Gen X facts from TikTok.

I posted a Gen X video on TikTok and got some pretty crazy reactions. This is my response.

[freebird]

I’m so proud to be Gen X. The movies…. The music…. The simple human interaction…

[marinhusky]

Not just driving, but driving a stick shift. It's pretty much a theft deterrent in cars these days.

[filipasales]

There's one thing that should be mentioned with GenX. We were alone a lot, that meant we had to think and imagine much more. I believe that gave us survival skills that are hard to match. We can think outside the box because that's all we did. In a crisis we will always be very valuable. Hugs to my fellow Genxers!❤

[miguelgalindo]

My most cherished GenX talent: the ability to have a meaningful phone conversation! Cuz that’s. What. We. Had. Real conversations in real time with pauses, tone of voice, and “hold on a sec, someone’s at the door.”

[motherstation]

My favorite GenX thing is...
we went from
teaching our parents how to operate a VCR
to teaching our kids how to operate a VCR

[kibblenbits]

My son was born in 1970, grew up feral, much like I did in the 50's. Gen X kids learned how to work things out on their own, and made their own decisions, which they learned from, without the input of unknown weirdo's online trying to distort reality. They lived in the real world, and that's why they have more common sense than the generation's that came after them.

[APBpa]

Gen X is like the forgotten middle child who left home to pursue their dreams out in the world, then came back home only to realize their older and younger brothers and sisters are still living at home.

[ObnoxiousNox]

One thing I recall about being a Gen Xer… recall the phrase, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” We Gen Xers were resourceful.

[kvbstudios]

GenX on SM all talk about the way we grew up, essentially raised ourselves, had paddles in schools, etc. What we rarely mention is how proud we were to live that life. You were cool if your folks let you be home alone. Even cooler if you made your own money, instead of waiting for an allowance. Scouts HAD to teach us CPR and First Aid because we were fearless and unsupervised often.

[fsjgw]

They forget we don't give a ***k what they think, and it bothers them.

[rhondah.]

Proud Gen Xer here. We were the latch key generation, coming home every afternoon from school while the parents were still at work and doing chores and homework all before they got home. Eating cereal or a sandwich while watching Thundercats after said chores and homework were done. We knew not to answer the phone (landline)- that was usually located in the kitchen on the wall with a 30 foot cord or in the living room where the "good furniture" was- unless it was our parents, who would call at a certain time to check on us, and if you did answer the phone at any other time, you knew not to tell the person on the other end that you were home alone. We stayed outside all damn day during the summer and knew to have our butts inside when the street lights came on. We practically raised ourselves. Man, those were the days.

[cellcat]

I think Gen Xers were the last generation where it was common to repeatedly take apart their home appliances and put them back together just to know what was inside. 💪🏽😅

[Canian.]

I'm Gen X, my crew of friends and I in the 80's pretty much treated Twisted Sister's "We're not gunna take it" like our generational anthem. Then we all grew up and took it. Nice to see fellow Gen X'ers now standing up to fulfill the next lyric... "anymore!"

[bhud]

I love how you closed it out. You’re exactly right. They’re green with envy because it was a bad ass time to grow up. Especially the 80s!

[thevegimeatatarian]

I absolutely LOVE the GenXers who are pushing back. We are here; we exist! The world is more than Baby Boomers and Millennials. Keep doing what you do!!!

[KardboardKenny]

best part? we're a feral bunch, itching for a fight.
ANY fight.

[HomeEcSewing]

The "don't care" generation between the "one-up everything" and "I'm offended" generations. Love being Gen X.

[erincounts]

“Back in my day” you learned a lot about calling your boyfriends house and talking to his mom or family before even talking to him. And they, my goodness, they had to answer the phone and have no clue who was calling! Can you imagine the panic of the millennials and GenZ? We have lost the art of communication, boundaries, patience and general freedom to exist without being tracked. How did we lose that?

[juliebeans]

GenX is also good at: Critical thinking (discerning right/wrong, assigning objective value), executive function (decision-making, negotiation, self-governance), and some love of open rebellion. Our screens were 4 channels of TV followed by Pong, Space Invaders, and Asteroids. 'Play dates' were 16-hour swarms of kids on bikes; eff helmets, eff pads, fall down, walk it off, pedal hard to catch up. We're tough, we're happy, which makes us the youngest old people you'll ever meet, and we led the greatest economic expansion not tied to a world war. Pretty good for a generation named for its 'chronic apathy.'

[thanosdoomjuggernaut]

Gen X is the last Generation to have common sense. And growing up in Detroit we didn’t have Cable till the 90’s.