Outrage as millennials have shocking new term for coronavirus
Millennials have created a new hashtag for coronavirus that has caused a lot of anger with the older generation.
The younger generation has attached the hashtag “boomer remover” to coronavirus posts on Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter during the coronavirus pandemic.
As the pandemic has killed more than 30,000 people worldwide so far, these posts have been met with outrage.
So young kids are hoping their parents and grandparents die? #BoomerRemover
Is that so they can finally move out of the basement and upstairs?— That Girl (@whoulooknat) March 13, 2020
God Answers Many with Coronavirus #coronapartys #BoomerRemover #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/g6D3zyGdNN
— cdnpolitoon (@cdnpolitoon) March 24, 2020
Again, it really is the #BoomerRemover https://t.co/lZcDB4Dm8M
— Matt Maggio (@MaggioMatt) March 23, 2020
Many people have been prompted to say it was a joke after being met with anger.
However, others have said it’s not the time for black humour.
“Your sense of humour is considerably in question. The mother of a friend of mine (she is 79) died last week. Screw your joke,” Stewart C Bryson replied on Twitter.
“Genuine question ... would you still think it was funny though if it was actually your parents or grandparents who died in this way?”, Rebecca Courtney wrote on Twitter.
Experts have said that the popularity of the meme is only going to “further divide us”.
“It’s only going to further divide us,” said Cort Rudolph, 35, who submitted a paper this week on how the virus could shape today’s young people as they come of age.
“I think what you need to refocus the attention on is that this is not an older versus a younger thing, but this is an issue for everyone. We all have a certain responsibility to each other and not just to our generational group,” he said to Bloomberg.