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But if we are to consider age, let’s try to harness the wisdom that our working-class elders can impart to us: the stories about bosses betraying their promises, about political elites neglecting those with nothing to offer them, about lifetimes of hard work not being rewarded with a peaceful retirement or even the respect of those we nurtured. 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. It’s not capitalists, it’s not the politicians who serve them – it’s “boomers”, or everyone born in the two decades after the second world war. As the creators of the song, Leland and Freddy Scott, state, the song has ‘got a nostalgic feel to it. With over 1 billion active monthly users ( Statista, 2018), Instagram is an important site for constructing, contesting and consuming messages.

In this way, humour can be multifarious, ambiguous and polysemic depending on who is ‘in on’ the joke. Yet while Tyler and Bennett (2010) argue that, with women such as Colleen Rooney and celebrity chav(ette)s, ‘[w]e laugh at their faux pas and share our disgust at their shameless promiscuity, tasteless lifestyles, parental incompetence and bigotry’ (p. AARP exec takes apparent swipe at 'OK, Boomer' line: 'We're the people that actually have the money' ".A pop-culture meme account which started in 2017, ‘loveofhuns’ has become a viral success on Instagram, with over 600,000 followers and 1500 posts. Memes will be examined because they are exemplary forms of user-generated content in the age of social networking and user participation. The phrase has also been used commercially to sell merchandise and has been the subject of multiple trademark applications. She has previously been published in Feminist Media Studies and Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. Yet, in line with the ambivalence of these posts, it also voices a critique of feminine cultures of performative ‘wellness’ associated with middle-class yummy mummies and influencers.

Lauren Eglen (2020) similarly argues that it has ‘been employed as a symbol of rebellious respectability’.Several French politicians have also accused the phrase of being ageist, with MP Audrey Dufeu Schubert ( La République en Marche!

So the older generation is being told its advice is out of touch, and that boomers are out of touch, at a moment when their views have less traction in the current economic and political landscape than ever.in that they display an ironic awareness of working-class women’s speech patterns online in a distinctly British context.

In 2019, it was transnationally translated for UK audiences (BBC, 2019–) and is currently in its second season after 12 million views gave the streaming service BBC iPlayer a ‘record-breaking’ year ( Kanter, 2019). 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. 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. To older generations it may feel backward, but letting go of certain expectations can go a long way toward mutually beneficial interactions. Millions rely on Vox’s clear, high-quality journalism to understand the forces shaping today’s world.But because of the cultural and political moment we’re in, the stakes feel much more fraught and high-risk than other generational clashes.