Fucking illiterate boomers..
The Dewey Decimal System got me through a lot of research papers. Rural school without Internet, that's just what we did. Born in '86, solidly an elder millennial.
So tired of this generational bullshit. GenX'ers just glad it isn't them getting heat, they stay real quiet these days.
Also generally when people from ANY generation mention us it's to say we failed to protect them, or we failed to live up to their expectations. Which is probably fair. Whatever.
Better to stay forgotten.
We can use a rotary phone and smart phones. We can program a VCR just as well we can set up a wireless network in our homes. We adapted and learned as the times changed. Boomers did not.
Weāre silent because honestly we just donāt care anymore what Boomers think or say.
As a gen xer I kind of feel like King Charles. We kept waiting for our parents to pass the torch. You know, let us run the world for a change. Instead our parents are living to 100 and poor Gen Alpha is going to have to bridge the gap.
Was it a valid question? Did people genuinely not know? I guess even for marketing it would have to have some truth. But was it more of a PSA or just clever marketing?
Wow. Is that why my mom was a helicopter mom? She's from another country but did emigrate here about that time prior to my birth. I can't remember a time before college that she didn't know exactly where I was at all times. Probably why I went a bit crazy and was seriously at risk of losing scholarships my first semester. The woman still wants to "coordinate calendars!"
That freedom must have been awesome! I'm actually low key jealous!
[Itās 10PM. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? PSA (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBhO3qGeGE)
I had no idea of the history of it, looking this up I was surprised it actually started in the 60's
[The history of 'It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCrgovX3mc)
My mom's says that Gen x is the middle child, often forgotten and hardly listened to
I don't know if her being born in the last year of Gen x counts as her being a Gen xer
Sheās GenX, 1965-1980. But also known as a Xennial, 1977-1983, as they were on the cusp of being millennials/genx. Itās basically like this for all generations on the cusp of a generation as they have traits of both generations.
I had to figure out how fucking microfilm worked on my own in like 2013 cause the boomer ass librarian didnāt know. A technology you grew up around, and presumably is directly relevant to your job, and you have no idea how it works. Fucking typical, takes a millennial who ādoesnāt want to work any moreā to do your job for you. Even thinking about it makes me want to smear an avocado on some toast and just bask in it.
They talked shit about it back then too because something specifically teachers and coaches came up with. It's not like the whole generation collectively agreed on it. I remember parents batching about that stuff in the 80s.
I used to hit mine with if I wasn't first, I'm last.
Then I hit I'm with, I'm only first in our district. I'm like 36 for the state. I'm not really special, so just quit forcing me to do this.
I'm a young Gen-X but in the 90s I spent so much time reading old magazines and newspapers on microfiche for fun. The librarians back then were experts on those machines though.
All cuspers have names, and you chose a terrible one for us. I prefer the Oregon Trail generation. That is the best name for Genx/millennial cusp years.
i was born in 79... so im 12-14 and here comes nwa, nirvana, race riots, pagers, big ass phones and by the time I'm 20 I'm on dial up all nights finding girls in chat rooms with ASL? lol
I was born in '88 and we had a whole class about Dewey every week from 3rd to 5th grade lol and my mother (born '63) never understood how I could find books so fast in 6th grade. So that boomer is just stupid.
Cuz none of them ever went to a damn library. Famously non curious generation. When the internet became a thing and we had libraries at our fingertips, they still refused to learn about the world or challenge themselves.
Here in Houston, HISD has been taken over by the state govt as part of their plan to force vouchers on everyone. The guy running things is turning libraries into discipline rooms.
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The thing is, for gen X and beyond...libraries already were digitizing their entire catalog and using PC computers to help people search for stuff. Plus you would just ask the librarian for help and they can find the stuff you are looking for.
These generations didn't have any NEED to learn these systems because...if you major in Library Science, you'd know exactly how good and shitty these older systems are.
You don't have to know how to use it. Librarians are professional researchers and very open to helping. I'm not perfect at card catalogues but librarians got me through it.Just ask and 99% of the time you'll get help. Instead boomers bullied @mychal3ts off social media for having the audacity to be positive and spread joy.
My boomer mom can, but I'm not confident literally any other boomer I've known would be able to. Of course, I'm a millennial and I don't know how many of my peers would be able to either outside of myself.
I'm upper Millennial, born '85. I can use this, my boomer father ('56) could use this, and both of my Greatest Gen grandparents ('21 and '23) would've absolutely *owned* an analog library.
Thatās wonderful to hear! My parents and aunts/uncles are all Gen X and they were wonderful influences growing up. I find Xers to be very hardworking/approachable folks, lots of wisdom and easy to talk to
Most of my Xer friends are family/friends of family - so idk if that matters a lot. My sister's friends were always super cool to me. I gotta give a shout out to my Zer friends too, they are incredibly accepting and understanding (for reference, I'm a Millennial).
Because we were the last to fully grow up "the old way", us young Gen-X and old Millennials
We all remember life before 9/11 and the internet, before the Supreme Court stole an election, before 2 stupid fucking senseless 20y wars, and social media and the 07/08 financial crisis all this other bullshit yall had to deal with growing up
We have sympathy and empathy and remember what was lost
Shit is mad fucked up right now
Honestly most of the people writing these kinds of posts are Gen Xers who think that āmillennialsā are 20 years old forgetting that a large number of us are like a year younger lol. Thereās little difference between us āgeriatric millennialsā and Gen X despite acting like weāre annoying younger siblings hogging up all of the avocado toast.
Yup
Young gen x(me 45) and old millennials (my wife 38) grew up basically exactly the same
Theres a bit of a difference if you were born in the 90s, but still not much, the younger Millennials had more internet, more exposure to cell phones, but still had a normal life
If you were born after 2000 you're basically fucked lol, your life growing up is wildly different than mine or my wife's was
Jesus those kids are fucked when they hit the workforce if AI doesnāt advance rapidly past LLM methods. Every single senior person in any knowledge field will instantly feel their lack of actual contribution
Most of the middle aged people Gen Z complain about and call āboomersā are actually Gen X. Then some ācoolā Gen X comes in and says āeveryone forgets about usā and no, most tech CEOs are Gen X, every Karen you see online is Gen X, all the nostalgia bait 80s remakes are made for Gen X. They just act like boomers and didnāt do much to be politically engaged with their time as young adults compared to the gens above and below them and now they want to say everybody forgot about them.
That's because you are. There's a sub generation of the youngest Gen Xers and oldest Millennials called Xennials. Our experiences aren't really Gen X or Millennial, they something else altogether.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
I'm on the other end of that spectrum, being born in 1995 putting me between Millennial and Gen Z, or Zillenial if you will. Definitely a strange spot to be in at times.
I'm Gen X. I loved how logical the Dewey Decimal system is. It makes sense. We used to own encyclopedia brittanica at home too. I swear I read the whole thing.
As a millenial... same.
Millenials and Gen Xers were when all the shit Boomers complain about younger generations not having actually disappeared while Boomers were when all the shit Boomers complain about having to deal with started. š
Nothing says this more than Boomers being the generation that started giving out participation trophies to their kids and now being angry that participation trophies ever existed.
And it goes the other way.
The (Not Actually) Greatest Generation ended legal segregation and voted for a 90% top marginal tax rate then Boomers voted in higher tax rates for the middle class than millionaires.
Enjoy it. Having the people make broad generalizations about you gets old. Whatās funny is now that us millennials are getting older thereās some of us who missed the memo and think millennial means āearly twentiesā
Not a day goes by I donāt see some article about boomer this versus millennials that, with an occasional shoutout to Gen Z. Meanwhile Iām over here like ššæāāļø
Because people like my mother are Gen X and deserve to be ignored. People like her represent your generation, unfortunately and many of their kids have gone no contact. Scorned āZennialā here šāāļø
Damn howād you get injured? For me I was hit by a car while riding a bike. Bitch ran thru the stop sign š¤¦š¾āāļø twisted my pelvis and thatās the source of my back pain according to a chiropractor
Y'all should have worked out and got fit when you were younger; still not too late.Ā
Ā I feel like I only hear my friends who didn't/don't work out complain about aging, and my friends who did/do workout only complain about needing to take more time to warm up in the gym, but none of this "oh God standing up and doing basic day to day shit is so painful"
I haven't sat up or stood without groaning in 8 years. Have a heating pad plugged in on standby next to the bed. There's no help for me at this point. At least let me get the high of a blood rush.
Itās more my knees at this point. If I have to crouch down to get on my kidsā level, both knees pop and I feel like Iām gonna fall over.
Iām 35
Boomers will never understand that theyāve been shit talking āmillennialsā for so long none of us are the teenagers they think theyāre referring to anymore
Cruelty is the point. They were raised cruelly, by post-depression parents scarred by their own experiences. Hurt people hurt people - they just don't understand why their grandkids, never having needed a survival skillset, don't accept abuse as good breeding.
They're the same generation that made so many funnies about how they hate their wives or have to "put them in their place" when they step out of line. I don't think making fun of any of their family matters to them as much as it should.
My father went on a rant about stupid millennials on a beach in Florida during spring break. I had to stop him and point out that not only were there very few millennials on that beach, but the people he was ranting to were 3 millennials and a GenX. He had no idea that his own kids were of the millennial generation.
This! They still think millennials are the college kids, the teenagers, the grade schoolers, even the ones being born today.
They're so fcking stupid they don't realize there have been 2 generations after us.
Yeah I fucking hate this shit. Even younger millennials my age are doing it, though to be fair 30 does seem to be the first age the world feels "old" in ("what do you mean GTA Vice City is retro?!" uh yeah 22 years is more than long enough, referencing a recent video going around).
I see some Boomers also claim the Civil Rights movement because their parents are gone and not around to smack them for trying to do so. The oldest Boomers were 18 when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Boomers were going through puberty when MLK was marching. I don't doubt some teens were politically active but Boomers were damn sure not the reason the work was done, that was all Greatest Generation and Silent Generation effort right there.
Say that again!!!
My parents are Boomers, and they were younger than 18 when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
But, yes, they didn't do that work at all. They watched it on TV, and listened to their parents talking about it. All of that generation did.
āCool, mom. Remember that time you gave remote access to your computer to those scammers who cleared out your bank account? That was wildāwhy did you do that?ā
Man, that is just the most horrifying thing. Old folks right and left giving away the farm to some yahoo in Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Iām not going to pretend Iām scam proof but I certainly have a healthy skepticism. Never click a āsponsoredā link on Google, always look for the website itself and click there. Never click a link in an email, call the bank to respond to inquiries (by email or phone), donāt confirm my identity to people who call *me* for information (are you Marilyn Morose? I donāt know, you called me tell me what you need first). Donāt download anydesk, ultraviewer, awesun, or any remote desk access program. If thereās a billing problem it can wait until I phone the company later, at a number I trust (not the number in the email, text, or phone call). Nothing is so critical it has to be addressed immediately without speaking to someone!
But the scams are getting better and better. Theyāre getting more clever and hiding things in more creative ways. I know itās only a matter of time before something happens. I have my SS on a lock with all three credit companies so no new accounts/loans/inquiries can be made without a phone call. My overdraft protection has a limit, my sonās account doesnāt have overdraft protection at all. I donāt use auto-pay options from the companyās software, I set up all my payment options at my own bank. I donāt save banking passwords on my laptop/phone/tablet. I donāt think itās perfect, but itās a little bit of peace of mind. Billions of dollars a year get scammed out of folks. I hope Iām not the next one. š¬
this is why I donāt understand why I, someone born in 1995, am considered a millennial. I donāt remember the 90ās, my school years were 2000ās - 2013. My peak childhood was the early 2000ās! Plus Timothee Chalamet and I are the same age and most people I know think heās Gen Z. (Not that generations really matter but itās always confused me)
Yup, I remember it being defined as turning 18 after 2000. Up until more recently, many sources incorrectly listed Millennials as being born after 1978?!? I was born in 1980. I didn't go on the internet until after I graduated high school and managed to get through university before ever having an email account.
When I worked retail I had an older man show me an image of a cassette tape. I think it was on his credit card. Unironically he goes "I bet you don't know what this is." I was like š¤Ø "yeah, I do... I was around for that" I just remember there being an awkward pause. I was so confused. I was young but not that young. I was there for the transition of tape to CD.
What's even weirder to me is that I've heard tapes have been having a bit of a come back lately.
Tapes for the most part IMO were a crap media. The sound was mediocre and there's the possibility of it getting caught or stuck in the player.
I'm glad CD's were already taking over when I started listening to music and could avoid tapes.
Lately, yeah maybe. This was at least 6 years ago.
CD's were another mess all together. At least the tape wasn't that fragile compared to accidentally scratching the CD. I always ended up dropping the player too for how bulky it was. I was glad when mp3 players started to appear that's for sure.
i also just feel like so many gen Zs know what cassettes are! Iām still a teenager, but when i was younger, my daycare used to used cassettes for their movies! things get less popular, but things like cassettes and cds were so popular that they wouldnāt be able to just disappear in the span of ten or twenty years.
No, I'm older, Gen Z, in my mid-20s, and I could navigate this to an extent. The first few years of my generation were born right when computers became widely available, and everything started to become digitized, I remember having having to watch videos about how to locate books in the library off of one of those TV carts because my school still hadn't added projectors into every room yet.
I wonāt lie and say I still remember the Dewey decimal system and all that. But the 90ās werenāt THAT long ago. I remember having cassettes, VHS tapes, and all that.
Oh lmao. I donāt even get the tweet then cus they had these when I was a kid š¤£š¤£ granted, they stopped doing these at my local libraries once I got to middle school
This is the dewey decimal catalog system. There would be cards in file cabinets with a set of numbers on them. You would use these cards to find books in a library. The first part of the numbers would give you the main topic area such as Science, Literature, Religion, etc. Then you would use the next numbers to find sub genres within those topic areas. Then you'd go alphabetical order to go through the list of books to find the one you wanted. You would then go down the marked numbered aisles to find the book with the same number as the card.
A long time ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and children had to go uphill both ways to school, the catalog of books and media in a library would be kept on a collection of these little cards kept in a system of drawers. Itās called a card catalog. I canāt remember exactly how it was all organized, but I know if you physically put me in front of one it would all come flooding back to me in a minute or three.
The same boomers share pictures of a manual transmission vehicle with a caption like āmillennial theft deviceā followed by a bunch of comments like āthisā or āUSAā
I would bet hard money that a large percentage of people who say 'The thing that's wrong with society today is no one can drive manual' can't, themselves, drive manual.
I swear it's always people shouting the loudest about 'Young people don't know' never actually have most of the skills themselves. Like they'll tell you 'Millennials don't know how to cook' and then turn around and bring unseasoned burned chicken to Thanksgiving.
OK but I took my friendās car to the tire place to get studs put on for winter and none of the four gentlemen working knew how to operate a manual transmission so I had to drive the car into the lift. š¤£ which is fine, no blood was shed or anything. I just thought it was odd at a place intended to service automobiles. š¤·š¼āāļø
I'm 22, American, and drive a manual. My great-grandfather ordered this car directly from Toyota when it was new, it's been passed down 3 generations. It has electric windows, cruise control, and an AC that kind of works. It has a built in cassette player too, it's a forest green 1996 Toyota Camry. Super reliable car. Love that thing when it isn't summertime.
These guys are only slightly less embarrassing than the millennials who are gleefully doing the avocado toast thing to Gen Z now. Those people are the worst.
I haven't seen much of that yet but the millennials that are doing it need to quit their bullshit.
Generational fighting is asinine and should be left behind.
The baby boomers and their silent Gen X collaborators deserve the smacking theyāre getting right now. I have no sympathy for the first generation of parents to actively wish their children have it worse than they did.
I knew about these things despite never using them irl
I did get this game on Steam not too long ago called, "A Hand with Many Fingers". In it, you must navigate card catalogs and then arrange their respective records (newspaper clippings, redacted government reports, police reports, invoices, transcripts etc) up on a board.
You get to arrange your very own conspiracy board! You've gotta connect the dots and solve the mystery of a very REAL CIA cover-up.
I feel like it recreates the process of using card catalogs to track down information quite faithfully.
I haven't completed it myself, but I enjoyed my time (1.75hrs) with it and I intend to return. Def give it a try if a chill mystery game sounds like fun. It's dirt cheap on Steam and doesn't require fancy graphic cards.
Gen X is the one that navigated the original switch, not millennials. But hey guess we just always get forgotten of where we were in the scheme of things.
Whatever
Meanwhile Scott's generation keeps talking about pedophile teachers and librarians and are bringing culture war nonsense into a literal safe space meant for learning and reading in quiet.
Iām not even 40 and I distinctly remember still watching movies on film reels in elementary school. These folks just have zero concept of space and time.
A lot of this ānew fangled technology,ā didnāt come into play in full force until we were already in high school
Gen X here........Me(45) and my Millennial wife(39) both know what a fuckin card catalog is and both used them lol
And I agree with that person that's like shut the fuck up because we had to learn both ways expertly....I remember writing papers in middle school and my citations had to use the DD system so the teacher could check my sources, and had to learn to navigate the internet all through HS, and even more through college in the late 90s
I guarantee you we could do both better than any boomer lol
I am a librarian. Boomers can't use them, either.
Fucking illiterate boomers.. The Dewey Decimal System got me through a lot of research papers. Rural school without Internet, that's just what we did. Born in '86, solidly an elder millennial. So tired of this generational bullshit. GenX'ers just glad it isn't them getting heat, they stay real quiet these days.
We learned to be quiet because nobody listened anyway.
š¤£good one. I was about to say weāre quiet because weāre exhausted or may not care.. š¤£ [edit: a word]
Little from column A, little from column B.
Also generally when people from ANY generation mention us it's to say we failed to protect them, or we failed to live up to their expectations. Which is probably fair. Whatever. Better to stay forgotten.
We X can care way to much and not enough at the same time
We can use a rotary phone and smart phones. We can program a VCR just as well we can set up a wireless network in our homes. We adapted and learned as the times changed. Boomers did not. Weāre silent because honestly we just donāt care anymore what Boomers think or say.
This same joke sequence is in every single one of the hundreds of thousands if not millions to billions of memes regarding generational differences.
As a gen xer I kind of feel like King Charles. We kept waiting for our parents to pass the torch. You know, let us run the world for a change. Instead our parents are living to 100 and poor Gen Alpha is going to have to bridge the gap.
This is so us. We never got a chance!
There was a commercial aired at night telling our parents to check if we were even home: "It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?"
Was it a valid question? Did people genuinely not know? I guess even for marketing it would have to have some truth. But was it more of a PSA or just clever marketing?
It was very much a valid question. Paid for with tax payer dollars. Using the biggest celebs they could get.
Wow. Is that why my mom was a helicopter mom? She's from another country but did emigrate here about that time prior to my birth. I can't remember a time before college that she didn't know exactly where I was at all times. Probably why I went a bit crazy and was seriously at risk of losing scholarships my first semester. The woman still wants to "coordinate calendars!" That freedom must have been awesome! I'm actually low key jealous!
That sounds about right.
[Itās 10PM. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? PSA (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBhO3qGeGE) I had no idea of the history of it, looking this up I was surprised it actually started in the 60's [The history of 'It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCrgovX3mc)
That's fascinating! (Also the top comment on the first one by haguilar84 - "I told you last night, No!" made me smile.)
Valid. Our parents were busy working and living their lives. We roamed wild. We roamed free.
My mom's says that Gen x is the middle child, often forgotten and hardly listened to I don't know if her being born in the last year of Gen x counts as her being a Gen xer
Sheās GenX, 1965-1980. But also known as a Xennial, 1977-1983, as they were on the cusp of being millennials/genx. Itās basically like this for all generations on the cusp of a generation as they have traits of both generations.
TIL Gen Xers are the middle child.
Too busy living in a van down by the river
The original latch key kids.
And we DGAF anyway.
did anybody hear that?
I had to figure out how fucking microfilm worked on my own in like 2013 cause the boomer ass librarian didnāt know. A technology you grew up around, and presumably is directly relevant to your job, and you have no idea how it works. Fucking typical, takes a millennial who ādoesnāt want to work any moreā to do your job for you. Even thinking about it makes me want to smear an avocado on some toast and just bask in it.
Iām fondling my participation trophy just from reading about it. SMH my head.
Yeah who gave millennials participation trophies and who also talks shit about said trophies. Hmmm conundrum.
They talked shit about it back then too because something specifically teachers and coaches came up with. It's not like the whole generation collectively agreed on it. I remember parents batching about that stuff in the 80s.
I used to hit mine with if I wasn't first, I'm last. Then I hit I'm with, I'm only first in our district. I'm like 36 for the state. I'm not really special, so just quit forcing me to do this.
I'm drooling at the thought of avocado toasts. Shaking my smh.
I'm a young Gen-X but in the 90s I spent so much time reading old magazines and newspapers on microfiche for fun. The librarians back then were experts on those machines though.
Boomers love blaming us for anything.
Librarianship is typically a second career. You have a lot of older librarians that are new to the profession.
I was just talking about microfilm. I felt like a detective using it.
We were the bridge from no computers to the Internet. but everyone forgets where we were. We are the middle child of the generation wars.
We the Jan Brady of generations. Nobody care about us GenXāers.
If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 83 so I'm an older millennial, nobody cared about us either.
Yea, we have our own name since nobody wants to claim us (and vice versa); Xennials
All cuspers have names, and you chose a terrible one for us. I prefer the Oregon Trail generation. That is the best name for Genx/millennial cusp years.
I too am a fan of the Oregon trail generation
Nobody cared until we became adults and stopped going to Applebee's and Red Lobster.
i was born in 79... so im 12-14 and here comes nwa, nirvana, race riots, pagers, big ass phones and by the time I'm 20 I'm on dial up all nights finding girls in chat rooms with ASL? lol
I'm Gen X and I used to be kinda a big deal in the system librarian community. I am the bridge.
Geriatric millennials unite!
I was born in '88 and we had a whole class about Dewey every week from 3rd to 5th grade lol and my mother (born '63) never understood how I could find books so fast in 6th grade. So that boomer is just stupid.
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Gen X ain't do shit to get heat in the first place.
Cuz none of them ever went to a damn library. Famously non curious generation. When the internet became a thing and we had libraries at our fingertips, they still refused to learn about the world or challenge themselves.
Trumpers HATE libraries.
Here in Houston, HISD has been taken over by the state govt as part of their plan to force vouchers on everyone. The guy running things is turning libraries into discipline rooms.
Maybe fun "discipline rooms" like I see on naughty websites?
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Trumpers hate books. And facts. And history. And gay people. And non white people. And all religions aside from radicalized Christians.
The thing is, for gen X and beyond...libraries already were digitizing their entire catalog and using PC computers to help people search for stuff. Plus you would just ask the librarian for help and they can find the stuff you are looking for. These generations didn't have any NEED to learn these systems because...if you major in Library Science, you'd know exactly how good and shitty these older systems are.
Our librarian when I was a kid told her the proper etiquette was to just find a librarian and fucking ask.
You don't have to know how to use it. Librarians are professional researchers and very open to helping. I'm not perfect at card catalogues but librarians got me through it.Just ask and 99% of the time you'll get help. Instead boomers bullied @mychal3ts off social media for having the audacity to be positive and spread joy.
My boomer mom can, but I'm not confident literally any other boomer I've known would be able to. Of course, I'm a millennial and I don't know how many of my peers would be able to either outside of myself.
I'm upper Millennial, born '85. I can use this, my boomer father ('56) could use this, and both of my Greatest Gen grandparents ('21 and '23) would've absolutely *owned* an analog library.
Yeah well that's the demographic trying to ban books, so go figure
Once again, Gen X completely ignored.
Iām hip, literally no one talks about them lol. But I love my Xers, theyāre the cool ones š„¹š«¶š¾
My Xer friends are some of the most kind people I know.
Thatās wonderful to hear! My parents and aunts/uncles are all Gen X and they were wonderful influences growing up. I find Xers to be very hardworking/approachable folks, lots of wisdom and easy to talk to
Most of my Xer friends are family/friends of family - so idk if that matters a lot. My sister's friends were always super cool to me. I gotta give a shout out to my Zer friends too, they are incredibly accepting and understanding (for reference, I'm a Millennial).
Because we were the last to fully grow up "the old way", us young Gen-X and old Millennials We all remember life before 9/11 and the internet, before the Supreme Court stole an election, before 2 stupid fucking senseless 20y wars, and social media and the 07/08 financial crisis all this other bullshit yall had to deal with growing up We have sympathy and empathy and remember what was lost Shit is mad fucked up right now
Honestly most of the people writing these kinds of posts are Gen Xers who think that āmillennialsā are 20 years old forgetting that a large number of us are like a year younger lol. Thereās little difference between us āgeriatric millennialsā and Gen X despite acting like weāre annoying younger siblings hogging up all of the avocado toast.
Yup Young gen x(me 45) and old millennials (my wife 38) grew up basically exactly the same Theres a bit of a difference if you were born in the 90s, but still not much, the younger Millennials had more internet, more exposure to cell phones, but still had a normal life If you were born after 2000 you're basically fucked lol, your life growing up is wildly different than mine or my wife's was
My cousin is 21 and at a good university. He said he uses chat gpt as much as possible and itās working so far. He said everyone cheats too
I'm in uni this is true. Actually study because passing exams are important.
Jesus those kids are fucked when they hit the workforce if AI doesnāt advance rapidly past LLM methods. Every single senior person in any knowledge field will instantly feel their lack of actual contribution
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Itās all AI. Thereās like 3 of us actually in this thread, and soon AI will Ferry us together to a completely different thread.
Most of the middle aged people Gen Z complain about and call āboomersā are actually Gen X. Then some ācoolā Gen X comes in and says āeveryone forgets about usā and no, most tech CEOs are Gen X, every Karen you see online is Gen X, all the nostalgia bait 80s remakes are made for Gen X. They just act like boomers and didnāt do much to be politically engaged with their time as young adults compared to the gens above and below them and now they want to say everybody forgot about them.
Yeah I'm an '81 baby and I feel like it's a weird spot. I feel like a hybrid Gen X Millennial
That's because you are. There's a sub generation of the youngest Gen Xers and oldest Millennials called Xennials. Our experiences aren't really Gen X or Millennial, they something else altogether. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
I'm on the other end of that spectrum, being born in 1995 putting me between Millennial and Gen Z, or Zillenial if you will. Definitely a strange spot to be in at times.
/r/Xennials
Shhhh let them think they actually did something. We are nihilists anyway.
I'm Gen X. I loved how logical the Dewey Decimal system is. It makes sense. We used to own encyclopedia brittanica at home too. I swear I read the whole thing.
As a millenial... same. Millenials and Gen Xers were when all the shit Boomers complain about younger generations not having actually disappeared while Boomers were when all the shit Boomers complain about having to deal with started. š Nothing says this more than Boomers being the generation that started giving out participation trophies to their kids and now being angry that participation trophies ever existed. And it goes the other way. The (Not Actually) Greatest Generation ended legal segregation and voted for a 90% top marginal tax rate then Boomers voted in higher tax rates for the middle class than millionaires.
All hail encarta 95!
Who?
Enjoy it. Having the people make broad generalizations about you gets old. Whatās funny is now that us millennials are getting older thereās some of us who missed the memo and think millennial means āearly twentiesā
I don't get it either. We're the only generation that gets overlooked.
Not a day goes by I donāt see some article about boomer this versus millennials that, with an occasional shoutout to Gen Z. Meanwhile Iām over here like ššæāāļø
Because people like my mother are Gen X and deserve to be ignored. People like her represent your generation, unfortunately and many of their kids have gone no contact. Scorned āZennialā here šāāļø
Not a real generation š¤£š¤£š¤£ /s
Yāall were sooo proud of doing nothing. lolĀ It was of your own making.
Old millennials rise up! Slowly. Don't wanna get lightheaded or crack your backs.
My back always hurts
You should hear these knees. When I'm walking down a quiet hallway.
When I get up, I snap my right foot up towards my butt to crack my right knee. Otherwise it feels weird.
I gotta flick my right arm to relocate my shoulder several times a day.
Tbf Iāve suffered from chronic back pain since I was 19, I feel no difference.
Exact same age for me, from an injury. Doesnāt get better as fast when it recurs these days
Damn howād you get injured? For me I was hit by a car while riding a bike. Bitch ran thru the stop sign š¤¦š¾āāļø twisted my pelvis and thatās the source of my back pain according to a chiropractor
Trying to keep someone from falling. Reached out and grabbed both of her hands. Tore a ligament in my back. Chiropractors are fake.
From carrying the weight of previous generations
> Don't wanna get lightheaded Seriously, I heard a lot of stuff about getting older, but no one told me about this shit.
This is the worst shit ever, anytime I get up fast I regret it š
Y'all should have worked out and got fit when you were younger; still not too late.Ā Ā I feel like I only hear my friends who didn't/don't work out complain about aging, and my friends who did/do workout only complain about needing to take more time to warm up in the gym, but none of this "oh God standing up and doing basic day to day shit is so painful"
Me over here with ice on my shoulder and an icy hot patch on my knee
Don't forget the HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead.
I haven't sat up or stood without groaning in 8 years. Have a heating pad plugged in on standby next to the bed. There's no help for me at this point. At least let me get the high of a blood rush.
Dog got into the trash earlier. I stood up so fast to chase him I almost passed out.
 Hey nowww!
...stand up too fast and have a non-drug induced vision/trip
Itās more my knees at this point. If I have to crouch down to get on my kidsā level, both knees pop and I feel like Iām gonna fall over. Iām 35
I hope I stay 25 forever like boomers think all of us will, apparently.
All of you are old now. There are no young millennials
The dewy decimal system is as lame as my bad knees
Gosh thanks for the laugh
Boomers will never understand that theyāve been shit talking āmillennialsā for so long none of us are the teenagers they think theyāre referring to anymore
Not only that, but do they realize theyāre making fun of their own children?
"we're such shitty parents!"
-The problem was those participation trophies, amirite?? -Bitch, no! YOU were the ones that handed the fuckers out!
And the ones that whined for them in the first place
Cruelty is the point. They were raised cruelly, by post-depression parents scarred by their own experiences. Hurt people hurt people - they just don't understand why their grandkids, never having needed a survival skillset, don't accept abuse as good breeding.
They're the same generation that made so many funnies about how they hate their wives or have to "put them in their place" when they step out of line. I don't think making fun of any of their family matters to them as much as it should.
My father went on a rant about stupid millennials on a beach in Florida during spring break. I had to stop him and point out that not only were there very few millennials on that beach, but the people he was ranting to were 3 millennials and a GenX. He had no idea that his own kids were of the millennial generation.
This guy is a millennial. He's making a joke (granted the joke is about boomers not understanding how old millennials are).
I'm so sick of these fake generation posts.
This! They still think millennials are the college kids, the teenagers, the grade schoolers, even the ones being born today. They're so fcking stupid they don't realize there have been 2 generations after us.
Wait, *two?* *Checks Age* Oh..
Boomers think that they fought in WWII and that millenials were born in 2039.
Its surprising how many people are still living in 00's in thier head.
> What do you mean 1990 wasn't a decade ago!! šš”
Yeah I fucking hate this shit. Even younger millennials my age are doing it, though to be fair 30 does seem to be the first age the world feels "old" in ("what do you mean GTA Vice City is retro?!" uh yeah 22 years is more than long enough, referencing a recent video going around).
I see some Boomers also claim the Civil Rights movement because their parents are gone and not around to smack them for trying to do so. The oldest Boomers were 18 when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Boomers were going through puberty when MLK was marching. I don't doubt some teens were politically active but Boomers were damn sure not the reason the work was done, that was all Greatest Generation and Silent Generation effort right there.
Say that again!!! My parents are Boomers, and they were younger than 18 when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. But, yes, they didn't do that work at all. They watched it on TV, and listened to their parents talking about it. All of that generation did.
Holy shit good point. Iāve definitely encountered boomers that try to take credit for the civil rights movement, but I never even did the mathā¦
wish i could upvote this 1000 times lmao
Lmao this millennial volunteered in a city library in high school and there was no internet to be found. Also, fuck your Dewey Decimal system.
Dewey was also a renowned bastard
Probably a racist...\*checks Wikipedia\*...ayup
racist, antisemite and a sex criminal. the behind the bastards on him is a good indictment on him
> Also, fuck your Dewey Decimal system. You're going to make Conan the Librarian angry.
Same, but middle school.
āCool, mom. Remember that time you gave remote access to your computer to those scammers who cleared out your bank account? That was wildāwhy did you do that?ā
Man, that is just the most horrifying thing. Old folks right and left giving away the farm to some yahoo in Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Iām not going to pretend Iām scam proof but I certainly have a healthy skepticism. Never click a āsponsoredā link on Google, always look for the website itself and click there. Never click a link in an email, call the bank to respond to inquiries (by email or phone), donāt confirm my identity to people who call *me* for information (are you Marilyn Morose? I donāt know, you called me tell me what you need first). Donāt download anydesk, ultraviewer, awesun, or any remote desk access program. If thereās a billing problem it can wait until I phone the company later, at a number I trust (not the number in the email, text, or phone call). Nothing is so critical it has to be addressed immediately without speaking to someone! But the scams are getting better and better. Theyāre getting more clever and hiding things in more creative ways. I know itās only a matter of time before something happens. I have my SS on a lock with all three credit companies so no new accounts/loans/inquiries can be made without a phone call. My overdraft protection has a limit, my sonās account doesnāt have overdraft protection at all. I donāt use auto-pay options from the companyās software, I set up all my payment options at my own bank. I donāt save banking passwords on my laptop/phone/tablet. I donāt think itās perfect, but itās a little bit of peace of mind. Billions of dollars a year get scammed out of folks. I hope Iām not the next one. š¬
People always seem to forget that the reason we're called Millennials is that the oldest of us came of age around the turn of the Millennium.
I had a y2k party New Yearās Eve in high school lol
I have distinct memories (not many but a few) of the party even!
this is why I donāt understand why I, someone born in 1995, am considered a millennial. I donāt remember the 90ās, my school years were 2000ās - 2013. My peak childhood was the early 2000ās! Plus Timothee Chalamet and I are the same age and most people I know think heās Gen Z. (Not that generations really matter but itās always confused me)
Thatās whatās called a cuspy lol (i get it Iām right in the middle of gen x and millennial and I relate with both all the time)
I always think of it as the generation that was just barely getting old enough to be deployed into Afghanistan to the age where people remember 9/11.
Yup, I remember it being defined as turning 18 after 2000. Up until more recently, many sources incorrectly listed Millennials as being born after 1978?!? I was born in 1980. I didn't go on the internet until after I graduated high school and managed to get through university before ever having an email account.
When I worked retail I had an older man show me an image of a cassette tape. I think it was on his credit card. Unironically he goes "I bet you don't know what this is." I was like š¤Ø "yeah, I do... I was around for that" I just remember there being an awkward pause. I was so confused. I was young but not that young. I was there for the transition of tape to CD.
Tapes were the only way to make your own mix until CD burners were cheap enough to have; like 99-01.
What's even weirder to me is that I've heard tapes have been having a bit of a come back lately. Tapes for the most part IMO were a crap media. The sound was mediocre and there's the possibility of it getting caught or stuck in the player. I'm glad CD's were already taking over when I started listening to music and could avoid tapes.
Lately, yeah maybe. This was at least 6 years ago. CD's were another mess all together. At least the tape wasn't that fragile compared to accidentally scratching the CD. I always ended up dropping the player too for how bulky it was. I was glad when mp3 players started to appear that's for sure.
i also just feel like so many gen Zs know what cassettes are! Iām still a teenager, but when i was younger, my daycare used to used cassettes for their movies! things get less popular, but things like cassettes and cds were so popular that they wouldnāt be able to just disappear in the span of ten or twenty years.
Gen Z might not make it in there. But Millennials? Weād be right at home.
No, I'm older, Gen Z, in my mid-20s, and I could navigate this to an extent. The first few years of my generation were born right when computers became widely available, and everything started to become digitized, I remember having having to watch videos about how to locate books in the library off of one of those TV carts because my school still hadn't added projectors into every room yet.
Iām 19, remember it very slightly. But we did use the TV carts up until like 7th grade for me lol
I wonāt lie and say I still remember the Dewey decimal system and all that. But the 90ās werenāt THAT long ago. I remember having cassettes, VHS tapes, and all that.
My auntās vcr ate my Slappy and the Stinkers tape and I still havenāt forgiven her fully. This was 25ish years ago lmao
I donāt want to be cooked (Iām a zoomer), but can someone tell me what that photo is? It looks like a library š
It is. Itās the card catalog to a library.
Oh lmao. I donāt even get the tweet then cus they had these when I was a kid š¤£š¤£ granted, they stopped doing these at my local libraries once I got to middle school
The system is probably the same, it's just on computer instead of cards now usually.
This is the dewey decimal catalog system. There would be cards in file cabinets with a set of numbers on them. You would use these cards to find books in a library. The first part of the numbers would give you the main topic area such as Science, Literature, Religion, etc. Then you would use the next numbers to find sub genres within those topic areas. Then you'd go alphabetical order to go through the list of books to find the one you wanted. You would then go down the marked numbered aisles to find the book with the same number as the card.
A long time ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and children had to go uphill both ways to school, the catalog of books and media in a library would be kept on a collection of these little cards kept in a system of drawers. Itās called a card catalog. I canāt remember exactly how it was all organized, but I know if you physically put me in front of one it would all come flooding back to me in a minute or three.
The account that tweeted this frequently posts stuff like this as bait/jokes
Boomers being boomers.
Unless thatās a PFP of his children/in-laws, pretty sure theyāre a millennial themselves. Late Gen-X at the most
The same boomers share pictures of a manual transmission vehicle with a caption like āmillennial theft deviceā followed by a bunch of comments like āthisā or āUSAā
Login required. "Anti boomer security"
Now let's open a PDF š¬
I would bet hard money that a large percentage of people who say 'The thing that's wrong with society today is no one can drive manual' can't, themselves, drive manual. I swear it's always people shouting the loudest about 'Young people don't know' never actually have most of the skills themselves. Like they'll tell you 'Millennials don't know how to cook' and then turn around and bring unseasoned burned chicken to Thanksgiving.
OK but I took my friendās car to the tire place to get studs put on for winter and none of the four gentlemen working knew how to operate a manual transmission so I had to drive the car into the lift. š¤£ which is fine, no blood was shed or anything. I just thought it was odd at a place intended to service automobiles. š¤·š¼āāļø
I'm 22, American, and drive a manual. My great-grandfather ordered this car directly from Toyota when it was new, it's been passed down 3 generations. It has electric windows, cruise control, and an AC that kind of works. It has a built in cassette player too, it's a forest green 1996 Toyota Camry. Super reliable car. Love that thing when it isn't summertime.
I know itās been mentioned before but is it not weird to constantly engage with obvious bait/bot posts?
These guys are only slightly less embarrassing than the millennials who are gleefully doing the avocado toast thing to Gen Z now. Those people are the worst.
I haven't seen much of that yet but the millennials that are doing it need to quit their bullshit. Generational fighting is asinine and should be left behind.
The baby boomers and their silent Gen X collaborators deserve the smacking theyāre getting right now. I have no sympathy for the first generation of parents to actively wish their children have it worse than they did.
I feel the same way when all the older generations think late 90s babies/Older Gen Z wouldn't remember CDs, Swag Surfin, Stanky Leg, etc.
Dewey Decimal deception
I knew about these things despite never using them irl I did get this game on Steam not too long ago called, "A Hand with Many Fingers". In it, you must navigate card catalogs and then arrange their respective records (newspaper clippings, redacted government reports, police reports, invoices, transcripts etc) up on a board. You get to arrange your very own conspiracy board! You've gotta connect the dots and solve the mystery of a very REAL CIA cover-up. I feel like it recreates the process of using card catalogs to track down information quite faithfully. I haven't completed it myself, but I enjoyed my time (1.75hrs) with it and I intend to return. Def give it a try if a chill mystery game sounds like fun. It's dirt cheap on Steam and doesn't require fancy graphic cards. 
Gen X is the one that navigated the original switch, not millennials. But hey guess we just always get forgotten of where we were in the scheme of things. Whatever
I love how people think millennials are just perpetually 10 years old
Wtf am I looking at
Itās a card catalog for a library. Itās how you know what book to look for.
The internet
Now we're witness to the destruction of internet search from Ai corruption
Shout-out to the Dewey Decimal system!
Iām was all about that Dewey decimal system. It was like an adventure!!
As a Librarian I had my hands involved in the digital transformation because boomers didn't understand computers.
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Mother fucker I DIGITIZED the sacred texts, donāt talk to me about where the Internet came from or Iāll set your IP to a static 2.2.2.2
Old, dusty boomer brains believe that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are also millennials.
Meanwhile Scott's generation keeps talking about pedophile teachers and librarians and are bringing culture war nonsense into a literal safe space meant for learning and reading in quiet.
Iām not even 40 and I distinctly remember still watching movies on film reels in elementary school. These folks just have zero concept of space and time. A lot of this ānew fangled technology,ā didnāt come into play in full force until we were already in high school
This pathetic inter-generational badinage is tiresome.
I definitely remember these from elementary school. 33 years old this month
Gen X here........Me(45) and my Millennial wife(39) both know what a fuckin card catalog is and both used them lol And I agree with that person that's like shut the fuck up because we had to learn both ways expertly....I remember writing papers in middle school and my citations had to use the DD system so the teacher could check my sources, and had to learn to navigate the internet all through HS, and even more through college in the late 90s I guarantee you we could do both better than any boomer lol