There is little Baby Boomers seem to love more than dunking on millennials. Millennials have killed everything, from department stores to Applebee’s and spend more time eating avocados than getting outrageous home loans we will never be able to afford. We are a generation ruined by participation trophies and caring about things like the environment and people’s feelings–and boomers love making sure we know what sensitive little snowflakes we are because of it.
While we all may be too busy working multiple jobs to afford skyrocketing rent prices (because somebody killed the economy) to put too much effort into comebacks, it turns out very little effort is needed in that department.
Millennials and Gen Zers have made a casual hobby of responding to things the older folks say with nothing more than “OK boomer”–and it’s driving them absolutely insane.
https://twitter.com/spicyabbie/status/1184956537195913223
https://twitter.com/Crypticody1/status/1185933071872380930
ok boomer congrats y’all had sex and then fucked up the whole economy shut up https://t.co/VUaPAyEIrl
— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) October 15, 2019
white cishet men after someone replies with "ok boomer" when theyre angry pic.twitter.com/KlHnWyqqkQ
— going back to monke (@kebabovertoes) October 21, 2019
While “OK boomer” has been around for a minute, it’s picked up steam recently thanks to TikTok. Teens are posting videos mocking older people who put down the younger generations for idiotic reasons. And most of the videos are even set to various remixes of the song “Ok Boomer” by Jedwill and Peter Kuli, which largely just repeats the phrase “OK boomer” on a very catchy and aggressive loop.
https://twitter.com/bear_crab/status/1185744471843061760
apparently ok boomer is going viral on tiktok this is a certified “I listened to it before it was cool” moment
— emta (@emtacolor) October 16, 2019
And as internet memes tend to do, “OK boomer” is slowly creeping into real life, intentionally or not.
“My grandma said some dumb shit and i almost said ‘ok boomer’ this website is hell,” one user admitted.
https://twitter.com/kindasofthan/status/1186301863639035909
https://twitter.com/Lazy_TOP_Hippie/status/1186480673030365184
tiktok is ruining my life my brother asked why my parents won’t let me bleach my hair and my dad went “it’s just not something you should do” and i went “ok boomer” hES LITERALLY NOT EVEN A BOOMER
— zoe ☆ (@charliecobclt) October 17, 2019
The best kind of comeback is often simple and something that cannot be argued with, and refusing to engage boomers with anything more than “OK boomers” seems to be working perfectly. It also has the added bonus of being confusing and easily merchandised.
https://twitter.com/yokoohno/status/1187472565813428224
God help the generation that ends up killing memes.
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