Millennial Cicadas Threaten to Cancel CicadaMania2021

Jay McAdams
3 min readMay 25, 2021

Washington D.C. Monday May 24, 2021 — The much anticipated coming of CicadaMania2021 is the latest event to be threatened by the generational divide. The once-every-17 year phenomenon could now be the latest victim of cancel culture by young cicadas. The issue began on twitter when a young red-eyed Brood 10 cicada tweeted that “2021 is the year BroodX is taking over”, signaling a power shift from…

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Jay McAdams

Jay is an LA-based writer and theatre artist writing about the absurdity of everyday life in the 21st century.