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by R_haterade 2787 days ago
Gotta have my /sipps/ tho.

I'm actually curious now if the 30 year old boomer meme is in any way an outgrowth of the Iraq war. The aesthetic the meme embraces reminds me a lot of the guys I knew my age and older who served. Gonna have to reflect on this a bit.
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jdhn 2786 days ago
Never thought I'd see a reference to the /sipps/ meme on HN, yet here we are.

Personally, I think the 30 year old boomer meme is rooted more in the fact that internet culture moves so fast these days that anything even a few years old is considered dated. Combine that with the definite cultural differences between Millennials and Gen Z, and the boomer meme makes sense.

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killjoywashere 2787 days ago
Know Your Meme places the origin of 30-year-old boomer in April 2018. Rage comics became a thing in 2008, 2 years after the peak death toll in Iraq. I don't recall any link between the development of rage comics and Iraq though.
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