Many of our toys were later banned as unsafe, we rode around standing up in the backseat of cars or the beds of pickup trucks, we disappeared for hours on our bikes with no way to contact us or know where we were, we ran into the store to buy our parents beer and cigarettes, we drove lawnmowers and tractors before we were 10YO, we were completely self sufficient for hours at a time while our parents worked or went out. 90% of the things I was allowed to do as a child, would send a parent to prison today. God I miss the the freedom we had.
Everything you said is so true it made me laugh thinking about buying my mom her Marlboro Reds. Imaging a 9yo walking into a store today and buying cigarettes. 😂
I totally forgot that when I was about 10 or maybe 12 I walked into a store and bought a bottle of booze for my great aunt. I was tall for my age, but nonetheless, they kind a looked at me funny but still let me buy it.
I had a toy which was a light bulb heated oven in which you put a metal mold to make gel bugs. You’d pull that thing out and it would be scalding hot. I don’t remember ever burning myself on one, but the possibility was certainly there.
Even most millennials would say the same thing, I was born in 88 didn't have a computer in the house till 98 and I was raised like the 70s and 80s that my parents were raised and grew up in
I'm a total GenXer and I truly believe we lived in the greatest time in human history. The 80s and 90s were the most awesome time to be alive. And I think we did quite well.
I'm doing fine. 58 years old. Married 33 years, raised three great children, house paid off, cars paid off. No credit card debt, never went to college so no student loans. Around $600k in 401k and other savings. I enjoy my job.
I'm nine years behind you. Married 27 years, four kids, house will be paid off in 2026, no other debt. Right there with you my friend. Doing well. Can't complain at all. @@lot2196
@@freeforall825 I was an adult in the 90s. I would probably say that enjoyment in life is up to the individual. I know lots of adults who were having a great time in the 80s and 90s. I know a lot of adults who are having a great time now. All depends on your attitude and your choices.
There was a public service announcement for parents that quite literally asked, "Do you know where your kids are?" because that is how we were raised, forgotten as kids and we'd like to remain forgotten as adults. Thank you very much.
I'M a genx'er. I went to a public school where the teachers were legally allowed to beat me with a paddle hanging up in their room. I WALKED a mile and a half to and from school everyday and was on my own until my parents got home. Our bullies would beat us up until we turned around and clobbered them hard enough to be left alone. You either played alone or made friends. We watched cartoons on the hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandparents... if cartoons were on. We had to read books. We weren't allowed to have feelings or opinions. You'd go over to your grandparent's house and learn how to do something useful... like cook, clean, fix things, or patch up your own wounds when you'd FAFO. We didn't wear bike helmets. We were the last non-soft generatio... drinking out of a garden house and skinning our knees and elbows playing football on an asphalt street. You can't hang with us. You can barely get out of bed and go work a 9 to 5 without having an emotional breakdown.
@triggeredsoyboy My first little brother was born in 1987 and he went to the same school as I. He endured the same hardships because we were out in the country. The superintendent of schools still gave you bloody knuckles with a pointer stick, making you grab the edge of the desk and lay face down on the desk. He'd nail you 2 or 3 times and you had to anticipate when it was coming. That was worse than the physical pain, him pacing and talking about your performance before - CRACK! He was principal when I was in that school, and one day he hit me 7 times over a setup (I wasn't in the religious fundie PTA kid's cult). My grandfather, a Pearl Harbor vet, came in with me the next day and beat him all over the office during morning announcements! ROFL! Ah the Regan Era, good times... As long as they "started it" and didn't NEED medical treatment, it wasn't a crime... LOL! The laws for all that stuff really went national in the mid to late 90s. It doesn't apply to first half Millenials.
As a Gen X'er, I was given a wrist rocket, a carton of BBs, and left to run in the woods until the lights came on at night. On the weekends, my friends and I would ride our bicycles about 8 miles away from home to go to the arcade. Some of us had wood shop, metal shop, and even home economics. By the time I was 10, I was learning to hunt animals with a sling shot, riding my bicycle to the mall, learning how to use band saws and welders, and learning how to cook and sew. Then, I had my own key to my house to let myself in and get my homework done before my mother got home. Yeah, we don't have time to hear about how "difficult" your life is. Oh, and to the other Gen X'ers that learned how to balance a checkbook when they were about 8 yrs old. Keep up the great work!
Well said. I think they called us Gen X, to put the blame "us" for their choices. If they had called us the "Latch Key" generation, it would have been a constant reminder the over-all narcissism of the Boomer generation.
Well you beat me to it. I learned to take care of my parents land taxes in gov office when i am 14 by lying my ass off after driving myself there😂. I am Gen Y/ 82 millenials😂
I think the biggest thing about us Gen X'ers is we don't give a flying fig what anyone thinks about us or how we choose to live our lives and that scares the hell out of people because they can't control us. Fist bump to all my fellow peeps that grew up drinking out of the hose and rode bikes without helmets!
That's the power of growing up as a generation that was suddenly regarded as a chore to raise. By parents who asked themselves, "Why do we have to work so hard raising kids just because our parents did?" "Isn't this whole traditional family thing obsolete?" If you are looked down on when you're a little kid, you're not going to get upset about it as an adult.
I was born being told to prepare for the apocalypses, I was raised to expect a nuclear strike. I never had expectations of growing old or retirement. Gen-x doesn't cancel, it deletes. We do not seek to control chaos, it is in chaos we thrive.
Gen X is the generation that knew about the beautiful, high trust and prosperous world that was fading away as we came along. The WWII generation fought in the war, raised four kids per woman, did hard factory work, and participated in civic groups and did volunteer work in their spare time. It was all of that hard work and sacrifice that created all of the good things that emerged during the 1950s-60s. But, boomers didn't want to pay it forward. They didn't want to work that hard. They turned to money lending, financial tricks, and usury, to entrap other people into doing all of that hard work for them. They had fewer kids and many of these kids became the latchkey generation, so called because when we got home from school, there was no one at home, and we needed to open the lock ourselves. The good part of this experience was that we learned how to take care of ourselves. We also learned that the world didn't just revolve around us. The Boomer generation just focuses on the Boomer generation. Their needs are still the focus of public policy, and of media and cultural attention. So, not much was handed to us, and so we don't have an attitude of entitlement. Our attitude, is more like an immigrant attitude. We just have to adapt, find a place for ourselves, learn to survive. I think that we have more of a focus on our family and community because we know that the system, isn't working for us.
The greatest generation fought WWII and ultimately gave birth to the worst generation... The Boomers. NO generation has so completely fucked over EVERY generation after themselves more than the boomers have.
The boomers have done an excellent job of screwing over every generation that has followed them. The greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation.
Then again, we Xers raised entitled, spoiled brats who were given "participation" trophies, can't find their way around without google maps & would have a nervous breakdown without a phone on them 24/7!!!!!!! We are the LAST gen that will ever know TRUE FREEDOM.
Vintage 1970 here . Everything that guy said was spot on . Generally left unattended, outside until the street lights came on with no one to know where we were or to contact us. Did not trust anything or anyone other than family and real friends . We were grown-up ,operating machinery, cooking for yourself and siblings, home alone with Mom and Dad working and taking care of yourself all by 10 years old . The most unique time to be alive and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Generation X
Me and my fellow Gen x friends all agree that our lack of supervision and freedom is what made us so resilient, inventive and adaptable. We're also thankful that there were no phones around to record our mistakes and no internet to upload them for mass viewing.
And we have thick skins and the latchkey kid scars to prove we had to learn our lessons the hard way. Are you kidding? I WISH we had digital cameras, I want all my idiocy documented, it would make great content for a channel! Plus, we had a killer music soundtrack to our lives with substance (including our parent's music).
There were no safe spaces, just like real life. We pretty much invented the "your momma's so fat..." jokes, and sometimes ended up in a fight over them, but usually it was a simple ribbing that caused no harm or what would be considered today to be TRAUMA.
Born in 77, i''m one of the last of the X. and proud to be so. No wireless phones, cassette tapes for music, First PC was an Apple 2, with 5" floppies and a whopping whole 16 kilobytes of ram! Had an Atari then a NES. Spent Untold hours of my days fishing, swimming, riding my dirt bike though places no bike should ever go. Broke at least 5 different bones, went in for stitches several times. and I remember when us kids settled our differences with Fists, not firearms, and then played football in the vacant lot the next day!
I am thankful I was born Gen-X "1972" I had a great childhood in the 70s and the best teen years in the 80s. I grew up with the best music and movies. No internet or cellphones made life way better as a teen. We had to go to peoples homes to hang out, go to the mall and rode our bikes every where.
ha ha ha born in 66. In grade school, we had hard asphalt or cement under our swings and monkey bars. lots of cracked heads opened on our playground at school. was told to walk off your head injury.
Sorry, your generation, just like the rest of us, were susceptible to lies and manipulation by the media and government. It's surprising how many of gen X still doesn't realize that the media is actively lying to them.
As a Gen X I remember buying cigarettes at the store for my parents when I was 10 with a note from my mom. Back then a note from your mom carried a lot of weight.
Gen X We know the old ways. We invented the new ways. We are getting older and grumpier by the day and are less and less concerned about silly things like social credit score or prison time. Cross us at your peril. 1971 vintage
1970 Not sure how many times I was told I would never live to see 30yrs. Despite all the crazy shit I didn't get caught for I'm still kicking. I figure I've had a good long run. Few things worry me nowadays. Violence is an old and drear friend.
@@jaygraham4095 1967 I, personally, didn't think I would live to see thirty, told people as much, and was perfectly all right with it. I've already BEEN called crazy by people of my OWN generation, a lot of them in uniform, because I have stared down morons with guns, knives, and in moving vehicles while I'M in the street. These idiots think they scare me? I should already be dead...come get some.
The greatest privilege of gen x was having the Greatest Generation as grandparents. We learned their old-age lessons/experience while our boomer parents were doing dumb shit
I have always said. GenX isn't the greatest, but it is the best. We are the children of Early Boomers and influenced by their parents the Greatest Generation. Unlike Millennials (GenWhy), who were raised by Late Boomers. Big difference between Early and Late Boomers. Maybe it was disco?
Yep. Grandma taught me how to bake bread, shoot a gun, and get away with literal murder, while her daughter (my mom) had no idea what her own mother was teaching me, because she had a paying job. And, that was after being outside for hours and hours in a completely hostile environment.
I grew up having close relationships with people from that generation. I spent lots of time with men who fought in world War II. I knew Jewish people who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Come and talk to me about how the Holocaust didn't happen. I got so much exposure to married couples who have been married for 40 50 60 years, and we're so much happier than the people I see now who have lived their lives alone and going through divorce after divorce and losing their children and so forth and so on. I've watched the unfolding results of feminism, birth control, and easy divorce all my life. Most of my childhood was spent during a time before masculinity was demonized, and then experienced it happening as I grew to become a young man. I wish Kurt Kabang hadn't blown his brains out so I could beat the crap out of him & if I could get him to listen maybe explain a few things to him. I've been listening to hip-hop & Punk Rock since it's started, (f* Disco). When I was a little kid rock and roll was still rebellious and hated by parents. My mom sure hated it. My Dad loved it.
The greatest were our grandparents mostly raised by them got taught a lot from my grandpa passed in 79 and my grandma who stuck it out for almost 20 years after my grandpa passed! Dad was on,y around every two weeks from camp jobs ! Mom was always there too!
Indeed! It's nice to be respected, feared.... And left well the f*ck alone! And with extremes on BOTH sides of the political divide becoming even more extreme... I do also find myself believing more and more, that I am actually living on an alien planet! 😊
@@captainprototype187 Ah, yes...'Q,'...seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet. The only fictional characters with the name 'Q' that I know of would be James Bond's armorer, and the character named 'Q,' which was played by John de Lance, on Star Trek:TNG. To which fictional character are YOU referring?
Our generation invented playing video games in the living room with a couple of friends while our parents weren’t home. Grabbing a bunch of movies from blockbuster on Friday nights. We would also ride our BMX bikes back home at night after hanging out with our friends. Those were the f**cking days. Great childhood. 😎
Gen Xer here. I was allowed to play with fire as a child, had my own pocket knife, a slingshot, started to ride city buses to go to school when I was ten years old. I made life changing decisions when I was still a child. These things were all normal at that time. My friends did the same things. People of other generations are usually afraid of confronting me. My childhood gave me a lot of resilience and resourcefulness.
[Life Changing Decisions] Today they [Lefties] encourage [Children] to make [Life Changing Decisions such as Changing their Gender without Parental Consent.
My parents are Gen Xers and I love them both dearly. They're full of laughter and wisdom, and are resourceful and determined. Almost every other GenXer I've met is so insightful and kind, and brilliant with technology both old and new. Honestly I wish we could have more of them speak and run for office. Our country is being ran into the ground by people who should have retired long ago and can't see the present or future clearly anymore. Mad love for GenXers, from a Millennial. ❤
The ones who refuse to give up control are the boomers. The US congress and senate are absolutely full of them that refuse to retire even though they lost their marbles.
the thing with Gen X is that we just want to be left alone (specially by govt) and we have neither interest nor desire to have power over anyone other than ourselves - that being said, each and every generation has its' fair share of sociopaths and psychopaths, and they're the *only* people who actually want power over others! they're also the only ones to make it in pollytics
100% 👌👏👏👏👏- we are the most dangerous because we are survivors. We also grew up first without technology and then with technology. I feel we were very fortunate growing up when we did! Thank you for this video! Gen X is soooo underrated! I will be 52 this year and going strong! Blessings to you and yours.
Can't say from experience, but speaking from a generation that's been told stories of teenage hijinks with no way to recreate it in real life because everything's either shut down or too expensive to enjoy, I wish I was a kid when you were a kid.
I am Gen X vintage 1964. Now a lot of you will say I am a boomer but I never identified with that generation. I hated them. They ruined everything before we got there. When I got old enough to have kids, I raise them in the Gen X model. My youngest daughter is in school to become an electrician and my oldest daughter has several licenses and has started a few businesses. Freedom and drive with personal responsibility is the best of what Gen X has to offer. Oh... I work a 40+ hour week 'day job', PLUS I have my own business, AND create videos on the side. I'm gonna die with my boots on, and that ain't no lie. Gen X forever.
Working jn customer service. Gen X were the biggest moaners and entitled brats. Some would even start abusing me even though i was on the minimum wage and had nothing to do with happened
Not at all, often times Gen X is just filled with hot air and boasting. I’ve been told people of my generation (Gen x) wouldn’t have acted this way, but they’re lying to themselves. I knew so many people who would run around with a video camera recording dumb stuff.
We climbed mountains. We swam in dangerous rivers to proof our strength. We went skiing on high hills. We were iceskating on half frozen lakes. We made fire. We rode horses. We fell from bikes. Nobody took us to the doctor. Schnaps on the wound and a plaster. We ate our food. Everybody in the house ate the same food. Our grandparents survived ww2. Greetings from Austria😊
I was born 4 months and a day before the offical start of Gen X. Officially, I am a Baby Baby Boomer. But I am pure Gen Xer. I am so thankful my two younger brothers and I grew up in an analog world, drank water from a garden hose, and got to ride our bikes and play with our friends all over town without our parents warching our every move. I helped take care of my grandmother and baby brother and had grandparents who on my fathers side were born on 1885 and 1892 and on my mother's side 1910 and 1912. I learned so much from them. We had no idea how lucky we were!
F-ing awesome! Being 52 now, I've had 2 years to embrace being 50+ and telling everyone to get off my lawn, figuratively, and not caring. I did make who I am, what I am, who I will be. Skimming through the comments, I do believe us Gen X can storm the world and own it. Oh, wait, we do :) Love to all Gen X-ers and march on until we all die.
Gen X was never off the hook to begin with. Born into a time of skyrocketing divorce rates, trained for jobs that would get replaced by technology, spending 4-5 decades witnessing your country rot from the inside, fated to spend entire adult lives paying off an increasing national debt, witnessing everything you ever loved become commercialized, realizing that doing everything you were told to do to make the world a better place didn't help at all, and eventually realizing that it's too late to fix anything.
Most generations have experienced or are experiencing the same kind of thing, watching the rot started in the 80s (and sooner) take hold. Allowing the business leaders carve us up into arbitrary groups to pit us against one another is an Age Old leadership tactic. Make others fight the battles for the wealthy. Divide and control.
@@homeistheearth Yeah, and we’ve been duped into allowing things to erode before our eyes. Doesn’t look like that’s going to work for much longer. Tipping point is in the process of happening. Many of us saw it during early lockdowns. , whichever ‘so called side’ we were on. Now we have some clarity to inform our intuition of that time.
It's even worse for millennials I was born in 1987 My generation will experience the complete downfall of America. Most of us will never be able to afford to buy a house. A lot of us will never be able to afford to even buy a car. The suffering we will endure in the future will make all generations previous Understand we had at the worst. Not all of us grew up with a silver spoon But more of us did I will give you that. I will also say my generation grew up during the greatest time the 90s was a wonderful decade to grow up in and most our parents were amazing atleast mine were but alot of gen x parents died from drugs or alcohol. My uncle died at 39 years old I found him in his bedroom face first on the floor his heart exploded he was withdrawaling off alcohol. I was a heroine addict for many years But i'm a sober person now I haven't drank alcohol since I was 22 when I found my uncle. A lot of us millennials have been through a lot But I'm glad I've been through a lot. Because it made me into the man. I am today and I think more people need to suffer. Because suffering builds character, suffering builds strength, suffering molds us into something greater and I think we need more of that. The greatest generation became the greatest because they suffered the most so people shouldn't fear suffering they should embrace it with open arms.
As a Gen X’r growing up in the hills of Kentucky, darkness was a comfort, not something to be afraid of. Pain, both physical and emotional, was a sign of life. Silence was refreshing. Loud music, engines, guns, was motivating. Friends jumped in, they didn’t stand on the outside filming or mouthing. We would fight, usually fair, and then accept the outcome. We were thankful, we worked in the tobacco fields, cabbage fields, corn fields, and on the baseball and football fields. We learned to swim early in life, we learned to hunt game, we learned to shoot true with guns and bows. We all carried a locking Buck knife. Not for defense, or fighting, but for a tool. We all had a high powered rifle in whatever vehicle we could afford. Even at school. We had enough sense, enough grit, and enough compassion to help each other, not watch and critique. Some went to church, some prayed in the woods, in the silence. Money was valuable, but not as valuable as our character and conscience. We figured out how to fix things, how to get by, and how to survive without cell phones and google. We learned there’s a time for violence, and a time for peace, and that sometimes violence is the quickest path to peace. We gained wisdom. So “who let us off the hook?”, well young fella, what you aren’t understanding is, we were smart enough not to bite what you and your generation are using as bait.
European Xennial here, grew up analog and then experienced the beginnings of families getting a computer at home in my teens, so not exactly a complete member of gen x, but I can definitely relate for a good part. What you said is definitely true.
I am a late late boomer (December 1964) on the cusp of Gen X and I relate so much to this! Gen X has seen the Cold War, the fuel crisis, the year with the most terrorist attacks world wide (1979), the slowest wage growth and high inflation, the death of pension plans, the fall of the wall, the rise of the internet, and the longest war in US history. A generation of latch key kids walking to school at 4 or 5 and fixing their own after school snacks. Gen X is a product of a rather harsh and unpredictable environment. It has made them adaptable, inventive, and self reliant.
Oh that's ridiculous. Gen x had cheap college, a ridiculously good economy. 79? Dude they were like 7 years old in 79. They got rich in the 90s because of an insane deregulated economy. They are the ones who got rich on gentrification(along with boomers). Sorry but millennials turned 18 the year the great recession happened. Gen x had it pretty good actually. Nobody had it worse than us. We grew up in ridiculous wars of your generation, my generation can barely buy a house or afford one kid.
@@Brandon-yg7mwlol... you call that the great recession. ignore 1921, 1929, 1972, 1982, 1991 and 2009.. you can't afford a house or children because of bad money management and the me me me me attitude.... you have the ability to make more money overnight thru internet usage then we could have ever dreamt of growing up in Gen X... instead your generation pushes for woke ideology and victim mentality. We aren't the same
Ridiculous? O.K. Im a Gen X. I, and many of the kids i knew grew up with, had single moms, no dad around, and on welfare and food stamps, so stick that in your economy. I worked my ass off through the 90's, never got rich, and still do, because we were the last gen to work hard. We also didn't give a shit what color you were or who you liked. We all hung together, we all partied together, and we all helped each other when times were tough! Racism was something we saw in movies but couldn't even understand. The first black joke i ever heard was told to us by one of our black friends and none of us even knew why it was funny! But we all laughed TOGETHER then went and rode our bikes TOGETHER. Your gen's fixation on race and sex is disgusting, demoralizing, and destructive to our very way of life. So thank you to you and all the generations since, for not giving a shit about anything but yourselves, and maybe the Kardashians. I guess Idiocracy was absolutely correct in its prediction of future generations. Stupid stupid stupid! Keep focusing only on race and sex kids. Your doing great!
Gen X was just spooling up when the "great recession" happened. That ain't on us. As a matter of fact, it crippled our ability as well. We got to pick up the pieces. These wars you refer to, Boomers are running our government at the moment, not Gen X. Check your facts.
Brandon stop being a whiner & be a doer. Take the dress off & put on some pants. Go get a real job(not McDonald's) work hard & take pride in your work(do it right the first time). Earn your keep well, earn respect. Now put the phone & tissues down, get some thicker skin so your feelings don't get hurt & work hard. College isn't everything. Why anyone would pay those prices for an education so you can get a job for $20/hr is ridiculous. Not everyone can be doctors. You need construction workers too in order to build those hospitals & colleges. If you don't have a brain pick up a shovel.
I'm 46, work on a sales team of mostly younger guys 20s & 30s, i found out that none of them had ever been in a fist fight. None. I found that truly amazing and am not sure if that's good or bad.
Those 20 and 30 year-olds had to adapt to school and society rules put in place by boomers. I’m an older woman and I’ve been in a few fist fights but after the fight we got cleaned up and either agreed things were settled or planned for round two. The consequences were a few bruises. When my 30-year old son got in a fist fight at school he got expelled due to the school having a zero tolerance policy. His fight wasn’t anything worse than I’d gotten into but the punishment made settling things with a few quick jabs not worth it.
I was born 7 days before Nixon left office. I as well work hard and was raised to work hard. I as well was raised with values and learned to respect my elders. Sure I have some weaknesses like buying the whole series of WKRP in Cincinnati and forgetting why Jimmy Carter's administration was so bad and I was terrible at break dancing. Mr. T has my respect and oh how the Alternative tune style still is a part of my life today.
We drank out of the garden hose in the 50s and 60s before u were born. That is just plain silly. WTH are you even talking about? We had more freedom as kids in the 50s cuz it was pretty damn safe everywhere as long as we were home when we were supposed to be. And if we played outside at night, there was a curfew.
Eh, we used to be out until long after dark....pretty much playing hide and seek....neighborhood parents put an end to it after the realized we looked like a bunch of burglars wearing all black and running through the neighbors yards...
Duck, you Suckers' 1971, my favorite movie as a Gen X kid. Just saying. My depression era born old man would have some older railway mates over in the 1970s who use to tell war stories of surviving on 'long pork' as Aussie Commando and swapping dog tags in WW2. One ex Wermacht German mate had bullet scars on the way to Moscow and a bayonet wound scar on the way back. No wonder we are a little 'off'.
As a Gen X, I honestly think living under the threat of the Cold War that could turn hot at 'the touch if a red button' made us more resourceful, more hardy and reliant on ourselves. Most of the time, we played outside until it was dark and then went home because our parents wanted their own time. I feel privileged being a Gen X and the self reliance that comes with it.
I know this isn't necessarily the case for all of Gen Z, but that mindset was something my Gen X parents passed onto me and my sister. We could be left at home for days on end and be just fine. Most of my skills are self-taught and I recently got to work alone in a different country much younger than when either of my parents did anything similar. Only the attitude is taught to us, since we've mostly been kept indoors like house pets with little to go out for without getting in trouble for leutering (being outside without spending money)
I think that being born and raised during the Cold War also helped many of us not get too freaked out about international issues. Hell, the current world tensions feel almost normal.....
I was 11 years of age in '87 in Ireland. I was getting myself ready for school at 7am, walking to the bus, making my baby brothers lunch. Coming home, helping with the housework, homework and then out on my BMX to smash my body to smithereens on jumps, ropeswings, skatebaords, playing by the railway tracks, coming home at 9 or 10pm and not an adult in sight to supervise. We raised ourselves.
We played Jax fought classmates that messed with our younger siblings, played outside until the street light came on. Bought now laters & shared if we liked you. Good old days.
GenX is an alien generation. I'm a millenial and my husband is genX, he amazes me everyday! There's literally nothing he can't do and he does everything so calmly and rational lol he doesn't want to expose his generation by admitting he's an alien but i have very strong suspicions
we crash landed here about 3,500 years ago and reincarnate generationally - Gen X was this round, though it does get a bit out of synch! Nichola Tesla was one such misplacement
GenX is the last generation raised as problem solvers. We are the last generation you didn't supervise and locked outside. We had to learn to do everything ourselves because our parents were too busy making a living to teach us anything. Where possible our grandparents taught us. We aren't afraid to learn new stuff and "just do it" because we always had to. So that's why your husband is so unflappable. He probably woke up his dad one day after a a late shift and got the crap beat out of him then later his dad explained how to handle stuff without him and dared him to wake him up again.... Then he probably did and woke up about 15 or 20 years later and met you at the hospital.
We were left to raise ourselves. We’re talking Lord of the Flies type stuff. We were the latch key kids. And the last to remember the world before the internet. We played outside all day and drank from the garden hose. We build forts and bike ramps. We played the first gaming console. We can read and write in cursive. Most of you can’t even sign your own name. Seriously, GFY and leave us alone. You don’t want none of this smoke.
I think I was cooking on the stove at like 8…. I was lucky enough to have a lot on my street with a wooded (about 12 feet deep with little pine trees) just a big bowl after that and pure hard clay (some breaks with little pine wooded areas) talk about bike ramps?!? We would make them and shape them with hard ass clay lmao best broken bones of our lives build a fort there too with a fire place hahaha GenX rules
...and we were never in a position of power to f things up, so what exactly are we to be blamed for? The president is boomer, the last president was a boomer. Everyone in power in government are still almost all boomers. At least give us a shot before blaming us. Lol.
@@Chet73 I think, at least in American society, a boomer Junior is how they describe it implies that while Gen X never had the brilliant fortune bestowed upon them by their greedy and entitled parents, they still inherited that same smug sense of superiority. Unlike the boomers however their sense of superiority is at least somewhat warranted? But still leaves a bad taste in the mouth when interacting with them as they do seem to be the most feral generation thus-far as well.
Gen X lived by the motto "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger". We have learned to survive anything, that is reason enough to leave us alone.
Then you became the generation that made bicycle helmets and seatbelts mandatory... So yeah guess you didn't really care about that did'ja? So tired of your generation pretending you're tough... America has been at war since I was in highschool. The cost to live in this world has gone up ten times since I was a child let alone from the time when you lot were kids. I grew up through multiple depressions, while you lived in the best time of America. You probably never even went hungry in your lifetime.
I hate this thinking, which is why a lot of Gen X’ers are overlooked. A lot of Gen X has been wiped out due to pharmaceutical companies greed, which led to a lot of drug overdoses and rehab stays.
@@greyveteran7007 So true, I once layed my dirt bike over at 60 mph and slid 175 steps, broke my helmet, had bad road rash on my arm and shoulder, picked it up, continued my ride to the lake washed the blood off and went home a put the bike up quietly, and started bandaging myself up. Mom came in from the garden to check on me because she knew something was up because I didn't ride around in the yard before putting it up.
@@Sam-eo3it LOL. 06/28/1978 Growing up, there was a week long birthday party in our neighborhood cause there were 7 birthdays in june. From June 20 to June 30. I love seeing others share June as a birthday month.
🙋🏾♀️1966 Gen X'er and proud of it. Growing up in London the 70's and 80's was an experience unto itself. It's seriously not an understatement to call us ferrel.
As a Gen Xer I always wondered why we were left to our own devices. Never harassed about who or what we were about. I wondered... Till we hit our 40's and I started to see just how crazy we can be. We're the ones that rode bikes and skateboards with no protection. We were tossed outside in the sun and told not to come home till dark out. We were the last of the no warnings Gen. You can't make em like us anymore
Millennial. Ditto You do realise most ppl didn't have intnernet untill well into the 00s. Spart phones wernt out till nearly 2010 and most millennial where mid 20s by then... Your not special x
Woah, crazy! No bike helmet or protection! What a mad life you lived! You realise us early millennials also lives like this, Gen X has imo the best music, the get on with it attitude that has created massive industries and is by far the most successful and satisfied generation…seriously “we played outside 😂”
Yo. For the Gen Y or 81s to 90 millenials. Shut up will you. Why you are like the younger busy-body millenial? Make rats about nothing? What are we want to prove exactly?
No we were not nearly as mentally ill and miserable...I had a great time from ages 18 - 23 (89-93) - people that age today seem to do nothing but protest this and that, complain about everything, non stop whining about how everybody else in history had it easy blah blah blah...you don't see too many young people showing much happiness today...mostly they seem to want to be miserable yet they have everything...very different generations
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 We "Have everything" despite not being able to own a modern car, buy a house, or afford to live in the modern era because we're still getting paid what you got paid as children despite everything costing 5 times more than it did in your generation? Yeah I wouldn't say that very much if I were you, your generation had everything, grew so fat on it that the next two generations are being smothered by you until you and your parents die off.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Maybe you should go to a protest. It's the opposite of miserable, you're taking action alongside your community and fellow supporters. I honestly would recommend it.
Yes!! Been trying to explain to our children and grandchildren we are not to be messed with. Yes!! We are feral!! Yes!! We did have to be creative!!! But most of all, we knew how to be happy. We understood happiness comes from within.
Well said. Everyone i knew, including myself, was a latch key kid and we went to the mall after school and got into fights, smoked, drank, and were working by 15yrs old or so. We paid our own bills, cooked our own meals, and learned how to live through trial and error. All before adulthood. Our parents abandoned most of us and we only had each other.
Yep, give or take a lot of us grew up about like that. I learned to cook as a survival skill, because my parents didn't. We opened cans til we learned to cook. Got my first two part time jobs at 15, but started babysitting for other families at 12. We all knew to go home when the streetlights came on, because if they had to call us they'd get mad and maybe call us by the wrong kid's name or our full name, or my mom would just go down the list and then "whoever you are!" 😂😂😂
@@notashroom Lots of balogna omelettes, cinnamon toast, French bread pizza, grilled cheese, etc in our house because though we had a SAHM, I think she was clinically depressed for a time and would not get out of bed. Dad was gone 12+ hours a day.
@@user-wh5ir4fo4r there was a lot of parental neglect back then, but the upside is that we all learned how to take care of ourselves pretty young. I think a lot of people who came along later missed out on that and the stuff that goes with it, like problem-solving skills (for those who survived, anyway...).
As a millenial I gotta say Gen X is full of fun people. They tend to have a lot of things they're eager to teach and expect nothing. Although this is anecdotal, I've also never seen a Gen X person depressed unlike my peers.
You’ve seen us depressed; the clown always smiles, internalized doom and our hearts beating and bleeding silently. We learned no one gives a shit about us from an early age and that knowledge made us who we are. If someone says we are on the hook, I only ask; who put us in the hook? Whatever….
I'm late to the comments, but in the late 80s, I went to middle school wearing a hat that read, " I've got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel drive. A country boy can survive." Along with my Budweiser shirt, I was so proud. No adults seemed to care. I was scolded for wearing my hat indoors but not for what was written on it. What a great time to be a kid.
bro, remember spuds mackenzie the mascot for bud? Yeah, good times, i am your age or a little older but in amarillo TX when i was 12-13 in the late 80s the strict school asked me to cover up beer shirts like the corona one i had. it probably had to do with amarillo tx and the school (bonham middle school) being conservative back then - i actually think now it would be allowed more because we live in a dying, pozzed society with eroding standards know what i mean? Overall 80s-90s had way more freedom and fun though, i know we all are nodding our heads to that. take care man!
Born in 1975. This past weekend I showed my 8 year old nephew how to kickflip. Yup, still can do it. Can still ollie up onto a picknick table too. Of course, our skateboards were bigger and heavier. These new ones are so light and small! Still, I was shocked to still be able to do it after all these years. Gen X f'kn RULES!!! \m/
08/74 here and you sound just like me. I took my Christian Hosoi down a half pipe a year or so ago and everyone's eyes got wide and they started admiring the Hammerhead.
01/1975 here my husband and I still skate. Met in a skate shop in 90 were friends grew up went separate ways and got together in 2006, married 2015 and still find ourselves on skateboards. The soccer moms hate me🤣.
Born 70, unfortunately I can no longer skate like I used to back in the day due to back problems..... but I still maintain that gen x attitude till the day I die 🤘😎🤘🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Agree. I think gen X's motto should be "leave me alone." We've spent our whole lives being ignored, doing our own thing, living our own lives while the world keeps spewing drama
@@saberswordsmen1 you think boomers have societal apathy?!? Boomers transformed our entire society, for better or worse. The younger generations don't impress me. They aren't transformational, they are self-indulgent. Boomers wanted to change the world, young people want the world to revolve around their needs. That isn't social action. As far as Gen x, someone has to "make the doughnuts." While all of you are busy transforming, protesting, and getting triggered we work, we have families, work, and live our lives. We also get along with ourselves and others, which is something all you non-apathetic ppl can't seem to do.
Definitely. You should be grateful you’ve been “let off the hook”. Every single Gen X I’ve ever encountered is loud, opinionated about everything and always complaining, lacks critical thinking skills but always insists they’re right. Completely self centred with no empathy, quick to anger and the personality of Saturday morning cartoons.
(1) we aren't the ones that manufactured this grand vision Utopia/Dystopia. We were always outnumbered, never liked divorce, never liked debt, and USED to think of "Social Public Whatever" as some vastly over-complicated irrelevance. Boomers were so disappointed when we didn't go marching for social change. So don't blame us. (2) We ARE feral -- the first latchkey generation raised in mass divorce, and the last generation NOT to have a Child Protective safety net. A the foot soldiers in the war on drugs, peaking in crime drugs and suicide at every phase of our life cycle. Likewise, we will be the first generation to be FAILED by Social Security and everyone knows it.
We had the perfect amount of hardship. My great uncle born in 1917, "The greatest generation" had a very interesting life, almost killed 3 times, twice by Nazis and once by his business partner, he ran his own business, being a Gen Xer I worked in his warehouse from 9 on and didn't mind it, I had lots of breaks and our dog was always with us. That generation also produced some greats. RIP Gordon Perelman.
Dear Sir, I THANK YOU. I'm a late Gen-X, (some call my type a 'Xennial'), but I'm still a Latch-key kid, spent a great deal of time lost in the woods, & on a poor weather day.....HELLO NINTENDO! 😂❤
Facts! I was responsible for taking care of my younger brothers. I was babysitting and working since 11 years old. I walked to the bus stop alone in kindergarten and also traveled alone overseas in the 90's when my father was active duty military. Had no choice but to be responsible! We were told to mind our business and keep it moving. No options for lazy behaviors or being a crybaby lol... I learned the old school ways my great grandparents passed at 97,98,94, and 96 so yes I learned the old ways! I still apply to my life daily and i don't feel entitled to anything. You want it better get up get out and do something! Great video😊
That part I was the Need ya lawn Mowed Need Your Car Washed Need a Baby Sitter Everyone loved when I sat, cause I could cook at age 9. The kids were clean fed in the bed by 8 sleep by 9 I made good money, I only sat for a new born once. That was above and beyond enough, I was a tough kid back then but a 3 month old. Would make Spawn start Boohooing when they can't get them to stop crying. or figure out why they're crying
We weren't all neglected physically, but Gen X somehow sank somewhere to the bottom of our Boomer parents' priority lists in a lot of ways. We had to learn to "suck it up" and get by. On the one hand, we learned valuable day-to-day life skills which were sorely needed to be independent adults (or really, independent teens). On the other hand, we have the hardest time forming long-lasting bonds with friends, or being involved in any kind of community for very long. We realized early in life that we had to rely on ourselves, and that all relationships outside of close family members were likely temporary. We scoff at the things that make other generations sentimental, because we learned to see it as fake, manipulative posing.
Gen-X was forced outside to battle kidnappers and pedos. We learn to survive and deal with bullies. While we didn't have helicopter parents and safe spaces, we had to fight. What Gen Y and Z would breakdown and cry about getting called names, we were called those same names by family.
not necessarily. this is same sad comment i heard from old boomer types aimed at gen x growing up. There is amazing music being put out by EVERY generation. To say otherwise is a blow at creative types, and is kind of judgemental. We dont want to be like the boomers do we? The beatles had some great music So does Lana del rey, So does Neon Hitch, Lindsey stirling is AMAZING on violin, donald glover came out with some killer lyrics and visuals in this is america...I like what the younger generations have done musically. You just have to know where to look.
@@jadorepoutine You're cherry picking from a dumpster. You obviously don't remember the 80's and 90's. The radio was on fire constantly with the tunes playing through it. And that was just from the radio friendly music.
@antonackermann9620 I never said 80s and 90s weren't good? I simply said every generation that comes before dismisses the next generations music which is shameful. I honestly feel that every generation has both good and bad music and by dismissing an entire generation because your generation is best is doing yourself a disservice🤷♀️ but hey I'm not forcing you to expand your limited world view. Can stay in a 2 decade music window if ya like no skin off my back.
I'm only 32, but in my personal opinion, from the end of the 50's through 60's, 70's, and 80's were the "golden" age of music. The 90's had plenty of good music as well, however that is around the time it started to decline severely with all of the push-button musicians and synth instruments. The 80's really kicked off the "electric" age of music where you could be talentless but use drum machines and cutting-edge DJ equipment to make a stupid beat that everyone thinks is catchy. Nowadays, the people we call pop artists can't hold a note without a computer's help, can't actually play a single instrument, and no longer have full bands backing them with extremely talented members. People really only listen to sharty mainstream music in order to be popular or in the loop. It starts with one person: "This new song just came out. It's horrible, but if I act like it's a big deal and just amazing, others will follow to try and keep up with the trend, and I'll get a bunch of attention." Humans are gross.
Born in 1969. Worked on farms, mowed lawns, and worked at Hardee's from age 14-17. Joined the Army at age 17. Traveled the world. Did outlandish things. Retired at age 53. Moved to the Philippines at age 54. Mess with any of my 4 kids and I'll be in your face anywhere on planet Earth within 24 hours. Off the hook? I'll make you wish you had a hook.
I, being a Gen Xen, have a perspective here about "who let Gen X off the hook". Gen X was never ON the hook. The Boomers controlled everything and Gen X literally had NO POWER. They were the pioneers of the blooming understanding of Gen Z and Millennials. They paved the way at great sacrifice to bring you what they did not have. They fought the system so that way you could have a like minded peer who also understood the system was wrong. They invented Punk, not only in music, but in life. The forgotten generation, Gen X, was deemed forgotten because that generation had literally abandoned the ways of the Boomers, by and large. They were the Jack drowning and freezing on the iceberg to the Rose of the Millennials and Gen Z. Hell the Boomers STILL hold most of the power. Who let them off the hook? They did, with their choices of not participating in the madness.
Yes, Boomers totally set the stage for todays societal problem. Just look at the past 4 Pres. They are all boomers. Gen X create an alternative universe to live outside of boomers tight grip on power
Very eloquently put! Which demonstrates a great example of Gen Xer's. We do not beat around the bush and we do not sugarcoat anything, we will tell you exactly what's on our minds.
One of my millennial friends doesn’t appreciate my no sugar coating directness. She said I was rude. 😂 And no, I didn’t apologize. Toughen up, buttercup. 💪🏻 Said what I said cuz it was true. Truth isn’t always nice. Sometimes it slaps you up side the head. It can make ya mad before it sets you free. 🤨
I have this recurring fantasy of telling 20 year olds nowadays to toughen the heck up. Especially the ones that stare at their navels all day wondering what pronouns they are, or who spend their days in the gym, wearing super tight clothing, and then crying that people are looking at them. I do feel bad that they have to live through the whole social media nonsense. If I could transport them back to the 1970s, I would.
I'm a child of gen xers I can't ignore y'all xD grew up in the woods. Born shortly before technology took over and raised in the sticks with no phones xD
For me, Gen X has always come down to the three R's: Resilience, Resourcefulness and Radicalism. We also seem to have been the last Generation with an actual sense of humor - first and foremost about ourselves. That's critical and it seems to be increasingly missing from the current culture we all inhabit. It's a playfulness and a sense of mischief in the way we interact. A sense of the silly and of the absurd and how crucial those components are in the living component of a life. We valued authenticity - not as some sort of cheapened #commodity, but as an actual means of expression - warts and all - which I think also helped create a real community and sense of connectedness that digital culture often dangles, yet rarely delivers. Digital culture and the associate transition to our full Global Corporate hegemonic State, has helped create contemporary culture as something of an endless hall of mirrors, where much of the generation born into this new reality, finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish between being an endlessly marketable commodity and operating as an expression of their true self, flawed humanity and all. Rabid Self-consciousness in the culture has now reached such critical levels that it feels completely stifling, fueling an acute feeling of existential dread, as well as a profound sense of disempowerment. Gen X were far less interested in outcome - or how we should appear - and far more interested in process, which is why so much great creativity (in all its forms) came and continues to come from our Generation. We were - as Nick Cave might put it: forever 'kicking against the pricks'; reactionaries who no longer bought the ultra-conservatism and the smugness of much of what lay at the heart of the Boomer generation ethos. We lived in an era of Aids, high unemployment, higher inflation and the occasional threat of nuclear war, but were also a culture that never wore an endless sense of victimisation as some sort of badge. We were a generation whose parents - as many have indicated here - were simply parenting on auto-polite, often disengaged and thus allowing us to take the measure of our existence into own hands. We were first and foremost curious, but also deeply suspicious of Dogma and we often found creative ways to undermine it. We had an ethos of invention and subversion that was crucial to our ability to navigate the world and not be subsumed by it. Indeed, we saw the world as an opportunity to fail as much as to succeed. As such, many of us had experiences entirely on our own terms and not as some endless advertisement for a certain way of life. Many of Gen X expressed ourselves in whatever artistic form we could because we felt compelled to, not because of how we would appear to others, or some nebulous success that may or may not even arrive. In the absence of the impact of digital culture, we turned up 'at the party' largely as ourselves, directly engaged with others and most importantly, we were who we were...and not acting as some kind of deranged vehicle to advertise our own existence. In many ways, we subscribed to the Charlie Kaufmann mantra: 'The world needs you. It doesn’t need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, ‘I don’t know,’ and being kind.' That's the sense of community - flaws and all - our Generation always sought to bring to the table.
Don't forget Recycling. We were told we were going to save the planet by turning in those aluminum cans, and it looked like it might even be possible back when that Ozone thing got dealt with... but of course it was all a scam. No wonder we're jaded, but I still keep putting those cans in the blue bin, just in case.
This is more UK centric, but a nice chat with my step-dad brought up the fact that those now in power (though boomers still cling like pansies clutching to pearls) are largely gen X and either were entire beneficieries of Thatcher-era neoliberalism or in complete rejection of it (and it is largely the former that seem to hold the most power). Ultimately, despite Gen X's youth culture being one of rebellion, many who nostalgically recall times they got arrested at protests or rocked up to parties with frosted tips and a backwards v handshake perpetuate a similar conservative rhetoric to their parents, making some youngun's to get the two confused, at least in their shared old age. Being of the generation raised by Gen X, the tone I get from those I've met is one of frustrated resignation to the status quo. Believing that if they haven't been rewarded with respect and a fancy car, then they will be soon. We've seen what committing to the "if you work hard and play hard you'll be rewarded" mentality does to people (our parents), who consider simple discussion or even more meaningful action some personal slight or a claim to victimhood when it is neither. Who have grown so wary from work that any inconvenience makes them mentally implode with rage. Our generation (Z) has been left to our own devices, literally and figuratively, to free roam the wild west of the internet as it became increasingly corporatised by those who claimed to have our "best interests at heart". Meanwhile, doing everything possible to shut down and bulldoze third spaces, claim that it's "unsafe" to hang out outside generally when we try to find a way to despite the fears our our gen X parents (traumatised by the pedos of the 70s and 80s). We are like muzzled, leashed dogs going MAD through our personal looking-glasses barking louder and louder through them since every scratch and bite or excusion into the great outdoors is met with more "safety measures" to keep us "safe". And so we resign ourselves to our echo chambers and skinner boxes while we organise let noticeable forms of rebellion (less bombastic acts of dramatic vandalism as Gen X did to express themselves, and instead attempts to make our own way outside the system with anarchistic community, sharing of resources and independent research). All that said, I am very biased and do NOT speak for all of Gen Z. I am a 20 y/o bioengineer working towards every possible means of enabling every working class person I know to feed, clothe, shelter and warm themselves with NO profiteering middle-men involved. The means already exist but are being commercialised one by one to the point that life is pay to play more than it already is. Gen X paved the way, now Gen Z needs to walk it.
Gen X couldn't protect the old or the young and can't protect us from what's coming. You are just as much a part of the problem as the Boomers and us Millenials. And as far as biting the hand that feeds... Maybe if you had of bit down harder at Occupy Wallstreet and set fire to some shit, maybe we wouldn't 😅 be in this 😮 looming doom and gloom 😢 internment 😢 predicament 😢 that's on the horizon. Shame on you acting like when it comes down to the wire, there are weapons that the military has that the people won't know about until those weapons are used against us. Dereliction of duty for sure. I live alone by the way... cheers to the apocalypse that yes, even you helped to foster... 😊
@@SimplyGiveUp-sp3ld Believe me, we do. Just in the form of abstract memes and between each other rather than around gen x. Most of our humour is self-depricating, absurdist, surreal and mildly unhinged memes which we don't really share with our parents (gen x), because anytime we do it either confuses them or concerns them, neither of which are great responses to humour. I guess our name for what is essentially the same as gen x's self-depricating humour is "Doomer humour". (A neat little compilation of random Gen z humour, some of it self-depricating - most of it, absurd: duck://player/openInRUclips?v=B48fnbcm0J0 Enjoy x)
I love being Gen X. We’re tech savvy, but had the privilege of living free of the entanglement of it until we were grown. We pretty much raised ourselves - we’re resourceful, resilient, and rad. God bless GenX!
And a tad egotistical. My experience of that generation is only being in touch when something was needed. One Way street. A departure from My Way or the Highway if many previous generations, but it seemed to spawn more of the latter.
America influence in business and culture dragged Australia down USA business people arrived all our rights started to gradually erode .genuinely wished they'd fucked off and never came back Loathe there style of business Rupert Murdochs father was treated like a wanker by the establishment under BB and RM was out for himself I going to speculate that he cut a deal with the USA and started preparing to move across to the UK and USA and his citizenship was contingent on influencing government that had there best interest instead of Australia and the politicians at that time were corrupt I speculating he influenced politics to bring about his goals He paid next to zero tax I think he wanted to stick it to the establishment and instead his actions had dire consequences for the lowest socioeconomic group who suffer incredible poverty I also speculate that his charity for royal children's Hospital was calculated . I personally saw starvation and our family gleamed fruit and veg from the markets It was constant financial struggle Culturally there was a split it might be why no one talks about it there was the church and it's oppressive culture and the enlightened embracing change and accepting the those men and women and zis etc trying to be there true authentic selves And the church omg from next to no money and people moving away from it the priest started stalking families Would turn up at people's houses after sermons asking for money ,causing disturbances in families so they'd split and the money would land in the hands of the church they then went onto build schools con the government into funding it whilst neglecting public schools and blackmailing families into joining the church if they wanted there kids to attend The only difference between rich/poor well educated and poor /rich educated small people is the parental attitudes If it's important to parent to get a great education the kids will strive regardless of were they live So at universities the offspring of migrants who went to state run schools were smarter than there rich expensive school educated predominantly Anglo Irish heritage counterpart and when that happened the profoundly racist liberal party imposed fees So only the rich could get an education A government supported by Rupert Murdoch some of those politicians still alive today ex prime minister John Howard
As a kid of about eight years old. I'd jump on my scrap heap bike and go on an adventure. I didn't need to get home until the street lights came on. As kids we made our own entertainment. Sling shots, skipping stones on the water. And we shared things with our friends.
I'm very proud to belong to Gen. X. We were taught independence at a very early age. In the summer, we got booted outside and left to fend for ourselves, with the proviso that if you didn't return home by the dinner bell, your arse was grass, and Mom and Dad were the lawnmowers. We came home from school to empty houses and watched whatever happened to be on tv at the moment. There was no cable until we were in our teens. Same with computers, but we picked up on those pretty quickly, and learned computer languages like BASIC(which was as far from basic as you could be), FORTRAN, APL, and PASCAL. We used the very first word processing software, called PFS WRITE. You knew who was doing computer work, because wed be cruising the halls with floppy discs the size of dinner plates back then. Hard drive? Whats hard drive? Didn't exist. When we got older, we could go clubbing all night, get an hour or two of sleep, and be at our jobs promptly at 800am. Slackers, we were NOT! That was the Boomers' nickname for us, because they were jealous of us. This gentleman is correct- you do NOT want to mess with us. Just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. ETA: I was born in 1967, so thankfully, I dont have Boomer parents!
I was born in '83, but I do have boomer parents, my dad was born in '47, my mom was born in '60 (and her parents were part of the greatest generation and her dad was in not just WWII, but he served in the korean war as well)... so thanks to my parents, "technically" speaking, I'm gen x...
Don't take pride (or shame) in anything you didn't do yourself. Nobody chooses what year they're born in, or the circumstances of their upbringing and birth. Generational pride is no less moronic than white pride. Besides, generations don't exist, outside of some Madison avenue publicist's deraged fantasy. If you're not willing to make generalizations about Jews, or Muslims or White or Black people, why on *EARTH* would you make generalizations about people born within 20 or so years of each other? Generational stereotypes are the social media equivalent of astronomy.
@@AaronMichaelLong well, personally, I can't stand the term Generation X. It's stupid. I am, however, proud that I learnt to be independent at an early age, and to take care of myself. Later generations don't seem to have this gift, and yes, I actually do consider it a gift. I've learnt that I can be self-sufficient. On the other hand, I'm not afraid to ask for help if I need it. Being able to rely on yourself is a very good thing, something that seems to be in short supply these days.
Many of our toys were later banned as unsafe, we rode around standing up in the backseat of cars or the beds of pickup trucks, we disappeared for hours on our bikes with no way to contact us or know where we were, we ran into the store to buy our parents beer and cigarettes, we drove lawnmowers and tractors before we were 10YO, we were completely self sufficient for hours at a time while our parents worked or went out. 90% of the things I was allowed to do as a child, would send a parent to prison today. God I miss the the freedom we had.
Everything you said is so true it made me laugh thinking about buying my mom her Marlboro Reds. Imaging a 9yo walking into a store today and buying cigarettes. 😂
I totally forgot that when I was about 10 or maybe 12 I walked into a store and bought a bottle of booze for my great aunt. I was tall for my age, but nonetheless, they kind a looked at me funny but still let me buy it.
@@OShackHennessyhell yeah , I would go buy smokes for my grandma as well.
@@latsnojokelee6434bought my first beer when I was 15 years old. That was in 1990.
I had a toy which was a light bulb heated oven in which you put a metal mold to make gel bugs. You’d pull that thing out and it would be scalding hot. I don’t remember ever burning myself on one, but the possibility was certainly there.
Who knew being born before the Internet and cell phones would have been a huge blessing. Common sense is truly a gift these days
When/if it all goes down I feel bad for those who never lived without it, they're not gonna be able to function
Even most millennials would say the same thing, I was born in 88 didn't have a computer in the house till 98 and I was raised like the 70s and 80s that my parents were raised and grew up in
Common sense is now uncommon!
Common sense is now a super power!
Common sense has become some kind of a miracle. Less and less people possess it nowadays.
I'm a total GenXer and I truly believe we lived in the greatest time in human history. The 80s and 90s were the most awesome time to be alive. And I think we did quite well.
Remember 1989? Yeah. I know what you’re talking about.
I'm doing fine. 58 years old. Married 33 years, raised three great children, house paid off, cars paid off. No credit card debt, never went to college so no student loans. Around $600k in 401k and other savings. I enjoy my job.
I'm nine years behind you. Married 27 years, four kids, house will be paid off in 2026, no other debt. Right there with you my friend. Doing well. Can't complain at all. @@lot2196
The 80's and 90's were awesome to you because you were a kid. Adults weren't having so much fun in the 80's/90's.
@@freeforall825 I was an adult in the 90s. I would probably say that enjoyment in life is up to the individual. I know lots of adults who were having a great time in the 80s and 90s. I know a lot of adults who are having a great time now. All depends on your attitude and your choices.
There was a public service announcement for parents that quite literally asked, "Do you know where your kids are?" because that is how we were raised, forgotten as kids and we'd like to remain forgotten as adults. Thank you very much.
That was in the nineties. That's a complaint from gen y.
We are independent and self-sufficient.
Yep quite literally. I had woods in the back of my house with railroad tracks running through them. We went places. 😂
Hell yeah 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. I have no interest in being noticed. 🙃
I'M a genx'er. I went to a public school where the teachers were legally allowed to beat me with a paddle hanging up in their room. I WALKED a mile and a half to and from school everyday and was on my own until my parents got home. Our bullies would beat us up until we turned around and clobbered them hard enough to be left alone. You either played alone or made friends. We watched cartoons on the hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandparents... if cartoons were on. We had to read books. We weren't allowed to have feelings or opinions. You'd go over to your grandparent's house and learn how to do something useful... like cook, clean, fix things, or patch up your own wounds when you'd FAFO. We didn't wear bike helmets.
We were the last non-soft generatio... drinking out of a garden house and skinning our knees and elbows playing football on an asphalt street.
You can't hang with us. You can barely get out of bed and go work a 9 to 5 without having an emotional breakdown.
Amen 😂
I was born in '85 and checked off every box except the paddle & black n white tv. You guys aren't quite the last.
Also, when it comes to cartoons, some of us watched Johnney Quest, the only cartoon where people got shot and died.
@triggeredsoyboy My first little brother was born in 1987 and he went to the same school as I. He endured the same hardships because we were out in the country. The superintendent of schools still gave you bloody knuckles with a pointer stick, making you grab the edge of the desk and lay face down on the desk. He'd nail you 2 or 3 times and you had to anticipate when it was coming. That was worse than the physical pain, him pacing and talking about your performance before - CRACK! He was principal when I was in that school, and one day he hit me 7 times over a setup (I wasn't in the religious fundie PTA kid's cult). My grandfather, a Pearl Harbor vet, came in with me the next day and beat him all over the office during morning announcements! ROFL! Ah the Regan Era, good times... As long as they "started it" and didn't NEED medical treatment, it wasn't a crime... LOL!
The laws for all that stuff really went national in the mid to late 90s. It doesn't apply to first half Millenials.
I remember when bike helmets were first introduced! No one would wear them because they looked stupid.
Born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's, partied in the 90's. Nothing but the best.
What did you do the preceding decades? Work?
Truth!
Born in the 60s did acid in the 70s got the crap beat out of me by my sister's
You forgot to add working while doing all of that as well mate. :)
@@warshrike666 More truth!
As a Gen X'er, I was given a wrist rocket, a carton of BBs, and left to run in the woods until the lights came on at night. On the weekends, my friends and I would ride our bicycles about 8 miles away from home to go to the arcade. Some of us had wood shop, metal shop, and even home economics.
By the time I was 10, I was learning to hunt animals with a sling shot, riding my bicycle to the mall, learning how to use band saws and welders, and learning how to cook and sew. Then, I had my own key to my house to let myself in and get my homework done before my mother got home. Yeah, we don't have time to hear about how "difficult" your life is.
Oh, and to the other Gen X'ers that learned how to balance a checkbook when they were about 8 yrs old. Keep up the great work!
Well said. I think they called us Gen X, to put the blame "us" for their choices. If they had called us the "Latch Key" generation, it would have been a constant reminder the over-all narcissism of the Boomer generation.
Well you beat me to it. I learned to take care of my parents land taxes in gov office when i am 14 by lying my ass off after driving myself there😂. I am Gen Y/ 82 millenials😂
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NO LIES TOLD! Gen X we're a special breed indeed.
Thanks. Life was easier back then.
GEN X- 1965-80 ... often imitated by others but will never be duplicated. We"re a rare and special breed y'all! I love you bastards.
Hell yeah!
We love you, too! 😊
… dat you Flounder?
The the late 80s, 90s and early 2000 was the best times for me. I don't recognize my country.
Aaawwwwww, love you too 😄
I think the biggest thing about us Gen X'ers is we don't give a flying fig what anyone thinks about us or how we choose to live our lives and that scares the hell out of people because they can't control us. Fist bump to all my fellow peeps that grew up drinking out of the hose and rode bikes without helmets!
These kids need to learn how to walk it off. 👊
Still drink from the hose while working outside.
I’m a late boomer, no different
That's the power of growing up as a generation that was suddenly regarded as a chore to raise. By parents who asked themselves, "Why do we have to work so hard raising kids just because our parents did?" "Isn't this whole traditional family thing obsolete?" If you are looked down on when you're a little kid, you're not going to get upset about it as an adult.
We are the only generation to give the finger to those who came before and those who came after.
I was born being told to prepare for the apocalypses, I was raised to expect a nuclear strike. I never had expectations of growing old or retirement. Gen-x doesn't cancel, it deletes. We do not seek to control chaos, it is in chaos we thrive.
I mean... yeah.
Well chaos is a ladder.
Fukn amen!! Im 45 n never expected to live past 25(1/4 my friends are dead) so now rvery morning is a day i didnt exoect!! So live it!!
Chaos is freeing as no one is paying attention to our activities as the world burns.
Exactly.
Gen X is the generation that knew about the beautiful, high trust and prosperous world that was fading away as we came along. The WWII generation fought in the war, raised four kids per woman, did hard factory work, and participated in civic groups and did volunteer work in their spare time. It was all of that hard work and sacrifice that created all of the good things that emerged during the 1950s-60s.
But, boomers didn't want to pay it forward. They didn't want to work that hard. They turned to money lending, financial tricks, and usury, to entrap other people into doing all of that hard work for them. They had fewer kids and many of these kids became the latchkey generation, so called because when we got home from school, there was no one at home, and we needed to open the lock ourselves. The good part of this experience was that we learned how to take care of ourselves. We also learned that the world didn't just revolve around us. The Boomer generation just focuses on the Boomer generation. Their needs are still the focus of public policy, and of media and cultural attention. So, not much was handed to us, and so we don't have an attitude of entitlement. Our attitude, is more like an immigrant attitude. We just have to adapt, find a place for ourselves, learn to survive. I think that we have more of a focus on our family and community because we know that the system, isn't working for us.
Best statement here!!!
The greatest generation fought WWII and ultimately gave birth to the worst generation... The Boomers. NO generation has so completely fucked over EVERY generation after themselves more than the boomers have.
Amen!. The system will NEVER work for us, it hasn't before so why would it now?
The boomers have done an excellent job of screwing over every generation that has followed them. The greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation.
Then again, we Xers raised entitled, spoiled brats who were given "participation" trophies, can't find their way around without google maps & would have a nervous breakdown without a phone on them 24/7!!!!!!! We are the LAST gen that will ever know TRUE FREEDOM.
Vintage 1970 here . Everything that guy said was spot on . Generally left unattended, outside until the street lights came on with no one to know where we were or to contact us. Did not trust anything or anyone other than family and real friends . We were grown-up ,operating machinery, cooking for yourself and siblings, home alone with Mom and Dad working and taking care of yourself all by 10 years old .
The most unique time to be alive and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Generation X
"leave me alone" Is a fitting motto for us Xers. We are true generational ninja who have mastered the art of invisibility.
You are right. It is our motto!!
@@monicasojka2738 We have a few I think. Here's one I heard recently: Would you like some coffee before you fuck off?
I'm GenX and I approve this message.
@@Can8ian.
I'm GenX and I - oh wait, you're Canadian?
*JUST* *KIDDING* l never met anyone from Canada that I didn't like.
@@kettle_of_chris I've met lots I didn't like.
Me and my fellow Gen x friends all
agree that our lack of supervision and freedom is what made us so resilient, inventive and adaptable.
We're also thankful that there were no phones around to record our mistakes and no internet to upload them for mass viewing.
This is the comment I was looking for! A B S O L U T E L Y S P O T O N
I would SSOOO be in jail if there was😂😂😂
It is like Will Smith said when asked about his stupid son "I was stupid too when I was young, but I was stupid IN PRIVATE!"
And we have thick skins and the latchkey kid scars to prove we had to learn our lessons the hard way. Are you kidding? I WISH we had digital cameras, I want all my idiocy documented, it would make great content for a channel! Plus, we had a killer music soundtrack to our lives with substance (including our parent's music).
There were no safe spaces, just like real life. We pretty much invented the "your momma's so fat..." jokes, and sometimes ended up in a fight over them, but usually it was a simple ribbing that caused no harm or what would be considered today to be TRAUMA.
Born in 77, i''m one of the last of the X. and proud to be so. No wireless phones, cassette tapes for music, First PC was an Apple 2, with 5" floppies and a whopping whole 16 kilobytes of ram! Had an Atari then a NES. Spent Untold hours of my days fishing, swimming, riding my dirt bike though places no bike should ever go. Broke at least 5 different bones, went in for stitches several times. and I remember when us kids settled our differences with Fists, not firearms, and then played football in the vacant lot the next day!
oh, and Babysat myself after school starting at 9 years old!
I am thankful I was born Gen-X "1972" I had a great childhood in the 70s and the best teen years in the 80s. I grew up with the best music and movies. No internet or cellphones made life way better as a teen. We had to go to peoples homes to hang out, go to the mall and rode our bikes every where.
Gen-X 72 Model here, too.
and here
We didn't live through our childhoods, we survived them.
ha ha ha born in 66. In grade school, we had hard asphalt or cement under our swings and monkey bars. lots of cracked heads opened on our playground at school. was told to walk off your head injury.
@@billyvon666"rub some dirt in it"
When I meet the younger generation, they just assume I survived by becoming an assassin or something
Sorry, your generation, just like the rest of us, were susceptible to lies and manipulation by the media and government. It's surprising how many of gen X still doesn't realize that the media is actively lying to them.
Really? Thats sad. It was the best time of my life and we were taken very well care of.
Sweet summer child, do you not know that Children of the Corn was originally a research paper about GenX?
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
😂 Can confirm
Excellent!!
I don't know.... the children of the corn was a little docile to me.
Hmm children of the corn is a fair characterization of my feral upbringing 😬
As a Gen X I remember buying cigarettes at the store for my parents when I was 10 with a note from my mom. Back then a note from your mom carried a lot of weight.
They really did. So much weight that I'd learned to forge them pretty well by the time I was 12. 😂
And even in South Africa, they had candy that looked just like cigarettes.
HAHAHA no way, I did the exact same thing.
Wow flexing a smoking addiction. Do you want a fucking medal? A kiss on the forehead?
hahahahahahahahah so cute
as a milenial I think gen x is the best grnerarion, you gave us the best music the best movies the best pop culture, gen x was humanity at its peak
Gen X
We know the old ways.
We invented the new ways.
We are getting older and grumpier by the day and are less and less concerned about silly things like social credit score or prison time.
Cross us at your peril.
1971 vintage
I get grumpy when ignorance comes around. No time for that bs drama queen attitude. Gen X here 73.
1970 Not sure how many times I was told I would never live to see 30yrs. Despite all the crazy shit I didn't get caught for I'm still kicking. I figure I've had a good long run. Few things worry me nowadays. Violence is an old and drear friend.
@@jaygraham4095 1967 I, personally, didn't think I would live to see thirty, told people as much, and was perfectly all right with it. I've already BEEN called crazy by people of my OWN generation, a lot of them in uniform, because I have stared down morons with guns, knives, and in moving vehicles while I'M in the street. These idiots think they scare me? I should already be dead...come get some.
71 model here and I agree
Are you less concerned about Social Credit score or jailtime because you are close to death? I think those things are concerning whatever your age.
The greatest privilege of gen x was having the Greatest Generation as grandparents. We learned their old-age lessons/experience while our boomer parents were doing dumb shit
I have always said. GenX isn't the greatest, but it is the best. We are the children of Early Boomers and influenced by their parents the Greatest Generation. Unlike Millennials (GenWhy), who were raised by Late Boomers. Big difference between Early and Late Boomers. Maybe it was disco?
This. Precisely.
Yep. Grandma taught me how to bake bread, shoot a gun, and get away with literal murder, while her daughter (my mom) had no idea what her own mother was teaching me, because she had a paying job. And, that was after being outside for hours and hours in a completely hostile environment.
I grew up having close relationships with people from that generation. I spent lots of time with men who fought in world War II. I knew Jewish people who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Come and talk to me about how the Holocaust didn't happen. I got so much exposure to married couples who have been married for 40 50 60 years, and we're so much happier than the people I see now who have lived their lives alone and going through divorce after divorce and losing their children and so forth and so on. I've watched the unfolding results of feminism, birth control, and easy divorce all my life.
Most of my childhood was spent during a time before masculinity was demonized, and then experienced it happening as I grew to become a young man. I wish Kurt Kabang hadn't blown his brains out so I could beat the crap out of him & if I could get him to listen maybe explain a few things to him.
I've been listening to hip-hop & Punk Rock since it's started, (f* Disco). When I was a little kid rock and roll was still rebellious and hated by parents. My mom sure hated it. My Dad loved it.
@@MrMegamike2k the late Boomers and early GenXr's started Punk, Disco, and hip-hop.
Born in 1974 and totally agree with everything this guy says. I’m glad that I am a critical thinker and wasn’t brainwashed by the internet like Gen Z.
it's your generation who's responsible for that🤦♀️
Gen X. The Greatest.
The greatest were our grandparents mostly raised by them got taught a lot from my grandpa passed in 79 and my grandma who stuck it out for almost 20 years after my grandpa passed! Dad was on,y around every two weeks from camp jobs ! Mom was always there too!
I am a Gen X and couldn’t be more proud about it! Much love and respect to all my fellow Gen X’rs😉👍
There it is!!
Same Here 🤗 & Backatcha 👐👐👐
Indeed! It's nice to be respected, feared.... And left well the f*ck alone! And with extremes on BOTH sides of the political divide becoming even more extreme... I do also find myself believing more and more, that I am actually living on an alien planet! 😊
Spot on example of what my beliefs are.
gen X as well, were not afraid of shit, we were kids who took care of our younger siblings, we had values and we met technology head on.
Us Gen Xers are a rare bread. We believe nothing and trust no one. Wish there were more like us.
except a fictional chazracter who goes by the name Q. GenX is guilible and a letdown.
@@captainprototype187 here here
@@captainprototype187 Yes. The majority of Gen-X believes Q. Touch grass, my friend.
@@captainprototype187 Do you trust Trump? Trump has Re-Truthed Q-related material, including a complete Q drop.
@@captainprototype187 Ah, yes...'Q,'...seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet. The only fictional characters with the name 'Q' that I know of would be James Bond's armorer, and the character named 'Q,' which was played by John de Lance, on Star Trek:TNG. To which fictional character are YOU referring?
Our generation invented playing video games in the living room with a couple of friends while our parents weren’t home. Grabbing a bunch of movies from blockbuster on Friday nights. We would also ride our BMX bikes back home at night after hanging out with our friends. Those were the f**cking days. Great childhood. 😎
As a fellow Gen Xer, I applaud you Sir for your rousing speech on our generation. 👏
This was the best description of us it is now our creed❤
Here, here!
As a fellow Gen X’er, I second that emotion.
We do not need "let off the hook" because GenX never swallowed the bait to begin with.
THIS! This is the comment that wins the entire thread
Amen 🙏🏻 1971 here and proud of it!
1972 here also proud!!
Gen Xer here. I was allowed to play with fire as a child, had my own pocket knife, a slingshot, started to ride city buses to go to school when I was ten years old. I made life changing decisions when I was still a child. These things were all normal at that time. My friends did the same things. People of other generations are usually afraid of confronting me. My childhood gave me a lot of resilience and resourcefulness.
[Life Changing Decisions] Today they [Lefties] encourage [Children] to make [Life Changing Decisions such as Changing their Gender without Parental Consent.
this guy should definitely record himself reading books in this voice i would absolutely listen to him tell me a story
My parents are Gen Xers and I love them both dearly. They're full of laughter and wisdom, and are resourceful and determined. Almost every other GenXer I've met is so insightful and kind, and brilliant with technology both old and new.
Honestly I wish we could have more of them speak and run for office. Our country is being ran into the ground by people who should have retired long ago and can't see the present or future clearly anymore.
Mad love for GenXers, from a Millennial. ❤
I know, but the problem children in government are often GenX and they are embarrassing us.
The ones who refuse to give up control are the boomers. The US congress and senate are absolutely full of them that refuse to retire even though they lost their marbles.
Thank you!! I agree that we need younger politicians. The White House is looking like a retirement home. We desperately need term limits too!!
the thing with Gen X is that we just want to be left alone (specially by govt) and we have neither interest nor desire to have power over anyone other than ourselves - that being said, each and every generation has its' fair share of sociopaths and psychopaths, and they're the *only* people who actually want power over others! they're also the only ones to make it in pollytics
we know how to use crowbars
WELL SPOKEN MY DEAR SIR...PROUDLYBORN IN 1977
100% 👌👏👏👏👏- we are the most dangerous because we are survivors. We also grew up first without technology and then with technology. I feel we were very fortunate growing up when we did! Thank you for this video! Gen X is soooo underrated! I will be 52 this year and going strong! Blessings to you and yours.
So glad to be born a Gen X. Best times to be a kid, and a teen.
We grew up without social media, that made out childhood and teen years have more meaning as we look back now that we are older and wiser.😊
Amen!
Can't say from experience, but speaking from a generation that's been told stories of teenage hijinks with no way to recreate it in real life because everything's either shut down or too expensive to enjoy, I wish I was a kid when you were a kid.
This was perhaps the greatest two minute speech I have ever heard. You sir, are brilliant.
Agreed.
This Gen X'er concurs.
Hooraah:)
Being a Senior member of the X Gen. circa 1965 I wholeheartedly agree with this mans words.
I am Gen X vintage 1964. Now a lot of you will say I am a boomer but I never identified with that generation. I hated them. They ruined everything before we got there.
When I got old enough to have kids, I raise them in the Gen X model. My youngest daughter is in school to become an electrician and my oldest daughter has several licenses and has started a few businesses.
Freedom and drive with personal responsibility is the best of what Gen X has to offer.
Oh... I work a 40+ hour week 'day job', PLUS I have my own business, AND create videos on the side. I'm gonna die with my boots on, and that ain't no lie. Gen X forever.
Me too. January of '65. First of the GenXers 💪
@@GramGramGenX-ln5scAs an Xer, I would consider you to be an "Honorary Xer." Welcome!
"ready to transition to Valhalla" YESSS❤
Generation X: Nice when stroked, fierce when provoked.
Indeed!
Bruh, you just described my penis.
No one in Gen X cares what youre talking about man.
As these fragile gen z are experiencing.......F**k around and find out!
Working jn customer service. Gen X were the biggest moaners and entitled brats. Some would even start abusing me even though i was on the minimum wage and had nothing to do with happened
I’m a millennial, but can still appreciate this video. Gen X doesn’t speak unless it has something worth saying. 👍
You guys are like Gen X light. We like you, you’ve gotten a bad rap. You won’t be forgotten, but you must wait your turn.
You are just trying to butter us up! I don't trust you! 😂😜❤
🤘🤘
Not at all, often times Gen X is just filled with hot air and boasting. I’ve been told people of my generation (Gen x) wouldn’t have acted this way, but they’re lying to themselves. I knew so many people who would run around with a video camera recording dumb stuff.
@@NotDuncanif you think gen X is full of hot air, you're more than welcome to fk around and find out
We climbed mountains. We swam in dangerous rivers to proof our strength. We went skiing on high hills. We were iceskating on half frozen lakes. We made fire. We rode horses. We fell from bikes. Nobody took us to the doctor. Schnaps on the wound and a plaster. We ate our food. Everybody in the house ate the same food. Our grandparents survived ww2. Greetings from Austria😊
I was born 4 months and a day before the offical start of Gen X. Officially, I am a Baby Baby Boomer. But I am pure Gen Xer. I am so thankful my two younger brothers and I grew up in an analog world, drank water from a garden hose, and got to ride our bikes and play with our friends all over town without our parents warching our every move. I helped take care of my grandmother and baby brother and had grandparents who on my fathers side were born on 1885 and 1892 and on my mother's side 1910 and 1912. I learned so much from them. We had no idea how lucky we were!
F-ing awesome! Being 52 now, I've had 2 years to embrace being 50+ and telling everyone to get off my lawn, figuratively, and not caring. I did make who I am, what I am, who I will be. Skimming through the comments, I do believe us Gen X can storm the world and own it. Oh, wait, we do :) Love to all Gen X-ers and march on until we all die.
X
100%. Also we create this crap! 😂 we are good & bad. Whachoo' gonna' do😅
Right on bro.
we won't die...we'll all just go to hell and regroup lol
I'm a millennial and already feel like Gran Torino Clint. Just grimacing in disgust at those Z weirdos.
Gen X was never off the hook to begin with. Born into a time of skyrocketing divorce rates, trained for jobs that would get replaced by technology, spending 4-5 decades witnessing your country rot from the inside, fated to spend entire adult lives paying off an increasing national debt, witnessing everything you ever loved become commercialized, realizing that doing everything you were told to do to make the world a better place didn't help at all, and eventually realizing that it's too late to fix anything.
Most generations have experienced or are experiencing the same kind of thing, watching the rot started in the 80s (and sooner) take hold. Allowing the business leaders carve us up into arbitrary groups to pit us against one another is an Age Old leadership tactic. Make others fight the battles for the wealthy. Divide and control.
Amen to that!!
Even just one of my first jobs as a carpark attendant taking the money/tickets ... all automated now with number plate cams etc.
Never to late to fix anything, it just becomes more expensive and blood shedding the longer you wait.
@@homeistheearth Yeah, and we’ve been duped into allowing things to erode before our eyes. Doesn’t look like that’s going to work for much longer. Tipping point is in the process of happening. Many of us saw it during early lockdowns. , whichever ‘so called side’ we were on. Now we have some clarity to inform our intuition of that time.
It's even worse for millennials I was born in 1987 My generation will experience the complete downfall of America. Most of us will never be able to afford to buy a house. A lot of us will never be able to afford to even buy a car. The suffering we will endure in the future will make all generations previous Understand we had at the worst. Not all of us grew up with a silver spoon But more of us did I will give you that. I will also say my generation grew up during the greatest time the 90s was a wonderful decade to grow up in and most our parents were amazing atleast mine were but alot of gen x parents died from drugs or alcohol. My uncle died at 39 years old I found him in his bedroom face first on the floor his heart exploded he was withdrawaling off alcohol. I was a heroine addict for many years But i'm a sober person now I haven't drank alcohol since I was 22 when I found my uncle. A lot of us millennials have been through a lot But I'm glad I've been through a lot. Because it made me into the man. I am today and I think more people need to suffer. Because suffering builds character, suffering builds strength, suffering molds us into something greater and I think we need more of that. The greatest generation became the greatest because they suffered the most so people shouldn't fear suffering they should embrace it with open arms.
As a Gen X’r growing up in the hills of Kentucky, darkness was a comfort, not something to be afraid of. Pain, both physical and emotional, was a sign of life. Silence was refreshing. Loud music, engines, guns, was motivating. Friends jumped in, they didn’t stand on the outside filming or mouthing. We would fight, usually fair, and then accept the outcome. We were thankful, we worked in the tobacco fields, cabbage fields, corn fields, and on the baseball and football fields. We learned to swim early in life, we learned to hunt game, we learned to shoot true with guns and bows. We all carried a locking Buck knife. Not for defense, or fighting, but for a tool. We all had a high powered rifle in whatever vehicle we could afford. Even at school. We had enough sense, enough grit, and enough compassion to help each other, not watch and critique. Some went to church, some prayed in the woods, in the silence. Money was valuable, but not as valuable as our character and conscience. We figured out how to fix things, how to get by, and how to survive without cell phones and google. We learned there’s a time for violence, and a time for peace, and that sometimes violence is the quickest path to peace. We gained wisdom.
So “who let us off the hook?”, well young fella, what you aren’t understanding is, we were smart enough not to bite what you and your generation are using as bait.
European Xennial here, grew up analog and then experienced the beginnings of families getting a computer at home in my teens, so not exactly a complete member of gen x, but I can definitely relate for a good part.
What you said is definitely true.
I am a late late boomer (December 1964) on the cusp of Gen X and I relate so much to this! Gen X has seen the Cold War, the fuel crisis, the year with the most terrorist attacks world wide (1979), the slowest wage growth and high inflation, the death of pension plans, the fall of the wall, the rise of the internet, and the longest war in US history. A generation of latch key kids walking to school at 4 or 5 and fixing their own after school snacks. Gen X is a product of a rather harsh and unpredictable environment. It has made them adaptable, inventive, and self reliant.
Oh that's ridiculous. Gen x had cheap college, a ridiculously good economy. 79? Dude they were like 7 years old in 79. They got rich in the 90s because of an insane deregulated economy. They are the ones who got rich on gentrification(along with boomers). Sorry but millennials turned 18 the year the great recession happened. Gen x had it pretty good actually. Nobody had it worse than us. We grew up in ridiculous wars of your generation, my generation can barely buy a house or afford one kid.
@@Brandon-yg7mwlol... you call that the great recession. ignore 1921, 1929, 1972, 1982, 1991 and 2009.. you can't afford a house or children because of bad money management and the me me me me attitude.... you have the ability to make more money overnight thru internet usage then we could have ever dreamt of growing up in Gen X... instead your generation pushes for woke ideology and victim mentality. We aren't the same
Ridiculous? O.K. Im a Gen X. I, and many of the kids i knew grew up with, had single moms, no dad around, and on welfare and food stamps, so stick that in your economy. I worked my ass off through the 90's, never got rich, and still do, because we were the last gen to work hard. We also didn't give a shit what color you were or who you liked. We all hung together, we all partied together, and we all helped each other when times were tough! Racism was something we saw in movies but couldn't even understand. The first black joke i ever heard was told to us by one of our black friends and none of us even knew why it was funny! But we all laughed TOGETHER then went and rode our bikes TOGETHER. Your gen's fixation on race and sex is disgusting, demoralizing, and destructive to our very way of life. So thank you to you and all the generations since, for not giving a shit about anything but yourselves, and maybe the Kardashians. I guess Idiocracy was absolutely correct in its prediction of future generations. Stupid stupid stupid! Keep focusing only on race and sex kids. Your doing great!
Gen X was just spooling up when the "great recession" happened. That ain't on us. As a matter of fact, it crippled our ability as well. We got to pick up the pieces. These wars you refer to, Boomers are running our government at the moment, not Gen X. Check your facts.
Brandon stop being a whiner & be a doer. Take the dress off & put on some pants. Go get a real job(not McDonald's) work hard & take pride in your work(do it right the first time). Earn your keep well, earn respect. Now put the phone & tissues down, get some thicker skin so your feelings don't get hurt & work hard. College isn't everything. Why anyone would pay those prices for an education so you can get a job for $20/hr is ridiculous. Not everyone can be doctors. You need construction workers too in order to build those hospitals & colleges. If you don't have a brain pick up a shovel.
I'm 46, work on a sales team of mostly younger guys 20s & 30s, i found out that none of them had ever been in a fist fight. None. I found that truly amazing and am not sure if that's good or bad.
Bruh!? 42 years woman of asian descend...even I had fist fight, WTH!?
Those 20 and 30 year-olds had to adapt to school and society rules put in place by boomers. I’m an older woman and I’ve been in a few fist fights but after the fight we got cleaned up and either agreed things were settled or planned for round two. The consequences were a few bruises. When my 30-year old son got in a fist fight at school he got expelled due to the school having a zero tolerance policy. His fight wasn’t anything worse than I’d gotten into but the punishment made settling things with a few quick jabs not worth it.
Bad, definitely bad. Their FAFO experience is painfully limited.
I was born 7 days before Nixon left office. I as well work hard and was raised to work hard. I as well was raised with values and learned to respect my elders.
Sure I have some weaknesses like buying the whole series of WKRP in Cincinnati and forgetting why Jimmy Carter's administration was so bad and I was terrible at break dancing.
Mr. T has my respect and oh how the Alternative tune style still is a part of my life today.
Thank you for always speaking truths about us. Love the exact explanations given. And how true they are.
Not only do i appreciate them leaving us alone, i whole heartedly recommend that they continue to leave us alone....
Okay tough guy
@@RenSam22 Try us. See what happens.
@@AwakenedWookie You don't scare me
We should step up and correct the mistakes of our fathers. The world we knew is burning.
@@Krathify"We didn't start the fire"
Drinking out of the garden hose, the telephone is stuck on the wall and don't want to see you until the street lights come on. The best of times.
We drank out of the garden hose in the 50s and 60s before u were born. That is just plain silly. WTH are you even talking about? We had more freedom as kids in the 50s cuz it was pretty damn safe everywhere as long as we were home when we were supposed to be. And if we played outside at night, there was a curfew.
Eh, we used to be out until long after dark....pretty much playing hide and seek....neighborhood parents put an end to it after the realized we looked like a bunch of burglars wearing all black and running through the neighbors yards...
Thats exactly my childhood !!! The street lights, home time !!
I’m a gen z. So did I bro. It’s not a rare thing to drink out of the hose in summer
Duck, you Suckers' 1971, my favorite movie as a Gen X kid. Just saying. My depression era born old man would have some older railway mates over in the 1970s who use to tell war stories of surviving on 'long pork' as Aussie Commando and swapping dog tags in WW2. One ex Wermacht German mate had bullet scars on the way to Moscow and a bayonet wound scar on the way back. No wonder we are a little 'off'.
Preach my man! He speaka the truth about us Gen Z and the brats we hatched that failed to launch!
Who let us off the hook? We are the hook son 😈
Say word 😂
Fresh
Made'a hooks son! I got hooks on both hands! I got hooks on these feet! I got a hook for a...
Lowkey can y'all get the rest of us all of the hook though? :P 🤣
Shhhh They were supposed to figure that out for themselves....🤣🤣
As a Gen X, I honestly think living under the threat of the Cold War that could turn hot at 'the touch if a red button' made us more resourceful, more hardy and reliant on ourselves. Most of the time, we played outside until it was dark and then went home because our parents wanted their own time. I feel privileged being a Gen X and the self reliance that comes with it.
I know this isn't necessarily the case for all of Gen Z, but that mindset was something my Gen X parents passed onto me and my sister. We could be left at home for days on end and be just fine. Most of my skills are self-taught and I recently got to work alone in a different country much younger than when either of my parents did anything similar. Only the attitude is taught to us, since we've mostly been kept indoors like house pets with little to go out for without getting in trouble for leutering (being outside without spending money)
Exactly! I have a song somewhere about this!
If our parents were home. Latch key kids came from our generation.
@@SimplyGiveUp-sp3ld🤘😎
I think that being born and raised during the Cold War also helped many of us not get too freaked out about international issues. Hell, the current world tensions feel almost normal.....
I was 11 years of age in '87 in Ireland. I was getting myself ready for school at 7am, walking to the bus, making my baby brothers lunch. Coming home, helping with the housework, homework and then out on my BMX to smash my body to smithereens on jumps, ropeswings, skatebaords, playing by the railway tracks, coming home at 9 or 10pm and not an adult in sight to supervise. We raised ourselves.
We played Jax fought classmates that messed with our younger siblings, played outside until the street light came on. Bought now laters & shared if we liked you. Good old days.
Now add a little Florida crazy and you have the best childhood ever! 😂
GenX is an alien generation. I'm a millenial and my husband is genX, he amazes me everyday! There's literally nothing he can't do and he does everything so calmly and rational lol he doesn't want to expose his generation by admitting he's an alien but i have very strong suspicions
my wife suspects this too... oh well.
@@Anton680x 😂
we crash landed here about 3,500 years ago and reincarnate generationally - Gen X was this round, though it does get a bit out of synch! Nichola Tesla was one such misplacement
GenX is the last generation raised as problem solvers. We are the last generation you didn't supervise and locked outside. We had to learn to do everything ourselves because our parents were too busy making a living to teach us anything. Where possible our grandparents taught us. We aren't afraid to learn new stuff and "just do it" because we always had to. So that's why your husband is so unflappable. He probably woke up his dad one day after a a late shift and got the crap beat out of him then later his dad explained how to handle stuff without him and dared him to wake him up again.... Then he probably did and woke up about 15 or 20 years later and met you at the hospital.
😂 you're comment cracked me up. Maybe we gen X are just the first successful hybrids... 😉
We were left to raise ourselves. We’re talking Lord of the Flies type stuff. We were the latch key kids. And the last to remember the world before the internet. We played outside all day and drank from the garden hose. We build forts and bike ramps. We played the first gaming console. We can read and write in cursive. Most of you can’t even sign your own name. Seriously, GFY and leave us alone. You don’t want none of this smoke.
I think I was cooking on the stove at like 8…. I was lucky enough to have a lot on my street with a wooded (about 12 feet deep with little pine trees) just a big bowl after that and pure hard clay (some breaks with little pine wooded areas) talk about bike ramps?!? We would make them and shape them with hard ass clay lmao best broken bones of our lives build a fort there too with a fire place hahaha GenX rules
...and we were never in a position of power to f things up, so what exactly are we to be blamed for? The president is boomer, the last president was a boomer. Everyone in power in government are still almost all boomers.
At least give us a shot before blaming us. Lol.
So why did you all become Boomer Juniors?
@@grodri01 Why don’t you explain what a boomer junior is, scooter?
@@Chet73 I think, at least in American society, a boomer Junior is how they describe it implies that while Gen X never had the brilliant fortune bestowed upon them by their greedy and entitled parents, they still inherited that same smug sense of superiority. Unlike the boomers however their sense of superiority is at least somewhat warranted? But still leaves a bad taste in the mouth when interacting with them as they do seem to be the most feral generation thus-far as well.
Damn i just couldnt stop watching this. You my Sir are right on point.
I thank you
Gen X is the coolest one, by far. Mad respect! I will leave you all alone...
Gen X lived by the motto "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger". We have learned to survive anything, that is reason enough to leave us alone.
If we got hurt with something you hide it, or the parents will take it away.
Then you became the generation that made bicycle helmets and seatbelts mandatory... So yeah guess you didn't really care about that did'ja?
So tired of your generation pretending you're tough...
America has been at war since I was in highschool.
The cost to live in this world has gone up ten times since I was a child let alone from the time when you lot were kids.
I grew up through multiple depressions, while you lived in the best time of America.
You probably never even went hungry in your lifetime.
Actually the motto should be “that which does not kill me, well it just didn’t kill me”
I hate this thinking, which is why a lot of Gen X’ers are overlooked. A lot of Gen X has been wiped out due to pharmaceutical companies greed, which led to a lot of drug overdoses and rehab stays.
@@greyveteran7007 So true, I once layed my dirt bike over at 60 mph and slid 175 steps, broke my helmet, had bad road rash on my arm and shoulder, picked it up, continued my ride to the lake washed the blood off and went home a put the bike up quietly, and started bandaging myself up. Mom came in from the garden to check on me because she knew something was up because I didn't ride around in the yard before putting it up.
Couldn’t be said better. Thanks for being our spokesman dear sir.
6/25/1973 thanks you ❤
@@Sam-eo3it LOL. 06/28/1978
Growing up, there was a week long birthday party in our neighborhood cause there were 7 birthdays in june.
From June 20 to June 30.
I love seeing others share June as a birthday month.
Born in 1977.
My grandparents gave me a survival knife for christmas when I was 8 years old.
Gen-X is kind on encapsuated in that one anecdote.
🙋🏾♀️1966 Gen X'er and proud of it. Growing up in London the 70's and 80's was an experience unto itself. It's seriously not an understatement to call us ferrel.
As a Gen Xer I always wondered why we were left to our own devices. Never harassed about who or what we were about. I wondered... Till we hit our 40's and I started to see just how crazy we can be. We're the ones that rode bikes and skateboards with no protection. We were tossed outside in the sun and told not to come home till dark out. We were the last of the no warnings Gen. You can't make em like us anymore
Well said young person 👍🏿
Millennial.
Ditto
You do realise most ppl didn't have intnernet untill well into the 00s. Spart phones wernt out till nearly 2010 and most millennial where mid 20s by then...
Your not special x
@@SD-vy7gj you were the annoying generation of participation trophies. Stfu
Woah, crazy! No bike helmet or protection! What a mad life you lived! You realise us early millennials also lives like this, Gen X has imo the best music, the get on with it attitude that has created massive industries and is by far the most successful and satisfied generation…seriously “we played outside 😂”
Yo. For the Gen Y or 81s to 90 millenials. Shut up will you. Why you are like the younger busy-body millenial? Make rats about nothing? What are we want to prove exactly?
I love being a Gen X kid. It was a great time to be alive and people weren't nearly as miserable as they are now.
No we were not nearly as mentally ill and miserable...I had a great time from ages 18 - 23 (89-93) - people that age today seem to do nothing but protest this and that, complain about everything, non stop whining about how everybody else in history had it easy blah blah blah...you don't see too many young people showing much happiness today...mostly they seem to want to be miserable yet they have everything...very different generations
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 and everything is PC, and woke now. It's ridiculous.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 We "Have everything" despite not being able to own a modern car, buy a house, or afford to live in the modern era because we're still getting paid what you got paid as children despite everything costing 5 times more than it did in your generation?
Yeah I wouldn't say that very much if I were you, your generation had everything, grew so fat on it that the next two generations are being smothered by you until you and your parents die off.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Maybe you should go to a protest. It's the opposite of miserable, you're taking action alongside your community and fellow supporters. I honestly would recommend it.
Everyone is so racist now.
I miss the old days when black people were black, white people were white and no one really cared.
Yes!! Been trying to explain to our children and grandchildren we are not to be messed with. Yes!! We are feral!! Yes!! We did have to be creative!!! But most of all, we knew how to be happy. We understood happiness comes from within.
Holy shit this was incredible! You hit the nail on the head!!!
Well said. Everyone i knew, including myself, was a latch key kid and we went to the mall after school and got into fights, smoked, drank, and were working by 15yrs old or so. We paid our own bills, cooked our own meals, and learned how to live through trial and error. All before adulthood. Our parents abandoned most of us and we only had each other.
Yep, give or take a lot of us grew up about like that. I learned to cook as a survival skill, because my parents didn't. We opened cans til we learned to cook. Got my first two part time jobs at 15, but started babysitting for other families at 12. We all knew to go home when the streetlights came on, because if they had to call us they'd get mad and maybe call us by the wrong kid's name or our full name, or my mom would just go down the list and then "whoever you are!" 😂😂😂
@@notashroom Lots of balogna omelettes, cinnamon toast, French bread pizza, grilled cheese, etc in our house because though we had a SAHM, I think she was clinically depressed for a time and would not get out of bed. Dad was gone 12+ hours a day.
@@user-wh5ir4fo4r there was a lot of parental neglect back then, but the upside is that we all learned how to take care of ourselves pretty young. I think a lot of people who came along later missed out on that and the stuff that goes with it, like problem-solving skills (for those who survived, anyway...).
Amen I've been working since I was 14.. that's 43 years of laboring.
Wow! All of you had crappy parents. So sad.
As a millenial I gotta say Gen X is full of fun people. They tend to have a lot of things they're eager to teach and expect nothing. Although this is anecdotal, I've also never seen a Gen X person depressed unlike my peers.
@@happydaze7386 you got that right! We don't whine and complain we just soldier on!
Oh we fucked up, we just don't talk about it much. We had to internalize all that shit. No one wanted to listen to our problems....
oh i am....but who's gonna care, or fix it? no one but me.
You’ve seen us depressed; the clown always smiles, internalized doom and our hearts beating and bleeding silently. We learned no one gives a shit about us from an early age and that knowledge made us who we are.
If someone says we are on the hook, I only ask; who put us in the hook?
Whatever….
Gen X: "if I could Complain, Who'd Listen?"
Sums it up pretty much.
I'm late to the comments, but in the late 80s, I went to middle school wearing a hat that read, " I've got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel drive. A country boy can survive."
Along with my Budweiser shirt, I was so proud. No adults seemed to care. I was scolded for wearing my hat indoors but not for what was written on it. What a great time to be a kid.
bro, remember spuds mackenzie the mascot for bud? Yeah, good times, i am your age or a little older but in amarillo TX when i was 12-13 in the late 80s the strict school asked me to cover up beer shirts like the corona one i had. it probably had to do with amarillo tx and the school (bonham middle school) being conservative back then - i actually think now it would be allowed more because we live in a dying, pozzed society with eroding standards know what i mean? Overall 80s-90s had way more freedom and fun though, i know we all are nodding our heads to that. take care man!
Amen. I remember them referring to us as the unknown like we made ourselves and not the circumstances of our upbringing.
Born in 1975. This past weekend I showed my 8 year old nephew how to kickflip. Yup, still can do it. Can still ollie up onto a picknick table too. Of course, our skateboards were bigger and heavier. These new ones are so light and small! Still, I was shocked to still be able to do it after all these years. Gen X f'kn RULES!!! \m/
08/74 here and you sound just like me. I took my Christian Hosoi down a half pipe a year or so ago and everyone's eyes got wide and they started admiring the Hammerhead.
01/1975 here my husband and I still skate. Met in a skate shop in 90 were friends grew up went separate ways and got together in 2006, married 2015 and still find ourselves on skateboards. The soccer moms hate me🤣.
Congratulations on proving to these youngins that genetics is still the best😅
Born 70, unfortunately I can no longer skate like I used to back in the day due to back problems..... but I still maintain that gen x attitude till the day I die 🤘😎🤘🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Now I’m in the mood for some Fugazi, NoFx, and Bad Religion
The only thing we are on the hook for is fixing everyone else’s mistakes.
This ^^
So true. We were raised for it.
Damn right.
Basically
Oooh say it again for the people in the BACK!!!!! ✌️💖
You had me at Valhalla. And yes, every word is true. Well spoken, I absolutely feel the same.
We're the last generation of people who have values and "cares" about the things that we do.
Truth is a fact not a "science" or a "feeling" !
Agree. I think gen X's motto should be "leave me alone." We've spent our whole lives being ignored, doing our own thing, living our own lives while the world keeps spewing drama
So true. That has been my motto since I was first able to speak.
Truth. It’s very distracting.
It's annoying when people do take notice as they usually try to ruin what you're doing. Keeping the world held together is hard work.
@@saberswordsmen1 you think boomers have societal apathy?!? Boomers transformed our entire society, for better or worse. The younger generations don't impress me. They aren't transformational, they are self-indulgent. Boomers wanted to change the world, young people want the world to revolve around their needs. That isn't social action. As far as Gen x, someone has to "make the doughnuts." While all of you are busy transforming, protesting, and getting triggered we work, we have families, work, and live our lives. We also get along with ourselves and others, which is something all you non-apathetic ppl can't seem to do.
Definitely. You should be grateful you’ve been “let off the hook”.
Every single Gen X I’ve ever encountered is loud, opinionated about everything and always complaining, lacks critical thinking skills but always insists they’re right. Completely self centred with no empathy, quick to anger and the personality of Saturday morning cartoons.
(1) we aren't the ones that manufactured this grand vision Utopia/Dystopia. We were always outnumbered, never liked divorce, never liked debt, and USED to think of "Social Public Whatever" as some vastly over-complicated irrelevance. Boomers were so disappointed when we didn't go marching for social change. So don't blame us.
(2) We ARE feral -- the first latchkey generation raised in mass divorce, and the last generation NOT to have a Child Protective safety net. A the foot soldiers in the war on drugs, peaking in crime drugs and suicide at every phase of our life cycle. Likewise, we will be the first generation to be FAILED by Social Security and everyone knows it.
We had the perfect amount of hardship. My great uncle born in 1917, "The greatest generation" had a very interesting life, almost killed 3 times, twice by Nazis and once by his business partner, he ran his own business, being a Gen Xer I worked in his warehouse from 9 on and didn't mind it, I had lots of breaks and our dog was always with us. That generation also produced some greats. RIP Gordon Perelman.
Dear Sir, I THANK YOU. I'm a late Gen-X, (some call my type a 'Xennial'), but I'm still a Latch-key kid, spent a great deal of time lost in the woods, & on a poor weather day.....HELLO NINTENDO! 😂❤
Facts! I was responsible for taking care of my younger brothers. I was babysitting and working since 11 years old. I walked to the bus stop alone in kindergarten and also traveled alone overseas in the 90's when my father was active duty military. Had no choice but to be responsible! We were told to mind our business and keep it moving. No options for lazy behaviors or being a crybaby lol... I learned the old school ways my great grandparents passed at 97,98,94, and 96 so yes I learned the old ways! I still apply to my life daily and i don't feel entitled to anything. You want it better get up get out and do something! Great video😊
That part I was the
Need ya lawn Mowed
Need Your Car Washed
Need a Baby Sitter
Everyone loved when I sat, cause I could cook at age 9.
The kids were clean fed in the bed by 8 sleep by 9
I made good money, I only sat for a new born once. That was above and beyond enough, I was a tough kid back then but a 3 month old. Would make Spawn start Boohooing when they can't get them to stop crying. or figure out why they're crying
@skylarmccloud4080 sounds like the story of my life! We are so strong and independent! We were really doing so much as children!!!
We weren't all neglected physically, but Gen X somehow sank somewhere to the bottom of our Boomer parents' priority lists in a lot of ways. We had to learn to "suck it up" and get by. On the one hand, we learned valuable day-to-day life skills which were sorely needed to be independent adults (or really, independent teens). On the other hand, we have the hardest time forming long-lasting bonds with friends, or being involved in any kind of community for very long. We realized early in life that we had to rely on ourselves, and that all relationships outside of close family members were likely temporary. We scoff at the things that make other generations sentimental, because we learned to see it as fake, manipulative posing.
This is gold! How true!
Great insight about the superficiality aspect of sentiment. Solid take!
As a Gen-X'er...I support this message.
Gen-X was forced outside to battle kidnappers and pedos. We learn to survive and deal with bullies. While we didn't have helicopter parents and safe spaces, we had to fight. What Gen Y and Z would breakdown and cry about getting called names, we were called those same names by family.
The golden age of music peaked in the 90's and declined from the mid 2000's onward.
No autotune or post production bullshit. No such thing as a "studio band."
If you couldn't rock live, we didn't even know about you.
not necessarily. this is same sad comment i heard from old boomer types aimed at gen x growing up. There is amazing music being put out by EVERY generation. To say otherwise is a blow at creative types, and is kind of judgemental. We dont want to be like the boomers do we? The beatles had some great music So does Lana del rey, So does Neon Hitch, Lindsey stirling is AMAZING on violin, donald glover came out with some killer lyrics and visuals in this is america...I like what the younger generations have done musically. You just have to know where to look.
@@jadorepoutine You're cherry picking from a dumpster. You obviously don't remember the 80's and 90's. The radio was on fire constantly with the tunes playing through it. And that was just from the radio friendly music.
@antonackermann9620 I never said 80s and 90s weren't good? I simply said every generation that comes before dismisses the next generations music which is shameful. I honestly feel that every generation has both good and bad music and by dismissing an entire generation because your generation is best is doing yourself a disservice🤷♀️ but hey I'm not forcing you to expand your limited world view. Can stay in a 2 decade music window if ya like no skin off my back.
I'm only 32, but in my personal opinion, from the end of the 50's through 60's, 70's, and 80's were the "golden" age of music. The 90's had plenty of good music as well, however that is around the time it started to decline severely with all of the push-button musicians and synth instruments. The 80's really kicked off the "electric" age of music where you could be talentless but use drum machines and cutting-edge DJ equipment to make a stupid beat that everyone thinks is catchy. Nowadays, the people we call pop artists can't hold a note without a computer's help, can't actually play a single instrument, and no longer have full bands backing them with extremely talented members. People really only listen to sharty mainstream music in order to be popular or in the loop. It starts with one person: "This new song just came out. It's horrible, but if I act like it's a big deal and just amazing, others will follow to try and keep up with the trend, and I'll get a bunch of attention."
Humans are gross.
I instantly subscribed solely off the accent... my good sir. But really is crazy like bane! 1980 baby..
Born in 1969. Worked on farms, mowed lawns, and worked at Hardee's from age 14-17. Joined the Army at age 17. Traveled the world. Did outlandish things. Retired at age 53. Moved to the Philippines at age 54. Mess with any of my 4 kids and I'll be in your face anywhere on planet Earth within 24 hours. Off the hook? I'll make you wish you had a hook.
I, being a Gen Xen, have a perspective here about "who let Gen X off the hook". Gen X was never ON the hook. The Boomers controlled everything and Gen X literally had NO POWER. They were the pioneers of the blooming understanding of Gen Z and Millennials. They paved the way at great sacrifice to bring you what they did not have. They fought the system so that way you could have a like minded peer who also understood the system was wrong. They invented Punk, not only in music, but in life. The forgotten generation, Gen X, was deemed forgotten because that generation had literally abandoned the ways of the Boomers, by and large. They were the Jack drowning and freezing on the iceberg to the Rose of the Millennials and Gen Z. Hell the Boomers STILL hold most of the power.
Who let them off the hook? They did, with their choices of not participating in the madness.
The Titanic metaphor is SPOT ON 🫡
Boomers and the Silent Generation do absolutely still have much of the power.
We’ve never had a Gen X president. Just sayin.
They did a pretty good job of making sure most of our generation were never born.
Yes, Boomers totally set the stage for todays societal problem. Just look at the past 4 Pres. They are all boomers. Gen X create an alternative universe to live outside of boomers tight grip on power
Implying millennials aren't the band being forced to play as the ship sinks
Very eloquently put! Which demonstrates a great example of Gen Xer's. We do not beat around the bush and we do not sugarcoat anything, we will tell you exactly what's on our minds.
One of my millennial friends doesn’t appreciate my no sugar coating directness. She said I was rude. 😂 And no, I didn’t apologize. Toughen up, buttercup. 💪🏻 Said what I said cuz it was true. Truth isn’t always nice. Sometimes it slaps you up side the head. It can make ya mad before it sets you free. 🤨
I have this recurring fantasy of telling 20 year olds nowadays to toughen the heck up. Especially the ones that stare at their navels all day wondering what pronouns they are, or who spend their days in the gym, wearing super tight clothing, and then crying that people are looking at them. I do feel bad that they have to live through the whole social media nonsense. If I could transport them back to the 1970s, I would.
@@christinebinkley2508Except you do realize you sound exactly like the people you don't want to sound like, yes?
@@latsnojokelee6434So you want to be the problem that you complained about?
All so true ❤ Thank you Brother …. ❤️🇺🇸🙏
I'm a child of gen xers I can't ignore y'all xD grew up in the woods. Born shortly before technology took over and raised in the sticks with no phones xD
For me, Gen X has always come down to the three R's: Resilience, Resourcefulness and Radicalism. We also seem to have been the last Generation with an actual sense of humor - first and foremost about ourselves. That's critical and it seems to be increasingly missing from the current culture we all inhabit. It's a playfulness and a sense of mischief in the way we interact. A sense of the silly and of the absurd and how crucial those components are in the living component of a life. We valued authenticity - not as some sort of cheapened #commodity, but as an actual means of expression - warts and all - which I think also helped create a real community and sense of connectedness that digital culture often dangles, yet rarely delivers. Digital culture and the associate transition to our full Global Corporate hegemonic State, has helped create contemporary culture as something of an endless hall of mirrors, where much of the generation born into this new reality, finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish between being an endlessly marketable commodity and operating as an expression of their true self, flawed humanity and all. Rabid Self-consciousness in the culture has now reached such critical levels that it feels completely stifling, fueling an acute feeling of existential dread, as well as a profound sense of disempowerment. Gen X were far less interested in outcome - or how we should appear - and far more interested in process, which is why so much great creativity (in all its forms) came and continues to come from our Generation. We were - as Nick Cave might put it: forever 'kicking against the pricks'; reactionaries who no longer bought the ultra-conservatism and the smugness of much of what lay at the heart of the Boomer generation ethos. We lived in an era of Aids, high unemployment, higher inflation and the occasional threat of nuclear war, but were also a culture that never wore an endless sense of victimisation as some sort of badge. We were a generation whose parents - as many have indicated here - were simply parenting on auto-polite, often disengaged and thus allowing us to take the measure of our existence into own hands. We were first and foremost curious, but also deeply suspicious of Dogma and we often found creative ways to undermine it. We had an ethos of invention and subversion that was crucial to our ability to navigate the world and not be subsumed by it. Indeed, we saw the world as an opportunity to fail as much as to succeed. As such, many of us had experiences entirely on our own terms and not as some endless advertisement for a certain way of life. Many of Gen X expressed ourselves in whatever artistic form we could because we felt compelled to, not because of how we would appear to others, or some nebulous success that may or may not even arrive. In the absence of the impact of digital culture, we turned up 'at the party' largely as ourselves, directly engaged with others and most importantly, we were who we were...and not acting as some kind of deranged vehicle to advertise our own existence. In many ways, we subscribed to the Charlie Kaufmann mantra: 'The world needs you. It doesn’t need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, ‘I don’t know,’ and being kind.' That's the sense of community - flaws and all - our Generation always sought to bring to the table.
Don't forget Recycling. We were told we were going to save the planet by turning in those aluminum cans, and it looked like it might even be possible back when that Ozone thing got dealt with... but of course it was all a scam. No wonder we're jaded, but I still keep putting those cans in the blue bin, just in case.
Yep! GenX would write a fkn book!🤣
This is more UK centric, but a nice chat with my step-dad brought up the fact that those now in power (though boomers still cling like pansies clutching to pearls) are largely gen X and either were entire beneficieries of Thatcher-era neoliberalism or in complete rejection of it (and it is largely the former that seem to hold the most power). Ultimately, despite Gen X's youth culture being one of rebellion, many who nostalgically recall times they got arrested at protests or rocked up to parties with frosted tips and a backwards v handshake perpetuate a similar conservative rhetoric to their parents, making some youngun's to get the two confused, at least in their shared old age.
Being of the generation raised by Gen X, the tone I get from those I've met is one of frustrated resignation to the status quo. Believing that if they haven't been rewarded with respect and a fancy car, then they will be soon. We've seen what committing to the "if you work hard and play hard you'll be rewarded" mentality does to people (our parents), who consider simple discussion or even more meaningful action some personal slight or a claim to victimhood when it is neither. Who have grown so wary from work that any inconvenience makes them mentally implode with rage.
Our generation (Z) has been left to our own devices, literally and figuratively, to free roam the wild west of the internet as it became increasingly corporatised by those who claimed to have our "best interests at heart". Meanwhile, doing everything possible to shut down and bulldoze third spaces, claim that it's "unsafe" to hang out outside generally when we try to find a way to despite the fears our our gen X parents (traumatised by the pedos of the 70s and 80s). We are like muzzled, leashed dogs going MAD through our personal looking-glasses barking louder and louder through them since every scratch and bite or excusion into the great outdoors is met with more "safety measures" to keep us "safe". And so we resign ourselves to our echo chambers and skinner boxes while we organise let noticeable forms of rebellion (less bombastic acts of dramatic vandalism as Gen X did to express themselves, and instead attempts to make our own way outside the system with anarchistic community, sharing of resources and independent research).
All that said, I am very biased and do NOT speak for all of Gen Z. I am a 20 y/o bioengineer working towards every possible means of enabling every working class person I know to feed, clothe, shelter and warm themselves with NO profiteering middle-men involved. The means already exist but are being commercialised one by one to the point that life is pay to play more than it already is. Gen X paved the way, now Gen Z needs to walk it.
Gen X couldn't protect the old or the young and can't protect us from what's coming. You are just as much a part of the problem as the Boomers and us Millenials. And as far as biting the hand that feeds... Maybe if you had of bit down harder at Occupy Wallstreet and set fire to some shit, maybe we wouldn't 😅 be in this 😮 looming doom and gloom 😢 internment 😢 predicament 😢 that's on the horizon. Shame on you acting like when it comes down to the wire, there are weapons that the military has that the people won't know about until those weapons are used against us. Dereliction of duty for sure. I live alone by the way... cheers to the apocalypse that yes, even you helped to foster... 😊
@@SimplyGiveUp-sp3ld Believe me, we do. Just in the form of abstract memes and between each other rather than around gen x. Most of our humour is self-depricating, absurdist, surreal and mildly unhinged memes which we don't really share with our parents (gen x), because anytime we do it either confuses them or concerns them, neither of which are great responses to humour. I guess our name for what is essentially the same as gen x's self-depricating humour is "Doomer humour".
(A neat little compilation of random Gen z humour, some of it self-depricating - most of it, absurd: duck://player/openInRUclips?v=B48fnbcm0J0
Enjoy x)
I love being Gen X. We’re tech savvy, but had the privilege of living free of the entanglement of it until we were grown.
We pretty much raised ourselves - we’re resourceful, resilient, and rad. God bless GenX!
did u really just type God bless GenX? u don't know God or anything... get a life generational divide goon
And a tad egotistical. My experience of that generation is only being in touch when something was needed. One Way street. A departure from My Way or the Highway if many previous generations, but it seemed to spawn more of the latter.
America influence in business and culture dragged Australia down
USA business people arrived all our rights started to gradually erode .genuinely wished they'd fucked off and never came back
Loathe there style of business
Rupert Murdochs father was treated like a wanker by the establishment under BB and
RM was out for himself
I going to speculate that he cut a deal with the USA and started preparing to move across to the UK and USA and his citizenship was contingent on influencing government that had there best interest instead of Australia and the politicians at that time were corrupt
I speculating he influenced politics to bring about his goals
He paid next to zero tax
I think he wanted to stick it to the establishment and instead his actions had dire consequences for the lowest socioeconomic group who suffer incredible poverty
I also speculate that his charity for royal children's Hospital was calculated .
I personally saw starvation and our family gleamed fruit and veg from the markets
It was constant financial struggle
Culturally there was a split it might be why no one talks about it
there was the church and it's oppressive culture
and the enlightened embracing change and accepting the those men and women and zis etc trying to be there true authentic selves
And the church omg from next to no money and people moving away from it the priest started stalking families
Would turn up at people's houses after sermons asking for money ,causing disturbances in families so they'd split and the money would land in the hands of the church they then went onto build schools con the government into funding it whilst neglecting public schools and blackmailing families into joining the church if they wanted there kids to attend
The only difference between rich/poor well educated and poor /rich educated small people is the parental attitudes
If it's important to parent to get a great education the kids will strive regardless of were they live
So at universities the offspring of migrants who went to state run schools were smarter than there rich expensive school educated predominantly Anglo Irish heritage counterpart and when that happened the profoundly racist liberal party imposed fees
So only the rich could get an education
A government supported by Rupert Murdoch
some of those politicians still alive today
ex prime minister John Howard
As a kid of about eight years old. I'd jump on my scrap heap bike and go on an adventure. I didn't need to get home until the street lights came on. As kids we made our own entertainment. Sling shots, skipping stones on the water. And we shared things with our friends.
Gen X is the generation you seal in a glass case that reads
BREAK GLASS ONLY IN THE EVENT OF WARFARE,
then run for your life
I'm very proud to belong to Gen. X. We were taught independence at a very early age. In the summer, we got booted outside and left to fend for ourselves, with the proviso that if you didn't return home by the dinner bell, your arse was grass, and Mom and Dad were the lawnmowers. We came home from school to empty houses and watched whatever happened to be on tv at the moment. There was no cable until we were in our teens. Same with computers, but we picked up on those pretty quickly, and learned computer languages like BASIC(which was as far from basic as you could be), FORTRAN, APL, and PASCAL. We used the very first word processing software, called PFS WRITE. You knew who was doing computer work, because wed be cruising the halls with floppy discs the size of dinner plates back then. Hard drive? Whats hard drive? Didn't exist. When we got older, we could go clubbing all night, get an hour or two of sleep, and be at our jobs promptly at 800am. Slackers, we were NOT! That was the Boomers' nickname for us, because they were jealous of us.
This gentleman is correct- you do NOT want to mess with us. Just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. ETA: I was born in 1967, so thankfully, I dont have Boomer parents!
I was born in '83, but I do have boomer parents, my dad was born in '47, my mom was born in '60 (and her parents were part of the greatest generation and her dad was in not just WWII, but he served in the korean war as well)... so thanks to my parents, "technically" speaking, I'm gen x...
i was born in 72 so I have boomer parents lol.
Don't take pride (or shame) in anything you didn't do yourself. Nobody chooses what year they're born in, or the circumstances of their upbringing and birth. Generational pride is no less moronic than white pride. Besides, generations don't exist, outside of some Madison avenue publicist's deraged fantasy. If you're not willing to make generalizations about Jews, or Muslims or White or Black people, why on *EARTH* would you make generalizations about people born within 20 or so years of each other? Generational stereotypes are the social media equivalent of astronomy.
@@AaronMichaelLong well, personally, I can't stand the term Generation X. It's stupid. I am, however, proud that I learnt to be independent at an early age, and to take care of myself. Later generations don't seem to have this gift, and yes, I actually do consider it a gift. I've learnt that I can be self-sufficient. On the other hand, I'm not afraid to ask for help if I need it. Being able to rely on yourself is a very good thing, something that seems to be in short supply these days.
Brilliant. Same age as you. Same story.