CNN speaks with New York Times internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about her piece exploring the popular internet meme "OK, boomer" after a New Zealand lawmaker used the retort to silence a heckler during her speech.
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New Zealand lawmaker shuts down heckler: ‘OK, boomer’
Boomer: Millennial and Gen Z are soft. They get hurt by even the little thing.
People: Okay boomer.
Boomer: ThAt’S hAtE sPeEcH!
Roma Rose No, racist and bigot are subjective judgments, while boomers are an actual group of people. You’re too old to be so dumb.
@Rahim Majid ok boomer
@Suck MyToe Elders have to earn respect.
@DevilBreaker 105968394 cupcake I am an millennial and an original thinker I dont follow anybody like a sheeple he said cos she said so I will not say it and cupcake elders earned more than respect long ago when they stopped the Germans shame msm is trainaning lil shyts to be nazis on themselfs.
Boomers: Millennials are such snowflakes
Millennials: Ok Boomer
Boomers: *Shocked Pikachu face*
@Recon 0326 Tfw the babyboomer gen began in 1946, hence the name “boomer”.
It’s almost like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
@Matthew Scully Ok “crumpets and tea” boy look it up on google. My generation had to use an encyclopedia (book…not wiki). The boom began in 1941 and decreased after 1961. The reason it started in 1941 was because the men who were going to be sent to WW2 tried to have children with the hopes of having a son to carry on the family name in case they were killed in the war. It’s right there if you doubt me.
These newscasters are freaking hilarious. They’re acting like this is the most offensive thing they’ve ever heard.
Well they are from gen x: the karen generation
cuz they are boomers
they always gotta hype it up for emotional drama lol
boomers,am in right?
Laughter On Water ok boomer
Reporter: This is offensive. This is agism.
Me: Okay Boomer
Smith ok bot
Sodomite Annihilator I would love to inform you about Denmark if you’re willing to listen? Because none of what you wrote is factual or true
@Peter Niebling you dont have to say it, its your attitude and acting so little towards people with a different opinion. You obviously haven’t experienced the horrors of socialism so you can only speak for it making it sound like a dream come true. Everything has a price even your precious socialism.
Chris H so what’s is socialism to you? Is Denmark one these horror stories of socialism you mention?
Peter Niebling no, but your grammar is.
Boomers: “ok boomer” is agism, its the n-word of agism”
Millennials and Gen Z: Ok Boomer
Chris H Ok Boomer
@Squidward what an internet badass you are, slick!
@TheRandomWolf come up with something new. You’re all running this dumb saying into the ground and I cant see how you find it funny when you’re like the 20,000th person who has said that to someone on here.
Chris H Ok Booster
“You’re just assuming that everyone in the same generation thinks and acts the same way and is condescending.”
– Later –
“Millenials are the priveleged ones, they shouldn’t complain.”
Ok hypocrite-
@AHReviews ok follower.
Chris H ok boomer
Chris H ok boomer
@AHReviews I’m glad y’all are okay with being robots. Try saying something that actually makes sense and not something that every fat teenage boy who stays in their moms basement says.
Here before “Ok Boomer” is considered hate speech.
yep
I give it two weeks. Idiocracy is real.
Are you tho? Some boomers already are trying to compare it to the N word
too late
Ok millenial 🙂
Let me be clear, the dislike is for the female reporter. She’s clueless.
@theinquirer13 You’re not going to get anywhere with logical reasoning. “Ok boomer” denies such.
The lady news host is a boomer
The guy is nice, though… I’ll give a like for him
@Helen G. Pitts i wanna eat ur boons
Ok Boomer isn’t about the generation it’s about being out of touch
The Real Daddy Laz …😂beat you to it meatball. Your hate is powerless here. 😂
Konst M. S. ….That is the most Boomer thing I ever heard 😂
no its a reply for idiots who dont have arguments or anything valuable to say.
The dude is trying so hard not to laugh and the female anchor is so pissed
Female vs female
She came in destroying those reporters with a smile on her face the whole time😂
She didn’t destroy anyone. She gave her opinion on it.
IM WEAKK
Jut kidding I ride on a bike pnp that’s for life
Its called MEMES
@JTD472 thanks for keeping it classy, sir boomer, and remember, jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
The guy on the right couldn’t hold a straight face.
He’s the leader of the party I think
I didnt realise there was a guy on the left
@COOL ANIME GIRL 💀💀
@COOL ANIME GIRL what is this supposed to mean
You can see it on her face… she wanted to say “ok boomer” to the news reporters. I really wish she had.
She chickened out lol
The dude on the right was chill tho lol
Culus
I wish.
“Internet Culture Reporter”
We’ve advanced as a species.
shrek is God
You base your life around the internet, don’t you?
“internet culture reporter”, the perfect symbol of the pseudo intellectualism of Gen Z.
It’s Gloria boggga bogga
Her weird smile
CNN woman: “it’s agism”
Also CNN woman: “Millennials wouldn’t complain they’re the privileged ones”
Sirusness ok boomer.
@Frank Feliz Imagine saying “OK boomer” to a zoomer you boomer
TheNSA And when you say ok boomer and not try to see the other person viewpoint whether the other person is agreeing or disagreeing with you IGNORANCE and ENTITLEMENT SETS IN AND TAKE HOLD.
SoftKJ 👏👏👏
She explained it perfectly saying “boomer is a mindset”
T L …Ok Boomer
@Ethan Allen ok millennial
T L …Oh my god! 😂 “ok millennial” is the most Boomer thing I ever heard.
@Ethan Allen ok boomer
T L ….Ok Boomer
Literally the female news reporter is r/wooooshing herself.
ok boomer
REDDIT MOMENT
camoes aoyza
“Mainstream media is condescending”
“Always cringe”
The hypocrisy here is so immense and you don’t even see it.
@2-1-19-2 0-1-18-4 u re very unfunny. learn to use the meme lol.
“This is offensive it’s ageism”
Ok boomer
Frog Eyes ok boomer
Bananime XD Ironically I’m part of Gen Z. Feeling idiotic now I bet. Don’t respond to factual response with an emotional one 😂
Frog Eyes
ok snowflake
Frog Eyes ok Martha dumbtruck
Ok millenial
Someone getting offended by “ok boomer” is the most “ok boomer” thing that can happen
Female on the Left: It’s ageism and unfair.
Female on the right: Ok Boomer.