0:00
/
0:00
Transcript

The Daily Whatever, May 17: Why is the news obsessed with GenX lately?

Talking about our most recent GenX focused articles--and what's going on in the media.

It was just

and today on The Daily Whatever, talking about the stuff we usually talk about. In this case, it was discussing our latest articles—Dana on her dating debacle, and mine comparing and contrasting the articles on GenX from the Economist and Vogue:

The Cool Kids Got Screwed

The Cool Kids Got Screwed

Let’s get one thing straight: we were never supposed to be the center of attention. Generation X was born between headlines, raised on latchkey lunches, and taught by sitcoms and music videos to expect disappointment and act like we didn’t care. We made aloof into an art f…

In classic The Daily Whatever fashion, we had a wide ranging conversation that ended up with the idea that we need to create a genXy University, where one of the classes is called Understanding This Late-Stage Capitalist Society You Were Born Into, and another is called Understanding Tyrrany (™ Karen).

Join us tomorrow as we welcome our friend

, share some substack love, and have our first Ask Us Anything!

Thank you

, , , , , and many others for tuning into The Daily Whatever! Join us for our next live video in the app.

Get more from GenXy in the Substack app
Available for iOS and Android