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Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:08 am to meeple
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Anyone who claims this just wants to be Gen X
mid 40s, and I want no part of the millennial generation.
Latchkey kid, remember no internet, HIV/AIDS lie, Cold War, 8 tracks, and be home when the lights come on.
70s and 80s music is way better than most of anything in the 90s.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:10 am to 3nOut
quote:Nothing more Millenial than you trying to identify as something you aren’t.
mid 40s, and I want no part of the millennial generation.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 9:10 am
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:10 am to lsupride87
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Nothing more Millenial than you trying to identify as something you aren’t.
hey o!
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:15 am to Giantkiller
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Wait. Growing up in the 80's? I was 2-12 in the 80's. What gen do you think you're in?
Gen X was born in 1965-1980. Millennials were born in 1981-1994.
That said, there's a group that was born from 1977 to 1985 that is considered to be Xennials (the cultural inbetween). We were born into an analog childhood but experienced a digital adulthood.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:22 am to forkedintheroad
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Also known as discerning pillars of society. Sorry for our cynicism: keeping society running while watching you pussies fail at everything you do has that effect on us.
Gen X is statistically underrepresented in basically every category when it comes to wielding power, from politics on down. Gen X fellates itself while complaining about everyone else and doing absolutely nothing about it. “Watching” was the most accurate part of your post, as that’s mostly what Gen X has always done
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:25 am to Joshjrn
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Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s.
Gen X grew up in the 80s. At least partially.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:26 am to CAD703X
Folks pumping up their own generation while running down others is some weak @$$ $#!+...
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:27 am to 3nOut
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Latchkey kid, remember no internet, HIV/AIDS lie, Cold War, 8 tracks, and be home when the lights come on.
I’m 43 and have no idea what an 8 track even looks like
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:29 am to Giantkiller
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Wait. Growing up in the 80's? I was 2-12 in the 80's. What gen do you think you're in?
I was a bit careless with my wording. Having been born in the mid 80s, I meant growing up in the 80s into the mid 90s. In the same way that 9/11/2001 marked a fundamental shift in the world, December 1996, when AOL began offering unlimited home internet, marked a fundamental shift.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:30 am to lsupride87
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Nothing more Millenial than you trying to identify as something you aren’t.
I’m right in that cohort being born in early 81. When I heard that early-mid 40s people were coming up with their own “micro generation” it sounded millennial AF
As someone who never logged on to AoL until my freshman year at LSU and parents in their mid 80s it’s just a pointless title.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 9:32 am
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:33 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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quote:Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s.
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Gen X grew up in the 80s. At least partially.
If you have many memories of growing up in the 80s, you are most likely Gen X.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:34 am to CAD703X
I hate these generational thread war topics, but the first two paragraphs are almost complete bullshite.
Yes, we disappeared for hours but any decent parent had a pretty good idea of where their kid was. My father's generation had the same freedom. The reason this changed was the increase in fricking scum perverts who could snatch your kid to abuse or never see again.
And now unfortunately society as a whole has become more screen and inside oriented, especially with the kids. Keeping closer tabs on them became a necessity, not the preferred choice. I'm glad I grew up when I did, but I'm not going to bash today's parents for correctly assessing today's dangers vs. past time periods.
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Growing up, kids disappeared for hours and nobody called the police. I spent entire summers roaming the neighborhood with a pack of other kids, coming home only when the streetlights came on. My parents had no idea where I was most of the time, and that was completely normal.
Compare that to today, where we track our kids’ every movement through smartphones and worry if they’re out of sight for five minutes. We’ve engineered childhood into this carefully controlled experience, thinking we’re doing better. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: we might have accidentally weakened an entire generation in the process.
Yes, we disappeared for hours but any decent parent had a pretty good idea of where their kid was. My father's generation had the same freedom. The reason this changed was the increase in fricking scum perverts who could snatch your kid to abuse or never see again.
And now unfortunately society as a whole has become more screen and inside oriented, especially with the kids. Keeping closer tabs on them became a necessity, not the preferred choice. I'm glad I grew up when I did, but I'm not going to bash today's parents for correctly assessing today's dangers vs. past time periods.
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Growing up, kids disappeared for hours and nobody called the police. I spent entire summers roaming the neighborhood with a pack of other kids, coming home only when the streetlights came on. My parents had no idea where I was most of the time, and that was completely normal.
Compare that to today, where we track our kids’ every movement through smartphones and worry if they’re out of sight for five minutes. We’ve engineered childhood into this carefully controlled experience, thinking we’re doing better. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: we might have accidentally weakened an entire generation in the process.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 9:35 am
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:34 am to BluegrassBelle
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That said, there's a group that was born from 1977 to 1985 that is considered to be Xennials (the cultural inbetween). We were born into an analog childhood but experienced a digital adulthood.
my sister is late 40s (4 year older) and technologically dependent and on tons of meds, never married, lived at home till she was in her late 20s, wildly illiberal, and single. listens to kpop and watches Anime. Glued to her phone and computer.
i moved out at 19, never went home, got married young, had kids young, and raised 2 hyperconservative kids. i can go days without technology other than texting
even though she's solidly gen x and i'm solidly millennial, we have very different world views and associations than our labels
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:37 am to BOHICAMAN
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I’m 43 and have no idea what an 8 track even looks like
i find that crazy.
my mom's buick had one and we were excited when she got a cassette tape in her new car in the late 80s.
i listened to a lot of Willie Nelson, Patty Cline, and Hank Williams 8 tracks growing up in that car because it's all my mom had in there.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:42 am to greenbean
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If you have many memories of growing up in the 80s, you are most likely Gen X.
sigh
we have these threads weekly and some of y'all still don't know what a Millennial is
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:43 am to St Augustine
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When I heard that early-mid 40s people were coming up with their own “micro generation” it sounded millennial AF
While it is, I also don't think it's inaccurate. "Home internet" started really becoming a thing in 1997. We hit the 50% saturation mark in... 2001. Home internet exploding combined with 9/11 is a 1-2 punch seismic shift that's kind of hard to ignore. A kid born in the early-ish to mid-90s didn't just have different cultural preferences than a kid born in the early-ish to mid-80s; they grew up in a completely different world.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:45 am to Salmon
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we have these threads weekly and some of y'all still don't know what a Millennial is
i crack up at the people that bitch about early to mid 20 YOs in the work place and call them millennials.
i will say that our workplace had some early 30 YOs for a while when i was in my late 30s and 40s and they were the worst.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:46 am to greenbean
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If you have many memories of growing up in the 80s, you are most likely Gen X.
Yea, people are confusing "born" and "grew up"
If you are Gen X and were born in the late 60s or 70s, you spent at least high school in the 80s, if not more.
Millenials were born in the 80s and mid-90s, but most were too young to remember the 80s much, except as very young children.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:48 am to BOHICAMAN
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I’m 43 and have no idea what an 8 track even looks like
Do you not watch movies or tv shows
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