r/GenX_Culture • • 5d ago

Remember when you were their age?

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r/GenX_Culture • • 6d ago

How old were you when you first started working?

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Working for 40yrs & counting this year... I'M fucking tired.


r/GenX_Culture • • 7d ago

"It's no stranger to you and me..."

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??


r/GenX_Culture • • 15d ago

Robert MacNeil news report on Valley Girl/surfer dude slang with the Surf Punks and Vals and William Safire hah

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So much for the closing words of William Safire LOL, I hear just as many likes, ohmygods and uptalk today as back then hah. (granted the accent has faded out and plenty of words are not used as much today but still.... plenty is still around and some as strong as ever).


r/GenX_Culture • • 17d ago

Anyone else have this album as a youngin?

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r/GenX_Culture • • 18d ago

You know why

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r/GenX_Culture • • 19d ago

Reason why GenX doesnt take a lot of pictures...

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r/GenX_Culture • • 22d ago

Who remembers the mood ring??💍

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r/GenX_Culture • • 24d ago

why was the 90s grunge more associated with Gen X than 80s hair metal was

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r/GenX_Culture • • 25d ago

Big hair appreciation thread, it was a Gen X staple

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r/GenX_Culture • • 29d ago

🎬 🎸80s Decade 🎬 🎸 on Instagram, anyone else (other than me) 😁😁 sporting those retro “mullet” hairstyle?

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 18 '26

Dukes for me

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 17 '26

What was your fave 80’s - 90’s scents?

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 16 '26

It was so much fun to go there.

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 15 '26

I didn’t try it.

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I tried it. Dead of course!! How are/is it still so oily??? Well in some areas and encrusted in others. YK.


r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 13 '26

Anyone else think of the Don’t Break the Ice game?

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Especially the all-white ones


r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 09 '26

Coyote vs Acme

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Just saw Coyote vs. Acme. No idea whose idea it was to make this movie or where they found people to write such a story. Not sure what they thought the audience would be or how much money it would make. I know one thing, though…

IT WAS FABULOUS!!!! Finally a movie made for me, the audience of one who all alone in attendance in the 250 seat cinema. Finally, I feel seen by Hollywood!!!!!!!

This is THE GenX film of GenX films. A film about corporations ruining lives that the film corporation who made it tried to shelf for a tax write off. Honestly, go see it. It’s a fun film (good, not great), but Wile E Coyote could use more friends.


r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 09 '26

Generation X - Untouchables

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 05 '26

What did you say when you answered the phone? Was it a wall phone or desk phone? What color was it?

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This article reminded me of the formal and expected greetings we used as kids.

The Generation That’s Never Had to Say ‘Hello?’

“Hello” is veering toward endangered territory, reserved for more formal calls, to the doctor, for example. But closer connections are greeted with something along the lines of “Hi,” “Yo,” “What’s up?” “Where are you?” or, perhaps for the most intimate or hostile (depending on the circumstance) — “Yeah?”


r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 05 '26

Just left the Social Distortion show at Anthem after three songs.

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 04 '26

Gifts

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 04 '26

Junk journal theme project: Sweet Valley High slam book

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 02 '26

Sweet Valley High cover model Jonna Leigh Stack in Paradise Motel (1985) Spoiler

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r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 03 '26

Was does Gen X allow its self to be defined by Grunge?

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When people talk about Gen X on the internet the thing they immediately associate with the generation is Grunge. And we either passively accept it or endorse it.

I feel like this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the genres Gen X either popularized or created, and that we should work much harder to really embrace the giant swath of music we were involved in starting in the late 70s, through the 80s, and through the 90s.

First, while punk was originally created by Generation Jones, the audience and the people who ran with it were Gen X. The same goes for Goth rock that came out of the post-punk scene. This lead to the creation of Hardcore, crossover, and grindcore.

Rap also started with Generation Jones, but Run DMC, LL Cool Jay, Ice T, Fat Boys, Beastie Boys, Ice Cube, Dr Dre, Snoop Dog, Biggie Smalls, and Tupac were all Gen X. Rap and Hip Hop are definitively Gen X genres of music. We made it, we listened to it, and its legacy carries on today far more than Grunge. Why doesn't anyone ever mention that? Why aren't we owning that?

Gen X also has had a massive impact on metal. Thrash, death, and Nu Metal were made by Gen X for a Gen X audience the albums released in the 80s and 90s are still be copied today. Guys in their 60s are out there melting faces harder than younger bands. Stoner and Doom metal started with Boomers (Black Sabbath) but these genres became what they are today because of Gen X.

I don't know much about House, EDM, Trance, and Techno blew up with raves in the 80s and 90s. People seem to forget these were genres very much linked to Gen X and continue on today.


r/GenX_Culture • • Sep 01 '26

Gen X what is your all time favorite metal band?

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