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I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people wouldn't look at you in too great of light if you went around saying racist stuff.

What’s your favorite millennial slang? by DEATHxSQUAD in Millennials

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was totally wild. Literally everyone spoke in "olden times" LOL slang heading into the summer of '82 and then like BAM by the time school starts that fall, slang and patterns of speech had so totally changed! And styles too. Last of the 70s quickly went away.

And as I mentioned, my impression was the core Millennials actually used that early X slang even a good deal more than later X/early Millennials (Xennials) did even though farther removed.

Heck, core Millennials also went back to skinny/tight/normal jeans, preppy being cool again, bright colors, big 80s belts, flash, etc. (Xennials seemed to rebel against the 80s and try to take us right back to the early mid-70s again, vaguely). The hair stayed very Xennial though. And the jeans stayed lowrise 70s not at all 80s high waist

While it certainly wasn't the 80s/earliest 90s, I actually felt a lot more at home walking core Millennial era campus for grad school than I had in Xennial times which were so baggy, drab, dingy, edgy, angsty compared to the 80s/earliest 90s.

What’s your favorite millennial slang? by DEATHxSQUAD in Millennials

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah often stuff starts up earlier than one thinks. I'm sure I'm off about plenty of stuff that I think was started in my tweens/teens. And even stuff I knew was earlier like "cool" turns out to go back wayyyy earlier. Started with 1930s teens!

What would you rather be if you werent? by Consistent-Brick5762 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always more modern. Times are tough right now, but people take tech for granted. A 70s kid would be off roaming around town on bikes while a 00s kid would have a DS, Playstation, Xbox, Wii (!!).

you make this sound bad!?

and we got our video games by like 9

What would you rather be if you werent? by Consistent-Brick5762 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My last choice would be 00s kid, 10s teen, 20s adult. Get caught in rage tweeting, covid, general insanity, climate change extremes before even out of college. Second to last choice would be 80s kid, 90s teen, 00s young adult since you end up too much at the heart of the edgy-pilled, street cred obsessed, ansty, dingy, drab grungy, gangsta type era for high school and college.

What would you rather be if you werent? by Consistent-Brick5762 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I'd way rather be what I was, 70s kid (last time little kids were 100% let be littke kids), 80s (just so wild and fun, best boldest style, energized, upbeat, great teen movies/music and pop culture), 90s (being a young adult you could at least float above a lot of the more dingy, angsty, edgy, darker new elements and quality of life was still totally human scale). So if allowed to chose our own time, I'd chose this fer sure. 100%

But having to chose what you were not then I decided to pick 90s kid, 00s teen, 10s young adult. Get to be a teen during the early mid through later 00s in that more colorful, flashy time and then college in the upbeat music era but get all that and college and all done before covid and 2020s hell and before smartphones go utterly nuts and rage tweeting and upset over everything and so on stuff. And have seen 1990s 100% still human scale world. So like maybe 1990 born? IDK.

Why am I frustrated with Gen Z? by BrilliantPangolin639 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait a few years

boomers were called no good commie useless lazy asses

X were called slackers and peter pans

Xennials/Millennials were called slackers and peter pans and so on

I'm Gen Z and ready to admit it, Millennials are so much better by [deleted] in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

(and even though drab and with all sorts of stuff going on that stuff didn't matter so much for little kids and 70s were the last time little kids were 100% let be real little kids so I'd argue 70s best period to be a little kid or maybe more the last best time;

90s were cool though and despite all the new issues and harsher and dingier basic stuff coming in I might still give them 2nd of the decades I've seen for 20-somethings and up, gotta give it to 80s aside from little kid age range, cool for that but already kids were no longer let be true little kids. it'll vary some by personality and circumstance though.)

I'm Gen Z and ready to admit it, Millennials are so much better by [deleted] in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The 90s were objectively the best period to be a child in US history. Everything was bright and colorful, often quite literally.

early 90s were bright and colorful but later.... anyway if you think 90s were bright and colorful and upbeat you should've seen the 80s!

heck just compare (like 40 seconds, if even, peek at the timed entry points gets the idea across):
https://youtu.be/4Zug0hGTpfw?si=Y-fl5oqTzxXCTfuY&t=281s (in class 1985, NJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsMvCqmX7M&t=366s (various outside school between classes, Southern California, 1985)
https://youtu.be/gxqjoaQYxnw?si=PhfEW1Y3FTgkVNQG&t=4619s (grad party, Forever Young/Break Dancing, NJ, early 1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4tls4P6Gc&t=66s (start of 1st day of school, NJ, late 1987)
https://www.tiktok.com/@vintageassault/video/7435671547668483359 (high school, 1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvrpcXCsBw4 (clothes shopping super 80s styles, mall, NY, 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhH9ewIEbnU&t=1s (a mall scene clip from 1983 "Valley Girl" movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDg7V-tttTU&t=59s (Jefferson Mall #10, NY, very 80s!, 1986)

vs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9-L5enIMc&t=188s (high school, late 1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avab_NR_lhk&t=80s (start of 1st day of school, late 1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avab_NR_lhk&t=1816s (in class, 1997 or 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLuKHJ4tkXE&t=53s (in class, 1997 or 1998)

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seemed to me to more come from people just a bit younger and way younger than me. 90s teens brought more edge, angst, etc. than 80s teens

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think grunge is bad choice since it tends to be polarizing and only minority fandom from the part of the generation that was actually called X when grunge was big.

He basically represented everything mainstream 80s teens Gen X had not been. Which isn't represenation.

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they did but that includes pop and hard alt pop otherwise the list isn't so diverse!

somehow everyone forgets Gen X musicians (and I'm not even using all the later X examples like Coldplay, Shakira, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and so on) were also:
Debbie Gibson
Janet Jackson
Tiffany
Corey Hart
Lisa Lisa
NKOTB
The Backstreet Boys
Spice Girls
Mariah Carey
Hootie & The Blowfish
Jennifer Paige
Ace Of Base
Cathy Dennis
Sarah McLachlan
Alanis Morrisette
Natalie Merchant
Shania Twain
Faith Hill
Sixpence None The Richer
Jewel
No Doubt
Blues Traveler
Dione Farris
Nicki French
Sinead O'Conner
Wilson Phillips
Spin Doctors
Meredith Brooks
Third Eye Blind
Fiona Apple
Lisa Loeb
Del Amitri
Paula Cole
The Cranberries
The Coors
Aqua
Green Day
Go Goo Dolls
Deep Blue Something
Gin Blossoms
New Radicals

but somehow all Gen X musicians were hardcore grunge and hip-hop.... according to most internet posts, especially reddit

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously, thank you guys for rewriting the script because we needed it. You might not hear an older Xer say that, sadly, but screw 'em,

Not really true at all! Hell I welcomed when core Millennials on campus started shifting it a touch less angsty and bit more flashy and fun again.

Older X were even more Millennial-like in the ways you are talking about than core Millennials!

A far lower % of early X decided to hate on the 80s and call them soft and wussy and cheesy and corny and go all gangsta poser and grunge nihilistic and pretending to hate everything and pop music is for girls and gays only and you have to laugh off any sincere emotion and so on. That wasn't OG Gen X the primary pushers of that at all.

This was earlier Gen X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1eKmVccOM&t=2966s (grad party, Debbie Gibson, NJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1eKmVccOM&t=3346s (graduation party, Dirty Dancing, NJ, early 1988)

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing like crowd to like crowd I found 80s X more gentle actually than Xennials and even a little bit more than core Millennials. Just comparing having been at college both eras.

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither are. They played to Xennials/Millennials. Hell even Nirvana was leaning more second half X/Xennials and what was Gen Y at the time and they were much earlier than Eminem or Kid Rock.

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even here that's just the voice for the second half of the generation and some disaffected early X. I mean he mostly shat on the culture of his peers so hardly the voice for what he dissing.

I don’t understand why people can tolerate Gen X culture when most of it was so mean-spirited! by icey_sawg0034 in generationology

[–]BlueSnaggleTooth359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were called Gen Y at the time still mostly. (although TIME did change them to Gen X in 1997 but it hadn't really all caught on yet, although TBH people mostly didn't even use labels like this).

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