GEN X never stopped mocking Gen X. If you want to mock us, be prepared for us to be all, like, "You call THAT snark? Step aside, amateur" and then riff self-loathingly on ourselves for a solid hour
As someone coming right at the end of it, I do feel like Gen X has a lot of myths about itself that it tells and I am never entirely sure if it believes them or not.
We were the slacker gen because many of us graduated into a recession. I still remember how we suddenly turned into an overworked generation leading up to the dot com days.
Most of it's just joking. No one cares about drinking from the hose (newsflash: it tastes nasty). Millennials and GenZ will get their turn on the wheel just like the rest of us. Entropy comes for us all eventually. Whatever.
My favorite Gen X myth (as a younger member of the generation) is how Megan Jasper became a cultural hero by lying to Boomers. She was asked about what slang words her generation used, and she just made up some shit and they believed her.
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Someone told me that Ian Curtis died by cutting his own throat and peeling his face off while bleeding out *spooky hands* AND WE HAD NO WAY TO CHECK THAT OBVIOUS BULLSHIT.
The lack of access to basic info was nuts! From harmless myths to life threatening shit, we just had to trust the randos in our neighborhood.
Kids from out of town could make up whatever story they wanted about their city, we had no way to check.
I mean, the narrative that y'all're slackers who don't care and don't MEAN to be all heartless can buy some of y'all a lot more goodwill than is warranted.
