Hearts by the Generation
Posted by Decon_SaintJohn@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 81 comments
What do you think, is this accurate for the heart symbol by generation, especially Gen X?
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Puzzleheaded-Fee6241@reddit
We need a shirt that reads: I 🖕 U
AuntDany01@reddit
Snapping is disgusting
Small-Palpitation310@reddit
It’s not snapping. It’s a heart. Like a biological one
serenamoeba@reddit
What no I thought it was the tips of your fingers are shaped like a heart, like a cute little tiny one - it's so K-pop lol
Perfect_Storm_425@reddit
I hate it, looks stupid
serenamoeba@reddit
Ok negative nancy 😭
AuntDany01@reddit
Ohhhh wow I did not know that
discogenx@reddit
We called each other “bitch”, as a term of endearment. 😁
EasilyLuredWithCandy@reddit
Hey, Bitch! Sup?!
NaturalSpecialist5@reddit
I still say wuuzzzzzzupp Bitch !
IKnowAllSeven@reddit
Still greet my friends with “What up Bitches”
TimeFerret3304@reddit
Still do
NaturalSpecialist5@reddit
I give this heart to Jeep owners all the time. It really confuses them. I mean really. They have no clue. Good times.
TheWuziMu1@reddit
I do the same to Tesla drivers.
NaturalSpecialist5@reddit
Same! Except I'm in a small town now and there's only one Tesla owner and I know where he lives and I think he's a nice guy. I don't flip him off lol. I just say out loud to no one, nice dumpster dude 😎👍🏼
flyingfish_roe@reddit
“You’re Number One!”
MikeyRidesABikey@reddit
Two stories about Gen-X hearts:
When my wife (mid Gen-X) and I (early Gen-X) were driving home in separate cars, we ended up side-by-side at the stoplight at the end of the freeway off-ramp. At exactly the same time we flipped each other off.
One of my best friends donated a kidney to me. He almost accidentally got the surgery cancelled by flipping me off as they wheeled him past the room where I was being prepped on his way to the O.R. Social workers interviewed us separately to make sure that we are actually friends and that he wasn't being coerced into donating the kidney.
Mulezzz@reddit
Caused a minor fender bender across a median once - husband and I were driving next to each other, acted like we were angry, rolled the window down, honked, and flipped each other off. Driver on the other side of the road was distracted by our shenanigans and clipped another car. 😬
SuzQP@reddit
An old friend was giving me a ride somewhere in his convertible. At every stoplight, we'd start screaming at each other, pretending to be a couple on the verge of divorce. We had an audience of at least 10 people waiting to cross the street at one corner when he fucked up by stealing one of my lines from the previous light.
Imagine you are watching an epic domestic argument when the man turns to the woman and shouts, "OH, YEAH? WELL, THE KIDS AREN'T YOURS!!" 🙄
Mulezzz@reddit
That’s a sign of a great relationship!
funktopus@reddit
Flipping people off is a sign of affection if I know you and a warning of danger if I don't.
The alpha one I've never seen before though.
SuzQP@reddit
I suspect the alpha one is made up. They're what? 8 years old max? Totally bogus.
Freed_lab_rat@reddit
Mine has always been 🤘
SuzQP@reddit
Yeah, and that one is both heart and mind.
Confirmationbias10@reddit
Extra credit if it also comes with a an eye roll so far back that they might get stuck like that forever followed by the most outrageous "fuck off" the world has ever witnessed.
siliconsmiley@reddit
Whatever
FantasticStooge@reddit
This is heartwarming
Grafakos@reddit
So glad I've only ever seen or made the Gen X version.
Guilty_Eggplant_3529@reddit
It's not only a threat, it's also a a promise. Just like Shimmer, which is not only a dessert topping, but also a floor wax.
xReturnerx@reddit
Gen Xer here, that tracks.
Continuum_Design@reddit
Gen X: Disliked by many. Ignored by even more.
nhh@reddit
You can make her orgasm with GenX heart.
Low-Situation-73@reddit
Proof that most men only think of sex
BabadookOfEarl@reddit
No, some actually do it as well.
Low-Situation-73@reddit
You mean most
BabadookOfEarl@reddit
Gen Alpha wins that round.
tepidsheets@reddit
We get it, you guys are the most insecure generation, such badasses.
BabadookOfEarl@reddit
Came to be edgy?
We’ve been here since the BBS days. Your desperation isn’t going to impress anyone.
Beliliou74@reddit
That much negativity for so long weighs on you. Whatever happened, hope you find your peace🍀
S0whaddayakn0w@reddit
Weird-Ninja8827@reddit
He touched the hearts of so many.
BigFatBlackCat@reddit
Lol love this one
IWantTheLastSlice@reddit
This checks out
Able-Negotiation-234@reddit
About sums it up, Gen X keeping it real..lol
Minimum_Republic_600@reddit
The gen z version would get you jumped where I grew up.
Karadek99@reddit
Legit
trUth_b0mbs@reddit
lol pretty accurate
Outrageous_Horse_157@reddit
Word
Dizzy-Daze@reddit
This is a historical fact! I have pictures when I was a kid with the same hand gesture. 🖕🏼
Rab1dus@reddit
I do not recall ever making a heart symbol.
grimsnap@reddit
I listen to grindcore, doom, and death metal.
I also love doing the millennial heart gesture. We contain multitudes, I guess.
LynxLynx555@reddit
You got me in the first half
LynxLynx555@reddit
Love this one.
Present-Assignment99@reddit
This made me think of Dyslexic Heart by Paul Westerberg.
FluxusFlotsam@reddit
Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart?
AnarchiaKapitany@reddit
Not true, we also did the snapping heart.
Over_Ad_688@reddit
Double hearts, every day!
hankenator1@reddit
Gen Z heart looks like a rat head, they just suck at everything.
Mechromancer3X@reddit
Fuck you?
jansensan@reddit
Ah, a Gen X at heart
Mechromancer3X@reddit
Lmao that made me laugh
Top_Shoe_9562@reddit
Gen X here. Can confirm
Jonas_VentureJr@reddit
You could try showing the Boomer heart, but they lack that …..
Independent-Dog5311@reddit
ACCURATE.
BeebsMuhQueen@reddit
Exactly. And it’s hard to explain to younger or older people that you are necessarily cursing them when you flip people off, it was even affectionate or something you just did while frustrated. Lol
westfly29@reddit
Spot on
Solid-Narwhal1895@reddit
I don’t get the Alpha. A little help?
Lord_Cheesy_Beans@reddit
Finger tips make a heart, some young cousins just explained this to me recently, I thought they were pulling my leg.
beaujolais98@reddit
lol I thought with the fist it was meant to be anatomically correct.
peteofaustralia@reddit
When a younger Asian colleague did that sign to me, I thought it was "hey, here's the smallest violin in the world, playing just for you" which was totally normal in the 80s. But you rub the fingers together to play it.
Solid-Narwhal1895@reddit
Thank you, my liege.
Andovars_Ghost@reddit
Actually, the way the hand is posed makes it look like a more anatomically correct heart.
AlfhildsShieldmaiden@reddit
My sister and I flip each other off all the some as a sign of love, so it’s accurate for me. 😅
Chad_Hooper@reddit
Nah, man, my heart is 🤘
Star-Lord_VI@reddit
🖕😆🖕
Inevitable-Lock5973@reddit
Yep
NoCartographer3974@reddit
Gen Alpha needs to fix those fingers like we taught them. Otherwise this tracks.
Spear_Ritual@reddit
That tracks.
R67H@reddit
no lies told
Amazing_Decision3694@reddit
Haha this is fantastic