Lol, not entirely inaccurate. From the Wikipedia for Latchley kid
The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, “went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history.” Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.[6][7][8][9] These latchkey children, referred to as “day orphans” in the 1984 documentary, To Save Our Children to Save Our Schools, mainly came from middle or upper-class homes. The higher the educational attainment of the parents, the higher the odds the children of this time would be latchkey kids.[10][11]
Nowadays, if my mother was a black woman giving me the responsibilities she did, they would’ve arrested her ass.
at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.
Ahh yes, the long ago days of yore known as checks notes right now
Boomer is a state of mine.
You kids will one day be like this. You’ll slowly find it creeping up on you in your older age, and eventually you wake up one day not understanding the young generation and you’ll be thinking to yourself "Gosh, those darn kids and their perfidious pranks they play on us. But at least its a nice day to go outside and grill
"Ha! That will never happen to me, I’ll always be hip!
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I’m sorry, what the fuck?
Mmm icecream so good, yes yes yes, gang gang.
What’s especially funny to me is that woman is Quebecoise and occasionally stops her robotic chant to yell at her kid in French
Just like the simulations. https://youtu.be/iYr4clwdU1I?si=oKqvV7rEuaK5So3L
I had to look up what this was referring to and, i, just
BOOMERwe need a :grillman-yes: emote
I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ is! :Grandpa-simpson:
I’ve been like that since I was ten years old
BOOMERClose, depression
At least you grill
No way, I’m gonna keep on rockin’ forever
Forever
Forever
Forever…
Sweet Child O’ Mine slowly plays in the distance, fading away until nothing but the soft wind rustling the golden waves of seed-bearing grass stalks across the desolate fields
sweet child o’ mine (slowed + reverb)
I will never be able to afford a place where going outside to grill would be an option
there should be public places where you can grill or you can make friends with a griller, so there’s zero excuse to not take the
pillMany public parks have charcoal grills
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WAS NEGLECTED BY MY PARENTS I WAS BEATEN AS A CHILD AND I TURNED OUT FINE
is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what? at least millenials got participation trophies. that’s probably the thing that saved them. until they discovered toast…
is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what?
I don’t know how universal it is, but where I’m from people brag about having a rough upbringing like it’s a badge of honor. It leads to a really silly culture where people feel a social pressure to exaggerate and mythologize their childhoods as a series of legendary conquests. You’ll notice in OPs image that the event that they endured was spending a day playing with a sprinkler and then eating a sandwich at the neighbor’s house.
a day playing with a sprinkler and then eating a sandwich at the neighbor’s house.
This was the Gen X equivalent of Normandy Beach
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Well if I was Winona Rider’s character, I definitely would have fucked Ethan Hawke’s character so they were cooking with that one
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Seems that way. A lot of immigrant groups tend to be of a “lower class” as well that unfortunately involve a more abusive upbringing. I was shocked at the amount of US latinos that talk about the “chancla” and being hit by their parents as a regular thing. I never saw that from anyone in my family or my friends, but the kids that had that happen to them were usually raised in the poorer parts of the cities.
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From personal experience yes
The amount of times as a child that a kids dad coming home was a reason to leave was too damn high.
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I’m so Pavlov’d that when I get anxious I start expecting to hear the garage door.
Millennials turned into nervous wrecks because we had to deal with our fucked up Boomer and Gen X elders lol
jk I love my older comradesSeriously. I’ve been trained to second guess every decision that I make.
Yo what kind of fucking childhood did this freak have?
That’s my childhood to a tee.
Mostly wandered the streets during summertime. No cable, no video games, so I went outside when I woke up, played with the neighborhood kids til the streetlights came on or someone’s parent came outside and hollered for us to get our ass home. Drank water from the hosebibb at whatever house we were in front of at the time. I wandered the bushes around our place with a bolt action .22 or my BB gun. I had a key to let myself in/out. At least twice I had adults tell me that they were there to pick me up and take me home. I rode my bike for miles unsupervised, five, six miles from home.
That’s a pretty boomer way to phrase all that shit, but the facts are mostly correct.
Time to pack it up grandpa.
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I’m a millennial so I have no right to talk.
That’s right it’s feeding time at the home and it’s pudding night, so I gtg.
I’m like dead-center millennial and this is an extremely exaggerated and stupid-to-brag-about, but not completely wrong, version of my childhood.
This person’s just doing the “father I cannot click the book” joke because gen xrs are boomers.
The childhood where there was still lead in the gas I guess
Lead in the gas, lead in the house paint, lead in the toys paint, lead in the plumbing. Just lousy with the stuff.
Lead in the brain. Just a solid lump of soft metal up there
This sounds like a totally normal childhood and like the lamest possible thing you could brag about.
You’re at once correct and also it’s a fucking tragedy.
Apparently in the 80 parenting got more hands off cuz it was the first time having both parents work full time became really common and nobody really knew how to deal with children in that situation so a lot of parents kinda just let their kids be vagrants till they got home.
Both my parents experienced this, my mom says she would just wander around her home town for hours.
the kind their failing mind remembers poorly and their vanity fills in the blanks
kind of jealous tbh, I had the exact opposite upbringing and I feel like it’s part of why I’m fucked up and terminally online
If it makes you feel any better, it doesn’t matter. I had sort of this childhood and wound up here too.
Perfect example of this mentality: the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, it’s a fucking Gen X pride film about how boomers suck because they grew up before video game and we millenials suck too because our video games are bullshit but Gen X are the baddest dudes who ever lived because they played Pac-Man and Donkey Kong
I’m not even exaggerating, that’s the whole movie
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Pac man? Damn imagine bragging about how devoid your games were. Let me guess, “we were happier with simpler things”?
As a zoomer I feel like millennials objectively had the best childhood for video games. Yall experienced such massive changes and improvements, like I’m kinda jealous of the level of nostalgia a lot of millennials seem to have for super mario 64
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I hope they know everyone under 35 lumps gen x and boomers as almost the same people
They’re genuinely the most forgettable gen (after silents). No one but gen xers think of gen xers as tough. Emotionally unavailable people that need therapy, maybe, but that doesn’t make you tough
The vast majority of Gen X men I’ve met have been borderline dysfunctional. I’ve never seen a gen X dude make a decent meal from scratch without fucking up.
Gen Xers have had the absolute strangest brainworms about gender, prescribing strict gender codes for other men, while being completely unable to live up to their own standards.
Most Gen X men are useless in the kitchen, helpless in raising their own children and too self absorbed to notice the absolute state of themselves.
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Is Gen X the one that lives with the bald wheelchair guy in the mansion and they fight magnet man
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Your brain really does turn to mush over a certain age, huh?
Personally, I find the whole being a flag bearer for an age cohort thing to be very hokey and needlessly distracting from the actual class warfare that we are constantly losing to the capitalist class.
I do not endorse generational warfare as a concept. But this is actually just a boomer Facebook meme. The title is a literal description of what it is.
I accept this.
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Piety has nothing to do with it. I’m not trying to act holier-than-thou. Obviously the person in the OP screenshot is a total fucking loser, but this doesn’t generalize gen x or baby boomers. This is just some individual pretending real adversity in life is a scenario he totally imagined, probably based only in repeated fictions that he eventually came to believe in.
Also, there is no disagreement about baby boomers living much more privileged and easier lives in general than we do today. But nobody chooses the environment in which they’re born into, the propaganda of the era they are subjected to, or the general information publicly available to them during their lives. Much as you said, we all receive a propaganda made to keep us compliant to the economic system we live under, and that message shifts over time. But that’s the thing that needs to be combated today, not the bygone fact that someone lived a better life in the past.
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whoa is that emoji Mr. Dink?
Does Gen X realize that Millenials were brought up the same way?
Like holy shit dawg we had the same neglectful parents. No need to brag.
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Millennials are truly the chosen generation
Born late enough to avoid a brain full of lead and know how to use a computer
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yea but our formative years were still relatively low-plastic in that the environment wasn’t absolutely saturated in it the way it is now
The only thing that I’m impressed with myself over the youth is that for a brief time we somehow found the people we were going to meet at an event without sending signals into space to send messages to transponders to find each other, everything else about being gen x sucks and we lost that ability.
For a bunch of people that commend the rough 'n tough lifestyle, why prevent walkable cities that teach independence at such an early age AND reduce reliance on technology?
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Because walking is communism. The actual solution is to give driver’s licenses to children as young as 6 years old so they can experience true freedom.
“Kids don’t walk to school anymore, but don’t you dare change the infrastructure to make it easier and safer for them to walk to school.”
Drinking leaded water out of the garden hose. Can’t imagine what happened to their brains
This sounds like parody. Formally trained in something by the time they were 2???
Anyway all Gen X’ers are gonna do is sing Smells Like Teen Spirit and be sad in the corner
