What is a Xennial? Were you born during the 1st Star Wars trilogy? Are you more Gen x or Millennial?

What being a Xennial means to me. Lots of rambling.
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[@parkerdutcher58]

I was hatched in 78 , tv shows I remember . The Muppets show , hehaw, night rider, V remember V was so cool , Twin peaks , I remembered USA t.v. station from 5 to 7 played cartoons like inspector gadget, he man , Scooby doo. I remember Eurikas Castle and Pin Wheel and today's special , you can't do that on television . I remember recording movies making mix tapes . What a time we lived in. Playing outside . Worst punishment was being grounded and staying inside . Having to use telephones to call people because cell phones were big huge bag car phones that only extremely wealthy people had. I really miss them times that era .

[@LeonardoDaVinciLulz]

Yeap I feel the same way (born in 1980). Aww the Muppet Show...Jim Henson was a big part of my childhood...RIP

[@MyTy1978]

Great times!!

[@matthewbrown2619]

My dad had Hee Haw on all the time...

[@mardus_ee]

1981 here. A bit late to the party because of the Soviet era (Estonia restored independence in 1991). I did follow MacGyver a bit, but completely missed Knight Rider. Got a taste of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) in the very late 1980s, and I was hooked. In the 1990s, I went through the entire run of TNG, and then Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and then Farscape. Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis were really not to my taste, as it seemed to appeal to a more younger cohort, while SGU Stargate Universe was precisely meant for people like me, and maybe even people of my generation. Alas, Gen X-ers and Millennials/proper Gen Y didn't like it ('too dark,' they said).

[@deborahzukoski9000]

I was born in 1978. I LOVED those TV show you mentioned!

[@lyl3645]

Agreed: Xennials have seen things both ways~ We are used to changes, well feeling lost/nostalgic sometimes

[@luisenriqueclapes4813]

I'm 100% XENNIAL and very proud of that. I consider that we're blessed because we got the BEST of both worlds! We're still too young to be a X Generation but we're also too old to be a Millennial. We were born between 1976-1985 approximately and today we're around 34-42. We are the LAST GENERATION to be EDUCATED and RAISED with Old School traditional and strong VALUES. Maybe we're a very small generation but we're the most capable nowadays! We had a very innocent and funny childhood. We grew up in a world without Internet, playing on the street, with game boards, and enjoying the remains of the Old World form our parents. But we were also the FIRST GENERATION to welcome the new digital world, the cellphones, computers, video games, globalization...but we have ANALOGICAL roots. Some of us were "forced" to accept the new technologies and with the time we learn how to use them but some of us prefer some traditional habits and behaviors....we are more Conservatives than the Millennials. We RESPECT the authorities and our elders, we really know how to WORK and we know the importance of EDUCATION to succeed in life combined with values such as Tolerance, Compassion, Honesty and Perseverance. We like Technology but we DO NOT DEPEND ON IT....we watch the Internet only as a very useful TOOL but we like to do the things in the "Old Fashion Style"...at least I do! Some people of our Generation became "tech-addicts" but most if us prefer to practice sports, spend time with family, talk with our friends in person, go to the shopping malls...just simple things in life. We went to Libraries to do our homeworks, we were witnesses of important events like the 9/11/2001, the Millennium New Year 2000, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the Globalization, the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the famous OJ Simpson car chase, 2PAC murder in 96...etc. We grew up surrounded by Excellent MUSIC and MOVIES thanks to our parents. We understand and value the EFFORT and how difficult this world is. Here in Mexico City where I am from....my childhood and adolescence was awesome, there were very good times. Globalization arrived to Mexico, the computers, the MTV, McDonalds in 1985, the Nokia and Motorola "brick" cellphones....and more! We know how to use the old TurnTables with vinyl records, Walkman, Discman, MP3 until Spotify. We are also a very, very nostalgic Generation....no matter the new movies and TV shows, Netflix series.....we always prefer the classics form the past. Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, Seinfield, The Simpsons, Knight Rider, McGywer, The A team, Miami Vice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina, The Fresh Prince, the Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Transformers, Home Improvement, Baywatch....and more great POP culture TV shows. We are very lucky to be the Generational Bridge between the X's and the Millennials. I liked your video and even we grew up in different countries...I think we agreed about this. Definitely we are XENNIALS. Greetings from Mexico City.

[@alphachief6085]

Baywatch ❤️

[@Cropsykills]

I'm a Xennial and not conservative at all.

[@diazemap]

Falling right in the middle of the range, that is being born around half 1980, where Gen X a Millenials typically split, I definitely feel Xennial. I always hated to have to choose between one group ranging from the early 60s and the other all the way up to the early 2000s. That's a span of 40 years! How much the people changed during that time. It's great to have your little spot, I feel comfy there. What I feel is most significant is the teenage transition toward the digital world. We got on that digital train just in time not to lag behind practically at all and still have the advantage of remembering that we were actually able to function without the Internet and mobile phones. We may actually have been the last generation to have a "normal" childhood. Anyone much younger generally didn't really get that much experience with the purely analog world and vice versa the older generation seems to have a handicap in the digital one. I always felt that Xennials are kind of a lost, or confused generation. So much, or rather too much was happening when I was growing up. Too much to process it all. Let's not forget the fall of communism, which, by the way, I experienced in a former communist country, so I got the cultural and economic shock as a bonus.

[@theliberator5725]

Spot on.

[@minstrelcat1951]

Exactly this!! Well said xxx

[@FS02012]

I was born 1979 and feel like a millennial i grew up playing video games, we were the first ones that learnt internet in school at 14 we were the first ones back in1997 to have a cell phone in high school, we were the techno kids that danced in raves and to progressive house music.. we are the children of the baby boomers we are the real Millennials 1977-1986 we also had computers in school and we were kids when the world changed to electronic. We were became full legal age 2000. Remember Napster and limewire we were the first to download music.

[@anikadiamond007]

I'm core Gen X, 73, and we had computers in our grade school classrooms. We learned to type in a computer lab, not typewriters. First gamers. We were also the first gamers.

[@TheIntrovert83]

You just described me! I was born in 83!

[@JanetStarChild]

I've been lately embracing the "Xennial" label. Born in '81, I used to always consider myself as being the tail-end of Gen X (I never identified with the Millennials). I think one of the big things that sets people apart is whether you grew up with Internet and cell phones or not. Personally, my first real Internet experience was in Web cafes during the turn of the century, and I didn't have my own Internet until I was 23. I got my first cell phone at 26 and it was a basic Nokia phone with an LCD calculator screen; and it had none of the fancy gimmicks today, not even a camera; It was just a telephone. I have a new phone these days, but I still don't have Internet access on it. It's just a phone to me.

[@bororidley]

For me the reason Xennials are optimistic is due to a lot of reasons. We were kids that grew up in an era where it was okay to be patriotic. We also grew up with the hope and the optimism of Ronald Reagan as our President, even if you didn't agree with him. Plus we grew up with positive 80's and early 90's music. We grew up during the end of the cold war where our world could come to an end. We also had movies like War Games that made us nervous of Computers, but we still used them. We also had awesome cartoons, cable TV with MTV, Nickelodeon, & The Disney Channel (if your parents could afford it :P). Not to mention recording songs off the radio Sunday Morning with Casey Kasem Top 40 Countdown. We also were the last generation where it was safe for us to go outside and play for hours, without fear of something bad happening to us. For me the 80's and early 90's was a great time to live, which for me came to the end with the death of Kurt Cobain in 8th Grade. For us it seemed like every year brought some new tech to our house: 83 = Cable TV, 86 = VCR, 87 = Camcorder & Nintendo :), 88 = First Computer, 89 = New Stereo with Record, CD, Dual Cassette, and Digital Radio Tuner, and 90 = First time online with Prodigy Sorry for the rambling but that is what came to mind for me growing up during that era. This Music Video pretty much captures the energetic and optimistic Music growing up in our era: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJnbd2yHnJqghbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/enTXdXR3hbRgoJY kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIjHkJKtarqKjMU kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2fEcqtmoN2JiaM

[@mardus_ee]

Just to help out with descriptions to your KZbin links: 1. Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall (1988) 2. Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real (1989) 3. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love (1990) 4. Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time (1988) (themed on the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul) These four are still 1980s songs, albeit from the late eighties, and are stylistically similar, in that a person familiar with the '80s sound can recognise them as being from that decade. I raise you four of mine from the 1990s (not linked), which kind of represent the first and somewhat more optimistic part of the decade - 1. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (1991, featuring the vocals of Shara Nelson) 2. Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover (1992) 3. Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen 4. U2 - Numb (1993, with The Edge being far ahead with mumble rap)

[@omegablast2002]

Heres a good one for you....who remembers learning what a hyperlink was in media class...or Netscape navigator....

[@JChiibs]

Hypercard on the Mac Classic. 🤣

[@beardedvapor2703]

I think Xennials are late 70 and 80s babies

[@MontviewBlvdBabiez]

I would say 1985 is the cut off for xennials it's the last year of people to be born to see life before internet and remember...

[@renereyes2648]

@@MontviewBlvdBabiez The cut off is actually 1985 but for some reason people on the internet claim the cut-off to be 83 to tie it to Star Wars. There was a whole ting about it on business insider the term started popping up in 2014.

[@shawnte98]

My brothers and I are Xennials. I was born in 79 and then 1 brother was born in 80 and the other in 82.

[@RanadeS]

I you remember internet before google , MSN & yahoo and know how to write a letter on paper and mail it you are xennial.

[@michaelwoodall7922]

If you can change a tire and build a webpage, you’re likely a Xennial.

[@rynoecom]

Michael Woodall I can do that as a GenX.

[@KarenMcNayKerans]

Totally! I was trying to say that. You have better words.

[@micks336]

If the computer is really old perhaps.

[@AGC173]

@@rynoecom without WordPress

[@rynoecom]

@@AGC173 I use notepad.

[@Aaroncarter55726]

I was born in 81, I remember watching tv shows like Cheers, The Cosby Show, Murphy Brown, and The Golden Girls back when it was new.

[@omegablast2002]

This is perfect, i feel like i found my generation

[@newworlddisorder6022]

I was born in 1979 and I agree with everything you say

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

Me too

[@adamorbanski9258]

You are so right! I'm born in 1981 and remember learning about email and internet in high school. I've only had a smart phone for a year and a half...technology is so strange to me still

[@timothygibson6702]

I liked your video. I was born in 1978 and I remember watching video games progress from Atari to Nintendo to Oregon Trail and then become handheld with Gameboy. The analog to digital switch. Off course, I identify with My So-Called Life in addition to the Adventures of Pete and Pete and even Buffy). Watching videos on MTV (recording the videos onto VHS tapes). My first email address was when I started college and my first website was with Geocities. I see myself as a combination of the two. It would be interesting to see years from now what a similar generational in between would be for people between Millennials and Generation Y (of course that will be years from now).

[@KarenMcNayKerans]

thank you! Totally forgot about Pete and Pete! The birth of Nickelodeon, of cable tv in general... how Xennial of you!

[@micks336]

I had to share my gameboy with my brother. I used the power pack to power my Walkman. It clipped on my pants like the Walkman.

[@TommyboyGTP]

I was born in 77 so i'm not fully on board with the Xennial concept. I feel much more like a late genX than anything. I paid my bills by mailing in checks, for example up until maybe 8ish years ago before online bill pay became the norm. Last check i wrote was for a car i paid off. Now i do everything online which is nice and convenient, and most importantly, guaranteed secured. It took me a while to adopt online bill paying because of the early days of people's accounts getting hacked. That being said, i've taken two online generation tests and both said i'm a Xennial... go figure!

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I was born in 1979 and I feel too young for Gen X and too old to be Millennial. Xennial fits.

[@TommyboyGTP]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic I'm the opposite. I feel much more Gen X because I stayed analog much longer than my peers because our family was broke and couldn't afford to buy any of it. I had a turn dial tube tv up until i was in my early 20's before I had enough to get a Sony Trinitron with a remote lol

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

@@TommyboyGTP Most early Millennials didn't grow up any different than Late Gen Xers. But what separates me from Core Gen X is that I was only 14 years old when cultural Gen X markers such as "Friends" or "Reality Bites" became popular , and to me real gen Xers were 20 somethings in the 1990's.

[@TommyboyGTP]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic I get it... but there is always the "core" group of a generation and the early and late edges that blend into the next generation. The digital revolution happened pretty quickly.

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

@@TommyboyGTP I'm only a few years younger than you, but maybe '79 is the start of where the cross over happened.

[@frozenfan3092]

~Born 1980, Aliens, Apple computers with black and green screens, lemmings, there was no internet or cell phones. I am not into the craze that is going on with the smart phones I believe I would become dumb and I have far too many interests and an over active imagination that needs nourishing. I dont have time to be on a phone every 2 seconds. When I am on the bus I am the only person who is looking out the window. Everyone else has their head down staring at their phones. Its frightning. No one seems to have interest in nature anymore, literally its like they have no sense about their surrounding environment. Some walk infront of cars whiel looking at the damn phone. I am really lucky that I remember what it was like before this madness started.

[@AmbitPowerCouple]

Lemmings!!

[@carloand82]

I was born in 1982 and i dont indentify with the millennials

[@GokuFievel32]

Carlos A Hdéz y Talancón same here

[@randallcole559]

Same Here

[@33Crazydude]

I was born 1978, definitely do not identify with the millennials.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

you dont have to, because generations supposedly are every 20 years. the boomers are from 45 to 65, gen X is from 65 to 85, and millennials is from 85/86 to2000s, and afterthat is gen Z

[@33Crazydude]

I'm not Gen X, I'm a Xennial,lol

[@BentheGeek-wm4mf]

Your xennial if had a or thought about a DVD/VCR player lol

[@mdf198122]

Born in 1981, relate more with my grandparents then millennials

[@dereksalas8195]

We played Atari, NES & Sega, then later, PS1’s. We owned vinyl, tapes, and CDs (& still do.) We watched TV through rabbit ears, cable, and big satellite dishes. Programming a VCR to record was no problem. We enjoyed MTV and Nickelodeon when they were at their finest. We communicated through landlines, beepers/2-ways, and cells. We ‘figured it out’ to ‘make it work’. We are the Analog to Digital sub-generation.

[@owaissaaltheadickey9341]

Thank you for the great video. My brother Zach was born in 1977 and refered to himself and my cousins Laurel and Justin as " the last pen and paper generation." Laurel was born in 1980 and her brother in 1982.Zach's childhood was playing outside,Scouts and Penpals.He would play Pacman at the bowling alley and Atari/Nintendo with our cousins. By the time he graduated high school he was playing Oregon Trail on one of those early Nokia phones. Michael Jackson is the epitome of generational change.The GI Gen and Baby Boomers knew of him as a black child/teen and singing with 4 brothers, Gen X knew of him as an adult solo artist and watch him change his skin to white(due to medical conditions),Xennials saw him as a white solo artist/musician and philantropist for people in need and All generations took his untimely death hard. Millenials,New Boomers and Zoomers know of him as "the dead musicial legend" and it wont be long before their decendants will say "never heard of him".😔😔 (Thats the way life works for everything/everyone. Btw I'm one of the "Jackson 5 Generation"...born in 1963 ✌

[@gzusrock]

Simply put, we are the elementary school kids of the 80s, and every remake of 80s stuff that's coming out now is targeted toward our little "micro-generation." Even Netflix's hit _Stranger Things_ is about a bunch of Xennial kids.

[@Truthseeker1515]

Kids in Stranger Things are 10 in the first season set in 1983, they would have been born in the early 70s. I know, because I totally relate as I was born in '73.

[@PackinStackin]

Stranger thing kids are Gen X

[@tracyreadytv]

Wow, you make such a great point...the lives we fantasized about as children and how we were told high school and college would be, it was nothing like that...because there was this major shift happened in the way we engage with one another, the way we learned, the way we did literally everything...and we had to figure out how to ebb and flow with that with no older siblings or parents to teach us or prepare us for it. We had to go create a world around a MAJOR shift in the way the world shared and exchanged information....THATS HUGE...and we just quietly adjusted....BUT out of our microgeneration, the blueprint of what we see now was created...

[@melaniemallette8260]

I agree born in 1979 in Canada! I would identify with Gen X and with Millennial! It is sort of weird! It is like I am part of the constantly transitioning generation. Very used to change! Nothing ever stays the same! It is like the only sure things is that things change so I will have to learn something new all the time and help to teach the older generations. First to get an e-mail in High School and helped my parents and younger siblings get their first e-mail. I never did MySpace or AOL because I had no interest but was one of the first to get Facebook when I was in my early 20’s when there was no advertisements on Facebook. I also helped at 26 with the Emergency disaster relief of September 11, 2001 and a few years later relief from the hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Even though I did not learn typing at School because the typewriters typing class was just transitioned out of the school a year or so before I arrived and there was a first computer in the school library DOS or first version Microsoft computers to be shared through reservation time slots. I learned typing with computers just after graduating High School because of the typing test in the workforce call centres. Sometimes I wrote my school projects/homework with pen, pencil, paper, erasers, liquid paper, sometimes I wrote my school project with a typewriter at home with my Mother helping me to use that old technology and sometimes I wrote my school projects with a computer and printer on Microsoft Word. One of my first jobs was billing for Bell Canada with Bell Sympatico at the age of 19 trying to explain to people what internet dial up was, and that one month free with a CD Rom you needed a computer and inform them that the CD Rom drive was not a cup holder and that you cannot start a computer like a sewing machine with the mouse on the ground...that the mouse was not a pedal. That unlike home phone if you lost power the computer lost power and therefore no dial up internet. I was paid for the dial up internet transition as one of my first in between school jobs. When I was in primary school learning DOS computers while at home learning how to use a typewriter then in High School the first Microsoft computer and the first Apple computer, Betta, VHS, satellite phones, flip phones. I watched the original Star Trek series as a little girl. So I grew up with Star Trek. The TV had just changed from Black and White to Colour so some of my family still had black and white TV’s. I also grew up Watching The X-Files, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Full House and Family Matters. I would have to figure out the antennas to get a good TV signal. Using quarters for pay phones. I had a pager just after graduating high school. Then in my early 20’s flip phone. How to read a map? First to use a GPS and teaching others how to use it. Parents both working during High School and taking care of my siblings alone doing the cooking and cleaning. Playing outside with my friends, cousins and siblings or even alone without parental supervision and with babysitters sometimes. As a teenager playing Nintendo Mario on the TV and Sega Genesis Sonic and playing marbles and hopscotch. It is the most exciting dramatically changing technology childhood Generation Xennials. That would be me!

[@adamorbanski9258]

Also as a gay xenial I love Madonna where the new generation relates to Lady gaga. I love lady gaga too but Madonna will always be my queen!

[@lunadeloba_sounds]

I love both!

[@jessjoy85]

You nailed it. We were the last generation to experience analog first growing up before transitioning to digital. and my so called life all the way! nirvana, alternative rock, plaid, gameboy, walkmans, i feel like we were the last real generation to experience real life before all the internet technology social media bs hit!

[@beardedvapor2703]

I was born in 1985 and I had to be taught a lot of stuff that kids already knew ... I remember the gameboy and I was growing up during dial up lol

[@gamma21285]

Southern Vapor 85 is millennial

[@keeneileenb9706]

Jason Wren Not necessarily

[@gamma21285]

KeenEileen B Yes necessarily. Anybody who thinks other is a complete idiot.

[@keeneileenb9706]

Jason Wren “Believe what I believe or else”

[@gamma21285]

KeenEileen B It's not about believing, it's straight facts.

[@Mocatee1]

Caught in the middle 1978 don’t relate fully to either.

[@AGC173]

I like the video, As a fellow xennial the way Ive always seen the differences. Xennials grew up with pogs, garbage pail kids, and also happened to be the first adopters of technology. We're the ones who built the original websites and created and expanded all of the tech you are likely using to read this. We are the teens of the 90s we made skateboarding cool again we made comics cool again and we are a demographic with major purchasing power at the moment. Gen X on the other hand is who with the Baby Boomers continues to out vote us in every presidential election. While Millennials grew up in a world where there was always a way to call and check on someone. They don't remember the world when it was less safe. (To me that's a win) and soon to be of voting age will be the Zeders who are still extremely diverse. By the way I watched my so called life too. I had a copy of the first Nintendo power magazine, I saw someone say that typical xennial is someone who can change a tire and build a website, I agree with that statement.

[@TawandaVance]

They basically took baby Xers(I was born in 79) and older Millennials and clumped us in a group. We're close in age and grew up during a time when technology as we know it was in it's infancy and we were young adults when social media was starting to become a norm. We know how to live in 2 worlds 😄😄😄. I completely feel that quote, more so after graduating from college and having the hardest time getting a job that would lead to a career that the boomers told us we'd get. I love "My So-Called Life", found out about it right after the series was cancelled.

[@sergeantshelby6142]

1982 here. Remember using phonebooks, having a diary for writing phone numbers and even knew 20-30 phone numbers by heart. Remember the first computer at home. Was surprised to discover you could watch movies on PC with a cd player. Remember copying desktop shortcut files on floppy disks; dial up internet, hotmail account, hi5. Was told by gen x we need to learn MS-DOS to survive in the tech era that was about to come🤣🤣. Had resume's where i wrote expertise in MS word, excel and spss!

[@mardus_ee]

Knowledge about how to properly format a document, do spreadsheets and statistics, is still valuable. MS-DOS is now for obscure computer rescue and retrocomputing stuff, though Linux has supplanted a lot of that.

[@lunadeloba_sounds]

1983 in here. I still use phonebooks, even if I have the contacts on my cell phone, I think is still usefull. I used cds the first years of university and my first personal computer was the first machintosh computer. I met my first boyfried chatting on a cyber café.

[@whenfatkillsfat803]

Born in 80 but relate more to Xennials. I will always prefer 90s alt rock to today's current pop shit.

[@ShadowSong634]

I think we really do think a lot and we don't like the idea of stereotypes. I think of myself as an "On the other hand" way of thinking. We can see both sides of an argument and are open to new ideas. I do see myself as cynical but there's also this big part part of me that has hope. I really don't understand the importance of what someone is wearing. I like people for who they are and how people treat other people. No matter what generation you came from, if you are kind, honest and have integrity...... I will definitely like you. Great video.

[@PackinStackin]

81-85 ish are millennials we’re just the ones that just “know” how to be flexible ,adapt, adjust, and see the world both ways. We can remember the old way of doing things and can do those things just as well as the newer things.

[@BKrystall]

1979 baby here. Xennial is perfect

[@billydiana]

1981. I never identified with genX, never identified with millennials either. I'm so happy to finally know that we actually have our own micro generation.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

Atari fans knew that by the time the internet was known about (just before email) that the Atari-Lynx (then Sega GameGear a year later which played TV) were handheld computers and the Lynx even had a blitter chip. The AtariST competed with the Amiga which played HAM video at 240p which looked like TV. People new handheld TV and computing would merge and that internet (like Multiplayer on the game FirePower via modem) would be on it. The _"video and gaming capable"_ smartphone was no surprise whatsoever and it was the point behind cobbling together techs. It was not an alien concept at all. Price to make it viable was the barrier and even battery didn't matter because a battery-pack like the lynx had could have been a workaround. And that actually happens nowadays with the usb-c cell charger packs. The only thing that seemed abstract was the way the phone was usually wired (rj11) to the wall but even then, cordless phones and large businessman mobile phones were known about so it was conceivable. The TV tech shows and books described how the spacecraft Voyager (late 1970s) was sent digital computer program updates to its tape storage wireless by new types of compression (because its dish had not opened correctly). It is like how video or digital information on an optical disk was well known about but it becoming cheap enough (later being VCD and DVD) was what such people were waiting for.

[@Supersly666]

Born at the very end of GenX and in the middle of the Xennial generation (1980). My first tv was black and white and without remote control. My first music was played from vinyl records and cassette tapes (CD's didn't exist). My first movies were from VHS tapes and we actually recorded things from TV that would otherwise be missed (same goes for radio btw)! Cellphones weren't even a thing, nor was texting and I knew about 30 phone numbers by heart! When we called a friend, we called their home and had to ask their parents to hand them the phone. I grew up watching cartoons like He-Man, Scooby-Doo, G.I. Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Pee-wee Herman Show and faithfully watched Star Trek the Next Generation every week with my father. But I was to old for things like Power Rangers and Pokemon! We were born into an entertainment golden age with great movies like Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, RoboCop, Terminator 2 and many many more amazing flicks! The Titanic was huge and as a young male I hated it, along with Backstreet Boys and the Hansons (but you went anyways, because the girls loved it). When it comes to music we heard all the great stuff from the 60s and 70s, because our parents listened to it all the time. While also getting all the great music from the 80s and 90s from MTV, when they actually played music! My generation witnessed the rebirth of the game industry, with the Nintendo Entertainment System, but was to young to comprehend it's fall (at the time at least), thanks Atari! We played in arcades and took part in the console wars between Sega and Nintendo, because Sega does what Ninten don't. We witnessed the birth of the internet and before that, some of us would take part in Lan-parties! Online reviews didn't exist yet, so we actually read books and magazines for information, or just to know what's on TV. Growing up, we actually used physical dictionaries and went to the library! We would rent movies and video games, or borrow them from friends and when someone didn't return what you borrowed them, you would immediately know they weren't to be trusted. Just like the generations before us, when we played outside as young children, it was true freedom! Because we were completely cut off from our parents, with no means of direct contact (unless we were playing at a friend's house). When we first started driving, GPS wasn't wide spread, nor did everyone have a cellphone yet. Life was an adventure and we actually learned how to use a map! During our first years of clubbing or bar hopping, smartphones didn't exist. You didn't have to be afraid of being recorded and social media wasn't really a thing until the mid 2000s. We witnessed major events like 9/11, both wars in Irak, the Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the USSR and Berlin wall, the rise of China and if you lived in Europe, the implementation of the Euro as a new currency. In fact your first job would likely have been payed out in the 'old' currency! The Y2K bug was a laugh and along with both the millennials and the generations before us, we lived in times of optimism (when you thought the future would be better) and fealt the change creep in during the mid 2000s. Sufficely to say, things evolved very quickly during the 80s, 90s and 2000s, which is why it's been awesome to be part of the Xennial generation!

[@mardus_ee]

1981 here. The two American comedy shows that I loved and watched, were "The Golden Girls" and "Frasier". I was a bit young for both (also on account of not yet in full command of English) in terms of age, but it felt like they spoke to me more than "Friends" did. Or "Saved by the Bell", which I loved at the time, and detest now (RIP, Dustin "Screech" Diamond, btw). And, of course, "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (DS9), and Farscape. The latter two very well exemplified this dichotomy between hope and cynicism. Your statement, that Millennials liked "Friends", was surprising, and then was not. I could never wrap my head around "Friends" anyway. Whereas "Cheers" felt like a period piece.

[@Z32spdstr]

Xenial born in 84 played Oregon Trail in school, had a pager in junior high, had a cell phone in high school used AOL DIAL UP yada yada had a myspace account ect.

[@danwilson12]

I still remember Mork and Mindy, Perfect Strangers, Night Court, Benny Hill late at night after WWF, Married with Children, The Simpsons season 1, I remember watching footage of the Berlin wall and people cheering and dancing and not having a clue why, the night footage of Desert Shield/Storm with rockets/missiles launching, the Challenger explosion

[@LongshotRecordsTV]

I like the way you said it, I was saying Xennials like X-Men; X-ennials. lol

[@acer197615]

we were the one that put the pc in the computer labs. we sued street light as a clock ( clock we could read both analog and digital ) and used the pay phone and calling collect as pagers

[@dylancooper3690]

I didn't have internet in my home until 11th grade and got my first cell phone right after college.

[@MedalionDS9]

Fellow Xennial here, hello there. We are well defined of being the last generation to have to use analog technology and adapt to digital technology flawlessly for the most part... maybe not as well as Gen Z but still pretty quick compared to pure Gen Xers. I was ahead of my time and adopted computer technology and internet very early and was thinking about a lot of the modern applications we take for granted these days, chatting online and making friends of sorts that way... so I was more of an outlier in that way because I am an extreme introvert. Romanticized cynicism is a perfect description of how I am... I can be quite negative but also be very naively hopeful in other cases. I was aware of My So Called Life back in the day, but I never really watched it... I did sort of watch Friends but I am more of a Seinfeld guy. My musical tastes tend to gravitate to Alternative Rock, and I am definitely into Nintendo even to this day.

[@pablo81778]

81 baby. I paid my bills for years using checks even when it became out of style. Was always proud of my high check number for some reason.

[@BFFwithCrystal]

So glad this video came across my feed. I too am a xennial! But to take it a step further I’m both working in corporate AND an entrepreneur (another xennial trait). I’ve been searching and searching for more market research on the xennial as I’m opening up a ladies boutique and my target market sweet spot is...... the xennial! I would love to speak with you about characteristics and how we respond to certain marketing. In return I’d be willing to help and or support you in any way you need. Please give it some thought and let me know if you be willing to connect. Thanks Love!!!

[@EnlightenedHeart01]

Born 1977 I am a xennial

[@Tornado1994]

Your a Gen X'er. Gen X is 1965-1977.

[@roxics]

Yes, you are a Xennial. Very much so.

[@Dreadtheday]

I was born in 1980 so... Many before me do not use tech like I do... But "most"Melennials grew up wysiwyg - they "typically" don't use HTML or scripting the way Xennials do. We were taught crap about PC's that we were told we would need which fastly became obsolete... So fast that Melennials do not remember it as part of their childhood. I think we do understand technology in a unique way. We saw records, audio tapes and we're there when CD's were brand new. We didn't have lyrics so we had to record the radio and stop go 50+ times and learn them. I know how to use maps but I'm a master of GPS... Both the Tom Tom and the Garman. This video makes sense to me. Dating through the news paper was real. I know how to crochet, cure meat, start a fire and "grift" in a creative way. I do see value in tech but I do feel better one on one. I smoke.. to be honest I was one of the poineers of Vape. It takes an understanding of chemistry, following strict directions and bravery. Melennials were first to want the product. I cook... Like a boss, like my grandmother. I played Atari and Zelda when it came out.... With my mom. Lol I wanted to note, Melennials seem to use disposable everything .. I use wash cloths to clean my house, not disinfectant wipes or paper towels. When they ask for paper towels I just laughed and hand them a wash cloth to see what happens. Ha!

[@jeffreymorgan8687]

I was delayed in many major parts of my life, schools, apartments, careers. But having been almost born in 79, I grew up being told I was gen X. However, my peers were all xennials or early millennials: so a part of me didn’t feel completely gen X I definitely consider myself lucky to have had an analog childhood. The very last generation and to be the group who transitioned into the digital world as it happened. As kind of the target demographic in many cases (initially) I think we were the group they had in mind who would accept the digital change. First.

[@renereyes2648]

The range is actually from 1977 to 1985. The 83 is “internet folklore” It was in business insider

[@marcparkinson3971]

I was born in 1985 and I’m 100% a xennial. I passed the test with flying colours. I remember when dial up was new to mainstream families. I played out as a kid for around 13 hours a day at weekend and holidays. Me and my friends had to pick a time and a place. I still have my hotmail account. I remember msn messenger what was our closest thing to facebook and everyone had a nick name,to know more about them you had to ask 1 question A/S/L. cruel intentions was defiantly one of the films to watch for xennials! My first computer was an Amiga commodore with paper boy.

[@gamma21285]

Marc parkinson Oh God You were born in 85 then you're full on Millennial. Get over it and quit looking foolish trying claim something you're not

[@gamma21285]

Đ.G. Red Exactly

[@marcparkinson3971]

Đ.G. Red I can remember from 1987 onwards started school in 1989 how can I not remember that. I’m no snowflake lol

[@gamma21285]

Marc parkinson How did you start school in 89 when you were born in 90? And snowflaks come in all generations. 85 is Millennial

[@marcparkinson3971]

Jason Wren I was born in 85 and started school at 4. The age in the uk

[@rlt152]

I was born in 1983, I would say that I fairly strongly identify with Millennials, but that was because I was a fairly late bloomer and found myself watching things like Nickelodeon and Saturday Morning Cartoons until the very late '90s (I think I gave up on them for good sometime in 1999). Although until about a year ago I preferred Generation Y to Millennial but now I really don't care. I think the fact that everyone develops at different points gives you that cusp. My parents were probably right smack in the middle of the Baby Boomer Generation. But at the same time I have many political and religious views that are most common to older generations such as Baby Boomers and even the GI Generation so when it comes to those things I can rarely ever identify with Millennials (or even Gen X). However at the same time I voted Third Party in the last election which seems very Millennial (i.e. not forcing yourself to sucker into one of the 2 major party choices) Also interesting that you say Xennial rather than X-ennial (which is how I usually pronounce it), I definitely identify with Oregon Trail Generation which is basically the years you state but I often add a few years on each end and have it go from 1975-1985. I would say that most John Hughes films are more Gen X, Home Alone might be one of the few exceptions. I would say that overall you made a good argument for people born in those years.

[@KarenMcNayKerans]

rlt152 oh! I didn't even think about the political implications! My brother was 1983 and he is definitely more millennial too. Thanks I felt so rambly!

[@IKARIking67]

Xen Gang! 🤙🏿

[@kylerutherford1756]

Felt this one. First noticed I'm wearing an atari logo also as I was watching it. Wondered along the way, "she should mention smoking"... A minute later... Book. (still watching)

[@faunuscancerous7102]

I guess I’m one, I was born in 1986. I’ve always also liked the term gen Y or Why? As a label for me.

[@micks336]

And Elvis has always been dead born 79. Lol

[@alexboisvert8603]

finally! I have a place in the world. I remember my first Atari. lol

[@sparkysjoint1616]

Everything was handed to baby boomers, and they have pissed it all away for future generations, forsaking what my WW2 grandparents generation fought for.

[@lamarlo4437]

As an late 80's born person there is this special hatred for us an noone includes us with anything even though I resonate with being an Xennial than an Millennial. I vividly remember life before the internet. All the things mentioned I remember doing and it happening when it was new. I had an analog childhood and an emerging digital teen life.

[@MicahScottPnD]

That was honestly incredibly interesting. I hope to hear you branch out. Are there similar "mid-generations"? Like between Greatest and Boomer? Between Millennial and Zoomer? Compelling and enjoyable to hear you

[@ThePanred]

Born in 82 here and yes i dont relate to what they call a millenial what they watched what they used as a phone. I saw the birth of all that the phone started changing i remember getting windows 95..that was a big thing lol. We didnt grow up with the internet until later and even then it was dial up lol. Most millenials wont know that sound!! We still knew what playing outiside and getting dirty was and we didn't come home until the lights came on. Thats why i dont relate. I think they should extend the x'er dates all together. Like an x'er 2.0 because i can relate alot to yall as well. I still remember nirvana and grundge the birth of alot hiphop i can remember McDonald's 2 cheeseburger meal being 2.99 or winning another coke from your twist cap. Unfortunately i missed out on star wars movie personally but it was a big influence on me like tmnt and nintendo and snes growing up we saw the birth of alot of what all of us use today. Analog to digital. The last generation that communicated verbally and wrote notes to future girlfriends. Pog life slammer loving generation. We can get dirty cook and build a fire while digitally listening to nirvana both 80s and 90s shoved in one Stuck in a world that literally changed very very fast for us. I take pride being a xennial knowing what we started. Long rant lol sorry about that..love the video.

[@wendyplude7656]

MixedBag yes I remember getting a free coke ,wow that's been so long ago I was born in 82

[@upp.social2490]

PERFECT ! BORN 1977 SEEN IT ALLLLL !! DONT MOST IT ALSO Started working for Internet company 5 years after it started lol

[@LeonardoDaVinciLulz]

This is a great video. For the longest time I begrudged being identified as a Millennial, because it just didn't seem to fit. I only just found out about Xennials (because I'm not constantly on social media etc. lol), and I can say Xennials seems a lot more my style.

[@matthewlizotte8904]

Hun 😂 I'm right their with ya as a 1981 Xennial.

[@Pssnmeoff]

I dont dig Scentsy, but I dug this. I was born in 79 and my brother in 82. It's really goddamn weird this life...Im still waiting for the John Hughes part to kick in.

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

Just a small observation, almost all xenials I know have an old 90' or early 00' junk as second car, that is not changed by them for a decade or so, even if they could buy much newer one like X-s would do and they repair it endlesly mostly themselfs. I changed my family "flag ship" three times, I hated them all, the newer the worse, but my old rusty fiat was always with me ready for a rescue if fancy newer one failed. It is my milenium falcon always ready to take me to important meeting in just a few parsecs even if it's hyperdrive is litle moody ;)

[@cloeye32]

I was born two weeks after Star Wars, a new Hope for now, and I do identify with this generation in particular, because, I have the optimism in the positivity of the millennials, but I still have a lot of generation Z qualities as well, and I don't think any other generation can understand us, but the people that were born within 1977 in 1983 kill understand and by the way, I still watch Star Wars as a matter fact and I'm a big Star Trek fanatic to

[@Eggmanrocks]

1978 GENX 1961-1981 GEN X NATIONAL GEO

[@fji79]

I was born in 1979 and I had the atari and the NES but for me the NES is a staple in my childhood . And still enjoy watching videos of games of that era.

[@MontviewBlvdBabiez]

I was born in 1985 and it was the last year of people to be born to see life before and after internet that being said 1985 should be the cut off for Xennials...

[@alexboisvert8603]

love ur video. keep it up

[@tracyreadytv]

Xennial here...and you're right

[@alexboisvert8603]

I'm sick of fixing my dad's friends iPada. now I know why they keep asking me.

[@JanetStarChild]

Tell me about it... I'm the go-to person when my father's laptop ain't working right, despite that my computer operation skill is pretty basic. I find myself having to go through a half hour of research on the spot just to find the solution to a problem. It's very taxing.

[@getbbudded23]

I’m 76’ so I am on the outskirts of one generation and on the outskirts of another mini generation that sounds right about where I’m supposed to be..lol

[@tyreed.3716]

you remind me of my elementary school teacher but we're the same age

[@kevinphan811]

Well said.

[@jowasavunaki9869]

1982 here... thanks

[@billydiana]

Mario on Nintendo, duck hunt, MTV actually playing music, hair bands, NKOTB (the ultimate boyband) phoneboots, actually playing outside. Listening to the radio until you song comes on and recording it on cassette, that same radio eating your cassette 😭😭😭😭, listening to your discman and your cd's skipping if they had a scratch on it. 😭😭😭 Dial up internet, talking to my idol's forum or with friends on MSN messenger until mom picked up the phone and decided to call someone. Finding a phone number in a phone book. ( yellow pages in the USA I think) lessons in Informatica in MSDos, using a floppydisc. Going to the videotheque to rent a movie on VHS. Having to wait for at least a week for pictures to develop, only to find out that they bummed. 😭😭😭😭 Keeping the negatives in case you wanted another copy of a picture. Oh the list goes on an on. 😁😁😁 Happy to be a Xennial.

[@lamarlo4437]

As an late 80's born person, I remember doing those things and I vividly remember life before the internet. I had an analog childhood and an emerging digital coming of age

[@Emmanuel_80]

Im proud to be born in 1980, it was a certain year for everything, tecnology, World political issues, Atari (Space Invaders, PcMan and Ms Pacman), Mazinger Z, Thundercats. And If you were born in Mexico City of course you know what is a huge Earthquake (19 S-1985) as a chilean people too, or San Francisco. You probably all time go out with your near friends (like the Wonderer Years jejeje), and life flow correctly. And of course the black humor its part of our generation jajaja :)

[@benjaminburkett9962]

You are GenX. All the things you gave were examples that GenXers can do. Gen X goes up to 1985 in some demographics.

[@hazelgreen701]

I love my Gen it's like so hard to find ppl my age these days an days before lol 1985 MARCH

[@felicitydeikos5250]

Born in 79, Gen X

[@adubb1225]

Anyone remember when elder millenials/xennials were 'Generation Y?' Then they got lumped in with millenials.

[@user-ti3hy6zr2u]

I was born in 1983 and Identify as a xennial.

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I was born in 1979

[@johnadams2833]

Xennials are 1976-1984... but their micro generation is a part of the millennials, not gen-X. Baby Boomers (redefined because turnabout's fair play): 1938-1956, graduated 1956-1974 (from greasers/socs to beatniks/hippies) Gen-X, including gen-Jones: 1957-1975, graduated 1975-1993 (from disco/glam to new wave/heavy metal) Millennials, including Xennials: 1976-1994, graduated 1994-2012 (from gangster-rap/grunge to bro-country/edm-indie) Generation Z: 1995-2013, graduated, so far, 2013-2019, will conclude with the class of 2031 (from dubstep/mumble-rap to ?)

[@roxics]

Are you just making these dates up? Gen X is 1965 to 1980. Millennials 1981-1996. This is pretty well established at this point. Xennials are 1977-1983(at most, some will say even that's too far and that '81 should be the cut off.) Xennials lean more Gen X. They are tail end Gen Xers. Listened to grunge, wore flannel and combat boots, things like that.

[@denisesiddon7241]

John Adams no I'm not a millennial. 1976 is definitely gen x

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

I was born in early 1980 and I am and will always be a Gen Xer more than anything.

[@danialphaomega]

Same here I can't really identify with millennials, I get my younger brothers friends asking how to do this and that.. I'm like it's common knowledge...see everything I know is in my head and everything they want to know is in their phone...so when SHTF who do you think reacts quickly????

[@poki7179]

I don’t believe in in betweens I believe you’re one or the other plain and simple. If you graduated from high school before the turn of the century you are not of this generation. What I think what’s happening in media is trying to make us feel younger than we are. It’s strange to me I’ve been told I’ve been gen x all my life until MTV made that comment saying if you were born in 1981 you’re a dinosaur. All of a sudden there is this xennial made up category to appease the public that fit these age groups. It’s a scam. But I’m also a conspiracist which is a key of most gen x’ers

[@mardus_ee]

The "Xennial" name came much later. Before, "Millennials" were known as "Generation Y", and people on the cusp of Gen X and Millennials were originally named "Cold Y", as being born between 1981-1985 (alternate takes as 1977ish - 1983); essentially, being the last generation in the analog world.

[@loc8203]

Everything you said, YES!!!!

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

Although xennial is just another term for XY cuspers but I think it relates more to the early 80s babies. I was born in 79 but I identify more as gen x and frankly I find I have little in common with those born after 80.

[@beardedvapor2703]

Jason Wren 1985 is not a millennial I did not grow up with a technology lol my dad told me after I was born someone came to the door selling stuff and he said it would change the world .... my dad asked what it was the guy replied voicemail .... when I was born I grew up with a Rotary phone ... your splitting hairs over 2 years I was born in February I’m 33 years now when I was a kid we played Oregon trail on my grandma big computer she had when I was in elementary my first video game I played was Galaxy game on Atari lol .. YEA IM NOT A Millennial hell mobile phones where in their 2nd generation (1900) really So let me ask you what do you think about what I’m classified now lol .... And before you split hair me the first Real cell phone came out 1970

[@omegablast2002]

Southern Vapor ok so youre gen y...there is a overlapping gen there...

[@gamma21285]

Southern Vapor You can whine about it all you want. 85 is millennial

[@mardus_ee]

Can you edit your comment about mobile phones by changing the year in parentheses from "1900" to "1990" (at the very least)? 2G (GSM) came out in December 1991, btw.

[@Truthseeker1515]

I was born in '73 and agree with much of what you said. I did watch 'Friends' at college though and smoking was big. And yes 'Reality Bites' is a typical GenX movie. I think Xennials were more into 'Dawson Creek' and 'Buffy'. '21 Jump Street' and 'Growing Pains' were our lot. By 1997, I had already finished college and grad school and would not watch these flicks. What I can say is that I have nothing in common with those born after 1980, I just do not recognize myself at all.

[@PackinStackin]

Xennials are best at adapting to change.

[@matthewlizotte8904]

The only parts that Trigger my Gen X side of my Xennial mind is remembering all the Cigarette Vending Machines that were litterly everywhere not to mention us Xennials remember were we were when we watched the live broadcast of the Berlin Wall being Destroyed. Not to mention us Xennials still grew up knowing how to do chores to buy Penny Candy and Cracker Jack's not to mention Candy Cigarettes 😂 and we were the generation who still grew up the same as Gen X with the use of Big Red 3 Wheelers Roman Candle Wars BB Gun Wars which is why Millennials got paintball since they are the Soft Generation😂 as I just triggered the Zennial Snowflakes in the chat😂😂 I'm to old to give a Fk I'm just enough Gen X to end a life that will leave zero use able evidence. To also add we grew up with the Japanese show The Dinosaurs (Not Da Mama) < if ya know you know. Plus we also watched and all wanted to Plow the hell out of Elvira & Hot Lips< again if you know then u know😂 We were also the kids playing Old Maid and watching Pippy Longstocking and Shirley Temple along with The Waltons and Little House On The Prarie not to mention Happy Days.. got to make it clear I'm a 1981 Gen X who got forcibly shoved into the Xennial crowd 🖕

[@mario-rj7ti]

The "Star Wars Generation" sound's so much better than the "other" word..anything linked with M*******l is 😷