There are still tens of millions of baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) here in the United States, but those numbers are starting to shrink faster, now that even the youngest part of the cohort has hit 60 years old.
Redditor u/DioriteLover wanted to know what kind of things that are commonplace now will slowly fade into obscurity as boomers become an increasingly small portion of our population.
AskReddit had plenty of snarky responses ready to go, but some of the answers were surprisingly grim in unexpected ways.
What is likely to die along with the baby boomers generation?
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A certain breed of tech illiteracy will be gone, even if gen alpha won't know what a mouse is
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Younger generations watched their parents and grandparents get taken for a ride with timeshares
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We can't wait until talking heads are gone forever, but Pewdiepie and Dunkey will probably replace them
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Harleys are for your fake-edgy grandpa
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Nobody wants to work (more than 40 hours) anymore
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All that money they made? That's going right into the corporate medical industrial complex
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Sorry, Dangerfield fans, this creaky style of humor has to go
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Honestly, how long until we do away with the 'phone' part of smartphones entirely?
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We'll see the end of a very tumultuous period in American politics — and we'll face a new kind of nightmare instead
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