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80 Posts And Memes That May Make Gen X Feel Seen
Gen X isn’t the most talked-about generation. Their predecessors, Baby Boomers, have gotten plenty of flak online. Meanwhile, Millennials and Gen Z have been the punchlines of countless jokes too. But if you were born between 1965 and 1980, we’re here to celebrate you and your peers today, pandas.
We took a trip to the Generation X subreddit and gathered some of their funniest posts below. From memes that you may find super relatable to pics that might fill you with nostalgia, enjoy scrolling through this list that’s dedicated to all things Gen X!
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#1
You Know Who You Are
Elladine DesIsles 1 month ago (edited)
I know my childhood landline number (plus those of the grandparents and several middle school friends), postal code, and the license plate of my parents' car in the 80s (which I never drove). Now, where did I leave my keys?
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#2
Funny Meme I Got From Facebook That I Thought I'd Share With The Group!
#3
Am I The Only One Who Does Not Want To Save To Onedrive?
#4
The Old Magic
#5
Generation X Learned So Much From These Amazing People
#6
This One Hit Too Close To Home
Alexa Saltz 1 month ago
Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. I did not check that box. Best compliment ever - my adult son telling me to grow up. As if.
#7
Who Remembers "Morning Sam..morning Ralph" Cartoon When You Were A Kid?
DogMomInVT 1 month ago
My husband and I used to pass each other when he was coming home from; and I was going to, work. It was our daily refrain.
#8
Could This Be Why Genx Are So Snarky?
Googoo Gaga 1 month ago
Oohhh no...not limited to a specific generation. I am a self professed witty boomer and these guys are my role models, lol. They were also the names for my widowed dad and uncle (his BIL) who were joined at the hip and watched the news together every night. I miss those idealsitc times.
#11
We Welcomed The Immigrant With All Our Hearts
#12
Those Poor Employees
#13
Still Fun 55 Years Later
#14
Do We Find This To Be True?
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
I loved it when I heard the phrase " As tasteful as a Mel Brooks punchline. "
#15
Can Confirm: I Babysat At 11
#16
How It Was Back In The Day
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I babysat the kid across the street every weekend in 1986/87. He was only a year old and they were OK with leaving a 12/13 year old girl alone with him. 😂 My parents were always home though so I guess they weren't too worried. (I babysat my younger brother too but didn't get paid for that) There's no way I would have left my own baby with someone that young these days. Times were different back then.
#17
Would You Go Back If You Could?
#18
We Were The Latchkey Kids Who Wore Our House Keys On A Shoestring Around Our Necks And Knew How To Take Care Of Ourselves
#19
I May Not Have Had To Learn To Drive A Manual Transmission Vehicle, But I Did Have To Practice And Pass My Driver's Test In A Huge Car, Just Like The B 52s Sing About In Love Shack...."Im Loading Up My Chrysler; It Seats About 20!"
Upstaged75 1 month ago
We learned to drive as part of our school gym class. The cars had a brake pedal in the front passenger seat so the instructor could stop the car if necessary. We practiced in the parking lot some of the time and would have another student as a partner. Mine was some jock guy who thought stomping on the instructor brake constantly was hilarious. It made it seem like I was a drunk driver. 😂
#20
Did You Keep All Your Physical Media (Specifically CDs And DVDs)?
Kyla Tinch (she/her) 1 month ago
When it took 10 minutes just to download a song? D**n right I'm keep that shi.t
#21
Nobody Ever Wanted To Get Up
#22
There Will Never Be Another Generation Like Ours
Salttypepper 1 month ago
Nope , we knew how to have real fun we had actual real life friends we did stuff with not a photo on some site of someone we never met but say we r friends
#23
It's Almost An Entire Generation That Doesn't Know What This Is
Salttypepper 1 month ago
We were the fafo generation the live and learn generation we weren’t coddled we didn’t have helicopter parents we have scars and we are still alive we were not sissies
#24
Gen X Didn't Get Weather On An App. We Had To Watch The Local TV Station To Find Out If School Was Closed
#25
Feeling Nostalgic Today
#26
I Used To Laugh At This Commercial. Now It Is Real!!
Alexa Saltz 1 month ago
I never thought that I would find myself in such situation. Still funny, even though it's me stuck on the floor these days.
#27
Generation X Didn't Need Smart Phones, We Had Collect Calls
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I have very distinct memories of being on skates while using a payphone at the skating rink. 😊
#28
Gotta Love Prince And His Raspberry Beret; The Kind You Find In A Second Hand Store!
#29
Should This Be The Official Flag Of Generation X?
#30
Did You Have One Of These When You Were A Kid?
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
When I was in the single-digit age group, there were TV commercials for "Tony the Pony." I wanted one. desperately. But I visited a friend who had one, and Tony the Pony was broken. This has informed my attitude towards advertising ever since.
#31
For Me It Was Sprite Not Canada Dry
#32
No Wonder Generation X Was Scarred For Life!
#33
This Brings Back Such Bittersweet Memories!
#34
Do You Miss Orange Juice Made From Concentrate?
Upstaged75 1 month ago
Made in a yellow Tupperware jug. As a kid I didn't know OJ came any other way. 😂
#35
Imagine A Three Bedroom House In This Economy!
#36
If You Had One Of These You Were Old School Cool
#37
Anyone Have Their Ears Pierced This Way At Home?
#38
Is Generation X Just Getting Tired Of It All?
#39
Spring Is In The Air
#40
Before There Were Darwin Awards...we Actually Had These
#41
Generation X Absolutely Did Watch The Space Shuttle Explosion Live. I Saw It
Nadine Lynch 1 month ago
I saw it live on Channel 2 KCBS Los Angeles. Free, Broadcast TV really was a thing in 1986.
#42
If You Are Generation X Then You Know The Question Being Asked
#43
Did You Ever Have A Waterbed? Would You Use One Again?
#44
We Struggled Back In The Days But We Got By Just Fine. We’d Use Regular White Sandwich Bread On Just About Anything. Hot Dog, Hamburger, Garlic Bread, Cinnamon, Butter And Sugar Toast, And Poor Man’s Cheese Pizza And Of Course Tomato And Mayo Sandwiches Were The Best Ever
Upstaged75 1 month ago (edited)
Mmmm. Cinnamon toast! The cinnamon/sugar mix came in a shaker container shaped like a bear. 😁 We also used to eat Welsh Rarebit (the frozen version from Stouffer's) on white toast.
#45
Put Off Having Kids Til Almost Forty Because Of This Lil Monster
#46
And People Wonder Why Generation X Are The Way We Are
#47
Generation X'rs, How Many Of These Have You Used Or Remember? I Can't Make Out The Lower Right Picture, But I Think It May Be Fondue Forks
#48
Did Your Dad Ever Tell You To Grab Him A Pack Out Of The Vending Machine At The Bowling Alley?
#49
Did Anyone Watch Max Headroom?
#50
Did You Ever Use A Computer Lab Like This Back In High School?
JB 1 month ago
No. I’m early Gen-X. The first time I saw a computer, it was at university. Green screen dumb terminal connected to an IBM mainframe. My university papers were either hand written or (if I really wanted to impress) I would use the computer science department to print them out and literally had to code using LaTeX to define everything from font to type size, bold, italics, superscripts, subscripts and footnotes (which you had to keep track of yourself). People who grew up using the likes of MS Word have no clue just how much coding is involved in the background.
#51
Do You Remember When The Simple Things Were The Most Fun?
#52
Yes Sir I Still Have My Old School Set. 1978 Panasonic Top Loader Vcr. 1981 Rca Selectavision Videodisk Player And 1985 Stereo Sony Trinitron Television. I Enjoy A Good Vhs From Time To Time… See That Remote On Top Of My Vcr? That’s The TV Remote, It’s Huge…
#53
If This Was The Highlight Of Your Week In Elementary School, You Might Be Old Af
#54
My Ears Are Still Ringing To This Day
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
"They don't need food aid, they need U-HAUL'S TO TAKE 'EM where the FOOD IS AHHHHH AHHHHHH! IT'S SAND!...NOTHING GROWS HERE"
#55
Does Anyone Remember These Two Guys From The Guinness Book Of World Records?
#56
I Always Thought We’d Be Friends For Life After This 6th Grade Camp Picture From 1970. But After High School, Haven’t Heard Of Any Since…
ILoveMySon 1 month ago (edited)
"I never had friends like the ones when I was 12". Paraphrased from "Stand By Me".
#57
What Became Of The Cool Kid In Your High School?
#58
Did Anyone Else Roll With A Pager Back In The Day?
#59
You’re Not Generation X If You Don’t Remember These Two Characters From A Classic 70’s Sitcom Series
#60
What Was Your Favorite Store At The Mall?
Bored Jellyfish 1 month ago (edited)
Waldenbooks. No contest. It was the only bookstore in my town. Orange Julius (Hey! Just mentioned that one earlier), I don’t count as “store”.
#61
What Are Your Restaurant Memories From Our Childhood?
#62
Give Me Back Those Days
#63
How Many Albums/Cassettes Did You Get From Columbia House?
#64
Mekka Lekka Hi-Mekka Hiney Ho!
#65
What Was Everyone Watching In Mid-February 1978?
#66
Does Anyone Remember When This Character Effectively Ended The Brady Bunch?
#67
Did You Ever Have To Change The TV Channels With One Of These?
#68
Mikey Will Do It!!
#69
What Song And Musical Artist Is This Picture Referring To? 😁
#70
Do You Still Have Nightmares About Sleestaks?
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I just mentioned that in another comment. Those costumes are hilarious. Why was I so freaked out? 😂
#71
Latchkey Kid Chow. The More Variety You've Consumed, The Greater Your Glory, You Better Go Get A Colonoscopy
Upstaged75 1 month ago
🤮 I got a bologna sandwich almost every day for lunch in grade school. You couldn't pay me to even touch it now.
#72
Are You Prepared For Retirement? Or Has Generation X Been Planning For This Our Whole Lives?
#73
Remember When You Could By A Car Without A Radio?
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
One of my dad's cars had a blank panel where the radio would have been if you weren't such a damn cheapskate.
#74
It's Candy, Barfed Out By A Groovy Planet!
#75
What Was Your Favorite Arcade Game?
#76
Way Back, Back Into Time...coleco Football, Game Of The Future!!
#77
Does Anyone Remember These Books? For Some Reason I Hated Them
#78
Anyone Else Have This?
#79
Some 80s Fashion Tags
#80
Who Remembers These Delicious Dolly Madison Snacks? They Were Just As Delicious As Hostess Cup Cakes And Twinkie’s If Not Better In My Opinion
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Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 1 month ago
Yep, most of it does not mean anything to me and many things i do not have any idea what it is
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Greenkitty 1 month ago
Born in 1961, guess tha lt makes me Generation Jones, every single one of these were my life.
David Paterson 1 month ago
That makes you a space-ager doesn't it. Growing up with the Apollo program.
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Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 1 month ago
Yep, most of it does not mean anything to me and many things i do not have any idea what it is
Load More Replies... Greenkitty 1 month ago
Born in 1961, guess tha lt makes me Generation Jones, every single one of these were my life.
David Paterson 1 month ago
That makes you a space-ager doesn't it. Growing up with the Apollo program.
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