Good lord I hope you’re just riffing here because dayum. Poe’s Law, it is a bitch.
Not verbatim. But this is saying it outright:
Why on Earth would I agree to play the entire game in your half, when what Millennials are *actually *concerned about was obviously BeagleJesus’ point.
Just a quick question: Has anyone in the boomer (or older Gen-X) group ever heard this phrase directed at them in a non-ironic, non-bantering context? i know a lot of millenials and have not heard anyone say this seriously. Has any one in the age range made a serious argument to a younger person and have them say “OK boomer” in response? I mean in real life.
All of these terms–millennial, boomer, gen-X–are just the by-products of fatuous journalism, and have become an endless echo chamber of meaningless and empty generalizations.
This desire to categorize into “generations” is intellectually lazy and bankrupt.
I doubt anyone here in the age range has heard it directed at them in any context outside this thread.
Boomer here, and I’m counting on the millennials to save us all from rising fascism. Get out and vote! Seriously, the two younger generations have the numbers to dominate U.S. politics for the next 50 years. Do good with that power.
It was bantering, but I (b. 1961, a tweener) used a setup on a millennial and got “OK Boomer” back. Before this thread, I had never heard it used at all, but it appears someone had.
As a Gen-X er, I think it’s great and wish we had thought of it back when we were hearing all of the ‘slacker generation’ stuff. It is a perfect comeback to all of the ‘Millennials are killing X’ headlines and the weird ranting about ‘kids today don’t know how books work’ stuff that’s floating around, and the sheer dismissiveness of it really hits home. One of the key characteristics of boomers is a narcissistic belief in their own importance, and this phrase manages to belittle that importance in two words without using any kind of slur or bad language.
The irony of people who complain that Millennials are thin-skinned, easily-offended snowflakes who fall to pieces to easily clutching their pearls at someone saying ‘OK, name-you-identify-yourself-as’ is simply beautiful. I rate this phrase 10/10.
As I said earlier, I’ve only seen it used in self-congratulatory memes shared between Millennials about how ever so mad the Boomers are about this phrase. And now I’m seeing it used ironically following a “wtf is up with this Ok, Boomer thing?” conversation. I think it’ll have completely jumped the ole shark before I ever see it used as intended in the wild – much less see a Boomer get upset about it firsthand.
LOL, you don’t HEAR it said but you see it online a LOT and that right there is a big difference between Boomers and Millennials because the younguns do way more of their socializing online. I’m a hermit with a very short list of who’s allowed over to my place and I also do the majority of my socializing online and although I’ve not had it used toward me I’ve used it myself quite often because it’s fucking handy. I’ve been pissed off annoyed at the smug complacency of the majority of my age cohort for a good long while now and have railed against the stupid fucking shit they rubber stamped for decades and it feels really good to finally have a short phrase that sums up my irritation and disgust with what my generation has allowed the world to come to.
But a phrase directed at people who aren’t around to see it isn’t really doing its job 
Yup. It’s got a great clapback effect, but it’s gonna be overused, abused, and discarded like a 50-year-old retail worker.
Okay, Boomer.
That’s “Ok, Boomer”. Boomer.
No, it simply isn’t and I don’t make that claim. That is why the closest thing you can find is nowhere near what you claimed I said.
I don’t ask that you play in my half but it is generally considered good practice to at least play the same game.
You don’t get a free pass from having your claims challenged. The discussion wasn’t being reframed, you were being asked to back up the things you said.
You didn’t and you flounced instead.
And it was a perfect example of what a weak response it is. Someone somewhere else in thread used the phrase “ok sonny”. There is no practical difference between the two.
Except that ok sonny doesn’t hit at all. That’s just the same dismissive attitude boomers have showered millennials with from the start. ok boomer triggers old people because they are not used to being the one patronized.
We didn’t have the numbers. Millenials and younger aren’t any snarkier than we were, but they have enough population to make their snark the dominant discourse.