OK BOOMER: A History of Boomer Hating - Wisecrack Edition

The phrase "OK Boomer" has thoroughly captivated the internet and our brains. But what makes dissing Boomers so dang meme-able and what does it say about them as a generation? Let's explore in this Wisecrack Edition on Ok Boomer: A History of Boomer Hating.
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[@Olivenpaste]

Boomers then: smoke weed, take drugs, do parties, protesting Boomers now: hating people who smoke weed, take drugs, do party or is protesting

[@AM-uk3vm]

Dosent bode well for Gen Z then

[@woaddragon]

Exactly

[@annoloki]

Different boomers! The boomers on Fox News aren't the boomers who protested Vietnam, and the boomers who grew up protesting mostly complain about how boring millenials are, accepting corporate technology rather than fighting the system. You gotta look at who has the louder voice.

[@perrionhurd7509]

You forgot: sell out, make money, blame parents in therapy.

[@pinksnake8001]

And they did it in a dumb selfish way. Some were protesting but in general, meaningful political theory came from radical thinkers from previous generations. It is coming back because of the nightmare most of young people live in nowadays but boomers didn't help change the system, that's for sure.

[@EthanBlock]

"OK Boomer" is a sick burn; but not quite as sick as, "we've irreversibly destroyed the housing market."

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

That was hardly unique, over-saturating the market has been a thing forever in many markets. It's just an inevitable consequence of capitalism.

[@justindcook9]

@Scooters Videos Boomer greed made short work of that... As it did to out environment, food systems and humanitarian efforts... but hey, corporate profits and pension funds are up! (at least for now...)

[@bomber101581]

Eþan Block I’m in the millennial age range and have had no trouble buying houses. Quit yer bitchin

[@DarkPirate647]

Irrevocable? Wait till they start dying off

[@ronnickels5193]

Another sick burn is "learn to code.'

[@MastaChafa]

Buying a house: -Baby boomers: no problem -Gen X: can we take a really big loan? -Millennials: what

[@YM-zf8mt]

what ? you can buy a house ? did you won the lottery ?

[@theroldan8675]

lol this commentary is gold

[@qpSubZeroqp]

What is this ”buy” option?

[@TrevorHamberger]

The reason. Fiat currency. The dollar was devalued 96% since the inception of the federal reserve system. They call me a conspiracy but for knowing this

[@artdent9871]

@@TrevorHamberger come on, when the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich started pouring millions every year into paying the hard Right to destroy the Middle Class (Neo-Cons, later the Tea Party, plus varients in most Western Countries) with policies that stalled wage growth, screwed organized labour, eliminated affordable tuition, attacked pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), and cutting social programs, all to give themselves massive profits and tax cuts. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Notice the top 1% have been getting richer and richer every year lately, and paying less and less in taxes, while everyone else seems screwed? Well, duh, once Communism fell the Middles Class was expendible, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad, and those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generation for the current mess. Rich people are largely doing just fine in the post-Communist world, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. It's literally Dickensian;) OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and it wasn't a generation that screwed you, it was super-rich greedheads and their dumbass, working-class, right-wing dupes: "white males with no University education" MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant redn*cks who were fooled into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belong to. Welcome to the 21st Century, "kids," there is no Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves ruled by millionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a rich Republican's wet dream. Duh. [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@keyshawnaclark8144]

I'm a Gen z. My grandparents are always asking about grandchildren. I'm always just like "in this economy?!?"

[@Zeverinsen]

Bruh, same... I'm a millennial and my Gen X mom is complaining that she'll likely never see any grand kids from me or my gen Z brothers. I'm in my mid twenties, trying to get a degree, because the boomers in my country fucked up the system and made it harder for everyone. I won't have a steady full time job until I'm 30, and it's a miracle if I can buy a house before om 40. Why the fuck would I bring a child into this mess of a world?

[@Exodon2020]

@@Zeverinsen Why putting children into this world? Everything's going to shit. We're currently in the midst of the second 1929-level Recession within 20 years, Politics are dropping their standards globally, Democracy and Human Rights are on their way out - worldwide that is so you can't just hunker down and wait for the inevitable Collapse and liberation and people are more and more seen as a commodity rather than, well: human beings. Not even mentioning how our children might be the very last Generation to live a somewhat normal life on this planet. So enjoy at least some spots of untouched nature, see a somewhat intact ecosystem and don't have to worry about Rising Sea Levels, entire Countries submerging, Megastorms and hundreds of Millions of Refugees that are going to need accomodation (or the moral guilt tied to murdering them if Fascism keeps rising globally) I'm not going to be responsible for anyone having to suffer through this. No chance in hell!

[@KarlSnarks]

If you're gen z you must be under 23. Why the f are your grandparents already asking about grandchildren at that age!? I'm 28 and most of my friends don't even have children either. At or under 23 you should be goofing around and enjoying yourself and trying out different possible career paths imo.

[@asrr62]

your a kid how do they expect that out of you.

[@BratislavMetulski]

Ok Zoomer 😂👏👏👏

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

Boomer: Back in my day we paid our way through college without complaining! Millennial: Back in your day a part time job could cover your tuition.

[@linoleluminum2017]

Wrong again snowflake, back in our day the average annual income was less than $10000

[@dennisp8520]

@N Ras yep a freaking nickle back then got you a 12oz coke that same 12 oz coke now costs $1 at the cheap end and as high as $2. Gas now cost roughly $3 a gallon. A smaller 1000sq ft home goes for $150k or better depending on area.

[@kathyxu1513]

N Ras they’re prob trolling

[@jeremypedersen6894]

@@linoleluminum2017 ok boomer

[@kyosokutai]

Don't forget that in their day, College education was subsidized up to 75%. Today it's 14%.

[@solrinin]

Boomers inherited everything they have, even insults for younger generations apparently.

[@soul_robot]

solrinin snap!

[@xoxlove6101]

The fuck? They had to rebuild the world after 2 wrold wars, so no.

[@villyanavirtualoniisan-id9773]

@@xoxlove6101 American Boomers? No, America is basically untouched during World War 2 aside from Pearl Harbour.

[@xoxlove6101]

@@villyanavirtualoniisan-id9773 Americans really need to stop thinking the rest of the world doesn't exist

[@villyanavirtualoniisan-id9773]

@@xoxlove6101 I agree with that, thats why I spesifically said American Boomers.

[@TheChuckfuc]

I talked to a financial adviser and he told me that 91% will retire below the poverty line. I laughed...retire...that's a good joke.

[@hirochavez2969]

Assisted suicide for the win for me. That’s my retirement plan

[@robertrool8108]

Yeah with the savings and investments being eaten by inflation it is the same for me. Probably WWIII will wipe all the money away in the end

[@apfelninja]

As a member of the millenial generation, I have fond memories of gen X hating on the boomers since the 90's. It seems they've always been generally disliked by everyone not in their age group.

[@darkblood777]

The social disconnect that boomers have with the younger generation were there when we Gen x'ers were growing up. They just weren't as profoundly obvious as they are now. I just hope that we don't become the new boomers in 20 years.

[@apfelninja]

I think the name of the game is to try and be better than one's parents. I'm just gonna try not to gaslight the gen z kids when I'm older.

[@noblefir9106]

I am gen X and I totally agree! I have lived me entire life in the dominating and destructive shadow of the boomers. I do know some boomers who stayed to true to progressive worldviews (and I deeply respect them), but far too many in that generation did not and instead embraced wanton consumption and decided to kick the ladder out from under the generations that followed.

[@deirdrejones5974]

When Kurt Cobain mockingly sang The Youngblood’s Get Together on Nevermind, it declared the official end of Boomers as a force of youth. It recognized the whole hippie thing as theatre. They were becoming the things they claimed to rail against.

[@mrbillhilly343]

Comedian George Carlin was making comedy hating Baby Boomers back in the 90s.

[@nicolasleroux5302]

Boomers: Kids today are such snowflakes. They need thicker skin. Gen Z: Okay boomer Boomers: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@Mortico88]

Is it just me or are boomers the most likely to project. Hence the things they say about millenials are mosltly projection.

[@10ksubswithnovideoschallen18]

Nicolas Leroux You can’t talk bad about our generation you Gen Z losers

[@ronytheronin7439]

Steve Gais Yeah, accusations of ageism, the accusations of entitlement and every other bashing they do on millennials can be applied to them.

[@sgtwhisker26]

Barry Lawson were trying to fix the world unlike your generation who just gave up, and we started the OK Boomer thing.

[@not_suspicious]

Barry Lawson ok boomer

[@shayZero]

"What my generation hates is that when the last babyboomer dies, the world will cheer" -My 60 year old Dad, a boomer.

[@Vicioussama]

As the world should. Because the boomer generation objectively is the worst in our nation's history (to date, I have no high hopes for the future, mind you). They have been in the ones in power that have pushed endless wars, corrupting influence of money in politics on a far greater level than before, climate change problems, shitty education spending, etc. They've ruined our world for their own gains.

[@torotteson]

@@Vicioussama I don;t know about that... What about the generations that marched Native Americans from their homes, took slaves and recklessly expanded west? I think they're probably worse. I mean I'm not a fan of boomers either, but they definitely aren't the worst.

[@QuestionQuestionMark]

Tor Otteson you’re right they’re second place. Although when talking about generations, I think we’re talking more modern generations of the early 19th century to now.

[@0816M3RC]

@@torotteson Generations are a relatively new concept so I don't think they would be counted as one.

[@evansageser6943]

@@torotteson As the video expressed, the further back you go the more difficult it becomes to differentiate between generations. The earliest "generational divide" I can think of would essentially be the divide between Regency era and Victorian era peoples. But these are more applicable to British society than American.

[@mooselove]

My dad resents his “greatest gen” (nearly 100 year old) parents. That they didn’t give him enough, do enough, tough loved him too hard. He got through multiple college degree with no debt. Had a house and 2 kids by 30. But still believes his parents did him a disservice. From what I’ve seen MANY (not all) boomers are spoiled rotten brats. They think they had it hard but historically they had it easier than any American child before them. They resent us for the way they raised us, laid back and “you can be whatever you want to be” mindset. We grew up with less structure, a shit economy, most not even taught how to sew or do taxes. Then they wonder why we can’t accomplish the financial and career glad they did at 18-30, why don’t we just work more and spend less on Starbucks (I don’t know many who actually buy Starbucks regularly, ffs, and most work 60+ a week and struggle with bills). I see my parents generation buying so much shit... retiring at 50-60.... taking long vacations and those jobs get handed to a millennial with college degree for 1/4 what they paid the boomer. So yeah, maybe it’s always been this way, but we have evidence to prove they are the worst generation in the last 100-300 years at least.

[@pedrohasselmann]

You're text is perfect. I'm not north american, but I see similar trait and synergy with their parents generation even here in a middle class Brazilian family! It's enlightening to see so many shared cross-border characteristic connect to baby boomers. I'm convinced that baby boomers are part of our social economy problems today. They did almost nothing on wealth distribution nor towards a greener economy.

[@goliathtigerfishes]

This is so true.

[@karma6574]

Best comment ever!!

[@wvu05]

@@pedrohasselmann Actually, they did something. They made it worse.

[@MichaelDavis-cy4ok]

I think that attributing everything across generational lines is a huge oversimplification. Yes, the Silent and Greatest generations got us through the Spanish flu epidemic, WWI, WWII and the Cold War, and along the way gave us industrial and technological revolutions that created the wealth boom and increases in education and standard of living from the 40's through the 90's. And certainly, the worst problems that the Boomers had was just assuming all that security and prosperity were the norm and would always be there. They ignored what allowed those things to happen; a lot of work ethic from the Boomers and Silents and willingness to sacrifice for their families' and country's future. There's no way that the civil rights movement and rights for women could have happened without a large amount of voter support from the Silent and Greatest generation, although I'll give the Boomers some credit for this as well. That said, the Boomers completely screwed the pooch when it came to the destruction of the nuclear family. This had disastrous effects on cities everywhere, but especially in the minority communities as fatherlessness has helped dump massive amounts of minority young men in the school-to-prison pipeline. Yes, family law needed a LOT of attention (as did rights for gays) after the Greatest generation, but the 70's through the 90's saw the Boomers trying to turn everything into a sexual free-for-all without a thought for how children from broken homes would be taken care of. We STILL haven't cleaned that mess up, and probably won't for another couple of generations. Thank goodness divorce seems to be much less among GenXers and Millennials; hopefully that trend continues; sadly fatherlessness is still a huge problem. And while many Boomers have spent much of their lives debt-spending like drunken sailors in both their personal lives (the number of Boomers who've actually saved even a token amount for retirement is appallingly low), and also at every level of government (we actually have cities, counties, and states leaning towards bankruptcy and a Federal debt-to-GDP ration that's terrifying), this couldn't have been achieved up through the 80's and 90's without the help of the Silent and Greatest generation. Post 1950 it seems like EVERY generation has been ramping up government spending with reckless abandon. Our educational, agricultural and industrial infrastructure might have been the envy of the world, but government largesse has been flung out with equal enthusiasm to every corner of the country and the world, often with disastrous results (such as ridiculously expensive higher ed for worthless degrees that won't get people jobs thanks to the educational grant and loan systems dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the university system since the 70's, which gave us the student debt crisis). At least personal budgets seem to be doing better with Millennials than they are among Boomers. Sadly, one of the worst things done by many of the Boomers has been the flinging of "-phobe" and "-ist" at everyone who doesn't think like them. The Boomers in the media have spent the last 50 years demonizing everyone who wanted to avoid foreign entanglements, to decrease the size of government, and to not put mandates on how everyone has to think. Fought for freedom in the 60's and 70's for women and minorities, but haven't tolerated diversity of thought since the 80's. I guess you either die a hero or live long enough to become what you loathe. All along the way, there have been members of each generation that have fought change in some areas and demanded change in others. My parents are Boomers, but they've worked hard and earned pensions for their old age. I've seen a fair amount of other Boomers who've done likewise (hopefully the unions don't screw up their pension funds; that's yet another problem that's been going on, and 401(K)s aren't guaranteed either; my Grandmother was Greatest generation and had her retirement wiped out in the havoc of the early 2000s). Many Boomers were open to rights for minorities and women but opposed growing government debt. It's just the eternal back-and-forth. Nope, the biggest bones I have to pick with the Boomers is assuming that government is the answer to everything, assuming that there's an endless supply of prosperity in the US, and assuming that everything today is as cheap as it was when they were busy having LSD-feuled sex with people they don't remember in places where diseases like mange came back because they decided that things like "bathing" and "vaccines" were too conformist. That's not to mention trying to dump all their healthcare bills on younger generations via Obamacare, after they raided the Social Security fund and turned their retirements into a pyramid scheme leaving younger generations holding the bag.

[@Shualiksik]

Gen X starting to look like a forgotten generation

[@courtneybrock1]

From what I gather they like it that way...

[@deirdrejones5974]

Boomers hated us too with the whole slacker and loser vibe in art and music. They didn’t realize it was irony in their direction, constructed from their own derision.

[@ADerpyReality]

So boomers are Gen W then? To be fair much of the protests were from silent generation and creation by the mostly gen X & again silent gen.

[@deweyandpea22]

Sometimes I think it sucks that everyone glosses over GenX. None of us GenX-ers say anything, though, because we've been glossed over our entire lives (both parents worked, if you had both parents. Wore our house key on a chain around our neck. Just feral latchkey kids who were labeled lazy, unmotivated and slackers) Just stay out of the line of fire. At least we had real MTV, I guess.

[@nickchavarria8052]

Im thinking the hate cycles when the next genaration after millennials comes round. I’m too cynical to think that the majority of millennials wont follow a similar path to baby boomers

[@archer1949]

Boomers had a thirty year party and left the bills to everyone else. I’ve thought this for years and I was born in the 70’s.

[@timc9806]

Look up inflation rates once the gold standard was dropped in the 1973. everyone is in the same boat thanks to the fractional reserve system that took it's place. Wages have not kept up with compounded inflation over the years so everyone who is not super rich is being squeezed. In the 1970s due to the oil shock and the fall out from Vietnam, these are the inflation rates from 1974-1980. 12.3/6.9/4.9/6.7/9/13.3/12.5. In these years alone inflation was 65.6% and that is not compounded so would actually be a lot higher. From a random time of 1990-2000 then the total inflation for this period (uncompounded once again) was 32.7%. Did everyone's wages go up by 32.75? Nope. The fractional reserve system is the root of the Western economic system and is strangling everyone except those at the top. People don't even know it exists and therefore look at simple answers like 'blame the boomers.

[@b4ds33d]

Wages kept up if you made smart choices. Guess we know what boat you were on...

[@professionalinsultant3206]

@@b4ds33d your comment sounds dumb.

[@b4ds33d]

Professional Insultant and you are the authority.

[@professionalinsultant3206]

@@b4ds33d As least I don't sound like a smart ass like you. Only stupid people think they are smart.

[@malarkeymachine]

"Ok, boomer" is inherently a response. It's how we end a conversation that isn't had in good faith. Boomers who don't fit the archetype shouldn't take it personally.

[@economicist2011]

Exactly. It's not hating on a generation so much as it is condescendingly responding to those who condescend to us with gems like, "If marginal tax rates are increased by four percentage points on incomes over $3 million/year in an attempt to prevent interest on the national debt from increasing faster than actual current outlays, nobody will have any incentive to work, and they'll be just like you damn millennials watching the Facetube all day on their phones until the commies take over."

[@Tmanowns]

Yep. It's patronizing, and along the lines of, "sure Jan." It's essentially just saying "whatever, I know you refuse to listen, as if you're a child. Moving on."

[@funnelingspace9268]

@@Tmanowns that's not how people use it lol

[@anenemystand5582]

@Rxslinger let me guess. You watch ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

[@diegosanchez894]

It's also used against non boomers with very Boomer morals and opinions.

[@hailey9909]

"You can't get yours because I got mine" - baby boomer mentality

[@CreeperSlayer365]

Boomer: Kids these days don't know respect! Gen X: *Ignored* Millennial: Screw you old man you screwed over the economy! Gen Z: *Dancing*

[@cyeerieczar]

Dance away children, dance!

[@artdent9871]

As a Gen Xer, I think blaming a whole generation for what the top 1% are doing makes you a dupe, here's the real deal: When the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich started pouring millions every year into paying the hard Right to destroy the Middle Class (Neo-Cons, later the Tea Party, plus varients in most Western Countries) with policies that stalled wage growth, screwed organized labour, eliminated affordable tuition, attacked pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), and cutting social programs, all to give themselves massive profits and tax cuts. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Notice the top 1% have been getting richer and richer every year lately, and paying less and less in taxes, while everyone else seems screwed? Well, duh, once Communism fell the Middles Class was expendible, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so the super rich weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed Commies convincing the West's poor to unite against them, and those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generation for affordable university vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't on purpose. Chomsky's right, today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans fiscally a half Century ago, and you Americans didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media to manufacture consent for re-peasantizing the average American. Rich people are largely doing just fine in the post-Communist world, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. It's literally Dickensian;) OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and it wasn't a generation that screwed you, it was super-rich greedheads and their dumbass, working-class, right-wing dupes: "white males with no University education" MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant redn*cks who were fooled by dog whistles into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. Welcome to the 21st Century, "kids," there is no Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves ruled by millionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a rich Conservative's wet dream. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@artdent9871]

@@cyeerieczar OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least know how and why: it wasn't a Gen, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes of ALL AGES: "white males with no University education" MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant rac!sts who were fooled by dog whistles into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belong to, just to benefit the top 1%. Thus GOP policy since the Soviets started to fall in the '80s, they don't need a booming Middle Class to make nuclear-armed Commies look bad for threatening to put their super-rich base "up against the wall." Welcome to the 21st Century, "kids," there is no Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves ruled by millionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a rich Republican's, and Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream, a Black Mirror Sh!tshow only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century, and it's looking increasingly Dickensian out there, Duh.

[@artdent9871]

History says: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into paying hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so they could have helpless wage slaves and pay almost no taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the US Middle Class: unprecedented boom after Soviets get the Bomb, steep rise for decades, sudden stop in the '80s, then drops like a stone when the Berlin Wall falls in '90, QED. Remember Reagan's "Free" Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo-Cons, Gingrich, the Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, plus equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies these lapdogs of the wealthy implemented screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized blue- AND white-collar jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and cut social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed Commies convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had "proletariat" bread lines, but since the Berlin Wall fell, the only thing booming anymore is food banks. So those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generations for affordable university and good jobs vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them. Follow the money, duh. Chomsky's right tho': today's Dem leadership, as much as they try, would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago, and Americans didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' further Right every decade. The Dems are now called "Lefties" for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. So the rich are consistently getting richer in the post-Communist world, but most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same train as you are? 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant rac!sts who were fooled by dog whistles into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. It was the GOP's "Southern Strategy," so the majority didn't vote for it, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, 'kids,' there is no Middle Class to join anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. The Robber Barons are back, 'baby,' and by the way, they bought the GOP. So it's a Dickensian world again, and getting worse every day, watch yourselves, duh." [Partially clipped from a previous comment]

[@HiBuddyyyyyy]

*Dances the night away*

[@ATRStormUnit]

"Boomer" does not just describe an age group now, it describes an attitude.

[@callmepistol]

well put.

[@wirelesmike73]

In a way, it always has. "If there's one kind of person you just can't trust, it's a millionaire's kid." - Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa in 2019s "The Irishman"

[@thanatos101b]

The final cultural product of the Boomers, and their ultimate legacy is Fox News. Which tells you everything you need to know.

[@LoveDoctorNL]

Does the same go for Millennial? So an 80 year old who’s not making ends meet is a millennial? Confused Gen-X’er here

[@DiamondDuke614]

No, it literally defines a certain age group. That's the exact point of naming age groups.

[@AProvocateur]

Boomer: It's only a house Michael, what's that 7 avocado toasts? Millennial: *cries in student debt*

[@evelyncao412]

Please tell me that was an Arrested Development joke.

[@1005corvuscorax]

Back in 1990, we didn't have the internet or the phrase "OK Boomer", but I was giving that generation the same eye-roll that pretty much means the same thing. I've been hating on that generation for 30-some-odd years. yeah, I'm a 50 year old GenXer, and now I sound like a "We were doing it before it was cool" hipster :D :D BTW, I think the Millennials are spot on, and thankfully they have a far larger platform to express themselves than generations past.

[@vinylbuff1515]

The biggest haters I ever met of boomers were ALWAYS Gen-x, you guys tried your best and made great music, our generation (Gen-Z) will hopefully put things back on track

[@kimberlybernard4186]

We used the phrase "whatever" which is pretty much equal to "Ok Boomer". The one thing GenX, Millenials, and Gen Z have in common is the hate of Boomers.

[@crhu319]

I agree completely. I'm born 1964 but had a computer at 16, email at 18, and was working in computing by then. I never learned to drive until my mid 20s. So I think like a GenX er, sort of an elder one. I totally get how Millenials were hammered by high housing, high education prices and poor job prospects. Boomers lying about that just drives me nuts. I saw the very beginning of the education inflation, the commuter crunch, the lack of promotions as Boomers stayed in a tight job market rather than open up space by early retiring as their parents would have done if they could...

[@sinebar]

Millennial don't like GenExers either. Basically you're just baby boomer light.

[@wpaunan]

@@kimberlybernard4186 three generations who can't stand them. I've heard their parents couldn't stand them either. NO ONE can stand them. HA

[@lynnevetter]

"Ok boomer" was an obvious backlash imo. I am right on the edge of the millennial line and genx, plus being the eldest child in my house I got exposed to all my parents, older cousins, young aunts and uncles interests. And as well I have a very early memory. So I always felt slightly out of touch with the millennial line. So at some point after I graduated college, I noticed the "boomer" generation lashing out hardcore at millennials. They were called lazy, entitled, weird, etc and they totally dismissed us as children unfamiliar with the real world. But I was thinking.. wait a minute, we're your kids and grandkids , so where do you think we got this perceived attitude and lack of "Real world" from? Plus.. Hypocrisy! Then came, "ok boomer", and I thought, "well deserved". 😂😂😂

[@Ian-ei3jy]

"We don't burn our draft cards... we like living free" Ah yes, the freedom to be forcibly sent to war.

[@QuestionQuestionMark]

Ahh yes such freedom is a rare commodity. I bet you if he were sent he wouldn’t want to go.

[@marcusdaloia2974]

It's rather telling that they expect to be forced into a war that they wouldn't be willing to volunteer for.

[@movement2contact]

@@marcusdaloia2974 yeah, who wouldn't want to murder civilians half of the planet away, and then die of sepsis after being pierced by shit-stake...

[@fernandogaribaldi7349]

Freedom comes at a cost.

[@angrymoses]

@@fernandogaribaldi7349 about a buck O five. Murica.

[@tiffanyj9104]

My mom was born in the 1950s and she admitted to me last year that we (millenials) have it harder as young adults than she did. She said she's glad she was born earlier, life is too expensive now...😕 and that's coming from a black woman who lived through segregation & civil rights. 🤦🏽‍♀️🥴

[@jamjox9922]

Black communities were actually doing okay financially (not as great as White communities) under segregation. However, that doesn't mean they were living large and in charge--I'm just saying, they weren't starving. And that can be considered "good" if you ignore racial tension, being denied service for being black, and being under stress that you might literally get killed for your skin color just for looking at a white person in the eye--such cases are recorded. All this to say, it wasn't until the 80s with the crack epidemic that Black communities really fell apart--issues that they are still recovering from. Add to that, the war on drugs had many fathers locked up for carrying an ounce of marijuana--and the black communities fell further behind. Add to that: racial discrimination still exists, and your life today + Millenial issues (and as a black person in the US) is undoubtely a harder transition into independent adulthood than your mother in the 1950s. Such is the life we live in now.

[@MrSkabrus]

My granny lived Franco's regime an said the same to me

[@user-mb9nm7bq5e]

Jam Jox I just recently learned about the Tulsa riots where a relatively well off black town was destroyed by racist white people. It’s crazy how oppressed people can still do well, it’s even crazier that we allowed a bunch of racists to destroy the livelihood of innocent people after

[@MrUnder30seconds]

Why is everyone ignoring the elefant in the room? Overpopulation..

[@awwhellnaw8214]

I love being a country girl 😁 it hurt my heart to read that...life’s not too expensive hun. Live simple and follow God. Money is just paper.

[@sabrinakurosawa5516]

Absolutely justified. I was left alone and vulnerable by my abusive boomer parents. I watched the boomer parents of my friends resent their children for "stealing their youth" and how they had to get out of the house now (said before even reaching the legal age of 18) so they could have their life back. I watched my generation struggle with real fears of survival often facing homelessness while simultaneously being called entitled and lazy

[@Happytrooper6]

i feel like when older generations put down younger people they want to feel better about being old by portraying their generation as the last of the good ones. putting oneself on a pedestal makes being old and out of touch sting a lot less.

[@dirtyslag2612]

I believe getting older can allow for the reckoning of those things we've witnessed, while also having the capacity to right some of those wrongs, and then finally coming to terms with those things we cannot change. Unfortunately for that last bit, denial often proves too strong of a personal coping mechanism to be overruled.

[@trillionbones89]

Millenial: we want an economy more like you had Boomer: life is easier for you now, don't be a snowflake Millenial: not really, all was cheaper for you... Boomer: I know better than you Millenial: ok, boomer. Boomer: WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME

[@Moody-Boy]

This .. this right here.

[@Danzarr]

Millenial: I SAID "OK, BOOMER".

[@TheDavidLiou]

Listen here you little shit meme came into mind 🤣😂

[@sven1131]

You shouldn't want the economy they had. That is exatly how we came to this point. Everything cheaper is NOT the solution but the problem itself. I'm really shocked you as a Millenial or younger even chose these words.

[@trillionbones89]

@@sven1131 You do realise I oversimplified right? Also, rent for example was cheaper. I don't necessary want price control, but public programs.

[@GabrielKnightz]

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ~George Orwell And the wheels on the bus go round and round.

[@multima1000]

The world spins round and round lessons have to get learned

[@King_Sad_Boy]

I aim to break this. I actually have a lot of respect for gen Zers. They’re the most screwed and they know it.

[@haslum15]

Isn't that the point tho? Intelligent = Smart/Educated and Wise = Wisdom/Experience?

[@dplocksmith91]

We need to break the wheel.

[@schonlingg.wunderbar2985]

Education is steadily increasing on average, that is a fact, so the first part is true. But if people can't see that others may be smarter they cant be that wise.

[@nixpardus3575]

The “ok boomer” phrase is quite simply millennials way of telling boomers that they are really sick of their bullshit, how they spew out insults at millennials but when the millennials try to *calmly* explain the truth about situations the baby boomers often lose their collective shit “ArE yOu TaLkInG bAcK tO mE”

[@Thejigholeman]

when my father manages to fix something using knowledge he got from his dad and from grade/highschools that actually taught life skills, he proudly proclaims "Boomers Know Things" Boomers know things. no. boomers were taught things. boomers ignored their kids and stuck them infront of the tv/ps1/n64, then complained that their kids didn't just magically grow up to know everything they knew. i told him that we didn't get those lifestyle and life knowledge classes when i went to highschool "well, we got them when i went to highschool" oh, btw, i went to the exact same highschool he went to, it even has some of the same staff as when he went there. they got rid of those useless "life skill" classes to make room for really important things, like art history. and boy howdy, if that doesn't just sound like the most boomer thing you could do. "get rid of those home economics classes, the kids need to learn something really important... things like.... this african fat titty statue, and this bowl. they need to know where and when they were made. not something stupid like how to do taxes, or fix things around the house.

[@johnbainbridge9034]

Employing a decent shop teacher would've cost them property taxes and they couldn't have that because Ronny Raygun said it was evil and your dad wanted to flex on his neighbor by getting a bigger car.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

my dopamine levels got absolutely BLASTED from playing video games and tv and I would go to school running on yummy processed foods and boy could I just FOCUS on the helpful interesting MATH I was being taught at school.

[@maggie6]

Boomers didn’t change the education system. Governments did. And Americans learnt nothing because the only people they’re putting up for President are two cognitively challenged old men. You get the government you vote for.

[@dougdugle1347]

I like when the Gen-X people pop their heads up only to be caught in the crossfire.

[@AA5SA]

Don't worry, you'll forget we exist again in a minute.

[@aaronsoto1346]

This is hilarious

[@jorge6207]

We got screwed in the 90s and 00s, so no reason to not get screwed now.

[@DaBirdOfHermes]

X has always been defined the irrelevancy and inconsequence its generation

[@laurocoman]

@@jorge6207 you had Nirvana to feel pissed and sad about everything, that's something. Besides you practically invented the "It's cool not to give a fuck" attitude. That's not such a bad legacy.

[@YhighNinja]

It must really be nice to get a job after leaving high school and able to buy a house, a car and raise a family on one salary while some of us have 4 year degrees and struggle to pay rent. Ok boomer😒

[@DantesInferno96]

Unfamiliar with American culture so forgive me but hasn't it always been that way where you have to go to college to get a degree, which in turn you need to get a starter job?

[@Mastercrazybird]

@@DantesInferno96 In American culture, college used to be an option due to high school being really good back then. Unfortunately, those standards weren't raised, so college became a larger and larger requirement. Now, the requirement for higher education is so large that even if you get a Master's degree or higher, you still won't be able to take an entry-level job due to employers, especially older folks, wanting their new employees to have literal decades of experience that they simply cannot get.

[@DantesInferno96]

@@Mastercrazybird that's incredibly stupid. So what do young college graduates do for a living in America?

[@Mastercrazybird]

@@DantesInferno96 We hunt for unskilled labor that pays less and less and demands more and more work until we become obsolete due to companies automating our positions. Outside of that, we're living on our poor parents' money until we all starve to death. You can probably count the amount of college graduates with jobs in their actual specialized fields on two hands at this point.

[@DantesInferno96]

@@Mastercrazybird so from that it is safe to assume that a lot of young people may not be able to afford rent and bills. That is a very tough situation. A whole generation seems to be at fault here.

[@MrPhilEU]

I'm 62 and "ok boomer" gives me hope. I'm part of a generation who has known for decades (limits to growth, earth day, oil spills etc..) what we were screwing up and yet chose to ignore the damage done both environmentally and economically for the upcoming generations. Don't make "OK boomer" the goal, make it a starting point.

[@liberpolo5540]

REspect, man, respect!

[@benjaminmendezz]

Ok boomer

[@airabasa8577]

@@benjaminmendezz Bro.. He's on your side?? Why'd u 'OK boomer' him???

[@artdent9871]

EXCEPT: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into paying hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so they could have helpless wage slaves and pay almost no taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the US Middle Class: unprecedented boom after Soviets get the Bomb, steep rise for decades, sudden stop in the '80s, then drops like a stone when the Berlin Wall falls in '90, QED. Remember Reagan's "Free" Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo-Cons, Gingrich, the Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, plus equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies these lapdogs of the wealthy implemented screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized blue- AND white-collar jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and cut social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed Commies convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had "proletariat" bread lines, but since the Berlin Wall fell, the only thing booming anymore is food banks. So those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generations for affordable university and good jobs vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them. Follow the money, duh. Chomsky's right tho': today's Dem leadership, as much as they try, would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago, and Americans didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' further Right every decade. The Dems are now called "Lefties" for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. So the rich are consistently getting richer in the post-Communist world, but most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same train as you are? 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant rac!sts who were fooled by dog whistles into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. It was the GOP's "Southern Strategy," so the majority didn't vote for it, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, 'kids,' there is no Middle Class to join anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. The Robber Barons are back, 'baby,' and by the way, they bought the GOP. So it's a Dickensian world again, and getting worse every day, watch yourselves, duh." [Partially clipped from a previous comment]

[@artdent9871]

@@benjaminmendezz "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into paying hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so they could have helpless wage slaves and pay almost no taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the US Middle Class: unprecedented boom after Soviets get the Bomb, steep rise for decades, sudden stop in the '80s, then drops like a stone when the Berlin Wall falls in '90, QED. Remember Reagan's "Free" Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo-Cons, Gingrich, the Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, plus equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies these lapdogs of the wealthy implemented screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized blue- AND white-collar jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and cut social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed Commies convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had "proletariat" bread lines, but since the Berlin Wall fell, the only thing booming anymore is food banks. So those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generations for affordable university and good jobs vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them. Follow the money, duh. Chomsky's right tho': today's Dem leadership, as much as they try, would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago, and Americans didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' further Right every decade. The Dems are now called "Lefties" for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. So the rich are consistently getting richer in the post-Communist world, but most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same train as you are? 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant rac!sts who were fooled by dog whistles into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. It was the GOP's "Southern Strategy," so the majority didn't vote for it, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, 'kids,' there is no Middle Class to join anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. The Robber Barons are back, 'baby,' and by the way, they bought the GOP. So it's a Dickensian world again, and getting worse every day, watch yourselves, duh." [Partially clipped from a previous comment]

[@loading2124]

When people call my teacher boomer, he says, "okay zoomer."

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

Lol

[@insaniicandee8836]

It doesn't hit as hard lmao

[@Zeverinsen]

Which makes it clear that "ok boomer" really hurts, because gen Z doesn't give a fuck.

[@charbplus]

"Ok boomer is the idea of throwing a beer bottle at the Berlin Wall, you know it won't do anything to the wall, but damn does it feel good" -some Zoomer

[@Aadam711]

Nah, Zoomers will barely know the wall was there.

[@charbplus]

Ok boomer

[@Aadam711]

@@charbplus Dude, I barely think about the wall being a thing and I was born three years after it was torn down.

[@charbplus]

Imma keep it real with you I was born 2 years after 9/11

[@aprilscorner4096]

@@Aadam711 bruh I'm gen z and I know about it. Ya'll sure love discrediting young people huh? Smh

[@moonp123]

“To figure what inspired the first wave of boomer hating, we need to go back in time real quick to the Middle Ages” 😂

[@stephendacey8761]

Born in 62', I'm considered a "younger boomer". I must admit growing up as a teenager in the 70's was awesome. We had everything. Life was good, and we just figured it would just keep getting better. Boy, were we wrong. I'm happy I grew up when I did with pop culture so much better than it is today. Life was good, but I believe greed, especially in the 80's (watch the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas) brought America down. People were obsessed with buying things that they could not afford, and by 1990 the party was over.

[@IggyStardust1967]

Boomer: Kids these days rely too much on technology! Millennials: Like that oxygen tank you drag with you everywhere? Gen-X: Hey, Gen Z... you want another beer? This shit is getting good!

[@courtneybrock1]

@@kam3425 Well, if anyone is going to give them one it's Gen X...hahaha

[@Moszan]

Millennials (Gen Y): best comeback

[@liberpolo5540]

@@Moszan AGREEEEEEEEEEED!

[@likira111]

Why are you bullying people for needing an oxygen tank?

[@wolfman_jagermeistro8445]

@@courtneybrock1 lmao so true

[@SmolRageMatti]

I never saw it as us hating on boomers. I primarily use it as a clap back to boomers who are just there to fight, insult, and waste my time rather than have a discussion, like my aunt. We are tired of being blamed for killing industries as if we are all banding together. We are ignored and disregarded. We just dont make the money needed to keep those businesses at the high point they used to be. Its just become exhausting.

[@DomyTheMad420]

Nrzusy that's... Painfully accurate.

[@zekewalker1350]

Honestly its not even hatred for me, its frustration. I'm frustrated by the fact that we have all of the numbers and statistics that prove we're being underpaid(like he says, while being more educated) and boomers wanna turn around and blame us for "killing industries" as if we have even half the collective spending power that they did. Many also do't want to admit that voting conservatively in this age means actively creating a worse future in the long run, because of what may benefit them in the short run.

[@s.l.3281]

@@zekewalker1350 your comment deserves an applause 👏 so true about conservative voting. Older people who vote conservative won't live to see the negative consequences, so they don't care. "Give me tax breaks for retirement pleeease, then I'll die, leaving the next generation worse off!"

[@s.l.3281]

@@artdent9871 so you're just gonna post this unintelligable crap on every comment then ?

[@rahcollier7006]

I understand then general frustration with boomers, I really do. But the thing is, I noticed folks taking the piss out of millenials when I was in high school. When a lot of us were in high school. Of course we were entitled little punks then, that's just teens for you. I think this reaction to boomers is in part due to millennials getting sick of the stereotype since it no longer applies. Also, while the whole okay boomer thing does play to stereotypes based on current age demographics, and that can be dangerous and hurtful, the boomers, as a group, are not an oppressed minority. It's a question of punching up vs punching down. Context varies, but I think overall, ok boomer is punching up, or at least meant to be.

[@alexandergriffith1825]

Hating Boomers was a trend that became a meme, not a meme that became a trend.

[@hinduhillbilly]

As a late era Boomer (I always felt more Gen X) I think this whole divide comes down to the fact that some Boomers do not realize how much they benefited from economic and government policies that were not available to later generations. They falsely believe they did it all on their own. It's not a matter of opinion. College expenses and debt are up, so are medical and housing costs while wages are painfully stagnant. We can't start to address this generational injustice until we acknowledge that it exists. (Side fact: people 55 and older own 72 percent of the wealth in the US even though they make up less than 34 percent of the population.)

[@DanTheRVMan]

You made a video about a meme and became a meme in the process.... "But before we get into [the philosophy of ok bummer] I want to give a shout out to this week's sponsor raid shadow legends" Lol.

[@shinkamui]

well they have to pay the bills right? cause the boomers sure as hell wont

[@vilstef6988]

I'm a boomer, and the generation which has failed me the most is my own. I do not envy Millenials and younger who have the mess made by my contemporaries. I'm as ready to say "OK Boomer" as anyone younger.

[@VanquishMediaDE]

There are a few decent Boomers and you are one of them. Thank you for having enough level headedness to have self insight into your communities problems. That sort of honesty is hard to come by.

[@itsVilu]

Gene Miller, How did you, as a 70+ years old figure out the technology ? Most 70+ years old people I know are either dead or don't know anything about computers/smartphones or internet.

[@vilstef6988]

@@itsVilu I'm a middle-ish boomer and knew how to type before I hit high school. I've been on the internet from the time that I had a computer able to get there. I figured out search engines intuitively and if there were skills I needed, I made it a point to learn them. FWIW, I have a sister 7 years older than me who will not go on a computer and is pretty uncertain using a cell phone. I have a younger friend whose Father is online all the time, does gaming etc and is in his 90s. If he has a problem online, he screams for help. (He's somewhat fearless about new tech because he's ex-military, serving WWII to Vietnam.) I know the very basic trick of rebooting the computer and sometimes come up with workarounds for problems.

[@ryanangelo8392]

@@itsVilu The younger Boomers are in their 50s, and many have worked in technology for years. But regardless, how does having an understanding of technology relate to the ability to accurately analyze, critique and condemn an entire generation (even if it is your own)?

[@HolyDemonRune]

Not to pester, but I have an earnest question. Was this your view for a while or has this been a recent development for you? If it is a recent development, do you think this is because of the growing *public* resentment, or perhaps it was inevitable to feel this way?

[@corgifloofi4840]

The Boomer had everything handed to them on a golden platter and has the nerve to believe they "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps"

[@shawniscoolerthanyou]

I laugh whenever someone says that they pulled themselves up by bootstraps. It was originally uses as a statement about something absurd that couldn't be done. The point being that anyone saying they did it is crazy or a liar.

[@primereview9727]

Clar Wikk to be fair a massive problem is romanticising the past, everyone does it and it leads to some terrible ideas usually involving making something “great again”

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

Yeah as if they can live better and more independent without semi-age people like us. I didn't even reach 40s and beyond

[@ryanangelo8392]

We did not have everything handed to us. Most of us came from larger families (boomer generations had larger families...I came from a family of ten). Bigger families meant parents had to financially and practically struggle to raise large broods of kids. We pretty much had NO assistance or help with things like domestic violence, child abuse, incest/sexual abuse, bullying, ADHD, teen suicide, and autism. The younger generations have gotten assistance in all of these areas. The boomers also had to take out student loans for college. But to be fair, college is much less affordable for younger generations. Younger people have been saddled with huge student loan debt.

[@justas423]

@@primereview9727 the "again" part is important because it implies it was great but now it's not. And the vagueness of it let's you lump in anything you don't like into the thing that "ruined" it and use what you like as a "solution".

[@pacoramon9468]

Boomers are weak people born in good times.

[@fruff30]

Says the millenial/genz ohh the irony.

[@feeler6670]

@@fruff30 yeah, cause working multiple precarious jobs during covid years just to pay off rent and tuition loans shows we're having such a gOoOod time. stfu

[@LucaxCorp]

@@fruff30 - Aww... Did the Boomer make a mess in his adult nappy?

[@normahamilton2985]

Boomers are NOT at all weak or cowards. Selfish is a more appropriate adjective.

[@ellelongacre3723]

I was born in 1998. Columbine was in 1999. There's been a minimum of three school shootings per yer since. I got to see kids younger than me doing walk outs begging for people in power (often who were boomers) to create litigation to make it harder for us to get shot with little to no results. I got to see the grandparents and grandaunts who raised us to be polite vote for a man who regularly cusses out women and starts fights for no reason. I got to watch New York Flooded and shut down by storms that would not happen without global warming and then watch the chairman of the Environmental works and Protection Agency throw a snowball to prove it didn't exist. Yes. I'm a little bit angry. I think we've a lot of us have been rather angry for a while, and I'm amazed it's taken a catchy meme for boomers to notice.

[@crstph]

98 liner here too! and im not amazed at all, only that it took us so long to realize the only way to get boomers to notice us was to stop listening to them🙃 🙃

[@craycraywolf6726]

Hey fellow Gen Zers! 😁

[@shootingbricks8554]

In 1996, the Secret Service made recommendations to improve school safety without use of armed guards. Boomer school superintendents ignore these useful tips

[@williamapodaca8614]

Of course, those shootings are largely single victim incidents, and you're far more likely to die in some other form of freak accident than a school shooting

[@mccaylawhite8900]

Millennials and Gen Z to boomers: you’ve become the very thing you sought to destroy

[@josephgeorge5741]

Co-signing for Gen-X here.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

Unfortunately, most of them did indeed live long enough to become the villain.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Boomer: "OK Boomer dismisses my feelings and I don't like it!" X/Y/Z: "That's exactly the point, you've been doing it to us for years!" Boomer: **Dismisses that reasoning entirely and walks away angry at youths**

[@artdent9871]

um, no, you kids are screwed, here's why: When the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich started pouring millions every year into paying the hard Right to destroy the Middle Class (Neo-Cons, later the Tea Party, plus variants in most Western Countries) with policies that stalled wage growth, screwed organized labour, eliminated affordable tuition, attacked pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), and cutting social programs, all to give themselves massive profits and tax cuts. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Notice the top 1% have been getting richer and richer every year lately, and paying less and less in taxes, while everyone else seems screwed? Well, duh, once Communism fell the Middles Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad, and those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generation for the current mess. Rich people are largely doing just fine in the post-Communist world, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. It's literally Dickensian;) Granny is a Walmart greeter or eating dog food for a reason, kids. OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and it wasn't a generation that screwed you, it was super-rich greedheads and their dumbass, working-class, right-wing dupes: "white males with no University education" MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant redn*cks who were fooled into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belong to, just to benefit the top 1%. Welcome to the 21st Century, "kids," there is no Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves ruled by millionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a rich Republican's wet dream. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@artdent9871 take your pills grandpa

[@artdent9871]

@@ThrottleKitty I'm Gen X, a dozen Xers and I got Med Pot legalized in Canada in '01, resulting in total legalization now. I'm also a Journalist with a History major, and WATCHED this happen: When the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich started pouring millions every year into paying the hard Right to destroy the Middle Class (Neo-Cons, later the Tea Party, plus variants in most Western Countries) with policies that stalled wage growth, screwed organized labour, eliminated affordable tuition, attacked pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), and cutting social programs, all to give themselves massive profits and tax cuts. Ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class, while Govt debt has ballooned. Notice the top 1% have been getting richer and richer every year lately, and paying less and less in taxes, while everyone else seems screwed? Well, duh, once Communism fell the Middles Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad, and those rich pr!cks are mostly laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parent's and grandparent's generation for the current mess. Rich people are largely doing just fine in the post-Communist world, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. It's literally Dickensian;) Granny is a Walmart greeter or eating dog food for a reason, kids. OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and it wasn't a generation that screwed you, it was super-rich greedheads and their dumbass, working-class, right-wing dupes: "white males with no University education" MY ASS, they've largely been ignorant redn*cks who were fooled into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belong to, just to benefit the top 1%. Welcome to the 21st Century, "kids," there is no Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves ruled by millionaires who are essentially above the law, a dystopian nightmare that seems like a rich Republican's wet dream. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@artdent9871]

@@ThrottleKitty you're screwed because the Middle Class was gutted by the super rich, who allowed it to expand when the Soviets got the bomb, and gutted it as soon as the Soviets fell.

[@artdent9871]

@@ThrottleKitty ALL Gens are on a slow boat to the 19th Century, why do you think Granny works at Walmart instead of eating dog food? Enough rich paid the Right to screw everyone else, Duh.

[@DretFosria]

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - The Batman

[@themorningstar9704]

Bold of you to assume they were every the heros

[@amandacole6673]

Batman was always the villain. A billionaire with PTSD who engages in vigilantism to feel good instead of getting the psychological help he so obviously needs.

[@DretFosria]

@@amandacole6673 I think you're being a bit harsh on the bat. He's a self-made billionaire after he got his parents killed. And there are many active soldiers with PTSD that are still perfectly able to distribute democracy through the barrels of their guns.

[@LgiovanniF]

That was Harvey Dent.

[@obody-sl9np]

My grandmother lived while WWII was a big thing... Her life after 14 though, was pretty great. She could find a job whenever she wanted and all 6 of her brothers had well paying jobs, houses and families they could easily support. She got married and her husband (my grandfather) built a three floors house where they lived and still live. She always discusses with other baby boomers how hard things will be for us, cuz they had a rough beginning and the rest of their lives were great. We had an ok start, though the rest of our lives is unsure. I have been working since I was 14. This is the generation that " *has everything easy* "

[@douglasphillips5870]

The world was their oyster, and they left only the empty shell.

[@yassi8814]

Douglas Phillips ouch Probably hurts because it is true

[@steve00alt70]

No

[@InternetMameluq]

Half shell

[@clumsycommissar5260]

You deserve more likes! Take mine!

[@kritische3959]

Alex Komarov What, to get ancient relics?

[@loszhor]

Saying that Boomers thought that the good times would never end is very apt. They expect that the world is the same for us as it was for them. It's like they never heard of leaving the world a better place than when you entered it.

[@Sol-fo2zu]

I love how as soon as the generational insults were turned back on them the Boomers lost their MINDS

[@friendlyneighbourhoodbridg1354]

I work in retail. The hate that Boomers give to Gen Z and Millennials is real, and most Boomer-hate is justified

[@memyself898]

"Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: “gimme-it it’s mine”! “give-me-that it’s mine”! These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them, and they took it all. Took it all. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. And they stayed loaded for twenty years, and had a free ride, but now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age burn-out, and they don’t like it. They don’t like it so they’ve turned self-righteous, and they want to make things hard on younger people. They tell them to: “abstain” from sex. “Say no” to drugs. As for the rock-n-roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago, so they could buy pasta-machines, and “stair-masters”, and “soybean-futures”. “Soybean-futures”. George Carlin in '96

[@micahwright5901]

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is better than sex, drugs, and mumble rap.

[@lefthand133]

"They went from cocaine to rogaine" is my favorite from that bit.

[@memyself898]

@@lefthand133 they're still measuring grams only now it's fat grams

[@BunkerBlog]

@@micahwright5901 I won't say that boomers had "better" music (as there's just sooooo much more music avaliable now days that to say such a thing is just short sighted), but I will say that boomers had better POPULAR music.

[@micahwright5901]

Shark Bait I’ll drink to that.

[@firebrandsgirl]

My dad is in silent generation and he has stories. 8 before going school, science awards in high school, war vet, traveled around the world, civil rights, degrees, businesses, wife, children. He is still driving, moving, laughing, watching the news, thinking and writing.

[@hello7032]

King

[@foxymetroid]

There's an old saying, though I forget where it's from. "Wealth does not survive three generations". What it means is that those who did not earn what they were given are more likely to lose it. Boomers are essentially the generation that lost and wasted the nation's wealth and prosperity because they weren't the ones that worked and bled for it. And now many of them blame Millennials and Gen Z. The Greatest Generation and Silent Generation went through the worst period for the West in recent history. It was so horrible having to worry about starving and tyrants that they went a little overboard ensuring their children, the Baby Boomers, never had to experience such hardship. This resulted with what's likely the most entitled generation since we've started naming the generations. The Lost Generation had WWI and a radically changing world afterward. The Greatest and Silent Generations had the Great Depression, WWII, and the Korean War. Millennials and Gen Z have an economy where many are forced into a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situation with college and debt as well as an environment that seems to be speeding toward being damaged beyond repair. The Baby Boomers had a booming economy and growing infrastructure. They had a Cold War that was won without any real fighting outside the occasional proxy-war. Many of them are hated because they refuse to see just how lucky they were, instead blaming the younger generations for not being born in the right time period as well as for not having the skills they refused to teach.

[@thorgalldjnexa]

I'm a Gen X, and when i can piss off a boomer : it's a good day! :)

[@sirragno1923]

So you're about 40+ years old?

[@pillmuncher67]

@@sirragno1923 Hey! Im GenX and I'm 53!

[@jamiemcquarrie2482]

Gen X: In my day, old people (Silent and Greatest generations) were nice

[@patfuss8998]

My grandparents are the silent generation and they’re honestly an underrated generation

[@TheKnizzine]

@@patfuss8998 Gen X seems pretty okay when you ignore getting wrapped up in politics.

[@yotsubafanfan]

@@TheKnizzine My grandparents were the Silent gen and my Mom is Gen X. Most all of these people are chill and I've seen little entitlement. Meanwhile my Dad and ESPECIALLY my Uncle sort of have this entitlement to them.

[@alienblade2005]

@@patfuss8998 fun fact: generational traits are cyclical. Currently gen z is the cycled silent generation e.g. the song "I like bananas, because they have no bones" is similar to gen z and gen y abstract humor

[@newbienoobframebyframe4108]

@@alienblade2005 i like bananas because they have no bones is supposed to be funny??? I thought the song was ment to patronize the audience...

[@LPVince94]

*Boomer*: Spends over half his life talking shit about those younger than him, looking down on them, belittling them,... *Some random Millenial after decades of suffering through those condescending clowns (slightly agitated)*: _ok boomer_ *Boomer: hOw cOUld yOU!!???????*

[@agrandcanyonoffucksgiven2776]

Yeah I mean, its not like 24hour news hasnt found success with the headlines titled "Millenials ruin [Fill in the blank chain restaurant]".

[@wfox4418]

Vesten ziRnis Gen Z came up with it actually, God bless them- credit where it’s due.

[@swanpride]

"Just eat less avocado toast"... But I think this runs deeper than this, at least in the US and the UK. Boomers are exactly the people who voted again and again for less taxes and lower welfare. They basically pulled up the ladder behind them and are now complaining about their low pensions (and I am not meaning those who are genuinely poor with this), while Millennials can't even be sure if they will have a pension. And then they have the gall to complain about the millennials being the lazy ones, while constantly voting for raising the retirement age.

[@b4ds33d]

Vesten ziRnis you lost me at “millennials” and “suffering.” Could you be any more a beta?

[@InternetMameluq]

@@swanpride UK pensions have ballooned out of proportion multiplying over the past couple decades. They're doing fine. The only fucking welfare system that has not only kept pace with inflation, but DOUBLED over the period boomers began retiring.

[@nunyabiz6918]

My nickname... throughout my ENTIRE LIFE has been boomer. So, if there’s any Karens available for Saturday lunch-ins, I’ll be holding support groups at home.

[@salooms5761]

This video reminded me of an uber driver, he mentioned a thing about this generation is lazy and entitled, he was above 40, for sure. I refuted his arguments, I told him they’re not lazy as you think nor privileged, given most students work to keep up there bills, also they live in faster more demanding world, which makes it more stressful for them, they’re far less when comparing to young people from where i come from. I am not from the US, But i lived 6 years as a students. Also I am graduating this next May hopefully, wish me luck😅

[@martinreid2352]

There are two kinds of boomers: 1) those who realize their mistakes, and 2) those who get mad at being ok-boomer’d.

[@joannamontgomery882]

Type 3: was too busy struggling with institutional poverty and racism to be in a position to make those mistakes in the first place.

[@reshawndrezenbarriga7218]

Jo Anna Montgomery there are some boomers that are very nice and even admit that there generation is wrong

[@Robert-rw5lm]

only a Sith deals in Absolutes!

[@TheNinthGenerarion]

John Taylor well considering your minimum wage in 1970 is equivalent to $18 an hour today, I’d say me being paid $7 an hour is not enough money to afford your lifestyle

[@TheNinthGenerarion]

John Taylor no, I actually used a calculator based on inflation between now and then and the buying power of minimum wage back then was equivalent to $18 an hour today due to inflation

[@meishcool]

Missed an opportunity to call it "Boomer Bashing." I love alliteration

[@guesstimation]

You adore alliteration, you mean

[@VeNoMziV]

Listen to tech n9ne

[@definitiveentertainment1658]

Lex Javier Now you’ve begun to appreciate the allure of assonance. Though maybe I’m being annoyingly academic in my approach 😅 (I couldn’t resist omg I’m the literal worst human)

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

Same fam

[@artdent9871]

Food for thought: Using pejorative terms to stereotype identifiable groups is the definition of bigotry. OK Boomer IS Ch!nk IS Mick IS B!tch IS F@g IS W*tback IS a pejorative term used to stereotype an identifiable group, which IS BIGOTRY. The more oppressed the group, the more offensive it is, but against ANY group stereotyping is just how dumb people think. That's just what bigotry is, bad thinking by stupid people about an identifiable "Other," whether it's race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference or demographic. Think Logan's Run if you don't think demographic should be on that list, yaknow, let's kill EVERYBODY when they turn 30;)

[@AudreyLaura]

Boomer here, this video does a good job of explaining how things started so well in the 60's, but went so horribly wrong starting in the 70's and culminating in the 21st century.

[@LadyHawke78]

Young Xer here (1978...) Cool we were even mentioned. *goes back to smoking a bowl, drinking a beer, and laughing the inter-generational pissing-contest*

[@lovecupcakex642]

Why aren't u at work

[@LadyHawke78]

@@lovecupcakex642 - because I have enough seniority at my job to actually accrue a solid amount of vacation time. So I can do things such as take a day off.

[@craxnor]

Makes sense. Years of being blamed by a generation that has been in charge of everything was bound for ridicule. Like this 74 year old man at work, he makes the same as me, was bitching about millennials and threw a hissy fit and got my damn manager after I said ok boomer. He was literally bitching about millennials for about a freaking hour.

[@Peecamarke]

THANK YOU

[@myronaustin]

They demand respect yet refuse to give it. . .

[@Stephie2007]

I graduated from high school in 2008 when the economy was starting to nose dive and I still shake my head every time my dad buys a new car or goes on an expensive vacation. Meanwhile, I'm on disability and living paycheck to paycheck.

[@rhondabonner9856]

I've got the opposite situation. My son graduated in 2008 and I am on disability. I shake my head that he has to spend 100 dolars a day on takeout and starbucks but cant afford to pay me back any of the thousands he owes me because you know he needs to go on another vacation. Savings ? Thats not the millennial way.

[@Balmvng]

@@rhondabonner9856 What's a vacation?

[@AMReed8]

@@rhondabonner9856 Do YOU have savings from 1990 to 2008? Where did you get $1K's to give him in the first place?

[@wilhelmbeaston8003]

How is it your dad's fault you're on disability?

[@dreamlandnightmare]

Boomers love accusing younger generations of being self-entitled while literally being the most self-entitled generation.

[@pillmuncher67]

Fun Fact: We GenXers were the original Boomer haters.

[@nilorodriguez7132]

nobody gives a fuck about gen x

[@feeler6670]

@@nilorodriguez7132 You better give a shit. They're gonna be running this world while we're gone.

[@nilorodriguez7132]

@@feeler6670 lmao I dont think so, most of gen x dont even have a Degree lol

[@JdeC1994]

Speak for yourself. From what I've seen, we've worshiped them much, much more than we've hated them (e.g., awestruck, dime-a-dozen Xer: Wow, I wish I'd been there at Woodstock).

[@pillmuncher67]

@@JdeC1994 Those people I hated too.

[@AVeraFluidProject]

did anyone notice the subtitles were just advertising raid shadow legends over the actual vid

[@RandomU5erName]

The rebellious hippie grew up to be a corporate yuppie. Boomers sold out

[@alwayschanging5821]

The true hippies got thrown in jail with the blacks who were mass incarcerated and the rest of the "hippies" were just stupid people that follow the crowd... then became corporate yuppies lol

[@NordicWildSoul]

@@alwayschanging5821 Exactly, many revolutionary activists were taken out by the government in the 1970's.

[@medcen4955]

Fair enough. And Millennials arent even worth buying to get them to sell out.

[@asscheeks3212]

Astral Luminosity OR... still holding their communist beliefs while hypocritically aids the CIA ratting out OTHER revolutionaries *cough* Orwell *cough* black Panthers *cough* communists who turn on their own *cough* Sino soviet split. Left eats their own, always. USA only won by funding communism... against each other. That’s the most hilarious thing.

[@cv4809]

@Ramp Shark fuck you

[@Peecamarke]

Makes sense to me. Boomers criticized mellenials as we were growing up, calling us snowflakes, short attn, etc.. and now that us mellenials are older with more autonomy we're lashing back

[@haleyspence]

My mom literally threw the "everyone got a trophy" thing in my face yesterday omg. XD

[@tacofacefart]

Zoomers and millennials expect everything for free. Free college, free rent, free food, free jobs, free special consideration and pts on the back of you are a minority or a woman. They don't want to think or contribute to any of the these things. It's just the give me give me give me mentality of the generations. I would trade being a boomer for being a millennial any day.

[@smexehcougah3]

@@tacofacefart Because guaranteed work, affordable housing, and robust social programs are something you wouldn't know anything about I'm sure *rolls eyes*

[@Urelasir]

@@tacofacefart Yeah, I dont think you know what you are talking about.

[@skunkman62]

@@haleyspence that is something I don't understand. We invent the participation trophy then throw it back in the Millennials faces for accepting it.

[@niahoad]

The south park hippi episode nailed it: OMG our kids are hanging around with people, who act like when we were young! Shows clip of parents making out on LSD at a festival

[@KarlSnarks]

Randy slipping on his own vomit

[@LgiovanniF]

For "parents making out on LSD" read screwing in public on their own vomit.

[@Breidablik06]

I remember my mom throwing a fit that I am considering not having kids right away when I get older. In this economy, I would barely be able to afford myself, how could I possibly afford a second being needing so much attention and money while still having a job

[@RichardDuryea]

I'm having a difficult time with my dad. I know he loves me and all but I'm often reminded that when he was my age, he already owned a house and had 2 kids.

[@ablebodied175]

That's literally 3 investments at once. Holy fuck imagine that.

[@shinkamui]

don't take that reminder as a bad thing. Getting a house now is 10x as hard and you're not failing 2 kids like the ones before us did.

[@Phantom9252]

Boomers: The generation given everything and returned nothing.

[@artdent9871]

You write from your Star-Trek inspired cell phone;) Only idiots think blacks are X, women are Y, Catholics are Z, it's how stupid people think: it's called bigotry whether you apply stereotypes to race, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, socio-economic class, profession, hair colour, or where someone comes from: stupid people deal with the real world by imposing self-serving generalizations, called stereotypes, on those different than themselves, that's the essential definition of bigotry. Black people can hold prejudicial, bigoted views of white people, however, as I clearly stated, the more oppressed the group, the more offensive the bigotry against them is considered, but bigotry is bigotry. Ironically, after my initial (Sociology-based) definition of bigotry went over most people's heads, I ADDED a bigoted statement to the end, "kids" used pejoritively (about as offensive as OK Boomer), but then that went over the heads of everyone who commented "OK Boomer," so then I actually POINTED OUT "kids" was bigoted with a sarcastic, "shoe on the other foot" intro, and not one of the bigots posting OK Boomer spotted it, kinda proving that no matter what your age, people who are bigots are, well, stupid, whether they are pejoratively stereotyping others by age, race, religion, nationality, class, gender, etc etc etc. Read this and see what all those bigoted "kids" saying "OK Boomer" missed: Just to put the shoe on the other foot and illustrate my point about stereotyping: How's the Incel part of Millenial working out for you, kid? Mass murder any women lately, Incel? That's a MILLENIAL thing, isn't it? Just askin, nothing offensive about stereotyping, right? Think about it, KID;) Using pejorative terms to stereotype identifiable groups is the definition of bigotry. OK Boomer IS Ch!nk IS Mick IS B!tch IS F@g IS W*tback IS a pejorative term used to stereotype an identifiable group, which IS BIGOTRY. The more oppressed the group, the more offensive it is, but against ANY group stereotyping is just how dumb people think. That's just what bigotry is, bad thinking by stupid people about an identifiable "Other," whether it's race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference or demographic. Think Logan's Run if you don't think demographic should be on that list, yaknow, let's kill EVERYBODY when they turn 30;) You CAN talk about "Boomers" IF you realize there were a LOT of them who fought the status quo you are justifiably shredding, and qualify it so you're not overtly stereotyping: "It seems like Boomers..." or "The reality they left us..." or "I feel they don't...", that last one is good, you can "feel" anything you want and it's bulletproof in terms of an argument, but naked, bigoted, pejorative, blunt terms like "OK BOOMER" are just how idiots think. Be subtle, nuanced, and avoid stereotypes. I'm gen X btw, I just really don't like bigots, and I hate to see you kids fall into bigotry so easily;)

[@empowl1607]

@@artdent9871 You're gullible fools that wrecked our entire civilization. You left us with untold trillions in debt and unfunded liabilities. You're a scourge.

[@artdent9871]

@@empowl1607, the Republicans are the ones wracking up trillions in debt: cutting taxes for the richest Americans while leaving spending unchecked was GOP policy under Dubya and Trump, duh the US is trillions in debt. If the rich paid their fair share, either party could balance the books, but once the Berlin Wall fell, the über rich started pouring millions every year into popularizing the hard Right (Neo-Cons, and later the Tea Party, with varients in most Western Countries), paying for policies that stalled wage growth, screwed organized labour, eliminated affordable tuition, attacked pensions and benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), and cutting social programs, all to give themselves massive profits and tax cuts, while ever-increasing numbers have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, frozen out of higher education and the vanishing Middle Class. Notice the top 1% has been getting richer and richer every year lately, while everyone else seems screwed? Well, duh, that's the OBVIOUS payoff for funding the hard Right's policies, and those rich pr!cks are laughing their asses off at younger generations blaming their parents and grandparents for it all. The rich, politically-powerful elite f*cked everyone on purpose as soon as the Berlin Wall fell, previous generations had nothing to do with it: rich kids are doing just fine in the post-Communist world, while everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. It's literally Dickensian;) OK Boomer MY ASS, everyone posting that is a bigoted dupe! Yeah you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how and why, and it wasn't a generation that screwed you, it was super-rich greedheads and their dumbass, working-class, right-wing dupes: "white males with no University education," ie ignorant redn*cks you can fool into voting for ANYONE. Welcome to the 21st Century, "kid," there is no Middle Class anymore, just wage slaves and millionaires. [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@empowl1607]

@@artdent9871 Obama added ten trillion to the debt. Democrats have added at least twenty-eight trillion in unfunded liabilities since 1960.

[@empowl1607]

@@artdent9871 Clinton brought China into the WTO and made NAFTA happen.

[@GadsdenHomie1776]

I'm a millinial. My parents are the baby boomer, "basket of deplorables" type. Unfortunately. I have a disability and they have always told me I am a waste of space. When I was in my teens, they kicked me out of the house for being lgbtq+. Despite my disability, I've always tried to live on my own or with friends. Ever since the pandemic, I am stuck living with my parents. They make me stay in a bedroom unless I need to eat food. I don't understand their behavior. I've been shoved aside and isolated from potential, healthy minded extended family members bc my disability is an embarrassment for them. They probably make up lies about me to them anyway. My Aunt does not care for my parent's behaviors. Sometimes I just want to go to her for moral support but I'm scared she's just going to shove me aside too. Then again, I've never been treated any other way. Surely, not everyone treats others as a punching bag. It's not normal that my parents tell me it'd be better for them if I just died. Makes me feel horrible. I just pray to God for strength and to be out on my own again soon. Thankyou to anyone and/or everyone who read my comment. It's the little things that matter.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

i hope your doing better

[@fyodorbocalbos7997]

I only realized now how deep the Wisecrack team can get in terms of research and analysis. I think the team behind the script and research did an excellent job! Props to you guys! 😁

[@goi2008]

“Basically, the memes are right: Boomers are hypocritical, world-ruining scolds.”

[@voxomnes9537]

@Mary Teresa Ok boomer.

[@wirelesmike73]

@Mary Teresa Which was who edsactly?

[@linoleluminum2017]

You'll find out when you're living with the Socialist leaders that you admire, and the most hilarious...... you believe

[@linoleluminum2017]

@Mary Teresa is.. wrecking the nation

[@goi2008]

Wow, these replies... Should I point out that my comment has quotes around it...?

[@TheresaWheeler]

Gen X when you briefly mentioned us: OMG you see us! WE DO EXIST!😭

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

They are the middle generation right now eventually they will be the focus in 10 or 15 years

[@paranoidrodent]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr Only if the boomers actually leave us all that wealth as an inheritance instead of blowing it all on themselves. I'm not holding my breath here. Most of us Gen Xers are just hoping to be able to retire, maybe have a paid off mortgage and be able to afford our kids' education so they don't end up buried in student debt.

[@nohrianscum9791]

Get ready for Gen Z and whatever we call the next one vs. Gen X!

[@laurettelaliberte8864]

Exactly!! :)

[@laurettelaliberte8864]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr We are in our 40s and 50s, and the gens on either side are a much larger demographic. I'm in marketing, Most of our work focused on targeting the Boomer gen up until about five years ago. Now its all "How can we reach the millennials?"

[@saturationstation1446]

boomers can always be counted on to dramatically exaggerate anything they did in life. they spent a single day without food = "i worked 15 years without sleeping or eating ONCE!" .... walked a quarter mile in the snow one time = "i used to walk ten miles in the snow every day in the winter to go to work for less than minimum wage, in fact i had to pay my boss to work for him!"

[@uinsel]

it reminds me of my mum. always having an answer to my problems. that never works because the world commenced to turn. blaming me for not solving my problems when she already gives me the answers which worked for her. she who worked for one company her entire life until retirement, never having to apply for a job ever.

[@Droemar]

I read an article where Bill Flanagan said Boomers were scolded by the Greatest Generation that "you had everything handed to you." And now, Millennials are saying "You had everything handed to you." So let the record show that Boomers don't give a fuck and never have.

[@Zeverinsen]

Just goes to show that parenting is important. The greatest gen spoiled the boomers, and so the boomers spoiled everything for everyone else.

[@blackromulan]

Once again Generation X got passed over in this analysis like a Jewish holiday.

[@cockatooinsunglasses7492]

HAHA

[@commandercaptain4664]

Much like all memes, Gen X gets hit by the phrase too, because lack of disparity. Soon, millennials will be called boomers, and the circle of life continues. Hakuna boomtata.

[@fernforwood3989]

Black Romulan Yeah, but it’s okay because we don’t give a shit.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

Lucky Gen X. Under the radar seems like a rather good place to be in an intergenerational conflict.

[@Chad_Thundercock]

Possibly because GenX wasn't responsible for the inflated housing market, stagnant wages, and wealth disparity we see today. GenX fought corporate culture, and the trends that left us where we are today. GenX tried to save the system by rebelling against it. And that rebellion is what kept today from being worse than it already is.

[@TylerAForti]

2:17 to skip the Raid Shadow Legends ad. You're welcome

[@noozzoo5152]

Identity politics. The broad generalization of an entire group, rather than the deeds of the individual.

[@wfox4418]

I think I’ve pinpointed the reason “ok boomer” is so infuriating (or at least one reason). It’s verbal passive resistance. Parents and teachers should recognize it for what it is. You don’t argue with an unruly kid, they want the attention and feed off it. You don’t give them attention until they calm down enough to actually talk. Anyway, I suspect many boomers do recognize the attitude and are pissed that their children and grandchildren are treating them like kids.

[@11FBA11]

That is what makes it so funny. Its not a vulgar insult or a slur. Its dismissal. "You have screwed up the world, therefore your opinion is no longer valid."

[@nickchavarria8052]

dewfish I just think hatred of the older generation is hypocritical because they had the same kind of idealism that we have now for change. Millennials will be despised by the proceeding generation as has been the tradition. Also older hatred of younger people is hypocritical as well ... dont wanna leave that out

[@GnarledStaff]

Exactly! Its entertaining when people use it to dismiss people being childish and super annoying when its just used as a buzzword.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

@@nickchavarria8052 Boomers have proven to be particularly destructive to the economy and supremely self-entitled and hypocritical. Boomers are primarily responsible for the MAGA cult.

[@psychoticmortacarn]

This video: Boomers ruined America by selling out Also this video: *rAiD sHaDoW LeGeNdS*

[@bomber101581]

psychoticmortacarn bookmark this comment, come back in 20 years after you’ve sold out. Chuckle at how naive your young self was.

[@saschamayer4050]

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[@KoryLunaa]

@@bomber101581 I mean youtubers gotta pay rent and eat somehow

[@MrXxsoulessniperxx]

@@KoryLunaa Maybe they should get an actual job instead of being lazy, whiny, self absorbed.... Wait a minute.....

[@bomber101581]

Flowerbud hahahaha, word

[@SWLinPHX]

I wish generations today could at least have a year (or month) to go back in time and experience the world before this Century. They deserve a break.

[@zanethomas6865]

It's like the line from The Dark Knight, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." I think Boomers fit that to a T. For the most part, a lot didn't understand the economic advantages of a post-WWII era and like he said, used "American Exceptionism" to think the good times would last forever. I'd argue that a good portion of people joined military service in the early 1940s to get a steady job as the Depression was still taking a bite out of people. I grew up in Georgia and now there are some towns that look worse than they did during the Depression. I think a lot of it was the thinking that if their kids went to college they'd make 3-4x as much money and Boomers would live in their autumn years with money from their kids and their pensions and savings. But that hasn't happened. You have Xers with Master's competing with Zoomers in college. I also think a big problem was how Boomers allowed the end of vo-tech in many schools forcing students who would've excelled at them to take out loans to go to college where they couldn't hack it. Boomer definitely deserve blame for electing Reagan, the Bushes and Trump.

[@margaretjohnson6259]

take it from this boomer: the millennials are all right and will likely make a better world IF the oligarchs let them.

[@bruh6217]

I think we found the good boomer

[@theroldan8675]

nothing comes easy. they take power with blood and only will leave with blood. unless younger generations be smarter

[@Someone-else-what]

You're Okay, boomer.

[@wordforger]

Heh. No telling how that's going, to be honest. We've had our great expectations come to nothing time and again. We aren't a monolith. We have yet to wield the power we could muster if we would all just pull in the same direction. Many of us are too focused on surviving to try to "change the world." Others have become jaded, wanting everything to change NOW but seeing nothing come of it because they are continually thwarted by the stranglehold of the oligarchs and Baby Boomers on power as well as the seeming lack of drive among fellow Millenials. It's not that my generation lacks ambition, but rather that ambition is generally aimed at doing what they can in their personal lives to make things better than in expending what little energy they have left after hustling to change what, until now, has been stacked dead against them. I think it's a bit of learned helplessness on the part of many. It honestly may take several more years of Gen Z joining the adult world and Baby Boomers (the ones that support the oligarchy) dying off before the younger Gens become enough of a power block to finally force things to get done. I don't know if Gen Z is more or less active than my gen, but I do know that both those gens hold a lot of the same views on average and combined they will easily outnumber the Boomers.

[@margaretjohnson6259]

J W. a little bit of truth here: the boomers never had more power than you do. it's not generations, it the rich and powerful who decide how the rest of us will live. until they become our dinners, anyway.

[@JusticeJanitor]

2:17 if you want to skip the ad.

[@mgband]

Doing god’s work, you are.

[@arrow_awsome]

Thanks!

[@Zombiebait90]

You are both the hero we deserve and the hero we need!

[@PapaSmirfable]

[@eatamyass1542]

It's viewers like you that keeps me going. Thank you

[@angryguy67]

As soon as my little brother told me "okay boomer" I totally understood the meme and everything. Thanks for the video and breaking it down further for me lol. I love you guys

[@jasoncoyne4676]

Decline in class status is central to grasping anti-boomerism. Boomers came of age at a time when markets were globalizing and this activity of global enclosure produced an immense, but geographically limited, prosperity for those in the core of capitalist empire. WW2's watershed of markets" (Chomsky) has long since run its course and there isn't another planet to globalize. The financial privilege boomers enjoyed will never return. However we don't have cultural narratives to describe children being more vulnerable to exploitation then their parents. We just have the old expired narratives about linear prosperity ever increasing. This creates anger, and it should.

[@WouldYouKindlyNot]

One aspect of this that I think you guys partially missed it that "ok boomer" has become more than a frustration with boomers themselves. Its essentially used towards anyone who displays a mindset that is completely ignorant of modern problems like climate change, wealth inequality, bad wages, student debt, and race and gender discrimination. If someone says that any of those is not a problem, that's a go to say "ok boomer" at least in my book

[@allocater2]

Yes, boomer is not a generation, it's a mindset.

[@Boulder7685]

Hence why I like the idea of “Zoomer” being used in reference to the Gen-Z kids growing up to share that mindset.

[@masterodst1]

So you call someone names just because they disagree with you?

[@WouldYouKindlyNot]

@@masterodst1 are any the problems I stated not problems in society today?

[@ian12346]

I respect your opinion. I get called Boomer all the time and I’m 37, and not ignorant of any of those problems. I just don’t care. So that’s when my “boomer” mentality kicks in. I just say “Ok Greta, have an uncomfortably hot day now”, laugh about climate change, and watch them freak out. Lol. Good times 🤘

[@azurerose6607]

Boomers had; sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll- And we have...uuuhhh... A world on fire, I guess.

[@feeler6670]

On the bright side, we got dank memes

[@mrbillhilly343]

Boomers had sex, drugs & street racing. And now Millennials are Gaslighted out of having girlfriends/boyfriends when they were 18, got kicked out of home for being caught smoking a cigarette & now we're told we need speed cameras everywhere to stop us from driving too fast.

[@DragonKazooie89]

Video games, cable/satellite TV and the internet

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

Internet degeneracy

[@than217]

2019: "I bet 2020 is going to be defined by the class divide between Millennials and Boomers. " 2020: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."

[@BobHooker]

As one of the oldest Gen X I engaged in some of the first boomer hatred, famously taking down a former hippie boss of mine who was bitching about Nirvana and Grung to cheers from co-workers in 1992. But today I keep getting told Okay Boomer, which is the only Internet meme that pisses me off. Being a Gen X is like being lost in this generation war. We grew up feeling very alienated from boomers and fearing our lives would be limited, but we are now being summed up more and more into a generations who enjoyed benefits we were the first to lose.

[@ts25679]

"I've just bought an investment property" + "Oh my god your in your twenties why haven't you got your own place?" Correlation might not prove causation by I can't help but feel that these to statements are connected.

[@Kari166]

Correlation absolutely DOES imply causation. Correlation is one of the biggest forms of evidence we have.

[@ts25679]

@@Kari166 I believe it's called a causal-fallacy, you are correct that correlations can be evidence, however, the issue is in using that correlation as the sole basis to legitimise a claim. The correlation itself isn't sufficient proof without supporting context and evidence. At least that's how I understand it.

[@renotaschalls1354]

I’m gen -X and the insults the boomers have slung at the millennials started with us. Bad job market & major recession when you graduated? - you’re slackers not trying hard enough. It just ratcheted up for the millennials. Yet i grew up watching them tear down the systems they benefited from after they no longer needed it (student loans, cheap education, house prices, good wages, etc.). The “ok boomer” phrase is really just an acknowledgement that they used it all up & keep telling us what to do when we have to live with & clean up the aftermath of their monstrously huge binging party.

[@frozeneevee]

It's strange how the boomer generation now criticize the younger generations over things that they did when they where young.

[@spidernellie]

Wow! This is so wonderfully researched! Thank you!