OK Boomer

OK Boomer.

From the NY Times:

?Ok boomer? has become Generation Z?s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don?t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people ? and the issues that matter to them.

It seems that younger people think that they have a lock on the issues. Maybe but it looks like they have issues but no perspective and are driven by instant gratification without doing the work, part of group think politics. In some of the talk I have heard that the GenZ are like then protesters of the Vietnam war.

I was born in 1955, Boomers were born in the 1943 to 1946 era so I was like 10 years old during the Vietnam war protests and I remember seeing some of the action up close back then and hearing older, college age people discussing the war and the protests, I also remember the older people, parents and uncles that fought in WWII and Korea and their feelings, which were also against the continuation of the war. I has cousins that went to Vietnam and thankfully they all came back, each with their own form of mental damage.

I see the OK Boomer as another division within our country driven by the communist left.

Any thoughts? Please keep it civil.

From what I have seen of Gen Z, they aren't NEARLY as bad as Gen Y. My son (13) and his peers (in BOULDER) pretty much mock the entire existence of the victimhood culture and seem to be coming back to personal responsibility and integrity.

As a side note, once the apple of society's eye, Gen X never seems to get any attention anymore...

US vs Space Aliens. Everybody needs to WTF up!

I believe the internet has once again confused main stream news and others.

Originally some twitter idiot came out as saying essentially that boomer is like the N word for old people with the young people or some such. (Forget if it was pre/post above article).

It's become a massive meme that's getting widely used as sarcasm/satire off of the original idiot making that statement. Very few people using it in the "wild" as it were are using it seriously in the kind of context of the news article. It's just another tongue in cheek meme that's going to last a few weeks to a couple months then be gone.


Remember when the news bought into the idea that PEPE the frog was created as an alt right white nationalist thing when he's a pretty old meme?

The boomer generation is generally considered to be between mid 40s and mid 60s. Not just mid 40s...unless that was a typo.

I've never heard the term "OK boomer". Never even seen it online until now.

Sorry, but mid 40s is Gen X, my parents were boomers.

This level of maturity is shy the president must be 35 or older. Wish it was the same for all elected officials. Live in the real world before telling others what to do or act.

Hell, both should be gradually raised to 50 or so.

Ignore the inet trends. I coughed into my elbow and someone said I was dabbing or something. Looked at them and said "no I was coughing, wtf is dabbing?" After trying to explaining it to me and the blank, who cares look on my face, they gave up.

We play the circle game also. Some new hire said it was racist and boy did she get an earful from those it was supposed to be offensive to who played.

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Originally Posted by wctriumph

...Boomers were born in the 1943 to 1946 era...

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Baby boomers were born post war, '46 to '64.

It's not a Commie plot to divide the country, it's an internet meme, driven largely by sell proclaimed vcso girls.

Haven't heard of that one either, huh? It's like a valley girl from the '80's, only very social media-centric. They have their own phrases, just like any flash in the pan trend.

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Originally Posted by Eric P

Sorry, but mid 40s is Gen X, my parents were boomers.

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Dude, this is so wrong. Boomers were mid 40's to mid 60's. Gen X was mid 60's to 1980.


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If I read it correctly, Eric P was saying Gen X'ers are typically "mid 40's" in age, not years of birth. But then again, I may have misunderstood.

As I've always understood it, I'm first year Gen X. Not something I was ever typically proud to admit.

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Originally Posted by fitz19d

I believe the internet has once again confused main stream news and others.

Originally some twitter idiot came out as saying essentially that boomer is like the N word for old people with the young people or some such. (Forget if it was pre/post above article).

It's become a massive meme that's getting widely used as sarcasm/satire off of the original idiot making that statement. Very few people using it in the "wild" as it were are using it seriously in the kind of context of the news article. It's just another tongue in cheek meme that's going to last a few weeks to a couple months then be gone.


Remember when the news bought into the idea that PEPE the frog was created as an alt right white nationalist thing when he's a pretty old meme?

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This. (Above)

I find kids today refreshing and smart (and am GenX/Boomer.) One of them today said "damn those taxes! Damn Government! They take too much!"

I thought that was right on! :)

-John