"We Are Gen X" - Original Song

[@LauraRomano-w4b]

I heard the best story from a fellow Gen Xer. If he was out past his appointed time he would call home and when his Mom would pick up the phone half asleep he say, "It's ok Mom, I got it." as if he picked up the call from another phone in the house. Genius.

[@glennvage]

remember standing next to a car as a kid while an older kid tried to explain the time,money and technical ingenuity that had gone into the enourmous industrial r &d that had produced the central locking system on it...sensing my waning interest,he then produced half a tennis ball from his pocket,and popped it open in about 0.7 of a second...i don't say this as a challenge to younger people though...what would be the point...

[@chiaralistica]

We were just clever like that. Something in our DNA.

[@TheBaumcm]

Creative strategizing. That is why the other generations should truly fear the feral generation.

[@kiera_kayaks7521]

Ditto

[@gothgirl4evr881]

​@@TheBaumcmhell yeah.

[@johnny11415]

We of the Gen-X were so lucky we had the best music.............

[@dalerushton1394]

Oh definitely, without a doubt. They don't have music anymore this century, it's a very strange century.

[@andreabradley5837]

Yes! 70's, 80's and 90's!!! Well I can claim 60's too. My parents took me to see "Easyrider" as a tot at the drive in. That music stuck with me.

[@speculative]

​@@dalerushton1394That's kind of literally true. Data compression on all the streaming services means your brain can't process as much emotional response to music. This has been proven through brainwave scans of listeners in a controlled environment.

[@symbiat0]

No more interesting key or tempo changes. The death of melody. All vocals are now auto tuned. Basically that’s why we find most music created today simply boring in comparison.

[@user-cq8fk8ej4h]

We saw the beginnings of rap, alternative, hair metal, grunge. Twas amazing!!

[@doneym]

Coming here to read the comments about a song about Gen X and seeing all these millennials in the comments saying no, it's really about them, is the most Gen X experience ever.

[@michellel2773]

Lol exactly

[@alijane6675]

Nailed it.

[@anikadiamond007]

Always inserting themselves into our spaces.

[@micahcoover6351]

I'm sorry... I did that...

[@doggonenuts2189]

Tooootally!!!!!

[@CODYORMOE]

I can not only read a map, I can refold it. BOOM!

[@perfectsplit5515]

Remember writing down the directions on paper? Anytime you finished making a turn in your journey, you had to pull over to read the next instruction.

[@redstickham6394]

I had whole bunch of maps in my glovebox from various cities I'd visited. I lost them all in 2016 when my car went under in a flood. I guess I'm GenX, I was born in 1968.

[@kathyoh9505]

I worked at AAA in the 90's and we offered map folding classes 😆

[@Noneya5241]

I passed a map to one of my kids and asked them to fold it the right way The map went out the window lmao

[@dawnbaker1970]

@@redstickham6394 Hey, 1968! Me too! We're toward the last birth year of Gen X.

[@wysteriaherr8306]

I felt this deep in my soul. Don't forget, we can read and write cursive.

[@kyliepechler]

It's weird when your children don't believe you, when you show them how it was taught to write some cursive letters.

[@ennsfam]

yes to cursive...how on earth do you sign your name if you can't write cursive....i made my kids learn enough cursive to sign their names

[@salina2535]

Thankfully, my kids do learn cursive in school!

[@peterbelanger4094]

Not all of us. They TRIED to teach me cursive. It never worked. Eventually my teacher gave up and gave me special permission to just print.

[@eos2338]

I got goosebumps listening to that dope ass anthem 🙌

[@anthonytony8328]

Gen Xer's use to eat our cereal in the morning with missing kids on the back of the milk carton staring at us. Our Parents.... "It's beautiful outside! Get out of this house, go play with your friends, and I don't want to see you till dinner time " Ah, good times

[@johnfoltz8183]

Or watch a block of Saturday morning cartoons

[@WildwoodFern]

And then get a whoopin if you come home after dark.

[@pennyp7382]

They never found Timmy.

[@Karmas.Wasabi]

When that street lamp turns on you better be in this house

[@alvallac2171]

*used to

[@jaein7779]

We are the last generation who spent all day, unsupervised with our friends during the summer and boy was it glorious. Breakfast at home, rode my bike to my friends house, played outside or went to the mall, and basically did whatever we wanted. The next time I saw mom or dad was 30 min before dinner; had said dinner with parent and then off to bed to rinse & repeat.

[@mochipjamas]

What parent would you ever hear say, "Get out and unless somebody is dying, I don't want to see you again until the streetlights come on!" these days?

[@Fantasytiger86]

You're also the generation that has the highest amount of kids missing and still missing and dead because of exactly that kind of lack of supervision You guys had prolific serial killers walking around and child molesters and killers so congrats You see it as freedom meanwhile some poor killer in jail you're the one that got away 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hq9344]

Every generation blames the one before

[@vaughanjones5933]

@@hq9344 And all of their frustrations come beating on your door :)

[@hq9344]

@@vaughanjones5933 👍great song too

[@Ontheroxxwithsalt]

Class of '88 here. Trivial Pursuit was created in '79. We played FEVERISHLY in the late 80's.

[@tristandunn4628]

I picked up (what I think is) the original version of Trivial Pursuit, and it was dated 1983. This is the UK, so we could well have been a few years behind the US with that one. Being only 9 at that time, my general knowledge is pretty poor of events at that time. I'm much better at the newer (1997) version I have!

[@justbonnie70]

Woot! Class of 88!

[@silviag3798]

Let's hear it for the last generation to ever go through college without having all their drunken antics posted on social media for posterity

[@crptnite]

You think GenX got to go to college? That's hilarious!

[@patriciarowe6685]

​@@crptniteI can assure you I am Gen X and I did go and graduate college.

[@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness]

@@crptniteOh we went to college. We were told we’d be guaranteed a 6 figure salary if we majored in anything. Hahaha! We were the first generation to invent student loan debt with nothing to show for it. The only reason millennials think this is a new thing is because Gen X didn’t complain about it. We assumed it was somehow our own faults, since our older boomer siblings all got great jobs right out of college.

[@drunkensquirrel7545]

​@@WonderfulWorldofAwesomenessPretty much. And the ultimate insult? We were called SLACKERS because of it. As If!

[@blackredwhiteandblue1440]

This is the truth….😂😂😂

[@tallouse2146]

Don’t forget our phones had 20 ft long cords to walk around and we all had to be home when the street lights came on. Much better time in life 💖

[@genericuser77]

"Be home when the street lights come on" - I haven't heard that line in 38 years, and oh my god I'm dying!!

[@ThePixievamp]

And the teen lines. Does anyone else remember the emergency breakthroughs when your friend’s phone was busy?

[@Galidorquest]

I was born in '96 and I remember housephones with long spiral cords.

[@Blessed_by_Yeshua]

The first boy (his name was Tom) I really had a crush on called me finally after a year of my trying to get him to notice me. My dad picked up the phone downstairs and holding the receiver in his hand, he yelled upstairs, “A boy named Tommy is on the phone for you!” The first words he said to me were “Tommy, huh? Was that your daddy who answered the phone?” I was mortified. But then after an awkward three minutes I heard my dad’s voice saying, “Leesee, are you on the phone?… Oh, okay. I’ll hang up now,” acting as though he hadn’t been silently listening in on us from the downstairs phone from the moment I picked up the call. It was ridiculous! And embarrassing.

[@tallouse2146]

@@Blessed_by_Yeshua oh my god my mom use to do that to me too lol

[@matthewcarrell7333]

The *only* miss is that no self-respecting Xer woulda carried their backpack on both shoulders. One shoulder, baby. That's cuz we ARE GEN XXXXX

[@LindaC616]

Exactly!

[@gypsifysh1]

Omg I still do that! Old habits are hard to break

[@ambrosiagalt8670]

In my neck of the woods, none of us even carried backpacks, that was for nerds!

[@gypsifysh1]

@@ambrosiagalt8670 true. I was one of those nerds that did homework so I carried my books home. At least I attempted coolness by carrying it on my shoulder lol

[@LindaC616]

@@ambrosiagalt8670 not in hs, but once college started, as a commuter, no choice

[@hamobu]

GenX: "Nobody ever notices us" AARP: "Well hello there!"

[@mariekitty]

Hahahaha 😂

[@susannairisastarte5192]

😂 Here's a funny story. When I turned 30, AARP wrote me a letter. But when I turned 50, it was crickets. 😅 AM now 54. I finally joined.

[@chiaralistica]

I cried when I got that damned letter.

[@Taurus01979]

And Medicare junk mail... still 40s here, thanks.

[@danielkover7157]

Lol, ya got me 😂

[@abalt3019]

Don’t forget we can entertain ourselves with absolutely nothing! There wasn’t an app for that!

[@DrillSergeantApex]

Lol that's easy. Born in 96 and I can still do this. 50s bibs can't touch me kid. Ya I was raised my one but don't test me son because I broke his nose with my 50 cal machine guns. I'm the best no contest I will mess you up. Work ethic get in line I'm the best they come. You can't see this when I bleed this. Put your glasses on and eat this. You're retired I'm the game I owned the rest. Nobody mentions us cause we're the best. Last generation to overcome the doubt and we're just getting started while you're rolling up to the nuthouse. We own the times you will never be fine when we decide to take over this world one last time. I see the pain written all over your face you made a big mistake doubting us cause we don't play end of days big boy plays all the same. Truth be told guy I can do all you can do and more. Good luck in your retirement note that the economy will be in good hands.

[@abalt3019]

@@DrillSergeantApex I graduated when you came out of your momma. This was well before Obama. We’ve all been sold out by the Right, Left and the Far, but I don’t rap much I just play guitar. And while I play pretty shitty this ain’t no little ditty… about Jack and Diane in Taiwan. I’m talking about China, son. They smell our vulnerability, cause Security is trivial and tricky. So you’re lookin at the future my man, about a world owned by Asia, sans Japan! ✌🏻 🎤 ⬇️

[@DrillSergeantApex]

@@abalt3019 okay okay I see you old man trying me. You're old news though man just a hipster wanna be. You don't rap much I see that. We still the best hot wheels can't even beat that. All you have are conspiracy theories we have actual delimeas that your generation left us with in an apocalyptic era. We'll be just fine without you guys there's no better time then here tonight. You play guitar and you're on beat so far. Don't try too hard or you might get a little tart. You seem too wanna be just like me. Matter a fact isn't that why you copied me? I told you we're the best there ain't no contest. Truth be told old man. We'll all be just fine and all these conspiracy theories ain't helping a damn thing and we both know that.

[@DrillSergeantApex]

@@abalt3019 sorry that was a little mean. My bad. Got a little too personal there.

[@abalt3019]

@@DrillSergeantApex we’ve got synergy and I’m finding my energy. Thanks!

[@trinitywright7122]

I would like a new t-shirt that says " I can read maps'.

[@rachaelsegura771]

That would be Awesome! I'm an '83 baby. So,technically I'm a millennial.My father had a road atlas and I was the map reader in my family.

[@minimalaggie]

I still have maps in my car! Gen X rocks! Ill order the tshirt.

[@TheWeepingSeraph]

"And write in cursive"

[@jessicah1451]

Me too

[@dianem3429]

@@TheWeepingSeraph Yes, my superpowers are reading maps and cursive!

[@Chris-or7it]

Thank you for doing this! I'm so tired of Gen Xers being called Boomers!

[@patriciarowe6685]

Agreed 🤝 My daughter calls me that.

[@1776Jan]

We are called Boomers because the Millennials and Gen Z are idiots.

[@denisek292]

Seriously! That proves how clueless Millennials and Gen-Z’s are….

[@crystalscott9948]

@@denisek292I think for most it’s just their way of calling us old!! 😖

[@Redeemed.of.YHVH.thru.Christ]

My teenagers call me “boomer” all the time, and I say, “nope, that’s your grandma. She’s a boomer. I’m Gen x”, and they say “okay, boomer”.😂😂

[@emilyhaggstrom358]

As an elder millennial, I relate to a whole lot of this. Remember listening to the radio waiting for your favorite song to come on so that you could hit record on your trusty cassette tape recorder?

[@anymajordude87]

Maxell or TDK?

[@kelsijodryer6348]

And then the DJ would talk over the end of the song and ruin it, and you had to rewind and wait another hour.

[@kettle_of_chris]

TDK@@anymajordude87

[@ImaDoGToo]

ALWAYS!!!!! LOL @@kelsijodryer6348

[@HellzSayzDANCE]

Oh I had a whole tape side 1 and 2 that had songs with DJs talking over the end of songs 😂

[@lizh6420]

From one Gen X to another, Gen X is truly awesome! Love the song ☺️💕.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

actually I didnt know that Jurassic Park made more cash at the box office than Avatar did but then I dont tend to remember stats on movies anyway.

[@joannewilson1483]

Stupendous articulation of that generation go hard do more it’s such great content watching from Adelaide sa

[@Xianne027]

No, but we had: "Is your refrigerator running!" "Yes..." "Well you better catch it!" Okay, okay... I admit it. We were lacking in subtle humor.

[@aliciabrand6771]

As a fellow Gen Xer, I must say that I absolutely LOVE this song! Thank you for representing our generation so well and so sarcastically! Wonderful!

[@dalerushton1394]

Notice how us Gen-Xer's say please and thank you and can actually spell correctly using proper grammar and punctuation; we can even write ✍ in cursive or script. It's refreshing. We can also make change without a fancy computer 🖥. We don't need the superdooperpooperscooper with all the bells and whistles from Radio Shack. No offense.

[@ConnieHeartsValentino]

@@dalerushton1394 You said it! Manners, writing, speaking coherently, and eye contact, are sadly out of vogue these days.

[@allgirlreview433]

One day Gen-X will break out of nursing homes by writing secret notes in cursive, using print maps to plan, and driving a stick. ETA: someone below mentioned rotary phones and I have to agree that is also brilliant!

[@AngeliqueStevens]

Love It!

[@CheleBoxy]

@ All Girl Review.....Hell yea!!

[@Wyatt53]

I’m in

[@BeautifulShaving]

Yeah, we are definitely Gen X & will be doing stuff our kids can't figure out how we did it...lol. Count me in!

[@joshstone5020]

I'm thirsting I know how to do it all I'm also country

[@gothgirl4evr881]

Can we take a second and recognize this dude is still able to do the Kid-n-Play without breaking anything. That's impressive, i haven't been able to do that in over 25 years🤯🤟🏼

[@dianad3080]

Lol, love this. I feel like Gen X got the best of both worlds. We are young and old enough to have lived at the cusp of when all the technology used as the foundation for today's technology started. I remember a time living without microwaves and shaking the popcorn over the stovetop like a maniac. I remember a time before VCR was a thing and what a fun time it was going to the corner Video store to rent a movie (eventually Blockbuster stores took over). I remember going from pagers/beepers to cellphones to smartphones. From Cassette tapes to CDs to online streaming. From those huge desktop computers with AOL and landlines to wireless tablets. Technology has come a long way. Watching the Jetsons, we thought many of the things they showed we would never see in our lifetime and how wrong we were. 😜

[@princesskassandra4253]

Yes! It’s crazy! You are so right. We GenXer’s have seen it all! I constantly talk about the Jetson’s to my kids and how life is actually kind of like that now.

[@bethprather9241]

That all wears me out.. We are pretty awesome the whole computer age from the beginning. Slow dial ups.. Then losing everything!! I hated the slowness.. The whole make sure u use some kind of technology in lesson plans.. Then after the smartphone.. MY FAVORITE BS.. All the damn apps that they though we needed..amd we never ever used...LOng meetings by either.. Baby boomers who.wanted to look good or older milinials.. Just to do something.. We made IT!!

[@bethprather9241]

I replied below.. WE actually have major talents. We survived the whole entire tech boom.. BUT THIS GEN X GIRL WANTS TO PUKE EVERYTIME I THINK...WHY DIDNT I BUY MORE APPLE..AOL..STOCK IN THE EARLY 90's..

[@maryroberts589]

It took me a while to make it through this perfect comment because I got stuck for a minute at "like a maniac". The Flashdance soundtrack was my jam for a long time & I wanted "Going on a Man Hunt" played when I tossed my bouquet at my wedding in 1989! 😉 💐

[@dianad3080]

@Digby Dooright I still keep a spare a flip phone as a backup phone 😂😂

[@boulderskigirl]

Thank you! Spot on!! Funny story-- I was hanging out with my friend's gen zzz's and they wanted to order pizza. We were out of the US and it was a bit "rustic," so, for my fun, I made them use the PHONE BOOK to look up the ph # of the pizza place & call in the order...the younger girl pushed the correct buttons on the old school phone, but when the call connected she got this bewildered look on her face-- when I asked what the problem was, she said she was hearing a really weird sound. It turns out that she was hearing a BUSY SIGNAL for the 1st time. ROTFLOL!!!

[@420luvsounds]

😂😂😂

[@gempalm2003]

@@420luvsounds lmao poor kid

[@MsBerries25]

Cant identify a busy signal OMG 😂

[@debglab8791]

I was a telephone operator in the 70’s. Had so many of those “collect” calls. When they gave a goofy name I just made sure it was clear when I passed it to the parent. I was young then too!🤣

[@sondraleonard212]

Very sweet of you! Many parents would thank you for abating their anxiety of where their kids were!

[@wifey_to_an_rc_addict2610]

🤣🤣 I was one of those kids

[@LindaC616]

Anybody remember a party line telephone? For probably the 1st 7 or 8 years of my life we shared A-line with the neighbours.

[@queenannsrevenge100]

You, Deb Glab, are an angel. 😁👍

[@britzel71]

You were an Angel, thank you!

[@misiwelch3978]

Remember having to listen to the radio for your favorite song, and then tape it on your boombox with a cassette tape? Every song had the DJ talking over them... Thanks for doing this video guys, great reminiscing and relating to all of you is a nice feeling!

[@Kronovar]

I wanted to take the time to say that I'm a Generation X person, and this video was perfect. This is literally the 1st video I've ever commented on for KZbin, and I wanted to take the time to say thank you. Thanks for giving me these videos to smile and make us laugh, I truly appreciate it.

[@annabelle6877]

U mad sus bro

[@ashleyjp0117]

@@annabelle6877 🤣🤣🤣

[@rationalicthus]

Typical GenX’er, writing in complete sentences...

[@ashleyjp0117]

@@rationalicthus And he has the fancy portrait photo too 😂

[@pirateslife4me]

@@annabelle6877 Said the Zoomer! 😆💯

[@gypsypath1]

I showed this to my daughter (a Zoomer) and she said, “If they made a song for each generation, this one would be the most underrated.” 🤣🤣🤣 We never get no respect! 😂 Loved this!

[@GoToPhx]

Hive your daughter a HUG!

[@dalerushton1394]

Duuuude, that's awesome ! Gen-Xer's rule 😎

[@gempalm2003]

nice nod to mr dangerfield

[@Lesleycb71]

As a member of Generation X-born 1971- this brought back a lot of memories. 😊

[@carloszarzoso1724]

The phone call I did it lol 😂

[@gothgirl4evr881]

​@@carloszarzoso1724every weekend either pick up at the mall, movies or skating rink then hang up, and know our parent would be there eventually😂 If they were taking a long time we couldn't call or text and ask where are you, bc once we left the house we were unreachable.

[@Vmaxfodder]

Where's the Beef !??

[@chp19711971]

1971 here!! Remember when the first cell phones came out in the 80's? Much bigger than any cell phones today :) Like holding a brick to talk!! Giggles. And loved the Atari 2600 game on the tv brings back memories with the house keys under a shell by the door

[@chiaralistica]

Never had a hidden key but my dad had one of those phones in a bag that went in any of his cars. We thought that was cool back in 1980-something.

[@perfectsplit5515]

@@chiaralisticaThe huge blocky cell phone is even featured in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" when Gordon Gekko gets out of prison. 😄 I remember how the car magazines extolled the benefits of a cellular car phone for business executives. It could turn a traffic jam into a concluded business deal!

[@perfectsplit5515]

On the day that I was promised an Atari 2600, my parents told me there would be a delay in getting it. I cried on the staircase (like the spoiled brat I was). I could play Asteroids on and on forever. Remember how that blocky joystick eventually put a blister in your thumb?

[@19751222]

My uncle had one😂 only very important business man will have it in TV show😂

[@luingalls]

This isn't a song, it's a rockumentary. That was so Gen X of me...

[@peterbelanger4094]

There was nothing rock about this. It's a lame millennial auto-tune style. I don't even think these two are legit X'ers, just early millennials who were not teens in the 80's.

[@sallysimpson7]

@@peterbelanger4094 wrong

[@StonerNinja]

@@peterbelanger4094 tell me you're a bitter spiteful prick without telling me you're a bitter spiteful prick.

[@catgiles3268]

@@peterbelanger4094 Debbie Downer. You probably have no idea who she is. 😂

[@jimmieraper5807]

Say croissant toosii double to C lie

[@LetsFocusOnChrist]

Who else remembers the calls from: first name : ‘Bob’ last name ‘wehadababyitsaboy’. 😂

[@sciencemama6801]

YES hahaha that was the first thing I thought of. Jeez, commercials are forever.

[@CainnechK]

So good!

[@cj222100]

LMFAO I literally just commented the same thing! Also, I remember magazines suggesting calling cards as a good practical gift for college students

[@candicechruscial8885]

Yes!!!!

[@Godslovenmercy]

That was the funniest!!

[@troytaylor8039]

Why has no one commented on the dancing? All those moves were straight from my middle school dances. Respect.

[@haleyrichardson8818]

That nod to Kid n Play was epic 💗

[@joannatassin3238]

I know right!!?

[@bethprather9241]

I didnt notice that, probably because when he sings, " In the house.." 3 or 4 times I cant quit laughing. lok

[@Brian-zo1ll]

He did the "running man". lol Aint seen it in years.

[@pennyp7382]

We see. We get it.

[@Thrivinginthespotlight]

Gen x is another generation that's out here looking amazing for their age and much younger. Alot of gen x'ers i know are still into their teenage hobbies in one form or another especially being super involved in their local music scene.

[@xenoscoot]

yup. we are the first generation that figured out giving up your toys was a b.s. move.

[@mariawesley7583]

I'm in my mid 50's and still go to hard-core shows! Rheumatoid Arthritis be damned.

[@Thrivinginthespotlight]

@@mariawesley7583 Haha that's amazing!

[@lisakesper1597]

@mariawesley7583 Pit or bust! It's usually my back, hips, and feet now 😂 I'll mosh till I can't

[@kerriniemi9525]

True that! ✌️🏵️💞

[@vparker3601]

As one of the oldest Gen Xer, I totally relate. My older siblings are boomers. There are big differences. My mom went back to work after my older siblings started college. I was a latch key kid starting in 5th grade. My siblings got cookies when they got home, but I got a list of chores.

[@stevemortillaro7201]

So Strange. I had a couple of friends with similar experiences....

[@wckedliz]

100% 😂

[@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness]

Are you me? Same!!!! My older siblings are all boomers (one tries to claim Gen X status, but she’s totally a boomer,) and got picked up from school every day by our mom who didn’t work. I got a different mom who was at work when I got off the bus, where I’d then dodge bullies who also weren’t being parented. Then I’d go home and make myself snacks and watch After School Specials and reruns of Brady Bunch, Gilligans Island, Gomer Pyle, and I Dream of Genie until my boomer siblings got home and took over the livingroom TV. That’s when I’d either go outside to play with friends, or go up to the room I shared with an older sister and listen to the radio, read books, magazines, and write “I hate my family” in my diary. ❤

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

I got chores too! Starting dinner Which I always forgot Other ones I did lol

[@dudepool7530]

Kinda funny. I'm the tail end of Gen X, but being raised by my grandmother, I basically got the same treatment. My uncles were away at college too 😂

[@davidpar2]

Gen X aren’t discussed as a generation much. And we like it that way

[@ire1398]

I’d like to publicly tell BB and M to shut the hell up.

[@abalt3019]

Silence is golden. Every kindergarten teacher from '65 to '82, what's up!?!

[@ac4181]

We discuss with each other though!

[@lisas3255]

We are the middle child of generations. 🤣

[@peterbelanger4094]

That's because we can't be pigeon-holed. The marketing people gave up on us. That's how we got the name "X", they couldn't even figure out a proper name to give us. No two GenXer's are the same. We all got in to a wide range of different things.

[@lucyseven4187]

Finally we have an anthem! Thank you! I’m gonna need a part 2 though...Saturday morning cartoons, malls, record stores, mixed tapes, grunge. My class of ‘93 had been dubbed slackers before we even became freshmen in high school! 😏

[@michah321]

WE DO!! Finally someone acknowledged our existence… we really need to speak up more...

[@michah321]

The millennials think they are the first generation to be called spoiled tech kids.. Nintendo's and Atari.. but still.

[@seanryan3020]

@@michah321 and we're the MTV Generation!

[@elainelouve]

Yes!!!

[@michah321]

@@seanryan3020 we are!! And I still always watch music videos!

[@DamonRunyon-pu2du]

I laughed through this entire song it is so on point. The collect call thing is absolutely truth

[@TheBaumcm]

Anyone else remember the ad “you have a collect call from ‘bobwehadababy eetsaboy’” “who was that?” “Bob. They had the baby. It’s a boy”

[@lifetodamax]

I'm a millenial but I did the collect call thing while other people had cell phones

[@ambabamba7271]

😂😂“We’re NOT Boomers that’s our parents!”😂😂

[@lm1314]

Actually my parents were The Silent Generation. Born '39 and '42. My mom later married a Boomer '49 and had a boomer '64.

[@haleyrichardson8818]

EXACTLY!!!!

[@metalrockstarizer89]

The gap between boomers and Gen x is very tight. I’m pretty sure Gen x was born when their boomer parents were like barely 20 years old or something. Most of gen x parents were the silent generation I believe

[@ambabamba7271]

That line us hilarious to me because, it’s relatable My father was a 30 year old Boomer when I was born in the mid 1970s, mom was in her early 20s My grandparents were the Silent Generation (born early 30s)

[@ire1398]

@@lm1314 you’re not the one n the video

[@skival]

You could do a continuation of that, the 80's was the best decade ever! Our toys were the best, our Saturday cartoons were the best and our music was awesome! These poor digital kids know nothing!

[@TheSwissChalet]

No, the 70s childhood was THE BEST...NO VIDEO GAMES OR COMPUTERS AT ALL. And our mothers didn’t work outside the home. We ate HOME COOKED MEALS!

[@peterbelanger4094]

Except y'all kept memeing 70's stuff well into the 2000's.

[@eos2338]

Sucks to be them 😎

[@nevikcam6057]

Right on

[@ChristinaaArmani]

Born in 81! Feel blessed to have played outside as a kid and played with my peers instead of a smartphone.

[@teambeining]

Ready for part 2 because there is so much more to us!

[@NuYorka13]

The craziest is when the music we jammed to is now on the oldies station😂.

[@NLC0413]

So true!!!!😅

[@marybuller8239]

Do y'all remember the "Had-a-baby-it's-a-boy" collect call commercial? LOL! Loved this video. All of it is SPOT on!

[@marciaedginton5798]

We quote that line all the time in my house

[@jaymoney3648]

Yes! I was going to say this. Glad someone else remembered that.

[@lostwizard]

I was about to write about that. As I recall, they ran the words together into something like "Weeottababy Eetsaboy" or something like that. To make it sound more plausible as a name.

[@bobbiema6671]

Oh yeah !!!!! And they tried real hard to make it sound like a real name so they didnt get caught by sayingit reallyfassssst. 💬 ☎📞☎📞☎💬

[@Milehighsnake98]

@@lostwizard "Collect call from: 'We'ottababee Eetsa'boi'. Do you accept the charges?" Click. "Who was that?" "That was Dave. They had a baby. It's a boy."

[@shygalaxyyt2400]

Gen z here my mother is a gen x and father a baby boomer. Maybe because I'm really close with them but I loved the read a map, and trivial pursuit. Mad respect to all you gen x this song just proves how cool you all are, and it really makes me happy seeing just how many of you are on KZbin!

[@rjglenn13]

My husband is the very end of boomer and I'm gen X. My kids are gen z, and alpha. We are a mixed bag lol. Glad to hear there is a younger one taking our knowledge and using it. We know a lot but usually get dumped on 😕

[@John-ct9zs]

I never understand why kids and young adults think Gen X should not be online. We were using computers in the 80s and 90s too, and yes I started going online when I was 19 in the 90s, technically still a teenager. I'm 45 now, why the hell should I quit? What's wrong with me being on KZbin? Now the only thing I hated was when was 19-23 and went on the internet to a pop culture thread or forum, everything was dominated by kids aged 10-18, so it felt like even when I was really young, I was still old compared to everyone else online. Today people who are 22 or 23 online don't have to feel old, but back then it was like everything was dominated by middle school and high school kids so you were 20 and made to feel super old when you logged online. I could only find older people if I went to something political, and then everyone was usually way older then me, like over 30 or my age now or older. But Gen Xers were told we were old before we hit 25, I was 23 or 24 when I first heard of the Millennial kids coming up behind us. Now those guys are like 37 and people are still talking about them like they are kids. 37 or 38! That's way older then the age I was when I first heard of them.

[@LindaC616]

@@John-ct9zs Yes, I wasn't using them when I was 19, but I started using computers when I was in graduate school at 21. I really don't understand why they think we are not good at technology. I was unofficial Tech Support person on my floor at work for many years.

[@apriltini]

I can set an IRQ, thankyouverymuch.

[@ellechristian627]

Agree, an most Important Us Gen X'ers had common sense, something SERIOUSLY lacking today.

[@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633]

I still consider Pluto a planet in my heart and mind. I understand why it is no longer considered a planet but...Pluto is cool.

[@tamarastone141]

What?? When did they decide it's no longer a planet?!? Totally Gen X of me...

[@ChanaRo613]

I don't care what "they" say. Pluto is a planet. 😂

[@foggylog19]

I know, it was my favourite planet. Also the rhyme to remember them isn't so good without Pluto. Mr Vampire Eats My Juicy Steak Using No Pepper 🤣

[@piiinkDeluxe]

Same

[@piiinkDeluxe]

@@tamarastone141 they found out, pluto is in a belt with many asteroids (?) like it. Also Pluto's distance to the sun varies strongly, it doesn't travel like the other planets do. That's why a committee of astronomers decided to vote him out of the planets. It's been like 15 years.

[@lolahernandez6871]

REMEMBERED EVERY SINGLE PHONE NUMBER! 😂

[@gothgirl4evr881]

I still have my childhood numbers memorized and even with a cell phone if I have to dial the number a couple times without storing it I still memorize them, which is helpful bc what would these kids do if their cell is dead or lost and need to call someone even their parents bc I highly doubt they have even those numbers memorized

[@lolahernandez6871]

@gothgirl4evr881 ..and let's add a few quarters in their pockets too 😄. Today everyone carries debit! I still carry mostly cash. lol

[@MarthaAnthony]

Still know some!

[@jlf7362]

I started using the phone number of the house I grew up in as a password. Still remember it cause it never changex

[@ElevateYourWorth]

@@lolahernandez6871debit ?! What’s that ?! Haha 😂I’m 44 and if they don’t have tap to pay at their store/restaurant I’m out. Thankfully 80% of places do.

[@schechter01]

"But when your phone dies 'cuz your battery's crap / You're gonna need me: *'cuz I can read a map* " Two of the best lines in the whole rap song. I remember when Tomtom was in vogue...never used it. During one of my moves I had no navigational apps at all & five maps in the glovebox, of which two were interstate. Take away all the phones from the kids today for 48 hours, & they would start dropping like flies.

[@erics4653]

More like 48 MINUTES......

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

4 TO 8 hrs Not 48 hrs

[@johngalt60]

Basic survival skills include map reading.

[@emilyhaggstrom358]

I can read a map. I'm old enough to remember Tomtom. But when I got my first Garmin it was life-changing. It's not the map reading that's the problem for me, it's knowing when to take the exit. My ADHD makes me so engrossed in the conversation or the scenery that I won't notice my exit went by until half an hour later.

[@chillvibes9022]

We will survive the zombie apocalypse. Our kids are screwed tho

[@junebrumbeloe6939]

It's about time someone made us a song. I absolutely love it!!!

[@sillyme2846]

@@CalypsoGD1 okay child

[@peterbelanger4094]

The song sucks. It's not even in a Gen-X style. So much good music out of gen-X and they make a millennial era auto-tune song? F-ing pathetic.

[@imgabnun]

References are good, music is unbearable.

[@michellem9444]

I remember this funny story where a Gen-X dad gave his son his old Walkman to play around with. Apparently it took several weeks for the son to realize that cassette tapes had TWO SIDES! LOL The poor kid just kept rewinding instead of flipping the cassette! ;)

[@marloaichele2621]

OMG! I just read, this comment to my daughter. She had NO clue what I was talking about!

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

That must have been an expensive Walkman. All of mine only allowed fast forward so you'd have to flip the tape, fast forward, then flip the tape again and press play. 😁

[@JRoseBooks]

@@EthanKristopherHartley Wow. The memories!! 😮😁🤣

[@Andrew-it7fb]

I remember having one that had a reverse switch so you didn't have to take the tape out. That was so cool.

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

@@Andrew-it7fb Well, *someone* clearly got official branded toys for Christmas and not 'Human and the Misters of the Universe' 😂🤣😁

[@justMsBruss]

Gen X can keep being quiet. Like we had been. Under the radar. Without autotune.

[@westcoastbred7745]

Because we don't wanna share our survival secrets

[@tigerpainter]

Yay! I’m Gen X and everybody ignores us. Our phones were stuck to the wall. We actually went to the mall. We invented streaming with Napster. Boomers really liked to call us slackers. But X are Z’s parents and although we get left out, our kids can’t be ignored because they’re just too loud. ( that last line is courtesy of my genZ kid. Thank you so much for this video I feel so seen. ❤️❤️❤️)

[@Heather-ko2lv]

Napster was a millennial thing. If you were in high school or college when Napster was free, you're def a millennial - not Gen X!

[@mjbe]

@@Heather-ko2lv I was born in 1980 so some things were more Gen X and some things were more millennial. (Some people even call us "Xennials" for this reason.) It would also matter where you lived, what money you had, etc. on which generation you act more like on some of these things (e.g. cable TV, malls, home computers).

[@sexychocolateable]

I love being a generation X we learned how to be responsible

[@nibbahater]

everyone ignores you because your egos are huge

[@nibbahater]

@@sexychocolateable you call yourself responsible yet blame everyone else for problems in the world

[@jjthek]

I completely relate to the "gen x" . I dont miss the long phone cords or dial up but i do miss the card catalog system at libraries! This was gold pure gold! Great video. Lmao.

[@rocknroller77]

Dewey Decimal System 👍

[@dalerushton1394]

@@rocknroller77 yup 👍

[@terriem3922]

Card catalog system. Sigh. . .

[@lauraarldt8139]

Gen-Xer here - I could NOT possibly LOVE THIS MORE!!!! SPOT ON !!!!!💜💜💜💜👏👏👏👏👏👏 Oh - and I thought when you I said "in the house" I thought it was gonna be "because we OWN the house"! 😆😆😆

[@sondraleonard212]

Me too!!!

[@GoToPhx]

Thought so too!

[@craftyjen55]

I’m on the tail end of Gen X. Loved this. It’s always comical when you try relating to the generation before you and the generation after you. I have a family friend who’s a few years younger than my mom and her kids are the millennials(93 &95). When one of her kids, who at the time was a teenager still, on my 30th birthday started to tease me about being old, told her karma come back around one day when u get called old by someone much younger than you.

[@MotherBearth]

born in '81, I refuse to accept the title of "millennial. Critical thinking was still required in school (and in life) back then. Thank you for this cute reminder. :)

[@MajinBuuButtercup]

You made the cut-off. It's 82 😃

[@samerabdallah82]

@@MajinBuuButtercup Please don't say that.

[@thedirtygir3059]

I was born in 86’ and I relate more with gen x’ers than most millennials. I feel like I got parts of both generations in the long run lol.

[@Bookworm-hu7vq]

@@MajinBuuButtercupa generation is 20yrs, the census bureau only defined one generation and that is the "babyboom 1944-1964" how is the cut off 82?

[@josiahroise192]

I was born in 91 and had a more Gen X upbringing. My oldest brother was born in ‘80,so I grew up on his hand me down culture. Van Halen still isn’t old to me. It was a better time.

[@AndiNewtonian]

Gen X in da house! Alone, without our parents, after school, because we were latchkey kids. Who else goofed off for hours and then scrambled to get all their chores done real fast as their parents were pulling into the driveway?

[@JenniferBrown-hm4sx]

Omg yes! And also turn off the tv because we were watching soap operas and we weren’t allowed.

[@dianem3429]

@@JenniferBrown-hm4sx or turn off MTV because it wasn't allowed. That is old school because those were the days when MTV actually had music videos.

[@kathystoner5239]

Yes!

[@jarvawolf4369]

@@dianem3429 best mtv was music vid mtv

[@elishevahgodfrey3888]

For sure! We lived in the country so only 3 stations...on a good day, but we had some 'Leave it to Beaver' to watch!

[@looneylacy4975]

I love the map part. I keep a map in the car and on day the GPS sent us down a old dirt road I got out the map. The kids was like “do you know how to read that, that’s so cool”. I say always have a back up. 😂

[@trinitywright7122]

Me too!!!

[@Mama_Bear524]

I’m 39. The oldest millennial 🤦‍♀️. I used to know how to read a map but I just realized the other day when my Waze was messing up I’d be so screwed cuz I forgot! 😩

[@vpnath75]

Who remembers using those huge fold-out Trip-tik maps from AAA with your route outlined for road trips 😃

[@amietedeschi3203]

@@vpnath75 Yes!! I loved those things!

[@abdablelow6031]

as a kid my mom was always so lost and could never read a map . I wish gps had been around in the nineties!

[@LaineyBug2020]

"You have a collect call from Bob Weeadababy-Itsaboy" IYKYK

[@perfectsplit5515]

Don't cheat the phone company...😄

[@Noneya5241]

That was the funniest commercial Because it was what we all did

[@McBlammy]

😂😂😂

[@Corn_Pops_Rusty_Razor]

Pay phones were analog. All you had to do was record the sound the phone made when you put in a quarter, then replay the sound at anytime for free calls.

[@momof2multiples]

I’m crine 😂😂😂😂

[@aliciar8978]

I LOVE YOU GUYS FOR DOING STUFF ABOUT GEN X....Brought me some smiles and tears.

[@FelisTerras]

*wipes away happy tears * Yes, thank you, thank you so much. We always get forgotten, despite being the generation who learned how to use just about every technical device from the pocket camera over the video recorder up to the PSP. And I still prefer maps to Google.

[@DavidPlass]

Gen Xers unite!

[@richardmahn7589]

Do we have to agree politically? LOL

[@DavidPlass]

@@richardmahn7589 No, but we do have a lot in common - what Penn was singing about!

[@RockinRavenVA]

The few, the proud, the...yeah, the very few.

[@ColorMeConfused29]

@@RockinRavenVA The Few, the Proud...the Forgotten.

[@alecks00]

Unite? Meh. Whatever. Conformist..

[@QuinnJACKSON-zx1dx]

We Gen-Xers....Had NO fear as kids.... - We stood on the roof of house to turn the antenna for clarity, even in the rain which made it slippery. - We rode at top speed on the back of pickup trucks without a seat beats. - We jumped ramps with bicycles without helmets while adults cheered us on. - We rode bikes for miles to play a video game with one or two quarters and adults could care less. - We fought with our hands, not with emojis. - Adults thought it was strange if we didn't come home dirty, bruised or both. - We had close ranged kite fights with razor blades. - AND, when we got tired from it all, we drank water from a hose which tasted strange. ...WE are still HERE... We are Tough and Unstoppable.

[@sabrinaw.4719]

🙋‍♀️ Born in 1978 - I had a pager in hs! 😄 That's how we "texted". Also, I used to call 'Popcorn' (*anyone remember that?) so the phone wouldn't ring & I could use call waiting to talk late at night. We were independent, clever & resourceful. Proud to carry those Skills in life.

[@MAMlife]

My texting was cb radio 😄 Or notes passed in school

[@xx_Joker_xx]

That was "pet-shop".

[@gothgirl4evr881]

​@@MAMliferemember the feeling of opening your locker to find that someone slipped a note thru the slats to you during the last class change. That was our texting in school. We could also fold notes several different ways just to pass time in class.😅

[@gothgirl4evr881]

We were the MacGyver generation, we could fix or rig anything with just a few odd items😂 Made countless pipes and bongs that way during high school, there weren't as many head shops or rather vape stores now back then and the ones that were around were really not cheap

[@perfectsplit5515]

I remember my mom's Air Force metal pager (she was a pediatrician) and my dad's Xerox pager (he was a repairman). Later in college after I learned how to use Windows on a PC, my father refused to learn it because it was uncomfortable for him. Then Xerox got with the times and issued him a work PC as a replacement for his pager. He had no choice but to learn.

[@richardmahn7589]

I bet the "app" reference of mozzarella sticks is even lost on some people, heh. Love our appetizers! :)

[@rosalindm59]

I thought the same thing. I would think that at least restaurant workers still call them apps. I still do!

[@elainelouve]

I didn't know, so thanks for saying this.:) I'm gen x, but English isn't my first language, so we'd never call anything an appetizer.;)

[@LeroyJenkins13]

I lost it at “ Oregon Trail: you died from dysentery”. Many an hour spent playing Oregon Trail.

[@QUICKBOOKS1]

For me, it was PacMan.

[@shannon2180]

Atari! PacMan, Frogger, Astroids...

[@Allinoffroad]

Best game ever!!!!!

[@sharynstover1823]

Best game

[@LindaC616]

@@shannon2180 oh my gosh, yes! We never played Oregon trail but we begged my mother for an Atari! I am the youngest, I was in my teens when we finally get one! My mom became so addicted to Space Invaders and Frogger along with us that she gave herself carpal tunnel!

[@swoods7720]

Our photos are on paper 😂😂😂😂😂. Just found this today and it’s hilariously funny and soooo accurate!

[@cjlivinglavidalocal3134]

I stumbled across my old Blockbuster membership card the other day😀 I miss wandering around looking for a movie and picking up a pint of ben and jerrys on the way out. And back in the 2000s/90s, Ben and Jerrys was rare as hen's teeth in Australia so the local video store was ahead of the times😜

[@richardmahn7589]

Go see if it will work in the last Blockbusters in Bend, OR, haha

[@Socute4u]

Me too, I miss those Blockbuster days.

[@hannahscott6604]

I’m Gen Z (1996 September) and I remember that!

[@Xubuntu47]

My town has two video stores left. One is a nonprofit with an extensive VHS collection, a store that's a museum. The other is DVD and Blu-ray only. My personal internet has been out for a week; I recently rented two DVDs from that store, that I played on a 14 year old laptop.

[@pogveteranar9415]

I was born in 86 so I technically missed the cutoff to be Gen X. However, I grew up in the rural Ozarks so this was my childhood. We were 10 years behind the times lol

[@AmySorrellMusic]

Lol as a fellow Missourian I can confirm your location's timeline. Welcome to GenX.

[@lauriewilson4741]

You can be in our club 😂

[@joleenpietrzyk4790]

This is great! Proud Gen Xer here! "You're gonna need me cause I can read a map"!! I LOVE IT!!!!!

[@anncosten3222]

English Gen X woman here. This video just popped up. Excellent! Party on dudes. God bless❤

[@jaymoney3648]

I consider myself a gen xennial. Its a microgeneration for people born between 1977 and 1983. Which is where I fall. Born in 1983, I used AOL dial-up, including chats, had to use a map until Mapquest was available. I sat by the radio waiting for my favorite song, was a latchkey kid, watched MTV, burned cds, and definitely rented vhs cassettes. They had a sticker on them that said, "Be kind. Rewind."I also have some tendencies of a millennial, though not all the phrases that pure millennial's use. I just can't bring myself to speak like that. When I heard about Xennial, I knew I found my generation. I relate to both as a cusper, (though more to gen x) and can appreciate both generations . Great video!

[@alijane6675]

This entire paragraph is something only a millenial would write lol. No hate, but gen xers generally don't do a lot of navel gazing.

[@jaymoney3648]

@@alijane6675 huh? My point is I don't really associate with millennials just because my birthday falls in those years. Up until like 15 years ago, I was considered a Gen X, until millennial years were expanded. Also, I didn't make up xennial. I read about it a couple years ago. I just thought others might appreciate it because there are many people on the cusp.

[@sharynstover1823]

Yep theres a microgeneration thats called xennials they were inbetween the generation x and millennial and starts at 1977 to 1983 sometimes were also called the Oregon trail generation also

[@LetsFocusOnChrist]

We had pay phones at my high school. We knew that you could let it ring three times but then you had to hang up or the answering machine would pick up and you’d lose your money. Also, we knew to use the middle phone because it would accept nickels when the call really cost a quarter.

[@LindaC616]

O my gosh I had forgotten about hanging up before the answering machine picked up and the phone ate your money!

[@amidon3116]

But you didnt know you could stick a pin in the receiver and touch it to the housing for free calls.

[@beadingbusily]

@@amidon3116 Survival skill when you're broke.

[@annodal8465]

Haha, YES! Totally forgot we had to do that 😂

[@dalerushton1394]

I remember using dimes for payphones, but maybe that was in the 1970's when I was a boy ( ? ). We had an emergency dime Mom sewed in our ToughSkin fake jeans from Sears, in the pocket. We always ripped it out and used it for the ice-cream man. But yea, I guess it was a quarter in High School, I was class of 1987. I do remember arcade video games at the mall being a quarter. The food court was awesome. Escalator tag was the best ! They would always make us put our shirts on and carry our skateboards in the mall though. We really did wear those checkered slip on Van's in The Valley. Topanga Plaza usually, or The Northridge mall sometimes, way before the earthquake, if we couldn't bum a ride to the beach to go surfing, we didn't drive yet. Lol 😆 🤣 😂. Great times !!!

[@christiangirl79]

I was just talking about how the newest generation calls Gen X boomers. We’re not boomers. They just skip from millennials to boomers.

[@marcw6875]

I'm sure it comes from a "If you're not one of us, you must be one of THEM" mentality.

[@jc4446]

Call them zoomers and tell them to get their generations correct lol

[@timetravelhomestead]

My son did it once. I proceeded to tell him Woodstock was Boomer. Lilith Fair was Gen X. And the next time he didn't get it right, I was posting a pic of him in a diaper, covered in glitter and wearing my flower headband in his Discord channel.

[@ladygrndr9424]

@@timetravelhomestead Haha, brutal. He deserved it :D Rock on :D

[@guineapigsnthings]

Gen Z here - Pretty sure "Baby Boomers" are the generation name, but "Boomers" are basically "Old People" even though the word "Boomer" comes from "Baby Boomers" if that makes sense.

[@jakedoe1302]

Ya kids will never know the joy of pulling a phone off the wall during a heated talk lol

[@7SideWays]

Or slamming it down!

[@gothgirl4evr881]

​@@7SideWayswas coming to say the same thing or throwing the cordless against the wall then having to find where the battery went flying after you calmed down😂 There's just not much satisfaction and release trying to hang up a cell phone angrily

[@perfectsplit5515]

I saved the tape-recorded phone message from my first date for years. It was in college. She was the girl who was previously voted, "Best Looking" in my high school senior class. I worshipped her. At the time, that first date was the best day of my life.

[@missbeahaven1935]

And the slam *chef's kiss*

[@The333]

OK, the Milli-Vanilli dance move at the end made me lose it. LOL. Brilliant as usual.

[@Christinamariamuller]

I named my dog Milly Vanilli after them!

[@mml3140]

It's the worm. Not the millie vanilli you millenial heathen. :)

[@Christinamariamuller]

@@mml3140 the worm might be the name of the move but Milli Vanilli, among many others, did it and it was merely a flash back memory of Milli Vanilli.

[@The333]

@@mml3140 I am actually 53, so shame on me for not knowing this! LOL

[@mml3140]

@@The333 For shame !! For shame!! :-p

[@bayoujac]

Yes!! Finally an anthem for us Totally Tubular, Rad and Awesome peeps! This needs a Grammy and Merch! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@PxNxWxGxW]

Forgot about tubular! Omg yes.

[@6butterflywings6]

I love bringing up slang from the 80-90s for my poor kids. LOL.

[@kittygaillot2286]

Y’all nailed it right there! I remember when I was back in high school in the 90s, if kids were caught with a pager on school grounds, the police were notified and kids were arrested. And when it came to the Internet, the phone line would have to be free, and we had to deal with that horrific sound of the modem connectivity……… Those were the days.

[@mykijiji1958]

I JUST explained the term “dial-up” internet to my kids (I’m an older parent), because they heard it used in a song, and I included how you’d hear “do-do-do-do-do-do-do - Kkgggssh*#^

[@daisukidatotoro]

...and you had to pick one of the "good" phone numbers from the dial up list. We all knew the first few were slow and crappy.

[@Xubuntu47]

My building has wifi that is as slow as dialup used to be. That's why I'm at a café right now.

[@pazu8728]

Modem sound put a smile on my face X-)

[@TheDiamantes2012]

Loving this song! Gen X 1976 baby!!! We are family, we are our own community & we are coming together across the world finally!!!!! Gen X all the way! 🤘🤘🤘

[@sharonsomers]

I think of we Gen Xer's as the last "normal" generation. I'm so glad there was no internet or cell phones when I grew up.

[@nibbahater]

you're actually the worst generation of all and you think you're better then everyone else

[@kazumakiryu8231]

@@nibbahater please grow up kid.

[@aimeeariel1990]

Our parents and their parents, ad infinitum, thought the same. Gen X is awesome but because of how we grew up and the social climate, some didn't get over some frustration and resentment. I love, absolutely love, my Millennial and Gen Z friends and fam. They're amazing kids. We've all gotta learn to be inclusive, not exclusive. Let's not behave like a lot of the adults before us.

[@aimeeariel1990]

@@nibbahater I'm sorry you've had such negative experiences. I hope your viewpoint changes as you get older and meet more of us.

[@Kinosis79]

@@aimeeariel1990 Being inclusive is not a virtue. Many things should be excluded. You are being exclusive of previous generations superior thought process in your post lol. This is one of the problems with people now, they pretend to be inclusive while excluding everyone who doesn't agree with them, making you a hypocrite and a fool.

[@smiles1730]

And rotary phones, and having to look a word up in the dictionary to confirm its spelling cos you had a paper to write on the typewriter (or word processor). Good times!

[@sophiacromwell8017]

Lol!!! Do they still make white out?

[@ColorMeConfused29]

Using an encyclopedia to do a report. Heaven help you if you forgot the assignment. Your parents didn't have a full set and the library was CLOSED!

[@timetravelhomestead]

I still have my rotary candlestick phone. The kid at Spectrum didn't know what it was and no one thought it would work. It does, I was like, just plug it in and see. Then the service kid had to call his wife on it after showing him how it worked.

[@LindaC616]

Oh yes, and at University having to do research by carrying copies of bound journals (after you looked above those articles) up and down flights of stairs to the copy centre, so you could copy the articles you needed to take home with you that night

[@marceybull]

Packed computer labs in college - when most people preferred computers but didn’t own them. Computer labs are probably empty or even non-existence now.

[@LeLu1616]

I prefer my map on roadtrips. GPS thinks one step ahead, my map is three steps ahead. This weekend I kept yelling at my son's GPS ... "and then what" LOL

[@danmichaels9613]

I use GPS as a supplement to maps: it helps when street signs are hard to read, and I like the ETA feature. But I couldn’t fathom using a GPS blindly. If I’m going somewhere new, I always find it on a map first.

[@WelcomeApathy]

GPS is basically an interactive map. You can scroll through the entire trip and the whole area where you are going as if it is a map. And then you have other resources, such as Google street view to actually see the street and buildings, which a map can't do. Or look up things like restaurants, etc., in the area. Plus, maps don't update when roads change, let alone when there's temporary construction that changes your path or even traffic backups. The only use of a physical map that GPS doesn't have is that you don't need power. Hence backup.

[@edwardrhoads7283]

@@danmichaels9613 I use mapquest to find the route then study the map so I know where the F I am going so I don't even need the darn GPS which gets me lost half the time anyway.

[@zjitterbug]

I'm an older Gen Xer -1967. Listen to the GPS if it suddenly tells you to go some weird way. It will save you a lot of time in traffic. The few times I've ignored it, I've been very sorry I did. Thank goodness for Waze! It gets us to the Denver airport on time, which is 65 miles SW of where we live. Paper maps are great back-ups, but they can't give you real time traffic situations. (I'm directionally "dyslexic," so navigation is challenging anyway. Ambidexterity is not always a "gift.")

[@zeetalzee5582]

omg, right? I love maps! I prefer to use maps to GPS and I love using topographical maps. And a normal old compass. I find this 'low tech' way of orienteering a lot more fun.

[@ConnieHeartsValentino]

Thank you so much for this! Sometimes it just feels like we are the "Forgotten" Generation! Go Gen X!!

[@shannonasbell7583]

Love it. We are the best generation Ever!!! And, my 12 year old son loves to always say " Ok Boomer, to me." Oh heck no. Next time, I will play this song for him!!!! Gen X Rules!!!!

[@llaptoo]

Sometimes we meet other GenXers in the comment section of an 80s music video and we greet each other, knowing that we were the ones who actually partied hard during the legendary 80s. And I feel so privileged to be part of this generation whenever that happens.

[@dalerushton1394]

Dude, this one time at the Drive-In, I forgot what movie and who snuck the beer in, but I just got done breaking off that weird new "filter" thing off my Marlboro Red and turned it around backwards to put it in my mouth and light it but my Bic lighter got lost at the concert, my girlfriend though it was in her purse with the bong, it was too painful for her to look because she burned her knuckles holding it up at the concert, then that one chick she knew walked over to our car from the snack bar and.............never mind, it's a long story but at least she didn't ruin her fake nails, she was already mad that her hair wouldn't fit in the car and it kept sticking to the headliner, she always used too much Aqua-Net hair spray. It was fun though.

[@KelsaRavenlock]

You can spot the Gen X in the comments of music videos because they are the ones not posting thumbs up if such and such game/cartoon/ supernatural teen drama brought you here.

[@frankenwolf3167]

@@dalerushton1394 then she found the lighter and said "SIKE!"

[@DioneN]

As a 46 year old GenX thank you for bringing us to the attention of the younger generations! We are the forgotten generation, but whatever😉

[@richardmahn7589]

I thought that was the generation that fought the wars, haha.

[@DioneN]

@@richardmahn7589 😂haha!

[@TheDataDiva]

And you were the first ones to say "whatever" ;)

[@Socute4u]

And saying "for sure" and "like, totally "😊👍

[@QUICKBOOKS1]

Somewhat embarrassing. I had to look it up on Google to find out if I AM Gen X!

[@Francis-h3b]

I showed my daughter the round piece that fits inside of a 45 record,and she was PERPLEXED!😂

[@harryrimmer6830]

As a Boomer, I still have a collection of paper maps in the mini-motorhome. FYI, any time you are entering a new state while traveling on an Interstate Highway, stop at the first Rest Area you come to. You can always get a new map there. Yes, I died many times on the Oregon Trail sitting at my Tandy 1000TX. My (home schooled) daughters learned a lot from Reader Rabbit and Math Rabbit, as well as learning "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". Also, they both became great spellers playing with a portable "Speak and Spell" on long car trips, but it drove us nuts!!

[@mykijiji1958]

My dad made mixed tapes (he thought he was so “with the times”) for our car ride from mid-Ontario to the Rockies (6 of us in a station wagon). Even though he thought he made several, let me tell you ANYTHING played over and over on a long car trip can drive you crazy!! But I know all the words to “Runaround Sue”! 😂😂😂

[@janahixson8111]

Oh my gosh I about peed my pants and had tears streaming down my face with the collect call part. So true!!! This was hilarious--you guys sure know how to dial in to the human experience and pop culture! Love you, thanks for always creating such funny and uplifting videos! :)

[@agdehaven]

Anybody remember the "BobWeHadABabyItsABoy" commercial?

[@anng2004]

I was just looking to see if someone was going to mention this!

[@craftymamageier3465]

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[@bobbiema6671]

Didn't they have to call the next person in there group until everybody knew it was a boy?? 😂☎☎💬☎☎😂

[@Lissbirds]

YES!!

[@foxbasedelta338]

Whenever I miss my childhood, in my minds eye, I scatter broken glass and gravel on the road and build a virtually vertical bike ramp out of a naily door, mouldy bricks and unidentified matter. Then I hard peddle at the catostrophie and muse "Where did we go wrong?". Love to my Gen-X brothers and sisters. Xx

[@marianwiggins5773]

We actually remember when the pay phone not only existed but was a dime, there weren't videos or cable TV, you were your parents remote, there weren't multiple TVs in a house, and there was leaded gas.

[@keybored67]

and that gas was under $1 a gal

[@tweevers2]

pay phones here in Phoenix were around plenty even in 2012. That was around the last time I used one

[@catmandoo2674]

Gas is still unleaded.

[@marianwiggins5773]

@@catmandoo2674 sorry, meant leaded gas

[@dalerushton1394]

Yea, I miss leaded gas ⛽.

[@teresarydberg1450]

Love it. The only thing you missed is most of us Gen Xers were actually the ones who developed the technology the Millennials us now so although we have problems using it we were instrumental in creating what they use today :-) And were some of the biggest video game producers :-)

[@elishevahgodfrey3888]

Yep! I made a "video" game my senior year of highschool....saved it on a 5 inch floppy disk!

[@tigerpainter]

And we upended the entire music distribution industry and invented streaming at the same time using Napster. I remember reading about kids being threatened with jail time for music sharing and I’m like “people went to jail so you could have Spotify people!”😂

[@anikadiamond007]

This is talked about enough.

[@bree101angel]

OMG! 100% true! My eldest called me a Boomer with his friend the other day, and I told him go look up what a Boomer was and what Gen X was.

[@snoopygonewilder]

Lol. My 18 year old niece has called me a Boomer... I'm not even a Gen Xer, I'm a Millenial born in '84...

[@e.urbach7780]

Yeah, if they're gonna use ageist insults, then they should at least use the correct one!

[@hannahscott6604]

My mother is a boomer (born 1955) so yes, the 70’s and early 80’s would not be boomer lmao

[@ericfredrickson129]

LOL "Go look up" dates us to when we had to physically "go look up" stuff.. in a library! Your eldest could be like "Where would I 'go'? I have all the world's information right here in my phone!" But of course, he didn't. Because Gen X'ers have the edge when it comes to verbal jousting. We're probably the last generation of people who grew up talking to communicate..

[@Angelwolfs9]

And that'd be D-Generation X to you brats! #SuckIt lol

[@Francis-h3b]

Show a teenager a ROTARY PHONE and watch their BRAIN MELT!😂

[@Xianne027]

😂

[@mrs.higgins3055]

There should be a LOVE button for this video! Proud Gen Xer.❤😊

[@AnnaLauraBrownHealthCoach]

I'm gen x and both if this isn't the most accurate thing I've ever seen. This is so us.

[@richardmahn7589]

Covers everything, even things I have forgotten about, like a key under a fake rock/shell!

[@firewater113]

Very much

[@Qster1584]

@@richardmahn7589 LOL, our spare key was under our mat.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Ah it’s good to be Gen X

[@WDBsirLocksight]

"LatchKey Kids" the kids that played Oregon Trail, skated to the arcade and used quarters

[@colleenweinschenker1808]

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so seen. Yes to all of this!

[@Cottagecore-101]

Memory unlocked! I forgot about the fines for not rewinding lol 😂

[@betsyh2503]

Yes!! Gen X here!!! Spot on!!! Cracked me up with the Trivial Pursuit, I’m sure ours was an 80’s edition. 🤣

[@loriboivin1249]

I remember owning at least 4 different editions of it. Saturday nights in the basement. Good times.

[@klabeck1097]

We walked to school, made our own lunches, went to record & later CD stores, no remote for the TV in the early years, fed our dogs table scraps, went to arcades, knocked on neighbors door to ask parents if your friends could come out & play (be home before dark, please), roller & inline skating, skateboards and sharp edged snow boarding with absolutely no protection (snapped wrists & concussions, yay!), disco sucked & I still wear "Docs" Dr. Marten's.

[@esq73]

Disco 🪩 does suck. I thought I was the only one.

[@dalerushton1394]

Yup. What's with the bicycle helmets ? We used to go down huge hills on our Big Wheels with a jump at the end wearing only a pair of shorts. No shoes, no shirt. Just rub some dirt in it. We got pretty banged up and scraped up on a somewhat constant basis. We didn't have B.S. gourmet dog food Our dog was happy with the table scraps mixed with Alpo ( Cats didn't last long in those days, but you could always get a free kitten somewhere ). I heard now we're supposed to register our dirt bikes and our dog, and apparently cats too ( ? ). Sounds a bit communistic if you ask me. Nobody did that cr@p. Poor Grandma can't even smoke in the hospital anymore. I guess we can still have BB guns and pellet guns at least. Mom never allowed those inside the house anyhow though. I could go on and on about what fun we had !

[@reneeh.1249]

I started liking disco when I realized it’s party music 😉 But Gen X really did have the best music 💯

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

Disco, like any other genre, has some iconic songs and bands that we all still get up and dance and sing to, even if you dont want to admit it. Bee Gees, YMCA, ABBA, Hot Stuff, Lady Marmalade, Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive, Heart of Glass, Its Raining Men.

[@JimMork]

I remember going into stores with head phones where you could listen to recorded music before you bought it. Can't date that.

[@HeatherTravels]

YES! And our generation is always forgotten.

[@babu357]

That's why I love him saying they're not boomers.

[@peterbelanger4094]

There are less of us. There was a drop in birth rate during the Gen-X years. Also Gen-X doesn't seem to be easy to market to. They don't even know what to call us, "X"....WTF is that?

[@bethprather9241]

Yes, plus I've heard over and over how we haven't given the US a President yet? What is Gen x contribution? All I can think is, " Hey we gave you Brett K. In the Supreme Court our contribution.. No comment except I felt like we had all been to the country club house and the party they describe?!! Sorry

[@willp.8120]

Generation Xers seem to be the most intelligent, least gullible to mainstream media propaganda amongst generations.

[@littleredhen3354]

@@peterbelanger4094 The X is for expendable. Which is probably why we are ignored🤷‍♀️

[@CosmicMomDove]

I was a telephone operator back in the 1980s, so we put thru lots of “pick me up at the bowling alley “ calls. Since pay phones had detailed location info on the operator’s computer screen in case the EMTs had to get you, be thankful that you got home safe.

[@suran396]

I thought that was all automated! But, no doubt, better to put the call through than have the 911 an hour later.