Anyone using it in that manner absolutely means it that way in context. It’s a gag that’s decades old, a staple of Gen X culture, which is squarely Tim Sweeney.
Except I didn’t assert that non-American GenX wasn’t ‘true’ gen-x, just that it might be a facet particular to Gen-X in America, and perhaps a non-American could be excused for not being in on it.
On top of everything else, it was the core of 7-up’s marketing in the early 2000s.
Yeah I don’t think that’s what “up yours” means in that context.
Anyone using it in that manner absolutely means it that way in context. It’s a gag that’s decades old, a staple of Gen X culture, which is squarely Tim Sweeney.
How great of you to know everything about what everyone else thinks and does.
/GenX
American GenX? It feels impossible that an American GenX wouldn’t get the blatant reference Tim is making…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Except I didn’t assert that non-American GenX wasn’t ‘true’ gen-x, just that it might be a facet particular to Gen-X in America, and perhaps a non-American could be excused for not being in on it.
On top of everything else, it was the core of 7-up’s marketing in the early 2000s.