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Name: The boomer pause.
Age: A split second.
Appearance: An uncomfortably long break.
Does it refer to a pause between statements to show that you, a boomer, own the room? Not quite: it refers to that awkward moment of silence between hitting “record” and speaking that boomers leave when they film their social media posts.
I’m not sure I understand. It’s like the millennial pause, but longer.
Wait – the millennial pause? A term, coined in 2021, for the split-second delay that millennials leave before speaking, because they came of age before TikTok.
And the boomer pause longer, because boomers even older? Exactly. Like a long pause before a after speaking.
So it’s a pause that marks an age-related technological incapacity? It’s more than that.
With an added note of smug indifference about how you come across? That’s part of it, I guess.
And a studied refusal to tackle even the most basic and easy-to-use editing features? It’s just being a boomer, really.
Would you have a popular example of the phenomenon at hand? Yes: Gary Barlow.
Oh Take That? That’s the one. On the TikTok account of his wine range, Barlow recently filmed himself smiling in front of a vineyard.
Does Gary Barlow have a choice of wine? Catch up. The clip, which has since gone viral, can be transcribed as follows: (IMMENSE PAUSE). Barlow: “This is my idea of a very nice day out.” (IMMENSE SECOND LIFE). End of the video.
A boomer pok? “I thought my phone was frozen” was one of the many comments under the post.
Perhaps he is setting a deliberate pause to… For what?
… to hold your attention. TikTok doesn’t work like that, grandpa.
Anyway, I hate to break it to you, but Gary Barlow is not boomer. Are you kidding? He has his own selection of wines, and multi-million dollar homes in London, Oxfordshire and Santa Monica.
Barlow was born in 1971. The generally recognize boomer break is 1964. He is technically Gen X. The length of the gap is responsible for the boomer pause, not the age of the pauser.
So Kylie Jenner could leave a boomer pause? She could, but she wouldn’t.
Say: (After counting to five slowly in your head) “Hello, everyone!”
Don’t say: “I am in push the button! It keeps flashing this…oops, I think we’re on. Hello everyone!”
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