Everyone Forgets About Gen X

[@smittyde]

I’m so old that when I hear “Stop” I’m not sure whether it’s in the name of love, hammer time or I should collaborate and listen.

[@susand]

Lol, that was great!

[@felicitygee381]

😂

[@GregMoress]

Stop draggin my heart around...

[@malcolmrowe9003]

Stop right there. Thank you very much... (don't know if that one's known outside the UK).

[@jillg7018]

🤣🤣🤣

[@libbydavis2554]

Shhhhh. We WANT them to forget about us. Let the two generations on either side of us bicker over who is worse while we know they both are. ;)

[@holdernessfamilylaughs]

😂😂😂

[@dorianr4770]

and then there's the even more invisible Gen Y - a little too young to be an 80s kid, but just remembers the 80s and older then the millenials

[@MsAubrey]

@@dorianr4770 Gen Y is what Millennial was called initially. I'm guessing you were born in the mid to late 80s?

[@MsAubrey]

Agreed. Let the Boomers and Millennials duke it out. I'll grab the popcorn. Gen Z can join us in the viewing. 🤣

[@majormana1]

let's be real half stuff boomers blame on millenials is stuff gen z does

[@ThePaintPartySociety]

Haha, my teen daughter asked me what it was like in the "olden days" a few months ago, I was truly shocked, I asked her "what you mean like in Grandmas day?" and she laughed and says "Noooo, when you were a kid". Meanwhile the kid is wearing the fashion I wore at her age and listening to my generations music because "vintage" stuff is cool apparently. I don't think I've recovered from this conversation yet.

[@absinthealice]

Ouch 😂😭

[@justathumb]

haha i still remember asking my mum the exact same question when i was about 10 in 1994. i didn't understand her horrified amused reaction 😂 i legit thought she grew up in like 1901 before photography with frilly dresses and i wanted to KNOW what it was like in victorian times.

[@ImpishlyDevious]

All summer long I saw the ‘duds’ I rocked out when 13-16! Oof. My girls raid my closet every season to see if they can get the ‘true/vintage take on the new fashion era’…ooooof. With ya

[@tiffanygrever8092]

My 21 year old son is like that he was doing a Google profile and was asking me if it looked 80s enough that was what he was going for he also said it must have been cool to grow up back then.

[@r.hunter5018]

Same! 🙄

[@gayshafevold964]

Being a 41-year-old high school teacher means that I get to see the next generation every day. Our stuff might fall into the "classic" category but high schoolers are really into the 90s right now in style and music. I'm planning to ride this "I'm cool because I know so much about this stuff" wave as long as I can.

[@conniesmith3544]

I’m with you! Love your attitude!!🤣

[@cbgbstew4072]

As a fellow Xer, I love your post!

[@annstropes2236]

Same!

[@jamiekelliher2185]

41? Sorry but you're a Millennial!

[@John-ct9zs]

@@jamiekelliher2185 She's got one foot in both generations. Born in the early 80s people are kinda that way, much like born in the early 60s people are half Boomer/half Gen X. I'm a Gen Xer born in 1976, and I can relate to people born in the early 80s just fine, mid 80s people OK enough---they feel younger but still retable, but starting with the late 80s born people, and ofcourse the 90s people, I can absolutely feel a generation shift.

[@xzaviayifu3581]

I'm Gen X, nearly 52 and this low key freaks me out. For the last 20 years or so I've had these odd, somewhat emotionally painful moments when I think about a movie, music or event that happened that was significant to me. Then, the slow dawning horror when I realise 'oh that was 30 years ago' AND I WAS AN ADULT!!! Whilst my body is starting to feel my age, my mind is having trouble getting past being 35 max. LoL

[@kynn23]

I'm 45 and was shocked to realize last night that it's been nearly 30 years since I got my driver's license. I had to do that very easy subtraction a second time because I was sure I must be off a decade.

[@kathleenking47]

I'm 63. Soon to be 64 and feel similar I've been married 33 years I noticed, before I got married, guys pulled their pants up🤪🤣

[@wildechild5]

I'm a little older at 55 just turned it a few weeks ago. Honey you want to talk about freak out moments I've had plenty too. My first one came in my 30s when my sister asked me if I like a certain band which was a punk band that I used to listen to Back in the early 80s. Now she knows the bands that I used to know and I don't want to know those bands no more because I'm so embarrassed that she knows them. This is what the world's come to my sister who we call Barbie cuz she's tall blonde and beautiful green eyes is now listening to my punk music. She says it's just like rock and roll. No bitch it ain't. So from one Gen X'r to another girl I will take your 52.

[@tararoast]

I can relate and now feel normal hearing you say this, big Thank You 💗 I thought I was going crazy.

[@johnmininger7472]

Yeah, I'm 55 and It is when I'm talking with my daughters, 18 and 21, and their friends when I get those moments. It's the cultural references I think everybody knows and it just goes right over their heads.

[@mks9469]

I love being Gen X. The last independent generation. We figured stuff out for ourselves. I grew up with every race and I didn’t care. If you were a good person then I liked you. It was just a better time to grow up!

[@TyffanyHoward]

Amen! We figured stuff out for ourselves and questioned. Yes, I had a diverse group of friends and we were like family. Great time!

[@DanteVelasquez]

AMEN!

[@missybelmont9830]

This divide is manufactured

[@carolejackson8357]

I'm 67 and lived that same reality. LOL

[@Christa.Francis]

👏👏👏👏❤️❤️☺️🤗🤗🤗

[@artaxorwelle2206]

Shout out to my GenX peeps! The glue holding these silly, last few generations together. The key is we were the bridge between the old world and the new. We are pioneers in that sense.

[@DanteVelasquez]

Perfectly said 🙂

[@Christa.Francis]

☺️🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@sissinoklahoma2057]

You misspelled 'Prisoner between two Gens' - both are super needy and we're the caregivers and mediators.

[@lyndawn2577]

I think that bring broke.

[@indetigersscifireview4360]

Funny, that's how we boomers feel. Well younger boomers. Boomers v2.0. Being the bridge between the old world and the new world. It's like Geddy Lee said the new world man is wise enough to win the world but fool enough to lose it.

[@DaralynS]

Thank you so much for this! Proud to be a Gen X! Little to no parenting, good music, lots of self reliance. All translates into the wise beings we now are!

[@dalpz205]

Yes! Don't bleed on the carpet and if it hurts walk it off.

[@ieatoutoften872]

@@dalpz205 Baby Boomer Parents upon seeing me with an open flesh wound: "Go bleed on the roses [in the back yard]!"

[@dalpz205]

@@ieatoutoften872 🤣🤣

[@mananimal3644]

I am a Gen Xer sisters are boomers, and my parents were from the Greatest generation. One day when I was young I asked my dad for a bike helmet. He said, “why?” That’s all you need to know🤣 I love you Mom and Dad🥰

[@robinsonkaspar3395]

Yeah but Holy Survivor Bias, Batman! I’m glad as hell our kids don’t have to survive what we survived, and many of our generation didn’t.

[@Calm_Chaos]

Definitely, the best period to be born in, absolutely loved it, original music, kids talked to each other, if you bumped into someone they didn't want to start fight, and you can actually go on real dates due to you having social skills.

[@peterbelanger4094]

Yeah, that part, but now we get to be old and worn out as the world around us collapses. We get to be seniors in a ruined, collapsed world where everything is alien and changed, and nothing makes sense anymore. In many ways the 2020's are much worse than I thought they'd be, and we forecasted some pretty bad things for the 21st century back in the 80's, but the reality is even worse. That stuff is all memories now, faded away, in the distant past, gone forever. Now the world just plain sucks. I'm done, just waiting for the end now. Hopefully my life will not be too long.

[@wandadawnmiller1552]

@@peterbelanger4094 I feel the same way. I told my doctor I'm choosing to stop all preventative care and hopefully I'll pass before the age of 60. Otherwise, on the eve of my 60th birthday, I'm checking out.

[@chessicahullum2896]

Please don't, we need you. I have friends from prior generations, I don't viewed anyone padded out because they age, no matter what decade they are born in. Take good care of your health you are valued more than you think. There's still alot of people that love communication and are not partial. Human life is too precious to give up on, you effect more people than you'd believe 😥

[@chessicahullum2896]

@@wandadawnmiller1552 Please don't, we need you. I have friends from prior generations, I don't viewed anyone padded out because they age, no matter what decade they are born in. Take good care of your health you are valued more than you think. There's still alot of people that love communication and are not partial. Human life is too precious to give up on, you effect more people than you'd believe 😥

[@chessicahullum2896]

@@peterbelanger4094 Please don't, we need you. I have friends from prior generations, I don't viewed anyone padded out because they age, no matter what decade they are born in. Take good care of your health you are valued more than you think. There's still alot of people that love communication and are not partial. Human life is too precious to give up on, you effect more people than you'd believe 😥

[@Laurieohio]

I totally feel this. Our city used to show "classic" movies in the summer-Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, etc. Then one summer, they had the nerve to show FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF as an old classic. I nearly had a nervous breakdown.

[@MsAubrey]

🤣

[@manisteerocks7092]

Omg are u serious?...Ferris Buller is not classic!..damn them!

[@DebbieSp19]

No. Not Ferris!! 😮 Save Gen X!! Wait omg when NKOTB gets played I jam out and young kids don’t get it. I mean unless a parent played NKOTB cause baby blockheads are a thing.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Either that’s a popular thing to play those three movies, or we sat around each other at those movies. Rather not call out exact location. But Southeastern Wisconsin?

[@Z-LightfulMemories]

I love watching these kids today react to our 'classic' movies (such as Ferris, Footloose, etc.) and they are all like, these are good. Um, yeah, they are!!!

[@GoodKnitKisses]

When I hear our music I just think “FINALLY, someone my age got promoted to control the music and we have arrived!” 😂😂😂

[@jawjagrrl]

Even hearing Journey as an enticement to buy good at Applebee's? NO! You Gotta FIGHT For Your RIGHT To Keep Your Music Pure! :)

[@peterbelanger4094]

LOL, Gen-X music is all over the map. You can't really stereotype one ban or genre with gen-X. what is "our" music? maybe that's why gen-x is labeled 'x" in the first place. they couldn't rubber stamp us like the boomers.

[@vaderladyl]

@@peterbelanger4094 Yes that is why we are gen x, we didn't want any labels and they couldn't come up with one for us.

[@LampWaters]

Lolol

[@maribellenavarez8767]

Can absolutely relate. I lost my sh*t when I heard The Cure at both the bank AND in the elevator at the hospital ON THE SAME DAY. I honestly thought my life had ended.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

The cure!!!??? At the bank? AND a hospital? No no nooooa, that’s a step too far.

[@ammj6202]

I remember seeing The Cure in concert. It was lovely!

[@MsAngrybutterfly]

10,000 Maniacs at the Grocery Store and the Credit Union for me.

[@jessicab3986]

Me too… at the grocery store 💀

[@kittygumdrop7442]

Lmao elevator music? Thats a whole new level 🤣

[@christinarouton7990]

I had the same reaction when I found out the golden girls were supposed to be in their early 50s. I always thought they were in their 70s.

[@bronzedrage]

I thought they were in their early 60s.

[@patriciaotoole6508]

Me too!

[@nikkismustanggt]

Yeah that’s absolutely ridiculous. I found that out a few months ago and that was my reality check

[@RAJOHN-ke7mc]

That wouldve made sofia 90 lmaoooo

[@vaderladyl]

Yeah today's 50's are not yesteryear's 50's for sure.

[@MELODYMUNRO]

Gen X - we are the last generation who remembers what it was like to grow up without mobile phones and social media ... and the long wait (years) between when a movie played at the cinema and when it was finally released on VHS

[@Didisnsis]

Gen X- the generation that handed their children (Gen Z) cellphones and tablets when they were barely out of the womb. As a result, Gen Xer’s kids are addicted to screens, have crippling anxiety, and no real world social skills. But yeah, latchkeys and bicycles.

[@johnfoltz8183]

Or recording a movie from a tv show to a VHS tape

[@xftbllplyr2091]

@@Didisnsis gotta point there

[@michaelmorton5698]

@@johnfoltz8183 Or making a mixtape using the largest cassette tape available and a radio.

[@rons8223]

I miss those days

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

I’m Gen X and I could relate to every minute detail of this. I once heard someone refer to our generation as Gen Invisible. It dawned on me that day they were right. All the millennial and baby boomer drama and no one discusses OUR generation. 😂 I don’t like to call our elders boomers, I think it’s disrespectful, but I understand the huge disconnect between those generations. We are stuck in the middle, which gives us the superpower of being able to relate a little bit to both of those generations. I wouldn’t trade being a teenager in the 80’s for anything in the world. One day I was listening to an 80’s song on the radio and I realized it was on an oldies channel and they called our music an oldie, but goodie. I was appalled! Nooo it’s my parents music that’s oldies!! 😱😲😲🤣

[@spicybrown75]

I agree 💯. I keep seeing videos and articles on the conflict between gen z/millennials or millennials/boomers or gen z/ boomers. We're totally invisible in pretty much all political/societal topic discussions.

[@silverbobcat1855]

I'm a boomer and it cracks me up when these good looking, fit people call each other than. Doesn't bother me at all.

[@LESBIANANDAUTISTIC]

"Boomer" is disrespectful ? I thought it was just another generation label.

[@janebyrne6463]

I'm a late period boomer (born in 1960). Since I was too young to remember the JFK assassination, the Moon landing and Woodstock (but old enough to remember Watergate, Nixon's resignation and the Bicentennial), I have always felt closer to Gen X than the Boomers. As for Gen X, I agree that they are the overlooked Generation in many ways, but all generations (Boomers, Gen X, Millenials, Gen Z, even Gen Alpha) are getting older every day. As the Pop Punk Band, Bowling for Soup sang in their latest single "Getting Old Sucks, But Everyone's Doing it".

[@crochetcate777]

Boomers is not a disrespectful term at all. It’s not MEANT to be used as that anyway. These folks are part of what’s called the “Baby Boom” after the 2nd World War. It just implies the fact that there was indeed an unusually large amount of kiddos born after peace had been restored. It’s actually a wonderful thing and a term of endearment imho. Both my parents are Boomers and they have no issue with the term and are even proud of it.

[@soapboxgamer9877]

Oh -- I feel this video. My terrifying moment was at the gas station where I heard "Welcome to the Jungle" -- at the GAS STATION. I knew it was over at that point. Although, (philosophical moment here) Gen X has typically been "on our own" for most of our lives. We were the latchkey generation, we're the ones whom everyone forgets about. We learned that no one is going to be there to save us, so we have to be self-sufficient. It's a very different life view, but also sets us up to know that we're responsible for our own lives and happiness. And we know (and are constantly reminded) that no one gives a crap about us. And that's ok.

[@ZlothZloth]

No, it's over when your music gets pushed out of the doctor's offices and gas stations in favor of that new stuff - take it from someone near the oldest edge of the X. OMG... I just realized... when I get to the "rest home" stage, the boomers are going to be waiting for me. Disco is going to hit all over again!? Maybe I can find a place with a lot of Dead Kennedy fans.

[@tarottarantulas]

You hit the nail on the head. "Self sufficient", probably the last generation to understand what that even means.

[@soapboxgamer9877]

I don't think we will be the last generation for that, but I do think that it will be a few generations before the pendulum swings back.

[@stevenscott6337]

Hearing Fade to Black on a classic station was painful….

[@lynnpayne6262]

I heard Rush at the Walmart while digging for movies in the $5 bin near electronics. Then I heard " When I think about you I touch myself" at a Safeway in the denture glue isle. It happens so fast!

[@sandy-ke1kr]

I know we are old, but I love being part of Generation X. I'm so glad I grew up during that time. Wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't think we care if they forget us because we know how cool our generation is. We don't need anyone's recognition. 🙂

[@tarottarantulas]

Yasssss. Agree with that last sentence 100%!!!! We don't need the gold stars and participation awards for every little thing like younger generations 😆

[@10yearsfan06]

We're not old, we're experienced! Not that I care...

[@ieatoutoften872]

As a generation X, I have vivid memories of frequently walking a mile to and from elementary school (3rd grade through 6th grade) without either a teenage or adult chaperone. One generation later, I was in shock to see dozens of cars lined up at a school bus stop in a housing development to drive high school kids (9th grade through 12th grade) a two minute walk from the housing development bus stop to their nearby homes.

[@TheWhisperTexan]

And when we got home we cooked our dinner without adult supervision.

[@TheWhisperTexan]

@@cstuartdcI'm totally with you on this. I get some popcorn and sit and watch Boomers v Millennials and sometimes Gen Z joins in. I have no skin in this fight and I'm good with that.

[@Revenant2010]

It’s pathetic. Their generation is so so so soft.

[@briangulley6027]

You left out the snow and uphill both ways, like it was when I was a kid. I'm a late boomer, born in 59 and it was uphill both ways, really.

[@helendeandrade3461]

I don't have children, and I wonder why other gen Xers raised their kids that way. Why deny kids the experience we had (when it was positive)?

[@BAAWAKnight]

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Metallica--all get played on the local classic rock stations. Stuff that was new when I was in college in the early 90s. This really hits home.

[@mks9469]

Sound garden!!!! I loved them!

[@EH23831]

It’s also making a huge comeback with “the kids”. I’m a teacher and they keep asking me about the 90s! 😂😂

[@TheWhisperTexan]

If that's classic rock now is U2 and INXS ancient rock and the Rolling Stones and The Beatles prehistoric rock. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Revenant2010]

Don’t forget Pantera, White Zombie, Alice in Chains and Tool

[@BAAWAKnight]

@@Revenant2010 Of those, only Alice in Chains gets played on the classic rock stations around here.

[@whiteshadowfare]

This had me laughing so hard. Now when I hear the word Peppa, I think Pig! Because I am a Grandma and this Gen X woman is not ready to admit I am old enough for all of this.

[@mattfoltz7752]

As a 54 yr. old GenXer, I feel your pain. Along with all my own aches and pains.

[@absinthealice]

Same. 54 used to seem SOOOO far away. Just .. wow.

[@missybelmont9830]

54 is way too young to have aches and pains. Do an antinflammatory diet, you'll feel better

[@mattfoltz7752]

@@missybelmont9830 It's from working outside since I was young. Grew up working on farms, spent about 15 years working landscaping, and I've been driving a truck for the last 20. Those years out in the weather have taken their toll.

[@dalerushton1394]

@@mattfoltz7752 I hear ya, I'm 54, I was pretty rough and tumble since I was a kid., I guess we all were. No pads or helmets, no seat belts or air bags as a teenager. Then I worked as a carpenter framing houses. I'm starting to feel it too. But it was worth it.

[@dalerushton1394]

I have a bad back, but at least I have a weather finger now. Lol 😆 🤣 😂.

[@terraalbritton6405]

Here is something fun, though! I LOVE hearing my music as I shop for groceries! But I liked my parents' music growing up, so 45 is still young, technically. Also, being a teenager in the 90's meant that none of the stupid stuff I did got recorded!

[@bronzedrage]

YES! That's the best part of being GenX. Our nonsense stays in the past. Lol.

[@gregmarquez8720]

@@bronzedrage the late night chinese fire drills, running down the street in just my undies, pole dancing at school thank g-d there were no cell phones! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@stvargas69]

I tell my kid and my nieces & nephews the stuff I did when I was a kid and they don't believe me. That makes me feel like a rockstar

[@mayowankenobi]

@@gregmarquez8720 Shhh...don't tell them our secrets.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@bronzedrage I am one of those my peers would want to take out hits on if they knew just how much of their shit I remember...

[@dirkbsilver9260]

When "Enter Sandman" came on the oldies radio playing at Subway... I felt joy and sadness in equal measures. Then flat out consternation when the teenagers in line ahead of me were asking who played it and why did it have to be depressing. Gen X... the world will never understand us.

[@letmethinkaboutit8982]

I introduced Enter Sandman to my 9 yr old and he loves it. 😂

[@dirkbsilver9260]

@@letmethinkaboutit8982 it is imperative that we teach the future generations properly.😎👍

[@letmethinkaboutit8982]

@@dirkbsilver9260 I totally agree😁

[@aquarius5719]

The world never understood us. And it never will.

[@dirkbsilver9260]

@@aquarius5719 that is so very true.

[@Unknown-Umbra]

My wife just said " Are they listening to our discussions?" We are right there with you on all of these topics. Thank you for representing Gen X with incredible accuracy. Our family enjoys watching your videos.

[@darlenegattus8190]

Ty!!

[@Althea1111]

It’s all 80s music all the time in our Safeway. Sometimes I feel like jamming out in there, and it’s bittersweet because this was the music of my teen years… Gen X 4EVAH!!!❤️‍🔥

[@AngelicaLeDang]

I just put headphones on and Listen to all the 80s hair metal Glam metal that's in my iPhone but I wished I didn't throw away my Walkman or diskman and did you remember carrying a bunch of mixed tapes in your school bag those were the days and

[@sarahupdike1754]

The first time I heard Nirvana playing in the background at Walmart, I said to myself "Not cool Muzak....not cool." I then realized that me knowing that background music was often provided by Muzak, meant that me and my music had matured to the "elevator phase" and thought, "Well played, Muazak...well-played."😁

[@automnejoy5308]

You guys are taking this too seriously! I was in a Walgreens the other day and they were playing "Ain't it Fun" by Paramore. They'll play anything that's over 5 years old. It's not a big deal.

[@coriolass]

I so feel your pain. I was at a team meeting last week for election workers last week. One of the managers decided to read a thing about how generations can work together effectively, went from boomers directly to millennials. We really are the invisible generation. On the bright side, we had The Clash.

[@guytech7310]

The Clash was a boomer band, formed in the 1970s. Gen-X in the 1970s was in elementry school. Gen-X: is the real silent generation: Ignored by our parents & ignored as adults. US politics will pretty much skip over Gen-X. it will go from Boomer presidents to Millennial presidents (presuming Brandon does start WW3 with the Russians & Chinese).

[@mattallengroupatREAL]

Unlike whiny millennials and boomers we just don’t need “that talk”

[@kathleenking47]

Similar to those born during the GREAT DEPRESSION The "lost generation" was them Now... you could almost. STRETCH that generation To 24 years instead of the 18 original 1946-1964 To 1941-1965 The WW2 kids arent originally boomers, but they may as well be, by this time The war babies were the musicians, or the older brothers of the boomers For example..Beatles and Jimi Hendrix

[@thafunktapus]

@@mattallengroupatREAL precisely. we just wish to go about our business without alot of fuss

[@stevenscott2136]

In modern parlance, "Boomer" has come to mean "anyone old enough that you object to their culture or opinions", and "Millenial" is the same for "young enough". The actual generations are irrelevant for tribal-rivalry purposes.

[@LizA9294]

All of this speaks to my soul. It all started a few years ago when I was taking my time in the grocery store because they play such good music… 😂

[@HeavenlyRainPath]

I go to a grocery store that plays the best music from the 70s and I love going in there. Class of 87.

[@dalerushton1394]

@@HeavenlyRainPath Class of '87 here too ! 👍

[@Octoberfurst]

This really hit home. I am 64 and when I think of "oldies" I think of music from the late 50's, 60's and early 70's. Now "oldies" is music from the late 90's early 2000's. Feel--so--old. But I don't care what anyone says. I still say the Moody Blues, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac were some of the best bands ever!

[@chickie8252]

Me too! I grew up with 101CBS FM " we play your favorite oldies" with Cousin Brucie! Usually followed by " the Doo Run Run" by The Chrystals or " I'm just s lonely boy,"

[@erica4862]

Yesss 🙌

[@integribeez4114]

Sadly for us there will be no oldies. Who wants to hear a pop song from my generation 20 years from now?

[@someguy7805]

Yes, and for me, throw in some Linda Ronstadt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and Wings.

[@HJohn-xn9ub]

Sorry, but if you were born in the 1950s, even the late 50s, you’re still a baby boomer. Late, or even second wave, but still a baby boomer. Gen X starts around 1965 for a birth year. There are far more people born in the mid to late 50s than in the mid to late 60s. That’s the Baby Boomer / Gen X divide.

[@acuzengineer6259]

Another Gen Xer here! I aged myself when I announced to friends, "the problem with many teenagers today..." They looked at me and laughed, remember when we thought we would never say that?

[@M2Mil7er]

I was saying that when I was a teenager!

[@MountainDewComacho494]

The problem with teenagers today ... is they are too young!!

[@pyrovania]

For me it was when I understood what is meant by "youth is wasted on the young".

[@EH23831]

My friends and I daily tell each other about our aches and pains! 😂😂 Feel like a nana every time!

[@kathleenking47]

@Phillip Banes very dangerous Even little kids font know how to play, since they're on 📱all the time That links to the world, and parents still think its 2000 Until kid got into something weird

[@mycupoverflows7811]

My husband and I are Gen X and we definitely go to the restaurant early to miss the crowds! And I think he looks adorable in his readers. 🥰 More Gen X videos!

[@butternutsquash6984]

Walked into the store a month or so ago during the back to school tax free weekend and noticed that *all* the music was stuff from when I was a kid. It was nice but then I realized that I'm officially "old person buying for the family." The cognitive dissonance was deafening.

[@dclark142002]

...people think marketing is simple... ...nope, lots of thought and research goes into what songs get played...

[@Autogirl83]

I will never forget the one time I went to the grocery store and the whole store, full of millennials and gen x, started singing "I Want It That Way" it was glorious.

[@mentak2593]

Oh man, wish I’d witnessed that!

[@melz2952]

Couple months ago the grocery store was playing Morrissey. When I bemoaned my dismay at this out loud, the front end manager said “Who’s Morrissey?” 😩

[@brandypowell8157]

😂 when I hear our jams in places, I just think “woah, they’re getting more progressive with music choices!” 😂😂😂

[@apwmojack]

ti cant see them playing painkiller at the grocery store

[@bastarddoggy]

Gen-X won the freaking Amazing Race! The millenials didn't. Y'all are entitled to a mic drop for that.

[@holdernessfamilylaughs]

🎤

[@sadfaery]

I'm 46 years old and it hurts every time I turn on classic rock and oldies radio stations and hear 80s music. But on the topic of our generation being forgotten or erased, I have read so many articles recently that have different generations listed in them for statistical comparison and they just skip Gen X completely. Some things include us, of course, but it's bizarre to be reading a news article that just leaves Gen X out entirely. And yet it has generations from before Gen X and after Gen X.

[@kyledavis4890]

This. So much this.

[@Battle5star]

I think it's because most of us are too busy to be bothered taking surveys and we generally don't care what people think about us anyways.

[@williamjones3534]

A big reason for that is because they don't know how to classify Gen X. It started off as advertisement. They didn't know how to classify us commercially because they couldn't advertise AARP and other retirement nonsense to us because we were not of that generation but at the same time they couldn't go internet or virtual/ internet tech because we don't quite fit. We are that generation that bridges the Analogue (boomers) VS virtural (milennial/ Gen z). We were not born into the internet age but rather there for its inception and grew with it. The boomers never had it in youth like we did, only getting it later in life.

[@RGGeek]

@@williamjones3534 Yesss, I like being Gen X because we’re the only generation that feels comfortable in both the analog and digital world. It’s a bridge generation. Get a boomer to cut and paste or a millennial to mail a letter. It’s kinda crazy as these are skills the other Gen would find totally second nature.

[@automnejoy5308]

@@RGGeek Let's get something straight! I am firmly in the middle of the Millennial range (born in the late 80's) and when I was going to school all throughout the 90's, we all knew how to write letters! We had pen pal programs with other schools. In fact I had a class in junior high that actually taught us how to write a formal letter to companies, to teach us how to report flawed products so that we might get refunds. I even remember a Life Skills class that taught us how to balance a checkbook.

[@CJLOVE72]

When I hear one of OUR jams in a store I just start singing along and dance to it like no one is there. LOL

[@SugarBooger10]

I know all the words and sing out loud 📢

[@ltldxy71]

I swear if they turn Pearl Jam or Nirvana into elevator music I’m gonna lose it right there in Tarjay! I love you guys! ❤

[@pazza4555]

I remember orchestra covers of the Rolling Stones in dentist waiting rooms

[@einahsirro1488]

Are you kidding? That's your chance to terrify teenagers by suddenly roaring "Jeremy spoke in... cla-a-a-a-ass tDAYYYYY"

[@lynnpayne6262]

I have heard that. Now I don't even care. I just go sit at Starbucks and wonder if I am to old to rock vegan leather. The answer is no, as long as it covers all bits.

[@apwmojack]

oh they will because they were both industry promoted bands .

[@dalerushton1394]

That would definitely suck.

[@noahpartic7586]

50yr old Gen X from '72 here. It's official: We're old now, not yet senior citizen & the music of our childhood is become "Classic". We made it...🥳.

[@beksaylor]

I am not old, but I did make to my 50th birthday this year. :)

[@noahpartic7586]

@@beksaylor 🥳Congrats, you're middle aged now & you made it.

[@naturalnashuan]

The bummer I discovered on my 50th is that senior discounts are still 5 years away.

[@noahpartic7586]

@@naturalnashuan 😔Fuck.

[@noahpartic7586]

@Helix Nebula 😱WHAAAAAAAAAT?

[@helenramsdell1959]

I was in PT and they were playing all 80s music. I loved it until I mentioned to the therapist how great the singer was and she said "Who?". 😭😂

[@kingofnothing1433]

Helen, if you really wanted to confuse your therapist, all you had to do is just respond with no; not The Who.

[@manisteerocks7092]

Ouch!

[@philip7461]

@@kingofnothing1433 Guess Who

[@chickie8252]

I was at PT a few days ago too and had a similar experience. They were playing music from the 2000s but I thought it was from the '90s. I got married in the year 2000, so I was really really busy that year. I get very confused between the late 90s and the early 2000s. Plus sometimes I'll hear a song and I can't believe it's 20 years old already? How did this happen?

[@John-ct9zs]

@@chickie8252 Yeah I'm in my mid 40s and I go to physical therapy for a torn rotator cuff. They play a lot of 80s and 90s music, but I"m sure most of the PTs don't know it. The therapists are mid 20s to at oldest perhaps mid 30s. Some of the mid 30s people know some of the 80s music, and they usually know the 90s stuff, but none of them really know the artists unless it's Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, maybey Kurt Cobain, people like that.

[@JoJoGranum]

I’m proud to be GenX too. Always forgotten, always ignored. To be honest that’s fine. We get to do our own thing and let everyone else go to their hell in their hand baskets. Personally made handbaskets at that :)

[@krisnett5081]

We love being ignored…. totally normal for us ❤️🤣👍🏻

[@markhalstead2386]

Gen X and our music is considered oldies!! 1980’s music is still the best from top to bottom. We have a local radio station that only plays 60s, 70s and 80s music and it is called Classic rock The Mix. They have an app that the radio station streams on for when not in the local area. This is my most listened to station.

[@mayanelson980]

Yeah! I listen to that sometimes!

[@tom2point0]

I hated when they started playing 80’s on the oldies station! I’m like “oldies” is 50’s and 60’s and maybe some of the 70’s! 80’s is it’s own genre altogether dangit!

[@markhalstead2386]

@@tom2point0 Yep. 60s were oldies to me and 70s too since I was young in the 70s. 80s are my favorite music overall.

[@tom2point0]

@@markhalstead2386 why can’t the rest of the world see that hahaha 80’s rule!

[@wordivore]

@@tom2point0 And different genres within that genre.

[@dedhampster4730]

Goodwill is always playing Golden Years and Tuesday's Child by David Bowie. One time an employee put on Poppin Tags by Macklemore and weirdly everyone know the lyrics from the 80 yr old grandma to the 8 yr old. The whole Goodwill looked like the music video with everyone rapping and dancing all silly. Magical!

[@annaburch3200]

My husband said he loves hearing our 80's/90's jams at the grocery store and singing along, loudly, to embarrass our 18 yo. 😆 I also realized that when we were in the 1980's and all the 50's stuff was kind of nostalgic and cool, like the 50's "oldies" rock and roll . . . It was 30 years prior. Now, when my son's generation calls 80's music "oldies" and I'm like, WTH? I realized, CRAP! It was over 30 years ago. ((Sigh))

[@carynplatt9790]

The upside is the songs are still getting airtime! Enjoy them wherever you are and dance like nobody's watching! 😊

[@kellychisholm8009]

I totally sing out loud in the grocery store!

[@gregmarquez8720]

I dance whenever I get the chance. Not very well but I do my best. Oh and if the song is super good I add in some vocals with the dancing and put on a lil show. Lol

[@harryrimmer6830]

I remember a good number of years ago when the Olympic Gymnastics team from the U.S.A. was killing some time waiting for the final team scores to be posted, and the background music was playing "YMCA", and all of the gymnasts started dancing. The announcer commented "All of these girls weren't even born when this song was popular".

[@briannorris7780]

Would it surprise you to know that the current Olympic level gymnasts weren't even born when you saw that? That was 1996. Where did the time go???

[@BlackCoffeeee]

I adore being a gen x'er. We hit the jackpot with our generation. There was a lot of good vibes and humour. I miss that.

[@christinae30]

But it's still here - inside of us!

[@ScientificallyStupid]

I miss the vibe of going on family vacations as a teenager, being bored as hell, until I made new friends in the town because I had on the right band's tshirt (it was Operation Ivy, this happened to me twice- once in Niagara Falls, once in Lake George). No social media, just drumming up conversations with people who looked to be your own age, hopefully with common interests. It was a truly magical feeling.

[@silverbobcat1855]

I still remember my mother's reaction when she started seeing the stuff she grew up with in antique stores.

[@researchotaku]

I work at a university and a few years back, a student mentioned that she liked vintage shopping. I asked her what time period she preferred to shop for - she said the 90s and I almost died. (Born in 1986). Since when is the 90s "vintage"?

[@ronaldmcdonald8894]

"It was 20 years ago this week when Star Wars was released..........." WTF. !!??!! . it sure as hell was not......... Well Mother Fricker.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@Sabrina Belladonna Etsy definition is 20 years or older. Technical definition is vintage is meaningless without a date, year, or era attached to it... 1982 vintage, 2017 vintage (perfectly legitimate in this context), 1970s vintage, etc.

[@sallyhamilton7202]

I found the funniest part of the entire video the part where Penn is standing behind Kim in the bathroom while she talks about her skin care rejuvenation fixation. 🤣😂🤣😂

[@maria_ro04]

I came to this video after watching a chemical peel video to help with my aging skin 😂😂. Gen Xer here 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@melindastanners]

@@maria_ro04 I watched this video after applying an enzyme exfoliation and an inch-thick layer of eye cream 🤣

[@Galloway278]

Same here. I’ve got it all ✋🏻

[@kimberlya9591]

It’s only been recently that I’ve realized how freaking cool we are. Which goes along with one more awesome characteristic we possess- not being self-absorbed! I’ll be honest- I LOVE it when I hear our music while I’m shopping. Yes, I’m that 53yo women singing along, nodding my head, snapping my fingers to the beat, with a smile on my face. 🎶❤️🎵❤️🎶

[@robloxvids2233]

As a 43 year old dad I definitely sat out on the back porch waiting for the storm to arrive for the first time a few months ago. It was very peaceful. I guess I'm at that age now.

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I'm 43 and I'm not Gen X.

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

I’m 42. I’m sitting on the porch age 🤣🤣

[@robloxvids2233]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Yeah, I don't even know what my generation is. Never have. I think we've been called Y and I've even heard us referred to as The Oregon Trail, whatever that means. There's a small chunk of us between Gen X and milennials that are even more forgotten about. So, let me hang with the Gen Xers if that's OK? I sure as hell am not a milennial.

[@user-ge5dk8qv9p]

Love this

[@paigejacobsen8014]

Maybe look up Xennials- the in-between generation.

[@davidsilver9246]

Green Day and Creed were played on the classic rock station by me. I needed to pull over and take a minute

[@elanafelberg1733]

I pulled over when they played Nirvana on the Oldies station!! aaaaaahhhhhh

[@manisteerocks7092]

That's just wrong...so so wrong..green day?..classic?...that came out my senior yr in high school..1994...that's NOT classic Damm them!

[@alijane6675]

We’re the most under appreciated, overlooked generation in history. Sandwiched between our boomer parents and our millennial and Gen z kids, we’re all just wondering when our turn will come? Looking more and more like that’s gonna be never. So this hits in more ways than one lol. Also, I heard Nirvana last time I was at the dentist.

[@wordivore]

Sometimes it's not so horrible to be invisible. You can get away with more. 🤣

[@darcistephenson5359]

Hearing "Smells like Teen Spirit" really elevates a root canal procedure!

[@suestarmom]

Sadly, every generation goes through this. My parents were a bit horrified when CSI used The Who for the theme song for the original. I remember them going through this. We get the challenge of being sandwiched between 2 very demanding generations. Just wait until we get a little older and have to depend on those Millenials to help us. I plan to be as irrational as possible with my children to pay them back for those teenage years. They are a little afraid of that, which is good. Makes it motivating for them.

[@blackjac5000]

Conversely, there were articles that said that Gen X was the best equipped to handle the pandemic lockdowns. It had to do with how we're accustomed to being left to our own devices for extended periods of time while Baby Boomers were accustomed to doing as they will and Millennials were accustomed to having their lives scheduled to the Planck Time.

[@MrSmith-zy2bp]

Yeah, but whatever

[@Inayah-jy8qb]

I am a Millenial and I never understood why Gen X was never talked about. I am sorry you guys are forgotten, love this video! LOL 🤣

[@dalerushton1394]

Thanks 😊. It's cool though, we're used to it. Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[@yvetteking7749]

I think it's because, compared to the Baby Boomers and the Millennials, there were fewer of us. Everything in the culture seemed to be geared to the Boomers and Millennials (many of whom were the children of Baby Boomers, and were sometimes called echo boomers a while ago) It was OK to be ignored. (Less drama.). Now, like the other older generations, Baby Boomers are starting to die off, and Gen Xers are finally getting noticed.

[@GEN_X_]

WORD UP

[@alphanerd7221]

We are cool with it, because we are cool. Not getting worked up over stuff is our whole thing. That's why they named us "Gen X." We didn't get our name because our parents banged a bunch after a war or because a news century was coming or as a sequel to a better generation.

[@ledzepgirlnmful]

I hear you.. I turned 56 this year, and have been a member of AARP for about 5 years now. Seems crazy, but, I've noticed 'our music' being played at doctors appts, and in the grocery store as well! I certainly don't feel middle-aged most days.. (Aside from my various aches!) 🤣🤣🤣 Love watching your channel over the past 2 1/2 years. It's crazy to know some of the people that I went to high school and college with, some of them are starting to become Grandparents for the first time. Time passes by so quickly, and it gets faster with each additional trip around the sun. Gen X shouldn't be pushed aside, We Stand United!!!

[@johnmcvay4403]

Thanks for reminding me that I'm six years from joining AARP.

[@susanoakeshauf]

Yeah, any AARP mail that comes my way goes in the shredder. 😂

[@Fox-Mann-Fam]

I love the continued adventures of Gen-X! Utterly relatable. I also object to our music being called "classic" rock because historically we had oldies (which have a VERY specific sound - think 50's be-bop) and classic rock (which again had a very specific early hard rock and metal sound). Grunge and alt-rock also have a very specific sound that isn't the same as those others, and playing them all together is gross.

[@myhappygecko2895]

yeah classic rock was an era but apparently it just means "the most recently old stuff"

[@sunnyrays2281]

They should call our category throwback. I agree, oldies and classic rock have very distinct sounds and musicians.

[@jessicab3986]

100% correct

[@user-pd8mi7ng7s]

And somehow labeling it classic suddenly makes it ok to play inappropriate songs in a grocery store. I had to shop to the sound of baby got back, how is that ok.

[@OMAOILRIAN]

I just remember listening to this awesome radio station at my sisters house. They were playing all the hits from my college days. Imagine the disbelief when I heard it was the “oldies station”! My niece and nephew told me they loved retro music. I couldn’t believe that I was officially “old”.

[@mycatwould]

I actually love that when the retro lunch hour comes on the radio at work I can sing along to almost every song while my staff don’t recognize most of the songs.

[@PfalzD3]

I hope the "retro" lunch hour plays a block of the Smiths. Put your whole staff in a deep depression. Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before!

[@einahsirro1488]

I was in the lunch room around Christmas a few years ago, and a mill coworker was freaking out about some weird song he heard on the radio about a guy running into his old girlfriend in the frozen foods section of the grocery store, and then they drink beer in the car, and what was this weird song?? I started singing it and he just about fell over in shock.

[@PfalzD3]

@@einahsirro1488 Some people will never appreciate the Genius that was Dan Fogelberg.

[@dalerushton1394]

Yea, I love listening to our normal Gen-X music on the radio 📻 at noon, they call it "The flashback lunch '80's music hour". I just call it the one hour of music each day that's awesome and doesn't suck.

[@LetsFocusOnChrist]

Yep, I find myself singing along to the ‘ambience’ music while I’m shopping. At first, I was like ‘cool, they finally got more current with their selection’. I’m feeling older by the day.

[@heatherpadgette3098]

"more current"... My thinking exactly...

[@f.michaelbremer-cruz2708]

I just discovered this video and very much enjoyed it. Your video made me laugh and brightened my afternoon. :) Gen-X here whose just fine with getting older. In some ways, being part of the most ignored generation has prepared us for the rigors of Elderhood. We've learned to be our own cheerleaders and to more or less, not care much what the world might think of how we choose to live our lives. As for the music in places like waiting rooms, for now it's from the 1990's. Soon, the Millennials will get to hear Brittney Spears and Justin Bieber's early hits and it will be fun to see how they handle it. :D

[@lovers_111]

gen z here and i gotta say i’m in love with gen x music. honestly it’s way better then current music!

[@suran396]

Absolutely !!!! You get it! Who do you like, btw?

[@kellyjames2700]

This is awesome. From this 45 yr old mom of 4, you guys are totally rad.

[@suestarmom]

That brings back the whole Valley Girl thing. Those were memories. The big problem I had with the Valley Girl thing was hearing my older brother use it to try to impress a girl. She outright laughed in his face and I used that against him for quite some time. Because honestly, it was the most ridiculous thing I had seen up to that time. And I saw a lot with my brother, lol.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I am actively pushing for our generation to be named The Awesome Generation. All in favor?

[@aquarius5719]

I would say cool, not awesome

[@jonathanberry1111]

Seconded, though I also think cool sounds true.

[@yvetteking7749]

Anyway, too many millennials would say, "That's me too!"

[@mommadonna103]

Totally Awesome

[@nala9750]

Has a 48 year old woman I can relate, proud to be Gen X and I will not be phased out! So thank you for speaking up for us... lol I love our generation, imo we had the best time of everyone!

[@sixxy666]

Our generation IS the BEST! 💯😉

[@WaiferThyme]

You know whats really depressing? Ross 55, Joey 55, Chandler 53, Monica 58, Rachel 53, Phebe 59!

[@janetmckenzie146]

Nooooooo! Say it’s not so :(

[@WaiferThyme]

@@janetmckenzie146 Madonna 64, Cyndi Lauper 69, Cher 76

[@natalieshannon7659]

Not for me, I'm 46 and younger than all of them. I won't get depressed till the big 50.

[@tizzas1232]

They need to bring back Friends but with middle age problems! They could hang around drinking caffeine free, low-fat lattes, talk about their kids and the ups and downs of navigating life in the 2020's.

[@segwia]

Seriously glad to see this & know I'm not the only one having these freak outs & temper tantrums. "THAT IS NOT CLASSIC ROCK!" said by me daily

[@golfnz34me]

Kim needs to wear that mask when she answers the door at Halloween. She'll scare the crap out of the local kids.

[@marinhusky8863]

I'm a gen Xer who could never really get into alternative/grunge music. I reverted to 80s and 70s *true* classic rock at that time.

[@csviolin0516]

I hear you! Same here

[@Udjat013]

@Sabrina Belladonna I remember watching that and thinking "why is that man dressed like a Chaquita banana ad?"

[@chuckyskunk]

I feel the same way. And honestly I consider alternative/grunge as millenial music. I'm 47, which puts me close to the end of GenX and I grew up on the hair bands and hip hop of the late 80s, when MTV was still awesome. I was at the end of high school when grunge got big and it just never felt like 'my music'.

[@thingfish000]

I dream of the day that I turn on my radio and don't hear Nirvana.

[@pyrovania]

I reverted all the way back to 1960s soul music, funk, old country music, stuff from before 1975,

[@jkelley9335]

LOOOOVE my gen X people here!!!!!and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE yall played smells like teen spirit in this video!!yes it's absolutely crazy our music is now considered classics.i was born in 78 and I could not have asked for a better year to have been born in!!i even got some great 80s life in there as well.times were way better then. Malls I really miss. Blockbuster was awesome even though the late fees added up.even landlines with a 20 ft cord was cool with me.back then ppl actually remembered people's numbers cuz it was necessary lol.not just tapping a name on cell phones. Yeah things got more convenient but those things are nostalgic. I'm 44 now and I surely don't feel like it mentally or physically at all!!it'll be another 20 years before I admit I'm old.dont throw in the towel yet!!live life to the fullest and keep on trucking

[@kimbutler3956]

I feel you on all this. They are playing my songs in the grocery store as well. We eat between 6-7. 7:30 is super late for us to eat dinner

[@MsAubrey]

My family, when growing up, dinner was always 6 pm... so, that's what it is in my house! I don't understand why anyone would want to wait until 8pm to eat dinner. Then again, even as a teenager and early 20 something, I was getting up at 5-6 am for school or work, so I went to bed pretty early even then.

[@MrSharpdrop]

I was born right on the cusp between boomers and X. I will never forget the first time I heard an easy listening version of my High School favorites! It was CRUSHING! I still get the shakes just thinking about it. 😳

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I actually get a big smile when a car goes by with some youngster at the wheel, blasting Def Leppard, or classic AC/DC, or Metallica, etc. It is my reassurance that The Awesome Generation will never die.

[@pyrovania]

Or when they are playing stuff in the grocery store that was considered VERY edgy when it was new. Like early Cure or Joy Division.

[@luckyalexander8881]

Well Iam 56. First year of Gen X. Early years My folks listened to Country and Western. With some Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry LEE Lewis thrown in for good measure. Then in middle school Started listening to Eagles, Bob Seger, Skynard, Pink Floyd, Boston,Journey.and thel like.Then my little brother 10 yrs my junior.Started listening to Pearl Jam, S.T.P. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins. First time I heard Daughter and Rooster.I was hooked.

[@charlesjonestherednecknerd]

A 1967 Gen X'er here and I can so relate to this. SIgh, we are not old, we are not old, we are.....well technically old now.....Dang, overlooked till we were phased out......

[@alijane6675]

@Jason Shoots Gen x starts 1967

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

@Jason Shoots I’m a 1969 Gen X’er. My parents are baby boomers, born in the 1940’s.

[@SherriLyle80s]

Im on the far end at 1980 but I can relate

[@tranders65]

@@alijane6675 Most places say 1965 to 1980 covers Gen X - as a late '65 kid, I will go down to my dying day claiming Gen X, lol.

[@Suzanna-chez-moi]

@Jason Shoots boomers 1946-1964, Gen X 1965-1980, millennial 1981-1996... According to Wikipedia. The breakdowns are a little bit fluid. I'm part of the micro generation Oregon trail (or Xennials) 1977-1983 🙂

[@John-ct9zs]

Honestly, I've been feeling this way since I was 23 years old in 1999. 1999 was the first year I heard about the Millennial kids behind us, the frontline Millennials or "elder Millennials" as the 26-32 crowd calls them, are our little brothers and sisters, and I was shocked that the media was focusing on them so much. Grunge music of the 90s died in 1999 in favor of Millennial boy band music and all kinds of other bubble gum pop. 1999/2000 was the first time I heard about "80s retro parties", something no one would have done just a few years earlier around 1995 or 1996. Here we are in 2022, and the media STILL talks about 35-41 year olds like they are high school kids or traditional college age kids. And many in our generation got kicked out of the cool people spotlight before we even celebrated our 25th birthday, while the Millennials can be fuckin' 35 years old and still thought of as some bad ass generation of cool people. And then there's Gen Z, the teenagers to age 23/24 real current kids now.....

[@SynthApprentice]

Can confirm. Am 35-41, still treated like a college kid. Lemme see, what was happening when I went to college? Well, I did take a few skip years, but I signed up for school in '08. That was the year that... oh right, complete global financial collapse, because all the real adults were playing casino games with real estate. It's kinda like playing the game Life, except one of the spaces on the University path says "the player in first place sets the entire board on fire. The game continues with one new player for each child the current players have."

[@tamarastone141]

I totally agree with you....I'm 45

[@HJohn-xn9ub]

I’m right near the beginning of Gen X. Yes, I can attest that we are a forgotten and/or ignored generation. It’s like living one’s whole life between two gravity wells - that suck up all the energy and light.

[@automnejoy5308]

I can confirm that I am 35 and still bad ass and cool. If it makes you feel better, it's largely because I was influenced by a lot of Gen X stuff. I will tell you a secret. We older Millennials are actually... mostly Gen X. It's because we had older siblings who influenced us, and our boomer parents inundated us with their music and movies, so we actually feel deep nostalgia for the 60's, 70's and 80's, even though we didn't personally live through them! I mean, we had to reject Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Nickelcrack, etc. somehow... by appropriating your coolness. Sorry. We couldn't create any Metallicas or Nirvanas ourselves. The best we could do was emo and nu-metal. Gross, I know. (Meanwhile, the younger Millennials and Gen Z are not cool at all. I mostly feel sorry for them.)

[@briansmith48]

Millennials are not a badass generation of cool people. We Gen-Xer are. We didn't need safe spaces filled with teddy bears and coloring books. While attending college. Just because our candidate didn't win. Nope, while in elementary school we watched the space shuttle explode then continued to carry on.

[@harryksmith7463]

Also my daughter came home from school wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt and asked if if i knew their music, I then replied, I saw them live several times and she said, " wow that , must have been a long time ago! Im 50 and she is 22...Yes they are phasing us out

[@jennifermcquagge9196]

Y’all are spot on. It’s like the day I heard them playing a new edition song in Winn Dixie. Gave me chills.

[@brucelucasjr5856]

As a Gen-Xer, I've been so happy that all the other generations have left us alone while they go about their craziness. I hope they don't notice. I like being sane

[@PfalzD3]

Amen Bruce, Amen.

[@keradee8742]

I was driving home from out if town Christmas shopping with a friend last year when we lost the radio station. After a little searching we found this great staion that was playing all the good stuff we listened to while in high school in the 80's. Until...the station announced that it was the Golden Oldies! Needless to say I'm still not over it.

[@staciebooth7456]

I danced my way through BJ’s one afternoon. The music was on point! I got several weird looks but the other Gen Xr’s were dancing too!

[@tamarastone141]

See! We're the fun generation! The millennials and the youngins would NEVER dance in the store! 🤣😂

[@rachelcrossen8136]

So true. The first time I heard Bon Jovi on a classic rock station I about cried

[@joannegoebel4642]

Bonjovi is 60.

[@natalieshannon7659]

I almost wrecked my car.

[@denanebergall5514]

I had the same reaction when I saw they were playing Friends on Nick at Nite! Nick at Nite is the time slot for the "old shows"!

[@piecedlife]

I felt this a few years ago when the local high school marching band’s halftime show at a football game was ‘Black Hole Sun’ 😭😅🤔

[@btetschner]

Very memorable video.

[@natalieshannon7659]

OH God no! I would die on the bleachers.

[@robinmichel9048]

I'm turning 50 next year. I think it's pretty cool that I've been alive for half a century. We've seen so much change in our time. We lived through the olden days before computers and cell phones.

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

I love that we didn’t have cell phones and social media during our teenage years. We lived in reality, not virtual reality. Who we were was who we were. No fake image that social media portrays. Another positive about no cell phones is we weren’t attached at the hip to our parents the way young ones are today. The freedom was real.

[@andrewthom5]

😂😂😂, love this! I feel the same way. Matter of fact, here in San Antonio, Texas they just opened a new dance club. What for it…. It’s called Be Kind and Rewind. That’s not all, it’s full of young people😮 lol. Yes this is our thing! Gen X power! Lol. 😂

[@laurahall1621]

Oh, and don't forget. It was the forgotten Gen X team that won Amazing Race because they grew up in the generation who learned the old fashioned way through books and paper MAPS, etc while also learning the new fangled computer, vcr, video games, etc that all turned into our phones.

[@hardway1746]

43&51 been married 22yrs. Video couldn’t be more true. Thank y’all.

[@livenandlove1980]

The excitement of using a coupon and organizing. Lol! Too relatable.

[@alisonweber8698]

A few years back I was in a museum in Detroit and they had a section on the different generations. Seeing the stuff I grew up with in a museum really made me feel old because you only find old stuff in museums! Gen X is not old!

[@blackjac5000]

Back when Waldenbooks still existed the one nearest me had a display showing various Tom Clancy-type books with a sign saying it was in relation to schoolkids learning about the Cold War.

[@wizardsuth]

I was a little upset to see a Commodore 64 in a museum a couple of decades ago. I still had one on my desk and programmed on it.

[@terriblefrosting]

yeah we are. own it. revel in it. DNGAF. It's the GenX way.

[@MakeWay4CJ]

Damn. 😔

[@helenryan5217]

This hit way too close to home. Last week I heard a Nirvana song on a classic rock station and I thought "This was modern rock when it came out." Today was the first day I wore reading glasses and my eyes were so less tired than they have been. I turn 45 next month.

[@brunetteXer]

I made it to 50 before I needed readers, I was always the late bloomer though. now I have readers scattered everywhere around the house, in the car and every pocket of jackets and purse. if I see them for a good price somewhere, you know i'm buying a handful.

[@happycommuter3523]

I started needing reading glasses the month I turned 50, like a bad joke. At least I’m not as nearsighted anymore. I almost don’t need driving glasses.

[@razvandobos9759]

I'm a Gen Z'er by age (23, born 1999), but has the heart and soul of a Gen X'er. That generation rocks the house, and definitely don't get talked about at all. Boomers and millennials keep destroying each other to smithereens, while Gen X sits back and enjoys the show. Gen X grew up on the best music yet, 80's new wave, punk rock, metal, gothic, and post-punk, and of course, invented grunge. The shopping mall arcade was their second home, and they created the mall rat, which I am. MTV's first audience dubbed the MTV Generation. Many great celebrities hail from Gen X. Kurt Cobain, Jack Black, Will Smith, Dwayne Johnson, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Dave Grohl, Billie Joe Armstrong, Gwen Stefani, Mariah Carey, Shirley Manson, Dita Von Teese, Anne Heche, P!nk, Laura Dern, Trent Reznor, etc.

[@mom2kn]

This is the most relatable video yet. My SIL likes that we are the invisible generation because we kick a$$ when it's least expected. I'm sure every generation says this, but we have had so many inventions and changes that we are tough. We are also less whiny that those generations around us and that is why we are invisible. We suck it up, figure it out, fix it and move on.

[@brendaw2255]

My husband is 57 and I’m 53. We were talking about what we wanted to do for our anniversary. I suggested going to the casino to eat and gamble a little-during the day obviously because who goes at night?? 😂🤣😂

[@NinerK]

Day Dates are amazing :)

[@gregmarquez8720]

Oh shit! That's what we did for our 25th! But we went at night though cause of traffic haha

[@TheMormonPower]

Mid 40's Dr. said your BP, cholesterol, and sugar are a little high, I'm going to put you on some "starter" level doses to control these... Closing in on mod 50's...Dr says we've gotta start "bumping" some of these up a little bit... bumping up my reader magnifying levels too. 😨

[@INDYANDY4C]

1972 born, 1991 Desert Storm, 1993 Somalia, 2005-6 Iraq. And people say we can’t say things anymore, when we grew up with Archie & Sanford & Son, Alien, M*A*S*H, Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, Amazon Women On The Moon, Eddie Murphy Raw, 2 Live Crew, The Rodeo Song! We will not be silent. I was a sub-par baseball player, but my team came in first nonetheless, so I got a trophy with a golden batter, while the second place team got silver batters, and the 3rd place team got a ribbon; none of the other teams got anything. I got tickets to the Indianapolis 500 and a banquet from The Indianapolis Star for being a top 25 paper Carrier. I was in 3 movies: 8 Men Out, Diving In, and Hoosiers, just a face in the crowd, an extra. I met Roy Schieder and Danny De Vito on a flight and shook hands with them as a child. I met Jimmy Buffet at 13 at A1A, his store. Who doesn’t sing along? Stepped on a pop top…….that frozen concoction that helps me hang on….! A Cuban-ish or Cuban American girl tried to pick me up at 13 and my mom freaked! She was 16 or so, working at Publix in Florida. I couldn’t figure out why she cut me so short of making friends with her at the time! Just months before, there was no intervention in making friends with Ohio girls! They’re same age as me.

[@fennyellis3366]

I love hearing my Gen X music at the store, etc! In fact, they were playing it at my Physical Therapy appointment!!😆😍 Loved it!!!🎶

[@tomjohnson9674]

thankfully at 51 I still listen to death metal... I don't think any doctor's office will be playing that any time soon.

[@lisafaser6031]

Love this video! I’m 51 and totally relate to everything. Love your take on the modern Gen X life, shock, horror, and bewilderment. I’m subscribing to your channel based on this video alone. It’s that good!👍

[@katherinewelling6026]

😂😂😂 As a Gen Xer, I totally relate to this! I was horrified when U2 came up on an iTunes Soft Rock playlist! Egad (she says while wearing reading glasses and typing with one finger)!

[@johnd5931]

I'm 41 and I crank the music up, go to dinner with friends at 8 or later, go to loud concerts, and listen to music from all eras. I'm not planning on getting old for a while yet!

[@tamarastone141]

You're actually a millennial🤭

[@rswear]

I'll never forget sitting the in dentist chair, mouth full of hardware, Just as I am - Air Supply was playing and the dental assistant was singing along softly to it. The dentist asked how she knew this song, he'd never heard it before. She said, my Dad used to listen to it all the time when I was little, I think it's by Chicago or something.... I was Graaa... GRAAAA.... Aiiiiirrrrrrr Slllliddddss!.... they were like, you okay? I was thinking... just slowly dying that's all...

[@jeremykeegan8090]

😂 I’m 43, and I was dying laughing through all of this. Great, relatable video!