Gen z here believe it or not. Gen x and boomers fucked up a lot of stuff. I sadly feel doomed ):
Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous 🫂🥹
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Pretty much
As a gen Xer, I’d rebel if my back didn’t hurt.
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Zoomers will have a rough time rebelling when they can barely leave their home. Obviously there is some hyperbole there, but with the ability to “socialize” via online methods they are far more introverted than previous generations.
This meme is lame (as ost have been in the short time I’ve spent here). Everyone blames their parents generation for everything.
Who is this GenX you speak of?
Who is this GenX you speak of?
Their stupidity is contagious. They will announce their presence and demand to be entertained.
To address the whooshing sound…
Smells like Teen Spirit:
“I feel stupid, and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us”We demand nothing, you can’t avoid entertaining us.
The forgotten one.
They are a demographic cohort that is identified by their complaints about being forgotten in memes.
Touche
Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.
kids don’t want to work these days
people need to just save more money
immigrants are taking all the jobs
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I was in a “generational diversity” course at work recently where we would break apart and talk about what behaviors are common among each generation and why, and how to be good leaders for each generation. We started with the “greatest” generation and the “silent” generation and worked our way down in age. Everything started so respectful and nice for the old folks, even excusing their shortcomings when one was actually brought up due to how they were raised and the tough circumstances they grew up under. By the time we got to millennial and gen z, things took a turn. Even the instructor was laying on the judgement pretty thick. “They have had everything handed to them growing up so they don’t appreciate hard work”, “[…] participation trophies […]”, etc
If you don’t want kids to have participation trophies don’t give them participation trophies. You didn’t go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?
If I want to buy a trophy for myself with my own hard earned money to make myself feel like a winner, those boomers can kiss my ass.
That seems so weird to begin with. Particularly since there aren’t many Greatest Generation left, and Silents are well into retirement.
They apparently make up something like 3 percent of our employees.
What, the youngest greatest gener is 97 lol. Are you sure it wasn’t 3 total and they are the CEOs?
No, it was 3 percent with the greatest and silent generation combined, not just the greatest. No idea how many (if any at all) of the greatest generation there actually are. Maybe 1? Idk.
That sounds… like a judgement your class was meant to learn to avoid…
Right?
I don’t think I could’ve sat there and not fucked that teacher up emotionally.
I would have loved to witness that TacoButtPlug
kids don’t want to work these days
Work at these shitty jobs? No, they don’t, and I don’t blame them!
I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.
I guess I’m lucky to live & work somewhere where the system kinda works, but the boomers are a great well of institutional knowledge, and the kids are working hard and changing the game. The ball was kind of dropped in the late 90s & 00s, but now millennials have surpassed gen x in terms of responsibility & authority in my industry and the zoomers I’ve had the opportunity to train are legit. I’m not sure what happened to gen x, but they all seem kind of sad and/or lost.
Those are the genx’ers that now have wealth… the genx’ers without a pot to piss in are… err… pissed.
Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!
shocked picachu meme.
Alternatively.
“No, it’s our children who are wrong”
The kids are alright
What’s wrong with gen x? I remember being repeatedly told growing up that we were the first generation for which things were gonna be worse than the previous. Lo and fucking behold.
My sister is gen x and I’m a millennial. This is so true.
I always wonder if this boomer/millennial thing is an American invention. Is it media manufactured? I don’t see this adversarial generationalism here at all.
America just doesn’t have a culture where the older generations leave things better than they found it. Boomers are generally (but not always) selfish and entitled. They hoarde wealth and vote against anything that jeopardizes it because they feel they worked so hard for it. Even if that thing could positively impact their children or grandchildren. All while telling people working 2+ jobs just to afford food and housing that they’re lazy.
If anything, the media has always catered to boomers and shit on millennials. A lot of millennials have boomer parents as well.
Yeah people in the US dont have elders they have trauma dumpers. Its sad how entitled and blinded they are.
More specifically, this talk sheds a lot of light on it. The opening statement alone is interesting: that despite the conventional wisdom it is actually better to be born into a large cohort than a small one. Because being in a large cohort brings collective voting/political power and buying power.
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We used to. The boomers are the first generation in all of history that had it better than their kids. The greatest generation, and the silent generation would be whipping their asses if they were still around.
https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/generations-age/
Demography is moving away from generational studies because aside from Boomers they do not indicate much
It’s basically just fun to group people by cultural trends that defined the decades they grew up in.
The problem with that is that a same generation can tend to run in multiple decades and therefore different trends. It would make much more sense to group by decade, or better still, what the huge fad was when you were in elementary school.
I can relate to this…recently found out I’m a Xennial!
Just had to fire that off, didn’t ya, Mr. C?
I dont understand why the Gen X hate. I have gladly wanted to punch Boomers in the face for shitting on Millenials and Zoomers
We got your back. Not sure who’s saying millennials dislike gen x, but they’re not speaking for most of us.
I wrote an eight paragraph response and then deleted it and condensed down the highlights.
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Millennials and Gen Z have to pay many times over what it cost the Gen X for a quality education but they still have more than twice as many four year degree holders as Gen X had in their 30s.
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The Boomers aren’t running anything anymore, they’re median age 66 ffs. Gen X are the new corporate overlords. Their first act as voters was either Reagan or Bush Sr, both of whom gutted most systems of oversight.
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They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
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They still share the boomer view on gender roles, that only men wear pants and go to work, that girls like pink and boys like blue. Anything outside of that very specific framework is viewed as creepy and immoral.
In the nicest way possible, the world will be much better when Gen X is gone.
They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
Only 90% of our lives, but the rest we just wasted.
- They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
Jealous?
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The dichotomy of admissions like this and outright refusals like the wall of text above.
I used to do that stuff back in the old days. I still do too.
Life is good
Millennials and Gen Z have to pay many times over what it cost the Gen X for a quality education
Due to decades long processes set in motion by boomers and older while Gen X were still children if born at all.
The Boomers aren’t running anything anymore, they’re median age 66 ffs
Half of Congress (54% of Republicans in Congress) is 65 or older. The president is too old to even be a boomer
Their first act as voters was either Reagan or Bush Sr
The first presidential election where they were old enough to vote, the only other realistic challenger was the VP of the president who had been successfully smeared in the media as the most inefficient in modern history and the alternative in 88 was Dukakis. In both cases, the Republican won by a landslide in a media landscape of intense gaslighting and other propaganda in their favor, so you can hardly blame Gen X for them.
They’ve devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol
Not even remotely true and even if it was, that would be a hell of a lot better than devoting your life to work and money
They still share the boomer view on gender roles, that only men wear pants and go to work, that girls like pink and boys like blue. Anything outside of that very specific framework is viewed as creepy and immoral.
Also false of the majority. In their youth, Gen X were pretty much DEFINED by rebellion against the societal norms of previous generations, including outdated and restrictive gender roles.
In the nicest way possible, the world will be much better when Gen X is gone.
Sounds like there’s more of a YOU problem than a Gen X problem tbh…
Fortune 500 Company CEOs median age is 58, the same as the Median Age of voting House Members! It’s very close but that’s Gen X.
You said “the boomers aren’t running anything anymore”. Stop moving the goalposts.
The goalpost sits where it was placed.
Which isn’t where you originally put them. Either argue consistently and in good faith or stop arguing.
Boomers don’t run shit, Gen X is the median CEO and federal House Legislator, and the vast majority of authority in general.
Exactly right. @doctorcrimson is either completely ignorant of reality, a total dumbass, or a troll.
And if we keep this up your grandkids will say the same about you.
I worry my singular grandchild will think of me as someone wasteful who had every opportunity to fix things but did nothing. I worry that I may never have the opportunities needed to do net good in the world because the generations before did everything in their power to consolidate wealth and keep us all under their thumbs, even at the expense of their own majority because their idiocy placed more value in short term satisfaction than knowledge and freedom. Worst of all is I can’t even be truly angry at them, because they will suffer the most of all, abandoned in low budget homes waiting for the failing system of medicine to let them die.
My Nephew thinks I’m cool, though, so I’ve got that going for me.
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I think its mostly focused on the older gen x, some of them are worse than the boomers.
A lot of them aren’t, though. They were named Gen X at least in part as a reference to Malcolm X due to their rebellious nature towards previous generations and their societal norms.
I am from Generation Z, and I must admit that it is a failed generation.
Nah, speaking as a Gen Y/millennial, we’re the failed generation. You guys and the folks after you are the hope. Many of us graduated into the Great Recession and then went through the pandemic. You guys are graduating into a much better economy, but some unprecedented hurdles (in recent times) like climate change. You guys are the hope and future. The difference between Gen Y and Gen Z is like the difference between the folks who came of age in the Great Depression vs. the generation that came of age in and around WWII (the Greatest Generation). I just hope we leave a hopeful world for my gen alpha nephew for when he comes of age.
Nope. Every generation is seen as a failed generation when they’re in their early twenties.
I’d say the previous generations have failed you, especially considering the boomers (and boomer-loyalist gen-Xers like Ted Cruz) have tried to mold you guys to fit into their society (as cheap labor and soldiers) rather than letting you change culture and take society in the direction you want it to go. After all, it’s as much yours as ours.
Oh and we let big fossil-fuel wreck the climate for you, so bunches of Zoomers are going to die in a crisis famine and this catastrophic event will define their lives. Also there’s the plastic crisis which is going to accelerate the Holocene extinction.
So no. Your whole generation got dealt a bum hand. There’s too much mess to clean up unless we have some miracles of innovation.
I admit it, you’re damn right.
As a GenX myself, yes, I am a donkey.
Yes!
Gen Z is a bunch of brats full of cringe, but at least they’re not actively fucking us over.
Also, what is gen X? Just kidding. I know what they are, just not what they’ve done exactly…
Gen z here. Not really wrong. But the reason I like the cringe is that it’s a very slight distraction from how completely and utterly fucked the world is, and how much more fucked it gets every day, how I’ll most likely never own a house, not even a tiny patch of land, how fucked we are with climate change, so on and so forth. I just want to enjoy the slight moments of weird humour we have before it’s all gone forever and we all die
Millenial here. You’re right. We’re fucked.
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Exactly! Whatever, dude!
I don’t cringe at the generations after me, I cringe at the old farts that came before. I am rooting for those that come after me. I am nearly 30 now, so my time is coming to an end. I want my headstone to say “bash the fash”.
My point still stands. Fuck those old farts.
Hey buddy the revolution is paved with the tears of my haters
literally dabs unironically
If gen z is cringe, it’s because they were taught the art of cringe from their parents lol.
Honestly I’m pretty sure the cringe is a coping mechanism, and I don’t blame them.
If only we could fly
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AFAICT Gen X should really just be split into Boomers and early millennials.
I’m a late gen X (1978) and do not associate with boomers at all.
We’re basically millennials before the internet.
I’m from 1980, so technically Gen X, but I’ve always associated more with millennials. My first phone (after I moved out of my parents’ house where we had landline) was a Nokia 3210 and I got my first email account in 1996.
You, my 1980 cousin, are Xennial! We have an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.
See you in the third act :)
I’m also a late Gen X. Please, please, PLEASE don’t group us with Boomers. We’re nothing like them and proud of it.
Also GenX. Fuck everyone that isn’t my generation or I don’t know personally.
Gen X reporting.
Meh.
Hello fellow Xennial!
It makes much more sense when a generation boundary is marked by some sort of significant societal shift. Like Boomers are people born after WWII ended. I guess Gen X kinda makes sense being defined as a generation that grew up after the civil rights act and the establishment of rock & roll. But it seems like there should also be something between that and the internet, because as you say there’s a difference in late Gen X. Maybe the advent of video games should be a cutoff. Someone who grew up with video games and VCRs in the 80s has a pretty different experience from someone who grew up in the 70s.
I’ve always been told the defining turn from boomers to Gen X was the end of the boom. Readily available birth control for men and women made family planning the norm. Gen X just doesn’t get a fancy name because they never got there “define with this” phenomena
I was born in 77. I am the Star Wars generation.
'78
Space Invaders
https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/generations-age/
Pew and a bunch of other think tanks are moving past generational studies as it seems that you are correct that you have more in common with people within 5 years of your age than people in your “generation”.
They needed think tanks to figure that one out?
You need studies to demonstrate these effects in a scientific manner so yes/no as it could be done by a scholastic institution if it wasn’t done by think tanks.
That is what I think about when thinking about Gen X. I have clear examples because I’m myself in the millennial range, my (much) older brother is Gen X and my parents are boomers. I’d never lump my bro with the boomers and I consider gen X as a whole pretty chill. They’re all the bands I grew up listening to and carried the bulk of what made the 90s great. Boomers have fine individuals but as a whole they’re nasty.
As a person born nearly a decade after you, I pride my generation (Gen Y/millennial) as also experiencing life before computers and the internet in your home, but still developing (sort of naturally) with all that (but still remembering what it felt like to be really and truly bored). Gen Zers born after a similar gap as between me and those born later, don’t remember life before the internet or 9/11.
