oh damn we did popularize OK boomer that's a serious cultural flex tbh (yes I know intergenerational fighting is bad but also lord please strike down our geriatric bourgeoisie and politicians and so their failsons/daughters can fuck up so bad we get a revolution)
Yes, originally it was about half "OK Boomer" and half "Shut the fuck up, boomer." It spread on Reddit, then left twitter and left tiktok, then got picked up by this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html NYT article and mainstreamed (read: ruined)
the best part about ok boomer was the month long discourse that started out tame until it reached a point boomers were posting shit like, "Just call me what you really mean, the n-word" and shit like that lol
oh damn we did popularize OK boomer that's a serious cultural flex tbh (yes I know intergenerational fighting is bad but also lord please strike down our geriatric bourgeoisie and politicians and so their failsons/daughters can fuck up so bad we get a revolution)
Yes, originally it was about half "OK Boomer" and half "Shut the fuck up, boomer." It spread on Reddit, then left twitter and left tiktok, then got picked up by this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html NYT article and mainstreamed (read: ruined)
the best part about ok boomer was the month long discourse that started out tame until it reached a point boomers were posting shit like, "Just call me what you really mean, the n-word" and shit like that lol
The sub was pretty huge, wasn't it? Like, lots of members, frequently on the front page until reddit shut that shit down?
yeah it broke into non-politics areas of the internet. It was a phenomenon