This is a form of what Elizabeth Freeman (2010) coins ‘temporal drag’ – the queerness of ‘mining the present for signs of undetonated energy from past revolutions’ (p. Boomers — the generation born roughly between 1946 and 1965 — scoff that millennials expect “participation trophies” for doing the bare minimum. Collins often refers to her alter-ego as ‘the GC’, a diva who demonstrates the role of excess in classed femininities. Here, I closely analyse a select few memes to provide a deep and considerate examination of how huns are represented.

It has been the subject of many headlines in youth-oriented magazines (which have contributed to and remarked upon its success).These fans are creating pages dedicated to huns on the social media site Instagram, with ‘loveofhuns’, ‘HUNSNET’, ‘thehunlife’ and ‘uokhunofficial’ being prime examples.

Though ‘loveofhuns’ has both an Instagram and Twitter account, Instagram was the platform of choice to generate data for this investigation because its primary function is visual distribution, unlike other social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, which are both text- and image-based. which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ( https://us. As this section suggests, huns are represented in complex and competing ways: simultaneously positioned as figures of derision and camp icons. Some have commented that the term should be considered a shorthand term for " The Establishment" rather than targeting a specific age group. He has developed a reputation, as Leah Tomkins (2020) argues, for ‘picking and choosing whether and when to show up’ (p.In the end, the debate around OK boomer might be another iteration of the endless parade of internet-fueled ideological debates in which neither side is listening to the other. This response helped further cement the meme as a dismissive retort to boomer condescension — and as it spread, its political aspects became more pointed.

These representational struggles, she suggests, ‘are often played out within highly condensed figurative forms’ ( Tyler, 2008: 18). It is also important to examine how the hun is celebrated for her ‘memeability’ ( Mercer and Sarson, 2020), particularly because memes are predominantly visual works. Rather than scoff at the relative privileges of a few, we should be trying to recreate some of the conditions that made life a bit better during the postwar years “boomers” were born into.

This attitude prompted an eventual wholesale rejection by Deadspin’s editorial staff, as they chose to resign en masse rather than submit to the whims of the bosses they felt were out of touch. But if we are to consider age, let’s try to harness the wisdom that our working-class elders can impart to us: the stories about bosses betraying their promises, about political elites neglecting those with nothing to offer them, about lifetimes of hard work not being rewarded with a peaceful retirement or even the respect of those we nurtured.