I love my Zennial comrades. They're the very best of both Generations. Sometimes they don't get my obscure references & jokes, but they're curious & clever. 👍🏽
1978... Yes, we were the early adapters. The digital pioneers. I remember when Amazon was just a small book seller on the web, before it owned 14% of the world. We are the ones why music is virtually free (thank you Napster).
I was born in '75 and was one of the first students in New Zealand to use a computer at school. Saw the internet being born. Lime virus, Kazaa, Demonoid.... Good times. I will NEVER pay for content. Ever.
1979. Thanks for the shout-out to The Oregon Trail Generation. We are daywalkers and take our responsibility between the worlds seriously. But never forget, we are highly susceptible to dying of dysentery...
I have been trying to explain this to both GenXer's and Millennials for years now. I have never come close to identifying as a Millennial but I wasn't ever cranky or old enough to consider myself GenX. IMO Xennials are one of the most important generations of our time. We adopted this onslaught of new technologies that were thrown at us during our youth. The ones we adopted became a mainstay and the ones we shunned were discarded like yesterdays fish fry. I truly believe that if we as a generation did not like something we could rid the world of it. Think of how different today would be if we, as a generation, shunned the internet the way some X's and Boomer did. If we refused to use it, it would not exist today. There were many technologies that we did like that didn't stick around, but only because something better came along. Beepers, car phones, and eventually the cell phone. VHS, Betamax, laser disc, cassettes, CDs, HD-DVDs, the list of technologies that have been born and dies under our reign is long. And I fear we have made a mistake and the future generations will suffer because of it. We've made them soft and reliable. They lack common sense and simple skills like how to read a map, use a compass, or start a fire without the aid of a lighter. Maybe there is still hope for them.
It's on us to teach the young ones. I was established circa 1981 the same years as MTV. My 2 children one 19 and one 17 could be taken out of the city & dropped off in the woods right now and with very little survive.
Bombarded with tech evolution is a good way of putting it - you also forgot to mention Mini-Disc and hell the iPod has gone the way of becoming an endangered format (sure there are some really nice audiophile grade choices still but I wouldn't leave on permanently in my glove box connected to my vehicle). Some of us also had the benefit of being raised by Boomers and GenXers as siblings, which created some of our mindsets.
Xenials are the last generation of the hard knocks. Played outside until the street lights came on just in time for dinner. Ate everything off your plate, and did all the household chores during the week for 5 bucks on friday to spend it on your collection of teenage mutant ninja turtle toys lol. The good ole days.
My Friday $5 was spent at the roller rink on Friday nights almost every week for most of my tens and teens. Stoppers on the skates were the only safety equipment we had. Lots of bruises, but lots more fun.
1983. I identify more as a Gen X than as a millennial. Simply because I know what a cassette is and what a floppy disk is and what a Walkman is and other awesome things. We didnt have a computer until I was much much older and mobile phones weren’t a thing. I was explaining to my 13 year old how we used to go out to play and about the street light rule and about mums shouting and you knew it was home right now and I was asked why she didn’t just call me?! It took her a minute to realise that our parents didn’t actually know where we were most of the time. Where as now we know where they are all of the time! xx
Plus I think that because we grew up behaving like Gen X rather than growing up with technology like millennials I feel more like Gen X than anything else. We didn’t have phones or an IPad when we were kids. Just muck and outside. Xx
One night during story time with my Gen Z/alpha daughter I told her about the rise of the age of video games and Nintendo. She asked me, What did you do before then? I told her, well, we read books, drew pictures, built things, played outside, watched tv with friends. She replied, how boring. I’m glad we have Nintendo now. The younglings will never understand. 😔
I’m at the early range of Xenial, and my brother towed the end. A friend of mine was just a few months younger than him, but she’s pure Millennial… I can speak her language but she doesn’t care 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you! (‘78 here) Yes, we are the forgotten ones. Kids in the ‘80s and teens in the ‘90s. Our most formative years saw some of the biggest changes in technology and media. We’ve been forced to adapt in ways that have made it easier for us to blend into the background and become observers as the other generations bicker and argue with each other. It’s rather peaceful actually…
As a Xenial, my millennial side thanks you for the recognition. My GenX side wishes to keep this exchange limited to this video alone. I love being able to float where I please. The youngin's amazed by the old guy who knows all of their inside jokes and tricks. Those barely older than I who find kinship with me and mine. I can hack and I can slash. I am just as dangerous on my backside as I am on my feet. You mention in a later video how Millenials will not tolerate mistreatment and leave a job when they feel mistreatment. Those of us between those lines will also leave but we are just as likely to insert the assistant manager in the rectum of the general manager and throw the whole lot into a meat grinder before we go as we are to state our displeasure before departing peacefully. Attitude towards us plays a big role in our reaction. Strongly worded letters are in our wheelhouse but our feral nature, just like your feral GenX nature, makes it so that recieving a letter or being cast from earth are equally likely outcomes for mistreating us. It's a matter of principle and not emotion that drives the outcome of crossing us. Our temperment is misunderstood and our role is undefined. I'm going to finish binge watching this season of Dadbod Veteran. Thank you for your service, both on the internet and abroad.
This is amazing and detailed to perfection. 1979 here. My husband was born in 1970 and doesn’t understand us Xennials, nor does he understand or relate to our GenZ kids in any way. My Millennial coworkers have taught me their ways and I have the ability to understand both halves of myself much better.
I believe that whether we embraced our darker GenX sensibilities or our more enlightened Millennial ways depends quite solidly on where our bs meter is.
I grew up just as my genx friends, with dials on the CRT TV, telling time by the street light, using pay phones, drinking from the hose, etc. Marketing companies seemed to all agree we were genx until about 2010. Suddenly they changed the date range and we got lumped in with millennials. Thank you for giving us a term we can use to explain our position.
It’s more of a curse. Like watching one group choose death by fire and the other by ice. All you can do is watch cause neither group accepts you and listening isn’t a virtue for either.
I realized that I was a Xenial when I met a real group of Millennials and didn't relate to their Harry Potter/Disney BS. I also didn't need to be on the phone or computer all the time while on the job.
1985 here. Aahh the inbetween time when we had to write essays by hand but then transitioned to typing them out. We had keyboarding classes to teach us how to type, but we still learned penmanship in 2 or 3 grade. The 90s. What a time.
77. But this ol country boy never knew this "positive" you speak of. Saw my uncle over the weekend. He shook his head at me and said man you're relentless. I said thank you.
Thank you good sir for your recognition. You won't see many of us in the wild for, we are the last of the hard workers. Though you may spot us translating for our older and younger brothen. We may not be the translator you asked for but we are the one you need.. I say good day
1977. Latchkey kid. Owned an Atari, then later an original NES. Had AIM in my early 20s. I still use my AOL email account. Ha! First 2 concerts were Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block. Still clearly remember T9 texting and paying $0.10, not only per outgoing text, but also per incoming text.
My cousin ran up $5,000 in text charges before my uncle got the monthly bill... needless to say she was grounded for a bit. The company actually only made him pay half... my cousin was very lucky lol.
I tried explaining calling cards, long distance, and innovation of MCI's free nights and weekends to my gen z kids, and its such an abstract idea to them.
'82 here - I feel bad for my kids as they will never experience the freedoms my friends and I were able to experience with the outside. Also I am forever thankful for being a teen and young adult before cameras were attached to everything - definitely some things were done that I would not have gotten away with now within that age range (16-22). I still have more actual Millennials asking for aid in versions of tech they have no clue about due to my early adoption of computers with windows 3.1/MS-DOS where command scripts were common in order to get applications to work. I will forever walk between the realms and learn to mold the newer tech realm to my will.
Sir thank you for your acknowledgement of this generation. Born 83 and I could relate more to the gen x then millennials and kept telling people there is a sub group from 75 to 85 those kids grow up with both but we're the middle ground . I do refer myself as said daywalker, but i am as pale as milk and burn as soon as the sun looks at me but loved the analogy. So I tip my hat to you good sir and your keen eye for noticing such things. Take care
I'd like to recognize the even smaller subset. The ones who were born outside the xenials but had parents so old they were taught the ways of the old. They grew up learning the ways of the the outside. The stories of the garden hose and water fountains, heat inducing slides, were not stories to us but our lives.
A little bit past '85 here, but grew up POOR. Ended up having analog, low-tech everything for much of my childhood. First taste of internet at 10 (low-speed dial-up, time-shared with everyone in family, so maybe an hour a day). Even had an old washer machine that you manually fed the clothes through a top set of rollers to wring out the water (learned to watch my fingers!).
1977. Yes, Xenial. I like that, it makes me feel like an alien super mutant subspecies of human. And really, I couldn’t think of a better thing to be. My first film in utero was Star Wars, so it all comes together.
Im a Xenial? I'll take it! Though, here in the land Down Under, my childhood was exactly how you talk about the GenX upbringing... wild, feral, the street lights, drinking from the hose...hell, even playing in the creek at the local park! I like the idea of being a Xenial rather than a Millenial... I identify with it alot more... And yes, I can operate in both Analog and Digital! I still have my VHS tapes! (I still have a BetaMax tape of the Muppet Movie!!!)
I'm a Aussie Xenial! Only rich kids had computers by the time I finished high school . Im still not sure of how to use the newer tech but I do not fear it as much!!
I love this!! Born in 81. But raised in south Florida with simple older values I consider my self gen x. But also saw the age of the internet and other technologies come to fruition. Always argued I was gen x and not a millennial but never knew there was an in between. 🙏🏻. Dig it.
We grew up with one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. Gen X later babies 1977 all gen x is stuck in the middle. We got the Boomber & Silent Gen on the right and the millennials on the left. We were the forgotten middle child, which is how we liked it.
As a Xennial myself (The "Fallout of '76", as it were) life has been a wild ride, living in the bridge area between the analog and digital worlds. Seems to me that it's all for a reason too, given how much this world needs to continue forward in some areas but fall back in others. Maybe I am here to help people find a good balance
1980 Xennial: ran barefoot in the neighborhood until street lights came on and drank from the hose. Knew which neighbors would give you a snack and let you watch TV if you forgot your key (and which ones made you do homework). But also had Napster in college.
DadBod.... I appreciate your acknowledgement, deeply. So true and clear, is your description. Hooking up an antique stereo system to a computer. Just to enjoy an entertainment center, that can do it all. Yes, we are a unique lot.
1976 here, I can both tune a carburetor and repair a Fuel Injection system all while complaining about the manufacturers making electronic systems unnecessarily complicated when simpler approaches worked so well for decades!
1983 here, I always considered myself more of a Gen X than anything else, I'm the youngest of 10 cousins all of which are Gen X apart from me until a couple more of my cousins were born over 8 years later in the midst of millennial territory. You could say I was adopted into the Gen X world and had very similar childhood growing up with movies like the Goonies and ET. I am more tech orientated than some of my older cousins though so I'm glad to be a Xenial daywalker!
I am an early GenXer (1966), but I learned to computer program starting in 1979 and it is my career, so I can appreciate the Xenials, since I grew up analog, but also was part of the digital pioneers.
1985 here... Never felt like I fit either category as I have the abilities of a millennial but the mindset of a Gen-X, an especially feral one as I grow older. Feral enough to end up in prison over someone deciding to fuck around and find out, but self aware enough to keep that feral temperament and rage in check. It is definitely a special combination, and not one to mess with because our kind can do damage both online and off 😈. Xenials has a nice ring to it, I like it. Grew up touching grass, finding the internet in mid-90s (who remembers yahoo chatrooms 😅) and playing video games. Thanks for the recognition and appreciation my good sir, much appreciated. 💯🙏✌
Thanks for the shout-out! I felt lost for so long because I knew I wasn't really Gen X, but it was only in the past year to two I found reasons to resonate with millennials. I remember AOL, being a geek for liking early computer games and hearing my mother blow the train whistle that meant get home NOW, or ELSE, and never wanting to know what the Else was that might happen to me. I have such fond family memories of my entire family gathering around the TV to watch my father or I play the original Legend of Zelda, and many a summer days spent out in the field of my grandparent's farm and then needing to be hosed off because of the 'green mud' (cow manure) before being allowed back into my parent's car for the drive home.
Lol thanks for the recognition... 1981 here and i definitely feel closer with the Gen Xers than the millennials. Grew up outdoors building forts and making mud pies... then proceeded to get into mud fights... to using the floppy disks to play Oregon Trail and cd roms to play Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego... ahhhh the good old days. Playing surfer in the isle of the school bus... no seat belts... or bike helmets. Oh... and Napster (sorry Metallica lol)
Awww...thank you for accepting us! Born in 79 and definitely remember the world before Internet, remote controls, blue ray, CDs, and cell phones, playing outside till the lights came on. I was 22 when I got my first cell phone and it was thoses big fat ones and I never used it and kept in my car for emergency purpose only and it was before texting, and if people wanted to talk to me they had to call the landline or email me.
Love it. Grateful for our unique Xenial perspective. More techie than my kids, so I could set muddle through the non-obvious router settings and tell Google my teenagers are 6 so they can have some reasonable limits on technology and social media. Smart enough to realize Discord is a hypocritical company because it has no functional parental controls. (Why can't I approve the servers my teenager goes on?) Old enough to remember means I can recall what relationships were like before technology.
85' babyyy 🤘I was also blessed with an older gen x brother who loved to yell at me to get the hell out of his room and a younger, fullbreed millennial brother in which to bully and push around under the guise of "training" until the day he put me on the floor so hard I thought I saw I saw Jesus... Blessed indeed ❤️
Born in 76 here, don't really feel like I belong to any group, until the I experience rudeness, then I get it. Independence, and peace matters more than money, or status. I'll figure it out somehow, because I prefer it that way. You can't worry about what everyone else thinks, there will always be somebody who hates you, that's life. Just be polite, until it's not possible anymore.
Xenial from '78 here.. this is amazingly accurate stuff. My job requires me to be able to translate complicated technical information regarding hybrid-cloud infrastructure into language non-technical people understand. I am now realizing that me being a Xenial provided me with EXACTLY the correct life skills to perform this job. Hot damn, ain't that some shit. ;)
1979 here and work in IT… in the automotive engineering world. I get it. 😊 I’m also the only ISO, CMMI, and ASPICE certified assessor. My boss is nice enough to not share that with anyone. 😊
I'm one of those that bridged the gap between. I was programming on my 8-bit computer in the early 80s. (Born in 1969). Yes, I help manage a world of workers who have forgotten what a landline is.
Some of us Crusty GenXers (I'm an original 1965 model) grew up coding. I remember moving up from Fortran to Basic and C+, etc. I've never felt behind the curve regarding technology. I can also speak in metric and imperial. 😉
Well aren’t you a wonderfully knowledgeable engineer? 😂 We know that not all early GenX are technologically challenged. But let’s be real, you’re kinda rare. You’re on the cusp of X and Boomer. I work in IT in an automotive electronics engineering world. Most of the people with your skillset, are much younger than you.
From 1981 I remember when a gigabyte was more space than anyone could ever use and now multiple terabytes being almost the norm. How things have changed.
It is true, I only recently became aware of how unique the Xenial abilities are, I consider myself at best a baisc PC user, Ive never got excel and nor do I want to, but I can mess with setttings and not destroy my PC. Hitting my teens in the 90's where you actually had to have some basic understanding of how computers worked to get them to function I recently realised how digitally coddeled subsquent generations have been when I had to explain to a group of Millennial's and post 2000's babies that no fowarding an email does not send it to the original reciptients and no if you bcc someone they cant be seen as copied in... I am answering some boomer level questions to kids born in the digital age cause as far as they knew it all 'just worked' *sigh*
Indeed. Born in 1980, but to computer geek boomers, so we had our first computer system (such as it was) starting in 1984. I have used both 5.25 floppy discs AND 3.5 ones, I remember zip disks, and I used DOS. (Zork was my first computer game) I didn't get my first email address until my first year of college in 1998. But...I have also (and still do) built my own computers, upgraded them, and move with ease on a smartphone (although I resisted getting one for a long time). When ebooks became a widespread thing I was pretty sure I'd died and gone to heaven :D
@@damienthetexasian6827 And you couldn't easily tell until you tried if your computer could run a given game or not! (Never could play MYST when it first came out...)
1980 here. 1st generation American born to immigrant parents mom is a devout Catholic from 🇨🇦 Dad is a non believer born in 🇩🇪 to a German mom and Ukrainian Catholic dad. Its a miracle i am still around. Many of my peers didnt see their 40th birthday due to suicide, murder and overdose. To those of us who made it, well... we're some resilient mfrs. I salute you all.
As a member of this subset (‘76 baby), I swear I witnessed a true breakdown between Gen X and Millennial my senior year of college (‘98). One of my workstudy jobs was in the library. Online card catalogs were in their toddler stage of development…they were temperamental and would have a temper tantrum (meaning crash) on the weekends when the people in charge of them were off. But remember, this was a time when the physical, paper card catalogs still existed, and most people (meaning Gen X and older) knew how to use it. So there I am, behind the circulation desk on a Saturday afternoon. Sophomore student approaches the desk needing me to find something because the card catalog is of course down. I let the kid know that they will have to use the paper card catalog. The look I got in response made me wonder if I had sprouted wings because of such an outlandish suggestion. Students two years younger had no idea paper card catalogs existed nor how to use them. Now you may be wondering why I didn’t help the students find their resources. Well I knew the assignment they were working on and what professor it was for. The assignment was actually a quiz, and my alma mater has an honor code you have to sign on every quiz and test. I was in the same course, had completed my assignment, and had to forgo signing said honor code because in essence they were attempting to cheat by having me find and give the answer to them. Going before the honor council was not a joy. And it could have all been avoided had they simply known how to use the physical card catalog.
I never even knew they had gone digital until I decided to visit a library in 2011... I asked where the card catalogue was, and they pointed me towards a bank of computers... I said, "no, no - I want to use the physical card catalogue - I have no idea how to use THOSE things!" They said they'd been gone and out of use for years already... I turned around and left. 1977 baby :)
I'm early Xenial so very much feral, lacks empathy as much as early Gen X'ers, but also learned the digital world in early adulthood. My age group was responsible for Woodstock 99. Also a true Daywalker per South Park standards...
I finally feel the recognition I’ve not known I needed my whole life. As a feral born in ‘82 deep in the PA back country, I’ve never been really sure where I belong. Now I know. I promise to use my powers for the betterment of all of Gen X.
Thank you for your service. Ex- soviet states can be upgraded up to the early 90's , since, as a Romanian born in 1987, we only got a taste of the digital after about 1994, when the economy here allowed a basic infrastructure for the early digital to grow. First time I saw a computer was in 1992, and that was with floppy drives and a special adapter to connect and read/write from a cassette player, some industrial machines here used those instead of other forms of storage. Cell phones were still a novelty back then, only business people could afford them. Also the first NES's started to pop up around '93-'94.
76ers. Full Gen X experienced 70s for first years then 80s and 90s. Later Gen X was more 90s types. The millenials (2000s) era was a whole different feel. I'd say the cuspers started at earliest 77 less 70s exposure.
1985 xennial daywalker here. And it's absolutely true. Late gen x were only a few years older than us and most of us just lived in the same way but we could also navigate technology and adapt as we hit our teens in the 90s. We hit our 20s in the 2000s so even that experience is way different to the younger millenials because we could still hang with the gen-xers
I'm an early Xer and I went to university twice. The second time, only 6 years after the first, was far more digital because of the internet. The experience definitely helped me from that perspective.
86er here. I also had an analog childhood and digital adulthood. I remember the analog years very well, and quite fondly. I miss playing outside till the sun set and drinking from the water hose.
I’m a ‘66 Gen Xer. I’m also pretty used to the digital stuff from working with it and husband being a Systems Engineer computer god. I will deny this to younger Generations. Never reveal abilities that they don’t think you have!
Let’s be real though… most older GenX don’t have the computer knowledge that you and your husband have. I work in IT for an automotive electronics company. Most people with that level skillset are much younger. However, I always “test” the waters, so to speak before concluding likely level of knowledge. I’ve learned from those older and younger than myself. 😊
God bless you Sir. I love your videos so much. I and one of my brothers are Jones and another is a Xenniel. I also have many friends and relatives that are Jones,Xers and Xenniel. With love and respect from Maine🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊
Thank you for recognizing our small subset of daywalkers... 😆
I think I'm liking "DemiGod" better than daywalker! Lol
@@stevedaenginerdsame 😂
So I’m a Day Walker … well, that explains the pale skin 🤣
@@stevedaenginerd actually given the number of jobs I had to be up before sunrise- I prefer daywalk.
I love my Zennial comrades. They're the very best of both Generations. Sometimes they don't get my obscure references & jokes, but they're curious & clever. 👍🏽
Much appreciation for the acknowledgement. Fellow xenials remember, with great power comes great responsibility
Yes, we were raised with Wonder Woman, She Ra, He Man and Captain Planet, we indeed were raised to be a #HEROE
Raised 2 GenZ's as 100% outdoor kids. They're more like Millennials than their own gen! 😈
😂😂
so, you'll be the designated driver for both x and millennials when they get smashed?
Xennials will be the end. We will create the tech that destroys the world.
1978... Yes, we were the early adapters. The digital pioneers. I remember when Amazon was just a small book seller on the web, before it owned 14% of the world. We are the ones why music is virtually free (thank you Napster).
soooo Mario Bros/duck hunt?😉
I had totally forgotten about Napster. 😂 lol
@@kokocaptainqc ugh!! I HATED that laughing dog with a passion. I wanted to shoot him more than the ducks. 😂
I was born in '75 and was one of the first students in New Zealand to use a computer at school. Saw the internet being born. Lime virus, Kazaa, Demonoid.... Good times. I will NEVER pay for content. Ever.
Nope.
1978 is Gen X.
As is 1980.
Please stop calling me a Xennial.
I am Gen X, born 1978.
1979. Thanks for the shout-out to The Oregon Trail Generation. We are daywalkers and take our responsibility between the worlds seriously. But never forget, we are highly susceptible to dying of dysentery...
Don't forget king's quest, space quest, and police quest.
And Cosmic Cosmo, Where In The World is Carmen San Diego?, Where's Waldo?...
@@brucebanner3566 yes, where we learned to be hoarders, because *eventually* everything has a purpose
Or succumbing to fatigue.
Always dysentery. Apparently, eating camel 💩 is the solution, no cap.
I have been trying to explain this to both GenXer's and Millennials for years now. I have never come close to identifying as a Millennial but I wasn't ever cranky or old enough to consider myself GenX. IMO Xennials are one of the most important generations of our time. We adopted this onslaught of new technologies that were thrown at us during our youth. The ones we adopted became a mainstay and the ones we shunned were discarded like yesterdays fish fry. I truly believe that if we as a generation did not like something we could rid the world of it. Think of how different today would be if we, as a generation, shunned the internet the way some X's and Boomer did. If we refused to use it, it would not exist today.
There were many technologies that we did like that didn't stick around, but only because something better came along. Beepers, car phones, and eventually the cell phone. VHS, Betamax, laser disc, cassettes, CDs, HD-DVDs, the list of technologies that have been born and dies under our reign is long. And I fear we have made a mistake and the future generations will suffer because of it. We've made them soft and reliable. They lack common sense and simple skills like how to read a map, use a compass, or start a fire without the aid of a lighter. Maybe there is still hope for them.
Completely Agree
It's on us to teach the young ones. I was established circa 1981 the same years as MTV. My 2 children one 19 and one 17 could be taken out of the city & dropped off in the woods right now and with very little survive.
I think there was a movie about that. Hmm.... oh yes, "Revenge of the Nerds".
Bombarded with tech evolution is a good way of putting it - you also forgot to mention Mini-Disc and hell the iPod has gone the way of becoming an endangered format (sure there are some really nice audiophile grade choices still but I wouldn't leave on permanently in my glove box connected to my vehicle). Some of us also had the benefit of being raised by Boomers and GenXers as siblings, which created some of our mindsets.
I've had the same problem. Some kid born in 94 telling me(82) that I'm a millennial.....the fuck I am.
Xenials are the last generation of the hard knocks. Played outside until the street lights came on just in time for dinner. Ate everything off your plate, and did all the household chores during the week for 5 bucks on friday to spend it on your collection of teenage mutant ninja turtle toys lol. The good ole days.
I miss those days
My Friday $5 was spent at the roller rink on Friday nights almost every week for most of my tens and teens. Stoppers on the skates were the only safety equipment we had. Lots of bruises, but lots more fun.
Bro I was roofing at 5 and paying bills from what i made
@@gamerblisters Born on February 29th, huh?
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1983. I identify more as a Gen X than as a millennial. Simply because I know what a cassette is and what a floppy disk is and what a Walkman is and other awesome things. We didnt have a computer until I was much much older and mobile phones weren’t a thing. I was explaining to my 13 year old how we used to go out to play and about the street light rule and about mums shouting and you knew it was home right now and I was asked why she didn’t just call me?! It took her a minute to realise that our parents didn’t actually know where we were most of the time. Where as now we know where they are all of the time! xx
Cuz they knew we weren't out there cutting pieces off
Plus I think that because we grew up behaving like Gen X rather than growing up with technology like millennials I feel more like Gen X than anything else. We didn’t have phones or an IPad when we were kids. Just muck and outside. Xx
Remember, we were around for the birth of Nintendo. Almost makes us forerunners of technology lol
One night during story time with my Gen Z/alpha daughter I told her about the rise of the age of video games and Nintendo. She asked me, What did you do before then? I told her, well, we read books, drew pictures, built things, played outside, watched tv with friends. She replied, how boring. I’m glad we have Nintendo now. The younglings will never understand. 😔
I’m at the early range of Xenial, and my brother towed the end. A friend of mine was just a few months younger than him, but she’s pure Millennial… I can speak her language but she doesn’t care 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you! (‘78 here)
Yes, we are the forgotten ones. Kids in the ‘80s and teens in the ‘90s. Our most formative years saw some of the biggest changes in technology and media. We’ve been forced to adapt in ways that have made it easier for us to blend into the background and become observers as the other generations bicker and argue with each other. It’s rather peaceful actually…
As a Xenial, my millennial side thanks you for the recognition. My GenX side wishes to keep this exchange limited to this video alone. I love being able to float where I please. The youngin's amazed by the old guy who knows all of their inside jokes and tricks. Those barely older than I who find kinship with me and mine. I can hack and I can slash. I am just as dangerous on my backside as I am on my feet. You mention in a later video how Millenials will not tolerate mistreatment and leave a job when they feel mistreatment. Those of us between those lines will also leave but we are just as likely to insert the assistant manager in the rectum of the general manager and throw the whole lot into a meat grinder before we go as we are to state our displeasure before departing peacefully. Attitude towards us plays a big role in our reaction. Strongly worded letters are in our wheelhouse but our feral nature, just like your feral GenX nature, makes it so that recieving a letter or being cast from earth are equally likely outcomes for mistreating us. It's a matter of principle and not emotion that drives the outcome of crossing us. Our temperment is misunderstood and our role is undefined. I'm going to finish binge watching this season of Dadbod Veteran. Thank you for your service, both on the internet and abroad.
This is amazing and detailed to perfection.
1979 here. My husband was born in 1970 and doesn’t understand us Xennials, nor does he understand or relate to our GenZ kids in any way.
My Millennial coworkers have taught me their ways and I have the ability to understand both halves of myself much better.
💯👏💯👏💯
I believe that whether we embraced our darker GenX sensibilities or our more enlightened Millennial ways depends quite solidly on where our bs meter is.
1978 here. I think this is quite spot-on, and thank you for your recognition of those of us who walk in the in-between….
I grew up just as my genx friends, with dials on the CRT TV, telling time by the street light, using pay phones, drinking from the hose, etc. Marketing companies seemed to all agree we were genx until about 2010. Suddenly they changed the date range and we got lumped in with millennials. Thank you for giving us a term we can use to explain our position.
Yep, I was always told that I was gen x growing up. Born in '82. Then they had to throw a wrench in everything.
MacGyver was actually a Guru
with a tutorial channel.
A true WTF moment indeed. 😢
As a man born in 1985 to boomers, I feel seen! Thank you, my good man!
1976 here....and even though I've always considered myself GenX at heart.....this is spot on!
we are more gen x
actually I'm sure we are gen x because my kids are millennials
It’s more of a curse. Like watching one group choose death by fire and the other by ice. All you can do is watch cause neither group accepts you and listening isn’t a virtue for either.
I realized that I was a Xenial when I met a real group of Millennials and didn't relate to their Harry Potter/Disney BS. I also didn't need to be on the phone or computer all the time while on the job.
Who's Harry Potter? [born in '65]
1985 here. Aahh the inbetween time when we had to write essays by hand but then transitioned to typing them out. We had keyboarding classes to teach us how to type, but we still learned penmanship in 2 or 3 grade. The 90s. What a time.
77. But this ol country boy never knew this "positive" you speak of. Saw my uncle over the weekend. He shook his head at me and said man you're relentless. I said thank you.
You have given me a voice. Thank you oh wise one. 1980.
Thank you good sir for your recognition. You won't see many of us in the wild for, we are the last of the hard workers. Though you may spot us translating for our older and younger brothen. We may not be the translator you asked for but we are the one you need.. I say good day
Classic
FACTS!!
1977. Latchkey kid. Owned an Atari, then later an original NES. Had AIM in my early 20s. I still use my AOL email account. Ha! First 2 concerts were Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block. Still clearly remember T9 texting and paying $0.10, not only per outgoing text, but also per incoming text.
My cousin ran up $5,000 in text charges before my uncle got the monthly bill... needless to say she was grounded for a bit. The company actually only made him pay half... my cousin was very lucky lol.
@@CrystalClearSQL YIKES!! What about the people your cousin was texting? Did they get huge bills, too?
I tried explaining calling cards, long distance, and innovation of MCI's free nights and weekends to my gen z kids, and its such an abstract idea to them.
@@jenneliza try explaining a rotary phone to them next
I was the first person in my high school with the internet…Prodigy no less. 😁
Finally someone said it...😂 1983 myself. We remember and experienced the old ways, while the world transitioned.
I was born in '69.
My husband in '77.
There really is a noticeable difference between us- spot on with the feral, yet positive! 😂
'82 here - I feel bad for my kids as they will never experience the freedoms my friends and I were able to experience with the outside. Also I am forever thankful for being a teen and young adult before cameras were attached to everything - definitely some things were done that I would not have gotten away with now within that age range (16-22). I still have more actual Millennials asking for aid in versions of tech they have no clue about due to my early adoption of computers with windows 3.1/MS-DOS where command scripts were common in order to get applications to work. I will forever walk between the realms and learn to mold the newer tech realm to my will.
Sir thank you for your acknowledgement of this generation. Born 83 and I could relate more to the gen x then millennials and kept telling people there is a sub group from 75 to 85 those kids grow up with both but we're the middle ground . I do refer myself as said daywalker, but i am as pale as milk and burn as soon as the sun looks at me but loved the analogy. So I tip my hat to you good sir and your keen eye for noticing such things. Take care
I'd like to recognize the even smaller subset. The ones who were born outside the xenials but had parents so old they were taught the ways of the old. They grew up learning the ways of the the outside. The stories of the garden hose and water fountains, heat inducing slides, were not stories to us but our lives.
Oh lord the slides…
Haha I was born in 1977 and yeah that totally is my life. Instead of a xenial I now intend to refer to myself as a daywalker though! 🤣
❤
A little bit past '85 here, but grew up POOR. Ended up having analog, low-tech everything for much of my childhood. First taste of internet at 10 (low-speed dial-up, time-shared with everyone in family, so maybe an hour a day).
Even had an old washer machine that you manually fed the clothes through a top set of rollers to wring out the water (learned to watch my fingers!).
1977. Yes, Xenial. I like that, it makes me feel like an alien super mutant subspecies of human. And really, I couldn’t think of a better thing to be. My first film in utero was Star Wars, so it all comes together.
1977 is Gen X. Xenial generationare 1978-1985.
Finally the recognition we deserve. '85
Im a Xenial? I'll take it!
Though, here in the land Down Under, my childhood was exactly how you talk about the GenX upbringing... wild, feral, the street lights, drinking from the hose...hell, even playing in the creek at the local park!
I like the idea of being a Xenial rather than a Millenial... I identify with it alot more...
And yes, I can operate in both Analog and Digital! I still have my VHS tapes! (I still have a BetaMax tape of the Muppet Movie!!!)
I'm a Aussie Xenial! Only rich kids had computers by the time I finished high school . Im still not sure of how to use the newer tech but I do not fear it as much!!
I love this!! Born in 81. But raised in south Florida with simple older values I consider my self gen x. But also saw the age of the internet and other technologies come to fruition. Always argued I was gen x and not a millennial but never knew there was an in between. 🙏🏻. Dig it.
It’s an interesting sub genre for sure. We’re an interesting group of humans. 😊
1981 here. I've never been referred to as a demigod or daywalker before!
I'm a ginger who can develop a tan, so I've heard the daywalker one.
We grew up with one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. Gen X later babies 1977 all gen x is stuck in the middle. We got the Boomber & Silent Gen on the right and the millennials on the left. We were the forgotten middle child, which is how we liked it.
1977 model daywalker here.
'whether we want them or not...' The most Gen X compliment imaginable.
As a xennial, I appreciate the recognition and the eloquent PSA that came with it.
As a Xennial myself (The "Fallout of '76", as it were) life has been a wild ride, living in the bridge area between the analog and digital worlds. Seems to me that it's all for a reason too, given how much this world needs to continue forward in some areas but fall back in others. Maybe I am here to help people find a good balance
1980 Xennial: ran barefoot in the neighborhood until street lights came on and drank from the hose. Knew which neighbors would give you a snack and let you watch TV if you forgot your key (and which ones made you do homework). But also had Napster in college.
DadBod.... I appreciate your acknowledgement, deeply. So true and clear, is your description. Hooking up an antique stereo system to a computer. Just to enjoy an entertainment center, that can do it all. Yes, we are a unique lot.
Yes we are. 😊
1976 here, I can both tune a carburetor and repair a Fuel Injection system all while complaining about the manufacturers making electronic systems unnecessarily complicated when simpler approaches worked so well for decades!
1983 here, I always considered myself more of a Gen X than anything else, I'm the youngest of 10 cousins all of which are Gen X apart from me until a couple more of my cousins were born over 8 years later in the midst of millennial territory. You could say I was adopted into the Gen X world and had very similar childhood growing up with movies like the Goonies and ET. I am more tech orientated than some of my older cousins though so I'm glad to be a Xenial daywalker!
I am an early GenXer (1966), but I learned to computer program starting in 1979 and it is my career, so I can appreciate the Xenials, since I grew up analog, but also was part of the digital pioneers.
1979 but raised by children of The Depression ~ truly a unique combination
"Xenial." I dig it. Like walking, talking, antidepressants. (Hopefully, big pharma doesn't sue. 😅)
1985 here... Never felt like I fit either category as I have the abilities of a millennial but the mindset of a Gen-X, an especially feral one as I grow older. Feral enough to end up in prison over someone deciding to fuck around and find out, but self aware enough to keep that feral temperament and rage in check. It is definitely a special combination, and not one to mess with because our kind can do damage both online and off 😈. Xenials has a nice ring to it, I like it. Grew up touching grass, finding the internet in mid-90s (who remembers yahoo chatrooms 😅) and playing video games. Thanks for the recognition and appreciation my good sir, much appreciated. 💯🙏✌
Thanks for the shout-out! I felt lost for so long because I knew I wasn't really Gen X, but it was only in the past year to two I found reasons to resonate with millennials. I remember AOL, being a geek for liking early computer games and hearing my mother blow the train whistle that meant get home NOW, or ELSE, and never wanting to know what the Else was that might happen to me. I have such fond family memories of my entire family gathering around the TV to watch my father or I play the original Legend of Zelda, and many a summer days spent out in the field of my grandparent's farm and then needing to be hosed off because of the 'green mud' (cow manure) before being allowed back into my parent's car for the drive home.
Born in 83. Always felt like more of a gen x. Thanks for the shout out.
I'm married to one of these "Xennials" and it's FABULOUS!!
Damn Skippy!
My GenX husband (1970) finds it useful too. 😂
1978 represent! Old enough to know how to work on a car (carburetor style engines) and young enough to get online and make bank in the late 90's.
Lol thanks for the recognition... 1981 here and i definitely feel closer with the Gen Xers than the millennials. Grew up outdoors building forts and making mud pies... then proceeded to get into mud fights... to using the floppy disks to play Oregon Trail and cd roms to play Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego... ahhhh the good old days. Playing surfer in the isle of the school bus... no seat belts... or bike helmets. Oh... and Napster (sorry Metallica lol)
Leo, 1966. I dutifully applaud the Xenials.🤪 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE 😍 😘 😍
1965 here. Right on.😸
Awww...thank you for accepting us! Born in 79 and definitely remember the world before Internet, remote controls, blue ray, CDs, and cell phones, playing outside till the lights came on. I was 22 when I got my first cell phone and it was thoses big fat ones and I never used it and kept in my car for emergency purpose only and it was before texting, and if people wanted to talk to me they had to call the landline or email me.
Born in 77, thank you for acknowledging this and explaining it so eloquently for those that don’t understand
1981... 😂 I even saw 8 tracks, and records were our CDs... oh the good ol days.😂❤
Born in 73 have scars , broken bones ,road rash, survived winter bumper skiing and putting crisco on for tanning oil! Just a few memories
Love it.
Grateful for our unique Xenial perspective. More techie than my kids, so I could set muddle through the non-obvious router settings and tell Google my teenagers are 6 so they can have some reasonable limits on technology and social media. Smart enough to realize Discord is a hypocritical company because it has no functional parental controls. (Why can't I approve the servers my teenager goes on?) Old enough to remember means I can recall what relationships were like before technology.
85' babyyy 🤘I was also blessed with an older gen x brother who loved to yell at me to get the hell out of his room and a younger, fullbreed millennial brother in which to bully and push around under the guise of "training" until the day he put me on the floor so hard I thought I saw I saw Jesus... Blessed indeed ❤️
As an X'er, a quote comes to mind "There is another." Stand fast, my brothers and sisters, for you are our special forces in the field.
Born in 76 here, don't really feel like I belong to any group, until the I experience rudeness, then I get it. Independence, and peace matters more than money, or status. I'll figure it out somehow, because I prefer it that way. You can't worry about what everyone else thinks, there will always be somebody who hates you, that's life. Just be polite, until it's not possible anymore.
Thanks for the recognition. 1984 definitely a day walker here.
Same Here...Fellow '84 day walker
1984 man thank you for the acknowledgement! Everyone tries to exclude us but we are here and would rather be with the x's then the lazy m's.
Xenial from '78 here.. this is amazingly accurate stuff. My job requires me to be able to translate complicated technical information regarding hybrid-cloud infrastructure into language non-technical people understand. I am now realizing that me being a Xenial provided me with EXACTLY the correct life skills to perform this job. Hot damn, ain't that some shit. ;)
1979 here and work in IT… in the automotive engineering world. I get it. 😊
I’m also the only ISO, CMMI, and ASPICE certified assessor. My boss is nice enough to not share that with anyone. 😊
Daywalkers, love that!😂 1979 Xennial.
The Daywalkers LMAO 😂😂😂you called the vile Rug Rats we had to babysit Daywalkers LMAO
Millennial: Alexa, do the thing.
Early Gen X: Uhm...Alexa? You there?
Xennial: Leaves copies of Orwell and Huxley and steps out.
1976 here! Feral child that matured along side the computer age! The best of both worlds!
but alas, very few will ever acknowledge the early consumer computer age...
My wife and I are daywalkers for sure, 1978 and 1979 respectively. We do walk that world and don't share too much but know. Lord, do we know!
Thank you for the eloquent words. I've never been more proud to be a 1980 baby 🤘
As a Xennial/Elder Millennial (1983), I concur.
Proud Xenial here! 1982🎉
I'm one of those that bridged the gap between. I was programming on my 8-bit computer in the early 80s. (Born in 1969). Yes, I help manage a world of workers who have forgotten what a landline is.
Some of us Crusty GenXers (I'm an original 1965 model) grew up coding. I remember moving up from Fortran to Basic and C+, etc. I've never felt behind the curve regarding technology. I can also speak in metric and imperial. 😉
Well aren’t you a wonderfully knowledgeable engineer? 😂
We know that not all early GenX are technologically challenged. But let’s be real, you’re kinda rare. You’re on the cusp of X and Boomer.
I work in IT in an automotive electronics engineering world. Most of the people with your skillset, are much younger than you.
I was 1981 born. Whoo hoo. It was a great year to be in for sure. The world now a days makes us more feral thou.
Thank you for recognizing us! I have been acknowledged! Yay!!
From 1981 I remember when a gigabyte was more space than anyone could ever use and now multiple terabytes being almost the norm. How things have changed.
Born in 1983, 41 years old. Thank you for the recognition.
Me too..And this is true..I know,because I know me and my generation❤
Hahaha. '83 here. Grew up on a farm and went to country school. Daywalker sounds good for me.
It is true, I only recently became aware of how unique the Xenial abilities are, I consider myself at best a baisc PC user, Ive never got excel and nor do I want to, but I can mess with setttings and not destroy my PC. Hitting my teens in the 90's where you actually had to have some basic understanding of how computers worked to get them to function I recently realised how digitally coddeled subsquent generations have been when I had to explain to a group of Millennial's and post 2000's babies that no fowarding an email does not send it to the original reciptients and no if you bcc someone they cant be seen as copied in... I am answering some boomer level questions to kids born in the digital age cause as far as they knew it all 'just worked' *sigh*
Right! you had to know DOS to get any PC game to work c:/RUN
Indeed. Born in 1980, but to computer geek boomers, so we had our first computer system (such as it was) starting in 1984. I have used both 5.25 floppy discs AND 3.5 ones, I remember zip disks, and I used DOS. (Zork was my first computer game) I didn't get my first email address until my first year of college in 1998. But...I have also (and still do) built my own computers, upgraded them, and move with ease on a smartphone (although I resisted getting one for a long time). When ebooks became a widespread thing I was pretty sure I'd died and gone to heaven :D
@@damienthetexasian6827 And you couldn't easily tell until you tried if your computer could run a given game or not! (Never could play MYST when it first came out...)
As a Xenial - thank you.
Also, your welcome. Gen alpha - those are our kids.
😉🤟🤯
Mine are all Gen Z. I started young...
@yippee8570 same. Born in 80 and my kids are gen z adults.
1980 here. 1st generation American born to immigrant parents mom is a devout Catholic from 🇨🇦
Dad is a non believer born in 🇩🇪 to a German mom and Ukrainian Catholic dad.
Its a miracle i am still around.
Many of my peers didnt see their 40th birthday due to suicide, murder and overdose.
To those of us who made it, well... we're some resilient mfrs. I salute you all.
As a member of this subset (‘76 baby), I swear I witnessed a true breakdown between Gen X and Millennial my senior year of college (‘98).
One of my workstudy jobs was in the library. Online card catalogs were in their toddler stage of development…they were temperamental and would have a temper tantrum (meaning crash) on the weekends when the people in charge of them were off. But remember, this was a time when the physical, paper card catalogs still existed, and most people (meaning Gen X and older) knew how to use it. So there I am, behind the circulation desk on a Saturday afternoon. Sophomore student approaches the desk needing me to find something because the card catalog is of course down. I let the kid know that they will have to use the paper card catalog. The look I got in response made me wonder if I had sprouted wings because of such an outlandish suggestion. Students two years younger had no idea paper card catalogs existed nor how to use them.
Now you may be wondering why I didn’t help the students find their resources. Well I knew the assignment they were working on and what professor it was for. The assignment was actually a quiz, and my alma mater has an honor code you have to sign on every quiz and test. I was in the same course, had completed my assignment, and had to forgo signing said honor code because in essence they were attempting to cheat by having me find and give the answer to them. Going before the honor council was not a joy. And it could have all been avoided had they simply known how to use the physical card catalog.
I never even knew they had gone digital until I decided to visit a library in 2011... I asked where the card catalogue was, and they pointed me towards a bank of computers... I said, "no, no - I want to use the physical card catalogue - I have no idea how to use THOSE things!" They said they'd been gone and out of use for years already... I turned around and left. 1977 baby :)
I'm early Xenial so very much feral, lacks empathy as much as early Gen X'ers, but also learned the digital world in early adulthood. My age group was responsible for Woodstock 99. Also a true Daywalker per South Park standards...
Wiser words have not been said.
Thank you big brother.
1975 my favorite cartoon was the Smurfs, I listened to Debbie Gibson and Belinda Carlisle I used wet and wild cosmic I'm proud to say I'm a Gen x.
I was born 1981 pretty much right in the centre of the Xenials, (aka "Subset of Day walkers")
Thank you Sir for the Acknowledgement.
I finally feel the recognition I’ve not known I needed my whole life. As a feral born in ‘82 deep in the PA back country, I’ve never been really sure where I belong. Now I know. I promise to use my powers for the betterment of all of Gen X.
Thank you for your service. Ex- soviet states can be upgraded up to the early 90's , since, as a Romanian born in 1987, we only got a taste of the digital after about 1994, when the economy here allowed a basic infrastructure for the early digital to grow. First time I saw a computer was in 1992, and that was with floppy drives and a special adapter to connect and read/write from a cassette player, some industrial machines here used those instead of other forms of storage. Cell phones were still a novelty back then, only business people could afford them. Also the first NES's started to pop up around '93-'94.
Thank u for showing us love. I love gen x stuff but some what tech savvy. 1984 here.
1983 here 👍thank you for recognizing us
‘78 here. I actually never thought about it, but this is probably why I work in IT support. I can translate between the generations.
76ers. Full Gen X experienced 70s for first years then 80s and 90s. Later Gen X was more 90s types. The millenials (2000s) era was a whole different feel. I'd say the cuspers started at earliest 77 less 70s exposure.
1985 xennial daywalker here. And it's absolutely true. Late gen x were only a few years older than us and most of us just lived in the same way but we could also navigate technology and adapt as we hit our teens in the 90s. We hit our 20s in the 2000s so even that experience is way different to the younger millenials because we could still hang with the gen-xers
We the daywalkers of the Xenial community thank you for your acknowledgement and consideration
I'm an early Xer and I went to university twice. The second time, only 6 years after the first, was far more digital because of the internet. The experience definitely helped me from that perspective.
1980. Thanks for recognition, my good man
86er here. I also had an analog childhood and digital adulthood. I remember the analog years very well, and quite fondly. I miss playing outside till the sun set and drinking from the water hose.
1986 is not Xennial. Xennials is 1977-1985.
@@user-cz1iq5un1y 81-96 are Millennials. Period.
Agree,I might be from 1986 but I grew up in that world and now I can’t believe the young generations can’t read the analog version of time 😅
From the start of MTV to the end of Twitter, WE PROUD FEW DELIVER!
I’m a ‘66 Gen Xer. I’m also pretty used to the digital stuff from working with it and husband being a Systems Engineer computer god. I will deny this to younger Generations. Never reveal abilities that they don’t think you have!
Let’s be real though… most older GenX don’t have the computer knowledge that you and your husband have.
I work in IT for an automotive electronics company. Most people with that level skillset are much younger. However, I always “test” the waters, so to speak before concluding likely level of knowledge. I’ve learned from those older and younger than myself. 😊
'79 here. Proud to be a demigod! 😝
Yeah! 79 here too!
Thank you for acknowledging the Xennials, good sir.
Thank you for finally recognizing your day walking demigods 😂😂😂 ❤
God bless you Sir. I love your videos so much. I and one of my brothers are Jones and another is a Xenniel. I also have many friends and relatives that are Jones,Xers and Xenniel. With love and respect from Maine🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊