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[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Gen X wasn’t dropping acid. They were born between 1965 and 1981, so would have mostly been too young to have been doing acid at the height of its popularity, that was a late-boomer thing. Gen X was the generation that did ecstasy/MDMA at illegal raves and festivals.

The point is still good.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gen X dropped acid but drugs didn't define them like it did with the hippy Boomers. So yeah the Gen X character is misplaced, it belongs in the Boomer frame. I'd expect like a punk rocker or a grunge kid for the Gen X frame. The Millennial faggot hipster is spot on though so I'm guessing this cartoonist is a millennial who knows jack shit about the generations before him. But the sentiment of the comic is still pretty good.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Older Gen X enjoyed acid. E didn't become that popular here in North America until the mid-late 90s.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm Gen X and we definitely took acid. The transition to ecstasy seemed to happen when I was in college. It's actually the one drug I've never tried, other than weird stuff like PCP I guess.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm Gen X and have taken acid and ecstasy. I also wore a biker jacket and got a bunch of piercings. I guess that makes me trans-generational!

Never cut off my boobs or had a chunk of my thigh rolled up and stitched on to my lower abdomen though!

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Acid was around, I’m gen X too, but it wasn’t its heyday, that was much earlier.

Ecstasy was the big party drug amongst the young from the early 1980s onwards, especially in Europe.