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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

This has been my experience as well. I'm 1980 and feel very little connection to Gen X beyond music (90s though, not 80s) but philosophically I'm extremely millenial. There really was some unusual and unique things happening culturally when we were in our formative years and our micro generation really deserves its own category.

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InternationalMap1744@reddit

1980 and exactly the same

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Milly_Hagen@reddit

I'm 1981 and feel exactly the same.

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Polkawillneverdie17@reddit

I'm 1984 and feel way more at home here than in r/Millenials

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KoreyYrvaI@reddit

Also 1984, and at home here. Millenials includes too many people who were born in the mid 90s and missed the crazy change up pop culture did in the front half of that decade.

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mikeh0677@reddit

I am from 1956. Not sure how I wound up here, maybe i’ve looked around here just trying to understand my daughter‘s generation better but what do you mean by the crazy change up in pop culture for the latter half of the 90s?

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

Xennails kind of straddle a major technological shift during our formative years. Meaning, we were born and our childhoods were largely analog, (no cell phones, home computers were just coming out, but no internet) and made the transition to digital during our late adolescence. So we kind of grew up understanding what both worlds are like. Pre and post internet during our formative years.

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FWitU@reddit

I wonder if AI will do the same to today’s kids. They will have covid and AI as a clear marker of the world changing. If you were 4-7 in 2020 you missed a massive socialization period.

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

I absolutely think it will—teachers are already saying they notice a difference with kids that age range. Time will tell if it works itself out! It’s so unfortunate. I can tell there’s even a cultural shift between my kids that are in their early 20s, and my youngest who is 15. They see to be two different generations, even tho they are only 6-10 years apart in age.

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

For me, the 'analog childhood/digital adulthood' is almost perfect. My dad got our household internet access in January of 1998. I turned 18 in February of 1998.

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wiredwalking@reddit

April of 98. My father got internet a little bit earlier. Prodigy. didn't want to pay for it without anyone using it, so said that the kid who used the internet the most in a month would get $5. Fun times.

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dowut_ohghey@reddit

Lol, we had Prodigy, too...modem sounds, a minutes-limit...what a time to be alive!

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spirandro@reddit

We got internet a bit earlier, I think in 1996 or 1997 (I was born in 1984 and was in 7th grade in 1997, and I know that bc my grade level at the end of each school year always matches the last number of the actual year, which is helpful for someone like me that sucks at math).

My stepfather was working for Lockheed Martin as a webmaster, so we luckily got a home computer and dial-up earlier than some of my peers. He also taught me how to do HTML coding using Adobe Pagemill, which was nice bc we didn’t really like each other much besides that lol

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docsuess84@reddit

The jump from 28.8 to 56K was shocking enough. DSL blew my mind.

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NextPrize5863@reddit

Me too! Isn’t it awesome to have the big years line up with your own big years!

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iheartnjdevils@reddit

Exactly. So we got that typical "out until the street lights come on," childhood but technology was introduced early enough that we grasp it better than Gen X. We also didn't grow up with the internet or have access to social media until well into adulthood unlike a good portion of Millennials.

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diablette@reddit

I had internet in my later teens even though I'm older than you. Very nerdy family. I identify with Millenials more on early internet nostalgia. We all used to be gen Y, then someone renamed us and moved the range ahead.

My older siblings was firmly X and I saw that from a distance but didn't have the same experiences.

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Competitive-Teach675@reddit

Not only a technological shift, but the speed at which it happened.

I was born in 1979. I went from listening to records, tapes, CDs, and MP3s, and "streaming" all by the time I was 16.

It's the sheer technological shift and the speed at which it happened.

There's just no way to explain it. I was around 7 years old, I went to a friend's house, saw Legend of Zelda, and I was like, "Holy shit, this IS the shit." Then, within 7 years, I was playing Doom.

There's just no way to explain the sheer speed at which technology was shifting and how it was happening at such an early age, into our teenage years.

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hotcapicola@reddit

Computers are a big part of it, but there were other cultural shifts like the emergence of helicopter parents. Mellenials have a very large range of birth dates half the generation was raised by boomers and half by the older Gen Xers.

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scott743@reddit

The emergence of the internet is the biggest distinction for me. I remember the era before having a PC and an internet connection were common, but also remember the internet being a significant part of my childhood.

I don’t think GenX had that same experience, nor do younger Millennials who were born in the late 80s/early 90s.

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Seicair@reddit

In the 80’s we had cassettes, our parents’ record players, radio… few people had home computers or basic consoles… but entertainment was largely in the real world.You’d go play with friends outdoors and who knew what you were up to.

In the 90’s personal computers and consoles exploded, handhelds took off, and the internet became widespread. Coming of age during both of those periods really gave us a unique experience. We grew up as the world entered the digital age.

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docsuess84@reddit

This is the big one. I very distinctly remember my pre-internet analog life and post internet life. I had no social media in high school other than AIM or ICQ or something. Facebook and MySpace had only just become a thing when I was in college and only college people were on them so they were completely different online experiences from what they are now. Lots of my shenanigans only exist in memory. There’s no embarrassing photos waiting to show up later. Lots of kids even 5 years after me can’t say that and have basically always had their lives chronicled online.

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ErikMcKetten@reddit

Yeah, my mom is Gen X and my father is a boomer. And I'm 1979.

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Thinkthru@reddit

You spelled groomer wrong

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ErikMcKetten@reddit

No, fuckstick, the sperm donor was an abusive high fuck that gave his 3 year old son 2nd degree burns to teach me "stove is hot" and threw my infant brother against a wall because he was crying from hunger after the sperm donor wasted his paycheck on booze. My father was the man 10 years my mom's senior that took all 3 of us in and built her a house and fed and raised us.

Take your assumptions and shove them up your ass.

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wuttplugggs@reddit

Woah! So your mom was 14 (or younger) when you were born?

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ErikMcKetten@reddit

16.

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DigitalMindShadow@reddit

Music too. Pop radio swung from dance music to rock overnight when Nevermind came out.

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yodellingllama_@reddit

I'm still haunted by an interview with Air Supply (I believe on VH1) that described the dramatic and rapid impact of Nirvana on their career. Wasn't really about dance music going away -- it mostly migrated to hip hop stations. It was more about 80s guitar-based music (from Tears for Fears to Def Leppard) becoming uncool overnight. Or at least that's how it seemed at the time. I imagine it felt similar to the "Dylan goes electric" moment in 1965.

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wickedmasshole@reddit

Music Radar has an article referencing this, but it's about White Lion.

I'm thinking a lot of bands shared thoughts on this. It must have been massively fucked up to experience overnight.

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BaronVonNes@reddit

I've seen this mentioned numerous times, but I can't find it referenced anywhere. Are you sure it was Air Supply?

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JackOfAllInterests@reddit

Doesn’t sound right.

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yodellingllama_@reddit

You know, no, I'm not sure it was Air Supply. I can say I remember a VH1-style interview, taking place near the ocean, with two soft-rock hitmakers mentioning Nirvana by name as the cause of them not being as popular as they once were. But honestly, this is something I saw once about thirty years ago, so I'm sure I'm remembering details wrong. It seems to me the interview was later in the 90s, not contemporaneous with Nevermind. And I may have seen it as a clip on a show like Talk Soup.

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FWitU@reddit

Latchkey baby!

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Rdubya291@reddit

My mom is technically elder gen x, but anything but helo parent. I was out the door at sun up and only came home to eat.

We all pretty much share that aspect of life.

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NeverEndingCoralMaze@reddit

And the third half raised themselves.

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Kade7596@reddit

Toys 'R Us, video games both PC and console (beginning with the NES), Pee-Wee Herman, ALF & other weeknight family sitcoms (Family Ties, Who's the Boss, etc.), Beavis & Butthead, connecting computers from dial-up modem BBS's to the Internet, the best years of Nickelodeon and MTV, not mention tons of other media that was for us, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it just... all lives rent-free in our brains and we love every bit of it... all that and summer camps & sports, playing in woods/outside, etc. Great generation to be a kid, those mid-80s to mid-90s years. 🎈

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A_Bad_Man@reddit

Not sure about pop culture, but the whole millennial label is ridiculous because the first half of the generation grew up with no internet or dial up, no cell phones, and social media was in its infancy.

The second half of the generation grew up with broadband, cellphones, and a mature social media market.

As far as pop culture goes all I have to say is wtf is up with Spongebob?! It looks like a more popular Ren and Stimpy I guess, which was a really strange cartoon.

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pantheroux@reddit

Yes, I’m xennial and my parents are around your age. The internet hit during our teens and it changed the world. I also think it signalled the death of the monoculture. Suddenly I could chat with people around the world about music, school and life in general. As someone who didn’t have much in common with my school peers, I felt much less alone. I could download songs instead of saving up to buy a CD I might not like. By the time I started university, my classes had email lists and lots of the notes/lecture material was distributed via email. I had a class with online quizzes.

When I started junior high, I went to the computer lab a couple times a week to learn programming and typing. I had a computer at home, but used it for games and to type schoolwork. By the time I graduated high school, I was using the internet for school, entertainment and work. It seemed like a lot of adults didn’t get online right away unless they had to for work, or had a special interest. Therefore it seemed like our little world for a while. Our microgeneration learned to figure things out on our own, and became experts with the new tech.

Anyone much older than us might not have become immersed in internet culture. Anyone much younger grew up on a more walled in internet with touch screens, social media and apps.

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eanhctbe@reddit

Not the person you asked (and they may have a different answer) but early 1990 was still riding on 80s. Polished pop music, pop culture was kind of glam. Then the Gulf War seemed to kick off some unrest and feelings of helplessness if you were against it. Grunge came along, punk had a resurgence and more people had access to the internet. It was grittier. By the late 90s, we were in a full tech revolution. Information suddenly moved super quickly. It opened access to art, music, and movies that had been inaccessible. Like we all just rapidly gained access to a whole world from home.

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mikeh0677@reddit

Thanks

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

Speaking of the music, it still blows me away that a top song right before 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' dropped was that 'Hey, you fool, I love you!' by Roxette was at the top of the charts.

If you want to understand what a seismic shift that is, listen to them back to back and you can see why music changed in an instant when Nirvana arrived.

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Ok-Reflection-6207@reddit

lol, my dad was born in 1956, hey pops!

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BadPunners@reddit

Specifically

The launch of MTV (1981) is a common cultural marker. If you remember life before MTV, you’re likely Gen X; if it was always there, you’re likely a Millennial.

Everything in pop culture that MTV influenced started after Gen x

And by 1996 (which is the common Gen z cutoff) everyone had cell phones available, people were always reachable, 24/7 connectivity, no longer needed to schedule a time to call the land line, sharing it with your family. And leading to the age cutoff of remembering anything before 9/11 as well (where gen alpha starts, they remember no world before "antiterrorism panic")

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Phy_Scootman@reddit

Everyone you knew had a cell phone by 1996? I don't mean the bagged up car phones, not a beeper, but in their pocket phones?

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catsandkittens1308@reddit

No way it was '96!! That was deep pager territory, we still had payphones everywhere and used them when people hit up the pager. People still had hulking car phones then, they weren't common though. I didn't get a celly til '01, that was my senior year and people had really just started to get them, most of my friends didn't have one yet. Remember how cool we though those thick ass things were?! Unreal, you had to push every key multiple times to get a name and number in lol. Texting didn't even start to take off until another year or so later, and it was so painful without QWERTY keyboards. It was also like $0.25 per message!

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StillyMcDaniels@reddit

Pagers were common in my friend group in the mid-90s, but most of our parents definitely had non-bag cell phones that we could borrow and only use after 8 or 9 pm when minutes were free or significantly cheaper. I looked it up and the phone my mom would lend me was a TeleTac 250 that came out in ‘95 so that tracks. Rich friends’ parents had the bag phones as early as the late-80s even, and portable non-brick phones before the TeleTac 250.

I didn’t have my own cell phone until 2000, however, but that was paid for by my employer.

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Phy_Scootman@reddit

Exactly

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DigitalMindShadow@reddit

I still miss T9 typing. So easy to text without looking at your phone.

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Elevenyearstoomany@reddit

My sister and I are 14 years apart and both technically Millennials. Except I remember the rise of VCRs, computers, and life before cable. She grew up with cell phones and internet. We grew up in very different times.

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mikeh0677@reddit

Oh, that is interesting.

I witnessed/participated in all those changes, but grew up in a different era, having been born in 1956.

I never really stopped to think what a profound effect it would have, growing up with the things you mentioned.

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GryphonHall@reddit

Video games from birth. Computers. Cable television. A new wave of grunge and anti-heroes. A post-Star Wars media world. The internet. Xennials experienced a youth with and without internet. A youth where cellphones were only a thing on TV to show a character was rich, and then suddenly they are everywhere. White people listening to rap. Being raised to believe anyone could be anything they wanted to be. This stuff was normal for younger generations their whole life and older generations-Xers experienced these changes after they were already adults.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I think it started sometime around late 1995/ early 1996. Basically grunge dying out, and the resurgence of pop music. Hip-hop became a lot more mainstream. The Internet was taking off. In fashion, lots of louder, brighter colors, and the "Y2K" esthetic in general. And the overall general feeling of optimism that seemed to be everywhere during the last half of the 90s.

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OohBeesIhateEm@reddit

I feel like there’s also a huge difference between those of us who were adults/almost adults during 9/11 and those who were little kids at the time. Our experiences growing up are so different.

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JJtheQ@reddit

Yeh it's annoying when we are told 84's are millennials because I already at uni and listening to Pink Floyd and early 90s grunge while younger millennials were obsessed with power rangers and emos! As a kid in the 80s too. I mean my dissertation was on a floppy disc lol

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herotovillain84@reddit

I was always too scared to post anything here for fear of being labeled Millenial rather than Xennial. Glad we’re….welcome here?

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Peanut083@reddit

My brother was born in 91, and had a very different experience in his formative years than I did.

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BuhByeNow01@reddit

Same

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Designer_Emu_6518@reddit

Right. I think we are the start so we have x-er themes especially if you have older siblings

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alett146@reddit

1983 here and feel the same

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catcherofsun@reddit

Ditto

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gilded_lady@reddit

I definitely feel completely detached from the young Millenials that are closer to Gen Z. We definitely need this.

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Interesting_Owl7041@reddit

As an ‘85 baby, same.

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ElectricLego@reddit

'82, same. Been working almost 30 years and married for 20. Feel like I dodged a bullet that caught a lot of younger people - like starting a first job in 2008. Nah, I was already in career mode by then. I also own a house (me and the bank), but I feel bad for younger folks shut out. I couldn't afford this neighborhood now. Either way, I'm very different from the youngest of gen Y.

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SMUHypeMachine@reddit

‘86 and same. I get the humor and nostalgia more here. I’m just slightly too old to know about Pokémon, but I could talk at length about older Saturday morning cartoons.

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JaxLunchBox@reddit

Same.

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MagoModerno@reddit

We are the “Star Wars Kids,” late 70s , early 80s

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Milly_Hagen@reddit

Yep, Star Wars and Caravan Of Courage with the Ewok were played daily via VHS tape.

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MagoModerno@reddit

It’s about a moment in time. I’m not into Star Wars but I do like The Mandalorian. More of a Middle Earth kinda guy

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Professional_Hall233@reddit

Same and same.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yep

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soren_1981@reddit

1981 is millennial, though.

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Oraistesu@reddit

Depends on where you look.

Pew Research and Gallup says 1981 is Millennial.

Brookings Institute says 1981 is Gen X.

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hatfarm@reddit

82 and samesies.

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Long_College_8342@reddit

1979 and feel the same. Gen X seems to lean slightly too boomer for me.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

79 and yeah, gen x is way more boomer coded than they'll ever admit. It also gets weird cause like, I'll see gen x taking about how great their music was and then go off about like, journey and Boston and Aerosmith. Like I'm sorry, but if you need your singer to constantly remind the crowd that this is rocking, then you are not, in fact, rocking.

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namdekan@reddit

I'm 78 and I didn't even know how long Aerosmith had been around when I first saw them with Run DMC on MTV and didn't really see them again until the video with Alicia Silverstone on MTV.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Yeah, I remember being a little surprised when I found out just how long they've been...umm..."rocking". I really don't like them, and isn't there sbig creep factor with Steven tyler?

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Long_College_8342@reddit

Yes, Steven Tyler convinced a girl's parents to make him her legal guardian so she could go on tour with him. I think she was 14-16 years old. I believe he also got her pregnant and forced her to have an abortion. I don't know that there were any rock stars who were not terrible people.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Yeah, that's about what I remember hearing, too. Gen x can keep them, I'm good

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Long_College_8342@reddit

Yeah. Those were my first two introductions to Aerosmith as well. And my first introduction to Bohemian Rhapsody was in Wayne's World. My dad was a country fan and my mom's musical taste was folk/country. Sometimes when I think back to that time, it does seem like it was the last good time to be a kid. Now the kids are just inundated constantly with a barrage of terrible information.

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

Honestly, Im pretty mad at the older Gen X that has refused to engage politically and let the boomers continue to run the show. Their 'whatever' indifference has really allowed boomers to run amok.

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Long_College_8342@reddit

Yeah, we as a people should have all been shutting the boomers down long ago but it's complicated.

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Lavender_Wynter@reddit

Especially early Gen X.

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Long_College_8342@reddit

I'm so sick of the garden hose references. Yes, we drank from garden hoses. In general I just hate the whole "we are not the same" feeling. No, of course we're not the same. Time keeps rolling on and people change with it.

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toobjunkey@reddit

I feel the same way and was confused about why that is, then I saw an infographic showing lead concentration levels found in people ranging from boomers to the current day (current at the time anyway, which was 2015) Nd it showed that a sizable chunk of Gen X got the absolute worst of it.

Very much explains that while they're picking up the mantle from boomers, they're getting a lot more delusional, weird, and sometimes even violent with the rhetoric as seen in folks like Alex Jones, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, etc.

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Reasonable-Turn-5940@reddit

There were right wingers and violent, delusional people on Earth long before leaded gasoline, or even cars existed

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toobjunkey@reddit

Not at all disagreeing, but there's certainly an additional edge that isn't seen as frequently or intensely among older and younger generations IME. The lead crime hypothesis that heavily correlates an almost 60% drop in crime between 1992-2002 has a solid chunk of weight behind it too. Even having stronger correlation than the data behind the Freakonomics Roe v Wade splurge about how it lead to a noted drop in crime due to people in shitty socioeco situations not being forced to keep pregnancies.

And admittedly this is anecdotal but while I've been called slurs, told I'll be going to hell, etc. from all sorts of generations as a visibly queer person, the lead brained demo is the one I've not only overwhelmingly gotten casual death threats from, but also astonishment and demure confusion about being confronted for saying such things, as though someone got upset at them for telling them the color of the sky. Less of a filter and less understanding as to why someone would be upset with it even if they themselves are relatively secular, which ties into the averaged 6-8 IQ point drop among those born between the late 60's to early 80's.

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ThinkFree@reddit

I joined the genx sub and didn't last a week. The place is full of whiny old bastards bashing younger people. The get out of my lawn type.

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MonkeyBred@reddit

1980 Represent!

I just missed Thundercats.
I played my cousin's Atari but owned a Nintendo.
I wasn't into the Cure, but my older friend's sister was.
The sophmores played Pokemon when I was a Junior.
It was a niche little time in history.

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TinyGIR@reddit

Also 1980 but I saw Thundercats, how did you miss it?

Also I feel like we got the best experience for 80s cartoons.

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MonkeyBred@reddit

I watched He-Man and Voltron, then went strait to TMNT. There was something about Thundercats that didn't resonate with me. If I was the right age (5 in 1985), then I'm not too sure.

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TinyGIR@reddit

Sounds pretty similar to me but I did have a few more in addition to Thundercats leading up to TMNT.

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MonkeyBred@reddit

I could add Transformers in there somewhere. I also never watched Speed Racer.

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Thinkthru@reddit

I was born in 81 so likely a junior when you were a sophomore and have no recollection of Pokemon cards prior to adulthood

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MonkeyBred@reddit

So we both missed the trend I guess. But that was the first time I ever saw them, was about 1996-1997.

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PoisonMind@reddit

I grew up hearing about Evel Knievel, but his last jump was 3 years before I was born.

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

I hope you got plenty of Super Dave to make up for it.

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JFei1221@reddit

Oh man, was that crushingly disappointing to find out in 1990-ish. He was huge with all of my older cousins. Never got to see it.

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Cisru711@reddit

Thundercats wasn't really that good.

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K_Pumpkin@reddit

1980 here too, but I seem to fit in better with the gen xers. Esp the Gen X women’s sub.

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90sgymfan@reddit

I'm 80 too and totally agree with everything you say here.

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6BigZ6@reddit

I’m ‘79, my sister is ‘82, and my wife is ‘84. While we all have a lot of similarities, the differences are much more pronounced as well. It’s weird that 3 people born within 5 years of each other can have so many shared experiences, while also all having contained experiences during the same time frame.

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Halo6819@reddit

1983 and i feel like people born in '79 are aliens.

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_emilyelephant_@reddit

Then you probably relate more to millennials if ‘79 is alien. lol.

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dluiiulb@reddit

I heard someone put it as, "Xennials are too optimistic to be Gen-X, but too feral to be Millenials. They are perfectly comfortable in both the analog world of before and the digital world that came afterwards."

We are the bridge, the day walkers, that can communicate between both generations old timers that are still in the industry and the youngins that know nothing but the digital world that is now.

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Chilipatily@reddit

80 here as well.

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

80 also but I have siblings that are 12 years older so I dabble in GenX because I relate quite a bit.

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GardenRafters@reddit

Same. 77 and have older siblings ( I was a mistake/oops baby) that are solid Gen X and going into the Gen X sub really felt like it was more geared towards my older brother. Lots of pics of Linda Carter and Farrah Fawcett.

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che_vos@reddit

77 here also with older siblings. Feel the same way . These are my people.

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PookieCat415@reddit

I am 78 and they were talking about “Gen X” being young adults in their 20s when I was barely in high school. Hollywood was already making movies about Gen X young adults. Films like “Reality Bites” and “Singles” I watched when I was still just a kid in 8th and 9th grade. These people were supposed to be in my generation, but I didn’t identify with them. I wasn’t old enough to see grunge bands at a club, as Nirvana dropped when I was in 8th grade.

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Reasonable-Turn-5940@reddit

yeah, 76 here and Gen X feels like my older sister more than me. I always thought I was more of an 80s kid, but the early to mid 90s feels more like what I consider my "youth"

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ponchoacademy@reddit

My big sis is a tail end baby boomer, and she has always complained she doesnt feel like a baby boomer at all and more a GenXer like me. Except...yeah no lmfao! Yeah to more of a GenXer, no to one like me, cause older I get the less I felt like I can relate, Im def a Xennial.

She would indeed 100% fit in with the majority of the GenX subreddit though. They all sound sooooo oooold to me, and even make "boomer rant incoming" jokes, cause they know how they sound lol My big sis def fits in with that whole elder GenX vibe, she just doesnt complain anywhere near as much as they do is all.

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Chilipatily@reddit

Only child. All of my 70s and 80s knowledge is based on Bloom County comic strips.

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MungoJennie@reddit

It could be worse.

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erindizmo@reddit

That's funny. Also 80 with siblings 10-12 years older, but it's a blended family and they're half-sibs who tended to have primary custody with my parents' first spouses so they didn't have as much sway on my younger brother and me so I, at least, tend to lean more millennial.

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Flobking@reddit

80 also but I have siblings that are 12 years older so I dabble in GenX because I relate quite a bit.

I honestly think that's part if the disconnect between young and old millennials. Older millennials grew up with genx teenagers while young millennials grew up with teenaged millennials. My brother had a completely different experience growing up. When I was growing up my house still looked like it was the 70s. When my brother was born my parents had already begun remodeling so the house looked more modern.

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dallyan@reddit

79 and my brother was ten years older. Same!

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NYCWriterOfAllThings@reddit

We’re born the same year and when I found out about Xennials I was like, wow, so it hasn’t just been me this whole time feeling disconnected from Gen X and Millennials

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Short-Nail-3781@reddit

1980 here and I had to share a room with my 1973 sister for my first 14 years so I definitely relate to a lot of Gen X stuff too

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Mike9797@reddit

Ya that’s the thing, I’m the oldest child of my family’s generation and all my influence was people older than I was so it’s all from true gen Xers. But personally I’m influenced in a lot of ways by what we grew up with so it’s a mixed bag of influence that can make me feel as if I don’t belong to both groups but also fully a part of them at times.

When someone says I’m a Millenial I’m like “ew no, I’m not that young” and when I think I’m an X’er I see someone else comment about something and think “nope I’m not that old either”.

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bynaryum@reddit

My older sister (76) is very much GenX, but my younger brother (82) is very much a Xennial like me.

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NextPrize5863@reddit

Same my older sis (77) and younger bro (85) sends me gifs all the time!

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

In a nutshell, the millenials said I belong in X, and X said youre one of us. Technically yes but the sentiment felt like a microcosm of the 2 generations attitude.

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Lazaara@reddit

85 here (only child) but my mom was only 22 when she had me and lived the 80s well into the 90s. My younger stepbrother is 96 so he’s also technically a millennial but our childhoods were VASTLY different.

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wingman_anytime@reddit

‘79 here, and feel the same.

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NextPrize5863@reddit

I joined millennial and I got called out for being born in 1980!

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AvantGarden1234@reddit

1983 but I'm the opposite. I was raised in a very small, isolated town that was always behind by a few years in terms of trends, attitudes, and technology. Felt much more connected to Gen X than I ever did to Millenials.

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Shadowdane@reddit

I'm in this same boat honestly as a December '77 kid, late enough in the year to nearly be born in '78. Basically grew up in the 80s and 90s.

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JFei1221@reddit

Being a December baby is tricky. I was born in the last week of ‘85. I have something like 4 memories of the 80’s. Firmly a ‘90s kid and Nirvana and Alanis were my jam.

My husband is an early ‘81 with cool older sisters (‘73 and ‘78.) Still jams the hair bands and glam rock. We’re four and a half years apart, but it’s like a completely different cultural world.

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Shadowdane@reddit

As I'm the oldest I didn't have the older brother or sister to get me into the hair bands or glam rock. Kinda grew up listening to whatever my parents liked; Eagles, Boston, Pink Floyd, Neil Diamond, Air Supply to name a few. The first band or album I remember discovering on my own was probably Invisible Touch by Genesis from '86. At least that's the first cassette I remember owning.

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit

Yeah, November '77.

I read somewhere that there's a political inflection point in the early 70s: older GenX is conservative, younger is liberal. I wonder if it has to do with who your boogeyman is--USSR vs AIDS and global warming.

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xeonicus@reddit

I remember some 80s stuff, but I was a kid. I had an older cousin who I worshiped and I copied a lot of his music tastes. I ended up listening to Van Halen when a lot of my peers were listening to Vanilla Ice.

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mrvis@reddit

To me, the musical bridge is INXS. Gen Xers might say it's REM, but I really only like Automatic for the People and after.

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Wide_Two_6411@reddit

I'm 1977 - i did join the Gen X subteddit for a bit but most of them were teenagers in the 80s when I was just a kid.

I embrace being part of the Oregon Trail gen!

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Ent_Trip_Newer@reddit

The difference between Woodstock 94 (GenX) and Woodstock 99 ( us) is evidence of the difference.

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gracefulguppy@reddit

Solidly an elderest millennial but I like hanging out here with the cool older siblings I never had.

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SproutasaurusRex@reddit

I'm 85 and one of my cousins is 81, we had incredibly similar experiences growing up.

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JFei1221@reddit

So weird. I just commented above about my husband (81) and I (late 85) having totally different experiences. We were even in a relatively small geographical area, but it feels like worlds apart.

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Interesting_Owl7041@reddit

I’m an ‘85 and feel like I have way more in common with Xennials. I think with our birth year it depends on how you were raised/ do you have older or younger siblings/ older or younger kids you hung out with.

My parents had me in their 40’s and I parents have older Gen X half siblings born in the mid to late 60’s. I always hung out with older kids and always dated older guys. My husband is an ‘81 baby, and while he remembers a lot more of the 80’s than I do, we have very similar experiences growing up.

I know some people my age that had the opposite experience, though. Young parents the same age as my siblings, younger siblings, hung out with younger kids. Those ‘85 babies definitely skew more millennial.

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gracefulguppy@reddit

For sure. I’m sure I feel more millennial (though not entirely so) because I was the oldest and took care of my younger siblings, the youngest of whom was born in ‘99.

I didn’t have a lot of older kids around to guide me in the ways of dating and concerts and cool what I perceived as “mature” stuff.

The need for guidance didn’t go away but now it’s divorce and (peri)menopause and colonoscopies haha

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

Same, tho I inherited the gen-x work ethic. That's another part where I misalign a bit with younger millennials. There seems to be this expectation that life should get or be good (and dissatisfaction based on that)... except life IS challenge, it's a mix of hardship and beautiful moments and will always be... so I can't understand this idea that life one day should get easier.

My theory is that xennials experience the tail end of the Cold War, and the fear and tone that came with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation and mutually assured destruction. When I see younger millennials talking about what their generation has endured, I realized we got it double bc we also experienced most of what gen-x did. We were essentially the war time generation, we got multiple economic crises, if one looks back at the crazy amount of wars and catastrophes that happened in our lifetime. We have a very different "tone" and approach to life based on these formative foundations, imo.

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mattcmoore@reddit

If you want to pick a war time generation don't forget about Afghanistan and Iraq. About 2/3 of the soldiers who served were so called Millenials.

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

Absolutely, and some xennials experienced these as well.

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mattcmoore@reddit

Yep, heavy on the Xelenials, especially in Iraq.

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

It's sad.

Ironic I got downvoted for acknowledging that millenials are largely ignored as having been sucked into a lot of unwanted wars... and it's usually glossed over for them despite still being the biggest challenge we currently face (and globally). It's one that's demoralizing widely (but in a very very different way now, it's not just physical, warfare has also become digital, and it certainly put propaganda and election interference on steroids).

I read recently how glossed over this group is in consideration of war, and that they can be considered "a" wartime generation (not "the" wartime or greatest generation, as I was deliberate in my meaning there). Yet that remains largely unacknowledged and ignored. 🤷‍♀️

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mattcmoore@reddit

I think the impact of our age group will mostly be felt in the next set of wars as field-level leadership positions become increasingly filled with 80s babies. In 5-10 years we'll have a preponderance of Generals and Admirals born in the 80s, many GWOT veterans. I really hope we get it right when it's our turn to be in charge.

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

I hope so too. I can't help feeling that we kind of already are in a type of large-scale war, just the digital leg primarily for now. It worries me.

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

I'm seeing this opinion emerge more over time:

"Millennials are actually a wartime generation, and somehow we skipped right over them." — A sentiment often discussed in the context of the generation who came of age during the War on Terror, potentially reflecting their maturity and sacrifice without the same public recognition as previous generations.

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TwixorTweet@reddit

I'm an October '80 baby and feel exactly the same. I had a computer in 1986, same with cable, and the Internet in 1990.

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

Man, you guys were truly early adopters on the internet! The first time I ever got on it was in 1993 at a friends house.

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TwixorTweet@reddit

My dad worked in tech sales, so he had a leg up on things. Somehow he bartered with a customer and got us free internet, even after my dad died in '95. It wasn't until Ultranet merged with Verizon that we started paying for it.

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dallyan@reddit

I like to say I have the age of a Gen Xer but the downward mobility of a millennial.

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contrarianaquarian@reddit

I'm stealing this!

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ifallallthetime@reddit

I'm 1980 and I feel exactly the opposite

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

Do you identify more with early Gen X than millennial?

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ifallallthetime@reddit

Millennial has to be pretty early and close to Xennial for me to really identify with them

I definitely don't identify with the hair metal early Gen X people

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Good-Salad-9911@reddit

You realize these generation definitions aren't about your special identity, right? They're a tool for marketers.

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Expensive-Froyo8687@reddit

They can be. But there are real sociological factors and underpinnigs. The culture one grows up in has immense impact on how you are as an adult.

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basherrrrr@reddit

I like Top Gun but I'm not obsessed with Top Gun.

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Sempophai@reddit

1978, but yeah, mostly the music and some tv and movies, though the 80s was pretty rich in both.

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Otherkin@reddit

1982 here, I identify more with Millennial, but if my parents never had a computer as a kid or AOL when it came out, I'd probably identify as more Gen X. So I think part of it is how much money your parents made.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I mean, plenty of parents had money but saw computers as toys, and plenty of parents didn't have much money but made the right bet on computers as the future.

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jjdlg@reddit

Hey, what are YOU doing in here?

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I find I fit in better here than in a lot of the GenX groups which have gotten very intolerant of anyone who doesn't fit their model of nostalgia. Pretty funny for the "whatever" generation, but it is what it is.

My 1980s were at home with a Commodore :)

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jjdlg@reddit

Same, it is good to see another 75 here, those older vocals in the GenX sub are getting ornery. Anyway, I was 5 in 1980 and that's when my hardrive kicked in, so those are my memories.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Yeah, my earliest memories are likely 1980, although my birthday is late in the year so was 4 for most of that year. I have a few memories of preschool but the odds are very good that they're from the Spring of 1980.

I also had kids late, so when some of the GenX folks are talking about grown kids or even grandkids, I'm like "dang, my older one is still in middle school, the younger one is still finishing off elementary."

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit

My father, 1993, handing me the laptop his firm gave him. "Computers are for secretaries!" OK, dad

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Ouch.

Whereas my folks were getting me into programming-for-kids classes at the local community college in the very early 1980s. We didn't have a ton of money (by some standards, and given NYC cost of living) but my parents were academics and could see which way the wind was blowing pretty early.

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Far-Information-2252@reddit

I’m 1982 as well and I think even without a computer the world was already different. Pop culture was different, fashion, etc

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Melodic-Variation103@reddit

Oregon Trail Generation!!

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fermentedradical@reddit

1980, same.

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longdeadbedhead@reddit

Preach!

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

My brother was born in 1965. I was born in 1981. We grew up in totally different eras. Music, toys, movies, tv shows. We do not relate in that aspect. Millennials are talking about watching tv shows, cartoons and playing with toys that are more akin to my daughter’s childhood (born in 2003). I have nothing in common with someone born in 1995. We absolutely need our little niche generation to find the people we can relate to who grew up like us.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

🎯

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Snowpant@reddit

I’m 1980 and yes, agree!

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mrylndgrrl@reddit

1980 as well, and completely agree!

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snap_pea23@reddit

Same

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kudiggs@reddit

1980 here and you nailed it!

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AtFishCat@reddit

Also '80. Last of 4 kids ('67 - '77). They are core gen X. Then they started to have kids right as we got into the '90's. Those kids are core millennials imo.

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night_shredder@reddit

Same. I’m 1979 and last of four brothers 1962 to 1968. We’ve grown up with different music, movies, videogames, books, trends.

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wango_fandango@reddit

‘Nother 1980 dude here.

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KDiggity8@reddit

Same here. Too young to "get" Reality Bites when it came out, but old enough to remember rotary phones and the VHS-Betamax wars.

Glad we finally got our own niche, cause neither of the two before or after felt right.

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One_Mission9448@reddit

Same. A lot of charts show 1980 Gen X and some show it as the start of millennial generation.

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maybe-an-ai@reddit

My wife and I are the same 75 and 79. I was always terminally online even in modem so I think much of GenX culture slid by me an Millennial nerds are cool culture fit like a glove.

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Federal_Base_2905@reddit

Welcome. Learning about xennials was life affirming for me 😆😆😆

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ChiaOtter@reddit

It's so funny, I'm a 79er, which by darn near every current measurement places me at toward the end of Gen X. However, I am the youngest of a very large group of cousins, who beat it into my brain growing up that I was "way too young" to be Gen X. I had teachers in middle school who told us that we were the beginning of Gen Y, and we had to do a whole project about what we thought that meant, because Gen Y was undefined at that point. So I've truly never identified with Gen X. And despite having internet in my middle school years, and being in school at the turn of the millennium, I've been told by strangers on the internet that I'm too old to ever be considered even an elder millennial.

As an aside: I do feel like they keep pushing the dates later the older we get (though I've seen a tech adoption study that defined Gen X ending in 1977 at a conference in the last 10 years, so I guess there are still outliers that push back). The constant, late-in-the-game evolution of the boundaries makes it confusing, and gives dang near anyone who wants a citable reason to exclude a group of us Xennials from their generation the ability to do so.

In short, I believe Xennials can be anyone who are within a reasonable number of years of the constantly swerving generational divide, and have felt unwanted by either (or both) of the Gen X/Millennial generation.

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neogrinch@reddit

I'm 78 but quit college first year, then went back again after 6 years. so my "College crowd/friends" etc and cohorts in general are a few years younger than me. mostly elder millenials born mid 80s. It's kind of funny because the folks I still know from HS are closer to gen x and my college peeps, millenials. xennial fits me perfectly.

My dad was a solid Boomer, and my mom is generation Jones, so she's a cusper too.

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Lanky_Rhubarb1900@reddit

I think another key distinction is what our first sips of alcohol were.

Gen X: Bartles & Jaymes, beer, or whatever your parents wouldn’t notice you taking shots from the liquor cabinet.

Us: Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Twisted Tea, MD 20/20, beer if you were cool enough to get invited to a bonfire.

Millenial: Flavored vodka and/or vodka redbull, Four Loko, or any other combo of caffeine and booze. They showed up ready to GO, haha.

Obviously with some crossovers, but that’s just my experience with a Gen X older brother and Millenial younger sister.

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Illustrious-Low3948@reddit

We drank Passoa, Pisang Ambon and White Martini cause you can but that in the supermarkets in the Netherlands. Occasionally Goldstrike, Dropshot, Flugel and Boswandeling.

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Lanky_Rhubarb1900@reddit

I had snuck sips of beer or hard lemonade when I was a teen, but then I spent a year in Germany when I was 16-17 and it was a whole new world. My first host family offered me wine with dinner. When I said the exchange program specifically stated students couldn’t drink even where it was allowed, they said, “yeah no one follows that.”

It was 1999. Life was good ☺️

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Lothy-of-the-North@reddit

Mine first sip was Zima! I’m dying laughing right now.

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Lanky_Rhubarb1900@reddit

I forgot Zim! Should have been with the Bartles and Jaymes 🤣

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elemcee@reddit

Same on both counts!

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hippiegodfather@reddit

So you blocked those other subs right?

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Hefty-Notice-5841@reddit

Not quite sure what you mean.

I find half their threads are rather boring, and out of place to be honest.

I'm 1990 so I'm basically right in between. I find myself frequenting here more, though I only post if I've got something worth the while.

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Which_gods_again@reddit

Xelcome!

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misskellycupcake@reddit

I love this little nook of the timeline. I truly do not understand millennials circa 1991 or later. They just think completely differently.

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actionerror@reddit

And obsessed with Pokémon. I liked it but was probably too old to have really gotten into it.

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ElectricStarfuzz@reddit

I (83) was way more into Final Fantasy, Lufia, Secret of Mana, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and other jrpgs than Pokémon.

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actionerror@reddit

True, I wasn’t as into it, but my friends were all hardcore into the OG final fantasy games and Zelda. I joined late so only experienced final fantasy 7/8 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time in college.

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ElectricStarfuzz@reddit

Never too late to get into JRPGs or Zelda. Ocarina of Time is one of the best in the series. Now the music is playing in my head😅

Also, aside from FF3/6, 8 is my favorite. It was so different from any of the previous ones and to this day remains one of the most ambitious games (esp for its time). I’d love a remake of 6 or 8 like 7 has gotten.

Haven’t personally played 15 or 16, but have watched friends and siblings play. Neither call to me the same way as older titles.

13 and its sequels were fun enough, but really I think 12 was the last FF I was fully invested in.

For me, Tales games kind of took over for FF.

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othybear@reddit

I was just having this conversation with a friend from high school. Our younger siblings were super into Pokémon and we were just too old.

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Immorpher@reddit

So many millennials come to me talking about Pokemon assuming I just know it, but I don't haha.

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Frippertron42@reddit

Hate to break it to you but xennials are 77-83

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Wak3upHicks@reddit

Hate to break it to you but arbitrary years are bullshit.

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

(Jk.) Ssshhh - he’s Gatekeeping. It’s a time honored tradition on the internet

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Unfortunate-Incident@reddit

Honestly, I don't mind some gatekeeping. Someone was in here from 1975 one day and the things they talked about got traction here, but I had no idea what they were talking about. It was before my time. It was something something 1982 while I was 2 yrs old. Reminded me of the Gen X sub. I don't want this to become a Gen X sub nor a millenial sub.

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Payinchange@reddit

Have you ever forded the Cheyenne river or died of dysentery? We’re your people!

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GMane2G@reddit

As long as you’re pronouncing it x-ennial, not “zennial”

It assumes both worlds, without being confused for zennial

-do not give me any guff about how xylophone is pronounced, I’m not wrong

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

Youre right. Lol. TIL

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Murderhornet212@reddit

Yeah, I was born in 1977 and I relate more to first wave millennials than older Gen X for sure.

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jahitch1@reddit

Welcome

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MaverickGalaxyJam@reddit

a little more advanced in years

Love the diplomacy

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autopilot_fail@reddit

Did you play Oregon Trail in grade school and wear JNCOs in high school? If so, welcome!

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OHIO_Mikey@reddit

‘87. Played Oregon Trail in grade school and JNCOs were Jr. High. I know I’m on the younger side here but this is just where I feel I relate the most generationally.

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ascendantshark@reddit

I didn't wear JNCOs because I didn't want to be called a poser, the struggle was real

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dowut_ohghey@reddit

Idk if maybe it was a regional thing, but only the 'losers' at my school wore JNCOs. It was like the cultural precursor to being a Juggalo. I never talked shit to anyone about their clothes but I always thought the JNCOs looked ridiculous.

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paradisetossed7@reddit

1987 here and yes. Can I sit with you?? (Tbf JNCOs were more ele, middle school so it i cant sit with you that's okay.)

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Idislikethis_@reddit

Born in 79, I never played that or wore those...

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cbftw@reddit

Played a ton of Oregon Trail on the Apple II. JNCOs weren't for me

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superfizzlibrarian@reddit

I played Oregon Trail and used a turtle to program. I think I was in elementary school. I was born in 1973.

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Mother_of_Kiddens@reddit

Or if you’re a younger Xenial, we wore JNCOs in junior high!

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Objective-Ad5620@reddit

I’m a full-blown millennial and we played Oregon Trail. JNCOs were big when I was in fifth grade, though. It was skinny jeans by high school.

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projectx51@reddit

Jncos in high-school, although not for me. I watched all my friends wear JNCOS and get theirs soaking wet from the rain and humidity. Imagine wearing JNCOS in South Louisiana. Nope

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statix138@reddit

I wore all my JNCOs in FL and the bottoms were all disgusting from all the rain.

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Objective-Ad5620@reddit

I was in fifth grade in 1999, and that’s where I very firmly remember JNCOs being super popular.

I grew up in the Seattle metro, so our jeans were constantly soaked at the cuffs! It was also widely popular to let the backs drag and get shredded to pieces. Drove adults nuts!

Gotta say the giant pockets were ideal for carrying a CD player though.

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WhatAreYouSaying777@reddit

I'm 1983.

High school was nowhere near Skinny Jeans for males... sheeeiiiit.

It was pure Baggy Jeans and Jordans, FUBU, Nike Air Maxs & Guess.

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Interesting_Owl7041@reddit

I’m 1985, and girls were wearing flare leg jeans from the time I was in 6th grade, throughout high school, and into my early 20’s. I didn’t notice the trend of skinny jeans until around 2008, and I thought they looked stupid at first. I didn’t finally give in and start wearing them until the 2010’s.

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Objective-Ad5620@reddit

I’m pretty sure trends hit where I grew up earlier than other parts of the country; before people were calling them skinny jeans, some guys at my school started wearing girls’ jeans at school for that skinny leg look. This was around 2006.

Skinny jeans as a mainstream trend was more college era for me, which was the end of the 2000s (I graduated college in 2011).

Flares were definitely huge in the early 2000s; I also had some bedazzled jeans in high school. Footless tights were also widely popular when I was in high school.

But the alt kids at my high school were starting the skinny jeans look towards the end.

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Objective-Ad5620@reddit

I’m born at the end of 1988; smack-dab in the middle of the generation. As I said, core millennial. Skinny jeans happened during my high school time and carried into college. Low-rise jeans were also peak during that time; soooo many whale tails in my classes.

I’m not by any means an Xennial, but the algorithm constantly pops it in my feed. I’m barely an elder millennial, yet the delineation between elder and younger millennials is notable. My sister in law was born in 1992 and sends me references I don’t get.

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statix138@reddit

I kinda wish I still had my Kangaroo JNCOs from 8th grade. I looked completely stupid wearing them but man I thought they were coolest while wearing my Pantera Vulgar Display of Power shirt.

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hyperbolic_dichotomy@reddit

We were too poor for JNCOs but I played Oregon Trail in 5th grade and middle school.

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FluffyMcKittenHeads@reddit

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Claytonius_Homeytron@reddit

Frosted tips, those floppy round rim hats, tennis ball fuzzy Airwalk sneakers, and wallet chains. The girls smelled like those fruity Bath and Body Works sprays and they all wanted to be like either Gwen Stefani or Britany Spears or Jessica Alba or a mix of all of them.

Denny's still wreaked of cigarette smoke and somehow everyone was still okay with it (back when La Quinta means "Next to Denny's"). Oh and I do believe the kids of our generation pioneered the light up sneakers and sandals.

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ComputerAbuser@reddit

Hah, I definitely played Oregon Trail and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, but I don't know what JNCOs are.

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original_leto@reddit

Brand of super baggy jeans. They were amazing.

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DeepSeaDynamo@reddit

I was just talking to my pharmacist, who I went to high school.with the other days, apparently they're making them again

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

My two boys are 17 and 12. Both wear jncos every damn day.

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Unfortunate-Incident@reddit

You are underselling how baggie they are.

Imagine if each of your legs had 6 of their own legs. These pants were made for those folks.

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Holding_at-Love@reddit

I once saw a squirrel run up a guy’s leg when he was wearing those. It was amazing.

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indecisivesloth@reddit

This might help.

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beeercunt@reddit

Holy shit. That little balancing bird. The beeper bubblegum ...

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Rashaen@reddit

Jeans. You'll recognize 'em if you see 'em. I never wore them either.

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Lanky_Rhubarb1900@reddit

Do JNCO dupes count? If it wasn’t from K-mart or Caldor, I couldn’t have it.

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seanzthekid@reddit

Same! I eventually ended up procuring one pair of legit JNCO's from a thrift store. They were my most prized possession in my freshman year of high school

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RomanticPanic@reddit

Oh no

I have found my people

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ravingwanderer@reddit

Not everyone is American.

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stargarnet79@reddit

I would actually love to hear about your country and defining nostalgia characteristics? I for one never wore jncos cuz I’m a girl and I played Oregon trail once and thought it was dumb.

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ravingwanderer@reddit

Well our culture was heavily Americanised mainly by MTV. However we also had our own fashion going on, so kind of hybridised in a sense. Jnco’s were never a thing here, thank god, but Charlottes Hornet (Starter apparel) was.

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ferretherapy@reddit

My brother had a Charlottes Hornet jacket!

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

I did too - for a small market team, they really crushed it on the marketing front!

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jazzmaster_jedi@reddit

I think people are attracted to a logo where the mascot plays the sport. In this case, a hornet plays basketball, but I bet those sales were all about the colors.

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stargarnet79@reddit

Haha! Apparently no one could escape the Charlotte hornets apparel lol!!!

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

Like the basketball starter jackets? (Legitimately asking)

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Many of my female friends and I all wore JNCOs. They had giant pants for all genders.

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stargarnet79@reddit

That is awesome! I had no idea but definitely grew up in the sticks.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Yeah, fashion is one of those things that isn’t quite universal and really depends on where you live. I’m sure folks in LA in the 90s were wearing different stuff than we were down in Texas. Movies also only seemed to show female teens wearing short skirts and high heels to school, which we never did.

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

That’s a relief! But for real - you should go check out Oregon Trail and buy some JNCOs

*Knows know cultural or temporal borders

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ravingwanderer@reddit

How very insular of you

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

Not at all! I’m absolutely willing to engage with the video game and fashion trends of your youth!

Whatchya got? Hit me with it!

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ravingwanderer@reddit

Starter, baggy jeans but no where near as ridiculous as jnco. Almost a split in our youth of hip hop culture or grunge/alternative or rave scene. Video games were PS1 Tomb Raider, Command and Conquer with multiple consoles connected and played on 29 inch crt tv’s.

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

Command and Conquer was a blast! Used to play it all the time on a computer (along with Warcraft and the FPS games of the era)

Never got into tomb raider personally - ps1 era was mostly jrpgs, Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, etc

Multiple console / lan parties were great times :)

*And of course those JNCOs were ridiculous - think it’s hilarious that it’s back in fashion 😂

Took this picture at the 90s exhibit at my local history museum… 😭

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ravingwanderer@reddit

Good god. A museum exhibit of the 90’s is terrifying. I can’t dwell on the fact we were teens 25-30 years ago. It makes me spin out.

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whamburglar@reddit

nah, I wore Zubaz

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WhatAreYouSaying777@reddit

Encarta playthroughs in the computer lab was were it was at.

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Far-Watercress6658@reddit

Ah, what a time to be alive!

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cataholicsanonymous@reddit

Well shit, I've found where I belong!

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obeekaybee7@reddit

I even wore the belt that hung to the ground with my JNCOs. The ultimate xennial dbag outfit

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CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit

I had friends who played Oregon Trail and others who wore JNCOs; no idea if any of them did both. All I know is we didn't have a computer at home that I could play it on and we couldn't afford JNCOs when I was in high school. And I'm not in contact with just about any of the aforementioned friends any more.

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Chilipatily@reddit

Wow. Yeah that nails it.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Both those subs are wack

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Dakota1228@reddit

I’m 1977 and feel more in line with Xennial than GenX

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TeddyAtTheReady@reddit

Welcome to the party. Grab yourself an Ecto Cooler juice box and get in line for the Goldeneye tournament.

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CaveJohnson82@reddit

I'm a solid Xennial but still feel left out because this sub is VERY American 😭

Don't worry, I get over it. Mostly 😉

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r2k398@reddit

The millennial sub is full of doomers just like the adulting sub.

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stripeycat88@reddit

Hello there fellow Xennial! I'm a 1978 Xennial and we are quite unique in our experience of life and childhood having an analogue childhood and digital adulthood. It's an interesting crossover generation to be a part of. I do sometime refer to myself as a "Millennial Elder" too!

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WasabiAficianado@reddit

What’s your year?

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LeatherRecord2142@reddit

Welcome to our weird little club!

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Famous-Hunt-6461@reddit

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OldGamerX@reddit

Missionary Generation

Me, holding in laughter from the back of the class

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Kawasakison@reddit

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Homelanders?

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Famous-Hunt-6461@reddit

Yeah, idk wtf that’s about…

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jziggs228@reddit

Where is this from and what’s the rest of it say? That’s cool.

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Famous-Hunt-6461@reddit

Reddit… lol

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WhitakersIDBadge@reddit

I feel like we have the best understanding of what we lost when Pizza Hut stopped being a real restaurant.

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No_Media4766@reddit

The free personal pan pizza with a filled-out Book It! button 😍

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dowut_ohghey@reddit

James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) recently uploaded a video on YT where they went and ate at a "classic" Pizza Hut location, and iirc he mentioned that specifically! Worth a watch if you're reminiscent about it at all

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No-Cartographer3265@reddit

I googled it and I think kids could still get free pizza. I want to sign up my kids because I loved that program. And my son will eat pizza for every meal if I let him.

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CholeraButtSex@reddit

FYI this program went on through the end of the 90s

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Havenfall209@reddit

Thought so! 1987 here and I remember this.

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Hntrbdnshog@reddit

I swear that contributed to my life long love of reading.

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Holding_at-Love@reddit

I already loved reading but it definitely contributed to my lifelong love of pizza.

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59apache01@reddit

The cocktail table arcade machines were the best!

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sick_of-it-all@reddit

I played Konamis Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game and WWF Wrestlefest at my local Pizza Hut. They are my favorite arcade games because of it.

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---Agrajag---@reddit

Yes! TMNT, Space Pilot, Galaxian, Addam's Family pinball, Tiger Heli, Heavy Barrel were my go-tos. Later, Daytona USA. I still can remember the gear changes to drift every corner haha

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idontknowkungfu@reddit

I saved up a few years ago and bought one, it's so much fun to have. mine has like 8000 games lol

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bryanthebryan@reddit

I vividly remember playing Dig Dug on one when I was a kid.

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PurpleDraziNotGreen@reddit

First year of college, my first exposure to Pizza Hut pizza buffet.

And then it was gone forever...

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RedPanda5150@reddit

I don't mourn the smoking/non-smoking divide though. My Book It memories have a heavy tobacco haze.

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ATXGil2L@reddit

The buffet with the spaghetti..🍝

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Correct-Stretch-7848@reddit

Never forget

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Responsible-Rip-6505@reddit

There's a retro Pizza Hut in Eureka Springs, AR! We went there this past Christmas and got a much-needed dose of nostalgia, and the food was good. It was off-season, so the restaurant was pretty quiet. Eureka Springs is a really cool place

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Necandus@reddit

I read so many library books in elementary school so I could get stickers for free personal size pizzas at The Hut. Mine also had an arcade. I loved it

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SJSsarah@reddit

Awww. Retro Pizza Hut. Yeah, that one hurts. And retro McDonalds. Had at least two childhood birthdays at McD’s.

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Sethatos@reddit

Ah same. I try to explain to my kids how good McDonald’s used to be, particularly the happy meal toys. Looney tunes racers, Super Mario 3, the Dick Tracy promotion. Last Happy Meal my kid got a Jenga game made out of cardboard

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seasicksquid@reddit

My kid just got a pretty sweet Fire Mario today in his special post-doctor’s appointment Happy Meal.

My mom always took me to McDonalds for breakfast after doctor’s appointments…it just feels right. Too bad nothing will ever beat the Beanie Babies and first few years of Monopoly!

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SJSsarah@reddit

The Beani Babies were awesome, and when POGS were a thing. My own 5 year old birthday party Kids Meal toys were those wind-up cars of The Muppets characters. I think? I got thrilled when they did a Hello Kitty/Sanrio Kids Meal toy, even though I was like in my 20’a by then.

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WhitakersIDBadge@reddit

I remember getting stuck in a Hamburglar playscape when my mom was pregnant with my brother and couldn't come in to rescue me. I don't recall how I actually got out!

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Long_College_8342@reddit

So true.

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ConsensualUpskirts@reddit

Based on this and flair cut off, happy to be here. The cut off is good though, most 85s and younger didn't get internet til middle school

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Cashmeade@reddit

The ice cream factory! My friends and I would go for unlimited ice cream whenever one of us was having boy troubles. We went to an all girl school, so there wasn't that much in the way of boy trouble, but we were all permabroke (how do teens these days just... have money?) so it worked out OK.

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pingus3233@reddit

And free personal pan pizzas from reading with the Book-It! program.

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Foreign_Kale8773@reddit

They don't smell right anymore. I went into one and they didn't even have the red cups.

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Roxygirl40@reddit

My experience was the exact opposite but ended the same. Welcome to the club!

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nefarious_angel_666@reddit

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Fine_Violinist5802@reddit

I knew the word xennial was a thing but thought it was bs. But I came here and realised this is my people.

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Bad-Moon-Rising@reddit

Analog childhood, digital adolescence.

Describes us perfectly as a micro-generation.

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Reasonable-Turn-5940@reddit

Yes. I remember using card catalogs at the library, always carrying a book with me, having a magazine rack in the bathroom, and being unreachable all day

I also remember setting up our computer and getting our first modem, logging into local BBS's and meeting people from the internet in real life, playing the first game in a series that now has 15 sequels.

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V8sOnly@reddit

I'm not a heavy gamer but it always blows younger gamers minds when I tell them I played the first versions of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Hitman and Test Drive, all on 3.5 floppy disk.

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TheCervus@reddit

Analog childhood, digital adolescence

We are the anal-digit generation.

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Bad-Moon-Rising@reddit

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christhetwin@reddit

r/GifsYouCanHear

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

This, we got the best of both worlds and learned when it was in its infancy. That usually means tech was less polished and we got our hands dirty to operate it, plus a lot of trial and error. This persistence seems to characterize how I feel about our generation.

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samgala80@reddit

Persistence is such a fantastic description!!

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

Thanks! it helps so much to talk it out with you guys and read your thoughts... I don't think I'd be able to distill my own so clearly without that.

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Autumn_Forest_Mist@reddit

That Millennial was a jerk

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Classic-Arugula2994@reddit

October 78 here. I totally understand this.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

November 78

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_emilyelephant_@reddit

I’m the middle child, and being an Xennial feels just like that. Lol.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

Same. My brother is x Sister is millennial so it makes sense

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Lensgoggler@reddit

I'm very happy this sub exists. I'm a millennial by birth year but I was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and have intimate knowledge of how to make newspaper double as toilet paper instead of playing video games.

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AdjectiveNoun1234567@reddit

how to make newspaper double as toilet paper

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Lensgoggler@reddit

It was kind of a form of silent rebellion. We weren't in the Soviet Union willingly but could do very little about it. So wiping one's ass with Soviet propaganda was cathartic 😄 Plus, it's not like a) toilet paper was readily available in the shops or b) even if it were, if wasn't that different to newspaper in quality. Think of the scratchiest loo roll you have used and dial that up a lot... 😄

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CertainlyRobotic@reddit

All of these names and years associated with them are arbitrary and mean nothing.

You could call yourself anything and be right, because it's based off nothing.

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59apache01@reddit

We're a part of Gen X because nobody wants us anywhere and we don't give a damn.

We're a part of Millenials because we saw the dawn of the true digital age in high school/college, or at least that's what we're told.

If anybody asks me what I am, I tell them I'm just here.

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WhatAreYouSaying777@reddit

1983 here: I tell youngings today people my age Invented The Internet and all that came along with it in a sarcastic yet still factual way...

Many of us saw the Internet from infancy to current mode. From early 90's to mid 90's AOL/Compuserve ears which includes chatting on line, groups, download sites for music already... to the mid/late 90's explosion of Internet websites, download programs, hell I was playing modded versions of Doom 2 with grapple hooks turning you into Spiderman against 16 players in 1997 on MPlayer.

Online culture such as Memes, chat groups, Photoshopping funny shit, selling online merch an products... all that started with us... Lol

I remember everything, especially 90's gaming to how massive 90's retail culture and advertising became, to politics and how being your own person an mind was being seen as something older gens didn't understand and shitted on aka Boomers.

From Fox News an Buah lying about Iraq'w WMDs, 9/11, our high school buddies about to graduate/just did and going off to war in Iraq. Wild times, man.

And here we are still the same mind as before in my opinion. None of the wild shit of recent can change my way of thinking which comes from my generations experiences in the past.

Younger people think I'm closer to Boomer eras... most Gen X doesn't understand why I think different, and many Millennials forgot or just were unaware or plain oblivious to the wild 90's/Early 2000's life events.

My older fam from da 70's to 80's had no clue how to operate a computer- some to this day. That alone is worth the Xennial's description. Lol

We absolutely Bridged The Gap.

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carlitospig@reddit

Sorry babe, boomers (with some Silent help) invented the internet. We invented apps though!

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tarfu7@reddit

Yeah “came of age during the growth of” =\= “invented”

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Claytonius_Homeytron@reddit

83 here myself. We had some of the best movies, cartoons, video games, and toys. Maybe not electronics like the kids today have, but man we had some rad shit.

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AiringOGrievances@reddit

I dont know about that second part. I had friends with gaming consoles hooked up to CRT televisions in their room, but I did t know a single kid my age who had a computer with internet access in their room. I’m glad now that I didn’t grow up on the internet. That’s a younger millennial thing to me.

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59apache01@reddit

I was in college when the internet really became big. Before that, it was a novelty much the way the loose network of BBS had been before it. I never had a computer of my own until college, but we had a family computer. First one was an Atari 800.

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

Graphic design class - 7th grade. We were good enough at it, local business were paying us.

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carlitospig@reddit

Remember learning BASIC in elementary and junior high? Do they even do programming anymore?

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

Hello, memory unlocked. 🤯 Yes. I forget what was next after BASIC but I remember moving off it and was a little miffed at first. I created a Santa coming out of a chimney with a sack and presents hanging out of it all in BASIC. I remember that pixelated picture so well and how detailed I got with it.

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carlitospig@reddit

Awwww sounds adorable!

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

No wonder MySpace was a breeze. We were already coding! 😆

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59apache01@reddit

I'm about your age. Didn't have that kind of stuff in Jr High/High School, but was first exposed to CAD in college. My class was also the last class to do pencil drafting.

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Artichoke_Salad@reddit

1976 here and that resonates.

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MessiComeLately@reddit

I definitely feel Millennial on the tech side. I grew up with computers and got the internet as a freshman in college. A lot of Gen X people I know, even my age, were introduced to computers or the internet through their job and then brought it home.

But I don't have that Millennial thing where I believe that a bunch of things were promised to me. Nobody promised me I'd get a job if I got a degree. Nobody promised me I could own a house. Nobody promised me my life would be better than my parents'.

I overlapped with a lot of Millennials in school and am pretty sure I would have noticed if they were promised stuff that was never promised to me. I think they made it all up. It sounds like they're trying to frame upper-middle-class entitlement as a social justice movement. Meh. That's my old man Gen X take on them.

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CharlesBoyle799@reddit

I didn’t know I’m technically a millennial until I had graduated college, and even then I argued I wasn’t. Never claimed to be Gen X, but my sister and possibly brother (depending which chart you use) are X and feel they had more of an influence than anything millennial.

As soon as I learned Xennial (or Ninja Turtles Generation), my life made more sense

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Bourbon-No-Ice@reddit

Get outta here boomer!

Jk, yea we are a interestingly not either and both.

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metajames@reddit

one of us!

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Big_Recognition_4117@reddit

I'm a zillenial and I get a similar thing with Millennials and Gen Z.

I occasionally pop into /r/Zillennials for nostalgia's sake since that's all the sub does, alongside the current existential terror at reaching 30.

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DameKitty@reddit

My mom's baby sister is solid GenX, but I'm tail end of X, which makes Xennial perfect for me. I'm in the oldest batch of cousins, and the oldest child of my nuclear family. I loved so much Gen X stuff, but had so much fun with the millennial stuff.

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Redhotkitchen@reddit

Right there with ya. I was born in 84 (so I’m pushing it with the Xennial label), but my siblings are older than me by 11 years, and our fam was always 5 years behind on any new tech. Never had internet in the house when I was living there.

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LoudTable9684@reddit

End of November 1978, and this is where I feel the most understood. My wife is younger (1981) and she identifies more with Gen X 🤷‍♂️

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GorchestopherH@reddit

Same.

I don't feel like I'm a millennial, I don't quite fit in.

For years I said it's because I'm from a smaller town, so trends hit later.

I definitely didn't have the chops of a genX.

Now I know.

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Potential_Top4116@reddit

I was born a few years before you. But we had a speaker for our team at work that presented how to present to Gen X versus millennials. He presented a certain age range as “cuspers” but said that we generally identify with one more than the other. Anyway, one of us said I’m going with X because of the music and everyone else was like hell yeah and then we were all high-fiving. 🤷‍♀️

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emmyg85@reddit

I internally cringe when I’m called a Millennial. When I ask people born in mid 90’s if they remember stuff from when I was a teenager, they have no clue.

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Striking-Win-3239@reddit

I’m 1978. I grew up reading and we only had one tv until I was a teen. I got a beeper when I was 16, but didn’t get my first computer until I was 20, and my first Nokia cell phone when I was 22.

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kjb76@reddit

I was born in 1976 and hate the Gen X sub because it’s just a bunch of grumpy old men. Sometimes I feel a little old in here, but not in an unpleasant way.

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thewayoutisthru_xxx@reddit

I remember using DOS prompts to get onto compuserve before windows was a thing.

And at the same time, my (southern, public) high school only had one computer in the library with Internet for the entire 2600 student school.

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Specific-Library-312@reddit

Question: As someone born in November of '84, but raised poor (less access to the latest stuff) and viewing boy bands as the beginning of the end, where do I fit in?

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DrenAss@reddit

I'm around the same timeline, but I had older brothers who were into grunge and hardcore apathy, and my blue collar parents gave us almost no supervision and little attention in general. So I definitely don't fit with the millennials who had helicopter parents.

I never understood bitching about "adulting." When my peers were talking about being afraid to make phone calls, I had been living on my own and taking care of myself for years.

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Seven22am@reddit

Well if you fit in here, you fit in here.

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Specific-Library-312@reddit

Then this will be the first place on Reddit I really fit in, thanks!

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WhatAreYouSaying777@reddit

Man, I don't know...

I'm 1983 and I grew up with tech as far as a computer an gaming systems.. my older brother 70's and younger sis late 80's never gravitated towards tech.

But we all loved music. My older bro an I definitely into underground hip-hop... non main stream. But also bigger acts like MJ and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

When the Boy Band era of the 90's hit, we knew it was manufactured product but could still kinda have fun with it... especially Spice Girls as my lil sis loves them lol

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Sad_Apple_3387@reddit

The main GenX sub is insufferable. And as someone who is technically a Gen X I despise most of their bragging about being neglected.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

This post got 1000+ upvotes. That is insane for me. That wins my allegiance. Lol. This is where I belong.

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EverybodyPanic81@reddit

Technically, Xennials arent a thing. You're either gen x or gen y/millennial. But some people relate to either side of the generations. I actually dont really relate to gen x myself even as en elder millennial born 1981. But a lot of younger millennial dont seem to relate to me as an elder millennial. So I'm here.

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eels-eels-eels@reddit

Eh, yes and no. Generational labels are useful at a macro level when you’re talking about broad swaths of the population, but probably a little less useful when you’re talking about individuals right on either side of the cutoff. People like labels, and like being part of a group, so we pick one or the other, and make one if we don’t already fit.

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DungPedalerDDSEsq@reddit

Your lane is a narrow band of excellence, my friend.

Welcome.

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liziamnot@reddit

Welcome, buddy.

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othybear@reddit

Old enough to have had Cold War nuclear drills in school, young enough to have school shooter drills in school. It’s an odd window to grow up in.

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Alternative-Air-1246@reddit

We are the official Oregon trail generation. Much preferred to geriatric millennial

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Britown@reddit

too young to rage against the machine. too old for a tumblr. welcome to the club.

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whosear3@reddit

There are no clear cut lines to generations. Categories are useful, but I noticed in high school that my values differed from my oldest sister, who was a hippie in 67. The ends of a generation are closer in values to the beginnings of the next one.

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AvidCyclist250@reddit

When you know, you know. Xennial is super real.

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jradio@reddit

As a 1980 I've always said I was GenX. I'm not as rigid as the older ones, and gladly accept and adapt to change. Xennial suits me just fine, although I really don't care what anyone thinks.

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CounterfeitSaint@reddit

They're all just karma farming subs anyways.

Do you prefer your feed full of "Remember [thing from 85-92]????" or to be full of "Remember [thing from 90-98]?????"

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Significant-Tip6466@reddit

Born in 86. Funny but I have more in common with my parents born in 53 and 59 than anyone my age.

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CaptGrognards@reddit

Welcome to the club

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AiringOGrievances@reddit

Welcome home. r/millennial is for the youngest sibling of families you knew growing up.

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carlitospig@reddit

The GenX sub is just filled with complaining and the occasional music nostalgia. Pretty sad.

This spot? This is our house. Welcome!

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stopes@reddit

I’m Nov 1984, but have older siblings born in 1980 and 1977. They influenced the music I listened to and the television I watched because they often controlled the remotes. The toys I played with were their hand me downs. These are my people. I struggle to relate to people even a few years younger.

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Less-Goose-8299@reddit

Born in 1978.

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dcamnc4143@reddit

Meh, I'm solidly an X'er, and also post in the "shoulder" generations on each side (gen jones and xennials)

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HearingDue2119@reddit

I’m tail end of ‘76 and don’t feel Gen X.

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Amylein17@reddit

Welcome!

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sinan_online@reddit

Welcome home.

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Confidence_Man2@reddit

Welcome.

asl?

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Responsible-Tea-5998@reddit

I used to get repeatedly kicked from Yahoo chat because I'd type f/uk

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Seven22am@reddit

19/f/Cali!

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Myzx@reddit

82 here. Gen X uses force too much, and tend to value domination.

Millennials tend to be too soft and prioritize feelings too much. I've got work to do.

They're both crazy, and they've driven me crazy. Cuckoo even. Cuckoo for coco puffs

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ChaucersDuchess@reddit

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Halo6819@reddit

Analog childhood, digital adolescence. Add in a few "once in a lifetime" GLOBAL economic events, wars, and throw in a global pandemic for funsies.

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Zenquin@reddit

Don't forget, very tail end of the Cold War.

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bigsampsonite@reddit

I have little in common with old Gen X. Born in 79.

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CGCTV@reddit

Welcome to the party! 🎉

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BobJutsu@reddit

‘83 checking in. Feel the same. Anyone from the first half of the 80’s had a unique experience…about ‘94-‘04 were absolutely revolutionary in terms of tech and how we relate to the world. Stack on 9-11. This very specific age group was young enough for those events to he formative, and old enough to still have the freedom and gruffness of our older counterparts.

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TravelingMatt34@reddit

Welcome to the club. We watch The Last Starfighter on Thursdays (early because we can't stay up late anymore)

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inabighat@reddit

How are your knees?

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1quirky1@reddit

Doing great. I did a 1300-ft vertical climb in a rock scramble called "The Devil's Marbleyard" https://gohikevirginia.com/devils-marbleyard/

After that feat my little reverse-tamagotchi* fitness tracker stated my fitness age was four years below my actual age.

*instead of me taking care of a stupid digital pet, I am the stupid pet.

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inabighat@reddit

My Garmin watch does this same thing hah

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whither_wander_you@reddit

better than my shoulder, but then again its always the complete failure mid walk that get me.

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inabighat@reddit

Last week I was out walking and my left leg nearly collapsed under me. All the more alarming because I'm a runner haha

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whither_wander_you@reddit

yupp. gym rat here, lifetime athlete, so its always entertaining for me when im doing just normal life when the knee goes nope!! like if it fails under load I get a cool story, but nah just stood up and babam!!

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inabighat@reddit

There should be a class in highschool for this nonsense: "what to expect when your body starts to betray you"

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whither_wander_you@reddit

hahaha, can there be a week on "perimenopause" cause I swear to god some doctor was just like OMG here is a term to shut all yall up, we dont fucking know why and we arent gonna do the research cause you're just here to make babies!!!

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Cashmeade@reddit

Lefty hasn't let me down yet. Righty's been medium fucked for around twelve years now. My physiotherapist said I'm too tall for good knees.

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sunkistandsudafed3@reddit

Bruised currently.

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actionerror@reddit

They’re no longer the bees’ sadly

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59apache01@reddit

Mine sound like a ratchet.

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Chilipatily@reddit

I can’t hear you over the popping.

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iwasnotarobot@reddit

They say “clack.”

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Large-Inspection-487@reddit

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Head-Reindeer-4082@reddit

Generations as they are popularly defined are interesting to me. 4 months ago I separated from my wife (severe hoarding disorder). I entered the dating scene again at 59 hoping to meet a younger Gen X or maybe an older Millennial. Women my age wouldn’t give me the time of day let alone match me. The only matches I got were from older Gen Z and younger Millennials. Before my separation I had discovered the age gap relationship subreddits, and thought it was mostly younger women looking for a sugar daddy as I thought most age gap relationships were by their nature transactional. While that is sometimes the case, I learned pretty quickly how to screen those women out. The remainder seemed to be legit interested in learning about the music and culture of my generation as well as being interested in sharing theirs. Idk if you could call them “old souls”, but their interest was genuine. Based on my life experience I am pretty good at determining who is genuine and who has ulterior motives (ie Michelin star restaurant dates and designer gifts). Early on, I agreed to take them out because my alternative was sitting home alone in my apartment. I’ve since withdrawn from dating for a while as I decided I had put myself out there before I was really ready, but my experience was eye opening. If and or when I decide to start dating again, I think I’m going to go in with a more open mind and see what happens.

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MaxPower836@reddit

Out

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AmeStJohn@reddit

tbh i use all three.

idgaf, my keyboard, my internet access! all with love.

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rjsonlyone@reddit

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SeanOTG@reddit

Welcome!! You must know at least 4 Wayne's World quotes but we will settles for 1 🤗

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

Welcome!

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Hyperion1144@reddit

Or do like the rest of us.

Subscribe to all three.

Xennial privilage.

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Theo_earl@reddit

My old boss would constantly make fun of millennials and then one day I googled his birth year (which was tattooed on his hand) and told him he was, indeed a millennial also haahahahahhahaha

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symphonicrox@reddit

I was born in 86 and often feel more gen-X-leaning. A lot of millennials don't seem to have grown up playing street hockey outside, biking to friends houses, memorizing landlines of friends, etc.

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Justonious2552@reddit

Welcome!

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SpeakerScary2307@reddit

Same here I went through the exact same situation 😂

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Ok_Commission_8564@reddit

I hope we all get to die of dysentery.

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Relative_Progress946@reddit

Also born in 1981. And I am Gen X. 1981 is the last of the 80s kids, the last to turn 18 in the old millennium, were adults in the 90s, the last to remember witnessing the Challenger, and demographically last part of the baby bust. Add it all up and we are the last of Gem X.

“Xennial” is not really a generation. It is merely the youngest Xers and oldest Millennials grouped together. Thats it. We’re still Gen Xers.

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StudentMuch1491@reddit

Ass end of 79, elder millennial

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Prestigious-Emu5277@reddit

Welcome brother. ‘81 here. Glad you made it.

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justtapitin65@reddit

I’m 1980 and relate far more to Millennials than Gen-X-er’s. Xennial is perfect for us 👌

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CincoDeLlama@reddit

Welcome to the best micro generation ever.

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fishin_pups@reddit

Welcome! We watch Snorks every Saturday!

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floodums@reddit

Yeah, me too

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Mothy187@reddit

1983 baby here. You guys are truly my people though and through

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blueplutoredsky@reddit

Welcome. I feel the same way. I’ve tried looking at both X and Millennials and neither are a great fit.

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Matrinka@reddit

We are a small generation but truly got the best of both worlds.

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

Welcome!

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Interesting_Owl7041@reddit

I’m 1985 and definitely identify as more Xennial. Perhaps it’s because I had older parents and older Gen X siblings. I also always tended to have older friends/boyfriends.

I have very little in common with anyone born in the 1990’s. Even the late 80’s is touch and go.

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chrillho18@reddit

I just discovered the term and this sub a few months ago myself and love it here. My 20 year old niece sent me some random tic tok video of someone describing what a xennial is and it matched me exactly.

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sublimegeek@reddit

“Millennials” is overused IMO by Boomers to refer to anyone they don’t understand.

I align with “Millennial” only because well, I was in HS when the millennium turned over.

What I’m more curious about is who comes up with these cutoffs anyway?

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PurpleWillingness909@reddit

I keep getting the millennial sub recommended to me but I feel so old in there sometimes! I can relate to some millennial stereotypes but mostly Gen X. 82 baby

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Bright_Revenue1674@reddit

86, boomer parents, and despite being solidly millennial, i feel i was raised more as a X

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disinaccurate@reddit

My wife was born in 1980 and she sees herself as millennial.

I was born in 1981 and lean much more Gen X.

I think it's because she stuck with toys and kid's media far longer than I did. She watched Disney movies and Disney channel, I watched John Hughes films and MTV. Her first home computer ran Windows ME, mine ran DOS 5.0. She never did Columbia House, while I had every name at our address pumping them and BMG for everything they were worth.

Really, she was probably the one behaving more or less age-appropriately, whereas my interests always trended older than I actually was.

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WarpedCore@reddit

I am mainly a Gen Xer, but still have things in common in this sub as well.

I saw a chart where Gen X and Xennials (Oregon Trail Generation) seem to be the only Generation that overlaps.

Weird.

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Master-Topic-2989@reddit

Yes same. End of 79 here. Too late to be a “true” Xer but a lil early to be 100% millennial.

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PurpleDraziNotGreen@reddit

Here it is, your moment of Xen

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htownballa1@reddit

We are the forgotten generation, left alone to raise ourselves, we grew up and live in a time that saw an extreme amount of technology boom as we watched the analog to digital transition happen right before our eyes.

We are the last generation that remembers what privacy was during our youth.

We are the most adaptable because of how much technology changed during our formative years.

We are the micro generation, a generation of people that doesn't span 10 years but a very small segment in time.

I send people this link whenever Xennial discussions happen.

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ICLazeru@reddit

I don't even know what the definition is, this just came up in my feed.

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Adh1434@reddit

I was born in 1980 I understand your feelings

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Otherwise-Ideal-3639@reddit

Oh neat!

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Outrageous-Suspect82@reddit

Technically I’m Gen X. Born in 78 and in some Gen X groups they talk about memories of being in high school in the 80s and I can’t relate cuz I was still a kid. This group fits best.

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The_Fell_Opian@reddit

OP - guessing your lane might be "I play Elden Ring and Dark Souls because it reminds me of the good old days of playing Zelda 2 and Ghosts and Goblins."

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1quirky1@reddit

I identify more with this sub than GenX despite being born in 1971.

There are too many boomer-like people in the GenX sub, mostly in the form of judging younger generations.

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TheNickelLady@reddit

Same. 1977 here

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ctrl_f_sauce@reddit

Too young for many of us remembering Kurt being alive. Too old for many of us to publicly read Harry Potter when it first came out.

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Sempophai@reddit

Yeah, this xennials zone is really blended. I was never entirely gen x and had a lot in common with millennials, despite just clipping the gen x age bracket.

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PeabodyEagleFace@reddit

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MoridinXP@reddit

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AddressSensitive6480@reddit

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Welcome to the in-between!

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CrackinBones204@reddit

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Cyclibant@reddit

Even though I'm technically in the Gen X bracket, I think of this group as the Brat Pack, Ethan Hawke, the cast of "Friends," JLO, Brad Pitt, & the like. People who were in high school & college when I was in first grade.

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Get in loser!

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Prize_Ad6430@reddit

1977 and feel more comfortable here than with genX.

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VoidOmatic@reddit

Welcome home!!

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JustAnotherBrokenCog@reddit

I'm '79 (barely, like last quarter of the year) and my wife is '83. Theoretically I'm Gen-X and she's millennial, realistically our experiences growing up were closer to each other than either of the generational groups we belong to. Which is why I'm here.

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Lby54229@reddit

1983 here, and I joined both Xennial and GenX subs.

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prettybluefoxes@reddit

Un pigeon hole yourself. Live your life. 👍

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StNic54@reddit

Insert coins to continue

Welcome aboard

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

"Advanced in years" is a nice way of calling them old fogies. Some Xennials do post in both his sub and the GenX sub though.

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RavioliContingency@reddit

I think we are the only little mini generation since whoever decided to start quantifying them right?

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ThinkFree@reddit

I'm an older xennial but that hasn't stopped me from hanging out with millennials. I feel closer to them than to genx. In my mind I am a millennial stuck in a slightly older body. And that's how I feel about xennials too.

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StaticSystemShock@reddit

I find this whole generational segregation so stupid... Also who made up these dumb periods that don't even line up with anything and also the fuck is with the naming?

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catsandkittens1308@reddit

Aka the Oregon Trail generation!!

Really glad dysentery hasn't killed any of us that I know of.

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Criticism-Lazy@reddit

Yup, 79 here and it’s weird trying to comment in both of those subs. This our spot. Welcome.

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slashcamper@reddit

Welcome home

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EidolonRook@reddit

Well I didn’t invite you! Get out of my lane!

/swerves off into a ditch and explodes.

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EducationalSoup83@reddit

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ZEEDarkstream@reddit

I’m going for a ride later… wanna come?

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jonathantg35@reddit

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Ishvale@reddit

There's plenty of us Xers here

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papabear556@reddit

I took the same "lap" through reddit just in the opposite direction. Genuinely had never heard of Xennial before that. I was always one-foot in either side. I turned 13 in 1990, while I do appreciate a good hair metal band (Genx) they were already waning by then. And I'm a hard pass on green day or slipknot (Millennial). I learned to type on a actual typerwriter (GenX) and had access to a computers my Junior year (Millennial) but I really learned about them on the job (GenX). Goonies, Breakfast Club, you bet (GenX). Anything Adam Sandler, miss me with that baby talk b.s. (Millennial)

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NeutralLock@reddit

Sorry, no Homers allowed.

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WideLight@reddit

I was born in 78 and most of my friends growing up were 5-10 years older than me, so I am Gen X at heart but got fucked the way that Millennials did in terms of the economy :/

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OW2007@reddit

The great thing about being born in 1978 is that my body is falling apart like a Gen Xer and my employment prospects are aligned with Millenials.

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TheAmazingMaryJane@reddit

i'm not xennial and i like this space better too. x is all about getting old they sound like the elderly in there. 70 baby btw. please don't kick me out!

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MoneyBeef@reddit

I'm a 76er and even though I'm below the proposed cut-off I feel more in touch with Xennial stereotypes that I do with Gen X ones. But like whatever pfff. drags imaginary cigarette

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ladydonttekno1@reddit

Welcome home, friend!

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AdTough9646@reddit

Learned something new today! Cool club.

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No_Today_4903@reddit

1981 here and I comment in Gen X occasionally and read there as well. I’m always afraid they’ll find out what year I was born and come after me lmao! Like dudes. I was raised being told I was Gen X and just like, the last two years have they kicked me out. Idk. I just don’t fit in at all with millennials, xennial is a great fit though! I laugh because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter at all. It just makes me laugh at how serious some people take it!! Youuuuu can’t be in my clubbbb 🤣🤣

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DryGeologist3328@reddit

I tried that sub too. I am a millennial and I could not relate to those people.

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mattcmoore@reddit

The farther we move into the future the more I have come to realize that "Millenials" as a distinct group may not really exist. In the original "Generations" book, Millenials were just a theoretical future generation made up of children who has yet to define themselves as a generation the same way the other generation groups did. Like other posters have commented, later Millenials and early millennials tend to have less in common, including the generations of their parents. That doesn't make sense to me. One generation should lead to the next. The more I think about it the more I believe that Xelenials, predominantly children of boomers, are just the end of GenX and Zelenials, mostly the children of GenX, are just early GenZ. GenX also had children on average a bit later in life than their predecessors, so it would make sense that the new generation they would create would arrive a bit later, probably some time in the late 80s, and overlapping the previous generation somewhat like what happened in the past. Going forward, you're going to have to make a similar adjustment for the children of "90s" kids, whatever generation you want to put them in, since Americans born in the 80s and early 90s weren't having children on average until very late on average, like almost a decade later than their grandparents.

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No_Brain_5164@reddit

Welcome home. Get your colonoscopy scheduled now if you haven't had one yet.

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morganalefaye125@reddit

I love it. I'm a little Gen X, and a little Millennial. Finally found the other inbetweeners

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Prize_Push5070@reddit

Here’s an idea..Just be you, let everyone else worry about what to call you or what generation you’re in.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit (OP)

Im always just me. Im not trying to "find myself" lol. Just looking for like minded people.

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Unlikely-Strike-8753@reddit

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Illustrious_Profile6@reddit

Easy way to gauge, were you the family I.T. person helping with tech growing up with the older folks. Now are you still the I.T. person helping the younger people in you family because they also don't know how shit works.

Probably in the right place.

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DarthBster@reddit

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LH1010@reddit

I have 9 Gen X siblings-in-law (husband is baby of his family and my sister married an older guy), I really don’t relate to them as strongly as millennials- though there is some overlap in terms of “playing outside until the street lights came on” and “drinking out of the hose”. And I watched and loved their movies - but that was always “the older kids”. I find them to generally be pretty different from us late 70s/early to mid 80s babies.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Yep, this place feels like home

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ScotterMcJohnsonator@reddit

Welcome to the group, and the identity crisis that comes along with it!

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ryguymcsly@reddit

Too old to vibe with the millennials, too young to hate everything. Welcome.

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thickbeardgoggles@reddit

I feel more like a young genx than the elder millennial I am categorized. I think the alt comedy scene is what got me. Davis Cross, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garafalo, The State… I used to love watching Standup Spotlight on VH1

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Disastrous_Bother173@reddit

Welcome!

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Specialist-Leek8645@reddit

Is it typical that I feel guilty having a special micro generation? I think it's less about when we were born and more about how old we were in HS, particularly around the new Millennium. We were prepped for a new future where decades of Sci-Fi would be reality. So much hype for both a new century and millennium. Optimistic times as we enter adulthood.

I also feel like we were experimented on, that everything we posted became fertilizer for AI. The slightly-off way they write like us, even just here, where I said "Less this more that." They always go, "It isn't about X, it's about Y."

I'm an old soul so I relate to GenX a lot but I might relate more to Grandma's Depression-Era generation. I did feel like a Millennial through my 20's and 30's but now.. I've become more acetic and no longer collect every fad I like. The materialism is a turn off for me now. I have found new music but the mp3s I've hoarded since Jr. High are still here. Never got into streaming services; thankful for that. I trust my hard drives more than the Cloud. I also refuse to let a company know how many times I've listened to a song. Feels like we were the first group to be observed and recorded online before the Internet became mostly dangerous. I thought it was supposed to be the new Wild West, dangerous and untamed. What happened? It's colonized and settled now but instead of safety and stability it's gotten so much worse. We let the railroad barons take over again while they dazzled us with Progress. Now they're straight-up drug dealers. Design an app to be addictive, make it free, then spike the price up once ppl are dependent.

Sorry, this sub makes me want to rant like an old man. ;D

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Turd-In-Your-Pocket@reddit

1982 here. Welcome brister.

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Barnitch@reddit

I'm from 1979. The way I see it, Gen X kids were the ages of the high schoolers in the movies we'd watch as kids. Karate Kid, John Hughes movies, Weird Science. In my head, they were the ages of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, our favorite identical, 5'6" Californian beauties with long, sun-streaked blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and a single dimple in their left cheeks.

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Celtic_Fox_@reddit

The Xennial sub is so much more friendly than X and Millennials sub is. Nothing about the people as a whole, just the Reddit community I've seen so far.

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JanieJane96@reddit

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GringoSwann@reddit

There's too many damn "lol's and lmao's" on the millennial sub for my liking...

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JustAzConfusedAzYou@reddit

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yzmasllamadrops@reddit

Welcome home ❤️

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the_D1CKENS@reddit

If you don't like Linkin Park, but also felt some kind of way about Chester...

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stations-creation@reddit

I was told forever we were Gen X until after I graduated in 2000!

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59apache01@reddit

The funny thing is, nobody really knows. Some say Gen X stops anywhere from '79 to '83 depending on the source.

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PoisonMind@reddit

I've seen a chart where Gen X ends in '79 and Millennials start at '81. '80 just doesn't exist.

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No_Media4766@reddit

We were supposed to be special until they forgot about us

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Ok-Concert-6475@reddit

I feel seen.

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Unfortunate-Incident@reddit

All through high school I was gen y, but then they changed the dates and I was pissed lol.

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Alarming_Fun_7246@reddit

Same here…I posted this exact comment in another sub recently and was told that I was wrong and that the original cutoff for Millennials was 1977, so as a 1982 baby, I couldn’t have possibly ever have been told that I was Gen X. Sorry, MA didn’t get the memo until 2000 lol.

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stations-creation@reddit

Seriously! 1982 as well and I have a very vivid memory of my third grade teacher telling us we were Gen X! Gen X are weird about it I have a lot of Gen X friends.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I thought I was going to be class of 2000 when I was a kid. We didn’t really talk about what class I was going to be like people talk about it nowadays. Anyway by the time hs started I figured it out. I was disappointed until I heard we got to claim that Prince song.

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DoctorAvailable6601@reddit

Welcome to Oregon Trail side.

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SeaworthinessNo4647@reddit

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jenn-a-fire-1973@reddit

That's where my husband falls. He is 1978, and I am 1973. There is a big difference in a few key areas! Lol!

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kgetit@reddit

We are both lanes.

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

Yeah 83 here. I can't stand the millennial sub because it is just constant whining that I can't identify with. This one is much better.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

By birth year I’m firmly within (the latter half of) Gen X, but I grew up with lots of exposure to technology (mom worked in data processing & then started a software company)… in grade school I was regularly spending time in old 1980s mainframe computer rooms, knew what a modem connection was and how to dial one, how to mount reel to reel tape on a Honeywell tape drive; when mom started the company we had “IBM Compatible” 386 processor computers in the house…

Upshot being, I was a Gen X kid but had much more of a millennial upbringing, so this group comes closest for me too

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dishonorable_banana@reddit

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

Born in 1981, while I fit in with Gen X, I am too millennial for them and too Gen X for Millennials

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InfamousCantaloupe38@reddit

Yep, this nails it for me also.

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guacamole579@reddit

I’m 5 years older but I don’t fit in anywhere. Gen X is too old and xennials still feel too young.

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Short-Nail-3781@reddit

This describes us perfectly

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NighthawkCP@reddit

I'm also '81 and can integrate with both pretty well. But having a pretty tech savvy father I lean more millennial due to earlier exposure to tech than most in our age group. Like I had a bag phone in my truck in high school which almost nobody had, at least in our more rural area. We had a Tandy 1000 PC before I was in school, I was on BBS's before ISP internet access was very common, I had an Atari 2600 in my room from like four years old, etc. So yeah I'm in a weird happy medium but I definitely align more with the millennial group.

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Partridge_Pear_Tree@reddit

I was born in 1985, so I’m on the cusp of Xennial. But I feel I belong here. I played Oregon Trail in school. I watched the birth of the internet. I had one desktop computer in elementary school but barely used it until I hit my teen years. I remember being shown Google and thinking I’ll never use this. I remember the end of library card catalogs and doing research with physical books. I feel if you lived during the changes from the old way of doing things to the new digital age we are now, you are probably in this group. If you grew up with it already started, then you’re pure Millennial.

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Historical-Piglet-86@reddit

I truly don’t feel at home as either a Gen X or Millenial. Neither fits quite right. I feel too young. Then too old. This place is home.

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Different-Audience34@reddit

One of the big differences for us is that many of us had at least one parent who was a boomer, at least one grandparent who remembered and told us about life during the great depression and WWII, and a parent or family member who served in Korea and/or Vietnam. I feel like I understand people who are 100% GenXers and Mennials but my life is a mix of those experiences so I don't identify with either very well.

I remember having playing my cousin's old Atari as a kid, typing on a typewriter in primary school, seeing a Mac that sat in a corner of my science classroom at the end of primary school, playing my original ninendo and going to Arcades. I also remember the Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and KFC buffets along with people being able to smoke almost everywhere until I was in middle school. We also could walk to the grocery store when I was a kid before Walmart and the big chains came in.

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

I have a hard time relating to younger Millennials, especially those born after 1989-1990. I grew up around older cousins, older siblings of close friends and neighbor kids, so I definitely picked up on the influence of those born between 1979 and 1983 whereas I had very little in common with anyone born after 1988.

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

I'm an 82 Baby!!! I'm saying WELCOME HOME!!!

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Rich_Celebration477@reddit

Welcome friend. We’re glad to have you as part of the best generation.

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Practical-Witness796@reddit

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n0exit@reddit

I know I don't belong in the millennial sub when they start quoting SpongeBob.

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ckglle3lle@reddit

Casual reminder that generational cohorts are just guidelines and not that deep. There is some value in the shared experiences and all but how they are defined is loose and should not be taken too seriously

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titianwasp@reddit

I am 1970 - solidly X, but I took a gap year and then changed uni’s a couple of times so most of my formative college years were 92-97. Most of my close friends sku 5-15 years younger.

This sub speaks to my experience more I guess.

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Upstairs-Kale-3794@reddit

1980 here. Before Xennial was a word. I always said, "I feel entitled, but I feel guilty about it. I think I'm half Gen X and half Gen Y"

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mitchandmickey@reddit

Same. My 1970s brothers don't get my Oregon Trail jokes. We are at home here

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Weekly_Library9883@reddit

1983 and sibling was 1981, xennial is definitely the most appropriate and misunderstood micro generation.

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Unfortunate-Incident@reddit

I am Gen X. I had a post from there pop up the other day. It was something like "is this the most famous picture from our generation?" It was a TIME magazine cover from 1984 or 85; an afghan refugee. I'm just thinking, bitch, I was 5 years old and have never seen this picture in my life.

I know I'm Gen X, but it sure does not feel like it. I cannot relate to almost anything from that sub.

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southpaw303@reddit

I’m 86 and probably don’t officially belong here, but I have older parents (silent gen and early boomer) and an early Gen X brother, so I lost resonate with this group. Music, technology, etc all resonate here way better than the millennials who had cell phones in grade school and don’t remember a time without computers and internet.

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TrinityKilla82@reddit

Welcome to the party! New guy buys beer and pizza.

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HearseWithNoName@reddit

I liked Gen X with the exception of complaining about healthcare related issues. I want humor and nostalgia dammit!

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PokerbushPA@reddit

Somewhere along the line, the Gen X sub became Grampa Simpson yelling at clouds.

Also a lot of glazing shitty music from the 70s. Shitty like REO Speedwagon and Styx.

I bailed. That's not my crowd.

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Weltschmerz9353@reddit

I am definitely on the older side. 1966

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atomicgirl78@reddit

My older sisters are Gen X and I WAS Gen Y until they yanked that away haha. Then being lumped with millennials felt so wrong. I love being a Xennial. I’m a 78 by the way.

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Charrbard@reddit

We had the unique childhood, stuck between worlds. Of course our experiences are going to seem different to people who didn't get the Internet until Myspace, and the kids who started life with pokemon.

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calbearlupe@reddit

I was born in 76. I’m also in the Gen X sub. I relate way more to the xennials than the Xers.

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animefemme@reddit

'80 here. Eldest child. My sister is a solid millennial ('86), so I identify with some of her stuff, but also a lot of pop culture things my boomer parents exposed me to. Proud to be an analog gone digital.

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dufte-Faltung@reddit

lol same here, xennial all the way

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SourcePrevious3095@reddit

It's great to learn because....

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MurderDeathTaco@reddit

Was definitely worth the laugh - among other things, they had a Blockbuster exhibit 😂

What country are you from by the way?

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Dare2BeU420@reddit

My favorite thing about our micro generation is seeing where Xennials are at as far as relating more to Millennials or Gen X.

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NeilLovesVeronica@reddit

Born in '76. I have so much more in common with Elder Millennials than I do young Gen X. I cant stand music from the 90s except Rap, Beastie Boys, Peral Jam and NIN. My Elder Gen X counterparts couldnt program a VCR, while I was fixing everyone's computer.

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Scimmia_bianca@reddit

Fellow 76er and I’m really split between the two gens. I wasn’t a latchkey kid and didn’t grow up with a bunch of kids in the neighborhood, so that whole feral childhood Gen X life is foreign to me. My childhood was closer to stereotypical millennial upbringing without participation medals (we still earned awards). As far as taste and culture go, it’s really split. HS and college in the 90’s, but I was still young in the 2000’s and can relate to that music too.

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Dare2BeU420@reddit

I am the opposite. I am an 82 baby but relate more to even super early Gen X'ers. I'm an old soul though 😂

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BrujaMalvada81@reddit

Personally, Gen X. I had more in common overall with my Gen X siblings than I did with my Millennial sibling despite a smaller age gap.

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Dare2BeU420@reddit

Same! I am an '82 baby but have older siblings so naturally was heavily influenced by their generation.

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the1truestarr@reddit

Welcome!! I got banned from Gen X for calling someone white, lmaoooooooo. I like it here, bet you will too!!

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EGOtyst@reddit

I always think it is very related to how much your parents made and when you got internet.

I was born in 84, but I didnt get a home computer until I was 12. I had my first real AOL screen name at like, 14.

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lavasca@reddit

I was told I was GenX until a few years ago. During meetings I’d make suggestions that would be met with a scowl and a question. “Are you a Millenial?”

Then, I started really paying attention to the memes and shortform video describing GenX life. I never drank from a garden hose. I wasn’t a semi-feral, latch-key kid. My parents never told me they’d give me something to cry about.

Although, I, and my age cohorts/generation have been summoned by a song. It was “Down with the sickness” by Disturbed. This did not come out in the eighties. It was the wildest of circumstances. I did NOT expect this to be played at Disneyland. I felt like I was part of Meerkat Manor.

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heresmytwopence@reddit

X is at an age spread right now where junior and senior members can have profound differences. There are some junior X-ers among us who are still starting families while the senior X-ers are, well, literally seniors. That divergence is what brought me here several years ago. Glad you finally found us!

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I don't think it's just age spread; I think there are some very big regional and experience differences. I'm solidly in GenX by years (born '75) but my particular experiences (particularly having grown up in NYC) things over here seem to resonate a lot more.

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Mysterious_Ayytee@reddit

I'm born in autumn of 1980, according to most definitions I'm gen X but here comes the point: My school year had kids who are born from September 1980 to August 1981 with a majority of people born on 1981. So they want to tell me that my class had two totally different generations? That's nonsense.

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TurboSS@reddit

Relevant Nate Bargatze. I know this has been posted before, but fits with OP just finding this.

https://youtu.be/jYB42QqJpHg?si=dGB43cqSEnRxRPoV

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dubious455H013@reddit

One of us, one of us....welcome home

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Silent_Creme3278@reddit

Why would you want to even be considered a mellennial. Every time they are referenced it is some metro sexual man bun wearing doichebag.

Only thing mellinneals are good for is filling up their mantles with participation trophies and jars of tears to water therapists plants.

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2d6DoomedWizards@reddit

millenial sub is zoomers cosplaying

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aqueen81@reddit

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Opposite-Mushroom940@reddit

Gen X sub is boomer lite.

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The_Spectacle@reddit

in my experience Gen X is more boomery than actual boomers

why boomers are even a topic befuddles me. my dad is a boomer and he's almost 80. I’m firmly convinced that when people use the term "boomer" they actually mean an older gen x'er

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

“Welcome to Thunder dome!” “Party on Wayne!”

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BeautifulChaosEnergy@reddit

83 baby and I am firmly in the Xennial camp. My younger brother and I are the youngest grandkids on both sides. So we definitely grew up under the Gen-X influence. But are not quite them. But definitely not millennials.

And I wore Randy River jeans not JNCO because I wouldn’t afford them 😂

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nochickflickmoments@reddit

I'm in both. Born in 1979, I have a lot of millennial experiences and a lot of Gen X experiences. There's bound to be overlap.

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codebygloom@reddit

Welcome to the Dark Side.

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Golden_Enby@reddit

Interestingly enough, I've found that our micro generation is far more open minded in many ways, which fascinates me. There are outliers, of course, but for the most part, at least with active users in this sub, folks don't welcome asshatery, as it were. Which is something I appreciate. It makes me feel more at ease being here.

I think the three surrounding generations (X, Xennial, and Y) can be partially be defined by how old you were on 9/11. Most Xennials had either graduated HS in the 90s or on/a little after Y2k. I was 19 when 9/11 happened and my little sister was 14. The impact it left on us individually was vastly different.

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Pleasant-Reading3634@reddit

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omelatk@reddit

I did the same thing.

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WakeyWakeeWakie@reddit

I’m the first year of Xennial and my husband is the first year of GenX. Our perceptions of the 80s and 90s are so different! For obvious reasons, but it makes me laugh sometimes. For late 90s forward our perceptions are pretty similar.

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TheN1ck@reddit

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bananapanqueques@reddit

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Striking-Access-236@reddit

Best of both subs is 'right here, right now'...

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Ok_Concentrate4461@reddit

'78 and fit in much better here.

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msheehan418@reddit

I fit in better on this sub. For a good time ask everyone to post their fav xennial meme

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Welcome to the party, Pal. Here's your complementary selection of Die Hard and Lampoon christmas movies. Would you prefer an NES or Sega? If you're thirsty, the hose will be running at 10 and 2 and 4. Ask your friend's parents to call if you won't be home for dinner.

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actionerror@reddit

Happy cake day!

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PicklesAndRyeOhMy@reddit

How do we pronounce it? ex-ennial? zennial? I’ve heard both…

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mbgameshw@reddit

Welcome… ! Or whatever

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Far-Watercress6658@reddit

Welcome. I feel similarly. Can’t grove with the Gen Xers. They’re a bit dark tbh

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Master-Economist-453@reddit

Keep coming back! It works! 🤍

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14thLizardQueen@reddit

1985 and I dmwas a poor 1985 and unloved kid. I barely relate to half of anything. I don't connect with the tech savvy millennial but I also connect with the shitty parents of gen x . I might be able to talk about a TV show. Maybe. Like fresh prince .

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UnderH20giraffe@reddit

I felt very alone until I found this sub! Millennials seem like children and gen X are the angry older kids that beat me up. Whereas, pretty much every post here I connect with. Welcome!

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NewToHTX@reddit

Bro either way you are old and probably tired of having to walk between those 2 subs. Go ahead and sit down for a little bit.

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fozzieferocious@reddit

90's Pizza Hut "Book It!" people REPRESENT.

'82 Truffle Shuffle club reporting for duty!

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actionerror@reddit

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Dry-Construction1262@reddit

Born too late for Captain Caveman jokes, born too early for Pokemon jokes.

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MeatEaterDruid@reddit

I think I'm squarely an elder millennial but most of the friends in my neighborhood had older siblings so I was surrounded by a lot of the xennial culture and relate to both this sub and the millennial one.

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cataholicsanonymous@reddit

Same. 1986 here. I have a 1988 friend and it's bizarre the cultural difference those 2 years made. I was all about the Spice Girls in middle school and she was all about Avril Lavigne.

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hevnztrash@reddit

“They’re just worms, Michael. Be one of us…”

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schwing710@reddit

I’m squarely a millennial but I relate to the Xennials in this sub way more than the Millennials in the millennial sub. They just like to whine over there. Over here, it’s all pop culture references and good times. Party on!

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Trust_In_Jesus_82@reddit

Yeah we should have never been looped in with the millennials. They have a completely different childhood than we did. They’re talking about video games of the early 2000’s and I’m talking about Mario Bros on NES in the 80’s.

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vankirk@reddit

Party on Wayne

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Golden_Enby@reddit

Party on, Garth

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BodyBagSlam@reddit

I’m ‘75 and swear this fits me more than the X. I think the lanes are subjective to the experience.

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hyzerKite@reddit

78 here. I am a cusp Xennial. But, I married a millennial and realized that I was in between. The Oregon Trail generation was always my favorite name. Welcome home.

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

I just use all three. Although the Millennials sub seems to have a lot more bot posts.

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

Word of warning: be careful which GenX sub you’re using, as one of them is run by a lunatic.

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Im_from_the-future@reddit

I feel like 99% of the content here is relevant to me. Happy to call myself a Xennial.

Someone made the comment above, but I totally agree with the “don’t really care “sentiment. I feel like that is what we bring to the era party - fixing a lot of the issues from the boomers and generally just want our own space and to be left alone

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Ltimbo@reddit

Yup. Researchers will tell you it’s not a thing but if you’re one of us, you know that the other two don’t quite fit.

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bizh_gki@reddit

The date ranges have changed over the years. Initially, I wasn’t X but didn’t feel like a Millennial. Then X included me but was still more focused on older Xers. Then, Xennial came up and I fit right in. Now, I’m technically a little too old to be a Xennial while X has become more focused on later Xers, excluding a lot of the older Xers which might have older Xers feeling more X than ever really. It’s a bit bizarre but definitely less about a birthdate than about what childhood was like of course.

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AquaValentin@reddit

Same here. I was a little kid in the 80’s

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kaizencraft@reddit

I never thought I was considered gen X because my uncle's an older one and he's way more like that Reality Bites type. Then, my bros are millennials born in the early 90s, so I knew I wasn't one of those.

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Fairymask@reddit

Yeah my sister is 12 years older than me and my brother 9 years older. I definitely don’t feel like I relate to their earlier Gen X experience. You guys are my people.

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OhWhatever_Nevermind@reddit

Welcome!

1982 here.

My ex, who is 7 years older than me, and this Gen X, would tease me about being a millennial, which I vehemently denied! I did not want to be grouped in with them but I could t quite figure out why.

Then I discovered Xennial and a whole new world opened up to me!

I often feel partially removed or can’t identify with others as much in the millennial groups I am a part of….I just don’t relate to the things they say, like about getting their first cell phone in Grade 7 or something. :P (I got my first cell when I was 22!).

I hope you find yourself feeling more settled and at ease as a Xennial!

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Amda01@reddit

Same here. Technically i'm an X-er but I don'tbelong there, their music/lifestyle are alienbto me. And in-betweener feels much better.

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sick_of-it-all@reddit

Do you remember the cartoon M.A.S.K., but also watched SpongeBob when it was new? Then you belong here. Welcome fren.

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Checked_Out_6@reddit

83 here, I don’t really connect with the Spongebob generation, I was a bit old for that. I mean, I like spongebob, but never watched much. That was for kids like ten years younger than me, it seemed. I get along with Gen Xer’s more than millenials. But the older Xer’s don’t really connect with me either. Welcome to somewhere in the middle.

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sideshowmario@reddit

I was born in 74 but have younger siblings. I feel like I connect more to this sub than the gen x one.

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njam1e@reddit

77 here... firmly GenX but def found my people with Xennials

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mist_kaefer@reddit

Welcome to the party, pal.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

Back in my day…. I bought a used laptop in the 90s that had a built in modem. I tried to get online but there was some sort of issue. I called the ISP and they said to come in… to the actual building with the servers and wires and everything. They connected by laptop to something and they pointed to the actual LED light somewhere on their rack of equipment that was me. So I could connect. Turns out the modem was much slower than advertised and wouldn’t work. Luckily they sold me a 28.8k modem they had lying around and I brought it home and away I went on the information super highway. Anyway long story short we are the generation that got the internet in our houses as teens, largely thanks to AOL.

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

My older brother is 11 yrs older than me and we have this debate all the time, in jest, of course.

Bro you were in the bar in the late 80s.

I was in the club in the 00s.

We are not cut from the same cloth. Your hair band posters were weird and I knew that at 4. 🤣🤣🤣

I just okay, boomer, him now and he usually doesn’t have a great comeback. lol

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

We really are a little different.

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FiveCrappedPee@reddit

Same, I love this sub, it's the song of my people. Gen X will have ppl born in like 67 who I have nothing in common and are grumpy ass boomer lite, and millennials, I still see the sub in my feed but maybe a year or two ago it was a thread titled "I'm thirty and just bought a house what do" or something like that and I was like damn I'm too old for this shit.

Welcome!!! The water is warm jump on in! I swear I didn't pee in it.

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DarksunDaFirst@reddit

You’re a Millennial.

Remember, you came first.

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

Yayyy welcome!

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VincentMac1984@reddit

Welcome Home!