They didn't invent anything. This is fanciful bullshit and propaganda.

I've got good news or bad news for you, depending on how you feel about it. Gen X won't be the new Boomers, Millennials will be. Gen X is actually a lower population than Boomers or Millennials. Now that all Millennials are of age to vote and even the youngest of them are approaching their 30's, and with Boomers increasingly dying off, Millennials will progressively make up the plurality of the voting population with each election cycle (they're also a larger cohort than Gen Z).

The other half of this news is that Millennials and Gen Z are seeming to defy the conventional wisdom that people become more conservative with age. Studies are showing that Millennials and Gen Z are generally getting more progressive as they age.

She's the definition of fired.

Again, she tweeted out a blatantly racist attack against a black woman. She wasn't cancelled, she was fired by ABC. This is not a new phenomenon of "woke" culture. This is how business works, especially with hugely public figures.

She tweeted a blatantly racist attack against a black woman. She wasn't "cancelled" she was fired.

Yes, and now they have a VAST array of incredibly popular Fox properties to make new content with, and the merchandising that comes with it, for the rest of time.

Seasons 6 through 15 were (with varying quality) fan fiction.

I haven't read the books, only watched the show, and I don't think that it's outright talked about in the show.

I think Avasarala is supposed to be in her 80's during the early stuff. This is a future where cancer meds and anti-aging drugs have pushed life expectancy out to (I'd imagine) somewhere in the ~110-120s.