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Sharing links are not relevant where the article is open access and not available if you do not have a subscription. She wrote in an article in The Guardian that her comment "symbolised exhaustion of multiple generations. The moment occurred just as she was discussing the urgency her generation feels to prioritize and deal seriously with the problem, and explaining her frustration that previous cycles of lawmakers have failed to do so.

Today’s kids are getting things handed to them, and that’s not what the boomers like to see, so they make cocky comments because they believe that they are ‘superior,’” she said. However, Sharon Lockyer argues that, in some respects, Vicky Pollard can be deemed important because (s)he articulates and negotiate class identities, with Pollard drawing attention away from middle- and upper-class representations. 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. I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything’s that happened on an ITV morning show public.

Several French politicians have also accused the phrase of being ageist, with MP Audrey Dufeu Schubert ( La République en Marche! Collins often refers to her alter-ego as ‘the GC’, a diva who demonstrates the role of excess in classed femininities. By replacing an absent figure with someone who is continually present, for fans of huns and EastEnders, the meme comments on contemporary politics and emphasises ‘comedy and the sense of nostalgia for a lost way of life’ ( Geraghty, 2002: 66). 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.

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. Naturally, they see older generations as having a hand in creating or at least perpetuating these problems. For frustrated millennials and teens, OK boomer is an emotionally valid response to boomer condescension, but to frustrated baby boomers, it sounds insolent and disrespectful: You say, “OK boomer,” and I hear, “your entire generation has irrevocably destroyed human civilization. The celebrity hun can be seen as a contemporary extension of the ‘ladette’ in that she displays similar behaviours. Multiple trademark applications were filed for "OK boomer", including one from Fox Media in 2019 with the intent to launch "an ongoing television series featuring reality competition, comedy, and game shows".This assumption bears similarities to the idea that women cannot be present and harness the power of visibility in memes.

It suggests that the conversation around the anxieties and concerns of younger generations has become so exhausting and unproductive that the younger generations are collectively over it. With a Conservative stronghold and (upper) middle-class representations dominating the media (see Friedman et al. Lauren Eglen (2020) similarly argues that it has ‘been employed as a symbol of rebellious respectability’. Using the Instagram account ‘loveofhuns’ as a case study, I examine three memes from this page to showcase how huns are represented in complex and competing ways.The phrase was used by US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on 15 January 2020, as part of questioning for the Babb v. A big cause of younger generations’ resentment toward boomers is the perception that boomers are hoarding wealth. The phrase has also been used commercially to sell merchandise and has been the subject of multiple trademark applications.