[Ads-l] OK Boomer

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is an instance of the inevitable attempt to craft a clapback "OK,
millennials".

Article: The Boomers' media behemoth
Author: Sara Fischer
Date on website: Nov 12, 2019
https://www.axios.com/the-boomers-media-behemoth-412b5106-f879-477d-806d-6130148956bf.html

[Begin excerpt]
AARP, formerly known as The American Association of Retired Persons,
is one of the largest media companies in the country, bringing in more
than $174 million annually in media-based advertising revenue,
according to public filings.

"OK, millennials. But we're the people that actually have the money,"
Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director of AARP
Media, said in an interview with Axios, referencing the popular "OK,
boomer" tagline that youngsters are using to poke fun at older people
online.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 4:18 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It seems to have escalated quickly.
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> https://twitter.com/entry_name/status/1195078287371976704?s=20
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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Martin Purdy <
> 00000bd8cf391c5b-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> > First time I heard this expression was in reporting from the New Zealand
> > Parliament recently, when the curiously-spelled MP Chlöe Swarbrick used it
> > to silence an older heckler:
> > The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe
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> > Previously I'd only known "boomer" (without the prefixed "baby") as a term
> > for a male red kangaroo.
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> > The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe
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> > Chlöe Swarbrick thought her 'OK, boomer' jibe would kill the meme.
> > Instead, it's gone global.
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> > Martin PurdyNZ
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> >     On Thursday, November 14, 2019, 10:42:55 AM GMT+13, Shapiro, Fred <
> > fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> >  Is anyone able to provide any information about the origins of the phrase
> > "OK Boomer"?  My sense is that it is becoming very popular, and people talk
> > about it like it's been around for a while, but when I do a LexisNexis
> > search the earliest use I seem to find is Oct. 29 of this year.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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