• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Gen X didn’t care about a name so they left it as X. We were like, whatever. Advertisers hated my generation and still do. We just don’t care.

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      11 months ago

      It’s not that Gen X didn’t care, it was that no one else cared. You do have a name, it’s the Forgotten Generation.
      “Generation X often is referred to as the forgotten generation, sandwiched between the large and culturally powerful Baby Boomer and Millennial generations.”

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      11 months ago

      Advertisers do not hate Gen x. They do not care about Gen x. The name just makes it easier to target by demographic. Gen x is as marketable as any other generation.

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      11 months ago

      They marketed to Gex X when we went through our life stages but yeah, you’re right on everything else. They fucked up though, we see it for what it is and we can let the other generations know. My uncle, who is awesome and a boomer, just figured out they’re not being marketed to anymore, and he was a little in shock, lol.