Bring them back by asking questions, listening to the answers, and engaging with their point of view. Writing for The American Conservative, senior editor Rod Dreher criticized the Walt Disney Company's vocal opposition to the Florida law, and a gradual inclusion over the years of LGBT-focused content in Disney productions, promotional marketing materials, and theme park attractions (such as "Disney Pride"), as being an example of institutional "grooming" by a major corporate brand that is synonymous with children's entertainment and innocence. Proponents of the Florida law and other legislative proposals like it, which seek to curtail or diminish discussion of LGBT sex education content in classrooms, have described educators and activists looking to include or promote such material as "groomers". The catchphrase, coined by Generation Z (or Zoomers) on TikTok, has transcended the digital realm and planted itself firmly into popular discourse.

Furthermore, Lonsberry stated that "being hip and flip does not make bigotry OK, nor is a derisive epithet acceptable because it is new". Photograph: Publicity image View image in fullscreen ‘If “we” have to divide ourselves, it makes sense to look for these class divisions rather than inventing common cultural characteristics across generations.There were also plenty of “boomers” who didn’t feel any generational solidarity while exploiting people their own age and amassing vast fortunes in the process. The first recorded instance of "OK boomer" is in a Reddit comment on 29 September 2009, [5] and it appeared from 2015 on 4chan, to refer to others who seemed out of touch with the modern world. If “we” have to divide ourselves, it makes sense to look for these class divisions rather than inventing common cultural characteristics across generations. In the series’ most popular and anticipated challenge – Snatch Game – competing drag queens are challenged to perform in character as a celebrity of their choosing in a parody of the Match Game (NBC, CBS, and ABC, 1962–) to demonstrate their improvisation ability, make-up skills and competence in creating comic characters.

The accepted explanation and justification for all this is that the old have ruined things for the young: we’re responsible for climate change, for income inequality, for the cascading series of financial crises, for the prohibitive cost of higher education. They feel as if they can say whatever they want about our generation and no repercussion,” Lepera told Vox, “but when we make a joke about them it’s the end of the world. the verses define boomers as racist, fascist Trump supporters with bad hair — became a popular song choice for TikTok sing-along videos this fall. One of the most popular storylines involving her character, Sonia Fowler, portrayed her teenage pregnancy and the decision to place her baby for adoption. The aesthetic and evaluative judgement on reality TV has been suspended for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and a recent interest in huns here.

British celebrities such as DJs Sara Cox and Zoe Ball, alongside TV presenters Denise Van Outen and Gail Porter, were criticised by the press for their unacceptable presentation of female independence and transgressing gendered boundaries of classed respectability. Thousands of viewers responded with "OK boomer" as "a sophisticated, mass retaliation" against the impact of past generations. In this way, the posts on ‘loveofhuns’ reinforce stereotypes while using humour to subversive ends – mocking middle/upper-class ideals while providing significant space for huns visually coded as working-class.

As a baby boomer myself, I have mixed feelings about the latest linguistic weapon of generational warfare being deployed against us,” Bloomberg’s Tyler Cowen recently wrote in response to the meme. it is significant to gauge how the creator(s) of ‘loveofhuns’ playfully mock the hun for their excessive behaviours and what this audience engagement reveals about attitudes towards women who are in the public spotlight and whose appearance/behaviour are coded as working class. Swarbrick was castigated for bringing the meme into a political forum — but as she herself made clear in a subsequent essay for the Guardian, the meme represents a wealth of generational political concerns: “My ‘OK boomer’ comment in parliament was off-the-cuff, albeit symbolic of the collective exhaustion of multiple generations set to inherit ever-amplifying problems in an ever-diminishing window of time,” she wrote.The first post I have chosen to examine concerns RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, a reality competition TV series that helped reshape the visibility of drag culture in the United States and internationally. The hun has thus become an entertaining and socially acceptable form of the ladette, a reconfiguration of past behaviours that were once deemed abominable by the press (for more on ladettes, see Jackson and Tinkler, 2007; Muncer et al. The moment that happened, I was ready to clock off early, pour myself a ‘secco, (and say) “my job here is done”’ ( Levine, 2020). Super excited to have Charity Majors on my next livestream talking about how to use communicate with your engineering teams when trust is low.