/lit/ - Literature

>>11261897
infinite jest

>>11261897
Jordans Petersons 'How to win friends and influence people'

“the 7 habits of highly effective people” by sam hyde

The Stoics by Pete Cuckerson

SIP N RIP

Unironically this.

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

>>11261897
Think big and kick ass

I'm usually pretty hip to the nouvelles of internet culture, but could someone please give me the lowdown on this "(x=age too young to fit the designation) year old boomer" thing?
I just can't seem to get it.

>>11262571
>that 30 year old boomer who just came in fresh from reddit

>>11262596
Admit you came from Reddit this year. Everything in your post came out of /pol/ within the past month, after floating around Twitter since February.

>>11262613
That stupid shrek shit is fucking retarded.

The 18 year old boomer meme though? Good.

>>11262637
They’re both exactly the same. It’s fedora memes reborn.

>>11262571
It's an immediate way to set up a simplistic tribal dichotomy between boomers and millenials. The age part is a joke. A 16 year old boomer is a stupid kid that embodies whatever values the OP wants him to, just like a 45 year old millennial (usually called basedboy/numale or whatever the reddit->/pol/ train is into at the moment). The dissonance is the joke, boomer being "baby boomers, " a gen born right after WWII so like 70-80 years old, millennial being like 15ish-30ish depending whose criteria. Gen X Y and Z don't really exist in the dichotomy

Like all memes, flexibility and broad understanding allow it's continuity. If you try too starkly to define the terms "millenial" and "boomer," everyone will just disagree without providing a better

>>11262879
Is that it? Man 4cheng's mememaking capabilities really fall lower and lower every year

>>11262879
>that 30 year old boomer who tries to analyze memes

>>11262879
i thought the boomer meme was to make fun of people in their late 20s or early 30s for having failed
everybody here is mediocre but if you're 20 you can pretend that you will become something, the boomer meme expresses how ridiculous this pretension is

the 19yr old boomer is someone who already contains within themselves the failed 30 year old

>>11262892
>that millennial that thinks making memes isn't inherently analysis

>>11262885
Memes became the primary mode of adolescent socialization in America in like 2015ish. 4chan no longer sets the trends; it follows them.

>>11262892
;)
Probably because I'm gay af

>>11262894
Yeah man I buy it. Half the point of memeing is flexibility inside of vaguely established norms. See
>>11262908 for a variant of this meme without even using the age, which is like half the meme

>>11262879
Thanks for the explanation, friend

>>11262919
>4chan no longer sets the trends; it follows them.
I'd say we don't even do that anymore. We just shitpost brainlet memes, pepe and the evergreen "back to plebbit"

>>11262571
it's a way of making fun and putting into the outgroup a way of someone who embodies
(negative) qualities stereotypically associated with boomers, despite not being one. it's basically the same idea of calling someone a wigger.

why is his hair like that?

ops pic reminds me of my sister's ex-husband, god what a tool

>>11262879
Boomers are 60-80, gen X is 40-60, millenials (gen Y) are 20-40, and gen Z is under 20. The x year generation meme is a social outcast who was rejected by their generation and tries to fit in with another.

>>11264229
>that 20 year old boomer who states simple, commonly known facts on a meme board and get ignored

>>11264229
gen z is anyone who can not remember 9/11

>>11264234
If it's so simple and commonly known then why did the person I replied to get it so wrong they didn't even get the generations right?