Generation Xcellent — Here We Are Still, Entertain Us

Why Gen X is more than a forgotten middle child

Teenagers queueing for a Michael Jackson concert in Berlin, June 1988. Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F079012–0030 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

In 2019, news channel CBSN ran a report about the different generations. They completely omitted Gen X. You know when you suspect you’re being ignored, that you’re invisible? This time I wasn’t being paranoid.