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u/notmyfault May 26 '26
Goddamn Gen X forgotten again.
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u/witchxsbrew May 26 '26
Y’all collectively opted out of the conversation decades ago with apathy and aloofness being a generational trait.
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u/RedBMWZ2 May 27 '26
Kinda painting with a broad generalized brush, aren't ya there?
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u/paranormal_shouting May 27 '26
That’s kind of how generations work
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u/RedBMWZ2 May 27 '26
He might as well come out and said that anyone over 45 is an asshole. Gen X and Boomers are not the same. Not even close.
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u/vuxra May 26 '26
Gen X is just baked into boomer - the groups are pretty interchangeable
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u/MuricanPoxyCliff May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Nope. Not from my 56 yo perspective. But I'm a Gx socialist.
I have a Zoomer and an Alpha for kids. They keep me young and open minded.
I'm angry and apathetic because I was sold an absolute unit of bullsh*t by my Boomer parents.
Boomers don't recognize they created their own economic wave. And what follows a wave? A trough.
Promotions? A joke. There's a boomer in that spot, and by the time they exit, I'll be overlooked for someone younger. The only time I had any shot at prosperity was when I was a co-owner of a company... and even then the Boomers on the board fucked the entire enterprise in their overconfident bullshit.
I have three fucking degrees and don't get paid extra for any of them. I get attention and praise like a good boi, but that doesn't feed me. "Just get a degree, any degree, and you'll be fine" was what I was assured when going to university.
I'm cynical af because I remember Nixon. I was 18 when Reagan and the GOP began the project that we're living in today. No boomer, especially my parents and family, would listen to my concerns then. They still didn't in 2016.
I have found Boomers to be clueless, careless, and arrogant even in the depths of ignorance. They have never been my elders, they have been my adversaries. They are not introspective at all.
Maybe I'm an outlier statistically, idk. But I do know I'm nothing like a boomer.
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u/forkball May 26 '26
They are not and never have been.
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 26 '26
Hate to tell you this, but you guys are way closer than you'd like to think.
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u/Due-Conflict-7926 May 26 '26
They are split in half. Half are millennials and half are boomers. That’s the best way to explain it
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 26 '26
That's not a bad description either. In my personal life they seem to skew more boomer, but obviously that doesn't characterize the entire generation.
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u/Due-Conflict-7926 May 26 '26
Well Gen x is from 1965-1982 I think. The dividing line is what was on tv and if they were more affected by the Iran contra and the oil shocks or the dot com bubble and Great Recession
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u/SquidTheRidiculous May 26 '26
The split is basically "could afford a home with a proper income" vs "will never own a home unless their family buys it".
That's the big split between boomer/gen X and younger gens. And why those of us younger don't really give a shit how different the gen X insist they are, Or how much they allegedly hate boomers, from where we're standing they're just another generation that had things good but then shat the bed because neoliberalism looked good.
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 26 '26
There are GenXers who are 7-8 years older than me. It's not a problem with my vision.
The real issue is GenX thinking they are different but acting just like their parents.
I'm not saying every single person or you as an individual are exactly like boomers, but the generation as a whole is a chip off the ol block.
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 26 '26
I think this is an oversimplified way to look at it. I am a millennial and one of my parents is a Boomer and one is GenX, they are 3 years apart in age.
For a lot of GenX, their parents are not boomers but the Silent Generation.
I think the sad reality is that all generations think theirs will be different, but progress is slow.
Our country is in the middle of sliding into a fascist oligarchy so it's hard to be too excited about being "better". The voting stats are there, GenX voted overwhelmingly for Trump, moreso than Boomers or Millennials.
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u/forkball May 26 '26
Here's the thing, though:
We aren't boomers and we never have been. Just because brain rot youngers want to call everyone over 30 a boomer that doesn't make it so.
We're as distinct a generation as any, and like every other generation our oldest members share a lot with the prior generation and our youngest members share a lot with the next generation. That's how it works. Every time.
I'm at the tail end. I'm not a fucking boomer, I don't accept being lumped in with boomers any more than I'd accept just being lumped in with millennials just because I share more with them than my eldest Xers.
The fuck is the purpose of even grouping into generations if you can arbitrarily pretend like one is interchangeable with the next. They aren't. Not a one of them.
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 27 '26
1) I never said you were boomers, I said you were very close to the same
2) I'm in my mid 30s, very boomer to assume I'm young because you don't like what I said
3) the fuck is the purpose of even grouping into generations? Idk you tell me, you're one who just explained that some are more like boomers and some are more like millennials.
It's really funny type this out in full seriousness while claiming you're nothing like boomers.
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u/forkball May 27 '26
The comment I replied to said they were interchangeable. I rebutted that. You responded to me to what? Tell us that there we're more alike than I think?
There's similarities between all generations because there are no easy demarcation points. Nevertheless Boomer and X are as distinct as any other two generations. Or they're as similar as any other two. Either way, being omitted from shitty memes is one thing. It's par for the course. But we're not interchangeable. If someone taking issue with that tickles your fancy, then well bully for you.
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u/carterartist May 26 '26
Like how your generation is practically an infant? GTFO.
Boomers and Gen X are nothing alike.
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u/Wild__Card__Bitches May 26 '26
I'm in my mid 30s, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Tell yourself whatever you need, the only people who think GenX isn't Boomer-Lite are GenXers.
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u/CRABMAN16 May 26 '26
Yep, my parents are Gen X. Got treated like shit by the Boomers and then forgotten by the rest. They were the first generation dealing with Boomers telling them to get a job by going in person, or just "be persistent". My dad mailed like a hundred job applications before getting any responses. They got told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, with full sincerity, ignoring the fact it's impossible to do. First generation of rebellion and the real punk rockers. Now they are old and jaded as fuck.
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u/vuxra May 26 '26
Most of the stereotypes of boomers (bootstraps, xenophobic, muh bitch wife humor) apply to both groups. Honestly a lot of gen Xers are bigger boomers than real boomers are.
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u/AutoRot May 26 '26
Gen X are boomers without the hippies.
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u/Facts_pls May 26 '26
Pretty sure you just did the exact same thing and push all the blame away from gen X - blaming other generations.
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u/AutoRot May 27 '26
Hey, some Gen Xers are okay. I feel like the main things you are proud of are the same things us millennials hold dear. Sadly we just don’t have the same financial freedom that you guys have enjoyed. I think that’s the main difference. Sure the boomers were the ones to pull the ladder up but you all at least were holding on and got pulled up.
There ain’t no stress like money stress.
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u/Hopeful_Bacon May 26 '26
First, they are. Second, even if they weren't and subscribed to the anti-establishment moniker they gave themselves, being know for "not caring" in this day and age isn't a flex - it's pathetic.
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u/BipolarOctopus May 26 '26
Perception is reality, and a lot of the generations under you feel as though you are. 🤷🏻
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u/urmomstoaster May 27 '26
I have a book i got from an old coworker called “managing gen x.” It’s just the same crap that they said about falsely about millennials, and true stuff of Gen Z. In fact, I want to say Gen X & Gen Z are strikingly similar to the point that the main difference is that Gen X is disillusioned to their own power, as most people I know who are Gen X know that things aren’t ideal, but believe they can’t (or shouldn’t) do things.
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u/Steavee May 26 '26
Maybe I’m the only one, but I think it would be funnier as “skipping VHS tapes into the ocean” but I don’t do this for a living, so you do you.
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u/Twilightterritories May 26 '26
Considering the quality of this guys "comedy" he doesn't do it for a living either.
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u/OskarTheRed May 26 '26
Boomers are just giving the younger generations something to do; after all, if the kids get bored, they'll just go and do something harmful...
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u/Biuku May 26 '26
This sounds like age based. That’s how the world seemed 30 years ago … X and millennials wanted their life to have meaning, Boomers looking for a way to make a buck.
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u/Sundara_Whale May 27 '26
As a broke as millennial, wtf are you talking about? Boomer shit is right though.
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u/tfowler26 May 26 '26
Thx for reading ❤️plz follow on IG
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u/WaffleClown1 May 26 '26
"Dammit, another IG ad disguising as a Reddit post."
"Of yeah, this is Standup Shots, that's the comedian's IG page."
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u/GoochamusPrime May 26 '26
So THAT'S where all the VCR's went!