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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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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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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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Just before okay boomer caught in “shut up boomer” was a bit of a thing.

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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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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.

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Or neither are, depending upon your view of bigotry.

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Bigotry requires prejudice, boomers aren’t clumped together, just called out when the situation requires it.

Calling someone a Karen isn’t bigotry so why would boomer?

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You think we were saying “okay boomers” to people barely a few years older than us?

It was always about baby boomers, the entitled generation.

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That is exactly who we were saying “OK boomer” to: Baby Boomers.

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It was always to Gen X

No it was definitely to Baby Boomers, then it morphed into an insult that you direct at anybody acting like a boomer/giving off Boomer energy (hence calling Gen X/Millenials/any non-boomer out with “ok boomer”)

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