On October 4th, 2019, Soundcloud users pooldad and umru posted remixes of rap to the streaming platform, gaining over 1,400 and over 13,300 listens in one month. On June 23rd, 2019, Twitter user posted a video in which he repeatedly rapped "ok boomer." The tweet was later deleted by with the original song no longer available. On October 29th, The New York Times published an article "'OK boomer' Marks End of Friendly Generational Relations", reporting about the meme. Starting on October 15th, 2019, "OK Boomer" remix by Peter Kuli gained popularity in TikTok memes. Through 2019, the catchphrase saw extensive use in memes on Instagram, iFunny, Reddit and other social networks and maintained popularity as a reaction, primarily used to mock and debase opinions offered by baby boomers and older people in general.
Starting in mid-January 2019, the image received spread on Twitter as a reaction and has been reposted by multiple Instagram accounts (examples shown below). It's currently unconfirmed whether this upload is the first instance of the image.
On January 14th, 2019, a Memecreator user created an Ironic Doge meme captioned with the phrase, referencing the influential Ok Retard Doge image (shown below, left). While usage of the phrase saw a limited increase in the starting in October 2018, the catchphrase did not see significant spread until January 2019. Starting in April 2018, the catchphrase was used to respond to tweets written by politicians and to tweets criticizing Gen Z generation and Millennials (examples shown below). On Twitter, the phrase was first used on April 12th, 2018 (shown below, bottom right). On Reddit, the phrase was first used as a retort on October 26th, 2017 (shown below, bottom left). On 4chan, the retort was first used by an anonymous /r9k/ user on September 3rd, 2015 (shown below, top). They also discuss Justin Timberlake’s cultural downfall, VidCon, an OnlyFans couple who may or may not be sisters, and Himbo of the Week Robert Irwin and his polite rejection of horny TikTok fans.The exact origin of the phrase is currently unknown. On this week’s episode of Don’t Let This Flop, cohosts Brittany Spanos and Ej Dickson invited Jennings on to discuss the Minions and their iconic role in internet culture.
#Boomer minion memes free
So I think there is a way for the left to be like, ‘We have to free the Minions.
“The problem with the Minions is the film kind of casts them as these bumbling idiots who are just so desperate to serve a master…and are too stupid to realize that they’re being used as pawns. It occurred to her that the Minions could perhaps be coopted by the left as a totem for labor activism, “the same way the left has kind of co-opted Gritty as the symbol of the working class and leftism,” she says. In a recent piece for Vox, however, Jennings decided to look at the minions with a more critical eye, referring to academic articles about the protocapitalist implications of the characters and how they serve as slaves to the billionaire class who are unable to rise up from oppressive systems. They’re sort of this perfect meme where they don’t really mean anything, so they can be anything.” “If you were online in certain spaces where there were a lot of people who you wouldn’t really associate with real internet culture, like Facebook moms and people who used Pinterest instead of Instagram, you’d see a lot of memes where there would just be like a picture of a minion and some kind of hacky joke attached to it….you can put whatever you want on them. “Minions are sort of inescapable,” Jennings said on this week’s episode of Don’t Let This Flop, Rolling Stone‘s podcast devoted to internet culture.
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