Maybe it was the baby boomers with their hippy bull****, but Generation X were a bunch of massive try-hards. For real.

I don't blame them though. They were largely the neglected children of early-stage boomers coming off the drugged up, degenerate high of the 60's and 70's. Once the 80's hit they cleaned their acts up, got the peace, love, and bull**** out of their systems and became consumerist conservatives.

Gen X grew up in the 80's and 90's. Little kids in the 80's, coming-of-age in the 90's. The culture and trends of those periods paint a vivid picture.

80's were a throwback to the 50's - clean cut, shine your boots Reaganomics. But by the late 80's, the edgy-ness started to creep in. Moody teens.

Generation X had an unusual, downright strange obsession with morbid, counter-cultural topics and issues.

- Grunge music
- Satanism (think Marilyn Manson/Satanic panic)
- Goth aesthetic
- Nihilism & existentialism
- Gangsta/hardcore rap
- Serial killers
- Aliens/UFOs

The whole slacker mentality - think Bart Simpson, Kevin Smith's Clerks - became popular. It was cool to not care - more than ever before. I know Rebel Without a Cause was many decades prior, but still. At least James Dean had style.

Gen X also created school shootings. Columbine - Harris and Kleibold - created and popularized the mold for a future generation of school shooters.

Gen X-ers political leanings/ideology was extremely liberal. Feminism, sexuality, women's rights, LGBT issues, race issues, etc... Kurt Cobain - gen x cultural icon - wearing a dress. Etc...

Hilarious to see many of them now complain about Gen Z and Millennials. It's what you used to be back in the 90's. It's what early boomers thought of you - generation x - back in the 80's and 90's.

Just think about all movies that came out in the 90's

- Silence of the lambs
- the matrix
- seven
- american beauty
- fight club
- pulp fiction
- falling down
- fargo
- the sixth sense
- the big lebowski
- edward sissor hands
- blair witch project
- fear and loathing in las vegas

And the tv shows like twin peaks and x files

Conclusion? Defs a contender for edgiest generation.

Can confirm, I was edgy.

90s and early 2000s were legit peak civilization


social media and cellphones and the monopolization of the internet and media really destroyed the west

too much power, control and ability to manipulated consolidated into a handful of companies

Fix'd 80's-90's Best Era

I will admit, the early stages/years of modern technology - phones, computers, etc - was actually dope.

You still met up to socialize, did **** with people, etc... The tech simply enhanced life, not became life.

It's just that it all went too far. Right around when social media and smartphones arrived.

We were the edgiest man

Boomers tried shoving their Woodstock hippie chit down Gen X throats.
Gen X burned Woodstock like the bitch it was.
No one ever told Gen Xers what to do after that.

She was the best man

this is a thread that an incel with too much time on his hands would make.


gen x gave us good music and movies and kinda left us alone after that. they were literally the older sibling that didn't leave their room but had the awesome music blasting non stop and had the sick posters up on the walls.



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Why did you make a new account bro?

BTW - pro wrestling and rock music is gay as hell now

the 90's came and went son

lol @ using the word gay like it was used in the 90s while chitting on the 90s.

stay in your lane, hoss

I read this in the voice of Patrick Bateman.

Late Gen Xer here. Nirvana blew up when I was in 8th grade. My first concert was Pearl Jam about 2 yrs later, still touring off their first album.

I feel bad for Gen Z and younger, including my own who are still very young. The world has been Nerf'd for them, and schools are teaching them how to revive bigotry my generation killed off. Half of them will be obese by the time they are 25 and they latch on to authority figures instead of despising them by default. The hopeful side of me says some big changes are coming to disrupt the descent into obedient consumerism and worship of vapid social media's mental illness causing effects on developing brains.

that's a 90s mentality brother. the current generation has no fight in them

Yeah look at the culture from the late 80s to early 2000s you had Eminem, Slipknot, WWF attitude/ECW, gangsta rap, little to no political correctness, rockstars like Motley Crew, Marylin Manson all this chit was making it into the mainstream back then because there was no political correctness most of it wouldn't be allowed today

What you describe sounds more like Xennials if anything.

The kids involved in Columbine were more Millenials than Gen X. I'm Gen X and I was nearing 30 when that occurred.

Even the CNN fact checkers would deem the OP's diatribe as false.

Gen x checking in

Stop overcomplicating things

I was born in 85. I had fun with my class, playing basketball and football in middle school and high school. My class had some keg parties and lookers, but my older brother (deep genx) mogged anything we were up to. I remember bands playing in our basement and parties where the girls mogged the hottest cliques in my school. Genx was something else. Good times.

Nope, did everything the media told them too

They still do.

The Reagan 80's was full of 50's nostalgia

https://www.popmatters.com/back-to-t...495424668.html

https://surface.syr.edu/eng_etd/54/

Everyone blames boomers but overlooks genx for the current sh!t show the world is

The only generation I care about

She's right, you're wrong.

Gen X kids didn't respond to bullying by going on school shooting sprees. When we went to school, there was no self-esteem movement to turn us all into little narcissist snowflakes, which is what those ******* Columbine shooters were. That chit came in with millennials.

Why are you quoting the opinions in some *******'s PhD dissertation as evidence?

There was a nostalgia movement in Hollywood for the 50's during the mid-to-late 80's, but it wasn't reflected outside of TV and movies.

GenXer here. Besides the usuall criticism you hear about GenX vs Millennials, to me the biggest difference is the relationship they have with government.

90's = Government please, Leave us alone, don't censor us, let us do whatever we want. **** the government.

2010's = Government please, take care of us, censor because feelings, give us money. We love the government.

Gen X didn't do chit. That's why they called them slackers. Boomers were/are the azzholes who fuk'd up the country and continue to do so.

Was Timothy mcveigh a Gen Xer?

Just lol at thinking the 90s defined Gen X culture. Sure, we embraced grunge and all that other stuff that blew up in the early 90s, but our existence was more defined by pop acts like Michael Jackson, and the hair metal of the 80s, Van Halen. We thought Guns n Roses was GOAT when they broke out. Our movie heroes were the roided up muscleheads of the Reagan era - Swartzenegger, Stallone, Dolph Lundgrin