Here's My Absolute, #1 Best Story About 'OK Boomer'
In which I write a story, do a radio interview, and tell you how it all happened.
Recently, I wrote an article about “OK Boomer.” What what happened next is pretty amusing.
If you don’t know OK Boomer — well, it’s basically a Generation Z vs. Baby Boomer thing. The best summary I can give you is from an article Taylor Lorenz wrote in The New York Times about the viral video that started it all:
[A] white-haired man in a baseball cap and polo shirt declares, "The millennials and Generation Z have the Peter Pan syndrome, they don't ever want to grow up."
Thousands of teens have responded through remixed reaction videos and art projects with a simple phrase: "ok boomer."
"Ok boomer" has become Generation Z's endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don't get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids.
Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people -- and the issues that matter to them.
After I wrote about this for Inc., I wound up doin…
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