach. Umm, climb it. That's nuts.

[@hauntedhouse7827]

As a gen Xer myself,(born in 73) I would have laughed my ass off if my upbringing hadn't crushed all sense of joy from my soul.

[@aubreyedison1011]

ahhhh the deep dark humor of Gen X ….gets a twinkle in the eye from a fellow Gen X and gets you put on list by other generations.

[@nichollebraspennickx943]

Amen

[@xChimkin]

i think i've been mistaking gen x for boomers oooops..

[@hauntedhouse7827]

@@xChimkin It Happens.

[@kaasmeester5903]

One of the great things of growing up as a GenX was the music. The 70s and 80s (and to some degree the 90s) were a treasure trove of great pop music, not all of it objectively good but still catchy and memorable. Everyone listened to the radio, and the pop charts were eagerly awaited every week. Most kids would have a tape deck with a blank tape at the ready, in case a good song came on; you'd hit the Record button and hope they'd play the whole tune without yapping over it. Epic mix tapes... I reproduced most of my mix tapes, first as CDs and later as playlists, and I still listen to them. We lived and breathed music back then, spent entirely too much on records, and sat down to listen to a selection of our carefully curated personal library. The funny thing is, my millennial / GenZ nephews and nieces are all big fans of music from that era. They'll listen to more modern stuff as well... but the 80s music is what stays on their playlists.

[@andycanfixit]

Buying stuff on tapes, then later cd's and now subscriptions to streaming services just to keep access to it as I don't have a tape or cd player at all besides a cd drive in a desktop that i use about once every couple years now. I remember watching Bush, Goo Goo Dolls and No Doubt in concert for $12, with most concerts being $15 to $30. Rare to get a ticket to anything now for less than $100 and those tend to be crap seats.

[@denisedevoto5703]

Those were the good old days. My kids are millennials because I am an older GenX, and they still listen to music from the 80s. I never listened to my parents music from the 50s. Yuck.

[@RikkiKuykendall]

It is pretty awesome that we can go listen to just about anything ever recorded now, though. No waiting around for a greatest hits show when something ages off the charts or never makes a commercial success. My streaming playlists cover about 70 years of music.

[@Prafik614]

Oh the times you’d hear a song on the radio/ while shopping and spend next 3 months trying to find out who was it and then next 3 months trying to find LP or c-casette. The amount of woooork you would put to be able to listen one song you like!

[@naomisherred166]

You could be talking about me and my kids too - summed it up perfectly. Only extra I can add is you would wait through the top 100 songs on the radio waiting for a song you wanted desperately to track down, only to just miss the name when you left the room briefly lol and do it all again the next week 😂😂😂

[@piccalillipit9211]

*AS A GEN X - HE IS ASTONISHINGLY ACCURATE* especially the father lighting a cigarette in the car and refusing to roll the windows down...

[@peterb8500]

While drunk with no seatbelt

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@peterb8500 actually my parents didn't drink, but that was really unusual, my uncle would turn up at the house properly drunk in a car...

[@RegebroRepairs]

Yup. Spot on. I don't know why he didn't make fun of us, that was just correct, and very nice. Although we also built the internet, so not ALL of us are internet illiterate.

[@shittymcrvids3119]

Yup, a Gen Z with early Gen X parents, that was both of my grandpas

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@RegebroRepairs my sister is, the entire family has to protect her from scams. She got scammed with some face cream the other day. £65 for a bark brown face crean that stays forever sticky on your face. This woman has a PhD for the love of God.

[@ian_b]

At last he's addressed my generation! How do I email this "comment"? Am I on an internet?

[@fredfredburger5150]

You have to give your bank details to a Nigerian Prince before your comment is allowed on the internet.

[@piccalillipit9211]

My doctor asked me not to message her but to email her - I immediately fell in love

[@zelaht2778]

😂 😂 😂

[@robertwright7937]

What the hell are "internets?"

[@ian_b]

@@robertwright7937 I can't really explain it, I'll get my young nephew to call you.

[@13opacus]

Spot on but as a gen x I would never tell somebody to work harder because I don’t care and I hate work 👍👍

[@humanbean7884]

See, this proves the GenX-GenZ unity. Meanwhile us millennials and the boomers are at eachothers throats 😂

[@ftrsaliyf-zd4wk]

No unity @@humanbean7884 It is their parents that say that

[@Kinikia95]

Unless they feel sorry for themselves about it. That's where I draw the line. " Of course you hate work, that's why they have to pay you to show up."

[@BanjoPixelSnack]

As a Xennial, my childhood was essentially getting kicked out of the house by my mum at 8 am, being ignored for 10 hours, then hearing her ring the dinner bell at 6pm and showing up back at home, me and my sister covered in dirt, soaking wet, and probably bleeding from cuts and scratches of the day’s adventures. She’d hose us down with the outside hosepipe and feed us while we sat shivering in towels. Those were the days. We were allowed to swim in rivers, ride ponies with just bits of string around their neck to hang on to, climb trees, disappear into the woods, all totally unsupervised. The only thing she told us we were not to do is play in the water meadows because of the hidden suction pools. Other than that, it was a life of almost total freedom. I feel sad for most kids growing up since then.

[@sunfishensunfishen2271]

Such an odd duality listening to stories about the freedom my genX parents had as kids, and then comparing it to my childhood where I wasn’t allowed outside.

[@britishrocklovingyank3491]

It's because we scream, "I WILL NOT BE MY PARENTS!!!" until we are stupid.

[@RhetoricalMuse]

@@britishrocklovingyank3491 It's because society was safer back then.

[@alicequayle4625]

​@@RhetoricalMuseapart from the pervs.

[@britishrocklovingyank3491]

@@RhetoricalMuse What? No. Every generation says that about the previous generation. Did you just watch The Sound Of Freedom? Do you call people "goomers?"

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

Yes, I even find it odd as a parent. At 8 years old I was catching a public bus by myself, to get to school in a different district. You think I’d let my daughter do that now? Hell no.

[@mercster]

As a Gen X'er who was on the Internet in the early 90s, spent many years as a UNIX sysadmin and runs Linux to this day, and knows how to not only use the Internet, but run services on it... come now. ;-) I dunno what you count as "using the Internet correctly", but if it involves looking at twitter and compulsively spamming unfunny memes, you've lost the plot. I say this tongue in cheek... thanks for the video!

[@user-xe2xm9ge3q]

You may know lots about the internet and computing, but the smiley face with a nose is always a generational giveaway ;) (I quite like them though, I find them endearing :-)

[@mercster]

@@user-xe2xm9ge3q Yeah... it's just an older way of doing a smiley, it's not like I'm unaware people don't include them anymore (or just stick to 😃), but that doesn't indicate a lack of knowledge. It indicates I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, I do my own thing. ;-) (Though I often switch back and forth between different emoticon/emoji types, depending on how I feel.) I quite the look of them too. They seem more formal somehow.

[@leteethgirl8778]

absolutely true. you had the millennial experience though i'd say, back when you actually had to know how to use a computer, which is mine as well.

[@romyma]

Yeah they just mean social media, lol

[@mercster]

@@leteethgirl8778 Yeah... I guess I'm an outlier, I was one of the only kids I knew who was online in the early 90s like that. It's just a precarious thing to say, cuz in reality, Gen X'ers actually BUILT much of the Internet kids think they don't know how to use ;-) But to be fair, also there are some Gen X who are clueless about technology, it us true.

[@connordarvall8482]

While Gen Z was growing up, Gen X would shield their children from all forms of danger due to the general assumption that life will take anything they care about away from them. They then wonder why Gen Z aren't adjusted of the inherent harshness of life without realising that it's a side effect of successfully protecting their child.

[@tcrijwanachoudhury]

This lol

[@luxinvictus9018]

as Gen Z, my parents basically taught me to distrust anyone and everyone and convinced me that the government didn't care about me, the corporations would exploit me, that most science and history is a lie and that academia would steal my money, and also that almost everyone I ever met was to exploit me or use me for personal gain. No Gen Z don't want to be part of 'society'. We're basically the generation that were told by our mom and dad that the illuminati is real.

[@gothic_xombie]

see my mum just raised me exactly as she was. i’m essentially a genx poptart wrapped in the shiny “limited edition” foil of genz. lucky me.

[@sony_mdr7506]

well we all learn to cope one way or another

[@RutabegaNG]

Overcompensating, yeah.

[@aedinbradshaw3618]

As a Gen X my youth was spent constantly getting electric shocks from dodgy wiring around the house. And being in constant fear of dying from Spontaneous Human Combustion

[@user-ux7yg2ch6i]

Yes. The spontaneous human combustion was a huge thing 😂

[@fd6944]

yes! I still think about spontaneous human combustion

[@Groundedsquirrel]

Great now I’m thinking about it again! I was sure that was the way I would go.

[@tangyjoe4326]

And quicksand! How come nobody talks about quicksand anymore!

[@Groundedsquirrel]

@@tangyjoe4326 yes when I learned that quicksand would probably kill me was when I also realized I was control freak. I wanted to control the quicksand. I was 4!

[@EliotBoonHuat]

Was waiting for this -- I was wondering whether we'd been forgotten (again). Our most enduring contribution is that we went raving on an absolutely ridiculous scale 🙂

[@DanAddison]

Also have been waiting for this, to get eviscerated, coz I assumed that I must be mistaken that gen Xers are kind of ok, the least maligned of the generations, as the least arseholeish or most balanced in general, but to my surprise and pleasure we get an easy ride here after all! Kept our heads down with a rather modest contribution, as you say!

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

No Cellphones + Streetcams = No Evidence. I would have amassed at least 40 years of jail time for the mischief I got up to in the '80s. 😂

[@mstyles2667]

We sure did!!!! We were rave and club maniacs. The HUGE nightclubs of the world wouldn't exist if not for Generation X.

[@eliza6971]

No, he just needed to wait long enough so you could say no one ever remembers you. That’s how we identify Gen X

[@EliotBoonHuat]

@@eliza6971 Still, could be worse I suppose... like if my generation was associated with being pointlessly nasty to randos on the internet, or something.

[@SetCCC]

Love this! I remember driving with a map, trying a restaurant without reading Google reviews, unknowingly, taking unflattering photos of people with a camera and waiting for film to be developed, loving the mall and thinking the answering machine was nifty.

[@darthgorbag]

ALL of this.

[@Browncoyote]

This brave young man is doing a great service by approaching Gen X at all.

[@zelaht2778]

Why? Gen x have a great sense of humour.

[@Browncoyote]

@@zelaht2778 Bless you for commenting.

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Speaking as a 37 year old millennial, I often associate the GEN-X with those talking fish that's mounted on a board that you find in a bar. They jump alive occasionally to prompt some random fact or comment and then flap back into static stiff position as you move away.

[@shaunw9270]

Lol , the word random was reinvented by Millennials as a comeback to anything they can't comprehend.

[@TheBuggeroff]

lol @@shaunw9270

[@RutabegaNG]

​@@shaunw9270Do you need a dictionary, honey? I mean you could look up the word random online, but maybe you need an actual physical dictionary to feel more comfortable.

[@nbeutler1134]

@@shaunw9270how do you not know what the word random means

[@shaunw9270]

@@nbeutler1134 I know what it means, thanks. I said Millennials have redefined it.

[@lisahalmshaw1275]

Forgot to mention the copious amounts of ecstasy and hallucinogenics we were all doing in the 90’s 😂

[@justahumanbeing.709]

yes, i was going to say that, most gen x blow their minds on ecstasy in a random field or warehouse! I remember when skunk first came out in the 90's! Before that it was lumps of hash with bits of plastic in!

[@lisahalmshaw1275]

@@justahumanbeing.709 Oh god yes the hash! And when weed first came along it was full of seeds.

[@justahumanbeing.709]

@@lisahalmshaw1275 Yes, i remember all the sticks and seeds lol! Was all black, soap and slate back in the day.I remember reading on an official drug information website a while ago that skunk first became available in the UK in the early 2000's but i first encountered it in 94. I don't smoke now i hate the stuff, got friends that have smoking for 30 years and they are all miserable.

[@humanbean7884]

As a millennial I did the same but just 10-15 years later, and the ecstasy was more potent and clean, and I bought my hallucinogenics and weed legally (but that's more a Dutch thing than a millennial thing) Can't beat the zeitgeist of 90's/early 00's raves tho probably

[@dexocube]

@@humanbean7884 The raves were amazing ngl

[@meditationsfortheanxiousmind]

There were sound issues on the first version so get over it !!!!!

[@0mn1vore]

Hadn't noticed anything wrong... Was it something you'd only notice on mono equipment?

[@reallymakesyouthink]

I will not

[@bottomtext7700]

Don't tell me what to do

[@20_below]

someone in the first version revealed the truth about fluoride and you are hiding it | sincerely, gen x

[@bottomtext7700]

@@20_below real

[@meditationsfortheanxiousmind]

Thanks to Raven Goldston for filming my documentary

[@levijosephcreates]

Nice one Raven.

[@atomictraveller]

if only my classmate and congresswoman gabby giffords wasn't shot in the head after issuing me an emergency passport for organised "M bubbas" stalking huh :) :/ fr33 w3st p4pua already?. 63 years bud

[@AlunParsons]

I'm Gen X, I first used the Internet in 1995 when I was 27 years old. We're not *that* old that we were already middle aged when the Internet came.

[@Sairfecht]

email and the “World Wide Web” was available when I was 18 / going to university in 1988

[@NikkiStarnova-hq9nx]

As a Gen-Xer, absolutely on the nose! This was hysterical. Pound sign 90srock

[@lefu7812]

Gen x are my favorite season of humans tbh

[@dalerushton1394]

Thanks 😊

[@Kinikia95]

Awww

[@Springbok295]

Growing up and coming of age during the 70s and 80s was truly the best. We had it good. I'd honestly hate to be a kid now.

[@Surai00]

Nothing typifies Gen-X like a man dressed in decent, mature clothing, who still hopes nobody sees the holes in his lips from when he got pierced as a teenager, and then decided to stop wearing it when being edgy in public became too much work.

[@brt5273]

OMG SPOT ON! I had my earlobes so gaged I'm surprised they closed all the way up. The only one I miss is my tragus piercing. That one was very rare at the time and I was really proud of it.

[@Surai00]

@brt5273 I still have my ears at a 1/2 inch and snug piercings on both ears. I haven't seen anyone with those in years. But, they were not easy to heal so I can imagine why.

[@Yuriel1981]

I was born in 81. Literally a last year Gen X/First year Millennial. I grew up helping my friends understand their tech lol. And got to get all the fun Gen X neglect and "Toughening up" while learning how toxic and trauma inducing it is. Best of both worlds airtight? Lol

[@ChinchillaFur]

GEN X Cannot be Observed - we are invisible

[@SithCelia]

"I got locked in a broom cupboard and set on fire for an entire summer. What's your excuse, cupcake?" Pretty much me now at 49. I was also once a passenger in a car whose driver decided to roll BACKWARDS through a Jack in the Box drive-thru, as well as the kid who often held the wheel while the driver grabbed a beer. That car at the end is hardly shocking to this Gen X broad.

[@dalerushton1394]

Yea, I'm a Gen-X dude and I didn't get what the big deal was either ( ? ).

[@jupiterthecity]

If he does Boomers next, he is a brave man

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

I have a very hard time picturing Boomers standing still while Frankie calls them on selling out both their children's AND grandchildren's futures.

[@mypronounismaster4450]

@@Buttercupz2001 1960s antifa

[@mypronounismaster4450]

@@Buttercupz2001 enigmatic generation, that's a weird way to say 'selfish hypocritical assholes'.

[@mypronounismaster4450]

@@Buttercupz2001 It's a cultural observation.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@Buttercupz2001 "and supported the Civil Rights movement" That whole thing turned out to be an anti-White long con.

[@varukasalt]

We're the generation everyone forgot about. Just how we like it.

[@BababooeyGooey]

All the introverted millennials and zoomers would feel right at home there.

[@BababooeyGooey]

@intersonality Yes, that's why the introverts would feel at home in the least talked about generation.

[@ftrsaliyf-zd4wk]

Yeah, That's why they are all imitating the eighties and nineties

[@plpa8250]

I remember camping with my much younger Gen Z and Millenial cousins and I remember all of them standing around what was suppose to be our campfire and me yelling "where the f*ck is the fire?" Till I remembered not everyone got a 10" camping knife and a flint when they were 8. Nobody could cook or put in a fresh pot of coffee, but they were good sports, brought packed food, and were trying their best. It's just not easy to camp when you saw "camping" through an instagram filter.

[@ct6852]

Every generation of young people wants to learn skills and have new experiences. The challenge is just finding someone willing to take the time. Granted kids can find whatever info they need online...but nothing sticks like first hand instruction and experience.

[@atatterson6992]

@@ct6852 i would have agreed 20-30 years ago... not so sure anymore

[@Fredgilb29]

I am 44 yo, 45 before the end of the month, and I am a "young" gen x (born november '78). I feel blessed to grew up as a kid in the 80's, and a teenager in the 90's. This video made me smile, laugh, and feel sad at the same time. Love your content, keep 'em coming!

[@luneoner]

same

[@KitsuneHB]

It was also nice to know how to survive without the internet or a smartphone but also being able to use it. In 1996 I used the internet for the first time - searching for some hints for the Indiana Jones game made by Lucas Arts. :D

[@gaywizard2000]

I would not call you Gen X!

[@Fredgilb29]

@@gaywizard2000 Well, I was born before '79 so I am.

[@gaywizard2000]

@@Fredgilb29 I don't care. I hate these stupid arguments. Most of you do not understand what we are talking about with generations and are merely looking to hang on to some flimsy identity definitions. If you weren't a teen in the 80s you're not genx in my books!

[@intuitivecat]

As a gen-xer i found this hilarious due to my wicked sense of self deprecating humor. 😂

[@dalerushton1394]

Same here, for the same reason ! Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[@jonhigginson4096]

Also, as a Gen X, even if I’d grown up in Barbados I’d still regale folk with tales of picking the ice off the inside of my bedroom window as a kid.

[@jolenejoleeene]

As a Gen Xer, I must dispute one of your many extraordinary claims. It was my mom that refused to roll the car windows down while smoking. Thank you.

[@deathscythehell7937]

The first thing is no one but a Gen X can explain what a it's like to be a X'er. First of all we've had our war with the boomers and they lost. Think about it the boomers were our parents, by the time we got into our teens we've had enough of their crap. That was when we told them to f-off and get out of our face. They already let us know where we stood. The first day of highschool we got the speech, "you better think about what you're going to do in life cause at 18 you're outta my house. You ain't taking any of my good blankets under a park bench. It was at that point they only got nothing but sarcasm and disrespect for the next 4yrs. Letting them know we couldn't wait to get out of their house either. Telling them actually how many days left to our freedom out of their house. Now they're old and looking for sympathy and a place to live out the rest of their days. Well you you know what they say about sympathy, "if you're looking for sympathy look between shit and syphilis in the dictionary cause I have none. Hell we just got the millennials and Gen z to move out of our basements. So you actually think we're going move in a boomer who thinks they can tell us what to do in our own house? Not gonna happen. You millennials and Z's go right ahead a war with the boomers. Cause we Gen X'ers don't care one way or another, just leave us out of it, we're not called the don't give a **** generation for no reason. Seriously we really don't give a beeeeep!

[@sunandablanc]

Kicked out of the bar at closing time, racing down the highway at 3am with a half dozen friends from work, no seatbelts, me wild-eyed at the wheel of the "borrowed" company van with a bottle of whiskey between my thighs and a head full of ecstasy, the new Nirvana album (cassette) blasting on the speakers, everyone chainsmoking, more than enough coke left to get us all through the night and even through work tomorrow, and then the weekend could finally begin.... The world seemed so innocent and free then. Sigh.... ..... How the fuck are we all still here?

[@ct6852]

Didn't know E was even a thing during Nirvana era. I thought that came later? Like '98, '99, 2000?

[@sunandablanc]

@@ct6852 Oh it was already around in the 70s, and was being used by psychotherapists before it became a Schedule 1 drug like acid. It spread in the 80s but I don't think we called it ecstasy yet when I first had some, around '87 or so--it was just MDMA. The first I saw of it in Philadelphia (where I went to college) was brought to a party by a friend who was a paramedic who had copped it from a lab. It was a powder then, you had to snort it, and it often gave you a brief nosebleed because it was so harsh. We didn't care, the effect was too fun. We called it "the touchy feely stuff" among our gang of friends. I don't remember when people started calling it ecstasy. I would guess during the House/Rave boom in the early 90s though. I remember it being around then a lot, in its easier to take form.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@ct6852 No, I knew some kids that were into it in 95', and it had already been going on for a little while by then.

[@ct6852]

@@VegetoStevieD Oh interesting. I don't think I'd even heard of it until that movie Go. But I was 14 and in a smallish town.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@ct6852 There was a movie about e?

[@arcata31]

We (Gen-X) lack the narcissism of millennials and the proud ignorance of Gen-Z. We experienced the world transforming into a fat, sickly, weak dystopia. Forgive our lack of trust in the systems that successfully programmed the subsequent generations into the capybaras of the human race-unaware of where the dangers lie. Anyway, love the vids, keep them coming.

[@arcata31]

@@Eet_Mia Bringing a divisive political opinion into everything is a mark of the programming I spoke of. DIVISION is a tool of those who run all behind the curtain. Unlearn what has been "learned". Godspeed.

[@alrighttumbleweed4782]

Oh I get it, the first sentence is the punchline. Nice 👍

[@atomictraveller]

those aren't systems, those are your mates who you still haven't sussed attend a certain lodge as well as do everything you ever looked at, heard, read, thought holy smokes. you know congresswoman gabby giffords got shot in the head? why the f do yo uthink that happened? we're busy. w3st p4pu4

[@whuppy]

Srsly we expected the world to end, then believed a better world was possible, then thought maybe the big atomic reset button might have been the better fate after all.

[@Asatru55]

Gen X is the generation who really thought they had it all figured out and then chose to blame the subsequent generations for why the bubble burst that boomers have left for them. You can really see that when you have a Gen X boss at work. They think they have it all figured out while being completely divorced from reality.

[@DankSi]

Yes we need to recognize the gen x struggle and how great they are

[@judsongaiden9878]

Some of us reject nihilism and embrace a more Burt Gummer-like philosophy. Fun fact: Billy Idol is a literal Boomer (born in 1955) and was the frontman for a band called Generation X at a time when the term wasn't yet in common usage.

[@Wayzor_]

I'm just happy you acknowledged us.

[@bruh-ch3hb]

guillible paranoia is an insanely accurate term

[@lemurianchick]

What's much worse is complacent gullibility. Sticking out your arm for a mystery injection that you've been coerced to take. After these three years for you to write that, I guess I would call it willful ignorance .

[@davidpar2]

Who’s really more paranoid-those of us who never took those stupid shots, or those who pulled their hair out over the fact that we didn’t? 😆🤡

[@BrokeMoeHowardUHF]

Nope it's not buddy.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@lemurianchick True.

[@levijosephcreates]

Am gen X and learnt how to drive a fork lift truck at the age of 10, although couldn't sit on the seat, we are harder than the younger generations too. Was looking forward to this one, nice one, you nailed it.

[@sirsillybilly]

I did too ! My old man had a warehouse and I learnt to drive it at the same age. Used to work holidays from 10 until I finished school in there. Problem working with men who were usually no older than teens is they would haze me… wrap me in a box with ties and put me on the fork lift and elevate it to the ceiling and leave me there for 15 minutes. Good times 😢😅

[@levijosephcreates]

@@sirsillybilly It was (what I called) Uncle Tom who was a warehouse manager in a factory, on a Sunday he would take us for a tour of the factory and then forklift driving lessons, we never got to pick anything up, just drive about an empty factory, so much fun and such fond memories. Cool to hear a similar story from your past, even the hazing am sure was valuable lessons of some sort. 🤣 Am sure most of us GenX folk were bullied on some level, I learnt quick to always fight back, the worst that could happen was having the shite kicked out of me, which did happen from time to time. Think am stronger for it and still up for a fight to defend myself and others, the only bad part is the slow healing time of older age. Thankfully most of the younger generations are weak as F$%k which evens things out somewhat.

[@atomictraveller]

@@levijosephcreates fight back? rofl, more like bend over and spread whenever a lodge boy even breathes west papua, oj simpson was a cover for the MK child r4pe verdict. find ONE truther who remembers.

[@joshuatheargonaut4412]

That’s right. We were the latch key kids. Fiercely independent and truly weird. Resilient and tuff. Nowhere near perfect but we didn’t need validation from others. How powered mutants of some kind never even considered for mass production. To weird to live, to rare to die. If you are truly gen x then you know pop culture references and should know that one.

[@lehnrik]

Fear and loathing in Atlantic City...

[@DoctorTweed]

I sang the opening of your comment in my head to the tune of Rock n Roll Kids, that song that was Ireland's winning Eurovision entry in 1994.

[@janllh24]

'How powered mutants"😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aImuYYV_ormpnpIfeature=shared

[@0mn1vore]

Facts. ;-) I feel so seen right now. Accurate except I've also kind of reverse-inherited Gen Z's work ethic, but that really boils down to the gullible paranoia you mentioned. Corporate interests do not have your best interests at heart, so fμςκ 'em. Do as much as they pay you for, no more and no less.

[@wheressteve]

We are the last generation of free range kids and amazingly most of us didn't even die. The ones that did were wimps anyways.

[@piccalillipit9211]

At 13 years old I was rallying an old car with no windows in it, around the disused gravel quarry at the back of our house. To get there I had to drive the wrong way up a dual carriageway. 13 with no license no insurance no technical certificate no windows no seatbelt and no one reported me to the police, that was perfectly normal.

[@IreneCampos-tk2vd]

Ita not all sweet though. Most prison inmates are gen X

[@thesecondYouTube]

A lot of gen X children were kidnapped and sexually assaulted or died early because of mistakes (falling on train tracks, road accidents etc.) in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Then a lot more died early in the 80s and 90s of drug overdoses.

[@scottjoyner9267]

facts.

[@squareinsquare2078]

As a Gen X, this is all facts.

[@shaunw9270]

I presume your parents were boomers ? I found the video funny because I relate it to some of my friends. I was born 1969 but my parents were silent generation, born in the early 1920's. My 3 siblings were boomers who think I was allowed more freedom than them but I'm sure my parents brought us up the same.

[@truepenny2514]

As a Gen X writing from my doomsday bunker I built because of my gullible paranoia, I can confirm this report is 100% true!!

[@atomictraveller]

congresswoman gabby giffords got shot in the head. a year earlier, she issued my emergency passport for optic implantation.

[@SarthorS]

Except that Gen X was not the doomsday bunker generation. As a teen, I remember watching crazy people in America doing this stuff. It was the previous generation building nuclear shelters. For Gen X, the Cold War was a thing we were born into and just something that was normal life. Or at least that was what it was like in the UK. Our schools weren't making us do nuclear bomb drills and telling us that hiding under a desk would protect us from a nuclear blast.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@SarthorS "telling us that hiding under a desk would protect us from a nuclear blast." I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

[@GwladYrHaf]

“my gullible paranoia” That’s just what the government wants you to think. Regards, a fellow GenX

[@0mn1vore]

I applaud the 1:1 aspect ratio, btw. Namaste. 🙏

[@SunFrame]

Hmm yer, it's pretty accurate on reflection, no wonder my generation enjoyed alcohol and drugs so much, and in fact problem drinking rates in Gen X are still much higher than younger generations, it's a worrying health trend for the future

[@dalerushton1394]

As a Gen-X dude born in 1969 I found this to be extremely accurate and complimentary. Thank you 😊

[@monomakes]

Top stuff Frankie/ @meditationsfortheanxiousmind ! Although I'm sure this video was on the cards but, I feel like I spoke, you listened - and it was gold! Thank you. I am no longer forgotten!

[@dcrea9416]

My parents would bring my brother and I to the bowling alley on Fridays so they could bowl league and we’d be in the arcade until 1 AM. By that time, they were 3 sheets to the wind and we’d drive home. We were 5 to nine years old. Once I was the ripe age of nine, since I was the oldest, they left us home while they went bowling so they could come home at 3 instead of 1 AM.

[@ClockTowerTitan]

Ok had serious flashbacks. My parents would chain smoke on all car rides and never allow me to open a window even though I always had bad motion sickness.

[@bobdobalina838]

Most conspiracy theories end up turning out to be true. - a Gen. X-er

[@Kinikia95]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@mikehunt5637]

This is hilarious. Both of my parents smoked. One day we were driving somewhere and my mother looked back at me and then turned to my father, who was smoking at the time, if he would role down his window because his son was turning green. :)~

[@user-ux7yg2ch6i]

In the UK us gen x kids used to play on metal climbing frames with only concrete and broken glass beneath them. Many of us were free range with toddlers in tow, and it was normal to be sent to the local shop at 5 years old.

[@juicedgoose]

You say only concrete and broken glass but there was syringes and piss soaked blankets too. You just reminded me of the witches hat climbing frame, specifically designed to crush the heads of kids who fell off.

[@bottomtext7700]

Gen X created internet memes. Before us it was all Snoopy comics and the Honeymooners. You're welcome.

[@BolnoyBratchny]

No, it was Millennials on 4chan in the 00s

[@bottomtext7700]

@@BolnoyBratchny You probably have quite a few opinions about the origins of internet culture, but it's important to remember one thing: you're wrong. Here's why. To start, you're completely missing the point and everything you think is actually at odds with reality when you look at the data. In fact, you're nowhere close to being accurate. It's simple to understand when you stop for a second and actually look at the issues. Once you open your eyes, you'll see that you're wrong about each and every one of them, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. "But what about this other thing I heard?" No, if the past is any indication of the future, not only is there no chance that you'll ever be right, all signs suggest you will never even come close once in your lifetime. The only way you'll ever be right is to repeat everything I say word-for-word to every single person you know. Until then, you're wrong.

[@BolnoyBratchny]

@@bottomtext7700 wrong

[@bottomtext7700]

For the record, Moot was 13 when he created 4chan in 2003. He is a millennial, but if you actually believe all the other users were also millennials you are just bad at math. Millennials were children at that time and Moot being 13 was an exception to the otherwise almost entirely gen x internet user base. Memes existed on the internet before 4chan. Internet culture existed before 4chan. SomethingAwful and other boards existed in the 90s. Google early memes and be astounded that the internet world existed before 2003.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@bottomtext7700 dancing babies

[@upnorth2421]

I'm a middle child gen x. My favourite childhood memories include playing in a broom cupboard, door closed. There is no photos of my important childhood events. My level of independence was so high that I took my first job at 12. I made my own clothes, nicked my cigs from mums stash and hitch-hiked cross the country at 16. I think I'm tough but I'm helpless with internet. Love this video.

[@BsktImp]

No-one wears flares, wing collars, kipper ties in synthetic fabrics better than Gen-X! The last generation to be both innocent as kids and pragmatic as adults. Your home computer defined you: ZX Spectrum (popular), Commodore 64 (middle class; in top maths/science sets), BBC Micro B (one or both your parents were teachers), Amstrad CPC 464 (you got picked last in games).

[@KitsuneHB]

You've forgotten the Mac - a friend of mind had a father who was a proud :D Mac user in the late 80s/early 90s. He had an apple sticker on his office door. :D He was a teacher and a bit snobbish. I was a C64 user (well, gamer to be honest - and I've stayed a gamer!).

[@VegetoStevieD]

"Your home computer defined you" Ya, if you're a dweeb

[@davemiller6055]

@@holidaywednesday4069 That's me.

[@_robustus_]

What would I not give to go back to the 90’s. It was a good fookin time for me boy-O.

[@ct6852]

Genuine question: do you think Gen X is willing to share what they've learned? Like are they generous with their time, or they just want to be left alone?

[@SabrinaBelladonna]

I am Gen X and I don't mind sharing what my experiences have taught. What do you like to know?

[@ct6852]

@@SabrinaBelladonna I don't know. Nothing specific. But I had some Gen X people in my life growing up and they were fu***ng hilarious. Like just the most naturally funny people I've ever known. But they were always such a mystery to me. Still curious about them. Lost touch when they went away for college.

[@SabrinaBelladonna]

@@ct6852 What was so mysterious about them?

[@ct6852]

@@SabrinaBelladonna Probably mostly just because they were older and I was enamored with them. But to this day that age group just seems like their own breed. Independent, somewhat a-political, non-conformist, cynical. Definitely used to get my feelings hurt by some of the cynicism. Lol. The oversensitive stereotype might be a bit true with us. But I don't know I just find Gen-X really interesting.

[@SabrinaBelladonna]

@@ct6852 I certainly agree with us being independent and non-conformist. And I think that we are a bit cynical for a reason; growing up during the coldest years of The Cold War and thus knowing that the world as we knew it could end any day made us less sensitive and more like live strong and die young if not many would have been constantly depressed. In addition to this, our cynism might also have been just as much a contra reaction against the hippy movement; they at least wanted to come across as being sensitive, however, even back then they had begun to develop the lesser likeable Boomer traits like being smug and a bunch of know-it-alls.

[@JimmyMcBimmy]

"Gullible paranoia" paired with generic iconoclasm. It's the whole, "I'm a free thinker (I used to listen to Nirvana, ffs!) and I know everything is fake" but lacking the methodical thinking skills to distinguish btwn fact and BS. P.S. Yes, many aren't like that. I'm referring to the types covered here.

[@dexocube]

Something we don't address enough as a society is how much your critical thinking skills will decline as you age.

[@lemurianchick]

What is "fact" is that people are dying suddenly and prematurely. If you want to keep listening to pathological liars, be my guest.

[@VegetoStevieD]

You don't need critical thinking skills for most issues. Just start noticing Jiwes, while you stop trusting them at the same time.

[@rowdyriter]

gen x is only ones i trust on getting advice from

[@halinadoncaster8686]

Brilliant. Laughed my head off while trying to drink my morning coffee. Thanks loads.

[@ftcdesigns]

As a Gen X i find this funny as hell, as Gen Z is now re-living the same thing we did. Difference is, we didn't have the great resignation or quiet quitting, so we can still afford a house

[@luniz4209]

gen x ain't on instragram but the rest seems pretty good. moved out of the house at 15 and stopped trusting people after my roommate tried to set me on fire XD I'm glad you were able to produce this without getting bitten

[@dalerushton1394]

Isn't instagram that thing on the interwebs where people buy illegal drugs ? As a Gen-X dude I stay away from such things.

[@ftrsaliyf-zd4wk]

Actually plenty are on instagram

[@mchlselects]

i love the personable and endearing use of ' c u n t ' at the end. that was cosy

[@TheWorld_2099]

This is the GenX you’ve been able to observe? That must be a sad place where you grew up, or maybe you need an antidepressant. You can thank GenX for the best rock, hip-hop, rave and electronica music of all time. We had music festivals where we SPOKE to each other and made new friends. Leave your shire Bilbo and see the world.

[@paulleach3612]

Meh. We're the lost generation and I think it's better for the Millenials and Gen-Z that we stay that way. We're the generational equivalent of the quiet kid who tells you not to come into school the next day because they like you.

[@richcalcium6969]

I was left in a burning car as a child. When found mom told me to quit being a baby and to just grow up. Thicc boi now. Thicc.

[@carlorotella]

I'm a Gen X and I approve this message.

[@twoskies3226]

You're correct about it being authentic. Now leave us alone, we know what you're up to.

[@dalerushton1394]

Exactly, he thinks he can fool us; as if we don't know what his real nefarious agenda is.

[@G_Demolished]

Gen X will be thriving when shtf and the internet crashes.

[@wk8219]

I love how the redheaded lady halfway through it’s just busting up, laughing at what he saying.

[@jamiedorsey4167]

Gen X, survivor bias personified in an entire generation.

[@thesecondYouTube]

It's pretty sad. So many died early because of childhood accidents then suicide and drug overdoses in the 80s and 90s.

[@cyberzombie038]

@@thesecondKZbin It was also the period when gang violence peaked both in NYC and LA, also Baltimore if I'm not mistaken.

[@peter8479]

This is poetry, truly the Jonathan Meades of our times, fine work

[@makingd.o.123]

Kidnapped only two times man they had it easy I was kidnapped 4 times and I still had to walk to school in the snow uphill both ways

[@8bitgamerC64]

I just remembered from about 6 yrs old popping down to the local shop to get my dad his daily 20 Benson and Hedges.

[@aikighost]

He left out the bit where we had the best bands and were the last generation that could get away with being full on cunts while out in town and it would never show up on social media.

[@donalddagobertdunkel8094]

Most of Gen X sadly couldn’t make it to this video, because they had to watch some 80‘s reruns on TV.

[@scottjoyner9267]

full house and family matters. great shows

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@scottjoyner9267 Jiwes and Naggers

[@Kinikia95]

I'm watching a Columbo marathon right now! It's mostly 70s.

[@BirdFlypath]

Thanks Frankie Strange on how you inform me I ‘m a boomer but you are impervious to the lamppost and Oscar Wilde’s house behind you Priorities change clearly Have a happy Guy Fawkes night

[@buxton5165]

Depressingly accurate.

[@jameswells554]

Gen X actually thinks for itself; you don't see us dropping dead due to Medical coincidences like flies, now do you?

[@artifundio1]

I am very proud of being able to manage myself on the grid or completely off the grid. I am oblivious to tik tok's "life hacks". Like, Gen X are life hacks machines ourselves!! Nihilism is true, although is very different to read about it when you are 14 yo, than to live it when you are 40. Feels less badass 🤣

[@RatDog84]

Gen x' ers .. most of us spent time in emergency rooms getting stitches and plaster casts ...good times😮