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Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

This reads like a load of incendiary hot garbage, written without substantive proof, and using generation labels like a horoscope.

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Born in the mid '80s. Whenever I see or hear generational cohorts mentioned, my bullshit detector lights up like a Christmas tree. At this point "entitled" is more offensive to me than any swear or slur.

boomer: kids these days. gen-x: whatever. millennial: do not ever call me a millennial. zoomer: what a mess. the olds are kinda crazy.

Boomers really don't like being called boomers either. I used it once around here in an innocuous comment about the Yugo and was massively downvoted and accused of being a foreign agitator sowing strife just for using that word.

the only thing you can say in reply to that is 'ok boomer'

>using generation labels like a horoscope

Very much this.

I hate that the media loves to use labels to condemn people then the people that are condemned willingly continue the practice.

The best thing about being a Gen X'er is that the non-descript label keeps us out of the culture war crosshairs. "Boomer" has become a slur at this point and the name "Zoomer" is so cringe you are primed as an older person to not like this group. Did we really let the media name an entire generation after a corporate trademark ?

It seems harder to be divisive when you name Generations X, Y, Z but somehow Y and Z became Millenial and Zoomer. I propose the next generation is named A1 and we just cycle through the letters and then increment the numbers every 25 years.

> Did we really let the media name an entire generation after a corporate trademark

It’s not due to the product Zoom, it’s a portmanteau of Gen Z and Boomer.

This is the first time as a boomer that I have come across the Zoomer nickname for Gen Z. What I have noticed in relatives kids that I have come to know closely is that they are more boomer like in how they approach problems than Millennials. So to me it is more self descriptive than an insult.

How so?

Plus it seems like I hear Zoomer/Doomer used interchangeably so I'm not even sure everyone agrees on the stupid labels.

Millenial vs. Boomer is no longer selling :)

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