I believe all of the writers here are Twitchy are Generation X and proud of it. I moved away 30 years ago, but some people from my high school just put together a 40-year class reunion that I really wanted to attend.
If you've watched the movie "Napoleon Dynamite," I'm Uncle Rico … the guy who orders a time machine off the internet so he can go back to his glory days as a football player in the '80s. I did buy a Members Only jacket off eBay, though. I don't spend very much time on Instagram at all, but I do follow a couple of women who do up their clothes and hair in perfect 1980 style and then do photo shoots at any mall they can find that isn't dead.
One thing we didn't have in the '80s was artificial intelligence, and I'm amazed at what can be done with video these days. Just check out that hilarious video of Sen. Amy Klobuchar complaining about Sydney Sweeney and lamenting that Democrats are too ugly to go outside. Never mind, I'll post it here:
Pity you guys didn't post the video pic.twitter.com/5FNOGUI9Uz
— Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) August 20, 2025
Someone used AI to put together a video message from the 1980s. This isn't creepy, though, like Jim Acosta interviewing dead teenagers. It's pure '80s nostalgia, and I wanted to share it for my fellow Gen Xers.
A message from the 1980s:
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) August 21, 2025
“You know the 80s miss you, right?” pic.twitter.com/olapKlSy0W
Oh, man, that hits me right in the feels. I'd even take the '90s, when you'd head to Blockbuster on a Friday night to pick out which VHS tape to watch with your friends, in the same room. In my hometown, cruising the dock was the thing to do — I still remember a guy who had his car painted with a perfect replica of the Dokken logo across the side.
Yeah, it's "get off my lawn" stuff, but I miss watching music videos on MTV and taping movies off of Cinemax. I still turn on the local college radio station and wonder why they're not playing The Smiths, New Order, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. That's college alternative, right?
I read all of the stories about how Gen Z doesn't use the phone (to make phone calls), how they don't date, how they don't do anything we used to do. I have a son in his mid-20s who's never gone on a date. That boy ain't right. My wife and I hassle him about it all the time. He's friendly with one girl at work, but of course, she's a lesbian.
So what's the point of this post? There isn't one, except to share that message from 40 years ago and see if it hits you the way it hit me, Uncle Rico.
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