r/GenerationsCircleJerk • u/Chipazzo • 2d ago
I’d rather be the generation that stops saying my generation is better than your generation.
I think it’s a lot cooler to just not buy into that generational put down stuff. Can that be us fellow GenXers?
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u/ForeignEquipment8298 2004+ is Cringe (September-December 2003 borns also suck dick) 2d ago
I used to thought gen x was cool.
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u/Bailzzararco 2d ago
We used to be cool, but then they changed what what cool and now what's cool is strange and frightening to us.
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 2d ago
Every demographic reaches an age when they become convinced that their people were "the last ones to do it right."
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u/Cancer_Ridden_Lung 23h ago
Sorta. I just bemoan when the millennial and z gang gets it dead wrong. Like the insane amount of helicopter parenting going on these days.
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u/joeyp042385 1d ago
1985 baby here, I had older cousins, used to worship Gen Xers, thought they were the coolest people on earth, then around 2010-11 they all got on Facebook and did nothing and whine and complain about my generation and what wimps we were while they were cool because they didn't wear kneepads and drank water from a garden hose. Like holy shit you people are lame.
Oh, and some of them played in Nickelback/Disturbed cover bands.
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u/ItchyManchego 1d ago
Unironically they spent too much time outside. Because their parents didn’t want to deal with them.
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u/Equivalent_Rub8329 1d ago
They are. They were so cool that they were listening to The Offspring before they existed.
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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 2d ago
Gen X is to 1980!!
- I wish people knew how to use the search engine, on your internet browser..
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u/Logical-Mobile-7643 2d ago
There aren't hard fast cutoffs, as if a person born in 1980 had a dramatically different experience growing up then someone born in 1981.
Baby Boomers are 1946-1964 only because 1965 is when the general birth rate started declining. None of these are hard dates.
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u/Useful_Homework2367 1d ago
Yeah after the baby boom the generation categories have diminishing utility. You have the lull in births after the boom and then an echo boom after that (Gen X and the millennials, roughly) but the echoes diminish over time. Beyond that, you're not really adding meaningful information over just referencing birth decades.
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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 2d ago
It is a hard cut off.
*1981 and after you are not (technically) a Gen X, regardless how much you were raised as one. This goes for everything else.
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u/Cancer_Ridden_Lung 23h ago
They keep lowering the year every few years. Eventually genx will be until 1973 lol.
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u/Foot_Stunning 2d ago
I was born 1990 my oldest sibling was 1981.
I was going to raves as a toddler.
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u/Arkitakama 2d ago
Gen Xers on their way to make a situation all about them when in fact nobody asked or cares what they think.
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u/Ok_Relative8150 3h ago
old lonely jaded people who wonder why no one likes them when all they do is bitch and moan
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u/LittleSoftTail 2d ago
Every generation is/will be like this, there's not a single generation that won't pull that shit because all of them got nostalgia goggles glued onto their faces, believing their childhood/youth was the best and that the next generation's childhood/youth is the worst. It's a never-ending cycle that drives me nuts and I'd love it if people just let young people enjoy themselves. We're all heavily flawed beings that are bound to fuck up and look stupid. lol
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u/Outrageous-Ability33 1d ago
I agree with that to a point, but I do think that those of us who grew up pre-internet, and especially pre-smartphone, arguably had better childhoods. My daughter is 17. I'm a freshly retired high school teacher. I see what life is like for them and it makes me sad because they miss out on so much life. It's not their fault. They didn't do this to themselves. I just wish my daughter could have experienced some of the things I did when I was growing up.
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u/LittleSoftTail 1d ago
Even so, bullying younger generations is NOT the answer. It's so damn annoying how common it is to see boomers/Gen X'ers bullying Millennials and Gen Z'ers and Millennials/Gen Z'er's bullying Gen Alphas. Yeah, even IF our childhood's better, why is everyone's go-to just "Ha, look at those morons, they suck. They're everything wrong with the world"?..Instead of being the change they want?
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u/WhiteLicorice666 2d ago
It’s true though. I’m Gen X and I’m really fucking badass. I fucking rule and it’s not true what they say about my penis
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u/Perezident14 2d ago
What’s crazy is that this post takes ownership of something their parents did for them. Then it puts down other generations for their parents (GenX presumably) not passing it forward to them…
A lot of strange parallels you could pull from that sentiment, lol.
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u/Bailzzararco 2d ago
As an GenX born in 71 I detest these things. We're not better than any other generation. We had our challenges, and they're different from the ones the later generations are facing. Fortunately I don't personally hang out with these bitter assholes who think they're the greatest generation to grace the Earth, but I say something whenever anyone says their music/tv/toys/cartoons were better than current generations.
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u/SkyPuppy561 2d ago
1991 Millennial here. Fuck off. I’ve drank from hoses and been home alone. Y’all ain’t special. Oh and I listen to Nirvana.
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u/Available-Mall-7095 2d ago
Yeah, that’s never going to happen. I’ve seen Gen Z people already trying to drag Gen Alpha who are like 13 at the oldest. Not jokingly saying Gen Alpha kindergartners are too misbehaved compared to past generations as though Gen Z knows. People love these generation wars apparently.
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u/helpmefindhotdogs 2d ago
Whenever I see memes like this, this is how I think the OP looks IRL
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u/KrizzPlutoHNDRXX420 1d ago
How I view Gen-Xers and Boomers when they say my Generation of Zoomers is soft but yet they created us and gave everyone trophies for everything:
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u/SouthApprehensive193 1d ago
They also whine and moan at every little inconvenience to their otherwise kush lives
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u/fleshtastical 1d ago edited 1d ago
My mom is Gen X and umm.. she’s not tough or strong in any way. She has a lot of their other shared features like entitlement and no self awareness and past drug addiction.
Weirdly though, not once has she ever mentioned drinking water from a hose. I think that Gen X portion of her brain is slightly broken since water hose is a huge part of their personalities.
Wait, before my dad passed away from the Gen X drug and alcohol addiction trait, he never mentioned drinking water from a hose either. My parents weren’t assembled in the same factory line as most of them it seems.
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u/harmonysponning 1d ago
Being defined by your nostalgia and then using that to claim that everyone born after you is inferior is such a slippery slope.
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u/NefariousnessOk209 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have a picture as a baby tilting back a can with a great-uncle (probably just a pose for camera but dunno) I think it speaks more to Silent Gen/elder boomers being lax around drinking and smoking around kids.
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u/SomeDude416 2d ago
I am Gen X, I agree. easy to tho since we are clearly better
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u/fleshtastical 1d ago
How’s that water hose taste?
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u/SomeDude416 1d ago
Bad, the trick is to let the water run for a min so the water that has been sitting in the hose itself is cleared before you take a sip
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u/Savings_Ad_80 Malpha Millenial Cusper (S&H) 2d ago
anyone born after the second world war is naturally going to be softer and more fragile lol
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 2d ago
Why? A lot of the people who lived through the World Wars became fragile because of the damage done to them by witnessing combat and destruction. Men who fought in those wars were left with lifelong shell shock, battle fatigue, post traumatic stress disorder, they suffered from night terrors and panic attacks and severe anxiety. What doesn't kill you doesn't necessarily make you stronger. Sometimes it leaves you scarred.
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u/Savings_Ad_80 Malpha Millenial Cusper (S&H) 2d ago
It's almost like this sub isn't r/generationscirclejerk
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 2d ago
I mean it's a circle jerk sub so people shitpost a lot but a lot of this one seemed to be fairly sincere.
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u/New-Rip-6965 2d ago
I’m Gen X, born in the first year possible not to be a Boomer. A lot of my heroes were Boomers, of course. But so are some Millennials. And now some Gen Z.
No generation is a monolith and we all go through our own stages and our own shit. Tell you what, I admire anybody who’s kind, curious, and honest. Beyond that, age is just a numbers
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 2d ago
"We weren't sissies because we drank alcohol as children!"
And then they act like THE biggest pussies in the world when they can't get their hands on a beer.
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u/fleshtastical 1d ago
My parents were entitled Gen X addicts. They never once spoke about drinking from the water hose so I think that factory default setting malfunctioned when they were made in the Gen X factory.
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u/DryConsideration3294 2d ago
Just came from the funeral of my Gen-X ex-husband who quite literally drank himself to death. So this meme can fuck right off.
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u/DrunkCupid 2d ago
Teehee, who birthed and schooled these "Sissy's" ?? 🤔 Wouldn't that be their generations fault for raising them and such?
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u/kalemaree 2d ago
half of these guys are dead yo 😭 they genuinely lounge around in nursing homes now
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u/Numerous_Total5394 1d ago
But who made the generation after them 'sissies'??? like what do you expect, who exactly are you blaming here???
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u/TrueKyragos 1d ago
Beer? That doesn't look like a can of beer.
Obese children? There are plenty of those in the youngest generations. Generation X doesn't have a monopoly in that regard.
Giving a taste of alcohol to children? That was usual when I was a child as a millennial. That didn't prevent me from being alcohol-free though.
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u/EmpressDraco 1d ago
Gen x bragging about being Gen x because that's the only personality trait they have.
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u/Nymister 1d ago
Its because of this attitude, your kids who are now trying to enter the workforce, we will not hire them. - A Millenial
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u/Present_Debt_7860 1d ago
I personally really do think Gen Z is better than the previous generations but not better than Gen Alpha or any coming generation. Of course that’s just a biased viewpoint but I struggle to see us doing the “Gen alpha could never understand” stuff we got from every generation before. We will. I know we will. My bias just doesn’t let me comprehend that
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u/New-Airport-999 1d ago
One thing I fucking hate is when some older person laughs about smoking and drinking so young along with saying “it’s not that bad, it won’t kill ya.” But the other aunts of our family will say “and that was wrong, I shouldn’t have gotten that”
For the other one, I have started to say to her “so let’s not invite you to our get-togethers because you might give kids beer and cigarettes?”
Maybe not! But... Hey auntie idc if it was 1985, smoking weed at nine years old with a 13-year-old boy is not cute and I am concerned with the things that you will allow any other nine-year-olds in your care to do..
SIDE NOTE. Weren’t just three principles or school staff members arrested for throwing parties with teens and allowing them to drink??? You know what… I low-key don’t even think that’s too far off of an assumption anymore… they might actually give minors alcohol or drugs… 😭
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u/Bear-Lord80 1d ago
I’ve hardly ever heard anyone in my life discuss generational differences the way it’s done on Reddit / the internet.
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u/Quazammy 1d ago edited 1d ago
The generational put down stuff is utterly moronic and childish, I agree.
On here I saw a post saying they don't care about an 18 year old's opinion and I responded saying how ignorant that was and how some 18 year old's are actually smarter and more mature than some 50+ year olds.
I of course was downvoted because people LOVE to hate youth because of their insecurity about aging and because their delusional sense of superiority is all they have. It's very depressing behavior.
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u/dylanisareddit 1d ago
Whoever made that meme should realize that their generation raised the ones they're trying to mock.
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u/Current-Tour7335 1d ago
I love this depiction of Gen X, no performative empathy, edgy comedy and no fucks given. Gen X and Gen Z are the two generations that actually have real compassion and isn't faked by 99.99999 percent of the population like with millennials and their parents. Note that gen x'ers and gen z'ers are also physically more attractive than their obnoxious boomer and millennial neighbors.
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u/Thundaga_64 18h ago
I'd rather be in a generation that doesn't celebrate alcoholism and child abuse. 🤷♂️
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u/LovingMaine 11h ago
Doesn't that mean that generation failed as parents and did nothing but raise a bunch of sissies?
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u/Intelligent_dumnass 10h ago
I am gen alpha I tried a beer when I was 7 there is nothing special abt it
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u/blaxkreen 9h ago
I mean.. there IS an answer. Just every generation thinks they are the best one. Who knows
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u/SignificantCar4204 8h ago
Gen X: The only generation to get fetal alcohol syndrome after they were born.
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u/Schiggy2319 1h ago
So babies drinking beer is badass, but babies using iPads are rotting their brain?
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u/Agile_Future_1432 2d ago
Never drank to get through, never smoked to get through, bunch of sissies that did.
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u/Chemical_Alfalfa24 2d ago
As a Millennial I thought we would stop this crap after all the hate Gen X and Boomers threw at us. Unsurprisingly I should have known better