‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by johnday on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:06AM (#21441691)

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.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by bredren on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:19AM (#21441804)

Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok. The phrase’s use in related videos grew rapidly and had not existed before. It’s real sentiment.

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/

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by boardwaalk on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:27AM (#21441893)

I think the point is that this phrase doesn’t mark any sort of new sentiment. Millennials and later have been hating on boomers for many years at this point on reddit etc.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by bredren on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:13AM (#21442329)

Ah. My point is that it’s manifestation on TikTok specifically is significant.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by non-entity on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:22AM (#21441836)

> Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok.

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"

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by djsumdog on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:27AM (#21441900)

I've seen similar sentiments about Boomers on the fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.) for the past year. Maybe the specific phrase "OK, Boomer," might be recent, but the sentiment has been there for a bit .. and it's always been trolling, like any generational call out is (and has been .. since the 50s .. nothing has changed and you can always sell magazines, papers and books by blaming the youth .. or the elderly .. or however you want to draw a line to make a fake left-right divide).

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.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by bredren on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:40AM (#21442038)

I appreciate the prior references but disagree this is fake viral TikTok bullshit.

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-...

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by mirimir on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#21444216)

I thought that it was a line from "Battlestar Galactia".

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by kenny87 on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:02AM (#21481802)

nice

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by tawm on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:32AM (#21441966)

https://rbt.asia/g/search/text/%22ok%20boomer%22/page/5/

Many occurrences before October 15th. "Ok boomer" has been a phrase in internet culture for a while now.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by daxelrod on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:25AM (#21441876)

October 15 of what year?

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.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by bredren on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:58AM (#21443599)

The article is about TikTok, so my comment was focused on its first appearance there that I noticed.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by mc32 on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:12AM (#21441742)

Yup it’s as if kids didn’t have grandparents and if they do they hold them in contempt.

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”

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by excessive on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:48AM (#21443448)

> Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts

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.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by mc32 on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:58AM (#21443586)

Eh, don’t fret too much, you’ll be a boomer soon...

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by excessive on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:54PM (#21445018)

I didn't think it worked that way. After that, can I be the Silent/Greatest Generation?

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".

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