• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Always has been. Nobody was saying “okay boomer” to senior citizens. It was always to Gen X and now it’s being applied to Millennials. If you have songs on your playlist from the 2000s and don’t watch tiktoks, you’ve become a boomer.

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      11 months ago

      Okay boomer was an insult for the baby boomer generation, now it’s being used for anyone older. Both are acceptable.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah it was originally shit like “you sound like a 60 year old trump supporter who hasn’t gotten with the times”. It was “I’m not going to bother fighting with you, so I’m going to treat you like the uncle i only deal with on thanksgiving”

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        11 months ago

        Ah, so it means anyone who you disagree with who happens to be a few years older than you… So it’s pointless?

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          11 months ago

          No they don’t have to be older. If I had a friend who was a year older than me and I said “battle passes, looter shooters, and tik tok are dumb” he could call me a total boomer.

          It’s about someone harnessing an older perspective.