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Why do some people want to go back to the 1950’s?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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It's short for "Baby Boomers", because there was a huge baby boom after WW2.
By that logic, there must have been a baby zoom in the '90s
Sorry, not following?
Just a stupid joke on the tendency people have to try to reconstruct etymology from the top down rather than bottom up, often using tenuous logical connections lol
Boomers are called that because they were born after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Zoomers are the generation of high speed rail and fast cars
Gen alpha are all chads due to the hormones used in agriculture