Gen X vs Millennials: Battle of the Generations! [Episode 20, Season 4]

[@melindaharlow3044]

As a Gen X growing up, I remember kids were seen but not heard and during the holidays or family gathering adults had their own table and the kids had their own table. We were not allowed to interrupt the adults when having a conversation.

[@joedirt6073]

Well you shouldn't...you are all ignorant when young and many of you are ignorant as old

[@tjj5337]

Us GEN X ‘s lived thru the whole technology surge….. We remember life very well before cell phones and internet and social media

[@TarahMatson-zz2hj]

I remember dial phones mounted on the kitchen wall with the longest cords. It took forever to dial a phone number. Remember calling home collect ? When you had to give your name you spoke as fast as possible and then hung up?

[@earthchild04]

I'm a Gen X Male that was born in 1977 and grew up in the 70's,80's and 90's. As a latch key child I learned how to be self sufficient and problem solve. Back then entertainment was available in many forms. For example, I played video games at the arcade. After that there was a transition to play home consoles like Atari,Nintendo and Sega. Watching videos on a VCR or recording songs played on the radio with a tape player. Millennials can only imagine playing outside and rushing home before the streetlight is turned on.

[@LetsKickItWithTheJoneses]

Gen X - able to problem solve and make our own fun!

[@MsMandsa]

Depends on where you grew up. I was born in 1982 in a country where we got TV in 1978 and internet in 1994 only.

[@earthchild04]

@@MsMandsa Exactly a Millennial.

[@AVToth]

Kids now don't know what it's like when about 5 -5:30 your mama just hollered out the back door. Hollered your name and then something like "SUPPERTIME" "COME WASH UP FOR SUPPER" Everybody knew the voice of everybody else's mama and could pass on the message if you didn't hear it. And God help you if you didn't hear it. After supper, back out til dark.

[@lcchill]

Millennials and played outside, you sound out of touch saying we didn’t!!

[@mountaintiger6945]

64, 66, I was born 62 my wife 60. We're Rock & Roll Xers who went to Discotechs to dance the night away. For people like us life started in middle school not high school. We watched Carradine in Kung Fu & laughed at the t.v. show Soap & sneaked in to Richard Pryor stand up movies. We survived the monkey bars on the schoolyard, played stickball, we're the best generation.

[@taylemgames2652]

OMG, the father was killing me the entire time. I'd drink a beer with him anytime. I am was born at the tail end of the Gen X generation, summer 1975.

[@melanienward]

June ‘75 baby here! ❤

[@joshuasmith4979]

Our GenX music is indisputably FIRE from any genre.

[@natalieohlsson7777]

Yep! Hands down. Totally different level.

[@12Lanye]

I’m noticing that I have more Gen X characteristics than millennial 😂

[@melanienward]

“You got plans?” 😂

[@lorettathomas3994]

Well educated, not better educated. GenX was the bridge from past to future. Biggest changes in a hundred years.

[@sheldonafrika40]

I absolutely enjoyed this video. It was informative, educational and entertaining. Wow, well done

[@efman1313]

If you watch Office Space about 50 times, you will understand the importance of the Gen X work-life balance.

[@myfavoriteplanet3247]

As a Gen X what I like best about the Millennials and younger generations are that they know,, care and relate to the rest of the world. As Gen X I say we can and should be both original, individual and diverse. Live and let live. You do your thing, I'll do mine but we can all learn from each other.

[@ACEDIAMOND666]

I'm a Gen X Man, born in 1977. My Generation is the best. Our theme song is "My Generation" by The Who, released in 1965. Gen X is the best, and when you mess with the best, you go down like the rest!😁👍 Don't poke the bears. Gen X are bears. Black, brown, grizzly, & Polar. We're bears. Leave us alone, and you won't get hurt. #GenX #FAFO Speaking of "The Breakfast Club"..... John Hughes is my father.

[@tjj5337]

My mom was home and I had many friends that moms stayed home too. Ours moms married good providers…. That were proud to take care of the family

[@sunnywiderman]

My mom WAS a good provider. Dad...meant well.

[@kimberlyn.2096]

Born in 1966. Im a weird gen X kid! Lol. Sarcasm is our main characteristic. We really are cynical about most stuff. All I have to say about all this is “ whatever!” 😂😂😂

[@natalieohlsson7777]

Funny as Gen ex I don’t feel cynical at all. But realistic.

[@capricornyearofthetiger]

GEN X RULES!

[@RamonGarcia77]

1977 here We were made to be seen not heard. ALSO I think the need to tell the difference not only in just the difference in Generation but different races in that generation! WE all ended up the same but how we got there is WAYYY different.. LIKE I'm Puerto Rican adopted by a black Christian family compared to the white kids who had a little money compared to a Mexican family just as poor as we were etc etc

[@wand3r3r72]

Gen X born in 1972 grew up in the best movie time ever into the 80s

[@natalieohlsson7777]

I adore being gen x. No need to say one is better. I see the positives and negatives in all of the gens

[@RoseHuynh-r7m]

I think that each generation has its own qualities and a lot to offer to each other we can learn from each other

[@jkseraphim4]

As a millennial I can say I have a great appreciation for Generation X. If there was a fight I'm on team Generation X because you're good with building and having fun without technology.❤

[@bigal3055]

Appreciate that. But... if you want in on the team, you best know how to hold your own in a fight, because we sure as hell ain't carrying you.

[@lSpijderl]

GenX here, I always chalk our apathy up to being raised by boomers who spent their school days doing nuclear bomb drills and fed a steady diet of the first round of post apocalyptic movies.. we were effectively trained to believe that we wouldn't make it to adulthood because nukes or night of the comets.. all while we are unsupervised at action park and just sitting in our rooms thinking about things trying to figure it out on our own while arguing that all we wanted was a pepsi mom wouldn't give us but we'll be okay just leave us alone..

[@efman1313]

ST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jochoa99]

Watching the beginning of this, I thought I was watching the reboot to "family matters". LoL. Cool Convo 👍✌️

[@LetsKickItWithTheJoneses]

LOL - love Family Matters. Very nostalgic. Thank you so much for checking us out.

[@jamescox2822]

Genx developed the phrase loyalty and respect is earned.It's not given But at least we know how to read a clock, Count change And pick out other countries And states on a map Or find our way around a strange city without a map

[@AVToth]

It's a wonder we aren't all traumatized. Anybody else remember one of the crimes against humanity that occurred when school started? "Bedtime, tomorrow is a school day." "BUT IT'S NOT EVEN DARK YET!" How has someone not been held accountable for this? (Until I had kids and heard the same. My response as a mama "I know, isn't it great"

[@justinmoney6418]

I may be 22 but Gen X is cool to me

[@LetsKickItWithTheJoneses]

Thank you - us Gen Xers appreciate you!

[@Maria-ix4tp]

Genx here we had freedom education and respect and manners

[@tracyhirte3527]

Awesome! Really enjoyed!

[@jonathanlebo3710]

It doesn’t matter anymore we’re all poor

[@valhasviews]

Born 1981. I feel like Im both in different aspects of my life.🤷‍♀️

[@Cal-VinoCastle]

I can relate I was born in 82 we are xennials

[@IAMDPP]

You are a Xennial

[@TarahMatson-zz2hj]

Hi. I’m a Gen X; born in 1970. My childhood was an interesting one. My young childhood was very sheltered as I lived on Army bases until about 13 years old. At that hat time I went to live with my mother. From then on I had a very typical Gen X childhood. Larch- key kid and all. I had a job at 14 years old; moved out at 17 years old . From what I saw with my peers, for the most part, I was only a year early.

[@chuckriggsjr.6021]

Yeah gen X.

[@faegrrrl]

I was raised partly by Boomers but mainly by the Silent Generation. I'm Gen X. Taking all Generations into consideration, the Silent Generation is THE most loving, hands on, caring, going to Heaven people in all the land. They kept my cynicism to a healthy, well, I didn't have any. I was happy.

[@n.d.m.515]

I was also raised by both a silent and early boomer. My silent parent was strict, but was also open to teaching or sharing. My boomer parent pretty much followed the example.

[@faegrrrl]

@@n.d.m.515 That's awesome!!

[@scottdavis3571]

I'm Gen-X and like most Millennials, I've met. So, no prob....

[@FlipORican00]

I think partially, Gen X parents raise the Millennial children somewhat differently, as Gen Xer's were free to roam and competitive, thanks to their hard and always working Boomer parents, wo pretty much left the Gen Xer's to fend for themselves. So like most parents, then want to raise their kids differently than how they were raised. Now we look back and we see that it wasn't bad that we were Lackey kids as it better prepared us to be successful adults.

[@orionx79]

I thought gen x was also the beginning of the inclusion generation. We wanted everyone to be accepted, maybe not so vocal about it. But we tried to include all we could breaking some the older generational stereotypes.

[@sniper161718]

I'm gen x and I don't remember any forced inclusion. Even you earned the spot and deserved or you sucked and you didn't get it. That's why gen x is a harder working generation. We grew up more on meritocracy

[@Aryaba]

@@sniper161718 Yeah, there wasn't "forced inclusion." We were a merit based inclusion generation. It didn't matter your race, sex or sexual preference, if you were good enough you got the spot. And EVERYONE got made fun of based on immutable characteristics and it was all in good fun and no one got upset about it.

[@canalmax2228]

I'm Italian....1971...normally 😁here we said.....I'm me,you are nothing😂😂

[@jdoe7144]

BEST GENERATION EVER! DON'T FORGET WE STARTED ALL THAT GAMING,CELL PHONE,BIG TVs,FLYEST CARS ETC! WE HAD ATARI,COMMODORE 64,NINTENDO,GAMECAST ETC! BEFORE NETFLIX AND CHILL,WE BLOCKBUSTER AND CHILLED!! WE HAD THE BEST MUSIC,COOLEST FASHIONS,STYLE,HAIR CUTS,TV SHOWS,CARTOONS,CEREALS,DANCES,FOOD,DRINKS,PARTIES,MOVIES!! WE COULD JOKE AND EVEN FIGHT WITHOUT A SOFT COWARDS PULLING OUT A GUN! WE HAD SOME OF THE MORE HEALTHIER FOOD WITHOUT ALL THE CHEMICALS, WE KEPT IT REAL AND DIDNT CRY OR WANT TO DELETE OURSELVES OR OTHERS CUZ NO ONE LIKED US ONLINE! WE HAD MALLS AND MET EACH OTHER FACE 2 FACE AND TALKED TO DATE NOT WEIRDO EXCHANGE SOCIAL MEDIA INFO OR FRONT AND CATFISH LIKE LOSERS! #BESTEVERBABY!!

[@darrengreen6341]

I remember the cabinets. It was 1985 uk. :)

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

I’m gen x and in my experience…boomers are the most entitled.

[@mjz16]

Gen Alpha are all already in therapy. Their millennial parents are to blame. There’s still hope for Gen Z. Gen X is fine, is not, and don’t care either way-we just want to party hardy, chill, and hang ten!

[@kellykeller5741]

Gen X has more common sense and backbone and work ethics..

[@mangtas4503]

because we analyze before we act

[@jimboslice8885]

Generation X's notorious for abandoning their family mother's brothers and sisters

[@du24pont70]

Because that's how we grew up. Basically abandoned. Left to our own vices and devices. It left some of us feeling like there was no personal connection. If you didn't grow up that way, than you wouldn't understand.

[@lauraatkinson8920]

So true, I left home as a teen in the 80s raised by my Dad but he had a girlfriend she didn’t care, big regret but had no choice my life went down since no street/life wisdom or family. Good point well observed.

[@williambaker9703]

I'm what they classify as a "summer of love" baby, Even though I was born June of 1969. And the summer of love was actually June 1968

[@lcchill]

Proud Millennial here and would not want you be any other generation, well maybe Gen-Z!!

[@discoAL]

Gen X here ...Everybody Eates!!!

[@matthewlaird5235]

Love your video, I will continue to watch. But as a Gen Xer, what generation is better…. Who gives a funk?! Not me.

[@jlynnmiddlebrook4676]

i am gen x and we had the best muscle cars the best music and the best clothing styles. we got to grow up old school and acclimate to todays technology. and we had the best muscle cars and music and clothes lol most of us still have child hood friends as well.

[@johnlevonitis8136]

Gen X loved A. I. C. and N. W. A. Was the long haired slacker and my brother was yuppie scum.

[@sasapetroski981]

1980...that is Millenial

[@TheCrone]

Its just obvious gen x is best

[@lauraatkinson8920]

I like the millennials they seem quite knowledgable and relatable to a certain extent quite advanced especially with technology.

[@mangtas4503]

millennials they more on details and dont even know how to handle things they are dependent.. gen x are crazy no one commands us we have our own deal with it we respect and disrepect

[@mikek0135]

Messed things up right off the bat. The generation that fought in WW2 is called, "The Greatest Generation". Also, you got the generational years wrong. But, you just go on with your bad self...

[@thedude5342]

A lifetime is 20 to 25 years by definition a generation must be longer 30 years Someone has broken down the generations into these little fragments because they don't want to be a millennial a generation's thirty years Quoted by national geographic The 1st to define the generations. In a national publication.

[@AVToth]

That doesn't make sense. Whoever decided that those born three years before 2000 were millenneals? People didn't even talk about the milleneum until 2000, when the new milleneum began. The silent generation? Really? The generation that made it through the depression, FOUGHT a world war, saw electricity and indoor plumbing come to most homes as well as the telephone. The generation that started with radio, moved on to TV and it may be hard to believe but every computer, digital device would not have come to pass had this generation not only invent the computer but get it ti the point it could be used in the home. This generation was born to horse and buggy but saw the tremendous strides made in cars and trucks. This generation saw the plane, jet, commercial airlines, space shuttle, satellites. This generation brought antibiotics, safe anesthesia, the end of polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, tetanus. This generation saw public school, free education for everyone. They aren't the silent generation just because they are mostly dead. They are the greatest generation. I realize ya'll didn't design the names and this is a fun video so apologies for being a grouchy old Boomer. No, apologies for being grouchy. I know it's difficult but everyone can't be a Boomer. My kids are gen x, my grandkids gen z. I tried, but young 'uns just don't pay attention so they'll just have to tough it out. One day they'll say "I wish I'd listened to my mama" or "I wish Granny was here, she'd know just what to do. Why was Granny so wise?" "Because she was a Boomer, they just don't make 'em like that any more." 👉😁👏👈

[@michellerowe64]

Very good

[@michellerowe64]

High five!!

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

People didn’t even talk about the new millennium until the new millennium began?? Lol what?? I guess you forgot about all that Y2K stuff and everything else that was talked about the new millennium in the 1990s.

[@AVToth]

@@Brandon-lw1wx Y2K wasn't widely discussed until 1999. It may have been mentioned in certain areas but the Y2K as end of humanity did explode until 1999. I NEVER heard a kid born in 97, 98 ,99 called millennial.

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

@@AVToth I wasn’t talking about just Y2K, I was talking about discussion of the new millennium. The new millennium was widely discussed throughout the 90s. I mean the world was approaching it so it was a big deal and talked about. I remember these times.

[@DeAnne1233]

Your Mother laughs and you cut your eyes at her and tell her to Calm Down? 0:58 Disrespectful, that’s what your generation is. You can’t sit with us anymore.

[@redtesta]

i cant even believe this is even being disgust LOL.. No comparison . Gen x .. seriously...

[@TheMadLeprechaun]

This video does put to bed the claim that Generation X didn't have any Millennial children (there's at leastwise one Gen Xer who's claiming that his generation didn't raise Millennials.)

[@IAMDPP]

Xennials was born 1981 to 1985

[@tedlogan4867]

In my opinion, Gen X is really from '65-75, cuz those late 70's starting around '76... they're far more like millennials than X-ers.

[@sniper161718]

Depends on how you were raised. I was born in 77 and was raised in an Italian family in Philly. Grew up with a spare the rod spoil the child mentality. My parents were strick but fair. It snowed I was shoveling my house, the neighbors and my relatives around the corner. I had a job at 12 and ever since. That's old school upbringing.

[@Back2bibleVideos]

​​@@sniper161718Exactly! No, we are not 😂. I was born 77, Nothing Millenial, about how we were raised. Had to go get my own switch😂

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

79 and I’m so not a millennial.

[@tedlogan4867]

@@pistachiosandpopcorn7146 always the exception. generally speaking I stand by my assessment.

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

Generations are bs.

[@mikem3875]

I'm 50yrs old, born in 1972, i should have Gen X stamped on my forehead. Wanting to know why is fine, but at a certain you should start using some common sense, put two and two together to figure out why on your own. That's where alot of millennials fall short, alot of them are lazy minded, they want the answers given to them. Most gen Xers are adept at figuring out the why's and why nots, because we grew up having to be.

[@jangerick4561]

The people who came up with the years are wrong. I was born in 1964, and EVERYone of my friends my age do not have much in common w/boomers. We're all Gen X.

[@michellerowe64]

1964 im a Boom X

[@reekevp1073]

Nooo we cared too much

[@freddystreamz9122]

Boomers are running the world, gen x don't want the responsibility of fixing the boomers errors, millennials trying to fix the world for z and alpha

[@hypercc1]

The best thing about Gen X is......we don't care about what generation was best! It was just a label attributed to us which we just went along with. Yes we watch videos like this but its only to check in to see the nonsense you post and pre generations seem to put value in. We just find it funny

[@erinmalone2669]

What stats? FAFO!

[@kiturselassie813]

81 is not a millennial... we are gen xers , dont classify us with these i generations

[@tanjawillkins3690]

This is hard for me to listen to. The voices and cadences are off putting. Not interested. Snarky millenials INSTANTLY turn me off, my chikdren are millennial and they know better ❤❤😂