Funny Generation X Memes For Members of The Forgotten Generation

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
May 15, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

Generation X is the most frequently forgotten generation whenever Generations discourse comes up. Now, all everybody cares about is Baby Boomers, Millenials, and Gen Z, and their various quirks and Gen X is so often ignored. And honestly? That's probably for the best. Generation X used to be the "kids these days" who served as the punching bag for complaints about how the youth are bad now. I will give Gen X credit for having the angstiest "disaffected kids" media. Clerks, Reality Bites, Trainspotting: if there's anything Gen X knows, it's angst and lots of it! Now that Gen Xers are middle-aged, there is a lot less complaining about them from Boomers. Baby boomers have gone on to complain about every subsequent generation, a trend that Gen X so effortlessly started. If you were born between 1965-1980 and know you are superior because of it, these Generation X memes will bring you back to your childhood. 

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    Product - I'm telling my grandkids this is the Terminatior and Sarah Connor
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Human body - I feel like Generation X doesn't get enough credit for being the only group of people to ever know how to set the clock on a VCR.
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Brown - IF HE/SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THESE ARE, THEY'RE TOO YOUNG FOR YOU 11
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Rectangle - Dinah @dinahaddie I'm wearing a short skirt and a long jacket today and if you understand the reference, we should probably be friends. 1:03 PM - Sep 12, 2022 Twitter for iPhone 662 Retweets 172 Quote Tweets 28K Likes
    via @dinahaddie
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    Font - Matt @mattwhitlockPM Without revealing your actual age, what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand? MonsterKing @CerromeRussell Video games only worked on channel 3 >
    via @mattwhitlockPM & @CerromeRussell
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    Font - kristina[ @inurnightdress Now that Gen X is all old and falling apart, REM should remake Everybody Hurts for an Ibuprofen ad.
    via @inurnightdress
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    Wood - Trying to bring back the 90's. Wish me luck... French Toast Crunch POCAHONTAS
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Ball - ruby-white-rabbit I can both hear this image, and feel it hitting me in the face rockintwink pi-TONK thecuddlyfork anyone else smell it? ifunny.co
    via ruby-white-rabbit, rockintwink, & thecuddlyfork
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    Computer - 欢烈的欢魚必安必须魚油吸我的! Old computer games couldn't be won. They just got harder and faster until you died. Just like real life.
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Cloud - Stuck this to the window and now the world makes more sense. Directed by DAVID LYNCH
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Font - milk @cooki3monst The irony of a generation raised on making prank phone calls only to be terrorized by daily robo calls all day lol
    via @cooki3monst
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    Photograph - 200 I 아 래
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Outerwear - Milli Vanilli watching people get famous for lip synching on TikTok: 30 LEY made with mendatio
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Font - SpacedMom @copymama Nestled between the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe, scientists have discovered a new section of the brain that they've dubbed the "Lisa Lobe," which reportedly only hears what it wants to.
    via @copymama
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    Photograph - Elvira is just Goth Dolly Parton CHANGE MY MIND
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Toy - 8 yr-old me home sick Bob Barker & The Price is Right
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Photograph - my brain, randomly and frequently since 1999: YOU AND ME BABY... TRE
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Font - Dennis DiClaudio @dennisdiclaudio Remember there was that month in the '90s when everybody was really into Gregorian chants? 3:38 AM - 12/20/19 - Twitter Web App . 635 Retweets 5,682 Likes 27 Dennis DiClaudio @dennisdicl.... 13h Replying to @dennisdiclaudio I love the idea of younger people reading this and not knowing whether I'm joking or not. I'm not. 21 123 L 840
    via @dennisdiclaudio
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    Hairstyle - Who grew up thinking there was nothing more degrading, nothing more socially humiliating than RING AROUND THE COLLAR imgflip.com
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Gesture - WHEN I WAS A CHILD, THIS IS THE PERSON THAT TOLD ME BEDTIME STORIES
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Jersey - TOMMY JEANS STAR TREK THE X GENERATION Cand BULLS 23 BUNY M
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Sleeve - SPIRIT Comes with: Sarcasm Movie quotes Music taste GEN X MOM Audacity Sense of humor Distrust of authority Stick shift skills ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST Made with Piñata Farms Stick shift sold separately
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Smile - Gonna tell my kids this was Hootie & the Blowfish
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Forehead - Me: "OMG my kids watch the dumbest stuff on TV." Me in 1985: @TheMotherOctopus
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Photograph - Jessica Dwyer @JessicaDwyer Everyone go home they won DRAGON SANT
    via @JessicaDwyer
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    World - How kids used to be introduced to opera Cibox Jones How kids are introduced to opera today 877-CASH-NOW JIMWICH
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Human - UzamakiJ @UzamakiJ "CAPTAAAAAIN!!" the borg are here! We gon die! .. Captain, my Man
    via @UzamakiJ
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    Forehead - My answer whenever someone asks me how old I am I WAS ONCE ON THE TELEPHONE WITH BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Plant - For sale an all in one: tornado, earthquake, nuclear bomb shelter.
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Happy - The brownies I started baking in my Easy-Bake Oven in 1979 are ready if you guys want one. Ir KENNER EAST-BAKE OVEN
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X

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1990s 90s music 90s memes millennials generation y funny memes 80s music Memes 80s gen x 90s generations baby boomers gen z 1980s
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