yeah, neil is right, we have a major advantage because we know both! You have the baby boomers who are really good with analog but never got used to computers, and then you have millennial and later who knows computers but they break down when the computers do. Whereas Generation X can do both. I admit that a millennial who served in the military will lessen this advantage a bit, but ultimately generation X has the edge here 🙂
@@Dirpitz I know that this is getting to be a cliche at this point, but I have to say that most of your generation has not been punched in the f****** face and it shows. The main difference between Gen X and Gen Y is that we were abandoned and neglected by our parents and society, while you guys were sheltered and overprotected. Neither was good for us, but they definitely produce some different traits.
Totally agree with you. We’ve been squeezed btwn our Narky parents that forced us to do everything for them and these wipe my tush entitled children. Give it 3 days without Internet in this country. They’ll mow each other down
I was an early millennial, yeah, it was toxic as shit, wherever society goes in the future we're not going back to the 90s, gen-x'ers were mentally diseased and intoxicated off the remnant excess of boomers. We're not going back to that, we're not justifying pointless decadence and mental illness for the sake of gen-x'ers. I should have been born a zoomer tbh, worst times of my life. There's nothing virtuous or necessary about how fucked up gen-x'ers are in the future, their literal claim to virtue is literal abusive alcoholic father vibes that they think somehow make the world a better place when it didn't at all. You can sum up gen-x with two words "woodstock '99".
Because we’re not pussies who need to be coddled. So, people left us alone to carry on with our lives. That doesn’t mean we’re just going to put up with BS though.
If I could add to it without technology Gen X can write secret messages in cursive to pass on information and the younger generations won't be able to read it lol
If the younger generations don’t know cursive then that’s a knock on the older generations. Not the younger one. They dropped the ball by not teaching them.
Yeah that's why this is always such a stupid thing to fight over, each new generation is the product of the previous generation, if the final result is disappointing the sculptor is to blame, not the clay.
@stewpidasso3910 I started teaching my now 24-yr-old how to write in cursive in pre-school. His school stopped teaching it beyond 3rd grade. He stopped writing in cursive because of computers and tablets, and the handwriting of some of these kids make doctors' chicken scratch look legible! He had spelling up until sixth grade, and my youngest didn't have it beyond third. One of my sisters is not a star speller, but her issue is a phonetic one. Kids today just abbreviate everything!
They are the kids who skinned their knees in the front yard and ran to Mommy to get it properly treated and a lollipop. We were the kids that skinned our knee 17 miles from home, where we shouldn’t have been. Then we hid it when we got home so we wouldn’t get an ass whooping for getting hurt.
I really felt that when you said getting whooped for hurting ourselves. I still remember my mom beating me with a belt because my little sister fell down 4 steps. I was 6 and I didn't even know what she was up to but apparently I was supposed to watch her.
That sure is the truth! At nine, I had to swear my little brothers and the neighborhood kids to secrecy, because I had impaled my thumb with an ice pick while trying to poke holes in a jar lid, for tadpoles... You know, so they'd have air...! All because I didn't want to go to the doctor with a stressed mother. The threats must've worked, decades later, even with my brother's confirmation, and being shown the scar, my mom refused to believe it.
@@Dirpitzlmao keep thinking that's the case. You will find differently. Gen Xers don't need safe spaces, government and corporate protection. We know how to survive.
Totally, yet somehow I'm still 30 in my head. And anyone else horrified daily by how the bullshit reality we saw through has just gotten worse? And nobody but us seems to get it? Oh well, still singin "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" and waiting to die.
On behalf of Gen X, I'd like to thank our Betamax, VCRs, and VHS, for teaching us how to troubleshoot and program before those were a thing. To Mr. Rogers, who taught us how to be good people. To our Uncle Mac; the great Richard Dean Anderson, for teaching us how to MacGyver things we needed and need until they're invented, every Monday night. To the Beastie Boys for teaching us to fight for our right. To our bikes, what ever model they maybe, that took us everywhere. From the malls to the playgrounds. And so that we may keep our agreed upon time to meet the kids from the neighborhood a street over, just so we can reenact scenes from the Warriors. Then sticking around learning to do first aid to the kid you just beat down. or beat you down. And to the garden hose that quenched our thirst after a long day of just being a kid. Special shout out to the street lamp that came on 5 minutes before sunset, reminding us to get home before the rents start looking for us.
For Sesame Street for teaching us our numbers, letters, and how to cross the street while our parents worked, and again to the Beastie Boys for telling us all IT'S SABOTAGE!!!
Mr Rogers? Who he? Didn't have him in my day. We had a crusty old retired Marine who addressed us with the word "men!" and meant it. If we didn't pull in our chins and our shoulders back we were demoted to "duck butt!" No looking at the ground with him. He woulda torn the hoodie of your thin necked head
Oh, we were stupid, but we had fun while we were at it! Our stupid usually resulted in "You could've been killed ramping the 4-wheeler...no more Dukes of Hazzard reruns for you for a month!" or "You got drunk on grandpa's Old Milwaukee? Well, too bad! Get your butt up and get to school!" What we did was FUN! The stupid shit kids do today (starting riots, protesting farms when we have grocery stores, believing that if you feel like a man, then you're a man....) is just stupid beyond belief.
I can almost tolerate Gen Z because I feel empathy for them....its the millennials that are a pain..the 34 year olds....the ones who think they invented the wheel, but have created nothing but mayhem and copied everything gen X has already done...
@@know973 this is a weird thing to say to me...... I am 34 I create art all the time and dig in the dirt fly kites and do not care about your wheel. I do not start mayhem I am pretty chill. Maybe you should stop generalizing every 34 year old like you know all of us.
I'm an old Gen X. Born in 65. Being on the cusp, I have some Boomer traits and values as I think we all do to an extent being raised by that generation but I absolutely love the attitude our generation has and am proud to call myself one. Most of us raised ourselves, both parents worked, we are self sufficient, polite, thick skinned but we don't take any shit. It was a great time to grow up in.
what of crashing economies and destroying housing markets for personal gain while voting for policies that takes rights from workers and citizens? Those traits and values? Or the values of having medical professionals rather than do their jobs tell people to just suck it up leading to the highest rates of suicide ever seen and a mental health crisis?
I think this confuses gen z with the millenials, especially with some of the slang. There's a huge difference between those two generations. Gen z is the one that fits the description in this video
@@alphanerd7221 so basically my kids born in 2008 and 2021 are both millennials? And since I was born in 88 I’m a millennial? I’m just trying to understand here.
@@TheMrDarius Generations aren't assigned until adolescence. This Idea that everyone is in a named generation is nonsense. A generation needs some kind of unifying characteristic to be a generation. The Baby Boomers were a huge generation. Gen X is advertising resistant. Millennials grew up raised by computers.
@@jeffbroders9781my parents are young boomers who raised old millennials 😂 We were homeschooled + poor so it felt like the 80s all the way up until 1994 😂
As Gen X, I recognize that Millennials split into two groups around age 30. They either became responsible, down-to-earth adult with common sense...or they remained children. You appear to be the former. You're good. 🙂 However, much of the issues we've been seeing are coming from younger Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Z has their mature group vs. children group too.
Meanwhile, while they are having the 19th planning session, we will have already done it, left the parking lot, shut down the power to the building, and cut off the valve stems of any vehicles left in the parking lot. The remaining charge on their cell phones might as well be an O2 meter.
He definitely is. When he mentioned youth and being born with a computer in their hand I laughed. Everything in that video is Gen Z. Also, a Millennial would never say “no cap” and we’d get our asses beat if we acted like he described in the store.
@@Silentscreamer37 I thought so because I don’t remember having a handheld computer back in 88. I was lucky to have a Super Nintendo in the 90’s and even then I was limited on playing it because of it “rotting our brains” like gen x and the boomers said it would back then lol. So I was sent outside and given the gen x treatment and told not to come home until the street lamps came on.
They can be I've used coercion or verbal threats many times in my life to persuade people, it would of came down to actual violence if they didn't recant but the threat was very much real I was just decent enough to give them warning upfront. But what these soft people claim is violence is nonsense just disagreeing with them or not giving into their demands is considered violence in their mind.
I'm a half Mexican gal from Ohio and I was hunting and fishing with my daddy by 4 or 5. I love the outdoors and taught Outdoor Ed straight out of college. Nature's Classroom. Doesn't even exist anymore. Sad.
Millennials includes people in their 40's now, who are so detached from the standard, stereotypes of millennials that they make up their own micro-generation, Xennials, which also includes young Gen x. For some reason, it seems millennials is just the goto term for "anyone in their 30s or younger." This Gen x vs millennial rant seems to be comparing older Gen x to younger millennials, because older millennials are practically gen x.
Thus proving the sheer folly of trying to even attempt to categorize people by arbitrary labels! People are individuals and while you can certainly "grossly" characterize them in crude blocks by generation, you wind up with a neverending set of sub-categories. Like endless Russian nested dolls!
@@KardboardKenny Like it or not, that's the general consensus for the timeframe. It varies per system, but those are the general years. No need to get bent out of shape and attack someone else's math skills. 🙄
I saw somethin recently that said it goes to 1985 😢 im 1983 and am completely incompetent . Boomers can adult but didnt tell us how to bcuz we are adults now so they're not responsible for us? 😢 we look 2 Genx PlS HELP us!! 🤯😱😢 lol 😅 our parents like to make it worse on purpose and laugh at us and celebrate how we cant do anything its seriosuly fucked up. GenX were the babysitters that noticed all the basic shit we can't do and don't know and actually helped.
I remember a couple of years ago, my coworker buddy of mine, both of us backend Gen Xers born in the mid 70s (I'm 1975, he's 1976) had a little battle with our two middle of the pack Millennial bosses (both born in 1989 and 1991) that was brand new at being supervisors and managers. They said "no cell phones in the workplace!" They said they would impose the rule on themselves. We were like, OK, you want to play that game. We put our phones up. We both grew up without digital technology and mobile phones, we remember the 80s and 90s. We can go back to that life and live without it. But these guys in their late 20s/early 30s didn't know that life, they kinda knew the 90s, but by the early 2000s they were still kids and online and hooked up with cell phones,.....so it wasn't long before they had their mobile phone/digital technology withdrawal and we caught them going back to their phones. Their MBA's didn't help them with their digital technology withdrawal.
I love it!!! If I ever heard such a "rule" I'd welcome it with pleasure. People still get on my case for putting my devices on airplane mode at night or ignoring everyone on weekends. 😂
Gen X here. I've fired 6 millennial and gen Z employees for being on their phones almost as much doing the job they were hired for. It was a pleasure giving them their last check and walking them off the property. I don't carry my phone around all the time, I got schitt to do.
@@Blacktsalagi73 I miss the days before answering machines in the house. If you didnt answer the phone it meant "Unavailable " Try calling another time and the best part was, no OBLIGATION to return the call. !!!!!!
Millennial here. I can do without my phone, especially on the job. Grew up without one until 2009. Mainly used it to keep in contact with family. One stopped working properly back in 2014, and fully by 2015. I was ok with that. Told people where I was going before I left. Checked the time by the day light, clocks on the wall, or my watch at the time. When I am waiting on something or a passenger in a car, I look at the scenery 90% of the time.
I gotta tell you man, Millennials are 26-42 right now. Gen X are 42-58. People still think Millennials are children, but I promise you we grew up when the world was less soft. Gen Z are the ones that can't remember a world before 2010.
My oldest was born in late 99. All my other kids were born in 2005-2011. I've got both, but I'll be damned if I let any of them act like these little snowflakes today.
@seancoyote actually, it varies depending on who's study you prefer. In 2023, a study by the Population Reference Bureau places births between 1981-99 as millennials, while other studies go one year higher to 2000. Calling someone born in the 80s a "millennial" doesn't make much sense because they were born so far away from the upcoming millennium. Now, 1995-2005 makes more sense. So no, not all of my kids are Gen Z. Either way, they don't act like entitled brats.
@BradleyUK58 exactly these idiots out here calling taking care of mental health 'pussy' like when these idiots all have neurological diseases like alzeimers caused by decades of abusing their mental health cos some old person told them they're a chicken if it bothered them. Literally most important human organ and an entire gen were brainwashed into thinking abusing yourself was a good personality trait. It's fucking sad we are gonna watch a wave of this shit hit
And when words were meant to hurt , they were said in your face, not on a keybord several miles/km's away. You were not out of striking distance if you really hurt somebody's feelings.
Especially in high school! Parents could give their kids alcohol as long as there was adult supervision (which a lot of people didn't do), drinking age was 18, seatbelts weren't required, and you could carry guns in the rear window of your truck at any age!
No. You got it wrong. Gen X gave birth, (literally) to millennials, after millennials then it is Gen Z. Gen. Z are the younger siblings to millennials. I know this!! I am a Gen. X and I have a millennial child and also a Gen. Z child. My millennial child is a whole generation _older_ than the6 Gen. Z child, meaning my Gen Z child is the younger of the two.
@ilovenoodles7483 I'm GenX (76) my brother is Millenial (85). My uncle is oldest GenX (65) would've been only 20 when my brother was born. Millenials are in their 30s now with kids. GenZ in their 20s and teens are the kids of GenX. Also Millenials don't say "cap". Definitely GenZ in this video
@@ilovenoodles7483What?? I’m on the older half of Gen z, baby boomers and Gen X is mainly our parents(Millennials, Gen z and Gen x lmao. Millennials are mainly the ones raising Gen Alpha.
@@ilovenoodles7483 millennials were early 80s to 1996. Gen-x was around 1965 to 1982. So no "gen-x" did not "give birth" to millennials lmao. Some of you gen-x'ers are as clueless as baby boomers about what year it is - stuck in 2003 or something. Millennials are peaking past 40 and definitely well into their 30's now. Only the oldest 5 years of gen-x would have maybe had millennial baby's but you would have been young parents.
@@ilovenoodles7483 you are so close, but you are SO wrong my friend. but no shame to you, this isn't discussed enough! GenX begot genZ. the Boomer2 group begot the Millennials. Boomer 1 (1945-1955) were the parents of Gen X, that's why we genX don't hate the Boomers. the Alphas are the kids of the Millenials. to sum up: boomer 1 ~~ Gen X ~~ Gen Z boomer 2 ~~ millennials (genY) ~~ Alpha
Gen Xer here. As my mother recently said to my youngest millennial brother "Your sister can shut someone down and make them feel insignificant within a one sentence zinger". Yup, definitely a product of our gen.
why are Gen X still arguing with Millennials when at this point we are ALL GROWN and need BOTH generations to help GENZ, the Kids of Gen X, to stop being depressed and entitled and become better humans for our society which they will be leading in the not so far future!
Christ on a cross thank you. I am gen Z and I am hopelessly fucking starved for good role models. I try to learn things from the older tradesmen (I am a welder fabricator) and they look at me like I'm a total moron and have very little patience with me. Some just refuse to reach me out right because they say it isn't their job. WE WANT TO LEARN. WHY WON'T YOU ASSHOLES SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE AND HELP US. WE ARE BEGGING. It might take a while and we might be slow learners but we are all young!! Fucking help us!! Stop preaching about how you can kick my ass!!
I feel extremely fortunate and extremely grateful to be born in '74. Im sure I speak for countless GenX here, we dont take any sh*t, we know what we're doing in life and we were forced to learn it early and quickly by way of our own hand. Stress and necessity made and drove us, it was sink or swim, we swam alone as kids and carry this through as adults. We are overlooked in the best way, we dont need or want support and we like it that way. We really looked up to our amazing grandparents who instilled classic old world values and a great sense of calm we may not have gotten from our parents. We readily disappeared to do our own thing at all ages and made it back for dinner and then headed out again until dark without our parents (or any other adult) fretting and calling the cops. I was a latchkey kid, I often skipped taking the bus after school preferring instead to walk home alone through fields and forests picking berries and climbing wild apple trees. I learned to cook very early, I grew up adventuring in the deep woods and wandering coastlines. I relentlessly mangled myself on asphalt without a helmet, ate dirt, climbed massive trees, bled a lot...a lot and further toughened up through years of contact sports like lacrosse and rugby. Ive had a job since 14 and tackled everything from heavy labour to high tech to fine wood-working to complex art pieces etc. I was eager to move out into the world immediately after high-school to further develop myself. I know which end of a screwdriver to use, Im confident, artistic, resilient, analytical, resourceful, independent, inventive, polite, reserved and fully self aware. I can interact with anyone with utmost confidence and composure and with utmost respect and empathy (for those who deserve it). Basically we developed the required life skills by our teens and well before the internet which has damn near ruined future Gens in so many ways that I honestly fear for our future. My wife is a Millennial, shes beyond amazing in every conceivable way, an honourary Gen X if there ever was one, IMO she's a far better version of myself. 😅 I'm of the opinion Millennials are the last capable Gen. Maybe we're not the best but we know who we are and exactly what we need to do and how to do it. Proud to be a Gen X.
Dude, Millennial here. You're 100% describing Gen z. For those who don't know the Millennial generation (approximately 1980 - 1999) is the generation that comes immediately after Gen X. Now you know. You're welcome. 👍
I was born millenial but raised similar to gen. X. I grew up with "sticks and stones", I was taught and grew to value HONEST truth, I was alone alot, I've an leave me alone attitude (of which, as I have grown older, has developed into an I don't give a fu k attitude), I didn't wear a helmet nor pads when riding my bike, when I scraped my knees I rinsed them off with the hose (of which I drank from many times as well), I was locked out of the house both by me and my mother several times, I had video games but wasn't allowed to play them all the time and not everyday, I wasn't allowed to watch t.v. all the time nor everyday either, I didn't have a cellphone until I was around 17 or 18 years old, didn't have full internet access until I was in, atleast, my early 20's, and the list goes on. The only time I really remember hanging around my generation was when I was in high school... and could relate very little with them then. Now... I look at my generation and all I see are a bunch of bored, keyboard sissies who need a good beating. P.s. I long for the days when people didn't meet/interact through a screen! I was born about 30 - 40 years too late. P.p.s. I know I'm a hypocrite for adding this whole comment.
What a time to be a kid, one foot in both generation's worlds... Happy living as a X'er, but yet to be just growing up as things like computers in house with out windows for a few years but getting windows 95 and knowing the value of it and not needing to use dos...I lean far more over into gen x side... Joys of being born in 84...
Dude.... Gotta love how this isn't a pro and con conversation about the two generations.... But more of a battle plan... This is how us Gen Xers view the world.... 😆😆😆
I taught my genZ kids how to drive "stick" (or manual as we say here), it was a point of pride. even though they seem hopeless, many of genZ have had some solid genX parenting.
That's because you're technically a Xennial, a cross-over microgeneration born between Gen X and Millennials, from the late 70s to mid 80s, (1977 to 1985).
@@spirals73 Well, thanks! :) It's true that Xennials could be considered a subcategory of Gen X, but it's also its own thing, which stands to reason considering the huge differences technologically and economically between before and after the Reagan/Bush era (1981-1992). Those born in the 80s came into a very different world than the one that existed during the height of the worldwide hippie countercultural movement, and are very different people as a result.
Born with a computer in our hands?! Ummm..good sir, I don't think you're talking about the right generation. Millennials' years are from 1981-1996. Google wasn't around until 1998, and even then it took a while before almost everyone had a cell phone. And as a Millennial born at the start of 1990, I too experienced a childhood of going out til dark, playing with sticks & mud, drinking from the hose, & climbing on anything. Even fought back at a bully to the point where I had him running like a pansy. So these ideas that Millennials are somehow so helpless that it'll take a few things to have us just crumble is getting, how should I put this, Really Fricken Old!! For crying out loud the youngest Millennials are 27 now. Generational Wars about whose was better or the best, has gotten us nowhere.
I've already seen them turn on each other, there's a hilarious vid on YT of a conference they had. Wish I could remember the name but you've got to see it. 😆🤣😂😁
Im almost 50 , was in the army at 18 , been working in a shop for more than 25 and still very much capable of opening a can of woop a$$ 😆 they got nothing on me
Yep. We all had to fight. I was so not afraid because I got beat up by my older siblings so a fight was never intimidating. I knew how to lose so there was nothing to lose and in so I'd win or they'd back down when they realized I meant business.
Hells yeah! Not giving a fuck wins Everyday! (I'm still cackling) I was getting worried but i think its gonna be like the Hippies in the mid1970s. "All children but one, must grow up...." opening line to Peter Pan.
Nah! That's not an exceptional IQ. Rather, it's having Google at their fingertips. Using technology required the non-tech ages to learn to adapt quickly. These millennial types never had to adapt. They were born within the tech age and lived in it since day one. For example, people born in metro areas grew up in that concrete jungle and know how to wrangle such busyness. It's natural to them. Country bumpkins, on the other hand, grew up in the woods or farmland areas with a traffic jam consisting of cows in the road and two oncoming tractors with wide farm equipment being trailered. Now, switch those people around in an instant. What do you have? 🤔 People going, "Um... people actually live this way?" 😮 Both types can learn the other ways of living eventually. Millenials fall under the group of seeing these two different worlds on their devices, imagining they could easily swap between either existences without issue. They live in a space consisting of imagined capabilities without truly having any. They haven't needed to adapt to anything of substance. So... giving them credit where none exists is unfair and only adds to their entitlement shenanigans. After all, test scores in academics have proven kids nowadays are worse off intellectually than kids of previous generations. They are behind in mathematics and writing. Have you noticed the blatant disregard of their public displays of utilizing the English language so piss poorly? Yep! So... there's that.
Smartness isn't the ability to push a button and let your computer give you answers. Smartness is the ability to utilize knowledge and wisdom to better yourself and others. The amount of misinformation on the internet contradicts millennial's ability to "fact check" people. Are they facts? Do millenials know how to do true research with multiple proven sources? I doubt it.
Born in '83. I am part of the " technically not gen X, but..." group. We remember lord of the flies, and stand by me. Because our older siblings trained us to be as such. And i miss radioshack and block buster.
Well 1977 Gen X here, so a late one.. I got my first computer as a kid, the c64. So when i was not outside playing until the lights came on, i was inside having fun learning basic. I am IT support today...
Yeah you're doing what boomers are doing to us... confusing us with GEN Z. Millennials 1981-1996. Most raised by boomers, some of us like myself, raised by older Gen X. We were born with one foot out and one foot in modern technology. With a large diverse group, some of us are going to fight ourselves, others are going to legit fight back, then the rest are just not going to give a fuck. Family computer at around 2000-01, first cell phone by 2009.
Being Boomer X (born in 64) I remember all the crazy things we did as kids that would get parents locked up today. Creating bike jump ramps out of scrap? Check Using said ramp to jump over 10 kids lying on the street? Check Using the same scrap to make a fort. Check Experimenting with various "substances" in said fort as we got older. Check Experimenting with sex in the same fort. Check Honestly I feel sorry for most of the kids today. They can't even begin to know the joy we had living in the wilds.
YOU are not a Boomer! 😝 Unless, you identify and raised as one. I was also, born in January of 1964 and I’m straight up Gen X, the scale differs depending on the source but National Geographic defines GEN X as 1960 - 1980. I stand by that. Your comments, are totally Gen X. My little brother was born in 1972 and he played Evil Knievel jumping over kids and off ramps too! Lol 😂 he fell and knocked his teeth out! Lol 🙊🙈 😉
Born in 85 so technically a millennial but spent most of my time with Gen X siblings and our grandmother who was from the silent generation in my childhood. Not sure where i lie in this spectrum...
As someone born in 1975, I never considered people born in 1963 or 1964 as "Baby Boomers". My parents are classic Baby Boomers born in 1946, you guys were not Boomers. Even the people born in 1960-1962 were like in their own generation. I know the kids today will call you guys Boomers, hell they call all of us born in the 70s and even people born in the 80s Boomers just to annoy us, but it's unfair lump someone born in 1964 that graduated high school in 1982 or 1983 as the same generation out protesting the Vietnam War in 1968.
I’m a millennial going in 40. My grandparents raised me. Grandpa being a WW2 vet he taught me a few things and i know I don’t really belong to anyone. But I see your viewpoints, they are hilarious!😂
Their causes would have been righteous if they were actually problems, but they weren't actual problems, we had solved them and were on a great flight path to bring those solutions home, and the millennial effed it up! Thanks Barry Soteorro!
I was born in 83, was raised like a gen x. Had bb gun wars, drank from hose, friends parents could whip our ass, dont get offended by words, if i got hurt parents said quit whining and rub dirt on it, stayed out in the streets at all hours of the night, can actually problem solve without Google
Graduated in 83… the 80’s were the BEST.. such good times back in the day! Great music, awesome movies, big hair, no cell phones, no social media, it truly was awesome!
Bro Im Xennials and between GenX and Gen Y ,I know on Digital and Analog 😂😂 My Aunt/Mother Which was Late Baby Boomer taught me how to us typewriter at 9 yrs old 😂😂 Damn I feel Older Now
Yeah, I remember the summer of "love" from 2020. I was 32 at the time, that was a level of fucked that I haven't seen before or since especially when the bozo news guy said that it was a "mostly peaceful protest." All's that I can say is that the world is vastly different then when I was a kid. Well my father (he was born in 1965 so he is an older Gen Xer) was telling me from the time that I was 6 years old that I was going to see a lot change in my life and not for the better. Both of my parents are older Gen Xers, my mom was born in 1971.
As your father's X'er twin (also '65), I can say he was right! But I refuse to give in to fatalism, and I still hope. The upside is we have access to far more information. Say what you like about the internet, take it from someone who researched _before_ computers, the internet is a blessing.
Meanwhile this millennial was born at the beginning of the millennials and relates more to the gen x and umm no computer in my hand at birth computers weren’t even in school until the end of elementary for me and it was all new and all we wanted to do on it was play the Oregon trail lol otherwise it was big and annoying and dial up about killed your ears and you were like turn it off let’s go outside….I mean was annoying that sound still haunts me to this very day. And there was a phone in the house but it had a cord and was only one so it had to be shared so basically you weren’t going to use it and if u did it was hi it’s blah blah meet me here in 2 hours after my chores to hang out see u then bye. About 3-5 mins lol and there was a line behind you waiting for the phone like jail lol and then parents were like do your chores chores are done ok leave be back by dark if you broke a bone which I did you were called a baby and sent to school anyways and then your arm swelled up and then only then was it ok we are going to the er ….to find out my wrist was broken. When I sprained my ankle in school I hopped for a block and my ankle hurt so bad but I didn’t cry I just dragged my leg and kept telling myself just another block when I got to my house I was crawling and then I got to the stair and I passed out on the cement stairs from the pain I couldn’t go any further so I laid on my front porch and slept for quite awhile then I crawled into my house to the couch climbed onto it and waited for my mom to get home. Which you would think she would believe me after the broken wrist but oh no it was as if I was a cry baby but went to er to find yes it’s a sprain a bad sprain and had to have crutches for like 4 weeks and probably would have been less if I hadn’t of walked home on a sprained ankle I am lucky I didn’t break it on the way home I was told 😂🤣😂🤣 but I am considered a millennial lol and I kind of don’t know if someone has screwed with the dates of this but I related more towards gen x could be as I grew up around a lot of gen x as most of my cousins etc are gen x I was the baby lol of the grand kids sooo maybe that’s it I don’t know but I feel like these dates are screwed up 😂🤣😇
I agree with you 100% I was born in 86 and have hardly anything in common with what people describe millennials as and a lot more in common with what they are describing as gen-x.
Do you remember the collect calls home? say your first name after the beep: "Dad I'm at Joe's pick me up" said so fast you could only pray he understood it. Then start to sweat when the streetlights start to flicker on wondering if he heard where you were.
No, millennials were NOT born with a computer in their hands. The oldest millennials are in their early 40's now and the smart phone was invented around 2011…. Over a decade after the last millennial was born. I think you're confusing GenZ's for millennials.
Im a millenial and im nothing like anything you just decribed. Most of us are not and are in fact hard working just trying to get through life. But the brats you just described do exist and shocker they were raised by gen x. Isnt that more the parents fault than the kid's?
Dec 1969 here, yes,I agree 💯 %. If they come looking we will send them packing back to mommy crying lol. Still strong and free and feral. Gen X forever. God Bless You All. From Hebb's Cross Nova Scotia Canada.
Gen X researchers can move seamlessly between internet and libraries (we know the fucking Dewy Decimal System).
And we have a pile of books in the back room or attic with useful stuff in them as well. :)
yeah, neil is right, we have a major advantage because we know both! You have the baby boomers who are really good with analog but never got used to computers, and then you have millennial and later who knows computers but they break down when the computers do. Whereas Generation X can do both. I admit that a millennial who served in the military will lessen this advantage a bit, but ultimately generation X has the edge here 🙂
We also know real math and the icing on the cake we know...Cursive 😂😂😂
I'm thinking one big power cut or an EMP and we can take over the world. :)
Amen!!! 😂
Getting Fact Checked is not the same as getting a punch in the mouth 🤷🏽
Yup. I got punched in the jaw and then the crazy girl tried to set my hair on fire.
Attitude checked, that went out the window
Another example why Gen X sucks almost as much as Boomers: you smoothbrains love violence.
I am in love with this comment!!!!!😂
I love that! So true! The best "fact check" in my opinion!
I think that they do not get that GenX also knows that "violence is violence."
🤣
Sticks & stones mfr.
yes the generation that had 2 wars simultaneously don't know what violence is, go back and cry over all your idols turning out to be gay
@@Dirpitz I know that this is getting to be a cliche at this point, but I have to say that most of your generation has not been punched in the f****** face and it shows.
The main difference between Gen X and Gen Y is that we were abandoned and neglected by our parents and society, while you guys were sheltered and overprotected. Neither was good for us, but they definitely produce some different traits.
@@Dirpitz Do elaborate.
When my Gen X gets forced out of hiding it's not going to be pretty. We're bringing years of built up anger and frustration with us.
Hallelujah. But come on, we always knew we'd be the ones the Save America! The first Generation in history to be hated, we will save our world.
We've already seen how Generation X is bad at leading thanks to Barack Obama's example.
Hell Yea!! Us 70's kids ain't even going to miss a step if the "Web of the whatever" fails! :)
Totally agree with you. We’ve been squeezed btwn our Narky parents that forced us to do everything for them and these wipe my tush entitled children. Give it 3 days without Internet in this country. They’ll mow each other down
I was an early millennial, yeah, it was toxic as shit, wherever society goes in the future we're not going back to the 90s, gen-x'ers were mentally diseased and intoxicated off the remnant excess of boomers.
We're not going back to that, we're not justifying pointless decadence and mental illness for the sake of gen-x'ers. I should have been born a zoomer tbh, worst times of my life.
There's nothing virtuous or necessary about how fucked up gen-x'ers are in the future, their literal claim to virtue is literal abusive alcoholic father vibes that they think somehow make the world a better place when it didn't at all.
You can sum up gen-x with two words "woodstock '99".
As a Gen xer...I am happy to be never mentioned when people talk about generations. I'm totally fine with that.
Don't start none and there won't be none.
Because we’re not pussies who need to be coddled. So, people left us alone to carry on with our lives. That doesn’t mean we’re just going to put up with BS though.
sometimes being the forgotten generation has its perks
If I could add to it without technology Gen X can write secret messages in cursive to pass on information and the younger generations won't be able to read it lol
If the younger generations don’t know cursive then that’s a knock on the older generations. Not the younger one. They dropped the ball by not teaching them.
Yeah that's why this is always such a stupid thing to fight over, each new generation is the product of the previous generation, if the final result is disappointing the sculptor is to blame, not the clay.
Ah, cursive as secret language, check… For a moment I thought you were talking about writing messages with lemon juice.
The just stopped teaching cursive a few years ago. All millennials that went to school know it
@stewpidasso3910 I started teaching my now 24-yr-old how to write in cursive in pre-school. His school stopped teaching it beyond 3rd grade. He stopped writing in cursive because of computers and tablets, and the handwriting of some of these kids make doctors' chicken scratch look legible! He had spelling up until sixth grade, and my youngest didn't have it beyond third. One of my sisters is not a star speller, but her issue is a phonetic one. Kids today just abbreviate everything!
When Gen X goes Red Dawn on your ass, you'll truly know what FA/FO is all about.
Wolverines!!!!!!!!
We are not the bigger person. We just don’t have the time or inclination. They better pray e never make it to retirement.
YES
I watched that movie 30 times. I'm a combat vet.
I'm looking forward to this.
Well said! Gen Z could not handle red dawn! Great movie! They are lost without electronics!
They are the kids who skinned their knees in the front yard and ran to Mommy to get it properly treated and a lollipop. We were the kids that skinned our knee 17 miles from home, where we shouldn’t have been. Then we hid it when we got home so we wouldn’t get an ass whooping for getting hurt.
EXACTLY 💯💯
Bro you aren't hard lol
I really felt that when you said getting whooped for hurting ourselves. I still remember my mom beating me with a belt because my little sister fell down 4 steps. I was 6 and I didn't even know what she was up to but apparently I was supposed to watch her.
@@quirkyt_T yessir!! The whoopings back then was serious
That sure is the truth! At nine, I had to swear my little brothers and the neighborhood kids to secrecy, because I had impaled my thumb with an ice pick while trying to poke holes in a jar lid, for tadpoles... You know, so they'd have air...!
All because I didn't want to go to the doctor with a stressed mother. The threats must've worked, decades later, even with my brother's confirmation, and being shown the scar, my mom refused to believe it.
The shit they know, ain't worth knowing.. Words of a fucking poet sir! GenX here
If they can't Google it they don't it
better to know shit not worth knowing than to know nothing and be shit
Says the person who probably has a phone with big numbers 😅
Another example of why Gen X sucks almost as much as Boomers: stupidity and sheer ignorance are seen as a good thing.
@@Dirpitzlmao keep thinking that's the case. You will find differently. Gen Xers don't need safe spaces, government and corporate protection. We know how to survive.
We were 30 at 12.
They have no idea. 😉
12? Yup. Accurate
Totally, yet somehow I'm still 30 in my head. And anyone else horrified daily by how the bullshit reality we saw through has just gotten worse? And nobody but us seems to get it? Oh well, still singin "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" and waiting to die.
For real
😢 we're 12 at 30 😢
Sticks n stones may break my bones but whips n chains excite me. Another gen x way of saying fafo😂😂
Rihanna is a millennial though
Oh baby!
Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another Gen X tease!
@@unicornrainbow222what? what dies Rhianna have to do with it?
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On behalf of Gen X, I'd like to thank our Betamax, VCRs, and VHS, for teaching us how to troubleshoot and program before those were a thing. To Mr. Rogers, who taught us how to be good people. To our Uncle Mac; the great Richard Dean Anderson, for teaching us how to MacGyver things we needed and need until they're invented, every Monday night. To the Beastie Boys for teaching us to fight for our right. To our bikes, what ever model they maybe, that took us everywhere. From the malls to the playgrounds. And so that we may keep our agreed upon time to meet the kids from the neighborhood a street over, just so we can reenact scenes from the Warriors. Then sticking around learning to do first aid to the kid you just beat down. or beat you down. And to the garden hose that quenched our thirst after a long day of just being a kid. Special shout out to the street lamp that came on 5 minutes before sunset, reminding us to get home before the rents start looking for us.
Nice😊
For Sesame Street for teaching us our numbers, letters, and how to cross the street while our parents worked, and again to the Beastie Boys for telling us all IT'S SABOTAGE!!!
@@bronwentillman8385and Schoolhouse Rock.
Mr Rogers? Who he? Didn't have him in my day. We had a crusty old retired Marine who addressed us with the word "men!" and meant it. If we didn't pull in our chins and our shoulders back we were demoted to "duck butt!" No looking at the ground with him. He woulda torn the hoodie of your thin necked head
Let's not forget we had C64s which were command line....not the nice GUI interfaces that later gens had.
I was born at the beginning of Gen X. Any of us still alive didn't get to the age we are now by being stupid. 🤣🤣
as a warrior once said "Beware an old man in a profession where men usually die young"
@@ithiriaderitan1745 It doesn't get any truer than that! 👍👍😁
Oh, we were stupid, but we had fun while we were at it! Our stupid usually resulted in "You could've been killed ramping the 4-wheeler...no more Dukes of Hazzard reruns for you for a month!" or "You got drunk on grandpa's Old Milwaukee? Well, too bad! Get your butt up and get to school!" What we did was FUN! The stupid shit kids do today (starting riots, protesting farms when we have grocery stores, believing that if you feel like a man, then you're a man....) is just stupid beyond belief.
Man i know a lot of stupid 65+ people. That's got to be a joke
@@ithiriaderitan1745Yea. In war and crime.
As an elder millennial, this is definitely gen x vs gen z.
Oh yeah 100% Gen Y is actually so fed up with Gen Z that we don't even know how to deal with them anymore.
I can almost tolerate Gen Z because I feel empathy for them....its the millennials that are a pain..the 34 year olds....the ones who think they invented the wheel, but have created nothing but mayhem and copied everything gen X has already done...
I’m a millennial a few years past 34, what mayhem have we created?? Us old millennials grew up very similar to how you did.
By even commenting, you chose your side. And it aint with the "boomers".
@@know973 this is a weird thing to say to me...... I am 34 I create art all the time and dig in the dirt fly kites and do not care about your wheel. I do not start mayhem I am pretty chill. Maybe you should stop generalizing every 34 year old like you know all of us.
I'm an old Gen X. Born in 65. Being on the cusp, I have some Boomer traits and values as I think we all do to an extent being raised by that generation but I absolutely love the attitude our generation has and am proud to call myself one. Most of us raised ourselves, both parents worked, we are self sufficient, polite, thick skinned but we don't take any shit. It was a great time to grow up in.
what of crashing economies and destroying housing markets for personal gain while voting for policies that takes rights from workers and citizens? Those traits and values? Or the values of having medical professionals rather than do their jobs tell people to just suck it up leading to the highest rates of suicide ever seen and a mental health crisis?
@BradleyUK58that's the Boomers. Not us mate. Gen X is tough as nails. Now Boomers and Millineals ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
@BradleyUK58it was what it was. You become less self absorbed and helpless. So not so sad
@BradleyUK58 boy do u know people who fit into those categories. And they can be insufferable. But some are ok.
@BradleyUK58 I understand my WWII generation grandparents better as I've aged and regret how awful my parents were to them.
You have millennials confused for gen z. I’m 40 and I’m a millennial. Don’t group us all together.
I think this confuses gen z with the millenials, especially with some of the slang. There's a huge difference between those two generations. Gen z is the one that fits the description in this video
Agreed but you’ve got to forgive our senile older generations, age is catching up not just physically but also mentally.
Sure Jan.
"Gen Z" are millennials. Generations don't just happen. Something has to distinguish them. If you were raised on a computer you are a millennial.
@@alphanerd7221 so basically my kids born in 2008 and 2021 are both millennials? And since I was born in 88 I’m a millennial? I’m just trying to understand here.
@@TheMrDarius Generations aren't assigned until adolescence. This Idea that everyone is in a named generation is nonsense. A generation needs some kind of unifying characteristic to be a generation. The Baby Boomers were a huge generation. Gen X is advertising resistant. Millennials grew up raised by computers.
Elder Millennial here, I stand w/my Gen X siblings. Raised the same way, think the same way, work the same way. #feral
Elder Gen X here, (1964) on a cusp FF 👊🏽 Peace!
You got lucky. I'm a '65 at the tail end of the boomers and had similar advantages. 😊
Bro i'm a millennial too. They didnt teach us shit. How to sell out and run the rat race. And now are complaining about the system they loved so much
@@jeffbroders9781my parents are young boomers who raised old millennials 😂
We were homeschooled + poor so it felt like the 80s all the way up until 1994 😂
As Gen X, I recognize that Millennials split into two groups around age 30. They either became responsible, down-to-earth adult with common sense...or they remained children. You appear to be the former. You're good. 🙂 However, much of the issues we've been seeing are coming from younger Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Z has their mature group vs. children group too.
Also, we had the greatest music, movies, TV, familes, fun-time, and when we died, we just got up and walked it up.
Meanwhile, while they are having the 19th planning session, we will have already done it, left the parking lot, shut down the power to the building, and cut off the valve stems of any vehicles left in the parking lot. The remaining charge on their cell phones might as well be an O2 meter.
He mixed our generation (millennials ) with Gen Z 🥶
So... you are gonna argue about nomenclature, eh?
@@horizonblack Workin' already....
@@LarsonPetty That's petty, Larson. Ohhhh. I see what you did there.
Not much of a difference.
Same thing.
Millennial here I do believe you are speaking of the gen z folks.
no, we see a lot of ourselves in GenZ. My kid isn't half as whiny as Millenials.
@@magdalenem4949 which era of millennials? Lol
He is.
He definitely is. When he mentioned youth and being born with a computer in their hand I laughed. Everything in that video is Gen Z. Also, a Millennial would never say “no cap” and we’d get our asses beat if we acted like he described in the store.
@@Silentscreamer37 I thought so because I don’t remember having a handheld computer back in 88. I was lucky to have a Super Nintendo in the 90’s and even then I was limited on playing it because of it “rotting our brains” like gen x and the boomers said it would back then lol. So I was sent outside and given the gen x treatment and told not to come home until the street lamps came on.
I'm born 82 and never believed ever that words are violence lol That's the dumbest thing I've heard this year thank you
They can be I've used coercion or verbal threats many times in my life to persuade people, it would of came down to actual violence if they didn't recant but the threat was very much real I was just decent enough to give them warning upfront. But what these soft people claim is violence is nonsense just disagreeing with them or not giving into their demands is considered violence in their mind.
Not to mention mostnof us grew up shooting guns , bb gun wars ,hunting , and a large number of us are vets .
4th of July firework wars in the park with middle school kids as soldiers. some good memories there.
Class of '88 here. My rural high school has a gun range in the basement, and marksmanship and gun safety was part of freshman PE.
Don't forget potato guns, roman candle fights, M80s, and tennis ball cannons!!!
We played cowboys, army and cops, and didn’t need safe spaces.
I'm a half Mexican gal from Ohio and I was hunting and fishing with my daddy by 4 or 5. I love the outdoors and taught Outdoor Ed straight out of college. Nature's Classroom. Doesn't even exist anymore. Sad.
Millennials includes people in their 40's now, who are so detached from the standard, stereotypes of millennials that they make up their own micro-generation, Xennials, which also includes young Gen x.
For some reason, it seems millennials is just the goto term for "anyone in their 30s or younger."
This Gen x vs millennial rant seems to be comparing older Gen x to younger millennials, because older millennials are practically gen x.
Thus proving the sheer folly of trying to even attempt to categorize people by arbitrary labels! People are individuals and while you can certainly "grossly" characterize them in crude blocks by generation, you wind up with a neverending set of sub-categories. Like endless Russian nested dolls!
Hello Generation X (1965-1980)☮
where the f did you learn simple math at?
or better yet, where tf do you think 15yo's were popping out babies?
'76er here
@@KardboardKenny Like it or not, that's the general consensus for the timeframe. It varies per system, but those are the general years. No need to get bent out of shape and attack someone else's math skills. 🙄
@@RT-zn2yd says the weak minded fool w/no ability for rational thought.
I saw somethin recently that said it goes to 1985 😢 im 1983 and am completely incompetent . Boomers can adult but didnt tell us how to bcuz we are adults now so they're not responsible for us? 😢 we look 2 Genx PlS HELP us!! 🤯😱😢 lol 😅 our parents like to make it worse on purpose and laugh at us and celebrate how we cant do anything its seriosuly fucked up. GenX were the babysitters that noticed all the basic shit we can't do and don't know and actually helped.
I remember a couple of years ago, my coworker buddy of mine, both of us backend Gen Xers born in the mid 70s (I'm 1975, he's 1976) had a little battle with our two middle of the pack Millennial bosses (both born in 1989 and 1991) that was brand new at being supervisors and managers. They said "no cell phones in the workplace!" They said they would impose the rule on themselves. We were like, OK, you want to play that game. We put our phones up. We both grew up without digital technology and mobile phones, we remember the 80s and 90s. We can go back to that life and live without it. But these guys in their late 20s/early 30s didn't know that life, they kinda knew the 90s, but by the early 2000s they were still kids and online and hooked up with cell phones,.....so it wasn't long before they had their mobile phone/digital technology withdrawal and we caught them going back to their phones. Their MBA's didn't help them with their digital technology withdrawal.
I love it!!! If I ever heard such a "rule" I'd welcome it with pleasure. People still get on my case for putting my devices on airplane mode at night or ignoring everyone on weekends. 😂
Gen X here. I've fired 6 millennial and gen Z employees for being on their phones almost as much doing the job they were hired for. It was a pleasure giving them their last check and walking them off the property. I don't carry my phone around all the time, I got schitt to do.
funny but really think about that. a society unable to put the thing down.
@@Blacktsalagi73 I miss the days before answering machines in the house. If you didnt answer the phone it meant "Unavailable " Try calling another time and the best part was, no OBLIGATION to return the call. !!!!!!
Millennial here. I can do without my phone, especially on the job. Grew up without one until 2009. Mainly used it to keep in contact with family. One stopped working properly back in 2014, and fully by 2015. I was ok with that. Told people where I was going before I left. Checked the time by the day light, clocks on the wall, or my watch at the time. When I am waiting on something or a passenger in a car, I look at the scenery 90% of the time.
you've got millenials and gen z mixed up.
Same thing.
@@alphanerd7221 nah us older millenials are just like gen X we were raised by them.
@@alphanerd7221another assuming gen x without really looking behind the scenes smh.
@@kdadkzg8803 Get literate if you want to pretend to know things.
@alphanerd7221 shut up alpha"turd" lol.
I gotta tell you man, Millennials are 26-42 right now. Gen X are 42-58. People still think Millennials are children, but I promise you we grew up when the world was less soft.
Gen Z are the ones that can't remember a world before 2010.
The some millennial were 3 when 2000 came around. Shit was hard last around 05. Still soft
My oldest was born in late 99. All my other kids were born in 2005-2011. I've got both, but I'll be damned if I let any of them act like these little snowflakes today.
Dudes, Millennials are 1980 to 1995, so they are weren't 3 in 2000 and your kids born 1999 to 2011 are all Gen Z. You guys are terrible at math.
@seancoyote actually, it varies depending on who's study you prefer. In 2023, a study by the Population Reference Bureau places births between 1981-99 as millennials, while other studies go one year higher to 2000. Calling someone born in the 80s a "millennial" doesn't make much sense because they were born so far away from the upcoming millennium. Now, 1995-2005 makes more sense. So no, not all of my kids are Gen Z. Either way, they don't act like entitled brats.
@@seancoyote plus, we GenXers were taught real math, not this common core bs
We Gen-X'ers were taught that words shouldn't hurt us, but we should also have basic manners.
@BradleyUK58 exactly these idiots out here calling taking care of mental health 'pussy' like when these idiots all have neurological diseases like alzeimers caused by decades of abusing their mental health cos some old person told them they're a chicken if it bothered them. Literally most important human organ and an entire gen were brainwashed into thinking abusing yourself was a good personality trait. It's fucking sad we are gonna watch a wave of this shit hit
If we were belligerent, our Boomer parents would have beat our asses.
Gen x'er here....i agree no need to behave like an 🫏
💯 we could not be snowflakes or pain in the butts.
And when words were meant to hurt , they were said in your face, not on a keybord several miles/km's away. You were not out of striking distance if you really hurt somebody's feelings.
I don't like to say it but the majority of Gen X confused as millennials with Gen Z, we have our own generation we're not the same lol. 😂😅
Gen X is the original "Hold my beer" generation.
Especially in high school! Parents could give their kids alcohol as long as there was adult supervision (which a lot of people didn't do), drinking age was 18, seatbelts weren't required, and you could carry guns in the rear window of your truck at any age!
Not bloody likely
And we were 12 when we said that!
and we have proof, 9 out 10 of us have a shirtless picture drinking a Coors when we were 4
Born 1969 and STILL state of the bad ass art!!! We're too versatile!
I don't know, software constantly updates on ancient hardware.
@@neillinds-rwndfit2898 software is that, soft, We GenXers are harder than hardware
@@neillinds-rwndfit2898with our 1970's death trap playgrounds. Two men enter, one man leaves. ⚔️
April 1970. I got your back.
@@mattbrown5511 tks
What do you mean youth? Our oldest Millennials are 40. 😂
41
100% agree brother 💯
We were not born with a computer in our hands, that's gen z. We still remember the sound of dial up internet and pagers.
The pure ability to not give a damn is a superpower.
This is more GenX vs GenZ. Millennials are their younger siblings
No. You got it wrong.
Gen X gave birth, (literally) to millennials, after millennials then it is Gen Z.
Gen. Z are the younger siblings to millennials.
I know this!!
I am a Gen. X and I have a millennial child and also a Gen. Z child.
My millennial child is a whole generation _older_ than the6 Gen. Z child, meaning my Gen
Z child is the younger of the two.
@ilovenoodles7483 I'm GenX (76) my brother is Millenial (85). My uncle is oldest GenX (65) would've been only 20 when my brother was born. Millenials are in their 30s now with kids. GenZ in their 20s and teens are the kids of GenX.
Also Millenials don't say "cap". Definitely GenZ in this video
@@ilovenoodles7483What?? I’m on the older half of Gen z, baby boomers and Gen X is mainly our parents(Millennials, Gen z and Gen x lmao. Millennials are mainly the ones raising Gen Alpha.
@@ilovenoodles7483 millennials were early 80s to 1996. Gen-x was around 1965 to 1982. So no "gen-x" did not "give birth" to millennials lmao. Some of you gen-x'ers are as clueless as baby boomers about what year it is - stuck in 2003 or something. Millennials are peaking past 40 and definitely well into their 30's now. Only the oldest 5 years of gen-x would have maybe had millennial baby's but you would have been young parents.
@@ilovenoodles7483 you are so close, but you are SO wrong my friend. but no shame to you, this isn't discussed enough!
GenX begot genZ. the Boomer2 group begot the Millennials.
Boomer 1 (1945-1955) were the parents of Gen X, that's why we genX don't hate the Boomers.
the Alphas are the kids of the Millenials.
to sum up:
boomer 1 ~~ Gen X ~~ Gen Z
boomer 2 ~~ millennials (genY) ~~ Alpha
Gen Xer here. As my mother recently said to my youngest millennial brother "Your sister can shut someone down and make them feel insignificant within a one sentence zinger". Yup, definitely a product of our gen.
I think you're confusing Millennials with Gen Z
why are Gen X still arguing with Millennials when at this point we are ALL GROWN and need BOTH generations to help GENZ, the Kids of Gen X, to stop being depressed and entitled and become better humans for our society which they will be leading in the not so far future!
I literally just told my husband, thats if we'd all stopping whining about each other, alot more would get done lol
gen x here......DONT NOBODY CARE WHAT YOU THINK BOO!
Stop telling people what to do.
Christ on a cross thank you. I am gen Z and I am hopelessly fucking starved for good role models. I try to learn things from the older tradesmen (I am a welder fabricator) and they look at me like I'm a total moron and have very little patience with me. Some just refuse to reach me out right because they say it isn't their job.
WE WANT TO LEARN. WHY WON'T YOU ASSHOLES SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE AND HELP US. WE ARE BEGGING. It might take a while and we might be slow learners but we are all young!! Fucking help us!! Stop preaching about how you can kick my ass!!
I feel extremely fortunate and extremely grateful to be born in '74. Im sure I speak for countless GenX here, we dont take any sh*t, we know what we're doing in life and we were forced to learn it early and quickly by way of our own hand. Stress and necessity made and drove us, it was sink or swim, we swam alone as kids and carry this through as adults. We are overlooked in the best way, we dont need or want support and we like it that way. We really looked up to our amazing grandparents who instilled classic old world values and a great sense of calm we may not have gotten from our parents. We readily disappeared to do our own thing at all ages and made it back for dinner and then headed out again until dark without our parents (or any other adult) fretting and calling the cops.
I was a latchkey kid, I often skipped taking the bus after school preferring instead to walk home alone through fields and forests picking berries and climbing wild apple trees. I learned to cook very early, I grew up adventuring in the deep woods and wandering coastlines. I relentlessly mangled myself on asphalt without a helmet, ate dirt, climbed massive trees, bled a lot...a lot and further toughened up through years of contact sports like lacrosse and rugby. Ive had a job since 14 and tackled everything from heavy labour to high tech to fine wood-working to complex art pieces etc. I was eager to move out into the world immediately after high-school to further develop myself. I know which end of a screwdriver to use, Im confident, artistic, resilient, analytical, resourceful, independent, inventive, polite, reserved and fully self aware. I can interact with anyone with utmost confidence and composure and with utmost respect and empathy (for those who deserve it).
Basically we developed the required life skills by our teens and well before the internet which has damn near ruined future Gens in so many ways that I honestly fear for our future. My wife is a Millennial, shes beyond amazing in every conceivable way, an honourary Gen X if there ever was one, IMO she's a far better version of myself. 😅 I'm of the opinion Millennials are the last capable Gen.
Maybe we're not the best but we know who we are and exactly what we need to do and how to do it. Proud to be a Gen X.
Turn off wi fi I downloaded the information on my hard drive i win😂
Dude, Millennial here. You're 100% describing Gen z. For those who don't know the Millennial generation (approximately 1980 - 1999) is the generation that comes immediately after Gen X. Now you know. You're welcome. 👍
I was born millenial but raised similar to gen. X. I grew up with "sticks and stones", I was taught and grew to value HONEST truth, I was alone alot, I've an leave me alone attitude (of which, as I have grown older, has developed into an I don't give a fu k attitude), I didn't wear a helmet nor pads when riding my bike, when I scraped my knees I rinsed them off with the hose (of which I drank from many times as well), I was locked out of the house both by me and my mother several times, I had video games but wasn't allowed to play them all the time and not everyday, I wasn't allowed to watch t.v. all the time nor everyday either, I didn't have a cellphone until I was around 17 or 18 years old, didn't have full internet access until I was in, atleast, my early 20's, and the list goes on.
The only time I really remember hanging around my generation was when I was in high school... and could relate very little with them then. Now... I look at my generation and all I see are a bunch of bored, keyboard sissies who need a good beating.
P.s. I long for the days when people didn't meet/interact through a screen! I was born about 30 - 40 years too late.
P.p.s. I know I'm a hypocrite for adding this whole comment.
What a time to be a kid, one foot in both generation's worlds... Happy living as a X'er, but yet to be just growing up as things like computers in house with out windows for a few years but getting windows 95 and knowing the value of it and not needing to use dos...I lean far more over into gen x side... Joys of being born in 84...
Dude.... Gotta love how this isn't a pro and con conversation about the two generations.... But more of a battle plan... This is how us Gen Xers view the world.... 😆😆😆
Maps, plans in cursive and stick shifts and they lose.
I taught my genZ kids how to drive "stick" (or manual as we say here), it was a point of pride. even though they seem hopeless, many of genZ have had some solid genX parenting.
Love the Gen X can go seamlessly between analog and digital!
Being a 42 year old Millennial, this is a little hard for me to identify with.
That's because you're technically a Xennial, a cross-over microgeneration born between Gen X and Millennials, from the late 70s to mid 80s, (1977 to 1985).
@@milumavPsssst We true GenXers accept you as our own. Don't tell the others.
@@spirals73 Well, thanks! :) It's true that Xennials could be considered a subcategory of Gen X, but it's also its own thing, which stands to reason considering the huge differences technologically and economically between before and after the Reagan/Bush era (1981-1992). Those born in the 80s came into a very different world than the one that existed during the height of the worldwide hippie countercultural movement, and are very different people as a result.
We are too old for that s… like Danny Glovers character in Lethal Weapon used to say.
Class of '70. Had to pause so I didn't piss myself 😂😂😂
Born with a computer in our hands?! Ummm..good sir, I don't think you're talking about the right generation. Millennials' years are from 1981-1996.
Google wasn't around until 1998, and even then it took a while before almost everyone had a cell phone.
And as a Millennial born at the start of 1990, I too experienced a childhood of going out til dark, playing with sticks & mud, drinking from the hose, & climbing on anything. Even fought back at a bully to the point where I had him running like a pansy.
So these ideas that Millennials are somehow so helpless that it'll take a few things to have us just crumble is getting, how should I put this, Really Fricken Old!! For crying out loud the youngest Millennials are 27 now.
Generational Wars about whose was better or the best, has gotten us nowhere.
I've already seen them turn on each other, there's a hilarious vid on YT of a conference they had. Wish I could remember the name but you've got to see it. 😆🤣😂😁
A lot of the stuff you were describing about millennials applies more to gen z.
Since no one really uses area for "size" of cities, NYC still wins.
What for?!!!! A target-rich environment!! 🙄
Imagine being so out of touch you choose to berate a younger generation as opposed to the one that messed yall up in the first place.
Im almost 50 , was in the army at 18 , been working in a shop for more than 25 and still very much capable of opening a can of woop a$$ 😆 they got nothing on me
Yep. We all had to fight. I was so not afraid because I got beat up by my older siblings so a fight was never intimidating. I knew how to lose so there was nothing to lose and in so I'd win or they'd back down when they realized I meant business.
Bro, you are talking about Gen z, not Millennials. No cap wasn't wven a thing until Gen z started entering the workforce
Hells yeah! Not giving a fuck wins Everyday! (I'm still cackling) I was getting worried but i think its gonna be like the Hippies in the mid1970s. "All children but one, must grow up...." opening line to Peter Pan.
Nah! That's not an exceptional IQ. Rather, it's having Google at their fingertips. Using technology required the non-tech ages to learn to adapt quickly. These millennial types never had to adapt. They were born within the tech age and lived in it since day one.
For example, people born in metro areas grew up in that concrete jungle and know how to wrangle such busyness. It's natural to them.
Country bumpkins, on the other hand, grew up in the woods or farmland areas with a traffic jam consisting of cows in the road and two oncoming tractors with wide farm equipment being trailered. Now, switch those people around in an instant. What do you have? 🤔
People going, "Um... people actually live this way?" 😮
Both types can learn the other ways of living eventually.
Millenials fall under the group of seeing these two different worlds on their devices, imagining they could easily swap between either existences without issue. They live in a space consisting of imagined capabilities without truly having any. They haven't needed to adapt to anything of substance. So... giving them credit where none exists is unfair and only adds to their entitlement shenanigans.
After all, test scores in academics have proven kids nowadays are worse off intellectually than kids of previous generations. They are behind in mathematics and writing. Have you noticed the blatant disregard of their public displays of utilizing the English language so piss poorly? Yep!
So... there's that.
You can say what you want but it's gen X who raised us so you can only blame yourself
If they really pick this fight… they are fooked.
We aren't hiring....we are patient, we made mixed tapes from the radio ...we can wait all day with no issues 💯🔥🎸
This is GenZ.
Smartness isn't the ability to push a button and let your computer give you answers. Smartness is the ability to utilize knowledge and wisdom to better yourself and others. The amount of misinformation on the internet contradicts millennial's ability to "fact check" people. Are they facts? Do millenials know how to do true research with multiple proven sources? I doubt it.
So. This.
Born in '83. I am part of the " technically not gen X, but..." group. We remember lord of the flies, and stand by me. Because our older siblings trained us to be as such. And i miss radioshack and block buster.
Well 1977 Gen X here, so a late one.. I got my first computer as a kid, the c64. So when i was not outside playing until the lights came on, i was inside having fun learning basic. I am IT support today...
I had a Commodore 64 too. Born 77, but in Australia 🇦🇺.
Yeah you're doing what boomers are doing to us... confusing us with GEN Z. Millennials 1981-1996. Most raised by boomers, some of us like myself, raised by older Gen X. We were born with one foot out and one foot in modern technology. With a large diverse group, some of us are going to fight ourselves, others are going to legit fight back, then the rest are just not going to give a fuck. Family computer at around 2000-01, first cell phone by 2009.
‘No cap’ is a Gen Z term
Gen Z are the ones that feel words are violent, Gen Y may have thought that at one point but we are so fed up with Gen Z 😂
Being Boomer X (born in 64) I remember all the crazy things we did as kids that would get parents locked up today.
Creating bike jump ramps out of scrap? Check
Using said ramp to jump over 10 kids lying on the street? Check
Using the same scrap to make a fort. Check
Experimenting with various "substances" in said fort as we got older. Check
Experimenting with sex in the same fort. Check
Honestly I feel sorry for most of the kids today. They can't even begin to know the joy we had living in the wilds.
Hmmmmm 64…..you are mostly Gen X
YOU are not a Boomer! 😝
Unless, you identify and raised as one.
I was also, born in January of 1964 and I’m straight up Gen X, the scale differs depending on the source but National Geographic defines GEN X as 1960 - 1980. I stand by that. Your comments, are totally Gen X. My little brother was born in 1972 and he played Evil Knievel jumping over kids and off ramps too! Lol 😂 he fell and knocked his teeth out! Lol 🙊🙈 😉
Born in 85 so technically a millennial but spent most of my time with Gen X siblings and our grandmother who was from the silent generation in my childhood. Not sure where i lie in this spectrum...
As someone born in 1975, I never considered people born in 1963 or 1964 as "Baby Boomers". My parents are classic Baby Boomers born in 1946, you guys were not Boomers. Even the people born in 1960-1962 were like in their own generation. I know the kids today will call you guys Boomers, hell they call all of us born in the 70s and even people born in the 80s Boomers just to annoy us, but it's unfair lump someone born in 1964 that graduated high school in 1982 or 1983 as the same generation out protesting the Vietnam War in 1968.
They have the numbers, but we understand violence, whereas they think words are violence.
I’m a millennial going in 40. My grandparents raised me. Grandpa being a WW2 vet he taught me a few things and i know I don’t really belong to anyone. But I see your viewpoints, they are hilarious!😂
No, they are factual, not hilarious. What is hilarious is how your generation things you're significant in any way.
I was thinking thats z generation
Their causes would have been righteous if they were actually problems, but they weren't actual problems, we had solved them and were on a great flight path to bring those solutions home, and the millennial effed it up! Thanks Barry Soteorro!
Sounds more old Gen z than millennial. Born in 1983 here and I feel more Gen X than millennial.
I was born in 83, was raised like a gen x. Had bb gun wars, drank from hose, friends parents could whip our ass, dont get offended by words, if i got hurt parents said quit whining and rub dirt on it, stayed out in the streets at all hours of the night, can actually problem solve without Google
I was born in '88 and I was raised the same.
I feel like people always confuse gen Z things as millennials.
I thought that this was Gen X vs Millennials, not Boomer vs Gen Z.
Then you don't get it. And that's the whole point.😢
@@angiewilliams8502 So basically, Generation X is suffering from old age.
You forgot one ting here. As a gen x you are very good at attacking in selfdefence with nonsence arguments. 😂 🐑
They never will know how awesome the 80's were.
Millennial were born in the early 80s lol. This dude is talking about gen z.
Born in the 80's doesn't mean you experienced the 80's. You had no idea what the hell was going on around you. Still don't.
@@markcooperartcomofficial
So someone born in 81 didn't experience the 80s? Stop being silly.
Graduated in 83… the 80’s were the BEST.. such good times back in the day! Great music, awesome movies, big hair, no cell phones, no social media, it truly was awesome!
You cared way too much to make this video man. I appreciate that.
Plus, we had the A-Team, McGuyver and Bill Nye. We can beat them with a sheet of metal, duct tape and some chewing gum.
Oh shit, digital is down! What ever shall I do??? Cut to Gen X "hold my beer... (which I brewed myself)"
Time for us to rise up! 52 year old and some thing wicked this way comes 😊
I would rise up but my hip hurts. 😆
lol
@@spirals73
I think you’re talking about Gen Z homie
Bro Im Xennials and between GenX and Gen Y ,I know on Digital and Analog 😂😂 My Aunt/Mother Which was Late Baby Boomer taught me how to us typewriter at 9 yrs old 😂😂 Damn I feel Older Now
You're a f'ing millennial ... deal with it.
LOL 😂👍
Xennials! Clever AF 🧐
Bro, same 🤣
Yeah, I remember the summer of "love" from 2020. I was 32 at the time, that was a level of fucked that I haven't seen before or since especially when the bozo news guy said that it was a "mostly peaceful protest."
All's that I can say is that the world is vastly different then when I was a kid.
Well my father (he was born in 1965 so he is an older Gen Xer) was telling me from the time that I was 6 years old that I was going to see a lot change in my life and not for the better. Both of my parents are older Gen Xers, my mom was born in 1971.
As your father's X'er twin (also '65), I can say he was right! But I refuse to give in to fatalism, and I still hope. The upside is we have access to far more information. Say what you like about the internet, take it from someone who researched _before_ computers, the internet is a blessing.
Meanwhile this millennial was born at the beginning of the millennials and relates more to the gen x and umm no computer in my hand at birth computers weren’t even in school until the end of elementary for me and it was all new and all we wanted to do on it was play the Oregon trail lol otherwise it was big and annoying and dial up about killed your ears and you were like turn it off let’s go outside….I mean was annoying that sound still haunts me to this very day. And there was a phone in the house but it had a cord and was only one so it had to be shared so basically you weren’t going to use it and if u did it was hi it’s blah blah meet me here in 2 hours after my chores to hang out see u then bye. About 3-5 mins lol and there was a line behind you waiting for the phone like jail lol and then parents were like do your chores chores are done ok leave be back by dark if you broke a bone which I did you were called a baby and sent to school anyways and then your arm swelled up and then only then was it ok we are going to the er ….to find out my wrist was broken. When I sprained my ankle in school I hopped for a block and my ankle hurt so bad but I didn’t cry I just dragged my leg and kept telling myself just another block when I got to my house I was crawling and then I got to the stair and I passed out on the cement stairs from the pain I couldn’t go any further so I laid on my front porch and slept for quite awhile then I crawled into my house to the couch climbed onto it and waited for my mom to get home. Which you would think she would believe me after the broken wrist but oh no it was as if I was a cry baby but went to er to find yes it’s a sprain a bad sprain and had to have crutches for like 4 weeks and probably would have been less if I hadn’t of walked home on a sprained ankle I am lucky I didn’t break it on the way home I was told 😂🤣😂🤣 but I am considered a millennial lol and I kind of don’t know if someone has screwed with the dates of this but I related more towards gen x could be as I grew up around a lot of gen x as most of my cousins etc are gen x I was the baby lol of the grand kids sooo maybe that’s it I don’t know but I feel like these dates are screwed up 😂🤣😇
You are not one of us. Go back to your people.
I agree with you 100% I was born in 86 and have hardly anything in common with what people describe millennials as and a lot more in common with what they are describing as gen-x.
Do you remember the collect calls home? say your first name after the beep: "Dad I'm at Joe's pick me up" said so fast you could only pray he understood it. Then start to sweat when the streetlights start to flicker on wondering if he heard where you were.
@@nongovernment3606 I remember pay phones, only ever used collect when I was in jail.
No, millennials were NOT born with a computer in their hands. The oldest millennials are in their early 40's now and the smart phone was invented around 2011…. Over a decade after the last millennial was born. I think you're confusing GenZ's for millennials.
"First, we shut off their wifi!" 🤣
Oh no, don't do that...... They will cry "child abuse" lol
None of these were Millennials, though...it's Gen Z that sucks! Millennials are in their 30s and just trying to take care of their families.
My first concert, Billy opened for Foreigner, Richfield Coliseum November 1981.
My original tour shirt was stolen, so I made a new one
Squire, not Idol, correct? I miss the old Coliseum. I remember being able to see it from the ledges in Virginia Kendall.
@@philhamilton8731 Squier, yes.
Saw ORIGINAL lineup of Van Halen in 84’ before the breakup. Crue, Jovi, AC/DC, Ratt, Riot, Thorogood, you know, the GREATS!
You sound like a passive aggresive old guy.
Gen X does not fight fair. We will fight dirty to win.
Is there any other way to fight?
That’s gen z, we millennials got whoppings. There was no throwing tantrums for us at home or in public 😂😂 We knew better.
Age and trechery overcomes youth and vigor!
But not poor spelling!
@@keithsavagelivesnobody's perfect. You savage brute! Lol!
@@gracedove1684 😉
The clutch in my truck completely confounds my millenial nieces and nephews...
This should be a Tshirt
I am a Millennial, born in 1988, and I can drive a stick so don't rope us all together dude.
Most of us Gen X just want to be left alone.
Im a millenial and im nothing like anything you just decribed. Most of us are not and are in fact hard working just trying to get through life. But the brats you just described do exist and shocker they were raised by gen x. Isnt that more the parents fault than the kid's?
Many of them coddled their children cause they lacked parenting when they were kids so they overcompensated.
Dec 1969 here, yes,I agree 💯 %. If they come looking we will send them packing back to mommy crying lol. Still strong and free and feral. Gen X forever. God Bless You All. From Hebb's Cross Nova Scotia Canada.