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Hating on boomers has been popular on the internet for over a decade now.

Before that, young millenials and gen z wouldn’t even know what the term boomer referred to.

And now they just use it to mean anyone who is older than them. 40 year olds are boomers to them.

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which is hilarious because if you’re 40 you became an adult at the turn of the millennium.

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Boomer was definitely a term in the 80s at least… I was there, Gandalf.

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Oh “baby boomer” has been a term for a long time. Probably since history and social sciences started categorizing generations. My point is young people on the internet were not using it as a blanket term for anyone over 30 or 40 years old.

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No they were using it to denote a generation of people born after WW2 who have had everything given to them in life and destroyed it afterwards so nobody could benefit from it anymore.

Basically the selfishness of the Me-generation

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I mean, the oldest zoomers were 17 a decade ago, and most were significantly younger. So yeah, I guess a lot of them wouldn’t know what “boomer” meant, but what of it?

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Yeah fuck it. Just pick a word and use it.

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