Millennials Are Pretending To Be Baby Boomers In This FB Group And Here Are 25 Hilarious Posts
Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and millennials (born between the early 1980s and early 2000s) are not on good terms with each other. To oversimply, baby boomers think that millennials are entitled brats who don't take responsibility for pretty much anything while millennials believe that baby boomers are hopelessly outdated in the modern world. The two groups are constantly taking stabs at one another, and Twitter user Anna (@manhattanna) has recently found a perfect example of this ongoing war. Turns out, there's a Facebook group where millennials are pretending to be baby boomers, making fun of the ways they use social media. Anna tweeted screenshots of the group's activity, and the pics have already accumulated over 171K likes, with many commenters saying that the impersonations are so accurate, they're hilarious.
Anna herself was born in 1998, a kind of a generational gap."I can relate to [both] millennials and generation Z," she told Bored Panda. "[Millennials] are the future, they’re stressed out, and have a unique sense of humor."
Sure enough, millennials have plenty of stuff to worry about. Compared to previous generations, for example, 22 to 37-year-old millennials are delaying or foregoing marriage and have been somewhat slower in forming their own households. They are also more likely to be living at home with their parents and for longer stretches.
Most baby boomers, on the other hand, married relatively young (before the age of 25), but only two-thirds of these remain married today. In the case of many baby boomers in the workforce, they believe that time and experience are the key components that earn someone authority so that the longer a person serves an organization, the better ranking they deserve. Interestingly, they are also more likely to hold leadership positions in high paying fields such as medical or engineering. You could say that baby boomers pay credit where credit is due. For example, boomers contribute to the majority of positive feedback online as well.
"The baby boomers that end up being characterized in the group are all the stereotype of the typical baby boomer who's clueless as to how to use the internet, blames millennials for the down fall of the earth, and usually some kind of racist/sexist/homophobic," Anna explained.
She found the group through someone else’s tweet and is really glad that it has gained popularity. "I've gotten so many messages from people saying they were having a rough day/struggling lately, and that the posts on that group make them laugh and gave them a distraction," Anna added.
The minute baby boomers found memes was when they went home to be with the Lord
"I'll have son download that for me later" I laughed way to hard at that
Being someone from "Generation X", seeing these baby boomers vs. millenials & vice versa stuff is like being the middle child. Just sitting here watching and scratching my head.
SNL skit "millenials v Boomers" Keenan Thompson was the host. He said, "I'm Gen X. I just sit back and watch the world burn." I've never felt anything more in my entire life.
I think that is the true life slogan for all gen x >_< "I just sit back and watch the world burn".
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Reference a TV show that has been on the air far too long.
As a member of GenX, aka the forgotten generation, I have to say it is nice to be forgotten after watching how horrible the millennials are to the boomers and vise versa. I could never imagine being this disrespectful to my grandparents or anyone in the "Greatest Generation".
I am a Gen Xer and none of us ever had any problems being disrespectful to fat heads, reagardless of what age they have.
The so-called greatest generation wasn't so great a raising children, look at what the boomers have done.
Boomers deserve whatever gets thrown at them. They can dish it but they can't take it. I'm also an Xer.
how the fuck do you know they're the greatest generation? That is a load of bullcrap. Your basically telling us that we can't be jack shit, you realize. I could never imagine being that disrespectful to my daughter. and aside from going off to war... what exactly made them the greatest generation? most of where we are now is pretty much from their leadership. Also, since then, we've bounced from one war to the next for shit-tacular reasons, the environment is trashed and we now have until 2050 for civilization as we know it to survive, the economic prospects of the vast majority of millenials are tanked, the economic metrics your using only measure the top few percent of the economy and, oh yeah, under their policies and leadership wages have been and remained stagnant under near-rampant inflation, healthcare, housing and general-living costs have gone nothing but up, and for the record, my grandparents are bigots, and that's the truth. Yes I'm angry.
Oh, come on. It's just plain, good fun. I don't see any disrespect.
We wouldn’t have to be mean to the boomers if they weren’t fucking assholes.
I am right there with ya, sis!! I am a 1980 baby...so I am REALLY stuck in the middle!!
I was trying to show my mom these and she just didn’t understand it.
I know...
I was thinking the exact same thing. And my kids are Gen Z apparently so they can enjoy the fireworks with me.
Gen Xer here too and happy to be a middle child in this situation :)
Exactly. We're what I always call 'the lost generation', because no one ever seems to remember we exist.
Haha. Same here.
1971 and just glad, that baby boomers are not really a strong generation in my country. Are they really all spouting so much religious crap on facebook? No wonder it's not used by the younger generations.
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This is the boomers doing it. Labeling. Stop with the labels already.
Millennial here, this is absolutely hysterical because all of our grandparents and great aunts and uncles behave EXACTLY like this on FB. I laughed almost the whole way through this because I could see someone in my family doing what I was reading on nearly every one.
Same!
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@Jason Pabst I wish I was that young. im an early millenial. i just hate the cringy rainbow dyed social mediaretards
Baby Boomer here... on the young end, but still a boomer. I think this is freakin hilarious! So true for the most part!!
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and im guessing you post on social media to "raise awareness" while doing absolutely fuck all to fix things. like most millenials.
Found the Gen X'er 🤣🤣@monkeywrench
Is this babyboomers vs. millenials a US thing? Frankly, I hardly understand most of the entries here. Truly understand, in the sense of not comprehending what might be referred to...
It's mostly a thing being instigated on social media. I've never run across it in real life. I think Gen X is behind it all. ( Sorry, Gen X, I didn't want you to feel left out.)
OMG, KENNY, YOU'RE FOILING OUR PLAN! And we don't make many plans - the last memo we got back in the 90s, we were slackers and then - no new memos. So we get bored and start wars between other generations. Now that you're in on it, 1) don't tell and 2) send popcorn.
I'm Gen X and My Gen Z kids know where you live and can hack and re-programme all your stuff....
I'm in the US and it's all nonsense to me too. -a waste of time.
we get it in england
I'm in US and I've never heard about it! My life must be incomplete....
I'm a norwegian millenial, I have these boomers all over my facebook posting minions and insert balloon emojies everywhere. This is highly relatable.
No, I see stuff like that in Sweden too. The American boomers tend to write (spelling and grammar) slightly better than the Swedish boomers.
I see them in Germany but also Belgium. They love buying and selling used stuff on Facebook and then they start fights and use a lot of CAPS and ,,,, wEird punct.Uation!1
In Germany we don't really have a baby boomer generation - at least not one that is so confiden, unwilling to make space for the younger people and so very LARGE. It took people in West Germany a lot longer to feel comfortable about having lots of children and in East Germany people never had that feeling of endless summer adn 'We Own The World' at all. So, now, we have millenials but not this conflict.
We have a baby boomer generation. That goes for East AND West. The term somply refers to an age group that was born after the war and was very large (lots of babies). That's why they are called Baby Boomers.
That's right, but we *do* have older people making fools of themselves on social media.
Haha, Katinka: I think we have very different perspectives about the boomer generation in Germany. I see them acting quite a lot like you said they didn't. Even had to block my mom on FB some years ago because she was littering my threads.
Yep just USAian thing. As much as we like to claim United We Stand, if you look closer everything is divided in I/Us vs Them.
it is a US thing. especially right now given democratic primaries taking place and people getting ramped up about 'time for a generation change'. but one thing that absolutely pisses me off is being told a generation that really hasn't been all that great is 'the greatest generation' just cuz they went off to fight the nazis. Like, yeah, the nazis had to be dealt withand it took some massive balls to storm the beaches at Normandy. but come on, how do you know?
I'm German and I get it. Also, saw these boomer thread IRL, so yeah, it's actually a thing I guess. Beside, I'm a Gen Xer and we also have our thing going. Usually, we write too much words into a comment and we can't wrap our heads around the concept of memes so well.
YES. It's a US thing.
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almost every boomer on the planet has attempted to send someone a private message by posting it on their own wall. Also, they think everything in their feed is a private message to them. Gen Xers are guilty of this as well.
Your exaggeration is unfounded.
"the planet" = US? :D
Being someone from "Generation X", seeing these baby boomers vs. millenials & vice versa stuff is like being the middle child. Just sitting here watching and scratching my head.
SNL skit "millenials v Boomers" Keenan Thompson was the host. He said, "I'm Gen X. I just sit back and watch the world burn." I've never felt anything more in my entire life.
I think that is the true life slogan for all gen x >_< "I just sit back and watch the world burn".
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Reference a TV show that has been on the air far too long.
As a member of GenX, aka the forgotten generation, I have to say it is nice to be forgotten after watching how horrible the millennials are to the boomers and vise versa. I could never imagine being this disrespectful to my grandparents or anyone in the "Greatest Generation".
I am a Gen Xer and none of us ever had any problems being disrespectful to fat heads, reagardless of what age they have.
The so-called greatest generation wasn't so great a raising children, look at what the boomers have done.
Boomers deserve whatever gets thrown at them. They can dish it but they can't take it. I'm also an Xer.
how the fuck do you know they're the greatest generation? That is a load of bullcrap. Your basically telling us that we can't be jack shit, you realize. I could never imagine being that disrespectful to my daughter. and aside from going off to war... what exactly made them the greatest generation? most of where we are now is pretty much from their leadership. Also, since then, we've bounced from one war to the next for shit-tacular reasons, the environment is trashed and we now have until 2050 for civilization as we know it to survive, the economic prospects of the vast majority of millenials are tanked, the economic metrics your using only measure the top few percent of the economy and, oh yeah, under their policies and leadership wages have been and remained stagnant under near-rampant inflation, healthcare, housing and general-living costs have gone nothing but up, and for the record, my grandparents are bigots, and that's the truth. Yes I'm angry.
Oh, come on. It's just plain, good fun. I don't see any disrespect.
We wouldn’t have to be mean to the boomers if they weren’t fucking assholes.
I am right there with ya, sis!! I am a 1980 baby...so I am REALLY stuck in the middle!!
I was trying to show my mom these and she just didn’t understand it.
I know...
I was thinking the exact same thing. And my kids are Gen Z apparently so they can enjoy the fireworks with me.
Gen Xer here too and happy to be a middle child in this situation :)
Exactly. We're what I always call 'the lost generation', because no one ever seems to remember we exist.
Haha. Same here.
1971 and just glad, that baby boomers are not really a strong generation in my country. Are they really all spouting so much religious crap on facebook? No wonder it's not used by the younger generations.
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This is the boomers doing it. Labeling. Stop with the labels already.
Millennial here, this is absolutely hysterical because all of our grandparents and great aunts and uncles behave EXACTLY like this on FB. I laughed almost the whole way through this because I could see someone in my family doing what I was reading on nearly every one.
Same!
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@Jason Pabst I wish I was that young. im an early millenial. i just hate the cringy rainbow dyed social mediaretards
Baby Boomer here... on the young end, but still a boomer. I think this is freakin hilarious! So true for the most part!!
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and im guessing you post on social media to "raise awareness" while doing absolutely fuck all to fix things. like most millenials.
Found the Gen X'er 🤣🤣@monkeywrench
Is this babyboomers vs. millenials a US thing? Frankly, I hardly understand most of the entries here. Truly understand, in the sense of not comprehending what might be referred to...
It's mostly a thing being instigated on social media. I've never run across it in real life. I think Gen X is behind it all. ( Sorry, Gen X, I didn't want you to feel left out.)
OMG, KENNY, YOU'RE FOILING OUR PLAN! And we don't make many plans - the last memo we got back in the 90s, we were slackers and then - no new memos. So we get bored and start wars between other generations. Now that you're in on it, 1) don't tell and 2) send popcorn.
I'm Gen X and My Gen Z kids know where you live and can hack and re-programme all your stuff....
I'm in the US and it's all nonsense to me too. -a waste of time.
we get it in england
I'm in US and I've never heard about it! My life must be incomplete....
I'm a norwegian millenial, I have these boomers all over my facebook posting minions and insert balloon emojies everywhere. This is highly relatable.
No, I see stuff like that in Sweden too. The American boomers tend to write (spelling and grammar) slightly better than the Swedish boomers.
I see them in Germany but also Belgium. They love buying and selling used stuff on Facebook and then they start fights and use a lot of CAPS and ,,,, wEird punct.Uation!1
In Germany we don't really have a baby boomer generation - at least not one that is so confiden, unwilling to make space for the younger people and so very LARGE. It took people in West Germany a lot longer to feel comfortable about having lots of children and in East Germany people never had that feeling of endless summer adn 'We Own The World' at all. So, now, we have millenials but not this conflict.
We have a baby boomer generation. That goes for East AND West. The term somply refers to an age group that was born after the war and was very large (lots of babies). That's why they are called Baby Boomers.
That's right, but we *do* have older people making fools of themselves on social media.
Haha, Katinka: I think we have very different perspectives about the boomer generation in Germany. I see them acting quite a lot like you said they didn't. Even had to block my mom on FB some years ago because she was littering my threads.
Yep just USAian thing. As much as we like to claim United We Stand, if you look closer everything is divided in I/Us vs Them.
it is a US thing. especially right now given democratic primaries taking place and people getting ramped up about 'time for a generation change'. but one thing that absolutely pisses me off is being told a generation that really hasn't been all that great is 'the greatest generation' just cuz they went off to fight the nazis. Like, yeah, the nazis had to be dealt withand it took some massive balls to storm the beaches at Normandy. but come on, how do you know?
I'm German and I get it. Also, saw these boomer thread IRL, so yeah, it's actually a thing I guess. Beside, I'm a Gen Xer and we also have our thing going. Usually, we write too much words into a comment and we can't wrap our heads around the concept of memes so well.
YES. It's a US thing.
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almost every boomer on the planet has attempted to send someone a private message by posting it on their own wall. Also, they think everything in their feed is a private message to them. Gen Xers are guilty of this as well.
Your exaggeration is unfounded.
"the planet" = US? :D