And the few they had they pawned off on older siblings, aunts or grand parents. I have this recurring fantasy of all the Baby Boomers suffering in abusive nursing homes where Boomers are forced to aid each other. Yeah right! Don't plan on getting those Depends changed, the sheets cleaned or that bed pan emptied if you have to rely on a fellow Boomer to do it. Not to mention they will probably be fed tv dinners and Spam every day. LOL!!! (Keeping my fingers crossed!) : )
Born 1975 and looking at all the restrictions around kids and how they live today I have to say I am glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's where you had freedom to a certain extent and didn't rely on technology to communicate or to have fun.
I was born in 1987, and I think people in my age range also had fun without technology, we still played outside before internet was mainstream, people in my age range are 90's kids, so the technology that we had for fun was videogames and cartoons on tv, and CD players, many of the parent for my age range are too old to be gen x but too young to be baby boomers, and the personalities of my age range are different from the personalities of millennials and gen X. Do you know which generation category my age range goes into, is it gen Y or something else?
Adamantium Scorpion and we fell down off our bikes, skinned our knees and got right back on & kept riding because we wanted to stay outside and play til night haha.
@T Mox Well you see, genX includes more than one decade grouped into 1 category, but since each decade is generally different from another, it makes sense to me to consider that a genX person born in one decade might have quite a different personality than a genX person born in another decade; so in relation to what I implied, most of the SJW-2000's kids that I know of, are children of 80's kids... and a lot of 80's kids that I've observed have behaved very similarly like the SJW-2000's kids... Also, notice how many of the 80's kids are also the children of baby-boomers...
We are NOT stuck between anyone-we ARE the FREE INDEPENDANT Generation! 1965-1980.Why feel sorry for us? We love who we are! We were the Latch Key Kids.Self sufficient,self reliant.We are tough and we will always make it.
+spicey1 We're also very different in many ways. The freedom that 70s kids had to rome, was taken away with the "stranger danger" fears of the early-mid 80s.
Hey what's your opinion about 90's kids (born in the late 1980's), the people who had their gradeschool age childhood experiences in the 90's, the golden age of cartoons and videogames? I was born in 1987, and I can say that the 90's kid personality is very different from the gen Z and gen X personalities, most of the 90's kids did do not have baby boomers for parents, our parents are too young to be baby boomers, but we had our childhood before the internet became mainstream and before cell phones had screens and were still expensive, 90's kids played outside and CD players were our version of tapes, our "thing" is gaming and animation/ drawing instead of music or social media. I'm curious, what would gen X think of the 90's kids and do they think 90's kids are different from gen Z and gen Y and gen X?
Yeah, I’m the baby of 6 kids raised by the silent generation. Sibling to a couple of boomers. Plenty of millennials as nieces and nephews as well as one of my children. The other is z. I feel no need to complain about or compete with any of them. I love them all! Sure has been interesting growing and learning new things as well as appreciating our history during such incredible times.
Gen X doesn't even have a name. Just a letter. That's how little they think of us. "Greatest Generation", "Silent Generation", "Baby Boomers", "...", "Millennials", and so on. X was the label for an unwanted generation. X became an identity. "You don't think we will amount to anything". WWF had the faction "Degeneration X", Microsoft came out with the "XBox", everything in the 90s was "Xtreme" with the oft-used color scheme green and black. Punk bands were called "X", and the list goes on. Skateboarders and slackers were our heros in 80s and 90s movies. We are the first computer literate and gaming generation, but millennials get all the credit for that.
*****: The Me Generation were the Baby Boomers. In their 20's & 30's, they were super greedy & materialistic in the 80's and that was their "New Testament". Their "Old Testament" was the acid induced, hedonistic, "free love" 60's when they were teens. The Boomers labeled their first batch of kids, "Gen X". They abandoned us to be raised by our siblings or grand parents and after their crack/ice fog subsided in the 80's/90's, they decided to have more babies at 40+ y/o! They neglected Gen X and overindulged Gen Y. But for the most part, Gen X sired The Millenials. And we, their Gen X parents, renamed them "The Millenials" after their evil grandparents (Boomers) tried to label them Gen Y. As in "WHY do they exist?" or "WHY were they born?" The Boomers' evil is boundless... They even try to change the range to be labeled Boomers, X or Y. Some born in the early 60's try to claim they're Gen X because Boomers have a problem with aging and passing the torch. They want to forget about Gen X because we "date" them and are a constant reminder of their LONG GONE youth. The only reason why they even mention the Mills is because they're so young. I see 60+y/o women telling strangers - "THIS is my daughter!!" With so much pride. As if, the person ringing up their groceries really believes that even though the daughter is 20 y/o, the cashier will never suspect that the mother is 62. The mother thinks she can quietly convince the cashier that she's 42. No, need to mention that she has 3 older kids, ages 42, 38 & 35. SMH!
*****:OMG, I wrote that last post before watching the vid (sometimes I like to read the comments first) and the host's first sentence was about her age and about how she feels like she's Gen X, even though she's a Boomer. SMH...WHAT happened to that generation? How'd an entire generation, handed prosperity and opportunity, all turn into a bunch of parasites?! But at least she admits that Gen X is between two extremely selfish generations...
@106756185265675713032: My aunt is a menace, too! Born in 1956. She is a mimic. She copies others and takes over their "persona". She always tried to date my mom's (her older sister) ex boyfriends. She married one. But he divorced her after she attacked his daughter from a prev marriage and hospitalized her. She is the type that befriends ppl beneath her social status so that she can lord her material wealth and prosperity over them. She has no boundaries and thinks the world revolves around her literal ass. Boomers were over-indulged and allowed to run wild but they grew up to be selfish, controlling and withholding.
So true that. When I first went to high school, my parents were all like "study hard, you need to go to college. And we're going to help you." In my last year of high school. they were all like "I hope you got a plan, cause we can't help you." But they were far more prosperous than they ever had been... So I did everything myself after that.
David Smythe Not me. A lot of Generation X are trying to take care of the Baby Boom parents and make sure they don’t completely loose it or things fall apart. It’s like we had to be more mentally strong.
Not true. Some tossed their kids out, but thats true of all generations. We didnt throw ours out, i dont know any of my friends who did. Our generation is too large to toss into one catagory.
😂😂😂 I'm assuming your talking about the boomer who was speaking? They rip everything off, don't they? They'll be in nursing homes soon, so we won't have to deal with them much longer.
@@GenXer333 lmbo...As a nurse and Generation X'er (born in 1974) I must inform you that THEY DON'T DIE. THEY LIVE!!!!!!! My parents are 81 and 82 aka The Silent Generation who kept their heads held high and snatched up any opportunities they could. I am an American Negro at that, raised by an engineer and teacher that dropped the ball on their BABY aka ME...but it made me stronger and independent because my generation X'ers gave non committal men children. It's not quite that simple but er... ya know. I have 1 Millennial son born in 1993...highly educated and scared straight, he's independent and responsible because since my parents DID NOT TALK...I decided it would be an awesome idea to tell my children the truth...even my mistakes. My 23 year old daughter Gen Z can be a bit entitled but she's pretty independent as well and they understand that you shouldn't be waiting for old folk to die in order to get your come up. I know you said they'll all be in nursing homes soon enough but home care is the new thing so you might have boomer 'roommates'...unless you go off grid.
occupy. 'They have insurance' LOL. They dont have the knowledge necessary to stay healthy. But I like your thinking, insurance always gives people an inflated sense of security.
The cutoff between a Boomer and and Gen Xr is easy to determine. If your primary cabe channel was MTV and you spent hours watching Yo MTV Raps or Club MTV, you're a Gen Xr. If not, you're a Boomer.
Generation X - The generation that worked hard over the summer to buy what they wanted, made personal mix tapes for their friends, earned their keep around the house, played with friends outside after school, got a hiding when they were way out of line, knew how to communicate without an electronic device, made friends easily, learned life skills in their spare time, and were the innovators of everything subsequent generations take for granted. I'm a proud Gen X, and I shake my head at the spoiled, entitled, ungratefulness, and uselessness of every generation proceeding.
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@@Dank_Dank I maybe 41 but I can still kick your ass.
@@Cbd_7ohm That's because the so-called dieticians of that time had it all wrong! They said don't eat ANY fat. So instead everyone thought it was healthy to eat fat free everything. The fat was replaced with tons of sugar and carbs. Also, everything was super-sized at that time. Go to a restaurant and you had left overs for days, if you didn't eat it all in one sitting.
Future generations can still get jobs to buy what they want, we make playlists for our friends now, most of us still earn our keep around our houses unless we were spoiled by our parents, we still play with our friends when we can, unless homework is a lot, many Gen Xer's are the parents of Gen Zer's, so if you don't discipline you kid that's kinda your fault, we still know how to communicate without electronics, but it is convenient though, bullying rates have gone down, so although there are more cliques, there is less bullying, usually parents aide in helping their child learn life skills, with neglectful parents just giving their child a screen, that has gone down so that is not really our fault. You did innovate a lot of stuff, though we are not ungrateful.
I'm sure every generation has thought that their generation was the best before; but remember, although things have changed, it doesn't necessarily mean worse. Things change, and eventually we just need to accept it.
The Boomers were spoiled. I keep hearing that millennials are entitled yet have no where near the same spending power with an entry level job as a boomer did (in which the boomers sent those good entry level jobs overseas)
@@witnessforchrist7778 You so nailed it. They took the prosperity our grandparents wanted us to have, trashed it, and still want their asses kissed by the entertainment and news media. We were stuck holding the bag, so to speak. That's what makes us so self-sufficient.
Playlists just aren't the same. When someone made a tape for you in the 80s, whether guy or girl, there was a sort of special connection with it. @Dan Comer I used to swap memorex cassettes tape that had Vic-20 games on one side, and music on the other.
Born in 71'. It was awesome being a little kid in the 70's. My friends and I would play outside as much as we could. Sunup to sundown. Sports out on our street pretty much everyday. Hide n seek, ditchem', tag, climbing trees, constant adventure and daring to push yourself. You name it or we would make something up. The parks were challenging to play on, before safety reared its ugly head and made everything boring and plastic. Being a gen X'er in the 80's was all about what you could get way with. Parents were at work and the mice would play. Music and movies were fresh back then and everything seemed so new. Late 80's and 90's were pretty cool too. There were still regular house parties, bands, debauchery with somebody's parents out of town and the phone off the hook. I would always hear from boomers though how much cooler it was in the 70's and early 80's of being an adult back then. I sure do miss those days. Aesthetically, since technology took over, things are just not as cool as they once were. Dealing with gen Y'ers and gen Z'ers nowadays is like speaking a language to them that they don't understand. Boomers are still my heroes and also some of the people cannot stand the most with their ego's going thru the roof. I sure do have lots of outstanding memories from my first 25 years on the planet. Nowadays it really isn't close to being anything like it used to be, and getting old sucks. Also, unless I make my fortune, I have to work until I'm dead.
We had to suck it up...We were wrong to everybody...we had to fight being spoon fed by our silent generation and boomer leaders who faulted us when we didn't produce the same results, yield obediently to the same ideals, and demonstrate appreciative attitudes towards their simple-minded rubbish.Yeah, I love love love us to piecesPut our boomer and silent generation forbearers in our places, and they'd fall to pieces or go mentally ballistic. They accused uff being selfish, yet they tried to save us from our false values.
Gates and Jobs built wonderful operating systems, and that's where it ends. It was GenX that developed and created a market for the internet and all it's connected devices.
she has a clear bias towards gen y tho she should of just came out and said gen y i hope you die its basicly her atatude then she has the nerv to say she isnt a baby boomer in atatude no like you kinda are
Cassette tape recorders and walkmans. Naturally aspirated cars. No great divide between parties. No identity politics. Libraries. No around the clock social media bullshit. I think most X'ers can relate.
We also learned social skills, and how to be self reliant early on. No participation ribbons for us, nor did we expect them. Crying about bullies wasn't a thing either. You either got your a$s kicked, or learned how to kick their as$. We were the gen with a thick skin and street smarts.
Gen X. We don't complain because we have just enough to buy a house, a car and some savings for our retirement. The good thing is we don't carry too much debt. So there you have it, we just hope our children, the Gen Z, will not live in poverty and suffering as much as Gen Y.
It's simple, many Gen Xers were seen as competition, for obvious reasons. If you started a company with other Gen Xers, you were successful. If you stayed corporate, you got screwed.
@@SunandSnowGardening The thing about Gen X is that by the time they came to adulthood, they were disillusioned and far less malleable than the millennials. Gen X came up mostly in the era of all of the fallout from the turbulent sixties (Vietnam, Racial tension, JFK,MLK,RFK assassinations) and the fuckery of the 70s (Watergate, beginning of the decline of public education, the rising of the era of Education being a profit based industry where college started to become unaffordable to many). It is no wonder that many Xers have chosen to be their own person, shun the so called time honored traditions, and just go their own way. Not by becoming hippie dropouts, mind you, but by educating and improving themselves in ways that the institutions don't bother to do. When the millennials came of age, the boomers were still in power due to their sheer numbers and able to indoctrinate many millennials into "conforming to the culture" so that they can keep the faith.
Hey what do you think of 90's kids (people born in the late 1980's, like 1987 for example)? The personality of 90's kids had their childhood during the golden age of videogames and cartoons, and before internet was mainstream, 90's kids played outside and CD players were their version of tapes, and generally most of their parents are too young to be baby boomers. What's your opinion about the 90's kids.
That's a fact jack...people born in the late 60s early 70s are bigger, stronger, smarter, have thicker hair and just look healthier than the scrawny or overweight, tattooed stringy haired generation of today.
We were independent from the age of seven. We raised ourselves and learn how to have lives by ourselves. We also get things done. We are the generation to get things done. And at the least likely to do self-promotion about it
Yes, I think the Boomers didn't think we were doing anything because we weren't self-promoting. What we were doing was working several jobs to keep a roof over our head and making sure our parents were ok. College costs many times what it had cost the previous generation, so we put our nose to the grindstone.
Gen. Xer, born in 1977, I always call my childhood gladiator school because I was left on my own, and I was physically and verbally abused a lot. The funny thing is now, I can look back on it and laugh, I don't even remember the pain. My parents started leaving me home alone at 6 years old (don't answer the door or the phone, and if you get hungry make a bologna sandwich, and yes we sat and watched Cable TV the whole time),; by the time I was 7, I was walking to school alone, and my school was far from my home (I would never ever let a child that young walk to school alone). By the time I was 9, I was pretty much a young adult😂. Don't get me wrong, I had so much fun in the 80s and 90s, but the parenting back then was so cringe, my parents were coke snorting partiers, they just made sure I had food and nice cloths, but there wasn't that much nurturing happening. By the time I was 7, I was cursing like a sailor, it was wild.
A boomer walked into my office and complained about the fees, insisted they were too much, demanded I charge less (because he's retired now) and complained that the government should do something because I charge so much. After all, maybe you shouldn't have retired so soon or took so many trips to Costa Rica. But NO. HE has a problem and brother I OWE him for the problem,or else he'll sick the Government on me. Fed up with the parasites that are Government and that benefit from it.
Keep fishing, you'll find the self hating ones of my generation who'll tell you what you want to hear. You'll get as much reparations out of them as you'll get out of me. I don't like what's been done, I know I can never retire. I wonder how I'm going to like being on a ladder when I'm 85. America is a country nobody can afford to live in anymore.
I agree with that because it seems like even in elementary school we had little playtime and many of them especially the older children of the family had to grow up so fast. We were independent anyway and then when we even tried to force more Independence our families would fight against us when they wanted us to be independent in the first place..geeze! My baby boomer mother didn't make any damn sense to me at times but my father did because he was a middle child so he would understand it and we could get each other.
God! The title of this video is so true. It’s so sad Generation X talent couldn’t have came out bc they immediately sent them off to die in the Gulf War, took our jobs over seas claiming most Americans were High School drop outs and illiterate instead of college educated and leaving only Halliburton, Teaching and food service industries for jobs to work.
I love how the Gen X woman in the audience was named Lisa, and how her brother's name was Scott. So fitting. Is there anyone in the US younger than 40 with those names?
Probably not. People are now naming their kids "Ponderosa", "Scout", "Maybelline" and other lame names that will be sure to get them bullied in school.
Gen X has X factor. That sexy, xany, ineXplicable attitude that all other generations envy and could never bottle or achieve. The most creative, innovative and still down to earth of all the generations.
Gen x really never had a chance boomers wouldn't let us get going in life the way past gens would it was supposedly already set up for us but that has back fired horribly
+steve windsor Actually our ME FIRST baby boomer parents who were the yuppies that sent all the jobs overseas with NAFTA just so they could make bigger profits for cheap labor FUCKED US OUT OF A TRADITONAL FUTURE! They had all the high paying manufacturing jobs they could work 30yrs at then retire with guarrentee of not shutting down and fucking them out of their livelyhoods. Of course, they had no problem getting to the top of the career ladder then pulling it up behind them so their own kids could NEVER reach that traditional level of success. They left us NO CHOICE but to find new ways of getting by. Some of us made it and some of us did not.
There is a very self righteous attitude of boomers. Many of them did work hard and they are so very proud of this fact that if their kids get ahead it will make them look bad.
steve windsor, absolutely true. Boomers were vicious gatekeepers protecting their own job security. Graduated college in ‘94, and nobody I knew could find meaningful work. Boomers slammed the door in our faces.
Born in '67. She nailed it pretty well. MTV. Check Start the crock pot for dinner. Check Recorded off of the radio. Check Did everything for myself. Check Wasn't coddled. Check Loyal to people, not organizations. Check Inspect Halloween candy for signs of tampering and throw away apples. Check Cynical, questioning, don't buy in. Check I'll add: We are the first generation to see divorced parents as normal, not scandal. We are the generation that bridged analog and digital technology. We are the smallest generation. We are the coolest generation.
+thomdathom you call gangsta rap, the underground electronic music scene and grunge vapid? since you're incredibly ignorant I'll inform you that we experienced those music scenes in their purist, life changing forms - YOUR generation made them vapid and meaningless
Fine. thanks for clarifying. In my opinion the 70s was an amazing time for rock music. Obviously each generation builds on the foundation from previous ones but come on man - at the gym and on commercial radio now they play the SAME music I heard 20 years ago at underground parties. Millennials go to the SAME events (EDC, etc) that's just weird.
@Kirsten DLCO (FashionEntrepreneur) And now they are DRESSING the same. Exactly my generation's and culture's styles. And the best bit is they don't even know they are copying shit. They get it fed from magazines and designers who raid through cultures styles. What is this shit
wow thank you so much for this. Your understanding is so helpful to my heart. I was molested as a kid and no one cared. Seriously! Even after we told the police! Nothing happened, no counseling, no punishment to the guy. I was 14 and had to figure it out on my own. It's true, Gen X are independent and creative people! I never thought any of my friends was lazy - I've been working since I was 15! I was a waitress at 16. We were young, we made our mix tapes and we earned our own cash to buy music and go to concerts. I actually miss those days, hanging out with friends and everyone talking and not on cell phones. Great speech thank you!
The speaker described perfectly my life when I was growing up. Parents both at work, making mixed tapes with themes, having to learn everything for myself, MTV-
This brought back memories of getting home and watching TV, while constantly keeping an eye out the window for my mom to pull up. I would quickly turn the TV off, close the wall unit door and run to the dining room table and start my homework. Lol
I was born in 1969 and my parents were divorced by mid 70s. Every kid I knew had the same story. Nobody cried about it - we just pushed on. You weren’t allowed to be a victim. We all knew our teachers / politicians/ pastors / and coaches were full of shit and they knew it too. They didn’t care about us and in return we didn’t listen to them. They were in it for themselves so we tuned them out. They resented us for not being gullible. Speaking of gullible, it pains us Gen Xers to see how blindly trusting Millennials are. They are so clueless to the fact that they are being used.
My mom was born in ‘66 and says exactly the same but with her fuck up older sister and teachers. I was born in 97 so early gen z. I actually trust few people. My dad abused both me and my mom so I trust little and know that I am enough for me. I don’t ask anything from others.
I´m a millenial, but my parents raised me to work hard for what I want. I am also Autistic, and I had to work ten times as hard in school. I had to prove that I was not worthless. I cleaned houses in the summer and volunteered. I never really had much handed to me. I am also a middle child, and had to figure out how to be independent. I had to toughen up after being ostricized by kids my age when I was a kid/teenager. I also am taking out huge student debt to be a Spanish interpreter and a meteorologist. I was always told by people my age that I was worthless, so I never knew how to be self-absorbed. People tell me that I don't give myself enough credit. Not all of us are lazy, entitled shmucks... Smh. Oh, and we also have some of the lowest wages after we graduate college and high school, AND student debt is the highest!
Ahhhh, but is it not the grinding wheel that sharpens the sword?! (Don't know where that came from?!) That's it! I'm Taking The Empire Strikes Back out of my VCR, Right Now!
I grew up in a foster home, and was the oldest living at home. My father was never home, but my mother always was. However, when we walked out the door, the kids were my responsibility. I wasn't a disciplinarian, but rather was a protector. No one dared lay a hand on any of the kids in my presence. And I would watch anywhere from 2 -12 kids all at the same time.
No, a lot of these - hold on a second. A lot of these cultural crimes I’ve been complaining about can be blamed on the baby boomers. Something else I’m a little tired of hearing about - The Baby Boomers Whinny, Narcissistic, Self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: “Give Me IT! It’s Mine!” “Give Me That! It’s Mine!” These people were given everything - everything was handed to them. And they took it all - took it all, sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride, but now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age-burn out and they don’t like it, they don’t like it, so they turned self-righteous and they want to make things hard on younger people. They tell them to abstain from sex, say no to drugs, as for the Rock-n-Roll they sold that for television commercials a long time ago, so they could buy pasta machines, StairMaster’s and soybean futures; “Soybean Futures.” You know something: they’re cold bloodless people, it’s in their slogans, it’s in their rhetoric; “no pain, no gain” “just do it” “life is short” “play hard” “shit happens” “deal with it” “get a life”. These people went from ‘do your own thing’ to ‘just say no’. They went from: “love is all you need” to “whoever winds up with the most toys wins”. And they went from ‘cocaine to Rogaine’. They did. And you know something they’re still counting grams, only now its fat grams. And worst of it is, the rest of us have to watch these commercials on TV for Levi’s loose fitting jeans and fat-ass Docker pants because these degenerate yuppie boomer cock-suckers couldn’t keep their hands off the Croissants and the Häagen-Dazs. And there big fat asses have spread all over and they have to wear fat ass Docker pants. Fuck these Boomers! Fuck these Yuppies! And fuck everybody now that I think of it. Fuck everybody. Well, sometimes in comedy you have to generalize
Many of her points doesn't understand 90's kids though (people born in the late 1980's who experienced they gradeschool age childhood during the golden age of videogames and cartoons), a lot of gen x don't know that while music is their "thing", gaming is a 90's kid "thing", and the social network is a millennial's "thing, many of us are more into gaming, and the 90's kids played outside before internet was mainstream, and 90's kids tried to get jobs in their mid to late teens, most of the parents of 90's kids are too old to be gen X and too young to be baby boomers. The personalities of 90's kids are different from the personalities of millennials.
@@starshield7 i think you also have to take into acount 90s and millanials kids were brought up in a time when things were changing i was born in 1991 so i think i fit into millanials but i was born on the cusp of the mps personal music device thing
Born in 79' out in a small town growing up, a person simply did not trash-talk other bigger kids or anyone in general. The results would often just be that you got the crap kicked out of you.
Baby Boomers got a lollipop handed to them, loved it so much that they made Gen X give them one too. According to her I’m in Gen X. I’m 36. I’m good with it I identify with it most. I was totally a latchkey/daycare/after school care kid. My moms a Boomer. She’s awful
i love how boomers blame gen y for shit that boomers did gen y's lazy they dont wanna work oh im sorry was it gen y'er that replaced the workers with machines ? stop being hypercrits
Bullsh*t! If those chores weren't done, baby brother fed, all homework completed, Lisa would have gotten her ass kicked by her mom for not playing mom, well...
The foundation for most of the music today came from Generation X. Underground New Wave, EDM, Punk, Hip Hop. I can go on and on. I was born in NYC in 1971 and I grew up in the NY nightlife of the 80s and 90s. CBGBs, The Tunnel, The Limelight. I would see everyone from Joey Ramone to Madonna, Rupaul , Trent Reznor partying along with crowd. It was a time of excitement, music, creativity and also an amazing era for modern and performance art. NYC IS NOTHING LIKE THAT NOW! People go to concerts and watch through their phone screens instead of having an immersive experience they are more concerned with posting it on social media. Put your phones down and dance, feel the music. Live a real tangible life!
@118356634621309134986 XD Oh yes it is: 90's kids grew up on a ton more videogames than many 80s kids, and the 1990's had a ton more videogames than the 1970's and 1980's combined, and 90's kids were exposed to more videogames in general at an earlier age than 80's kids, and the 1990's videogames had a predominanty larger percentage of high quality videogames than the 1980's (which included story writing, music, designs as well as the gameplay itself). And while 80's kid videogame tournaments were about the size of a bingo club, 90's kid videogame tournaments have been global in size. And the 90's kids age range have a higher percentage of people who incorporated videgoame culture into their adulthood than the percentage of the 80's kids age range. 80's kids are predominantly more about music than gaming or social networking, and 90's kids are predominantly more about gaming than music or social networking. And 70's kids are more about cinema than the other things. When it comes to the gaming culture of 90's kids compared to the gaming culture of the 80's kids, there is no contest, literally. Gaming is mostly a 90's kid thing.
My husband refuses to buy songs. We still go to our local music store and buy CDs (high tech lol) I am running out of room but he just keeps buying. lol
My parents are baby boomers. I like hearing about the interesting things about how the 1950's era was like from Marilyn Monroe and how they took their bibles seriously, along with values and morality. However, I do miss them because they are not alive anymore. We should value them like a treasure without taking them for granted.
I really hate this inter-generational sniping. I’m a Millennial and about to turn 32, by the way, and you all know the “iGen” are about to hit adulthood, too, right? My parents were both Boomers, too, and I grew up much like this typical Gen X childhood, though I did get the Internet in high school (we were dirt poor despite Mom working 3 jobs at times and often not eating for days just so I could eat). But, y’know, every generation has to deal with BS. Millennials had the Recession which delayed our ability to enter the job market significantly, but y’know we’re also more civic minded and volunteer more than previous generations. Gen X were... really edgy when I was growing up, so thanks for all the X-treme stuff, I guess? And Boomers worked their asses off, too, though they did manage to get paid better than Millennials do nowadays, thanks inflation combined with static minimum wages. But how about we all just try to help each other out instead of bitching about perceived character flaws of human beings who happened to be born within an arbitrary 15-20 year time span?
My Boomer mother used to go into a rage of self pity if I asked her what's for dinner. "I work all day. I'm not your slave. I don't need to come home and cook for you!" With no college education, she had an easy office job that had her home by 4:30 or 5:00 almost every day, full benefits, paid vacation, medical, and great retirement which she blew by quitting just before her 20th year so she and the 2nd husband could go be evangelical missionaries... which they never ended up doing.
I'm a late boomer 1963 and it's hard to deny how the current state of affairs traces back. The hippies and Woodstock thing never sat right with me. It seemed all about doing whatever you wanted and screw the consequences, like it was their God given entitlement. When they were in their prime years in the 80s, Mr Reagan further fluffed their pillows and told them they were due everything they wanted and right now besides. The seeds for all of what goes on now were planted when I was a baby, far as I can see.
Well, I can respect the talents of each generation. We are pulling together on tough issues. As and X'er, I applaud our accomplishments and feel like we are good spouses, parents, employees and that we not only work well with the Boomers, but also the Millennials- and actually are compelled to bring the best out of us all =)
Early gen z (97) and some of my greatest professors and role models are gen x and so’s my mother. All of them taught me the power of using both academics and creativity change the world😊
A book I read, "People of the Lie," kind of '70s Christian pop psychology, makes me wonder about the opening statements, "I'm not Gen X, but I feel Gen X." The book talked about "narcissistic twinning," which is, using similarities with another person in conversation to gain sympathy and a shallow sense of "alikeness" in the narcissistic sense that alikeness to the self must make the listener someone worth talking to. Or, she's just found a good opening statement for her speech on Gen X. And, I'm Gen X, but spent most of my adolescence in a used bookstore reading '70's pulp in the '90s.
My kids don't even believe my stories about growing up in the 70s. I told them about the parents on the opposing Little League team flicking lit cigarette butts at us while we ran down the 3rd base line and they called me a liar. BTW, Millennials ought to be called "the dullest generation." My god are they thick. Can't think for themselves, can't improvise, love to argue. And if you have to work with them, they'll argue as a delaying tactic to avoid work. All freakin' day if they can.
Born 1971. But academically a late bloomer. My marks did not peak until 2015. Just finished a nursing degree and about to study occupational therapy. Studying without computers was terrible. My mum was a boomer and dad silent gen. My mum worked night shift and was home when I came home from school. My mum and I are like sisters. Her second husband was pretty special. My silent gen dad wanted me to do nursing instead of allied health. Did nursing after numerous attempts got 12 months worth of work and that is it. Got no work in nursing as I was told management did not like the way I looked. My dad thought nursing was the only suitable health career for girls with good job prospects. The boomer teachers unfortunately did not have much faith in my generation they thought we were apathetic. I always got an award for most conscientious student even though I was a C average student. I thought I was stupid. My science teacher said with technology on the rise that my marks will improve. They sure did. My English teacher was also a boomer. We were studying harp in the south. She said that she could not believe how strong my sense of Justice was compared to my age group. I was shocked. My mum told me about how bad inequality was. A lot of my classmates did not have a close bond with their parents. So they were just interested in working after finishing year 12. In my cohort there was only myself and another student who wanted to become social activists.
no the boomers have nothing on the traditionalists...traditionalists behave as if they're in their own bubble...their s are the only rules. I love gen x too...we had to figure it out... the world was not this place of heroes and "social values".
Baby Boomers had one phone in the house. It was on the wall in the kitchen, and it had a rotary dial. Generation X phones had push button keypads, and there were several phones in the house. This means you could be trying to get a date, and suddenly hear giggling, because your sister was listening on the extension. Millennials carry their phones in their pocket, and they send texts so no one can eavesdrop on their conversation.
Millenials didn't grow up with cell phones they were 18-20 when cell phones became common. Only rich kids had them in high school. Generation Z are the ones you are referring to.
The best thing about Gen Z is that our Xer Parents took tech from their time and advanced it to sell to us. So, we can enjoy what they enjoyed back then. :)
Some of this is ridiculous. The way she's addressing the Gen Y people in the room comes off as condescending. They weren't born reliant on technology for one thing. I'm a late Gen Xer and my younger sister is an older Gen Y and we both remember when walkmans and boom boxes came out. She grew up checking her Halloween candy just like I did. There's a Stark difference between the older Gen Y and the younger ones. Those that were born at the beginning of Gen Y (between 81-85) are the younger siblings of Gen xers, they have more in common with Gen X than they do with their younger counterparts.
I'm a late Gen Xer born in 1980, my parents are early boomers with my mom born in '48, right in the cusp between traditionalist and boomers with more traditionalist traits and yeah I agree. I remember as a kid whenever I cry, my mom would tell me to shut up or she'll give me more reasons to cry.
1973 born, oldest born Gen X and can SO relate! I had to practically RAISE my 1988 born Gen Y Sister in my teens. I have a Gen X bro and Gen Y bro. Somehow I ended up being the scapegoat. Oddly enough, learning about the generations makes me understand why I can't stand my parents.😆
I think we had to raise ourselves. I know I did, my mom was very selfish and made decisions based on what she wanted not what was best for both of us or for me. I think her generation was selfish. I think that is why so many of my generation are helicopter parents to our own children. We don't want them to feel ignored like we were, pushed aside by parents who had bigger and better things to do than take care of us. When I make a decision about my life, first thing I do is weigh out if this is something that will be good for my son. But I also don't sugar coat anything for my son, I let him fall on his face and I don't hide or pretend everything is okay when it isn't. That was another thing Baby boomers did, pretend. My mom lived in a pretend bubble. I had to figure out things on my own because she was busy living the life she wanted in her head instead of the reality that it was. Generation x knows what reality is. We don't expect everything to go our way and we don't expect to get everything we want. We're cynical, resilient, don't trust easily, protect our own, and even though our parents thought we were slackers because we didn't devote ourselves to our careers, our bills are paid, there's food on the table, and our kids know we will protect them.
I'll make this short. I'm Gen X...but for the last 25 years I've told folks younger than me how cool the 70s were...they enjoy stories of how gritty, in your face, hands on and dirty those modern folk lore tales of recent history can be.
Most "boom boxes" could record direct from the radio. I don't think I ever did the speaker to recorder thing. But it was absolutely an art form to get the perfect recording. Timing was everything. Nothing infuriated me more than when the DJ started to talk over the end of the song. I still, to this day, have a bit of a disconnect with some songs when I don't hear the radio call sign at the end of the track. I just heard them that way for so many years, it became part of the song to me. It was like a Godsend when CDs came out and I could record directly from those, free of those crackle and pops from LPs. It cracks me up that Millennials are so into vinyl now. But most of them don't do vinyl properly with an analog audio system. I have a Millennial brother-in-law that plays his records over wireless speakers. If you're going to go analog, you need to go analog the whole way. Man I miss the hi-fi years of the 1970s through the 1990s when people would actually sit down, dim the lights, and really listen to music.
Three things I am most proud of. Being born in this awesome country, God gracing me with being an 8th gen Texan, and finally, being part of the last great generation, GEN X. While kids today are glued to a television, we were outside exploring, socializing (IN PERSON), being involved, and most of all, being us.
3 things youre most proud of are things that just randomly occurred and you had no personal involvement in? How about attaining an education, creating something, etc that you had a part in? Strange sense of pride...
I'm an Xer too (born 1970) and my parents were born 1924 (dad) and 1935 (mom), so I had a bit of a different experience growing up than what most Xers claim. I was never a latchkey kid. I have two sisters who were at the tail end of the Boomers. We don't really talk LOL.
You missed all the good part : generation X saw some old good values, old good simple life style, no violence, hope in futur, and naivity true relations, and to too much high tech (that make people more lonely than ever) .. Mom's at work that's the beginning of the end of all generations to come.
They fucked us to so.... do you want to join the gen Y fun train? We have cool electronics, and videogames, our music sucks though :/ But you can bring your own music :)
No shit!! There was nothing like feeling like your parents baggage, I realized at an early age that if i didn't look after myself no one else was going to.
Well generally gen Y are the 90's kids right (born in the late 1980's)? Well most 90's kids didn't have baby boomers for parents, most 90's kids parents are too young to be the baby boomer generation. I was born in 1987, my childhood experiences were in the golden age of videogams and cartoons and pokemon cards, this was a time before the internet was mainstream. And the 90's kid personality is very different from the gen Z and gen X personalities.
How fucking hard is this? Everywhere I look there is someone else guessing on when what generation was born! Generations last 20 years, they are not physical or mental cut offs, they are not instantaneous seismic shifts in culture. They are historical book markers and nothing else. That said Lots To Learn was correct the Baby Boomer historical marker starts at 1945, and ends at 1965. The Generation X historical marker begins at 1965, and ends at 1985. The Generation Y/Millennial historical marker starts at 1985, and ends at 2005. The Generation Z/Zoomer historical marker starts at 2005, and ends at 2025.
Well, she DID say she "wanted" to be Gen X, so I have to give her props for at the very least understanding that her OWN generation is selfish. Still though, I'm just glad some of you gen Ys realize that those of us in the tiny little forgotten generation of X didn't really have the power to mess things up, nor were we given any torches to pass to you ;(
I'm a Millennial (80's baby) and I definitely recorded music from the radio on cassette tapes back in the late 90's-early 00's. Good times. Lol My mother is an old Gen X (born '65) and my grandmother is an old Baby Boomer (born '47). I can definitely agree with Gen X being independent. My mother ALWAYS worked to take care of all of her children (3 kids) by herself. She was very self-sufficient. That also always left me in charge (oldest) which made me self-sufficient.
do you rember when mp3's came out and then ipods but ipods were so expensive and becouse you didnt have ton of money u downloaded pirated songs and risked infecting ur mums computer (sorry mum)
I was born in 1987. The personalities of my age range are different from the personalities of the millennials, my age range played outside before internet was mainstream, 90's kid gradeschool childhood age was experienced during the golden age of videogames and cartoons, many of the people in my age range tried to get a job in our mid to late teenage years, while music is gen x's "thing", and the social network is the millennial's "thing", gaming is a 90's kid "thing", I don't relate to a lot of points in this video. the name for my age range is commonly referred to as "90's kid".
I was born in 1975; we are a minority because our parents didn't want lots of kids. Remember, they were self absorbed.
And the few they had they pawned off on older siblings, aunts or grand parents. I have this recurring fantasy of all the Baby Boomers suffering in abusive nursing homes where Boomers are forced to aid each other. Yeah right! Don't plan on getting those Depends changed, the sheets cleaned or that bed pan emptied if you have to rely on a fellow Boomer to do it. Not to mention they will probably be fed tv dinners and Spam every day. LOL!!! (Keeping my fingers crossed!) : )
True. I am an only child my self. Post '65 it was about the pill and birth control, height of the sexual revolution without the babies etc.
wellbe take care of self absorbed selfie smartphone babies
I thought I was the only one that had that fantasy.
Now we have to start popping out kids! B4 it's to late.
Born 1975 and looking at all the restrictions around kids and how they live today I have to say I am glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's where you had freedom to a certain extent and didn't rely on technology to communicate or to have fun.
I was born in 1987, and I think people in my age range also had fun without technology, we still played outside before internet was mainstream, people in my age range are 90's kids, so the technology that we had for fun was videogames and cartoons on tv, and CD players, many of the parent for my age range are too old to be gen x but too young to be baby boomers, and the personalities of my age range are different from the personalities of millennials and gen X. Do you know which generation category my age range goes into, is it gen Y or something else?
astrostar7 Gen X my generation was born from 1961 to 1981 generation why is 1982 to present time by Earth brother☺
Riding your bike...WITHOUT A HELMET!
Adamantium Scorpion and we fell down off our bikes, skinned our knees and got right back on & kept riding because we wanted to stay outside and play til night haha.
1974 here...the greatest year of the '70's...lol. I so love the late '70's to late '80's.
Because we slipped through the cracks we turned out Self-Reliant and strong. No regrets here. Proud of my generation.
Que the douce haha
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But most of todays highschool and college age SJWs, that I know of, are children of 80's kids (80's kids are within genX age range).
What she said.
me too
@T Mox Well you see, genX includes more than one decade grouped into 1 category, but since each decade is generally different from another, it makes sense to me to consider that a genX person born in one decade might have quite a different personality than a genX person born in another decade; so in relation to what I implied, most of the SJW-2000's kids that I know of, are children of 80's kids... and a lot of 80's kids that I've observed have behaved very similarly like the SJW-2000's kids...
Also, notice how many of the 80's kids are also the children of baby-boomers...
We are NOT stuck between anyone-we ARE the FREE INDEPENDANT Generation! 1965-1980.Why feel sorry for us? We love who we are! We were the Latch Key Kids.Self sufficient,self reliant.We are tough and we will always make it.
+spicey1 We're also very different in many ways. The freedom that 70s kids had to rome, was taken away with the "stranger danger" fears of the early-mid 80s.
+spicey1 Preach ( born in '75).
:-)
Your generation fucking rocks!
Hey what's your opinion about 90's kids (born in the late 1980's), the people who had their gradeschool age childhood experiences in the 90's, the golden age of cartoons and videogames? I was born in 1987, and I can say that the 90's kid personality is very different from the gen Z and gen X personalities, most of the 90's kids did do not have baby boomers for parents, our parents are too young to be baby boomers, but we had our childhood before the internet became mainstream and before cell phones had screens and were still expensive, 90's kids played outside and CD players were our version of tapes, our "thing" is gaming and animation/ drawing instead of music or social media. I'm curious, what would gen X think of the 90's kids and do they think 90's kids are different from gen Z and gen Y and gen X?
We, gen x, are stuck wiping two different generations rears. Literally.
Back to multi-generation households?
oh get fucked between you guys and boomers we dont have the same opertunitys that you did
@@yaelfeder9042 It's probably inevitable.
@@edwardfindley8483 Don’t worry, your kids’ll take care of you one day. At least I plan on taking care of my mother.
Right
"Gen X was raised by those baby boomers."
Lots of our parents were from the Silent Generation.
Exactly. Millennials are the generation raised mostly by baby boomers.
Yeah, I’m the baby of 6 kids raised by the silent generation. Sibling to a couple of boomers. Plenty of millennials as nieces and nephews as well as one of my children. The other is z. I feel no need to complain about or compete with any of them. I love them all! Sure has been interesting growing and learning new things as well as appreciating our history during such incredible times.
@@katecardinale787 Haha. Im the 2nd youngest of 7. Though both my parents had kids before they met. I was born in 71 and my dad was 45 and a ww2 vet.
Right?!! I was born in '74 and my mom was born in '43 and dad in '45 so yeah lol (younger side of Silent Generation).
That would be Greatest Generation.
Gen X doesn't even have a name. Just a letter. That's how little they think of us. "Greatest Generation", "Silent Generation", "Baby Boomers", "...", "Millennials", and so on. X was the label for an unwanted generation. X became an identity. "You don't think we will amount to anything". WWF had the faction "Degeneration X", Microsoft came out with the "XBox", everything in the 90s was "Xtreme" with the oft-used color scheme green and black. Punk bands were called "X", and the list goes on. Skateboarders and slackers were our heros in 80s and 90s movies. We are the first computer literate and gaming generation, but millennials get all the credit for that.
I actually don't mind being called Generation X. Yes, the X stands for nothing, but there's something kind of spiritual and zen about that.
*****: The Me Generation were the Baby Boomers. In their 20's & 30's, they were super greedy & materialistic in the 80's and that was their "New Testament". Their "Old Testament" was the acid induced, hedonistic, "free love" 60's when they were teens. The Boomers labeled their first batch of kids, "Gen X". They abandoned us to be raised by our siblings or grand parents and after their crack/ice fog subsided in the 80's/90's, they decided to have more babies at 40+ y/o! They neglected Gen X and overindulged Gen Y. But for the most part, Gen X sired The Millenials. And we, their Gen X parents, renamed them "The Millenials" after their evil grandparents (Boomers) tried to label them Gen Y. As in "WHY do they exist?" or "WHY were they born?" The Boomers' evil is boundless...
They even try to change the range to be labeled Boomers, X or Y.
Some born in the early 60's try to claim they're Gen X because Boomers have a problem with aging and passing the torch. They want to forget about Gen X because we "date" them and are a constant reminder of their LONG GONE youth. The only reason why they even mention the Mills is because they're so young. I see 60+y/o women telling strangers - "THIS is my daughter!!" With so much pride. As if, the person ringing up their groceries really believes that even though the daughter is 20 y/o, the cashier will never suspect that the mother is 62. The mother thinks she can quietly convince the cashier that she's 42. No, need to mention that she has 3 older kids, ages 42, 38 & 35. SMH!
*****:OMG, I wrote that last post before watching the vid (sometimes I like to read the comments first) and the host's first sentence was about her age and about how she feels like she's Gen X, even though she's a Boomer. SMH...WHAT happened to that generation? How'd an entire generation, handed prosperity and opportunity, all turn into a bunch of parasites?! But at least she admits that Gen X is between two extremely selfish generations...
AllGuts NoGlory
Hey, funny finding you on here. I am Gen X, btw.
@106756185265675713032: My aunt is a menace, too! Born in 1956. She is a mimic. She copies others and takes over their "persona". She always tried to date my mom's (her older sister) ex boyfriends. She married one. But he divorced her after she attacked his daughter from a prev marriage and hospitalized her. She is the type that befriends ppl beneath her social status so that she can lord her material wealth and prosperity over them. She has no boundaries and thinks the world revolves around her literal ass. Boomers were over-indulged and allowed to run wild but they grew up to be selfish, controlling and withholding.
She forgot to add that their philosophy was that when you turned 18 we weren’t Mom and Dad’s responsibility anymore.
So true that.
When I first went to high school, my parents were all like "study hard, you need to go to college. And we're going to help you." In my last year of high school. they were all like "I hope you got a plan, cause we can't help you."
But they were far more prosperous than they ever had been...
So I did everything myself after that.
David Smythe Not me. A lot of Generation X are trying to take care of the Baby Boom parents and make sure they don’t completely loose it or things fall apart. It’s like we had to be more mentally strong.
Ain’t that the truth? No college paid for, moved out very early, been on my own since. At least we had awesome music.
Not true. Some tossed their kids out, but thats true of all generations.
We didnt throw ours out, i dont know any of my friends who did.
Our generation is too large to toss into one catagory.
@@VanillaButtercreamFrosting
I paid for my college. Im a boomer.
It's sad when Boomer's are so entitled that they go around calling themselves Gen X.
😂😂😂 I'm assuming your talking about the boomer who was speaking?
They rip everything off, don't they? They'll be in nursing homes soon, so we won't have to deal with them much longer.
@ True. Very true.
@@GenXer333 lmbo...As a nurse and Generation X'er (born in 1974) I must inform you that THEY DON'T DIE. THEY LIVE!!!!!!!
My parents are 81 and 82 aka The Silent Generation who kept their heads held high and snatched up any opportunities they could. I am an American Negro at that, raised by an engineer and teacher that dropped the ball on their BABY aka ME...but it made me stronger and independent because my generation X'ers gave non committal men children. It's not quite that simple but er... ya know. I have 1 Millennial son born in 1993...highly educated and scared straight, he's independent and responsible because since my parents DID NOT TALK...I decided it would be an awesome idea to tell my children the truth...even my mistakes. My 23 year old daughter Gen Z can be a bit entitled but she's pretty independent as well and they understand that you shouldn't be waiting for old folk to die in order to get your come up. I know you said they'll all be in nursing homes soon enough but home care is the new thing so you might have boomer 'roommates'...unless you go off grid.
occupy.
'They have insurance'
LOL.
They dont have the knowledge necessary to stay healthy.
But I like your thinking, insurance always gives people an inflated sense of security.
The cutoff between a Boomer and and Gen Xr is easy to determine. If your primary cabe channel was MTV and you spent hours watching Yo MTV Raps or Club MTV, you're a Gen Xr. If not, you're a Boomer.
Generation X - The generation that worked hard over the summer to buy what they wanted, made personal mix tapes for their friends, earned their keep around the house, played with friends outside after school, got a hiding when they were way out of line, knew how to communicate without an electronic device, made friends easily, learned life skills in their spare time, and were the innovators of everything subsequent generations take for granted.
I'm a proud Gen X, and I shake my head at the spoiled, entitled, ungratefulness, and uselessness of every generation proceeding.
@@Dank_Dank I maybe 41 but I can still kick your ass.
Gen x = fatties
@@Cbd_7ohm That's because the so-called dieticians of that time had it all wrong! They said don't eat ANY fat. So instead everyone thought it was healthy to eat fat free everything. The fat was replaced with tons of sugar and carbs. Also, everything was super-sized at that time. Go to a restaurant and you had left overs for days, if you didn't eat it all in one sitting.
Future generations can still get jobs to buy what they want, we make playlists for our friends now, most of us still earn our keep around our houses unless we were spoiled by our parents, we still play with our friends when we can, unless homework is a lot, many Gen Xer's are the parents of Gen Zer's, so if you don't discipline you kid that's kinda your fault, we still know how to communicate without electronics, but it is convenient though, bullying rates have gone down, so although there are more cliques, there is less bullying, usually parents aide in helping their child learn life skills, with neglectful parents just giving their child a screen, that has gone down so that is not really our fault. You did innovate a lot of stuff, though we are not ungrateful.
I'm sure every generation has thought that their generation was the best before; but remember, although things have changed, it doesn't necessarily mean worse. Things change, and eventually we just need to accept it.
I've been saying this for years. The X Gen is like the middle child, caught between the drama queen big sister and the spoiled rotten little brother.
Alita Bailey LOL I love that! 👍🏻 You made my day. I think you should “share” that or copyright it! LOL
spoiled rotten huh....i dont see anything that makes me spoiled.
Well said
The Boomers were spoiled. I keep hearing that millennials are entitled yet have no where near the same spending power with an entry level job as a boomer did (in which the boomers sent those good entry level jobs overseas)
@@witnessforchrist7778 You so nailed it. They took the prosperity our grandparents wanted us to have, trashed it, and still want their asses kissed by the entertainment and news media. We were stuck holding the bag, so to speak. That's what makes us so self-sufficient.
Mixed tapes ruled my world in high school!
Really? Because we didn't call them that.
Playlists just aren't the same. When someone made a tape for you in the 80s, whether guy or girl, there was a sort of special connection with it.
@Dan Comer I used to swap memorex cassettes tape that had Vic-20 games on one side, and music on the other.
Born in 71'. It was awesome being a little kid in the 70's. My friends and I would play outside as much as we could. Sunup to sundown. Sports out on our street pretty much everyday. Hide n seek, ditchem', tag, climbing trees, constant adventure and daring to push yourself. You name it or we would make something up. The parks were challenging to play on, before safety reared its ugly head and made everything boring and plastic. Being a gen X'er in the 80's was all about what you could get way with. Parents were at work and the mice would play. Music and movies were fresh back then and everything seemed so new. Late 80's and 90's were pretty cool too. There were still regular house parties, bands, debauchery with somebody's parents out of town and the phone off the hook. I would always hear from boomers though how much cooler it was in the 70's and early 80's of being an adult back then. I sure do miss those days. Aesthetically, since technology took over, things are just not as cool as they once were. Dealing with gen Y'ers and gen Z'ers nowadays is like speaking a language to them that they don't understand. Boomers are still my heroes and also some of the people cannot stand the most with their ego's going thru the roof. I sure do have lots of outstanding memories from my first 25 years on the planet. Nowadays it really isn't close to being anything like it used to be, and getting old sucks. Also, unless I make my fortune, I have to work until I'm dead.
Gen Xer here, i did housework and taking care of my younger siblings and no help with homework, thanks mom and pop.
Help with hw? What is that? Lol.
yeah I like to hear stories about gen x ..we are like the forgotten generation..cos we dont complain and just do :)
+On1 Productions We've been fucked over for so long, we've just gone numb.
We're not in everyone's faces.
We had to suck it up...We were wrong to everybody...we had to fight being spoon fed by our silent generation and boomer leaders who faulted us when we didn't produce the same results, yield obediently to the same ideals, and demonstrate appreciative attitudes towards their simple-minded rubbish.Yeah, I love love love us to piecesPut our boomer and silent generation forbearers in our places, and they'd fall to pieces or go mentally ballistic. They accused uff being selfish, yet they tried to save us from our false values.
On1 Productions no because your generation didn't do shit
Gen X didn't complain? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAH!
this lady knows gen x - this is awesome, my goodness.
Dont forget Gen X single handedly 'saved' this country from collapse through the tech revolution.
Joshua Johnston yeah like the Gen xers named bill Gates and Steve jobs. Smh
Jared yes, we are grateful for them setting up the tech so that we could grow up with it and become the tech revolution.
I don't believe we're done yet. We're the ones who will save them all. Our work is not done. We're BAD-asses!!
Gates and Jobs built wonderful operating systems, and that's where it ends. It was GenX that developed and created a market for the internet and all it's connected devices.
TheLAKERSareGodsTeam
Jobs didn’t even build the OS, he just sold it.
Steve Wozniak is responsible for creating Apple, and Jobs stole his fame.
Who is this lady?
Dayum, she describes us to a T.
Gen X is the coolest.
she has a clear bias towards gen y tho she should of just came out and said gen y i hope you die its basicly her atatude then she has the nerv to say she isnt a baby boomer in atatude no like you kinda are
Cassette tape recorders and walkmans. Naturally aspirated cars. No great divide between parties. No identity politics. Libraries. No around the clock social media bullshit. I think most X'ers can relate.
" No identity politics. "
that existed just not thrusted down one´s throat
and only two genders !
@@Kobayashhi yep that too
We also learned social skills, and how to be self reliant early on. No participation ribbons for us, nor did we expect them. Crying about bullies wasn't a thing either. You either got your a$s kicked, or learned how to kick their as$. We were the gen with a thick skin and street smarts.
Yes, exactly this. Finally, trapped between two groups of jerks.
I used to be like "please DJ, don't say a word when I'm recording..."
Lol Yep. Or else you'd have to sit in front of the speaker, getting cramps, waiting 3 hrs for the song to come back on.
Gen X. We don't complain because we have just enough to buy a house, a car and some savings for our retirement. The good thing is we don't carry too much debt. So there you have it, we just hope our children, the Gen Z, will not live in poverty and suffering as much as Gen Y.
Yeah,Gen x should be running things but boomers are trying to skip them and put the younger jerks like them in charge.
It's simple, many Gen Xers were seen as competition, for obvious reasons. If you started a company with other Gen Xers, you were successful. If you stayed corporate, you got screwed.
@@SunandSnowGardening The thing about Gen X is that by the time they came to adulthood, they were disillusioned and far less malleable than the millennials. Gen X came up mostly in the era of all of the fallout from the turbulent sixties (Vietnam, Racial tension, JFK,MLK,RFK assassinations) and the fuckery of the 70s (Watergate, beginning of the decline of public education, the rising of the era of Education being a profit based industry where college started to become unaffordable to many). It is no wonder that many Xers have chosen to be their own person, shun the so called time honored traditions, and just go their own way. Not by becoming hippie dropouts, mind you, but by educating and improving themselves in ways that the institutions don't bother to do. When the millennials came of age, the boomers were still in power due to their sheer numbers and able to indoctrinate many millennials into "conforming to the culture" so that they can keep the faith.
Gen X rules!
Hey what do you think of 90's kids (people born in the late 1980's, like 1987 for example)? The personality of 90's kids had their childhood during the golden age of videogames and cartoons, and before internet was mainstream, 90's kids played outside and CD players were their version of tapes, and generally most of their parents are too young to be baby boomers. What's your opinion about the 90's kids.
Today's generation are the most clueless, gutless and have the least social skills of any generation so far.
That's a fact jack...people born in the late 60s early 70s are bigger, stronger, smarter, have thicker hair and just look healthier than the scrawny or overweight, tattooed stringy haired generation of today.
Sorry, I just got a little defensive...peace bro...
@100822342758853312177 Why did you call the 90's kids the worst? Explain.
We were independent from the age of seven. We raised ourselves and learn how to have lives by ourselves. We also get things done. We are the generation to get things done. And at the least likely to do self-promotion about it
Yes, I think the Boomers didn't think we were doing anything because we weren't self-promoting. What we were doing was working several jobs to keep a roof over our head and making sure our parents were ok. College costs many times what it had cost the previous generation, so we put our nose to the grindstone.
Gen. Xer, born in 1977, I always call my childhood gladiator school because I was left on my own, and I was physically and verbally abused a lot. The funny thing is now, I can look back on it and laugh, I don't even remember the pain.
My parents started leaving me home alone at 6 years old (don't answer the door or the phone, and if you get hungry make a bologna sandwich, and yes we sat and watched Cable TV the whole time),; by the time I was 7, I was walking to school alone, and my school was far from my home (I would never ever let a child that young walk to school alone). By the time I was 9, I was pretty much a young adult😂. Don't get me wrong, I had so much fun in the 80s and 90s, but the parenting back then was so cringe, my parents were coke snorting partiers, they just made sure I had food and nice cloths, but there wasn't that much nurturing happening. By the time I was 7, I was cursing like a sailor, it was wild.
Of course there are alot less of us Gen X'ers. Official Generation X Slogan. "I survived the Abortion Holocaust".
The baby boomers are the worst generation..!
i think many baby boomers are the coolest
Individually, I've known some cool Boomers. As a generation, they're awful. Greedy and destructive.
They have great music tho.
Yeah I'm gen x. Never given a fuck about anything.
Nahh! Millenials take the cake.
A boomer walked into my office and complained about the fees, insisted they were too much, demanded I charge less (because he's retired now) and complained that the government should do something because I charge so much.
After all, maybe you shouldn't have retired so soon or took so many trips to Costa Rica.
But NO. HE has a problem and brother I OWE him for the problem,or else he'll sick the Government on me.
Fed up with the parasites that are Government and that benefit from it.
damn boomers i know them too well
I'm a boomer, you can't blame me for the sinking of the Titanic, I wasn't born then, but I'm sure you'll try.
@@davidvalensi8616 A boomer you say... thank you for not sinking the Titanic, now explain why you also can't be blamed for sinking the economy!
I don't have to answer to you, or apologize either, the vast majority of us did not make policy.
Keep fishing, you'll find the self hating ones of my generation who'll tell you what you want to hear. You'll get as much reparations out of them as you'll get out of me. I don't like what's been done, I know I can never retire. I wonder how I'm going to like being on a ladder when I'm 85. America is a country nobody can afford to live in anymore.
I love being Gen X. I had to laugh about recording music with a radio and tape recorder because I did that as well. It was a true what she said.
Gen X all day, like she said self-sufficient and we were skeptical of everybody.
Boomers and millennials on the other hand, are skeptical of people who don't conform to their rigidly defined labels or categories.
gen x went from one end to middle to the other in most things. example: analog to tech. very progressive generation
I agree with that because it seems like even in elementary school we had little playtime and many of them especially the older children of the family had to grow up so fast. We were independent anyway and then when we even tried to force more Independence our families would fight against us when they wanted us to be independent in the first place..geeze! My baby boomer mother didn't make any damn sense to me at times but my father did because he was a middle child so he would understand it and we could get each other.
God! The title of this video is so true. It’s so sad Generation X talent couldn’t have came out bc they immediately sent them off to die in the Gulf War, took our jobs over seas claiming most Americans were High School drop outs and illiterate instead of college educated and leaving only Halliburton, Teaching and food service industries for jobs to work.
I love how the Gen X woman in the audience was named Lisa, and how her brother's name was Scott. So fitting. Is there anyone in the US younger than 40 with those names?
Probably not. People are now naming their kids "Ponderosa", "Scout", "Maybelline" and other lame names that will be sure to get them bullied in school.
Gen xer here. I teach elementary school, and haven't seen kids with those names in many years. Plenty of teachers, though!
Gen X has X factor. That sexy, xany, ineXplicable attitude that all other generations envy and could never bottle or achieve.
The most creative, innovative and still down to earth of all the generations.
Gen x really never had a chance boomers wouldn't let us get going in life the way past gens would it was supposedly already set up for us but that has back fired horribly
+steve windsor Actually our ME FIRST baby boomer parents who were the yuppies that sent all the jobs overseas with NAFTA just so they could make bigger profits for cheap labor FUCKED US OUT OF A TRADITONAL FUTURE! They had all the high paying manufacturing jobs they could work 30yrs at then retire with guarrentee of not shutting down and fucking them out of their livelyhoods. Of course, they had no problem getting to the top of the career ladder then pulling it up behind them so their own kids could NEVER reach that traditional level of success. They left us NO CHOICE but to find new ways of getting by. Some of us made it and some of us did not.
There is a very self righteous attitude of boomers. Many of them did work hard and they are so very proud of this fact that if their kids get ahead it will make them look bad.
@@Xcorgi Don't forget the affirmative action we had to deal with, too.
@James Kirk Shut the fuck up spoiled boomer you know nothing about hardship, but you know how to be a smug narcissist
steve windsor, absolutely true. Boomers were vicious gatekeepers protecting their own job security. Graduated college in ‘94, and nobody I knew could find meaningful work. Boomers slammed the door in our faces.
Gen X'rs rule
47 years old. I work 7 days a week. I am tired.
Gen X in the house.
Born in '67. She nailed it pretty well.
MTV. Check
Start the crock pot for dinner. Check
Recorded off of the radio. Check
Did everything for myself. Check
Wasn't coddled. Check
Loyal to people, not organizations. Check
Inspect Halloween candy for signs of tampering and throw away apples. Check
Cynical, questioning, don't buy in. Check
I'll add:
We are the first generation to see divorced parents as normal, not scandal.
We are the generation that bridged analog and digital technology.
We are the smallest generation.
We are the coolest generation.
God bless this woman. Everything here is absolutely on point! Right down to recording music off of the radio.
I'm crying, it's nice to be understood and appreciated
Yep, more of the same empty generalizations about how terrible millennials are, such fantastic commentary
And all the millennials are listening to our music perpetuating the lifestyles that gen x created. I can't get away from the 90s! Lol
+thomdathom you call gangsta rap, the underground electronic music scene and grunge vapid? since you're incredibly ignorant I'll inform you that we experienced those music scenes in their purist, life changing forms - YOUR generation made them vapid and meaningless
Fine. thanks for clarifying. In my opinion the 70s was an amazing time for rock music. Obviously each generation builds on the foundation from previous ones but come on man - at the gym and on commercial radio now they play the SAME music I heard 20 years ago at underground parties. Millennials go to the SAME events (EDC, etc) that's just weird.
@thomdathom but you didn't have a lot to do with the music as a lot of it took place in clubs a lot more was underground
@Kirsten DLCO (FashionEntrepreneur) And now they are DRESSING the same. Exactly my generation's and culture's styles. And the best bit is they don't even know they are copying shit. They get it fed from magazines and designers who raid through cultures styles.
What is this shit
@thomdathom Um yes really One only has to look at events filmed and uploaded onto youtube
wow thank you so much for this. Your understanding is so helpful to my heart. I was molested as a kid and no one cared. Seriously! Even after we told the police! Nothing happened, no counseling, no punishment to the guy. I was 14 and had to figure it out on my own. It's true, Gen X are independent and creative people! I never thought any of my friends was lazy - I've been working since I was 15! I was a waitress at 16. We were young, we made our mix tapes and we earned our own cash to buy music and go to concerts. I actually miss those days, hanging out with friends and everyone talking and not on cell phones. Great speech thank you!
Me too. ((Hugs)) I care.
Gen-X unite! 💪
And Euthanize our parents.
Modern Witchery we really are the last hope! My biggest fear is that I’m gonna live out my retirement years in a millennial-run socialist dystopia
The speaker described perfectly my life when I was growing up. Parents both at work, making mixed tapes with themes, having to learn everything for myself, MTV-
This brought back memories of getting home and watching TV, while constantly keeping an eye out the window for my mom to pull up. I would quickly turn the TV off, close the wall unit door and run to the dining room table and start my homework. Lol
I was born in 1969 and my parents were divorced by mid 70s. Every kid I knew had the same story. Nobody cried about it - we just pushed on. You weren’t allowed to be a victim. We all knew our teachers / politicians/ pastors / and coaches were full of shit and they knew it too. They didn’t care about us and in return we didn’t listen to them. They were in it for themselves so we tuned them out. They resented us for not being gullible. Speaking of gullible, it pains us Gen Xers to see how blindly trusting Millennials are. They are so clueless to the fact that they are being used.
My mom was born in ‘66 and says exactly the same but with her fuck up older sister and teachers. I was born in 97 so early gen z. I actually trust few people. My dad abused both me and my mom so I trust little and know that I am enough for me. I don’t ask anything from others.
I´m a millenial, but my parents raised me to work hard for what I want. I am also Autistic, and I had to work ten times as hard in school. I had to prove that I was not worthless. I cleaned houses in the summer and volunteered. I never really had much handed to me. I am also a middle child, and had to figure out how to be independent. I had to toughen up after being ostricized by kids my age when I was a kid/teenager. I also am taking out huge student debt to be a Spanish interpreter and a meteorologist. I was always told by people my age that I was worthless, so I never knew how to be self-absorbed. People tell me that I don't give myself enough credit. Not all of us are lazy, entitled shmucks... Smh. Oh, and we also have some of the lowest wages after we graduate college and high school, AND student debt is the highest!
+Emma Falk Keep it up...you're a rare gem compared to what I've seen and met these days
+Emma Falk You give me some hope for your generation.
Ahhhh, but is it not the grinding wheel that sharpens the sword?! (Don't know where that came from?!) That's it! I'm Taking The Empire Strikes Back out of my VCR, Right Now!
100% this. it aint easy being a millenial atm.
@@Paperclown uhhhh....millenial generation is 1982-2004. learn some shit next time.
I remember I had a sweet "Slow Jams" tape recorded on a 90 minute Maxxel. Played the hell outta that thing in my car. Good ol days.🚗
I grew up in a foster home, and was the oldest living at home. My father was never home, but my mother always was. However, when we walked out the door, the kids were my responsibility. I wasn't a disciplinarian, but rather was a protector. No one dared lay a hand on any of the kids in my presence. And I would watch anywhere from 2 -12 kids all at the same time.
GEN X IS THE BEST!
lol I remember the candy check on Halloween.
Remember????!!!! You mean you don't check you Halloween candy, anymore???!!! Ummmm, That might be a bad idea! (Just saying?!)
No, a lot of these - hold on a second. A lot of these cultural crimes I’ve been complaining about can be blamed on the baby boomers. Something else I’m a little tired of hearing about - The Baby Boomers Whinny, Narcissistic, Self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: “Give Me IT! It’s Mine!” “Give Me That! It’s Mine!” These people were given everything - everything was handed to them. And they took it all - took it all, sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride, but now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age-burn out and they don’t like it, they don’t like it, so they turned self-righteous and they want to make things hard on younger people. They tell them to abstain from sex, say no to drugs, as for the Rock-n-Roll they sold that for television commercials a long time ago, so they could buy pasta machines, StairMaster’s and soybean futures; “Soybean Futures.”
You know something: they’re cold bloodless people, it’s in their slogans, it’s in their rhetoric; “no pain, no gain” “just do it” “life is short” “play hard” “shit happens” “deal with it” “get a life”. These people went from ‘do your own thing’ to ‘just say no’. They went from: “love is all you need” to “whoever winds up with the most toys wins”. And they went from ‘cocaine to Rogaine’. They did.
And you know something they’re still counting grams, only now its fat grams.
And worst of it is, the rest of us have to watch these commercials on TV for Levi’s loose fitting jeans and fat-ass Docker pants because these degenerate yuppie boomer cock-suckers couldn’t keep their hands off the Croissants and the Häagen-Dazs. And there big fat asses have spread all over and they have to wear fat ass Docker pants. Fuck these Boomers! Fuck these Yuppies! And fuck everybody now that I think of it.
Fuck everybody.
Well, sometimes in comedy you have to generalize
Enthusiastic Gamer you my type of somebody
That was friggin’ fantastic! LOL! GEN X calls a spade a spade.
I couldn't argue that. 👍
Hilarious!
Would this paragraph be attributed to the late and great George Carlin?
Wow - she really is dialed into how we are and what we value
Many of her points doesn't understand 90's kids though (people born in the late 1980's who experienced they gradeschool age childhood during the golden age of videogames and cartoons), a lot of gen x don't know that while music is their "thing", gaming is a 90's kid "thing", and the social network is a millennial's "thing, many of us are more into gaming, and the 90's kids played outside before internet was mainstream, and 90's kids tried to get jobs in their mid to late teens, most of the parents of 90's kids are too old to be gen X and too young to be baby boomers. The personalities of 90's kids are different from the personalities of millennials.
@@starshield7 i think you also have to take into acount 90s and millanials kids were brought up in a time when things were changing i was born in 1991 so i think i fit into millanials but i was born on the cusp of the mps personal music device thing
Born in 79' out in a small town growing up, a person simply did not trash-talk other bigger kids or anyone in general. The results would often just be that you got the crap kicked out of you.
Baby Boomers got a lollipop handed to them, loved it so much that they made Gen X give them one too.
According to her I’m in Gen X. I’m 36. I’m good with it I identify with it most. I was totally a latchkey/daycare/after school care kid. My moms a Boomer. She’s awful
@cmtmj2006 Gen X years are 1961-81.
That video was done in 2011, your comment was 1 year ago so 8 years before your comment, you would have been 28 in 2011 so not Gen X.
Great analogy with the lollipop. I agree 100%.
i love how boomers blame gen y for shit that boomers did gen y's lazy they dont wanna work oh im sorry was it gen y'er that replaced the workers with machines ? stop being hypercrits
Bullsh*t! If those chores weren't done, baby brother fed, all homework completed, Lisa would have gotten her ass kicked by her mom for not playing mom, well...
The foundation for most of the music today came from Generation X. Underground New Wave, EDM, Punk, Hip Hop. I can go on and on. I was born in NYC in 1971 and I grew up in the NY nightlife of the 80s and 90s. CBGBs, The Tunnel, The Limelight. I would see everyone from Joey Ramone to Madonna, Rupaul , Trent Reznor partying along with crowd. It was a time of excitement, music, creativity and also an amazing era for modern and performance art. NYC IS NOTHING LIKE THAT NOW! People go to concerts and watch through their phone screens instead of having an immersive experience they are more concerned with posting it on social media. Put your phones down and dance, feel the music. Live a real tangible life!
I'm pretty sure this is the ONLY Baby Boomer in the entire world that understands reality.
Baby boomers: from $900 Billion to $16 Trillion National Debt...brought to you by free love and recreational drugs.
"Gen X guys didn't record songs. They recorded the whole album." When she said that I said "Hell yeah, that was me."
I recorded songs.
I played videogames. I'm a 90's kid (born in 1987), videogames are mostly a 90's kid thing.
+astrostar7 No they weren't. Not even close.
@118356634621309134986 XD Oh yes it is:
90's kids grew up on a ton more videogames than many 80s kids, and the 1990's had a ton more videogames than the 1970's and 1980's combined, and 90's kids were exposed to more videogames in general at an earlier age than 80's kids, and the 1990's videogames had a predominanty larger percentage of high quality videogames than the 1980's (which included story writing, music, designs as well as the gameplay itself). And while 80's kid videogame tournaments were about the size of a bingo club, 90's kid videogame tournaments have been global in size. And the 90's kids age range have a higher percentage of people who incorporated videgoame culture into their adulthood than the percentage of the 80's kids age range.
80's kids are predominantly more about music than gaming or social networking, and 90's kids are predominantly more about gaming than music or social networking. And 70's kids are more about cinema than the other things. When it comes to the gaming culture of 90's kids compared to the gaming culture of the 80's kids, there is no contest, literally.
Gaming is mostly a 90's kid thing.
My husband refuses to buy songs. We still go to our local music store and buy CDs (high tech lol) I am running out of room but he just keeps buying. lol
My parents are baby boomers. I like hearing about the interesting things about how the 1950's era was like from Marilyn Monroe and how they took their bibles seriously, along with values and morality. However, I do miss them because they are not alive anymore. We should value them like a treasure without taking them for granted.
I really hate this inter-generational sniping. I’m a Millennial and about to turn 32, by the way, and you all know the “iGen” are about to hit adulthood, too, right? My parents were both Boomers, too, and I grew up much like this typical Gen X childhood, though I did get the Internet in high school (we were dirt poor despite Mom working 3 jobs at times and often not eating for days just so I could eat). But, y’know, every generation has to deal with BS. Millennials had the Recession which delayed our ability to enter the job market significantly, but y’know we’re also more civic minded and volunteer more than previous generations. Gen X were... really edgy when I was growing up, so thanks for all the X-treme stuff, I guess? And Boomers worked their asses off, too, though they did manage to get paid better than Millennials do nowadays, thanks inflation combined with static minimum wages. But how about we all just try to help each other out instead of bitching about perceived character flaws of human beings who happened to be born within an arbitrary 15-20 year time span?
My Boomer mother used to go into a rage of self pity if I asked her what's for dinner.
"I work all day. I'm not your slave. I don't need to come home and cook for you!"
With no college education, she had an easy office job that had her home by 4:30 or 5:00 almost every day, full benefits, paid vacation, medical, and great retirement which she blew by quitting just before her 20th year so she and the 2nd husband could go be evangelical missionaries... which they never ended up doing.
Sounds like my mother has a long lost sister ha ha
I'm a late boomer 1963 and it's hard to deny how the current state of affairs traces back. The hippies and Woodstock thing never sat right with me. It seemed all about doing whatever you wanted and screw the consequences, like it was their God given entitlement.
When they were in their prime years in the 80s, Mr Reagan further fluffed their pillows and told them they were due everything they wanted and right now besides.
The seeds for all of what goes on now were planted when I was a baby, far as I can see.
Damn right!
Well, I can respect the talents of each generation. We are pulling together on tough issues. As and X'er, I applaud our accomplishments and feel like we are good spouses, parents, employees and that we not only work well with the Boomers, but also the Millennials- and actually are compelled to bring the best out of us all =)
Early gen z (97) and some of my greatest professors and role models are gen x and so’s my mother. All of them taught me the power of using both academics and creativity change the world😊
A book I read, "People of the Lie," kind of '70s Christian pop psychology, makes me wonder about the opening statements, "I'm not Gen X, but I feel Gen X." The book talked about "narcissistic twinning," which is, using similarities with another person in conversation to gain sympathy and a shallow sense of "alikeness" in the narcissistic sense that alikeness to the self must make the listener someone worth talking to. Or, she's just found a good opening statement for her speech on Gen X. And, I'm Gen X, but spent most of my adolescence in a used bookstore reading '70's pulp in the '90s.
She is a boomer. Boomers are the narcissistic generation. So no wonder.
@@ashsqx3246 it was pretty rude of me to leave this comment and nice of her not to delete it!
My kids don't even believe my stories about growing up in the 70s. I told them about the parents on the opposing Little League team flicking lit cigarette butts at us while we ran down the 3rd base line and they called me a liar. BTW, Millennials ought to be called "the dullest generation." My god are they thick. Can't think for themselves, can't improvise, love to argue. And if you have to work with them, they'll argue as a delaying tactic to avoid work. All freakin' day if they can.
get fucked you guys and boomers took the opertunitys away from us
Born 1971. But academically a late bloomer. My marks did not peak until 2015. Just finished a nursing degree and about to study occupational therapy. Studying without computers was terrible. My mum was a boomer and dad silent gen. My mum worked night shift and was home when I came home from school. My mum and I are like sisters. Her second husband was pretty special. My silent gen dad wanted me to do nursing instead of allied health. Did nursing after numerous attempts got 12 months worth of work and that is it. Got no work in nursing as I was told management did not like the way I looked. My dad thought nursing was the only suitable health career for girls with good job prospects. The boomer teachers unfortunately did not have much faith in my generation they thought we were apathetic. I always got an award for most conscientious student even though I was a C average student. I thought I was stupid. My science teacher said with technology on the rise that my marks will improve. They sure did. My English teacher was also a boomer. We were studying harp in the south. She said that she could not believe how strong my sense of Justice was compared to my age group. I was shocked. My mum told me about how bad inequality was. A lot of my classmates did not have a close bond with their parents. So they were just interested in working after finishing year 12. In my cohort there was only myself and another student who wanted to become social activists.
You'll turn out just like us Boomers..Don't get too excited about yourselves.
Gen Z: predicted to be the most conservative generation since WWII.
Mostly due to dank memes and getting tired of Gen Y shoving sjw shit down our throats
no the boomers have nothing on the traditionalists...traditionalists behave as if they're in their own bubble...their s are the only rules. I love gen x too...we had to figure it out... the world was not this place of heroes and "social values".
eventually, everyone will pay the X .
Baby Boomers had one phone in the house. It was on the wall in the kitchen, and it had a rotary dial.
Generation X phones had push button keypads, and there were several phones in the house. This means you could be trying to get a date, and suddenly hear giggling, because your sister was listening on the extension.
Millennials carry their phones in their pocket, and they send texts so no one can eavesdrop on their conversation.
Millenials didn't grow up with cell phones they were 18-20 when cell phones became common. Only rich kids had them in high school. Generation Z are the ones you are referring to.
Privacy is good
@@valerietheawkwardartist i miss being refered to as gen y
Full page of chores. Everyday. Left on the table.
i had none of that
Gen X ROX 👍🏾😘
The best thing about Gen Z is that our Xer Parents took tech from their time and advanced it to sell to us. So, we can enjoy what they enjoyed back then. :)
gawd how is gen z even on here lol
Some of this is ridiculous. The way she's addressing the Gen Y people in the room comes off as condescending. They weren't born reliant on technology for one thing. I'm a late Gen Xer and my younger sister is an older Gen Y and we both remember when walkmans and boom boxes came out. She grew up checking her Halloween candy just like I did. There's a Stark difference between the older Gen Y and the younger ones. Those that were born at the beginning of Gen Y (between 81-85) are the younger siblings of Gen xers, they have more in common with Gen X than they do with their younger counterparts.
I'm a late Gen Xer born in 1980, my parents are early boomers with my mom born in '48, right in the cusp between traditionalist and boomers with more traditionalist traits and yeah I agree. I remember as a kid whenever I cry, my mom would tell me to shut up or she'll give me more reasons to cry.
this woman is bang on. so true
1973 born, oldest born Gen X and can SO relate! I had to practically RAISE my 1988 born Gen Y Sister in my teens. I have a Gen X bro and Gen Y bro. Somehow I ended up being the scapegoat. Oddly enough, learning about the generations makes me understand why I can't stand my parents.😆
Nobody made tapes like that. lol
You just recorded music off the radio using the cassette player built into your boombox.
You were lucky , as most of us will definitely remember that !
There so few of us Gen X''ers that a baby boomer is telling a room of millenials what they are like. Hilarious.
When the D.j. talked over the end of the song before you could stop recording
Yup 😁 the struggle was real!! 😭😂
OMG yes. And Casey Kasem's Top 40 was where ALL the jams were to be had, but he talked through the intro and fade of EVERY song....
I think we had to raise ourselves. I know I did, my mom was very selfish and made decisions based on what she wanted not what was best for both of us or for me. I think her generation was selfish. I think that is why so many of my generation are helicopter parents to our own children. We don't want them to feel ignored like we were, pushed aside by parents who had bigger and better things to do than take care of us. When I make a decision about my life, first thing I do is weigh out if this is something that will be good for my son. But I also don't sugar coat anything for my son, I let him fall on his face and I don't hide or pretend everything is okay when it isn't. That was another thing Baby boomers did, pretend. My mom lived in a pretend bubble. I had to figure out things on my own because she was busy living the life she wanted in her head instead of the reality that it was. Generation x knows what reality is. We don't expect everything to go our way and we don't expect to get everything we want. We're cynical, resilient, don't trust easily, protect our own, and even though our parents thought we were slackers because we didn't devote ourselves to our careers, our bills are paid, there's food on the table, and our kids know we will protect them.
I'll make this short. I'm Gen X...but for the last 25 years I've told folks younger than me how cool the 70s were...they enjoy stories of how gritty, in your face, hands on and dirty those modern folk lore tales of recent history can be.
What?? You were too young dude. Maybe learning as your older now about 70s of course you can say that..but not then
@@boxing.ascetic i see so i guess i can say how bad the 80s were when i was only in elementary school ...gotcha.....sounds real believable.
@@boxing.ascetic if you said you grew up in the 80s ill laugh in your face .
Most "boom boxes" could record direct from the radio. I don't think I ever did the speaker to recorder thing. But it was absolutely an art form to get the perfect recording. Timing was everything. Nothing infuriated me more than when the DJ started to talk over the end of the song. I still, to this day, have a bit of a disconnect with some songs when I don't hear the radio call sign at the end of the track. I just heard them that way for so many years, it became part of the song to me. It was like a Godsend when CDs came out and I could record directly from those, free of those crackle and pops from LPs. It cracks me up that Millennials are so into vinyl now. But most of them don't do vinyl properly with an analog audio system. I have a Millennial brother-in-law that plays his records over wireless speakers. If you're going to go analog, you need to go analog the whole way. Man I miss the hi-fi years of the 1970s through the 1990s when people would actually sit down, dim the lights, and really listen to music.
Three things I am most proud of. Being born in this awesome country, God gracing me with being an 8th gen Texan, and finally, being part of the last great generation, GEN X. While kids today are glued to a television, we were outside exploring, socializing (IN PERSON), being involved, and most of all, being us.
3 things youre most proud of are things that just randomly occurred and you had no personal involvement in? How about attaining an education, creating something, etc that you had a part in? Strange sense of pride...
I personally like gen z so far. They are less self absorbed then Millennials. Sounding familiar?
My kids are both Millennial and GenZ. My Z kid seems more GenX, like me. Things seem to roll right off his back.
I'm an Xer too (born 1970) and my parents were born 1924 (dad) and 1935 (mom), so I had a bit of a different experience growing up than what most Xers claim. I was never a latchkey kid. I have two sisters who were at the tail end of the Boomers. We don't really talk LOL.
I'm convinced evry generation is has the "I'm a victim" mentality and only the minority of individuals from each gen dont.
You missed all the good part : generation X saw some old good values, old good simple life style, no violence, hope in futur, and naivity true relations, and to too much high tech (that make people more lonely than ever) .. Mom's at work that's the beginning of the end of all generations to come.
This separating people into generations is stupid
She forgot to mention that Gen X was the most FUCKED OVER in every imaginable way!
They fucked us to so.... do you want to join the gen Y fun train?
We have cool electronics, and videogames, our music sucks though :/
But you can bring your own music :)
No shit!! There was nothing like feeling like your parents baggage, I realized at an early age that if i didn't look after myself no one else was going to.
I loved growing up with hippie rockers, way cool I don't get the hate lol
Well generally gen Y are the 90's kids right (born in the late 1980's)? Well most 90's kids didn't have baby boomers for parents, most 90's kids parents are too young to be the baby boomer generation. I was born in 1987, my childhood experiences were in the golden age of videogams and cartoons and pokemon cards, this was a time before the internet was mainstream. And the 90's kid personality is very different from the gen Z and gen X personalities.
gen x are born 1965 - 1982 many are not parents to gen y gen x are still having kids
Generation X is the Chosen Generation to see beyond Mass Media and lead the people to Truth💯💯💯
Gen. X was born between 1965-'84.
Boomers, by definition, are born between 1946-'64.
I would put Gen-x at 65-79.
Nah the cutoff is 1980 for Generation X. 81 to 95 are millennials.
Generation X 1965 - 1980
How fucking hard is this? Everywhere I look there is someone else guessing on when what generation was born!
Generations last 20 years, they are not physical or mental cut offs, they are not instantaneous seismic shifts in culture. They are historical book markers and nothing else.
That said Lots To Learn was correct the Baby Boomer historical marker starts at 1945, and ends at 1965. The Generation X historical marker begins at 1965, and ends at 1985. The Generation Y/Millennial historical marker starts at 1985, and ends at 2005. The Generation Z/Zoomer historical marker starts at 2005, and ends at 2025.
@@shaunw9270 wrong 1981
Magnetic tape data: floppy disks, VCR, audio cassettes to record Iran Contra. Typing computer programs from magazines to save money with time spent.
Well, she DID say she "wanted" to be Gen X, so I have to give her props for at the very least understanding that her OWN generation is selfish. Still though, I'm just glad some of you gen Ys realize that those of us in the tiny little forgotten generation of X didn't really have the power to mess things up, nor were we given any torches to pass to you ;(
I'm a Millennial (80's baby) and I definitely recorded music from the radio on cassette tapes back in the late 90's-early 00's. Good times. Lol
My mother is an old Gen X (born '65) and my grandmother is an old Baby Boomer (born '47). I can definitely agree with Gen X being independent. My mother ALWAYS worked to take care of all of her children (3 kids) by herself. She was very self-sufficient. That also always left me in charge (oldest) which made me self-sufficient.
do you rember when mp3's came out and then ipods but ipods were so expensive and becouse you didnt have ton of money u downloaded pirated songs and risked infecting ur mums computer (sorry mum)
I was born in 1980. From these descriptions, I'm definitely a Gen X and not a Y.
i'm 1980 as well and relate to what she was saying
I was born in 1987. The personalities of my age range are different from the personalities of the millennials, my age range played outside before internet was mainstream, 90's kid gradeschool childhood age was experienced during the golden age of videogames and cartoons, many of the people in my age range tried to get a job in our mid to late teenage years, while music is gen x's "thing", and the social network is the millennial's "thing", gaming is a 90's kid "thing", I don't relate to a lot of points in this video. the name for my age range is commonly referred to as "90's kid".
I think Gen X are people born from 1965 to about 1980.
how can someone born in 65 be put in the same boat as one born in 80?
1965 - 1982
I’m Gen X and my Boomer parents were not coddled. I love my Boomer parents, because they were not coddled. I agree Gen X was always alone.
i was born to a boomer and a silent gen neither were coddled