Meet The Typical Gen Zer
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About
Meet The Typical Gen Zer is a phrasal template derived from a Business Insider headline that reads, "Meet the typical Gen Zer, who is quitting their job, has over $17,000 in student debt, and is influencing nearly everything you buy." As the headline spread on Twitter, users there posted jokes in which they changed the attributes of the "typical Gen Zer" with various parodies.
Origin
On November 28th, 2021, Business Insider posted an article about Zoomers and their growing influence in the economic landscape, titled "Meet the typical Gen Zer, who is quitting their job, has over $17,000 in student debt, and is influencing nearly everything you buy."[1] On November 29th, the site tweeted[2] links to the story, resulting in it becoming a trending topic on Twitter that day (shown below).
Spread
Later on November 29th, 2021, Twitter user @merritk[3] posted one of the first parodies using the phrasal template with "Meet the typical Gen Zer, who is an expert blademaster, has over 100,000 dollary doos in debt, and is fucking your wife," gaining 7 retweets and 160 likes in one day (shown below).
On November 30th, Twitter user @chriswhoisgreat[4] posted another parody that quoted "Once In A Lifetime" (shown below).
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External References
[1] Business Insider – Meet the typical Gen Zer, who is quitting their job, has over $17,000 in student debt, and is influencing nearly everything you buy
[2] Twitter – @BusinessInsider
[4] Twitter – @chriswhoisgreat
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