Xer’s never really got over that “everyone is dumb except for me” phase that most ditch after they actually get kissed.
Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they’d be fucked in today’s housing market if they didn’t already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.
To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.
I’ll give them cred for not being like the boomers.
Meh. Whatever man.
I’m so tough. I’m the toughest. Gen Z and Boomers aren’t tough enough. I’m the though one. Yeah, I might have been neglected as a child but that made me tough, definitely not emotionally stunted. Tough tough tough. I’m tough.
—Average Gen X’er to the mirror every morning
TBH I blame Gen X the most. Boomers are going extinct soon, Gen X at the oldest are about 60 or more.
This fucked up world is Gen X’s world.
Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.
It’s the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That’s for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.
Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.
We should be fighting the 1%, not each other.
You forgot the fact that the 1% keep us poorly educated and propagandized against our own interests on purpose.
We’re so fucking stupid as a result, that Americans believe the following unironically:
I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.
It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.
Me who’s both:
I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction.[2][3] Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.
I’ve heard it referred to as the Oregon Trail generation.
Meanwhile gen x are the most conservative generation
So who sold them the popcorn
the millennial, working two jobs to afford rent…
Gen X looks too young in this.
I get that a lot.
I mean we are talking about people 45 to 60 years old at this point.
Turns out not all 45 year olds look 60.
few 45 year olds look 25 though (like the comic above). I mean your not fooling anyone.
Beard and eyebrows are when 25.
well with no grey, and smooth skin, yes. (did you not have eyebrows at 25?)
Maybe I just have beautiful friends, I dunno. But no Grey in beard is not strange and my cartoon friend is wearing a hat, and has cartoon skin.
I look young. I feel old but I look young. So much so the people I work with thought I was in my early 40’s when I was hired four years ago. I’m nearly 54.
I am just sad to see people portray gen X and Y as young, as if people can not be old.
Are these gens just going to work until death, always treated like the Jr.s?
I get that. We are going to be the generation blamed with everything. They are blaming the boomers now but in just a little while all of it will be our fault.
(The boxing arena is on fire.)
The comic is funny, but only in the sense that is a media presentation trying to make an age war rather than class war.
Oh was this not a meme about dipshit influencer fighting Mike Tyson?
I thought it was more about young people willing to watch garbage because 🤪🤪🤪 what if how zany 🤪🤪🤪
Gen X are not young. Not any more, to our great displeasure and horror.
Nowadays 55 is actually pretty young still in comparison to the rest of human history. If you live in europe at least you can easily go another 35 years. Of course this does not apply to the rest of the world just the rich parts of europe and east asia but yeah.
The world has been fighting Boomers for 4 decades. They’re not all villains, but certainly the majority of villains are Boomers.
Probably because the majority of people are boomers. They’re called baby boomers because their population exploded across the world.
A breakdown of the U.S. population by 5-year age groups, based on the 2018-2022 American Community Survey estimates:
0-4 years: 5.7%
5-9 years: 6.0%
10-14 years: 6.4%
15-19 years: 6.5%
20-24 years: 6.7%
25-29 years: 6.9%
30-34 years: 6.9%
35-39 years: 6.7%
40-44 years: 6.3%
45-49 years: 6.0%
50-54 years: 6.3%
55-59 years: 6.5%
60-64 years: 6.3%
65-69 years: 5.3%
70-74 years: 4.3%
75-79 years: 2.9%
80-84 years: 1.9%
85 years and over: 1.9%
Also let’s be frank, it’s a class divide. Boomers had a huge leg up, and then those who amassed great wealth are the ones we see in power making decisions that close doors to the younger generations.
But back to my point, of course those who have had 60+ years to amass and invest wealth are going to be richer, especially when they had something to invest at the start.
I think when we consider that Gen Z men are running to the right, we should rethink boomers as a scapegoat. It’s not the boomers. It’s the rich and the Andrew Tates of the world who are in the boxing ring.
Like I could probably take down a random boomer, but a billionaire could hire Mike Tyson and I’d be fucked in the ring.
Boomer voting preferences haven’t help things either.
I propose a name change for them.
Their parents were “The Greatest Generation”
I think we should start referring to Boomers as “The Worst Generation.”
Hate is fun?
Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]
Pitting ‘generations’ against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don’t fall for it.
Culture war is a means to distract us from class war
Let’s ignore discrepancies in economics, geography, race and culture and suggest people behave, en mass, based on the decades they were born in.
This is just astrology for the politically feeble.
“This is just astrology for the politically feeble.”
Brilliant.
Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars
Yes, but those events and the relative importance of those events are highly variable.
Someone living in the 80s in a small town in Scotland is unlikely to have lived through the same 80s as someone running a FTSE company in New York at that time.
There’s this idea, and I think it is particularly American, that the whole world lives to their narrative. The narrative of the rather privileged middle class.
For example when we talk about the 80s the narrative is big hair, cocaine, excess… But that’s only true of a very small proportion of the world. I know plenty of folk that didn’t see a cell phone until the early 2000s.
Hey, it’s no worse of a grouping than any of the categories you mentioned.
I disagree.
It’s a question of granularity and correlation.
I think culture is a pretty useful grouping for assessing a lot of traits and behaviours. Sure, it depends on the culture and the trait you are assessing, but as groupings go there are entire academic fields devoted to the study of how those things work.
Similarly with economic factors and class. These can be useful in describing proportions of a population. And how they react relative, again, providing the trait we are assessing is relative to that factor.
I know you are probably just being glib, and you are right that and generalisation can be pretty useless. But I still think the exceedingly broad “generation” is the most useless.
Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.
Typical. Slacking, unseen.
Gen X is usually on the boomer’s side.
Gen z - the generation raised by their boomer grandparents, dresses like them, I have a big surprise for you how they think… Yaba daba skibidi toilet dooo!
GenX has been fighting boomers from the start, we’re just exhausted now.
When a bunch of old MAGA bastards stormed the Capitol, were they using walkers because they’re over 70 on average or were they a crowd about 45-60 in age?
Thanks for the apathy, I don’t think it worked but it sure as shit looked cool.
Fighting? Us Gen Xers followed in the system the boomers laid out. What fighting??? The older Gen Xers got past the door. The younger half got shut out.
GenX has been fighting boomers from the start,
Bullcrap. We were too busy pretending politics didn’t affect us to fight anyone.
In the same way boomer hippies were “fighting” against their progenitors, sure.
Wearing flannel and complaining about the status quo does not make you a freedom fighter.
