Baby Boomers. Love them or hate them, we need them. Or at least Facebook needs them. These memes represent a slice of internet culture that many people under forty never know, a place where content that is not good but is angry about stuff can thrive, a place where badly-cropped edits express badly-reasoned political views, a place where in-jokes incomprehensible to outsiders can flourish… wait, that describes the entire internet, doesn't it?

But there is something uniquely excellent about Boomer Humor, and the subreddit /r/terriblefacebookmemes where the most excellently egregious examples of this meme type are shared. So put down your phone, pour yourself a glass of 1970s-style water from the garden hose, and listen up young man or lady, because these are your elders speaking. Boomers have contributed a great deal to meme culture, and it goes beyond OK Boomer. These moldy and marvelous memes are of a rare and innovative breed.