Ok boomer and the 'generation war'ArticleLeonie Milder Jeroen J. de Wit Aleksandra Dimitrova 22/01/202014 minutes to read By now, everyone has heard of it. The term ‘ok boomer’ has gone viral. The term comes from 'Baby Boomer', a name for the generation born between 1946 and 1964. Now, it means something completely different as the 'generation war' rages on.