Courtesy of Shannon O’ConnorLife & CultureNewsLife & Culture / NewsPlease don’t let there be an ‘OK Boomer’ TV showFox Media has filed a trademark application for the intergenerational insultShareLink copied ✔️November 19, 2019November 19, 2019TextGünseli Yalcinkaya Fox Media is the latest to jump on the OK Boomer meme. The grossly right-wing media giant has filed a trademark application for the intergenerational insult, and plans to name a TV show after the phrase, which (let’s face it) is the most boomer thing to do, ever. The news was discovered by trademark lawyer Josh Gerben, who posted a screenshot of the trademark application on Twitter. According to the filing, which was submitted November 11, Fox intends to launch a reality, comedy, or game show called OK Boomer, so you can only imagine the fresh hell inside that pitch desk that made this happen. Besides the stupidity of trademarking a meme for a TV show that’s going to come out months, or even years, after the phrase has made its way through (and out) the internet’s quick-churning content mill, the success of the meme – which has (unsurprisingly) been commercialised by the likes of teens making hoodies and ad agencies alike – will likely dampen the network’s chances at a successful trademark. “In all likelihood, the USPTO will deny all of these applications because OK BOOMER has become a ‘widely used message,’” Gerben told CNN. “A trademark registration will not issue in a phrase that is commonly used to convey a social or political message. This is because such a ‘viral’ phrase is incapable of identifying the source of a product or service – which is what trademarks must do to be capable of registration.” OK Boomer. FOX has filed a trademark application for "OK BOOMER."The media giant filed the application on November 11th. According to the filing, FOX intends to launch a reality, comedy and/or game show called OK BOOMER.My full breakdown 👇#OkBoomer#FoxNewspic.twitter.com/tmEDHC3QgM— Josh Gerben (@JoshGerben) November 18, 2019Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREHow to date when... there’s a wage gapIs Substack still a space for writers and readers? Jean Paul GaultierJean Paul Gaultier’s iconic Le Male is the gift that keeps on giving‘It’s self-consciously cool’: Inside the chess club boomWoke is back – or is it?What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protestsHow is AI changing sex work? Where have all the vegans gone?Could ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novel