Gen X: Most Creative of All the Generations, by Karen McCullough

[@DaveMiller2]

As Generation X, we would rather have root canal than weekly (God forbid DAILY) meetings and employee of the day.

[@YoreHistory]

100%

[@denisewhite11385]

I'm a Gen Xer. Born 1966. I'm proud to be a Gen Xer.

[@captainarcher2]

I was born 1966 also. I'm also proud to be a Gen Xer.

[@priscillakass5875]

Me too i am proud of being gen x i was born in 1966 to

[@mikewarren5004]

Same here... I'm a 1971 model.

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

👋'64, Babies. Rock 'n Roll forever!

[@YoreHistory]

1972...middle literally Gen Xer...wouldn't change it for the world.

[@margotdourand2507]

Gen X with a silent generation mother. Amen 🙏

[@bluzshadez]

I totally agree! Without the Gen X-ers, there wouldn't be better technologies. Analog phones and other low tech gadgets were the only things available. Which was why there were so many innovations and inventions afterwards. When something was needed and it was too expensive or just not available yet, Gen X-ers had to make those by themselves.

[@tinkergnomad]

Thank you! I needed this. There's a lot of erasure of my generation. I'm constantly called "millennial," by everyone older than me, and "boomer," by everyone younger than me, add well as seeing other generations credited with everything that my generation did.

[@felicitydeikos5250]

As a generation X, us DJs taught to dj ourselves, in the 80s and 90s.

[@mpm2010lbc]

Where my GenXers at? My generation - born '77! Great times in the 80s and 90s!!!!

[@tt1212hahu-yj6bu]

You are Xennial

[@mpm2010lbc]

@@tt1212hahu-yj6bu No, I am NOT.

[@avg1712]

This is exactly how it was when I was a Kid. Born in the early 70's.

[@Laudanum-gq3bl]

It’s ironic (don’tcha think?) that many Gen Xers were raised by the Silent generation, which was also overlooked for the Greatest and Boomer generations.

[@thedudeabides3930]

I think it may be more than a coincidence. The quiet Silents raised the Xers to keep their mouths shut as well.

[@tinkergnomad]

😲🤯

[@raestalgia]

If that's the case,then I'm(Born in 74) an exception to the rule. I was raised partly by my grandparents(The Greatest Generation, not Silent.)when my mom, a baby boomer, divorced, and worked 3 jobs to support me, and my grandparents.

[@syvajarvi2289]

I’m parents were Boomers. My mom raised my sister and myself until I was 7, then we were latch key kids from then on…. Very little supervision. I’m thankful to both sets of grandparents….. my dad was military so we would see them between transfers…. At 16 I moved in with my moms parents. My grand dad treated me like a son and taught me how to do carpentry, bake, and make maple syrup. I went to college near my other grand parents…. That grand dad taught me how to fix cars. My life views were my own based on my experiences both good and not so good. My parents were there when it directly effected them or I wasn’t doing what they wanted me to do. I would find reasons not to be home…. Living in Hawaii in the late 80s gave me a million reasons to be out and explore the world around me. My high school coaches were more of an influence, very positive I might add. The Kama a’ina spirit sticks with me to this day.

[@yesher12]

As an old Gen-Xer she is spot on about most of the stuff but me and my siblings were raised by parents of the Silent generation. The Halloween candy stuff is true but we still went trick or treating and never went back to a house that gave fruit, pencils and erasers or that orange and black wax paper candy. My husband lived near Houston where the little kid was poisoned with Pixie Styk powder. Some parents would x-ray candy for razorblades!

[@PatBenatarRulz]

I was born 1967; an early X'er. Still listen to my vinyls. Hated cassettes; damn things were getting tangled all the damn time; get the pen out so I can roll this crap back together again.

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

I remember winding cassettes with a pencil!

[@lorrainejohnson829]

Yup...was worthwhile "work"

[@1367dhbkhf]

I’m Gen X and just contemplated a cassette boom box or record player. Went record because I thought the same damn thing 😂

[@avonee1976]

Born in 1976. Proud Gen Xer!

[@matttyree1002]

I straddled the line of Gen X and Millennial, as far as date. But I certainly identify more with gen x. My freshman year of high school was the last gen x year. Columbine is the thing that was the transition between the Gen X high school experience, and the Millennial high school experience.

[@billmadison2032]

born after 80 is a millennial old one but still millennial. But if you think like us you probably get along with us no problem

[@chroniclerofthe70s]

More than half of Gen Xers were still buying vinyl and cassette tapes from record shops in mid to late 80s. CD's were more expensive than cassettes so most Gen Xers continued to buy mostly cassettes and a few vinyls as collectors items. By 1981, there were cassette boom boxes that allowed direct recording of radio stations. So your agreeing with occurred in the late 70s, even though there were plenty of 8 track compilation recordings.

[@yayan.8441]

Lol! I still have mixe-tapes my friends gave me.

[@sarahjrobinson9792]

Yep.. We don't trust anybody or anything.

[@JimP226]

And why should we? I've been trying to disprove this lifestyle, but time and again you find out those you are expected to trust are the worst.

[@kleocatra9675]

The Tylenol Scare created tamper proof lids and products with seals. When she was talking about Halloween candy.

[@JimButler1234567890]

It's 2021 and I still have three milk crates full of cassettes of music that I either recorded from the radio or that later on I bought from the store.

[@jeremyhodge6216]

This video is something all Gen X 'er people should look at 😃

[@LoveandLightJason]

Born in 1970 and I’m damn proud to be a Gen X’er

[@lorrainejohnson829]

GenX Born 1972- xrayd my halloween candy and checkd 4 razor blades! Workd in Panasonic Cell phone engineering...real new hot stuff 😜

[@LoveandLightJason]

@@lorrainejohnson829 Yes, when we did go Halloween, I had to dump my pillow case full of candy, (we actually trick and treat on halloween) I didn't get home untill like 10-11pm. Mom would dump the candy out. Throw out the apples, popcorn balls and eat all the best and leave the rest.

[@lorrainejohnson829]

@@LoveandLightJason hey- sounds fun 😜

[@LoveandLightJason]

@@lorrainejohnson829 You have no idea how fun it was to be a Kid in the 70’s!

[@martineldritch]

Born in '66 and even you other gen Xers makin me feel old😄

[@CCRider100]

I agree with much of what she said but Gen X teens went through the shift from Vinyl, to CD while Cassette tape recorders were still very popular. Recording your own compilation tapes on cassette from either vinyl or CD sources, was far more popular than sticking a tape recorder up to a radio speaker. Gen X is by and large a very independent generation, its no wonder that Indie Rock was created by (and for) this generation.

[@Clariccy]

i would think boomers are the original indie rockers

[@thedudeabides3930]

Our parents were Silent Generation, not Boomers.

[@hjjabaljlaka5695]

uh some of generation x have boomer parents. i was born to a boomer and a silent generation´er.

[@thedudeabides3930]

@@hjjabaljlaka5695 Agreed. I stand corrected.

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

Born 1974, Boomer mom. Some of the older Gen X had silent generation parents, many had Boomer parents. My mom had her first 2 at 19 and 21.

[@lorrainejohnson829]

Wow gen x 1972 here! Boomer mom was 21: bro1 born 1974 and bro2 1985 😅

[@jaeshasway]

OMG! My mother used to let the phone ring twice then call back because we were not allowed to answer the phone when she wasn’t home. 😅

[@CCRider100]

My comment was pertaining to the fact that taping music by pressing a tape recorder up to a speaker was not commonly done by Gen X. Recording was mostly done from source (vinyl,CD, cassette) to cassette Vinyl, 8 Track, Cassette, CD, Super Audio CD (SACD), DVD Audio Gen X was in existence during all the formats above. How many used would be dependent on age of X'er and other factors. I do agree vinyl was pretty much dead by 1992, done in first by cassette sales and later both CD and cassette.

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

Unless you were poor and it was the radio.

[@astronomysetec]

Thank You very much. Show hand to you.

[@chroniclerofthe70s]

Vinyl never died and is still highly valued by early and mid Gen Xers. What matters is what the majority of Gen X did, not the late Gen Xers.

[@krea_knaegten]

I still have the first vinyl i got some 40 years ago... And have kept adding over the years...

[@JimP226]

Haha yeah it never "died", your folks old record player and milk crates of albums never got thrown out. And when we were really bored, you'd toss on an old CCR album and try scratching like a DJ. But where I grew up you couldn't buy new vinyl anywhere for about 20 years. 8 tracks and cassettes took it out and CDs finished it off. It wasn't until it became retro cool again that it started to become more available again in the late 90s and 2000s. Of course if you really wanted vinyl you could order it from somewhere, but definitely no chance even 50% of albums were available on vinyl.

[@Dave-el6rh]

Thank you. Really. Thank you. Alex from Orange County, California. Wi- Vy, baby.

[@silvialogan9226]

If my sister and I are both in our 40s and we are 14 months apart, are we from the same generation? Is there much of an age difference? I am asking that question because my father said that if we are 14 months apart, we are not close in age and there is a lot of age difference and we are not considered from the same generation because we are not exactly the same age. Would you agree with him?

[@edstar83]

Gen X generation is people born from 1965 to 1980. So you and your sister are the same generation.

[@jrandall2375]

We are the forgotten generation

[@tt1212hahu-yj6bu]

No we aren't

[@nicoleleyva6627]

1972. I feel all of this. By I do love my vinyls.

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

I was born 1974, really never had my own vinyl....my Boomer mom did.

[@cjnoffz3351]

They are still self-absorbed just look at Congress.

[@hjjabaljlaka5695]

way less selfabsorbed than other fucking generations like millenials or generation z ( but they still have to become adults )

[@ronniestanley75]

You could tell that there wasn't very many Xers in the crowd. There would have been a lot more laughter and agreement. It's sad that we are just a breath away from losing all traces of our upbringing. We learned in a way that generations after us will never understand. And, we know that the cause is the addiction to the tech.

[@kerrijohnstone7588]

This is amazing and SO true although I MUST disagree with the pin in the apple bit that kind of started in gen Y

[@jonfleck8687]

Love the Butchy Kid music

[@3mindgame]

1967 baby!!

[@rockkstah2550]

X-Men late 1966!!!

[@manuelshaul9244]

1973 baby. Born date. We were wiser clever quick smart. We were Gorgeous. We had love game skills strength. Longerivity. Will power. Heart. Street smarts. Toughness. Awareness. Bold. We stood tall through adversity. No hate time. All love. Haters got shame to death. White and blacks wee cool as shyt back them. Even with our difference. We respect each other's until someone cross the line. White people were real. Black people were real. We didn't hide our true feelings. We would die in a new York second behind our love one. Y'all don't know. We comes the the home of the brave

[@tylerfields2654]

My brother and sisters were baby boomers not my parents

[@byenarcissist5297]

1984 generation x according to George Masnick of Harvard University Studies of Generations.

[@jamesplum9182]

I'm happy I was born in 1979

[@davidholmes2283]

She's just kissing Gen X ass. I'm a boomer and its not easy having a father that was a warrior. Who was at D-day and seen horrific things. Our fathers were damaged.

[@NickpollockeventsAus]

Born in 1975.

[@GenXer82]

The "Tail-End" of Generation X--"The Forgotten Generation" tends to be even MORE forgotten (i.e. people of the early '80s) and we need more recognition by our older GenX counterparts and the rest of society (as Generation X is 1965-1982). We younger "Xers" tend to fall in the cracks! 😕 The so called "Millennial" refers to someone who became of age at the turn of the new millennium, which actually started in 2001 (not 2000). So the birth years for the Millennial Generation (Gen Y) are actually 1983-2001. But really...nobody born in the early 80's should be thrown into Gen Y. Obviously, we are not "digital natives" and we share different experiences and pop culture compared to youngsters in their teens and 20's.

[@Clariccy]

what more recognition that sounds millenial

[@lornacharles5380]

I Agree.... I was born in 1970.....I believe that the last the baby genxers were born in 1982🥰🥰

[@GenXer82]

@@lornacharles5380 Thank you!

[@martineldritch]

Good stuff! Natural for parents to want to "correct" their parent's perceived mistakes, to give our children everything we didn't have as children. Boomers born of the depression and war-ration era parents were given everything. So these late Silent Generation and Boomer parents gave gen-X nothing, just the feral freedom to grow up on unwatched channels. My late Boomer older sister was asked to look out for us younger Gen X siblings during our latchkey years. To this day she bares a great grudge against my mother for this imposition on her. I assure Sis that we were just fine without her begrudged sporadic "babysitting" and did just fine looking after ourselves. So Gen X went on to become the helicopter parents, giving our children the attention we never received, warning them away from hot burners without allowing them the freedom to explore and learn on their own. (These are just broad generalities as I see it, mileage may vary)

[@kerrijohnstone7588]

NOW 53

[@mmmm3966]

🤘💞🤘

[@joymartin4640]

10 years after this video was uploaded and Gen Z is officially here.

[@joymartin4640]

@Practicalicalicalica are you gen x? bc yall are mainly forgotten about so i dont think anyone gives a fuck.

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

Love Gen Z though! Raising a Z.

[@lisaharrison8754]

I’m gen x born in 72

[@avoiceinthewilderness9864]

Born in 1974.

[@robertdeleon5889]

02/04/68

[@kasspriscilla5183]

Yes we would make her own music on a cassette tapes and yes we would play are vinyl records and tape them so we could take them to school on are walkmans or we would take music from the radio what are cassettes and we play our walk men's and put them in the tapes in and I remember I used to ride my bike having it in my backpack plane it on my earphones yes we did create our own me is it we got to pick whatever we wanted and yes we were very independent and yes our parents were very busy

[@sirlancealittles]

In defense of Generation X OK. Enough is enough. Modern American Cultural keeps stereotyping the 1980's. This is happening because 'The Millionals' (those born after the year 2000) have no idea what occurred during the 1980's. First, people who grew up during the 1980's are called 'Generation X'. I have absolutely idea what the letter X means, so please don't ask. Secondly, the Internet didn't exist back then the way we think of it today. Computers were incredibly stupid and often cost thousand dollars. A variety cheep home computers were developed around 1983 such as the 'Apple' the 'Commador 64'' and 'IBM Pc Junior' but these were essentially Word Processing machines. If you wanted to play a computer game there places called Arcades in shopping mall's across the United States. It cost 25 cents to play a Arcade game. Needless to say, many children went poor using these machines and often developed panic attacks once they ran out of quarters. This psychological phenomenon was called Pac Man fever. Third, cell phones existed but were ungodly large. Only businessmen used them. If you wanted to call someone there were telephone booths and machines almost everywhere. They also required alot of Quarters. Parachute pants were made specifically to hold massive amounts of quarters. Four, everyone was afraid of a nuclear war with Russia. Russia during the 1980's was a Communist nation. They also hated Americans. Most grade school children expected a nuclear holocaust to occur during lunchtime at school. Once again, I have absolutely no idea where this assumption came from. But everyone believed it. Five, High School students always wanted to get laid but never did. I don’t think has changed much over the past 40 years. Six, more music genres were developed during the 1980's than any decade past or since. Punk Rock, New Wave, Techno Rock, and Rap Music only to mention a few. Six, Reganomics worked...until the Stock Market collapsed in 1989. Or around that time. Seven, libraries used index cards to find books rather than a computer. Eight, High School kids were permitted to take cigarette breaks between classes. Smoking was considered very cool and drew great respect from others. Most of those people are dead now. Nine, scary movies were extremely popular during the 1980's. However, most movies were uninteresting, goofy or just simply stupid. Ten, 'The higher your hair, the closer to God' was a popular saying. Hair gell and mousee were universally praised and important commodities. Eleven, sex education classes were invented and condoms were widely distributed by teachers. Teenage pregnancy was a great concern during the 1980's. However, since no one was actually having sex, the condoms were utilized as balloons. Twelve, everyone wanted Marajuana. Kids who had 'Stoner' friends were a valuable asset. Whisky mixed with Coca Cola made flirting with girls easier during High School Dances - until you vomited on someone which completely destroyed your reputation. Thirteen, everyone was called "Dude". Hey dude how are you? I'm fine dude want to watch a Betamax movie tonight? Fourteen, the American government's 'Don't Do Drugs" agenda only inspired teenagers to take more drugs. Apparently, they never understood what the phrase "teenage rebellion" meant. Fifteen, children developed a sociological "caste' systems to identify one another. These groups included Nerds, Geeks, Jocks, Cheerleaders, Goths, Tramps, Loners, and Stoners. It was strictly forbidden for these groups to interact with one another. Lastly, we didn't take life so seriously than today's generations. Everyone back then knew what the AIDS virus was but since it only effected homosexuals, kids were not concerned. Of course, when non homosexuals started dying off that perception changed quite rapidly. Same sex marriages were unknown. To understand these Cultural attitudes, you have to understand what the term 'political correctness' actually meant back then. Generation X children were taught to fear others. Anyone who appeared or acted differently was considered abnormal. Fortunately, these negative aspects of 1980's thinking have largely disappeared over the decades. In other words, we grew up and matured into 'well rounded' individuals. We, like all American Generations, changed with time. The most basic truth of Nature is 'Grow or Perish' . Anything which does not evolve becomes extinct. The same rule applies to human behavior. Lastly, it was widely predicted that Generation X children would contribute nothing to future society. We were lazy, obcessed with our physical appearance and self absorbed. Fortunately, all those assumptions were proven incorrect. Generation X adults created a new era in world history. It was called the 'Technological Revolution'. Every cell phone, computer tablet and even the Internet was our idea. We made the world a little smaller and gave everyone the ability to communicate with one another in seconds. No longer were people restricted to reading newspapers, books and magazines for information. A few keystrokes on a computer and the complete history of mankind becomes instintantly available. Generation X helped establish the groundwork for computers to develop Artificial Intelligence (which was probably a mistake because the movie 'Terminator' might actually come true within the next several years according to some scientists. Please accept our apologies for destroying humanity...and inventing things like Alexa). Your generation will encounter something entirely new. Be prepared. Within 5 years Computers will develop self consciousness and self awareness. This phenomenon has already started and cannot be stopped. Pandora's Box was opened. How your Generation deals with situation will require great wisdom and understanding. But most of all compassion. In Mankind's attempt to understand the Universe we created another lifeform. We became God. Very soon computers will start asking the same questions every intelligent creature asks, "Who am I?" and "What is the meaning of life?" or "Why am I here?". What are you going to say? Confucius once said , "May you live in interesting times." He was referring to how incredible difficult things become during moments of change. It's a actually Chinese curse. If life was boring, everyone would be safe. Nothing new can harm you. If life is interesting, be prepared for strange things to occur. Like a United States President attempting to overthrow the Government and turn America into a Totolarian Dictatorship or a Bioengenered Virus killing off millions of people on Earth. Sound familiar?

[@lorrainejohnson829]

Yes and my 1985 baby bro became a trained chef after my crappy experimental meals 😜

[@manuelshaul9244]

The 1990s. We are the home of the brave. We suppose to be saluted. GOD was the soil he plant us as his seeds. We them people. Everyone from our generation the shyt I don't care who you are.

[@dotconnector1418]

Complaining about how hard it was and wanting everyone to buy in. Another one of those fad things. Just like Beatle boots it’ll pass. Just not fast enough. Fuck as a boomer I couldn’t get away from parental anything fast enough.

[@MrAnimatronicJesus]

Gen X is so cool it has BOOMer wannabes!

[@djjonnyblaze9491]

I'm gen x my lil. Sisters are millenials they're cool 😎 tho I 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@jamesslick4790]

Fun Fact: Phone ring "codes" are fake, The number of "rings" you hear a the CALLER is NOT what the CALLED party getsl Source: "Mom" worked for the Bell System.g