Boomer Hate Thread

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I know, and I think "OK Boomer" is a really dumb and very forced meme and the fact that so many Millennials and Early Zoomers use it as some kind of canned response to any and all criticism of them regardless of context makes it even more stupid and pathetic.

I was born in 1993, so depending on who you ask, I'm either at the start of the "Late Millennial" group or at the end of the "Late Millennial" group that overlaps with the Early Generation Z kids.

The misuse of it just amuses me tbh, I see it as a reaction to how much flack millennials got bcause early millennials refuse to accept that's what they are, I suspect that's why they made up Xennial they’d rather be Gen X.

So younger millennials and Zoomers are now just calling everyone born before ’95 a Boomer.

 

[stupid moron]

Meh, despite being from the tail end of the Millennial generation, I honestly hate the Millennials much more than the Boomers.

All this hating on the Boomers is just the generational equivalent of A-Logging. Personally, I've grown to like the Boomers despite their many flaws.

They're more functional than Millennials on average, and most Millennials and Early Zoomers just refuse to take responsibility for their own failures and so they blame the Boomers for why they have such crippling debt from getting a worthless college degree in sociology or gender studies, or some other grievance studies program.

Also, the Boomers had better music than us. Even their shitty pop music was better than ours, I'll gladly take ABBA and The Monkees over Taylor Swift or Adele.

Gen X is still the most based of any generation still alive.

(inb4 "OK Boomer" and any other shitty forced memes)

I don’t blame boomers for anything that’s my fault financially today but I will still call them annoying dumbasses for not understanding things cost more than they used to. A lot of people don’t want to take the gamble today on getting degrees in certain fields because it’s just not worth it, but if you take a minimum wage job and complain about not having enough money to support yourself you’re a re.tard. They also seem to blame younger generations for “killing x industries” because younger generations either have no interest or don’t have enough money to spend it on random things every week. This sentiment can extend to gen X , zoomer s, and millennials too, just really anyone that’s stuck in their own selfish bubble

Also if you genuinely think no good music is being made today you’re just not looking in the right places. There are plenty of “le born in wrong generation” people saying the same thing but are making older styles of music. It’s not going to appear on a radio station though because that’s not what general audiences are interested in anymore

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

Being perfectly honest: most of the complaints ITT are basically first-world specific problems with how people developed in a culture of abundance.

Specific to America and Great Britain, The Greatest Generation don't look anything like us because they experienced a real, imminent threat to their lives and culture's existence with WWII and the corresponding development of nuclear arms. Their Parents/grandparents were forced into WWI by a callous elité and lived through horrific conditions that had persisted since the industrial Revolution.

Boomers and the generations thereafter have, at least in America and the rest of the First World have nit experienced the caliber of threat that their forefathers did. If, however, you take someone who grew up in a war-torn place of poverty, the game changes. Plenty of people who have experienced war, famine, and hard labor have a different attitude than what you see from American boomers and their spawn. Selfishness can get you killed if you attract too much attention. It also tends to get crushed if you literally HAVE to put in 12 hour days almost 7 days a week just to survive.

TL;DR: most complaints ITT of self absorption, shallowness, and sensitivity have much more to do with living in a stable country with little in the way of open conflict and relatively little extreme poverty.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Also if you genuinely think no good music is being made today you’re just not looking in the right places. There are plenty of “le born in wrong generation” people saying the same thing but are making older styles of music. It’s not going to appear on a radio station though because that’s not what general audiences are interested in anymore

The problem is that a lot of the non-mainstream music out there is usually pretentious indie hipster fare or tryhard amateur rap, although I will admit there is some good stuff out there in the metal genre if you know where to look, plus stuff like Dungeon Synth or the new underground revival of bluegrass and traditional country.

Really, I think we need more non-alternative and non-indie rock more than anything else these days.

Plus, I really think the whole "le wrong generation" meme is every bit as tired and canned as "OK Boomer". In many ways, it was a precursor to it.

 

[stupid moron]

The problem is that a lot of the non-mainstream music out there is usually pretentious indie hipster fare or tryhard amateur rap, although I will admit there is some good stuff out there in the metal genre if you know where to look, plus stuff like Dungeon Synth or the new underground revival of bluegrass and traditional country.

Really, I think we need more non-alternative and non-indie rock more than anything else these days.

Plus, I really think the whole "le wrong generation" meme is every bit as tired and canned as "OK Boomer". In many ways, it was a precursor to it.

Sorry man, it was just too applicable. I’m not too sure what you mean by Indie and hipster, you’re going to get a lot of people trying to be different in such a saturated market. But if you go and check out band camp there’s so much damn music being thrown on there it’s impossible to not find something you like. With how cheap it’s become for people to record good quality music there’s a little bit of everything being released right now

 

[AMHOLIO]

I can't bring myself to hate boomers. I know enough nice and fun ones that hating all of them feels irrational and dumb. The only time I get pissed at boomers is when they end up putting a law in that only helps them. Otherwise, cultural generation gap is just a thing you have to talk out and work around.

Gen Xers and Millenials are more insufferable because theyre in my age bracket and the obnoxious ones make the rest of us look even stupider.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

The biggest problem with boomers is their selfishness. They will literally make arguments that run along the lines of "I had to work 40 years for the stuff I've got, so why should you get anything for free?". They are blind to all the benefits they received, like free education, the opportunity to buy a house for 1/100th it's current value, effortless career progression, job security and free benefits. They won't accept that it is just better for everyone when we all share more and care more, and yes that involves GIVING people things that you had to WORK HARD for. This just doesn't compute for them. They lack compassion and the imagination to conceive of a society that is different to what they lived through, and think because they suffered to achieve something, everyone else must suffer similarly.

Many boomers are at the point where they're needing help themselves. If they're in the U.S quite a few are getting medicare on the tax payers dime.

Gen X actually got quite a few benefits themselves, they got to ride the wave of the dot.com boom. Gen X'ers are relatively un-compassionate to the struggles of the late millennials and early Gen Z'ers. People can not fathom that peoples entire paychecks are going to rent and there is little opportunity to save.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Many boomers are at the point where they're needing help themselves. If they're in the U.S quite a few are getting medicare on the tax payers dime.

Gen X actually got quite a few benefits themselves, they got to ride the wave of the dot.com boom. Gen X'ers are relatively un-compassionate to the struggles of the late millennials and early Gen Z'ers. People can not fathom that peoples entire paychecks are going to rent and there is little opportunity to save.

As a Late Millennial myself, I want to clarify tha the "struggle" of most of the Late Millennials and Early Zoomers is self-inflicted. One of the reasons why they're a non-starter generation is due to the rampant crippling debt from worthless college degrees.

Now, part of it is because we were told from the get-go that a college degree was needed to have a decent job when we grew up. So a lot of people went into college not knowing what they were doing and got worthless degrees and a bunch of debt.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Fuck Boomers. These walking corpses are responsible for the hoarding shit during the coronavirus crisis.

 

[queerape]

Fuck Boomers. These walking corpses are responsible for the hoarding shit during the coronavirus crisis.

They are more likely to die from it too though to be fair, so if they are a bit more scared that does make sense.

 

[Syaoran Li]

"OK Boomer" is a unfunny canned meme used as a cop out because the Boomers were correct all along about Millennials and Early Zoomers.

Change my mind.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Gen X is best. All they do is hate everything, do drugs, and listen to mediocre music.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Gen X is best. All they do is hate everything, do drugs, and listen to mediocre music.

Mediocre music?

I'll have you know Grim Reaper is the BEST metal band ever, and I'll fight anyone that disagrees!

On topic, boomers suck and I'm growing ever more irritated with them since they're the ones I constantly see hoarding shit over Corona panic.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Mediocre music?

I'll have you know Grim Reaper is the BEST metal band ever, and I'll fight anyone that disagrees!

On topic, boomers suck and I'm growing ever more irritated with them since they're the ones I constantly see hoarding shit over Corona panic.

Gen X also has the Beastie Boys, Nirvana, the entire second wave of black metal in the early 90's, plus The Sisters of Mercy and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

(Yes, I know Siouxsie herself is technically a Boomer and so is Andrew Eldritch, but Goth was by and large a mostly Generation X phenomenon)

As much as Millennial and Gen Z troons and dangerhairs like to ape the Goth style, the actual Goth subculture was to Gen X what greasers and beatniks were to the Silent Generation, the hippies and mods were to the Baby Boomers, and hipsters are to Millennials.

While the rise of alternative rock and its consequences ultimately turned out to be a disaster for the entire genre of rock music, Nirvana was a fairly good band in its own right.

Of all the age demographics in the West, the Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation have the most reason to be terrified over COVID-19 so I'll give them a pass.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Imagine grouping everyone age 56 to 74 and stereotyping them all with the same life story and views to justify being a whining faggot.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Lol they'll all be dead soon I'm bored of hating them. They're too weak and feeble. You can kick out their walkers from under them and laugh at them as they flail around on the ground.

I'm hating millennials a lot more because when I'm one of those senile cocksuckers myself I will still have to deal with them. Unlike boomers, I won't get to see them all die and applaud every funeral.

I'm Gen X and this is my generational theme song.

So much truth here. Good tune too.

Millennials shit on boomers constantly, not realizing that the majority are Fucking Dead. This virus will delete the balance.
Also, please stop expanding the bad boomer ideas if you hate them so much. Social Security isn't a piggy bank for every goddamn program you can dream up.

 

[Hux]

My only hopes is that by the time I grow to be in my 70s-80s, I won't be dementia addled enough to be unable to laugh my ass off at all the other millennials and Zoomers in my same age range. Take every Incel, Doomer, Dangerhair, Soyboy, e-Thot, Troon, any other stereotypical trope our generation got dealt with, and just picture how they'll all be in the next 50-60 years from now.

Sure, it'll be depressing as fuck since huge swaths of them will die before they reach that point (either suicide or just poor life choices) and just as huge swaths of them that do make it to that point will live their lives entirely childless, but think of it this way: you remember how most shows have the senile grandpa stumbling around with his pants around his ankles ranting about how he used to fight the Kraut Naytzees in Normandy? Just imagine that, but now he's ranting about how he resisted against the alt-right Nazis on Twitter

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

boomers are ballistic nuclear subs,this one is a virginia class SSN, an attack sub.
this is a boomer:

Reminder these things are maintained by the kinds of people who have loud arguments about anime.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

One thing I am truly jealous of Boomers: Loads of Friends.

I know a Boomer that recently was mourning the death of a close friend. Over his life, this Boomer and his clutch of childhood friends (6 or 7 and their families have been 'thick as thieves'. Sharing their marriages, children, divorces, retirements, etc... In this nursing home, I see that same scenario almost daily.

I am very jealous of that. They all seem to have different political views and migrated to different areas of the country, but still kept in touch (non-internet) to share their lives. I do not know of any Gen-X, Millennial, or Zoomer that treasures friends like that. In a 'no-internet' world people were very (maybe too?) important.

In modernity we are instantly connected but eternally alone. Maybe we can learn from this?

 

[JustFuckinaDude]

In a 'no-internet' world people were very (maybe too?) important.

The beauty of the internet world, IMO, is that a person’s true colors can shine when there’s no consequence for their actions.

I’ve met people who seemed perfectly normal, even likeable IRL, but their Facebooks portray an individual that I would in no way want to be associated with (perhaps the opposite is also true, IDGAF). The older generation had to waste time to get to know someone before a person would disclose opinions or personality traits that they might find distasteful.

Why waste the time?