Generation X vs Millennials

This video is about Generation X and the Millennials.

[lafemmecachee]

Clarification: Yes, we were much less supervised but the world wasn’t actually safer then.

[djboo]

Gen x can basically be summed up by this sentence: when we were kids we got locked out of the house by our parents.

[Ctok]

You know what’s dangerous? Teaching kids that safe spaces are a real thing.

[willmickel]

One thing is sure. Gen X had way better music.

[peterdavid]

Awesome first point!

I was born 1968 (generation x).

So as a young teen we would be on our bikes, at the park, hanging with friends face to face...

BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CELL PHONES AND NO INTERNET.

So we learned how to negotiate our own problems and grow into whatever we aspired to be.

We had to go to the library and physically look up the books we needed.

We had to write our own papers and develope our own skills.

Finding answers, navigating the city, staying out of trouble with other cultures and races of people because we were physically in their neighborhoods.

We had to be tough.

And if barely anything ever offended us like jokes, banter, a hug, a push...

No safe spaces.

No parents to run to.

But if something really did get under your skin?

Go beat the hell out of them.

Global warming wasn't invented but we were told that we would all die from killer bees.

Cable TV didn't exist either so we could only "tune" the TV to maybe 4 stations.

Instead.

We stayed outside all day which kept our bodies hard and our minds sharp and our feelings under control.

[zudemaster]

I am a Generation X person, and I can tell you that the world was just as dangerous in the 70s-80s as today. School shootings did not just start yesterday. They date back to the 1970s, probably earlier. Terrorism? Terrorism dates back way before 911. Did you know that terrorists attempted to destroy the WTC before 911? And as far as 911 goes, it was soldiers who were of Generation X that were part of the initial invasion of Afghanistan after 911. You millennials were still in diapers - grade school when that happened.
I have personally noticed how millennials just seem to be less mature for their age. For instance during my teen years everyone could not wait until they turned 16 so they could get their drivers license. It was a right of passage. I have known many millennials who have absolutely zero interest in learning to drive a car or own a car, instead still rely on mom, uber or the bus to drive them where they need to go at 20.
As part of Generation X we were considered a adult at 18. I can remember being told hey you are 18, you are a legal adult now and if you get into trouble you will be treated as such. 18 year olds today are considered teenagers or kids. When people talk about college students today it is college kids. In my day it was young adult. So some 21 year old in college is still called a kid. When I was 21 I was called Corporal!

[pugapino]

You are spot on with the comparison. I’m a Gen Xer and I used to walk to and from Kindergarten about a half mile alone. By the time I was 10 I was free to ride my bmx bike miles away from home with my friends or even alone. Had several run ins with some aggressive dogs and the occasional bully. Got into trouble and got out of trouble. Scraped a few knees, broke a couple of bones. Made some mistakes and learned the hard way. The world can be tough and parents are doing a disservice by not letting them be gradually independent.

[xlysxy]

you're a gen z, not a millenial, 1996 and above are gen z

[Johnny-yccs]

Wrong. Gen X 1965-1979 Gen Y (millennials) 1980-1998
You young lady are from Gen Z

[LeeNottingham]

I remember getting on my bike on Saturday morning and not getting back home till dusk. NO ONE knew exactly where I was, though they had a rough idea....which was good enough. TOTAL freedom as a kid. I pity my sons generation. All the technology in the world cant make up for that feeling.

[jameskaplan]

You are wrong about Millennials growing up in a world that is more dangerous. The world has always been a dangerous place. It's just that now we have the internet, and so we have instant access to what's going on in the world.

Growing up in the 80's and 90's was the best. When we were kids, we would be out all day riding our bikes and playing with all the other kids in the neighborhood. We were free to roam. And when I was in high school, I didn't even have a curfew. Sometimes, I would even come home the next day.

Millennials annoy me.

[twodubz]

You’re not a Millennial in the first place. You are Generation Z.

[CrowdPleeza]

I think Generation X had one of the best pop culture experiences. We experienced so many things when they were new. Even though we were kids at the time we remember the Disco era. We saw and experienced Michael Jackson mania and then saw Prince blow up. We saw the beginning popularity of music videos. We experienced Hip Hop culture when it was new. We were the first home computer generation. We also saw the beginning popularity of video games from arcades, to Atari to Xbox. We saw the coming of the internet in the late 90's. I'll also add that we were the first group to grow up in a more integrated America.

So GenXers came along at a good time for pop culture.

[Pduarte]

For me Gen X = Rebels by nature. Millennials = sheeple by design. llol
Something that I notice, many "theory conspiracy tubers" are mainly Gen X, while the majority of millennials tuber and comments reflect their sheeple mindset. For a gen X popular = mainstream BS, for a millennial popular = "everything is awesome". Gen X have difficulty to trust other people or those in power. Gen Y trust every shit, and everyone is a friend if they "like" or subscribe their tube, tweeter, facebook, etc, alot of virtual "friends" comparing with real friends.

[Ninjaa]

I'm GenX. Back in my day the goal of "race relations" was to treat everyone the same regardless of their race. A person "identified" as something that they did; their career or their hobby usually. Today, this attitude is considered a negative. We are supposed to treat people of different races differently, and people choose to identify by their immutable characteristics.

[meganalicia]

I knew the world was dangerous when I was out and about riding my bike. My baby boomer parents knew too, they just didn't care.

[jjfromthebigland]

We grew up in the middle of the cold war so we know a thing or two about fear. We just didn't let it rule us...

[wutheringheights]

if u were born in 1999 then you are gen z not a millennial

[RC-blpm]

Nice perspective. Am gen X and can confirm we had freedom like later generations never knew. Our parents (boomers) were too busy with their careers to care! I was utterly free, i carried an axe and a pellet rifle as standard equipment on my bmx and was only required to return after dark. I had a campfire almost everyday and regularly crossed a railway trestle as part of my daily fun. I think our parents were a little negligent actually but I do see later generations as a bit dependant in comparison. The millenials really were raised hands on so theyre a little more domesticated? I don't mind millenials but i agree with the idea that boomers weren't the best.

[DuvAngel]

Late Baby Boomer here, mother to a Gen X’er and a Millennial, 4yrs 10 months apart. I agree about the sheltering as the kidnapping and sexual assault killings seemed to ramp up. But other factors to consider about how my offspring’s lifestyles were affected is; the technology and Internet. For me~ I was actually chatting online before the term Internet was used/invented. It was a thing called a Bullitin Board chat room - I used Compuserve. Chatting with people, mostly like-minded, and it was enjoyable. There was one person who sent a rouge email, and very shortly after, my house was broken into and equipment was stolen. I recovered from that but did not chat as much afterwards.
Now, my kids; they did not get independent time online until they were 13, as the rules for accounts deemed that. And so, they sat with me either watching or participating with me. My son, Gen X, turned out to be some kind of computer prodigy, teaching himself computer programming right from the start and knew his way around the PC Windows programs as if he was born with it while intelligent adults struggled, my son stepped in and saved the day. I took him to an educational computer lab - he went and fixed all the problems they had with everything- hardware and software. He was the teacher that day!!
As far as social media- he made tons of friends in the programming community, was a great teacher and ‘listener’, and actually gathered a following of sorts—- he did end up with being so sought after, he would just quit a site and move to another - it happened like that over and over. Wow.
Ok, enough bragging... my daughter, a Millennial, was reticent to engage socially, wanted to listen to music and watch videos, and cake bloopers.
She really was a late bloomer with Facebook, being popular already and very pretty, no lack of company. With FB she ended up with - from what I saw, as she complained of too many social contacts telling her what to do with her life, and wanting her time - some very selfishly- “Hey, why did you go to the movie with them and not me” kind of stuff. She was popular online AND offline and wanted to just chill with Good Ole Mom to escape sometimes❤️.
She had boys stalking her and getting dangerous- in her life, she knew them face to face. She had a hard time discerning what a good friend really is— and she finally deleted her FB account.
End of story.