gen x is the best

[@jonbiz6223]

Who remembers “I’ll give you something to cry about “ 😂 ahhhhhhhh, the good ol days…

[@bswogger4656]

I do.

[@31kiloradioraven63]

If you heard that, you quickly knew to hold back the waterworks and get out of dodged 😂

[@bswogger4656]

@@31kiloradioraven63 lol. Seems many have so much in common.

[@31kiloradioraven63]

@@bswogger4656 yes we do, I wouldn't trade those days for anything.

[@JobeMartinez-vf6zd]

Hahaha I remember that...and they would always tell us that after hitting us. Like damn it hurts, that's why I'm crying lol

[@lovelifeevery1]

Recording songs from radio if you were lucky enough to have a cassette recorder & praying the DJ wouldn't talk in the middle of songs

[@jbev840]

Yes! Or they start playing the song as they finish talking during the intro n shit 😂

[@emmalee9747]

Would call the radio station to request a song and ask them not to talk during the song because we were recording it.

[@billcharlene1450]

Hahaha 😂😂😂 Classic!!!

[@ginalynn914]

You know those fuckers talked over the intro on purpose

[@jennifer3551]

Remember that sinking feeling when u turned on the radio and one of your favorite songs was just ending ☹️

[@endofsociety]

That street light rule was a universal rule back in those days 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 born in 1976

[@diabloed3909]

Born in 77"🤙💯

[@mlblja]

Born in 69. I agree!

[@J_Honor_]

PREACH 80 x....just made it 😂❤❤❤❤

[@31kiloradioraven63]

Born in 65, it was universal 😅

[@valeriedwilliams9268]

They will never know and would not survive without the internet.😂

[@rmersmannsr]

Gen X is the monster nobody should wake up.

[@blackhawk6695]

Truth!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theshape6506]

Absolutely 💯

[@septopia]

Facts

[@GoddessEnergy333]

😭😭😭

[@MamaMudskipper]

Yeah GenX is is sleeping with their eyes wide shut.

[@billywilliams4183]

We used to watch Kung Fu theater, then go outside and literally beat the crap out of each other 😂😂🤣.

[@billkellyhornswoggletheGreat]

True story.......

[@speedgonzalez489]

If our parents weren’t home we did it inside tearing shit up

[@tobiasb9645]

We Played socker fight the team We played after the match was over then train on the small Field Ufc style We was 15 years old.i Guess the us gen x made a big deal 20 years.Of war💀

[@johncomeau2480]

Still do, when drunk with college buddies from the early 90s.

[@ericlondon2663]

I remember that! Wow I thought that was just us LOL... We all had zero supervision LOL

[@dianewilliams2789]

If you were seen hanging around the house, someone gave you something to do. Yard work, house work

[@Kissed_by_the_sunmoon]

Exactly!! That’s why we made sure to never go inside unless it was damn near death related.

[@teresacatlett4974]

You NEVER said, “ I’m bored!” Here comes a list of chores!!!

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

​@@teresacatlett4974Yep! 😂

[@marianaya5824]

facts! We were the last generation that, if we went to our parents and said we were bored, we got more chores. And just like you said, we did it all! ....boys and girls. period. And because we were so hard working, most times we did chores for other people for money from young ages.

[@dianewilliams2789]

@@marianaya5824 yes! Remember paper routes and lawn mowing and babysitting. Omg you weren’t getting the money from your parents. Everyone had jobs at 15 or 16

[@SADD22]

We're older than the internet 😂😂😂

[@JillUdart]

my mama: I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.

[@bswogger4656]

Lol.

[@mandibailey9104]

Me raised by the streets and not by my boomer parents: "Go ahead and try"

[@IndianaBones]

Oh my twin & i heard that one too many times

[@meed8738]

Heard that every week of my life back then and I was brought up by gen x single mom. My late boomer dad was a part time weekend dad

[@stefanie4232]

super facts 😂😅

[@djmande1]

Best childhood ever. We made plans that we had to keep as there were no phones to cancel on your friends

[@joannadechenne6368]

Right?? We showed UP on our bikes or in our VW's or Trans Am's 😂

[@NutsItsBerserkinTime]

wtf is your dating thing though? 😂

[@pacmanboy711roblox4]

Also no cyber bullying and overused memes good old days

[@ronnielester2933]

Childhood yes a teen in the mid 80s was tough, we were scared of aids, then even said that skeeter could give to you, so sex was a is it worth the risk, so most turned to hard drugs, but we survived and thrived.

[@sasquatchsoldrboi8052]

Whole E shit!!! Ain't THAT THE TRUTH!

[@elroyjenquist610]

We were ignored as kids and the world can, by all means, continue to ignore us. IDGAF

[@missygeno4391]

The 60's, 70's& 80's were the best generations flat out

[@user-iw6bu4iq4r]

Well no, the music yes. Those generations are the ones who are currently in charge of... Everything, including the wealth.

[@missygeno4391]

@@user-iw6bu4iq4r not me. I'm n control of myself

[@jasminesamuels6508]

Us 1990s are ok too. 😂

[@user-iw6bu4iq4r]

@@stephen4631 What like being able to afford a home on a minimum wage? A car? Paying off college? Finding a career that pays more then 17.50/h. My grandparents did all this on minimum wage. Can you? Please, go find 10 gen z that live on a single family member with a minimum wage job who live in 4+ bedroom house and 2 cars that isn't over 100k in debt. That isn't living pay check to pay check. Then come back to me about manifesting what you need. There is a reason Gen Z is called the debt generation.

[@missygeno4391]

@@user-iw6bu4iq4r my bad, it's true. Only the music. You right

[@MichaelScreamMachineEvans]

Yeah... There was race and colors...we just didn't give a 💩 about it....we didn't wear bike helmets on pads for skating... Yeah we're probably the greatest generation

[@courte28]

I used leaves to stop blood on my knees

[@howardchambers9679]

Like us boomers didn't teach you how to do all those things 😂

[@timkincade9763]

​@@howardchambers9679you definitely did , we will never see the 3 generations, greatest generation, Baby boomers or gen X again. Never anything like it again

[@secretbassrigs]

@@timkincade9763 tik tok propaganda bots love to spread nihilism , so jealous and depraved

[@secretbassrigs]

@@courte28 come on... We were proud to show off our bloody knees. Leaves? Pencil Neck

[@TThunderElla]

We were like dogs. We ran in packs and we stayed out until dark. If we weren't home by dark, my mom would whistle and when we heard that whistle we ran home! Those were the days...🥹🩷

[@anthia1156]

Oh my God!!!!! My mother would whistle as well!!!! It was the sound of horror!!!!!

[@jeffreycairns767]

Can you even process the thought of telling either of your parents to F off? I'm sure many of us thought it but to even tell them "NO, I'm not doing that" was scary enough. When belts and other weapons were a normal use in society.

[@kutfromadifferentcloth1241]

@@jeffreycairns767 I would close my room door and scream obscenities into my pillow 😆😆... I valued my life .

[@LilBafta]

My mum used to wolf whistle at a pitch that made my ears bleed. I could never learn how to do it. She'd be mad, sometimes I got spanked but damn, she was the warmest most loving mum. I could literally wake her up in the middle of the night with a new guitar hook I'd made and she would squint her eyes, smile and be encouraging ❤ I know I was a lucky kid to have her. Gen x kid.

[@jonbiz6223]

This is great. My siblings and I would listen for my dad to whistle about the same time as the street lights came on 😂. What about “I’ll give you something to cry about !”😂

[@jamesrogers6376]

i ran around with a Mexican a Italian and a black guy. they , to this day 35 years later, would still have my 6.

[@RogueReplicant]

That was normal in the San Fernando Valley circa 1978. My ragtag crew had a Filipino, an Egyptian, a Jew and me the Hispanic. At the age of 11 we were skateboarding and riding our bikes around the valley, feral and streetwise 😎

[@pastureexpectationsfarm6412]

Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke ;)

[@NTZClaw]

I wish it was like that in the south (Mississippi) we literally had a train track that divided one side of town from the other until about 1988 the schools was even separated. I can literally want to remember when the schools integrated. To this day all the of the white kids in the town that I grew up in mostly go to private school, only the extremely poor Caucasian, or are will to do people of color are not subject to this unspoken rule😢

[@glam1007]

My mamma kicked us out the door before 9 am every morning and said “go find your appetite.” Which was the nice way of saying “don’t come back until dinner!” Being outside all day with your friends and no parents? PRICELESS!!! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@crunchyyellowlion]

And if you made it back it meant nature didn't clean the gene pool

[@juliesmith855]

ypu only came in for dinner...you drank out of the hose and stayed out until the street lights came on...I so lived this...

[@JenniferAlexander-j8s]

Amen us girls learn how to squat we didnt piss on our clothes 😂😂😂😂 we kept our asses outside to supper

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

My most prominent memory is being asked by adults if I'd like them to give me something to cry about...which was their way of telling me to stop crying and go away.

[@ChildoftheMostHighYa]

Ahhh memories, I haven't heard that saying in 30 years.

[@speedgonzalez489]

I always thought that meant shit could be worse!

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

@@speedgonzalez489 Absolutely...if I didn't stop crying and go away 🤣

[@christineschutten248]

You never told your parents you were bored either. Once you said it they would find a buttload of unpleasant tasks for you to do.

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

@@christineschutten248 That is true...it was usually yard work or helping the neighbor with their yard wok 🤣🤮

[@PebbleBeachLife]

As a fellow Gen X, I approve this message 😁

[@bswogger4656]

Lol.

[@leonardhollerbach9806]

I concur, sir

[@yousee66]

Ditto 🤟😁

[@Acesandeightz]

Agreed!

[@mariabolt3881]

From 🇬🇧 You 100% Correct! Once I heard the blackbirds starting to sing I started making my way home.

[@maureenmckenna5220]

In comparison to what came after, Gen X people look like the superstars of the universe. They are resilient, imaginative and hard working.

[@anothertrucker81469]

Gen x we made our own play grounds, building BMX tracks in fields, along the canals or any where we could, we built forts with dirt,sticks, old tarps and whatever else we found. I'm a gen x member and we had the best childhoods because we were actually kids, able to play, get dirty, learn from our mistakes and grow stronger

[@gothgirl4evr881]

💯 last generation to know how to use our imagination. And I shit you not my elementary school playground had 3 things a big open field for kickball and a castle that was made out of cement and a huge cement horse saddle to climb on.

[@wuzgoanon9373]

I still have my BMX bike. Best times ever.

[@randygrodi]

When Dad whistled, you better be home in 5 minutes. Mom cooked dinner and you eat everything on your plate.

[@dumbass3770]

We actually had dinner together as a family. We had conversations and didn't just stare at our phones. Joked around. It was definitely a better time.

[@speedgonzalez489]

Every night , prayer , dinner , the news with dad then bed. Sometimes we all sat in the living room for dinner and a movie. We all had our separate lives outside but in the house we were one. That up bringing has kept me and my brothers and sisters a very tight family

[@shaunaholmes6561]

And don't be trying to drink a lot of water or Kool-Aid with your dinner

[@jennifergirling6850]

Or you didn't get desert

[@kellebelle]

My street we had a cul-de-sac at the end and all us kids played together. One of the dads had the loudest whistle I've ever heard in my life so he was the one to call all of us home with it. If you heard Chris' dad's whistle, EVERY kid went home whether it was for you or not because it MIGHT be you.

[@paulfernandez3747]

Street lights come on, dam still gives anxiety 40 years later. Shesh

[@chrissy1310]

My mom's whistle, was when it was time to RUN! For 5pm supper, with a stressed out Dad coming home from work, so we could sit at the table and maybe get kicked under it to behave. Makes me anxious too! God forbid I had done anything wrong that day to upset my mother! OH MY HEAD, digging my grave at the thought of it!

[@diabloed3909]

Right 🤙

[@dr.mimibee2895]

🤣🤣🤣

[@06sharhonda]

Man sayy.......!

[@randygrodi]

Facts Sir.

[@SuchaCaligrrl]

For real 💯... I remember growing up having friends that were black, Mexican, white, Hindus, Asian, Samoan, Thai, Native Americans... we loved each other, hell we even had a friend in the mix that was from family that were KKK, when we ventured out... we ventured out. We would get on our bikes and ride to other cities, and were able to get back home all in one piece, no gps or cells. We also feared and respected our parents and all of our friends parents, they were the law of the land, they ruled all things with life, they had no problem in reminding us that they brought us into this world so they can take us out, before we headed out to be with friends my dad would yell "you do the crime, you do the time", so watch your step. Wherever we went it didn't matter what friends houseit was, all of our friends parents had permission to whip our ass if we got out of line vice-versa. There isnt shit you can say about GenX

[@kimberleyann7702]

We were the most abused, ignored, neglected , tramatised and exploited generation of kids ever. Be grateful that unlike our parents , we did better .

[@andrewk.7498]

The boomers had to be pretty psychologically damaged to let swinging, porn abortion and no fault divorced and miscegenation get legalized.

[@tobiasb9645]

Kids Will always rebel If these fucks gen z gets kids ( doubtfull) but those kids Will be gen x on steroids

[@Fangs1978]

Yeah, unfortunately that trauma caused us to raise gen y and gen z to become... what they are... We got no attention so we gave them way too much.

[@gothgirl4evr881]

​@@Fangs1978you may have a point there. I would say my daughter was spoiled but she didn't go without much that she asked for but she was a good kid and got good grades. Also Gen Xers weren't shown affection by our parents except on rare occasions so not one day went by in my daughter's life that I didn't tell her I loved her and hugged. She's 28 now and doesn't talk to me and can't even give a reason why. So go figure maybe if I raised her how I was raised she would still see fit to talk to me. I talk to my mom everyday.

[@ogvelociraptor205]

That explains so much! Unhealed trauma and abuse that they've carried around for the rest of their lives, In some case's using it as an excuse for their arrogant type behavior and actions.

[@78nailbomb]

Nothing scares us more than realising that we were still on the streets when the street lights come on. 😂😂😂

[@Notyourgirl253]

Lol, gauging how many blocks from your house you were and if your parents would know you were “out of your ‘boundaries’ “thinking of an excuse the whole way back!!!

[@tommiesmith3191]

Nothing should scare anyone more than a Gen X'er who can't spell REALIZING correctly. And that says it all on Gen X.

[@78nailbomb]

@tommiesmith3191 From your statement, I'm assuming you are from Merica. Sorry to pop your Freedom bubble, but the rest of us who use British English, spell it with an 'S' not with a 'Z'.

[@Notyourgirl253]

@@tommiesmith3191 🤦🏽‍♀️few things are more silly than a kid, who has had spell check their entire life, attempting to criticize an elder yet, not realizing that the word can have two spellings! *correction: an old hick who can’t spell!😂

[@leaflee2066]

As a Gen X born in 1971 I think back to all the stuff that was normal and wonder how so many of us are still here! Love to all my fellow Gen X's

[@bswogger4656]

Right back at you.

[@speedgonzalez489]

What doesn’t kill ya only makes ya stronger! That’s why we’re the best and strongest and smartest! Only the best of us survived all that shit !!! Haha!

[@ladyfreedomrocks]

GenX makes a smaller number of the population than the young generations. Think the boomers still slightly outnumber us.

[@mikecarter5631]

Our parents never looked for us until those streetlights were on, and if they found us, an ass whooping was guaranteed…maybe even before we got in the house. Yes, we got our asses whooped in public.

[@31kiloradioraven63]

Act up wherever you are, that's where the a-- whipping took place 😅

[@juliabarone8852]

Spanked yu in the way home

[@felicitydeikos5250]

We were the first ones to learn to become DJs ourselves, no software to learn, and no DJ schools. I love my Gen X

[@g50iceman]

I remember scratching the sh*t out of records just getting there ...LOL

[@sharnicebolling5237]

STOP RUNNING IN AND OUT OF MY HOUSE!! YOU COME BACK IN HERE YOU'RE STAYING IN!! STOP SLAMMING MY DAMN DOOR!! Awwww, the good ol days❤❤❤❤

[@danlevesque5437]

That statement got me in so much trouble it wasn't funny if we went in the house we weren't allowed back out so that lead to interesting experiences especially if you had to use the bathroom and hope nobody would find or smell you😂

[@sharnicebolling5237]

@danlevesque5437 Yup!! We had 2 bathrooms. We would come in the back door and use the bathroom off the kitchen. If my mom was in her room, we were good. If she caught you...well, you know what happened!!🤣🤣🤣

[@jeanc4335]

Ahhh I remember the playgrounds were made out of metal and when you fell, you fell on concrete and got up and did it again bloody knees and all. Even the slides were made out of metal and you had to use your feet to go down them on a hot summer day so you wouldn't burn your ass. It gave us character and common sense.

[@8bitpixel801]

I don't see what your trying to point out here All I got from it is you got a burnt ass well good for you then I guess

[@31kiloradioraven63]

Put some dirt on it and kept playing, if you got hurt hurt and wasnt bleeding to badly, they'd patch you up, tell you to lay down and take a knap, then if you felt better, they'd tell you to go back outside and play.

[@jeanc4335]

​@@31kiloradioraven63good times!

[@mikeglowatz2273]

Saturday morning cartoons and a big bowl of cereal. I miss the 80s

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

Captain Crunch.

[@maggielL77]

YESSS!!! da best. I miss those days 😢

[@31kiloradioraven63]

Fruitloops, sugarbear, frosted flakes an endless amount of sugary cereal 😅

[@Fido-vm9zi]

You can't do that now?

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Sounds great!

[@jeffpribyl6488]

Gen X was the last generation that wouldn't die if they lost their cell phone. I was comfortable with a flashing 12 🍺🍺

[@jasonw7521]

Damn, that street light game was universal back in the day.

[@Ellen-sg2tv]

Neighbors, teachers anyone could kick your ass if we were disrespectful

[@RandomDude19868]

My English teacher grabbed a disruptive kid by the ear and nobody complained about it.

[@zombiesRUseless6880]

​@@RandomDude19868Our six grade teacher punched a girl one time on the head because she wouldn't stop talking. Our four grade teacher, Ms Johnson would use to throw those old school erasers at us when we wouldn't listen. Those were the good ole days.

[@konjurekatrina]

That’s something I don’t miss about being GenX. When adults could be casually cruel to children and no one did anything. I was physically abused and terrorized by my babysitter and her son. I told my mom about and even asked her to call the police if it happened again. My mom laughed because she didn’t believe me. She finally apologized to me in therapy. I was 3-4 years old when this happened and still have vivid memories. I was picked on so badly by my 2nd grade teacher, that my mom had to step in. My mom was a teacher in East Oakland and could manage her classroom without degrading , yelling at, or hitting her students. I wasn’t a discipline problem either. This teacher picked a girl every year to publicly pick on and humiliate. The day before the last day of school, I hadn’t quite finished my math. Because I had a hard time with math. This teacher marched me to the principal’s office, sat me at his desk, in his chair; and told me to finish my work. This was during the class party. The principal walked in maybe 10 minutes later and asked me what was going on. I started to cry and he was FURIOUS at my teacher. He walked me back to class and yelled at my teacher. My mom was so angry she told me if the teacher said one wrong word to me the next day, I could just leave. The next year my dad was in the hospital for the whole school year, with cancer. Thank GOD I had a teacher who was kind. GenX and before had to put up with teachers who had no business teaching. Thankfully all but one of my son’s teachers were very kind. He had one who did the exact same thing and made him do homework during a party. That woman is lucky I didn’t have words with her. My son had an IEP and need help writing because he was left handed and wrote slowly. And this bitch docked him for it. So no, teachers and other adults being assholes to children is absolutely something I don’t miss.

[@Nomoretoxicthoughts]

Listen! Anybody! And then get a whooping by mom too! 😂

[@ogvelociraptor205]

​@konjurekatrina notice how some not all in Gen X brag about that type of behavior from teachers and parents and in some case's other family Memebers like it's something to be proud about. Think of all the Teacher's who took advantage of it to prey on the weak one's

[@taradaniels6157]

When the street lights came on, it's time to go home, we didn't need our parents to micromanage us , we knew what to do.

[@dro2000]

Gen X: a time that we picked our own switches off trees, not genders! A time of complete anxiety and a surge of energy when those street lights came on. We were raised by mom and dads authority, not social media. The last known time when people truly thought for themselves instead of being told how to think.

[@debbiehernandez5564]

Race? It was who rode the bike faster!! Those were the days. Adults kept adult themed content to themselves while the kids were able to be a kid!!

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

​@@rikv244And everyone watched out for one another. No bike thieves wouldn't dare. 😂

[@kiaunaleshae]

This!!

[@2A_W3ND1G0]

Gen X mentality NEEDS a comeback

[@bluwater1422]

I wish I was born a genx but unfortunately I'm a millennial

[@prettywyse_or_dumb]

Just leave gen x alone, they went through shit we could never imagine. My dad (gen X) was homeless at 14 and went through hell to get to where he is now.

[@notbextley6997]

Yes, some kids went to live with their friends. That was too common.

[@Camie.in.Philly]

When you got home and your mother asked you where you were or what you did, you had to tell the truth, because you knew that every old lady on your way to and from had already called.

[@ameerahthomas2620]

Rs😂

[@sswans9664]

🤦🏼‍♀️ o lord yes. Those lady's would try to get ya beat lol Snuck off from a friends bday party with a boy but said he was my cousin.lol. My mama & my grandma found out & were waiting on me when I got home- from the "birthday party". I was early too😂 Woowee. Got the flip flop, the switch & grounded for months!

[@Camie.in.Philly]

@@sswans9664 been there done that smh

[@31kiloradioraven63]

That's when neighborhood'swere neighborhood's.

[@heatherbullock9020]

"So, what did you do today?" It was at that moment Puddin knew she done fucked up.

[@kevind3185]

As a Gen X myself our Grandparents were the Best there was, and ever has been. They earned the title of The Greatest Generation.

[@sswans9664]

True true 🫡 they were t-total bad a$$es

[@lenitomas4350]

So true. The stories my grandparents told me of how things were during WW2 and how they managed to survive it all... man. I knew I'd never measure up to them. But these millennials and Gen Zs, they barely survive without their phones and WiFi.

[@glam1007]

YUP!!! My grandparents were incredible! Survived 2 wars in Europe, lost so many family members and still grateful and gracious about everything in life. I wouldn’t be who I am today without them. Miss you Oma & Opa, thank you for taking care of me and teaching me so much about life. Love you forever ❤

[@missourigal]

THANK YOU from a Baby Boomer. I think the operative phrase here is "in my opinion"....so IN MY OPINION you are not.

[@robertpatras4662]

The new generation are so obsessed with views and cloud I bet you if they shut off the Internet, they would not survive an hour 😂 Gen X here 1985 Cuzo

[@marianaya5824]

Gen X took our spankings, tried hard not to cry and learned our friggin lessons. We are the last generation to have chores plus homework time plus school clothes and play clothes plus two parents homes plus respect for our elders plus structured meal time, play time and bed time. We are the last generation to mind our own business but stand up to any bully even if we were going to lose the fight. Most of the time, we grew up in neighborhoods and towns that were almost exclusively filled with our same race, so we didn't even think about race. We were secure in our own cultures and people, so giving up our own identity never happened. period.

[@bswogger4656]

Right. We had mix of little bit of everyone heritage the only difference in what you experienced. One girls asked another girl (my nabors) what religion are you? To a girl named Michelle, Michelle did not know so she looked at me asked me what my religion was & I told her, because of the color of our skin. Nobody started fights about politics or religion. 2 things we all have a right to be free from harassment. Thanks for the memory’s.

[@marianaya5824]

@@bswogger4656 Yes!

[@lorireed8046]

I grew up on a military base. Nah, we were good.

[@viccook2141]

I was born in South Africa. I loved it. Camping out in a tent in the back garden. The parks were immense. Came to england in the '80's. Discovered the freedom of being able to wander about. Loved it. My friends were a crazy bunch of people, but it was very much like that. Loved being outside and not going back until night. I didnt have loving parents. Grandparents weren't present either. Discovered a love of metal, music wise. Teaching my kids, and father in law how to use technology. Best of both worlds. We know how to live without technology, but know how to use it as well.

[@frank6236]

Born in 1969, I support your mighty speech, Sire.

[@thundervalley9766]

Well, baby boomers were our parents, who were themselves raised by the Greatest Generation.

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

No doubt, us Boomers made you Gen-Xers Ford Tough. I can't say the same for Gen-Z.

[@thundervalley9766]

@@thenaughtyamericanexpat yep. A lot of gen x ers didn’t pass on the lessons we got from the boomers. The electronic pacifiers have damaged the millennials, who in turn have no idea about how to raise gen z

[@swwwaaacuppp]

I was born in 1975 and I approve this message!

[@jayanttchapman7874]

1978 I also approve

[@noway3653]

1974 here and also approve 👍

[@BlastGT1]

75'er reporting in!

[@XR1000]

75’ crew all day👌.

[@bkkid75]

75. . ready for duty!!!

[@cyberraxx9268]

I'm Gen X and proud of it. As kids we used to play 1 rule football, you can't foul the goalie, anything else goes, the only protection was the clothes you put on in the morning. We'd then walk or limp home looking like we'd been thrown through a shredder then back the next day for another game. This generation would need more padding than a entire NFL team to do that.

[@dominickwimmer9561]

Gen x and proud huh, how u going to he proud looking at your generation and knowing it's all of you that failed every generation after? 💯 u paved the way for all of this bullshit we are facing now and your generation is still running this country to the ground!

[@gothgirl4evr881]

Or played in the streets and had to keep yelling "car" then "game on" after it passed

[@cyberraxx9268]

@@gothgirl4evr881 Exacttly that!!!

[@tanishadeloach8959]

goddamn right we was raised to stay out of grown folks conversations we actually rode bikes and played in dirt shout out to my people Generation X I'm a 76 baby myself

[@CorvusAlyse]

There’s a reason we are the Gen that has the fewest. It was life and death in those days. Those who survived, were so traumatized that we spent the next thirty years NOT talking about it. We’ve only now begun to speak up to defend ourselves.

[@stevemeters3090]

Exactly how I was raised. Go outside and don't come home til it's dark.

[@wireman4029]

At 7yo I'd be MILES from my house, riding my bike in the aquaduct, or in some remote, desert field with all the kids from my neighborhood. If i wasn't inside the house, my mom had no clue where i was.

[@mesalily-TeHWoRld]

And they couldn't call us or track us on cell phones. Good times😊

[@jonbiz6223]

I felt EVERY SINGLE BIT of that 😂 What’s up 80s babies 👶 🎉

[@bswogger4656]

Lol

[@tabitharay3076]

"There was no race, there was no color".... SO TRUE!!

[@cedarpoplar]

We fell in love stupidly. Some of us went and built families. Others went too far and got themselves locked up. Yet Others, are still scratching their heads and wondering 🤔. "How the hell did we get here??"

[@thoushallmoveon]

We survived boomer parents. That's what made us great.

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

Hey, I heard that. 😂 Don't make me take off my belt now.

[@bswogger4656]

My oldest siblings try patent me and they are not nice, unfair & contemptuous. They took money from our Mother pretending to help me.

[@allenwood4771]

GenX is why they had the whole "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your kids are?" TV campaigns. GenX is feral. Our time is nigh.

[@jeannemarie3704]

😂yes. Our parents needed reminding they actually had kids and were the parents!

[@repentandturnfromsin]

Is that when the verticle colored stripes came on tv?

[@allenwood4771]

@@repentandturnfromsin that was usually midnight. It's called a "test pattern", by the way. Before that it was a full Indian head with headdress, but that was for black and white signals.

[@repentandturnfromsin]

@@allenwood4771 thanks. It's been a long time since I've thought about that lol. It would be great if that was the thing nowadays. TV and internet off at midnight.

[@angelabarnhill1938]

@@repentandturnfromsinYes... The Big Picture Tube for The TV...🤣🤣

[@jpowell2603]

Born in 1974 here and I agree with everything this bro says. Riding my BMX bike with my friends skateboarding as long as I was home before dark. Sony Walkman with my cassette tapes lol I miss those days honestly!

[@ladytiff3610]

When our parents had basement parties...😂with Shirley Murdock and AL Green playing... Listening to Luther on a good Ole Saturday morning... Baby listen... when you bet not tie up that house phone... When we had pay phones... Had that cable box that looked like a damn keyboard 😂... Man the good old days...

[@killachief187]

You wouldn't last 5 minutes in the 80s and 90s as a kid. You would of melted. 😂

[@8bitpixel801]

It's pretty easy to survive the 80s and 90s shit let me tell you All you gotta do is drink beer write tattoos on your face smoke crack and weed thinking it's cool because your a dumbass have sex with almost every women you come across to get aids and STDs hepatitis c a and b shit to easy my guy no effort and act like feral degenerate children hell ya then blame the next generation for not doing the same thing fuck ya my guy Hell even the fathers of that generation were 5 time world champions for beating the shit out of the wife's so you had wwe back home everyday Shit and gas and cars and houses weren't expensive as they are now You lived life on easy mode brotha Less kidnapping back in the 80 and 90s where you could actually go outside and not get followed by strangers or kidnapped Good times

[@charlesreese9085]

"I'll give you something to cry about" was one of my favorites. And they did. Good times

[@RegebroRepairs]

If you mess with us, we'll cut off your allowance, kid. --Gen X.

[@Here_Today_]

Allowance? Allowed to eat, sleep, and dress at a home we were allowed to live in! 😂

[@sl-te2xh]

😂😂😂 earn your keep

[@garrieleepeck8753]

It was fucking great bmxs , skateboarding, great music ,great films , Everything was so cool

[@ravenn0us]

We are the generation that brought ourselves up! Parents served as guardians, advisors and disciplinarians.

[@OfficialNakatsuMegami]

You are 100% correct. The 80's was a great time to be alive. I wish I could live in that era forever. We were the last to see Cigarette machines in public, we also remember when Pac Man was released and everyone had the sit down arcade game of it. Even in Motels.

[@jenezethgamertv2815]

The time of Nikola Tesla and Einstein are the best generation to live in not the stupid generation of gen x 🤮🙄

[@aaronpalmer2094]

'83 here, speaking of cigarette machines, I remember being 6 or 7 and walking 2 doors down to the bar my mom worked at to get her some cigarettes

[@pineapplecrushme3216]

Lol we all know about those street lights, not being in grown folks convo and we were the second black family on an all white street middle class part of town and race was never and issue. ❤

[@tracinehl7604]

I loved all of it!!! Programming the VCR was my job. A pencil was the most important tool...if ya know ya know. We Are The World video will still make us cry! We are the bomb!!!

[@bswogger4656]

Right.

[@RONALD......]

👍🏾😅factz.. I had so many fucn different races of friends growing up, my blackass had German, Native American, Polish people in the crew and a few females in that mix, went to the arcades, played football , baseball, rode bikes, popped wheelies and terrorized the fucn neighborhood to no end.. 😂😅😂🇺🇸 shout out to Kenosha Wisconsin. 1967-1978 Wilson elementary, and Bulletin Jr. high..I really miss those fucrs from the 70s..😅👍🏾

[@KOMMNSENSETHINKN]

Boom!!! Growing up in the 70s and 80s was the best

[@DontUNVME]

Drinking out the waterhose because you can't run in and out the house

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

And let out that air conditioning. 😂 Man, Daddy would lost his mind, telling us how expensive it was to run it.

[@crystalriley9671]

1970 checking in. I approve this message.

[@nickkinder5092]

Damn right they don't make em like us anymore 😢

[@dawnhannon]

Amen! Wish these younger generations could experience what we did. It was pretty awesome.

[@marvin69blastem61]

Gen X We had all the good music and we got to see all the best bands.

[@jinmark9453]

They were so good most of them just killed themselves, where do you go after you reach perfection like Alice In Chains 🤣😅🤣😅🤣

[@Snipergoat1]

We had a lot of good stuff but I think in total the boomers probably got that one one us. Plus they got laid more. One the other hand they were dirty hippies so, you know, tradeoffs in everything. P.s. Now that I think about it they may have had the whole holy trinity on us. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Still, dirty hippies kind of kills it for them.

[@dro2000]

​@jinmark9453 if you read correctly he said "we had all the good music." He didnt say we had all the strongest mental health bands. And where do you go after Alice in Chains?? Idk, maybe a Mylie Cyrus concert?? Or no wait....how about a Justin Bieber cry sesh? No? Ok well then looks like we are going Goth with Billie Eilish it is...🤷🏻‍♀️🙄

[@marvin69blastem61]

@@dro2000 I know he said that. It was a comment.

[@bastgojira8072]

Every generation is biased to the time of their youth. Best Music etc etc. I'm 53 and still find new music that is better than 86% of the trash that the 80s provided. The 70s had some great music. But I get bored hearing the same songs over and over and over, even when the songs are masterpieces. Boston's debut album was magical and perfect. There were several Iron Maiden albums in the 80s that were phenomenal. Even Metallica was good in the 80s (not so much now though). But music had some growing pains in the 90s and early 2Ks that turned off a ton of fans. The Black album. Enter Bob Rock, exit Metallica fans. The biggest thing I remember from concerts back then was that most lead singers in rock music couldn't sing to save their lives outside of a contolled studio. Drugs & alcohol ruined the best musicians in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Now vaccine boosters are doing it. That's about all. Peace out.

[@RobertMcKenzie-t2m]

Being born between 1954 and 1964 is the best time to live ever😊

[@cheesepanther]

Why did we let gen z and millenials off the hook... Is a better question?

[@thenaughtyamericanexpat]

Just who do you think created the Internet and Google search engine? 🤔 Us Boomers and our Gen-X baby brothers and sisters, that's who. 😂

[@ders972]

​@@thenaughtyamericanexpatbaby boomers started the whole cry baby protesting b.s.

[@SaanMigwell]

We didn't think they would be stupid enough to let their teachers turn them into cry babies.

[@pamukpicker]

Gen X raised gen Z That is their biggest mistake

[@cheesepanther]

@@pamukpicker good point. Honestly... Intergenerational arguing in general is pretty stupid. I was just having fun with this. Hopefully all generations "own up" and "grow up"... There are plenty of cry babies in all generations...

[@BarbaraGodin]

Gen X, we created the internet.

[@davidholmes2283]

Complete nonsense. The internet was invented by Vincent Cerf and Bob Khan both PRE Boomers. The World Wide Web was invented by boomer Tim Berners-Lee. Gen X try and claim a lot of things the boomers already did. i.e. programming VCR's and using cassette tapes.

[@alex-dj3of]

Piss off gen x

[@davidholmes2283]

@@NUNYABIZNNAAAZZZNot sure what you mean, we did what? The BBS (Bulletin Board System) was invented by pre boomer Ward Christensen

[@uncleyogie4698]

Gen X created mainstream pop culture. The GOAT

[@alex-dj3of]

@@uncleyogie4698 you weren't taught history

[@r_l_o6324]

Number one… we can not only drive a manual, but read a map and fold it back up!

[@Kissed_by_the_sunmoon]

No shit!!! 😂

[@eddienichols209]

Not only a manual, I learned with a 3 speed on the column Chevy truck!

[@MissNoel82]

80's baby here, and I approve this message! We're definitely the OG's!

[@lisastrickland234]

GenX are the group you call when s@#t hits the fan

[@CallousCoder]

The Golden Generation was the best. They were 19 and went to war in a foreign country and never complained. But we are the second best generation. GenX is a silver medalist!

[@kissurviva8035]

Boomers mostly had their senior trip stop off in Vietnam.

[@CallousCoder]

@@kissurviva8035 we didn’t meddle with Vietnam, we didn’t have a corrupt government that made money by funding the military complex for a useless war that was no threat to any western country.

[@panamapatti3364]

Bronze

[@CallousCoder]

@@panamapatti3364 I can live with that :D

[@CallousCoder]

@@panamapatti3364 Millenials are Pewter and GenZ oxidised lead :D

[@tishr9670]

So true, we were outside acting a fool but as long as we were in b4 those streets lights came on it was all good

[@audience2]

Gen X programmed the applications of personal computers and the Internet. We were children when video cassette tapes and microwaves became widespread.

[@aprilsmith3683]

"...seen and not heard..." Ohhhhh yesssss... Memories... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... 🇿🇦

[@unknownuser2737]

Cassettes hell we had vinyl records. We were totally blown away when 8tracks came out. I was born in 59 grew up in the 70s. We had pay phones if you can find one that worked. Went to a concert to see ACDC that was in 1975 and couldn't believe they had a cordless microphones that's the first time we ever seen that. That was back in the day you feared your parents more than the cops.

[@FunkyBruja]

Now that I think about it, A kids race, color or size didn't matter. We were all just kids having fun.

[@bswogger4656]

It was different & we all just trying not to get our asses kick by our parents for calling attention to ourselves, all races.

[@terrypostell8098]

Boomers were first, WE had the 8-Track players. When the players ate our tapes they were gone. The cassettes sometimes you could pull them out and then take a pencil a wind them back up. But as for being outside and being home when the street lights came on, yeah that's how it was. But OUR TV shows stopped at 11:00 o'clock. The end of the broadcast day.

[@sssssnakeeeee1]

I beg to differ. I am a boomer and I was programming the VCR for my dad and we had eight tracks and cassette tapes. I played the first video game ever put in bars which was pong. In our parents rules was your to be seen, not heard, go outside and play, be home before the street lights come on. Never saw a color TV until I was in third grade. We had three channels on the TV. And we got our first McDonald’s in town when I was in second grade.

[@Dontaskmetoday]

Don’t forget it’s our gen x that produced these fairies

[@carldarbyshire4]

"Be home before those street lights come on" . I learned that lesson the hard way 😂 Born in 1967

[@zk4761]

For real. Truly independent generation. This generation was the first N. American generation where mixed couples was really no big deal. Don't mean just black and white. Black and asian. Indian and white. Don't matter, it was all good.

[@8bitpixel801]

Lol but it wasn't at all ever heard of the black Panthers old timer the caused protest in schools they also divided the white from the black man you don't remember that at old little buddy And how incredibly racist and separate everyone was

[@zk4761]

@@8bitpixel801 This generation was the first with a strong mix of cultures from music to ads to fashion. Nothing in life is perfect but that generation gave birth to white rappers, black rockers, black youth love of anime / Kung Fu movies, asian love of Rock and hip hop, indian love of black music. Plus multi-culturalism was in fashion ads from Benetton to Hilfiger. Very unique. Yes racism still existed but acceptance with each other was very high.

[@angelabarnhill1938]

Right On Brother!!! You Ain't Neva Lied!! 😂😂😂❤🙏🏾✌🏾💯

[@docgillygun9531]

I drank water out of a hose when I got thirsty. The ice cream truck man was afraid of us. We beat the crap out of each other in person and not on the internet. When my parents or authority told me to do something, we did it or we knew there would be real consequences. I worked full time to pay my way through college and paid my student loans.

[@Nomoretoxicthoughts]

You’re right it was no color, no size, just people having a great time.

[@tigerlily102511]

I was born in 1980, last year of Gen X. I completely agree with this whole video. I played outside for hours and played Hide N Seek/Tag/Stuck In The Mud with all the neighborhood kids. Rode bikes to the park, explored the woods, caught frogs and snakes, got my hands dirty. We didn't have cellphones or computers. We had VHS, cassette tapes, and 8-tracks.

[@pmbeavis4467]

The Rick Flair WHOOOO!

[@Kwijiboi]

The Bret Hart excellence of execution pitch before the Flair wooo was *chefs kiss*

[@deuce765]

Rick Flair was trash hot trash at that

[@bellamorda9582]

@@deuce765 Ya but he was funny AF

[@melissakennedy5897]

Only problem is we created those freaking lunatics that came after us

[@timkincade9763]

we were stopped from correcting them, we weren't allowed to discipline them, the school system changed

[@loriparks8657]

🤣🤣🤣 I never thought about that but you got a point🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JakubSK]

When Gen Z works even for a single day, and without complaining or on their phones, then we can talk.

[@8bitpixel801]

Then get off your phone little buddy go outside and do something productive instead of being on your phone I really hope you don't have any video games in your house or even have songs on your phone use a cassette player and a mp3 or a radio to listen to music and don't use ear pods or Bluetooth headphones use them wired headphones my boy and I hope you don't watch TV either I hope you do something productive other then watching TV go outside or go to work little buddy and stop using what gen z made use your old time phones little buddy and don't use these new TV's which gen z approved on use those old television with a VHS tape

[@prin0428]

Preach!!!! Gen X is the most epic generation ever!

[@johnhoover6717]

I love how the generations behind us try to emulate us gen xers. They love our music , clothing styles , hair styles , humor and i know several of my sons friends buy record players like they pioneered our accomplishments. Oh the flattery.

[@mikesmith9972]

Gen x were the toughest generation when they realized that at this rate there wouldn't be a next generation cuz they'd end themselves.