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Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok. The phrase’s use in related videos grew rapidly and had not existed before. It’s real sentiment.

The fault with this article is that it focuses on merchandise.

Edit: here’s the first video I saw it trend in comments: http://vm.tiktok.com/553g7w/

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I think the point is that this phrase doesn’t mark any sort of new sentiment. Millennials and later have been hating on boomers for many years at this point on reddit etc.

Ah. My point is that it’s manifestation on TikTok specifically is significant.

> Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok.

I highly doubt this. I've seen this phrase for months on both Twitter and Discord. Searching one discord server I'm in yields several instances going back to April. It was just a meme in the beginning. Perhaps evolved from 4chan's "30 year old boomer"

I've seen similar sentiments about Boomers on the fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.) for the past year. Maybe the specific phrase "OK, Boomer," might be recent, but the sentiment has been there for a bit .. and it's always been trolling, like any generational call out is (and has been .. since the 50s .. nothing has changed and you can always sell magazines, papers and books by blaming the youth .. or the elderly .. or however you want to draw a line to make a fake left-right divide).

Honestly this article screams of some fake viral TikTok marketing bullshit. Why are they everywhere now and stuff about this Chinese Snapchat/Vine clone making it everywhere? Are they secretly paying for this stuff? Can we stop voting up this spam? No one cares.

I appreciate the prior references but disagree this is fake viral TikTok bullshit.

Old Town Road was also around before it became a meme on TikTok, but it was undoubtedly what drove it to #1 on multiple categories on billboard.

I also disagree that no one cares. Otherwise the company wouldn’t be being investigated for national security issues and zuck talking about it in an all hands meeting.

TikTok is influencing art and culture. Regardless of the phrase’s use on discord or image boards, it’s emergence ok tt is important.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-...

I thought that it was a line from "Battlestar Galactia".

nice

https://rbt.asia/g/search/text/%22ok%20boomer%22/page/5/

Many occurrences before October 15th. "Ok boomer" has been a phrase in internet culture for a while now.

October 15 of what year?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer identifies it being used on Twitter as early as April 2018, with a surge in popularity in Jan 2019.

The article is about TikTok, so my comment was focused on its first appearance there that I noticed.

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