My Gen isn’t Z. I know for a while they wanted to include my generation with the millennial Gen, but the people born between 1977 to 1985 had a unique upbringing, so they came up with the term “Xennial” and called my generation a micro-generation, because it didn’t really fit in with Generation X or the millennials or Gen Z. We experienced two worlds in our formative years, one world where everything was wholesome America before tech took over, where our adolescent years were spent outside playing, fighting and being very active, life wasn’t childproofed yet so one of us might catch a lawn dart in the head on occasion, then we hit the workforce busting our asses, and from about 18 to 30 years old we watched internet and smart tech become a major part of daily life. The “millennials” and Gen Z spent their formative years buried in technology, and Gen X experienced life mainly like their boomer parents did with the same opportunities, whereas my Gen experienced life in both worlds with very limited economic opportunity in our future unless we did everything right.
Yeah Gen Y is millennial, and Gen X spanned a very long period, 1965 to 1980, so there’s some overlap in what they ended up calling a Xennial. Personally I don’t think you can be considered Gen X unless you were a part of the last successful generation who still had a great economy to jump into right out of high school, up until your early 30’s, they had a nice easy shot at getting established with a house and a high wage job before the economy was gutted, and before the anti-White policies really took hold.
I think Gen X's biggest marker was that although they were kind of left listless in childhood, they were the last generation to really enjoy their youth from childhood to young adulthood because they had distinct communities, culture, art, music, and the last vestiges of that epoch of time when young men and women going to school socialized in normal ways.
The millennials only like the 90's because it was the last recorded time when things were "normal".
There's a meme that really fucks me up as a Millennial. It's a picture of a little girl playing with a flower in front of landscape that includes the twin towers. The text on the image read something like: "Our children will never know what they lost". It fucks me up because it seems like we were the last generation to even witness normalcy, and that was now 30 years ago. Gen X was the last demographic to kind of have a normal life. The late 90's were a period of stagnation that no one wanted to admit to. It was as if everyone ran out of ideas. 9/11 changed everything because it started a cascade effect of economic and cultural collapse. That brief moment of unity after 9/11, a decade later, became a moment where Leftists were ashamed that Americans killed OBL. Those same Leftists are calling for Trump's murder, or even my murder today. Chinese propagandists on TikTok are sharing OBL's letter to America and trying to convince Zoomers and Alpha that he was a good guy, despite the fact that we all knew his complaints and didn't care that that was his justification for mass murder.
There's a website that shows TV news from like 2004, and I remember one Zoomer telling me that it was crazy how normal it was. Nobody was crying hysterically about politics.
We live in the most mentally deranged civilization in all of human history, and our children are the most mentally ill generation in all of history, and even they can feel it. They have no concept of what normal even was. The Boomers rebelled against "normal", passed nothing down, and then were surprised to find out it had died from their actions and that no one had ever carried anything on. Millennials are going to have to come to terms with the fact that our normal has to be physically re-created by people who didn't even live it, in order to pass it on to our grandkids, and none of us know how.
You're called a Zoomer, and we're all kinda fucked in the same boat, in the same way.
My Gen isn’t Z. I know for a while they wanted to include my generation with the millennial Gen, but the people born between 1977 to 1985 had a unique upbringing, so they came up with the term “Xennial” and called my generation a micro-generation, because it didn’t really fit in with Generation X or the millennials or Gen Z. We experienced two worlds in our formative years, one world where everything was wholesome America before tech took over, where our adolescent years were spent outside playing, fighting and being very active, life wasn’t childproofed yet so one of us might catch a lawn dart in the head on occasion, then we hit the workforce busting our asses, and from about 18 to 30 years old we watched internet and smart tech become a major part of daily life. The “millennials” and Gen Z spent their formative years buried in technology, and Gen X experienced life mainly like their boomer parents did with the same opportunities, whereas my Gen experienced life in both worlds with very limited economic opportunity in our future unless we did everything right.
Okay, my mistake. Yeah, I actually consider that 1980-85 crowd to still be Gen X, but I get Xennial.
85-90 at the same time is what used to be known as Gen Y so there is a term for it.
Yeah Gen Y is millennial, and Gen X spanned a very long period, 1965 to 1980, so there’s some overlap in what they ended up calling a Xennial. Personally I don’t think you can be considered Gen X unless you were a part of the last successful generation who still had a great economy to jump into right out of high school, up until your early 30’s, they had a nice easy shot at getting established with a house and a high wage job before the economy was gutted, and before the anti-White policies really took hold.
I think Gen X's biggest marker was that although they were kind of left listless in childhood, they were the last generation to really enjoy their youth from childhood to young adulthood because they had distinct communities, culture, art, music, and the last vestiges of that epoch of time when young men and women going to school socialized in normal ways.
The millennials only like the 90's because it was the last recorded time when things were "normal".
There's a meme that really fucks me up as a Millennial. It's a picture of a little girl playing with a flower in front of landscape that includes the twin towers. The text on the image read something like: "Our children will never know what they lost". It fucks me up because it seems like we were the last generation to even witness normalcy, and that was now 30 years ago. Gen X was the last demographic to kind of have a normal life. The late 90's were a period of stagnation that no one wanted to admit to. It was as if everyone ran out of ideas. 9/11 changed everything because it started a cascade effect of economic and cultural collapse. That brief moment of unity after 9/11, a decade later, became a moment where Leftists were ashamed that Americans killed OBL. Those same Leftists are calling for Trump's murder, or even my murder today. Chinese propagandists on TikTok are sharing OBL's letter to America and trying to convince Zoomers and Alpha that he was a good guy, despite the fact that we all knew his complaints and didn't care that that was his justification for mass murder.
There's a website that shows TV news from like 2004, and I remember one Zoomer telling me that it was crazy how normal it was. Nobody was crying hysterically about politics.
We live in the most mentally deranged civilization in all of human history, and our children are the most mentally ill generation in all of history, and even they can feel it. They have no concept of what normal even was. The Boomers rebelled against "normal", passed nothing down, and then were surprised to find out it had died from their actions and that no one had ever carried anything on. Millennials are going to have to come to terms with the fact that our normal has to be physically re-created by people who didn't even live it, in order to pass it on to our grandkids, and none of us know how.