Anyone else wonder what they'll call us when we're as old as what they call boomers?
Posted by queenofcaffeine76@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 230 comments
I'm kinda joking kinda not. Will we hear "okay, Xer" or something? That is, if they remember us... I swear if one more person calls me millennial I'll yell at them to get off my lawn.
seigezunt@reddit
Boomers. It’s already a thing. Boomer just means “old asshole” now
HURTBOTPEGASUS9@reddit
Boomers and/or Karen
equinox_magick@reddit
Hopefully they’ll be too afraid of us to talk shit
CarlaQ5@reddit
They won't do it to our faces, but they'll put their little temper tantrums all over TikTok, etc.
ted_anderson@reddit
Frigidspinner@reddit
They will call us boomers. They already do.
Powerful-Soup-8767@reddit
They don’t!! Do they? Oh, I would be fn ragified.
CrowsSayCawCaw@reddit
They already call the 40-something aged millennials boomer too.
I've seen zoomers here on Reddit absolutely insist everyone over 40 is a boomer. A lot of them don't even understand the generational context and don't care to learn. Trying to explain it falls on deaf ears.
app257@reddit
A couple of millennial radio hosts were saying that Gen Z is already saying “Ok, Millennial!” My daughter asks how we get away without being attacked. I told her it’s because we’re just beyond reproach. Lol.
Individual-Fail4709@reddit
Nah, it is because we are forgotten and don't GAF.
CarlaQ5@reddit
This!
XelaNiba@reddit
It's the upside of being the forgotten generation
cheesecheeseonbread@reddit
IMO they do it because they know it's the only way on Earth to really annoy an Xer.
Multigrain_Migraine@reddit
Right? Nothing more annoying than saying you're turning into your parents.
cheesecheeseonbread@reddit
My parents were Silents, and it's still annoying. None of us want to be identified with the people who called us "slackers" while refusing to hire us into decent jobs.
kckitty71@reddit
You’re a slacker, McFly!
Grease2310@reddit
No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley
TheRealJim57@reddit
"Eat lead, slackers!"
jeremiah15165@reddit
Just do what I do, give them the thousand yard stare and say hmm..
CrowsSayCawCaw@reddit
They piss off the millennials as well, especially they're more fond of giving the millennials grief vs gen x. Although the new thing I'm seeing online is zoomers blaming their gen x parents for their lacking social skills.
I think they just don't care they're misusing the term.
cheesecheeseonbread@reddit
they're more fond of giving the millennials grief vs gen x.
Well, of course, for the same reason the boomers picked on the millennials more. Millennials give a satisfying reaction when poked, while Xers just blink & say "whatever".
SucksAtJudo@reddit
We're just happy anyone notices we exist.
cheesecheeseonbread@reddit
Except when it's a conflict headline. For example, "Boomers are crying because millennials aren't having their grandkids." More than happy to be left out of that one.
SucksAtJudo@reddit
Yeah there is that.
Although I think that we're actually being included in that anyway. I'm at the younger end of Gen X and my oldest child is in their middle 20s.
CuteAd1680@reddit
It's only annoying because you're having to listen to their voice. You have to value somebody on some level to care what they think of you.
cheesecheeseonbread@reddit
Oh, don't worry about me. I give twice as good as I get. ;)
naazzttyy@reddit
Yep, ‘Ok, Boomer’ is such a curt and perfectly dismissive retort it isn’t going anywhere for the next 30-40 years. Even though we (and elder Millennials) aren’t Boomers it’s something we’re all going to hear more than once as we get grayer. And when we do, hopefully it gives us pause for a few seconds to stop and contemplate “Hmmm… am. I acting like a Boomer? Did I deserve that?”
Grease2310@reddit
My kid once explained it to me. This was their explanation:
Dad, those are BABY boomers. We know you’re not THOSE guys. You and the millennials (this child was born in 1998 so they could almost be a millennial themselves) are INTERNET boomers. Y’all were there when the dinosaur computers with windows 95 and stuff were popular.
belinck@reddit
My 10yos definitely do this to try and piss me off. I call them generation null.
Flashy_Report_4759@reddit
Well, they can't read an analog clock, cursive or drive a stick shift ....so 🤔 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Kaffine69@reddit
They hate us cause they anus!
mynextthroway@reddit
Lol! I'm so going to use this.
bionic_cmdo@reddit
If there was some sort of rule it would be a generation+boomer formula. Like 'GrenX Boomers' or 'Millennial Boomers'.
polymorphic_hippo@reddit
To which I say, uh, slacker, you little shit. I'm a slacker, and don't you forget it.
whymygraine@reddit
This, and as a young X this pisses me off something fierce.
Amidormi@reddit
That drives me bonkers because my PARENTS were boomers. I'm late Gen X and my siblings were just after that (millenials?). And they struggled pretty hard but here on reddit apparently all boomers were born with 10 million dollars and a house.
SouthOfOz@reddit
Someone okay Boomer'd me at work and it just made me so tired.
cowmookazee@reddit
My shitty Gen Z hires hit me with that one the other day for swiping to make a screenshot. Never knew that was a boomer thing to do.
InfectedSteve@reddit
Correct because they already forgot X exists.
LetsTryAnal_ogy@reddit
Either forgotten again, or lumped in with those others. We’re are certainly consistent.
Top-Dream-2115@reddit
They can't think for themselves. The internet tells them what to think. So, yeah...they'll call us "boomers".
mynextthroway@reddit
"They" call anybody older than them, even just a few years, with an opinion different than theirs a boomer. In 10 more years, boomer will be meaningless. All they say about the age is "Boomer is an attitude more than an age"
Excel_Ents@reddit
Yep I had that today on here and I am Gen X.
whistlepig4life@reddit
Came to say this.
Powerful-Soup-8767@reddit
They’ll call us?
scarlet_hairstreak@reddit
I believe it's "Whatever, GenXer"
CarlaQ5@reddit
Oh! I haven't heard that one before.
Squirrel_Avenger80@reddit
I'd be happy being called a Kriss Xer ! ( Chris Crosser )
Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit
Man, who gives a fuck. Really?
literarymasque@reddit
Xoomers
LumiereGatsby@reddit
Nobody knows we exist and we tend to move in lock step with the baby boomers it seems … sigh …
They’ll just misgenaration us.
Best thing you can do as X is simply not care.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit (OP)
That is our signature move.
inkman@reddit
No one can ever stop me from not giving a shit. They can never take that away. And if they did, I wouldn't give a fuck about that either.
genialerarchitekt@reddit
We already get constantly lumped in with the boomers by the media. It's mostly boomers - millennials - gen y. Gen X barely exists.
TakkataMSF@reddit
What am I not caring about? I wasn't paying attention.
The chicken salad sandwich. It can be so delicious, but it's rarely seen. Of course, it can be fricken horrible too. If we were talking about chicken salad sandwiches, I care.
JETSET9OH7@reddit
Whatever
sonicode@reddit
Wut... evaaa!
MichaelArnoldTravis@reddit
i’ve always been contrary to my boomer parents, so no lock step here (or with any of my contrarian X’er friends)
th3nan0byt3@reddit
Whatever milli.
reb6@reddit
I consider myself to be GenX (46), with a millennial rising and boomer tendencies. Like I’m one summer away of sitting on my front porch like Clint Eastwood and being disgusted with the neighborhood. But not because I’m racist, I’m just that crabby 😅
Common_Alfalfa_3670@reddit
They won't call us anything. Barely notice us now when we are doing all the work and keeping all the companies from falling apart.
BingoSpong@reddit
Who cares? We’re not supposed to give a shit , remember!
Impossible-Rope5721@reddit
Probably Xpired 🤣
noldshit@reddit
Look on the bright side! We're the last generation known for its ability to fix things. These skills can be applied towards unfixing things.
price101@reddit
Whatever they call us, we don't care. I really resented the real boomers when I was younger. At this point, I feel bad for the generation before us, and the one after. The feeling of succeeding when nobody wanted you too far outweighs the satisfaction of having success simply because you were at the right place at the right time.
GloomyFondant526@reddit
As an X-er I don’t give a shit what other generations call me. Fk’em all.
Infinite-Lychee-182@reddit
The great thing about being GenX is truly not giving a f*ck.
MmMmM_Lemon@reddit
They’re called boomers because they were born during the baby boom. We should be called genXers
MysteriousPark3806@reddit
They've already forgotten us. Everything skips from Boomers to Millennials and then to Gen Z. We hardly get mentioned at all. They'll likely just call us boomers. It's kind of slang for old person at this point.
Unique_Beat5789@reddit
Ha,They will probably call us X- Laxers
AussieGirl27@reddit
Whatever it is we really won't give a fuck
timberwolf0122@reddit
Assuming they remeber we exist
STGItsMe@reddit
“Boomers”
Hot_Paper5030@reddit
We'll never make it to that age.
Gooogles_Wh0Re@reddit
trust me, it will be something more creative than x'er and it will be an unexpected punch to the gut in a way you can't imagine right now.
MaximumJones@reddit
When people say "Ok boomer" to me I say "No problem renter". 😎
kckitty71@reddit
Some of us are still renters. I didn’t pay attention to people who told me to save money.
MsNomered@reddit
Save money…
jollytoes@reddit
Seeing how the housing market is fucked most likely for decades, and the younger generations have almost no chance of being able to buy a house in the future, that comment just makes you a dick.
MaximumJones@reddit
GrokMeLikeAHurricane@reddit
Is that what the dude would do?
Alternative_Lime_302@reddit
Or call them a newb.
Sea-Roof-5983@reddit
I'll try that a bit
Surroundedbygoalies@reddit
Savage!
OldBanjoFrog@reddit
Nice burn
StrangeCrunchy1@reddit
Don't worry; you can't be not remembered; you always let everyone know you're Gen-X. Y'all're the generational equivalent to vegans.
LeaderBriefs-com@reddit
People barley refer to us now but hands down we have the coolest name. Thanks Coupland!
What the hell is a “zennial” is it xenial?
Pff. Who cares.
Mr_Stimmers@reddit
I bet it’s either x-holes or millennials.
RevealFormal3267@reddit
They won't call us. And we're Gen X, so we're used to that.
82ndReconMedic@reddit
Being an Xer, it only seems fitting to say WHO CARES!!!
UnicornSheets@reddit
They won’t. We will be forever forgotten
frododog@reddit
I'm just glad marijuana gummies are legal in my state. Also they make the kidz easy to ignore haha. When I'm old(er), I shall work in the garden too high to talk lol.
WesternSpinach9808@reddit
Exstinct
munch_19@reddit
X men? (and women)
PaperbackBuddha@reddit
Whatever they call us, I may remind them that if they can’t get their epithets straight, their opinion is moot.
Workintodeath@reddit
They won't call us anything, we are the forgotten generation
braalewi@reddit
Geriatix
Tsujigiri@reddit
I think boomer is just the derogatory term for an old, backward person now. Quite an epithet for that generation.
State-Cultural@reddit
Honestly don’t give two shites
CoastalKtulu@reddit
They can't stand being called "kiddo".
So I do it every chance I get.
Fuck 'em, stay off my lawn.
SuzQP@reddit
I've noticed that "little buckeroo" makes them froth at the mouth.
VoodooKittyS197@reddit
🤣
ScenesFromSound@reddit
I want to be referred to as, "Whatever".
Hey Whatever, want to grab a beer with us afterwork?
AshDenver@reddit
They’re already calling us Boomers. Where you been?!
Grey hair? BOOMER!
Over 30? BOOMER!
Slightly confused about the Idiocracy? BOOMER!
MisterMakena@reddit
Bloomers.
GuyFromLI747@reddit
There was a 20 year old at my job that called me old man .. he kept doing the Nelson laugh that I was going to be 50.. fixed that problem with making him clean the shop.. I may be old but I’m your foreman lol
DohDohDonutzMMM@reddit
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
That's just quality education you're doling out.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit (OP)
Never mess with the foreman!
Always_Today1111@reddit
Geriatric X
ShakeWeightMyDick@reddit
Forgotten now, probably be forgotten then, too
JimmyFree@reddit
Hopefully we're not chasing kids off our lawn so we're just, "that chill dude that lives around the corner."
BrokenPinkyPromise@reddit
Apparently we‘re just all boomers.
Whatever…
Boondock830@reddit
I mean, we don’t really give a fuck though, right.
Like, isn’t that our whole thing? We don’t give a fuck.
They should call us Dgafers.
Jennis8108@reddit
Oh well whatever never mind….
Katsaj@reddit
They won’t remember we exist. Typical.
MezcalCC@reddit
They’ll call me “sir”.
South_of_Reality@reddit
They can call me loser and they can call me winner just as long as they don’t call me in too late for dinner.
Fickle-Woodpecker596@reddit
Reading comments online we are already apparently creeping into that territory- I guess in the eyes of Gen Z. We've been pretty good at staying invisible but I guess now we are starting to tread into the territory of "stay off my lawn"
AKCanonSong@reddit
I would prefer to be called a slang term from a Douglas Coupland novel or an R.E.M. song, but we don’t get to choose, do we?
Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit
The Zoomers just call us boomers.
Yzerman19_@reddit
Everybody might be dead by then so I’m not going to worry about it.
mcluhan007@reddit
They already call us “Boomer lite.”
longirons6@reddit
They already call us boomers
SchrodingersTIKTOK@reddit
I kinda don’t care anymore. Every generation seems to punch down at the previous generation. We get to kick the ball down the road and blame everyone before us.
No-Fox-1400@reddit
I’m hoping for Xerxes
Therunningman06@reddit
Already Boomers
baked_beansntaters@reddit
I'm 50. I have hearing aids and I never wear them unless I go to the doctor because I don't care what other people are saying LOL
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
"Huh? Yeah, I have them. But the words you're barfing up aren't worth the battery power necessary for me to expends the effort to ignore."
Sufficient-Meet6127@reddit
Nothing because everyone ignores our existence.
WatchStoredInAss@reddit
Ageism is so goddamn stupid. Like mind-numbingly stupid. They are literally making fun of their future selves.
ricklewis314@reddit
Friggin’ Elon ruined “Xers” for us!
HHSquad@reddit
Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Green as well, every generation has bad actors
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
Don't forget Mike Johnson, a dude who joined with his son in an anti-masturbation accountability pact... We definitely have our losers too.
Meh....
PerformanceHour1675@reddit
We will have been completely wiped from society’s collective memory. It’s already started.
Good thing we don’t give two fucks.
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
Our music will survive.
GboyFlex@reddit
Hopefully they'll mostly ignore us..if not I don't really care. I wouldn't be shocked to hear "oh, you're still alive?"
radar_3d@reddit
Who?mers
Wobbly_Bob12@reddit
I don't think they will. We are the ferocious generation that also has tech skills.
PracticalApartment99@reddit
Nah, old people will probably always be “boomers.” Most of the kids nowadays don’t even know the origin of the term.
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
I'd rather be called a millennial than a boomer, if I had to choose. But my first choice would be to not be remembered or called at all.
OPsDaddy@reddit
We will be known as “the generation for whom they temporarily killed Social Security.”
CqwyxzKpr@reddit
Degenexes
Simple_somewhere515@reddit
“Go Drink from a hose”
LV-42whatnow@reddit
"Hosers"
queenofcaffeine76@reddit (OP)
This is the way
VoodooKittyS197@reddit
Xer child: “Dad my wrist is on backwards!”
Dad: “You’re alright, go outside and play.”
notfunnysince21@reddit
Isn't the proper thought, "Who gives a fuck!".
cropguru357@reddit
Meh.
mslass@reddit
They won’t be bothered to call us anything because we don’t matter.
Man-e-questions@reddit
I don’t think Skynet will call us anything
BatmanResurgent@reddit
I feel like we should be called X-men.
TakkataMSF@reddit
They call me, Tater Salad.
jeon2595@reddit
Go to the boomersbeingfools sr, they already lump us in with boomers.
skoltroll@reddit
Gimme a beer and call me whatever u want.
OldNorthBridge@reddit
Who gives a fuck?
Pale_You_6610@reddit
We’ll hear, “Okay whatevers”
DeepRoot@reddit
"That's the cool part... they won't."
Yasuru@reddit
They will call us boomers because they can't tell the difference
flop_plop@reddit
They’ll forget about us like always.
Whatever…
AccomplishedWar9776@reddit
They’re going to call us Goobers
GrandMoffJenkins@reddit
We were really into watching videos, so they'll probably call us "xvideos."
LivingEnd44@reddit
Being GenX means not caring what they call us. And I really don't.
Individual-Fail4709@reddit
Boomer.
TesseractToo@reddit
Still boomer. The point is more to be dismissive and insulting, the fact you get mad over it's technicality is just gravy.
RetroactiveRecursion@reddit
"Ex-ers"
Top_Bus_3833@reddit
Don't care tbh
thedrunkensot@reddit
OK Xer!
Whatever.
CondeBK@reddit
Do (Forget about Me!)
ego_tripped@reddit
You'll just walk on by...and I'll just walk away.
Boracraze@reddit
Old.
Nitroburner3000@reddit
Baby boomers have been called that since birth.
The1Ylrebmik@reddit
Probably "slacker" because they think they'll be ironic.
nocountry4oldgeisha@reddit
I always called old people "Grampa/Grammaw." Non-generation specific.
RealEstorma@reddit
Nothing. They won’t even notice us.
Educational_Egg_1716@reddit
That won't even remember that we existed. It's kind of like now, but ...whatever 🤗
box_elder74@reddit
Hey whatever.
ice1000@reddit
Doomers
VoodooKittyS197@reddit
Heeheehee. That fits 😂
Earfaceear@reddit
Don’t care
IceNein@reddit
You mean they’re not going to just forget about us?
mj6174@reddit
Xitters
VLC31@reddit
They’ll just keep calling you Boomers. Boomer seems to have actually lost ii’s true meaning and is just applied to anyone older than the person judging them.
viewering@reddit
i pay way more attention to what gen x calls us
thembones44@reddit
Ok Millenial is the new ok boomer. Much like our parents did, we are just the forgotten generation. I'm good with that. Funny how Gen Y became millenials and we just remained us. Hey...whatever!
muphasta@reddit
Boomers or nothing as we are forgotten.
designocoligist@reddit
Who cares?
Smilneyes420@reddit
It still throws me when someone calls me sir. A kid at work came up to ask if he could borrow a tool from me and said excuse me sir, I was looking around to see who must’ve walked in.
SprinklesWilling470@reddit
I'm already becoming irrelevant, I can't imagine also being the butt of the joke in my old age. Bleh.
Maleficent-Sport1970@reddit
Thing is, we don't care!
bigSTUdazz@reddit
Old. We will be called old...and they would be correct.
justdan76@reddit
Nothing, society will continue to pretend we don’t exist
RickRI401@reddit
When someone calls me Boomer or old, etc, I just say... "OK Renter".
SFHChi@reddit
They will always use "Boomer", because it works real well. -SFHC
Fast_Ad_8224@reddit
Stoners
SamWhittemore75@reddit
OKaY bOoMeR!
Fartina69@reddit
They'll probably just look past us. I'm ok with that.
poopypants206@reddit
On Reddit we are already boomers to people
ForswornForSwearing@reddit
Dead.
dasanman69@reddit
They have no idea what a boomer really is. Anyone older than them is a boomer
porkchopespresso@reddit
"OK Boomer" really is such a perfect insulting thing to say. It's so dismissive and condescending.
If they come up with something they want to say to us I hope it's as good as that, at least.
Sea-Roof-5983@reddit
I have a feeling we will be encouraging them to up their game.
porkchopespresso@reddit
I won't be offended by name calling but I would be offended by low effort
SausageSmuggler21@reddit
We voted in the orange felon for president. They're not calling us anymore.
GenX-ModTeam@reddit
All political posts must be in the moderator designated threads only.
Paperbackpixie@reddit
I don’t think that they understand that there’s a whole generation between the “boomer generation” and millennial, Z .
Sorry-Car472@reddit
They won’t remember we exist, which is fine with me. X all about not giving a tenth of a shit.
funkcatbrown@reddit
The Bad MFers.
SquirrelsNRaccoons@reddit
We're seriously the forgotten generation. First by our boomer parents who were too busy divorcing, remarrying, and working to acknowledge us most of the time, and now it's everyone younger than us who calls us either boomers or millennials.
Best-Theory-330@reddit
They’ll still be living with their Gen X parents. So who really cares what they say.
gohome2020youredrunk@reddit
More like GenX who?
foolsrushin420@reddit
We are all boomers as far as the 'minerals' are concerned... 🤣
Flomar76@reddit
My GenZ kid said to me “whatever, your mom left you at the store.” The kids are alright. And right.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit (OP)
LMAO
squirtloaf@reddit
WHATever, Professor X.
schneeble_schnobble@reddit
Probably not because we tend to mind our own fucking business instead of telling everyone how they're "doin it rong".
LeafyCandy@reddit
Probably still "boomer." It's what they call us now.
RattledMind@reddit
We were slackers in youth, we’ll be slackers in our golden years. ‘Tis the way it was intended.
User013579@reddit
They already call us “Boomers”. Young people are morons.
CherryChipwich@reddit
XERS
Just_Trish_92@reddit
I hate to break it to you, but the folks who say "okay, boomer" say it to us, too, even though we're not Boomers. We matter so little that we are invisible to them. We should expect nothing but invisibility for the rest of our lives, as we have been invisible for our lives up to now.
arroyoshark@reddit
Who gives a f*ck
Sea-Roof-5983@reddit
I'll just pretend I can't hear them
RiffRandellsBF@reddit
The "Don't Give a Fucks"?
Alternative_Lime_302@reddit
X-rated 😎
mtrap74@reddit
Who cares.
Beneficial-Cow-2544@reddit
Xers?
zionzednem@reddit
Wise ones?
nottiredandtorn@reddit
Boomer. It's the new word for senior citizen.
Mysterious_Main_5391@reddit
They can call me anything they want as long as they stay off my damn lawn.