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78 Hilariously Relatable Gen X Memes For Everyone Who Grew Up Before The Internet (New Pics)
The irony is that memes didn’t exist when Generation X was growing up. Yet somehow, memes are now one of the best ways to describe their childhood, and life right now.
That’s exactly why the page ‘Righteous Memes from Generation X’ has built a following of over 122k. It shares the kind of specific, oddly universal memories that almost everyone born between 1965 and 1980 can relate to. For example, using a plastic Bic pen to fix an unspooled cassette tape, or drinking straight from a rusty garden hose.
Gen X may carry the “forgotten generation” label, but online, they’re absolutely winning the nostalgia game.
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FranSinclair 2 months ago
Were sarcastic bc we've met our parents. Its a coping mechanism for anyone who has parents born before 1964
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Karl der Große 2 months ago
The real struggle was trying to decide if something was worth one of the precious frames you had on the film.
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Bored Jellyfish 2 months ago
Yep. I used one skittishly in 5th grade, and absolutely believed that it could chop a finger off.
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Phantom Phoenix 2 months ago
Look into my eyes, You will see, What you mean to me, Search your heart, Search your soul, And when you find me there, You'll search no more
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Karl der Große 2 months ago
My brother used to heat that thing up and threaten me with it. Good times.
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Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
Aka, the kitchen I grew up with. Both the appliances and what was prepared with them! 🤣
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PenguinEmp 2 months ago
This happened a lot at my great aunts. She'd be on the phone all d**n day. My grandfather tried to get through one day. Nada. So... He sent a telegram to their home. Cost them three bucks to hear it. The message was get off the phone.
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Bored Jellyfish 2 months ago (edited)
Big guy looks where I am, sensing I’m a weak link. I’m absolutely letting go of the other person before that guy barreling toward me breaks my arm!
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FranSinclair 2 months ago
Oh this gives me an idea. Im teaching my kids to make fortune tellers today!
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Bored Jellyfish 2 months ago
My arcade days ended when games started requiring two quarters for gameplay.
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Chrystina Sumpter 2 months ago
No. My husband and I went out on our anniversary for a fancy meal. I got heartburn.
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Elladine DesIsles 2 months ago
I'm Canadian. I've never seen this wagon, but I sure did wish that house hippos were real.
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Mark Wilson 2 months ago
My dad definitely wore it. I was fascinated by the smell and the tiny little s***w cap
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Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago
Nah, nah. It's the hole in the ozone layer, that's what they caused... 😂 (CFCs, since phased out, used to be used as aerosol propellants. Nicely non-flammable. Now? Ooh, so much more fun!)
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detective miller's hat 2 months ago
I like watching other people play video games because I am absolutely awful at playing them myself.
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BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago
I had a bowl cut because my parents wouldn't pay to cut my hair. My step dad literally put a mixing bowl on my head and cut around the brim.
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nicholas nolan 2 months ago
I keep telling people, this is exactly how we get literacy rates back up in America.
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David Jeffery 2 months ago
That was a weird time. Was it Young and the Restless that someone was in bed covered by a veil?
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kaycee14 2 months ago
No mention of Schoolhouse Rock? I know parts of a sentence, the Preamble to the Constitution, and how a bill becomes a law from those little cartoons!
olivejuicedrinker (she/her) 2 months ago
why am i here? im late gen z. no clue what most of these posts mean
Tamarillo3 2 months ago
Boomer here. I know alla these and so much more! Hahahaha
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Peter Bear 2 months ago
The only reason we're 'celebrated' online is that we're the ones doing it. Like everything else in our lives, if we want something done, we have to do it ourselves.
kaycee14 2 months ago
No mention of Schoolhouse Rock? I know parts of a sentence, the Preamble to the Constitution, and how a bill becomes a law from those little cartoons!
olivejuicedrinker (she/her) 2 months ago
why am i here? im late gen z. no clue what most of these posts mean
Tamarillo3 2 months ago
Boomer here. I know alla these and so much more! Hahahaha
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 2 months ago
The only reason we're 'celebrated' online is that we're the ones doing it. Like everything else in our lives, if we want something done, we have to do it ourselves.
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