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April 27, 2021 Share
On one side of the TikTok split screen was a middle-aged man, ranting that “millennials and Generation Z have the Peter Pan syndrome.”
“They don’t ever want to grow up,” he said, referring to the fictional character who fights adulthood.
On the other side of the split screen, a teenager contemplated the rant before silently holding up a notepad, and the phrase “OK Boomer” was born.
Since 2019, the hashtag #okboomer has been used 3.7 billion times on TikTok and has sparked debate between Boomers born 1946 to 1964 and Zoomers born in the 1990s to the 2010s, and who use the video conferencing app Zoom liberally about whether age and generation are to blame for society’s ills.