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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Back in my day, kids watched movies that weren’t brand new.

  Signed, a millennial who watched ET as a kid.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We got em years later on cassette at Blockbuster, and we would re-rent and re-watch our favorites sometimes.

    There also weren’t as many movies to choose from, nor was it all available at our fingertips all the time.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And after that it would be on TV. If memory serves me right it was kind of a big deal the first time that happened.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yep, and if I recall correctly, it usually hit cable TV first, and then edited-for-broadcast-TV versions later.

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  • artifex@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, but I have to imagine it was written with currently-alive kids in mind, not the not-yet-conceived. Now get off my lawn.

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    • valar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Still. It didn’t even get released on VHS until 1988. It’s one of the most famous movies of all time. Guarantees many if not most millenials saw it kid.

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      • Alatain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Saw it, yeah. But it never really hit with me as something I identify with. I saw tons of things made before I was born, but things that came out after I was completely conscious of storytelling resonate differently.

        ET doesn’t do anything for me in this meme. It might as well be Elmer Fudd.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gen X: the forgotten generation

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, the music snobbery of acting like we weren’t cool if we didn’t listen to the right bands, and the slacker attitude that eventually grew into Boomer Juniors… yeah, fuck em, worth forgetting.

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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      oh no, snot doesn’t approve of generation X, the horror, the heavy burden

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it may be more accurate to refer tot them as xoomers and xennials depending on whether they were ever able to buy a house

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Came out after 80, it’s ours! ~a millennial

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  • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lol you were born in the 80s. As a Gen X, I was in school in the 80s. There’s a difference but I hear you.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Video rentals and cable TV, my dude

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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pffffft. Speak for yourself.

  It’s my knees, not my back…

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ACKSHUALLY, 1980 is the end of Gen X and 1981 is the beginning of millennials, the oldest of which would have been 18 in 1999.

  So the oldest millennials would have been having their first birthday.

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