This is silly. The only party here marking the end of "friendly generational relations" is the NY Times itself.
Drawing lines through society is the cheapest and easiest way to look wise without making any meaningful comment.
Drawing lines through society is the cheapest and easiest way to look wise without making any meaningful comment.
The fault with this article is that it focuses on merchandise.
Edit: here’s the first video I saw it trend in comments: http://vm.tiktok.com/553g7w/
I highly doubt this. I've seen this phrase for months on both Twitter and Discord. Searching one discord server I'm in yields several instances going back to April. It was just a meme in the beginning. Perhaps evolved from 4chan's "30 year old boomer"
Honestly this article screams of some fake viral TikTok marketing bullshit. Why are they everywhere now and stuff about this Chinese Snapchat/Vine clone making it everywhere? Are they secretly paying for this stuff? Can we stop voting up this spam? No one cares.
Old Town Road was also around before it became a meme on TikTok, but it was undoubtedly what drove it to #1 on multiple categories on billboard.
I also disagree that no one cares. Otherwise the company wouldn’t be being investigated for national security issues and zuck talking about it in an all hands meeting.
TikTok is influencing art and culture. Regardless of the phrase’s use on discord or image boards, it’s emergence ok tt is important.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-...
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer identifies it being used on Twitter as early as April 2018, with a surge in popularity in Jan 2019.
Many occurrences before October 15th. "Ok boomer" has been a phrase in internet culture for a while now.
This is just an exaggeration of a pithy retort that people think is funny (and it is). But that doesn’t mean people “believe” in it any more than people believe wearing a LeBron jersey makes them into better players.
Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts printed with the tag, “Have a productive day”
As part of Gen-X, I feel like that's appropriating from my culture. I was proudly on the "slackers" mailing list as an adult in the 90s when the millennials were being born. Give millennials a new pejorative, don't steal ours.
Maybe the word "Boomer" will just get redefined to mean "old people with more money than me". Kind of the same way "meme" got redefined from "idea permeating society" to "cartoon or cat picture with sarcastic text", and how "troll" got redefined from "someone who tries to antagonize" to "someone who says things I don't agree with".