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Anyone who thinks the thermostat is a personality and the remote belongs to them alone.
means A member of the post-WWII baby boom generation (born roughly 1946–1964), now also slang for an older person out of step with modern trends.
from Straightforwardly from 'baby boom,' the surge in births after World War II when soldiers came home and economies stabilized — demographers started calling the resulting cohort 'baby boomers,' and 'boomer' got clipped off as shorthand. The word stayed mostly neutral and demographic for decades until internet culture, especially the meme 'OK boomer,' sharpened it into a jab at generational attitude rather than just birth year.
- origin
- born 1946 to 1964, literally a birth rate spike
- internet verdict
- became an insult long after becoming a demographic
- peak irony
- invented the internet, hates how it talks
- defining move
- calls customer service instead of googling it