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What the Fuck happened with Gen X? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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All I hear about is "boomers" this, "Millennials" that, "Gen Z" that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Being a "late" Boomer, I see gen x having a lot of similarities with me. Running loose in the neighborhood, doing stupid shit that probably should have killed us, absent parents who just wanted us independent and out of their hair.

We remember old shit (music, phones, computers) transitioning into new shit. I think it's a spectrum Boomer->Gen x. A lot of similarities.

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[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

The rapture came and took them away

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Remember the Silent Generation? Me neither

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Gen x was busy voting trump to further fuck themselves 😂. Many of them did fine and own property. Millennials and Gen z are the ones that were fucked with a spiked dildo more so from the combined greed of Gen x and boomers. Many gen xers I know live by the philosophy that "my parents were that way and so am I" basically meaning they weren't brought up to think for themselves.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Gen X here.

LOL

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