What Happened to Gen X? Have a Seat and I'll Tell Ya...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- See, what had happened was... I watched a video recently of a Millennial watching another Millennial who was mad and ranting about Gen-X. He claimed we left them to be big brothers when they were "still only little brothers" themselves. He wanted to know what happened to Gen-X and why we "went into hiding". You wanna know what happened to Gen-X Mr. Angry Millennial? Sit down. I'll tell you.
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I think a missing piece of this that maybe the younger generations don’t understand, is that for us gen xers, the sooner you moved out on your own, the cooler you were. We had to figure out a way to go out and build a life for ourselves in this insane world. And yeah, we saw a lot of big, crazy events that jaded our perspective of the world.
Good video- everything you said is true. Every word.
Yeah, I did miss that part. And you're 100% right as well! Thank you so much for your feedback and for watching!
Such a great video Rosey. We really have been through a ton of stuff while growing up. We got to experience the Berlin wall being torn down, the Statue of Liberty disappear by magician David Copperfield, and the many music festivals like the US festival, Live Aid, and Farm Aid for example. For the very first time in our lives we FINALLY get to relax a bit and enjoy those little things that we missed out on while growing up. If GenZ has a problem with that then Oh well. We deserve our peace finally so I say we enjoy every second of it while we can.
Thank you, and yes, exactly! They want us to lead a revolution, but no one listened to us when we tried. It's their turn now!
I just found your channel, but a lot of things you talk about, I went through.
Thank you! I'm glad to have you here!
Hard times make strong people….strong people make easy times….easy times make soft people.
Our times made us stone then we made their times easier but it made them snowflakes.
That makes a lot of sense! Thank you for commenting!
It didn't help that the Boomers ended 1/3 of us before we even got to the starting gate. Those of us who lived were barely parented at all. We grew through it and hopefully we will do better for our kids.
Great video as always.
Thank you so much!
Surely the best generation is the one living with their heads buried in their phones, typing tough and doing nothing to make the world a better place while ensuring the celebration of greed gets stronger and false beauty standards are made stronger every minute...no?
@@miker953 Had to read this 3 times to understand you're referring to genx.
"living with their heads buried in their phones"
Are you really suggesting genx are smartphone addicts? I've never owned one. I'd like to see the study that shows genx use smartphones as much as younger generations.
"celebration of greed"
A core genx trait is a distaste for sell-outs. If one of our hero musicians appeared in a commercial for jeans or something, we didn't think the jeans were cool. We felt betrayed by our hero for selling out.
"false beauty standards"
Are you familiar with the genx term "poser"? It's an insult aimed at people who are vain.
@genxjack72 I guess you should try a 4th time. I'm not talking about Gen X who didn't even have smart phones growing up.
@miker953 Sorry, my bad.
Saw a video calling gen x are terrible grandparents for not babysitting our grandchildren every weekend or something. I was thinking to myself; most of us raised ourselves, took care of our brothers and sisters, in some cases our cousins, raised our kids, and in some cases our nephews and nieces. We still have to work as well. They need to raise there own kids. When is it our time?
Great list of things we saw growing up. Don't forget about aides epidemic, crack epidemic, street gangs, the threat of nuclear war with Russia. Oh and our crazy uncles back from Vietnam. We've lived through a lot.
Yes, you are so right! I had to watch over cousins, some of my mom's friends, and yep, myself. I have yet to meet a single grandparent from even the Silent Generation who wanted to watch their grandkids EVERY weekend. They'd better take their kids to the waterpark or the zoo, have a Coke and a smile, and shut the eff up!
Thanks for commenting, hon!
I still have PTSD and flashbacks from my past. I'm now a disabled 40 year old due to an intentional accident that changed my life when I was 8 years old. I remember the 1992 LA Riots. 1992 I was in the hospital for 3 consecutive months. I was born at the end of Reagan's 1st term.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. The L.A. Riots were traumatic for us. We saw a lot of traumatic shit, and none of us were prepared for it.
@@Gen_X_Rosey There's absolutely no way to ever prepare for any traumatic events. The first news report I remember very vividly was the fall of the Berlin Wall.
@@K1ll3r84 Yeah, I remember that one too. I remember thinking how great that was for Germany, but wondered, "But does that mean anything for the rest of us?" I was 13.
@@Gen_X_Rosey I was only 5. but there's things you remember and you can't explain why.
69 model here. Both parents divorced and remarried like 3 times each. You get out of the house not to deal with the step parents every day! Practically just got tired of the parents BS and gtfo early in life! First job at 12, paid taxes at 15! Now I am tempered, an ancient of simplicity when the world wants you to be in it's complicated BS! I say NEVER! My wife and I will be crafty and crazy like foxes while the world and society will screw it self over! This is how some of us Gen xers are today. God bless you all..
most of gen x were grown up by age 10. yes, Gen X have seen more combat than our parents and grand parents. the early X were old enough to help in the persian gulf crisis escorting tankers to the panama invasion, gulf 1, somalia, gulf 2 afghanistan, syria, serbia. Don't trust the government or corporations. Most of us want to be left alone.
Yes! Thank you for backing me up!
GenX does have some well earned cynicism, that is for sure. Besides all of what you said, there is much else. GenX had high childhood rates of lead toxicity, poverty, bullying, violence, and suicides. A recession also affected many of us in the early 1990s.
Then as adults, we were the first generation in recent history to be poorer than our parents' generation, following several generations of improving economic conditions. And we now have higher rates of midlife mortality than our parents.
If Millennials and GenZ want to understand us, they need to realize we were the generation during which the decline began or at least when the consequences of the decline became undeniable. Rather than criticize us, look to us as potential allies.
YEEEES!!! Thank you so much for that!!!
Every generation since has been born on the downward economic slope of Neoliberalism. We were the lucky generation to be raised with the economic promise of our parents world in our heads, only to grow into adults who found that promise had been stripped away. Today everyone is born fucked. But GenX was *deceived* and *abandoned*. It is VERY different.
Honesty, I'm done with the work force. I still work. However, we all know its best to do work brings out your skills, talents and abilities.
We know politics is a joke. Some of us Gen Xere are in Congress. Congrats for them. I assume some have worked to make life easier for us.
Gen Z and Alphas will know whats its like for the system to fail you.
Sadly, yes, they will!
Hey love. How are you ?
Hi! I'm good! Hope you are too!
I attempted the military and didn't wotk out. According to rhe wotkd system im a loser.
That's one of the keywords they've always used to break us down.
We Gen Xere have been through a lot of traumatic events and experiences both personally and as a group. The GOD of the Bible or whatsoever faith you hold to has seen you through until this day.
If you didn't care, then you wouldn't have made and upload this video.
Huh... And that thought was burning so brightly in your mind that you wanted to "call me out" to what? Try to embarrass me? Good for you for trying! Go give yourself a cookie, sweetie! Good job!
@@Gen_X_Roseyawesome response.
@@Gen_X_Rosey So much for being the tough generation with a triggered comment like that.