Ok Boomer Fun Facts

Seems like just a few weeks ago no one took offense to the word "boomer" and now it is even being considered a racial slur. It actually IS a racial slur in Australia, where it is a pejorative against the Aboriginals as they would use boomerangs for hunting, although Wikipedia does not recognize that Aboriginal ethnic slur, but does recognize it as pejorative retort against outdated or condescending attitudes of older people, Even the US government affectionately referred to the age group in 2002 as Baby Boomers and noticed their would be issues with them

Know Your Meme explains it pretty well and also offers some interesting insight into the usage of the term preceding its viral climb to an established phrase and meme. Here are some of the earliest usage of the phrase in memes and comments before it went mainstream

[PUTS ON HIPSTER GLASSES]

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First it appeared on 4chan in 2015

via OK Boomer | Know Your Meme

This is the first known online use of the phrase OK Boomer by an anonymous user on 4chan's board /r9k/ back in September 3rd 2015, a good 4 years before it hit the mainstream.
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2 years later, we see OK Boomer on Reddit

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On October 26th 2017, user Writerhaha used the phrase as part of a retort to someone who made some sort of out-of-touch comment.
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Twitter makes use of the phrase a few months later

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Good ol' Twitter shows up late to the party and the phrase is tweeted out in April of 2018.
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Which brings us to

via OK Boomer Doge Meme | Know Your Meme

Of all places, the less-than-serious subreddit of r/OkBuddyRetard somehow nails the exact sentiment by taking the "Ok Retard" meme with Doge and substituting the word Boomer. A very veiled insult in the way it was slid in there. And as they say, the rest is history.
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THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY - A week later, OK Boomer is uttered in the New Zealand Parliament

via Giphy | Chloe Swarbrick says Ok Boomer

Just barely a week after the Doge OK Boomer meme came out, the meme had spread so far and wide that it was even uttered in an official New Zealand parliamentary session by Chloe Swarbrick.