Knowing history well is sort of a superpower. When you’re well-educated and skeptical, you’re less likely to fall prey to misinformation, weird gossip, and blatant propaganda. However, it’s a bit of a shock when somebody from a younger generation starts lecturing about historical events that you lived through.
Inspired by a post on X (formerly Twitter), some members of Generation X took to the eponymous r/GenX subreddit to share the times that younger people told them inaccurate things about historical events. Just because someone’s convinced that something’s true doesn’t make it so! Scroll down to see why overconfidence isn’t a good look when you’ve got your basic facts wrong.
