30 Gen-X Memes and Tweets to Give You a Burst of Nostalgia (November 12, 2023)

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John Summers • Contributor
Nov 12, 2023 10:00 PM EST

I love being a Gen-X. It means I am old enough to remember a time when we didn't have the internet, the TV only had 3 channels, there were no cell phones and it was considered okay to just walk around your town looking for stuff to do. It makes me appreciate all the comforts of life we have today while also making me less anxious about life in general. people are so afraid of everything today but I still remember drinking from the garden hose and going to my friend's house without any actual way to call my parents to tell them where I was going. 

I'm old enough to remember playing with sticks in the forest, but also playing video games with my friends. I guess what I'm saying is that I can appreciate modern life AND the simplicity of the past, bridging two worlds with fond memories from each.

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    There's a difference!

    Wow! You grew up in the 80's! Nivestrea. So Dream in neon A No, I grew up in the 80's
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    "My Daughter Found My Old Walkman, So I Left Her A Note"

    SONY MEGA BASS TAPE AVLS MEGABASS FMMODE TUNING+ RADIO ON/OFF MENU ENTER PRESET BAND SET BATT 24PR PRESETS AVIS FM/AM WALKMAN AUTO REVERSED WM-FS473 Sports If you're gonna Use this 4 You gatta Start with This- Thank you for your loyalty. We appreciate you. BERFFEFERBEDD MAI P BEASTIE
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    "Peak Genx – Riding Your Bike Down The Middle Of The Street, Standing On The Banana Seat, No Helmet"

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    Lane Moore @hellolanemoore Follow 89.3K I regret to inform you that my brain will think it's the year 2000 until the day I die. When is 30 years ago? 1970. How long ago were the '90s? 10 years ago. thank you for your understanding in this matter. 3:54 PM Oct 19, 2020 X Reply ✔Copy link
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    突然的效然他安然他突然够吸我的! Old computer games couldn't be won. They just got harder and faster until you died. Just like real life. [供的重彤彤准税悦重够的准般的
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    X @rockeuphoria. Follow Gen X: The only generation that became 30 at the age of 10 and still is 30 at 50 10:17 PM May 12, 2023 4 Erika Reply Copy link 8
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    Who remembers unfolding the cassete insert to read the lyrics?
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    kristina @inurnightdress. Follow Now that Gen X is all old and falling apart, REM should remake Everybody Hurts for an Ibuprofen ad. 11:28 AM Aug 21, 2022 3.9K . Reply ✔Copy link X 0
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    Emma Bolden @emmabo Follow i just need people to understand that before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer and YOU HAD TO TALK TO THEIR PARENTS until your friend came to the phone 5:28 PM May 30, 2022 Reply 431.3K Emma Bolden @emmabo Follow 37.9K Copy link Reply X Replying to @emmabo like they would ask you about SCHOOL and your FAMILY and sometimes hit you with a trick question that accidentally got your friend in trouble IT WAS A WHOLE DEAL PEOPLE 5:29
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    Kids haircuts today Haircuts when I was a kid
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    Becky Vieira | Witty Otter @wittyotter Follow Dirty Dancing is a different movie when you watch as a parent. Baby's dad wasn't unreasonable. She was 18 and sneaking around with a Catskills dance instructor who has anger issues & looks like he's at least 40. 74 Yes, you should be put in a corner. It's called time out, you brat. 5:42 AM May 6, 2022 . X Reply Copy link 0
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    X I'm a Gen Xer so I adapt to new technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer. 2:03 PM Jul 4, 2019 mark @TheCat Whisprer. Follow 3.7K Reply Copy link 8
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    BLOCKBUSTER Blockbuster @blockbuster Follow A friendly reminder that when you used to rent videos from us. We didn't care who you shared it with... As long as you returned it on time. @netflix 9:20 PM May 25, 2023 . 424K X Reply Copy link 0
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    Things that no longer interest me: 1. Driving at night 2. Leaving the house at night 3. Driving in the winter 4. Leaving the house in the winter 5. Driving 6. Leaving the house
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    STAND UP BARAN Dennis DiClaudio (Alpha Louis Malle) WGA @dennisdiclaudio · Follow Remember there was that month in the '90s when everybody was really into Gregorian chants? 7:38 PM Dec 19, 2019 9.1K Reply Copy link Dennis DiClaudio (Alpha Louis Malle) @dennisdiclaudio Follow I'm not. 7:46 PM Dec 19, 2019 1.3K X WGA Replying to @dennisdiclaudio I love the idea of younger people reading this and not knowing whether I'm joking or not. Reply Copy link 8 X O
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    Amy @lolennui Follow my theory is every gen X person read a stephen king book way too young and that's why they are the way they are 1:05 AM Apr 6, 2022 111.2K X Reply Copy link ℗
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    Eric Nakagawa (A () @ericnakagawa. Follow Website idea: you input the year you graduated high school and the website generates a list of outdated "facts" and concepts you were taught in school that have since been disproven. 6:28 AM Dec 7, 2020 . 16.2K Reply X Copy link 8
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    I dissent. Miz Anthrope @jenaglez Follow Us Gen Xer's have taken a lot of st but you have to admit our sneering distrust of everything has turned out to be 100% correct 12:23 PM Apr 5, 2022 Reply 25 . X Copy link 0
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    Ryan Florence @ryanflorence Really don't think it's fair that my generation - had to help our parents use the printer - have to help our kids use the printer
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    brittany wilson @sameoldstory. Follow One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well 8:37 PM Nov 16, 2020 22.6K Reply X Copy link
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    Simon Holland @simoncholland Follow I feel like Generation X doesn't get enough credit for being the only group of people to ever know how to set the clock on a VCR. 12:07 AM Jul 6, 2021 1.6K X Reply Copy link 0
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    . Michael J. Hudson @lasloo - 1d Replying to @kathbarbadoro know... Gen X here... and I totally overdo ellipsis. What happened in our generation that made us so fond of them? It's like we don't ever want to commit to ending a thought... or we're afraid of run-on sentences... a way of expressing stream of consciousness... hmmm 115 187 2,674 DataAngel @DataAngel - 1d It's because we spent years just trailing off when we realized no one was listening to us.
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    Super 70s Sports → @Super70sSports Follow Remember when Pizza Hut pan pizzas were basically a goddamn culinary delicacy? They'd bring them out in a real fi g skillet that was piping at about 700 degrees Fahrenheit right as your third song kicked in on the jukebox after you'd played a game of Galaga. We were kings. 4:22 PM Jun 20, 2020 . 82.8K Reply ✔Copy link X 8
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    I love a group that recognizes a random picture and knows exactly where it's from.
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    Your Mom thought you were riding your bike around the block for 8 hours. But in that time you went 5 miles away, explored an abandoned house, jumped over some garage roofs, attempted a ouija board, built a den in the woods and made your own fire 80s
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    Jeff Sharlet @JeffSharlet Follow (jeffsharlet.bsky.social) Few days shy of 50 and when I ask my super goth 13-year-old what they're listening to they tell me it's a band I probably don't know called The Cure. 0 8:54 PM May 4, 2022 . 298.2K X Reply Copy link
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    Bikini Atol @bikiniatolband. Follow One day Generation X will be the old people, and we'll let the kids do whatever they want: clean up the environment, switch to the metric system, legalize pot, and make their own kombucha - and never once ask them to fix our computer. Just have fun and don't get hurt. 1:36 PM Sep 26, 2019 404 X Reply Copy link Ⓡ
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    "Who All Laid On One Of These Bad Boys As A Kid?"

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    We Oops @Fluffy Doom. Follow "This is difficult for me to share but... growing up, my parents would often make us watch drag shows." 68 Klinger! 12:38 AM Apr 14, 2023 Reply PAMIN X Copy link
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    Jacob Jake 00000 Here's to the kids who have never found their name on anything in a souvenir store. Jason JASON
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1990s 90s memes retro nostalgia 80s music Nostalgia Overload 80s 90s kids 90s memory lane nostalgia memes millennial-nostalgia 1980s
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