Gen X: The Generation That Never Existed

the proper rejoinder is "When you are my age you will be one of two things: exactly like me or dead."

btw, NICE UMBRELLA KAREN

Chad isn’t the equivalent of Karen, it’s the harbinger of inchoate rage and destruction ‘Kyle.’

I thought the proper rejoinder was to shout SPINNING STAR KICK and then do your best Chun-Li impersonation

*this* karen's gonna go drink beer and get laid tonight; enjoy your videogames

i didn't think chad was the equivalent of karen, just making a point about gender presumptions

anyways, this karen is gonna enjoy videogames and get laid, you kids go drink beer

There's a grim appeal to "well if you're gonna call me Karen, I'm gonna be the Karen-est Karen who ever Karen-ed" that I don't know I'd be able to successfully resist.

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, November 15, 2019 8:24 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

TOTALLY. I thanked them for leaving completely earnestly. I was like, welp I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the wine store and go home and do exactly what I want with no interference from anyone, which is get drunk and smoke cigarettes. But enjoy your mom telling you to do your homework.

I had to help one of them find a foothold because he couldn't get down from where they'd climbed to.

lol got em

i just want some affection

when you got it you it, karen.

i rarely wear my riding glasses without being in a doing-sportsy scene and costume, and at home i call them my “asshole dad” glasses, because that’s def a style, and not one i want on casual, (though sometimes i maybe can be an asshole who is also a dad).

So walking past a group of kids with my kid at his HS, one archly says “HEY NICE GLASSES SIR! MY DAD HAS THOSE!” and my 15 y/o glances to them, then ahead, and says sotto voce to me without looking “he must be a _real_ asshole then,” quality bonding moment.

I was like, welp I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the wine store and go home and do exactly what I want with no interference from anyone, which is get drunk and smoke cigarettes.

This the most Gen-X response ever. Love it. #realitybites

Is this Karen thing a goodfellas reference?

no

I've gotten called Karen, Cathy, Mary etc. because they are so similar to my name and people forget and I just respond to them anyway.

I do feel like 'Karens' have crossed several generations, though.

Yeah, it was a top 20 name from 1941 to 1971.

always makes me think of that “shes changing her name from kitty to karen” line in that cake song which seems pretty uber genx

i meant that the personality of a Karen crosses many generations.

The fucking list of accomplishments in this Kelly cartoon...

https://scontent.fewr1-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72653164_10219100541960219_7641078189195788288_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQlA6fRQ7rl2acZ1eN5S1tZqsKJe0lhrlZXeirn5_Rj_Rd6vIh5KzyLCWjWeUM0Gsvo&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-5.fna&oh=96d2f9a300e3fc18af3cbaaba8e5446b&oe=5E89311A

omg "Kennedy Assassination"

I am beside myself

"Space Shuttle Challenger" I can't breathe help

poll

the only thing in parenthese is skinny jeans?

"not starting the fire"

STILL NOT AT THE PUB

ah, I see now.

Some day you'll be old like me, but there'll never be a day where I'm as dumb as you.

"In the morning I shall be sober."

karen!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

The Voluptuous Horror of Being Called Karen

not a karen; the world

Rhonda?

accomplishing stuff is dumb. I just want to be shot out into space

- karen

was “bye Felicia” a thing before like 2 years ago? I didn’t even recognize what is was from until I had it explained to me. And I saw Friday like 20 times growing up. Were people “bye felicia-ing” each other in the 90s/00s? Sorry in advance.

I always put the bye felicia takeoff around the time of Vine.

If you ever owned a global hypercolour shirt then you are a gen Xer. There must be something crazy toxic in those because they seem to have been strangely resistant to being revived (also they were terrible).

yeah the bye felicia thing is def an internet-specific meme - it was not a thing in the 90s/00s

im pretty sure that’s british only, its right in the spelling

Nah that was briefly a thing in the US

🤔

it was a different time back then, we thought it was important for your clothes to tell other people how much you were sweating

it was spelled hypercolor. and it was an american company. it was huge for a few years in the cusp of the 80s and 90s. i had a t-shirt as a young kid

There are SHadOW ShiFteR shirts now.

it was a different time back then, we thought it was important for your clothes to tell other people how much you were sweating

https://i.imgur.com/cxWNJfS.jpg

I had a hyper colour Red Nose Day T-shirt. It stopped working (?) long before I stopped wearing it.

TS: Je suis Karen vs. We are all Karens now

This thread is much more fun than the “yo yo yo breakdancing ilxors in their thirties” one.

I’m much more chill at 40 than I was at 30

"If you look at the Gen X generational studies books that came out in the 90s, the tail end of Gen X was 1976 (maybe 1977). 1978 on were "Gen Y"""

I was born in 1976, and I always thought of Generation X as being ten years older than me, and American. They all had goatee beards and disliked working in an office. I like to think they were killed off by the dot.com boom, which made working in an office hip again. It pleases me to imagine fifty-something, sixty-something members of the Generation X race cycling around in the rain with Ocado delivery boxes on their backs. They had the opportunity to to work in an office and rejected it. Life in 2019 must be a paradise for them.

I think it's complicated by the fact that movies usually have actors who are older than the people they portray, so for example I have a mental image of Eric Stoltz as an archetypal Generation X person, but he was born in 1961, which makes him a member of the Blank Generation. Steve Buscemi was born in 1957, but he was always on the upper end of Generation X - he was Generation X's Yoda, its elder mentor figure.

Was David Lynch Generation X? He was born in 1946, during the baby boom, the same year as John Waters, and Oliver Stone, but he appealed to the Generation X market. Oliver Stone came across as someone who wanted to be Generation X but was not.

Steve Buscemi was 16 when Picasso died, which makes me wonder if the acid test is whether you coexisted with Pablo Picasso. I think the reason Generation X is overlooked today is that there are two Generation Xes - there's the media creation, which is overlooked because it is a dated relic of the 1990s, and the actual generation, who aren't really linked by anything. Also a lot of people in the media are of that generation, and from their point of view Generation X traits are "normal" and thus not worth writing about.

It pleases me to imagine fifty-something, sixty-something members of the Generation X race cycling around in the rain with Ocado delivery boxes on their backs. They had the opportunity to to work in an office and rejected it. Life in 2019 must be a paradise for them.


you seem like an asshole