Generation X

The smallest, most overlooked, neglected, and forgotten generation in the 20th century. All of them as of this writing are between 40 and 60 years old and their children are mostly late-wave Millennials and early wave Z’ers. The core X’ers were children in the 1970’s and teenagers in the 1980’s. They were the most cynical and self-sufficient growing up and the last generation raised without political correctness, overprotective parents, stranger danger, mollycoddling, and homosexuality unacceptable in most of American society. They were the first generation to become tech-savvy and enjoy music videos on MTV.To this day, few of them are running society and the Baby Boomers are still dominating the corporate and political landscape despite being of retirement age.

Mike’s a Generation X’er. He was born in 1970, wore Izod shirts growing up, and favorite music groups are Metallica and Nirvana.

by waspcoloredstain July 25, 2021

Generation Butthurt

Millennials and Gen Zers with no grasp of reality, who judge everything from a 10-second sound byte and carry the lynch mob mentality to social media where they will cancel anything for any reason because their post-adolescent idealistic phase has left them unable to cope with the real world.

Generation Butthurt -er: "I want an answer NOW!"
Adult/productive member of society: "I'm sorry, you will have to wait your turn. Your issue is deemed low priority... "
GBer: " How dare you! (misquotes the legal document they received and can't read properly for nuances in language like "or" and "may".) "I'm cancelling my contract and even though you graciously let them out of their contract without penalties they will run to social media to badmouth you and have all their GB friends on a tirade about how awful corporations and people with money and productive members of society are for making them mow their grass and pay for the applainces they break in their apartment their parents probably pay for.

by NopeIsland May 5, 2021

flower generation

A term referring to the people in the 60's-70's known as Hippies. Talking about their entire generation.

John Lennon was from the Flower Generation.

by travisslade June 11, 2006

My generation

an awesome song by the greatest rock band in the world, the who. forget the beatles, the who created real rock. i mean they were the first people to start that hitting your instruments to the ground.

some weird slut: "what are you listening to?"
me: "my generation by the who."
slut: "huh? is that like old music?"
me: "no its a new hip hop band, you should go buy their rock opera tommy!"

-all i can say now is that all the sluts at my school are now listening to the who.

by jesse sucks March 7, 2005

Generation X

The generation born right around the end of the 1960s baby boomer cultural takeover, basically anyone born after 1965 (Dylan going electric) and before 1977 (so that you'd hafta be at least 1 yr. old when Star Wars came out). The title Generation X was designated by the media to indicate a distinct group population for marketing purposes. Generation X members are generally considered laid back (slackers), market savvy (having been inundated by the mass media and MTV since their pre-teen years), prone to psychological disorders (the first generation with a majority to have grown up with absent or divorced parents), and considered less important than baby boomers (who are btw the egomaniacal bastids to make that distinction in the first place, sheesh). Generational trends however suggest that Gen Xers are smarter than people think, are more capable and hard working than expected, and will eventually rule the world by lining up the baby boomer bastids against the wall when the revolution comes!
Also, the name of a punk band I think.

None needed. Generation X already knows.

by Paul Wartenberg September 23, 2003

Cold Y Generation

Classified as the last conscious equipped Generation. Meaning they kind of got the way the world worked, and it's not neccessarily a 'We Are The World' place as many Gen Y parents and pop culture would have them believe. Tend to have a uniqueness about them that needs to be explained.

Defining trait is that they have characteristics of Gen X and so called Gen Y, yet do not really feel like they are part of either. Also remember the Pre-Information age society, Cold War, and the arrival of the Gulf War.

Statisticians usually start at '81 and atop at '85. Strongest alienation seems to be between '81 -'83. Is not regulated to years as this 'in limbo' feeling can go back as far as the late '70s. Seemingly making the original end dates of Gen X as the most accurate.

They might even take offense being called Cold Y and make up their own name.

"Cold Y Generation?" "What the fuck is that?"

by tRuNeTiV March 5, 2009

Generation Y

Generation Y (born between 1980-1994) are also called the Echo-boom generation because their parents are Boomers. This is the last generation to remember the 20th century and the time before the fully digital age. Some grew up with no internet, others remember when dial-up was the big thing, before HDTV, before cell phones were commonplace, when CD players were a must have, when basic cable was luxury and when you went to the video store to rent a VHS and remember the days of Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The cutoff for Generation Z is not 9/11 as earlier thought, it is the mid 1990s, normally 1994. The last of Generation Y is in high school and no, they do not like Hannah Montana, that is Generation Z. While some of Generation Y is certainly over obsessed with social networking and is very narcissistic, it is still the last generation to remember the pre-Youtube/Facebook/Myspace era and to have connection to the 20th century. Early Yers remember the Cold War, good MTV and all Yers remember when kids TV meant something. Their icons include Michael Jordan, Will Smith and our pin-up girl was Pamela Anderson during the Baywatch days.

When were you born? 1991...ahh, you're Generation Y; remember Sonic for Sega Genesis

That and Super Mario World!

What about you?

"1996"

You're Generation Z. Do you remember when Yahoo was the #1 search engine?

"Yahoo? It's Google...and why would anyone like CD's?"

by samtskins August 15, 2009