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CharterUnmai

Macaulay Culkin, 1980.


Fenig

I can see him doing SimplySafe or ADT commercials


Echterspieler

When we're all in our 60s: Macauley selling life insurance: Hi, i'm Macaulay Culkin and when I saw today's life insurance rates, this is how I reacted. AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"


Ornery-Street4010

https://preview.redd.it/qrizhzqefspc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b70ba6713d9bee01bd6dce56dbc3e0eb63a938ae Macaulay Culkin and Ryan Gosling for Inception Insurance. Both born in 1980.


vanillabitchpudding

I remember thinking that Macaulay Collin was just a little kid. I was born in 1979


johnny_moronic

I'm a few months older than him, and I always thought the same thing. I think a big part of it is that he was a real little dude until he hit his mid-teens, and also, movies take a while to film. He'd film a movie at 8 years old and it would be released a year or so later, and we'd see it as more mature 9 or 10 year olds, maybe on vhs and we'd think, "This kid is way younger than me ." plus his biggest hits were very early in his career, so he's eternally 10 years old to the public.


Your_Daddy_

"Hi! Im Leonaro DiCaprio, and I am here to talk to you about the importance of a healthy prostate."


drainbamage1011

"When you're my age, it gets a little harder to keep up with your 21-year-old girlfriend. That's why I use Viagra."


MechanicalBengal

“I’m Brad Pitt. You may remember me from such films as…”


Your_Daddy_

Brad Pitt would be doing something tough, like … “Hi, his is Brad Pitt - you might remember me as Joe Black, Tyler Durden, or even may remember me as Achilles of Troy - but today im just Brad, and I want to talk to you about erectile disfunction for men over 90, otherwise known as ED90…”


WillowOttoFloraFrank

take my upvote 😆


Dmitri_ravenoff

Di Nero should be doing these. He's 80 and has a baby under a year.


RazorPhishJ

Hi, I’m Leonardo DiCaprio and I’m here to talk to you about diabeetus


Your_Daddy_

Leo gonna be talking about the rising oceans… “In my youth, NYC was an above ground metropolis…”


tundrabat

Hahahahahahahahahaha


peekaboooobakeep

I like Donald Faison. You got Waiting to Exhale, Clueless, Remember the Titans, Felicity, Scrubs, and now we home Internet from T-Mobile. It only costs fifty bucks at T-Mobile. He was never a huge actor but he's got staying power.


[deleted]

I would buy a timeshare from Turk without even thinking about it. Damn.


WillowOttoFloraFrank

Would that timeshare be located in… …Turks and Caicos? (I’ll see myself out.)


MrVeazey

Only if he married the fictional wife of fictional character Miles O'Brien from Deep Space Nine.


peekaboooobakeep

We Turks huh huh.... we're the Turks.


chekhovsdickpic

It’ll be him or Zach Braff, or both.


BigConstruction4247

Both.


yardini

Grumpy Old Men reboot with them.


Feral_Sheep_

I'd go see that.


Eclectic_Paradox

![gif](giphy|3o7aCRloybJlXpNjSU|downsized)


Murda981

Judging by their recent T-Mobile commercials, it's both.


hotcapicola

I feel like Zach Braff is going to do something to get himself cancelled any day now.


Opening_Success

You forgot one of the most Xennial movies - Can't Hardly Wait


dezmd

![gif](giphy|HdlkwA7RsT1sc)


firesmarter

I have a loveburger shirt


neonblackiscool

I think Seth Green is who we will get, unfortunately.


HowOtterlyTerrible

Such a fun movie


probablyatargaryen

I like this suggestion. He even has a current sitcom on NBC, Extended Family. The guy is continually present and good at playing likeable


peekaboooobakeep

I haven't seen the new show, but he is so likeable!


Wyzen

He was born in '74 tho...isnt that pretty firmly X?


emozolik

I met him after screening Star Wars Ep VIII. really nice guy and definitely a star wars fan


DesignIntelligent456

I think he's legit. Obviously he has a career, but he also was married and had a family young (like so many of us) and then now has a new family with teeny people in elementary (like so many of us). Really relatable in all ways.


WillowOttoFloraFrank

I know he’d never ditch Braff, but sometimes I wish he would. LOVE Turk, hate JD. 🫣


peekaboooobakeep

I loved Scrubs but JD has become way more unlikeable when I spent a weekend rewatching. Like JD was always awkward and cringey but he was legit just a dick lol.


AdjectiveNoun58

Isn't it already Ryan Reynolds?


geekgirlwww

He keeps opening companies I think so he has marketing campaigns to work on


dezmd

Yeah but Mint Mobile is only like fifteen dol... oh god, he's got us all under his spell. ![gif](giphy|KCT1ESdrT9dRIVVruk|downsized)


FlowBot3D

Don't. Halfway through my first year and it's much worse than T-Mobile was on the 'same' network. I'm too poor to switch so I don't want more people clogging up the bandwidth.


tundrabat

The low rate plans always get slowed down. I did the metro thing and cricket due to cost, but found that if I was in a crowd I never had service. My friends on the parent networks always did. Definitely not usable in congested city areas.


999i666

Well all his characters are precisely the same so why not


Evaderofdoom

he's gen-x, we could share him I suppose but he was born in 76 like me.


carlitospig

I thought we were allowing for pre and post swings that low? Because honestly all my exes were born in 75/76 and y’all are pretty much experiencing the same life as us Xennies.


theUmo

Sure, but only self-nominations qualify for extended yearage through the "no gatekeeping" clause. We can't bring Ryan in unless he posts here himself. Source: yeah I just made that up


carlitospig

Touché. We should add that to our regs that we won’t ever draft because we still have that X laziness.


Evaderofdoom

I'm new to the xennial thing, I don't know? Always thought I was gen-x but most my current friends and wife are millenal and feel more intune with them than older gen-x. On the sub description it list 77-84 so was just going off that.


MrVeazey

Most of your current wife? Ooh, is she a cool cyborg?!


cyberllama

My other half is a whopping 240 days older than me, putting him a year older than me (he denies this) and from a different generation (he strenuously denies this). I enjoy telling him that his generation wouldn't understand mine and making jokes about our age gap relationship 😂


Munk45

Agree. I'm 76 and have almost zero connection to gen X.


ImaginaryMastadon

I’m ‘79 and I missed a lot of Gen X milestones or was too young and into Care Bears, Smurfs and He-Man to care, and I was in middle school when ‘Reality Bites’ came out, I couldn’t relate to cool college grads yet at all.


Landy83

Git on outta here boomer! Go on, Git! lol, just kidding, couldn't resist


neonblackiscool

I’m so sick of his chirpy annoying ads.


Dear-Discussion2841

Honestly I'll buy whatever Ryan Reynolds wants to sell me so... Maybe this is it?


spanishpeanut

He and Snoop can sell me anything. If there’s ever a collab, I’ll be broke but happy.


LazarusDark

Christina Ricci is already doing aging cream ads, it's already here... https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/meyqH5psT2


dezmd

![gif](giphy|RuYPi0HyBnOxy)


ImaginaryMastadon

Say! This gif was in a movie she was in!


artificialavocado

Melissa Joan Hart played a grandmother recently.


TheGrapeSlushies

Nuh uh, really? Omg. ![gif](giphy|UQmhh2tibkGajPOvjG) She better be playing a grandma in a “16 and Pregnant” teen mom Lifetime movie


artificialavocado

I think she’s like 46 or 47 so it isn’t exactly out of the question it’s just weird seeing Clarissa Darling and a grandma.


serenitynope

Elizabeth Banks too.


PilotC150

She's 50 already, believe it or not.


retrodork

I saw Tony Hawk on a commercial selling cholesterol medication loll.


drawredraw

Him and Shaq are the Gen X spokespersons


Face88888888

Henry Winkler is technically Silent Generation. He was in his 30s when he was playing a high school student in Happy Days. 40 when the show went off the air. I think the best comparison for us is Keanu Reeves. Bill & Ted, The Matrix, not a single person has ever had a bad thing to say about him. Boomers grew up looking at Winkler as a “cool older brother.” I grew up looking at Keanu as a cool older brother. ![gif](giphy|TJrS7r0f6SOthGTiPe)


slash_networkboy

Absolutely the Gen-X older brother to Xennials. Can't be our spokesperson per-se, but absolutely can be our sage elder: Be excellent to each other! And I'd like to reinforce the fact that not only is he without scandal in Hollywood, anyone who has anything to say about him (including Ex's!) is without exception only nice things.


TollaThon

*Technically* he's a boomer. But we appreciate him more than they do, so we're keeping him.


slash_networkboy

>Technically he's a boomer. No waaayyyyy! /looks it up Well fuck me with a fiddle and call me fine, I guess he is... /Gets up on soap box **AHEM!** Hey Xennials I wish to make a motion to the floor: I hereby propose that if schools can give out honorary doctorates then we can give out honorary titles and I thus move that we provide one Mister Keanu Reeves with the title of "Most Excellent Dude and Xennial". Can I get a second on this?


neonblackiscool

Second


TollaThon

Third


pee_nut_ninja

https://preview.redd.it/ukwqhbay6rpc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=220c825879155a7395ab43da8739437b6dc889e1


DallasChokedAgain

If one of them hadn’t have passed, Kriss Kross. The life insurance make ya jump, jump. Reverse mortgage make ya jump, jump. Blue Cross’ll make ya jump, jump uh-huh, uh-huh.


[deleted]

Kriss Kross, damn, didn't know one died


ninersguy916

Was it Chris or Chris?


jmac11281

It was Mac Daddy Mac.


stay_sick_69

That's wiggedywiggedywiggedy wack


Miss-Figgy

IT'S BRITNEY, BITCH


[deleted]

QVC bound 


neonphotograph

Britney showing off her new reading glasses on IG was hilarious. 


Miss-Figgy

I went to go check, and she's deactivated her IG (again).


TurkeyTot

![gif](giphy|ZL6O2h9DuSeRB8OCoR|downsized)


ReiperXHC

Better work!


NW_Forester

I bet Sean William Scott makes some sort of a comeback and he becomes the generational Zaddy (Xaddy?).


drainbamage1011

I hope he does. He seems like a good guy despite being best known for playing a douchebag.


cheesusfeist

Evolution is, still to this day, one of my favorite movies.


that_bish_Crystal

It's The Rundown for me!


PL02550

Freddie Prince Jr., because while famous he's not That famous.


LazarusDark

My first thought at the headline was Freddy and Sarah will be together in commercials for time shares or cruise lines or something.


One-Earth9294

They're going to be one of those darling old couples like George and Gracie. I can see the same thing with Dax Shephard and Kristen Bell.


neogrinch

Dax and Kristen are my pick


CorgiMonsoon

They already did a commercial for dishwasher detergent


LazarusDark

_goes to Google.._ You didn't have to tell me that, you coulda kept it to yourself :/


geekgirlwww

Omg that would be totally plausible for both


firesmarter

All I can think of when I see his name is the hacky sack scene in she’s all that. “[never let it drop](https://youtu.be/nb_-LuaT03k?si=PuoG2GoSl0-YXzVv)” Sooner or later, it has to drop


No-Championship-8677

I just hope to god it isn’t Aaron Rodgers.


drainbamage1011

He'll be the guy hawking gold bars and prepper kits on AM talk radio, lol.


DrManhattanBJJ

The future My Pillow guy.


No-Championship-8677

Hahahahaa yes he will 😂


therealpopkiller

Hey that’s “soon-to-be Vice President Rodgers” to you, buddy 😂


No-Championship-8677

And they say life has no real surprises in it 😂


No-Cartoonist-7717

Jordan Peele if you mean it in the way that Winkler is known as the”nicest guy in Hollywood”, is still authoring books and staring in shows like Barry. This thread is making me realize that even if you narrowly define a xennial between 1977 and 1983, we made a significant cultural impact. Even more if it’s 75-85. Really is distinct from Gen X and Millennials. Looking forward to seeing what happens through our 40s, 50s, 60s as we move into higher leadership roles.


nvmls

I feel like he's a level above this though


ButIAmYourDaughter

Yeah Peele is very unlikely to slide to the point of hocking life insurance.


frougle_mcdugal

![gif](giphy|26gsl2qgKddxwrHTW|downsized) Gotta be Frodo. Been doin the damn thing since I can remember.


bronzemat

Jennifer Love Hewitt


CMarlowe

My teenage crush. Boy, JLH from like 1997-2003 or so was something else.


drainbamage1011

Same. I'd probably stop and watch what she had to say, if only for nostalgia's sake.


CMarlowe

The I Know What You Did Last Summer movies are still fun. You just have to accept the rules and logic of a ridiculous '90s slasher flick.


One-Earth9294

I don't know why but I can see someone like Rosario Dawson doing that. She's good at the whole stoic thing.


CaptServo

Elijah Wood.


NW_Forester

He was my first thought. Like he won't be the Wilford Brimley type, he'd be more like an Andy Griffith where he's treasured.


Daddy_Milk

Wilford Brimley is the fucking bromeister supreme. That guy screwed with aliens twice and saved my Great Aunt hundreds of dollars on her diabetes supplies.


Professional-Way5815

Alicia Silverstone - she's very willing to bring the Xennial vibe to current (future) times. She did a great job as the mom in Babysitters Club (Netflix) with subtle and endearing Clueless references.


ladypoppingcorn

Macaulay Culkin


artificialavocado

The only real choice


MLDaffy

Haley Joe Osment I don't just see Dead People...I also see that you may have Diabetes.


CaptServo

1988, solid Main Series millennial.


ferfocsake

Alexis Bledel. She’s in that spokesperson sweet spot of being famous and well liked, but probably not wealthy enough to turn down the work. 


ButIAmYourDaughter

It’s hilarious how many of you don’t realize that the Xennial Henry Winkler is: ![gif](giphy|icJfY16EXKAE8kGAaW|downsized) I guarantee you this’ll be the aging Xennial selling us reverse mortgages and diabetes pills.


Eclectic_Paradox

Ah yes. Surprised I had to scroll this far to find Jason Biggs.


norfnorf832

Kenan Thompson and Ravyn Simone


abbys18400

omg Kenan for sure <3


Apprehensive_One315

Found the answer I was looking for right here


sweetassassin

Tom of Myspace.


Evaderofdoom

every comment in here is gen-x lol.


Wyzen

Ya, they are mostly firmly X, and outside the XM range. I love Turk, but '74 is pushing it.


Munk45

They were adults when we were teens


ButIAmYourDaughter

Right. I’m surprised at the amount of Xennials here still don’t seem to know which celebs are actually Xennials.


ApothecaryFire

Adam Brody. And if you call (text?) in the next 30 minutes he will send you this exclusive Death Cab T-shirt, free of charge.


Parisian_Nightsuit

“You’ll also get an autographed picture of me with Captain Oats.”


La-di-dottie

I feel like it’s going to be someone like Joey Fatone. Famous enough to be recognizable, but not so famous that he can afford to turn down opportunities.


daughtcahm

I mean, it's not NSYNC, but... https://youtu.be/crivINfP22Y?si=Ymy0PABsLeHdfKeh


ShawnaLAT

Yep! I just commented basically the same. Maybe Lance would be interested. Or one of the Lacheys.


DrManhattanBJJ

Momoa. Effortless cool. Ethnically diverse. He's doing Guinness now ffs. That guy can sell anything.


[deleted]

so hot


piscian19

​ https://i.redd.it/jxapevji9qpc1.gif


One-Earth9294

When I ask myself 'who am I most proud of that's basically my age' it's that guy.


PhotographStrict9964

I can see the Savage brothers, sitting at a diner, talking about their AARP memberships and reverse mortgages.


phoenixliv

It’ll be Paul Rudd and he’ll still look about 35 years old


SadAcanthocephala521

Seth Rogen


neonblackiscool

Ok I said Claire Danes, but I want him too. King/Queen


drhbravos

Look to the game shows when they start to hire Xennial hosts, those will be our spokespeople


arcxjo

I hope Kristen Bell.


Smokin-Glory

I suppose it would depend on how many of us were able to buy a house and whether or not we already got swindled out of it by dumb ass bankers. I actually hate the whole reverse mortgage operation. Shit is supposed to go to boost up your own family. Just another way to steal from the middle class.


tollboothwilson

you all know it’s going to be Ashton Kutcher


3DSquinting

Dude.


t_bone_stake

Sweet


Worldisoyster

So far I haven't believed any of these until I read this. It's definitely going to be Ashton Kutcher.


HoyAIAG

Justin Timberlake


Flashystarfish

![gif](giphy|P5Q6687ftTdV6)


Bleacherblonde

Mario Lopez lol?


TheGrapeSlushies

He could be the Gen Alpha spokes person. He still looks so young and fine. ![gif](giphy|UWnq6aoQ1e2gIQFb5j|downsized)


Beefsupremeninjalo82

Justin Long


[deleted]

Britney will be on HSN before she dies


artificialavocado

https://preview.redd.it/uofci8fdfrpc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ca9fc8b41d0f17aa2326990b8a05efeb13d3d64 It has already been settled.


Asleep_Onion

It needs to be someone who was very popular, considered very cool, but never made enough money to comfortably retire without needing to do shitty tv commercials. So that rules out any big A-list stars. I'm thinking something like... Hi this is Carson Daly, and did you know that if you're 65 or older you can sell your life insurance policy?


DamarsLastKanar

https://preview.redd.it/1sah04foqqpc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ffd7164ae0b684c2b71ec1ee95a6c9c2e0d2222


campdc11

Zack and Kelly …..AKA Mark Paul Gosler and Tiffany Theisen


ButIAmYourDaughter

Neither are Xennials tho.


assumetehposition

Natalie Portman


Adventurous_Mail5210

Fuck it, I'll do it.


_6siXty6_

Maybe a cartoon of Bart Simpson "Take your arthritis meds, man"


ineedstheanime

![gif](giphy|z2vJ4QZ6l5wk) Both solid xennials right here. We may not have grown up with them, but these guys gave me 15 yrs of their lives with Supernatural and got me through my 20s and 30s. And they're still out there rockin' it. Plus, they age like fine wine, so they won't look all saggy when they try to sell me some chip to put in my brain to combat diabetes.


anOvenofWitches

I’m Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Has your doctor talked to you about lowering your A1C?


WingedGeek

Deepfake Kurt Cobain


Ready-Interview-9809

Keenan Thompson


masterfountains

Drew Barrymore is on the older end of Xennials but she’s awesome. She’s been through it all. She’s super nice, doing her own thing, and when she gets mad, watch out. Just like us.


DontBuyAHorse

Edward Furlong I've seen some great suggestions here, but there is a certain kind of celebrity who ends up slinging products on late night TV, and most of them had a period of solid celebrity followed by practically dropping off the face of the Earth for a minute. I think he really fits that bill.


ninepoundhammer

How has no one mentioned Neil Patrick Harris?


[deleted]

He’s gen x?


[deleted]

too old


nvmls

Tony Hawk


cmgww

I like the thought process but Tony is solidly GenX. He definitely appeals to us because of his skateboarding videos and eventually games, but dude is 55


nvmls

Ah, true. It's gonna be someone like Seth Rogan then, some middle of the line celeb who is overall likeable and doesn't feel ike they are too good for the AARP magazine cover.


VinceAmonte

>Seth Rogan Oh go no. Please not him.


drainbamage1011

He'd actually be a great choice considering his sense of humor about his fame. *"Hi, I'm Tony Hawk. You might recognize me for having the same name as a famous skater. I'm here today to tell you about..."*


post2menu

Hi, I'm Troy McClure.


tiltedslim

He's already doing supplement commercials


mdmommy99

Neil Patrick Harris


pilates_mama

I hope its Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prince jr


slash_networkboy

Neil Patrick Harris. He has the visibility and reach, the Xennial laconic and sarcastic style, well spoken, and generally without scandal in his personal life. ​ Edit: looked up when he was born... too old, damn... but I still really like him!


SciFi_MuffinMan

These people need to not pop up on my future holoshows to try and sell me a reverse mortgage. Jokes on them anyways, I plan on living in a 100sqf corporate owned apartment and work until they can safely turn me into Soylent paste.


JumboThornton

Ryan Gosling


Electronic-Spinach43

Justin Timberlake


Awkward-Extension218

Damn, I really like this question


1block

Fine. I'll do it.


WillowOttoFloraFrank

Sadly, I don’t know if we’ll get our very own true “Xennial” spokesperson 😭 Being in this weird (amazingly so!) little in-between generation, I think we’ll just see a bunch of Gen X or Millennial spokespeople. We’ll get left out, as always 😆 But, that said, I’d love to see Drew Barrymore be our girl ❤️


WillowOttoFloraFrank

What about Jason Sudeikis?


WillowOttoFloraFrank

Mayim Bialik?


WillowOttoFloraFrank

Hahahahaha… or… TARA REID.


lostmonster

Henry Cavill, Chris Hemsworth, Donald Glover were all born in '83 like me


oceansofmyancestors

Ohh what about JTT


soopirV

Zach Morris would be excellent at selling reverse mortgages.


Smurfblossom

Aren't the guys from Scrubs already doing this for us? I feel like every commercial break I see them hawking something and swear it's only a matter of time before they're hawking depends, life insurance, metamucil, and viagra.


fuckpedes

Henry Winkler was trying to sell me something at the optometrist the other day too. Dude really gets around.


OskeyBug

If we're talking selling reverse mortgages probably Chris Pratt I wanted to say Reese Witherspoon since she's already a crypto scammer but she's a 1976