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That’s an attribute of youth in general. No single generation owns it exclusively.


Which is why I said “part of being young.” That said, I don’t remember being so explicitly mad at previous generations when I grew up (as a millennial). “Ok boomer” is a big part of the gen z vocabulary.


"ok boomer" in gen z speak tends to be a jab at millenials, not something directed seriously at the legitimately wisened.


I've seen it used by both millenials and zoomers, mostly directed at boomers. It captures a general sentiment that is widespread among those generations that the boomer generation uses (or used existing) systems of power to benefit themselves to the detriment of younger generations and then complains as the younger generations struggle to earn their place in those systems.


What makes you say that? Certainly tiktok seems to be full of a lot of generational humor/videos, which must explicitly naming boomers and often showing people their age. But maybe I’m too old to understand their explicit gripes.


ok, whatever.

Uuuuuuh, John Carmack is a Gen-X'er...

How do you insult them?


Say something bad about Soundgarden. *

* Please don’t say something bad about Soundgarden.




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