Why do millennials call Gen X “Boomers”?

[Weater67]

Are you all really that thick?

[BeMuse]

You realize Millennials weren't born in 2000 right? That is when Millennials started graduating high school. OK Boomer is something that started in like 2015 in a small corner of the internet and didn't become popular in the mainstream until about 2019. The youngest Millennials were already in their mid 20s working careers by the time it became a popular thing with teenagers. You’re not the sharpest knife in the draw are you? Generation Z is who you are looking for. They would be your generation’s kids.

[BeMuse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo

[NamerOfStars]

For the same reason GenXers call twenty-year-olds "Millenials": the zeitgeist has reclassed these terms as age groups, rather than generations, and nobody calls them on it.

[Anonymous]

Lmao, eh, I don't call them boomers lol. My parents taught me to respect everyone, even people who do not deserve it because I'm not cheap. I won't stoop to their level. BUT if they get too verbally abusive, I'd just say: "respect goes both ways, but I'm just going to end this conversation because I do not see this going anywhere. Thank you for your words, have a good day"

[Anonymous]

Lmao. Are you kidding? It would take far too much awareness to actually understand that the insult has some meaning behind it.
It’s so much easier to just dismiss people with “okay boomer.”
Perhaps you expect too much from the “participation award” generation.

[NaultD]

As much as gen x stood out for there values they also got old and turn into what they hated, boomers.

[Weater67]

Nihilism

[NaultD]

Not even that. We all fear becoming our parents. That is just the way life is.

[NaultD]

https://youtu.be/C5ARWKqqf3k

The last part with the dad with the milk can resonate with every generation growing up and growing up into.

[Weater67]

Here I am Gen x, I hate what my parents did. I come to you to help organize and now you wanna fight me too. Ok I’ll fight you too. “If necessary I will fight alone.” - Geronimo

[rcljr]

As in Baby Boomers, that has long been the nickname of my generation, the commie punks shortened it to boomer, trying to make it derogatory.

[FunkyMonkee]

Millennials aren't too bright so, maybe they just don't know their X from a boomer in the ground!

[Recurrence]

Boomer is an old mindset more than an age group anymore

[EnglishEuropean]

Because generations are never that clear cut. To my mind boomers are people born between 1945-1950.

[Anonymous]

Because after the Second World War, they bred like Mormons.

[anylolone]

Come on, it's mostly a joke. let the kids be kids.

[joeldalton]

Yes, yes they are.

[blondfrog]

Ignorance.