

A community for the generation that was born during the transition between Gen X and Millennials. Late 70s to early 80s. We lived our youth without cell phones and internet but technology was prevalent in our lives. We live with the anxieties of Gen X and the hope of Millennials. We're part of the 80s punk culture as well as the MTV Generation.
Massive Attack - Angel (1998)
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From their album Mezzanine
Xenial TV Nostalgia of the day : Scrubs
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🎶 I'm no Superman... 🎵
Remember Wonderfalls?
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That show was so good. Sadly it's not streaming legally anywhere, at least in Canada. I had to get the Blu Ray to watch it and honestly, it holds up. I wish they didn't cancel it...
Who are the Xenials
Xennials is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a "micro-generation" or "cross-over generation" of people whose birth years are between the mid-late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s.
Good magazine has described Xennials as "a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials."
Xennials dated, and often formed ongoing relationships, pre-social media. They usually weren't on Tinder or Grindr, for their first go at dating at least. They called up their friends and the person they wanted to ask out on a landline phone, hoping that it wasn't their intended date's parent who picked up."
Basically, our childhood was internet less, we experienced the rise of internet during our teens and we learned to live with social media during our early adulthood.
We experienced the cold war, the rise of terrorism and are very aware of the impact of the west on the world. We were in college when the
Music sharing Thread
Post your xenials playlists!
Here's one I made on Tidal because I couldn't find anything decent (suggestions welcome!) https://tidal.com/playlist/5a2e2d77-69c0-4134-9f8c-0f1e3fee221b