What exactly is Gen X?

a buzzword like millennials or gen z

all of this generation bullshit is devised by marketing teams to sell products and predict quarterly profits

what commonality do people born in 1960 and 1980 have really?

A mixture of Nihilism, and pseudo-intellectualism veiled as "new-atheism" sprinkled with horrible alt-rock bands wearing dirty clothes which they called "grunge fashion"

>>2172500
Remembering the Challenger explosion (assuming solid human memories begin at age 5-6)

>>2172500
Literally nothing. I was born in '86 and I have no clue what do I have in common with people born in '98.

>>2172759
I was born in '86 and I feel like I have more in common with people my parents age.

>>2172763
You objectively do since just like them you remember the blissful era with no internet and cellphone cameras.

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>>2172763
this

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>>2172763

I think 86 and 98 are separate generations

I've always heard millennials as 1980/1-1994/5, then you have Gen Z from 1995/96 to the CURRENT YEAR

>>2172759
I don't agree. It's a useful heuristic for trying to think about how things have changed for young people over time.

Generations lead to fear and loathing between the generations. Older generations find the innovations of new generations to be flawed, and new generations find the traditions and values of their predecessors to be outdated, causing a constant, rolling engine of social turmoil.

>>2174871
Tell me how I'm more similar to someone born in 98 than I am to someone born in 78 I double dare you faggot.

>>2172476
>call baby boomers out on their bullshit
>BB's respond by calling them lazy and nihilistic

that's Gen X

>>2175150
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise" ― Socrates

It's nothing new