I get the impression that gen x is overall the most laid back generation. We are just used to solving our own shit somehow. And if we can't, we kind of just "so this is what we're doing now? Sure, whatever" our way through life.
@@diltberg9627 the Internet is just a facet of society... You can use it for good or bad, take your pick.. or forget it exists and live your life as you see fit✌️
@@kerriniemi9525 It would be nice to think that people can take their pick of the internet and it started out that way. You can't anymore now that it is so algorithm-driven. You also can't realistically opt out of it.
1:50 The very last member of the Lost Generation died in 2018, as of this post, the oldest living person is a Japanese woman born in 1908. Source: Wikipedia's List of the verified oldest people.
Generation X'er here...have to say my childhood prepared me well for adulthood. One of the best times to grow up and imo b/c we were forced to be adults before our time we don't sweat the small stuff now. It takes a LOT to shake us up and we are all super independent often preferring to complete things solo v.s. thinking we need help for anything. No matter how bad things can get as an adult we all have a story from our childhood to compare it to and think, well if I survived that then I can certainly survive this now lol.
Boomer here. 😬 Yeah, we have a reputation for being a tad cranky (guilty). I don't know how to express how disorienting the last 20-30 years have been. Virtually everything we took for a hard fact of life simply changed. Some of us have coped better than others. I wish we understood each other better. Personally, I feel I relate better to the Lost Generation. They too lived through tremendous technological upheaval and viewed the following generations with a bit of suspicion and bewilderment.
I am also a boomer. The protesting and social justice going on now reminds me of the civil rights movement. The right’s antiwar stance remind me of our antiwar movement. It will get even more like it if the current war progress and the draft comes back into play.
An interesting bit for you about genx and boomers would be to check out the congressional hearings on record labeling in the US. It was the 80s, and there was a big push to make it easier for parents to know what their kids were listening to. Although it would affect our genx freedoms to listen to whatever we wanted, the artists were perhaps mostly boomers. Several of them testified to Congress. The one I always go to is Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. He was great! There are videos of the hearings on RUclips. Check it out,please
My husband and I are at the early end of Millennials, '82 and '85. We tend to act more like Gen X than "Millennials" who're younger than us. One thing I always say as far as the cut off for Millennials, Millennials will remember 9/11, gen Z would be too young. My sister and I were pretty much "latch key kids" she was born in '88. At times we were borderline feral lol
S A M E! my dad (Boomer mk1)Mom (GenX mk1) me 82 brothers 85 and 89. Us kids had a neighborhood pack all kids regardless of age hung out together so my 6yr boy bro hung with 16 and 17 yr olds and he grew up fast.
The one thing that is absolutely true is that we were outside All the time. In the summer we really were outside all day long and took some long trips on our bikes. We really did fall out of cars! A lot of us did. No seat belts and 3 in the front seat and back. If you were squished up against the door, falling out as outlet parent turned a corner was a memory forecast of us. Sometimes the middle kid would catch them. Then we would get in trouble. We just tried not to get in trouble. Our parents would get mad at us! We had a good free life though. Lots of fun with each other.
My great grandmother was born in 1920. She told us that she was done with people once the Gen Y/Millennial years started. 😅 Funny how she loves all her Gen X grandchildren. Now she is starting to like her Gen Alpha grandchildren. It's so hilarious. She's 104 years old, has a sharp mind, and still walks 2 miles everyday. 😊
That's amazing and funny. Good for her. I had the pleasure to briefly chat with a woman at the pharmacy who was 103. She looked like a healthy 80 yr old. I was completely humbled and inspired.
My great grandmother lived to 107.Just before her 107th birthday she had a stroke and died shortly after. Rode a motorcycle until we took it from her @ 102. Sharp mind, and even sharper tounge. Rip to Mimi(Mildred McAllister) she also used to play COD Black ops1 with my son and I
As a millenial, I started crying when they started talking about my generation... me and my husband (not actually married, together 18 years) have been getting by but especially in the past 4 years we've been pretty stagnant and not able to buy a house... even though we make more money every year.
Congrats on almost twenty years! Be patient as you can on owning a house, 30 year mortgages are a scam in their own right. Remember that it's not about what you make, it's about what you have left over.
yes, 1930s music is where swing dancing came from. Lindy Hop is the most well-known, but there were lots of styles. It's still a thriving global pastime today. I've been dancing swing since 2010 and now I teach it. It's such good fun and the history is fascinating.
I Love that young people like you are curious and want to learn about our history and what different generations went through. Each generation thinks it was so long ago and it was, but the fact is they were people just like we are. Same dreams, hopes, depression. I think you’re very smart young people. It actually amazes me at how smart you are. It’s called progression. Lots of mistakes made, but the ones who were curious about the past and learned, were the people who created and made the biggest contributions to our world.
My parents were the Silent generation. I'm Gex X and I need a t-shirt that says "I survived the 70s". I raised two millennials and a Gen Z and they are all amazing people. Strong work ethics, financially responsible, and two are homeowners. One retired from the military after two contracts, and one is a teacher. The third is a support tech at a local hospital. Every generation as their outliers, but most are good kids and good people. Oh, Millennial parents, get your kids off those iPads before you regret and actually spend time with them. You have very limited time to do it right.
My grandparents were the greatest gen, my parents are silent, my sister is a late boomer, and I am genx. It is amazing what events made people the way they are.
As an early millennial we had access to the internet before a lot of the protections and safety standards that exist now were implemented. As much as kids are told to be careful of strangers online now, and abductions still happen, parents didn't really know that was something to talk to their kids about with the internet until after something happened already in their state/area. I definitely remember being 13 years old talking to 30 year old creepy guys in chatrooms, I'm just lucky I was too much of a nerd to ever want to meet someone in person. Outside of creeps though computer viruses and illegal content being hidden in files were both huge issues that showed up early on when p2p file sharing programs like napster, morpheus, kazaa, and limewire came around. People could add just about anything they wanted to a zip file and share for hundreds or thousands of people to download based off just a title.
Born in 1966 Gen X. Both parents came from broken homes. Both parents broken people. Do to alcohol and abuse parents divorced by the time I was 2. Was passed to different family members as mom unable to work and take care. Was traumatized from forced marriage to father due to pregnancy. I grew up until I was 6 with relatives some took good care but others I raised myself with help of cousins. When I was 4 would walk to the school which was maybe 4 blocks away to pick up my older cousins. Was locked out of the house if family not home would visit neighbours to eat or get drink. Played with other kids in area. One best friend was an East Indian boy who lived across the street. We would play on his driveway riding tricycles. I would with my older cousin she was 6 or 7 sent to the store for cigarettes for my aunt and uncle. Yes pretty messed up. Introverted. Do not believe government, or media. Distrustful. Do not put up with B.S. Loyal when deserved. Dislike liars. Want truth, willl question and verify. Have my own issues.
As a rural Norwegian male born in 1971. Gen x sort of got it all when it comes to the more traditional things and the tech. I got my first axe at the age of five, I used a chainsaw from the age of ten. My first car was a VW Betle when I was 13, we used to drive the hell out of them on forest gravel roads and in fields. And I could say so much more about this. BUT...we also so the birth of the digital age and grew with it. We know how a computer works, we know binary, ASCII, Java. I have been a computer sciense teacher, network manager and digital photo teacher. But I still have axes, chainsaws, a shot gun and rifles. My grandfather was a local butcher. I can stil do my own butchering. I have chikens....we sort of got it all. Exept for some important empathy, sympathy and care. But I'm really happy for have had the upbringing, or a lack of it, that I had. :)
I wonder how many individuals feel like myself? I was born in late May of 1964. Officially a Boomer, but just a little more than 6 months of being Gen X. I was the latch key kid as well. I feel like I walk in both generations, but belong to neither. Just wonder if anyone else feel the way I do that got caught in that 6 month to a year change of generations?
There are those of us born between the 1954 and 1964/1965 time span that refer to ourselves as "Generation Jones". We can relate to much of the Boomer experience but also the early Gen X experiences as well.
That's where term like "micro generation" comes in. I am officially Gen Y/Millennial by general consensus now, but back then the years were all over the place trying to define when Gen X ends and Gen Y begins... at that time, Xennial became a term that popped up for people born at the cusp of Gen X and Y.
I was born June 1963...late end of the boomer generation! I'm still just me,I strongly dislike being labeled and grouped together with others due to eras! We are all different in thought and perception!
I will add, as a personal observation. Gen Z born to a lot of Gen X late starters seem to have a wisdom and intelligence that surpasses most millennials I know.
I’m a GenX and proud, and the video was spot on about us. Adults felt both unhinged yet authoritarian (going out to discos and cocaine yet preaching to us and coming up with madness like Satanic Panic (remember that crazy shit?!)). Me and all my friends were lower-middle to middle class, latch key kids who were very independent, rebellious yet also not caring what other generations thought of us(“We don’t need no education! We don’t need no thought contrlol!”). I grew up damn independent, have never as an adult borrowed or asked for any money from my parents, and had a successful career starting my own business. Adults seemed too busy with their own problems. I was really interested to hear the comparisons between GenX and GenZ - for some reason I’ve felt kinship with GenZ and the video gave compelling reasons for why. We grew up similarly; I’m hopeful and suspect Z will be as independent, not care what other generations think of them, and generally have fun. I support team Z!
My Gen(Z) is just coming into their own now, but we can all bond, X'ers, Z'ers, Millennials, over the Undisputed worst generation around, and that's the boomers. It's fuck boomers all day. 👍
Gen X came of age in the rise of computer technology, Millennial's came of age during the rise of the internet connecting all of that technology together, Zoomers came of age during the rise of social media connecting all of the people together. it will be interesting to see what the clear defining factor is when Gen Alpha begins to come of age starting in the next 5 or so years.
Gen X here, our childhood was indeed unstructured and free. As a latch key kid, i was unsupervised a lot, so it was up to me to take care of and entertain myself. So freeing! 😂❤
1971 GenX here if you study generational theory, there is a 4 generation cycle. Looking at the picture of the generation icons, they line up correctly from top to bottom. Lost Gen and GenX were the same generation in the cycle and so on.
I'm Gen X (1977). My favourite generation (along with Gen X) is Gen Greatest, my Grandparents generation - I miss them so much! My least favourite are Boomers (my parents generation). Though I'm probably biased because maybe my mother had forgotten to take her contraceptives.
As a Gen X'er, I've heard us called "The Feral Generation" and I can't argue. Someone also once said to me Gen X'ers are born 30 years old, then they turn 30, and now they're in their 50's and they're still 30.
Early Gen X and it was the best time to be a kid, it was a time that right now I'd love to be able to go back and visit. Gen X was a time when if you didn't know how to do something you found the information and taught yourself. There were no classes in computers we were the generation that had to figure it out for ourselves and that was true in every way. To this day if I need something done I am more likely to gather the information and teach myself how to do it.
As a millenial I grew up with internett before I started elementary school, where everyone owned a cell phone. Sosial media was very popular at middle School. Grew up with GTA and PS2. There are HUGE differences between growing up in Norway were I am from, and the US. The US is behind. Everything about Zoomers ( minus Covid and extrem wokeness) is true about a millenium upbringing in Scandinavia
Hey my young British friend, my late father, was the Greatest Gen,I was born in1963 (Last year of Boomer Gen) Grew-up in 70s-80s In Nova Scotia, At 18 spent 1 Year Canadian Army,Reserves, went back to Trade School at 21(Auto-Mechanic) 25 years in trade,At 50, worked 12 years as Security Guard, Now Body worn-out, Still ride Motorcycles, Now 61years old! Enjoy your YOUTH! It goes by too Quick! Great Video!😀👌👍✌🤘
FACTS! i feel anyway...gen X😊 i think that this video did a better job...i do remember us being called the lost generation, before they settled on forgotten, latchkey, or even gen x... as for slacker, i think it was because we found a way to enjoy our lives and work as well, and even working at things we enjoyed...which may not have been the case for our elders we are open books, for the most part, as gen x, and love to share our knowledge and experiences with people that are interested so ask away thanks again 🧡 ✌🌸💕
They started out calling us the "baby bust" and finally settled on Gen X because Boomers decided we didn't have any causes that we cared for fight for so they essentially called us generation null. And we embraced it 😂 because why not?
@@katrinaprescott5911 it is kind of hilarious then, because I, and many of us do stand up for all kinds of things... Being a good human to others for a start, environmental issues always, and trying to leave a positive footprint on humanity forever ✌️💓😊
@@kerriniemi9525 Oh, we stood up for things, but we were (and are) a small enough cohort they could ignore us for the most part or just brush our concerns off. We just got in there, do what needs to be done, and give the younger generations the ability to be loud. Which is why Boomers focused on Millennials being at fault for everything.
@@Tiewaz that's very true... We do just jump in and do whatever needs to be done, without being asked or told to... Nor do we care if anyone noticed 😍😊
My parents were the last years of greatest generation, and I'm genx, the youngest of 10. My mother is still with us at 98. She's still sharp and is still one of the strongest people I've ever known. My father lied about his age and joined the navy at 15. Many young men did the same to escape poverty or terrible homes. No central databases to check their ages. They truly were a tough generation.
I’m Gen X with Gen Z kids. We hold Saturday morning cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Super Friends) as part of our identity& they definitely have SpongeBob. Interestingly though we ALL can claim The Simpsons!
Just remember that these are generalizations. I was born in 1961, technically a Boomer, but most of my childhood experiences were solidly Gen X. I was heavily influenced by older Boomers (hippie babysitters and neighbors) as well as by Greatest generation grandparents who I loved and adored. Also, it depends what class you come from since most working class and poor kids had always been "latch-key kids". We all have something to learn from one another, from all generations. Keep up the good work!
With gen z, I feel like it should be cut in half. Half the generation is adults and some with kids and are done with school for a couple of years, and the other half is still kids😅 my mam’s a gen x and had 3 children, me and my brother are adults (25 & 23) and my sister is 17, (though she thinks she’s an adult). Me and my brother had grown up with game cube, Nintendo 64, DS, playing outside and didn’t want to come home, no Facebook, we were only allowed like 30 minutes or something on the computer, and I had my first phone at 16 and a iPod at 15. Mam didn’t want me to have a phone at a young age. And our sister basically grew up with a phone in her hands. I really think they should split gen z in half😅
“Wondering how a brother born in the 2000’s knows about that.” It’s swing dancing. It would be worse if you didn’t know about it. I wasn’t going to post this. It’s kind of petty. But then you used the phrase, “For those of you who know how to use emojis,” and the condescension gloves came off.
As a Millennial American, I feel I should clarify something. Religion actually spiked in some America cities and towns after 9/11. Many turned to God for answers and some more radical people believed we were in a religious war and needed to prepare the next generation for it. There was a huge purity religious culture push even by Hollywood companies like Disney and TLC with celebs like the Jonas brothers purity ring push and the Duggars a radical religious family becoming main stream and visiting churches all over the country to spread their message. Some of it was very culty, not all churches obviously some people I know never had this issues in their cities or towns but some I saw really lost it for awhile and became all about raising millennials to be pure and the best, not realizing they were hurting a lot of us in the process and why religious trauma is something spoken a lot about today. Fundie Fridays has really good docs about this time period, Jonas brothers, the Duggars, etc. However by the 2010s after the recession and millennials becoming adults many stepped back from religion and are more agnostic and spiritual. Some are raising their kids in the church in a laidback way and others just left it all together. But many millennials don't have kids because they can't afford them, have chronic medical issues, and lack of community or trauma from childhood.
as a gen x'er i feel sorry for kids growing up today. They will never know the freedom and fun we had growing up. Jumping on the mini-bike and disappearing from sun-up to sundown with your parents having no clue where you were.
I'm a Gen Z 'er and I guarantee my childhood was far more enjoyable than yours. 😂 Ain't nothing like trading Pokemon cards or re-enacting episodes from Dragonball-Z during recess, then coming home and spending the rest of the day on the WII or watching classics on Cartoon Network. Birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese, early RUclips, mmmhh! Lol, you all probably got bored after a few hours on your dusty ass bike and spent all your allowance making a fool out of yourself at the arcade. Or for some of you, getting stupider than a mofo on crack and jacking off. No Diddy(even though he is part of your generation). 💀
The years do not corrospond with what they are describing. So they mention world war 2 as being the Greatest Generation but the year described was 1901-1927 for that (WWII Was 1939-1944) 🤷♀️🤔
Yeah, it goes by your birth year. I'm GenX born in 1980. I fall in the same Generation as people born in the 60's and 70's but I grew up in the 80's and 90's.
Boomers. What happened there is a big reason why Gen X is the way we are. Whenever Boomers come up nobody realizes that all they did was cut their hair and become damn Yuppies. Personally I have waged a "war" against F-ing yuppies my whole life. Same as my friends. Most of our parents were way to busy squandering our Grandparent's up their nose. So we had to raise them and our sibling and our own kids all at one. I like to think of us as the wall and glue that kept them from messing with our kids. To us, whatever is an emotion. Not because we don't care. Moreso that we've heard this dumb shit already and I don't need it explained. And when we say I don't care it's that we don't really care what other people think about us. A lot of us could see the writing on the wall about when we graduated High School. We watched all of our parents and Grandparents becoming unemployed from "corporate downsizing." We tried our best to tell people how it really was. The only way people listened was through music and art. We took the beatings and ridicule so that y'all don't have too. So y'all young whippersnappers should do something no one else has. If you see or know one of us, thank us. Then laugh at the reaction you get. Awesome video man.
I thought it was interesting as a GenX mom of a GenZ daughter that they made a comparison between the 2....different times; different reasons; similar mind sets
That caught my attention too! I’m a GenX (who I think they described perfectly) and I was feeling kinship with the GenZ. In the perspectives given, we have much in common. I’m curious to see if they grow up like us wanting to be left alone.
@@alansimonson8558 I think a bit. I know it’s lame…. We all crave a connection. Genx is sort of rage against it…. GenZ trying to build bridges for all sides. VWhether I get it or not, I definitely respect it. My daughter rocks!!
I'm a gen x Aussie. I call our generation the 'Whatever' generation. We grew up with not much respect for authority and would just give the middle finger 😉 Most don't tolerate the victim mentality because we would just shrug our shoulders and get on with things. Why let little things raise your blood pressure 😅 I'm sad for you that you feel like you missed out on your 16s. That was the period in my life when I went out in to the big bad world to discover my self identity!!! Not to rub it in but it's awesome being gen x!!
1966 Gen X here. The 70's and 80's was a great time. We were the first gamers, but balanced that with lots of outside time and no social media/ipads to rot our brains. People seemed to get along. Having to go to a library and hunt through encyclopedias sucked but we knew no different. We had no internet and no mobile devices. If I missed the school bus coming home i had to walk 3 miles. Again never thought anything about that or later riding our bikes miles away from home. So long as you were back by nightfall it was all good. Not all of us were latchkey kids or products of divorce. My parents were married for about 60 years and my mother was a SAHM.
My grandparents were part of the Lost Generation, my parents were the Silent Generation and I am a Boomer. I have an old soul and relate to the older generations. Unfortunately the hippies define the Boomers. The 50s and 60s were a great time to grow up.
The Boomers' parents were probably encouraged to have bigger families to help replace all the family they lost during the wars, pandemics, and starvation during the Great Depression that occurred during these times.
I lost one great uncle to WWI and 2 to the Spanish Flu (didn't start in Spain). My grandma was a flapper & she also sold the gin her mother made during prohibition LOL. It did buy them a farm. My other grandma was terrified that her kids would die from polio and she got them immunized as soon as she could. Half of all Boomers are incredibly awesome people, the other half kinda suck. All true things about Gen X. Most of our parents booted us out of the house after breakfast & we were expected home for dinner or fend for ourselves. We were largely feral. Frogger was so fun. Though the 70's you might find someone who was Buddhist, but the US population was largely Christian. In the early 80's very few people would say they weren't Christian because it was dangerous to do that. They'd evade the question if they weren't. By the late 80's it was common to have "left the church," by the mid-90's many people were openly atheist or at least not Christian - it wasn't until then that most blue laws were repealed (no business on Sundays). Today it is extremely common to not practice a religion, and while that's still a big deal in some regions, for the most part it's not something that will count against you socially. Millennials are awesome. Gen Z is awesome. Y'all were a bunch of little jerks to teach, but I loved you anyway. The kids are fine. The pandemic made it hard for my son to make friends & form deep bonds with kids his age. He's great at light passing interactions, but it takes WORK on the parents part to let the kids actually socialize & visit & form solid friendships. They can't just play outside unattended because someone will call the cops... like literally someone almost called the cops on my kid playing on his own land. Craziness.
GenX here and as ithers have said it truly was a great time to grow up in. One comment from the original video does have me scratching my head, 'gen z is more indviualistic'. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing that. Younger millenials and older gen z are the most reactionary of the generations. Given the speed at which information spreads these days it's not surprising though. Waiting for more information to come out would be beneficial to everyone, also don't be so quick to attempt to "cancel" people.
Your social media experience probably consists of a couple Facebook posts a day and/or one RUclips video which you will comment on. I doubt you even have TikTok. Can you even name 5 popular RUclipsrs? Your opinion isn't relevant here. Also, how do you have four eyes but you still can't see shit? Being an influencer is literally the #1 job Gen Z'ers want. Quite literally the most individualist job you can have. 💀
I think the reason why people have issues with Boomers is because they're our parents. There's a difference in sociatal values between the generations. Old fashioned ideas get labeled as Boomer and modern ones as Millennials, Gen X is forgotten about and Gen Z and A are too young to figure much. Social media polarises people, so the Boomer Millennial divide becomes a thing and gets built on. I've been called a Millennial online simply because of my opinion. The labels become symbols rather than true descriptions.
You'd better know, or Coachella is OFF! 😅 - 🌴 Cynical Gen-Xer in Palm Springs 🌴 If u can successfully target a generation, in its own "language," with each's own motivations, history, and culture, your biz will succeed. 💯 U didn't know your Parasocial White Soul-Filled American Auntie was a Communications Director for Wall Street (NYSE) companies, did ya? I could geek 🤓 all day about entrepreneurship. Started my first real company, age 22. You're doing great 👍. "Auntie" is proud of you! You should check out if the generations are different outside of the US. It can only benefit u, and it's fascinating. (Geotargets, too). I was doing gig work and copywriting by age 21. From my home office. Really hard to negotiate that in the 90s. Preferred now. You're killing it. 👍😎👋
I do feel very bad for my all the kids that were literally locked down for two years. That is what your grandkids are going to be asking you about! I was born in 1966 so I am Gen X and I was raised by Boomers who were tough. It is interesting.
every generation is 15 to 18 yrs. long the youngest Gen Z kids were born 2010-2011 Gen Alpha starts 2012 and ends in Dec 2026 the Depression started with the black Thursday stock market Crash of October 24th 1929
not sure where you got that Millennial ended in 95 Gen Z started in 96 and ended in 09 Gen Alpha started in 2010 and ends this year , Gen Beta starts in a few months in 2025, boomers are the last gen to not be a 15 year spread they cover 18 years 1946-1964
Boomers, . . . While many Boomers are named Karen, most "Karens" are not Boomers. Gen X has not aged well. Most of them look older than they are and are constantly being mistaken for Boomers. I was shopping with a Gen X friend and the cashier (F GenX) thought she was my mother. I am a Boomer. I do not look that "young for my age". Gen X just looks really old. I think mit was their ferral upbringing.
I wish I was making this up. I have a good friend (GenX) that is no longer speaking to me because a cashier thought she was my mother. I am 5 years older than her, and a Boomer. You kids are equating Karens with Boomer, when in fact Karens are the offspring of the Boomers. Sorry about that. 😐
One thing that irritates me about this video is the reference to Trump as the rise of vicious politics that did not start in zoomers age. Vicious politics started with the ads in the 80s. He's showing his political ideology not referring to actual facts in that case. The pushing of a narrative that with a minimal amount of research can easily be debunked.
No, I'm pretty sure Trump began a new level of viciousness. The overt demonization of immigrants, the name calling, the calls for violence, making fun of disabled people and veterans and women. The list goes on and on. I'm 44, and I've never seen even a fraction of that type of viciousness from a politician.
I get the impression that gen x is overall the most laid back generation. We are just used to solving our own shit somehow. And if we can't, we kind of just "so this is what we're doing now? Sure, whatever" our way through life.
That sums us up pretty well
Right we don’t stress over things we just let things happen and deal with it and go with it. Figure it out.
lol, we’re not laid back. We are just really great at internalizing our angst and anxiety.
@@Exile-exe Yeah, but don't give them the cheatcodes, dammit! 😂😂
I'm Gen X and it's all true! It was the best time to be kids! I wear being a Gen Xer like a badge of honor.
Right with you.👍
I totally agree
Say it loud and proud!!
“Say say
Two-thousand-zero-zero party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999”
Yes!
In Sweden, we don't really use the term Gen X, we say The Ironic Generation (born in 1968)
As a gen x i think the internet has done more harm than good to our society
couldn't agree more. The 24\7 news networks are no better
@@diltberg9627 the Internet is just a facet of society... You can use it for good or bad, take your pick.. or forget it exists and live your life as you see fit✌️
as a boomer i think telephone does more harm to our society
Oh, no doubt about that.
@@kerriniemi9525 It would be nice to think that people can take their pick of the internet and it started out that way. You can't anymore now that it is so algorithm-driven. You also can't realistically opt out of it.
Yo JAYFLEX. You got a cool channel. Keep up the good work. I think that was a good assessment from the different generations.
1:50 The very last member of the Lost Generation died in 2018, as of this post, the oldest living person is a Japanese woman born in 1908.
Source: Wikipedia's List of the verified oldest people.
If I could go back to my teen self in the 80s, I would scream to buy Microsoft stock! 😂
i was buying records and tapes instead
Same and Apple😢
Then trade it all in for Apple in 1999.
bruh, seriously!!
Generation X'er here...have to say my childhood prepared me well for adulthood. One of the best times to grow up and imo b/c we were forced to be adults before our time we don't sweat the small stuff now. It takes a LOT to shake us up and we are all super independent often preferring to complete things solo v.s. thinking we need help for anything. No matter how bad things can get as an adult we all have a story from our childhood to compare it to and think, well if I survived that then I can certainly survive this now lol.
Boomer here. 😬 Yeah, we have a reputation for being a tad cranky (guilty). I don't know how to express how disorienting the last 20-30 years have been. Virtually everything we took for a hard fact of life simply changed. Some of us have coped better than others. I wish we understood each other better. Personally, I feel I relate better to the Lost Generation. They too lived through tremendous technological upheaval and viewed the following generations with a bit of suspicion and bewilderment.
I am also a boomer. The protesting and social justice going on now reminds me of the civil rights movement. The right’s antiwar stance remind me of our antiwar movement. It will get even more like it if the current war progress and the draft comes back into play.
An interesting bit for you about genx and boomers would be to check out the congressional hearings on record labeling in the US.
It was the 80s, and there was a big push to make it easier for parents to know what their kids were listening to. Although it would affect our genx freedoms to listen to whatever we wanted, the artists were perhaps mostly boomers. Several of them testified to Congress. The one I always go to is Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. He was great! There are videos of the hearings on RUclips. Check it out,please
Ah, yes. The RCMP stickers on records. The best advertizing ever LOL
And Jello Biafra and Zappa on the Donahue-Oprah shows
But the realness: Al Capone’s Vault
My husband and I are at the early end of Millennials, '82 and '85. We tend to act more like Gen X than "Millennials" who're younger than us. One thing I always say as far as the cut off for Millennials, Millennials will remember 9/11, gen Z would be too young. My sister and I were pretty much "latch key kids" she was born in '88. At times we were borderline feral lol
S A M E! my dad (Boomer mk1)Mom (GenX mk1) me 82 brothers 85 and 89. Us kids had a neighborhood pack all kids regardless of age hung out together so my 6yr boy bro hung with 16 and 17 yr olds and he grew up fast.
The one thing that is absolutely true is that we were outside All the time. In the summer we really were outside all day long and took some long trips on our bikes. We really did fall out of cars! A lot of us did. No seat belts and 3 in the front seat and back. If you were squished up against the door, falling out as outlet parent turned a corner was a memory forecast of us. Sometimes the middle kid would catch them. Then we would get in trouble. We just tried not to get in trouble. Our parents would get mad at us! We had a good free life though. Lots of fun with each other.
My great grandmother was born in 1920. She told us that she was done with people once the Gen Y/Millennial years started. 😅 Funny how she loves all her Gen X grandchildren. Now she is starting to like her Gen Alpha grandchildren. It's so hilarious. She's 104 years old, has a sharp mind, and still walks 2 miles everyday. 😊
That's amazing and funny. Good for her. I had the pleasure to briefly chat with a woman at the pharmacy who was 103. She looked like a healthy 80 yr old. I was completely humbled and inspired.
What a precious gift to have her in your life!! Sending so much love to great-grandma!! 🥰And tell her she's 100% right on!! 😃
My great grandmother lived to 107.Just before her 107th birthday she had a stroke and died shortly after. Rode a motorcycle until we took it from her @ 102. Sharp mind, and even sharper tounge. Rip to Mimi(Mildred McAllister) she also used to play COD Black ops1 with my son and I
@@Disavowedagent47 grandparents are precious. Rest in Power to your great grandmother.
Yeah, rock fights was crazy. Kids getting their heads split open. And I know at least 3 people with BB’s lodged in their face, lol.
As a millenial, I started crying when they started talking about my generation... me and my husband (not actually married, together 18 years) have been getting by but especially in the past 4 years we've been pretty stagnant and not able to buy a house... even though we make more money every year.
Stop voting for democrats
Congrats on almost twenty years! Be patient as you can on owning a house, 30 year mortgages are a scam in their own right. Remember that it's not about what you make, it's about what you have left over.
And, know that you aren’t alone.
yes, 1930s music is where swing dancing came from. Lindy Hop is the most well-known, but there were lots of styles. It's still a thriving global pastime today. I've been dancing swing since 2010 and now I teach it. It's such good fun and the history is fascinating.
Boomer here! The only thing I complain about is I wish we were living back in those carefree days!
I Love that young people like you are curious and want to learn about our history and what different generations went through. Each generation thinks it was so long ago and it was, but the fact is they were people just like we are. Same dreams, hopes, depression. I think you’re very smart young people. It actually amazes me at how smart you are. It’s called progression. Lots of mistakes made, but the ones who were curious about the past and learned, were the people who created and made the biggest contributions to our world.
My parents were the Silent generation. I'm Gex X and I need a t-shirt that says "I survived the 70s". I raised two millennials and a Gen Z and they are all amazing people. Strong work ethics, financially responsible, and two are homeowners. One retired from the military after two contracts, and one is a teacher. The third is a support tech at a local hospital. Every generation as their outliers, but most are good kids and good people. Oh, Millennial parents, get your kids off those iPads before you regret and actually spend time with them. You have very limited time to do it right.
My grandparents were the greatest gen, my parents are silent, my sister is a late boomer, and I am genx. It is amazing what events made people the way they are.
You must check out the Rolling Stones!!! So iconic!
Your are definitely unique #flexer and a unique Gen Zer! I'm a Baby Boomer/Gen Zer lovin' your reactions. Keep 'em comin' 💜💜
I'm Gen Y, aka, Millennial, and being a kid in the later 80s/early 90s was truly a wonderful time.
My grandma was born in 1922 and was a member of the Greatest Generation. She only just passed away last year at the age of 100.
As an early millennial we had access to the internet before a lot of the protections and safety standards that exist now were implemented. As much as kids are told to be careful of strangers online now, and abductions still happen, parents didn't really know that was something to talk to their kids about with the internet until after something happened already in their state/area. I definitely remember being 13 years old talking to 30 year old creepy guys in chatrooms, I'm just lucky I was too much of a nerd to ever want to meet someone in person. Outside of creeps though computer viruses and illegal content being hidden in files were both huge issues that showed up early on when p2p file sharing programs like napster, morpheus, kazaa, and limewire came around. People could add just about anything they wanted to a zip file and share for hundreds or thousands of people to download based off just a title.
Born in 1966 Gen X. Both parents came from broken homes. Both parents broken people. Do to alcohol and abuse parents divorced by the time I was 2. Was passed to different family members as mom unable to work and take care. Was traumatized from forced marriage to father due to pregnancy. I grew up until I was 6 with relatives some took good care but others I raised myself with help of cousins. When I was 4 would walk to the school which was maybe 4 blocks away to pick up my older cousins. Was locked out of the house if family not home would visit neighbours to eat or get drink. Played with other kids in area. One best friend was an East Indian boy who lived across the street. We would play on his driveway riding tricycles. I would with my older cousin she was 6 or 7 sent to the store for cigarettes for my aunt and uncle. Yes pretty messed up. Introverted. Do not believe government, or media. Distrustful. Do not put up with B.S. Loyal when deserved. Dislike liars. Want truth, willl question and verify. Have my own issues.
As a rural Norwegian male born in 1971. Gen x sort of got it all when it comes to the more traditional things and the tech. I got my first axe at the age of five, I used a chainsaw from the age of ten. My first car was a VW Betle when I was 13, we used to drive the hell out of them on forest gravel roads and in fields. And I could say so much more about this.
BUT...we also so the birth of the digital age and grew with it. We know how a computer works, we know binary, ASCII, Java. I have been a computer sciense teacher, network manager and digital photo teacher.
But I still have axes, chainsaws, a shot gun and rifles. My grandfather was a local butcher. I can stil do my own butchering. I have chikens....we sort of got it all.
Exept for some important empathy, sympathy and care. But I'm really happy for have had the upbringing, or a lack of it, that I had. :)
I am GEN X, My parents were apart of the Greatest Generation.
I wonder how many individuals feel like myself? I was born in late May of 1964. Officially a Boomer, but just a little more than 6 months of being Gen X. I was the latch key kid as well. I feel like I walk in both generations, but belong to neither. Just wonder if anyone else feel the way I do that got caught in that 6 month to a year change of generations?
There are those of us born between the 1954 and 1964/1965 time span that refer to ourselves as "Generation Jones".
We can relate to much of the Boomer experience but also the early Gen X experiences as well.
That's where term like "micro generation" comes in. I am officially Gen Y/Millennial by general consensus now, but back then the years were all over the place trying to define when Gen X ends and Gen Y begins... at that time, Xennial became a term that popped up for people born at the cusp of Gen X and Y.
i feel the same but on the other end of gen X , officially im a Millennial but my up up bringing was exactly the way Gen X is ,
I was born June 1963...late end of the boomer generation! I'm still just me,I strongly dislike being labeled and grouped together with others due to eras! We are all different in thought and perception!
I will add, as a personal observation. Gen Z born to a lot of Gen X late starters seem to have a wisdom and intelligence that surpasses most millennials I know.
I’m a GenX and proud, and the video was spot on about us. Adults felt both unhinged yet authoritarian (going out to discos and cocaine yet preaching to us and coming up with madness like Satanic Panic (remember that crazy shit?!)). Me and all my friends were lower-middle to middle class, latch key kids who were very independent, rebellious yet also not caring what other generations thought of us(“We don’t need no education! We don’t need no thought contrlol!”). I grew up damn independent, have never as an adult borrowed or asked for any money from my parents, and had a successful career starting my own business. Adults seemed too busy with their own problems.
I was really interested to hear the comparisons between GenX and GenZ - for some reason I’ve felt kinship with GenZ and the video gave compelling reasons for why. We grew up similarly; I’m hopeful and suspect Z will be as independent, not care what other generations think of them, and generally have fun. I support team Z!
The Panic is back 😭 😅
My Gen(Z) is just coming into their own now, but we can all bond, X'ers, Z'ers, Millennials, over the Undisputed worst generation around, and that's the boomers. It's fuck boomers all day. 👍
Gen X came of age in the rise of computer technology, Millennial's came of age during the rise of the internet connecting all of that technology together, Zoomers came of age during the rise of social media connecting all of the people together. it will be interesting to see what the clear defining factor is when Gen Alpha begins to come of age starting in the next 5 or so years.
I’ll be looking at all your videos because you seem like a cool young guy JAYFLEX.
Gen X here, our childhood was indeed unstructured and free. As a latch key kid, i was unsupervised a lot, so it was up to me to take care of and entertain myself. So freeing! 😂❤
1971 GenX here if you study generational theory, there is a 4 generation cycle. Looking at the picture of the generation icons, they line up correctly from top to bottom. Lost Gen and GenX were the same generation in the cycle and so on.
I'm Gen X (1977). My favourite generation (along with Gen X) is Gen Greatest, my Grandparents generation - I miss them so much! My least favourite are Boomers (my parents generation). Though I'm probably biased because maybe my mother had forgotten to take her contraceptives.
As a Gen X'er, I've heard us called "The Feral Generation" and I can't argue. Someone also once said to me Gen X'ers are born 30 years old, then they turn 30, and now they're in their 50's and they're still 30.
Early Gen X and it was the best time to be a kid, it was a time that right now I'd love to be able to go back and visit. Gen X was a time when if you didn't know how to do something you found the information and taught yourself. There were no classes in computers we were the generation that had to figure it out for ourselves and that was true in every way. To this day if I need something done I am more likely to gather the information and teach myself how to do it.
As a millenial I grew up with internett before I started elementary school, where everyone owned a cell phone. Sosial media was very popular at middle School. Grew up with GTA and PS2. There are HUGE differences between growing up in Norway were I am from, and the US. The US is behind. Everything about Zoomers ( minus Covid and extrem wokeness) is true about a millenium upbringing in Scandinavia
Hey my young British friend, my late father, was the Greatest Gen,I was born in1963 (Last year of Boomer Gen) Grew-up in 70s-80s In Nova Scotia, At 18 spent 1 Year Canadian Army,Reserves, went back to Trade School at 21(Auto-Mechanic) 25 years in trade,At 50, worked 12 years as Security Guard, Now Body worn-out, Still ride Motorcycles, Now 61years old! Enjoy your YOUTH! It goes by too Quick! Great Video!😀👌👍✌🤘
I was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers. I shared a lot of the same experiences of the early Gen Xers.
The word is Album, rather than Albumn; referring to the "Prince" Album.
FACTS! i feel anyway...gen X😊 i think that this video did a better job...i do remember us being called the lost generation, before they settled on forgotten, latchkey, or even gen x... as for slacker, i think it was because we found a way to enjoy our lives and work as well, and even working at things we enjoyed...which may not have been the case for our elders
we are open books, for the most part, as gen x, and love to share our knowledge and experiences with people that are interested so ask away
thanks again
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They started out calling us the "baby bust" and finally settled on Gen X because Boomers decided we didn't have any causes that we cared for fight for so they essentially called us generation null. And we embraced it 😂 because why not?
@@katrinaprescott5911 it is kind of hilarious then, because I, and many of us do stand up for all kinds of things... Being a good human to others for a start, environmental issues always, and trying to leave a positive footprint on humanity forever ✌️💓😊
@@kerriniemi9525 Oh, we stood up for things, but we were (and are) a small enough cohort they could ignore us for the most part or just brush our concerns off. We just got in there, do what needs to be done, and give the younger generations the ability to be loud. Which is why Boomers focused on Millennials being at fault for everything.
@@Tiewaz that's very true... We do just jump in and do whatever needs to be done, without being asked or told to... Nor do we care if anyone noticed 😍😊
My parents were the last years of greatest generation, and I'm genx, the youngest of 10. My mother is still with us at 98. She's still sharp and is still one of the strongest people I've ever known. My father lied about his age and joined the navy at 15. Many young men did the same to escape poverty or terrible homes. No central databases to check their ages. They truly were a tough generation.
I’m Gen X with Gen Z kids. We hold Saturday morning cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Super Friends) as part of our identity& they definitely have SpongeBob. Interestingly though we ALL can claim The Simpsons!
My Grandparents were The Greatest 😉 my Dad was The Silent, my Mom is a Boomer, Me and my Brother are Gen X and my little brother is a Millenial 😊
Gen X here (circa 1977)-it was certainly an interesting but also extremely amazing time to grow up! Oh, and btw, I'm an agnostic atheist.
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Just remember that these are generalizations. I was born in 1961, technically a Boomer, but most of my childhood experiences were solidly Gen X. I was heavily influenced by older Boomers (hippie babysitters and neighbors) as well as by Greatest generation grandparents who I loved and adored. Also, it depends what class you come from since most working class and poor kids had always been "latch-key kids". We all have something to learn from one another, from all generations. Keep up the good work!
1984….feel like a gen Xer though
With gen z, I feel like it should be cut in half. Half the generation is adults and some with kids and are done with school for a couple of years, and the other half is still kids😅 my mam’s a gen x and had 3 children, me and my brother are adults (25 & 23) and my sister is 17, (though she thinks she’s an adult). Me and my brother had grown up with game cube, Nintendo 64, DS, playing outside and didn’t want to come home, no Facebook, we were only allowed like 30 minutes or something on the computer, and I had my first phone at 16 and a iPod at 15. Mam didn’t want me to have a phone at a young age. And our sister basically grew up with a phone in her hands. I really think they should split gen z in half😅
Gen X here. We really do just want to be left alone.
Go away then and stop polluting TikTok.
“Wondering how a brother born in the 2000’s knows about that.”
It’s swing dancing. It would be worse if you didn’t know about it.
I wasn’t going to post this. It’s kind of petty.
But then you used the phrase, “For those of you who know how to use emojis,” and the condescension gloves came off.
As a Millennial American, I feel I should clarify something. Religion actually spiked in some America cities and towns after 9/11. Many turned to God for answers and some more radical people believed we were in a religious war and needed to prepare the next generation for it. There was a huge purity religious culture push even by Hollywood companies like Disney and TLC with celebs like the Jonas brothers purity ring push and the Duggars a radical religious family becoming main stream and visiting churches all over the country to spread their message. Some of it was very culty, not all churches obviously some people I know never had this issues in their cities or towns but some I saw really lost it for awhile and became all about raising millennials to be pure and the best, not realizing they were hurting a lot of us in the process and why religious trauma is something spoken a lot about today. Fundie Fridays has really good docs about this time period, Jonas brothers, the Duggars, etc. However by the 2010s after the recession and millennials becoming adults many stepped back from religion and are more agnostic and spiritual. Some are raising their kids in the church in a laidback way and others just left it all together. But many millennials don't have kids because they can't afford them, have chronic medical issues, and lack of community or trauma from childhood.
Im glad you called it gen y!
as a gen x'er i feel sorry for kids growing up today. They will never know the freedom and fun we had growing up. Jumping on the mini-bike and disappearing from sun-up to sundown with your parents having no clue where you were.
I'm a Gen Z 'er and I guarantee my childhood was far more enjoyable than yours. 😂
Ain't nothing like trading Pokemon cards or re-enacting episodes from Dragonball-Z during recess, then coming home and spending the rest of the day on the WII or watching classics on Cartoon Network. Birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese, early RUclips, mmmhh!
Lol, you all probably got bored after a few hours on your dusty ass bike and spent all your allowance making a fool out of yourself at the arcade. Or for some of you, getting stupider than a mofo on crack and jacking off. No Diddy(even though he is part of your generation). 💀
The years do not corrospond with what they are describing. So they mention world war 2 as being the Greatest Generation but the year described was 1901-1927 for that (WWII Was 1939-1944) 🤷♀️🤔
That's because they were BORN between 1901 and 1927 and were adults during World War II - 17 to 39 years old in 1940.
1901-1927 are the birth years of the greatest generation. Those who served in WWII would have been born within the time span.
Yeah, it goes by your birth year. I'm GenX born in 1980. I fall in the same Generation as people born in the 60's and 70's but I grew up in the 80's and 90's.
Boomers. What happened there is a big reason why Gen X is the way we are. Whenever Boomers come up nobody realizes that all they did was cut their hair and become damn Yuppies. Personally I have waged a "war" against F-ing yuppies my whole life. Same as my friends. Most of our parents were way to busy squandering our Grandparent's up their nose. So we had to raise them and our sibling and our own kids all at one. I like to think of us as the wall and glue that kept them from messing with our kids. To us, whatever is an emotion. Not because we don't care. Moreso that we've heard this dumb shit already and I don't need it explained. And when we say I don't care it's that we don't really care what other people think about us. A lot of us could see the writing on the wall about when we graduated High School. We watched all of our parents and Grandparents becoming unemployed from "corporate downsizing." We tried our best to tell people how it really was. The only way people listened was through music and art. We took the beatings and ridicule so that y'all don't have too. So y'all young whippersnappers should do something no one else has. If you see or know one of us, thank us. Then laugh at the reaction you get. Awesome video man.
I thought it was interesting as a GenX mom of a GenZ daughter that they made a comparison between the 2....different times; different reasons; similar mind sets
That caught my attention too! I’m a GenX (who I think they described perfectly) and I was feeling kinship with the GenZ. In the perspectives given, we have much in common. I’m curious to see if they grow up like us wanting to be left alone.
@@alansimonson8558 I think a bit. I know it’s lame…. We all crave a connection. Genx is sort of rage against it…. GenZ trying to build bridges for all sides. VWhether I get it or not, I definitely respect it. My daughter rocks!!
I was born 66 and husband born 63and our kids 85 and 94
I'm a gen x Aussie. I call our generation the 'Whatever' generation. We grew up with not much respect for authority and would just give the middle finger 😉 Most don't tolerate the victim mentality because we would just shrug our shoulders and get on with things. Why let little things raise your blood pressure 😅 I'm sad for you that you feel like you missed out on your 16s. That was the period in my life when I went out in to the big bad world to discover my self identity!!! Not to rub it in but it's awesome being gen x!!
As a Gen X you seem like a pretty cool generation, Z guy 1:41
If your parents are Gen X, it makes sense. Please leave me a comment to let me know because as a Gen X you are cool.
I love the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
Every generation dislikes the generation that came before them.
1966 Gen X here. The 70's and 80's was a great time. We were the first gamers, but balanced that with lots of outside time and no social media/ipads to rot our brains. People seemed to get along. Having to go to a library and hunt through encyclopedias sucked but we knew no different. We had no internet and no mobile devices. If I missed the school bus coming home i had to walk 3 miles. Again never thought anything about that or later riding our bikes miles away from home. So long as you were back by nightfall it was all good.
Not all of us were latchkey kids or products of divorce. My parents were married for about 60 years and my mother was a SAHM.
The first three sentences are all lies, but overall, a pretty accurate description of how sad life was for Gen X'ers. How primitive. 😂
My grandparents were part of the Lost Generation, my parents were the Silent Generation and I am a Boomer. I have an old soul and relate to the older generations. Unfortunately the hippies define the Boomers. The 50s and 60s were a great time to grow up.
The Boomers' parents were probably encouraged to have bigger families to help replace all the family they lost during the wars, pandemics, and starvation during the Great Depression that occurred during these times.
I’m gen. X ❤✌️
I lost one great uncle to WWI and 2 to the Spanish Flu (didn't start in Spain).
My grandma was a flapper & she also sold the gin her mother made during prohibition LOL. It did buy them a farm.
My other grandma was terrified that her kids would die from polio and she got them immunized as soon as she could.
Half of all Boomers are incredibly awesome people, the other half kinda suck.
All true things about Gen X. Most of our parents booted us out of the house after breakfast & we were expected home for dinner or fend for ourselves. We were largely feral. Frogger was so fun. Though the 70's you might find someone who was Buddhist, but the US population was largely Christian. In the early 80's very few people would say they weren't Christian because it was dangerous to do that. They'd evade the question if they weren't. By the late 80's it was common to have "left the church," by the mid-90's many people were openly atheist or at least not Christian - it wasn't until then that most blue laws were repealed (no business on Sundays). Today it is extremely common to not practice a religion, and while that's still a big deal in some regions, for the most part it's not something that will count against you socially.
Millennials are awesome.
Gen Z is awesome. Y'all were a bunch of little jerks to teach, but I loved you anyway. The kids are fine.
The pandemic made it hard for my son to make friends & form deep bonds with kids his age. He's great at light passing interactions, but it takes WORK on the parents part to let the kids actually socialize & visit & form solid friendships. They can't just play outside unattended because someone will call the cops... like literally someone almost called the cops on my kid playing on his own land. Craziness.
GenX here and as ithers have said it truly was a great time to grow up in. One comment from the original video does have me scratching my head, 'gen z is more indviualistic'. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing that. Younger millenials and older gen z are the most reactionary of the generations. Given the speed at which information spreads these days it's not surprising though. Waiting for more information to come out would be beneficial to everyone, also don't be so quick to attempt to "cancel" people.
Your social media experience probably consists of a couple Facebook posts a day and/or one RUclips video which you will comment on. I doubt you even have TikTok. Can you even name 5 popular RUclipsrs? Your opinion isn't relevant here.
Also, how do you have four eyes but you still can't see shit? Being an influencer is literally the #1 job Gen Z'ers want. Quite literally the most individualist job you can have. 💀
All the shit you enjoy today, was GenX-made.
Remember this always.
I think the reason why people have issues with Boomers is because they're our parents. There's a difference in sociatal values between the generations. Old fashioned ideas get labeled as Boomer and modern ones as Millennials, Gen X is forgotten about and Gen Z and A are too young to figure much. Social media polarises people, so the Boomer Millennial divide becomes a thing and gets built on. I've been called a Millennial online simply because of my opinion. The labels become symbols rather than true descriptions.
You'd better know, or Coachella is OFF! 😅 - 🌴 Cynical Gen-Xer in Palm Springs 🌴 If u can successfully target a generation, in its own "language," with each's own motivations, history, and culture, your biz will succeed. 💯 U didn't know your Parasocial White Soul-Filled American Auntie was a Communications Director for Wall Street (NYSE) companies, did ya? I could geek 🤓 all day about entrepreneurship. Started my first real company, age 22. You're doing great 👍. "Auntie" is proud of you! You should check out if the generations are different outside of the US. It can only benefit u, and it's fascinating. (Geotargets, too). I was doing gig work and copywriting by age 21. From my home office. Really hard to negotiate that in the 90s. Preferred now. You're killing it. 👍😎👋
I do feel very bad for my all the kids that were literally locked down for two years. That is what your grandkids are going to be asking you about! I was born in 1966 so I am Gen X and I was raised by Boomers who were tough. It is interesting.
Gen x . I think my youngest is your age.
every generation is 15 to 18 yrs. long the youngest Gen Z kids were born 2010-2011 Gen Alpha starts 2012 and ends in Dec 2026 the Depression started with the black Thursday stock market Crash of October 24th 1929
not sure where you got that Millennial ended in 95 Gen Z started in 96 and ended in 09 Gen Alpha started in 2010 and ends this year , Gen Beta starts in a few months in 2025, boomers are the last gen to not be a 15 year spread they cover 18 years 1946-1964
Gen x I was raised by silent generation, and although much of what he said was factual, he sprinkled in his ideologies and bias throughout the video.
Boomers, . . .
While many Boomers are named Karen, most "Karens" are not Boomers.
Gen X has not aged well. Most of them look older than they are and are constantly being mistaken for Boomers.
I was shopping with a Gen X friend and the cashier (F GenX) thought she was my mother.
I am a Boomer.
I do not look that "young for my age". Gen X just looks really old.
I think mit was their ferral upbringing.
Now you are just making stuff up.
I wish I was making this up.
I have a good friend (GenX) that is no longer speaking to me because a cashier thought she was my mother. I am 5 years older than her, and a Boomer.
You kids are equating Karens with Boomer, when in fact Karens are the offspring of the Boomers. Sorry about that. 😐
Millenial atheist here
Boomer one here too 😊
One thing that irritates me about this video is the reference to Trump as the rise of vicious politics that did not start in zoomers age. Vicious politics started with the ads in the 80s. He's showing his political ideology not referring to actual facts in that case. The pushing of a narrative that with a minimal amount of research can easily be debunked.
No, I'm pretty sure Trump began a new level of viciousness. The overt demonization of immigrants, the name calling, the calls for violence, making fun of disabled people and veterans and women. The list goes on and on. I'm 44, and I've never seen even a fraction of that type of viciousness from a politician.