"Okay, Boomer." If you haven’t heard the catch-all put-down millennials and Gen Z use to condescendingly burn baby boomers who made their lives much worse - we don't know where you've been. It got so out of hand at one point that many employers were afraid that it might disrupt the work environment.

Never mind, then, because in a natural course of events, with the youngest millennial being in their late 20s, Gen Z is already plotting how the meme will be passed on to the avocado toast generation. "It’s the year 2050 and the term 'ok, millennial' is trending. What are the reasons the young generation is using it?" one user pondered in the Ask Reddit community. From vintage cartoon jokes to early Internet days, it's pretty clear that millennials should start warming up to the idea that redemption day is coming.

#1

"I remember the good old days when we used keyboard and mouse or a controller. Kids these days can't live a day without using brainwave controls"

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#2

I feel like my generation is going to be very against AI rights and AI civil rights will be the issue of the future. I could easily see older versions of my generation being like "No, you can't marry that AI, marriage is between two people, robots are not people, an if else if statement can't love you!"

"ok millennial"

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#3

*Some big catastrophic event happens*

Millennials: Meh, The Simpsons predicted it 40 years ago.

Younger Gen: Okay, Millennial.

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#4

“Back in my day a townhouse cost $600k and a college degree only earned you $12/hour. And everyone made fun of us saying that we were lazy and emotionally fragile but it was the boomers’ fault!!”

“Ok, millenial...”

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#5

The kids of 2050 think grandpa is crazy.. talking about fantastical things like "winter", "fast food" & "electricity".

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#6

When whatever smart phones become are implanted in our eyes our generation will be like “I just like the feel of a real phone, you know?”

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#7

It will probably be us telling them every new technological advance is just a new way for the government and companies to spy on them. Even if the laws change and you do have more privacy, I feel like our generation will always be suspicious.

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#8

"We did everything we could to stop the Climate Collapse"

"OK Millennial"

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#9

Back in my day, humans used to actually drive cars. There were so many accidents.' It's wild and crazy to think of a 2010 Ford Focus being seen as a classic car...

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#10

Using reaction gifs for everything.

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#11

When millennials are like 70 and are still whining about boomers and why everything’s their fault.

“Ok millennial”

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#12

Today: F*****g Boomers with their houses they afforded with a janitor job.

2050: F*****g Millennials all inheriting their houses from their grandparents.

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#13

They won't stop making edgy s*icide jokes.

"Grandma, my pet fish died"

"god I wish that was me"

"......"

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#14

Ugh, for the last time gramps, no, i don't want to see your "iPhone".

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#15

All that generation wants to do is marry their sex robots and it's disgusting!

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#16

They do not realize that in the days before the invention of the hypnopillow, it was possible to NOT get a perfect night's sleep every time.

And I will burn the city to CINDERS before I allow my daughter to marry Conceptual Identity Matrix 69-T as her 2nd co-wife. ESOTERIC CONSTRUCTS ARE NOT PEOPLE.

#17

"I just think that brain chips have ruined what it means to be a kid. No one's texted each other in years, no one even looks at what their friends are posting. They just spend all their time in the "digi-space", pretending to be in the same room with each other! Ridiculous."

"Ok millennial."

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#18

Post apocalyptic earth 2050:

Group huddling in an abandoned Wal-Mart Housing Complex in San Fernando Valley.

JayZeeth, group leader, Generation Xx5 Man 20: “We must smash as many cockroaches as possible, gather them, everyone put them into this straining mechanism and we can all have a table spoon of protein to get through the day..
Tomorrow, we set out by foot to meet the others at the beach to sift through the sludge in a refurbished boat, there’s 6 miles of sludge before we reach actual ocean water. some will die, but the voyage may take us somewhere with cleaner water, and less flesh eating google +++++ users.”

Paul, Millennial Man, 75: “When I was your age, I would press a button on my iPhone and get condoms, weed, whiskey and a pizza delivered to me in 20 minutes! Those days were lit af fam.”

JayZeeth, group leader, Generation Xx5 Man 20: “Okay, Millennial.”

Paul dies from dysentery the next day 1 mile into the voyage.

#19

Grandpa is giving them the old "You call that dancing? This is dancing!" followed by breaking his hip while trying to floss.

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#20

We will still be meme addicted but will be still using the memes that should have been lost and forgotten.

“Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can’t explain that!”

“You thought this meme was dead? NOOOOPE CHUCK TESTA!!!”

No one will get it and everyone will be rolling their eyes at us.

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#21

Our version of "boomer hates his wife" cartoons will be "millennial wants to die" memes.

#22

Us having to explain that we got up for school 5am and would have to wait in the cold for a sh**ty bus.

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#23

Polluting. We think we're doing well, but there's still heaps of habits that have to be improved and I expect future generations will resent us for being backwards. "Why can't we get oranges in the dead of winter anymore? Stupid youngsters f*cking up my healthy balanced diet."

"... Ok millenial."

#24

I imagine its only.a matter of time before body modification (via advanced prosthetics / implants / etc) and / or widespread use of genetic modification. Undoubtedly, many members of the millenial generation will see this as unnatural and will probably oppose it.

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#25

Millennials, while solemnly swearing that they are not going to repeat the mistakes of Boomers and Gen X, they will make them anyway.

Millennials will always complain about the games they play, just like they did with Minecraft and do with Fortnite even this early.

Millennials will complain about them for using VR/AR goggles all the time.

Millennials will think it's not fair for everyone to get Universal Basic Income after the automation revolution since they had to go to college yet they still hardly got any job.

Millennials will look down on the next generation because they can't hand write since pencils and pens ale long obsolete.

#26

Liberals today will be the conservatives of tomorrow.

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#27

Me in the year 2019: When I was your age, we actually PLAYED video games, not any of this "Streamer" or "Lets Play" c**p.

My nephew, watching a TF2 game: "Ok Millenial"

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#28

"You're dead when your body dies! PERIOD! You're not real anymore! You're just some damn digital fantasy who thinks you're still that person!"

#29

Depression isn't cool anymore, grampa.

#30

Outrage/cancel culture. Being overly sensitive. Younger groups seem more chill than millennials.

#31

We won't look up from our phones, or stop munching our avocado toast.

#32

"You goddamn kids have it so easy these days. When i as your age, i couldn't get a job even though i had an liberal arts degree! And that you go to the church... unbelievable, we fought against traditional cultural values!"

Ok millenial.

#33

We will say things like, “damn remember when the iPhone only had 2 cameras, not 69,420? Those were the good old days! Oh also, remember when YouTube was still a thing and didn’t cause world war 3? That was a good time to be alive.”

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#34

Back in my day we had to connect our own Wifi in our own house. We did not have universal public WiFi...

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#35

You think we're going to wait for 2050 to start saying that? Okay millennial.

#36

Milennials will boast about fighting a revolution against the "Baby Boomers" which reference would have no relevance to future generations which will blame millennials for all inflation, debt, and global warming.

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#37

They’re triggered by everything.

#38

Millennials will probably call future generations fence-sitters for not constantly boasting their political views online or in general. The polarized political climate in the US will get old eventually and people will want to unify again and not judge each others character by labels.

“Back in our day, we had to fight to be called our preferred pronouns! You kids should be thanking us for rioting in the streets so you could be accepted by society!”

“Ok Millennial.”

#39

Psh grandpa's trying to raise minimum wage again, it's been tied to inflation since forever old dude.

Yea yea back in your day a broken leg cost 20k and college left you with 200k student loans, up hill both ways.

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#40

Saying back in my day, us kids had a childhood without google, we’d use encyclopedias.

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#41

Still taking selfies and posting to social media while the young people of the day are battling the newly self aware automatons.

#42

We will insist on using cheap homemade versions of products even though the storebought products are now even cheaper and more effective.

#43

In 2050 it's basically the Fallout universe so everyone is struggling to survive and meet basic necessities, but the millienals keep talking about all the fancy tech gadgets they had growing up.

#44

It became unethical to harm insects. Animal rights activists protesting against killing cockroaches and mosquitos. Those who disagree (us) get called animal abusers, but we're too old for this s**t and at that point just kinda waiting for life to end realizing that something similar will happen to them as well when they're old.

#45

"Always get it in writing." The anxious generation, but genuinely.

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#46

Millennials still eating meat. Advocating p*rno. Using the word p*rn to describe normal everyday things, like calling schoolbooks learn p*rn. Being easily offended. Destroying the world by constantly buying new phones and gadgets, buying the cheapest products even if they were flown in from the other side of the planet.
Basically being obnoxious, lazy, self important, and self centered. Everything they blame "boomers" for. A millennial is just a boomer that was born too late.

#47

Back in my day I couldn't afford a thing and had to avoid plastic, now you've got your fancy biodegradable-perfect-for-everything-known-to-human-whatzit

Ok millennial.

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#48

Because of consciousness sharing and maturity upgrades, age of consent will drop and Millennials will freak the f**k out.

#49

For people who thought they were fighting climate change by skipping straws.

#50

They keep trying to sell you their pyramid scheme shtick.

#51

We won't stop quoting vines.

#52

"Just cancel someone on social media with histrionics and the imputation of irredeemable guilt while issuing an invocation to the outrage addicts. My opinion doesn't align with theirs and it's an act of violence to disagree!"

"Okay millennial. "

#53

I feel like in the best timeline our kids are gonna say 'ok millennial' when we're old and can't shake being hyper suspicious, and going off the handle about having to rise up and fight for every damn thing, even though it's not necessary anymore.

Old me: 'Don't trust your boss! They're always trying to screw you. Keep meticulous paper trails and if they ask you to do something make sure you're keeping track of any overtime and for the love of god DON'T EVER SIGN ANYTHING...'

... 'ok millennial'.

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#54

Housing is affordable again and the millennials complain how they could barely make rent or only finance a tiny house. And if they lived in a bigger house it was only because it was inherited.

#55

We can't stop posting '90s kids memes' on Instagram, which at that point is the Facebook of our generation.

"Ok millennial"

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#56

My fear is that we will have failed to keep the planet hospitable and reverse the effects of mass debt/poverty. That the mistakes of our previous generations will be repeated.

#57

Marijuana is great. But to legalize bath salts and Antifreeze? Now that's just plain wrong!

Ok Millennial.

#58

This applies moreso to gen z, but can apply millennials as well. Back when baby boomers when young they were the students fighting for the civil rights movement, and being drafted into Vietnam and protesting the war. Because of this they were seen as very self centered and full of themselves since they didn’t listen to older generations. However because of Vietnam and to a lesser extent Nixon, they became very wary of change and especially government power, which led them to become the stereotypical boomers we think of today. Sound familiar? Millennials were also fighting on the streets for civil rights and are famous for being portrayed as self centered. They are also probably about to experience a presidential impeachment. I’m afraid that we might end up going down the same road as those before us, and that really scares me. We’ll be stuck in the 2010’s forever and not able to adapt to whatever new problems appear in the future.

#59

Xoomers protesting against the unequal distribution of bitcoins.

#60

"You are not my real son. You were a clone from the first time you went through Amazon Teleporting Services ^^^TM ."

"Yea Ok Millenial see you after school" *blip*

A theory behind teleportation is that it just scans, kills, and clones you on the other side. I will never use them if we get that far.

#61

“Epstein didn’t kill himself!”

Ok millennial.

#62

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"OK Millennial"