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For once a meme seems to have important content as well and isn’t just spreading because it’s good at spreading. Though it’s good at spreading too. I suspect the meta commentary is 10x higher than actual use of the line in real life, which you’d expect of a good meme. twitter.com/BethLynch2020/…
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I think Tyler misreads this. While he’s right that Boomers are viewed as a force of nature, ‘Ok Boomer’ signals agency to fellow Ms/Zs rather than impotence. I hear it as, “we can just go around these people or run out the clock on them. They no longer matter. twitter.com/tylercowen/sta…
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The Rick and Morty line “don’t think about it” is a distant, less hostile cousin that disregards general weirdness rather than a specific antagonist
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where it doesn’t work is where the target clearly has less power than you, in which case it degenerates to regular contempt rather than ok-to-power like a guy saying “ok metoo” would backfire badly
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