Let's talk about gen X because no other bugger does.

[Mach3]

Hail fellow X'ers.

We are never mentioned. It's always Boomers, Millennials or gen Z.

Why the fuck not?

We definitely exist, we were very cool people.

I have such good memories of my 70's childhood and teenage years in the 80's.

And all the goodness of the late 80s and early 90s.

It did happen didn't it?

We have a title! We are Xennials. Special enough to be a micro generation that doesn't quite fit the pop culture parameters for either X or Y, but who are a bit of both.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

This. I cannot understand how so many seem totally stressed by doing Christmas dinner for like 4 people.

At 11, I picked up my siblings from my granny and brought them home, set them to their homework and got dinner on the go.

I had my mum at home when younger and I knew how to cook from watching.

Now, I involve my children a lot, like getting them to squeeze mince into meatballs, or squish dough for pasta etc. They love it.

Gen X , I'd say we are the most fearless. After having the bejesus scared out of us by the cold War nothing scared us again.💪

Wtf?

That's cos they're all a bit older now and want to have kids!

Same

I do not hate gay men btw.

But I do think that now gay male relationships are very acceptable.

As they should be.

I do think that gay men have just got down with the hetro men in the way that women are just an adjunct to what they want.

Hush! Let then keep not noticing us. I am so glad to have been born a Gen Xer and truly believe we are the luckiest (and coolest) generation of the current lot.

No chronic anxiety, no "mental health" days, I grew up without computers and phones, so I can manage without them, but still had them early enough that I learned to live with them (hell, I know how to put one together from scratch!), I grew up climbing tres and taking the dogs for walks in the forest by myself, I learned to be resilient, I overcame bullying and adapted to neurodivergence by myself without the need for drugs and weekly therapy for years, I have a career I love, I could afford to buy a house, I am assertive at work and can fight my fights (and almost often win). I chose not to have children when the decision was still almost a "fringe movement" and now I am admired and respected for my decision. I am happier than anyone else I know from any other generation, and still looking forward to a bunch of decades to enjoy.

Oh, and I may have a chance to enjoy this world before it goes to shit due to climate change/microplastics in the environment and our brain/insect mass extinction/shit politics/extreme misinformation causing wars etc etc. I don't envy generations after mine. or before mine, for all that.

Go Xers!

Hello. #MeAlso. Boomers for parents. Bloody Zs for kids. Nightmare.

I hear you op. I really do hear you! #bornin1967

Would quite like a Boomer final salary pension though.
I wanted to be a Winona Ryder in Reality Bites.

Millennial here and I wish I was in my 20s during the 90s but still enjoyed my childhood. I never understood the boomers vs millienials battle until I met my in-laws 😂

The 80s really was the best decade for music.

We are the ones just holding it all together. Ignored by our parents ignored by our children, just getting on with it. Into every generation a ‘welll, whole fucking generation of slayers is born, keep out of their way, they’ll sort it’.

I couldn't have put it better myself. I am not remotely a 'cool' person but I feel cool by association as a Gen X - we are the generation who see through all the bullshit; we are resilient thanks to our innate cynicism; even uncool people like me had wild moments back in the hedonistic 90s and we can smile at the Millennials and Gen Zs with all the wisdom of middle-age after a well lived youth.

Oooh I’m a Xennial (1980 baby)

If they’ve had to invent a title for us, doesn’t that mean they got the boundaries wrong in the first place? Whoever “they” are

That video that starts with a Gen Z "Why don't we hold Gen X accountable?" Not a direct quote.

I'm pretty sure they specifically said to leave them the fuck alone @Mach3 That's why we don't talk about Gen X.

Gen X here. Bloody hell we are made of tougher stuff. En-suite everything and touch of a button getting whatever you want just didn’t exist. We were so much switched on to what was going on in the world because the tv only had 3 then 4 channels before eventually channel 5 coming along. As others have mentioned, the Cold War and AIDS preoccupied moments in our history. And the test card was a fact of life, the automatic washing machine an alternative tv when we first got our first. Those were the days. Bland food, boredom and freedom on a scale not known to any generation following us. Power to the Gen Xers.

Then us millennial's will become the invisible ones

Bland food only for UK Gen Xers, mind you. I grew up in Spain with an abundance of delicious, colourful, healthy, cooked-from-scratch food from my mum, grandma and aunties. The first McDonald's opened in my town when I was 16. I went once and was horrified that anyone would consider that "food".

<shuffles over a couple of years> nope not a baby boomer fuck them twats

and currently sandwiched.

🙂

Honestly I think gen X are the only ones not in the firing line and constantly getting ripped to shreds so I’d keep quiet in the corner if I were you 😂

brb just going to get me some avocado toast

We're Xennials.