[Ads-l] OK Boomer

[Jonathan Lighter]

A friend in Nashville asked me about this ten or so days ago.

I'd never heard of it. He said teenagers were (allegedly) suddenly using
the phrase.

JL

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:51 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> > the origins of the phrase "OK Boomer"?  My sense is that it is becoming
> very popular, ... the earliest use I seem to find is Oct. 29 of this year.
> This claims it was the in common use in the summer of '19 in Centerville,
> VA
> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1073331
>
> "Some teens point to a Soundcloud
> <https://soundcloud.com/peterkuli/okboomer>
> https://soundcloud.com/peterkuli/okboomer
>
> audio that has also been uploaded to TikTok, which was created by artists
> Peter Kuli and Jedwill. The Soundcloud audio was posted this month, but a
> version of the song was posted to Twitter
> <https://twitter.com/jedwill1999/status/1147226615929167872?s=21> by
> Jedwill
> https://twitter.com/jedwill1999/status/1147226615929167872?s=21
> as early as July. Other teens who spoke to NBC News said they began using
> the phrase after hearing Twitch streamer “CallMeCarsonLIVE” say it. Others
> said they picked it up from one another."
>
> I think it's already "jumped the shark" - it's being monetized (by those
> GenZ folks):
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2019/oct/30/ok-boomer-how-the-gen-z-retort-of-2019-has-been-monetised?CMP=share_btn_link
>
> and accepted by us Boomers, I guess:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/shortcuts/2019/nov/13/boomers-for-millennials-why-people-in-their-50s-and-60s-are-telling-their-peers-to-pipe-down?CMP=share_btn_link
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:42 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
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