Many of our toys were later banned as unsafe, we rode around standing up in the backseat of cars or the beds of pickup trucks, we disappeared for hours on our bikes with no way to contact us or know where we were, we ran into the store to buy our parents beer and cigarettes, we drove lawnmowers and tractors before we were 10YO, we were completely self sufficient for hours at a time while our parents worked or went out. 90% of the things I was allowed to do as a child, would send a parent to prison today. God I miss the the freedom we had.
Everything you said is so true it made me laugh thinking about buying my mom her Marlboro Reds. Imaging a 9yo walking into a store today and buying cigarettes. 😂
I totally forgot that when I was about 10 or maybe 12 I walked into a store and bought a bottle of booze for my great aunt. I was tall for my age, but nonetheless, they kind a looked at me funny but still let me buy it.
I had a toy which was a light bulb heated oven in which you put a metal mold to make gel bugs. You’d pull that thing out and it would be scalding hot. I don’t remember ever burning myself on one, but the possibility was certainly there.
I was born being told to prepare for the apocalypses, I was raised to expect a nuclear strike. I never had expectations of growing old or retirement. Gen-x doesn't cancel, it deletes. We do not seek to control chaos, it is in chaos we thrive.
There was a public service announcement for parents that quite literally asked, "Do you know where your kids are?" because that is how we were raised, forgotten as kids and we'd like to remain forgotten as adults. Thank you very much.
Even most millennials would say the same thing, I was born in 88 didn't have a computer in the house till 98 and I was raised like the 70s and 80s that my parents were raised and grew up in
I think the biggest thing about us Gen X'ers is we don't give a flying fig what anyone thinks about us or how we choose to live our lives and that scares the hell out of people because they can't control us. Fist bump to all my fellow peeps that grew up drinking out of the hose and rode bikes without helmets!
That's the power of growing up as a generation that was suddenly regarded as a chore to raise. By parents who asked themselves, "Why do we have to work so hard raising kids just because our parents did?" "Isn't this whole traditional family thing obsolete?" If you are looked down on when you're a little kid, you're not going to get upset about it as an adult.
Our generation invented playing video games in the living room with a couple of friends while our parents weren’t home. Grabbing a bunch of movies from blockbuster on Friday nights. We would also ride our BMX bikes back home at night after hanging out with our friends. Those were the f**cking days. Great childhood. 😎
Gen X We know the old ways. We invented the new ways. We are getting older and grumpier by the day and are less and less concerned about silly things like social credit score or prison time. Cross us at your peril. 1971 vintage
1970 Not sure how many times I was told I would never live to see 30yrs. Despite all the crazy shit I didn't get caught for I'm still kicking. I figure I've had a good long run. Few things worry me nowadays. Violence is an old and drear friend.
@@jaygraham4095 1967 I, personally, didn't think I would live to see thirty, told people as much, and was perfectly all right with it. I've already BEEN called crazy by people of my OWN generation, a lot of them in uniform, because I have stared down morons with guns, knives, and in moving vehicles while I'M in the street. These idiots think they scare me? I should already be dead...come get some.
I'M a genx'er. I went to a public school where the teachers were legally allowed to beat me with a paddle hanging up in their room. I WALKED a mile and a half to and from school everyday and was on my own until my parents got home. Our bullies would beat us up until we turned around and clobbered them hard enough to be left alone. You either played alone or made friends. We watched cartoons on the hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandparents... if cartoons were on. We had to read books. We weren't allowed to have feelings or opinions. You'd go over to your grandparent's house and learn how to do something useful... like cook, clean, fix things, or patch up your own wounds when you'd FAFO. We didn't wear bike helmets. We were the last non-soft generatio... drinking out of a garden house and skinning our knees and elbows playing football on an asphalt street. You can't hang with us. You can barely get out of bed and go work a 9 to 5 without having an emotional breakdown.
@triggeredsoyboy My first little brother was born in 1987 and he went to the same school as I. He endured the same hardships because we were out in the country. The superintendent of schools still gave you bloody knuckles with a pointer stick, making you grab the edge of the desk and lay face down on the desk. He'd nail you 2 or 3 times and you had to anticipate when it was coming. That was worse than the physical pain, him pacing and talking about your performance before - CRACK! He was principal when I was in that school, and one day he hit me 7 times over a setup (I wasn't in the religious fundie PTA kid's cult). My grandfather, a Pearl Harbor vet, came in with me the next day and beat him all over the office during morning announcements! ROFL! Ah the Regan Era, good times... As long as they "started it" and didn't NEED medical treatment, it wasn't a crime... LOL! The laws for all that stuff really went national in the mid to late 90s. It doesn't apply to first half Millenials.
ha ha ha born in 66. In grade school, we had hard asphalt or cement under our swings and monkey bars. lots of cracked heads opened on our playground at school. was told to walk off your head injury.
Sorry, your generation, just like the rest of us, were susceptible to lies and manipulation by the media and government. It's surprising how many of gen X still doesn't realize that the media is actively lying to them.
As a Gen X I remember buying cigarettes at the store for my parents when I was 10 with a note from my mom. Back then a note from your mom carried a lot of weight.
Me and my fellow Gen x friends all agree that our lack of supervision and freedom is what made us so resilient, inventive and adaptable. We're also thankful that there were no phones around to record our mistakes and no internet to upload them for mass viewing.
And we have thick skins and the latchkey kid scars to prove we had to learn our lessons the hard way. Are you kidding? I WISH we had digital cameras, I want all my idiocy documented, it would make great content for a channel! Plus, we had a killer music soundtrack to our lives with substance (including our parent's music).
There were no safe spaces, just like real life. We pretty much invented the "your momma's so fat..." jokes, and sometimes ended up in a fight over them, but usually it was a simple ribbing that caused no harm or what would be considered today to be TRAUMA.
I'm a total GenXer and I truly believe we lived in the greatest time in human history. The 80s and 90s were the most awesome time to be alive. And I think we did quite well.
I'm doing fine. 58 years old. Married 33 years, raised three great children, house paid off, cars paid off. No credit card debt, never went to college so no student loans. Around $600k in 401k and other savings. I enjoy my job.
I'm nine years behind you. Married 27 years, four kids, house will be paid off in 2026, no other debt. Right there with you my friend. Doing well. Can't complain at all. @@lot2196
@@Member00101 I was an adult in the 90s. I would probably say that enjoyment in life is up to the individual. I know lots of adults who were having a great time in the 80s and 90s. I know a lot of adults who are having a great time now. All depends on your attitude and your choices.
Indeed! It's nice to be respected, feared.... And left well the f*ck alone! And with extremes on BOTH sides of the political divide becoming even more extreme... I do also find myself believing more and more, that I am actually living on an alien planet! 😊
Vintage 1970 here . Everything that guy said was spot on . Generally left unattended, outside until the street lights came on with no one to know where we were or to contact us. Did not trust anything or anyone other than family and real friends . We were grown-up ,operating machinery, cooking for yourself and siblings, home alone with Mom and Dad working and taking care of yourself all by 10 years old . The most unique time to be alive and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Generation X
We drank out of the garden hose in the 50s and 60s before u were born. That is just plain silly. WTH are you even talking about? We had more freedom as kids in the 50s cuz it was pretty damn safe everywhere as long as we were home when we were supposed to be. And if we played outside at night, there was a curfew.
Eh, we used to be out until long after dark....pretty much playing hide and seek....neighborhood parents put an end to it after the realized we looked like a bunch of burglars wearing all black and running through the neighbors yards...
As a Gen X'er, I was given a wrist rocket, a carton of BBs, and left to run in the woods until the lights came on at night. On the weekends, my friends and I would ride our bicycles about 8 miles away from home to go to the arcade. Some of us had wood shop, metal shop, and even home economics. By the time I was 10, I was learning to hunt animals with a sling shot, riding my bicycle to the mall, learning how to use band saws and welders, and learning how to cook and sew. Then, I had my own key to my house to let myself in and get my homework done before my mother got home. Yeah, we don't have time to hear about how "difficult" your life is. Oh, and to the other Gen X'ers that learned how to balance a checkbook when they were about 8 yrs old. Keep up the great work!
Well said. I think they called us Gen X, to put the blame "us" for their choices. If they had called us the "Latch Key" generation, it would have been a constant reminder the over-all narcissism of the Boomer generation.
Well you beat me to it. I learned to take care of my parents land taxes in gov office when i am 14 by lying my ass off after driving myself there😂. I am Gen Y/ 82 millenials😂
Can't say from experience, but speaking from a generation that's been told stories of teenage hijinks with no way to recreate it in real life because everything's either shut down or too expensive to enjoy, I wish I was a kid when you were a kid.
The greatest privilege of gen x was having the Greatest Generation as grandparents. We learned their old-age lessons/experience while our boomer parents were doing dumb shit
I have always said. GenX isn't the greatest, but it is the best. We are the children of Early Boomers and influenced by their parents the Greatest Generation. Unlike Millennials (GenWhy), who were raised by Late Boomers. Big difference between Early and Late Boomers. Maybe it was disco?
Yep. Grandma taught me how to bake bread, shoot a gun, and get away with literal murder, while her daughter (my mom) had no idea what her own mother was teaching me, because she had a paying job. And, that was after being outside for hours and hours in a completely hostile environment.
I grew up having close relationships with people from that generation. I spent lots of time with men who fought in world War II. I knew Jewish people who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Come and talk to me about how the Holocaust didn't happen. I got so much exposure to married couples who have been married for 40 50 60 years, and we're so much happier than the people I see now who have lived their lives alone and going through divorce after divorce and losing their children and so forth and so on. I've watched the unfolding results of feminism, birth control, and easy divorce all my life. Most of my childhood was spent during a time before masculinity was demonized, and then experienced it happening as I grew to become a young man. I wish Kurt Kabang hadn't blown his brains out so I could beat the crap out of him & if I could get him to listen maybe explain a few things to him. I've been listening to hip-hop & Punk Rock since it's started, (f* Disco). When I was a little kid rock and roll was still rebellious and hated by parents. My mom sure hated it. My Dad loved it.
Gen Xer here. I was allowed to play with fire as a child, had my own pocket knife, a slingshot, started to ride city buses to go to school when I was ten years old. I made life changing decisions when I was still a child. These things were all normal at that time. My friends did the same things. People of other generations are usually afraid of confronting me. My childhood gave me a lot of resilience and resourcefulness.
[Life Changing Decisions] Today they [Lefties] encourage [Children] to make [Life Changing Decisions such as Changing their Gender without Parental Consent.
As a Gen X, I honestly think living under the threat of the Cold War that could turn hot at 'the touch if a red button' made us more resourceful, more hardy and reliant on ourselves. Most of the time, we played outside until it was dark and then went home because our parents wanted their own time. I feel privileged being a Gen X and the self reliance that comes with it.
I know this isn't necessarily the case for all of Gen Z, but that mindset was something my Gen X parents passed onto me and my sister. We could be left at home for days on end and be just fine. Most of my skills are self-taught and I recently got to work alone in a different country much younger than when either of my parents did anything similar. Only the attitude is taught to us, since we've mostly been kept indoors like house pets with little to go out for without getting in trouble for leutering (being outside without spending money)
I think that being born and raised during the Cold War also helped many of us not get too freaked out about international issues. Hell, the current world tensions feel almost normal.....
Working jn customer service. Gen X were the biggest moaners and entitled brats. Some would even start abusing me even though i was on the minimum wage and had nothing to do with happened
I am a late late boomer (December 1964) on the cusp of Gen X and I relate so much to this! Gen X has seen the Cold War, the fuel crisis, the year with the most terrorist attacks world wide (1979), the slowest wage growth and high inflation, the death of pension plans, the fall of the wall, the rise of the internet, and the longest war in US history. A generation of latch key kids walking to school at 4 or 5 and fixing their own after school snacks. Gen X is a product of a rather harsh and unpredictable environment. It has made them adaptable, inventive, and self reliant.
Oh that's ridiculous. Gen x had cheap college, a ridiculously good economy. 79? Dude they were like 7 years old in 79. They got rich in the 90s because of an insane deregulated economy. They are the ones who got rich on gentrification(along with boomers). Sorry but millennials turned 18 the year the great recession happened. Gen x had it pretty good actually. Nobody had it worse than us. We grew up in ridiculous wars of your generation, my generation can barely buy a house or afford one kid.
@@Brandon-yg7mwlol... you call that the great recession. ignore 1921, 1929, 1972, 1982, 1991 and 2009.. you can't afford a house or children because of bad money management and the me me me me attitude.... you have the ability to make more money overnight thru internet usage then we could have ever dreamt of growing up in Gen X... instead your generation pushes for woke ideology and victim mentality. We aren't the same
Ridiculous? O.K. Im a Gen X. I, and many of the kids i knew grew up with, had single moms, no dad around, and on welfare and food stamps, so stick that in your economy. I worked my ass off through the 90's, never got rich, and still do, because we were the last gen to work hard. We also didn't give a shit what color you were or who you liked. We all hung together, we all partied together, and we all helped each other when times were tough! Racism was something we saw in movies but couldn't even understand. The first black joke i ever heard was told to us by one of our black friends and none of us even knew why it was funny! But we all laughed TOGETHER then went and rode our bikes TOGETHER. Your gen's fixation on race and sex is disgusting, demoralizing, and destructive to our very way of life. So thank you to you and all the generations since, for not giving a shit about anything but yourselves, and maybe the Kardashians. I guess Idiocracy was absolutely correct in its prediction of future generations. Stupid stupid stupid! Keep focusing only on race and sex kids. Your doing great!
Gen X was just spooling up when the "great recession" happened. That ain't on us. As a matter of fact, it crippled our ability as well. We got to pick up the pieces. These wars you refer to, Boomers are running our government at the moment, not Gen X. Check your facts.
Brandon stop being a whiner & be a doer. Take the dress off & put on some pants. Go get a real job(not McDonald's) work hard & take pride in your work(do it right the first time). Earn your keep well, earn respect. Now put the phone & tissues down, get some thicker skin so your feelings don't get hurt & work hard. College isn't everything. Why anyone would pay those prices for an education so you can get a job for $20/hr is ridiculous. Not everyone can be doctors. You need construction workers too in order to build those hospitals & colleges. If you don't have a brain pick up a shovel.
Oh yes I remember cooking my first dinner at 9 years old ,it was baked chicken stuffed with garlic and potatoes, now I would watch my mom cook & duplicate also I would tweak whatever I was cooking to my standards. Welp my mom took one bite and I was officially made the cook of the house. At ten and a half years old I'm on the bus to go grocery shopping (our bus dropped us off right across from where we lived and it stopped right across the street from the supermarket, at Fourteen years old I cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner. I could also guesstimate cooking measurements perfectly without a measuring cup or spoons .You can't get more badass as this GenXer was & still is.( I was born in 1978)
I was born in 1981 and feel WAY more GenX than Millennial. I started cooking dinner a little later in life (at 10 or 11) and my mom said, "If you can read, you can cook." My parents divorced right before my 10th birthday and soon after, it was my job to watch my two younger brothers, cook dinner, wash dishes, and keep up with my school work. I didn't do the shopping, I just had *some* input on it and then had to invent dinner from what was in the house.
I learned how to make a full Thanksgiving dinner by 13. Nothing a 13 yr old lives more than getting up every 3 hours to baste a turkey bc it was the size of a VW Bug and had to be slow roasted overnight.
Mine was at age 6 after reading a Dr Seuss book, Green Eggs and ham. It was scrambled eggs with sugar and green food coloring. The same year I also made what all my cousins called Mikey pancakes- pancakes cooked on a 9" rectangular griddle, one at a time. And yes, I filled the griddle and somehow managed to flip them at the perfect time- for a pancakes that took two plates to serve after slicing.
@@captainprototype187 Ah, yes...'Q,'...seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet. The only fictional characters with the name 'Q' that I know of would be James Bond's armorer, and the character named 'Q,' which was played by John de Lance, on Star Trek:TNG. To which fictional character are YOU referring?
Gen X was never off the hook to begin with. Born into a time of skyrocketing divorce rates, trained for jobs that would get replaced by technology, spending 4-5 decades witnessing your country rot from the inside, fated to spend entire adult lives paying off an increasing national debt, witnessing everything you ever loved become commercialized, realizing that doing everything you were told to do to make the world a better place didn't help at all, and eventually realizing that it's too late to fix anything.
Most generations have experienced or are experiencing the same kind of thing, watching the rot started in the 80s (and sooner) take hold. Allowing the business leaders carve us up into arbitrary groups to pit us against one another is an Age Old leadership tactic. Make others fight the battles for the wealthy. Divide and control.
@@homeistheearth Yeah, and we’ve been duped into allowing things to erode before our eyes. Doesn’t look like that’s going to work for much longer. Tipping point is in the process of happening. Many of us saw it during early lockdowns. , whichever ‘so called side’ we were on. Now we have some clarity to inform our intuition of that time.
It's even worse for millennials I was born in 1987 My generation will experience the complete downfall of America. Most of us will never be able to afford to buy a house. A lot of us will never be able to afford to even buy a car. The suffering we will endure in the future will make all generations previous Understand we had at the worst. Not all of us grew up with a silver spoon But more of us did I will give you that. I will also say my generation grew up during the greatest time the 90s was a wonderful decade to grow up in and most our parents were amazing atleast mine were but alot of gen x parents died from drugs or alcohol. My uncle died at 39 years old I found him in his bedroom face first on the floor his heart exploded he was withdrawaling off alcohol. I was a heroine addict for many years But i'm a sober person now I haven't drank alcohol since I was 22 when I found my uncle. A lot of us millennials have been through a lot But I'm glad I've been through a lot. Because it made me into the man. I am today and I think more people need to suffer. Because suffering builds character, suffering builds strength, suffering molds us into something greater and I think we need more of that. The greatest generation became the greatest because they suffered the most so people shouldn't fear suffering they should embrace it with open arms.
As a Gen Xer I always wondered why we were left to our own devices. Never harassed about who or what we were about. I wondered... Till we hit our 40's and I started to see just how crazy we can be. We're the ones that rode bikes and skateboards with no protection. We were tossed outside in the sun and told not to come home till dark out. We were the last of the no warnings Gen. You can't make em like us anymore
Millennial. Ditto You do realise most ppl didn't have intnernet untill well into the 00s. Spart phones wernt out till nearly 2010 and most millennial where mid 20s by then... Your not special x
Woah, crazy! No bike helmet or protection! What a mad life you lived! You realise us early millennials also lives like this, Gen X has imo the best music, the get on with it attitude that has created massive industries and is by far the most successful and satisfied generation…seriously “we played outside 😂”
Yo. For the Gen Y or 81s to 90 millenials. Shut up will you. Why you are like the younger busy-body millenial? Make rats about nothing? What are we want to prove exactly?
Born in 77, i''m one of the last of the X. and proud to be so. No wireless phones, cassette tapes for music, First PC was an Apple 2, with 5" floppies and a whopping whole 16 kilobytes of ram! Had an Atari then a NES. Spent Untold hours of my days fishing, swimming, riding my dirt bike though places no bike should ever go. Broke at least 5 different bones, went in for stitches several times. and I remember when us kids settled our differences with Fists, not firearms, and then played football in the vacant lot the next day!
F-ing awesome! Being 52 now, I've had 2 years to embrace being 50+ and telling everyone to get off my lawn, figuratively, and not caring. I did make who I am, what I am, who I will be. Skimming through the comments, I do believe us Gen X can storm the world and own it. Oh, wait, we do :) Love to all Gen X-ers and march on until we all die.
My parents are Gen Xers and I love them both dearly. They're full of laughter and wisdom, and are resourceful and determined. Almost every other GenXer I've met is so insightful and kind, and brilliant with technology both old and new. Honestly I wish we could have more of them speak and run for office. Our country is being ran into the ground by people who should have retired long ago and can't see the present or future clearly anymore. Mad love for GenXers, from a Millennial. ❤
The ones who refuse to give up control are the boomers. The US congress and senate are absolutely full of them that refuse to retire even though they lost their marbles.
the thing with Gen X is that we just want to be left alone (specially by govt) and we have neither interest nor desire to have power over anyone other than ourselves - that being said, each and every generation has its' fair share of sociopaths and psychopaths, and they're the *only* people who actually want power over others! they're also the only ones to make it in pollytics
I'm 46, work on a sales team of mostly younger guys 20s & 30s, i found out that none of them had ever been in a fist fight. None. I found that truly amazing and am not sure if that's good or bad.
Those 20 and 30 year-olds had to adapt to school and society rules put in place by boomers. I’m an older woman and I’ve been in a few fist fights but after the fight we got cleaned up and either agreed things were settled or planned for round two. The consequences were a few bruises. When my 30-year old son got in a fist fight at school he got expelled due to the school having a zero tolerance policy. His fight wasn’t anything worse than I’d gotten into but the punishment made settling things with a few quick jabs not worth it.
As a fellow Gen-Xer, I laughed my ass off at this reply because it hit the nail on the head as to why I consider the younger generations weak sauce knuckleheads walking who need to be very grateful for the world we provided for them instead being a bunch of wannabe know-it alls. Here's a bit of wisdom from me to them: Life is tough. Man up or woman up instead of being victims. You're here for a short time, so enjoy your life. And finally, have a series of exit plans at the ready. Because none of this shit is permanent. Not a single one. Good luck.
GenX is an alien generation. I'm a millenial and my husband is genX, he amazes me everyday! There's literally nothing he can't do and he does everything so calmly and rational lol he doesn't want to expose his generation by admitting he's an alien but i have very strong suspicions
we crash landed here about 3,500 years ago and reincarnate generationally - Gen X was this round, though it does get a bit out of synch! Nichola Tesla was one such misplacement
GenX is the last generation raised as problem solvers. We are the last generation you didn't supervise and locked outside. We had to learn to do everything ourselves because our parents were too busy making a living to teach us anything. Where possible our grandparents taught us. We aren't afraid to learn new stuff and "just do it" because we always had to. So that's why your husband is so unflappable. He probably woke up his dad one day after a a late shift and got the crap beat out of him then later his dad explained how to handle stuff without him and dared him to wake him up again.... Then he probably did and woke up about 15 or 20 years later and met you at the hospital.
As a millenial I gotta say Gen X is full of fun people. They tend to have a lot of things they're eager to teach and expect nothing. Although this is anecdotal, I've also never seen a Gen X person depressed unlike my peers.
You’ve seen us depressed; the clown always smiles, internalized doom and our hearts beating and bleeding silently. We learned no one gives a shit about us from an early age and that knowledge made us who we are. If someone says we are on the hook, I only ask; who put us in the hook? Whatever….
@@Sam-eo3it LOL. 06/28/1978 Growing up, there was a week long birthday party in our neighborhood cause there were 7 birthdays in june. From June 20 to June 30. I love seeing others share June as a birthday month.
Gen X is the generation that knew about the beautiful, high trust and prosperous world that was fading away as we came along. The WWII generation fought in the war, raised four kids per woman, did hard factory work, and participated in civic groups and did volunteer work in their spare time. It was all of that hard work and sacrifice that created all of the good things that emerged during the 1950s-60s. But, boomers didn't want to pay it forward. They didn't want to work that hard. They turned to money lending, financial tricks, and usury, to entrap other people into doing all of that hard work for them. They had fewer kids and many of these kids became the latchkey generation, so called because when we got home from school, there was no one at home, and we needed to open the lock ourselves. The good part of this experience was that we learned how to take care of ourselves. We also learned that the world didn't just revolve around us. The Boomer generation just focuses on the Boomer generation. Their needs are still the focus of public policy, and of media and cultural attention. So, not much was handed to us, and so we don't have an attitude of entitlement. Our attitude, is more like an immigrant attitude. We just have to adapt, find a place for ourselves, learn to survive. I think that we have more of a focus on our family and community because we know that the system, isn't working for us.
The greatest generation fought WWII and ultimately gave birth to the worst generation... The Boomers. NO generation has so completely fucked over EVERY generation after themselves more than the boomers have.
The boomers have done an excellent job of screwing over every generation that has followed them. The greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation.
Then again, we Xers raised entitled, spoiled brats who were given "participation" trophies, can't find their way around without google maps & would have a nervous breakdown without a phone on them 24/7!!!!!!! We are the LAST gen that will ever know TRUE FREEDOM.
We were left to raise ourselves. We’re talking Lord of the Flies type stuff. We were the latch key kids. And the last to remember the world before the internet. We played outside all day and drank from the garden hose. We build forts and bike ramps. We played the first gaming console. We can read and write in cursive. Most of you can’t even sign your own name. Seriously, GFY and leave us alone. You don’t want none of this smoke.
I think I was cooking on the stove at like 8…. I was lucky enough to have a lot on my street with a wooded (about 12 feet deep with little pine trees) just a big bowl after that and pure hard clay (some breaks with little pine wooded areas) talk about bike ramps?!? We would make them and shape them with hard ass clay lmao best broken bones of our lives build a fort there too with a fire place hahaha GenX rules
...and we were never in a position of power to f things up, so what exactly are we to be blamed for? The president is boomer, the last president was a boomer. Everyone in power in government are still almost all boomers. At least give us a shot before blaming us. Lol.
@@Chet73 I think, at least in American society, a boomer Junior is how they describe it implies that while Gen X never had the brilliant fortune bestowed upon them by their greedy and entitled parents, they still inherited that same smug sense of superiority. Unlike the boomers however their sense of superiority is at least somewhat warranted? But still leaves a bad taste in the mouth when interacting with them as they do seem to be the most feral generation thus-far as well.
Ah man. Speaking of William Wallace the best part of our childhoods was the FREEDOM. Yeah we had a shit ton of responsibility, but we got things done and then just melted into the woods, or ran shrieking around a field, whatever the mood was. Some of my best memories were sitting in the shade of some big tree or trespassing a closed industrial building after riding for hours on a Huffy to just shoot the shit, or even simply to just be. Backpack of snacks, pocket knife, and maybe a Swatch, that’s all we carried, and it was glorious.
@@DebbieWilson4 The best, really grateful to have had that as a childhood, wouldn't trade it for anything. Plus made me into the successful skeptical bastard I am today 🙂
That's what I did a lot too, I'm a millennial, but I was the weird kid. I don't understand my generation at all, I find it easier to relate to gen-x and gen-z than to fricking millennials..
Born in 1975. This past weekend I showed my 8 year old nephew how to kickflip. Yup, still can do it. Can still ollie up onto a picknick table too. Of course, our skateboards were bigger and heavier. These new ones are so light and small! Still, I was shocked to still be able to do it after all these years. Gen X f'kn RULES!!! \m/
08/74 here and you sound just like me. I took my Christian Hosoi down a half pipe a year or so ago and everyone's eyes got wide and they started admiring the Hammerhead.
01/1975 here my husband and I still skate. Met in a skate shop in 90 were friends grew up went separate ways and got together in 2006, married 2015 and still find ourselves on skateboards. The soccer moms hate me🤣.
Born 70, unfortunately I can no longer skate like I used to back in the day due to back problems..... but I still maintain that gen x attitude till the day I die 🤘😎🤘🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Gen X lived by the motto "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger". We have learned to survive anything, that is reason enough to leave us alone.
Then you became the generation that made bicycle helmets and seatbelts mandatory... So yeah guess you didn't really care about that did'ja? So tired of your generation pretending you're tough... America has been at war since I was in highschool. The cost to live in this world has gone up ten times since I was a child let alone from the time when you lot were kids. I grew up through multiple depressions, while you lived in the best time of America. You probably never even went hungry in your lifetime.
I hate this thinking, which is why a lot of Gen X’ers are overlooked. A lot of Gen X has been wiped out due to pharmaceutical companies greed, which led to a lot of drug overdoses and rehab stays.
@@greyveteran7007 So true, I once layed my dirt bike over at 60 mph and slid 175 steps, broke my helmet, had bad road rash on my arm and shoulder, picked it up, continued my ride to the lake washed the blood off and went home a put the bike up quietly, and started bandaging myself up. Mom came in from the garden to check on me because she knew something was up because I didn't ride around in the yard before putting it up.
We weren't all neglected physically, but Gen X somehow sank somewhere to the bottom of our Boomer parents' priority lists in a lot of ways. We had to learn to "suck it up" and get by. On the one hand, we learned valuable day-to-day life skills which were sorely needed to be independent adults (or really, independent teens). On the other hand, we have the hardest time forming long-lasting bonds with friends, or being involved in any kind of community for very long. We realized early in life that we had to rely on ourselves, and that all relationships outside of close family members were likely temporary. We scoff at the things that make other generations sentimental, because we learned to see it as fake, manipulative posing.
Agree. I think gen X's motto should be "leave me alone." We've spent our whole lives being ignored, doing our own thing, living our own lives while the world keeps spewing drama
@@saberswordsmen1 you think boomers have societal apathy?!? Boomers transformed our entire society, for better or worse. The younger generations don't impress me. They aren't transformational, they are self-indulgent. Boomers wanted to change the world, young people want the world to revolve around their needs. That isn't social action. As far as Gen x, someone has to "make the doughnuts." While all of you are busy transforming, protesting, and getting triggered we work, we have families, work, and live our lives. We also get along with ourselves and others, which is something all you non-apathetic ppl can't seem to do.
Definitely. You should be grateful you’ve been “let off the hook”. Every single Gen X I’ve ever encountered is loud, opinionated about everything and always complaining, lacks critical thinking skills but always insists they’re right. Completely self centred with no empathy, quick to anger and the personality of Saturday morning cartoons.
I'm very proud to belong to Gen. X. We were taught independence at a very early age. In the summer, we got booted outside and left to fend for ourselves, with the proviso that if you didn't return home by the dinner bell, your arse was grass, and Mom and Dad were the lawnmowers. We came home from school to empty houses and watched whatever happened to be on tv at the moment. There was no cable until we were in our teens. Same with computers, but we picked up on those pretty quickly, and learned computer languages like BASIC(which was as far from basic as you could be), FORTRAN, APL, and PASCAL. We used the very first word processing software, called PFS WRITE. You knew who was doing computer work, because wed be cruising the halls with floppy discs the size of dinner plates back then. Hard drive? Whats hard drive? Didn't exist. When we got older, we could go clubbing all night, get an hour or two of sleep, and be at our jobs promptly at 800am. Slackers, we were NOT! That was the Boomers' nickname for us, because they were jealous of us. This gentleman is correct- you do NOT want to mess with us. Just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. ETA: I was born in 1967, so thankfully, I dont have Boomer parents!
I was born in '83, but I do have boomer parents, my dad was born in '47, my mom was born in '60 (and her parents were part of the greatest generation and her dad was in not just WWII, but he served in the korean war as well)... so thanks to my parents, "technically" speaking, I'm gen x...
Don't take pride (or shame) in anything you didn't do yourself. Nobody chooses what year they're born in, or the circumstances of their upbringing and birth. Generational pride is no less moronic than white pride. Besides, generations don't exist, outside of some Madison avenue publicist's deraged fantasy. If you're not willing to make generalizations about Jews, or Muslims or White or Black people, why on *EARTH* would you make generalizations about people born within 20 or so years of each other? Generational stereotypes are the social media equivalent of astronomy.
@@AaronMichaelLong well, personally, I can't stand the term Generation X. It's stupid. I am, however, proud that I learnt to be independent at an early age, and to take care of myself. Later generations don't seem to have this gift, and yes, I actually do consider it a gift. I've learnt that I can be self-sufficient. On the other hand, I'm not afraid to ask for help if I need it. Being able to rely on yourself is a very good thing, something that seems to be in short supply these days.
European Xennial here, grew up analog and then experienced the beginnings of families getting a computer at home in my teens, so not exactly a complete member of gen x, but I can definitely relate for a good part. What you said is definitely true.
(1) we aren't the ones that manufactured this grand vision Utopia/Dystopia. We were always outnumbered, never liked divorce, never liked debt, and USED to think of "Social Public Whatever" as some vastly over-complicated irrelevance. Boomers were so disappointed when we didn't go marching for social change. So don't blame us. (2) We ARE feral -- the first latchkey generation raised in mass divorce, and the last generation NOT to have a Child Protective safety net. A the foot soldiers in the war on drugs, peaking in crime drugs and suicide at every phase of our life cycle. Likewise, we will be the first generation to be FAILED by Social Security and everyone knows it.
No we were not nearly as mentally ill and miserable...I had a great time from ages 18 - 23 (89-93) - people that age today seem to do nothing but protest this and that, complain about everything, non stop whining about how everybody else in history had it easy blah blah blah...you don't see too many young people showing much happiness today...mostly they seem to want to be miserable yet they have everything...very different generations
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 We "Have everything" despite not being able to own a modern car, buy a house, or afford to live in the modern era because we're still getting paid what you got paid as children despite everything costing 5 times more than it did in your generation? Yeah I wouldn't say that very much if I were you, your generation had everything, grew so fat on it that the next two generations are being smothered by you until you and your parents die off.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Maybe you should go to a protest. It's the opposite of miserable, you're taking action alongside your community and fellow supporters. I honestly would recommend it.
Not at all, often times Gen X is just filled with hot air and boasting. I’ve been told people of my generation (Gen x) wouldn’t have acted this way, but they’re lying to themselves. I knew so many people who would run around with a video camera recording dumb stuff.
not necessarily. this is same sad comment i heard from old boomer types aimed at gen x growing up. There is amazing music being put out by EVERY generation. To say otherwise is a blow at creative types, and is kind of judgemental. We dont want to be like the boomers do we? The beatles had some great music So does Lana del rey, So does Neon Hitch, Lindsey stirling is AMAZING on violin, donald glover came out with some killer lyrics and visuals in this is america...I like what the younger generations have done musically. You just have to know where to look.
@@jadorepoutine You're cherry picking from a dumpster. You obviously don't remember the 80's and 90's. The radio was on fire constantly with the tunes playing through it. And that was just from the radio friendly music.
@antonackermann9620 I never said 80s and 90s weren't good? I simply said every generation that comes before dismisses the next generations music which is shameful. I honestly feel that every generation has both good and bad music and by dismissing an entire generation because your generation is best is doing yourself a disservice🤷♀️ but hey I'm not forcing you to expand your limited world view. Can stay in a 2 decade music window if ya like no skin off my back.
I'm only 32, but in my personal opinion, from the end of the 50's through 60's, 70's, and 80's were the "golden" age of music. The 90's had plenty of good music as well, however that is around the time it started to decline severely with all of the push-button musicians and synth instruments. The 80's really kicked off the "electric" age of music where you could be talentless but use drum machines and cutting-edge DJ equipment to make a stupid beat that everyone thinks is catchy. Nowadays, the people we call pop artists can't hold a note without a computer's help, can't actually play a single instrument, and no longer have full bands backing them with extremely talented members. People really only listen to sharty mainstream music in order to be popular or in the loop. It starts with one person: "This new song just came out. It's horrible, but if I act like it's a big deal and just amazing, others will follow to try and keep up with the trend, and I'll get a bunch of attention." Humans are gross.
Well said. Everyone i knew, including myself, was a latch key kid and we went to the mall after school and got into fights, smoked, drank, and were working by 15yrs old or so. We paid our own bills, cooked our own meals, and learned how to live through trial and error. All before adulthood. Our parents abandoned most of us and we only had each other.
Yep, give or take a lot of us grew up about like that. I learned to cook as a survival skill, because my parents didn't. We opened cans til we learned to cook. Got my first two part time jobs at 15, but started babysitting for other families at 12. We all knew to go home when the streetlights came on, because if they had to call us they'd get mad and maybe call us by the wrong kid's name or our full name, or my mom would just go down the list and then "whoever you are!" 😂😂😂
@user-wh5ir4fo4r there was a lot of parental neglect back then, but the upside is that we all learned how to take care of ourselves pretty young. I think a lot of people who came along later missed out on that and the stuff that goes with it, like problem-solving skills (for those who survived, anyway...).
Very eloquently put! Which demonstrates a great example of Gen Xer's. We do not beat around the bush and we do not sugarcoat anything, we will tell you exactly what's on our minds.
One of my millennial friends doesn’t appreciate my no sugar coating directness. She said I was rude. 😂 And no, I didn’t apologize. Toughen up, buttercup. 💪🏻 Said what I said cuz it was true. Truth isn’t always nice. Sometimes it slaps you up side the head. It can make ya mad before it sets you free. 🤨
I have this recurring fantasy of telling 20 year olds nowadays to toughen the heck up. Especially the ones that stare at their navels all day wondering what pronouns they are, or who spend their days in the gym, wearing super tight clothing, and then crying that people are looking at them. I do feel bad that they have to live through the whole social media nonsense. If I could transport them back to the 1970s, I would.
The narcissism is strong with Bryan (the Asian guy at the start)... although,to be fair, he probably has Gen X parents who had him believing that everything that comes out of his mouth is so amazing and important (there's exceptions to every rule)
Gen X here. Water hose drinker. Street football player. Wiffle ball expert. Hanging in the wood for 8 hours straight. Spanked with a leather belt when I spoke back to my mother. 10 inch black and white TV from my grandfather who worked his whole life at RCA that I thought was awesome and used a clothes hangar to get reception for two channels. Bus riding in the backseat. Scars all over my legs from playing outside for years. Never wore a stupid bike helmet in my life. Never picked up dog crap in a bag in my life because my dog just crapped wherever and it was fine. Called collect to get a ride home but only in an emergency - otherwise Dad would end me. If we ate out - it was a big deal. Hung at the mall and ate boardwalk fries with my parents having no clue where i was for a day. Nobody cared. Took wood boards and made bike ramps that we would jump off and crash our faces into the street. Nobody cared. Told to see a "counselor" at school or in college and said 'Nah - they can't help this dude'...I could go on for hours. Basic point - when we leave the workforce - this entire planet will collapse.
Gen X-er here. Our strength is that we could care less about what others think, but we are also the most tolerant of the generations. We think independently, and we go our own way. We're fighters when we need to be, but we don't do so lightly. We straddle the line between hope and cynicism, and, we're the most likely to survive an Apocalypse better than the other generations, simply because we still remember the days BEFORE the Internet and modern convenience. Truth.
@JakeValentineStory What do you think the word "less" means? It is not same as "not at all". When saying "I could care less", I am acknowledging the opinion, but not enough to elevate said opinion to something to be concerned about. Just saying.
@@dswynne I was just messing with you because the expression is "couldn't" care less meaning you have zero concern of what others think. I guess "joshing" doesn't come across in comments. My bad. All the best.
Growing up we played war games like normal kids…. We tied our captured enemies to the nearest tree, only releasing them at wars end or when it was time to head home for dinner. Great friends back then
Worked out plans during middle school for the bb gun war that weekend. Stayed the night Friday out at the break of dawn geared up and hunting your friends down like rabid dogs
Roman candle wars was the best. Light it, drop it into a two foot piece of pipe, and aim it at friends while trying to dodge their shots at you. No helmets or safety glasses. Most of us wore shorts and t shirts. Nobody ever got badly hurt. Couple burns and bruises and 1 backyard that the fire department had to put out. Damn, it was fun.
Fellow Gen X here, and I can confirm this. Don’t mess with us. We grew up playing in the dirt and wading through irrigation ditches just for fun. We had BMX bikes and ate fruit fresh from the trees in our backyard.
Amen and well said brother. We have the mental strength and physical endurance of our boomer parents, yet have the kindness and acceptance of our zoomer children. We tend to be a quiet, independent buch, but don't mistake our kindness for weakness.
@@aljirou29 I actually have one of each. And white I support them in being independent, their arrogance is what gets them in trouble. You must be humble, in everything.
My parents were both born in the cusp between the great generation and the silent generation. My three much older sisters were boomers, and I’m genX. My sisters grew up with a stay at home mother who had cookies and milk waiting for them after school and their ouchies attended to with great care. I could feed myself and bandage my own wounds by kindergarten. I ran away once, changed my mind after a day, and they hadn’t noticed I was gone. I think part of the reason we babied our own kids is that we realized how much danger we were actually in by being left to our own devices at such a young age. I can’t count the number of times I could have been killed, abducted, abused, or maimed. Many of us were - probably why we are also the smallest generation.
"I ran away once, changed my mind after a day, and they hadn’t noticed I was gone. " LOL! I did the same thing! Silly kid, even packed up a Hobo knapsack with a handkerchief on a stick. Got a few miles from home, up to an old tree fort in the hills. Ate my lunch. Threw rocks at stuff. Got bored and went home, nobody had noticed I'd left!
Dear Sir, I THANK YOU. I'm a late Gen-X, (some call my type a 'Xennial'), but I'm still a Latch-key kid, spent a great deal of time lost in the woods, & on a poor weather day.....HELLO NINTENDO! 😂❤
Correct. Gen Z and Millennials would be well advised to steer clear of the generation that grew up listening to "Straight Out of Compton," watching "Faces of Death" and reading the "Anarchist Cookbook."
I, being a Gen Xen, have a perspective here about "who let Gen X off the hook". Gen X was never ON the hook. The Boomers controlled everything and Gen X literally had NO POWER. They were the pioneers of the blooming understanding of Gen Z and Millennials. They paved the way at great sacrifice to bring you what they did not have. They fought the system so that way you could have a like minded peer who also understood the system was wrong. They invented Punk, not only in music, but in life. The forgotten generation, Gen X, was deemed forgotten because that generation had literally abandoned the ways of the Boomers, by and large. They were the Jack drowning and freezing on the iceberg to the Rose of the Millennials and Gen Z. Hell the Boomers STILL hold most of the power. Who let them off the hook? They did, with their choices of not participating in the madness.
Yes, Boomers totally set the stage for todays societal problem. Just look at the past 4 Pres. They are all boomers. Gen X create an alternative universe to live outside of boomers tight grip on power
As Gen X, we grew up being told that the world could end at any moment if someone in DC or Moscow had a bad day. We also grew up with Boomer parents who walked out the door to 'find themselves' and left us to try to figure out a whole lot about life on our own, since we couldn't depend on the adults to be around if we needed them.
Most boomers has to figure things out themselves because the Silent ( or lost ) Generation often didn’t give much guidance. Had rigid hardline My Way or the Highway attitudes, whether it worked or not. Seems like many generations have this now.
We lived near the AFB and had drills to get under or desks in case of an attack, in 78 - 79. We saw the Berlin wall come down and the end of USSR, Soviet Union. Remember Sting's song - Russia? The music was so menacing with a beat that conjured up the Russian Goose-step march. Lyrics: In Europe and America there's a growing feeling of hysteria Conditioned to respond to all the threats In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets Mister Krushchev said, "We will bury you" I don't subscribe to this point of view It'd be such an ignorant thing to do If the Russians love their children too How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy? There is no monopoly on common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology, regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too There is no historical precedent To put the words in the mouth of the president? There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore Mister Reagan says, "We will protect you" I don't subscribe to this point of view Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too We share the same biology, regardless of ideology But what might save us, me and you Is if the Russians love their children too
I was born 4 months and a day before the offical start of Gen X. Officially, I am a Baby Baby Boomer. But I am pure Gen Xer. I am so thankful my two younger brothers and I grew up in an analog world, drank water from a garden hose, and got to ride our bikes and play with our friends all over town without our parents warching our every move. I helped take care of my grandmother and baby brother and had grandparents who on my fathers side were born on 1885 and 1892 and on my mother's side 1910 and 1912. I learned so much from them. We had no idea how lucky we were!
I was born in 1963 but have always "indentified" more with GenX than with the Boomers just before me. Weird... Sort of like being stuck in the rut between two generations though... I've always felt that the last those born in the last couple of BB years seemed to be lost without a generational identity... I've heard it called "the hippies little brothers"
Facts! I was responsible for taking care of my younger brothers. I was babysitting and working since 11 years old. I walked to the bus stop alone in kindergarten and also traveled alone overseas in the 90's when my father was active duty military. Had no choice but to be responsible! We were told to mind our business and keep it moving. No options for lazy behaviors or being a crybaby lol... I learned the old school ways my great grandparents passed at 97,98,94, and 96 so yes I learned the old ways! I still apply to my life daily and i don't feel entitled to anything. You want it better get up get out and do something! Great video😊
That part I was the Need ya lawn Mowed Need Your Car Washed Need a Baby Sitter Everyone loved when I sat, cause I could cook at age 9. The kids were clean fed in the bed by 8 sleep by 9 I made good money, I only sat for a new born once. That was above and beyond enough, I was a tough kid back then but a 3 month old. Would make Spawn start Boohooing when they can't get them to stop crying. or figure out why they're crying
100% 👌👏👏👏👏- we are the most dangerous because we are survivors. We also grew up first without technology and then with technology. I feel we were very fortunate growing up when we did! Thank you for this video! Gen X is soooo underrated! I will be 52 this year and going strong! Blessings to you and yours.
True story- when I was 13 years old waaaay back in 1981, I was struck head on by a car while riding my bicycle at a high rate of speed down a steep switchback on a cobblestone street. The switchback had a long rock wall separating the north/south single lane routes. Cars couldn’t see what might be coming at them. Of course, I was a daredevil flying down the wrong side of the road, and as I entered a turn, a car with two old ladies driving met me head on. I went ass over tea kettle (meaning I flipped over forward on top of the car, for all you non-genX’rs who’ve never heard the expression), while my bike went underneath the car. The next thing I remember is waking up laying on the ground with a half dozen strangers asking me if I’m OK. I should’ve been hospitalized, but miracle of miracles I didn’t break anything, no head trauma, and short of a few cuts and bruises and a bruised ego I somehow managed to not sustain any major injuries. I got up, brushed off the dirt and gravel, got back on my heavily damaged bike and got the hell out of there as fast as I could, while six people tried to detain me thinking I was headed for the back of an ambulance. I was a tough little bastard. But it was really the fear of having to face my silent generation parents and have to hear about how disappointed they were in me for being reckless and irresponsible that motivated me to get back in the saddle. I don’t see that kind of self-reliance and survival instinct in todays generation. I know it exists, but it’s more of a cultural phenomenon with people in my age group. I hope it comes back. We need more survivors and rough riders to show these little cream puffs how to live life to the fullest as an independent person who can weather whatever life throws at them, because even a couple old ladies in a car can alter the course of your life.
Born 1965 and learned to doctor myself by the age of 5 to avoid being screamed at and called stupid by my silent generation mother for getting hurt. Back then we were never injured or suffered head trauma or any other trauma, we merely got hurt. Injuries and trauma did not exist in our day. Gashed open? Nothing a few bandaids couldn't close up. Just as long as you didn't leave a blood trail from the front door to the bathroom or that gaping wound would have been the least of your worries. 🤣 Running from the cops was a game back then but getting caught doing something you shouldn't by the lunch lady was something to be feared. She had phone numbers for every one of our parents and knew where we lived.
@@grounded7362 I had a boomer mother like you’re referring. I did manage to make my mother panic a few times though. Like things that a few bandaids would NEVER fix. 😂 She did brush off my broken tendon and ligament in my right thumb… I’m right handed. Surgery many years later fixed it.
Lol off the hook? I'm fifty one now, and i've been working something on the order of sixty to seventy hours a week all my life. Sometimes 85. I take care of my business and I take care of my family and that's all I do. Excellent delivery sir! And truth has been told.
I love being Gen X. We’re tech savvy, but had the privilege of living free of the entanglement of it until we were grown. We pretty much raised ourselves - we’re resourceful, resilient, and rad. God bless GenX!
And a tad egotistical. My experience of that generation is only being in touch when something was needed. One Way street. A departure from My Way or the Highway if many previous generations, but it seemed to spawn more of the latter.
America influence in business and culture dragged Australia down USA business people arrived all our rights started to gradually erode .genuinely wished they'd fucked off and never came back Loathe there style of business Rupert Murdochs father was treated like a wanker by the establishment under BB and RM was out for himself I going to speculate that he cut a deal with the USA and started preparing to move across to the UK and USA and his citizenship was contingent on influencing government that had there best interest instead of Australia and the politicians at that time were corrupt I speculating he influenced politics to bring about his goals He paid next to zero tax I think he wanted to stick it to the establishment and instead his actions had dire consequences for the lowest socioeconomic group who suffer incredible poverty I also speculate that his charity for royal children's Hospital was calculated . I personally saw starvation and our family gleamed fruit and veg from the markets It was constant financial struggle Culturally there was a split it might be why no one talks about it there was the church and it's oppressive culture and the enlightened embracing change and accepting the those men and women and zis etc trying to be there true authentic selves And the church omg from next to no money and people moving away from it the priest started stalking families Would turn up at people's houses after sermons asking for money ,causing disturbances in families so they'd split and the money would land in the hands of the church they then went onto build schools con the government into funding it whilst neglecting public schools and blackmailing families into joining the church if they wanted there kids to attend The only difference between rich/poor well educated and poor /rich educated small people is the parental attitudes If it's important to parent to get a great education the kids will strive regardless of were they live So at universities the offspring of migrants who went to state run schools were smarter than there rich expensive school educated predominantly Anglo Irish heritage counterpart and when that happened the profoundly racist liberal party imposed fees So only the rich could get an education A government supported by Rupert Murdoch some of those politicians still alive today ex prime minister John Howard
GenX is the last generation to grow up without the internet… and honestly, I think that’s why we’re a lot happier and a lot less likely to complain. Our socialization was almost all face-to-face, and we saw real, unvarnished versions of our friends and loved ones… we had no filters, no delete buttons, no photoshop. Today’s youth mainly see their peers on social media-a carefully-curated version of their friends, nowhere close to the real thing. We are who we are, warts and all, and feel no need to hide it or manipulate it. There’s a happiness that comes from that mental freedom.
That's very poignant. I have never considered that aspect of online communication. I would add that we were also the last generation to grow up with time alone with our thoughts. Around y2k I noticed that the kids were constantly texting each other. Even as they lay in bed waiting to fall asleep. I wondered then what that constant communication was going to do to the human psyche. Maybe that's the reason there is an aire of acceptance among the younger gens.
as a older millennial, that's bs. Internet wasn't a significant thing until I was in high school and even then it wasn't that big yet. I hate this idea that going outside stopped with gen x. I had video games but I was always outside, even when the internet was a thing, straight through high school, as were 99% of my peers. It's very boomer to have this mindset
The only time you will hear anyhting from gen xers is when you pull up next to one in your car and they are blasting the phatest 80s and 90s music; that's is when they might annoy you. 😜
I'm 72 model Gen X here and I never blast music in my car except on the freeway where no one can hear. Has nothing to do w/generational nonsense...it's just rude.
We climbed mountains. We swam in dangerous rivers to proof our strength. We went skiing on high hills. We were iceskating on half frozen lakes. We made fire. We rode horses. We fell from bikes. Nobody took us to the doctor. Schnaps on the wound and a plaster. We ate our food. Everybody in the house ate the same food. Our grandparents survived ww2. Greetings from Austria😊
The worst thing about tech. No interaction. That has taken away the opportunity for these younglings to loosen each other's teeth when talking absurdities.
Mate I've had the displeasure of hearing absurdities backed by vitriol that would be a guaranteed smacking on the ears in a face to face encounter from plenty of people way older than me.
GenX were the little kids when I was growing up. I loved them then and I love them now just like those that followed. They are the ones carrying the weight now that I have retired so I appreciate who they are and what they give to all of us.
Well said. Gen X is an epic of losing and losing and then figuring out how to play our own game our way for our purpose. We had brilliance and beauty and we were diamonds.
I am lucky enough that most of my family members who are Gen X raised me in a rural place and gave me a chance and some skills to adapt, flourish and stay true to myself in a degrading society. Gen X may be getting older, but they ain't old "enough" yet, their presence, their skills, experiences, and standards still live and bleed through to some of the younger generations. I fuckin love you Gen X, thank you for continuing to build the world and share your knowledge as I grew up. - millienial
Take your wife and grab a cup of coffee on me. I admire your many words of wisdom and forthright yet satirical manner (I've had many a chuckle thanks to you). Further, thanks for defending our Gen-X generation. We’re both veterans, so great job. Also, all the best to your wife (another veteran) and especially your children, who now serve with great honor. I know you're proud. God bless.
Many of our toys were later banned as unsafe, we rode around standing up in the backseat of cars or the beds of pickup trucks, we disappeared for hours on our bikes with no way to contact us or know where we were, we ran into the store to buy our parents beer and cigarettes, we drove lawnmowers and tractors before we were 10YO, we were completely self sufficient for hours at a time while our parents worked or went out. 90% of the things I was allowed to do as a child, would send a parent to prison today. God I miss the the freedom we had.
Everything you said is so true it made me laugh thinking about buying my mom her Marlboro Reds. Imaging a 9yo walking into a store today and buying cigarettes. 😂
I totally forgot that when I was about 10 or maybe 12 I walked into a store and bought a bottle of booze for my great aunt. I was tall for my age, but nonetheless, they kind a looked at me funny but still let me buy it.
@@OShackHennessyhell yeah , I would go buy smokes for my grandma as well.
@@latsnojokelee6434bought my first beer when I was 15 years old. That was in 1990.
I had a toy which was a light bulb heated oven in which you put a metal mold to make gel bugs. You’d pull that thing out and it would be scalding hot. I don’t remember ever burning myself on one, but the possibility was certainly there.
Born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's, partied in the 90's. Nothing but the best.
What did you do the preceding decades? Work?
Truth!
Born in the 60s did acid in the 70s got the crap beat out of me by my sister's
You forgot to add working while doing all of that as well mate. :)
@@warshrike666 More truth!
I was born being told to prepare for the apocalypses, I was raised to expect a nuclear strike. I never had expectations of growing old or retirement. Gen-x doesn't cancel, it deletes. We do not seek to control chaos, it is in chaos we thrive.
I mean... yeah.
Well chaos is a ladder.
Fukn amen!! Im 45 n never expected to live past 25(1/4 my friends are dead) so now rvery morning is a day i didnt exoect!! So live it!!
Chaos is freeing as no one is paying attention to our activities as the world burns.
Exactly.
There was a public service announcement for parents that quite literally asked, "Do you know where your kids are?" because that is how we were raised, forgotten as kids and we'd like to remain forgotten as adults. Thank you very much.
That was in the nineties. That's a complaint from gen y.
We are independent and self-sufficient.
Yep quite literally. I had woods in the back of my house with railroad tracks running through them. We went places. 😂
Hell yeah 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. I have no interest in being noticed. 🙃
Who knew being born before the Internet and cell phones would have been a huge blessing. Common sense is truly a gift these days
When/if it all goes down I feel bad for those who never lived without it, they're not gonna be able to function
Even most millennials would say the same thing, I was born in 88 didn't have a computer in the house till 98 and I was raised like the 70s and 80s that my parents were raised and grew up in
Common sense is now uncommon!
Common sense is now a super power!
Common sense has become some kind of a miracle. Less and less people possess it nowadays.
I think the biggest thing about us Gen X'ers is we don't give a flying fig what anyone thinks about us or how we choose to live our lives and that scares the hell out of people because they can't control us. Fist bump to all my fellow peeps that grew up drinking out of the hose and rode bikes without helmets!
These kids need to learn how to walk it off. 👊
Still drink from the hose while working outside.
I’m a late boomer, no different
That's the power of growing up as a generation that was suddenly regarded as a chore to raise. By parents who asked themselves, "Why do we have to work so hard raising kids just because our parents did?" "Isn't this whole traditional family thing obsolete?" If you are looked down on when you're a little kid, you're not going to get upset about it as an adult.
We are the only generation to give the finger to those who came before and those who came after.
"leave me alone" Is a fitting motto for us Xers. We are true generational ninja who have mastered the art of invisibility.
You are right. It is our motto!!
@@monicasojka2738 We have a few I think. Here's one I heard recently: Would you like some coffee before you fuck off?
I'm GenX and I approve this message.
@@Can8ian.
I'm GenX and I - oh wait, you're Canadian?
*JUST* *KIDDING* l never met anyone from Canada that I didn't like.
@@kettle_of_chris I've met lots I didn't like.
Our generation invented playing video games in the living room with a couple of friends while our parents weren’t home. Grabbing a bunch of movies from blockbuster on Friday nights. We would also ride our BMX bikes back home at night after hanging out with our friends. Those were the f**cking days. Great childhood. 😎
Gen X
We know the old ways.
We invented the new ways.
We are getting older and grumpier by the day and are less and less concerned about silly things like social credit score or prison time.
Cross us at your peril.
1971 vintage
I get grumpy when ignorance comes around. No time for that bs drama queen attitude. Gen X here 73.
1970 Not sure how many times I was told I would never live to see 30yrs. Despite all the crazy shit I didn't get caught for I'm still kicking. I figure I've had a good long run. Few things worry me nowadays. Violence is an old and drear friend.
@@jaygraham4095 1967 I, personally, didn't think I would live to see thirty, told people as much, and was perfectly all right with it. I've already BEEN called crazy by people of my OWN generation, a lot of them in uniform, because I have stared down morons with guns, knives, and in moving vehicles while I'M in the street. These idiots think they scare me? I should already be dead...come get some.
71 model here and I agree
Are you less concerned about Social Credit score or jailtime because you are close to death? I think those things are concerning whatever your age.
I'M a genx'er. I went to a public school where the teachers were legally allowed to beat me with a paddle hanging up in their room. I WALKED a mile and a half to and from school everyday and was on my own until my parents got home. Our bullies would beat us up until we turned around and clobbered them hard enough to be left alone. You either played alone or made friends. We watched cartoons on the hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandparents... if cartoons were on. We had to read books. We weren't allowed to have feelings or opinions. You'd go over to your grandparent's house and learn how to do something useful... like cook, clean, fix things, or patch up your own wounds when you'd FAFO. We didn't wear bike helmets.
We were the last non-soft generatio... drinking out of a garden house and skinning our knees and elbows playing football on an asphalt street.
You can't hang with us. You can barely get out of bed and go work a 9 to 5 without having an emotional breakdown.
Amen 😂
I was born in '85 and checked off every box except the paddle & black n white tv. You guys aren't quite the last.
Also, when it comes to cartoons, some of us watched Johnney Quest, the only cartoon where people got shot and died.
@triggeredsoyboy My first little brother was born in 1987 and he went to the same school as I. He endured the same hardships because we were out in the country. The superintendent of schools still gave you bloody knuckles with a pointer stick, making you grab the edge of the desk and lay face down on the desk. He'd nail you 2 or 3 times and you had to anticipate when it was coming. That was worse than the physical pain, him pacing and talking about your performance before - CRACK! He was principal when I was in that school, and one day he hit me 7 times over a setup (I wasn't in the religious fundie PTA kid's cult). My grandfather, a Pearl Harbor vet, came in with me the next day and beat him all over the office during morning announcements! ROFL! Ah the Regan Era, good times... As long as they "started it" and didn't NEED medical treatment, it wasn't a crime... LOL!
The laws for all that stuff really went national in the mid to late 90s. It doesn't apply to first half Millenials.
I remember when bike helmets were first introduced! No one would wear them because they looked stupid.
We didn't live through our childhoods, we survived them.
ha ha ha born in 66. In grade school, we had hard asphalt or cement under our swings and monkey bars. lots of cracked heads opened on our playground at school. was told to walk off your head injury.
@@billyvon666"rub some dirt in it"
When I meet the younger generation, they just assume I survived by becoming an assassin or something
Sorry, your generation, just like the rest of us, were susceptible to lies and manipulation by the media and government. It's surprising how many of gen X still doesn't realize that the media is actively lying to them.
Really? Thats sad. It was the best time of my life and we were taken very well care of.
As a Gen X I remember buying cigarettes at the store for my parents when I was 10 with a note from my mom. Back then a note from your mom carried a lot of weight.
They really did. So much weight that I'd learned to forge them pretty well by the time I was 12. 😂
And even in South Africa, they had candy that looked just like cigarettes.
HAHAHA no way, I did the exact same thing.
Wow flexing a smoking addiction. Do you want a fucking medal? A kiss on the forehead?
hahahahahahahahah so cute
Me and my fellow Gen x friends all
agree that our lack of supervision and freedom is what made us so resilient, inventive and adaptable.
We're also thankful that there were no phones around to record our mistakes and no internet to upload them for mass viewing.
This is the comment I was looking for! A B S O L U T E L Y S P O T O N
I would SSOOO be in jail if there was😂😂😂
It is like Will Smith said when asked about his stupid son "I was stupid too when I was young, but I was stupid IN PRIVATE!"
And we have thick skins and the latchkey kid scars to prove we had to learn our lessons the hard way. Are you kidding? I WISH we had digital cameras, I want all my idiocy documented, it would make great content for a channel! Plus, we had a killer music soundtrack to our lives with substance (including our parent's music).
There were no safe spaces, just like real life. We pretty much invented the "your momma's so fat..." jokes, and sometimes ended up in a fight over them, but usually it was a simple ribbing that caused no harm or what would be considered today to be TRAUMA.
I'm a total GenXer and I truly believe we lived in the greatest time in human history. The 80s and 90s were the most awesome time to be alive. And I think we did quite well.
Remember 1989? Yeah. I know what you’re talking about.
I'm doing fine. 58 years old. Married 33 years, raised three great children, house paid off, cars paid off. No credit card debt, never went to college so no student loans. Around $600k in 401k and other savings. I enjoy my job.
I'm nine years behind you. Married 27 years, four kids, house will be paid off in 2026, no other debt. Right there with you my friend. Doing well. Can't complain at all. @@lot2196
@@Member00101 I was an adult in the 90s. I would probably say that enjoyment in life is up to the individual. I know lots of adults who were having a great time in the 80s and 90s. I know a lot of adults who are having a great time now. All depends on your attitude and your choices.
@@dkibler1974I get the feeling that you might be a mentally healthier gen-xer than the gen-xer who uploaded this video....
We do not need "let off the hook" because GenX never swallowed the bait to begin with.
THIS! This is the comment that wins the entire thread
You mean the hook of the crippling debt, burning planet, and lack of opportunity? Sure. Got off scott goddamn free, didn't we?
That part
"ready to transition to Valhalla" YESSS❤
this guy should definitely record himself reading books in this voice i would absolutely listen to him tell me a story
I am a Gen X and couldn’t be more proud about it! Much love and respect to all my fellow Gen X’rs😉👍
There it is!!
Same Here 🤗 & Backatcha 👐👐👐
Indeed! It's nice to be respected, feared.... And left well the f*ck alone! And with extremes on BOTH sides of the political divide becoming even more extreme... I do also find myself believing more and more, that I am actually living on an alien planet! 😊
Spot on example of what my beliefs are.
gen X as well, were not afraid of shit, we were kids who took care of our younger siblings, we had values and we met technology head on.
As a fellow Gen Xer, I applaud you Sir for your rousing speech on our generation. 👏
This was the best description of us it is now our creed❤
Here, here!
As a fellow Gen X’er, I second that emotion.
Vintage 1970 here . Everything that guy said was spot on . Generally left unattended, outside until the street lights came on with no one to know where we were or to contact us. Did not trust anything or anyone other than family and real friends . We were grown-up ,operating machinery, cooking for yourself and siblings, home alone with Mom and Dad working and taking care of yourself all by 10 years old .
The most unique time to be alive and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Generation X
Drinking out of the garden hose, the telephone is stuck on the wall and don't want to see you until the street lights come on. The best of times.
We drank out of the garden hose in the 50s and 60s before u were born. That is just plain silly. WTH are you even talking about? We had more freedom as kids in the 50s cuz it was pretty damn safe everywhere as long as we were home when we were supposed to be. And if we played outside at night, there was a curfew.
Eh, we used to be out until long after dark....pretty much playing hide and seek....neighborhood parents put an end to it after the realized we looked like a bunch of burglars wearing all black and running through the neighbors yards...
Thats exactly my childhood !!! The street lights, home time !!
I’m a gen z. So did I bro. It’s not a rare thing to drink out of the hose in summer
As a Gen X'er, I was given a wrist rocket, a carton of BBs, and left to run in the woods until the lights came on at night. On the weekends, my friends and I would ride our bicycles about 8 miles away from home to go to the arcade. Some of us had wood shop, metal shop, and even home economics.
By the time I was 10, I was learning to hunt animals with a sling shot, riding my bicycle to the mall, learning how to use band saws and welders, and learning how to cook and sew. Then, I had my own key to my house to let myself in and get my homework done before my mother got home. Yeah, we don't have time to hear about how "difficult" your life is.
Oh, and to the other Gen X'ers that learned how to balance a checkbook when they were about 8 yrs old. Keep up the great work!
Well said. I think they called us Gen X, to put the blame "us" for their choices. If they had called us the "Latch Key" generation, it would have been a constant reminder the over-all narcissism of the Boomer generation.
Well you beat me to it. I learned to take care of my parents land taxes in gov office when i am 14 by lying my ass off after driving myself there😂. I am Gen Y/ 82 millenials😂
hero
NO LIES TOLD! Gen X we're a special breed indeed.
Thanks. Life was easier back then.
So glad to be born a Gen X. Best times to be a kid, and a teen.
We grew up without social media, that made out childhood and teen years have more meaning as we look back now that we are older and wiser.😊
Amen!
Can't say from experience, but speaking from a generation that's been told stories of teenage hijinks with no way to recreate it in real life because everything's either shut down or too expensive to enjoy, I wish I was a kid when you were a kid.
GEN X- 1965-80 ... often imitated by others but will never be duplicated. We"re a rare and special breed y'all! I love you bastards.
Hell yeah!
We love you, too! 😊
… dat you Flounder?
The the late 80s, 90s and early 2000 was the best times for me. I don't recognize my country.
Aaawwwwww, love you too 😄
This was perhaps the greatest two minute speech I have ever heard. You sir, are brilliant.
Agreed.
This Gen X'er concurs.
Hooraah:)
Who let us off the hook? We are the hook son 😈
Say word 😂
Fresh
Made'a hooks son! I got hooks on both hands! I got hooks on these feet! I got a hook for a...
Lowkey can y'all get the rest of us all of the hook though? :P 🤣
Shhhh They were supposed to figure that out for themselves....🤣🤣
The greatest privilege of gen x was having the Greatest Generation as grandparents. We learned their old-age lessons/experience while our boomer parents were doing dumb shit
I have always said. GenX isn't the greatest, but it is the best. We are the children of Early Boomers and influenced by their parents the Greatest Generation. Unlike Millennials (GenWhy), who were raised by Late Boomers. Big difference between Early and Late Boomers. Maybe it was disco?
This. Precisely.
Yep. Grandma taught me how to bake bread, shoot a gun, and get away with literal murder, while her daughter (my mom) had no idea what her own mother was teaching me, because she had a paying job. And, that was after being outside for hours and hours in a completely hostile environment.
I grew up having close relationships with people from that generation. I spent lots of time with men who fought in world War II. I knew Jewish people who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Come and talk to me about how the Holocaust didn't happen. I got so much exposure to married couples who have been married for 40 50 60 years, and we're so much happier than the people I see now who have lived their lives alone and going through divorce after divorce and losing their children and so forth and so on. I've watched the unfolding results of feminism, birth control, and easy divorce all my life.
Most of my childhood was spent during a time before masculinity was demonized, and then experienced it happening as I grew to become a young man. I wish Kurt Kabang hadn't blown his brains out so I could beat the crap out of him & if I could get him to listen maybe explain a few things to him.
I've been listening to hip-hop & Punk Rock since it's started, (f* Disco). When I was a little kid rock and roll was still rebellious and hated by parents. My mom sure hated it. My Dad loved it.
@@MrMegamike2k the late Boomers and early GenXr's started Punk, Disco, and hip-hop.
Gen Xer here. I was allowed to play with fire as a child, had my own pocket knife, a slingshot, started to ride city buses to go to school when I was ten years old. I made life changing decisions when I was still a child. These things were all normal at that time. My friends did the same things. People of other generations are usually afraid of confronting me. My childhood gave me a lot of resilience and resourcefulness.
[Life Changing Decisions] Today they [Lefties] encourage [Children] to make [Life Changing Decisions such as Changing their Gender without Parental Consent.
As a Gen X, I honestly think living under the threat of the Cold War that could turn hot at 'the touch if a red button' made us more resourceful, more hardy and reliant on ourselves. Most of the time, we played outside until it was dark and then went home because our parents wanted their own time. I feel privileged being a Gen X and the self reliance that comes with it.
I know this isn't necessarily the case for all of Gen Z, but that mindset was something my Gen X parents passed onto me and my sister. We could be left at home for days on end and be just fine. Most of my skills are self-taught and I recently got to work alone in a different country much younger than when either of my parents did anything similar. Only the attitude is taught to us, since we've mostly been kept indoors like house pets with little to go out for without getting in trouble for leutering (being outside without spending money)
Exactly! I have a song somewhere about this!
If our parents were home. Latch key kids came from our generation.
@@SimplyGiveUp-sp3ld🤘😎
I think that being born and raised during the Cold War also helped many of us not get too freaked out about international issues. Hell, the current world tensions feel almost normal.....
Generation X: Nice when stroked, fierce when provoked.
Indeed!
Bruh, you just described my penis.
No one in Gen X cares what youre talking about man.
As these fragile gen z are experiencing.......F**k around and find out!
Working jn customer service. Gen X were the biggest moaners and entitled brats. Some would even start abusing me even though i was on the minimum wage and had nothing to do with happened
I am a late late boomer (December 1964) on the cusp of Gen X and I relate so much to this! Gen X has seen the Cold War, the fuel crisis, the year with the most terrorist attacks world wide (1979), the slowest wage growth and high inflation, the death of pension plans, the fall of the wall, the rise of the internet, and the longest war in US history. A generation of latch key kids walking to school at 4 or 5 and fixing their own after school snacks. Gen X is a product of a rather harsh and unpredictable environment. It has made them adaptable, inventive, and self reliant.
Oh that's ridiculous. Gen x had cheap college, a ridiculously good economy. 79? Dude they were like 7 years old in 79. They got rich in the 90s because of an insane deregulated economy. They are the ones who got rich on gentrification(along with boomers). Sorry but millennials turned 18 the year the great recession happened. Gen x had it pretty good actually. Nobody had it worse than us. We grew up in ridiculous wars of your generation, my generation can barely buy a house or afford one kid.
@@Brandon-yg7mwlol... you call that the great recession. ignore 1921, 1929, 1972, 1982, 1991 and 2009.. you can't afford a house or children because of bad money management and the me me me me attitude.... you have the ability to make more money overnight thru internet usage then we could have ever dreamt of growing up in Gen X... instead your generation pushes for woke ideology and victim mentality. We aren't the same
Ridiculous? O.K. Im a Gen X. I, and many of the kids i knew grew up with, had single moms, no dad around, and on welfare and food stamps, so stick that in your economy. I worked my ass off through the 90's, never got rich, and still do, because we were the last gen to work hard. We also didn't give a shit what color you were or who you liked. We all hung together, we all partied together, and we all helped each other when times were tough! Racism was something we saw in movies but couldn't even understand. The first black joke i ever heard was told to us by one of our black friends and none of us even knew why it was funny! But we all laughed TOGETHER then went and rode our bikes TOGETHER. Your gen's fixation on race and sex is disgusting, demoralizing, and destructive to our very way of life. So thank you to you and all the generations since, for not giving a shit about anything but yourselves, and maybe the Kardashians. I guess Idiocracy was absolutely correct in its prediction of future generations. Stupid stupid stupid! Keep focusing only on race and sex kids. Your doing great!
Gen X was just spooling up when the "great recession" happened. That ain't on us. As a matter of fact, it crippled our ability as well. We got to pick up the pieces. These wars you refer to, Boomers are running our government at the moment, not Gen X. Check your facts.
Brandon stop being a whiner & be a doer. Take the dress off & put on some pants. Go get a real job(not McDonald's) work hard & take pride in your work(do it right the first time). Earn your keep well, earn respect. Now put the phone & tissues down, get some thicker skin so your feelings don't get hurt & work hard. College isn't everything. Why anyone would pay those prices for an education so you can get a job for $20/hr is ridiculous. Not everyone can be doctors. You need construction workers too in order to build those hospitals & colleges. If you don't have a brain pick up a shovel.
Oh yes I remember cooking my first dinner at 9 years old ,it was baked chicken stuffed with garlic and potatoes, now I would watch my mom cook & duplicate also I would tweak whatever I was cooking to my standards. Welp my mom took one bite and I was officially made the cook of the house. At ten and a half years old I'm on the bus to go grocery shopping (our bus dropped us off right across from where we lived and it stopped right across the street from the supermarket, at Fourteen years old I cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner. I could also guesstimate cooking measurements perfectly without a measuring cup or spoons .You can't get more badass as this GenXer was & still is.( I was born in 1978)
Same- cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping and babysitting / bottle returns for cash!
I was born in 1981 and feel WAY more GenX than Millennial. I started cooking dinner a little later in life (at 10 or 11) and my mom said, "If you can read, you can cook." My parents divorced right before my 10th birthday and soon after, it was my job to watch my two younger brothers, cook dinner, wash dishes, and keep up with my school work. I didn't do the shopping, I just had *some* input on it and then had to invent dinner from what was in the house.
I learned how to make a full Thanksgiving dinner by 13. Nothing a 13 yr old lives more than getting up every 3 hours to baste a turkey bc it was the size of a VW Bug and had to be slow roasted overnight.
Mine was at age 6 after reading a Dr Seuss book, Green Eggs and ham. It was scrambled eggs with sugar and green food coloring.
The same year I also made what all my cousins called Mikey pancakes- pancakes cooked on a 9" rectangular griddle, one at a time. And yes, I filled the griddle and somehow managed to flip them at the perfect time- for a pancakes that took two plates to serve after slicing.
@TedSeeber Now that is a total GenXer thing to do lol, I can say we all were good for doing food experiments.
Us Gen Xers are a rare bread. We believe nothing and trust no one. Wish there were more like us.
except a fictional chazracter who goes by the name Q. GenX is guilible and a letdown.
@@captainprototype187 here here
@@captainprototype187 Yes. The majority of Gen-X believes Q. Touch grass, my friend.
@@captainprototype187 Do you trust Trump? Trump has Re-Truthed Q-related material, including a complete Q drop.
@@captainprototype187 Ah, yes...'Q,'...seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet. The only fictional characters with the name 'Q' that I know of would be James Bond's armorer, and the character named 'Q,' which was played by John de Lance, on Star Trek:TNG. To which fictional character are YOU referring?
Gen X was never off the hook to begin with. Born into a time of skyrocketing divorce rates, trained for jobs that would get replaced by technology, spending 4-5 decades witnessing your country rot from the inside, fated to spend entire adult lives paying off an increasing national debt, witnessing everything you ever loved become commercialized, realizing that doing everything you were told to do to make the world a better place didn't help at all, and eventually realizing that it's too late to fix anything.
Most generations have experienced or are experiencing the same kind of thing, watching the rot started in the 80s (and sooner) take hold. Allowing the business leaders carve us up into arbitrary groups to pit us against one another is an Age Old leadership tactic. Make others fight the battles for the wealthy. Divide and control.
Amen to that!!
Even just one of my first jobs as a carpark attendant taking the money/tickets ... all automated now with number plate cams etc.
Never to late to fix anything, it just becomes more expensive and blood shedding the longer you wait.
@@homeistheearth Yeah, and we’ve been duped into allowing things to erode before our eyes. Doesn’t look like that’s going to work for much longer. Tipping point is in the process of happening. Many of us saw it during early lockdowns. , whichever ‘so called side’ we were on. Now we have some clarity to inform our intuition of that time.
It's even worse for millennials I was born in 1987 My generation will experience the complete downfall of America. Most of us will never be able to afford to buy a house. A lot of us will never be able to afford to even buy a car. The suffering we will endure in the future will make all generations previous Understand we had at the worst. Not all of us grew up with a silver spoon But more of us did I will give you that. I will also say my generation grew up during the greatest time the 90s was a wonderful decade to grow up in and most our parents were amazing atleast mine were but alot of gen x parents died from drugs or alcohol. My uncle died at 39 years old I found him in his bedroom face first on the floor his heart exploded he was withdrawaling off alcohol. I was a heroine addict for many years But i'm a sober person now I haven't drank alcohol since I was 22 when I found my uncle. A lot of us millennials have been through a lot But I'm glad I've been through a lot. Because it made me into the man. I am today and I think more people need to suffer. Because suffering builds character, suffering builds strength, suffering molds us into something greater and I think we need more of that. The greatest generation became the greatest because they suffered the most so people shouldn't fear suffering they should embrace it with open arms.
As a Gen Xer I always wondered why we were left to our own devices. Never harassed about who or what we were about. I wondered... Till we hit our 40's and I started to see just how crazy we can be. We're the ones that rode bikes and skateboards with no protection. We were tossed outside in the sun and told not to come home till dark out. We were the last of the no warnings Gen. You can't make em like us anymore
Well said young person 👍🏿
Millennial.
Ditto
You do realise most ppl didn't have intnernet untill well into the 00s. Spart phones wernt out till nearly 2010 and most millennial where mid 20s by then...
Your not special x
@@SD-vy7gj you were the annoying generation of participation trophies. Stfu
Woah, crazy! No bike helmet or protection! What a mad life you lived! You realise us early millennials also lives like this, Gen X has imo the best music, the get on with it attitude that has created massive industries and is by far the most successful and satisfied generation…seriously “we played outside 😂”
Yo. For the Gen Y or 81s to 90 millenials. Shut up will you. Why you are like the younger busy-body millenial? Make rats about nothing? What are we want to prove exactly?
Born in 77, i''m one of the last of the X. and proud to be so. No wireless phones, cassette tapes for music, First PC was an Apple 2, with 5" floppies and a whopping whole 16 kilobytes of ram! Had an Atari then a NES. Spent Untold hours of my days fishing, swimming, riding my dirt bike though places no bike should ever go. Broke at least 5 different bones, went in for stitches several times. and I remember when us kids settled our differences with Fists, not firearms, and then played football in the vacant lot the next day!
oh, and Babysat myself after school starting at 9 years old!
Me too.. and I was walking to elementary school from 4th to 7th grade after I was given a bicycle to ride and lock up to the chain fence
F-ing awesome! Being 52 now, I've had 2 years to embrace being 50+ and telling everyone to get off my lawn, figuratively, and not caring. I did make who I am, what I am, who I will be. Skimming through the comments, I do believe us Gen X can storm the world and own it. Oh, wait, we do :) Love to all Gen X-ers and march on until we all die.
X
100%. Also we create this crap! 😂 we are good & bad. Whachoo' gonna' do😅
Right on bro.
we won't die...we'll all just go to hell and regroup lol
I'm a millennial and already feel like Gran Torino Clint. Just grimacing in disgust at those Z weirdos.
My parents are Gen Xers and I love them both dearly. They're full of laughter and wisdom, and are resourceful and determined. Almost every other GenXer I've met is so insightful and kind, and brilliant with technology both old and new.
Honestly I wish we could have more of them speak and run for office. Our country is being ran into the ground by people who should have retired long ago and can't see the present or future clearly anymore.
Mad love for GenXers, from a Millennial. ❤
The ones who refuse to give up control are the boomers. The US congress and senate are absolutely full of them that refuse to retire even though they lost their marbles.
Thank you!! I agree that we need younger politicians. The White House is looking like a retirement home. We desperately need term limits too!!
the thing with Gen X is that we just want to be left alone (specially by govt) and we have neither interest nor desire to have power over anyone other than ourselves - that being said, each and every generation has its' fair share of sociopaths and psychopaths, and they're the *only* people who actually want power over others! they're also the only ones to make it in pollytics
we know how to use crowbars
@@tonyborelli.
crowbars are the ONLY place crows can legally buy and drink alcohol!
I'm 46, work on a sales team of mostly younger guys 20s & 30s, i found out that none of them had ever been in a fist fight. None. I found that truly amazing and am not sure if that's good or bad.
Bruh!? 42 years woman of asian descend...even I had fist fight, WTH!?
Those 20 and 30 year-olds had to adapt to school and society rules put in place by boomers. I’m an older woman and I’ve been in a few fist fights but after the fight we got cleaned up and either agreed things were settled or planned for round two. The consequences were a few bruises. When my 30-year old son got in a fist fight at school he got expelled due to the school having a zero tolerance policy. His fight wasn’t anything worse than I’d gotten into but the punishment made settling things with a few quick jabs not worth it.
Bad, definitely bad. Their FAFO experience is painfully limited.
As a fellow Gen-Xer, I laughed my ass off at this reply because it hit the nail on the head as to why I consider the younger generations weak sauce knuckleheads walking who need to be very grateful for the world we provided for them instead being a bunch of wannabe know-it alls.
Here's a bit of wisdom from me to them: Life is tough. Man up or woman up instead of being victims. You're here for a short time, so enjoy your life. And finally, have a series of exit plans at the ready. Because none of this shit is permanent. Not a single one.
Good luck.
GenX is an alien generation. I'm a millenial and my husband is genX, he amazes me everyday! There's literally nothing he can't do and he does everything so calmly and rational lol he doesn't want to expose his generation by admitting he's an alien but i have very strong suspicions
my wife suspects this too... oh well.
@@Anton680x 😂
we crash landed here about 3,500 years ago and reincarnate generationally - Gen X was this round, though it does get a bit out of synch! Nichola Tesla was one such misplacement
GenX is the last generation raised as problem solvers. We are the last generation you didn't supervise and locked outside. We had to learn to do everything ourselves because our parents were too busy making a living to teach us anything. Where possible our grandparents taught us. We aren't afraid to learn new stuff and "just do it" because we always had to. So that's why your husband is so unflappable. He probably woke up his dad one day after a a late shift and got the crap beat out of him then later his dad explained how to handle stuff without him and dared him to wake him up again.... Then he probably did and woke up about 15 or 20 years later and met you at the hospital.
😂 you're comment cracked me up. Maybe we gen X are just the first successful hybrids... 😉
Not only do i appreciate them leaving us alone, i whole heartedly recommend that they continue to leave us alone....
Okay tough guy
@@RenSam22 Try us. See what happens.
@@AwakenedWookie You don't scare me
We should step up and correct the mistakes of our fathers. The world we knew is burning.
@@Krathify"We didn't start the fire"
As a millenial I gotta say Gen X is full of fun people. They tend to have a lot of things they're eager to teach and expect nothing. Although this is anecdotal, I've also never seen a Gen X person depressed unlike my peers.
@@happydaze7386 you got that right! We don't whine and complain we just soldier on!
Oh we fucked up, we just don't talk about it much. We had to internalize all that shit. No one wanted to listen to our problems....
oh i am....but who's gonna care, or fix it? no one but me.
You’ve seen us depressed; the clown always smiles, internalized doom and our hearts beating and bleeding silently. We learned no one gives a shit about us from an early age and that knowledge made us who we are.
If someone says we are on the hook, I only ask; who put us in the hook?
Whatever….
Gen X: "if I could Complain, Who'd Listen?"
Sums it up pretty much.
I’m a 1970 model and I approve this message!
Couldn’t be said better. Thanks for being our spokesman dear sir.
6/25/1973 thanks you ❤
@@Sam-eo3it LOL. 06/28/1978
Growing up, there was a week long birthday party in our neighborhood cause there were 7 birthdays in june.
From June 20 to June 30.
I love seeing others share June as a birthday month.
Gen X is the generation that knew about the beautiful, high trust and prosperous world that was fading away as we came along. The WWII generation fought in the war, raised four kids per woman, did hard factory work, and participated in civic groups and did volunteer work in their spare time. It was all of that hard work and sacrifice that created all of the good things that emerged during the 1950s-60s.
But, boomers didn't want to pay it forward. They didn't want to work that hard. They turned to money lending, financial tricks, and usury, to entrap other people into doing all of that hard work for them. They had fewer kids and many of these kids became the latchkey generation, so called because when we got home from school, there was no one at home, and we needed to open the lock ourselves. The good part of this experience was that we learned how to take care of ourselves. We also learned that the world didn't just revolve around us. The Boomer generation just focuses on the Boomer generation. Their needs are still the focus of public policy, and of media and cultural attention. So, not much was handed to us, and so we don't have an attitude of entitlement. Our attitude, is more like an immigrant attitude. We just have to adapt, find a place for ourselves, learn to survive. I think that we have more of a focus on our family and community because we know that the system, isn't working for us.
Best statement here!!!
The greatest generation fought WWII and ultimately gave birth to the worst generation... The Boomers. NO generation has so completely fucked over EVERY generation after themselves more than the boomers have.
Amen!. The system will NEVER work for us, it hasn't before so why would it now?
The boomers have done an excellent job of screwing over every generation that has followed them. The greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation.
Then again, we Xers raised entitled, spoiled brats who were given "participation" trophies, can't find their way around without google maps & would have a nervous breakdown without a phone on them 24/7!!!!!!! We are the LAST gen that will ever know TRUE FREEDOM.
We were left to raise ourselves. We’re talking Lord of the Flies type stuff. We were the latch key kids. And the last to remember the world before the internet. We played outside all day and drank from the garden hose. We build forts and bike ramps. We played the first gaming console. We can read and write in cursive. Most of you can’t even sign your own name. Seriously, GFY and leave us alone. You don’t want none of this smoke.
I think I was cooking on the stove at like 8…. I was lucky enough to have a lot on my street with a wooded (about 12 feet deep with little pine trees) just a big bowl after that and pure hard clay (some breaks with little pine wooded areas) talk about bike ramps?!? We would make them and shape them with hard ass clay lmao best broken bones of our lives build a fort there too with a fire place hahaha GenX rules
...and we were never in a position of power to f things up, so what exactly are we to be blamed for? The president is boomer, the last president was a boomer. Everyone in power in government are still almost all boomers.
At least give us a shot before blaming us. Lol.
So why did you all become Boomer Juniors?
@@grodri01 Why don’t you explain what a boomer junior is, scooter?
@@Chet73 I think, at least in American society, a boomer Junior is how they describe it implies that while Gen X never had the brilliant fortune bestowed upon them by their greedy and entitled parents, they still inherited that same smug sense of superiority. Unlike the boomers however their sense of superiority is at least somewhat warranted? But still leaves a bad taste in the mouth when interacting with them as they do seem to be the most feral generation thus-far as well.
Gen X grew up with 80s music. We're among the luckiest. 👍
I LISTEN TO 80s ROCK SON GET THE FUCK OUT OLD ASS😂
Ah man. Speaking of William Wallace the best part of our childhoods was the FREEDOM. Yeah we had a shit ton of responsibility, but we got things done and then just melted into the woods, or ran shrieking around a field, whatever the mood was.
Some of my best memories were sitting in the shade of some big tree or trespassing a closed industrial building after riding for hours on a Huffy to just shoot the shit, or even simply to just be.
Backpack of snacks, pocket knife, and maybe a Swatch, that’s all we carried, and it was glorious.
William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered. Gen X is far more resilient.
Those were the good days... so much fun
@@DebbieWilson4 The best, really grateful to have had that as a childhood, wouldn't trade it for anything. Plus made me into the successful skeptical bastard I am today 🙂
That's what I did a lot too, I'm a millennial, but I was the weird kid.
I don't understand my generation at all, I find it easier to relate to gen-x and gen-z than to fricking millennials..
@boaconstrictor37 so true, it wasn't easy but it was fun!!
Born in 1975. This past weekend I showed my 8 year old nephew how to kickflip. Yup, still can do it. Can still ollie up onto a picknick table too. Of course, our skateboards were bigger and heavier. These new ones are so light and small! Still, I was shocked to still be able to do it after all these years. Gen X f'kn RULES!!! \m/
08/74 here and you sound just like me. I took my Christian Hosoi down a half pipe a year or so ago and everyone's eyes got wide and they started admiring the Hammerhead.
01/1975 here my husband and I still skate. Met in a skate shop in 90 were friends grew up went separate ways and got together in 2006, married 2015 and still find ourselves on skateboards. The soccer moms hate me🤣.
Congratulations on proving to these youngins that genetics is still the best😅
Born 70, unfortunately I can no longer skate like I used to back in the day due to back problems..... but I still maintain that gen x attitude till the day I die 🤘😎🤘🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Now I’m in the mood for some Fugazi, NoFx, and Bad Religion
Gen X lived by the motto "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger". We have learned to survive anything, that is reason enough to leave us alone.
If we got hurt with something you hide it, or the parents will take it away.
Then you became the generation that made bicycle helmets and seatbelts mandatory... So yeah guess you didn't really care about that did'ja?
So tired of your generation pretending you're tough...
America has been at war since I was in highschool.
The cost to live in this world has gone up ten times since I was a child let alone from the time when you lot were kids.
I grew up through multiple depressions, while you lived in the best time of America.
You probably never even went hungry in your lifetime.
Actually the motto should be “that which does not kill me, well it just didn’t kill me”
I hate this thinking, which is why a lot of Gen X’ers are overlooked. A lot of Gen X has been wiped out due to pharmaceutical companies greed, which led to a lot of drug overdoses and rehab stays.
@@greyveteran7007 So true, I once layed my dirt bike over at 60 mph and slid 175 steps, broke my helmet, had bad road rash on my arm and shoulder, picked it up, continued my ride to the lake washed the blood off and went home a put the bike up quietly, and started bandaging myself up. Mom came in from the garden to check on me because she knew something was up because I didn't ride around in the yard before putting it up.
Holy shit this was incredible! You hit the nail on the head!!!
We weren't all neglected physically, but Gen X somehow sank somewhere to the bottom of our Boomer parents' priority lists in a lot of ways. We had to learn to "suck it up" and get by. On the one hand, we learned valuable day-to-day life skills which were sorely needed to be independent adults (or really, independent teens). On the other hand, we have the hardest time forming long-lasting bonds with friends, or being involved in any kind of community for very long. We realized early in life that we had to rely on ourselves, and that all relationships outside of close family members were likely temporary. We scoff at the things that make other generations sentimental, because we learned to see it as fake, manipulative posing.
This is gold! How true!
Great insight about the superficiality aspect of sentiment. Solid take!
Agree. I think gen X's motto should be "leave me alone." We've spent our whole lives being ignored, doing our own thing, living our own lives while the world keeps spewing drama
So true. That has been my motto since I was first able to speak.
Truth. It’s very distracting.
It's annoying when people do take notice as they usually try to ruin what you're doing. Keeping the world held together is hard work.
@@saberswordsmen1 you think boomers have societal apathy?!? Boomers transformed our entire society, for better or worse. The younger generations don't impress me. They aren't transformational, they are self-indulgent. Boomers wanted to change the world, young people want the world to revolve around their needs. That isn't social action. As far as Gen x, someone has to "make the doughnuts." While all of you are busy transforming, protesting, and getting triggered we work, we have families, work, and live our lives. We also get along with ourselves and others, which is something all you non-apathetic ppl can't seem to do.
Definitely. You should be grateful you’ve been “let off the hook”.
Every single Gen X I’ve ever encountered is loud, opinionated about everything and always complaining, lacks critical thinking skills but always insists they’re right. Completely self centred with no empathy, quick to anger and the personality of Saturday morning cartoons.
I'm very proud to belong to Gen. X. We were taught independence at a very early age. In the summer, we got booted outside and left to fend for ourselves, with the proviso that if you didn't return home by the dinner bell, your arse was grass, and Mom and Dad were the lawnmowers. We came home from school to empty houses and watched whatever happened to be on tv at the moment. There was no cable until we were in our teens. Same with computers, but we picked up on those pretty quickly, and learned computer languages like BASIC(which was as far from basic as you could be), FORTRAN, APL, and PASCAL. We used the very first word processing software, called PFS WRITE. You knew who was doing computer work, because wed be cruising the halls with floppy discs the size of dinner plates back then. Hard drive? Whats hard drive? Didn't exist. When we got older, we could go clubbing all night, get an hour or two of sleep, and be at our jobs promptly at 800am. Slackers, we were NOT! That was the Boomers' nickname for us, because they were jealous of us.
This gentleman is correct- you do NOT want to mess with us. Just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. ETA: I was born in 1967, so thankfully, I dont have Boomer parents!
I was born in '83, but I do have boomer parents, my dad was born in '47, my mom was born in '60 (and her parents were part of the greatest generation and her dad was in not just WWII, but he served in the korean war as well)... so thanks to my parents, "technically" speaking, I'm gen x...
i was born in 72 so I have boomer parents lol.
Don't take pride (or shame) in anything you didn't do yourself. Nobody chooses what year they're born in, or the circumstances of their upbringing and birth. Generational pride is no less moronic than white pride. Besides, generations don't exist, outside of some Madison avenue publicist's deraged fantasy. If you're not willing to make generalizations about Jews, or Muslims or White or Black people, why on *EARTH* would you make generalizations about people born within 20 or so years of each other? Generational stereotypes are the social media equivalent of astronomy.
@@AaronMichaelLong well, personally, I can't stand the term Generation X. It's stupid. I am, however, proud that I learnt to be independent at an early age, and to take care of myself. Later generations don't seem to have this gift, and yes, I actually do consider it a gift. I've learnt that I can be self-sufficient. On the other hand, I'm not afraid to ask for help if I need it. Being able to rely on yourself is a very good thing, something that seems to be in short supply these days.
Brilliant. Same age as you. Same story.
European Xennial here, grew up analog and then experienced the beginnings of families getting a computer at home in my teens, so not exactly a complete member of gen x, but I can definitely relate for a good part.
What you said is definitely true.
(1) we aren't the ones that manufactured this grand vision Utopia/Dystopia. We were always outnumbered, never liked divorce, never liked debt, and USED to think of "Social Public Whatever" as some vastly over-complicated irrelevance. Boomers were so disappointed when we didn't go marching for social change. So don't blame us.
(2) We ARE feral -- the first latchkey generation raised in mass divorce, and the last generation NOT to have a Child Protective safety net. A the foot soldiers in the war on drugs, peaking in crime drugs and suicide at every phase of our life cycle. Likewise, we will be the first generation to be FAILED by Social Security and everyone knows it.
Even as a child you could see the hypocrisy of the hippies/boomers. Crack and AIDS stand out from the 80s.
I love being a Gen X kid. It was a great time to be alive and people weren't nearly as miserable as they are now.
No we were not nearly as mentally ill and miserable...I had a great time from ages 18 - 23 (89-93) - people that age today seem to do nothing but protest this and that, complain about everything, non stop whining about how everybody else in history had it easy blah blah blah...you don't see too many young people showing much happiness today...mostly they seem to want to be miserable yet they have everything...very different generations
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 and everything is PC, and woke now. It's ridiculous.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 We "Have everything" despite not being able to own a modern car, buy a house, or afford to live in the modern era because we're still getting paid what you got paid as children despite everything costing 5 times more than it did in your generation?
Yeah I wouldn't say that very much if I were you, your generation had everything, grew so fat on it that the next two generations are being smothered by you until you and your parents die off.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Maybe you should go to a protest. It's the opposite of miserable, you're taking action alongside your community and fellow supporters. I honestly would recommend it.
Everyone is so racist now.
I miss the old days when black people were black, white people were white and no one really cared.
I’m a millennial, but can still appreciate this video. Gen X doesn’t speak unless it has something worth saying. 👍
You guys are like Gen X light. We like you, you’ve gotten a bad rap. You won’t be forgotten, but you must wait your turn.
You are just trying to butter us up! I don't trust you! 😂😜❤
🤘🤘
Not at all, often times Gen X is just filled with hot air and boasting. I’ve been told people of my generation (Gen x) wouldn’t have acted this way, but they’re lying to themselves. I knew so many people who would run around with a video camera recording dumb stuff.
@@NotDuncanif you think gen X is full of hot air, you're more than welcome to fk around and find out
The golden age of music peaked in the 90's and declined from the mid 2000's onward.
No autotune or post production bullshit. No such thing as a "studio band."
If you couldn't rock live, we didn't even know about you.
not necessarily. this is same sad comment i heard from old boomer types aimed at gen x growing up. There is amazing music being put out by EVERY generation. To say otherwise is a blow at creative types, and is kind of judgemental. We dont want to be like the boomers do we? The beatles had some great music So does Lana del rey, So does Neon Hitch, Lindsey stirling is AMAZING on violin, donald glover came out with some killer lyrics and visuals in this is america...I like what the younger generations have done musically. You just have to know where to look.
@@jadorepoutine You're cherry picking from a dumpster. You obviously don't remember the 80's and 90's. The radio was on fire constantly with the tunes playing through it. And that was just from the radio friendly music.
@antonackermann9620 I never said 80s and 90s weren't good? I simply said every generation that comes before dismisses the next generations music which is shameful. I honestly feel that every generation has both good and bad music and by dismissing an entire generation because your generation is best is doing yourself a disservice🤷♀️ but hey I'm not forcing you to expand your limited world view. Can stay in a 2 decade music window if ya like no skin off my back.
I'm only 32, but in my personal opinion, from the end of the 50's through 60's, 70's, and 80's were the "golden" age of music. The 90's had plenty of good music as well, however that is around the time it started to decline severely with all of the push-button musicians and synth instruments. The 80's really kicked off the "electric" age of music where you could be talentless but use drum machines and cutting-edge DJ equipment to make a stupid beat that everyone thinks is catchy. Nowadays, the people we call pop artists can't hold a note without a computer's help, can't actually play a single instrument, and no longer have full bands backing them with extremely talented members. People really only listen to sharty mainstream music in order to be popular or in the loop. It starts with one person: "This new song just came out. It's horrible, but if I act like it's a big deal and just amazing, others will follow to try and keep up with the trend, and I'll get a bunch of attention."
Humans are gross.
Well said. Everyone i knew, including myself, was a latch key kid and we went to the mall after school and got into fights, smoked, drank, and were working by 15yrs old or so. We paid our own bills, cooked our own meals, and learned how to live through trial and error. All before adulthood. Our parents abandoned most of us and we only had each other.
Yep, give or take a lot of us grew up about like that. I learned to cook as a survival skill, because my parents didn't. We opened cans til we learned to cook. Got my first two part time jobs at 15, but started babysitting for other families at 12. We all knew to go home when the streetlights came on, because if they had to call us they'd get mad and maybe call us by the wrong kid's name or our full name, or my mom would just go down the list and then "whoever you are!" 😂😂😂
@user-wh5ir4fo4r there was a lot of parental neglect back then, but the upside is that we all learned how to take care of ourselves pretty young. I think a lot of people who came along later missed out on that and the stuff that goes with it, like problem-solving skills (for those who survived, anyway...).
Amen I've been working since I was 14.. that's 43 years of laboring.
Wow! All of you had crappy parents. So sad.
Ain't that the truth
The only thing we are on the hook for is fixing everyone else’s mistakes.
This ^^
So true. We were raised for it.
Damn right.
Basically
Oooh say it again for the people in the BACK!!!!! ✌️💖
as a milenial I think gen x is the best grnerarion, you gave us the best music the best movies the best pop culture, gen x was humanity at its peak
Very eloquently put! Which demonstrates a great example of Gen Xer's. We do not beat around the bush and we do not sugarcoat anything, we will tell you exactly what's on our minds.
One of my millennial friends doesn’t appreciate my no sugar coating directness. She said I was rude. 😂 And no, I didn’t apologize. Toughen up, buttercup. 💪🏻 Said what I said cuz it was true. Truth isn’t always nice. Sometimes it slaps you up side the head. It can make ya mad before it sets you free. 🤨
I have this recurring fantasy of telling 20 year olds nowadays to toughen the heck up. Especially the ones that stare at their navels all day wondering what pronouns they are, or who spend their days in the gym, wearing super tight clothing, and then crying that people are looking at them. I do feel bad that they have to live through the whole social media nonsense. If I could transport them back to the 1970s, I would.
@@christinebinkley2508Except you do realize you sound exactly like the people you don't want to sound like, yes?
@@latsnojokelee6434So you want to be the problem that you complained about?
The funniest part is they think we give one single solitary fuck what they say or think.
The narcissism is strong with Bryan (the Asian guy at the start)... although,to be fair, he probably has Gen X parents who had him believing that everything that comes out of his mouth is so amazing and important (there's exceptions to every rule)
Gen X here. Water hose drinker. Street football player. Wiffle ball expert. Hanging in the wood for 8 hours straight. Spanked with a leather belt when I spoke back to my mother. 10 inch black and white TV from my grandfather who worked his whole life at RCA that I thought was awesome and used a clothes hangar to get reception for two channels. Bus riding in the backseat. Scars all over my legs from playing outside for years. Never wore a stupid bike helmet in my life. Never picked up dog crap in a bag in my life because my dog just crapped wherever and it was fine. Called collect to get a ride home but only in an emergency - otherwise Dad would end me. If we ate out - it was a big deal. Hung at the mall and ate boardwalk fries with my parents having no clue where i was for a day. Nobody cared. Took wood boards and made bike ramps that we would jump off and crash our faces into the street. Nobody cared. Told to see a "counselor" at school or in college and said 'Nah - they can't help this dude'...I could go on for hours. Basic point - when we leave the workforce - this entire planet will collapse.
Gen X-er here. Our strength is that we could care less about what others think, but we are also the most tolerant of the generations. We think independently, and we go our own way. We're fighters when we need to be, but we don't do so lightly. We straddle the line between hope and cynicism, and, we're the most likely to survive an Apocalypse better than the other generations, simply because we still remember the days BEFORE the Internet and modern convenience. Truth.
You "could" care less? Then you must be at least a little concerned about what others think.
@JakeValentineStory What do you think the word "less" means? It is not same as "not at all". When saying "I could care less", I am acknowledging the opinion, but not enough to elevate said opinion to something to be concerned about. Just saying.
@@dswynne I was just messing with you because the expression is "couldn't" care less meaning you have zero concern of what others think. I guess "joshing" doesn't come across in comments. My bad. All the best.
@JakeValentineStory no, my bad. You have a good day.
Growing up we played war games like normal kids…. We tied our captured enemies to the nearest tree, only releasing them at wars end or when it was time to head home for dinner. Great friends back then
Awww I miss running around the neighborhood with my friends
Playing outside until the sun went down
Playing Ghost in the Graveyard
Miss being young
Worked out plans during middle school for the bb gun war that weekend. Stayed the night Friday out at the break of dawn geared up and hunting your friends down like rabid dogs
Roman candle wars was the best. Light it, drop it into a two foot piece of pipe, and aim it at friends while trying to dodge their shots at you. No helmets or safety glasses. Most of us wore shorts and t shirts. Nobody ever got badly hurt. Couple burns and bruises and 1 backyard that the fire department had to put out. Damn, it was fun.
We had a saying as teenagers. Don’t start any s***, there won’t be any s***
Or they start it, I'll finish it.
I remember that!! Always said that. I grew up in the hood.
Fellow Gen X here, and I can confirm this. Don’t mess with us. We grew up playing in the dirt and wading through irrigation ditches just for fun. We had BMX bikes and ate fruit fresh from the trees in our backyard.
Amen and well said brother. We have the mental strength and physical endurance of our boomer parents, yet have the kindness and acceptance of our zoomer children. We tend to be a quiet, independent buch, but don't mistake our kindness for weakness.
My parents were part of the Silent Generation.
Kindness and acceptance got the world to where it is. Good job. NOT!!
@@katie7748 Hi there. So, in your opinion, _is_ the world today? Where did things go wrong?
My parents were Silent Generation. The millenials disaster belongs to the Boomer generation. Most GenXer's kids are Zoomers.
@@aljirou29 I actually have one of each. And white I support them in being independent, their arrogance is what gets them in trouble. You must be humble, in everything.
Your words, so eloquently stated, echo in the hearts of GenXers everywhere.
These cyberbabies would do best to leave us alone, like we prefer.
My parents were both born in the cusp between the great generation and the silent generation. My three much older sisters were boomers, and I’m genX. My sisters grew up with a stay at home mother who had cookies and milk waiting for them after school and their ouchies attended to with great care. I could feed myself and bandage my own wounds by kindergarten. I ran away once, changed my mind after a day, and they hadn’t noticed I was gone. I think part of the reason we babied our own kids is that we realized how much danger we were actually in by being left to our own devices at such a young age. I can’t count the number of times I could have been killed, abducted, abused, or maimed. Many of us were - probably why we are also the smallest generation.
"I ran away once, changed my mind after a day, and they hadn’t noticed I was gone. " LOL! I did the same thing! Silly kid, even packed up a Hobo knapsack with a handkerchief on a stick. Got a few miles from home, up to an old tree fort in the hills. Ate my lunch. Threw rocks at stuff. Got bored and went home, nobody had noticed I'd left!
I guess we are the generation that survives 😅
Sad but True ..😢
Dear Sir, I THANK YOU. I'm a late Gen-X, (some call my type a 'Xennial'), but I'm still a Latch-key kid, spent a great deal of time lost in the woods, & on a poor weather day.....HELLO NINTENDO! 😂❤
Correct. Gen Z and Millennials would be well advised to steer clear of the generation that grew up listening to "Straight Out of Compton," watching "Faces of Death" and reading the "Anarchist Cookbook."
I, being a Gen Xen, have a perspective here about "who let Gen X off the hook". Gen X was never ON the hook. The Boomers controlled everything and Gen X literally had NO POWER. They were the pioneers of the blooming understanding of Gen Z and Millennials. They paved the way at great sacrifice to bring you what they did not have. They fought the system so that way you could have a like minded peer who also understood the system was wrong. They invented Punk, not only in music, but in life. The forgotten generation, Gen X, was deemed forgotten because that generation had literally abandoned the ways of the Boomers, by and large. They were the Jack drowning and freezing on the iceberg to the Rose of the Millennials and Gen Z. Hell the Boomers STILL hold most of the power.
Who let them off the hook? They did, with their choices of not participating in the madness.
The Titanic metaphor is SPOT ON 🫡
Boomers and the Silent Generation do absolutely still have much of the power.
We’ve never had a Gen X president. Just sayin.
They did a pretty good job of making sure most of our generation were never born.
Yes, Boomers totally set the stage for todays societal problem. Just look at the past 4 Pres. They are all boomers. Gen X create an alternative universe to live outside of boomers tight grip on power
Implying millennials aren't the band being forced to play as the ship sinks
As Gen X, we grew up being told that the world could end at any moment if someone in DC or Moscow had a bad day. We also grew up with Boomer parents who walked out the door to 'find themselves' and left us to try to figure out a whole lot about life on our own, since we couldn't depend on the adults to be around if we needed them.
Most boomers has to figure things out themselves because the Silent ( or lost ) Generation often didn’t give much guidance. Had rigid hardline My Way or the Highway attitudes, whether it worked or not. Seems like many generations have this now.
The more I read comments like these, the more the Strauss-Howe generation theory makes sense.
We lived near the AFB and had drills to get under or desks in case of an attack, in 78 - 79. We saw the Berlin wall come down and the end of USSR, Soviet Union.
Remember Sting's song - Russia? The music was so menacing with a beat that conjured up the Russian Goose-step march. Lyrics:
In Europe and America there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mister Krushchev said, "We will bury you"
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It'd be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
There is no monopoly on common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology, regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too
There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the president?
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie we don't believe anymore
Mister Reagan says, "We will protect you"
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too
We share the same biology, regardless of ideology
But what might save us, me and you
Is if the Russians love their children too
@@esmewvimes2901 The song's actual title was "Russians". 1985-86
I was born 4 months and a day before the offical start of Gen X. Officially, I am a Baby Baby Boomer. But I am pure Gen Xer. I am so thankful my two younger brothers and I grew up in an analog world, drank water from a garden hose, and got to ride our bikes and play with our friends all over town without our parents warching our every move. I helped take care of my grandmother and baby brother and had grandparents who on my fathers side were born on 1885 and 1892 and on my mother's side 1910 and 1912. I learned so much from them. We had no idea how lucky we were!
I was born in 1963 but have always "indentified" more with GenX than with the Boomers just before me. Weird... Sort of like being stuck in the rut between two generations though...
I've always felt that the last those born in the last couple of BB years seemed to be lost without a generational identity... I've heard it called "the hippies little brothers"
Facts! I was responsible for taking care of my younger brothers. I was babysitting and working since 11 years old. I walked to the bus stop alone in kindergarten and also traveled alone overseas in the 90's when my father was active duty military. Had no choice but to be responsible! We were told to mind our business and keep it moving. No options for lazy behaviors or being a crybaby lol... I learned the old school ways my great grandparents passed at 97,98,94, and 96 so yes I learned the old ways! I still apply to my life daily and i don't feel entitled to anything. You want it better get up get out and do something! Great video😊
That part I was the
Need ya lawn Mowed
Need Your Car Washed
Need a Baby Sitter
Everyone loved when I sat, cause I could cook at age 9.
The kids were clean fed in the bed by 8 sleep by 9
I made good money, I only sat for a new born once. That was above and beyond enough, I was a tough kid back then but a 3 month old. Would make Spawn start Boohooing when they can't get them to stop crying. or figure out why they're crying
@skylarmccloud4080 sounds like the story of my life! We are so strong and independent! We were really doing so much as children!!!
Born in the late 80s. I admire Gen X's tenacity.
thank you =)
100% 👌👏👏👏👏- we are the most dangerous because we are survivors. We also grew up first without technology and then with technology. I feel we were very fortunate growing up when we did! Thank you for this video! Gen X is soooo underrated! I will be 52 this year and going strong! Blessings to you and yours.
True story- when I was 13 years old waaaay back in 1981, I was struck head on by a car while riding my bicycle at a high rate of speed down a steep switchback on a cobblestone street. The switchback had a long rock wall separating the north/south single lane routes. Cars couldn’t see what might be coming at them. Of course, I was a daredevil flying down the wrong side of the road, and as I entered a turn, a car with two old ladies driving met me head on. I went ass over tea kettle (meaning I flipped over forward on top of the car, for all you non-genX’rs who’ve never heard the expression), while my bike went underneath the car. The next thing I remember is waking up laying on the ground with a half dozen strangers asking me if I’m OK. I should’ve been hospitalized, but miracle of miracles I didn’t break anything, no head trauma, and short of a few cuts and bruises and a bruised ego I somehow managed to not sustain any major injuries. I got up, brushed off the dirt and gravel, got back on my heavily damaged bike and got the hell out of there as fast as I could, while six people tried to detain me thinking I was headed for the back of an ambulance.
I was a tough little bastard. But it was really the fear of having to face my silent generation parents and have to hear about how disappointed they were in me for being reckless and irresponsible that motivated me to get back in the saddle. I don’t see that kind of self-reliance and survival instinct in todays generation. I know it exists, but it’s more of a cultural phenomenon with people in my age group. I hope it comes back. We need more survivors and rough riders to show these little cream puffs how to live life to the fullest as an independent person who can weather whatever life throws at them, because even a couple old ladies in a car can alter the course of your life.
God! Ass over tea kettle… It’s been a long ass time since I’ve heard it. It makes me happy.
Born 1965 and learned to doctor myself by the age of 5 to avoid being screamed at and called stupid by my silent generation mother for getting hurt.
Back then we were never injured or suffered head trauma or any other trauma, we merely got hurt.
Injuries and trauma did not exist in our day.
Gashed open? Nothing a few bandaids couldn't close up. Just as long as you didn't leave a blood trail from the front door to the bathroom or that gaping wound would have been the least of your worries. 🤣
Running from the cops was a game back then but getting caught doing something you shouldn't by the lunch lady was something to be feared. She had phone numbers for every one of our parents and knew where we lived.
@@grounded7362 I had a boomer mother like you’re referring. I did manage to make my mother panic a few times though. Like things that a few bandaids would NEVER fix. 😂
She did brush off my broken tendon and ligament in my right thumb… I’m right handed. Surgery many years later fixed it.
Little cream puffs, haha especially the one's pretending to identify as cats in school.
Lol off the hook? I'm fifty one now, and i've been working something on the order of sixty to seventy hours a week all my life. Sometimes 85. I take care of my business and I take care of my family and that's all I do.
Excellent delivery sir! And truth has been told.
GenX, the Honey Badger generation.
So true! Its even my nickname
Gen Z is the real problem, they literally give no fucks. Good luck handling that Gen X.
That's the perfect tag for we Gen-X'ers. Absolutely the best description of us I've seen yet. Well done.
Underrated comment
It’s not against The Geneva Convention until it’s against The Geneva Convention. 🇨🇦
I love being Gen X. We’re tech savvy, but had the privilege of living free of the entanglement of it until we were grown.
We pretty much raised ourselves - we’re resourceful, resilient, and rad. God bless GenX!
did u really just type God bless GenX? u don't know God or anything... get a life generational divide goon
And a tad egotistical. My experience of that generation is only being in touch when something was needed. One Way street. A departure from My Way or the Highway if many previous generations, but it seemed to spawn more of the latter.
America influence in business and culture dragged Australia down
USA business people arrived all our rights started to gradually erode .genuinely wished they'd fucked off and never came back
Loathe there style of business
Rupert Murdochs father was treated like a wanker by the establishment under BB and
RM was out for himself
I going to speculate that he cut a deal with the USA and started preparing to move across to the UK and USA and his citizenship was contingent on influencing government that had there best interest instead of Australia and the politicians at that time were corrupt
I speculating he influenced politics to bring about his goals
He paid next to zero tax
I think he wanted to stick it to the establishment and instead his actions had dire consequences for the lowest socioeconomic group who suffer incredible poverty
I also speculate that his charity for royal children's Hospital was calculated .
I personally saw starvation and our family gleamed fruit and veg from the markets
It was constant financial struggle
Culturally there was a split it might be why no one talks about it
there was the church and it's oppressive culture
and the enlightened embracing change and accepting the those men and women and zis etc trying to be there true authentic selves
And the church omg from next to no money and people moving away from it the priest started stalking families
Would turn up at people's houses after sermons asking for money ,causing disturbances in families so they'd split and the money would land in the hands of the church they then went onto build schools con the government into funding it whilst neglecting public schools and blackmailing families into joining the church if they wanted there kids to attend
The only difference between rich/poor well educated and poor /rich educated small people is the parental attitudes
If it's important to parent to get a great education the kids will strive regardless of were they live
So at universities the offspring of migrants who went to state run schools were smarter than there rich expensive school educated predominantly Anglo Irish heritage counterpart and when that happened the profoundly racist liberal party imposed fees
So only the rich could get an education
A government supported by Rupert Murdoch
some of those politicians still alive today
ex prime minister John Howard
GenX is the last generation to grow up without the internet… and honestly, I think that’s why we’re a lot happier and a lot less likely to complain. Our socialization was almost all face-to-face, and we saw real, unvarnished versions of our friends and loved ones… we had no filters, no delete buttons, no photoshop. Today’s youth mainly see their peers on social media-a carefully-curated version of their friends, nowhere close to the real thing. We are who we are, warts and all, and feel no need to hide it or manipulate it. There’s a happiness that comes from that mental freedom.
That's very poignant. I have never considered that aspect of online communication. I would add that we were also the last generation to grow up with time alone with our thoughts. Around y2k I noticed that the kids were constantly texting each other. Even as they lay in bed waiting to fall asleep. I wondered then what that constant communication was going to do to the human psyche. Maybe that's the reason there is an aire of acceptance among the younger gens.
We grew up without the internet, thank God. But, we saw the dawn of the computer age and it was amazing!
@@TBrown6589...and that was precisely how Skynet was born, young ones...
Right on ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
as a older millennial, that's bs. Internet wasn't a significant thing until I was in high school and even then it wasn't that big yet. I hate this idea that going outside stopped with gen x. I had video games but I was always outside, even when the internet was a thing, straight through high school, as were 99% of my peers. It's very boomer to have this mindset
The only time you will hear anyhting from gen xers is when you pull up next to one in your car and they are blasting the phatest 80s and 90s music; that's is when they might annoy you. 😜
Ha! Nope.60s-80's with a little early 90's
Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura. Comes out from my speakers
I'm also a Linkin Park fan.
This Gen Xer was raised on a steady diet of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and countless others...
Thanks Dad.
I'm 72 model Gen X here and I never blast music in my car except on the freeway where no one can hear.
Has nothing to do w/generational nonsense...it's just rude.
We climbed mountains. We swam in dangerous rivers to proof our strength. We went skiing on high hills. We were iceskating on half frozen lakes. We made fire. We rode horses. We fell from bikes. Nobody took us to the doctor. Schnaps on the wound and a plaster. We ate our food. Everybody in the house ate the same food. Our grandparents survived ww2. Greetings from Austria😊
The worst thing about tech. No interaction. That has taken away the opportunity for these younglings to loosen each other's teeth when talking absurdities.
No it hasn't lol😂
Mate I've had the displeasure of hearing absurdities backed by vitriol that would be a guaranteed smacking on the ears in a face to face encounter from plenty of people way older than me.
exactly. bullying is being bodily being picked up and thrown in a trash dumpster. online bullying is some dude typing somewhere.
GenX were the little kids when I was growing up. I loved them then and I love them now just like those that followed. They are the ones carrying the weight now that I have retired so I appreciate who they are and what they give to all of us.
Thank you 👍
Well said. Gen X is an epic of losing and losing and then figuring out how to play our own game our way for our purpose. We had brilliance and beauty and we were diamonds.
Thank you for always speaking truths about us. Love the exact explanations given. And how true they are.
Born 1972. Never surrender never give up.
1971
1972 - same. Big thumbs up to you brother!
74. FTW.
Let me dumb it down for the kids= Why?...
Because no one pokes the bear, son. Thank you-sit down‼️👍👍🦾🦾
Amen to that.
🤣😂🤣❣️
There's a catch though. We all know how kids learn. They gotta burn their hand before really understanding that fire is hot...
@@driverr988 I keep telling my wife that, but she won't let it happen. Not literally, with actual fire, but you know what I mean.
th-cam.com/video/EWRa1jFIK-0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iJ9lZZuIlvFSLccY I think another one wwe kinda warn people not to lol
Fellow Gen X here. Thank you good sir, you have summed us up brilliantly!
1978...GEN X Baby...trust me...u don't want none
I am lucky enough that most of my family members who are Gen X raised me in a rural place and gave me a chance and some skills to adapt, flourish and stay true to myself in a degrading society. Gen X may be getting older, but they ain't old "enough" yet, their presence, their skills, experiences, and standards still live and bleed through to some of the younger generations. I fuckin love you Gen X, thank you for continuing to build the world and share your knowledge as I grew up. - millienial
that was beautiful.
Thank you 👍
Nailed it as usual! Best wishes from Gen X Australia 🇦🇺 👍
Take your wife and grab a cup of coffee on me. I admire your many words of wisdom and forthright yet satirical manner (I've had many a chuckle thanks to you).
Further, thanks for defending our Gen-X generation. We’re both veterans, so great job.
Also, all the best to your wife (another veteran) and especially your children, who now serve with great honor. I know you're proud. God bless.
Thank you sir!