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Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Millennials are going to be in absolute shambles if they ever find out “Okay boomer” wasn’t directly targeted at boomers.

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onlooker@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It wasn’t? This is what Wikipedia says:

“OK boomer” or “okay boomer” is a catchphrase and internet meme that has been used by members of the Millennial generation and Generation Z (born between the early 1980s and the early 2010s) to dismiss or mock attitudes typically associated with baby boomers – people born in the two decades following World War II.

Who was it targeted at then?

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- DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Young people saying things old people told them.
  
  People who were usually younger than millennials.
  
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- altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It was targeted at everyone older than the younger people saying it.
  
  It’s used as a catch all, with the intention of getting everyone riled up. Because regardless of if you’re an actual boomer or not, now you’re getting bundled together with them.
  
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