EVERYONE talks about Boomers, Millenials and Gen Z but NO ONE talks about the gen xers lol. They seem like the most irrelevant generation tbh

7 minutes ago, IBeMe said:

EVERYONE talks about Boomers, Millenials and Gen Z but NO ONE talks about the gen xers lol. They seem like the most irrelevant generation tbh

Idk but back in the 90s, everyone was talking about how GenXers are lazy, dreadful, unmotivated and predisposed to distracting themselves via TV 

I think it has to do with size. Compared to other generations, Gen X is relatively smaller in scope (1965-80), unlike Boomers (1945-64), Millenials (1981-2000) or Gen Z (2001-2019). It had to do with the fact that they were the children of Boomers who went through the economic uncertainty and divorce explosions of the 1970s hence they were fewer of them.

In their advantage though, Gen Xers are lowkey the business leaders of today and were the ones who propelled the tech boom so

Excuse me? The Generation of Hippies and The Beatles are not iconic??  

5 minutes ago, fememeist said:

Excuse me? The Generation of Hippies and The Beatles are not iconic??  

Wasn't most of Gen X little kids/not born for this?

i think most people confuse gen x with millennials

I think the conversation around generations became really heightened thanks to the rise of the internet and social media. I mean if you look up the traits that are supposed to "define" these generations it's pretty much all just about varying degrees of internet use. So since Gen X largely came of age before the rise of the internet, they're kinda left out of the convo. And boomers, as much as we hate them, are lowkey the most iconic generation ever being born during the "golden age" of American culture and whatnot

I honestly thought millennials came after boomers and that gen X was made up after the fact.  

21 minutes ago, James_Joint said:

I honestly thought millennials came after boomers and that gen X was made up after the fact.  

Millennials are gen y.

1 hour ago, fememeist said:

Excuse me? The Generation of Hippies and The Beatles are not iconic??  

Honey, that's the Boomers.

2 hours ago, Marianah Adkins said:

Idk but back in the 90s, everyone was talking about how GenXers are lazy, dreadful, unmotivated and predisposed to distracting themselves 

Isn't it crazy how no matter era it's always the old generation saying this about the new one?

 

But to answer OP's question, I believe much of it has to do with their general ethos. Gen X has tended to keep their heads down and not get too involved in anything. Their parents had long since abandoned the revolutionary idealism they'd championed during the 60s/early 70s to instead embrace the shameless corporate consumerism of the 80s and many of their Gen X children witnessed the tail end of the process. The stereotype goes that the average parent of the time was too wrapped up in their career to be emotionally available for their kid.

 

By the time Gen X kids were old enough to be rebellious they were too cynical to really care about making waves. It was all meaningless to them. The biggest Gen X icon of the 90s, Kurt Cobain, really embodied that disaffected spirit to the extreme. Even the "alternative" uniform of the decade was just jeans and flannel. It wasn't really about standing out. Their mantra was literally "whatever."

 

It should also be said that they were the last generation to really enjoy the benefits of things like affordable college, cheap housing and livable wages. It's pretty easy to not want to shake up the system when the system is still working for you.

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2 hours ago, DoItHonestly said:

Wasn't most of Gen X little kids/not born for this?

 

34 minutes ago, Nano said:

Honey, that's the Boomers.

Oh i thought we’re talking about people born in those years 

Boomers are talked about because they represent an old era that is dying out and Millenials and Gen Zs are talked about because they are the generations that spend more time online. A few generations down the line Boomers will be like the Silent Generation, Millenials will be like Gen X and Gen Z will become the new boomers

7 hours ago, DoItHonestly said:

Wasn't most of Gen X little kids/not born for this?

(Sorry, I misread your question)

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I don't think they are irrelevant. As someone here said, they led the era of the tech boom and much of the technology we use is due to their own effort. 

I thought gen z were attention seeking and sensitive? Now they're irrelevant and inconsequential?

 

This weird generation brainrot that manifests in ths form of "generation gap" will never not be a good reminder that despite technological advancement, humanity is still very much barely passed stone age.

 

Gen z are fine, smarter than millennials who're more concerned with becoming their parents but with even less money.

7 hours ago, Marianah Adkins said:

Millenials (1981-2000)

The millennial generation ended circa 1996. 

Just now, RunUpDoneUp said:

I thought gen z were attention seeking and sensitive? Now they're irrelevant and inconsequential?

The question is regarding Gen X (1964-1980), not Gen Z nnn

 

7 hours ago, fememeist said:

Excuse me? The Generation of Hippies and The Beatles are not iconic??  

Those were during the 1960s-1970s, when boomers were the youth of then. Gen X is the Generation of MTV (though this would mostly pertain to those Gen X members born between 1970-1973 who were teenagers by the time MTV became prominent)   

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5 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

The question is regarding Gen X (1964-1980), not Gen Z nnn

 

Welp.

 

They cemented the economic downturn that made millennials chronically broke. Pretty impactful tbh.

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I think it's because they are lumped in with the boomers culturally and because not a lot of people seem to realize that there is a separation between the two.

Almost how like a lot of older people from those generations seem to refer to the young people as millennials when they actually mean zoomer. 

Gen X were the last wave of interesting culture, please

10 hours ago, Blackout2006 said:

The millennial generation ended circa 1996. 

It’s all relative. The US census considers millennials until 2000. 

Gen X are a smaller gen, but the tech leaders of today. My cousin is EXTREMELY well off without ever graduating college and makes $100k a year in a comfy house while my uncle could've been the same but decided to do something else. They're not as loud, but they're rich af

As a Gen X child of immigrants, I think myself and my friends tried harder to assimilate and not make noise. I think my kids and my friends’ kids have less of that need to appease. I can’t speak about white Gen Xers. 
 

But you see it in our music. I like to think it was more diverse, less distinctive. We can celebrate Mariah, Alanis, Sheryl, Enya, Celine, Whitney, TLC, En Vogue, Sarah, Jewel, and no one think twice. But it’s harder to make a movie about the 90s too. 

9 hours ago, bleuwaffle said:

Gen X were the last wave of interesting culture, please

according to who?