“OK Boomer” began as a meme in TikTok videos, but our research shows the catchphrase has become much more. The simple two-word phrase is used to express personal politics and at the same time ...

hyper-exaggerated cute-meets-cringe aesthetic for the first time. And so, in the calculatedly sultry wink of an eye, Neekolul became a meme: the defiant, bizarrely entrancing “OK, Boomer” girl.

Aja Romano writes about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re ...

OK, Gen Z: Boomers can be internet stars ... A scroll through the app’s top videos confirms as much: It’s a riot of meme-ing, break dancing, lip-syncing kids — all in hot pursuit of viral ...

OK, Boomer. Want to call all young people “snowflakes” and blame them for every ill in the world? #OkBoomer. The phrase has now gone viral, appearing in memes and merchandise being snapped up ...

The way emoji references have changed is a case in point. Witness the trending ironic use of verbal memes, in particular, as older generations now take up once-divisive quips like “OK boomer” in ...

More succinct, more immediate, and maybe more digestible than its predecessors, OK Boomer spread like wildfire across Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, and everywhere else memes are shared. And once it ...

Boomers were past it ... We’ve even been pilloried for our humour – considered too cringe or overly “quirky” – and something called the “millennial pause”, referring to the tendency ...

“OK Boomer” began as a meme in TikTok videos, but our research shows the catchphrase has become much more. The simple two-word phrase is used to express personal politics and at the same time ...