25+ Gen X Memes for 80s Kids Raised on Hose Water (June 6, 2024)

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 6, 2024 6:00 AM EDT

While Millennials and Boomers bicker over who ruined modern society, Gen X sits idly by enjoying a perfectly prepared cocktail, while they watch the world burn. For some reason, the kids left alone all day with a house key dangling around their neck became known as the 'Forgotten Generation'. Gen Xers are self-sufficient nihilists with just as much misfortune as any other generation, yet we're the ones deemed 'unremarkable'. 

However, it's Gen X who became society's first 'haters', it's Gen X who lived it up during the 80s, and it's Gen X who were the first nerds to teach themselves coding in order to mod Asteroids. Considering we were a generation that grew up without cell phones but still can enjoy the perks of a technological world, I'd say that Gen X won the generational lottery. So if you're a proud Gen X kid who drank hose water and had to be home before the street lights were on, scroll onward to enjoy some generationally appropriate memes that'll make you LOL a little. 

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    GEN X BOOMERS MILLENNIALS
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    the first rule of Gen X is who cares. BLENDE
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    Just one of the many reasons gen X is tougher than your generation
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    "Just remember, for every Boomer that hates a Millennial, there's a generation in between that hates you both."
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    Gen X is trending? It's the perfect time for me to post my favourite generational meme. #GenX I'm old enough to remember the very first TED talk. It was most excellent.
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    Boomers: yelling at millenials for toast Millennials: yelling at Boomers for ruining the world GenZ: snorts tide pod and yeets into traffic Gen X:
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    You guys can call us Gen Xer's "Karen" you want but if you understood us at all, it'd be "Heather."
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    One day Generation X will be the old people, and we'll let the kids do whatever they want: clean up the environment, switch to the metric system, legalize pot, and make their own kombucha - and never once ask them to fix our computer. Just have fun and don't get hurt.
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    People who say millennials look stupid also went around thinking this was cool COP
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    When my Boomer father tries to explain to me how The Beatles ruined music When I try to explain to my Millennial daughter that MTV used to actually play music
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    Why are you Gen-Xers so damaged?? imgflip.com
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    my daughter was wearing a flannel hoodie so I said "hey, the 90's called" and she replied "yeah cause they couldn't text" and I'm getting really tired of my kids owning me
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    My answer whenever someone asks me how old I am I WAS ONCE ON THE TELEPHONE WITH BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO
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    NeverEnding story when I was a kid NeverEnding story as an adult
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    every generation has a painful breakup. gen z and tik tok. millennials and vine. gen x and cultural relevance
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    Boomers Millennials 38 Gen-X
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    Millennials hold 4.8% of all wealth. There are now 40-year-old Millennials. At the same age, Gen X had 9% of wealth. Boomers had 21% The largest generation in history did what the system told them to do and became the most- educated in history. Now they're the poorest in history
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    Boomers were the Locust Generation. They consumed or destroyed nearly all our resources, leaving only disasters in their wake. Gen X will survive on the scraps, but there will be little if anything left for those coming up behind us unless they are inheriting wealth.
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    985 When we were #GenX kids, we'd disappear for 12 hours at a time and no one would care where we were. By the time we were parents, Caillou was too chickenshit to go down a slide. caillou. C And The Big Slide
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    Gen X: We learned to program when we were young. Unfortunately the thing we learned to program was a VCR.
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    If you want to know why Gen X'ers are always mad it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection that was then replaced with a cd collection that was then replaced with MP3's and it how many time must I pay to listen to grunge
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    BOOMERS: KIDS THESE DAYS HAVE NO WORK.... ETHIC! MILLENNIALS: OLD PEOPLE RUINED EVERYTHING! GEN X'ER: I WONDER IF RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE REUNITING WILL HELP ME FEEL FEELINGS AGAIN...?
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    Is anybody bashing Gen X yet? I'm a Gen Xer, and I would welcome your generational hatred. It would be the first time anyone ever noticed us. Wait a minute, who are you?
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    GEN X I feel Just remember, for every boomer that hates millennials, and every millennial that hates boomers, there's a generation in between that hates you both. Generation X-less cranky than boomers, less whiny than millennials. Cooler than both. MILLENNIALS I don't think about you at all.
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    Gen Z: You're the Karen generation Gen X: Meh, whatever Gen Z: DID YOU NOT HEAR US! Gen X: <lights cigarette> look man, we didn't spend our whole lives not caring about anything to get worked up over this petty nonsense. So, let us know when you get this out of your system
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    I CAN'T WAIT FOR 2050 TAH THE NURSING HOMES WILL BE FILLED WITH GEN-X-ERS WHO WILL FEEL A STRONG COMPULSION TO START HEADBANGING WHEN SOMEONE PLAYS "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY"
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