35 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (April 24, 2024)

Being a latchkey kid sounded like the dream back in the 80’s. Like every kid’s comic or TV series, all of a sudden there weren’t any parents around. No adults? It’s the dream! But for us Gen X kids, bidding farewell to our parentals before hopping on the bus to go to school was our …
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Nostalgic 2000s Kids Memes For True Gen Zers Who Don’t Remember The 90s

I am willing to admit I harbor nostalgia for the 2000s. It’s only natural for someone to look at the decade where they were under 12 years old for the whole of it with some rose-colored glasses. I’m aware that for most adults, the 2000s were not the most peaceful and fun time of their …
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37 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (April 17, 2024)

Growing up in the 80s was a riotous time. Hair was big, clothes were flashy, and everyone had something to prove. For us kids, growing up in the 80s was more about finding which parking lots were the best to hang out in, copping a smoke from the high schoolers on our lunch break, and …
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‘American nightlife is lame and tends to end in one’s 30s’: Grown-ups bemoan the loss of adult nightlife, claim it ended with with the boomers

Nowadays, we tend to think of nightlife as very youth-oriented. When I think of a club, I imagine a gaggle of spry 20-28-year-olds twisting the night away in a loud techno warehouse. But when I watch old movies or talk to my older relatives, they paint a different picture. Remember the days of big bands …
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34 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (April 9, 2024)

Do you ever think about the house you grew up in?  Everyone thinks that growing up in the 80s meant that your bedroom was full of bright neon colors, see-through landline phones, and an infinite sneaker collection, but anyone from Gen X can tell you that our house looked more like Eric Foreman’s basement in …
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36 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water

What’s the most important thing we learned from Oregon Trail? Always pay the ferryman to cross the river, because you WILL lose a wheel and perish in the rapids. For Gen X, in life, that’s been our motto! With the wheels coming off the wagon of life, we’ve somehow made it through without ever getting …
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25+ of the Best Minecraft Memes of the Month (March 29, 2024)

Remember that old meme «the children yearn for the mines«? That was a good one. It started as a Minecraft reference, but then people started using it to talk about the repealing of child labor laws in the states. Whoops! But there is something to the idea of gaming approximating real-world jobs. I used to …
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Funny Generation X Memes For Members of The Forgotten Generation

I recently discovered something I would have never known unless a Gen Xer told me. Apparently, the way that I watched Daria on Hulu was not how it was initially aired. In the 90s, the show wasn’t punctuated by the guitar riffs from the theme song but had tons of 90s hits courtesy of MTV. …
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25+ 2000s Memes for Kids Who Chewed on Polly Pocket Clothes

I can’t believe we’re already nostalgic for the 2000s, but here we are. The kids like me who grew up playing Webkinz and dressing up Stardoll characters are now fully functioning adults. And though we may still feel like the young kids on the block, plenty of the stuff we grew up with now staunchly …
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A Kaleidoscope of 90’s Nostalgia Way Deeper Than the Ball Pit at McDonalds

I remember the 90’s. It was a time of unbridled commercials, spiky hair, fiery shirts, and a drifting moral compass that sugared us up better than Kool-Aid Jammer. We didn’t have Uber, cellphones, or Amazon Fresh–we had bicycles, gummy worms, and if we were lucky, a hand-me-down pager. We’d talk to our friends on the …
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