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Hostility Toward Baby Boomers on TikTok.

Reuben NgNicole Indran
Published in: The Gerontologist (2022)
Findings reveal that the usage of the hashtags #OkBoomer and #Boomer is highly nuanced, at times explicitly ageist, and at others, emblematic of a phenomenon far more complex than ageism. There is a need to leverage social media as a space to foster interaction between older and younger people. Society is ultimately well served by intergenerational interaction.
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