Culture war is a distraction.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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I don't get it, people don't wear seat belts any more?
broken spines? wtf are you on about?
Gen-xer here. Grew up wearing one all the time. Also rode in the back of a pick-up plenty of times (sans seatbelt). Fuck off with your horribly conceived inter-generational rage bait.
picture is one who died of neither
I have absolutely no problem with wearing seatbelts. And they have nothing to do with gen x or heroin overdoses
I don't get it.
That’s because you’re not stupid.
Because it doesn't make any sense.
It's just "this generation did [nonsense], so now this generation [nonsense]" to start intergenerational strife in the comments. Which seems to have succeeded relatively well.
I think they're angry that the people of the past wanted to create a better future? Or that they can't ride fast and do heroin. IDK toss up.
Do people not know anymore who Curt Cobain was or how he died?
Of course, he was shot by Courtney Love’s dad.
*Kurt
Kurt. And apparently not.
I can say with absolute certainty that Gen X fits both the above pictures and absolutely not the bottom picture. They take themselves far too seriously.
Whatever
...tell kiki she still owes me five bucks...
How fucking dare you!
I'm whats known as a Xennial. Half Gen-X, half Millenial.
Boomers can go fuck themself for electing Reagan before I was born to tell them how wrong they are.
Gen-Z seems pretty alright though. Good to see they hate AI as much as we do.
And I've been told that gen alpha isn't having sex, and it's pissing off the boomers. Which I find really really weird. Why do the boomers care if a bunch of teenagers fuck?
And at first I thought it was about social security. But even if Gen Alpha fucks right now, today, and has a kid 9 months from now, that kid won't be paying into social security for 17 years AT THE EARLIEST!!! That's assuming they get a job the day they turn 16.
Boomers, I need you to understand something. You're going to die. Thats not a threat, it's an eventuality. It's 100% guarenteed. And it's going to happen pretty quick. It's already happened for the older end of the boomers, and the ones who didn't live healthy.
I give it 10 years before the bulk of you are dead. And honestly, I can't wait. The sooner the boomers are off this planet the better.
And Gen-X has proven to me that just because you're old, doesn't mean you HAVE TO act like an entitled twat. Gen X is 50-65 right now, and very rarely do I see that age bracket THESE DAYS yelling at a fast food employee because Arbys discontinued their meat mountain sandwich. Look, I'm disappointed too! If boomers want to give themselves heart attacks, great. Go for it. But don't yell at Steve working front counter about it! 20 minutes ago he was mopping up the bathroom floor. I PROMISE you, he does not have the sway in arbys corporate culture to discontinue menu items.
Today, I don't see that with 55 year old Gen-Xers. But 20 years ago, that was a regular occurance with 55 year old boomers.
...look, i'm from the heart of generation X and i can vouch from the trenches that all those cultural icons folks hold up as emblematic of our coolness?..they were a tiny, tiny minority rebelling vainly against the overwhelming majority of sellouts comprising our peers, ultimately buying into the same dystopian orphan-crushing-machine championed by our baby-boomer parents, and their parents before them, and their parents before them, a legacy of selfish exploitation since time immemorial...
...gen-X may have had good branding, but we're no less subject to the 95%-of-everything-is-crap rule than any other generation before or after us...
If you have to call yourself a Xennial, you are Gen X.
Edit: You can be upset all you want about it, Gen X-ers.
or a millennial.
or someone on the cusp.
Nah, millenials just call themselves millenials.