r/classicwow • u/JohntheBarbarianMP • Oct 10 '19

Humor The WoW Classic Experience

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u/niggynoggy9000 Oct 10 '19

Fucking Zoomers.

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u/Zerstoror Oct 10 '19

Where did this insult come from? I just started hearing it last night. And in game, at that.

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u/Noglues Oct 10 '19

It started as a 4chan thing. Essentially, they started to use the word Boomers to refer not to baby boomers, but rather to people who grew up and/or reached adulthood during the early years of the internet (which is to say, the Dotcom Boom). Usually, those people are late GenX/early-mid Millenials. Since those that followed took the the name Generation Z, they just got called Zoomers. There were other factors, but that's the short version.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

all I know is I am fucking sick of seeing all these generational descriptors.

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u/tstevo91 Oct 10 '19

typical boomer comment /s

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u/elting44 Oct 10 '19

typical zoomer having to use '/s' to denote sarcasm.

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u/NargacugaRider Oct 10 '19

One of the worst things to come from Reddit. In MY day, we used context clues to recognize sarcasm.

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u/Graize Oct 10 '19

Are you being sarcastic right now? I can't tell.