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You really needs to do better when it comes to Generations numbers and birth years. Generation Alpha aka Gan A are born in the years 2020 - 2039. Generation Z aka Gen Z aka Zoomers are born in the years 2000 - 2019. Generation Y are born in the years 1980 - 1999. Gen X born in the years 1960 - 1979. Generation W aka Boomers are born in the years 1940 - 1959...are you seeing a pattern yet? Get it right you f🙊kn idiot. 😂
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@Psychologypatterns11 There is your problem, Pakistan has no morals muchless a good education system, which is why it was so easy for me to call you out on your uneducated BS. By the way, you replayed to yourself and not the one in question. F🤡kn idiot. 🤣👌
The way Xennials lived both an analog childhood and a digital adulthood really explains that unique mix of adaptability and skepticism. It is like growing up in two completely different worlds at once and somehow learning to thrive in both. Makes you rethink a lot about identity and how technology shaped us.
Honestly, I was never really bored as a kid. I was always building something, reading, or messing around outside. Maybe boredom wasn’t the point, we just had to create our own entertainment.
I was born in 82, and the fastest technological advancement I remember is data storage. I’m old enough to remember using multiple floppy discs to install Windows and how big of a deal it was when my brother bought his first 1GB hard drive. I still remember him saying, “I don’t know how I’ll ever fill up this much space!” The next Christmas he got a game that required 1.25GB. I graduated from graphic design school in 2006 and used a 256MB thumb drive to store all of my files. Now my phone has 500 times that much storage.
Same exact as age you (same year anyway, end of 82) and it's crazy to think that i have (looks looks in drawer) nine 256gb thumbsticks sitting right in from of me casually.
*I relate to this deeply, but I’d argue the real shift wasn’t just storage capacity, it was how quickly “enough” stopped feeling like enough for our generation. We grew up believing in limits, then watched those limits disappear almost overnight, which quietly rewired our expectations and anxiety. That constant leap from scarcity to abundance might be why so many of us feel both adaptable and strangely unsettled. I’m curious if others feel like we never fully adjusted to that pace of change.*
We love the privacy of the 90s but enjoy the convenience of 2026. Xennials are the only ones who can 'disappear' without guilt because we know real life happens offline. Does anyone else still prefer a one-hour phone call over texting all day?
Born 1982. Young enough to have had a tech-savvy dad with a hand-held camcorder when I was a kid, old enough for all those home video tapes to have gotten thrown out by my mom before they could be digitized. 😂
The hardest pill for Xennials to swallow: We brag constantly about our "feral, analog childhoods" and how we learned to survive boredom without screens. Yet, we are the exact generation of parents handing iPads to 3-year-olds at restaurants so we can have 5 minutes of peace. We know the absolute value of an unplugged life, but we are too exhausted by endless economic hustling to enforce it for our own kids. We are the bridge generation, but we are burning the bridge behind us.
I disagree, we delayed having kids much longer than prior generations, most of the people born in the 90's 2000's had parents born from 1955-1975. And not many people have been born in the 2010's or 2020's. So at this point many Xennials and Millennials will never have kids at all
Every generation, from here on out, is burning the bridge behind them. EVERYTHING is getting worse. Humanity is speedrunning directly towards oblivion, infinitely faster than ever before. Nihilism is the only logical choice.
Born in 1978. Bored to hell on Sunday. Hell yeah I remember that time clearly. Especially when the cartoons -> Knight Rider -> A-TEAM ended and MASH started. That was the time to turn off the TV.
Something that should be said is that birth rates in the late 70's and early 80's were quite low. We actually are the first generation to feel heavily outnumbered by older people. Growing up, it seemed like 80% of people were 10+ years older than me. Gen X born in the 60's is actually a large generation.
“The ‘analog childhood, digital adulthood’ line really sums it up perfectly. Growing up with cassette tapes and landlines but adapting to the internet and smartphones definitely created a unique mindset. Xennials really are a bridge between two completely different worlds.”
I was born 8/3/83 and I have always been very aware. The changes in the world and society have been wild to witness and experience. I have experienced things that very few will ever experience. It's been a long strange trip.
I have a cd-rom of the early internet. Yes you could dial in but loading a complete website could take ages............. so webstores would send you a cd-rom so you could pre-install the entire website before visiting clearing broadband for more relevant information. Somehow that seems appropriate to this video....
1981 here. I feel fortunate to have been born during this time period and to have lived through and be alive during all these changes. It's an interesting world we live in. 🙂
I was born in 1980. I post pictures online all the time, but I also have books filled with photos of my childhood that no one outside of my family has ever seen. As someone who was born with a disability (Spina Bifida), I still have medical implants that are essentially analog tubes, but I also require medical devices that use modern software.
The 'Paradox Generation' is the perfect name. We are the bridge between two completely different human eras. Thanks for this deep dive into our unique psychology!
I wasn't bored. I just had to entertain myself 95% of the time. This is why I can draw, paint, play video games, fix basic plumbing, craft fences, etc, etc, etc. We had to self motivate!
Wasn't bored. Skipped school (too boring) to go the local bookstore and read until the last public bus took me home. Learned WAY more that way than in school. Made me much more self-reliant in the long run when you can learn the subjects that interest you and you can assimilate all that useful knowledge. They were trying to teach me how to factor numbers while I was teaching myself quantum mechanics and calculus basics.
Another thing that a lot of us Xennials probably have in common is having our tonsils removed which is something that they rarely do now. I also remember when me and all the kids in the neighborhood got chicken pox and our parents were told by doctors to have us all catch it while still young and would have us all playing together even though we were contagious.
This video nails a lot but leaves out some core things. I'm smack dab in the middle (1980), and that analog childhood didn't just lead to a digital adulthood, our generation was right there on the ground floor early, in our teenage years with pagers, web 1.0 and things like AOL Instant messenger. While only say 15% of the US was on the internet in 1997, I'd bet among Xennials that was more like 50-60%. We were very enthusiastic adopters of the emerging technologies, and in our 20s we pioneered social media with Friendster and MySpace. It was a great time to come of age, we really had the best of both worlds. On the plus side, we can relate to older pure Gen Xers and Millenials to a fair degree, we bridge some generational gaps which is also pretty unique.
I was born 1976 so I seem to be in 2 groups, I was never board, sometimes I was just busy doing nothing. Or daydreaming, staring into space it didn't feel like being board, it still doesn't. Only now I would probably say I'm just having some 5 mins or me time 😊 xxx
I'm a bicentennial baby. I bought my first cell phone at 30. I told my students that I went to the grocery store without my cell phone. 🤯😲😲😲😲😳 They were mind-blown, like COMPLETELY skunked. I've lived my life 30/50 years longer ☎️without a cell phone than I have with it👉🏻 20/50 years 📱.
I would argue that the Xennial category can be applied to anyone born in the 80s. I was born in 1986 and this category really speaks to me. Similarly I think that my brother, born in 1988 and sister 1989 also have the same level of placticity betweent the two paradimes.
Born in 80. remember legos and erector sets, building and painting models, cartoons like gi joe where violence was the answer to every problem lol. World now days seems wackt. Also grew up with the internet with no censorship, parent who fixed thier car in the parking lot of our apartment, vhs, bart simpson rap. lol
1975 here… GenX to the core… which I view as 1965-1980. Many Xiennials I know identify with GenX, but that’s not surprising given Xiennials being a micro cohort at the very tail end of GenX. I can greatly identify with this micro cohort… being bilingual (analog/digital), beginning college in one world and graduating only to be thrown into and entirely different world, navigating the working world trying to get a foothold among those who were long past retirement age and pledging to stay until the very end… etc. Yeah, as GenX, we mess with Xiennials… they get it, and we may be the last generation that does.
Born in 1980, I can’t relate to the whole “bored” thing. There was always a book to read, a bike to ride, or a Nintendo to play. I could walk to the pool (if mom gave me money) or sneak into the country club with my sled on snow-days. Got my first job at 14 years of age because labor laws were … different …. Of course, minimum wage was $4.05, but that $50 paycheck made me feel unstoppable!! I had tons of things to do!
I don’t know where this shit came from. I was born in 1980 and was always doing something with friends. Camping at the river,fishing,building go karts,building models,collecting baseball and football cards,listening to music making the walls shake,building something still to this day. Riding bikes anywhere and everywhere. Making ramps to jump, built a giant half pipe for our skateboards and bikes, playing Nintendo and Atari. Shooting at cans and other targets at the river, making mixtapes. I can’t ever remember just staring at the ceiling doing nothing.
I was born in 1985 and experienced all of this firsthand. Sometimes I really miss those times before everything became so heavily digitalized. By the way, I still can’t quite figure out which generation I belong to :))
Such a familiar feeling - that sense of being caught between two worlds, not quite fitting neatly into either box! Xennials like you (roughly 1977-1985) genuinely have a unique brain wiring - you built memories in an analog world, then adapted to digital, which actually gives you a rare kind of cognitive flexibility. That nostalgia you feel isn't just sentiment - those sensory-rich childhood memories are literally a resource your brain can tap into for real energy and creativity today. Does that "in-between" feeling ever show up in other areas of your life too, or is it mostly about the generational identity piece?
Also the last generation to have had real relationships with the people that went through the Great Depression and WWII. Younger generations, and even some older folks seem to have lost those hard learned lessons.
I was born in this range and I don't think bored is exactly the right word. Like, yeah there were times that I had "nothing" to do. But you always find something to get into, on non school days i just got out into the neighborhood and saw who was around, and if nobody was around i went back home and read a book or played whatever video game system i had at that time or played with my toys or whatever. One thing I will say, this micro generation has that's really unique, we got to see the digital world develop in real time. Quite a time to be alive.
I relate to this a lot. It wasn’t really boredom-it was just space to figure out your own fun. Wandering the neighborhood, reading, games, or just using your imagination. And you’re right, our generation had a front-row seat to the digital world being born and evolving. That’s a pretty unique experience.
I never felt bored when I was a child, even now. Watching the clouds changing shapes in the clear sky is fun to me. I still have my walkman, cassette, CDs, which look like graveyard old to my child. I should've save my 💾.
I pronounce it as (Ex-ennial for Xennial) to make the distinction between these two micro-generations as, GenX and Millennial. Versus pronouncing it as (Zen-nial) signifying another micro-generation that’s between (Millennials and Zoomers -aka GenZ)
My husband are both Born in this time and Its crazy that we grew Up in a time our society Changed more in ten years (1995 to 2005) than in the 30 years before or 20 years Afterwards together. I am From 82 and my husband 77 and we both were children in a time without phones, Internet or distraction at all but got adults with Tablets, iPhones and smart Home. Just the Time between me being ,between 16 and 22 ( 1998 until 2004) was a crazy ride
But I bet you left out the fact that you have an ipad you have an apple computer and an iPhone. Because I hate to tell you older people are using the devices and social media more than young people today. And the same thing that was happening in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan is continuing under Donald Trump so how was it any different than when you lived. Besides technology.
@matthew-jy5jp The point is that "Xennials" are in that age bracket where we are comfortable using technology but are often exhausted by it. I was born in 1980 and my dad is on facebook and his smart phone a lot more than I am. I only ever opened a facebook account in 2014 because the meet up group I was in shifted to facebook. I despise instagram and tiktok etc. The other people I know that don't like social media were also born in the late 70s/early 80s. Yes you are correct that boomers love their facebook, but Xennials are a different cohort. We are young enough to understand the internet and that the online world has some benefits, but old enough to understand that some of it is pointless and stupid
yeah I am from 1980 and there have been so many changes. Playing chistmas carols as a kid on record player, taping songs off the radio and then "chewing up" the tape because I played it too much. Playing my older sister's snoopy tennis hand held game. First transformer in 1986. First remote control car in 1987. First video game console in 1992. First VCR in 1994. First computer in 1995. First CD player in 1997. Used the internet and sent my first email on a neighbour's computer in 1998. My first email address in 1999. My first cell phone Christmas 1999. My parents connected to the internet in 2000. Pirated my first CD in 2001. Downloaded my first mp3 in 2003. First cable TV subscription in 2005 (pay TV really only started in Australia in the mid 90s) I consider myself lucky to have been an 80s kid: so many cool toys and great music
I'm still bored half the time, especially over the last few years as youtube and other once creative sites have swelled up with content chasing the algorithm rather than people just making things because they were interested or passionate about them. Not that those don't still exist buried in the pile, but it's getting way harder to find things I actually want to see, so my boredom has increased. But it's not like it was ever gone entirely. But also I'm always pursuing other interests anyway. So.. thinking about it a bit more, I don't think I'm more or less bored than I was as a kid, but I am "distracted" more, or was at one point.
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The term ‘quiet anxiety’ does not ring a bell for me. I think ‘anxiety’ is a very millenial/Gen X term. It’s more awareness that it ain’t all gonna be sunshine and a realistic pragmatic attitude towards those risks
@milton77631977-1980 "Gen X" was the first generation to HEAVILY delay things that older generations did relatively young. Namely, moving out to your own place, starting a serious relationship, getting married, and having kids, etc. It's been said that unhappy marriages and/or having kids ages you a lot from the added emotional stress, and not surprisingly, tail end Gen X looks much younger in middle age than prior generations. Late Gen X also got seriously criticized in the 90's as slackers, nihilists, etc. Woodstock '99 and Columbine were basically treated as the culmination of everything that went wrong with late Gen X (and early Gen X venomously hates late 90's culture, BTW).... Even though, those events also involved people born in the early 80's AKA Millennials. So I think Xennials is appropriate for 1977-1985 births. Older generations dismissed us as defective and dangerous.... Around 2010 is when Boomers and early Gen X started really complaining about "Millennials" but the criticism was different than what we were called in the 90's and 2000's. "Millennials" were bashed mainly as soft and entitled.
Ya it's fun you start your career get laid off, then finally get going again layed off again so much fun. I am easily 10 years behind people born just a few years later. Have contact with 5000 different people a year and see if you remember all their names. The only other ones I forget are new employees I just tell don't expect me to remember your name until you are off probation.
1979 here. That's not relevant, though, I'd like to know why you made a video on this very topic essentially twice? They're quite distinct from each other; be it the animations or the didactic approach to the script itself.
After 1981 you're a millennial, people need to start accepting that. Millennials didn't "reject xennials" if anything the 'xennials' rejected millennials. A lot of them desperately wanted to be Gen X and didn't want the stigma that boomers labelled millennials with. Plenty of millennials knew a childhood without tech, or at the very least in the advent of cartridge games, before the internet and mobile phones were common place. People need to stop desperately trying to be Gen X, or something which doesn't exist (Xennials).
Xennials are not the Bridge Gen !!! They were born at beginning of digital. ...and had their teen years in digital .... Gen X are the Bridge Gen...... Both analogue and digital 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 You fed your AI generated the wrong sh*t 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
STOP MAKING UP GENERATIONS. 15 year spans starting 1900 means millenials are 1975 thru 1989 with gen x and gen z before and after. This is just early and mid millenials not liking the label and moving dates around to be called something else. No one had all these random dates for generations before 08. Once the economy became shit and young people got poor suddenly we are defining ourselves as different. Breaking 15 year generations into early mid and late is fine as a sub category, but these dates are justcearly and mid millenials.🤨
Generations by Strauss and Howe in the late 90s coined most of these . terms, and even speculated back then that there might be a micro-generation between X and Millenials back then given differences in how kids coming of adult age at the time of that books writing were living a bit of a different experience than the older Gen Xers. Just because you don't agree with something that's been more recently defined than your personal point of reference doesn't make it invalid.
And you people should be really leery of someone who gives you simple answers for complicated questions. This is not a subject matter that should be simplified. 😂 You people will just listen to anyone and don't care whether they're an authority on the subject matter or not. This guy makes the same videos all the time and uses different names for the same generations
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You really needs to do better when it comes to Generations numbers and birth years. Generation Alpha aka Gan A are born in the years 2020 - 2039. Generation Z aka Gen Z aka Zoomers are born in the years 2000 - 2019. Generation Y are born in the years 1980 - 1999. Gen X born in the years 1960 - 1979. Generation W aka Boomers are born in the years 1940 - 1959...are you seeing a pattern yet? Get it right you f🙊kn idiot. 😂
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@Psychologypatterns11 There is your problem, Pakistan has no morals muchless a good education system, which is why it was so easy for me to call you out on your uneducated BS. By the way, you replayed to yourself and not the one in question. F🤡kn idiot. 🤣👌
I was always building something, reading, or messing around outside. Maybe boredom wasn’t the point, we just had to create our own entertainment.
Thanks for sharing these resources! I’m definitely going to check out the book list and the behavioral psychology playlist.
The way Xennials lived both an analog childhood and a digital adulthood really explains that unique mix of adaptability and skepticism. It is like growing up in two completely different worlds at once and somehow learning to thrive in both. Makes you rethink a lot about identity and how technology shaped us.
Honestly, I was never really bored as a kid. I was always building something, reading, or messing around outside. Maybe boredom wasn’t the point, we just had to create our own entertainment.
perhaps thats why we have a more vivid imaginations? lol i think so.
I was born in 82, and the fastest technological advancement I remember is data storage. I’m old enough to remember using multiple floppy discs to install Windows and how big of a deal it was when my brother bought his first 1GB hard drive. I still remember him saying, “I don’t know how I’ll ever fill up this much space!” The next Christmas he got a game that required 1.25GB. I graduated from graphic design school in 2006 and used a 256MB thumb drive to store all of my files. Now my phone has 500 times that much storage.
Same exact as age you (same year anyway, end of 82) and it's crazy to think that i have (looks looks in drawer) nine 256gb thumbsticks sitting right in from of me casually.
I remember installing Doom for the first time and it had 6 diskettes? maybe more ROFL
This video deserves more views.
I used kilobytes for stuff. Even had to figure extended memory and expanded, IRQ, no usb plug and play, er, pray.
*I relate to this deeply, but I’d argue the real shift wasn’t just storage capacity, it was how quickly “enough” stopped feeling like enough for our generation. We grew up believing in limits, then watched those limits disappear almost overnight, which quietly rewired our expectations and anxiety. That constant leap from scarcity to abundance might be why so many of us feel both adaptable and strangely unsettled. I’m curious if others feel like we never fully adjusted to that pace of change.*
We love the privacy of the 90s but enjoy the convenience of 2026. Xennials are the only ones who can 'disappear' without guilt because we know real life happens offline. Does anyone else still prefer a one-hour phone call over texting all day?
remember those awkward pauses as you ran out of topics to talk about? hahaha but it kept going anyways 🤣
Born 1982. Young enough to have had a tech-savvy dad with a hand-held camcorder when I was a kid, old enough for all those home video tapes to have gotten thrown out by my mom before they could be digitized. 😂
ouch ROFLMAO
Once you see this pattern in people… you can’t unsee it.
The hardest pill for Xennials to swallow: We brag constantly about our "feral, analog childhoods" and how we learned to survive boredom without screens. Yet, we are the exact generation of parents handing iPads to 3-year-olds at restaurants so we can have 5 minutes of peace. We know the absolute value of an unplugged life, but we are too exhausted by endless economic hustling to enforce it for our own kids. We are the bridge generation, but we are burning the bridge behind us.
I disagree, we delayed having kids much longer than prior generations, most of the people born in the 90's 2000's had parents born from 1955-1975. And not many people have been born in the 2010's or 2020's. So at this point many Xennials and Millennials will never have kids at all
Nope not giving into that.. Trust me I understand that need for a bit of downtime and I do give in but at certain times..
Every generation, from here on out, is burning the bridge behind them.
EVERYTHING is getting worse. Humanity is speedrunning directly towards oblivion, infinitely faster than ever before. Nihilism is the only logical choice.
I’m a 1981 baby, so this one really hits home.
Same....we are NOT MILLENNIALS...NOT 1%
Born in 1978. Bored to hell on Sunday. Hell yeah I remember that time clearly. Especially when the cartoons -> Knight Rider -> A-TEAM ended and MASH started. That was the time to turn off the TV.
I was born in 81 and this video hits the nail right on the head
Something that should be said is that birth rates in the late 70's and early 80's were quite low. We actually are the first generation to feel heavily outnumbered by older people. Growing up, it seemed like 80% of people were 10+ years older than me. Gen X born in the 60's is actually a large generation.
Growth is realizing not every battle needs your energy.
“The ‘analog childhood, digital adulthood’ line really sums it up perfectly. Growing up with cassette tapes and landlines but adapting to the internet and smartphones definitely created a unique mindset. Xennials really are a bridge between two completely different worlds.”
Woot, A second Xennial video. It seems like 95% of your videos describe me.
I was born 8/3/83 and I have always been very aware. The changes in the world and society have been wild to witness and experience. I have experienced things that very few will ever experience. It's been a long strange trip.
I have a cd-rom of the early internet. Yes you could dial in but loading a complete website could take ages............. so webstores would send you a cd-rom so you could pre-install the entire website before visiting clearing broadband for more relevant information. Somehow that seems appropriate to this video....
Note: We had a 100 channels on cable. So not fully bored.
1981 here. I feel fortunate to have been born during this time period and to have lived through and be alive during all these changes. It's an interesting world we live in. 🙂
I was always building something, reading, or messing around outside. Maybe boredom wasn’t the point, we just had to create our own entertainment.
Born in 81 this really hits home.
I’m apparently a ‘Xennial’ and I’ve never felt (generationally) out of place
I know 79 is when I was born ❤
I'm 1986 and 100% identity with this Xennial term. As a DJ and Tech person, im fluent with both technologies new and old for both music and I.T.
I was born in 1980. I post pictures online all the time, but I also have books filled with photos of my childhood that no one outside of my family has ever seen. As someone who was born with a disability (Spina Bifida), I still have medical implants that are essentially analog tubes, but I also require medical devices that use modern software.
Born in 83 and was never bored, you talk like there was nothing to do lol. I had plenty of videogames and films for when i was at home
The 'Paradox Generation' is the perfect name. We are the bridge between two completely different human eras. Thanks for this deep dive into our unique psychology!
I wasn't bored. I just had to entertain myself 95% of the time. This is why I can draw, paint, play video games, fix basic plumbing, craft fences, etc, etc, etc. We had to self motivate!
Wasn't bored. Skipped school (too boring) to go the local bookstore and read until the last public bus took me home. Learned WAY more that way than in school. Made me much more self-reliant in the long run when you can learn the subjects that interest you and you can assimilate all that useful knowledge. They were trying to teach me how to factor numbers while I was teaching myself quantum mechanics and calculus basics.
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Another thing that a lot of us Xennials probably have in common is having our tonsils removed which is something that they rarely do now. I also remember when me and all the kids in the neighborhood got chicken pox and our parents were told by doctors to have us all catch it while still young and would have us all playing together even though we were contagious.
Born in 1978. Im gen X. Thats where i align.
I’m 1986, I feel nowhere
@mrbransformer4184you're a millennial. Lol
I was also born in 1978 and gen X is my home.
For a long time I thought thank god we're not millenials the way those poor folks get bullied by old people just for being born during a certain time.
84 here..yup...
I spawned in 1982 . I believed I was "gen Y" . But yeah, this profile depicts exactly how I feel.
1:10 It’s Sunday and I’m watching this 😂 Gen Xer/xennial
78 and always felt like I transcend the typical generational categories.
Ok, first of all, I was never bored. I was always on something, doing something.
Not actively doing something is indeed not being bored
This video nails a lot but leaves out some core things. I'm smack dab in the middle (1980), and that analog childhood didn't just lead to a digital adulthood, our generation was right there on the ground floor early, in our teenage years with pagers, web 1.0 and things like AOL Instant messenger. While only say 15% of the US was on the internet in 1997, I'd bet among Xennials that was more like 50-60%. We were very enthusiastic adopters of the emerging technologies, and in our 20s we pioneered social media with Friendster and MySpace.
It was a great time to come of age, we really had the best of both worlds. On the plus side, we can relate to older pure Gen Xers and Millenials to a fair degree, we bridge some generational gaps which is also pretty unique.
I was born 1976 so I seem to be in 2 groups, I was never board, sometimes I was just busy doing nothing. Or daydreaming, staring into space it didn't feel like being board, it still doesn't. Only now I would probably say I'm just having some 5 mins or me time 😊 xxx
I'm a bicentennial baby. I bought my first cell phone at 30. I told my students that I went to the grocery store without my cell phone. 🤯😲😲😲😲😳 They were mind-blown, like COMPLETELY skunked. I've lived my life 30/50 years longer ☎️without a cell phone than I have with it👉🏻 20/50 years 📱.
Pretty good video - I think the bored part you got wrong though. We were anything but bored.
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I'm absolutely a xenial born in 79 ❤
Great work !😍
excellent video
if I ever told my mom that I was bored, she would hand me scissors and tell me to go cut the grass.............🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would argue that the Xennial category can be applied to anyone born in the 80s. I was born in 1986 and this category really speaks to me. Similarly I think that my brother, born in 1988 and sister 1989 also have the same level of placticity betweent the two paradimes.
Born in 80. remember legos and erector sets, building and painting models, cartoons like gi joe where violence was the answer to every problem lol. World now days seems wackt. Also grew up with the internet with no censorship, parent who fixed thier car in the parking lot of our apartment, vhs, bart simpson rap. lol
1975 here… GenX to the core… which I view as 1965-1980. Many Xiennials I know identify with GenX, but that’s not surprising given Xiennials being a micro cohort at the very tail end of GenX. I can greatly identify with this micro cohort… being bilingual (analog/digital), beginning college in one world and graduating only to be thrown into and entirely different world, navigating the working world trying to get a foothold among those who were long past retirement age and pledging to stay until the very end… etc. Yeah, as GenX, we mess with Xiennials… they get it, and we may be the last generation that does.
Born in 1980, I can’t relate to the whole “bored” thing. There was always a book to read, a bike to ride, or a Nintendo to play. I could walk to the pool (if mom gave me money) or sneak into the country club with my sled on snow-days. Got my first job at 14 years of age because labor laws were … different …. Of course, minimum wage was $4.05, but that $50 paycheck made me feel unstoppable!! I had tons of things to do!
there were Arcades as well XD
@Chropolesomg arcades ….. 🥰
I am impressed
good video
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If you remember searching through Internet connections like a list of fine wines, (T3, T1, cable, dial up,...) you might be a Xenial 😂
I don’t know where this shit came from. I was born in 1980 and was always doing something with friends. Camping at the river,fishing,building go karts,building models,collecting baseball and football cards,listening to music making the walls shake,building something still to this day. Riding bikes anywhere and everywhere. Making ramps to jump, built a giant half pipe for our skateboards and bikes, playing Nintendo and Atari. Shooting at cans and other targets at the river, making mixtapes. I can’t ever remember just staring at the ceiling doing nothing.
Exactly
This explains so much...
Oh I know ❤ it's a relief I still have a VCR and video tapes lol born in 79 😊
I was born in 1985 and experienced all of this firsthand. Sometimes I really miss those times before everything became so heavily digitalized. By the way, I still can’t quite figure out which generation I belong to :))
Such a familiar feeling - that sense of being caught between two worlds, not quite fitting neatly into either box!
Xennials like you (roughly 1977-1985) genuinely have a unique brain wiring - you built memories in an analog world, then adapted to digital, which actually gives you a rare kind of cognitive flexibility. That nostalgia you feel isn't just sentiment - those sensory-rich childhood memories are literally a resource your brain can tap into for real energy and creativity today.
Does that "in-between" feeling ever show up in other areas of your life too, or is it mostly about the generational identity piece?
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We said Xennials in ‘97 in high school lol it was a thing 20 years before that guy wrote some article in 2014 lol
Also the last generation to have had real relationships with the people that went through the Great Depression and WWII. Younger generations, and even some older folks seem to have lost those hard learned lessons.
I was born in this range and I don't think bored is exactly the right word. Like, yeah there were times that I had "nothing" to do. But you always find something to get into, on non school days i just got out into the neighborhood and saw who was around, and if nobody was around i went back home and read a book or played whatever video game system i had at that time or played with my toys or whatever.
One thing I will say, this micro generation has that's really unique, we got to see the digital world develop in real time. Quite a time to be alive.
I relate to this a lot. It wasn’t really boredom-it was just space to figure out your own fun. Wandering the neighborhood, reading, games, or just using your imagination. And you’re right, our generation had a front-row seat to the digital world being born and evolving. That’s a pretty unique experience.
I never felt bored when I was a child, even now. Watching the clouds changing shapes in the clear sky is fun to me.
I still have my walkman, cassette, CDs, which look like graveyard old to my child. I should've save my 💾.
Yes! You got everything right, wow. Earned my sub :)
No bro hes talking pure bs ....
Up to July 1980 ur a gen x after that ur melenials.......
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Otherwise known as the Oregon Trail generation.
I feel seen
You died of dysentery! 🧫☣️
I pronounce it as (Ex-ennial for Xennial) to make the distinction between these two micro-generations as, GenX and Millennial.
Versus pronouncing it as (Zen-nial) signifying another micro-generation that’s between (Millennials and Zoomers -aka GenZ)
Yes, I was bored and looked on ceilings. No microwaves though. I watched wood burning in ovens. Now I'm an alcoholic.
If millennials don’t want xennials, we’ll take them, most of them are good people. Unlike millennials, gen xers don’t gatekeep.
I remember when I first got onto the internet in 1995. Everyone you met was like minded. ASL!!
Has this been re-posted? I'm sure I've seen this before
Interesting
Right bro
My husband are both Born in this time and Its crazy that we grew Up in a time our society Changed more in ten years (1995 to 2005) than in the 30 years before or 20 years Afterwards together. I am From 82 and my husband 77 and we both were children in a time without phones, Internet or distraction at all but got adults with Tablets, iPhones and smart Home. Just the Time between me being ,between 16 and 22 ( 1998 until 2004) was a crazy ride
But I bet you left out the fact that you have an ipad you have an apple computer and an iPhone. Because I hate to tell you older people are using the devices and social media more than young people today. And the same thing that was happening in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan is continuing under Donald Trump so how was it any different than when you lived. Besides technology.
After july 1980 ur a melenial.
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The point is that "Xennials" are in that age bracket where we are comfortable using technology but are often exhausted by it. I was born in 1980 and my dad is on facebook and his smart phone a lot more than I am. I only ever opened a facebook account in 2014 because the meet up group I was in shifted to facebook. I despise instagram and tiktok etc. The other people I know that don't like social media were also born in the late 70s/early 80s. Yes you are correct that boomers love their facebook, but Xennials are a different cohort. We are young enough to understand the internet and that the online world has some benefits, but old enough to understand that some of it is pointless and stupid
yeah I am from 1980 and there have been so many changes. Playing chistmas carols as a kid on record player, taping songs off the radio and then "chewing up" the tape because I played it too much. Playing my older sister's snoopy tennis hand held game. First transformer in 1986. First remote control car in 1987. First video game console in 1992. First VCR in 1994. First computer in 1995. First CD player in 1997. Used the internet and sent my first email on a neighbour's computer in 1998. My first email address in 1999. My first cell phone Christmas 1999. My parents connected to the internet in 2000. Pirated my first CD in 2001. Downloaded my first mp3 in 2003. First cable TV subscription in 2005 (pay TV really only started in Australia in the mid 90s) I consider myself lucky to have been an 80s kid: so many cool toys and great music
@The_Bear_Is_Watching79 here... That mirrors my life. I remember I think it was napster that you got music off. Lol
Dot-com bubble bursting during my graduation, I salute you!😅
I feel like a Boomer after I leave a voicemail. ramble much? 😂
I'm still bored half the time, especially over the last few years as youtube and other once creative sites have swelled up with content chasing the algorithm rather than people just making things because they were interested or passionate about them. Not that those don't still exist buried in the pile, but it's getting way harder to find things I actually want to see, so my boredom has increased. But it's not like it was ever gone entirely. But also I'm always pursuing other interests anyway.
So.. thinking about it a bit more, I don't think I'm more or less bored than I was as a kid, but I am "distracted" more, or was at one point.
MapQuest
Stable... ground... what's that?
Agreed
1978 😁
bro i have been watching your content alot and i think your channel is on your lowest, ....and you are trying to bring your best performing videos once again, but it happens when you rely too much on ai , people just understand that this is an ai slop
The term ‘quiet anxiety’ does not ring a bell for me. I think ‘anxiety’ is a very millenial/Gen X term.
It’s more awareness that it ain’t all gonna be sunshine and a realistic pragmatic attitude towards those risks
And what generation are you exactly?
@Jason-k2o1mapparently, a Xennial. Born 1977. I’m not so sure, though, whether there’s really a difference with the rest of Gen X
@milton77631977-1980 "Gen X" was the first generation to HEAVILY delay things that older generations did relatively young. Namely, moving out to your own place, starting a serious relationship, getting married, and having kids, etc.
It's been said that unhappy marriages and/or having kids ages you a lot from the added emotional stress, and not surprisingly, tail end Gen X looks much younger in middle age than prior generations.
Late Gen X also got seriously criticized in the 90's as slackers, nihilists, etc. Woodstock '99 and Columbine were basically treated as the culmination of everything that went wrong with late Gen X (and early Gen X venomously hates late 90's culture, BTW).... Even though, those events also involved people born in the early 80's AKA Millennials.
So I think Xennials is appropriate for 1977-1985 births. Older generations dismissed us as defective and dangerous.... Around 2010 is when Boomers and early Gen X started really complaining about "Millennials" but the criticism was different than what we were called in the 90's and 2000's. "Millennials" were bashed mainly as soft and entitled.
Ya it's fun you start your career get laid off, then finally get going again layed off again so much fun. I am easily 10 years behind people born just a few years later. Have contact with 5000 different people a year and see if you remember all their names. The only other ones I forget are new employees I just tell don't expect me to remember your name until you are off probation.
Tundra cats. I have VCR tapps . In 20years people will think I'm ancient . Because the old ones are dies from the 50s
1979 here. That's not relevant, though, I'd like to know why you made a video on this very topic essentially twice? They're quite distinct from each other; be it the animations or the didactic approach to the script itself.
You should use an Ai voice. Too NPR/true crime podcast for me.
Bro I can comment on previous video check it
MTV bring back Liquid Television
It's better than psycho babble
Does anyone else notice that the comments for this video are generally less incoherent and brain-rotty than most other videos?
We've made it this long without another meaningless label used to bully people. Let sleeping dogs lie.
Plz
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After 1981 you're a millennial, people need to start accepting that.
Millennials didn't "reject xennials" if anything the 'xennials' rejected millennials.
A lot of them desperately wanted to be Gen X and didn't want the stigma that boomers labelled millennials with.
Plenty of millennials knew a childhood without tech, or at the very least in the advent of cartridge games, before the internet and mobile phones were common place.
People need to stop desperately trying to be Gen X, or something which doesn't exist (Xennials).
Xennials are not the Bridge Gen !!!
They were born at beginning of digital. ...and had their teen years in digital .... Gen X are the Bridge Gen...... Both analogue and digital 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
You fed your AI generated the wrong sh*t 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
STOP MAKING UP GENERATIONS. 15 year spans starting 1900 means millenials are 1975 thru 1989 with gen x and gen z before and after. This is just early and mid millenials not liking the label and moving dates around to be called something else. No one had all these random dates for generations before 08. Once the economy became shit and young people got poor suddenly we are defining ourselves as different. Breaking 15 year generations into early mid and late is fine as a sub category, but these dates are justcearly and mid millenials.🤨
Generations by Strauss and Howe in the late 90s coined most of these . terms, and even speculated back then that there might be a micro-generation between X and Millenials back then given differences in how kids coming of adult age at the time of that books writing were living a bit of a different experience than the older Gen Xers.
Just because you don't agree with something that's been more recently defined than your personal point of reference doesn't make it invalid.
And you people should be really leery of someone who gives you simple answers for complicated questions. This is not a subject matter that should be simplified. 😂 You people will just listen to anyone and don't care whether they're an authority on the subject matter or not. This guy makes the same videos all the time and uses different names for the same generations