{"id":11295,"date":"2019-11-01T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/11\/ok-boomer-has-earned-me-25000-says-student\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:40:59","slug":"ok-boomer-has-earned-me-25000-says-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/11\/01\/ok-boomer-has-earned-me-25000-says-student\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;OK Boomer&#8217; has earned me $25,000, says student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Shannon O&#39;Connor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Shannon O &amp; # 39; Connor earned $ 25,000 with a two-word slogan.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old American art student designed a t-shirt with the phrase &quot;OK Boomer&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Then she added the kicker: &quot;Have a terrible day&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>She has sold more than 2,000 t-shirts and sweatshirts to young people so far, and she has wanted to get her eyes on older people.<\/p>\n<p>She is not the only one. This phrase has been gathering momentum for months on the other side of the Atlantic. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Aritaum<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And young people with entrepreneurship sell designs that can be printed on clothes, stickers, badges, blankets and phone cases.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&amp; # 39; OK Boomer &amp; # 39; is a meme. Picked up from Tik Tok,&quot; Shannon told BBC Radio 5 Live. In other words, it&#39;s a catchphrase that&#39;s not used much by people over 25 on online video sharing platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Essentially, Generation Z tries to fight the baby boomers of the world. He wants to knock us down a lot and criticize us.&quot; &quot;We have found a voice and express it.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Why listen?<\/h2>\n<p>Generation Z-Loosely, those born in 1995 or later are tactile and are one of the things Baby Boomers have done wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They are labeled as sensitive and stuck on the phone and think they are a bit missing. They were criticized as they grew older and called them &quot;snowflakes,&quot; and they think they had an easier time. <\/p>\n<p>They accuse their grandparents of voting for a president who throws the environment away and does nothing about the environment. But they do not limit the use of the term &quot;boom generation&quot; to the postwar generation that generally speaks. <\/p>\n<p>It can be applied to people over 25 years of age who are judged, conservative or intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>And &quot;OK Boomer&quot; is their words. Why would I listen to you? <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\">\n            <span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Win beat<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Shannon recalls, &amp; # 39; I will prove you wrong and do great things despite what we think.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have a lot of understanding of political and social issues from a different perspective than boomers,&quot; he added. &quot;Time has changed a lot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, just wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt is not a million miles.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this phrase was not widespread in this part of the pond, parents can reverberate British young people who know free college education, a steady career prospects and housing cost savings.<\/p>\n<p>The online debate over whether punishment, conscription, the threat of nuclear war and growing up into the law on homosexuality means that young people of some boomers are actually much better. But I&#39;m not sure if Gen Z is listening.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Shannon O&#39;Connor Shannon O &amp; # 39; Connor earned $ 25,000 with a two-word slogan. An 18-year-old American art student designed a t-shirt with the phrase &quot;OK Boomer&quot;. Then she added the kicker: &quot;Have a terrible day&quot;. She has sold more than 2,000 t-shirts and sweatshirts to young people so far, and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}