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By Jing Zeng and Crystal Abidin
How has the migration of political spaces online to social media impacted how older generations interact with social media?
#OkBoomer, Time to Meet the Zoomers’: Studying the Memefication of Intergenerational Politics on TikTok.”
The purpose of this article is to investigate the key controversial issues discussed on TikTok by content created to align with the “Ok Boomer” meme format. Gen Z uses TikToks as an expression of their political culture and this paper explores how this application enforces the generational divide between Gen Z and Boomers.
lyrics from "Ok Boomer," a TikTok song by @james.bee
"Being a Boomer is
not an age-specific phenomenon but rather a mindset."
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The platform in which content exists on can afford or restrain the creative potentials of the content.
The content style by which memes are conveyed through each video, shaped by TikTok's technological features.
"We take a sociological approach to understanding ‘generations’ as a symbolic and dynamic, rather than a biological and static, existence. As a form of social identity, a ‘generation’ comes into being through collective identification or through creating the ‘generational we-sense.'" (2461)
"‘Boomer vibes are detected when people appear to be patronising or express conservative viewpoints on socio-political issues. In other words, being a Boomer is not an age-specific phenomenon but rather a mindset." (2473)
Zeng, Jing, and Crystal Abidin. “‘#OkBoomer, Time to Meet the Zoomers’: Studying the Memefication of Intergenerational Politics on TikTok.” Information, Communication & Society, vol. 24, no. 16, Dec. 2021, pp. 2459–81. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1961007.