25 Totally Tubular Gen X Nostalgia Memes That Only True 80s Girls Will Understand (March 4, 2025)

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Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor
Mar 5, 2025 8:00 PM EST

You wake up one morning, and you realize that it's the 80s – what's the first thing you do? You are in a frilly nightgown in your childhood bedroom. Magazine posters are scattered all over the walls, featuring photos of all your 80s celebrity crushes. A young Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, and Christian Slater peer at you from across the room and ceiling. They are not the only ones watching. A Pillow Person sits contentedly from your vanity chair, and a collection of troll dolls greets you from the windowsill. 

Most people in this situation would immediately make for the living room and hug their childhood pets and a younger version of their parents and siblings. Many might even scare their family a bit by suddenly urging them to invest in Apple and Microsoft. Nostalgic gourmands might go straight for the fridge, reaching for discontinued snacks that now only exist in their memories. Whether you'd choose to relive your childhood or capitalize on the stock market with your prescient knowledge, scroll down below for some nostaglic memes to give you some ideas in case you ever find yourself in the 80s again. 

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  • 01
    JUST ONE MORE TIME, I'D LIKE AN 80'S SATURDAY MORNING →→ eightiesgirls n
    via @eightiesgirls
  • 02
    LORI LORI LORI LORI AN ANN VITAM AN AN VITAMIN @eightiesgirls ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO VITAM Remember mOOD LIPSTICKS?
    via @eightiesgirls
  • 03
    My addiction to buying things I don't need started here: MSCHOLASTIC @EIGHTIESGIRLS Friends Smencils ted Pencil Junion ing o Scholastic Book Fair
    via @eightiesgirls
  • 04
    society won't heal until we bring back colorful transparent technology BATTERY CONAIRPHONE DOT MATEX WITH STEREO SOUND Nintendo GAME TOY made with mematic @eightiesgirls MYESNOO NORMAL BAS O 60 MEMOREX' dBSI
    via @eightiesgirls

  • Bring back the see-through tech and tactile buttons! Everything being touch screen now is actually so inconvenient.

  • 05
    All I want for Christmas is a McDonald's Playpace Filet-O-Fish ride
    via @eightiesgirls
  • 06
    THIS IS MY STANLEY CUP
    via @genxhumor
  • 07
    YOU WEREN'T COOL UNLESS YOU DID THIS TO YOUR PANTS Step 1 Step 2 Done!
    via @genxhumor
  • 08
    Don't sit too close to the TV, it'll hurt your eyes! 40 years later...
    via @genxhumor
  • 09
    97.2% of people over the age of 40 know who lived here
    via @genxhumor
  • 10
    YOU CAN CALL ME OLD ALL YOU WANT, BUT MY GENERATION MADE MUSIC THAT WILL NEVER BE MATCHED AGAIN! STAGE LET
    via @genxhumor
  • 11
    In the 1980s this was BA Dual-Deck ote CR S-VHS Playback Plays DVD, CD, MP3 on CD-R and CD-RW our Netflix T120 GOVI Compon S-Video G SONIC M ROBIN HOOD ANIMATI SHORT CIRCUIT SHA SHA pies of Macroesione petected soup matcas Scaret of NIMH Hares Scotch T120 VHS 720 LOUR T-120 Scotch T-120 MES RCA DUMBO PORTS OF HALLOWEEN CARTOON THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN ANNIE ENDS 3500 120 BACK TO THE FUTURE The Empire Strikes BACK 5546
    via @genxhumor
  • 12
    MY GENERATION DIDN'T NEED CGI. LOGRA WE HAD LOU FERRIGNO.
    via @genxhumor
  • 13
    Can't tell if my IBS is flaring up or if Ms. Frizzle just sideswiped my colon.
    via @genxhumor
  • 14
    IT'S KIDS FROM THE 80S THEY SAID NO MORE REMAKES.
    via @genxhumor

  • Please, please, please, no more remakes. If no one can think of an original idea, there are plenty of books, comics, and even myths and fairytales that have never made it to the screen.

  • 15
    Me whenever someone knocks on the door. Don't move, maybe they'll go away.
    via @genxhumor
  • 16
    Rate my setup out of 10: UNDERGROUND 1980sGamer
    via @1980sGamer
  • 17
    Hey man, thanks for letting me borrow your game, bro. It was awesome. Here you go: Nemorer
    via @insta80s90s
  • 18
    don't call yourself a country music fan if you don't know who this is
    via @insta80s90s
  • 19
    I know it's tragic the WiFi isn't working, but let me tell you a story of a tragic moment from my childhood
    via @insta80s90s
  • 20
    FISHER PRICE 80S TOY STARTER PACK PD FISHER PRICE 00 Parking Ramp-Service Center ELEVATOR Fisher Price FISHER PRICE Activity Center @insta80s90s
    via @insta80s90s
  • 21
    90s GUY CRUSHES PING O@insta80s90s
    via @insta80s90s
  • 22
    I'M AT THE AGE WHERE I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE WOULD BE HAPPY TO WIN A NEW APPLIANCE PACKAGE ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT 177 SHOWCase 4253 SHOWCase 80skidsrule
    via @80skidsrule
  • 23
    They really put a Discman with the Anti-Skip System in a museum already. I don't think I've ever felt older in my life. Panasonic Panasonic SLSX420 MP3 ANTI-SKIP SYSTEM Tire Discman, a portable compact disc (CD) player, Panasonic, c. 2002. WDM-2009-S-1
    via @insta80s90s
  • 24
    The Every Grandma's House in the 80's Starter Pack ww ANADA DRY ROYAL DANSK Danish Butter Bookin GINGER ALL Campbells 5:44 Chicken Noodle SOUP Vapoflul funny.co
    via ifunny.com
  • 25
    WHO REMEMBERS THEIR KITCHEN BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE COUNTRY GOOSE INSTA 6666 @insta80s90s Welcome friends PEEL & STICK PELER ET COLLER BORDERS 80 190
    via @insta80s90s

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90s music throwback elder millennial childhood adulting millennials nostalgia Nostalgia Overload 80s gen x 90s kids 90s memory lane nostalgia memes girlhood gen x memes 1980s
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