Background Pony #0C2E

"boomer" is short for "baby boomer" which refers to Americans born during the post-WW2 "baby boom." Baby boomers mostly grew up in relative comfort in a world where employment and success were a simple matter of putting forth the effort to try, a world where jobs performing manual labor were plentiful and easy to obtain. Today they are old enough to be out of touch with what the modern conditions of employment and success are, still believing it's as simple as it was in their day, and are infamous for their sense of entitlement. They have never even been close to the poverty line and have no grasp whatsoever of what it's like to be poor. Any time you see someone complaining about "millennials" there's a high chance that person is a boomer."ok boomer" is a recent meme of responding to statements with the implication that the person you are responding to is from the baby boomer generation. Sometimes it's literal, but most often it is ironic as it is frequently used to respond to people who clearly aren't baby boomers but are in some way either "party poopers" or simply displaying ignorance of some topic (whether or not the subject is something one could reasonably expect most everyone to have knowledge of seems to be irrelevant, though the implication is always that it is.)