https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_RE71S0Jw

And then it got appropriated and misused so that anything, even perfectly reasonable statements like "you should be cleaning your butthole when you shower" by literally anybody even 27 year old men, gets a response of "okay boomer".

Failures in education and misunderstanding aren't unique to any one generation.

Think about how the right wing genz have completely abandoned gender and racial equality and are voting against green politicians.

Think about how millennials have embraced AI and get their news from corporate-controlled social media despite all the evidence for its harmful effects on democracy and critical thinking. The millennials who support the genocide in Gaza.

People aren't convinced by the fakeness of modern media and want to believe what they already believe. That's something that's affecting all the generations.

You can call me a boomer and you'd be wrong.

Works both ways Though. I'm hearing over and over from groups that consider themselves victims, having similar sentiment, but shocked when the other group behaves the same way.

I feel like this is also a Gen Z thing. Millennials try so hard with everything all the time, Gen Z probably thinks that's annoying (but maybe cute how naive and stupid we are to still try?). So "Ok Boomer" it is, which makes the exact effort to deal with boomers as boomers make in dealing with everything other than themselves.

But "okay boomer" has just become a bland, flavorless retort that gets said by anyone to anyone for any reason.

It isn't an expression of frustration at an audience that rejects facts and reason, it is a pithy retort that gets thrown out to say "STFU" to someone in slightly more polite terms.

Like, the root of this isn't unfair. But as with so much internet lingo, the initial intent has been polluted by online gooners who latch on to a phrase and use it as a barb rather than to convey any particular kind of coherent message.