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Visually exemplifying and mocking huns via her physical transformation as an Essex-girl stereotype, Waller-Bridge’s long, dark and wavy hair; oversized fake lip fillers; false eyelashes; and tanned skin contrasts with her trademark short bob and red lipstick, that is, her familiar expression of middle-class womanhood.

After all, the problem with generational analysis is that even though it claims to be rooted in economic realities, it cannot see the reality of class.Many people became aware of OK boomer through the October New York Times article, which focused on teens who had taken the meme offline and were turning it into merchandise and fashion statements. While genres such as reality TV are understood as ‘lowbrow’ – intellectually basic, cheap and exploitative – for Faye Woods (2014), The Only Way is Essex is seen as ‘employ[ing] a knowing tone and engagement with camp that seeks to smooth tensions that structured reality creates between intervention and “authenticity”, drama and reality TV, with classed femininities and performativity’ (p. Broadly speaking, this article examines the hun as a social and memetic figure in the same way that the ladette and chav(ette) have been considered in cultural studies. The conversation isn’t through with them, however, not least because the rise of OK boomer has provoked concurrent backlash from baby boomers, many of whom have misread the meme, and feel it is motivated mainly by ageism.

two extremes of vilification and veneration, although she is closer – in terms of establishment-sanctioned social “acceptability” – to the latter’ (p. Huns can be ‘ordinary’ or ‘everyday’ women who make their presence known in online spaces, but there has been a distinct focus on the celebrity hun on social media sites such as Instagram. Indeed, the relationship ‘loveofhuns’ has with Natalie Cassidy is both nostalgic and uplifting – reminding us of Cassidy’s previous work in EastEnders while promoting the videos she uploads on her personal Instagram page.AARP exec takes apparent swipe at 'OK, Boomer' line: 'We're the people that actually have the money' ". Indeed, ‘[o]ne of the generic demands of soap opera is that there should be substantial, even assertive, female roles within its representation of the family and community’ ( Aston and Clarke, 1994: 212). Her performance was celebrated by fans and the media alike (with the video of her performance being frequently shared online). With more than 6 million views in four days [20] [22] and more than 30 million that month, [23] [24] the video has been described by viewers as both cute and cringey. However, this article argues that laughter aimed at the celebrity hun, though deemed inclusive by her fans, is ultimately ambivalent, polysemic and multifarious.

In this way, the posts on ‘loveofhuns’ reinforce stereotypes while using humour to subversive ends – mocking middle/upper-class ideals while providing significant space for huns visually coded as working-class. In this way, humour can be multifarious, ambiguous and polysemic depending on who is ‘in on’ the joke. 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.One of the most popular storylines involving her character, Sonia Fowler, portrayed her teenage pregnancy and the decision to place her baby for adoption. Yet Waller-Bridge’s character and body do not challenge these media expectations because many huns are concerned with image, as is Waller-Bridge. With all this repetitive back-and-forth — seriously, there are bingo cards — it’s no wonder the most polarizing meme of the year is a two-word dismissal of the whole debate. In many respects, the hun can be defined as an ‘unruly’ woman because she is ‘too fat, too funny, too noisy, too old, too rebellious’ ( Rowe, 1995: 19) and, as such, is perceived as too much. The aesthetic and evaluative judgement on reality TV has been suspended for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and a recent interest in huns here.

become shorthand for a disingenuous public display of concern’ ( Alderton, 2016), often used as a marker of derision and ironic detachment by people who demonstrate a self-reflexive understanding of its working class and (presumed) socially inferior roots. The accepted explanation and justification for all this is that the old have ruined things for the young: we’re responsible for climate change, for income inequality, for the cascading series of financial crises, for the prohibitive cost of higher education. deeming it an ageist slur in a special report on "succeeding in bridging the generational gap and fighting ageism".

First, there is potential for transgressive destabilisation in positioning Linda Henry centrally in the frame and replacing a Conservative figure. And even after overseeing decades of financial prosperity that’s arguably wrecked the economic future for decades to come, the richest baby boomers continue to amass wealth for themselves in the face of debilitating economic inequality.